RE: Secure IDE? (fwd)

Forwarded by request. -- Forwarded message -- sector address as the IV. IVs don't need to be random, secret, or unpredictable - they just need to be unrepeated. (I'm assuming sector-at-a- time encryption). If the IV is not a secret how are we going to prevent block replay a

Re: Poindexter to Resign

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > Of course, much of this may be a play by the "Senior US Defense Officials" > to make sure he gets the point and does resign, > rather than commentary by the news media, > and/or an attempt to distance themselves from a couple of > unpopular programs by sti

Re: Digicash Patents, patent-expiry landrushes

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > I'll predict a similarly invisible "land rush" when ECC patents run out, > assuming > that its patented and also considered useful when the supposed patents > expire. the major one is hardware, and it expires in april 2005. A minor one is MQV, and

Re: Dead Body Theatre

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > India has 30 million middle class people.An income of > 1000 US dollar per month is considered as middle > class. > Thats one reason of strong foreign market in india.I > guess 30 million may be bigger than the population of > some countries. > > According to

Re: GPS blackbox tracking

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Before this, AFAIK, we only had to worry about getting a GPS transmitting > device planted on our vehicles, which would be bulky enough to spot fairly > easily by anyone checking out the cars underside, etc. Here's one that doesn't > transmit, just re

Re: Dead Body Theatre

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Thoenen, Peter CIV Sprint wrote: > Actually...the *wealthy* (implied other 2 billion folk because even the poorest > whiny american I > have seen is a king in Kosovo) do see, they just don't care. I agree. Even India has a few with wealth far beyond the imagination of most

Re: Dead Body Theatre

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > walk into a government hopsital in a third world and > in the U.S-you will see the difference. > I am not talking of any one individual getting > wealthy. > As for previlages even-basic aminities like > food,water,medicine,health care are all previalges > t

Re: Dead Body Theatre

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Damn straight. "Too dumb"...I might agree with that but I think there's a > lot more to it. Too terrorized, too successfully propagandized, too willing > to live vicariously through the ostenisbly functional relationships on TV, > and don't forget just to

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, John Young wrote: > The old days, don't believe them, cypherpunks was and is toxic > to serious makeovers and shutdowns and lock-outs, and, never > forget that PLONKS are cries of shut the fuck up and listen to me. > Pluck the PLONKS, if you don't get them you aint earning you

Re: Fisk articles

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Does anyone have access to the fulltext articles by Robert Fisk like this one > on alleged torture in US internment camps in Iraq: > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=426520 that the > Independant offers on a subscription basis?

Re: Iraqi vs. Chechen efficiency

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > I read somewhere that the Russkies lose about 8 invaders > a day in Chechnya. The Iraqis need to increase their > productivity. Maybe take over a theatre or something. > > Have a nice day. The Chechen's have had a dozen years more practice. Ho

Re: Unsubtle Wetwork

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Anonymous Sender wrote: > Those who actually earn their standard of living (ie. their business is > not contigent, directly or indirectly, upon US military supremacy) are > the minority. This is the most fundamental transformation of the US > society - massive recruitment by t

Re: Optical Tempest? I have my doubts...

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > The conspiracy theorist is telling me there's some reason they floated the > optical tempest story, though I can't quite figure out what that reason > is... The main purpose is for academic gain. If you'd looked at the paper a bit, you'd have read it to

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool (meow)

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Yes this is for localization ---clicks are broadband, you need to > identify which freq components are used. I still think > humans can't discriminate the phase of a tone. In fact, MP3s > use this to cut bits. They can tell relative phase, but it

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Do cats buy a lot of audiophile equiptment :8=|| Nope. That's why I have a job (for another couple of months anyway, till the grant runs out.) > Actually I thought humans are insensitive to phase relations, modulo > inter-aural timing at low freq

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > the nyquist/lindquist/someone-else-who-was-pissed sampling theorems are > based on the possibility of mathematically extracting frequencies from > digital information in a STEADY_STATE situation. > > That doesn't mean that a speaker will properly repr

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, stuart wrote: > Now, when DRM gets into windows, I'm sure Virtual Audio Cable will stop > working, RealAudio will stop making linux clients (why bother?), RIAA > will (try to) make CDs that can only be played with windows clients, > etc. Then someone will crack the formats of t

Re: Finding collision resistant hash functions

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > Is there a polynomial time algorithm that will find > collision hash functions or how are we supposed to > find collision free hash functions?What exactly is the > difficulty in finding collision free hash functions? It can't be collision free if the number

Crypto chip article

The recent mailing from Dallas-Maxim included their "microcontroller engineering review" volume 2. There's an article inside called "SRAM-based microcontroller optimizes security" with some nice pictures of a chip that's been burned open by acid. Their note 3 is really cute too. Patience, persis

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Works very nicely. :) > > Problem: leaves evidence, and takes time. The main advantage of electric > shock is that the fried chip looks for the naked eye exactly the same way > as a non-fried chip. The only difference could be found with a scanning > e

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Adam Shostack wrote: > I wasn't arguing, I was quipping. > > I find the many meanings of the word privacy to be fascinating. So > when someone commented that the car's tattle-box is or isn't a privacy > invasion, I thought I'd offer up a definition under which it is. > Its a

Re: Spread Spectrum Image Steganography Patent

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, John Young wrote: > The US Army today announced the availability of licensing > of its patent for "Spread Spectrum Image Steganography:" > > http://cryptome.org/usa-patent.htm(with copy of the patent) Thanks, interesting. I think anyone with access to the original pict

Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Apparently you neglected to read > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/ngscb/NGSCB_Overview.mspx, where > Microsoft says (as they have repeated many times) "Customers and partners > need reliable ways to ensure the quality of technology that addresses > th

Re: How many dead Iraqis do I get for my taxes?

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > This came up at dinner. How many dead Iraqis do my tax dollars "buy"? I'm > sure there's someone out there qualified (and crazy enough) to make the > calculation. Right now it's running about $37.5e6 each, but as more die you'll get a better deal. Might

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

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Damian Gerow wrote: > And then the whole world dies, because of ... what? Natural stupidity. > Seriously, I *highly* doubt that any nation at this time would *seriously* > think of bombing another nuclear-enabled nation with a nuclear weapon. It's > just suicide. > > 'a cou

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

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Duncan Frissell wrote: > So when the rest of the world retaliates with all their military power that > the US fails to appreciate, what strategic war plan does the rest of the > world have for handling a couple thousand nukes? Just trying to figure > their options? Russia,

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

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > The images shown at the begining of the war showing > iraqi soldiers surrending and walking up with their > hands behind their head might have cost US dear again. > Iraqi tv then showed a iraqi general with a large > rifle in his hand saying to iraqi tv-what

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: > Nslookup www.aljazeera.net now fails. As does ping 213.30.180.219 > > Looks like they got them again It's now 12:40 local or 18:40 UTC and I got www.aljazeera.net ok. The english.aljazeera.net comes in as arabic too, so obviously they are dealing with it s

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: > It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly > badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service in the > Land of Freedom. > > aljazeera.net, www.aljazeera.net, and english.aljazeera.net all give me > 213.30.180.219 All o

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

www.aljazeerah.info.3322IN A 207.150.192.12 On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Sunder wrote: > Got an ip for .info? I can't resolve that from here.

You just gotta love nepotism

Scanning aljazeerah.info I found this: A US delegation arrived in Amman in its way to Baghdad for ceasefire negotiations Abu Dhabi, Alittihad Daily, 3/26/2003 -- The UAE leading semi-official daily newspaper, Alittihad, reported today that a US government delegation has arrived in Amman, Jordan,

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

I don't think it matters what we do, check this out: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/26/HNjazeera_1.html This really is infowar, and I suspect the US government is the hacker. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > > It's definitly jammed in

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

I get that from www.aljazeera.ru. The cached pages on google come up with www.aljazeera.net not in the DNS, and the live pages go to the dotster. I did find a live feed that works, but it's in arabic :-( Also, the NYSE kicked al-jazeera reporters out of the exchange: Mar. 26, 2003. 01:00 AM

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

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: > Still, www.aljazeerah.info is still accessible if you're feeling > so inclined. Odd though that the Arabic side is down but this one > stays up, if they're aiming for propaganda in their own countries, > mostly English speaking but not much Arabic s

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

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > > Gabriel Rocha[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, at 06:33AM, Mike Rosing wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.aljazeera.net > > www.aljazeera.net has address 216.34.94.186 > > &

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

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: > Yup, I get it from the UK, though I didn't get it two and three > days ago. URLs are all in English, though this may be normal. > > BTW, does anyone know about www.aljezeerah.info ? I've been > getting my news from there since the start of the war,

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

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Gabriel Rocha wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, at 06:33AM, Mike Rosing wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.aljazeera.net > www.aljazeera.net has address 216.34.94.186 > > This is from the US, fyi. It also works (and even resolves to the same > t

Re: Regarding linear recurrences.

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > let X be a 32 bit vector > X={X_(w -1),x_(w-2),..x_0} These are the coefficients of a polynomial, and all the values are in the set {0,1}. > A= > |1 0 . .| > |0 .| > |. . | > |. .| >

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

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Gabriel Rocha wrote: > I just checked out http://www.aljazeera.net/ and there is a big red US > flag on the front, courtesy of the "Freedom Cyber Force Militia"... > well, perhaps aljazeera needs better network people... It's definitly being jammed in Wisconsin - I get the er

Re: Ricin Stout

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: > What I don't understand is how at projected 2004 US deficit of 307 G$ -- > not counting already happened capital losses of 1.1 T$ in trading and > projected 1.9 T$ worst case overall costs anyone is expecting the US > economy, and shortly's the world's not

Re: Libertarian Party expresses "concern" over war -- but does not

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > >It would be great if the UN imposed sanctions on the US and UK and demanded > they turn over their WOMD. And their leaders, including top generals, to the > Hague. >And given the very evident worldwide animosity toward the US today, I'd not > be

Re: Libertarian Party expresses "concern" over war -- but does not

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > While I wish Mike were correct that the party would get some spine > just because we tell them to, I'm not holding my breath. > I was expecting better from Geoff. > > The LP's traditional heritage was pretty radical about issues > like the draft (we oppos

Re: Tragedy and Evolution

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > It would be a pain for their families and worse for their insurers, > certainly, but think of > the evolutionary benefits to mankind. You remove folks who > *voluntarily* gave > up moral control of their bodies to an unjust, cruel regime. Such >

Re: Libertarian Party expresses "concern" over war -- but does not

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bill Frantz wrote: > One view of the war in Iraq is that it is to assure an oil supply so we can > take on Saudi Arabia, home of three quarters of the 911 hijackers. Makes sense, use Saudia Arabia as a land base to take over Iraq, then use Iraq as a land base to take over Sau

Re: What shall we do with a bad government...

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tim Meehan wrote: > Vancouver is nice, but the economy sucks (except if you're growing). Toronto has > an okay economy but too many yuppies and climbers (and crappy pot). Montreal is > the best, but you're better off if you speak Freedom -- and like hash. Yeah, I can speak F

Re: Libertarian Party expresses "concern" over war -- but does not

recall > >campaign..." > > I'm not a Green Party voter, but at least they have spine. > > -Declan > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:38:51PM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: > > > > > Libertarians are p

Re: Libertarian Party expresses "concern" over war -- but does not

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: > Libertarians are people who think the only legitimate use of state force > is to protect them from their slaves. You get of the wrong side of bed this morning or what? > It is unlikely that people who don't oppose the death penalty, nor the > "right" of

RE: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > There are other factors that the Turks have on their minds, aside from > the US and NATO. Turkey is anxious to join the European Union, and > has been cleaning up its human rights act to gain acceptance. > Turkey recently lifted martial law in the Kurdish

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: > Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it unlikely > that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance > is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the > current Ba'athist government. A lot of

Re: terror alert red

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Has anyone heard any more about the announcement made by the NJ gov that if > we go to the next level -- red -- that everyone is confined to their houses? And who'se gonna listen? Not me!! > hoka hey! Don't ya mean "hooka hey!" UFF DA! Patience,

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, David Howe wrote: > Chemical weapons are legally dodgy - but under the Bush Doctorine, > saddam could blow huge civilian areas of Washington away with missles, > and just call it a "shock and awe" demonstration against a country that > might attack it and that is known to have

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > Mike, Go to the literature. They are already scanning 20 - 1000 of > tags per second (most of the more realistic reports seem to be > below 50 tps). So it takes 10 seconds to scan my cart? That's > a hell of a lot better than 5 minutes or so by hand. I'll

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > I can imagine some ways to deal with this. Have certain blocks of RFID > address space assigned to specific companies, who publish what products > they'll be used for. They won't specify what *individuals* will get what > tags, just that it's a $2,500

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

ungible; > they each have a unique number. When you purchase an item, it's tag > number is transfered from the 'unsold inventory' list to the 'Mike Rosing' > list, or, if no link to a name can be found, 'John Doe #2345'. I hope you're right bec

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > They don't want to deactivate them. Go back and read the SFGate > article I linked in my initial post. They want to recognize when a > loyal customer returns, so they can pull up his/her profile and give > then "personalized" treatment. And what happens w

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > This is incorrect. I interviewed one RFID tag maker who said up to 15 > feet in free space. Presumably a beefier transmitter or a more > sensitive receiver would allow longer ranges. I stand corrected, the one by Matrics looks very nice indeed: http:

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Seems the trend is here. We can thank Benetton for providing us with > a playground for live tests of the capabilities and limits of the system. > > We have several ways for countermeasures. > > Passive countermeasures are shielding or tag destruction.

Re: Doubts on k-distribution

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > Taking v=3 bit accuracy,the 3 leading bits are > > 000 > 100 > 110 > 111 > > In the example k=3 and v=3 > > So according to definition there are 2^(kv) possible > combinations of bits occur the same > number of times in a period. > i.e 2^(3*3)=512 combinat

windmills

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Anonymous wrote: > Whose motto should be "So little time, so many windmills". Pretty much applies to most people don't ya think? Look at the US feds - they really have done a bang up job catching people who grow their own marijuana. Let alone those who fly airplanes into bui

Re: GNUradio and optical TEMPEST

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Musing over > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf The moral seems to be don't work in a dark room with windows :-) > Using the software-DSP approach of GNUradio project and replacing the > tuner part of the hardware with the photomultipl

Re: "How Do I Classify My Item?"

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: > For those doing the classifying, i.e., those inside government, since > when did they start charging each other real folding money for > attending meetings? Capitalism maybe ? :-) > For those outside the government, since when did they start worrying > about

Re: Cavium Security Processor

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Anyone have any comments? > This seems to be of only occasional usefulness. You'd need a chip for every > POS/PPP/HDLC connection in the SONET signal. This could be a single > connection (unlikely, OC-192c is rare), or hundreds (DS-1s? If not, 16 > STS-3cs

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and "minorities"

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, James A. Donald wrote: > Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. That's because they make better slaves than fertilizer. The real trick is to make the slaves think they have a great deal, then the controllers get more power and less trouble. Unfortunately, this re

Re: School of the future

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no > "teachers" as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR > helmets and a number of software "gurus" in the machine tailoring themselves to > the individual student

Re: Supressed? speech by Sen. Robert Byrd -- Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences

In: http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200302/NAT20030213b.html It says: Leading Democrats also condemned the proposed legislation. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said any sequel to the USA Patriot Act "should be open and accountable." So it

Re: birthday attack

Check this one out for a very simple description: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question261.htm On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > hi, > > http://www.x5.net/faqs/crypto/q95.html > > If some function, when supplied with a random input, > returns one of k equally-likely values, then by > repeat

Re: Science Journal 'Self-Censorship'

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Pete Capelli wrote: > http://abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/02/item20030216103135_1.htm > > "Self-governance," the editors say, is "an alternative to government review > of forthcoming journal articles." > > I don't edit any science journals, but I would expect there is no law >

Re: Supressed? speech by Sen. Robert Byrd -- Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > Most outspoken? Wellstone voted for the Patriot Act. How about Feingold, > who was the lone dissenter, and is still alive and kicking? That's because Feingold voted *for* Ashcroft in the Judiciary committee. He could have voted him down (along part

Re: Supressed? speech by Sen. Robert Byrd -- Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences

The statement is real, it may not have been from the floor tho: http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_newsroom/byrd_news_feb/news_2003_february/news_2003_february_9.html Thanks, I'll send this to Feingold and see if he'll try to get a vote or motion going to force the executive to justify it's actions. Pa

Re: Hacking the Bush War Machine

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: > It was all pure bullshit anyway, and strangely enough they're admitting > that! Anything to get the sheeple nervous and compliant: > > http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,78593,00.html > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78593,00.html Seems

Re: Obituary for Janis Jagars (Disastry)

Thanks Len. I am very sorry to hear this, I worked some code with Disastry and had a lot of fun discussing things with him. I hope that Disastry's code is long lived! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, david wrote: > The main body of the constitution does not apply to the > individuals, it is the law the politicians and bureaucrats of the > federal government are supposed to obey (and instead completely > ignore). The fourteenth amendment prohibits the state governments > f

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: > And so on. He talks the talk, but he and his buddies in HomeSec are > establishing a national police force, "states rights" be damned. He's proof that you can fool just about everyone simultaneously - the NRA supports him inspite of his lack of of commitment

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Michel Messerschmidt wrote: > The TPM is a mandatory part of the TCPA specifications. > There will be no TCPA without TPM. That makes sense, TPM is just key storage. > And there will be no TCPA-enabled system with complete user control. > Just look at the main specification:

RE: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: > But wouldn't that hint to these children that they may actually > have to think ? You don't have to think of a flag, you just react > with (preprepared) emotions, but with a constitution... No reason we can't start a movement to plege alegiance to

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:31:56PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > > "I'm not so sure this emperor could handle psycedelics. Might > > break the robotic connections" > > > > Arguably, 9/11 was a bad trip, and now we're completely freaking out. > > > >

Re: The Space Shuttle's Secret Military Mission

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://www.aci.net/kalliste/columbia_spectral.htm I love conspiricy theory! Take totally unrelated stuff, mix it together and voila - instant evil! The problem with this article is that it uses a reference (to a really cool idea BTW) for a nuclea

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Probably what they're most scared of are drugs that open the sheeple's > minds. Psychedelics expose the nakedness of the emperor and break open the most > rigid lockstep mentality. Yup, leading robots is so much more fun than actually doing something

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > http://www.dailyrotten.com/source-docs/patriot2draft.html > terrorism is at least as dangerous to the United States' national security > as drug offenses That's a good find! People sitting around laughing their butts off is really a dangerous phenome

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: > However note: you can't defend TCPA as being "good" vs Palladium "bad" > (as you did by in an earlier post) by saying that TCPA only provides > key storage. TPM != TCPA. TCPA with *user* control is good. > As Michel noted

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Michel Messerschmidt wrote: > AFAIK, IBM's "embedded security subsystem 1.0" is only a key > storage device (Atmel AT90SP0801 chip). > But the TPM we're talking about is part of the TCPA compliant > "embedded security subsystem 2.0" which supports all specified > TPM functions,

Re: patriot act and public key encryption

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Michael Cardenas wrote: > If secret searches with secret warrants are legal now, what good is it > to use public key encryption and keep a backup of your private key at > home on a floppy? > > Is there a protocol to have a "blinded" private key, so you wouldn't > actually have

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death...(fwd)

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Will this work for -everything- that could go on a drive? (In other words, > if I set up an encrypted disk, will web caches, cookies, and all of the > other 'trivial' junk be encrypted without really slowing down the PC?) Depends on how well you build the

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: > I think you may have been mislead by the slant of paper. > > Quoting from the paper: > > http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/why_tcpa.pdf > > you will see: > > | The TCPA chip is not particularly suited to DRM. While it do

Re: Feds pull plug on suspicious "cyberwarfare" .gov site

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Wonder if any current .gov domains are owned by individuals pulling a prank? > > -Declan > > >Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:46:20 -0500 > >From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: FC: Feds pull plug on suspicious "cybe

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, AARG! Anonymous wrote: > The main features of TCPA are: > > - key storage The IBM TPM does this part. > - secure boot > - sealing > - remote attestation It does *not* do these parts. That's why IBM wants the TPM != TCPA to be loud and clear. That's why the RIAA can't expec

Re: Comments from 1998 on shuttle

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Michael Motyka wrote: > Seems kindof like leaving the spare tire, jack, poncho and duck boots out of your >car to > save weight and space. It's fine except for that one day you get a flat while it's >pouring > freezing rain and there's 3 or 4 inches of slush on the ground. Ov

Comments from 1998 on shuttle

From: http://ltp.arc.nasa.gov/space/ask/landing/Black_tiles_falling_off.txt "If more than a few were lost from the same area, though, the heat could get bad enough to cause damage to the aluminum skin. Nobody wants to see what would happen if the wings started to deform like taffy, so the tiles a

Re: CDR: Re: Carter's statement yesterday

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Alif The Terrible wrote: > Yeah, like I would trust Colin Powell on *anything*. Remember, this is the > same guy who denied that My Lai had happened, issuing a public statement that > "relations between the United States and the South Vietnamese are excellent". > Nepotism see

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Yeah, but most pilots, if they suspected an even semi-serious breach of their > craft's integrity, *AND* had the ability to fairly safely send someone outside > to have a looksee, wouldn't hesitate a moment before doing so. They've been > delayed by wea

Re: checking weirdness

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > So what do we get here > > -- > Harmon Seaver > CyberShamanix > http://www.cybershamanix.com > >

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Michael Cardenas wrote: > I think this is what you call "taxation without representation" > > Note also, that the judge in the case was the brother of the supreme > court judge who bush appointed who's totally opposed to these sates > right cases. > > Great how bush's daughter

Re: Attack Is a Matter of Vulnerability

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Steve Schear wrote: > http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/khan4.html Thanks, that was a fun read. Won't change anything, but I liked it. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Actually, VW has a plant making synfuel out of biomass. And we won't have to > wait long before oil is $50-100 a barrel, it's at $35 right now and world oil > production will peak this decade. In the '80's it was "obvious" that oil production would p

Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Although canola oil is a much better source for fuel. And diesels a much > better IC engine for hybrids. Even in non-hybrids, VW builds some pretty nice > diesel cars, including the Lupo, on the market for a couple years now, which > gets 80mpg. And t

Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Oh come on. Its all economics. (With tech changing the params) > Fuel cells for cars are too expensive today. There is not enough > methanol > production/distrib infrastructure, which costs to create. [insert > Metcalfe's law (aka fax or networ

Re: the news from bush's speech

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Declan McCullagh quoted Bush: > > And tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, Central > > Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop > > a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat > > information in a single

Re: Palm Pilot Handshake

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible? > > I'd like to be able digitally "shake hands" using a Palm Pilot. Is this > possible? Yes. > And now let's say there's some guy at a party claiming to be that very same > Tyler Durde

Re: DNA evidence countermeasures?

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Watching local TV, a police brass with three stars is talking about DNA > (Using deeper-penetrating techniques it should be possible to do things > like permanently change skin color, eg. by disabling or stimulating > melanine production, or even achie

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, John Kelsey wrote: > I think the best way to think about any biometric is as a very cheap, > moderately hard to copy identification token. Think of it like a good ID > card that just happens to be very hard to misplace or lend to your friends. Like an implant in the forehead

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