July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Operation northwoods in Moscow?
by Matthew X 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

Operation northwoods in Moscow? (just south of sunny latvia.) http://www.kavkaz.org/eng/article.php?id=1009 "...accusation against the FSB the main event of this summer». FROM http://www.cicentre.com/ SEE ALSO FSB strikes back at ex-agent Litvinenko Russia's Federal Security Service distributed photographs Friday purportedly showing a suspect in deadly 1999 bombings with a rebel warlord it claims paid him to organize the blasts - a day after an ex-security agent claimed the suspect had professed his innocence.....(The Russia Journal, 27 July 02) Homeland security at your service.

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Re: Hollywood Hackers
by Eugen Leitl 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, James A. Donald wrote: > The plan, already implemented, is to flood file sharing systems with > bogus files or broken files. The solution, not yet implemented, is to > attach digital signatures to files, and have the file sharing software > recognize certain signatures as good or bad. This is completely unnecessary if you address the document with a cryptohash. An URI like http://localhost:4711/f70539bb32961f3d7dba42a9c51442c1218a9100 can only adress a particular document. If you serve broken content your node's reputation falls through the floor. Note that content is distributed, dynamic, and you have no idea what you're actually serving. > This involves scaling problems that have not yet been thought > through or implemented. > > As files get copied around, they would accrete ever more digitally > signed blessings. The signatures should be arbitrary nyms, as in > Kong, not true names. The files could also accrete digitally > signed discommendations, though such files would probably > propagate considerably less. The issue of node reputation is completely orthogonal to the document hashes not colliding. Reputation based systems are useful, because document URI http://localhost:4711/f70539bb32961f3d7dba42a9c51442c1218a9100 doesn't say what's in there. A claim needs to be backed by someone (preferably anonymous) with a good reputation trail. > When we approve a file, all the people who approved it already get > added to our trust list, thus helping us select files, and we are > told that so and so got added to our list of people who recommend > good files. This gives people an incentive to rate files, since > rating files gives them the ability to take advantage of other > people's ratings. > > If onr discommendd a file, those who discommend it are added to > our trust list, and those who commended it to our distrust list. > If, as will frequently happen, there is a conflict, we are told > that so and so commended so many files we like, and so many files > we dislike, so how should future commendations and > discommendations from him be handled.

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Assassin phones
by Matthew X 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/07/30/1288553 Arquilla style 'swarm' analysis.

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Shrub cant wait to get back to Texas roots.
by Matthew X 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

Gene: Do you do anal. Jessie: Yes I do. Gene: You just raised the value of your real estate. When was the first time you tried it. Jessie: It was with my ex fiance in Texas. You know that old saying- everything's big in Texas. Gene: Yeah and how was that steer going in your ass. Jessie: Real well. I like it. If the guy knows how to do it, it feels really good. I'll orgasm if I'm really attracted to the guy. I can get off ten or fifteen times.

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Top stars getting extortion calls,a hopeful trend.
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

Even 'B' grade actors like Stephen Seagal The day after, fear stalks Bollywood MUMBAI: A day after the Mumbai police released tapes of Sanjay Dutt-Chhota Shakeel conversation, fear gripped tinsel town after revelations that several top stars had been getting extortion calls. Shakeel Hear the Bollywood tapes: Tape 1 | Tape 2 | Tape 3 | Tape 4 (Note: The tapes contain abusive language) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/default Destroying Hollywood and Detroit combines would now appear to assume priority.

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CIAs Torture options.1.Outsource.
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0726/p01s03-usju.html US ships Al Qaeda suspects to Arab states Article about the US Government's 'quiet practice of shipping key Al Qaeda suspects to the Middle East for interrogation' ( CSM ) See also this blog entry from March http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm

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Free jeff Luers-Burn your SUV.
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

SUV thread at http://www.kuro5hin.org/ NC: In Honor of Jeff Luers In Honor of Jeff Luers. ... UPDATE: Jeff "Free" Luers was sent to the Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Eastern Oregon to serve his nearly 23 year sentence. ... www.nocompromise.org/issues/18honor_free.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

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by health12044r26＠mail.ru 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

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Article on file encryption options
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

http://www.zdnet.com.au/itmanager/technology/story/0,2000029587,20266902,00… FROM http://www.zdnet.com.au/ WHERE A Swiss company named id Quantique is already selling a device that performs over fiber networks what it calls quantum key distribution. Eat your heart out peter Trei.

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Free our friends
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

Holding terror suspects breaches rights, rules tribunal July 31 2002 A British tribunal today ruled that detention without trial here of nine foreign terror suspects under emergency laws imposed after the September 11 attacks breached European human rights regulations. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission said Britain's new anti-terrorism powers, rushed through in December, were "not only discriminatory and so unlawful ... but also disproportionate". In a ruling which dealt a blow to the government, commission chairman Andrew Collins said the laws were unfair because they allowed the detention of foreign nationals only, even though British citizens may have been equally involved with terrorist organisations. It therefore breached the European Convention on Human Rights. FROM http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/31/1027926904151.html Front page pics of whales in sidney harbour. Rogue Terror State USA still holds 2 au citizens in cruel and unusual conditions,no charges at camp z-ray.Those responsible may be held accountable.

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