Re: Looks like sci.crypt is being "moderated"
From: David Eather (eather_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 11/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:18:45 +1000
John E. Hadstate wrote:
> "Juuso Hukkanen" <juuso_12_2003@tele3d.net> wrote in message
> news:c7gjo1t3oj17mhmqqe4j6lbd4vb9ka8364@4ax.com...
>
>>On 26 Nov 2005 19:34:46 +0200, Phil Carmody
>><thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"John Hadstate" <jh113355@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>A real interesting thing has started happening. During
>>>>the last week
>>>>or so, many of my posts have never appeared on Google
>>>>Groups, even
>>>>though I have retrieved a few of them through my ISP. A
>>>>Groups search
>>>>followed by a sort-by-date reveals that the most recent
>>>>post Google has
>>>>from me is 21-Nov-2005 although I have posted at least
>>>>six messages
>>>>since then.
>>>
>>>Looks like googlegroups is crap.
>>
>>Well, those messages are missing at University of Oulu,
>>(Finland) news
>>server too. It has the same John E. Hadstate's posts
>>between
>>(2005/11/20 and 2005/11/26 ) as Google groups. So, maybe
>>the Usenet
>>has finally started to evolve towards being a moderated
>>forum. - Now
>>moderating only John E. Hadstate.
>
>
> <Blush/> I don't know whether to feel honored or annoyed.
> Perhaps I can put on my resume "First official target of a
> moderated USENET." But I think the real reason is that
> whoever has been flooding sci.crypt with bogus cancel
> messages has become more selective, to what end I cannot
> imagine unless the object is to force some participants to
> go away or post under aliases.
>
>
>
Your posts on 26/11 and 27/11 made it all the way to Down-under, so I
don't think moderating is the problem.
> "news" <onetitfemme2005@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1132989063.720183@nntp.acecape.com...
>
>
>>> John E. Hadstate wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>>>>> but ..., is it possible for some device to record the
>>>>>>> electromagnetic
>>>>>>> differences caused by the photons in their way to the
>>>>>>> screen?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That one would be new to me!
>>
>>>
>>> Electromagnetic emissions by keyboards I knew about, but
>>> this
>>> is new to me. Could you point me to some more info on
>>> this?
>>>
>
>
> Wim van Eck, "Computers and Security", 1985 Vol 4(4) pp
> 269-286
>
> available here:
>
> http://jya.com/emr.pdf
>
> or here:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20000830130750/www.shmoo.com/tempest/emr.pdf
>
> Van Eck published his paper in 1985 (twenty years ago) with
> the remark that the technology had been known for twenty
> years before that. What is less well known about all this
> is that he also proposed a way of making this monitoring
> much more difficult using simple cryptographic techniques.
>
> Here's a less technical article on the subject from 1999,
> including various peripheral issues:
>
> http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32097,00.html
>
> Disclaimer: this subject gets a lot of press from the "black
> helicopters and tinfoil hats" crowd. Certain subjects, this
> one included, generate a lot of recycled stories, and some
> of them get enhanced each time they are re-told.
>
>
> Keywords:
>
> "Wim van Eck" "CRT" "electromagnetic" "radiation" "monitor"
> "eavesdropping" "data security" "privacy"
>
>
>
>
>
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