December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

The nelson mandela of the crypto-anarchy revolution
by mattd 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

The crypto-anarchy revolution is a cause that I wish to bring about and live for...its also a cause I am willing to die for. "We're strong as can be/A dream of power and energy/We go for the goal/Together we hold/On to our vision of global strategy..."

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A note to virus authors
by Alfred Qaeda 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

>>"The subject line says 'Hi' and will be from someone you know," Symantec security response group manager Kevin Haley said. "The text will say 'How are you? I saw this screensaver and immediately thought of you.' That's a giveaway."<< Authors, How can you put so much effort into writing cool virii and do such an amateur job on the social engineering? Include a hundred different, likely sounding subject lines (encrypted of course, but you knew that). A single constant subject line is *so* easy to warn against. You are defeated by word of mouth and a little medium-term memory. Exceed the human memory requirements, gentlemen. You'll have a better chance of a truly inspiring piece of electronic performance art. ------- "Forget cyberterrorists (tm) in distant lands; a few daisycutters on Redmond and your virus problems disappear."

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US adopts piracy as policy
by Khoder bin Hakkin 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces have warned shippers to cooperate with maritime searches for al Qaeda fighters fleeing Afghanistan (news - web sites) by sea or risk being sunk, defense officials said on Friday. The U.S. Fifth Fleet and coalition forces are monitoring commercial vessels in the North Arabian Sea, ``particularly those operating off the Pakistani coast'' in the hunt for Saudi-born extremist Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and members of his al Qaeda network, as well as fighters of the collapsing Taliban militia that formerly ruled Afghanistan, a defense official said. ``Anyone suspected of assisting or transporting bin Laden and/or al Qaeda leadership should expect to be boarded and will risk the sinking or seizure of the vessel and will be detained and jailed,'' the defense official said. <snip> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011207/ts/attack_military_ships_dc_2.html

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( was Masks to be illegal in U.K. )
by Michael Motyka 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

smallpox wrote : > > Removal of disguises data fodder for CCTV > > Clause 93 would insert a new section 60AA into the Criminal Justice and > Public Order Act 1994. It would allow police to remove any facial > coverings or disguises in a specified area for 24 hours following the > order of a senior police officer. There is no provision for sensitivity > regarding religious articles. > > http://www.blagged.freeserve.co.uk/ta2000/atcsbill.htm > The Good : religion is placed on equal footing with everyone else - it's time tpo end preferential treatment. The Bad : a government thinking for even a moment that dress codes are under its jurisdiction. The Ugly : those who should be wearing masks to protect their fellow citizens sensibilities will not be able to. Mike

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Re: Real capitalism falling down drunk
by mattd 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

Dave Honig wrote...Joe the nailmaker invests in a machine to make nails faster than he can by hand. Who has he coerced? Who cares? its low level market and >trade The implicit coercion is the protection racket of the state lurking in the background and attempting to monopolies money. Best fought with anarchism.Now jamesd; "Coercion is implicit in all capitalism above low level > market and trade. Nonsense. If you do not like one guy's prices or wages, you can go to another, or start your own business" Again:Who cares? its low level market and >trade "Without property rights, the specialization of labor has to take place by something very like a state telling people what they must do, and what they may consume. Thus to suppress capitalism requires centralized terror, and lots of it. Nothing less will suffice. Been tried." Without property rights enforced by coercion by even the most minimal state using stone axes and spears. Again best fought by anarchism. Property rights may ebb and flow in a free society not a capitalist force propped society.How else are we to digitize the ' mass hallucination of money without anarchism? Something never really been given a fair go.Centrally directed terror is an obvious feature of modern capitalism.Do you suggest its about to wither away? "And indeed that terror is a large part of the attraction of socialism. Observe the popularity among socialists of books by those who have murdered helpless captives. Many socialists even name their ideology after mass murderers, for example Trotskyists. One can hardly imagine some faction of neo-nazis naming themselves after one of Hitler's more prominent goons." No one enjoys bashing authoritarian 'socialists' more than I,james,but its getting off topic.Crypto anarchy. Not cryptocapitalism.Remember? Famous anarchist Bakunin predicted the murderous folly that bourgeois marxism would lead to. Marx was an capitalist along with engels all his life.Show me some anarchist mass murderers.There must be one,somewhere on your site.Its pure straw man to try and mix anarchy with marxist-leninism. "Similarly, when socialists celebrate great moments in socialist history, it is not the heroic battles they recall, but the murder of the helpless and powerless -- for example they recall not the last days of the Paris commune, but the first. " James is flirting with hate speech here,I dont know what socialist soirees james attends,possibly national socialist. Libertarian socialists celebrate much about the commune and mourn much.Way off topic now,like its a manichean thing with you james? You are either for capitalism or your a cold war era commie?Thats your consistent response.Its old. "Similarly observe how the Soviet Union, Mao's china, and the rest ceased to be loved when the terror ceased. When the terror in the Soviet Union was in full flow, it was described a glorious paradise where the concept of a policeman was strange and unknown. When the terror eased, then they started to describe it as regrettably wicked, but nonetheless a much lesser evil than the USA. " You've really lost me now james,Is that the secret? Baffle them with bushit? Is it fun in your bubble boy world?

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Power Grab 2001: "Criticizing Ashcroft is aiding the enemy"
by Major Variola (ret) 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAEI966YUC.html Ashcroft Says Those Questioning Administration's Anti-Terror Plan Could Be Aiding Enemy By Karen GulloAssociated Press Writer Published: Dec 7, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General John Ashcroft said trying Taliban members in open U.S. court could create "Osama TV." He defended military tribunals for terrorists and suggested that anyone who criticized them was aiding the enemy. Our legal powers are targeted at terrorists," he told the committee. "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve." <snip> White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Friday that criticism can hurt the anti-terrorism fight if it undermines anti-terrorism legislation pushed by the administration. <snip> "The attorney general's implication is clear. If you do not march in lock step with the government, you are supporting the terrorists," the Center for National Security Studies said in a statement. ----- Got polychrome methylene blue?

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Re: IP-FLASH Office XP, Windows XP May Send Sensitive Documents toMicrosoft (fwd)
by David Honig 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

At 02:04 PM 12/7/01 +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote: >Subject: IP-FLASH Office XP, > Windows XP May Send Sensitive Documents to Microsoft > >PROBLEM: Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer version 5 and later are >configured to request to send debugging information to Microsoft in the >event of a program crash. The debugging information includes a memory dump >which may contain all or part of the document being viewed or edited. This >debug message potentially could contain sensitive, private information. Maybe they got bored in Redmond when Sircam started going down...

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RE: More damage to liberty than I expected.
by Obrien, Haskell W. 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

> No, the kind of people who decide where a company's servers are >going to be hosted are often the same people who write the check for >that service--the bean counters. With input from Bus-dev and Manglment. Very True. At one of my former companies, the bean counters tried to pay exodus to host the companies web server. The company is an ISP that sells co-lo service!

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Japan Broke U.S. Code Before Pearl Harbor, Researcher Finds
by Jim Choate 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

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IP-FLASH Office XP, Windows XP May Send Sensitive Documents toMicrosoft (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 07:59:49 -0500 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> To: ip-flash <ip-flash(a)majordomo.pobox.com> Subject: IP-FLASH Office XP, Windows XP May Send Sensitive Documents to Microsoft PROBLEM: Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer version 5 and later are configured to request to send debugging information to Microsoft in the event of a program crash. The debugging information includes a memory dump which may contain all or part of the document being viewed or edited. This debug message potentially could contain sensitive, private information. PLATFORM: · Microsoft Office XP · Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and later · Windows XP · Microsoft has indicated that this will be a feature of all new Microsoft products DAMAGE: Sensitive or private information could inadvertently be sent to Microsoft. Some simple testing of the feature found document information in one message out of three. SOLUTION: Apply the registry changes listed in this bulletin to disable the automatic sending of debugging information. If you are working with sensitive information and a program asks to send debugging information to Microsoft, you should click Don't Send. http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-005.shtml

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