Multiple passports?

If I apply for a new one now, and then apply for a another one once the gov starts RFID-enabling them, will the first one be invalidated? Or can I have two passports, the one without RFID to use, and the one with RFID to play with? -- The six phases of a project: I. Enthusiasm. IV. Searc

Re: Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth

On 2005-10-22T01:51:50-0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > --- begin forwarded text > > Tyler and Jayme left Iraq in May 2005. The Arbil office failed; there > wasn't enough business in Kurdistan. They moved to London, where Tyler > still works for SSI. His time in Iraq has transformed him to the exte

Re: Multiple passports?

On 2005-10-29T21:17:25-0700, Gregory Hicks wrote: > > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:05:25 + > > From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > If I apply for a new one now, and then apply for a another one once > > the gov starts RFID-enabling them, will the first on

Re: [PracticalSecurity] Anonymity - great technology but hardly used

On 2005-10-26T08:21:08+0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote: > cyphrpunk wrote: > > The main threat to > > this illegal but widely practiced activity is legal action by > > copyright holders against individual traders. The only effective > > protection against these threats is the barrier that could be prov

Re: Judy Miller needing killing

On 2005-10-19T19:59:18+, Gil Hamilton wrote: > > Reporters should have no rights the rest of us don't have. It's hard to > imagine the framers of the constitution approving an amendment that said > freedom of the press is granted to all those who first apply for and > receive permission fr

Re: [Politech] More on Barney lawyer yearning to hack copyright infringers' sites [ip]

On 2005-10-19T10:37:55-0700, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Previous Politech message: > http://www.politechbot.com/2005/10/17/barney-lawyer-recommends/ > Responses: > http://www.politechbot.com/2005/10/19/more-on-barney/ Some of the first-round responses mentioned the iniquities involved in attacking

Re: Wired on "Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case"

On 2005-09-20T12:14:13-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > Very interesting CPunks reading, for a variety of reasons. > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68894,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 I'm sick of this "mosaic theory" being used to justify preventing access to unclassified information. -- "W

google maps and latitude, longitude

For anyone who doesn't already know, there are several ways to get google maps to display a latitude/longitude. You can enter them in the query box like so: 35.5N 115.5W or 35.5,-115.5 (I think they added those within the last week or two.) Or you can use the original method, a GET-style form (I

Re: /. [GPS-tracked Clothing]

On 2005-05-29T18:46:43+0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1547234 > Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-05-29 16:07:00 > >from the finally-i-have-to-ask-why dept. >[1]Anil Kandangath writes "A Japanese firm has shown off new >technology that enables G

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

On 2005-05-28T21:53:52+0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/28/1718200 > Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-05-28 17:37:00 > >from the get-you-where-you-live dept. >Badluck writes "Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail >of controlling copyrigh

Re: Anonymous Site Registration

On 2005-05-26T13:17:38-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > OK, what's the best way to put up a website anonymously? Tor? It's not immune from traffic analysis, but it's nearly the best you can do to hide the server's location/isp from clients. > Let's assume that it has nothing to do with national secur

Re: Jesus Christ Meets "Your Papers Please" (fwd)

On 2005-05-10T08:53:31-0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: > If you think this is stupid, just wait till the "Real ID Act" takes > effect. There is already a Jesus Christ living in D.C. If it's legal for someone named Jesus Christ to move to D.C., it should be legal for a D.C. resident or no-longer resid

Re: [IP] Real ID = National ID (fwd from dave@farber.net)

On 2005-05-09T12:22:22-0700, cypherpunk wrote: > We already have de facto national ID in the form of our state driver's > licenses. They are accepted at face value at all 50 states as well as > by the federal government. Real ID would rationalize the issuing > procedures and require a certain minim

Re: [IP] Real ID = National ID (fwd from dave@farber.net)

On 2005-05-09T19:55:26+, Justin wrote: > What do we need "security" for? We need security because a lot of > people hate the U.S., and because we won't close our borders, and Apparently I have not learned any lessons from the follies of a certain California governor. By

Re: Zero knowledge( a>b )

On 2005-05-09T12:28:25-0400, Adam Back wrote: > There is a simple protocol for this described in Schneier's Applied > Crypto if you have one handy... > > (If I recall the application he illustrates with is: it allows two > people to securely compare salary (which is larger) without either > party

Re: Stash Burn?

On 2005-05-02T10:13:50-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > yes, this reminded me of another brilliant idea. > > Why don't some cars have a little tiny furnace for stash destruction? > If you've got an on-board stash and some Alabama hillbilly with a badge > pulls you over, you just hit the button and hav

Re: [Politech] Thumbprinting visitors at the Statue of Liberty (fwd from declan@well.com)

On 2005-04-28T15:37:19-0700, cypherpunk wrote: > > Matthew's snapshots: one > > (http://www.boingboing.net/images/Liberty-Locker-Thumbs-2.jpg), two > > (http://www.boingboing.net/images/Liberty-Locker-Thumbs1.jpg). > > If this were really as much of a conspiracy as people are making it > out to be

Re: Email Certification?

On 2005-04-27T16:09:12-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > Oh...this post was connected to my previous one. > > Is there some way to make it evident that someone has opened your email? Hotmail could make this evident. - Force deleted messages to remain in the Trash bin for a week after receipt of the

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

On 2005-03-26T20:05:14-0800, Eric Cordian wrote: > Justin writes: > > > If the judge's decision had been the opposite, there might be a bounty > > on his head for that, too. > > Somehow letting someone who has lived 15 years with a significant brain > injury l

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

On 2005-03-26T11:04:46-0800, Eric Cordian wrote: > This just in from CNN: > > [FBI agents have arrested a North Carolina man on suspicion of soliciting > offers over the Internet to kill Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer. > Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview is accused of offering $250,000 for t

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

On 2005-03-26T22:35:23-0800, Eric Cordian wrote: > Justin writes: > > > Artificially feeding her against her wishes and/or the wishes of her > > husband (whose wishes have precedence over the wishes of her parents -- > > if you don't like that, get that law chan

Re: What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA?

On 2005-03-22T15:48:19+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/1937206 > Posted by: timothy, on 2005-03-21 23:11:00 > >from the if-you-have-nothing-to-hide dept. >[1]NevDull writes "As creepy as it may be to deal with identity theft >from corporate

Re: End of a cypherpunk era?

On 2005-03-06T00:03:01+0100, Anonymous wrote: > Ian Grigg writes at > http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000381.html: > : Is this the end of an era, a defining cypherpunk moment? It doesn't make much sense to renounce your U.S. citizenship if your relatives, who you care about and wh

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

On 2005-03-03T11:52:59+, ken wrote: > > >Chat is already higher volume (I read somewhere) in > >raw quantity of messages sent than email. > > I suspect you don't get much traffic. The beauty of a > non-real-time store-and-forward system like smtp (or SMS, or > oldstyle conferencing systems

palm beach HIV

Given the release of Palm Beach HIV+ patient information via "accidental" attachment to a widely-distributed email, should agencies with access to confidential information implement mandatory access control and role-based security so that, barring problems with the RBAC/MAC software, confidential d

MIME stripping

On 2005-02-21T22:40:03+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Yes, complain to the Al-Q. node maintainer. The same code which strips my > digital signatures also wrap the lines. Really? http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&scoring=d&enc_author=8NH-JhofCMh-TnQo0KXFjppET7C1dSi2gjvQCgNblIvwKtcqeQ

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

On 2005-02-16T13:18:16-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > --- Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > > > --- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > > As governments were creat

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

On 2005-02-16T13:31:14-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > --- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Property is like rights. We create it inherently, because we're human, > > it > > is not bestowed upon us by someone else. Particularly if that property > > is > > stolen from someone

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > --- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > As governments were created to smash property rights, they are > > always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property, > > and the greatest enemy of those with the most

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

On 2005-02-15T21:40:34+, Justin wrote: > On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > > --- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > As governments were created to smash property rights, they are > > > alwa

Re: Team Building?? WIMPS!!

On 2005-02-13T13:22:43+0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > Well, I didn't say it would be easy. We'd definitely need to split up into > > teams...one to handle the alarm systems, > > Teamwork is essential here. > ... > Optionally just add couple more mine

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

On 2005-02-09T22:38:05-0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:09 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > > -- > > There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating > > system, so Linus did. > > Linus Torvalds didn't write the GNU OS. He wrote the Linux kernel, which > when

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

On 2005-02-04T23:28:56+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:21:47PM +0000, Justin wrote: > > > They managed with the HTDV broadcast flag mandate. > > If I film off a HDTV screen with a HDTV camera (or just do single-frame > with a good professional cam

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

On 2005-02-03T22:25:28+0100, Anonymous wrote: > The only people endangered by this capability are those who want to be > able to lie. They want to agree to contracts and user agreements that, > for example, require them to observe DRM restrictions and copyright > laws, but then they want the power

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

On 2005-02-04T14:30:48-0500, Mark Allen Earnest wrote: > The government was not able to get the Clipper chip passed and that was > backed with the horror stories of rampant pedophilia, terrorism, and > organized crime. Do you honestly believe they will be able to destroy > open source, linux, in

Re: Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest

On 2005-01-29T13:16:24+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/030223 > Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 11:03:00 > >from the if-you're-innocent-you-have-nothing-to-fear dept. >[1]Richard M. Smith writes "Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip >Sc

Re: Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic

On 2005-01-28T20:03:22-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > The New York Times > January 27, 2005 > Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS > > ``The whole Internet is

Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits

> > > Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online > movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading > community. As much as I'd like to be upset, they are driving innovation of p2p s

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

On 2005-01-20T12:16:34+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology > retraction). How could they possibly get clue? Scientists don't want to write pop-sci articles for a living. It's impossible to condense most current research down to diges

Re: panix.com hijacked

On 2005-01-16T09:46:28-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:32:46 EST, Henry Yen said: > > > > > > . panix.net usable as panix.com (marcotte) Sat Jan 15 10:44:57 2005 > > > > So let's see.. the users will see this when they log into sh

Re: Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun

On 2005-01-14T15:42:18-0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > > At 01:54 PM 1/14/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > > > >NEW YORK -- There is a nationwide alert to members of law enforcement > >regarding a new kind of handgun which can render a bulletproof vest > >

Re: Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun

On 2005-01-14T16:54:32-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > > Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun I care? Well, perhaps I do... I should go pick one up before they're banned. > The most shocking fact may be that the gun -- known as the "five-

Re: Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun

On 2005-01-15T09:38:23+, Justin wrote: > On 2005-01-14T15:42:18-0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > Seems like scare-mongering to me, not a practical concern. > > Of course it's not a practical concern. Criminals already have access > to handguns that will defeat com

Re: Ridge Wants Fingerprints in Passports

On 2005-01-13T17:46:39-0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > > 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. Fine with me if the first person to get a new biometric passport gets Ridge's fingers as par

Re: Florida man faces bioweapon charge

On 2005-01-13T17:48:13-0800, Eric Cordian wrote: > > RAH pastes: > > > She said that on at least one occasion he showed her something he had > > purchased via the Internet and expressed concern that if their cat > > inadvertently ate enough of it, the cat would die, according to the > > affidavit

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

On 2005-01-10T15:04:21-0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > > John Kelsey > > > >Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire > > > By ANNE EISENBERG > > > > I just wonder what the false negative rates are. Seem like a > > A remarkable number of police deaths are 'own gun' > incidents, so the

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

On 2005-01-10T15:42:47-0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > > And we'll probably have many years of non-Smart-Gun type accidents...eg, > Drunk guy at party put gun to his head and blew his own brains out, > assuming it was a smart gun, or, trailer park momma gives gun to toddler > assuming its a "safe"

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

On 2005-01-11T10:07:22-0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > Justin wrote: > > > > I don't believe the article when it says that smart guns are useless > > if stolen. What do they have, a tamper-proof memory chip storing a > > 128-bit reprogramming authorization key tha

Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

On 2005-01-06T12:06:40-0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > > Well, I used to be pro gun-control prior to the Patriot Act. Guess the > Patriot Act made me something of a Patriot. What else would the PATRIOT act do? That's a particularly malicious psychological trick on the part of the miserable bastards

Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

On 2005-01-08T12:54:25-0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > >What else would the PATRIOT act do? That's a particularly malicious That was scarcasm. > >psychological trick on the part of the miserable bastards who named it. > >It doesn't so much matter that it's obvious. > > Somehow, I don't think the ba

Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?

On 2004-12-21T10:38:10-0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > put it this way it starts to make some sense. In other words, avoiding > > travel whenever possible will (when added to sheeple starting to do the same > > because of all the terible screening stori

Re: pgp "global directory" bugged instructions

On 2004-12-16T05:50:22-0500, Adam Back wrote: > > So PGP are now running a pgp key server which attempts to consolidate > the inforamtion from the existing key servers, but screen it by > ability to receive email at the address. > ... > So here's the problem: it does not mention anything about che

Re: Do 'Ocean's Twelve'-Style Heists Really Happen?

On 2004-12-15T10:14:14-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > This popped up in my "bearer" filter this morning... > > Cheers, > RAH > --- > > > > MTV.com - Movies - News > 12.14.2004 9:03 PM EST > > Reel To Real: Do 'Ocean's

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

On 2004-12-11T06:48:41-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: > >Now we're back to the MixMaster argument. Mixmaster was meant to be a > >"Napster-level popular app" for emailing, but people just don't care > >about anonymity. > > Mixmaster is the m

Re: Insurrectionist covers

On 2004-12-10T15:50:22-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > > --- "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Thompson wrote: > > > > > --- "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [Colouring outside the lines] > > > > > Yes, you have a point there.I guess a better cover

Re: primes as far as the eye can see, discrete continua

On 2004-12-08T10:30:22-0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > >From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Saw in a recent _Science_ that Ben Green of Cambridge proved > >that for any N, there are an infinite number of evenly spaced > >progressions > >of primes that are N numbers long. He got a p

Re: primes as far as the eye can see, discrete continua

On 2004-12-08T11:10:28-0500, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > > Tyler Durden wrote: > > >What about where N=1? > > > >I don't understand. You can only have an infinite number (or number of > >progressions) where the number of numbers in a number is inifinite. > > differing by 2. The _Science_ articl

Re: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype

On 2004-12-01T10:27:59-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > > > In a 19 July, 2004 press release, Albrecht made a clear mention of the > imaginary 160: > > "Promoting implanted RFID devices as a security measure is downright >

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

On 2004-11-27T06:36:24-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 > >Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 > > low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the > > cover of

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

On 2004-11-08T10:09:41-0500, John Kelsey wrote: > Kerry spent essentially no time talking about the creepy implications > of the Jose Padilla case (isn't he still being held incommunicado, > pending filing in the right district?), or the US government's use of > torture in the war on terror despite

Re: Collateral damage?

On 2004-11-08T20:42:33-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > >How does this change if I'm a child whose trust fund contains the > >stock? Or if I hold a >mutual fund I inherited with a little Exxon > >stock > > What part of "collateral damage" don't you understand? Yep. When we shoot at people

Supreme Court Issues

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/politics/07court.html?partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print We're going to get some extremist anti-abortion, pro-internment, anti-1A, anti-4A, anti-5A, anti-14A, right-wing wacko. Imagine Ashcroft as Chief Justice. I really hope I'm wrong. What happens when the C

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

On 2004-11-06T16:39:41+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:46:17AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > So: A 'moral values' question for Cypherpunks. Does this election indict > > the American people as being complicit in the crime known as "Operation > > Of course. What kind of

Re: Donald's Job Description

On 2004-10-25T22:32:48+0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:20:28PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > > *Nobody* was a counterbalance to Tim, me or anyone else. Simple fact, no > > matter how much he pissed on my shoes, or anyone else's. > > What's he up to these days? It seems he

Interventionism

On 2004-10-22T14:59:26-0400, John Kelsey wrote: > > >From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Oct 19, 2004 10:23 AM > >Subject: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity) > > >More than that, some of the countries we've been kicked out or prevented > >from influencing have been

Re: Doubt

On 2004-10-25T10:00:46-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > > Peter Capelli 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 >

Re: Airport insanity

On 2004-10-16T22:12:52-0400, Sunder wrote: > There is still of course the matter of the unexploded bombs in that > building that were dug out, and that the ATF received a "Don't come in to > work" page on their beepers, and the seize and classification of all > surveilance video tapes from thing

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

On 2004-10-03T13:32:36-0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > The US *is* the Fourth Reich. Personally, I will take what comes. -- The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails. -- L. Ron Hubbard

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

On 2004-09-17T19:27:09-0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > At 06:20 AM 9/17/04 +, Justin wrote: > >On 2004-09-16T20:11:56-0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> At 02:17 PM 9/16/04 -0700, Joe Touch wrote: > >> >Except that certs need to be signed by authoriti

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

On 2004-09-16T20:11:56-0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > At 02:17 PM 9/16/04 -0700, Joe Touch wrote: > >Except that certs need to be signed by authorities that are trusted. > > Name one. Oh, come on. Nothing can be absolutely trusted. How much security is enough? Aren't the DOD CAs trusted

Re: Flying with Libertarian Hawks

On 2004-09-10T12:02:12-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > > Damn right. 'Conservative' means agreeing with the most vocal proponents of > the current right wing apparatchiks. It seems to have little or no > relationship to fiscally conservative ideas. Aren't the most vocal proponents of right-wing pol

Re: Vote for nobody

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-09-06T06:22:29-0700, Sarad AV wrote: > > the election commision of india had a proposal to the > govt. that the voter should be able to vote for 'none > of the above'. Though one can predict that such a > proposal will never be approved by the

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

On 2004-08-30T17:40:25-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 05:23 AM 8/30/2004, Justin wrote: > >Are States "geopolitical distortions" as well? Are countries? > > > >If you're going to propose an alternate system, please clearly identify > >1) the voting poo

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

On 2004-08-27T13:14:47-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 04:12 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote: > > >On 2004-08-25T11:25:09-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > >> Like a shoemaker who only has hammers in his toolkit, Chaum is trying to > >> fix the wrong problem. The problems with voting in the U.S. aren't > >curr

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-08-25T11:25:09-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 09:18 AM 8/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > > >Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - > > > >Tilting at the Ba

Re: Another John Young Sighting

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

Re: Mexico Atty. General gets microchipped (fwd)

On 2004-07-25T13:44:39-0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:20:44PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > "No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, > > nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under > > God." -GW Bush > > Do you have

Re: Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda

On 2004-07-20T21:47:31+0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > > The person in question was just somebody with a weakness for industrial > architecture. You're missing the big picture: A light-skinned person with dark hair, a camera, a white van and an oil refinery, all in Shrub's home state. That's a bo

Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/415877|top|07-19-2004::15:07|reuters.html Jul 19, 2:57 PM (ET) HOUSTON (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials said on Monday they are looking for a man seen taking pictures of two refineries in Texas City, Texas. Texas City, located on the Texas Gulf coast abo

Re: Querying SSL/TLS capabilities of SMTP servers

This one should work better. The last one had string comparison problems. #!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Select; use IO::Socket; use Net::DNS; $ehloname = "mail.senate.gov"; $timeout = 15; $dlevel = 0; sub debug { (my $str, my $mlevel) = @_; if ($mlevel <= $dlevel) { print "DEBUG $str"; } }

Re: Querying SSL/TLS capabilities of SMTP servers

On 2004-07-09T01:46:26+0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > > It fails on hotmail.com; my script has problems there as well (and with > couple others, the cure seems to be adding delays between the lines sent > to the server; it makes the program slow, but more reliable). This should work much better

Re: Querying SSL/TLS capabilities of SMTP servers

On 2004-07-08T17:50:57+0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > I cobbled up together a small bash shell script that does this. It lists > the MX records for a domain, and then tries to connect to each of them, > issue an EHLO command, disconnect, then list the output of the server, .. Or, in perl... tho

U.S. forms mid-east terror group!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/06/iraq.main/index.html BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A previously unknown militant group in Iraq is threatening to kill the most-wanted terror suspect in that country: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The Arabic-language TV network Al-Arabiya said it received a taped stateme

Re: UBL is George Washington

On 2004-07-06T11:28:41-0700, Eric Cordian wrote: > Sunder wrote: > > Right, WTC as a target doesn't make any strategic sense. > Doesn't hitting a world financial center impede the funding of imperialism? Empirically, I don't think so. Since September 11th, funding to the military and security in

Re: UBL is George Washington

On 2004-07-05T21:32:16+0200, Anonymous wrote: > Major Variola (ret) writes: > > The yanks did not wear regular uniforms and did not march in > > rows in open fields like Gentlemen. Asymmetric warfare means not > > playing by > > *their* rules. > > But asymm warfare has to accomplish its goal. It

Re: Shuffling to the sound of the Morlocks' dinner bell

On 2004-06-27T17:53:05-0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > > I will vote for a candidate who -- if he had his way -- would [...] > pull us out of the deadly, illegal and unconstitutional war in Iraq; > and put the U

Re: Shuffling to the sound of the Morlocks' dinner bell

On 2004-06-27T18:26:05-0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > > All because you don't want to "throw away your vote" -- and register your > > disapproval with that state of affairs -- by voting for a guy who would > > make you feel decent and clean. > > In *

Re: [IP] When police ask your name, you must give it, Supreme Court says (fwd from dave@farber.net)

On 2004-06-21T22:38:01-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > Not a problem. Its legal to use any name you wish, including those that > use gyphs and sounds which cannot be represented by standard Roman and > non-Roman alphabets (as is common in some African tribes). So, those that > wish to avoid this d

Re: [IP] When police ask your name, you must give it, Supreme Court says (fwd from dave@farber.net)

On 2004-06-22T02:52:15-0400, Gabriel Rocha wrote: > > On Jun 21 2004, Steve Schear wrote: > | Not a problem. Its legal to use any name you wish, including those that > | use gyphs and sounds which cannot be represented by standard Roman and > | non-Roman alphabets (as is common in

(fwd) The Merits in Newdow

Christ. The U.S. is now officially a Christian nation. - Forwarded message from Marty Lederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:56:31 -0400 To: Conlawprof List; Law & Religion issues for Law Academics List Subject: The Merits in Newdow The collection of concurrences on th

Re: War ain't beanbag....What the Fuck?

On 2004-06-13T17:50:43-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > > RAH wrote... > > >>I'd like to hear how children who werent old enough to pronounce the > >>colour were 'reds' who were rightly tortured (apparently) in your > >>view, as well as the many women raped and tortured at the hands of > >>SOA graduat

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

On 2004-06-11T20:22:33-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > > Well, burn down my unabomber shack! Have we smoked out Tim May? As much as > his one-sided thinking pisses me off sometimes I miss the sheer "fuck you" > of it. > > >From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If so, it's quite a clever disguise. User-Age

Re: Swindle these guys?

On 2004-06-09T12:39:31-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > Since an important theme in Cypherpunks is anonymous transactions, I'm > wondering if there isn't some way we can't reverse-swindle folks like this, > perhaps by getting them to wire into an egold account or something. > Supposedly, they perform

Iraq developments

Politics in action... acting president of the Iraqi council is assassinated; coalition finds "small amounts of" sarin released from an exploding shell in Iraq. What's next, we steal all their remaining chemical weapons and bring them and our military home? -- "Not your decision to make." "Yes.

Re: Can Skype be wiretapped by the authorities? (fwd from em@em.no-ip.com)

John Young (2004-05-11 00:09Z) wrote: > Brian Dunbar wrote: > >> Like it matters. Do you really think that the government would really > >> allow Intel and AMD to sell CPUs that didn't have tiny transmitters in > them? > >> Your CPU is actually transmitting every instruction it executes to the

Re: Fact checking

Damian Gerow (2004-04-29 02:07Z) wrote: > Thus spake Justin [28/04/04 15:41]: > : Requiring that adults vote is a terrible idea. While being deathly ill... > > Proxy vote. I did it for two 'invalid' relatives this year. I hadn't looked it up before, but it seems mos

Re: Fact checking

Graham Lally (2004-04-28 14:47Z) wrote: > Damian Gerow wrote: > >I don't see any way to educate the mass public. > > Indeed, why bother? How about a system that removes your right to vote > if you haven't exercised it in the last 3 elections? Requiring that adults vote is a terrible idea. While

Re: Fact checking

Thomas Shaddack (2004-04-28 18:32Z) wrote: > What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they > can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific > penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe. Presidents don't pass laws. Presidential

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

Dave Howe (2004-04-13 14:11Z) wrote: > 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

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

Riad S. Wahby (2004-04-13 01:49Z) wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040412/wr_nm/tech_google_dc_1 > > A private interaction between two consenting parties has absolutely > nothing to do with the state, period. The bitch supporting this shit > should be removed from office fo

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