December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Secure Erase for PCs?
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Schear wrote: > >Steve Schear wrote:[snip] > >I've been watching for a lot of years, and I'm sick of those bastards > >at Apple. Those scumbags not only make a flimsy and unreliable computer, > >they won't repair the machine either. Too bad Ted Kazynski(sp?) didn't > >have a grudge against Apple, the scumbag creeps. > I'm sorry your ownership experience hasn't been pleasant. I've owned six > and installed a hundred or so as a consultant (along with many Wintel > systems) with great reliability. Only one of the machines I know of has > needed service, and this because it was operated in a dirty shop-floor > environment w/o an enclosure or even periodic internal cleaning. Since > I've not had to have one repaired under warranty I can't vouch for their > committment to good service. I'm puzzeled at your reaction. I hope you don't mind my adding this to the list, but since I posted something very pertinent several days ago and got *no* reaction, and since it was something very significant, I wanna try it one more time: This experience on your part, of installing 100-plus Macs with only one needing service, is beyond amazing. Most computer people will readily admit that HP (for example) is the best, reliability-wise, yet I have purchased quite a few of their computers and major peripherals over the past 20 years, and I have experienced an approximate 40% (!) defective rate during the one-year warranty period, more than 30% falling within the first three months. As to why I still use their stuff - it's because the others are worse, a fact which is almost universally agreed on. How can this possibly be, you ask? Could it be really bad luck? No. Could it be mishandling? No. For a reality check, another famed electronics vendor, Sony, has the same problem, but even worse than HP. Unfortunately, in the Sony case, their products don't wear well after fixing, excepting a couple of their rather expensive "professional" series products. I suspect that the 100-plus Apple owners don't really use the machines, otherwise, if they were so reliable, why does Apple desperately avoid repairing their own products, when HP has provided top-level professional technicians (not boys in dusty back rooms of cheap-ass computer stores) to fix their products, and done so consistently ever since the beginning of the PC business in 1966?

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read if have time (not important)
by VAN HOUTEN 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi thanx for taking time out to read this note. I am doing a school paper on "Sex and Violence on the Internet". If you might be able to write me on your thoughts on the subject that would be very helpfull. Sorry if I took up your time. So you do not have to E-mail to the whole list my address is: josh(a)mci.net thank you so much.......

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Re: Magic Numbers in MD5
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

digits of transcendental functions are conjectured to be randomly distributed. however, some specifics of how the sin() function was utilized in MD5 were the basis for a successful attack on the compression function. I don't recall the references. not too hard to find tho. ..snip.. >> Does abs(sin()) have some properties that are especially conducive to >> strengthening MD5 or is it just a function to generate mildly random >> numbers? If the latter, wouldn't the algorithm be stronger if it was >> used with completely random numbers? > >I am not sure of the properties of abs(sin()). I know that the S-boxes in >Blowfish are initialized with pi. I would guess that the purpose of using >such values is to use easily generated pseudo-random numbers. > >Mark >- -- >finger -l for PGP key >PGP encrypted mail prefered. >0xf9b22ba5 now revoked > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: 2.6.3 >Charset: noconv > >iQEVAwUBMrMD/SzIPc7jvyFpAQEA7gf9HAtV1Vy+3LO5OPOHyU9ZHoath32LhAwU >PzODS/YJsY9fVxaMHOm15oL9D4CX2D5s/Y9cgrALG6pGzw4dBWJZJyqNAcbmsjp/ >B/jNL9jXKCXg1byIzplKSjJqDypLzIPf07xTIQVCC5IDmwZ7pR5owngH9MDaE8is >aFiGZvuWNm7eHQg1kJSb40xQjkwszx+SP1Gv9+fvpys5GZLCTHwPx8SCpy7PXwNp >lm8fgV9mjc7wZIpw73oqPZEb7Q3VHZUOUXS2i6XNF3UVXa4aykBg5VvALPt0tuvv >ah5JjA6JP4STwSCj+HrnMpQJ8SCG4U3kKb54+WOl8H6eo7ekuEU8mw== >=uNLG >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >

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