January 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Fw: sterno
by Robin Cushman 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Sorry about this email. I am seriously looking for sterno and did not realize this was a joke - du! ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin Cushman To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:59 AM Subject: sterno Are you the one selling products such as the sterno? If so I would like to bid on the cases of sterno please email me Robin

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sterno
by Robin Cushman 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Are you the one selling products such as the sterno? If so I would like to bid on the cases of sterno please email me Robin

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IRC FUD: Chapter II
by Eric Cordian 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

On the heels of the Efnext debacle, I just read this fascinating article in Wired News which purports to explain that Usenet is already dead, and IRC will be next. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41077,00.html Methinks some people are just a teensy bit too eager to announce the demise of certain Anarchistic parts of the Net as a forgone conclusion. Particularly those parts which are used for Horsemen-related activities, and exist in a more supervised and LEA accessible form from providers like AOL. I'm not buying. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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09 Jan '01

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Review of Steven Levy's "Crypto"
by Declan McCullagh 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41071,00.html Crypto: Three Decades in Review by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 8:20 a.m. Jan. 9, 2001 PST WASHINGTON --It took only a year or two for a pair of computer and math geeks to discover modern encryption technology in the 1970s. But it's taken three decades for the full story to be told. Transforming what is an unavoidably nerdy tale into the stuff of passion and politics is not a trivial business, but Steven Levy, the author of Crypto, proves himself more than up to the task. Crypto (Viking Penguin, $25.95), is Levy's compelling history of the personalities behind the development of data encryption, privacy and authentication: The mathematicians who thought up the idea, the businessmen who tried to sell it to an unsure public and the bureaucrats who tried to control it. Levy, a Newsweek writer and author of well-received technology histories such as Hackers and Insanely Great, begins his book in 1969 with a profile of Whit Diffie, the tortured, quirky co-discoverer of public key cryptography. Other characters soon populate the stage: The MIT mathematicians eager to sign documents digitally; Jim Bidzos, the Greek-born dealmaker who led RSA Data Security from ruin to success; and Phil Zimmermann, the peace-activist-turned-programmer who gave the world Pretty Good Privacy. Until their contributions, the United States and other countries suffered from a virtual crypto-embargo, under which the technology to perform secure communications was carefully regulated as a munition and used primarily by soldiers and spies. But what about privacy and security? "On one side of the battle were relative nobodies: computer hackers, academics and wonky civil libertarians. On the other were some of the most powerful people in the world: spies, generals and even presidents. Guess who won," Levy writes. (Full disclosure: A few years ago, Levy asked this writer to help him research portions of the book. For whatever reason -- perhaps he found what he needed elsewhere -- discussions ceased.) Throughout Crypto's 356 pages, Levy takes the perspective of the outsiders -- and, in some cases, rebels -- who popularized the technology. Although he provides ample space for the U.S. government's views, he casts the struggle between crypto-buffs and their federal adversaries in terms familiar to foes of government control. [...]

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Re: More half-baked social planning ideas
by Steve Mynott 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Ken Brown <k.brown(a)ccs.bbk.ac.uk> writes: > were American. But, not being American I still have no real idea what > the expected answer to > > > furnace:basement::stove:______ I had no idea either. > I *guess* "kitchen" because in the UK "stove" is an old-fashioned name > for a cooking device, stuff we used before the invention of gas and I don't know if it's _that_ old-fashioned the word "stove" is still in use for this. On a tangent a friend claimed Americans didn't have electric kettles for boiling water. Can anyone confirm whether this is true? > electric cookers (in fact, before the invention of the cast-iron > range). But for us a "furnace" is an extremely large thing that you get > steel out of... not something anyone would find in a basement. Over I think "furnace" is "boiler" in English. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve(a)tightrope.demon.co.uk "my watch with a black face .. has the date in a little hole in the face"

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09 Jan '01

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09 Jan '01

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by davidjel＠goingplatinum.com 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

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Re: Anglo-American communications studies
by Gil Hamilton 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Ray Dillinger writes: >And in the US, "billiards" is a game played with cues and balls on a >felt-covered slate table. In the UK, it's also a very large number. >Thankfully, so large that that definition rarely comes into conversation. >As I understand cross-pond conversions, it goes like this.... > >USA UK Scientific >Thousand Thousand 1E3 >Million Million 1E6 >Billion Milliard 1E9 >Trillion Billion 1E12 >Quadrillion Billiard 1E15 >Quintillion Trillion 1E18 >Sextillion Trilliard 1E21 >Septillion Quadrillion 1E24 >Octillion Quadrilliard 1E27 See this table from Merriam-Webster: http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/number.htm - GH _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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