November 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Secrets about Girls ;-)
by natascha＠loveable.com 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

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CDR: update.513 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:19:13 -0500 (EST) From: AIP listserver <physnews(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.513 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 513 November 22, 2000 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE INTERNET IS SURPRISINGLY ROBUST, and it remains connected on a global scale even if a randomly chosen 99% of its connection points break down. However, it is relatively fragile if its most highly connected points are selectively knocked out. These are the conclusions of researchers applying physics principles and precise mathematical models to the study of the worldwide computer network. The Internet consists of computer networks (most commonly, "local area networks") connected by various devices, known as routers and hubs. For simplicity's sake, researchers consider each connection point as a generic "node." Previous work suggests the fraction of Internet nodes having k connections is proportional to k^-a, for some number a. This is a "scale-free power law distribution," which occurs commonly in nature and appears in the frequency of earthquakes and the size distributions of clouds and mountains. Unlike an exponential distribution, a scale-free power law distribution decays very slowly, meaning in this case that there is a large proportion of computers that still have a significant amount of connections. Recent computer simulations of scale-free networks have shown that the Internet is resilient for this reason (Albert et al., Nature, 27 July; Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Notre Dame, 219-631-5767, alb(a)nd.edu; see also The Industrial Physicist, December 2000). The latest work now puts this conclusion on a firm mathematical footing. Two independent groups (Reuven Cohen, Bar Ilan University, Israel, 011-972-8-9370131, cohenr(a)shosji.ph.biu.ac.il; Duncan Callaway, Cornell, 607-255-9174; dc52(a)cornell.edu) apply percolation theory, developed by geophysicists interested in estimating how much oil they could extract from reservoirs in a porous medium. Percolation theory deals with systems containing points ("sites") and connections between them, and it analyzes the behavior of the system when one removes some of the sites or connections. Combined with the insights from the scale-free distribution, the powerful percolation-based approach may help Internet architects to maximize resistance against Internet attacks, by controlling the distribution of nodes having certain numbers of connections. (Cohen et al, Phys. Rev. Lett, 20 Nov (Select Articles); Callaway et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., upcoming.) COSMIC RAYS AND CLOUD COVER. Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) play an important role in controlling global cloud cover on Earth, according to recent studies by researchers at the Danish Space Research Institute in Copenhagen (Nigel D. Marsh, 011-45- 35325740). GCRs, consisting principally of energetic protons emitted from stars within our galaxy, are a primary source of the atmospheric ionization which affects cloud formation. Because cloud cover has an impact on both the reflection of solar radiation and the retention of heat in the atmosphere, correlation between GCRs and low level clouds suggests a link between global climate changes and cosmic ray flux (see figure at http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics) The discovery reveals a convoluted connection between solar variability and climate change. Fluctuations in the sun's radiative output are generally dismissed as too small to account directly for global warming and other climate variations. Periods of intense solar activity, however, lead to powerful solar winds which shield the atmosphere from cloud-forming GCRs, potentially modulating the global climate. (N. D. Marsh; H. Svensmark, Physical Review Letters, 4 December.) Researchers at the University of Leeds (UK), on the other hand, have observed a direct and rapid connection between atmospheric chemistry and ultraviolet light from the sun (Dwayne E. Heard, 44-113-233-6471, dwayneh(a)chem.leeds.ac.uk) During the 97% eclipse of the sun over Ascot, England, local ozone concentrations fell to 60% of typical daytime levels, and quickly returned to normal after the event. The study demonstrates the dynamic connection between sunlight and the photochemistry of atmospheric gasses which may contribute to global warming, smog formation, and acid rain. (J. P. Abram; et al, Geophysical Research Letters, 1 November.) PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE: subscribe or unsubscribe by sending a message to listserv(a)aip.org and specify either "add physnews" or "delete physnews". Our website is at http://www.aip.org/physnews/update.

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CDR: Cypherpunk Rants
by Jim Choate 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

http://www.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/cypherpunks/rants/ -- ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDR: Paying for privacy
by Nomen Nescio 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

Market could be huge, but consumers are a tough sell BY DEBORAH LOHSE Mercury News Dozens of new companies are betting that someday soon, Internet surfers will behave like James Bond in cyberspace. They dream of consumers, rabidly protective of their online privacy, who use technology to obscure their online tracks from the prying eyes of corporations and marketers. When that day comes, companies like Privada Inc., Zero-Knowledge Systems, iPrivacy and Anonymizer.com. plan to be in the money. Each makes technology for Bond-like obscurity on the Web. Good luck trying, say privacy experts, analysts and investors. While the market could indeed be as big as the $50 billion predicted by industry leader Zero-Knowledge Systems, already a handful of companies have gone under or changed their business models after trying in vain to get consumers to pay for privacy. The hurdles are many. Consumers profess great concern over privacy but have only nebulous understanding of the risks and little inclination to change their online behavior. Giants like Symantec, Microsoft and Netscape are incorporating privacy elements into their products, including ``cookie managers'' coming in the next versions of browsers. And companies need a lot of capital to keep up with rapidly changing technology. That means a lot of the companies vying for a piece of the privacy pie now won't survive what some see as an inevitable industry shakeout. ``There's an awful lot of start-ups that have a privacy theme. Many of them aren't going to make it,'' predicted Beth Givens, project director at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego. There's no shortage of privacy technologies. Some promise to let users surf without leaving computer-identifying ``cookies'' or revealing their Internet addresses. Others allow surfers pseudonyms that are destroyed when they leave the site. Some block all Net-based advertisements -- which track whether users respond to them -- or offer encrypted addresses, decodable by the Postal Service, for purchases. And some dirty the data that marketers collect by aggregating users' profiles with others in a large group. But the biggest hurdle to success may be consumer complacency. While every privacy company can cite statistics on consumer privacy worries, by and large consumers are also awfully enamored of the personal attention -- a la Amazon book recommendations -- that giving away their information can get them. ``We're Americans. We'll give up anything for 50 frequent flier miles,'' said Jonathan Gaw, an analyst with technology research firm IDC. When IDC asked consumers what would entice them to disclose certain information they professed to want kept secret, the number-one answer was a $100 gift certificate. ``The number two answer was a $50 gift certificate,'' he said. That bodes poorly for many companies, especially those that expect consumers to take extra steps like downloading privacy software, registering or paying for the service, or making a stop at a privacy site. Instead, consumers are going to demand that their basic Net tools, like browsers, automatically make selective anonymity an option. And consumers may not even demand that until they see a few more headlines about video players tracking what they watch or computer chips identifying them by name. ``When we see a few divorce cases or child-custody cases where lawyers are able to subpoena these files,'' said Givens, then ``people will wake up and see the danger of these large profiles.'' Most privacy-technology companies are privately held, so it's tough to see who's in the black and who's bleeding money right now. But some experts said the ones with most promise are those like Zero-Knowledge Systems or Privada, which sell their technology not just to consumers but also to businesses that want to provide privacy technology as a service to customers. Privada's technology offers consumers greater control over how much information they give to sites. The Sunnyvale-based company recently inked a deal with American Express. An Amex spokeswoman wouldn't disclose terms of the deal, but said it will start offering protected browsing to cardholders ``soon.'' Privada used to sell directly to consumers on a test basis, but no longer does, because that ``doesn't get the privacy services where they belong, at the on-ramp to the Internet,'' said Barbara Bellissimo, a founder and vice president of Privada. Bellissimo likens privacy technology -- which she said will one day be a standard feature of all browsers and Internet service providers -- to car air bags. When air bags first came out, ``they were optional and people paid more to have them,'' she said. But they eventually they became required features whose costs were bundled into the cost of the car. Ultimately consumers will likewise demand the ability to easily surf unrecognized, send untraceable e-mail, and even arrange a package shipment without the marketer getting their name and address. The privacy game already has some casualties. A defunct company called Enonymous.com tried to build a business by rating web sites' privacy policies and storing consumers' personal data to judiciously share it with trusted partners. The company failed to attract enough consumers and business partners, noted Jason Catlett, president of privacy watchdog Junkbusters. Persona Inc. likewise tried to help consumers leverage their personal data by getting discounts or freebies, but didn't garner enough participants. Persona now teaches companies how to request permission to use personal data and sells technology to use it. Consumers may be wary of such ``infomediaries'' because there's no guarantee that a company supposedly keeping their personal profile under wraps is trustworthy or won't be bought out by another company with different designs. Firefly, which offered a centralized ``wallet'' for personal information to be released upon instruction by the consumer, was bought by Microsoft in 1998. ``People that trusted Firefly said, `Darn, here we thought we were giving our information to Firefly, now we've given our information to Microsoft,'J'' said Gaw. He said it gave many consumers pause for thought, ``even if we don't' think Microsoft is the evil empire.'' Contact Deborah Lohse at dlohse(a)sjmercury.com or (408) 271-3672

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Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...
by Lynn.Wheeler＠firstdata.com 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

public keys can be used to provide some degree of trust propogation w/o the problems associated with shared secrets ... independent of key-exchange for session confidentiality. certificates were designed to provide for offline trust propogation (i.e. trusted 3rd party generating paper credentials in the days of sailing ships ... for things like letters of credit). two possible online scenerios for online trust propogation was online domain name infrastructure providing public key as part of online hostname resolution response ... and licensing/certification agencies providing public key as part of a trust lookup. Trust propogation also works going from highly authenticated environment ... which might register a public key with a relying party; to a quickly authenticated environment remote, non-face-to-face transactions with digital signature (the digital signature would be a mathematical encapsulation of the authentication business process that occured as part of public key registeration) . Asymmetric algorithms have some advantages over traditional shared-secret algorithms in that there can be lower maintenence expense at the relying party (i.e. security exposure associated with divulging a shared secret). random refs: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#1 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#3 John Kelsey <kelsey.j(a)ix.netcom.com> on 11/24/2000 12:59:42 PM

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by Marjan 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a.. To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com b.. Subject: How to enter the US without a visa? c.. From: jamesd(a)echeque.com d.. Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:31:10 -0800 e.. Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is somewhat off topic for cypherpunks, but alt.forgery is dead, so cypherpunks is probably the nearest group. Suppose (hypothetically) an American resident cypherpunk had a hypothetical friend who is most unlikely to obtain an American visa.

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CDR: Welcome to PriusMods
by PriusMods Moderator 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

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CDR: RE: Jim Bell arrested documents online (fwd)
by Carskadden, Rush 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

Amen. And as an additional claim of bullshit, to say that corporations, and in turn the people of the industrial world, are not controlled by government is to completely deny the fact that the federal government is partly designed to, and spends most of it's energy on, regulating commerce. Read this: http://www.libertyhaven.com/regulationandpropertyrights/bankingmoneyorfinanc e/reforminggov.shtml And while you are at it, you may want to check out a few government sites: http://www.fcc.gov (my least fave) http://www.usdoj.gov/ http://www.fbi.gov/ http://www.federalreserve.gov/ http://www.nsa.gov/ http://www.faa.gov/ http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ http://www.fra.dot.gov/welcome.html http://www.hcfa.gov/ That's just a few (the most egregious offenders in poor regulation), but if you want more, I can send them to you. I'm not saying corporations do not exert control over our everyday lives. My point is, as much as I too like William Gibson, and as much as I was hoping Nader would get his requisite percentage of the popular vote and stir up some trouble, corporations simply do not run things by themselves. The government does far more to control us (and just generally piss in our rice crispies) than corporations. Gauranteed. ok, Rush -----Original Message----- From: Jim Choate [mailto:ravage@einstein.ssz.com] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 3:21 PM To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com Subject: Re: Jim Bell arrested documents online (fwd) At 09:58 PM 11/23/00 -0500, Anonymous wrote: >Apparently because businesses do not use guns. > >They are missing the fact that majority of people never encounter/use >guns in their life, and that the principal way of behavioural control >is propaganda/ideology. Most of the people in the industrial world are >directly and tightly controlled by corporations, not governments. Bullshit on all points. If you don't believe businesses don't use guns then you should check around. Hell, my local grocery has an armed guard at the front entrance when it's open (and other times I suspect). Tell this to your local mid-level drug dealer. Most people encounter a gun at least daily within say 50 ft. of their person, thought they may not be aware of it or individualy handle it. Most people, industrial country or not, are controlled by the beliefs they hold and what they believe is acceptable. Corporations and governments are as much a victim of this as the individual is. ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDR: RE: Golden Rice [ /. ]
by Carskadden, Rush 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

Oh, you mean INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Ok then, I'm with ya. ok, Rush -----Original Message----- From: Jim Choate [mailto:ravage@einstein.ssz.com] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 3:01 PM To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com Cc: The Club Inferno; austin-cpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com; sci-tech(a)einstein.ssz.com Subject: Golden Rice [ /. ] An interesting aspect of IP and meatspace reality over on, http://slashdot.org My view, destroy IP. ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDR: Reviews February 1997
by Jim Choate 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000310.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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