Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

At 03:18 PM 12/16/2003, Jim Dixon wrote: You should try to remember how the US Civil War ended.  The armed forces of the South surrendered.  Lee handed his sword to Grant.  I believe that Grant returned it - and allowed each Southern soldier to keep a rifle and a mule.  Lee and the other leaders

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: > This makes me a bit curious. Tell me, is your opinion then that the > U.S. has done nothing questionable here? No one seems to question certain facts: * Saddam had hundreds of thousands of Iraqis tortured and killed * he used chemical weapons casually

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

This makes me a bit curious. Tell me, is your opinion then that the U.S. has done nothing questionable here? You don't feel that treating a former head of state (regardless of what you happen to think of that person) in this manner and videorecording it AND transmitting it to the entire globe vi

[fc-announce] FC'04: Call for Participation

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CarBomb Rips Berkeley, CA

CarBomb Rips Berkeley California A large though prude carbomb rips through the student community of Berkeley, CA at exactly 4:20 am pacific time on friday Dec. 12th. Friday December 12th, 4:20am Pacific, Berkeley California: The device, a 10 element remotely detonated carbomb rips through the d

Re: cpunk-like meeting report

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:50:51AM -0500, V Alex Brennen wrote: > I don't even plan on subscribing myself. I just wanted to get > the traffic off of cypherpunks. Fair enough. You can remove the list, as far as I'm concerned. I don't give a damn about posting copyrighted content; no point posting

Re: cpunk-like meeting report

On Dec 16, 2003, at 7:50 AM, V Alex Brennen wrote: Tim May wrote: On Dec 14, 2003, at 6:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been admiring your and Tim's contributions, and I was wondering if either of you were planning to subscribe to the (new) news list. http://lists.cryptnet.net/mailman/l

U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

-- On 16 Dec 2003 at 2:36, Anonymous wrote: > I saw several people commenting the issue of Geneva > convention on CNN during the day. Also I saw an expert on > this field from another country commenting on the issue > stating that it was a clear violation of the convention. In > either of t

Re: Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles

--- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, of course "Saddam" is going to test > positive...he's apparently an > actual CLONE. > Actually, from what I understand this is the > 'original' Saddam (note how > much older he seems than the Saddams we've been > seeing in the press over the

Re: cpunk-like meeting report

Tim May wrote: On Dec 14, 2003, at 6:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been admiring your and Tim's contributions, and I was wondering if either of you were planning to subscribe to the (new) news list. http://lists.cryptnet.net/mailman/listinfo/cpunx-news No, we don't need a "cpunx-news"

Re:Textual analysis

> Its like steganalysis. Its an arms race between measuring your own > signatures vs. what the Adversary can measure. If sentence length > is a metric known to you, you can write filters that warn you. > Similarly for the Adversary. You end up in an arms race > over metrics ---who has the more

Remailers and TLAs

Even though I agree this issue is important I wouldn't be surprised if NONE were run by TLAs today and NONE has ever been run by TLAs. We will never get any such answer and therefore these speculations will continue. Personally I think it sounds really stupid when I read comments like "you can o

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 5:21 PM + 12/15/03, Dave Howe wrote: > > Iraq was somehow involved in > >the Trade Center attacks too > > For those who wondered why Abu Nidal took two in the hat shortly before the > daisycutters came to play: > >

Re: Textual analysis

Adam Shostack wrote: ... | It's not obvious to me how you'd change your writing style to defeat these | textual analysis schemes--would it really be as simple as changing the | average length of sentences and getting rid of the big words, or would | there still be ways to determine your identit

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

-- On 15 Dec 2003 at 20:06, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: > The image of an Arab leader (however terrible) being > objectivised by a white gloved American medic like a bug on a > lab bench, will not be read in the Arab world as a moment of > liberation. It will be seen as a special ki

Re: An Analysis of Compromised Remailers

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, John Young wrote: > This came in response to Cryptome's posting of Len Sassman's > comments on remailers. (BTW, John -- while the threat originally started out as being about compromised remailers, my comments had little to do with that title. Perhaps "remailer security" woul

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Anonymous wrote: > I think it's about not becoming evil yourself when you're fighting evil. > Pretty applicable, yes. We should not be tempted to act in unlawful and > questionable ways. Too late. We refuse to recognize armed combatants, captured on the field of battle as PO

Re:Textual analysis

At 10:36 AM 12/14/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >It's not obvious to me how you'd change your writing style to defeat these >textual analysis schemes--would it really be as simple as changing the >average length of sentences and getting rid of the big words, or would >there still be ways to determin

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

At 8:43 PM -0600 12/15/03, J.A. Terranson wrote: >This "report" contains all the earmarks of pure propaganda. :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may des

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

On Dec 15, 2003, at 5:36 PM, Anonymous wrote: I am not sure I agree. I am no expert on this however. I saw several people commenting the issue of Geneva convention on CNN during the day. Also I saw an expert on this field from another country commenting on the issue stating that it was a clear

An Analysis of Compromised Remailers

This came in response to Cryptome's posting of Len Sassman's comments on remailers. - From: S Subject: Re: remailers-tla.htm Compromised Remailers, December 15, 2003 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:16:17 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you for posting the "Comprom