Blackout in NYC

Quiet here in New York City, thousands walking in the streets, auto traffic is pleasantly minimal along upper Broadway. Traffic lights inoperative, as well as computers except for laptops such as this. Telephones working. Portable radio says the outage is due to northeast electrical grid failing.

Fw: Re: Secure IDE?

- cut here - From: "Ralf-P. Weinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:20:37PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > ABIT has come out with a new motherboard, the > "IC7-MAX3" featuring something called 'Secure > IDE', which seems to involve HW crypto in the > onboard IDE controller:

Re: What happened to the Cryptography list...?

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Adam Back wrote: The problems with closed lists relying on a single human for forwarding and filtering... Couldn't he just let people post in his absence? It kind of detracts from a list if it disappears for weeks at a time on a regular basis. Also ther

What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?

At 01:18 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >An anonymous sender writes: >> Rely on math, not humans. >What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time? RSA, Inc. stock would go down. We would have to go back to paper and OTP, but we would also get to enjoy the excellent graphics

Re: They never learn: "Omniva Policy Systems"

Typo correction: (IIRC, Bill Scannell was involved in getting them into US today.) That's "USA Today" of course...

Re: Year in Jail for Web Links

Sherman Austin was arrested in New York but not charged and held in prison there to await an indictment in California. New York said it had no legitimate charges to make against him and merely did a favor for California to nab Sherman during a street demonstration -- the only arrest of the day. Gro

Re: Teen arrested at Logan for alleged sarcasm in his bag

At 04:24 PM 08/05/2003 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: Perhaps John Gilmore, in his copious free time, could place these one by one in his gym bag, and report back on the results. :) Aside from John's "Suspected Terrorist" pin, I think he's been one of the people who carries around a nice metal engraved

Re: Year in Jail for Web Links

At 18:06 2003-08-05 -0700, Tim May wrote: (I was last picked for a jury 30 years ago this summer, back when I registered as a Republican. In the 30 years since, when I have been registered as a Libertarian, I have never been selected for a jury. Meanwhile, some of my know-nothing neighbors tell me

Re: What happened to the Cryptography list...?

* Rayburn, Russell E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-05 19:07]: > For what it's worth, I had the same experience and would like to know what > happened to the wasabisystems list... > > Anyone out there know? No clue.. the last messages I have go to July 16th.

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And somebody should work on producing an alternative hybrid voting > machine that is hard copy paper verifiable. I think we have to give > these local governments a viable alternative, a machine that can't be > used for Machiavellian machinations. I t

Re: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

At 12:21 2003-07-29 -0700, Tim May wrote: The problem is not with the idea of using markets and bets and Bayesian logic to help do "price discovery" on things like when the Athlon-64 will actually reach consumers, or when the new King of Jordan will be whacked, and so on. The problem is, rather,

Re: Idea: Homemade Passive Radar System (GNU/Radar)

At 05:04 PM 8/11/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to >locate and to destroy by a HARM missile. As a bonus, forcing the adversary >to waste a $250,000+ AGM-88 missile on a sub-$100 transmitter may be quite >demoralizing. Microwave ovens were us

Re: In the matter of Mr. Fuq

* Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-06 21:24]: > > Yup. Mr. Fuq is arguing at least two things: > - If Bob sends a message to Alice that Alice thinks is Spam, You're close.. If Bob sends a message that meets the (yet to be created) legal criteria for spam AND Alice thinks it is spam...

Re: The real ordeals of U.S. soldiers in Iraq

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 13:07, Steve Schear wrote: > Through email and chat rooms a picture is emerging of day-to-day > gripes, coupled with ferocious criticism of the way the war has been > handled. They paint a vivid picture of US army life that is a world > away from the sanitized official ver

Re: Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

At 04:45 PM 08/02/2003 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >We definately need a law making it illegal for an ISP to block >non-spam email. I cannot email a friend who uses AOL, and wants to >receive my email, because AOL blocks it. Fearghas pointed out the obvious workaround for this, which is tha

Re: ATMs moving to triple DES.

At 10:42 AM 08/13/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:56 PM 8/13/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf > >Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved >to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM >net

Re: ATMs moving to triple DES.

At 12:56 PM 8/13/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf > >Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved >to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM >networks are moving to 3DES. And you can still use 2-key 3

Re: IRS loses a big one?

The New York Times reports on this case today: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/business/12TAX.html

Re: IRS loses a big one?

Nah, just a small loss. It's good to beat them, but hard to repeat, and they're playing a numbers game. There are good points and less good points to jury trials. One of the good parts is that a jury can acquit you for any reason that they want to, if you can convince them to. On the other hand, j

Controlled nymity

-- What we want of a payment system, is that Alice can prove she paid Bob, even if Bob wants to deny it, but no one else can prove that Alice paid Bob unless Alice takes special action to make it provable. (This provides permits recipient anonymity in that Bob can be an alternate identity of D

Re: Controlled nymity

At 09:12 AM 8/12/03 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >-- >What we want of a payment system, is that Alice can prove she >paid Bob, even if Bob wants to deny it, but no one else can >prove that Alice paid Bob unless Alice takes special action to >make it provable. >One solution is for the bank to

Idea: Homemade Passive Radar System (GNU/Radar)

The current developments in international politics, mainly the advent of rogue states attacking sovereign countries from air, causes a necessity of proliferation of cheap air defense solutions. Key part of air defense is the awareness, usually maintained by a network of ground radar stations. In t

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:52:32AM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > On Saturday 09 August 2003 02:01, John Kozubik wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > ...in cahoots with the "authorities"? > > > > Most intelligent and savvy people I know "roll their own" Tivo (PVR, etc.) > > -

America died in 1861. Another political entity stole its domain name.

On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 11:41 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: How can I tell if my alarm has been "down" for a period of time, assuming I don't believe the records of the alarm company in such cases? There is a plethora of various devices suitable for an alarm system, both off-the-shelf and

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:40:33AM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: > time for such pipe dreams. Now that many are un- or under-employed there > still doesn't seem to be any activity by those active on this list in this > critical infrastructure area. All the recent work that is being done > (e.g.,

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

On Saturday, Aug 9, 2003, at 19:29 US/Central, Tim May wrote: I figure that for a few thousand dollars and a spare laptop or two I could have a system very resistant to cutting phone or power lines, and something which would make surreptitious entry teams think twice. (Leave a couple of the 802

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

Add your own 2nd alarm system. You can even use the sensors of your existing one to interface with a computer (just the sensors, mind you, not the actual controllers.) Got a DSL line? Got a modem? Got a cell phone? Got a pager? Got network capable cameras? Got access to another computer o

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:06:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The state must protect my freedom of speech. So when I make a claim > against AOL for conducting a DoS attack against me, the state must > rule in my favor, or else they are failing to protect my free speech > rights. OK, for

Terminating Arnold's Presidency

At 07:42 PM 8/8/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >In response to a question about whether she would favor a Constitutional >amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, Maybe they'll screw up the specs (by omitting quantity) and make polyamory protected.. >Watch for this President Arnol

Distributed Denial of Existence, the makings of an AP opportunity?

One of the most frequent sights on kuro5hin is that of one user or group of users complaining, often loudly and viciously, about another. One need not look very hard in order to find scores upon scores of users who absolutely loathe each other. Thanks to this pre-existing community of people who

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

Spooks & Physical IDS: If you are specifying a "roll your own security system", you probably want to make a distinction between building an "alarm company" and a "physical intrusion detection and logging" system. With the former you're hoping to keep your items; with the latter you're trying to ke

Re: Q on associative binary operation

Actually, strike that... The last row can only be (d,c,c,d). I had an off-by-one in the check_assoc subroutine. It should be: sub check_assoc { my $op = shift; for(my $i=0;$i<4;$i++){ for(my $j=0;$j<4;$j++){ for(my $k=0;$k<4;$k++){ if( $op->[ $op->[$i][$j]] [ $k] != $

Re: SCO to argue General Public Licence invalid (fwd)

This is wonderful moronic lawyer behavior. Perhaps if you work at SCO, you have to eat out of lead bowls and drink hot coffee from unglazed lead coffee mugs? Either that or this is some weird, but less potential version of Steve Job's reality distortion field gone bad - the way milk left outside

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 08:54 AM, Adam Shostack wrote: Well, if you can't win on the truth, win on the procedures. At least Dr. Mercuri is in fine company there, ranging all the way back to Socrates and Galileo. Little consolation, I know, as our democracy gets replaced by a kleptocrac

So, if Arnold wins can he claim Total Recall ;-)

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the

How can you tell if your alarm company's...

..in cahoots with the "authorities"? In other words, lets say I leave my house for an extended period of time, and "they" tell the Alarm Monitoring company to shut down for a while so they can protect our freedoms. (I assume this is the way they would go about installing various things in one's

Re: Teen arrested at Logan for alleged sarcasm in his bag

Sunder posts: > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/214/metro/ Teen_arrested_at_Logan_for_alleged_bomb_threat_in_his_bag+.shtml > According to the police report, the note, which was placed on top of > clothes in a black gym bag read: ''[Expletive] you. Stay the [expletive] > out of my bag you [ex

Re: politically corrent terms of color

Or you can flip that arguement on its head and say it's the politially correct hidden racist honkey's way of saying non-white in the usual nasty way, opressing the brothers. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum t

Friendly little bears

>This is again inconsistent with the picture of friendly little bears >all cooperating. Just for the record, the *only* time bears "cooperate" is when, say, the salmon are running, there's too much for any one bear to eat, every bear has his own turf on the side of the river, and the power hier

RE: What happened to the Cryptography list...?

For what it's worth, I had the same experience and would like to know what happened to the wasabisystems list... Anyone out there know? -Original Message- From: R. A. Hettinga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What happened to

Re: Year in Jail for Web Links

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 05:31 PM, Duncan Frissell wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: An anarchist has been sentenced to a year in jail for having links to explosives information on his Web site. AmeriKKKa is further fucking the First Amendment by restricting whom he may ass

Re: The Register - NSA proposes backdoor detection center (fwd)

At 06:36 AM 8/11/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32265.html >>Wolf also said that untrustworthy hardware poses a similar threat. "Most microelectronics fabrication in the USA is rapidly moving offshore," said Wolf. "NSA is working on a Trusted Microelectronics

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

At 1:56 PM -0400 8/6/03, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >cannot prevent -3 negative miscount "can prevent" of course. Maybe I should apply for a job as a school superintendent... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farq

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

At 05:48 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: >Huh? Voters don't control the security of the voting system any more >than we control the security of the credit rating/id theft system. The only way to show vote fraud would be to get enough voters to document that the State lied. That would depen

Re: Controlled nymity

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 09:12 AM, James A. Donald wrote: -- What we want of a payment system, is that Alice can prove she paid Bob, even if Bob wants to deny it, but no one else can prove that Alice paid Bob unless Alice takes special action to make it provable. (This provides permits

Re: What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?

>What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time? Lots of problems are only computable in exponential time, or at least superpolynomial time. The closest we'd get to your suggestion is that P might equal NP, or (for crypto) factoring might be in P. Sufficiently large polynomials are

Re: In the matter of Mr. Fuq

At 06:34 AM 08/06/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: It would seem that Mencken [1] was correct, as well as Costello [2]. [1] http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/nooneeverwen.html [2] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/q108965.html Yup. Mr. Fuq is arguing at least two things: - If Bob sends a m

Re: Year in Jail for Web Links

At 06:17 PM 08/05/2003 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: The problem here is that if you have a family and assets and responsibility and something resembling a future, you cannot afford to be the 1 in 100 who refuses to plea bargain, It's a rigged game, and the "20 years extra for terrorism" raises the st

In the matter of Mr. Fuq

When I suggested a few weeks ago that someone would eventually argue for a constitutionally guaranteed right to be heard, members of the list both reminded me (quite correctly) that no such right does or can exist, and opined that because of the obvious fallacy of the claim, no one would make t

Re: politically corrent terms of color

At 01:59 PM 08/06/2003 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... "Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?" Like a lot of PC terms...from guilt-ridden white liberals. Black folks never use this term, as far as I've ever heard. Likewise with "physically challenged". My black kar

Re: Others speak out in support of PAM

At 01:57 PM 08/05/2003 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: Terror `market' was a creative idea killed by know-nothings By Pat Buchanan http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/6460808.htm Nobody knows know-nothings like Pat Buchanan. But as occasionally happens, I have to say that he's written a

RE: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

> Nice! I've been thinking I should move there for a while. I also > heard that by 2006 London and all the major cities will have seemless > wifi coverage. The reason Europe is on the ball with this is the EU We're on the way. We already have seemless camera surveillance coverage. -- Vincent

Re: They never learn: "Omniva Policy Systems"

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 01:00 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: At 11:30 AM 08/05/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: I ran across a reference to this company, which says it has raised $20 M in VC financing and which claims it has a system which implements the digital equivalent of "disappearing ink." (Per

Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

Reports today that commercial aviation is in dire danger of being grounded as freedom fighters deploy even a small fraction of the (estimated) 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles to down commercial airliners. (Having sat on Pacific Coast Highway below the takeoff path of LAX jumbo jets, I can atte

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 20:52, Tim May wrote: Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot Backblast. A suicide shooter could do it, but it would be non-trivial to pop out, shoot, survive it, and keep you

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

Here's another one. On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:20:30PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 09:46 2003-08-06 -0700, Tim May wrote: > I was intensely opposed to the gibberish about how the Republicans "stole" > the Florida vote, for multiple reasons. First, the Dems wanted to change > the rules

Re: Q on associative binary operation

"For my ally is Perl, and a powerful ally it is." On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:06:43AM -0700, Sarad AV wrote: > hi, > > how do we complete this table > > Table shown may be completed to define 'associative' > binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. Assume this is > possible and compute the missing entr

Ashcroft snuffs free speech, film at 11

Film Wholesaler Charged With Obscenity The U.S. Justice Department said that its 10-count indictment against Extreme Associates and its owners is part of a renewed enforcement of federal obscenity laws. Federal prosecutors said today they have charged a North Hollywood wholesaler of adult films wi

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:49:26PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: | At 11:54 2003-08-06 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: | >Well, if you can't win on the truth, win on the procedures. | > | >At least Dr. Mercuri is in fine company there, ranging all the way | >back to Socrates and Galileo. Little consolati

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

Steve Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Backblast. A suicide shooter could do it, but it would be non-trivial to > pop out, shoot, survive it, and keep your van's paint good enough to > avoid notice. This is why "soft launch" systems were created. http://web.jfet.org/video/JavelLiveFireVsT72

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...

In a message dated 8/6/2003 12:51:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having Mercuri and Chaum ejected is the best thing that could have happened. Absolutely correct..You should try to think up ways to get them to be even more hostile to them. Regards, Matt-

Re: Trouble at HavenCo?

> Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? > > By Declan McCullagh > Staff Writer, CNET News.com > August 4, 2003, 1:38 PM PT > > LAS VEGAS--A widely publicized > project to transform a platform in > the English Channel into a "safe > haven" for controversial Web > businesses has failed due to > po

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

At 23:03 +0200 5/8/03, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >Sometimes you don't have an effective choice. According to a friend, there >are still areas (especially rural) in the US where AOL is the virtually >only game in town. but AOL being the only access provider in town just means that you buy a TCP/IP fee

Re: Slow but interesting sender-hiding covert channel program

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 03:07, Bill Stewart wrote: > Rob Lemos reports on the following presentation at Blackhat > by Mark Loveless of Bindview; I've got some comments. > - > PROGRAM WOULD HIDE NET COMMUNICATIONS > CNET reports about a program called NCovert, which uses > spoofing tec

Re: politically corrent terms of color

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:58:01PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: > "Of color" isn't just blacks - it's also Mexicans and other non-whities. > I think some of the whiny liberal politicians I've heard use it > have been African-Americans of color (as opposed to white immigrants > from South Africa or Rh

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > ...in cahoots with the "authorities"? Most intelligent and savvy people I know "roll their own" Tivo (PVR, etc.) - I think the answer to your question is that it would be reasonable (and trivial) to roll your own alarm system. - John Kozubik [EMAIL

Q on associative binary operation

hi, how do we complete this table Table shown may be completed to define 'associative' binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. Assume this is possible and compute the missing entries *|a|b|c|d - a|a|b|c|d - b|b|a|c|d - c|c|d|c|d - d| | | | Its clear for commutativit

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

>From what I've heard (not confirmed) most of this stuff is either simple sensors (continuity test) or it talks over a variant of rs422 - unencrypted for things like keypads. Not good, especially if these are accessible on the outside. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--

Fw: Re: Secure IDE?

- cut here - From: "Ralf-P. Weinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:20:37PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > ABIT has come out with a new motherboard, the > "IC7-MAX3" featuring something called 'Secure > IDE', which seems to involve HW crypto in the > onboard IDE controller:

Re: What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?

At 03:50 PM 8/6/03 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 02:16 PM 8/6/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: .. >While the public-key algorithms are based on math problems like >factoring or discrete log, most of the symmetric-key algorithms >are based on intractable ugliness, and on doing enough analysis >t

Trouble at HavenCo?

http://rss.com.com/2100-1028_35059676.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ne ws Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 4, 2003, 1:38 PM PT LAS VEGAS--A widely publicized project to transform a platform in the English Channel into a "saf

Re: They never learn: "Omniva Policy Systems"

> seems horribly limiting. What of those using Entourage, or Mail, or any > of the dozens of platforms and news readers in existence. The site > mentions that they are now Blackberry-compliant. Well, does this mean > employees of the companies using "Omniva Policy Manager" cannot read > their m

Austin Cypherpunks Monthly Meet, Aug. 12.

Time:Aug. 12, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...

Some effort should be made to communicate the danger of e-ballots to the various grassroots, political organizations interested in voting issues. We really have to get a wider audience made aware of the tremendous danger. And somebody should work on producing an alternative hybrid voting machine

Year in Jail for Web Links

An anarchist has been sentenced to a year in jail for having links to explosives information on his Web site. AmeriKKKa is further fucking the First Amendment by restricting whom he may associate with in the future, and what views he may espouse. As is usual in most criminal cases today, the defe

Slow but interesting sender-hiding covert channel program

Rob Lemos reports on the following presentation at Blackhat by Mark Loveless of Bindview; I've got some comments. - PROGRAM WOULD HIDE NET COMMUNICATIONS CNET reports about a program called NCovert, which uses spoofing techniques to hide the source of communications and the data tha

Cypherpunks procmail filter

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-10 21:37]: > # mailing lists: > # filter all cypherpunks mail into its own cypherspool folder, discarding > # mail from loons. All CDRs set their From: line to 'owner-cypherpunks'. > # /dev/null is unix for the trash can. > :0 > * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time

At 01:28 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Billy wrote: >> At 01:18 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >> >What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time? > >You mean polynomials like O(n^10^10^10) ? > > subset{P} !=> easy There could still be some protection with some crypto schemes, in such a

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice! I've been thinking I should move there for a while. I also heard that by 2006 London and all the major cities will have seemless wifi coverage. The reason Europe is on the ball with this is the EU just passed five laws to deregulate emerging telecom companies so

Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

Notice they did this to Chaum, too... Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Status: U To: "johnmac's living room" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "John F. McMullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: ma

Re: The Declan McCullagh Fatwa.

At 06:17 PM 08/07/2003 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a > merger of state and corporate power." > -- Benito Mussolini What a person to agree with...the epitome of God $$$ Fascism. Them trains, they do run on time. Or is that 'spam'.

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

* Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-04 17:00]: > > > Yes, this is the problem I'm trying to address. Normally when Alice > > tries to transmit information to Bob, if Mallory decides to sabotage > > the communication, this is a denial of service attack, forbidden by > > criminal law. > > Why

Re: President Terminator

At 12:13 PM -0400 8/9/03, Sunder wrote: >As Reagan prooved, Or George Washington... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulnes

Re: What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?

At 03:50 PM 08/06/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Yes, but the cryptanalysis of symmetric ciphers involves exponentially-expanding "back trees". That is the whole point of "avalanche". If, somehow, "for any NP algorithm there were an equivalent P algorithm", then the block-cipher backtracki

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

On Saturday 09 August 2003 02:01, John Kozubik wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > > ...in cahoots with the "authorities"? > > Most intelligent and savvy people I know "roll their own" Tivo (PVR, etc.) > - I think the answer to your question is that it would be reasonable (and > triv

Re: Idea: Homemade Passive Radar System (GNU/Radar)

> As an active twist, we can also use a separate unit, Illuminating > Transceiver (IT), periodically broadcasting a pulse of known > characteristics, easy to recognize by the LPs when it bounces from an > aerial target. This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to > locate and to destroy

Re: Year in Jail for Web Links

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: > An anarchist has been sentenced to a year in jail for having links to > explosives information on his Web site. AmeriKKKa is further fucking the > First Amendment by restricting whom he may associate with in the future, > and what views he may espouse.

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

Well, if you can't win on the truth, win on the procedures. At least Dr. Mercuri is in fine company there, ranging all the way back to Socrates and Galileo. Little consolation, I know, as our democracy gets replaced by a kleptocracy, but what can you do? Maybe she should set up stealdemocracy.co

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

The alarm and security specialists we've talked to claim the greatest threat to systems are authorized users: the property owners, their children, employees, servants, nearly all of whom fail to arm and disarm the system properly not matter how carefully instructed. A false alarm is feared by the

ATMs moving to triple DES.

http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM networks are moving to 3DES. Peter Trei

SCO to argue General Public Licence invalid (fwd)

I like the ed's comments at the end. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

[Lucrative-L] updated lucrative source now in CVS

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