November 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

<nettime> okay, out on the street...
by molly hankwitz 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Every Sunday in 2000 after Thanksgiving Day, the Surveillance Camera Players will lead a Surveillance Camera Outdoor Walking Tour (or SCOWT for short) of a neighborhood in New York City. Three different SCOWTS have been scheduled; others may follow in 2001. Each SCOWT includes a general introduction to the emerging surveillance society as well as a choice selection of video cameras that surveill public space. $10 donation per each person. Each tour lasts about 90 minutes and is undertaken rain or shine. No reservations needed. Call 212 561 0106 for more information. SCP web site: http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html e-mail: notbored(a)panix.com Sunday 26 November 2000: SCOWT #1 Times Square and Turtle Bay. Meet south side of Duffy Square, on 46th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 3 December 2000: SCOWT #2 Fifth Avenue. Meet on Fifth Avenue, at the intersection with 46th Street, northwest corner. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 10 December 2000: SCOWT #3 City Hall and Washington Square Park. Meet on Broadway (next to City Hall) at the stairs leading down to the N/R subway. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 17 December 2000: SCOWT #1 Times Square and Turtle Bay. Meet south side of Duffy Square, on 46th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 24 December 2000: SCOWT #2 Fifth Avenue. Meet on Fifth Avenue, at the intersection with 46th Street, northwest corner. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 31 December 2000: SCOWT #3 City Hall and Washington Square Park. Meet on Broadway (next to City Hall) at the stairs leading down to the N/R subway. 2 pm sharp. mh:>) ----- End forwarded message ----- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net --- 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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<nettime> okay, out on the street...
by molly hankwitz 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Every Sunday in 2000 after Thanksgiving Day, the Surveillance Camera Players will lead a Surveillance Camera Outdoor Walking Tour (or SCOWT for short) of a neighborhood in New York City. Three different SCOWTS have been scheduled; others may follow in 2001. Each SCOWT includes a general introduction to the emerging surveillance society as well as a choice selection of video cameras that surveill public space. $10 donation per each person. Each tour lasts about 90 minutes and is undertaken rain or shine. No reservations needed. Call 212 561 0106 for more information. SCP web site: http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html e-mail: notbored(a)panix.com Sunday 26 November 2000: SCOWT #1 Times Square and Turtle Bay. Meet south side of Duffy Square, on 46th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 3 December 2000: SCOWT #2 Fifth Avenue. Meet on Fifth Avenue, at the intersection with 46th Street, northwest corner. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 10 December 2000: SCOWT #3 City Hall and Washington Square Park. Meet on Broadway (next to City Hall) at the stairs leading down to the N/R subway. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 17 December 2000: SCOWT #1 Times Square and Turtle Bay. Meet south side of Duffy Square, on 46th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 24 December 2000: SCOWT #2 Fifth Avenue. Meet on Fifth Avenue, at the intersection with 46th Street, northwest corner. 2 pm sharp. Sunday 31 December 2000: SCOWT #3 City Hall and Washington Square Park. Meet on Broadway (next to City Hall) at the stairs leading down to the N/R subway. 2 pm sharp. mh:>) ----- End forwarded message ----- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net --- 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: California bars free speech of those cutting deals on votes
by Tim May 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

California has "shut down"--through a threatening letter--a site which matches up folks who are willing to say they'll vote for Nader in states where Gore is sure to win if other folks who had hoped to vote for Nader will instead vote for Gore in order to help him in swing states. (Sounds complicated. But it's really simple. "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine." No money is changing hands, no actual "ballots" are being traded.) The Web site doing this is/was: http://www.voteswap2000.com/ The article on California's actions is: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001031/wr/campaign_traders_dc_1.html BTW, I just "expressed my preference" at the site: http://Winchell.com/NaderTrader/default.asp No doubt I am even now more of a speech criminal. I wonder if a raid is imminent. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.

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CDR: Re: The Market for Privacy
by matthew gream 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Tim May wrote: >Fact is, most people don't think they need security. Most people don't even >think they need backups. Until their hard disk crashes. And so on. It's a >tough sell in either case. There are similarities to conventional society where people don't think that they need to save money for retirement, until they find themselves old, without much to live on, and expect the state to look after them. So maybe some privacy technologies need to be forced into use, through some means - maybe even the social consciences (even if only for self interest) of technologists -- people don't always know what is good for them until its too late (that will offend some people, but it is a hard to deny fact). My thinking is that sometimes in general it is possible to see that certain technologies are going to develop, but not see their exact manifestation. A good example of this is the Internet - people saw the "information highway" coming, but did not see that it would be "the Internet" or WWW - some of these technologies hit mass penetration, only after which it becomes apparent that they are deficient - for instance, the immaturity of WWW as an information structuring medium viz. SGML, hypermedia technologies and so on. What I am leading into is - perhaps ZKS will die, and perhaps what will happen is that other commercial needs will drive forward a mass penetration of something like smart card hosted identity management systems, used for banking, health care and a plethora of other situations which are more relevant to the daily life of most people. But, perhaps using this infrastructure, ZKS like and other privacy systems can operate. Perhaps I am a skeptic, but I see millions of people who have an immediate need for banking, healthcare, mobile phones and other operations before they have a need for identity management - it is an important, but yet still obscure, thing. So I see something like a smartcard hosted identity management system, which can be a platform for ZKS (and others?) to build upon for a myriad of other applications. The other area where I thought that ZKS could get a "leg on", is with providing privacy infrastructure for digital exchanges and negotiation systems. Could freed0m be good basis for providing anonymity and trusted virtual networks over potentially insecure physical networks ? That's relatively lightly thought through speculation on my behalf. Lucky Green wrote: >It appears that ZKS is yet another company that fell prey to the >DigiCash >"we know better than the market what the market wants" syndrome. What a >shame, really. In my opinion the basic technologies look good, but the commercial front end hasn't found a good home yet, maybe ZKS will stumble along for a while until it finds a better place for itself to fit. It seems as though the market will be there, but perhaps the volume is too small at the moment. Best regards, Matthew Gream. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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CDR: RE: ZKS and Ebola
by Fisher Mark 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

>Is that the neighbor, the employer, the insurance company, ISP, >Microsoft, her husband, or the government ? All entities on this list >except one can be effectively neutralized with single-DES and free >Anonymizer.com access. The government is the only one that can do decent >multi-network tracing and break some ciphers. The only entities that might be neutralized by single-DES are her husband and her neighbor, but that's not a sure thing. The EFF DES Cracker was built for less than $250,000 in 1993, which is just pocket change for large corporations (like GM) and well within budget for medium-sized corporations (like Thomson Consumer Electronics, where I work). There are several individuals on this list who could afford to build a single-DES cracker themselves, although they might have to take a hit on their affordability of their current lifestyle. You need to catch up on your reading as to what capabilities small organizations and private individuals now have in terms of breaking computer-based security. =============================================== Mark Leighton Fisher fisherm(a)tce.com Thomson Consumer Electronics Indianapolis IN "Display some adaptability." -- Doug Shaftoe, _Cryptonomicon_

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CDR: Re: VerySafe?
by brflgnk＠cotse.com 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Harmon said: I'm just amazed that with all the flack about ZK, something even worse goes unnoticed. Or are there so many of these pseudo-secure outfits that it would be a waste of bandwidth to comment. -- end quote -- I think that's it exactly. Doesn't look like VerySafe is bringing anything new to the table. PGP already does self-decrypting files, and has better support than just an Outlook plugin. On top of that, all mail is mediated through the VerySafe server, so traffic analysis is built in, along with key escrow (your keys are generated by the server) and maybe even content escrow.

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CDR: send me pictures
by MGUTSHINI＠aol.com 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

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CDR: <nettime> okay, out on the street...
by R. A. Hettinga 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

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03 Nov '00

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CDR: Lotus AmiPro3.1doc
by blue_screen＠gmx.de 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

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