August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Liberty Dollar
by Gary Jeffers 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

THE LIBERTY DOLLAR My fellow Cypherpunks,

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30 Aug '02

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Re: Thwarting LE library fishing expeditions
by Michael Motyka 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Steve Schear <schear(a)lvcm.com> wrote : > >After reading this ALA document >http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotlibrary.html , I believe I have >concocted a legal administrative measure to thwart the anonymous fishing >expeditions (esp.those authorized under the USA Patriot Act). In a >nutshell, libraries would create a database to track and manage LE requests >(this might be manual or online). They would also make available a special >service, perhaps charged to their library account, for their patrons to >check whether their names were in this database and guarantee a response >within 48 hours. If they were in the DB the library would fail to respond, >thus providing a sort of ZK proof of investigation. > >Q: Are such "deadman" data bases systems unlawful? Can LE force the >library to provide false information to a patron? > Looks like they can do any damn thing they please up to and including killing you and be praised for it. Somewhere underneath the pseudopatriotic chanting and totalitarian terrorism there lies what's left of America. May it rest in peace. >steve > I think maybe the better approach would be to ensure that the information they might be looking for is never created. Various anonymity systems for book checkout and collateral might be devised. Probably the best approach would be to digitize books and let them circulate on CD via sneakernet. Then you get into the handy dandy little ID code that each CD writer contains and writes to each CD. Anyone know how to defeat that? I think a random # option would be nice. Books without images should compress very nicely as text files. I think everybody should have a copy of every book. There is safety in uniformity. Mike

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Re: Thwarting LE library fishing expeditions
by Eric Cordian 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Steve writes: > Q: Are such "deadman" data bases systems unlawful? Can LE force the > library to provide false information to a patron? The question is whether a jury of properly trained Sheeple would convict when the librarian was dragged into court, and accused of illegally leaking information about an ongoing criminal investigation, putting agents lives at risk, obstructing justice, having the same agenda as the terrorists, etc. The answer to this question is almost certainly "Yes," particularly in the new nastier post-9/11 legal climate. I certainly wouldn't want to be anywhere near the librarian who volunteers to be the test case here. A well-known Seattle Activist, the webmaster of www.stopamerica.org, was recently indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of having "discussions" in 1998 related to the possible setting up of a training camp in Oregon. It is not alleged that he did anything, merely that he "discussed," whatever that means, and several years before anyone flattened any New York skyscrapers. One can now get arrested and charged with a laundry list of "terrorist" crimes for... Having the same training as the terrorists Having the same radio as the terrorists Having links to terrorists Having discussions years ago about things that are now considered linked to terrorists Soon to come, I expect... Reading the same books as the terrorists Being pissed at the same governments as the terrorists Supporting the same social issues as the terrorists -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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ADV: Harvest lots of E-mail addresses quickly !
by james2000＠etang.com 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

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The US Empire-its almost over now.
by Matthew X 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

"This is a profoundly disturbing turn of events. Mr. Bush is protested wherever he goes these days, and the crowds which attend them are growing. These are not black-clad anarchists kicking in windows, however. The woman who was attacked by the police looked as ordinary as any small-town librarian, and anarchists are smart enough to leave their children at home if there is a riot in the offing." > "We Are Not The Enemy!" - The Battle of Portland > by William Rivers Pitt > t r u t h o u t | Report > > Saturday, 24 August, 2002 > > The image is chilling. A middle-aged woman, plainly dressed, with a > puff of auburn hair, is clutched in a hammer-lock by a Portland > police officer dressed in full riot gear. His riot baton is jammed > high under her chin. Around her, three more armor-clad police > officers swarm in, face-masks down. The woman's face is contorted in > terror. In her hand is a sign protesting George W. Bush. > > This was the scene on the streets of Portland, OR, on the evening of > August 22nd as captured by a photographer for the Associated Press. > Thousands of peaceful protesters had descended upon the Hilton Hotel > where Mr. Bush was attending a political fundraiser for Senator > Gordon Smith. They held signs reading, "Drop Bush, not Bombs," and > other similar slogans. Among the protesters were pregnant women, > parents with infants and small children, elderly citizens, and > citizens in wheelchairs > > According to a report by CBS News, the protest became unruly when > some of the fundraiser attendees were "jostled" as they moved through > the crowd towards the entrance to the hotel. At that point, the riot > police swarmed in, swinging clubs and dousing the crowd with pepper > spray. Rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd, and snipers > were seen on the roofs surrounding the scene. The protesters > responded by hammering on the hoods of police cars and screaming, "We > are not the enemy!" > > A man named Randy, who attended the protest, reports the sequence of > events as follows: > > "I was between 5th and 6th on the sidewalk. Maybe the ones in front > were warned to move, but I didn't hear any warning. It had been a > peaceful protest. Suddenly the police came forward spraying pepper > spray. A man nearby with an infant in a backpack got hit real good. > The baby's face was so red I thought it had quit breathing. From the > other direction came cop cars through the crowd and rubber bullets > were fired at those closest to the cars. I kept retreating but the > cops kept spraying. Lots of people were sprayed, including the > cameraman from Channel 2 KATU." > > Other eyewitness accounts from the streets of Portland similarly > describe what appears to have been a terrifyingly violent response > from the police to a peaceful protest by assembled American citizens. > > This is a profoundly disturbing turn of events. Mr. Bush is protested > wherever he goes these days, and the crowds which attend them are > growing. These are not black-clad anarchists kicking in windows, > however. The woman who was attacked by the police looked as ordinary > as any small-town librarian, and anarchists are smart enough to leave > their children at home if there is a riot in the offing. The streets > of Portland were filled on August 22nd by average American citizens > seeking to inform the President of their disfavor regarding the > manner in which he is governing their country. They were rewarded > with the business end of a billy club, a face-full of pepper spray, > and the jarring impact of a rubber bullet. > > If America needed one more example of the cancer that has been > chewing through the guts of our most basic freedoms since Mr. Bush > assumed office, they can look to Portland. The right to freely > assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances has > been rescinded at the point of a gun. > > The imperative is clear. Such violence by the authorities cannot go > unchallenged. The next time Mr. Bush appears in public, there must be > even more concerned Americans to greet him. They must face the baton > and the pepper spray, they must stare into the shielded faces of the > police, and they must stand in non-violent disobedience of the idea > that they are not allowed to be there. The men and women who faced > the brunt of police fury in Portland are to be lauded as American > patriots, and their actions must be duplicated by us all. The groups > which organized this protest, and the ones to come, deserve our > praise. > > The media, which spent much of the evening reporting that only a few > hundred protesters were in attendance, must be browbeaten into > reporting the facts from both sides - from the police, who reportedly > detained people like the woman in the picture "for their own safety," > and from the protesters who took a savage beating for daring to stand > against Mr. Bush. If the battle of Portland is allowed to cast even > more fear into the hearts and minds of Americans, we have lost yet > another swath of freedoms. Stand and be counted if you can. > > The whole world is watching.

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30 Aug '02

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USA v. Abdallah Higazy
by John Young 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Cryptome offers 2 court orders and 22 formerly sealed documents in the case of Abdallah Higazy, an Egyptian national in the US to attend school, who was detained as a material witness based on a false accusation by a hotel guard of possessing an air-to-ground communcation device while staying in a hotel across from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Higazy was also allegedly coerced by an FBI agent during a polygraph examination to admit possessing the device, and an investigation of this coercion is underway. http://cryptome.org/usa-v-higazy.htm (440KB) The documents were unsealed on August 14, 2002 in response to a request by reporter Ben Weiser of the New York Times. Related news reports in the New York Times, August 16, 2002, and the Village Voice, August 28, 2002 provide some of the information redacted. The Voice writes: It was dumb luck, not good police work, that freed Higazy. But the two FBI agents named in papers making the botched case against him are likely still investigating the September 11 attacks. The FBI's New York office would not comment on personnel questions, but a knowledgeable law enforcement source says neither of the agents -- Christopher Bruno and Vince Sullivan -- was ever disciplined or retrained.

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Dead Bovine RC5??
by Eric Cordian 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

The Bovine RC5 project on distributed.net has so far checked 86.742% of the keyspace in 1,772 days, without finding the key. Assuming that all values of the key are equally likely, it is perhaps time to start thinking about the entertaining prospect that the entire keyspace will be exhausted without a key being found. This could happen if there were a bug in the client, a bug in the server, or if people were spoofing blocks to the server, reporting them as failures without having actually searched them for the key. Let's let "eps" in [0,1] be the probability that something is screwed up in the project which prevents the key from being located. Let C in [0,1] be the percentage of the keyspace that has been searched so far, and let F in [0,1] be the probability that the project is F---ed, which we define as the project continuing to completion without finding a key. Obviously 1-eps is the probability that the software will find a key somewhere, and after searching a C fraction of the keyspace, C*(1-eps) is the probability that we will have declared victory and gone home, and (1-C)*(1-eps)+eps is the probability that we are still chugging along. Ergo, the probability that we will complete without finding a key, over the probability that we are still in business after searching the fraction C, becomes after some minor algebraic tweeking... F = eps/(1-C*(1-eps)) Let's look at this function for various degrees of completion of the search, and various probabilities that the software is broken. For eps = .01, a 1 in 100 chance that the software doesn't work, the chances that the project is F---ed rachets up in the following manner as more and more keyspace is searched without a successful conclusion. % Searched F---ed? ---------- ------- 86.742 7.0794 90 9.1743 95 16.807 99 50.251 99.9 90.992 99.99 99.02 99.999 99.901 After 99% of the keyspace is searched without finding a key, there is about a 50-50 chance no key will be found, and if 99.9% of the keyspace is searched with no key, we may say with 90% confidence that the project will not end successfully. For eps = .001, a 1 in 1000 chance that some horrible bug or vindictive hacker has made an appearance, the table looks like this. % Searched F---ed? ---------- ------- 86.742 0.74936 90 0.99108 95 1.9627 99 9.0992 99.9 50.025 99.99 90.917 99.999 99.011 Now, we have to search 99.9% of the keyspace before we have a 50-50 chance no key will be found at all, and 99.99% before we know that fact with 90% confidence. And providing the project checked their code with sufficient sloppiness that there is a 1 in 10 chance all the CPU spent so far has been wasted, we have the following table. % Searched F---ed? ---------- ------- 86.742 45.595 90 52.632 95 68.966 99 91.743 99.9 99.108 99.99 99.91 99.999 99.991 Here we see they are almost to the point aleady where they are as likely as not to fail, but we will still need 99% of the keyspace to be searched, to be able to state that with over 90% confidence. For a piece of software a complex as the RC5 client, and associated keyblock server, I think 99% confidence that the software does not have a major undiscovered bug is a comfortable upper bound. This means that there is less than a 10% chance that the project is screwed now, but things will start to get interesting once we get into the high 90's in terms of percentage keyspace search, if the key has still not been located. I'm sure we'll all be watching with breathless anticipation as the remaining keyspace is exhausted over the next few months. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Stop! or my mother will shoot!
by Matthew X 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Seymore Mail Order Gene sez I hear things. I heard that up until two months ago Seymore Butts was ready to make a deal to sell his mail order. He had a tentative interested party. There was a handshake and a promise from Seymore to call. He never called. Seymore Chatter (from adultdvdtalk) Darth-MorpheousPosted - Aug 14 2002 : 02:00:26 PM I think seymore might have retired. He hasen't updated his site or answered his message board in weeks. Even throughout his lawsuits and personal problems he answered his board, updated his site, and released new material every month. He hasn't done any of the above. I think maybe he claimed bankruptcy and decided to leave the business. Did anyone hear any rumers? Speelie Member Fort Collins, CO 400 Posts 5/01 Posted - Aug 14 2002 : 04:16:58 PM I haven't heard anything, but if he was really going to hang it up, I think he would have done so already. My guess, pure speculation, is that he's taking a good long break/vacation now that he's not in a court case and is free to leave California. Darth-Morpheous Member 15 Posts 3/02 Posted - Aug 15 2002 : 02:51:09 AM I don't think so speelie. I think he would have posted something on his message board that he used to update daily. Even through the crises with the court cases and the break ups with alisha and Shane, he still had time for his fans. Thanks for the reply. Tampa Tushy Fest From the St. Petersburg Times, March 9, 2002: When Adam Glasser joined a bevy of California porn stars for a long weekend in Tampa in 1998, he did what has made him a brand name in adult films. He raised his camera and pushed "RECORD." Famous in the industry under the name Seymore Butts, Glasser's niche is "gonzo" porn, which involves filming - and performing in - unscripted sexual encounters. This one took place between two women in a Dale Mabry motel room, in a town renowned - some would say infamous - for welcoming the sex industry. The encounter's result was featured in Tampa Tushy-Fest, Part I, a film that Glasser says ranks among the most industry-lauded of the 100 he has made. It might also send the 37-year-old filmmaker to jail, along with his mother, Lila, the bookkeeper for his San Fernando Valley office. Next week, in a Los Angeles courtroom, the Glassers face trial on obscenity charges - the first such case to go to a jury there since 1993. Such defendants usually enter a plea and accept a fine, but Glasser decided to fight it. The city claims that specific acts Glasser filmed in the Tampa motel room were so extreme, so far beyond other porn films, that the movie flouts the community standards of Los Angeles. The case will be closely watched as it could help define obscenity standards for the multibillion-dollar West Coast porn industry. The case also will reinforce Tampa's longstanding reputation as a stronghold of the sex industry. Voyeur Web cams, a swingers group, sex shops, nude clubs: all have seized headlines in recent memory, largely through the city's efforts to shut them down. Bob Buckhorn, the council member who pushed a 1999 city ordinance banning lap dancing, has described Tampa as "the holy land for the porn industry." "Inevitably, what you hear from visitors and new residents is, 'Why are there strip clubs on every corner?' " Buckhorn said. "We are world famous for this stuff." And getting more attention all the time. A recent episode of the PBS documentary series Frontline dealt at length with the Tampa Tushy- Fest case. Tampa Tushy-Fest, Part II has been released. What accounts for Tampa's allure to the sex industry? Those who work in it point to heavy tourist traffic, designated zones for strip clubs and loopholes that make it possible to open adult businesses near churches and schools. And every September, the area plays host to an adult film awards gala hosted by Nightmoves, an Oldsmar-based adult magazine given out free in local sex shops. "It isn't quite the holy land, but it's a very adult friendly atmosphere," Nightmoves publisher Paul Allen said. "We've got beautiful girls, beautiful weather. We've got the best attorneys we'll ever need. And guys like (nude club kingpin) Joe Redner have laid the groundwork." Tampa's reputation as an adult-business haven has even permeated the world of sports. In the wake of the arrests of two National Hockey League players in a lap dancing raid, the NFL provided written warnings to all 31 teams about Tampa's sex entertainment just before Super Bowl XXXV in 2001. Many of the nation's sportswriters could have written the warning themselves. During a national conference call of football writers in 1999, a moment of silence was observed to mourn a fire that had recently damaged a nude club on Courtney Campbell Parkway, the Tanga Lounge. No one has sailed the winds of opportunity in Tampa better than Joe Redner. In the 1970s, Redner invested $1,600 in a dilapidated beer joint on Hillsborough Avenue, built a stage and opened a nude club called Night Gallery. Despite years of police raids, and what he estimates are 150 trips to jail, Redner owns three clubs, including the famous Mons Venus, and places his net worth at more than $10- million. If his clubs are known for pushing boundaries, Redner says it's partly the government's doing. For years, the threat of a yanked liquor license forced clubs to limit their raunchiness. Dancers stayed on stage away from customers. When the government banned the sale of liquor at nude clubs in the late 1970s, the lap dance was born. Luke Lirot, a First Amendment lawyer who represents Redner, said cities like Houston have far more strip clubs per capita than Tampa. Tampa's reputation as a place overrun by sex businesses is a misconception fostered by the city's well-publicized efforts to police them, Lirot said. When the city tried to shut down Voyeur Dorm - a Web site that peeks on a household of young women - the case reached a federal appeals court and brought nationwide attention. "Now, when people think of Web cam stuff, they think of Tampa," Lirot said. Lirot estimates thousands of adult-industry workers are in the Tampa Bay area, several hundred involved in making porn videos. For the annual Nightmoves awards, 30 or 40 porn stars fly in from around the country for a weekend of parties, radio gigs and appearances at adult clubs. It culminates in a black-tie gala. Glasser recorded portions of Tampa Tushy-Fest at the 1998 gala. But the segment that brought the obscenity charge took place at the motel on Dale Mabry. "I was really only taking advantage of the fact that there were other people from the industry from California who happened to be in town at the same time," said Glasser, who ate at a Dale Mabry Bennigan's every night of his Tampa trip because he lacked a car. He and his mother could face 720 days in county jail if convicted on misdemeanor obscenity charges. The effect could be great on the porn industry, for the case could draw a new line that porn filmmakers would cross at their own peril. The porn industry keeps getting more lucrative. The New York Times reported that Americans "pay more money for pornography in a year than they do on movie tickets, more than they do on all the performing arts combined . . . The porn business is estimated to total between $10-billion and $14-billion annually in the United States when you toss in porn networks and pay-per-view movies on cable and satellite, Internet Web sites, in-room hotel movies, phone sex, sex toys and magazines." George Cardona, chief of the criminal division in the Los Angeles City Attorney's office, said his office occasionally prosecutes cases like Glasser's in part to determine community standards of obscenity. Glasser is defiant. The actors in his films were consenting adults, he says, and he defends some of his work as how-to films that are educational, providing "an oasis in the desert of the adult marketplace." Glasser describes Tampa as a market burgeoning with potential porn- star talent. Some strippers who have suffered because of the city's lap dancing ban, he said, have turned to adult movies. "The girls are probably more willing and interested now than ever," Glasser said.

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