December 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Anonymous blogging
by Nomen Nescio 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

I get a lot of compliments on my anonymous posts here. Thanks very much guys, keep those cards and letters coming. But cypherpunks isn't that great a forum for publishing ideas. Take a look at http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/maillist.html to see the unfiltered list feed. Sure, no subscriber with half a clue actually sees it like this, but that's how it looks to the outside world. It's tough to find the nuggets of enlightenment buried amongst the crap. I'd like to start publishing a blog. But of course given the sensitivity of my position and the boldness of my arguments, it's important that there be strong anonymity protection. Does anyone have advice on how to get started with anonymous blogging? I have access to Windows, Linux and Mac systems, and I could go through anonymizer.com or some other service if necessary. Ideally I'd like to use one of the turnkey blog clients for ease of setup and use. Thanks for your suggestions.

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12 Dec '02

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Re: Anonymous blogging and unlicensed medical advice.
by Steve Schear 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

At 04:27 PM 12/11/2002 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 08:43 AM 12/11/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: >>On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote: >> In particular, there's a flu medicine that >doesn't leave you feeling good, but takes you from feeling awful to >feeling not so hot, which is a major improvement, at the cost of a >small amount of ipecac in the pills. Speaking about over the counter, has anyone one the list tried Zicam cold remedy? I've used it twice and all my symptoms disappeared with a few hours. No cold! Available at druggists for <$10/spray bottle (2 bottles for <$13 at Costco). No need for universities and major drug companies to spend millions searching for what will turn out to be an expensive prescriptive. Its here and now and over the counter. steve

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Re: "Satellites to challenge Pentagon Spin"
by Dan Veeneman 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

At 03:13 PM 12/11/02 -0800, you wrote: >Space war already exists. Laser blinding and buckets of >BB's will wipe out a satelite quite nicely. You're thinking too crudely. Imagine, if you will, being able to control the downlink content of such a spacecraft. Analogous to finding an eavesdropping device in your office. Much better to feed it false information than shut it off. >Making it >look like an accident is going to be harder, but I bet >that's coming too. Already been done, at least to comsats. Cheers, Dan

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Gateway sells computing
by Major Variola (ret) 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32701-2002Dec9.html (This is what ProcessTree, etc. tried to do commercially, and SETI@home, distributed.net etc. do for fun. Gateway is selling its 14 Teraflops of floor-demo machines' performance.)

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Son of ZKS?
by Steve Schear 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Tarzan is a peer-to-peer anonymous IP network layer. Many P2P systems try to implement anonymity at the application layer, instead of at a lower-level network layer. A robust free infrastructure which can anonymize any Internet traffic would benefit a wide array of existing protocols and current p2p systems, since the anonymous connection could seamlessly replace the current connection. Main designs goals of Tarzan, ordered by priority: 7 Application independence: Tarzan should provide the abstraction of an IP tunnel and perform transparently to user applications. 7 Anonymity against malicious nodes: Tarzan should ensure that colluding nodes cannot link a participating host as the sender (or recipient) of any message. 7 Fault-tolerance and availability: Tarzan should resist an adversary's attempts to overload the system or to block system entry or exit points. Tarzan should minimize the damage any one adversary can cause by running a few compromised machines. 7 Performance: Tarzan should maximize the performance of tunnel transmission, subject to our anonymity requirements. 7 Anonymity against a global eavesdropper: An adversary observing the entire network should be unable to determine which Tarzan relay initiates a particular message. http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/tarzan/

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Current status of CFS for linux?
by Igor Chudov 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

If you do not know what is CFS, do not bother... For years, I have been and still am a happy user of CFS. I have not paid any attention to its development. I am now concerned though whether it has become obsolete. I am creating nightly backups and backup the encrypted CFS tree. What I am concerned is, if my computer crashes, perhaps I will have difficulty restoring CFS data on other computers. I noticed that there is something called TCFS, which is derived from CFS. Is it binary compatible? That is, let's say my home computer dies and I have the backup CDRW. Can I take the encrypted tree to some computer running _TCFS_ and decode the tree? igor

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11 Dec '02

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Re: 60 years to rights restoration
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

This is the best explanation of the behavior of the Democratic Party I've ever seen. On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:01:37 -0500, you wrote: > > 1. Put a bunch of gorillas in a cage. > > 2. Put a nice stack of boxes in the cage. > > 3. Then, string a big bunch of bananas from the top of the cage > hanging within arm's reach from the top of the stack of boxes. > > (3a. Okay, put the gorillas in last, or you'll never get to steps 1 > and 2 :-).) > > > 4. When the first gorilla climbs to the top of the boxes to grab the > bananas, do something extremely unpleasant to all the gorillas, like, > say, deluging them with icy water from sprinklers at the top of the > cage, or something. > > Pretty soon, they stop climbing the boxes completely. > > 5. Then, replace the one gorilla. Watch the others physically > restrain him if he tries to go for the bananas. > > Repeat 5 until all the gorillas have been replaced. > > 6. The gorillas will physically assault anyone who climbs the > pyramid, and they won't know why. > > :-).

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60 years to rights restoration
by Major Variola (ret) 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

> that the War on Terrorism should > be won in about 60 years, at which point the American citizens would > see > their civil liberties returned. Obviously, only traitors, agitators, > and > other enemy combatants would make the outrageous claim that this war > will likely last perpetually. None have yet commented that in 60 years, there will be no one left that remembers what things were like. If they do, maybe congress will quietly apologize to them and grant some hush money to the few survivors, following the Jap Internment Apology plan. --- Better put some ice on that, NYC

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