September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: ScienceDaily Magazine -- Reclaiming The Internet's Original Purpose
by Jim Choate 09 Sep '00

09 Sep '00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/09/000904125555.htm -- ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDR: Investors Have Money! Looking for Additional Investors!
by B23655＠fpmqudftct.monsterice.com 09 Sep '00

09 Sep '00

Hello! Are you an investor or would you be interested in investing in startup or existing businesses? Are you looking for an investor for your company... please fill out questionnaire and appropriate fields! ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE COMPLETED THAT PERTAIN TO YOUR SITUATION! W e'll put the investors in contact with companies needing capital investments. All you have to do is fill out this questionnaire and fax it to us and we will match your investment interests with companies seeking investors. Here is a sample of the areas investors are needed: Portals, Internet Technologies, Real Estate Investment, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Online Malls, Telecommunications, Business Startups, Business Expansion, and etc. Company Name: _______________________________ First name: ___________________________________ Last name: ___________________________________ Street: _______________________________________ City: ________________________________________ State: _______________________________________ Country: _____________________________________ Zip Code: ______________________________ Email Address: _______________________________ Best Time to reach you?: _________________ What is your Time Zone?: ________________ Phone: ________________________________ Cell phone: ____________________________ Fax: __________________________________ Preferred Method of contact: Phone Email Fax How Much Willing to Invest? $______________ Terms: ________________________________ Venture Capital: Yes or No Loans: Yes or No Grants: Yes or No Please Specify Investment of interest: _______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _ ______________________________________________________________________________ _ ______________________________________________________________________________ _ You can specify or just select ALL investments! Signature: ________________________________________ Date: _________________________ This information is confidential and WILL NOT BE RESOLD or devulged without a subpoena. You will only be contacted by investment interest. We guarantee you will not be contacted unless you specify the interest area. Looking for an Investor?: Yes or No What kind of business venture?: ___________ ______________________________________ How many Yrs. in Business: ______________ Purpose: ______________________________ ______________________________________ Please Fax This application to 1-309-414-6969 Please do not respond to this email because a human will not look view it. Thanks!

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CDR: About your business
by superhits＠excite.com 09 Sep '00

09 Sep '00

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CDR: why cops act that way
by A. Melon 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

Sep 8, 2000 - 09:55 AM Man Who Scored Too High on Police Test Loses Federal Appeal The Associated Press NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower courts decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. "This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class," Jordan said from his Waterford home Friday. "I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else." He said he does not plan to take any further legal action. Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training. The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average. Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law. But the U.S. District Court found that New London had "shown a rational basis for the policy." In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover. Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGI20J2XVCC.html

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CDR: Fwd: QRN: Drug war bullying exposed
by JFA 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 00:07:45 -0600 >From: Michael Miller <qgrass(a)quackgrass.com> >Subject: QRN: Drug war bullying exposed >To: Quackgrass Roots Network <qgrass(a)quackgrass.com> "...[T]he core reason the "war on drugs" completely dominates the official policies of so many nations, including [Canada's], is simple: The United States insists on it. ..." "The few officials and governments that do stray, even slightly, outside the prohibition orthodoxy are cajoled, manipulated, or bullied to get back in." "Why the War on Drugs has failed" Dan Gardner The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday 5 September 2000 -- http://www.ottawacitizen.com/columnists/gardner/000905/4090140.html This Ottawa Citizen expose of US bullying is dynamite - as is its expose of many other governments' spineless surrender to that bullying. If you can read this horror story without mounting fury, you'd better check to see if you still have a pulse and a mind. If you think US' drug warriors limit their bullying to backward countries, you think wrong. Canada. Australia. Holland. The World Health Organization. Names, dates, details: the works! Gardner and the Ottawa Citizen merit high praise for publishing this report; that was a courageous act in view of the systematic vindictiveness and widespread cowardice they have exposed. It deserves the widest distribution. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Miller | Quackgrass Press | Quackgrass Roots Network Subscribe to QRN: http://www.quackgrass.com/roots/qrn.html Aiming for the New Renaissance! ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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RE: CDR: Re: Permutations in DES
by Trei, Peter 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

For brute force key search, the initial permution can effectively be factored out, and neither speeds nor impedes the search. This was done by all of the keysearch apps used in the RSA Symmetric DES Challenges. I (this was before I worked for RSA) also described an extremely fast method to generate and iterate key schedules which was also widely used, reducing key schedule management from 90% of cpu to less than 10%. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Kevin Elliott[SMTP:k-elliott@wiu.edu] > > At 17:30 -0400 9/6/00, juzam wrote: > >according to applied cryptography, these permutaions do not effect the > >security of the algorithm, but i'm not sure about the purpose. > > As I recall the basic purpose was to make it slow in software meaning > that software cracking apps were/are at a severe disadvantage vs. > hardware implementations. It would be interesting to see how much > longer that extended DES's effective lifetime. I would consider the > initial permutations to be in the same category as Blowfish's (and > derivative algorithm's) time consuming key expansion phase- a neat > "trick" that does not improve theoretical security but significantly > increases the difficulty of real world attacks. > -- > > Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott >

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CDR: Suck
by Jim Choate 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/09/08/daily.html -- We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time. T.S. Elliot Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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CDR: Amex throwaway numbers
by brflgnk＠cotse.com 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

The Amex disposable number story reminds me to ask: has anyone on the list actually used their Blue card and reader to make a secure purchase over the web? Know anyone who has? (I'm almost tempted to apply for one just to get the free smart card reader, so I can hack on it)

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CDR: AmEx offering disposable credit cards...
by Jim Choate 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

See CNN. ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by (Son of top recruiter for Feb.) 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

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