July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Urgent Business
by Mr.Kenneth Uba 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

>From the Desk of Mr. Kenneth Uba Union Bank of Nigeria, Lagos-Nigeria. ATTN: THE PRESIDENT/C.E.O STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL Dear Sir, I am Mr. Kenneth Uba, the manager bills and exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of $31,000,000.00 (Thirty One million United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in November 1997 in a Plane crash. Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the bank's treasury as unclaimed fund. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 20 % for you as foreign partner, 75 % for us the officials in my department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred by us and you during the course of this business. Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75 % we intend to import Agricultural machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone number, fax number full name and address and your designated bank coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made. Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature. I look forward to receiving your prompt response. Mr. Kenneth Uba Union Bank of Nigeria.

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Urgent Business
by Mr.Kenneth Uba 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

>From the Desk of Mr. Kenneth Uba Union Bank of Nigeria, Lagos-Nigeria. ATTN: THE PRESIDENT/C.E.O STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL Dear Sir, I am Mr. Kenneth Uba, the manager bills and exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of $31,000,000.00 (Thirty One million United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in November 1997 in a Plane crash. Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the bank's treasury as unclaimed fund. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 20 % for you as foreign partner, 75 % for us the officials in my department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred by us and you during the course of this business. Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75 % we intend to import Agricultural machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone number, fax number full name and address and your designated bank coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made. Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature. I look forward to receiving your prompt response. Mr. Kenneth Uba Union Bank of Nigeria.

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Computer Assisted Passenger Screwing
by Morlock Elloi 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805/student-papers/spring02-papers/caps.htm ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

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IP, brinworld, censorship: Tipper Whore filmer attacked by campus police
by Major Variola (ret) 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41882-2002Jul21.html Even before the big dust-up at the Tipper Gore appearance, Ben Wetmore was a gadfly of some notoriety at American University. The poli-sci major from Texas had elbowed his way into the ranks of student government but ended up getting impeached after a dispute with fellow legislators. Then he started a Web journal devoted to criticizing and lampooning campus leaders -- particularly President Benjamin Ladner, whose stately home and car Wetmore took to photographing and posting on his site as evidence of what he saw as administrative extravagance. "He's kind of like a Matt Drudge, but more immature," a fellow student politician said of Wetmore. Wetmore had a pretty shaky relationship with the administration by April 8, when the former vice president's wife went to speak at the campus. Wetmore brought his video camera, suspicious that Gore was drawing a large fee and reasoning that "there should at least be a record of her being here," he said. Midway through her speech, campus police officers approached Wetmore and demanded that he hand over the tape. After a scuffle, he was arrested and sent to a campus disciplinary panel, which placed him on probation and removed him from his elected office as dorm president. Among the charges: theft of Gore's intellectual property by videotaping her speech. The case has outraged free speech watchdogs and civil libertarians, who say the university's claim is a flimsy attempt to stifle Wetmore's journalistic freedom. They say campus officials singled out Wetmore for excessive enforcement and punishment, and denied him a fair hearing, because of his political views. "The idea that a student videotaping a public event would be taken outside, pinned to the ground and handcuffed, [then] be accused of an intellectual property violation is shocking," said Greg C. Luckianoff, a staff member with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a Philadelphia-based advocacy group that has hired a lawyer for Wetmore. "This was just plain thuggishness." American University officials say that they were protecting Gore's rights while preserving order in the auditorium and that Wetmore escalated the situation by refusing to comply with campus police. "We have our conduct code, and we expect students to adhere to it," Dean of Students Faith C. Leonard said. "If there are violations, they will be adjudicated by an impartial hearing body." Wetmore's supporters say the school's actions are part of a trend of colleges using restrictive discipline to silence critics. This spring at West Virginia University, administrators attempted to corral protests in designated "free speech zones." At the University of California at San Diego, administrators briefly charged student journalists with "disruption" for taking photos at a public meeting. The debate echoes the political correctness battles of the 1980s and 1990s, when campus administrators tried to ban hate speech and some conservatives complained of an academic climate that shouted down their voices. The Wetmore case, though, might be driven less by ideology than by something noted by another of his supporters: "He's annoying." Wetmore said his interest in Gore's speech, which included a presentation of her published photos, was prompted by a rumor that the campus was paying her tens of thousands of dollars. College sources would not disclose the fee, although they say it was much less. "If we're going to spend so much to have her talk, let's tape it so that people who aren't there can see it," Wetmore said last week. At Gore's speech, he sat in the bleachers toward the back of Bender Arena. An organizer announced at the start that flash photography was prohibited but said nothing about videotaping, so Wetmore set the camera on his lap and started it rolling. Campus officials were disturbed when they spotted the camera -- Gore's contract with the university stipulated that her presentation could not be recorded. According to documents from Wetmore's disciplinary hearing, an officer was sent to tell Wetmore to stop taping and go to the lobby. Wetmore refused. Another officer joined them, but Wetmore refused to leave or relinquish his tape. The confrontation started to distract the audience, according to university documents. A third officer arrived, and Wetmore agreed to go to the lobby. But when he refused to hand over the tape, a scuffle erupted. Wetmore says he was pushed against a wall, threatened with Mace, pushed to the floor and handcuffed. After about an hour at the campus public safety office, he was released -- without his tape, which the university holds. Among the many campus charges Wetmore faced -- disorderly conduct, failure to comply with officers and others -- he and his supporters are most outraged by the charge of theft. "Videotaping a public event is not theft," said Thor Halvorssen, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Lawyers unconnected to the case say it's a blurry area. Jonathan Band, an intellectual property expert in the District, says technically, Gore's speech was comparable to a theatrical production. "If he's taping it, he's infringing and copying her public performance." Still, he said, Wetmore probably would have a strong defense, especially because the speech was by a political figure -- Gore had abandoned a possible Senate run weeks before -- that Wetmore was videotaping for First Amendment, not commercial, purposes. "It is a very technical charge to assert as the basis of campus punishment," said First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams. "A lawyer can make a case that her copyright rights were violated, but it is a very unattractive case." Gore declined to comment on the issue. "This is clearly a matter between the university and the student," a staff member said. Wetmore and his supporters also claim that he was denied due process by the campus disciplinary board. The three-person panel that heard his case included a student government rival, Wetmore was required to testify against himself and he was allowed no formal appeal beyond a review by the dean of students. But other lawyers say that campus judicial panels -- with the power, at most, to throw someone out of school -- are not criminal courts and that due process does not apply. Many on campus disagree with the handling of the case, which leaves Wetmore on probation, at risk of being expelled. Evan Wagner, a student journalist, resigned from the university's Conduct Council in protest. "You're talking about someone who doesn't really do any damage, who is about to be kicked out of school," he said.

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Do we need a national ID plan?
by Steve Schear 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

In this article http://news.com.com/2010-1079-945347.html?tag=politech you said: "That's a reasonable position: The White House has never made an unequivocal statement against the scheme, and it's possible that America could edge toward a situation where the federal government devises an ID and orders everyone to carry it at all times. Most European countries already require just that." Wouldn't this requirement violate the probable cause requirement for seizures of a person which been defined by a series of cases, beginning with Terry v. Ohio , 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968)? steve

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Re: Tunneling through a hostile proxy?
by Eric Murray 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:42:49AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > If you're interested in tunneling other protocols > than HTTP, things get more complex. Assuming > SSL tunneling is allowed you can run other > protocols through it if you can set up the software > at each end appropriatly. So who's written an IP-over-HTTP(S) library? Reminds me of Ranum's NFS-over-SMTP firewall bypassing proof of concept. BTW Roy, first try ssh on a non-standard non-reserved port. Eric

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23 Jul '02

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TIPS list for 'punks.
by Matthew X 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

James F. CHOATE Jr. was interviewed regarding his knowledge and relationships with [...] "CYPHERPUNKS". CHOATE provided the following information: [...] Potentially dangerous or radical individuals known to CHOATE include: Jim MAY of California, who owns many guns and has lots of money; Jim BELL, known for his assassination politics and arrested for dumping a smelly chemical on an IRS office in California: and Greg Boils or Broils, known for his non-violent assassination politics. Trei probably thought it must be OK then,if he thought at all...bring back necklacing.

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RE: Tunneling through a hostile proxy?
by Trei, Peter 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

> Roy M. Silvernail[SMTP:roy@scytale.com] > > This may have been discussed before, but a Google search has > turned up lacking. > > 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? > > Pointers appreciated, thanks. > -- > Roy M. Silvernail > Proprietor, scytale.com > roy(a)scytale.com > It's been some time since I've worked on proxies, but AFAIK, SSL connections tunnel through proxies already, and the proxy cannot examine the content of the SSL session (though of course, they *can* see where the connection is headed). It's easy to check - go to an SSL protected website, and while viewing the page examine the certificate the site presented you with (click on 'security' in the toolbar in Netscape, or on IE, click Files->Properties->Certificates). If the certificate belongs to the site you're accessing, you're secure from observation by the proxy. (the proxy can't act as a MITM if the cert is from the far end). If you wish to access a website which is not SSL protected, try http://www.megaproxy.com, which will encrypt browsing data between itself and your browser, even for non-SSL sites. All your local proxy can tell is that you are doing something at megaproxy (and megaproxy knows everything). If you're interested in tunneling other protocols than HTTP, things get more complex. Assuming SSL tunneling is allowed you can run other protocols through it if you can set up the software at each end appropriatly. Peter Trei

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Free MP3 Player - Listen To Great Books!
by Ebargains 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

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