July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

NewsForge: AFFECT will continue to oppose UCITA (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/07/23/1838238.shtml?tid=52 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - UK unveils Open Source policy, may make it 'default' option (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/26335.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Jackson likens cops to 'militia,' terrorists -- The Washington Times
by Jim Choate 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020723-85008396.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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NewsForge: Rethinking spam (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/07/21/2332247.shtml?tid=5 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | MPAA vs. Television (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/23/1241245.shtml?tid=129 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CNN.com - Suit filed against UNC seeks to block required reading of Islamic book - July 23, 2002 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/07/23/quran.book.lawsuit.ap/index.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Harvest lots of E-mail addresses quickly !
by emailharvest＠email.com 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

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Friend, Great News from PetCareRx.com
by Only the Best 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

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Tunneling through hostile proxy
by Jason Holt 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

>> Roy M. Silvernail[SMTP:roy@scytale.com] >> Given internet access from a private intranet, through an HTTP >> proxy out of the user's control, is it possible to establish a secure >> tunnel to an outside server? I'd expect that ordinary SSL >> connections will secure user <-> proxy and proxy <-> server >> separately, with the proxy able to observe cleartext. Could an SSH >> connection be made under these conditions? [...] The default behavior for an SSL proxy is to pass the encrypted bytes back and forth, allowing you to connect all the way to the other server. However, it is possible for the proxy to have its own CA which has been added to your browser. Then it acts as a man in the middle and pretends to be the remote host to you, and vice versa. In that case, it works as you describe, watching the data during its interim decryption. Typically, the proxy would give you generic certificates (like "*.com"), but it could conceivably generate a certificate for each site you visit ("secure.yahoo.com", etc.). The way to tell would be to look at the issuing authority according to your browser - if it's one of the public ones, like Thawte, you've got a connection to the far end. If it's "Th4wt3", or your company's, the proxy is probably watching. Incidentally, another company that does private browsing over SSL is www.orangatango.com (along with other nifty anonymizing stuff). -J

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by okarfor5000＠yahoo.co.uk 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

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