Arrested for webmastering

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

Duress, Watermarking, a simple design

Specificiation For A Duress File System. Disguised as a Watermark Annotation Management System Maj. Variola (ret), the OsamaSoft Corporation --- Background: To deter torture, physically *destr

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

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

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

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

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

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 coo

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

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,

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

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

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

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 mark

Re: Vote Market

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

Re: Anonymity vs reputation question

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

Re: Vote Market

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 co

RE: US Brings Freedom of Expression to Iraq

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?

Re: On Killing Blaster

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 m

American Airlines is an info whore too

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 the

Re: On Killing Blaster

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

Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

At 06:48 PM 4/11/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3611227.stm >By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, >eliminating censorship of any kind. > >This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer >(P2P) fil

Re: On Needing Killing (Orwell was an optimist)

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

Re: On Needing Killing

At 05:38 AM 4/11/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: >> And the responsibles need killing. > >No, they don't. > >There are two alternative solutions to the problem of restrictions on >information flow, or more generally restrictions on any sort of voluntary >and cooperative activity. One is to use force to

Re: Fortress America mans the ramparts

At 08:54 AM 4/10/04 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >> Wolfe is also scathing of steps taken post September 11 to protect >>airports. "It's not real security. This is eyewash security. This is for >>public consumption so that people think that they are doing something." > >Several years ago, on this li

Hollywood balks at controlling your own inputs

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 revolutionar

Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery

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: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery

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 somet

RE: legally required forgetting

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

Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery

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 start

cryptography@metzdowd.com

At 01:47 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Adam Fields wrote: >On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:46:47PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> I'm a technophile. I've loved technology all my life. I'm also a >As the supposed experts, how do we get the idea out of people's heads >that making everything electronic and automate

Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery

At 07:06 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >RAH wrote... > >>At 10:43 AM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> >Meshnets (everyone's a router) is cool, admittedly. But are you going >> >to spend *your* battery life routing someone else's message?

Communication in (Neuronal) Networks

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 Com

Meshing costs (Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies)

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

RE: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)

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 th

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

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 p

Re: voting, KISS, etc. (& social bias)

Perry I agree with you on all *except* that you are prejudiced against folks who are not mobile, have immobile dependants, are busy or agoraphobes. In-person voting doesn't resist graveyard voting much better than lining up the meat. One could say that in-person voting rewards those too lazy or c

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

> 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 see

Re: Von Neumann machine - Wikipedia

At 03:36 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >As someone who was a Gerard O'Neill fan long The L-5 dude? I never knew he dabbled in mental-nano-masturbation. I'm familiar with his macroscopic living-in-$pace speculations. >The term von Neumann machine also refe

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

At 01:56 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >[Nanotechology at least holds out the possibility of making Von >Neumann machines, that is, switches which make copies of themselves, You mean Johnny's *replicators*, a vN machine is just one with a changable program store. But you mentioned Jared

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

At 03:29 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 11:28 AM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>Geodesic means shortest path, and you'll note if you play with >>tracert that the shortest path (as seen on Earth's surface) is rarely >>taken. > >Measu

Re: Gmail as Blacknet

At 05:26 AM 4/8/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: >The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about >Google's proposed Gmail service. >Cypherpunks have two somewhat contradictory positions on the issue. >First, as lovers of privacy, they will share the concerns in the letter >and they woul

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

At 09:14 PM 4/7/04 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >At 07:03 PM 4/7/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >>Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed >>terrorist... > >Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. Yep. Everyone who's serious -from Dr. Kazcynzski to th

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

At 02:06 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 9:14 PM -0700 4/7/04, Steve Schear wrote: >>Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. > >On your arms? Legs? Hands? > >Arabs in bunny-suits. Whadda concept. Disposable clothes don't have to be bunny suits. Latex dishwashing glov

Re: voting

At 11:16 PM 4/8/04 +0200, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: >In the second place, it fails for elections with more than two parties >running. The casual reference above to representatives "on each >side" betrays this error. Poorly funded third parties cannot provide >representatives as easily

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

At 11:19 AM 4/8/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >> Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed >> terrorist... > >Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel fuel or equivalent heavy oil >fraction don't show

RE: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

Peter, what would be wrong with having a machine in the booth that prints any valid receipt BUT is not connected to the voting system. "To vote use the red machine; if you're being coerced you can use the blue machine to print as many receipts as intimidators." A trade off between (mild) user co

Utah vs. first amendment, global 'net, cookies

(I'm not defending hostile spyware but there are problems with the law..) http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115527,00.asp Tom Spring, PC World Friday, April 02, 2004 Utah has become the first state to make spyware a crime, passing a law that makes it illegal to install such programs on

[Politech] Reason magazine cover story has unusual privacy theme

_Reason_ pulls a cryptomesque BigEye op on subscribers: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/ Subject: [Politech] Reason magazine cover story has unusual privacy theme [priv] [Disclaimer: I was involved with the Reason article. --Declan] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/bu

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

At 09:03 AM 4/3/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 1:26 PM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>Physics, because large entities have different properties (eg >>surface-to-mass ratio; inertia) than small entities. > >Well, certainly, that's the current wisdom abo

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

At 12:35 PM 4/4/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >>At 1:31 PM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> >A fence is being considered around the Capital in DC also. >> > >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume the purpose of a fence around the Capitol >would be t

priceless

At 08:44 PM 4/4/04 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Shiites hit a home run! > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3599381.stm Deposing a harmless tyrant: $87,000,000,000 Generating 2 Islamic republics plus an ethnic republic that destabilizes Turkey: priceless For colonialism, there's the milita

capitalized capitol

3 [2capital] a : a city serving as a seat of government b : a city preeminent in some special activity However it seems the "ol" version is correct when capitalized: Etymology: Latin Capitolium, temple of Jupiter at Rome on the Capitoline hill 1 a : a building in which a state legislative body m

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

At 03:29 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Howie Carr is shocking Chris Wallace just now about partitioning Iraq >into three countries, Kurdish (who will have oil), Shiite (who will >have oil), and Sunni (who will not; geography's a bitch), all while >putting a Sharon-Fence around the newly

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

At 03:04 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Nozick argues force-monopoly naturally emerges from *any* force >market, that, IIRC, associations will collude and eventually merge >under peaceful circumstances, and, of course, if one fights the >other, it takes the other's turf. > >Personally, I w

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

At 10:46 AM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >The idea is, if transaction and price discovery costs fall enough, >private force companies that auction their services in a free market >become better than the "public" ones that rely on confiscated tax >revenue. Only if they offer comparable servi

RE: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

At 11:38 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > >I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Suprisingly, >it was a light tender meat, resembling veal more than anything >else. Tasted good. Just out of curiosity, how did you verify that it was in fact that species? I mean, if you beat a m

Blackwater

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.blackwatersecurity.com Blackwater had no web pages before Aug 2002. Funny how the 0wn3d media doesn't question the "consultant" label.

Re: Mercs need to wear clean underwear

At 01:41 PM 4/1/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >More to the point, once you cleaned out a bunch of injuns, *somebody* >had to ranch the land, right? Well of course. It was our destiny, our mission. Just like bringing democracy (tm) to the a-rabs, etc. If, of course, they vote for our puppets,

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and kittens

At 03:22 PM 4/1/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > >Last year I found it almost impossible to adopt a kitten or cat that >didn't have an RFID tag implanted under its skin. What is his problem? You just put them in the microwave and the chip is useless.

Re: Mercs need to wear clean underwear

At 05:19 PM 3/31/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >So, what, declare all current property claims in Fallujah to be null and >void, sell claims off to the highest bidder, and whoever gets there with >the most men owns it. I mean, it worked in Texas with the Comanches and >Apaches... How long do we

Starbucks napkin document, Rummy's house redacted

Pentagon's Papers Found at Starbucks Talking points, hand-written notes on spin tactics and a hand-drawn map to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's house were found at a local Starbucks. http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=42125 Nice opsec there, doofus.

Mercs need to wear clean underwear

At 02:55 PM 3/31/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Meaning that the mercs come back with more toys, next time... They need to be driving around in more heavily armored vehicles. All the toys in the world won't help your Toyota repel an RPG. Rather hard not to look obviously military in an APC thoug

Re: DoD advisor advocates piracy

There will be a lot of (justly) dead fishermen in that case. When the USG does piracy, or merely boards a ship, there are major snipers on the US vessel, and the inspectors are accompanied by well armed folks. In addition, free-lance piracy will be a great cover for real pirates at sea. And of

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

At 03:30 PM 3/31/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Uh...this is getting tiring...as far as I'm concerned this part of the >discussion looks like semantics. RAH's main point, physical chemistry aside, was that various folks benefit from hyperbole and/or fearmongering. That point remains valid, in man

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

At 04:35 PM 3/30/04 -0600, bgt wrote: >You need ID to drive, bus, train, or fly... I guess all that's left is >walking and possibly biking. :P The police can ask for ID if you're walking and fit a description ("negro in plaid shirt" I believe was the instance); also that Nevada case pending in the

who needs Padilla when you have govt?

STATE OF CONNETICUT REPORTED THE DISCOVERY OF A STRONTIUM-90 SOURCE The item was found adjacent to a house in a wooded area in East Lyme, CT. It was a cylinder measuring 6 inches in length and 2 inches in diameter. The bottom of the cylinder had the following serial number: M2477. It was a general

eVoting mistakes affect race, certified anyway

Ballot Error Effect Cited Orange County registrar says incorrect electronic ballots may have altered a race's outcome, but says results will be certified today. By Jean O. Pasco Times Staff Writer March 30, 2004 Although some Orange County voters cast the wrong electronic ballots in the March 2 p

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

At 06:44 PM 3/27/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >And, remember again, you have to *enclose* a burning gas to make it >explosive first place. Bob, stick with obfuscated economics and playing with boats. Many gases are explosive in certain ratios to air. Gasoline vapor, acetylene, in a wide range

RE: Sttop Spreading Hatred

At 08:54 PM 3/28/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Listen up. Cypherpunks is a cryptography list, and al-qaeda.net is a node. True so far Well, al-qaeda.net is a DNS record, and the list includes social issues related to crypto-related tech, but lets start off by giving you the point. >The subscri

Re: Mobile Wifi Backpack

At 11:28 AM 3/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl forwarded: >'WiFi.Bedouin > is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global > Internet. It forms a WiFi "island Internet" challenging conventional > assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital > networks that ar

Re: Official notice for all e-gold users

the "all your dinars turn to toilet paper" attack on folks who have lots of cash. Ie, exchange your old currency for new (or check your egold account). Meanwhile these transactions are *monitored*, providing the IRS and DEA (etc) with new leads. Or in the case of egold, traceable IP routes. A

RE: Anonymity of prepaid phone chip-cards

At 12:41 AM 3/27/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >And yet one would've thought that a smart radical would have been able to >purchase a measly couple of 50 lb bags of (NH4NO3) without having to call >all over the place and brag about it, and for cash at that. You don't want >it known, don't sa

RE: Anonymity of prepaid phone chip-cards

At 08:39 PM 3/26/04 -0600, Black Unicorn wrote: > >Keeping calling cards from leaking information probably isn't possible. > >Limiting the information leaked to that which is already known or is useless >is probably the best bet. Using separate cards for separate operations / >cells and immediat

Re: Anonymity of prepaid phone chip-cards

At 01:05 AM 3/27/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At 01:51 PM 3/26/2004, Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Suggested countermeasure: When true anonymity is requested, use the card >>ONLY ONCE, then destroy it. >Better yet, take another 10 minutes, get change from a laundromat, and

Bush Regime Bitch-Slapped By WTO

The World Trade Organization, in its first decision on an Internet-related dispute, has ignited a political, cultural and legal tinderbox by ruling that the United States policy prohibiting online gambling violates international trade law. The ruling, issued by a W.T.O. panel on Wednesday, is bein

Re: expiring bearer documents

At 01:59 PM 3/26/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 10:14 AM -0800 3/26/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>The point is that the asset (a performance) which the >>bearer-document (ticket) grants access to expires. I think that's >>actually orthogonal to the >>tick

Re: Blue-suited and Green-suited goons

At 10:48 AM 3/26/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >someone in Iraq (well, he >may be on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border!) is bound to notice that these >blue-suited Troops have clearly been directed (to some extent) by the same >entity that directs the Green-suited troops. Sounds like a good argument

Re: expiring bearer documents

At 08:10 AM 3/26/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 9:48 PM -0800 3/25/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>This recently occurred to me. There is a type of bearer document >>which is exactly like cash (anonymous, finder's keepers/spenders) >>*except* >>that it expir

the Black Bloc Corporation

At 12:28 AM 3/26/04 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:43:53PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> >If a member of a club, to which you belong, commits an act of violence, >> are you liable for that act? >> > > No, but if the "club"

expiring bearer documents

At 09:20 PM 3/25/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Fine. Make it cheaper. Moore's Law creates geodesic networks, so >let's have geodesic internet bearer transactions. Yesss! Its only taken a month or so of plonklessness, and we've got the geodesics back! :-) This recently occurred to me. There

Re: corporate vs. state

At 12:39 AM 3/26/04 -, Frog wrote: >Harmon Seaver wrote: >> each and every person involved in it should be liable. > >If a member of a club, to which you belong, commits an act of violence, are you liable for that act? Excellent question. The gestap^H^H^H^H Feds think you are --membership in

Re: corporate vs. state

At 05:27 PM 3/25/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: > >>Nonsense -- corporations are not humans, they have zero rights. > >Unfortunately, there are a whole slew of Supreme Court decisions that say >otherwise - mostly applying the 14th amendment (you kn

RE: corporate vs. state

At 02:02 PM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Think I'm gonna have to disagree with ya' hear partner. >For one, in the old days Corporations regularly hired goons to mow down >striking coalminers and whatnot. You have no right to trespass simply because you once worked there. Neither does anyo

RE: no photography, no questions, no rights

At 02:05 PM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"In the Brinworld of Phonecams this is a nice challenge for the >freelancer... >Fuck you, Anderson III" > >All he did was raise the prices of said photos, correct? Shit...I should get >on out there and make myself a fortune... In practice, because ma

corporate vs. state, TD's education

At 10:26 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >I also think that some cypherpunks mistake the Corporate State for what has >been described as Crypto-Anarchy. Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one

no photography, no questions, no rights

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- On the eve of grand jury proceedings in the Michael Jackson molestation case, the presiding judge of the Santa Barbara courts barred pictures or communication with any prospective or final panelists, or grand jury witnesses. Superior Court Judge Clifford R. Anderson III did not

the gestapo & the inquisition

The abuse called the grand jury has been detailed here before. The fun continues. Mar 24, 2004 Attorneys to Argue Palestinian Activist Suffers From Mental Problems The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Attorneys for a Palestinian activist jailed for refusing to testify before a grand jury invest

Re: [osint] Martha's lesson - don't talk to the FBI

At 06:53 PM 3/23/04 -0800, John Young wrote: >Why pity Martha Stewart, so far she's escaped the pokey, Because she got charged with *lying* to a fed when she was *not* under oath. The lesson is real. The ordinary pig on the street --not just a fed-- can lie to you, and bust you if you return th

Re: [osint] Martha's lesson - don't talk to the FBI

At 09:38 AM 3/24/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Gotta say that's a nice, high-grade no-baby-powder rant Mr Young. Worthy of >an "East Coast Collectivist"... Its a sign of John's early Alzheimers, when he lets his wealthwrath get in the way of his one-time pristine appreciation of civil liberties.

busted for keycatcher

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-wiretap24mar24,1,760243.story?coll=la-editions-orange Man Indicted in Wiretap Case The defendant is accused of recording the computer keystrokes of a workplace colleague

Re: MannWorld vs. BrinWorld

At 09:30 PM 3/22/04 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:12:34PM -0500, An Metet wrote: >> >> Robert Hettinga forwards: >> > By concentrating sensing and data storage on the body, a wearable >> > computer allows its user to ``control his own butt.'' The user >> >> What the hell

before CALEA

"Once, our national office in Washington called the phone company to say they couldn't pay the bill," said Bill Crandell, a writer who lives in Silver Spring, Md. "They were told, 'Don't worry, it's being paid.' It was Nixon's spooks paying the phone bill for Kerry's antiwar group. http://www.lat

Al Qaeda backs Bush-Cheney 2004

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/forms/printstory.asp?section=RelatedStories&pitem=INTERNATIONAL%2DSECURITY%2DSPAIN%2DTRUCE%2DDC&rev=20040319&pub_tag=REUTG&relatedTo=838081&from=relatedstory&rsNum=2 The statement [sent to the Arabic language daily al-Hayat, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which

Re: chatroom conversation turing computable

At 02:18 PM 3/18/04 -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote: > >The obvious next step is writing a bot that poses as an adult posing as a >kid. I think its easily (if crudely) simulated thusly: All you need is another kidbot which is 1. not controlled by the adversary 2. eventually uses keywords that trigger the

chatroom conversation turing computable

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=312492004

uncomfortable suspicion: french fending off US PKI domination

COMPUTER SECURITY French Move To Fend Off U.S. Domination With some help from Germany, the French are discreetly seeking an alternative to U.S. domination of the field of computer authentication systems and security (Public Key Infrastructure: [...] [ 617 words 5,5USD ] http://www.intelligenceonl

All your Ohioans are belong to us

Report: Ohio Sold Records To Fla. Database Company For $50K POSTED: 6:56 pm EST March 14, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state Bureau of Motor Vehicles sold driving records of Ohioans for about $50,000 to a Florida company developing a multistate crime database program, according to a report. The pr

Re: If You Want to Protect A Security Secret...don't use slaves as sysops

At 05:04 AM 3/15/04 +, Justin wrote: >> If You Want to Protect >> A Security Secret, >> Make Sure It's Public > >What is "terrible article titles for $500, Alex"? Give the author a break, he actually cited K's principle in the friggin WSJ. Thanks for the forwards, RAH. Some of us actually

Re: Return of the homebrew coder

At 10:11 AM 3/14/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Return of the homebrew coder > >BEFORE Henry Ford unleashed the practice of mass production on the world, >every little town had a few dozen artisans who made the lives of citizens >easier. Software is also still in the "craft" stage where the desi

Re: inverse finding

At 09:55 PM 3/12/04 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: >if gcd(a,m)=1, >for a*a inverse==1 mod m >is it better to find >a invese=a^(m-2) mod m by binary exponentiation >modulo m or is it more time efficient by extended >euclids algorithm for large 'm'? I dunno, why don't you think about it some? How are y

[p2p-hackers] Ideas for an opensource Skype lookalike (fwd from

At 12:45 PM 3/13/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl FORWARDED: >- Forwarded message from Enzo Michelangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > >Skype claims to use RSA-based key exchange, which is good for multi-party >conferencing but does not preserve forward secrecy. Maybe some variant of >ephemeral D-H authenti

RE: J.P. Morgan Is Facing Heat Of Patriot Act

At 02:27 PM 3/10/04 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >At 11:49 AM 3/10/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>This is how the US intimidates such that the USG can monitor >>all transactions. A serious practical problem for e$ when it >>needs to interface to atoms. > >not really

RE: J.P. Morgan Is Facing Heat Of Patriot Act

At 10:11 AM 3/10/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Holy Crap this seems bizarre. This isn't even really a case of "know your >customers", but "know your customers' customers", isn't it? > >Is this some kind of "snipe hunt" or mere "Brazil"-like government >incompetence and mindless application of half

Re: Evidence is clear: Videos convict

At 06:34 AM 3/9/04 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: >,I mean a very good >editing tool and a CG expert working on it may come >out with real frightening stuff. >Who would say that the dinasours of jurrasic park >didn't look real :) A movie has been made about this. I think it took place in the white house,

Posse What? -the neofascists

9 Mar 2004 04:00 GMT WSJ(3/9)Is Military Creeping Into Domestic Law Enforcement? Copyright © 2004, Dow Jones Newswires (From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) By Robert Block and Gary Fields IN A LITTLE-NOTICED side effect of the war on terrorism, the military is edging toward a sensitive area tha

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