September 2005 - cypherpunks-legacy

[jwales@wikia.com: Re: Abuse resistant anonymous publishing - Proposed solution to the Wikipedia issue.]
by Eugen Leitl 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

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[cyphrpunk@gmail.com: Re: [roy@rant-central.com: Re: [arma@mit.edu: Re: Wikipedia & Tor]]]
by Eugen Leitl 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

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[cyphrpunk@gmail.com: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]
by Eugen Leitl 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

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[shekhar@crit.org.in: [Geowanking] Google Earth Exposes the Indian Military]
by Eugen Leitl 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

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[jwales@wikia.com: Re: [roy@rant-central.com: Re: [jwales@wikia.com: Re: [roy@rant-central.com: Re: [arma@mit.edu: Re: Wikipedia & Tor]]]]]
by Eugen Leitl 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

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RE: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]
by Trei, Peter 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Sunder wrote: >I've been ignoring this list for a while, so sorry for the late posting. >I remember sometime in late 99, I had one of the early blackberry >pagers, the small ones that ate a single AA battery which lasted about a >week or so, and had email + a small web browser inside of it. It wasn't >the blackberry phone. Anyway, long story short, one day, said pager >crashed (it is a computer after all) and I was trying to figure out how >to reboot it, so I thought, fuck it, and removed the battery, the fucker >stayed ON! For over 15 minutes! >Gee, I wonder why anyone would design a cell phone or pager to be able >to stay on after its battery is pulled out. Yeah, yeah, it's just a >capacitor or an internal rechargeable battery, but why would you want >such a feature? There is a damn good reason. PDAs, pagers, and cellphones often hold a great deal of info the owner regards as valuable, and which they don't want to lose - phone lists, email, addresses, etc. Battery changes are a potential source of loss, since (until recently) all these devices used volatile memory. Adding a capacitor to give the user a few minutes grace to fumble with his AAs is an essential feature. Most users, for better or worse, aren't cypherpunks or terribly conscious about personal privacy, and regard preserving their data as a very high priority. All the PDAs I've dealt with (and I've written SW for a number of them) have a 'hard reset' protocol - usually pressing the power button while engaging the recessed reset button - which clears out all memory. Peter Trei

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[distobj@acm.org: [FoRK] [rfugger@gmail.com: Ripple currency development begins]]
by Eugen Leitl 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

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[tortalk+Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]
by Eugen Leitl 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Sorry for the flood, but this is winding down already. What I didn't like about this discussion is that all concerned parties seem to have been shouting into space past each other, just trying to make a noise instead of understanding and solving the problem. ----- Forwarded message from "Steven J. Murdoch" <tortalk+Steven.Murdoch(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> -----

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[syverson@itd.nrl.navy.mil: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]
by Eugen Leitl 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

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[George.Danezis@cl.cam.ac.uk: Abuse resistant anonymous publishing]
by Eugen Leitl 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

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