July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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EVENT: Phil Zimmermann Palo Alto 7-31-01 Tuesday @7pm
by Matthew Gaylor 30 Jul '01

30 Jul '01

Palo Alto: Community Room at the Lucie Stern Community Center in Palo Alto (1305 Middlefield Rd.) San Francisco: ServOn at 8th & Townsend in San Francisco (650 Townsend, Suite 252). Parking is available on the roof. Meetings begin at 6:30 with pizza and mingling. At 7:00 everyone has an opportunity to ask questions of the group or to make brief announcements, followed by Phil Zimmermann. PGP's creator speaks from the perspective of its 10th anniversary. The OpenPGP alliance, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and free speech. There is a $10 fee for non-SDForum Members, and no charge for SDForum members or students with ID Internet Security and Privacy Special Events Software Development Forum Special Events July 31st Event A decade ago, Philip R. Zimmermann released an encryption program, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). For that, the Federal government charged him with violations of the Arms Export Control Act for munitions trafficking. The government held that U.S. national security was jeopardized when PGP was spread around the world as free encryption software. The case against Phil Zimmermann continued for three years. Without a paid staff, without a company to stand behind it, without sufficient funding, and despite government persecution, PGP became the most widely used email encryption software in the world. The feds eventually dropped their case against Phil Zimmermann. Phil Zimmermann will make a rare appearance on Tuesday, July 31st in San Francisco to talk about encryption and the federal government's attempts to control the free speech of programmers through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Mr. Zimmermann will also discuss the OpenPGP email encryption standard alliance, the future of public key encryption, and answer questions from the audience. Purpose We are bringing in leading experts in many aspects of Internet Security and Privacy to discuss how to protect yourself and your customers against attacks over the Internet. They will explain which threats you should pay attention to first, and how to reduce your risk. Organized by Montebello Partners and PaperlessInvoice, our three special events will focus on the technologies for public key infrastructure, securing credit card information and transactions, and securing your network against intrusion with firewalls and virtual private networks. Our speakers will provide a top-level view of best security practices, as well as practical technical advice on designing, implementing, and managing secure systems. In addition, these events are a great opportunity to meet your colleagues who are also building and administering the latest Internet systems. Find out what malicious activity others have encountered, and what they're doing about it. Please join us, and bring your questions and experiences to share. For further information, visit our web page, or email our organizers Ames Cornish (ames(a)montebellopartners.com) or Ira Victor (irav(a)degrees.com) with questions, comments, or suggestions. Event Calendar Where When Speakers Topic SF Tuesday July 31 Phil Zimmermann PGP's creator speaks from the perspective of its 10th anniversary. The OpenPGP alliance, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and free speech. Palo Alto Monday Sep 17 VISA Best practices in preventing credit card fraud and protecting cardholder information. SF Tuesday Oct 30 tba Securing your network against intrusion with firewalls and VPN's. Meetings begin at 6:30 with pizza and mingling. At 7:00 everyone has an opportunity to ask questions of the group or to make brief announcements, followed by the main presentation by our featured speaker. There is a $10 fee for non-SDForum Members, and no charge for SDForum members or students with ID Location and Directions Palo Alto: Community Room at the Lucie Stern Community Center in Palo Alto (1305 Middlefield Rd.) San Francisco: ServOn at 8th & Townsend in San Francisco (650 Townsend, Suite 252). Parking is available on the roof. © 1999-2000 Montebello Partners. All rights reserved. http://www.montebellopartners.com/Security/Events.asp ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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29 Jul '01

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Business wants a new, profitable internet
by Jim Choate 29 Jul '01

29 Jul '01

Yep, the root of all evil is 'government', unrestrained economic trade will save us all...not http://slashdot.org/yro/01/07/26/1553257.shtml James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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Salon: The real enemies of the poor
by Faustine 29 Jul '01

29 Jul '01

Salon: The real enemies of the poor On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Faustine wrote: > What about the idea of "reputation capital" you people are always going >on about, my prior knowledge of a couple of the authors makes me certain >they wouldn't dream of putting their name on sloppy work... >I'm not one of those 'you people'. Arguments from authority are of no >worth. Past performance is not a reliable metric for future performance. >The ends never justify the means, each step must self-justify. What argument from authority? Barring the sudden onset of senility or insanity, familiarity with past work gives you a general indication of whether or not you want to read something. Even reading this list, I'm sure there are people you read first and people you skip totally...And how likely is it that the first 15 essays are excellent but they saved the crappy ones for 16 on? ha! True story: several months ago I went as a "fly on the wall" to a roundtable-type meeting, sort of a gathering of the experts to discuss an issue. As the meeting went on, I noticed one man totally rose to the occasion and dominated the entire conversation: he knew the subject better than absolutely anyone there, and countered every objection with a dissection of such wit and precision he pretty much annihilated them. Even more impressive, while the others were as arrogant, blustering and pompous as you might expect, he was incredibly soft spoken and did it all without even raising his voice once: the very archetype of cool, quick, impartiality. Incredible! When I left the meeting, I had no idea who this amazing old wizard was or the slightest thing about his background--just that it was worth it to find out and read his research. All I'm saying is that his background credentials and published work was every bit as impressive the performance at the meeting...and that one of his essays is on the list. :) Now with a backstory like that, you actually mean to tell me I don't have a good reason to look forward to reading it? HA! > >I strongly want global trade and cultural exchange. I do not want global > >government or corporate enterprise. > You mean global corporate enterprise, or corporate enterprise at all? >Actually both. The 1870 law which created the modern monster of a >'corporation' should be thrown out. Replaced with what, though. That's the hard part. > Corporations, and other business organizations, should be able to sell to >their like type across the >relevant 'big pond'. A corporation should not be able to exist in two >different countries as a single organization. So the answer is to break them up and create more paperwork and bureacracy? Even if your last point is the "right answer" in theory, I don't see how the implementation of it would get you the results you're after, in terms of effects on society. > >I want direct interaction of business in government to be prohibited. > How? Any solution I can think of has the potential to be more problematic > than the problem itself. >So what solution(s) have you thought of? Quid pro Quo... The obvious first step would be to limit government to its constitutionally proscribed role: get them out of activities best left to the private sector. But without the incentives for a thriving nonprofit sector in place (yes, 501(c)(3)s are international corporations too), it can't happen in a way people could be comfortable with enough to accept. Nonprofits are the key to creating a civil society, and in my opinion it's a huge mistake to ignore their role in taking over services that the private sector can't or won't. How could voluntary collective action be anything BUT good..? Oh well. >Business is an expression of individual rights. Business should not be >able to contribute in any way to the democratic process (there is a reason >that business/commerce is mentioned the way it is in the Constitution... Realistically speaking, even if the entire US government collapsed tomorrow and you had "complete anarchy", it wouldn't be complete because large corporations have enough capital, resources, and sufficient organization to stay together to the point that they could maintain some semblance of order in their local area. Look at the way the oil companies function in Africa; look at the way drug cartels (an international business operation if ever there was one) influence policy in Columbia. Not that there's anything good or desirable about it--it's just that Joe Blow the Democracy Advocate doesn't have the slightest bit of influence over them one way or the other, government or not. So given that, you're faced with the prospect of massive legislation as the only alternative. That doesn't seem too promising either. >An observation that is sure to piss some C-A-C-L's off, but the reality is >that in 'free market' economics ala Hayek or Von Mises the potential for >'Bill Gates' wealth is nil. A 'free market' system isn't about getting >filthy rich. It's about participating in a 'community'. Unfortunately, this involves a confusion between capitalism and democracy. But unlike you, I don't think there's any contradiction in being pro-free market and anti-consumptionism. I hate the idea that so many people seem to think accumulating material goods is an acceptable substitute for an inner life. But just because I choose to live simply and don't drive in favor of commuting, recycle, etc. doesn't give me the right to demand others do the same. >Bottom line, the world is the way it is because people make it that way. >It is not an inviolate law of nature (or if you accept that then some >other precepts become questionable; free will, rational, responsible, >pre-meditation, etc. ). But the examples I gave above point to the idea that pure democratic anarchy is every bit as bound to fail as the ideal of pure democratic communism was (what's the real difference, when you think about it?) precisely because of the way people tend to make things, given the chance. What's to keep the strong and clever from ganging up on the weak and stupid? The amoral from ripping off the principled and pious? Anywhere, ever? The Constitution and the rule of law is the best chance we have... ~Faustine.

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OPT: Re: Open 802.11b wireless access points and remailers (fwd)
by Jim Choate 29 Jul '01

29 Jul '01

"Small World" network models resolve almost all of these issues...the failure with all these models is the concept of 'root' (or more generaly 'heirarchy'). It's not needed. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:52:53 -0400 (EDT) From: dmolnar <dmolnar(a)hcs.harvard.edu> Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)ssz.com To: gbroiles(a)speakeasy.org Cc: cypherpunks(a)lne.com Subject: CDR: Re: Open 802.11b wireless access points and remailers On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 gbroiles(a)speakeasy.org wrote: > forbidden emails or browse hidden sites did that by going to public > terminals in libraries or web cafes or [...] - now perhaps they'll do that > at Starbucks or the mall, either for free or having paid cash for > short-term access via 802.11b wireless. I heard recently that Starbucks is piloting 802.11b access in selected Manhattan locations. The issue is support, of course - they need to see if they'll have to hire a sysadmin for every Starbucks before rolling it out. I haven't taken my laptop and tried to verify this yet. Matthew Skala had some material on his web page concerning "community wireless" networks, as well, in which people offer free wireless connectivity as a public service. Presumably this too would offer opportunities for anonymous net access. I would be less willing to trust a static box connected to one of these networks, though. Once identified as a remailer, it seems that it might be too easy to track it to its physical location, at which point it can be borged or destroyed. After all, if it's going to be an active remailer, it will be sending and receiving several messages each day. You might try to get around this by developing a protocol in which there are many, many remailers, each of which only speaks once in a very long while. I don't know how easy or hard it is exactly to do this kind of tracking, however, which makes it difficult to say what such a protocol would look like. Perhaps mobile remailers might be more useful or more difficult to track to their physical implementation. The only problem with a mobile remailer is the question of "who's moving it?" (or what). I can imagine a mobile remailer the size of a Walkman without too much difficulty; I can also imagine that if I were to wear such a remailer and walk around in the wrong kind of environment, I'd be asking for a "mugging." or worse. Now that I think about it, it's not clear that wireless actually buys us more than obscurity of physical location. The real win, as you point out, is ease of access and ease of setup. Maybe less dependence on upstream connections, as well, so you can get around the problem of ISPs shutting down remailers for spam. Plus mobile remailers seem to require either a global address space or developing the notion of remailer confederations which allow dynamic leave and join of remailer nodes. I recall that the notion of dynamic collections of remailers came up in at least one previous discussion of disposable remailers. I don't remember that too many conclusions were reached, but it was a while abck. One problem is that an adversary can show up with polynomially many of its closest friends and have them all try to join a remailer confederation at once. While the MIX protocol is theoretically OK as long as even one MIX is honest, this may have bad implications for traffic analysis. Perhaps one thing we could do would be to borrow Levien's advogato metric. Let anyone who wants to start a remailer confederation. They form the root set of the trust metric for that confederation. Anyone can join the confederation's address space, but will start out with no trust links between them and the root set. Nodes can rate each other, establishing trust links. This way you can develop a trust metric / reputation system local to that particular remailer confederation. Now the issues are how the ratings are set up and maybe more important, how routing of messages is influenced by the trust metric. Ratings could be manual. We know how well that works from the PGP web of trust experiment - and here life is harder since remops usually will not know each other personally nor want to. Another issue is dealing with nodes which leave the confederation. What if all the confederation founders leave? what happens to the root set then? Also, building up trust may require time, which makes this unsuitable for nodes which want to pop in for 20 ins and then leave (say their owner is on the freeway). -David -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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