Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-09 Thread Greg Broiles
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.) -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-09 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Boycott Delta on CNN Headline News

2003-03-15 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Questionable science and drunk drivers

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transparent drive encryption now in FreeBSD

2002-11-11 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Greg Broiles
agency's goal is to maximize surveillance returns and that they're unconcerned with security generally, yes, you're right. So? -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961

Re: Random Privacy

2002-09-21 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961

Re: Bankrupt Digicash Made $481K in 1999

2002-08-20 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961

Re: IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-10 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961

Fwd: RE: Preliminary thoughts on Zero Knowledge's planned public offering

2002-06-06 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: Preliminary thoughts on Zero Knowledge's planned public offering

2002-06-05 Thread Greg Broiles
I've mirrored a copy of the prosepectus at <http://parrhesia.com/zks.pdf> in case something tragic happens to the first copy. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961

Re: USPTO needs killing

2002-03-25 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: [Reformatted] Burning down the olympics

2002-01-11 Thread Greg Broiles
e correct than yours was. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 Eliminate due process, civil rights? It's the Constitution, stupid!

Re: [Reformatted] Burning down the olympics

2002-01-11 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 Eliminate due process, civil rights? It's the Constitution, stupid!

Re: Steganography, My Ass: The Dangers of Private and Self-Censorship

2001-12-12 Thread Greg Broiles
;`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,'

Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

2001-11-30 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 Eliminate due process, civil rights? It's the Constitution, stupid!

Re: Order Now: True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 4000 dead in NYC? National trage

Re: Crypto Terrorists to be Tried in Military Tribunal

2001-11-18 Thread Greg Broiles
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.) -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy. 1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National disgrace.

Re: Pricing spare resources and options?

2001-11-18 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broil

Re: mapping in the sierras and places west

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Broiles
cell phones, cordless phones, pagers, 802.11b, etc. Any ideas? -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy. 1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National disgrace.

Re: Security-by-credential or security-by-inspection

2001-11-09 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: Security-by-credential or security-by-inspection

2001-11-08 Thread Greg Broiles
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? -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy. 1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National disgrace.

Re: DMCA UCITA, where's the beef? (off topic)

2001-11-01 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: Quarantines, hospital seizures: Powergrab 2001

2001-10-31 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Br

Re: Quarantines, hospital seizures: Powergrab 2001

2001-10-31 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Br

Re: Where the torture never stops..

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Prescreening for hotel customers

2001-10-22 Thread Greg Broiles
appening or don't get an opportunity to object. See <http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcstory/0,4167,STO64968_KEY51,00.html> for more. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: stupid anthrax q: would microwaving your snail mail help?

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Stu Baker on CALEA and the Net

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Broiles
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: Stu Baker on CALEA and the Net

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Broiles
'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

Re: ZKS Shutdown

2001-10-04 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: WTC Photos

2001-10-04 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: FedEx Remailers

2001-09-17 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: [havenco-discuss] Re: [Announce] HavenCo Sealand Remailer Online

2001-09-17 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: [linux-elitists] Cryptome up for mirroring (fwd)

2001-09-16 Thread Greg Broiles
ers faster than HTTP. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: [linux-elitists] Cryptome up for mirroring (fwd)

2001-09-16 Thread Greg Broiles
ptome.tgz (248 Mb!) or bit-by-bit at http://www.parrhesia.com/cryptome/ -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Compiling Mixmaster 2.9 beta under FreeBSD

2001-09-14 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: How to win the new war

2001-09-14 Thread Greg Broiles
lse security of the control fetish, and learn to operate in an environment where uncertainty and risk are significant factors. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

RE: Cypherpunks and terrorism

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Broiles
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

RE: Cypherpunks and terrorism

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Common carriers

2001-09-05 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-05 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-05 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-05 Thread Greg Broiles
usdoj.gov/oig/fbilab1/fbil1toc.htm>.) I don't think this question is as easy as it sounds at first. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

RE: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread Greg Broiles
;http://www.opb.org/nwnews/trans01/nixunder.asp> or <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134323827_truth30m.html>. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-04 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: News: 'U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship'

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Stealth Computing Abuses TCP Checksums

2001-08-30 Thread Greg Broiles
tp://www.nd.edu/~parasite/nature.pdf>. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: Lawyers, Guns, and Money

2001-08-23 Thread Greg Broiles
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>. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: HA: Feds patent onion routing (Was: Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps)

2001-08-19 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Ashcroft calls for more restrictions on use, transport of cash

2001-08-08 Thread Greg Broiles
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.

Re: CodeRed Fix

2001-08-03 Thread Greg Broiles
m's progress... see <http://worm-security-survey.caida.org/>, or <http://www.caida.org/dynamic/analysis/security/code-red/index.html>. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Re: layered deception

2001-05-02 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Organized crime is the price we pay for organization." -- Raymond Chandler

Re: Decentralized Markets

2001-03-01 Thread Greg Broiles
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

Re: cell phone anonymity

2001-01-08 Thread Greg Broiles
- 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. -- Gr

Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Greg Broiles
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.) -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Think cash

2000-10-11 Thread Greg Broiles
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.) -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: free speech children michigan law

2000-09-27 Thread Greg Broiles
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. -- Greg Broiles (J.D., U of Oregon, 1996) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CyberPatrol sues cryptanalysts who revealed flaws in

2000-03-17 Thread Greg Broiles
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