At 10:12 PM 7/21/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
With all due respect, you think Ft. Meade uses the same COTS crap
as you are forced to deal with? Bwah hah hah.
Sorry Major, I'm gonna have to call you on that one. Yes, they are
lighting
At 01:07 PM 7/18/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Let me fill in what he left out. Yes, the industry is moving towards
MPLS over POS. That's not where it is now though. At least not for
most
interfaces. Right now the industry is chock full of lagacy gear,
mostly
old fashioned ATM. You think
At 05:15 PM 7/17/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Sorry to need educating once again, but I had assumed can-shaped
capacitors
were gone from laptops in lieu of surface mount. Anyone know? (I don't
own a
laptop.)
-TD
With apologies, you really seem a troll at times.
The *power supply* may use
At 02:19 PM 7/16/04 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
I don't quite know what to make of this. Is it just paranoid rambling?
http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1articleid=711
What I experienced during that
flight has caused me to question whether the United States of
At 04:03 AM 7/17/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the
rapid depressurization so well.
Perhaps it's time to challenge the introductory assumption. Why a
laptop?
There are many
At 10:30 AM 7/16/04 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
So it should be interesting to see how this case unfolds, in a country
where Martha
Stewart can go to prison for lying, but Colin Powell can't.
Colin was/is played the fool. He was a killer, wanted to be a diplomat.
They had to let him; but he's so
At 03:34 PM 7/16/04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a few months back offering an alternative to religion in
recruitment: the terminally ill.
That's not good for this purpose; their lifetime is too short.
Do you have evidence to support this (e.g., average survivial times of
the TI
At 03:35 PM 7/13/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jiveturky/185733.html
After waiting around for about 45 minutes, the motorcade passed by us
again. A few police cars, followed by a van or two, drove by. Then, a
Bush/Cheney bus passed, followed by a second one
At 06:30 AM 7/14/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Politicians getting RFIDs.
Will it spur a new generation of smart roadside bombs, landmines, and
perhaps homing missiles?
Do you think UBL tossed his $10K satphone for yucks? It tended to
attract cruise missiles launched by distant cowards.
You
At 08:28 AM 7/13/04 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Bumazhkas? I thought I was pretty familiar with most weapons of the
world,
but not Bumazhkas. What calibre are they? I've always liked those CZ
Model 52
pistols and Model 32 subguns in .30Mauser. Loaded hot with a teflon
coated
bullet they should
At 10:24 PM 7/10/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bill Stewart wrote:
But Osama bin Laden and George Dubya _were_ good buddies, weren't
they?
*Were*??? Don't you mean *are*? Hell, it's Osama that keeps the Angry
Midget in power...
Hey, no offense to short people. Just
At 09:03 AM 7/9/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Looking for nitrogen doesn't cover all explosives, but most of them.
Yes. That Jamaican dude had TATP, triacetyl tri peroxide
if IIRC, in his shoe. But the dingbat tried to light a shoelace on
a non-smoking flight.
Peroxides need contain zero
At 12:25 AM 7/9/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
A few years ago it was requests on how to make bombs, now it's
this shit.
The UBL is GW message sounded provocateurish, too.
But Osama bin Laden and George Dubya _were_ good buddies, weren't they?
Sure, along with that Nicaraguan dude.
The
At 02:04 AM 7/10/04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a few months back offering an alternative to religion in
recruitment: the terminally ill.
Yes, that remains valid. As does anonymous broadcasting, eg
usenet stego.The essential problem for us sleeper cells is to
be able to access
At 01:08 PM 7/8/04 -0400, Sunder wrote:
I recently visited the Canadian side of Niagra falls. On the return
entry
to the US customs, etc. meant driving through penns that look like toll
booths. But I noticed little sensors in pairs and large square sensors
as
well.
1. I've seen adverts for
At 03:05 PM 7/8/04 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
At 09:31 PM 7/7/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 02:55 PM 7/7/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
A few years ago. Lets call it two years ago. That would make the
average hi-cap drive around 30gb.
Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity
If you've ever developed crypto hardware or software, you get to the
point where you memorize the hex for a key block, and when you
see it computed correctly (even as you tweak the code or RTL)
its a joy.
One can also look at the entropic properties as you feed test
vectors (eg 1,2,3,4...) into
I am currently working as a security consultant at a major kiretsu
that makes printers/fax/copiers/scanners. Important eg in
a hospital where HIPAA requires that info not be leaked.
Eg the xerox-tech swaps a drive and gets to look
at the data on it. Or your accountant is using a wireless laptop
At 03:26 PM 7/7/04 -0400, Sunder wrote:
Here we go again. Get ready for more FUD from the LEO's, I can see Fox
news now.
Perhaps, but some will tune in and learn a thing or two.
(Albeit we'll suffer the September effect...)
...
This one is for Eunice Stone, who turned in 3 medical
students
At 02:55 PM 7/7/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
A few years ago. Lets call it two years ago. That would make the
average hi-cap drive around 30gb.
Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster*
than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time.
At 09:32 PM 7/5/04 +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's not being very
At 02:47 PM 7/6/04 -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
Messages in storage have much lower judicial protection than messages
in
transit. (This does not have much technical merit, in the current
atmosphere of damn the laws - there are terrorists around the
corner,
but can be seen as a nice little
At 08:44 PM 7/6/04 +, Justin wrote:
It may be that the only way out is through,
and that the only way to be free from Western Imperialism is to cause
it
to strangle itself.
You don't get it. The way to be free from Colonialists is to remind
the folks *behind the Colonialism* that they are
A friend of mine botched a suicide attempt and in order to get
any info I (we) pretended we were stepbrothers. It occurred
to me a half hour later that we had the same first names. So
it must have been confusing to our fictious stepmom :-)
But if you play up a story about dysfunctional
At 06:58 AM 7/7/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I can't imagine any intelligence professional wasting her time reading
the crap at times coming over this list.
Frankly sir, that's because you have no idea of their budget,
or their fascistic urges.Its not paranoia to think you're tapped,
its
At 08:10 AM 7/7/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
So, which is better, Schneier's books or Mitnick's? I suspect
the former, but am curious what the community opinion is?
You may like one side of the coin more than the other one, but they
still
Absolutely, look at the threat model. You're not worried about
someone
breaking into your computer, you're worried about your ISP legally
reading your email.
Guaranteed, and encryption is bait. Use stego.
That's very true, however there can be operators you trust more than
your
ISP, eg. a
At 11:57 PM 7/3/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
requires blackbagging - something that was a lot more limited prior to
9/11).
Was the FBI/SS (ie, US internal security service) so impotent after
the McVeigh Oklahoma ANFO feedback that they couldn't pull off a
black bag job on organized militias,
At 12:00 AM 7/4/04 -0400, Howie Goodell wrote:
For starters, I think the use of terrorism is a moral a distinction
worth making. Murdering thousands of civilians is not the same thing
as attacking enemy troops. (To be consistent, the plane that hit the
Pentagon was not terrorism, but a military
At 09:58 PM 7/1/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Submitted for comment :-)
...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you
do
not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks
out
about them.
Osama Bin Laden
UBL's morals, which he unfortunately gets
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
(But
your honor, it's stored for 1/60th of a second in the phosphor! It's a
storage medium!), etc.
Amongst the earliers RAMs were tubes of mercury with a pulse-generator
at one end and a microphone at the other. The speed of sound provided
the delay,
At 06:25 PM 7/3/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
automatically send SMS messages to a list of numbers. The government
already keeps statistics on number of messages sent at time period from
a
single number, and alerts the officials when it's above the limit and
then
the content is checked
At 09:34 PM 7/2/04 -0400, Dave Emery wrote:
frequency of 915 mhz at a power a little under 1 mw (0 dbm).
Meaning one can have a lot of fun while tossing one's change
into the funnel as the privacy-whores cruise by...
Diamond dust in the machine...
At 07:18 PM 7/3/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
I dunno...as an ex-optical engineer/physicst, I'm sceptical about this
whole
scary tempest bullcrap. Even if it can be made to work fairly
reliably, I
suspect deploying it is extremely costly.
So? The State can print money... And people are cheap.
At 04:35 AM 7/4/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
And digital edges are sharp, in the Ghz even when the clock is in
the
Mhz.
How much do the spread spectrum clock feature on the modern
motherboards
help here?
They do complicate things. But I bet
At 07:23 PM 7/3/04 -0500, bgt wrote:
With a few keystrokes on a wireless phone, a m-mode subscriber is
given the approximate geographic location of his friend, such as a
street intersection. The two friends can then exchange messages, call
the other, or choose a place to meet from a directory of
At 04:20 PM 6/28/04 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
From: a.melon@
Major Variola (ret) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2004-06-27:
Any signal you put out is trackable to you geographically, whether
its
a cell or GPS frequency.
A GPS receiver doesn't broadcast its location. GPS works purely by
analyzing
At 06:27 PM 6/26/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Eventually the cellphones will be able to tell another phone approx
where they are. Remember the 911-locator fascism?
I hate to break the news to you Major, but GPS enabled phones cannot
At 09:25 PM 6/26/04 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I wrote:
It would be hard to verify/test that you had in fact cut the
correct
trace,
and it would depend on the phone, and you would void your
warrantee.
Firmware hacks are of course the free man's last refuge.
Of course
At 06:38 AM 6/27/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
If the phone is shielded, it can't transmit/receive, which makes it
rather
useless. :(
When you don't want to use it, why should it not be useless?
There is one potential landmine as well; the inherent ability of any
device containing resonators
At 02:02 AM 6/27/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Can it be disabled by hardware hack of the phone, a mikropower jammer,
or using an unofficial firmware?
I wrote:
It would be hard to verify/test that you had in fact cut the correct
trace,
and it would depend on the phone, and you would
At 02:02 AM 6/27/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Can it be disabled by hardware hack of the phone, a mikropower jammer,
or
using an unofficial firmware?
It would be hard to verify/test that you had in fact cut the correct
trace,
and it would depend on the phone, and you would void your
At 11:53 PM 6/26/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Yes, I suppose that the more technical amongst us could selctively jam
only the one signal, however, cellular phones are mighty low power
devices,
They can put half (?) a watt out, some of it absorbed by your brain
and hand BTW.
and I would not
At 07:21 AM 6/26/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/26/technology/26ALIB.html?th=pagewanted=printposition=
The New York Times
June 26, 2004
For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
By MATT RICHTEL
Eventually the cellphones will be able to tell another phone
At 07:04 AM 6/27/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Yes, I suppose that the more technical amongst us could selctively
jam
only the one signal, however, cellular phones are mighty low power
devices, and I would not hazard a guess as to whether it would
Gaelic looks like 7-ASCII-bit line noise to me. A Gaelic name could be
created
which clueless fascists would assume the spelling of, but the
correct spelling would be fairly far (in some linguistic Hamming metric)
from the assumed spelling. How do you spell John Smith in Gaelic?
Just a
At 12:41 AM 6/27/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 11:56 PM 6/26/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Hrmmm... Cell Phone. TEMPEST Case.
What's wrong with this picture???
1. You can't receive calls. Only make outgoing, from a location
which
At 11:56 PM 6/26/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Hrmmm... Cell Phone. TEMPEST Case.
What's wrong with this picture???
1. You can't receive calls. Only make outgoing, from a location
which is known to fascists.
2. Use it for your toll-road-transponder too.
At 12:01 AM 6/27/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Interestingly, some [early] models had external antenna jacks built in
to
them.
Again I am a few Moore's generations behind. (Does that make me a
semi-Amish atheist?
Or a reformed Luddite?) Where I vacation sometimes, I would
need a metallized
At 12:25 AM 6/27/04 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
Triangluating on a non-isotropic antenna should be quite a bit
harder...
Bingo. Watch your sidelobes, baby.
At 11:05 AM 6/24/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Hum...perhaps some oregano needs to be laced with cy*n*de or something.
Let
that piece of shit sniff THAThe did, after all, literally ask for
it.
You could even say, Uh, you don't want to sniff that...
LD50 for KCN is about 3mg/Kg. Not only a
happens.
How many names can a person have? Anyone can change
their name any number of times if not for fraudulent
purposes. My brother changed his middle name from
something normal to Cariboo. My dad's a lawyer so
the fees were zero. Can I use Major Variola (ret)
as a nym since I use it? Must I
clicks are rare now but may have been common when humans hunted
as they are more discrete. they are notated by modern linguists as
!. Vietnamese has punctuation marks up the kazoo. Futurist types
often pick new names for themselves. Is ESPN a name? Can
I use unicode on my son's birth cert?
Don't citizens have to have an english-alphabet transliteration of
their
name to use for legal purposes (birth certificate, green card, social
security record)?
Not in the US. In Japan and some nordic countries, only established
names can be registered.
The DMV differentiates same-name people
How about Mr. Null Void? That should be plenty of fun
for data-entry clerks and the like..
critters.
Anyway, to everyone who's contributed to my informal education, thanks.
I'm not going away, but neither will I have Il dulce far niente (The
sweetness of doing nothing -S Schear's elegant unemployment motto)
Major Variola (ret)
At 12:52 PM 6/17/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Could it be possible to achieve the same without using a movable
antenna?
Eg, by an antenna array and comparing phases of the arriving signals?
A phased array will work but few of us have the DSP or Ghz skills or $
to
construct one. Whereas a
At 10:40 PM 6/16/04 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
0.25 glass will cost you 2-2.5 dB.
Perhaps there are speciality glasses or
polymer sheets which reduce that loss.
At sufficiently good mechanical stabilization and gain, you will
encounter perhaps
The best way to do this is to mount the
Telescopes are sold for $200 which include
programmable positioning devices (2 axes obvioiusly). I suppose
its just a reduction drive and the usual electro-mech-control stuff but
it implies a high degree of angular resolution for cheap. Has anyone:
1. ever used the refractor type telescope tube
At 06:03 PM 6/16/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Aperture is tiny (and expensive, exponentially so). Visible wavelength
vs.
microwave is a
complete overkill in terms of mirror precision (lambda/10..100).
Exactly. I wasn't suggesting using the optical reflector (front surface
Al over glass)
but
http://www.modusdata.net/consultants.html
We Will Not Be Impressed By:
CISSP Security and other Computer Certifications
Security Clearances acheived in the military
Illegal and Unethical acts perpetrated by you in the past
Illegal defacement and intrusion to our webserver(it is not hosted by
At 11:47 AM 5/19/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Bournemouth-born Mrs Rey, 47, said: I'd have thought going in my
robes,
wearing my chains and going with the mace-bearer would be enough.
I don't think that wearing your S M gear reduces your security risk...
At 04:11 PM 5/18/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 12:49 PM 5/18/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Defense Department, strapped for troops for
missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, has proposed to Congress that it tap
the
Internal Revenue Service to locate out-of-touch
At 12:22 AM 5/19/04 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Peter Fairbrother
(Who is right now composing a talk about the uses of modexp in crypto,
for
those far more knowledgeable than I)
Modexp is Prometheus send from Olympia to let us speak between
ourselves.
Modexp has many implementation
At 05:18 AM 5/18/04 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
I'm moving from Massachusetts to Texas, and unfortunately that means
Congrats on being able to exercise your 2nd amendment rights a little
bit more..
At 12:06 PM 5/19/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
--- begin forwarded text
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe_and_insecure/index.html
By Micah Joel
May 18, 2004
Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless
router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address
Indictment against violent Bronx gang includes terrorism charges
By Associated Press
Friday, May 14, 2004
NEW YORK - Nineteen members of a street gang accused of
menacing their neighborhood have been indicted on murder and
other charges as acts of terror, believed to be the first use of the
At 03:09 PM 5/11/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
The second covers a hacking the system concept. I'd considered
something similar myself, though different in approach. Rather than
finding RFID chips and redistributing them, why not create
programmable RFID broadcasters which could spoof other
ASK any Elmer you happen to see,
what's the best jamming, RFID..
(With apologies to the tuna industry and those too young to
know the jingle. Or to know the RF double meanings.)
Interesting cultural reference that goes entirely above my head with a
cute swooshing sound.
Care to explain,
We in al Qaeda organization are committed to a prize of 10,000 grams of
gold to whoever kills Bremer,
his deputy, the commander of American forces or his deputy in Iraq, the
voice said.
Bin Laden also offers 1kg of gold for killing a US
soldier or civilians, and 500 grams for killing an allied
The volume of data they collect has reached the point where good
analysis is no longer tractable in a theoretical algorithmic sense with
the best tools they currently have at their disposal, particularly when
you have a data space as broad and diffuse as terrorism to sift.
This is a sham.
Computer Student on Trial for Aid to Muslim Web Sites
By TIMOTHY EGAN
Published: April 27, 2004
OISE, Idaho, April 23 Not long after the terrorist attacks of Sept.
11, 2001, a group of Muslim students led by a Saudi Arabian doctoral
candidate held a candlelight vigil in the small college town
At 10:28 PM 4/26/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
But when I want a really bright flash on about 800-900 nm, what
approach
is the best?
A 1 watt IR laser diode used for burning wood. They show up on eBay
for ~$100.Might start a fire though :-) Also has pointing issues.
What would be the
At 06:39 PM 4/26/04 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank
Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a Tipper Sticker, indicating obscene
lyrics. They didn't notice that _JfH_ was an instrumental album.
I didn't know that album got Tippered. I do
At 09:46 AM 4/27/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Bredesen has proposed that the state issue a certificate of driving
to
those who either have temporary, legal documents to work or go to
school
here or to those who can prove their identity and residence in
Tennessee.
The certificates cannot be
Specificiation For
A Duress File System.
Disguised as a
Watermark Annotation Management System
Maj. Variola (ret), the OsamaSoft Corporation
---
Background:
To deter torture, physically
At 11:33 PM 4/22/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
This will produce a loud bang, obviously.
Thermite is a good choice to turn your fileserver into lava, but that
thing
better be outside, or mounted in chamotte- or asbestos-lined metal
closet.
Will produce smoke, and take some time, too.
Thanks, I
At 08:51 PM 4/23/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, John Kelsey wrote:
The obvious problem with multiple levels of passwords and data is:
When
does the guy with the rubber hose stop beating passwords out of you?
This serves a purpose as well.
Why would you ever cooperate if
t 10:09 AM 4/23/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
I wonder how quickly one could incinerate a memory card in the field
with high success rate? Destroy the data and the passphrases don't
help.
Well, what if there were 3 passwords:
1) One for Fake data, for amatuers (very few of the MwG will
At 09:23 PM 4/22/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Innocents could be a good cannon fodder that can bring a lot of
backslash and alienation aganst the goons, stripping them from public
support.
Yes, this has been discussed before, in addition to using it
retributionally --finger some deserving
At 12:09 PM 4/22/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Are you truly expecting a worldwide ban on encryption? How do you prove
somebody is using encryption on a steganographic channel?
Torture, of the sender, receiver, or their families, has worked pretty
well.
If you're good you don't even leave marks.
At 05:56 PM 4/22/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 12:09 PM 4/22/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Are you truly expecting a worldwide ban on encryption? How do you
prove
somebody is using encryption on a steganographic channel?
Torture
At 08:28 AM 4/20/04 +1000, Tim Benham wrote:
I'm glad someone liked it. The voting thread seemed mainly about
achieving
19th century ideals with 21st century technology. But it seemed to me
as
coercively non-libertarian to forcibly prevent people from verifiably
revealing their vote as it is to
At 09:25 AM 4/17/04 +1000, Tim Benham wrote:
I think all this concern about voter coercion is rather overblown.
Maybe we
should ban bank statements because people might be coerced into showing
them
to someone and punished for hiding their money. Receipts might open up
opportunities for voter
At 05:57 AM 4/19/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
Is it possible to have a system where nyms can share reputation
without
divulging the links between them? That would allow the possibility of
eg.
publishing as a new identity while still having the weight of an
already established seasoned
At 03:33 PM 4/15/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Ah shit I hate hearing this. Is it possible to retroactively re-cast a
terrorist attack (eg, World Trade Center) into regular old, 'valid'
warfare? Bush policies seem to be doing this.
We are freedom fighters.
They are terrorists.
Any questions?
At 05:29 PM 4/13/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
Major Variola writes:
Crypto *can* keep bits free. And so maybe language.
But Men with Guns control physical reality, which limits what
those bits can do. Read the archives on the problems with
linking credits to dollars or physical merchandise.
American Airlines admits disclosing passenger data
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A contractor for American Airlines has admitted to
sharing personal passenger information with the US government and other
companies, thrusting the world's largest carrier into a bitter
controversy over rights to privacy in
At 07:20 PM 4/11/04 +, Justin wrote:
Major Variola (ret) (2004-04-11 16:42Z) wrote:
Blacknet is a robust archive for words, immune to force
(by State or private actors), but merely words.
With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all
that,
I think that cypherpunks
At 04:26 PM 4/11/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
When faced with force, you reply with force when you can.
Nah. This isn't even true in a fistfight, except when the guy you're
fighting is a) significantly smaller than you, and b) less trained.
More
often than not, if someone attacks you, it's
And I'd like to see their
adwords facility struggling to come up with something appropriate when
the only legible text is BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE.
Wow are you non-commercial :-)
All the spy stores, sec phone makers, disk encryptors, VPN vendors, etc
will be paying top dollar to get seen by
At 09:58 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, I never claimed to be Einstein, but your 3 simple steps sound a
hell
of a lot like my recipe for making a ham sandwich:
Hardly. One could put together a very slick drop file here for
encrypted net storage
script in a day. One could even
At 05:16 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
(As an aside, although debt has to be -forgiven- after 7 years,
contrary to
popular belief it is not true that a debt has to be -forgotten-...I
know of
one credit major card company that will not accept 'new' cardmembers
that
didn't pay back what they
Meshnets (everyone's a router) is cool, admittedly. But are you going
to spend *your* battery life routing someone else's message?
Fixed P2P energy costs are trivial. Not so for mobile P2P.
And if your meshnodes are mains-powered, you have wires going there,
so wireless is less useful. Solar
At 08:21 PM 4/9/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
It should look a lot like a Golgi stain of your neocortex, though, the
Sorry the below is long, but its subscription only, and the comparisons
to man-made networks are worth reading.
Science, Vol 301, Issue 5641, 1870-1874 , 26 September 2003
At 02:36 PM 4/10/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:03 PM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
So, get a clue. When your battery runs out, you
get *zero* benefit from the mesh. Or even your local
device *sans network*.
Yes, and as your battery starts to run out, you raise the price
At 11:18 AM 4/10/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
What the law actually states is (basically) a defaulted loan must be
forgiven after seven years. In other words, it is illegal to continue
to
attempt to collect on a loan, 7 years after the default.
However, it is perfectly legal to remember that an
At 11:32 AM 4/10/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
So, get a clue. When your battery runs out, you
get *zero* benefit from the mesh. Or even your local
device *sans network*.
Well, as usual I don't think I'm understanding you here. In my example
I'm
imagining I'm a livery cab driver or something.
At 05:34 PM 4/10/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:03:35PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
One can run a P2P app from mains-powered home machine
and incur only a minor bandwidth penalty, which you can
possibly throttle when you're busy. But my
Most P2P clients don't
New DVD player cuts out the smut
By David Usborne in New York
11 April 2004
Like some kind of electronic air freshener, a new generation of DVD
players is poised to clear the smut, violence and bad language out of
living rooms all across America.
Thomson Inc is preparing to ship the
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