August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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Re: Lawyers, Guns, and Money
by Declan McCullagh 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:15:19PM -0400, Faustine wrote, quoting Tim: > > >Do you think you are preparing to have "enormous influence" on policy? > > I'm preparing to try. If you want to have "enormous influence" on policy, you'd be well advised to spend your time flirting with a member of the appropriate sex in the administration, or perhaps the Senate leadership, offering the appropriate sexual favors, then vie for a position as a policy aide somewhere. A law degree will be a big help. Not entirely joking, Declan

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OPT: How does one freenet (mobile) user find another (maybe freenet) user?
by Jim Choate 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

One proposal is to build some complicated IP management network. Yuck! A primary problem is one freenet user locating another freenet user and keeping the connection live during AP changes. I believe that if this problem can be resolved the other types of connections (ie fixed IP) go away. How about a 'rendevous server'. A well known address where two users can present a 'key' to the server and when they click you open a connection. (this might be a good place for e-cash micro-mints) IP Anonymizers would be one place to start. You connect up and get your IP washed. Then you present a key to the server. It looks for an identical key(s) and build a bridge between those users. An end-to-end anonymous connection. The anonymizing layer is a bell, it's not critical. A simple IP proxy will work. This is also a good place to demonstrate the utility of a 'wrapper' around this connection with respect to moving from one node to another. As you move out of one zone into another, your IP changes. So, your system would re-connect to the above server, be anonymized and hence making it's real IP irrelevant (even if it wasn't anonymized the next step makes the actual IP moot) - all automatically. It presents a key, finds a waiting connection open and gets connected back up. The rendevous server sits patiently waiting (until some watchdog barks) for new connections and holding the old half of your connection open and waiting. In particular it looks at each half of a connection and asks (Did_they_drop_the_line? || Did_we_get_norm_close?) before it closes the resource. Otherwise it attempts to keep the connection open and in a wait state until somebody else connects up. It would be reasonable to run such a server on the AP. With respect to automation of finding other proxies and presenting keys, this could be done by having it broadcast a Proxy_alive_kicking? packet. It would then, at a users request, broadcast out to those proxies trying to find out if they have a matching key as presented by the user. If so, then the proxy servers could make a connection between themselves and bridge the users logical connection request (ie presenting a key). -- ____________________________________________________________________ natsugusa ya...tsuwamonodomo ga...yume no ato summer grass...those mighty warriors'...dream-tracks Matsuo Basho The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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hacking NJ: All your professionals are ours
by Subcommander Bob 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

Wired.com pointed to http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/nyregion/24VOTE.html which is about putting public records online. This pointed to http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/director.htm which lists 'professionals' that NJ tracks. Heh, All their professionals are 0urs. A few minutes using the HTML CIRCUMVENTION/CRACKING tool "Netscape" and fnord "Emacs" and we've got a nice catalog. Physicians, architects, veterinarians, master plumbers, beauticians of NJ, your info is toast. The web page limits you to, e.g., 800 physicians per surname search; yet a search for "S" surnames yields 6974 MDs. How-to: Go there, pick a profession, e.g., doctors at http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/bme/docdir.htm Save as local, and edit the HTML. 1. Find "POST". Prefix http://www.state.nj.us to the relative CGI URL earlier in that line. 2. Find "OPTION". Add a few zeroes to the number of hit results there. Open the *local*, edited page in a browser. Enter a letter, e.g., "s" and select the larger number of results to return. If you enter "." you get 59,192 matches. All the licensed MDs in NJ. Over 23M of HTML from A to T.... <tr><td>Name</td><td>TERZUOLI,ROBERT,J </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>2481 STUART ST , BROOKLYN NY, 11229-5815</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA058265</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Inactive</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESAR,JAMES,D </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>1002 VILLAGE LN , WINTER PARK FL, 32792-3416</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA044222</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Expired</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESCHNER,BERNARD </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>12 GREENRIDGE AVE , WHITE PLAINS NY, 10605-1238</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA011599</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Inactive</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESLER,MAX,A </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>661 PALISADE AVE , ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS NJ, 07632-1800</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA028017</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Deceased</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESLUK,GREGORY,C </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>HOPKINSON HOUSE 2104 WASHNGTN , SQUARE SO PHILA PA, 19106 </td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA041360</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Expired</td></tr>

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Re: biochemwomdterror in dc
by Faustine 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

Tim wrote: On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 05:39 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote: > TERRORIST ATTACKS Defense Department (DOD), Office of the Secretary of > Defense (F.R. Page 42998) Meeting of the Advisory Panel To Assess the > Capabilities for Domestic Response to Terrorist Attacks Involving > Weapons of Mass Destruction, to run August 27-28. Location: RAND, 1200 > South Hayes St., Arlington, VA. 12 noon Contact: 703-413-1100, ext. 5282 >>I've been seeing Declan forward a bunch of these terse paragraphs >>announcing these meetings. I never see any summaries of what was said. >>Anyone ever attend? (If they're closed to the public or journalists, why >>forward so many announcements of them?) Why? Because you're making a tacit admission that the fact that the panel is being conducted at all is significant--and has a good chance of making a serious impact on future policy decisions. Since RAND is 100% responsible for the real meat of any "assessment" going on, you might say the panel is part of the mechanism by which analysis gets turned into actual policy and legislation. I choose to take this (and dozens of similar panels on widely diverse subjects) as proof that RAND-style policy analysis is alive, well, and more central to the policy process than ever. Call it a "pale imitation" of the early days if you want to, but you have to admit you all aren't ignoring it. And as far as I can tell, you damn sure won't be able to ignore it in the years to come either. Given that, maybe encouraging more cypherpunk-friendly people to take the analysis route isn't such a bad idea after all. ~Faustine.

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D'oh ---Scarfo's password was his dad's number
by Subcommander Bob 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

Unable to crack the encryption code without a password, agents went back again with a search warrant and placed on his computer a high-tech device called a key logger, which monitors every keystroke. After nearly two months of surveillance, the FBI cracked his password: nds09813-050. A source close to the case later confirmed that it's Scarfo's father's prison identification number. The Feds had it all the time. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010823_686.htm

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nodes
by A. Melon 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

I'm a little bemused by the fact that there has been literally no comment on the closing of the cyberpass.net node of the list, and none before that on the disappearing without even so much as a notice by the admin of openpgp.net. Doesn't this seem at all odd to anyone else? Lance also shutdown the remailer function at anonymizer -- is he leaving the cypherpunk world altogether? Anyone know what happened to Geiger?

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our Aztec Calendar materials
by Artcamp SC de RL 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

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hushmail's misery
by Declan McCullagh 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=998901774&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=… HushMail: The misery continues 2001-08-27 04:47:14

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biochemwomd crop terror in dc
by Declan McCullagh 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

also today... AGRICULTURE National Academy of Science (NAS) Agriculture and Natural Resources Board meeting on "Defining Science-based Concerns Associated with the Products of Animal Biotechnology," August 27-28. Highlights: 1:15 p.m. - Open session Location: NAS Building, 2100 C St., NW. Contact: Kim Waddell, 202-334-3889, kwaddell(a)nas.edu, or http://www4.nationalacademies.org

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