at no regulation of weapons is
constitutionally permissible. Even the 1st Amendment - which contains the
words "shall make no law" - is interpreted to allow some regulation of
speech. (e.g., shouting theater in a crowded fire, etc.)
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ls to Congress and the states are no longer a sure bet. The
soap box and the ballot box have been throughly tried, is it now time to
get out the ammo box?
You're forgetting the jury box.
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nown third parties, not the people at the airport;
airport and TSA staff will only get red-yellow-green "color code"
reports about a person's dangerousness from the unnamed private
contractor.
They rerun their stories pretty frequently, so this should be visible
for another 4-12 hours
ults achieved in
a controlled setting for breath testing, I think it's
very unlikely that the device described works well enough
to achieve anything positive.
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DARPA & NAI Labs.
.. so you could say it's more like PGPDisk for FreeBSD, if you wanted to
explain
it to a marketing drone somewhere.
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agency's goal is to maximize surveillance returns and
that they're unconcerned with security generally, yes, you're right.
So?
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a.
So, no, fancy tricks won't solve the basic problem, which is that once you
give information to other people, you've got no control over what they do
with it.
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ions
early but doesn't have cash for the exercise), Chaum would be obligated to
report the forgiven debt as income but a 1099 would not be required; that
doesn't stop people from sending them anyway.
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ven't bought one) to be ready to issue SSL server certs
without the torturous document review process which Verisign invented but
Thawte managed to make simultaneously more intrusive and less relevant.
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forwarded with permission -
>From: "Stefan Brands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Preliminary thoughts on Zero Knowledge's planned
>public offering
>Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 03:55:36 -0400
>
>Hello Greg,
>
> &g
I've mirrored a copy of the prosepectus at <http://parrhesia.com/zks.pdf>
in case something tragic happens to the first copy.
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yption," he said.
Avritch's claims about the scope of the patent and the lack of prior art
are both disproven by the text of the patent itself, linked to from the
Register article.
Software patents are harmful, but let's not lose track of simple facts in
our sympathy for s
e correct than yours was.
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Eliminate due process, civil rights? It's the Constitution, stupid!
rorists, then blame the resulting casualties on the
local authorities .. or that Israel would be able to do that without German
cooperation. That just doesn't sound like something a government would do,
especially not a German government dealing with Israel.
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Eliminate due process, civil rights? It's the Constitution, stupid!
;`Only for faults,' said Alice.
>
>`And you were all the better for it, I know!' the Queen said triumphantly.
>
>`Yes, but then I HAD done the things I was punished for,' said Alice:
>`that makes all the difference.'
>
>`But if you HADN'T done them,'
s of nuance, meaning, and reliability and
there's no reason to expect that digital signatures will prove to be any
different .. or should be any different.
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Eliminate due process, civil rights? It's the Constitution, stupid!
101893.]
Mr. or Ms. Well Known Cypherpunk may need to get their wallet out soon,
because Amazon reports that at 7 AM today they shipped the copy of True
Names that I ordered back in May.
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4000 dead in NYC? National trage
rrect to assume that there's (necessarily) any such lawful authority,
absent other facts (like a declaration of martial law, or a person's status
as a member of the military, etc.)
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5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy.
1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National
disgrace.
ery unit is getting swallowed up by Sungard, I think.
Anyway, yeah, the Enron guys thought there was something interesting to be
done in bandwidth futures, too, but I don't know if they ever really got
anything done before their demise beyond some demonstration projects.
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cell phones, cordless phones,
pagers, 802.11b, etc. Any ideas?
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5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy.
1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National
disgrace.
is a waste
of time.
(Accordingly, some measures do nothing to reduce the actual risk but make
people feel better because of their superstitious beliefs about the power
of guns or databases or the application of arbitrary screening and sorting
rules. The placebo effect created by these me
available today in third-world countries, which would have prevented events
like the WTC attack or the OKC bombing? How about anthrax in the mail?
If so, do you really want to live in that world?
If not, isn't it time we abandoned this "ID card" fairy tale, and start
thinking about how to solve our current problems using the abilities and
limitations of our current situation?
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5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy.
1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National
disgrace.
4 computers are
at a workplace, and employees learn of the copying and are later laid off
or fired or otherwise become disgruntled, there's a modest chance that
they'll exact some revenge by reporting the company to the SPA/BSA, who
send grouchy letters and threaten audits, and actuall
d they're
empowered to use public safety agencies to force doctors perform
examinations, tests or vaccinate/immunize similarly uncooperative
individuals, and to create quarantine or exclusion areas as they consider
useful.
It's pretty much a police state implementation act.
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d they're
empowered to use public safety agencies to force doctors perform
examinations, tests or vaccinate/immunize similarly uncooperative
individuals, and to create quarantine or exclusion areas as they consider
useful.
It's pretty much a police state implementation act.
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isn't meant as a claim that what we had prior to 9/11 in terms of
trials, pretrial detention, or any of the other criminal procedure features
was what it's advertised to be, or that it was compatible with the
Constitution - but I still regard the abandonment of even the pretense of
co
appening or don't get an
opportunity to object.
See
<http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcstory/0,4167,STO64968_KEY51,00.html>
for more.
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00 degrees Fahrenheit. I would
expect a little more than a slight yellowing of the dish towel at those
temperatures, unless you have asbestos dish towels you use along with your
superheated iron.
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m it as possible, and defer to the right-wing "experts" they
previously opposed.
If the FBI really is preparing for a domestic surveillance initiative,
hearing about that months in advance is a lot more helpful than yet another
incompatible peer-to-peer content distribution system.
're going to have to go through the administrative rulemaking process
(which I expect they can abbreviate in an "emergency"), publish final regs,
and give ISP's at least a short time to comply - so we're still talking
about months or years, not hours or days, so it's w
r seeing Ben's message and was struck by how much they've
shifted away from selling service to consumers at $49 each, and are now
targeting businesses who are allegedly concerned about their customers'
alleged concern about privacy. They did appear to be willing to sell the
con
That was
finished last night, but my mails back & forth with John to coordinate the
mirror were delayed by the need for some sleep. I left the image size alone
because I couldn't find a good way to get convert or mogrify to do
height/width-proportional scaling; maybe my fast read of the man
At 10:15 AM 9/17/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>On Monday, September 17, 2001, at 09:50 AM, Greg Broiles wrote:
>
>>At 07:23 AM 9/17/2001 +, Ryan Lackey wrote:
>>>1) Remailer operators are exposed to new and additional legal threat if they
>>>accept payment for
ofited from the direct infringement - and changing remailing
from an unpaid public service to an (apparently) for-profit business pretty
much concedes that point to the plaintiff.
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ers faster than HTTP.
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ptome.tgz (248 Mb!)
or bit-by-bit at
http://www.parrhesia.com/cryptome/
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and runs
happily. Mixmaster 2.9beta23 is available at
<ftp://ftp.shinn.net/pub/remailer/mixmaster> or
<ftp://mixmaster.anonymizer.com>.
I suspect that the OpenBSD fix will be similar, but it may take some time
to track it all down.
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lse
security of the control fetish, and learn to operate in an environment
where uncertainty and risk are significant factors.
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quot;
and "protector" in order to render people helpless, practically or legally.
If you're still hung up on judging whether technology is "good" or "bad",
you're not ready for this list, nor are you qualified to discuss policy
beyond deciding what col
he way. I haven't had any luck yet with OpenBSD
(despite helpful messages from two correspondents regarding IDEA and
OpenSSL integration) but work on that subject continues.
The remailers will not be shut down without a fight - on the net and in the
courtrooms.
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y rules are found in the Communications Decency Act (it wasn't all
struck down; see 47 USC 230) and the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (17
USC 512), if you're talking about liability for online service providers.
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inside ideologically-motivated organizations or
groups.)
>With a lot of
>young tech companies having spent the last few years feeling fat, happy,
>and oh-so-much smarter than those fusty old feds, you've got a potentially
>massive disaster in the making.
Pride goeth before destruction; and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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is a lot more interested in IRC, email, and
other communications which are either more personal and immediate, or much
less personal and immediate (like Usenet). Web sites are still relatively
static, which means their providers are pretty easily identified, which
means not so much bad stuff hap
usdoj.gov/oig/fbilab1/fbil1toc.htm>.)
I don't think this question is as easy as it sounds at first.
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;http://www.opb.org/nwnews/trans01/nixunder.asp> or
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134323827_truth30m.html>.
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evidence which has been gathered illegally unavailable in court.
That sanction isn't intended to be punitive - it just removes (some of) the
motivation to engage in the forbidden activity.
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worst people are going to get access, sooner or later, to the best tools,
and they're going to lie to us about it along the way.
And that's what we've got to work with - but we can have the good tools,
too, if we choose them.
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ustomers) in exchange for waiting 120 days for payment. But we didn't have
spare cycles to fuck around with that, though some companies do, and they
seem to do pretty well with it.
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ch a legal structure.
Yeah - at least if the content isn't nested-encrypted, such that there's no
reasonable way to identify content or its source.
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rsay and hot air, then I think it's unfair to
tag them with words like "collaborator" or suggest that they're not
trustworthy - those are pretty serious allegations to make. I'm aware of
examples of cryptosystems and companies which were compromised by
intelligence age
ut it's
silly to expect anyone (be it ZKS or SafeWeb or anonymous remailers or
anyone else) to provide perfect untraceability on a silver platter, such
that users don't need to pay any attention themselves. You'll never get
real-world perfect untraceability if you've got human beings at the ends of
the "anonymous" communication pipes.
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tp://www.nd.edu/~parasite/nature.pdf>.
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onship between law, morality, and the utility of a legal education,
especially as discussed on the list. It's available (following a ridiculous
amount of Project Gutenberg legal and marketing horseshit) at
<ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg/etext00/pthlw10.txt>.
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ey
can't buy anywhere else because (a) it's not widely understood or
available, and (b) the vendor has an exclusive patent license, and can
eliminate competitors. (free software isn't a competitor, because
anonymizing is a service, not a product or a computer program, so it
doesn
dy Weaver's son, Sam. Whoops, he's dead, like his mom and their dog
that barked at the secret police infiltrating their rural property.
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a
bank account to save it the ordinary way.
I guess the bright side of this is that the harder the feds clamp down on
legitimate or almost-legitimate uses of existing infrastructure, the faster
less-controllable less-trackable infrastructure will be constructed within
and by the black market.
m's progress...
see <http://worm-security-survey.caida.org/>, or
<http://www.caida.org/dynamic/analysis/security/code-red/index.html>.
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ome
credibility.
The proof process turns into a big Bayesian problem - the sum of evidence
received is likely to point at a lot of different possible explanations,
but freqently one (or a cluster) of explanations seems likely enough to
meet the plaintiff/prosecution's burden of proof. Jurors don't even need to
agree about which items of evidence they personally found credible or
convincing - they just have to agree on a verdict.
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"Organized crime is the price we pay for organization." -- Raymond Chandler
and Yahoo are finding this out in a big way.
>
>Let a billion buyers and sellers bloom.
Exactly. Control freaks and lazy people hoping to exploit designed-in
architectural weaknesses or choke points in commerce systems will find
themselves hoisted on their own petards, like Napster and Eb
- or
will be - but it's already in consumer-grade technology that's been shipping
in volume for years now. So it's certainly not difficult to build a
wireless device which remains active on very low power, waiting for a
signal from its Real Owner to wake up and do something.
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out the demographic makeup of the
country, but that's not a project that needs to happen at gunpoint. (Nor
should it, if they're hoping for accurate results.)
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t.
Can you restate the problem so that instead of a Turing test it's a more
familiar multi-channel authentication process? (e.g., require new
participants to have "introductions" from existing participants, track
introductions, and remove the access for accounts found to be bots, or
found to have introduced bots .. or similar.)
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forever about the merits
of export control, but they can't do much about simple facts, like $225K
buys a 5-day brute force crack of 56-bit DES. Case law and statutes come
and go (especially in the 9th Circuit) .. but technological and economic
facts like that aren't susceptible to argument.
Law's great, but it's important to understand its limitations.
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At 09:58 AM 3/17/00, Ed Gerck wrote:
>"Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" wrote:
>
> > I think there may be a claim in defamation if your site was blocked and
> > the software claims you have some kind of nasty content...
>
>But, what happens (as is the case) when that software claims nothi
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