April 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

FC: Speaking to MIT Tech/Eros group today (Thursday, 4/24)
by Declan McCullagh 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Join the Tech/Eros group for an informal discussion with renowned technology policy journalist Declan McCullagh. McCullagh is the chief political correspondent for CNET's News.com and moderator of the Politech List (www.politechbot.com) Among other topics, McCullagh will be talking about how current government cyber-policies affect sexual expression on the Internet. McCullagh is a frequent guest on national news shows and was formerly the Washington correspondent for Wired News. He is also a photographer. Come meet McCullagh Thursday, April 24, 5PM in the conference room at E32-300 on the MIT campus. The Tech/Eros Group is made possible by a generous grant from the Initiative on Technology and Self at MIT. Tech/Eros (www.techeros.org) is a research group of scholars, scientists and writers devoted to analyzing the connection between technology and sexuality. If you would like more information about Tech/Eros, write to Annalee Newitz at godzilla(a)mit.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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'

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FC: Speaking to MIT Tech/Eros group today (Thursday, 4/24)
by Declan McCullagh 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Join the Tech/Eros group for an informal discussion with renowned technology policy journalist Declan McCullagh. McCullagh is the chief political correspondent for CNET's News.com and moderator of the Politech List (www.politechbot.com) Among other topics, McCullagh will be talking about how current government cyber-policies affect sexual expression on the Internet. McCullagh is a frequent guest on national news shows and was formerly the Washington correspondent for Wired News. He is also a photographer. Come meet McCullagh Thursday, April 24, 5PM in the conference room at E32-300 on the MIT campus. The Tech/Eros Group is made possible by a generous grant from the Initiative on Technology and Self at MIT. Tech/Eros (www.techeros.org) is a research group of scholars, scientists and writers devoted to analyzing the connection between technology and sexuality. If you would like more information about Tech/Eros, write to Annalee Newitz at godzilla(a)mit.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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'

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FC: Speaking to MIT Tech/Eros group today (Thursday, 4/24)
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

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[eff-austin] Super-DMCA hearing (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:38:40 -0500 From: Jon Lebkowsky <jonl(a)polycot.com> To: Leaders <leaders(a)effaustin.org>, Eff-Austin <eff-austin(a)effaustin.org> Cc: William Harrell <wharrell(a)aclutx.org> Subject: [eff-austin] Super-DMCA hearing Last night the Texas legislature held a hearing on HB2121, aka "super DMCA" proposed by the MPAA. I don't have time for an extended comment, but thanks primarily to testimony by EFF-Austin directors Doug Barnes and Adina Levin, there was no action on the bill. Says Doug, "The chair ended saying that the bill clearly needed a lot of work, and encouraging the various folks in attendance to work on modifying the bill." We'll follow up with more info about next steps etc. We should all thank Doug and Adina for making it down to testify effectively with little notice. best, Jon L. -- Jon Lebkowsky jonl(a)polycot.com President, EFF-Austin http://www.effaustin.org

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Anonymous blog experiment, take two
by zem 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

I've put together an experimental remailer/PGP interface to a weblog hosting service. Creating a blog and posting are entirely one-way processes via Mixmaster; there's no need for nyms or reply blocks. The short version, for those familiar with PGP and mixmaster: To create a blog, generate a new PGP key. Set the Name field to 'invisiblog' and optionally put a name or description in the Comment field. Use mixmaster to send the ascii-exported public key to signup(a)invisiblog.com. Each new blog will show up at http://invisiblog.com/<long_key_id> as soon as its key is received. To post, clearsign a message and send it to post(a)invisiblog.com. The fingerprint of the signing key is used to figure out which blog to post it to. There's no way to delete or modify posts. If a first attempt at creating a blog or posting fails, resend - it'll ignore dupes. More details here: <http://invisiblog.com/info/faq/> Step-by-step signup and posting instructions: <http://invisiblog.com/info/signup/> Anonymous weblogs will be linked from here as they are created: <http://invisiblog.com/> -- mailto:zem@vigilant.tv F289 2BDB 1DA0 F4C4 DC87 EC36 B2E3 4E75 C853 FD93 http://vigilant.tv/ "..I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible.." --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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RE: date formats (was Re: Single Point of Weakness is in the Work s.Thank you Major Tom.)
by Trei, Peter 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

> Sunder[SMTP:sunder@sunder.net] > > > Guys, let's please change the subject from now on when we are no longer > talking about the original issues. > > > One marketing vp at an old little hole in the wall company used to date > things the european way on purpose, so as to look more sophisticated or > some nonsense. > > Funny how that didn't save the company when the bubble burst. > > I've always preferred YYYY.MM.DD, this way you can sort things very > easily. If you write the names of the months, it doesn't translate well > to other languages, though it may be similar, *AND* more importantly from > a geek perspective, if you do a sort, April shows as the 1st month of the > year, before January - not good. > > If you do the reverse DD.MM.YYYY you can't sort it either since the 1st > day of every month shows up 1st. Dumb. Friendly to non-geeks, but dumb. > > The worst annoyance I've seen is using Unix time as a timestamp on log > dates. It's the most unreadable of all formats. Sorts nicely though, but > what a bitch to read. (Unix time being the number of seconds in decimal > since 1/1/1970.) > > I use YYYYMMDD when automatic sorting may be required, for just that reason. In all others situations, I use DD name_of_month YYYY to disambiguate the format. I grew up in Europe, and moved back to the States after college. I've had long exposure to both formats, and don't automatically assume one or the other. It's gotten worse recently. Since the turn of the century, all three fields are frequently below 13. 04/05/03 or 05/04/03 are very ambiguous. 04/05/2003 is still confusing. 20030405 is good for computers 5 April 2003 is unambiguous. Peter Trei

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RE: Metaswitch cleared by FBI for spying
by Trei, Peter 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

> Ralf-Philipp Weinmann[SMTP:ralf@fimaluka.org] writes: > > Easier still might be porting Nautilus or Speak Freely to the Zaurus or > just using ZMeeting over an IPsec tunnel over a GPRS connection. > > Cheers, > Ralf > I know that there have been projects underway to port SpeakFreely to 802.11 enabled Linux Ipaqs - I think they actually work. Peter Trei

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Re: Three Cheers for the State - RAH RAH RAH
by Tyler Durden 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

>But, but, but...that would be tax fraud. You'd be aiding terrorists. >And >think of the chiiiiildren. Harumph. I take exception to the "fraud" part. No fraud would be involved. It's just brazenly not paying taxes. Oh yeah. A funny picture just occurred to me. If there be any bills, they should have a picture of a homeless Uncle Sam, wearing tattered and torn clothes, with his hand outstretched and his empty palm open, looking for some loose change. -TD _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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RE: RSA Show impressions
by Trei, Peter 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

> Steve Schear[SMTP:schear@attbi.com] > > This year's RSA show was, like it predecessors, mostly a schmooze > event. Shrunk at least 1/3 in floor space from the 2001/2 events, it > certainly reflected the changes in this industry. > Steve: [Don't take this as an Official RSA Statement - it's just my personal opinion. -pt] 1. The floor space - the north half of Moscone - was identical to last year. We sold out the booths months ahead of time. 2. Attendence was up over last year, well over 10,000, with 3,000+ full memberships - again up over last year. > I was surprised and a bit dismayed that I saw few familiar faces. A brief > > talk with Stacy Cannan, of L.J. Kushner, the leading security industry > recruiter, confirmed my suspicions that many senior level people had left > the industry in the past two years. The booths were mostly manned with > the > latest generation of newly graduated fodder. There didn't seem to be much > activity (or smiles for that matter) in most booths. This is probably > reflecting the exit/acquisition of some early players, decreased level of > IT spending, and the increasing impact of open source security > solutions. About the most amusing thing was receiving a "Regime change > begins at home" button from one of the executives. > > steve > I've been going to the conference almost since the start, and while it did not match the euphoria of the dot.com boom period, the atmosphere felt more upbeat than last year (which was just a few months post-911). There is turnover, of course. But many of the old players are still there. I got my 'regime change' button from Bruce Schneier, along with an dedicated copy of 'Secrets and Lies'. (Trivia alert: Bruce was actually the very first vendor at the RSA Conference. At the second one (11 years ago) he set up a card table in the hall and peddled copies of the first edition of "Applied Cryptography".) Peter Trei

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Re: New Lawsuit from JimB
by anonymous＠panta-rhei.dyndns.org 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

> According the WWA prosecutor's web page, Robb London > has moved on, perhaps to the gargantuan homeland terrorism > upmarket. Not sure where Jeff Gordon is, anybody know? Yes: we will be posting his new address shortly, along with the name and address of his family doctor.

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