Re: DCSB: Hapgood and Johansson; Post-Napster Models for

2000-08-11 Thread David Honig
At 10:52 AM 8/11/00 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > Fred Hapgood > and > Eric Johansson > >presenting > > "Post-Napster Business Models for Digital Commerce" Apparently no relation to the Johansson

Re: AOL and "hate speech"

2000-08-11 Thread David Honig
At 12:56 PM 8/11/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote: > >While I agree with Tom that AOL sucks rocks etc etc, you paper analogy >isn't quite correct -- or at least its incomplete. If I sell you paper >and find out your printing racist drivel with it, it's perfectly >within my rights to stop selling you p

yet another classified laptop gone... State this time

2000-08-10 Thread David Honig
Has anyone checked behind the photocopier? Aug 10, 2000 - 09:27 AM Reward offered for laptop The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The State Department announced yesterday a $25,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of a m

RE: Keg waiting periods? Gag.

2000-08-10 Thread David Honig
At 05:58 AM 8/10/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > >So when I first read it I took 5 kegs to mean 250 or 500 litres of beer >(or just maybe 180 gallons). Which, although still an unjustified >imposition on liberty is hardly likely to cause a problem to many >people - When they came for the keg parti

Re: Cryptome Ex-CIA Link

2000-08-09 Thread David Honig
At 06:40 PM 8/9/00 -0400, A. Melon wrote: >On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, John Young wrote: > >> For his family's privacy I won't tell his name here, for now, >> but it won't be hard to learn -- a search of the Internet will >> provide information. Some accounts call him "a legend," and I >> would like to le

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-08-06 Thread David Marshall
Steven Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcel Popescu wrote: > > goat porn > > That's not as funny as you think it is. > > I used to joke at work about spending all my time looking at porn. > Then I started to receive porn by email at work. (Best guess is that > spammers scooped my name

Re: USPO still trying to SPAM everyone

2000-08-03 Thread David Honig
At 12:59 AM 8/1/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote: >Try completely ignoring your paper mail sometime and see how >long it is before you're in trouble with the law for missing >a jury duty summons or a bill or some legal action or other. UDP, baby.

Re: [Press Release List] RMI.NET TO PROTECT INTERNET USERS'

2000-07-31 Thread David Gotlieb
THANKS, DLG

Re: TYPIST

2000-07-31 Thread David Gotlieb
does anyone know how I can get of this list? DLG

Re: Fw: Freedom of Secrecy

2000-07-31 Thread David Gotlieb
can anyone tell me how to get off this list? DLG

Re: [Press Release List] RMI.NET TO PROTECT INTERNET USERS'

2000-07-31 Thread David Gotlieb
can anyone tell me how to get off this list? David Gotlieb

Re: [Press Release List] RMI.NET TO PROTECT INTERNET USERS'

2000-07-28 Thread David Honig
Sweet to have the FBI contributing current-event PR to your marketing... At 11:17 AM 7/28/00 -0400, Benjamin M. Brewer wrote: >Subject: [Press Release List] RMI.NET TO PROTECT INTERNET USERS' PRIVACY BY >JOINING ZERO-KNOWLE DGE SYSTEMS' FREEDOM NETWORK >will join the Freedom® Network and w

Re: napster & trilobites

2000-07-28 Thread David Honig
At 04:59 AM 7/28/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> >> When Napster goes down, there are going to be a lot of >> folks switching to other file-exchange indices. What is >> fascinating is that Napster has seeded disk drives with >> tradable files,

Re: Kill the RIAA: a protocol

2000-07-28 Thread David Honig
At 07:12 PM 7/27/00 -0400, Riad Wahby wrote: >>Extrapolate to software... > >This has already been done. Netware, for instance, has a certain >number of licenses attached to the server, and as clients connect, the >licenses are locked from being used by other people. Netware isn't >the only one,

Re: domestic surveillance for LA Dems

2000-07-27 Thread David Honig
At 12:42 PM 7/27/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>weeks, police have arrested a handful of people >>for taking pictures of downtown buildings from > >It's the Picture Taking Crime - the buildings are copyrighted. > >The warnings are quite similar to those issued for Y2K (hello, Bill S. :-). >U

Re: "Welcome to Crypto World"

2000-07-27 Thread David Honig
At 01:02 PM 7/27/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: >To elaborate on "generatable," something like a "CAD program for >crypto" is what we were talking about. Bob Baldwin, when he was at A library implementing a clean API or a new domain-specific language? The latter tend to die out. The former tend to

Re: actual deployment of various PK & Key-exchange algorthms?

2000-07-27 Thread David Honig
At 12:23 PM 7/27/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A colleague asked yesterday "I wonder how much Diffie-Hellman is actually >used?", as we were sitting around talking about authentication (in particular) >and security (in general) protocols. Its used in PGPfone, because the parties have to b

napster & trilobites

2000-07-27 Thread David Honig
When Napster goes down, there are going to be a lot of folks switching to other file-exchange indices. What is fascinating is that Napster has seeded disk drives with tradable files, introduced a lot of people to the concept. Trilobites didn't make it, but they sure fed a lot of critters whose

RE: Carnivore - Matt Blaze testimony

2000-07-27 Thread David Honig
At 11:47 PM 7/26/00 -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote: >At 00:48 -0400 7/26/00, Tim May wrote: >>At 12:06 AM -0400 7/26/00, Ernest Hua wrote: >>>I thought recent presidents have been declaring a state of emergency >>>for who knows how long. >> >>But that's not what is being talked about. You are not read

Re: JYA, Cryptome Help Request

2000-07-27 Thread David Honig
At 08:11 PM 7/26/00 -0400, Alan Olsen wrote: >I agree with that. It also needs an OS that handles better under load. >The times I have looked at it, it looked as if it was running on a Windows >box. (I am unable to confirm that due to www.jya.com:80 not answering.) > >I am sure you can find a nu

RE: Carnivore - Matt Blaze testimony

2000-07-26 Thread David Honig
At 12:48 AM 7/26/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: >At 12:06 AM -0400 7/26/00, Ernest Hua wrote: >>I thought recent presidents have been declaring a state of emergency >>for who knows how long. > >But that's not what is being talked about. You are not reading >carefully. The Third refers to war, and this

Re: FBI Makes Case For Net Wiretaps

2000-07-26 Thread David Honig
At 02:11 AM 7/26/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: >The FBI has said that Carnivore will only be directed at specific >targets of a wiretap order. > >How, then, does it do a damned thing with "anonymous, encrypted >communications"? > >This is just one of many failures in logic. It helps with traffic an

Re: Carnivore - Matt Blaze testimony

2000-07-26 Thread David Honig
At 11:05 PM 7/25/00 -0400, Riad Wahby wrote: > >These two statements are totally incorrect. First of all, a computer >_does_ contribute to heat in a significant way. Consider this: the >average computer-grade power supply is 70% efficient, and, on average, A computer turns 100% of its load into

Re: Jim Und Dave?

2000-07-26 Thread David Honig
At 07:28 PM 7/25/00 -0700, Kevin Elliott wrote: >At 11:38 -0400 7/25/00, David Honig wrote: >>At 12:32 AM 7/25/00 -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote: >>>were unconstitutional. Another way of putting this would be for the >>>government to outlaw brushing ones teeth. >>

Re: Carnivore - Matt Blaze testimony

2000-07-25 Thread David Honig
At 03:11 PM 7/25/00 -0400, Agent Bronson wrote: >I still say it's a moral failure to allow terrorism to be accepted as >warfare and foolishness not to protect our land from it. Those land mines along the .mx border really have the latino votes pissed off... A freedom fighter is just a terrorist

Re: Jim Und Dave?

2000-07-25 Thread David Honig
At 12:32 AM 7/25/00 -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote: >were unconstitutional. Another way of putting this would be for the >government to outlaw brushing ones teeth. Simple. Outlaw possession of toothbrushes. Intercept at customs. Teach children in public schools that clean teeth are bad. Make t

Re: John Young, the PSIA, and Aum

2000-07-24 Thread David Honig
At 06:03 AM 7/24/00 -1000, Reese wrote: >At 11:20 AM 24/07/00 -0400, David Honig wrote: > >At 12:42 AM 7/24/00 -0400, Reese wrote: > >> >>Japan may not have the US constitution, but their current constitution > >> >>was written by the US government in 1946.

la time ref to UK bugging

2000-07-24 Thread David Honig
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/2723/t69193.html Ex-Official Admits She OKd Bugging of Sinn Fein Car N. Ireland: 'Lives were being lost,' and the 19

UK admits it bugged Gerry Adams' car

2000-07-24 Thread David Honig
Sunday a note appeared in the LA Times that the BBC was releasing Monday an interview with a UK cabinet minister who admits she authorized the Gerry Adams car bugging last year. (Adams found the bug) Anyone heard the interview yet?

Re: John Young, the PSIA, and Aum

2000-07-24 Thread David Honig
At 12:42 AM 7/24/00 -0400, Reese wrote: > >>Japan may not have the US constitution, but their current constitution > >>was written by the US government in 1946. The American concepts of > >>civil rights are most definitely a part of the Japanese constitution. > >>For those who may be interested:

Re: ZKS economic analysis

2000-07-24 Thread David Honig
At 04:39 AM 7/24/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> >there's a difference between this and a database system. almost all laws >> >on privacy (where such exist) realize that. >> >> Really? What's to stop me from 'gargoyling' (to

Re: Important, your Naughty Mail subscription!

2000-07-23 Thread David Marshall
"Doug and Denna Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > D&D No way. This one is just *too* easy.

Re: Jim Und Dave?Thanks Mr anon

2000-07-22 Thread David Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mr Anon did a good job. If Jm and dave don't like the heat get out of the > kitchen.Get a job thats more dangerous like a taxi driver or clerk at 7-11 Or an AOL tech support representative. I hear that they're subjected to idiocy in quantities far in excess of what i

Re: Dropping toad.com

2000-07-22 Thread David Marshall
oncerned about this, and make sure that the psuedonym isn't conclusively linked to your real world identity. Is Tim really Tim? Are you really Patrick Henry? Am I really David Marshall? Modulo reputation capital, does it really matter anyway? ObCode: Nym servers are very well suited to this. Unfo

customs searches of disks?

2000-07-21 Thread David Honig
This came up on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 12:29 AM 7/21/00 -0700, wrote: >The interesting question (for this list) is, if some border officials >search your hard drive and they encounter encrypted files, what will >they do? My guess would be that they will demand the key and threaten >to deny you

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

2000-07-21 Thread David Marshall
Steven Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you call it when the _functionaries_ of the government must > hide from the people? 1) A police state. 2) Pretty damned sad.

Re: Dropping toad.com

2000-07-20 Thread David Honig
At 03:29 AM 7/20/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: > >Check out the standard features of Majordomo. The command "who >cypherpunks" has been used since the inception of the list(s). > But most (all?) other nodes have shut off this 'feature'

Re: Diploma

2000-07-20 Thread David Honig
At 02:21 PM 7/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am wanting more information on the Diploma deal but the number show on the >web site is disconnected. > >http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2000.01.03-2000.01.09/msg00115.html Lets hope he doesn't work in WellsFargo *data security*...

Re: none

2000-07-19 Thread David Marshall
into as many pieces as you like. Then you can hire someone to throw those pieces at members of the list. Everyone welcome the script kiddie back to the list. -- David Marshall Fuckwit Relations Cypherpunk Industries

Re: From Headline News

2000-07-19 Thread David Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Indianapolis recently passed a law (ordinance?) that business owners may > not allow children under 18 to play video games with violent or sexual > content unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. Any said games must > be out-of-sight by said children,

Re: none

2000-07-19 Thread David Marshall
pe you are able to help me help the people of Bougainville Island. Praise the Lord, brother! The Lord helps those who help themselves! Rise up! Join us! Get your ass on a plane and fly on down to Papua New Guinea! Sell your computer! Cancel your net access! Praise the Lord! Oh, and please sterilize yourself as soon as possible for the general good of the human genome. > Thanking you > > Wesley Booth I'm glad we could be of assistance. -- David Marshall Fuckwit Relations Cypherpunks Industries

targets

2000-07-19 Thread David Honig
Haven't these writers ever heard of the Deutsch affair? Home computers hold corporate secrets too. COPYCATS LIKELY TO POUNCE Since sample code exists, Cooper expects copycats to begin writing malicious e-mails fairly

MS (in)security++

2000-07-19 Thread David Honig
The reason your hard drive was reformatted was because you received that e-mail.’” A spokesperson for USSR Labs told MSNBC.com that the group has been able to add malicious code to e-mail headers that executes as soo

us doesn't ban net gambling (this year)

2000-07-18 Thread David Honig
Tuesday July 18 4:55 AM ET House Fails to Ban Most Internet Gambling By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House failed to pass a bill that would criminalize most forms of Internet gambling, an industry that has grown explosively in the past several years.

Tim is an idiot (was Re: Marcel tries to nudge Tim to post

2000-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 10:02 AM 7/18/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: >give a damn about Romania either, whatever that is. [I still have to find >someone able to define "Romania" or "country" in a meaningful way.] You might start with people who speak romanian, who eat romanian food, and look like other romanians. I

security software: InTether

2000-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 09:50 AM 7/18/00 -0400, Fisher Mark wrote: >David Honig writes: >>You want to overwrite a dozen times with random (each time) data. > >I'd be cautious about saying that. Way back when I held a security >clearance, the instructions were: >* Overwrite with patterns 99

Re: Q: How to subscribe to the mailing list anonymously

2000-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 10:12 AM 7/18/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >strong anonymity: > >it should be possible to set up such a service (basically an anonymous >imap/ssl based server, or anonymous proxying to such a server. the deal, >however, is that you have to trust the server operator to indeed not >write logs). Tha

Re: how EXACTLY does this protect privacy?

2000-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 10:02 AM 7/18/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: >X-Loop: openpgp.net >From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> That Marcel is so actively "spreading the good word" on the >> Cypherpunks list is truly bizarre. > >I'm not "spreading the good word", idiot. I was objecting to Jim Choate's >idea that

Re: FBI system covertly searches e-mail

2000-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 02:37 AM 7/18/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >two advantages: > >a) more encrypted traffic on the web. With known plaintext... >b) some people might want to read cypherpunks without the intermediate >parties being aware of the fact (I know companies that monitor e-mail). If that's a concern, use

Re: It's called "progress"...

2000-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 03:34 AM 7/18/00 -0400, Reese wrote: > >Great Book. > >Executive summary, please. Go to amazon

security software: InTether

2000-07-17 Thread David Honig
At 12:36 PM 7/17/00 -0400, Heinz-Juergen 'Tom' Keller wrote: >On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:53:16PM -0400, Bad Max wrote: > >> > I Got a question about this: if there´s no software to raelly "clean" the >> > harddisk of information, What about overwritting all the harddisk or >> > formatting it? D

patent ( was Re: Cringely on Carnivore )

2000-07-17 Thread David Honig
At 01:07 PM 7/17/00 -0400, Michael Motyka wrote: >> Cam you say "patent" at least for https, Oh I'm longing for September 20th >> !! (The pessimistic side me predicts that on or around that date the NSA/RSA >> will announce >> some sort of legal maneuver to extend or complicate the end of the pat

Re: the book

2000-07-16 Thread David Marshall
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 6:51 PM -0400 7/16/00, David Marshall wrote: > >"brat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> hook me up with some cool stuff > > > >Try altering some acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tyleno

tapping (was Re: 'Carnivore' Eats Your Privacy)

2000-07-14 Thread David Honig
At 12:26 AM 7/14/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: >(resend) > >Michael: Have you forgotten what list you're on? > >Unlawful government eavesdropping should not primarily be fought in >Washington. It should be fought with technology. The ACLU and EPIC are >good for defensive battles only, and when

Re: Fw: "Survivability of a minarchist society" CPUNK

2000-07-13 Thread David Marshall
"Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Placing a keyword in the subject line. Good things:] > 7. It's a proven technique, borrowed from Usenet. And works pretty well there, it seems. >It also has two bad properties:: > > 1. It is butt-ugly. Some creative use of mail f

Re: Eudora spyware?

2000-07-13 Thread David Honig
At 11:22 PM 7/12/00 -0400, negafoo wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >I've noticed that Eudora 4.3 (in paid mode) has developed a habit of making an internet conection on startup. If I allow the connection to succeed, some packets are exchanged and then Eudora consumes 100% of my CPU tim

Re: how EXACTLY does this protect privacy?

2000-07-13 Thread David Honig
At 08:06 AM 7/13/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote: >Try reading the 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments. Also look up the term >'inalienable'. It's also worth noting that people have rights, businesses >don't. But the people running businesses don't lose rights because of it. They have the right to run

Re: Foreigners with guns

2000-07-12 Thread David Honig
At 11:56 AM 7/12/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: >Can a foreign citizen legally own a gun in the US? [More to the point, I'm >in Georgia.] I've tried looking around the web (NRA, Google...) but nobody >talks about us poor foreigners :) [Even if I manage to remain in the US for >a while, I don't in

dutch crypto accelerator chip and compaq

2000-07-12 Thread David Honig
eet.com 10 Jul 2000 p 32 Pinjenburg Securealink [US|Europe] has a secure crypto module (battery backed ram, ARM, RNG, other stuff?) keeps secrets on chip; developed for banks, will sell to Compaq.

Re: "Survivability of a minarchist society"

2000-07-11 Thread David Marshall
"Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, Marcel, the RBL does sound like a nice idea. I'd suggest > > getting the RBL to blacklist them, *then* informing them, > > though. Otherwise, they'll probably go whine to the RBL > > maintainers. It may be harder to get off of the RBL on

Re: sparklist.com tech support number

2000-07-11 Thread David Marshall
> At 1:24 AM -0500 7/11/00, Ben Byer wrote: > > > It isn't "spam." It's a matter of one or more lists being subscribed > >> to one or more other lists. > >> > >> Suppose someone signs up the Foobar List to one of the Cypherpunks > >> lists. (Hint: this has happened.) > >> > >> > >> Are the CD

Re: Fw: "Survivability of a minarchist society"

2000-07-11 Thread David Marshall
"Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The cypherpunks lists have been *heavily* spammed lately (as in "subscribed > to several hundred lists"). This is one of the emails discussing the > problem. > > How would we [on the Freenet lists] solve it, without Oskar's usual requests > for cens

Re: "Survivability of a minarchist society"

2000-07-11 Thread David Marshall
"Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any ideas > > on LARTing the list hosts into giving us enough info to appropriately LART > > the nitwit who is doing this? > > I don't know what LART is, but we could RBL them . We could inform them > first, and them submit a request to RBL to bla

Re: "Survivability of a minarchist society"

2000-07-11 Thread David Honig
At 10:04 PM 7/10/00 -0400, Greg Newby wrote: > >To me, 'free speech' != 'anyone can post to any mailing list.' >And, 'free speech' != 'anyone can speak/post anonymously.' If the government is not involved, it is NOT a free speech issue. End of that approach. Mailing lists are private property.

Re: "Survivability of a minarchist society"

2000-07-11 Thread David Honig
At 08:03 PM 7/10/00 -0400, Greg Newby wrote: >- the list consists of minarchists. According to an Anarchy Theory FAQ >(http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/mrquiet/internet_lib/Anarchist_Theory_FAQ.html), >minarchists are libertarians who believe government should be limited >to activites that protect ind

Re: Flakes -Smells like Teen Surveillance

2000-07-11 Thread David Honig
At 06:26 PM 7/10/00 -0400, John Young wrote: >The story says that the outer layer of human skin is completely >shed and replaced every one or two days, and the flakes rise >on warm air of the body in a plume that can be captured by >the device for sampling. The flakes would carry evidence of >what

Re: Your confirmation is needed

2000-07-10 Thread David Marshall
David Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm waiting for someone who is...oh, let's say a little less "morally > constrained"... to every CDR node back at Sparklist.com's contact Obviously that should read "to point every CDR node..."

Re: Your confirmation is needed

2000-07-10 Thread David Marshall
David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 02:14 PM 7/10/00 -0400, Patrick Henry wrote: > > > >This is a true test of the survivability of a minarchist society. > > > >--PH > > Heh, I'm waiting for the wave of copies with CDR: prepended to them..

Re: Your confirmation is needed

2000-07-10 Thread David Honig
At 02:14 PM 7/10/00 -0400, Patrick Henry wrote: > >This is a true test of the survivability of a minarchist society. > >--PH Heh, I'm waiting for the wave of copies with CDR: prepended to them..

Re: home jobs

2000-07-08 Thread David Marshall
Dawn Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently looking for a home based job..please > email me if you can help me. > thanks > dawn > Yes, Dawn. We at Cypherpunks Triple-X Productions are currently seeking stars for several of our upcoming releases: - "Jar Wars Episode I: The Phantom

Re: your mail

2000-07-08 Thread David Marshall
"!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't get it - it seems like every week someone asks how to build a bomb > here. I'm sure theirs information out there. I can tell you how to build > a small nuclear device in a pipe - but you'll kill yourself doing it - > unless you have the

Re: none

2000-07-08 Thread David Marshall
"Jonathan Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spams the Cypherpunks list with: > WTF Keep asking yourself that. In fact, ask your parents that. Perhaps they know WTF kind of psychotropic drugs your parents were on to produce you. It must be some kind of secret family drug cocktail.

Re: none

2000-07-06 Thread David Honig
At 01:54 AM 7/7/00 -0400, David Marshall wrote: > >Is Al Gore already handing out free computers to America's stupid Telescreens, baby, stand in line for your minute of HDTV/interactive hate.. >is that still a proposal? If it's still a proposal, how do we explain >th

cryptome on AP

2000-07-05 Thread David Honig
Saw this 07/05 01:07 pm - Deleted Documents Do Double Duty on Rogue Web Site Via AP NOT for Online Use By CECILY BARNES CNET News.com on http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/index.htm But could not get the

cryptome NOT on AP

2000-07-05 Thread David Honig
I was able to get the AP story, its not JY, but someone else publishing a withdrawn doc... more like Gilmore finding that withdrawn book in a tree-library.. these are financial not intel secrets... Jul 5, 2000 - 01:07 PM Deleted Documents Do Double Duty on Rog

RE: New Encryption System for Music (nytimes)

2000-07-05 Thread David Honig
At 01:28 AM 7/5/00 -0400, Secret Squirrel wrote: >That is, unless analog recording equipment is criminalized and >exterminated (illegal possession of a microphone - 5 years. Possession >of a microphone while committing a copyright crime - 10 years.) All future analog recording gear sold in U$ mus

syn, ack, and jamming in cicada comm

2000-07-05 Thread David Honig
Found an example of insect infowar: Male cicada broadcasts sound-1. Female ACKS with a click emitted at a fixed time wrt sound-1. The pair then switch to another frequency channel, complete another handshake, and then mate. "The researchers learned that courting males will give an interfere

Re: New Encryption System for Music (nytimes)

2000-07-04 Thread David Marshall
Tom Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > which is why some companies (intel, among others) work on systems to > have the whole channel, from source (CD or file) to speakers encrypted. > yes, that requires special hardware. I guess the hard part will be > convincing customers to buy new hardware so

Re: wiping CDROMS? (computer forensic question)

2000-07-04 Thread David Honig
At 12:09 PM 7/4/00 -0400, dmolnar wrote: > > >Why wouldn't you just shred, melt, and scatter the CD if you want to wipe >the info on it? Trying to nondestructively wipe a hard drive makes some >sense, because you'd like to re-use the space...but CD-Rs are down to >something like $5/CD and you can'

Re: wiping CDROMS? (computer forensic question)

2000-07-04 Thread David Honig
At 06:37 PM 7/4/00 -0400, Sean Roach wrote: >Of course, you could just keep all information on the disk encrypted, >which will be the next probable comment, considering the pattern of >this list. Interesting. This might work to keep your OTP encrypted in case you lose the disk. Heh. Lets see

Re: wiping CDROMS? (computer forensic question)

2000-07-04 Thread David Honig
At 02:42 PM 7/4/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Has anyone ever studied how hard it is to wipe a rewritable CD? > >1. Put the disk in a sandwich plastic bag and seal it. >2. Put an empty glass into a microwave oven, and bagged CD on the top. Everyone suggesting uwaving a CD is forgetting 1.

Re: wiping CDROMS? (computer forensic question)

2000-07-04 Thread David Marshall
David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone ever studied how hard it is to wipe a rewritable CD? > I'd imagine the STM tricks you can play with a magdisk also work, > with the right tip.. Just write only encrypted data to the CD-RW. Keep the key on your h

Re: SF library copyright control software

2000-07-04 Thread David Marshall
David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Salon has an article about the SF library's (lame, awkward) scheme > to 'loan' ebooks. They are using custom copyright-protection > code: > > "You'll still have to read the text either on the

wiping CDROMS? (computer forensic question)

2000-07-04 Thread David Honig
Has anyone ever studied how hard it is to wipe a rewritable CD? I'd imagine the STM tricks you can play with a magdisk also work, with the right tip..

Re: New Encryption System for Music (nytimes)

2000-07-04 Thread David Honig
At 06:25 AM 7/4/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> >I guess the hard part will be >> >convincing customers to buy new hardware so they can do less with it. >> >> Or simply release only in those media. The benefits of owning/conspiring >> wit

your DNA, congressman?

2000-07-03 Thread David Honig
Maybe they'll find the gene for obedience... Worried police refuse to give DNA samples BY DAVID TAYLOR http://www.lineone.net/express/00/07/02/news/n0240-d.html THOUSANDS of police officers have refused to give DNA samples to a new Home Office database amid con

Re: Oakland Gungrabbing Gimmick

2000-07-03 Thread David Honig
At 01:47 AM 6/30/00 -0400, Anonymous Sender wrote: > >Computers offered if weapons are turned in >Associated Press > >OAKLAND [yeah, what a surprise there...] >The city ran a similar program in 1995 and drew about 300 people. Back >then, they were handing out free 286s. Now, they've upgraded to

Re: [Freenet-chat] Illegal

2000-06-30 Thread David T-G
and experience and second-hand hearsay in the US; I do not speak from any sort of authoritative or even particularly informed position. HTH & HAND! % % Mark :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to

Re: Re[2]: What's up with the spam? CPUNKS

2000-06-30 Thread David Marshall
Vladimir Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello David, > > Friday, June 30, 2000, 8:15:52 AM, you wrote: > > >> > I've replied to some of the spam with threats that I will track > >> them > down and kill them. > >> > >> He

Re: What's up with the spam?

2000-06-30 Thread David Marshall
Vinnie Chassot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tim May wrote: > > > I've replied to some of the spam with threats that I will track them > > down and kill them. > > Heh. I was thinking more of contacting upstreams and seeing if they will > yank the signal. I doubt that they

Re: Crypto Typing ID

2000-06-29 Thread David Honig
At 01:24 PM 6/29/00 -0400, Eric Murray wrote: >There's no way to determine key impact (how hard you hit >tthe keys) with normal keyboards. Music keyboards measure >key velocity, but computer keyboards don't. MIDI QWERTY? >Normal computer keyboards send make/break info to the OS.There is >a

Re: Crypto Typing ID

2000-06-29 Thread David Honig
At 11:41 AM 6/29/00 -0400, dmolnar wrote: >biometric identification by typing pattern has shown up in science fiction >from time to time. Now we will see a new kind of superhero : instead of a Along those lines, your future intelligent paper clip will correlate your typing patterns with your phar

Re: Oracle's Smear Campaign Against The Independent Institute

2000-06-29 Thread David Honig
At 02:11 PM 6/29/00 -0400, Colin A. Reed wrote: >So why do do such "research" groups pretend to be independant? That is the most religious question I have read in a while. That is, all *legit* research is *obviously* independent of the money, because truth is objective. Objective research can

Re: technology naming

2000-06-27 Thread David Honig
At 02:02 AM 6/27/00 -0400, Anonymous Sender wrote: >Few (religion based) suggestions: > >IP anonymizing software - "Providence" >e-cash server outside wto juristiction - "Archangel" >gnutella-like non-anon file sharing s/w - "Communion" > >Now, not the whole world is b'washed by christianity, so a

philadelphia vs. anonymity

2000-06-23 Thread David Honig
Updated 3:42 PM ET June 22, 2000 By David Morgan PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The City Council, wary of the potential for violent protests during this summer's Republican National Convention, Thursday adopted an anti-mask ordinance modeled on a Georgia law aimed at combatin

Re: "Microsoft crap" considered disingenuous

2000-06-23 Thread David Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >(Not to say that Linux doesn't have some advantages, obviously. > > > > The main advantage the Linux has in this regard is that the "average user" > > cannot modify system binaries. This makes worms of this sort more > > difficult to perpetuate. Unfortunatly, th

Re: losing laptops, opsec

2000-06-20 Thread David Honig
At 03:26 AM 6/20/00 -0400, Bill Stewart wrote: >>Not-invented-here is no excuse. > >In the crypto world, it used to be a decent excuse, because the >No Such Agency did have a lot more crypto experience than the civilian world, >and lots of people in commercial space kept reinventing the same snake

bootstrapping distributed infosharing CPUNK CDR NOFORN SOCHIST

2000-06-20 Thread David Honig
Interesting that napster has bootstrapped more general file sharing networks. Not just conceptually (though perhaps only that zebra mussel is more aggressive than that meme) but with content. AFAIK most alter-napster traffic is still mp3s. I imagine in a year or two this message will be quaint

Re: losing laptops, opsec

2000-06-19 Thread David Honig
At 07:34 PM 6/19/00 -0400, Paul H. Merrill wrote: >It isn't not invented here that is the problem -- it is the Not >Developed Here. COTS is developed in a not verifiably secure Excellent point. But open source is a good place to start. They can train a batch of recruits by having them attack/r

Re: NameBase is unique!

2000-06-19 Thread David Marshall
"Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > X-Loop: openpgp.net > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Multiple recipients of list > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 5:33 AM > Subject: NameBase is unique! > > Have you seen what this fucker is doing? At the end of the message, there's > this thing: > > [

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