December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Steve, Can I forward your questions to another technology list I support as well as the local high performance rocketry group I'm involved in? I believe they would be intriqued by your questions. Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:56:33 -0800 > From: Steve Schear <schear(a)lvdi.net> > Subject: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 (fwd) > > >ANOTHER VERSION OF QUANTUM TELEPORTATION is [text deleted] > I wonder how far off use of this technique for interplanetary rovers might > be (10 years, 20 years)? Remote (Earth) rover manipulation is tedious at > best due to several minutes (or an hour or more to the outer planets) of > propagation delay. As I understand the process you don't get around the speed-of-light issue because the control channel still needs to be sent via radio or laser or whatever. This was discussed in the in the original teleportation announcement. However, I don't see anything that would keep you from syncing two atomic clocks and then using them to make the changes in sync, this should allow the imposition of the speed of light only on initiation and occassion syncronization. I'll have to beg ignorance on specifics as I haven't had the time to really dig into specifics. I haven't even read the primary references to date. > Autonomous rovers need enough smarts built-in to handle > unexpected situations, a non-trivial problem. An alternative is to > establish a link using entangled photons. If a simple approach to saving > these entangled states during signal transit, in both directions, were > found instantaneous communication and simplified remote control would be a > reality. Agreed. It would also solve many terrestrial problems as well. > Of course one needn't stop there. If entangled states could be stored for > several years, instantaneous communication with neighbooring stars is a > real possibility. Coupled with advances in mind-machine science it might > someday be possible to explore, first-hand, our local portion of the galaxy > without leaving earth, or upload/download one's consciouness to vessels in > remote locations. True, but it would be boring compared to being there first person. I do support robot exploration as a precursor to manned exploration. > Speaking of which, do the current SETI programs check for signal modulation > using polarization. >From what little I have delved into this, most signals coming in from 'out there' as well as from satellites are circularly polarized. This is the reason that the antennas have those curly-ques on them (look like a cork-screw sorta). The last time I even messed with extra-terrestrial signals was the SL-9 impacts. I worked with several amateur groups using plane (flat rectangular) loop antennas to measure the increase in the background noise in various bands (we used a HP spectrum analyzer at my site) during the impacts. What we saw was a 'jump' across the band of several db's just at the time-of-flight times we expected. The assumption being this was caused by the impacts. We monitored 1MHz to 10MHz. I found it pretty impressive. We got, if memory serves, around 6 of the large impacts. > If we've discovered this trick, sure so have other > intelligent life forms. Most natural sources of radiation tend to > unpolarized, so a rapidly flucuating polar modularion might easily appear > to be noise. I'll have to disagree, all forms of E-M radiation that I am aware of are polarized to some frame of reference. The E-M fields after all are orthogonal. The question is which field you want to pick as a reference and the relationship of source to sensor. Circularly polarized (ie the fields rotate around the axis of transmission at some rate) are about the only sort that would appear essentialy the same irrespective of reference frame. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: sat survailience
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:06 PM 1/27/98 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote: > > >--- begin forwarded text > > >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:55:09 -0500 >From: Somebody >Subject: sat survailience >To: rah <rah(a)shipwright.com> >MIME-version: 1.0 > >Bob - something else to be paranoid about! ><somebody's .sig> ><snip> > >When Is a Satellite Photo An Unreasonable Search? > >By <some reporter> IMPORTANT INFORMATION RESTORED AFTER INEXPLICABLE DELETION: >Staff Reporter of WALL STREET JOURNAL> ... ETC ...

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Re: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:34:48 -0800 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 > (fwd) > Nothing in quantum teleportation has been shown to propagate signals faster > than light. (If you don't believe me, look into it. Start by reading the > FTL discussions about Bell's Theorem.) The actual transportation of the state is instantanious as it must be by quantum theory, just as the change in orbits of an electron occurs instantly. However, the catch is that the command/synchronization channel must be sent in parallel and it at some point can't use the quantum transportation technique and hence the speed-of-light comes back into play. This was specificaly discussed in the original quantum transportation announcement sent out by AIP. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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RE: Latest Clinton dodge?
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Years ago, when Clinton was primarily known for his frequent patronage of McDonalds, he was affectionately known as "Mr. JoeBlob." With the current sex scandal(s), you can turn that around and it still fits...

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Re: State of the Union Address
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Well, if it was 40 grams of NaOH and 36.5 grams of HCl, then you >would have 18 grams of water and 58.5 grams of NaCl. With 1g HCl to >.5g NaOH, well, you have an acidic, salty, mess. However, HCl >is a gas at STP, and NaOH is a solid... > >Basically, it's an incredibly poorly worded question. It looks like the original poster grabbed two of the simplest acids and bases he could find and plugged them into the question. HCl is usually provided in an aqueous solution. NaOH is a solid. In those two states they'll combine quite well with each other. The "explosion and a big mess" would come from somebody just chucking a lot of both chemicals together without any regard what is going on. I think Anonymous was more interested in what products were produced and how much of each were produced, and then made the mistake of assuming that the chemist had enough brains not to go chuck two reactive chemicals together without the competence to run through the necessary calculations. Throwing together any amount of any chemicals without knowing what you're doing is a very bad idea. It's a good way to "accidentally" produce chlorine gas, carbon monoxide, or worse. If you don't know what you're doing or you aren't at least minimally competent and take appropriate safety precautions, keep it on paper. Personally, I steer clear of college and high school chemistry labs for this reason. I watched some idiot produce chlorine gas back in high school, though thankfully not in any really, really dangerous quantities. NaOH + HCl ---> NaCl + H O 2 It's a nice, simple reaction. To answer the question the student would have to know the atomic masses of chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium, but that could easily be gleaned off a periodic table provided the student was competent enough to ask for one if he needed it. I doubt most college chemistry professors would analyze it that well either, to tell you the truth. They'd give the question and it's assumed that the necessary steps are taken to ensure a reaction (if any). Of course "normal circumstances" is kind of a wide area. The question should have been worded more like this: 11) Michelle mixes one gram of HCl and one half gram of NaOH. The HCl is dissolved in water. Assuming that Michelle is competent enough to avoid blowing herself across the room or destroying the lab, what are the products and in what quantities are they produced?

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RE: FW: Symantec Norton, Your Eyes Only.
by Pearson Shane 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi guys, If I could get access to the source, understand all of it fully, and understand how it will act under Win95 with whatever compiler they used, I could probably write my own. So I guess it comes down to trust. Thanks for the replies. Bye for now. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Honig [SMTP:honig@otc.net] > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 1998 5:08 AM > To: Pearson Shane; 'William H. Geiger III' > Cc: 'cypherpunks(a)toad.com' > Subject: RE: FW: Symantec Norton, Your Eyes Only. > > At 03:46 PM 1/23/98 +1100, Pearson Shane wrote: > >Hi William, > > > >Many thanks for the reply. > > > >I was hoping it was ok having Blowfish, > >but I guess it could be their own > >"efficient" version. > > > >Bye for now. > > > > WHGIII gave you the most conservative answer. That is, in cryptology, > the > correct answer. > > A more detailed analysis would say: > > * the blowfish algorithm is considered strong for various reasons > > * IFF the Norton program were written correctly > (not just the algorithm implementation, but key hiding, > worrying about getting swapped onto disk by the OS, etc.) > then it would be a useful tool for security. > > * Without examining the source, any assumption of security > from using the tool relies *absolutely* on your trust of the > implementor. > > (In a Turing award paper, Ritchie described how you > implicitly must trust your compiler-writers too.. the > compiler could have clandestine functions like inserting > extra code when it recognizes patterns) > > So you see how WHGIII was correct, although for practical > purposes (depending on the value of your data and the > attackers you anticipate, plus the security of the rest of your > system (only as strong as the weakest link)) you may find this tool > acceptable > in the non-exportable version. Keylength-limited versions are > worthless > from a security viewpoint. > > But on this mailing list, you won't find the yes/no answer > you probably want. Which is probably correct behavior for this list. > > Cheers, > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > David Honig Orbit Technology > honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu > > "The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much > more to mathematics if he'd only spent more time on his marksmanship." > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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Clinton for Nobel Peace Prize [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Clinton Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize > > OSLO, Norway (Reuters) - President Clinton, engulfed in asex scandal > and fighting for his political life, won anomination Tuesday for the > 1998 Nobel Peace Prize from admirersof his foreign policy. > [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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RE: More dumb ad sites for your killfile
by Pearson Shane 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, Can I have a killfile for Outlook 97 or am I limited to the Inbox assistant? Thanks, > -----Original Message----- > From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com [SMTP:dlv@bwalk.dm.com] > Sent: Monday, January 26, 1998 5:50 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Re: More dumb ad sites for your killfile > > nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) writes: > > ads.lycos.com > > ad.doubleclick.net > > ads.altavista.digital.com > > ad.preferences.com > > ph-ad*.focalink.com > > www.news.com/Banners > > ads.lycos.com > > static.wired.com/advertising > > A desirable feature for a proxy would be to filter portions of what it > gets. > If we're getting a URL that matches a pattern (like > www.stocks.hotshit.com) > then once we see a certain pattern in the HTML (start of embedded ad), > excise the HTML until we see another pattern. A set of triples. > > My block file so far is much bigger than yours. Anyone cares to keep > the > official big blocklist? :-) > > ********************************************************************** > **** > victory.cnn.com/(image|click).ng/ > /fox/graphics/yuppie.gif > ads.web.aol.com > /*/rsac.jpg > /gifs/ads/ > webtrack.com > # look for guesttrack > /.*/rsacirated.gif > /shell-cgi/adserv/ads > /adserver/ > /ad-graphics/ > /cgi-win/tracker > /cgi-bin/Count > /cgi-bin/guesttrack > webcrawler.com/icons/(tenants.*|bottom_logo).gif > netads.*.com/ > mckinley.com/img/magellan/butnbar.gif > #hotbot.com > hotbot.com/images/list.*.gif > # > banner-net.com/ > /cgi-bin/nph-count > # yahoo > /us.yimg.com/images/compliance/ > # Internet explorer logos > /.*/ie.*_(animated|static|sm).gif > /.*/netnow.*.gif > pagecount.com > gm.preferences.com > # da Silva's stupid list of mailing lists > /internet/paml/sponsors > /gifs/mlogo3.gif > #dejanews > /gifs/tripod.gif > /gifs/browsers.gif > /gifs/dnlogo_r.*.gif > # domains > smartclicks.com/ > resource-marketing.com/ > valueclick.com/ > bannermall.com/ > iname.com/ > bannerweb.com/ > eads.com/ > /interdex/reciprocal/ > /cgi-bin/spim/sp/ > adforce..*.com/ > /cgi-bin/adclick > imageserv.imgis.com/images/ > /g/ads/ > # > /graphics/ads/ > /OAS/ugo/adstream.cgi/ > /content/cgi-bin/clickad/ > /content/advertising/ > /.*/(S|s)ponsors/.*.gif > /cgi-bin/pn/show_ad > /gif/ads/ > .*banner.*.gif > /ad/ > /adgenius/ > /adproof/ > /(A|a)ds/ > /adv/ > /advertising/ > /adverts/ > /avimages/ > /banner_ds/ > /banners/ > /banners?/ > /CategoryID=0 > /cgi-bin/ad-bin/ > /cgi-bin/adroll/ > /cgi-bin/counter* > /cgi-bin/nph-adlick > /event.ng/ > /gfx/spon/ > /gifs/netfinity.gif > /gifs/tripod2.gif > /graphics/pcast.gif > /graphicsadvert > /image/ads/ > /images/ABCnewsa.gif > /images/ads/ > /images/deckad1.gif > /images/getpoint1.gif > /images/nyyahoo.gif > /images/partners/ > /images/promo/ > /img/ads/ > /img/art4/home/promo/ > /inserts/images/ > /ml/gfx/spon/ > /pictures/sponsors/ > /promobar > /promos/ > /promotions/ > /RealMedia/ads/ > /shared/images/marketing/ > /sponsor.*/.*.gif > 209.25.19.47/ > :23 > ad.*.com/ > adserve.*.com/ > ad.*.net/ > adcount.hollywood.com/ > ads*.focalink.com/ > ads.*.com/ > bannersolutions.com/ > bannerswap.com/ > counter.digits.com/ > digits.com/ > doubleclick.com/ > flycast.com/ > freestats.com/ > globaltrack.com/ > globaltrack.net/ > gp.dejanews.com/ > guide.infoseek.com/ > infoseek.com/images/channel/ > hitbox.com/ > hollynxxx.com/ > icount.com/ > jcount.com/ > linkexchange.com/ > register-it.com > riddler.com/ > sexhound.com/ > sexlist.com/ > stattrax.com/ > style.rahul.net/altavista/adverts/ > # Geocities > www.geocities.com/cgi-bin/homestead/GeoGuideLite_image* > geocities.com/MemberBanners > xpagecount.com/ > xxxcounter.com/ > ********************************************************************** > **** > More stuff that I need to sort out: > > adsmart.net > doubleclick.net > SmartBanner > imageserv.imgis.com/images > images.yahoo.com/adv > /ad_client.cgi > > # ms sucks ! > /*.*/(ms)?backoff(ice)?.*.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/(msie|sqlbans|powrbybo|activex|backoffice|explorer|netnow|getpoin > t|ntbutton|hmlink).*.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/activex.*(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/explorer?.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/freeie.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/ie_?(buttonlogo|static?|anim.*)?.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/ie_sm.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/msie(30)?.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/msnlogo.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/office97_ad1.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/pbbobansm.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/powrbybo.(gif|jpe?g) > /*.*/sqlbans.(gif|jpe?g) > > # generally useless information and promo stuff (commented out) > #/*.*/(counter|getpcbutton|BuiltByNOF|netscape|hotmail|vcr(rated)?|rsa > ci(rated)?|freeloader|cache_now(_anim)?|apache_pb|now_(anim_)?button|i > e_?(buttonlogo|static?|.*ani.*)?).(gif|jpe?g) > > #------------------------ > # > # specific servers > # > #------------------------ > 193.158.37.3/cgi-bin/impact > 193.210.156.114 > 194.231.79.38 > 199.78.52.10 > 204.253.46.71:1977 > 204.94.67.40/wc/ > 205.216.163.62 > 205.217.103.58:1977 > 205.217.103.58:1977 > 206.50.219.33 > 207.159.135.72 > 207.82.250.9 > 209.1.135.144:1971 > 209.1.135.142:1971 > ad-up.com > ads?.*\.(com|net) > ad.adsmart.net > ad.doubleclick.net > ad.infoseek.com > ad.linkexchange.com > ad.preferences.com > adbot.com > adbot.theonion.com > adcount.hollywood.com > adforce.imgis.com > adlink.deh.de > adone.com > ads*.focalink.com > ads*.zdnet.com > ads.csi.emcweb.com > ads.imagine-inc.com > ads.imdb.com > ads.infospace.com > ads.lycos.com > ads.narrowline.com > ads.realmedia.com > ads.softbank.net/bin/wadredir > ads.usatoday.com > ads.washingtonpost.com > ads.web.aol.com > ads.web21.com > adservant.mediapoint.de > banners.internetextra.com > bannerswap.com > bs.gsanet.com/gsa_bs/ > ciec.org/images/countdown.gif > click1.wisewire.com > click2.wisewire.com > clickii.imagine-inc.com:1964 > commonwealth.riddler.com > customad.cnn.com > cyberfirst1.web.cerf.net/image.ng/ > digits.com/wc/ > dino.mainz.ibm.de > flycast.com/ > globaltrack.com > globaltrak.net > gm.preferences.com/image.ng > gtp.dejanews.com/gtplacer > hardware.pagecount.com/ > hitbox.com/wc/ > hyperbanner.net > icount.com/.*.count > images.yahoo.com/promotions/ > imageserv.imgis.com > impartner.de/cgi-bin > linktrader.com/cgi-bin/ > logiclink.nl/cgi-bin/ > movielink.com/media/imagelinks/MF.(ad|sponsor) > nrsite.com > nt1.imagine-inc.com > nt2.imagine-inc.com > nytsyn.com/gifs > pagecount.com/aa-cgi-bin > pagecount.com/aa-cgi-bin > ph-ad*.focalink.com > promo.ads.softbank.net > resource-marketing.com/tb/ > smartclicks.com/.*/smartimg > smh.com.au/adproof/ > sysdoc.pair.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/sysdoc/sponsor.gif > victory.cnn.com/image.ng/spacedesc > videoserver.kpix.com > w20.hitbox.com > www..bigyellow.com/......mat.* > www.ads.warnerbros.com > www.fxweb.holowww.com/.*.cgi > www.iadventure.com/adserver/ > www.infoworld.com/pageone/gif > www.isys.net/customer/images > www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-ad > www.link4link.com/cgi-bin > www.mediashower.com/ad-bin/ > www.nedstat.nl/cgi-bin/ > www.nj.com/adverts > www.nrsite.com > www.pagecount.com/aa-cgi-bin > www.search.com/Banners > www.smartclicks.com:81 > www.swwwap.com/cgi-bin/ > www.valueclick.com/cgi-bin/ > www.websitepromote.com/partner/img/ > www.wishing.com/webaudit > yahoo.com/CategoryID=0 > > #------------------------ > # > # some images on servers that I frequently visit > # > #------------------------ > > # some images on cnn's website just suck! > /*.*/book.search.gif > /*.*/cnnpostopinionhome..gif > /*.*/custom_feature.gif > /*.*/explore.anim.*gif > /*.*/infoseek.gif > /*.*/pathnet.warner.gif > /BarnesandNoble/images/bn.recommend.box.* > /digitaljam/images/digital_ban.gif > /hotstories/companies/images/companies_banner.gif > /markets/images/markets_banner.gif > /ows-img/bnoble.gif > /ows-img/nb_Infoseek.gif > cnnfn.com/images/left_banner.gif > > # die sueddeutsche > /*.*/images/artszonnet.jpg > > # yahoo.de > /promotions/bankgiro/ > > # > /gif/buttons/banner_.* > /gif/buttons/cd_shop_.* > /gif/cd_shop/cd_shop_ani_.* > > #altavista > /av/gifs/av_map.gif > /av/gifs/av_logo.gif > > /*.*/banner_ads/ > /*.*/banners?/ > /*.*/images/addver.gif > /*.*/place-ads > /*.*/promobar.* > /*.*/publicite/ > /*.*/reklame/ > /*.*/sponsor.gif > /*.*/sponsors?[0-9]?/ > /*.*/werb\..* > /ad_images/ > /bin/nph-oma.count/ct/default.shtml > /bin/nph-oma.count/ix/default.html > /cgi-bin/nph-load > /netscapeworld/nw-ad/ > /worldnet/ad.cgi > /rotads/ > /rotateads/ > /rotations/ > /promotions/houseads/ > ********************************************************************** > **** > > --- > > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM > Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, > 14.4Kbps

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Fw: Congratulations, Bill, You've WON! Netscape Recommends Explorer!
by amp＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI. ------------------------ From: Linda Thompson <lindat(a)megacity.org> Subject: Congratulations, Bill, You've WON! Netscape Recommends Explorer! Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:04:00 -0600 To: amp(a)pobox.com Cc: news(a)aen.org, chat(a)aen.org Will you please forward this to cypherpunks and anyplace else that might find it interesting? Thanks. Today, I called Netscape because of a problem with it being unable to play .wav files on a webpage (without a plug-in). I am using Netscape Gold 3.03. I won't get 3.04 after reading about it's new "fixes" that say NOT to use a ~ for webpage addresses, but instead, to use /./ -- Is anyone in their right mind going to try that on their webpages? I've got about 40 megs of webpages and I'm NOT going to reconfigure them because Netscape's programmers are a bunch of jackasses. I configured Netscape's helper applications menu to use mplayer, which is bundled with Windows, and then tried to use it to browse my own webpage, with a .wav file on it. (1) Netscape would not save the configuration of mplayer in the helper applications settings. Mplayer would stay in the configuration for that session, but upon exiting to DOS and reloading Windows and Netscape, the setting would no longer be present. (2) If I didn't check to see that mplayer was still set up in the Netscape helper applications configuration, and browsed the page with the .wav file, I would get a message from Netscape "Unable to play .wav file." In the meantime, Netscape WIPED OUT all my sound drivers in memory. They were still present in the windows/system directory, but had to be (1) reloaded through Windows Utilities; (2) reloaded through Soundblaster utilities in DOS and (3) I had to do a cold reboot to get them to work again. THEN I found that the volume on the mixer that comes with Windows, had been set to "0" by Netscape. Since I could duplicate these results, repeatedly, it appeared to be a bug. I called Netscape about it. GRADY WILSON AT NETSCAPE TOLD ME TO USE INTERNET EXPLORER. First he told me to reinstall Netscape (already did that). Then he told me to get Netscape 3.04. I told him I wouldn't and I wanted to know why Netscape out of the box, which is SUPPOSED to play a .wav file, wouldn't play a .wav file and wouldn't save the configuration. He said it would, and I said obviously it doesn't, or I wouldn't be calling, and why else would Netscape have to have a blue million "plug ins." Next he said "mplayer" was corrupt (it isn't and works fine, even with Netscape, so long as Netscape hasn't yet deleted its own configuration setting mplayer to play .wav files). I told him this. That is when GRADY WILSON AT NETSCAPE TOLD ME TO USE INTERNET EXPLORER. So, congratulations, Bill, you've won. NETSCAPE ITSELF is now telling people to get Explorer. ************ V ***************** DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER ********************************** Remember Waco. The Murderers are still free (and running YOUR country.) See the proof: http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum ********************************* My son, David, has been missing since Sept. 19, 1997. Please help us find him. ---------------End of Original Message----------------- === E-mail: amp(a)pobox.com Date: 01/28/98 Time: 06:45:54 Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) Have you seen http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum ===

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Nanotechnology info on the Web (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From owner-traveller(a)Phaser.ShowCase.MPGN.COM Wed Jan 28 12:34:55 1998 X-Authentication-Warning: phaser.Showcase.MPGN.COM: majordom set sender to owner-traveller(a)lists.MPGN.COM using -f From: Dedly <Dedly(a)aol.com> Message-ID: <c888b1a2.34cf74b7(a)aol.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:11:00 EST To: traveller(a)mpgn.com Subject: Nanotechnology info on the Web Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) X-Mailer: Inet_Mail_Out (IMOv11) Sender: owner-traveller(a)Phaser.ShowCase.MPGN.COM Reply-To: traveller(a)mpgn.com If any of you are interested in what's going on in nanotechnology these days...... www.nanothinc.com They're trying to be an all-encompassing resource on nanotechnology. Although this industry is in its infancy, there's some really interesting things going on. Regarding the site itself: It helps to have a high speed modem as there are alot of graphics. They also play with a bit of shockwave so it would help to have that plug-in as well. \_/ DED

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No Subject
by BOUSTANI 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello Frank, My is Jacques BOUSTANI , I live in Paris & i'm a student in computer science. I learn about you from my teacher. I think he doesn't know you or talk to you but he tell us about how to cracked windows 95 .pwl or NT. So i'm interested. I would like to know how to do it. If you won't to tell me, by the way i thanks you. I hope that your reply would interest me .* Thanks Mr Stevenson. 3BBC SYSTEM BOUSTANI PARIS

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Re: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:44:50 -0800 > From: Steve Schear <schear(a)lvdi.net> > Subject: Re: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 > (fwd) > I guess I'm over my head in such matters. From my, admitedly, shallow > understanding of wave function collapse, etc., I was under the apparent > misimpression that once collapsed (e.g., by Alice entangling a 'modulation' > photon M (of a known polarization) with one member (photon A) of an > entangled pair, one of which was sent to Alice and the other (photon B) > which was sent to Bob, photon B's polarization state was determined and > could not subsequently be altered by Bob's measurement with his receiver. > Could you recommend a good article which explain this paradox to a > non-quantum mechanic? The state is determined *at the time of collapse*. Once the collapse occurs the synchronization is no longer present and subsequent events can indeed alter the polarization of one particle without altering the other. Simply bouncing that photon via refraction off a surface can alter the polarization. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Just Released! 16 Million!
by Friend＠public.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

IT WAS JUST RELEASED!! INTRODUCING...MILLIONS VOL. 1 We took a total of over 92 million email addresses from many of the touted CD's that are out there (bought them all - some were $300+)! We added the millions we had in storage to those. When we combined them all, we had in excess of 100+ million addresses in one huge file. We then ran a super "sort/de-dupe" program against this huge list. It cut the file down to less than 25 million!!! Can you believe that? It seems that most people that are selling CD's are duping the public by putting numerous files of addresses in the CD over and over. This created many duplicate addresses. They also had many program "generated" email addresses like Compuserve, MCI, ANON's, etc. This causes a tremendous amount of undeliverables, and for those that use Stealth programs, clogs up servers quickly with trash, etc. We then ran a program that contained 150+ keywords to remove addresses with vulgarity, profanity, sex-related names, postmaster, webmaster, flamer, abuse, spam, etc., etc. Also eliminated all .edu, .mil, .org, .gov, etc. After that list was run against the remaining list, it reduced it down to near 16 million addresses! So, you see, our list will save people hundreds of dollars buying all others that are out there on CD and otherwise. Using ours will be like using the 100+ million that we started with, but a lot less money and alot less time!! We also purchased Cyber-Promos ($995.00) CD. We received it just prior to finishing production work on the new CD. We had our people take a random sample of 300,000 addresses from the touted 2.9 that they advertised. We used a program that allows us to take a random sample of addresses from any list. We were able to have the program take every 9th address, thus giving us a 300,000 list of Cyber's email addresses from top to bottom. We did not clean these, but we did create 3 seperate files named cyber1.txt, cyber2.txt, & cyber3.txt of 100,000 addresses each. This will give all people that use the list a opportunity to send mail to the list before deciding if their CD is all it's hyped to be. We also included a 2+ million "Remove/Flamer" file broke into seperate files for ease of extracting and adding to your own database of removes. "You can buy from the REST or you can buy from the BEST. Your choice. _____________________________ What others are saying: "I received the CD on Friday evening. Like a kid with a new toy, I immediately started bulking out using the new email addresses. Over the course of the weekend, I emailed out over 500,000 emails and I received less than TWENTY undeliverables!! 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New D.C./C.A. Judge
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One of twelve appointments announced today by the White House: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS Emilio W. Cividanes, D.C. Court of Appeals Mr. Cividanes, of Washington, D.C., is of counsel to the law firm Piper & Marbury, L.L.P. Since 1991, Mr. Cividanes has taught information privacy law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining Piper & Marbury as an associate in 1988, he served one year as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Technology & the Law, under then-Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy. From 1983 to 1986, he was a civil litigation associate with the law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin. Mr. Cividanes received his B.A. in 1979, from Haverford College and his J.D. in 1983, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a comment editor on the Law Review.

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Measure of information-v-time (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, As a result of a completely non-crypto interest a discussion recently came up about how information worth/accuracy goes down with time. A proposal was made that I thought might be of some interest as a base for discussions of data havens and how to treat the relative worth of information. Forwarded message: > From: "Richard A. Flores" <cybernot(a)gte.net> > Subject: Re: dates in UWPs? > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:33:49 -0600 > Reply-To: traveller(a)mpgn.com > SD Mooney <dom(a)cybergoths.u-net.com> wrote: > > >Put it [the date notation] in the extended data set (as posted > >by Marc) as a single (hex) code eg M0 is 0, etc and expand > >as new milieus arise. This removes the problem of linking to > >the dating system and adding in a -tve for Milieus prior to > >M0. I mean, an Ancients set would otherwise be -200000! > > > Perhaps a simple logarithmic notation. Something like: > code > # Years since last survey > 0 0 to 3 years > 1 3 to 7 years > 2 7 to 20 years > 3 20 to 55 years > 4 55 to 148 years > 5 148 to 403 years > 6 403 to 1,097 years > 7 1,097 to 2,981 years > 8 2,981 to 8,103 years > 9 8,103 to 22,026 years > A 22,026 to 59,874 years > B 59,874 to 162,755 years > C 162,755 to 442,413 years > D 442,413 to 1,202,604 years > E 1,202,604 to 3,269,017 years > F 3,269,017 to 8,886,111 years > > This single hexadecimal # would give us a time scale beyond anyone's > estimates of possible dates on useful intelligence. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Spyking snips: Police MDT's + cia/russian spying
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

2)From: "Brandon Robinson" <brobinson(a)navicom.com> Subject: Re: Monitoring MDT's >14)From: "self destruct" <<slfdstrct(a)email.msn.com> >Subject: Monitoring MDT's >hi all,....i am wondering if there is a way to monitor police MDT's >(mobile display terminals) >i have the frq. that they use but i dont know how to hook up a scanner to >p/c. any thoughts would be appreciated thank you Since no one else seemed to respond to this, I guess I will...first off M.D.T. stands for (Mobile Data Terminals), I got this posting off some group I can't really remeber where from, but it is informative, and was the subject of a Feb, '97 "911Dispatcher Magazine" story. It should answer all of your questions, I also have a list of some places where you can buy the unit pre-made, or a kit to make your own. I have left the Source code out on purpose as it is rather lengthy, if you want it I can send it to you. -BBR ----------------------- Begin quoted article ---------------------- >From lord(a)heaven.com Mon Dec 23 23:11:43 EST 1996 Article: 44420 of alt.radio.scanner Subject: MDT stuff Greetings one and all, Have you ever lusted to decode Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) tranmissions? Have you ever wanted to see the same NCIC and motor vehicle information that law enforcement officers see? Have you ever wanted to see what officers send to each other over "private" channels? And all this with an interface you can build with only a few dollars worth of parts from your local radio shack? If so this posting might be your rendevous with destiny. The tail end of this posting includes the source code of a program that decodes and displays MDT messages. It stores roughly 30k of messages in a buffer and then writes the whole buffer to a file called "data.dat" before terminating. The program may be interrupted at any time by pressing any key (don't use control-c) at which point it writes the partially filled buffer to "data.dat". This program only works for systems built by Motorola using the MDC4800 tranmission protocol. This accounts for a large fraction of public service MDT systems as well other private systems. The existence of this program is ample evidence that Motorola has misrepresented its MDT systems when it marketed them as a secure means of communcications. The interested reader will soon discover that these systems do not use any form of encryption. Security concerns instead have been dealt with by using a code. "And what might this code be called?" asks the reader. The code turns out to be plain ASCII. What follows is a brief description of how the program and the MDC4800 protocol work. If you don't understand something go to your local library and check out a telecommunications theory book. 1. The raw transmission rate is 4800 baud. The program's interrupt service routine simply keeps track of the time between transitions. If you're receiving a perfect signal this will be some multiple of 1/4800 seconds which would then give you how many bits were high or low. Since this is not the best of all possible worlds the program instead does the following: transitions are used to synchronize a bit clock. One only samples whenever this clock is in the middle of the bit to produce the raw data stream. This greatly reduces jitter effects. 2. Whenever a tranmitter keys up the MDC4800 protocol calls for bit synchronization (a sequence of 1010101010101010....). In the program this will result in receive bit clock synchronization. There is no need to specifically look for the bit sync. 3. Look for frame synchronization in raw bit stream so that data frames can be broken apart. Frame synchronization consists of a 40 bit sequence : 0000011100001001001010100100010001101111. If this sequence is detected (or 35 out of 40 bits match up in the program) the system is idling and the next 112 bit data block is ignored by the program. If the inverted frame sync is detected one immediately knows that 112 bit data blocks will follow. 4. Receive the 112 bit data block and undo the bit interleave. This means that one must reorder the bits in the following sequence : {0,16, 32,48,64,80,96,1,17,33,49,65,81,97,2,18,34,...} if the orignal sequence were received as {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,...}. 5. Check the convolutional error correcting code and count the number of errors. The error correcting code is rate 1/2 which means we will be left with 56 data bytes. The encoder is constructed so that the output consists of the original data bits interspersed with error correcting code. The generating polynomial used is : 1 + X^-1 + X^-5 + X^-6 Whenever an error is detected a counter is incremented. An attempt is made to correct some errors by finding the syndrome and looking for the bogus bit. 6. Keep receiving 112 bit data blocks until either a new frame sync is found or two consecutive data blocks have an unacceptably large number of errors. 7. Each data block consists of six data bytes; the last 8 bits are status bits that are simply ignored. The program shows the data in two columns - hexadecimal and ASCII. This data is kept in a buffer and is written to the file "data.dat" when the program terminates. 8. What the program doesn't do: As a further check on the data there can be CRC checks. This varies from protocol to protocol so this program does not implement the CRC checks. Nonetheless, it is a relatively trivial matter to find the generating polynomial. The addresses, block counts, and message ID numbers are also quite easy to deduce. As you can see, there is no encryption. The bit interleave and the error correcting coding are there solely to insure the integrity of the ASCII data. Since any moron could have figured this stuff out from scratch one could argue that MDTs do not use "...modulation parameters intentionally witheld from the public". Therefore the Electronic Communications Privacy Act may not prohibit receiving MDT tranmissions. However, consult your attorney to make sure. The total disregard for security will no doubt annoy countless Motorola customers who were assured that their MDT systems were secure. Since Federal law states that NCIC information must be encrypted your local law enforcement agency might be forced to spend millions of dollars to upgrade to a secure MDT system - much to the delight of Motorola and its stockholders. Cynics might conclude that the release of a program like this is timed to coincide with the market saturation of existing MDT systems. Also, this program is completely free and it had better stay that way. What's to prevent you from adapting this into a kit and selling it >from classified ads in the back of Nuts and Volts? Nothing. But take a look at Motorola's patents sometime. You'll notice that this program does things that are covered by a shitload of patents. So any attempt to take financial advantage of this situtation will result in utter misery. Please keep the following in mind: this program only works with the first serial port (COM1). If your mouse or modem is there too bad. If you don't like this rewrite the program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What equipment do I need? RADIO SCANNER: A scanner that can receive 850-869 MHz. For those of you who don't know, this is the band where most business and public service trunked radio systems can be found along with the mobile data terminal transmissions. Chances are excellent that if your local authorities have a motorola trunked radio system and mobile data terminals that this is the frequency band in use. Very rarely will one find mobile data terminals in other frequency bands. Now for the fun part - your scanner should probably be modified to allow you to tap off directly from the discriminator output. If you wait until the signal has gone through the radio's internal audio filtering the waveform will likely be too heavily distorted to be decoded. This is exactly the same problem that our friends who like to decode pager transmissions run into - some of them have claimed they can only decode 512 baud pager messages using the earphone output of their scanner. These mobile data terminal messages are 4800 baud so I don't think you have a snowball's chance in hell without using the discriminator output. If you don't know where to begin modifying your scanner you might want to ask those who monitor pagers how to get the discriminator output for your particular radio. COMPUTER/SCANNER INTERFACE Those of you who have already built your interface for decoding pager messages should be able to use that interface without any further ado. For those starting from scratch - you might want to check out packages intended for pager decoding such as PD203 and the interfaces they describe. The following excerpt gives an example of a decoder that should work just fine (lifted out of the PD203 POCSAG pager decoder shareware documentation): > > 0.1 uF |\ +12v > ---||-----------------------|- \| > AF IN | |741 \ > ---- | | /--------------------- Data Out > | \ ------|+ /| | CTS (pin 5/8) > | / 100K | |/-12v | or DSR (pin 6/6) > | \ | | > GND / ----/\/\/\---- GND ------ GND (pin 7/5) > | | 100K > | \ N.B. Pin Numbers for com port are > GND / given as x/y, where x is for a 25 > \ 10K way, y for a 9 way. > / > | > GND > > The above circuit is a Schmitt Trigger, having thresholds of about +/- 1v. > If such a large threshold is not required, eg for a discriminator output, > then the level of positive feedback may be reduced by either reducing the > value of the 10K resistor or by increasing the value of the 100K feedback > resistor. > > The +/- 12v for the op-amp can be derived from unused signals on the COM > port (gives more like +/- 10v but works fine !):- > > > TxD (2/3) --------------|<-------------------------------------- -12v > | | > RTS (4/7) --------------|<-------- GND - - > | | _ + 10uF > --------->|------- - - | > Diodes 1N4148 | - + 10uF GND > | | > DTR (20/4) ------------->|-------------------------------------- +12v > If I were building this circuit I would strongly suggest tying the non-inverting (+) input of the op-amp to ground since you are working directly with the discriminator output and don't need a Schmitt trigger. All these parts or equivalents are easily available (even at your local Radio Shack which stocks the finest collection of components that have failed the manufacturer's quality control checks and supported by a sales staff that's always got the wrong answers to your questions). Also: DO NOT use the RI (ring indicator) as an input to the computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I check things? As a first step, I would get a package such as PD203 and use it to decode a few pages. If you can get that working you know that that your interface circuit is functioning correctly. If you are in a reasonably sized town you might be part of the ardis network. The ardis network is a nationwide commercial mobile data terminal network where one can send/receive E-mail messages from one's portable computer. It has been exclusively assigned the frequency of 855.8375 MHz. Therefore, if you can hear digital bursts on this frequency you are basically guarranteed that these are MDC4800 type messages. You should be able to get stuff popping up on your screen although a lot of the messages will not be plain english. If your interface works but you can't seem to get any messages on the screen for a channel you know is a Motorola MDT system then it might be possible that your scanner/interface is putting out data with the polarity reversed. To check for this run the program with a command line arguement. When it runs you should an initial "Polarity reversed" message and hopefully then things will work out for you. Other than that: if this program doesn't work pester someone else who has got it working. Don't bother pestering the author(s) of this posting; the shit(s) aka "she/he/it (s)" are afraid of a thousand lawyers from Motorola descending like fleas to infest their pubic hair and accordingly have decided to remain forever anonymous. No doubt someone on the usenet who sees this post will know what to do with this program and also hopefully rewrite into a more user friendly form. When you do please don't forget to release the source code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Future projects/nightmares you might want to think about: Certain MDT systems embed formatting information in the text in the form of ESC plus [ plus a few more bytes. Someone might want to decode these on the fly and format the output so it looks exactly the same way as the user sees it. Make it so that this program works with com ports other than COM1. Make it user friendly? Enlarge the data buffer from the current 30k. Give the output data file an unique name each time the program is run instead of "data.dat". How about sorting through the past traffic so that you only see traffic to a specified user? The program does not cut data blocks off in the display but it might add an extra one or two (which will display as all zeroes). Someone might want to make all those zeroes be shown as blanks instead. Write some real instructions. Now the more ambitous stuff: Are you half-way competent with RF engineering? Then listen in to the tranmissions from the mobile units back to the base station. That way you get everyone's password and user IDs as they log on to the MDT system. By this point you will no doubt have been able to figure out all of the appropriate communications protocols so you should think about getting your own transmitter up and running along with the necessary program modifications so that you can transmit MDT messages. The required transmitter can be very simple - for example, those masocists who want to start from scratch might want to special order an appropriate crystal (pulling the frequency with the computer's tranmit signal), building a frequency multiplier chain, and adding a one watt RF amplifier to top it all off (see the appropriate ARRL publications for more information on radio techniques). Now you can log in and look at the criminal records and motor vehicle information on anybody you can think of. Find out what your neigbors are hiding. Find out who that asshole was that cut you off downtown. Find out where your former girl/boy friend is trying to hide from you. And on and on... Those with simpler tastes might want to simply transmit at the base station's frequency to any nearby MDT terminal - now you too can dispatch your local law enforcement agencies at the touch of your fingers!!! See your tax dollars at work tearing apart every seam of your neighbor's house. Or create strife and dissension in your local law enforcement agency as more and more officers come out of the closet using their MDTs trying to pick up fellow officers. There are municipalities that have put GPS receivers on all of their vehicles. Should it happen that the information is sent back over one of these networks you could have your computer give you a real-time map showing the position of every vehicle and how far away they are from you. Extend your knowledge to other data networks. Here you will want to look at the RAM mobile data network. It uses the MOBITEX protocol which is really easy to find information on. Since it is an 8 kilobaud GMSK signal there is a decent chance that you can use the interface described here. This transmission mode demmands much more from your equipment than MDT tranmissions. At the very least you must be much more careful to make sure you have adequate low frequency response. Despite this it is possible to receive and decode MOBITEX transmissions with a simple op-amp circuit! This just goes to show you what drivelling bullshit RAM's homepage is filled with - they explain in great detail how hackers will never be able to intercept user's radio tranmissions (incidentally explaining how to decode their tranmissions). The necessary program will be the proverbial exercise left for the reader. For better performance buy a dedicated MOBITEX modem chip and hook it up to your computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A few words about the program: Remember - you must have your decoder hooked up to COM1. The RTS line will be positive and the DTR line negative but if you built the decoder with a bridge rectifier you really don't have to worry about their polarity. Stop the program by punching any key; don't use control-c or control-break! If you must reverse polarity run the program with any command line arguement (example: type in "mdt x" at the command line if your program is mdt.exe). You should then see the "Polarity Reversed." message pop up and hopefully things will then work. As far as compiling this - save the latter portion of this posting (the program listing) and feed it to a C compiler. Pretty much any C compiler from Borland should work. If you (Heaven Forbid) use a Microsoft C compiler you might need to rename some calls such as outport. Follow any special instructions for programs using their own interrupt service routines. This program is not object oriented. It also does not want anything whatsoever to do with Windows. Please don't even think about running this program under Windows. Finally, here it is: Good Luck and may God be with ya ************************************************************************** Subject: More real spy stuff... Germany smuggled agent out of Russia Germany's Federal Intelligence Agency smuggled one of its Russian agents to safety while Russian President Boris Yeltsin and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl were meeting in Moscow last Nov., the weekly news magazine Focus said Monday. The BND had received a tip that a long-serving Russian agent was threatened and launched a cloak and dagger operation Nov. 29 to pull the agent out of Russia. The agent, a 32-year-old Army captain from the Russian town Samara with the code name "Coastal Fog," had given BND Russian military communications secrets for years. The rescue operation took place as Kohl and Yeltsin sat down for talks. Russian spies still fighting the Cold War in Britain Security sources say Moscow is as eager as ever to uncover defence secrets But now it is acting more for economic than militaristic reasons. Security sources put Russian military espionage in Britain at the same level as it was in the 1980s. In a radio broadcast in December, President Yeltsin, speaking about Russia's intelligence aims, said: "Notwithstanding positive changes after the end of the Cold War, tough competition is still underway in the world. Competition for new technology and geo-political influence is increasing." Space Imagery Overhaul Aims at Better Data and Easier Access The shuttle flight is part of a massive modernization of the multibillion-dollar U.S. intelligence collection program. The goal is to compile a comprehensive view of the world from overhead -- using the shuttle, satellites, spy planes and missiles -- and to consolidate the data in a single computerized system accessible to civilian and military officials across the government. A CIA Target at Home in America By DANIEL C. TSANG Los Angeles Times January 18, 1998 Because of me, the Central Intelligence Agency has had to concede it does spy on Americans. Just last month, the agency had to remove a denial posted on its Web site that it doesn't do this. For it kept a file on me throughout the 1980s and '90s--despite a law against political spying on Americans. Just before Christmas, the CIA revised its Web site. The new version says the CIA can keep files on Americans if they are suspected of espionage or international terrorism. But I am no spy or terrorist. The CIA conceded as much by settling my lawsuit, paying my lawyers some $46,000 and promising to expunge my file and never spy on my political activities in the future.

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FWD --Progressive Review On-Line Report #70 (fwd)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:43:02 -0500 From: The Progressive Review <72067.1525(a)compuserve.com> Subject: Progressive Review On-Line Report #70 PROGRESSIVE REVIEW ON-LINE REPORT #70 January 26, 1998 WASHINGTON'S MOST UNOFFICIAL SOURCE A service of the Progressive Review: 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Fax: 202-234-6222 E-mail: ssmith(a)igc.org Editor: Sam Smith. The Progressive Review On-Line and our archives are found on the Web at: http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/ For a free trial subscription to our hard copy edition and e-mail updates send us your postal address with zip code(Sorry, foreign addresses will receive e-mail edition only). To unsubscribe, send message with the word 'unsubscribe.' Copyright 1998, The Progressive Review. Matter not independently copyrighted may be reprinted provided you pay TPR your normal reprint fees, if any, and give proper credit. To discuss an appearance by Sam Smith before your group or on your campus, contact The Progressive Review at 202-232-5544 or write ssmith(a)igc.org AND NOW THE NEWS . . . ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT: THE MEDIA AND THE CLINTON SCANDALS Because it controls its own medium and can revise history at will, one accessory after the fact in the Clinton scandals is almost certain to remain unscathed: the media. From the beginning, journalists created a fantasy portrait of Bill Clinton as a brilliant visionary, managerial superman, and charismatic leader. During the New Hampshire primary in 1992, the New Republic's Hendrik Hertzberg surveyed several dozen journalists and found that all of them, had they been New Hampshire voters, would have chosen Clinton. He suggested that, "the real reason members of the press like Clinton is simple, and surprisingly uncynical: they think he would make a very good, perhaps a great, president. Several told me they were convinced that Clinton is the most talented presidential candidate they have ever encountered, JFK included." Not only was there no substantive evidence for such a conclusion, there was plenty to suggest that Clinton was instead a politician of no fixed philosophical or moral address, a man who began with compromise and retreated from there, and a rampantly mundane governor. More importantly, he was known to be less than honest, a sexual predator, and hung out with some of the sleaziest types in his state. In Shadows of Hope (Indiana University Press, 1994), I wrote: "At the beginning of the 1992 campaign, few of us knew -- let alone remembered -- anything about Bill Clinton. If we were not from Arkansas, we had nothing for which to thank him. And our whirlwind relationship, our arranged marriage, was under the constant control of the great American matchmaker: the media. Clinton's past was not only unimportant to him, but to us as well. "In an earlier time, Clinton's non-history would have been an enormous disqualification. Now it wasn't because Clinton had one huge edge over his opponents: he looked and acted well on TV. Tom Harkin moved and spoke as mechanically as the Energizer bunny; Kerry's personality and platform remained a cipher; Tsongas talked funny; Brown was didactic; but Clinton was at home. "Against this advantage, facts faltered. The facts said that Clinton had been an unexceptional governor. He could claim better prenatal care programs and a decline in infant mortality, but at the same time the Center for the Study of Social Policy would rate the state only 41st on children's issues in general. Arkansas also ranked -- according to the Southern Regional Council -- in the bottom ten percent of all states in average weekly wages; health insurance coverage, state and local school revenue; unemployment; blacks and women in traditional white male jobs; environmental policy and overall conditions for workers. "An examination of his record raised warning flags, not the least of which were rocky relationships with labor and environmentalists. At the beginning of the campaign Clinton came under attack by his state's AFL-CIO president who (before the national union ordered him to shut up) sent around a highly critical report on Clinton's record. Labor, said Bill Becker, should expect Clinton's help only 25-30% of the time. And the League of Conservation Voters ranked Clinton last among the Democratic candidates on conservation issues. "Greater attention to Clinton's record also might have brought to more prominent notice the major tax increases during his tenure. Or the comment by the union official who said that Clinton would slap you on the back and piss down your leg. Or the tendency to waffle on issues. . . ." There were still more serious questions, well summarized by Ambrose Evans- Pritchard of London's Telegraph: "The Clintons are attractive on the surface. As Yale Law School graduates they have mastered the language and style of the mandarin class. It is only when you walk through the mirrors into the Arkansas underworld whence they came that you begin to realize that something is wrong. You learn that Bill Clinton grew up in the Dixie Mafia stronghold of Hot Springs, and that his brother was a drug dealer with ties to the Medilin Cartel. You learn that a cocaine distributor named Dan Lasater was an intimate friend, and that Lasater's top aide would later be given a post in charge of administration (and drug testing) at the White House. You learn that Arkansas was a mini- Colombia within the United States, infested by narco-corruption." For such reasons, by the spring of 1992 I had become convinced that the media portrayal of the Clintons was a fraud. Based on published material available to any reporter in the country, I wrote a "Who's Who of Arkansas" listing questionable individuals and institutions in the state and illustrating their links. Included were Dan Lasater, Roger Clinton, Tyson's Foods, Webb Hubbell, Buddy Young, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, the Worthen Bank, the Rose law firm, Stephens Inc, Larry Nichols, Terry Reed, Jim & Susan McDougal, Gennifer Flowers, Mena, Ark., and even Mochtar Riady. The names would become familiar. The reporters who actual uncovered the Clinton scandals included Alexander Cockburn, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Christopher Ruddy, Jerry Seper, J. D. Cash, Hugh Sprunt, Michael Isakoff, Roger Morris, and Sally Denton. For their troubles they were ridiculed, ignored, considered persona non grata and called "wackos," "paranoids," and "conspiracy theorists." In at least two cases -- a Isakoff''s piece on Paula Jones and a Roger Morris/Sally Denton expose of Mena -- the Washington Post killed major stories just as they were about to go into print, apparently on orders of top management. It has been a shameful period in American journalism. Never have so many journalists looked so determinedly away from the facts in order to maintain a myth. And to this hour they continue. What follows is a listing of Clinton-related stories that should have been investigated further or gotten far more play than they did. It is a reminder that Bill Clinton has not been the only problem we have had in Washington. CLINTON UNCOVERED; THE ORPHANED STORIES OF WHITEWATER STORIES KNOWN BEFORE THE 1992 CONVENTION -- Bill Clinton's affair with Gennifer Flowers and his proposed cover-up of same. Papers such as the Washington Post refused to let their readers know what was in the Flowers' tapes. For example, on the tape, Clinton says, "If they ever hit you with it, just say no and go on. There's nothing they can do. I expected them to look into it and come interview you, but if everybody is on record denying it, no problem." Clinton also called Dukakis a "little Greek motherfucker," said that Cuomo acted as though he were part of the Mafia, and that Ted Kennedy couldn't get "a whore across a bridge." There are constituencies that might have appreciated knowing this before they went to the polls. -- A black prostitute in Arkansas claims that Clinton had fathered her child -- Another woman reports being approached by a Clinton aide at a hotel pool, who then arranges a sexual encounter with the governor. -- A former Miss Arkansas appears on the Sally Jesse Rafael Show in July 1992 to say that she has had an affair with Clinton. Sally Perdue later told the London Telegraph that Clinton often dropped over. After the TV appearance she said she was visited by a man who called himself a "Democratic Party operative" who warned her not to reveal specifics of the affair: "He said there were people in high places who were anxious about me and they wanted me to know that keeping my mouth shut would be worthwhile. . . If I was a good little girl, and didn't kill the messenger; I'd be set for life: a federal job, nothing fancy but a regular paycheck. . . I'd never have to worry again. But if I didn't take the offer, then they knew that I went jogging by myself and he couldn't guarantee what would happen to my 'pretty little legs.' " Perdue said she found a shotgun cartridge on the driver's seat of her Jeep and later had her back window shattered. -- Alexander Cockburn reports that Larry Nichols, the state employee who first brought the Flowers-Clinton and other liaisons to light, had recanted but only after a physical threat. -- There is substantial evidence of illegal Contra and drug operations at Mena. Not only did most of the media fail to report the story, but Time, in a piece called Anatomy of Smear, attempted to discredit those who had made charges about Mena. -- There are reports of questionable financial operations of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, set up by Clinton and first headed by Dan Lasater, who was later convicted of cocaine distribution and who helped Roger Clinton pay his debt to drug dealers. -- On April 14, 1992, the Washington Times reports that "A federal-state drug task force secretly recorded in June 1984 Gov. Bill Clinton's brother, Roger, a heavy cocaine user at the time, boasting that he often took women to the governor's mansion for sex." -- Basic questions arise about Hillary Clinton's role as a lawyer representing Madison Guaranty. These questions should have at least stalled her canonization by the media, if not encouraging some actual investigative reporting. -- Serious questions arise about how Clinton, while running for state attorney general, came to be a part owner in Whitewater. Whitewater is basically a resort land scam. More than half the purchasers would lose their land thanks to the sleazy form of financing used. -- Connections between Jackson Stephens and the founder of BCCI are revealed. Stephen's bank provides a multimillion dollar line of credit that allows Clinton to stay in the primaries. According to a March 23 Alexander Cockburn story, "It was Jackson Stephens who brokered the arrival of [BCCI] into this country in 1977. He steered the bank's founder, Hassan Abedi, toward Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance. . . .Stephens then helped clear the ground, according to SEC documents, for Abedi's secret takeover of First American Bankshares." SUBSEQUENT SEX STORIES -- Important confirmation of the Gennifer Flowers story appears in an Art Harris Penthouse article in November 1992 that is widely ignored. Harris' witnesses included Flowers' mother, ex-roommate and a former boyfriend. -- Reports from four Arkansas state troopers of Clinton's sexual activities, both before and after election, are discounted, ridiculed or ignored. These include one trooper's report that he had brought a woman to the governor's mansion during pre-dawn hours on three occasions after the election. Also reported by troopers: one affair that lasted as late as January 1993. The New York Times runs a piece trying to discredit the troopers. -- State phone call records and other bills, the LA Times reports, include 59 Clinton calls to one woman's home and office between 1989 and 1991. -- A state trooper reports driving Clinton to Gennifer Flowers' apartment. -- Paula Jones accuses Bill Clinton of sexually harassing her while he was governor. This story will be long ignored, ridiculed or underplayed. -- Timothy Maier of Insight Magazine follows up his stunning story of Clinton administration bugging of over 300 locations during the 1993 Seattle Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference with word that FBI videotapes of diplomatic suites "show underage boys engaging in sexcapades with men in several rooms over a period of days." The operation involved the FBI, CIA, NSA and Office of Naval Intelligence. Bugged were hotel rooms, telephones, conference centers, cars, and even a charter boat. Some of the information obtained was apparently passed on to individuals with financial interests in Asia. Also involved: alleged kickbacks on purchases of surveillance equipment by the spooks. -- On July 3, 1997, Gennifer Flowers, interviewed by Penny Crone and Curtis Sliwa on New York's WABC, claims that she had received threats -- including death threats -- around the time of her tape recorded conversations with Bill Clinton and that this was why she had made the recordings. Asked whether she thought Clinton was behind the threats, Flowers replied, "What I thought, after my home was ransacked, was that he was behind that -- simply because I had called to tell him about it and it was his reaction it. I mean, he acted, he was aloof. Her didn't act that concerned. He said, 'Well, why do you think they came in there?' And I said, 'Well, why the hell do you think?' He said, 'Well, do you think they were looking for something on us?' I said, 'Well, yes.'" THE VINCE FOSTER CASE -- The mainstream media's conviction that any concerns about Vince Foster's death are paranoid delusions is supported by virtually no independent investigations. The media accepts without question shoddy, incomplete and misleading reports by two special prosecutors and resorts to personal attacks on critics. The issues raised by investigator such as Chris Ruddy, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Hugh Sprunt have not yet been answered. -- Even Kenneth Starr is interested in the apparent cover-up and obstruction of justice by high levels of White House that took place after Foster's death. The media is bored by the story. -- Patrick Knowlton files a lawsuit against the federal government alleging extraordinary harassment aimed at dissuading him from sticking to his account of what he saw in Ft. Marcy Park not long before the Foster body was found. This harassment involved intensive and overt surveillance by at least 25 men, some which was witnessed by his girlfriend and by investigative reporter Christopher Ruddy. Knowlton's car was also smashed by a person with a tire iron in front of witnesses. Investigative reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tracked down the car-smasher as well as a couple of members of the surveillance team and believes them to be stringers working for federal government intelligence and law enforcement. -- Over the strenuous opposition of Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater supervising judges unanimously allow a 20-page exception by Patrick Knowlton to be appended to the prosecutor's report on Vince Foster. Seven times Starr tries to get the statement of Knowlton rejected but the judges let it stand -- despite the fact that it directly contradicts Starr and his staff on key points. Most of the media fail to even report the existence of this document. THE JERRY PARKS CASE -- Jerry Parks had been head of security for the Clinton Little Rock HQ. He was also known to be building a dossier on Clinton, perhaps for Hillary. On hearing the news of Foster's death, he told his wife, "I'm a dead man." Not long after he was, rubbed out on a Little Rock street in a mob-style hit. According to Parks' family his files on Clinton were removed by federal agents. The murder has never been solved. THE DIXIE MAFIA AND DRUGS -- The Oct. 18 1994, Wall Street Journal runs a summary of the suppressed investigation into drug running through the Mena, AK, airport. The WSJ story recounts the ten year struggle of IRS investigator William Duncan to expose the Mena operation. Despite nine separate federal and state probes, nothing happened. Says Duncan -- who eventually quit in disgust: "The Mena investigations were never supposed to see the light of day." They were "interfered with and covered up, and the justice system was perverted." -- Writing in the Oct. 9, 1994 London Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes that Arkansas was a "major point for the transshipment of drugs" during the 1980s and "perilously close to becoming a 'narco-republic' -- a sort of mini-Columbia within the borders of the United States." Evans- Pritchard also alleges that by "1986 there was an epidemic of cocaine, contaminating the political establishment from top to bottom," with parties "at which cocaine would be served like hors d'oeuvres and sex was rampant." He adds that Clinton attended some of these events. -- In early 1995, the Washington Post suppresses Roger Morris and Sally Denton's story on The Crimes of Mena, apparently a decision of top management. -- Former FBI director William Sessions says the Foster probe was "compromised" from the beginning. Sessions had been fired by Bill Clinton the day before Foster's death. -- Janet Reno refuses to let independent prosecutor Dan Smaltz expand his probe into areas that might lead to exposing major drug dealing in Arkansas. . -- The Tampa Tribune tells its readers about an ex-Mena CIA operative who backs up stories concerning the Arkansas drug/Contra trade in the 1980s. The ex-agent reports flying into Mena and Little Rock in 1983 and 1984 with larger coolers marked "medical supplies." Who was on hand to pick up these "medical supplies?" According to the ex-agent, none other than several people quite close to then Governor Bill Clinton. The agent, now in jail, claims he bailed out of black ops after ex-CIA chief William Colby asked him to "neutralize" an American citizen. The Tribune's reporters have seen documents that support the agents' claims. -- While the press has no problem reporting such stories about Barry (or Dan Quayle for that matter), it has not told the public about the existence of a police tape of Roger Clinton describing his own cocaine trafficking and saying of his brother, "Got to get some for my brother; he's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner." -- A former informant for a drug task force in Arkansas tells Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph that she supplied Bill with cocaine during his first terms as governor. On one occasion, according to the woman, "He was so messed up that night, he slid down the wall into a garbage can." OTHER MATTERS -- In July 1995, The Progressive Review writes: " Early in the Clinton administration your editor had dinner with, among others, a high White House official -- a lawyer. The conversation turned to marijuana. The lawyer said that numerous staffers had asked how they should respond to FBI queries on the matter. The official's reply was that they should remember that they would only be in the White House for a short while but the FBI files would be there forever. And what if friends or relatives actually saw them using pot? The White House lawyer's response: "If you can't look an FBI agent straight in the eye and tell him they were wrong, you don't belong here." -- Hillary Clinton makes a killing on a commodities futures deal that defies the law of averages. -- Louis Freeh, testifying before a House committee is asked whether he has ever before run into a case (as with the Clinton scandals) in which 65 persons refused to testify or had left the country. Freeh said actually he had: " I spent about 16 years doing organized crime cases in New York City and many people were frequently unavailable." -- In just two matters before a House investigating committee (the FBI files and the travel office scandal) high White House officials, including Mrs. Clinton, said "I don't recall," "I don't remember" or something similar over 3,700 times. -- There is growing evidence that the federal government had advance warning of the OKC blast. -- The White House is found to have improper possession of about 900 personal FBI files. Knight-Ridder reports, "College-age interns and other volunteers had free access to hundreds of FBI investigative files kept in the White House security office during the first months of the Clinton administration. Nancy Gemmel, a retired security office deputy, said that during the first few months of the Clinton Administration 'extremely young' interns, 18 to 20 years of age, helped manage the heavy flow of paperwork. Other older volunteers also pitched in. All of them had access to a vault in the office that was used to store the background files. None of the volunteers, according to Gemmel, had been cleared by the FBI to hand such documents." -- LD Brown, a former Arkansas state trooper who worked on Clinton's security details, claims he was approached on a bus in England and offered $100,000 and a job to change his Whitewater testimony. A second offer was allegedly made in Little Rock. THREATS, VIOLENCE & DEATH -- The number of people who have been close to, or worked for, Bill Clinton and who have committed suicide or otherwise experienced sudden death is at the very least a statistical anomaly. Seventeen men who have served Clinton as aides or bodyguards have died violently, four of them during the Waco massacre and the rest in plane crashes. Five other plane crashes have killed persons in the Clinton orbit. There have been six deaths of unknown causes, six apparent suicides, 3 murders, 2 fatal skiing accidents, and one fatal car accident. There have also been a number of beatings, including of a man who had videotaped Clinton entering Gennifer Flowers's apartment. His tapes were seized. -- Aside from the Vince Foster and Jerry Parks deaths, the following especially deserve more attention than they have received to date: >>>Ron Brown's death. It is clear that proper procedure was not observed by the military medical examiners. With the discovery of a wound suggestive of a gun shot, calling for an independent autopsy would be a minimal and reasonable editorial position. Looking into other matters concerning the plane crash (including the disappearance of a recording device and the suicide of an air controller) would also make sense. >>>Kathy Ferguson and Bill Shelton. Kathy Ferguson was the ex-wife of Danny Ferguson, the state trooper who arranged Paula Jones' visit to Bill Clinton's suite. She allegedly committed suicide three months after the Jones case was publicized. She was considered a likely witness when it came to trial. A suicide note was found in her home but so were several packed suitcases next to the body. Her fiance, state trooper Bill Shelton, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at the gravesite of Kathy Ferguson. -- There are a steady stream of threats during the Clinton years, such as those allegedly relayed to two state troopers by a Democratic official in 1993 that they would be "destroyed" if they spoke to the press, and the phone call from Clinton's ex-security chief Buddy Young warning them not to reveal anything. -- Thomas M. DeFrank and Thomas Galvin of the New York Daily News describe in the Weekly Standard strong-arm tactics used by the Clintonistas against their critics. They write: "The president's impressive people skills and abundant personal charm mask a streak of political cold-bloodedness and score-settling worthy of a Mario Puzo novel. . . If you pose a threat to this president, you're not merely a political adversary -- you're clearly a bimbo, homosexual, homophobe, alcoholic, moron, sexual harasser, crook, dupe, fellow travelers, embezzler, pathological liar, or even murderer. At least that's what every reporter, news editor, bureau chief, or network executive interested in what you have to say will be told."Examples abound. Republican congressional investigators Jim Leach and William Clinger both found themselves being trailed by private detectives. False stories are spread such as the ones claiming that travel office head Billy Dale had been fired after an independent audit found financial irregularities. Editors and journalists are called and warned off sources. Talk show guests are yanked. Paula Jones, Sally Perdue, and other women involved with Clinton get viciously trashed, as have been various Arkansas state troopers. Conclude DeFrank and Galvin: "Enemies have been intimidated, inconvenient truths suppressed, and reputations shattered -- all at negligible cost of the president." And that's just part of the story.

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Quantum teleportation and communication (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:29:16 -0800 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Quantum teleportation and communication > Steve asked in another message about where one learns about some of this > stuff. As always, "Scientific American" is a good place to look for > articles. They've had many articles on Bell's Theorem, nonlocality, the EPR > paradox/nonparadox, the Aharanov-Bohm results, and quantum teleportation. A > SciAm article will explain, with pictures, in ways we can't here. (Plus the > articles are carefully written, by experts--we waste too much time here > getting lost in misunderstandings about the meanings of terms of art.) > "Science News" is sometimes good, too. And "New Scientist" and "Nature." > Any library should have plenty of articles. I agree with the reference to Sci-Am, with one priviso. A few years ago they put a pair of books on just these topics. They are a collection of articles published over the years and instead of digging through a variety of magazines and such these two will save a lot of time. Particles and Forces: The heart of the matter ISBN 0-7167-2070-1 $11.95 Particle Physics in the Cosmos ISBN 0-7167-1919-3 $9.95 And a much more technical book that I like a lot is: Understanding Quantum Physics: A user's manual M.A. Morrison ISBN 0-13-747908-5 ~$50 Enjoy. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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RE: Announcement: RPK InvisiMail released on 12 Jan, 1998
by Jack Oswald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It seems that there is some confusion WRT to the origin of this product. The encryption technology was developed in New Zealand. The application itself was developed on the Isle of Man (British Isles). As a result, the US gov't has had nothing to do with the product and therefore none of the "concerns" represented in the previous message have any merit. What was meant by use of "honey" is that if you pick a fight with a government official, they will be happy to fight back. If you complement them on their farsighted visionary non-meddling approach you get a very different response. Our experience has been that we get a reasonable response from the NZ government that does not restrict the security that our products offer nor in the way that we choose to do business. Jack -----Original Message----- From: John Young [SMTP:jya@pipeline.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 4:02 PM To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Cc: Jack Oswald Subject: RE: Announcement: RPK InvisiMail released on 12 Jan, 1998 On "using honey not vinegar" rationale of RPK InvisiMail for obtaining crypto export licenses: Applied Cryptography, Bruce Schneier, 2nd Edition, pp. 215-16 Algorithms for Export Algorithms for export out of the United States must be approved by the U.S. government (actually, by the NSA--see Section 25.1) It is widely believed that these export-approved algorithms can be broken by the NSA. Although no one has admitted this on the record, these are some of the things the NSA is rumored to privately suggest to companies wishing to export their cryptographic products: - Leak a key bit once in a while, embedded in the ciphertext. - "Dumb down" the effective key to something in the 30-bit range. For example, while the algorithm might accept a 100-bit key, most of those keys might be equivalent. - Use a fixed IV, or encrypt a fixed header at the beginning of each encrypted message. This facilitates a known-plaintext attack. - Generate a few random bytes, encrypt them with the key, and then put both the plaintext and the ciphertext of those random bytes at the beginning of the encrypted message. This also facilitates a known-plaintext attack. NSA gets a copy of the source code, but the algorithm's details remain secret from everyone else. Certainly no one advertises any of these deliberate weaknesses, but beware if you buy a U.S. encryption product that has been approved for export. ----- Bruce added the last "beware" phrase to the 2nd edition.

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Re: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:44:57 -0800 > From: Steve Schear <schear(a)lvdi.net> > Subject: Re: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 > (fwd) > >The state is determined *at the time of collapse*. Once the collapse occurs > >the synchronization is no longer present and subsequent events can indeed > >alter the polarization of one particle without altering the other. Simply > >bouncing that photon via refraction off a surface can alter the > >polarization. > > If that is the case, I still don't understand why and out-of-band signal is > required. If the sender collapses the wave function shortly before the > signal reaches the intended receiver its unlikely to have changed > polarization again. What do you mean 'shortly before', the collapse is instantaneous. There ain't no time to send anything. The channle can carry one bit of data, the collapse has occured (1) or it hasn't (0). It isn't like a modem, CD, or other comm channels where you have a bandwidth and can piggy back signals for synchronization by using parts of that bandwidth. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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update.356 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From physnews(a)aip.org Tue Jan 27 15:31:03 1998 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:46:26 -0500 From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) Message-Id: <199801271346.IAA15741(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.356 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 356 January 27, 1998 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein LOCALIZATION OF LIGHT has been achieved by an Amsterdam- Florence collaboration (contact Ad Lagendijk, adlag(a)phys.uva.nl) Consider the movement of light through a diffuse medium such as milk, fog, or sugar. The light waves scatter repeatedly, and the transmission of light decreases as the light gets reflected. In the Amsterdam-Florence experiment something different happens. By using a gallium-arsenide powder with a very high index of refraction but with very low absorption at near infrared (wavelength of 1064 nm), the researchers were, in a sense, able to get the light to stand still. That is, the light waves get into the medium and bounce around in a standing wave pattern, without being absorbed. This is the first example of "Anderson localization" for near-visible light. This medium is not what would be called a "photonic bandgap" material (analogous to a semiconductor for electrons) but more like a "photonic insulator." (Wiersma et al., Nature, 18/25 December 1997; see also www.aip.org/physnews/graphics) QUANTUM EVAPORATION occurs in a new experiment when a beam of phonons (little pulses of sound issuing from a warm filament) inside a pool of superfluid helium-4 is aimed at the liquid surface from below. In analogy with the photoelectric effect (in which light ejects electrons from a surface), the phonons pop helium atoms up out of the liquid. By measuring the momenta of the phonons and the evaporated atoms, one can determine that the atoms originally had zero momentum parallel to the surface, demonstrating directly (for the first time) that the He-4 atoms had been part of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in which the atoms fall into a single quantum state. Theories of superfluid He-4 had supposed that the atoms reside in a BEC state, but this had not been experimentally verified until now. The researcher, Adrian Wyatt of the University of Exeter, believes this method can be used to generate beams of coherent helium atoms (an "atom laser" effect). (Nature, 1 January 1998.) ANOTHER VERSION OF QUANTUM TELEPORTATION is being published by researchers in Italy and England (Francesco DeMartini, University of Rome, demartini(a)axcasp.caspur.it) Like the Innsbruck teleportation scheme published several weeks earlier (Update 351), this demonstration employs a pair of entangled photons. Whereas the Innsbruck experiment teleported the polarization value of a third, distinct "message photon" to one of the entangled photons, the Rome scheme encodes one of the entangled photons with a specific polarization state and transmits this state to the other entangled photon. Although different from the Innsbruck experiment (which had a 25% teleportation success rate) and the original theoretical proposal for teleportation, this scheme works 100% of the time if the receiver applies the right transformations on the second photon. (D. Boschi et al., upcoming article in Physical Review Letters). In another, theoretical paper, Sam Braunstein of the University of Wales (Bangor) and Jeff Kimble of Caltech propose an experimental method for extending quantum teleportation from transmitting discrete variables such as polarization to transmitting continuous variables like the amplitude of the electric field associated with a light wave. (Braunstein et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 26 January 1998.)

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Oregon no-knock leads to conflict [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > OFFICER KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN OREGON SHOOT-OUT > > Map of Oregon January 28, 1998 > Web posted at: 2:06 p.m. EST (1906 GMT) > > PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- One officer was killed and two were wounded > in Portland Tuesday as they forced their way through the door of a > home that neighbors say was stocked with high-powered weapons. > > Police with black body armor and shields surrounded the house and > wounded the lone suspect. He was taken out three hours later and > hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the chest and stomach. > > The suspect, identified as 37-year-old Steven Dons, was stripped by > officers and driven away naked and bleeding on the tailgate of an > armored SWAT van. > ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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EPR, Bell, and FTL Bandwidth
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Schear writes" > Why aren't the coding techniques commonly used in telecom and disk > data encoding adequate to both synchonize and convey data? Think of the classical case. I bake two fortune cookies, one with "FOO" written on the slip of paper inside, and the other reading "BAR." I then put them in a box and shake it for quite a while, until the final state has chaotic dependence upon initial conditions, and cannot be predicted. I then keep one fortune cookie, and mail the other one to Lucky Green in Tonga. Someday in the future, I open my cookie, and instantly know what Lucky will see when he opens his. In doing so, I have created a "instantaneous" correlation between two things separated by a vast distance, which were in an identical state of ambiguity prior to one of them being examined. I am sure we will agree that there was no genuine faster-then-light communication of information in this case. In quantum mechanics, pairs of observables may have the property that both of them may not be known precisely for a physical system. The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle states this for position and momentum. Similar relationships exist for energy and time, polarization or angular momentum measured with respect to different axes, and various other things. In addition, measuring a physical system for one such variable always changes its wavefunction into one for which the value of that variable is precisely specified, and the value of the other "non-commuting" variable is not. You can see this easily with three polarizing filters. If you shine a light through two of them at right angles to each other, it will be completely blocked. But it you insert third filter at a 45 degree angle, some light will get through. This is because light whose polarization is known to be vertical or horizontal is in a mixed state with respect to its polarization rotated 45 degrees. It is therefore tempting to think that perhaps the miracle of quantum mechanics could be employed in our fortune cookie experiment for the transmission of information. I generate many pairs of cookies, with random but identical polarization, keeping one of each pair for myself, and sending the other to Lucky. I then encode a stream of bits by measuring the polarization of 100 cookies, vertically if I wish to transmit a "0", and at a 45 degree angle if I choose to transmit a "1". I then know Lucky's corresponding cookie to be in an exact state with respect to one of these observables, and in a mixed state with respect to the other, and if Lucky measures the vertical polarization of his groups of cookies, there should be a correlation between his results and mine which can only be explained by non-local communication of my choice, on the fly, of which way I measured the polarization, to his apparatus. Now here we have good news and bad news. The good news is that when we do such an experiment, precisely enough to know for sure that there is a spacelike separation between the two measurement events, we do indeed see the correlation predicted by quantum mechanics. The bad news is that either end of the experiment, by itself, cannot see this correlation without knowing what results were obtained by the person at the other end. The correlation is between both ends. There is no experiment that can be done by either end alone which will turn out differently depending upon what the guy at the opposite end is doing. Thus, while such experiments involve non-local communication between two locations separated by a spacelike distance, such communication is obvious only to someone able to see what is going on in both places at once, but not to either isolated experimenter. Hence, the non-local collapse of quantum mechanical wavefunctions cannot be employed for the transmission of information. A similar argument applies to quantum teleporation, in which the value of some measurable variable is transferred from a dynamical system to one of two particles in correlated but unknown quantum states, causing the particle's twin to take on an identical value. Again, a person able to view both systems can see that non-local communication has taken place, but there is nothing either end can do by itself to learn what has transpired at the other end. This is because the correlation which proves non-local communication is present only in combined data from both ends of the experiment, but not in data from either end alone. -- 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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EPR, Bell, and FTL Bandwidth (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Eric Cordian <emc(a)wire.insync.net> > Subject: EPR, Bell, and FTL Bandwidth > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:17:49 -0600 (CST) > Think of the classical case. I bake two fortune cookies, one with > "FOO" written on the slip of paper inside, and the other reading > "BAR." I then put them in a box and shake it for quite a while, until > the final state has chaotic dependence upon initial conditions, and > cannot be predicted. I then keep one fortune cookie, and mail the > other one to Lucky Green in Tonga. > > Someday in the future, I open my cookie, and instantly know what Lucky > will see when he opens his. True, but your opening your cookie does not *force* Lucky to open his at the same time. This is one fault with this model. The 'state' of the cookies are not inter-dependant as the polarization of the photon pairs are. > In doing so, I have created a > "instantaneous" correlation between two things separated by a vast It isn't instantanous, the correlation existed when they were printed and doesn't change. If I destroy one of the cookies it doesn't destroy the other spontaneously as would happen in a correlated photon-pair. The state of the individual cookies exists because of the observer and not a fundamental requirement of the cookies existing. > I am sure we will agree that there was no genuine faster-then-light > communication of information in this case. On this we can agree. > In quantum mechanics, pairs of observables may have the property that > both of them may not be known precisely for a physical system. The > Heisenberg Uncertainty principle states this for position and > momentum. Incorrect. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that in order to measure one parameter the other must *necessarily* change because they are in actuality different aspects of the *same* characteristic. They are *not* indipendant aspects of the system being observed. Momentum and position are different sides of the same coin. A conservation effect is what we are dealing with. This same conservation issue arises, and in fact allows FTL state transitions, with bound photon-pairs. > Similar relationships exist for energy and time, > polarization or angular momentum measured with respect to different > axes, and various other things. In addition, measuring a physical > system for one such variable always changes its wavefunction into one > for which the value of that variable is precisely specified, and the > value of the other "non-commuting" variable is not. Not quite. In the act of measuring one parameter we necessarily change the other. That change is what we can't measure *at the same time* not the absolute value at a given time tau. > You can see this easily with three polarizing filters. If you shine a > light through two of them at right angles to each other, it will be > completely blocked. Only if the light has a single polarization. If you shine a circularly polarized light through you will in fact see light on the other side. [more stuff deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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