Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Dave Emery
very modest sophistication from capturing the over the air in the clear transport stream and passing it around on P2P networks or whatever - there is already plenty of PCI hardware out there to receive ATSC transmissions (MyHD and many others) and supply the transport stream to software running on

Re: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-05 Thread Dave Emery
recovering data from one of those at a distance using a good telescope may be possible and most people don't think of the gentle flicker of the LED as carrying actual information that could be intercepted. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

2004-09-13 Thread Dave Emery
mpletely shitfaced getting off the helo at the WH on the way back from campaigning in Johnstown Pa this past Thursday ? Too much pressure to keep that Jim Beam bottle in the cabinet... one almost can't blame him... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

Digital camera fingerprinting...

2004-08-25 Thread Dave Emery
their interests... Of course the headers of jpegs from cameras (and maybe elsewhere) often contain serial numbers and other identifying information so to the first order this is irrelevant to average users, but interesting none the less. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE

Switzerland forcing registration of PrePay customers

2004-07-07 Thread Dave Emery
w.cellular-news.com/story/11407.shtml -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

Re: more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-07-05 Thread Dave Emery
apping virtually anything in digital format - at least by copying it from a storage device such as a latch inside the communications equipment that properly carries the traffic - is perfectly legal without exception under this absurd ruling. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

Re: Tyler's Education

2004-07-03 Thread Dave Emery
ting compared to other methods of obtaining the same information (such as black bag jobs with disk copiers and use of trojans to capture passphrases). -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

EZ Pass and the fast lane ....

2004-07-03 Thread Dave Emery
than the expected places... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

We want everything, all the time...

2004-04-08 Thread Dave Emery
e LEAs will be difficult to resolve both legally and in practical terms, given the architecture of modern telecommunications networks, they add. www.telecomweb.com -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

Re: [mnet-devel] DOS in DHTs (fwd from amichrisde@yahoo.de)

2003-10-23 Thread Dave Emery
e content" to pass over its wires under such a scheme. And once one must register to obtain certificates for Palladium/NGSCB attestation, one really does have a form of net drivers license. > steve -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493

Public hearing on Super DMCA in Boston

2003-04-01 Thread Dave Emery
goals are... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493 PGP fingerprint 1024D/8074C7AB 094B E58B 4F74 00C2 D8A6 B987 FB7D F8BA 8074 C7AB

Re: FC: An analysis of Michigan and Colorado "mini-DMCA" bills

2003-03-31 Thread Dave Emery
nitor public safety communications (expressly permitted under federal law) might fall under this rubric too, as the public safety agencies may not have give express consent. Under the Mass. bill this would criminalize mere possession of such radio equipment. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [

Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Emery
hs old would be very much less interesting in most cases than near real time intercepts - particularly of targets like terrorists. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

[doug@joss.com: Re: [coldwarcomms] Digest Number 1106]

2003-02-13 Thread Dave Emery
ear. The loop also incorporates an NSA facility that does something (can't imagine what ;-) on the fiber. Doug Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ - End forwarded message - -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, We

Re: What was really on that Shuttle?

2003-02-07 Thread Dave Emery
tity MIGHT have grabbed your keys or crypto chips, you have to take precautions (changing keys and so forth) which cost lots of money so trying to find the crypto box and the chips and keys makes a lot of sense as it save considerable effort and expense later on. -- Dave Emery N1PRE,

Re: Tiny whiskers make huge memory storage

2003-02-05 Thread Dave Emery
So how real is the threat - what does it cost to have it done and how expensive is the gear ? Who actually has working setups in use ? And how many layers down can they really read ? And with what BER ? -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP

Re: constant encryped stream

2003-01-01 Thread Dave Emery
te by developing the latent image and making either an optical or contact print of it on a similar medium. > > Comments, hints, keywords to look up? -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

Re: If this be terrorism make the most of it!

2002-12-08 Thread Dave Emery
me exact results. Thus it seems that at least around the wealthy Boston suburbs they have already made it impossible to make a long distance coin call, and one presumes this is for obvious reasons... We are closer to the police state that everyone fears than we know.... --

Re: Worm Klez.E immunity

2002-11-22 Thread Dave Emery
rab terrorists to me.... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

Re: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

2002-11-20 Thread Dave Emery
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:40:26AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:48:37PM -0500, Dave Emery wrote: > > I might hasten to add that as I am sure Declan knows, this > > addition to the Homeland Defense Act also includes the CSEA provisions >

Re: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

2002-11-17 Thread Dave Emery
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:20:42PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > At 11:59 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, Dave Emery wrote: > >And I am on record as advising some of the folks doing gnu-radio > >that in my personal opinion it was rather unlikely that a user > >programmable open

Re: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

2002-11-16 Thread Dave Emery
ds of hams for use on ham bands (and more such ham projects appear every day). -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

Re: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

2002-11-16 Thread Dave Emery
those the government doesn't approve of... they certainly won't increase communications privacy or security and may in fact decrease it if they allow the draconian penalties to be used as an excuse for not spending the money to implement secure and effective encryption of anything sensit

Re: Fw: RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Emery
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:32:48PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > Any chance this is the same Dave Emery who does the radio broadcasts? (I > listen from WFMU). If so, man! If a tiny fraction of the stuff you have > said over the years is true, well...brrr. A good example is "Los Ami

Re: Fw: RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Emery
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:56:29PM -0800, Richard Crisp wrote: > hmm, it seems to me that video riding in a stegano fashion on a cell phone > call would exceed the bandwidth capability of the channel. It's one thing to > send a single image steganographically on a cell call, but it is another to >

Re: Another restriction on technology - cell and cordless scanning now a felony

2002-07-17 Thread Dave Emery
uld apply and trump everything else - especially if you are a ham as most of the 2.4 ghz 802.11b band is also allocated as a ham band. I know of no court tests of whether the cordless phone prohibitions (with cordless phones at both 2.4 ghz and 900 mhz which are both ham bands too) apply to hams intercepting cordless phones that also operate in those bands... nor how that impacts WEP interception. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

Another restriction on technology - cell and cordless scanning now a felony

2002-07-16 Thread Dave Emery
(which of course most scanner list intercepts are). Thus the legal climate has fundamentally changed, and one can assume that since the Bush administration has been pushing for the passage of this bill that they perhaps intend to start prosecuting at least some category of radio u

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug "analog hole," regulate A-D

2002-06-03 Thread Dave Emery
t raw public votes will control over Hollywood money. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18