December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Kaczynski attempts suicide
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- The judge in Theodore Kaczynski's > trial declared him "lucid, calm" and free from signs of mental > illness just hours before the Unabomb suspect tried to kill himself > in his cell. I don't get it. The guy is facing the death penalty, and now they're trying to keep him alive.

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Wassenaar Rule Update
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Update of yesterday's post: The Bureau of Export Administration published 15 January 1998 in the Federal Register, "Implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Items: Revisions to the Commerce Control List and Reporting Under the Wassenaar Arrangement; Rule." The rule in TXT format is available in three parts as published: http://jya.com/bxa-wa-rule.txt (354K) http://jya.com/bxa-wa-rule2.txt (373K) http://jya.com/bxa-wa-rule3.txt (32K) Or all three parts (742K) in a compressed self-extracting Zip file: http://jya.com/bxa-wa-rule.exe (194K) Excerpt for Category 5 -- Telecommunications and "Information Security": http://jya.com/bxa-wa-cat5.htm (39K)

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Legality of faxed signatures.
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- I believe that there is case law or legislation that a faxed signature is worthless if it is bit for bit identical with another signature, which of course it usually is these days. Can anyone with a spot of legal knowledge give me something impressive sounding to scare people who rely on those signatures. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG m3FpGHzBYajbGdNyApmYfwBYZOzY44LHPv7+KZPs 4hFtbEu745IQyZxamC5p6PUwCCpOVAo/LKzZD8Uqu --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/

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No Subject
by James Little 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi. I just recently subscribed to your mailing list. I've read ALL of your stuff. I just don't understand what it is u guys are really about. Please help.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: I'm going to count to ten... etc
by wabe 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- I have to say, I really enjoy your posts TruthMonger - as deranged as they are. So out of all of us, who's going to the steg conference this april? Also, is there a java version of crypto kong so I can use it in linux? And the solution to the speeding-ticket-giving camera is, of course, camo paint jobs. But you all knew that, right? --digsig EojdyErVslc/s6aQeIHwnOlMw3lUKJhdZc/ZeCNfe7H QbR0ngV/+ZI9uuiEe6o4CkfBhQowsHozF7TsZU5f 40HJxqCEceUgzeJFjTbRWSH9LJxdzYMLQbtwctBfM

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Re: e-mail muddling.
by wabe 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- Also wouldn't it be easier to de-muddle an e-mail message than a brute force attack? I mean, you KNOW what muddled it. And you know the general way it got muddled. It's not pgp, it's just some line breaks a bit too early for their time... -wabe --digsig EojdyErVslc/s6aQeIHwnOlMw3lUKJhdZc/ZeCNfe7H zvMubhARmsdOWVOYi7Su/Y9qnSIOIjc9Wuqb6G5G 40asyOJEF0Kflm3y9623Ab0qCaryGJ1TtAaE4JU1y

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Re: Legality of faxed signatures.
by Robert A. Costner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:07 AM 1/16/98 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >I believe that there is case law or legislation that a faxed >signature is worthless if it is bit for bit identical with >another signature, which of course it usually is these days. > >Can anyone with a spot of legal knowledge give me something >impressive sounding to scare people who rely on those >signatures. In Georgia, the state appeals court declared that faxes are "beeps and chirps" and therefore not writings. As a fax is not a writing, it cannot have a signature. Therefore the signature cannot be valid. This was in a case that involved a required notice to arrive by a certain time. Traditionally, on a writing anything is a signature including an 'X', spit, and the words "Mickey Mouse". -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key

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Re: Wassenaar Rule Update
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Good point about the hazard of EXE files. Thanks. A zip file is available: http://jya.com/bxa-wa-rule.zip (168K)

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Nanotechnology
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think people here seriously underestimate how long nanotech will take. Suppose you have a machine which takes atoms and deposits them onto a surface, building it up layer by layer. This is possible with today's technology, but it's a slow process. Consider this: If someone builds a replicator which takes a week to make a copy of itself, every person on this entire planet could have one within eight months. Think about it.

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