WOW!
While I may agree that Tim May seems to like anarchy as long as he's in
charge of it, he does come up with some truly destabilising and dangerous
ideas every now and then.
Like his alter ego Jim Choate, there's some real signal burried under that
noise so at least token measures of respe
Do you forget the episode of the Simpsons where Homer has a camera installed
in his 10-gallon hat? (He was catching Apu recycling expired hotdogs or
something.)
-TD
(Who is not RA Hettinga, at least when RAH is awake.)
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James A. Donald" <[EMAI
Tim May wrote...
"Cowboy hats are much more common in Cypherpunks Bay Aryan meetings"
Uh...do you actually hold "Aryan" meetings? Is this a "white" "supremist"
thing, or will the following be welcome:
Iranians
Afghans
Most people hailing from Northern India
Turks
And for that matter, what abou
Tim May wrote...
I've been seeing your nitwitticisms and shallow observations for several
weeks now. Time to plonk you. Bye.
And I can honestly say that based on Tim May's responses, he simply doesn't
"get" what I am saying most of the time.
In this case I wasn't actually being too clever.
I
e.
On a very simplistic level (apparently the only level that Tim May seems to
think Tyler Durden operates on), the US "trial by a jury of your peers" and
"innocent until proven guilty" are not supposed to be Rome-like luxuries of
being a citizen. They in theory represent a system t
anings, including notions of "racial purity". I was curious
as to whether Tim May meant this version of the term or what (and all that
is concomittant, including hoped-for genocides), in which case bludgeoning
him with a heavy, blunt object in the base of the skull would be a break fo
Some guy wrote
You are moron.
Care to be a little more specific? (I'm not afraid of a little criticism,
particularly if its constructive.)
Even if true, I don't see how that comment pertains to my reply.
For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of
crypto-white sup
Ran across this in the Villiage Voice today. Basically, the Adminstration
got some token pushback from Judge Doumar, pointing out that the 2 PAGE
document issued by Bush & Co doesn't even specify what is meant by "enemy
combatant", and doesn't ever actually claim Hamdi was even in the Taliban.
Country, and our precious
freedoms.
My God be with us as we struggle against evil.
Tyler Durden.
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:13:32 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
> For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of
> crypto-white supremists (crypto, as
y
Date: 12 Jan 2003 20:55:51 -
At 09:33 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
> For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of
> crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's
> the case, then I want to know. Figured I'd a
Some dudes wrote...
Japanese, for example, did not even exist in any recognizable form >until
long after Confucian-era texts which are still readable today.
How then can a claim be made that Japanese and Chinese are the same >age?
The grammar is Japanese is almost unrelated to Chinese 'gramm
Actually, this may turn out to be more an academic issue than anything.
If someone wanted bubonic or pnuemonic samples, all he'd have to do is just
grab someone from the western hospitals that contract it each year.
Contrary to popular belief, it still exists, but we have effective
treatments a
John Keley wrote...
"There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for simply
allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive regimes like
Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to countries with bad human
rights records."
Hummm...kind of an odd argument, don't
nce against violence".
As for Starbucks itself, we have no particular qualm.
-Tyler Durden
From: "Jay h" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small taste of things to come if the war on Iraq happens.
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:45:56 -0500
Nobody said...
"Cops probably deserve *your* thanks, since they maintain *your* cash flow."
Are you sayin' this guy's growing some grade-A hydroponic sensimilla?
-TD
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But that girl was really an undercover cop- surfing the web as part
of a police sting operation.
OK, so does this mean that the girl wasn't actually 16, just posing as a 16
year-old? (ie, when did the cops start hiring 16 year olds?)
So, this guy was busted for BELIEVING that the girl was 16, b
WH Robinson wrote...
convey the truth about America and the goals we share with people
>everywhere.
I agree with your ultimate conclusions, but I'm not sure you need so much
irony in interpreting these words. My favorite example is Nancy Reagan's
"Just say NO to drugs"...she was a big-time pr
Tim May wrote...
"Ain't gonna be a lot of negroes and Mexicans after this war is over. (I'm
not a racist. It's their leaders and their ideology that is to blame. These
leaders have led their followers to acts which cannot be forgiven, and which
must be punished by death. Nearly all of them need
I got a hold of a little gadget recently that is very nearly perfect for
certain forms of data storage. It's called a "Thumbdrive" and I bought it
online somewhere (64Meg for about $179 or so).
The cool thing about this drive (small enough that it has holes for use as a
keychain) is that it's g
Peter Trei wrote...
"What's you're threat model? If it's your wife or kid sister, this
might work. If it's a major corporation or a government, forget
it - they'll bitcopy the whole flash rom, and look at it with ease."
At this point, most of my threat models are on this level or the next one
hi
t;
To: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Shaddack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tyler Durden
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:16:52 -0500
At 10:06 PM 1/24/03 +0100,
XML-specification? Sounds like one of Variola's posts:
Noam Chomsky
DC Anti-war Protest
MohammedAkbar
-TD
From: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [IP] OASIS takes up "lawful intercept" standardization (fwd)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 1
Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible?
I'd like to be able digitally "shake hands" using a Palm Pilot. Is this
possible?
What I mean is,
Let's say some disgruntled and generic crypto-kook (let's call him,
say,...'Tyler Durden')
And don't forget his promise that we'll all be able to buy Hydrogen-powered
cars by 2020 or so. Guess that's how long he thinks this war on terrorism
will last (and its probability for ending!).
-TD
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Mike Rossing wrote...
"Just gotta kill off a few more arabs to extend the time when that happens
is all."
That gives me a damned good idea. Perhaps we can use Camp XRay to do some
research on how to melt down Muslims and convert then directly into fossil
fuels, bypassing all the middlemen...Mus
Tim May wrote...
"Ask why the U.S.S.R., which depended essentially solely on "federal
funding," failed so completely. Hint: it wasn't just because of repression.
It was largely because "picking winners" doesn't work, and command economies
only know how to pick winners (they think)."
Well, ther
Tim May wrote...
"Then there's safety, and personal injury insurance rates. If my 3500-pound
S-Class hits a Prius, the laws of physics dictate what happens. And if I hit
a golf cart, er, a Honda Lupo, I'd better yell "Fore!""
That's what it came down to for me. In the 80s I swore I'd never buy
I don't really understand why examining the current state of affairs in US
transportation is productive.
Who built the highway system? Private companies? Hell no.
Basically, the US government did, and that acted as the initial "investment"
to make the value of an automobile (via the "Network Ef
Tom Veil wrote...
According to the most recent Census data, blacks currently account for
around 12.6 percent, or 35.5 million, Even if 20 million are
>liquidated, there will still be plenty of vermin
around to replenish their numbers.
--
Tom Veil
So what's the deal with hating black folks
"You folks here pay lip service to aspect of free markets and
anarcho-capitalism,but many of you consistently fail to see the
follow-through, the applicability to the world around you. You need to have
faith that greed is good, that free markets optimize a lot better than
planners in Washingto
"One more reasons passenger rail lines are failing and are demanding massive
subsidies. Real people won't wait for hours for late trains, or miss a day
completely when the track is being repaired, or park their Lexuses and BMWs
where bums and winos will key their paint jobs.
Railroads are for ho
From the Lightreading newswire feed...
Any comments? Impact statement anyone?
-TD
SOMERSET, N.J. -- More than 75 percent of survey respondents believe that
browser-based SSL (secure sockets layer) VPN (virtual private network)
technology is somewhat to highly likely to replace IPSec-based
Michael Motyka wrote...
"Now to return your serve : back to NYC, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground
1966. White Light White Heat 1967. As close to the egg as I can place any
band in style and in spirit. If it were necessary to name one band as the
progenitors of punk the Velvet Underground get
"Great how bush's daughter, the cocaine addict, isn't in jail, but this
man, who was deputized by the city of oakland to grow this marijuana,
is going to be in jail for 20 years. Bush himself was arrested for
DUI, I wish he was rotting in jail instead of ed."
Hold it...Bush's relationship with Coc
Tim May wrote...
Silliness. The name "cypherpunks" was a pun on "cyberpunks," a pun
suggested by Jude Milhon, a woman writer for "Mondo 2000" at the time.
Being that there is no body which "decides" what our group is called, or
even that it _is_ a group, saying that someone's pun on top of som
Well, one little trick I learned from the natives from living in China is to
see what's being denied the most vehemently. If, over the next few days,
they keep saying "It's not a missle, it's not a missle", then you KNOW it's
a fuckin missle.
(It worked a little differently in China...if they t
Jesus H(I assume the 'H' was instered to avert the condemnation of
blasphemy)...quite a good post.
Heard and duly noted.
-TD
From: John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Flaming the Clueless
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 09:32:47 -0800 (PST)
It's common for those accomplis
Declan:
Yes perhaps. I try not to think too much (I don't trust 'thinking' unless
its mathematics or a good experimental setup), but I'll ponder for a while,
to the extent that I am able
-TD
From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tyler Durden <
Tim May wrote...
"Last laugh: CNN is carrying (10:06 a.m. PST) an "information" slug at the
bottom of a Wolf Blitzer interview: "Columbia was traveling 18 times faster
than the speed of light."
Yes, "speed of light." "
Yo Choate! Want to take a crack at this? Please explain using your theories
John Kelsey wrote...
"For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem to be
remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right kind of
source, especially a government agency or other official source."
Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and
ocking.)
From: Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:07:52 +
Tyler Durden wrote:
> And then there's the PERSISTENT rumors of him actually taking an
accidental
> DEA bust in a Florid
"That's redundant in the modern US. Too bad; there needs to be a
counterbalance to the right-wing control freaks, but the left just
isn't up to it."
Good comment. Indeed, the only thing the Democrats seem to stand for is that
they aren't republicans. Meanwhile, the economics of the 'real' left le
Tim May wrote...
"Even t.v. commercials are spreading the meme that Big Brother is our
friend."
Funny he should mention this. This very morning was watching the news and a
commerical came on for a local monitored Burglar alarm system. It featured a
Customed Superhero "Alarmo" (I think), going
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay.
What about Italy? The Italians seem to be remarkably good at ignoring both
the vatican as well as their government (which changes every few years and
no wonder...do ANY Italians actually pay taxes?). And yet, Northern Italy
I've got a question...
If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level
magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives,
you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions.
OK...so I don't know a LOT about how PCs work, so here's a dumb question.
Will this work
Holy sh*t is this guy stupid. Racist too. I guess anyone who doesn't
look/sound/think like this MF is "they".
Better round up those blacks while we're at it.
-TD
"And if I were to have him shot I'D be the one to go to jail!"
(Paraphrase of Mr Burns...)
From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL
The implications of this thing are possibly more disturbing than anything
I've been exposed to in the last few months. At least a simplistic analysis
would suggest that Downing street whipped up something really fast in order
to support the US War Machine. Did they not have any publically stata
"I always thought that breathing during the commission of a crime should
result in an extra five to ten years in prison."
Or, failure to inform authorities of your specific plans to commit a crime
should result in an additional 5 to 10.
-TD
From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Gr
Bill Frantz wrote...
"Except for the fact that one should not trust pledges that are made under
coercion, I am reasonably comfortable with this edited version. It
expresses the ideal nation that I wish the United States would become."
Well, this is probably a lot better than nothing, particula
"I'm not so sure this emperor could handle psycedelics. Might
break the robotic connections"
Arguably, 9/11 was a bad trip, and now we're completely freaking out.
-TD
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:11:43 -0600
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:31:56PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
> "I'm not so sure this emperor could handle psycedelics. Might
> break the robotic con
Harmon Seaver wrote...
As far as actual LSD goes -- none. And I did a couple hundred,
anyway. Towards the end (and after it was suggested on the Senate floor
that
"bad drugs" be created and distributed on the streets to freak out LSD
users),
many things were sold as "LSD" which were not. I r
"why should the U.S. concern itself with making
investments in Iraq not directly related to creating and maintaining oil
extraction and transport facilities?"
This is a continuation of the mythology that extrapolates post-WWII US
presence in Germany and Japan ("you know, those Americans really he
By the time that people were mixing speed with it, actual dosages were
much less (adding amphetamines to 250mic LSD is fairly pointless) and
>today most, from what I hear, are around 75-100 mic.
In the early 80s I remembering getting some of the famous Goofy blotter,
rated around 125 ugm
Eric Cordian wrote...
Continuous math is a dead end. So are strings.
Yo! Superstring theory is only "continuous math" because the proper
mathematical theory describing strings didn't exist. In the past, physics
has sometimes lagged (ca 1900) sometimes led (Newton) the development of the
nee
Eric Cordian wrote...
Perhaps it is so "friggin' hard" because you are trying to do the
equivalent of modular exponentiation with Roman numerals.
Well, you're kind of missing my point. You said that 'M' was for Moron, and
I was pointing out that the Morons working on this theory are in so
Tim May wrote...
"Sure, the North Koreans are practicing extortion: send us more money and
Hennesy cognac or we will rattle our sabers."
Both Kim Il Sun (or was that his dad's name) and Saddam Hussein want one
thing with "weapons of mass destruction": power. They know that by having
some big,
XRCD is not steganographic in the sense that we are disscusing, but merely a
very carefully done 24 bit master mastered down to the normal 16x44 of CD.
They also pay very careful attention to the physical manufacturing of the
disc, and use aluminum as the "substrate" (instead of the normal audi
"The other formats of note are probably SACD and then DVD-Audio. SACD
is multichannel 16-bit/44.1kHz... so multichannel CD without additional
sample resolution (if I recall). SACD is not "backwards compatible"
though, whereas HDCD is.
DVD-Audio is really the way to go, though... 24-bit/96kHz mult
>From: Adam Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Echelon-like...
>Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:21 +0100
>
>Sounds about right. 64 bit crypto in the "strong" version (which
not feel or know that their message
is of enough importance to go outside ofLotus Notes or whatever if they have
it.
>
>
>On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:37:52AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
> > OK, let's assume for the same of argument that it takes about 1 minute
>for
>
igation.
Which returns to my original point: the "easy" availability of strong crypto
products does not mean it is unprofitable for an agency to continue to push
populations towards lighter forms of encryption.
>From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Tyler D
use a lite form of cryptography (yes, such
as in Lotus Notes) on EVERY message they sent.
Or perhaps you've all discussed this before, but the responses I've seen so
far don't indicate that.
>From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Tyler Durden" &l
Here's an interesting press release from France Telecom. It will be
interesting to see if this changes internet volumes in a meaningful way.
PARIS -- France Telecom R&D has launched an exclusive trial spanning 5,000
customers who will use prepaid cards for secure shopping on the Internet.
T
TECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Security processor + a question
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:21:28 -0700
At 07:40 PM 10/18/02 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>Well,I disagree about psuedo random number generation, sort of.
>First, if I have PSR
Offshore Tax Cheats Include Big Names, IRS Says
By Kathy M. Kristof
Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2002
The Internal Revenue Service has identified actors, doctors, lawyers,
accountants, attorneys and high-end business people in its wide-ranging
crackdown on offshore tax cheats, who are believed
"Palladium sets up a separate trusted virtual computer inside the PC
processor, with its own OS, called Nexus, and it own applications, called
agents."
Holy crap. So does this mean that MS Windows 2005 with Palladium operating
will take about 15 minutes to boot up? Will "Age of Empires 5" even
Uh, first of all can we get rid of the part of the subject line that says
"Durden lies"? (Particularly seeing how the quote attributed to me did not
originate from me.)
As for Chomsky lying, can you give us some specific citations? Did he lie
about our support for Sadam Hussein? Our support for
page.
From: James Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: was: Echelon-like resources..
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:57:24 -0700 (PDT)
Tyler Durden
> As for Chomsky lying, can you give us
> some specific citations? Did he lie
> about our support for Sa
Well, there was also some other details left out by that article. A "100kW
beam" doesn't tell you very much if you don't know the beam diameter. A
1310nm telecom laser can cause serious eye damage with 10mW, but that's 10mW
into, say 38 um^2. But it ain't going to do nothing to enemy aircraft
l
Intel is moving Security onto its Network processor chips...a quote also
follows.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=22749
(Begin quote)
For now, Intel is tackling very high- and low-end systems. The IXP2850 is
derived from the IXP2800, which targets 10-Gbit/s l
D if this is possible, is there some way to examine the encrypted output
and then, say, search for unusual frequency traces of certain sequences, and
determine tha the code has been tampered with? Or are there ways to tamper
with good cryptocode in ways that can never be detected with actually
loo
TECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Security processor + a question
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:33:15 -0700
> From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Intel Security processor + a question
>
> OK...a follow up question (actually, really
Apparently a new Crypto chip from nCipher.
What's the C-punks view on this standard--FIPS 140-2 Level 3? Anyone have a
link to this document?
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Ingrian Networks, the leader in Active Application
Security solutions, announced it has extended its strategic relationship
w
In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless,
near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm
wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff.(In
addition, 3G looks like it's going to roll out in the US only in fits and
starts o
4 AM, Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote:
At 10:08 AM 10/28/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless,
near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but
I'm
wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-uplo
PROTECTED], "'Mike Rosing'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Confiscation of Anti-War Video
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:08:17 -0500
> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes:
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
>
> > In antoher context I'v
"Everyone pretty much knows who all is involved, and has to keep in contact
with each other in order to capture video optimally."
Well, I've been wondering how feasible it would be to implement video
transfer in such a way that the "cameras" don't know the "buffers" in
advance. Haven't put pen
"Some of these problems can be avoided by using very short pulses.
Again you get into dwell, the short pulses -must- be made up for by
increasing the PRR and this defeats the who purpose of the short pulses
since you need more of them (we're talking an integration effect here
so it doesn't take mu
"Prior to that, the encrypted email I've sent in the past year or so has
almost always failed, because of version incompatibilities,"
While in Telecom I was auditing optical transport gear, and we adopted the
practice of encrypting all of our audit reports to vendors. Of course, the
chance of t
t;
Subject: RE: What email encryption is actually in use?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:58:55 -0500
> Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
> At 10:13 AM 11/4/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
> >This is an interesting issue...how much information can be gleaned from
>
>
t;
Subject: RE: What email encryption is actually in use?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:37:59 -0500
> Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
> On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 08:01 PM, Tyler Durden wrote:
>
> > "Prior to that, the encrypted email I've sent in the past yea
e no
global significance...
From: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "'Tyler Durden'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: What email encryption is actually in use?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:00:56 -0500
> --
> From: T
The subject line says it all, if one remembers Variola's clever dare.
As far as I'm concerned, this big brother bullshit should work two ways: any
tyrrany should expect that any public actions will make it onto the net
somewhere. Of course, one day they'll probably begin a set of countermoves,
b
of image links etc... on the 'Net?).
-TD
From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Photos in transport plane of prisoners: Time for eJazeera?
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 17:53:48 -0800
At 08:32 PM
Sorry, I'm new, but does this refer to the notion of splitting up a document
"holographically", and placing the various pieces of numerous servers
throughout the 'Net? (Any one piece will probably not contain a complete
copy of the information, and is encrypted too, sot that it is not possible
Actually, that was quite a post from Mr Duvos. And while I am in position to
respond to most of what he has written, I would like to take slight issue
with the following:
"Such cryptography is based on faith, much like tea-leaf reading. We have
absolutely no hard mathematical evidence that fac
ist and
have been identified...was factorization chosen because the encryption
process used very little hardware (back when that mattered)?
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:48:27 -0800
On Tuesday, Nove
for a long
time and yet never know if it's actually "difficult" or not.
Again, sorry to all for being a little chatty and clumsy at this point.
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002
Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!)
When we say "complete", are we talking about completeness in the Godelian
sense? According to Godel, and formal system (except for the possibility of
the oddballs mentioned below--I hadn't heard of this possibility) is
"in
a) Those friggin' war-posters are hilarious.
b) Downstairs and across the street in front of Starbucks I just saw two NYC
cops holding what looked like AK-47s...on their backs it said "Emergency
Coercive Unit".
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Protect your PC
End of the Golden Age of Crypto
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:26:02 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
> Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!)
It's full of nut cases too :-)
> I have not, however, heretofore considered that there could
Oh yeah, another thing I wanted to ask about, before I forget.
It's somewhat well-known that throughout the South pacific, there are "radio
stations" that do nothing but broadcast the real-time reading of number
sequences, but no one seems to know just why. And these number sequences do
not see
"How can anyone claim that the U.S. or Israel or corporations or rich
Americans are morally worse than the likes of Hussein?"
Can't answer that directly, aside from pointing out that theUS is largely
responsible for Hussein's rise to power. I could be argued that oil in our
hands has created man
"Indeed, I've heard the same. One could argue that for someone to believe in
something (religion) so intensely as to shun all moral explanation against
this hypothesis and to persist in those beliefs without any proof is akin to
schizophrenia."
Well, I'm sure this is not an issue that Cypherpun
I'm looking for an application that sits on a webserver and receives
encrypted images and audio, de-encrypts them, and auto-posts the images.
This application will have a public key which on-the-ground videographers
(or uploaders) can use. But it's private key no human being knows.
The applicat
Holy Shit!
Does that mean that some 18-year-old script kiddie could get LIFE?
If this wasn't such an immense pile of stupidity, I'd get angry over the
obvious invasions of privacy, etc...
Having worked in many a company, I KNOW how most management systems work.
Let's say there's something as s
"Who, for instance, sees nothing at all wrong with selling votes. Where I
come from, it's called "equity". :-)."
Yes, one could argue that the vast majority of the public have their votes
bought and sold all the time, but they are unaware of it and don't reap the
benefits. Wait scratch that...t
Damn. I can't help but think that this sounds kinda Kafka-esque...might we
see something like this in the future?
Court: Please provide a defense for the charges that have been levied
against you.
Gilmore: Sure, if you'll tell me what the charges are, and what law I've
broken.
Court: No. The
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