December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Tripwire and SATAN for Linux
by Steve O 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey guys, Can any one point to where i can get Tripwire and SATAN for Linux? a friend is in dire need. thanks... Steve O Steve O. "True Utopia can only be reached by an uncensored and secure Internet, True Chaos can only be reached by the government, True love can only be reached in the movies." S.O. "Bang your head, Metal Health will drive you mad!" Quiet Riot "Welcome my friend, Welcome to The Machine" Pink Floyd "Lonelyness and Emptiness; Love and Fulfillment; Are all but … [View More]

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Re: Kaos vs Control
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 13 Jun 96 at 10:06, Duncan Frissell wrote: > At 11:31 AM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: [..] > >Good to see the courts reaffirming that "chaos" and lack of control by > >authorities is a core part of the U.S. system. Maybe the control freaks of > >Europe and Asia who have been charting their own authoritarian courses will > >give more thought to ensuring liberty even if it causes more "chaos." > One would hope. Perhaps reality will have to do it for … [View More]

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Re: Comments on MicroPayments and the Web
by Hal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "Mark M." <markm(a)voicenet.com> > I think it would be interesting to see how copyright law will be applied to the > Web if micropayments ever become popular. Would memory or disk caching be > considered fair use? If so, then people could just set up a very large disk > cache and maybe delete it every month or so. It would also be a pretty neat > hack to use a proxy that only cached pages that charged micropayments. > Companies would not make a lot of money from … [View More]

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Re: Report from Germany on "backdoor" net-censorship
by um＠c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A short update from Germany: The "ICTF" attorney has half-retracted their announcement on Usenet. "ICTF" is going to be only an advisory group for ECO members. They will make recommendations about newsgroups that might be 'dangerous' to carry, and will only react on individual articles when they are informed about articles that would be illegal to keep on the news servers. The "ICTF" plans to use a modified Cancel message format that will only affect their members' servers. He says that the … [View More]

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Re: PBS show
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >I caught the show and thought it was pretty good, all in all. I thought so too? When is part II coming on? (I hope it didn't come right after that, I had to run.) Next week? >I personally despise the term "nerd," but I won't get into that here. Ahhh... it makes them happy. What I find most unnapealing is the unabashed, "I don't have a life, I live with a computer" mentality. I was rather taken with that mentality myself … [View More]

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Re: PBS show
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: > >Most of the portrayals of Silicon Valley history was pretty accurate, >especially the 1975-78 "Homebrew Computer Club" days. (I used to go to >about every other one of these, mainly in '77-78, where I sometimes passed >out free samples of the 8080 and stuff like that. A friend of mine at the >time was one of the Apple II motherboard designers, and another was the >first employee hired by Jobs and Woz. Personally, my first … [View More]

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Re: Tripwire and SATAN for Linux
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:25 AM 6/13/96 -0700, Steve O wrote: >Hey guys, > Can any one point to where i can get Tripwire and SATAN for Linux? >a friend is in dire need. thanks... >From the notes passed out at Venema and Farmer's "Security Auditing and Risk Analysis" class: Archive locations for important auditing software: COPS http://www.fish.com/security/cops Crack ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/ ipsend (part of the IP Filter package) ftp://… [View More]

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No Subject
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"We're sitting here watching the sun rise for the first time and we've never even seen the sun" -- Rush Limbaugh about the Internet on today's show. Rush also opined that it was impossible to regulate. DCF

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President Clinton's Statement on the CDA Decision
by jseiger＠cdt.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What's more interesting is what it doesn't say. He is not at all definitive on whether the gvt will file an appeal... Jonah -- THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 12, 1996 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT The Justice Department is reviewing today's three judge panel court … [View More]

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Re: PBS show
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:35 PM 6/13/96, jim bell wrote: >At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: ... >>first employee hired by Jobs and Woz. Personally, my first personal >>computer was a Processor Technology SOL, as I thought the Apple II looked >>too much like a toy. Shows you what I knew.) > >But the Apple II WAS a toy! Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset >key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY >SMALL capacity floppies (… [View More]which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile >legal situation regarding the building of clones. Hell, they even objected >to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus! Compared to my SOL, the Apple II would've been more useful, in retrospect. As to the 40-character display, that was the norm in those days. (My SOL, and certainly the other machines available to home users at that time, had only a 40-character-wide display...when in worked.) The comments about the floppies (" VERY SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well") is even more off-base. In fact, it was probably Apple's ability to put _any_ kind of floppies on the Apple II, for a reasonable price, that ensured its success. Processor Technology was effectively sunk by delays in getting its "Helios" 8-inch floppy drive working. The bigger and faster 8-inchers may have been technically superior to Apple's "Integrated Woz Machine" drivers and 5-inch floppies, but Apple was shipping. That counts for a _lot_. >BTW, Intel shares a substantial proportion of the blame for Apple's choice >of the 6502. The decision was made, I've heard, because Intel was still >trying to get $200 for a slow 8080, while Western Design Center (?) wanted >only about $20 for a 6502. You need to check your claims more carefully. There are always many reasons a chip is selected for a design. >And by refusing to build Masatoshi (?) Shima's design for the Z-80, they >totally lost the race for the 8-bit PC world. The Z-80 turned into the >highest-volume 8-bit microprocessor by far, leaving both the 8080 and the >8085 in the dust, and even the 6502. Again, your understanding of the history of Intel, Zilog, and the industry in general is lacking. The design and process technology resources were instead committed to the 8086, and history is rather clear about the wisdom of doing that. Intel is now capitalized at something like $50-70 billion, and Zilog is no longer on the radar screen. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." [View Less]

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