Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

On 10/19/2013 19:41, grarpamp wrote: http://help.cs.umn.edu/email/procmail http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/documentation.html http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/maildroptips.html http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html#_filtering_duplicat

Re: SRF: crypticl

> ... > how much is the data dragnet comparable to evaluating populations > in these fuzzy terms, as if any aberration or anomaly will snap-to-fit > in some framework of illegality to be used for biased prosecutions > ... Show me the man and I will find you the crime. -- Lavrentiy

Re: SRF: crypticl

> ... > how much is the data dragnet comparable to evaluating populations > in these fuzzy terms, as if any aberration or anomaly will snap-to-fit > in some framework of illegality to be used for biased prosecutions > ... Show me the man and I will find you the crime. -- Lavrentiy Beria

[OT, Kind of] Carrier Retention Windows

This is also on Cryptome, I believe, but this one is more accessible, so... Handy chart of cell phone company records retention periods for 6 major carriers, obtained by the ACLU from a 2010 DOJ list:   https://www.aclu.org/cell-phone-location-tracking-request-response-cell-phone-company-data-

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

> http://help.cs.umn.edu/email/procmail http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/documentation.html http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/maildroptips.html http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html#_filtering_duplicate_messages

Re: [Richard Crisp] Cheney afraid of terrist h4x0rs

If you're going to send bullshit comments off-list, don't expect me to jump through hoops to reply (see below.) To answer your remark, no I do not support "Ovomit" as you call him, nor any of the other treasonous fucks running this crazy train off the rails.  (Nor Ron Paul, etc, to answer your

Re: Browser fingerprinting

On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Moon Jones wrote: > On 14.10.2013 16:55, Griffin Boyce wrote: > >In addition to the other great recommendations, I'd highly recommend > > blocking Flash if you're concerned about privacy. Not only do flash > > cookies persist longer / are hard to block / are harder to r

Re: [cryptography] Snowden sets OPSEC record straight

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, coderman wrote: > i'm as frustrated as anyone at the glacial pace of disclosure, and the > limited scope of disclosure, and the arbitrary censorship in the > disclosures, and ... > > yet still what has been released is far from "negligable"! > part of me wonder i

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, brian carroll wrote: > Al Billings wrote: > > > Who cares? That's a lot of words about a non-issue. > > i am like a robot. i do not understand. Trust me: we all get that. > i need the situation explained > step by step so i can do whatever is needed > in those paramet

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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.

On 2013-10-20 00:33, Theodore Ts'o wrote: As I've already said, I'm open to adding code that blocks /dev/urandom until "enough" entropy has been collected. But that's an interface-visible change, and it could break things. It will break things that should be broken, causing them to fail visib

Information Content Estimation

Hey all, Am mulling over a federated datastore for zero-knowledge web applications, using hashcash as a "commitment" price for otherwise gratis data storage. All very straightforward, but: Zero knowledge is as much for host protection as client protection. Hosts don't WANT plaintext. Short of s

pǝɔɹʎdʇoɹ (nɹls)

The Artist of the Unbreakable Code (via A&L Daily) Composer Edward Elgar still has cryptographers playing his tune. http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/the-artist-of-the-unbreakable-code read this article the other day and wondered if anyone evaluated the alphabet for letters that have those cu

Re: South Park NSA (update)

// note: repeated pattern of infrastructure subversion... South Park Studios loses power, misses deadline for new show http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-south-park-studios-loses-power-misses-deadline-20131016,0,1808183.story "South Park Studios lost power on Tuesday

SRF: crypticl

John Young wrote: > use of trusted cryptoids to front dubious surefire protection this gets to the more actual situation with ideological short-circuiting of mass surveillance: the search for terrorists comparable to the hunt for Bigfoot, Yetis, Nessie in the collective, Chupacabra and others

Re: [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:18:21PM +0100, Saso Kiselkov wrote: > > On 10/7/13 10:17 PM, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote: > > > So, before I go on with my pitch for why you should consider BLAKE2, > > > first please clarify for me whether ZFS

Re: Cheney afraid of terrist h4x0rs

Cheney is one of the biggest ter'rists and war criminals around.  He should be rotting in a prison beneath the Hague, with the rest of his ilk. I'd love to know how a 70-year-old man with his cardiac history was approved over anyone else on the transplant list.  Seems like an egregious violatio

Re: Cheney afraid of terrist h4x0rs

A terrorist is a person who spreads fear. I'd feel safer in a world without Cheney; that's murder, not terrorism! :) Eugen Leitl wrote: > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/cheney-had-heart-device-partially-disabled-to-prevent-a-terrorist-from-sending-a-fatal-shock/2013/10/18/ca6e2d

Re: Cheney afraid of terrist h4x0rs

I laughed out loud for a good thirty seconds!  Karma's a bitch, innit? If only.  Heh.  On Oct 19, 2013 9:23 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/cheney-had-heart-device-partially-disabled-to-prevent-a-terrorist-from-sending-a-fatal-shock/201

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

For a second there I thought this was a sestina. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:29 PM, brian carroll wrote: > Al Billings wrote: > > > Who cares? That's a lot of words about a non-issue. > > i am like a robot. i do not understand. > i need the situation explained > step by step so i can do whateve

Cheney afraid of terrist h4x0rs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/cheney-had-heart-device-partially-disabled-to-prevent-a-terrorist-from-sending-a-fatal-shock/2013/10/18/ca6e2d7a-384d-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html Cheney had heart device partially disabled to prevent a terrorist from sending a fatal shock Ol

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

first the sleeper hold... then the piledriver now the C A G E M A T C H ! ! !

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

Wait, numbbutt whiners, there is gold in those duplicates, triplicates. Eugen's multiple posts are not identical. Best save them all for the quite valuable and revealing metadata which differs for each. That metadata's value usually exceeds the stupid bitchings rancid and senseless as oh so witty

Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:33:32AM -0400, John Kelsey wrote: > > One other thing you can see from the duplicate RSA keys: many RNGs > (I think instances of /dev/urandom drawn on by openSSL) do not > incorporate any internal information that can work like a salt. > They should. If my device has a

Re: Browser fingerprinting

On 14.10.2013 16:55, Griffin Boyce wrote: In addition to the other great recommendations, I'd highly recommend blocking Flash if you're concerned about privacy. Not only do flash cookies persist longer / are hard to block / are harder to remove, but it's easy to fingerprint someone via a tiny

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:40:19PM +0200, Mob wrote: > Also, if you don't want to miss anything, you are probably > subscribing to the cypherpunks, cryptography@randombits, > cryptography@metzdowd and cryptopolitics (low volume at the moment) > lists, often receiving a hundred postings every day,

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 02:24:16PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote: > On 18.10.2013 23:40, Mob wrote: > >hundred postings every day, or more. Including doubles and triples > >reposted by Eugene Leitl. > > Set a filter. I already have a dozen Brian Carroll and another dozen > of Eugene Leitl on it. It gets

Re: bird.comms + compilers (urls)

This is the most interesting post to appear since the list was re-energized. The weakest elements of comsec are related to matters seldom discussed on crypto fora which are heavily biased toward digital technology. As might be expected on the Internet and its crippling and perhaps fatal dependenc

Re: Snowden Comsec Is Stupefying

It is not either dribble / or "dump" as favored outlets are pontificating, seemingly by ostentatious agreement to limit harm to governments by harming the public. Both: provide the documents in a publicly accessible depository as well as narrate their significance for those who prefer readers dig

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

On 18.10.2013 23:40, Mob wrote: hundred postings every day, or more. Including doubles and triples reposted by Eugene Leitl. Set a filter. I already have a dozen Brian Carroll and another dozen of Eugene Leitl on it. It gets deleted right away. If only people would notice people going this w

Fwd: Re: please ignore: this is only a test...

On 17.10.2013 23:25, brian carroll wrote crap. Oh! How cute! Momma's boy has grown up. Now he's an IT something somewhere. He's sooo smart he can get a Gmail.com account! And it's even better! He can get a cutisie user name like electromagnetize. I'm in tears. Thank you for letting us all know t

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

- Forwarded message from Maxim Kammerer - Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:20:58 +0300 From: Maxim Kammerer To: liberationtech Subject: Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp Message-ID: Reply-To: liberationtech On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM

Re: [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

- Forwarded message from Pawel Jakub Dawidek - Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:26:08 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: z...@lists.illumos.org Subject: Re: [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support Message-ID: <20131019112608.gf1...@garage.freebsd.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:10 PM, brian carroll wrote: > from one platform into Gmail, where formatting errors and > line wrap issues exist, thus unreliable rendering of emails. Gmail's support for those things is poor at best. > since the list does not send me a copy of my own posts, Gmail

Re: HTML List Abuse (was: "please ignore: this is only a test")

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Mob wrote: > Also, if you don't want to miss anything, you are probably subscribing to > the cypherpunks, cryptography@randombits, cryptography@metzdowd and > cryptopolitics (low volume at the moment) lists, often receiving a hundred > postings every day, or more.

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

- Forwarded message from "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" - Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:20:07 +0200 From: "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" To: liberationtech Subject: Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp Message-ID: <52617bd7.7010...@infosecurity.ch> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; r

Re: [cryptome] Re: Thank You, Edward Snowden

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, John Young wrote: > >> perhaps the proceedings were better; Schneier was there after all,.. > > Schneier is a leader of the monetizing pack, never > crosses the line, sits among the stellars of institutional > control, incessantly promotes his wares, spoon-feds > f

Re: Snowden Comsec Is Stupefying

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:10 AM, coderman wrote: > ... > consider an alternative: optimal behavior modification via the > execution of worst case failure to anon: of course these suggestions are ridiculous; this fits the ridiculous notion of a many billion budget producing extremely poor re

Re: Snowden Comsec Is Stupefying

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Joseph Holsten wrote: > ... > Is there anything in particular you think they should have done differently > to accomplish their goals? > ... there will be more leaks, and more folks who are in a position to > distribute them. What should they do? you can't win