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Crackers Tuning Up for Massive Net Attack (fwd)
by Jim Choate 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1208666,00.asp -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Judges OK evidence from hacker vigilante! (fwd)
by Jim Choate 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5058835.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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: CA Gov calls Shrub Shrub
by Steve Schear 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

At 18:40 2003-08-01 -0400, Sunder wrote: >http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030731.ushrub0730/BNStory/… This week's Economist has an article which claims that Canada's cattle industry is losing $7.8 million (not sure if this is USD or CAD) per day due to the boycott. Japan has also restricted Canadian imports and has told the U.S. that if it starts re-importing Canadian beef it will restrict U.S imports as well because there is inadequate tracking of livestock once they enter the U.S. The article claims Canada is getting its just deserts for its earlier quick restrictions on Japanese and British BSE. steve "Il dulce far niente" The sweetness of doing nothing My unemployment motto

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CA Gov calls Shrub Shrub
by Sunder 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030731.ushrub0730/BNStory/… ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

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The Great Debate Over Software Patents (fwd)
by Jim Choate 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

http://www.cio.com/archive/080103/debate_intro.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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[9fans] Call for Papers - 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 1 Aug 2003 09:28:07 -0800 From: Alex Walker <alex(a)usenix.org> To: 9fans(a)cse.psu.edu Subject: [9fans] Call for Papers - 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) The 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) will take place December 6-8, 2004 at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, California, and we would like to encourage your participation. OSDI 2004 will bring together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. Paper submissions are due on May 14, 2004. This is a hard deadline -- no extensions will be given. Submission guidelines are available on our Web site: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/cfp Emphasizing both innovative research and quantified experience, OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from all fields of systems practice including, but not limited to: operating systems, networking, file and storage systems, distributed systems, mobile systems, secure systems, embedded systems, and the interaction of hardware and software development. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas or groundbreaking results that push the frontier of systems research. The symposium will consist of 2.5 days of single-track technical sessions with presentations of refereed papers and a keynote address. A session of Work-in-Progress presentations is planned, and informal Birds-of-a-Feather sessions may be organized by attendees. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Eric Brewer and Peter Chen OSDI '04 Program Co-Chairs OSDI is Sponsored by the USENIX Association and co-sponsored by ACM SIGOPS

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Re: Digicash Patents
by Mac Norton 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I'm not sure that Paypal has met the needs of any enduser yet, so I'd question whether it "succeeded." The rest of what you say seems to be to the point that modern "IP" laws tend to discourage creativity. To some extent this may be so, as with interminable term extensions, but the most immediate discouragement lies in the DMCA, not an "IP" law at all but a grant of rather unprecedented monopoly power, irrespective of creative labor, among other items of note. Macon -----Original Message----- From: Tim May [mailto:timcmay@got.net] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:35 PM To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com Subject: Re: Digicash Patents PayPal apparently met the needs of its customers, which was for a low-tech, low-security, no anonymity online payment system. While I'm not saying I predicted it, neither is it surprising that something like it succeeded. (Members of this very list had some discussions with the guy who started PayPal...I wasn't in on this, but I gather that he used some of the ideas, but not the high security/untraceability ideas...just the online payment low-hanging fruit part. The same is true of EBay, by the way, where some of our crowd developed an online system very much like what E-Bay became, but several years _after_ the AMiX system. C'est la vie.) In any case, there will be many successes and failures in Internet-related business. This list is about certain kinds of these systems, but not really about "online payments" in their general form. I'm not saying folks can't or shouldn't talk about Mondex or PayPal or FastTrack, just that they have little to do with the obvious themes of the group. > > The beauty of a marketplace is that many different parties get > to try every which way of satisfying a need. Most will fail. Even the > first several attempts can fail, disguising a real opportunity as a > guaranteed failure. > Software patents and the difficulty of "metering" usage has made this kind of experimentation, this kind of evolutionary learning, much harder to do. For example, when Intel sold the 4004 microprocessor 30 years ago, it owned a bunch of patents and trade secrets about how the chip was made, what it's design was, etc. But it didn't force potential customers to lay out their business plans, to sign "no compete" clauses, and it did not have to devise complex ways of knowing how many chips a customer was using. The chips metered themselves, metered the patents and other IP, and Intel could sell them to guys in garage shops, companies in Boise and Peoria, and even to distributors to resell and resell. Such is not the case with, say, the Digicash software. Since Chaum, then the Canadians, then the Indians, then First Data, etc., wanted to maximize the payoff and "get a piece of the action," they could not simply sell the technology, even bits of it, to guys in garages and people with bizarre and untested ideas. And such software is usually not sold to unidentifiable customers. Digicash (or its descendants) will not sell one copy of its core technology to a company without draconian safeguards and audits. This is part of why a paper trail back to the users of various technologies exist when above-board licensing is used. (And why many of us would obviously then favor simply _taking_ the technology, ripping it off. This cuts the paper and liability trail. Yes, there are minor issues with "theft of intellectual property," but this is mostly smoke and mirrors anyway. No one in the Western world seems to think ideas in general are patentable, so how did RSA get patented? We've had this discussion many times over the past 11 years. And more.) This is replicated all over the digital landscape, where software packages have complicated licensing schemes and where vendors want to see only "staid and conservative" business plans. No Digicash for BlackNet, in other words. This whole phenomenon has dramatically slowed down exploratory developement and weird, new ideas. A couple of guys in a tilt-up in Silicon Valley simply cannot just go down to Fry's to buy some parts and try out some ideas, not in this world of licenses, audits, lawyers, and generally pointless efforts to meter usage. Which is why doing things without benefit of any patent licenses is the best strategy. That this also requires no nexus, no trail back to a corporate office, is of course part of why it's the best strategy. --Tim May

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'Progressive' Lawyer Group Ready To Challenge Formidable Federalist Society (fwd)
by Jim Choate 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGANV71TSID.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Poindexter to Quit Pentagon Post Amid Controversy
by R. A. Hettinga 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

<http://reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3198102> Reuters News Article Poindexter to Quit Pentagon Post Amid Controversy Thu July 31, 2003 01:59 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who spearheaded two sharply criticized Pentagon projects, intends to resign from his Defense Department post within weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday. "It's my understanding that he ... expects to, within a few weeks, offer his resignation," the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters. Poindexter was involved with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's abandoned futures-trading market for predicting assassinations, terrorism and other events in the Middle East, and earlier with the so-called Total Information Awareness program that drew fire from civil rights groups. -- ----------------- 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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RE: Secure IDE?
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

"Trei, Peter" <ptrei(a)rsasecurity.com> writes: >pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz[SMTP:pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz] >>"Trei, Peter" <ptrei(a)rsasecurity.com> writes: >>>with a good distribution of IVs >> >>Where would you store them? The feature of this is that it's fully >>transparent, so you can't store IVs anywhere. > >I'm not really up on crypto file systems, but I beleive at least some use the >sector address as the IV. IVs don't need to be random, secret, or >unpredictable - they just need to be unrepeated. (I'm assuming sector-at-a- >time encryption). But the IV is repeated, every time you encrypt new data for that sector. You need to either store a random IV for each sector (usually infeasible) or make two passes over the data (details vary), using the output from pass 1 to affect pass 2 (slow). >>>* Some kind of PIN or password protection on the dongle. >> >>How would you do this without a custom BIOS (remember that their general >>product is for dropping into any PC)? > >We're talking about two different products. The ABIT is a MB, presumably with >it's own custom BIOS, so that's not an issue there. Customised, not custom. Think of it as a Chinese-menu type setup, it's a one- size-fits-all BIOS with appropriate modules compiled in for handling the CPU and chipset features. Now motherboard vendors can plug in their own feature modules, but it's a somewhat nontrivial option usually used only for highly marketable features (overclocking options, ability to re-flash from Windows, etc etc). Peter.

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