November 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: stego building
by Lucky Green 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Major wrote: > At 11:49 PM 11/24/02 +0100, Tarapia Tapioco wrote: > >There is a huge concrete building, hardly any windows, occupying the > whole block-width between Market and Mission streets in san > francisco, one side being 11th street. Funny thing is that it > has no markings at all. The main entrance seems to be at 14xx > Market, with visible security. > > > >Any clues appreciated. > > Telco central office. Lots of copper loop I/O, and a big > switch. Used to be mechanical crossbars. Probably a diesel > generator somewhere. A reasonable guess, but wrong. The building is a computing and processing center for Bank of America. That's where your checks go after you deposit them at the bank. The CO for this area is a few blocks away on Mc Coppin. The brick building with the Pac Bell logo on it. You can see the frame through the windows. Yes, this CO has been around for long enough to have windows. --Lucky Green

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polygraphs, threats, lies from the Feds
by Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

mv(a)cdc.gov (Major Variola ret) writes: > http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/sto… > > Agents Cleared in 9/11 Hotel Probe > By DEVLIN BARRETT > > NEW YORK (AP) - An internal probe has cleared the FBI agents who > obtained a false confession from a one-time suspect in the Sept. 11 > attacks. But the findings raise new questions about the reliability of > lie-detector tests. > > The twin reports released Monday led U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff to > drop his own investigation into the case of Abdallah Higazy. > > The Egyptian student was detained after investigators were told an > aviation radio capable of communicating with commercial pilots was > found in his New York hotel room overlooking the World Trade Center > soon after Sept. 11. > > He was charged with lying to FBI agents during a polygraph examination > in which he supposedly denied > > owning the radio and then later admitted it was his. But further > investigation proved the radio actually belonged to a pilot, and the > charges against Higazy were dropped. > > Higazy, 31, claimed he confessed only because the polygrapher > threatened his relatives in Egypt. > > The review by the Justice Department's inspector general found no > evidence to substantiate the claim and found ``no further action with > respect to this matter is warranted.'' > > But the review never explicitly explains why his test results would > have indicated knowledge of the attacks, when authorities now say he > was not involved. > > The reports say Higazy indicated deception when he answered no to > the following questions: ``Did you take part in those attacks?'' and > ``Were you involved in those attacks?'' > > The inspector general's reports conclude that ``the polygraph was > administered appropriately and that the results were properly read to > indicate that Higazy was deceptive'' in questions about Sept. 11. > > The findings imply that Higazy may have confessed to owning the radio > under the mistaken impression the admission would get him released > from custody. > > U.S. Attorney James Comey said Monday he was ``very proud of the way > our office and the FBI conducted itself in the Higazy case.'' > > In releasing the reports, Rakoff questioned ``whether the government's > continued reliance on such a doubtful investigatory tool as polygraph > testing increases the possibility of false confessions.''

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Cigarettes online at the lowest possible prices ONLY FOR cypherpunks@minder.net
by ppkyaw 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

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Re: The Register - Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills (fwd)
by Tyler Durden 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Gee...one would think there'd be a nice software-based tool so that this kind of digital pogrom would never even be possible, particularly seeing how Kazaa, Gnutella and so forth are all based on a file sharing model that has no centralized server a la Napster. And of course, most users would never bother using encryption techniques in this context, but "power users" certainly might! >From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com> >To: <cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com> >Subject: The Register - Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills >(fwd) >Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:43:54 -0600 (CST) > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28286.html > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > > We don't see things as they are, ravage(a)ssz.com > we see them as we are. www.ssz.com > jchoate(a)open-forge.org > Anais Nin www.open-forge.org > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Video Mules: (Was: Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera) )
by Neil Johnson 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

(Referring to previous thread about capturing video.) As I sit here looking at a 64 MB SD Card that I just picked up for $28 at my local Wally World, I was wondering why it (or it is larger capacity brethren) couldn't be used to record video and then (after appropriate protection) swallowed. Probably a lot safer than what most "mules" swallow (I see a Compact Flash card begin a little hard on the digestive track, but a SD or MMC card shouldn't been such a big deal). I can see it now , "The new prison diet for recently arrested demonstrators: ex-lax and bran muffins!" -Neil

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Virus Alert
by abuse＠bizmailsrvcs.net 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

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Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process
by Steve Mynott 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 21:14 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:58:55PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >> I should think that a bit of practical training in self hypnosis could >> thwart sensory deprivation. I read some books in my youth on SH and >> found >> I could put myself in a self-induced altered reality state from which >> I >> could not be easily awakened. I imagine you could make yourself lean >> up >> against a wall until your muscles failed without much of a problem. >> I've >> heard surgery without anesthetic is possible, so physical abuse might >> be >> thwarted as well for the well conditioned. > > Practioners of yoga should have a ball. Just another yogic > meditation > exercize. Neither of you appear to understand what psychological torture is. Read some of the reports on the web about what happens. These techniques are employed by governments the world over to break fanatical and trained terrorists. It's not some New Age weekend camp when you imprisoned and beaten by your captors. -- Steve Mynott <steve(a)tightrope.demon.co.uk>

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Re: Microsoft on Darknet
by Steve Schear 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

At 09:24 AM 11/25/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >Steve's excellent analysis of how the Network Effect worked against >Mojo indicates a social-fix for Mojo++, ie: make it easy to get on >and get content. Ie, get them hooked. They'll at least be autosharing >stuff they've >downloaded. Not really . Mojo is not a file sharing system, its a publication based distributed file system. Each client mirrors but a small part of the 10**192 chucks of file space. Whether a client downloads content or not is only indirectly related to the chucks stored on their HD by their client/broker SW. >After they're hooked, folks may feel like contributing >their time/attention to injecting new material, and to get "unlimited" >access folks will have to contribute. But you have to get them hooked >first. And there in lie the problem. Without significantly reducing a user's effort to publish and/or providing some sort of encouragement to tweak the content meta-data (Kaaza has recently done that to help address leeching and hacker attempts to reduce content quality through spoofing and other tricks). steve

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Re: Video Mules: (Was: Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera) )
by Tyler Durden 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

>This assumes the insert doesn't result in negative fitness (could very >well be, if the insert kills a gene). If the information is the history of human civilization, that may very well end up being information of great "negative fitness"! (We shall see...) Actually, from what I understand, there are huge swathes of every creature's genetic code made up of "useless" information. Some of these areas are apparently extremely old and do not change very often...as I remember Hillis (the guy who started "Thinking Machines" and is currently working on the Decamillineal clock) identified such an area in the cockroaches DNA and had the info inserted there. (Our own DNA has apparently a lot of junk also, as well as fragments of various encounters we've had over the aeons...there are apparently significant chunks of various viruses' DNA in there and other stuff...) > >Also, a fitness-neutral insert is likely to be lost, or severely garbled. >I hope very much he used a really good redundant encoding. Although some things in a cockroach change pretty often (here in New York we are breeding a variety of extremely manueverable cockroaches....), the DNA of the cockroach I think is extremely stable overall (aren't they like 100s of millions of years old?) _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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