Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Peter wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: YTfFYyyfDDk676 (different from time to time of course). And this will help how? If there is a harnivore system somewhere triggering on nontext codes it will start wasing serious time

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Peter wrote: Anyway the short answer seems to be: A digitally signed (with a certificate) .AND. explicitly undisclaimed [1] email message .MAY. be legally binding .IF. tested in court under .SOME. jurisdictions. Peter (or John) [1]: phew, what a word. 'undisclaimed' ?!

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Peter wrote: I meant, how will this help against the fact that, if you sign your emails, they are legally binding? It would not. Then why did you say it would? /me is confused. But then nothing else would. Not true. Not signing trivial emails would. A recommendation, I might add, that you

Re: crappy audio

2007-02-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 20:59 +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: I can confirm the unplugging issue you describe. It's a known fact (Hetz already mentioned it on this list a few weeks ago). According to this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Lenovo3000N100_0768 There is a patch which

Re: Xen Unstable Seed Repository Tarball

2007-02-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:35:05AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/xen-unstable.hg.tar.gz is broken. Where can I find the seed repository tarball instead? No idea. You can just clone the repo. Or - you could ask on the xen-devel mailing list

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Peter wrote: I meant, how will this help against the fact that, if you sign your emails, they are legally binding? It would not. Then why did you say it would? /me is confused. Ahh, now you have reached the opinion of the public ;-) As I pointed

Re: Xen Unstable Seed Repository Tarball

2007-02-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Muli! Thanks for the information. On 2/5/07, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:35:05AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/xen-unstable.hg.tar.gz is broken. Where can I find the seed repository tarball

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Peter wrote: Let me expand on this: Not all (more exactly: most) digital signatures are digital signatures in this context. In particular, f.ex., signing an email with a *private* public key that is shown only to qualified individuals on demand (and a court would certainly not qualify) is

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Peter
Michael Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Change your online id to single-letter strings of just one letter, Like: zzz zzz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suggest you take a look at advanced search syntax of google for a start. Google Hacks and book and j0hnny's website may be an

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: What if I sign my messages with a public key, but include a statement in the message that the signature is only for authentication purposes only and does not serve as a commitment to anything written in the message? I don't know. It may work. It may not. I am not a

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Alon Altman wrote: What if I sign my messages with a public key, but include a statement in the message that the signature is only for authentication purposes only and does not serve as a commitment to anything written in the message? I don't

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:15 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Deniability and signature are, as far as I can see, mutually exclusive. I wonder how Off-the-record ( http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ) works then. I'm not a cryptology expert, but I can tell you that it allows people to IM each other,

Re: XMLTV and Israel? (fwd)

2007-02-05 Thread Alon Altman
Hi, I have a working xmltv setup here. It required some hacking into the downloader code for Israel. First of all, you should use tvtime which has xmltv support. Second, you need the tv_grab_il script attached. Third, you'll need a cron job something like this (here I download twice per week):

Re: XMLTV and Israel?

2007-02-05 Thread Alon Altman
Hi, I have a working xmltv setup here. It required some hacking into the downloader code for Israel. First of all, you should use tvtime which has xmltv support. Second, you need the tv_grab_il script attached. Third, you'll need a cron job something like this (here I download twice per week):

Re: Making sure Actcom lives on

2007-02-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 30/01/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:51:41PM +0200, Random Penguin wrote: Rumor would have it that Bezeq Benleumi have purchased Actcom for the knowledge base and not the customer base. From a business perspective, this does make sense. Both

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-05 Thread Peter
Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I understand the law (again, not from reading it), it does not list specific algorithms that should be used or specific procedures for Mistake #1, and counting. I did point out before, that certain MUAs implicitly sign the message by

Re: Off-the-record [Was: ID theft (offtipicish), but is now more on topic]

2007-02-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:55 +0200, Peter wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Alon Altman wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: It seems like they claim both deniability and and assurance (which is what you get from signing, except w/o the signing part) at the same time. I think

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-02-05 Thread Maxim Veksler
In reply to everyone and to end this long thread: Thank you. Mission completed. I ended up following Chaim advice and buying very cool usb2usb network connection cable, which if you continue reading will find out that was ultimately unnecessary. The story starts from the windows server side,

Re: [OT] ID theft

2007-02-05 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Monday 05 February 2007 13:15, Peter wrote: certain MUAs implicitly sign the message by calculating a hash sum over the message and certain key parameters in it and making it unique to the sending machine and to the time and network it was sent at/on. By your definition then, ALL How is

Synchronizing KAddressbook with Moto Razr

2007-02-05 Thread Aviram Jenik
Sorry for asking a Linux question on the privacy mailing list (or is it paranoid inc?). Does anybody know how to synchronize kaddressbook with Motorola Razr phone? Extra bonus if it works for KOrganizer too. Gnokii doesn't work for obvious reasons and all the moto4lin style utils only tell

possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread michael
My parents use an ancient Windows PC to dial into their Netvision account and read their Netvision email using Netvision's email system. Their computer is very tempermental, so I'd love to replace it with a simple Linux computer to increase reliability and reduce space. Last time I checked, and

Re: Off-the-record [Was: ID theft (offtipicish), but is now more on topic]

2007-02-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 21:24 +0200, Peter wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: That doesn't work with simple session only encryption, and what I don't understand is how they both offer assurance and deniability, if the next time I'm talking with the same guy I can be assured of his

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I checked, and this was awhile ago, it was only possible to dial into Netvision with a (Windows) program provided by Netvision. I don't know that there ever was a time when this was correct. Can this be done from Linux?

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שני 05 פברואר 2007, 22:50, נכתב על ידי Oded Arbel: Can this be done from Linux? http://cables2.netvision.net.il/linux/ He is using dialup. goto http://linmodems.org and google for more information. Also subscribe to their list and ask for more help. This is one of the darker places in

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread michael
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I checked, and this was awhile ago, it was only possible to dial into Netvision with a (Windows) program provided by Netvision. I don't know that there ever was a time when this was

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/02/07, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ביום שני 05 פברואר 2007, 22:50, נכתב על ידי Oded Arbel: Can this be done from Linux? http://cables2.netvision.net.il/linux/ He is using dialup. goto http://linmodems.org and google for more information. Also subscribe to their list and

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread Ori Idan
Yes, but most AT compliant PCI modems today are software only. -- Ori Idan On 2/6/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/02/07, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ביום שני 05 פברואר 2007, 22:50, נכתב על ידי Oded Arbel: Can this be done from Linux?

Re: [OT] ID theft

2007-02-05 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Aviram Jenik wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 13:15, Peter wrote: certain MUAs implicitly sign the message by calculating a hash sum over the message and certain key parameters in it and making it unique to the sending machine and to the time and network it was sent

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: On 06/02/07, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ביום שני 05 פברואר 2007, 22:50, נכתב על ידי Oded Arbel: Can this be done from Linux? http://cables2.netvision.net.il/linux/ He is using dialup. goto

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:38:50AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: Yes, but most AT compliant PCI modems today are software only. Someone gave me an Intel modem clone. It sat in junk box until I broke down and installed a UPS, which took over the only serial port I had on that computer. I stuck the

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-05 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:38:50AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: Yes, but most AT compliant PCI modems today are software only. Someone gave me an Intel modem clone. It sat in junk box until I broke down and installed a UPS, which took over the only