June 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Slashdot | Phoenix BIOS Phones Home?
by Ray Dillinger 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Paul E. Robichaux wrote: >Well, where I come from this is useful functionality! In combination with a >feature called RIS (remote installation service) in Windows 2000, you can >create a library of canned machine images and blast them out to machines over >the network. One of our major customers has cut the time necessary to replace >a failed machine down to about 15 minutes: plug in the new machine, hit F12 >during boot to trigger PXE, lay down the image received from the RIS server, >user logs in, and voila! Interesting. So, in theory, someone could do their thing at a central console and next morning everybody at the company could be looking at their new linux desktop? :-) The thought amuses me, but then so does the thought of an outlook virus that installs RedHat. I don't deny that such tools are useful when used as intended. So is a sledgehammer, but that certainly doesn't stop it from being a highly destructive weapon that can be turned against its owner. What gets me is that this contains a HUGE potential for security compromise, and people who don't know it exists aren't being given an opportunity to NOT get it. Bear

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CNN.com - Ashcroft, Senators offer plans to investigate FBI - June 20, 2001
by Jim Choate 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/20/fbi.hearing/index.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by ListManagerSQL 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

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septillion operations per second (fwd)
by Jim Choate 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:16:57 +0200 From: Barry Wels <crypto6(a)nah6.com> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: septillion operations per second Hi, In James Bamford's new book 'Body of Secrets' he claims the NSA is working on some FAST computers. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/book.html --- The secret community is also home to the largest collection of hyper-powerful computers, advanced mathematicians and skilled language experts on the planet. Within the city, time is measured in femtosecondsone million billionth of a second, and scientists work in secret to develop computers capable of performing more than one septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) operations every second. --- If they ever build such a computer (or 1.000.000 of them) what would that mean for today's key lengths ? I am curious how long a computer capable of a septillion operations per second would take to crack one 128 bit or 256 bit key. Or a RSA 1024 or 2048 bit key for that matter ... Greetings, Barry. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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21 Jun '01

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Re: Rental Cars Now Big Brother Enabled
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

So now I need to bring Al foil and scotch tape when I travel?

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RE: Slashdot | Phoenix BIOS Phones Home?
by Kelley Walker 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

At 09:53 AM 6/20/01 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >Jim: > >You really don't have a good memory, do you? We dealt with this >topic just 3 weeks ago. but, but, but... it wasn't on /. yet so it wasn't real. >Check for the thread 'BIOS Spying' around June 1. well, the thing i was interested in was the _potential_ for using it for nefarious ends. phoenixnet might not be, but who's to say... as you suggested in your closing comments about paranoia which i snipped. anyway, thanks for your comments to my query three weeks ago. i got busy and failed to acknowledge responses. kelley -- Kelley Walker Interpact, Inc. Security Awareness Training www.interpactinc.com Interpact sponsors InfowarCon: Sept 5-6, Washington, D.C. http://www.interpactinc.com/infowarcon.html

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Critiques of Libertarianism
by Jim Choate 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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No case against teens for Web site
by John Doe #2 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

In this article, having a password controlling access to a site is partially exculpatory, at least in one opinion. Interesting. Wonder how long/difficult to guess those passwords were? [Cf recently lawsuit where boss sniffed employee's password to employee's private site and boss was nailed under computer-break-in laws] ............. http://www.nyjournalnews.com/westchester/061401/14standdown/ No case against teens for Web site By JONATHAN BANDLER THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: June 14, 2001) NEW CASTLE Two Chappaqua high school seniors who were arrested for engineering a Web site detailing sexual exploits of some female classmates will not face criminal charges, Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro said yesterday. The two, one 18, the other 17, were to have appeared in Town Court today on charges of second-degree aggravated harassment. Detectives arrested the pair May 30 after learning of the Web site from Horace Greeley High School officials. The males were given summonses to appear in court, but prosecutors never filed formal charges. Pirro said although some of the material on the Web site was "offensive and abhorrent, the content did not rise to the level of criminal conduct." "This is essentially the high-tech version of gossip," said Pirro, who added she read all of the communications posted to the site. "I am offended, I am repulsed and I'm outraged as a mother. (But) this does not violate the Penal Law." The Web site set up on Yahoo GeoCities and accessible by password was shut down the day the two males were arrested. Police said 16 Greeley students had the password. As many as 40 girls mostly seniors were listed on the site, which included sexual acts they allegedly performed. Pirro said there was no crime because none of the girls were sent any of the Web pages, and the password meant the males kept the information among themselves. Chappaqua schools Superintendent Donald Parker said he wanted to put the issue "behind us" because the district had taken appropriate disciplinary action against the males. He would not detail the discipline but said the males will graduate with their class later this month. Mark Goodman, executive director of the Virginia-based Student Press Law Center, praised Pirro's decision. "A rational prosecutor knows this is just not a case that can be won," he said. "Gossip like that is as old as human culture. I think (the Web site) can be destructive, but it can't be prosecuted criminally." New Castle police refused to release the names of the two males, citing a policy of withholding the names of those 16 to 18 because they could be eligible for "youthful offender" status. State law permits such records to be sealed only by a judge who has received the charges. Police records of the arrests are not protected under the statute dealing with youthful offenders.

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