Re: Independent News

2002-10-23 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:43 AM 10/23/02 -0400, anonymous wrote: >http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=344482 > Mr Lynch added: >"The whole idea is to try and stop something like the Bali bomb happening." This is what's called a tech patch for a social problem. The correct patch should be appl

Independent News

2002-10-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- > >"The whole idea is to try and stop something like the Bali > >bomb > happening." On 23 Oct 2002 at 11:10, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > The correct patch should be applied to US foreign policy Don't think we can blame US foreign policy for the Bali bombing. Probably relates more to Aust

Independent News

2002-10-23 Thread anonymous
See below for article on Autonomy [http://www.autonomy.com] getting picked up by the US govt. Met a salesbod from Autonomy a few months ago, who gave an impressively scary demo of the stuff they were doing with uber-pattern-matching. Another article at http://www.vnunet.com/News/1136175 quotes:

Non linear feeback registers

2002-10-23 Thread Sarad AV
hi, For the output produced by ever non-linear shift feed back register does there exist a minimum period linear shift register that can mimic the output of a non linear shift feed back register?If yes,how do we find out the tap sequence of the minimum period LSFR which represents the non line

Satirewire: HACKERS BEG BORING PEOPLE TO STOP ENCRYPTING EMAI

2002-10-23 Thread Bill Stewart
http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml HACKERS BEG BORING PEOPLE TO STOP ENCRYPTING EMAIL Security Experts Concur Most of You Have Nothing Worth Encrypting Anyway San Jose, Calif. (SatireWire.com)  In an unusual worldwide appeal, the International Brotherhood of Computer Hackers t

All your pregnancy tests are belong to us [Privacy, law vs. math]

2002-10-23 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Had some shyster not flinched (followed by a judge farting in the wrong direction), medical records would have been bulk-searched by police. Judge Lifts Order for Pregnancy Records Sought in Investigation of Abandoned Baby

Re: Auditing Source Code for Backdoors

2002-10-23 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:44 AM 10/22/02 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote: >On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, Bill Frantz wrote: >> I have been asked to audit some source code to see if the programmer >> inserted a backdoor. >Look for "exception processing". Anywhere the code looks for a particular >value, something like "== 0x3456352e"