Re: Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

2003-08-02 Thread mindfuq
* Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-02 17:00]: > > Your comparison of your email inbox and your living room being equivalent > is flawed on several layers. The first is the concept of 'privacy', you > have it in your living room because you have a door and locks. You don't > have any of that

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

2003-08-03 Thread mindfuq
* John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-02 19:27]: > > That is incorrect. AOL owns their network, and they can respond to your > arbitrary communications on their network in any way they see fit. Unfortunately, you're correct. > Maybe they will deliver your email to your AOL subscribing fri

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

2003-08-05 Thread mindfuq
* Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-04 17:00]: > > > Yes, this is the problem I'm trying to address. Normally when Alice > > tries to transmit information to Bob, if Mallory decides to sabotage > > the communication, this is a denial of service attack, forbidden by > > criminal law. > > Why

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

2003-08-14 Thread mindfuq
* Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-05 17:29]: > > > > Why is it forbidden by law? > > > > I can think of hundreds of reasons DoS attacks are illegal. Now I'm > > not sure if it's illegal everywhere; I'm only familar with the way > > it's written in the California Penal code, which is where Ma

Applied Crypto: question on skid3

2003-02-28 Thread MindFuq
I have a question on what seems to be a defect in the Applied Crypto book, and I couldn't get an answer out of Schneier. Could any of you please clarify my issue? My question is regarding Schneier's write up of SKID3 on page 56. He states that the protocol is not secure against man-in-the-middle

IDEA

2003-03-21 Thread mindfuq
I compiling the Mixmaster remailer, I get an error the OpenSSL was not compiled with IDEA support. However, OpenSSL was supposed to have compiled with IDEA out of the box, with only an option to disable it. What am I missing?

MAPS: Antispammers are worse than spammers

2003-03-21 Thread mindfuq
I've recently discovered MAPS when messages I send to friends started bouncing back. I'm finding that large ISP's are paying mailabuse.org for lists of IP's, and mailabuse.org isn't taking care to ensure the blacklisted IP's are from known spammers, they're targeting broad ranges of IP's, and reje

Re: IDEA

2003-03-22 Thread mindfuq
* Len Sassaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-22 18:52]: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Eric Murray wrote: > > It's been a while since I really worked on the Install script -- Mixmaster > 3.0 doesn't use it -- but this looks to be to be a bug that existed and > was fixed sometime around a year ago. What ver

Re: IDEA

2003-04-05 Thread mindfuq
* Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-22 16:08]: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Eric Murray wrote: > > > I think that line means that mixmaster's install script isn't > > properly identifying the version of Openssl. If it were > > me, I'd fix the Mixmaster install script. > > The install script