July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found traffic regina CONSTABLE LIGHT WILL SAY.doc.pif infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: traffic regina CONSTABLE LIGHT WILL SAY", was sent from Les Poirier and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found ¦ô»ù³æ.xls.pif infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: ¦ô»ù³æ", was sent from ³¯»Ê´ and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found sample service call.doc.lnk infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: sample service call", was sent from Luc Kage and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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Information You Requested from Microsoft.com
by 1support＠microsoft.com 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

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cryptography license negotiation
by Gregory M Pomerantz 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

I am working on negotiating a licensing agreement for a large piece of software that contains a cryptographic component. I am trying to negotiate a warranty term that favors us in the event that the algorithm or implementation should prove insecure. Ideally I would like 1) disclosure of the algorithm and 2) a representation that cryptographic experts consider the algorithm is considered secure or at least appropriate to the use being made of it. Has anybody ever negotiated something like this with a software vendor? Can anyone produce sample language from a licensing agreement? Is there a better place I can ask this question? ("get a lawyer" is not a helpful response. IAAL). Thanks for your help gmp

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Re: Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washing tonpost.com)
by Jim Choate 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Tomorrow's Soldier David Alexander ISBN 0-380-79502-7 Chpt. 8 "War Beyond Tomorrow" On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: > It may not be that easy. My understanding (based on various TV programs > broadcast back in the early 90's) is that there is a program called 'NEST', > which stands for something like Nuclear Emergency (mumble) Team, > tasked with dealing with this type of problem. > > One protection hinted is that strategically chosen points of transit > (bridges, > ports, tunnels, major highways, mail, baggage and freight facilities, etc) > have > detectors for nuclear materials. > > The thing is, while you can sheild a source to the point where it is not > a hazard, sheilding it to the point of *undetectability* is far harder task. > > If you detect even a single gamma ray of a certain frequency, or > betas or even alphas of certain energies, you *know* that a certain > isotope produced them. If the detectors note the presence of a > certain isotopes, they generate the appropriate alarms. > > There are also other detection systems - I've seen X-rays of entire > container trucks which were passing through the Chunnel - illegal > immigrants were quite visible inside the container. > > An attacker's best chance would be to place his weapon in a > container, heavily sheilded, and then to bury that in the middle of > a stack of other containers of heavy shielding in the hold of a > container ship, and plan to detonate it while still on board in a > target harbor. > > UPS probably would not work (besides, I think they have a > limit of around 90 lbs). -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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FBI SirCammed (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:21:35 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: FBI SirCammed http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB99601609210000000.djm July 25, 2001 Tech Center FBI Cyber Researcher Unleashes Virus That E-Mails Private Agency Documents By TED BRIDIS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- A researcher in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's cyber-protection unit unleashed a fast-spreading Internet virus that e-mailed private FBI documents to outsiders -- all on the eve of a Senate hearing into troubles at the unit. Although the Sircam virus didn't spread to other computers at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, it did send at least eight documents to a number of outsiders. One, about the investigation into an unrelated virus, was marked "official use only." The Sircam virus has infected thousands of computers since its discovery last week. 1U.S. Pentagon Shuts Down Public Access to Web Sites (July 24) 2'Code Red' Web Virus May Attack Other Computers in Coming Weeks (July 23) FBI spokeswoman Deb Weierman said that no sensitive or classified information about continuing investigations was disclosed Tuesday. The "official use" designation protects documents from disclosure under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. It isn't uncommon for virus researchers to accidentally infect their own computers, but the mistake was particularly embarrassing because it occurred ahead of a Senate Judiciary panel's oversight hearing about the FBI cyber unit's effectiveness. Lawmakers were expected to focus on other agencies' failure to cooperate fully with the FBI center, and on a perceived lack of trust between the FBI and private-sector groups. The unit generally gets high remarks for its criminal investigations, and even critics say the unit is more effective than it was a year ago. "The effort here is not to embarrass anybody but to stress that a lot of work has to be done," said Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona. Meanwhile, the White House has begun organizing a new early-warning network for Internet threats. But unlike the current system, it will be coordinated by the Pentagon, not the FBI. The mechanism for warning all U.S. military and civilian agencies -- and ultimately corporations -- will be dubbed the Cyber-Warning and Information Network, or "c-win." Organizers envision dozens of computer centers that could sound an alert when a threat is identified. The network is expected to begin operating in October. The FBI unit, which currently relays these warnings, came under sharp criticism from congressional auditors for issuing tardy alerts. Ms. Weierman, the FBI spokeswoman, called the new network a "useful mechanism" to offer the government a "technical capability that doesn't currently exist." The FBI, she said, wasn't concerned it would lose its warning responsibilities. Tuesday, at least three people said they received some of the FBI documents, including a 23-year-old Internet-security expert in Belgium, Niels Heinen. He operates a Web site that reports on Internet break-ins and speculated that the analyst, Vince Rowe, visited the site on the infected computer. Mr. Rowe didn't respond to a request for comment. Write to Ted Bridis at ted.bridis(a)wsj.com3 URL for this Article: http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB99601609210000000.djm Hyperlinks in this Article: (1) http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=e1-SB99601609210000000 (2) http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=e2-SB99601609210000000 (3) e3-SB99601609210000000 Copyright � 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printing, distribution, and use of this material is governed by your Subscription Agreement and copyright laws. For information about subscribing, go to http://wsj.com -- ----------------- 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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: So, what do the Russians think?
by Ray Dillinger 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Good point. A Russian cryptographer was grabbed, unable to talk to his consulate for at least three days, and the Russians don't say anything? I smell a rat. Perhaps Dmitry was sold down the river. (Note for non-USA readers: "sold down the river" is an americanism for betrayal. It dates from the days of slavery, where the conditions for slaves were worse the further down the (Mississippi) river they were. It was common for slaveowners to promise to sell their slaves upriver to gain their goodwill, and then sell them downriver for more money than they could get upriver. Since slaves' communication was tightly controlled, lying to the ones left about where their buds had gone was also common, and usually undetected. Parallels to the current situation are left as an exercise for the reader.) Bear

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25 Jul '01

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Thought-A-Day
by Fountain Of Inspiration 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

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