November 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: RE: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after sec urity breached
by Trei, Peter 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

EZ-Pass is a perfect example of people choosing convenience over security, and a bad design "creating the tools for tyranny". While the accounting system most certainly keeps records of where you were, and when, so it can do billing, the system is structured in such a way that an intrusive government can place antennas anywhere they want, and clandestinely record all EZ-Pass equipped vehicles passing a given point (even if it is not a toll site). [It just struck me that there may be a novel legal challenge to this; since you have contracted with a transport agency to use EZ-Pass, any non-contractual activation of the system could be legally construed as computer hacking - the snooping antenna has to power up your EZ-pass' chip (that's what those big inductive loop antennas are for), cause it to run a program, and return a result. If the EZ-Pass is rented from the authority I don't know if you'd have standing to sue, though.] Of course, EZ-Pass could have been designed so that the device was anonymous, and prepaid stored value (bought for cash) smartcards used to meter access. It would probably have worked out cheaper as well, since the accounting overhead goes away, and they make intereset on the float of unused cards.... ....but such a mechanism would not have suited Big Brother nearly as well. Peter Disclaimer: The above represents my personal views only] > ---------- > From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] > Reply To: Bill Stewart > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:35 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after > security breached > > the following pleasant article on privacy was on RISKS. > > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:19:44 -0400 (EDT) > From: danny burstein <dannyb(a)panix.com> > Subject: EZ-Pass discovers risk of sending URLs instead of actual text > > In a story datelined 24-Oct-2000, and headlined: > > New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after security breached > > The Associated Press reported on a problem with privacy and security on > the New Jersey EZPASS website where people can review their usage. > (EZPass is a radio transponder placed in your motor vehicle which is > "read" at toll booths, enabling you to zip through without having to stop > and hand over cash. Naturally it keeps records of when and where you > were for billing purposes... Which is another RISK all together) > [...]

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CDR: Internet IP scan completed (> 4E9 IP's served)
by Jim Choate 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

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CDR: Re: Bush took ss# off his Texas license!!!
by George＠Orwellian.Org 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

Kaos wrote: # There's no SS# on a Texas DL, never has been. There is a DL# that is 8 # digits in length (and related to time and place of initial license # application, not SS#). Then someone in tx.politics was wrong (and I passed it along). But now I'm confused (no cracks please): why change your driver's license number if it doesn't mean anything special? He did change it.

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CDR: Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking
by George＠Orwellian.Org 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

# Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. # # This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. # # The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of # 399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. Don't "alternate roots" have to have a copy of what the main root servers have? Then they are doing a favor by off-loading traffic. Separately, I've noticed something on my Solaris 8 box. I often freeze my Netscape browser windows when leaving the computer for a while. That's because FoxNews and NYT (for example) keep reloading themselves again and again. This is unwanted push traffic. It's not costing me anything over my DSL/Cable modems, it's just unwanted by me. Even with browsers frozen... I recently left 'snoop' running, and found I was initiating DNS traffic...to FoxNews and NYT. Looking closer, I had DNS queries regarding non-browser-accessed sites, like ftp. So, Solaris at least, is generating 100% unnecessary DNS traffic. Oh, Joy.

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CDR: re:Tim May's anti-semitic rants
by auto9950013＠hushmail.com 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

Tim's anti Jewish sentiments are obvious in his current posts and in the past. If he had any guts he would admit what he really feels instead of using sarcasm and obfuscation. Tim May writes >Nowhere in my article did I mention Jews or Judaism.

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by Dennis 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

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CDR: A quantum computer link on /.
by Jim Choate 05 Nov '00

05 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDR: ATTENION!!!! BULK FRIENDLY WEB HOSTING!!!!
by Nobody 05 Nov '00

05 Nov '00

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CDR: !!!!BULK EMAIL HOSTING!!!!
by Nobody 05 Nov '00

05 Nov '00

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CDR: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking (fwd)
by !dr.baptista 05 Nov '00

05 Nov '00

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:34:04 -0500 (EST) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <baptista(a)pccf.net> Reply-To: orange(a)dns.list To: list(a)ifwp.org Cc: DOMAIN-POLICY(a)LISTS.NETSOL.COM, orange(a)dns.list, NCDNHC <NCDNHC-Discuss(a)lyris.isoc.org> Subject: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of 399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. In my opinion - this is significant. And it puts a whole new twist on the song - what a difference a day makes. -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster +1 (805) 753-8697

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