Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-22 Thread John Young
Ross has shifted his TCPA paper to: http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/toulouse.pdf At 07:03 PM 6/22/2002 -0700, Lucky wrote: >I recently had a chance to read Ross Anderson's paper on the activities >of the TCPA at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/.temp/toulouse.pdf

Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-22 Thread Lucky Green
I recently had a chance to read Ross Anderson's paper on the activities of the TCPA at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/.temp/toulouse.pdf I must confess that after reading the paper I am quite relieved to finally have solid confirmation that at least one other person has realized (outside

Re: DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.

2002-06-22 Thread Steve Fulton
At 18:57 21/06/2002 -0700, John Young wrote: >Data retention is being done now by programs and services >which cache data to ease loading on servers and networks. >[...] John, As a systems administrator @ an ISP, I can tell flat out that the software you describe has nothing to do with ISP ser

Re: DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.

2002-06-22 Thread Steve Fulton
At 17:37 22/06/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Not arguing, but the hardware cost curve for storage has a shorter >halving time than the cost curve for CPU (Moore's Law) and the >corresponding halving time for bandwidth is shorter still. You've got a point. Storage is becoming less and le

Re: CP meet at H2K2?

2002-06-22 Thread Bill Stewart
Several people said yes... You're hereby designated as the "Official San Francisco Bay Area Cpunks-Meeting-in-Exile" :-) At 07:07 PM 06/20/2002 -0400, Greg Newby wrote: >H2K2, 2600's conference, is at Hotel Penn in New York >July 12-14. http://www.h2k2.net > >CP contributors who are sch

Re: DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.

2002-06-22 Thread John Young
I appreciate what an honorable ISP admin will do to abide customer rights over intrusive snoopers and perhaps cooperative administrators above the pay grade of a sysadmin. Know that a decent sysadmin is on for about 1/3 of a weekday for 24x7 systems is a small comfort but leaves unanswered what c

Re: DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.

2002-06-22 Thread geer
Steve, Not arguing, but the hardware cost curve for storage has a shorter halving time than the cost curve for CPU (Moore's Law) and the corresponding halving time for bandwidth is shorter still. If that relationship holds up over a period of years, today's tradeoffs between cache, re-computation