December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

PipeNet 1.1 and b-money
by Wei Dai 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've discovered some attacks against the original PipeNet design. The new protocol, PipeNet 1.1, should fix the weaknesses. PipeNet 1.1 uses layered sequence numbers and MACs. This prevents a collusion between a receiver and a subset of switches from tracing the caller by modifying or swaping packets and then watching for garbage. A description of PipeNet 1.1 is available at http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai. Also available there is a description of b-money, a new protocol for monetary exchange and contract enforcement for pseudonyms. Please direct all follow-up discussion of these protocols to cypherpunks.

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PipeNet 1.1 and b-money
by Steve Moyzis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I don't know if this was supposed to have gone to Bugtraq, or it came to me because I 'visited' their "snoop server" acoupla times. If you already rec'd the original, then "Never Mind". >Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:33:49 -0800 >From: Wei Dai <weidai(a)eskimo.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Cc: onions(a)itd.nrl.navy.mil >Subject: PipeNet 1.1 and b-money >Sender: owner-onions(a)itd.nrl.navy.mil > >I've discovered some attacks against the original PipeNet design. The new >protocol, PipeNet 1.1, should fix the weaknesses. PipeNet 1.1 uses layered >sequence numbers and MACs. This prevents a collusion between a receiver >and a subset of switches from tracing the caller by modifying or swaping >packets and then watching for garbage. > >A description of PipeNet 1.1 is available at >http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai. > >Also available there is a description of b-money, a new protocol for >monetary exchange and contract enforcement for pseudonyms. > >Please direct all follow-up discussion of these protocols to cypherpunks. >

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Rootfest
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/26/1841245.shtml "RootFest is a conference for the computer underground, as well as the computer security professionals, engineers, networking people, feds, script kiddies, and anyone else who would like a chance to meet people and learn. When: RootFest 99 will be held May 21-23, 1999. Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota,..." RootMonger

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Re: Old Hat
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On the morning of Thurs, 26-Nov-98 at 10:17:48 -0800, holist unwisely said: > "This is not too widely publicised", he went on to say, > "but all insiders are aware that all e-mail anonymiser > services in the U.S. are operated by the FBI." > Quite a few of the messages to cypherpunks seem to come > from anonymous remailers in the US. > > Comments? Comment? COMMENTS? How about this, FUDSpreaderBreath: Stick Fischer and his claims up your ass. This is not too widely publicised <whisper, whisper>, I went on to say, but all insiders are aware that this kind of FUD is unadulterated ratshit. While there is no doubt _some_ official presence in the remailer network, the proposition advanced here is preposterous. > He went on to say it took them about ten minutes to > discover with the help of their American friends which > account the mail was originating from. It would probably take more than ten minutes just to find the phone number of their FBI contact, much less find him at his desk and not humping some summer intern, much less expect that he would know a remailer from his no doubt ultra-tight asshole, much less have him run down the pointy-haired manager to give him permission to find and communicate with a suitably cleared propellor head, much less find that the remailer in question was, indeed, operated either by them or by their snaky friends over at the NSA, much less check their surreptitious logs for the offending traffic, much less find that that traffic indeed did not originate from another remailer _not_ under their control, etc. etc. Ten minutes, in bureaucrat time, is about what it takes to rub two brain cells together to make a realistic approximation of a human thought. By this time, action in the physical universe is still a long, long way off. This report is likely to be nothing more than a complete fabrication of the facts, even if the underlying case was real. > just before the Berlin wall came down, the two Germanies > agreed to provide the FBI with direct access to the > backbone of the German telephone network Except that telephone networks don't have "backbones." More fantasy. And there was no single "German telephone network," and probably still isn't. > it is easier for the FBI to listen to German phonecalls > than it is for the German authorities themselves), which, > in addition to costing a horrendous amount of money, > resulted in a bunch of data every day that took them two > days to process. Highly doubtful. First, it's not in the FBI's brief to be doing large-scale foreign-based surveillance of foreign telephone systems. Second, there is no reason to believe that the FBI would have a substantially easier time of processing large amounts of resulting data than would the Germans. The Germans know how to use computers, too, and being congenitally statist, they no doubt have more facilities in place closer to the sources of information than do U.S. authorities at home or abroad. This claim also ignores the fact that the FBI have their hands full right at home and don't have the resources to be conducting large-scale surveillance of the phone calls of entire foreign nations. Oh, sure, we see increasing extraterritorial operation by small numbers of FBI, but that doesn't equate to monitoring the entire German phone system(s) or a significant segment thereof and identifying some nitwit dialing in to AOL. Is AOL even _in_ Germany? If so, what is it called, GOL? Gassholes On Line? The idea that a state security apparatus would find an AOL account to be a significant obstacle is laughable. > So, Fischer said, it would have been hopeless if the > fellow had not owed the German tax authority one and > a half million Marks - the tax authority busted him > (following the lines of their own, independent > investigation), took his computer, and he was busted. So we are to believe that after monitoring the entire German telephone system to identify who was calling in and using a particular AOL account, and successfully pegging him, the Germans were powerless to do anything, and had to call down their Tax Zombies to have an excuse to grab the guy's computer, which presumably then provided them with the "evidence" against him. Right. If the German authorities overhear in a bar that you might have forbidden literature, they will be there the same night, ransacking your home. How is it that with evidence that a certain person was the user of an AOL account they had identified as the source of extortionary messages, they were powerless to break down his door? I could admire the FUD spreaders just a teensy bit if they weren't so completely brain dead. They can't even invent a plausible FUD scenario. That the USG is operating one or more remailers is a no-brainer. That they are operating _all_ U.S. remailers is beyond the realm of reality. That the FBI has more than a casual hand in such things is not likely. Running remailers would be right up the NSA's, uh, alley, but maintaining a traffic watch on virtually _all_ remailers worldwide would be much more their style. Now _there's_ an opportunity for the spooks to have some real fun, though it's anything but certain they would be willing to "share," for a variety of reasons. The capabilities they have are protected as secrets even more than the information they gather. FUDBusterMonger It Ain't FUD til I SAY it's FUD!

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Evil Bandwidth Plot Exposed
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We're still getting clueless people forwarding us email virus hoaxes. Pen-Pal, Buddy Frogs, Good Times, whatever. And I just realised who has to be responsible! Who has a motive for this "crime"? These things do no-one any real harm, they just take up bandwidth. Networks get saturated and maybe we have to buy more kit. It must be the router manufacturers. Maybe there is a secret team at Cisco or IBM generating new hoaxes to keep the email market growing.

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Otaku Defined
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 05:31:08 -0500 X-Sender: dphelan(a)mailhost.pavilion.co.uk Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 07:45:22 +0000 To: "Lord Myren" <lordmyren(a)hotmail.com>, wear-hard(a)haven.org From: David Phelan <dphelan(a)pavilion.co.uk> Subject: [WAY OFF TOPIC] Otaku Defined (was Re: Japanese Technomads ) Mime-Version: 1.0 Resent-From: wear-hard(a)haven.org X-Mailing-List: <wear-hard(a)haven.org> archive/latest/5977 X-Loop: wear-hard(a)haven.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: wear-hard-request(a)haven.org Status: U At 13:16 25/11/1998 PST, Lord Myren wrote: <snip> >Otaku is translated from japanese meaning "fan." This is a somewhat >flawed translation in that there is no way to transfer the powerful >connotative meaning. > <snip> >Unfortunately, I believe something was lost in the translation in the >article. Otaku is rarely used in refence to things other than anime. >This article may have failed the translation or may just be a minor >mislabeling. Otaku can be used in reference to things other than anime, >however it is rarely ever so. >From a no-longer online magazine called JapanInterface (used to be at http://www.php.co.jp/japaninface/) Nerds of a Feather Defining OTAKU by Bill Marsh IN TOKYO a recently arrived friend calls, wants to know daishikyu (ASAP, yesterday) what otaku means. He's just been told by a mutual acquaintance that no serious student of contemporary Japan could possibly not know this word-yet his Japanese accuser, when asked to define otaku, refuses even to try. It isn't easy. Once upon a time, this word-which taken alone translates as "[your] honorable house"-was no more than an obsequious, laboriously indirect way to say "you" or "you and yours." Snobs and bluestockings will use it, but there's nothing inherently sinister about the expression. The story doesn't end there. Japan has long produced bumper crops of korekuta ("collectors" of rare stamps, cars, etc) and mania (folks with a "mania" for Beatles bootlegs, etc) who gather at conventions to compare notes and stockpiles. Haughty yet insecure, many greet each other by asking, Otaku wa nani o nasatteru desu ka? This fastidious formula for inquiring "What're you into?" or "What's your thing?" became a trademark, prompting trend-watchers to smugly label them otaku-zoku (nerd tribes). Enter Tsutomu Miyazaki, arrested in 1989 and eventually charged with the abduction and murder of four little girls. Here was a man capable of videotaping himself cutting up a dead child and sending her bones, the video, and photos of her sandals and clothes to the victim's parents in a cardboard box. When a search of his premises uncovered an eclectic collection of 5,000 videotapes, the image of otaku as benign, shy dorks disintegrated. Surprise! Japan's police and media, used to playing to the crowd and blandly riding herd on the occasional misfit, discovered during the affluent 1980s that their grip on a population easily tamed by fears of what the neighbors might think was slipping. Popping up all over were intense, asocial creatures on very private missions for very private gods. Shunning contact with all but their brethren in obsession, they sent to o-mawari-san (the neighborhood cops who in Japan regularly "check up" on each household) a silent but clear message: Nothing personal, but what I'm into is the kind of thing you and people like you would never understand. Are otaku garden-variety nerds? Psychopaths? Undesirables? What otaku connotes depends on who you ask. Example: A producer friend recently berated his director on an NHK project for shooting from otaku camera angles. The point? He wanted to make a TV program for general audiences, not film-school coteries. The foreword to the superb but dated (1989) Otaku no hon (The Otaku Book, published by JICC) argues that otaku are strictly a post-1980 phenomenon, not the latest gimmick in the ephemeral parade of zoku (tribes) that postwar youth-culture reportage has served up. Their break with the values of seken (the "real world," as the editor parenthetically labels it in English) is not a byproduct of kodoku (isolation) or seijuku (adolescence). Rather, otaku desire to dokuji no sekai ni chujitsu ni ikiru (live faithfully in their own world) and find a ba (place, outlet) to meet others who onaji genso o kyoyu suru (share the same fantasy). The editor offers the example of the rorikon (otaku with a "Lolita complex"): deeply unwilling to become men (i.e., husbands and salarymen), they partake instead of kyodo genso (communal fantasy) via comic books about kaku no bi-shojo (imaginary beautiful girlchildren). Their female equivalents in ambivalence are the yaoi-zoku, girls hooked on perverted, plotless, sexually explicit parodies of conventional comics about the friendship between cute boys. Obviously neither homosexual nor homophobic, both groups prefer the chaste option of onani (onanism) to the perceived compromises of marital consummation. Otaku no hon presents an amazing variety of strategies for sidestepping the social compact. Even familiar types like hakka ("hackers"), gema ("gamers," computer game freaks), or aidorian ("idol-ians," who fixate on singing idols) seem more over the top than their American counterparts. Others, like kamera-kozo ("li'l camera monks" who sneak crotch shots with concealed strobe cameras) and akushon banda ("action banders" devoted to cracking officially "secure" radio and computer systems), aggressively court risks to enact their pranks. Whatever their stripe, the otaku are out there in droves, rifling through the latest aniparoetchimangadojinshi (animation-parody-pervert-comic-connoisseur-mag) at the corner bookstore, terrified that any minute they'll be eaten alive by common sense. from Pop Japanese, Bill Marsh's ongoing column in MANGAJIN magazine Hope that is useful Dave Ph -------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Phelan dphelan(a)pavilion.co.uk CCIE# 3590 http://freepages.pavilion.net/users/dphelan "Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation." -- Edward R. Murrow -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to wear-hard-request(a)haven.org Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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European Commission proposal on legal framework for e-commerce
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded from cyberia-l -- The EU's latest attempts to make electronic commerce convenient while ensuring tax collection and preventing collapse of governments :-) ========= ==== ]] THe text of the new draft is not on line yet, but will probably appear at ]] http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg15/en/index.htm in the next few days (there is ]] a what's new button on the left hand bar) >>> Should be on line on Nov 23rd } Another URL to remember to get acces to european documents } concerning Internet law is : } http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/labhome.html and for "what's new : } http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/labnew.html =============== http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/… IP/98/999 Brussels, 18 November 1998 Electronic commerce: Commission proposes legal framework A proposal for a Directive to establish a coherent legal framework for the development of electronic commerce within the Single Market has been put forward by the European Commission. The proposed Directive would ensure that information society services benefit from the Single Market principles of free movement of services and freedom of establishment and could provide their services throughout the European Union (EU) if they comply with the law in their country of origin. Such services are defined as those provided normally against remuneration, at a distance, by electronic means and in response to the individual request of a customer. The proposed Directive would establish specific harmonised rules only in those areas strictly necessary to ensure that businesses and citizens could supply and receive information society services throughout the EU, irrespective of frontiers. These areas include definition of where operators are established, electronic contracts, liability of intermediaries, dispute settlement and role of national authorities. In other areas the Directive would build on existing EU instruments which provide for harmonisation or on mutual recognition of national laws. The Directive would apply only to service providers established within the EU and not those established outside. "The Single Market's legal framework, combined with the single currency, provide the European Union with a unique opportunity to facilitate the development of electronic commerce", commented Single Market Commissioner Mario Monti. "Electronic commerce adds a new dimension to the Single Market for consumers in terms of easier access to goods and services of better quality and at lower prices. Electronic commerce will promote trade, stimulate innovation and competitiveness and create sustainable jobs. This proposal should ensure that the Union reaps the full benefits of electronic commerce by boosting consumer confidence and giving operators legal certainty, without excessive red tape." The global electronic commerce market is growing extremely fast and could be worth ECU 200 billion by the year 2000. Worldwide, 86 million people were connected to the Internet by the end of 1996 and by 2000, this is expected to reach 250 million individuals. Within the EU, it is estimated that more than 400,000 jobs related to the information society were created between 1995 and 1997 and that one in four news jobs is derived from these activities. Scope The proposal for a Directive, which was foreseen in the Commission's April 1997 electronic commerce Communication (see IP/97/313), covers all information society services, both business to business and business to consumer services, including services provided free of charge to the recipient e.g. funded by advertising or sponsorship revenue and services allowing for on-line electronic transactions such as interactive teleshopping of goods and services and on-line shopping malls. Examples of sectors and activities covered include on-line newspapers, on-line data-bases, on-line financial services, on-line professional services (such as lawyers, doctors, accountants, estate agents), on-line entertainment services such as video on demand, on-line direct marketing and advertising and services providing access to the World Wide Web. Establishment/supervision/transparency The proposal would define the place of establishment as the place where an operator actually pursues an economic activity through a fixed establishment, irrespective of where websites or servers are situated or where the operator may have a mail box. This definition is in line with the principles established by the EU Treaty (Article 52) and the case law of the European Court of Justice. Such a definition would remove current legal uncertainty and ensure that operators could not evade supervision, as they would be subject to supervision in the Member State where they were established. The proposal would prohibit Member States from imposing special authorisation schemes for information society services which are not applied to the same services provided by other means. It would also require Member States to oblige information society service providers to make available to customers and competent authorities in an easily accessible and permanent form basic information concerning their activities (name, address, e-mail address, trade register number, professional authorisation and membership of professional bodies where applicable, VAT number). On-line contracts For electronic commerce to develop its full potential, it must be possible for contracts to be concluded on-line unrestricted by inappropriate rules (such as a requirement that contracts be drawn up on paper). The proposal would therefore oblige Member States to adjust their national legislation to remove any prohibitions or restrictions on the use of electronic media for concluding contracts. In addition, the proposal would ensure legal security by clarifying in certain cases the moment of conclusion of the contract, whilst fully respecting contractual freedom. These provisions would complement the proposal for a Directive on electronic signatures (see IP/98/423). Liability of intermediaries To facilitate electronic commerce, it is necessary to clarify the responsibility of on-line service providers for transmitting and storing information from third party (i.e. when service providers act as "intermediaries"). To eliminate existing legal uncertainties and to avoid divergent approaches at Member State level, the proposal would establish an exemption from liability for intermediaries where they play a passive role as a "mere conduit" of information from third parties and limit service providers' liability for other "intermediary" activities such as the storage of information. The proposal strikes a careful balance between the different interests involved in order to stimulate co-operation between different parties and so reduce the risk of illegal activity on-line. Commercial communications Commercial communications such as advertising and direct marketing, which are an essential part of most electronic commerce services, would be subject to clearly defined rules under the proposed Directive. The proposal defines what constitutes a commercial communication and makes it subject to certain transparency requirements to ensure consumer confidence and fair trading. In order to allow consumers to react more readily to harmful intrusion, the proposal requires that commercial communications by e-mail are clearly identifiable. In addition, for regulated professions (such as lawyers or accountants), the proposal lays down the general principle that the on-line provision of services is permitted and that national rules on advertising shall not prevent professions from operating Web-sites. However, these would have to respect certain rules of professional ethics which should be reflected in codes of conduct to be drawn up by professional associations. Implementation Rather than inventing new rules, the proposal would seek to ensure that existing EU and national legislation were effectively enforced. The development of a genuine Single Market based on mutual confidence between Member States - is stimulated by strengthening enforcement mechanisms. The proposal would seek to do so by encouraging the development of codes of conduct at EU level, by stimulating administrative co-operation between Member States and by facilitating the setting up of effective, alternative cross-border dispute settlement systems. The proposal would also require Member States to provide for fast, efficient legal redress appropriate to the on-line environment and to ensure that sanctions for violations of the rules established under the Directive were effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Mutual recognition/derogations The proposed Directive would clarify that the Single Market principle of mutual recognition of national laws and the principle of control in the country of origin must be applied to information society services so that such services provided from another Member State are not restricted for reasons falling within the scope of the proposal which would not cover taxation, personal data (the free movement of which is covered by Directive 95/46 see IP/98/925), the activities of notaries, representation and defence of clients before a court, gambling activities. Furthermore, the proposed Directive would not interfere with the application of the Brussels Convention on jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgements in civil and commercial matters and the Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations. The proposed Directive would also allow Member States on a case by case basis to impose restrictions on information society services supplied from another Member State if necessary to protect the public interest on grounds of protection of minors, the fight against hatred on grounds of race, sex, religion or nationality, public health or security and consumer protection. However, such restrictions would have to be proportionate to their stated objective. Moreover, such restrictions could only be imposed (except in cases of urgency) after: * the Member State where the service provider was established had been asked to take adequate measures and failed to do so and * the intention to impose restrictions had been notified in advance to the Commission and to the Member State where the service provider was established. In cases of urgency, the reasons for the restrictions (and the urgency) would have to be notified in the shortest possible time to the Commission and to the Member State of the service provider. Where the Commission considered proposed or actual restrictions were not justified, Member States would be required to refrain from imposing them or urgently put an end to them. The proposal for a Directive on a legal framework for electronic commerce will be forwarded to the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers for adoption under the co-decision procedure. ==========================================

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Re: open-pgp / s/mime interoperability
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>: there is no reason why you can't have PGP >: messages backed by X.509 certificates, and it is trivial to use S/MIME >: with OpenPGP certificates. I'm planning on writing a short >: informational RFC on how to do it once we all get RFC numbers for our >: respective systems. >open-pgp public keys aren't based on X.509 keys, so I would've thought >s/mime implementation would barf on them. Actually S/MIME *could* support the use of PGP keys, but there's a field (the SubjectKeyIdentifier) missing from the CMS SignerInfo which prevents this. This is rather inconsistent, because the same field is present in the RecipientInfo. I'm currently arguing in favour of adding it to SignerInfo on the basis that any argument against it would also apply to RecipientInfo. Not sure whether it'll work though - a couple of list members seem convinced that exactly the same thing which is currently in RecipientInfo won't work if used in SignerInfo. Peter.

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Fwd: FC: EU eavesdropping on Iridium satellite phone system
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

any reactions? some of my newspaper colleagues are thinking of writing about this... >Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:12:45 -0800 (PST) >From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> >To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu >Subject: FC: EU eavesdropping on Iridium satellite phone system >X-No-Archive: Yes >Sender: owner-politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu >Reply-To: declan(a)well.com >X-Loop: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu >X-URL: Politech is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:08:00 +0100 >From: Erich Moechel <erich-moechel(a)quintessenz.at> >To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com>, declan(a)well.com >Subject: EU eavesdropping on Iridium System > > >It is really a ghastly paper, we obtained. It is the first ever "Enfopol" >paper that leaked out from United European Police Working Group. >Not even the EU's STOA-commission that brought Echelon in2 EU- >Parliament this spring was given the predecessor 2 "Enfopol 98" >cu >me > >The European Surveillance Union > >Erich Moechel 20.11.98 > >Europol Seeks a Broad Structure for Tapping Mobile >Communications > >Austrian officials' appetite for coldly broadening their authority to >monitor private citizens is in no way a unique case in Europe. > >As a Europol internal document obtained by Telepolis shows, >massive attempts on the part of European police forces are >underway to acquire the ability to eavesdrop on the Iridium system, >currently in a sensitive stage of expansion. > >The document entitled "Enfopol 98" from the group "Police >Cooperation" dated September 3, 1998, deals with the "observation >of telecommunications" and primarily addresses the so-called >satellite-supported personal communication systems (S-PCS), but >also the Internet. On the recommendation of the European Union, a >list of points desired by the European police was drawn up as a >"Draft for a Recommended Resolution" in order to simplify the >passage of the resolution. The terrestrial gateway stations are to >provide comprehensive access via Iridium and other Mobile Satellite >Services (MSS) since they are "collective and simple locations for >monitoring solutions." > >http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/1667/1.html >-.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- > q/depesche taeglich ueber >internationale hacks--.-zensur im netz >crypto--.-IT mergers--.-monopole >& die universalitaet digitaler dummheit >subscribe http://www.quintessenz.at >-.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- >Certified PGP key http://keyserver.ad.or.at >-.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- >erich-moechel.com/munications >++43 2266 687201 fon ++43 2266 687204 fax >-.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology >To subscribe: send a message to majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu with this text: >subscribe politech >More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >

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Remailer test, ignore
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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European Commission proposal on legal framework for e-commerce (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:45:00 -0500 > From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> > Subject: European Commission proposal on legal framework for e-commerce > A proposal for a Directive to establish a coherent legal framework for the > development of electronic commerce within the Single Market has been put > forward by the European Commission. That's pretty gutsy, put your goal in plain english in the first sentence. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:06:30 -0500 > From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory > (RAM) under Windows") (fwd) > >1. Is it OpenSource? > Is this a religious argument? I think he said it was copyrighted freeware, > so use it and leave the copyright notices in and you're ok. Where does he say that Bill? And while it ain't religious, there are some perferences to having it open source versus controlled source. > >2. I assume since it never swaps to disk the memory requirements for the > > computer are large. What is the minimum suggested if one runs say > > 5 apps that each require 16M each, 5*16M & OS overhead? > > Bad Assumption. The memory requirements are whatever you want; Wrong, since the ENTIRE OS is run under this it's not nearly that simple. The OS's internal swap page as well as by extension the contexts they point to are going to be sitting in there. The app should also encrypt the address spaces of the system structures. > if you're storing a few private keys, or intermediate calculation results, > the requirements are very small; if you're storing 16MB databases, > they're much larger. For today, 16MB seems large enough that > I'd think you'd use a crypto-disk or instead of nailing it into RAM, > but the boundaries between huge, routine, and small keep moving > in this business, so maybe you do now, and you will soon enough. Where in that description does it say it allows particular apps to use this product? > Does anybody know if Win95/98 keeps RAMdisks in RAM, or swaps them > out to real disk along with other least-recently-used data? You don't know this but you're willing to try to rake me.... Talk about unprepared. > > And what is the suggested OS overhead with no swap to disk? > > (OK, that last one might be a 3rd question) > > That's a good question. My guess is that it's probably 0-2KB, > plus however big the drivers are, might be as big as 64KB, > but presumably isn't 1MB. In other words, too small to worry about > on recent machines, where an extra 16MB RAM costs $10, > but if you're using that spare 4MB 386 as a remailer, > you've got to be more careful. Your guess is pretty much worthless. What we'd like is an aswer from the person who wrote it. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Article V - an analysis (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:07 -0500 > From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> > Subject: Re: Article V - an analysis (fwd) > The most recent amendment (27th?) sat around for nearly 200 years > before 3/4 of the states ratified it, (preventing Congress from > raising their salaries during their current term.) > The power to specify a time limit doesn't need separate mention; > the time limit is either part of the proposed amendment, or it isn't, > and it's part of the negotiations for getting Congress to pass it. Really? Where do you see that in the Constitution? > The more dangerous problem is that people keep suggesting a > Constitutional Convention, which has basically no limits on its scope And where do you see unlimited power assigned at under Article V? > (especially given the one previous precedent, which substantially > increased Federal power beyond the limits of the Articles, > and didn't require unanimous consent to adopt its product, > though the Articles required it for changing them.) That isn't a precedence. > Even if the states _say_ they're limiting their delegation to > specific tasks, that doesn't mean the ConCon won't exceed them, > and if it gets sufficient media/public support, it can get away with it. Sure it does, then the states remove their support and it isn't a convention anymore. ARTICLE V. [Constitution: how amended; proviso.] The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions of the three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which shall be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of it's equal Suffrage in the Senate. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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native onani
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:24 AM 11/27/98 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote: > Obviously >neither homosexual nor homophobic, both groups >prefer the chaste option of onani (onanism) to the perceived compromises of >marital consummation. Worse than that, they use a geijing word for masturbation... --If the spice girls mud-wrestled shonen knife, who would win?

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate misses the point, as usual: > Wrong, since the ENTIRE OS is run under this it's not nearly that simple. > The OS's internal swap page as well as by extension the contexts they point > to are going to be sitting in there. The app should also encrypt the address > spaces of the system structures. The original message said: > From: "Jim Adler" <jadler(a)soundcode.com> > The SCNSM driver supports allocation of non-swappable memory on Windows > 3.x/95/98. The principal design goal of SCNSM is to provide memory that will > not be swapped to disk, under any circumstances. Typically, security > applications require such memory to store private keys, passwords, and > sensitive intermediate results of cryptographic calculations. What is Choate thinking when he says the ENTIRE OS is run under this? This is a driver which is used by the application to allocate specific memory buffers in non-swappable memory. It allows the app to lock down those buffers so that they won't swap to disk. These buffers can then be used to hold sensitive data. It is neither possible nor desirable to run the ENTIRE OS out of such buffers. It is not possible because the OS is already written. It is Windows 3.x/95/98 (see above). That OS does not make the special driver calls which would be necessary to allocate non-swappable memory. You would have to rewrite Windows to use the special calls, which isn't possible for a luser like Choate. And it's not even desirable. There is no reason to make the ENTIRE OS use non-swappable memory. Most memory is simply not that sensitive. It holds public data, or data which is already on the disk in some form. Putting the ENTIRE OS into non-swappable memory gives up much of the advantage of having virtual memory in the first place. It would be a giant step backwards in OS architecture. Here's what Choate had to say when Bill Stewart tried to politely help him out: > You don't know this but you're willing to try to rake me.... > Talk about unprepared. > Your guess is pretty much worthless. It's bad enough to have to endure more of Choate's idiocy, but it is especially offensive to see him hassling Bill Stewart, one of the most consistently informative and valuable list members. Bill's a thick- skinned guy and it's probably no big deal to him, but it further illustrates what a negative contribution Choate makes here.

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:41:53 +0100 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > What is Choate thinking when he says the ENTIRE OS is run under this? My mistake. Since it really does only handle individual apps it's of limited utility in the Windows world because of the numerous ways to get system level access. > This is a driver which is used by the application to allocate specific > memory buffers in non-swappable memory. It allows the app to lock down > those buffers so that they won't swap to disk. These buffers can then > be used to hold sensitive data. Considering that this doesn't prohibit apps from getting access to that memory, it only prohibits that memory page from being written to disk, it has limited utility. It's only real protection is against disk scans. For example a bogus service could gain system level and initiate a DMA transfer of that non-swappable ram into their own address space. > It is neither possible nor desirable to run the ENTIRE OS out of > such buffers. Sure it is. It's the entire reason to have big online memory pools. Idealy you'd have a computer with nothing but gig's and gig's of ram and no hard drive at all. > It is not possible because the OS is already written. > It is Windows 3.x/95/98 (see above). That OS does not make the special > driver calls which would be necessary to allocate non-swappable memory. > You would have to rewrite Windows to use the special calls, which isn't > possible for a luser like Choate. No, simply provide it enough ram it never has to swap out to disk except in the case of updates to files. If ram's that cheap we could do away with the drive completely. > And it's not even desirable. There is no reason to make the ENTIRE OS > use non-swappable memory. They why do I (and you unless youre using a tty) keep adding ram to my Win/Linux/Solaris/AIX/HP/etc. boxes to reduce the swapping that is taking place? It's slow, we put up with it because we can't afford those hundreds of meg's of ram to hold our app and the entire database file (for example). > Most memory is simply not that sensitive. > It holds public data, or data which is already on the disk in some form. > Putting the ENTIRE OS into non-swappable memory gives up much of the > advantage of having virtual memory in the first place. It would be a > giant step backwards in OS architecture. No, it wouldn't. The question of swap or virtual space is one of economics and not computer architecture. If it were economicaly feasible there would be no drives just fast main ram. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:44:04 -0600 (CST) > > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:41:53 +0100 > > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > > > What is Choate thinking when he says the ENTIRE OS is run under this? > > My mistake. Since it really does only handle individual apps it's of limited > utility in the Windows world because of the numerous ways to get system > level access. I forgot to add that I'd still be interested in knowing if the utility would support the entire OS being run under this and what the memory constraints would be. If I had 2 of the Samsung 4G memory modules w/ battery back-up I could run an entire machine without a hard-drive. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Pi(x) - How many primes below x?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here are a couple of overdue Choate blooper corrections. Regarding the Prime Number Theorem, Choate originally wrote: > I had typed x/ln(x) as the asymptotic limit for the number of primes less > than x. > > This is incorrect. It should be, > > x/log(x) It should be noted that ln(x) is the logarithm to the base e of x. log(x) is somewhat ambiguous as to the base, but when it is contrasted with ln(x) as Choate does here, it implies that the base is 10. In fact the correct formula uses the base e, and x/ln(x) is not "incorrect" as Choate is claiming. When Choate's error was pointed out, he responded by quoting http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/howmany.shtml, which says that the formula is x/log x. What Choate failed to notice is that the web page clearly states that its logs are to the base e. In other words, the "log x" on that page is equivalent to the "ln(x)" which Choate originally wrote. Choate's original formula was the right one, and in writing that his formula was incorrect, he only displays his own confusion. With regard to his ludicrous model of a spark gap inside a conductive sphere, Choate originally wrote: > The spark gap generates sparks and that builds up free electrons in the > space inside the sphere (whether it is gas filled or a vacuum is > irrelevant). As that charge builds up it will be all of one type, electrons. > Now the electrons repel each other and therefor move in a circular motion > with the spark gap as the center. They strike the surface of the sphere and > tunnel through to the outside surface where they reside. The amount of > charge at any one point is related to the curvature of the surface at that > point. Since a sphere is constant curvature the charge will be evenly > distributed. It will continue to build up so long as you supply power to the > spark gap. In an ideal world it will get bigger and bigger. In the real > world at some point insulation breaks down and normal current flow takes > place. He believes that the spark gap emits electrons, which strike the inside surface of the sphere and "tunnel through" to the outside. He says that the charge will continue to build up so long as you supply power to the spark gap. Here is another message in which he made the same point: > This is in addition to the charge that steadily builds up in the shell as > the electrons accrete over time. This can be modelled with an integral of > the flow rate of the current in the battery (it after all is Coulombs/s). > It's not too hard (k * I). (I'm not going to go into what happens as the > charge on the shell builds up as we're discussing here the applicability of > wave equations as a reliable model). > > So what do you get? A hell of a charge that will go bang at some point when > some insulation give way. When it was pointed out how ignorant this idea was, and how it violates Gauss's Law, Choate tried to backpedal by proposing that the battery itself was charged in the first place. He even drew a picture: > 2N e- 1N p+ > > | | > | | > |-------------| |--------------| > | | | | > | | | | > | | > | | > |------0 0------------------0 0--| > \ > \ > spark gap switch It should be obvious that this device fails to generate the phenomena which he describes above. In the first place, since it has a net negative charge, the charge will appear on the outside of the sphere BEFORE THE SWITCH IS THROWN. There is no spark active, no electrons being emitted, yet a negative charge appears on the outside of the conductive sphere. This is an elementary application of Gauss's Law. Then, when the switch is thrown, there will be a spark, and some of the charges will neutralize each other, but of course the net charge will stay the same, by conservation of charge. The phenomenon Choate described of electrons being emitted by the spark gap, moving outward and striking the sphere, and then tunnelling through to make charge appear on the outside, will occur only in Choate's deluded imagination. Furthermore, there will be no "build up" of charge. The charge will be there from the moment the device is put into the sphere, long before the switch is thrown. Throwing the switch will have NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on the outside of the sphere. Michael Motyka spent several days trying to patiently explain all this to Choate, to no avail. He finally gave up in frustration. Choate is almost completely immune to enlightenment. He has certainly proved that patience and politeness make no dent in his thick skull. We shall see whether blunt frankness is any more effective.

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govt/business incest
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

on the incestuous relationship between govt and business... heh doesn't mention the DEFENSE industry, #@&%^* also for anyone interested, noam chomsky has many good books out on these subjects ------- Forwarded Messagone Subject: [exploration] Corporate Welfare: A Media Issue At Last? (fwd) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:24:26 -1000 From: Jonathan David Boyne <boyne(a)hawaii.edu> To: Undisclosed recipients:; By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate For many years, across the United States, huge quantities of >tax breaks and subsidies have been going to corporations. >Occasionally, the media spotlight falls on an example of how >government policies stand Robin Hood on his head -- shaking down >the poor and middle class while handing over the proceeds to >wealthy individuals and big businesses. > > Sometimes called "corporate welfare," this pattern of >legalized rip-offs has been widespread -- yet little of the story >seems to emerge in major news outlets. Overall, the coverage is >sporadic at best. In mass media, the broader picture has been >missing -- until the last few weeks. > > November brought a series of breakthroughs, thanks to two >gifted reporters and a news weekly that allowed them to engage in >rigorous journalism. All month, beginning with a cover story on >"What Corporate Welfare Costs You," Time magazine featured >extraordinary exposes by Donald Barlett and James Steele. > > Corporate welfare, they write, is "a game in which >governments large and small subsidize corporations large and >small, usually at the expense of another state or town and almost >always at the expense of individuals and other corporate >taxpayers." > > Barlett and Steele report that "the federal government alone >shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare." Meanwhile, >"a different kind of feeding frenzy is taking place" at the state >and local level -- where "politicians stumble over one another in >the rush to arrange special deals for select corporations." > > In theory, the giveaways create jobs. In practice, the >theory is hogwash: "Time's investigation has established that >almost without exception, local and state politicians have doled >out tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to businesses that are >in fact eliminating rather than creating jobs." > > Often, when localities roll out the gold carpet for firms, >government coffers shrink -- and services for the public >diminish. As Barlett and Steele document in excruciating detail, >one of the common results is health-threatening pollution that >goes unchallenged. The most vulnerable neighborhoods tend to be >where low-income people live. > > The big hogs at the tax-funded trough include popular brands >-- Intel and Dow, General Motors and Mercedes-Benz, Exxon and >Shell, UPS and Procter & Gamble, to name just a few. Some are the >parent companies of media empires, such as Walt Disney (ABC), >General Electric (NBC) and -- as the Time series acknowledges -- >Time Warner. > > "The king of corporate welfare may be Archer Daniels >Midland," according to Time. "The global agricultural-commodities >dealer has artfully preserved one of the more blatant welfare >programs -- a subsidy for ethanol that has already cost taxpayers >more than $5 billion in the 1990s. Some $3 billion of that has >gone to ADM." > > Year after year, Archer Daniels Midland has poured several >million dollars into the nightly PBS "NewsHour" television show >hosted by Jim Lehrer. ADM is also an underwriter of National >Public Radio news. And the savvy firm buys a lot of image ads on >commercial TV network programs that discuss political issues. Not >surprisingly, ADM hasn't been subjected to much tough reporting >on the national airwaves. > > Corporate welfare is an important issue. But it can easily >be spun in dubious directions. For instance, in an article >addressed "To Our Readers," Time's editor-in-chief Norman >Pearlstine throws a wide curve that breaks sharply downward and >to the right. > > "Ending corporate welfare as we know it is essential," >Pearlstine contends. But then comes the english: "Rather than >give corporations uneven and unfair exemptions, it may make more >sense to simply do away with both corporate welfare and corporate >taxation." > > Now there's an idea that Time Warner can get behind: Stop >taxing corporations! > > Another hazard is the temptation to put all forms of >government assistance in the same "welfare" category. It would be >a big mistake to equate government aid to dependent corporations >with safety-net subsidies for children, seniors and others >struggling at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. > > Government should not be using tax dollars to help the rich >get richer. But government has no business refusing to help >Americans get the nutrition, health care, housing and other >basics that are everyone's human right. > > Welcome as it is, the occasional blockbuster expose of >corporate abuses -- even in a media outlet as influential as Time >magazine -- won't accomplish very much. Without an "echo effect," >these issues are likely to remain muted. > > The need to speak up and take action is a burden that falls >on people in every community. Large corporations have been >ripping us off for decades. 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german hacker death suspicious
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

there used to be a lot of conspiracy literature circulating on the itnernet on the huge industry/black market of satellite decoding software, TV decoding software, and encryption systems.. I personally never figured this out but if someone could point out that material, I'd love to go back and look at it here's a pretty heavy article TCM will love<g> ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:12:03 -0700 Subject: Murder or suicide? Hacker's death in October still a mystery Murder or suicide? Hacker's death in October still a mystery Copyright © 1998 Nando Media Copyright © 1998 The Associated Press http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/world/112798/world37_28777_noframes.html BERLIN (November 27, 1998 3:15 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) -- He was a gifted computer whiz -- one of the best, one who'd made the jump from illegal tinkering to the legitimate, potentially lucrative business of making codes crack-proof from hackers like himself. But when Boris Floriciz was found hanging from a tree in a Berlin park on Oct. 22, his belt around his neck and his feet dragging the ground, it drew attention even outside the tight-knit world of hackers. His friends wonder whether he was caught up in the murkier side of the trade -- one of spies, espionage and black-market criminals. Was it suicide, as police suspect? Or homicide? At 26, Floriciz seemed headed for a great future. He'd just finished his computer science degree. International firms sought him as a consultant. He was happy, say his friends, who cannot believe he would take his own life. Floriciz's friends wonder if he had become a threat to someone on the wrong side of the business, leading to his death. "That was not a personal decision," Andy Mueller-Maguhn, a friend and fellow member of the Chaos Computer Club said. "For sure not. That was murder." >From childhood, Floriciz looked destined to be an engineer. He was always taking things apart to see how they worked. "Radios, television, clocks, the lawnmower - - -- nothing was safe from him," his father told Stern magazine. He dissembled a telephone booth to get at computer data inside. He was the first hacker to crack the microchips on Deutsche Telekom telephone cards, used at pay phones in Germany. His homemade card reloaded as the credit ran out. After getting caught in 1995 and sentenced to probation, Floriciz "felt the need to draw the line," said Mueller-Maguhn. He joined Chaos, a 10-year-old group of computer devotees, and he went back to college, earning his diploma in September by developing a scrambler to encode telephone calls on high-speed, digital lines. German media reports say Floriciz also was working on cracking decoders for pay television -- a booming business spreading across Europe. One of the key players is Robert Murdoch, whose digital broadcasting research firm NDS Ltd. contacted Floriciz two years ago about being a code-design consultant. "He was an exceptionally talented engineer," said Margot Field, spokeswoman at the firm's London headquarters. NDS wanted to hire him, but couldn't move forward because Floriciz hadn't yet graduated or completed his compulsory military service. The firm's last contact with him was in June. NDS apparently wasn't the only one interested in Floriciz. His father says Floriciz talked several times about being approached by people he suspected worked for spy agencies, which are believed to have mined the hacker world for talent in the past. Just a few months ago, Germany's spy agency tried to hire a hacker to get secrets out of Iran's military computers, the Chaos club said. But the contact vanished when the hacker got Chaos involved. Floriciz may also have attracted black marketeers of counterfeit chips for telephone cards and mobile phones. Deutsche Telekom estimates it loses millions of dollars each year from counterfeit cards. And industry officials worry that TV decoder chips offer gangsters even bigger profits on the black market. Money wasn't a lure for Floriciz, his friends say. He preferred to post his research on the Internet for all to see -- and use. "It was all the same to him if others raked in the bucks from what he developed," one friend, Daniel, told Stern. "The main thing for him was that he had proven what he was great at." Mueller-Maguhn says Floriciz's open attitude about his work might have threatened those who didn't want competitors horning in on their business. "He had lots of jobs, but he didn't want to become a slave of one company," he said. "Maybe that was a problem." Floriciz left his mother's apartment on Oct. 17 at about 2 p.m. She didn't think he'd be gone long, because he didn't take his laptop computer. He never came back. Calls to his mobile phone went unanswered. A passerby found his body five days later. His phone, keys, ID card and money were with him, evidence police say points to suicide. No sign of a struggle. Nothing stolen. No drugs. Detectives are waiting for test results -- fingerprint fragments or chemical traces -- before making a final determination. The Chaos Computer Club is putting together its own report, which it plans to release at its annual convention Dec. 27-29 in Berlin. Already, the death notice on the club's Web site states what Floriciz's friends believe happened: "The circumstances under which he disappeared and his extraordinary capabilities lead us to the conclusion that he became a homicide victim." By PAUL GEITNER, Associated Press Writer

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y2k/gary north delusions
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been reading gary north for quite awhile and think he is quite brilliant on some issues. for example he was quoting statistics about amt of time it takes to fix code, cost per line, govt agencies etc. a long, long time ago. he really zeroed in on the govt bureacrat "ostrichism" early on.. anyway I hate to say that I think he is really losing his mind lately.. no there are going to be some serious y2k problems, but imho the bottom approaches "garbage".. any talk of riots, mobs, martial law, stockpiling weaponry, roving bandits etc. seems to me to be really way off base to say the least. now people have been talking about this, but I've never seen gary north go quite that crazy. all the quoting of obscure, fictitious b-grade movies in this article makes me think he is really living in a fantasy world. now this is a shame because some of his research is some of the most solid and ahead-of-time than anyone on the entire net, by far. his site is a work of art in tedious archival, compilation, indexing. gary, take it easy. take a vacation. take a deep breath. well posted for your own opinion ------- Forwarded Message Gary North's REALITY CHECK Issue #33 November 17, 1998 CLOCKS TICK, BUT MOST PEOPLE IGNORE THE SOUND Tonight we will go through the Leonid meteor shower. Scientists tell us that this one will not match the 1966 shower, nor will it match the one a year and a day from now. But we will probably lose a few major satellites. Any company that has insured satellites has just entered a higher-risk period. Astronomy is a precise science. It can predict events such as this one with remarkable accuracy. The astronomers do not know how intense this shower will be, but they know for certain that tonight will be the highest density night. Some think it will be a bump in the highway, but others think it could be worse for our satellites. This reminds me of y2k forecasts. I shall go out tonight to see the shooting stars. I was on top of a hill in a desert area in 1966, lying on the trunk of a car, looking up. I did not know about the Leonids. I just happened to be in the right place to see them. The shooting stars came every few minutes. Never in history had there been so many -- and records of the Leonids go back to the tenth century. I'll never forget it. I'll never forget y2k, either. IGNORING THE OBVIOUS There are millions of people who know that y2k is coming. They will put this out of their minds until the last minute. They will pay no attention until events force themselves on men's perception. Then they will say, "Why didn't anyone tell me?" There are several answers: (1) the watchmen did not believe the evidence; (2) risks to the reputations of watchmen are high and rewards are few; (3) almost no one would have listened anyway. Let me give another example. I have mentioned in "Remnant Review," but not on my Web site, since it is not a y2k issue. But it is surely an ignored deadline issue. Brady II goes into effect in just a few days: December 1. >From that day forward, U.S. residents will not be able to buy a shotgun or a rifle without registering and paying a fee. Their names will be placed in an FBI computer, even though this is illegal and the authorities know it's illegal. Where is the ACLU? If this law applied only to Blacks, the ACLU would be fighting it. But since it applies to everyone, we hear nothing. There is a scene in "The Trigger Effect" where the two male characters go into a gun store a few days after the power has been off. So do a lot of others. They are told that they cannot buy handguns. There is a waiting period. But they can buy rifles and shotguns. They buy a shotgun with what little cash they can scrape together. As of December 1, this scene will be inaccurate. There will be an extra fee and the loss of privacy. The next step: a prohibition on private gun sales. To sell your gun to your next door neighbor, you will have to take your gun to a gun dealer, who will register the transaction and impose the 5-day waiting period. The President has said that it is his goal to shut down gun shows. I think he will be successful. Now, I'm not too worried about being in any computer. They will all be dead on 1/1/2000. But what is obvious is that those who dilly-dally now will find themselves competing with people who have cash in 2000. The collapse of the banks over the next 16 months will transfer wealth to the drug dealers on a massive scale. They will have cash, and they will be dealing in consumer goods that will function as money. Drugs are divisible, recognizable to users, have a very high value-to-volume ratio, and are durable. There is no doubt in my mind that in those geographical areas where addiction is high, the drug lords will take over the functions of government. They will be armed. They will have money. They are ruthless. And the police will be absent. The inner cities of the United States will become warlord societies within two years. Do not live anywhere near one of these areas. The criminals and addicts will fan out to extract wealth from contiguous areas. The police will be hard-pressed to respond. It will take time for martial law to be imposed, and in most places, there will not be any military presence. Neighborhood defense will be based increasingly on what local residents can muster. If the locals are disarmed, then they will be sitting ducks. Neighborhoods will set up roadblocks with cars. The two-car family will become a one-car family. The number- one defensive measure a neighborhood can take is a roadblock. Criminals will have to get into a neighborhood on foot. They will have to get out the same way. Easy transportation will disappear in 2000. Urban life will move to a crawl. On that day, you had better have your water, your food, your non-hybrid seeds, and your ammunition. Nobody else talks like this. The watchmen are in the "peace, peace" mode. That's easy talk in the days before the shooting starts. The function of the watchman in the Old Testament was military. He warned of an invading army. That's what I'm doing. The army has already invaded the central cities. It is well armed, well organized, and ruthless. It will move outward in 2000. Rent "The Friendly Persuasion." It's a great movie. Pay close attention to the pacifism of the Quaker men in the weeks before the Confederates invaded and the militarism on the day before. Talk of peace is cheap before the shooting starts. What I am saying is obvious, but it is not politically correct. Today's watchmen are afraid of politically liberal media reporters who might say, "These people recommend buying guns! Oh, woe! Oh, horrors!" I pay no attention. When I think of any reporter, I think: "Dead man typing." He will have no job, no career, no pension, and no readers in 15 months. He will be at the mercy of those around him. The mentality of the typical reporter is that of the wife on "the Trigger Effect." A liberal to the core, she wanted no part of a shotgun. The movie centers around her ideology and the costs that it imposed. It was not a good movie, but it surely did portray her in a bad light, which was well deserved. The clock is ticking. Brady II is coming. And millions of people will walk into a Wal-Mart SuperCenter next month and through all of next year and wonder: "Why didn't someone tell me I would have to register this transaction?" (See the three reasons, above.) ACROSS THE BOARD The shock of recognition that rifle-buyers will have in the next few months will be paralleled in 1999 on an international scale. "What do you mean, I can't get cash out of this bank?" "What do you mean, you're out of solar panels?" (http://www.solarextreme.com) "What do you mean, I can't buy an inverter?" "What do you mean, I can't get delivery of a diesel generator?" "What do you mean, you don't have any deep cycle golf cart batteries?" "What do you mean I can't get delivery of a wood burning stove?" In 2000, it will be food, water, and electricity. But there will be no seller to complain to. To complain, you have to be able to speak to someone. You won't be able to. Let's start with the basics: water. An urban adult uses 75 to 100 gallons of water a day. This doesn't count watering the lawn. In 2000, how many people will be under your roof? Remember, your children may show up on your doorstep, with wives and children. Families will pull together for survival in 2000. Estimate the number of people under your roof in 2000. Now, how much water will you need per day? What if the municipal water authority shuts down? It's goodbye showers. Goodbye flushing toilets. Hello sponge baths and thunder mugs. I don't think the reality of the power cut-off will hit most families until someone says, "Mom, the toilet won't flush." Then the realization will dawn at last. A new, unpleasant world has arrived. Disease will begin to spread by the end of the week. Every time you take a shower, think of 2000. Every time you flush a toilet, think of 2000. Ask yourself: How will I do this in 2000? People will not do this. No, not even those who have read my warnings for two years. They will not go through the mental exercise of planning ahead for the basics -- and water is near the top of any list of basics, right below heat in the winter. There are millions of people who live in high-rise apartments today. There will be fewer in February, 2000. Let's assume that for the first three months in 2000, you will not get paid. The banks will be down. You will not be able to write a check or use a credit card. What will you do? What will your neighbors do? What if it's a year? If it's a year, it could be a decade. What will you do? What is your exit strategy? Have you and your spouse sat down with pencil and paper and written down your family's exit strategy? No? Why not? It's not that I haven't nagged you. What of your adult children? Which ones will be able to make it through three months of no paychecks? Of those that can't, how many will wind up on your doorstep in late 1999? Or will you wind up on theirs? Should you head for the hills? Wrong question. What solid evidence do you have that you shouldn't? Should you stay where you are? What items will you need in your possession in 2000 and 2001 to make your decision to stay put a wise one for you and all of your closest relatives, who will show up on your doorstep if they know that you have prepared? That is to say, have you prepared for every close family member who will be in trouble in 2000? No? Why not? The clock is ticking. Let me give a simple example. How will you wash clothes for everyone? Let's assume that you have water. (Dreamer!) You can buy a 40-lb. tub of Wind Fresh laundry detergent from Sam's Club for $10. It will do 160 loads. For one person, that's a year of washing. What if you have 10 people under your roof? You will need 10 tubs for just one year. But this product may not be readily available in 2001. You had better buy 20 tubs. I'll bet you don't have 20 tubs, even though you can afford $200. You lack the storage space. More important, 20 tubs of detergent point to all the other things you will need under conditions that would mandate 20 tubs of detergent. So, people refuse to buy enough detergent. Now, what about your neighbors? They will be dirty. Their clothes will be dirty. You will be clean. You will not have lost 30 pounds. You will be the target of envy on a scale you can barely imagine today. You will be despised. Will you be ready for this psychologically? Of course, you can warn your neighbors now. They will not prepare, but they will remember. There will be a stream of beggars at your door from 2000 onward. You may know their names. "Please, please, we're desperate." It won't be a lie. When a society loses the division of labor, it loses just about everything that the urban "good life" requires. If you keep even a fraction of these things -- clean clothes, for instance -- you will be resented. Envy is a powerful force. "He doesn't deserve it. It's not right that he should have so much. No one should have so much." Here is a piece of information you may not have. Sam's Club offers a special service. It has a 50-page notebook with all of its products listed, with order numbers. Go to the manager and ask for a copy. Take it home. Make a shopping list. You can order everything at one time. Rent a U-Haul or borrow a pick-up truck and pick up everything. The average adult consumes 1000 lbs of food for a year. Half should be vegetables. You can grow them. Buy non-hybrid seeds. (http://arkinstitute.com) Half can be grains. You can buy 200 lbs of white rice at Sam's Club for under $60. The same for pinto beans. In terms of food, $300 will feed you for a year. You'll hate the taste by mid-2000, but you'll eat. How many of you will spend a whole $300 on food? Not many. Why not? Because if they might need this much food, they'll need water, and they know they can't get enough water in 2000. They would have to move, or put in four 1,500-gallon cisterns and gutters, or buy a swimming pool. They won't do it. My suggestion: rent "The Trigger Effect." Then make up your mind about where you should live in 2000. For those who want a public presentation, which can be used to persuade people who have not read much about y2k, my Harrison, Arkansas y2k town meeting tape is effective. You can see representatives of the public utilities and a local bank deal with y2k. The question and answer session is especially useful. 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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:26:46 +0000 > From: "Frank O'Dwyer" <fod(a)brd.ie> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > Jim Choate wrote: > > If I had 2 of the Samsung 4G memory modules w/ battery back-up I could run > > an entire machine without a hard-drive. > > If you had no hard drive why the hell would you worry about disk > swapping? I wouldn't because I'd have enough RAM to cover the requisite resources of my OS and apps. You have the cart before the horse. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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"Export" controls
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A few speculations on export controls. As we all know, the concentration of so-called hard crypto is the same inside and outside US borders. Or, for that matter, inside and outside "free world" (heh heh) borders. I would even say that anyone with a computer and net link in the world has about equal access to the crypto software. And no one I know ever bothers do download anything from US-based sites with those somnambulistic export-control buttons - it is so much simpler do download it from somewhere else. If we put aside the theory of deranged government, what logic can explain this situation ? Effective domestic crypto regulation. Export farce is just a neat way of scaring companies and individual contributors from developing and providing cryptographic systems within US. Export regulations are the new high point of double-speak. Anyone providing domestic crypto runs the risk of violating EARs. Manufacturers are ultimately responsible when their products end up overseas, and there is nothing in EARs that absolves them from that responsibility. [ For example, try to buy one of IBM crypto-cards - give them a call and ask what does it take to purchase one with hard crypto on it (semi-hard - they stop at 3DES) ] Regular sales channels are closed for crypto today in US. No one dares sell crypto hardware to anonymous public. No one dares to post crypto software for US customers to download with a single-click. Small developers (like that guy from Sunnyvale) are harassed with subpoenas. The end result is a tremendous slow down of crypto systems distribution in the US. Which was the intent. Now the question: is there a way to build a case which will bring down crypto export controls because they demonstrably prevent DOMESTIC sales and therefore constitute DOMESTIC restrictions. Say, if company starts selling some hard crypto products in a storefront for cash only - how would BIX react ? Would a US citizen have to produce ID in order to buy ?

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