At 01:42 AM 10/30/2005, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
> One thing to think about with respect to the RFID passports...
>
> Um, uh...surely once in a while the RFID tag is going to get corrupted
> or something...right? I'd bet it ends up happening all the time. In
> those cases the
When I saw the title of this thread,
I was assuming it would be about getting Mozambique
or Sealand or other passports of convenience or coolness-factor
like the Old-School Cypherpunks used to do :-)
On 10/30/05, Gregory Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only people that I knew that had two
At 05:37 PM 9/27/2005, lists wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
Sorry...I don't understand...why would psuedonymity services be provided
within Tor?
I find the concept of having both pseudonymous and anonymous traffic
through TOR quite interesting. In some cases, you really do wish to just
TOR it
Of course, had he suggested wiretapping Catholic churches
in Boston because there might be people raising funds
for terrorist groups like the IRA,
he'd have been run out of town on a rail.
Of course this month it's Protestants who are doing
the terrorism in Northern Ireland, and the IRA's gone
fa
Eran Tromer of Weizmann Institute gave a talk at MIT on
special-purpose factoring machines,
and Intrepid Reporter Bob Hettinga summarized to Perry's List.
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:12:30 -0400
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MIT talk: Special
At 01:13 AM 9/8/2005, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:31:32AM +0100, Dave Howe wrote:
> Don't really need one. the Skype concept of "supernodes"
> - users that relay conversations for other users -
> could be used just as simply, and is
What hinders Mallory from running most of
At 08:53 AM 9/3/2005, Damian Gerow wrote:
>Though, you can just skip all that, walk in to Starbucks, sit down, and
start using your TOR node as your own entry point. No registration, no
wait, no nothing: just sit down and go. I just set a node up a few days
ago, and was surprised at how simple
At 09:05 PM 8/27/2005, Steve Schear wrote:
Here's a story that, if true, deserves a much wider hearing than
the U.S. press is giving it:
While the US certainly has been interfering with Chavez
and generally trying to mess around in Venezuela for a while,
most of what's happening here is just th
At 10:39 AM 8/23/2005, Trei, Peter wrote:
Tyler Durden writes:
> Yes, but the old question needs to be asked: How much of this
> crime would go away if crystal meth were legal?
Actually, if we ever managed to kill the culture of prohibition,
I suspect that crystal meth would be about as popular
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/22/002.html
Monday, August 22, 2005. Issue 3235. Page 1.
Irksome Firm Nearly Ejected From Air Show
By Lyuba Pronina
Staff Writer
Ivan Sekretarev / AP
Spectators watching the Patrouille de France aerobatic team perform during
the MAKS air show at t
My brother's summary, spoken by a Wile E. Coyote cartoon figure:
"2 KY meth traffickers rigged up their car so if cops closed in a small
rocket with their stash would launch itself from the trunk"
"that never works" "meep meep"
Fox News Story:
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_stor
At 11:47 AM 7/12/2005, Tyler Durden wrote:
How secure can I make a Java sandbox from the rest of the network I'm on?
Can I make it so that my network administrator can't see what I'm typing?
In other words, a secure environment that's sitting on an insecure machine.
There's the "network" and
At 05:09 PM 7/5/2005, J.A. Terranson wrote:
OSince I am out of state, the letter's return address serves as my "proof
of address", however, it also (according to several city corpses^H^H^H
droids) meand that I need:
* One (1) of the following forms of valid photo-ID:
* Driver license
You're mixing up assassinating a president with
treason performed for revenge and crude political gain.
At 11:56 AM 7/2/2005, J.A. Terranson wrote:
5000 Quatloos that nobody thinks this is (a) impeachment material, or (b)
prosecutable since it was done by Rove...
It's only impeachable if Bush
At 12:32 PM 6/30/2005, A.Melon wrote:
> Well, James Dobson (right wing Christian evangelical) is targeting some of
> these same judges, so I don't think the Democrat & Republican division
> you're pointing to here is all that valid. In other words, some of those
> same judges are hated by the rig
What the hell are all of you smoking? This court has *talked* about
restricting inappropriate use of the commerce clause, but when it comes to
*doing*, they're 100% behind 100% Federal expansion *through* the Commerce
clause.
Well, ya' gotta a point there. Actually, I WISH I were smoking some
It's an appalling decision, and as Alif says, it's nothing that hasn't
been happening for years already. Sad to see it formalized, though.
Bush's favorite judges are radical activists when it comes to
interference with most civil rights, especially for non-citizens
or people outside US boundarie
At 07:22 AM 5/31/2005, Tyler Durden wrote:
OK...what;s the best exchange service for transferring dollars (perhaps
via paypal or credit cards) into egold?
I haven't found anybody that'll take credit cards or paypal
without either major hurdles or extremely high fees -
there's too much risk of
ration;
I'm not sure if there's currently a "cypherpunks" userID there,
but I think some of the strings following the ? in the URL
indicate that you don't need registration if you use this URL..]
Bill Stewart
Sigh. "Terrified Student Pilot" isn't the same as "Terrorist".
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/05/msg00213.html
Back in the old days, Tim May would occasionally talk about the
Kolmogorov-Chaitin theories about randomness - Kolmogorov complexity gives
you a lot of deep explanations about this sort of problem. Alas, I never
actually *read* those pape
I'm still having trouble understanding your threat model.
If you're talking about somebody who can get Hotmail's cooperation, e.g.
cops or sysadmins,
there's no way you can prevent them from doing anything they want to your
incoming mail.
If you're worried about crackers guessing your password,
At 11:42 AM 4/23/2005, James A. Donald wrote:
A procedure that was, of course, anonymous. You
probably made a deposit in cash.
Yes, of course :-) Writing a check would have been silly,
and Goldage.net doesn't accept them for bank deposits,
only for direct mailin. (They do accept bank wires,
but
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:20:46PM +0300, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> Second, has anyone seen http://www.wmtransfer.com/ ? Ok, it's Russian, so
> not a lot of trust in there... on the other hand, it DOES mean it's
unlikely
> to bow to US pressure.
Any online payment service that has a convenient mech
At 07:40 PM 4/20/2005, James A. Donald wrote:
Because webmoney takes security rather seriously, they do not accept
credit card transactions, which is a major pain. Nor can you convert
paypal to or from other internet moneys.
Last time I wanted to use an online gold system,
I used pecunix as the cu
end a message from old-address signed by old-address,
saying that you'll be using new address and new key,
but that seems a bit awkward, since you need a convenient way to
include the new keys for people who whitelist you or who you
only want to send encrypted mail to.
Thanks; Bill Stewart
new keys for people who whitelist you or who you
only want to send encrypted mail to.
Thanks; Bill Stewart
Sarad:
> http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2809
>
> Google is way too fast. Whats the difference seraching
> using google in 10 milliseconds and in 5
> milliseconds?Perhaps they are taking some load off
> their server? I fail to see how it is useful to the search client.
Pe
At 10:35 PM 3/26/2005, Eric Cordian wrote:
Justin writes:
> She is a corpse with a heartbeat.
They want her dead, but don't have the guts to just kill her,
so they're going to dehydrate her to death instead
and pretend it's "natural", because she can't feed herself.
It's a nasty way to go if you're
Thus spake Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25/03/05 10:30]:
: Has anyone heard of a utility that can search for a WiFi hotspot while
: driving and then launch an email?
It's a harder problem than you'd expect -
Wifi doesn't have a long range, so you have to detect the hotspot,
decide if you can
http://www.theregister.com/2005/03/21/botnet_charts/
The Register took a look at the recent Honeynet Project's
listing of where zombies live - apparently the UK
slightly exceeds the US in total zombie count,
each with about 25% of the zombies that were detected.
But third place was interesting - it
At 11:11 AM 3/19/2005, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
---useful if you can't afford an ASIC run (a million bucks a mask...)
..
For someone making 10,000 routers, you use FPGAs.
DESCrack was solving a problem for which the x86 is not very efficient
at computing --all the sub-byte bit-diddling--
and har
More news dispatches from Brinworld
http://www.chieftain.com/business/1109862027/1
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/01/196.asp
Bootfinder, made by G2 Systems in Alexandria VA,
is a combination of a handheld digital camera,
OCR software for locating and reading license plates,
and a database loo
The NYT updates us on a favorite cryptographers' hideout
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/travel/27high.html
February 27, 2005
HIGH LOW
High: Anguilla on $1000 a Day
By JULIET MACUR
N hour after arriving on Anguilla in early January, I was soaking in the
hot tub at an exclusive resort
At 09:43 AM 2/10/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
I'm starting get the hang of this. I mean, fertilizer...crypto,
crypto...fertilizer: They're both *munitions*, right?
Right?
Well, sometimes they're both munitions,
but sometimes they're both bullshit.
I have no reason to assume they're not producing a qu
future.
I'm a bit skeptical about whether it's a _near_ future, though
It sounds especially possible for specific classes of pictures,
such as outdoor locations in major cities.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
verything was working.
Looks like the tax is UKP 116, so if the paint is only sold
in whole gallons, and the white vans come around monthly to test,
it could pay off in 3-4 months if it worked, except that
it probably won't work.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
s want to stage
military-style pre-dawn assaults on people's houses,
where they expect that the targets usually only have
pistols handy near the bed and don't have time for rifles?
Seems like scare-mongering to me, not a practical concern.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
utting a transmitter-based system
in your nearest garbage can or accidentally leaving it in a taxi
or mailing it to Medellin all seem like reasonable activities.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He's smearing his sticky fingerprints all over everything else,
and now he wants them in our passports?
Oughtta learn to keep his hands to himself.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as long as it's all self-contained
and doesn't phone home to tell advertisers what I'm listening to.
But this one seems to be pretty chatty.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ns just encourage cops to pull them out early
and start shooting early just in case,
which is the kind of thing most gun-grabbing liberals want to avoid.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:36 PM 1/9/2005, Tyler Durden wrote:
OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from
RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia?
Micropayments, of course :-)
etailed reviews
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300098464/qid=1105254301/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-1630364-0272149
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SecurID hit for
every dangerous transaction, but that's too annoying for most customers.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the primary research and development arm of the
Department. It provides Federal, state, and local officials with the
technology and capabilities to protect the homeland.
You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go
to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip
ners,''
Dresslar said. ``It's a big loss for me personally and a great loss for the
journalism community.''
Services for Mr. Webb are pending.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hat's why the US paid them $43m for doing
such a great job in their holy war against opium farmers.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rious ethnic and political organizations
"We're keeping your computer as evidence of potential crimes,
but we haven't actually charged you with a crime yet
and won't do so unless we can find the hidden stego evidence."
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lex than Joe Sixpack is likely to use.
Also, rather than a virus installer, it'd be interesting if there were
an anonymizer package built for Apache. Widespread anonymous web browsing
would mean that simple web-based remailers would be easily usable.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can dismiss any _real_ slander by saying it's just more
of the same crap that some anonymous people always say about you,
and that there may even be a market for it.
(And Tim didn't even pay me to say that he's Detweiler's father...)
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thing that
appears to say that the destruction of the human race
would be a good thing and have to figure out if that's
because you got a verb tense wrong or because it's Nietzsche.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Register has a really friendly article about Kerik,
Giuliani's buddy who's proposed for Homeland Security Czar.
(El Reg is primarily an online technology newswire,
but they do comment on other issues, especially if they
have technical aspects - they especially rag on the
UK's Home Secretary Blu
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote:
> Does anyone here have a good idea of what the PROMIS code actuall does;
> what its characteristics and capabilities are in terms of its function as
> an aid to intellegence analysts, logistics technicians, or consultants?
At 07:16 PM 12/5/2004, J.A. Terr
At 10:02 PM 11/23/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
> And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is?
Well, once you get past the invalid and dishonest parts of
Bush's 57 reasons We Need to Invade Iraq Right Now
(WMDs, Al-Qaeda, Tried to kill Bush's Daddy, etc.)
you're pretty much left with "Saddam tried t
taff put out a highly negative statement,
but didn't call for censorship.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rg Concerto,
used as the theme music for Bill Buckley's program Firing Line.
They may be putting on country-boy airs, but they're still elitists...
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With Ashcroft going, America's a bit safer,
unless of course his successor is just as bad.
One of the candidates for Ashcroft's successor is
Bush's White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales,
who's been responsible for several memos suggesting that
POWs from Afghanistan aren't protected by the Gen
ld draw them in.
And the Republicans and the Democrat establishment had
pretty much gotten together to take out Howard Dean,
who was building an actual political party inside the
hollowed-out shell of the current party.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not sure if the old Keyser Sose was limping or not,
but he came out last week to give George Bush's campaign a helpful
"Booga booga booga" to remind the sheeple that he's still there.
Bush's speech had bragged that Osama could "run, but he can't hide",
and Kerry neglected the chance to remind the p
At 10:54 PM 11/2/2004, Eric Cordian wrote:
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche?
Cthulhu appears to be way ahead.
At 08:23 PM 10/30/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
And did you see the wire up his back and the earpiece?
Or maybe its hard to get good tailors in Pakistan.
Nah - he's allowed to use a Teleprompter,
unlike Bush and Kerry at the debate-o-mercials.
And unlike Bush, he can actually read.
ly
controlling the rest of the world and
how much was because they cared about ruling America.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
go up to 15, according to
one or two articles on the web which may be outdated.
So you're saying they lose hundreds to thousands of
smoke detectors a month?
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and possibly to Iran, he said.
Saddam giving weapons to the Iranians? Fat chance.
Syria's not real likely either, though less improbable,
and Lebanon's mostly under Syrian control but has enough
people there who are anti-Israel that it's possible.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 07:41 PM 10/27/2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:33 PM -0500 10/27/04, J.A. Terranson wrote:
>You graduated after all that beer???
Beer *and* philosophy. I must be a genius, or something.
:-).
oxer who's up for election this round.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uch spam or something,
and there's spam-harvester-distraction in his posted domain name.)
He's posted on ba.food in the last week, among other places.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 05:11 PM 10/27/2004, Dave Howe wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
I'm sure there are several Cypherpunks who would be very quick to
describe Kerry as "needs killing".
but presumably, lower down the list than shrub and his current advisors?
Oh, definitely much lower(even if he wins :-).
And if he loses,
ective central governments are usually
more flexible about such things, and cultures that are
tribally organized with colonialist-drawn boundaries
are also less likely to be picky about it, though they may
be more picky about whose tribal land you're in.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lance, the good Doctor himself:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1098436549411&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
few inverted pixels on a 600x600dpi printout?)
But even then, inkjet printers are dirt cheap;
when they're on sale, they're essentially a free enclosure
in a box of overpriced printer cartridges,
so even of the printer wants to rat out the user and
it's not easy to change the seria
At 11:25 AM 10/19/2004, Dave Howe wrote:
TBH the UK *did* have a major terrorist threat for decades -
because we were dicking around in *their* country :)
Do you mean the terrorists who raised their funding in
bars in Boston and San Francisco? They haven't been
doing much active terror lately, tho
James Donald recently wrote
> Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> > It isn't a problem for you until it happens to you. Who knows
> > when being interested in anon e-cash will become a ground to
> > blacklist *you*.
> I know when it will happen. It will happen when people
> interested in anon ecash go on sui
uch more about things
> like cutting corners of fuselage and engine maintenance and quality of
> fuel (and, perhaps even more, the quality of onboard coffee) than about
> bombers on board.
Unfortunately, cutting the quality of the onboard coffee means that
you're more likely to look like a shoe-bomber by the time the
plane arrives.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:18 PM 10/18/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041018-124854-2279r.htm
: : Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to
: : renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners
: : of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have
: : retu
ord apparently
believes that Reid was the genuine article, though Reid sure
looks like the ideal guy you'd use if you wanted to
scare the public by planting an unsuccessful crazy bomber wannabee.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Libertarian Party candidate
Michael Badnarik were protesting their exclusion from the debate
And a whole lot more on the blog page...
Mark
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ID readers, or if that carbon-fiber insulating cloth
that's useful for RF-shielded rooms would work well enough?
Also sounds like a good reason to carry a Rivest RFID blocker in your wallet.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cies are meant
to keep out a demonstrated threat.
They're primarily intended to create a climate of fear and dependence
and reassure the American public that the government's in charge.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 05:12 PM 9/30/2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
What's a "quantum repeater" in this context?
It's also known as a "wiretap insertion point"...
> As for "Hype Watch", I tend to agree, but I also believe that Gelfond
> (who I spoke to last year) actually does have a 'viable' system.
> Commerically viable
Here's a nightclub you'll want to skip, unless you feel like hacking RFIDs...
("Nothing up my sleeve but this Rivest RFID Blocker!")
** Barcelona clubbers get chipped **
Some clubbers in Barcelona have opted to have a microchip implanted which
lets them pay for drinks.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/e
I've used E-Gold in the past, and found that the hardest part
of the process is buying the stuff to put in your account -
setting up an account and paying people with it are both easy,
but to buy the gold, you need to find some way to give somebody
some other kind of money so they'll give you elec
At 11:37 AM 9/28/2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Got to love the spin...
"The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to
prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times."
That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously
enough) 4294967295 (0xFF
Variaola allegedly wrote:
> Saw "general" Abizaid on the news. He was so obviously
> either experiencing pharmaceutically-induced nystagmus or
> reading from a teleprompter it wasn't funny. Methinks
> he's a robot, or taking too many go-pills. Lets hear
> 2K dead by the elections. We'll settl
At 06:03 PM 9/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Gilmore, et al., are right, as always.
If you've been all-but cavity-searched -- okay, virtually
cavity-searched, given the state of modern X-Ray airport passenger
scanning technology -- and you don't have a weapon, exactly *how* is
knowing *who* you are
ion
on the data it receives, making MITM attacks harder.
For applications like BGP, you don't care if the CA is
Dun & Bradstreet or if it's just Alice's own CA,
because it's really functioning as a shared secret
but the commodity VPN hardware wants an X.509 cert
for MITM protection.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
agree with Joe. You can fix most of the problems using ACLs,
but IPSEC does have some appeal to it.
You don't even need CAs - pre-shared secrets are perfectly adequate,
but if you want to use a CA-based IPSEC implementation for convenience,
you can agree on what CA to use when you
- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE -
At 05:33 AM 9/13/2004, Ben Laurie wrote:
Bill Stewart wrote:
I find it more annoying that there are spammers putting PGP headers
in their messages, knowing that most people who use PGP assume PGP-signed
mail
is from somebody genuine and whitelist it.
Surely
ou say scam for the clueless in Mandarin?
Hey, you cultural imperialist!
Western domination of the Tinfoil Hat market has got to stop!
Traditional Chinese materials can be equally effective and
aesthetically superior.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The news says that North Korea's government says they were
blowing the top off a mountain as part of hydroelectric construction.
They don't quote any unnamed officials saying "Whoops"...
-BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-
So, since this is titled BrinCity, it surely means that the image
streams will be available from a web site and that we the people get
cameras in the emergency response center and the mayor's office?
-END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-
No, this is fr
At 11:45 AM 9/12/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Time will tell, and it certainly could have been a nuke (they have
the SNMs), but if you do it, you talk about it, much like
the Indi/Pakis did. And you can't hide a surface burst, or
even a large belowground test --and an underground test
that ven
it was actually in very good shape, roof and all, until ~1850,
when the Greeks were using it as an ammunition depot during
one of their wars with the Turks and the Turks blew it up.)
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you want to use a CA mechanism to certify X.509 certs,
you can set up that information at the same time.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3634572.stm
John Young and John Gilmore aren't the only cypherpunks
in the news lately. J. Alif Terranson was in a BBC article
about getting the company to agree to drop the
hundred or so major spammers who've been using their network.
Some of them are former
people who use PGP assume PGP-signed mail
is from somebody genuine and whitelist it.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e about remailers gets spam or harassing mail,
they don't have to get it more than once.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ing the parties
to run different candidates, so for instance you might want
the Labour Party to win but you don't like Tony Blair so you vote NOTA
in his home district. In candidate-based elections,
you're telling the individual candidates that you don't like them.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 07:46 PM 9/1/2004, you wrote:
> This ain't the nice little suburb you do your contract programming in...
> this is New York City. We only obey the law because we know there's a
> thin line between order and chaos in this town.
Hey, those cops aren't here to create disorder,
they're here to prese
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