October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Security Measures
by Neil Johnson 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

The Corps of Engineers has restricted access to most lock and dam installations on the Mississippi (closed observation facilities and public parks around the sites). Their concern is that terrorists may attempt to destory them, causing the dissruption of barge traffic on the river. They estimate over 60 billion dollars in goods are transported by barge on the river every year. However, they plan no restrictions on river traffic. - Neil M. Johnson mailto:njohnsn@iowatelecom.net

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New CypherPunks Conspiracy!!! {WAS: Now You're A CocoaConSpiritOr, Too...] [WAS!WAS: As A Matter Of Fact, I Think It Was YOUR Idea...]
by sonofgomez709 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Actually, it all started with Art Bell's 'Quickening' WebPage, where he lists news items, etc., designed to ScareTheBeJesusOutOfDoGoD&EveryBody, thereby increasing sales of his advertisers Survival Products, such as Combination RadioCanOpenerUzis. >From there, or somewhere in the vicinity, I wound up at Major Ed Dame's Astral Stalking WebPage, where he announces that He/They/SomeOne has now Declared (and thus made part of our Group ConsciousNess/Reality/Future) that SomeOrAnother Nuclear Power Plant is the NextTerroroist(<--Clue&OR&Evidence)Target... Major Dames, OfCourseOfCourse[TM], is kind enough to point us to the MSNews WebSite, who is, in turn, kind enough to give Me&eWe&ATerroroist2BNamedLater an Aerial Photo of said 'Next Terroroist Target'... I, in turn, have provided eWe, via the CypherPunks list, with Hard Evidence to reside on your Hard Disk until you Delete this message and ReFormat Your Hard Drive, to await your eventual Trial&Conviction&mPrisonMint as a person who is knowingly in possession of, or knowingly has an interest in, or accidently subscribed to the CPUNX Disturbed Male Lisp and found out about...MunitionsGrade Encryption....and... ...who downloaded this Conspiratorial eMail. Once the AboveMentionedNextTarget is attacked, probably by someone who never even thought about it until learning from Major Dames that it was HisHerIts Next Target, and we are all hauled into Court as CocoaConSpiritOrs, I suggest that we stick together in naming, during our PleaBarginDealsWithTheDevils, the Yahoo Search Engine as the KingPin of the ConsPiracy... Faking Sincerity, PrisonerOfWhores #05987-196 "Proud To Be A Felon In Ameri%a" ['%'Is4SWASTIKA]

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WTC Photos Up Correction
by John Young 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Full size high resolution files: http://cryptome.org/wtc/wtc-photos.htm Mirror sites: http://rearviewmirror.org/wtcphotos/wtc-photos.htm http://www.parrhesia.com/wtc/ (reduced sizes available) http://www.phonon.net/wtc/ Other mirrors in the works, and more welcome. Send URLs.

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WTC Photos Up
by John Young 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Full size high resolution files: http://cryptome.org/wtc/wtc-photos Mirror sites: http://rearviewmirror.org/wtcphotos/wtc-photos.htm http://www.parrhesia.com/wtc/ (reduced sizes available) http://www.phonon.net/wtc/ Other mirrors in the works, and more welcome. Send URLs.

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04 Oct '01

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by cats69＠123india.com 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

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America needs therapy
by Steve Schear 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Its angering how much lip service though little progress has been made since 1973 on freeing America from her chemical dependence on petroleum in general and mid-east oil specifically. If the U.S. had no direct economic interests in the mid-east would it be propping up the governments of Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or contending with Iran and Iraq, etc? More likely our response to problems in the area would be similar to our involvement in West Africa. This dependance has made us little more than oil junkies and you know that junkies will do whatever it takes to get their next fix. If America wants to break this cycle of state violence and co-dependency it needs to get energy therapy in a hurry. steve

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Re: FC: Responses to ICANN preserving Net-stability against terrorists
by Bill Stewart 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

At 06:36 PM 09/29/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: >[Karl is on the ICANN board of directors. --DBM] Yes, but he's got the "Hey, how did somebody from the *public* get one of the public slots on the board of directors?!?!?" seat on the board, and the cabal is trying to prevent anybody like that from actually happening again :-) >From: Karl Auerbach <karl(a)cavebear.com> >To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> >cc: <rforno(a)infowarrior.org> >Subject: Re: FC: Richard Forno on ICANN and Net-stability against terrorists >... >I've spent a lot of time dealing with capability based operating systems >(a technology that I believe deserves to be revived), mathematical >expressions of security policy, formal proof of correctness of operating >systems, real-live inplementations of secure operating systems and >networks, cryptographic engines, key management systems, etc. >Most of the document are buried deep in paper archives at the old National >Bureau of Standards. As for the software and networks: Who know where >they might be these many years later. The current Capability-based operating system project is EROS, the Extremely Reliable Operating System, www.eros-os.org (I think it's .org. You can't just look for www.eros.com for obvious reasons:-) I know it was active a year ago; not sure what they've done lately, but the last I heard, their ringleader was at a university professorship, so there may be grad students developing it some more, and they were looking at making it microkernel-based. One of the other well-known capability-based systems was KeyKOS; some of the main folks from that are at Agorics.com. >And let's put things in perspective. What we're going to be doing is >looking at many non-technical protections, like making sure that there are >sufficient backups and procedures so that DNS infrastructure can be >repaired. There are three or four main kinds of attacks/failures for the domain system - - Failures/Attacks on the servers themselves - Attacks on the data transmission - various technical attacks such as spoofing DNS requests, adding extra records to responses, etc. DNSSEC and similar kinds of authentication are important for preventing these. - Attacks on the data, e.g. forged change requests - that's another very strong reason for authentication technology, whether it's PGP or dumb passwords. - Social engineering attacks on the system, such as UDRP abuse by trademark holders trying to reverse-cybersquat, as well as cybersquatting abuses, and delaying the extra TLDs. James Love <love(a)cptech.org> suggests: >Can we spell, mission creep? Depends on what you think their original mission was :-) If your initial goal is World Domination, mission creep's no problem... I've been especially concerned with their grab of the IPv6 numberspace and the price-fixing that's prevented almost anyone from buying it. > From today's WSJ > >http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1001643073146154880.htm >Some of these computers, such as the primary "A" root server in northern >Virginia, operate within secure buildings, but others are far less >protected. When congressional auditors recently checked the security >surrounding them, "one of them was sitting in a professor's office at the >University of Maryland," says Keith Rhodes of the General Accounting Office. >"I would worry." There was a while that MAE-East was in a parking garage in Maryland, with not much more than chain-link fence for protection.

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Kamikazes (was: Re: Stupid Congress Tricks: anti-terror bills target cash)
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

> Whoever... knowingly conceals more than $10,000 in currency or other > monetary instruments on his or her person... shall be guilty of a currency > smuggling offense (and) shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years. > Upon a showing by the property owner by a preponderence of the evidence > that the currency or monetary instruments involved in the offense giving > rise to the forfeiture were derived from a legitimate source and were > intended for a lawful purpose, the court shall reduce the forfeiture to the > maximum amount that is not grossly disproportional to the gravity of the > offense... Well folks its time to recruit some financial patriots. All you need is a wad of cash, some C4 taped to your hide and wired to a voice activated detonator. Klaatu barada nikto! Matching e-gold donations anyone?

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Stupid Congress Tricks: anti-terror bills target cash
by Declan McCullagh 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

From one of the anti-terror bills said to be a sure bet to pass both chambers. Typos mine. --Declan --- If a financial institution... reports a suspicious transaction to a government agency the financial institution, director, officer, employee, or agent may not notify any person involved in that transaction that the transaction has been reported... Any financial institution that makes a voluntary disclosure of any possible violation of law or regulation to a government agency.... shall not be liable... for such disclosure or for any failure to provide notice of such disclosure to the person who is the subject of such disclosure... Whoever... knowingly conceals more than $10,000 in currency or other monetary instruments on his or her person... shall be guilty of a currency smuggling offense (and) shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years. A person asserting an innocent owner defense under section 983(d) to the forfeiture of curency... must... be a bona fide purchaser... and... establish that such person took all reasonable steps to determine the source of the currency, monetary instruments, or funds; or to verify that the currency, monetary instruments, or funds were not derived from illegal activity Upon a showing by the property owner by a preponderence of the evidence that the currency or monetary instruments involved in the offense giving rise to the forfeiture were derived from a legitimate source and were intended for a lawful purpose, the court shall reduce the forfeiture to the maximum amount that is not grossly disproportional to the gravity of the offense...

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