September 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CNN.com - French card deck names 'most dangerous' U.S. leaders - Sep. 26, 2003 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/25/france.us.carddeck.ap/index.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

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Slashdot | Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired (fwd)
by Jim Choate 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/26/029252.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=172&… -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

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CIPE tunnels
by error 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For those of you interested in CIPE tunnels: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/339035/2003-09-22/2003-09-28/0 It's a disaster so far. - -- error <error(a)lostinthenoise.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/cxTfKvrsP0edi7gRAuoJAKC4SG6evZgkXwyMR9x0ks9591KVkwCeONaZ 6jpC6P7cZaXxys3V3scwO0Y= =D3KF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System
by Major Variola (ret) 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

At 02:48 PM 9/24/03 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: ><http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=463> > >Cryptonomicon.Net - > >Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular imagination. Is Tom Clancy available? Maybe an anonymous, detailed, plausible, (but secretly fictional) blog describing how someone did this in their podunk county... then "leak" this to a news reporter.. Failure to be *able* to assure that this *didn't* happen in that podunk county would make an important point. ---- "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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Re: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)
by Tim May 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: >> Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@einstein.ssz.com] wrote: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:06:45 -0500 (CDT) >> Subject: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated >> >> A representative on the US appointed Governing Council in Iraq has >> died of >> wounds from an assassination attempt this past Saturday. She was one >> of >> three women representatives on the 25-member council. Strangely >> enough, >> we are only hearing word of this assassination attempt today in the >> West; >> now that she has in fact died it is newsworthy, I suppose? Or perhaps >> just inconcealable. >> >> > I don't have much trust in the US media, but this is nonsense. The > assasination attempt was covered by the NYT among others. I heard about > it on the radio at the weekend, and it was on Yahoo News. > > Peter Trei > > --------------------------- > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/international/middleeast/21IRAQ.html > > BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 20 - In the first attempt to assassinate a > member of Iraq's interim government, nine gunmen this morning > shot and critically wounded Akila al-Hashemi, one of three women > on the governing body, as she was being driven to work by a driver > and three bodyguards. > Her shooting was widely reported when it happened a few days ago, on CNN, leading newspapers, and presumably on other networks. One of her bodyguards was killed, and her brother was either injured or killed, I don't recall. Lots of footage of her planning to be the first useful idiot, er, politician, to serve in both the U.S.-funded Saddam regime and the U.S.-funded post-Saddam regime. Perhaps these networks and newspapers are not carried on Choate Prime, the parallel world that is strangely different from our own. --Tim May

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CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25, 2003 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

"50 million Americans can't be wrong." Let's see, there are 300M Americans...this is a logical flaw, an appeal to the majority when in fact it isn't even a majority. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/25/congress.no.call/index.html Now let me make this clear I support the do-not-call list, in fact I believe it should be the defacto and people should have to sign up to be called, not the other way around. Such an approach would resolve the 'unsolicted' issues as well. As usual we have the cart in front of the horse. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

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Re: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > I don't have much trust in the US media, but this is nonsense. The > assasination attempt was covered by the NYT among others. I heard about > it on the radio at the weekend, and it was on Yahoo News. Thanks, I fed it back upstream. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

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Re: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)
by Trei, Peter 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

> Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@einstein.ssz.com] wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:06:45 -0500 (CDT) > Subject: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated > > A representative on the US appointed Governing Council in Iraq has died of > wounds from an assassination attempt this past Saturday. She was one of > three women representatives on the 25-member council. Strangely enough, > we are only hearing word of this assassination attempt today in the West; > now that she has in fact died it is newsworthy, I suppose? Or perhaps > just inconcealable. > > I don't have much trust in the US media, but this is nonsense. The assasination attempt was covered by the NYT among others. I heard about it on the radio at the weekend, and it was on Yahoo News. Peter Trei --------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/international/middleeast/21IRAQ.html BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 20 - In the first attempt to assassinate a member of Iraq's interim government, nine gunmen this morning shot and critically wounded Akila al-Hashemi, one of three women on the governing body, as she was being driven to work by a driver and three bodyguards. [...]

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Inferno: Neal Stephenson's _Quicksilver_ follow-up (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:01:03 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Inferno: Neal Stephenson's _Quicksilver_ follow-up I didn't notice this when I was looking at the site this afternoon, but: Stephenson will be @ Book People here in Austin: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 07:00 PM Neal Stephenson, will be promoting Quicksilver Appears on/at: BOOKPEOPLE/Speaking/Signing 603 North Lamar, Austin, TX 78703 Tel: 512-472-4288 and the site has a chapter excerpt: http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0380977427 and details on several of his past works: http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/book_search.asp?a=authorid&b=18676

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Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:06:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated A representative on the US appointed Governing Council in Iraq has died of wounds from an assassination attempt this past Saturday. She was one of three women representatives on the 25-member council. Strangely enough, we are only hearing word of this assassination attempt today in the West; now that she has in fact died it is newsworthy, I suppose? Or perhaps just inconcealable. Riverbend briefly discusses the attempt in her Sunday September 21st blog entry: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ Here is a sampling of western coverage: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/25/1064083125418.html http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7376906%255E2… http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/25/sprj.irq.main/index.html

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