October 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: more snake oil? [WAS: New uncrackable(?) encryption technique]
by David Howe 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

at Friday, October 25, 2002 6:22 PM, bear <bear(a)sonic.net> was seen to say: > The implication is that they have a "hard problem" in their > bioscience application, which they have recast as a cipher. The temptation is to break it, *tell* them you have broken it (and offer to break any messages they encrypt in it just to demonstrate) but dont' tell them how you did it. That would probably be even more fustrating for them than the problem was :)

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Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees
by Major Variola (ret) 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

At 02:37 AM 10/25/02 +0100, Adam Back wrote: >Seems to me this would pass current IP laws because it is like a radio >station which broadcast the name of a song and the user is expected to >insert the CD in his player and play along to keep up with the >commentary, only automated and with open APIs for the "load and play >this CD track" instructions so people can hook it up to whatever is >convenient to them. Such a station resembles an editor who suggests articles by giving a pointer, e.g., ISBN, Journal cite, or URL. Some editors (like talk-free radio stations) may not even provide commentary, but their subscribers value the information implicit in their choices. [One listens to radio, follows editors' pointers, etc. because one desires fresh bits... and a "good" Editor increases the probability that you will encounter fresh bits you like. Even unintentional Editors are valuable: Using KaZaa, one can scan all of other nodes' shared files; finding a user with content you like (tastes like yours) via a regular search often yields a cache of good content.] Version 2 of the BackBox should handle video, with DVD/TiVo++ URIs, too.

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internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees
by Adam Back 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Re. the recent rapacious "broadcast" royalties imposed on internet radio in the US, it occurs to me it wouldn't be that hard to do the following and it would probably avoid the royalties even under the current imbalanced IP laws: - have the station broadcast it's own content (commentary) - have the station broadcast song titles, song authors, CDDB serial numbers - the user would use third-party software capable of playing the recommended track, such as: - coincidentally owning the CD and having the CD in a CD jukebox - owning (or not) the CD and having a mp3 rip of the track on hard disk - queueing the track for download via kazaa examples of the last are the morpheus plugin for winamp (I think it was morpheus that had such a plugin -- though it is probably no longer supported with the morpheus protocol switch). For performance reasons the station could even pre-queue the tracks during their commentary and then trigger the start of play after the track has had some time to be selected by the jukebox / streaming buffer fill from kazaa. Seems to me this would pass current IP laws because it is like a radio station which broadcast the name of a song and the user is expected to insert the CD in his player and play along to keep up with the commentary, only automated and with open APIs for the "load and play this CD track" instructions so people can hook it up to whatever is convenient to them. Adam

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Warning.. Warning.. *bleep*
by anonymous 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

More paranoia to fuel the wagons, prepare to bend over on trains when the ticket collector comes round. "Officials said the warning, based on information obtained from al Qaeda prisoners in mid-October, suggested that terrorists may try to destroy bridges or key sections of tracks. "The group has considered directly targeting U.S. passenger trains, possibly using operatives who have a Western appearance," the FBI said Thursday in a statement issued to state and local law enforcers." <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/attack/main526923.shtml> Next in the series: "FBI warns bouncy castles may be targeted"

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25 Oct '02

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Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees
by James A. Donald 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

-- On 24 Oct 2002 at 20:32, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Napster clones, kazaa, gnutella et al. rely on end-users to > upload stuff. These end users simply have no bandwidth > available for that. Cheapo DSL lines have hundred or few > hundreds of kbit/sec unguaranteed upload capacity. No one is > going to pay T1 to serve free stuff in breach of copyright > laws. > > The net result is - and anyone can try it for themselves - > that average success rate is less than 40%, the speed is > miserable - most of the time it takes hour or more for 5-6 > minute mp3, and then you need to be lucky so that content > matches the title. I am a really big fan of "Buffy". A cute chick, lots of violence and killing, and a bit of sex, what more can one ask for in a TV show? Recently due to family crisis, I missed a couple of shows. So, using usenet, I downloaded the two one hour shows that I missed. I had no problem getting them, the download ran in the background. It did not seem to take an unreasonably long time, though I did not bother to time it. I started the download, proceeded to do other things, and when I remembered to check, the download was done. So I then watched the shows. The image and sound quality was excellent, the ads had been deleted. The stories were rattling good. Loved the bit where buffy says "I am the law", and picks up a great big naked sword and stalks off to apply the instant death penalty, while Xander flutters about ineffectually being deeply caring and emotional and having deep moral debates about the use of violence. I have never downloaded a tv show off the internet before. Everything just worked, no fuss, unlike some encryption programs I could mention. > While there always will be pathological cases that will spend > tens of hours online to get few mp3s for free (that is, until > local telco decides that flat rate is no more viable), for > most napsters are unusable. My experience is that the mass media are doomed. This stuff works just great for me. I have stopped downloading music until I organize the music I already have. Napster was just great, worked with no fuss. Maybe the Napster clones are not as good, but my experience with downloading TV shows suggests that piracy is working better than ever. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG w5c01d6+NpDvLdLI2X6Jg5z8F2yx1pwhncy3yMYK 4b/esfa1UycmFgStXtluIkq+6g1XHHb8MMWOMZOkk

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