December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

re: voice encryption
by elbert2＠darmstadt.gmd.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> [IBM ISDN board with TI DSP, COM1 interface, 64kbps] last november, on a trade show, i saw AVM presenting a PCMCIA card for ISDN. it ran BTX alias Datex-J alias Minitel, so there *is* a "application for the masses". They said to have production running till CeBit-time. sorry, no further info.

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Yet another assault
by bart＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Seen in the Edupage mailing list: ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING A measure soon to be introduced on Capitol Hill would require that all network providers, including the Internet and commercial on-line services, build in the capability to record any person's e-mail and deliver it to federal law-enforcement authorities. Government agents will need only to show a person merits investigation, rather than obtain a court order as is the case for telephone eavesdropping. (Business Week 3/14/94 p.55)

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Canon Copiers
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com E >The new models, the 350 and 550 do indeed have a currency recognition E >feature based on color. I was talking to a serviceman--interestingly, E >as with all crippling features, this one creates problems, as certain E >images become uncopiable if the color they use is upsetting the canon. E >The service man said that often the offending object may be copied E >simply by placing a sheet of acetate between the imaging area and the E >sheet to be copied. E > E >I used to be skeptical of this feature--someone here conjected that E >it would be based on color. they were right. Smart. E > E >Jay But what color? So does this mean I have to go to all the trouble of buying a Canon copier in Canada or the UK and importing it? Not all currency is the same color. DCF --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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Re: Niacin warning OOPS!!!
by tim werner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: rarachel(a)prism.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 16:03:10 -0500 (EST) > From: rarachel(a)prism.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian) > > you can also just pop a 400mg Niacin capsule... Niacin will > > quickly dialate all your capilaries bringing lots of blood > > to your face and making you look like a lobster. > I just want to warn anyone who is thinking of trying this that 400 mg > is not the place to start with niacin. The flushing will be extremely > intense at that level and you will probably either think you are dying > or wish you were. Try 50 or 100 mg to start with. OOPS! I goofed! Sorry about that, hope nobody tried that high a dose.. I started taking some extra vitamins a while back, and the Niacin dose was 150mg, which gave me a barely noticable tingling sensation in my face, but did not cause my face to change color. I was previously taking only Theragran-M.

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PGP to the rescue?
by jim＠Tadpole.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Christopher Cotton <regis(a)MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 00:16:27 -0500 ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING A measure soon to be introduced on Capitol Hill would require that all network providers, including the Internet and commercial on-line services, build in the capability to record any person's e-mail and deliver it to federal law-enforcement authorities. Government agents will need only to show a person merits investigation, rather than obtain a court order as is the case for telephone eavesdropping. (Business Week 3/14/94 p.55)

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Re: Locating Color Copiers
by ag588＠cleveland.Freenet.Edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >nobody(a)soda.berkeley.edu says... >> >> On a slightly related topic, I know of an instance where the >> Secret Service located a stolen color copier with somewhat >> greater speed than one might have expected. .... >1. Why was the secret service looing for stolen property? >> > The Secret Service is a division of the Treasury Department. One of their main duties is tracking down counterfeiters. If someone has stolen a color copy machine, there's a very good chance that it was stolen for the end purpose of counterfeiting. So I would imagine that that would be why the SS would be looking for this particular stolen property. Make sense? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am an attorney, seeking a position in the area of Computer Law. If you know of such a position available, or of someone who may know of such a position, please send e-mail! Thanks.

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Clipper and Traffic Analysis
by Herb Lin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the AOL debate between Barlow and Denning, Barlow asserted that Clipper increases the gov't capability to do traffic analysis. Can someone please describe the technical basis for this claim? (No rhetoric please, just the technical background...) herb

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Re: Niacin warning OOPS!!!
by ag588＠cleveland.Freenet.Edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> [Discussion of popping niacin doses to defeat biometric scanning devices] > > What if the only biometric scans taken of a person were taken while flushing on niacin? Will they result in a consistent, though flushed, scan, thereby enabling the stystem to identify you anyway? If they then nab you and want to verify the scan, all they have to do is inject you with another dose of niacin and check the scan. [Obviously this scenario assumes some fairly major civil rights violations, but for the international traveler....] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am an attorney, seeking a position in the area of Computer Law. If you know of such a position available, or of someone who may know of such a position, please send e-mail! Thanks.

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Re: Clipper and Traffic Analysis
by smb＠research.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the AOL debate between Barlow and Denning, Barlow asserted that Clipper increases the gov't capability to do traffic analysis. Can someone please describe the technical basis for this claim? (No rhetoric please, just the technical background...) The LEAF can be decrypted with just the family key; from what's been disclosed so far, local law enforcement agents will be able to do that without contacting the escrow sites. The LEAF contains the unit id of the chip, independent of what phone number it's being used from, or (in the case of cellular phones) where in the country it is. The ordinary signaling channels are (often) encrypted, and in general use a different path than the call itself.

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digital cash
by Mark Hittinger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

While thinking about this whole superbill thing forcing people to digital cash I wondered about the bank that sandy et al are constructing. Are you guys going to simply represent dollars with your digital cash or will you attempt to create your own currency that may simply be converted to/from dollars? I think it should not be digital dollars. --------- I'd like a 250 Mhz 128 bit hybrid processor with 64 meg of 8 way interleaved memory, a 10 megabyte per second i/o channel, two 3 gig hard disks, two dat drives with compression, and a large diet coke. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3a mQCNAiz4FWMAAAEEALBCb7HZS7V4gbsp9yJ7Yty49jQ9wcgRhkLjNNgdyJbrJZCq 5/sv4Ljy/4AhVhjlJyZS8L3owS8l0ClZVzWw4/kO3KN7MPz4YPPR7+qIlPQVM0yv gWpJ43EZZ8b8cvAkE9HATCKWktY2ReRSX5DLnScDH/n5jivw+MD/UO8fURCVAAUR tCBNYXJrIEhpdHRpbmdlciA8YnVnc0BuZXRzeXMuY29tPg== =VbKi -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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