March 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Rogue Vally Cypherpunks Physical Meeting Mar 13
by Major Variola (ret) 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

At 08:55 AM 3/4/03 -0800, cypherpunk-vin(a)vmeng.com wrote: >What are Cypherpunks? A group of thinkers, programmers and >researchers dedicated to preserve everyone's freedom of speech >through action. > * believers in crypto-anarchy, > * leaning towards libertarianism, > * most importantly, cypherpunks write code! To pick a nit, and clarify something for lurkers, feds, reporters, grand juries and the like: IMHO "believers in crypto anarchy" sounds like a religion. The phrase even parses ambiguously, which may be a feature to the already clued but isn't to those trying to suss you out. I'm not a "believer" but an observer and analyzer. And BTW I don't like all the effects of crypto tech but I have been forced to recognize and consider some of them on this list. "Students of cryptos effect on society" might work. I'm not sure how to fit "anarchy" into there without starting to sound like a rant. "Crypto" might even be too specific as things like interception technology and commerce-systems are also of interest. "Students of crypto's anarchy-tending effect.."? But when some tech is convincingly shown to be anarchy-minimizing or fascist-promoting, I think the rational CP does not lose interest. Drop the "anarchy"; "effects on society" should be enough. Just my $.02. Its your shindig.

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Re: CAPSII protest...
by Michael Motyka 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Yes Tyler, there is something nasty you can do that will not get you nabbed. It requires the following equipment : airline ticket ( aisle seat ) large pizza with the works quart of yogurt one dozen raw oysters one package of M&Ms ipecac syrup ( or a wafer-thin mint ) Just imagine the effect if almost every flight had one (:or more:) passengers barfing buckets of primordial goo soon after takeoff. Works just as well for trains and buses. It requires massive participation and a large, but not necessarily strong, stomach. I think it expresses quite well how recent events affect us all. This may be a new form of civil disobedience. I hereby place it in the public domain for the benfit of all mankind. I wonder if there's a lab test for ipecac? (: --

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Roger Needham Died - from The Register
by Bill Stewart 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

-------------------- Obit: Roger Needham By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net Posted: 02/03/2003 at 12:13 GMT Sadly, we record the death of Roger Needham, computer pioneer... There isn't much more to say, except that the man who was the reason Microsoft set up its research centre in Cambridge, England, has had to lay down his life's work. Cancer ended a legend. He once told me that it was his idea that Microsoft stopped spending money on patenting its research ideas, and instead, to make the results available to other researchers. I wish I'd known him long enough to have some other stories to pass on myself; he left a long legacy of people who attributed their inspiration to having worked with him. Here's what his CV at Microsoft Research says: Roger M Needham, born 1935, was in computing at Cambridge since 1956. His 1961 PhD thesis was on the application of digital computers to problems of classification and grouping. In 1962 he joined the Computer Laboratory, then called the Mathematical Laboratory, and has been on the faculty since 1963. He took a leading role in Cambridge projects in operating systems, time sharing systems, memory protection, local area networks, and distributed systems over the next twenty years. Roger worked at intervals on a variety of topics in security, (his main research interest while with Microsoft) being particularly known for work with Schroeder on authentication protocols (1978) and with Burrows and Abadi on formalism for reasoning about them (1989). Roger graduated from the University of Cambridge in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1956, and then took the Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing in 1957. He had been in computing at Cambridge ever since. He succeeded Maurice Wilkes as Head of the Computer Laboratory from 1980 to 1995, was promoted Professor in 1981, elected to the Royal Society in 1985 and the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1993. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 1996. I only met him a couple of times, both times when Microsoft was doing corporate hospitality to publicise the work it was doing in the Cambridge research facility. He was as knowledgeable as any rumour could have suggested; and as tolerant of an ignorant journalist as any academic could ever be. And I shall never get to know him, now. Guy Kewney is the editor/publisher of Newswireless.Net ----------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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