August 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Boston Globe Online / Much ado about data (fwd) (Linguistic Analysis)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/217/science/Much_ado_about_data+.shtml -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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[eff-austin] UTSA sponsoring Texas Security Symposium (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 06:14:53 +0000 Subject: [eff-austin] UTSA sponsoring Texas Security Symposium UTSA sponsoring Texas Security Symposium The University of Texas at San Antonio Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) is sponsoring a Texas Security Symposium on Aug. 8 in the Laurel Room of the University Center at the school's Loop 1604 campus. Speaking at the symposium will be Robert Weaver, deputy special agent in charge of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force for the United State Secret Service. At the symposium topics covered include reports on the state of Texas' infrastructure protection, security exercises and the "Dark Screen" project. Breakout sessions will be offered in both executive and technical tracks. In 2001 CIAS was established to leverage San Antonio's infrastructure assurance strengths and to bolster research and educational initiatives in this field. The multidisciplinary research center partners with the San Antonio community to address the technical and policy issues of information assurance. The registration cost of the daylong conference is $100. For more information and to register for symposium, visit the CIAS web site at http://www.utsa.edu/cias. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Inferno: Onion: Former President Carter To Be Tried For Peace Crimes (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:11:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Inferno: Onion: Former President Carter To Be Tried For Peace Crimes from cj, http://www.theonion.com/onion3930/former_president.html

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Slashdot | Bent Fibers Put Networks At Risk (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

Duh!... http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/06/138230.shtml?tid=126&tid=137&tid=95 -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference
by Major Variola (ret) 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

At 05:48 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: >Huh? Voters don't control the security of the voting system any more >than we control the security of the credit rating/id theft system. The only way to show vote fraud would be to get enough voters to document that the State lied. That would depend on getting enough voters to document their votes such that the non-participants' share in the survey is insignificant to the outcome, as is other noise. Documenting might involve cameras. But cameras might be disallowed because admitting them admits a "vote buying" attack, since votes can then be demonstrated to the payer, much like paper receipts. The current system works, to the extent it does, because of the adversarial and open nature of the supervisory parties. Paper, absentee ballots could be xeroxed as "proof". All fakable of course. Absentee ballots increase participation, and leave a better paper trail than computers, if anyone trustable cares to look. .... One question in voting threat analysis is how many conspirators are involved. Electronics lets you decrease that number.

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Re: Trouble at HavenCo?
by Anonymous Sender 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

> Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? > > By Declan McCullagh > Staff Writer, CNET News.com > August 4, 2003, 1:38 PM PT > > LAS VEGAS--A widely publicized > project to transform a platform in > the English Channel into a "safe > haven" for controversial Web > businesses has failed due to > political, technical and management > problems, one of the company's > founders said. Rely on math, not humans.

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Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference
by R. A. Hettinga 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

Notice they did this to Chaum, too... Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text

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Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...
by Freematt357＠aol.com 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

Some effort should be made to communicate the danger of e-ballots to the various grassroots, political organizations interested in voting issues. We really have to get a wider audience made aware of the tremendous danger. And somebody should work on producing an alternative hybrid voting machine that is hard copy paper verifiable. I think we have to give these local governments a viable alternative, a machine that can't be used for Machiavellian machinations. Regards, Matt Gaylor-

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What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?
by Major Variola (ret) 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

At 01:18 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >An anonymous sender writes: >> Rely on math, not humans. >What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time? RSA, Inc. stock would go down. We would have to go back to paper and OTP, but we would also get to enjoy the excellent graphics, AI, number theory, etc, that we would win.

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What happened to the Cryptography list...?
by R. A. Hettinga 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

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