Re: legally required forgetting

2004-04-11 Thread petard
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:33:39AM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Thanks for the distinction, however it still makes CC folks slaves of the State. Suppose Joe Badcredit finds a blank application and applies? The State then uses violence to coerce the CC into non-consensual transactions.

Re: Anonymizer employees need killing

2004-03-26 Thread petard
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:32:43AM -0500, An Metet wrote: From http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36485.html : To download the online picture, he used the Anonymizer.com service, believing the companys privacy policy would protect him. Not so. Dutch The article got it wrong. He used

Re: Saving Opportunistic Encryption

2004-03-17 Thread petard
everywhere *I* have used ssh for the past 10 years. I thought everyone did that. regards, petard

Re: Cypherpunks response to viral stimuli

2004-02-02 Thread petard
the automoton/spamee from directing it to the virus sender/upstream provider directly. Perhaps people who run AV systems which send out automated notifications deserve any unwanted attention they might get this way. regards, petard

Re: 1st amend, compelled speech in US

2004-01-22 Thread petard
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:47:07AM -0800, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: ...public health officials are considering legal action to force AOL and certain websites to warn members about... http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62005,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 Compelled speech is prohibited,

Re: Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread petard
security alerts and make a new release right then, so anyone with untrusted local users was completely unprotected. Including Debian, apparently. Regards, petard

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread petard
product I am aware of: http://www.apple.com/ipod/ It's firewire 400 and most assuredly does not use a 922 chip. If software companies were responsible for bugs in hardware that they do not manufacture, MS would be in much more trouble than it is already. petard

Re: Deniable data storage

2003-11-07 Thread petard
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:58:58PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- I want fully deniable information storage -- information theoretic deniable, not merely steganographic deniable, for stenography can never be wholly secure. So I would have a fixed sized block of data containing a