December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: IRS cratering
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 10:05:09AM -0700, Jim Gillogly wrote: > > > Similar efforts in the past to modernize the FAA have failed...as someone > > noted, the FAA and control towers are still dependent on vacuum tube > > computers. The problem lies not with finding newer computers, but with the > > software for the many subsystems, displays, communcations links, radars, > > Is this really true? They do have obsolete vacuum tube equipment, but > I thought it was all radars and radios rather than computers. The up-side > of it is that vacuum tubes are more resistant to EMP than silicon... but > I'm pretty sure that's not why they're still using them. > IEEE Spectrum of ran a story on this last year. Apparently they do have some vacuum tube radio, audio and radar gear, but all the computer systems in use are solid state such as antique 360s and the like with lots of custom interfaces that can't be readily replaced. And much of the software is such patched spaghetti that nobody has been able to reimplement it. But telling is the fact that most of the radar display consoles are late 60s designs manufactured in the early 70s with a 5-10 year expected lifetime, and wires and connectors and other parts not normally replaced in the field are getting brittle with age after 20-25 years of continuous operation at temperature. And maintaining them and the computers is made harder each year by the increasingly total unavailibility of electronic components of the types used back then... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Surveillance of police raids...
by decius＠ninja.techwood.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> But the knock on the door and the presentation of a warrant is > increasingly being replaced by these "dynamic entries." Given that this > is exactly how teams of home invaders hit houses, and given the element > of surprise, is it any wonder that many of us keep loaded and ready > semiautomatic rifles and shotguns to repel such invasions? (And many of > us use SS-109 green tips, which essentially punch right through > ballistic vests up to Class III. How many SWAT members need to die in > such raids before the courts restore the Fourth Amendment?) These sort of "dynamic entries" and other cases of clearly burtal behavior by the police are fearsome indeed. They also appear to be a problem the public is very unhappy about... Rodney King riots to the public reaction to Waco and similar incidents. It is obvious that if you hire a bunch of people for an adrenaline intensive job where they will be taking down "bag guys" with machine guns they are going to be difficult to keep in line. These aren't lawyers or philosophers. Its not the right/wrong for these people but the thrill of the hunt. However, I don't beleive I've seen any evidence that "keeping loaded and ready semiautomatic rifles" is an effective response. Most people who "fight back" seem to be killed quickley or (rarely) they get involved in long standoffs which often end in death. Eitherway, if you do make it out alive you will likely have racked enough charges against you in the process of defending yourself that the original legal issue pales by comparison. Do you know of anyone who has stood up to police raiders and WON? The majority of cases that I have seen where abusive police "got theirs" occured in a court room and not a "compound." The Steve Jackson Games decision put a pre-emptive stop to a lot of unreasonable searches... It doesn't really matter if the Secret Service understands *WHY* it was in the wrong. What matters is that police agencies are aware that they can't walk into a house and take everything with a plug on the premise that they are investigating computer crime. Like it or not... Now the issue of police lieing about a raid in court is at hand, and this brings an interesting twist here for privacy advocates. Video surveillance is an effective weapon against police brutality. Thats a fact. Many police agencies have taken to installing "tamper proof" cameras in patrol cars. These are effective in court when the cops are in "the right." (Philisophical arguments about anarchy vs. democracy notwithstanding...) They are also quite effective when the cops are in the wrong. One officer in Atlanta was stupid enough to engage in an unprovocted beating of a suspect right in from of his own camera. He's out of a job now. One could imagine a CCTV system in a home with an easily accessable switch which engages it. And X-10 remote is handy and could be programmed to do this. The cameras could be designed to be unobtrusive. For real security the video data would need to be streamed (over the net?) to a remote site for storage and the system must be difficult to shut down under duress without evidence of such coersion being saved. Audio data could also be saved. The nice thing about this is that the surveillance is in the control of the home owner. Problem with surveillance is that its a weapon. I don't want to be surveilled. However, I might wish to surveil others for my protection as in the above example. I absolutely hate the idea of cameras in the workplace or in general public places. Especially in the hands of the government rather than store owners. Crytography can protect you from phone taps, but what can protect you from a network of digital cameras connected to face recognition software? Thats the direction I see this overall issue heading. One can envision a future in which all your online dealings can be extremely secure and anonymized by virtue of crypto, but your movements in the physical world are tightly monitored by automated video processing systems... -- */^\* Tom Cross AKA Decius 615 AKA The White Ninja */^\* Decius(a)ninja.techwood.org "If the economic, social and political conditions... do not offer a basis for the realization of individuality, while at the same time people have lost those ties which gave them security... powerful tendencies arise to escape from freedom into submission." -- Erich Fromm

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UK E-Comm-Crypto Policy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The UK DTI issued today a policy statement and papers on electronic commerce and encryption policy, which were posted to UK Crypto. We offer the initial three docs: http://jya.com/uk-ecomm.htm (28K)

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Position escrow
by Smoking Man 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> This is a really difficult issue. > >And how. > >How does this interact with phones whose What, like a party line? >access (telephone) number is non-unique? >Could where I am calling from be divorced If the standard of COM >from what instrument I am using to call? is uniform, yes. >Is there a parallel between smearing the >signal over a spectrum of radio frequencies Radio frequencies are >and smearing the identifying information a physical representation >over a spectrum of numbers? Could calls of numbers...YES. >to 911 carry no phone number but just >"here I am" information -- a panic button They could, and what if >function, in other words? you hang-up in distress. > >I imagine I sound like someone calling in There are no experts here. >to an ASK THE EXPERTS radio show... They don't broadcast. > >--dan > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: Position escrow
by Smoking Man 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I might wish that the government had the >means to track every automobile's location. ...Planes come standard with ILR? (International Locator Radio). Cars hav accidents too often for that...too expensive to serv it maybe. >What we need are cellphone remailers. Some might. I'm not sure how much though. >Third parties who want to use ordinary/automated cellphone tracking systems >will get the physical address of the relay, not that of the phone. Hmmmm. Same principles as remailers...Latency? Relay switching? >number of antennae/base stations that the regular cellphone folks do, so >it'll be harder for them to use trianguation and timing to derive physical >location. Contrarily, the fewer the remailers, the EASIER--could be only one remailer to compromise. Realtime Mixmaster? Heh. Parallel MixMaster. >>I expect the main countermeasure to cellular position tracking will be >>the use of one-way pagers. That depends on the protocol they use. Simplex? Old things. Probably. >But one-way pagers are a dying technology - and I'll bet that within 3-5 >years, it'll no longer be possible to turn off cellphones. >>Perhaps if the "just turn it off" approach is widely promoted, the Won't hav too. How many people does it take to keep a secret? Anything you say or do offensively, wrongly, or illegally can and probably will be used against you somehow, especially if you mention it or you're caught. You hav the right to be silent. No one has the right to understand you if you giv up that right. You may purchase the right to authenticate financial transactions. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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GSM A5 Papers
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We would be grateful for assistance in obtaining copies of the following papers, particularly the first: S J Shepherd, "Cryptanalysis of the GSM A5 Cipher Algorithm", IEE Colloquium on Security and Cryptography Applications to Radio Systems, Digest No. 1994/141, Savoy Place, London, 3 June 1994, (COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE). S J Shepherd, "An Approach to the Cryptanalysis of Mobile Stream Ciphers", IEE Colloquium on Security and Cryptography Applications to Radio Systems, Digest No. 1994/141, Savoy Place, London, 3 June 1994, (COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE). S J Shepherd, "Public Key Stream Ciphers", IEE Colloquium on Security and Cryptography Applications to Radio Systems, Digest No. 1994/141, pp 10/1-10/7, Savoy Place, London, 3 June 1994. These are listed on Dr Shepherd's bio at: http://vader.brad.ac.uk/finance/SJShepherd.html

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Futures Doomed
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

More on the future of money in the NYT today, "Crime's New Cash of Choice," the Euro, which plans larger denominations than the mobs' favorite $100 US. If the Euro catches on, it says, the USG could lose billions in interest-free loans on stashed C-notes, unused except in the underground -- which the US turns a blind tax eye to because more revenue comes from the seignoriage. http://www.nytimes.com Or: http://jya.com/euro-threat.htm On competing millenarist doomsaying, the NYT has on page one a report on an exercise last month which revealed how ill-prepared the US is to handle a germ attack, with PDDs coming shortly to address anti-terrorism (with a Czar), and the squabbles among competing agencies for intel fed shock scenarios leading to terrific stockpiles of money antidotes, preferrably all non-fictional, but not likely since the report says that the PDD the President gets aroused at is Richard Preston's "The Cobra Event" -- sold out for miles around the bunkers' intake vents of the germs' most wanted. http://jya.com/germ-threat.htm Bear in mind that Kennedy's hard-on for James Bond shaped a generation of whiz kids looking for gory galore, the fathers of natsec implanted kids now in late boomer breakdown seeing the future all too clear, inclined to predict their end The End.

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Re: Hettinga promoted to Head Critic In Charge...
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Asgaard wrote: >But Timothy C. May never 'claimed' any such things outside of an >entirely humorous context. On the other hand, *you* obviously had >some kind of fit some months back, feeling singled out by 'M', but >now are remembering it completely backwards. This is true. And helpful to file for future reference. Data show that Tim's thoughts are not what they appear to be in text. The needle -- yes, the mind-reading machine's analog -- jumps all the way to left, Bizarre Humor, whenever no mercy emissions emanate from the hilltop bastion's outgoing array. Only unclues take Tim's deadpan assays for deadshot intent. Those black talons are black jokes, Bob, laugh. You never been shot at to keep you dancing? Don't stop, though, or the fun ends.

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80% of cash is in underground economy!
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A surprising finding from New York Times: Economists once believed that just 10 percent of all currency in circulation was tied up in the underground economy. Now it turns out that 80 percent is closer to the mark. Most of it is in $100 bills, which are the largest available and now account for well over half the value of the nation's paper money. American banks and businesses hold very little cash. American households are also loath to keep much of it lying around. Yet according to the Federal Reserve there is enough currency floating around to make it appear that every American family of four has $6,000 or so in cash stashed under the mattress, including three dozen $100 bills. And despite the ubiquitousness of credit cards, ATMs and electronic transfers, the sea of cash has been growing much faster than the nation's gross national product. - Igor.

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Screw You Packet
by Illuminatus Primus 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.theonion.com/onion3315/screwyoupacket.html BACK * 22 April 1998 _________________________________________________________________ WASHINGTON, DC--In an effort to streamline degradation of the American populace and consolidate all forms of bureaucratic hassle into one convenient mailing, federal officials announced Monday that, beginning in 1999, the government will issue all citizens an annual "Screw You" packet. The packet, which is to be distributed in conjunction with federal tax forms, will condense the government's countless methods of abuse into a single handy 9x12 envelope. "The federal government's current citizen-persecution system is inefficient and wasteful," said Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY), who spearheaded the congressional task force that developed the "Screw You" packet. "This compact packet is not only cost-effective, it's user-friendly and intuitive. Simple instructions and easy-to-remember acronyms make the filing process as quick and painless as possible." The packet's easy-to-understand forms will free citizens of the nightmare of red tape normally associated with federal filings. Filling out and returning the "Screw You" packet is mandatory and easy. Here's how: The first step is to calculate your Economic Mobility Factor using the convenient EMF 1138 calculation sheet included in the packet. Those with an Economic Mobility Factor of 90 or above may mail or fax forms SC0089-L and SC0065-DD to their local Screw You EMF Processing Center. They may also drop them off at SYEMFPC kiosks conveniently set up at post offices and public libraries across the U.S. Those with an EMF between 30 and 90 must submit their forms in person to a Screw You EMF Processing Center Clerk. Such applicants must meet with the SYEMFPCC, and should arrange appointments via the State Application Auditing Appointment Bureau. Once an appointment date has been set by the SAAAB, a Screw You Appointment Confirmation Card will be mailed to you within three to four weeks. Upon receipt of the Screw You Appointment Confirmation Card, applicants will be required to register the appointment with the Screw You Appointment Registry Bureau. Failure to register the appointment within a 48-hour period will result in a fine automatically added to your estimated SYEMF-1138 quotient. The amount of the fine can be determined by using Screw You Fine/ Penalty Schedule 565612, which is available at all local Department of Fiduciary Adjustment branch offices. If there is no DFA office in your immediate Screw You zone, district, state or township, you should contact the Federal Department of Fiduciary Adjustments in Washington, D.C., and ask to speak to a Citizen's Outreach Representative who will look up the predetermined fine on SYF/PS565612. There is a $50 processing fee for any and all telephone queries to the FDFA. Those wishing to charge the $50 fee can do so by making three copies of forms SYEMF-1138, KSJU-387-SK, SKSP-90-EZ, and SC-2389, along with computer code 0100010 and ACC-842, and forwarding them to the Federal Department of Fiduciary Adjustments Postal Processing Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Forms received by the FDFAPPC will be processed and returned to applicants within six to eight weeks. Those who wish to have their forms returned in less than six to eight weeks may file a Fiduciary Calculation Acceleration Form 9056 at their local SYEMFPC. FCAF-9056 forms will be available Monday to Tuesday between the hours of 7:45 a.m. and 8:15 a.m., and are distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Completed forms should be returned to the FDFA in Washington, DC. All FCAF-9056 forms that have not cleared authentication via the FDFA in Washington, DC, will be rendered null and void, and will not be forwarded to the FDFAPPC in Colorado Springs. Applicants who misdirect their FCAF-9056 forms will draw a $10 per SYEMF-1138 fine. The fine must be paid within 36 hours, or the applicant will be subject to house arrest and strip-search by the Armed Outreach Response Team, an independently operated division of the Screw You Outreach Consortium. _________________________________________________________________ BACK * 22 April 1998 © Copyright 1998 Onion, Inc., All rights reserved. View masthead for more information. Questions/comments? Please consult our contact information page.

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Re: Futures Doomed
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:53 AM 4/26/98 -0400, John Young wrote: >More on the future of money in the NYT today, "Crime's >New Cash of Choice," the Euro, which plans larger >denominations than the mobs' favorite $100 US. If the >Euro catches on, it says, the USG could lose billions in >interest-free loans on stashed C-notes, unused except >in the underground -- which the US turns a blind tax eye >to because more revenue comes from the seignoriage. Why haven't the undergrounders adopted the SF1000 note (just under $700 these days)? Nice denomination. DCF

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by Iwar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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NTT Develops Secure Public-Key Encryption Scheme
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://pr.info.ntt.co.jp/news/news98e/980416.html Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced today the development of Efficient Probabilistic Public-Key Encryption (EPOC), a highly secure and mathematically verified public-key encryption scheme that encrypts information on the transmission side with a public-key (encryption key) and then decrypts it on the receiver side with a secret -key (decryption key). Encryption technology has become necessary to prevent information on the Internet from being monitored by others without authorization. Public-key encryption is being widely researched as a practical means of encrypting communication for security. The paramount feature of any public-key encryption schemes is ensuring that figuring out the decryption key from the encryption key is as difficult as possible, to prevent unauthorized use of ciphered information. The RSA*1 scheme uses factoring and the elliptic curve encryption scheme*2 uses elliptic curve discrete logarithms, both of which can take a supercomputer a very long time to determine the key. It has not been verified, however, that either scheme provides the necessary security to prevent ciphered information from being broken by a method other than factoring or elliptic curve discrete logarithms. The Rabin encryption scheme*3, which also uses factoring, offers no algorithm other than factoring for computing the complete plain-text, but it has not been proven that any bit of plain-text cannot be computed. EPOC is a practical scheme in that the computer computation workload for encrypting and decrypting is about the same as that for the RSA and elliptic curve encryption schemes. Also, EPOC is a highly secure scheme which uses a trapdoor discrete logarithm*4 as the key mathematical technique and can be broken only by factoring. Factoring is difficult to accomplish, even with a supercomputer, and the probability that an efficient solution to factoring will be found soon is very low, because mathematicians have been studying the problem for years. EPOC ensures that partial, as well as whole, texts cannot be broken. Finally, EPOC uses probabilistic encryption, so re-encrypted text is encrypted differently each time, unlike the Rabin and RSA scheme, which use deterministic encryption. NTT now plans to incorporate EPOC in systems for enhanced security on the Internet. Public-key encryption is used primarily for key distribution, because computation load is greater than that for secret-key encryption*5, so EPOC will be used in existing encryption modules for key distribution. Other applications will also be developed. In particular, EPOC is suitable for electronic voting and anonymous telecommunication since it has a homomorphic property, unlike the RSA, Rabin and elliptic curve encryption schemes. The theoretical details will be presented at Eurocrypt '98 in Finland this June. Notes: *1: The RSA scheme was developed by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman in 1978 and is based on the difficulty of factoring. It was the first public-key encryption scheme. *2: The elliptic curve encryption scheme was proposed independently by Miller and Koblitz in 1985 and is based on the difficulty of elliptic curve discrete logarithms. The basic technique is based on a scheme developed by Diffie and Hellman in 1976. *3: The Rabin scheme was developed by Rabin in 1979 and is based on the difficulty of factoring. It was the first public-key encryption scheme to verify the impossibility of breaking a complete text without factoring the public-key. *4: A trapdoor discrete logarithm is a newly discovered discrete logarithm problem that can be solved only if a secret-key is known. *5: Secret-key encryption differs from public-key encryption in that the sender and the receiver use the same key for encryption and decryption. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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17 Dec '03

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LA DA's illegal wiretaps revealed ---LA Times
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Fans of CALEA, take note. Sunday, April 26, 1998 THE STATE Can the L.A. Criminal-Justice System Work Without Trust? By CHARLES L. LINDNER [excerpt] in the wake of the discovery that deputy district attorneys assigned to its narcotics unit have relied on secret wiretaps for years to gather evidence against their clients--and no one, including judges, knew about the practice. Beyond the obvious legal question of whether the district attorney knowingly violated the 4th Amendments's prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure is one that cannot be resolved in court: Can the county's criminal-justice system carry on in an atmosphere of mistrust? ... LAPD officers have avoided revealing the existence of their electronic intercepts using a police procedure known as "the handoff technique." It works like this: Narcotics officers on "Team A" set up a wiretap to gather information on a suspect. Without identifying the source of their information, the officers turn over the wiretap's "intelligence product" to detectives from "Team B," also members of LAPD's narcotics unit. Using the intelligence product, "Team B" officers set about trying to gather facts independently that would provide "probable cause" for a second judge to sign a search warrant targeting another suspect, without the cops disclosing the existence of the first wiretap to the jurist. It is not hard to imagine the potential harm from this police-prosecution malfeasance. If an investigation focused on a pharmacist, for instance, the police would have a taped record of every prescription for every patient and physician who called the pharmacy. By law, these wiretaps are preserved for 10 years, so the potential damage to an innocent citizen having his or her private calls intercepted is significant. What aggravates the misconduct is the likelihood that neither the police nor the "wiretap judge" followed the legal requirement that the police file written progress reports every 72 hours, and that the judge make a decision every 72 hours on whether a tap can continue. There is strong reason to suspect that neither the judiciary nor the Legislature has been "minding the store." For example, a judge issuing a wiretap order must inform any person whose voice was wiretapped within 90 days and supply the person with an inventory of what was recorded. Similarly, Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren is required to provide a detailed report to the Legislature and state Judicial Council each April regarding the number and duration of all wiretaps conducted by every law-enforcement agency in the state. As of last week, neither the Judicial Council nor Chairman John Vasconcellos' Senate Public Safety Committee could find a copy. Finally, no public defender or private criminal lawyer has been given the legally required inventory since 1985, when the secret wiretaps began. According to Public Defender Michael P. Judge, the public record discloses only three reported wiretaps by local law enforcement during 1997--two by the LAPD and one by the county Sheriff's Department. It is simply mind-boggling that, for the last 13 years, on hundreds of occasions when the court or opposing counsel have asked prosecutors whether they have turned over all defendants' and co-defendants' statements, they have been lied to or misled. The danger from these secret wiretaps is not limited to suspected criminals. According to statistics published by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, which oversees "authorized" federal wiretaps, each wiretap order of roughly 40 days in length results in the interception of an average 2,139 conversations involving 84 separate persons. The statistics also note that the average tap produces incriminating information less than 20% of the time, resulting in the arrest of two suspects and the conviction of a single individual. If, as a police narcotics detective testified in the Gaxiola case, there have been hundreds of secret "handoff" taps and electronic intercepts, by extrapolation, thousands of Los Angeles residents have had their private telephone conversations secretly and illegally monitored by LAPD. The public defender has filed an unprecedented class-action habeas corpus petition with Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert W. Parkin on behalf of all past, present and future public defender clients. It seeks to discover whether the prosecution denied thousands of defendants a fair trial by hiding the true source of its information, i.e., secret wiretaps. If secret wiretaps were used and the evidence was concealed from the defense, then thousands of men and women were illegally convicted and incarcerated. Should this unhappy scenario play out, the criminal justice system could well be irreparably damaged, its credibility in the public mind ruined. Yet, even if events keep the convicted behind bars, the loss of trust between prosecutor and defense lawyer may never be fully recovered. The problem defense lawyers and criminal judges face today is that they have never had so many prosecutors lie for so long about so much, which may have resulted in the unconstitutional convictions of so many. http://www.latimes.com/sbin/iawrapper?NS-search-set=/3544b/aaaa004Kx44b35f&N S-doc-offset=0&NS-adv-search=0& ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I actually thought Silicon Valley was where women went to get fixed." ---LA Mayor Richard Riordan 98.02.19

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Schneier on Smartcards and Holding Secrets
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bruce wrote a short letter to a trade mag (Internet world? I've lost it since) worth reporting. The jist was, if a smartcard contains Bank Secrets but is held by customers which do not share the same goals/responsibility as the owner of the secrets, this is *poor security design*. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I actually thought Silicon Valley was where women went to get fixed." ---LA Mayor Richard Riordan 98.02.19

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TruthBore
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." ~ Bohr

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...and we're here to screw you...
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." ~ An Opus To Be Named Later

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Defense
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"The best defense against logic is ignorance." ~ A(H)OL(E)

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Son of Fear
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Message will arrive in the mail. Destroy before the FBI sees it." ~ FUD D'is

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Clinton's finger to the world?/Man's toe gets stuck in G/F's pussy
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Was it Monica's tie Clinton wore on his Monday night address? + EIGHT GORGEOUS CENTERFOLD GIRLS DISPLAYING ALL THEIR NAKED BEAUTY + Crafty bar owner gets around topless dancer ban + Freeze-O-Pants: New, air conditioned pants + How to bed two room mates at once by Matt Miller + Invasion of the super snatch: Vagina-resembling aliens land + New cure for premature ejaculation + Sex vortex surrounds the Wiite House, psychic reveals + Women are Easy, chapter 12: Where do I find the women I desire, part III + Today's Sexy Story: "We always share" + Loads and loads more stuff! ----> http://stuffed.net/98/8/23/ <---- Welcome to today's issue of Stuffed. To read it you should click on the URL above. If it is not made clickable by your email program you will need to use your mouse to highlight the URL, copy it and then paste it into your browser (then press Return). This email is never sent unsolicited. Stuffed is the supplement for the Eureka newsletter you subscribed to. Full instructions on unsubscribing are in every issue of Eureka! ----> http://stuffed.net/98/8/23/ <----

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No Subject
by RedOmega 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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