August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Ojal from El Paso.
by Matthew X 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

Mexico: New Drug Gang Alliances May Spread Overseas 7 August 2002 Summary Mexico's drug-trafficking industry is evolving into smaller, more compartmentalized and discreet criminal enterprises in which alliances between rival gangs are being viewed as more profitable than trying to kill each other off. This new preference for alliances instead of gunplay may soon lead to expanded associations between Mexican gangs and organized criminal groups from other Latin American countries as well as Europe, Russia and Asia. Analysis Mexico's illegal drug-trafficking industry is restructuring rapidly into smaller, lower-profile criminal organizations following the death earlier this year of Ramon Arellano Felix -- leader of the Tijuana drug cartel -- and arrest of his brother Benjamin, The Associated Press reported Aug. 3. At the same time, the center of power of Mexico's drug-trafficking industry has moved from Tijuana in Baja, Calif. to Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. Mexico's evolving drug-trafficking organizations are smaller, more compact networks in which competing drug lords now seek to work cooperatively instead of killing their rivals, as the Arellano Felix brothers were fond of doing. Moreover, the shift in power to Ciudad Juarez means there likely will be a significant surge in narcotics smuggling from north-central and northeastern Mexico into the states of Texas and New Mexico. But southern California may see a drop in narcotics smuggling from Tijuana. http://www.stratfor.com/fib/fib_view.php?ID=205628 Get your drug war on at... art I: Violence-Prone Netwars Chapter Two: The Networking of Terror in the Information Age Chapter Three: Transnational Criminal Networks Chapter Four: Gangs, Hooligans, and Anarchists - The Vanguard of Netwar In the Streets Part II: Social Netwars Chapter Five: Networking Dissent: Cyber Activists Use the Internet to Promote Democracy In Burma Chapter Six: Emergence and Influence of the Zapatista Social Netwar FROM http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/ Famous for humping camels.

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08 Aug '02

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Would you rather be APsterized?
by Matthew X 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

http://news.com.com/2009-1023-948672.html?tag=fd_lede More 'killer application' pr,RIP!,MIX!,BURN!...Literally! Clipper was boring the first time round,can we just pull the plug on these fools now,please? Give them some hot lead 'content'. Palladium boosters need killing NOW,we dont need a brushfire in midsummer. Who wants to participate to help form what will be the LAST revolution on earth, the one that'll take down ALL the governments? James Dalton Bell

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commercial birds over Qatar, differential imagery in open press, Pgon not happy
by Major Variola (ret) 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020806-iraq1.htm Tim Brown of the defense think tank Globalsecurity.org which has published an extensive analysis of the latest satellite imagery on its web site, said the base "looks like it is being designed to replace the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia so we don't have to rely on the Saudis for this operation." Pentagon officials last night refused to discuss details of the preparations at al Udeid. One added that planners are "not happy" the images are floating around on the Internet - "but [we] realize there's nothing we can do."

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The crimes of Exxon go on and on.
by Matthew X 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

Re Doe et al v ExxonMobil et al (1.21MB PDF) US State Dept letter that attempts to squelch a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for alleged human rights abuses, including murder, torture, kidnapping and rape, committed by the military unit guarding the company's natural-gas operations in Indonesia - 'the adjudication of these claims could prejudice the Government of Indonesia and Indonesian businesses against US firms bidding on contracts in extractive and other industries' ( US State Dept via ILRF ) See also this ILRF campaign page for links to the complaint itself and related documents, this Reuters coverage, and the Stop ExxonMobil website LINKS http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm

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Nitschke: Beyond good and evil.
by Matthew X 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

Nitschke: Beyond good and evil. "We lost two computers, many, many disks and files, all of them electronic," said Dr Nitschke shortly after the Darwin raid. "Not much in the way of paper material, but some drugs that are part of this medical practice. "When they turned up, they drove in en masse and came straight in. I was working at my computer, which is now gone." Dr Nitschke said anything the police couldn't open was "bolt-cuttered". Dr Nitschke said Exit Australia had temporarily lost contact with its clients. "I've got heaps of patients, I contact them a lot and need that stuff back as fast as possible," he said. "The police said they would work quickly and give me a copy of my disks. They said they would hold on to (the original) material for as long as they needed it." They work fast phill,regular speed freaks.(actually drug squad 'B' in Vic.are!) For next time and interested bystanders...Tricks of the trade (FROM Computer forensics tips By Michael Jackman, TechRepublic 07 August 2002.Znet)Extract... Incident response staff will need to understand the tricks used to thwart investigators and hide evidence. These tricks might include: Hiding data within files, such as .gif and .jpg pictures, a practice called steganography. Altering filenames and extensions to disguise evidence as innocent files, such as renaming a pornographic .jpg to gotmail.wav. Hiding files in unlikely places. Using Zero Link files (in Unix) that dont associate with any directory. Modifying operating system utilities so that certain data is not listed or found during keyword searches. Sabotaging a computer so that, if it is investigated, a logic bomb will be triggered. Saboteurs also give hostile programs friendly names such as find.exe. Erasing files or disk space with file shredding utilities. These techniques represent just some of the tricks investigators are up against. Dont wait until an incident has happenedcreate an incident response procedure now and invest in training and tools. If you wait for an incident to happen before acting, your company (and your reputation) will be damaged. In the meantime, these tips will help you determine whether an investigation is being conducted professionally. Additional resources 1. Web sites High Technology Crime Investigative AssociationThis organisation accepts members from law enforcement, corporate management, and corporate security staff. However, anyone may download its newsletter containing forensic tips and information. The June 2002 issue, for example, contained tips on how to recover deleted Outlook e-mail by corrupting and then rebuilding a copied Outlook .pst file. LC Technology International makes sophisticated data recovery tools and provides forensics training and investigative services. The Department of Justice offers guidelines for searching and seizing computers. SecurityStats.com provides digests of the latest statistics and analyses relating to computer security. These stats will help you justify a forensics budget to cover equipment, staff, and training. The Department of Justice Cybercrime Web site has news, articles, and other information. Same DoJ?-JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORT CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE THE INSLAW CONTROVERSY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ("INSLAW Affair") report concludes that there appears to be strong evidence, as indicated by the findings of two Federal court proceedings, as well as by the Committee investigation, that the Department of Justice "acted willfully and fraudulently," and "took, converted and stole," INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS by "trickery, fraud and deceit."

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Re: Palladiated Huber: "Software's Cash Register", Forbes, 10/18/93
by AARG! Anonymous 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

> A blast from the past for you Proto-Palladium fans. > > I remember reading this before I discovered the One True Cypherpunk > Religion the following summer and thinking, "yeah, that's cool". > Unfortunately, nowdays, for all my admiration for Dr. Huber, it just makes > me laugh out loud... I don't know why it should. Wave, the company profiled here, is said to be actively involved with both TCPA and Palladium. They're just a little behind schedule, is all. It's not like the Cypherpunk Revolution is progressing according to plan, either, is it?

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RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA
by lynn.wheeler＠firstdata.com 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

it is relative common for authentication hardware tokens with asymmetric crypto to never divulge the private key .... there is big issue then whether 1) the key pair is actually generated on the chip (and never divulged) or 2) the keys are generated externally and injected into the chip (with special compensating procedures that the chip never leaks the private key ... and there is no record kept by the generation/injection process). specifications for asymmetric cryptography for data encryption may include key escrow of the private key (allowing business continuity for data that has been encrypted with the public key). lucky green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to on 8/6/2002 4:04 am wrote: Probably not surprisingly to anybody on this list, with the exception of potentially Anonymous, according to the TCPA's own TPM Common Criteria Protection Profile, the TPM prevents the owner of a TPM from exporting the TPM's internal key. The ability of the TPM to keep the owner of a PC from reading the private key stored in the TPM has been evaluated to E3 (augmented). For the evaluation certificate issued by NIST, see: http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/PPentries/CCEVS-020016-VR-TPM.pdf > If I buy a lock I expect that by demonstrating ownership I > can get a replacement key or have a locksmith legally open it. It appears the days when this was true are waning. At least in the PC platform domain. --Lucky --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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