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

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
Greg wrote: At 05:31 PM 8/31/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: Sure. But to what extent can you collaborate without a)approaching full- blown collusion or b) getting taken for a ride in spite of your best efforts? When you talk about collaborating and ZKS selling beta software to the NSA, are you

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

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 01:27 PM, Faustine wrote: On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in

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

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
Tim Wrote: On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: Consistent with your misconception about big computers being useful for brute-force cryptanalyis, I never said that and you know it. Nice troll, though. You did indeed. Several times you alluded to what big and powerful

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

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Broiles
At 03:19 PM 9/1/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: When you talk about collaborating and ZKS selling beta software to the NSA, are you saying you've got information that ZKS gave the NSA access to more information than the general public got, and/or that the NSA got their access or

RE: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
Adam writes: As far as your opinions of our business, well, I'm really uninterested in getting into a pissing match with you. The reality is that customers and investors give us money tp produce privacy tools, and they, not you, are the ones I need to keep happy. The reality is that people

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

2001-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
Faustine wrote: [...] Of course it has a trap door, that's probably the whole point of getting it over there in the first place. And by the way, if you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling a boatload of the Freedom beta

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

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 10:02 AM 8/30/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: Alas, the marketing of such dissident-grade untraceability is difficult. Partly because anything that is dissident-grade is also pedophile-grade, money launderer-grade, freedom fighter-grade, terrorist-grade, etc. --Tim May How about a

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

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:52, Faustine wrote: And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to sell their betas to the NSA, you never will. There is nothing wrong with selling betas to the NSA. I make my crypto

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

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:41, Faustine wrote: Of course it has a trap door, that's probably the whole point of getting it over there in the first place. And by the way, if you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling a

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

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 02:52 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Faustine wrote: And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to sell their betas to the NSA, you never will. ~Faustine. If knowledge of how something works breaks it, it wasn't worth having.

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

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 02:41 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Faustine wrote: And by the way, if you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling a boatload of the Freedom beta to the NSA in 1999 as well. What did they think they wanted it for, farting around on

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

2001-08-31 Thread Faustine
Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. Maybe in the long run, it's right to view any objections as

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

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason.

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

2001-08-31 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. As I recall, this was an

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

2001-08-31 Thread Faustine
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason.

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

2001-08-30 Thread Tim May
This report says the U.S. Gov't. has plans to make SafeWeb, the Web proxy company it helped fund through the CIA, available to Chinese citizens who want to bypass their government's censorship. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010830/wr/tech_china_internet_report_dc_1. html (I can already

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

2001-08-30 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 12:16 PM, Adam Shostack wrote: As far as your opinions of our business, well, I'm really uninterested in getting into a pissing match with you. The reality is that customers and investors give us money tp produce privacy tools, and they, not you, are the

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

2001-08-30 Thread mmotyka
Faustine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Adam wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0700, Tim May wrote: | Alas, the marketing of such dissident-grade untraceability is | difficult. Partly because anything that is dissident-grade is also | pedophile-grade, money launderer-grade, freedom

RE: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-30 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
Faustine wrote: I wouldn't trust either of them with anything significant. More importantly, the claims that safeweb/triangle boy actually works may be misleading to the people who will rely on its claims of securely circumventing government censorship in china. The entire in/out bound