WinXP SP1 out next Monday - but can you avoid it?

2002-09-04 Thread Gary Jeffers
Eugen Leitl wrote: >On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Gary Jeffers wrote: >>You know, sometime we are going to have to abandon MS. >Who is that we? Some of us, in fact a rather large fraction, probably, has >never used Redmondware. Obviously, then, that "some of us" is not that WE. That "some of us" mus

8pm update

2002-09-04 Thread Nomen Nescio
8pm update Corralitos, September 14th, 2002. A group of armed white supremacists, known to support anti-american activities and publicly calling for dismantling of US government, has been in stand off with police for six hours now. The incident started when a guest at Mr. May's party called th

all your greeks are belong to us

2002-09-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
I'm not sure which is more funny - this being a hoax or not. http://www.netcafe.gr/ http://www.netcafe.gr/files/law.txt LAW NUMBER 3037 - 30 July 2002 GAMING PROHIBITION The President of Greek Republic We issue the following law which was voted by the Greek Parliament

no ICs in nukes...

2002-09-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Cryptome points to a paper http://www.sandia.gov/eqrc/critical/meyer.pdf Using Integrated Circuits in Critical Applications Workshop Integrated Circuits in Nuclear Weapon Applications Wherein we learn, ca. 1997: there are no chips in nukes (p 8) Sandia is considering Java for nukes (p 15

Privacy/anonymity charities

2002-09-04 Thread Anonymous
The company I work for has a charitable donation matching program. Do you have any suggestions for organizations with 501(c)3 status who would be worthy recipients of a donation? I have EFF and EPIC on my list. Are there others doing things to protect anonymity and privacy rights? I am more in

Announcement: Cypherpunks meeting/party/BBQ, Tim May's house

2002-09-04 Thread Tim May
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cypherpunks Meeting and Party/BBQ, Saturday, September 14th, 2002. Tim May's house, Corralitos, California. * WHAT?: Ten years ago this month the first Cypherpunks meeting. Cypherpunks meeting and party. Several interesting talks are planned, though nothing of the usual "politica

Re: Cryptographic privacy protection in TCPA

2002-09-04 Thread Anton Stiglic
> Nomen Nescio wrote: > > It looks like Camenisch & Lysyanskaya are patenting their credential > > system. This is from the online patent applications database: > > > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/ne tahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=

Re: S/MIME in Outlook -- fucked.

2002-09-04 Thread Peter Gutmann
"James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >While the immediate bug is in Microsoft IE and Outlook, this exploit is also >a reflection of the contorted mess that is the certificate structure and the >public key infrastructure One of the eternal problems of X.509 software: Implementation Prob