October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Re: Market Your Business To The World!
by Sean Roach 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

Okay, it's bad enough when the list gets spam. It's worse when the list gets spam on sending spam. Good luck, Sean At 12:56 AM 10/9/2000, you wrote: > Take Advantage Of Your Resources Online Now > Consider this: > More People turn to email marketing then any other advertising > median online WHY Its Simple.!! > IT WORKS!! ...

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by freedom＠cvzoom.ne 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

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by ziad salim 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

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CDR: FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education
by Tim May 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

Monday October 9 4:45 PM ET FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education By DIANE HOPHEAD, Routers Press Agency WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education. Thou shalt snoop on other children. Thou shalt not hide cybercrimes by using encryption. FBI agents are spreading a new gospel to parents and teachers, hoping they'll better educate youths that privacy in cyberspace can be economically costly and just as criminal as refusing to narc out fellow students. The Justice Department (news - web sites) and the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group, has launched the Cybercitizen Partnership to encourage educators and parents to talk to children in ways that equate privacy and encryption with old-fashioned wrongdoing. The nascent effort includes a series of seminars around the country for teachers, classroom materials and guides and a Web site to help parents talk to children. The FBI is distributing copies of "MyPersonalCarnivore" to allow children to set up their own Carnivore-enabled local sites. ``In a democracy in general, we can't have the police everywhere,'' said Michael Vacuous, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, which guards against computer attacks by terrorists, foreign agents and teen hackers. ``One of the most important ways of reducing crime is trying to teach ethics and morality to our kids. That same principle needs to apply to the cyber world,'' he said. "We are willing to drop the antitrust action against Microsoft if and when they meet the legitimate needs of law enforcement," he added. Asked if he was referring to the proposed "WindowsMe (and Big Brother)," he added that he could not comment on sensitive programs.

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CDR: Re: Guys, I need help
by wayne 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

cypherpunks(a)toad.com <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> M. Emad Ul Hasan <emad_16(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Subject: Guys, I need help > Your anonymizer.com is blocked in Saudi Arabia via proxy. Can you tell me a way I can see this site 1. go to my site at: http://www.angelfire.com/wy/1waynes/ 2. look in the 'list of proxies' 3. click on the 'clickable' ones - these are CGI proxies and the first few you come across are working for KSA people at the moment. That may be enough for you. If you want more ... At the same site you might download my findProxyNew.pl which (at least) contains many URLs for lists of proxies. If you decide to test them, install Perl (URL is on my downloads page), run findProxyNew with $country set to 'KSA' and it will find any you can use from whatever list you feed it. Expect to find maybe one in 1,000 of the proxies to be any use to you. If you want even more... Get a shell account in a free country and run a redirector there, or your own proxy. For the others who responded, these proxies are blocked in the Middle East countries by IP address range (the whole noproxy.com range, for example, including the name server!), by port number (standard ports like 80, 3128, 8080) are blocked and (within the country-wide proxy arrays) by censoring databases of URL strings (for the 'unwanted' URLs, including CGI proxy URLS). My site details all this. For those cypherpunks who actively believe in freedom of information, the biggest single thing you could do break down this censorship would be to offer a non-dial shell account, on the understanding that it would be used to run redirectors/relays/bouncers and maybe a proxy (junkbuster, say). I solicited about 10 promising looking ISPs in the USA once, for those who were willing to sell shells under these conditions. I had a response rate of about 20%, and finally only one ISP came through - panix.com. It was just too hard for the rest to bother with; obviously my approach was too honest :-) regards, wayne wayne(a)nym.alias.net http://www.angelfire.com/wy/1waynes/

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CDR: Comments on and about e-privacy in Canada
by Robert Guerra 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

Folks: I thank some of you for posting your comments on the e-privacy bulletin board that the CBC has set-up. I'm not sure how long the discussion group will last, so please feel free to continue to share your thoughts on the crypto-canada mailing list <http://crypto-canada.greatvideo.com> Regards Robert Here's a message I really like... http://interact.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/WebX?14@119.UM22aQsobAM^4@.ee768e0 (see e-prvacy discussion section) I think that it should be written into Canada's constitution that ANY information about any Candadian citizen belongs to that citizen. That any agency who wants to store, retrieve, review, transfer or in any way duplicate that information must obtain formal consent from the citizen involved. That every citizen has the right to know what information an agency is storing about them, and who they have shared this information with. I think treating personal information with the same rules as private property would solve our privacy fears. The really scary scenario is that with the proliferation of public video cameras and wireless technologies, our every move may someday be recorded in a database somewhere. Even cars are now being equipped with technologies that track where we are and how we are driving at all times. That is really Orwellian, in my opinion. Cell phones do the same thing by continuously traingulating your position, in fact, if cell nodes didn't do this, cell phones wouldn't work. The next big wave that is coming, with the convergence of television, telephony, broadband internet and wireless networked home electronics is that everything - even your box of Cheerios will have an IP address. I attended a recent lecture at UBC that was given by Dr. William J. Raduchel, the Chief Strategy Officer of Sun Microsystems, and he said that Sun and many other companies are hard at work putting the finishing touches on the technology that will make it possible for your fridge to recognize that you are running out of milk, and automatically add it to your shopping list, and automatically shop for it if you want - but here is the really freaky part: In the near future, Dr. Raduchel said that all advertising will be targeted based on your 'electronic behavior'. Picture this: You come home from work and your house sees you coming and the door opens and the net-enabled television in your livingroom comes on, and there is a commercial for Cheerios that says, "Did you know that the box of Cheerios in your cupboard is almost empty?" - and a coupon for Cheerios will print out of your net-enabled refrigerator, and the General Foods corporation will be able to run a report that tells them exactly how many boxes of Cheerios there are sitting in cupboards in wired homes across Canada, and how full each one is. This is not science fiction - this is reality, and it is coming to a net-enabled home near you. If you think your privacy is an issue now, just wait until your TV set knows what you had for breakfast, and your toilet knows the blood-sugar levels in your urine, which is automatically appended to your medical records. Big brother is here, and he is about to become far more powerful that Orwell could have ever imagined. I encourage you to look this up for yourself, look at the Sun Microsystems website and review the white papers on Jini technology and how companies like Whirlpool are building it into new appliances. Sun is just one example, of course, there are hundreds of companies who enthusiastically embrace these new technologies. Ken MacAllister Vancouver, BC -- "...as we transfer our whole being to the data bank, privacy will become a ghost or echo of its former self and what remains of community will disappear"...Marshal McLuhan -- Robert Guerra <rguerra(a)yahoo.com>, Fax: +1(303) 484-0302 WWW Page <http://pgp.greatvideo.com>, ICQ # 10266626 PGPKeys <http://pgp.greatvideo.com/keys/rguerra/>

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oh, sh__
by Somebody 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

Bob, Please be careful about the forwarding of this epistle in it's entirety. The contents might be considered inflamatory. [moi? *I*'m not saying anything here, *you* are... :-) --RAH] But I recommend your synthesizing an opinion about it, and communicating to the usual suspects. See my "bottom line", at the end Well, 1st Data Corp has made their move, and it's a doozy: eONE Global, a new e-payments company capitalized with $600 million ($360 in assets transferred from First Data, $135 in equity investment from iFormation -- a GoldmanSachs, BCG, Genl Atlantic Partners creature -- and a commitment from the parties to kick in another $100 in cash). The headquarters are in Napa (Rutherford). Remember Rutherford Partners? With principals Robert W. Greer, Scott J. Loftesness, Garen K. Staglin? eOne Global has a Garen Staglin, President and CEO, located in Rutherford, CA. eONE Global has a Menlo Park office with a Managing Director by the name of Loftesness. Greer is also involved. Brochure at: http://www.eoneglobal.com Includes a slightly amusing and very gushy whitepaper http://www.eoneglobal.com/whtpaper.html (by Garen) News at: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3141623.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni Oh, yes...and by the way: "eONE Global welcomes inquiries from emerging payment technology companies with a business plan they are prepared to execute against. We require that a prospective strategic partner have proprietary rights to the technology it is presenting." See: http://www.eoneglobal.com/started.html I guess this means Scott has money now. Among the assets they own, or have and equity interest in are SurePay, CashTax, Yclip, MeetChina.com, Reciprocal, PassLogix, Achex, RRE Ventures (?1?) and others. In reality it's mostly the 1stData/EnTrust payment initiative SurePay. Bottom Line: This is a significant event, well capitalized, and an "instant company" because of the the transfer of some FirstData assets. However, their major challenges will be (a) they are already an operational company with a bunch of realworld operating challenges for the management team (who seem more venture, finance oriented), and (b) they don't yet have any breakthrough exciting technologies or products and need to acquire same. I actually wouldn't be too surprised to see them buy back eCashTechnologies, or do a JV with something like Spectrum or Wells/eBay. I'm afraid, though, that (in spite of their brave words about the need for innovation and new models) this venture is going to be inevitably tied to the current banking structure with which FirstData is so deeply in bed. I suspect that Rutherford Partners put up a bunch of half- baked intellectual property (as well as their bodies and a great spiel) to take over management of 1stData's total e-payment strategy. Quite a coup. --- 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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oh, sh__
by Somebody 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

Bob, Please be careful about the forwarding of this epistle in it's entirety. The contents might be considered inflamatory. [moi? *I*'m not saying anything here, *you* are... :-) --RAH] But I recommend your synthesizing an opinion about it, and communicating to the usual suspects. See my "bottom line", at the end Well, 1st Data Corp has made their move, and it's a doozy: eONE Global, a new e-payments company capitalized with $600 million ($360 in assets transferred from First Data, $135 in equity investment from iFormation -- a GoldmanSachs, BCG, Genl Atlantic Partners creature -- and a commitment from the parties to kick in another $100 in cash). The headquarters are in Napa (Rutherford). Remember Rutherford Partners? With principals Robert W. Greer, Scott J. Loftesness, Garen K. Staglin? eOne Global has a Garen Staglin, President and CEO, located in Rutherford, CA. eONE Global has a Menlo Park office with a Managing Director by the name of Loftesness. Greer is also involved. Brochure at: http://www.eoneglobal.com Includes a slightly amusing and very gushy whitepaper http://www.eoneglobal.com/whtpaper.html (by Garen) News at: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3141623.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni Oh, yes...and by the way: "eONE Global welcomes inquiries from emerging payment technology companies with a business plan they are prepared to execute against. We require that a prospective strategic partner have proprietary rights to the technology it is presenting." See: http://www.eoneglobal.com/started.html I guess this means Scott has money now. Among the assets they own, or have and equity interest in are SurePay, CashTax, Yclip, MeetChina.com, Reciprocal, PassLogix, Achex, RRE Ventures (?1?) and others. In reality it's mostly the 1stData/EnTrust payment initiative SurePay. Bottom Line: This is a significant event, well capitalized, and an "instant company" because of the the transfer of some FirstData assets. However, their major challenges will be (a) they are already an operational company with a bunch of realworld operating challenges for the management team (who seem more venture, finance oriented), and (b) they don't yet have any breakthrough exciting technologies or products and need to acquire same. I actually wouldn't be too surprised to see them buy back eCashTechnologies, or do a JV with something like Spectrum or Wells/eBay. I'm afraid, though, that (in spite of their brave words about the need for innovation and new models) this venture is going to be inevitably tied to the current banking structure with which FirstData is so deeply in bed. I suspect that Rutherford Partners put up a bunch of half- baked intellectual property (as well as their bodies and a great spiel) to take over management of 1stData's total e-payment strategy. Quite a coup. --- 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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CDR: Ralph Nader sends privacy survey to Bush and Gore campaigns
by Declan McCullagh 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/09/1933206&mode=nested Nader Sends Privacy Quiz to Bush and Gore posted by cicero on Monday October 09, @02:22PM from the never-liked-those-safeway-discount-cards-anyway dept. Vergil Bushnell of Ralph Nader's presidential campaign just sent us news about a privacy survey. Turns out the Green Party hopeful wants to nail down where rivals George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on things like supermarket videocameras and marketing by Internet service providers. Unfortunately, Ralph doesn't include any questions exclusively on the topic of government surveillance, such as wiretapping, Echelon, or Carnivore -- which are precisely the areas the next Oval Office occupant can do the most to reform. Nader is, typically, focused only on corporate wrongdoing. His privacy survey is attached below. The survey: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/09/1933206&mode=nested

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CDR: pigs use Inet for domestic intelligence at Phish
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

Friday September 22 06:47 PM EDT Undercover Police Go Online To Bust Phish Fans By Contributing Editor Richard B. Simon reports After using the Internet to investigate the reputation and the lingo of Phish fans, undercover law-enforcement agents arrested as many as 90 concertgoers on substance-related charges at the jam bands show Monday in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Sgt. Larry Wagner of the Cuyahoga Falls Police Departments narcotics division said officers made arrests for 12 felonies and 10 misdemeanors outside the Blossom Music Center. Charges ranged from underage possession of alcohol to felony possession and trafficking in LSD, psychedelic mushrooms and Ecstasy. In the days before the Vermont band arrived in town, Capt. Barry Milich of the Sheriffs Department compared notes with police from other towns Phish had visited, while Wagner went online to research the Phish subculture for tips on how his undercover officers could fit in and understand the lingo. "Our guys will go up and say, Hey, you got any Molly (Ecstasy) or anything like that? " Wagner said. "They dont just sell grilled-cheese sandwiches out there." Wagner estimated that 70 to 80 officers from three agencies the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department, the Summit County Sheriffs Department and the Ohio Department of Public Safety were at the show, mostly in plainclothes, policing about 20,000 concertgoers. But the Phish fans picked up on the police presence quickly and would surround officers making arrests. "We knew when we were being made," Wagner said. "After the first arrest, they stated six up, meaning ... theyre here and theyre making an arrest, and for the mounted unit, it was six up, giddy up. So we were able to figure that out early on. ... Maybe I should have checked the Internet a little bit better before they came. Im back from the old school. I was waiting to hear pig and stuff like that, but I didnt hear any of that." Wagner admitted that some of the undercover officers blended in better than others. "I think Phish fans can tell the difference between Kmart tie-dyes and the ones they get at the concert." Most of the arrests were made before and during the show, Wagner said, while thousands of ticketless fans remained in the parking lot. Agent Rita Raimer of the Ohio Department of Public Safety said the department made 18 arrests in connection with underage possession of alcohol. Ohio penalties for drug possession range from likely probation for first-time offenders to possible jail time for those who have extensive criminal records or were caught selling large amounts. Wagner said all the felony arrests his department made were for "low-grade" offenses, for which the state has no mandatory minimum jail time. A Phish spokesperson declined to comment on the arrests. Many Phish fans follow the band from venue to venue, in the tradition of the Grateful Dead, so the band plays a different setlist each night, playing a mix of earlier tunes such as "Prince Caspian" ( RealAudio excerpt) and newer material such as "The Inlaw Josie Wales" ( RealAudio excerpt), from this years Farmhouse. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/so/20000922/en/undercover_police_go_online_to_…

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