October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Mobile phone guns seized
by An Metet 29 Oct '00

29 Oct '00

FROM DAVID LISTER IN BRUSSELS HANDGUNS made to look like mobile phones and activated by tapping a button on the keypad are among a stockpile of deadly gadgets seized by police after being smuggled into The Netherlands from Yugoslavia. The special Arrow unit of the Dutch police disclosed yesterday that it had seized eight of the Rshooting phonesS in raids on five Amsterdam addresses during the past three weeks. It also found 29 guns disguised as key rings. Cees Rameau, a spokesman for the Amsterdam police, said that each of the mobile phones, clearly intended to be used at close range, contained four .22 calibre bullets. RFor each shot, you have to press one of the numbers on the keypad. If you didnUt know they were guns, you wouldnUt suspect anything,S he said. Although police confirmed that most of the weapons had come from Yugoslavia, they did not know for whom they were intended. Mr Rameau said that five men and one woman had been arrested, including two from Yugoslavia, one from Croatia and one from Turkey. At one address in west Amsterdam, police seized 28 key-ring guns, 26lb of explosives, a machinegun, a pistol, a revolver, 2,000 bullets and 20 hand grenades. Police also discovered 19lb of heroin, a stash of fake Dutch banknotes and blank identification papers.

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CDR: Phil Agre on "trusted" intermediaries (was Re: [RRE]notes and recommendations)
by R. A. Hettinga 29 Oct '00

29 Oct '00

At 6:15 AM -0800 on 10/29/00, Phil Agre wrote: > It is often held that Internet privacy problems will be eliminated by > a new class of online third parties called "trusted intermediaries". > The idea is that, instead of visiting Amazon.com directly, you would > visit Trustme.com, and then you would go "through" that site to get to > Amazon. Now, this scheme can work at a basic level if Amazon doesn't > have to know anything about it. That's what Zero Knowledge Systems > <http://www.zeroknowledge.com/> is doing. But that only works if the > relationship between the customer and the vendor is relatively simple. > A third party that requires Amazon's cooperation, for example because > of its distinctive interface for processing pseudonymous requests for > sensitive personal information, seems much less plausible to me. What > company is going to allow an intermediary to get between it and its > customers? Amazon? Bank of America? It doesn't seem likely. They'd > have to worry that the intermediary would add its own services or take > money to redirect the customer to competitors. Those firms could feel > compelled to cooperate with an intermediary if the intermediary became > well-established, but if most online marketplaces become monopolies > or near-monopolies then this isn't likely. Trusted intermediaries > are not an entirely useless idea. But like most companies pioneering > new technologies they will have to establish themselves niches in the > short term before they can even understand the nature of the problem > in the long term. -- ----------------- 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: Cypherpunks, Free newsletters added to Worldwidelists.com!
by newsletters＠worldwidelists.com 29 Oct '00

29 Oct '00

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CDR: hey
by mike hale 29 Oct '00

29 Oct '00

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CDR: hey
by mike hale 29 Oct '00

29 Oct '00

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CDR: hey
by mike hale 29 Oct '00

29 Oct '00

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CDR: UK Crypto - old submission address to cease working
by Robert Guerra 28 Oct '00

28 Oct '00

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CDR: Hard Shelled ISP?
by Ray Dillinger 28 Oct '00

28 Oct '00

Would there be a market for someone to create an encrypted-services provider? Would people do this? Here is what I envision, at a cost of something like $10/month. Email accounts that bounce anything not encrypted - either silently or with a message that says "this account accepts only encrypted mail." at the option of the account holder. These accounts are restricted in some way that makes them unattractive to spammers - probably they are able to send no more than 3 or 4 unencrypted emails a day, maybe they are unable to send *any* unencrypted email. Web Hosting strictly via HTTPS. Standard accounts get four or eight kilobytes accessible by http (enough for a redirect), and 100 Megabytes or so of web space accessible by HTTPS. Anonymous accounts. You send a message with a long random key and a few dozen choices for your login name, and a password to use (send via a remailer or whatever) and the provider publishes a webpage with listings mapping keys to login names to tell you what login name you've gotten. The provider holds the name for a couple of weeks. If during that time the provider recieves payment for an account by that name with a that password (say, by cash or bullion via mail or courier, or any of various ecash systems) then the provider creates an account with login, that balance and that password. The provider also publishes a page of login names in use, so you can check to try to avoid collisions. To renew your account, your payment must be sent with your login name and the original payment key. If it can be done legally, the service provider would get a debit card for each account paid more than $200 in advance, and give the card number to the account holder. Then, whatever amount had been prepaid would be available for web purchases, etc. for web merchants with POS stuff. This is a sticking point, and could cause a lot of trouble if any missteps are made. In the worst case, 30% of this money would have to be paid to the IRS - to avoid charges of abetting tax evasion while maintaining client anonymity. (technically, this ought to make the money paid for the service tax deductible, but you could only claim it by revealing your True Name along with proof that you'd paid it -- so clients interested in real anonymity would have to bite the bullet and pay taxes on that money twice). Nice anonymizing web proxy with whatever filters you like, returning whatever CGI information you want it to return. Cookie functioning is selectable by host (so you can, eg, deal with your bank via the proxy if you want). Web proxy is available only via https -- ie, the link between the proxy and the user is *required* to be encrypted. Anonymous encrypted FTP. Two kinds -- one is FTP over SSL, the other is FTP where the file being downloaded is encrypted to start with. There are applications for both. Paying clients could put up a download directory; joe random could download stuff from it. No unencrypted FTP would be available. NNTP over SSL. Not that what's in usenet news is secret, but there's no point in having your reading habits monitored. The basic idea is, there's no point in having *any* unencrypted traffic on a server if you can help it. It ought to be the case that even if a 'carnivore' is installed, there is no unencrypted traffic for it to sniff. I think this is, just barely, feasible. What say you all? Bear

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CDR: Internet Home Work and Own Busines, Free and Low Cost Advertising Tools! for You - cypherpunks -OEKB
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28 Oct '00

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28 Oct '00

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