Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

Tyler Durden wrote: Actually, depending on your App, this would seem to be th very OPPOSITE of a moot point. -TD Indeed! I've been ignoring this list for a while, so sorry for the late posting. I remember sometime in late 99, I had one of the early blackberry pagers, the small ones that at

Re: Well, they got what they want...

Steve Schear wrote: The term 'securisimilitude' (from verisimilitude) comes to mind. Steve True, but I think the goal was FUD and it worked. On Tuesday (I think) both the Metro and AMNY free rags reported that all of a sudden there was a rash of suspicious packages being reported. Ya thi

Re: Well, they got what they want...

Tyler Durden wrote: Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the obvious: Random searches and whatnot are going to do zero for someone determined, but "might" deter someone who was "thinking about" blowing up the A train. In other words, everyone here in NYC knows that we've giv

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

DiSToAGe wrote: not a backdoor, we forget to much that every system is only 1 and 0 through electricity and physical circuits. If you can make them you can watch them (with time and monney i agree). Perhaps thinking that datas (certs, instructions) can be "hidden" behind a physical thing is only

Re: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

Bill Stewart wrote: Sigh. "Terrified Student Pilot" isn't the same as "Terrorist". Yeah, but they both start with the same four letters and sound alike, which seems to be the attention span of those who are afraid of the boogie man and consequentially imagine they see him under every rock, or b

Re: Secure erasing Info (fwd from richard@SCL.UTAH.EDU)

Jason Holt wrote: There are lots of pitfalls in secure erasure, even without considering physical media attacks. Your filesystem may not overwrite data on the same blocks used to write the data originally, for instance. Plaintext may be left in the journal and elsewhere. Even filling up the disk

Re: Secure erasing Info (fwd from richard@SCL.UTAH.EDU)

Yeah, but these days, I'd go with the largest flash drive I could afford. USB2 or otherwise. I don't believe you can recover data from these once you actually overwrite the bits (anyone out there know any different?). They're either 1 or 0, there's no extra ferrite molecules to the left or t

Re: Email Certification?

Suggestion - you can do what advertisers do - encode a web bug image as part of some jucy html emails on a web server that you own and check your logs. (not sure if hotmail or whatever allows this, as I don't use their cruft.) Make sure that unlike a web bug you don't set the name so it looks

NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications

http://www.eet.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60404977 NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications By Loring Wirbel , EE Times March 03, 2005 (10:22 AM EST) URL: http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle

Theory of Secure Computation - Joe Killian, NEC Labs

http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2233 A bit sparse on details, but a good overview of all sorts of secure protocols. Our friends Alice and Bob are of course present in various orgies of secure protocols. :)

Re: new egold phisher - this time it's a malware executable

long lost uncle kicked the bucket and left me a fortune? :-D Wheee! sunder wrote: So, the e-gold phishers are at it again... received a very nice email this morning with an attachment. The Received-From header showed this beauty: "from 195.56.214.184 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.56.214.184]

new egold phisher - this time it's a malware executable

So, the e-gold phishers are at it again... received a very nice email this morning with an attachment. The Received-From header showed this beauty: "from 195.56.214.184 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.56.214.184] (may be forged))" Indeed! Don't know if it's a trojan, spyware, virus, or worm, and I co

Gait advances in emerging biometrics

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ Gait advances in emerging biometrics By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT "Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait." William Shakespeare, The Tempest Retinal scans,

Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping

Not new news, but interesting anyway. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12ACOUSTIC.html (bugmenot's your uncle) Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping By STEPHEN MIHM Published: December 12, 2004 When it comes to computer security, do you have faith in firewalls? Think passwords will protect

RE: Optical Tempest FAQ

e when such a trechnique is both needed as well as > useful, given the time, the subject and the place. > > -TD > > >From: Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Optical Tempest FAQ > >Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:27:04 -0500 (est) &g

Optical Tempest FAQ

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html Along with tips and examples. Enjoy, and don't use a CRT in the dark. :-) --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never st

Re: Broward machines count backward

It sounds suspiciously like an int16 issue. 32K is close enough to 32767 after which a 16 bit integer goes negative when incremented. Which is odd because it should roll over, not count backwards. perhaps they did something like this: note the use of abs on reporting. int16 votes[MAX_CANDID

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion

m is slavery, Bush is President. - On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 2:42 PM -0400 10/30/04, Sunder wrote: > >the Turd Sandwich? > > Turd Sandwich, of course. > > Cheers, > RAH > &

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion

As usual, South Park is a great source of wisdom. So, are you voting for the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking abou

Re: James A. Donald's insanity

\|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On 21 Oct 2004 at 13:41, Sunder wrote: > > No you imbecile, I'm telling no one anything, other than you > > to get a clue. Where did I tell peop

Re: Airport insanity

d wrote: > -- > On 21 Oct 2004 at 10:26, Sunder wrote: > > IMHO, you are a misguided armchair general who sees yourself > > as equal to those scumbags that have risen in power to lead > > or enslave nations since you seem to constantly say "they > > should h

Re: Airport insanity

d neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On

Re: Printers betray document secrets

Simple way to test. Get two printers of the same make and model. Print identical documents on both printers, scan them, diff the scans. Some will be noise, repeat several times, see which noise repeats and you get closer and closer to the serial #'s. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kyber

Re: Airport insanity

d wrote: > -- > On 20 Oct 2004 at 13:05, Sunder wrote: > > Re: Gitmo > > > > And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, > > interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's > > weren't tortured? > > Lots of murderou

Re: Airport insanity

Re: Gitmo And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's weren't tortured? Wow, you are good... or phrased another way, what brand of crack are you smokin' 'cause the rest of us thin it's some really good shit and would like

Re: Airport insanity

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: > Here is my prescription for winning the war on terrorism > > We SHOULD rely on shock and awe, administered by men in white > coats far from the scene. > The US government should expose and condemn these objectionable > practices, subvert moder

Re: Airport insanity

ar is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Justin wrote: > On 2004-10-16T22:12:52-0400, Sunder wrote: > > There is still of course the matter of the unexploded bombs in that > > b

RE: Airport insanity

I think you need to read this remake of the "First they came for the commies" poem. Short translation - whenever anyone's rights are being trampled upon, whether it affects you or not, you should protest. Goes along with one of the unsaid credos about cypherpunks: "I absolutely disagree with w

Re: Airport insanity

There is still of course the matter of the unexploded bombs in that building that were dug out, and that the ATF received a "Don't come in to work" page on their beepers, and the seize and classification of all surveilance video tapes from things like ATM's across the street.

cryptome.org down?

DNS seems to resolve, but never get to the web server. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our peopl

Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

Right, just because your Passport or driver's license expired, doesn't mean that you got any younger and therefore shouldn't drink. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They neve

Bush "wins"

http://www.boingboing.net/images/wbay.jpg http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/07/tv_station_reports_t.html Thursday, October 7, 2004 TV station reports that Bush has been elected President WBAY TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin is running an AP article reporting that Bush has won the election, weeks be

RFID Driver's licenses for VA

So the cops and RFID h4x0rZ can know your true name from a distance. and since RFID tags, are what, $0.05 each, the terrorists and ID counterfitters will be able to make fake ones too... Whee! http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65243,00.html RFID Driver's Licenses Debated By Mark Baard

Most Disturbing Yet - Senate Wants Database Dragnet

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65242,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65242,00.html Senate Wants Database Dragnet By Ryan Singel 02:00 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT The Senate could pass a bill as early as Wednesday evening that would let government counter-terrorist investiga

Federal program to monitor everyone on the road

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/01/federal_program_to_m.html Federal program to monitor everyone on the road Interesting article about the Fed's plans to develop an all-knowing intelligent highway system. Most people have probably never heard of the agency, called the Intelligent Transp

How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport? A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000! Details: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275 --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovati

Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

Forgive my ignorance, but would other PK schemes that don't rely on prime numbers such as Elliptic Curve be affected? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking

stegedetect - looks like "we" need better mice

http://freshmeat.net/projects/stegdetect/?branch_id=52957&release_id=172055 http://www.outguess.org/detection.php Steganography Detection with Stegdetect Stegdetect is an automated tool for detecting steganographic content in images. It is capable of detecting several different steganographic m

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

Um, don't know what you've been smoking but: a. there is no "we", except individuals with the freedom to chose their own actions. b. cops have guns. c. some cops have armor and semi (or full?) automatics along with the "non-lethal" weaponry. d. non-cops don't and aren't allowed to carry the

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

Wheee! NYC==Police State for the last week for those of you living under rocks... --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting

Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

Oops! Is that a cat exiting the bag? http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78 Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time. By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a

Re: JYA in NYT

Let's dissect this mother. On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Nomen Nescio wrote: > http://nytimes.com/2004/08/29/nyregion/29pipeline.html > > August 29, 2004 > Mapping Natural Gas Lines: Advise the Public, Tip Off the Terrorists > By IAN URBINA > > John Young says he is an agent for change, hoping to point

Re: Digital camera fingerprinting...

Yes, your holiness, but how much of that will survive jpeg compression, photshop (or GIMP) cleanups, and shrinking down to lower resolutions, and insertion of stego? Or what about those "disposable" digital cameras that are hackable? Perhaps there should be a cypherpunks pool to swap "disposab

Reason on Gilmore VS Ashcroft

http://www.reason.com/links/links082404.shtml --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and ne

RE: Another John Young Sighting

All Hail Cthulhu! Why worship the lesser evil? Vote for Cthulhu! Why vote for the lesser evil? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to

Wired: Attacking the 4th Estate

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64680,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 or, the HTML crap free version: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64680,00.html Attacking the Fourth Estate By Adam L. Penenberg | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next 02:00 AM Aug. 25, 2004 PT John Ashcrof

T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL Washington -- Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on the government's secret "no-fly" list. "That a

Excerpts from Rudy Rucker's new Book

>From Rudy Rucker's new book: "The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul." (The interesting bits to which Tim fantasizes to.) As seen on: http://www.boingboing.net/text/guestbar.html Rant at Start of Chapter on Society I write this book during a dark time. America.s government is in the hands

Gilmore VS Ashcroft opens today

http://www.papersplease.org/gilmore/ In this corner we have John Gilmore. He's a 49 year-old philanthropist who lives in San Francisco, California. Through a lot of hard work (and a little luck), John made his fortune as a programmer and entrepreneur in the software industry. Whereas most peopl

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

Right, in which case GPG (or any other decent crypto system) is just fine, or you wouldn't be looking for stego'ing it inside of binaries in the first place. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Morlock Elloi wrote: > The purpose would be that they do not figure out that you are using some > security program, so they don't suspect that noise in the file or look for > stego, right? > > The last time I checked the total number of PDA programs ever offered to public > i

Re: A Billion for Bin Laden

Yeah, about as brilliant as a turd. Didn't they recently call Al-Qaeda's network a hydra? correct me if I don't recall my Ancient Greek myths, but when you cut off one head on the hydra, two more grow back, so are we to assume that future heads that grow back will carry such bounties? A billi

stealth tempest wallpaper

http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns6240 or http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns6240&lpos=home3 Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe 10:00 08 August 04 Special Report from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. A type of wallpa

Wired on Navy's new version of Onion Routing

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64464,00.html Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes By Ann Harrison Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64464,00.html 02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2004 PT Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally developed by the U.S. Na

Ridge: "The Terrorists are comming! The Terrorists are coming!" (wag the media)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/us_terror_alert_political_football/print.html US terror alert becomes political football By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 3rd August 2004 15:15 GMT Update As we reported recently (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004

Welcome to 1984 - almost.

This speaks volumes as to where intentions lie. http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2004/8/3/84635/46365 Justice Department attempting to remove public documents from libraries American Library Association July 30, 2004 CHICAGO -- The following statement has been issued by President-Elect Michael

Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations?

ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 12:58 PM 8/1/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: > >You Al-Qaeda types > >hate us for having freedom, right? > > You're not taken in by that mularky, are you?

Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations?

I've a better idea for the terrorists who may be paying attention, why not just leave NYC alone and target something more useful to take out - like Microsoft, for example. IMHO, the planes that were targeted at the WTC would have been better directed at various Redmond, WA buildings. They're

[OT] Apple calls Real "a hacker"

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/apple_real/ Interesting non-cypherpunkish stuff. So Real goes off and does some reverse engineering so it can use Apple's DRM to publish its own stuff for iPod's. Interestingly, Apple wants to sue using the DMCA, *BUT* where it gets interesting is tha

Osama says "Vote for Bush!"

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001393 Not that (m)any of us really expected Al-Qaeda to want Kerry. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional r

Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. This doesn't seem to mention anything about anonymous users, however. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_7/masu

New trend: dropping trou at the TSA

BoingBoing calls this "The Freedom Flash" http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/14/man_flashes_authorit.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040714/ap_on_fe_st/airport_flasher_1 Man Exposes Self During Airport Screening Wed Jul 14, 9:07 AM ET Add Strange News -

Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > 1. I've seen adverts for linear sensors which image the bottoms > of cars as they drive over. Sort of a scanner where the paper > does the moving. Installed in the road. Come to think of it, yes, the "road" within the tollbooth gate was a bit ra

Re: Faster than Moore's law

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote: > >Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* > >than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time. > > But access time has not nearly kept pace. Which is why all manner of > database architectures have been cr

Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight (fwd from dave@farber.net)

I recently visited the Canadian side of Niagra falls. On the return entry to the US customs, etc. meant driving through penns that look like toll booths. But I noticed little sensors in pairs and large square sensors as well. The entry gate was fairly large - I'd say about 2' deep by 2' wide

Re: Final stage

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Howie Goodell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:26:59 -0400 (edt), Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: > &

Re: Privacy laws and social engineering

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Sometimes you get access by telnet. Sometimes by a voice call. Hack the > mainframe. Hack the secretary. What's better? (Okay, I agree, you can't > sleep with the mainframe.) > I feel zen today. Me too: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#31 ftp:/

Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

> The Tempest argument is a stretch, only because you're not actually > recovering the information from the phosphor itself. But the Pandora > argument is well taken. Actually there is optical tempest now that works by watching the flicker of a CRT. Point is actually even more moot since mos

Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > Call me cynical (no... go ahead), but if VOIP is found to have no 4th > Amendment protection, Congress would first have to agree that this *is* > a problem before thay could "fix" it. Given the recent track record of > legislators vs. privacy, I'

Re: Antipiracy bill targets technology

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > > CNET News > > Antipiracy bill targets technology > A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed, dramatically > reshape copyright law by prohibiting file-trading network

Re: [osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet

Or it could just be agitprop meant to raise the theat level back up a notch, or provide more funding to the surveillance kitty. On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 10:45 PM +0200 6/14/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > >It may be also a very cheap method of "attack". > > True enough.

Re: Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system

Meh, same old song: NSA/CIA/FBI failed to prevent the WTC missile attacks, despite the billions of dollars they receive per annum, so guess what, they get rewarded with guess what kiddies, even more tax payer dollars! Condoleeza Rice lies about a specific PDB, calling it "historical" and doesn'

Re: Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'

Rgggh! And posting your full name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, the account and expiration dates of all your credit cards + the 3 digit extra code on their backs, ATM card account # and the PIN, plus, several samples of your signature (optional) in JPEG for

Re: Fact checking

Damian Gerow wrote: I don't give a flying fuck who you vote for, who the options are, what you think of them, or even if they're convicted drunk drivers hell-bent on converting the world to their belief system (...). You, sir, are in great need of an enema. *PLONK*

Re: What Should Freedom Lovers Do?

An Metet wrote: In my devotion to freedom, I apparently go beyond the point where most cypherpunks are comfortable, in that I support private initiatives and technologies of all sorts and oppose government regulation of them. I am a supporter and admirer of Microsoft, which has achieved tremendous

Re: Fact checking

Damian Gerow wrote: Hey, I'm no fan of Tipper either. And I'm not saying that Al Gore was a /good/ choice. But in retrospect, he probably would have been a lesser evil than the current president. THAT, ultimately is the meta-point. You shouldn't have to vote for the lesser evil, but when your c

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Damian Gerow wrote: Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to represent what he said through that phrase. What he /actually/ claimed (and what he /actually/ did) was recognize its importance, and then pu

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Jack Lloyd wrote: Still, I liked this quote: '"I came to vote because wasting one's ballot in a democracy is a sin," he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US these days, it seems like. What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al "I Invented the Innnernet" Gore, an

Re: Meshing costs (Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies)

Tyler Durden wrote: Someone enlighten me here...I don't see this as obvious. I might certainly be willing to pay to route someone else's message if I understand that to be the real cost of mesh connectivity. In other words, say I'm driving down the FDR receiving telemetry about the road condit

Re: VPN VoIP

Eugen Leitl wrote: I cited those routers as instances of consumer-type cheap VoIP with encryption, which thwarts goverment-mandated tapping by ISPs. Exploiting built-in backdoors or remotely exploitable vulnerabilities is a different threat model. I definitely hope routers with DynDNS/VPN/VoIP and

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies - the internet is a tree.

Jim Dixon wrote: Yes. I know what a tree is, and I am quite familiar with structure of the Internet. These very pretty pictures certainly look like the Internet I am familiar with, but don't resemble trees. It is a tree. I'll give you a hint. Think of this: "God is like an infinite sphere, who

Re: VPN VoIP

Eugen Leitl wrote: I've been installing a Draytek Vigor 2900 router at work lately, and found a line of models which do VoIP (router with analog phone jacks on them). They also support VPN router-router, and come with DynDNS clients. I thought I've seen VoIP over VPN being mentioned, but I can't fi

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

93: One of the nice things about ignorance is that it is curable. Unlike Neo-Conservatism. Or more accurately - Neo CONfidence artist. Would be nice to turn those into NEO convicts, but we may as well dream of a free country. Many, many, thanks go to Richard Clarke for exposing the truth we a

Re: Saving Opportunistic Encryption

Eugen Leitl wrote: No, anything requiring publishing DNS records won't fly. OE is *opportunistic*. It doesn't care about what the true identity of the opposite party is. Any shmuck on dynamic IP should be able to use it instantly, with no observable performance degradation, using a simple patch. I

Re: 'Special skills draft' on drawing board

So is this Uncle Sam's way of getting good workers for no pay? You could expect the same kinds of skills to bring in several hundred dollars per hour in the .mil consulting sphere... Huh... So working from January to April/May to pay one's tax burden isn't enough service to the republic anymor

Re: I'd recognise that ear, anywhere

R. A. Hettinga wrote: Hmmm... Actual progress on old news is new news, right? Not when it pretends to be a new and wonderful idea, and ignores its past. Sort of like Apple announcing the world's first 64 bit desktop computer when many of us have had DEC Alpha's and UltraSPARC machines on our des

Re: I'd recognise that ear, anywhere

This is old news. No, really, I'm not channeling Mr. May and telling you to hit the archives... A few years ago, this was a topic here, and the outcome was that cypherpunks should wear their hair long so as to cover their ears. Kinda goes with the long hair - 10 gallon hat kinda look. :) I be

Re: Virus with encrypted zip file - Important notify about your e-mail account.

Interesting virus - anyone know what this one is called and what it's payload does? Haven't seen this one before today... It attaches a zip file with a password containing an executable. (No worries, I've not run it, and only extracted it on a SPARC machine, so it can't use buffer overflows d

Re: Fwd: Re: Don't Panic - Not All Jobs Are Headed Overseas

R. A. Hettinga wrote: Any keyboard job can be shipped overseas, including engineering (CAD), XRAY and MRI analysis/interpretation. If you really think about CEO, CFO, CIO jobs can >ALL< be exported to India , and there won't be anything to stop the boards of major companies from doing that. Ind

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

Tyler Durden wrote: Interesting. I guess my basic question is, is there a subset of counter-surveillance actions that can be taken that, while not ensuring secure communications, forces eavesdropping parties to take 'radical' measures in order to obtain the desired information? In other words,

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

Steve Furlong wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:19, Major Variola (ret.) forwarded: Blix says US spied on him over Iraq ... It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side. Begging the question of whether Blix was actually on the same side as

Re: Microsoft Plans Biometric ID Cards

No doubt such a card will automatically be linked to a Microsoft Passport account, Microsoft Wallet, etc. to make sure that the violation of your privacy can continue unhindered. No doubt, the 2nd step will be to either add an RFID chip inside it plus a reader on the PC... Or setting the next

Re: Cypherpunks response to viral stimuli

Tyler Durden wrote: And in case it's not clear, I'm suggesting that it may be useful for them to deliberately create a "fake" virus that is easily detectable, and so cull the bounce messages. Right, why should they do something passive that doesn't tip their hand and allows them to collect the

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

Right, the Declaration of Independance starts off with "We hold these truths to be self evident..." and lists that some rights are inalienable, and granted to us just because we are human, so therefore they apply to all humans everywhere... Well, in practice between what was done to Native America

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

That all depends on your definition of sovereign. After all, "we" put, or at least helped, that monster into power. No different an action than we the many times before putting tyrants into control of small, but important nations under the guise of "protecting democracy." So, while he was our

Re: Partition Encryptor

Which only works on win9x, and no freeware updates exist for Win2k/XP/NT. i.e. worthless... There is this, but it too isn't free: http://www.pcdynamics.com/SafeHouse/ --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin,

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

Not scared, hungry. They're looking for more "collars" they can throw in jail so they meet their quotas. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bi

Re: "If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

eitl wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:28:08AM -0500, Sunder wrote: > > The biggest hurdle and the thing that will have the most effect is to have > > every MTA out there turn on Start TLS. It won't provide a big enhancement > > For the record: it's unreaso

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

To add to this: There is no law stating that I cannot take my books and read them backwards, skip every other word, read the odd chapters in reverse and the even chapters forward, or try to "decode" the book by translating it to another language, ask someone with better eyes than mine to read it t

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