RE: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

At 05:33 PM 12/17/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our >democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional," he said. > >Tee hee hee... Indeed. The dude shows that 1. ability to inherit $$$ doesn't imply brains 2. he should take a struc

Frank Zappa, american composer

At 08:56 PM 12/17/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >the shiny pages of ''Hippie'' is to breathe deeply. My copy fell open at a >manifesto by Frank Zappa, in which he admitted that ''A freak is not a >freak if ALL are freaks,'' and went on to assert that ''Looking and acting >eccentric IS NOT ENOUGH.'

Flaw with lava lamp entropy source

I've been running a 1970s-era lava lamp for some time, and found that it can enter a stable attractor where you get a non-circulating blob o' wax at the bottom. While Walker et al.'s (?) LL video entropy source is cute/clever, the general lesson we can take from this is to be careful that physica

Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

At 06:12 AM 12/19/04 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >Major Variola typed: > >> PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other >> day, what would Gen George W think? > >which fedscum, do you have a mentionable source, &c.? I haven't found the source, I recall that I heard it. Mig

Militia or other Terrorists?

>> PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other >> day, what would Gen George W think? > >which fedscum, do you have a mentionable source, &c.? It was ATF, about some gun-robbers; it seems to be a reply to trollbait by the Faux news channel or spontaneous dreck. http

Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004

At 02:16 PM 12/20/04 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >No doubt a real intelligence agent would be good at getting through this kind of screening, but that doesn't mean most of the people who want to blow up planes would be any good at it! You really continue to understimate the freedom fighters, don't y

Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

At 01:23 PM 12/19/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"..They have computers, they're tappin' phone lines, you know that ain't >allowed.." > >Zappa...Heads...Crimson? A profile is emerging here! Either that or you >recently broke into your dad's vinyl collection... Very funny. My walls o' vinyl are,

Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?

At 04:23 PM 12/19/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Funny how most Americans only wake up after it happens to them. As EC said, the only we understand is dead Merkins. >Case in point? How 'bout that proud-n-patriotic lady in "Farenheit 911"? As >far as I could tell, prior to her son's death she was

All your wavelengths belong to us (or Powell, or the SS)

The FCC is trying to shut down a guerilla radio station in DC calling for protests during Bush's January re-anoint^H^H^H^H^H Google for it.

Re: [IP] Cell phones for eavesdropping

>From: Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Cell phones for eavesdropping - finally some public "chatter" Of course, the low-budget govt snoops go for the basestations and landline links. The pending cell phone virus which calls 911 should be a real hoot. I wonder if cell virii can carry a v

Re: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month

At 10:01 AM 1/3/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > >PBS: I, Cringely -- The Pulpit > >How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month 1. 150 K asians is nothing. 2. You will see > 10,000 K dead worldwide from the next H5N1 fl

Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

At 09:53 AM 1/4/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >Terri Carbaugh, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Mr. Schwarzenegger, a >Republican, had made his position clear during his campaign. > > "It's a military-type weapon," Ms. Carbaugh said of the .50 BMG, "and he >believes the gun presents a clear an

Technology vs social solutions

At 12:06 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>3. Homebrew warning systems will face the same problems as eg pro >>volcano warning systems: too many false alarms and no one cares. > >The best defense would s

sitting ducks

At 12:16 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to actually hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do airplane maintenance people notice bulletholes? > >My understanding is that a single bullethole in a plane is not likely to do anything ser

To Tyler Durden

TD, I just watched _Fight Club_ so I finally get your nym. (Here in low-earth geosynchronous orbit, content is delayed). Cool. I had thought it was your real name. Maj. Variola (ret)

Re: Tasers for Cops Not You

At 01:20 PM 1/8/05 -0800, John Young wrote: >However, Taser claims the civilian version is effective >only to 15 feet while the LE version will explose a heart >at 20 feet. And, Taser says "accidental deaths caused >by the shock would have happened to those sick persons >anyway." > >Well, yes, homi

Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

At 02:20 PM 1/9/05 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as >if it's hard to discover what they are at this point. I'm similarly annoyed that articles omit the URLs of "terrorist web sites", being forced to check ogrish.com, even if I c

Re: [IP] The DNA round-up on Cape Cod (fwd from dave@farber.net

The Beast doesn't know who licked the stamp. A fiducial sample is what they want. In Calif, they could merely arrest you for a bogus charge to have the "right" to sample your families DNA as carried by you. Schwarzenegger is not Austrian accidentally. GATTACA was optimistic. At 06:02 PM 1/1

expectation of privacy

At 09:01 PM 1/12/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >It's time to blow the lid off this "no expectation of privacy in >public places" argument that judges and law enforcement now spout out >like demented parrots in so many situations. A court refused to hear the case of a man accused of owning unlicen

RE: [IP] No expectation of privacy in public? In a pig's eye! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

At 10:07 AM 1/14/05 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >It would take some chutzpa, but tacking onto a cops >car would send a message Too easy. 5 points for adding to cop's personal car 10 points for adding to cop's spouse's personal car 20 points for adding to cop's mistress' personal car Not sure ab

Re: US slaps on the wardriver-busting paint

At 09:35 AM 1/14/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >It only remains for us to say that DefendAir costs a cool $69 per gallon >(US gallon, presumably). How much is the TV tax in the UK? How long to pay off the costs of paint to hide one's IF oscillator from the White Vans? Surprising that the Regist

Re: Feral Cities

At 10:32 AM 1/16/05 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss >people off. They need a government that is strong enough to >intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them. Since when did a few remote Al Q boot camps piss people off? Religion-base

crypto, science, and popular writing

At 03:23 PM 1/20/05 +, Justin wrote: >How could they possibly get clue? Scientists don't want to write >pop-sci articles for a living. It's impossible to condense most current >research down to digestible kernels that the masses can understand. >SciAm should close down, requiring those who ca

Re: Cpunk Sighting

At 04:12 PM 1/21/05 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: >John Young, Cryptome strikes again. NPR is running a story on all of the >"sensitive information" available. Funny shit! LATimes ran something too! And even included a link to the mental-jihadist, terrorist-du-coeur, amateur pan-geo-opticon-ast

Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits

At 04:41 PM 1/28/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Not really. The P2P assm^H^H^H^H architects are reissuing new systems with >holes patched reactively. There's no reason for a P2P system designed in 1996 >to be water-tight to any threat model of 2010. (Strangely enough, they had >IP nazis and lawyers

Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot

At 06:41 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > >> "The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the >>suspect in control of the car," he said. "He can steer, he can brake, he >>just can't accelerate." > >Sorry Charlie, but I thin

LA Times on brinworld, complete with nothing to hide quote

Article Published: Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 7:14:24 PM PST Who's got an eye on you? Secret cameras are everywhere

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

At 10:38 PM 2/9/05 -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:09 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >> There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating >> system, so Linus did. > >Linus Torvalds didn't write the GNU OS. He wrote the Linux kernel, which >when added to the rest of

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

A cypherpunk is one who is amused at the phrase "illicit Iraqi passports". Given that the government of .iq has been replaced by a conquerer's puppet goverment, who exactly has authority to issue passports there? And why does this belief about the 1-to-1-ness of passports to meat puppets or other

Re: SHA1 broken?

At 09:23 PM 2/19/05 +, Dave Howe wrote: > I am unaware of any massive improvement (certainly to the scale of >the comparable improvement in CPUs) in FPGAs, and the ones I looked at a >a few days ago while researching this question seemed to have pretty FPGAs scale with tech the same as CPUs,

on FPGAs vs ASICs

Tyler, Riad, etc: FPGAs are used in telecom because the volumes do not support an ASIC run. Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. He does understand that an ASIC is more efficient because its gates are used only for 1 computation, rather than most (FPGA) gates being used for reconfigurability ---

Re: FW: on FPGAs vs ASICs

At 05:44 PM 3/20/05 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >What I suspect is that there's already some crypto net processors out there, >though they may be classified, or the commercial equivalent (ie, I assume >there are 'classified' catalogs from companies like General Dynamics that >normal clients never se

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

It would be interesting socially if the vegetable in question had fried her brain with her choice of unlicensed pharmaceuticals, instead of her choice of self-starvation (leading to cardiac failure, leading to joining the vegetable kingdom). Would Jeb be trying to adopt a coke-stroke negro? It wo

Re: WiFi Launcher?

t 03:06 PM 3/25/05 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >I noticed you did a little editing! Sigh. Few can stand in the light for >very long, save the various beautiful women that clamor to spread my DNA... Your barber can spread more of your DNA. Your female can help you *copy* your DNA, but only about ha

Your epapers, please?

At 10:08 PM 3/31/05 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > government plan to insert remotely readable chips in American > passports, calling the chips [2]homing devices for high-tech muggers, So the market for faraday-cages for your passport will grow to equilibrium. A cage will cost less than a buck i

Reading every ones g-mail

At 10:17 AM 4/1/05 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: >hi, > >Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the >mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail >doesn't appear to be practical. Whoah, are you clueless. Not only reading, but indexing, and indexing all your correspondants. Can you spel

Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

At 11:26 AM 4/1/05 -0800, cypherpunk wrote: >On Apr 1, 2005 10:57 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now here's your one stop shop for evil. A position for Google minister for >> propaganda is about to be posted, so I hear. > >Let's get this straight. It's not evil if people are voluntar

mu-metal Altoids

At 07:54 PM 4/3/05 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> Putting the tag into an enclosure made of a feromagnetic material helps, >> though. Altoids can proved to be a pretty effective shielding. > >Clearly we need mu-metal Altoids tins. > Mu-metal is expensive and I've heard tha

Twelve Monkeys

So, if you were a Handler, would you try to score some H5N1 asian flu for NYC, or would you convince a pre-symptomatic Angolan to fly into Rome? Just curious.

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

At 03:55 PM 5/6/05 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Yes, but only provided the universe lasts long enough for those digits to be >computed! >-TD Actually, a few years ago someone discovered an algorithm for the Nth (hex) digit of Pi which doesn't require computing all the previous digits. Mind blowing

Re: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A):

At 02:45 PM 5/17/05 -0700, cypherpunk wrote: >Iraq war (a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and many >people took 9/11 personally). Please explain what Bush's invasion of a soverign nation had to do with the Saudi 9/11 Theatre? (Sorry to offend the 'Merkins who can't distinguish one ay

Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen

At 11:25 AM 5/23/05 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >While it doubtless would have been better to behead the >Saudi monarchy rather than the Iraqi dictatorship, >nonetheless American troops seem to be finding an ample >supply of Saudis in Iraq. In what imaginary universe? Perhaps you need to be chi

[Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions?]

At 03:03 PM 5/17/05 -0700, cypherpunk wrote: >>[1]DocMurphy asks: "I'm working with some dissidents who are looking >>for ways to use the Internet from within repressive regimes. Many have >>in-home Internet access, but think it too risky to participate in >>pro-freedom activities o

Practical AP

>>Declan, tonight I dined with a major spam fighter and he said he had direct confirmation of the fact that the vast bulk of spam is sent by a small number of parties, perhaps 200 at most, and the bulk of that by a core group of about 20.<< This from Politech. The author goes on to suggest legal

FTC bans P2P, anonymity, encryption

The FTC seems to think they can require (by force) the disconnection of zombie PCs. To cut spam. If they assert the right to control what software runs on net-connected machines, what is to stop them from barring any other software? After all, P2P threatens the economy, anonymity and encryption

go for the head shot -they're wearing puffy jackets

Now that the UK got a little feedback for their empire assist, its amusing (in a black, american kinda way) to see them demonstrate their lack of a first amendment. The papers are filled with brits calling for state coercion against their own citizens for their opinions. Naturally, the sheeple wil

All your routers are belong to us

Take da subway, its da bomb LAS VEGAS--Cisco Systems has taken legal action to keep a researcher from further discussing a hack into its router software. The networking giant and Internet Security Systems jointly filed a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order against Michael Lynn

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Judy Miller needing killing

So this dupe/spy/wannabe journalist thinks that journalists should be *special*.. how nice. Where in the 1st amendment is the class journalists mentioned? She needs a WMD enema. LAS VEGAS (AP) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller defended her decision to go to jail to protect a source and

Re: Color Laser Printer Snitch Codes

At 12:24 PM 10/17/05 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Soon we'll find out that toothbrushes are able to determine what I ate for >dinner and are regularly sending the info... Soon there will be sensors in urinals that page the DEA..

On special objects, and Judy Miller's treason

Its unfortunate that some posters had to be reminded that anyone calling for government-licensed "reporters" (and "religions", as one author included) deserves to have their carbon recycled, because of the treason to the BoR. Tim May used to call government licensed citizens "special objects". Se

Private records scattered in the wind (FLA)

We encourage the publication of the (paper) school records which the FLA hurricane reportedly distributed to locals, as part of an effort to show the sheeple how *well* the state guards their secrets. Particularly interested in offspring of state officials, not that their kids are likely go to pub

big bro in the car

Nuclear Detection: Fixed detectors, portals, and NEST teams won’t work for shielded HEU on a national scale; a distributed network of in-vehicle detectors is also necessary to deter nuclear terrorism http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/4249/disarm.pdf Maybe the FCC will require rad detectors in cell

crypto on sonet is free, Tyler

At 03:15 PM 6/8/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Well, it's interesting to consider how/if that might be possible. SONET >scrambles the payload prior to transmission..adding an additional crypto >layer prior to transmission would mean changing the line rate, so probably a >no-no. Tyler, one can imp

Re: [PracticalSecurity] Anonymity - great technology but hardly used

At 08:41 PM 10/26/05 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote: >> Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and >> thus are subject to what economists call "network externalities". The >> best example I can think of is Microsoft Office fi

Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement

[Using the *financial* angle, having to show state-photo-ID is overturned to vote is overturned. Interesting if this could be used for other cases where the state wants ID.] Today: October 27, 2005 at 12:33:27 PDT Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) - A feder

blocking fair use? 2 Science Groups Say Kansas Can't Use Their Evolution Papers

Here's a very interesting case where (c)holders are trying to ban "fair use" (educational) of (c) material. I agree with their motivations ---Kansan theo-edu-crats need killing for their continuing child abuse-- but I don't see how they can get around the fair use provisions. (Bypassing whether

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] more on U.S. passports to receive RFID implants start

At 01:31 AM 10/30/05 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >They've said they'll fall back on the traditional >"If we can't read the passport it's invalid and you'll need to >replace it before we'll let you leave the country" technique, >just as they often do with expired passports and sometimes What is the

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

At 01:54 AM 9/1/03 -0400, An Metet wrote: >Here's a clue. If and when crypto anarchy ever becomes a reality, >Tim May is going to be one of the first ones killed. He's pissed off >too many people. Once they can get retribution anonymously, his days >are numbered. What, exactly, has Tim done tha

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

At 08:06 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: > >The Mob doesn't actually have to kill too many stoolies for it to be >widely known that ratting can be a very dangerous business. > Ask David Kelly. Or his associates. Reputation is a tool.

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

At 12:02 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >He said: "An ISP is free to say "anyone requesting a tap is required to >pay a fee," just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle >installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee." > >A customer of the ISP is certainly _not_ the one re

RE: DoS of spam blackhole lists

At 11:03 AM 9/1/03 +0200, Andrew Thomas wrote: >> b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already >> exists - it is called procmail(*). >Procmail serves no purpose by itself. It requires no small >amount of effort on the part of the administrator to utilise >for any type of systems implm

Re: Random musing about words and spam

At 09:09 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote: >(it's one of >about 200 checks my program makes). Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs? If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples, and using this to infer spamfiltering rules? Good project for a

Best social engineering of the year?

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html On the night of Wednesday, August 27, two men dressed as computer technicians and carrying tool bags entered the cargo processing and intelligence centre at Sydney International Airport. The men, described as being of Pakistani-Indian-A

Re: cats

At 08:12 AM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote: >> "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David >> Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11 > > > Cats always have an alpha cat. And they often have pissing contests t

More recall.archive.org fun

Enter "george w bush" and look at the categories to the right.

Your papers please [what color is John Gilmore?]

Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded "yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labe

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

At 11:53 AM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >California's law against Driving While Speaking Spanish is only >about 10 years old, and was a Pete Wilson thing. >It happened about when I moved here - did other states start >doing similar things in the mean time? >The Feds started bullying states i

unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

Licenses as IDs at airports questioned WASHINGTON  Federal officials and lawmakers raised serious concerns Tuesday about the continued use of driver's licenses at airports and U.S. borders in light of California's new law allowing illegal immigrants to obtain the widely accepted means of identifi

Re: Anyone Remember Zero Knowledge Systems?

At 05:44 PM 9/10/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: >The problem with running Napster over Freedom was bandwidth costs. >Users may be more willing to pay today, given the clear risk of paying >$10,000 or more in fines. I'm sure that ZKS would be happy to sell >someone a commercial use license. Depen

Fatherland Security agents above the law?

U.S. agents also sought, without warrant or subpoena, to obtain ABCNEWS field tapes. Two agents showed up at night at the San Diego home of a freelance cameraman, Jeff Freeman, who worked on the project. "They first identified themselves as FBI agents, which it turns out they weren't," said Freema

[Brinworld] UK firms tout camera phone blinding tech

Safe Haven works by transmitting a signal in a localised environment such as a school, swimming pool, office facility or factory, which "disables the camera functionality of devices in the nearby environment", the companies claim. The snag is that Safe Haven technology needs to be integrated at th

Re: [cdr] Inferno: USPTO p0wn3d (fwd)

At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >"open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to >promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as its >purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us to be contrary to >the goals of WIPO." Not surprising

RIAA lawsuits harming public knowledge of law

Saw this in an editorial: "Sure, technically, it's stealing. But so is dubbing a tape, which we all did back when cassette tapes were all the rage. " http://www.thenews-messenger.com/news/stories/20030911/localnews/239711.html It is unfortunate that the RIAA's terrorism has caused people to forget

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

At 03:38 PM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >(And it's probably a bit too much cognitive dissidence for them >if you simultaneously want a parking pass for your car >and don't have your DL because you took the bus :-) The DL stays in the car, the only place it is needed. I've heard that during

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

At 10:41 AM 9/11/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >* depleted uranium (DU) is essentially pure U-238, with very low >specific activity (decay rate); removal of the 2-3% of the higher >specific activity U-235 lessens the overall decay rate of the original >metal substantially. Commericial airliners often c

open WiFi defense to RIAA

It should be massive fun when the RIAA sues someone who has an open WiFi network inhabited by unknown users. We await this defense. Doubleplus fun if the RIAA victim doesn't know he's sharing his bandwidth. We also anticipate someone being sued for downloading a rip of a song they have a vinyl.

Schneier favoring drivers licenses for info superhighway?

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=56662§ion=BUSINESS&subsection=BUSINESS&year=2003&month=9&day=12 So why not institute mandatory education before people can go online? After all, motorists must obtain licenses before they can legally hit the road, and computers are much more comp

Mary Beth Buchanan, raping the constitution

"Obscenities have always been a priority of the attorney general," said Mary Beth Buchanan, U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania. "[A]nd he has asked each U.S. attorney to make that our priority as well." Buchanan is the lead prosecutor on the case against Zacari http://www.abcnews.go.com/secti

Power Grab: Ashcroft overturns 4th Amend

Administration Calls for Unprecedented Subpoena Powers http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-subpoena14sep14,1,689004.story?coll=la-home-todays-times Unlike in ordinary criminal investigations, Ashcroft would not need the approval of a grand jury or a judge to order witnesses to ap

Re: Verisign's Wildcard A-Records and DNSSEC Plans?

At 08:38 AM 9/16/03 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: >and probably sell or rent the "typo name space" - ie. Airborne Express could >buy *f?*e?*d?*e?*x?*.com address space, so fredex.com would lead to airborne's >web site. You need to include adjacent-letter permutations at least, in that there regexp.

careful with that nym, eugene

The man who e-mailed The Times and claimed credit for the attacks used the name Tony Marsden, which he said was a pseudonym. The man also said that one of his hobbies was math and that he and his accomplices had painted Euler's Theorem on the side of one of the cars. FBI Searches Computers at Calte

Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

At 06:27 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding regular >drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare >Bengal tiger. 1. The grunt found out that cats have no alpha cats 2. Nothing like boozing it up in a

Re: Duck Freedom Fighter (Terrorists), Euler SUV Graffiti

At 03:05 PM 9/22/03 +0100, ken wrote: >Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> This is *not* a spoof. > >Why should we think it a spoof? Maybe the USA is just catchiung >up. In my home town, Brighton in Enlgand, people calling >themselves the ALF used to do this sort of thing pretty r

"Wiretapping has been privatized" [Mexico]

Mexico Sees Big Brother on the Loose http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bug22sep22,1,5195976.story?coll=la-home-todays-times

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

At 07:18 PM 9/21/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: > >> Give part of germany to the jews, and give palestine back to the arabs > >Give the Jew invaders of Palestine a 10-minute lesson in swimming, hand >them a pair of water wings, and tell them to swim for their lives. > >With luck, only one in 100 will ma

Re: Elngsih (was "")

At 08:28 PM 9/22/03 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >On Monday 22 September 2003 18:39, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> Could be the l33t sp3ak next generation for the cases when the >> communication is monitored by automated tools for keywords. Could foil >> both alerting on keywords and keyword searchi

Ca passes car data recorder privacy law

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22  California today adopted the nation's first law meant to protect the privacy of drivers whose cars are equipped with "black boxes," or data recorders that can be used to gather vital information on how a vehicle is being driven in the last seconds before a crash. Gov. Gray

Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

At 02:48 PM 9/24/03 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > >Cryptonomicon.Net - > >Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular imagination. Is Tom Clancy availa

more unconstitutional things (FBI vs. 4th amend)

Court says prisoners cant be ordered to give blood samples A THREE-JUDGE PANEL of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first federal appeals court to address the federal DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act, said requiring convicts to give blood for a criminal database was a violation of th

U FLA castrates students, turns them into consumers

Here, its not NAT turning people into consumers (cf Walker's Speak Freely rant), but a no-server policy which seems to be too broadly implemented --legit uses are also blocked. Maybe time for UDP protocols, or TCP-to-UDP proxies. Over DNS ports :-) When SYNs are outlawed, only outlaws will SYN.

Re: On suing Marcy Hamilton for being a bimbo

At 05:50 PM 10/4/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > >> We'd like to file a class-action suit against >> MARCY HAMILTON >> For abusing the law, and holding toolmakers >> responsible for what lusers do with the

Ricin Stout

At 09:13 PM 3/23/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Yup, I wouldn't even be a bit surprised to see Europeans, non-muslim, I mean, >starting to off the GI's over there. Drop a little cyanide or ricin in a guy's >beer in the pub... Cyanide would work quickly, and you'ld get caught. Ricin takes a da

Re: Things are looking better all the time

At 09:09 PM 3/26/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: >In a news conference on Tuesday, some general claimed they had located and >"taken out" six sites where GPS jammers were being used. > >He claimed one site had been taken out with a GPS guided weapon. > >"Kind of Ironic" I beleive he said. Well, the

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

At 10:36 PM 3/26/03 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: >there is a lot of self [fnord] imposed sensor ship in US on >the war.The Us pows's shown on al-jazeera were not >broadcasted over Us and those sites which had pictures >of POW's were removed as unethical graphics on web >pages. We should be faxing these

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

At 01:46 AM 3/28/03 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: >It's a cool toy, but I can't see someone using a $1M e-bomb when a $1000 Mk.82 >will do the same thing, especially if there's any chance it'll be captured >intact by an enemy who can... hmm, there's a thought: Oh dear! Peter, these are *free* to the

Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

"Sometimes when you're in government you have to do things for the people whether they like it or not. That's what governing is all about," said Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030327/1028333.asp Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera j

Final solutions (was Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort)

At 01:34 PM 3/30/03 -0500, stuart wrote: >On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this... >HS> Too bad the Romans didn't finish the job of feeding that lot to the lions >HS> a couple of milleniums ago. A similarly open-minded friend once commented (far too loudly in a cafe) that

art can make a difference, and traffic routing games

At 01:59 PM 3/30/03 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >Any group of Pranksters willing to buy a bunch of orange traffic cones >and some sawhorses and a few dozen credible-looking street construction signs >could do almost as well without even a large group support group, >if they got out early in the morn

Net hoax affects financial markets

Seems a teenager authored a site spoofing a medical quarantine on the entire Hong Kong province, folks took it seriously. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20030401/sc_nm/health_pneumonia_dc

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