August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Happy Fun Ball (Court)
by Elyn Wollensky 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

> Happy FUN BALL! > > -only $14.95- > > Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid > prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball. > Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds. > Happy Fun Ball Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to > rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at. > Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete. > Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs: > Itching > Vertigo > Dizziness > Tingling in extremities > Loss of balance or coordination > Slurred speech > Temporary blindness > Profuse sweating > Heart palpitations Sounds like the drug adverts running on TV ... my personal favorite is Propetia ... "Pregnant Women Should NEVER handle Propetia" :~) elyn. > If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter > and cover head. > Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin. > When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special > container and kept under refrigeration... > Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products > Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical > Unlimited, of any and all liability. > Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance > which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. > Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is > also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq. > Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. > Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime guarantee. > Happy Fun Ball > > ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!

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Re: Re: re: Remailer Phases
by Meyer Wolfsheim 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joseph Ashwood wrote: > > > 2. Operator probably trustworthy > > > > Impossible, and unnecessary. Don't assume any remops are trustworthy. > > Actually it is absolutely necessary. If all operators are willing to > collude, then your precious anonymity is completely lost. A simple > tracing methodology can establish this. The first remailer operator > tracks the > exact outgoing message to the next collusion, the second tracks to the > third, etc until the message escapes, then the colluding operators track > back through > the list of remailers, linking based on the intermediate value being > sent, > until it reaches operator 1 who knows the sending address. This assumes > a best case of the sender determining the path taken through encryption. > Worst case the first operator can reveal the information to everyone. > Joe Run your own remailer. Chain through it at some point. As long as you trust yourself, there is no threat. Who of the current remops do you trust? Why? -MW-

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Ybor City's face recognition cameras claim their first innocent v ictim.
by Trei, Peter 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

http://www.sptimes.com/News/080801/TampaBay/_They_made_me_feel_li.shtml [In fairness, the false identification was not made by the Face-It system, but by a human. The cited page includes the photo in question - which is a heck of a lot more close up then I expected - pt] 'They made me feel like a criminal' He was just having lunch in Ybor City when a surveillance camera captured his image. Weeks later, the police show up. By AMY HERDY St. Petersburg Times, published August 8, 2001 He was just having lunch in Ybor City when a surveillance camera captured his image. Weeks later, the police show up. TAMPA -- Rob Milliron has never married. He has never had kids, never been to Oklahoma. Yet three Tampa police officers went to Milliron's construction job site Monday and asked him whether he was wanted in Oklahoma for child neglect. It seems that his face wound up on a surveillance camera in Ybor City. News cameras captured that image. A woman in Tulsa saw his picture in U.S. News and World Report and called Tampa police. She said the man in the photo was her ex-husband and was wanted on felony child neglect charges. Turns out they had the wrong man. But the experience has turned Milliron into a vocal critic of the controversial surveillance system. "From that picture, I was identified as a wanted person," said Milliron, 32, whose only previous brush with the law involved a marijuana possession charge when he was 19. The surveillance system uses software called Face-It and is linked to 36 cameras throughout the Centro Ybor entertainment complex and along E Seventh Avenue. Images taken from the cameras are compared with a data base that includes wanted felons and sexual offenders. If the image is a match, officers are dispatched to question the person. But in this case it wasn't the system that flagged Milliron, but simply a woman who saw his picture with a news story. The plainclothes detective, accompanied by two uniformed officers, had a copy of the magazine, folded open to the page with Milliron's photo. After producing identification, answering the detective's questions and enduring curious stares and inquiries from his construction co-workers, a mortified Milliron went home. "He was absolutely horrified," said Cheryl Toole, 32, Milliron's girlfriend of nine years. "He said, "I was surrounded by the police today,' " Toole recalled. "We were worried they'd come to our home in the middle of the night." Equally upsetting, Milliron said, was the fact that beneath his photo in the magazine, a headline read, "You Can't Hide Those Lying Eyes in Tampa." "It made me out to be a criminal," he said. Tampa police Detective Bill Todd, who took the call from the Tulsa woman and interviewed Milliron, said Milliron did not seem upset. "He was laughing about it," said Todd, who spearheaded the software project that captured Milliron's image. Milliron's photograph was captured in June while he was on a lunch break in Ybor City. He didn't know it at the time, but the Police Department used his photo to demonstrate the system to local news media. The software costs $30,000, but is on loan for a year by its owner, Visionics Corp. of New Jersey, while the department decides whether to purchase it. Milliron's photo ran in the St. Petersburg Times June 30. A caption under the photo read, "The man in this image was not identified as wanted." The Times later sold the photo to U.S. News and World Report. The software system has sparked controversy nationwide. Protesters say the "spy cameras" intrude on citizens' privacy. Mayor Dick Greco, however, has said the system is no more intrusive than the cameras found in banks and shopping malls. Milliron, who says he plans to retain an attorney, hopes the software system will be removed. "I don't think it's right," he said. "They made me feel like a criminal." - Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Amy Herdy can be reached at (813) 226-3386 or herdy(a)sptimes.com.

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OT: Happy Fun Ball (Court)
by Trei, Peter 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

As a public service, I'd thought I'd explain for our foreign (or just younger) subscribers the root reference of 'Happy Fun Court'. The American comedy show Saturday Night Live usually runs 1-2 fake ads per show. Some are better than others. In 1990, one ad showed smiling children playing with their 'Happy Fun Balls'. At the end, the ad ran a disclaimer (American products often come with ludicrously detailed warnings and disclaimers, due to our corrupt legal system). It read: -------------------------------------- Happy FUN BALL! -only $14.95- Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball. Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds. Happy Fun Ball Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at. Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete. Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs: Itching Vertigo Dizziness Tingling in extremities Loss of balance or coordination Slurred speech Temporary blindness Profuse sweating Heart palpitations If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head. Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin. When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration... Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability. Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime guarantee. Happy Fun Ball ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!

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RE: Linux On Steroids: DIY supercomputer software from Sandia
by Trei, Peter 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

> Tim May[SMTP:tcmay@got.net] wrote: > > > On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 02:28 PM, Faustine wrote: > > > Lots of interesting possibilities for cryptographic applications, I'm > > sure... > > http://www.cs.sandia.gov/ > > > Except when was the last time you heard of a Cypherpunks-interesting > cipher being broken with _any_ amount of computer crunching? > > (The "challenges" broken by a couple of our own list members over the > past several years were all weak ciphers by modern standards, or had key > lengths way below even the recommended lengths of the day. [...] > There are indeed some cryptographic uses for big computers, but not much > of real interest here. Some voice- and traffic-analysis stuff, but not > cracking modern ciphers. > --Tim May > I'll second this - the early 40 bit SSL cracks, and the RSA Symmetric challenges, operated to force acknowledgement that 40 and 56 bit keylengths were simply inadequate. I was particularly steamed by some Clinton appointee claiming with a straight face that a DES cracker could not be built because "it would melt down". The success of the challenges created 'facts on the ground' which could not be hand-waved away by government officials, and meant that customers started to insist on something better. BTW, the distributed.net folks are still cranking at 64 bit RC5. They have now searched 54% of the keyspace in 1,386 days. One thing I'd like to see done with these huge distributed computers is to factor moduli, such as those in the RSA Factoring Challenges (the prizes are substantial), A major bottleneck at this point is the matrix reduction step. If a method could be found to run this in parallel, then distributed factoring would be greatly eased. Peter Trei

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by dunes＠tbwt.com 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

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Remailers next generation?
by Paul Harrison 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

It has been several years since any significant changes in anonymous remailer technology were proposed. Much of the latter day thinking has been directed more to Democracy Walls such as MN, freehaven, freenet as possible improvement on good ole Usenet alt.anonymous.messages. While it is still a bit premature, there are some intriguing possibilities in the evolution of Sun's new offspring, JXTA. In particular, the peergroup concept which allows for the dynamic formation of a routing graph amongst anonymous but authenticated nodes. There is a core JXTA security project which is supposedly finishing off an implementation of the basic crypto components including some version of key exchange and encrypted messaging (also toying with some reputation extensions which _might_ be useful). The basic JXTA node protocols use random id's, not IP addresses, domain names, or other universal namespaces.. Off the top of my head it might easily be possible for a remailers to participate in a JXTA peergroup, mixing messages with peer-2-peer xfers before a message was emitted through SMTP at the exit point. Intermediate nodes would not need to even have ICANN/IANA registered public SMTP addresses, simply persistent peergroup nyms and public keys. The JXTA protocols allow for non-tcp/ip transports as well, so an intermediate point might communicate using bluetooth, or infrared. Furthermore, by executing the transfers using a more general purpose protocol than email it would be possible to extend the remailer model to other communications channels and exit via IM, IRC, Usenet or cellular SMS. With a peergroup infrastructure it would even be possible to devise some group advertisement protocol where a remailer node or eavesdropper _never_ knew to which specific address a message was forwarded, only to what group of addresses. As I said, JXTA is a pretty raw beast right at the moment, but some of the groundwork is being set out which might make cooperative anonymous communication possible with an even lower public profile than SMTP and with a mixed mode of transport which could further frustrate analysis. There is even an incipient (although deeply flawed from a 'punk perspective) proposal to add a micropayment service into the mix. <http://www.jxta.org> A peergroup based mail services does raise some interesting trust metric challenges, though. And -- until there is a broad population of JXTA users and traffic -- the cover is mighty thin compared with smtp.

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regarding e mail database.
by Nikhil Agrawal 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

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09 Aug '01

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