Re: Judy Miller needing killing

Gil Hamilton wrote: > I've never heard it disclosed how the prosecutor discovered that Miller had > had such a conversation but it isn't relevant anyway. The question is, can > she defy a subpoena based on membership in the privileged Reporter class that > an "ordinary" person could not defy? Why

Re: Judy Miller needing killing

Gil Hamilton wrote: > The problem is that reporters want to be made into a special class of > people that don't have to abide by the same laws as the rest of us. Are > you a reporter? Am I? Is the National Inquirer? How about Drudge? > What about bloggers? Which agency will you have to apply

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping ("Psst! The FBI is Having Trouble on the Line", Aug. 15)]

Tyler Durden wrote: > We need a WiFi VoIP over Tor app pronto! Let 'em CALEA -that-. Only then > will the ghost of Tim May rest in piece. 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 Starbucks-comp

Re: no visas for Chinese cryptologists

Tyler Durden wrote: Hey...this looks interesting. I'd like to see the email chain before this. sorry, accidental crosspost from mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com; see http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/18225 for the post it is a reply to.

Re: no visas for Chinese cryptologists

Hasan Diwan wrote: if the US wants to maintain its fantasy, it will need a Ministry of Truth to do so. Cheers, Hasan Diwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And the airing of government-issued news bulletins without attributation (or indeed, anything from Fox News) doesn't convince you there already is one?

Re: Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP

Eugen Leitl wrote: http://wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68306,00.html Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP By Kim Zetter Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68306,00.html 10:20 AM Jul. 26, 2005 PT First there was PGP e-mail. Then there was PGPfone for modems. Now Phil Zimmermann

Re: SHA1 broken?

Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:53:53PM +, Dave Howe wrote: I wasn't aware that FPGA technology had improved that much if any - feel free to correct my misapprehension in that area though :) FPGAs are too slow (and too expensive), if you want lots of SHA-1 performance,

Re: SHA1 broken?

Joseph Ashwood wrote: I believe you substantially misunderstood my statements, 2^69 work is doable _now_. 2^55 work was performed in 72 hours in 1998, scaling forward the 7 years to the present (and hence through known data) leads to a situation where the 2^69 work is achievable today in a reaso

Re: SHA1 broken?

Joseph Ashwood wrote: > I believe you are incorrect in this statement. It is a matter of public record that RSA Security's DES Challenge II was broken in 72 hours by $250,000 worth of semi-custom machine, for the sake of solidity let's assume they used 2^55 work to break it. Now moving to a comp

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I was thinking more of the rumor that Longhorn's filesystem would start at '/', removing the 'X:' and the concept of separate drives (like unix has done for decades :) ). When I first saw this discussed, the consensus was that it would break any application that expected t

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I love about the Internet -- ask a question and get silence but make a false claim and you get all the advice you can possibly eat. Yup. give wrong advice, and you look like a fool. correct someone else's wrong advice, and you make them look foolish (unless

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I'd thought it was so Microsoft could offer an emulation-based migration path to all the apps that would be broken by Longhorn. MS has since backed off on the new filesystem proposal that would have been the biggest source of breakage (if rumors of a single-rooted, more *n

Re: Printers betray document secrets

Ian Grigg wrote: It's actually quite an amusing problem. When put in those terms, it might be cheaper and more secure to go find some druggie down back of central station, and pay them a tenner to write out the ransom demand. Or buy a newspaper and start cutting and pasting the letters... or sligh

Re: Doubt

Tyler Durden wrote: Yet what of your blindness, which doubts *everything* the current administration does? 1. Abu Ghraib 2. WMD in Iraq 3. Patriot Act 4. Countless ties between this administration and the major contract winners in Iraq Hum. Seems a decent amount of doubt is called for. For that ma

Re: Donald's Job Description

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?

Re: E-Vote Vendors Hand Over Software

R.A. Hettinga wrote: The stored software will serve as a comparison tool for election officials should they need to determine whether anyone tampered with programs installed on voting equipment. IIRC during the last set, the manufacturers themselves updated freshly-minted software from their ftp

Re: Airport insanity

Adam wrote: You know, the more I read posts by Mr. Donald, the more I believe that he is quite possibly the most apt troll I have ever encountered. It is quite apparent from reading his responses that he is obviously an exceptionally intelligent (academically anyway) individual. I find it hard to b

Re: "Give peace a chance"? NAH...

Tyler Durden wrote: So. Why don't we see terrorist attacks in Sweden, or Switzerland, or Belgium or any other country that doesn't have any military or Imperliast presence in the middle east? Is this merely a coincidence? What I strongly suspect is that if we were not dickin' around over there

Re: Airport insanity

Damian Gerow wrote: I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount to basically: "You look like you've just left a terrorist training camp." For whatever reason, pictures of me always come out looking like some crazed religious fanatic. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to bomb

Re: Certicom sees lift from entertainment industry

R.A. Hettinga wrote: The technology at the core of Certicom's products - elliptic-curve cryptography, or ECC - is well suited to such purposes since it can work faster and requires less computing power and storage than conventional forms of cryptography, he said. Well, best of luck to them. any sc

Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

Riad S. Wahby wrote: ...except (ta-d) the passport, which is universally accepted by liquor stores AFAICT. And how many americans have a passport,and carry one for identification purposes?

Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

J.A. Terranson wrote: Which of course neatly sidesteps the issue that a DRIVERS LICENSE is not "identification", it is proof you have some minimum competency to operate a motor vehicle... IIRC, several states have taken to issuing a "no compentency" driving licence (ie, the area that says what that

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

Steve Furlong wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote: The "regular encryption scheme" (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone. I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers a

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

Tyler Durden wrote: Oops. You're right. It's been a while. Both photons are not utilized, but there's a Private channel and a public channel. As for MITM attacks, however, it seems I was right more or less by accident, and the collapsed ring configuration seen in many tightly packed metro areas

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

Dave Howe wrote: I think this is part of the purpose behind the following paper: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/229.pdf which I am currently trying to understand and failing miserably at *sigh* Nope, finally strugged to the end to find a section pointing out that it does *not* prevent mitm attacks

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

Major Variola (ret) wrote: There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested. Doesn't surprise me - the UK police collected a huge bunch of fingerprints and dna samples "for elimination purposes" during one of the child

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

r anything more than a trivial link (two buildings within easy walking distance, sending high volumes of extremely sensitive material between them) -TD From: Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Email List: Cryptography <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Email List: Cypherpunks <[EMAIL

Re: QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

R. A. Hettinga wrote: Two factors have made this possible: the vast stretches of optical fiber (lit and dark) laid in metropolitan areas, which very conveniently was laid from one of your customers to another of your customers (not between telcos?) - or are they talking only having to lay new lin

Re: comfortably numb

Major Variola (ret) wrote: t 11:22 PM 10/1/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: In the US its generally illegal to tattoo someone who is drunk. Not sure about that - certainly its illegal in the UK to tattoo for a number of reasons, but the drunkenness one usually comes down to "is not capable of giving

Re: maybe he would cash himself in? (Re: A Billion for Bin Laden)

Adam Back wrote: Maybe Bin Laden would turn himself in in return for a billion $ for his cause (through a middle-man of course). Seem to remember that Bin Laden was relatively wealthy himself (>100 M$?), but you'd have to balance these rewards to not be too excessively much more than net worth of t

Re: On what the NSA does with its tech

Pete Capelli wrote: On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:07:23 +0100, Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: all generalizations are false, including this one. Is this self-referential? yes - some generalizations are accurate - and its also a quote, but I may have misworded it so I didn't quotemark i

Re: On what the NSA does with its tech

Morlock Elloi wrote: Hint: all major cryptanalytic advances, where governments broke a cypher and general public found out few *decades* later were not of brute-force kind. all generalizations are false, including this one. most of the WWII advances in computing were to brute-force code engines, n

Re: X-Cypher, SIP VoIP, stupid propriatory crapola

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

X-Cypher, SIP VoIP, stupid propriatory crapola

Particularly disgusted by the last paragraph |http://www.visual-mp3.com/review/14986.html | | X-Cipher - Secure Encrypted Communications | |The Internet is a wonderful shared transmission technology, allowing |any one part of the Internet to communicate to any other part of the |Internet. Like

Re: Secure telephones

Jack Lloyd wrote: Well, nothing stopping you from treating your datagram-based VPN (ie, DTLS) as an IP tunnel, and doing TCP-like stuff on top of it to handle the IM and file transfer. Actually I'm working on something rather like that now, which may or not get finished soon. *lol* aren't we all. I

Re: Secure telephones

Jack Lloyd wrote: How well is VoIP going to work over SSL/TLS (ie, TCP) though? you can do SSL over UDP if you like - I think most VPN software is UDP only, while OpenVPN has a "fallback" TCP mode for cases where you can't use UDP (and TBH there aren't many) > I've never used any VoIP-over-TCP

Re: Secure telephones

Thomas Shaddack wrote: The easiest way is probably a hybrid of telephone/modem, doing normal calls in "analog" voice mode and secure calls in digital modem-to-modem connection. The digital layer may be done best over IP protocol, assigning IP addresses to the phones and making them talk over TCP

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Eric Cordian wrote: Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem. If email required 37 cent stamps, it would be no more annoying than junk snailmail. it might be free in america - but it isn't here in the UK even at low bandwidths - say, 56K. The sort of bandwidth a professional spammer use

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Eric Cordian wrote: But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to try and feed their families. I see no reason to be proud of reverse-scamming a Nigerian out of $80 when it might be his entire family's foo

Re: Science: throttling computer viruses

Eric Cordian wrote: > I have a dual boot system which normally runs Linux. Since it had > been a couple of months since I last ran XP, I booted it on Tuesday > to run Windows Update, and keep it current with critical patches. > Within minutes, before I had even downloaded the first update, my box

Vulnerability in the WinZip implimentation of AES?

http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/tkohno/papers/WinZip/ Abstract: WinZip is a popular compression utility for Microsoft Windows computers, the latest version of which is advertised as having "easy-to-use AES encryption to protect your sensitive data." We exhibit several attacks against WinZip's new e

Re: SASSER Worm Dude

Tyler Durden wrote: > "HANOVER, Germany -- German police have arrested an 18-year-old man > suspected of creating the Sasser computer worm, believed to be one of > the Internet's most costly outbreaks of sabotage." > Note the language...an "18 year old MAN" and "sabotage"... > So a HS kid, living w

Accoustic Cryptoanalysis for RSA?

opinions? http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/

Re: Everything you never wanted to know about the UK ID card

R. A. Hettinga wrote: > >. And employee checks? Here comes the > stick. Employers don't at the moment have to check immigration status > when they hire someone, so why would they? Indeed, why would they > care? But under the

Re: no anon conversations?

An Metet wrote: > What technologies currently exist for receiving a/psuedononymous > message? With Mixmaster, sending mail, posting news, and even blog > posting are possible, However, receiving replies securely or, better, > holding a private conversation is difficult or impossible. Best bet > see

Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 12:09 PM +0200 4/22/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> Are you truly expecting a worldwide ban on encryption? > It's like expecting a worldwide ban on finance. Been tried. Doesn't > work. There isn't a worldwide ban on breaking CSS - doesn't stop the film industry trying to enforc

Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:13:48AM +0100, Dave Howe wrote: >> No, it is a terrible situation. >> It establishes a legal requirement that communications *not* be >> private from the feds. from there, it is just a small step to >> defining encryption

Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

Morlock Elloi wrote: >> The extreme ease of use of internet wiretapping and lack of >> accountability is not a good situation to create. > False. > It is the best possible situation cpunk-wise I can imagine. No, it is a terrible situation. It establishes a legal requirement that communications *not

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

Justin wrote: > It's not just a private interaction between two consenting parties. > It's a contract that grants power to a third party eliminating > traditional legal guarantees of quasi-privacy in communication from > sender to recipient, one of which is not a party to the contract. > There's no

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

Riad S. Wahby wrote: > SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California state senator on Monday said > she was drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail > service "Gmail" because it would place advertising in personal > messages after searching them for key words. Is she planning to block all t

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you're not the driver and you don't drive you don't have to have > an ID. And you can't show what you don't have. IIRC, in the case above the guy was outside his car - his daughter (still in the car) may well have been the driver, not him

Interesting case?

Interesting looking case coming up soon - an employee (whose motives are probably dubious, but still :) installed a keyghost onto his boss' pc and was charged with unauthorised wire tapping. That isn't the interesting bit. the interesting bit is this is IIRC exactly how the FBI obtained Scarfo's PG

Re: If You Want to Protect A Security Secret, Make Sure It's Public

Riad S. Wahby wrote: > John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Despite the long-lived argument that public review of crypto assures >> its reliability, no national infosec agency -- in any country >> worldwide -- follows that practice for the most secure systems. >> NSA's support for >> AES notwit

Re: Gentlemen don't read each others' mail

Tyler Durden wrote: > Of course, there's laser-based eavesdropping from the outside of the > building, and I'd bet this was actually the method used in many cases. > Laser/vibration-proof glass apparently does exist (it's installed in > that DARPA building in downtown watchamaface VA), but I doubt

Re: More on VoIP

Tyler Durden wrote: > Encryption ain't the half of it. Really good liottle article. And I > didin't know Skype was based in Luxemborg > http://slate.msn.com/id/2095777/ Not playing with Skype - why risk a closed source propriatory solution when there is open source, RFC documented SIP?

Re: 5 million on terrorism list

Sarad AV wrote: > is it true or just another make up so as to make its > citizens feel justified when they go invade another > nation.How much effort does it take to get credible > information of 5 million people oveseas? Not really that much, provided you are willing to preassume "attended an anti

Re: Windows source leaked?

Riad S. Wahby wrote: > Lots has been said about OSS developers not wanting to look at this > for fear that they will be "tainted." While it is true that simply > the act of looking at the code is unauthorized and illegal, I wonder > if there is any truth to the claim that a developer who looked at

Re: all the viruses, spam and bounces that are all I get from this list at the moment

Bah, I really miss the crap-filtered version of cypherpunks can anyone recommend a better node than the one I am using now?

Re: Canada issues levy on non-removable memory (for MP3 players)

> Would something like this go over in the US? I wonder ... I thought that there was already a levy on blank CDR media in the US; there is certainly already one on blank audio tapes...

Re: Snake oil?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.topsecretcrypto.com/ > Snake oil? I am not entirely sure. on the plus side - it apparently uses Sha-1 for a signing algo, RSA with a max keysize of 16Kbits (overkill, but better than enforcing something stupidly small), built in NTP synch for timestamps (probab

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

Jim Dixon wrote: > The Geneva conventions require, among other things, that soldiers wear > uniforms. No, they don't. Fox news repeats this enough that more than half of america believes it, but then, more than half of america believes Iraq was somehow involved in the Trade Center attacks too.

Re: PKI root signing ceremony, etc.

Rich Salz wrote: >> *shrug* it doesn't retroactively enforce the safety net - but that's >> ok, most MS products don't either :) > The whole point is to enhance common practice, not stay at the lowest > common denominator. If someone has *already* issued a certificate - and ignored the CA flag - is

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

Miles Fidelman wrote: > - option for a quick and dirty recount by feeding the ballots through > a different counting machine (maybe with different software, from a > different vendor) or indeed constructing said machines so they *assume* they will be feeding another machine in a chain (so every par

Re: e voting

Tim May wrote: > Without the ability to (untraceably, unlinkably, of course) verify > that this vote is "in the vote total," and that no votes other than > those > who actually voted, are in the vote total, this is all meaningless. The missing step is that that paper receipt isn't kept by the voter

Re: Freedomphone

Neil Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 05:33 pm, Dave Howe wrote: > SIP is just the part of the VoIP protocols that handling signaling > (off-hook, dialing digits, ringing the phone, etc.). The voice data > is handled by Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), one strea

Re: Freedomphone

Steve Schear wrote: > No, but this may be of interest. > http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hellweg111903.asp > > Its closed source but claims to use AES. *nods* closed source, proprietory protocol, as opposed to SIP which is an RFC standard (and interestingly, is supported natively by Win

Re: Freedomphone

Steve Schear wrote: > If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it > can't already, for PC-PC secure communications. A practical > replacement for SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of either > direct phone or ISDN connection requirement is a problem though. *nods

Re: Partition Encryptor

Sunder wrote: > Which only works on win9x, and no freeware updates exist for > Win2k/XP/NT. i.e. worthless... There was a payware (but disclosed source) update for NT/2K, and of course E4M (on which the NT driver for scramdisk was based) was always NT compatable and very similar to Scramdisk. I don

Biometric ID cards to be "backdoored" in the UK

Students of UK politics should be aware that the british prime minister considered it a sign of "moral courage" to press ahead with an attack on iraq despite protests in the streets and massed opposition by politicians of all parties, and that forging evidence is fully justified by the results.

Re: [s-t] needle in haystack digest #3 (fwd from Nick.Barnes@pobox.com)

Tim May wrote: > On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 09:20 AM, Dave Howe wrote: >>> No Such Agency doesn't fab much of anything; they can't afford to. >>> They and their ilk are far more interested in things like FPGAs and >>> adapting numerical algorithms

Re: [s-t] needle in haystack digest #3 (fwd from Nick.Barnes@pobox.com)

> No Such Agency doesn't fab much of anything; they can't afford to. They > and their ilk are far more interested in things like FPGAs and adapting > numerical algorithms to COTS SIMD hardware, such as graphics processors > (a la http://www.gpgpu.org/). Why do they have their own fab plant if they

Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

Eric Cordian wrote: > Nonetheless, it's an indication that they don't think RSA has much of > a future. Not really - they could simply be covering all bases (supporting RSA, DH and EC, knowing if DH is broken then almost certainly so is RSA (and vice versa) leaving only EC to fill the gap) The smal

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2003 04:27 pm, Tyler Durden wrote: >> secure (every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as >> effectively 'unbreakable' encryption? Reglar folks always believe >> SOMEBODY'S got the technology to break what scheme you use, so "why >>

Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

Eugen Leitl wrote: >[1]Roland Piquepaille writes "According to eWEEK, the National >Security Agency (NSA) has [2]picked a commercial solution for its >encryption technology needs, instead on relying on its own >proprietary code. I was under the impression they had just licenced th

Re: Encrypted search?

Tyler Durden wrote: > When the search is performed, the "stupid" thing to do (I > think...someone correct me) is to take the user's ID, encrypt it, and > then determine if matches an encypted member of the list (and I don't > see encrypted each entry individually as a desirable thing). I am > assum

Re: Using Virus/Worm comments to implicate others

Tim May wrote: > Reading about the Romanian student arrested today for allegedly > releasing one of the "Blaster" variants, I was struck by how easy it > would be to "bring a shitstorm down" on someone by inserting comments > into the virus code. oh joy - yet another way to joe-job someone.

Re: Getting certificates.

> Outlook and outlook express support digital signing and > encryption -- but one must first get a certificate. > > Now what I want is a certificate that merely asserts that the > holder of the certificate can receive email at such and such an > address, and that only one such certificate has been

Re: paradoxes of randomness

Sarad AV wrote: > We say that, we-don't know or it wont be random. Then > we say that we must see roughly equal numbers of heads > and tails for large trials. Thats what I fail to > understand. its the difference between any one test (which will be completely unpredictable) and probabilities (where

Re: paradoxes of randomness

Tim May wrote: > (Will whomever prepending this "Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht ***" header > please STOP.) that would be my email provider - and hence me. sorry. They suck in many ways, but they give an efficient free service with tls support; one of the ways they suck is to either a) hide some of your

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: paradoxes of randomness

Sarad AV wrote: > Will the information obtained from the 2^32 tests have > a zero compression rate? > If one of the occurance should yield all heads and one > occurance yields all tails-there appears to be scope > for compression. In that one case, yes. The compression will vary based on the deviat

Re: Missile -launchers in iraq

Neil Johnson wrote: > - Most important, using Biological or Chemical Weapons is a two-edged > sword. They could do just as much damage to their own troops as to > the US and UK troops if they make a mistake. Might be interesting to see what would happen if iran felt threatened by bush's aggressive

Re: pgp in internet cafe (webpgp)

Morlock Elloi wrote: > Ever tried to install a ssh client on a random internet cafe computer Yup. 1. download putty 2. run putty 3. run batchfile that changes password to next oneshot 4. do whatever is needed 5. exit putty :)

Re: Spending a billion dollars an hour produces a hell of a light show

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once the war is over senior people in the U.S. administration better > have proof acceptable to the international community in open forums if > they do not wish to share a similar fate as their Iraqi counterparts. I think the US believe that, with the USSR gone, they are

Re: pgp in internet cafe (webpgp)

Anonymous wrote: > I want to use PGP while checking/sending e-mail via web interface on > someone else's machine (say, internet cafe). So in one window I have > webmail interface, and in the other window I have "webpgp" interface, > and I paste ciphertext back and forth. > The https-ed webpgp inter

Re: Press Coverage, Snarky Media Personalities, and War

David W. Hodgins wrote: > Where can one sign up to these "never ever spam" lists? Its quite simple. you find the author of one of those "10,000 verified email addresses!" cds you blow up his car, burn down his house, paint little targets on his kids, and cut his telephone connection. if he misses t

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death... (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Dave Howe wrote: > >> Jim Choate wrote: >>> Yes, it can mount the partition. That isn't the problem. The problem >>> is that for lilo to do this it has to have access to the key in >>> plaintext. That makes the

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death... (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: >> In real life this will not work as most Windoze hard disk encryption >> schemes can't encrypt the OS disk - and this is where the temp/cache >> stuff goes. Not always - certainly, windows cache goes to a partition that must be available at wi

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death... (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote: > Yes, it can mount the partition. That isn't the problem. The problem > is that for lilo to do this it has to have access to the key in > plaintext. That makes the entire exercise moot. not if you have to type it every time. if you take that as criteria, then *all* encryption is

Re: A secure government

David Howe wrote: > at Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:48 PM, Chris Ball > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: >> Another point is that ``normal'' constables aren't able to action the >> request; they have to be approved by the Chief Constable of a police >> force, or the head of a relevant Governme

Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!"

Sunder wrote: > Let's see, we're going into war with Iraq, and we're sending up the > shuttle to do experiments on how furry weavols behave under zero > gravity... uh huh. Lothe though I am to shed doubt on your consipiracy theories - but the shuttle was on its way *down*. Why would they be bringin

Re: Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA

I have seen this *five* times already - is there some sort of wierd mailing loop in action? I am fairly certain I haven't sent it five times spread out over two days

Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.

Mike Rosing wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, David Howe wrote: > If you lose control, the reactor scrams. A "5 year dose" is 7.5 Rem, > about 1/100th the dose of a single chemo treatment. The only case > of fire on insulation I know of was a reactor in Georgia (USA) where > they were using a candle

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

Jim Choate wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Schear wrote: >> From the article: >> "The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was different from >> other broadcasters, who could decide how far their signal was to be >> transmitted." >> This is totally bogus thinking. The Internet is not broad

Re: New Scientist - Virtual world to run on real cash... (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote: > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3180 yeah. downloaded that (its about 300MB!) and after going though the setup it doesn't like my video card *sigh* At first look though, it would appear the system is set up for a decent proportion of the money to flow in the

Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...

Tim May wrote: > Many of us have at least two phone numbers: one that is widely > accessible, published even. Another that is private, often a > cellphone. In my 6 years of using a cellphone, whose number I do not > give out to many, I have only gotten two spam calls that I know of: > both were fro

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Dave Howe wrote: > I believe I mentioned geographic routing (which is actually > switching, and not routing) so your packets get delivered, as the > crow flies. The question of name services. How often do you actually > use a domain name

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

Morlock Elloi wrote: > Not so. Self-organasing mesh networks appear to have some interesting > properties. There is a number of open solutions and at least one > startup I know about based on this. fascinating - I obviously have a lot of reading to do - thankyou :)

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote: > >>> 1. large wifi networks start to hit scaling problems - they start >>> to need routers and name services that are relatively expensive, >>> and ip address > Geographic routing completely eliminates need for expensive routing > and

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Dave Howe wrote: > The scaling problem is a valid one up to a point. The others are not. > The biggest problem is people trying to do distributed computing using > non-distributed os'es (eg *nix clones and Microsloth). not as such, no. the

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/11/21/yourtech.wifis/index.html Its a nice idea, but unfortunately gets easily bitten by the usual networking bugbears 1. large wifi networks start to hit scaling problems - they start to need routers and name services that are relatively expensive, and ip address ran

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