December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

News from the Front (October Issue)
by news＠sldc.ffg.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

An update to our customers and friends on happenings at ----------------------------------------------------------------------- F O R E F R O N T - Taking the Chaos out of the 'Net http://www.ffg.com Newsletter 10/6/97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: I. News from the 'Front II. Special Offer III. Hot Tip ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I. News from the 'Front WEBWHACKER 3.2 UPDATE! There is a FREE update available via the Internet for users of WebWhacker 3. To receive your FREE update, follow these steps: 1. Launch WebWhacker 2. Click Help 3. Click Update WebWhacker Software... 4. Follow the on screen prompts To check out the new and exciting features in WebWhacker 3.2, visit: http://webwhacker.ffg.com/whatsnewdir/3/ww2whatsnew.html HP ACQUIRES FOREFRONT'S NEXT-GENERATION INTERNET-PRINTING TECHNOLOGY ForeFront's Internet Technology and Printing Development Team will be able to accelerate Hewlett Packard's solutions for easy, fast and reliable Internet printing. http://www.ffg.com/press/9_97hewlett.html FOREFRONT ACQUIRES COMPUTER BASED TRAINING SOFTWARE DEVELOPER LANTEC ForeFront is moving aggressively to expand its presence in the training and education markets. http://www.ffg.com/press/lantecacq.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Special Offer Ever receive files you can't read? Want to print their contents in a useful format, such as a booklet or brochure? ForeFront would like to introduce the ultimate utility bundle: Quick View Plus + ClickBook Now you have access to any file format AND you can print the file's content in any format, including booklets, brochures, and more! How much would you expect to pay for this perfect partnership? Would you believe ONLY $69.95! That's a savings of almost $40 off the regular price of $109.90! Follow this link now to take advantage of this limited time offer: http://store.ffg.com/qvp/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Hot Tip If you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and WebPrinter or ClickBook, you have the ultimate web printing tool! You are capable of printing multiple linked web pages in a book with one click (almost)! Try this: 1. Launch Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 2. Browse to the site you want to print, e.g. http://www.ffg.com/corpinfo/ 2. Click File/Print... 3. Select your ClickBook printer driver from the Name drop down list 4. Check "Print all linked documents" and "Print table of links" 5. Click OK NOTE: make sure WebPrinter/ClickBook is done procesing pages before clicking the Print button. (In this example there should be 11 pages received) This is truly "The best way yet to print the 'Net!" If you don't have WebPrinter yet, then get it! http://www.ffg.com/wp/ For more printing options, try ClickBook! http://www.ffg.com/wp/clickbook.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is only sent to those who requested the newsletter and those who downloaded, registered, or evaluated our software. If you wish to unsubscribe from the ForeFront newsletter mailing list, please visit http://www.ffg.com/press to Unsubscribe.

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bad alter.net routes, backbone vulnerability
by Mark Hedges 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Right now, as reported by PBI NetCenter staff, Alternet has dumped bad routes to all of its peers. AGIS has San Diego and Los Angeles off the air again ... for the third time today ... that's been going on for weeks. I mentioned the WSJ receipt of report from network engineers that the backbones are extremely vulnerable to attack, and said I guess someone's trying to show that crypto's useful for everyone to have, postulating some mythical encryption authentication could protect the routers from attack. He said yup, attack on the backbone network "happens all the time." Mark Hedges Infonex Internet Inc.

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Re: What's really in PGP 5.5?
by Bruce Schneier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jon Calis wrote: >Also, we have three encryption products: PGP freeware, PGP for Personal >Privacy, and PGP for Business Security. Corporate Message Recovery is >included *only* in PGP for Business Security. It is not, and never will >be, in either the freeware or the Personal Privacy product. If this is true (and I have no reason to believe it isn't), then why is the key escrow code written (although not turned on) in the source code for 5.0 that was posted internationally from PGP? Makes no sense. Bruce >http://simson.vineyard.net/clips/96.SJMN.PGPBusinessEdition.html .... > PRETTY LOOSE PRIVACY >[...] > Published: April 2, 1996 > BY SIMSON L. GARFINKEL .... > That has not stopped Zimmermann from complaining loudly about the PGP > name being used in a product that allows someone other than the author > or the intended recipient access to information. Viacrypt owns the > licensing rights to sell the commercial versions of PGP. > > ''PGP does not stand for back doors,'' said Zimmermann. ''I don't mind > if they sell a program that has a back door in it, but they shouldn't > call it PGP.'' >[...] > ''If your employer can read your mail anytime he wants, without your > permission, that goes against the spirit of the PGP trademark,'' said > Zimmermann. ********************************************************************** Bruce Schneier, President, Counterpane Systems Phone: 612-823-1098 101 E Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis,MN 55419 Fax: 612-823-1590 http://www.counterpane.com

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If you want Perfect MISTY algorithm
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you want Perfect MISTY algorithm source code, Please send e-mail to me. Thank you very much. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Internet Via Electric Lines?
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I heard on the ABC hourly news that some genius had figured out a way to use electrical power lines for data transmission, so that the power grid could be integrated into the Internet. Does anyone have any details / pointers? Jonathan Wienke What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" is too hard to understand? (From 2nd Amendment, U.S. Constitution) PGP 2.6.2 RSA Key Fingerprint: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 DSS/D-H Key Fingerprint: 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC Public keys available at pgpkeys.mit.edu. PGP encrypted e-mail preferred. Get your assault crypto before they ban it! US/Canadian Windows 95/NT or Mac users: Get Eudora Light + PGP 5.0 for free at http://www.eudora.com/eudoralight/ Get PGP 5.0 for free at http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pgp-form.html Non-US PGP 5.0 sources: http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ http://www.heise.de/ct/pgpCA/download.shtml ftp://ftp.pca.dfn.de/pub/pgp/V5.0/ ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/pc/win95/pgp ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/mac/pgp http://www.shopmiami.com/utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/pgp/pgp50/win/ RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Cypherpunks Bay Area Meeting, This Saturday October 11th, 12-5+
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What: Cypherpunks October 1997 Bay Area Meeting When: Saturday October 11, 12 noon till 17pm Where: PGP World Headquarters, 2nd floor meeting room Bayview Bank Building, just south of Hwy. 92 2121 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo California http://www.pgp.com/pgpcorp/contactpgp.cgi#head Agenda: 12-1 - Introductions, Work in Progress, Milling About International Law, Electronic Commerce, and Digital Signature, Cem Kaner Virtual Private Networks - Besides FreeSWAN, there's a lot of VPN and other tunneling work in the commercial sector. Besides privacy uses, it makes it easier to handle your Network 10 or Bogus IP Addresses over the Internet. Domain Name Security PGP5.5 - The Product. The politics. Patents - Merkle-Hellman and Hellman-Pohlig expire! Crypto Politics - what is Congress up to this month? Tentative November Agenda and Location: Eric Hughes has arranged with Lawrence Wilkinson, a principal at GBN <http://www.gbn.org>, to do a one afternoon scenario planning workshop on cryptography. Several other GBN people will also be in attendance. We are planning to hold it at the GBN offices in Emeryville, which can hold about 40 fairly easily. After: Eat dinner somewhere yet to be decided... PGP Building Access: This is an Open Meeting on US Soil and it is free for anyone to attend. There is a minor building security formality due to the facilities being in a bank building: anytime after 12 noon, approach the Bayview Building's Information window (in the plaza, see below for directions), and ask the Guard on Duty to let you up to the 2nd Floor for the Cypherpunks meeting (use the passphrase "cypherpunks release code"). If you have any difficulty (eg. if the guard is on a break), simply call DDT at +1 415 730 3583 he I'll let you in. You can arrive at any time during the scheduled meeting hours, though earlier is better if you want to hear the interesting stuff. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: fatmans.demon.co.uk: no data known)
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The original message was received at Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:00:38 -0600 (CST) from orenco23.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.99.23] ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications ----- <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> (unrecoverable error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- <tcmay(a)got.net>... Deferred: Connection timed out during initial connection with mail.got.net. <sunder(a)brainlink.com>... Deferred: Connection refused by mh.brainlink.com. 550 <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk>... Host unknown (Name server: fatmans.demon.co.uk: no data known) <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca>... Deferred: Connection refused by orion.sk.sympatico.ca. Reporting-MTA: dns; wombat.sk.sympatico.ca Received-From-MTA: DNS; orenco23.sk.sympatico.ca Arrival-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:00:38 -0600 (CST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Action: failed Status: 5.1.2 Remote-MTA: DNS; fatmans.demon.co.uk Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:07:10 -0600 (CST) To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: InfoWar 2000 / AOL Format From: The Last True CypherPunk <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 18:04:15 -0600 Organization: "It's a Multi-User Persona whose homepage is a Mirror site." Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Title: The True Story of the Internet Part II The True Story of the InterNet Part III InfoWar 2000 Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Copyright 1997 Pearl Publishing InfoWar Table of Contents InfoWar 2000 InfoWar 2000 "InfoWar is back!" Jonathan cried out, waking the other members of the Magic Circle instantly. They quickly rose and gathered around the GraphiScreen hovering over the old oak table. Subject: Re: [Pigdog] ViaCrypt slowly executes Timmy C. May From: Flesh <flesh(a)pigdog.org> To: pigdog-l(a)arlington.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Does the fireBot work well with the throwemupagainstthewallandaimfortheheadBot? Cowboy recognized the significance immediately. "A thousand Points of Presence." "UUNETWorldCom?" Alexis asked, surprised. Jonathan nodded, adding, "And they're moving faster and quieter than they did in history as we have known it, up to now." He began reading off the list he had compiled in just a short time, "Fiber, Digital Microwave, Satellite, Undersea Fiber Cable. Financial markets, telecommunications, construction, health care, and politics. "They seem to be putting all of the 'usual suspects' under one flag, around the globe." A Player To Be Named Later scanned the series of posts, for the thousandth time. "It's dejavu, all over again." he said, quoting a Yogi Berra malapropism. The feeling had been growing on him The feeling that somehow, everything was the same as beforeonly different. "The Lake of Life has started to turn over. The bottom is rising to the top, the top is descending to the bottom, and everything is becoming the opposite of what it seems to be." A Player To Be Named Later sat quietly, contemplating what it was that had changed, only somehow not changed, since the last time the lake had turned over on the CypherPunks mailing list. He thought about "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs." He began to see the parallel between the history of the creation of WebWorld and the creation of the CypherPunks distributed list. There was the subterfuge which had preceded both the Channel Revolution which foreshadowed WebWorld and the Censorship Crisis which had presaged the CypherPunks distributed mailing list. There were the climaxes that precipitated the structural changes in both cases, the satellite destruction in the one case, and the loss of toad.com as host to the mailing list in the other case. There were the parallels with outside attacks ceasing on both the CypherPunks distributed mailing lists and the variety of Channels on WebWorld, in an attempt to let the citizens/members bond with their new channels/lists. One parallel-or two, depending on how you looked at it-in particular, which stood out in the mind of A Player To Be Named Later. There were three CypherPunks distributed lists-at algebra.com, ssz.com, and at cyberpass.net. Likewise, there was a reference to the Money Channel Government in WebWorld having three channels under its control. Then, there was the strange, strange saga of three religious channels-the God Channel, the Dualist Channel, and the Trinity Channel-which had somehow merged, yet not merged, creating a problem which had left the 'powers that be' very, very nervous. "What the hell happened to Channel War I?" A Player To Be Named Later, asked himself, suddenly recognizing a glaring disparity between the parallels he was drawing between the history of WebWorld and the history of the CypherPunks list. "And what the hell happened to InfoWar?" he asked, turning to Baby, who stood up and barked her agreement that there was definitely something fishy going on that involved the two shadow wars that had somehow been misplaced in the annals of history-one in the future, and one in the past. In 'WebWorld', both the reference to the three Money Channel Governments and reference to the three spiritual channels which became one, yet didn't, revolved around the close of Channel War I. But there didn't seem to be a parallel to Channel War I in the Time-Line of the CypherPunks list. Likewise, 'WebWorld' began with a reference to an 'InfoWar Scrambler Mechanism' which seemed to indicate that 'InfoWar' would play a major part in the history of 'WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs.' Yet there were only a few later references in Part II of The True Story of the InterNet in regard to "the beginning stages of InfoWar," with no further details. A Player To Be Named Later strained to touch the wispy haze of memory which was rising somewhere in the back of his mind-a memory which whispered "InfoWar" from somewhere deep in the heart of the CypherPunks mailing list censorship crisis. "Toto!" he said, suddenly feeling a ferocious stinging sensation behind his right ear, which resulted in a loss of balance as he fell to the floor, and a loss of consciousness as the blackness closed in around him The tattered remnants of the Magic Circle of the future sat quietly around the antique oak table, anxious and depressed. "Why is the Trei Transponder receiving interference from Toto's digital implant?" Priscilla asked the group. "All of my monitoring tests show that the last adjustments we made to the Zooko Zamboni were up to Journeyman standards." "Perhaps it is a result of the differences in the winter climates between the Netherlands and Canada." Jonathan said. "It seems to me that the effects of Global Warming were just beginning to have undeniably noticeable effects in that particular epoch." The Cowboy got up and paced a bit, as the others realized he was working up the courage to say what they were all thinking. "Or.." he hesitated, then turned to face the others and continued, "perhaps the rebirth of InfoWar reflects that our efforts toward changing the past have not only been successful, but are now irrevocable." Jonathan pulled up a passage of 'WebWorld' onto the GraphiScreen, contemplating what he had originally perceived as the failure of InfoWar during the hotly contested battle which took place on the CypherPunks list during the censorship crisis. "January 19, 1997. "The beginning date of the 'moderation experiment' on the legendary CypherPunks mailing list. The beginning probe in preparation for the launching of InfoWar-an experiment which had failed miserably and had caused a delay in the plans of the Evil One. A delay caused by the damnable insolence of the terminal misfits among the CypherPunks. An insolence that was rumored to be fueled by the Circle of Eunuchs, fanning the 'flames' of dissent among the CypherPunks, helping them to resist the herding of their list members into the group-mindset desired by the Evil One." The other members of the Circle of Eunuchs sat still in their seats, not wanting to disturb the deep thoughts of Jonathan, who was indeed the Last True CypherPunk, having grown up at their feet, immersed in their logic and their lore, and whose whole life had been ruled by his connection to the infamous anarchists who had been, alternately, both the shining light of freedom and privacy in their era, and the treacherous instigators of Channel War II-the war which had led to the ultimate triumph of the Gomez and the Dark Allies and the conclusive ascent of the Dark Forces in their domination of WebWorld under the dictum of the Evil One. The room was quiet as Jonathan reluctantly pulled up the next passage of 'WebWorld' which had described his feelings when his bereft past had come back to haunt him. "Jonathan sat frozen in his seat, once again, his brain locked from the major dichotomies being produced as a result of his present-in which the CypherPunks were a villainous band of rogues who had instigated the launching of Channel War II-and his past, in which his grandfather had been exposed both as one of the major players in both the launching of Channel War II, and as traitorous scum who had sabotaged the goals of the CypherPunks in that same historical battle. "Jonathan's grandfather wasn't just a CypherPunk. He was the Fool." "We won" Jonathan's voice trailed off, before he rose from the table and repeated his statement, in anger. "We won, damn it! "I know we won. Grandfather knew we won the censorship battle. Everyone knew that we won the censorship battle. History itself knows that we wonwe" Jonathan stopped short, turning to stare at the others, who were staring back. "Jonathan" Bubba said softly. "History has changed." "I know that, damn it!" Jonathan resumed his pacing, knowing that he was missing something very, very important, but he couldn't for the life of him think what it might possibly be. The others in the room watched and waited, knowing that it was Jonathan, and Jonathan alone, whose heritage was intricately and irrevocably linked to the era in history which they had, for better or worse, interfered in through their use of the Trei Transponder. "Grandfather was a traitor to the CypherPunksa traitor to freedom and privacy. He sabotaged everything that the CypherPunks had fought so hard to defend, since the inception of their anarchist, cryptography mailing list. "But the CypherPunks loved us" Jonathan was lost in memories of a childhood in which he and his family had been forced to remain in constant motion, staying a half-step ahead of the Dark Allies, who had been hunting down the last remaining members of the CypherPunks-with a vengeance. His family had been soundly welcomed by the remaining CypherPunks, in their flight to freedom after his Grandfather's assassination. They had given the family food, clothing, shelter, and warned them when the Dark Allies were closing in, and it was once again time to flee. Duncan Frissell had even Perhaps they all had Jonathan sank to the floor, slowly, with Alexis leaping up and catching him softly. Cowboy helped her guide him toward the table and lower him into a chair. Jonathan slowly pulled off his shirt and stared at his tattoothe Mark of the Toad. "Duncan Frissell arrived at our last safe house, in the middle of the night." Jonathan spoke, finally understanding the real story behind his family's flight into obscurity. "He warned us to flee, but it was too latethe Dark Allies were close at hand." Jonathan's voice was full of amazement as he recounted an event which he had long known, but had never managed to fully understand. "Duncan held the Dark Allies at bay, while we made our escape. I can still hear his screams" Jonathan shuddered, then began shaking terribly. Alexis closed her arms around him, hugging him lightly. "Your Grandfather knew that the CypherPunks had lost the battle." Bubba picked up the thread. The other members of the Magic Circle looked on, mystified as to this strange turn of events which turned the whole history of the CypherPunks and the Circle of Eunuchs on hits head. "It wasn't a censorship battle." the Cowboy said, amazed as much by what he was saying as those listening to him were. "It was InfoWar!" "That's what happened to InfoWar." Alexis cried out, in disbelief of her own words. "It was over before it had begun." Bubba d'Shauneaux IV rose to his feet, and filled in the details of the battle as could only be done by one who had spent a lifetime of subterfuge playing a role which was the exact opposite of what it had seemed to be from surface appearances. "It was the first battle fought solely within the bounds of Virtual Reality." "It represented the true nadir point in history when the battle between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness moved beyond the physical plane and into the minds of mankind." "InfoWar!" he roared, the word reverberated throughout the room, sending the Trei Transponder into a soft hum which grew louder and louder, with a pitch that went lower and lower until it became subsonic, unheard, but shaking the roomthe eartheven WebWorld itself... The Trei Transponder exploded with a mighty boom, shaking the room so violently that the tattered remnants of the Magic Circle were thrown from their chairs, and found themselves rising to see only ruins around them, where their safe house had once been. They immediately realized that they must flee at once, as those investigating the explosion would undoubtedly be the Dark Allies, fully aware that the event had rent WebWorld at the seams. Jonathan paused, weapon in hand, covering the retreat of d'Shauneaux, who had remained behind to remove the last traces of evidence that the Circle of Eunuchs had ever truly been there. As d'Shauneaux joined him, motioning for him to proceed, he took one last look at the shattered remains of the Trei Transponder. All contact with the CypherPunks of the past was now gone, with little hope of it being renewed. Silently, he sent a message to the CypherPunks of his youth-from the bottom of his soul and into the inestimable profundity of the Tao. It was a message that would be understood by those who had been at Woodstock-a physical gathering of a Magic Circle which had come into physical being through a random blessing of Time and Chance. "You're on you own, folksbecause we're sure on ours." Those who fail to learn from the future, are doomed to repeat it. "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet') Soviet Union Sickle of Eunuchs Secret WebSite

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Returned mail: User unknown
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The original message was received at Thu, 9 Oct 1997 06:34:24 +0500 from mail-relay.EU.net [134.222.91.10] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to freenet.bishkek.su.: >>> RCPT To:<fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su> <<< 550 <fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su>... User unknown 550 <fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su>... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; voland.freenet.bishkek.su Received-From-MTA: dns; mail-relay.EU.net Arrival-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 06:34:24 +0500 Final-Recipient: rfc822; fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: dns; freenet.bishkek.su Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 <fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su>... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 06:34:53 +0500 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: InfoWar 2000 / AOL Format From: The Last True CypherPunk <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 18:04:15 -0600 Organization: "It's a Multi-User Persona whose homepage is a Mirror site." Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Title: The True Story of the Internet Part II The True Story of the InterNet Part III InfoWar 2000 Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Copyright 1997 Pearl Publishing InfoWar Table of Contents InfoWar 2000 InfoWar 2000 "InfoWar is back!" Jonathan cried out, waking the other members of the Magic Circle instantly. They quickly rose and gathered around the GraphiScreen hovering over the old oak table. Subject: Re: [Pigdog] ViaCrypt slowly executes Timmy C. May From: Flesh <flesh(a)pigdog.org> To: pigdog-l(a)arlington.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Does the fireBot work well with the throwemupagainstthewallandaimfortheheadBot? Cowboy recognized the significance immediately. "A thousand Points of Presence." "UUNETWorldCom?" Alexis asked, surprised. Jonathan nodded, adding, "And they're moving faster and quieter than they did in history as we have known it, up to now." He began reading off the list he had compiled in just a short time, "Fiber, Digital Microwave, Satellite, Undersea Fiber Cable. Financial markets, telecommunications, construction, health care, and politics. "They seem to be putting all of the 'usual suspects' under one flag, around the globe." A Player To Be Named Later scanned the series of posts, for the thousandth time. "It's dejavu, all over again." he said, quoting a Yogi Berra malapropism. The feeling had been growing on him The feeling that somehow, everything was the same as beforeonly different. "The Lake of Life has started to turn over. The bottom is rising to the top, the top is descending to the bottom, and everything is becoming the opposite of what it seems to be." A Player To Be Named Later sat quietly, contemplating what it was that had changed, only somehow not changed, since the last time the lake had turned over on the CypherPunks mailing list. He thought about "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs." He began to see the parallel between the history of the creation of WebWorld and the creation of the CypherPunks distributed list. There was the subterfuge which had preceded both the Channel Revolution which foreshadowed WebWorld and the Censorship Crisis which had presaged the CypherPunks distributed mailing list. There were the climaxes that precipitated the structural changes in both cases, the satellite destruction in the one case, and the loss of toad.com as host to the mailing list in the other case. There were the parallels with outside attacks ceasing on both the CypherPunks distributed mailing lists and the variety of Channels on WebWorld, in an attempt to let the citizens/members bond with their new channels/lists. One parallel-or two, depending on how you looked at it-in particular, which stood out in the mind of A Player To Be Named Later. There were three CypherPunks distributed lists-at algebra.com, ssz.com, and at cyberpass.net. Likewise, there was a reference to the Money Channel Government in WebWorld having three channels under its control. Then, there was the strange, strange saga of three religious channels-the God Channel, the Dualist Channel, and the Trinity Channel-which had somehow merged, yet not merged, creating a problem which had left the 'powers that be' very, very nervous. "What the hell happened to Channel War I?" A Player To Be Named Later, asked himself, suddenly recognizing a glaring disparity between the parallels he was drawing between the history of WebWorld and the history of the CypherPunks list. "And what the hell happened to InfoWar?" he asked, turning to Baby, who stood up and barked her agreement that there was definitely something fishy going on that involved the two shadow wars that had somehow been misplaced in the annals of history-one in the future, and one in the past. In 'WebWorld', both the reference to the three Money Channel Governments and reference to the three spiritual channels which became one, yet didn't, revolved around the close of Channel War I. But there didn't seem to be a parallel to Channel War I in the Time-Line of the CypherPunks list. Likewise, 'WebWorld' began with a reference to an 'InfoWar Scrambler Mechanism' which seemed to indicate that 'InfoWar' would play a major part in the history of 'WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs.' Yet there were only a few later references in Part II of The True Story of the InterNet in regard to "the beginning stages of InfoWar," with no further details. A Player To Be Named Later strained to touch the wispy haze of memory which was rising somewhere in the back of his mind-a memory which whispered "InfoWar" from somewhere deep in the heart of the CypherPunks mailing list censorship crisis. "Toto!" he said, suddenly feeling a ferocious stinging sensation behind his right ear, which resulted in a loss of balance as he fell to the floor, and a loss of consciousness as the blackness closed in around him The tattered remnants of the Magic Circle of the future sat quietly around the antique oak table, anxious and depressed. "Why is the Trei Transponder receiving interference from Toto's digital implant?" Priscilla asked the group. "All of my monitoring tests show that the last adjustments we made to the Zooko Zamboni were up to Journeyman standards." "Perhaps it is a result of the differences in the winter climates between the Netherlands and Canada." Jonathan said. "It seems to me that the effects of Global Warming were just beginning to have undeniably noticeable effects in that particular epoch." The Cowboy got up and paced a bit, as the others realized he was working up the courage to say what they were all thinking. "Or.." he hesitated, then turned to face the others and continued, "perhaps the rebirth of InfoWar reflects that our efforts toward changing the past have not only been successful, but are now irrevocable." Jonathan pulled up a passage of 'WebWorld' onto the GraphiScreen, contemplating what he had originally perceived as the failure of InfoWar during the hotly contested battle which took place on the CypherPunks list during the censorship crisis. "January 19, 1997. "The beginning date of the 'moderation experiment' on the legendary CypherPunks mailing list. The beginning probe in preparation for the launching of InfoWar-an experiment which had failed miserably and had caused a delay in the plans of the Evil One. A delay caused by the damnable insolence of the terminal misfits among the CypherPunks. An insolence that was rumored to be fueled by the Circle of Eunuchs, fanning the 'flames' of dissent among the CypherPunks, helping them to resist the herding of their list members into the group-mindset desired by the Evil One." The other members of the Circle of Eunuchs sat still in their seats, not wanting to disturb the deep thoughts of Jonathan, who was indeed the Last True CypherPunk, having grown up at their feet, immersed in their logic and their lore, and whose whole life had been ruled by his connection to the infamous anarchists who had been, alternately, both the shining light of freedom and privacy in their era, and the treacherous instigators of Channel War II-the war which had led to the ultimate triumph of the Gomez and the Dark Allies and the conclusive ascent of the Dark Forces in their domination of WebWorld under the dictum of the Evil One. The room was quiet as Jonathan reluctantly pulled up the next passage of 'WebWorld' which had described his feelings when his bereft past had come back to haunt him. "Jonathan sat frozen in his seat, once again, his brain locked from the major dichotomies being produced as a result of his present-in which the CypherPunks were a villainous band of rogues who had instigated the launching of Channel War II-and his past, in which his grandfather had been exposed both as one of the major players in both the launching of Channel War II, and as traitorous scum who had sabotaged the goals of the CypherPunks in that same historical battle. "Jonathan's grandfather wasn't just a CypherPunk. He was the Fool." "We won" Jonathan's voice trailed off, before he rose from the table and repeated his statement, in anger. "We won, damn it! "I know we won. Grandfather knew we won the censorship battle. Everyone knew that we won the censorship battle. History itself knows that we wonwe" Jonathan stopped short, turning to stare at the others, who were staring back. "Jonathan" Bubba said softly. "History has changed." "I know that, damn it!" Jonathan resumed his pacing, knowing that he was missing something very, very important, but he couldn't for the life of him think what it might possibly be. The others in the room watched and waited, knowing that it was Jonathan, and Jonathan alone, whose heritage was intricately and irrevocably linked to the era in history which they had, for better or worse, interfered in through their use of the Trei Transponder. "Grandfather was a traitor to the CypherPunksa traitor to freedom and privacy. He sabotaged everything that the CypherPunks had fought so hard to defend, since the inception of their anarchist, cryptography mailing list. "But the CypherPunks loved us" Jonathan was lost in memories of a childhood in which he and his family had been forced to remain in constant motion, staying a half-step ahead of the Dark Allies, who had been hunting down the last remaining members of the CypherPunks-with a vengeance. His family had been soundly welcomed by the remaining CypherPunks, in their flight to freedom after his Grandfather's assassination. They had given the family food, clothing, shelter, and warned them when the Dark Allies were closing in, and it was once again time to flee. Duncan Frissell had even Perhaps they all had Jonathan sank to the floor, slowly, with Alexis leaping up and catching him softly. Cowboy helped her guide him toward the table and lower him into a chair. Jonathan slowly pulled off his shirt and stared at his tattoothe Mark of the Toad. "Duncan Frissell arrived at our last safe house, in the middle of the night." Jonathan spoke, finally understanding the real story behind his family's flight into obscurity. "He warned us to flee, but it was too latethe Dark Allies were close at hand." Jonathan's voice was full of amazement as he recounted an event which he had long known, but had never managed to fully understand. "Duncan held the Dark Allies at bay, while we made our escape. I can still hear his screams" Jonathan shuddered, then began shaking terribly. Alexis closed her arms around him, hugging him lightly. "Your Grandfather knew that the CypherPunks had lost the battle." Bubba picked up the thread. The other members of the Magic Circle looked on, mystified as to this strange turn of events which turned the whole history of the CypherPunks and the Circle of Eunuchs on hits head. "It wasn't a censorship battle." the Cowboy said, amazed as much by what he was saying as those listening to him were. "It was InfoWar!" "That's what happened to InfoWar." Alexis cried out, in disbelief of her own words. "It was over before it had begun." Bubba d'Shauneaux IV rose to his feet, and filled in the details of the battle as could only be done by one who had spent a lifetime of subterfuge playing a role which was the exact opposite of what it had seemed to be from surface appearances. "It was the first battle fought solely within the bounds of Virtual Reality." "It represented the true nadir point in history when the battle between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness moved beyond the physical plane and into the minds of mankind." "InfoWar!" he roared, the word reverberated throughout the room, sending the Trei Transponder into a soft hum which grew louder and louder, with a pitch that went lower and lower until it became subsonic, unheard, but shaking the roomthe eartheven WebWorld itself... The Trei Transponder exploded with a mighty boom, shaking the room so violently that the tattered remnants of the Magic Circle were thrown from their chairs, and found themselves rising to see only ruins around them, where their safe house had once been. They immediately realized that they must flee at once, as those investigating the explosion would undoubtedly be the Dark Allies, fully aware that the event had rent WebWorld at the seams. Jonathan paused, weapon in hand, covering the retreat of d'Shauneaux, who had remained behind to remove the last traces of evidence that the Circle of Eunuchs had ever truly been there. As d'Shauneaux joined him, motioning for him to proceed, he took one last look at the shattered remains of the Trei Transponder. All contact with the CypherPunks of the past was now gone, with little hope of it being renewed. Silently, he sent a message to the CypherPunks of his youth-from the bottom of his soul and into the inestimable profundity of the Tao. It was a message that would be understood by those who had been at Woodstock-a physical gathering of a Magic Circle which had come into physical being through a random blessing of Time and Chance. "You're on you own, folksbecause we're sure on ours." Those who fail to learn from the future, are doomed to repeat it. "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet') Soviet Union Sickle of Eunuchs Secret WebSite

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Abuse of Authority
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- These excerpts should be useful to those attempting to understand the FBI motivations regarding domestic control of cryptography. - ------------------------------ "The Secret War Against the Jews" by John Loftus and Mark Aarons Pages 181 to 183. Several history books have recorded that American intelligence agencies have conducted wiretaps against U.S. citizens without warrants, but these allegations have concerned operations aimed mostly at the left, particularly Communists and radical black groups. Our sources say that the history books have missed the most important elements of this story of the violation of democratic rights: the systematic electronic eavesdropping employed against American Jews engaged in legitimate political activities. In this chapter we discuss the following allegations: - During World II the covert British wiretap program in the United States against Nazi sympathizers was extended to surveil American supporters of a Jewish state in Palestine. - After the war this program was continued, and massively expanded, as the British gained the cooperation of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal for the illegal collection of electronic intelligence on Zionist activities in the United States. - The once highly secret Communications Intelligence arrangements between Britain and the United States have been deliberately twisted by the intelligence agencies of both countries to allow illegal British wiretaps of American Jewish citizens using American facilities. A reciprocal arrangement exists in Britain. - The illegal campaign against the Jews reached its height during the Reagan-Bush years in the White House, when even Jewish children in summer camp were monitored for "subversive" activities. - Over the years this illegal arrangement has been extended past Jews, Communists, and black radicals, to reach virtually any citizen, including mainstream political candidates, no matter how harmless their activities may have been. The "old spies" say that electronic surveillance of Jews started in 1944, when American Zionists were first wiretapped on a broad scale. The wiretaps were the product of secret wartime agreements between British and American intelligence calling for long-term cooperation to spy on each other's "subversive" citizens. Since that time the bugging of American and British Jews has never stopped. In fact, the wiretaps have been greatly expanded. Our sources, who include a former special agent of the FBI, a former liaison to the NSA, several former NSA officials and employees, a number of former consultants to both American and British intelligence on communications security, and several former officers of the U.S. Army Security Agency, make one point very clearly: <I>For the last fifty years, virtually every Jewish citizen, organization, and charity in the world has been the victim of electronic surveillance by Great Britain, with the knowing and willing assistance of the intelligence services of the United States.</I> This massive and systematic violation of both American and British law has continued, with only slight interruptions, for nearly half a century. As will be seen later in Chapter 12, dealing with the Liberty incident, electronic espionage has been the most deadly threat to Israel's existence from its very inception. It also has been the most continuous criminal violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Bill of Rights (sic). Jews are not the only ethnic group to be wiretapped at their homes or jobs, although, as we shall see, they are the most frequent targets. To put it bluntly, no citizen is safe anymore. Privacy is gone, search warrants are meaningless, the protections of the courts and constitutions have been overthrown entirely, without the knowledge or consent of our legislatures, presidents, or prime ministers. This ugly corner of Western history has never been fully explored before. It is, perhaps, the most shocking revelation of this book. Because of the sensitivity of this topic, we deal with it in some detail from the beginning. Our sources' first thesis is simple. It is not American intelligence that mounted an intensive surveillance operation against Ben-Gurion's arms purchases in the United States, and cut off this promising source of weapons and equipment. It was British intelligence that wiretapped American Jewish citizens without warrants and leaked the information to the FBI. The truth is that the British had been eavesdropping on the United States for a very long time.[2] The advent of British "electronic" espionage against American citizens goes back to the end of World War I. The British knew that money and guns sent by Irish-Americans were making the difference in the Republic of Ireland's war for independence against the British Empire. The British government compelled American telegraph companies to hand over all message traffic, in order that it could obtain intelligence on Irish nationalist and international Communist activities and take appropriate countermeasures. As the heads of the Western Union and other telegraph corporations revealed to a shocked Senate in 1920, the British were reading all American telegrams. Apparently, even official U.S. government communications were included among the material handed over.[3] As a result of these revelations, Congress passed a law making it a crime to intercept telegraphic or diplomatic communications. There the matter rested, along with the false legend of Secretary of State Henry Stimson's edict that "gentlemen do not read each other's mail."[4] Rested, that is, until the early years of World War II. As previously discussed, while the United States remained technically neutral, the British secret service obtained Roosevelt's permission for Sir William Stephenson to establish an illegal wiretap unit in New York to spy on Americans who were aiding the Nazis. As discussed in Chapter 3, several of our sources say that Roosevelt also was using the British wiretap team to dig up dirt on his political opponents.[5] Pages 191 to 192: Hoover was one of the biggest customers of wiretap information from its inception. In fact, the FBI made no bones about its right to listen in to domestic conversations without a warrant. It wasn't until a 1975 court case that the FBI was finally told that they had no legal right to wiretap individuals or organizations without a warrant, unless there was a proven "agency relationship" with a foreign power. In fact, until the stricter 1975 standards, the FBI could wiretap or place surveillance on any Jew who gave money to any Jewish organization that supported Israel. Here is an example of the type of innocuous information that was forwarded to the FBI as a result of their obsessive surveillance of American Jews: EMMA LAZARUS FOUNDATION OF JEWISH WOMENS CLUBS AMONG LARGER DONORS CONTRIBUTING $500 DURING A FUND RAISING DINNER HELD BY THE EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE . . . [ON] DEC 15 1962 AT THE AMERICANA HOTEL NYC IN CELEBRATION OF THE 171ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS[43] Apparently, Jews who celebrated the Bill of Rights were considered potential, if not actual, subversives. That remains FBI policy to this day. The FBI refused to accept the restrictions from an adverse 1975 court ruling and leaked its view to the media in a 1977 memo. The FBI still defended its right to spy on person who "might" be supporters of a foreign power, or even anyone in the country who "might" be influenced by a foreign power.[44] Pages 194 to 195: In 1982, shortly after President Reagan agreed to rescind the Carter-era restrictions on domestic Communications Intelligence operations, the FBI was asked to record all information on "potential" Jewish subversives. As one source wrote, the wiretapping had nothing to do with Pollard: "the arrest of Pollard [in 1985] was used as a pretext to expand a supposedly closed-down illegal covert operation by the FBI called 'SCOPE' whose purpose was to compile lists of Jews in government, research, and institutional leadership, et al. This operation was revealed publicly in 'The Wall Street Journal', January 17, 1992."[54] This source believed that "The Wall Street Journal" article was really an exercise in damage control, an attempt to shift the blame back to James Jesus Angleton and conceal the ongoing wiretapping. While there is some dispute about when and why the bugging resumed, the consensus of our sources is that the modern version of Operation Gold is horrendous. The FBI's collecting has gone beyond the pale of what could be considered legitimate intelligence gathering. In addition to rosters of major contributors to Israeli funds, the Bureau has targeted the innocuous activities of children. "It's just gotten out of hand. . . . I saw FBI records where they collected lists of kids going to Jewish summer camp."[55] Other government officials who reviewed the FBI's "counterterrorist" program against American Jews said that while they did not catch any terrorists, they collected a lot of information on Jewish lobbyists.[56] Another NSA source alleged that the FBI had custody of the Jewish surveillance files because a recent law made the FBI's "counterterrorism" files completely exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, under a special counterintelligence loophole.[57] Under the FBI's broad definition of an espionage suspect, anyone who communicates with a foreign government - for example, who calls a relative in Israel or donates to a charity that sends funds to Israel - - gets swept up in the electronic vacuum cleaner. "Pollard paranoia" swept through the intelligence community, brushing aside the Bill of Rights. Selected footnotes for Chapter 8, "Spying on Zion". [2] Confidential interviews, former officer, the NSA; former special agent, FBI, 1982-1989. [3] "'In July 1919 . . . when British censorship ceased, we were ordered by the British government to turn over to them all messages passing between our own offices, 10 days after they were sent. . . . they wanted these messages only for such supervision as might give them an inkling of pending disorders within Great Britain, I assume having to do with Irish unrest, and also to do with Bolshevik propaganda.' "Asked by Senator Kellogg whether the messages turned over to British intelligence included United States government communications, the cable chief buckled. 'If you don't mind, I would not like to answer that,' he pleaded. 'It puts my company in a very embarrassing position with the British Government.'" James Bamford, "The Puzzle Palace" (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), pp. 329-330. [4] Ibid., p. 40. As one [of] our sources, an expert on NSA history, pointed out, Stimson did not make that remark at the time. It first appeared in a post-World War II biography. [5] Confidential interviews, former NSA officer; former Special Agent, FBI, 1982-1989. [44] Bamford, "The Puzzle Palace", p. 297 [44] "The foreign influence thesis became a courtroom issue in the Spring of 1977 with the Kearney wiretapping and mail interception indictment [charges later dropped] based on FBI efforts to locate and apprehend the Weather Underground fugitives. A 400-page 'top secret' report . . . was prepared by FBI researchers and leaked to the press to establish that no crimes were committed because [of] inherent executive power, unrestrained by legal or constitutional requirements. The taps and mail interceptions, the report argued, were legitimate counter-intelligence practices sanctioned by a reservation in the Keith case, excluding targets with 'significant connections' with a foreign power. . . . In June 1975, the vague language of Keith was sharpened by an appellate court ruling (Zweiborn v. Mitchell) that mere influence or support of a foreign power did not deprive a domestic group of the protection of warrant requirements in the absence of a showing of an actual agency relationship or collaboration." Donner, "The Age of Surveillance", p. 279. [54] Confidential source letter, January 7, 1993, p. 3. [55] Confidential interview, agency withheld to prevent identification. [56] Confidential interviews, current and former officers in several government agencies that liaise with the FBI, including but not limited to Defense, State, and Justice departments. 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Re: Internet Via Electric Lines?
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Ian Sparkes <ian.sparkes(a)t-online.de> > Peter wrote: > >[...] Putting a few optical > >fibers into a power line is cheap, easy, and widely done. > > But much cheaper and easier is using the signalling gulleys that run > along the side of the railways - no High Tension precautions, no > scaling pylons. This, incidently is the reason that a number of > telecomms consortia (in europe, at least) include a railway element - > they provide the long-haul backbone. It looks like we're seeing different parts of the problem. You're worried about the long-haul backbone. I'm trying to see ways to get a 10Gbps fibre into my living room. The backbone cost is a tiny fraction of the cost of getting fiber into every house in the country. > [...] > >Also, employees have to be trained to splice optical fibers and > >install routing equipment, and millions of miles of power lines and > >hundreds of millions of junctions need to be replaced or reworked. > > And that's the 'cheap & easy' mentioned above? Building a few optical fibers into a cable as it is being manufactured is cheap and easy, as is using fiber-equipped cable if you are installing new lines, or replacing old ones for other reasons (installation costs are usually far higher than the cost of the line itself). It's hooking up all the fibers into a meaningful network that gets expensive, which was my point. Peter Trei

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Re: Internet Via Electric Lines?
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > From: Jonathan Wienke <JonWienk(a)ix.netcom.com> > I heard on the ABC hourly news that some genius had figured out a way > to use electrical power lines for data transmission, so that the power > grid could be integrated into the Internet. Does anyone have any > details / pointers? > Jonathan Wienke I've heard of two methods; one is to transmit the data as a high frequency FM signal along the wire. The other is to use power lines which include an optical fibre. Both have problems. The FM signal has difficulty going through transformers (there are lots of transformers, with the final step-down usually occuring at a pole-top near your house). Also, you have to be very careful about isolating the data output from the power line: an error could send 110VAC into your serial board. I haven't heard of this method being used on a wide scale, but it might work as a LAN. The optical method may actually be implemented. Putting a few optical fibers into a power line is cheap, easy, and widely done. The idea was originally that power companies could read your electrical meter remotely, but the bandwidth available is gross overkill. Thus they are also thinking of adding Cable TV, telephony, and data services. There are still problems. You are basically building a data network on top of the power grid, and the topologies don't really match up. Also, employees have to be trained to splice optical fibers and install routing equipment, and millions of miles of power lines and hundreds of millions of junctions need to be replaced or reworked. There was a rosy article about this in Wired a few years ago. I have heard nothing since. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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Re: russia_1.html
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Jonathan Wienke <JonWienk(a)ix.netcom.com> > At 09:37 AM 10/6/97 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: > >At 3:01 AM -0700 10/6/97, Peter Trei wrote: > >>The plutonium cores of thermonuclear devices have a limited shelf > >>life - he claimed 6 years, which jibes with what I've heard from > >>other open sources. Fission products build up in the cores which > >>can poison a chain reaction. Thus all Pu based devices need to have > >>the cores periodically removed and replaced with new ones, while the > >>old ones have to go through a non-trivial reprocessing stage to > >>remove the fission products. > > > >I think this comment is in error. Plutonium has a half life on the order > >of 250,000 years, so very little decay products would build up in 6 years. > >The tritium used in thermonuclear weapons has a much shorter half life, and > >would need to be replaced about that often. > > One of the decay products of tritium (half-life: 12.5 years) is Helium-3, > which aggressively absorbs neutrons and poisons the fission reaction of the > plutonium. If one has access to more tritium, which is commercially > available for about US $50,000 per gram, the existing tritium can be > purified and combined with the new tritium to bring the bomb back to full > power. If someone has the resources to obtain the bomb in the first place, > refreshing the tritium probably wouldn't be a major problem. > > > Jonathan Wienke I conceed that it may not be the Pu decay products that cause the limited shelf life of thermonuclear weapons; I suspect that it may be components of the 'pit', which produces the initial burst of neutrons to kick of the reaction (the pit is effectively a small fission bomb). This 'pit' may contain tritium (pit design is a very well guarded secret, and I've seen very little about it in the open literature). > If someone has the resources to obtain the bomb in the first place, > refreshing the tritium probably wouldn't be a major problem. I disagree. A terrorist could obtain a bomb by being given it, stealing it, or buying it as a turnkey system. However, I suspect that anyone with the facilities to recondition one of these weapons could also build one from scratch. I don't know if it's comforting or worrying knowing that these devices degrade - any in the hands of terrorists have a limited time that they are a threat, but that fact may pressure a terrorist to 'use it or lose it'. Peter Trei

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None
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For what its worth; Australian Financial Review 8-10-97 http://www.afr.com.au/content/971008/inform/inform5.html ********************************** Power play to plug in the Internet In what could usher in a new era of competition between telephone companies and electric utilities, engineers have developed a breakthrough technology that lets homeowners make phone calls and access the Internet at high speeds via the electric outlets in their walls. If the technology from United Utilities plc and Northern Telecom Ltd proves commercially viable, it could transform power lines around the world into high-speed conduits on the information superhighway. Because electric utilities are wired into virtually every home and business, the new technology could provide easy entry into the phone and Internet access businesses, thus posing a serious threat to current providers of those services. United Utilities, a power company, and Northern Telecom, a Canadian maker of telecommunications gear, confirmed that their system was "ready for mass market", but declined to reveal details. The two companies have tested phone service over power lines in about a dozen UK households over the past 12 months -- with positive results, according to Alistair Henderson, chief of technology at Energis plc, the telecommunications unit of National Grid Group plc. AP-Dow Jones =A9 This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited. ********************************** Ooops i didnt know my mailer was loaded orifacer

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privacy rights: giving away the store
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- do you believe this? so what happened to our privacy? the man screams about privacy and encryption one minute, then: > What if I told you there's one easy thing you can do to make > your 1998 Internet experiences simpler and safer? Get a > digital ID. Jesse Berst, ZDNet AnchorDesk, full story at http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_1324.html really? > Also called digital certificates, digital IDs (DIDs) are > like electronic passports -- universal ID cards that prove > your identity to anyone who needs to know. You get a DID > from an independent certificate authority such as VeriSign, > which performs a background check first. just what I wanted, a fucking background check. nice schill, Jesse. OK, I'll call my broker and buy Verisign stock. they're going to be worth bocu bucks taking over the fascists' National ID project. > ...Most Web servers have it already. Most email programs > will have it by the end of the year. And both major > browsers... gee, that's clever. but The NYTimes, The Times [London], the Telegraph, and so on, already log me in immediately with a cookie I authorized. why do I need certified identity? even Wired mag knows me as Attila T. Hun. interNIC knows me as Attila T. Hun, I even get mail to my drop box as Attila T. Hun.... My check writer can even print checks as Attila T. Hun (the bank does not care what the name on the check is --just the MICR numbers). > ...Your bank knows for sure that it's really you... sure, after I enter my password... so what's the big deal? that's all I do now. automated, too. > Simpler Surfing. Sick of separate names and passwords > for each site? A single DID will authenticate you for > any site that supports the technology -- about 20,000 at > last count, including Netscape Netcenter, Internet > Shopping Network, K-Mart, Cellular One and many others. OK, but I still must ID my system with my National-ID card available from the cookie wash. I dont see any place to turn it off! bastards! --they've implanted it under my skin. why? so big government or big business can really catalogue my political views by the stories I read? maybe it's my anti-authoritarian, psychotic behaviour and rants against fascist oligarchies, or, maybe because I post to Cypherpunks? > ...you'll help the Internet make an important transition > --from a fun place to surf to a safe place to do business. aah haa! I knew there was a reason for all this hoopla! What's good for Bill Gate$ is good for the country. ...uuh, sorry Mr. AL (GM) $loan; I meant to quote you correctly: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." > A safer Internet is at hand. All you have to do is seize it. no, jesse, you got that one wrong --the coy fascist dog F[reeh,uck] just seized you --and the rest of the suckers that fall for Verisign's National-ID. attila still going out... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNDuu5704kQrCC2kFAQFXxgQAo/THjROjaWOCEdsFD0K9Yy1SXu6G2I3Z W7GDfTEv4bwalBUSwzHQJjPNcfrYnRoNpxkWm+kHiqolvoJP2XKtk89tnTumwyvK EfBLPbxRz0lfsXmxy5iNJXWEyJ1Tb3mYbu5CQuAhkWpFhP4xVaRsVSDzCzkmtnBs 7YRH8+KSwoI= =piYW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Jackbooted Posturing in Panama
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Five years after the US military murdered thousands of Panamanian civilians, and bulldozed their bodies into mass graves prior to the arrival of the press, the US is again demonstrating its unmitigated arrogance on the world scene by staging a show trial of a Panamanian citizen accused of killing a US soldier. Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, the son of a prominent Panamanian politician. Gonzalez, who was at a demonstration protesting Bush's impending visit, denies any connection to the incident in which a US vehicle was sprayed with gunfire. He has been in hiding since the 1992 incident, fearing he could not get a fair trial from the US-installed Panamanian government. At the time, the US government promptly termed the killing of the US soldier a "terrorist act", and offered a $100,000 reward for the identity of the perpetrators. The pretense for the US invasion, and subsequent massacre, as announced on television by President Bush, was that Panamanian soldiers had kicked a US soldier who had run a roadblock. The hidden agenda was retaining US control over the Panama canal after it appeared relations between the US and Panama might turn sour. In addition to killing thousands of civilians, the US also kidnapped Panama's President, Manual Noreiga, and convicted him in the United States of various vague drug-related charges, after installing a regieme sympathetic to the United States. Gonzalez faces 20 years in prison if convicted. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Re: russia_1.html
by Bill Frantz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:01 AM -0700 10/8/97, Peter Trei wrote: >I don't know if it's comforting or worrying knowing that these >devices degrade - any in the hands of terrorists have a limited >time that they are a threat, but that fact may pressure a terrorist >to 'use it or lose it'. What I have heard about these suitcase nukes is that they yield about 1-2 kilotons. I know of no technical reason for them to be thermonuclear devices. As such, the decay of tritium would not seem to affect them. (They will still need a source of neutrons, which might go bad faster than the plutonium/U235.) I feel very little comfort. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Internal surveillance | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | helped make the USSR the | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | nation it is today. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: What's really in PGP 5.5?
by Jim Russell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The swirl of controversy that has arisen since the 2 Oct announcement of the PGP Business Security Suite has been quite amazing. Yet, all of the focus has been on what's been *added* to PGP v5.5. Jon Callas said it explicitly: >>Corporate Message Recovery is included *only* in PGP for Business Security. What sense, then, can I make of the following? I have been examining the published source code for PGP v5.0 for Personal Privacy (note that this is *not* a corporate version), and have discovered that this recovery scheme already appears to be in place, in some form at least, in that version. The following code appears in the published pgp.c, lines 518-537: /* * This is our version of "Commercial Key Escrow". * * A company can set the CompanyKey in the site-wide * configuration file and it will be added to the * recipient list for all encrypted messages. Then * again, the user can override the setting in their * own pgp.cfg or on the command line. */ companyKey = pgpenvGetString (env, PGPENV_COMPANYKEY, NULL, NULL); if (companyKey && *companyKey) { /* Add the company key to the recipient list */ e = ringSetFilterSpec (ui_arg->arg.ringset, ringset, companyKey, PGP_PKUSE_ENCRYPT); if (e <= 0) exitUsage(e); } This certainly *looks* like the implementation that is being discussed in the press release, although I did not find it mentioned in any documentation for PGP for Personal Privacy v5.0. The questions this code brings to my mind are: 1. Does this mean that even the Personal Privacy versions of PGP have a message recovery scheme available? The 2 Oct press release from PGP states that the corporate message recovery "transparently integrates with *any* version of PGP client software". (Emphasis mine). 2. If this is implemented via a configuration setting, does it provide an opportunity for an attacker to reset the "CompanyKey" to their own key? In the Windows environment, it appears that PGP uses the System Registry to hold configuration settings. Is it possible for me to trick someone into running a .REG script that will set the CompanyKey to a key to which I hold the private component? 3. This appears to me to be quite contradictory to the descriptions posted by Jon Callas on 7 Oct. The procedure that Jon describes, using an attribute in the self-signature, would tell an encryptor external to The Corporation to use the "skeleton key" on INCOMING mail. The 5.0 code seems to imply an automatic extra recipient on OUTGOING mail, and this impression is reinforced by the description of the SMTP server policy enforcement in the 2 Oct product description on PGP's web site. (Let's not forget that SMTP is a protocol for OUTGOING mail.) Which is it, or is it actually both? Now, I realize that the long-time PGP users, the computer experts who can take the source code and recompile the application, could simply remove any sections they don't like, or go into the configuration settings and change everything to their liking. However, isn't encryption supposed to be moving to a new target audience, the people who use a computer as a tool, and don't necessarily know the internals? These are the people who need to feel secure using encryption, and magic, invisible encryption to a third-party is probably not going to give them warm fuzzy feelings. Jim Russell <jrussell(a)syndata.com> Senior Engineer SynData Technologies, Inc. http://www.syndata.com

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Question
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:24:51 -0400 From: alain(a)research.bell-labs.com (Alain Mayer) To: rah(a)shipwright.com Subject: Question Hi Bob, stypid question: how to I post a message to the Cypherpunks. I have an announcement on a new method to fight junk e-mail, which has been integrated in LPWA (nee Janus). See below Best, -- Alain Hi, we are Bell Labs researchers announcing a method to help you combat junk e-mail (spam) via a new kind of e-mail address, termed a target-revokable e-mail address. Every time you give out your e-mail address, e.g., when you register at a Web-site or post to a Usenet newsgroup, there is a risk that your address will end up in the hands of an e-mail a marketeer or spammer. Until now, you had no way to undo giving out your e-mail address. Target-revokable e-mail addresses effectively let you do that. Currently, most e-mail users typically have a very small number of e-mail addresses. For example, one at the office and one for private use with an ISP at home. In contrast, the principle behind target-revokable e-mail addresses is that each user has many e-mail addresses. In fact, users can have a different e-mail address for each group or entity with whom they interact. Furthermore, target revokable e-mail addresses are defined such that a recipient of such an address cannot guess other target-revokable addresses belonging to the same sender and destined for different groups. Target-revokable e-mail addresses have been integrated with LPWA for easy use with Web sites and Usenet newsgroups (more application to follow at a later date). The Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (LPWA, formerly known as Janus) is a new tool that provides you with privacy, convenience and security when browsing the Web. LPWA is having a highly successful test run, having won PC Magazine "Developer's site of the Week Award". For more info and instructions on how to use target-revokable e-mail: http://lpwa.com:8000 ==================== --- 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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Thanks Peter! / Re: russia_1.html
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Peter Trei wrote: > I conceed that it may not be the Pu decay products that cause the > limited shelf life of thermonuclear weapons; I suspect that it may > be components of the 'pit', which produces the initial burst of > neutrons to kick of the reaction (the pit is effectively a small > fission bomb). This 'pit' may contain tritium (pit design is a very > well guarded secret, and I've seen very little about it in the open > literature). Peter, I lost your email address when I spilled Scotch on my computer and lost all my data, so I thought I'd send this to the CypherPunks list. Thanks for explaining to me how to decide where the 'yellow' wire goes. My 'you know what' ought to work now (but I'm not going to try it at home, kids...heh...heh). I'm going to go to Washington as soon as I get my cast off. I left in on an extra week since I make more money spare-changing since I got it, and now I have enough to take a bus to 'you know where,' DC. Tell Declan that he should probably go visit his mom, or something, like next Friday, until at least Monday (because that's when my mom leaves Washington, 'you know where.'--{boy, is *she* going to be sorry she grounded me on my uncle's weekend away from the 'Home'.}) My uncle's going to be mad when he finds out I took his suitcase, but he couldn't even get his Heathkit radio to work, and I *almost* did. Besides, you should never trust anyone over fifteen, eh? (And these things are dangerous in the wrong hands, eh?) Human Gus-Peter p.s. - Cynthia still hasn't answered me as whether or not she is wearing any panties. Is she stuck-up, or something? p.p.s. - I wonder if Dimitri thinks its suspicious that your first name is the same as my last one. Of course, if he thought we were doing what John-John do, then ? the Playpus would call you a pedal-file, eh? (Unless you were doing it to a girl my age, and then he would call you a 'petal-file.') {<-- that's a sexist joke}

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Re: your mail
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Immoral Cryptographers vs. Kindlier, Gentler Cryptographers
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In April, Premier Lien Chan of Taiwan ordered a crackdown on the national craze of public betel-nut chewing, which he said was responsible for mouth cancer, slimy sidewalks when they are spit out, and immorality, in that they are mostly sold by young, underdressed women at sidewalk stands. The betel nut is reportedly a mild stimulant and is slightly more expensive than a cigarette. * The Washington Post reported in May that some tribes in Yemen routinely kidnap tourists and hold them for days, though treating them well, regaling them with propaganda, and ultimately offering them to the government in exchange for political concessions, such as new road construction. Said the speaker of the Yemen parliament, "Kidnapping is part of tourism. [The] tourist will end up learning about the customs of the tribes, as well as their good hospitality." ------ To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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Re: Internet Via Electric Lines
by Ian Sparkes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 12:06 08.10.97 -6, Peter Trei wrote: >> Ian Sparkes <ian.sparkes(a)t-online.de> > >> Peter wrote: >> >[...] Putting a few optical >> >fibers into a power line is cheap, easy, and widely done. >> >> But much cheaper and easier is using the signalling gulleys that run >> along the side of the railways - no High Tension precautions, no >> scaling pylons. This, incidently is the reason that a number of >> telecomms consortia (in europe, at least) include a railway element - >> they provide the long-haul backbone. > >It looks like we're seeing different parts of the problem. You're >worried about the long-haul backbone. I'm trying to see ways to >get a 10Gbps fibre into my living room. > >The backbone cost is a tiny fraction of the cost of getting fiber >into every house in the country. > Maybe in retrospect I was just tugging your leash a bit, for which I apologise. I agree, in principle there are few entities which are more aptly placed than the power utilities to provide a roots to leaves high- capacity network into your home. Telephone companies could do it, although the very final stage in the link (twisted copper) is a capacitive load, and therefore not very well suited to high frequencies. Power wires, on the other hand, would exhibit better properties and are universally installed. The solution, however, must be a fibre/copper hybrid. The trick will be getting the bridges between fibre/copper and copper/copper (across the step-downs) cheap and reliable enough. This is probably the breakthrough. The post from Judith Lewis seems to hint at about 0.5MB/s. Good enough for your average Joe. Sorry for the obtuseness of my reply. Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNDu6gvzOjjBJiFUeEQIewACdGPe87UKBq7aGRkFew/02fHNBwh0AnAqN eidJ2PV2IVO05Gg+ZSXD9NRI =RxdS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Need Info
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

sampler-request(a)lmboyd.com wrote: > ====================================================== > Q. Can you confirm the claim that a ferocious bull won't > attack a naked human being? > A. Hard to find an authority on this. Those who know > won't explain the circumtances wherein they found out. > Such has been reported, though. snow? Zooko? Anyone...? > LMBoyd Web Site / U. S. Newspapers / Start Email / Stop Email > http://www.LMBoyd.com/postscript.htm

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17 Dec '03

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The 5th Horseman: Cryptoanarchist doctors.
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I don't often get Forbes, but the Oct 6 issue caught my eye. Leafing through it, I found something fun in the letters column. It's in response to a 'fact & comment' column in the Sept 22 issue, the core of which is: ---------------- Here's how this basic attack on our personal freedom will work: A doctor who provides medical services to a Medicare-eligible patient without billing Medicare must sign an affidavit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services that he or she will not treat a single Medicare patient for the next two years. Any doctor found treating both Medicare patients and Medicare-eligible private patients will be subject to fines and perhaps prison. As Moffit points out, Section 4507 is "deliberately designed to make private contracting and medicine all but impossible except for physicians who reside in very wealthy communities." Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) correctly observes that this prohibition is the equivalent of Social Security's barring retirees from dealing with stockbrokers: "Surely, a law that made it illegal to supplement with private funds the amount received from Social Security would be met with disbelief and derision." Yet that is the equivalent of what this Medicare regulation does. ------------------ The letter reads: SIR: I have been treating Medicare patients for cash without filing Medicare claims for years. I do not intend to stop. If the government receives no forms, how will it know that a beneficiary received care from me? And the feds can't seize my records. They are all computerized and encrypted. Anthony A. Cassens, M.D Los Angeles, Calif. --------------------- Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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