August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: On the outright laughability of internet "democracy"
by Nomen Nescio 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:07:11 -0400, R. A. Hettinga <rah(a)iubc.com> wrote: 160 lines, 1,150 words, 6,393 characters, all insisting on describing his being guthooked, sinker eating, line chewing and flopping up into the greasy bilge, furiously spewing offense and defense, in serious, righteous and angry pursuit of the diaphanous illusion of anoned bait-spilth, becoming clearly the easiest, but also the lowest calorie catch o' the day. Back over the side with you, little fellow. Good fish. Thank you for playing.

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Govt.claims ownership of all encrypted files seized.
by Matthew X 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

http://cryptome.org/Free Speech Contents of RaiseTheFist.com http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31475&group=webcast "...An interesting feature of the seizure procedure described in the search warrant, pointed out by John Young at Cryptome, is this wording: iii. Any data that is encrypted and unreadable will not be returned unless law enforcement personnel have determined that the data is not (1) an instrumentality of the offense, (2) a fruit of the criminal activity, (3) contraband, (4) otherwise unlawfully possessed, or (5) evidence of the offense specified above..." Politechnical? Encryption must be approaching ubiquity/banality with this from my TV guide for mon.12.au. "24.US Thriller series.2am to 3am. Jack verifies the key card was encrypted on Nina's computer...etc. http://www.fox.com/24/research.html

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Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications
by AARG! Anonymous 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Adam Back writes: > I have one gap in the picture: > > In a previous message in this Peter Biddle said: > > > In Palladium, SW can actually know that it is running on a given > > platform and not being lied to by software. [...] (Pd can always be > > lied to by HW - we move the problem to HW, but we can't make it go > > away completely). Obviously no application can reliably know anything if the OS is hostile. Any application can be meddled with arbitrarily by the OS. In fact every bit of the app can be changed so that it does something entirely different. So in this sense it is meaningless to speak of an app that can't be lied to by the OS. What Palladium can do, though, is arrange that the app can't get at previously sealed data if the OS has meddled with it. The sealing is done by hardware based on the app's hash. So if the OS has changed the app per the above, it won't be able to get at old sealed data. And of course remote attestation will not work either, if the app has been meddled with. This means that an app can start running, attest to its "clean" status to a remote server, download some data from that server, and seal it. Then at a later time, IF the app is able to unseal that data, then it is true that the app has not been meddled with and is not running on virtualized hardware. That is how I understand these sorts of claims.

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Straight out of CATO.
by Matthew X 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

>>I'm surprised the article didn't complain about John Young's efforts:<< I'm surprised Mr McCatohead is surprised because he should know by now that cryptome is widely mirrored.If he didn't know that he would be an incompetent imbecile. If he did know then he is only surprised about the articles seeming naivete and wanting to appear superior 'dobs jya in', or 'gives him a plug,' take your pick.As jya has described our man in CATO as a canary,the 1st possibility seems a safe bet. Declan could be the death of cypherpunks but it'll be a marvelous book deal.

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Brian Regan,a scalp for the NSA?
by Matthew X 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

"Several countries abandoned Crypto AG but failed to ensure secrecy. The Libyans switched to Gretag units after the NSA cited secret communications to allege Libyan involvement in the 1986 La Belle disco bombing in West Berlin. One senior US official said the fact that the Libyans were making their codes more difficult to crack would "make our job tougher." But the NSA seemed to have the Gretag base covered as well. According to one knowledgeable cryptographic industry expert, NSA's program to co-opt the services of encryption manufactures probably extends to all those within reach of NSA operatives." http://mediafilter.org/caq/cryptogate/ So how was Regan blown anyway? If the fix wasn't in then TEMPEST/intercepts are another possibility or a defector/double agent.The least likely scenario?Possibly the one presented in court.

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Washington DC evacuation plan... for federal employees
by Declan McCullagh 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

1. Government creates new Washington evacuation plan By Jason Peckenpaugh The federal government has created a new procedure for evacuating federal employees in Washington in the case of possible terrorist attacks on the nation's capital. The protocol, which took effect in May, tells who can decide to evacuate federal employees from agencies and how the government will communicate the decision to employees and to city and state agencies that would be affected by a mass exodus of civil servants from Washington. It is an attempt to improve on the ad hoc process used on Sept. 11, when the Office of Personnel Management closed federal agencies without first notifying state and transit officials in the Washington area. "Basically the only emergency plan that was available that this area had [on Sept. 11] was the snow emergency plan," said Scott Hatch, OPM's director of communications. The new protocol was designed to handle federal evacuations in Washington, but could be used to make evacuation decisions for civil servants in other cities, he said. Full story: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0802/080902p1.htm Return to Top

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joining
by amanda stone 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

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by Dawnetta Aceuedo 12 Aug '02

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Re: On the outright laughability of internet "democracy"
by xganon 11 Aug '02

11 Aug '02

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:18:32 -0400, you wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 12:51 PM -0700 on 8/11/02, A.Austrian.Idiot single hops yet > another remailer and wrote: Namecalling. Possibly your strongest argumentation? > > I would think you might be interested in going deeper, as "Blind > > signatures for untraceable payments" is directly applicable to > > both digital settlement and digital voting. > > Yes. Of course. And, if you actually read it, or even just thought > about it instead of spewing oppositional bullshit to everything you > disagree with politically, :-), Must have touched quite a raw nerve here. My thanks for your not "spewing oppositional bullshit". And what, pray tell, am I disagreeing with "politically"? > you'd soon realize that you can't > actually control an truly anonymous voting scheme any more than you > can control a truly anonymous bearer asset. Like equity, an anonymous > vote is completely salable. Read first, spew later. > > In short, sir, please to fuck off, until you actually know what > you're talking about. Another of your better argumentation. It is difficult to choose between your vulgar manner or your avoidance of facts, as the better explanation of the failure of your "Internet Bearer Underwriting" ventures. Cheers!

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