December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

IP: Industrial Espionage Increases as Firms Seek Competitive Edge
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Richard Sampson <rjsa(a)sprintmail.com> Subject: IP: Industrial Espionage Increases as Firms Seek Competitive Edge Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 12:52:43 -0400 To: "ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com" <ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com> Industrial Espionage Increases as Firms Seek Competitive Edge Sep. 6 (The Record/KRTBN)--The place: the Four Seasons Hotel, Philadelphia. The date: June 14, 1997. On one side of the table, two men from a Taiwanese company hoping to expand into biotechnology. On the other, an FBI agent posing as an information broker, and a researcher from Princeton-based Bristol-Myers Squibb posing as a corrupt scientist preparing to sell a piece of his company's soul. On the table: a sheaf of papers -- stamped "confidential" in big, black letters -- representing the company's investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in Taxol, the blockbuster anti-cancer drug. The asking price, according to the FBI: $200,000 and a percentage of sales. The drama played out in that hotel room -- which ended when additional FBI agents burst through the door and arrested the Taiwanese -- marked the first federal sting operation against alleged spies for a foreign corporation. But industrial espionage today is far from unusual. U.S. companies are increasingly being looted of some of their most precious technical secrets by competitors -- both foreign and domestic -- using legal and illegal methods. And New Jersey's research labs and high-tech companies -- particularly pharmaceutical companies -- are prime targets. >From 1992 to 1996, according to one study, the number of cases of industrial espionage at the nation's 1,300 largest companies nearly doubled to about 1,100. The potential commercial value of the stolen information was pegged at $300 billion. Richard Heffernan, a Branford, Conn., consultant who conducted the study for the American Society of Industrial Security of Alexandria, Va., said New Jersey pharmaceutical companies -- including Merck & Co., Schering-Plough, Warner-Lambert, and Johnson & Johnson -- have all been targeted by corporate spies. The reason: the hundreds of new products in their research and development pipelines -- products that require huge investments in time and money. Those pipelines hold the potential for billions of dollars in profits. "New Jersey is one of the top 10 areas for corporate espionage," said Heffernan, who has advised a number of New Jersey drug companies on ways to protect their secrets. "This is not a new thing for pharmaceutical companies, and it's become progressively worse. There's so much money to be made from the theft of their information. That pipeline is a very deep, rich vein of gold." In addition to illegal intrusions -- which can include anything from hacking into a private computer to buying trade secrets from a company insider -- more companies are targeting competitors' secrets using legal -- but in some cases, unethical, or highly intrusive -- methods. Membership in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals -- an Alexandria, Va., group that advocates the use of legal methods to gather business intelligence on competitors -- has skyrocketed in recent years, more than quadrupling since 1990. For the most part, competitive intelligence professionals analyze data from public sources -- news reports, databases, trade shows, and the like. But they also tap more questionable sources, such as satellite photos. And they have indicated a widespread willingness to step over ethical lines to obtain information on business rivals. In a survey published in April by the competitive intelligence group, participants -- all corporate spies -- were given several scenarios and asked to choose from various options on how to proceed. Nearly half said they were willing to misrepresent the purpose of their research, 30 percent were prepared to read a marketing report left on an adjacent airplane seat, more than 70 percent said it was permissible to pump a new hire for confidential information about her previous employer, and 20 percent were willing to read and use a competitor's proprietary product data. All of those tactics violate the competitive intelligence group's own code of ethics, and the last might step over legal lines as well, according to the survey's authors. "I think there is room for some very legitimate information gathering that's important for companies to do," said Gayle Porter, an authority on business ethics at Rutgers University. "But I think there are probably many, many, many examples of people taking it too far." In New Jersey, there are abundant examples of companies alleging that they have been targets of industrial espionage -- or who have been accused of targeting others. In 1996, Boehringer Mannheim Corp., a German drug company competing against New Brunswick-based Johnson & Johnson in the $1.75 billion market for blood-monitoring devices, sued J&J and its LifeScan subsidiary in federal court. Boehringer alleged that LifeScan offered employees incentives for spying on its archrival, and that LifeScan employees sneaked into Boehringer sales meetings in Indiana, Florida, Turkey, and Germany to obtain proprietary product information. J&J denied the charges and in a countersuit said Boehringer hired detectives to obtain secrets and had workers pose as customers. Boehringer acknowledged some of J&J's charges, including that it had reprimanded an executive for posing as an importer to obtain a demonstration of a product not yet on the market, and that it had maintained a "competitive kill team" targeted at LifeScan. But the two companies reached an out-of-court settlement in 1997, agreeing to keep the terms of the settlement secret. J&J spokesman Jeffrey Leebaw declined to comment. Boehringer did not return calls. Heffernan and others say industrial espionage is on the rise because of tougher competition in domestic markets, the targeting of U.S. trade secrets by foreign economic and industrial interests, and the combination of computer hackers with increasing technical sophistication and companies that are woefully unprepared to stop them. And they say one of the times companies become vulnerable is when high-level employees leave. Executives with knowledge of marketing plans for new products and researchers responsible for developing the next big scientific breakthrough are often exploited by their new employers to obtain a competitive edge. That is what Warner-Lambert of Morris Plains charged in a 1997 lawsuit that was subsequently dropped. The company spent 12 years and $17 million developing Procan SR, a sustained-release drug used to treat heart rhythm irregularities. The product won Food and Drug Administration approval in 1982. Warner-Lambert accused a former employee of giving the top-secret formulas for the drug to Copley Pharmaceutical Inc., a Canton, Mass., generic drug manufacturer she went to work for in 1984. Seven months after she joined the company, Copley asked the FDA to approve a generic version of the drug, which Copley eventually brought to market. Neither company would comment on the settlement that ended the matter, but Jason Ford, a Warner-Lambert spokesman, said the drug -- which was discontinued several years ago by the company -- was never a blockbuster. "It wasn't so much the stealing of the product," Ford said. "The main reason why we filed the lawsuit was to make it clear that we vigorously defend our intellectual property. It sends a loud and clear message that this is something we take very seriously." Another North Jersey company, the Wormser Corp. of Englewood Cliffs, also played a key role in an industrial espionage case involving a former employee -- not as the victim, but as the accused. The case centered on Frederick Marks III, a production manager employed by Powell Products Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo., until 1993. According to a lawsuit filed by Powell in 1995, Marks took with him top-secret blueprints for a machine developed by Powell to mass-produce foam-tipped swabs more quickly and cheaply than any other machine then available. Powell accused the Wormser Corp. of bankrolling a plan to use the stolen blueprints to create a prototype of the Powell machine, and using the machine to compete against Powell. After two years of litigation, a Denver jury awarded Powell $2.7 million in damages and legal fees, but Powell settled with the Wormser Corp. for $1.7 million. Marks pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft in February in exchange for his cooperation with the FBI. The Wormsers -- company president Stephen, and his sons, Alan and David -- have not been charged. David Wormser referred questions to Bill Meyer, a Boulder, Colo., lawyer who denied the allegations, saying the Wormsers settled with Powell to avoid "years and years" of legal wrangling. Powell President Stephen Robards said the Wormsers are the true culprits. "There's no question about it," he said. "The blueprints Marks stole would not have damaged us without the Wormsers' money. He didn't have the resources to start a business without them." Since the passage of the 1996 Economic Espionage Act (EEA) making the theft of trade secrets a felony, the FBI has become more involved in industrial espionage cases in which U.S. companies have been targeted by foreign or domestic interests. To date, five cases have been brought under the act, including one in July in which a Piscataway man -- a former scientist for Roche Diagnostics, a Branchburg division of Nutley-based Hoffmann-La Roche -- was charged with attempted theft of trade secrets from the company. According to the complaint, Huang Dao Pei tried to obtain secrets from a current Roche scientist about the company's hepatitis C diagnostic kit, hoping to market a similar kit in China. William Megary, special agent in charge of the FBI's Newark office, said individuals trying to steal American trade secrets are not "street thugs," but high-tech thieves who are "educated, resourceful, and elusive." "Our cases illustrate the complexity of not only how diverse the criminals are, but how diverse the crimes are, as well," he said. "The FBI is committed to enforcing the EEA. Our message is clear -- it is no longer open season on American technology." Even before the act became law, federal stings were not unheard of. In the Bristol-Myers Squibb case, FBI agent John Hartmann established himself as a technology information broker in 1995 and began laying a paper trail of more than 135 faxes, e-mail messages, telephone calls, and letters with the representatives of the Yuen Foong Paper Co., which would eventually lead to the fateful meeting at the Philadelphia hotel. Jane Kramer, a spokeswoman for Bristol-Myers Squibb, said the company uses "the most sophisticated techniques" for safeguarding its trade secrets, but she would not elaborate. When security is breached, she added, it is important for a company to fight the intruder with every weapon in its arsenal. "Taxol is a major advance in cancer treatment," she said, adding that the company's multimillion-dollar investment in research on the drug is more than repaid by its $1 billion in annual sales. "You have a dramatic investment in research and development that's the lifeblood of a company like ours. The ramifications are huge for our present and our future." In what authorities described as the largest industrial espionage case in U.S. history, a 1990 FBI sting led to charges against two men for stealing secrets valued at $1 billion from Merck & Co. in Whitehouse Station and Schering-Plough Corp. in Madison. Biochemist Bernard Mayles, a former employee of the two companies, and a confederate, Mario Miscio, were ultimately convicted of trying to sell the secret formulas for Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug marketed by Merck, and Interferon, a cancer and hepatitis treatment sold by Schering-Plough. An FBI agent posing as a Chinese investor who wanted to convert an idle factory for Ivermectin production agreed to pay $1.5 million for the formula and the microorganism used to produce the drug. He promised to arrange the sale of the Interferon formula to a Polish investor for $10 million. Schering-Plough spokesman Ronald Asinari declined to comment, but Merck spokeswoman Maggie Beute said her company has taken additional steps to safeguard secrets in recent years, including beefing up computer security and being more vigilant about getting vendors to sign confidentiality agreements. "There's so much at stake here," she said. "Anything that shortens the life of any of our products is going to have detrimental effects on our ability to recoup our investment in R&D. As an industry, we're very focused on making sure our intellectual property rights aren't violated." Illegal intrusions such as those against Merck, Schering-Plough, and Bristol-Myers Squibb have created a cottage industry for consultants who advise companies on how to keep their secrets safe. Andy Welch, a senior consultant at KPMG Peat Marwick's risk-management practice, said business has increased tenfold in two years. Two out of three companies who come to him for help are taking preventive measures, but the others have already suffered security breaches. Welch examines personnel policies to make sure there are procedures for deactivating computer passwords when employees leave. And he attempts to hack into the company's system from the outside to find its weak links, such as the ability to dial in to a company's computer system without a password. He said many companies are not prepared to deal with the threat of corporate espionage, especially intrusions into their computer systems, where many of their most valuable secrets reside. "The indication is that there is a large degree of unpreparedness out there," Welch said. "It needs to be taken seriously. I can't tell you with a straight face that everything is warm and fuzzy out there." By Louis Lavelle -0- Visit The Record, Hackensack, N.J., on the World Wide Web at http://www.bergen.com (c) 1998, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. BMY, MRK, SGP, WLA, JNJ, CPLY, END!A$9?HK-BIZ-ESPIONAGE News provided by COMTEX. 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IP: [Fwd: Govt.Storing MRE's In Caves]
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: me <bucsplace(a)cchat.com> Subject: IP: [Fwd: Govt.Storing MRE's In Caves] Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:45:42 -0400 To: IP <ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------08FDE2A053FE721F529722FE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------08FDE2A053FE721F529722FE Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: news.dx.net!uunet!in5.uu.net!xmission!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!pln-w!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews3 From: "Steve" <peach2(a)rocketmail.com> Newsgroups: misc.survivalism Subject: Re: Govt.Storing MRE's In Caves Date: 7 Sep 1998 23:00:31 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Message-ID: <01bddab3$a25f5600$d34ae5d0(a)maddog1.camalott.com> References: <1998090721534800.RAA12052(a)ladder01.news.aol.com> Reply-To: "Steve" <maddog1(a)camalott.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-499.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 I can vouch for the existance of these caves in KC.....been by there many times in the days of my youth( lived there '56-'88). The interesting thing is the government(FED) kicked the private business's that were using them for warehousing/storage out....declaring that the caves were unsafe and dangerous. Funny thing is.....they weren't unsafe enough for the FED's to use. Steve West Texas -- "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --- Abraham Lincoln "You know, of course, that this means war..." Bugs Bunny to Elmer Fudd: 1942 PAPACHUBY2 <papachuby2(a)aol.com> wrote in article <1998090721534800.RAA12052(a)ladder01.news.aol.com>... Hi, This is off the Ark list. Interesting. S. Below are two differnet notes that I received today. I took all the return paths off of these so that they can be passed around. I personally know both sources and they are EXTREMELY credible. Perhaps we can locate a source near Kansas City..to look into this (with pictures)......I am MOST curious... marie - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - name Here's the post I received yesterday from a Y2K chat friend regarding the situation. The second message is one I received today from him. He'll be keeping me posted on what else he learns. Jeff > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Yesterday's Post------- Dear friends, As some of you know, I live in a poor and working class neighborhood in kansas city, and am involved with various activities that help poor people become less poor. As part of this, I often take in people who are homeless, or would be if not for a safe harbor. One of my housemates just got a four month temporary job unloading trucks at an underground storage center located near my neighborhood (KC has a lot of underground limestone caves that are used for storage). Anyway, this particular contract is a government contract, and the product being unloaded and stored is MRE's. that is, "meal ready to eat", which i believe is the current incarnation of the old army c rations. how many mre's are on a truck? all day, 8 hours a day, for four months. that is a LOT of meals ready to eat. Note that I didn't hear this from somebody who heard from somebody, i heard this from somebody in my own household who is unloading the mres, beginning at 7:30 in the am. Three things: First, I am comforted to know that this large amount of food is being stored here locally. Second, if you have any fiends or acquaintances who do temporary labor or casual jobs, you might ask around and see if any such operations are going on in your city.Three, somebody is taking this really seriously. mre's aren't cheap. Today's Post -------------- Dear Jeff and everybody, Today they unloaded nine trucks, and then were let go early because some additional expected trucks didn't show. It takes two guys about 1-1/2 hours to unload a truck, and each gets $35. Don't know if this space has been used to store mre's before, but that's on the list of questions to scope out. It does seem to be a government contract, the supervisors seem sure of that. It has been confirmed that this is new, that is, it isn't the regular cold storage location for Ft. Leonard Wood, etc. One of the other laborers said that each truck had 3500 cases, so today there were nine trucks times 3500 cases equals 31,500 cases. Anybody know how many mre's are in a case? This would seem to be literally an enormous amount of food, as if there were six mre's in each case, that would mean 189,000 means were unloaded today alone, and today was a short day. He was called back to work at 3:30 in the afternoon, but the expected trucks still didn't arrive. Note that the laborers apparently have to +spc- a certain amount of time sitting around and waiting. Since the contract is for four months, 22 work days a month, and if today's unloading was an average work day, and there are at least six mre's per case, then we're talking a minimum of 16,632,000 mres. Any way you look at that, it is a large amount of prepared food, being tucked securely away in a limestone cavern in KCMO. It's three meals a day for 500,000 people for 11 days, and that's the low estimate, since today was deemed a slack day by those doing the labor. - - - - -- Note: this is from another source... came in after the top portion.... > >>>>>>>>>>>> I researched MRE's just this evening to learn more about them. The full meal type MRE comes 12 per case, and the case weighs 17 pounds. So, for doing some math, double the figures you were dealing with. Using Robert's math that would come to 33,264,000 meals - using 22 work days per month, for 4 months, and the light work load experienced by Robert's friend that particular day. Assuming 12 per case, that's 2,772,000 cases at 17 pounds per case equals 47,124,000 pounds of food, or 23,562 tons. That would mean you could feed 500,000 people 3 meals per day for 22.17 days or roughly 100,000 people for just over 3 months (about 111 days actually). These are large numbers indeed and we can all look forward to learning more about this. Robert, can you put the local news people on it to open it up? Would that be wise or not? I don't know, but if appropriate, it's one heck of a story they may wish to track down. God bless all of you, << End of Forwarded message >> [snip] Local Y2K Update: I received a telephone call from a highly credible source. This informant told me that government employees recently attended a Y2K meeting in Orange County. At this meeting, one of the handouts was a listing of all the Mormon Canneries. Even more disturbing was the fact, these employees were casually told not to make this public so that they could have the necessary time to acquire their long-term storage food first. --------------08FDE2A053FE721F529722FE-- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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Taxes & baseball...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, It occurs to me that if the fan who caught the ball and then gave it to McGyer had to pay a gift tax then so would the NLB, after all it was their ball until it left the field at which point they give it to the fan who catches it. I wonder what made the IRS back down from a cool 1.2M...? ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by techsales＠oreilly.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Any good hacking sites?
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, M I T Flunky wrote: > > hey all, Hey, d00d! What be happenin'? My homies and my bro's are just a hangin', man! We be k-rad kool, d00d! > > any1 know of any good hacking sites that teach u the basics and stuff? Find somebody who has been the attacker in a recent axe murder. He'll be more than happy to teach you the basics and stuff, I'm sure, particularly if you lock yourself in stocks first. > also, any1 here into AOL hacking??? I prefer a chainsaw, myself. It does cause a bit of a mess, but the mess is still preferable to the AOLholes like yourself. > > thanx, > ~Fallen Angel No pro', bro', ~LamenessMonger > > _____________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Apparently you don't need a clue either. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Well, they don't punctuate the end of the sentence, but at least they put the protocol specifier on. > Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] Or at (800) 6NO-CLUE. LamenessMonger

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Austin: Meet on Wed. Sept. 16, 1998 (new location)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, The next physical meet will be held on Wed. Sept. 16, 1998 from 7-8pm (or later). We are meeting at the Korea House across the street from The Yellow Rose on N. Lamar. If you need directions please send a request to austin-cpunks(a)ssz.com. I am sure there will be some discussion about Toto as well as the database project we've been half-heartedly working on (if only work didn't take so much time). ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Netly News on Nutly News (resend)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 05:42:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: The Arrest of the Nutly Bomber http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980909-14593,00.html TIME Digital Daily September 9, 1998 The Arrest of the Nutly Bomber By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) [Part I of a Series For two years a pair of anonymous Net crackpots have been posting angry tirades to a cryptography discussion list under a takeoff of Netly called "Nutly News." Now the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police say that a digital signature connects them to a bomb discovered last June in a Canadian courthouse.] It was about 5 p.m. on August 18. Carl Johnson, 49, was beating the heat inside the Rialto Theater in what passes for downtown Tuscon, Ariz. That morning a friend had tipped off Johnson that the police were trying to find him, but for now he had something else on his mind: his music. The itinerant musician and writer had spent the last month furiously scribbling lyrics, friends say, and he wanted a loan from someone he knew who worked at the theater. It was for some recording work, Johnson explained. This was going be his third album, after "My Way or the Highway" and "Please! Stop Me Before I Sing Again." But when Johnson left the Rialto, his musical career was cut short by two federal agents from the IRS's internal security division. They arrested him on charges of Internet threats against federal judges and police. The Canadians wanted Johnson, too, on charges of planting a bomb in a Saskatchewan courthouse.

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Netly News on Nutly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980909-14593,00.html The Arrest of the Nutly Bomber By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) [Part I of a Series For two years a pair of anonymous Net crackpots have been posting angry tirades to a cryptography discussion list under a takeoff of Netly called "Nutly News." Now the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police say that a digital signature connects them to a bomb discovered last June in a Canadian courthouse.] It was about 5 p.m. on August 18. Carl Johnson, 49, was beating the heat inside the Rialto Theater in what passes for downtown Tuscon, Ariz. That morning a friend had tipped off Johnson that the police were trying to find him, but for now he had something else on his mind: his music. The itinerant musician and writer had spent the last month furiously scribbling lyrics, friends say, and he wanted a loan from someone he knew who worked at the theater. It was for some recording work, Johnson explained. This was going be his third album, after "My Way or the Highway" and "Please! Stop Me Before I Sing Again." But when Johnson left the Rialto, his musical career was cut short by two federal agents from the IRS's internal security division. They arrested him on charges of Internet threats against federal judges and police. The Canadians wanted Johnson, too, on charges of planting a bomb in a Saskatchewan courthouse. [...]

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Checking CDR
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Those of us on cyberpass.net are not getting mail this morning so I've subbed to algebra and ssz to see if the x-posting is working.

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SCADA in power grid
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

this is from http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2439 Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums Summary and Comments (feel free to mail this page) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Category: Power_Grid Date: 1998-08-29 13:57:30 Subject: The Convenient Lie: Link: http://y2ktimebomb.com/PP/RC/dm9834.htm Comment: On August 27, I spoke before a meeting of 500 people -- 5% of a local town. At that meeting, representatives of several industries spoke: banking, telephone, electrical power. When pressed by someone in the audience, the representative of the power company insisted they could run the entire company on manual systems without compliant computers. Forget about noncompliant chips. The company can do it manually. I asked him straight: Can they run the SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system without telecommunications? That's the computerized system that tells them how much power is running through the lines. "Yes," he said. A week before I had been told by an engineer with a large urban power company that without SCADA, they would fry the lines permanently. "There is no way we could run the system manually." I guess engineers don't agree. I told the audience this: "No system can be switched to pre-computer manual operations without training. Any outfit that claims that it can be run manually had better have a highly trained technical staff to take over in 2000. Does the outfit have a training manual? How much training money has it budgeted?" Any outfit that does not have the staff being trained right now is lying when it says that it can be run manually. It cannot be run manually by phantom workers. The men who knew how to run it manually were fired 30 years ago. The manual systems were replaced. The industry did not spend hundreds of billions of dollars on computerization so as to have two separate operation systems. They spent the money to get rid of manual systems. Any time you hear some representative tell you his public utility can be run manually, ask five questions: 1. How many trained personnel do you need, including substitutes, to run your system manually? 2. How many are currently undergoing training for this task, and how many have finished it? 3. May I come in and see your training manual that you use to train these people? 4. How much money has your company budgeted to train this staff? 5. How much has already been spent? You must call their bluff. They're lying. They have no intention of trying to run anything manually. It's just a PR ploy. It's Monica Lewinsky syndrome. Nobody suffers any consequences for lying to the public. But can't they be sued for lying, i.e., misleading the public? Not if all companies in the industry collapse for the same reason. They will share the blame, or pass it on to a higher authority: "An act of God." When you catch one of them in a lie this big, you can rest assured: he knows that it can't be fixed by anyone, so he knows he can't be successfully sued. Training to convert to manual systems won't work, of course. The power industry can't be run manually, and it's too late to fix the code. Besides, nobody in the industry will pay any attention to such warnings. But at least it lets the industry know that you don't believe the lie any more. Dick Mills, who is a public optimist about the power grid, recently issued a warning to the industry: begin contingency planning. This includes training. This is the best advice that anyone could give the power industry -- not because the advice could work at this late date, but because it's time to call their bluff. This is from Westergaard's site. * * * * * * * * * . . . Isn't there already a national emergency plan in place for such as critical infrastructure such as power? No, not to my knowledge. Please write and tell me if I'm wrong. Never before, has there been a threat to the power system of such sweeping scope and magnitude as Y2K. There was no need for a national electric-power emergency plan. Prudence requires that we have such a plan, not only for Y2K but also for other future threats. I foresee that this plan will need to span national, state, local, public, private, utility and non-utility boundaries. How might we accomplish that? I've been told that existing presidential executive orders allow the entire industry to be nationalized at the stroke of a pen in case of emergency. Thus the authority exists, but it will do no good unless there are plans and trained organizations in place to use it effectively. There are numerous mitigating possibilities to be considered. That is true of not only to electric power but also to all industries and all facets of the Y2K problem. . . . It is already too late to finish Y2K remediation for many companies, but it is not too late for disaster preparations. To actually get practical and practiced disaster preparedness plans in place, we must accomplish three things. I see these three as my working goals. I hope you do the same. . . . We must plan, train, and practice the implementation of emergency procedures. Those are key elements of all emergency services like fire and police. In the Y2K case, we have to combine strangers into teams, invent new roles, and practice. That takes time. Link: http://y2ktimebomb.com/PP/RC/dm9834.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Category: Power_Grid Return to Main Categories Return to Home Page

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Re: RUSSIAN DEFECTOR WARNS OF PRE-POSITIONED PORTABLE NUKES
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

An interesting report from a GRU defector. How much of it is true? How much is rehashed? In any case, somebody must have cursed us, because we truly do live in interesting times. Y2K, terrorism, busts of cypherpunks, martial law contingency plans, a meltdown of Asian and Russian economies (with Latin America apparently headed down the same drain), Asama bin Laden, VX nerve gas, Ebola being developed in weapons labs, and on and on. I'm glad I live far away from safe targets and have accumulated enough supplies to "hunker" down for a long time. There are two articles here, both interesting. --Tim May In article <199809082136.VAA01195(a)earth.wazoo.com>, Anonymous <nobody(a)earth.wazoo.com> wrote: > Colonel Stanislav Lunev, Russian GRU defector talks about the BACKPACK NUKES > on KSFO, Geoff Metcalf Show > > KSFO 560 AM San Francisco, Geoff Metcalf Show > > GUEST:Colonel Stanislav Lunev, Russian GRU defector, author of "Through the > Eyes of the Enemy" > > SUMMARY OF LUNEV'S REMARKS > > Boris Yelstin is a mafia tool, an alcoholic who has not at all decreased his > habit of drinking who "cannot appear more than one hour in public or he > looses control over himself". He is a "decoration of power" controlled by > criminals and industrial tycoons who rule Russia behind the scenes. > > "Russia as Friend" is a theme slavishly pursued by breathless Western-types, > but in fact is an illusion. Only 2 months ago a large secret Soviet Air Base > conducted a very large-scale simulation of all-out nuclear with the West. A > similar exercise undertaken by Soviet Northern Fleet only 2 weeks ago. > > In case of outbreak of war (something that Lunev sees as a greater danger > NOW than at any time in the past), portable containers of chemical, > biological, and nuclear for use by Spetnaz against command and control > centers, water and air supplies, and specific individuals in a "decapitory > strike"-type scenario. > > Prior to hostilities, "students and businessmen" infiltrate into the US > using regular airlines, discard their disguises, and proceed to weapon > storage sites and then onto final targets. > > 100 of these weapons are stored outside the former Soviet Union. > > 57 main cells of industrial techno-snooping exist around the San Francisco > Bay Area. > > In February 97, Boris Yelstin gave a special order to Russian intelligence > to dramatically increase industrial espionage against the USA. Lunev > estimates that just in the last several years, espionage within America has > roughly doubled. > > Lunev indicates that China and Russia have entered into substantial, formal > cooperation in their espionage efforts against the USA. He adds that in the > outbreak of war, both countries could fight together against America. > > Metcalf closes by saying that Lunev's book can be ordered by calling > 1-888-606-0614. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [www.FreeRepublic.com] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > USG Ignores Soviet Special Troops Inside Our Borders > by Neil C. Livingston and M. K. Pilgrim > > The following scenario outlining typical Spetsnaz-type operations > prior to a Soviet main-force incursion into a foreign country comes > from unclassified U.S. government documents. > > "An unconventional warefare scenario: The following hypothetical > scenario illustrates the employment concept for the full exploitation > of Soviet UW [unconventional warefare] assets. > > "In support of a coordinated attack, air-dropped or air-landed GRU > special purpose teams would be introduced into their respective target > areas some days prior to H-hour. Special KGB sabotage teams would have > been infiltrated over a longer period of time by clandestine methods > to include the use of international commercial travel. These sabotage > teams could be prepared to begin their operations well before the > enemy's rear area security apparatus can be fully alerted. In the > pre-war period, some KGB personnel will seek to undermine national > resistance through political measures. > > "Sabotage teams will begin isolated acts of sabotage such as > destroying a key bridge. In addition, KGB teams will attempt to create > chaos at major ports and distrupt communications. > > "Shortly before D-day, additional sabotage teams will be inserted and > the majority of `sleeper agents' activated. > > "Sabotage equipment can be smuggled into a country by any number of > secret methods and stored in hidden, but easily accessible, caches. > Smuggling techniques may include the offshore dropping of waterproof > containers from ships and submarines. In accordance with the > prearranged signals, they will be recovered and stored by clandestine > support personnel. > > "Sensitive or fragil equipment (electronics material, detonators, and > communication devices) can be brought into the country by diplomatic > pouch and made available to the teams through established procedures. > > "Teams will attempt tp place their explosives and incendiary devices > on the targets and set them to detonate at H-hour. All efforts will be > made to prevent association of these acts with the USSR in order to > maintain the element of surprise for the main attack. Immediately > prior to H-hour, the UW teams will prepare to: > * Locate and destroy nuclear capable weaponry. > * Jam radar installations. > * Kidnap or assassinate key political-military leadership. > * Seize or destroy radio and TV broadcasting facilities. > > "At H-hour a wide spectrum of sabotage actions will be initiated." > > > http://www.icom.net/~tachyon/military/spetsnaz.html > Soldier of Fortune > January 1988 > > SOF SOVIET SPECIAL OPS > SPETSNAZ INVADES AMERICA > USG Ignores Soviet Special Troops Inside Our Borders

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If there's a trial will some of us be witnesses?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If Carl Johnson comes to trial, presumably both sides will call expert witnesses. So, who will these witnesses be? Ironically, we are almost certainly the most qualified witnesses on the planet in these issues. However, I expect we are too disreputable, to either side, to be called. Instead, they'll likely call on peripheral players like Dorothy Denning to explain to the jury what AP is. Or perhaps the "Science Applications Inc." lightweight who attempted to analyze anonymity and remailers for a conference paper a year or two ago. Food for thought. I'm not sure how I'd react if either side called on me to act as witness. And if they subpoenaed me, I suppose I'd have to spend a few kilobucks to hire some lawyer to explain to me how and when I could take the Fifth. (That's what it's come to, with lawyers needed at every stage.) --Tim May "The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants...." ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.

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Re: Carl Johnson Warrant and Complaint
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > > As I'd been deleting nearly all of Toto's stuff unread, I missed all the > stuff about (allegedly) threatening to bomb the RCMP. That's probably true for most of us...it was an unbelievable volume of crap he sent the list. (as opposed to my crap ;-) > Best to leave rants at the general, protected speech level, and to not get > into specifics of names and working habits of agents. For example: # Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:39:01 -0700 # To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net # From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> # Subject: Tax silliness # # Fox News is reporting that the IRS has said it may seek to # assess "gift taxes" if the guy who recovered Mark McGwire's 61st home # baseball gives the ball back to Mark McGwire. # # Those fuckers in D. C. need to be put out of our misery. Yeah, much better, Tim. ;-) But don't start holding rallies and saying it in public in NYC, or Rudolph Giuliani might have you arrested. ---- http://jya.com/usa-v-cej-wc.htm > 8. On December 9, 1997, an anonymous message was posted to the > Cypherpunks Internet mail group with the subject listed as "Encrypted > InterNet DEATH THREAT!!! / ATTN: Ninth District Judges / PASSWORD: > sog"[.] The body of the message was encrypted with the publicly > available encryption software PGP, and was initially unreadable. Using > PGP software and the password shown in the subject line of the > message, I was able to decrypt the message, which contained a > rambling, five-page statement, including the following: That would appear to be this post: http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.97.12.04-97.12.10/msg00356.html Entirely unexplained is how one goes from passphrase "sog" (Shit on government?) to decrypting the PGP message. What public or private key was used? > 9. I noted that this message contained a PGP digital signature. From > my training and experience, I am aware that this digital signature is > used as a way to authenticate digital documents to make sure that they > are authored by the purported author and that no one has tampered with > them. When I checked the signature using only PGP software, the PGP > program was unable to identify it. What key...? > Only July 1, 1998, Royal Canadian > Mounted Police (RCMP) Investigator Steve Foster provided me with a PGP > "Secret Key Ring" which he stated he had obtained from a computer > which Canadian Customs authorities had seized from an individual by > the name of CARL EDWARD JOHNSON. [A "secret key ring" is a > user-generated code which allows for the encryption (and later > authentication) of computer-generated documents.] When I checked the > digital signature on the Internet death threat using the PGP software > and JOHNSON'S secret key ring, the computer identified the signature > as one of the signature keys stored in JOHNSON'S computer. Because > both the "private" and "public" portions of the "key" were stored on > JOHNSON'S computer, the message can be authenticated as having been > generated by the person who possessed this "secret key" and knew the > correct password. In other words, only the person possessing the > secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death > threat" message. Sparky got it wrong. Many people could have the same public/secret key pairs, all they have to do is give them out. And you don't authenticate messages with the "secret key" in standard use. This person seems to have no clue, after months of tracking, how basic public key encryption software works. In fact, the key ring could be edited to have a fake secret key and the public key that works as the digital signature for the posted message. More questions: did they get the passphrase for his computer's PGP secret key? How? And why did RCMP customs seize his computer? ---guy

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PGP5.5.5 Problem
by Jim Van Over 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am seeking assistance with a PGP 5.5.5 system and noting your comments on the net I thought it might be possible for you to help me with a solution. I have been using PGP5.5.5, successfully, for the past four months. However, beginning three days ago I began experiencing a problem. I am using Netscape Navigator and the Netscape Message Center. The problem: When I receive a PGP message I copy it to the clipboard, but, when I depress the "decrypt and verify" line on the PGP tool bar the screen for the "pass phrase" flashes briefly on the screen and disappears. The same thing happens when I use the PGP tools. The PGP tool bar first referred to is the lock icon at the bottom of the screen. I have compared my public key with the key from which I receive messages and they are identical. I am able to encrypt a message to myself and then decrypt it without any problem. It is only when I receive a message from my other computer does the problem exist. I would very much appreciate any ideas you may have as how to correct this problem. Please make your solution as basic as possible as I am not as "computer literate" as I need to be in order to understand most explanations. Thank You Jim Van Over

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The full Monica: Novel new 'service'/Collectors' issue - New interface tomorrow
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Any good hacking sites?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

M I T wrote: > ... > also, any1 here into AOL hacking??? > Oh, this is almost _too_ easy... Yeah, we know about AOL hacking... First, you get a couple of million clueless fucktards like yourself together and give all of them the same 800-number to dial in... Watch what follows: <closeup of two fuckholes; if breathing weren't an autonomic response, they'd both be dead> bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... <fx: busy signal> Lamer #1: "Hey, d00d, whatcha doin?" bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... Lamer #2: "I'm hacking AOL, man." bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... Lamer #1: "Whoa! C00l, d00d! Can I like, watch?" bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... Lamer #2: "Sure, man." <cut to screen showing WinBlows "Starfield Simulation" screensaver> ... Any questions?

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Re: Carl Johnson Warrant and Complaint
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you > doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted > to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you. Prove it. Post the archived message where these secret keys were posted. Let's see the one which signed: http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.97.12.04-97.12.10/msg00356.html Note to the clueless guy(a)panix.com, who asks: > Entirely unexplained is how one goes from passphrase "sog" (Shit on government?) > to decrypting the PGP message. I'm impressed. You're actually stupider than Jeff Gordon, the IRS flunky. He was able to figure it out, so why don't you try. Ask your kindergarten teacher to give you a gold star once you fumble your way to the answer.

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Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism
by Petro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:52 AM -0500 9/9/98, William H. Geiger III wrote: >In <v03110703b21c4777ca38(a)[206.189.103.244]>, on 09/09/98 > at 09:58 AM, Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> said: >>At 11:25 PM -0500 9/8/98, William H. Geiger III wrote:>>>In >><v03110710b21b6a259806(a)[206.189.103.244]>, on 09/08/98 >>> at 06:17 PM, Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> said: >>>> No, more like a get off our fucking land. >>>Sure thing, and where you live, exactly who's land was it before you got >>>there? >> Point is, the "Arabs" didn't start it, the UN/European leaders (US, UK, >>FR, and RU) did. >Both the Palestinians and the Jews living in Trans-Jordan wanted their own >country. The UN resolution divided up the land based on population and >gave each group their own country. Israel declared their independence, the >Palestinians listened to the Grand Mufti and join in the holy war to wipe >out the Jews. The Arabs lost, too bad, game over. > >And interesting note to the whole palestinian "issue" is that the majority >of the population of Jordan is palestinian!! And long before the Intifada >the PLO tried to take over the government of Jordan and were embroiled in >civil war for most of the 60's and early 70's. The Jordanian Arabs finally >kick the PLO out in the early 70's (71 maybe 72). > > >> If I move you off your property at the point of a gun, should I expect >>you to _like_ it, even if I gave you what I consider "fair market value"? > >This re-wright of history might give you warm fuzzies but no one was moved >at gun point off their land (at least not until the Arabs started the >war). The Jews that emigrated to Trans-Jordan/Palestine *purchased* the >land from the Arabs that were living there. Even after the war the >majority of palestinians left on their own. Ok, I'm rewriting history, you say IN THE SAME POST: The UN resolution divided up the land based on population and gave each group their own country. --and-- The Jews that emigrated to Trans-Jordan/Palestine *purchased* the land from the Arabs that were living there. So tell me, is there a difference between being _told_ you will sell your house and move, and deciding you really would prefer to live elsewhere? Oh, and when this artifical coutry was set up, did EVERYONE have equal say in the government, or were certain Northern Europeans of jewish faith considered more equal. Of course, being given the short end of the political and economic stick couldn't be considered an incitement. >None of the current Arab countries existed until the British carved up >their conquered territory after WWI. If Israel is not "legitimate" because >of UK/UN involvement does it follow that all of the Arab states that were >formed at this time are also illegitimate? Perhaps we should should The region was carved up using an existing population, not by importing one from a different country. Like Mr. May, I have no problems with anyone who wants to live anywhere in peace and co-existence. The Israeli government is not interested in that, if it were politically possible, they'd do the same to the Palistanians as the Germans tried to do to them. >I find it quite hypocritical of Americans who see the Israelites as >occupiers and oppressors but would be outraged at calls to give back the >south-west to Mexico. Tim, you want to give your ranch to some Mexican >family since the Americans took that land from them? but then the mexicans >would have to give that land back to some deserving "native" Americans as >they took that land from them. But then again we would have to sift >through the thousands of years of tribal warfare and migration to find the >one true owners of the land. You seem to be saying that Conquest by Force Of Arms is acceptable, then the PLO is still trying to take back what they lost. petro(a)playboy.com----for work related issues. I don't speak for Playboy. petro(a)bounty.org-----for everthing else. They wouldn't like that. They REALLY Economic speech IS political speech. wouldn't like that.

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question...
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What is the TEMPEST? (just an overview) What do enciphered images look like? Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. It's me Bernie. metaphone(a)altavista.net ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

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Cypherpunks as a Continuing Criminal Enterprise?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could our group be charged as a "continuing criminal enterprise" under the RICO statute? It occurs to me that if Carl Johnson, who is linked several times to our group/list in the court documents, is successfully prosecuted,then the Feds may be able to cite both Bell and Johnson as evidence of a conspiracy. Which probably wouldn't be too hard to prove, as many of us have admitted to conspiring mightily to undermine various institutions. (And we even use encypted e-mail, the very essence of a secret conspiracy.) It might be fun to see them try this. Would they charge some of us as ringleaders? Or would they declare the entity itself an illegal organization? (As they have done with various cultural, political, and even religous groups, like Hezbollah, the Aum religion, etc.) Interesting times. --Tim May "The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants...." ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 9, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CTIAs Daily News From WOW-COM was not circulated yesterday and today because of a wireline telephone system failure that is disrupting service to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association building in Washington, D.C. We regret the inconvenience this may have caused you and look forward to resuming the Daily News service as soon as possible.

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Re: Carl Johnson's private key
by jimg＠mentat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan skribis: > I make that point in my article, but have not seen truthmonger's private > key posted. Care to forward it to me? I stopped paying attention to most of Truthmonger's spew, but did collect one private key it posted, under the name "Earmonger", since I was doing PGP experiments at the time. I think this one doesn't have an associated passphrase, which would make forging with it quite simple. I sort of think more of its private keys were posted, but I didn't keep any others. This does, however, establish a pattern of behavior suggesting it didn't keep private keys strictly private. IIRC many of TM's messages were simply file-encrypted with an openly posted passphrase, which doesn't take a rocket scientist to crack. Jim Gillogly -------------------------------------------- Earmonger key, clipped last year: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 mQENAzZsmI4AAAEIANHHMhV7V8WqPO6RjjfhZbeY/e6hsjAjKckU7YAYPhHiJfqG xw5+PgVjRPhIpXEE8ksmzZBzyH5KLW5GKFJZoD6YvVUSuzm+Gpxv+G78sBDBljUt BUoaB0XM4HSjEuqZtRtva+l+MAr3tFrK8FSdCsSgjQa8oOT5yFE76hgOGOkXGDKC HAISINKdduNsp4PU6HiNoKMdYpCCvK5u08lQFcByare2yaYmawYLmCzheCWLv9F/ kvnFtXCjup/pQNcOVeb/FkDx42l4vMwiWTH+AvrsjsV1njUIi9DTmcmD4doPlzBS qgbvQiTa16T2E4wJlnmATuW3QdwuBbdT2FSgj3MABRG0F0Vhck1vbmdlciA8ZW1A ZGV2Lm51bGw+iQEVAwUQNmyYjgW3U9hUoI9zAQHjNgf+KIDuWoBvfUj4H1twHvYU +IeDWIApLDnHkR7tsalLi9jY345iAolt3a/CiYxXPtjy9yedSaKoPasuvQk2cZ6e LZZwgEfDYj1GvjLC9D1rSItLLl6aDqYfhN2D2wgnB4mJssx1NP9zLQRf8aJkbDnl BMy3kfTr6ANmwe1hRGFWiuLkhnEtKzc9TFxBtx+4bx66rBBTzSUBfynH35bCLHLw hVzWGc5A0F18LG2WRLbGa/LcEXjp35jHyrJV73t2gUwVjH5qGa0B5O0dpvK9yDR9 wutFrmuhRgfqHO5Tclp470dkQFJv6HHMrSYyjRFFtyC9A+5Fvd1WkW7oLRAUxZmm HZkBogQ0i2ULEQQA17gNRCXxoQBVQVD+zukbAWtxMCio0tfXEJYPN516KNT7noeK dA4Q+TItlf8uC6VkUkUwabIueLZwvykDo83tnupSkvxEQ/EftLpm56kBIrgWprJM f0rIhFpIR0mNiT8ZH3z7OCAcQrfSCowk//4iESLLW8H0tFx5B9bPXrrrnkcAoP88 aezjfDn3DMlloJP9hNgRgvplA/0TKu4o2DNdIFAp/xeZE2R6wxrPfPfV00xNTgXe 5xXS3rCEljz48q6DEymmvA+oFuszKcrgOVDMT1TcKE1MzPjeKoe3c4Di92X+FoGa IenXHQrmfn7uUo54twYFqp8VsHgtfsg3F8KfFg/znF5BrIVq+aXQF9m/LczcObRz IXceEQQAhKvUfNYfP7NKA7sGkV38iFi8iJxsvkMk3RvlG6IxV0d3ATCRcvAFYUV3 fyap+CS0UnoBGZUmmIY5EvC2KyI9h8X+AXPymgM4JeQ2Hg7DnEXMegFwJ3iK9+Cg KlTS/R/h8qYUW5G1qYgYBU+JQ3I2wxmeaVWBBtYM0Rukppz+F5G0F0Vhck1vbmdl ciA8ZW1AZGV2Lm51bGw+iQBLBBARAgALBQI0i2ULBAsDAQIACgkQJH46DXlIPur3 KACgn/XD/dT+BvqkoDk1dOrbbdd00z0AnAqTYWdIKb1HkKf7Sfetwh/vKCXHuQIN BDSLZQsQCAD2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz 0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ+PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRP xfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarTW56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvN ILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY7288kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dD ox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMI PWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XpMgs7AAICCAC9H3enQ+6tZvcA5cjF3M2nTFCS IjerrQsQ5MZJ1EWYYhkgYkUQwtfuYL4NU/PelIo1TdYBr4mbNzxwJMFZ22cDNiOn J9oUhfDJyTA4yOacTxgl/wAXFD1FElzrVjlkf6TKW4+Db1elApcFbTDSvLNRPQev rtIrNRR480AtI8Um76RySrl9okI5L7TvtAXZMQnuyTtyA+YeG2/FvE3cOIY7EFXg Zm/jPGw6ijsbATKh6dsnb8f8dahB4awsTAzz0Unzx49TCUk0AdU9jbdP+8i+g9eJ uodZhd71d2o7HyhAwkVNKcsu5nqpFzwAWK5xSy5x1AprWWrTiu6uiAQ6T5Q/iQBG BBgRAgAGBQI0i2ULAAoJECR+Og15SD7qKaAAn0gbCIF0XzBifU27o9N7x4RI/IUX AJ49fXSrtX0w17W0gCe7BCvjXkRP7Q== =SVmn -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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RE: radio net (fwd)
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So much for "no domestic crypto restrictions." I really hate when people say that, there are plenty, and export restrictions on cryptography software and cryptography in software DOES indirectly but substantially affect the availability and cost of domestic encryption, not to mention that most people download export-grade crypto from the web for convenience. Isn't there a similar ban on encryption-capable telephones and other electronic devices (other than computers). Matt > > The FCC prohibits the transmission of encrypted data via > > analog or digital signals by amateurs.

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RE: question...
by Harvey Rook (Exchange) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Bernardo; TEMPEST isn't a cipher, but a technique. Essentially, your monitor is a great big RF emitter. As it's electron gun turns off and on to make the phosphor screen glow, it's emitting all kinds of radio frequencies that betray the image on the screen. A tempest attack is a receiver that can tune to a monitor, and reconstruct the image from the RF the monitor is emitting. Supposedly such equipment costs about $500.00 Harvey "Know it All" Rook. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernardo B. Terrado [mailto:bbt@mudspring.uplb.edu.ph] > Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 11:03 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: question... > > > What is the TEMPEST? (just an overview) > > What do enciphered images look like? > > > > Thank you. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. > I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. > Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. > I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. > > It's me Bernie. > metaphone(a)altavista.net > `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` > ```````````````` > > >

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Re: Cypherpunks as a Continuing Criminal Enterprise?
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > > Could our group be charged as a "continuing criminal enterprise" under the > RICO statute? OH GAWD PLEASE SOMEBODY SHUT DOWN THE MAY RANT-BOT! ---guy ;-)

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