December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

EPIC World Crypto Survey
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times, February 9, 1998, p. D10: U.S. Losing Battle on Control of Data Encryption, Study Says By Jeri Clausing Washington -- The Clinton Administration is losing its battle to increase international controls over how reliably computer data can be scrambled to insure privacy, according to a report to be released Monday by an independent research group. ... The Electronic Privacy Information Center <http://www.epic.org> says that its survey of 243 governments showed that the United States is virtually the only democratic, industrialized nation seeling domestic regulation of strong encryption. That finding directly contradicts the Clinton Administration's assertions in Congressional hearings that it has the support of most nations on this issue. ... William Reinsch, the Under Secretary for export administration in the United States Commerce Department, denied that the study contradicted the Administration's assertions. "All the Administration has ever said is that there are more countries that go farther than we do," Mr. Reinsch said. "The study confirms that."

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Airport security cracked by flaw [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9802/08/security.reut/index.html > REPORT: COMPUTER DESIGN FLAW OPENS AIRPORTS TO TERRORISM > > graphic February 8, 1998 > Web posted at: 1:25 p.m. EST (1825 GMT) > > NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The computer security systems that control > access to 40 airports worldwide through electronic badges have a > design flaw that could make them vulnerable to terrorism, The New > York Times reported Sunday. > > A California computer security consulting firm, MSB Associates, > found the flaw in December in a routine audit of a large California > financial services software company, the identity of which was not > disclosed, according to the newspaper. > > Government buildings, including that of the CIA, and prisons and > industries with sensitive military, drug or financial information or > material also use the system and are also vulnerable to attack, the > Times report said. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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CYBERsitter caught mail-bombing (fwd)
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 23:25:04 -0500 From: bennett(a)peacefire.org To: peacefire-broadcast(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: CYBERsitter caught mail-bombing CYBERsitter has been caught in the act of mail-bombing someone who wrote a letter to Brian Milburn, the CEO of CYBERsitter, complaining about their product. Spefically, a lady names Sarah Salls sent the following letter to Brian Milburn at bmilburn(a)solidoak.com: http://peacefire.org/archives/SOS.letters/asherah.2.bm.2.4.98.txt She was writing to CYBERsitter regarding their harassment of Peacefire and their blocking of anti-censorship sites, which is described in more detail at: http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/CYBERsitter/ CYBERsitter replied by flooding her account with over 446 junk messages. While the attack was in progress, Ms. Salls had her ISP's postmaster monitor the incoming attack and shut it off. Naturally, her ISP, Valinet.com, kept copies of the mail logs for that day and has passed them on as evidence to their lawyers. A complaint was also forwarded to MCI's security department, which handles network abuse and illegal denial-of-service attacks that are perpetrated by their customers, which include lower-end network users like CYBERsitter: http://peacefire.org/archives/SOS.letters/valinet.2.mci.2.5.98.txt C-Net's NEWS.com picked up on the story and interviewed Sarah Salls, her ISP, me, and Brian Milburn from Solid Oak Software. Their story is at: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,18937,00.html (Note that the C-Net article compares the act of mail flooding with conventional spam, and says that a bill is being considered in Congress that would outlaw what CYBERsitter did. This is not quite true; flooding a person's account with 500 junk messages is a denial-of-service attack, which is already illegal, and it usually gets you in a lot more trouble than spamming would.) Far from denying the accusations, Brian Milburn gave C-Net the following quote: "Certain people aren't going to get the hint. Maybe if they get the email 500 times, they'll get it through their heads... If they send it to my private email account, they're going to get what they get." No kidding, Brian! bennett(a)peacefire.org (615) 421 6284 http://www.peacefire.org/ ---

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord ?"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"cracker"} = "<remailer(a)anon.efga.org> cpunk mix remix pgp hash ksub esub latent cut ek reord post"; $remailer{'redneck'} = '<config(a)anon.efga.org> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"bureau42"} = "<remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org> cpunk mix pgp ksub hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"neva"} = "<remailer(a)neva.org> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub ?"; $remailer{"lcs"} = "<mix(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> mix"; $remailer{"medusa"} = "<medusa(a)weasel.owl.de> mix middle" $remailer{"McCain"} = "<mccain(a)notatla.demon.co.uk> mix middle"; $remailer{"valdeez"} = "<valdeez(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"arrid"} = "<arrid(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"hera"} = "<goddesshera(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"htuttle"} = "<h_tuttle(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix reno winsock) (weasel squirrel medusa) (cracker redneck) (nym lcs) (valdeez arrid hera) This remailer list is somewhat phooey. Go check out http://www.publius.net/rlist.html for a good one. Last update: Thu 23 Oct 97 15:48:06 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- hera goddesshera(a)juno.com ------------ 5:03:45 99.86% nym config(a)nym.alias.net +*#**#**### :34 95.82% redneck config(a)anon.efga.org #*##*+#**** 2:00 95.44% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com +++ ++++++* 19:18 95.27% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de -- ---+--- 2:34:19 95.16% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net *++***+ ++ 11:26 95.11% replay remailer(a)replay.com **** *** 10:06 94.93% arrid arrid(a)juno.com ----.------ 8:50:34 94.41% bureau42 remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org --------- 3:38:29 93.53% cracker remailer(a)anon.efga.org + +*+*+*+ 16:32 92.80% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca + +*-++++ 24:14 92.79% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net -..-..---- 9:59:18 92.22% neva remailer(a)neva.org ------****+ 1:03:02 90.39% valdeez valdeez(a)juno.com 4:58:22 -36.97% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net 1:01:28 -2.65% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
by mark＠unicorn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate (ravage(a)ssz.com) wrote: >So do I, and I bet both our incomes combined doesn't add up to 15 minutes of >Bill G's and it won't. Of course not, because Bill has jackbooted copyright enforcers to subsidise his corporation. Without them his income would be dramatically reduced. >From a market perspective we're flies on the back of >great elephant. Please be so kind as to describe how and why this marketing >mechanism (copyleft) will succed? Uh, I said copyright should be abolished, you said noone would write software, I said that Linux disproved that claim. How is this relevant to that discussion? Of course it's not going to take over when companies can get billions of dollars of subsidies in the form of copyright enforcement, but it clearly shows that without copyright people will produce better software than Microsfot has ever written. >I've been using and supporting Linux since >1993 (SSZ is listed as a source site in the back of 'Running Linux' since >day one) in this manner neither I or anyone else has gotten rich. Exactly. So tell us how Bill would have become a billionaire without copyright? >It's copyrighted in the important sense in that it uses the copyright to >enforce its conditions. That is just as important as the marketing decisions >made by it. All it enforces is source-code distribution (and I've yet to hear of a single case where it's ever been used). That's important to the developers, but not to the average user. The situation would be little changed in a world with no copyright, because if anyone did try to keep their source secret anyone who got a copy could freely distribute it. I'm truly amazed to find all these pro-copyright views on the list, when cypherpunks have been at the forefront of creating technologies to make it unenforceable and obsolete. Mark

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by eureka＠eureka.abc-web.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Laptop TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Laptop TEMPEST > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:07:23 +0000 > From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > Jim Choate wrote on 1998-02-09 06:57 UTC: > > Doesn't the FCC have to test the RF emissions of all laptops as well as > > monitors for sale as Class A and Class B in the US? Shouldn't that material > > be available? I searched the main site, www.fcc.gov, but didn't find > > anything regarding this. > > I suspect that FCC material is not helpful with regard to Tempest. As to calculating a realistic estimate of range to intercept, I disagree strongly. > Results of such EMI tests only measure the general power spectrum > emitted by a device. Of interest for Tempest purposes however is > not the power spectrum, but the spectrum of the cross-correlation I am aware of how to do Tempest in practice as well as in theory. The process goes something like this. The first target is the vertical retrace. This signal is usualy the strongest because the voltage required (and hence the dv/dt) is the largest to sling that e-beam from the lower right to the upper left. It usualy resides in the 50-70Hz range. The next target is the horizontal retrace. It slews the beam from the right edge of the display to the left in order to start another trace. You can use this signal to syn both the vertical retrace steps (in order to move the beam down verticaly to start another trace) as well as the ramp that is required to slew the beam across the screen to write the pixes. Once these 4 signals are aquired and fed to the appropriate control terminals of a CRT you are ready to begin decoding the actual trace data for each line of the display. This is the hardest since the actual modulation of the e-beam is done via a screen grid (who said tube theory was out of date?) and that signal is quite small and generaly has a cardoid emission pattern aligned axialy along the central axis of the CRT tube. So if given a choise you want your antenna to be behind the viewer in line with the display. It is of some import to note that larger displays are easier to aquire usable signals from since the distances the e-beam is slewed and as a result the control voltages are much larger. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Washington on the verge of being nuked?
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

David Honig <honig(a)otc.net> writes: > The water supply systems of LA are easy targets for causing civil > disruption, too. Don't know about LA, but New York City gets its water supplies from open reservoirs upstate - a terrorist's dream. > > Lewinsky for President '2012 Vote for Monica - get a free blow job. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: rec.guns et.al. blocked by censorware
by Animal Protection League 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:22 PM 2/8/98 -0800, Tim May wrote: >At 3:02 PM -0800 2/8/98, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >>rec.games.mecha Giant robot games. (Moderated) Quest/Illegal/Gamble >>Violence/Profanity Intol > >Perhaps the strategy should be to post material to other newsgroups to get >them blocked as well. (Though I expect the blocking is not being done using >robots to monitor for illegal words, as rec.guns would not have been >blocked this way. Rather, the cyber nannies are probably using their "PC >judgment" to block groups they don't like. You need to consider that rec.games.mecha is primarily a dumbed down alt.flame and includes postings from that obnoxious avowed 300 pound communist bisexual converted jew Camille Klein (she claims she is down to 275 lbs.). I wouldn't my kids to read her garbage posts.

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Interview with the man who creamed Bill Gates
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:29:44 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Interview with the man who creamed Bill Gates Is at: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1733,00.html -Declan

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Godin Interview - Bill G's pie in the eye [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/textonly/1,1035,1733,00.html > Today's News Let's pie! Let's pie! Nincompoop guys! > by Hugues Henry February 9, 1998 > > Until last week, Noel Godin was relatively unknown in the United > States. A 52-year-old Belgian author, film historian, actor ("The > Sexual Life of the Belgians"), writer ("Cream and Punishment") and > "entarteur" (a Godin coinage that roughly translates as "encaker" or > "pie-er"), Godin led the gang that gave to Bill Gates what so many of > us only dream of: a big wet pie in the face. The attack took place at > the entrance of Le Concert Noble on Arlon Street in Brussels and was > widely reported in the press. > > Godin doesn't own a computer and didn't even know what a URL is. > His girlfriend, however, uses a PC. (This interview was conducted and > translated by Hugues Henry.) > > The Netly News: Who are you, Noel Godin? > > Noel Godin: I'm part of a gang of bad hellions that have declared the > pie war on all the unpleasant celebrities in every kind of domain > (slogan: "Let's pie! Let's pie! Nincompoop guys!"). We began to act > against "empty" celebrities from the artistic world who were thinking > they were the cat's whiskers. Then we attacked the TV news business in > France, for instance, Patrick Poivre D'Arvor [a famous French TV > presenter]. Then it became political with Philippe Douste-Blazy in > Cannes, the French minister of culture, or the other French minister > Nicolas Sarkozy last year in Brussels. > > NN When did you first pie someone? > > Godin: In November 1969, with French writer Marguerite Duras, who > represented for us the "empty" novel. > > NN Why did you choose Bill Gates? > > Godin: Because in a way he is the master of the world, and then > because he's offering his intelligence, his sharpened imagination and > his power to the governments and to the world as it is today -- that > is to say gloomy, unjust and nauseating. He could have been a utopist, > but he prefers being the lackey of the establishment. His power is > effective and bigger than that of the leaders of the governments, who > are only many-colored servants. So Bill Gates was at the top of our > lists of victims. The attack against him is symbolic, it's against > hierarchical power itself. Our war cry was explicit: "Let's pie! Let's > pie the polluting lolly!" [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: rec.guns et.al. blocked by censorware
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>That the "cyber nannies" are blocking it (and other similarly nonsexual, >nonprofane newsgroups) is exactly what was expected. These cyber nannies >become tools for political correctness. > >Perhaps the strategy should be to post material to other newsgroups to get >them blocked as well. (Though I expect the blocking is not being done using >robots to monitor for illegal words, as rec.guns would not have been >blocked this way. Rather, the cyber nannies are probably using their "PC >judgment" to block groups they don't like. These companies are attempting to provide the services desired by their customers. These are generally cautious, conservative parents who want to allow their young children access to the internet without them stumbling over dangerous or disturbing information. Like it or not, many parents are very protective of their children. We have no right to force our own views of childrearing on them. The filtering companies are filling a legitimate need in the marketplace. They are not evil and they are not trying to prevent adults from viewing the material they desire via their own personal accounts. They give concerned parents a sense of safety in allowing their children to use the internet, and in that way allow young people access to the net who would not otherwise be allowed to use it.

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New Security Paradigm Workshop '98 Call For Papers
by Mary Ellen Zurko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

======================================================================== Call For Papers New Security Paradigms Workshop '98 A workshop sponsored by ACM 22 - 25 September 1998 ======================================================================== Paradigm shifts disrupt the status quo, destroy outdated ideas and open the way to new possibilities. This workshop explores deficiencies of current computer security paradigms and examines radical new models that address those deficiencies. Previous years' workshops have identified problematic aspects of traditional security paradigms and explored a variety of possible alternatives. Participants have discussed alternative models for access control, intrusion detection, new definitions of security, privacy and trust, biological and economic models of security and a wide variety of other topics. The 1998 workshop will strike a balance between building on the foundations laid in past years and exploring new directions. To participate, please submit the following, preferably via e-mail, to both Program Chairs (Mary Ellen Zurko and Steven J. Greenwald) by Friday, 3-April-1998. 1 - Your Paper You should submit either a research paper, a 5 - 10 page position paper or a discussion topic proposal. Softcopy submissions should be in Postscript or ASCII format. Papers may besubmitted in hardcopy. To submit hardcopy, please mail five (5) copies to Program co-chair Steven Greenwald. Please allow adequate time for delivery. The hardcopy deadline is 27-March-1998. Discussion topic proposals should include a description of the topic to be discussed, a pro and con position statement on the topic, identification of the parties who will uphold each position, any assurances that the participants agree to attend, and any other information that the proposer thinks would support their proposal (such as who will moderate). One potential topic for discussion is "Is there a current security paradigm?". 2 - Justification You should describe, in one page or less, why you think your paper is appropriate for the New Security Paradigms Workshop. A good justification will describe which aspects of the status-quo security paradignm your paper challenges or rejects and which new model or models your paper proposes or extends. 3 - Attendance Statement You should state how many authors wish to attend the workshop and should indicate whether at least one author will be able to attend for the entire duration of the workshop. The program committee will referee the papers and notify the authors of acceptance status by 12-June-1998. We expect to be able to offer a limited number of scholarships. More information will be provided on-line as it becomes available. 4 - The Workshop The workshop will offer a creative and constructive environment for approximately 25 participants. It will be held at the Boar's Head Inn in the vicinity of "historic" Charlottesville, Virginia. Steering Committee Bob Blakley, Mary Ellen Zurko, Steven J. Greenwald, Darrell Kienzle, Hilary Hosmer Workshop Co-Chairs Bob Blakley IBM 11400 Burnet Road, Mail Stop 9134 Austin, TX 78758 USA e-mail: blakley(a)us.ibm.com voice: +1 (512) 838-8133 fax: +1 (512) 838-0156 Darrell Kienzle MITRE, Mail Stop W422 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. McLean, VA 22102 USA e-mail: kienzle(a)mitre.org voice: +1 (703) 883-5836 fax: +1 (703) 883-1397 Program Committee Co-Chairs Mary Ellen Zurko The Open Group Research Institute 11 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 USA e-mail: zurko(a)opengroup.org voice: +1 (617) 621-7231 fax: +1 (617) 225-2943 Steven J. Greenwald 2521 NE 135th Street North Miami, FL 33181 USA voice: +1 (305) 944-7842 fax: +1 (305) 944-5746 e-mail: sjg6(a)gate.net Program Committee Alfarez Abdul-Rahman, University College London Steven Cheung, University of California, Davis Shaw-Cheng Chuang, University of Cambridge John Dobson, University of Newcastle, UK Heather Hinton, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Canada Tom Lincoln, RAND Masahiro Mambo, Tohoku University Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory Ruth Nelson, Information System Security Thomas Riechmann, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg Marvin Schaefer, Arca Systems, Inc. Cristina Serban, AT&T Labs Anil Somayaji, University of New Mexico Brenda Timmerman, University of Southern California / ISI Ian Welch, University of Newcastle upon Tyne John Michael Williams Local Arrangements Chenxi Wang (University of Virginia) +1 (804)982-2291 Scholarships Hilary Hosmer (Data Security Inc.) +1 (781) 275-8231 Publications Marv Schaefer (ARCA Systems) +1 (410) 309-1780 Publicity Daniel Essin (University of Southern California) +1 (213) 226-3188 Treasurer/Registration Dixie Baker (SAIC) +1 (310) 615-0305 ACM-SIGSAC Chair Ravi Sandhu (George Mason University) +1 (703) 993-1659

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VanEck, Noise, & Palmtops...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Palmtops are noisy, this is bad for Van Eck. Van Eck relies on the fact that the device is emitting display signals significantly above the noise floor or that there is a method to pull that signal out of the noise. Considering the power draw of palmtops, while they are noisy they are also very low power. My guestimate on emitted rf is in the micro-watt range. That means for a succesful intercept the receiver would need to be in most situation within feet of the device. It'd be much simpler to simply ask to see the PDA because you were thinking of buying one than lugging all that obvious equipment around... If you want to defeat Van Eck you want either very quite or you want lots of noise smoothly distributed across the rf spectrum. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The obvious is sometimes false; | | The unexpected sometimes true. | | | | Anonymous | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Argentina rules: no software copyright
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(from cpsr list, from edupage) : ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT RULES SOFTWARE PIRACY LEGAL : : Executives of Microsoft, IBM and Unisys are protesting a recent : Argentine Supreme Court decision ruling that antiquated copyright : laws don't cover computer software. Software makers point out that : royalties aren't paid on about 70% of the software sold in : Argentina, resulting in roughly $165 million in revenue losses : annually. A recent study by Price Waterhouse & Co. indicates the : biggest abusers are Argentine federal and local government agencies : and small private businesses. "There's no culture in Argentina of : assigning value to software," says a Unisys unit president. (Wall : Street Journal 6 Feb 98) I like best Mark Grant's comment on why copyright should be scrapped: it is a form of government subsidy. Adam

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Computer design flaw opens airports to terrorism
by William Knowles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NEW YORK (Reuters) [2.9.98] - The computer security systems that control access to 40 airports worldwide through electronic badges have a design flaw that could make them vulnerable to terrorism, the New York Times reported Sunday. California computer security consulting firm, MSB Associates, found the flaw in December in a routine audit of a large California financial services software company, the identity of which was not disclosed, according to the newspaper. Government buildings, including that of the CIA, and prisons and industries with sensitive military, drug or financial information or material also use the system and are also vulnerable to attack, the Times report said. American and British aviation officials have notified airports of the flaw, the Times said. The system, introduced several years ago by a small company, Receptors, Inc., of Torrance, CA., relies on a secure, isolated computer in a guarded room to control door-locks and an inventory of electronic badges, the Times reported. The company found, however, that in some cases an individual could dial in to the computer and create security badges and unlock doors. Receptors' equipment was removed from the House of Representatives after the Inspector General found that 757 former employees appeared on the rolls of active employees and had working badges that would have allowed them access to the House buildings, the Times said. Receptors' chief operating officer Dale Williams said that the problem is not with the system but with the way it was installed in some cases. Some systems were connected to networks instead of being accessible only by a modem that would only be turned on when a Receptor employee performed maintenance, Williams told the Times. Testing the system, MSB found that the problem persisted as late as last week in the company they audited, the Times said. MSB created a fictitious employee, Millard Fillmore, which the company spotted on its rolls and removed. However, even after he was removed, the faux former president was still able to gain access to the company buildings, meaning any dismissed employee would have the same access, the Times said. == The information standard is more draconian than the gold standard, because the government has lost control of the marketplace. -- Walter Wriston == http://www.dis.org/erehwon/

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[test - ignore]
by BMM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ping

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fingerprinting
by D'jinnie 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Immigration & Naturalization Department has been fingerprinting ppl for years. Does anyone have any ideas what agencies that information is shared with and what they need it for anyway? And what's with that new thumbprint thing in banks? I haven't had occasion to refuse it yet but I wonder if they'd open an account without it... --- Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. jinn(a)inetnebr.com

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Re: Driver Licenses
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 2/9/98 12:25 PM, Tim May (tcmay(a)got.net) passed this wisdom: >Lucky is right that that "underage stings" are on the increase. >Underage persons, often in high school, beome self-righteour >warriors in the War On Demon Rum, and "narc out" their local >shopkeepers. As I write this there are advertisements up in the halls at the HS (obviously with school blessings) where I teach (a few miles east of Burlington, VT) specifically soliciting 17 year olds to work for a private company under contract to the state to 'test buy' tobacco products. I haven't heard about any takers yet nor anything backfiring. >Hey, it would serve these junior narcs right if, upon being carded >and being shown to be underage, a store owner made a citizen's >arrest. Perhaps putting the perp in the back freezer for a few >hours would send a message. I wonder, though, how long it would go on if some shopkeeper indeed did this? But, is it a crime to try to buy booze or tobacco underage, if you do not try to show fraudulent indentification? Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "He's not dead -- He's electroencephalographically challenged."

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by nobody＠nowhere.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: TEMPEST > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 21:07:22 +0000 > From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > Things are somewhat more complicated and I am not convinced that > the e-beam is the primary source of radiation. Only of the individual pixel modulations. Go back and re-read my post you missed a whole slew of implications. The vertical and horizontal positioning is via the yoke not the screen grid. Electrostatic steering of an e-beam is expensive and slow, you can't change the charge on the plates that fast. In regards the data for the individual scan lines, where else are you going to modulate that beam than a screen grid? This is a high-voltage low-current point. You can't drive the beam off the screen, the inside of the tube is coated in a carbon based chemical called 'aquadag' that will short the beam to ground and blow your flyback transformer in short order. Not to mention that the inertia of the e-beam will be a bit of a hassle to deal with as well. It won't move that fast. > Your claim that > the Tempest radiation is modulated by the screen grid does not agree with > my practical experience: All signals I get are close to harmonics of > the dot clock and not of the screen grid rate. The screen grid is where the dot clock goes to modulate the e-beam, or is your claim we're going to modulate the filament directly? If so I would suggest you re-take your electronics class and learn how to read a schematic a tad better. A short trip to either your local library or electronics repair business will pay off wonders. You're looking for a Sam's Photo-Facts on the particular monitor you are examining. There is also the fact that the dot clock itself is a low-voltage low-current device until it gets to the tube drive electronics where it switches the high voltage drivers to the tube. If your getting your signal off the harmonics you're doing it the hard way. Go back and re-read your texts on Fourier Transforms and then do a power-spectrum analysis on the signals to the tube; what you will find is that the primary frequencies get the majority of the signal (eg 1st harmonic of a square wave (ie a dot clock) only gets, at best, 1/3 of the energy of the primary). In any case, it's the high voltage emissions of the tube drive electronics that are detected, not the small 5V to 12V drive signals. The same is true for LCD, Plasma, and other flat panel displays. You detect the high-voltage emissions of the display drive electronics. Note that on active transistor displays (where you don't have the high voltage bias as in a LCD) you don't get these sorts of emission magnitudes and they are *much* harder to detect. In addition in the active transistor displays the display drive electronics should buffer the data and so, unlike a CRT, you don't have to send each individual pixel every time. You can actualy send only the changes and impliment those. Unless you're integrating the signals you receive your Tempest display will be gibberish. > In addition, the > Tempest monitor cannot distinguish between an all-black and an all-white > image, which it should in the case of a screen-grid caused modulation. What? This is malarky. If the screen is black the filament emissions are being blocked by the screen grid and the charge cloud gets shunted to ground via the aquadag coating. This means there is no current, and as a consequence no emitted rf field to monitor. And what keeps it from blowing the flyback in this case is that the charge cloud acts as a capacitor and limits the dv/dt to something that the flyback can deal with, it has to leak past the screen grid. You can also discern this using Tempest to monitor NTSC where the black pulse is a negative going pulse at the end of the scanline waveform. It's there so the receiver electronics can know when to turn the e-beam off so you don't get those annoying retrace lines across your screen when it moved back to the left and down one line. Since it's a negative going pulse with respect to the vertical and horizontal retrace it's dv/dt is going in the opposite direction. If you get a schematic find the horizontal retrace clock and disable it and monitor the display. > If there is indeed a screen-grid modulation, then it is *much* weaker > than any modulation that you get by software dithering. This is just plain silly. The switching of the software is drowned in a sea of such noise on the board. Anyone who claims they can pull a valid signal off a cpu pcb at more than a few feet is a liar or else they have some pretty remarkable extra-terrestrial technology. There are litteraly 10's of thousands of state transitions all over the pcb that are going on in parallel and the positive transition fields cancel the negative transition fields so what you end up with is a hash of noise. 30 seconds of looking at a spectrum analyzer will make this obvious. In modern computers what drives the crt is the data residing in the video frame buffer that drives the output electronics on the card and not the data on the cpu pcb. > Monitors are pretty strange antennas: For instance, my monitor still > radiates quite well (although noticeably weaker) if I switch its power > supply off. It can take as much as 20 minutes to drain a good high-voltage supply (read the documents of all power supplies that operate above a couple hundred volts, it should include the discharge time constant - you want to wait through at least 3 of those). There is also the issue that a crt tube sitting unconnected in the open dry air will develop enough of a charge to knock the shit out of you if you're silly enough to grab the grounding connection on the side with one hand and be grounded to earth with the other. So even if the machine is turned off you get a continous charge build up on the tube that gets drained through various resistors to ground. Unfortunately this is a pretty incoherent signal and low power as well. I routinely deal with voltages in the 1MV range and currents (usualy not at those voltages) in the 100A range (I build 12 ft. Tesla Coils for grins and giggles that throw discharges in the 8-12 ft. range). When you start talking about voltages above a few hundred there isn't any such thing as 'off', only a higher impedance path to ground and longer time constants. NOTE: if you do decide to play in your monitor then make shure that one of your hands is in your back pocket at *ALL* times. Otherwise make shure there is somebody there to call 911 so they can haul your body off. If you don't the discharge leakage current through your heart *when* you make a mistake will cause it to go into ventricular fibrillation (v-fib). Unless you got a de-fibrillator handy your dead in about 3 minutes. > Just the passive resonance of the chassis gives a clear > signal in around a meter radius with a simple untuned dipole antenna. If they get within a meter of my machine I seriously doubt they will be using VanEck but rather rubber hose or eye ball monitoring... We're talking real world here not some Tom Clancy novel. > Switching off a monitor alone does not protect you from eavesdropping > a VDU signal, especially if the signal is not just text but a pattern > optimized for reception. True, but instead of being within a couple hundred feet (the average succesful range for interception) you're now talking about 10's of feet. At that range my dogs barking will let me know that Mallet is in the house. > After I unplug the VGA cable however, I can't pick up any signal with > our Tempest receiver unless I bring the antenna almost in contact with > the cable or connector. Duh, can you say 'impedance'....go back and study your analog and rf electronics. A monitors off impedance per line is somewhere in the 50 to 75 ohms range. The impedance of a wire hanging in the air is much higher and as a consequence the current flow and as a result the emitted em field will be much lower. > The closed PC chassis also appears to be no very > big source of VDU emanations, certainly much below the levels that > our receiver can detect. And this surprises you? A pc chassis, provided you put all the screws in it and don't have lots of holes in it, is a Faraday Cage, it's the reason they make them out of expensive metal and not cheaper plastic. A very effective method to confuse Van Eck is to have several monitors sitting next to each other with different displays. A more active display is much more effective than one that is static (eg. such as a person typing in an email to cypherpunks). I strongly suggest the following reference: High-speed Digital Design: a handbook of black magic H.W. Johnson, M. Graham ISBN 0-13-395724-1 ~$60 US ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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E-CDA
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Congressional Record: February 5, 1998 (House) ELECTRONIC CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE ACT (Mr. WHITE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) Mr. WHITE. Madam Speaker, in March we are going to vote on campaign finance reform in this House. It is a very important issue but also a very difficult issue, and it is made particularly difficult because most of the bills before us are big bills that deal with the whole comprehensive issue that we have to talk about. I have got one of those bills, and I hope that we can pass one. But just in case we cannot, today I am introducing what we might call a small bill that will deal at least with some of the problems. This bill is called the Electronic Campaign Disclosure Act, and what it does is tell the Federal Elections Commission to get into the 21st century. It directs the FEC to establish a database on-line to search over the Internet for all the information needed about campaign finances in our country. Every campaign would have to file within 10 days a report of every contribution that it receives and contributors, and PACs would also have to file. Madam Speaker, sometimes we cannot do it all in one step. The longest journey begins with a single step, and I think if we cannot pass a big bill a small bill like the one I am introducing today would be a step in the right direction. ____________________

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Driver Licenses
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Recently had to renew my DL here in Florida. While we are not forced to give up our fingerprints (yet)we have a new little magnetic strip similar to those on a credit card or ATM card and I can see this as a way for the State to start holding more and more data about us on these I.D.'s (like fingerprints, criminal records, etc... Coincidentally, that day when I went into my grocery store to get a six pack of brew, I got carded. I handed my new little card over and the teller and rather than looking at my date of birth she started to swipe the damn thing through her credit card reader machine! I stopped her, grabbed my DL back and told her to manually enter the date as they have always done. When she explained that it is against store policy and that she 'had' to swipe any IDs that had the strip I got my keys outta my pocket and all but removed the strip from the back of my little nemesis. Handed it back to her and told her to swipe away; it is against MY policy to provide ! ! ! the store with my address. I don't want any damn pepsi coupons mailed to me each time I buy coke, or northern tissue coupons when I buy charmin. Nor do I want the store collecting information on how much beer I buy. Sure, I want my alchohol purchases going to the Dept of Motor Vehicles and the other State departments...like hell. My question is, how much information can be stored on these strips?

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Re: SOFT TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: SOFT TEMPEST > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 16:44:52 +0000 > From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > The software that displays the license number plus activation instance > random code in your windows toolbar as an easy receivable spread > spectrum barcode would have to take care of this depending on how > exactly your license agreement is formulated. This can be resolved > in many ways. Has your technique been verified by any 3rd parties who are not affiliated with you or your firm? Do you expect to do any public demonstrations of this technology in the near future? Would it be possible to arrange for a indipendant 3rd party to receive a test setup for evaluation? > The technique of hunting software license violators via Tempest > monitoring is not really targeted at providing 100% accurate > and reliable identification of abuse at any point of time as That's good. The thought that given current technology a signal reception van could pull one monitors display out of a building that could potentialy have 1,000+ pc's (my last job had about 1500/floor and 3 floors) at a range of say 200 ft. is truly incomprehensible. If it works that is a feat worth many laurels. > (e.g., has bought a single copy of an expensive CAD software but > uses it on over 80 workstations all day long), which then can > justify to get court relevant proof by traditional means of > police investigation. You show up in my companies parking lot without my permission and start snooping you'll be the one sitting in jail facing industrial espionage charges. Any defence lawyer worth a damn would be able to blow this out of the water, private citizens don't have the right to invade my privacy any more than police without a warrant - and that take probable cause. > One obvious countermeasure are Tempest shielded computers or rooms, It's the monitors that need shielded, the computers already sit in a Faraday cage. Simple copper screen glued to the inside of the monitor case with a paper sheild and then grounded will resolve that problem. Be shure to put a grounded screen on the front of the tube as well (similar to those radiation shields that some companies make that don't work because they aren't grounded). > Another countermeasure are software reverse-engineering and modifying > the broadcast code. This is around as difficult as removing dongle > checking code: Not impossible, but for the majority of users too > inconvenient. A simple Gunn Diode oscillator driving a broad-band 100W rf amplifier will swamp any signal you could hope to catch. Cost, about $250 ea. With the new low-power transmitter rulings there wouldn't be much anyone could do about it either. > an interesting application. Tempest research requires some > expensive equipment (special antennas, very high-speed DSP > experimental systems, an absorber room, etc.). Gee, and to think that when I've done this sort of stuff I only used a Commodore 1702 composite monitor and some rf amplifiers and filters... Duh, silly me. Any claim that it can *only* be done with lots of money is almost always wrong. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Washington on the verge of being nuked?
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

David Honig <honig(a)otc.net> writes: > > > LA has a combination of closed pipes and open aqueducts, often > in remote areas. Simple disruption, not poisoning, would > be easier. The resivoirs don't hold enough for more > than a few days. One can "disrupt" the water supply by just making a credible assertion that it's been poisoned - but it won't kill nearly as many people as actual poison (or virus/bacteria). --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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