December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Calif Leads US with Mobile Tracker
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, John Young wrote: > > Thanks to John Gilmore. > > > http://www.msnbc.com/local/KNBC/14920.asp > > CHP introduces cellular-friendly 911 system > > Operators will now be able to capture the > telephone number and location of the caller > within a half-block area While I understand the implications and outrage here, anybody who uses cellular phones as a measure of security is a total idiot. The connections usually aren't encrypted, they're radiated to the rest of the area, and your position can be triangulated (half-ass) if nothing else. With that in mind, maybe this one is actually legitimate. If criminals and/or patriots are that stupid, they'll get caught for something else like driving drunk two states away.

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Re: Cyberpunks Signal-to-Noise Ratio
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Quoting Tim May (tcmay(a)got.net) > And that proceeds in spurts, not surprisingly, as topics come to the fore. Are you seriously advocating further discussion of Clinton's penis?

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Guess Who!
by Whtsametau＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It's Me! Stan! I need technical advice this time. How does one write to a newsgroup via e- mail? Thanks in advance, cyphers! And check out my Brave Combo discography again, I'm sure I've had some interesting upgrades since I was last here, Stan Rosenthal, Stan and the Sequencers members.aol.com/StanSqncrs/ Stan's Brave Combo discography members.aol.com/whtsametau/BraveCombo/

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Trusted Systems Services Newsletter
by inform＠trustedsystems.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So I fly home Friday from San Jose. Probably because I was in a hurry, after walking through the magnetometer and x-raying my stuff, a security dude grabbed my laptop and said he wanted to 'analyze' it. Yeah sure whatever, I decided not to protest I was late for my flight. This analysis, it turned out, was wiping a coffee filter over the strap of its bag, and sticking the coffee filter into a slot on a machine. No solvent even. The machine had columns labelled TNT RDX NITRO PETN HMX. I recognized the first four as high explosives. Later, I wondered if people with angina (who take nitro orally) ever set this off. Most of them, of course, are not bearded eastern-european/semetic guys in their 30's who look worried and in a hurry. Anyway, that was it, and I made my flight. Didn't even open the laptop's case. The machine name was ION-something; I wonder whether it sucked vapors from the fiber disk or whether it was a neutron-spectrometer (?) device. (Had this been a UK Customs 'inspection' of the contents of the disk, I might have had to explain the half-gig of "noise" I have on the disk. Only, it really is noise. Really.) Anyway, the moral of the story: Don't store your laptop with your explosives :-)

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is anybody on this list form one of these nations just out of curiosity? Iran, Iraq,Libya, Syria,Sudan, North Korea and Cuba. I would find it funny considering the exemption made for them in the new crypto policy :)

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Oh my God...
by Jim Thompson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forgive me if this has been covered on cypherpunks. I hang out on coderpunks, and this is far too political for that list. Please keep me Cc'd on any discussion on this topic. If true, RSA is dirty, SDI is dirty, Robertson Stevens is dirty, and Ron Brown, Jim Bizdos, Al Gore, John Huang and Sanford Robertson are going to jail. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/smith/980915.comcs.html Jim Thompson / Smallworks, Inc. / jim(a)smallworks.com 512 338 0619 phone / 512 338 0625 fax C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata and expecting some sort of improvement. -- Drew Olbrich

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It's Nobody's Business!
by Whtsametau＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I see things haven't changed much around here. [BIG GRIN!] Stan, bass/vocals Nobody's Business members.aol.com/StanSqncrs/nobiz.html

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RE: Cyberpunks Signal-to-Noise Ratio
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Isn't it in bad form to filter the Cypherpunk anonymous remailers on the cypherpunk list? ---Matthew James Gering <mgering(a)ecosystems.net> wrote: > > What! I can't hear you! > > You could always filter *aol*, *anon* and *sixdegrees*. > > Or shout louder (i.e. contribute signal). > > Matt

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17 Dec '03

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