Re: Digital camera fingerprinting...

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
Yes, your holiness, but how much of that will survive jpeg compression, photshop (or GIMP) cleanups, and shrinking down to lower resolutions, and insertion of stego? Or what about those "disposable" digital cameras that are hackable? Perhaps there should be a cypherpunks pool to swap "disposab

RE: Welcome to the Church of Strong Cryptography.

2004-08-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Goddam, Variola...I thought you had a sense of humor! At 01:26 PM 8/24/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >>PS: I thought Tyler had nominated himself as leader? :-) >No, almost the opposite. I propose that any 'Cypherpunk' can declare himself >to be leader and make 'official statements' at any time. O

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread Justin
On 2004-08-25T10:28:34-0400, Sunder wrote: > > All Hail Cthulhu! Why worship the lesser evil? > Vote for Cthulhu! Why vote for the lesser evil? You're saying Cthulhu is a greater evil than Bush? Mr. Three Purple Hearts is fairly evil as well. I don't know whether he surpasses Cthulhu thoug

Welcome to the Church of Strong Cryptography.

2004-08-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:26 PM 8/24/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >>PS: I thought Tyler had nominated himself as leader? :-) >No, almost the opposite. I propose that any 'Cypherpunk' can declare himself >to be leader and make 'official statements' at any time. Oh, then you'd be reformed cypherpunk. The orthodoxy i

Re: Digital camera fingerprinting...

2004-08-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:52 PM 8/24/04 -0400, Dave Emery wrote: > Just a random distraction from the normal topics (but not >completely irrelevant either)... Highly relevant sir. > He told me that especially in the low end camera market NO >sensors used were completely free of anomalous pixels (black, white, >dim,

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:18 AM 8/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - Tilting at the Ballot Box Entrepreneur David Chaum's e-money venture flopped. Now he wants to fix electronic voting. For once, i

Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - Tilting at the Ballot Box Entrepreneur David Chaum's e-money venture flopped. Now he wants to fix electronic voting. For once, is the brilliant inventor right on time?

Reason on Gilmore VS Ashcroft

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
http://www.reason.com/links/links082404.shtml --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and ne

RE: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
All Hail Cthulhu! Why worship the lesser evil? Vote for Cthulhu! Why vote for the lesser evil? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to

RE: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread John Kelsey
>From: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 24, 2004 9:39 AM >To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Another John Young Sighting .. > 5) CYA. Since 9/11, the lower echelons of the >security apparatus know that if

Wired: Attacking the 4th Estate

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64680,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 or, the HTML crap free version: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64680,00.html Attacking the Fourth Estate By Adam L. Penenberg | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next 02:00 AM Aug. 25, 2004 PT John Ashcrof

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden wrote: > I propose that any 'Cypherpunk' can declare himself > to be leader and make 'official statements' at any time. Of course, others > can (and most probably will) choose to ignore the official statement, or > even declare himself to be leader and 'officially' rescind that sta

RE: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread kawaii ryuko
> -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 20:57 > > > Sounds like the Discordian concept that everyone is a Pope, > and therefore > infallible, even when they disagree with one another. > > Hail Eris. > All hail Discordia! > -- > Eric Michael Cordian 0+ > O:.T:.O:. Math

Digital camera fingerprinting...

2004-08-25 Thread Dave Emery
Just a random distraction from the normal topics (but not completely irrelevant either)... I happened to spend a few minutes yesterday talking with an individual who participated in the development of both low and high end digital cameras for the commercial mass market.