The wrong stuff: what it takes to be a TSA terror suspect

2004-04-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/aclu-suit/print.html> The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Internet and Law » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/aclu-suit/ The wrong stuff: what it takes to be a TSA terror suspect By John Lettice (

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:10 AM -0700 4/5/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Atoms >matter. *Markets* matter, which *was* my point, originally in this thread. Not Mercs. Markets are how you convert bits to atoms. Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Ban Is Eased on Editing Foreign Work

2004-04-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/politics/05PUBL.html?ei=1&en=b4429c6bc9f7b5c7&ex=1082148579&pagewanted=print&position=> The New York Times April 5, 2004 Ban Is Eased on Editing Foreign Work By THE NEW YORK TIMES ASHINGTON, April 4 - The federal government has

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

2004-04-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 12:35 PM -0800 4/4/04, Bill Stewart wrote: >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume the purpose of a fence around the >Capitol >would be to keep those pesky Congresscritters _in_, >not to keep other people out? Hmmm... Maybe something on the order of a lobster trap. Offer

Gutmann: operating under the radar

2004-04-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/PrintDoc/3F25D67E47980786CC256E6C007EE7D2?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld> Computerworld NZ Tuesday, 6 April, 2004 Gutmann: operating under the radar Paul Brislen, Auckland He describes himself as a "professional paranoid", but crypt

The New Right and Anarcho-capitalism

2004-04-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
and vastly entertaining read, recommended for anyone with an anti-authority bent, it logs anarchistic thought from the Tao to the Sex Pistols (700+ pages). Marshall labels these old-guard classical liberals "anarcho-capitalists" -- a superior term to right-wing anarchist, for reasons Marshall gives

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

2004-04-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 4:38 PM +0200 4/3/04, Anonymous wrote: >Major Variola wrote: >> A fence is being considered around the Capital in DC also. > >Capitol. Outed as a marxist, apparently. Shame on you, Mr. Pox. ;-) Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwrit

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
owever, I'm talking about markets, and firms, which are all creatures of information flow. As William Gibson put it once, a corporation is a being which eats information and shits money. In those terms, then, since, Coase's theorem again, reduced transaction cost (lowered by lower informatio

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

2004-04-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:31 PM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >A fence is being considered around the Capital in DC also. You need a bigger fence than that, at least out to places like the Beltway, maybe out to Fort Meade, right? ;-). Of course, if they just got rid of the attractive nuisance, if

Re: [IP] U.S. may need to step in, says cybersecurity report

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:58 PM -0500 4/2/04, Jerrold Leichter wrote: >Ahem. Did you notice the issue date and time? Damn. My only gotcha all day... April fool, indeed. :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquh

Shock waves from Fallujah

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 National devolution proceeds apace. Howie Carr is shocking Chris Wallace just now about partitioning Iraq into three countries, Kurdish (who will have oil), Shiite (who will have oil), and Sunni (who will not; geography's a bitch), all while pu

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 8:59 AM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >The govt has a monopoly on certain tools of the trade. Of course, that always hasn't worked right in other industries. The peculiar institution of geographic force monopoly will be an int

Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see in the following article the kernel of geodesic markets for force. Actually a sort of re-emergence, I suppose, remembering letters of marque, etc., and my idea about the decline in switching costs "unwinding" the development of huma

[IP] U.S. may need to step in, says cybersecurity report

2004-04-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Page updated at 12:00 A.M. U.S. may need to step in, says cybersecurity report By Ted Bridis The Associated Press WASHINGTON - In a surprise shift, leading software companies acknowledge in a report to the Bush administration that the government might need to force the U.S. technology industry

Peru's Best Export

2004-04-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
vancing Liberty goes to Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto. It is a fitting and timely tribute when global troubles so closely mirror the challenges that Mr. de Soto first tackled in his native Peru. Mr. de Soto founded the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima in 1980 to understand the cau

The 'Privacy' Jihad

2004-04-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
rvative libertarians, such as Americans for Tax Reform -- are fixated on a technique called "data mining." By now, however, they have killed enough different programs that their operating principle can only be formulated as this: No use of computer data or technology anywhere at any time

Re: Mercs need to wear clean underwear

2004-03-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
he right market forces. So, what, declare all current property claims in Fallujah to be null and void, sell claims off to the highest bidder, and whoever gets there with the most men owns it. I mean, it worked in Texas with the Comanches and Apaches... Yeah, it's a fantasy, b

Re: DoD advisor advocates piracy

2004-03-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:43 PM -0500 3/31/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Wanna bet that *that* won't happen again? Meaning that the mercs come back with more toys, next time... Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 F

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

2004-03-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 7:56 PM +0100 3/31/04, Jim Dixon wrote: >"Sublimation of an element or substance is a conversion between the >solid and the gaseous states with no liquid intermediate stage." Yes, I know the common definition. But, like I sai

Re: DoD advisor advocates piracy

2004-03-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
*that* won't happen again? Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga 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

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

2004-03-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 6:16 PM + 3/31/04, Justin wrote: >Haven't you ever seen a phase diagram? Sigh. Yes. Here's one, for water: <http://wine1.sb.fsu.edu/chm1045/notes/Forces/Phase/Forces06.htm> And your point is? Let's see, if we rapid

RE: Liquid Natural Flatulence

2004-03-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, I'm not going to get into a fisking match with you, but I didn't just make this stuff up, and I resent you saying I did. At 10:26 AM -0500 3/31/04, Trei, Peter wrote: >* Evaporating LPG (liquids do not 'sublimate') will

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

2004-03-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 12:28 AM -0500 3/31/04, John Kelsey wrote: >That's why the CEO >has decided to move out of town. Actually, the ex-CEO, who commissioned the study, lives on a boat in a marina next door, :-), but, sure, point taken. Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga The Inte

UI expert?

2004-03-29 Thread R. A. Hettinga
to send spam without getting >blacklisted, here's my bit of spam - does anyone know a really good UI >person who'd like to work on free software (no, that doesn't mean its >unpaid)? > >If so, send 'em my way... -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Beare

You can't hide your lying eyes

2004-03-29 Thread R. A. Hettinga
tradition of George Washington, Francis Marion, and young Jim Monroe, the Haitian people just used firearms to throw out a vicious tyrant, and the immediate goal of Big White Brother is to "rebuild a shattered police force and disarm militants who began the insurgency." At least b

[Politech] Judge dismisses John Gilmore's ID-required lawsuit [priv]

2004-03-29 Thread R. A. Hettinga
ty; UAL CORPORATION, aka UNITED AIRLINES; and DOES I-XXX, Defendants. No. C 02-3444 SI UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA March 19, 2004, Decided March 23, 2004, Filed ... Defendants have moved to dismiss plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a c

An Essential War

2004-03-29 Thread R. A. Hettinga
ting times, with interesting problems to solve. In the meantime, the ability to fight distributed violence rests with nation-states, who are finally getting the idea that it is, in fact, a military problem, and not something to leave to lawyers. The threat of terrorism and other geodesic forms of

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

2004-03-29 Thread R. A. Hettinga
ar weapons), genetically modified foods, air travel, and lots of other progress, LNG is safe enough even in the worst-case scenario, and FUD-mongers like the Bulletin of the Atomic "Scientists" are the worst kind of Luddite charlatans. But I bet you figured that out, right? :-). >The non

Re: Anonymizer employees need killing

2004-03-28 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 1:53 PM -0600 3/28/04, bgt wrote: >What I'm blaming Lance for is snake-oil marketing. Don't be a putz. He's marketing it for what it is. Lance has never made any claims of perfect anonymity. >> And, finally, one last thin

Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants

2004-03-28 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/print/2953483/detail.html?use=print> TheNewOrleansChannel.com Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants POSTED: 3:55 PM CST March 26, 2004 UPDATED: 4:36 PM CST March 26, 2004 NEW ORLEANS -- It's a groundbreaking court decision that legal

Re: Anonymizer employees need killing

2004-03-28 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 1:01 AM -0600 3/28/04, bgt wrote: >you state openly in your policy that you're not to be >trusted! Think about it for a second. Anonymizer is set up to prevent *businesses*, stalkers, and small-time crooks like spammers, from seeing yo

Liquid Natural Flatulence

2004-03-27 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Hettinga The Geodesic Economy Liquid Natural Flatulence Boston, Massachusetts March 27, 2004 After more than a decade of thankfully irrelevant silence, the usual mathematical-reductionist ex-nihilo nonsense is again being emetted from the

Re: Anonymity of prepaid phone chip-cards

2004-03-26 Thread R. A. Hettinga
hey caught the Oklahoma City bombers? :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga 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 o

Re: Max's Lesson (was Re: [osint] Martha's lesson - don't talk to the FBI)

2004-03-26 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:30 PM -0500 3/24/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >JUSTICE? Yawn. Plonk... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its

Welcome to the Fast Track

2004-03-26 Thread R. A. Hettinga
They didn't say where to, exactly, but we can guess... Cheers, RAH --- <http://www.forbes.com/fyi/2004/0329/066_print.html> Forbes EZPass Welcome to the Fast Track Matthew Reed Baker, 03.29.04 Airport security can be traveler's hell. If you've been waiting for

Re: expiring bearer documents

2004-03-26 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 9:48 PM -0800 3/25/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >At 09:20 PM 3/25/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >>Fine. Make it cheaper. Moore's Law creates geodesic networks, so >>let's have geodesic internet bearer transactions. &g

Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-26 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:20 AM + 3/26/04, Justin wrote: >Those "nasty latin words" are "ceteris paribus". Thank you. On a network full of experts the price of error is bandwidth. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://

Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-26 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 11:44 AM + 3/26/04, Anonymous via panta wrote: > three rounds in the base of Bob Hettinga's geodesic skull Glock for the bed. AR for the Closet. Mossberg for the door? :-). Collective punishment, indeed... Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga The Interne

Air-drop them on the Rat Islands

2004-03-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
lawed by 1912. So why have the number of lawbooks on the shelf multiplied tenfold in the past 92 years? Release everyone jailed on a drug law (unknown before 1916), for income tax evasion (impossible before 1913), for any kind of illegal possession of or commerce in firearms (laws unimagined a

Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 8:59 PM -0500 3/25/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Boom. An anonymously-voted limited liability business entity. > >Look, ma. No state. Oh. One more thing. It'll *never* happen until the risk-adjusted (those nasty latin words ceterus pa

Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
e law and force-monopoly. The way to do limited liability with financial cryptography is, of course, fairly trivial in theory, and maybe we'll get to practice it someday. You do a Shamir secret-spilt of a key with m-of-n copies, and set n to be a majority of m. Vote that key with a board, and y

Mac OS X XGrid, anyone?

2004-03-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-- - R. A. Hettinga 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."

Cypherpunks, Super deals on Cialukis, 80 precent off!

2004-03-24 Thread Prank A. Amazingly
How're you doing?We're all in this alone. Cypherpunks, looking for a source to buy medicatiTcon?Supreme ViagCrta and CialQKis. Quick weight (helldog obeyable) loss and antidepressant medicatiFoVn!Best price on ValiuNam and XanaJrx. Super deals, 80 peecrnt off!We are able to ship wdr

Max's Lesson (was Re: [osint] Martha's lesson - don't talk to the FBI)

2004-03-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
zzt. -20 pts., Totalitarian will to power. ...I think we'll stop there, in the interests of, um, intellectual charity... Score: 40/100. F. Game over. Thank you for playing, Max. And now for a little post-mortem, shall we? It's all about property, Max. You know, the stuff you *earned*

Re: [osint] Martha's lesson - don't talk to the FBI

2004-03-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:28 AM -0800 3/24/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >Because she got charged with *lying* to a fed when she >was *not* under oath. So, the point is, as Duncan Frissell has always said on this list, when confronted with cops of any kind, shut up, and lawyer up. Period. I expect you

[osint] Martha's lesson - don't talk to the FBI

2004-03-23 Thread R. A. Hettinga
the fall of Martha Stewart: Don't ever, under any circumstances, answer questions put to you by the FBI or any other federal agent unless you have a competent criminal lawyer at your side. And it would be better if it were a very good criminal lawyer. There are other lessons to be drawn fro

Supreme Court to Decide Mandatory Identification Case

2004-03-23 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/politics/22CND-SCOT.html?amp;ei=5062&en=d465b07e1cd628ee&partner=GOOGLE&ex=1080622800&pagewanted=print&position=> The New York Times March 22, 2004 Supreme Court to Decide Mandatory Identification Case By LINDA GREENHOUSE ASHI

Porn's New King

2004-03-22 Thread R. A. Hettinga
nts for Internet porn. Credit card processor Intercept's (nasdaq: ICPT - news - people ) 2002 acquisition of Internet Billing, or iBill, may go down in history as one of the most boneheaded acquisitions ever by a public company. Now, it's finding it just as embarrassing to get ri

Re: MannWorld vs. BrinWorld

2004-03-22 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:12 PM -0500 3/22/04, An Metet wrote: >What the hell does this have to do with cypherpunks? Um, biometrics? :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "...

MannWorld vs. BrinWorld

2004-03-22 Thread R. A. Hettinga
A little touchy-feeley and "communitarian" for J. Random Anarcho-capitalist Cypherpunk :-), but Steve's got a point about geodesic *supervision* of one's property and person in the defense of same, and not centralized *surveillance* by citizens by the state for the oppressio

Regulatory Malpractice

2004-03-18 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20040317-082622-7954r.htm> The Washington Times Regulatory malpractice By Richard W. Rahn Published March 18, 2004 In today's parlance, George Washington was a victim of medical malpractice. When he became ill, he was bled by his doc

Mac OS X and the Power Mac G5 Tech Talk Invitation

2004-03-17 Thread R. A. Hettinga
mbridge042004TT> Dear Developer, The Apple Developer Connection is pleased to invite you to a "Mac OS X and the Power Mac G5" Tech Talk, Tuesday, April 20th at the Harvard University Science Center. This event is aimed at developers who want to better understand how to

[wearables] Wearable Computers and Body Privacy take 2

2004-03-17 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:29:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Thad E. Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wearables] Wearable Computers and Body Privacy take 2 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to everyone for their comments so far.

Cable taps into wiretap law

2004-03-16 Thread R. A. Hettinga
th the federal wiretap law. Vernon Irvin, executive vice president at security vendor VeriSign, said during a recent interview that his company had signed a deal with a "major cable operator" in the United States to help it follow the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act (

Scarce objects -- bearer certificates for usage control

2004-03-16 Thread R. A. Hettinga
ce.html Nick Szabo http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefu

If You Want to Protect A Security Secret, Make Sure It's Public

2004-03-14 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB107930573476054980,00.html> The Wall Street Journal March 15, 2004 PORTALS By LEE GOMES If You Want to Protect A Security Secret, Make Sure It's Public Here is some news that is shocking but true: The most sensitive, most highly

Re: I'd recognise that ear, anywhere

2004-03-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:02 AM -0500 3/12/04, sunder wrote: >Not when it pretends to be a new and wonderful idea, and ignores its past. Pedant. ;-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA

Quantum crypto reaches 150 km (March 2004)

2004-03-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://optics.org/articles/news/10/3/11/1> optics.org - News - Quantum crypto reaches 150 km 12 March 2004 A single photon is sent over a 150 km optical link beating the previous transmission record by 50 km. Scientists at NEC in Japan claim to have smashed the transmission distance

Re: I'd recognise that ear, anywhere

2004-03-11 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:57 AM -0500 3/11/04, sunder wrote: >This is old news. Hmmm... Actual progress on old news is new news, right? :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "

I'd recognise that ear, anywhere

2004-03-09 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36106.html> The Register I'd recognise that ear, anywhere By Lucy Sherriff Posted: 09/03/2004 at 10:11 GMT Never mind retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition: we'll have our ears on a national database, soon. Boffins a

J.P. Morgan Is Facing Heat Of Patriot Act

2004-03-09 Thread R. A. Hettinga
it has been working with regulators to tighten its standards. "We agree with regulators that financial institutions should continually raise standards on know-your-customer policies, and have worked with them to ensure that we tighten ours and strive to exceed the law," a bank spo

Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
r Twelve jurors and two alternates sat almost unblinkingly in a 10th-floor courtroom and watched a 21-minute videotape on two television monitors. Some squirmed in the swivel seats in the jury box but their eyes remained riveted on the screens, watching images of two men having sex with an

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
groceries (in meatspace) suffice. Right. More to the point, the only person you trust in a bearer transaction is the underwriter, who, of course, can be a persistent pseudonym. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibu

Chameleon Card Changes Stripes

2004-03-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
l ever need. Chameleon Network, in Concord, Massachusetts, plans to replace the stacks of credit, bank and customer-loyalty cards burdening modern consumers with a single, rewritable Chameleon Card, which works just like an ordinary card with a magnetic strip. The Chameleon Card's blac

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-06 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:21 PM +0100 3/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Facultative strong authentication doesn't nuke anonynimity. Perfect pseudonymity is functional anonymity, in my book... Cheers, RAH -- ----- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/&g

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-06 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:14 PM +0100 3/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Filtering for signed/vs. unsigned mail doesn't make sense, authenticating >and whitelisting known senders by digital signature makes very good sense. Right. A whitelist for my friends. >Of course, this doesn't help with people you d

Autobrinification: Microsoft Gadget Keeps Record of Your Life

2004-03-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
, Wash. (AP) -- SenseCam, touted as a visual diary of sorts by Microsoft Corp., is designed to be worn around the neck and take up to 2,000 images a 12-hour day automatically. The prototype responds to changes such as bright lights and sudden movements and might one day even respond to other stimuli su

Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
The "whitelist for my friends" part of "a whitelist for my friends, all others pay cash" seems to be underway... If we really do get cryptographic signatures on email in a way that works, expect 80% of all spam to be blown away as a matter of course. Cheers, RAH --- <

Happy Reichstag Day...

2004-03-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
orld War II. Adolf Hitler had secured the chancellorship after the November 1932 elections, but he still didn't have a majority in the Reichstag, so he set March 5, 1933 as the date for new elections. Six days before the election, the Reichstag building caught fire, and the Nazis used the fire a

How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web

2004-03-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
ode-named Mont Blanc began almost by accident in April 2002, when authorities intercepted a cellphone call that lasted less than a minute and involved not a single word of conversation. Investigators, suspicious that the call was a signal between terrorists, followed the trail first to one terror su

Re: Fwd: Re: The Neocon Case for Imprisoning War Opponents

2004-03-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:27 AM + 3/3/04, David Crookes wrote: >Heh. Missing Tim are we? "When I was your age we didn't have Tim May! We had to be paranoid on our own! And we were grateful!" --Alan Olsen -- ----- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <htt

Fwd: Re: The Neocon Case for Imprisoning War Opponents

2004-03-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
iples are in ruins, unless we can verify our elections this November. I've had it with talk about touch-screen voting. It's time for non-violent protest at the polls... Carry a fancy metal briefcase with some stenciled lettering: "E-Vote Compliance Monitoring Station." Or park a va

Teachers Union declared a "Terrorist Organization"

2004-03-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:32:07 -0600 Subject: Teachers Union declared a "Terrorist Organization" Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:32:08 -0800 From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.teachers,misc.education,misc.survivalism,scruz.general,la.general, Lines: 27 N

Negroes in Haiti want "Billions" in Aid--FUCK THAT

2004-03-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
hborhoods in the same way the negro ghetto mutants burned down their neighborhoods in South-Central LA, in Oakland, in Liberty City (lots of Haitians there, not surprisingly), Watts, and Detroit. The U.S. has a _stated_ national debt of $7 trillion ($7,000,000,000,000), and an _actual_ nation

Fwd: Re: Don't Panic - Not All Jobs Are Headed Overseas

2004-03-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Halcitron) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Don't Panic - Not All Jobs Are Headed Overseas Any keyboard job can be shipped overseas, including engineering (CAD), XRAY and MRI analysis/interpretation. Unless they have robotic heavy equipment, bulldoz

[Users] Announce: FreeS/WAN Project Ending

2004-03-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
invisible and convenient to the user. (for more, see http://www.freeswan.org/history.html). A secondary goal was to challenge then-current US export regulations, which prohibited the export of strong cryptography (such as triple DES encryption) of US origin or authorship. Since the project's i

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II (opsec review)

2004-03-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:01 AM -0800 3/1/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >(What was that Brit town sacrificed so the Germans wouldn't know >the codes were broken? Starts with "C"...) Coventry... Ancient cathedral, etc... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Interne

Online Anonymity May Fade

2004-02-29 Thread R. A. Hettinga
use of customer profiling. It provided DoubleClick with the ability to combine data such as a person's name and address with information on the Web sites they visit and items they purchase. The company agreed to keep those lines of information separate to address privacy concerns. Abacus mainta

Microsoft Plans Biometric ID Cards

2004-02-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
metric Ids, it currently has under development. Demonstrated during Bill Gates' keynote address at the RSA Conference yesterday, the software comprises a system for producing cards and subsequently verifying that they have not been altered. Cards would consist of a photograph of the bearer,

[IP] Ruling on Doe v Chao [ for IP list]

2004-02-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
r Tuesday to make the government pay for revealing someone's Social Security (news - web sites) number and other personal information. Justices ruled 6-3 against a coal miner who sought $1,000 in damages after his Social Security number was revealed. He sued under the Privacy Act, a 19

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2004-02-15 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 4:32 AM -0600 2/15/04, Bruce Schneier wrote: > The Politicization of Security > > > >Since 9/11, security has become an important political issue. The Bush >administration has seized on terrorism as a means to justify its >policies. Bush is running for re-ele

Re: Call to the Usual Suspects

2004-02-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 8:13 PM -0800 2/13/04, John Young wrote: >Hear their beeps, scatter, there's a nab acoming. H's Baack... :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 021

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For any of you who still think that "regulatory arbitrage", or "jurisdiction shopping" ever had a chance... Cheers, RAH --- <http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/02/09/1076175068630.html> The Sydney Morning Herald Pr

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<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/opinion/02SAFI.html?pagewanted=print&position=> The New York Times February 2, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Farewell Dossier By WILLIAM SAFIRE ASHINGTON Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orp

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Re: progress

2004-01-05 Thread James A. Donald
. could make it more difficult for U.S. > residents to transfer money into a Pecunix account, perhaps > through direct criminal sanctions or regulatory > discouragement. The U.S. could mount a propaganda campaign > against trusting Pecunix and similar operators, and so on. Yes, but all thi

Re: progress

2004-01-05 Thread James A. Donald
-- Declan McCullagh wrote: > > If the Feds decided e-gold needed to be shut down and took > > very aggressive steps, what would happen? Steve Schear wrote: > Initially there would likely be a surge in use by their > competitors, like Pecunix, that operate entirely

Re: progress

2004-01-05 Thread James A. Donald
needed to be shut down > and took very aggressive steps, what would happen? The USG has taken escalating measures against e-gold, and these have certainly had a substantial effect, but e-gold could lose all its US infrastructure without very bad effect. It is also somewhat protected by muslim-je

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2004-01-05 Thread James A. Donald
-- This small step forward is ultimately a result of https. The more advanced technologies that have been a focus of discussion of this list have yet to have real effect, but I see the infrastructure that would create demand for such technologies coming into being. On 5 Jan 2004 at 11:57

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