Anarcho-capitalist buys space station

2000-08-17 Thread Lucky Green
The other day, somebody posted a pointer to an article about the investor that purchased MIR. Having read the article, I believe it warrants posting in its entirety. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture

Firm Tracks Access of Medical Info

2000-08-17 Thread A. Melon
BOSTON (AP) -- Internet privacy advocates raised concerns Tuesday about a technology firm that is quietly tracking the information consumers are getting from pharmaceutical companies' Web sites. By using tiny computer files such as ``cookies,'' Pharmatrak can track people's movement

Re: mail list server with PGP

2000-08-17 Thread Adam Langley
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 02:27:11AM -0400, Anonymous wrote: Functionality: posters send e-mail encrypted with the (single) server's key. Server decrypts, then encrypts with each recipient's key as it explodes the mail. Sounds a little pointless. I guess it must be a closed list otherwise

notes on eweek's bank audit

2000-08-17 Thread David Honig
eweek's 14 Aug issue had a description of a bank's hired blackhat audit. Interesting highlights (p 55): 1. the bank's ISP, upon discovering that the bank had caused a security alert, thereafter changed its policy to ban security probes without telling the ISP. (Which kinda defeats