July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Microsoft's Second DRM Patent
by John Young 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

Cryptome offers Microsoft's second patent on digital rights management, invented by the same three persons as the first, Paul England, John DeTreville and Butler Lampson: http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os2.htm This second patent was issued on December 7, 2001, a week before the first available here: http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm John DeTreville wrote on July 8, 2002, that neither he nor Butler Lampson were Palladium programmers, as distinguished from Paul England who was cited by Steven Levy in Newsweek as a Palladium programmer. John referred to another patent underlying Palladium. Cryptome did a search of the US Patent Office archives for other patents by the three inventors and for those assigned to Microsoft from 1996 to July 9, 2002. Only two patents for digtial rights management were listed, out of more than 2,000 Microsoft patents for the period: the two referenced above on Cryptome. Ross Anderson reported yesterday that MSNBC has pulled the Palladium article by Steven Levy, which is now here: http://cryptome.org/palladium-sl.htm See Ross's updated FAQ on TCPA and Palladium: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

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New FBI Moron
by Matthew X 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

...sorry Mormon.http://news.com.com/2100-1001-942749.html New FBI man,darwin John...At the FBI, John will lead development of IT strategies and work with the Laboratory, Criminal Justice Information Services and Information Resources divisions, which handle forensic technologies, law enforcement services, and investigative and administrative support. John brings a "demonstrated capability to achieve broad-based results in an area critical to the FBI's success, particularly at a time when the bureau is modernizing its information technologies--while reorganizing and re-engineering--and undergoing unprecedented change in its investigative mission and priorities," Mueller said in a statement. John formerly served as managing director of information and communications systems for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, where he oversaw the creation of the Family Search site. The Web site, launched in 1999, links people to a database of 900 million names and averages 7 to 8 million hits per day. "If there was a god it would be necessary to destroy it." --- Mikhail Bakunin

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11 Jul '02

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by Michelle＠sexy-emails.com 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

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[linux-elitists] Casual Encryption (fwd)
by Eugen Leitl 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:11:59 -0700 From: Aaron T Porter <atporter(a)primate.net> To: linux-elitists(a)zgp.org Subject: [linux-elitists] Casual Encryption Just a quick plea for all the elitists to seriously consider enabling SMTP-TLS on any and all mail servers they control. With the US government in Ashcroft juggernaut mode for the forseable future, I fear that the use of encryption will quickly become a red flag for further observation. If we can reach a point where a sizable portion of SMTP traffic is encrypted regardless of the content we can reduce any implications of sending encrypted mail. Probably doesn't make your standard Carnivore install too happy either. On most mail systems, enabling TLS is incredibly easy (one line config change on my Debian Sendmail box). It's a one-time fix that affects even technologically challenged users. I've tacked some links below for common MTA's. Qmail http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~vermeule/qmail/tls.patch Postfix http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/pfixtls/ Exim http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_38.html Sendmail http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/starttls.html _______________________________________________ linux-elitists http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists

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Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen
by Nomen Nescio 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

-- Oh shit. It really is the empire. According to http://www.techvisas.com/taxation.htm Taxation of Aliens who Have Departed - Anti-Expatriation Rules. Aliens who live in the U.S. as residents, irrespective of visa status, face special anti-expatriation rules. Such rules were formerly applied only to U.S. citizens who cancelled their U.S. citizenship in order to be free of U.S. gift and estate taxes. As a result, termination of lawful permanent resident status after several years will result in continuing liability of the foreigners gifts and patrimony (assets) to U.S. probate and estate taxes for 10 years after such termination

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Slashdot | Eavesblogging the Internet Law Program
by Jim Choate 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

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Re: Microsoft censors Newsweek - and new version of TCPA FAQ
by John Young 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

We failed to save a copy of Steven Levy's Palladium article in Newsweek and online at MSNBC, now withdrawn by MSNBC. We can find no copy online. Whoever save a copy: we would like to receive it for publication to assure its continued availability. A Microsoft programmer, John DeTreville, named in the alleged "Palladium" patent published on Cryptome, has written us (copy below) to deny the ms-drm-os patent is Palladium -- which he claims is based on another patent or several of them. We would appreciate leads on which patent or patents he is referring to. Thanks. -----

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PLEA FOR SINCERE ASSISTANCE
by ENGR.BALA OWOLABI 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

ENGR.BALA OWOLABI FEDERAL SECRETARIAT, LAGOS, NIGERIA. Best wishes of good health and success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained in this letter.Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first solicit you to treat it with utmost confidentiality, as this is required for its success. My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria's Contracts Review Panel who are interested in diverting some funds that are presently floating in the accounts of the Central Bank of Nigeria.In order to commence this transaction, we solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said floating funds. We are determined to conclude the transfer before the end of this financial quarter. The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime, government officials awarded contracts that were grossly over-invoiced to Contractors.The present civilian government set up the Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of payments made available to it by the decree setting up the panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are being owed outstanding amounts. My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for disbursement and would like to divert some of it for our own purposes. However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this panel,we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the names of companies that are based in Nigeria. I have therefore been mandated, as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into whose account we can transfer the sum of U.S.$16,500,000.00(sixteen Million,five hundred thousand U.S. Dollars). That is why I am writing you this letter. You are at liberty to discuss with us what you feel should be your percentage share of the funds for assisting us.However,10% of the funds has been set aside to offset expenses incurred by both you and us incidental to the actualisation of this project.As soon as we receive the funds,the 10% will be used to settle both paties for expenses before we start the disbursment. We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets and other business till we are ready and able to have access to them. Please note that this transactionis 100% safe and risk-free. We intend to effect the transfer within a few days from the date of receipt of the following information: Your name or company name, address, telephone and fax numbers. The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way, we will use your name to apply for the payment and backdate the award of the contract to you. We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter and, I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you. Best regards, Engr.Bala Owolabi

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