Anonymous transactions and controlled nymity transactions.

2002-05-05 Thread James A. Donald
ed with the contract, a process that creates no traceable connection between the handle and supplier and beneficiary. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG iuj6pa04sjBj2fp2icqR6W+6S28KntHqmFQRF5C3 47uanT19FGKI5xy+444UTEU6MHx2MA1RyK62LpuyT

[OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread James A. Donald
met stubborn resistance. There was more mass support for socialism in other countries, but no socialist revolutions in those countries, nor any danger of such revolt. There were socialist coups, and conspiratorial seizures of power by socialists in other countries. --digsig J

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-31 Thread James A. Donald
and so many files we dislike, so how should future commendations and discommendations from him be handled. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG /q4tip27WhKCNEPO0JVoN0d2y8NqKSNyWSZ2yo8T 2mpKzWKpHGt5yFiUzlZZD//qHoWgv8n1ZFJzoJ2l9

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-07-31 Thread James A. Donald
ey have that capability. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ElmZA5NX6jAmhPu1EDT8Zl7D+IeQTSI/z1oo4lSn 2qoSIC6KSr2LFLWyxZEETG/27dEy3yOWEnRtXzHy9

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-31 Thread James A. Donald
nym based reputation system for approving content, rather than to assume such a system already exists. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG n2qkcxSdV2kJT9y6SyQ2iP7hz+Loj0n1HsBec+jV 2F6qbHlOzuO9Od/r5ZvGa0vDhRSmH/+EjFcQI8Wtc

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-07-31 Thread James A. Donald
-- 29 Jul 2002 at 15:35, AARG! Anonymous wrote: > > > both Palladium and TCPA deny that they are designed to > > > restrict what applications you run. James A. Donald: > > They deny that intent, but physically they have that > > capability. On 31 Jul 2002 at

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-31 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > The plan, already implemented, is to flood file sharing > > systems with bogus files or broken files. The solution, not > > yet implemented, is to attach digital signatures to files, and > > have the file sharing software recognize certain s

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread James A. Donald
ule that I have to give superroot powers to Joe in order to play Peter's software or content.. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG FQhKMpDHys7gyFWenHCK9p7+Xfh1DwpaqGKcztxk 20jFdJDiigV/b1fmHBudici59omqc/Ze0zXBVvQLk

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Donald
wer. I would certainly much prefer TCPA/Palladium in place of existing IP law. What I fear is that instead legislation and technology will each reinforce the other. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG R66NXPp5xZNDYn98jcVqH5q2

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Donald
at it can only run on a specific target computer. As somone who sells code, I would think this would be a great idea, were it not for the excesses we have been seeing from the IP lobbyists. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQ

TCPA

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Donald
anticircumvention laws and ever growing patent and copyright silliness, it seems a dangerously powerful addition to law. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6FaJusAR8fMsVvaFm9l3vbuyiQwio/YrBFLpyT6c 2Db/Fk0MeNi3mjdoDTo2IGzHeelYts0/xqiEjUFmA

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Donald
pable of trusting anyone. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Alf9R2ZVGqWkLhwWX2H6TBqHOunrj2Fbxy+U0ORV 2uPGI4gMDt1fTQkV1820PO3xWmAWPiaS0DqrbmobN

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread James A. Donald
oft. The intent is that Peter can sell Paul software or content that will only run on ONE computer for ONE time period.. When the motherboard emits blue smoke, or the time runs out, whichever happens first, Paul has to buy new software. If prices are lowere

Re: Other uses of TCPA

2002-08-04 Thread James A. Donald
me, or easier to do in some other fashion. There are quite a few extremely evil uses it would be good for, but they would only be feasible if enforced by legislation -- otherwise people would turn the chip off, or tear it out. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITn

Re: Other uses of TCPA

2002-08-04 Thread James A. Donald
im a copy of your stuff encrypted to his TPM, a copy which only his TPM can make use of. Your code, which the TPM decrypts and executes, looks at the known good time, and if the user is out of time, refuses to play. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvIT

Re: On alliances and enemies.

2002-08-08 Thread James A. Donald
ts set in its ways. If the internet and consumer computers are mandated to be like TV, the TV people will wind up in charge, and Microsoft will not wind up in charge. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OrPfArPJfauYoxApR4gFvB

Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-09 Thread James A. Donald
me source using same build > produces identical binaries. This has not been my experience. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG vP+cB8hTnaqPfAtiGlYdo9QuJCpq884ER6Mo+F9m 2SkruXvZexqOoTAk6QuWuruF5x4fT0Rq4v/YSxLAt

Re: TCPA/Palladium -- likely future implications

2002-08-09 Thread James A. Donald
ut and taking hold of their work, they still may be unable to do it for technical reasons. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG D7ZUyyAS+7CybaH0GT3tHg1AkzcF/LVYQwXbtqgP 2HBjGwLqIOW1MEoFDnzCH6heRfW1MNGv1jXMIvtwb

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella (fwd)

2002-08-11 Thread James A. Donald
ler to avoid confusing the audience, and I selected a less used exit remailer for the same reason. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG c3w9s36+CG9NnfBCbV9lBPm1GKPtff16r/hBMRj2 2ZIqRKb9UCTCvlWhGVeGUb1eknPEG0ynX12OrTTXM

Re: [CI] Re: Turing thesis(Incompleteness theorom)

2002-08-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 11 Aug 2002 at 10:36, Jim Choate wrote: > All Godel really says is that math, physics, etc. must be taken > on -faith- with regard to 'consistency'. In other words, > 'science' is just another 'religion'. Choate's universe is a very stra

Re: TCPA and Open Source

2002-08-13 Thread James A. Donald
s become required to go on the internet, and then later only certain operating systems are permitted on the internet, and then later the required operating system upgrades the TPM software so that only authorized operating systems boot at all. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Seth on TCPA at Defcon/Usenix

2002-08-13 Thread James A. Donald
st step on a path. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xnGldvXqRQB8PKwYfVNs7FqNlzHkJtffm/JPsWY9 2NZkA77opkyGpXY+3+uMUIXDusHs6+ZgOeCu7YXgJ

Re: trade-offs of secure programming with Palladium (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications)

2002-08-13 Thread James A. Donald
. Or to say the same thing more pithily, if it really is going to be voluntary, it really is not going to give hollywood what they want. If really gives hollywood what they want, it is really going to have to be forced down people's throats. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZ

Re: Spam blocklists?

2002-08-14 Thread James A. Donald
pay you x, where x is a trivial sum, say a cent or two. Spammers wind up sending huge amounts of mail to unmonitored mailboxes, which will make spamming unprofitable. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG DIY+MmmrLQhijrJvvUennc4PKuW3ydzF1s8Phfvc 2thHL52WvLYLBuy1gMvfbs8U1toNuUIIWvvhnySCw

Re: TCPA not virtualizable during ownership change

2002-08-15 Thread James A. Donald
ity of the powerful to break the system is a designed in feature. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JjoH8U8qZ1eOdT/yGjfV7Xz9andBZPeYWaOLC+NP 2/OJG2MZSnAqcyuvUsNZTsQAcffGGST6LJ7e9vFbK

Re: onsite service on Sealand

2002-08-27 Thread James A. Donald
they encounter these problems, they seem to proceed with competent and effectual solutions. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG HcJC+F+nHfocXB5cx8e5xihyUc8zIRgYkHIA9rSH 2z7Vmfw8yreIdTJ88bYCphFaZUo4LPvcMHFy7EKYb

Re: S/MIME in Outlook -- fucked.

2002-09-03 Thread James A. Donald
, and difficult and expensive to get things right. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2S6sg825yJSZ69s23KyOvpaHYYQYbgoRuPl2j1JZ 24hZwF+YmQMFl2hK8LOkiesmNrg+xJ0ZdA1qPUzQU

Re: Prosecutors' Contention That Hotmail E-mail Is "Extremely Difficult To Trace"

2002-09-06 Thread James A. Donald
if you want to keep your computers. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG u8fODkiRQptIbG0Gx/8TsyWhAaSyUi6bqxXcPoch 2gQB3HYsyrY6lY1CcTlNf5xm+nfdUNkDNFH91bpFH

Re: Saturday meeting/BBQ/party--last minute comments

2002-09-11 Thread James A. Donald
heduled delay in leaving. Tim's house is on a long, one lane track, somewhat east of the back of beyond. You recall the house in the cartoon "Courage, the cowardly dog"? Now imagine that same house, and rotate the landscape seventy degrees so that the house is stapled to the s

RE: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-19 Thread James A. Donald
en guns are evil indeed. If trusted computing means that certain special people have ring -1 access to my computer, and I do not, and those certain special people are people I do not trust ... --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9qfOgx4Du

What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-23 Thread James A. Donald
hat would that kid in Australia buy one of these things for? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ynBJMlsLDPzg07sL/LvEpB/tIW037sE6ghIofneK 4PVvvjR5R/LHANHsZwHICLtrUdTredEP7JMGYF3vh

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald> > > Increasingly however, we see smartcard interfaces sold for > > PCs. What for, I wonder? On 24 Sep 2002 at 1:41, Bill Stewart wrote: > I'm not convinced that the number of people selling them is > closely related to the number of pe

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-26 Thread James A. Donald
to be illegal in most jurisdictions. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zA52k2I/yOV3JjdMnqwOFMq4Io7yMmdhp7IVzbUE 48lR0zT5ZoHjtDYfcW0+xmlo00w3DS04U9nsJblFq

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread James A. Donald
-- Neil Johnson wrote: > > > Hey don't forget you can still buy a smart card reader > > > from that most cypherpunkish of babes BRITNEY SPEARS ! > > > Only $30 ! > > > > > > https://www.visiblevisitors.com/mltest/order_form.asp James A

What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-28 Thread James A. Donald
not in the encyclopedia. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG UZr0jvF3hsrDzZ/URGjiGNl8cw1jEQbsuJt2Vxm6 4P3p+Y/yI2jWvQGZ0O5aHI//rcxIXncZJqgHA4VdK

Re: smartcards

2002-09-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > When Chaumian money comes into wide use, I think that for > > most end users we will have to stash all unused tokens > > inside smartcards. However, because of the critical mass > > problem, initial deployment for small payments cannot rely &

Re: smartcards

2002-09-30 Thread James A. Donald
ilots with IR. If phones developed palm pilot capabilities, this vision would become more useful. I think combining the palm pilot with the cell phone is more feasible once we develop a good voice controlled computer, after the fashion of startrek, which may be some time off. --digsig

What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread James A. Donald
on and so forth. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OmUO5eB/pLnuFIgCU2splCvKO4x0U1Ik31pVFPaU 49B5UrVKc5ETzoxGcfl+q9ltoh61l4ncSyE+R5h6P

What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > We have tools to construct any certificates we damn well > > please, Joseph Ashwood: > The same applies everywhere, in fact in your beloved Kong, > the situation is worse because the identities can't be > managed. You are unfamiliar wi

Clarification of challenge to Joseph Ashwood:

2002-09-30 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: (ranting on the user hostility of PGP) > > > Presumably the theory underlying this brilliant design > > > decision was that in the bad old days, a [signed clear > > > text file signed] under unix would not verify under > > > windows be

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-01 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > I intended to sign this using Network Associates command > > line pgp, [6.5.8]only to discover that pgp -sa file > > produced unintellible gibberish, that could only be made > > sense of by pgp, so that no one would be able to read it >

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-01 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > I intended to sign this using Network Associates command > > line pgp, [6.5.8]only to discover that pgp -sa file > > produced unintellible gibberish, that could only be made > > sense of by pgp, so that no one would be able to read it >

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread James A. Donald
o use PGP. And that folks, is at least one of the reasons why end user crypto is not widespread. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3XIIjDu4swm4B8omsJgkQJcu1Op4/sNb2XkGf18B 4F9ZT3OQag+pZrW134bJdhLT3EeX1wOFqJzi1WJQ5

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > And PGP tells me "signature not checked, key does not meet > > validity threshold" On 2 Oct 2002 at 20:40, Dave Howe wrote: > what version are you on? pgp 6.5.8 command line version. The actual problem was that there was no such key i

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread James A. Donald
will soon routinely use encryption. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Yek7NX953gkX+mwOcaRKW13pMWVzckXtQLHH7Oqt 45E6Pq+EKfccaEUOQLWtfPKtgE9yfk5u/o8MMv4HG

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-03 Thread James A. Donald
side encryption that "just works" we would be seeing a few more signed messages on this list, and those that appear, would actually be checked. Send an unnecessarily encrypted message to Tim and he wil probably threaten to shoot you. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZ

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > If we had client side encryption that "just works" we would > > be seeing a few more signed messages on this list, and > > those that appear, would actually be checked. Send an > > unnecessarily encrypted message to Tim and he w

Re: why bother signing? (was Re: What email encryption is actually in use?)

2002-10-04 Thread James A. Donald
James A. Donald: > >> > If we had client side encryption that "just works" we > >> > would be seeing a few more signed messages on this list, Major Variola (ret): > But Ben is not spoofed here! So there is little motivation. > > [...] > > In th

Independent News

2002-10-23 Thread James A. Donald
tegic advantage, in that Timor is an unsinkable aircraft carrier covering the approaches to Australia. This had the effect of rolling back Muslim rule, something that Bin Laden has told us is a no-no. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YY

Re: Intel Security processor + a question

2002-10-21 Thread James A. Donald
. One must have both theory and experiment. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG govZnfsYPhr1BzrbpYoLQVdfLp/FkKmHG9KFTFkI 4NCRqBJWFhDElvlvzDTaZGuTWNTAoXMMadfUryifo

Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees

2002-10-25 Thread James A. Donald
t great for me. I have stopped downloading music until I organize the music I already have. Napster was just great, worked with no fuss. Maybe the Napster clones are not as good, but my experience with downloading TV shows suggests that piracy is working better than ever. --digsig

Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees

2002-10-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > my experience with downloading TV shows suggests that > > piracy is working better than ever. Major Variola > This wasn't piracy, it was time-shifting. When the ads were deleted, it ceased to be time shifting. In any case, the point I intended to

What is the truth of the anti war rallys?

2002-10-27 Thread James A. Donald
papers are reporting forty two thousand in San Francisco. The inconsistency in the reports from Washington incline me to doubt the reports from San Francisco, but of course there is a plentiful supply of liars on both sides of the fence. --digsig James A. Donald 6Ye

Re: Clarification of challenge to Joseph Ashwood:

2002-11-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- Joseph Ashwood: > > > > So it's going to be broken by design. These are > > > > critical errors that will eliminate any semblance of > > > > security in your program. James A. Donald: > > > I challenge you to fool my canonicalization

Re: New Protection for 802.11

2002-11-07 Thread James A. Donald
strong demand for wifi security, compared to the almost complete absence of demand for email security. Why is it so? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG IWe4JFeDeor04Pxb96ZsQ7xX+JAwxSs8HQfoAeG5 4rQX6tgLhAvAwLjF+SXlRswSmphBhw4cOXLe9Y4r5

RE: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-07 Thread James A. Donald
" does not do what we want, not only are they out of spec, but smoke will start coming out of hardware when the device drivers are recompiled. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kEh2eDIEzpFnafz1M2n+bEgPvpgJoMG5yeNBElma 4DJ2e1VU89ubCetOzWnz76JuUZBdhHHlg/JLf9Xju

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
value? Alleged attempts to introduce internet currencies have a ninety percent humbug and fraud rate. If his currency works well enough that one can buy addresses with it, this indicates a somewhat surprising level of success. I will check out his currency, and see what there is to see. -

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
gold, one can perform one's mixing in a furnace. With DMT, cryptographic mixes are the only practical solution. Problem is that most users will not understand cryptographic mixing, whereas they do understand a furnace. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-13 Thread James A. Donald
money to or from a bank of America account, rendering client X43967 no longer pseudonymous. Similarly for client X98987 Thus it can discover that Truename Bob transferred money to truename alice. With Yodels, this cannot be discovered. --digsig James A. Donald 6Y

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-13 Thread James A. Donald
The Yodel does not have a web site where yodels can be converted into some other form of money, and other forms of money converted into Yodels. Instead it has an IIRC bot. Use of this bot is described at http://yodel.deep-ice.com/bankbot.html This means a command line interface, to do bankin

Poker

2002-11-15 Thread James A. Donald
be done. Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG d4omBF08eFWhHQd6CDKVp4lJjfAS5GR56iMNcbAA 4XIes5IiykHpRT31kmyvZJTH0pPeUGMmBmORhd56d

Re: Fwd: [fc] list of papers accepted to FC'03

2002-11-15 Thread James A. Donald
ed has run well ahead of what has in fact been implemented. This has doubtless reduced enthusiasm for the theory. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG XmqKAbnJ3zxWonUYjLQTEauIWVuczMy3fiZXjszK 4BOXbFJHRJ+piLFRffQdmB84zd8OiOgRKr7wytw+r

RE: Where's Osama? (Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's next)

2002-11-17 Thread James A. Donald
stige of German government and foster a new government from nothing. It took about five years for a plausibly German government to get its hands on the reins of power, and few more years for it to get rid of the institutions and apparatus of nazism. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-19 Thread James A. Donald
forth, and losing lots of men in the process, they eventually gave up. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8rJK0TzKk1D62GWmAZ6vUvsi4CeZZEc5RL+nY/pG 4uNqMiU5DCnLXIoq1IVsaQobFOgZedKfb3qFuXYdl

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread James A. Donald
e. I recommend you check out my Chomsky web page: "Chomsky lies" http://www.jim.com/Chomsdis.htm --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 5U6Z7xMp4zTN7LYnZeRTOkIV+P8krIJAvwxGPmE3 4EkYXklGNdtijKPek7gdRsTyzwt1PLpWiSTSKliuv

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-21 Thread James A. Donald
people who fail to inspire me with confidence. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG beO567eji82JoZMjbN1JCWL6vQBr301pkVztKIR+ 4HzLNwHtW3q5fJqUcxtmJZ0gjqfcEJvGFfMRkWY0c

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-22 Thread James A. Donald
. At present, if the US wants someone terminally interrogated, they ship him to Egypt and ask the Egyptians to do the interrogation. I am mildly suprised they do not ask the Afghans to do the interrogations, since poems have been written concerning the remarkable effectiveness of Afghan interro

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread James A. Donald
s that the army can do as it pleases on or near the battlefield. Trouble is, with terrorism or guerrilla war, the battlefield is arguably everywhere. We need a declaration of victory that will push the battlefield to somewhere far away. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nO

Re: Anonymous blogging

2002-12-11 Thread James A. Donald
For a while Mathew kept changing his email address, which led me to consider hunting him down and remonstrating him in person on my next visit to Australia, but now he holds it constant, so he and Choate are only a problem for idiots. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGp

Re: Extradition, Snatching,and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-16 Thread James A. Donald
be no less violent than it was before the Soviet invasion, but no more violent that it was before the Soviet invasion. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG k2IMyoZuE05D4VVX0FkW1hRQSzvJRDmLhlhwppHX 4+V+mECM7CjCVvLuL1WVl7q6w8saodTqAtyPLDY7v

Re: Extradition, Snatching,and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > > US policy was to restore the status quo ante in > > Afghanistan, put things back the way they were before the > > Soviet invasion. Sarad AV > How does that make things better for 'afghan' people,after > all the bombing done on th

Re: Verdict's in: Elcomsoft NOT GUILTY of criminal DMCA violations

2002-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
On 17 Dec 2002 at 16:43, Steve Schear wrote: > [I'm more convinced than ever that nullification figured into the > verdict. If so, bravo for the jury. steve] Both the defense and the prosecution sought to make the facts clear and understandable to the jury. So the defense was betting on nulli

Re: To Marcel Popescu On the Interventionist pseudo-Libs

2002-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
le and digress. To get back on point, if those who purport to be objectivists are also militant zionist interventionists, we should not take their supposed objectivist ideals too seriously. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3

RE: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
r and mass murder. The fact that Disney, and lots of other groups own various small things makes me free. Voting does not make me free. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG qikI/Zvu3HswGlLSZkKaevQ3pU6OY28ELljC0Jbd 4cAxIRdESGs/ZREaCsKc0sn3T8IF21aiD8Wwoy3Os

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
goes on. By voting, you give the appearance of consent to what the government does to you. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xmBBW56MrvFmh7U6fPSMDbyYqa+PTDPhTlRLmwmD 4cHSTvSFFo32sjmnBGPqe0vLtp3CfQhXyVLccQaXm

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- William Warren > voting keeps you free..voting is our way of controlling and > shaping the government. In http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_Chapter_19/PT hy_Chap_19.html David Friedman explains why democracy does not work. --digsig James A.

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-24 Thread James A. Donald
some special quality either of individual neurons or very small networks of neurons that we have not yet grasped. It is unsurprising that with current computing power we should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to emulate a nematode is troubling. --digsig Jame

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterro Research)

2002-12-24 Thread James A. Donald
house. The toxicity of dioxins is much overhyped. Any large power transformer that overheats is the equivalent of your dioxin bomb, and so far no one has noticed the supposedly devastating destruction created by such events. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3Tdz

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > It is unsurprising that with current computing power we > > should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to > > emulate a nematode is troubling. Eugen Leitl > The crunch power is there. We're lacking a good enough model, > an

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread James A. Donald
at becoming acceptable for men. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG eeK7Lx/2xa/jMsqP3nKuxuq4g/yRmQtaTm/6pzMG 4WNfeWcezvgs7vrhiCTz68qRAGREiuHgqil78zrNJ

Re: Question on Mixmaster

2003-01-13 Thread James A. Donald
use Mixmaster by hand. Download quicksilver, which is a wrapper around Mixmaster. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SOzCf2IlFaRP9bX1C0CNSyBqZtT2LHJw6xVNbuQg 42jEIkLSj0DRPCGqFJuNhf6tC8RHusnbDZzvJzdg5

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-13 Thread James A. Donald
s that some readers would fail to see that the first line was a joke, would believe that cypherpunks really do go hunting black people. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG VZWpdVuMGJXwD+8kUsrx9HO13zFp6hwvFIsezAEw 414DzHlNJd+xhIFwTZwjjprhbh3YCmMrWCkNV4SM5

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
eries that massacre reports were :: false. Of course no such discoveries are to be found in the material he cites, and his article appeared shortly after the massacres reported by the refugees were devastatingly confirmed by when such a massacre occurred on the border. --digsig Ja

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-19 Thread James A. Donald
ng of death. This makes me suspect that the original Bin Laden is now a grease smear on some Afghan rocks, since the original Bin Laden was a Heideggerean, and would spit on any Marxist unless that Marxist was dying of thirst in the desert. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/c

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-20 Thread James A. Donald
r he recently discovered that many of these guest workers, though they theoretically have the skills of those they are supposed to replace, do not actually have the skills. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kwfJU4cOdKI

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > > technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as well > > as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver:

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > > > > technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: > > > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as > > > > well as foreign scab l

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 23 Jan 2003 at 9:48, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald > wrote: > > > > If it was only the executives and a handful of highly > > qualified specialists, you would not need the army. >Of course you would. L

Re: Palm Pilot Handshake

2003-01-29 Thread James A. Donald
lic key) and there's > verification. Yep. Same dude. (You then procede to prostrate > yourself before this obvious godlet, stating "I'm not worthy, > Sire".) This can be done without a palm pilot. Normally the flesh and blood Tyler Durden would reveal kno

Re: CDR: US health care,a winner for Hillary in 04?

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
On 28 Jan 2003 at 19:46, Marc de Piolenc wrote: > PS - the infant mortality statistics are bogus; they are a > record-keeping artefact. Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the > USA is always being compared) don't "count" a child as born until it > has reached a certain age (three weeks in

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
sting research findings, which means that their scientists want to publish interesting research findings. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG vj9XFJICkQyBZHtzNbSmc+aK6sW4+dfeCW2jBsxp 4SNzRPDCqDY1oqcXuKPS207CG2oaSOsRAObNR7CKl

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
ose who disagreed with the one overly optimistic estimate -- but the association is thin. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8af9YKuTzIfi6eW+kuKC5iSQr1ItRdPJmiiqa7oK 40um9WOOe1GxHnczql5Bykr/viCnjY0+DHauSAK8v

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
can't happen. Indeed, aren't we nearly at that point with > sub-0.13um technology? It is possible that further advances > just won't be possible without direct or indirect government > funding.) We are switching to direct contact methods, which will be cheaper

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-31 Thread James A. Donald
Hubbert technique. Hubbert predicts oil reserves from observed success in finding oil. Doomsayers predict failure to find oil from alleged oil reserves. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG C9e+ZUPyVGI4wbdMUNNKXWkQWaRXRTL/Nu+zv66g 4tjmevo5q83abI8gkC1baI1odUsQH0a8O86Tquf+1

Why there is no anonymous e-cash

2004-07-19 Thread James A. Donald
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 chaumian cash by now? Because, the more

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

2004-07-25 Thread James A. Donald
, or perhaps a boy carrying some art. To the best of my knowledge no one EVER got any decent sized cash payment from the Soviet Union for any act of treason, no matter how crucial. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG TKc9QQNc

Re: "...Hold still for the camera, Mehdi..."

2004-08-11 Thread James A. Donald
c. Presumably the IDs do not display true names, but Sadr presumably has a database linking true names to ID tags. Of course, should that database fall into US hands, his entire organization is screwed. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/

Re: Wired: Attacking the 4th Estate

2004-08-26 Thread James A. Donald
e all the "Child protection" legislation that congress passed against the internet - which makes him the nearest thing to a friend of liberty as you are likely to find in Washington. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Mluq4gPKwTGMErQREoTDh8saWV7wEzjSVjNf6113 4ydEMtkhYfG6Q30GRB2AWjgyE/a40DE7VIEdxVgD2

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-07 Thread James A. Donald
messages, or think they might need to read it in the future, download the newsgroup in its entireity. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG fzparMQ1YGMHFGGQ4eabvrdbfX3oQPnGSeUNNkuX 4UV3sPQUJdBwqav34D5pBXRBNtLg+GX5dxE+YM5P8

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

2004-09-14 Thread James A. Donald
detonate AN, but I have never failed to detonate it. Perhaps your stuff was contaminated with water or stabilizer, or perhaps you need a better flame. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG fi2djYWevOtkRUevhH2YeK5Q2byRVZ/KV1oTz6Kw 4

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