December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: vacation CONF. 21370
by a23036＠luso.pt 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

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Re: Clarification for cpunks_anon@einstein.ssz.com
by Faustine 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: >Another person can see your fundamentals but not you, and >vice versa. >Faustine demonstrated this with her parable about locating >a long-lost acquaintance, as did he her, uh, her he. He did >not could not recognize what she saw in him, and she did >not see how he identified her. What she saw was a secondary >appearance he claims to have seen in her writings, not primary. >There is no way out of the dilemma of not being able to see in >yourself what others do, what they see in you is transparent >to you. An unexamined life is the only possibility -- the joke >of the opposite canard. >Camouflage at will, but it will take another party to check >how you blindly failed to protect yourself. But since I did want to be found, it seemed perversely interesting to see if he was the kind of person I could get to find me the same way I found him...somehow it was much more satisfying to let him think my post was a coincidence and he was the one being clever and doing the sleuthing. Sort of a joke at him, at myself, at the absurdity of thinking you can ever be truly anonymous. Whether or not I could I have pulled off posting about the subject without being recognized is an entirely different question: if you disguise your opinion enough, at some point it's not yours anymore. And if you take it even farther and become too deeply enraptured by the perverse pleasures of perception management, you end up deceiving yourself most of all. A joke within a joke within a joke within still another joke that's not that funny, but there you are. I'm not so blind I can't recognize and laugh at some of my more colorful tired old crotchety hobbyhorses...since people are only going to see in you what they want to anyway, I choose to ride them all the same. Or: fuck 'em. ~Faustine. "A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing." - -Georges Bataille -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPDD75fg5Tuca7bfvEQI9bQCgrUdnvqZ0VAhFOB5qvAC/5cSEdvIAoLcB xO4QdebqTAs2vIkau+6Ry+kw =UzOj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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The Register - 'Win-XP hole' mis-represented by FBI, press, Bibson
by Jim Choate 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23517.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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CNN.com - Free translation software unveils Arab views - December 31, 2001
by Jim Choate 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/31/arabic.software.ap/index.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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RE: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?
by Ryan Lackey 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Steve Schear wrote: > If platform portability is desired why not use QT? I believe there > are ports to both Linux and Windows (including CE). A widget library does not a crossplatform development environment make. Particularly since you need to do audio processing, tradiitonally one of the least portable parts of UNIX programming (even from unix to unix). Doing a simple 100% native GUI using whatever widget set is most popular on a given platform is nothing compared to handling audio in a reasonable way. Plus, some of the good compression libraries seem to be windows-only right now. If the goal is to provide secure communications to as many people as possible, a wince encrypted msn messenger + voice chat system seems best. Actually, you might just be able to do ipsec on the ppp link between the two machines, and then use 100% pre-existing microsoft wince software, to do it -- I don't know if they have an IPsec implementation for the wince platform yet. BTW, coderpunks(a)toad.com appears permanently dead, culled from the to: line. -- Ryan Lackey [RL7618 RL5931-RIPE] ryan(a)havenco.com CTO and Co-founder, HavenCo Ltd. +44 7970 633 277 the free world just milliseconds away http://www.havenco.com/ OpenPGP 4096: B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F

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Scarfo Phase 2
by John Young 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

John Schwartz writes in the December 31 New York Times: "A controversial system installed on a criminal suspect's computer by the government to capture the encryption passwords of a criminal suspect is nearing its second phase." Anybody have info or leads on the "second phase" of what appears to be the keylogging technology used by the FBI in the Scarfo case?

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jamesd,Tim Mays lying black dog.
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

CommieRot! (english) by James 8:00pm Mon Sep 3 '01 Anarchists killed more people in Spain than pinochet in Chile.See...http://www.jim.com/world.html Post cut. Yeah, but... (english) by Superguy 10:50pm Mon Sep 3 '01 ...anarchists only killed bad people. on James and the Spanish Anarchists (english) by anarcho 1:36am Tue Sep 4 '01 anarcho(a)geocities.com James (who I imagine is that wonderfully inventive liar James Donald of Usenet infamy) provides a url in which he "exposes" Spanish Anarchism. The following URLs are in reply to such claims: This is a direct reply to James webpages: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2374/blood.html This is a more detailed reply to another such attack: http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/spainrebut.html I will leave it up to the reader to consult the all URLs and leave it to them to discover who is telling the truth. Readers may be interested in the following URL which refutes James Donald's infamously inaccurate and dishonest diatribes against Noam Chomsky http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/jamesd.html these urls will indicate to the reader exactly what "James" is like. http://www.anarchistfaq.org/

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RE: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?
by Steve Schear 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

At 01:26 PM 12/31/2001 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > > Lucky Green[SMTP:shamrock@cypherpunks.to] >for the Ipaq, however, I suspect that this is a temporary phenomenon. MS >is giving away it's development environment for free, and as pointed out, >there is are several Linux ports. The higher cost of PocketPC devices can >be balanced against their higher power. If platform portability is desired why not use QT? I believe there are ports to both Linux and Windows (including CE). steve

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RE: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?
by Steve Schear 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

At 11:59 AM 12/31/2001 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >Ryan suggested earlier that the Ipaq with Fireball isn't up to the task. >I don't think this is correct. I point you to > >http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs344/staff/group10/final_report.pdf > >in which some Stanford students produce a wireless ipaq2ipaq >VoIP system. Biggest problem is that it's simplex, not because >of cpu limitations but rather that the Compaq HW can listen or >make noise, but not both simultaneously. Using a headset which >interfaces through the expansion port might enable you to >avoid this problem (and the BT headset could also offload the >codec). A 206 MHz Ipaq would, I think have sufficient HP to >do the crypto. Agreed. The port expander approach should be explored. Also needed is WinModem control for smooth analog (clear) to digital (crypto) transition. >I've toyed with the idea of porting SpeakFreely to Ipaq, but have >not actually done anything at this point. Several developers, including an ex-Starium engineer, and I have been talking about just such venture. I sure between all of us we have the wherewithal to make this happen. Besides the half-duplex problem some changes to the SF protocol are desired to work better with SOHO firewalls now common. steve

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Re: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?
by Ryan Lackey 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Actually, the ipaq *does* support full duplex audio now. PocketPC 3.0 doesn't, but compaq has provided a driver for WinCE, and the linux distribution supports it too. PocketPC supports an application called "Microsoft Portrait" and msn messenger for voice over ip. To provide maximal end-user benefit, the thing to do is probably put strong crypto into msn messenger/ms portrait, on desktop and handheld. "Off the shelf hardware" is pretty meaningless to users if they need to do the linux handheld install; I've tried before and even if you know a fair bit about linux, it takes over an hour, and is somewhat risky. Whereas if it's just a "download this app and it works" thing, it's a lot easier to get casual users. http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/ is the microsoft portrait page. It's MS Research, not MS MS, so it may not suck. Someone should probably contact the guy and see what's up. If they would support an open-source client, and add crypto to the protocol, it might be good. -- Ryan Lackey [RL7618 RL5931-RIPE] ryan(a)havenco.com CTO and Co-founder, HavenCo Ltd. +44 7970 633 277 the free world just milliseconds away http://www.havenco.com/ OpenPGP 4096: B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F

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