November 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Times - West's feminist under fire from female general
by Jim Choate 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540008-2001551489,00.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Drivers License as ID Card
by Duncan Frissell 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Americans and their Drivers Licenses. There's something funny about them. ************** http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32717-2001Nov2?language=printer "States Devising Plan for High-Tech National Identification Cards By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 3, 2001; Page A10 State motor vehicle authorities are working on a plan to create a national identification system for individuals that would link all driver databases and employ high-tech cards with a fingerprint, computer chip or other unique identifier." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53795-2001Oct25?language=printer "4th Arrest in Probe of Hijacker ID Fraud Man Accused of Helping Suspects in Sept. 11 Terror Attacks Exploit Va. Loophole By Patricia Davis and Brooke A. Masters Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, October 26, 2001; Page B09 A fourth person was arrested and charged yesterday with helping the Sept. 11 hijackers illegally obtain Virginia identification cards less than five weeks before the terrorist attacks. ************** Both civilians and officials seem to think that there is some magic about a drivers license that would make it a good national ID and requires that it be protected from misuse by unauthorized persons. Apparently unknown to these worthies is the fact that terrorists, criminals, or just plain folks can do anything they want to do without a drivers license issued by a US state. As surprising as it may seem, one can drive, rent cars, fly domestically or internationally, get a job, start a business, rent accomodations, open bank accounts, and do anything you like without a US drivers license. Holders of foreign drivers licenses can drive in the US. Among the four million US expats are many native born US citizens who have an absolute right to enter, live, and work in the US but who do not *currently* even have a right to obtain a US drivers license since they are not *resident* in the US. Any US citizens who care to can characterize themselves as being in this group. A drivers license issued by a US state is no more than evidence of identity. It is not evidence of right to reside in the US, right to work in the US, etc. One must use other documents to establish right to reside and right to work (if those documents are required). One can use other documents to establish identity. Including most significantly a passport (whether foreign or domestic). With 300 million US border crossings by aliens annually, it is clear that plenty of aliens are travelling around the country almost none of whom have drivers liccenses issued by a US state. I hope that a "new, improved, drivers license" takes some of the heat off the National ID concept. DCF

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States Rights & National ID's
by Jim Choate 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

It has been posited that the fed's would allow the states to form a compact with respect to sharing data between states, basically because the Republicans believe in states rights. This doesn't hold water. When one speaks of 'states rights' it references the ability of the state to act autonamously and decide their own policies INTERNALLY; not to act as a parallel federal agency. This is clearly not an internal issue. Further, a considerable percentage of Congress and the President have come out (lukewarmly) against the idea. When coupled with the growing concern over the abandonment by the executive of current legal process (eg military trials for civilian crimes) and the fact that Congress has not declared war the Executive/Congress will find it harder in coming days to see 'eye to eye'. This will make it even harder for an agreement to be reached. [ Personal prediction: Ashcroft will be history within 12-24 months. He will either step down because of a 'or else' situation or he will be found in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide the requested information and justification. The Executive is NOT the primary authority at the federal level, the Congress is. The Executive seems to have forgotten that. It would not surprise me if within 5-10 years we don't see a new Amendment better defining these relationships. Last nite on PBS there was a show where a congressman and an executive representative discussed the current situation. The congressman actually quoted the 6th. The reaction of the executive rep was stone faced silent anger. The congressman basically ripped him a new butthole. I only got to see about 10 minutes of it and I don't know the shows name. ] -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CBC News: Russians unexpectedly arrive in Kabul (fwd)
by !Dr. Joe Baptista 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Looks like the russians have arrived for the party. RUSSIANS UNEXPECTEDLY ARRIVE IN KABUL FULL STORY: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/11/27/russians011127 Last Updated: Tue Nov 27 22:16:38 2001 KABUL - While U.S. Marines were consolidating their bridgehead near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, Russian troops unexpectedly arrived in Kabul. They set up camp on a piece of waste ground, and have so far refused to say what they're doing in the capital. Some sources said they are setting up a temporary embassy, others said a field hospital. But it looks like a military camp and many Afghans have bitter memories of the 10 years of Soviet occupation. "A few years ago they came here (to) Afghanistan and they fought with people. And they are very crude people. We don't like (them)," said one man. "Russians destroyed all of Afghanistan. Maybe they are now coming to help," said another. Given the Soviet occupation of this country in the 1980s, Russian soldiers may not be the ideal choice for a humanitarian mission. But Russia is a strong supporter of the Northern Alliance, which has been in power in Kabul for two weeks. Russia may be flexing its muscle as one of the regional powers in Afghanistan, or it may be keen to show that if Washington can put Marines in Kandahar, then Moscow can put troops in downtown Kabul. Written by CBC News Online staff Patrick Brown reports for CBC TV Runs 1:58 -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot-god.com/ The dot.GOD Registry, Limited

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RE: Leahy is now an Enemy of the State
by Trei, Peter 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

> AARG! Anonymous[SMTP:remailer@aarg.net] wrote > > "The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday sharply > criticized the Bush administration for a series of practices it has > adopted in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, calling them a > "marked departure" from long-held jurisprudence customs." > > From: > http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/28/inv.justice.hearing/index.html > -MW- > Actually, the deteriorating standard of justice in this country is starting to blow up in the faces of Bush2 and his gang. EU regs forbid extraditing people to countries with lower standards of justice than practiced in the EU. Spain has already refused to extradite the Al Qeada(sp?) suspects it's arrested, unless it's guarenteed that the USG won't kill them.. Spain (like most civilized countries) has abolished the death penalty, and doesn't think highly of places which haven't. Sending them to a place where they may be tried by a secret tribunal is also a regarded as a problem Peter Trei

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WTF is going on ??
by Secret Squirrel 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

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Leahy is now an Enemy of the State
by AARG! Anonymous 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

"The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday sharply criticized the Bush administration for a series of practices it has adopted in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, calling them a "marked departure" from long-held jurisprudence customs." [...] From: http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/28/inv.justice.hearing/index.html -MW-

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pipenet padding
by William Hitzke 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

i'm constructing a pipenet application and one of the biggest headaches is traffic padding. end-to-end traffic padding is too costly, so its outta the question. another similar problem to traffic padding is connection establishment and tear-down. w/o significant enough traffic, you can't really do it in mixmaster style. my idea for link padding (between adjacent nodes/switches) started w/ the idea of a bi-di 14400 bps, to make hosting an anonnet server (my pipenet implementation) palatable to the person who cuts the checks for bandwidth (such as myself). 14400 connections would force people to open many connections for, say, looking at a website (multiple connections for the page, images, etc). this would help w/ the mixmaster connection requests, and allow hosters to better control bandwidth. then i thought about allowing multiple "virtual links" to be connected at the end node/receiver, so that traffic could be spread across them. aside from latancy and ordering issues, this could really up the through-put. just recently (after reading an attack from wei dai on the freedom network), i was thinking how these multiple "channels" could be used to guard against the active attacks that are exposed absent end-to-end padding. if the traffic did not fill all the channels, and traffic was randomly distributed across the channels, wouldn't/couldn't this make attacks on the system much more difficult. especially if different nodes randomly sent null packets to the receiver, and vice-versa (to reduce possible collusion between the end node and a middle node). assuming the end node is trustworthy (more so than the set of nodes used), then an attack on any link between the beginning and end gives far less information to be used in tracing a route, because its is unknown what the distributiuon of traffic is. it makes things more hairy, having to deal w/ out of order packets (each single channel is still mac'd and sequenced properly). but, it widens the security margins, no? this design seems to me to be a win-win. it makes high[er]-throughput, beneficial link padding possible, while (per the low per-channel bandwidth cost) giving the host of a pipenet/anonnet node more control (finer granularity) over traffic usage thus making hosting less costly. any comments, suggestions? i'm really looking for somebody to tell me whether allowing multiple channels like this exposts the design to more attacks than have been pointer out w/ link padding schemes. otherwise, at the very least it makes the application more practical.

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28 Nov '01

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