September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: CDR: Re: would it be so much to ask
by raze 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

I believe you are correct. Johan Helsingius operated the world's most popular anonymous remailer, called penet.fi, until he closed up shop in September 1996. Helsingius' troubles started when he was raided in 1995 by the Finnish police after the Church of Scientology complined that a penet.fi customer was posting the "church's" secrets on the Net. Helsingius mothballed the remailer after a Finnish court ruled he must reveal the customer's real e-mail address. On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, BMM wrote: > Perhaps the penet remailer, which shut down in 9/96, is the one > being referred to. See http://www.penet.fi. If memory serves, > it was by far the most popular (pseudo|ano)nymous of the time. > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Kevin Elliott wrote: > >> At 12:43 -0400 9/19/00, Asymmetric wrote: >> Actually asshole, there are plenty of anonymous remailers that >> DO let you reply to the originator. In case you're just a bit >> wet behind the ears yet and hadn't heard, a while back there >> was a big problem with one of them when the government ordered >> them to release their database mapping the pseudonyms back to >> the originators. >> >> Oh? Name one please. After all, it would sort of defeat the >> purpose... As to your comment about having a database mapping >> pseudonyms to names, if one of those exists for a given >> remailer, it's not an ananymous remailer. I certainly hope >> none of the remailers in use by users here do such things.

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CDR: RE: Qualcomm CEO loses laptop
by Templeton, Stuart 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

wtf was the "Qualcomm Chief" doing walking around with secrets of that severity, much less on a laptop, on a podium in a HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOM ?????????? 486 laptops dissappear quicker than that at the university here. lol -----Original Message----- X-Loop: openpgp.net From: owner-cypherpunks(a)Algebra.COM [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@Algebra.COM]On Behalf Of A. Melon Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 1:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Qualcomm CEO loses laptop "contained proprietary information that could be valuable to foreign governments." Kinda interesting statement about a telecoms machine. Foreign govts? PC with Corporate Secrets Disappears Qualcomm Chiefs Laptop Taken from Podium Sept. 18, 2000 IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- The personal portable computer of Qualcomm Inc.s chief executive officer, which apparently contained valuable company secrets, disappeared from a hotel conference room moments after he addressed a national business journalists meeting. Irwin Jacobs left the computer unattended on a podium or an adjoining table in the Hyatt Regency-Irvine ballroom on Saturday for 15-20 minutes when he stepped down to talk to a small group after addressing about 90 members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Proprietary information Jacobs told people at the conference that the IBM laptop, which he had used for a slide show-type presentation focusing on Qualcomms wireless telecommunications technology, contained proprietary information that could be valuable to foreign governments. Qualcomm is a leader in wireless technology -- a boom market of the burgeoning telecommunications revolution -- with $3.9 billion in revenues last year. It designs and produces chips for wireless communications devices and holds hundreds of patents whose royalties provide it with the bulk of its earnings. SABEWs president Byron Calame, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, expressed sorrow at the event and noted that people with access to the area "included registrants, exhibitors and guests at our conference, hotel staff and perhaps others." Very disturbing "Its very disturbing to him," company spokeswoman Christine Trimble said of the 66-year-old Jacobs, Qualcomms chairman and founder. Jacobs, whose company is based in nearby San Diego, had driven to the conference with his wife and without any security. Trimble would not discuss details of the apparent theft except to confirm that the laptop was used by Jacobs for "business purposes." Company officials would not say whether Jacobs had contacted the FBI. "The FBI was never called that were aware of," said Irvine police desk officer Sgt. Tim Smith. "We took it as a straight laptop theft, which is pretty typical for a hotel." However, several attendees at the SABEW conference said they noticed three unattended laptops shortly after the theft as they passed through an adjoining exhibitors room. "It doesnt seem (Jacobs laptop) would be the obvious choice if the individual was looking for an easy target," noted Shawn Abbott, chief technical officer of computer security company Rainbow Technologies. Just 30 feet away Jacobs and about a half-dozen journalists were no further than 30 feet from his laptop when it disappeared. More than 100 reporters and editors from across the nation attended SABEWs 4th annual technology conference, a two-day event that ended Sunday. Trimble said the laptop, valued at about $4,000, was password protected and the data was backed up on a computer at Qualcomms San Diego headquarters. However, password-protected computers running Windows operating systems, as Jacobs was, can be easily be broken into. The level of security on Jacobs laptop could not be determined. Qualcomm is the worlds leading developer of a technology known as CDMA, which seems to have won the global battle to become the standard technology for making high-speed Internet access available on wireless devices. Wireless technologies Those so-called third-generation wireless technologies are expected to connect the Internet to handhelds and other devices in the next few years -- initially in the Far East and Europe. Those markets are considered to have a potential value in the tens of billions of dollars, as everything from cars to airplanes are equipped with broadband wireless connections. If security on Jacobs laptop was limited only to password protection _ rather than a more advanced encryption scheme -- "its extremely unlikely that it will take any more than removing the hard drive and hooking it up to another computer to read all the files," Abbott said. http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/09/18/qualcomm0918_01.ht ml

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CDR: Qualcomm CEO loses laptop
by A. Melon 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

"contained proprietary information that could be valuable to foreign governments." Kinda interesting statement about a telecoms machine. Foreign govts? PC with Corporate Secrets Disappears Qualcomm Chiefs Laptop Taken from Podium Sept. 18, 2000 IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- The personal portable computer of Qualcomm Inc.s chief executive officer, which apparently contained valuable company secrets, disappeared from a hotel conference room moments after he addressed a national business journalists meeting. Irwin Jacobs left the computer unattended on a podium or an adjoining table in the Hyatt Regency-Irvine ballroom on Saturday for 15-20 minutes when he stepped down to talk to a small group after addressing about 90 members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Proprietary information Jacobs told people at the conference that the IBM laptop, which he had used for a slide show-type presentation focusing on Qualcomms wireless telecommunications technology, contained proprietary information that could be valuable to foreign governments. Qualcomm is a leader in wireless technology -- a boom market of the burgeoning telecommunications revolution -- with $3.9 billion in revenues last year. It designs and produces chips for wireless communications devices and holds hundreds of patents whose royalties provide it with the bulk of its earnings. SABEWs president Byron Calame, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, expressed sorrow at the event and noted that people with access to the area "included registrants, exhibitors and guests at our conference, hotel staff and perhaps others." Very disturbing "Its very disturbing to him," company spokeswoman Christine Trimble said of the 66-year-old Jacobs, Qualcomms chairman and founder. Jacobs, whose company is based in nearby San Diego, had driven to the conference with his wife and without any security. Trimble would not discuss details of the apparent theft except to confirm that the laptop was used by Jacobs for "business purposes." Company officials would not say whether Jacobs had contacted the FBI. "The FBI was never called that were aware of," said Irvine police desk officer Sgt. Tim Smith. "We took it as a straight laptop theft, which is pretty typical for a hotel." However, several attendees at the SABEW conference said they noticed three unattended laptops shortly after the theft as they passed through an adjoining exhibitors room. "It doesnt seem (Jacobs laptop) would be the obvious choice if the individual was looking for an easy target," noted Shawn Abbott, chief technical officer of computer security company Rainbow Technologies. Just 30 feet away Jacobs and about a half-dozen journalists were no further than 30 feet from his laptop when it disappeared. More than 100 reporters and editors from across the nation attended SABEWs 4th annual technology conference, a two-day event that ended Sunday. Trimble said the laptop, valued at about $4,000, was password protected and the data was backed up on a computer at Qualcomms San Diego headquarters. However, password-protected computers running Windows operating systems, as Jacobs was, can be easily be broken into. The level of security on Jacobs laptop could not be determined. Qualcomm is the worlds leading developer of a technology known as CDMA, which seems to have won the global battle to become the standard technology for making high-speed Internet access available on wireless devices. Wireless technologies Those so-called third-generation wireless technologies are expected to connect the Internet to handhelds and other devices in the next few years -- initially in the Far East and Europe. Those markets are considered to have a potential value in the tens of billions of dollars, as everything from cars to airplanes are equipped with broadband wireless connections. If security on Jacobs laptop was limited only to password protection _ rather than a more advanced encryption scheme -- "its extremely unlikely that it will take any more than removing the hard drive and hooking it up to another computer to read all the files," Abbott said. http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/09/18/qualcomm0918_01.h…

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CDR: Re: Re: would it be so much to ask..
by Michael Motyka 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

Um, if there's any hint of a trail back to the sender where's the anonymity? Trust the recipient to use a remailer chain for the return path. or not. Include the return mail address in the body if you choose to. Isn't that what anonymity is about? Placing the choice for the disclosure of information and identity in the user's hands and nobody else's?

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CDR: No New World Coffee Disparagement Site TRO
by Duncan Frissell 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

Last Friday in Union County (NJ) Superior Court in Elizabeth, the operator of www.NewWorldCoffeeFraud.com won a solo victory against three sets of lawyers when he convinced the judge not to issue a TRO against his corporate disparagement site. New World Coffee a NJ-based coffee and bagel franchise company was represented by PIPER MARBURY RUDNICK & WOLFE LLP (the Washington DC firm that represented AOL in its anti-spam litigation), RABINOWITZ, TRENK, LUBETKIN & TULLY (a NJ firm), as well as New World Coffee's General Counsel. The company made a series of claims in seeking a TRO including breach of franchise agreement by franchisees who are supposedly saying unkind things about it. It is also claiming that the domain names newworldcoffefraud.com and newworldfraud.com are likely to confuse innocent surfers looking for coffee (dilution). There was also and Anti-Cybersquatting Act claim. The judge didn't seem too concerned about the contract claims but was initially inclined to block the defendant's use of domain names for dilution and cybersquatting. But once the defendant presented a whois list of the hundreds of domain names containing the words "new world" (New World Coffee does not control newworld.com, .org, or .net) she dismissed the cybersquatting argument. Dilution was thrown out after the defendant argued that all of the cited cases involved domain names that were initially confusing versions of trademarks (jews-for-jesus.org, plannedparenthood.org, etc.) The judge agreed that even the most casual viewer would not confuse newworldcoffeefraud.com with the trademark holder's site. The underlying case is still active and plaintiffs are seeking early discovery to see if they can uncover the defendant's sources. He is defending using the NJ shield law for journalists. Any New Jersey lawyers interested in the case? DCF ---- "Di-electrical materialism dooms the Ancien Regime, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Communist International, the whole shooting match"

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CDR: Please ignore this email- this is only test.
by auto95711＠hushmail.com 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

----- Begin Hush Signed Message from auto95711(a)hushmail.com ----- The dog barks at midnight The moon is full The stick is brown So is the toilet paper ----- Begin Hush Signature v1.3 ----- Hq+ukSgS7nN5At5dNsW7djRTS4xIVJYSVQCaJz8IagYPoqFpf6v+53aNnBZkgWQylppe A4DBmdguSeI3oDIDauIyqlnC6VZZtdMbh0ZE3zv1jefvdB4Mo5CxCj+YQEO2KE+qXEsj yEWUdvA0SYnU9q98ivzE3WzwrFrTCALk6udwXwEdxaLDsxCcaKT4ATxQ6urDuIKvDncw 998oXQr9HvFZLx2r3KxeLz9319tRxct19yD+Da0b0+ng3a/L9vY+sX986SwsfvkpcxwD TMZMXWpPTgTOGhAMs1RQW7sP6ON+oVqVlPWAkwL7R9nstNxXJN9ZDSopJI/oxS894zA+ YAw7+ghXyczpqjAuuK32AD7xNwKB4WuIlgefDqCd+dBDFmAJN4DpHlMpms47ZowundXK 5yQvn3JrYhWvmhb6Ffd/wRTmv4WwlyVXXHhDSYhs0jAQrbAX3SGE2rxvBi5Y3ri7pulZ PWYe+eoaa2L+/HbmjuR4dx+jvZHRwGpv9cOSiirj2ss+ ----- End Hush Signature v1.3 -----

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CDR: Your Order!
by Sales Department 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

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CDR: Preliminary Outline of a Proposed Micromint Specification
by R. A. Hettinga 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

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CDR: bsp - RSA expiration party this Thursday (Free!)
by Sameer Parekh 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

NOTE: The schedule has changed a bit because we recently learned that the music at the Great American Music Hall can't go past 1:15. == Celebrate with us as we celebrate the end of an era The Big RSA Patent Expiration Party A fundraiser for the Cryptorights Foundation (http://www.cryptorights.org/) produced by The Cryptorights Foundation (http://www.cryptorights.org/) musical production by BPM Consulting International (http://www.bpm.ai/) with special thanks to our Gold Sponsor Certicom (http://www.certicom.com/) also sponsored by VA Linux (http://www.valinux.com/) PAIP International (http://www.paip.net/) vital production help from Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/) The Shmoo Group (http://www.shmoo.com/) The Secret Order of Former Primes (http://www.krev.org/mos/sofp/) The Cypherpunks (http://www.cryptorights.org/meetingpunks/) webcast by Technostate Underground Communications (http://www.technostate.com/) Virtual Recordings (http://www.virtualrecordings.com/) sound by Cloudfactory (http://www.cloudfactory.org/) The Great American Music Hall (http://www.musichallsf.com/) 859 O'Farrell St. (between Polk & Larkin) 21+ Directions: http://www.musichallsf.com/info/directions/ On the evening after the expiration of the patent 21 September, 2000: 8PM-1:30AM By invitation only. In order to receive your invitation, send an email with the # of people who plan to attend to <mailto:rsa-patent-benefit@cryptorights.org> Entrance is free, but the Cryptorights Foundation will be accepting donations at the door. The evening begins promptly at 8PM with speakers from the cryptography and human rights fields. The Great American Music Hall's kitchen will be open until 10:30, so show up early, have dinner, and listen to some fine speeches. Speakers for the evening will include: Mistress of Ceremonies: Cindy Cohn -- Legal Director, EFF Master of Ceremonies: John Gilmore -- Founder, EFF Dave Del Torto: Founder, CRF Cindy Cohn: Legal Director, EFF Ian Goldberg: Head Cypherpunk, Zero Knowledge Systems Matt Blaze: AT&T Research John Gilmore: Electronic Frontier Foundation CRF Steel Rose Awards Presented by Dave Del Torto CRF Lifetime Acheivement Award Presentation Keynote/Last Word: David Chaum Finally, at 9:30PM, the beats will drop and your evening will end with the slamming techno sounds of the San Francisco underground! Featuring DJs Sameer (FnF, Cloudfactory, Urban Wasteland, Mad Hatter, trustcrew) Sameer has been active in the San Francisco underground throwing parties since 1993. In 1999 with some of the crew he met through Friends & Family he started throwing the legendary Urban Wasteland parties in urban renegade locations in and around the East Bay. He also picked up his first slab of wax in early 1999 and has been playing sick pounding techno at parties around the world since then. He is also involved in producing a weekly club in Oakland called the Mad Hatter. Sameer is also known as the founder of C2Net, the company that pioneered the international development of strong cryptography to avoid United States export restrictions. DJ Tektrix (Sister, Tetractys, Influence Recordings) Cary, a/k/a DJ Tektrix, moved to San Francisco in 1997. Since then Tektrix has played alongside DJs such as Forest Green, Twerk, Terrac, Plateshifter, Mike Sims, Darin Marshall, Sean Murray, J-Bird, Tom L-G, 2x4 with DJ Zeel, Sifu, HoneyB, and Ethan. In 1999 she threw a party called Circle that took place at the Mother's Cookies Warehouse, conducted weekly live internet and pirate radio broadcasts on Vulcan Free Radio, and this year became a resident at Tetractys and Sister. She has played at parties such as Static, Circle, Overworld, and Topica. Forest Green (Cloudfactory, Sister, XLR8R, technologix, FnF) Forest Green has been throwing down beats with the sickness for several years. She has traveled both across the nation and into Canada to bring the sick Techno sound to those in need. you might also know her as one of the starring DJs from the hit underground movie Groove! also featuring tracks produced by the EFF's very own: Patrick Norager (Virtual Recordings, RadioEFF) Patrick is the Station Manager at Radio EFF, and a musical recording artist in his own right. Patrick has produced some phat tracks especially for this event, including phat rhythm tracks under audio samples of famed investigative journalist Duncan Campbell talking to a Cypherpunks meeting last year about his work on revealing the existence of ECHELON. Be sure to listen for them during the music portion of the evening. == Event Features Food & Drinks: The Bar (this is a 21+ event) and Kitchen at the GAMH will be open for your patronage, and there will be tables and chairs available on the main floor and the balcony for anyone wishing to dine or drink (please designate a driver!). There will be pretzels/nuts/etc for those just wishing to nibble. Note that the GAMH has been very supportive of this benefit, and have offered us a small refund of some of the event fees if the bar and kitchen meet a minimum, so eating and drinking are yet another way for you to benefit the CRF. Enjoy! Sponsors: Our corporate sponsors will have some materials for attendees and there may be some job recruiters, so if you need a job, bring a resume and/or card. CryptoRights Memberships: Please sign up to be a CRF member at our membership table! For a mere $20, you get a one-year CRF membership and a cool t-shirt! Such a deal! Backrubs: Lile Elam of Art.net will be setting up a place for people to give each other backrubs. RSA employees get preferential treatment! == "The Party Line" A few comments from the CryptoRights Foundation on why we're having this event... The last of the Big Crypto Patents --the RSA algorithm-- will officially expire and enter the Public Domain on 20 September 2000 (at midnight local time), two decades after its original discovery and after 17 years of fun with royalties. Over the years, RSA Security Inc often made the algorithm free for use by academics and non-profits, so it's fair to say that most of the patent's impact over the years has been in the commercial sector, but that has had an impact on public domain open source freeware since many freeware crypto products are funded by commercial development. On the other hand, as Whit Diffie and I both argued at a recent BayFF meeting, the RSA patent may even have pushed people to form groups like the Cypherpunks, the EFF and the CRF (a good thing for everyone), as well as freeware products like PGP (via MIT). Nevertheless, once it's entirely public property again, everyone in the US will soon be able to use the RSA algorithm as freely as others have been able to around the world for years. Whether you consider this passing to be as symbolic as a press release, or a major milestone for the crypto community, it could lead to brilliant new work by US security professionals. Free to implement the raw mathematical algorithm in the open so that their work is fully trustable, rather than using a proprietary library designed by others, we should see new capabilities brought forth soon that can benefit non-commercial users. Many have been talking for some time about having a party to mark the end of this era. Some of us also feel it's also time to look to the future, and to discuss what we'll do over the next 20 years to let bygones be bygones and focus on putting crypto to use in the pursuit of loftier goals. We're not about complaining about the past, we're about working on the future, and we know that everyone will need secure, authenticated communications and data storage if the world is to move closer to universal representative government. The CryptoRights Foundation was founded on a few important principles. One principle we believe in is that human rights workers should have access to the strongest security tools as they enter dangerous areas to document Crimes against Humanity. We also believe that security researchers should have the Freedom to openly research and develop security algorithms and tools without interference from external organizations. Finally, we believe that both groups should cooperate as much as possible to protect each others' freedoms. This is why we thought the RSA patent expiration would be an ideal opportunity to grow support for some of our current projects and to get our message across. By bringing together all of the different groups who were planning to have a party anyway, we can discuss common visions. We hope you'll come and join all of the wonderful people and organizations and generous sponsors who plan to celebrate the next twenty years of working together! --Dave Del Torto founder, CryptoRights Some Interesting URLs: http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn10=US04405829 (the RSA patent) http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/6-3-1.html (RSA's FAQ on the patent expiration) http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html (RSA's recent Press Release on the patent) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Very Special Thanks! Lots of nice people contributed their efforts to this event, and we'd like to thank a few of them here (if we left you out, please accept our apologies!): Tim Dierks, Jessica Watt & the human beings at Certicom -- Chris DiBona, Rick Moen, Joseph Z & the human beings at VA Linux -- Ian Goldberg of PAIP International -- Sameer Parekh of CryptoRights and BPM International -- John Gilmore, Cindy Cohn, Patrick Norager, Deborah Pierce, Katina Bishop & Stanton McCandlish at the EFF -- Paul Holman, Kristen Tsolis & the Shmoo Group -- Rodney Thayer at KnownSafe, Inc -- Len Sassaman at MelonTraffickers and Phil Zimmermann for the new/improved Group Keysigning Protocol -- Bill Stewart, the Meetingpunks Planners & the dozens of Cypherpunks for their many good works over the years -- Randi M Chiffre & Alan J Lansing of the Secret Order of Former Primes -- Gwen Hastings for the many person-hours of time and talent on CRF technical projects -- Robert Guerra of CryptoRights Canada for so many things we can't even list them here -- David Chaum for keynoting and bringing a secret to reveal -- Patrick Ball at AAAS for inspiration and years of hard work in the trenches all around the world -- and last but certainly not least, Tony Caparelli, Andrea Crittenden & the whole GAMH Crew for having us into their house.

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CDR: Question...
by Jimmy Hornestedt 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

Hello! I was wondering, did you ever get an answer? I also have the surfboard 3100 and would like the same thing. thanks Jimmy Hornestedt ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have a SB3100 cable modem and would like to know if there is anyone that know how to or has the program to access the cable modem? I would like to see if there is a way to speed my modem up a bit.. thanks Mark Galliart

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