July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Register - Security industry's hacker-pimping slammed (fwd)
by Jim Choate 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/26198.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CNN.com - New e-mail virus found in Japan - July 15, 2002 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/15/japan.computer.virus.ap/index.h… -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Virtuallizing Palladium
by Albion Zeglin 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

Similar to DeCSS, only one Palladium chip needs to be reverse engineered and it's key(s) broken to virtualize the machine. Simulate a Pentium VI in Java and all extant code could be accessed. Similarly, is Microsoft's signing keys were cracked then any code could be signed. If the software needs a real-time connection to the internet though, then protection could be built into it. Laptop applications would be vulnerable until we have pervasive wireless connection. How many bits do you think MS will use for the keys? Albion.

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Salon.com Technology | It's time for ICANN to go (fwd)
by Jim Choate 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/index.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by Super Specials 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

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NewsForge: Can newspapers help make record companies obsolete? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/07/15/146221.shtml?tid=5 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Which universe are we in? (tossing tennis balls into spinning props)
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

At 03:21 PM 7/14/02 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: >Eric Cordian wrote: >> Still, Nature abhors overcomplexification, and plain old quantum mechanics >> works just fine for predicting the results of experiments. > >Oh yeah? So predict when this radioactive isotope will decay, if you please. You mean "this particular *atom* will decay". And while QM can't help you with a particular atom, it also doesn't say that its impossible that knowledge of internal states of the atom wouldn't help you predict its fragmentation. Think about tossing tennis balls through spinning propellers. You might think you could only characterize the translucent prop-disk by a certain probability that the ball would get through vs. get shredded. ("Propeller mechanics") But if you could see the phase of the prop as it spun, you could time your tosses and predict which would get shredded. But without that high-speed strobe, you just think there's a disk where there's really a spinning blade.

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Digital Panel Instruments from Lascar Electronics
by Lascar Electronics 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

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Insight on the News Email Edition
by Insight on the News 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

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Re: Microsoft censors Newsweek - and new version of TCPA FAQ
by Nomen Nescio 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

Ross Anderson charged that Microsoft "censored" Newsweek because the Stephen Levy article disappeared. Actually Newsweek moves articles to their for-pay archives after a week. You can still find a pointer to it by going to www.newsweek.com and entering Palladium in the "Search the archives" box. Will Ross Anderson withdraw his charge that this was an act of censorship by Microsoft?

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