Legally thwarting FBI surveillance of libraries and ISPs

I'm one of those that believes that agrees with Louis Brandice's dissenting opinion about the constitutionality of wiretaps. That they violate the privacy of those parties who call or are called by the party being wiretapped. I have written on this in 2002/2003. There seem to be at least two l

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

At 11:14 AM 10/24/2005, cyphrpunk wrote: Note that e-gold, which originally sold non-reversibility as a key benefit of the system, found that this feature attracted Ponzi schemes and fraudsters of all stripes, and eventually it was forced to reverse transactions and freeze accounts. It's not cle

The price of failure

Quick, before they change it: search Google using the term "failure" (without the quotes)

Re: Wired on "Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case"

At 09:14 AM 9/20/2005, 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 Of course, the fact that Lucent has been in shit shape financially must have nothing to do with what is effectively a

Re: GPS Jammer Firm nearly ejected from Russian air show.

At 09:27 PM 8/22/2005, Bill Stewart wrote: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/22/002.html Monday, August 22, 2005. Issue 3235. Page 1. Irksome Firm Nearly Ejected From Air Show By Lyuba Pronina Staff Writer Ivan Sekretarev / AP Spectators watching the Patrouille de France aerobatic

Re: Well, they got what they want...

At 06:17 PM 7/23/2005, Tyler Durden wrote: Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the obvious: Random searches and whatnot are going to do zero for someone determined, but "might" deter someone who was "thinking about" blowing up the A train. In other words, everyone here in NYC

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050706-094903-3663r.htm "At the grass-roots, the most amusing development is a push by a citizens' group to seize the Weare, N. H., home of Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, author of the Kelo opinion, for a "development" project to be called the "Lo

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

At 10:36 AM 6/24/2005, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Not surprising at all. The Bush camp's court agenda is spearheaded by > members of the Federalist Society which wants to roll back many of the SC's > decisions of the early-mid 20th century (esp. the Social Security Act and > the expansion of the Co

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

At 10:35 PM 3/26/2005, Eric Cordian wrote: That which we may do to ourselves, if we are functioning, exceeds that which we may require others to do to us if we are not. I can deny myself food, water, and air, for instance. I cannot instruct others to deny me those things if I am rendered incapabl

Re: WiFi Launcher?

At 02:21 PM 3/25/2005, Bill Stewart wrote: especially if you've got to do a DNS lookup or two. Directional Antennas are unlikely to be useful - if you've got them aimed right, you might win, but you're much more likely to miss entirely or have only a few meters that you're in range. Horizontally di

The Register: Anonymity no protection for online libellers

The tenuous nature of online anonymity was underlined yesterday, thanks to the final ruling in the Motley Fool libel case. Terry Smith, chief executive of city firm Collins Stewart Tullett, won undisclosed damages from Jeremy Benjamin, a fund manager. Benjamin had posted what he now accepts as

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

At 12:14 PM 3/9/2005, Eric Cordian wrote: If you had a thousand hours of genius programmer time, would you spend it embracing and extending Bittorrent, or shoveling through the indecipherable bowels of legacy Mnet and Freenet code? I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

8:12PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > >Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind. > > And this was a profound error, IMHO. One of the epiphanies from my work at It was a deliberate decision on Bram Cohen's part. BT is a very useful medium to deliver software updates, movies und

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

At 12:15 AM 3/10/2005, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet got > their respective genesis) and was frankly surprised when the MPAA was so > easily able to target and put out of commission BT's trackers. The Why? BT is designe

Re: [>Htech] Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net (fwd from eugen@leitl.org)

Perhaps I'm missing something but doesn't the use of a proxy strip off information essential to this exploit? If so, only newbies and lusers will ID'd. Steve

ZipLip ends secure email service

"Thank you for using ZipLip's free secure mail service. We appreciate your patronage and wish to inform you that we will be discontinuing our service on June 30th, 2005. For various reasons, including new U.S. legislation which significantly impacts the individual's privacy rights, ZipLip is no

Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot

At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: "The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the suspect in control of the car," he said. "He can steer, he can brake, he just can't accelerate." Sorry Charlie, but I think newer vehicles are moving to fly-by-wire steering, espec

RE: Researchers Combat Terrorists by Rooting Out Hidden Messages

At 02:07 PM 2/1/2005, Tyler Durden wrote: Counter-stego detection. Seems to me a main tool will be a 2-D Fourier analysis...Stego will certainly have a certain "thumbprint", depending on the algorithm. Are there certain images that can hide stego more effectively? IN other words, these images sh

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

At 10:10 AM 8/31/2004, Justin wrote: 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 i

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

At 05:23 AM 8/30/2004, Justin wrote: On 2004-08-29T20:55:19-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > I am not discussing presidential elections, this is another matter. Fine. > > Steve Schear wrote: > >> The problem is that use of voting districts seems to have always resulted > >&g

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

At 04:12 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote: -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: > ><http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,683182,00.html> > >Business 2.0 - Magazin

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

At 09:18 AM 8/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - Tilting at the Ballot Box Entrepreneur David Chaum's e-money venture flopped. Now he wants to fix electronic voting. For once, i

Re: Why there is no anonymous e-cash

At 08:41 AM 7/19/2004, James A. Donald wrote: As I predicted, transactions are increasingly going on line. And as Hettinga predicted, the more anonymous and irreversible the transaction service, the cheaper and more convenient its services. All happening as predicted. So why don't we have anonymous

Re: Secure telephones

At 11:45 AM 7/17/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Pondering construction of a secure telephone. (Or at least a cellphone in general. The user interfaces and features available on virtually all the mass-market phones suck, to put it very very mildly, not even mentioning that there's no access to their

Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt

At 01:44 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote: > Quite a few book stores (including the local Half-Priced Books) now keep no > records not required and some do not even automate and encourage their patron > to pay cash. In California book sellers to

Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

At 06:27 AM 7/9/2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: *** PGP Signature Status: good *** Signer: Eugen Leitl (makes other keys obsolete) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Invalid) *** Signed: 7/9/2004 6:27:50 AM *** Verified: 7/9/2004 11:27:24 AM *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Faster than Moore's law

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 has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughp

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

At 01:09 PM 7/7/2004, Adam Back wrote: Then we implemented a replacement version 2 mail system that I designed. The design is much simpler. With freedom anonymous networking you had anyway a anonymous interactive TCP feature. So we just ran a standard pop box for your nym. Mail would be deliver

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

At 07:28 AM 7/7/2004, Tyler Durden wrote: "If you think the cable landings in Va/Md are coincidental, you are smoking something I've run out of. Its all recorded. I'm sure the archiving and database groups in Ft. Meade will get a chuckle out of your "the right to" idioms." Well, I don't actually

Re: New Radar Sees Through Walls (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

At 11:42 AM 7/4/2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2 Jul 2004 19:26:10 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Radar Sees Through Walls User-Agent: SlashdotNewsScooper/0.0.3 Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/02/158257 Posted by: CowboyNeal, on 2004-07-02 16:46:00 T

Re: my name is Doe, John Doe

After a hard day, I'm safe at home Foolin' with my baby on the telephone Out of nowhere somebody cuts in and Says, 'Hmm, you in some trouble boy, we know where you're been.' I'm out on the border I thought this was a private line Don't you tell me 'bout your law and order I'm try'n' to change this

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

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who refuse to give their names to police can be arrested, even if they've done nothing wrong. The court previously had said police may briefly detain people they suspect of wrongdoing, without any proof. But until now, the justi

Re: We're jamming, we're jamming, we hope you like jammin too

At 06:16 AM 5/13/2004 +1000, Ian Farquhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would almost bet money that the commercial interests currently evaluating RFID tags will push for a legislative ban on RFID jamming. And I'll bet they get it too. I really won't matter what they prohibit, it will get out into th

Smartcard patents

http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000121.html Cryptography Research, the California company that announced the discovery of differential power analysis around late 1997, have picked up a swag of patents co

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

At 07:43 AM 4/23/2004, Trei, Peter wrote: If you're dealing with a state-level attacker, any scheme involving explosives or incendiaries would get the attackee in as much or more trouble than the original data would. This is a hard problem. I suspect any solution will involve tamper-resistant hardw

Re: Fortress America mans the ramparts

New Zealand Herald Online - Newspaper Sunday April 11, 2004 [An American flight crew member (left) is photographed and fingerprinted with by an immigration official. Picture / Reuters] Fortress America mans the ramparts 10.04.2004

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

At 10:08 AM 4/8/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And McVeigh used ammonium nitrate which wasn't tested, and as a highly soluable (in fact deliquescent) inorganic it probably won't persist like a nitrated organic. Also common as dirt in agville. He also added nitromethane to the mix, obtained throu

Some more anarchy and capitalism -- Fwd: [dgc.chat] Starving the Bastards in Bolivia

Bolivia is a poor country. Nevertheless, no one, however poor, ever starves in Bolivia: food is dirt cheap and readily available. In contrast, the government is starving to death. What joy! It is desperate for increased revenue and is preoccupied with schemes for new taxes etc. You may recall

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

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. steve Source: University O

Re: MR

At 12:46 AM 3/22/2004, javve wrote: Mr.     Are the  are anny  spy device can look  trough the wall too see  you? If the are with one? IR systems capable of locating warm objects within structures have been available for a long time.  They are routinely used for search and rescue in collapsed bu

New remailer uses hashcash

"My remailer will only deliver postings which contain a valid hashcash token. To get your posting through you must provide a Hashcash token." http://www.panta-rhei.dyndns.org/hashcash/index.html steve --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.

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

At 09:14 AM 3/11/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: 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 >&

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

At 11:49 AM 3/10/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: 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 gover

Re: Evidence is clear: Videos convict

Transferring home videos from tape to PC is a common and inexpensive consumer practice today. Tapes are cheap and trashing them after use for recording of incriminating evidence is an effective way to get rid of that copy. Once transferred to PC users can also now easily encrypt the videos.

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

At 06:50 AM 3/2/2004, Tyler Durden wrote: "How about a pseudo random "conversation" generator appliance for the person trying to mask their speech. If it closely models the vocal tract, language and language characteristics of the speaker it might be extremely difficult to remove as backgroun

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

At 07:42 AM 3/1/2004, sunder wrote: Interesting. I guess my basic question is, is there a subset of counter-surveillance actions that can be taken that, while not ensuring secure communications, forces eavesdropping parties to take 'radical' measures in order to obtain the desired information? I

RE: Gentlemen don't read each others' mail

At 10:20 AM 2/27/2004, you wrote: Of course, there's laser-based eavesdropping from the outside of the building, and I'd bet this was actually the method used in many cases. Laser/vibration-proof glass apparently does exist (it's installed in that DARPA building in downtown watchamaface VA), but

Re: Offshoring of commercial data...

At 07:44 AM 2/11/2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Steve Schear wrote... This is why all such records, if they are generated at all, should be held offshore and accessible only through a procedure which includes a duress clause. This leads me to an interesting set of ideas I've been playing

Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don't tell the world your email and home address

criminal offence. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35376.html A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Feds win rights to war protesters records.

At 04:09 PM 2/7/2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Also, activists subpoened to grand jury. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040207/ap_on_re_us/activist_investigation This is why all such records, if they are generated at all, should be held offshore and accessible only through a pr

Scary Psychological Test

Scary Psychological Test Read this question, come up with an answer, and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has gotten it right - including me. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not

Re: Avoiding US mail fraud charges while protecting your financial privacy

At 11:47 AM 1/26/2004, Pete Capelli wrote: I thought the USPS creation act forbid any competition in this area? Using the US postal system can be damaging to your freedom.  I was thinking of re-selling pre-paid domestic, private carrier, envelopes as this circumvents the USPS and the associated d

Re: Encrypted phones/scramblers, etc.

At 07:15 PM 1/25/2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Someone was just trying to tell me that the FCC, et al, won't allow encrypted phones or even the old style scramblers to be sold anymore. Have there been any moves in that direction? I worked for Cylink, where we sold industrial strength crypto phon

Re: "Hey be careful, I have three balms in here"

At 02:27 AM 1/21/2004, Graham Lally wrote: Surprised this hasn't gone through the list yet. Did it get much coverage in the US? 'According to the arrest report, Miss Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Tra

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

At 10:48 AM 1/13/2004, Tim May wrote: On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:41 AM, Steve Schear wrote: This was from July, 2000. I believe it also came up in earlier discussions, including in a panel I was on with Michael Froomkin at a CFP in 1995. I could assume this also applies to the the TCPS (if it is

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

At 11:23 PM 1/12/2004, Tim May wrote: During the Carnivore debate, I argued that mandatory placement of computer agents in systems was equivalent to quartering troops: < http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03198.html> "The Third Amendment, about quartering troops, is seldom-applied

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

At 06:53 PM 1/10/2004, Steve Furlong wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:02, J.A. Terranson wrote: > What good is a Jury when the "judge" can pick and choose which arguments and > evidence you can provide in support of your case? I've occasionally handed out pamphlets on jury nullification outside th

Political Compass

leaders. No idea how accurate it is but my own results are pretty much in keeping with expectations: Left/Right 3.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97 steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

At 01:05 PM 1/6/2004, BillyGOTO wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:39:41AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > As has been discussed on this list many who graduated college before the > late '70s were able to pursue independent science experimentation (esp. > chemistry and rocketry, etc.)

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

At 11:17 AM 1/6/2004, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-407043,curpg-3.cms Moreover, it is found out that the Americans are shying away from the challenges of math and science. A recent National Science Foundation Study reveals a 5 per cent decline in t

Re: progress

At 02:29 PM 1/5/2004, you wrote: At 04:53 PM 1/5/2004, Steve Schear wrote: Initially there would likely be a surge in use by their competitors, like Pecunix, that operate entirely outside the US. Later new entrants would probably spring up. Undoubtably, over a period of years, you're

Re: progress

At 01:33 PM 1/5/2004, Declan McCullagh wrote: This is a welcome step, assuming the pharms are legit. We still need some form of reputation service. But I'm not overly optimistic (I tend not to be, in the short run). I do not know how resistant the e-gold corporate and technical infrastructure is to

Re: Sources and Sinks

At 01:50 PM 1/3/2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 3 Jan 2004 at 8:09, Michael Kalus wrote: > Yes, the way this usually works is that the government builds > the road, then sells it to a private company for some money > and then the upkeep is handled by the company. > > It is rather seldom that

Fwd: Smuggling in Bolivia

[From another list. I don't often fwd, but I thought these comments would be appreciated by those on the list who see only an ever expanding government worldwide.] Peruvians are a lot like Bolivians but Bolivia is not Peru. This is an interview with Antonio Estrado, President of the associatio

Microsoft publicly announces Penny Black PoW postage project

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3324883.stm Adam Back is part of this team, I think. Similar approach to Camram/hahscash. Memory-based approaches have been discussed. Why hasn't Camram explored them? steve BTW, Penny Black stamp was only used briefly. It was the Penny Red which was u

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

At 09:20 AM 12/22/2003, James A. Donald wrote: The Nuremberg trials were held in Germany by the victors. Why this big desire to do something different this time around? I don't hear anyone except the usual Nazis whining that Nuremberg was illegitimate or unfair. From a 2001 cypherpunks post to

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

At 09:20 AM 12/22/2003, James A. Donald wrote: This is war. Rule of law does not apply. Rules of war do apply. And rules of war say that the US army can not only give Saddam a dental examination, it can nail Saddam's head to a post in Baghdad with a nine inch nail, because he was captured out of

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

At 06:37 PM 12/19/2003, you wrote: In a message dated 12/19/2003 3:38:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Saddam was warned that if he took Kuwait, terrible consequences > might well follow. > > That's bullshit. Saddam was told by our Chick ambassador (I can't remember her nam

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

At 07:19 AM 12/19/2003, Jim Dixon wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Saddam had been less of an idiot, if he had left Kuwait alone, he would be relaxing in one of his palaces today and his sons would be out snatching women off the street, torturing people who had annoyed them

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

At 11:06 AM 12/19/2003, Michael Kalus wrote: I'll have a look at it. But I guess you also tell me that anything Michael Moore said in "Bowling for Columbine" is wrong too? http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html "We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others that write what men do, not

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

At 02:00 AM 12/19/2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: After WWI the "winners" humiliated the loosers badly. This is one of the main reasons Hitler came to power and got support from the Germans for the aggressions that started the war. He managed to use these feelings of being treated as dogs and paying t

RE: The killer app for encryption

At 07:57 PM 12/18/2003, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Because it means you can complete call to the POTs with no > company-controlled switch involved, meaning no where to serve a court > order. Since the call could be routed through a few intermediate nodes and I see. So, in the real world, X uses thi

RE: The killer app for encryption

At 03:47 PM 12/18/2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 08:16 PM 12/18/03 +, Jim Dixon wrote: >What exactly do you mean by "peered IP telephony"? What I'd like to see is a P2P telephony that also supports end-user gateways to the POTS. I'm not certain, but I think there are some MS certified

RE: The killer app for encryption

At 06:14 PM 12/18/2003, Morlock Elloi wrote: > What I'd like to see is a P2P telephony that also supports end-user > gateways to the POTS. I'm not certain, but I think there are some MS However, I don't see people letting others use their POTS lines, nor I see them using their own for this purp

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

At 09:24 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: The really interesting aspect of this is what it portends for the future. If, as Clay suggests, the current situation is like Prohibition from citizen perspective can we expect a similar repeal of government surveillance? If not, what will happen

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

At 12:39 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: Well, Clay Shirky has done it again, writing a very insightful article on the current digital scene, this time on the unintended but beneficial consequences of RIAA's crackdown on file sharing. Here is one particularly telling excerpt: Note that the

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

At 12:39 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Clay Shirky has done it again, writing a very insightful article on the current digital scene, this time on the unintended but beneficial consequences of RIAA's crackdown on file sharing. Here is one particularly telling

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

At 03:18 PM 12/16/2003, Jim Dixon wrote: You should try to remember how the US Civil War ended.  The armed forces of the South surrendered.  Lee handed his sword to Grant.  I believe that Grant returned it - and allowed each Southern soldier to keep a rifle and a mule.  Lee and the other leaders

Re: Cryptophone delivers source

At 05:14 AM 12/11/2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.cryptophone.de/html/downloads_en.html Perhaps a small point, but unless I'm mistaken they didn't offer the Windows client source. I think both should have been give as compromise of one side is a compromise of both. steve

Fwd: "Bedazzled" Log-in Method Whitepaper

"Bedazzled" Log-in Method Whitepaper Author: George Hara (http://www.filematrix.xnet.ro/ideas/whitepapers/login.htm) Introduction Using strings of characters as passwords has always been a security issue because they are hard to remember and can be stolen by key-loggers or screen-text

Re: Appeals court OKs no-knock warrant as perfectly appropriate

We have recognized that, HN6[]under appropriate exigent circumstances, strict compliance with the knock and announce requirement may be excused. United States v. Grogins, 163 F.3d 795, 797 (4th Cir. 1998) (holding no-knock entry justified where officers had reasonable suspicion that entering dr

Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp]

At 04:13 PM 11/21/2003 -0600, Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A copy of the bill is here: http://news.com.com/pdf/ne/2003/FINALSPAM.pdf I interpret paragraph 1037(a)1 - 5 as possibly prohibiting the use of anonymous remailers, or proxies and nyms in registering email accounts, for the

Re: article on Rivest and Micali's Peppercoin system

At 11:37 AM 11/17/2003 -0500, Steve Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/huang1203.asp A nice puff piece but it steers clear of well know, if not respected, prognosticators that poo-poo any near-term potential for micro-payments. Conspicuously absent is e-

Re: Freedomphone

At 09:57 PM 11/19/2003 +, Dave Howe wrote: Steve Schear wrote: > If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it > can't already, for PC-PC secure communications. A practical > replacement for SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of either > dir

Re: Freedomphone

At 01:39 PM 11/19/2003 -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote: > > "We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because > > we're the only ones who publish the source code," said Rop Gonggrijp "We are currently performing a internal round of reviews with a expert group of security researchers and cryp

Stego SPAM

http://www.spammimic.com/index.shtml Not new to this group but interesting. steve

Re: 'Smart stamps' next in war on terrorism

"The postal notice itself says this is the first step to identify all senders, so this is not a matter of paranoia, this is reality. The post office is moving towards identification requirements for everyone," said Chris Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center

Re: Gun ownership == using it in crime, Texas court rules

At 11:01 AM 11/12/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Appellant does not deny that the shotgun was a deadly weapon or that he was in possession of it. Rather; he argues that there was no evidence to support the jury's finding that his possession of the shotgun facilitated the associated felony o

F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/politics/12RECO.html November 12, 2003 F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow By ERIC LICHTBLAU ASHINGTON, Nov. 11 A little-noticed measure approved by both the House and Senate would significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power to demand financial records, w

Re: FLASH: DHS wants info on store refunds?

At 06:11 PM 11/1/2003 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: Well, when I brought back the returns, they wanted a drivers license. Odd, considering it was a cash sale and I was holding the receipt. "It's required by the Homeland Security Department" says the kid behind the register. Sorry. I need ID, and

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

At 01:47 AM 11/2/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the pre

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote: >>What *is* a library? >>1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state >>entity. >>2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is >>that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that >>l

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote: What *is* a library? 1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state entity. 2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that license at a

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > Someone else must have thought up this idea, but I don't recall seeing > it. Please inform me nicely if you have seen it proposed before. This sounds a lot like the SunnComm DRM system that got so much publicity recently. (the one that reli

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

At 10:43 PM 10/23/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: "What's the Diff?: A Guide to Digital Citizenship" launched last week with a lesson plan that aims to keep kids away from Internet services like Kazaa that let users trade digital songs and film clips: "If you haven't paid for it, you've stolen it."

RE: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

At 11:04 PM 10/22/2003 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: Peter wrote: > In case anyone's interested, there's a cpu die photo at > http://www.sandpile.org/impl/pics/centaur/c5xl/die_013_c5p.jpg showing the amount of real estate consumed by the crypto functions (it's the bottom centre, a bit hard to read th

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

At 03:21 PM 10/20/2003 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: Looks like the only way to shield from DOS is to raise the cost of DOS. This will eventually eliminate the low cost of Internet bandwidth, one way or another. You don't get nearly the same amount of DOS on your telephone as you do on Internet, righ

Remarks by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd on Final Passage of Iraq

[For all the good it will do, one of the few Senators to stingingly rebuff the Administration's Iraq position and demand for tribute to support their further misadventures. However, there are equally large lies and tribute being supported by Byrd and others upon which they are silent. Besides

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

A pointer to the original journal article http://www.plos.org/downloads/plbi-01-02-carmena.pdf steve

Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

[Can remote soldiering and amplified "Terminators" be too far away? Steve] Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 13, 2003; Page A01 Scientists in Nort

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