August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

RICO and the Mann.
by Matthew X 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Subject: RICO and the Mann. 10/27/00 - Members of Asian Crime Ring Indicted 14 members of an Asian crime ring allegedly headed by Hung The "Kevin" Dong were indicted in Los Angeles on federal charges including prostitution and racketeering. Authorities were able to show that the group operates as an "ongoing criminal organization," making Dong's syndicate the first Asian organized crime group to be prosecuted using statutes within RICO. Dateline - October 28, 2000 LOS ANGELES - Pursuant to an FBI investigation dubbed "Operation Lucky Money," 14 alleged members of an Asian organized crime ring were indicted Friday on charges ranging from running a prostitution ring to credit card fraud. Authorities say the investigation and arrests gave a much clearer view of the activities of Asian crime rings, which are currently considered the most dangerous and efficient crime enterprises in the United States. James V. DeSarno, Jr., head of the FBI's Southern California operations said Friday, "We see violence, we see prostitution, we see money laundering, not unlike what we saw in the early days of organized crime." The indictments and arrests are the result of an ongoing joint investigation by FBI agents in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Hung The "Kevin" Dong (a.k.a. "Big Brother"), alleged boss of the group, was arrested Friday along with eight associates. Also arrested were Chooi Lu, Dong's girlfriend and alleged manager of the crime syndicate's prostitution ring, Tan Minh Ly (a.k.a. "Payday"), reputed to be the organization's top weapons trafficker, David Huang Wei, Johnny Chi Lee, Vincent Huang Wei, Boy Lai, Hector Barcenas and Binh Quoc Trinh. The other five individuals named in the indictment are considered fugitives and are actively being sought. Included on the list individuals who eluded authorities Friday is Dong An, who is also wanted on murder charges related to the crime ring's activities. The 38-count indictment charges members of the San Gabriel Valley-based crime syndicate with money laundering, credit card fraud, armed robbery, home invasions, prostitution, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking. The gang members are also accused of importing women from Malaysia, Mexico and other locations into the United States and forcing them into prostitution. Dong's syndicate allegedly ran dozens of brothels throughout Las Vegas and Southern California, with each brothel bringing in tens of thousands of dollars each month. Gang members would allegedly force the women to work in one brothel for a few months, then transport her to another and another, in what amounts to a violation of the Mann Act, "transporting women for illegal sexual activity," also known as "white slavery." More importantly, authorities announced at a press conference on Friday that, through the use of wiretaps and undercover operatives, they were able to ascertain that the group operated with a highly structured management and may be considered, for prosecutorial purposes, an "ongoing criminal organization." The consequence of such a discovery is that federal prosecutors were able to make the decision to prosecute Dong and his associates using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, which carries much heavier prison sentences on conviction than do most white-collar crime statutes. DeSarno said, "That's the goal, to use racketeering statutes to dismantle this organization." The nine individuals arrested Friday remain in custody and will make their first court appearance on Monday. They are scheduled to be arraigned on November 6 at the United States District Court in Los Angeles.Thats around the time I get my next 'mention'.I really hope this is it,cos I miss my jimmy Dell. Latest mention...sept 11.

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by R. A. Hettinga 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

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RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA
by Morlock Elloi 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

> One might be able to fab computers at small scale (FPGA, organic > transistors via inkjet, whatever), but it will be tough to create global > networks using just overlapping patches of wireless. Especially, if rogue > wireless will be rather illegal. UUCP will work as long as people can talk over telephone and there are modems available. The harder and more inconvenient it becomes to connect the higher average IQ of participants will be. There is hope. Just imagine the absence of short-attention span morons that find uucp too complicated. Ask around. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

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Simmering frogs with a drop of technology and a dash of law
by Major Variola (ret) 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

At 12:48 PM 8/3/02 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote: > >> Ah, the computers. Well, those that want computers will have them. >> They may not be as cheap as today and there will not be as many of >> them, but I think that all people *I* deal with will have them, so I >> don't really care. > >Sure, people will have computers. However, if we merrily slide down the >slippery slope the authentication might move into the network layer >eventually. You will be on the network, yet you will be not on the >network. Yes. As engineers we can design a system, enforced by Law only at the ISP, which makes the network usable only to those using Approved hardware/software. Try it. Then take a bath --the stench does come off. But surely the heavy hand of the Law will be required? No. This can be done with minimal *apparent* police state feeling, by attacking central communication resources. Don't think so? How about CALEA, Carnivore, etc. In the 1984+20 world, you can use your old 56K modem for point to point communications (over the message-neutral POTS) but you can't use your ISP without running Approved 'Secure Fnord Trusted' equiptment. Your ISP's assets will be seized if they route unVerified traffic from their 'subscribers'. This meets the Specs For Gentle Fascism: it requires some plausible tech, and some plausible law. No Stasi needed, just the power of Customs, IRS and business licensing. So you can distribute your xeroxed pamphlets by hand, but you can't mail them because the State runs the post, and controls the private delivery services. Most folks don't notice because they use State-Approved pens which only let them write Approved thoughts and certainly don't let them copy large excerpts of others' prose. Those 'safe' messages are transparently handled by the State post. Its great that Morloch can make pens from quills, and has a horse to carry his letters to his friends ---who have to use homemade, not State approved, candles to read them. But Morloch's consumption of goose feathers has not gone unnoticed... --- \begin{bumpersticker} Keep Your Laws Off My Machine No Stego No Freedom No Shit \end{bumpersticker}

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Re: Other uses of TCPA
by AARG! Anonymous 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

Mike Rosing wrote: > Who owns PRIVEK? Who controls PRIVEK? That's who own's TCPA. PRIVEK, the TPM's private key, is generated on-chip. It never leaves the chip. No one ever learns its value. Given this fact, who would you say owns and controls it? > And then there was this comment in yet another message: > > >In addition, we assume that programs are able to run "unmolested"; > >that is, that other software and even the user cannot peek into the > >program's memory and manipulate it or learn its secrets. Palladium has > >a feature called "trusted space" which is supposed to be some special > >memory that is immune from being compromised. We also assume that > >all data sent between computers is encrypted using something like SSL, > >with the secret keys being held securely by the client software (hence > >unavailable to anyone else, including the users). > > Just how "immune" is this program space? Does the operator/owner of > the machine control it, or does the owner of PRIVEK control it? Not much information is provided about this feature in the Palladium white paper. From what I understand, no one is able to manipulate the program when it is in this trusted space, not the machine owner, nor any external party. Only the program is in control. > So > the owner of PRIVEK can send a trojan into my machine and take it over > anytime they want. Cool, kind of like the movie "Collosis" where a > super computer takes over the world. No, for several reasons. First, PRIVEK doesn't really have an owner in the sense you mean. It is more like an autonomous agent. Second, the PRIVEK stuff is part of the TCPA spec, while the trusted space is from Palladium, and they don't seem to have much to do with each other. And last, just because a program can run without interference, it is a huge leap to infer that anyone can put a trojan onto your machine. > The more I learn about TCPA, the more I don't like it. No one has said anything different despite the 40+ messages I have sent on this topic. Is this because TCPA is that bad, or is it because everyone is stubborn? Look, I just showed that all these bad things you thought about TCPA were wrong. The PRIVEK is not controlled by someone else, it does not own the trusted space, and it allows no one to put a trojan onto your machine. But you won't now say that TCPA is OK, will you? You just learned some information which objectively should make you feel less bad about it, and yet you either don't feel that way, or you won't admit it. I am coming to doubt that people's feelings and beliefs about TCPA are based on facts at all. No matter how much I correct negative misconceptions about these systems, no one will admit to having any more positive feelings about it.

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Re: Other uses of TCPA
by Nomen Nescio 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

James Donald writes: > I can only see one application for voluntary TCPA, and that is the > application it was designed to perform: Make it possible run > software or content which is encrypted so that it will only run on > one computer for one time period. You've said this a few times, and while it is a plausible goal of the designers, I don't actually see this specific capability in the TCPA spec, nor is it mentioned in the Palladium white paper. For TCPA, you'd have to have the software as a blob which is encrypted to some key that is locked in the TPM. But the problem is that the endorsement key is never leaked except to the Privacy CA, so the content provider can't encrypt to that key. Then there are Identity keys which are short-term generated keys that get signed by the Privacy CA, but these are primarily used to prove that you are running a TCPA system. I'm not even sure if they are decryption keys. In any case they are supposed to be relatively transient. You get a new one each time you go online so that your web activities are not linkable. So I don't think Identity keys would be very suitable for locking software too, either. I admit that it would be unlikely for Microsoft to go to all the trouble of creating Palladium, without using it to solve its own severe software piracy problems. So I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see some way of achieving what you are talking about. But it is not mentioned in the white paper, and TCPA doesn't seem to support it very well. If it was, as you say, "the application it was designed to perform," this fact is far from apparent in the design documents.

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