July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Programmer arrested for Defcon talk? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 17 Jul 2001 12:40:29 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry(a)wasabisystems.com> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: Programmer arrested for Defcon talk? According to slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/) a programmer was arrested for (apparently -- details on the cited web sites are sketchy) giving a talk at Defcon in Las Vegas describing how to break the encryption in certain Adobe PDF files. It is (apparently) claimed by Adobe that this was a violation of the DMCA. See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/130226&mode=thread I'm not a big fan of /. -- they aren't particularly good at the whole fact checking thing -- but the story sounds intriguing. The real details may very well be quite different from what is portrayed. If anyone knows real details, I'd appreciate them. -- Perry E. Metzger perry(a)wasabisystems.com -- NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Computer detective talks about Levy evidence
by Jim Choate 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/17/levy.access.cnna/index.html James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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Satellite taxes
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Um, wouldn't a natural way to assess property taxes be to first decide in which jurisdiction the property rests? For instance project the boundary of jurisdictions into space from the geometrical center of the earth. In which case it would probably be Brazil that should be collecting the taxes and Hughes would be writing off the taxes as a cost thereby reducing the taxes collected in California. Look for the locations over international waters to get crowded. And what about the surveillance satellites or Russian television satellites with polar orbits? Should we set up manned toll booths to exact a fee and do the agricultural inspection as they pass the projected borders? Or should we say that the jurisdiction is that from which the property was launched? BTW where do they launch these things from? Just another useless publicity hound. I hope the idea gets permanently mired in the courts.

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military pornography
by Al Qaeda 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

"According to the military briefing Sgt. Holt received when she arrived, any visible skin below the neck is considered pornography." http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010717-4503880.htm And we're defending these Saudi pig-fuckers?

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Your kid's an asshole, and guess who's to blame?
by Jim Choate 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

http://www.Kuro5hin.org/story/2001/7/14/85942/3961 James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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by Lisa Thornton 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

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RE: What NAI is telling people
by Subcommander Bob 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

At 06:41 PM 7/16/01 -0700, John Young wrote: >to sift for encryption using tools supplied by TLAs. NSA, for one, has >the ability to spot encrypted communications -- most if not all of them. Probably not well-done stego posted to widely read lists.

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by sales＠jrasecurity.com 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

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Forum: Curious
by dennis_hughes＠hotmail.com 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

That's a GREAT point about parole making it cheap to make something criminal. I never thought of it that way before! That being said, in a Libertarian society, I'd not mind parole, so long as the person voluntarily signed away the rights that were being disposed of in favor of physical freedom. In a Libertarian society though, you'd see a DAMNED lot fewer things that are illegal. Subbie I'm curious what types of felonies you've committed. If they're nothing more than drug use and the like, I don't care. : At 2:39 PM -0700 7/4/01, Sandy Sandfort wrote: : >Inchoate wrote: : > : >> 'routine search'? Remind me never : >> to go to Ohio. : > : >It's every state of the Union. Parolees are still prisoners. Just as you : >can search a prisoner's cell, a parole officer can search a parolee's house. : : The entire parole process is itself an open sore on our justice system. It's turned into a control system, a "force magnfication" scheme. Instead of actually having to _jail_ all of the people, they release them early, take away their key Bill of Rights protections (2nd, 4th, etc., including the vote) and have them as virtual slaves of the system. : : From an economic/libertarian point of view, what this has done is to alter the costs of making things criminal. Standard economic theory: making more people criminals doesn't cost much, and makes them more malleable. As so many people have said so pithily, "At the rate they're going, we'll _all_ be felons." And felons don't need no steenking constitutional rights. : : Were Orwell writing today, he'd probably replace his "proles" with "parolees." And the cameras in each room would merely be part of the parole process. : : One of the biggest concerns Keith Henson had in his probable 6-month sentence in his case (which is another issue) is that he was likely to receive a 5-year probation term, during which his house could (and likely would) be entered at any time, day or night, and during which period his private files and records would be scrutinized for any thoughtcrimes which could be used to send him back for a longer period. (Which happened with both Bell and Parker.) : : As a felon myself, and one who committed a dozen or so felonies each carrying 3-year terms just last week, I realize how the entire probation/parole process is what Big Brother really likes the most about our so-called justice system. : : --Tim May : : : -- : Timothy C. May tcmay(a)got.net Corralitos, California : Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon : Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go : Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns :

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by sales＠jrasecurity.com 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

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