January 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Inaugural Bumper Stickers - Add yours...
by The Press Room 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

It's OKAY to question the legitimacy of the Bush presidency! Year's from now, history will reflect what the Supreme Court's decision triggered: The removal of Republican Congressional power in 2002, and the subsequent overhaul of our voting system, so that the true wishes of the people are expressed. The following bumper stickers are taken from http://MesaVistaPress.com You can order pro-Bush stickers, too, or make one that says ANYTHING YOU LIKE. Add to the following list there or in this forum... BANANA REPUBLICANS DISNEY GAVE US MICKEY, FLORIDA GAVE US DUMBO NICARAGUA WAS ONLY PRACTICE. FLORIDA WAS THE REAL THING ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE MAY NOT APPLY IN CERTAIN STATES "THOSE WHO CAST THE VOTES DECIDE NOTHING. THOSE WHO COUNT THE VOTES DECIDE EVERYTHING." - JOSEPH STALIN CAMPAIGN SPENDING: 184,000,000. HAVING YOUR LITTLE BROTHER RIG THE ELECTION FOR YOU: PRICELESS

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by B-son 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

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Re: cell phone anonymity
by Steve Mynott 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> writes: > GSM phones do indeed broadcast their International Mobile Equipment Number > (IMEI). The IMIE is hardcoded into the firmware of each phone. Changing the > IMIE is possible, but not from the UI. Recently, the manufacturers have > announced that they will make it even more difficult to alter IMEI's in the > future. The IMEI is displayed by *#06# on GSM phones and isn't broadcast. GSM phones broadcast a temporary version of the IMEI called TMSI (Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity) rather than the IMEI directly for privacy reasons (!) The Nokia phones with Net Monitor mode will display the current TMSI. See for example, GSM Security and Encryption http://www3.l0pht.com/~oblivion/blkcrwl/cell/gsm/gsm-secur/gsm-secur.html -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve(a)tightrope.demon.co.uk only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and i'm not sure about the former. --albert einstein

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new spy museum
by Blank Frank 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

Jan 15, 2001 - 12:48 PM Cleveland Company's Spy Museum to Unravel Secrets of Espionage World By Amy Beth Graves Associated Press Writer CLEVELAND (AP) - The secret is out: Some of James Bond's biggest fans were KGB agents. But the Soviets weren't interested in how the fictional British spy liked his martinis or seduced femme fatales. The KGB thought Bond's goofy weapons were real and tried to keep pace by working on new gadgets like a lipstick gun. That's just one secret of the cloak-and-dagger trade that a Cleveland company is revealing as it enters the hush-hush world of espionage by opening the International Spy Museum in Washington in February 2002. The museum will cost $29 million and showcase thousands of years espionage and international trickery, dating back to the Trojan horse. "The real stories are more interesting than fiction," said Dennis Barrie, president of Malrite Co., which focuses on starting new museums. Barrie, a former Smithsonian curator, was at the center of a controversy in 1990 when the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati opened an exhibit by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe that included homoerotic shots. Prosecutors brought obscenity charges against the center and Barrie, but a jury acquitted them. Malrite founder Milton Maltz, who was on a board of directors that helped bring the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to Cleveland, came up with the idea for the for-profit spy museum. Maltz worked for the National Security Agency while in the Navy. While he described his intelligence work as "pretty mundane," Maltz said he has always been fascinated by the espionage world. The popularity of history-based TV shows and greater willingness by spy agencies to reveal secrets of the trade helped convince him that a museum would sell. Barrie anticipates the museum will draw 500,000 visitors the first year. "The world is mesmerized by spying. We've had even more interest in the subject than we anticipated," Maltz said. Even the Central Intelligence Agency has nice things to say about the museum, though it cannot endorse commercial projects. "We think that it's a good idea to better inform the public on the true mission of the CIA and intelligence gathering. Most of what's out there is Hollywood's perception and what you read in novels. The vast majority is not true," agency spokesman Tom Crispell said. "I think it will give individuals a more realistic understanding of what the intelligence business is all about." Many ideas for the museum came from an advisory board of historians and former spies with the FBI, CIA and KGB. A couple of years ago, the ex-spies gathered to swap stories, Maltz said. "Sometimes they would say, 'Is it still classified?' One side would tell their story and the other side's story would be different," Maltz said. "It was fabulous because it was spy versus spy." Malrite has been collecting artifacts for the museum by buying items on the Internet and asking former agents for souvenirs from their careers. Some of the material will come from H. Keith Melton, a historian who has a 6,000-piece collection of spy material. About 500 of Melton's items are at the CIA's headquarters, which has a small museum for employees and invited guests. The new museum's prized possession is an Enigma machine used by the Nazis to encrypt top-secret messages. Among the other attractions will be a "spy school," where visitors can learn how to bug a room, try on disguises and use spy cameras. Another exhibit will recreate the Berlin tunnel where agents eavesdropped on the Russians during the Cold War, while yet another will be a World War II codebreaking room where visitors will see the role espionage played in helping the D-Day invasion. While the museum will address the careers of real-life spies such as Mata Hari and Julia Child (she did intelligence work in Asia during World War II), there will also be a nod to Bond and his colleagues from the world of movies and TV. That's because the real world influenced the entertainment industry and vice versa. Barrie said the director of the CIA in the 1960s often watched TV's "Mission Impossible." He said that the day after the week's episode, the director would call those in charge of coming up with spying gadgets and tactics and ask, "Can we do that?" http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAK4J6H0IC.html

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openpgp.net & whgiii dropped
by Jim Choate 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

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by announce＠inbox.nytimes.com 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

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by Customer Service 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

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Re: REAL assassination politics
by Warren Piece 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

of course, there is a cynical side of me which says...hey, let 'em legalize it. i mean, come on...do you really think the law against assassinations has ever stopped them? did you know that gullible is not even in the dictionary? at least if they legalize it we won't have to listen to the news and KNOW that a patsy was shamelessly used by those in power. we won't have to sit by and watch the government execute "justice" on those who have been used. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: SpamCop authorization code
by Bill Stewart 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

At 05:28 PM 1/19/01 +0200, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: >On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 cypherpunks(a)toad.com wrote: > >Oh, the irony. Spam on this list thanking you for helping rid the Net of >spam, a split second after telling you to share the included URL with no >one. That one could be used to demonstrate anything from the effect of the >human factor on access control schemes, to the futility of security through >obscurity, through to the apparent omnipresence of Those Who Definitely Need >Killing. Made my day... It's not really spam - it's response mail from a site where somebody registered with cypherpunks@wherever as their email. The "Don't Share this with anyone" aspect is fun, though. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Recommended: "How much encryption do we need?"
by cypherpunks＠openpgp.net 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

------------------------------------------------------------------------- cypherpunks(a)openpgp.net has recommended this article from The Christian Science Monitor's electronic edition. CSM article about hushmail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to email this story to a friend: http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/send-story?2001/01/18/text/p17s1.txt Click here to read this story online: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/01/18/fp17s1-csm.shtml Headline: How much encryption do we need? Byline: Date: 01/18/2001 (TORONTO)'Encryption" is the term for technologies that can be used to wrap your e-mail and your e-commerce and your Web-surfing in a veil of secrecy. How much encryption do we need? And how do we get it? Those would seem to be the basic questions for Web surfers. Many people hesitate to do business over the Internet because they're worried about hackers snatching up their credit-card numbers and electronic eavesdroppers listening in on their e-mail. And so you might think that there would be more public discussion about encryption - that it might be, well, a little less cryptic. But from the beginning of mass use of the Internet, tension has existed in both Canada and the United States between cybernauts and law enforcement officials. The technology gurus argue that people need access to strong encryption if the Internet is to realize its full potential for electronic commerce. Law enforcement officials, especially in the US, see potential for online crime and want to be able to steam open, so to speak, people's e-mail. And so strong encryption programs - the equivalent of a serious deadbolt lock - have over the years been classified as sensitive goods, like missiles or other armaments, subject to government export controls. Selling them abroad has often meant going through a cumbersome permit process - often hard for small firms, and even fatal to their contracts. All this technology and regulation is changing so fast, that even people in the industry are hard-pressed to know what the law lets them do. HushMail, for instance, which provides a free, ad-supported Web-based e-mail service protected with very heavy duty 1,024-bit encryption, started up in Austin, Texas, in May 1999, but located its programmers in the British West Indies, where encryption law is much more relaxed than in the US. Now its corporate headquarters is in Dublin, and its e-mail servers are located in Vancouver. The decision to locate their servers in Canada, says HushMail spokeswoman Genevieve Van Cleve, was made "because of its friendly crypto laws and cheap bandwidth." Ms. Van Cleve accentuates the positives when asked about a recent decision to locate in Ireland: a booming local economy, a strong information technology skills base within the labor force, access to the security-conscious European market. "If the US were to change all its laws tomorrow, we wouldn't leave Ireland any more than we'd close the doors on our sales offices in Utah," she adds. But she says, "It's kind of hard to figure out what the [US] law is.... The law has never been tested. But it would not be a smart business move for us to try to test it. We'll leave that to the Microsofts of this world." Similarly, a media official at a Canadian encryption firm often cited as a bright young comer in its field was unable to find anyone willing to discuss encryption regulation on the record. David Jones, a computer scientist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and the president of Electronic Frontier Canada, says that by threatening over the years to introduce domestic controls on encryption, US law-enforcement agencies have managed to distract privacy advocates from what he says should be the real issue: abolition of export controls. Export controls have had the general result of weakening the encryption standards available off the shelf in the US and Canada, in Dr. Jones's view. This analysis is disputed, however, by Brian O'Higgins, founder and chief technology officer of Entrust in Ottawa. "We make it safe to do business on the Internet," he says, selling encryption, digital signatures, and strong authentication technology. "The US government zeroed out all controls on encryption in January 2000. It was a 180-degree reversal," he says. "They decided e-commerce was more important than law enforcement." The US decision has left Canada scrambling. Its crypto laws have at times given firms here an edge - as HushMail's servers in Vancouver attest. A year and a half ago, Industry Canada, the commerce ministry, announced that its policy would be to allow encryption as strong as anything available anywhere. "I called it a home run at the time," says Mr. O'Higgins. He acknowledges, though, that practice hasn't quite caught up with policy. If laws are less than crystal clear - and there's evidence that in the US, at least, regulations have been drafted with enough ambiguity to let regulators decide on permits case by case - there's also an apparent reluctance to explain why encryption matters. Says Van Cleve: "I don't think anyone - in business or in government - has made the case for strong privacy and encryption: Consumers deserve to be protected, too." (c) Copyright 2001 The Christian Science Monitor. All rights reserved. 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