Re: Detectable cash notes a fantasy

2002-04-10 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May writes: > I'll go back to lurking, as this "thread," so to speak, is not > interesting to me. > > (More interesting is reading Chris Hillman's page with his Categorical > Primer on it, http://www.math.washington.edu/~hillman/papers.html. And > to BL and JA, I downloaded O'CAML and picke

Terrorists are your friends

2002-04-06 Thread Nomen Nescio
The whole concept of labeling everyone and anyone as terrorists, currently the US "tactic" if it can be called that, simply exposes the limited mental capacity of those in government. They now are calling the Mexican drug cartels "terrorist organizations." Earth First! is a "terrorist organizat

Re: mil disinfo on cryptome

2002-04-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
>This is anarchists-cookbook-style disinfo. While mighty US military think tanks prepare for Homeland defense against total cretins, I wonder if it's time for citizenry to hire professionals for the real defense. Not that I expect that talibanladens will be contracted any time soon again (the eff

Brands credentica (Re: [Tsg] Micropayments & VISA?)

2002-03-26 Thread Nomen Nescio
This is a response to Paul Holman's article on the DBS list. Either RAH is intentionally not forwarding the message below or his address is undeliverable to a few remailers. Not like RAH to not forward ecash related info. Interesting for this audience anyway, and perhaps if RAH sees here h

USPTO needs killing

2002-03-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
Patent office does better than BXA: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24557.html Peter Avritch, president of PC Dynamics, told us he was surprised to be approached this week about what he considered was an "absurd" claim, based on a patent filed in 1998 - long after the widespread use of el

Re: SF BAY CPUNK call for volunteer lecturers

2002-03-18 Thread Nomen Nescio
Replying to the relevant stuff: >Who is funding this? Are these sessions free? Sessions are free. Venue is *supposed* to be donated/secured for free. I will know more in a week. Are you interested in lecturing and on what subject ?

Knuth needs killing

2002-03-16 Thread Nomen Nescio
Question: What do you think of research in cryptographic algorithms? And what do you think of efforts by politicians today to put limits on ryptography research? Knuth: Certainly the whole area of cryptographic algorithms has been one of the most active and exciting a reas in computer science for

Re: Let's knock off the "Reformatted" repostings of junky newsarticles

2002-03-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
Of course we all know who is posting these "reformatted" articles. Only one person on the list has been in the habit of doing so, until he got flamed so badly for it that he quit. Suddenly at that time they started appearing anonymously. Clearly we have no one else to thank for it but the "peace

[Reformatted] Blair said he'd put more pigs on the street: Well they'r

2002-03-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
Please take a moment and properly format your postings. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anonymous) writes: > "[Mr. Blair] said he'd put more police on the street. Well the only > place he has this done so far is right here in Westminster." > > Ian Duncan Smith - Far-Right token alternative to 'compassionate

Re: what's up with *coder*punks @ toad?

2002-03-11 Thread Nomen Nescio
: Your request of Majordomo was: : who coderpunks : Members of list 'coderpunks': : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope you two have a lot to say to each other. The story is that a few months ago a disk got full and somehow the list of subscribers got wiped. So far no one has one

Re: Bernstein's NFS machine

2002-03-04 Thread Nomen Nescio
James Donald writes: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:04:16AM -, Frog3 wrote: > > The cost [To factor RSA 1024] is the need to build a > > machine that can do 53 billion simultaneous, independent > > ECM factorizations for smoothness testing. It's not clear > > how amenable this would be to har

[Reformatted] private infiltration of private groups

2002-02-28 Thread Nomen Nescio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Khoder bin Hakkin) writes: > The pro-abortion & anti-choice folks are privately acting like the Feds > and WTO protesters, > or Feds and militias, or Feds and cypherpunks: > > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26611 > > Abortion-rights group trains activ

Re: Sheeple Land With Hands on Heads

2002-02-11 Thread Nomen Nescio
The ominous trend here is increased docility. The state cannot afford to acknowledge that there is no defense from attacks by people who are ready to sacrifice their lives. That makes state weak and unfit. Odd as it may seem, several more real attacks would probably make the air travel go back

Look behind you, mattie (was: Wheres Maurice Tate? Paging maurice Tate)

2002-01-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
Peekaboo... Love, Fred Doppelganger, Ministry of Love, Queensland Aus-tralia

[Reformatted] EPIC sues big brother

2002-01-18 Thread Nomen Nescio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (lcs Mixmaster Remailer) writes: > http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0114/web-epic-01-16-02.asp > > Privacy advocates have filed a lawsuit in federal court to force the > Justice and Treasury departments to disclose details about buying > information about individuals from co

stego; digital rights management; MPAA: get some order in your life

2002-01-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
"Device builders need to have some kind of order in their life," said Scott Dinsdale, the Motion Picture Association of America's executive vice president for digital strategy. "There needs to be a standard way of doing this." [Fuck off, said anonymous device builders..] [Of course, the digita

All your European coordinates are belong to US

2002-01-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
Europe GPS Plan Shelved BERLIN -- Exasperated European officials say U.S. pressure appears to have torpedoed a $3 billion project to build a European version of the U.S. global positioning system, which uses signals from orbiting satellites to track geographical position within 36

New crime: lying about an aviation radio

2002-01-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
Monday January 14 3:19 PM ET New Info on Student With Pilot Radio By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - An Egyptian student charged with lying about an aviation radio found in his hotel room near the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 was in the United States as part of a gove

What is Cheney doing?

2002-01-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
At 10:27 PM 1/13/02 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote: >Speaking of "Missing In Action"... > >Anyone know what Cheany is up to? Buying more pretzels for George.. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020114/ts/bush_health.html

pseudo-anarchists like mattd can be self moderated!

2002-01-10 Thread Nomen Nescio
hey mattd, you really should use better manners, I personally have gotten tired of reading your drivel, accordingly you have started to suffer the same fate as detweiler, cohen, vulis and others. Hoped you liked the little procmail thingie, our former resident book author, bill arnold lov

AOL blocks Harvard acceptance email as spam

2002-01-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
AOL Glitch Blocks Harvard Admissions Office's E-Mails to Dozens of Prospective Students The Associated Press Published: Jan 1, 2002 BOSTON (AP) - Dozens of e-mail messages telling Harvard University applicants whether they had be

Explosive smuggling

2001-12-28 Thread Nomen Nescio
At 04:46 PM 12/27/01 -0800, Tim May wrote: >Easy to imagine safer activators. A magnet arrangment, where an external >magnet pulls something. A dual activator system, where two switches must >be closed simultaneously, ampoules to be broken or pierced under the >skin, and so on. Yeah but then y

Re: simplest possible ecash mint

2001-12-24 Thread Nomen Nescio
Ryan Lackey writes: > > I don't believe "normal users" should ever interact directly with the > mint; using the mint as a reissue server only in normal operation is a > key optimization -- especially when coupled with tamper-resistant mint > hardware. Easier to develop, easier to operate, easier

Re: simplest possible ecash mint

2001-12-24 Thread Nomen Nescio
Ryan Lackey writes: > * Some protocol for external communication (direct sockets is easiest, > but message-based protocols are far better, and allow a front end > processor to handle communications details) A message is simply a packet of data. Using a message-based protocol says nothing abo

Simplest possible ecash mint

2001-12-24 Thread Nomen Nescio
How simple can an ecash mint be? For the simplest case there should be no accounts. All the mint does is exchange coins for other coins. There are no customer lists, no records of transactions (except as needed for double-spending detection). The very simplest mint is a pure ecoin changer. Yo

PayPal for buying ecash

2001-12-24 Thread Nomen Nescio
PayPal is a possible funding source for ecash/estamps/remailer-tokens or whatever. With a PayPal account you can receive funds and pay people, two elementary steps for a cash-based system. It is easy to set up web software to receive payment via PayPal, and many people are already in the system

Coderpunks down?

2001-12-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
www.mail-archive.com has no messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] since December 7. Ryan Lackey posted a message to cypherpunks and coderpunks on Friday December 22 but it has not appeared on coderpunks. Is that list down? Who is the administrator?

Wired on e-gold

2001-12-18 Thread Nomen Nescio
The January, 2002 issue of Wired has an article on e-gold, the online payment system founded by retired oncologist Douglas Jackson. Much of the article discusses e-gold's misguided effort to link up with Islamic fundamentalists who want to overthrow capitalism. They are setting up a spinoff, e-di

RE: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
Peter Trei writes: > Modulo the recent discussion of how some remailers > treat traffic from other known remailers differently than > mail from unknown addresses, remailers don't need to > know about each other. > > If they don't know know about each other, and there is > nothing on the machines

Re: Cypherpunk Ban

2001-12-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
jya>>I don't recall the rationale used by the USPO to forbid CJ from posting to cypherpunks. Anybody know the answer to that? Since when is it unusual to forbid parolees from associating with unsavory and immoral characters?

RE: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Anonymous wrote: > Lucky Green writes: > > A popular remailer will handle some 3,500 messages a day. But this > > includes intra remailer-network traffic. How many of those messages are > > messages entering and leaving the cloud is any remailer operator's > > guess, since cu

Re: SWOT (formerly "Phil Zimmermann on key exchange")

2001-12-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
Paul Holman writes, to about 10 email lists: > All, please forgive the cross-posting, I haven't been following any of > these lists recently, but have a vested interest in this conversation > and would like to be CC'd on this thread in the future. > > First, can somebody please send me a refere

Poor little child pornographer

2001-12-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
Declan McCullagh has been producing a one-sided series about a child pornographer's supposedly unjust indictment, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49132,00.html. Of course everything the pornographer says is taken as gospel, while the police are filthy liars. In fact they have gone so f

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

2001-12-12 Thread Nomen Nescio
Declan McCullagh writes: > I always enjoy Jonathan's essays, and this one is no exception. He > properly points out the disturbing analogy that Attorney General > Ashcroft seems to make (http://www.politechbot.com/p-02900.html) > between criticism and treason. What Ashcroft actually said, from th

Re: AP Al Qaeda

2001-12-11 Thread Nomen Nescio
Danny Popkin writes: > > Rather, the problem with AP is that it is mob rule at its worst. > > Worse than the secret ballot? Much worse. With a secret ballot you need to get a majority to support any particular position. That's a significant hurdle to overcome. But with AP any small group of peo

Re: AP Al Qaeda

2001-12-10 Thread Nomen Nescio
John Young writes, regarding Assassination Politics: > AP is a touchy topic for Cypherpunks, whoever they may > be. It is likely the USA is attempting to link AP to Cypherpunks > for prosecution, so not many will want to talk about the > topic. Cypherpunks pioneered the use of encryption and ano

Re: US seeks to force feed pilot it tricked, detained

2001-12-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Variola ret) writes: http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-97083dec06.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation > U.S. Seeks Force-Feeding Order for Fasting Detainee in Phoenix Courts: > The unusual step involves a Middle Eastern pilot protesting his > jailing in a

Meta-reputations

2001-12-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
To summarize: You can sell nyms by transferring private keys. Whether other people like it or not, it can be done. And others can't necessarily tell. There is nothing to stop someone from transferring his private key in this way. Any reputation goes along with the nym, and this may be quite va

Re: Anonymizing Scam

2001-11-27 Thread Nomen Nescio
John Young writes: > Criticism of anonymizers and remailers and this list is a healthy > as criticizing any reputable, and disreputable, private or publice > means of communication. > > Fending off criticism by saying past performance and reputation > deserves trust is a hoot and is also a hackney

Re: The bookburning begins...

2001-11-20 Thread Nomen Nescio
Marc de Piolenc writes: > Presumably, the reports to be destroyed include everything to do with > crypto. > ... > Not only is the government removing much material from its websites it > is also asking depository libraries (which are sent government reports > free) to remove and destroy many gove

Re: The bookburning begins...

2001-11-20 Thread Nomen Nescio
Well, if google controls usenet history, why wouldn't a violence monopoly control logs and the history of the lands it ... controls ? (for all practical purposes the government is a corporation with a very effective PR department and pesuasive means, which it uses to successfuly convince custom

Re: Pricing spare resources and options?

2001-11-18 Thread Nomen Nescio
David Molnar writes: > The recent comments on Mojo Nation prompted me to look at their site > again. I don't see much guidance on how to set prices for network > services. There's a mention someplace that business customers will build > pricing schemes on top of Mojo Nation, but not much indicatio

Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
Declan McCullagh wrote: > I'm told this bill is expected to become law by Christmas. > > >The Secretary of State shall issue, and may from time to time revise, a > >code of practice relating to the retention by communications providers of > >communications data obtained by or held by them... Sp

Re: Red Herring: Terrorism and the challenge to globalization.

2001-11-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
> [Another glimmer of hope as even some of the mainstream business press is > venturing beyond simple patriotic flag waving. Posted in its entirety > as its not online.] > > Terrorism and the challenge to globalization. > BY PETER SCHWARTZ Stupid article, and your comment doesn't make much sense

Monkeywrenching

2001-11-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May writes: > Several of us were in the Sierras this past weekend for a training > session on weapons use, explosives, terrorism measures, and methods for > monkeywrenching the U.S. government so as to paralyze its police state > moves. First, this is probably not true. Tim May often uses

Re: America the Damned

2001-11-09 Thread Nomen Nescio
http://law2.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t17t20+1050+18++%28sedition%29 U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 115: Sec. 2384. Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire

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

2001-11-08 Thread Nomen Nescio
There are so many misconceptions floating around here it's hard to know where to begin. But let's start with two points of agreement. First, airport screening is far from perfect. There is no way to detect all possible threats coming on the airplane. And given the technology and time available

Re: All your mentally ill children are belong to us

2001-11-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
Marc de Piolenc wrote: > Nomen Nescio wrote: > > And yet we expect airport screeners to ignore past acts of terrorism > > by a wild-eyed fanatic boarding a plan, > > I don't recall anybody being required to do that. Quite a stretch, > unless you can cite an exa

More silly stuff ( was RE: Enemy at the Door )

2001-11-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > Of course you could connect an automated firearm. (Crime Stoppers Note: > aways aim for the head to avoid protective vests) Any lawyers on the list > know what penalties might be brought. I seem to recall that tying a > shotgun to the door knob was ruled an "indescri

Re: All your mentally ill children are belong to us

2001-11-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May: > These 50 kids will find their innermost thoughts and crimes "in their > permanent records." When they apply for jobs in 15 years, when they seek > political office, when they try to get security clearances. > > eBlack, the new anonymous bidding service, has an offer for e2400 for a >

Re: Torture Never Stops..

2001-10-25 Thread Nomen Nescio
Listen, its not a return to fascism. Not by any stretch, so unbunch your panties. unbunch(panties); Some Americans are tired of being stepped on. Me in particular. Its way different than the inferrence you infer. I am sure that we agree on the same stuff, we just dont agree on how to get ther

Re: Cypherpunks idiot list

2001-10-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
Of course I know how to use a killfile! I killfiled all you idiots long ago, but your names and trivial ideas keep getting quoted by all the important people, AND I JUST CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!. Have you no shame, how can you dare to even show your face on a list like this, you stupid, underpa

Cypherpunks idiots list

2001-10-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
Posters to the cypherpunks list can be divided into idiots and others. Idiots seldom contribute anything useful and love to fasten onto threads which require no more than their uninformed opinions. Interestingly, many of the idiots work at low-paying jobs like system administration, and several o

Beefing up security at America's dams and reservoirs

2001-10-21 Thread Nomen Nescio
National Public Radio (NPR) Morning Edition (11:00 AM AM ET) Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001 Beefing up security at America's dams and reservoirs BOB EDWARDS, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. Security is tight at many of the nation's 70,000 reservoirs and dams. There's

Retribution Time

2001-10-19 Thread Nomen Nescio
De time be almost here, good peoples. Time to get yours. You know what I and I be talkin about -- no more fuckin around about it. All dem pigs and feds jes be sooo busy wid dem bin Ladens, dey got no time for us simple folks. Time be for I and I to git what we bin waitin for. Git dem muthafuck

Re: Critize Israel - Get Fired

2001-10-19 Thread Nomen Nescio
Eric lisped: > Tel Aviv needs a thermonuclear enema. Hey fag boy, we know why you love them ragheads -- a-rabs being known for a preference for buttfucking each other and especially them sweet young boys.

ZKS Shutdown

2001-10-04 Thread Nomen Nescio
Zero-Knowledge Systems is reported to be shutting down their Freedom network and product. A letter has apparently been sent to subscribers with the bad news. Could someone please post a copy here? Does it say anything about the reasons? Just lack of money, or something related to 9/11? The we

Re: Who wants to be a millionaire

2001-10-04 Thread Nomen Nescio
> > Bin laden demolitions has authorised me to offer you a once in a lifetime deal. > > 1million dollars untracable digital cash will be paid to an account/s of > > your choice > > for enough intelligence to proceed with further superpower implosions. > > Insider info preffered but not essential,l

Re: Brinworld: citizens with speed-radar

2001-10-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
> According to collected data, the average speed in 30 mph zones ranged > from 35.5 to 46 mph. In the 35 mph zones, the average speed was about 43 > mph. The highest speed, clocked by Colonial Estates East Citizens on > Patrol group, was 62 mph in a 30 mph zone. Too bad this wasn't California.

[Fwd: [biofuel] Global atomic agency confesses little can be done to

2001-09-20 Thread Nomen Nescio
> Most nuclear power plants were built during the 1960s and 1970s, and > like the World Trade Center, they were designed to withstand only > accidental impacts from the smaller aircraft widely used at the time, > the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said as it opened its > annual conf

Re: crypto law survey questions

2001-09-19 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May writes: > Q: "Do you believe people should be arrrested, tried, and jailed for > writing in some form that narcs and cops cannot read? Do you believe > whispering should be made a felony? > > Q: If you answered "yes," would you be willing to take a bullet from > citizens who don't agree

Representative Barbara Lee

2001-09-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
Only one member of Congress had the courage to stand up against the crowd in the rush to authorize retaliation under the War Powers Act. It has been characterized as "essentially a declaration of war": Authorization for Use of United States Armed Forces (a) That the president is authorized to

RE: SYMBOL

2001-09-16 Thread Nomen Nescio
The movement to rebuild the World Trade Center towers is gaining momentum, and American capitalism is stepping up to the plate. The latest corporate giant to sign on as a sponsor is Target Stores. Their only requirement is that their corporate logo be painted high on each tower. The Target logo

Freedom of speech is for "Cypherpunk critics" too

2001-09-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May writes: > Funny, I notice how many of the critics of Cypherpunks and supporters of > this express train approach to repealing the Bill of Rights are > themselves hiding behind Cypherpunks remailers, Hushmail aliases, and > Ziplip nyms. If you're upset that "critics of the Cypherpunks"

Re: The Enemies List

2001-09-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
Chefren - On behalf of the civilized readers of the cypherpunks list, please accept our apology for the implied threats of violence against you by Tim May. He is by no means representative of the larger readership. He is alone in calling for the death of those who hold views different from his ow

Re: A Call for a Chorus of Voices

2001-09-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
In these days after the World Trade Center attacks, calls are being heard for restrictions on access to the technologies of privacy. As more and more communications go by e-mail, chat rooms and cell phones, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies are beginning to rely on surveillance of the

A Brevital Moment (was..Ignore Aimee Farr)

2001-09-14 Thread Nomen Nescio
> What about Mr. K-S that hides behind his hushmail jacket and asks for names > and addresses.why doesn't somebody cuss him out? > > ~Aimee Hmmm! Could it be that most people who aren't sheeple agree with him?

RE: Cypherpunks and terrorism

2001-09-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
Greg Broiles writes: > I propose that this sort of discussion - about whether or not, in the face > of violence and tragedy, some aspect of human freedom and expression can be > suitably "justified" to satisfy every self-appointed devil's advocate - is > absolutely unproductive and serves only

RE: Cypherpunks and terrorism

2001-09-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
James Donald writes: > Obviously this catastrophe could not have taken place without the > unauthorized use of paper. Paper allows people to communicate > dangerous ideas and secret messages. > > With paper, anyone can communicate to large numbers of people at > once, even if they are not proper

Re: An Open Letter on Privacy and Anonymity

2001-09-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
Eric Hughes wrote: > 2001 September 12 > An Open Letter on Privacy and Anonymity It's a well written letter, unquestionably. But there's a problem. While the title of the letter refers to privacy and anonymity, these terms are hardly used in the body. Privacy is referred to only in the first p

Re: Cypherpunks and terrorism

2001-09-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
Declan McCullagh writes: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:00:46PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > Some terrorists have exactly this as their goal. They are hoping > > to trigger a counter-reaction, an over-reaction, by the authorities. > > They want to see a crackdown on libe

mix patches for OpenBSD (was Re: [Remops] Re: FC: Anonymous remailer op offline)

2001-09-12 Thread Nomen Nescio
Are one or both of these still necessary? - CUT HERE Mixmaster 2.9b23 still searches for opensslv.h in a nonexistent /usr/include/ssl/openssl directory on OpenBSD 2.6 and 2.7. The patch to the Install routine below hopefully fixes the hardcoded directory in a manner that does n

RE: Cypherpunks and terrorism

2001-09-12 Thread Nomen Nescio
Suffused with boredom, Lucky Green wrote, > Nomen wrote: > --- > What are the roles of we who provide technology that aids terrorists > as well as honorable people who seek the shield of privacy? Do we bear > a share of the responsibility for the deaths and other consequences of > te

News group discussion on 9/4 about attacks?

2001-09-11 Thread Nomen Nescio
FBI members of this list might want to have a look here. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=54ab4d241c34e0cc&seekm=3b8fd177%40monitor.lanset.com#link1 (Basically, a poster calling himself Xinoehpoel on the alt.prophecies.nostradamus news group started making noise about a big e

Re: Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

2001-09-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
J.A. Terranson writes: > This is the case I had in mind when I made my recent assertion that > thought==action in today's "court". How can anyone see this case, and not > conclude otherwise? This dude is going to spend a long time in stir, for > a *pure Thought Crime*. Gee, maybe he shouldn't h

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, David Honig wrote: > At 12:34 PM 9/2/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: > >Someone else: > >> The fact that you may be > >> identifiable at the point of entry to an anonymity system is > >> a weakness, not a desired feature, and if it can be avoided, it > >> should be. > >> > > > >Then d

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Eric Murray wrote: > Another way to kill remailers would be through anti-spam legislation > that forbids "forging" email headers. We're already seeing some of > this. Declan brought this up in a "sky-is-falling" article about remailers and anti-spam legislation. I do not be

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, John Young wrote: > Nobody has yet seen an fbi.gov in the logs, or nsa.mil/gov, > though a few ucia.gov and nro.gov crop up, and the ubiquitous > nscs.mil. fbi.gov = .usdoj.gov, as far as web logs go.

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May wrote: > On Saturday, September 1, 2001, at 01:30 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > Yes and no. The users aren't all that anonymous, or they wouldn't need > > anonymous technologies, would they? The remailer network sees where > > this message originates. If

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-09-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
On 31 Aug 2001, at 12:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31 Aug 2001, at 19:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > This means that the operators > > choose to whom they will market and sell their services. > > Here I disagree completely. I think in a properly designed > anonymity

Re: Anonymous Posting

2001-09-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May wrote: > I don't recall the context, but I don't have any such friends or > even acquaintances. Even those I know on the Far Right don't want to > kill _all_ Jews, just the pesky freedom-stealing ones, and the > millions who form the Zionist Occupation Government in the Zionist > Entity of

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Nomen Nescio
Mark Leighton Fisher writes: > Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool that > enforces the privacy, anonymity, and pseudonymity of a women striving for > equal rights in Afghanistan can also be used by the Taliban in their quest > to track down and kill Afghans who c

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May writes: > And in both of these examples I gave, "Nomen Nescio" took a literal > reading of the examples. "But Ireland is not a communist regime!" "But > they are not Jews!" > > Examples, like the half dozen I gave, are designed to convey t

Re: Legal Communication and Censorship....

2001-08-29 Thread Nomen Nescio
"Jon Beets" (great nym!) writes: > what really gets me is the > part quoted below.. They are saying since "Scientology", "Dianetics", > "Hubbard" and "NOTs" are registered trademarks they cannot be used in > metatags in a webpage... The restriction in use of words in a web page > is just flat out

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-29 Thread Nomen Nescio
Gil Hamilton (great nym!) wrote: > Didn't you already sign on? Surely through your careful study of the > archives you know that one of the founding documents for this list is > Tim's "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto". It's practically the charter. > See, for example, > http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Cry

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-28 Thread Nomen Nescio
Ray Dillinger writes: > I've composed a dozen responses, considered the subpeona and the trial > that could result from posting each, and wiped them. There's your > "chilling effect on political discussion" if you're interested. This > one, I'm going to post, so I'm being very careful what I

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-28 Thread Nomen Nescio
Nomen says: > bin Laden and the IRA have plenty of money, but will many cypherpunks agree with their politics? It's hard to believe that anyone thinks that if the IRA or bin Laden were to succeed in their goals, that they would put in place a kindler and gentler state. It remains a challenge to

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-28 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, at 8:04 AM, Tim May wrote: > On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 11:20 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Tim May wrote: > >> On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:40 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > >>> "Freed

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-28 Thread Nomen Nescio
>Members of the IRA are not freedom fighters in a communist-controlled >country. bin Laden did fall under that definition when he was fighting The naivety of poster is appaling. I hope that "freedom fighters" in a "communist-controlled country" is used as a placeholder for "something good as p

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-27 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Tim May wrote: > On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:40 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > "Freedom fighters in communist-controlled regimes." How much money > > do they have? More importantly, how much are they willing and able to >

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-27 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May writes: > Draw this graph I outlined. Think about where the markets are for tools > for privacy and untraceability. Realize that many of the "far out' sweet > spot applications are not necessarily immoral: think of freedom fighters > in communist-controlled regimes, think of distributio

Mixmaster Message Drops

2001-08-08 Thread Nomen Nescio
My studies show about 1 chance in 20 that any particular running remailer will drop a message. This is based on sending a bunch of messages through chains of remailers of varying length and seeing how many arrive in a day or so, and then calculating the average probability. These are not the lam

Re: Traceable infrastructure

2001-08-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
All the more reason to morph freenet/mojo to mix duties, maybe even create a worm version that gives no evidence of it's existence, other than some increase in traffic. What happened to melontrafficers.com BTW? hmm, for that matter, there seems to a number of remailers down -- what's

Re: Traceable infrastructure

2001-08-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
All the more reason to morph freenet/mojo to mix duties, maybe even create a worm version that gives no evidence of it's existence, other than some increase in traffic. What happened to melontrafficers.com BTW? Declan McCullagh wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 04:07:14PM +0300, Sampo

Re: Official Reporters have more copyright rights

2001-08-04 Thread Nomen Nescio
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Official Reporters have more copyright rights Declan McCullagh wrote: > Why did I ever deprocmail Choate?... > I expect this will be my only response to Choate in the foreseeable > future. Sigh. I certainly hope so. Messages like this move you closer to my pro

Re: Forced disclosures, document seizures, Right and Wrong.

2001-08-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
Black Unicorn wrote: > A legal education is the ultimate dose of practical cynicism. It > quickly becomes apparent not that the law isn't perfect, but that it > is often pretty damn screwed up. American jurisprudence is about > _fairness of process_, not justice, or right, or wrong. Come now, s

Book Review: The Trial of Henry Kissinger

2001-07-31 Thread Nomen Nescio
"The Trial of Henry Kissinger" by Christopher Hitchens ISBN 1-85984-631-9 It is commonly stated on this list that the term "terrorism" is selectively used. The enemies of the United States Government are "terrorists" and its friends "freedom fighters." Nobody who reads this book can doubt this

Re: violent antitax protest/riot in US

2001-07-19 Thread Nomen Nescio
Declan hypothesized: >This is amazing. If anything like this was even attempted in DC, >we'd have dozens of federal agencies, and perhaps armed troops, >converging on the U.S. Capitol. > >-Declan Something was attempted like that in DC -- The Bonus Marchers in 1932. And although there weren't

U.S. Draws Attention to Information Warfare Threat

2000-12-26 Thread Nomen Nescio
By REUTERS Filed at 0:56 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after the Y2K bug, U.S. officials are once again warning about perceived dangers to a United States increasingly stitched together by bits and bytes of computer code. This time, a key stated fear is information warfare, or sneak

Paying for privacy

2000-11-25 Thread Nomen Nescio
Market could be huge, but consumers are a tough sell BY DEBORAH LOHSE Mercury News Dozens of new companies are betting that someday soon, Internet surfers will behave like James Bond in cyberspace. They dream of consumers, rabidly protective of their online privacy, who use technology to obs

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