September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: VISA to smartcard the US
by A. Melon 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Sep 12, 2000 - 07:27 PM Visa USA to Launch Smart Card in the U.S. The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - After success with its smart card in Europe and Japan, Visa is aiming squarely at the U.S. market with an upgraded version that contains more memory. Over the next couple of weeks, Visa USA, the companys U.S. division, will be launching smart cards - microprocessors embedded in plastic -that will offer prepackaged services to be determined by its issuers. Customers will be able to download information from their computers via special card readers. Over the next year or so, they will be able to store airline tickets, for example, and eventually use the cards as keys to their cars and homes. The card, which has 32 kilobytes of memory, is different from Visas original version, which has mainly served as a "monetary value card," said Al Banisch, senior vice president of consumer credit products. The new card will be available free to Visas 350 million cardholders.

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CDR: Re: KERSHOFF
by Anonymous 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

> Searching SS# for John/Jacob Kershoff, > lived 1940-1950's onStaten Island, N.Y. > Been told his name was JAY, could be nickname. Died before 1995, he was > married to Margaret Whitehead and had two children. > He was an officer in the US Navy during WW11. Thank you. > Eileen Douvarjo Try: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm

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CDR: [PGP:] Are you all this Blind? [Resent.]
by Wilfred L. Guerin 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

-=|=- CP: This message was distributed from Algebra.com as NULL content back on Sunday, 27 August, 2000. It, and postant null and erred content from various nodes triggered questions over the last week, numerous admins have checked on the issue of problems, apparently. [There have been no changes to this text since the original post, simply re-sent now. -WLG] -=|=- [PGP]: Are you all this blind? Regarding the "New Realization" of the PGP "fixes"... This short denouncement of performance is directed to all those of semi-competence and awareness and understanding of the reality. For the rest of "us" sheep, Let "us" learn from 'their' mistakes. I do not know who in their right mind --who actually comprehends the basis of _this_ intellectual environment and the surrounding realities in which we operate-- could possibly not comprehend the legitimacy and security issues surrounding the PGP projects after the fixes were introduced. As we *ALL* _SHOULD_ know, PGP releases prior the original release of 2.6.2 and (there may be a legitimate interim version, however its life span was limited) prior the introduction of external influences and the release of the 5.*+ series and the replaced 2.6.2 distributions, are the only semi-secure and legitimate releases of the PGP algos/code. You should ALSO know that all versions 5.*+ are severely defective, and altered versions of 2.* replaced legitimate public distributions of 2.* during the same time frame. I will refuse to accept the apparent "realization" that is currently circulating the public media. Are those of you on this list, and involved in any and all related fields, claiming to be so blind sighted that *YOU* did not notice the variance in code, that *YOU* did not "bother" to examine or check the totally faulted releases of anything from these sources after the fixes? Are *YOU* going to tell us that you "didn't notice" the variance in code structures in the server-distributed versions of 2.6.2 releases immediately after the fixing? Nor any of the more obvious transitions? Granted, although for obvious reasons, no one immediately put up alarms due to their full comprehension of the situations the PGP project was faced with during this time period... BUT... Why is it only NOW, _years_later_, that it is such a revelation? Why is it only now that there is a release of a statement of common-knowledge reality? Or is the fact that no one with any comprehension or ability to recognise the issues bothered to elucidate the reality to the rest of the world? This is the epitome of failure, on one of many fronts. I am thoroughly disappointed that the current public understanding of the PGP code and algos has thought it to be stable and legitimate encryption, especially when there are thousands+ of individuals capable of simple review that *SHOULD* have looked at the code upon release and prior their use. How many did? Most. And? Now, how many PGP sigs in this list (and others) are explicitly tag lined with a statement resembling "2.6.2 _ORIGINAL_ PGP" or similar? I will continue to refuse to believe that we have gone (for how many years?) failing to exhibit the faulted PGP versions circulating publicly and no one publicly questioning it? Granted, the sheep are supposed to be dumb for a reason, but, in this regard, has anyone ever bothered to teach them a more complex "baah!" ? Or, are we to assume that our friendly spooks have failed so miserably that only now have they created a computational system capable of analysing the real PGP systems? This would be a statement of pathetic failure on their behalf... I would expect the damned spooks to at least know how to run simple (untraditional) numerics on data sets and not have any problem with any common-use encryption to date... How can they fail so miserably? [This assumes the common "let the sheep 'baah' after we have countered it" mentality...] Generally, I feel this is a pathetic failure on the part of all competent individuals who most certainly analysed and reviewed the code and noticed the blatant flaws many years ago (yes, they are blatantly obvious), yet *CHOOSE* to *NEVER* elucidate this reality to the common environment? - Let us take this awareness and insight ("Learn from your Mistakes and Failures") so that we do not consistently allow this type of global stupidity to propagate for _SO_LONG_ without cross-checks... Please. I bid you good wishes on your quest for intellectual freedom, yet also distribute cynical remarks to all of "us" who FAILED to audience the simple reality and stir the crowds years ago in this excessively basic issue... What about all the others? -Wilfred L. Guerin Wilfred(a)Cryogen.com [You really expect a PGP sig here?] -=|=- ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:25:20 -0400 > >Cryptome offers the ADK bug-fix PGP Freeware 6.5.8:

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CDR: gun permits
by Anonymous 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

I'm somewhat amused by the irony of the Canadian government advertisements to register early for gun ownership permits interspersed between the dramatization of the Neurenberg trials. I wonder what proportion of the sheeple even noticed the irony. (The nazi's instituted gun ownership laws soon after they came to power). GunMonger

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CDR: Re: gun permits
by An Metet 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

On 13 Sep 2000, Anonymous wrote: > I'm somewhat amused by the irony of the Canadian government > advertisements to register early for gun ownership permits > interspersed between the dramatization of the Neurenberg trials. What advertisements??

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CDR: Win $2,000.00
by B-Square Publishing Co. 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

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CDR: Registration confirmation - Yahoo! Chat
by Yahoo! Member Services 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

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CDR: Re: USA.net proxy: heh-heh-heh
by George＠Orwellian.Org 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

I wrote: >Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs A. Melon" <juicy(a)melontraffickers.com> wrote: # Who cares ? Stop whining and use encryption. # # Dont waste the bandwidth complaining about each and every sheeple # xploiting event. Being outraged doesnt achieve shit. Hey numbnuts: o the email isn't local to my system o I don't complain about every little thing, you do o being outraged is a good first step towards achieving shit o you wasted bandwidth You're just another luser. You're on the right list. IBM nutter Choate is here.

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CDR: COPPA
by jfanonymous＠yahoo.com 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

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CDR: Re: DNA
by David Marshall 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

Michael Motyka <mmotyka(a)lsil.com> writes: > Does UV light destroy DNA? I know it is a reasonable way to sterilize > water ( with some caveats ) which it does by denaturing proteins. UV light tends to totally hose up the DNA. The main problem, at least in bacteria, is caused by the creation of a bunch of cyclobutane-pyrimidine dimers and pyrimidine dimers. An enzyme called photolyase cuts pyramidine dimers to get the original _two_ pyramidines back. (Photolyase uses visible light for activation, if anyone cares.) This is a repair mechanism, but doesn't work 100% of the time and has the occasional error. The short answer is that UV light screws the DNA up. Sometimes the cell can fix it, and sometimes it can't. But it probably wouldn't throw off gel electrophoresis too much. (In forensics, the DNA is subjected to a bunch of restriction enzymes which cut it at specific sequences. Different DNA gets cut at different places, meaning that the fragments have different lengths, meaning that they're of substantially different weight. These are put on a gel and pulled through it by an electrical field. If a fragment is heavier, it doesn't go as far.) DNA isn't a protein, though, and, strangely enough, isn't anywhere near as dependent on secondary, tertiary, and quartenary structure as proteins tend to be. Proteins have to be in a specific confirmation to get the desired functionality. DNA just kind of needs to be there. (It's more complicated than this, of course, because of things that happen in cell division, but I could sit here and write a book-sized posting which nobody, including me, wants.) IIRC, DNA also tends to renature, either by itself or with the help of other mechanisms. (cf. histones, etc.) > If DNA is also destroyed would not a baseball eventually become > invalidated just by sitting on a shelf? Yes, but not so much by UV light as by the occasional bacterium which secretes something to break it, and by probably hundreds of other processes. > As someone wears and handles clothing, washes it along with clothing > worn by others wouldn't the DNA become damaged or contaminated? One would think. > Sounds trendy but I'd bet it has problems. Oh yeah.

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