August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

re: Remailer Phases
by A. Melon 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Anonymous wrote: > We need a good mixmaster net. > > working remailer: > 1. Average latency less than 5 min Bad. See the papers done on threats of traffic analysis/spam attacks against remailers. > 2. Operator probably trustworthy Impossible, and unnecessary. Don't assume any remops are trustworthy. > 3. Less than 1 message dropped per 100,000 handled This is the only goal that makes sense.

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Making text difficult for OCR?
by Dr. Evil 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

I have a question for you c'punks. If you wanted to generate some bitmaps of text which would be difficult or impossible to OCR, but not too difficult for humans to read, how would you do that? Basically, I want to create GIFs of text which can't be OCRed in a reliable way. I've thought about some things: I can put in noise pixels, I can blur the text, I can rotate, shear, and otherwise distort it. Anything else I should do? Will these tricks work? Thanks

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Re: Linux On Steroids: DIY supercomputer software from Sandia
by Jim Windle 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:05:30 Faustine wrote: > > >The idea has been around, but not the free software from Sandia. > > The idea has been around and so has software and not just from Sandia. The Scyld cluster software costs $2 for non-commercial use and is widely used. The technology is advancing very quickly, for instance Avalon at LANL came in 113 on the Top500 in 11/98 at 48 gigaflops. Systems with say 64 Athlon processors and doing roughly 75-80 gigaflops are available pre-built or can be and are constructed by a wide variety of universities and corporations (check out the Beowulf list to get an idea of the range of applications and the number of large clusters out there). There are many application of cypherpunk-interest for this sort of cheap computing power. Unfortunately crypto probably isn't one of them. It is far easier to increase the size of the key than to scale up the processing power in a meaningful way. Until far more efficient factoring algorithms are found the math will insure this remains the case. > >Never said it was. 50? try 512. > >> You never know what might come from putting that kind of computational >> power in the hands of people here. Create, break, do whatever you want. > The technology is potentially revolutionary in many areas of interest to cypherpunks but factoring large numbers is so hard and it is so easy to increase the size of keys that crypto will easily stay ahead of the Beowulf technology. Now if someone had a working quantum computer that might be a different story. Jim Windle Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

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Re: Secret Warrants
by Anonymous Coredump 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

I don't understand this controversy. Who cares what the law is? Why would you ever let anyone know about the intruder you just blew away inside your house? Just disappear the body in a shallow grave, or cut it up into little pieces and run it thru a chipper in your garage and bag it up, dump into a river for fish food. Why would anyone be stupid enough to call the pigs over something like that? Geez, wake up!

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RE: Ybor City's face recognition cameras claim their first innocent v ictim.
by Aimee Farr 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

> Milliron's photograph was captured in June while he was > on a lunch break in Ybor City. > He didn't know it at the time, but the Police Department > used his photo to demonstrate the system to local news > media. That should violate their policy - if they have one. BIG TIME. Furthermore, use of somebody's picture as background for an article that produces a substantial falsehood about them because of the content of the story = lawsuit, although here I would probably think there was a substantial connection. But the media didn't even take the pic - the police did. I understand the article said he wasn't wanted, but that was still highly suggestive and in bad taste considering the nature of the content. See, e.g. Mertzger v. Dell Pub. Co 207 Misc. 182, 136 N.Y.S.2d 888 (1955)(picture as part of story about gangs falsely portrayed plaintiff as a gang member). Visionics has released a statement in regard to their controversial CCTV facial recognition technology, calling for federal legislation and referencing their "responsible use guidelines." The WIRED story is here: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45687,00.html (not by Declan)I asked them for their "guidelines" and was directed to their "privacy principles." http://www.visionics.com/newsroom/biometrics/privacy.html ...."In the months to come, the Company will work closely with federal legislators, privacy interest and industry groups to share its knowledge, experience and privacy protection principles pertaining to all applications of face recognition technology. The Company will continue to promote an improved public understanding of the creation, use and control of facial recognition systems and will support public policy that ensures that deployments of facial recognition are conducted in a way that upholds all privacy rights." [...] "Privacy rights" are based on legal doctrines, and not threats identifying activities that are considered privacy-invasive to the average person. The term "privacy rights" is not conducive to societal impact analysis or future technological advances. The International Biometric Industry Association position is that biometrics is "electronic code" and not personal information: http://www.ibia.org/privacy.htm The IBIA has always advocated protective legislation. For an idea of industry sentiment, the IBIA response to one California bill is here: http://www.ibia.org/newslett010606.htm (bill would have required a warrant.) The push for legislation is pre-emptive in nature. Curious to hear from our privacy advocates as to whether or not they have been contacted by Visionics for this initiative. Visionics has come under fire from within the biometrics industry. ~Aimee

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RE BOMB PLANS
by ~~sinister~~ 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

yo man.... i need some plans to make nitro gliserene i think thats how its spelt.... come on man get me the shit... ~~sinister~~

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09 Aug '01

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by G R I D P I C K S 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

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by G R I D P I C K S . C O M 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

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