December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Civil War Crypto Question... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 15:35:00 -0500 > From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > Subject: Re: Civil War Crypto Question... > Jim Choate wrote: > > >Myer implimented including a 'cipher disk' whereby the Union was able to > >change their telegraph codes on an hourly schedule. It was apparently very > >effictive in dealing with taps and such. > > > >Anyone know of another source that discusses this disk? > > Myer's code and cipher disk (with illustration) are briefly described > in Fred Wrixon's "Codes and Ciphers" along with an entry on > Civil War crypto with a photo of a Confederate cipher disk. > > We've put the entries and illustrations at: > > http://jya.com/cydisk.htm > > The book is: > > "Codes and Ciphers: An A to Z of Covert Communication, > from the Clay Tablet to the Microdot," > Fred B. Wrixon, Prentice Hall, 1992, paper. $18.00 > ISBN 0-13-277047-4 Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll order a copy from the local bookstore today! Merry Christmas! ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ 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: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
by The Sheriff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> Where do you get the right to tell others how they can make a living? > >I don't have that right. However, the Supreme Court has said that the >Congress has that right. If you would be so kind as to a) specify that supreme court ruling, and b) identify an online resource where I can obtain the text of that decision, so that I can 1) confirm or deny your allegation, and 2) debate your position intelligently, I would greatly appreciate it. >> I am not allowed to place toxic waste, or noise, where it can affect >> others; I can ingest toxins privately and listen to whatever music I >> like so long as you don't detect it in your backyard. > >Well, racism is hiring decisions is something that is detected in other >people's backyards. That's why its illegal. What if I run a business out of my house? What if I don't need employees (such that I could affort to hire a couple of people, or nobody at all)? If I hire someone who is white because I don't want to hire someone is black, then it is not a loss that is felt within the black community, since I don't *need* to hire anybody in the first place. >>> In a fantasy world, it is mutually consensual. It the real world, it is >>> seldom mutual. > >> You prefer a shotgun or otherwise arranged marriage? > >I prefer a level playing field. The above phrase is something that I hear a lot, and it deeply disturbs me. Regulation is allways seen as the arm of fairness, when the above phrase is mentioned. I am not allowed to choose to hire someone based on skin color, and yet the country is riddled by "affirmative" action programs -- which, in the short and brutal version of the description of "AA" is just a system of RACE-BASED PREFRENCES. I find it very interesting that liberal activists in California, who rabidly insist that racism is wrong, that we must have racial dialogues, that we should all "just get allong," used the court system to fight Proposition 209, which ends affirmative action in that state. The people voted their will, and the activists took to the courts to override the people's will -- in effect, saying that the California voting public is just a bunch of idiots. I don't like someone telling me that I don't know better. When I like is as little government influence in my life as humanly possible, be it in my choice of breakfast cereal, or employees. >> Private behavior is private behavior, and trade is a private behavior. > >Not in this country. If you don't believe me, check out Article I, >Section 8 for one explicit example. I read Article I, Section 8. I shall quote the relevent portion that relate to this discussion: "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; ... " Now, then. Notice the eighth word -- "amung." As I understand it, this means that the Fed can regulate INTERstate commerce, not INTRAstate commerce. This is why (again, as I understand it) the Fed will inspect meat crossing state lines, but not meat that is moved around within a state. It is for this reason that not all meat is inspected by the Fed. If anybody has refrences to texts that prove me wrong, bring them forward so that I can refine my argument. :) So, back to my home business. Let's say I build computers and sell them around the state. Since I'm not transporting my product from one state to another, the Fed can't constitutionally regulate how I do business. >>> With freedom comes responsibility. Decency is one of them. This is ALLWAYS the case. You earn freedom through being a responsible adult. When you don't infringe on the rights of others, the government has no grounds under which to infringe on yours (through punishment or direct order). >> But obligate decency at gunpoint is not worth it. > >It's called civilization. You should try it some time. No, no, no. To obligate "decency" at gunpoint is definitely NOT anything but facicism (sp?). I remember a time when people were obligated to do the "decent" thing and worship God and Jesus Christ -- and, as the bumper sticker says, "The last time religion and politics were mixed, someone got burned." Decency is a very fuzzy word. After all, the KKK says that white people are the only decent people. The KKK is in the minority. To use your own words: "No majority group has a right to discriminate against a minority." By your own words, the KKK should be allowed to discriminate against blacks when they hire if they want to, since they are in the minority when compared (by numbers) to all of the groups they think are lesser than those of white skin. After all -- does skin color constitute the only minority? Not according to the definition of the word. Best wishes and fresh-roasted peanut taste, The Sheriff. -- ***<REPLY TO: sheriff(a)speakeasy.org>*** --- As kinky as it sounds, finger me to see my PGP key and confirm the signature attached to this message. --- Any and all SPAM will be met with immediate prosecutory efforts. Solicitations are NOT welcome here! --- ----BEGIN INFLAMATORY BLOCK---- Version: 160 (IQ) Comments: Definitely one of their greatest misses. Reporter: "Do you know what Public Enemy is?" --- Citizen: "Public enemy?" [long pause] "Probably somebody in office." -----END INFLAMATORY BLOCK-----

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Civil War Crypto Question... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, There is a historical problem w/ the accredation of the various signals in use during the Civil War in the book: > "Codes and Ciphers: An A to Z of Covert Communication, > from the Clay Tablet to the Microdot," > Fred B. Wrixon, Prentice Hall, 1992, paper. $18.00 > ISBN 0-13-277047-4 The author claims (from John Young's cydisk.htm): <B> Myer, Albert</B> (1829-1880), U S. Army surgeon and cryptographer. To finance his medical studies, Myer worked as an operator for the New York, Albany, and Buffalo Telegraph Company. After entering the army, he developed a visual signaling method in 1856 and called it flag telegraphy. (Two British officers, Sir Francis Bolton and Vice Adm. Philip Colomb, independently developed a similar system at about the same time.) Though it was approved for use in 1860, the year Myer became chief signal officer, the system was not fully appreciated until the outbreak of the U.S. CIVIL WAR in 1861. Myer's technique then came to be known as "wigwag," from the motions of its hand-held flags or disks for daytime signaling and torches or lanterns for sending messages at night. This is clearly several errors regarding 'wig-wag' signaling techniques and Myer. These techniques go back to pre-Napoleonic times. Myers was a alphabetic system where arm position denoted the letter, not the arm motion (hence wig-wag). In: The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare Edward Hagerman pp. 40 "But the primary motive was recognition of the benefits of this technology to tactical and strategic coordination. The increasingly extended lines of large American armies, especially their tactical extension with the rifled musket, as well as the rough terrain, challenged existing technology based on wigwag signals supplemented by couriers." In addition, McClellan didn't appoint Myer to be his signal officer until August 20, 1861. Further, there was *no* signals department in the US Army to be appointed to until *after* March 3, 1863 when legislation was passed bringing the official Signal Corp. into being. I don't have clue what Wrixon is talking about, but it clearly doesn't have anything to do with history in general or crypto specificaly. Cite this Wrixon's book with care. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ 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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Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Press
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Disgusted with the censorous antics of Declan the Lying Forger, some of us may be forgetting there are still some good journalists out there. Today's newsday has an excellent article by Gail Dutton, reporting from the AAAS's Conference ion Anoynmous Communications on the Internet. She managed to identify all the important issues in a ways that a layperson can understand, without oversimplifying; presented different points of view, including her own without editorializing and/or pushing her opinions as facts. I'm not saying that Declan should learn from her, because Declan is clearly too stupid to learn; but other aspiring journalists should get hold of this piece and use it as a paradigm for their own writing. I urge JYA the Copyright Violator to get hold of Newsday and to add Gail Dutton's article to his collection of Copyright Violations. Also: a guy named Joe Celko writes an SQL column for the freebie DBMS magazine, which I sometimes read. Here's a short except from his january column: Crypto and Databases More and more raw databases are being sent out on CD-ROMs because the price per unit to publish them and the cost of equipment to read them is so low per byte. For example, you can get some fo the Miller Freeman magazines on CD-ROM, and one Miller Freeman magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal (www.ddj.mfi.com) has been very successful with software and textbook collections on CD-ROM. if you missed an issue when you went to the dentist's office, national Geographic and Misdscape are releasing 1078 years of national geogra[hic on 30 CD-TROMs for $300 for educational institutions - every page of every issue. As of this writing, I do not have a price for individual buyers. For mroe informaiton contact Mindscae at www.mindscapeschool.com or 800-231-3088. On the same subject, a U.K. company, PAN Technology Ltd (www.pantechnology.com) has launched CopyLok, a method of copy protecting CDs. CopyLok prevents copying on CD recordable devices and on expensive Laser Beam Recorders that produce replicators, glass masters, and stampers for injection molding. In allows any information to be loaded on the hard disk of a computer, but will only allow that software to run if the original CD is in the drive. It stops friend-to-friend copying, illegal shop replication, and mass replication and also prevents Internet distribution. The product looks good and will be popular with PC software and computer game companies, which have to dal with software piracy rates in China and Vietnam of 96 percent and 99 percent, respectively. CopyLok is the reslt of three years of research, and is the first and only anticopying technology to have received Philips approval and a Philips' patent Application. it doesn't contravene any of the Philips worldwide standards for CD-ROM recording, such as the Yellow or Blue Book. The downside of all this is that part of the protection scheme uses strong cryptography to recognize the CD. The Clinton administration is still opposed to strong crypto, so U.S. companies could be put in a situation whee they have to publish their CD databases overseas to get protection. Once more, we disarm the victims and punish the innocent. Hmm. Other than the observation that copy protection sucks (I broke it back when it was used with 360K floppies and I'll break it on CDs if it's worth my while), we observe that if the COpyLok software uses crypto to authenticate the CD, not to encrypt the data, then it could be exported with no paperwork. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
by lord_buttmonkey＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> You aren't being oppressed the other party doesn't want to interact >> with you, unless that party is government providing base services to >all >> (e.g. police/courts/border protection). > >Actually, you can be. How? >> You *are* being oppressed if mutually consensual behavior is >interfered >> with by >> others including the State. > >> You *are* being oppressed if you are coerced into a relationship you >don't >> want. > >You are not being coerced into anything. If you don't want to serve >food to Blacks, don't open a restaurant. It's your choice. Umm, no, freedom doesn't work like that. If you open a *private* establishment, you have the right, according to the constitution, to deny *anyone* the right to enter or eat in your restraunt. However, if you were banned from using the government postal service for being Jewish, then yes, you are being oppressed. >By the way, you are also not allowed to dump toxic waste in your own >backyard. Are you being oppressed? Depends. Does it affect your neighbors? If so, then no. If not, then yes. >> An employer-employee relationship is like a marriage or any other >arrangement >> between adults -mutually consensual. > >In a fantasy world, it is mutually consensual. It the real world, it >is >seldom mutual. Tough shit. If you don't like your job, no one's forcing you to stay. Just leave it and get another one.

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Anonymity Press
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(New York) Newsday, December 24, 1997, pp. C5, C6. Anonymity and the Internet Balancing freedom of speech with the need to protect identities By Gail Dutton Special Correspondent "Is Singapore the future?" asked information scientist Dave Farber of the University of Pennsylvania. If it is, the right to communicate anonymously on the Internet must be protected now, to ensure continued freedom of speech, according to participants at the Conference on Anonymous Communications on the Internet, sponsored by the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences last month in Irvine, Calif. "Law enforcement in the U.S. is a trusted third party," Farber said. But, Lance Cottrell, president of Obscura Information Security, added, "What is considered a good government today may become an oppressive government 50 years from now." The debate hinges upon whether any government should be able to trace messages--encrypted or not--to their sources. Singapore's repressive system is probably not the future here, but participants at the conference agreed that the right to communicate anonymously must be addressed now. Anonymous e-mailers have been around since the beginning of the Internet, but they have become increasingly simple to use. Anonymous Internet e-mail and Web visits aren't just for techies. For example, with The Anonymizer, developed by Cottrell sending untraceable, anonymous e-mail is as simple as clicking on the Web site (http://www.anonymizer.com) and uploading your message. Entering a Web site is just as easy, and can be done from the same site. Now that anonymity is simple and available to everyone, law-enforcement agents are getting nervous. There is always the potential for abuse. Laws are written for a paper-based society, according to attorney Joe Rosenbaum, who specializes in information technology at Hughes, Hubbard and Reed in Manhattan. "But, with the Internet, access is multiplied so that individuals lose control of their personal information," Rosenbaum said. For example, public information becomes widely and quickly accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, and private information is available for mining by any site a user visits. As a result, profiles of households can be developed and linked directly to them, based upon Web visits and information they provided individual sites--such as names income, news preferences and any other information a site requires for registering. The profiles could be used for academic research or--what more people dread--market research. "Corporations need to recognize the right of data ownership by individuals," maintained conference speaker Donna Hoffman of Project 2,000, a communications project at Purdue University. "Lack of trust [between customers and companies] is the primary barrier to Internet commerce. People are bothered by things online that they aren't significantly bothered by offline," she added. At work, if your employer asked your honest opinion of a very sensitive, politically charged work issue, would you give your unvarnished opinion? In writing? Would your answer change if you were guaranteed 100 percent, untraceable anonymity? If you said "yes" to the last question you just gave corporations a reason to promote anonymous communications. Companies tend to be as protective as individuals when it's their information being mined. They can filter out certain addresses, banning them from the site. However, individuals-- often competitors--sometimes can enter anonymously and get the data they need. To combat this, "You can build a site that doesn't allow anonymity," Cottrell said. That would only slow that research --not prevent the data from being compiled. Often the information companies are trying to protect is publicly available sometimes in their own printed literature. With The Anonymizer, developed by Lance Cottrell of Obscura Information Security, sending untraceable, totally anonymous e-mail is as simple as clicking on the Web site and uploading your message. Pseudonymity "Most people aren't looking for the same type of security as the National Security Agency," Rosenbaum said. Generally, pseudonymity--which is traceable --provides acceptable security for all but the most sensitive communications, he said. The right to protect personal information, even from corporations and market-research firms, is a driving force behind pseudonymity. So far, consumers do not trust the security and privacy of the Internet. "Contrary to what companies believe, consumers aren't interested in selling their personal information. Instead, people want a relationship based upon trust-- trust that the company won't sell their information," Hoffman said. By using pseudonymity, Internet users can prevent companies from linking customer profiles to their true identities. This option also promotes commerce, by allowing customers to use another name for their transactions, while using a public key encryption method to let companies confirm and authenticate an order. To maintain pseudonymity, customers can pay their bills with electronic cash from companies such as like DigiCash ( http://www.digicash.com ), and have merchandise shipped to a postal box, she said. Although that option is possible technologically, it is far from standard practice. The problem with this solution, Hoffman said, is that buyer and seller would have to rely upon a trusted third party. But, "No one knows who the third party may be, what their responsibilities are and who will reinforce their obligations if there is a dispute." What Are You Hiding? "Anonymity and pseudonymity both involve hiding knowledge from somebody," according to Terrell Bynum, professor of philosophy and director of the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University. "Therefore, what are you hiding, and from whom?" The answer, obviously, is identity, and the reason is to avoid repercussions of certain actions. That is a particularly valuable option for whistle-blowers, dissidents, human rights activists and others who put their jobs and, sometimes, their lives on the line. It becomes less palatable when the purpose is to defame or defraud. Concerns The need for anonymity in the United States is very different from that in countries where human rights may be stifled or, for that matter, in Europe, which has data-protection laws, Rosenbaum explained. In the United States, anonymity more often protects careers and reputations than lives. It means users can protect their personal data when visiting Web sites, minimize scrutiny by law enforcement agents or others because of expressed opinions, visit X-rated Web sites without their employers or spouses knowing and send e-mail confidentially. In other nations, anonymity offers sometimes the only way to voice dissent or send human rights information out of the country without risking lives. The downside is that true anonymity also facilitates illegal activities, such as fraud, libel, transmission of child pornography and money laundering. And that ability makes some people--notably law enforcement agents--nervous. "The issue," Rosenbaum said, "is the degree of difficulty in charging and convicting criminals. Making communications more untraceable is creating problems that didn't exist before." Nonetheless, "Acts of physical destruction and violence are almost impossible" on the Internet, said Peter Wayner, a consulting editor at Byte Magazine. Limiting anonymity, however, also can harm by limiting opportunities for free speech. "It is not clear that a happy middle ground can be found that provides sufficient anonymity without risking serious abuses," said Peter G. Neuman, principal scientist of SRI International. Attendees agreed that the dangers of banning anonymous communications are greater than the dangers of allowing them. Site Guidelines Recommended "If you know information is from an anonymous source, you treat it differently than if it is from a known identity or a known and respected pseudonym," said Helen Nissenbaum, associate director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Therefore Web sites should say, up front, whether they allow anonymous postings, the conference attendees agreed. Ideally, anonymity guidelines would come from the Web communities themselves, similar to professional associations' codes of ethics. Individual newsgroups or each person on the Internet could decide whether to accept anonymous or pseudonymous communications. Gail Dutton is a freelance writer. [Box] Keeping Secrets Anyone can drop a letter in a mailbox or place a call from a pay phone anonymously. On the Internet, however, Internet service providers track each message. Because they can be easily read, they also can be scanned for keywords. "The ease of surveillance on the Internet is unprecedented in the history of communication," according to Lance Cottrell, president of Obscura Information Security ( http://www.anonymizer.com ). Because the act of sending and receiving messages is logged, messages must be remailed assure anonymity. "A message is still vulnerable to traffic analysis," said Peter Wayner, Byte Magazine consulting editor. In practice, remailers receive mail, ignore the "from" part of the address, package it into a uniform size message and mail it to another remailer, who does the same thing. "All messages have to be identified in size and form," Cottrell explained. To ensure anonymity, mail is routed through several remailers, in and out of several countries, before it reaches its destination. When remailers' records are checked, as they sometimes are by U.S. law enforcement officials, there should be nothing that allows the e-mail to be traced, Cottrell said. Another free program, currently being developed by Lucent Technologies, offers pseudonymity for Web browsing by changing a user's name, password and return e-mail address automatically for each site a user logs onto. For example, after logging onto http://lpwa.com:8000/, users can visit Web sites in privacy and any e-mail sent to their return address will be forwarded by the Lucent server to the actual address and "carbon copied" to the pseudonym. Lucent knows who uses the service, but other Web sites do not. [End]

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[SOCIOBIO] Happy PC Holidays
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 22:25:24 -0800 Reply-To: phausman(a)digizen.net Sender: Discussing the Evolutionary Approach to Human Development <SOCIOBIO(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Patricia Hausman <phausman(a)digizen.net> Subject: [SOCIOBIO] Happy PC Holidays To: SOCIOBIO(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Greetings all, Found this on the Internet, and thought it might bring some comic relief to our discussions of late. A very happy holiday season to all of you, My best, PATRICIA HAUSMAN _________________________________________________________________________ > > Political Correctness gone too far... > > The 12 Days of Christmas, Deconstructed > > On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my > potential-acquaintance-rape-survivor gave to me: > > * TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual > drumming. > > * ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of > members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called > for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to > play a note...) > > * TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the > patriarchal ruling class system leaping, > > * NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression, > > * EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing > milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Europeans, > > * SEVEN endangered swans swimming on protected wetlands, > > * SIX enslaved fowl-Europeans producing stolen nonhuman animal > products, > > * FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic > incarceration, > > NOTE: after member of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to > throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens > and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To > avoid further animal-European enslavement, the remaining gift > package has been revised. > > * FOUR hours of recorded whale songs, > > * THREE deconstructionist poets, > > * TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree > carcasses > > * And an Animal Rights activist chained to an old-growth pear tree. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ Christmas: Index | Humour Index | Merton College Home Page ] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Merton College WWW Service, webmaster(a)merton.oxford.ac.uk --- 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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The Worm Before Christmas
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Worm Before Christmas By David Bradley, Betty Cheng, Hal Render, Greg Rogers, and Dan LaLiberte T'was the night before finals, and all through the lab Not a student was sleeping, not even McNabb. Their projects were finished, completed with care In hopes that the grades would be easy (and fair). The students were wired with caffeine in their veins While visions of quals nearly drove them insane. With piles of books and a brand new highlighter, I had just settled down for another all nighter --- When out from our gateways arose such a clatter, I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter; Away to the console I flew like a flash, And logged in as root to fend off a crash. The windows displayed on my brand new Sun-3, Gave oodles of info --- some in 3-D. When, what to my burning red eyes should appear But dozens of "nobody" jobs. Oh dear! With a blitzkrieg invasion, so virulent and firm, I knew in a moment, it was Morris's Worm! More rapid than eagles his processes came, And they forked and exec'ed and they copied by name: "Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On Comet! On Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen! To the sites in .rhosts and host.equiv Now, dash away! dash away! dash away all!" And then in a twinkling, I heard on the phone, The complaints of the users. (Thought I was alone!) "The load is too high!" "I can't read my files!" "I can't send my mail over miles and miles!" I unplugged the net, and was turning around, When the worm-ridden system went down with a bound. I fretted. I frittered. I sweated. I wept. Then finally I core dumped the worm in /tmp. It was smart and pervasive, a right jolly old stealth, And I laughed, when I saw it, in spite of myself. A look at the dump of that invasive thread Soon gave me to know we had nothing to dread. The next day was slow with no network connections, For we wanted no more of those pesky infections. But in spite of the news and the noise and the clatter, Soon all became normal, as if naught were the matter. Then later that month while all were away, A virus came calling and then went away. The system then told us, when we logged in one night: "Happy Christmas to all! (You guys aren't so bright.)"

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

17 Dec '03

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HUMOR: A Bah Humbug (fwd)
by Alan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was send to me by a friend. it was too good not to share... alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: HUMOR: A Bah Humbug Sung to the tune of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" You better watch out, You better not cry, You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping, Your phone. He's buggin your room, He's reading your mail, He's keeping a file And runnin a tail Santa Claus is tapping Your phone He hears you in the bedroom Surveils you out of doors And if that doesn't get the goods Then he'll use provocateurs. So you mustn't assume That you are secure On Christmas Eve He'll kick in your door Santa Claus is tapping Your phone...

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Merry X-Mas
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sung to the tune of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" You better watch out, You better not cry, You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping, Your line. He's buggin your room, He's reading your mail, He's keeping a file And runnin a tail Santa Claus is tapping Your line He hears you in the bedroom Surveils you out of doors And if that doesn't get the goods Then he'll use provocateurs. So you mustn't assume That you are secure On Christmas Eve He'll kick in your door Santa Claus is tapping Your line... Merry X-Mas

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Censorious trends: PICSRules & digsigs & anonymity, starring Feather & Templeton
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12/25/1997 It started out small: PICS, a simpleton rating language. And "for a good cause": ideas about everyone needing digital signatures to use the Net. Then came Clive and others: let's expand PICS to be world-wide, and start reporting items politically incorrect to the police. In comp.org.eff.talk Clive D.W. Feather <clive(a)on-the-train.demon.co.uk> wrote: : I'll declare my affiliations up-front: : * One of the authors of the PICSRules proposal. : * Chairman of the IWF Management Board. : * Member of the IWF Policy Board. : * Associate Director of Demon Internet. : * Managing Director of CityScape Internet. : * Member of the LINX Content Regulation sub-committee. : * Parent of three children. : * Primary school governor. : * Free-speech advocate. Free speech advocate? As long as it has been reviewed first. The FBI has come out in favor of mandatory Key Recovery on all *domestic* encryption in the USA. Reason? : * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * : * [ Al Bayse was assistant director of the FBI's Technical Services : * Division, in charge of spending more than half a billion dollars : * for research, development and computer operations. ] : * : * "Sure", said Al Bayse of the FBI, "I believe there is an absolute : * right to privacy. But that doesn't mean you have the right to break : * the law in a serious way. Any private conversation that doesn't : * involve criminality should be private" : * : * In other words, as the debate was framed by Bayse, the right to : * privacy is at least partly contingent on a determination by an FBI : * agent or clerk that the conversations they already intercepted and : * understood do not involve a crime. PICSRules takes it a step further: review all material, report everything politically incorrect to the police, allow each country to censor to its own tune. An information infrastructure to do so. It will make us long for the days of false hits by current filtering programs, where a White House page was censored because the word "couples" was on it. Decrees will control what we see. In Australia: # From: bobb(a)acslink.aone.net.au (Bob Bain), re: PICSRules # # There are some here in Canberra who seem to view the Internet as an # extension of the "computer game" laws. There isn't a single computer # game that can be marketed in Australia which would be suitable for # adults - due to the fact that somebody in Canberra has decreed it. Can't make an effect decree without a mechanism in place. More on decrees later. ---- Clive Feather wrote: : Information Security writes: : Speaking as one of the authors of the proposal in question, I can quite : confidently say that the *only* purpose of PICSRules is to provide a : convenient and standard notation for writing such rule sets and passing : them around. : >The only stated purpose is to "protect" kids. : Right. : Suppose that there is a secret government plan for "mass global : censorship" of material... Yes, let us suppose there is...what would be a good innocuous name for it? Oh, let's see, how about "Internet Watch Foundation"? One big Evil Eye of Mordor, watching all. Sorry, I'm ahead of myself... It's all for a good cause, right? "Protect the children" ---Clive Feather Clive Feather wrote: : As for a "global rating system", the whole point : of PICSRules is to make one *less* needed. Wrong: PICSRules will allow each country to censor to its own satisfaction. By labeling all content far beyond the control even keywords in the original document would give you. You're not a censor of pornography? # From the Lapdance News Service (a division of ASSCnn)....12/1997 # # LONDON, ENGLAND -- Demon Internet, which claims to be Europe's # largest Internet service provider (ISP), has begun testing an # automated scanning system for Usenet pornography. # # The system relies on data from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), # a UK association of ISPs, which has set up telephone and online # hotlines for members of the public to advise on suspect Usenet # newsgroups and Web addresses. # # "The aim of this new system is to help streamline the process of # finding duplicated illegal material on the Internet and reduce the # number of abusers of the Internet by reporting and removing the # material that has been sent," he said. # # "The software takes an MD5 format fingerprint of each sexually # explicit image that has been posted to the Usenet and has been removed # for legal reasons," he said, adding that, when the software spots the # same fingerprint anywhere else on the Internet, it alerts staff at the # ISP, so they can take appropriate action. # # Plans call for the new software to be used in conjunction with the # IWF's program of identifying, reporting, and removing illegal material # from newsgroups. # # The association is an independent organization to implement the # proposals jointly agreed by the government, the police... Oh, my. Clive Feather is a liar. He is bending over backwards to give the government and the police exactly what they want, just as if it had been legislated. Clive's excuse: this way _newsgroups_ won't be dropped by government decree. Oh, big improvement, Clive. ---- The political whims of the moment will be accommodated. This is quite different from user-local filtering, or allocating just one bit for labeling everything as "child-only" or not. It's not close to something for merely providing user-level filtering. # http://www.internetwatch.org.uk/p040797.html # # IWF PROPOSES A GLOBAL RATING SYSTEM # # David Kerr, IWF's Chief Executive, is addressing government # ministers from Europe, United States, Canada, Russia and Japan at # the Global Information Networks Conference in Bonn on "rating and # filtering Internet content". # # It is advocated in the EU's latest policy paper on # "Protection of Minors and Human Dignity in Audiovisual and # Information Services" and has been suggested as an alternative # approach to protecting children in the USA following the fall of # the Communications Decency Act. # http://www.internetwatch.org.uk/stats.html # # September 1997 statistics: # # o 1600 items reported to other ISPs # o 1800 items reported to the police You reported 1800 items to the police in one month already? Wow. Sounds like you _are_ the police. Their eyes. # http://www.internetwatch.org.uk/legal.html # # The first role of the Internet Watch Foundation is to operate a # hotline service for users to report illegal material on the Internet. Oh, right: enforcing whatever governments pass as law, taking responsibility for content passing through the Net (WWW/Usenet). No matter how silly, stupid, or censorious. -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Also, there seems to be a disagreement between citizens and the Government over what even constitutes child pornography. * The New York Times, 1995 * Newark, NJ, Jan 12 (AP) * * A judge ruled today that a father must stand trial for taking nude photos * of his six-year-old daughter, despite the man's claim that the pictures * were art, not pornography. * * The judge ruled they were not art, despite Mr. Feuer's instructor, Susan * Klechner of the International Center of Photography in New York City, * submitting an affidavit saying the pictures were taken for the course * and were consistent with the assignment. * * After his arrest, Mr. Feuer was ordered not to have contact with his * daughter and could not stay at his home while the prosecution's * investigation continued. * * The order was lifted last April, but David Ruhnke, Mr. Feuer's lawyer, * said "It's really difficult to overstate what a nightmare this has * been for him." * * Mr. Ruhnke further complained that the judge revealed Mr. Feuer's name * in court papers while he was still making motions to dismiss the case, * to protect the girl. Parents charged with child pornography for taking photos of their children. Thought Police. -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Even respected photographers are hassled. -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- We netizens are rightfully paranoid of the American government, because it has no scruples. What the FBI did to photographer Jock Sturges was criminal. Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992: * Hounded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a bizarre witch-hunt * at an expense to the taxpayers of over a million dollars, Sturges had * survived an attempt to destroy his life and his work and was now * countersuing the agency. * * Recapitulated briefly, Sturges, who's based in San Francisco, has for * years been photographing young people whose families practice nudity. * * He's done so with his subjects' permission, as well as that of their * parents, who often appear in the photographs along with their offspring. * Rejecting the use of standard model releases, with their blanket * permissions, the photographer chooses instead to request approval * from his subjects for each and every exhibition and publication * of each and every image --- an exemplary scrupulousness. * * Then, in 1990, alerted to the "questionable" content of some of his * images by a local processing lab, the FBI arrested Joe Semien, Sturge's * assistant, invaded the photographer's San Francisco studio without a * warrant, and seized all his prints, negatives, records, and equipment; * thereafter, without arresting Sturges, or even charging him with * anything, they refused to return his property and did everything * possible to destroy him personally and professionally by branding * him a child pornographer On September 15, 1991, The New York Times reported that the Feds took the case to a grand jury after 17 months, and they immediately threw it out. And that "this was unusual because only the prosecution's evidence is presented to a grand jury and they generally return indictments at the Government's request". Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992: * Jock Sturges: * * It took another month to get the U.S. Attorney to admit they had * finished the investigation and that the case was closed. * * Before they were through they had interviewed forty-four families in * France to whom they lied outrageously. * * It seems the Feds were unable to get the French interested because * the French Police thought the photographs were just lovely. So the * French were given the impression by the U.S. government that I had * been convicted of incest in the United States and that I was a * dangerous individual. * * And based on this assumption, the French Police conducted their own * interviews, but my friends happily knew me well enough. When they * found out they had been misled, the French Police called everybody * back and apologized. * * Nevertheless, an enormous amount of effort was put out in France to * go and talk to all these people and a similar thing was done in * Germany. This was not all free. It was hideously expensive. And the * repercussions --- I don't know what they are yet. I haven't talked * to all the families. * * In the end, everything I received back was essentially destroyed. * * My computer was broken. * * All my prints were badly damaged. * * Some of them had been wadded up and thrown away and then taken out * of the waste basket and flattened out again. It cost Sturges $100,000 in legal fees, loss of major clients, much income, seizure of his life's work, the tools of his trade, and made him feel depressed about his life's work. Our government uses Orwellian terror tactics to control the politically incorrect: Jock Sturges: At my lowest point in this affair, I almost decided to jump from the San Francisco bridge. I had stopped my car. -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Where have I heard that "Human Dignity" stuff before? Oh yeah: Congress passed a law (overturned by the US Supreme Court) called something like "Decency and Honor in the Military", which outlawed selling Playboy and Penthouse magazines from military base stores. And... In comp.org.eff.talk Dave Bird <DevNull(a)xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote: : The European Commission today adopted a proposal for an Action Plan on : promoting safe use of the Internet. [snip] : The Action Plan is closely linked with the Commission Communication and : proposal for a Recommendation of 18 November 1997, which outlines : political measures on protection of minors and human dignity in the : audiovisual services (http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg10/avpolicy/new_srv : /comlv-en.htm). # telematics crimes Ooooh, new terminology for Internet crimes. Your are a telematic criminal. Must have laws to control telematic criminals. Porno bad. Nudity bad. Pretrial publicity bad. (Illegal in England & Canada? Not the USA!) Copyright violations bad. Bad bad bad. http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/internet/wp2en-chap.html#2A # 4. FINLAND # # d. Other initiatives # # 27. The report holds the view that anonymous use of the Internet should # be allowed, however, traceability of persons using the Internet # should be ensured. Oh, great, the Usenet II definition of "anonymous". Anonymity will be under direct attack next. Next thing you know, Chris Lewis will be recommending to the NNTP standards people that each and every user should be identified via a "Sender:" line. # From owner-ietf-nntp(a)academ.com Fri Dec 19 18:43:15 1997 # Cc: ietf-nntp(a)academ.com # From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis(a)nortel.ca> # Subject: re:ietf-nntp Minutes from the WG # # Once authenticated, the server SHOULD generate a Sender: line # using the email address provided by the authenticator if it # does not match the user-supplied From: line. Yep. Chris says he merely wants it for "statistics". Chris Lewis has declared I am on his content-based NoCeM list. I apparently profess views he doesn't appreciate, so I am labeled as "bad" so I can be "filtered". People couldn't possible choose to killfile me on their own. It's just a "global killfile" said someone. Same goes for the whole PICSRules deal...completely unnecessary. PICSRules wants to "objectively" label content. A Senator Feinstein here in the USA keeps introducing a bill to outlaw "bombmaking information on the Internet". * C-SPAN Television, Wednesday June 5th, 1997 * * Andrew Grove, Chairman & CEO of Intel Corporation, is asked whether * bomb-making information should be censored from the Internet. * * "No. The same information is available in libraries, and we don't * censor libraries, nor should we. When I was thirteen I built a * nitroglycerin bomb. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do, * and I knew someone who had their hand blown off, but I am * adamantly against censoring such material." * * "And unlike a library, a parent can buy a program that uses keyword * monitoring to disallow Internet traffic per the parents' wishes. * Such a program is available now, and costs only $29." Mr. Grove was just awarded Time magazine's "Man of the Year". So, one day there's material labeled "adult/bomb info", and the next day: it's illegal in the USA. Only way to do it: require PICSRules filtering at the ISP level. Nothing else scales. : Demon Internet: : "The aim of this new system is to help streamline the process of : finding duplicated illegal material on the Internet and reduce the : number of abusers of the Internet... Filtering software will reduce "the number of abusers"??? # http://www.gilc.org/speech/ratings/gilc-pics-submission.html # # PICSRules 1.1 go far beyond the original objective of PICS to # empower Internet users to control what they and those under their # care access. They further facilitate the implementation of # server/ proxy-based filtering thus providing a more simplified # means of enabling upstream censorship, beyond the control of the # end user. You aren't fooling anyone, Clive. Except maybe yourself. ---- And what was that about getting rid of anonymity, by - at the least - guaranteeing traceability even through anonymous remailers? Brad Templeton, EFF director, has a few ideas of his own: "no fake addresses is one of my non-negotiable requirements...eventual Usenet will require digital signatures" --- Brad Templeton Funny, how MLM companies (yes, ISP accounts are an MLM-able product) including Brad's Clarinet company would like to get rid of short-term ISP accounts too. Brad states he wants commitment and accountability. This EFF director wants all email and Usenet posts signed by your digital signature, a massive control-freak change in the status quo. This twists some of the very technology netizens hoped would protect us to being used against us. *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #1: # I am not talking about law. I am talking about practice. # You want to mail me, you put a digital sig on your mail. # You want to send a posting into my news server, # you put a digital sig on it. *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #2: Brad Templeton emailed: * Information Security emailed: * > Nor does your digital signature idea do anything to prevent * > throw-away accounts from doing major spams; you'll have to * > put even MORE controls on people. * * Correct, no throw away accounts. It's coming. * * > The digital signature idea is an astonishingly bad idea, that * > only frustrated control-freaks will accept. * * You are mistaken. I surveyed a roomful of usenet admins at a * conference last year. They were 95% in favor of it. [I replied that those were the control-freaks I was talking about] *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #3: Brad Templeton emailed, formatted by guy: > As far as I am concerned, no fake addresses is one of my non-negotiable > requirements, because > > the eventual USENET is going to have digital signature requirements. > > It's the only way to stop [people from] posting under fake addresses > where we can't find them, and that means stopping honest users from > doing it too. *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #4: http://www.clari.net/brad/spam.html [snipped] Solutions... First, improve internet mail systems and protocols to identify mail with a fake or forged return address. There are some simple steps to do this, and eventually digital signature allows complete verification of the sender. http://polka.clari.net/usenet-format/cert.html Q: What about anonymous remailers? A: A person with an anonymous address that sends mail back will probably be able to get a certificate. They can post without revealing their name, except perhaps to the person who gives them a certificate. Digital signature works fine to prove the same person sent two messages without saying at all who that person is in the real world. Forced to authenticate they are the same person, even through the anonymous remailer. A certificate by another person needed. I call that traceable. No comment by the EFF. ---- PICSRules is just the first step in putting the entire Net under government control. See how important it is to Brad that ~"people can be found"? Everyone with power becomes a control freak, apparently. ---- Clive Feather wrote: : Modern special effects are quite capable of producing such films : without requiring a real murder. Consider a wide range of recent : cinema releases. No good enough for our rulers, Clive. Video & drawings suddenly considered illegal here in the USA... No new law was passed... -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- The law refers to "lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area". The FBI takes that to mean naked. Obviously. A poorly written bill, interpreted by predatory pinheads. Guess what? 1/18/95 NYT: In a case that did not involve nudity or genital visibility, Attorney General Janet Reno filed a brief with the Supreme Court that said it was not necessary for a child pornography conviction. That is how she interprets the language of the bill. Wow. And I thought Ed Meese was a bad Attorney General. Meese had written to companies like the owners of 7-11 and told them selling Playboy and Penthouse could get them Federal obscenity charges. That was his attempt to get around the First Amendment. 10/3/96 NYT: Because of computers, a bill was passed that changes the definition of child pornography to include generated images that do not involve actual children. Thought crime. Law enforcement child pornography hysteria. Sturges incident: attacked by the FBI Thought Police Squad. Massive corrupt use of governmental law enforcement authority to enforce mere political correctness. Due to its size: by definition not an aberration. It cost one million dollars of our tax money. -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- That's right: the laws can be re-interpreted at any time by the police. In the above mentioned case, Janet Reno's Department of Justice had first filed a brief with the US Supreme Court AGAINST a child pornography conviction for the person involved. During election year politics, over 200 Senators wrote to her and said they'd make a big campaign issue of it if she didn't change her mind. She changed her mind and filed an OPPOSITE brief in the Supreme Court. Sheesh. The "law" is a shifting sand...quicksand for those "on the edge"... "Protect the children" ---Clive Feather Oh, how quickly people forget all the manipulation involved in "protecting children"... -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- On June 19, 1997, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain introduced his own bill (Senator Kerrey co-sponsor) which parrots the Clinton administration's position and forced it to replace the Pro-Code bill. He banged the Drum of War against Child Pornography. * http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly, By Declan McCullagh * * In the end, it was child pornography that derailed encryption legislation * in the U.S. Senate and dealt a bitter defeat to crypto supporters. * * Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), committee chair and chief sponsor of the * measure, led the attack, saying Congress must "stop child pornography * on the Internet." * * He warned that "allowing encryption to be exported would permit child * pornographers to use it." * * "If it's being used for child pornography? Are we going to say * that's just fine? That's it's just business? I don't think so." * * Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO) tried to disagree. "It's like photography. We're * not going to [ban] photography if someone takes dirty pictures." * * At this point, one of the more deaf committee members asked, * "Pornography? Are we going to ban pornography?" * * The Senate Commerce Committee then approved McCain's bill. * * For a committee whose bailiwick is commerce, the senators seemed somewhat * detached from their mandate with business taking a backseat. * Thank you once again, oh Free World Leaders, for that intelligent discourse. * The New York Times, June 15 1997 * * "Washington Kidnaps Dick and Jane - See How Washington Uses Dick and Jane" * * These days much of the nation's political debate focuses on children - or * on the needs and interests of children as defined by politicians. * * Mr. Horn, who was chief of the Childrens Bureau in the Bush Administration * added, "A cynic would say that children are being used as props or proxies." Color me cynical. * "WHITE HOUSE IS SET TO EASE ITS STANCE ON INTERNET SMUT" * The New York Times, By John M. Broder, June 16 1997 * * Administration officials, in a draft report dated June 4 1997, have been * quietly fashioning a new communications policy that leaves most regulation * of the Internet to industry and people themselves, due to an expected * repudiation of the Communications Decency Act by the Supreme Court. * * Reno's people, [beating the Drum of War] told the Supreme Court "the * Internet was a revolutionary threat to children rendering irrelevant all * prior efforts" to protect them from pornography. * * "We all knew at the time it was passed that the Communications Decency Act * WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL," said an anonymous senior government official [yea * anonymity!]. * * "This was purely politics." * * "How could you be against a bill limiting * the display of pornography to children?" -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Ah, yes, how could anyone be against a mega world-wide organization for labeling all WWW and Usenet so it can be reported to the police when the law is reinterpreted for the moment's politically incorrect information? Er, I mean, for protecting children? ---- Anyone wishing a copy of the 'Cryptography Manifesto', email guy @panix.com using subject line 'Requesting Cryptography Manifesto'. It's 519K (about 75 double-sided pages). It documents world-wide spying by the US National Security Agency. Merry Christmas kudos to cypherpunk John Gilmore for putting himself at risk by publishing RSAREF source code on the Net recently. http://www.toad.com/~dnssec He is directly taking on the US National Security Agency. Fred Salchli <fjs(a)mcs.net> wrote: : I heard a brief report on BBC World News last evening that an internal : report has been issued by European Union criticizing the NSA for : bugging ALL of their communications. (Yes, ALL was the word used in the : report!). The BBC mentioned that all communications were being filtered : (voice and data) for key words and phrases, and the EU had some compelling : evidence to support this. Interesting to see what, if anything comes of : this. Awww, the EU is upset the NSA is spying on it... ---guy Just don't say anything illegal, what's the problem? ;-)

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Re: Best Cypherpunk War Text
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>><A HREF=http://www.atsc-army.org/atdls.html> Army Manuals</A> >> >>go to field manuals >> >>you can find all you want and more >> >>igor > >They've restricted it and want full names, addresses, military unit, SSNs, >phone numbers, etc. Anyone have a mirror of it somewhere? Baaaaaaaah humbug. Let me rephrase that: They've restricted some of them and want full names, addresses, military unit, SSNs, phone numbers, etc. Does anybody have a mirror of *those* specific documents somewhere?

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Re: Digital Revolutionaries
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 24 Dec 1997 at 21:47:09 +0100 (MET) TruthKidMonger wrote: "If this is the revolution, why are the drink prices so high?" ~ Patron at New York City guerilla bar "'Cause There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Revolution, kid." ~ Patron's host and tour guide, coiner of TANSTAAFR

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Re: Best Cypherpunk War Text
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

><A HREF=http://www.atsc-army.org/atdls.html> Army Manuals</A> > >go to field manuals > >you can find all you want and more > >igor They've restricted it and want full names, addresses, military unit, SSNs, phone numbers, etc. Anyone have a mirror of it somewhere?

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Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>If anyone wants to drop by #Cypherpunks on EFNet this evening, myself and >others will be around to chat. I suggest we schedule another one for New Year's Day. New Year's Eve is when everybody parties and gets drunk. Also, is there any way to IRC anonymously? The situation is complicated by the fact that IRC, like any real-time communications system, requires real-time stream connections which are traceable back to their sources. CROWDS isn't advanced enough or designed to hide arbitrary TCP/IP traffic, though it could have been.

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Chodorov (was Freedom Forum)
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 23:19:36 -0500 Duncan Frissell wrote: > I sort of like Tim's reasoning. > > It's reminiscent of Frank Chordorov's remarks back > during the McCarthy Era. "If you're worried about > Communists in government jobs; get rid of the > government jobs." Required reading for revolutionaries of the digital era, from a very bright light of the 1950's and one who did much to shape the movement that became libertarianism. Following are two excerpts, the first from commentary on a current Web page, the second from Chodorov's 1954 book. "The Sixteenth Amendment passed because the country thought only the rich would pay. In 1910 William Shelton, a Georgian, wrote that Southerners favored ratification 'because none of us here have $4,000 incomes, and somebody else will have to pay the tax.' This view proved shortsighted. As Frank Chodorov noted in The Income Tax: Root of All Evil: 'At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability-to-pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.'" - www.elibrary.compuserve.com/qotd/10087/fetch/philk_04.htm "Author's Introduction: Argument "Tradition has a way of hanging on even after it is, for all practical purposes, dead. We in this country still use individualistic terms -- as, for instance, the rights of man -- when, as a matter of fact, we think and behave in the framework of collectivistic doctrine. We support and advocate such practices as farm-support prices, social security, government housing, socialized medicine, conscription, and all sorts of ideas that stem from the thesis that man has no rights except those given him by government. "Despite this growing tendency to look to political power as the source of material betterment and as the guide to our personal destinies, we still talk of limited government, states' rights, checks and balances, and of the personal virtues of thrift, industry, and initiative. Thanks to our literature, the tradition hangs on even though it has lost force. "But there are many Americans to whom the new trend is distasteful, partly because they are traditionalists, partly because they find it personally unpleasant, partly because reason tells that it must lead to the complete subjugation of the individual, as in Nazi Germany or Communits Russia, and they don't like the prospect. It is for these Americans that this book is written. They are the "elite" -- the questing spirits who in all times effect revolutionary changes. For a revolution now is certainly in order. And by "revolution" I mean the return to the people of that sovereignty which our tradition assumes them to have. I mean the return to them of the power which government has confiscated by way of the Sixteenth Amendment. "When you examine any species of government intervention you find that it is made possible by revenues. A government is as strong as its income. Contrariwise, the independence of the people is in direct proportion to the amount of their wealth that they can enjoy. We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, or that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment." - F. C. "XII. For Freedom's Sake [excerpted] "Whether there are any mystic forces pushing men along a path from which there is no escape, is a moot question. But there is no questioning the fact that throughout history men have regularly made excursions in quest of freedom, and that every one of these excursions was identified by its leadership. It is a logical inference therefore that when men of that stripe appear on the scene the cause of freedom is not neglected. Perhaps, after all, the present plight of freedom in America is due to lack of leadership. "If, for instance, those who prate about 'free enterprise' were willing to risk bankruptcy for it, even as the men of the Declaration risked their necks for independence, the present drive for the collectivization of capital would not have such easy going. Assuming that they are fully aware of the implications of the phrase they mouth, and are sincere in the protestations, the fact that they are unwilling to suffer mortification of the flesh disqualifies them for leadership, and the case for 'free enterprise' is hopeless. "The present low estate of freedom in this country must be laid to lack of the proper leadership -- to men who know that freedom is and who do not equate it with their own 'standard of living.' Whether or not leadership could have averted, or can still stop, the trend toward socialism, may be open to question; that a glorious fight for freedom might yet enliven the American scene is not. Whether a fight for freedom will be crowned with success, is less important than the fight itself, for if nothing comes of it, the improvement in the spirit of the fighters will be a gain, and they cannot help but keep alive the values that will make America a better climate for their offspring to live in. "There is no accounting for the emergence of these superior men, these "sports of nature," who sporadically shape the course of mankind. They come, as it were, from nowhere, and nobody has yet conclusively explained their advent. But, they come. When in her own time and her own pleasure Nature deems America ready for and worthy of them, she will give us the men who will make the good fight. It seems reasonable to assume that their first objective will be -- Repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment." _the_income_tax_ (subtitled _root_of_all_evil_) by Frank Chodorov, foreword by J Bracken Lee Copyright 1954 by Frank Chodorov The Devin-Adair Company, Old Greenwich CT 06870 Second printing Feb 1963 Third printing Jun 1974 (no ISBN) Although I don't know, I think it likely this precious little book is out of print. We Jurgar Din

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