Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits
That's an interesting point. They seem to be attacking at precisely the correct rate to forcibly evolve P2P systems to be completely invulnerable to such efforts. Hum. Perhaps Tim May works for MPAA? Nah... he wasn't THAT bright, was he? -TD From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:59:15 + http://news.com.com/2102-1030_3-5551903.html?tag=st.util.print Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. As much as I'd like to be upset, they are driving innovation of p2p software. -- War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free. --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)
Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:16:44AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: That's an interesting point. They seem to be attacking at precisely the correct rate to forcibly evolve P2P systems to be completely invulnerable to such efforts. Not really. The P2P assm^H^H^H^H architects are reissuing new systems with holes patched reactively. There's no reason for a P2P system designed in 1996 to be water-tight to any threat model of 2010. (Strangely enough, they had IP nazis and lawyers back then, too). Hum. Perhaps Tim May works for MPAA? Nah... he wasn't THAT bright, was he? I think he was primarily one thing: frustrated. It's hard to see the idiots win, year after year. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgpkvAxc7Ob3H.pgp Description: PGP signature
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RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
Speaking of mistakes I seem to have pasted the wrong message text when I sent my reply to Mr. Trei. I regret the unfortunate duplication and consequent waste of list bandwidth. --- --- Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mistake rate] If, in a capital case, where the money to pay public defenders is usually maximally available, and the appeals process, checks, and cross-checks are the more thorough than in any non-capital prosecution, you STILL get at least a 33% error rate, then what is the wrongfull conviction rate in non-capital cases, where there are far fewer appeals, and public defenders are paid a pittance? I couldn't say, but it is well known that people who are accused of a crime are given rather large incentives to plead guilty in order to avoid the lengthly trial process. This is, of course, a major point. However, there isn't much discussion about the lack of accountability for people (police, judicial officials, etc.) who themselves run afoul of the law and who are rarely punished at all. And of course there's the lucrative prison system with it's large union and bureaucracy. Plus, many people know about the recruiting facet of that industry in which some individuals are groomed and incentivised to become agents of the state, in one capacity or another, in exchange for freedom or lesser sentences. Insofar as the intel community is concerned, it seems from my perspective that there is no effective deterrent for violent crime since you've pretty much got to do something really stupid before they'll prosecute: like cut off your wife's head and store it in your freezer, or something equally gregarious. For people in SpookWorld, fraud, larceny, perjury, and murder are merely the tools of the trade. And don't get me started on about the cartels. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Arabic-Software.html?oref=loginpagewanted=printposition= The New York Times January 27, 2005 Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:09 a.m. ET BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Computer scientists are developing software to scan Arabic documents, including handwritten ones, for specific words and phrases, filling a void that became apparent following the Sept. 11. attacks. Besides helping with intelligence gathering, the software should expand access to modern and ancient Arabic manuscripts. It will allow Arabic writings to be digitized and posted on the Web. ``The whole Internet is skewed toward people who speak English,'' said Venu Govindaraju, director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors at the University at Buffalo, where the software is being developed. Govindaraju fears that if optical character recognition software isn't developed for a particular language, ``then all the classic texts in that language will disappear into oblivion.'' Bill Young, an Arab language specialist at the University of Maryland, said the software could help scan through masses of typed pages for specific names or words, though he cautioned that handwritten Arabic presents serious challenges for computers. For instance, the word mas'uul, meaning responsible, can be written in more than one way, he said. So the software would have to be given instructions about possible variations. Govindaraju, who helped develop software to recognize handwritten addresses in English, said the Arabic software would take into account the fact that characters may take different forms depending on where within a word they appear, and that Arabic vowels are pronounced but often not written. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits
At 04:41 PM 1/28/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Not really. The P2P assm^H^H^H^H architects are reissuing new systems with holes patched reactively. There's no reason for a P2P system designed in 1996 to be water-tight to any threat model of 2010. (Strangely enough, they had IP nazis and lawyers back then, too). I was surprised to see that the EFF listed ADCs as endangered tech. Because the hollywood nazis regard (and damn rightly so) the analog hole as real. That a fairly stead organization as EFF would regard the desparate death-sounds of hollywood as a serious threat to such basic tech was astounding. I've had cross-compiled code (for the MMC2107) identified as a virus (and therefore erased) by an antivirus program on a PC. This only lost an hour or two of work. Imagine that your medical measurements, or kids' performances, happen to match an ADC's copy protection codes. Imagine that all your silicon belongs to us, us=hollywood=congress. Imagine that all your printing presses belong to the State, for the protection of the commercial merde. -- Be neither perpetrator, bystander, nor victim ---a commentator on the 60th anniversary of Auswitz, coming to a goverment center near you - Uranium --the Great Equalizer
'No Place to Hide': Nonstop Scrutiny, as Orwell Foresaw
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/books/25kaku.html?8bu=pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times January 25, 2005 BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'NO PLACE TO HIDE' Nonstop Scrutiny, as Orwell Foresaw By MICHIKO KAKUTANI NO PLACE TO HIDE By Robert O'Harrow Jr. 348 pages. Free Press. $26. icture Minority Report combined with Orwell's 1984 and Francis Ford Coppola's Conversation: in an effort to prevent future crimes and predict what certain individuals are likely to do, the government has begun working with high-tech titans to keep tabs on the populace. One company has come up with a digital identity system that has tagged every adult American with a unique code. Another company is intent on gaining control of all records - including state and local files, financial information, employee dossiers, DNA data and criminal background checks - that define our identity. In addition to iris scanners, voice analyzers and fingerprint readers, there now exist face recognition machines and cameras that can identify an individual by how he or she walks. One government group is working on infrared detectors that could register heat signals around people's eyes, indicating an autonomic fight or flight response; another federal agency has floated a proposal to assess risk by examining airline passengers' brain waves with noninvasive neuro-electric sensors. This surveillance state is not a futuristic place conjured in a Philip K. Dick novel or Matrix-esque sci-fi thriller. It is post-9/11 America, as described in Robert O'Harrow Jr.'s unnerving new book, No Place to Hide - an America where citizens' right to be let alone, as Justice Louis Brandeis of the Supreme Court once put it, is increasingly imperiled, where more and more components of our daily lives are routinely monitored, recorded and analyzed. These concerns, of course, are hardly new. Way back in 1964, in The Naked Society, Vance Packard warned about encroachments on civil liberties and the growing threat to privacy posed by new electronic devices, and in 1971, in The Assault on Privacy, Arthur R. Miller warned that advances in information technologies had given birth to a new social virus - 'data-mania.' The digital revolution of the 1990's, however, exponentially amplified these trends by enabling retailers, marketers and financial institutions to gather and store vast amounts of information about current and potential customers. And as Mr. O'Harrow notes, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, reignited and reshaped a smoldering debate over the proper use of government power to peer into the lives of ordinary people. Some of the material in No Place to Hide is familiar from news coverage (most notably, the author's own articles about privacy and technology for The Washington Post), from a recent ABC News special (made in conjunction with Mr. O'Harrow's reporting) and from recent books like Jeffrey Rosen's Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age and Christian Parenti's Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror. Still, Mr. O'Harrow provides in these pages an authoritative and vivid account of the emergence of a security-industrial complex and the far-reaching consequences for ordinary Americans, who must cope not only with the uneasy sense of being watched (leading, defenders of civil liberties have argued, to a stifling of debate and dissent) but also with the very palpable dangers of having personal information (and in some cases, inaccurate information) passed from one outfit to another. Mr. O'Harrow also charts many consumers' willingness to trade a measure of privacy for convenience (think of the personal information happily dispensed to TiVo machines and Amazon.com in exchange for efficient service and helpful suggestions), freedom for security. He reviews the gargantuan data-gathering and data-mining operations already carried out by companies like Acxiom, ChoicePoint and LexisNexis. And he shows how their methods are being co-opted by the government. The Privacy Act of 1974, enacted in the wake of revelations about covert domestic spying by the F.B.I., the Army and other agencies, gave individuals new rights to know and to correct information that the government was collecting about them, but the government's current predilection for outsourcing data-gathering to private companies has changed the rules of the game. As Mr. O'Harrow notes: Among other things, the law restricted the government from building databases of dossiers unless the information about individuals was directly relevant to an agency's mission. Of course, that's precisely what ChoicePoint, LexisNexis and other services do for the government. By outsourcing the collection of records, the government doesn't have to ensure the data is accurate, or have any provisions to correct it in the same way it would under the Privacy Act. There are no limits on how the information can be interpreted, all this at a time when law
Re: Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic
On 2005-01-28T20:03:22-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Arabic-Software.html?oref=loginpagewanted=printposition= The New York Times January 27, 2005 Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ``The whole Internet is skewed toward people who speak English,'' said Venu Govindaraju, director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors at the University at Buffalo, where the software is being developed. Someone give that man a brain, and a cookie. I don't live near NY. The internet has nothing to do with scanning written/printed arabic texts. He obviously intended to squeeze a complaint about the internet into an article about scanning printed/written documents. The reason the internet is skewed is because these idiots want others to fix the internet to accommodate their languages. As a result, much of the non-western-language support in software is done by westerners, and so doesn't work. -- War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free. --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)
Le no-no
http://www.redherring.com/PrintArticle.aspx?a=11201sector=Industries RED HERRING | The Business of Technology Le no-no The U.S. trips up a simple plan between IBM and Lenovo. January 28, 2005 Homeland security is a cornerstone of the Bush Administration. But does halting the IBM-Lenovo deal make the United States any safer? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has decided to investigate the threat presented by the sale of IBM's personal computer business to China's Lenovo Group. Industry observers want to know what it is about this deal that irks the feds. I don't know, says Jeff Moss, CEO of Black Hat, a computer security consulting firm. It could be the loss of any manufacturing technology, any kind of proprietary technology that IBM had; but the Chinese could take a laptop apart themselves, too. Besides, most personal computers are already made in China-PC production is extremely commoditized, perhaps as much as transistors. It is quite a stretch [to say] that the sale of the PC business to Lenovo would threaten American security, says Baizu Chen, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gordon S. Marshall School of Business. Some senators want to make a noise. Eventually, this will pass. It's just transfer of ownership. One concern may have to do more with location than technology. The Washington Post quoted a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission-a Congressional panel created to watch commercial relations between the U.S. and China-as saying that Chinese computer experts could use an IBM facility in North Carolina as a base for industrial espionage. While the U.S. Treasury Department wouldn't confirm or deny the launch of the 45-day probe, IBM, which will still hold an 18.9 percent stake in the business, says it has filed the required notice with the committee and is cooperating fully. The company is confident in the process and outcome. One would hope so, given that the deal is worth $1.75 billion in cash, equity, and assumed debt. Where are the red flags? The U.S. government must demand action if a deal impacts domestic production needed for projected national defense requirements, or the capacity of domestic industries to meet national defense requirements, or the control of domestic industries by foreign citizens. The sale of IBM's money-losing PC unit doesn't quite cut it. It could be an issue of pride, say some-or perhaps cryptographic chips, say others. Some of the IBM laptops have built-in cryptographic chips, says Pete Lindstrom, research director for Spire Securities. Mr. Lindstrom points out that if the intellectual property associated with cryptography is sold to a foreign country, one could potentially transfer a strong cryptographic capability to another country. But IBM is a multinational company, with employees across the globe. Would it really be so hard for someone to access such information? In the end, it all comes down to whom you trust. Legend Holdings owns the majority stake in Lenovo, and the Chinese government controls a large chunk of Legend. A few years ago, Global Crossing wanted to sell its telecommunications network to Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa. It almost did-until the CFIUS stepped in. But that's a story IBM executives would rather not think about. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Lawsuit alleges 'online currency' scam
http://news.com.com/2102-1030_3-5553141.html?tag=st.util.print CNET News Lawsuit alleges 'online currency' scam By Declan McCullagh Story last modified Thu Jan 27 08:47:00 PST 2005 A lawsuit claiming that a gold backed Internet currency scheme bilked investors out of more than $250 million can proceed against a bank implicated in it, a federal judge has ruled. At the height of its popularity, the OSGold currency boasted more than 60,000 accounts created by people drawn to promises of high yield investments that would provide guaranteed monthly returns of 30 percent to 45 percent. But around July 2002, the eve of the maturity date for the investment program, the company that offered the accounts suddenly ceased payouts. David Reed, who had founded the company called One Groupe International, eventually was discovered to have relocated from the United States to Cancun, Mexico. Concluding they had been fleeced, a group of OSGold investors banded together to sue Reed and 19 other defendants including two Latvian banks that allegedly lent their imprimatur to the project. It was fronted by the sale of a nonexistent gold-backed Internet currency and was fueled by a mammoth 'Ponzi' scheme disguised as a guaranteed high-yield investment program, the OSGold investors say in court documents. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Friday that the lawsuit could proceed against the Latvian Economic Commercial Bank (Lateko), which had attempted to dismiss the charges. Kaplan, in New York, dismissed some charges against Lateko, including breach of fiduciary duty, but permitted the rest to stand. Lateko's apparently false denials to a possibly important business partner and its continued cooperation with (Reed and other defendants) even after the scheme suspiciously began to collapse tend to show conscious disregard or recklessness and give rise to a strong inference of fraudulent intent, Kaplan wrote. Lateko's involvement began in December 2001, when it allegedly inked a deal with Reed and other defendants to provide anonymous debit cards that could be used to withdraw money from OSGold accounts from ATMs linked to the Cirrus network. Lawyers for Lateko in the New York offices of Baker McKenzie did not respond to an interview request. Suspecting something odd was going on, some companies involved in providing gold-backed Internet currencies tried to distance themselves from OSGold early on. In May 2001, the Gold and Silver Reserve (responsible for the e-gold currency) announced it would no longer link to companies that did business with or make reference to OSGold. A Ponzi scheme is an illegal pyramid scheme in which some early investors are paid off with money from later investors in an attempt to make the system look legitimate. But when later investors demand their money, the fraud collapses. This type of scheme is named for 1920s-era swindler Charles Ponzi, who promised investors a 40 percent return in 90 days. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Unintended Consequences
http://www.securityfocus.com/printable/columnists/293 SecurityFocus COLUMNISTS 293 Columnists http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/293 Unintended Consequences By Scott Granneman Jan 19 2005 01:11PM PT Back in the 1970s, long before the revolution that would eventually topple him from power, the Shah of Iran was one of America's best friends (he was a dictator who brutally repressed his people, but he was anti-communist, and that made him OK in our book). Wanting to help out a good friend, the United States government agreed to sell Iran the very same intaglio presses used to print American currency so that the Shah could print his own high quality money for his country. Soon enough, the Shah was the proud owner of some of the best money printing machines in the world, and beautiful Iranian Rials proceeded to flow off the presses. All things must come to an end, and the Shah was forced to flee Iran in 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini's rebellion brought theocratic rule to Iran. Everyone reading this undoubtedly knows the terrible events that followed: students took American embassy workers hostage for over a year as Iran declared America to be the Great Satan, while evidence of US complicity in the Shah's oppression of his people became obvious, leading to a break in relations between the two countries that continues to worsen to this day. During the early 90s, counterfeit $100 bills began to flood the Mideast, eventually spreading around the world. Known as superbills or superdollars by the US Treasury due to the astounding quality of the forgeries, these $100 bills became a tremendous headache not only for the US and its economy, but also for people all over the world that depend on the surety of American money. Several culprits have been suggested as responsible for the superbills, including North Korea and Syria, but many observers think the real culprit is the most obvious suspect: an Iranian government deeply hostile to the United States ... and even worse, an Iranian government possessing the very same printing presses used to create American money. If you've ever wondered just why American currency was redesigned in the 1990s, now you know. In the 1970s, the US rewarded an ally with a special machine; in the 1990s, the US had to change its money because that ally was no longer an ally, and that special machine was now a weapon used to attack the US's money supply, where it really hurts. As an example of the law of unintended consequences, it's powerful, and it illustrates one of the main results of that law: that those unintended consequences can really bite back when you least expect them. Unprepared and unready Sometimes unintended consequences occur from the best of intentions. For instance, Denny's is known for being open 24 hours a day, every day, always. The story goes that in 1998, for the first time in 35 years, Denny's decided to close its doors on Christmas, but there was a big problem: since Denny's was always open, many stores didn't have locks on the doors, so they couldn't close. Likewise, email was invented in 1971 and was immediately embraced as a great way to communicate with folks all over the world. Since virtually everyone on the Net pretty much knew each other at the time, email was developed without a lot of safeguards. Spoofing the sender? Not a real issue. False headers? Why in the world would anyone want to do that? Purposely misspelled words in the subject to get past filters? First of all, what the heck are filters, and why would someone want to spell something weird to get past one? It was a more innocent age, but that innocence was lost long ago, thanks to a trickle ... no, a stream ... no, a flood, an absolutely Biblical flood of garbage, scams, lies, ads, swindles, and just plain crap. In fact, it's gotten so bad that MX Logic, an antispam vendor, now estimates that 75% of all email is spam, while in same article Postini Inc. jacks that number up to 88% of all email. Think about that: only about 1 in 10 emails is legitimate. That's truly pathetic, almost enraging, and it's finally leading (slowly, oh so slowly) to necessary changes - not in the legal system, since the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 seems to have done virtually nothing to stem the tide - but in email infrastructure, to things like Microsoft's proposed Sender ID, Yahoo's Domain Keys, and Sender Policy Framework. Of course, at this time there's no consensus on the solution, and with patents and other contentious issues of so-called intellectual property acting as flies in the ointment, we may never reach a unified approach to the problem of spam. Naturally, that just helps the spammers. But they don't mind - they're busy helping each other. Fast forward from 1971 to 2005. Would the inventors recognize the monstrosity they innocently unleashed upon the world? Making things easier for the bad guys Bruce Schneier, in his excellent Beyond Fear, reports that drivers in Russia have made
RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mistake rate] And of course there's the fairly obvious point that lots of those in prison correctly are there for drug-related crimes. Said crimes would almost completely dissappear and drug usage would drop if many of those drugs were legalized and taxed. But God forbid that happen because what would all those policemen do for a living? Prison workers? Judges? Well, pot is bad. Duh. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits
http://news.com.com/2102-1030_3-5551903.html?tag=st.util.print Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. As much as I'd like to be upset, they are driving innovation of p2p software. -- War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free. --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)
RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
--- Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [airport security] More indications of an emerging 'Brazil' scenario, as opposed to a hyper-intelligent super-fascist state. As if. There already is a kind of intelligent super-fascist state in place thoughout much of society. My bugbears of the moment are the police and courts, so you get my take on how they are organised so as to be 'intelligent' without seeming so -- which further enables a whole lot of fraud to masqerade as process and incompetence. The super-fascist part comes about because the system avoids public accountability while also somehow evading any sort of reasonable standard of performance. What's the error rate, that is the false arrest, prosecution, and/or conviction rate of a Western countries' judiciary and police divitions? If it's even ten percent, and it's probably much higher, then there is no reason to respect the operation and perpetuation of the system. One chilling data point. Remember a few years ago the (pro death penalty) governor of Illinois suspended all the death sentences in has state? The reason being was that with the introduction of DNA testing, 1/3 of the people on death row were found to be innocent. I don't know how many other innocents the state planned to murder, but presumably there were some cases where DNA evidence was not available. If, in a capital case, where the money to pay public defenders is usually maximally available, and the appeals process, checks, and cross-checks are the more thorough than in any non-capital prosecution, you STILL get at least a 33% error rate, then what is the wrongfull conviction rate in non-capital cases, where there are far fewer appeals, and public defenders are paid a pittance? Peter Trei __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits
That's an interesting point. They seem to be attacking at precisely the correct rate to forcibly evolve P2P systems to be completely invulnerable to such efforts. Hum. Perhaps Tim May works for MPAA? Nah... he wasn't THAT bright, was he? -TD From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:59:15 + http://news.com.com/2102-1030_3-5551903.html?tag=st.util.print Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. As much as I'd like to be upset, they are driving innovation of p2p software. -- War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free. --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)
Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:16:44AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: That's an interesting point. They seem to be attacking at precisely the correct rate to forcibly evolve P2P systems to be completely invulnerable to such efforts. Not really. The P2P assm^H^H^H^H architects are reissuing new systems with holes patched reactively. There's no reason for a P2P system designed in 1996 to be water-tight to any threat model of 2010. (Strangely enough, they had IP nazis and lawyers back then, too). Hum. Perhaps Tim May works for MPAA? Nah... he wasn't THAT bright, was he? I think he was primarily one thing: frustrated. It's hard to see the idiots win, year after year. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgptka0VZTih7.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
Speaking of mistakes I seem to have pasted the wrong message text when I sent my reply to Mr. Trei. I regret the unfortunate duplication and consequent waste of list bandwidth. --- --- Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mistake rate] If, in a capital case, where the money to pay public defenders is usually maximally available, and the appeals process, checks, and cross-checks are the more thorough than in any non-capital prosecution, you STILL get at least a 33% error rate, then what is the wrongfull conviction rate in non-capital cases, where there are far fewer appeals, and public defenders are paid a pittance? I couldn't say, but it is well known that people who are accused of a crime are given rather large incentives to plead guilty in order to avoid the lengthly trial process. This is, of course, a major point. However, there isn't much discussion about the lack of accountability for people (police, judicial officials, etc.) who themselves run afoul of the law and who are rarely punished at all. And of course there's the lucrative prison system with it's large union and bureaucracy. Plus, many people know about the recruiting facet of that industry in which some individuals are groomed and incentivised to become agents of the state, in one capacity or another, in exchange for freedom or lesser sentences. Insofar as the intel community is concerned, it seems from my perspective that there is no effective deterrent for violent crime since you've pretty much got to do something really stupid before they'll prosecute: like cut off your wife's head and store it in your freezer, or something equally gregarious. For people in SpookWorld, fraud, larceny, perjury, and murder are merely the tools of the trade. And don't get me started on about the cartels. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
