December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Nitwits
by Harvey Rook (Exchange) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May Wrote... > > Some (Nitwits) are from Yahoo, some from MyDejaNews (tm), some from > HotMail. And then > there are the unilluminati from WebTV and AOL. > The depressing thing is that AOL as at least 14 million paying subscribers. It may even be up to 20 million. Hotmail has 30 million active accounts. The unilluminati are the future of the internet. Harv

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J. Lamarck, Advisors in Biotechnology
by lamarck＠sis.it 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Egr. Signore / Signora, Come è ormai ampiamente noto, è cominciato il grande processo di transizione dall'industria chimica, che per decenni ha trainato l'economia di molti paesi, a quella delle biotecnologie avanzate. Il fortissimo sviluppo di questo settore sta dando vita al più dinamico mercato azionario di fine secolo. La J. Lamarck è la prima società di consulenza finanziaria nata per soddisfare le esigenze di tutti coloro (privati, banche, istituzioni o grandi aziende) che vogliono investire in biotecnologia con cognizione e sicurezza. Offre un servizio altamente qualificato e personalizzato in cui la disciplina, la responsabilità ed il mantenimento della fiducia del Cliente rappresentano i cardini della sua politica di management. Il nostro programma consente di soddisfare la necessità di diversificazione di coloro che hanno intravisto la grande potenzialità del settore delle biotecnologie e desiderano perciò investire in questo segmento di mercato in continua crescita. La diversificata composizione del portafoglio comporta la riduzione del rischio che è normalmente associato agli investimenti in singole imprese del settore. Siamo continuamente orientati alla comunicazione con tutti coloro che operano nel settore "high-tech" e nella biotecnologia in particolare perché, come l'esperienza americana insegna, solo l'unione delle diverse discipline (scientifica, giuridica, finanziaria ed economica) può creare tutte le sinergie utili allo sviluppo di questo settore. Se gradisce maggiori informazioni sulla nostra attività può visitare il nostro sito internet: http://www.lamarck.com, oppure può contattarci alla nostra e-mail:lamarck@sis.it RingraziandoLa per l'attenzione accordataci Le inviamo i nostri più distinti saluti, J. Lamarck

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RE: Clinton Attacks Iraq
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Cordian [mailto:emc@wire.insync.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 4:20 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: Clinton Attacks Iraq > > Looks like Bubba has launched a massive strike on Iraq to > draw attention > from his cocksucking problems. Spoken like a poet. First thought, best thought. Here's a loose haiku: Bubba launched a massive strike on Iraq blowjob snag go *poof* Excuse the abuse of style... C.G. -- sig space for lease

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RE: Nitwits
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The depressing thing is that AOL as at least 14 million paying subscribers. >It may even be up to 20 million. Hotmail has 30 million active accounts. The >unilluminati are the future of the internet. > >Harv Sites like AOL and Hotmail do a great service to the net: They hurd the unilluminati onto a select few sites, making it easier to blackhole them en masse.

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RE: Nitwits
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Sites like AOL and Hotmail do a great service to the net: They hurd the >unilluminati onto a select few sites, making it easier to blackhole them en >masse. This is what happens when you read literature on GNU Hurd while you're posting.

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bears repeating, part 2
by Pallas Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

another try: An alternative to the pyramid form of organization is the cell system. In the past, many political groups (both left and right) have used the cell system to further their objectives. Two examples will suffice. During the American Revolution, "committees of correspondence" were formed throughout the Thirteen Colonies. Their purpose was to subvert the government and thereby aid the cause of independence. The "Sons of Liberty," who made a name for themselves by dumping government taxed tea into the harbor at Boston, were the action arm of the committees of correspondence. Each committee was a secret cell that operated totally independently of the other cells. Information on the government was passed from committee to committee, from colony to colony, and then acted upon on a local basis. Yet even in those bygone days of poor communication, of weeks to months for a letter to be delivered, the committees, without any central direction whatsoever, were remarkably similar in tactics employed to resist government tyranny. It was, as the first American Patriots knew, totally unnecessary for anyone to give an order for anything. Information was made available to each committee, and each committee acted as it saw fit. A recent example of the cell system taken from the left wing of politics are the Communists. The Communists, in order to get around the obvious problems involved in pyramidal organization, developed to an art the cell system. They had numerous independent cells which operated completely isolated from one another and particularly with no knowledge of each other, but were orchestrated together by a central headquarters. For instance, during WWII, in Washington, it is known that there were at least six secret Communist cells operating at high levels in the United States government (plus all the open Communists who were protected and promoted by President Roosevelt), however, only one of the cells was rooted out and destroyed. How many more actually were operating, no one can say for sure. The Communist cells which operated in the U.S. until late 1991 under Soviet control could have at their command a leader who held a social position which appeared to be very lowly. He could be, for example, a busboy in a restaurant, but in reality a colonel or a general in the Soviet Secret Service, the KGB. Under him could be a number of cells, and a person active in one cell would almost never have knowledge of individuals who were active in other cells; in fact, the members of the other cells would be supporting that cell which was under attack and ordinarily would lend very strong support to it in many ways. This is at least part of the reason, no doubt, that whenever in the past Communists were attacked in this country, support for them sprang up in many unexpected places. The effective and efficient operation of a cell system after the Communist model is, of course, dependent upon central direction, which means impressive organization, funding from the top, and outside support, all of which the Communists had. Obviously, American patriots have none of these things at the top or anywhere else, and so an effective cell organization based upon the Soviet system of operation is impossible. Two things become clear from the above discussion. First, that the pyramid form of organization can be penetrated quite easily and it thus is not a sound method of organization in situations where the government has the resources and desire to penetrate the structure, which is the situation in this country. Secondly, that the normal qualifications for the cell structure based upon the Red model does not exist in the U.S. for patriots. This understood, the question arises "What method is left for those resisting state tyranny?" The answer comes from Col. Amoss who proposed the "Phantom Cell" mode of organization which he described as Leaderless Resistance. A system of organization that is based upon the cell organization, but does not have any central control or direction, that is in fact almost identical to the methods used by the committees of correspondence during the American Revolution. Utilizing the Leaderless Resistance concept, all individuals and groups operate independently of each other, and never report to a central head-quarters or single leader for direction or instruction, as would those who belong to a typical pyramid organization. At first glance, such a form of organization seems unrealistic, primarily because there appears to be no organization. The natural question thus arises as to how are the "Phantom Cells" and individuals to cooperate with each other when there is no inter-communication or central direction? The answer to this question is that participants in a program of leaderless resistance through "Phantom Cell" or individual action must know exactly what they are doing and how to do it. It becomes the responsibility of the individual to acquire the necessary skills and information as to what is to be done. This is by no means as impractical as it appears, because it is certainly true that in any movement all persons involved have the same general outlook, are acquainted with the same philosophy, and generally react to given situations in similar ways. The previous history of the committees of correspondence during the American Revolution shows this to be true. Since the entire purpose of leaderless resistance is to defeat state tyranny (at least in so far as this essay is concerned), all members of phantom cells or individuals will tend to react to objective events in the same way through usual tactics of resistance. Organs of information distribution such as newspapers, leaflets, computers, etc., which are widely available to all, keep each person informed of events, allowing for a planned response that will take many variations. No one need issue an order to anyone. Those idealists truly committed to the cause of freedom will act when they feel the time is ripe, or will take their cue from others who precede them. While it is true that much could be said against this kind of structure as a method of resistance, it must be kept in mind that leaderless resistance is a child of necessity. The alternatives to it have been shown to be unworkable or impractical. Leaderless resistance has worked before in the American Revolution, and if the truly committed put it to use themselves, it will work now. #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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17 Dec '03

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Richard Stallman: Encryption software volunteers needed incountries without export control
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text To: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: Richard Stallman: Encryption software volunteers needed in countries without export control Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:35:07 -0500 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry(a)jekyll.piermont.com> Sender: owner-cryptography(a)c2.net Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 03:40:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <gnusenet199812081040.DAA29657(a)wijiji.santafe.edu> From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> To: info-gnu(a)gnu.org Subject: Encryption software volunteers needed in countries without export control [Please re-post this as widely as possible, wherever appropriate] The US has scored a major victory in the global campaign against freedom and privacy rights, by persuading 33 major countries to prohibit export of free encryption software. These countries are the ones that are party to the Wassenaar agreement (see list below). The agreement is not final; putting it into effect would require new laws or regulations in each country, and in some countries it might be possible to organize politically to block this. If you are a citizen of a country listed below, please talk with your legislators and urge them to refuse to ratify the agreement. See www.epic.org for more information. However, anticipating the possibility that these laws will go through, we need to find volunteers in countries which are not signatories to take over development and distribution of encryption software such as the GNU Privacy Guard and PSST. We are looking for (1) an ftp site from which to distribute the software, and (2) people to carry on the development work. If you have contacts in any non-signatory country, please circulate this message as widely as possible in your country, looking for people who might want to volunteer for GNU software development. Non-signatory countries that come to mind as possible places where free encryption software can be developed include Mexico, India, Croatia, China, South Africa, and perhaps Israel. However, any country is ok if its laws do not prevent the work. Big Brother has won a battle, but the war is not over. List of countries signing the Wassenaar agreement: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherland, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States. --- 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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Potential Crypto Development Sites (re: Stallman)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:52:00 -0500 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Richard Stallman: Encryption software volunteers needed in > countries without export control > List of countries signing the Wassenaar agreement: > > Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, > Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, > Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherland, New Zealand, Norway, > Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, > Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States. > > --- end forwarded text Belize isn't on the list and it's only 2 hours from Houston. Citizenship can be had for as little as $40k US. They market themselves as a tax haven. Apparently anyone living there for 5 years can qualify for citizenship. ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome 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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Visibility Report
by report＠top-10.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: I must admit. . .
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone claiming to be Joel O'Connor wrote: > It only took one to turn India around. Ghandi nearly > starved to death, used nothing but passifism and won > the race man. I'm sorry but this is nonsense. Ghandi may have been a great man and an inspiration to us all but he *lost*. His first big political involvment was trying to stop the British from allowing the Boers to take away political rights from the "coloured" and Asian population of Cape Colony. The Brits caved into the white South Africans and we all know what happened next. Then he tried to get them (well us I suppose, since I'm British) to "quit India" in the 1920s & 30s - failed again, we got out 2 decades later, after WW2, when a British government was elected that was anti-colonialist. You wouldn't have been able to persuade the 1945-1951 government to stay *in* India. In fact they were so eager to get out they probably caused more problems by the speed of the withdrawal. Ghandi wanted a secular federation of all India - but instead there was partition, the secession of an inherently unviable Muslim state that was bound to end up with either civil war or fundamentalism (and in the end got both, at least for some of the time), and at least hundreds of thousands, and possibly many millions of deaths that could have been avoided. And then of course he himself was killed. And now India has the BJP. Ghandi was perhaps *right* but he certainly didn't "win the race". Ken (and not his employers)

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the KKK took my baby away (in year 2000)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Millenium Y2Kaos: Fear of Computer Bug Fueling Far Right Prepare for war. Its coming!" With those words, hard-line racist preacher James Wickstrom warned an August gathering of extremists in Pennsylvania of the end-times battle he expects in the year 2000 -- a battle he believes will be set off by the so-called "y2k" computer bug. Across the extreme-right spectrum, such fears of a societal breakdown sparked by computer date-change problems have set activists afire. While Wickstroms prophecies may be the most explosive, similar millennial fears are dominating the headlines of the radical press. The airwaves are reverberating with warnings to head for the hills and hunker down for possible riots and race war. The Internet is replete with similarly dire scenarios. When the crash comes, Wickstrom enjoined some 30 followers, "get out of the way for a while and then go hunting, O Israel!" Like the biblical figure of David, godly whites must "fill our shoes with the blood of our enemies and walk in them." Wickstrom lives, he said, "for the day I can walk down the road and see heads on the fence posts." If the race war scenario such men envision is a fantasy, the computer problem they believe will set it off is not. Authorities ranging from President Clinton to leaders of industry around the world believe that y2k -- which is short for "Year 2000" -- could lead to major social and economic snarls, even a worldwide depression. The problem originated with early computer programmers who abbreviated date references to two digits -- as in "98" for 1998 -- in order to save then-precious bytes of computer memory. At the turn of the century, experts say, many computers could crash or spew nonsensical data as they confuse "00" for 1900. While predictions vary hugely, many officials and experts believe there could be serious problems in banking, food supplies, air traffic control, nuclear and electrical power, defense and any number of other sectors. Many fear a recession. And there are those who forecast even worse. Something will happen Regardless of the actual result -- and many experts see the headline-making y2k story as a tempest in a teacup -- there is no question that a large number of extremists have pegged the year 2000 as a critical date. For many, it will be the time when Christian patriots, the "children of light," must do battle with the satanic "forces of darkness." Others believe "one-world" conspirators will attack American patriots on that date. This has not been lost on those who battle right-wing terror. Early next year, the FBI will launch a nationwide assessment of the threat of domestic terrorism on and around Jan. 1, 2000. "I worry that every day something could happen somewhere," Robert Blitzer, head of the FBIs domestic terrorism unit, told the Los Angeles Times recently (see interview also in this issue). "The odds are that something will happen." Hard-line revolutionaries like Wickstrom are not the only ones to tie apocalyptic visions to the y2k problem. Pat Robertsons relatively mainstream Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), for instance, offers news stories describing the computer bug and its possible ramifications such as "The Year 2000: A Date With Disaster" and "Countdown to Chaos: Prophecy for 2000." Robertson markets a CBN video, "Preparing for the Millennium: A CBN News Special Report," that includes a synopsis of "the y2k computer crisis" with his futuristic novel, The End of an Age, which describes a "possible scenario of a future biblical Armageddon" triggered by a meteors crash. The audience for such ideas is not even limited to evangelical Christians. A large number of new religious books have crossed over strongly into the secular market. Left Behind , a recent series of four apocalyptic novels co-authored by an evangelical Christian minister and a former journalist, has sold almost 3 million copies. The series made "publishing history in September when all four of the books ascended to the top four slots on Publishers Weekly magazines lists of bestsellers," according to a report in The New York Times. The books authors say every major prophecy of the biblical Book of Revelations has been fulfilled, and they expect the y2k bug could set off the crisis. Y2K and the antichrist "It could very well trigger a financial meltdown," co-author Tim LaHaye writes on his publishers Web site, which attracts 80,000 electronic visits a day, "leading to an international depression, which would make it possible for the antichrist or his emissaries to establish a one-world currency or a one-world economic system, which will dominate the world commercially until it is destroyed." The series has spun off a companion childrens book series, a music CD, T-shirts and caps. More books and a movie also are in the works, the Times reported. And now, Tennessee trade magazine publisher Tim Wilson has launched a new periodical, Y2K News Magazine, that includes tips on defending property from would-be attackers. Reaction to the y2k problem on the extreme fringes of the right has varied widely, usually depending on the religious or ideological bent of each group. Probably the most consistent theme has been a survivalist one, with ideologues warning that people must prepare for the worst. And entrepreneurs around the country have leaped to take advantage of these fears, offering for sale everything from dried foods to underground bunkers. At the Preparedness Expo 98 held in Atlanta last June, for instance, at least a dozen speakers offered bleak assessments of the coming crisis. For those who took the bait, there was a plethora of products available: water purifiers, hundreds of types of storable foods from "enzyme-rich vegetable juice extracts" to "gourmet" dehydrated fruits, seeds, herbal medicines, "Cozy Cruiser" trailers and all manner of books on survival skills. Such merchants arent the only ones pandering to millennial fear. Land, gold and medical school In Idaho, so-called "Patriot" James "Bo" Gritz hawks remote lots of land that he describes as "an ark in the time of Noah," along with a huge range of survivalist products and training. In Montana, Militia of Montana leader John Trochmann has a catalog of holocaust-survival items. In states around the country, far-right "investment counselors" sell strategies to protect ones money as civilization collapses. And on the Internet, two self-described "Christian Patriots" signing themselves Michael Johnson and Paul Byus offer "foolproof" gold certificates to a mining claim in Oregon. "We [also] have set up schools to cover kindergarten, 1st thru 12th grades, adult school, community college, 4 yr college, university, and even the medical school I told you about 6 months ago," one of the Internet salesmen claims. "Bring your kids and entire family to participate in our secure decentralized Patriot community... ." Other reactions on the extreme right run the gamut, from seeing the crisis as an opportunity for global conspirators to seize dictatorial powers, to viewing it as an opening for revolution or a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Recent examples: The New American, an organ of the ultraconservative John Birch Society, speculates that the y2k bug could be Americas Reichstag fire, a reference to the 1933 arson attack on Germanys Parliament building that was used by Hitler as an excuse to enact police state laws. "[C]ould the Millennium Bug provide an ambitious President with an opportunity to seize dictatorial powers?" the magazine asks. "Such a notion seems plausible... ." Norm Olson, a Michigan militia leader, is busy doing "wolfpack" training for the apocalypse, reports Media Bypass, a magazine popular among Patriots. "Survival is the key. As with most other people, we will rely on our self-supporting covenant community, " said Olson, who believes constitutional rights probably will be suspended before the real crisis hits. "It will be the worst time for humanity since the Noahic flood." In his AntiShyster magazine, Patriot editor Alfred Adask speaks of entire cities running out of food and of the possibility of "millions of American fatalities." "If the y2k information Ive seen is accurate, we are facing a problem of Biblical proportions," he says. "Potentially, y2k ... [is] a dagger pointed at the heart of Western Civilization." Bo Gritzs Center for Action newsletter, describing y2k as "a pandemic electronic virus more deadly than AIDS," predicts "worldwide chaos" and then goes on to offer lots for sale at Gritzs "Almost Heaven" community. "If Y-2-K has the predicted effect ... we can expect to see, out of the ashes of decimated fiat systems and economic chaos, the rise of a MONEY MESSIAH, who will offer a miraculous fix to a bleeding, begging world," Gritz adds. He also predicts imposition of a worldwide "electronic currency." Writing in The Jubilee, the leading periodical of the racist and anti-Semitic Christian Identity religion, correspondent Chris Temple says that "the net result of the Year 2000 problem as I have described it will be POSITIVE! Internationalism and capitalism will be dealt severe blows; efforts to recapture local control ... will spread." In his Patriot Report, Identity proselytizer George Eaton concludes: "We need to act as if our lives depend upon our decisions, because they do. What can we do? Continue to work and save up money for survival items. ... A person can never be over-prepared." In a July Internet posting on a Klan news page, a contributor described as a computer programmer demands that the federal government "surrender" in return for programmers assistance in fixing the y2k bug. The posting speaks of "the thousands (probably millions) joining us in our rural retreats. Weve got the bibles, the beans, the bandages, the bullets -- and the brains. ... You will reap what you have sewn [sic]. ... Some cities will indeed end in flames -- flames that will light a path to our posteritys freedom." From fallout shelters to y2k Interestingly, one of the most salient commentators on the y2k problem -- a man often quoted in the mainstream press -- has been Gary North. North is a hard-line opponent of abortion and a theocratic thinker who advocates imposing biblical law on the United States. In his books, he has written of the possibility of a "political and military" confrontation "in the philosophical war against political pluralism." Although he is widely described as a y2k "expert," he is also something of a professional doomsayer. In 1986, long before the y2k problem came to public attention, North co-authored a book on how to survive nuclear Armageddon. Called Fighting Chance: Ten Feet to Survival, it features a shovel -- for digging fallout shelters -- on its cover. Norths huge y2k Web site has made him into a guru to many extremists. The neo-Nazi Aryan Nations is one of many groups that link their Web sites to that of North. "These are people who are super-sensitive to anything that suggests the collapse of social institutions," Michael Barkun, a Syracuse University expert on millennialism, said of y2k fearmongers. "Since nuclear war really is no longer out there as a terribly likely way for civilization to end, theyve got to find something else. y2k is convenient." Many experts, including Barkun and the FBIs Blitzer, agree that extremists fears and hopes surrounding y2k have increased the danger of domestic terrorism. "It adds to apocalyptic fears," says Chip Berlet, who studies the far right for Cambridge-based Political Research Associates. "Therefore, it adds to the potential for violence." James Wickstrom may best illustrate that potential. At the meeting he co-hosted with Identity leader August Kreis in Ulysses, Pa., he warned his audience -- several clad in Aryan Nations uniforms -- that auth The enemy, said Wickstrom, must be "exterminated." He must be "shot." He must be "hanged." "The battle is upon us," Wickstrom bellowed. "Battle!"

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye (further ideas)
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Snipped some musings about throwing the NSA a lot of worthless bones to chew on... >We could rotate the tags around, but if we send too many of these, they can >throw you into the above category. > >You could post them anonymously, which makes it much harder for them catalog, >so they will be forced to look at the traffic, when and if, they need to search >it. > >You could have some program randomly alter your email address, but patterns >would be found to filter you out that way. > >We could also use remailers to create lots of cover traffic going to >/dev/null. This would be far more interesting, especially if we add some sort >of poetry writer that spits out spook talk and update it occasionally with >current event keywords. Then again, they could filter the messages that go to >/dev/null, or find patterns in the spook poetry generators... > Now how about instead of dev/null you periodically create free e-mail accounts at hotmail, juno, etc, and send the mail to these "real" addresses. That should give them a little more work at sorting through the chaff. I f there were say 5,000 accounts on each of the top ten free mail sites receiving say 500 chaff letters every day for a month before switching to new account names that would amount to about 25,000,000 mails per day on accounts that would just disappear after awhile. Anyone know how many anonymous remailers there are? I wonder if these bots could be thrown in to help generate the cover traffic to boost anonymity with out sucking up all the available bandwidth. It would seem that this would help address two problems. The problem of insufficient cover traffic on the anonymous remailers and the issue of keeping the jerks at the NSA so busy sniffing up junk that they become less effective at snooping on legitimate communications. Certainly the load of 5,000 bogus accounts on hotmail, which has reportedly in excess of 20 million accounts, would be minimal. I think the biggest issue is whether or not there are sufficient resources to generate this volume of mail through a wide enough re-mailer base to thwart filtering without identifying any particular group of people as the originators of the letters. I think a long term surge of 25 million letters per day which meet their snoop standards would have to create some kind of a bogging effect on their capacities. I don't know what the real numbers are but it might be interesting if say 50 million or fewer total e-mails per day are "captured" for storage by the spooks on a normal day. At that level a surge of 25 million per day would be a 50% increase for handling. What would be the response of the NSA? Some will say that it would be no big deal for the NSA since they could just add more hardware. But I think that any time we can make the haystack significantly bigger that should theoretically make the needle harder to find. And since Cpunks aren't criminals we certainly wouldn't be creating more needles! APF

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XS4ALL
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It seems that XS4ALL has been bought by KPN (The Dutch Telco) -aj-

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Comrade Klinton at it again
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Comrade Klinton just started another bombing run, curiously after it became widely known that the impeachment hearings wouldn't be delayed until next week. So far, every target hit has been in camera range. NBC said that the Iranian Embassy might have been hit by a Tomahawk.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

McAfee has announced that they are giving away the commercial version of PGP 6.0.2 for free for a limited time. It also includes PGP Disk, which creates virtual encrypted drives. PGP 6.0.2 also claims to have anti-TEMPEST protection, by using a special font. My question is: what's the catch? It is a fact that Network Associates (McAfee's owner) is a member of the Key Recovery Aliance. Is the decision to give the software away part of something that's not being said (i.e. reduced security) or did I spend $39.99 on PGP and an additional $39.99 on PGP Disk for no reason because it would become available for free two weeks later? And, has anyone tested the anti-TEMPEST features in PGP 6.0.2?

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Encryption chip
by Vortexia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone know if there is some kind of chip, or IC commercially available that does secure encryption? Thanx Andrew Alston

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RE: Clinton Attacks Iraq
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Rabid Wombat [mailto:wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 1:04 AM > To: Anonymous > Cc: cypherpunks(a)EINSTEIN.ssz.com > Subject: RE: Clinton Attacks Iraq > > Was it my imagination, or did the T'Hawk strikes pause for > Bubba's speech? > It seemed like they were coming into Baghdad every half hour, like > clockwork, but they seem to have skipped one half-hour's > worth when Bubba > was on the air. By the order of the new Joint Chief of Staff, the newly commissioned Nielsen rating system, the bombings were halted due to most targets being pointed at the White House for Clinton-mania by select TV viewers nationwide. Once Clinton was off the air the new targetting systems available at select Nielsen homes nationwide resumed proper operation by select War@Home families tuning to their favorite news channels covering sites in Iraq. Unfortunately a select number of viewers took shine to the Iranian Embassy causing a tomahawk's guidance system to be changed and resulting in the destruction of mentioned structure. This will, of course, be blamed on user error at the next press hearing. yours virtually forever (however long that may be), WarMonger "Wag the Dog" was just the beginning...

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RE: PGP Disk for free??
by Walter Burton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@replay.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 2:42 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: > > > McAfee has announced that they are giving away the commercial > version of PGP 6.0.2 for free for a limited time. It also > includes PGP Disk, which creates virtual encrypted drives. > PGP 6.0.2 also claims to have anti-TEMPEST protection, by > using a special font. My question is: what's the catch? They feel guilty 'cause there was a flaw in previous versions of PGP Disk. It's a gesture of good will. > It is a fact that Network Associates (McAfee's owner) is a > member of the Key Recovery Aliance. Is the decision to give > the software away part of something that's not being said > (i.e. reduced security) The source for 5.x is freely available, and I expect the source for (at least the free versions of) 6.x will soon be. Now, as far as I'm aware, the source for PGP Disk is not yet available, and probably won't be, since that's a commercial product. Not that that's a GOOD reason ;). > or did I spend $39.99 on PGP and an > additional $39.99 on PGP Disk for no reason because it would > become available for free two weeks later? Bingo. Perhaps they'll give you a refund! > And, has anyone tested the anti-TEMPEST features in PGP 6.0.2? Not I. That would take some serious equipment! I doubt even Phil Zimmerman or Network Associates has tested it thoroughly. Throughout the online help regarding the Secure Viewer and Tempest attacks, they use phrases like "MAY reduce levels of radio frequency emissions" and "MAY make it harder for the signals to be remotely detected" (my emphasis). --- Walter S. Burton <mailto:wburton@pipestream.com> For my PGP public key, send a message with the subject "get public key." Fingerprint: 3E28 7C81 536C 92FE ED01 6B70 0E37 DB49 9F6C 8DF8

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"They've started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!"
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"We just intercepted a coded transmission from Earth Force Command. They've started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!" (scene of two fighters on approach to a biodome) Omega One: "Standing by. Weapons hot." Radio: "Don't do it! We have women and children down here! Don't do it!" Radio2: "Omega One, you are clear for drop." (weapons fly, killing a few thousand innocent men, women, and children.) It amazes me how much similarity Babylon 5 has to reality. Is Clinton a fan who fancies himself as President Clark? I'm starting to worry.

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Re: Comrade Klinton at it again
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Don't you mean "Iraqui" Embassy? Or is this thing spreading? I hope not. Comrade Klinton is no worse than Comrades Hyde, Ingliss, Gingrich, Coble, Bono, well you know the rest. They all call themselves statesmen but they are pretty damned pedestrian. **************** Comrade Klinton just started another bombing run, curiously after it became widely known that the impeachment hearings wouldn't be delayed until next week. So far, every target hit has been in camera range. NBC said that the Iranian Embassy might have been hit by a Tomahawk.

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Crypto related... [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://slashdot.org/ > RIAA's Encypted Music-Working with defense contractors? The Internet > Posted by Hemos on Friday December 18, @08:32AM > from the things-that-make-you-go-hmm dept. > Tom Holroyd passed along some interesting pieces of information from > Eric S Arnum's recent piece over at SonicNet. Many of you saw that the > RIAA has decided to lauch their Secure Digital Music Initiative > (SDMI). Well, that's not so interesting on it's own, but their choice > of company is. It's a subsidary of SAIC, a privately held company that > does work in secure defense commnuications. The company (SAIC) has > worked with the CIA, NSA, and Navy, amongst others. Click below for > the full story. > Read More... > (18 comments, 2554 bytes in body) > Wassenaar agreement not to apply to free software? Encryption Posted > by sengan on Thursday December 17, @04:53PM > from the eh? dept. > The Free Software Foundation states that the Wassenaar agreement does > not apply to free-software. It'd be nice to know why. Is this a > provision for research, or some sort of loophole? Link countesy of > Linux Today. > Read More... > (89 comments) ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Howdy neighbor! Can I borrow an egg, some sugar, and a SCSI cable?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:32:14 -0500 To: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Subject: Howdy neighbor! Can I borrow an egg, some sugar, and a SCSI cable? Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:36:36 -0500 From: glen mccready <glen(a)qnx.com> Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev(a)bostic.com> Forwarded-by: "Kevin D. Clark" <kclark(a)cabletron.com> Source: http://online.guardian.co.uk/theweb/911396071-geekville.html Leander Kahney inspects a des. res. for hackers House fit for a mouse TO RENT: apartment; sleeps 2.8 computers; unique address (on the Web); Linux in all rooms; only geeks need apply. This isn't quite how Walden Internet Village advertises itself but it is how the complex sees itself: 'run by geeks for geeks'. The 12-building complex in Houston, Texas, boasts pleasant decor and beautiful landscaped gardens but for the tenants it is trying to attract the most important feature will be the way it is wired for the future, offering the kind of high-speed Internet access enjoyed only by big companies and universities. "It's a community for hackers," says Alan LeFort, marketing director and network administrator. "It's not easy to find a place where your neighbours are Perl programmers or Linux freaks." Every apartment has a 10 Megabit per second pipe to the Internet -- a connection about 175 times faster than the standard 56k modem. It also has assigned its own unique Web address, so residents can run their own Web sites from inside their apartments. "We don't care what they run as long as its not a porn site," LeFort said. All apartments also have wiring built into the walls for their own little home network. "The average resident has 2.8 machines," LeFort says. "They like to connect them together." The complex also offers several big computers on an internal network, one dedicated to the game Quake and another for storing the GNU/Linux software favoured by most tenants. The few running Windows NT will have to be "educated", LeFort said. At first sight, Texas with its cowboy image, might seem an unlikely place for a geek community. But Houston is home to Nasa's Johnson Space Center, Compaq, and a major axis for the engineering, medical, and, of course, the oil and energy industries. Already geeks have snapped up about half the 200 apartments. The company hopes to fill the rest with geeks as non-hackers' leases expire. Rents range from $675 (L409) per month for a one-bedroom flat to $1,400 a month for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home. The complex boasts an active social life. Every fortnight is party night when up to 50 people turn up with their computers and hook them into a fast Local Area Network for playing games. Walden is a pilot project. The company owns five other complexes in Houston and is considering re-wiring three of them for hackers. Visit Walden Internet Villages at http://www.waldenweb.com and two of the complex's game sites at http://www.gamerscircle.com, http://www.quake2.com 18 November 1998 --- 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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