December 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

Physical Meet: Austin, Tx. Tue. Dec. 12 2000, 7-9pm
by Jim Choate 04 Dec '00

04 Dec '00

Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2000 Austin Cypherpunks Monthly Physical Meeting Central Market HEB Cafe 38th & N. Lamar 2nd. Tuesday of each month 7-9pm http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html We normaly meet outside at the tables unless the weather is bad. Look for the red covered 'Applied Cryptography' book to identify the group. Please visit the homepage for information on joining both the Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer (CDR) as well as the local mailing list. ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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manual crypto
by Anonymous 04 Dec '00

04 Dec '00

Well, not crypto but stego. I was looking for ways to use existing infrastructure for transporting ascii messages to send info which is not harvestable by machines. This came up: It is intended for cross-eyed free viewing. Cross your eyes until the Vs and Xs at the top and bottom overlap with the adjacent ones. V V V V V OIWEQPOISDFBKJFOIWEQPOISDFBKJFOIWEQPOISDFBKJFOIWEQPOISDFBKJF EDGHOUIEROUIYWEVDGHOXUIEROIYWEVDGHEOXUIEOIYWEVDGHEOXUIEOIYWE KJBSVDBOIWERTBAKJBSVEDBOIWRTBAKJBSOVEDBOWRTBAKJBSOVEDBOWRTBA SFDHNWECTBYUVRGSFDHNYWECTBUVRGSFDHCNYWECBUVRGSFDHCNYWECBUVRG HNOWFHLSFDGWVRGHNOWFGHLSFDWVRGHNOWSFGHLSDWVRGHNLOWSFGLSDWVRG YPOWVXTNWFECHRGYPOWVEXTNWFCHRGYPOWNVEXTNFCHRGYPWOWNVETNFCHRG SVYUWXRGTWVETUISVYUWVXRGTWVETUISVYUWVXRGWVETUISVYUWVXRGWVETU WVERBYOIAWEYUIVWVERBEYOIAWEYUIVWVERBEYOIWEYUIVWLVERBEOIWEYUI EUIOETOUINWEBYOEUIOEWTOUINWEBYOEUIOEWTOUNWEBYOETUIOEWOUNWEBY WFVEWVETN9PUW4TWFVEWPVETN9UW4TWFVETWPVET9UW4TWFBVETWPET9UW4T NOUWQERFECHIBYWNOUWQXERFECIBYWNOUWFQXERFCIBYWNOFUWFQXRFCIBYW VEHWETUQECRFVEVEHWERTUQECFVEVEHWQERTUQCFVEVEOHWQERUQCFVE UIWTUIRTWUYWQCRUIWTUYIRTWUWQCRUIWTXUYIRTUWQCRUIBWTXUYRTUWQCR IYPOWOXNPWTHIECIYPOWTOXNPWHIECIYPONWTOXNWHIECIYLPONWTXNWHIEC R9UHWVETPUNRQYBR9UHWVETPUNRQYBR9UHWVETPUNRQYBR9UHWVETPUNRQYB Any sources for making these ? I know that it can be machine-read, by extracting 3D figure and OCR-ing, but not today easily and in quantity.

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RE: Net News as Cover Traffic
by Trei, Peter 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

> Ray Dillinger[SMTP:bear@sonic.net] wrote > > I think that what we really need is some kind of NNTP-like system > that distributes encrypted packets instead of cleartext ones. If > you want to baffle traffic analysis, just create a system where > they can't tell the difference between your emails and tons and > tons of news traffic. > [...] You mean like the long standing and active news group alt.anonymous.messages, but different? Peter Trei

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Re: Scenes from the Supreme Court protests today
by Peter Capelli 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

What an excellent example of how anonymous politcal commentary can benefit society at large. Quite worthy of it's status as heir to 'The Federalist Papers'. I look forward to reading more of your work in the future. -p(ublius) "Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Anonymous <mix(a)mix2.hyperreal.pl>@cyberpass.net on 12/02/2000 04:38:49 PM Please respond to Anonymous <mix(a)mix2.hyperreal.pl> Sent by: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net

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Crimes Against Humanity: : The Struggle for Global Justice
by matthew gream 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

No doubt readers of this forum will be interested in Geoffrey Robertson's ``Crimes Against Humanity: : The Struggle for Global Justice`` (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713991976) in which he does excellent justice to tracing the origins of human rights and international human rights causes, especially as it evolved post nuremburg through the UNHRC, The Balkans, General Pinochet, Kosovo, East Timor and The ICC. Geoffrey is scathingly critical of the hypocrisy of international diplomacy in its failure to uphold agreed upon conventions and fundamental rights for individuals. His explanation not only illustrates circumstances as they occurred, but he tends to decribe how they should be, in order that "justice is seen to be done". Although there is no mention of cryptography, the insights into geopolitics and "the merry-go-round in geneva" illustrate the cogs and lubricants in the international framework of legal and diplomatic wangling. Fans of Jack Straw will be pleased that he "did the right thing" in the case of Pinochet, and my hero Noam Chomsky gets a brief message (his incisive criticisms on American foreign policy - and Robertson holds nothing bad in criticising the continuing hypocrisy). Matthew Gream Brussels, December 2000 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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by Income Opportunity 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

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Only Ones
by Giacomino C Parkinson 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

http://www.intelcities.com/Classic_Lane/perrett

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Human Rights Alert-- Urgent Information needed on West Papua massacre by Indonesian military.
by Joe Baptista 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

>>> ---------- >>> From: "Michael Albert" <sysop(a)zmag.org> >>> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:25:39 -0800 >>> To: <znetupdates(a)tao.ca>, <znetcommentary(a)tao.ca> >>> Subject: ZNet Commentary / George Monbiot / Massacre Starts Tomorrow / Dec 1 >>> >>> >>> The Massacre Starts Tomorrow >>> And Britain will share the blame for what's about to happen in West Papua >>> By George Monbiot >>> Also Published in the Guardian 30th November 2000 >>> >>> There's an odd component of globalisation, which I find myself at a loss to >>> explain. We are, we're assured, living in a global village, whose people are >>> daily brought closer together. Yet we hear ever less about what is happening >>> in distant parts of the world. There is less foreign news in the papers than >>> there has been for sixty years. Foreign documentaries are almost extinct. >>> Parliamentary debate about overseas issues has all but dried up. In the >>> midst of the communications revolution, we are becoming strangers to each >>> other. >>> >>> So the massacres due to begin tomorrow will take almost everyone by >>> surprise. Indeed, there is hardly a news editor who has even heard of the >>> land in which they are scheduled to take place. >>> >>> West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea, which has been >>> occupied since 1963 by Indonesia. Tomorrow, local people expect the >>> Indonesian army to launch a one-sided war, bloodier even than the carnage in >>> East Timor last year. The troops and militias have been armed and trained >>> and are awaiting orders. Only the international community can stop them. >>> But, though Western nations such as Britain are up to their necks in it, >>> they haven't the faintest intention of seeking to prevent the Indonesian >>> plan from going ahead. >>> >>> In 1961, the 800,000 Melanesian people of West Papua were promised >>> independence. Holland, the colonial power, began to transfer the >>> administration to local people. In 1962, Indonesia invaded. The attack >>> failed, but John Kennedy, with Britain's backing, coerced the Dutch into >>> surrendering West Papua to the United Nations, on the grounds that if the >>> Indonesian government were not appeased it might succumb to communism. The >>> UN, as planned, promptly gave West Papua to Indonesia, but on condition that >>> within five years its people would be granted "the right of >>> self-determination". In the event, 1000 Papuan men were rounded up and >>> forced to vote on pain of death for Indonesian sovereignty. >>> >>> Since then, tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Papuans have been >>> tortured, mutilated and killed by Indonesian soldiers. The government >>> launched a eugenics programme whose purpose, according to the former >>> governor, was to give "birth to a new generation of people without curly >>> hair, sowing the seeds for greater beauty". The Papuans have been pushed out >>> of their lands and replaced by people from the central islands of Indonesia, >>> brought in by the government to pacify the province. Its forests have been >>> sold to logging companies, its mountains to western mining firms. When >>> villagers have sought to defend their lands, they have been bombed and >>> strafed. Now the whole place is about to explode. >>> >>> Tomorrow, the indigenous people will make a formal declaration of >>> independence. The Indonesian army has been waiting for months for just such >>> a moment. Since August, thousands of commandos and paratroops have been >>> flown into West Papua. British-made Hawk jets have been overflying the >>> province's central highlands. Their deployment there was, according to the >>> Financial Times, sanctioned by Britain's Foreign Office. Militias are >>> currently being trained by the army outside the town of Wamena, one of the >>> centres of Papuan resistance. Some 12,000 firearms have been flown in, >>> presumably for distribution to Indonesian volunteers. Local people, by >>> contrast, are armed with spears and bows and arrows. >>> >>> The Indonesian army has been encouraging the Papuans to rise, planting >>> agents provocateurs and issuing public statements suggesting that >>> independence ceremonies will be tolerated (all previous rituals have been >>> ruthlessly crushed). Here, as in East Timor, the army will seek to unleash >>> sufficient force to persuade the indigenous people to abandon their hopes of >>> self-determination. >>> >>> Papuan leaders have repeatedly sought to reach a peaceful independence >>> settlement with the Indonesian government. But while President Wahid seems >>> vaguely sympathetic to their cause, vice-president Megawati, who has, in >>> effect, ultimate control over the province, appears interested only in >>> delivering lucrative logging and development concessions to the army in >>> order to secure its support. The Papuans have approached the British >>> government for help. It has ignored them. And still it continues to sell >>> arms to Indonesia. >>> >>> When the massacre begins, our officials will doubtless wring their hands and >>> lament the failure of Indonesia's people to resolve their differences by >>> peaceful means. Having seen what happened in East Timor and having failed to >>> do anything to prevent its repetition, the blood this time will be on our >>> hands. We helped to start all this. Now we must stop it. >>>

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CDR: Arthur Anderson black-bagged, NIPC now spooking
by David Honig 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

"Arthur Andersen's office in Vilnius has reportedly fallen victim to electronic surveillance operations. Following the discovery of suspicious equiptment in the office, Andersen called on the Lithuanian authorities to open an investigation into what it views as a case of economic espionage. Another firm highly active in the region, J. Kabasinka & Partners, is said to have also been subjected to similar surveillance" Intelligence Newsletter 12 Oct 2000 p3 indigo-net.com [no affil.] Also a notes that FBI now training NIPC in Carnivore use. "Previously the FBI had sworn NIPC was not engaged in law enforcement surveillance." p 5 same issue. Will scan sources for John's library.

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Re: Scenes from the Supreme Court protests today
by George＠Orwellian.Org 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

Alright, Declan using his Nikon Coolpix 950! Screw that analog stuff. Got 340Mb? At 5:21 PM -0500 12/1/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: # http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/supreme-court-bush-gore-arguments.html The Reverend Al Sharpton, working off more weight. Hey, they get to use bullhorns in DC? We can't even use a stick to hold up a sign here in NYC! Our resident racist prosecutor & fantasy killer Tim May wrote: # # I noticed the guy down on his knees...was he expecting the # Republicans to give him a bullet to the base of the neck? Huh? What is going on in what's left of your brain? Our resident racist prosecutor & fantasy killer Tim May wrote: # # Frankly, I think much of Al Gore's desperation comes from his # realization that if he loses, he'll face prosecution for his # treason vis-a-vis the Chinese. And, as someone pointed out to # me recently, if Al Gore has no power, the Chinese won't need # him around. In fact, he becomes a positive liability for them, # in terms of testimony, plea bargains, memoirs, careless comments. # They may choose to retire him with extreme prejudice. Gore wants to be president so he won't be killed? World-class lame lamentations.

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