RE: Don't Trust Your Eyes or URLs (was Re: TidBITS#766/14-Feb-05)

2005-02-15 Thread Marcel Popescu
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.A. Hettinga Don't Trust Your Eyes or URLs - by Glenn Fleishman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The likelihood of falling victim to a spoofed URL on the Web itself is less likely, assuming you start

TSA's Secure Flight (was Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, February 15, 2005)

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:23 AM -0600 2/15/05, Bruce Schneier wrote: TSA's Secure Flight As I wrote last month, I am participating in a working group to study the security and privacy of Secure Flight, the U.S. government's program to match airline passengers with a terrorist watch list. In the end,

Re: U.S. Said to Pay Iraq Contractors in Cash

2005-02-15 Thread Ryan Lackey
Everyone does this openly over here. Anything less than $500k or so isn't even worth thinking about, since as a kidnap victim, you're sold for about that much. I really don't see why it's worthy of an article. I've been buying cash from other contractors, as well as providing cash on a

Paradigms for Paranoids

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/14/codecon_paradigm_for_paranoids/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Software » Developer » Paradigms for Paranoids By Team Register (feedback at theregister.co.uk) Published Monday 14th February 2005 22:15 GMT Codecon

How to isolate DNA with salad-spinner

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/14/codecon_2005/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Security » Network Security » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/14/codecon_2005/ How to isolate DNA with salad-spinner By Jorn Barger (feedback at

Nigerians turn to vigilantes

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/4265415.stm The BBC Tuesday, 15 February, 2005, 12:38 GMT Nigerians turn to vigilantes By Sola Odunfa BBC Africa Live, Lagos Not so long ago, mangled bodies or charred remains of mob justice victims littered the streets of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city.

'Trustworthy' Computing Now Gates' Focus

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=562u=/ap/20050215/ap_on_hi_te/security_conference_6printer=1 Yahoo! 'Trustworthy' Computing Now Gates' Focus 1 hour, 21 minutes ago By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. - Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates (news - web sites

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Thompson
--- ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James A. Donald wrote: The state was created to attack private property rights - to steal stuff. Some rich people are beneficiaries, but from the beginning, always at the expense of other rich people. More commonly states defend the rich against the

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Thompson
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As governments were created to smash property rights, they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the most property. Uh-huh. Perhaps you are using the term 'government' in

Digital Water Marks Thieves

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Until, of course, people figure out that taggants on everything do nothing but confuse evidence and custody, not help it. Go ask the guys in the firearms labs about *that* one. Cheers, RAH --- http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,66595,00.html Wired News Digital Water Marks Thieves By

[i2p] weekly status notes [feb 15] (fwd from jrandom@i2p.net)

2005-02-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from jrandom [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: jrandom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:52:27 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [i2p] weekly status notes [feb 15] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, sa cette fois de la semaine encore, *

But does it pass Diehard?

2005-02-15 Thread Morlock Elloi
Apologies for introducing crypto-related stuff: RNG that reads minds and predicts future: http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=126649 Can This Black Box See Into the Future? DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread Justin
On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: --- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As governments were created to smash property rights, they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the most property.

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

2005-02-15 Thread Barry Shein
Oh no, the idiotic penny black idea rides again. Like the movie War Games when a young Matthew Broderick saves the world by causing the WOPR computer to be distracted into playing itself tic-tac-toe rather than launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike. It was a MOVIE, made in 1983 nonetheless,

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread Justin
On 2005-02-15T21:40:34+, Justin wrote: On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: --- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As governments were created to smash property rights, they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property, and the

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:40 PM + 2/15/05, Justin wrote: I think it's fair to say that governments initially formed to protect property rights (although we have no historical record of such a government because it must have been before recorded history began). BZZZT. Wrong answer. Governments first steal

SHA-1 broken?

2005-02-15 Thread James Brim
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html damn chinese.

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

2005-02-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services. And the spammers will be using everyone else's PC's to send out their spam, so the spam problem will

Re: U.S. Said to Pay Iraq Contractors in Cash

2005-02-15 Thread Ryan Lackey
Everyone does this openly over here. Anything less than $500k or so isn't even worth thinking about, since as a kidnap victim, you're sold for about that much. I really don't see why it's worthy of an article. I've been buying cash from other contractors, as well as providing cash on a

Don't Trust Your Eyes or URLs (was Re: TidBITS#766/14-Feb-05)

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:21 PM -0800 2/14/05, TidBITS Editors wrote: Don't Trust Your Eyes or URLs - by Glenn Fleishman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The clever folks at the Shmoo Group, a bunch of interesting security folks who punch holes in assumptions about what's secure on the Internet,

TSA's Secure Flight (was Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, February 15, 2005)

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:23 AM -0600 2/15/05, Bruce Schneier wrote: TSA's Secure Flight As I wrote last month, I am participating in a working group to study the security and privacy of Secure Flight, the U.S. government's program to match airline passengers with a terrorist watch list. In the end,

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Thompson
--- ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James A. Donald wrote: The state was created to attack private property rights - to steal stuff. Some rich people are beneficiaries, but from the beginning, always at the expense of other rich people. More commonly states defend the rich against the

Digital Water Marks Thieves

2005-02-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Until, of course, people figure out that taggants on everything do nothing but confuse evidence and custody, not help it. Go ask the guys in the firearms labs about *that* one. Cheers, RAH --- http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,66595,00.html Wired News Digital Water Marks Thieves By