December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Cyber 'Nannys"
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Re: Cyber 'Nannys" > From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) > Message-Id: <qsoPke10w165w(a)bwalk.dm.com> > > The mentally retarded pedophile Guy Polis tried to mailbomb me from his ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ > former eviljay(a)bway.net account, and bway.net pulled his plug in minute. Fire One. ---guy

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Re: TEMPEST open-source definition version 0.1alpha
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 2/10/98 8:19 PM, Ryan Lackey (rdl(a)mit.edu) passed this wisdom: >So, if we're going to try to protect computers from TEMPEST >threats, and wedon't have access to the multiple government >classified standards, we should come up with the Cypherpunks >TEMPEST standard. > >A theoretical definition of what we want to do (strong) is that we >should beable to put the equipment in a virtual box, have an empty >virtual box, and then nothing anything which is not in the TCB can >do can distinguish one box from the other. Perhaps the "empty" box >should also contain simulators for the ethernet, visible light >output, and straight power draw (harmonics are still to be >avoided), or in some other definitional way they should be >accounted for. This prevents non-TCB programs from utilizing the EM >spectrum as a covert channel. [big snip] Some of this reminds me of when I worked at Raytheon, I did some coding for this genius at magnetic fields we had. This was the time of the MX missile and the 'racetrack' concept, mobile launchers that moved all the time. The idea was that a significiant percentage of the mobile launch cannisters were empty and what the scientist I worked with had to do was design a set of coils for the dummy cannister that would make it have the same magnetic signature as a real cannister loaded with a real missile ... "sort of a global thermonuclear shell game" if you will ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNOEM0D7r4fUXwraZAQG+hQf/U/2Irt9FlQQWxc1nJQ1wlFUEtMf5fAxB 5JUXDwGy7+rAVojReAj9gV9SeXZA+h25WJMIbzngibSOYfieiE0iXPNbgNVsDLm/ /giLgqW/AfBUm+EjQMP5glav4xQxGDTKdBBGSqujyzkn5jaDlBVff5mfw5oUeN1c Vz4dIOzl8n6ivdc2PRbFh+he1X55+y3wLAqYc60VMmhlWPTTHx4PoJRw6hl5lX9c dfxTIo5B1Gw1I7pP0REFTodW+HXASqoXAG/1Xo3J5rn+yup0IQblz9Pg8IBAW22j kuFECDHuo9daXp7QH0nZX1/2hRw/cZUf8AtGMhDq3zNWH21E2pHsQA== =+Gr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> -- give us the rights Abraham Lincoln cherished lovingly: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

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Anti-Asian E-Mail Was Hate Crime, Jury Finds
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/ORANGE/OCNEWS/t000013848.html Wednesday, February 11, 1998 Anti-Asian E-Mail Was Hate Crime, Jury Finds Internet: Ex-UCI student Richard Machado is found to have violated civil rights with threatening messages. By DAVAN MAHARAJ, Times Staff Writer SANTA ANA--In the nation's first successful prosecution of a hate crime on the Internet, an expelled university student was found guilty Tuesday of violating the civil rights of Asian students at UC Irvine by sending e-mail threats to kill them if they didn't leave the school. Prosecutors hailed the verdict in the retrial of 20-year-old Richard J. Machado as a victory for federal authorities seeking to police the Internet to deter hatemongers and racist groups. "This verdict shows that high-tech hate is not going to be tolerated," said Assistant U.S. Atty. Michael J. Gennaco, who prosecuted the case. "A line does have to be drawn in the world of cyberspace. If you cross that line and threaten people, you are going to be subject to criminal penalties." The jury of eight women and four men deliberated for less than a day before finding Machado guilty of interfering with students' rights to attend a public university. Jurors deadlocked 9 to 3 in favor of conviction on a second, identical count. Machado displayed no emotion when the verdict was read Tuesday afternoon. His first trial ended in a mistrial in November with jurors deadlocked 9 to 3 in favor of acquittal. Because his conviction carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison and he has already served more time than that in custody, Machado could be set free as early as Friday, when he appears for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler. Gennaco, who heads the civil rights division of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, downplayed Machado's sentence. "What we've taken from this case is a deterrent value that people can't get on the Internet and send threats to folks," Gennaco said. Gennaco hinted that prosecutors would now be more likely to step in and prosecute computer users who stalk or threaten others in cyberspace. "We have a number of ongoing investigations regarding allegations of threats on the Internet," Gennaco said. "Now we have some guidance from 12 people that the government can step in and enforce laws on the Internet." Machado's trial--and retrial--had been seen as a test case. To prosecute Machado, prosecutors turned to civil rights laws enacted in the 1960s that were designed to prevent Southerners from standing in the way of school desegregation. Machado violated students' civil rights, prosecutors contended, when he hunched over a computer in UCI's engineering building on Sept. 20, 1996, and sent an anonymous e-mail message to about 60 mainly Asian students. The message, signed "Asian Hater," warned that all Asians should leave UC Irvine or the sender would "hunt all of you down and kill your stupid asses." "I personally will make it my [life's work] to find and kill every one of you personally. OK? That's how determined I am. Do you hear me?" Apparently thinking the first one didn't get transmitted, Machado sent the same message twice, and school officials quickly traced the messages to him after they received complaints. The e-mail incensed and upset some students, especially those of Asian descent, who constitute nearly half of UC Irvine's 17,000 students, the highest percentage of any UC school. Several students testified that they were petrified by the e-mail. They armed themselves with pepper spray, refused to go out alone at night and became suspicious of strangers. The defense called other students who testified that they became angry over the message but later shrugged it off as a bad joke. During the trial, defense lawyers depicted Machado as a disturbed teenager who became distraught and flunked out of UCI after his eldest brother was murdered in Los Angeles. When he sent the threatening e-mail, Machado was no longer a UCI student, but he was too ashamed to tell his immigrant parents, according to Deputy Federal Public Defender Sylvia Torres-Guillen. Machado testified at both trials that one of his brothers would drive him to UCI each day even after he had been expelled. There, he passed his days in the computer laboratory, sending and receiving e-mail and surfing the Internet until it was time to go home. On the day he sent the e-mail, Machado testified, he was bored and wanted to start a "dialogue" with people who were signed on to the school's computer network. Some attorneys, including Machado's defense team, questioned whether charges should have been filed against the former student. Torres-Guillen even called an expert witness in Internet etiquette, who described Machado's e-mail as "a classic flame"--online lingo for an angry message that, while annoying, is not meant to be harmful. But Gennaco contended that Machado hated Asians because they got better grades than he did. In his rebuttal case, the prosecutor called a University of South Carolina freshman and another computer user in Denver who testified that Machado referred to Asians as "chinks" when he chatted with them in cyberspace. The witnesses contradicted Machado's testimony that he never used derogatory terms for Asians. Gennaco said prosecutors may suggest that Machado attend a racial awareness program as part of his sentence. Search the archives of the Los Angeles Times for similar stories. You will not be charged to look for stories, only to retrieve one. Copyright Los Angeles Times PREV STORY NEXT STORY ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Lewinsky for President '2012

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Re: How to profit from writing open source (was: free software)
by David Miller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A while back there was a thread on different models of how to profit from free software. I have a few additions that I don't think were mentioned, albeit late. Ok. Way late. The Data Fellows model - supply (ssh) Unix source code free, but charge for Windows (clients) after a 30-day trial period. Yes. The Joel McNamara model - give the (Private Idaho) software away and go fight forest fires and have your children profit from a better world. --David Miller middle rival devil rim lad

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Re: Drivers licenses (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:27:57 -0500 > From: David Miller <dm0(a)avana.net> > Subject: Re: Drivers licenses > > > It's a signal that is mixed and laid down by the machine. It covers the > > entire track. The cassette head only has two or four head depending on if > > it has auto-revers and moves the head. > > So you are saying that the is a continuous track of varying amplitiude > that > defines the audio signal? And that your bias is a part of this? Actualy a standard cassette tape has 4 tracks grouped in pairs. Each pair is given one of the channel. The audio that comes in is mixed with a bias signal (using a summing amp) and then laid down on the tape. > >From what I know, the bias is a parameter to the recording process and > not > the recording as it can be recovered from the magnets. It is something > intended to forward-correct error, which is not intended to be > interpreted > in the future. Huh? I have been involved in audio recording for over 20 years, acted as rodies for a host of bands (some of which actualy made records - but alas no money) and I must admit that the above sentences don't make any sense to me at all. Can you possible reword them? What magnets? 'paramter of the recording process'? 'forward-correct error'? 'interpreted in the future'? If your heads are magnetised you really should de-gauss them. They'll erase your tapes eventualy... > Looking for satellites? No, to do that I use a C-band hooked to a alt-az mount and a digital modem. I'll probably just make a normal Newtonian and hood a CCD camera to it and feed my Video Toaster to digitize and enhance the images. I am particular inchanged by the Moon. I can look at it for extended periods. I was enchanted by it when Men stepped onto it for the first time. I very much hope that we (as a race) go back to stay... > Did you snag a job? I had a headhunter call tonight. It's been a year > or > so since they've bothered me. I talked to BMC Software today. Looks like I'll probably go to work for them supporting their suite of database products. I should know tomorrow if they want to do the final interview which means I'll go to work for them on Monday. > > | The obvious is sometimes false; | > > | The unexpected sometimes true. | > > You've gotta get this Pringles thing in order. Faith breaks the back of > these > types of philosophies. If you give in to faith, you should normally > incorporate > it. That doesn't mean that you have to explain it through the > philosophy, but > if that faith is the only thing that you know is indespensable, you need > to > reconsider how indespensable a philosophy that does not make room for it > is. Uh, ok. Ta ta. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The obvious is sometimes false; | | The unexpected sometimes true. | | | | Anonymous | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Cyber 'Nannys"
by eviljay 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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FC98 Full Event Schedule
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:19:23 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: online.offshore.com.ai: list set sender to fc98-request(a)offshore.com.ai using -f X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:58:52 -0500 To: fc98(a)offshore.com.ai From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: FC98 Full Event Schedule Resent-From: fc98(a)offshore.com.ai X-Mailing-List: <fc98(a)offshore.com.ai> archive/latest X-Loop: fc98(a)offshore.com.ai Precedence: list Resent-Sender: fc98-request(a)offshore.com.ai Hello, Everyone! FC98 is fast approaching, and the FC98 organizing team is thrashing together a General Schedule for the combined FC98 events: The FC98 Conference, the FC98 Commercial Exhibition and Exhibition Program, and the FC98 Workshop. In addition to the ASCII version of the schedule in this message, Blanc Weber, the FC98 Exhibition and Sponsorship Manager, has put a very nice tabular version on the web for easy printing: <http://www.cnw.com/~blancw/FC98Sched/FC98Schd.html> Please send any corrections you might have to me offline. Okay, here's the schedule's roadmap: (CON) means conference activity, and an FC98 Conference Badge is required for attendance. (CE) means Commercial Exhibition activity, and is open to the public. (ECC) means Ecliptical Curve Cruise; Conference badgeholders go free, but badges are non-transferrable. Additional tickets for the Cruise are available for sale to FC98-associated people (family, friends, etc.). (IFCA) means the founding meeting of the International Financial Cryptography Association, which all FC98 Conference badgeholders, booth-holders and sponsors are now automatically members of. Only Conference badgeholders can vote at the first General Meeting of the Association, however. We don't have anything about the Workshop on this message, but we will have a schedule for it soon on the web page, for those of you who are interested in sticking around another week for the world's only financial cryptography bootcamp. :-). Also, all FC98 badgeholders, friends, and family are invited to the "Welcome to Anguilla" session on Monday to get some information and advice on what to do during your stay on Anguilla. Finally, like all schedules, this one is subject to change at a moment's notice. ;-). We'll try to keep the website as up-to-date as possible, because it's probably a good idea not to spam you nice folks will all the updates as they happen. :-) See you in Anguilla! Cheers, Robert Hettinga, General Chairman, The 1998 Financial Cryptography Conference, Exhibition and Workshop (FC98) ----- Monday 23 February 1998 800 -- 820 (CON) Breakfast 820 -- 830 (CON) FC98 Conference Sessions Welcome 830 -- 905 (CON) Micropayments via Efficient Coin-Flipping Richard J. Lipton (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) Rafail Ostrovsky (Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, USA) 905 -- 940 (CON) X-Cash: Executable Digital Cash Markus Jakobsson (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA) Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories, Bedford, MA, USA) 940 -- 1015 (CON) Distributed Trustees and Revokability: A Framework for Internet Payment David M'Raihi (Gemplus, Issy-les-moulineaux, France) David Pointcheval (GREYC, Universite de Caen, Caen, France) 1015 -- 1045 (CON) Coffee Break Exhibition Booths open 1045 -- 1120 (CON) A Platform for Privately Defined Currencies, Loyalty Credits, and Play Money David P. Maher (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA) 1120 -- 1155 (CON) Assessment of Threats for Smart Card Based Electronic Cash Kazuo J. Ezawa, Gregory Napiorkowski (Mondex International, Florham Park, NJ, USA) 1155 -- 1230 (CON) Using a High-Performance, Programmable Secure Coprocessor Sean W. Smith, Elaine R. Palmer, Steve Weingart (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA) 1230 -- 1330 (CON) Lunch 1330 -- 1400 (CE) The Required Hoopla: FC98 Official Event Opening Dignitaries (the Finance Minister?), FC98 sponsors, FC98 Management, etc. Thanks to Anguilla, Sponsors, etc. Administrivia/How FC98 works Ribbon Cutting for FC98 Exhibition FC98 Exhibition Sessions Welcome 1400--1430 (CE) FC98 Press Conference (on Exhibition Floor) 1400--1500 (CE) IBM Secure Crypto Coprocessor Demonstration Sean W. Smith, Elaine R. Palmer, Steve Weingart (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) 1500--1600 (CE) (Bring friends and family if you want) Welcome to Anguilla! Anguilla history, what to do, what to see. Various Anguillan Chamber of Commerce, Tourist office folks. 1600--1700 (CE) "So, you want to bank on Anguilla?" Offshore Banking and Incorporation in Anguilla. Various Anguillan Bankers, Lawyers, Financial Planners, Etc. 1830 -- 2000 (CE) Cocktail Reception at Serenity Restaurant, Shoal Bay East Sponsored by Hansa Bank, Anguilla Tuesday 24 February 1998 800 -- 830 (CON) Breakfast 830 -- 905 (CON) Secure Group Barter: Multi-Party Fair Exchange with Semi-Trusted Neutral Parties Matt Franklin (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA) Gene Tsudik (USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, USA) 905 -- 940 (CON) A Payment Scheme Using Vouchers Ernest Foo, Colin Boyd (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) 940 -- 1015 (CON) A Formal Specification of Requirements for Payment Transactions in the SET Protocol Catherine Meadows, Paul Syverson (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA) 1015 -- 1045 (CON) Coffee Break 1045 -- 1120 (CON) On Assurance Structures for WWW Commerce Markus Jakobsson (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA) Moti Yung (CertCo, New York, NY, USA) 1120 -- 1230 (CON) Panel Discussion Certificate Revocation: Mechanics and Meaning Barb Fox (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), moderator Joan Feigenbaum (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA) Paul Kocher (Valicert, Palo Alto, CA, USA) Michael Myers (Verisign, Mountain View, CA, USA) Ron Rivest (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, USA) 1230 -- 1330 (CON) Lunch 1330 -- 1430 (CE) FC98 Sponsor Showcase RSA Data Security 1430 -- 1530 (CE) FC98 Sponsor Showcase C2NET 1530 -- 1630 (CE) FC98 Sponsor Showcase Sicherheit und Privat- International Bank 1630 -- 1730 (CE) FC98 Sponsor Showcase Hansa Bank 1730 -- 1900 (CE) Cocktails and Barbecue at InterIsland Hotel Sponsored by RSA 1900 -- 2000 (IFCA) (CE) (CON to vote) General Meeting: The International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA) IFCA Founders Group Photo (Net.Nyms Disguised) 2000 -- 2200 (CON to speak) (CE to watch ) Rump Session (For speaking requests contact Matt Franklin <mailto: franklin(a)research.att.com>) Beer provided by RSA Wednesday 25 February 1998 800 -- 830 (CON) Breakfast 830 -- 930 (CON) Invited Speaker Private Signatures and E-commerce David Chaum (DigiCash, Palo Alto, CA, USA) 930 -- 1005 (CON) Group Blind Digital Signatures: A Scalable Solution to Electronic Cash Anna Lysyanskaya, Zulfikar Ramzan (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, USA) 1005 -- 1045 (CON) Coffee Break 1045 -- 1120 (CON) Curbing Junk E-Mail via Secure Classification Eran Gabber, Markus Jakobsson, Yossi Matias, Alain Mayer (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA) 1120 -- 1155 (CON) Publicly Verifiable Lotteries: Applications of Delaying Functions David M. Goldschlag (Divx, Herndon, VA, USA) Stuart G. Stubblebine (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA) 1155 -- 1230 (CON) Security of Digital Watermarks Lesley R. Matheson, Stephen G. Mitchell, Talal G. Shamoon, Robert E. Tarjan, Francis X. Zane (STAR Lab, InterTrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) 1230 -- 1330 (CON) Lunch 1330 -- 1405 (CON) Security in the Java Electronic Commerce Framework Surya Koneru, Ted Goldstein (JavaSoft, Palo Alto, CA, USA) 1405 -- 1440 (CON) Beyond Identity: Warranty-Based Digital Signature Transactions Yair Frankel (CertCo, New York, NY, USA) David W. Kravitz (Divx, Herndon, Virginia, USA) Charles T. Montgomery (CertCo, New York, NY, USA) Moti Yung (CertCo, New York, NY, USA) 1440 -- 1515 (CON) Compliance Checking in the PolicyMaker Trust Management System Matt Blaze, Joan Feigenbaum, Martin Strauss (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA) 1515 -- 1545 (CON) Coffee Break 1545 -- 1620 (CON) An Efficient Fair Off-Line Electronic Cash System with Extensions to Checks and Wallets with Observers Aymeric de Solages, Jacque Traore (France Telecom--CNET, Caen, France) 1620 -- 1655 (CON) An Efficient Untraceable Electronic Money System Based on Partially Blind Signatures of the Discrete Logarithm Problem Shingo Miyazaki, Kouichi Sakurai (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) 1655 -- 1700 (CON) FC98 Conference Session Closing Official Conference T-shirts Group Photo (Net.Nyms Disguised) 1830 -- 2100? (CE) Financial Masquerade Ball (at Cap Julaca) Sponsored by Sicherheit und Privat- International Bank (Proper attire and disguises required, Groucho glasses available at the door). RSVP Thursday 26 February 1998 Beach/Cruise day. No FC98 activity scheduled today except breakfast and lunch at InterIsland for those who don't take the eclipse cruise. 800 -- 830 (ECC) (CON) Boarding: Ecliptic Curve Cruise [ECC] Sponsored by RSA C2NET Sicherheit und Privat- International Bank Hansa Bank Offshore Information Services Shipwright/e$ 825 *SHARP!* (ECC) (CON) ECC "Before" Group Photo (Net.Nyms Disguised) 830 *SHARP!* (ECC) (CON) Ecliptic Curve Cruise Departs For the Ecliptic Curve and the Zone of Totality 900 -- 1030 (Anguilla) (CON) Breakfast at InterIsland 1230 -- 1330 (Anguilla) (CON) Lunch at InterIsland 1435? (Anguilla) (CON) Maximum Partial Eclipse 1436 (ECC) (CON) ECC now at 16.57N, 62.15W (2 minute totality line, 9 miles north of Montserrat) Total Eclipse of the Sun, Maximum Totality "Diamond ring", the stars, and all... 2030 (ECC) (CON) Ecliptic Cryptography Cruise Returns to Anguilla ECC "After" Group Photo (Net.Nyms Disguised) Friday 27 February 1998 1000 -- 1030 (CON) Breakfast 1030 -- 1230 (CE) Roundtable Discussion Financial Intermediaries, Public Networks, and Financial Cryptography Steve Schear, First Ecache, moderator Paul Guthrie, VISA International Frank Trotter, Mercantile Bank/Mark Twain Ecash A. S. von Bernhardi, Sicherheit und Privat- International Bank Lynwood Bell, Hansa Bank Other Financial Intermediaries, TBA 1230 -- 1330 (CON) Lunch 1330 -- 1430 (CE) Roundtable Discussion The Regulation of Financial Cryptography Duncan Frissell, Frissell Associates, Moderator Kevin Manson, US Dept of Treasury, Financial Fraud Institute A. S. von Bernhardi, Sicherheit und Privat- International Bank Other Regulators, Lawyers, TBA 1430 -- 1655 (CE) Financial Cryptography Showcase Dave Del Torto/Dr. Jon Callas, PGP Certserver, banking applications Dr. Nicko van Someren, ncipher SET processing engine Stephan Overbeek, QC N-Count Ian Grigg/Gary Howland, Systemics, TBA Other FC Products, TBA 1655 -- 1700 (CE) FC98 Commercial Exhibition Closing Minor Exausted Hoopla Commercial Exhibition Survivors Group Photo (Net.Nyms Disguised) 1830 -- ? (CE) 2nd meeting: Anguilla Dining Cryptographers' Society (at Serenity) Partially sponsored by C2NET ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/> --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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TEMPEST open-source definition version 0.1alpha (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: TEMPEST open-source definition version 0.1alpha > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:19:46 EST > From: Ryan Lackey <rdl(a)MIT.EDU> > time to reverse engineer the practical TEMPEST systems (and in so doing > perhaps the classified TEMPEST spec) out there. Next time I find a > TEMPEST case at swapfest, or at a con, I'll pick it up (if someone wants to > ship me one, so much the better). You *can* buy them from some vendors, Are you possibly confusing Tempest with a NEMA certified case? Educalc used to sell a case for the HP-41C calculator that they touted as NBC certified. I would suggest looking for one of the NIST certified environmental test cases that are available. They'll cook or chill your electronics and block the emissions quite handily. Be shure to get a supply for the copper door gaskets, they wear out under daily use about 3-4 times a year. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The obvious is sometimes false; | | The unexpected sometimes true. | | | | Anonymous | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Someone find Jim Choate a job!
by David Miller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sensory deprivation has caused Mr.Choate to finally go haywire. I suggest that someone from the state of TX (who have IDs from Hell) transport him to the nearest University. --David Miller middle rival devil rim lad

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re: Driver Licenses
by Uhh...this is Joe [Randall Farmer] 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > Either should work...I'll bet that scratching the shit off with his keys > worked too ;) > I'll have to remember that when it's time to get mine done. Shouldn't take much if all you need is to stop regular folks from scanning it -- if it's like some other systems, changing a couple bits will keep the checksum from checking and the reader will report the card as invalid. > > That was a good question, though, does anyone know how much data those > little stripes can hold? It can (emphasis on can; most stripes don't) store 300 bytes according to some -- 1846 characters of English in theory, 600 in practice, 480 uncompressed, 300 ASCII. 300 bytes is six monochrome compressed mugshots or a 2400-pixel (about 50x50) uncompressed monochrome photo, or it could hold 33 military-grade biometric IDs. A study of el33t h@qu3r ph1|ez show that actual credit and ATM cards don't use nearly 300 bytes. That might be because error rates would be astronomical, or it might just be because they can't use all the extra space. [After writing this, I saw another web site with a figure of 226 bytes, not 300. Don't know who's right, so I'm going with the paranoid estimate...] > > Scott R. Brower > http://www.infowar.com > http://www.efflorida.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randall Farmer rfarmer(a)hiwaay.net http://hiwaay.net/~rfarmer

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