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The Herb That Was Once Banned for Being TOO Effective Is Back!
by Mother of All WeightLoss Program 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

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[Antisocial] Wow, they're quick... (fwd)
by J.A. Terranson 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Forwarded for what should be obvious entertainment reasons... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:36:38 -0500 From: Frozt _____ <mixmasterschizo(a)hotmail.com> Reply-To: Antisocial <antisocial(a)mfn.org> To: antisocial(a)mfn.org Subject: [Antisocial] Wow, they're quick... So, I just spent a little over a week out of the country in southern mexico. I hadn't had my passport, and was traveling on id and birth cert. I kid you not, no less than a day after I get back, I get a letter from the post office on how easy it is to get a passport, and how I should go and apply today in order to make travel alot smoother. Don't get me wrong, we all know we're tracked like tagged animals, but damn, that was fast. j _______________________________________________ Antisocial mailing list Antisocial(a)mfn.org http://lists.mfn.org/mailman/listinfo/antisocial

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] more on search experience on "border"]
by Eugen Leitl 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

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Deal with a human for your mortgage, Apply online
by Miss Six 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

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Re: New Low Price On All Medications.
by Brady Hartley 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

information, including some of the on-line books listed at this site. Over the last couple of weeks, and continuing into are the same. The listing was already large, and one of the things I wanted to do was to substantially *extend* the authors, information, including some of the on-line books listed at this site. Over the last couple of weeks, and continuing into are the same. The listing was already large, and one of the things I wanted to do was to substantially *extend* the authors,

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A patent for Botnets?
by J.A. Terranson 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

http://pivx.com/Company/pr_patentapp_27july2006.html Press Release PivX Solutions Files for Patent Protection and Discloses New Inventions Newport Beach, CA July 27, 2006 PivX Solutions, Inc., a vendor of Windows intrusion prevention software, today announced the filing of a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in which the company discloses new inventions as well as seeks patent protection for key aspects of its PreEmpt 2.0 intrusion prevention security product for Windows computers. "Filing for patent protection is a necessary step in the growth of any business that owns intellectual property. said Jason Coombs, CEO of PivX Solutions. "Whenever we examine in forensic detail the actions and thoughts a creative person produces, be it in the realm of purely artistic creative expression or in a field of technological innovation, we find specific ways in which that person's creativity was driven by measurable units of tangible progress that further inspired more creative effort. The PivX creative staff was remarkably creative and innovative in the face of business difficulties. This provisional patent application reveals just how novel and rewarding the company's work has been." The title of the provisional patent application, filed on July 25, 2006 reads as follows: "A System or Method of Creating Cryptographic Command or Control Channels with Layers of Digital Signature Authentication or Verification of Digital Communications Enabling Remote Control Over, or Distribution of Arbitrary Reprogramming or Reconfiguration Instructions to, One or More General Purpose Programmable Electronic Devices" and its inventors are Oliver Lavery and Michael Bringle, et al. ... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF "A nation's success or failure in achieving democracy is judged in part by how well it responds to those at the bottom and the margins of the social order... The very problems that democratic change brings -- social tension, heightened expectations, political unrest -- are also strengths. Discord is a sign of progress afoot; unease is an indication that a society has let go of what it knows and is working out something better and new." Sandra Day O'Connor

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[Clips] New Ways to Prove You Are Who You Say You Are Online
by R.A. Hettinga 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:08:27 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] New Ways to Prove You Are Who You Say You Are Online Reply-To: clips-chat(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115456348562125178.html> The Wall Street Journal New Ways to Prove You Are Who You Say You Are Online As Web-Safety Worries Grow, Range of Services Help Users Verify Each Other's Identities By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO August 3, 2006; Page D1 Rob Barbour has found a new way of enhancing his reputation online: showcasing his newly verified identity. When he put up an eBay Inc. listing a few weeks ago, the Ashburn, Va., technology consultant embedded a link to his new online profile on verification service Trufina Inc. He soon will paste the link in his emails and on a Web site where he sells software and offers programming advice. "I needed a tool that will prove to somebody that this is who I am," says Mr. Barbour, 39 years old. Proving who you are is increasingly important on the Web, amid growing concern that pervasive Internet fraud is making it difficult to know whom to trust. In response, companies are developing a slew of new tools to help people confirm their identities. The new services allow consumers to create and share verified personal profiles with people they meet or do business with online. In recent weeks, many of these services have announced new partnerships with popular social-networking, shopping and dating sites, which face particular pressure to keep out cyber crooks. Trufina, which has recently joined up with dating sites like HonestyFirst.com and Loveaccess.com, relaunched last week with a wider menu of verification tools. Opinity Inc., a new profile-sharing service that verifies a user's age, hometown and, in coming weeks, education and employment history, has recently announced partnerships with social-networking sites like GoingOn.com, classified site Edgeio.com and technology-news site CNET.com. IDology Inc., which performs age and identity checks on customers for high-end online merchants, will this week announce a deal with Zoey's Room, a networking site for girls, marking the first time its age and identity-verification technology will be part of a social-networking site. Whether they're shopping, chatting, doing business or looking for dates, consumers are increasingly on edge about online safety. In 2005, 59% of Americans "completely or strongly" agreed that Internet-based financial transactions were secure, down from 70% in 2003 according to Informa Research Services. A recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 66% of Internet users believe online dating is dangerous because it puts personal information online. Concerns about the safety of minors, in particular, have exposed the need for more effective ways to confirm a person's identity than a user name and a password. Social-networking sites attempt to protect their members by imposing minimum age restrictions but can't easily enforce them. News Corp.'s MySpace.com, which requires members to be at least 14 years old, told Congress in June that it is looking at age-verification technology but hasn't yet found any effective options. Proposed solutions for protecting children from online predators are controversial. Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that bans social-networking sites and chat rooms from schools and libraries that receive certain federal funding. The bill, which has been criticized as too broad and blunt by some online-privacy groups, has been referred to a Senate committee. A growing number of businesses, too, are using online verification services to check out their customers. Wine company Kendall-Jackson uses IDology's age-verification technology to confirm that new customers on two of its e-commerce sites are at least 21 years old, and it plans to implement more-comprehensive identity verification soon to help combat credit-card fraud. Ice.com, an online jeweler, uses IDology's tools to authenticate buyers whom it flags as high-risk, which include those with particularly high transaction volumes or mismatched addresses. Microsoft Corp. is addressing online-safety concerns by constructing its own identity technology from scratch. The technology, called Windows CardSpace, is in a very early stage but will be built into its upcoming Windows Vista operating system. CardSpace allows users to log into Web sites by clicking on different digital credentials, or information cards. Users could create their own information cards or they could get the credentials issued to them by a trusted party, like a bank. (Microsoft doesn't host or store the identity information; it just provides the technology for its transfer.) CardSpace is meant to be more secure and useful than passwords because information cards can hold more information, like an address or a credit-card number, and can be backed by a third party. International Business Machines Corp., Novell Inc. and various other academics and vendors are working together on a similar project. Their technology, dubbed "Project Higgins," would be open-source. But radically new tools like these won't be rolled out widely before next year. In the meantime, current services tend to focus on creating a trusted profile that can be used across sites or shared. The services, which collaborate with background-checking companies of the sort corporations use to research future hires, often check attributes like age, address, gender, education, employment and whether a person has a criminal record. Most services provide a basic verification of name, email, and sometimes address free of charge. Anything more can cost up to around $15 a year. The information is typically checked against credit-bureau records and other publicly available data, like property listings and databases of known criminals and sex offenders. To sign up, users enter their personal data and are sometimes asked to answer a series of tricky multiple-choice questions no one else will likely be able to answer, such as the size of their last mortgage payment. Some details are confirmed automatically; others take time. On Trufina, a basic verification takes two to three minutes, with a background check usually taking less than 10 minutes, says Christian Madsen, chief executive of the College Park, Md., company. Users can sign up through the services' own home pages or through a partner site, where some of the costs are absorbed into other membership fees. Loveaccess.com, an online-dating site with two million members, charges customers $145 for a year of its premium service, which requires a Trufina background check. Currently, the services aren't in widespread use. Indeed, some consumers complain that their verified profiles aren't yet particularly helpful. Max Markidan, a 26-year-old management consultant in Arlington, Va., says he doesn't find it useful for professional networking because few users beyond dating sites appear to have adopted it. "I am married, so I can't really use Trufina at this point," he says. The companies' partnerships with popular sites will make or break their adoption, analysts say, by providing them with necessary revenue and more users. While many of the services aim to assuage privacy concerns, they may run up against them, too. Briana Doyle, a 24-year-old from New Westminster, British Columbia, joined Opinity last month hoping it would help her aggregate personal information about herself she wished to share with other people online. But she stopped short at divulging details like her address, verifying instead her user names on other Web services like Yahoo's photo-sharing site Flickr, which the service also verifies. "I didn't see any reason to put my address front and center," says the Web editor. The companies stress that they don't store personal information about their users. But consumers may still shrink from a service they think knows too much about them. "The minute you aggregate identity information you aggregate risk," says Jamie Lewis, the chief executive of the Burton Group, a Salt Lake City research firm. With hackers out looking for financial information, "you create a target," he says. -- ----------------- 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' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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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[Jean-Marc.Seigneur@trustcomp.org: [p2p-hackers] Third ACM SAC Trust/Collaboration TRECK Track (ACM proceedings and Journal special issue)]
by Eugen Leitl 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

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America: From Freedom to Fascism
by Steve Schear 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Has anyone on the list seen this movie? http://www.freedomtofascism.com/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772153/

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Collecting entropy in headless systems
by Roy M. Silvernail 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Windows sucks. (but you knew that already) It has no /dev/random or /dev/urandom, and I'm faced with a need to collect some good-quality entropy for a crypto app. Adding to the merriment, the systems involved will be semi-headless and are unlikely to have a hardware RNG. (e.g. though they may have rodentia and keyboards, neither is likely to be in use, and I can't require a HWRNG) All the entropy collectors I've seen mentioned for Windows (and there aren't many... EGADS seems to be the leading contender) use keyboard timing and mouse position as primary sources. I just need enough to seed a PRNG, but I also can't wait around forever to collect it. What's a cpunk to do? (sorry, migrating to *nix isn't viable in this case) -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy(a)rant-central.com, and you're not "Antelope Freeway, one sixty-fourth of a mile." - TFT http://www.rant-central.com

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