http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/apple_real/
Interesting non-cypherpunkish stuff.
So Real goes off and does some reverse engineering so it can use Apple's
DRM to publish its own stuff for iPod's. Interestingly, Apple wants to
sue using the DMCA, *BUT* where it gets interesting is tha
"Remember that the spookfabs don't have to contend with *economics and
yield*."
Damn, this is precisely where I wish Tim May was still around.
Certainly, the Spooks have their own fabs, and I don't think they even hide
this fact (I doubt they could, ultimately). And certainly, the Spooks crank
ou
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Sounds like an anonymous Diffie-Hellman session key, wrapped in marketing
bullshit. Usable, but susceptible to MITM.
Unless I am reading this wrong, it is much, much worse than that - it
seems to say that, unless you are running your own server (which
requires a DNS entry
1. Thanks Declan for pruning my beliefs ---I had actually thought the
younger, stupider, more surrounded by idiots Bush had puked that quote
re Athiests not being 'Merikans. But Googling and your 0-ROI investment
in Lexis-Nexus shows that stupidity is heriditary. But this is why you
are
an inve
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Dave Howe wrote:
> Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> > Sounds like an anonymous Diffie-Hellman session key, wrapped in marketing
> > bullshit. Usable, but susceptible to MITM.
> Unless I am reading this wrong, it is much, much worse than that - it seems to
> say that, unless you are
At 03:52 PM 7/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>Variola wrote...
>>In the *public* lit.
>
>Well, perhaps but perhaps not. Burst-mode signaling, transceivers, and
>networking technology are a good example. If you see DISA, NSA, and
DARPA
>all working with the acknoledged experts inthe academic field
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> Did you know that your teeth enamel contain isotope ratios that
> encode regions where you might have grown up around age 6?
Yes. I am also aware that tooth enamel has the interesting property of
trapping a fantastic number of parmaceuticals. T
At 06:44 PM 7/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>
>> There might be blind cypherpunks, we don't discriminate[1],
>
>There Is No We.
touche'
>> [1] the original phone phreaks were blind,
>
>This is a ridiculous statement, and even worse, leaks info
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Dave Howe wrote:
> Particularly disgusted by the last paragraph
> | With encryption comes the problem of either managing public/private
> | keys, which must be kept secret, or the annoyance of transmitting a
> | secure key to a remote party over other secure methods. X-Ci
