Proof that "cypher punks" have complete degenerated...
No one even commented on the latest Dr. Dobbs issue. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
geeman@best.com wrote:
Appending data after the ctrl-Z as stego?
WHAT?! Hahahaha.. kill me now! -- Vangelis <vangelis@qnis.net> /\oo/\ Finger for public key. PGP KeyID 1024/A558B025 PGP Fingerprint AE E0 BE 68 EE 7B CF 04 02 97 02 86 F0 C7 69 25 Life is my religion, the world is my altar.
It wasn't worth commenting on. Appending data after the ctrl-Z as stego? Not even worth a letter to the ed! Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
No one even commented on the latest Dr. Dobbs issue.
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
geeman@best.com wrote:
It wasn't worth commenting on. Appending data after the ctrl-Z as stego? Not even worth a letter to the ed!
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
No one even commented on the latest Dr. Dobbs issue.
After seeing the initial post, I ran out to get a copy, but they were all gone. I find it hard to believe that appending data to a file is considered stego, even by a commercial publication such as Dr. Dobb's. Can anyone confirm this? I wrote an article for them in 1991 (after they printed my PC Computer Manifesto), and at that time, the editor was really keen on filling in some of the blanks left by the usual rushes to new compilers etc. that leave everyone else ignored. So they started sending me books to review. After reviewing about six books, all negatively (the books were crap), they didn't send any more books, and wouldn't respond further. I guess at the time their philosophy was something like "Yes, we live in a world of crap, so, since we have to make a living with this crap, let's deny that it's crap so we can continue to sell the stuff", etc. Kinda like *certain* c-punks, who have nothing to say, so they blame myself or Dr. Vulis for interfering with their degenerate doings on the c-punks list. My experience with several such magazines is that when a new editor comes on board, he/she stirs things up and it's interesting for awhile, but then the graft kicks in and it all goes downhill.
Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> writes:
geeman@best.com wrote:
It wasn't worth commenting on. Appending data after the ctrl-Z as stego? Not even worth a letter to the ed!
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
No one even commented on the latest Dr. Dobbs issue.
After seeing the initial post, I ran out to get a copy, but they were all gone. I find it hard to believe that appending data to a file is considered stego, even by a commercial publication such as Dr. Dobb's. Can anyone confirm this?
I agree that Dr.Dobb's ain't what it used to was (they mention that Bruce Scheneier is a contributing editor - a bad sign), but this issue was worth getting. 1. A very interesting interview with Eva Bozoki, chief scientist as Digital Secure Networks Technology. Among other fascinating stuff she complains about export controls. 2. "The RIPEMD-160 Cryptographic Hash Function" (with C source code). 3. A nice article explaining Reed-Solomon error correction, with nice-looking C source code. 4. An announcement of a free compression library (the article only discusses the APIs, not the internals). 5. A discussion on hooking system calls in WinNT, allowing a program to monitor system activity. 6. "Steganography for DOS programmers." Yes, it suggests putting data to be hidden after a ctrl-Z, which hardly qualifies as stego, IMO. Not a good article. 7. An article on extended MAPI 1.0 (I was looking for a place for crypto hooks), announcing some inetersting code. 8. A discussing of publishing databases on the internet, including payment systems. 9. A discussion if fractal-based compression (again, API's, not the guts). Other interesting stuff with no crypto-relevance. ...
I guess at the time their philosophy was something like "Yes, we live in a world of crap, so, since we have to make a living with this crap, let's deny that it's crap so we can continue to sell the stuff", etc. Kinda like *certain* c-punks, who have nothing to say, so they blame myself or Dr. Vulis for interfering with their degenerate doings on the c-punks list.
Byte magazine used to be very useful from the beginning to about '86, when it turned into another Ziff-Davis clone. I have most of the issues from that time filed somewhere. It's still relevant. I guess good publications don't survive in the free market environment. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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