December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

pals
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 3/30/98 3:21 PM John Young The information contained in http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html appears from my knowledge accurate. One must consider possible malfunction when With the CAT B, it is also possible to check the code, relock the weapon, or rekey it. and limited-try feature disables the bomb if too many incorrect keys are entered. Most references omit the CAT C. It may just be a later model of the CAT B. The new keys loaded were occasionally not the ones intended to be loaded. Back to Pantex for disassembly was the fix. The bubble memory of the T1563 was one of the problems in rekeying reliability, I was told.. Bugs in the about 112,000 lines of rca 1802 assembler code was also a problem. Kent Parsons asked me to look at the code and make a recommendation about what to do. Later bill

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foiling any lock
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 3/30/98 6:34 PM wolit & smb Your statement at http://www.jya.com/pal-nukes.htm http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html There are two basic means of foiling any lock, from an automobile ignition switch to a PAL: the first is to pick it, and the second is to bypass it. perhaps contains SEVERAL PRACTICAL oversights. ONE is spike it! http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm And, of course, Pantex can always get in. Then there are OTHER ways of getting the key Two terrorist agents of the clerical regime, both high-ranking officials in Tehran's Evin Prison who have been directly involved in the torture and execution of numerous political prisoners in recent years, are currently in Austria on a secret assignment as special guests of the Iranian embassy in Vienna. One of the two is Ruhollah, the notorious interrogator in Evin Prison's Branch 6. I read It is reasonably probable that public key cryptography is not used directly. No known public key cryptosystem uses keys as short as 6 or 12 digits. I was told that public key was. Here is the name and e-mail address of the fellow who told me pubic key was used in the nuclear weapons ... and was being removed. KULJU,RONALD J. (505)845-8860 RJKULJU (505)844-9478 0519 RJKULJU(a)sandia.gov The supervisor of M Kent Parsons who told me it cost $300,000 each to recall the nuke to Pantex to remove Sandia's FAILING CHIPS [unspecified] is ALLEN,DOUGLAS J. (505)845-9624 DJALLEN (505)844-7593 1201 DJALLEN(a)sandia.gov The guy, at 2300 department manager M Kent Parson's request who showed me the about 112,000 lines of 1802 T1563 code is DENMAN,THOMAS A. (505)844-2819 TADENMA (505)844-9524 0487 TADENMA(a)sandia.gov I frequently see Denman when Morales and I meet at Taco Bell. Let's ALL try to get the true story OUT THERE. Best bill

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And the way this relates to cryptomony is...uuhhh.......
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is an amusing discussion of metaphor and metonymy in David Lodge's novel, Nice Work. A typical instance of this was the furious argument they had about the Silk Cut advertisement... Every few miles, it seemed, they passed the same huge poster on roadside hoardings, a photographic depiction of a rippling expanse of purple silk in which there was a single slit, as if the material had been slashed with a razor. There were no words in the advertisement, except for the Government Health Warning about smoking. This ubiquitous image, flashing past at regular intervals, both irritiated and intrigued Robyn, and she began to do her semiotic stuff on the deep structure hidden beneath its bland surface. It was in the first instance a kind of riddle. That is to say, in order to decode it, you had to know that there was a brand of cigarettes called Silk Cut. The poster was the iconic representation of a missing name, like a rebus. But the icon was also a metaphor. The shimmering silk, with its voluptous curves and sensuous texture, obviously symbolized the female body, and the elliptical slit, foregrounded by a lighter colour showing through, was still more obviously a vagina. The advert thus appealed to both senual and sadistic impulses, the desire to mutilate as well as penetrate the female body. Vic Wilcox spluttered with outraged derision as she expounded this interpretation. He smoked a different brand himself, but it wasas if he felt his whole philosophy of life was threatened by Robyn's analysis of the advert. 'You must have a twisted mind to see all that in a perfectly harmless bit of cloth,' he said. 'What's the point of it, then?' Robyn challenged him. 'Why use cloth to advertise cigarettes?' 'Well, that's the name of 'em, isn't it? Silk Cut. It's a picture of the name. Nothing more or less.' 'Suppose they'd used a picture of a roll of silk cut in half - would that do just as well?' 'I suppose so. Yes, why not?' 'Because it would look like a penis cut in half, that's why.' He forced a laugh to cover his embarrassment. 'Why can't you people take things at their face value?' 'What people are you refering to?' 'Highbrows. Intellectuals. You're always trying to find hidden meanings in things. Why? A cigarette is a cigarette. A piece of silk is a piece of silk. Why not leave it at that? 'When they're represented they acquire additional meanings,' said Robyn. 'Signs are never innocent. Semiotics teaches us that.' 'Semi-what?' 'Semiotics. The study of signs.' 'It teaches us to have dirty minds, if you ask me.' 'Why do you think the wretched cigarettes were called Silk Cut in the first place?' 'I dunno. It's just a name, as good as any other.' "Cut" has something to do with the tobacco, doesnt it? The way the tobacco leaf is cut. Like "Player's Navy Cut" - my uncle Walter used to smoke them.' 'Well, what if it does?' Vic said warily. 'But silk has nothing to do with tobacco. It's a metaphor, a metaphor that means something like, "smooth as silk". Somebody in an advertising agency dreamt up the name "Silk Cut" to suggest a cigarette that would'nt give you a sore throat or a hacking cough or lung cancer. But after a while the public got used to the name, the word "Silk" ceased to signify, so they decided to have an advertising campaign to give the brand a high profile again. Some bright spark in the agency came up with the idea of rippling silk with a cut in it. The original metaphor is now represented literally. Whether they conciously intended or not doesn't really matter. It's a good example of the perpetual sliding of the signified under a signifier, actually.' Wilcox chewed on this for a while, then said, 'Why do women smoke them, then, eh?' his triumphant expression showed that he thought this was a knock-down argument. 'If smoking Silk Cut is a form of aggravated rape, as you try to make out, how come women smoke 'em too?' 'Many women are masochistic by temperament,' said Robyn. 'They've learnt what's expected of them in a patriarchical society.' 'Ha!' Wilcox exclaimed, tossing back his head. 'I might have known you'd have some daft answer.' 'I don't know why you're so worked up,' Said Robyn. 'It's not as if you smoke Silk Cut yourself.' 'No, I smoke Marlboros. Funnily enough, I smoke them because I like the taste.' 'They're the ones that have the lone cowboy ads, aren't they?' 'I suppose that makes me a repressed homosexual, does it?' 'No, it's a very straightforward metonymic message.' 'Metawhat?' 'Metonymic. One of the fundamental tools of semiotics is the distinction between metaphor and metonymy. D'you want me to explain it to you?' 'It'll pass the time,' he said. 'Metaphor is a figure of speech based on similarity, whereas metonymy is based on contiguity. In metaphor you substitute something like the thing you mean for the thing itself, whereas in metonymy you substitute some attribute or cause or effect of the thing for the thing itself'. 'I don't understand a word you're saying.' 'Well, take one of your moulds. The bottom bit is called the drag because it's dragged across the floor and the top bit is called the cope because it covers the bottom bit.' 'I told you that.' 'Yes, I know. What you didn't tell me was that "drag" is a metonymy and "cope" is a metaphor.' Vic grunted. 'What difference does it make?' 'It's just a question of understanding how language works. I thought you were interested in how things work.' 'I don't see what it's got to do with cigarettes.' 'In the case of the Silk Cut poster, the picture signifies the female body metaphorically: the slit in the silk is like a vagina -' Vic flinched at the word. 'So you say.' 'All holes, hollow places, fissures and folds represent the female genitals.' 'Prove it.' 'Freud proved it, by his successful analysis of dreams,' said Robyn. 'But the Marlboro ads don't use any metaphors. That's probably why you smoke them, actually.' 'What d'you mean?' he said suspiciously. 'You don't have any sympathy with the metaphorical way of looking at things. A cigarette is a cigarette as far as you are concerned.' 'Right.' 'The Marlboro ad doesn't disturb that naive faith in the stability of the signified. It establishes a metonymic connection - completely spurious of course, but realistically plausible - between smoking that particular brand and the healthy, heroic, outdoor life of the cowboy. Buy the cigarette and you buy the lifestyle, or the fantasy of living it.' 'Rubbish!' said Wilcox. 'I hate the country and the open air. I'm scared to go into a field with a cow in it.' 'Well then, maybe it's the solitariness of the cowboy in the ads that appeals to you. Self-reliant, independent, very macho.' 'I've never heard such a lot of balls in all my life,' said Vic Wilcox, which was strong language coming from him. 'Balls - now that's an interesting expression...' Robyn mused. 'Oh no!' he groaned. 'When you say a man "has balls", approvingly, it's a metonymy, whereas if you say something is a "lot of balls", or "a balls-up", it's a sort of metaphor. The metonymy attributes value to the testicles whereas the metaphor uses them to degrade something else.' 'I can't take any more of this,' said Vic. 'D'you mind if I smoke? Just a plain, ordinary cigarette?'

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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