October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

self medication; Why go to fliight school?
by Tabla bin Rasa 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

CBS news: alcohol consumption up 30% in NY bars. Observation: The latest in patented sleep aids (Ambien, a C-IV ie abusable) is advertising heavily about getting back to getting enough sleep. Complete with images of puppies sleeping in baskets. And Pres Bush is shaking down US children for a buck. Good thing those golden triangle opiates are getting cheaper. Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons packed up and ready to go Heard of some gravesites, out by the highway a place where nobody knows The sound of gunfire, off in the distance I'm getting used to it now Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto I've lived all over this town This ain't no party, this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around No time for dancing, or lovey dovey I ain't got time for that now Transmit the message, to the receiver hope for an answer some day I got three passports, couple of visas don't even know my real name High on a hillside, trucks are loading everything's ready to roll I sleep in the daytime, I work in the nightime I might not ever get home This ain't no party, this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around This ain't no mudd club, or C. B. G. B. I ain't got time for that now Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh, P. A.? You oughta know not to stand by the window somebody might see you up there I got some groceries, some peanut butter to last a couple of days But I ain't got no speakers ain't got no headphones ain't got no records to play Why stay in college? Why go to fliight school? Gonna be different this time? Can't write a letter, can't send a postcard I can't write nothing at all This ain't no party, this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around I'd love you hold you, I'd like to kiss you I ain't got no time for that now Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock we blended in with the crowd We got computers, we're tapping phone lines I know that ain't allowed We dress like students, we dress like housewives or in a suit and a tie I changed my hairstyle so many times now don't know what I look like! You make me shiver, I feel so tender we make a pretty good team Don't get exhausted, I'll do some driving you ought to get you some sleep Get you instructions, follow directions then you should change your address Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day whatever you think is best Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks? They won't help me survive My chest is aching, burns like a furnace the burning keeps me alive Try to stay healthy, physical fitness don't want to catch no disease Try to be careful, don't take no chances you better watch what you say

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CAREER/JOB OPPORTUNITY--E-COMMERCE
by JOB RESPONSE 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

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Tracking the RIAA Source
by John Young 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

Thanks to help from a person here we have developed a likely source for the RIAA meeting messages, and at the moment it appears likely Safeweb was used to send the messages as well as check on the Cryptome file. Safeweb appears to dynamically assign addresses to users, though within a limited range which might be set by the location of the user, but we are not sure of that. Indeed, if Safeweb does not cloak location by avoiding a predictable range that would be a serious weakness. But we need to test that. Safeweb is, at least in part, hosted by the giant ISP Abovenet, home-based in San Jose, CA, with facilities all around the US and overseas. To help us triangulate a likely location from which the messages were sent we need to log accesses to Cryptome from a variety of US and overseas locations. For example I get the same range of addresses as those of the RIAA messages and file accesses by logging in from New York City to Safeweb.com then using Safeweb to request a Cryptome file. What I don't know is whether those same addresses would be used from other physical locations around the world. For anybody who wants to risk giving away their own location I ask that accesses be made from the Safeweb.com from any location in the world to a fictitious file on Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/this-is-safeweb-xxxxxxxx.htm Replace xxxxxxx with a clue to your location, say, texas, germany, whereever I could identify. The request will generate an error code and an originating address from Safeweb which I can use to compare to what I've got for the RIAA messages and for NYC. Presumably Safeweb will cloak your actual IP address. Let me emphasize that I do not yet believe the source was perpetrating a hoax, or if so whether the hoax was run to benefit RIAA which is the current outcome. My intention is not to out the source if the leak is legitimate, but I damn well want to broadcast it if RIAA, its friends or a TLA cooked up the ruse. Declan has jumped the gun on assigning blame here, apparently doing little more checking than Tony Smith. But hell that snotty Net competition at its best: fire, aim, oh, the safety was off.

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Re: [BIOWAR] Al Qaida biological warfare factories attacked (fwd)
by Anonymous 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

>If that proves out, I'd say the US can now tell the Taliban, roll over >or be nuked, in accordance with long-held US policy. Same for any other Lemme see ... this will "prove out" by sending a trusted delegation independent from US control into afgan deserts to do analysis of whatever is left over ? Or will CNN report be sufficient ? Otherwise, kudos for improvement from "we" to "the US".

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American IRA website terrorized by FBI, closed on threats
by Dynamite Bob 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

[Reformatted for legibility. Please ensure that materials posted are readable. KMSelf] (Its started, gentlemen. This is Bush gratifying Blair now, using the Bill of Rights -now useless- to mop up the wetness.) http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,567864,00.html Staff and agencies Thursday October 11, 2001 An American web site accused of supporting the Real IRA has been shut down at the request of the FBI as it cracks down on terrorist groups, it emerged today. The New York-based web site - iraradio.com - contained an archive of weekly radio programmes said to back the dissident republicans. Travis Towle, the owner, today claimed that the FBI asked his internet service provider to stop giving web space to the site or face having its assets seized as a backer of terrorism. "They just yanked us," Mr Towle told the New York Daily News. "I think what is going on is being done out of fear." John McDonagh, a native of Queens, New York, said that his show - broadcast every Saturday afternoon - would go on. He claimed IRA stood for Irish Republican Activist and denied he had any connection to the Real IRA. "If I was running a Taliban web site 15 years ago, I would be considered a patriot helping the American cause," he added "Today, I would be considered a traitor. It is getting to be difficult to predict who the government is going to call a terrorist." Despite Mr McDonagh's claim that he would go on broadcasting, a statement on the web site said Mr Towle's Cosmic Entertainment Group had shut it down. "In light of the foregoing and the recent tragic events in the United States, the Cosmic Entertainment company board of advisers has deemed it advisable and in the best interests of the company to temporarily shut down the iraradio.com web site until the turbulence and uncertainty facing our nation has decreased." The FBI refused to comment on the shut down for security reasons. The Real IRA is banned from raising funds in America and anyone found giving them cash can be prosecuted and jailed. It is one of a series of organisations designated as a terror group, on a list that also includes Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and Hezbollah.

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skyfall, sheepdip, fanshit
by Dynamite Bob 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

Declan writes in "http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47510,00.html" "Just what did the FBI mean by inserting the word "skyfall" into a description of a press release? Was it a reference to the 1970s-era disaster novel entitled Skyfall, or a hint that the bureau was remembering the children's tale in which Chicken Little warned of calamity -- but was not believed? " It could also be a code word they inserted to as a clandestine communication. You know, WWII "if you're really with the Brits, have the BBC newlady say 'foosball' on tonight's show" Anyway, 'skyfall' will be replaced with 'sheepdip' soon...

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American IRA website terrorized by FBI, closed on threats
by Dynamite Bob 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

(Its started, gentlemen. This is Bush gratifying Blair now, using the Bill of Rights -now useless- to mop up the wetness.) http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,567864,00.html Staff and agencies Thursday October 11, 2001 An American web site accused of supporting the Real IRA has been shut down at the request of the FBI as it cracks down on terrorist groups, it emerged today. The New York-based web site - iraradio.com - contained an archive of weekly radio programmes said to back the dissident republicans. Travis Towle, the owner, today claimed that the FBI asked his internet service provider to stop giving web space to the site or face having its assets seized as a backer of terrorism. "They just yanked us," Mr Towle told the New York Daily News. "I think what is going on is being done out of fear." John McDonagh, a native of Queens, New York, said that his show - broadcast every Saturday afternoon - would go on. He claimed IRA stood for Irish Republican Activist and denied he had any connection to the Real IRA. "If I was running a Taliban web site 15 years ago, I would be considered a patriot helping the American cause," he added "Today, I would be considered a traitor. It is getting to be difficult to predict who the government is going to call a terrorist." Despite Mr McDonagh's claim that he would go on broadcasting, a statement on the web site said Mr Towle's Cosmic Entertainment Group had shut it down. "In light of the foregoing and the recent tragic events in the United States, the Cosmic Entertainment company board of advisers has deemed it advisable and in the best interests of the company to temporarily shut down the iraradio.com web site until the turbulence and uncertainty facing our nation has decreased." The FBI refused to comment on the shut down for security reasons. The Real IRA is banned from raising funds in America and anyone found giving them cash can be prosecuted and jailed. It is one of a series of organisations designated as a terror group, on a list that also includes Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and Hezbollah.

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AOL-TV: "Cheney is probably running the show. Leave him alone"
by Anonymous sender 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

Daddy's in charge.

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Computer Security Division Activities (fwd)
by Jim Choate 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:57:27 -0500 From: Elaine Barker <elaine.barker(a)nist.gov> To: ebarker(a)nist.gov Subject: Computer Security Division Activities NIST's Computer Security Division has recently made the following information available: 1. A report of the Second Modes of Operation Workshop, which was held in the Santa Barbara area on August 24, is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/modes/workshop2/index.html. 2. A change notice for FIPS 186-2, Digital Signature Standard, is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/tkdigsigs.html. This change notice specifies recommended key sizes, suggested modifications to the random number generators (RNGs) defined in the FIPS, and recommends a method for using the RNGs in the FIPS and in the change notice for general purpose applications. 3. The Key Management Schemes document for the Key Management Workshop is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/kms/workshop2-page.html. The Key Mgmt. Guideline for the workshop will be available in a few days. The workshop is scheduled for November 1-2 at NIST. Registration is REQUIRED because of enhanced security procedures (i.e., so that attendees can be admitted to the NIST campus). Please see http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/kms/workshop2-page.html for registration information. Elaine Barker National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8930 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930 Phone: 301-975-2911 Fax: 301-948-1233 Email: ebarker(a)nist.gov --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Jesus saves but Osama pays interest
by Dynamite Bob 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

>Could it be that this is really the Millenium, >the Second Coming is here and now, and we are just on the >wrong side? I thought the appearance of a tornado in Maryland (killing two) shortly after the WTC/pentagon[1] fireworks was telling. With the background of gay plagues and the anoxia in the Gulf of Mexico... and the programmers calling "let my people go" about Dimitry... and darkness falling over california... But Jah could still be on our side. He cleaned up the dotcom arrogance for us... though he left Larry Ellison alive.. perhaps to test us. [1] Hey aren't wiccans into fivefold rotational symmetry?? Notcensoredyet: http://www3.cnn.com/video/world/2001/10/07/vonat.bin.laden.affl.med.ram

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