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Memo to the Base on a good target,open SSH
by Matthew X 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/02/1028157844541.html How Australia is preparing for terrorism "...Since the attacks on the US, Osama bin Laden has made two specific mentions of Australia.." "...ASIO agents have been dispatched to recruit from Muslim communities and more than 30 suspect homes have been raided. Already ASIO has identified a small number of Australians who have received terrorist training with al Qaeda, apart from those already in US custody. Other terrorist groups have identified local supporters." ""Future terrorism could involve anything from chemical warfare to cyber terrorism," "Attorney-General Daryl Williams, who claims a meeting of national leaders in April clarified that situation, with the Commonwealth authorised to take control of national terrorist incidents. The heavily amended anti-terrorism laws recently passed by the Senate have bolstered defences against terrorism, Williams says, with supporting or committing terrorism punishable by life imprisonment. He now wants Senate support for stalled legislation to boost ASIO's reach, including the power to detain and question suspects without charges or legal advice." Fuck who need foreign terrorists.Still,on the bright side..."spot checks by the Department of Transport have shown it is possible for people to get through metal detectors at some airports while carrying knives."

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Re: Open source Vs palladium-Social darwinism Vs Mutual aid?
by Michael Motyka 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Matthew X <profrv(a)nex.net.au> wrote : > > Possibly no connection,its late in the day here...I can feel a 'regime > change' coming > on...http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/01/5792459 > ""The views you have acquired about Darwinism, evolution, and the struggle > for existence won't explain to you the meaning of your life and won't give > you guidance in your actions, and a life without an explanation of its > meaning and importance, and without the unfailing guidance that stems from > it is a pitiful existence. Think about it. I say it, probably on the eve of > my death, because I love you." > Tolstoy. > Frightened words of a dying man suffering from reality overload.

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RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA
by Trei, Peter 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

> AARG! Anonymous[SMTP:remailer@aarg.net] writes [...] > Now, there is an optional function which does use the manufacturer's key, > but it is intended only to be used rarely. That is for when you need to > transfer your sealed data from one machine to another (either because you > have bought a new machine, or because your old one crashed). In this > case you go through a complicated procedure that includes encrypting > some data to the TPME key (the TPM manufacturer's key) and sending it > to the manufacturer, who massages the data such that it can be loaded > into the new machine's TPM chip. > > So this function does require pre-loading a manufacturer key into the > TPM, but first, it is optional, and second, it frankly appears to be so > cumbersome that it is questionable whether manufacturers will want to > get involved with it. OTOH it is apparently the only way to recover > if your system crashes. This may indicate that TCPA is not feasible, > because there is too much risk of losing locked data on a machine crash, > and the recovery procedure is too cumbersome. That would be a valid > basis on which to criticize TCPA, but it doesn't change the fact that > many of the other claims which have been made about it are not correct. [...] While I reserve the right to respond to the rest of the poster's letter, I'd like to call out this snippet, which gives a very good reason for both corporate and individual users to avoid TCPA as if it were weaponized anthrax (Hi NSA!). ... OK, It's 2004, I'm an IT Admin, and I've converted my corporation over to TCPA/Palladium machines. My Head of Marketing has his TCPA/Palladium desktop's hard drive jam-packed with corporate confidential documents he's been actively working on - sales projections, product plans, pricing schemes. They're all sealed files. His machine crashes - the MB burns out. He wants to recover the data. HoM: I want to recover my data. Me: OK: We'll pull the HD, and get the data off it. HoM: Good - mount it as a secondary HD in my new system. Me: That isn't going to work now we have TCPA and Palladium. HoM: Well, what do you have to do? Me: Oh, it's simple. We encrypt the data under Intel's TPME key, and send it off to Intel. Since Intel has all the keys, they can unseal all your data to plaintext, copy it, and then re-seal it for your new system. It only costs $1/Mb. HoM: Let me get this straight - the only way to recover this data is to let Intel have a copy, AND pay them for it? Me: Um... Yes. I think MS might be involved as well, if your were using Word. HoM: You are *so* dead. --------------------------- Peter Trei --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Shrub,a pitiful helpless midget.
by Matthew X 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Bush's "Credibility Fixation" on Iraq You know Washington is sinking into quicksand whenever you start hearing that the U.S. should go through with its militaristic plans because if it doesn't, we would lose credibility. I hadn't heard that hoary rationalization since the darkest days of Vietnam, but there it was again, in the mouth of James Schlesinger, the former CIA Director, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of Energy and all around grand-poohbah of the Washington establishment. Here's what he told The New York Times: "Given all we have said as a leading world power about the necessity of regime change in Iraq . . . our credibility would be badly damaged if that regime change did not take place." Of all the reasons to go to war against Iraq, that's the worst possible one. That's like saying, "OK, it may be a stupid idea, but since we've said it so many times, we've got to do it." http://www.progressive.org/webex/wx073102.html Before Rumsfeld and Bush go off half-cocked, let's assess the short-term rationality of this planned invasion. First of all, it would be against international law, since Iraq has not attacked the United States and is not imminently preparing to do so. Second, it would be against the U.S. Constitution for Bush to do this without a declaration of war from Congress. Third, it would mess up our relations with our allies, and further enrage the Muslim world, which is the last thing the United States needs right now. Fourth, it could wreak havoc with our economy, which is already wobbly enough. And fifth and foremost, it could kill tens of thousands of people, many of them innocent civilians

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Hysterical Hegemonic Hyperpower
by Matthew X 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Resented for what it is, America also stokes antipathy by what it does. Here things have recently changed for the worse. The US is often a delinquent international citizen. It is reluctant to join international initiatives or agreements, whether on climate warming, biological warfare, criminal justice, or women's rights; the US is one of only two states (the other being Somalia) that have failed to ratify the 1989 Convention on Children's Rights. The present US administration has "unsigned" the Rome Treaty establishing an International Criminal Court and has declared itself no longer bound by the Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties, which sets out the obligations of states to abide by treaties they have yet to ratify. The American attitude toward the United Nations and its agencies is cool, to say the least. Earlier this year the US ambassador for human rights called for the early dismissal of the ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia even though these are integral to any serious war on international terror and the US itself spent millions of dollars to bribe Belgrade into handing Slobodan Milosevic over to the Hague tribunal. FROM http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15632 integral to any serious war on international terror and the US itself spent millions of dollars to bribe Belgrade into handing Slobodan Milosevic over to the Hague tribunal. To many outsiders this inconsistent approach to international organizations and agreements, some of which Washington helped to establish, belies America's claim to share international interests and seek multilateral partners for its goals. The same is true of American economic practices. The US is both advocate and exemplar of globalizationfree-market capitalism untrammeled by frontiers, special interests, restrictive practices, protectionism, or state interference. But at home Washington applies steel tariffs, farm supports, and de facto government subsidies (notably for the defense industries) for domestic political gain.

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Hacking in good faith is OK,"wardriving' in texas will earn fatal injection.
by Matthew X 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer LAS VEGAS (August 1, 2002 2:40 p.m. EDT) - A presidential adviser encouraged the nation's top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but said they might need protection from the legal wrath of software makers. Richard Clarke, President Bush's computer security advisor, told hackers at the Black Hat conference that most security holes in software are not found by the software maker. "Some of us, here in this room, have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities," Clarke said. Clarke said the hackers should be responsible about reporting the programming mistakes. A hacker should contact the software maker first, he said, then go to the government if the software maker doesn't respond soon. Hackers commonly share their findings with others in their community through e-mail lists or Web sites. But how much they should disclose is an ongoing debate among computer security professionals. Some argue that full disclosure is best, while others say a hacker should only warn that a problem exists without showing how to take advantage of it. Clarke said hackers shouldn't help criminals by showing how to exploit a programming bug before the software maker has a chance to fix the problem by issuing a patch, or fix. "It's irresponsible and sometimes extremely damaging to release information before the patch is out," Clarke said. Companies differ in their response to independent researchers. While some encourage or even reward bug-hunters, others are more concerned about the possibility of extortion or embarrassment to the company. In some instances, they seek civil or criminal charges against the hacker. Clarke said that situation is "very disappointing," as long as the hacker acts in good faith. "If there are legal protections they don't have that they need, we need to look at that," he said. http://www.nando.net/technology/story/484376p-3867743c.html

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