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CDR: Fwd: Re: Niiice kitty....
by Reese 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

James A. Donald's claim below was mostly anonymized by a 3rd party I shared this with, it was then forwarded to another list. I've anonymized these two replies, and add this to the ongoing thread for continued comment. James? What would be a good question to ask entity 1? Reese <begin fwd> entity 1 writes: I'm not sure what this thread is about, but when I scrolled down I saw something pretty familiar. That would be the phrase "digsig," which is the handle of one James Donald. This guy has to be one of the nuttier infamous people on the Internet. He has been waging an anti-Chomksy war on various anarchist and libertarian newsgroups for OVER 5 YEARS. One of his favorite libels is to claim that Chomsky supported the Khymer Rouge. If Chomsky was any cuter and a Hollywood celebrity, this guy would have been arrested for stalking a long time ago. I don't read Usenet much, but everytime I check in, he's there posting away. I can only imagine what his den looks like. I'm sure he has a Chomsky picture on the dartboard and the rest of his office is arranged to aid him in his campaign to make the world safe for libertarian capitalists who need a life. .sig entity 2 wrote: > > On the quote in question, I have a copy of Clive Ponting's Churchill > book balanced on my knee right now, and I can confirm that the quote is > word for word, except that the emphases have fallen off it with the loss > of italics ('an innocent record and' 'altogether disproportionate' > 'mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force'). > > Strike one to Chomsky. > > .sig > > > entity 3 writes > >Well, > > > >Where's the evidence that he misquotes more often than any other > >researcher [let alone deliberately]. Has someone compiled a compendium > >of his misdeeds? > > > >.sig > > <snipped info identifying other list> entity 4 writes: > >> this was posted on the cypherpunks list. the respondent maintains > >> that chomsky is well-known for misquoting or twisting quotes/sources. > >> never heard that come up here in all our discussions... comments? > >> cypherpunks is archived if you want more info. > >> > >> .sig > >> > >> <fowarded> > >> -- > >> > I've been reading Noam Chomsky's book on Kosovo and came across this > >> > quote from a Cabinet note written by Churchill in January 1914 > >> > explaining the need for increased military expenditure (taken in > >> > turn from Clive Ponting's Churchill, 1994, P 132): > >> > > >> > "We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty > >> > inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves an altogether > >> > disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We > >> > have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the > >> > unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly > >> > acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less > >> > reasonable to others than to us." > >> > >> > >> Chomsky is hardly a reliable source. He routinely fabricates or > >> falsifies quotes. I suggest you check his alleged sources. > >> > >> Chances are you will be unable to find his alleged source. In > >> the unlikely event that you are able to find it, it will not > >> say quite what Chomsky claims it said. > >> > >> --digsig > >> > >> > >> </backwarded>

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CDR: U.S., EU move toward cybercrime treaty
by George＠Orwellian.Org 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Pull up URL for full article. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd7.htm "When the U.S. government cannot get a controversial policy adopted domestically, they pressure an international group to adopt it, and then bring it back to the U.S. as an international treaty - which obliges Congress to enact it," wrote David Banisar, a senior fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in a commentary on the draft treaty for Web site SecurityFocus.com.

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CDR: Re: one time pad and random num gen
by Steve Furlong 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

Bill Stewart wrote: > By contrast, if you've got a pseudo-random number generator, > which uses some mathematical process to generate the numbers, > knowing bits 1...I-1 tells you something about bits I...N, > so if the message has structure to it, you can often exploit it. Isn't a good definition of a cryptographically-strong PRNG that even if you know bits 1..I-1, you still don't know anything about bit I? (Unless you know the internal state of the PRNG, of course.) A c-strong PRNG shouldn't be susceptible to any currently known analyses. Perhaps that's just a theoretical definition, and no existant PRNGs come close. But I thought some good ones were out there. Ta, SRF -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong(a)acmenet.net

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by SMS 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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03 Oct '00

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03 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: Sony loses anti-reverse engineering suit against Connectix!!!
by iang＠cs.berkeley.edu 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

In article <39DA50BF.918BCC0(a)sunder.net>, sunder <sunder(a)sunder.net> wrote: >Heh - apparently the judge decided that it's okay to allow reverse >engineering in this case. Wonder how this will affect DeCSS... Well, the MPAA v 2600 case ("constructing and trafficing in a circumvention device") isn't about reverse engineering, so "not at all". The weaker DVD-CCA case ("theft of a trade secret in violation of a clickthrough licence agreement" (said agreement having been clicked through by a minor in anither country, of course)) depends on how the reverse-engineering Connectix did relates to that done by the original CSS extractors. - Ian

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CDR: Sony loses anti-reverse engineering suit against Connectix!!!
by sunder 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2915049.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni Sony loses appeal in PlayStation copyright fight By Bloomberg News October 2, 2000, 9:15 a.m. PT WASHINGTON--Sony today lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to limit rivals from using reverse engineering to create competing products. The justices, without comment, refused to consider Sony's appeal of a decision rejecting its copyright claims against Connectix, whose Virtual Game Station competes with Sony's top-selling PlayStation game console. <SNIP> Heh - apparently the judge decided that it's okay to allow reverse engineering in this case. Wonder how this will affect DeCSS... -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

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CDR: gore e-mails
by Michael Motyka 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

> > Investigators said a two-year probe by the committee found > that the vice president's office "took affirmative steps" to > avoid routing personal e-mail messages to and from Mr. Gore > to the White House's Automated Records Management System > (ARMS), including those sought by the Justice Department, > independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and Congress in > separate investigations. > Possibly personal e-mails are different. A matter of address maybe? Al@ vs. veep@?

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