December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Certification
by Rabid Wombat 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You seem to have spammed the wrong mailing list. Most of us do not want to become certified sales / marketing droids, although we occaisonally keep them around the office as pets. On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 sales&marketingproz(a)diku.dk wrote: > > > "From: Steve Camfield, SME Board of Directors > > > It is my privilege to formally invite you to become certified in sales or marketing > management. Certification sends a clear message to your customers and colleagues > that you are a true professional and have surpassed the highest standards of education, > experience, and knowledge. > > For your convenience, I have placed full certification details and answers to questions > you may have at www.selling.org (see Certification). > > > ------------------------- > SME is the non-profit worldwide association of sales and marketing management. > Your address was provided to us by one of our chapters based on meeting attendance, > inquiry, or suggestion by a local SME chapter board member but you may ensure removal > by pressing the "Remove" option at the bottom of www.selling.org. > >

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17 Dec '03

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Poll shows Bill G. popular & MS monopoly supported [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > POLL SHOWS BILL GATES' POPULARITY GROWING > > Gates poll graphic January 23, 1998 > Web posted at: 1:58 p.m. EST (1858 GMT) > > (CNN) -- The popularity of Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates among > Americans is growing, according to a CNN/Time magazine poll, and > almost half of the computer users interviewed favor having the > company become the dominant provider of Internet services. [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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Sucking Sound...
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: How to eliminate liability?
by John M 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill, Thanks for your response. Such a simple idea, I kinda figgered (was hoping) that it was already thought of, but I hadn't heard of it. I have been meaning to buy Schneier's book... One of my points, however, is that if the division of the encrypted information is done properly, even if the private key were deduced by whatever means, all they would find is (for instance) the high order bits and some ECC, but nothing that could be used to regenerate any meaningful information without the other parts. Because of this, I have been asking myself, how could any one datahaven operator be held responsible for holding classified, porn, or other information if they only have a meaningless slice of it? Perhaps this is more a legal question (even more out of my league) than anything... Any comments? >Secret Sharing is easy, and there are a number of implementations with >useful properties like being able to read the original from K of N parts.* >The problem is how to implement it in ways that protect the server >operators as well as the information providers. For instance, >the author's client software can do the split and send the shares too >different servers, and make sure the readers know how to find the pieces; >this can even be automated enough to make it convenient. >This not only makes it hard for the Bad Guys to find the pieces, >it makes it impossible for the data haven provider to know what's >being stored there, and even if the site is siezed it doesn't give up >the critical information. This is a Good Thing, and we've discussed it. > >On the other hand, what happens if a Bad Guy wants to entrap the operator, >by planting child pornography, pirated software, and TOP SECRET data >in the data haven, advertising on Usenet and then calling the cops. >Anybody, including the cops, can retrieve the contraband and bust them. >So what are the alternatives, besides obviously encrypting your disks >so it's harder to determine what's on them besides the plant, >and the ever popular "don't let them find your physical location"? >Perhaps the data haven can do the split and farm the data out to >other data havens - but how do they know the data they're receiving >is really a slice of contraband data instead of Yet Another Plant? >It gets pretty convoluted. > >[* You can read about secret sharing in Schneier. ] > Thanks! > Bill >Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com >PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639 > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Group works on way to make Net payments work.
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: William Knowles <erehwon(a)dis.org> To: DCSB <dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu> Subject: Group works on way to make Net payments work. Organization: Home for retired social engineers & unrepented cryptophreaks MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: William Knowles <erehwon(a)dis.org> SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - Someone out there is actually worried that you might end up with a desktop littered with different digital wallets or that you might not get a receipt for your pay-per-view time visiting an X-rated site. In fact, a group of 30 electronic payment companies are working on a protocol that would ensure that all digital wallets and cybercash registers will know how to talk to each other and issue the proper digital "paper trails." Spearheaded by ecash pioneer, Mondex International, the group is working on an way to make a single digital wallet on the desktop to interact with the payment systems designed by everyone from CyberCash to AT&T to Wells Fargo Bank. By using XML (extended markup language), the protocol is designed to ensure interoperability among the software used by buyers, sellers, and financial institutions to carry out online transactions. The open trading protocol hasn't gotten half the attention that SET, the secure electronic transaction protocol, has. And, at first glance, its job may not seem as crucial since it's not about guaranteeing the security of transactions. But those aboard the new protocol-defining body say their system of compatible operations is key to getting consumers to really embrace e-commerce. "Imagine if you've got an IBM wallet, a Microsoft wallet, and a VeriFone wallet," suggested Mondex International development co-director, David Burdett. "Unless you have some standard way in which these wallets can communicate with each other and with merchants, you aren't going to end up with interoperability and the consumer's going to have to have lots of different wallets on the PC." The goal of the open trading protocol is to make transparent the traditional steps in a transaction: the offer for sale, agreement to purchase, generation of receipt, and attendant paper trail. And to make it all happen with no more than a click of the buyer's mouse. "(The open trading protocol) is trying to replicate in the virtual world what people have in the real world: things like invoices, making payments, getting receipts and delivery of goods," said Burdett. And to guarantee that you can have real-world accountability, even for virtual purchases. "If you're only getting delivery of virtual goods over the Net, such as software or entertainment content that you pay for, there's no physical delivery at all; but you still want a receipt and all the other normal aspects of a transaction," Burdett said. A preliminary version of the proposed common language was posted early this month to the OTP Web site, by the 30-member consortium, which includes CyberCash, DigiCash, IBM, MasterCard, Mondex, Netscape, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, VeriFone, and Wells Fargo Bank. Conspicuously absent from the coalition are Visa International, which reportedly declined to join the coalition when invited by Mondex, and Microsoft, which apparently opted out of the group's plan because it is busy developing an alternate standard called the Value Chain Initiative. Still, Microsoft's absence isn't expected to thwart widespread adoption of the protocol. "There's a lot of flexibility with these protocols," said Zona Research analyst Vernon Keenan, who pointed out that the group protocol and Microsoft's version are not necessarily mutually exclusive. "The key factor to determine adoption is whether ... the major commerce server players incorporate these protocols." And it seems at least several will, since they've already joined the ranks of open trading protocol proponents. -- 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/ For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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Re: Physical Meet: Saturday Feb. 14? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > > I would like to set the Feb. physical meeting for Saturday the 14th at the > > normal 6-7pm time. > > > > An alternate would be the following 21'st. > > > > Any major objections to the 14th? Suggestions on location? > > Let's shoot for the 21st. My wife will kill me if I try to leave > the house on the 14th. :-) Any other suggestions? I personaly don't care so unless somebody else speaks up before Sunday I'll go ahead and set it for the 21st and begin to make the announcements on the cypherpunks mailing list. Who wants to make the usenet round? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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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GoLive CyberStudio2
by John W. Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Internal Affairs: Looking for Lewinsky, from Netly News (fwd)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:41:04 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Internal Affairs: Looking for Lewinsky, from Netly News ******* http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1708,00.html The Netly News (http://netlynews.com/) January 23, 1998 Internal Affairs: Looking for Lewinsky by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) Call it the year the Internet brought down a president. If President Clinton just can't shake this week's accusation of peripatetic philandering, let's give the Net some credit. First, we must acknowledge Matt Drudge, the online rumormonger who finally exacted his revenge on Clinton for supporting Blumenthal v. Drudge, a lawsuit with a million-dollar price tag. When Newsweek spiked an expos of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, it was Drudge who spread the rumor across the Net and throughout the media on Saturday, January 17. [...] Of course, until yesterday, Clinton's impeachment seemed about as far-fetched a possibility as our unearthing one of Lewinsky's close friends on Usenet -- which is exactly what The Netly News was dispatched to do. Every time there's a major news event, our intrepid Internet team is called forth to scour DejaNews, troll IRC and mass-mail anyone who might possibly divulge information on the given subject. The Lewinsky search was less revealing than most. We found the former White House intern's annual salary; her home address in Portland, Ore.; the amount she and her mother donated to Democratic campaigns ($1,550 in 1996). Someone informed us, in all seriousness, that Lewinsky once gave him a goldfish. We also had people ask us if we'd pay them for information. (Fat chance.) [...]

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IETF S/MIME to follow PGP in building in GAK?
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You may recall the furor generated by PGP Inc adding a GAK enabling feature thus making it easier for governments to impose GAK on the deployed PGP 5.x user base. PGP Inc called this feature CMR (Corporate Message Recovery) or ARR (Additional Recipient Request). Over on IETF S/MIME, right now there is a thread which looks set to add an almost identifical feature to S/MIME (spooky how similar the feature is even). Most of the regular contributors on S/MIME work for GAK sell out companies anyway, so I figure this is pretty much a done deal. (S/MIME already has another form of GAK also, in that the X.509 key directory specs allow the directory to optionally keep _private_ keys also). I think the ARR mechanism is actually more dangerous than keeping locally escrowed copies of keys in PGP because of the web of trust model. (See: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/cdr/ for my thoughts on this). In the S/MIME world where there is a more hierarchical approach to Certification, you can expect government run CAs which demand a copy of your private key also. (eg. the UK DTI document on crypto licensing proposals was talking about this method). For S/MIME, S/MIME style ARR seems fairly balanced in lethality to CAs which keep private keys. I wonder if Phil Zimmermann feels proud of himself now that S/MIME looks like it will adopt his CAK/GAKware design. You might be amused at this introductory remark from the proposer on S/MIME IETF: : As a side note, this is not a radically new concept as something very : similar has already been proposed and implemented by PGP. : : Flames welcome. The guy's proposal below. It was well received too. Someone else proposed adding it in as a core MUST S/MIME requirement to handle these additional recipient requests. (You can follow the thread on the hypertext archive at www.imc.org (look for IETF S/MIME mailing list, or by subscribing to ietf-smime(a)imc.org) Adam ====================================================================== Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:07:01 -0700 From: "Steve Russell" <steve.russell(a)worldtalk.com> Subject: Corporate Key mechanism To: <ietf-smime(a)imc.org> A new and somewhat radical thread.... Because I believe the following to be true: - Requiring key recovery is a bad thing (complexity, cost, implementation, etc.) - Companies do have a need to access mail encrypted to or encrypted by their employees (lost keys, legal investigations, etc) - We are all working on methods of satisfying US export requirements so that we can export a cryptographically useful product - The is a middle step between full key recovery and no hope of recovery which involves encrypting messages to a 'corporate key' in addition to a individual public key when sending a message. Basically, what is involved is changing the user certificate format to designate a field for a second certificate which represents the corporate public key appropriate for that user. An application intending to encrypt mail to that user MUST then encrypt the message to both the user key and the corporate key. By no means am I implying that everyone that implements S/MIME leave a back door into all of their messages. However, since most companies that are implementing secure messaging are setting up their own CA (Entrust, OnSite, Netscape, etc.) and they have control over what fields are populated and with what information, they are able to choose whether or not they need visibility into their own data. As a side note, this is not a radically new concept as something very similar has already been proposed and implemented by PGP. Flames welcome. Steve

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cryptix java AES effort
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard, a NIST standardisation process ongoing at present to select a replacement encryption algorithm for DES. Algorithm submissions were requested by NIST from any interested parties.) AES requires submitters to include reference java implementations. Systemics provides a BSD licensed (free for commercial and non-commercial use) java crypto library called cryptix. Cryptix has an IJCE interface which means that it integrates with other java crypto apps as a standard java cryptographic service class. http://www.systemics.com Systemics are interested to add AES candidate algorithms to cryptix, and are offering to provide the java implementation to any AES algorithm submitters, see: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/I.Brown/cryptix/aes/AES_crypt.html Systemics also are interested in encouraging programmers to join in this effort: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/I.Brown/cryptix/aes/AES_prog.html Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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URL for S/MIME CAK discussions
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wrote: > (You can follow the thread on the hypertext archive at www.imc.org > (look for IETF S/MIME mailing list, or by subscribing to > ietf-smime(a)imc.org) The discussions on S/MIME CAK/GAK implementations start with: http://www.imc.org/ietf-smime/mail-archive/1038.html Adam

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Disney.com Registration Notification
by guest_mail＠online.disney.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Parent -- We at Disney.com wanted to let you know that a guest has registered at our Web site as your child. We welcome guests of all ages, and it is our policy to let parents and guardians know when children under 16 send us personal information. This message is only a confirmation -- it does not require a reply if you grant your child permission to be registered at Disney.com. If you'd like to cancel that Registration, please see the instructions below. Here's what we received when your child registered: Your child's first name: cypherpunks Your child's last name: cypherpunks Child's e-mail address: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com Parent's e-mail address: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com Your child's year of birth: 1990 Child's Disney.com Registration Name: cypherpunks You might want to ask what your child's Password is and make a note of it. If you or your child lose or forget the Disney.com Registration Name and/or Password, you can retrieve them using the special, easy-to-remember "code word" your child also selected upon registering. If your child wins prizes at Disney.com, you will receive them on his or her behalf. If you'd like to cancel your child's Disney.com Registration, please follow these simple steps: 1. Click the "Reply" button on your e-mail application. 2. Make sure your reply contains the text of this message (including your child's name, e-mail address, and Registration Name). 3. Type "Unsubscribe my child" in the "Subject" area at the top of your message, and send the message back to us. That's it! We welcome you and your child to Disney.com, the best place to find out what's new from Disney! -- Your friends at Disney.com (c) Disney

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Re: Why no "Banner Ad Eaters"?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >Yeah, I'm surprised that "banner ad eaters" have not been widely deployed. >(If they're available, I haven't about them.) Something to remove the >annoying banners, or stop them from wasting valuable time loading in the >first place. Tim, I'm surprised. WebFree for the Macintosh does this very thing. It matches on URL substrings and simply removes these things wholesale from your browser window. No broken image boxes, nothing. It also kills cookies and stops animated GIFs from leaking through, if you want to nuke either of those things. The URL is: http://www.falken.net/webfree/ Junkbusters (http://www.junkbusters.com/) offers a personal proxy server kind of thing that lets you mash just about everything: HTTP headers, user agent info, referer URL, cookies, etc. It runs on either NT or Unix variants. One could also use it to get around a firewall configured to reject non-standard browsers, but That Would Be Wrong, as Nixon once said. It lets you specify which sites or substrings to look for, and which ones you trust. It also does proxy chaining. Ratbert ratbert at nym dot alias dot net

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Jay Leno on Clinton 1/23/98
by David Miller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tonight in Leno's monologue they did a piece on the eriee similarities between Nixon and Clinton: NIXON: Was known for the campaign slogan "Nixon's the One!" CLINTON: Known by the phrase "That's the Guy!" NIXON: Was known for his "widows peak" CLINTON: Known to make widows peak NIXON: Took on Ho Chi Minh CLINTON: Took on Ho NIXON: Was familiar with G. Gordon Liddy CLINTON: Familiar with the G-spot NIXON: Wanted "Peace with Honor" CLINTON: Wanted "Piece while on her" --David Miller middle rival devil rim lad

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by Gortega＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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2 sides to the poll on DOJ v. M$
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- let's look at the tail of the Reuters newsclip on M$ settling the immediate contempt action --a settlement most of the outside experts say gives the government an advantage in the final determination. what I dont like is that M$ scored a huge PR victory by caving in to the government --it had no choice, but many of the fence sitters are now going to state that M$ is "reforming" --which is pure bullshit; they are playing the Lenin-Stalin game of dealmaking so they can regroup and work around it, then blatantly violate it after they have sufficient strength. I like the comment Maureen quoted the 21st from one attorney who liked M$ to smallpox --"...stamp it out, ...or it will come back." But a poll issued Friday cast doubt on how far the public backs the government's scrutiny of Microsoft. A Time/CNN survey of 1,020 adults Jan. 14-15 found 46 percent thought Microsoft's dominant role in the software industry was good for consumers against 30 percent who thought it was bad. I am surprised they determined only 46% thought it was good as it has made for cheap, almost good enough, and ubiquitous software --if you dont mind settling for mediocrity with most innovations products M$ has either preempted or stolen. what is really surprising is that there really were 30% who acknowledged the danger of M$ as a monopoly! people vote for government with their wallets --voting for "cheaper" commerce-- even more so. Americans are not known for their discriminating choice of products based on quality and function --they almost always settle for "almost good enough" and cheap. secondly, they are truly "sheeple" and must have what everybody else has which is a market driven by positive feedback --in analog amplifiers, that often causes smokeouts-- and controlled are commonly referred to as oscillators. The same poll found 51 percent thought the government should refrain from steps to reduce Microsoft's advantage over other software companies vs. 32 percent who thought the government should intervene. this one is also very telling. the 51% is peanuts against the fact that 30% actually believe the government should intervene! --that is even more impressive considering that most Americans want government to do less and trust federal agencies even less. for something as complicated as antitrust actions, I find the 32% proactive intervention percentage rather warm and fuzzy in that there is a real understanding that M$ is a malignant cancer, and needs to be treated as such. M$ made a serious mistake treating the judge, the DOJ, and the American people with the contempt they have always treated their competitors. gone are the home grown 'aw shucks' appreciation of the American success story --Gate$ and crew have been shown to be the selfish 4 year old brats we in the industry have all learned to "love".... the only danger of this recent poll is that M$ spin doctors will show it as a victory --it's not. 30+% that want to curtail your power is not a victory --the percentage changed from a few hundred or a thousand of in the industry who feel Gate$ has long since passed the acceptable level of control to greater than 30% of the population-- _that_ is significant. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNMmLfbR8UA6T6u61AQH4HQH/TIjc9GJhrJdcPvXtQ1A9CNVRk9zQdCRH YHR5X0OGgEWN+U5cLnMRvEGbhoLiKDRHTklsE7vKmsGSBZc7MwAd0A== =uPBW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Tossing your cookies [Re: Why no "Banner Ad Eaters"?]
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 1/25/98 12:16 PM, Jim Gillogly (jim(a)acm.org) passed this wisdom: >Heinz-Juergen Keller skribis: >> Just a silly? question on cookies: >> What will happen if I just link cookies.txt to /dev/null ? >> Is there anything speaking against this solution? > >Works fine on Unix and Linux systems if you're not a cookie fan: >the remote sites think you've eaten their cookies, but you've >merely frisbeed them into the bit bin. > >It's better than telling Netscape you want to be asked: some >sites set a dozen cookies per hit, seems like, and saying "no" >to each gets immediately tedious. If you tell Netscape to reject >them, some sites won't serve you the content. Setting the browser >to accept everything and linking cookies.txt to /dev/null works >well for me. On a Mac you can erase the cookies file and then create a folder by the same name in its place ... Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with in the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy." -- Gassee - Apple Logo

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Executing Kaczynski
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The more important silence is about the instant sentencing of the >Unabomber compared to Jim Bell's sentencing. What _is_ happening with >Jim? Kaczynski was not sentenced immediately - but the crimes he plead guilty to and the legal posture of the prosecution (e.g., the withdrawn notice of intent to seek the death penalty) make his sentence a foregone conclusion. He is still, however, subject to the same pre-sentencing rigamarole that Jim was; see, for example, this excerpt from the transcripts of the court proceeding on 1/22 - (at <http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/unabomb/transcripts/9801/012298.txt>). 9THE COURT: Okay. There will be a special assessment of 10 $650 imposed for your guilty plea pursuant to federal law. 11Mr. Kaczynski, do you understand those possible 12 consequences of your plea? 13THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor. 14THE COURT: Under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the 15 United States Sentencing Commission has issued guidelines for 16 judges to follow in determining the sentence in a criminal 17 case. Have you and your attorneys talked about how the 18 Sentencing Commission guidelines might apply to your case? 19(Discussion off the record between the defendant, 20 Ms. Clarke and Mr. Denvir.) 21THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor. 22THE COURT: Do you understand that the Court will not be 23 able to determine the guideline sentence for your case until 24 after the pre-sentence report has been completed and your 25 attorney and the Government have had an opportunity to object SUSAN VAUGHAN, CSR No. 9673 -- (916) 446-1347 3810 1 to any of the findings in that report? 2THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor. 3THE COURT: Do you understand that after it has been 4 determined what guideline applies to a case, the judge has the 5 authority in some circumstances to impose a sentence that is 6 more severe or less severe than the sentence called for by the 7 guidelines? 8THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor. 9THE COURT: How about the question of appeal? Has that 10 been waived? 11MR. LAPHAM: Yes, Your Honor. It's contained at page 7, 12 beginning at line 16. 13THE COURT: Okay. Do you understand that by entering 14 into the plea agreement you have entered with the Government, 15 you will have waived or given up your right to appeal all or 16 any part of your plea of guilty and anything else that occurs 17 during this conviction hearing and anything that occurs during 18 your sentencing hearing? 19THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor. 20THE COURT: Do you understand that parole has been 21 abolished and that if you plead guilty, you will spend the 22 rest of your life in prison and you will never be released or 23 paroled? 24THE DEFENDANT: I understand that, Your Honor. 25THE COURT: Do you understand that if the sentence is SUSAN VAUGHAN, CSR No. 9673 -- (916) 446-1347 3811 1 more severe than you expected, you will still be bound by your 2 plea and will have no right to withdraw it? 3THE DEFENDANT: I understand it, Your Honor. 4THE COURT: Do you understand that if I do not accept 5 the sentencing recommendation in your plea agreement, you will 6 still be bound by your plea and will have no right to withdraw 7 it? 8THE DEFENDANT: I understand that, Your Honor. [...] -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | Export jobs, not crypto. http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | http://www.parrhesia.com

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Update on New Zealand crypto policy
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As part of my recent effort to prepare a useful home page after 2 years of having instead a mini text adventure, I've finally got around to finishing off the web page containing the recent history of, and current state of, New Zealands crypto export policy as decided by several intelligence agencies and a supporting cast of bungling bureaucrats. This policy has resulted in New Zealand enjoying the dubious distinction of having the strictest export controls on earth, with everything ranging from crypto hardware down to software, library books, computer magazines, and journals being restricted from export. It's not even possible for a university to publish academic research without prior permission from a government agency, and the requirements for obtaining this permission are structured to ensure that they can never be fulfilled. You can find the information on: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/policy/ The page also contains links to a sizeable collection of never-before- published documents including correspondence with relevant government agencies, and media reports on the situation. If you're going to send me mail about this, please note that I'll be at Usenix in San Antonio for the next week, so it'll take awhile for me to reply. My PGP key's at the bottom of my home page if you need it. Peter.

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Announcement: RPK InvisiMail released on 12 Jan, 1998
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text From: RPK New Zealand Ltd <info(a)rpkusa.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:24:28 Subject: Announcement: RPK InvisiMail released on 12 Jan, 1998 You have received this message because at some time during the past two years you have requested to be put on the RPK New Zealand Ltd. company mailing list. (We're the Fast Public Key Encryption company). If you wish to be removed from the list, please forward this message to remove(a)rpkusa.com -------------------------------- RPK New Zealand Ltd. in a joint venture with Virtually Online Ltd. has released RPK InvisiMail, a standards-based e-mail security application for use with Internet mail software (SMTP/POP3). The product offers the strongest encryption available anywhere in the world. Since it was built outside the United States, it is also available all over the world with strong encryption. RPK InvisiMail is also the easiest product of its type to setup and use which makes it quite unique. You can learn more about this product by reading the press release below or by visiting the web site at www.InvisiMail.com. We are also offering FREE downloads of the RPK InvisiMail Intro product. Please give it a try and pass it along to anyone you like. -------------------------------- For Immediate Release Contact: Sal Cataldi, Cataldi PR +1 212.941.9464, scataldi(a)earthlink.net, www.InvisiMail.com RPK InvisiMail(tm), secure Internet e-mail with globally available strong encryption for Microsoft, Netscape platforms SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12, 1998 - InvisiMail Ltd (www.InvisiMail.com) announced today immediate worldwide availability of RPK(tm) InvisiMail(tm), a standards-based e-mail security add-in for Microsoft, Netscape and other POP3/SMTP Internet e-mail clients and gateway servers. Tested and certified by the International Computer Security Association (www.ncsa.com) RPK InvisiMail automatically and transparently encrypts e-mail messages and attachments, authenticates the sender and verifies the contents of each message have not been changed in transit. RPK InvisiMail is globally available with high strength encryption. InvisiMail and the underlying RPK encryption algorithm were developed outside the United States. Therefore, InvisiMail is not subject to restrictive U.S. export policies. RPK InvisiMail is as easy to set up and use as anti-virus software, and just as important. While Microsoft and Netscape battle each other with incompatible and difficult to use security offerings, InvisiMail seamlessly integrates with ALL popular POP3/SMTP e-mail products including Netscape, Microsoft, Eudora, Pegasus, Calypso -- more than any other solution available today -- making it the preferred e-mail security product for multi-platform use, worldwide. All InvisiMail users can send the FREE InvisiMail Intro version to anyone worldwide, providing compatibility without requiring others to purchase anything, making InvisiMail unique among e-mail security offerings. "Most people don't realize that their e-mail can be forged, altered or read by anyone, any time, without any evidence," said Jack Oswald, President and CEO of RPK Ltd. "Without products like RPK InvisiMail, communications on the Internet are untrustworthy." InvisiMail uses the RPK Fast Public Key Encryptonite(tm) Engine, the strongest cryptography available worldwide today. RPK is dramatically faster than the well-known RSA algorithm, yet just as secure. RPK has been analyzed by world class cryptographers who have issued reports on the security and integrity of the technology. "InvisiMail is the easiest, fastest, most transparent e-mail security product I have seen," said Kevin Shannon, President of net*Gain, a specialist in launching Internet companies. "This is the product we've all been waiting for." As part of its official launch, InvisiMail Professional is available FREE to all New Zealand residents for ninety days. RPK InvisiMail is available in two desktop versions: Intro (FREE) and Professional (introductory price $29.95). RPK InvisiMail Enterprise Gateway Server will be available Q2 1998. InvisiMail can be downloaded from: www.InvisiMail.com. All trademarks and registered trademarks are those of their respective companies. *** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Igor, Forwarded message: > Subject: Document destruction services > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 09:36:54 -0600 (CST) > From: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) > I have a box of confidential papers that I do not need. I would prefer not > to just throw them away, but to either shred or incinerate them. Due to > the sheer size of the box, it is not practical for me to buy and use a home > shredder. Would anyone have a suggestion as to what is the best way to > destroy them? Aer there any services that do it inexpensively? Ask one of your friends with a fireplace to help out. Just remember to stire the ashes when done. Otherwise it's possible using IR sensing to read the ink on larger pieces of the paper. A bar-b-q pit is also a very good means. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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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FCC sets new access rates - ISP's escape inter-state tariff - Congestion argument denied
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/access/fcc97158.html > Federal Communications Commission > navigation bar with links to FCC Homepage, Search, Commissioners, > Bureaus/Offices, and Finding Information > > HTML Format > > > FCC 97-158 > > First Report & Order In the Matter of > Access Charge Reform > Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers > Transport Rate Structure and Pricing > Usage of the Public Switched Network by Information Service and > Internet Access Providers > _________________________________________________________________ > > Text Version | WordPerfect Version | Acrobat Version | News Release | > Errata > > > > > Table of Contents > links to HTML files > > These files do not contain the changes specified in the 6/4/97 Errata! > > > TITLE PAGE > > I. Introduction 1 > A. Background 17 > > > 1. The Existing Rate System 17 > 2. Implicit Subsidies in the Existing System 28 > 3. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 32 > > > B. Access Charge Reform 35 > > > 1. Rationalizing the Rate Structure 36 > 2. Baseline Rate Level Reductions 42 > > > > II. Summary of Rate Structure Changes and Transitions 53 > A. Common Line Rate Structure Changes 54 > B. Other Rate Structure Changes 61 > > III. Rate Structure Modifications 67 > A. Common Line 67 > > > 1. Overview 67 > 2. Subscriber Line Charge 72 > 3. Carrier Common Line Charge 88 > 4. Common Line PCI Formula 106 > 5. Assessment of SLCs and PICCs on Derived Channels 111 > > > B. Local Switching 123 > > > 1. Non-Traffic Sensitive Charges 123 > 2. Traffic Sensitive Charges 136 > > > C. Transport 150 > > > 1. Entrance Facilities and Direct-Trunked Transport 152 > 2. Tandem-Switched Transport 158 > > > D. Transport Interconnection Charge (TIC) 210 > > > 1. Background 210 > 2. Discussion 212 > > > E. SS7 Signalling 244 > > > 1. Background 244 > 2. Discussion 252 > > > F. Impact of New Technologies 256 > > IV. Baseline Rate Levels 258 > A. Primary Reliance on a Market-Based Approach With A > Prescriptive Backdrop and the Adoption of Several Initial > Prescriptive Measures 258 > > > 1. Background 258 > 2. Discussion 262 > > > B. Prescriptive Approaches 285 > > > 1. Prescription of a New X-Factor 285 > 2. Rejection of Certain Prescriptive Approaches 287 > > > C. Equal Access Costs 299 > > > 1. Background 299 > 2. Discussion 302 > > > D. Correction of Improper Cost Allocations 315 > > > 1. Marketing Expenses 315 > 2. General Support Facilities 326 > > > > V. Access Reform For Incumbent Rate-of-Return Local Exchange Carriers > 329 > A. Background 329 > B. Discussion 330 > > VI. Other Issues 336 > A. Applicability of Part 69 to Unbundled Elements 336 > > > 1. Background 336 > 2. Discussion 337 > > > B. Treatment of Interstate Information Services 341 > > > 1. Background 341 > 2. Discussion 344 > > > C. Terminating Access 349 > > > 1. Price Cap Incumbent LECs 350 > 2. Non-Incumbent LECs 358 > 3. "Open End" Services 365 > > > D. Universal Service-Related Part 69 Changes 367 > > > 1. Background 368 > 2. Discussion 372 > > > E. Part 69 Allocation Rules 388 > > > 1. Background 388 > 2. Discussion 389 > > > F. Other Proposed Part 69 Changes 390 > > > 1. Background 390 > 2. Discussion 391 > > > > VII. Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 397 > A. PICCs for Special Access Lines 397 > > > 1. Background 398 > 2. Proposal 403 > > > B. General Support Facilities Costs 407 > > > 1. Background 408 > 2. Proposal 412 > > > > VIII. Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 419 > > IX. Procedural Issues 441 > > X. Ordering Clauses 459 > > Appendix A List of Commenters > > Appendix B Comment Summary > > Appendix C Final Rules > > STATEMENTS > Commissioner Quello > Commissioner Ness > Commissioner Chong > > > > > View/Download single-file HTML version of Entire Report > > > > > Pagination of the documents contained in these files may not match > that of the Official Paper Version when viewed or printed using your > system. > > > > navigation bar with links to FCC Homepage, Search, > Commissioners, Bureaus/Offices, and Finding Information > > > last updated 6/9/97 > ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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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