Re: Deniability

2011-04-03 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Saturday 2 April 2011 at 6:25:43 PM, in , Robert J. Hansen wrote: > The real risk is you will come to their attention by > doing something *you had no idea was a crime*... which > is a much more serious thing. Isn't it a fairly standard max

Re: Deniability [SIC]

2011-04-03 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:48:13 +0100 MFPA articulated: > Isn't it a fairly standard maxim that "ignorance of the law is no > defence?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat Ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law does

No SmartCard Daemon

2011-04-03 Thread Paul R.
Hi, I recently installed GnuPG 2 through a package manager on a Linux system, and when I issued "gpg2 --card-status", I got the following error: gpg: OpenPGP card not available: No SmartCard daemon I searched my system for scdaemon, but it is not installed. Also, I checked my PATH environment v

Re: No SmartCard Daemon

2011-04-03 Thread Astrakan
Hello, Im no expert in the card reader/card driver area but; Im also running Linux Mint 9 with gpg2 and keys on smartcard. Im not sure which card reader you have (I've got an Omnikey reader) but in my case I pretty soon had to abandon the CCID-driver (gpg built-in) in favor of PCSC. Try: /apt-get

Re: Deniability

2011-04-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Isn't it a fairly standard maxim that "ignorance of the law is no > defence?" I don't see what this has to do with anything, but assuming for the moment you're serious: In most Western nations ignorance cannot excuse you from the burden of conforming with the law, but it can be used to excuse

Re: No SmartCard Daemon

2011-04-03 Thread Grant Olson
On 04/03/2011 07:24 AM, Paul R. wrote: > gpg: OpenPGP card not available: No SmartCard daemon > > I searched my system for scdaemon, but it is not installed. Also, I > checked my PATH environment variable to make sure that the PATH was > properly configured. I guessed that, perhaps, scdaemon had

Re: No SmartCard Daemon

2011-04-03 Thread Grant Olson
On 04/03/2011 03:05 PM, Grant Olson wrote: > > For some reason debian-based software includes scdaemon in the gpgsm > package. > > Part of me feels like this is a bug in the packaging, but I don't know > enough about debian packaging to file a bug report. That, or I'm too > lazy... > I decided

Re: Deniability

2011-04-03 Thread Johan Wevers
On 03-04-2011 18:31, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > If I was in the People's Republic of Berzerkistan and a cop sees me > take a photograph of a bank, then it literally *does not matter* that > I had no idea it was a crime: I'm still going to do ten to fifteen > years in a Berzerkistani prison camp for

Re: Deniability [SIC]

2011-04-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:48:13 +0100 > MFPA articulated: > >> Isn't it a fairly standard maxim that "ignorance of the law is no >> defence?" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat > > > > Ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Lati

Re: No SmartCard Daemon

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Ramer
On 4/3/11, Grant Olson wrote: > For some reason debian-based software includes scdaemon in the gpgsm > package. > > Part of me feels like this is a bug in the packaging, but I don't know > enough about debian packaging to file a bug report. That, or I'm too > lazy... Thank you, Grant. That's ju