December 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

copyright, royalties, micropayments, Finn cabbies to pay
by AARG! Anonymous 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

mv(a)cdc.gov (Major Variola ret) writes: > http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_721008.html > > Finnish taxi drivers to pay royalties for backseat music > > Finland's Supreme Court has ruled taxi drivers must pay royalty fees > if they play music in their car while a customer is in the backseat. > > The order even applies to the radio. > > A case, based on one driver's refusal to pay, is likely to set a > precedent for the 9,500 cab drivers in the country. > > Under the ruling, a cab driver in Finland must pay #14 annually for > playing music while transporting a fare. > > Lauri Luotonen, chairman of the Helsinki Taxi Drivers' Association, > says the ruling is likely to force most drivers to keep their radios > off. > > Recently, two Finnish churches refused to pay royalties to the > country's copyright society for the performance of Christmas hymns. > The congregations won their case in a district court, but the society > has appealed.

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pamphleting is now a crime
by Major Variola (ret) 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

The distribution of printed material is now a crime. Hate Leaflets Distributed in San Fernando Valley Neighborhoods (Van Nuys, CA) -- Los Angeles Police say they are investigating the distribution of Anti-Semitic hate leaflets found in a Van Nuys neighborhood. A police spokesperson referred to the distribution of the material believed to have taken place between Monday evening and yesterday morning, a "hate incident." The Jewish Defense League is urging the LAPD and FBI to investigate the incident as a hate crime. JDL spokesperson Brett Stone says residents in Encino and Sherman Oaks called to complain about the leaflets he says were distributed by a group calling itself the National Alliance. --- We have always been at war with Oceania bin Laden

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ACLU funds Total Awareness of State Abuse
by Major Variola (ret) 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

The organization has budgeted $3.5 million for a campaign that asks Americans to monitor their government monitors and report abuses. It's a mirror image to the government's plan to empower some Americans to check on their neighbors, under a program known as the Terrorism Information and Prevention System. http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=190&xlc=883000 --- Wonder if this ties in with JG's Total Pointdexter Awareness program.. and the Kirkwood, WA police monitoring...

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Password security
by Martin Crandall 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

I've been thinking about and investigating the issue of password management. Passwords are the weak link in any computer security system. The problem is that following the standard recommendations -- choose long, random passwords, and never recycle them for use with multiple accounts -- quickly overloads the memory capacity of all but the most dedicated. Here are some solutions that I've been investigating, intended to be practical for unsophisticated computer users. I'd like your comments. 1. Use Diceware (www.diceware.com) to generate passphrases. The way it works is that you use physical randomness (rolling dice) to generate groups of five numbers in the range 1-6. For each group of five numbers you then look up the corresponding word in a list of 7000+ of the shortest English words. Your passphrase is the sequence of words thus generated, separated by spaces. I have found that the passphrases generated using this method are much easier to memorize than random alphanumeric strings of equal entropy. You get a shorter sequence of symbols by choosing from a larger -- and semantically rich -- "alphabet" (the list of 7000+ words). 2. Use something like Bruce Schneier's Password Safe (now an open source project at http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net) to keep track of your passwords, so that you only absolutely, positively have to remember one. 3. The problem now is that Password Safe only runs on the notoriously insecure Windows operating systems. Even if it were to be ported to something more secure (Linux, *BSD), there are still plenty of security bugs found every day even on these systems, and it's not inconceivable that someone hacking into your system could catch your master password as you type it into Password Safe. I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of leaving my password database on any network-connected machine. This leaves two possibilities: 3a. Keep your "password database" as a handwritten list on physical paper. This is secure from network attacks, but physical security is minimal. 3b. Use a Palm OS-based PDA with PDA Defense (www.pdadefense.com) installed to store your password database. I'm not sure yet if you can use that to encrypt important databases, or if it's aimed more at securing the entire device. If the latter, use a Palm OS port of Password Safe (doesn't yet exist :-( ), or use one of the encrypted PDA password managers at Tucows.com. Backup the encrypted password database onto a removable expansion card, NOT on your PC. What are your thoughts? Am I off-base here? Are there better solutions I've missed? -- Martin Crandall

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RE: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2 002
by Trei, Peter 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

> Morlock Elloi[SMTP:morlockelloi@yahoo.com] > > Cellphone taped in focal point of a 18" directv dish hits cell stations 10 > miles away. With 80% signal strength. > That's cute. I'll have to play with using the dishes with 802.11b sometime. Peter Trei

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04 Dec '02

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DBCs now issued by DMT
by Steve Schear 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Digital Monetary Trust now supports Digital Bearer Certificates. https://196.40.46.24/dmtext/jog/dmt_bearercert.htm Although the DBC are not blinded, DMT claims it maintains no client data on its accounts so there is a modicum of anonymity in transactions. steve A State must pay attention to virtue, because the law is a covenant or a guarantee of men's just claims, but it is not designed to make the citizens virtuous and just -- Aristotle

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Re: DBCs now issued by DMT
by R. A. Hettinga 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

At 4:03 PM -0800 on 12/3/02, Somebody wrote: > Using xmlrpc for message passing, no less! Man, you gotta love that > for simplicity. One mustn't let the best kill the good enough, certainly, though, without blinding, it'll be interesting if this airplane lifts its wheels, security-wise. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade
by Steve Schear 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

At 11:34 AM 12/3/2002 -0800, you wrote: >At 12:54 PM 12/3/02 -0500, Sunder wrote: > >To fix this, change your MAC address (or whatever WiFi uses for that), > >randomly every time you move around, and don't share things that can > >identify your machine. i.e don't run things such as SMTP, FTP, >Microsoft > >File sharing which give away your host name, and don't accept cookies >from > >web sites that can track you, and make sure your browser doesn't leak >your > >email address, and be aware that anything you do can be sniffed. > >Hope that identifying 802.11 transmitters from their analog artifactual >properties [1] is more >difficult than identifying a Morse Coder's fist. The technology to identify transmitters from the "keying" characteristics of the transmitter was commercially made available by Corsair Communications http://www.corsair.com/ (now merged with Lightbridge) using PhonePrint technology licensed from TRW's Avionics & Surveillance Group. They claim it was successful in preventing over 250 million fraudulent cloned handset call. It appears PhonePrint is no longer being actively marketed by Lightbridge. steve

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Managed Account Performance
by Capitol Commodity Services, Inc. 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

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