Re: Cyberpunks: Seattle "Activist" Is Not an Innocent Webmaster

2002-08-30 Thread Eric Cordian
James Joseph Sanchez writes: > Although I do not know you, I am replying to you heartfelt cry of sympathy > for James Ujaama, the "Seattle activist" you refer to below. I would preface > my comments by saying I support civil rights, privacy rights and internet > freedom of speech. Well good for

Re: Mitigating Dangers of Compromised Anonymity

2002-08-30 Thread Adam Shostack
I'd like to suggest that while this may be fun, usability and getting millions of users to see that remailers are useful to them is a more useful goal. The anonymity set provided by the current extant systems is too small to protect anyone against anyone who is willing to kill or disapear people

Mitigating Dangers of Compromised Anonymity

2002-08-30 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Operating an anonymity service or providing privacy enhancing technologies to the public poses potential risks to the provider if sufficiently motivated entities wish to prevent the availability of such technology. In particular danger are individuals whose meatspace identity and nyms are not pub

Re: Cyberpunks: Seattle "Activist" Is Not an Innocent Webmaster

2002-08-30 Thread james sanchez
Dear Eric: Although I do not know you, I am replying to you heartfelt cry of sympathy for James Ujaama, the "Seattle activist" you refer to below. I would preface my comments by saying I support civil rights, privacy rights and internet freedom of speech. As for James Ujaama, he is not being hel

The Liberty Dollar

2002-08-30 Thread Gary Jeffers
THE LIBERTY DOLLAR My fellow Cypherpunks, To: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: The Liberty Dollar From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:18:23 +0100 Cc: Gary Jeffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [E

Re: Thwarting LE library fishing expeditions

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Motyka
Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >After reading this ALA document >http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotlibrary.html , I believe I have >concocted a legal administrative measure to thwart the anonymous fishing >expeditions (esp.those authorized under the USA Patriot Act). In a >n

Re: Thwarting LE library fishing expeditions

2002-08-30 Thread Matthew X
One thing we don't have down here is grand bloody juries,thank you jesus! Plea bargaining or as its commonly known,'blackmail' is not so pronounced here though there are hallway 'chats'. Look I don't want to sound like a broken,( or rooted as we sometimes say down here) CD,but isn't Operation So

Re: Thwarting LE library fishing expeditions

2002-08-30 Thread Eric Cordian
Steve writes: > Q: Are such "deadman" data bases systems unlawful? Can LE force the > library to provide false information to a patron? The question is whether a jury of properly trained Sheeple would convict when the librarian was dragged into court, and accused of illegally leaking informati

Re: The Liberty Dollar

2002-08-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:18 PM 8/30/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Steve Schear wrote: >>At 03:52 PM 8/29/2002 -0500, Gary Jeffers wrote: >> >>>The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely >>>in America. >> >>True but only fractionally (i.e., the precious metal content is only a >>fraction of the

Thwarting LE library fishing expeditions

2002-08-30 Thread Steve Schear
After reading this ALA document http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotlibrary.html , I believe I have concocted a legal administrative measure to thwart the anonymous fishing expeditions (esp.those authorized under the USA Patriot Act). In a nutshell, libraries would create a database to tr

Re: The Liberty Dollar

2002-08-30 Thread Ben Laurie
Steve Schear wrote: > At 03:52 PM 8/29/2002 -0500, Gary Jeffers wrote: > >>The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely >> in America. > > > True but only fractionally (i.e., the precious metal content is only a > fraction of the face value). And this is different fro

Re: Cryptographic privacy protection in TCPA

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Gutmann
Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >If a key is misused, i.e. "scraped" out of the TPM and used to create a >virtualized, rule-breaking software TPM, it can be revoked. This means that >all the TPMs that share that one key lose the use of that key. But it doesn't >matter much, because they

USA v. Abdallah Higazy

2002-08-30 Thread John Young
Cryptome offers 2 court orders and 22 formerly sealed documents in the case of Abdallah Higazy, an Egyptian national in the US to attend school, who was detained as a material witness based on a false accusation by a hotel guard of possessing an air-to-ground communcation device while staying