October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Editor's Choice: Leading Classic-Growth Stocks, 10/4/00
by Hoover's Online 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

=========================================================== TODAY'S NEWSLETTER LOOKS AT LEADING CLASSIC-GROWTH STOCKS FOR THE LONG-TERM INVESTOR Classic-growth companies, which have grown steadily for years, have predictable earnings and stock prices that perform well over time. Many classic-growth companies also have household-name brands that have become classics in their own time. These companies earn high marks for profitability, financial health, and valuation--three key measures that investors should consider before purchasing any stock. In today's newsletter, we look at the strongest firms that fit into the classic-growth category. =========================================================== A Word From Our Sponsor ========================================================== Get practical advice that will help you grow your business. 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CDR: anonymous PGP-only remailers
by Tom Vogt 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

"cypherpunks write code", wasn't it? :) here's my first proposal. a simple perl script that should find out whether any given message (piped from stdin) is a PGP message or not. it does NOT accept messages with more than 10 non-blank, non-encrypted lines. why? well, you might have a few lines of .sig, but we don't want to accept your spam simple because you have three fake PGP-lines at the bottom, right? I'm not a perl-guru, so this can most likely be reduced to less than half the space. :) and no, it's NOT an algorithm that can check whether something is plain- or ciphertext. it's for PGP messages ONLY. please tell me whether or not you find a way to make it accept spam as legitimate, or deny a PGP mail. #!/usr/bin/perl $is_crypted=false; $stage=0; $body=0; $lines=0; $lines_fit=0; $other_lines=0; while (<>) { if ($body==0&&/^$/) { $body=1; } if ($body==0) { next; } if ($stage==0&&/^-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----$/) { $stage=1; next; } if ($stage==1&&//) { $stage=2; next; } if ($stage==2&&/^-----END PGP MESSAGE-----$/) { if ($lines_fit+3>$lines) { $stage=3; } else { print "malformed PGP message\n"; exit 1; } } if ($stage==2&&/^(.*)$/) { $line=$1; $line =~ s/ //g; if (length($line)>0) { $lines++; } if (length($line)==64) { $lines_fit++; } next; } $other_lines++; } if ($other_lines>10) { print "too many non-encrypted lines\n"; exit 1; } if ($stage==3) { exit 0; } else { print "not a PGP message\n"; exit 1; }

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CDR: ICANN's final list of new TLDs
by George＠Orwellian.Org 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

It's comment time. http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm Gee, I wonder what the rules for ".sucks" will be, legally.

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CDR: HTTP and SSL
by Augusto Jun Devegili 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Hi all, I need to implement a C++ client (Linux) which must connect to an HTTP Server using SSL (HTTPS). Which libraries could I possibly use, considering both SSL and HTTP? TIA, Augusto

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CDR: Re: A famine averted...
by Ken Brown 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Ulf Mvller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:54:34PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: > > > NB in a real famine (as opposed to temporary shortages, which a place > > like Belize can probably get through with less hassle than a richer more > > efficient economy with all our "Just in Time" suppliers) food prices go > > *down* at first... strange but true. It is due to farmers unloading > > stock to get money in as quickly as they can. > > Why would they want to do that? Because they are afraid they will need to get out quickly so they want to turn goods into money if they can. Also there is the price-of-meat effect which has often been observed in Africa, as much as 18 months before a famine gets serious. If people are running out of feed for their livestock (for example in a drought) they sell them rather than watch them starve. So the price of meat goes down. This can also temporarily depress the price of other food (which, of course, doesn't help peasant farmers or nomads who graze their cattle). Ken

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Re: CDR: Re: Re: Shunning, lesbians and liberty
by James A.. Donald 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

-- At 02:05 PM 10/1/2000 +0300, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: > I believe death precisely of the kind described above do/did occur > (e.g. the famines in Africa, often caused by those responsible for > the production of food acting purely in their own interest) That is nonsense. Famines in Africa are caused by communism and socialism, notably the famous Ethiopian famines that occurred under Mengistu, or by war, notably the famous Biafran famine. Famines are never caused by people acting in their own interests. They are most commonly caused by pious benevolent socialists imposing the greater good with whip and red hot irons, burning, torturing and killing because they love people so very much. Famines are most commonly caused by socialists whose care for the suffering of anonymous strangers is so deep and heartfelt, whose love and concern for the faceless oppressed masses is so vast, that they will hold a child's face in the flames to force her mother to reveal where the seed corn is hidden. After all, we cannot let those damned peasants look out for their own selfish interests, can we? We love them too much to permit them such wickedness, and the flesh burning off from the bone on the face of a child is proof of how vital our mission is to save the peasants from themselves, proof of how much the peasant's wicked greedy selfishness puts them in need of our vast benevolent virtue, kindness, and generosity. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG WHgM6bgCZEmn9Quy1QeqWHncZdBzSxBjw/Hx/QyQ 41uHa233d7BE6K/WL7V4TqV6ovKUt4romaxLWduGE

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CDR: Fwd: Re: Niiice kitty....
by Reese 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

James A. Donald's claim below was mostly anonymized by a 3rd party I shared this with, it was then forwarded to another list. I've anonymized these two replies, and add this to the ongoing thread for continued comment. James? What would be a good question to ask entity 1? Reese <begin fwd> entity 1 writes: I'm not sure what this thread is about, but when I scrolled down I saw something pretty familiar. That would be the phrase "digsig," which is the handle of one James Donald. This guy has to be one of the nuttier infamous people on the Internet. He has been waging an anti-Chomksy war on various anarchist and libertarian newsgroups for OVER 5 YEARS. One of his favorite libels is to claim that Chomsky supported the Khymer Rouge. If Chomsky was any cuter and a Hollywood celebrity, this guy would have been arrested for stalking a long time ago. I don't read Usenet much, but everytime I check in, he's there posting away. I can only imagine what his den looks like. I'm sure he has a Chomsky picture on the dartboard and the rest of his office is arranged to aid him in his campaign to make the world safe for libertarian capitalists who need a life. .sig entity 2 wrote: > > On the quote in question, I have a copy of Clive Ponting's Churchill > book balanced on my knee right now, and I can confirm that the quote is > word for word, except that the emphases have fallen off it with the loss > of italics ('an innocent record and' 'altogether disproportionate' > 'mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force'). > > Strike one to Chomsky. > > .sig > > > entity 3 writes > >Well, > > > >Where's the evidence that he misquotes more often than any other > >researcher [let alone deliberately]. Has someone compiled a compendium > >of his misdeeds? > > > >.sig > > <snipped info identifying other list> entity 4 writes: > >> this was posted on the cypherpunks list. the respondent maintains > >> that chomsky is well-known for misquoting or twisting quotes/sources. > >> never heard that come up here in all our discussions... comments? > >> cypherpunks is archived if you want more info. > >> > >> .sig > >> > >> <fowarded> > >> -- > >> > I've been reading Noam Chomsky's book on Kosovo and came across this > >> > quote from a Cabinet note written by Churchill in January 1914 > >> > explaining the need for increased military expenditure (taken in > >> > turn from Clive Ponting's Churchill, 1994, P 132): > >> > > >> > "We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty > >> > inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves an altogether > >> > disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We > >> > have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the > >> > unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly > >> > acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less > >> > reasonable to others than to us." > >> > >> > >> Chomsky is hardly a reliable source. He routinely fabricates or > >> falsifies quotes. I suggest you check his alleged sources. > >> > >> Chances are you will be unable to find his alleged source. In > >> the unlikely event that you are able to find it, it will not > >> say quite what Chomsky claims it said. > >> > >> --digsig > >> > >> > >> </backwarded>

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CDR: U.S., EU move toward cybercrime treaty
by George＠Orwellian.Org 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Pull up URL for full article. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd7.htm "When the U.S. government cannot get a controversial policy adopted domestically, they pressure an international group to adopt it, and then bring it back to the U.S. as an international treaty - which obliges Congress to enact it," wrote David Banisar, a senior fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in a commentary on the draft treaty for Web site SecurityFocus.com.

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CDR: Re: one time pad and random num gen
by Steve Furlong 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

Bill Stewart wrote: > By contrast, if you've got a pseudo-random number generator, > which uses some mathematical process to generate the numbers, > knowing bits 1...I-1 tells you something about bits I...N, > so if the message has structure to it, you can often exploit it. Isn't a good definition of a cryptographically-strong PRNG that even if you know bits 1..I-1, you still don't know anything about bit I? (Unless you know the internal state of the PRNG, of course.) A c-strong PRNG shouldn't be susceptible to any currently known analyses. Perhaps that's just a theoretical definition, and no existant PRNGs come close. But I thought some good ones were out there. Ta, SRF -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong(a)acmenet.net

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CDR: SMS SISTEMA
by SMS 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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