Re: Practically paying for MP3s and then replacing governmen

Tim May wrote: >There are bidding protocols where N parties make a firm bid for some >service. I think the commercial instantiation of this is ubid.com, by >the way. Usually these bids are for real products, with delivery to >the N winning bidders. >Economics is about the allocation of scarce

bbc cell phone tracking story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_874000/874419.stm Video postcards can be sent with 3rd-Generation phones By BBC News Online internet reporter Mark Ward The next generation of mobile phones will make it much easier for the police to carry out covert surveillance of citizens, s

Privacy Groups Say Cell Phone Rule Gives Police Wider Powers

Eric Rosenberg c.2000 Hearst Newspapers WASHINGTON - In what privacy rights advocates say is a significant threat to civil liberties in the digital age, law enforcement agencies may soon be able to turn the cellular phone into a ready-made tool for nosing around in private lives. J If a

CIA courting Silicon Valley

U.S. spy agency's venture capital fund now bankrolling 8 high tech startups August 18, 2000: 3:17 p.m. ET NEW YORK (CNNfn) - It is probably among the last places most entrepreneurs would think of tapping for venture capital funding. Regardless, the Central Intelligence Agency has gotten

Re: Black Hoes

Misogynist Bigot Choate frothed: At 08:15 AM 23/08/00 -0700, A. Melon (head) wrote: >Tim May's brain fart of the day: > >> (Better yet, maybe I should I produce a sequel: "Black Men Can't Think.") > > >Or better yet, you should produce a sequel: "Tim May Has A Small Dick" > Idiot, you

Most consumers not ready to manage secure email

By CNET News.com Staff August 25, 2000, 2:20 p.m. PT URL: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2613005.html By William Spernow, Gartner Analyst Encrypted-email services for consumers, such as the remote services Yahoo will provide through ZixIt, target people's concerns over Internet privacy a

Prosecutor to recommend criminal charges against Deutch

Tuesday, 29 August 2000 6:26 (ET) Prosecutor to recommend criminal charges against Deutch WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A prosecutor hired by the Justice Department will recommend that criminal charges be sought against former CIA Director John Deutch for suspected misuse of secret intelligen

Re: FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education

Bill Stewart wrote: > Tim's spoof got to me before the original did, > and I'd read about halfway through before noticing that > it was probably a spoof and then noticing it was from Tim :-) > That's the problem with stuff that's too realistically written... "There oughtta be a law..."

IBM Cries Crypto Wolf, Experts Say

Big Blue says it can make encryption twice as fast. But the company hyped a similar advancement years ago; experts say that idea didn't amount to much, and this one won't either. By Elinor Abreu IBM is announcing a new algorithm on Thursday that it says will double the speed at which online c

Microsoft backs XML security spec

Microsoft has teamed up with software partners VeriSign and WebMethod to launch a specification aimed at simplifying digital signatures used in ecommerce applications. To ease the integration of public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates, the three companies have created the XKMS