RE: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-23 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In principle, it should be possible to write a stego program that is >undetectable, provided your enemy has no better models of noise sources in >the medium than you have. As far as I know, no one has done this. This is a point I raised on a waterma

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread Declan McCullagh
Ah, but your assumptions are not quite right. See my Wired News article on steganalysis. -Declan On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:34:15AM -0700, David Honig wrote: > At 08:07 AM 7/18/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: > >I keep looking at the whole stego thing. But the basic problem > >remains the same

RE: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 06:56 PM 7/18/01 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote: >On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, David Honig wrote: > >> 1. encrypted data is indisttinguishable from uniformly distributed noise > >Yes, but which natural data sources have that signature? None. I was glossing over how you should measure your (e.g., camera's)

RE: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
18, 2001 12:34 PM > To: Ray Dillinger > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: DMCA has pushed me to my limit. > > > > At 08:07 AM 7/18/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: > >I keep looking at the whole stego thing. But the basic problem > >remains the same. Stego relies

RE: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, David Honig wrote: > 1. encrypted data is indisttinguishable from uniformly distributed noise Yes, but which natural data sources have that signature? > 2. LSBs in digitizations of analog signals are noise Not uniformly distributed noise, unfortunately. Perhaps somebody sh

RE: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread David Honig
At 08:07 AM 7/18/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: >I keep looking at the whole stego thing. But the basic problem >remains the same. Stego relies on the *method* being secret, >which stands in stark contrast to kerchoff's principle. I mean, >sure, you can stego encrypted stuff so nobody who re

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:18:42AM -0700, Black Unicorn wrote: > When a foreign national can be arrested for a bit of coding which was > developed (I assume) outside the US and never, by his actions (I assume) > hit US soil well it really is time for the DMCA to go. Without quibbling with your se

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:07:48PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Buy some ad space in papers and get the message out. Running decent-size ads > will take many K$. Maybe if a number of contributors insist on this EFF would > coordinate it ? How does one round up contributors in cpunkish environment

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-18 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:21:44AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > Well, if Pinochet can be arrested in London, on the request of a > French (or was it Spanish?) judge, over acts allegedly > committed in Chile, I'd say yes. > > and don't forget the Norwegian who was arrested in Oslo for > the

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-17 Thread jamesd
-- On 18 Jul 2001, at 0:55, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On a more general level, is US law to be construed as granting > personal jurisdiction over anyone on the US soil, regardless of > where the actual crime was committed? I.e., if I do something > wrong according to the Code, > I'd better stay t

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-17 Thread Tim May
At 12:55 AM +0300 7/18/01, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Black Unicorn wrote: > >>When a foreign national can be arrested for a bit of coding which was >>developed (I assume) outside the US and never, by his actions (I assume) >>hit US soil well it really is time for the DMCA to go. >

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Cypherpunks do something? > > Maybe start with the basics: a WWW site. > Doesn't Choate have a couple registered names for our use? I have cpunks.org registered for Austin Cypherpunks use...do you live in Austin? Is there anyone in Austin working

Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-17 Thread George
> Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >FBI agents have arrested a Russian programmer for giving >away software that removes the restrictions on encrypted >Adobe Acrobat files. The Big O wrote: > > "Nuts!" Black Unicorn with the opalesque spike wrote: # #Ok. That's