Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online
> >If the digicash isn't anonymous, it's worthless. > > I'd argue to the contrary. First, "most people have nothing to hide". > The folks will want digicash for reasons other than anonymity, as argued You are misusing the term "cash". What you are describing are essentially "internet debit cards." While it is attractive to insert word "cash" into any harebrained "net money" scheme, exactly because of positive associations with CASH, it is misleading and deceptive. Cash means off-line clearing and anonymous. If it is complicated to understand, open your wallet, take a banknote out of it and ponder what it is for a minute. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
Re: idea: brinworld meets the credit card
> Those are the hard problems. No one in biometrics > has yet been able to solve them in a general way. And the merchant example is the wrong application. The merchant doesn't care WHO you are - that's a false premise. Merchant cares if you can pay. Now, that's a completely solvable issue. Of course, we know who and why is trying to misrepresent this. All other applications of biometrics boil down to threatening with punishment (we know who you are, behave or else ...) - and then the biometrics ceases to be in the interest of the eyeball holder. Even granting door access to "employees" fits this category. You don't let "any qualified mathematician willing to work" to enter the lab - you let in only those that you know where they live, have signed contracts with them, etc. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool
> There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to allow > or export this flexibility. Since very few customers are sick enough This will go the same way as radio. First, you have hundreds of separate boxes, each doing some custom modulation/frequency gig (am, fm, shortwave, TV, cell, spread spectrum, whatever) and you had to have a separate apparatus for each instance. With software radio, you just have one box that can do it all (and it made all protection-by-custom-modulation obsolete ... I've seen it playing "protected" HDTV signals.) So it's easy to imagine universal "software" disc player/recorder that let's one do any modulation technique. Not that it would provide protection, because the same tools will be available to attackers, but at least the crypto may become more fun, going back to physical domain. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: Warchalking does not exist: a wager.
> Don't know about warchalking per se, gpsdrive and kismet work a lot better, > and people trade the waypoints/nodes. Makes a hundred times more sense I never figured out why does one need a map of grocery stores. You see a store with the OPEN sign and get your chocolate. 802.11b works the same way, there are zillon drivers that give you a list of OPEN access points IN YOUR RANGE* and you simply pick one (some drivers will also test the connectivity to the backbone so you don't waste time with firewalled ones.) And the purpose of chalk marks is ? * 18" grid dish does wonders ... all the city is in the range. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC
> "security", but having both the user and administrator configure a per > host secret was apparently out of the question. There is no such thing as "automatic security." That's an oxymoron. Any system that is "secure" without the ongoing burn of end-user brain cycles is subject to more-or-less easy subversion [a corollary of this is that "masses" will never be in situation to be both (1) end users and (2) secure. One can be a product and secure at the same time without effort, though.] And any system that (in theory) makes DNS foolproof will inevitably exclude any parallel name services. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: Senators from Utah being Southern
>Religions are essentially collections of stories about the latter method Religions are artificial shortcuts to "knowledge" and excellent method to neutralize congenital human curiosity. If you can't comprehend it, fake it. They all offer explanations of various phenomena by using familiar human memes (fathers, mothers, children, birth, death.) It works most of the time. The major difference between politics and religion is that politics is streamlined, it doesn't count on the internal consistency (and related effort to grasp it) but instead uses (via media) brute force of repetition. It all boils down to getting masses to farm out the inquisitivness and then servicing it. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: international cypherpunk force
You meant "International cypherpunk FARCE" ? This is so fucking pathetic ... the Infiltration Department really needs some professionals. Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
