August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

[mnet-devel] ONE_HOP_PRIVACY (fwd)
by Eugen Leitl 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 01:39:05 -0300 From: Zooko <zooko(a)zooko.com> To: mnet-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [mnet-devel] ONE_HOP_PRIVACY A discussion on IRC [1] led me to implement this simple hack. It makes it so that all outgoing messages that can be sent through your preferred relayer are sent through your preferred relayer. (If you turn on ONE_HOP_PRIVACY in your broker.conf file.) If you also turn on SERVE_USING_RELAY under the YESNO section in your broker.conf, then the only peers who will learn your actual IP address will be the relay servers that you use and the meta trackers (with whom you must talk in order to get the IP addresses of the relay servers, as well as to get the public keys of the various peers). Needless (?) to say, this is not "strong" anonymity, as envisioned by David Chaum, capable of hiding your traffic against dedicated NSA spooks. It is, however, comparable to the kind of anonymity offered by networks such as Freenet. Regards, Zooko [1] server: irc.openprojects.net, channel #mnet --- common/MojoTransaction.py 28 Jul 2002 20:46:13 -0000 1.18 +++ common/MojoTransaction.py 29 Aug 2002 04:12:55 -0000 @@ -1292,7 +1292,29 @@ # pick the most preferred connection strategy and use it newcs = reduce(CommStrat.choose_best_strategy, commstrat_list) del commstrat_list - self._ch.use_comm_strategy(counterparty_id, newcs, orig_cs=counterparty_info['connection strategies'][0]) + self._ch.use_comm_strategy(counterparty_id, newcs) + + # XXX begin code for the OneHopPrivacy hack + if confman.is_true_bool('ONE_HOP_PRIVACY'): + thisisMT = false + for meta_tracker_id, meta_tracker_infodict in MetaTrackerLib.find_meta_trackers(self): + if idlib.equal(meta_tracker_id, counterparty_id): + thisisMT = true + break + # copy one of these strategies and change its llstrat to be "relay through our preferred RS". + # Unless of course this *is* our preferred RS. And unless of course we don't *have* a preferred RS. + preferredrsId = self._listenermanager._relayl._get_favorite() + if (not preferredrsId) and (not thisisMT): + debugprint("WARNING: can't send message to %s because we currently have no preferred relay server and we are in OneHopPrivacy mode.\n", args=(counterparty_id,), v=0, vs="metatracking") + fast_fail_handler(failure_reason="no preferred relay server while in OneHopPrivacy mode") + return + + if (not thisisMT) and (not idlib.equal(counterparty_id, preferredrsId)): + onehopprivstrat = CommStrat.Crypto(newcs._pubkey, CommStrat.Relay(preferredrsId, counterparty_id, self), newcs._broker_id) + self._ch.forget_comm_strategy(counterparty_id) # *force* us to forget the old one. Else someone could make a TCP connection to us, and then we would start sending him messages over it. Oh waitasec -- he can already verify that we are who he suspects us to be by making a TCP connection and sending us a message encrypted with our public key. Oh well. + self._ch.use_comm_strategy(counterparty_id, inehopprivstrat) + # XXX end code for the OneHopPrivacy hack + try: # debugprintsend(diagstr="sending directly [a] ...", v=5, vs="conversation") self._ch.send_msg(counterparty_id, msg, mojooffer, hint=hint, fast_fail_handler=fast_fail_handler, timeout=timeout) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ mnet-devel mailing list mnet-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mnet-devel

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Air Nazi's and pig-headed approach to policing.
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Holocaust survivors pressure company over shoe name British sports manufacturer Umbro says it will drop the name Zyclon from a range of sports shoes after Jewish groups pointed out the gas with the same name was used by the Nazis to kill millions of people in concentration camps. CC Subject: Re: website? Ah yes, www.blackshirts.info Lord of the flies? http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32522&group=webcast Activists from the Network Against Prohibition today presented NT Police Minister Syd Stirling with a platter containing 2 pigs heads. Other activists had pigs heads mounted on sticks. The action was taken to demonstrate against the pig-headed approach to policing being taken by the NT Government. http://napnt.tripod.com/pages/Articles_15.htm#article2

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Recipe for explosive justice.
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

When individuals distribute information about or alternatively manufacture explosives they are prosecuted. When corporations manufacture explosive devices and sell them to people/countries who use them to kill and opress other people it's acceptable and encouraged. Does posting a route to R.D.X. makes one a criminal or does it turn this page into a terrorist page(Oh, my oh my)!! ;) Manufacture: 100mL of 95% or better white nitric acid, 14g of hexamethylenetetramine, 16g of ammonium nitrate, 100mL of acetone, A 150mL beaker, A 250mL beaker, A 500mL beaker, A hot water bath, A cold water/ice bath, A glass rod, A thermometer, 1000mL of distilled water, 100mL of 10% sodium carbonate solution, A filter funnel, Two filter papers. 1) Pour the nitric acid into the 250mL beaker, and put it into the cold water bath. 2) Add the ammonium nitrate, abd stir it until it dissolves. 3) While keeping the temperature at around 25*C, stir in the hexamethylenetetramine. 4) When it has all been added, stir it for 10 minutes while warming it up to 50*C to 55*C in the hot water bath. 5) Hold it at 50*C to 55*C for 5 minutes, and then let it cool back down to 20*C. 6) Pour 300mL of distilled water into the 500mL beaker, and add the reaction to it. 7) Leave it to precipitate the R.D.X., and filter it out. 8) Wash the solid in the filter with 150mL of water, then the sodium carbonate soltion, then with the remaining 150mL of water. 9) Scoop the crystals out into the 150mL beaker, and add the acetone. 10) Warm it to 50*C in the hot water bath, and filter it. 11) Dump the filtrate into 400mL of cold, distilled water, and filter out the crystals. 12) Leave the crystals spread out to dry. Does this sound right to youse?

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Kournikova,the social virus.
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Penthouse Readers Sue Over Kournikova They wanted to see Anna naked. They didn't see Anna naked. Hence a class action has been filed in Chicago by readers who bought the June issue of Penthouse magazine, saying they were defrauded by the promise of nude photos of tennis star Anna Kournikova. The magazine buyers said they paid for the magazine based on a headline, "Exclusive Anna Kournikova Caught Close Up on Nude Beach." But they did not get what they paid for. The photos are those of another woman, Judith Soltesz-Benetton. Both women have since sued the magazine and its publisher over the mistake. The class action suit was brought against General Media Communications Inc., publisher of Penthouse which has a monthly circulation of 654,000. As a result of the deceptive headline, according to the complaint, Penthouse was able to double its circulation for the month of June to nearly 1.2 million. Penthouse also raised the newsstand price for that one issue from $7.99 to $8.99. The photographs in question were taken in Florida by a jewelry salesman videotaping sunbathers, says the complaint. He was approached by General Media Communications Inc. who analyzed the video stills declaring the images of Kournikova to be authentic, according to the complaint. As early as April, the tennis star, through her agents, denied that they were authentic, but Penthouse published the photographs anyway more than a month later. The action was filed in Chancery Court in Cook County by Aron Robinson, a sole practitioner, on behalf of those who bought the Kournikova issue at newsstands. The complaint claimed breach of contract, consumer fraud and breach of express warranty, and makes a general claim for reimbursement of the price of the magazine to the class.

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Net Repression,Michigan.
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Feds Rousting Adult Websites; Tying Them into Kiddie Porn The state of Michigan is demanding that six Web site billing companies stop processing payments from computer users interested in getting child pornography online. But now the edict is extending beyond kiddie porn to mainstream adult websites. Michigan's attorney General Jennifer Granholm announced yesterday that her office has issued cease and desist orders to BillCards, CardBilling, Ccbill, LancelotSecurity, iBill and Trust-Bill. Each of the companies were notified that providing access to and collecting proceeds from members on behalf of child pornography Web sites constituted aiding and abetting child porn distribution, which is illegal in Michigan. However a livid Frank Bongiorno one of the directors of the Barely Legal series reports that his website frankiesangels.com has been turned off buy iBill which was labeled by Granholm as one of "the keepers of the keys to child porn Web sites across the globe" and would be taken to criminal court. "They turned off my site this morning without any evidence whatsoever," said Bongiorno, referring to iBill. "I have a completely legal site. I have all the 2257 paperwork in my lap right now. I'm going over all ID's and model releases. I got for that barely legal market. I have a lot of young girls on my site, but there's absolutely no children on my site." Bongiorno says he's been on the line with attorney Jeffrey Douglas who's checking his content and had just appeared on a webmaster's radio show. "I'm putting the word out there that iBill is not backing us up," he said. "They got scared- they got threatened and they just cut us off." Asked what iBill's accounting of the situation was, Bongiorno said he was told that iBill was under investigation for promoting the sale of child pornography [Granholm said she believes this is the first time law enforcement has gone after these types of Internet billers]. "They said because of that they turned off our billing," Bongiorno added. "They literally make billions off the adult industry every year and after all the money we make for them they turn us off without any evidence. Just because the attorney general threatened their merchant accounts."

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Man in the middle attacked.
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Conversations with Frank Bongiorno Kelly from frankiesangels.com Model Kelly who's featured on frankiesangels.com looks like a healthy piece of ass to us. But definitely not underage. However try convincing iBill, Frank Bongiorno's billing company which just pulled the plug on him in the wake of a campaign of terror now being waged by Michigan attorney general Jennifer Granholm who's running for governor. Surprise, surprise. Yesterday Granholm issued a cease and desist to six billing companies one of which is iBill essentially suggesting that they were aiding and abetting child pornography. Gene: I've been looking through your members' site and I don't see anything that's even remotely questionable. Bongiorno: Surprisingly, neither did I. And I happen to be vehemently opposed to child pornography. Gene: Other than to say you've got some smokin' girls. Bongiorno: Thank you. That's our intention. Gene: Girls from San Diego, right? Bongiorno: Yes. Gene: I got to move down there, man. It's brutal up here. I can't take it anymore. Bongiorno: I get new girls- secretaries, waitresses, housewives, college girls. They come in and do a few scenes, a few pictorials, maybe a movie and they go back to their regular jobs. This is the only place you're going to see these girls. They're just young, beautiful girls who share a bit of their normally private sex lives with us for our entertainment. They're not poisoned by the Valley. They're not on every boxcover. They're just young, fresh, beautiful girls. Believe it or not the vast majority are clean and not on drugs. Gene: We're definitely operating out of the wrong neck of the woods. Bongiono: The Valley has become poisoned with the routine- the same agents and the same cycles. I started down in San Diego but everyone told me I had to go to L.A. to get big. I said I'm not going to do it. I'm going to do it my way. It's taken me four years of plugging away and making a name for myself. Gene: This is what you do, just go out there talent scouting and shoot. Bongiorno: I treat the models so well I never have to advertise or scout any more. The new girls who work for me, each one refers two or three girls to me. I turn down girls every week. It doesn't cost me a dime in advertising. Gene: Aaaaaagh, stop, you're killing me! Bongiorno: It's awesome; I love it down here. I initially started doing some advertising when I didn't have a name. Gene: To me this is the ultimate all-American wet dream where as a photographer you see girls in a mall, you walk up to her, hand her a card, blah, blah, blah. Bongiorno: I don't do that. I'm embarrassed. I hate bothering people. That's not my style. But I make sure that when a model comes into my office, I treat her like a princess with respect. I know she has ten friends and she'll refer them to me. I used to advertise once a month for two days. I've stopped doing that. Gene: How did you make your break in the business? Bongiorno: I made my first two movies myself. I didn't have a distributor. I just packed my van with videos and went from video store to distributor to video store and kept selling them until I made enough money where I could go make another one. I was having Trac Tech duplicate for me. I'd pick them up then go up and down the coast selling my movies myself. I made some decent money doing that. Eventually one of my screeners got to Hustler and they wanted to talk to me about shooting for Barely Legal. Gene: I'm flabbergasted by the extent of the talent working for you but really riled at the position iBill has taken with you. Bongiorno: If it was good enough for Larry Flynt it was good enough for me. I'm kind of glad I got singled out. I'll stand up and fight. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm a disabled veteran. I fought for some rights and I damn well plan on using some of them. They've put pressure on the billing companies and it's all because of this Jennifer Granholm. She's running for governor and is looking for some votes. They've picked the wrong people to screw with. Gene: And iBill folded so easily. Bongiorno: Supposedly Ccbill got the same notification but they notified their webmasters. They haven't shut them off yet. I just got off the phone with Epic who said they'd get back to me whether they can take me on. We're putting together all our paperwork to prove how legal we are. Actually we tried to call iBill on air during the webmasters' radio show and question them about it. They hung up on us. Ten minutes later my sales rep at iBill e-mailed me asking if I'm able to send them all my paperwork. I don't know how many thousands of sheets I have which is a part of this 2257 compliance. They want me to fax over all my paperwork. http://www.generossextreme.com/

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Jim Bell quoting anarchist set for trial on S-11
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Dear Dec Please leave out my e-mail TIA.(and thanks for helping me clean my clock.) Following on from previous Politech posts at... http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=proffr An important case for free speech online is due soon in Melb.au.Professor rat,(me),an entertainment journalist with the Indymedia group is charged with 2 counts of ,'threat's to kill,' and two counts of using a device to menace. It's possible to get 20 years for these offences,(a multiple rapist was sentenced to 45 years for 3 rape offences recently here.) Discovery has revealed 2 main pieces of evidence supposedly copies from a 'ghost' copy of the entire seized hard drive.One looks like an e-mail that's time stamped with the same date as the offending post and was sent to 'self',the time difference is at least an hour.Someone apparently copied and sent back to self the post within a couple of hours.This someone is assumed to be me by the police complainant. The other piece is supposedly a copy off the main copy that is a screen shot of the second offending post as seen at Indymedia.Its not conventually time stamped at all. In au legal aid is very hard to obtain and lawyers actually held a street march recently in Melbourne, to call for more funding.I was approved in January, of aid to regain my laptop,this was unsuccessful. The police have managed to lie to me,steal from me,lock me up in cells since condemned unfit for humans,kept my depreciating computer over a year,colluded with my mental health team to increase my medication 3 or 4 times,have me tested with needles in another town at some expense to me.When that 'treatment' was refused I was nearly certified for a weekend for no reason. US interest has been exposed by federal police documents obtained under the FOI act.Documents exhibit a PROMIS # no.Complaints to the professional standards department of the AFP are underway as are ones to the Health commission.My case worker said that extradition to the US was mentioned as a possibility.(Cinci or the pacifier letters?) Anyone who doubts APster ,simply as a TACTIC is missing the boat.Declan is correct to describe the AP essay as a long winded screed,I am personally mainly interested in the 'soft drilling' part of it, (and the LEOs extraordinary response to it.) I was diagnosed with simple schizophrenia in the early eighties.I am prescribed Olanzapine.(Zoloft) The post described as one of my typical rants is in fact a selected repost from the C/punks list,circa 1996.I don't apologize for posting as much as possible before being gagged and/or imprisoned like JB and CJ. Plainly there is insufficient evidence to bring State charges,a sen.Conts.Martin Holland is on record for stating in court that,"anyone can download there,"(at Indy.) The complainant,sen.Conts nic Conte,came at me with a knife at the police station and sliced my drawstring off my jogging pants.8 months after surfing Indy and downloading 'evidence' to hard copy he claims to,"know nothing about computers." The computer squad officer took the 'threats' so seriously that the next day after my laptop was seized he started off on another case.(a pedophile in a Govt office) Conte claims to be afraid of threats of 'molotovs'.About a month ago police in Italy admitted to planting actual molotovs to justify an extremely violent raid on an Indymedia location. Trial is adversarial in au and sept's hearing is a "contest mention."before a Magistrate.I have a list of questions yet have not met my lawyer yet,his name is Jarrod Williams and he has been referred to me by Cameron Ford at Kyneton's firm,Palmer,Stevens and Rennick.Win lose or draw,I look forward to this case finally being heard,snippets of info are available as they come to hand at C/punks and I will post a detailed impression of the trial there and on Melbourne Indymedia. Re The improper psychiatric interference under the guise of 'investigation.' <snip> I just wrote this to an aussie anarchist... Subject: 'Russian" psychiatry in au An country Vic an anarchist has obtained under FOI,evidence that Federal police and a Mental Health team plotted to increase his medication 3 or 4 times and stick needles in him to monitor drugs.The patient would have had to pay to get to his blood tests.(in another town.) This collusion occurred earlier this year and the evidence for the proposed actions was secret.Several lines are blacked out though a reference to US input remains as does a PROMIS no on a couple of the documents.When the anarchist rang to complain to the 'professional standards' Dept of the Federal Police he was asked for his PROMIS hash no.The use of PROMIS in several countries is suspected as a tool of repression and murder.(Guatamala,occupied Palestine and the old South Africa.It is a software tracking method originally stolen from a small Co called INSLAW by the justice Dept of the US Govt. In Russia dissidents had a special diagnosis called 'sluggish schizophrenia.There was a story in last weekends australian about instituting guidelines for the chaining of mental patients to their beds in Adelaide Hospital. Privacy legislation is meant to protect patients records so a complaint has been made to the Health Commission of Vic.When a response is forthcoming further complaints may ensue ,to the professional bodies of those State criminals, involved in this sordid and disquieting episode. yrs etc. Patient X

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Basques-Papuans banned.BAN the STATE!
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4991238%255E2… Jakarta to outlaw Papuan activists By Don Greenlees, Jakarta correspondent August 29, 2002 INDONESIAN police have drawn up plans to outlaw the main Papuan independence organisation in a crackdown on separatism aimed at preventing Papua from becoming a "second East Timor". Minutes of internal police meetings and documents obtained by The Australian, reveal a strategy to put the Papuan Presidium, the leading civilian proponent of an independent Papua, out of business, possibly by arresting and prosecuting its leaders. The 60-day operation, known as Adil Matoa, began this month with the aim of identifying separatists or separatist organisations, arresting and prosecuting individuals "committing treason or attacks against the state" and shutting down organisations conducting separatist activities. According to the minutes of a three-hour meeting on July 5, attended by 16 high-ranking officers of the Papua provincial police, the operation would seek to prosecute Presidium members "according to the law (by obtaining) clear evidence that their activities are towards the illegal separation of Papua from Indonesia". It warns that police need to take action to stop Papua becoming another East Timor. The moves to set up surveillance against Papuan political activists and pave the way for prosecutions come amid heightened determination in Jakarta to prevent separatist movements around the country building momentum for their causes. Analysis by the armed forces intelligence agency has played down the risks posed by the ill-equipped, poorly co-ordinated and relatively inactive armed wing of the Papuan resistance. But according to sources, armed forces intelligence is concerned about the potential for the political wing to build support, particularly overseas. There are fears that foreign lobbying activities could help change sentiment in countries such as the US and Australia, where governments support continued Indonesian rule based on Jakarta offering local autonomous rule. Exerting pressure on the civilian political movement is seen as the most effective way of containing the growth of pro-independence activity. An order signed by the Papuan police chief, Made Pastika, on July 17, initiating the operation, states that activities to combat Papuan separatists are to be carried out within the province, elsewhere in Indonesia and abroad. In this document, targets of the operation are cited as "suspected civilians and community organisations that have a vision and mission oriented towards the separation of Papua from the Indonesian republic and endangering the unity of the nation by violating national law". It also cites civilians and community organisations that "object to government policy using the cover of violation of human rights (and) violation of indigenous rights" and conduct activities that can "undermine the dignity of the government and state". Fearing the operation will trigger a round-up of civilian political and human rights activists, a national human rights group wrote to the police chief accusing the police of trying to turn legitimate human rights work into "a cheap issue to clamp down on innocent people". The letter by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) warns the operation will only lead to a repeat of the "crimes against humanity committed in the past, for which the state was never held accountable". A written reply from police headquarters in Jakarta maintains there is a "strong reason" to run operation Adil Matoa because there is evidence "suspected individuals and community organisations have a mission (and) tried to build public opinion domestically and abroad to unify their vision for an independent Papua". "We hope that those illegal organisations will disband out of their own conscience," the letter states, in what activists regard as a reference to the Papuan Presidium.

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2 Billion $ worth of Victorian police corruption.
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4990987%255E2862,… 2b drug case shock By ELISSA HUNT, Magistrates' Court reporter 29aug02 CHARGES against a man accused of a $2 billion drug conspiracy have been dropped. And the case against the man's brother, accused drug baron Antonios Mokbel, was yesterday put off indefinitely because of a drug squad corruption probe. Prosecutors told a court they did not know when the investigation by police ethical standards officers would finish -- or how it might affect the case. The admission paves the way for millionaire businessman Mr Mokbel to make another bid for release on bail. He is facing 18 state charges over an alleged drug syndicate worth $2 billion, and a Commonwealth case relating to cocaine importation. On August 9, Supreme Court Justice Murray Kellam refused him bail on the grounds that he posed a risk of fleeing, committing more offences, interfering with witnesses or obstructing the course of justice. But the judge raised concerns about the delay in the preliminary hearings of the two cases, which were planned for October 16 and November 25. He said the public would not tolerate the indefinite detention of suspects. Justice Kellam granted Mr Mokbel permission to apply again if the Commonwealth prosecution was unable to go ahead on the scheduled date. Yesterday the Melbourne Magistrates' Court was told neither the Commonwealth nor state cases could go ahead because of the corruption probe. Mr Mokbel, 37, was arrested on August 24 last year in Victoria's biggest drug sting. His brother, Milad Mokbel, 34, of Brunswick, was arrested in November and charged with possessing, trafficking and conspiring to traffic ephedrine. Milad Mokbel's bail application at Melbourne Magistrates' Court was told there was evidence linking him to a 550kg shipment of ephedrine. It was alleged that his fingerprints had been found on a shipping document detailing the movements of the container of ephedrine, and he had been mentioned in recorded conversations between co-accused. Milad Mokbel was released on bail last November with a $100,000 surety. Yesterday the three drugs charges against him were withdrawn during an administrative hearing before magistrate Phillip Goldberg. A spokesman for the state Director of Public Prosecutions last night said the ESD investigation was not related to the charges being withdrawn. The case against Milad Mokbel could not proceed because there was insufficient evidence, he said.

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Thuggee Coppers.Cash for Kidneys.
by Matthew X 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Cops commit robbery in Sabarmati Express PTI [ THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2002 12:35:01 PM ] KANPUR: Three policemen robbed at gun point passengers travelling in a general compartment of the Sabarmati Express, while two persons were injured in the ensuing scuffle, railway police said here on Thursday. The passengers, about three dozen of them, were robbed by the armed cops between Orai and Pukhrayan stations on Kanpur-Jhansi route late on Wednesday night, they said. According to reports, the policemen entered the coach and demanded Rs 50 from each passenger. When the passengers objected, they allegedly started beating them with gun butts, injuring Santoo, a resident of Unnao district and Ram Babu of Faizabad, the General Railway Police, Kanpur said. They also opened the luggages of some passengers and after looting their belongnings, got down at Pukhrayan and escaped, the GRP said. However, no formal complaint about the robbery was lodged with Kanpur GRP, they added. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=20552036 UK doctor puts Indian kidneys up for sale RASHMEE Z AHMED TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2002 6:47:51 PM LONDON: India has once again come to unhealthy prominence as one of the world's leading underground organ bazaars with the revelation that a Britain-based Indian doctor agreed to broker the cut-price sale of a kidney from a living Indian donor. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=20479282

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