December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Perry's whining
by Ed Carp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why doesn't Perry just shut the hell up? I've got more important things to worry about than Perry's ignorant, fetid whining. Such as that CDA thing in the Telecommunications Bill. Anyone for suing Bill? -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp(a)linux.org, ecarp(a)netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp(a)netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744(a)anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring ---------------------------------------------------------------------- According to the Communications Decency Act, these are the words you may no longer use in your Internet correspondence: Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cock-sucker, mother-fucker and tits. The use of shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cock-sucker, mother-fucker and tits, may now earn you a substantial fine as well as possible jail time, should President Clinton sign this Bill into law. Please refrain from using shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cock-sucker, mother-fucker and tits, to protect your children as well as others, from their evil influence, thus keeping America "ideologically pure".

2 1

Re: Need a "warning" graphic of some kind for CDA
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[This email rated FZ] >Now that we all have web pages that are naughty and might be seen by >little children, I'd like to hve some kind of a graphic that can >universally be seen as a "Warning: The following material is unsuitable >for children and close-minded twits". (or words to that effect). A Frank Zappa icon would be highly appropriate for that - I don't know how his record publishers would feel about someone scanning it off an album cover and retouching for the web, but you could probably work out something. A Zappa IMG button with HREF to a copy of his album language rating label would seem very fitting. Before Bill Clinton signed the Exon Internet Censorship Bill, Tipper Gore brought you Music Censorship. Uncle Frank says "<quote here>" I suppose it's a bit beyond Fair Use? #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

4 3

Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote: >> Unfortunately, [a privacy act] would also: >> >> * Require government registration of computers and databases containing >> information about people (whether these computers are used by business or >> individuals). This eases regulation of computers and future confiscation. At 07:04 PM 2/5/96 -0500, Tim Philp wrote: >I don't believe that this follows at all. All that would be required >would be a statutory obligation to comply with the legislation. And how can you enforce this statutory obligation? Privacy laws against private citizens run into the same problem as drug laws: You need intrusive means to enforce them. A law "protecting" privacy would require government supervision of what is on my computer and your computer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

3 2

Re: RSA-China Crypto
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- BTW, there's an article about it on RSA's home page now. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMRr/eyoZzwIn1bdtAQHRBAF+PNYhhytVCUQ5LDn9vM5sSFNJ9l0zKm8T mfzCvhN/eE/qLpl8fDi1gvLJDnrWte/Z =t5nc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 0

Re: Reasons in support of crypto-anarchy WAS Re: Why am I (fwd)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:45 PM 2/8/96 -0500, Perry wrote: >You are annoying me. How much do people want to bet someone kills >Jim Bell in the next six months? 6 cypherbucks, if I can get the ecash software to work again. 12, if you'll accept killfiling as well... #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

1 0

Re: DSN
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:47 AM 2/1/96 -0500, you wrote: >Anyone heard of DSN? I think thats the right order of the initials... >... its supposedly the only crypto-hardware solution for protecting an >entire network on the Internet. You put one of these $5,000 units at one >end of a lan, and another one somewhere else on the Internet, and the >company gaurantees secure, encrypted transmissions. The TCP/IP headers >and data are mangled, encrypted, etc. Anybody who supposedly makes the "only [whatever-category] hardware solution" for a problem has either not done their literature searching, is going for a really obscure market niche, doesn't understand the problem, or (very rarely) is the first product out on the bleeding edge, or has had their competitors go out of business on them. VSLAN (I forget the manufacturer) used to make an encrypting Ethernet board for PCs, Suns, etc., and did the software work behind it to get a B2 Red Book rating from the NSA. Boeing had a secure FDDI ring about the same time (~5 years ago.) Motorola has made several products for encrypting Ethernets, X.25s, and other networks, which the military buys and likes. Don't know which of these are still on the market, and what new toys have appeared. Meanwhile, the swIPe encrypted/authenticated IP protocol is available, and the similar IPng security protocols are emerging (i.e. the RFCs are written and folks are working on reference implementations.) They'll cost you $0 for software plus a 386-box for Linux, or a used Sun. >It uses 512bit keys and I was just wondering how the authentication is >done. Does anyone have any specs on these units? Supposedly it does not >require a 3rd party entity to verify that the two units are both valid, >when determining the initial public/key pairs. Perhaps there is hardcoded >data in the units that is used to verify this? The company supposedly has >some proprierty method ... how can we be sure this expensive unit can do >its job if information on the encryption has not been released. If you can't get the company to show you the protocols, at least under non-disclosure, ask them if it's NSA-certified and see what the NSA has to say about it. 512-bit keys seem a bit short for either RSA or Diffie-Hellman these days... >[RSA in 5 lines of Scheme, deleted.] Got any short prime-number generators? #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

1 0

Re: Tell me whats wrong with this
by lunaslide＠loop.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Tell me whats wrong with this section of the telecom bill. I have a six >year old boy I am trying to raise >and it is hard enough to teach him respect and values without explaining why >Ned Beatty is being >bungholed in the woods by Billy Bob or why the Terminator splattered this >guys brains all over the >wall. > Tell me why parents should not be able to censor their OWN >television so that they may raise their children the way THEY see >fit...................Did your dad give you his old >playboys?.........NOOOOO............ <snip> A note here...my dad also did not go to jail for two years and get fined $100,000 when I weasled my way into his closet, without his knowledge, and found his Playboys at age five! >All I'm saying is it's tough to raise a child these days without the added >distortion of modern >programing and parents need not be denied any tool that can help them >achieve success. <rm for brevity> I didn't see anything really wrong with that part of the bill. What it will encourage is advertisers to withdraw from the more violent shows, and in turn will encourage television producers to prefer funding less violent shows. Since I don't watch television that often anyhow, it won't affect me very much. I do see where it will deny those who wish to see such shows the violence they wish to see. This is an issue, and it is indirectly caused by the bill, but it can not be used effectively against the govt. because they did not directly outlaw violence. It is particularly the CDA which boils my blood. One other concern, however, is that the lifting of restrictions on who can compete for what will result in mergers and buyouts of internet providers and that when only a few major companies own the bulk of the industry, the consumers will suffer from content restriction, technological lag and possibly price gouging. I note the car, oil, software and media industries as a few examples. For example, journalists have traditionally been in support of free speech and civil rights; they are, for the most part, rather liberal. However, they, particularly those in television journalism, have been notably absent in this battle over net censorship and have definitely not been there to support us. In fact, they have even spoken to our cause's detriment on many occasions, by the slant of their pieces! I can only attribute this logically to the fact that the internet takes attention away from their industry. The internet competes with television and print as an information source, and this the owners of the media do not want. It's sort of an unspoken conspiricy (appologies, I've already been accused of turning this into ConspiricyPunks once before:-) Nontheless, those are some of my concerns over the telcom bill aside from the obvious CDA. lunaslide On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller

1 0

Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:39 AM 2/9/96 -0800, jamesd wrote: >If you have one law for men who run businesses and one law [for] other folks, >then we have selective enforcement and application of the laws, >that enables governments to act selectively and capriciously. >For example here in California private citizens who attempt to organize >recall elections are often subject to extraordinary and confiscatory fines. On the other hand, of course, there are laws that are ostensibly for the purposes of regulating businesses whose primary effect is to limit the privacy or actions of individuals. For instance, California's law requiring that mailbox renters provide two forms of ID and make their mailbox companies agents for service of process is ostensibly to "protect" consumers by regulating businesses that operate out of mailboxes (which the law claims there are 7 million of here); it furthermore lets the Post Office specify what kind of ID to use (which some local postmasters are far more extreme about than others), and requires revealing True Addresses. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

1 0

Re: [NOISE] #/%age of CDA-blackened sites
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Sorry to post this question here, but I know of no other group with >folks who would know. Have any of the "spiders" such as Alta Vista >been sent to see just how many US sites have been blackened in the >protest? The approximate number and percentage of US sites blackened >might be interesting. In my limited surfing, I have been gratified >to see the _widespread_ response -- but I am not the typical user. I don't think it's updated enough things recently (or else it only indexes the contents of a page and not the header details in the <BODY> statement.) For instance, BGCOLOR="#000000" had 197 hits, but most of them were old, and on topics like "How to set the background colors on your web page", and NO documents matched both BGCOLOR="#000000" and vtw. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

1 0

Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:28 AM 2/9/96 -0500, Duncan wrote, regarding the appallingly invasive British Privacy Act: >Computer bureaux which process personal data for others or allow data users >to process personal data on their computers must also register. Their >register entries will contain only their name and address. > >Data users and computer bureaux who should register but do not, are >committing a criminal offence, as are those operating outside the >descriptions contained in their register entries. In these cases the >Registrar regularly prosecutes. The penalty for non-registration can be a >fine of up to £5,000 plus costs in the Magistrates Courts, or an unlimited >fine in the Higher Courts." Ouch - does this mean that if you offer shell accounts, you either have to contractually limit the processing your users may do, or be fined as a criminal for not registering? #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

1 0

Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:21 AM 2/9/96 -0500, Tim Philp wrote: > Private individuals are not what I was refering to. I am more >concerned about corporations who hold information about me and release it >to the highest bidder. When it comes to individual versus corporate >rights, I am clearly on the side of the individual. Remember that there's a major difference between "corporations" and "business"; you seem to be mixing them up. A corporation is a legal fiction that treats a cooperative effort by one or more people as if it were a person in itself, and normally involves limiting the liability of the corporation's investors by putting it all on the fictional person. A business is what one or more people do to make money. Most corporations are businesses, though not all. Governments can legitimately tell corporations what to do because that's part of the price of the legal fiction; a government can't abuse a corporation because you can't beat up a legal fiction, though it can say "Poof! You're not a legal fiction any more", and conversely, if the people who own the legal fiction don't like what the government's telling it to do, they can dissolve it. (Governments also enjoy regulating non-corporate businesses, but they're no longer on solid moral ground.) > I have also not suggested some form of prior restraint that would >require government access to computers. I simply suggest that should a >violation occur, that I have the right of civil and criminal law as a >recourse to both compensate me for my loss of privacy as well as deter >future damage. A company knowing that civil and criminal penalties could >result from a violation would take extra care to ensure the security of >my data. How are you going to _know_ that a "violation" occurred, if company A tells company B your address or favorite liquor? Only by having access to the records of both companies. Getting that through the courts, for only the parts of their information relevant to you, is better than blanket permission for the government to rummage through their files, but after the first lawsuit lets investigators in, everything they've got is clam bait anyway. It's still major privacy violation - for the company whose machines are being violated, and for the non-suing individuals whose data is also on those machines. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

2 1

Re: Benefits of the V-Chip
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:11 AM 2/9/96 -0500, olbon(a)dynetics.com (Clay Olbon II) wrote: >There is one potential side-benefit to the V-chip -- The inverse-V-chip .. >I am looking forward to a time when I will never, even accidentally, have >my TV tuned to "Full House" ;-) Just as many people program their televisions using VCR-Plus codes to record the shows they want (using TV Guide as a rating service) it would be easy for any rating service to publish a list of the codes for Approved Shows, Banned Shows, Rated-by-interestingness shows, etc. without putting any government-mandated rating chip in the TVs or forcing the TV producers to rate them (which also has a chilling effect on the shows produced.) #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

1 0

World's Financial Police To Cast Money Laundering Net Wider
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found this article in misc.survivalism, but despite its presence there, it actually has some interesting things to say about developing directions in money laundering enforcement, including mention of electronic purses. And "The Financial Times" is no slouch of a paper. --Tim May In article <4fbg19$nv1(a)ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>, taxhaven(a)ix.netcom.com(Adam Starchild ) wrote: > From The Financial Times (London) for February 3-4, 1996: > > > WORLD'S FINANCIAL POLICE TO CAST MONEY LAUNDERING NET WIDER > > by George Graham, Banking Correspondent > > > The world's leading financial policemen are to consider > targeting money laundering from arms trafficking, extortion and > bribery as well as the drugs trade. > Members of the Financial Action Task Force, grouping senior > government officials from the European Commission, the Gulf Co- > operation Council and 26 other countries, have launched a review > of their guiding principles. > The review is expected to be completed by June, and could > result in the criminalisation of money laundering linked to any > serious crime. > The Task Force's current recommendations, which set out > minimum standards for money laundering laws in member countries, > only require the criminalisation of drug money laundering, > although countries are also urged to consider extending the > offence to other crimes with a narcotics link. > Mr. Ronald Noble, under-secretary for enforcement at the US > Treasury and president of the Task Force, said the group had not > yet decided whether to widen the definition of money laundering. > Including all serious crimes could, however, make it simpler for > law enforcement officials to launch investigations of > transactions that look suspicious but have no obvious drugs link. > "It would make it much easier to collect information," Mr. > Noble said. "People who before were engaged in the illegal > transfer of funds would find it more difficult and more costly." > A broader definition might, however, make it more difficult > to apply the Task Force recommendation that countries should have > the power to confiscate laundered money. > The review is not expected to result in big changes to the > 40 principles currently recommended by the Task Force, which > officials believe have already contributed to substantial > advances in the fight against money laundering. > But the review will also have to consider whether to address > the new issues raised by the development of "cybercash," new > varieties of payments systems such as stored value cards or > electronic purses. > "We have to be concerned as an organisation to come up with > principles which recognize that technologies could pose a threat > but do not define them in such a way that you are dated as soon > as you publish them," Mr. Noble said. > Law enforcement officials are keen that the developers of > new financial technologies should think about their criminal > potential before they launch them, so that governments do not > have to clamp down on them afterwards with rigid rules. > Possible safeguards against the misuse of electronic purses > could include limiting their maximum value or restricting their > use to certain closed systems. > > Posted by Adam Starchild > Asset Protection & Becoming Judgement Proof on the World > Wide Web at http://www.catalog.com/corner/taxhaven

1 0

Re: CDA Yes Votes; Collection
by Tim Cook 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan, > badly as you are upset. That is why some of us want less legislation > and less regulation to minimize just this sort of human suffering. > Maybe next time those of you who are into "proactive" government > will think before you crush other people's lives. > That's why I support Lamar Alexander! <BG>. Another "Logical Conclusion" by: Tim Cook <twcook(a)cts.com> Support THE US Constitution... Vote Alexander in '96 and '00!

1 0

SKIP Alpha-2 Source release
by markson＠osmosys.incog.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, We've just released the Alpha-2 SKIP reference source for SunOS 4.1.3. This is a bug fix release of our Alpha-1 Source reference Source. The source is available from http://skip.incog.com. Included in this mail message are excerpts from the README file for the the package. Please direct comments to freeskip(a)incog.com. Enjoy! Tom Markson Sun Microsystems ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALPHA 2 Release of SKIP Reference Source for SunOS 4.1.3 -------------------------------------------------------- Overview and Release Notes Overview -------- SKIP is a Key-management protocol for IP based protocols. It is an acronym for Simple Key-management for Internet Protocols. SKIP is documented in the SKIP IETF IPSEC draft included in this directory as draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-06.txt. The most recent SKIP draft is always available at http://skip.incog.com and the Internet-Drafts directories. >From this public domain source release, you can build a fully functional IP-layer encryption package which supports DES and Triple-DES for SunOS 4.1.3. This means that every IP networked application can have it's network traffic encrypted. Unlike application level encryption packages, this package encrypts IP packets. Thus, applications do not need to be recompiled or modified to take advantage of encryption. The SKIP source is possible through the efforts of engineers in Sun Microsystems Internet Commerce Group. The developers and designers are Ashar Aziz, Tom Markson, Martin Patterson, Hemma Prafullchandra and Joseph Reveane. Linda Cavanaugh worked on the documentation. The package compiles under both the SunPro compiler and GCC. We expect that this release should port without too much pain to any operating system which uses BSD style networking (mbufs). A legal warning: Because this package contains strong encryption, the Software must not be transferred to persons who are not US citizens or permanent residents of the US, or exported outside the US (except Canada) in any form (including by electronic transmission) without prior written approval from the US Government. Non-compliance with these restrictions constitutes a violation of the U.S. Export Control Laws. This source release may be used for both commercial and noncommercial purposes, subject to the restrictions described in the software and patent license statements. Furthermore, Sun Microsystems has licensed the Stanford public key patents from Cylink Corp. which are available to users of this package on a royalty free basis. The patent statement is in README.PATENT. Be sure to read this, as it contains some restrictions and other important information. Also included in this release is a high speed Big Number package written by Colin Plumb. bnlib/legal.c contains Colin's software license statement. Features -------- 1. SKIP V2 compliant implementation using ESP encapsulation. 2. Support for DES/3DES for traffic and key encryption. 3. Diffie-Hellman Public Key Agreement based system. 4. Full Support for manual establishment of master keys. 5. Support for multiple NSIDs and multiple local certificates. 6. GUI tool for user friendly manipulation of access control lists and key statistics. 7. Command line tools for manipulating access control lists, etc. 8. Implementation of the Certificate Discovery protocol fully integrated into SKIP. 9 Implementation of X.509 public key certificates. 10. Implementation of DSA signature algorithm for certificate signatures. 11. Implementation for MD2, MD5 and SHA message digest algorithms. 12. Implementation of ASN.1 DER encoding/decoding. 13. SunScreen(tm) SKIP compatibility mode. 14. Implementation of hashed public keys as defined in the SKIP draft. Implementation of programs to generate hashed public keys. 15. Certificate utilities to convert X.509 Certificates to hashed keys and print both X.509 and Hashed certificates. 16. High performance Big Number library for Diffie-Hellman calculations. 17. Implementation is effectively "public domain" and may be used both commercially and non-commercially. 18. Patent Agreement with Cylink allows roylaty-free use of the Diffie-Hellman and other Stanford patents with this package for commercial and non-commercial use. Read README.PATENT for some restrictions. 19. Inclusion of prime generation program used to generate the primes in SKIP draft. Release Notes ------------- Here are the release notes for this Alpha 2 release of the SKIP source. 1. This release is a bug fix release for Alpha-1. Major areas of change include: o Fix ESP and AH protocol numbers. o Fix Unsigned DH Public encoding. o Remove truncatation of shared secret (for this release only). o Various other Bug fixes. o Fix Triple DES. 2. This release does not interoperate with Alpha-1. Alpha-1 sites should upgrade. Alpha-1 had a bug where unsigned public keys were being encoded incorrectly. Therefore, unsigned DH keys generated with alpha-1 do not work with Alpha-2. Regenerate your unsigned public keys. X509 Certificates from alpha-1 will continue to work. 3. This release interoperates with Swiss ETH SKIP using unsigned DH keys and DES and triple DES. It was tested at the Dallas 1995 IETF. However, the certificate discovery protocol does not interoperate. This will be fixed in the next release. 4. This release does not fully comply with the SKIP drafts. It is closest to the 05 version of the draft. However, the shared secret is not truncated according to that draft. This change is made to interoperate with the ETH implementation. The next release will correspond to the 06 draft.

1 0

Re: Tell me whats wrong with this
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:00 AM 2/9/96 -0800, lunaslide(a)loop.com wrote: >to speak your mind on the matter, as you are now. People talking about gay >rights, abortion options, better sex (a la Dr. Ruth) can no longer do that >on the net without wondering whether they are in violation of the bill or >not. If people where more used to regularly violating laws, one more law violation would mean much. Practice makes perfect. "Your Honor, I plead necessity. The reason I violated this law was so that I would have plenty of practice in case I ever find myself in a totalitarian state. Since the laws of the US and International Law permit (and in some cases require) me to violate the laws of a totalitarian state, I need to practice law violation under the less stressful circumstances of the current US. Without practice, I won't be able to violate totalitarian laws smoothly and thus might have to obey them. This could put me in jeopardy under International Law. Necessity defense." DCF

1 0

Re: Not so fast
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:37 AM 2/9/96 -0800, anonymous-remailer(a)shell.portal.com wrote: >Coppolino also told U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter that >the Justice Department will stand by its longstanding policy >``unchristian speech will be vigorously prosecuted.'' We warned you what would happen if you elected *Southern Baptists* to the White House. DCF "Of course, Algore used to be an Episcopalian until he had a political conversion to Southern Baptism."

1 0

PGP & Seamless Pegasus
by Adam Philipp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Can I just add a loud HURRAH! on the integration of PGP and Pegasus using the PGPJN add-on. It is by far the smoothest melding of PGP and a e-mail routine to date. The only way it would be smoother is on one program. THe learning curve is also negligible. For all those griping about no good PGP windoze e-mail programs, your wait is over. This mail program won over a die hard Eudora fan in about 15 minutes... Someone else already posted the sites to get this so forgive my laziness of not repeating their words. Oh, did I mention this is seamless under Windoze 95 as well? Adam, Esq. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMRs/RAaMHlrz9swxAQGWUwf/amggouHkGjrjoYQ3JXYXiWblHc2NBvQx wwy1jMSvEEiP0kQD1iaysA6fw4t+xU1bFAftqACRa3rTF7ZgCRRgFuhgwTwhwR8u HZ8zDed5PIgywsn9/jqXW+nqneNx2uboUjq7FsncZiC7EG90/SMK78et8QZ/sT0l ifiCvoLXaYhW4anmIeHMADLwDRqUlhVWX5RX1ccG2MrOrrrKHjJcveG4CF72M8EV hftXDTWdElUuPUHD0JUBlp555+YMuolSUuu4sq1eodwlX0L4tq9vv4QBCwnBvq0H 4XONwa9BaRvEjVJ0Gg6+HjC4/IHOt/5CJ+SfwvQAaysH7Q11nkKTZw== =/zQA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 0

New Internet Privacy Provider - Press Release
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PRESS RELEASE: 2/9/96 Anguilla, Offshore Information Services Ltd. As a result of recent efforts to censor the Internet in France, Germany, China, and now the USA, Offshore Information Services Ltd. (OIS) anticipates a larger market for privacy services over the Internet. OIS is well suited to provide such service since it is located in Anguilla, a taxhaven in the Caribbean with strict secrecy laws. OIS is now entering this market. OIS makes it easy for users to setup an online identity offshore. Setting up an offshore email identity can be as easy as changing the POP server name, user name, and password in their mail program. Using this new idendity they can again have free-speech on the Internet. If users choose, they can login to a machine in Anguilla using ssh so that their communication over the Internet is encrypted. Users can also maintain web pages offshore almost as easily as if they were onshore. Anguilla has no restrictions on publications about dead presidents of France, or information about birth control, etc. The OIS web page is http://online.offshore.com.ai/

2 4

Re: "Plonk"
by Gordon Campbell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:31 PM 08/02/96 -0600, Ed Carp wrote: > >Because Perry has an ego bigger than Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and >Dianne Feinstein all rolled into one, that's why. <Excessive .sig deleted> This from a guy whose signature is 12 times the length of the message that it was attached to? Puh-lease.... ----- Gordon R. Campbell, Owner - Mowat Woods Graphics P.O. Box 1902, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5J7 Ph: (613) 542-4087 Fax: (613) 542-1139 2048-bit PGP key available on request.

1 0

[NOISE] #/%age of CDA-blackened sites
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sorry to post this question here, but I know of no other group with folks who would know. Have any of the "spiders" such as Alta Vista been sent to see just how many US sites have been blackened in the protest? The approximate number and percentage of US sites blackened might be interesting. In my limited surfing, I have been gratified to see the _widespread_ response -- but I am not the typical user. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- <liberty(a)gate.net> Boycott espionage-enabled software! http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray _______________________________________________________________________ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Public Key id. # E9BD6D35 -- IANAL _______________________________________________________________________ "In wise hands, poison is medicine. In foolish hands, medicine is poison." -- Cassanova -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh. iQCVAwUBMRtQhW1lp8bpvW01AQGxaAP+LJ/C88WfFv4NzPY8jZ8JcguHk2p+knbA lp/ZW76u6U3JUPRG0qT12nF4yLzrKLL3+N4osiJvpREbuqC2YMAEg2NNJhC2e+RQ Nepe8QzU/KGuHj3Fge5Tc+Uyvaq4rzcuXMSSlemHNdlIm3JroVQ68Iebswcknjqh 4ZI3J5Cgq3o= =RYeD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 0

Tsu.con Rishabed
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

WSJ, 9 Feb 1996 Shimomura, Pursuer of Hackers, Finds Himself Homeless on Web By Jared Sandberg A renowned hacker catcher who co-wrote the book "Takedown" just got a bit of a takedown himself. Tsutomu Shimomura, the Internet security expert credited with catching fugitive hacker Kevin Mitnick last year, set up a site on the Internet's World Wide Web to chronicle the famous cat-and-mouse chase. To supplement the book, the on-line database includes audio clips of taunting messages Mr. Mitnick left for Mr. Shimomura and transcripts of chat sessions that the hacker held with friends, under the heading "Kevin On Demand." But over the weekend, the address of the Web site, "takedown.com," was deleted at a hacker's request and replaced with a bogus entry, "takendown.com." Not exactly hilarious, but this is hacker humor. "It's pretty juvenile," said Mr. Shimomura, who got his address back by Wednesday night. But he notes that hackers could easily change the Internet addresses of corporations or even America Online Inc. "I expect that businesses like AOL would be much less amused if they were renamed 'aohell.com,' and that would cost them real money." The problem arose when Network Solutions Inc., the company that sets up addresses on the Internet, was apparently conned by someone claiming to be Mr. Shimomura. A company official said that he hadn't been able to investigate the matter because the company has been deluged with electronic mail in an unrelated prank. But many experts are concerned that Network Solutions doesn't verify the authenticity of Internet address requests, which number as many as 3,000 a day, and that the company simply takes people at their word. "They do it all the time, and they shouldn't," said Steven Bellovin, a security expert at AT&T Corp.'s research unit, who fears such dupes will grow more common. Mr. Bellovin noted that hackers have also exchanged software tools that can redirect users to phony sites. "Hackers share tools better than the good guys," he said. Network Solutions is working on a tool to check the authenticity of requests for address changes. But some think that such moves are a little late. Mr. Shimomura said, "Unfortunately, we live in a world where things need to break before they're fixed." --

1 0

Benefits of the V-Chip
by olbon＠dynetics.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is one potential side-benefit to the V-chip -- The inverse-V-chip (the idea for which I stole from someone on this list, sorry I don't remember who to credit). I am looking forward to a time when I will never, even accidentally, have my TV tuned to "Full House" ;-) Clay READ THIS NOW:http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html (warning: just thinking about this URL puts you in violation of the CDA of 1996) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clay Olbon II | olbon(a)dynetics.com Systems Engineer | ph: (810) 589-9930 fax 9934 Dynetics, Inc., Ste 302 | http://www.msen.com/~olbon/olbon.html 550 Stephenson Hwy | PGP262 public key: finger olbon(a)mgr.dynetics.com Troy, MI 48083-1109 | pgp print: B97397AD50233C77523FD058BD1BB7C0 "To escape the evil curse, you must quote a bible verse; thou shalt not ... Doooh" - Homer (Simpson, not the other one) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Thu, 8 Feb 1996 jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: >> A law "protecting" privacy would require government supervision >> of what is on my computer and your computer. At 09:21 AM 2/9/96 -0500, Tim Philp wrote: > Private individuals are not what I was refering to. I am more > concerned about corporations First: You will not get that, because governments invariably privilege large businesses above small businesses and individuals. and invariably privilege old established businesses against new businesses. Secondly if you were able to get that, it would be even worse than the what you will actually get. If you have one law for men who run businesses and one law other folks, then we have selective enforcement and application of the laws, that enables governments to act selectively and capriciously. For example here in California private citizens who attempt to organize recall elections are often subject to extraordinary and confiscatory fines. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

1 0

Re: cypherpunks press
by lunaslide＠loop.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>ecarp(a)netcom.com sez: <rm for brevity> >My feeling is that Mitnick getting past security, and Mitnick not having >to decrypt at every stage, and stuff like that is good material, but these >topics generally have big ol' love handles attached to them. Describing >people's hot tub parties, for example, is not exactly cypherpunk material. <more snippin'> >I am imagine many people use (and I am headed this way) nntp.hks.net merely >to avoid large boring non crypto/political threads. Not everyone has this >capability, and now some of them have left because of the S/N. I'm talking >about real cryptographers, not weekend warriors like, well, ok I'm more like >a yearend warrior.On the other hand, Alice and others haven't posted lately, >so perhaps the noise is just the fill-the-vacuum pheonominon. > >> Why don't you go and write some code? Put those busy fingers to better > >Perhaps he is. I am. Are you? I am too, but the other half of my major is philosophy. I can't help BSing about the social issues too.....which seems to be common on the list. Perhaps there is a compromise since there seem to be interests on the part of both parties? Like cypherpunks-tech@toad,com. Any words? lunaslide On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBvAzD3EHEAAAEDAMVwZzXozPjX18mCenA5fJsdWZXcrhJCxPR+SoVCmR7d4ZVU mwITzPTHo/GyLvJrWyk5YdhheczyY2VSawaMrCN/nWA7K9lwAylbKyPxqBhRYJ3C 2wi2uD5LY2wypNOQyQARAQABtB5KZWZmIENvbm4gPGx1bmFzbGlkZUBsb29wLmNv bT6JAHUDBRAw+1bqS2NsMqTTkMkBAQkTAwCersFbCyk8O0MbGlNcZDAe24CLEWQ0 0C5EHni33W76UsG1bybcLsuMH6HVwLF7IqZivnzc7wkujYPQvCqn8HEYYTld8V9V Cou4dOvA8kV7rHvAn/LuLx7DRruLFrRoPSk= =OIT9 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

6 5