December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Some IDIOT called CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

VME Encryption wrote: > Please forward to this coward that have no balls to put his real email > address on his emails (I using you guys as he put CC to you guys in his > letter, but by no means does this reffer to you). Obviously, no one has informed the night janitor at VME that regular list subscribers generally just put Toto's email address in replies to particularly cowardly and/or stupid anonymous posts, since we then have a 90% chance of having sent it to the right person. As an act of mercy toward Toto, I will personally correct the spelling and grammar in the night-janitor's post and forward it to the madman at 'Che(z) Sympatico.' > Dear CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL Idiot, > 1) The million dollars challenge have ended at May 15,1997. The current > challenge have NO monetary prize. ... > 4) Try to keep your pathetic self away from the court room, as next time > around you will face legal steps for alleging "fraud". According to a claim by TruthMonger, Dr. Vulis found the backdoor in VME's encryption program, and the test message contained a plea for donations from the Georgia Cracker remailer operators. I was originally skeptical about this claim, until sources at C2Nut confirmed it. Sincerely, Ura Fishpal, Flounder and Comptroller Electronic Fraud Foundation

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Re: 1st Ammendment Tossed in Paladin Case
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >But in many ways, this is good news. The war is coming faster than I thought. WSJ reports today on the increasing conservatism of the military and disputes about the pretense of civilian control, with some officers calling for responsible action to compensate for societal breakdown. It cites several examples of military members preparing for war at home, as mentioned here earlier by Attila and others, with two Marine writers claiming that the next Somolia will be here. This, coupled with reports on LEA inheritance of military equipment and lavish civilian funding to fight terrorism, portends more than Jim Bell (Tim May?) -type sniper takeouts. Free fire zones may be in the offing, or surgical wasting of underground bunkers and germmakers (troublemakers). Wrathful Mars sees no innocents, so preaches the terrorist freedom warfighters pursuing a dream of winner take all, so sorry constitutional fundies, we're the warmonger biz.

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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[URGENT] ZKP
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C. Maypole, a product of anal birth, appeared with a coathanger through his head. (_) _____ (_) /O O\ Tim C. Maypole ! I ! ! \___/ ! \_____/

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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> wrote: >There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following >code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no >MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard >reboot the only cure): > >char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }; > >main () >{ > void (*f)() = x; > f(); >} > >This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with >average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. >Demand a new CPU from Intel. This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax?

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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> wrote: >>There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following >>code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no >>MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard >>reboot the only cure): >> >>char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }; >> >>main () >>{ >> void (*f)() = x; >> f(); >>} >> >>This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with >>average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. >>Demand a new CPU from Intel. > >This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax? Absolutely not. It crashed mine and is a major bug. It doesn't seem to affect the PPro, though, and not the P2 due to its relation to the PPro. It might be fixed in later Pentiums, which begs the question of why Intel didn't issue a recall back then. Supposidly they were informed about it months ago. Read comp.sys.intel.

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Money Laundering Nonsense.
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Note- cypherpunks: reply by mail, I'm not on the list any longer. Chicago Tribune Monday, November 10, 1997 Money Laundering law netting more small fry. Prosecutors putting new tool to work. A sentencing weapon Congress intended for use against drug lords is being wielded against other defendants. Judges and others say this has diminished legal fairness. By Jan Crawford Greenburg Washington Bureau Washington- Jose Caba considered himself a hardworking, law-abiding man, and immigrant who built a business selling groceries in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood. But when he started illegally redeeming food stamps and depositing the proceeds into a bank account, prosecutors thought otherwise. They accused him of money laundering and sought a harsh sentence. Caba, who thought he was only bending administrative rules, isn't the kind of criminal Congress had in mind when it decided to give prosecutors a weapon to bring down powerful drug lords. Nevertheless, he is one of a growing number of defendants who commit routine fraud and find themselves facing big-time charges of money laundering. [...] More and more prosecutors are invoking [money laundering statutes] in simple fraud, bribery and embezzlement cases, a trend that doesn't sit well with many federal judges or the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In a strongly worded report, the commission... is recommending that the sentences for money laundering be reworked. The penalties are unfair, the commission said, because they often vastly exceed the seriousness of the crime. Caba would have faced 2 to 2 1/2 years in prison for food stamp fraud, but because he deposited the funds in a bank- thereby meeting the definition of laundering the money- he was looking at 10 to 12 years. [...] Nationally, statistics show a marked increase in money laundering cases. In 1995 prosecutors charged 1700 people with money laundering, up from 250 in 1990. More than half of the defendants charged in 1995 were involved in non-drug related crimes. Critics say the charged is used even more than the figures show because prosecutors threaten defendants with the charge to get them to plead guilty to the underlying crime. "It has tremendous implications in the criminal justice system because prosecutors can use it as a tremendous bargaining stick..." said Gordon Greenberg, a defense attorney and an expert on money laundering. "Every single crime, theoretically, can be converted into money laundering because the statute is that broad." What's more, prosecutors in some areas routinely file the charge, while others decline to do so. As a result, "proportionality is lost and appropriate uniformity is lost," said Jonathan Wroblewski, director of legislative and public affairs for the sentencing commission. [] stiff sentences also apply to defendants who make no attempt to cover up their proceeds. Caba laundered money by depositing it into a bank, even though his deposits were by check and he paid taxes on his proceeds. "For all intents and purposes, if you use your ill-gotten gains, it's money laundering." said Alan Chaset, a lawyer who chairs the American Bar Association's committee on sentencing guidelines. "If you take money and put it in a bank and then withdraw it and buy a stick of gum, it's money laundering." Some judges refuse to impose the sentence in cases where there was no elaborate scheme to conceal the money, such as a 1994 case in which prosecutors charged a defendant with money laundering when he put cash from drug sales into a shoe box. [...]

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Re: Freeware SET?
by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The SET reference implementation was written only with a concern for protocol correctness and essentially no concern for operational usability. It is not clear to me that a product could be based on it without a lot of additonal work. But I suppose it might be useful for hacking... Donald On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote: > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:12:49 -0500 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > > > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 04:49:34 +0100 (CET) > From: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > To: cypherpunks-announce(a)toad.com, cypherpunks(a)algebra.com, > cryptography(a)c2.net, andrada(a)earthlink.net, andrea.liles(a)nike.com > Subject: Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting announcement > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomorrow's Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be held at the offices of > C2Net Software in Oakland. > > Agenda: > o Andrea Liles will present some cool new ideas about virtual CA's. > > o Lucky Green will demonstrate the Dumb Mouse, a universal chipcard > reader, and associated analysis/manipulation software. If you are at all > interested in smartcards, especially smartcards for crypto and > authentication purposes, you don't want to miss this one. If there aren't > too many attendees, we will host a workshop. Attendees are encouraged to > bring any smartcards in their possession and discover what is /really/ > happening on the card. The Cypherpunks Smartcard Developers Association > will accept smartcard donations after the workshop. > > o Cypherpunks Tonga will announce the release of BSAFEeay, a BSAFE 3.0 API > compatible crypto library based on SSLeay. > > o Cypherpunks Tonga will then combine BSAFEeay with the freeware SETref > (which requires BSAFE for the underlying crypto) and demonstrate the first > ever globally available *freeware* SET solution. > > Location: > C2Net Software > 1440 Broadway > 7th Floor > Oakland, CA > > Date/time: > Saturday, 11/8, noon > > Directions: > By BART: > Exit the system at 12th Street Oakland. Walk north on Broadway one block. > 1440 is on the right side of the street. > > By car: > http://www.mapquest.com/ > Choose "Trip Quest" from the menu. > > - -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. > "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 5.0i > Charset: noconv > > iQA/AwUBNGPhYvXUPTw3WtkkEQKztACeIQwx4voyUVIP6u1HmosCWklX7osAnROD > TTJn3K2jCIrKUQtOc5Z3oW1P > =byR/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --- end forwarded text > > > > ----------------- > Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox > e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA > "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, > [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to > experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' > The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ > Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/> ===================================================================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1 978-287-4877(tel) dee(a)cybercash.com 318 Acton Street +1 978-371-7148(fax) dee(a)world.std.com Carlisle, MA 01741 USA +1 703-620-4200(main office, Reston, VA) http://www.cybercash.com http://www.privacy.org/ipc

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Motorola Boo-Boo
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the discussion of the Intel F00FC7C8 problem, it was alleged that the instruction "unlk a7" will lock up a Motorola 68040 CPU even from user mode. Would someone care to test this on an old MAC? Is anyone aware of non-privileged instructions which kill other popular CPUs, like Alphas, SPARCS, and MIPS? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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new intel verification circuit & crypto
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Dvorak has an interesting column in a recent PC magazine on the possibility that Intel has created some new circuits in its new chips that would allow alteration by software. this is to deal with a "verification crisis" in which the complexity of their large chips is outstripping their ability to test for flaws and make them perfect. according to Dvorak the scheme would allow Intel to release a software program that would actually alter the circuitry of the chip. information at this point is very limited; Dvorak says that Intel doesn't want to announce the scheme for fear that it may not work in an embarrassing scenario. he says that the scheme is protected using cryptographic algorithms, so that hackers would be prevented from altering the chip. he raises the spectre of a virus that could do permanent, irreparable damage to the chip. however, I have some big red flags going off in my brain the more I think about this. it seems to me that no matter what kind of cryptography is used on the chip, there is the possibility of reverse engineering via dissassemblers & debuggers etc. if the software is distributed widely. hackers have long experience with this, and I suspect if a fix was released, the code could be cracked quite readily. the only other possibility is that Intel would require people to bring the chip into a service dealer. but this would decrease the utility and convenience of the fix feature, and I doubt they could protect the distribution of the software in this case either. anyway, an interesting topic of conversation for this list, no?

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Infowar circa 1850
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy The Reverend Green had been playing to a full house daily as long as the rain had been falling and the rain had been falling for two weeks. When the kid ducked into the ratty canvas tent there was standing room along the walls, a place or two, and such a heady reek of the wet and bathless that they themselves would sally forth into the downpour now and again for fresh air before the rain drove them in again. He stood with others of his kind along the back wall. The only thing that might have distinguished him in that crowd was that he was not armed. Neighbors, said the reverend, he couldnt stay out of these here hell, hell, hellholes right here in Nacogdoches. I said to him, said: You goin to take the son of God in there with ye? And he said: Oh no. No I aint. And I said: Dont you know that he said I will foller ye always even unto the end of the road? Well, he said, I aint askin nobody to go nowheres. And I said: Neighbor, you dont need to ask. He's a goin to be there with ye ever step of the way whether ye ask it or ye dont. I said: Neighbor, you caint get shed of him. Now. Are you going to drag him, *him*, into that hellhole yonder? You ever see such a place for rain? The kid had been watching the reverend. He turned to the man who spoke. He wore long moustaches after the fashion of teamsters and he wore a widebrim hat with a low round crown. He was slightly walleyed and he was watching the kid earnestly as if he'd know his opinion about the rain. I just got here, said the kid. Well it beats all I ever seen. The kid nodded. An enormous man dressed in an oilcloth slicker had entered the tent and removed his hat. He was bald as a stone and he had no trace of beard and he had no brows to his eyes nor lashes to them. He was close on to seven feet in height and he stood smoking a cigar even in this nomadic house of God and he seemed to have removed his hat only to chase the rain from it for now he put it on again. The reverend had stopped his sermon altogether. There was no sound in the tent. All watched the man. He adjusted the hat and then pushed his way forward as far as the crateboard pulpit where the reverend stood and there he turned to address the reverend's congregation. His face was serene and strangely childlike. His hands were small. He held them out. Ladies and gentlemen I feel it my duty to inform you that the man holding this revival is an imposter. He holds no papers of divinity from any institution recognized or improvised. He is altogether devoid of the least qualifications to the office he has usurped and has only committed to memory a few passages from the good book for the purpose of lending to his fraudulent sermons some faint flavor of the piety he despises. In truth, the gentleman standing here before you posing as a minister of the Lord is not only totally illiterate but is also wanted by the law in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Oh God, cried the reverend. Lies, lies! He began reading feverishly from his opened bible. On a variety of charges the most recent of which involved a girl of eleven years - I said eleven - who had come to him in trust and whom he was surprised in the act of violating while actually clothed in the livery of his God. A moan swept through the crowd. A lady sank to her knees. This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands. Let's hang the turd, called an ugly thug from the gallery to the rear. Not three weeks before this he was run out of Fort Smith Arkansas for having congress with a goat. Yes lady, that is what I said. Goat. Why damn my eyes if I wont shoot the son of a bitch, said a man rising at the far side of the tent, and drawing a pistol from his boot he leveled it and fired. The young teamster instantly produced a knife from his clothing and unseamed the tent and stepped outside into the rain. The kid followed. They ducked low and ran across the mud toward the hotel. Already gunfire was general within the tent and a dozen exits had been hacked through the canvas walls and people were pouring out, women screaming, folk stumbling, folk trampled underfoot in the mud. The kid and his friend reached the hotel gallery and wiped the water from their eyes and turned to watch. As they did so the tent began to sway and buckle and like a huge and wounded medusa it slowly settled to the ground trailing tattered canvas walls and ratty guyropes over the ground. The baldheaded man was already at the bar when they entered. On the polished wood before him were two hats and a double handful of coins. He raised his glass but not to them. They stood up to the bar and ordered whiskeys and the kid laid his money down but the barman pushed it back with his thumb and nodded. These here is on the judge, he said. They drank. The teamster set his glass down and looked at the kid or he seemed to, you couldnt be sure of his gaze. The kid looked down the bar to where the judge stood. The bar was that tall not every man could even get his elbows up on it but it came just to the judge's waist and he stood with his hands placed flatwise on the wood, leaning slightly, as if about to give another address. By now men were piling through the doorway, bleeding, covered in mud, cursing. They gathered about the judge. A posse was being drawn to pursue the preacher. Judge, how did you come to have the goods on that no-account? Goods? said the judge. When was you in Fort Smith? Fort Smith? Where did you know him to know all that stuff on him? You mean the Reverend Green? Yessir. I reckon you was in Fort Smith fore ye come out here. I was never in Fort Smith in my life. Doubt that he was. They looked from one to the other. Well where was it you run up on him? I never laid eyes on the man before today. Never even heard of him. He raised his glass and drank. There was a strange silence in the room. The men looked like mud effigies. Finally someone began to laugh. Then another. Soon they were all laughing together. Someone bought the judge a drink. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNFf3Xj7jyGKQlFZpAQFAVwgAnY5GGhOnj97T7fUzmNF1fSthVoVOSLr7 8pVFBUOdTXgKGtDmlr+TqaEzkdEzxJMUE+ACA6uGb/LwmyIhxnPYwRqfhWBjOHD3 /Y1uDVan81uVAtCgIZeOxOTskoM0hE3N3qxNSiITutbM2fxZiiUH1kWTs1+JuyLp h1sfwyzV4UL4sG6fZRKdf+4Mtg7jZvOJNbjKtzp7A19zxfLuLawM6DC31OlnDduw wdSWvv3CG/rOyExeCUtD/sTunPF4a7nsRb7mZQfj564ibvhbrKFcUv/z1lo7X06I yCC4JTOshBBmkzc6PNuUGc7hRGeghoXjHw1cClGjiOlr1HDoxdVVvg== =hKGE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: apropos list talk and our culture
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Schear wrote: > At 8:06 AM -0700 10/29/1997, Tim May wrote: > >At 5:38 AM -0700 10/29/97, Brad Dolan wrote: > >>"Michael Hays" is a new CBS series about a U.S. District Attorney. Last > >>night's episode was about how a radio talk-show host incited a listener > >>to kill a BATF agent and was brought to justice. DA convinced a jury > >>that some things were "more important" than the first amendment. > > Wouldn't it be interesting if someone incited a Net listener/reader to kill > the producer of this "Michael Hays" episode in a "life immitates art" > situation? Has anyone on the list taken the time to estimate the percentage of TV shows (news/entertainment/etc.) which seem to mostly serve to help indoctrinate the masses with New World Order Speak? e.g. - Surveillance == Security / Police == Protection VideoCatchingCriminals III (or somesuch), is due out soon. C-16, Jag, Michael Hayes, Cops, ad infinituum, and not a one of them showing a citizen with a toilet plunger sticking out of his or her asshole. Even Jenny Jones, et al, are doing shows where parents video-spy on the babysitter, husbands video-spy on their wives, etc. If "Total Surveillance is your Friend!" then why were there no video cameras in the restroom of the NYC police precinct? Cypherpunk Action Project or just my insanity?: Are there any list members who were kicked out of the US Armed Forces after only one day and are now full-fledged members of the paramilitary? Why don't you go bomb a federal building with a day-care center in it, and see if the government and media blame it all on the US Armed forces? You know, kind of a "life imitates fascism" situation. ImitationMonger

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Re: new intel verification circuit & crypto
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The 'other' Deitweler, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: > John Dvorak has an interesting column in a recent PC > magazine on the possibility that Intel has created > some new circuits in its new chips that would allow > alteration by software. this is to deal with a > "verification crisis" in which the complexity of > their large chips is outstripping their ability > to test for flaws and make them perfect. according to > Dvorak the scheme would allow Intel to release a > software program that would actually alter the > circuitry of the chip. InfoWarriors around the globe have already been preparing for 'The Son of Clipper' and 'The Daughter of GAK'. The defenders of Freeh-Dumb know that the key to totalitarian access to communications/information is to slip in the back door of new technolgies via those who develop and produce that technology. The anti-trust actions against Intel are for the purpose of negotiating a foothold in programmable CPU's, etc. The anti-trust outrage against MicroSoft is meant to be a million-dollar-a-day punishment for reneging on their deal to provide GAK hooks in Internet Explorer 4.0. Look for MS and Intel to string the government along in this regard, while delaying long enough to let the Y2K problem force the government's hand in their desire for total control of the Information Highway Robbery system. The battle is for control of the New Electronic Jerusalem. Sincerely, Your 'other brother' Deitweler

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PGP Inc PR cover-up
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wonder about the sudden lull in the pgp5.5 CMR argument: have PGP Inc enforced a blanket ban on participation in list discussion of the topic by their employees? Even our anonymous PGP employees posting via remailers on cypherpunks seem to have stopped. PGP Inc seemed to me to be heavily losing the argument where ever employees have spoken on the topic. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be translating into rejection of the CMR feature, nor of adoption of less dangerous alternatives such as forward secret transport level security, shorter lived encryption keys, and separate storage keys. Perhaps it will take an official government snoop endorsement of pgp5.5 before the danger is acknowledged; by then the damage will have been done. Meanwhile over on ietf-open-pgp: The ietf-open-pgp forum for discussion of development of the now IETF controlled OpenPGP standard seems to have undergone a coo. Cypherpunk Lutz Donnerhacke had pre-empted Rodney Thayer and PGP's Jon Callas draft which had been slow coming by producing a competing draft before them. Lutz's draft was not sympathetic with PGP Inc's CMR, and even included SHOULD features encouraging separate storage keys. John Noerenberg (appointed IETF chair) over-ruled Lutz, and wrested editing of the draft from him, and demonstrated some petty power wielding in over ruling a vote on terminology Lutz had set up -- Lutz had already said he didn't care about the outcome, and just called the vote as a quick way to resolve argument. Now we are waiting for Jon Callas to release the new draft. Wonder whether it will include CMR or not :-) Join in the battle: subscribe by sending email with body "subscribe ietf-open-pgp" to <majordomo(a)imc.org>. The list address for posting articles is <ietf-open-pgp(a)imc.org> Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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[ZOG] MARXIST COHEN WANTS 'CURTAILED FREEDOM': CALL TO ARMS WANTED
by Igor Chudov ＠ home 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

fyi igor Anonymous <nobody(a)REPLAY.COM> wrote: * Defense Chief Says U.S. Freedom May Have To Be Curtailed * ___________________________________________________________ * Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an * open grave; they flatter with their tongue. * Psalms 5:9 * ___________________________________________________________ * * Defense secretary calls for even more preventive measures. * * Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose * between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. Defense * Secretary William S. Cohen says. * * The nation's defense chief told the Army Times he once considered the * chilling specter of armored vehicles surrounding civilian hotels or * government buildings to block out terrorists as strictly an overseas * phenomenon. But no longer. * * It could happen here, Cohen said he concluded after eight months of studying * threats under the Pentagon microscope. * * Free-lance terrorists with access to deadly chemical and biological bombs * are "going to change the way in which the American people view security in * our own country, he predicted in a Sept. 10 interview. * * Cohen is calling for the government to step up its efforts to penetrate * wildcard terrorist organizations. * * "It's going to require greater intelligence on our part - much greater * emphasis on intelligence gathering capability, more human intelligence, and * it's going to take more technical intelligence," he said. * * But using the U.S. military in a domestic law enforcement role would require * revisions to laws in force for more than a century, cautions Shreveport * attorney John Odom Jr. "You can't do it from the the Defense Department side * unless Congress dramatically revises the Posse Comitatus laws," said Odom, a * colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and a reserve judge advocate. * * The 1878 law specifically prohibits the use of the military in domestic law * enforce- ment unless authorized by Congress or the Constitution and does not * allow for military intervention through action by the secretary of defense * or even an executive order from the president, Odom said. * * "We're trained from the first day of judge advocate school to think of Posse * Comitatus !! Odom said. "If Secretary Cohen is suggesting that the * Department of Defense be involved, it may be part of a legislative package. * But it will not happen unilaterally without a lot of folks thinking long and * hard about it." * * Cohen said terrorism would be a top priority in five new areas he plans to * focus on now that he has wrapped up his first defense budget, the * quadrennial review of the military and a new, four-year defense strategy. * * Other goals include modernizing the military, improving troops housing and * other benefits, streamlining the defense bureaucracy and shaping new * military relationships and contacts across the globe. * * * >From Staff and Wire Reports * The Times of the Ark-La-Tex * 15 September 1997 * (Submitted by Danny Cox) * * -- - Igor. The average American spends a total of six (6) months in prison.

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Re: [ZOG] MARXIST COHEN WANTS 'CURTAILED FREEDOM': CALL TO ARMSWANTED
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:20 PM -0700 10/29/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >* Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose >* between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. Defense >* Secretary William S. Cohen says. And no doubt this means GMR for all crypto. And if we say "No thanks" to the no-knock searches, the street friskings, the "Papierren, bitte??" travel restrictions, what then? Not much of a choice, eh? The spinmeisters are laying the groundwork for martial law. Just what we've been hearing about for years. Get ready. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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No Subject
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Either Klintonkov, the congresscritters, and the directors of everyone's favorite TLAs have *COMPLETELY* lost their marbles, or the word 'constitution' is about to become very un-PC. Get your plane tickets to countries where sanity still remains (if there are any left) before international air travel is suddenly banned because of 'terrorist threats to national security'. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Surveilance is Security. I'm from the government and I'm here to help you. ParanoiaMonger

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Just wanted to let you know
by DaveL＠classifiedcentral.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey there, For those of you that don't know, you can find the Global Advertising Inter-Network at http://www.gainads.com. Their classified ads are accessible from over 475 different member sites around the world. Check em out! Dave

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Re: [ZOG] MARXIST COHEN WANTS 'CURTAILED FREEDOM': CALL TO ARMS WANTED
by Rebel Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* Defense secretary calls for even more preventive measures. * * Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose * between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. Defense * Secretary William S. Cohen says. * * The nation's defense chief told the Army Times he once considered the * chilling specter of armored vehicles surrounding civilian hotels or * government buildings to block out terrorists as strictly an overseas * phenomenon. But no longer. Heavy shit ...and now it begins

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Re: PGP 5.5 available outside US
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: > > It seems that unknown Cypherpunks have yet again shown their disrespect of > US export laws by exporting the latest version of PGP. The Windows version > of PGP 5.5 is now available for your downloading pleasure at > ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/incoming/PGP55.zip No it is not!

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Re: Killing those who need killing (fwd)
by Mark Rogaski 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

An entity claiming to be wendigo wrote: >From wendigo Thu Oct 30 01:56:09 1997 Subject: Re: Killing those who need killing To: tcmay(a)got.net Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:56:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <v03102800b07d83cd05bd(a)[207.167.93.63]> from "Tim May" at Oct 29, 97 05:25:33 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 773 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 An entity claiming to be Tim May wrote: : : (Personally, were I to be arrested and held on such false charges, I'd : consider it necessary to kill those who illegally held me. Preferably from : a safe distance, with a sniper rifle. But then I'm a right wing libertarian : whacko.) Right wing, left wing, friggin' wingless ... the above comment still indicates a sociopath. Mark - -- [] Mark Rogaski "That which does not kill me [] wendigo(a)pobox.com only makes me stranger." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNFgviMHFI4kt/DQOEQI3TgCdEOML5s68dD/K850lbUtfUa7LQkoAoNp0 rKwN4YjssiKHobsYQ9qqBJR+ =24To -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [] Mark Rogaski "That which does not kill me [] wendigo(a)pobox.com only makes me stranger."

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Request For Cash: TruthMailer services at dev.null
by TruthMailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The TruthMailer service at dev.null has become very unpopular. So unpopular, in fact, that we are now approaching limitations in what our abuse department can handle. The great outrage this weekend and subsequent delays in spamming various mailing lists are the result of this. For our immediate needs, we could sure use some more DRUGS, ALCOHOL, and BROADS. If a million people could donate $1,000 apiece, this would be great. If one million people donate $100,000 apiece, we can buy Micro$oft. Anonymous snail mail with anonymous cash (US dollars or money order) would be appreciated. If you want to be acknowledged as a donor on our arrest sheets, we can do that too. The address to send to is: Electronic Forgery Foundation Box 281, Bienfait, Saskatchewan CANADA S0C 0M0 A thousand bucks or whatever you can afford. We'll take drug, alcohol and loose women donations, too. Contact Louis J. Freeh <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca> if you have something to donate. It might be a sting operation, but I'm not sure; Louis will know. PCP DustMan / Home Drug Lab for Molecular Structure and Design For an anti-reality drug recipe, send me mail with subject "Hi(gh)". Append "+realitysucks" to my abusername to ensure entrapment. Decryption is too important to leave to the recipient--Louis J. Freeh O "I'm from BassMasters, and I'm here to help you." |/------o -\______|___/- | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |/ <}+++< *===================================================================* To unsuscribive or scrivibe send a message of UNSCRIVE or SUBRIVE to the email address _fuck_you_morons_(a)whitehouse.gov

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PGP 5.0: What were they thinking? (revisited)
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Anonymous wrote: > >> >> Where can I find a copy of PGP 5.0 which handles this "SHA1" hash extension, >> and the new forced incompatabilities? I'm looking for a Linux distribution. >> All I've found are Windoze versions, really old betas which break >> *everything* which calls PGP from a script or command line, and betas which >> have a lame expired timebomb in them. Source is prefered for obvious reasons. > >http://www.pgpi.com/ I went and took a look at this. They've broken the PGP functionality into several different psuedo-binaries which are just symlinks which point to the same binary. Invoking just 'pgp' gives this: >PGP is now invoked from different executables for different operations: > >pgpe Encrypt (including Encrypt/Sign) >pgps Sign >pgpv Verify/Decrypt >pgpk Key management >pgpo PGP 2.6.2 command-line simulator (not yet implemented) > >See each application's respective man page or the general PGP documentation >for more information. Now this, of course, breaks all matter of things. Some of this may be wrong, so feel free to correct it: Phil releases PGP. It rapidly becomes a standard for personal privacy and is used all over the world. Various versions come about including several international versions. Finally PGP 5.0 is released. It uses a completely new scheme, including DH keys. The Windows version purposefully excludes RSA key generation, in effect forcing people to generate DH keys. There is no UNIX version released. Weeks or months later, after incompatabilities were introduced into the system, UNIX versions begin to filter out. Instead of keeping command line compatability so scripts and programs which call PGP still work, they decide to break the functions up into several different invocations, all of which point to the same binary anyway. The README-BIN file for the "beta 11" Linux distribution says: >Rest assured, we WILL be releasing a source Unix distribution. >Unfortunately, licensing and export issues make this difficult; the >beta process for Linux will be completed on a binary basis. We >understand the difficulty this causes, and will be working to find a >solution in the future. They also take the liberty of coding in a timebomb: $ ./pgp This beta evaluation version of PGP has expired. $ pwd <censored>/pgp50b11-linux-i386/apps/pgp "lnx-b11" is the version currently handed out by http://www.pgpi.com, by the way. The "PGP 5.0 beta for Linux Intel (US version)" selection on their download page leads to a link to: ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/pgp/5.0/usa_only/linux/PGP50-lnx-b11.tgz The current source distribution from that site is b8a. One of the README files from that reads: >Welcome to the PGP beta test program! > >Before reporting any bugs, please check the pgp(1) man page to ensure >that they are not already known. > >Bugs should be reported on the beta test web page at: > > http://beta.pgp.com/ However when one goes to http://beta.pgp.com they're confronted with a legal agreement. Of course the link to it from the front page won't work in Lynx 2.7.1 because it uses something called an "https" link, so the user has to type in the URL manually as "http://www.pgp.com/beta/license.cgi". After reading this license and agreeing to it, the user is allowed to reach the "BetaWeb" page. However the "public bug reports" link yields this: > Sorry, the bug report form is not available yet. > Please be patient as we get things ready. > > Please see the PGP BetaWeb for further information, or contact the > Beta Manager with specific questions. > > For now, please use the "Back" button in your browser to return to the > previous page. So maybe you can at least get whatever the current beta is and hope it works, right? Wrong. "PGP Personal v5.5.1 BetaHome"'s "Beta Software & ReadMe Download Button" wants a user name and password, but it's doubtful they have a UNIX distribution in there anyway considering the rest of this mess. Well, at least maybe the user can suggest a new "feature" for PGP 6 and that feature be "Release a source distribution which when installed doesn't break anything which calls PGP," right? Wrong. You have to have a username and password for that too. Well, obviously they want you to register as a "Registered PGP Beta Tester" to get this clearance. However "Beta Registration" yields: > Sorry, we are not currently accepting new beta testers. > We will be shortly, however, so please check back if you are interested. > > Please see the PGP BetaWeb for further information, or contact the >Beta Manager with specific questions. > For now, please use the "Back" button in your browser to return to the > previous page. And of course my 2.6.3i breaks on this "Hash: SHA1" stuff. So correct me if I'm wrong but the way I see it is like this: A new version of PGP was released. It was incompatable with previous versions. They release a Windows version but don't release a version which works under UNIX. Of course Windows users now start using the "latest and greatest," sending messages and keys all over the place which are completely incompatable with the version of PGP everybody else is using. They claim to be working on a UNIX version, granted, but that should have been released at the same time as the Windows version and *AFTER* there was an international version of PGP 5.0 available. Their UNIX version of PGP 5.0 also seems to be completely incompatable with anything which calls PGP from a script or program. In addition their UNIX versions are purposefully crippled so that they don't work after a certain time period, don't provide an override for this that I can see, and they insist on releasing binary-only distributions for Linux which prevents people from commenting that out. They have no method to get new up to date versions, nor do they have a method to report bugs like they say they do. Further the "PGP50-lnx-b11-6126098-1.src.rpm" contains the *BINARY* distribution, *not* the source. I've also been informed that PGP 5.0 encrypts to the CMR key without even bothering to ask and there's no way to override that short of hacking the key record. What the hell are these people thinking? Did they get into bed with Microsoft to try to get people to say "screw this" and go use Windows?

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pgp5.5 = clipper
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There are some remarkable similarities between pgp5.5 and the hugely unpopular original clipper chip design. Both encrypt the communication key so it can be snooped by third parties thus creating a backdoor. I suspect that part of the reason there has been less outcry over pgp5.5 than for clipper is that people have a high regard for PGP Inc, and allow this to lull their fears -- "if PGP Inc have done it, it can't be evil." This is really insidious, and it is reprehensible for PGP Inc to use their reputation capital to give clipper like systems a positive spin. pgp5.5 is basically a software implementation of clipper: In PGP the backdoor is the second crypto recipient -- the message key encrypted to the CMRK (Corporate Message Recovery Key) as requested by the ARR (Additional Recipient Request); in clipper the backdoor is the LEAF (Law Enforcement Access Field). Both systems make attempts to enforce the presense of this backdoor field: PGP Inc's policy enforcer can be configured to bounce mail not encrypted to the corporate backdoor key; in Clipper it is the checksum included in the LEAF which allows the receiving chip to reject LEAFs which have been tampered with. Both systems are "optional" -- you don't have to use clipper chips, they will be "voluntary" (or so the politicians claim), and governments aren't currently using the backdoor feature of pgp5.5, and PGP Inc argue this won't happen (we'll see how this works out). Both systems can be bypassed in very analogous ways: They can both be bypassed by super encrypting traffic. With pgp5.5 the sender can send garbage in the CMRK encrypted field; with clipper Matt Blaze found you could brute force the checksum and send garbage in the LEAF field. Both systems can be improved to make them harder to bypass, something one suspects may happen if too many people routinely bypass them, and law enforcement views this as a problem (which they surely will if their snooping attempts are foiled -- don't forget Freeh is already on record calling for mandatory key escrow, and outlawing of non-escrowed crypto). Clipper can be made harder to bypass by increasing the size of the checksum. pgp5.5 can be made harder to bypass by using binding cryptography (allows untrusted agents to be deputised as policemen in ensuring the same key is included inside the CMRK field as in the recipients PKE field). It is easy for the government snoop to detect cheating with either system -- they attempt to decrypt the traffic, and find the LEAF/CMRK field is tampered with, or find the contained message is super encrypted. One suspects that an additional 5 year sentence will be given to people who are detected tampering with snoop fields. (This is not far fetched I don't think -- already we have heard proposals for 5 year additional sentencing for "use of encryption in a crime". If non-escrowed encryption is outlawed, surely this is the logical next step on the part of Freeh, and cohorts). PGP Inc cries: "oh but we have to meet corporate user requirements". For corporate disaster recovery of stored data? For corporate message snooping? For either requirement many of us have documented far less dangerous techniques to enable corporate message snooping, and storage recovery. Techniques which aren't likely to be adopted by governments as their snooping architecture. PGP should fix this quickly before the reputational damage is increased by more government statements about the usefulness of pgp5.5. and CMR. Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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