December 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Cyberpunkish: Neuromancer mp3s
by Harmon Seaver 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

Check out http://neuromancer.einen.org/ for what seems to be William Gibson reading Neuromancer in it's entirety. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

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How to Stop Telemarketers...
by Steve Schear 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Most Telemarketers use what is called Predictive Dialers, which are PCs with software that dials ever number in a phone exchange until it gets lucky. Now you can use their own technology against them, and it's legal... Here is how their system works: the dialer calls your number, you answer, and you have probably notice the line appears dead after you said, "Hello". What their computer is doing is listening for a short burst of audio, your "HELLO", followed by a period of silence. With this heard, it will log your phone number as valid and transfer the call to an available telemarketer, the reason for the delay before someone comes on line. Now, if their computer receives a long audio burst (an answering machine) " Hello, this is Alan Carlton", then it will disconnect, but it will log you phone number as valid, for a later call-back. Oh Lovely! Some are even capable of detecting Fax tones and will even transmit a fax trying to sell selling something you're probably are not interested in. However, do not answer, or when you do answer the phone, or if fax tones are detected, or if it detects an answering machine, in all four (4) cases IT LOGS YOUR NUMBER AS A GOOD PHONE NUMBER FOR FUTURE CALL- BACK --- PLUS THE COMPANY IS ALSO SELLING THESE VERIFIED VALID NUMBERS LIST TO OTHER TELEMARKETERS. A SIMPLE WAY TO STAY OFF THE LIST IS TO USE THEIR OWN TECHNOLOGY AGAINST THEM. The predictive dialer's software also looks for NON-valid phone numbers, and there is a simple way you can make your phone number appear invalid to the telemarketers' computers, thus they do not call back and accumulate no database, at least with your number, to sell other Telemarketers. Here is how to do it: If you call a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service you will hear 3 short tones, "doo...dah...dee", thanks to Ma-Bell. Each time you Refresh this page you should hear, "doo...dah...dee". The actual frequency of these tones are 985.2 Hz, 1370.6 Hz, and 1776.7 Hz. Guess what the telemarketers' software does when it detects these 3 tones at the beginning of your outgoing message? It thinks it has reached a line that is disconnected or is no longer in service. So, it disconnects and does not log your phone number as a working number. BINGO! NOW record these onto you outgoing message or voice mail announcement, and start exterminating telemarketers. Try this example, but use your own name, "doo...dah...dee, Hello, This is Tyler Durden". It must be at the beginning of your announcement to work. You may have to explain it to you friends, but they will soon have it on theirs' too. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK TO PLAY THE 3 TONES. http://www.flash.net/~carlton2/telemark.htm steve

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Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)
by Michael Cardenas 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Of course, you could do this yourself with a $199 microtel box from walmart and linux. Then you'd just have to add a $30 tv in card. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:48:44PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,692134,00.asp > > > > 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 > > > -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "One evening I seated beauty on my knees. And I found her bitter, And I cursed her." - Arthur Rimbaud [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Electric Scooter, the Number One Christmas Gift
by Electric Scooter 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

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Virus Found in message "A very new website"
by Barb Conder 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Norton AntiVirus found a virus in an attachment you (cypherpunks) sent to bconder(a)hoffcocomet.com. To ensure the recipient(s) are able to use the files you sent, perform a virus scan on your computer, clean any infected files, then resend this attachment. Attachment: BellSouth[1].scr Virus name: W32.Klez.H@mm Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine succeeded : File status: Infected

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Citizens spying on citizens, for bounties paid by state
by Major Variola (ret) 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

TRENTON, N.J. These days, a truant officer's job goes beyond keeping kids in school. Some spend more time keeping out-of-towners out, sometimes by spotting bogus leases or trailing students home. A few school districts are even going a step further, offering members of the public bounties of $100 or more for information on students who sneak across district lines. <snip> http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=14587&section=NATION_WO…

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Emanations from Choate Prime
by Tim May 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 06:50 AM, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > Jim Choate wrote: > > No he didn't. He proved Mathematics is incomplete, ie that there are > universally valid but unprovable statements within it. > > He proved that any system that contains Peano arithmetic (roughly, a > concept > of the natural numbers) is incomplete. Mathematics certainly contains > Peano > arithmetic. > > Go and lie down. Your brain is feverish. And stop posting nonsense. I believe you, Peter, are fairly new to the list. At least I have only been seeing a lot of posts from you recently. So, you being new, you apparently don't know that Jim Choate is a visitor from Choate Prime, a reality which is parallel to our own but "different" in many strange, but ultimately boring, ways. In Choate Prime, the laws of physics are quite different from our own. In Choate Prime, the prime numbers (the so-called Choate Prime primes, or CPPs) have substantially different properties than they have in our world. Mathematics and logic are generally quite different in Choate Prime than here on Earth. In Choate Prime, naturally, history and law are substantially different from what we here on Earth see. Many of us have found various ways to disconnect the signals coming in from Choate Prime. We see his signals only in the replies of others who have not yet realized what kind of weird place Choate Prime is. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay(a)got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/ML/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns Recent interests: category theory, toposes, algebraic topology

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Re: Delegates tagged and tracked
by Major Variola (ret) 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

At 06:51 PM 12/5/02 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Scientists often use radio tags to track elusive animals. But at last >week's Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, they used >them on each other. > >Each researcher carried a small transmitter That's all very nice, but they'll still go extinct without habitat protection and managed breeding. We need this for congressvermin, and it shouldn't be voluntary for them.

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Re: Money is about expected future value....nothing more, nothing less
by Tim May 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 10:31 AM, Tim May wrote: > Swiss banks could take in and dispense from accounts without any > identity credentials (the passwords and equivalents to signatures and > chop marks) because of this basic point about Bayesian probability. > Swiss banks were not trustworthy because they let customers examine > their vaults, their computers (!), or who their owners were. In rereading the first line here, I didn't mean to define identity credentials as passwords and equivalents to signatures and chop marks. Just the opposite.; Identity credentials are taken to be biometric ID, or is-a-person signed credentials, or other statements of legal and personal identy. The passport of Timothy C. May, for example. But a Swiss bank, pre-eunuch version, did not require passports or credentials issued by the Vichy Government or Pol Pot or whomever. This is what numbered accounts were all about. (Perhaps some did, and this was their "right" to operate as they wished.) The core point is that identity credentials of the is-a-person sort have nothing to do with banking and money in general. --Tim May

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3rd test
by Anonymous 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

3rd test 5 chained remailers

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