December 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

URGENT: Upcoming ZD.net Onebox account deletion
by The onebox.com Team 16 Dec '00

16 Dec '00

ZD.net Onebox : cypherpunks(a)zdnetonebox.com We have noticed that you have not logged into your ZD.net Onebox in over two months. For many users, this may indicate that they no longer intend to use their account. We are therefore marking your account for future deletion. Should you wish to prevent your account from being deleted, please log in to your account before December 13. If you have forgotten your password, please click on the "Recover Password" link, or contact our support at support(a)onebox.com as soon as possible." Thanks, Onebox Team

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Quote.com User Information Modifications
by Customer Service 16 Dec '00

16 Dec '00

Hello Valued Quote.com User, We appreciate your use of our site and hope our financial resources are satisfying your investment needs. Recently, you received an e-mail outlining some of the changes that are going on with our site. We are working to implement major enhancements to our network infrastructure to improve your user experience. To make this a seamless transition, we have assigned you a new password. Username: rivermaste New Password: tick1rep Your current password will be active until Friday, December 15, 2000. The new password issued above will become effective as of Saturday, December 16, 2000. If you decide to change your new password upon activation, please go to https://www.quote.com/reg/acct/modify.html. Feel free to contact our customer service team at (800)498-8068 if you encounter any difficulty accessing your Quote.com account. We are proud to announce that your username and new password will soon become your passport, providing you access to the entire Lycos Network through your existing Quote.com account. We trust these improvements will make your user experience more enjoyable and well worth any inconvenience this process may have caused you. Thank you again for your patronage. Sincerely, Quote.com

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A Privacy Update from Dialpad
by The Dialpad Team 16 Dec '00

16 Dec '00

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Re: This is why a free society is evil. [Re: This is why HTML email is evil.]
by Bill Stewart 16 Dec '00

16 Dec '00

>Tim May wrote: >> In a free society, free economy, then employers and employees are >> much more flexible. A solid contributor would not be fired for >> something so trivial as having a porn picture embedded in some minor >> way. Hell, a solid contributor probably wouldn't be fired even for >> sending MPEG porn movies to his buddies! ... and Tim goes on to attribute this to lawsuits of types that he asserts wouldn't happen in a free society. It's not that cut and dried - in a free society, solid contributors are often fired for non-economic reasons, and one reason such people are _not_ fired is also fear of lawsuits. Stupidity may be stupid, but it's not rare, and there are lots more opportunities for random decisions to get made. One friend of mine was having lunch with her boss and a male coworker that she got along well with, (back in the 70s) and the boss asked if they were going out. "No, Bob, Charlie and I are both gay"; she and her coworker were both fired that week. It wouldn't happen today, at least here in San Francisco, partly because of changing attitudes in society (or at least because people got used to it), and partly because the boss would worry about losing other productive workers or customers, but also because the boss would get sued or harassed by _some_ city or state agency whose job is harassing businesses. But there's much of the country where it could happen. An employer might also be concerned about the effects of a hostile atmosphere on the productivity of other employees, not just the lawsuitishness of those employees - in a free society you have more flexibility to make decisions about how to handle situations. Sometimes companies don't deal with personnel-relationships problems until hit on the head with a two-by-four made of compressed lawyers. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Re: Re: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers
by Bill Stewart 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

>On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > >>BTW the first things the Feds are now saying when they speak in public >>(http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-17/aba-netspionage-broadcast.html) >>is that they do not come in and cart off everything you own. At least >>that's the latest spin. :) Of course they don't. Carting stuff is a job for union workers, so that's done by the General Services Administration, unless there's some other local union contract that requires your city's workers to do it. And deciding whether you own things or not is a long legal process, as is identifying what things you might own that are somewhere else. So instead they just have the aforementioned union or city workers cart away everything you _have_, and cart back anything later determined to belong to someone else, unless it looks suspictious, of course. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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DoveBid News
by News＠DoveBid.com 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

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Re: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers
by Alan Olsen 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:52:54PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote: > > And after they get rooted by the script kiddies for the millionth time, > > maybe they will get a clue and allow people to find and fix the holes > > without having to worry about the feds carting off every thing they own. > > BTW the first things the Feds are now saying when they speak in public > (http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-17/aba-netspionage-broadcast.html) > is that they do not come in and cart off everything you own. At least > that's the latest spin. :) Just anything of value... alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

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Cyber Intifada: The Digital warriors of Arabia
by Matthew Gaylor 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

Source: The Star, Jordan Type: Web Pointer; Web Sample Date: 14 December 2000 Title: Cyber Intifada: The Digital warriors of Arabia TEXT: The Star: Jordan's Politicial, Economic and Cultural Weekly http://www.star.com.jo/ Nov (2 - 8) 2000, Issue No. 20 06 - Dec - 2000 /02:32 PM G INTERFACE: Digital warriors of Arabia IT'S OFFICIAL: The Internet is the latest battleground. If you've been reading the news recently, you will probably have noticed reports on website hack-attacks between Arab and Israeli users. Nov 05, 2000, 04:42 PM BY ZEID NASSER JORDAN (Star) - IT'S OFFICIAL: The Internet is the latest battleground. If you've been reading the news recently, you will probably have noticed reports on website hack-attacks between Arab and Israeli users. It started last week, with an Israeli attack on the Hezbollah website (www.hizbollah.com) by which hackers crashed the site's server by flooding it with requests. It was an organized effort, carried out by several hackers. A news report stated that the attack on Hezbollah's site was first initiated by a message that was circulated over the ICQ instant messaging service. The message urged users to help their "Israeli friends" take the Hezbollah site down by using a ping command on their PCs. Throughout the day, Israeli users plotted their attack, and implemented it. Later in the week, a number of Israeli government sites were attacked, including the site of the Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's website. It became quite apparent that this would be the beginning of a wave of attacks and counter attacks, pitting the hacking skills of Arabs against the skills of Israelis. Reports began to emerge that all sorts of Arabic and Israeli websites were crashing under attack. Political, academic and even entertainment sites were coming under attack. The Amman-based news portal, albawaba.com, got hit by a flood of pro-Israeli messages on one of its discussion forums, which resulted in the political forum being closed down until the technicians diverted the messages and reopened it. On the other hand a newspaper reported, in detail, how an Arab hacker, who calls himself Dodi, succeeded in "defacing the Netanya Academy site in Israel, leaving a message that attacked Israel and the US and criticized Arab governments. The activist said he would carry on with his attacks until the whole Internet backbone in Israel was down." Obviously, there are enough Arab Internet users out there to counter attack. In fact, if numbers count in this new web- war, Israeli sites will probably be worried at the potential Arab Internet population! So, the skirmishes continue and are set to go on, with more dangerous prospects emerging as the networks of governments, and large private corporations may become more vulnerable. Hackers seeking to cause maximum damage will target public records, which should be easily accessible over the web soon, due to the adoption of the concept of e-government. That's quite frightening. Opening up some of the government's computer networks to 'outsider' access could compromise the security of government records and result in all sorts of damage. Citizens like you and me will be pleased to enjoy the convenience of applying for a license online, but 'nasty' hackers will jump to the opportunity of delving into this e-government server, and finding out how far they can get into the government's other networks through it! So, apart from Internet warfare, there is the somewhat more worrying aspect of security breaches in government Intranets. The issue here is whether there is enough security to prevent the possibility of any harm being done by an intelligent, motivated hacker. If the hacker is the 'enemy', then who knows what kind of remorseless data theft and data destruction will be carried out. Apart from the damage done, the downtime will frustrate the network users, just like 39,000 Microsoft employees were locked out of the company network this week due to a hack attack! Contrary to the 'patriotic' nature of recent hacking incidents in the Middle East, hacking cases tend to be corporate crime incidents. That kind of hacking will soon be happening in our region too. However, for now, the hackers are using their skills for patriotic purposes; seeking vengeance for crimes committed against the Palestinian people. Some people are calling them the 'secret warriors'. I like to think of them as the digital warriors of Arabia, in a battleground that transcends the traditional limitations of state borders. What we are witnessing now is just the beginning. One thing is for sure, there's more to come! ) The Star 2000-2001 A premier partner of arabia.com Text accessible online at http://www.star.com.jo/article/0,5596,16_98,00.html ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor, 1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., PMB 176, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 Archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/fa/ **************************************************************************

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FBI Sniff Correction
by John Young 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

Correction of first URL: On December 6 Cryptome published a list of some 2600 names of alleged "CIA sources," provided by a person named Gregory Douglas, who claims to have received the list from Robert Crowley, once Deputy Director of Operations for the CIA: http://cryptome.org/cia-2619.htm (167KB)

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Security Against Compelled Disclosure (fwd)
by Jim Choate 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:47:31 +0000 From: Ben Laurie <ben(a)algroup.co.uk> To: UKCrypto <ukcrypto(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Coderpunks <coderpunks(a)toad.com>, Cryptography <cryptography(a)c2.net> Subject: Security Against Compelled Disclosure People may be interested in a paper Ian Brown and I wrote, with the above title, for ACSAC. http://www.apache-ssl.org/disclosure.pdf Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff

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