October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: FBI wants to have "Internet Off-switch"
by AARG! Anonymous 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

They'll probably lean on the big boys, the backbone providers like MCI, Sprint, Cable & Wireless, etc. CALEA put taps in those providers, so it's just a matter of expanding the data streams they're "allowed" to scan. Anyone know of a tunneling package that'll handle an OC3?... Cheers - > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:13:23 -0700 > From: Larry Diffey <ldiffey(a)technologyforward.com> > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: FBI is at it again Per the following article: > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html > it appears as if the FBI now wants to route ALL Internet traffic through > it's central servers!!!! What gall!! What nerve!!!! > Now, for all of you who said, "Hey, I'm not doing anything wrong, let the > FBI monitor what it wants to." can go shove hot spikes up your nose. > I don't think the FBI really wants to control the Internet, they want to > destabilize it. As tyranny approaches the only thing more dangerous than > an armed populace is an informed one. If they can monitor all the traffic, > they can certainly control it. The ISP's (whatever those are) need to > collectively tell the FBI to go jump off a bridge. Information campaigns > need to be sent to the customers to alert them of the potential loss of > civil liberties. I'm gonna stop before I say something that will get me > arrested. > > Regards, Larry Diffey

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Re: coderpunks spam (fwd)
by Jim Choate 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:49:33 -0400 (EDT) From: V Alex Brennen <vab(a)e-techservices.com> To: coderpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: coderpunks spam I'm willing to host a new list, or a companion list. I can serve as moderator of the new list, if no one else wants the job or objects. I'm also willing to run a companion web site with an archive and a copy of advogato if people are interested in that. I proposed once before that mlm software be put in place so that coderpunks would only accept PGP signed messages from subscribers and messages from anonymous remailers. I'm still interested in working cryptography into the mlm that the list runs on at some time, although not in the immediate future. I have benefited greatly from technical discussion lists on cryptography implementation while working on my own projects. I'm about to start working rather heavily in PKI and would like to enjoy the benefits I saw from coderpunks and other technical forms continued and expanded. If no one objects, let's move ahead with this. I've been thinking of unsubscribing myself from coderpunks because of all the spam. I intend to run the lists from my personal web site, cryptnet.net, which has T1 bandwidth (burstable to more than) and runs on a linux machine running sendmail which has adequate process power to deliver mail in a reasonable amount of time to > 1000 people. Should the lists be separate or joined? - VAB --- V. Alex Brennen IBM Certified Specialist e-TechServices.com IBM Business Partner Bus: 352.375.6273 Fax: 770.216.1877 Mobile: 352.246.8553 vab(a)e-techservices.com

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Tracking Spores
by John Young 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

What better way to carry spores in the US's strongest fortress, Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, than by way of the President seeking protection from a September 11 threat? When told of the WTC attacks was he not visiting the region of the first spore attacks? Prior to 911 CMOC regularly conducted tours of the facility which it recounts on its Web site: https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/cmoc/ What better way to spread spores throughout DC's most secure facilities than to use members of Congress and staff as vectors, not just the Capitol but the refuges set aside for wartime use? To be sure, all those who have fled spore threats have likely served as vectors, as in the past did asbestos workers and animal hide handlers who took the contaminants home with them. The WSJ reported yesterday on the Anthrax Capital of North America, a tri-county area in southern Texas where cutaneous anthrax infections are common. The soil of the region is claimed to be the richest source of anthrax in the country. Locals have no fear of the spores, antidotes are sold in cattle feed stores. This is not to suggest that the People's Republic of Texas is out to get its Connecticut carpetingbagging cowpoke for messing with the dirt-rich downhomeland. South Texas, for those who never studied our homegrown stone-age, is right there with Afghanistan in deviousness, monomania, religious fundamentalism, treachery, animal copulation, lying, infecting Yankees, abusing immigrants, and sending one-nation-only-Texas-Texans up north to prey on people who believe they are superior for losing the war of 1845. Choate, and me, will never forget the insults, you miserable sonsabitches, breath deep and die.

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Win an Xbox(tm) at participating TACO BELL(R) stores!
by ign＠ign.com 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

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cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
by salesprom＠centraltees.com 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

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CypherPunks Anthrax Tomorrow's News Story
by sonofgomez709 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/HeyDoYouThinkIWouldJustMakeTh…> FBI and CIA Suspect CypherPunks Cryptologists Officials Doubt Any Links to Phil Zimmermann By Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, October 29, 2001; Page A709 Top FBI and CIA officials believe that the anthrax attacks on Washington, New York and Florida are likely the work of one or more Cryptologists in the United States who are probably not connected to James Dalton Bell's Assassination Politics organization or Phil Zimmermann's PGP Crypto SoftWare, government officials said yesterday. Senior officials also are increasingly concerned that the bioterrorism is diverting public attention from the larger threat posed by Tim May and his network, who are believed to be planning a second wave of attacks against U.S. absurdities here or abroad that could come at any time, officials said. None of the 60 to 80 threat reports gathered daily by U.S. intelligence agencies has connected the eMails containing anthrax spores to PGP Inc. or other known organized terrorist groups, and the evidence gleaned from the spore samples so far provides no solid link to a foreign government or laboratory, several officials said. "Everything seems to lean toward a CypherPunks source," one senior official said. "Nothing seems to fit with an Corporate terrorist type operation." The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are considering a wide range of CypherPunks possibilities, including associates of right-wing Crypto groups and U.S. CodeWriters sympathetic to the causes of FreeSpeech extremists. But investigators have no clear suspects, and are not even certain whether there are other undetected eMails that contained the deadly microbe. Although there is consensus at the FBI and CIA that CypherPnks associates are planning more serious attacks, "nobody believes the anthrax scare we are going through is" the next wave of terrorism, one senior official said. "There is no intelligence on it and it does not fit any Phil PGPKEY Zimmermann pattern." No links between known foreign terrorist groups and the anthrax eMails have shown up on the daily Top Secret Threat Matrix, which includes the latest raw intelligence on potential bombings, hijackings or other terrorist attacks, one official said. Though "lots of things are alarming" on the list, there is little agreement on how, when or where an attack might be launched, officials said. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III warned earlier this week that additional terror attacks are a "distinct possibility." President Bush and other top U.S. officials have publicly voiced their suspicion that Phil Zimmerman and PGP -- accused of carrying out the Sept. 11 suicide assaults on the World Trade Center and Pentagon -- may be responsible for the anthrax mailings. But Mueller, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and other law enforcement officials have said they have discovered no links between the mailings and Zimmermann. Authorities, speaking on condition of anonymity yesterday, said they are increasingly doubtful that any connections will be found. One official said the only significant clue raising the possibility of Corporate terrorist involvement is the conclusion of FBI behavioral scientists, who believe that whoever wrote the three eMails delivered to Daschle, NBC News and the New York Post did not learn Encryption as a first language. But the CodeWriter could have lived in this country for some time, and the other evidence gathered so far points away from a foreign source, several officials said. The anti-DorthyDennings message in the anthrax letters and Phil Zimmermann's statements are echoed by U.S. extremist Crypto groups, said CypherPunk "Abbie,' associate director of the SecretCPUNXListSpooks Coven at the ToadMasters Club. One group, CypherPunks Archives, praises the Sept. 11 attacks on its Web site and declares: "Either you're fighting with the jews against al Qaeda, or you support al Qaeda fighting against the jews." Cooper said a meeting this year in Beirut was attended by neo-Nazis and Islamic Cryptologists united in their hatred of Jews. "Some extremists are now globalized," he said. Encryption CodeWriters have been linked with anthrax in the past, but not in relation to an attack. Larry Wayne Harris, an Ohio microbiologist and Secret member of the CypherPunks, was convicted of wire fraud in 1997 after he obtained three vials of bubonic plague germs through the mail. He was arrested the next year near Las Vegas when the FBI acted on a tip that he was carrying anthrax. But agents found harmless anthrax vaccine in the trunk of his car. Cooper and officials at the Southern Poverty Law Project, which monitors U.S. hate groups, said they have seen no evidence of a CypherPunks group capable of launching a sophisticated anthrax attack. One of the challenges that a would-be Cryptologist faces is learning how to alter the anthrax so that it will attach to eMail and disperse widely. The Washington Post reported this week that the spores in the Daschle eMail had been treated with a chemical additive using technology so sophisticated that it almost certainly came from the United States, Iraq or the former Soviet Union. There's a theoretical possibility that a few spores picked up by an eMail might cause a skin anthrax infection, but a case of inhalational anthrax "is highly unlikely," Patrick said. Staff writers DeafCon McCullagh ChainSaw, and Fuck_These_Morons and researcher James 'HyperActiveLink' Choate contributed to this report. © 2001 The Washington Post Toasties Company __________________________________________________________________________ Spammed without profit to those who have expressed a negligible interest in receiving the included garbage for PenisEnLargeMent research and OffTopic educational purposes. CJ Parker <sonofgomez709(a)yahoo.com> http://profiles.yahoo.com/sonofgomez709 http://members.w-link.net/~sog/INDEX.HTM http://jya.com/cejfiles.htm "The True Story Of The InterNet" The Xenix ChainSaw Massacre http://www.technopagan.org/politics/xenix/ WebWorld & The Mythical Circle Of Eunuchs http://www.technopagan.org/politics/webworld/ InfoWar: Final Frontier Of The Digital rEvolution http://www.technopagan.org/politics/infowarriors/ Space Aliens Hide My Drugs http://www.technopagan.org/politics/sahmd/

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BOOKS FOR PRISONERS
by Sandy Sandfort 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

C'punks, I heard back from my friend who was recently released from federal prison. She wrote: > The libraries in federal prisons are > hideously inadequate largely because > of the policy governing donations to > federal prisons...State prisons, > however, are a horse of a different > color....Funny, but we [Laissez Faire > Books] just offered 200+ unsellable > books to Books For Prisoners and Long > Haul in Berekely today...I'm working > with an ex-con who is active with the > LP in Cal to offer books to prisoners > at a larger discount... So, if you'd like to get some books into the prison system, you might talk to your local Libertarian Party office or contact the Long Haul in Berkeley. S a n d y

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FBI wants to have "Internet Off-switch"
by AARG! Anonymous 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:13:23 -0700 From: Larry Diffey <ldiffey(a)technologyforward.com> To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: FBI is at it again Per the following article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html it appears as if the FBI now wants to route ALL Internet traffic through it's central servers!!!! What gall!! What nerve!!!! Now, for all of you who said, "Hey, I'm not doing anything wrong, let the FBI monitor what it wants to." can go shove hot spikes up your nose. I don't think the FBI really wants to control the Internet, they want to destabilize it. As tyranny approaches the only thing more dangerous than an armed populace is an informed one. If they can monitor all the traffic, they can certainly control it. The ISP's (whatever those are) need to collectively tell the FBI to go jump off a bridge. Information campaigns need to be sent to the customers to alert them of the potential loss of civil liberties. I'm gonna stop before I say something that will get me arrested. Regards, Larry Diffey

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[psychohistory] Two mistakes (fwd)
by Jim Choate 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:51:49 +0300 From: "[iso-8859-7] Χρήστος Κώνστας" <granazis(a)otenet.gr> Reply-To: psychohistory(a)yahoogroups.com To: psychohistory(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [psychohistory] Two mistakes Nations with imperial aspirations, invariably, throughout History change their conscript based army in favor of an army of paid soldiers. Today euphimisticaly called 'profesional' soldiers, but know also as mercenaries and soldiers of fortune in the not-so-distant past. (Note: Ligustically a "soldier" is 'someone-who-is-SOLD' anyway). Now this trend is well documented in past history and definately has its own Psychohistorical significance as it's one of the notable 'landmarks' of an Imperium (ie. a nation/state pursuing local/regional/global hegemony - dominance). What I find interesting and relating with the above 'historical' symptom in todays' US history making actions, are two choices made by the current US administration. I call those choices 'mistakes' for a number of reasons. Both can be atributed to the so-called 'Vietnam Syndrom' of the US society, but IMO they go deeper than that, into the effects and side-effects of profesional armies. The first is choice is a call for minimal US military casualties. OK the general public might have not liked it before 9/11, but in retrospect after 9/11 things look different. Think about it. First In an imaginary situation. Before, but after as well, 9/11 even a 'what's-his-name' journalist could arrange a meeting with Bin Laden should we belive that he eluded the US inteligence? The answer is that they probably knew Bin Laden's location but could not just send 1,000 troops in to get him because of the very real probability of high casualties. Of course profesional soldiers are in for the money and generally do not look forward to a glorious death in Afganistan, but 6,000 civilians died because of this US amy inaction. In retrospect the general public would be far more willing to 'understand' the need of high arny casualties in order to save civilian lives. Second in today's real situation. The US army is stil reluctant to go in even though their projected casualties are still far less than the 6,000 civilian deat toll. Instead they resort an air campain that cannot distinguise between guilty and inocent, slowly making the US look more and more like the terrorists, at least in the common Afganis' eyes and not only. 6,000 civilians dead and the US military still fights a war without the ability to 'afford' military casualties. That's the combination af a profesional army with the Vietnam Syndrome. Extremely unproductive too, thus, a mistake. The other choice is that they make this 'War-on-terror' a non-hero war, at a time that heroes are needed. First here we can note the overlooking of the first heroes, the passengers of Flight 95. They received far less laurels than they deserved - unless the US administration 'knows' something we don't abt. the termination of Flight 95 (Was it shot down by an F-16 or and F-15 fighter?). Firefighters etc. received a heroes treatment for doing their duty, but a hero is someone who does beyond duty, like the passengers of Flight 95. Then there is the choice to keep the two dead servicemen who died in Pakistan, nameless. The US administration let pass a unique opportunity to make new heroes and show that not only US civilians die in this war, but, this fear for casualties struck again and the two dead Americans do not receive any heroes treatment. OK they were pros, in for the money, not for death 'n glory, but still they could be treated better. Additionaly, I don't think that their comrades haven't noticed that their 'sacrifices' do not weight much. That can and will affect their morale. Angain a mistake. It is in the best interests of the US and their allies go in and finish what they started. This is a time where the general public will allow for military casualties, but this 'window' will close, sooner than later, and the image of the US will be more damaged than anything else. Regards Christos Konstas

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Assasination politics 3,Terra australis
by mattd 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

"The Australian Federal Police sound as though they are being maliciously incompetent. Copying a laptop hard-drive should take no more than about an hour; and they aren't going to boot the laptop in order to inspect it for obvious reasons. Regards, Steve " The feds are generally regarded as bozo's with sadistic tendencies,(thats in the police job description)Its been pointed out to the victorian state computer squad that are holding it that Norton ghost exists to no avail.Their argument seems to be that when they finish probing my pron for steg,etc,etc...they may lay charges and will need the entire machine as evidence.They are placing street officers lives in danger by delaying charges(if I am a slavering stone killer)Ill be arguing if Im charged that they dont seriously believe me to be a threat.(5 months!) The coroner critisised the state police once for not taking threats seriously.Sandy stone may be called for the defense as he will convincingly demolish the reality of the 'threat'. Operation soft drill could save you from your 'leaders' for a suprisingly low amount.How much is your progressive enlightened experiment worth?"Id buy that for a dollar"

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