Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks? Where's the relevance to this list? Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an interest to the cypherpunks? Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions against him relevant to the topics of this list? What's next? The Cypherpunk Equirer? IM

sic transit blix

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woblix123329266jun12,0,3668966.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines June 12, 2003 London - Chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix, in an interview published yesterday, accused U.S. officials of mounting a smear campaign against him. "But t

Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

It's simple. It solves the problem that Microsoft Salesmen have. In order to sell shit, you have to make it look like gold. Cee Eee Ohs have heard it said that Microsoft software is insecure crap. Now the Microsoft Salesmen can do fancy demos with pretty colors and slick Operators Are standing

Microsoft, TCPA, your wallet and the real ending of the story.

Indeed. If it's coming from Redmond, and as usual if it smells of evil, there is an utterly simple solution in dealing with it: don't buy it. Don't buy Microsoft software, don't buy motherboards that include TCPA capabilities. When you're up for getting yourself a new PC, get a generic one w

Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

Um, how's that agin? How does Ballmer and Gates force you, Adam Shostack to run Microsoft Office? Did they put a gun to your head? Did they manage to twist Congress's arms to put a gun to your head? Compatibility you say? Well, that's your choice. You can decide if it's important enough to yo

Re: Microsoft, TCPA, your wallet and the real ending of the story.

Right now, Intel, AMD, Transmeta, IBM+Motorola (PowerPC), Sun+Fuji+Tatung (UltraSPARC + clones), whomever is left making MIPS Rx000 chip based machines after SGI (Is sgi still making Irix boxes?) and so on. If you want TCPA, by all means, go have fun buying a motherboard with it and run whatever O

Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

Oh get over it. There are other formats. You ever heard of XML? HTML? RTF? If the day comes where MS Office DRM only works with MS Office DRM, how many people will switch to it? If your company is willing to switch to it, then they'll give you a PC with it on it. If they don't, then they can'

Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

Yes, >NOW< if you can load yourself into kernel space, you can do anything and everything - Thou Art God to quote Heinlein. This is true of every OS. Except if you add that nice little TCPA bugger which can verify the kernel image you're running is the right and approved one. Q.E.D. Look at the

Re: An attack on paypal

The worst trouble I've had with https is that you have no way to use host header names to differentiate between sites that require different SSL certificates. i.e. www.foo.com www.bar.com www.baz.com can't all live on the same IP and have individual ssl certs for https. :( This is because the cer

Re: An attack on paypal

The problem with these stop crackers and hackers by law is that it allows software developers to get away with leaving huge gaping security holes unfixed. Anecodatal evidence: The classic well known Robin Hood and Friar Tuck "hack". These days, the bug wouldn't get fixed and the guys reporting it

Re: phreq?

666Ghz? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \

Re: 1st amend, thoughtcrime, schools as pipelines to jail

Anyone got a "cypherpunks/cypherpunks" like login for the turd of a login? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <-

Re: Destroying government computers

I think Herr Hatch has a wonderful idea no really, think about it, all of a sudden people will start THINKING about the security implications of the garbage scumware they run on their machines and they'll have to install things like firewalls and harderned operating systems. They'll also mov

Re: [NTLK] OT: Dictatorial Powers (fwd)

Nice (offtopic to that list) discussion over on the NewtonTalk mailing list :) --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular

Re: A firewall problem?

I'm not 100% sure what you're talking about, but from what I got, it depends on the firewall type, and the location of the man in the middle. Various firewall types: Simple packet filters. Slightly smarter packet filters that also do NAT and keep track of connections - (this is needed for the

Re: Sealing wax, funny looking dogtags

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > I just meant that if Scarfo had epoxied his keyboard to his chassis > properly, (and epoxied the keyboard, etc.) he might still be free > (to pick shitty passphrases, it turned out). Um, then they would have gone with the hidden pinhole camera som

Re: Sealing wax & eKeyboard

And TEMPEST monitoring equipment (or again, a hidden pinhole camera behind you, or a transmitter hidden in your monitor) won't see what's on your screen because --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500

RE: Sealing wax & eKeyboard

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > Lets not forget optical TEMPEST - remember a few months ago, > when it was demonstrated that the image on a CRT could > be reconstructed just from the light it reflected on walls? The > point where the electron beam is hitting the phosphors is > much bri

NYT: Report on USA Patriot Act Alleges Civil Rights Violations

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/politics/21JUST.html?hp WASHINGTON, July 20 . A report by internal investigators at the Justice Department has identified dozens of recent cases in which department employees have been accused of serious civil rights and civil liberties violations involving enfor

Re: Fisk articles

No, but googling around I found this gem: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2003/iraq06302003.html --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

I wonder if some sort of infrared LED laden bandana be made for the benefit of the cameras. :) Maybe something like those scrolling blackboard things that say stuff... It could say things like "I'm ANONYMOUS, Neener neener, nya, nya, nya" I wonder what the guards would do then?

Re: Dead Body Theatre

Nah, if you want sheer fuck you value photoshop them smoking crack pipes while in an all out lezbo scene (make sure the other girls are of color - preferably looking like they're from the middle east, some with strap-ons)... include a gratiutous male donkey in there too. Throw Jeb in there for goo

Re: Dna samples of world leaders

e bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ----

Re: GPS bugs (was: Jim Bell Trial: Third Day (fwd))

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Third Day: Jim Bell trial > > The defense requested information about the tracking device that was attached > to Jim Bell's car: the type, make, and where installed in the car. London > cited "law enforcement privilege" and argued that giving out that informati

Re: NRC asks for reviewers for forthcoming Internet pornreport

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > > > Maybe, maybe not. I'm the first to agree that porn *should* be treated as > > equal to other speech, > > But 'porn' is no more speech than 'murder' is. What makes porn so > offensive isn't the pictures,

Re: NRC asks for reviewers for forthcoming Internet porn report

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > > > Maybe, maybe not. I'm the first to agree that porn *should* be treated as > > equal to other speech, > > But 'porn' is no more speech than 'murder' is. What makes porn so > offensive isn't the pictures,

Re: CDR: Re: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

It was indeed very sureal. Everyone was calm and quiet, no crazy panicked mobs, just orderly, slow, methodical evacuation... Of course the first thing to go was cell phones, just from the sheer volume. I did manage one or two calls to loved ones. There was a smaller queue of people in Radio Sh

RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Normen Nomesco wrote: > Oh and Im sure having guns on board planes would work out great > especially considering the increase of people having huge fucking fits > and having to be held down on planes, yeah, lets arm people on planes. > Have you ever fucking even been on a pla

NSA monitors domestic cellular

This is, I hate to say it, the one time I am glad that they can do this. I hope they can find out who is responsible for this. I hope some other brave souls were able to use their cell phones to provide clues to find these bastards. No, I'm still opposed to the NSA's invasion of our privacy. B

Re: NSA monitors domestic cellular

This is, I hate to say it, the one time I am glad that they can do this. I hope they can find out who is responsible for this. I hope some other brave souls were able to use their cell phones to provide clues to find these bastards. No, I'm still opposed to the NSA's invasion of our privacy. B

Re: CDR: RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Normen Nomesco wrote: > > >At gun ranges across the country, where just about everybody is armed, > >physical violence is virtually nonexistent. Ever wonder why this is the > >case? After thinking about it for a while, even the slower ones amongst us > >might be able to figu

Re: CDR: RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Normen Nomesco wrote: > Oh and Im sure having guns on board planes would work out great > especially considering the increase of people having huge fucking fits > and having to be held down on planes, yeah, lets arm people on planes. > Have you ever fucking even been on a p

RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Normen Nomesco wrote: > > >At gun ranges across the country, where just about everybody is armed, > >physical violence is virtually nonexistent. Ever wonder why this is the > >case? After thinking about it for a while, even the slower ones amongst us > >might be able to figu

Re: The 4th Airliner Shot Down?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > There was also several eye witnesses that said the first tower was hit by > a missile... They were right. The plane was effectively a missle, and come to think of it not a bomb. Bomb is something that isn't launched, it's carried or dropped. A missle i

Re: The 4th Airliner Shot Down?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > There was also several eye witnesses that said the first tower was hit by > a missile... They were right. The plane was effectively a missle, and come to think of it not a bomb. Bomb is something that isn't launched, it's carried or dropped. A missle i

Re: NSA monitors domestic cellular

"National security"is the passphrase to the constitution. Or haven't you noticed. In this case, I don't think anyone will complain very loudly. In this case, for once, the NSA would be right, and it wouldn't just be FUD. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---

Re: NSA monitors domestic cellular

"National security"is the passphrase to the constitution. Or haven't you noticed. In this case, I don't think anyone will complain very loudly. In this case, for once, the NSA would be right, and it wouldn't just be FUD. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---

Re: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

It was indeed very sureal. Everyone was calm and quiet, no crazy panicked mobs, just orderly, slow, methodical evacuation... Of course the first thing to go was cell phones, just from the sheer volume. I did manage one or two calls to loved ones. There was a smaller queue of people in Radio Sh

Re: CDR: RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

I'd still fucking rush them if I had been there. If anything it would wake everyone else up to do the same. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them,

RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

I'd still fucking rush them if I had been there. If anything it would wake everyone else up to do the same. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them,

Re: Cypherpunks and terrorism

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Sure, but whose chicken? Maybe our own policies and beliefs have turned > against us, to our detriment. There have been a number of reports that > bin Laden uses cryptography and even steganography tools. This could > still have a significant crypto c

RE: Cypherpunks and terrorism

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Sure, but whose chicken? Maybe our own policies and beliefs have turned > against us, to our detriment. There have been a number of reports that > bin Laden uses cryptography and even steganography tools. This could > still have a significant crypto

Re: Cypherpunks and terrorism

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Declan McCullagh writes: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:00:46PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > > Some terrorists have exactly this as their goal. They are hoping > > > to trigger a counter-reaction, an over-reaction, by the authorities. > > > They want

Re: Cypherpunks and terrorism

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Declan McCullagh writes: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:00:46PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > > Some terrorists have exactly this as their goal. They are hoping > > > to trigger a counter-reaction, an over-reaction, by the authorities. > > > They want

Feds are talking out both sides of their asses

As usual. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21790.html Feds complain Bin Laden not using hi-tech equipment By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 20/09/2001 at 16:57 GMT Osama Bin Laden is evading detection by not using modern telecoms equipment, the US intelligence services have told the press.

Feds are talking out both sides of their asses

As usual. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21790.html Feds complain Bin Laden not using hi-tech equipment By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 20/09/2001 at 16:57 GMT Osama Bin Laden is evading detection by not using modern telecoms equipment, the US intelligence services have told the press.

Re: CDR: Re: CyberPatrol sues cryptanalysts who revealed flaws in itssoftware

had a nuclear arsenal, then Red China would think twice about bulling them, etc. I'd say the general public of Taiwan would feel much safer in such a situation. -- Kaos Keraunos Kybernetos + ^ + Sunder "Only someone

Re: CDR: Spam Prevention on digest version...?

Robert Guerra wrote: > > - Original Message - > cypherpunks-digestFriday, June 2 2000 > Volume 01 : Number 2201 > > I'd like to know if there is a DIGEST version of the list which has been > spam filtered in some way. I don't mind other people's point of view, but > adverts (some

Re: CDR: RE: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > And that is why UNIX deserves to be thrown in the trash can. It is NOT a > good operating system. It is poorly designed, buggy and baddly documented. > Read the UNIX hater's manual for chapter and verse. Its success had > everything to the fact it was once given aw

Re: CDR: RE: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > > You confuse market share, e.g., the decision by most consumers to > > choose Windows over OS/2 or Plan 9 or DrDOS, etc. > > How are the consumers who can't cope with the Web and have to use the AOL > version meant to be able to learn UNIX or Plan-9? I take it y

Re: CDR: Re: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Lizard wrote: > > At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote: > >Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC > >chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or > >moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business. > > Which leads me to this q

RE: CDR: RE: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

That's ok, I still got you on the Apple "stealing" from Xerox bit. :) --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*--

Re: CDR: RE: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tim May wrote: > --Xerox PARC had overlapping windows. Apple used the 1979 > demonstration to redirect it's nonoverlapping windows to be > overlapping. This is detailed in some of the histories of PARC, > including "Dealers in Lightning." Hmm, yes, now that I read back,

Carnivore can be used for more than just snooping (was Re: FBI Requests File Removal)

"T. Bankson Roach" wrote: > > Let's think about this for a moment. Assume Carnivore is the deadliest > threat to American freedom since the Clintons arrived in Washington. > > First, we know about Carnivore, or think we do. Indeed. I'll not get into the moral questions of outing that pair of

Re: CDR: Re: Re: cryptome.org?

John Young wrote: > > We've been trying to get into the site to do just that, but haven't > been able to. The munged URL is weird. back-to-back URLs, > but we were told how to set that up as a page which would bring > up the correct info or direct to it. Yeah, it only takes on fuckup to mess th

Re: CDR: The carnivore carnivore - open source ISN'T the issue.

Carol Braddock wrote: > > The only way this is even is remotely palateable is open source. > They aren't gonna do it, for they wanna snoop. There are enough > ways to snoop as it is. What is this fetish about open source? The box is evil, regardless of how open source it is? Do you think for o

Re: CDR: JYA, Cryptome Help Request

John Young wrote: > > Declan's article ran on Friday July 21 day and the hits from it did not > seem to affect the sites. Saturday, an AP story appeared but it did not > include links to the site, however, Drudge Report picked up the AP story > and provided a munged link to jya.com: > > http:/

Re: CDR: Re: JYA, Cryptome Help Request

Alan Olsen wrote: > > I am sure you can find a number of willing mirror sites. (I would also > suggest publishing signed and/or md5 hashes of the contents, lest there be > tampering by the Forces of Evil(tm).) Actually what's needed is some performance tuning. Login to the box, and run top whe

Re: CDR: Carnivore diversionary tactics ...

> Ernest Hua wrote: > 1. Every time the FBI walks into an ISP with a box > labelled "CARNIVORE - FBI USE ONLY", no one really > knows what kind of software is being used. After > all, it is suppose to just sniff packets passively. > No one gets to review each USE of this box. This > comes down

Re: CDR: Re: trial panic?

"James A. Donald" wrote: > CSS is not to prevent copying. Anyone can copy the one disk to another disk. > > It is to control access, to prevent small companies and ordinary people > from making video disks, from making video disk players, and to prevent > users from being able to edit movies, p

Re: CDR: source code does nothing for crypto

Anonymous wrote: > > Now that the PGP key management "bug" is public, I'd like to comment > on some source code issues and follies. > > The source for versions in question (starting from 5.*) has been available > for more than two years. > > While many crypto experts intensely bullshit about th

Re: Robert Cailliau - let the fucking commence!

http://consult.cern.ch/xwho/people/603 ccid: 603 Tel:75005 72406 (from outside: +41 22 76 75005 ) Office: 50 1-016 Mailbox: J00900 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (more info about valid mail addresses) Send him a piece of your mind! -- --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---

Re: CDR: USA.net proxy: *** NOT! ****

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs > in received email to proxy through their server, meaning > they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on > hyperlinks while reading your personal email. > Here is the resulting URL in the new window

Re: CDR: Re: -C-P- Re: would it be so much to ask..

Tim May wrote: > > Nitwit, this idea has been proposed many times. Choate even does > this, unfortunately, to all traffic flowing through his node. > > I used to think that nitwits were their own punishment. I now have > come to the conclusion that it's long past due that we stoke the > furnaces

IR "TEMPESTING" (was Re: police IR searches to Supremes)

Richard Fiero wrote: > > One could argue that all electromagnetic radiation is in the public > domain and receivable. However it is illegal to have equipment capable > of receiving cell phone conversations because the rights of the > telephone company and the rights of the conversants could be vi

Sony loses anti-reverse engineering suit against Connectix!!!

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2915049.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni Sony loses appeal in PlayStation copyright fight By Bloomberg News October 2, 2000, 9:15 a.m. PT WASHINGTON--Sony today lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to limit rivals from using reverse engineering to create competing p

Re: CDR: About Gilmore's letter on IBM&Intel push copyprotection into ordinary disk drives

Peter Wayner wrote: > But I was quite worried until I began to see the dangers for IBM and > Intel in the scheme. This is not an easy play for them because it > threatens much of the entire industry in these ways: You've answered it yourself in the last two paragraphs. Screw IBM, screw Intel.

Re: Micropayments: Effective Replacement For Ads?

"James A. Donald" wrote: > > -- > At 02:57 PM 2/26/2001 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote: > > Finally, sites supported by micropayments are going to have to > > figure out something about web spiders. If "scooter" can't spend > > several million dollars a month on these places, they're not goi

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

Not scared, hungry. They're looking for more "collars" they can throw in jail so they meet their quotas. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bi

Re: Partition Encryptor

Which only works on win9x, and no freeware updates exist for Win2k/XP/NT. i.e. worthless... There is this, but it too isn't free: http://www.pcdynamics.com/SafeHouse/ --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin,

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

That all depends on your definition of sovereign. After all, "we" put, or at least helped, that monster into power. No different an action than we the many times before putting tyrants into control of small, but important nations under the guise of "protecting democracy." So, while he was our

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

Right, the Declaration of Independance starts off with "We hold these truths to be self evident..." and lists that some rights are inalienable, and granted to us just because we are human, so therefore they apply to all humans everywhere... Well, in practice between what was done to Native America

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales (fwd)

Yawn... This is no different than any of the copy protection schemes employed in the 1980's on then popular home computers such as the commodore 64. Hindsight is 20/20 and recalls, all of these were broken within weeks if not months. "Nibbler" copiers and other programs were quickly built tha

Support the Bush-Orwell '04 campaign!

http://www.cafeshops.com/grandoldparty/76732 --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

To add to this: There is no law stating that I cannot take my books and read them backwards, skip every other word, read the odd chapters in reverse and the even chapters forward, or try to "decode" the book by translating it to another language, ask someone with better eyes than mine to read it t

Re: "If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

eitl wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:28:08AM -0500, Sunder wrote: > > The biggest hurdle and the thing that will have the most effect is to have > > every MTA out there turn on Start TLS. It won't provide a big enhancement > > For the record: it's unreaso

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Jack Lloyd wrote: Still, I liked this quote: '"I came to vote because wasting one's ballot in a democracy is a sin," he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US these days, it seems like. What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al "I Invented the Innnernet" Gore, an

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Damian Gerow wrote: Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to represent what he said through that phrase. What he /actually/ claimed (and what he /actually/ did) was recognize its importance, and then pu

Re: Fact checking

Damian Gerow wrote: Hey, I'm no fan of Tipper either. And I'm not saying that Al Gore was a /good/ choice. But in retrospect, he probably would have been a lesser evil than the current president. THAT, ultimately is the meta-point. You shouldn't have to vote for the lesser evil, but when your c

Re: What Should Freedom Lovers Do?

An Metet wrote: In my devotion to freedom, I apparently go beyond the point where most cypherpunks are comfortable, in that I support private initiatives and technologies of all sorts and oppose government regulation of them. I am a supporter and admirer of Microsoft, which has achieved tremendous

Re: Fact checking

Damian Gerow wrote: I don't give a flying fuck who you vote for, who the options are, what you think of them, or even if they're convicted drunk drivers hell-bent on converting the world to their belief system (...). You, sir, are in great need of an enema. *PLONK*

Re: Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'

Rgggh! And posting your full name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, the account and expiration dates of all your credit cards + the 3 digit extra code on their backs, ATM card account # and the PIN, plus, several samples of your signature (optional) in JPEG for

Re: Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system

Meh, same old song: NSA/CIA/FBI failed to prevent the WTC missile attacks, despite the billions of dollars they receive per annum, so guess what, they get rewarded with guess what kiddies, even more tax payer dollars! Condoleeza Rice lies about a specific PDB, calling it "historical" and doesn'

Re: [osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet

Or it could just be agitprop meant to raise the theat level back up a notch, or provide more funding to the surveillance kitty. On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 10:45 PM +0200 6/14/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > >It may be also a very cheap method of "attack". > > True enough.

Re: Antipiracy bill targets technology

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > > CNET News > > Antipiracy bill targets technology > A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed, dramatically > reshape copyright law by prohibiting file-trading network

Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > Call me cynical (no... go ahead), but if VOIP is found to have no 4th > Amendment protection, Congress would first have to agree that this *is* > a problem before thay could "fix" it. Given the recent track record of > legislators vs. privacy, I'

Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

> The Tempest argument is a stretch, only because you're not actually > recovering the information from the phosphor itself. But the Pandora > argument is well taken. Actually there is optical tempest now that works by watching the flicker of a CRT. Point is actually even more moot since mos

Re: Privacy laws and social engineering

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Sometimes you get access by telnet. Sometimes by a voice call. Hack the > mainframe. Hack the secretary. What's better? (Okay, I agree, you can't > sleep with the mainframe.) > I feel zen today. Me too: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#31 ftp:/

Re: Final stage

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Howie Goodell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:26:59 -0400 (edt), Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: > &

Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight (fwd from dave@farber.net)

I recently visited the Canadian side of Niagra falls. On the return entry to the US customs, etc. meant driving through penns that look like toll booths. But I noticed little sensors in pairs and large square sensors as well. The entry gate was fairly large - I'd say about 2' deep by 2' wide

Re: Faster than Moore's law

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote: > >Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* > >than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time. > > But access time has not nearly kept pace. Which is why all manner of > database architectures have been cr

Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > 1. I've seen adverts for linear sensors which image the bottoms > of cars as they drive over. Sort of a scanner where the paper > does the moving. Installed in the road. Come to think of it, yes, the "road" within the tollbooth gate was a bit ra

New trend: dropping trou at the TSA

BoingBoing calls this "The Freedom Flash" http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/14/man_flashes_authorit.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040714/ap_on_fe_st/airport_flasher_1 Man Exposes Self During Airport Screening Wed Jul 14, 9:07 AM ET Add Strange News -

Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. This doesn't seem to mention anything about anonymous users, however. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_7/masu

Osama says "Vote for Bush!"

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001393 Not that (m)any of us really expected Al-Qaeda to want Kerry. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional r

[OT] Apple calls Real "a hacker"

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/apple_real/ Interesting non-cypherpunkish stuff. So Real goes off and does some reverse engineering so it can use Apple's DRM to publish its own stuff for iPod's. Interestingly, Apple wants to sue using the DMCA, *BUT* where it gets interesting is tha

Re: Calendar from Egypt: Image of WTC attack for month of Sept.

Why bother. Just go to www.newsmax.com and you will see the type of stories they have is one or two steps away from also having "Elvis Lives" and "I fucked a girl from Jupiter" stories. It's so yellow, it makes the National Enquirer look bright white. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybern

Why Plan-9?

Why Plan-9? I'd say go with OpenBSD. :) Built in crypto, built in firewall, secure on installation without you needing to tweak stuff. Hell you can even tell it to encrypt swap pages. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passw

Re: Denning's Geo-crypto

Um, rethorical question, but from my very limited understanding of GPS, all the satelites do is send a series of time codes. So if you wanted to you could build several transmitters that sent out stuff on the same frequenies. Since you need to be outside to be able to use GPS, or at least "see s

Re: CDR: Antivirus software will ignore FBI spyware: solutions

Great and wonderful except: 1. If such spyware has already been installed on your system you can't trust your os therefore: a. It may use your OS to hide the key capture log, so you won't be able to just watch files. Think of a kernel patch that removes all referen

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