f, though not quite as useful as the classic paper,
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of
Quantum Gravity"
URL: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2.html
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n it over, which was
predictable. Why shouldn't the specialist in flying Sausserians be able to
milk the Revolution? They did in 1789 and 1917, if not the Real Revolution
in 1776. Fakery recapitulates sincerity.
>Eric Raymond would probably agree, himself, now that his Cathedral
onal push-pull of technology vs. law.
Lessig is by no means a Cypherpunk (though that definition is changing as
we suffer the invasions of communists, neomarxists, social justice
advocates, and the just plain clueless...in a few months the list may be
dominated by lefties of one il
;There are some arguable borderline cases, e.g.
>"I know you don't have a mistress, but I'll tell your wife about her anyway"
>probably counts as extortion rather than blackmail.
Disagree.
It's still just words, language. Whether it is true or not is irrelevant.
--Ti
At 10:08 AM + 3/11/00, Secret Squirrel wrote:
>Tim May writes:
>> (Yes, this all assumes digital products...if _physical_ goods are
>> being shipped, then even payer untraceability is largely lost.
>> Luckily for this scenario, the emphasis we have placed h
argument back around '92, in some of the early
discussions of "the anonymous libel" problem, which I don't think is
a problem.
(The more interesting case is to apply this stratagem to untraceable
extortion demands. Dicey from a game-theoretic sense, but potentially
workable.)
race is reported...I was only slightly joking when I said earlier
that anything more than 1/64th negro makes one a negro...Himmler
would be proud.)
Mighty white of them.
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, but no thanks, I told them. Writing
a rebuttal book is the best rebuttal, and those who want to write
books are in for a huge project. If they wish to, great.)
So, there will be jeremiads published about the dangers of this or
that technology. And shorter articles written by newcomers like Bi
bala can get her
monthly AFDC and WICC and other payments so she get high with her
crack-dealing boyfriend and do some more welfare-cheatin' breedin.'
We should not only end taxation as we know it today, we should
imprison those who have stolen our taxes and force them to work off
their de
At 1:25 PM +1000 3/27/00, Andrew Rogers wrote:
>remove
>
>get me off these bloody lists!
You subscribed. Follow the instructions on how to unsubscribe.
If you are too stupid to do this, consider your continued presence as a reward.
ent from any
>other underrepresented group. Can you give me this definition?
Why are you spamming this question to a list containing hundreds of
subscribers?
Why are you not using the Web? Online legal sites, encycopedias,
court rulings, etc.?
Get a fucking cl
ble to
buy Danish chip companies at the most favorable prices if the
Commercial Intelligence Directorate of the NSA has not provided them
with critical company communications?
We urgently need Wassenaar, Clipper, and Echelon so as to maintain
American he
SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Move over, Napster! Move
over, Wrapster! These programs are about to become yesterday's news.
History repeated itself last night at midnight as TappedPlanet
(tappedplanet.com), the leading Internet surveillance entity,
released Tapster, its automatic sn
for at least 15 years, in consumer models. In workstation models,
longer. I think both Logitech and Mouse Systems were selling
them.
This is what one gets when
English majors rewrite company press releases, adding some puns or
presumed c
being treated the same way people treat everything - if you can't
>tame it, kill it. No appreciation for the finer things in life.
We and other freedom fighters have been working to take the Net back
from the thugs for close t
overnment or
have their companies broken up are nitwits. Some, who actively work
in this direction, need killing.
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At 11:48 AM +0200 4/5/00, Tom Vogt wrote:
>Tim May wrote:
>> It isn't forced on everyone. I don't have or use Windows. (At least
>> not since the execrable 1.0).
>>
>> Get your facts straight.
>
>get real. while there are no guns involved, and thu
for
governmental regulation or notice.
BTW, other legal scholars, like Posner (same guy as in the Microsoft
case) and Sunstein may have interesting things to say about this
issue. Bork, too, who asserted correctly, in my view, that the
Constitution has no specific "privacy protections.&qu
At 11:33 PM -0700 4/12/00, Tim May wrote:
I should have added another important link between crypto and
economics: the awarding of prizes for breaking ciphers. Sometimes the
prize is intangible, sometimes it's fame, sometimes it's $1000,
sometimes it's much more. Even snake
means low:
it requires continuing practice, dedication, and expenditure of
energy.
And yet Declan's point that this knowledge is not property in the
sense that a car is recognized as property remains valid. Transaction
costs to either get
At 11:16 AM -0400 4/13/00, Trei, Peter wrote:
>
>I think the demonstrations of brute force attack on weak crypto is another
>item on the (short) list of "cypherpunks" achievements.
This is an uncalled-for criticism of the "c
rivate location, but far away from one's home.
Confront him and demand the money owed.
If he doesn't pay, blow him away.
Justice needs to be carried out by individuals, not left to minions
of the State.
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nd prosecutable, things--like using phony SS tattoos, er,
numbers, like spreading stink gas in buildings, and like making
specific threats. I don't do any of those things.
Still, I'm ready to start shooting if anyone unexpected is found on my hill.
--Tim May
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27;m riding my Harley,'' he said.
I nominate this article as the most pretentious--or should I say
"precious"?--mixing of metaphors seen in a major piece of reporting
this year.
This latest Dreyfus affair is tedious beyond words. No dou
I'm not very certain about David Friedman and
>>Walter Block, though if Tim May supports state intervention, everything else
>>is fair game...
>>
>You're not the only one. But I know how you feel. I'm the only real
>anarcho/capitalist I know personally. The few peo
eager to meet some older men online.
(Hey, anything to get her out of the house!)
Thanks again for helping.
--Tim May
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sland Ministers on
AU-433, Preliminary Reading on the Regulation of Sub-7mm Pellet
Sizes.)
No so Bill Payne, who cc:s a dozen mailing lists on his psychotic rants.
Not so Matthew Gaylor, who bombards Cyberial-L, Cypherpunks,
Fight-Censorship, and other mailing lists with r
ease go to
www.cluelessjournalists.org for details.
If you are just another English major-turned-computer journalist,
then fuck off.
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laim that
>Microsoft is interested in competition in a free market place is either a
>fool or a liar.
Since you are then calling me a fool or a liar, I'll return the
favor. It is shameful that you are on the Cypherpunks list.
People like you need to be stopped from imposing by
At 12:28 PM -0500 6/11/00, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <a04310100b5696e17666a@[207.111.242.204]>, on 06/11/00
>at 10:44 AM, Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>>>
>>>-- Use it's monopoly with hardware vendors to prevent competition's
>
At 4:44 PM -0700 6/11/00, Lizard wrote:
>At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote:
>>Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC
>>chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or
>>moral authority to force IBM and Motorol
re
directly. Cops who solicit illegalities need to be dealt with
directly.
But that's just my opinion.
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e
laws, if they are passed.
The notion that cops can break the law by soliciting for sex and then
be exempt from prosecution, or can buy drugs and be exempt from drug
laws, is why we have so much entrapment.
Secondly, there are more direct and final solutions to the problem of
entrapment.
Trus
nsets, dogs,
>vegetables and even a Wired News staff meeting.
Well, a Wired News staff meeting might well be viewed by many as
pornographic. Who did what to whom? Was it good for the others, too?
>
>
>Exotrope officials say they plan to f
I assume Cyberia-L and Fight-Censorship folks are also fed up
with seeing multiple articles with no original content by the
forwarding parties.)
Gaylor, you are really becoming a pest.
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ewhere is trying to entrap
someone.
I receive a couple of these a day, almost always of the same form.
Sometimes I think the solution is to track down these requesters and
deliver the bombs they crave so badly.
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em.
As expected, no response (and no visits by locals LEAs)/
As expected, no one really cares.
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n consult a dictionary. There are many on-line dictionaries.
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cause "freedom of association"
applies only to individuals. As soon as a group is named, whether
"Church of Mormon" or "Intel Corporation," it no longer has any Bill
of Rights protections.
A weird world. But at least they have unlimited energy from Tesla Physic
on the unfiltered toad list.
A waste of oxygen.
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W
the ostrich.
As for the notion that the cyberpass list lost its subscriber base
temporarily just so (I gather the theory goes...) anonymous posters
could be uncovered during that several day periodjeesh.
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ecause he was communicating with his Japanese source, who knew quite
well that the PSIA did not want this story aired.
Duh.
There ought to be an I.Q. test before people are allowed to join the
Cypherpunks list.
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ng Cryptome via a Freedom node,
I expect his nym would have been cancelled when the RCMP and other
Canadian agencies leaned heavily on ZKS. Even more obviously, had a
site for Homolka-Teale material been operated via Freedom, it surely
would have been shut down. Even if the nyms were usd by U.S.
) simply let the megabytes pile up until the space is
reclaimed.)
Let them go. Those interested in "saving" the preterite toadsters can
send out messages to the toadies telling them how to subscribe to
other lists.
I think of it as evolution in action.
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privacy to the teenaged years. And who would dare to interfere with a
Woman's Right to Choose?
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At 4:35 PM -1000 7/26/00, Reese wrote:
>At 09:17 AM 26/07/00 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>>At 9:18 PM -1000 7/25/00, Reese wrote:
>>>At 11:19 PM 25/07/00 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>>>
>>> >Get a clue.
>>> >
>>>>You do know, don't you,
linding (still encumbered, but there are the
"agnostic" workarounds discussed by Barnes and Goldberg), etc. And
there are powerful languages like Python (they tell me) for gluing
together such things.
There is absolutely no reason why a "Crypto World" cannot be built,
with mo
other language." It's not clear
that in a world where all languages are basically powerful enough to
implement the same things that a new language is all that necessary.
In any case, it doesn't provide for the many building blocks and glue
I was talking about.
And, interest
ver delivered at all or that it was lost in
the morass of fliers for Safeway and Ralph's and Nordstrom's,
whatever. And not even in "Alice's Restaurant World" are people
jailed for failing to find a particular l
realize.
It's been around longer than we have.
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W.A.S.
ng
amongst them is one of the lowlights of the 1990s.
(I understand the property issues, but the cross-posting is loathesome.)
--Tim May
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iew has become, over the past dozen or so years, that
anyone who passes a law which is overturned should face consequences
for the bad law. In many cases, death. In lesser cases, hard labor,
earning their keep. In the least significant cases, expulsion from
legislative and ministerial bodies.
At 11:59 AM +0100 8/10/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>At 12:52 PM -0700 on 8/9/00, Tim May wrote:
>
>
> > We didn't invent the term, I hope you realize.
>>
> > It's been around longer than we have.
>
>Actually, they quote Vince Cate, who probably gave it
At 2:59 PM -0400 8/14/00, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > --
>> From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> At 11:04 AM 8/11/00 -0700, jeradonah wrote:
>> >
> > >Major University to Be Asked to Review F.B.I.'s 'Carnivore'
>>
>
>Pesonally, I agree that the problem with Carnivore is not
roved S/N is to post more signal. Complaining
about low S/N just never seems to help, does it?
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ing,
but their money apparently arrives in a timely fashion.
Likewise, I've seen punk/goth kids in white pancake makeup, black
hair, rings through numerous facial features, and dark sunglasses. As
much of a disguise as any mask. And yet they get their money, with no
sirens, no Thought Poli
all of my comments about "X needs killing" to mean
"X has intitated the use of force and reasonable men will kill X if
necessary to defend themselves."
Same result, just more awkward. And with no more semantic meaning
than saying "X needs killing."
Just synta
quot;fairly good."" A thousand bits generated
locally, and perhaps run through some cryptographic crunching to
distill out the entropy, are better than a thousand bits generated by
some other agent.
If this needs to be explained, there's no point in doing so.
--Tim May
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The rise of a European Union and a surging NATO is likely to lessen
liberties and expand the power of the state.
And when Denmark and Norway, say, decide to leave the Union, look for
the fascists to dust off the speeches of Lincoln.
--Tim May
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ld be
enough to disambiguate a "grey cat hair" found at a crime scene from
others. That is, they are not seeking to get traceability. And they
figure they can get their 1600 cat sample purely by voluntary means.
So, it sounds plausible, even interesting.
--Tim May
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At 10:35 AM -0700 9/12/00, Marshall Clow wrote:
> >At 4:44 AM + 9/12/00, Michael Shields wrote:
>>>In article ,
>>>Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13169.html
>>>>
>>>> &
couple of cases of other DOD folks in the same straits.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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se who need killing, Web sites promoting
espionage, draft dodging, and terrorism.
While the _activities_ being promoted or advocate may (or may not) be
illegal, talking about them and advocating them is a *speech act*.
Cf. the First Amendm
tection of basic liberties. Sure, defenders will scurry to
point out, Canada now _has_ a charter/constitution. But it has not
been the bedrock that the U.S.C. has been, nor has it had a history
of important tests.
Canada is fundamentally an ad hocracy.
As for the effect on ZKS, I haven't see
you _already_ created closed lists.
"Cryptography" and "Coderpunks," for example. Join _those_ lists.
2. Subscribe to one of the filtered lists, e.g., Ray Arachelian's list.
3. Create your own lists.
BTW, if
fool several years ago. Apparently the years you were away
have not helped.
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>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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hed. Even if they've installed some rugrats as human shields.
Eggs breaking and all that.
Nothing surprises me anymore. They all need killing. Tens of
thousands of them at the very least.
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<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786889136/cypherpunkshyper>
>Buy This Book!
Keep this advertising shit off of the list.
Fucking unbelievable.
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y years? What will happen to local
laws when cyberspace makes movement around the world so easy? When
regulatory arbitrage moots nearly any law? When untraceable and
unbreakable crypto allows "impenetrable bobbles" (a la Vinge) to be
erected at will? When digital reputations, handled
html>Subject
>Index]
>
><http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/> Re: police IR searches to Supremes
>
This is getting to be tiresome.
Please stop including bullshit MIME cruft in e-mail.
If you do it one more time I plan to killfile you.
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Staasi, or SAVAK, or Shin Bet, or the Ayotollahs. Mere suspicion is
enough.
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ove some level.
I expect most of them need to be liquidated in the purge.
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othing whatsoever to do with its radioactivity,
though.)
Again, consult online sources, or encyclopedias.
And if you asked on the Cypherpunks list because you thought it would
be cute to implicate us in nuclear weapons chatter, get a clue. If
not, it was still the wrong place to ask such a ques
adition, the discussion is now over.
>
> Bear
May's Corollary to Godwin's Law: At least 97% of all invocations of
Godwin's Law are done so to squelch debate.
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oduction of evidence is not trumped by
some claim of a "right to anonymity."
No surprises there.
This is helpful because it pushed anonymity back into the
technological arena, where it belongs.
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At 8:50 PM -0700 10/16/00, Nathan Saper wrote:
>
>On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:12:53PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
>
> >
>> What is the basis for this claim about the NSA having such expertise
>> and technology? Paranoia, ESP, cluelessness, or actual knowledge?
>>
>
begin excerpt--
Here's a table from Applied Cryptography, referenced with an
unpublished paper (as of Feb. 1995) by Andrew Odlyzko "Progress in
Integer Factorization and Discrete Logarithms"
Mips years required to factor a number with the GNF
David Wagners.
The days when NSA was the main source of funding for math guys like
Berlekamp and number theorists and algebraists are over. Hundreds of
universities, dozens of crypto companies, massive competition.
And for things like factoring, it is _unlikely_ that some GS-14 at
the Fort
han brute force.
Your main claim was that ciphers are crackable by the NSA (pace your
various comments about "near realtime," "cracking farms," ASICs and
silicon-on-sapphire, and your .mil/spook buddies who have
confidentially told you so).
Are you retracting this c
are dealing with someone but don't know who they are,
>and as far as the sheeple are concerned, one not-knowing is as
>good as another. It violates the same assumption, therefore in
>popular view, it must be the same thing.
>
V
done so far is to hand wave (and somethingelse-wave) about
how custom silicon and unspecified tricks _must_ be useful. As
another poster noted, where's the 10^78-fold improvement?
(And the 10^200-fold improvement? Etc.)
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at most cypherpunks stand for."
Cypherpunks don't believe that security comes through obscurity.
Those who wish to protect their identities should take positive
measures to do so.
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he
past few months? Did "Mother Jones" give out subscription information
recently?
Wait until you finally grasp the full implications of crypto anarchy.
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At 10:20 PM -0500 10/17/00, Allen Ethridge wrote:
>On Tuesday, October 17, 2000, at 08:19 PM, Tim May wrote:
>
>As for insurance companies "discriminating," this is what I hope for.
>Those of us who don't engage in certain practices--smoking, sky
>diving, ana
er songs, or host Web pages locally. No
skin off my nose.
The point: I get along fine at 28.8. The modern Web *experience* is
what has changed dramatically, not modem speeds and screen
resolutions.
The very growth
rent
>opinions than I do.
Sadly, you don't know enough to actually carry on a debate.
Warmed-over socialist platitudes have been your stock in trade.
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lls insurance to Bob is not a matter for
the state to interfere with.
You, Nathan, may set up your own insurance company if you wish. Or
you may offer to pay for the health care of those you think are not
getting a fair deal.
But you may NOT tell me
At 6:54 PM -0700 10/18/00, Yardena Arar + Christian Goetze wrote:
>I almost never participate in this group, but here it's hard to resist.
>
>On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
>
>> At 6:01 PM -0700 10/18/00, Nathan Saper wrote:
>> >
>> > > And wha
ither blow'em to bits or pay them
>anonymous digital cash
>to go away).
Another socialist simp-wimp heard from.
Lots of socialists to be dealt with and disposed of. I wonder who
will stoke the furnaces?
--Tim May
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At 9:20 PM -0500 10/18/00, Neil Johnson wrote:
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>From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > This is the way markets in general have always worked. Economists
>> talk about "preference revealing" and "selective disc
sender and/or the address where you send an e-mail if
>you're interested, and told them how annoyed you were.
>
>Just an idea.
Gee, what an original idea.
Better yet, sort all toad.com messages into its own folder and del
our true colors have now been revealed. Simply robbery.
It looks like the "autumn crop" is in full bloom.
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ared recently to
argue that corporations are the real enemy, that government is just
trying to do its job, that all crypto is broken anyway so why
bother?, that free markets can't possibly work, and that crypto is
for helping to force insurance companies to help the little guy, most
of th
At 9:23 PM -0400 10/19/00, Me wrote:
>From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Indeed. We used to have the reasonable expectation that nearly
>> everyone on the list had some familiarity with the "classics."
>For
>> example... Vinge's "
> I realize that there is a lot of it, but still.
This is a very old idea, rejected for good cause many, many years ago.
Need I elaborate?
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e unable to get any kind of catastropic medical insurance
>and might be wiped out of virtually all assets by a serious illness,
>even one completely unrelated in any way to his genetic predisposition.
>
Yes...so?
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this when next you advocate using the democratic vote to
seize private property by majoritarian rule.
Frankly, I think I've read enough of you, Nathan Saper.
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business faster than the film could be
finished and distributed; in many cases, the same folks were taking
what they'd learned and applying it to television.
In any case, the proof is in the pudding. I certainly thought the
effects were far from pedestrian.
As to your not liking "The
At 3:36 PM -0400 10/25/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>
>It must have something to do with being Canadianized. Only folks from
>Alberta seem to get it right.
Not counting a certain someone, initials SB/SS, from British Columbia?
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