August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Ashcroft calls for more restrictions on use, transport of cash
by Greg Broiles 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

According to the Wall Street Journal online - >Mr. Ashcroft said Congress should: >7 Make bulk cash smuggling a crime. Mr. Ashcroft said the only law >currently on the books to combat smuggling is a requirement that shipments >of more than $10,000 be accompanied by a report from the U.S. Customs >Service. The Supreme Court has ruled that failing to file reports isn't a >serious enough offense to warrant confiscating the cash, so at worst >couriers for organized crime serve a short jail sentences -- "a virtually >meaningless penalty for a drug-trafficking organization," Mr. Ashcroft said. >7 Make it a federal offense for people to transport more than >$10,000 in cash proceeds from a criminal offense over highways or on >airplanes. Mr. Ashcroft said a court threw out a case in which $10,000 in >cash was seized from the trunk of a car driven by men who had prior drug >convictions because it isn't a crime to transport drug money down the highway. >7 Expand money-laundering laws to include crimes other than drugs, >terrorism and bank fraud. Mr. Ashcroft said federal prosecutors often must >turn down money-laundering cases involving corrupt foreign public >officials and organized-crime groups because their crimes aren't covered >under U.S. money-laundering laws. >Mr. Ashcroft said the Justice Department also may ask Congress to outlaw >wire transfers of tainted money and the laundering of proceeds from >terrorism and to deny U.S. visas to suspected foreign money launderers and >their families. .. ugh. Guess who's likely to end up with the burden of proof following the seizure of cash pursuant to his proposals .. and guess how hard it's going to be if your evidence consists of oral testimony to the effect that the cash was saved $10 or $20 at a time over a number of years. Everybody knows that people with drug convictions don't save money, and they especially don't save it at home because they have trouble getting a bank account to save it the ordinary way. I guess the bright side of this is that the harder the feds clamp down on legitimate or almost-legitimate uses of existing infrastructure, the faster less-controllable less-trackable infrastructure will be constructed within and by the black market. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles(a)well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

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The electromagnetic Bomb
by Joey DePaolo 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Electromagnetic bombs, or E-Bombs are a large threat to the United States as well as other countries. E-Bombs do exist and do cause catastrophic destruction. What they do is wipe out all electricity in the target area. They are just like a normal bomb, except they have a large coil of wire surrounding the explosive chemicals. Then there are generators that produce a large electromagnetic pulse. When the chemicals detonate, they explode outward touching the coil of wire which has current running through it. This causes a moving short circut. With the moving short circut and the magnetic pulse, the consequence is a lightening bult of electomagnetic pulse which sends waves of pulses that destroy all electric current running in any and all metal or electronic object. The result is a civilization which has lost all use for the technology it has had for 200 years. This has distressed the pentagon. The United States has taken many precautions to ensure the safety including equiping its bombers with the E-Bomb. Another fact that guarantees a threat of the E-Bomb is that the bomb is being sold on the black market to terrorists for $400. The E-Bomb demonstrates a new era of world terrorism and wars. And the reality is that no protection is possible for the E-Bomb at the current time. And any terrorist could attack at any time. Saddam is known to be researching this bomb and putting billions of dollars into it. I hope i answered your question -Mike

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OPT: Utimacos Safeguard Easy broken by danish police in tax evation ca se (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:51:08 +0200 From: "[iso-8859-1] Bo Elkj�r" <bo.elkjaer(a)eb.dk> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: Utimacos Safeguard Easy broken by danish police in tax evation ca se The german encryption program Safeguard Easy has been broken by the danish police. Today the police from the city Holstebro in Jutland presented evidence in court, that was provided after breaking the encryption on five out of sixteen computers that where seized april 25 this year. All 16 computers were protected with Safeguard Easy from the german encryption provider Utimaco. It is not known whether DES, 128-bit IDEA, Blowfish or Stealth was used as algorithm on the computers. All four algorithms are built in Safeguard Easy. Details are sparse. It is not known how the encryption was broken, whether it was brute forced or flaws in the program was exploited. The computers where seized from the humanitarian (leftwing) foundation Tvind (Humana) in connection with a case about tax evation. Among the evidence provided from the encrypted computers were emails sent among the leaders of the foundation, Poul Jorgensen and Mogens Amdi Petersen describing transfers of large sums of money. Apparantly, but not confirmed, british Scotland Yard has been involved in breaking the encryption. The danish police doesn't have the capacity to break encryption by themselves. Neither has the danish civilian intelligence service. Routine is that cases concerning encryption is handed over to the danish defence intelligence service DDIS. This procedure has been described earlier this year by the danish minister of justice in connection with another case. DDIS denies involvement with the Tvind case. Employees and leaders at Tvind has denied handing over their passwords to the computers. One even wrote a public letter mocking the chief of police in Holstebro, describing how he changed his password weekly, and stating that he'd probably even forgotten his password by now. At a time, the police concidered putting employees in custody until passwords were handed over. Thats all for now Bo Elkjaer, Denmark --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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cypherpunks@cyberpass.net closing
by Lance M. Cottrell 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

The cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net node of the cypherpunks list will be closing on Friday August 10. You should ensure that you are subscribed to a different node of the cypherpunks list before that time. -Lance Lance M. Cottrell lcottrell(a)anonymizer.com Anonymizer, Inc. President Voice: (619) 725-3180 X304 Fax: (619) 725-3188 www.Anonymizer.com

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Queremos que disfrutes esto...
by MisProductos.com 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

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by Lisa Thornton 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

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Re: (file sharing) morpheus rules!
by Steve Mynott 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Adam Back <adam(a)cypherspace.org> writes: > If any were looking for a replacement for napster since > it buckled to pressure from RIAA, it's here: morpheus. Are you sure this isn't just the first flush of enthusiasm which will fade in the cold light of morning? Isn't it just yet another closed source P2P network like Direct Connection? > Gnutella wasn't but didn't scale, morpheus appears > to be scaling and if anything performance is improving > as the data density gets higher so the sharing surface > can give you the content you want from closer and closer > nodes. There may be an inflection point where it > starts to really take off as the number of users > is still improving the usability, performance and > variety of content. Why don't you think Gnutella doesn't scale? <http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a//p2p/2001/01/25/truelove0101.html> -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve(a)tightrope.demon.co.uk corporations are not evil. that kind of anthropomorphism is inappropriate. corporations are too stupid to be evil, only people can be that. -jwz

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Cheapest Printing over the Net!
by CheapPrints.com 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

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Next...
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Quite a collection : > callous indifference to human life > disregard of justice > carelessness > neglect of duty > gross incompetence. > donut-chomping incompetent Barney-Fife-clone imbecile > third-rate > underfunded > knuckledraggers > commie symps > panda huggers > corruption > laziness > irresponsibility > sheer incompetence is fairly uniform > Colorful but irrelevant phraseology. The behavior of dehumanizing the enemy is unremarkable. Get on with the work. Design for the worst case. Mike

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bulk friendly web hosting
by ShipOK 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Re: Bulk Friendly Web Hosting Is Hostmatters still Bulk E Mail friendly. I tried calling the 800 # referenced in your e mail 1-877-381-1083 but it rings busy. Best, Steve

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