January 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

S-tools
by hector 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

A couple of years ago, there was a program around that would extract the password from a file created with S-tools. Does anyone remember the program name and/or where I can get hold of it. Source code would be nice too. Muchas Gracias Hector

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03 Jan '01

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Re: Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext
by Adam Back 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

> One of the problems that efnext is trying to address, and a cause of > network instability is DOS attacks against servers by little kiddies > that want to take over channels. So what they should do is fix those problems robustly. Instead they're using central control as a "fix". They get to decide what is abuse. They probably don't appreciate the kinds of problems that can arise from that (see my other comments about designer abuse and the implied risks of assuming editorial control that some ISPs have faced etc). It's typically easier to design hierarchical or even single central control systems than distributed systems. DoS resistance is hard too. The real solution to Distributed DoS is Distributed Service and they're headed in the wrong direction with that. > Not that I'm for or against the new network, but it seems that > building a consensus and peer review of the protocols would be a > good thing. Indeed. They're probably relatively clue free also. (Just downloaded the tar ball to reverse engineer what they are actually doing). > As for the fear that this will lead to central control and > monitoring of the IRC network, my guess is that IRC is already > heavily monitored. The problem is central control not monitoring -- monitoring affects privacy, central control affects free speech. (It's in clear text already, and they're not proposing to do anything about this -- and for the application -- public chat -- it's unclear how well you can protect privacy -- any narcs can just join in the discussion.) > It's a hell of a lot more trivial than Usenet with only 33 servers > on the network, and each communication tagged with the hostname or > IP address that originated it. So the low number of servers is bad for protecting free speech also. Also on the plus side it's not that big a network to fork with a fork keeping the old protocols, with robust distributed DoS fixes. A corrolorary of Lucky's comment that there's more demand for crypto than people competent to do it -- there aren't enough crypto clueful people to keep up with internet protocols and steer them in sensible directions. Adam

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Antigen found W32/Hybris@m virus
by ANTIGEN_EXCHANGE 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

Antigen for Exchange found joke.exe infected with W32/Hybris@m virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!", was sent from Hahaha and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at ITC/Corporate/EXCHANGE.

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Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
by Hahaha 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

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Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext
by Eric Cordian 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

Almost since the inception of the Internet, Usenet and IRC have been uncensorable distributed resources defined only by adherence to published protocols. With no centralized administration, and resilience against the loss of individual servers, they carry enough traffic to provide complete and total plausible deniability for any server operator over content which gores some specific group's ox. Indeed, alt.anonymous.messages, a Usenet newsgroup, is often used as the basis for Cypherpunkish schemes, in which people need to talk to each other without any third party being able to discern either content or traffic patterns in the discussion. Unknown to much of the Internet, there is a plan brewing to "upgrade" Efnet, the primary IRC network, to something called "Efnext." Server software is being rewritten and tested. Efnet server admins have been contacted and promises to move to the new network during a "transition period" exacted. People who won't play ball have been identified, and plans to delink them and not connect them to the new regime fabricated. Efnext is a very different kind of IRC than we are used to. It is centrally administrated, with the Efnext Cabal passing judgment on who may link to the new system, as well as having the ultimate say over the policies and selection of administrative personnel on individual servers. The identity of individual IRC servers has been blurred whenever possible, and IRC Operators have been given many new powers, which span individual servers, and apply globally to the entire Network. The old Efnet policy that IRCops didn't get involved in "channel issues" has been replaced by one where operators are encouraged to do so on Efnext. Operators on Efnext will be able to globally reserve nicks, channels, and even entire servers, making them inaccessible to people using IRC. They will be able to enter channels, adjust modes, op themselves, and mass deop others. They will even be able to remote k-line on any server. There will be global logs of how these new powers are used, and operators will work with one another to present to the users an unvarying monolithic implementation of the policies and doctrines created by the centralized Efnext administration. In short, and in secret, and without many comments by the people affected, IRC as we know it is about to get the equivalent of AOL Chatroom Monitors, with the identities of individual IRC servers becoming invisible to the users as IRC is transformed from a server cluster into a monolithic network object under a single authority. One could very easily envision a similar thing happening to Usenet, with everyone awakening one morning to "Usenext," whose centralized authority can turn newsgroups off and on with ease, and control who is permitted to post, and what they are allowed to say, both before and after the fact, and globally across all NNTP servers. Freeh and Reno will love Efnext. Saddam Hussein will love Efnext. Channels like #%%%100%MoslemWomenWithoutVeilsPix and #Feinswine&HatchCanMunchMySphincter will be able to be disabled with little more than a friendly phone call by the cops to the people publicly advertising themselves as being in charge of the vast majority of IRC. "Suspected pedophiles, money launderers, drug traffickers, and terrorists" can just have their nicks turned off, or be k-lined on all servers. All for the greater good of the greater number, of course. With centralized administration will come centralized responsibilty, centralized liability, and of course, like the rest of the camel into the tent, centralized policy. Perhaps centralized policy like... "No channel names with naughty words in them" "No discussions which exploit Gyno-Americans, Under-18-Americans, or Differently-Tinted-Americans" "No talk of how to make drugs or explosives" And of course, where ever there is centralized authority, people will be encouraged to rat out anyone they suspect of such things to the classroom monitor, and the path of least resistance will be to disable the resource involved until the accused proves otherwise. Perhaps Efnext will even include the ability to log problematical channels at the request of law enforcement. I wouldn't be at all surprised. You can learn more about Efnext at http://www.efnext.net/ "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own." We are Efnext. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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03 Jan '01

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monkey-wrenching efnext
by Adam Back 02 Jan '01

02 Jan '01

So it appears these efnext people are letting the administrator control freak method to "fix" problems. (The tendency to impose more authentication, more logging, more central control -- instead of fixing broken protocols -- the easy way out because it's simpler to implement, though politically and technically broken). Clearly they are making a mistake. What could be done to persuade them or educate them that endeavour is bad for net privacy? Some possible technical / social engineering backlashes: - someone will create some abuse that causes the central administrators and thought police to become legally liable. Perhaps even designer abuse -- "abuse" anonymously created for the effect it will have on the operators. (Where's Dimitri Vulis when we need him?) - they are probably dumb and have done a bad job of making their changes -- their new centralised controls will get hacked, and their network will prove even more susceptible to catastrophic DoS than the original ircd. - people aren't really trying hard to disrupt IRC -- there are doubtless many much more malicious and harder to stop ways to disrupt it. People might demonstrate some of these attacks on their central failure points. Adam

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02 Jan '01

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by Jim Choate 02 Jan '01

02 Jan '01

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