February 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Ah, now I catch Declan's trick
by Jim Choate 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

He posted a comment the other day about my sending private notes was unwaranted in responce to comments made on the public list. I was wondering why he got them at all because previously he hadn't been receiving them. Well today I made the same mistake, I didn't look at the header until after I'd sent it. Then I realized that Declan is now sending these messages not only to the list, but to me privately (something he says is against netiquette?), something he wasn't doing before. The private messages bubble to the top first so I reply to them. I was also wondering why I was getting multiple copies of his inbound too. So, if Declan would please forward the responce to his public post back to the list (and send his commentary w/o me cc:'ed specificaly please) we can proceed with a reasonably civil debate until he finds something else to play with instead of the topic at hand. ____________________________________________________________________ One World, One Web, One Program - Microsoft Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer - Hitler The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - Ring my ring (or "Is that in the next standard?")
by Jim Choate 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/16903.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Membership will be terminated.
by Action Stocks 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

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Senator tries to ban sale of SSNs by banks
by Declan McCullagh 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For More Information Contact: FEBRUARY 14, 2001 Andrea Andrews (202) 224-6518 SHELBY INTRODUCES SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER PRIVACY PROTECTION LEGISLATION Bill Prohibits the Sale and Purchase of Social Security Numbers by Financial Institutions WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Richard C. Shelby (R-AL) today introduced legislation that would prevent the unauthorized disclosure of Social Security numbers. Senator Shelby's "Social Security Privacy Act of 2001" would prohibit the sale and purchase of an individual's Social Security number by financial institutions. The legislation would include Social Security numbers as "nonpublic personal information" subject to the privacy protections of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. "I believe Congress has a duty to stop Social Security numbers from being bought and sold like some common commodity," said Shelby. "Social Security numbers are key to just about all the personal information concerning an individual. While Congress waits to act, the easy access and extreme availability of our personal information has lead to fraud, abuse, identity theft and in the more extreme cases-stalking and death." "I do not know anyone in this country who believes financial institutions should be making money by trafficking in our Social Security numbers," added Shelby. "The longer we wait to act on this issue-an issue supported by a vast majority of Americans-the more the American people lose confidence in the U.S. Congress and our ability to lead." - 30 -

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by Ivan 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

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Re: freedomforum.org: Federal judge quashes subpoena for Kansas bookstore's sales records
by Declan McCullagh 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

Jim, please do not email me privately unless you want to say something to me privately. It appears as though you sent the below message to the list and then to me in a different message; there is no need for this, and it violates netiquette. In any case, I'm inclined to believe that the First Amendment should not grant special rights to people who call themselves bookstores and journalists. Rather, we should all enjoy those rights. Being an Official Approved Government-Certified Journalist -- and I am one -- writing an article should not mean I have special privileges that only I enjoy and someone from an unapproved newspaper, or a cypherpunk subscriber writing about the same topic, does not. -Declan At 05:29 PM 2/13/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > > I'd want to read the documents in this case. But quick thoughts: The > > scope of civil discovery has broadened too much in the U.S. That > > said, I'm not sure why bookstores should be treated differently than > > other businesses. > >Congress shall make no law respecting freedom of speech or press. > >I'll give you a mental problem to ponder, if you can infringe my speech or >press by intimidating or denying access to others then there is no free >speech or press and the right has been infringed. > >"He's guilty, he read "Hunt for Red October"!" > >It doesn't surprise me that most of the crypto-anarchist cranks (you >people should really look up the definition of that word before you use >it) on this list wouldn't get it.

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rubberhose.com (was Re: NTK now, 2000-02-09) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:24:44 -0500 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: rubberhose.com (was Re: NTK now, 2000-02-09) At 11:22 AM -0800 on 2/9/01, Danny O'Brien wrote: > Accusing us of "doting on my six year old childhood > peccadilloes", JULIAN ASSANGE, co-author of THE UNDERGROUND > and, we dotifully include, THE DAN FARMER RAP, directs our > attention as "citizen[s] of totalitarian England", to > RUBBERHOSE, his fine two-year-old toddler of a "deniable > encryption" system. In Assange's own sweet, twisted way, > Rubberhose is named after the decryption tactic it attempts > to defeat: Rubberhose Cryptanalysis, in which suspects are > exposed to repeated rounds of the "kick to the head" attack > until their password is revealed. Rubberhose thwarts this by > allowing a large number of encrypted messages to be stored > on the same drive, each encoded with a different password. > The total number of levels is unknown, so when Commandante > Plodista requests your passphrase, you can happily give him > the password to the lowest level (or three), confident that > noone can ever prove that this isn't *all* the data you have > on the drive. Along with StegFS, it's another recommended > RIP-bypasser. Unless you really are under risk of being > beaten up, in which case, we'll re-pose the FAQ: won't > rational torturers just beat you up *forever*? Anyone want > to pick up on the in-the-field research here? > http://www.rubberhose.org/ > - smart civil rights groups stick with Linux 2.2 > http://www.rubberhose.org/current/src/doc/beatings.txt > - taking "prisoner's dilemma" out of labs, into prisons > http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1995_2/0194.html > - hold on, if he was six in 1995... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: Re: freedomforum.org: Federal judge quashes subpoena for Kansas bookstore's sales records
by Declan McCullagh 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

Jim, once again you've sent a private message to me and sent ANOTHER one to the list. I explicitly asked you not to do it earlier this week; one more and I will (no joke) killfile you. Procmail is my friend. At 03:58 PM 2/14/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >"Congress shall make no law respecting the act of sex." Sigh. Read up on the doctrine of enumerated powers. -Declan

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Possession of stolen books - an example
by Jim Choate 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

Blueheart Alison Sinclair Harper Science Fiction ISBN 0-06-105820-3 $6.50 US I quote from the 'fly' (or whatever it's called), the facing page to the first page of chapter 1. "If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property." They've been doing this for at least 20 years. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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3 Clicks for a Buck! - No 3rd Party Tracking!
by WebmasterSweeps.com 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

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