October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Remail: errors
by HFinney＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I have been out of town for the last week, so I missed some CP mail. It looks like some good things are happening with remailers, though. Kudos to Karl, Sameer, and the others for their work! I have received many messages to my remailer in the last week which came from remail(a)tamsun.tamu.edu, which were PGP-encrypted apparently in an effort to get my remailer to send them. They did not work, though, because there was no "Encrypted: PGP" header to trigger the remailer's decryption. This can be arranged by creating the message something like this: ======================================================== :: Request-Remailing-To: hfinney(a)shell.portal.com :: Encrypted: PGP - -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- <rest of message> - -----END PGP MESSAGE------ ======================================================== This would then be sent to remail(a)tamsun.tamu.edu. I don't know whether the multiplicity of such erroneous messages is just due to one person stubbornly re-trying, or whether there is an error in one of the new programs for creating chained remailer messages. Hal Finney hfinney(a)shell.portal.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.2 iQCVAgUBLJaNuKgTA69YIUw3AQHrNwQAowMEQwuH6YyHoj6T7AqZFLNdTf+eqJ9L LhAatHS94nmC1smkfVNq0dZmigmkvBdMNEPlBZemmxALz+KJw6OSY/ULSBmuVNEq 5rJANh3XimoJWqLISy2lZiuC5Fw2R7UvRadcdM94pncSVvev92Fyf7CqEOOtrGAK PUzRds7BVNo= =FpLa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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more than spread spectrum
by cme＠ellisun.sw.stratus.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There are alternatives to spread spectrum, if we're threatened with loss of freedom to communicate. We could lay our own wires/fibers. We could set up a mesh network of infrared lasers through the air. Last time I looked, there were no laws against shining lights out your window as long as they didn't bother anyone. An infrared laser could hardly bother anyone. We could produce a line of cheap cards to plug into a PC which would do packet routing, using a variety of physical links -- our own wires, lasers, very low range radio, .... Each card would connect to three or more neighbors and become part of the global mesh. Adaptive routing with no global map would suffice for the card and would keep the whole system peer-to-peer with no need for central control and no chance for central tapping. Of course all of these solutions require a high density of users. A college campus might be the right place to start. We could then branch out to cities. I suspect that a place like Chicago or NYC with high rise apartments might be the place to start -- many options for line-of-sight communications. The benefit isn't just for Cypherpunks. It's a free network for the masses -- like the original USENET (with each user donating routing and store/forward) but with unrestricted, low-range, continuously operating physical links. I'll volunteer to do the software for the node card. Does anyone have hardware design/fab to donate to the effort? - Carl

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You Have Been Sent A Halloween Card!
by Wallstreet Universe 17 Nov '01

17 Nov '01

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Ashcroft prepares for martial law
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

Unlike America's Most Wanted the new dire but vague warnings are unlikely to cause citizens to uncover a massive new plot, I doubt they would have uncovered the 911 even if predictions of impending trouble have been announced a few days prior. Since Congress gave him virtually everything he asked for the next step is martial law, though how that might help uncover any new plots is beyond me.

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obit
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 09 Nov '01

09 Nov '01

Tim, Re: the death of the fourth. Yer list is too short. R.I.P. : I, IV, V, VI, VIII The obit may be premature but they're certainly on their respective deathbeds. Don't expect the docs from the Judicial branch to effect a cure - they've administered some pretty nearly lethal doses in the past. II? Well, it's an obvious target, to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists don't you know. Never mind the fact that only about 2-3% of incoming containers are inspected at ports of entry... Instead of fixing cabin partitions, updating training scenarios, adding cctv and a sky marshall we get Big Brother and his database ranger proctologist squad. Instead of improved customs and immigration inspections we get Heinrich Himmler and his boys in black inspecting the motherland. Now that the formalities are out of the way I want to see what Himmler actually does in his new found meat suit. As far as colors on maps, any distinction between red and blue is imaginary, the recent voting rolls show the true colors - mostly yellow, with some red, white and black arm bands. ITBAWC OCDLRO WU LEG F CN KI ET DI O N Having trouble keeping my breakfast down, Mike

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Asscruft Puffery
by Subcommander Bob 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

At 07:42 AM 10/26/01 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: >Deliberate vagueness on Asscruft's part, I suspect. As I understand it, He is strutting and puffing like a rooster who watches his hens being taken away by a fox. At least Reno was scary, neither are convincing.

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FBI: More Attacks Soon
by FogStorm 03 Nov '01

03 Nov '01

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/skyfall.htm "Certain information, while not specific as to target, gives the government reason to believe that there may be additional terrorist attacks within the United States and against U.S. interests overseas over the next several days. The FBI has again alerted all local law enforcement to be on the highest alert and we call on all people to immediately notify the FBI and local law enforcement of any unusual or suspicious activity."

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NOTAM: GA prohibited w/in 10 miles of nuke plants
by Karsten M. Self 03 Nov '01

03 Nov '01

Copied from a friend, generally reliable. NOTAMs are eventually posted to a few publicly available sites: !FDC 1/1763 FDC PART 1 OF 6 TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS OVER NUCLEAR SITES. FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL NOVEMBER 07, 2001 0500 UTC. PURSUANT TO TITLE 14 CFR SECTIONS 91.139, EMERGENCY AIR TRAFFIC RULES AND 99.7 SPECIAL SECURITY INSTRUCTIONS. ALL GENERAL AVIATION FLIGHT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED WITHIN A 10 NAUTICAL MILES RADIUS OF AND BELOW 18000 FEET MSL OVER THE BELOW LISTED NUCLEAR SITES EXCEPT FOR MEDEVAC, LAW ENFORCEMENT, RESCUE/RECOVERY, EMERGENCY EVACUATION AND FIRE FIGHTING OPERATIONS WHEN AUTHORIZED BY ATC: He continues: I've got no idea what the hell they're doing, but damn, a GA plane wouldn't do more than scratch the friggen concrete on a nuke plant. (It was wondered what a plane crash would do, so a F-4 Phantom II was rammed into a containment wall at 600+ MPH, it penetrated 2.5 inches. (Its a 6 foot wall). Grrrr. Insane restrictions. Bullyboys in uniforms pushing around, people held illegally. Sounds like the feds are treating the current "credible threat" as broad and shutting down all options. Anyone care to posit a scenario in which GA could threaten a nuke? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself(a)ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Napster execs needing culling
by Khoder bin Hakkin 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Napster Wants License to License By Michael Stroud 2:00 a.m. Oct. 30, 2001 PST LOS ANGELES -- Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers says the government should consider compulsory standards requiring music labels to license music at a fair price if they don't close deals with Napster and other independent distributors. "Like any other business person, I'm hesitant to bring government in," Hilbers said. "But government has an obligation to set standards. If there's no agreement, the government should consider compulsory licensing." <snip> http://wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,47977,00.html Compulsory licensing = theft, buddy.

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RE: Transperancy Spray?
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

georgemw(a)speakeasy.net wrote : >On 30 Oct 2001, at 14:51, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > >> Mike [mmotyka(a)lsil.com] wrote: >> >> > I would bet that there is SOMETHING that >> > is dissolved by liquid freon. Just mark >> > your letters with the stuff and look for >> > the integrity of the mark at the other end. >> >> Or... is there something that REACTS to freon in an interesting way...? >> >> >> S a n d y >> >> >I think freon is incredibly inert, that's why it's used. > Since there are so many ways to protect the contents of the message the freon topic is not all that interesting. It would be mildly amusing if there were a way to detect that freon had been used on a piece of paper. I would guess that it could be done by either finding an "ink" that was dissolved by freon or some other material that would sit happily in place until lifted and dispersed. http://solvdb.ncms.org/syn01.htm a fun solvents database - not too useful here http://www.redwop.com/technotes.asp?ID=107 not really relevant but interesting Freon seems to be ( or have been ) used mostly for degreasing. Could you make some sort of nondrying oil-based marker that would blur or weaken when drenched with freon? Probably. Buy some raw artist's pigment and mill it with a non-drying grease that is too thick to migrate appreciably over the time period of interest when applied to paper. Wetting with solvent would probably cause damage to a mark. Mike >My impression is that virtually any transparent >liquid will do a reasonable job of making the envelope transparent, >but the considerations are that you'd want something that doesn't >leave a residue and won'tr make the ink run. > >I believe that paper is white for the reason that snow is (as opposed >to the reason that titanium oxide is), that is, you've got a bunch of >surfaces where the index of refraction changes significantly from >that of air and there's a chance of reflection at each surface, but the >actual paper fibers are transparent. The liquid you spray on is >filling in the gaps with something with an index of refraction much >closer to that of the paper fibers. > >Pretty sure that's more or less how they work. Definately there's >no chemical reaction going on. > Sounds like a good explanation. >George

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