July 2004 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Tyler's Education
by John Kelsey 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl(a)mfn.org> Sent: Jul 4, 2004 12:57 AM To: "cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net> Subject: Re: Tyler's Education Interestingly, I have had more than one report of aural acquistion of typists keystrokes being used to attempt to calculate the content of a short keysequence (I assume a password is what was meant by "short keysequence"). These reports indicated "poor, but occasionally lucky results". I wonder if this follows the technique used by Song, Wagner, & Tian to attack SSH-encrypted passwords by watching keystroke timings. J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org --John Kelsey

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[IP] Syndicated Dave and Declan... RSS (fwd from dave@farber.net)
by Eugen Leitl 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

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New Radar Sees Through Walls (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)
by Eugen Leitl 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

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Re: GPS, phones, toothing
by Major Variola (ret) 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

At 01:47 AM 7/4/04 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:28, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to >> mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing >> unintended consequence. > >Not so unintended if you ask me. I'd love to have a transcript of the IEEE spec meeting where this potential feature was discussed. :-)

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Tyler's Education
by Major Variola (ret) 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

At 07:18 PM 7/3/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >I dunno...as an ex-optical engineer/physicst, I'm sceptical about this whole >scary "tempest" bullcrap. Even if it can be made to work fairly reliably, I >suspect deploying it is extremely costly. So? The State can print money... And people are cheap. And digital edges are sharp, in the Ghz even when the "clock" is in the Mhz. And boxes need ventilation slots. Any questions? Look at eg what NASA can do re: finding fireflies on the moon. Now drop one "A". Or replace ASA with RO. >Hey--if they want me that bad these >days, it would probably be cheaper just to send the van and beat whatever >they need out of me. That lets you know they're listening. Or they have to dispose of the body, which lets your colleages know they're onto y'all. You really need to get up to speed on your Tradecraft, friend.

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[IP] China filtering SMS messages (fwd from dave@farber.net)
by Eugen Leitl 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

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more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)
by Major Variola (ret) 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

>On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: ("But >your honor, it's stored for 1/60th of a second in the phosphor! It's a >storage medium!"), etc. Amongst the earliers RAMs were tubes of mercury with a pulse-generator at one end and a microphone at the other. The speed of sound provided the delay, the system required regeneration, like modern DRAMs. The fascists will define the language they desire, the technologists have to deal with reality. App level encryption with privately-exchanged PKs are the answer. Verification / reputation up to you.

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China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)
by Eugen Leitl 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

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[IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)
by Eugen Leitl 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

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911 == Viagra for FBI?
by Major Variola (ret) 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

At 11:57 PM 7/3/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >requires blackbagging - something that was a lot more limited prior to >9/11). Was the FBI/SS (ie, US internal security service) so impotent after the McVeigh Oklahoma ANFO feedback that they couldn't pull off a black bag job on organized militias, militant racial or religious (eg antiabortion) groups, etc? Not that I expect an answer. Obviously 911 gave the State "freedom" to do as it pleases, Bill of Rights be damned, but one must wonder.

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