December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Comrade Klinton at it again
by HyperReal-Anon 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. An NBC reporter in Baghdad reported that the Iranian embassy was hit by a Tomahawk, but I've had the news off since then and haven't heard anything else about it. The Klinton White House won't come out and admit that they missed, just like they won't admit that a Tomahawk landed in someone's house last night (again according to NBC). You are wrong, though. Comrade Klinton is worse than Comrade Hyde and the rest. The loyal card-carrying Party members in congress are limited in power because the majority of them have to agree on an issue. Comrade Klinton can do virtually whatever he wants with the military under the War Powers Act and doesn't have to answer for it until it's all over. As I recall, the name "Desert Fox" was a nickname held by a Nazi general. Fitting, that.

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Encryption Chip (details)
by Vortexia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry to follow up my own post, but it was brought to my attention that there are a number of encryption chips available and I would need to be more specific to get any specific information. I am looking for a chip that can do DES, Triple DES and/or Blowfish for the purpose of secure communications. We want an IC instead of software because of the volume of information that will have to be processed in this project. If anyone has any information please drop me an email Thanks Andrew Alston

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RE: "They've started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!"
by Harvey Rook (Exchange) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The scene from Babylon 5 is hardly original. The same thing happened in Vietnam, The Korean War, WW2, WW1.... This is war, and in war innocent people die to further the cause of the leaders. You just have to hope and pray that some good will come out of it. Harv. > -----Original Message----- > From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@remailer.ch] > > "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 Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Somebody said: > As I recall, the name "Desert Fox" was a nickname held by a Nazi general. > Fitting, that. Fitting? I find the occasional anti-American hyperbole around here rather depressing. I'm reminded of 30-year-old engineers talking about the depression of the 80's! If you don't see the difference between the US and Nazi Germany, you need to do a lot more reading. While the anti-privacy activities of the administration and law enforcement are threatening and need to be resisted, they are by no means on a par with the excesses of the Nazi leadership. In any case, Gen. Erwin Rommel (the Desert Fox) was never a Nazi. -- Jim Gillogly Trewesday, 28 Foreyule S.R. 1998, 02:48 12.19.5.14.0, 6 Ahau 13 Mac, First Lord of Night

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[CTRL] Y2K Fear May Trigger Early Panic
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Lyn McCloskey <MCCLOSL(a)TOWERS.COM> Subject: [CTRL] Y2K Fear May Trigger Early Panic Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:50:58 -0500 To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- Technology Headlines Monday December 14 10:18 AM ET Fear Of Year 2000 Computer Bug May Trigger Early Panic By Neil Winton, Science and Technology Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Even if the ``millennium bomb'' does not explode in the world's computers just over a year from now, 1999 is likely to see rising panic as people take precautions against computer failure triggered by the year 2000. Experts say the most vulnerable countries include Japan, France, Russia and Brazil and the most vulnerable sectors are utilities, especially power generation. ``Next year we will see periods of calm broken by occasional news stories predicting computer systems failures,'' said Ross Anderson of Cambridge University's Computer Security Research Center. ``My own feeling is that around August or September panic will start, with hoarding of food and bank notes. Then the whole thing becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.'' The time bomb has trivial origins. In the early days of computing, programs saved what was then precious space by abbreviating years to the last two digits. They knew this could cause problems at the turn of the century because computers would read ``00'' as ``1900'' rather than ``2000'' and crash or spew out flawed data. But they thought these programs would be history by then as technology raced ahead. They were wrong. Now the fear is that old data systems carrying the millennium bomb or bug could trigger disasters around the world in everything from defense, transport and telecommunications to energy and financial services. As 1999 progresses, early trigger dates are likely to provide sneak previews of the chaos that may hit as clocks strike midnight on Dec. 31. The first is Jan. 1, 1999. Programs used in some accounting systems operate a rolling year ahead as they set renewal dates for insurance premiums or bank loans and may crash when they reach out beyond Jan. 1, 2000. Margaret Joachim, Year 2000 coordinator at data processing services company Electronic Data Systems Corp. (NYSE:EDS - news), says there are other dates next year that might trigger computer failure. ``April 9, 1999, the 99th day of the year, and Sept. 9, 1999, which might be recorded as 9-9-99. This is because programmers often used nines as a cutoff for a program. A row of nines meant 'don't do this anymore,''' Joachim said. The world is in differing states of readiness. Information technology consultancy Gartner Group says the United States is best prepared, followed by Canada, Australia, South Africa, Israel and Britain. At the bottom of the list is Brazil, the world's eighth largest economy and a big producer of industrial components, commodities and grains. Brazil is unlikely to be able to confine problems within its borders, according to a recent report by Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York. Japan's lack of action is also causing concern. The Japanese government said last month that important industries like finance, transport, energy, telecommunications and medicine were lagging in year 2000 preparation. Hong Kong's government has said 80 percent of its critical computer systems were ready for 2000 as of Sept. 30, 1998, but it is worried about small and medium-sized businesses. India does not expect much damage because of its small number of computers -- only around 2.3 million in a nation of about 950 million. But India's ``brain trust'' of software makers have bagged orders worth $1.5 billion to fix year 2000 problems around the world, said Dewang Mehta, executive director of the National Association of Software and Service Companies. In China, authorities have decreed that all government computer systems must be fixed by March and tests completed by September 1999. Cambridge University's Anderson said France was most at risk in Western Europe, with computer failures most likely in the public sector and especially public utilities. Any problems could quickly become a problem for neighbors such as Britain, which receives electric power from France. ``There is still quite a question mark over whether France sees the scale of the problem,'' said Chris Webster, head of year 2000 services at Cap Gemini. ``There's a real chance that there may be some loss of service from utilities. Who, when, where or why? Impossible to say. Will it be a complete loss of power, voltage fluctuations? And there is a remarkable lack of information from utilities as to what they are expecting to happen.'' JP Morgan's Year 2000 expert Patrick Ward says Eastern Europe's and Russia's utilities are a big concern, not least because Russia provides 40 percent of Germany's power. If some systems crashes are triggered early by the arrival of Jan. 1, 1999, it might be a blessing in disguise. ``This will involve accounting, planning and budgeting systems rather than operational executing systems, which carry out day-to-day business. It will give you some experience in spotting the errors and knowing how to deal with them,'' Webster said. But Anderson is taking no chances: ``Personally, I plan to have three months' food, a working well, three tons of calor (heating) gas and 400 liters of diesel come the dreadful day.'' DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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[CTRL] The Siege: PsyOps Movie Prepares U.S. for Martial Law
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: RoadsEnd(a)AOL.COM Subject: [CTRL] The Siege: PsyOps Movie Prepares U.S. for Martial Law Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 13:06:29 EST To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V2.42/pageone.html <A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V2.42/pageone.html">Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 2 Issue 42</A> The Laissez Faire City Times December 14, 1998 - Volume 2, Issue 42 Editor & Chief: Emile Zola ----- The Siege: PsyOps Movie Prepares U.S. for Martial Law by Uri Dowbenko The Siege is a slick commercial for the American Police State. Starting with actual newsclips intermixed with movie footage, a radical fundamentalist Muslim cleric is taken hostage. President Clinton -- out of context -- says "I am outraged by it," a speech he made after the Oklahoma City Bombing. Then he says, "Those who did it must not be allowed to go unpunished." That was the stump speech for his so-called Anti-Terrorism Bill, which didn't have a chance of passing before the Bombing. The mix of "real" newsclips intercut with movie footage -- a muezzin's calls to prayer and subsequent scenes of slaughter in the desert -- makes an unsubtle direct correlation between Muslims and terrorism. Cut to Manhattan. FBI man Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) has to deal with a hostage crisis and a bus bomb which turns out to be a ruse. His partner is Lebanese, an Arab-American named Frank Haddad (Tony Shalhoub) who is gung-ho and acts as a translator -- until they grab his kid and put him in the New York Concentration Camp. Understandably that sours him on the FBI. Soon enough there's interagency rivalry with CIA woman Elise Kraft (Annette Bening). She tells the FBI man that "we're on the same team," but they both know it's a lie. He tells her "CIA has no charter to operate domestically." Yuck yuck -- as if that ever kept the CIA from engaging in criminal activities on US soil. The subtext of the movie, grounded in real-life history, is that CIA financed and trained indigenous "rebel" movements around the world, then unceremoniously betrayed them when US policy changed. The betrayed CIA "terrorists" then typically returned to US soil becoming pawns in elaborate spy agency games, which most recently resulted in the New York World Trade Center Bombing and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Later, in a flash of realization about her own culpability, the CIA woman says to Samir (Sami Bouajila), one of the suspected "terrorists": "Don't tell me we financed your operation?" He smiles disbelievingly at her naivete. Disinformation rules in The Siege. Here are the most obvious propaganda factoids. 1. Demonizing the Militia. Continuing the mainstream-media propaganda, Denzel Washington asks his fellow feds in the FBI office, "You think it's militia?" "Not their style," they answer, as if most militas were capable of "terrorism" without the active participation by undercover CIA, FBI, or BATF agent provocateurs. 2. Demonizing the Internet. "Everybody on the Internet knows explosives," says Washington, spreading the lie about how the Internet is a tool of subversion and therefore must be controlled. Department of Justice has lobbied long and hard for anti-internet, anti-cryptography legislation. 3. Demonizing Cash. "Where does a guy like you come up with ten thousand dollars?" the FBI man berates the Arab suspect, implying that cash anywhere is immediately suspect. According to US State Propaganda, only "terrorists" or "money launderers" use cash. This reinforces the suspicion in moviegoers' minds that only "criminals" would have any concerns about privacy. General Devereaux (Bruce Willis) takes over when a state of emergency and martial law is declared in Manhattan. There's a couple of throwaway lines -- complete with requisite handwringing -- about Posse Comitatus -- the law which mandates that US troops can not be used against US citizens -- and how President Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, an unchallenged precedent for martial law. Willis says "We can't go in until the president invokes the War Powers Act." Does that mean the country is still operating under war and emergency powers? Dr. Eugene Schroeder's controversial book Constitution: Fact or Fiction (Buffalo Creek Press, PO BOx 2424, Cleburne, Texas 76033) explains this provocative thesis. He says that the reason why the US has gone downhill, becoming in essence an unconstitutional dictatorship, is because "since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared National Emergency," according to Senate Report 93-549. The Siege is really a turf war -- not between gangs -- but between Feds. It's FBI vs. CIA vs. National Security Council vs. America. The civil rights context -- Is martial law justified? Under what circumstances? -- is merely window dressing for the real question -- How will the Feds split up the country? The movie shows that escalating acts of "terrorism" in America are eerily similar to the Reichstag Fire in pre-WWII Germany, a rationale for a totalitarian-state power grab. In America, it would simply be the pretext for dispensing with that pesky US Constitution altogether. Willis finally says, "I am declaring a state of martial law." US soldiers invade Brooklyn. Lines of camo-clad grunts march across the Brooklyn Bridge, while Humvees patrol Wall Street. After capturing an Arab suspect, Willis says, "The time has come for one man to suffer to save hundreds." That's his rationale for torture. The FBI man says, "Bend the law. Shred the Constitution. If we torture him, everything we fought for is over," implying speciously that the "terrorists" will win. As if... as if New York Police brutality has never been committed. As if CIA atrocities were never done. As if FBI criminal behavior was never covered up. Reinforcing the bogus cover story of a "truck bomb" blowing up the Oklahoma City Federal Building, there's -- you guessed it -- a truck bomb in The Siege which destroys One Federal Plaza in New York. David Hoffman's indispensable book The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror (Feral House, 2532 Lincoln Blvd., Suite 359, Venice, CA 90291, 800-788-6246; $18.95) demolishes this fraudulent theory and dissects the elements of another US Government covert ops gone bad. In his ground-breaking 509-page book, Hoffman describes the the stewpot of CIA, FBI, BATF, Neo-Nazi, Arab, Israeli, and German intelligence operatives, as well as the US Government's ludicrous "Single Bomb Theory." Like Arlen Spector's infamous "Single Bullet Theory" about the bullet which made a U-Turn inside President Kennedy's body, this "fertilizer bomb theory" is just as dopey. Fertilizer - - as in BS -- is the theory's primary ingredient. Director Ed Zwick specializes in making Establishment-propaganda movies. Glory was about African-Americans brainwashed to fight the Civil War. Courage Under Fire was about all kinds of Americans brainwashed to fight in the Gulf War. Denzel Washington's a veteran; he's been in both movies. In The Siege, Zwick cranks up the xenophobia. Despite its pretensions as a politically-correct parable for "tolerance," The Siege demonizes both Arabs and Muslims. Zwick and film producer Lynda Obst have made a movie which is state-of- the-art PsyOps for the masses. Psychological Operations (PsyOps) is a military term for non-lethal warfare. It's just masquerading as "entertainment." -30- from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol. 2, No. 42, Dec. 14, 1998 ----- The Laissez Faire City Times is a private newspaper. Although it is published by a corporation domiciled within the sovereign domain of Laissez Faire City, it is not an "official organ" of the city or its founding trust. Just as the New York Times is unaffiliated with the city of New York, the City Times is only one of what may be several news publications located in, or domiciled at, Laissez Faire City proper. For information about LFC, please contact CityClerk(a)LFCity.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Published by Laissez Faire City Netcasting Group, Inc. Copyright 1998 - Trademark Registered with LFC Public Registrar All Rights Reserved ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM Om

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[CTRL] Polygamous Paradise!
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Lyn McCloskey <MCCLOSL(a)TOWERS.COM> Subject: [CTRL] Polygamous Paradise! Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:35:12 -0500 To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- Take a number... http://www.tabloid.net/1998/12/09/island_981209.html NEW UTOPIA RISES FROM THE SEA Prince Lazarus Promises to Save Citizens from Death, Taxes MATT WELCH reports [Dec. 9, 1998] -- Don't worry, people: Despite delays caused by Hurricane Mitch, New Utopia will still rise from the waters of the sea in time to beat the millennial apocalypse. Lazarus Long, a wealthy 67-year-old Oklahoman whose name was Howard Turney until three years ago, says his longtime dream of constructing a libertarian island paradise on top of three shallow Caribbean reefs has been only slightly postponed by the hurricane's effects on New Utopia's neighbors. "We were in the process of negotiating a trade treaty with the Honduran government officials," New Utopia Information Officer Grace Caswell wrote on the island's website. "Prince Lazarus had gone to Washington to meet with the Honduran ambassador to the U.S. He, in turn, was to present it to President Flores on November 1st. That is the day that the hurricane 'Mitch' struck their country." "Honduras claims a 200-mile exclusive economic zone, so without recognition of New Utopia as a sovereign nation we can't begin construction without risk of being annexed by Honduras at some future date." If it sounds like these people are talking about building their own country on a fake island in the sea -- well, that's because they are. Once an agreement with Honduras is reached, the founders say, the reefs will be fitted with steel girders and gigantic platforms of pre-fabricated concrete. Construction of air and sea ports will commence, followed by housing, a university, an anti-aging clinic, offshore banks and a casino. Citizens will live in a tax-free constitutional monarchy not too far off the coasts of Mexico and Honduras. Marijuana will be legal and polygamy tolerated. The Ageless Sovereign His Royal Highness Prince Lazarus Long wants it known that he is not joking. As Howard Turney, he had a long and successful career as a maverick businessman after initial stints as a cowboy and soldier. He was in the restaurant biz, marketed groceries, farmed shrimp and sold used generators, before having his life changed by the human growth hormone, London's Independent reported. In 1990, at the age of 59, Turney was a badly aging mess, with a 44-inch waist and shaky hands, the paper reported. After reading a report about the magic of the then-illegal human growth hormone, Long got a connection in Monterey, Mexico and began mainlining the stuff. Now, without exercising seriously, he's lost the shakes, has rock-hard muscles and a 32-inch waist, the paper said. "I'm 66 going on 40," he told the Independent. "And I've not had any negative side effects at all." Moved, Turney founded a network of anti-aging clinics administering the wonder drug, and made a bundle. It was then that he really began identifying with one of the signature heroes of the novels of libertarian sci-fi scribbler Robert A. Heinlein -- Lazarus Long. In "Methuselah's Children," and especially "Time Enough for Love," Heinlein's Long holds forth as an ageless man of wisdom and sex, hurtling through the centuries with fabulous naked babes on his arm, and dispensing philosophical tidbits with wit and humor. At age 64, Howard Turney became Lazarus Long; soon after he declared himself prince of the New Utopia. As a dispenser of his own wisdom, Long echoes many modern-day followers of objectivist Ayn Rand when they try to talk about foreign affairs: "The United States used to prosper because it was relatively free in an unfree world," he writes on the website. "Now, without changing much itself, the U.S. is relatively unfree in a much freer world. This creates a competitive condition, which tends to favor an enclave like Hong Kong, which practices true free market capitalism, rather than a welfare state like the U.S., which is committed to burdensome taxes, which penalize success." Long tries his hand at a sort of poetry: "Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise Risk more than others think is safe Dream more than others think is practical Expect more than others think is possible." A Tropical Venice New Utopia already has a constitution, a board of governors and more than 500 citizens, the website says. Prospective residents need only to buy a $1,500 five-year bond, payable at 9.5% compound annual interest. The projected price tag on creating an island where there is now only water is $216 billion, which will be financed by Long, citizens, prospective businesses and old-fashioned real estate developers. Offshore finance, tourism, medicine and education are targeted as the main sectors of New Utopia's economy, and Long plans on building a stimulating environment for the super-citizens. Utopians will enjoy "classical architecture, immaculate public parks, a comparable governing body, and a stable political structure, with the same freedom from crime and taxation," the site says. "Resident citizens and visitors will experience it more as a tropical 'Venice,' complete with waterways and gondolas." Free from messy bureaucracy like property taxes, welfare rolls and industry regulation, residents will serve as guinea pigs for the newest drugs and surgical techniques. "There are things on the horizon that people today can only dream about," Long told the Independent. "We are not that far from being able to live multiples of what we look at now as the maximum lifespan. ... [There are] things I can't tell you about because they were told me in confidence. ... Tests and studies are going on. ... Turn your tape recorder off." For now, New Utopia planners will continue processing immigration requests from their office in East Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first concrete platform is now scheduled for January, though the date has now been pushed back at least six different times. And the pesky Hondurans, currently distracted by the brutal wreckage of Hurricane Mitch, still need to recognize New Utopia's sovereignty. Still, "We are steadfast in our date of December 1, 1999 as the celebration of our birth as a nation. Even if all the desired infrastructure is not in place, it will be in the construction phase, the airport will be finished and the government will be in office." ----------------- Get in line at the official website: http://www.new-utopia.com/ DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! 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[CTRL] Fwd: DNA Sample with Every Arrest
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: RoadsEnd(a)AOL.COM Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: DNA Sample with Every Arrest Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:51:31 EST To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_913783891_boundary Content-ID: <0_913783891(a)inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_913783891_boundary Content-ID: <0_913783891(a)inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: DasGOAT(a)aol.com Return-path: <DasGOAT(a)aol.com> To: RoadsEnd(a)aol.com Cc: Robalini(a)aol.com, nessie(a)sfbg.com Subject: DNA Sample with Every Arrest Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:57:15 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition said citizens nationwide are experiencing a crackdown on civil rights. ``I think this is the official ushering in of a George Orwellian society. We will all be suspects in a matter of years.'' . NYC Wants DNA in All Arrests NEW YORK (AP) -- Angering civil libertarians who fear ``1984''-style tactics, Police Commissioner Howard Safir is suggesting that police take a DNA sample along with the fingerprints of everyone arrested. ``The innocent have nothing to fear,'' Safir said Monday. ``Only if you are guilty should you worry about DNA testing.'' But civil rights leaders said even the innocent should worry about the plan, which some contend amounts to an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The proposal would need approval from the state Legislature to become reality. ``I think this is the official ushering in of a George Orwellian society in New York City,'' said Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration has come under fire recently for cutting City Hall off from virtually all public access and for installing more security cameras to monitor streets. Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the DNA proposal is the latest effort by the Giuliani administration to erode civil rights. ``If someone wants to march and doesn't have a permit, or if someone goes to the steps of City Hall to read a proclamation, he or she will get arrested,'' Siegel said. ``Under Safir's DNA proposal, the government will obtain their DNA, and that's a frightening prospect. Why should the government have that information on that individual?'' Giuliani called opponents of the plan captives of ``old left-wing thinking.'' ``The taking of DNA evidence -- from the point of view of anyone but the most excessive knee-jerk ideologues -- is a very, very helpful thing, it's a good thing,'' he said. ``DNA can help prove who actually committed violent crime; it can help prove paternity.'' Under Safir's plan, which he described Monday to students at the Bronx High School of Science, police would take a swabbing from inside a suspect's cheek -- a standard method of collecting DNA -- and put test results into a database for future reference against repeat offenders. DNA, the unique genetic blueprint of each person, is considered by legal and forensics experts to be as reliable as fingerprints and far more useful in identifying culprits of certain crimes. Safir said a suspect's DNA sample would be destroyed if he were acquitted or cleared. Many states allow DNA testing of certain convicts, New York among them. Only in Louisiana does the testing apply to people under arrest. Meyers said citizens nationwide are experiencing a crackdown on civil rights. ``We will all be suspects in a matter of years,'' he said. --part0_913783891_boundary-- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM Om

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[CTRL] NSA Charter from Wiretap
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard" <shane(a)CAIS.COM> Subject: [CTRL] NSA Charter from Wiretap Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:41:47 -0500 To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- From: telecom(a)eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: FOIA Jewel: Original Charter of the National Security Agency Message-ID: <3748(a)accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Feb 90 18:15:00 GMT Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 322 X-Telecom-Digest: Special Edition: Birth of NSA {{ This is a special edition of TELECOM Digest sent to the mailing }} {{ list this date. Although not strictly telecom-related, I thought }} {{ Usenet comp.dcom.telecom readers would enjoy seeing it. PT }} TELECOM Digest Sun, 11 Feb 90 11:35:18 CST Special: Birth of NSA Today's Topics: Moderator: Patrick Townson FOIA Jewel: Original Charter of the National Security Agency ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 90 00:03 EST From: CJS(a)cwru.bitnet Subject: FOIA Jewel: Original Charter of the National Security Agency At 12:01 ON the morning of November 4, 1952, a new federal agency was born. Unlike other such bureaucratic births, however, this one arrived in silence. No news coverage, no congressional debate, no press announcement, not even the whisper of a rumor. Nor could any mention of the new organization be found in the Government Organization Manual of the Federal Register or the Congressional Record. Equally invisible were the new agency's director, its numerous buildings, and its ten thousand employees. Eleven days earlier, on October 24, President Harry S Truman scratched his signature on the bottom of a seven-page presidential memorandum addressed to secretary of State Dean G. Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett. Classified top secret and stamped with a code word that was itself classified, the order directed the establishment of an agency to be known as the National Security Agency. It was the birth certificate for America's newest and most secret agency, so secret in fact that only a handful in the government would be permitted to know of its existence. -James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace (1982) at 15. ***************************************************************** A 20707 5/4/54/OSO NSA TS CONTL. NO 73-00405 COPY: D321 Oct 24 1952 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Secretary of State The Secretary of Defense SUBJECT: Communications Intelligence Activities The communications intelligence (COMINT) activities of the United States are a national responsibility. They must be so organized and managed as to exploit to the maximum the available resources in all participating departments and agencies and to satisfy the legitimate intelligence requirements of all such departments and agencies. I therefore designate the Secretaries of State and Defense as a Special Committee of the National Security Council for COMINT, which Committee shall, with the assistance of the Director of Central Intelligence, establish policies governing COMINT activities. and keep me advised of such policies through the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council. I further designate the Department of Defense as executive agent of the Government, for the production of COMINT information. I direct this Special Committee to prepare and issue directives which shall include the provisions set forth below and such other provisions as the Special Committee may determine to be necessary. 1. A directive to the United States Communication Intelligence Board (USCIB). This directive will replace the National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 9, and shall prescribe USCIB's new composition, responsibilities and procedures in the COMINT fields. This directive shall include the following provisions. a. USCIB shall be reconstituted as a body acting for and under the Special Committee, and shall operate in accordance with the provisions of the new directive. Only those departments or agencies represented in USCIB are authorized to engage in COMINT activities. b. The Board shall be composed of the following members: (1) The Director of Central Intelligence, who shall be the Chairman of the Board. (2) A representative of the Secretary of State. (3) A representative of the Secretary of Defense (4) A representative of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (5) The Director of the National Security Agency. (6) A representative of the Department of the Army. (7) A representative of the Department of the Navy. (8) A representative of the Department of the Air Force. (9) A representative of the Central Intelligence Agency. c. The Board shall have a staff headed by an executive secretary who shall be appointed by the Chairman with the approval of the majority of the Board. d. It shall be the duty of the Board to advise and make recommendations to the Secretary of Defense, in accordance with the following procedure, with respect to any matter relating to communications intelligence which falls within the jurisdiction of the Director of the NSA. (1) The Board shall reach its decision by majority vote. Each member of the Board shall have one vote except the representatives of the Secretary of State and of the Central Intelligence Agency who shall each have two votes. The Director of Central Intelligence, as Chairman, will have no vote. In the event that the Board votes and reaches a decision, any dissenting member of the Board may appeal from such decision within 7 days of the Special Committee. In the event that the Board votes but fails to reach a decision, any member of the Board may appeal within 7 days to the Special Committee. In either event the Special Committee shall review the matter, and its determination thereon shall be final. Appeals by the Director of NSA and/or the representatives of the Military Departments shall only be filed with the approval of the Secretary of Defense. (2) If any matter is voted on by the Board but - (a) no decision is reached and any member files an appeal; (b) a decision is reached in which the representative of the Secretary of Defense does not concur and files an appeal; no action shall be taken with respect to the subject matter until the appeal is decided, provided that, if the Secretary of Defense determines, after consultation with the Secretary of State, that the subject matter presents a problem of an emergency nature and requires immediate action, his decision shall govern, pending the result of the appeal. In such an emergency situation the appeal may be taken directly to the President. (3) Recommendations of the Board adopted in accordance with the foregoing procedures shall be binding on the Secretary of Defense. Except on matter which have been voted on by the Board, the Director of NSA shall discharge his responsibilities in accordance with his own judgment, subject to the direction of the Secretary of Defense. (4) The Director of NSA shall make such reports and furnish such information from time to time to the Board, either orally or in writing, as the Board my request, and shall bring to the attention of the Board either in such reports or otherwise any major policies or programs in advance of their adoption by him. e. It shall also be the duty of the Board as to matters not falling within the jurisdiction of NSA; (1) To coordinate the communications intelligence activities among all departments and agencies authorized by the President to participate therein; (2) To initiate, to formulate policies concerning, and subject to the provision of NSCID No. 5, to supervise all arrangements with foreign governments in the field of communications intelligence; and (3) to consider and make recommendations concerning policies relating to communications intelligence of common interest to the departments and agencies, including security standards and practices, and, for this purpose, to investigate and study the standards and practices of such departments and agencies in utilizing and protecting COMINT information. f. Any recommendation of the Board with respect to the matters described in paragraph e above shall be binding on all departments or agencies of the Government if it is adopted by the unanimous vote of the members of the Board. Recommendations approved by the majority, but not all, of the members of the Board shall be transmitted by it to the Special Committee for such action as the Special Committee may see fit to take. g. The Board will meet monthly, or oftener at the call of the Chairman or any member, and shall determine its own procedures. 2. A directive to the Secretary of Defense. This directive shall include the following provisions: a. Subject to the specific provisions of this directive, the Secretary of Defense may delegate in whole of in part authority over the Director of NSA within his department as he sees fit. b. The COMINT mission of the National Security Agency (NSA) shall be to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto. As used in this directive, the terms "communications intelligence" or "COMINT" shall be construed to mean all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications other than foreign press and propaganda broadcasts and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than intended recipients, but shall exclude censorship and the production and dissemination of finished intelligence. c. NSA shall be administered by a Director, designated by the Secretary of Defense after consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who shall serve for a minimum term of 4 years and who shall be eligible for reappointment. The Director shall be a career commissioned officer of the armed services on active or reactivated status, and shall enjoy at least 3-star rank during the period of his incumbency. d. Under the Secretary of Defense, and in accordance with approved policies of USCIB, the Director of NSA shall be responsible for accomplishing the mission of NSA. For this purpose all COMINT collection and production resources of the United States are placed under his operational and technical control. When action by the Chiefs of the operating agencies of the Services or civilian departments or agencies is required, the Director shall normally issue instruction pertaining to COMINT operations through them. However, due to the unique technical character of COMINT operations, the Director is authorized to issue direct to any operating elements under his operational control task assignments and pertinent instructions which are within the capacity of such elements to accomplish. He shall also have direct access to, and direct communication with, any elements of the Service or civilian COMINT agencies on any other matters of operational and technical control as may be necessary, and he is authorized to obtain such information and intelligence material from them as he may require. All instruction issued by the Director under the authority provided in this paragraph shall be mandatory, subject only to appeal to the Secretary of Defense by the Chief of Service or head of civilian department of agency concerned. e. Specific responsibilities of the Director of NSA include the following: (1) Formulating necessary operational plans and policies for the conduct of the U.S. COMINT activities. (2) Conducting COMINT activities, including research and development, as required to meet the needs of the departments and agencies which are authorized to receive the products of COMINT. (3) Determining, and submitting to appropriate authorities, requirements for logistic support for the conduct of COMINT activities, together with specific recommendations as to what each of the responsible departments and agencies of the Government should supply. (4) Within NSA's field of authorized operations prescribing requisite security regulations covering operating practices, including the transmission, handling and distribution of COMINT material within and among the COMINT elements under his operations or technical control; and exercising the necessary monitoring and supervisory control, including inspections if necessary, to ensure compliance with the regulations. (5) Subject to the authorities granted the Director Central Intelligence under NSCID No. 5, conducting all liaison on COMINT matters with foreign governmental communications intelligence agencies. f. To the extent he deems feasible and in consonance with the aims of maximum over-all efficiency, economy, and effectiveness, the Director shall centralize or consolidate the performance of COMINT functions for which he is responsible. It is recognized that in certain circumstances elements of the Armed Forces and other agencies being served will require close COMINT support. Where necessary for this close support, direct operational control of specified COMINT facilities and resources will be delegated by the Director, during such periods and for such tasks as are determined by him, to military commanders or to the Chiefs of other agencies supported. g. The Director shall exercise such administrative control over COMINT activities as he deems necessary to the effective performance of his mission. Otherwise, administrative control of personnel and facilities will remain with the departments and agencies providing them. h. The Director shall make provision for participation by representatives of each of the departments and agencies eligible to receive COMINT products in those offices of NSA where priorities of intercept and processing are finally planned. i. The Director shall have a civilian deputy whose primary responsibility shall be to ensure the mobilization and effective employment of the best available human and scientific resources in the field of cryptographic research and development. j. Nothing in this directive shall contravene the responsibilities of the individual departments and agencies for the final evaluation of COMINT information, its synthesis with information from other sources, and the dissemination of finished intelligence to users. 3. The special nature of COMINT actives requires that they be treated in all respects as being outside the framework of other or general intelligence activities. Order, directives, policies, or recommendations of any authority of the Executive Branch relating to the collection, production, security, handling, dissemination, or utilization of intelligence, and/or classified material, shall not be applicable to COMINT actives, unless specifically so stated and issued by competent departmental of agency authority represented on the Board. Other National Security Council Intelligence Directive to the Director of Central Intelligence and related implementing directives issued by the Director of Central Intelligence shall be construed as non-applicable to COMINT activities, unless the National Security Council has made its directive specifically applicable to COMINT. /s/ HARRY S TRUMAN ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest Special: Birth of NSA ***************************** -- A person is like a religion; one face, many aspects --Shane A. 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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* Intel's new chipset -> death of open source security? [ http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981214S0008 ] * "[T]he Clinton administration announced further relaxation of U.S. export limits on encryption technologies." [ Mobile Computing and Communications (Jan. 99 issue, pp. 26+) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel plans to include security features in upcoming chipsets, including copy protection, certificate management, and -- get this -- random number generation. This will be implemented in firmware, and, given that it is supposed to perform copy protection functions, there is a significant possibility that the code would be inaccessible, maybe (heaven forbid) within a tamper-resistant shell. Suggested response: Make negative noise about it -- of course -- and, upon the release of the specs, write software which interoperates with it, allowing software written to use the chips to use open-source routines. In the best case, you would be able to correct everything but the copy protection; in the worst case, software-inaccessible key material would be necessary to impersonate any function of the security chips -- possibly for the stated purpose of preventing hostile code from overriding the security functions -- and it's necessary to either get trusted keys out of the chip or patch the chip-using software, assuming that isn't made impossible, too. Although I have no idea how one would go about lobbying Intel to make a software-extensible design, it would be a Good Thing if they allowed a mechanism for software to override the chip without risking losing the security to a virus. It could be as simple as tweaking the relevant specs so that developers would "naturally" make a program which would use a non-Intel-trusted software fill-in for security functions when one is available, but know that software was being used and who has signed it. That is, the protocols not only make it possible for software to fill in for hardware but let programs that work with the hardware work with the software fill-ins without modification. Wouldn't affect the (deeply misguided) copy protection features, because software seeking copy protection could refuse to accept an answer that wasn't authenticated as being from the trusted hardware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pretty much self-explanatory: those opposing crypto regs present examples demonstrating why crypto should be deregulated; the examples are deregulated and the point is ignored. Far too many people are complacent. A specific example: Mobile Computing and Communications (Jan. 99 issue, pp. 26+). It's an article saying that the Clinton administration has loosened regulations and, denying those who oppose the administration's position the fair shake given to even the most patently useless palmtop, states in the fifth sentence that "[t]he main issues are privacy and security, and with this policy it seems a delicate balance has been met." The same magazine (in fact, the same author in the same issue) referenced single-DES as "advanced encryption" with no mention of the fact that it had repeatedly been broken or that most cryptographers agreed that use of DES was to be avoided. Rather than simply whine or rant about it, I suggest that at least some attempt to respond be made. A letter to the editor may seem like a trite way to respond to these non-crypto-savvy articles, but unless there are plans to hold demonstrations outside the offices or just ignore it all... [Begin sample letter to MC&C] A recent report in Mobile Computing and Communications applauded the Clinton administration's loosening of cryptography when used in electronic commerce and certain other applications. I loved the article, but it gave little attention to what is probably, in the long term, the more important facet of cryptography: everything else -- that is, the applications of cryptography that are still regulated. Because intelligence agencies and some law enforcement organizations are afraid that unregulated cryptography will lead to a privacy-powered wave of terror, most of the vast potential of this technology is being squandered. For example, a worldwide network of computers running "anonymous remailer" software (which is powered by strong cryptography) could use mathematics to provide something which lawyers and legislators have worked to provide for hundreds of years: a virtual guarantee of freedom of speech. The construction of such a network, though, is adversely affected by the controls placed on the cryptographic software involved. It's obvious that this particular application is not highly relevant to businesses, but it's equally obvious to any professional cryptographer that there is a myriad of other potential applications -- for companies and individuals -- using software and hardware that is restricted by the current set of regulations. But the solution is not to follow the current trend, which has been to loosen regulations where there are complaints -- first banking, then medicine and insurance, and maybe anonymity in the future -- while tightening them in other fields through political maneuvers such as the Wassenar Arrangement. The solution I support, and the one supported by many others inside and outside the field of cryptography, is to keep our fears about cryptography reined in by our hopes for it, and to deregulate it so that this growing technology's full potential can be realised. [End sample letter to MC&C] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: .....
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Intel plans to include security features in upcoming chipsets, including copy > protection, certificate management, and -- get this -- random number > generation. This will be implemented in firmware, and, given that it is > supposed to perform copy protection functions, there is a significant > possibility that the code would be inaccessible, maybe (heaven forbid) within a > tamper-resistant shell. To clarify exactly why this is a problem: although it obviously won't affect the security of existing apps, it's likely that many newer apps will be dependent on this possibly-secret firmware for security, and we all know the evils of depending on a design not subject to intense public scrutiny. Worse yet, it seems possible that a certificate-based system could be used to ensure that neither non-Intel chips nor software fill-ins would be accepted by applications using the firmware. And, of course, except for what was mentioned in the TechWeb article itself, this is all conjecture based almost entirely on Murphy's Law.

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Re: McAfee PGP 6.0.2
by Edwin E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duh! You're so right. here's the URL http://www.nai.com/products/security/pgp_perspriv602.asp In Liberty Edwin At 08:37 PM 12/17/98 -0800, you wrote: >> I got it! I had to use their search engine to find it though. Took 3 >> tries to get it because the ftp kept stalling. If anyone can't find >> it I will be happy to send it on as an attach. > >It might help if you posted either the URL or the terms you fed their >search engine to locate it. > >-- > Jim Gillogly > Trewesday, 28 Foreyule S.R. 1998, 04:36 > 12.19.5.14.0, 6 Ahau 13 Mac, First Lord of Night > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNnnoFEmNf6b56PAtEQIe1wCggnyZc8La+KNjL1e2qSK7dbt/kQgAn3o8 GkjttjZC9VldQ7jFCueSm6Ex =PAxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- When freedom is outlawed.......Only outlaws will be free! If cryptography is outlawed, pomz pvumbxt xjmm ibwf dszquphsbqiz. Fun! Fast! Revealing! Try "The World's Smallest Political Quiz" at: http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html IS AIDS A GOVERNMENT/DRUG COMPANY HOAX? http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/index.htm When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Dr. Robert Anthony Libertarian Party of Hillsborough County, FL http://home.tampabay.rr.com/lphc When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. Lazarus Long

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RE: Encryption chip
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Does anyone know if there is some kind of chip, > or IC commercially available that does secure encryption? Yes, somebody does know. OK, sorry, that was facetious. In fact I know.

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RE: I must admit. . .
by Richard.Bragg＠ssa.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So maybe this needs a multi-phase approach. 1)The mail programs themselves will encrypt between servers. This can be used to both protect the message(s) from being read (easily). Does PGP also assist by doing some compression?. Also it can be used to autheticate messages using a signiture which will have the dual purpose of providing some tamper proofing. 2)The receiving mail-server will autheticate the incoming message against its own list of known servers, and validate that the contents of the message as a whole appears OK. Maybe it will flag messages that fail these checks. It can also flag messages that arrived without server encryption. 3)If the incoming decrypted message is not itself privately encrypted by the sender it will use PGP to encrypt the message for the user before storing locally. If the sender has already encrypted the message then it will simply store it. Caveats A)All systems must have compatible encryption systems or access to those systems. (Why limit to just one?) and all those systems must have some sort of agreed means of flagging the message to allow automatted decryption. B)Some means of exchanging public keys must be developed. This must allow for keys to be changed. What happens when keys are changed, and messages are still in transit from the old keys. C)Not everyone is wise enough to use UNIX. Some people even use (pardon the language) Windoze or even AS/400's. There is plenty more scope for discussion here I think even if it is some of the less verbally able slagging off about old ideas that can't/won't work because ... etc. Surely there are enough brains out there to thrash this through properly. Hwyl "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)openpgp.net> on 18/12/98 00:23:05 To: "Marcel Popescu" <mdpopescu(a)geocities.com> cc: "Cypherpunks list" <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> (bcc: Richard Bragg/UK/SSA_EUROPE) Subject: RE: I must admit. . . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In <000301be2a14$9e5a8ec0$22fcb3c3(a)roknet.ro>, on 12/18/98 at 01:26 AM, "Marcel Popescu" <mdpopescu(a)geocities.com> said: >> I for one would like sendmail integrated with PGP. For example: >> sendmail asks receiving server if it has PGP, and please give >> your public key, I have mail for you.. Then send the e-mail >> encrypted, while the receiving sendmail decrypts it and delivers >> forwards. This is not very effective, but it would help some. >I think this is a great idea. First time I'll play with making a POP >client (an idea that appeals to me once in a while) I'll think about >it... Wouldn't it be more efficient to use TLS or SSH as an encryption protocol between the POP3d and the POP3 client? This could also be used for sendmail<->sendmail transactions. This still does not address local storage on the POP3d server. I am looking to setting up procmail to automatically PGP encrypt incomming messages and the forwarding them to a local account so even if the sender does not have PGP once the message is received by the PGP mail forwarder the messages will be PGP encrypted (I have had several people contact me looking for solutions to ISP's snooping on their mail without relying on the senders using PGP). - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: OS/2: Your brain. Windows: Your brain on drugs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i OS/2 for non-commercial use Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 Charset: cp850 wj8DBQE2eZOrlHpjA6A1ypsRAgVDAKCpsNkbUjYCe77XBFHXnQDjZveHIwCg81zI UQM3ssGqYt/sQ+674XepePs= =GLQh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RPK Encryptonite engine
by CyberPsychotic 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello people, Just wondering if anyone could pull a word on RPK crypto. They say they built their engine based on Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange principles (which shoulds safe enough), but they claim their software doesn't fail under US crypto restriction law, which makes me suspicious. -- fygrave(a)tigerteam.net http://www.kalug.lug.net

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War as a public relations excercise (was re:Comrade Klinton at it again)
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> nobody(a)sind.hyperreal.art.pl is accused of writing: > > As I recall, the name "Desert Fox" was a nickname > held by a Nazi general. Fitting, that. It's what Allied journalists called Erwin Rommel, who was a German general, if not exactly a Nazi. Sometimes said to be a military genius. IIRC he distinguished himself well as a Panzer commander under Guderian in the attack on France; commanded the Afrika Korps & was beaten by the Allies (doing his reputation little harm - they were strongly outnumbered and probably lasted longer than they were expected to); and then was injured in the D-day invasion, invalided out and accused of plotting to kill Hitler. He was murdered by the Nazis (in that he was told that if he commited suicide his wife and children would not be sent to a concentration camp, which counts as murder in my book). Once upon a time a code name for a military "operation" was just that, a code name. These days it is a brand label. Probably thought up by the same guys that Coca-Cola or Ford would hire to name a new product. For any British person over the age of about 30 "Desert Fox" will immediately bring to mind Rommel, WW2 and the "Desert Rats", the British 8th Army (in fact mostly Indian + Australian with contingents from all over the Empire) who fought against Rommel in North Africa. That reminds us of the long-range Desert Group & for those who have been paying attention, the SAS, (who get *heaps* of publicity here. There is a whole tacky genre of SAS books and magazines) which in turn is supposed to make us feel good (all that rhetoric about "punching above our weight" and the "best trained and most skilled army in the world", "the Professionals"). And "Fox" brings to mind foxhunting of course. The choice of name is meant to imply to British audiences that "our boys" are out there hunting Saddam, even though that has been officially denied by both UK and US government. All the publicity refers to "him" and "his" weapons. No-one ever says "we are at war with Iraq", it is always "we are denying *him* the use of *his* weapons of mass destruction". Maybe we will soon start to see planted media hints that there are, or have been, SAS on the ground in Iraq looking for *him* - which will be instantly denied in such away as to allow people to carry on thinking that it is true if they want to. The US may have a law against killing heads of state but we Brits don't (although apparently we are still unsure as to whether we have a law against extraditing them to Spain when accused of a mere 3,000 murders). I strongly suspect the news management for this war was handled by the Brits, possibly the same spin team that handled last years Labour general election victory. The first attack was about 4 minutes to 10 pm UK time. I heard it as a newsflash on the radio & then turned on the TV just in time for ITV's "News at Ten" program. One of their journalists was waiting outside that front door of 10 Downing Street, obviously tipped off about an "important announcement" and the PM came out sometime around 10 past 10 to make his speech (half an hour *before* Clinton, which must have been agreed between the governments) which ended just in time for the ad break. I suppose Clinton's speech would have been about lunchtime on the West Coast, late afternoon on the East Coast. A bit early from the POV of news management. It gives the networks a few hours to work on it before prime-time TV. One of the first rules of this sort of thing you want your own words to go over unedited if at all possible - the less time the networks get the more likely you are just to be given a live mike. That way you get to choose your own sound-bites. Or borrow them from Margaret "There is No Alternative" Thatcher. Of course she needed the Falklands War to get re-elected, and Clinton needs all the help he can get, but Blair is still master of all he surveys (Well, except for a few of us unreconstructed far-lefties, Peter Mandelson's private life, and Welsh Labour Party) so perhaps he can afford to be magnanimous in victory. Or perhaps he really thinks that there is no alternative. We could accuse them or timing the attack for TV, although I suspect 0100 Baghdad time was in fact a sensible H-hour. You'd want it after dark, and later rather than earlier if you were interested in minimising civilian casualties. I suppose 0300 or 0400 might have been better - but that would have missed UK evening TV and given the news media time to sort out their story for the morning (some of the "serious" papers here came out against the attack. Tabloids seem to be all for it of course). As it was everyone got the government announcement first. Ken Brown This all my opinion and nothing to do with my employers. (And I am certainly not even going to speculate about oil prices from this address).

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international free crypto campaign
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text From: "Erich Moechel" <erich-moechel(a)quintessenz.at> To: rms(a)gnu.org Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:55:26 +0100 Subject: international free crypto campaign CC: rah(a)shipwright.com Priority: normal Status: U Hello, We are in the midst of developing logos 4 the global campaign proposed as followup 2 the Wassenaar decision. The logos are here: http://www.quintessenz.at/freecrypto.html We would appreciate ur evaluation, suggestions highly welcome. quintessenz group is a founding member of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign. I've done much on the spot reporting from Wassenaar Office here in Vienna and am one of the coordinators of the International Crypto Campaign. hoping 2 hear from u Erich -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- 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 -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- --- 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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RE: McAfee PGP 6.0.2
by Wilson, Jamie (J.R.) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I downloaded my copy from http://www.nai.com/products/security/pgp_perspriv602.asp. ____________________________________________________ Jamie R. Wilson -----Original Message----- From: John Holland [mailto:ekkensj@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, 17 December, 1998 18:44 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: McAfee PGP 6.0.2 >McAfee has announced that they are giving away the commercial version of PGP 6.0.2 for free for a limited time. Where is the free version available? Neither the McAfee or Network Associates web sites mentioned this.

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Dec. 18 column - Clinton still lying
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:49:17 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:52:00 -0800 (PST) To: vinsends(a)ezlink.com From: Vin_Suprynowicz(a)lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: Dec. 18 column - Clinton still lying Resent-From: vinsends(a)ezlink.com Resent-Sender: vinsends-request(a)ezlink.com Status: U FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED DEC. 18, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz There, he did it again So again, American missiles and planes are committed to a half-hearted, just-to-make-a-point "war" in Iraq. (Does no one else recall that a longer-haired Bill Clinton once protested a war in Vietnam because it was not legally declared, and further because it was unwinnable, given that Lyndon Johnson's policy of gradual escalation and "measured response" turned out to be good for nothing but filling body bags?) And so the vast majority of Americans now shuffle into line, dispiritedly rallying once again behind our fighting men and women, praying for their safety. But Americans express this subdued support in spite of -- not because of -- their faith that their current president would never lie. President Clinton will almost certainly be impeached by the House of Representatives within days if not hours, for past lies and subversions of justice aimed solely at protecting his own power, privilege and prestige. But surely matters of life and death, war and peace, are of such moment that no president would subordinate them to any ongoing attempt to sidestep justice ... right? In the final episode of the award-winning documentary series "The World at War," a middle-aged German woman -- she had been a teen-ager in the spring of 1945 -- recalls hiding in a Berlin basement as Russian shells rained down overhead, listening with her mother to what was likely the final radio broadcast by Nazi public relations chief Joseph Goebbels. When Goebbels promised that the war would yet be won by secret weapons soon to be unveiled by der Fuhrer, the teen-aged girl expressed disbelief. She was then stunned when her mother slapped her, admonishing: "Do you think Herr Goebbels would lie to us at a time like (start ital)this?(end ital) Mr. Clinton's crimes are on nowhere near the scale of those of the Nazis, of course. (Though the relatives of the women and children his henchmen killed at Waco might ask what difference the "scale" makes -- as now the same question may occur to those dying in Iraq to prevent that sovereign nation from stockpiling the same kinds of weapons the United States has possessed for decades.) But isn't there a ghastly fastidiousness to the way this simpering administration insists it will not bomb during the Ramadan holiday so as not to offend "Muslim sensibilities"? When George Patton's First Army was racing to the relief of Bastogne, did the troops take a day off from killing Germans on Dec. 25? If foreigners bombed your home and killed you family, would you be less offended to have them do so on Dec. 22 than on Christmas Day, or Yom Kippur? Do Mr. Clinton and his political advisors really understand what war (start ital)is(end ital)? Meantime, the evidence mounts (it never seems to take long, anymore) that Mr. Clinton did indeed lie again on Dec. 16, when he told the American people that he decided on the timing of these latest bombings not to divert attention from his own impending impeachment, but rather upon the specific catalyst of receiving -- on Wednesday -- a final report from U.N. arms inspectors. The Washington Times reported in a front page story Thursday that, according to "authoritative sources," the White House notified the Joint Chiefs of Staff that air strikes would be ordered this week on (start ital)Sunday(end ital), "48 hours before he saw a United Nations report declaring Iraq in noncompliance with weapons inspectors." Providing third-party corroboration, Israeli spokesman Aviv Bushinsky said Wednesday that President Clinton discussed preparations for an attack with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just minutes before Mr. Clinton flew home from Israel on (start ital)Tuesday(end ital). What does it matter, which day the president made the decision? It doesn't , of course; it only matters if the president deliberately lied about it, which then throws into question anything else he has said about the real motives for these actions. The Times further quotes a "senior congressional source" reporting that "White House eagerness to launch air strikes grew with intensity as a parade of centrist Republicans announced they would vote to impeach the president." The credibility of the president (start ital)does(end ital) matter. The ability of the public to have confidence that the man in the Oval Office will put the faithful execution of his constitutional oath and duties ahead of his personal ambition -- even his own political survival -- (start ital)does(end ital) matter. Or are we willing to accept a world in which wars orchestrated by television producers with the goal of improving "ratings points" turn out not to be fiction, at all? (The second thing White House spokesmen did Dec. 16 -- after announcing the latest raids on Iraq -- was to deny this was "a Wag the Dog scenario," referring to the reason cult comedy in which a hypothetical president arranges a fake Balkan war to keep a sex scandal off the front pages.) For all his failings, can anyone imagine Franklin Roosevelt troubling himself to deny that the D-Day landings of 1944 were staged as a mere political stunt, to "make him look more presidential"? Mind you, I wish more Americans would start ridiculing the absurd assumption that we need the federal government to hold our hands and change our diapers, cradle to grave. The best remedy for the pretensions of many of these arrogant bureaucrats to run our lives is indeed to laugh them out of town. I just never expected to see the United States of America turned so quickly into an impotent laughing stock, and from the top down. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John Hay, 1872 The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943 * * * --- 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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Digital Democracy [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://slashdot.org/features/98/12/18/1319204.shtml > Digital Democracy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come News Posted by JonKatz > on Friday December 18, @01:19PM > from the We-Really-Don't-Have-To-Take-It-Anymore dept. > As the Middle-Aged White Guys in Suits dig in in D.C. for what is > hopefully their last stand, the idea of Digital Democracy never looked > better. If it's a good idea (and it is) to empower individuals by > teaching them how to master their own technology via movements like OS > and free software, isn't it past time to use the technology of the Net > and the Web to reverse the flow of power, away from the entrenched and > increasingly lunatic journalists and politicians in Washington and > back to the individuals staring from a distance in shock and horror > and what they're seeing on their TV screens? Forget Wag the Dog. > Joseph Conrad, Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppla (maybe Fellini, too) > have seized the capitol. Only we can't leave the theater. > > > > Never mind the silly allusions to "Wag the Dog." Somehow, Joseph > Conrad, Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola (maybe Fellini, too) got > together to take over the government and play out their own visions of > our political life. The American capitol is now the Heart of Darkness, > fusing the darkest and most paranoid visions of "JFK" with the > spectacularly represented lunacy of "Apocalypse Now." > > The movies have somehow become real life, but we can't leave the > theater and go home. The horror never ends. Whenever we turn on the > TV, they're all still there, shouting, posturing, spinning. > > More and more, it seems clear that they're never going to go away. > Each one will have to be dragged out kicking and screaming, the last > zealot in Congress, the last self-righteous reporter, the last > screaming pundit on cable. > > It's time to start thinking about Digital Democracy. We have to be > able to do better than them. > > If the goals of OS and the free software movement are, in part, the > free and democratic sharing of technology, why not stretch the notion > farther and put it into the context of our increasingly surreal, even > mad, political times? > > The natural extension of the booming OS and free software movements > are into politics and democracy, especially the radical new ways in > which digital democracy could once again empower individuals instead > of politicians and journalists, and reform the obviously broken and > outdated way in which we resolve political issues. > > America was founded as a Republic, not really as a representative > democracy. For one thing, Americans were scattered far from one > another and couldn't make their feelings known quickly. So elected > representatives were elected to gather and make decisions on their > behalf. > > The authors of the Constitution didn't have all that much regard for > the judgements of the average citizen, any more than their successors > seem to. The structure was tilted towards a deliberative, rather than > simply representative system so that educated and affluent landowners > could screen the passions of the rabble and have the final say. > > The early pundits and cyber-gurus of the Internet's first generation > spouted on quite a bit about the impact of networked computing on > democratic institutions like Congress and journalism. These > institutions, they predicted, would increasingly become ineffective > and irrelevant, swept away by the power of digital technology to > reverse the flow of power. > > This cyber-rhetoric seemed - was - heavy-handed, Utopian and > overblown. It evoked the table-thumping Marxists more than the > architects of a new, civil order. But this week, it looks more better > by the hour. > > If you take the OS idea and daydream about it for a bit - millions of > individuals taking control of their own technology and shaping the > information they access and share, doesn't this idea have even greater > application for politics? And could it possibly be more timely? If > would could express ourselves politically - and have our expressions > count - isn't it at least conceivable that the U.S. Congress might be > talking about something that matters today, and for the last year? > > Digital democracy is no longer a pipedream, not in the year of the > online dumping of the Starr report and the impeachment proceedings. > It's no longer difficult to imagine every American having a computer > in the next few years, or having easy access to one in schools, > libraries and public buildings. People could vote online now as easily > as they vote by ballot or booth - more easily really. Each citizen > could be assigned a digital voting number and use it to vote from home > or the school or library down the road, where computers already exist > or could easily be set up. Fraud would be easier to spot and guard > against, thanks to advances in both encryption and programming. And > this wouldn't even raise fresh privacy issues, as voters have to > register now. > > This week, the country is confronted with the bizarre spectacle of a > runaway political entity - Republicans in the House of Representatives > - deciding, correctly or not, that no interest is more important than > impeaching President Clinton - not public sentiment, military action, > education, health care, the economy or any other civic or social > agenda. Even if they're right, lots of people are uneasy about this > willful disregard of public will. Most Americans don't want this to be > happening, and have said so for months. The politicians have said that > it doesn't really matter, the next election is two years away. By > then, nobody will remember this strange time. That's a good argument > for some form of Digital Democracy. > > Digital voting made possible by the Internet would make a spectacle > like the impeachment proceedings impossible. Everything shouldn't > necessarily be subject to popular vote, but the impeachment of the > President should be, and the Net and the Web could make it possible > even now. > > Watching music lovers challenge the primacy of the music industry > through digital technology like MP3's and the Rio raises the question > of whether we really need a middleman institution like Congress to > decide issues like this for us. After the year long Lewinsky/Clinton > media barrage and the dumping of reams of material, pornographic and > otherwise on the Internet, we know as much about the charges against > the President as they do. We are able and equipped to make up our own > minds and express our own wishes. And perhaps even see our wishes > carried out. > > Do we need to be bound to completely by their agenda, when we can now > set our own? > > Unlike Colonial Americans, we aren't disconnected and remote. We can > make our feelings known instantly. We have the technology to gather in > communities and clusters to debate and consider as much or more > information as members of Congress. > > Many politicians and journalists have feared, even loathed, the > Internet, since its inception. Increasingly, it becomes clear why. It > really does threaten them. It really does provide the means to take > power away from them - and their co-produced spectacles like > impeachment proceedings and presidential nominating processes - and > distribute it more broadly. This week marks the perfect time to begin > consider the possibilities of Digital Democracy. To broaden the notion > of empowering individuals begin by the designers of the Internet, > advanced by hackers, geeks, nerds, developers and designers and being > played out on sites like this one today. From the moment the Internet > began to grow, power and information began to leach away from > entrenched institutions like government, the press and academe and > towards hundreds of thousands, then millions of individual citizens. > The impeachment proceedings are a powerful argument for the idea that > it's time to take that idea farther. > > Digital technology doesn't mean that democratic decisions would have > to be rushed or impulsive. They could be as deliberative as we wished. > Digital voting could be spread over time, perhaps requiring several > votes. A broad range of issues and decisions - appointments, foreign > policy decisions, criminal matters - would be inappropriate for online > voting. > > But the Net is becoming a medium already well set-up for civic > discussions. The Internet could host hundreds, even thousands of > public online forums for debate and discussion - via message boards, > chat rooms and websites that could be designed for towns, counties, > states or regions. Politicians, agencies and advocates could > disseminate information and arguments via national websites, mailing > lists and e-mail. > > These forums would have to consider new kinds of rules for debate and > discussion, an online issue long in need of attention. Posters would > have to identify themselves and take responsibility for their words. > Discussion would center on issues, not personalities. Presidents and > legislators could bring information and decisions directly to the > American public. If the Starr report was worthy of being dumped on > line, why not the House Judiciary report on impeachment? Voters could > read it online, debate it, decide to pass it along for further action > or stop the process right there. > > If digital democracy were in place, this issue would have been > resolved nearly a year ago. Tens of millions of dollars would have > been better spent. Many more important issues would have considered, > accepted and rejected. Clinton would either be doing his job or long > gone. Instead of feeling cheated and ignored, the public would feel > enfranchised and involved. Democracy wouldn't be a remote circus > practiced far away by alien cultures, but something as close as a desk > or living room. > > We are no longer a country of merchants and mostly illiterate farmers. > Paine and Jefferson, the fathers of media, couldn't quite have > imagined the Internet, but there seems little doubt that they have > loved its communicative and democratic possibilities. Those of us with > access to computers and modems have access to all of the information > and opinions in the world, thus the means to consider issues and > express ourselves. In fact, there are thousands of people who've been > online for years and who are experienced at creating digital > communities, monitoring conversations and developing the software and > hardware to run them efficiently and accurately. > > No system involving Digital Democracy could work or even be seriously > considered until and unless all Americans were guaranteed access to > computers. A few years ago, online users were a tiny, techno-elite. > That's no longer true. Computers are increasingly ubiquitous, at > schools, businesses, and at home. Personal computers are already being > mass-marketed that cost well below $1,000, and public agencies like > schools, libraries and municipal office buildings are increasingly > wired. They could offer online voting to non-computer users in much > the way they offer voting booths and make them available. Many more > Americans own computers than voting booths. > ____________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: Comrade Klinton at it again
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Michael Motyka wrote: > Don't you mean "Iraqui" Embassy? > > Or is this thing spreading? I hope not. Why would there be an Iraqi embassy in Iraq?! You nitwit! Iranian Embassy in Baghdad. Somebody said: > As I recall, the name "Desert Fox" was a nickname held by a Nazi > general. Fitting, that. I thought maybe the Fox News channel bought sponsorship ;) Matt

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Intel's Security Plans Worry PC Builders
by Mark 13 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wonder what government sponsored back doors they plan to include... http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981214S0008 Intel's Security Plans Worry PC Builders (12/14/98, 3:49 p.m. ET) By Rick Boyd-Merritt and Mark Carroll, EE Times Intel will add new security and software functions to future chip sets in a move that will boost the profile of its upcoming Katmai processors as key silicon for multimedia and e-commerce. But the plan is raising concerns among software, semiconductor and systems companies that fear the processor giant could wind up encroaching on their markets, extending its own reach deeper into the PC architecture. Intel's plans center around a so-called firmware hub, essentially a flash memory with key BIOS functions, which will be part of its Camino, Carmel, and Whitney chip sets. Those products will accompany next year's Katmai processors and are expected to be used in the Merced line, too. "This is an example of Intel taking in one more piece of the PC architecture," said a senior R&D manager with a major PC company who asked not to be named. Intel would not comment on its unannounced products. However, the key features of the chip are beginning to come to light based on reports from multiple sources. The firmware hub is "basically a flash chip with locks on its read and write capabilities that can be opened using a cryptographic protocol," said another source briefed by Intel. Hardware security functions include a cryptographic engine to authenticate digital certificates Intel or a third party could load in. The chip could hold multiple certificates, each with permission to grant specific features, such as to permit an operating system or an MPEG player to run. They would also ensure a software program licensed to one user was not copied and run on another machine, a common practice. In addition, the certificates will act like unique serial numbers, identifying a given machine in any Internet or corporate network transaction, sources said. The hub may also include a random-number generator to create public keys for encryption and help enable encrypted transmissions between PCs. That would provide security for e-commerce and software downloads, possibly including software modules for host-based modems, MPEG players, or audio codecs that are housed in the firmware hub and run on the CPU. Another feature sources have mentioned is physical security, linking sensors to the hub so it may report problems to a central network administrator if the case is tampered with or peripherals are removed. Even though the firmware -- and the chip sets it is part of -- are not due for production until at least mid-1999, samples have been available in Taiwan for some time. "We have had samples of the firmware hub for a while," said a project manager at First International Computer, in Taiwan. "We really haven't done too much with it yet. It is still not quite clear when it will be used and what its full functions will be." The hub chip is designed to incorporate new features into the PC upon start-up, the manager said, not to replace the standard BIOS, the key software that controls system I/O peripherals software. "After a PC is turned on, the firmware hub will be accessed and then the regular BIOS," said a BIOS engineer with another Taiwanese company. "The hub will affect the standard BIOS architecture, but it certainly won't replace it. That's not its purpose." Yet the prospect of a possible Intel incursion into BIOS is giving some industry observers the willies. Adding to their concern is the fact that Intel has not provided technical details about its implementation yet. One analyst said the hub will act as a BIOS registry, a place from which software emulation and upgrades can be controlled. Sources close to Intel suggested the Santa Clara, Calif., company would be leery of entering a new PC-related market while under the shadow of a Federal Trade Commission investigation. The company's motive is simply to bring new features to the PC, enhancing sales for corporate and consumer users, these sources said. Still, "If Intel controls what and how stuff gets put in the BIOS, that's really significant," said one analyst. "That's a wonderful control choke point."

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REPORT ON CYBER-TERRORISM
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A new report on national security, titled "CyberCrime, CyberTerrorism and CyberWarfare," calls for a complete overhaul of U.S. national security agencies and policies in order to avoid crippling sabotage of the nation's and corporate America's information infrastructure. The report, which is the product of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Global Organized Crime project headed up by former FBI and CIA director William Webster, chronicles the results of a recent joint chief of staff exercise code-named "Eligible Receiver." The exercise involved a group of security experts, known as a "red team," that used software widely available from cracker Web sites to demonstrate the capability to penetrate and disable major portions of the U.S. electric power grid and deny computer systems to the entire Pacific military command and control operation. The report recommends the establishment of private sector-organized groups that would evaluate and endorse information security standards in various industries, coupled with increased government support for such efforts and the development of a national security policy for the Information Revolution. "The private sector cannot sit back and wait for government to lead," says Sen. Charles Robb (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. (InternetWeek 16 Dec 98) #!/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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[Steve Coya] Harmful changes to Wassenaar Arrangement
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text To: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: [Steve Coya] Harmful changes to Wassenaar Arrangement Reply-To: perry(a)piermont.com From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry(a)piermont.com> Date: 18 Dec 1998 18:51:52 -0500 Lines: 49 Sender: owner-cryptography(a)c2.net FYI, from the IETF Secretariat. Message-Id: <199812182315.SAA10709(a)ietf.org> To: IETF-Announce: ; Subject: Harmful changes to Wassenaar Arrangement Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:15:36 -0500 From: Steve Coya <scoya(a)ns.cnri.reston.va.us> The IAB and the IESG deplore the recent changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement (http://www.wassenaar.org) that further limit the availability of encryption software by including it in the Wassenaar agreement's list of export controlled software (section 5.A.2.a.1 of the list of dual-use goods, WA LIST 98 (1)). As discussed in RFC 1984, strong cryptography is essential to the security of the Internet; restrictions on its use or availability will leave us with a weak, vulnerable network, endanger the privacy of users and businesses, and slow the growth of electronic commerce. The new restrictions will have a particularly deleterious effect on smaller countries, where there may not be enough of a local market or local expertise to support the development of indigenous cryptographic products. But everyone is adversely affected by this; the Internet is used world-wide, and even sites with access to strong cryptographic products must be able to talk to those who do not. This in turn endangers their own security. We are happy that the key size limit has been raised in some cases from 40 bits to 64; however, this is still too small to provide real security. We estimate that after a modest capital investment, a company or criminal organization could crack a 64-bit cipher in less than a day for about $2500 per solution. This cost will only drop in coming years. A report released about three years ago suggested that 90-bit keys are the minimum for long-term security. Brian Carpenter (IAB Chair) Fred Baker (IESG and IETF Chair) --- 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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