February 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Blank Frank 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

It proved that, in an electronic age, all communications were traceable and attributable, Mrs Bowman said in a statement. ......... Bush alert over pupil's prank The threats to George W Bush prompted a major alert A UK schoolboy sparked an international security alert after he sent an e-mail to the White House, threatening to kill United States President George W Bush. The 14-year-old pupil at Blake High School in Cannock, Staffordshire sent the threats from a school computer. He was investigated and interviewed by the Special Branch, after the e-mail was intercepted by the US Central Intelligence Agency. The teenager, whose name has not been disclosed, was not suspended, but was severely reprimanded by the police and school authorities. A spokesman for Staffordshire County Council said the e-mail was sent in November last year, at the time of the US elections. 'Several involved' "Several boys were involved in this, but only one was reprimanded by police officers who went to his home," the spokesman said. The council was in the process of drawing up guidelines for schools on internet security measures, he said. "We hope to keep incidents like this to a minimum in the future," he added. The school's head teacher, Heather Bowman, described the incident as "a thoughtless prank". It proved that, in an electronic age, all communications were traceable and attributable, Mrs Bowman said in a statement. "The school is well aware of its responsibilities and has good monitoring and security systems in place, which are constantly being updated," she added. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1153000/1153922.stm

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05 Feb '01

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by aluger＠hushmail.com 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

At Mon, 05 Feb 2001 07:11:17 -0600, Jim Choate <ravage(a)EINSTEIN.ssz.com> wrote: >http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/02/02/biometric.security.idg/index.h… Instead of being a COMPLETE lazy ass, maybe you could copy-paste just a tiny excerpt from all these URLs you keep spamming us with?

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802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) attacks (fwd)
by Jim Choate 05 Feb '01

05 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, 5 Feb 2001 13:08:04 -0500 (EST) From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder(a)freenet.tlh.fl.us> To: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) attacks as reported on Good Morning Silicon Valley: Researchers from UC Berkeley and private security firm Zero-Knowledge Systems have uncovered a means of disrupting the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm, an important part of the 802.11 corporate standard for wireless computer networks. While data transmitted over these networks is encrypted, the researchers determined that it was easy to modify 802.11 equipment to pillage that data. http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

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IEEE 802.11 WEP holes (fwd)
by Jim Choate 05 Feb '01

05 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, 05 Feb 2001 09:35:19 -0800 From: Jurgen Botz <jurgen(a)botz.org> To: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: IEEE 802.11 WEP holes Slashdot this morning reported on a ZD-Net article at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2681947,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnew… 1 which states that there are major holes in IEEE 802.11 "WEP" encryption. Does anyone have any more details on this? - J|rgen

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CNN.com - Technology - New notebooks offer biometric protection - February 2, 2001
by Jim Choate 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/02/02/biometric.security.idg/index.h… -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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by Franck Maras 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

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Re: Re: War On Drugs Targets Tech
by atek3 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

Solution? Fentanyl analogues. Synthesis is not too tricky, precursors are obtainable to the determined. 3-Methyl Fentanyl is a opoid similar to Heroin only about 300 times more potent placing its activity in the 20 microgram range, one kilo, well distributed, is enough to intoxicate 50 million people! Its so active it could be placed on blotter paper. The cops could never stop the tide of 3 independant chemists each channeling thousands of grams of fentanyl all over the country. The end would be a matter of time. atek3 >From: drevil(a)sidereal.kz >Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)ssz.com >To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Subject: CDR: Re: War On Drugs Targets Tech >Date: 5 Feb 2001 14:00:56 -0000 > >The War on Drugs could be stopped. Think of it as a security problem. >The threat is "drugs are available in the US at free-market prices". >If there were a sucessful attack (ie, drugs became available at >free-market prices) the cost would be in the trillions of dollars per >year to the drug industry (ie, traffickers, law enforcement, military >anti-drug enforcement, intelligence agencies, etc). To prevent this >threat from happening, two things need to be done: one, drugs must be >stopped at the border; and two, drugs must not be produced inside the >US. A certain large amount of money is spent on these two security >policies. > >Billions of packages move in and out of the US every year. Every >single one of them could contain drugs. If something were done to >radically increase the cost of hunting for drugs in these packages, >the War would come to an end. Likewise, a huge amount of stuff is >prod

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kuro5hin.org || Strategic Government.
by Jim Choate 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

http://www.Kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/2/4/62459/14023 -- The Laws of Serendipity: 1. In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. 2. If you wish to make an improved product, you must first be engaged in making an inferior one. Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Confirmation Receipt
by Abuse at Microsoft 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

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