Re: Fact checking

2004-04-28 Thread Graham Lally
Damian Gerow wrote: Why bother putting something up in a library? Chances are, if someone's reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the candidates. Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them! [...] I don't see any way to educate the mass public. Indeed, why

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-28 Thread Graham Lally
Damian Gerow wrote: Why bother putting something up in a library? Chances are, if someone's reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the candidates. Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them! [...] I don't see any way to educate the mass public. Indeed, why

BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-20 Thread Graham Lally
Current report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3641419.stm The tech: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3493474.stm Bit scant on details.. anyone know anything more about how the machine (/system) is fully tamper-proof? .g -- I Me My! Strawberry Eggs

BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-20 Thread Graham Lally
Current report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3641419.stm The tech: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3493474.stm Bit scant on details.. anyone know anything more about how the machine (/system) is fully tamper-proof? .g -- I Me My! Strawberry Eggs

Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here

2004-01-21 Thread Graham Lally
Surprised this hasn't gone through the list yet. Did it get much coverage in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3415525.stm 'According to the arrest report, Miss Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration

Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here

2004-01-21 Thread Graham Lally
Surprised this hasn't gone through the list yet. Did it get much coverage in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3415525.stm 'According to the arrest report, Miss Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration

Re: QuizID

2002-10-17 Thread Graham Lally
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 3:15 pm, Adam Shostack wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2334491.stm and www.quizid.com [snip] The card works in conjunction with the Quizid vault - a large collection of computers that can process 600 authentications per second. The system cost millions

Re: QuizID

2002-10-17 Thread Graham Lally
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 3:15 pm, Adam Shostack wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2334491.stm and www.quizid.com [snip] The card works in conjunction with the Quizid vault - a large collection of computers that can process 600 authentications per second. The system cost millions

Re: Interesting KPMG report on DRM

2002-10-07 Thread Graham Lally
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Gutmann wrote: | KPMG have a report The Digital Challenge: Are You Prepared? available at | http://www.kpmg.com/news/index.asp?cid=660 [snip] | Media companies have so far failed to pioneer new business models that would | rob piracy of its

Re: JYA ping

2002-10-03 Thread Graham Lally
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Anonymous wrote: Cryptome has nor been updated since 9/23 ... any clues, anyone ? No. Anyone knows whether John Young is okay? Can't get through to http://www.jya.com/ either (plus Google hasn't cached it, for some reason...?) - can't resolve it at

Re: JYA ping

2002-10-03 Thread Graham Lally
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Anonymous wrote: Cryptome has nor been updated since 9/23 ... any clues, anyone ? No. Anyone knows whether John Young is okay? Can't get through to http://www.jya.com/ either (plus Google hasn't cached it, for some reason...?) - can't resolve it at

RC5-64 solved

2002-09-26 Thread Graham Lally
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just noticed on /. that distributed.net wound up 4 years of intense CPU cycles, by getting the key to RSA's RC5-64 challenge. Distributed.net release: http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-31 Thread Graham Lally
Anonymous wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:51:24 -0700, you wrote: When we approve a file, all the people who approved it already get added to our trust list, thus helping us select files, and we are told that so and so got added to our list of people who recommend good files. This gives people

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-31 Thread Graham Lally
Anonymous wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:51:24 -0700, you wrote: When we approve a file, all the people who approved it already get added to our trust list, thus helping us select files, and we are told that so and so got added to our list of people who recommend good files. This gives people

Re: CNN.com - Bush to announce new intelligence agency - June 6, 2002

2002-06-06 Thread Graham Lally
Jim Choate wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/06/bush.security/index.html ...Answering questions about the creation of the 'Department for Prevention of ThoughtCrime', Bush noted that this was 'clearly a step in the plusgood direction'...

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D

2002-06-03 Thread Graham Lally
Mike Rosing wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Dave Emery wrote: And telling the public that they face serious jail time if they don't turn in that Creative Soundblaster from the old PC in the attic closet isn't going to fly. The sheeple may be sheep but even they aren't going to accept that

Re: sources on steganography

2002-05-30 Thread Graham Lally
Hector Rosario wrote: Why would I be interested in fool[ing] [you]. All I asked was for some help with sources. If you cannot be of help, at least don't be a hindrance. Besides, don't claim to speak for others. If envy is what drives you, then I suggest that you work on that. hr On Wed,

Re: sources on steganography

2002-05-30 Thread Graham Lally
Hector Rosario wrote: Why would I be interested in fool[ing] [you]. All I asked was for some help with sources. If you cannot be of help, at least don't be a hindrance. Besides, don't claim to speak for others. If envy is what drives you, then I suggest that you work on that. hr On Wed,

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-29 Thread Graham Lally
Mike Rosing wrote: If digital crypto, signatures or e-cash are going to get into mass appeal, then their operations will be magic to the majority. And it all has to work, to 1 part in 10^8th or better, without user comprehension. It may well take user intervention to create a signature,

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-29 Thread Graham Lally
Mike Rosing wrote: If digital crypto, signatures or e-cash are going to get into mass appeal, then their operations will be magic to the majority. And it all has to work, to 1 part in 10^8th or better, without user comprehension. It may well take user intervention to create a signature,

Re: Got carried away...

2002-04-29 Thread Graham Lally
Jan Dobrucki wrote: I do have an idea thou. I'm thinking how to implement PGP into car locks. And so far I got this: The driver has his PGP, and the door has it's own. Path of least resistance - *access* to the car is generally not the problem. Instead weaker attacks such as breaking the

Re: Got carried away...

2002-04-29 Thread Graham Lally
Jan Dobrucki wrote: I do have an idea thou. I'm thinking how to implement PGP into car locks. And so far I got this: The driver has his PGP, and the door has it's own. Path of least resistance - *access* to the car is generally not the problem. Instead weaker attacks such as breaking the

Re: FUCANN Fully UnCentrallized Authority for Naming and Numbers

2002-04-08 Thread Graham Lally
Frob the Builder wrote: The problem comes when the server a domain points to is the map for several domains, say via Virtual Hosts or selected forwarding. Many servers use this if they're on a dedicated web-hoster, or for subdomains. Ahah, because the 'physical' server uses the URL to map to

Re: FUCANN Fully UnCentrallized Authority for Naming and Numbers

2002-04-08 Thread Graham Lally
Frob the Builder wrote: The problem comes when the server a domain points to is the map for several domains, say via Virtual Hosts or selected forwarding. Many servers use this if they're on a dedicated web-hoster, or for subdomains. Ahah, because the 'physical' server uses the URL to map to

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread Graham Lally
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] - ... the mailing list simply records # of posts written by each poster. call this P - mailing list records # of times someone wrote a post that was replied to. ... call this R - pseudoreputation is a measure of the above two parameters. one can

Re: Security co-processor keeps PC platforms safe

2002-03-01 Thread Graham Lally
*chortle* Kerry Thompson wrote: http://wwwelectronicstalkcom/news/nat/nat158html National Semiconductor has developed a novel PC security coprocessor [snip] We have recognised the need for increased trust in PC platforms Harrr, this easily wins ironic quote of the month, and it's only the

Cheney: Atrocity of 9/11 to save tech sector

2002-02-26 Thread Graham Lally
Technology to pimp itself out to a capitalist police state (anyone have a transcript of the speech?) : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/24204.html Atrocity of 9/11 to save tech sector - Cheney By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 26/02/2002 at 12:46 GMT A profitable surveillance

BBC article: Vehicles 'tracked'

2002-02-24 Thread Graham Lally
An attempt to ease congestion, using GPS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1838000/1838185.stm ...The Commission, which provides independent transport advice to the government, said Global Positioning System satellites would track vehicles via electronic black boxes fixed to the

Microsoft want to be trusted...

2002-01-17 Thread Graham Lally
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23715.html Windows TC, anyone? -- When we say Windows XP is the most secure system ever we're not saying it's perfect - Tom Laemmel, Microsoft spokesman (Nor secure?) Sometimes I use Google instead of pants.

Re: Microsoft want to be trusted...

2002-01-17 Thread Graham Lally
Graham Lally wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23715.html Just to pick up on some of the points in this... Firstly, Bill's defining MS' next big catchphrase, Trustworthy Computing (Capitalised. Always with the capitals). After a load of blah regarding where this has come from

Re: MS DRM OS

2001-12-20 Thread Graham Lally
Ralph Wallis wrote: pedanty isn't a word, and the original poster mentioned denying root access, which is an analogy. Damn, I spent ages looking up that word. M-W doesn't list it, true, so here it is from http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=pedanty pedanty \Pedant*y\, n. An

Concerts to raise money for battle against record companies

2001-12-20 Thread Graham Lally
From Slashdot... http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/1348770p-1418333c.html [...] The Recording Artists Coalition, a trade group representing more than 100 entertainers, has booked several sites in Los Angeles for the Feb. 26 concerts. Money raised from the concerts will help fund an

Re: MS DRM OS

2001-12-20 Thread Graham Lally
Michael Motyka wrote: Since it seems that the possibility to accomplish what Microsoft has patented has existed for years prior to their disclosure isn't their patent a bit weak? While I must admit that the implementation of such an idea is intriguing from a purely technical point of

Re: MS DRM OS

2001-12-18 Thread Graham Lally
Ralph Wallis wrote: On Monday, 17 Dec 2001 at 07:58, Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone who knows more than I do explain to me why this MS IP is anything other than making the owner of a PC unable to have root access to their own hardware/OS? If so it seems to be an idea

Re: FBI wants worm's keycapture data

2001-12-17 Thread Graham Lally
Khoder bin Hakkin wrote: http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html December 17, 2001 FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data Have to reply to this - the outcome of this is great... Last week the FBI contacted the owner of MonkeyBrains, Rudy Rucker, Jr., [I *assume*

Re: FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows XP Updates (fwd)

2001-12-14 Thread Graham Lally
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Dec 2001, at 22:33, Jei wrote: This has to be a joke/hoax. Aye, but by whom, on whom? A _tongue_in_cheek_ announcement from the group claims that cDc 'has more targeted experience than anyone else in this field'. (emphasis is mine) For me (and thus,