Re: SF Internet self-defense course

2000-08-31 Thread Bill Stewart
Most of the Bay Area cypherpunks meetings are public gatherings at which anonymous or pseudonymous individuals may show up. People don't tend to stay anonymous, but we've had people who didn't mention names, and people who introduced themselves as "Lucky Green" and "Black Unicorn" and "Lawrence f

Re: SF Internet self-defense course

2000-08-26 Thread David Honig
At 06:06 AM 8/26/00 -0400, petro wrote: > A buddy of mine ran a Windows based packet sniffer on his >Cable Modem for a while. > Details, please. You would need to put the cable modem box into promiscious mode, or open it up and find where the RF gets turned into bits.

Re: SF Internet self-defense course

2000-08-26 Thread David Honig
At 12:52 PM 8/25/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: >Longer term, crypto will indeed be more important for ordinary folks, >for lots of reasons. >Fact is, crypto takes effort to use. >Who uses crypto on a regular basis are those for whom the risks of >getting caught with certain material or certain th

Re: SF Internet self-defense course

2000-08-24 Thread David Honig
At 01:09 AM 8/24/00 -0400, L. Sassaman wrote: > >Please explain to me how you could have a public gathering of anonymous >individuals. I don't think that it is possible to do what is being >proposed: plan, anonymously, a gathering of people organized on the >Internet and conducted in physical spac