Re: Mises Institute Reaction to Microsoft Ruling

2000-04-05 Thread Tom Vogt
Eric Cordian wrote: 1. Because of the "application barrier to entry", no one can effectively compete with Microsoft in the Intel/PC market OS, giving microsoft a monopoly in this market. This is bogus, because an OS designer can certainly support Microsoft's APIs in addition to

Re: Mises Institute Reaction to Microsoft Ruling

2000-04-05 Thread Matthew Gaylor
Tom Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't know about you over there, but over here in europe we DO tell vendors of all sorts of products what to include. for example, certain safety features are mandatory in all technical products. certain ingredients are illegal in food. and there IS a regulation

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Re: Remote bugging: new mobile telephony feature

2000-04-05 Thread keyser-soze
At 04:05 AM 4/5/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: At 2:00 AM -0400 4/5/00, Lucky Green wrote: I am currently participating in specifications working groups focused on next-generation digital mobile telephony. Cypherpunks will find some of the new features coming to a mobile phone near you interesting:

Re: Mises Institute Reaction to Microsoft Ruling

2000-04-05 Thread Tom Vogt
Matthew Gaylor wrote: From a nation that censors the speech of it's citizens, and who would like to censor everyone, why should anyone be surprised that they have a standard for screws? at least we don't have crypto export regulations. :)

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

2000-04-05 Thread david
At 11:18 AM 4/5/2000 -0400, you wrote: it's an economical fact that few will doubt that a monopoly is bad for the market, and thus for the economy. the state, representing (ideally) both participant sides of the market, has the duty of ensuring that the market continues to work well. It is

RE: Next-Generation Encryption Algorithm Camellia

2000-04-05 Thread Frates, Jarrod A.
Based on Moore's Law, this means it will be secure on computers roughly 10,000 times more powerful than today's systems. How likely is that? Its not hard to imagine, if all we're talking about is brute force attacks. Those are essentially the numbers I came up with as well. However (and I

Court: Computer Codes Protected

2000-04-05 Thread Anonymous Sender
CINCINNATI (AP) - Computer programs used to scramble electronic messages are protected by the First Amendment because those codes are a means of communication among programmers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Raymond Vasvari, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio,

Disk INsecurity:last word on deletes, wipes The Final Solution.

2000-04-05 Thread Gary Jeffers
Disk INsecurity:last word on deletes, wipes The Final Solution. My fellow Cypherpunks, On the matter of getting rid of dangerous info on your hard disk, here is a very interesting quote from The GIANT BLACK BOOK of COMPUTER VIRUSES, second edition by Dr. Mark Ludwig American Eagle

HIP 97 history

2000-04-05 Thread d.a. solomon
Dear Cypherpunks, I am a Dutch artist working with digital media in the Internet cultural space. In the summer of '97, I initiated the project the_living that embodies a character appearing only on the Internet-a digi-persona. One of the primary goals of the project is to create what I call 'a

Re: HIP 97 history

2000-04-05 Thread Alan Olsen
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, d.a. solomon wrote: Dear Cypherpunks, I am a Dutch artist working with digital media in the Internet cultural space. In the summer of '97, I initiated the project the_living that embodies a character appearing only on the Internet-a digi-persona. Max Headroom? [EMAIL

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully GetsComeuppance

2000-04-05 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Giving credit to a US president for political change in the USSR seems a little far fetched. The people of the USSR and Eastern Europe were responsible for that change. Having actually lived in Europe during that time I cannot say that any of the activists I know considered Ronald Reagan a

The Internet Analyst, 4/6: Stocks To Drop; Web Alliances; and CEO's Analysts Talk

2000-04-05 Thread The Internet Analyst
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Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate BullyGetsComeuppance

2000-04-05 Thread Lizard
At 11:46 PM -0400 4/5/00, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Giving credit to a US president for political change in the USSR seems a little far fetched. So the American space program was not a result of Sputnik? Nations influence other nations all the time. The people of the USSR and Eastern

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2000-04-05 Thread Alan Olsen
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Re: Fwd: 'SMART GUN' KNOWS WHEN TO FIRE

2000-04-05 Thread Alan Olsen
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Making Bombs

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2000-04-05 Thread Jean-Francois Avon
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Re: me

2000-04-05 Thread Pope Golgotha Pierced the Zeroth
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RE: Next-Generation Encryption Algorithm Camellia

2000-04-05 Thread Frates, Jarrod A.
Those are essentially the numbers I came up with as well. However (and I admit to being fairly new to this), how many current schemes can be broken solely through brute force? Are any of them vulnerable to more elegant (albeit computationally intensive) attacks? You miss the point. Any