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work @ home
by LJH619＠aol.com 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

I sent in the order form with a money order to start working at home for the $3.00 per envelope stuffing. I have not recieved anything yet, and its been a few weeks. I'm am assuming that this whole thing is a fraud which I was ready for, but that sucks. Can you help me out? I sent it to the Better Solutions address on this website. I'm not sure if you are the person I need to write to, but your e-mail address is on here, so I am going to write you. Please get back to me. Thank you. Leslie.

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Getting the Spanish to Jump When King George says Jump
by Major Variola (ret) 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

At 05:51 PM 11/28/01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >EU regs forbid extraditing people to countries with lower standards of >justice >than practiced in the EU. Spain has already refused to extradite the >Al Qeada(sp?) suspects it's arrested, unless it's guarenteed that the >USG won't kill them.. Spain (like most civilized countries) has abolished >the death penalty, and doesn't think highly of places which haven't. Hey, we just sent billionaire slumlord George Argyros to Spain (suck enough republican dick and you too can have this job..), maybe *he'll* tell em how its done. Or maybe we'll have to occupy Spain, too. >Sending them to a place where they may be tried >by a secret tribunal is also a regarded as a problem What part of "Infinite Justice" did you not think was bullshit?

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Re: pipenet padding
by William Hitzke 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

that's a *great* summary. the attack summary leaves me thinking, tho: if you take the pipenet model (w/ end-to-end padding replaced by link padding), and layer on top of that a virtual circuit that is a composite of multiple routes through the pipenet, than are you not resistant to traffic analysis w/o being burdened by the risk of DoS? rather than having a circuit being a single route that can be easily analyzed, you utilize multiple routes, and distribute traffic over those routes both in a fashion meant to guard against passive latency attacks and route tracing, but also capable (given cooperation between the end nodes) of responding to active attacks on any sub-set of the routes? this seems similar to the mix-net mentioned on page 4, but i haven't read much on those. could somebody point to some material? hmmmm, also, w/ multiple channels, you have more room to randomly tear-down channels (rather than all at once). if incoming traffic can be queued at the end node (which i'm trying to do, so that even if somebody has lost all channels, they have a small period of time to reconnect to the end node and revive a session), you can reduce the benefit of manipulating latancy within some fixed local time period (at least for semi-realtime applications like http). iow, how long is an attacker willing to wait for his manipulations to manifest? it buys time for the network to react. i guess the basic idea i have is to move away from a static, synchronous network, and to utilize synchrnous routes w/ an intelligent asynchronous layer on top. thanx, Bill On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:49:53PM -0800, Anton Stiglic wrote: > You might be interested in this paper: > > http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/~stiglic/Papers/traffic.pdf > > In case you have not seen it... > > --Anton

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Re: pipenet padding
by William Hitzke 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

ahhh, nevermind 'bout request for info on mix-nets.... i mis-read. i thought they were something new. Bill On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:49:53PM -0800, Anton Stiglic wrote: > You might be interested in this paper: > > http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/~stiglic/Papers/traffic.pdf > > In case you have not seen it... > > --Anton

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Byte: It's Time to End Information Malarkey
by Jim Choate 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1783/byt20011126s0002/1126_editorial.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | Ask Ed Felten About Watermarking Analysis And More
by Jim Choate 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

http://slashdot.org/interviews/01/11/28/1725224.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ya sabes que regalar esta navidad?
by MisProductos.com 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

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The Times - West's feminist under fire from female general
by Jim Choate 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540008-2001551489,00.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Drivers License as ID Card
by Duncan Frissell 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Americans and their Drivers Licenses. There's something funny about them. ************** http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32717-2001Nov2?language=printer "States Devising Plan for High-Tech National Identification Cards By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 3, 2001; Page A10 State motor vehicle authorities are working on a plan to create a national identification system for individuals that would link all driver databases and employ high-tech cards with a fingerprint, computer chip or other unique identifier." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53795-2001Oct25?language=printer "4th Arrest in Probe of Hijacker ID Fraud Man Accused of Helping Suspects in Sept. 11 Terror Attacks Exploit Va. Loophole By Patricia Davis and Brooke A. Masters Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, October 26, 2001; Page B09 A fourth person was arrested and charged yesterday with helping the Sept. 11 hijackers illegally obtain Virginia identification cards less than five weeks before the terrorist attacks. ************** Both civilians and officials seem to think that there is some magic about a drivers license that would make it a good national ID and requires that it be protected from misuse by unauthorized persons. Apparently unknown to these worthies is the fact that terrorists, criminals, or just plain folks can do anything they want to do without a drivers license issued by a US state. As surprising as it may seem, one can drive, rent cars, fly domestically or internationally, get a job, start a business, rent accomodations, open bank accounts, and do anything you like without a US drivers license. Holders of foreign drivers licenses can drive in the US. Among the four million US expats are many native born US citizens who have an absolute right to enter, live, and work in the US but who do not *currently* even have a right to obtain a US drivers license since they are not *resident* in the US. Any US citizens who care to can characterize themselves as being in this group. A drivers license issued by a US state is no more than evidence of identity. It is not evidence of right to reside in the US, right to work in the US, etc. One must use other documents to establish right to reside and right to work (if those documents are required). One can use other documents to establish identity. Including most significantly a passport (whether foreign or domestic). With 300 million US border crossings by aliens annually, it is clear that plenty of aliens are travelling around the country almost none of whom have drivers liccenses issued by a US state. I hope that a "new, improved, drivers license" takes some of the heat off the National ID concept. DCF

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States Rights & National ID's
by Jim Choate 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

It has been posited that the fed's would allow the states to form a compact with respect to sharing data between states, basically because the Republicans believe in states rights. This doesn't hold water. When one speaks of 'states rights' it references the ability of the state to act autonamously and decide their own policies INTERNALLY; not to act as a parallel federal agency. This is clearly not an internal issue. Further, a considerable percentage of Congress and the President have come out (lukewarmly) against the idea. When coupled with the growing concern over the abandonment by the executive of current legal process (eg military trials for civilian crimes) and the fact that Congress has not declared war the Executive/Congress will find it harder in coming days to see 'eye to eye'. This will make it even harder for an agreement to be reached. [ Personal prediction: Ashcroft will be history within 12-24 months. He will either step down because of a 'or else' situation or he will be found in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide the requested information and justification. The Executive is NOT the primary authority at the federal level, the Congress is. The Executive seems to have forgotten that. It would not surprise me if within 5-10 years we don't see a new Amendment better defining these relationships. Last nite on PBS there was a show where a congressman and an executive representative discussed the current situation. The congressman actually quoted the 6th. The reaction of the executive rep was stone faced silent anger. The congressman basically ripped him a new butthole. I only got to see about 10 minutes of it and I don't know the shows name. ] -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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