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Re: Voluntary Governments?
by dance＠cicero.spc.uchicago.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate says: >Can't speak for MIT but I can speak for UT Austin, they do have cells to hold >prisoners. The security forces at that school attend the Tx Dept. of Public >Safety training school and hold state law enforcement positions. The last >thing you want to do is really piss one of these guys, you would end up >in one of the state prisons for several years, Huntsville probably. > >Schools can use physical force against their students. I have personaly seen >assaults on the presidents office when a group of students took it over in >the late 80's because of UT Austin holdings in S. Africa. I have seen them >knock the holy shit out of students for nothing more than simply refusing to >move fast enough. The officers stormed the office in full riot gear with >M16 automatic rifles and smoke grenades. > >I suspect that MIT's security forces, even though it is a private school, >hold 'peace officer' ratings and this implies that they can carry weapons >at any time (though they don't usually). This holds for the small community >college that I work at now as well. The officers don't carry guns as a regular >part of their uniform except during registration when there are large amounts >of cash on campus or when important officials visit the campus(es). The University of Chicago's Security officers are sworn Chicago police; they are given full police powers, if only limited jurisdiction. Lucky for everyone here they choose not to exercise *any* authority. Trying to neither be foolish nor a lightweight.... _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ It's dangerous to be right _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ when the government is wrong. _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ --Voltaire _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/

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Remailer-list pinging frequency
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, I believe that I am providing a useful service with my remailer list, but I have received one complaint about the frequency of pinging. I send hourly pings. This is helpful for quickly identifying remailers which have gone off the net. If you don't want me to do this, let me know. I apologize for not having brought this up before I started with the hourly pings. My pinging script can be configured to adjust ping frequency on a per-remailer basis. If you would like a greater interval between pings, I would be happy to do this. I already do this for penet. An anonymous poster from rebma criticized ping traffic as a way to improve remailer mix. It might be that the two goals (improving mix and collecting good statistics) are at odds, but I would be willing to modify my ping script to make the pings more like mix-improving traffic. Ideas include: 1. Encrypt the ping, so it looks like so much PGP traffic. 2. Pad it with a random amount of junk (but not _too_ much :-), so traffic analysis based on size will fail. 3. Chain it through other remailers. A good approach might be to choose two random remailers out of the "top five," and sandwich rebma between them. The drawback is that it penalizes rebma for their latency and failure rate, but this might be acceptable. 4. Randomize the time that the ping is sent. If the operator of the rebma remailer would be so kind, please let me know if and when I have been de-Detweilered, and whether you would like me to implement any of these suggestions. Also, I plan to autopost the remailer list every Monday, to both cypherpunks and alt.privacy.anon-server. This is my first experience with spamming the net, so if anybody has any objections or cautions, I would like to hear them. Raph Levien

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Re: Brands cash
by Rick H. Wesson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Wed Aug 24 08:20 PDT 1994 > Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by ar.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA10560 for <wessorh(a)ar.com>; Wed, 24 Aug 1994 08:20:58 -0700 > Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP > id QQxeiv09436; Wed, 24 Aug 1994 11:15:13 -0400 > Received: by toad.com id AA11441; Wed, 24 Aug 94 08:08:47 PDT > Received: from newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za by toad.com id AA11434; Wed, 24 Aug 94 08:08:28 PDT > Received: by newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za (Smail3.1.28.1 #12) > id m0qdJvP-0007VlC; Wed, 24 Aug 94 17:07 GMT+0200 > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 17:07:36 +0200 (GMT+0200) > From: Alan Barrett <barrett(a)daisy.ee.und.ac.za> > Subject: Re: Brands cash > To: Hal <hfinney(a)shell.portal.com> > Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Length: 332 > > > Unfortunately, I don't think perl is suitable, as it has no facilities for > > multiprecision arithmetic. > > There is some multiprecision arithmetic in perl, but it's implemented as > user-level functions, not as a builtin feature. Look at the bigint.pl, > bigrat.pl and bigfloat.pl packages supplied with perl4. > > --apb (Alan Barrett) > > I'm in the process of adding the mpi library that comes with PGP in perl, Perl is fairly extensible... I just figured that it would be a good common ground for codeing... -Rick

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RE: dfloyd's faux pas :) :)
by Philippe Nave 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I composed the reply > that Tcmay so generously posted for everyone to marvel at. I signed it, > but re-read it, and DID found it to be as one would put it "nitrogenous > cow waste." Amazing how that happens sometimes, hmmm? The half-life of an e-mail message is about 10 seconds; after a few minutes have passed, the bogon flux density goes clear out of sight. > > To make a long story short, I mailed the wrong file. > My God! A member of the glorious CryptoReich made a MISTAKE ?!? By now, it should be obvious that Real Cypherpunks(TM) **never** make mistakes... [wheee, ha, ha! ROTFL] > I apologize to you, Mr. May, but I find it rude for you to take something > out of private mail, and onto this list. I agree; reposting personal mail without prior consent is terribly rude. > > Unless there is some major change in circumstances, consider this > the last mailing from me on this as I will NOT trouble this list, > and go on personal flamewars. What the hell - if you walk erect and sleep indoors, you're as qualified to 'trouble the list' as the rest of us. Philippe "Anarchy means never having to put up with shit from your 'leaders'"

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DSPs (was: Nuclear Weapons Materials)
by Jim Dixon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In message <9408241340.AA03320(a)snark.imsi.com> perry(a)imsi.com writes: > > I've been wondering recently, by the way, about what advantages doing > some of this stuff on DSPs might have. DSPs are not magical chips, but > they are optimized for a few tasks, including, typically, fast integer > multiplies. More precisely, fast integer inner products. > IDEA and modular exponentiation both require lots of fast > integer multiplies. Would it make sense to use DSPs as co-processors > to things like Pentiums to speed up these processes? -- Jim Dixon

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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This thread is just too interesting... Mikolaj wrote: > > This also depends on the type of bomb. In a two-stage fusion >bomb, you are quite correct - the tritium-deuterium/tritium fusion >reaction gives the boom. However, in a three-stage bomb, there is an >additional fission reaction, this due to the fact that the neutrons >produced by the fusion reaction have the precise energy required to >fission U-238. Since U-238 is vastly easier to obtain than enriched >U-235, there is no great problem with sticking in half a tonne of it. >Around that you can add cobalt jackets, etc, for more interesting >effects. > What does the cobalt jacket do? -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> PGP public key by finger

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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
by usura＠vox.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

khijol!erc(a)apple.com (Ed Carp [Sysadmin]) writes: :> In a fusion, or H Bomb, the tritium (which is just hydrogen with an :> extra two neutrons) is that which produces the boom -- the main fuel, :> as it were. Its a "neutron source" only in the weakest possible sense :> -- the same way dynamite might be considered to need nitroglycerine as :> a "neutron source". (I'm not sure that people outside of the bomb :> building industry really know *for sure* what the geometries used in :> the atomic weapon that sets off the fusion reaction.) : : I don't understand your point. The earliest devices used a pie shape : with a wedge cut out. The actual geometry is rather unimportant to : getting a fission reaction - but it *is* important if you want to : maximize your yield. One doesnot need to detonate the Uranium/Plutonium one can poison the watersuplies and make havoc with The Simple Bear Necessities of life. -- Exit! Stage Left. Alex de Joode <usura(a)vox.hacktic.nl>

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Re: DigiCash ???
by jdd＠aiki.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In message <9408281521.AA13945(a)ua.MIT.EDU> Jason W Solinsky writes: > > I would like somebody to explain how I would go about using an anonymous > > digicash system to buy a automobile? > > > > Just for arguments sake lets say I want to buy a new Ford Mustang GT from > > the local dealer and desire that nobody at the dealer has any idea who I > > am or where I come from. > > You hire an anonymous reshiper... no different from an anonymous remailer > only you can't use an automated program (yet :) and its damn difficult to > avoid traffic analysis. Do we care that you can't get it on the road without insurance in most states, and that the registration must be in someone's name? -- Jim Dixon

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New Cypher ListServ (part 2) **REVISED**
by David Downey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Cryptography-Politics-PGP-L ListServ is in operation.(We just finished up with the majordomo scripts and the like). Here is what you need to do to join. BTW, this list is a digested list. Please do not freak if things do not go right straight from the get go. I hope to have this as painless as possible, yet we all know that Murphy wrote Murphy's Law just for this instance. Please bear with me. Once again, ANY suggestions, short of flames, will be listened to 100%! Now for the nitty gritty. SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE TO Cryptography-Politics-PGP-L ===================================================== Subscribing ----------- To subscribe, send the message subscribe Cryptography-Politics-PGP-L to majordomo(a)cyberspacetechnologies.com Unsubscribing ------------- To unsubscribe, send the message unsubscribe Cryptography-Politics-PGP-L to majordomo(a)cyberspacetechnologies.com Posting ------- Messages sent to Cryptography-Politics-PGP-L(a)cyberspacetechnologies.com will be posted to the entire list. Digests ------- When subscribed, send message to majordomo(a)Cyberspacetechnologies.com with get Cryptography-Politics-PGP-L-digest as the message body. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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FDA_dis
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-28-96. WaPo: Dissing Declan's Hotwired slam of the FDA conference on regulating Internet advertising and promotion: "Ultimately, this debate isn't about speech. It comes down to how much regulation we want." Declan, singe dis negro inquisto, si? ----- http://jya.com/fdadis.txt ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/fdadis.txt FDA_dis

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