Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
' Tyler Durden, whatever the hell that means.) Is peaceful change, etc... possible? I'd like to think so. However, there may come a point where peaceful solution is really just a lazy dream designed to permit us to ignore our responsibility... There may be a third option, of which crypto is a part

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... To _this_ American, namely, me, it is apparent that Pax Americana is the goal. By my definition of rule, then, yes, America wants to rule much of the world. No, they don't want to micromanage the details. But they certainly want pliable governments that will not be _too_

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-04-04 Thread Tyler Durden
In modern times we have the names of Chinese people and cities changing as different methods of transcribing Chines to English gain favor -- Peking became Beijing, and Mao Tse Tung became Mao Zedong. Well, I disagree with the implications here. At least with Chinese names the new

Chomsky: Iraq is a trial run

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
What Chomsky says below is no suprise to most of those on this list, left/right/other. What IS of interest is that fact that a universal consensus seems to be emerging about the US's role in the world, and Chomsky articulates this sentiment. -TD (from www.zmag.org) IRAQ Noam Chomsky ,

Re: cooperative evil bit

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
It was so simple! They should have done this years ago... Reminds me of a friend that was on a standards commmittee. The committee generated a time requirement for some kind of satellite signal to be sent, and the requirement meant that light speed would be broken. In response, my friend wrote

'Peking' vs 'Beijing'

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
The other was an actual change in the name of the city, from Northern Plains to Northern Capitol. This analysis doesn't explain everything. Modern Mandarin (which into its current form early in the 20th century), along with its linguistic northern predecessor has no sound such as king, though

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their owngooses

2003-08-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Having sat on Pacific Coast Highway below the takeoff path of LAX jumbo jets, I can attest to the fact that they are literally just a few hundred feet above. Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot at one of these 747s or 767s, leaving every couple of minutes.)

Black folks.

2003-08-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Where did this of color nonsense get started? Like a lot of PC terms...from guilt-ridden white liberals. Black folks never use this term, as far as I've ever heard. Likewise with physically challenged. My black karate Sensei used to periodically laugh at the shame and

Re: Blackout in NYC

2003-08-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Sarad wrote... For a moment think of all the iraqi's with power grids taken out now enjoying the 120+ farenhiet sun. A few hours of luxury was gone and it was breaking news in bbc. Although I appreciate the sentiment, your not really getting this. The timing was such that long-term impact was

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May is the perfect example why vigilante justice is generally considered to be a bad thing -- stupid assholes like Tim May spout off take action based on paranoia instead of facts principles of anarchy instead of justice and innocent parties get hurt. Well, on one hand taking justice into

Re: Using Virus/Worm comments to implicate others

2003-09-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Dave Howe wrote... Tim May wrote: Reading about the Romanian student arrested today for allegedly releasing one of the Blaster variants, I was struck by how easy it would be to bring a shitstorm down on someone by inserting comments into the virus code. oh joy - yet another way to joe-job

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Thonen wrote.. On that same note, any weekend warrior who complains about being activated has no sympathy from me. Take the devils coin, be prepared to do his work also. Well, what if the Devil stole that $ from you in the first place? What level of subversion is appropriate in order to

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-20 Thread Tyler Durden
building don't actually work! Otherwise, keep on bleeding the beast... -TD From: Thoenen, Peter CIV Sprint [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:20:15

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah, kinda bizarre. There's also an ambiguity that prevents one from saying Q is associative. Is the table defined for both directions of *? In other words, is the table meant to imply values for both x*y (ie, left*top) as well as y*x (top*left)? For most objects x*y will not equal y*x

Re: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks

2003-08-26 Thread Tyler Durden
So... how many people does one have to terrorize in order to be a terrorist? PS: Anyone else getting tired of the term terror? Back when we all hated Osama bin Laden (remember that guy?) Osama was promoted from Terrorist to terror mastermind to lord of terror and so on. I'm sick of being told

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-08-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... If cops ask local neighborhood members to report any suspicious activity, the folks know that any benefits they gain from acting as informants tend to be a lot smaller than the danger of being beat up or even killed by the Mafia. When the cost of acting as an informant is

How can you tell if your alarm company's...

2003-08-14 Thread Tyler Durden
..in cahoots with the authorities? In other words, lets say I leave my house for an extended period of time, and they tell the Alarm Monitoring company to shut down for a while so they can protect our freedoms. (I assume this is the way they would go about installing various things in one's

Re: CAPPS II -- The Latest Red Scare

2003-09-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Get tagged as a Red, perhaps based on intelligence like Usenet postings, mailing list activity, political activity, and airlines are ordered to bar use of their services. And arrest follows. Serves you right. You and your constant criticisms of our divine and God-appointed protectors and

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

2003-09-12 Thread Tyler Durden
' crapper to make sure no terrorists get me while I'm on the can. -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:10:24 +1200 Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Fatherland

ABC Smuggles depleted Uranium into US...

2003-09-11 Thread Tyler Durden
I think that it's becomming clear that in order for Americans to feel safe US troops should morph into an international Police force. Next stop: Indonesia! -TD The ABCNEWS suitcase containing the uranium was placed in a teak trunk along with other furniture put in a container in Jakarta,

Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... The questions being asked of Jim may have to do with the Feds making the only prosecution they can make: that those passing on such threats via mailing lists are somehow guilty of some crime. This is just speculation on my part. I thought the Feds questions to Jim Choate had

Re: Sex-diary writer expected to leave jail

2003-09-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Although something deep down in my gut would LIKE to push this guy into a trash compactor, it seems particularly odd that the courts/society view this writing as somehow equating with impending action. Actually, it's quite possible that these writings might be the very thing preventing him from

Re: Liquidating the Mud People

2003-09-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Matt Gaylor wrote... That's what free people have and that's one of the reason's I'd never move to Canada. Naturally my car got searched with a fine toothed comb, but I added I wouldn't be stupid enough to bring my pistol. I spent considerable effort cleaning my car of any stray ammo, thinking

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-21 Thread Tyler Durden
I no longer consider 9/11 a terrorist act. Fuck. I've been nearing a similar conclusion, though from an entirely different, uh, line of approach. Though I don't consider having quite crossed that line yet. I guess in the end we are responsible for the actions our government takes. And if we

Encrypted search?

2003-09-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Got a crypto question here. Let's say I push out a list I'd like to keep secret to some client machine. The user of that machine must enter some ID or other piece of information. I want the client machine to perform a search of that ID vs the contents of a list (again, resident locally on that

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-22 Thread Tyler Durden
? Sarath. --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess in the end we are responsible for the actions our government takes. And if we remain ignorant and continue to benefit (and do nothing to stop it), then we are responsible, particularly when our military represents an outrageously

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Don't forget that in ancient greece the populace could vote any leader into exile. My brother believes we should be able to vote any publically elected official directly into jail, no questions asked. -TD From: Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Drunken US Troops

Re: Wipe your Lamo notes now

2003-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... If it's a felony for _me_ to say Sources tell me that Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, has been a CIA covert operative since 1980, it is a felony for Robert Novak to do so. Hum. Particularly in the era of the Internet and blogs. Even if The Press should

Re: On suing Marcy Hamilton for being a bimbo

2003-10-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... So don't use their tools. Don't abuse the law against the maker of a tool which can be used improperly. It is simply wrong to blame a gun or drill or code maker because some evildoer (virus propogator) used the tool against you. Well, although I am willing to agree that a

2 Quantum Crypto Companies partner

2003-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
This makes 3 companies I know of working on Quantum Cryptography for key distribution. There must be a few more... http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreadingdoc_id=41735 -TD _ Instant message during games with MSN

Re: [IP] FCC readies rule to block Internet piracy (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2003-10-20 Thread Tyler Durden
The federal government is preparing for the first time to require that personal computers and other consumer electronics devices contain technology to help block Internet piracy of digital entertainment. Just wait until MS unleashes a brood of lobbyists when nobody buys the new Palladium-ed

Re: If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win

2003-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... I predict we'll soon be seeing a new thought control campaign with this theme, that if you use encryption, you help the terrorists win. Well, I'm dubious. Right now I'm thinking their strategy has been to pull encryption down off of the social radar, and that's worked better

Re: If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win

2003-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
: On Saturday 25 October 2003 04:27 pm, Tyler Durden wrote: secure (every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as effectively 'unbreakable' encryption? Reglar folks always believe SOMEBODY'S got the technology to break what scheme you use, so why bother). I have a few friends like

If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win

2003-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
:27 pm, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... secure (every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as effectively 'unbreakable' encryption? Reglar folks always believe SOMEBODY'S got the technology to break what scheme you use, so why bother). I have a few friends like

Re: If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win

2003-10-30 Thread Tyler Durden
is that you don't realize that crypto is no longer a technological issue now. It's now a social and marketing one. The fact that Tyler Durden actually has little of major insight to say completely misses the point. Ideally, Tyler Durden is a generic, popular figure that embodies virulent

Disguising the Key length (Was...Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys)

2003-11-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I think that's the source as well - when the most recent of the TWINKLE and TWIRL papers came out, Lucky Green was talking about whether it was still safe to use 1024-bit keys, and $1B for 1 key/day is similar to Shamir Tromer's estimate of (

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Doesn't make sense. Votes are already bought and sold, but there's so many middle men taking their cuts in the form of military bases or whatnot that the enduser barely gets some. -TD From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying,

Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
OK...let's say I receive a photo that I expected to contain stegoed information on it, but then find that there's nothing I can retrieve using the likely methods or software. Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was sent to me) contained stegoed information,

RE: Got.net and its narcing out of its customers

2003-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... I consider Don Frederickson despicable, and stupid. To not bother before understanding the context of the thread and say, basically, Yes, we have narced out this customer to law enforcement, but they are just watching is reprehensible. Well, I saw the got.net quote before

Anti-globalization

2003-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
The anti-globalization protests are a good example of something misunderstood by Libertarian old-farts. On some levels, these protests have a libertarian character...anti-globalization is not really about eliminating free trade per se, but eliminating free trade, which is really just the

Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
. So in a sense, it's gone way beyond 'repression'...no need for that rat-cage around our heads anymore. -Tyler Durden From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... This is silly, socialist nonsense. I know some of the book buyers at the Borders store in Santa Cruz (the very one that the anti-bigness lefties tried to ban from opening in Santa Cruz). Not only do they have a local authors section which is larger than the similar section at

Tim May is Free!

2003-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim near the keyboard very often. I dunno...sometimes his

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
them do so well here in the US. (Though these mega-Barnes-and-Nobles may have dented their numbers in the last few years...) -TD From: ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is Matel Stalinist? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:56:31 + Tim May quoted Tyler Durden who wrote: Well, I

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
not be able to tell. Any of you TLA lurkers wanna come in on a remailer and set me straight? -TD From: A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:28:31 -0800 (PST) Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
. One could count some fraction of all the *.binaries.* on usenet as anonymous communications (via stego), but then you'd have to know how many are stego'd, and that is the game after all. At 02:24 PM 12/8/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when

RE: Stego worm

2003-12-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Mr Shaddack... That's some interesting thinking there. The interesting thing is that no one might ever even notice the presence of this benevolent worm. It could go pretty much unchecked for a while. As for Variola's comment, you might be right. I just assumed there's some kind of

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Not only does it not make sense, but clearly this would cause pileups at _some_ stores (too much Spam) and shortages at _other_ stores (still not enough Spam, even with the latest send more Spam to all stores order. The fact that neither shortages nor pileups (that I can see)

Re: Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles

2003-12-15 Thread Tyler Durden
seeing in the press over the last few years), but he hasn't actually controlled things for a couple of decades. The Saddam we're really looking for is approximately Saddam #3, and he's still at large, and directing the insurgency. -TD From: Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden

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

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided. At least here in NYC local news, it's common to

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

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
to grow in status until he's just a notch or two below Mohammed. Look then for more bombings and 9/11s here in the US. That Saddam was a cruel, butchering dictator will soon be nearly irrelevant. -Tyler Durden From: Anatoly Vorobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: U.S

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

2003-12-18 Thread Tyler Durden
17, 2003 at 05:06:55PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into non-Cypherpunk levels of triviality. I thought it was trivial all along. The original point stands, and is valid. The Islamic world and, in particular, the Arabic part

RE: The killer app for encryption

2003-12-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...I assume you're quoting somebody here? The last point is actually a very good one, but getting there requires hacking through gobbledeegook. What's this all businessmen silliness? And using vpns WITHIN a company? As an employee of a major Wall Street firm, I can tell you that's completely

RE: The killer app for encryption

2003-12-20 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm not certain, but I think there are some MS certified modems which have a generalized A/D-D/A capability sufficient to handle voice. They do. And I'm not so sure POTS is going to be where things will be the most interesting...cable modem telephony might be where things get interesting. As

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

2003-12-23 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... They were supposedly supporters of the NLF, which they well knew was a North Vietnamese sock puppet, and thus a KGB sock puppet. Uh...huh? You really get a lot of things mixed up. If you think Ho Chi Minh was a KGB sockpuppet then you really don't know anything about

Saddam is evil, therefore we have the right to feed him to our pigs

2003-12-24 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... There is ample evidence that the 'anti war' crowd is largely pro Saddam This is a critical point, and it's one you fail to recognize over and over again. Let me tell you a little story. There's this guy that lives down the block...I think he may be a Satanist or

Re: I am anti war. You lot support Saddam

2003-12-24 Thread Tyler Durden
And I don't usually get quite this MAD, but such ignorance, such blindness, is the reason we are in this mess. I'm not so sure Mr Donald is ignorant OR blind. He seems to be something I've never seen in real life before: Completely aligned with US foreign policy, past/present/future. I'm

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Tyler Durden
As long as truth is no defense against hate speech, and hate speech includes things which clearly don't involve anyone hating anyone else, hate speech is simply a code phrase for suppressing free expression. At worst. At best it's going to boil down to some local enforcement shitheel taking it

James Donald Skeetshoot...

2003-12-28 Thread Tyler Durden
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Re: Vengeance Libertarianism and Hot Black Chicks

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
to take the kinds of risks implicit in what you're talking about. The meme which Tyler Durden and John Young--not surprising to me that both are Manhattanites, representing the East Coast view of capitalism--are popularizing is the one that says that what made companies successful was *government

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Because the Jews and negroes have demanded that all students be taught stuff they obviously will never use. Most inner city mutants should be taught practical skills, not abstract stuff their previous education has been bereft of. Well, I don't know who's responsible, but

RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Well I be darned if Mr May hasn't inspired a major burst of eloquence, between this response and Mr Young's. As for this comment: Schools don't educate, but merely serve as a filter for employers to locate those individuals who aren't going to make trouble at the factory. At best. In the inner

Education Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
and send the Scoops around to collect up the students off the streets every morning. -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 08:34:03 -0800 At 11:51 AM 1/1/04 -0500, Tyler

RE: So many statists...uh, who gives a crap?

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... I assume they figured that since they were using PGP to communicate with their fellow anti-capitalists, that crypto must be cool Here's the question Tyler Durden has for you. Which is more important...annhiliation of the state, or getting a bunch of list subscribers to agree

WiFi Repeater?

2004-01-06 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm thinking about a WiFi repeater... Imagine I work on a high floor in an office tower, but I know that very nearby, on the ground floor, there's a public WiFi hotspot. Now let's say I want to be able to access that hotspot, but I'm currently out of range due to the height. DOES THERE EXIST

Re: WiFi Repeater?

2004-01-06 Thread Tyler Durden
(come to think of it, I could probably just buy a few cheap Linksys WiFi routers and scatter them around, but I was hoping for something even cheaper, smaller, and less obtrusive.) -TD From: R/db [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WiFi

Lunar Colony

2004-01-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Thank goodness Mr Bush is finally thinking long term. Not only will the Lunar Base focus all of our attention away from the wars and other nastiness down here, it will get us to the moon before Al Qaeda and bin Laden ever have a chance to start spreading their filthy ideas there. If we control

RE: Lunar Colony

2004-01-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Interesting OpEd piece in the NYT today pointing out that a manned Mars expedition becomes *much* more affordable if no return trip is planned. This is not a suicide mission; supplies could be sent for rest of the emigrants natural lives, Gotcha. The obvious next place for a greatly expanded

RE: Networking Nation-States..well written but wrong.

2004-01-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Without civil society, importing the procedures, rituals and even institutions of democracy results only in instituting one more set of spoils for families and groups to fight over at the expense of the rest of society. Democratic mechanisms no more create civil society than wet streets cause

FCC Rules on Internet Telephony

2004-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
This came out on lightreading.com. Seems there's one tiny step backward for CALEA w.r.t Internet telephony. I guess it's obvious the FBI will eventually get it's way, but it's be interesting to see how it goes about it from here out. -TD At its open meeting today, the FCC took a couple of

Re: 5 million on terrorism list

2004-02-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Sarath wrote... is it true or just another make up so as to make its citizens feel justified when they go invade another nation.How much effort does it take to get credible information of 5 million people oveseas? Overseas? I would have thought most of them would be in the US! (Probably 4

More on VoIP

2004-02-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Encryption ain't the half of it. Really good liottle article. And I didin't know Skype was based in Luxemborg http://slate.msn.com/id/2095777/ -TD _ Get fast, reliable access with MSN 9 Dial-up. Click here for Special Offer!

Re: More on VoIP

2004-02-24 Thread Tyler Durden
that word of mouth works just fine for disseminating mission-critical information. -TD From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More on VoIP Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:49:13 - Tyler Durden wrote: Encryption ain't the half of it. Really good liottle article. And I

RE: Gentlemen don't read each others' mail

2004-02-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Looks like the UN's going to need some encrypted VoIP... -TD From: Major Variola (ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gentlemen don't read each others' mail Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:39:22 -0800 Britain Accused of Spying on U.N.'s

RE: Vote changing gizmos (paid for by feds)

2004-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
..slow exhale.. thanks for the hit, Bob, that's the good shit.. I miss it. Yeah...I admit it. I snuck down to the cellar and took a few tokes as well. I don't dig all the calls for needs killing, but every now and then the dude delivers. -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

2004-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
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 background noise. There are plenty of CDs of

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

2004-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
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-baked laws? Optimist

Re: inverse finding

2004-03-14 Thread Tyler Durden
I can't stop outsourcing.Don't blame me.Blame your own govt. Holy Shit, Sarath...what's that got to do with Variola's little quip? And are you trying to suggest (On Cypherpunks, of all places) that the US government should somehow regulate outsourcing? (Me, I work with outsourced experts all

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

2004-03-15 Thread Tyler Durden
More on Fed's seeking to expand CALEA to VoIP. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62659,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8 You know, it occurs to me I need a little 'Bot. What this Bot does is periodically make encrypted calls or send out meaningless encrypted messages on a regular basis. Then, it

RE: 'Special skills draft' on drawing board

2004-03-15 Thread Tyler Durden
A targeted registration and draft is is strictly in the planning stage, said Flahavan, adding that the whole thing is driven by what appears to be the more pressing and relevant need today -- the deficit in language and computer experts. Well, we could outsource 'em! I'd bet there's tons of

Chinese WiFi and Encryption

2004-03-16 Thread Tyler Durden
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040315_6034_tc058.htm What I don't see mentioned in this little article is that fact that WEP is largely useless in terms of security. So in a way the Chinese were attempting to jump into that hole. Of course, Zhong Nan Hai will have a

RE: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Ah Variola...do I detect a wee bit of Knee-jerk in your otherwise consistently iconoclastic views? Let's take a looksee... 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 is coercing you at gunpoint.

RE: Sttop Spreading Hatred

2004-03-28 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, I keep getting this shit. Right now, I can't tell if it's anti-agit-prop or simply a well-intentioned but idiotic muslim chick (something about the wording made me assume this was a female). Listen up. Cypherpunks is a cryptography list, and al-qaeda.net is a node. The subscribers to this

RE: Mobile Wifi Backpack (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2004-03-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, we actually discussed a similar configuration in the context of mass demonstration. Such a configuration could prevent a Goonsquad shakedown of data/photos/videos, particularly when the WiFi device is acting like a router, and particularly when this router is one of many in a sea of

RE: Sttop Spreading Hatred

2004-03-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... What the fuck are you ingesting tonight? extreme tolerance to opinions?? Its only because it would be self-parodying that accusations of nazihood don't fly. Even with Tim gone, praise be unto him. Uh, it was Spaten Octoberfest, ON TAP. Consider Tyler Durden justifiably bitch

RE: who needs Padilla when you have govt?

2004-03-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Just for the heck of it, it would be interesting to look at demographic data for the area -TD From: Major Variola (ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: who needs Padilla when you have govt? Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:34:54

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

2004-03-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...this is getting tiring...as far as I'm concerned this part of the discussion looks like semantics. From a pure physics standpoint, there isn't a hell of a lot of diference between a noncrystalline solid and a liquid. One's moving faster. The gaseous state is of course where molecules have

4 mercs and non-gov paramilitaries

2004-03-31 Thread Tyler Durden
supplies security guards to the Coalition Provisional Authority and has provided protection for Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer, among other coalition officials. From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Jackbooted thugs, mercs and non-gov

RE: The 'Privacy' Jihad

2004-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Silly bitch. But then again, she may just be looking for a gig. Can someone out there slip her name into the do-not-fly registries so we can have a new privacy advocate? Here's the part I love... As with any public or private power, TIA's capabilities could have been abused -- which is why the

RE: Powell admits mobile weapons factory scam

2004-04-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Is this that surprising? The CIA isn't doing too well if they cannot figure out that there are good reasons to doubt anti-Iraq intelligence. The stuff I've been reading would indicate almost the contrary. Apparently, the Bush administration decided to more or less bypass the CIA's 'value added'

RE: The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Tyler Durden
So of course, society's interest in protecting police officers allows New Orleans police to search your home or business at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all. As long as the cop mumbles something about making sure he's safe. Actually, this is particularly hilarious. The Cops in

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Ironically, some of the features of Gmail bear resemblance to BlackNet. In particular, its claimed policy of retaining email indefinitely, even after the recipient has stopped using the account, is reminiscent of BlackNet's function as a data haven, as well as other Cypherpunk projects like the

RE: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies (Re: [irtheory] Re: Anarchy and State Behaviors)

2004-04-08 Thread Tyler Durden
The pre-microprocessor automation of telephony (pulse and then touchtone dialing) put expensive automation at the top of the hierarchy, and, as costs fell, moved down from there. Well, from the little I can understand of what you're saying, there seems to be some stuff worthy of at least cursory

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-10 Thread Tyler Durden
. Tell them, Uh, change that pork to ham, and put it between the two slices of bread. Oi La! Instant Ham sandwich! -TD From: An Metet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:08:39 -0400 Tyler Durden writes: Ironically, some

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

2004-04-10 Thread Tyler Durden
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? Only if they pay me cash Someone enlighten me here...I don't see this as obvious. I might certainly

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-10 Thread Tyler Durden
tore off the wrapper). -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:48:02 -0700 At 09:58 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, I never claimed to be Einstein, but your 3 simple steps sound

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

2004-04-10 Thread Tyler Durden
) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:36:28 -0700 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

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

2004-04-10 Thread Tyler Durden
argument any.) -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:03:35 -0700 At 07:06 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: RAH wrote... At 10:43 AM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola

RE: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)

2004-04-10 Thread Tyler Durden
to forcibly or legally shut him down, then one probably needs killing. -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting) Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:35:47 -0700 At 05:16 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden

Re: current status of cypherpunks, tim may, etc. ??

2004-04-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim regularly and thoroughly jumped up my ass about my various ideological impurities Well, this was fairly annoying and I think made it harder to dig out the gold from Tim May's poop. And in a way, this was self-defeating from a topple-the-state point of view. My point was (and sometimes is)

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