December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

loop test #3
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Loop test #3 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Could E.M. Cordian be Matt Blaze in Disguise? (Nah!)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:47:21 -0500 To: Vin McLellan <vin(a)shore.net>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Re: Could E.M. Cordian be Matt Blaze in Disguise? (Nah!) Cc: Matt Blaze <mab(a)research.att.com> Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> At 12:31 AM -0500 on 11/15/98, Vin McLellan wrote: > (Actually, I'd bet that even Robert Hettinga knows that this is > untrue.) Moi? ;-) Now *why* would I do that to you, Vin? Don't let those ol' Snakes of Medusa bite you, pal. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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penis test #1
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

penis test one

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List Test
by whgiii＠gulf.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just another test, sorry. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Could E.M. Cordian be Matt Blaze in Disguise? (Nah!)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

:-) --- begin forwarded text To: Vin McLellan <vin(a)shore.net> cc: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Could E.M. Cordian be Matt Blaze in Disguise? (Nah!) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 05:33:22 -0500 From: Matt Blaze <mab(a)research.att.com> That you for CCing the enclosed message. I must admit that I'm rather puzzled by it. This is the first I've head of an "E.M Cordian," or for that matter "M.F. Tones" or "Mr. Rogue." I am quite sure, however, that I am none of these people. I have also never seen, or claimed to have seen, any description of the RSA algorithm, other than the the recently declassified public key historical material from GCHQ, that predates R, S and A's original paper on the subject. I don't subscribe to the cypherpunks mailing list (or, for that matter, DCSB), and I've only just now scanned over the web page mentioned in your message, so I'm unclear as to what might be going on. Perhaps someone is confused about the $7.00 "better DES challenge" that I offered last year (which was solved this year by the EFF DES brute force hardware). Whatever this is about, however, I assure you that any use of my name in connection with a solicitation for funds for some sort of "analytical DES cracking" effort, or any suggestion that I'm involved in such a project, is absolutely false and perhaps fraudulent. Feel free to forward this as you see fit. Thanks -Matt Blaze > Out on the Cypherpunks List, "Anonymous" claimed to reveal the real >identity of E.M. Cordian, the organizer of the DES Analytical Crack. See: >http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html > >>Shouldn't we be using "Mr. Cordian's" real >>name? Matt Blaze (mab(a)research.att.com) also >>occasionally known as "M.F. Tones", and even less >>often as "Mr. Rouge" (There should be an accent mark >>there actually). > > In response, Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> declared: > >>Just to clear the air a smidge. >> >>If Matt Blaze says he's looking for an algebraic inverse to DES, I tend to >>believe him... > > Jeeze, Rob! This is your attempt to help "clear the air?" > > I do not for a moment believe that Eric Michael Cordian ><emc(a)wire.insync.net> is a pseudonym for Matt Blaze <mab(a)research.att.com>! > > You should maybe query Matt directly <mab(a)research.att.com> before >you endorse E.M. Cordian as Matt Blaze in drag. You could confuse a whole >lot of people who trust your insider knowledge of these steamy Net Affairs. > > To anyone familiar with Blaze's essays, speeches, & on-line posts, >a scan of Mr. Codrian's FAQ and published comments should make it apparent >that this suggestion is unlikely, if not perposterous. > > The real Matt Blaze would also not be making these absurd and false >claims that some mysterious "book" describing a cryptosystem identical or >equivalent to the RSA public key cryptosystem was published "years" before >Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adelman first published their RSA PKC >algorithm in April, 1977. (It's well documented in the Cypherpunk >archives, Codrian assures us;-) > > There was no such book. Cordian's statement is just not true. The >real Matt Blaze -- the guy who wrote the pithy Afterward to Schneier's >Applied Cryptography,II -- would know that this is not true. > > (Actually, I'd bet that even Robert Hettinga knows that this is >untrue.) > > Mind you, if the real Matt Blaze announced that he was seeking $500 >from twenty people to fund a private research project which he felt had a >meaningful chance of casting DES as a NP-hard combinatorial problem and >attacking it with an appropriate combinatorial algorithm, I'd send a check >off tomorrow. > > The real Matt Blaze would not have 15 donors -- as Mr. Cordian >reports -- but be stimied on how to get five more. > > I wish Mr. Cordian well in his algebraic attack on DES -- but, >unfortunately, he is not the real Matt Blaze. Not even a near-clone. > > We could do with a few more professionals with Blaze's talent, >energy, and integrity in general circulation. > > Suerte, > > _Vin > >----- >"Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for >good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by >its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who >deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." >_ A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm. > > * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin(a)shore.net> * > 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 > > --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Electronic Commerce: The Future of Fraud
by Bruce Schneier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This appeared in my November newsletter, CRYPTO-GRAM, but I thought it general enough interest to send it here. Bruce Electronic Commerce: The Future of Fraud Fraud has been perpetrated against every commerce system man has ever invented, from gold coin to stock certificates to paper checks to credit cards. Electronic commerce systems will be no different; if that's where the money is, that's where the crime will be. The threats are exactly the same. Most fraud against existing electronic commerce systems -- ATM machines, electronic check systems, stored value tokens -- has been low tech. No matter how bad the cryptographic and computer security safeguards, most criminals bypass them entirely and focus on procedural problems, human oversight, and old-fashioned physical theft. Why attack subtle information security systems when you can just haul an ATM machine away in a truck? This implies that new commerce systems don't have to be secure, but just better than what exists. Don't outrun the bear, just outrun the people you're with. Unfortunately, there are three features of electronic commerce that are likely to make fraud more devastating. One, the ease of automation. The same automation that makes electronic commerce systems more efficient than paper systems also makes fraud more efficient. A particular fraud that might have taken a criminal ten minutes to execute on paper can be completed with a single keystroke, or automatically while he sleeps. Low-value frauds, that fell below the radar in paper systems, become dangerous in the electronic world. No one cares if it is possible to counterfeit nickels. However, if a criminal can mint electronic nickels, he might make a million dollars in a week. A pickpocketing technique that works once in ten thousand tries would starve a criminal on the streets, but he might get thirty successes a day on the net. Two, the difficulty of isolating jurisdiction. The electronic world is a world without geography. A criminal doesn't have to be physically near a system he is defrauding; he can attack Citibank in New York from St. Petersburg. He can jurisdiction shop, and launch his attacks from countries with poor criminal laws, inadequate police forces, and lax extradition treaties. And three, the speed of propagation. News travels fast on the Internet. Counterfeiting paper money takes skill, equipment, and organization. If one or two or even a hundred people can do it, so what? It's a crime, but it won't affect the money supply. But if someone figures out how to defraud an electronic commerce system and posts a program on the Internet, a thousand people could have it in an hour, a hundred thousand in a week. This could easily bring down a currency. And only the first attacker needs skill; everyone else can just use software. "Click here to drop the deutsche mark." Cryptography has the potential to make electronic commerce systems safer than paper systems, but not in the ways most people think. Encryption and digital signatures are important, but secure audit trails are even more important. Systems based on long-term relationships, like credit cards and checking accounts, are safer than anonymous systems like cash. But identity theft is so easy that systems based solely on identity are doomed. Preventing crime in electronic commerce is important, but more important is to be able to detect it. We don't prevent crime in our society. We detect crime after the fact, gather enough evidence to convince a neutral third party of the criminal's guilt, and hope that the punishment provides a back-channel of prevention. Electronic commerce systems should have the same goals. They should be able to detect that fraud has taken place and finger the guilty. And more important, they should be able to provide irrefutable evidence that can convict the guilty in court. Perfect solutions are not required -- there are hundred of millions of dollars lost to credit card fraud every year -- but systems that can be broken completely are unacceptable. It's vital that attacks cannot be automated and reproduced without skill. Traditionally, fraud-prevention has been a game of catch-up. A commerce system is introduced, a particular type of fraud is discovered, and the system is patched. Money is made harder to counterfeit. Online credit card verification makes fraud harder. Checks are printed on special paper that makes them harder to alter. These patches reduce fraud for a while, until another attack is discovered. And the cycle continues. The electronic world moves too fast for this cycle. A serious flaw in an electronic commerce system could bankrupt a company in days. Today's systems must anticipate future attacks. Any successful electronic commerce system is likely to remain in use for ten years or more. It must be able to withstand the future: smarter attackers, more computational power, and greater incentives to subvert a widespread system. There won't be time to upgrade them in the field. Why Cryptography is Harder Than it Looks: http://www.counterpane.com/whycrypto.html Security Pitfalls in Cryptography: http://www.counterpane.com/pitfalls.html Subscribe to CRYPTO-GRAM: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html ********************************************************************** Bruce Schneier, President, Counterpane Systems Phone: 612-823-1098 101 E Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55419 Fax: 612-823-1590 Free crypto newsletter. See: http://www.counterpane.com

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Mako Capital shares to triple in next few months, projects research company
by gitpro＠mailcity.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mako Capital shares to triple in next few months, projects research company! Mako Capital intent to merge with Sports Group International and market Spalding Sports Drinks worldwide. OTC BB MAKO 3/4 What do Kiki Vandeweghe, Dorothy Hamill, Joe Namath, Bill Walton, Larry Holmes and Clyde Drexler all have in common? They are all shareholders of a dynamic sports drink company called Sports Group International Mako Capital On October 19, 1998 Mako Capital made a blockbuster announcement that was obviously overlooked by the investment community. Mako signed a letter of intent to merge with Sports Group International. Sports Group is a dynamic company with an experienced, proven management team. Sports Group has revolutionary products in the multi-billion dollar sports drink market. We instantly fell in love with their oxygenated water. This is water with seven times the oxygen of H20. It is a big hit with marathon runners and we feel that there is a huge market for this product. They also have newly formulated sports drinks to satisfy every market. Sports drinks designed for kids, women and bodybuilders. They also have powdered products. The key to this company is that their sports drinks are marketed under the Spalding name. Spalding is one of the most recognized names in sports. You cant buy that type of name recognition. We are told that the company has 1.2 million cases pre-sold for 1999 which should bring in more than twenty million in revenue and 15% in profit (approximately 3 million). That would be better than one dollar per share in earnings. Sports Groups management team is headed by Kiki Vandeweghe, the former NBA All Star and Dean Miller, the star executive of Megafoods. As president of Megafoods, Dean saw the company grow from a couple of stores to 70 stores and $800 million in revenue. Realizing that much of the great success behind Gatorade was the advertising campaign featuring Michael Jordan, SGI has procured promotions and endorsements from athletes who are current shareholders like, Clyde Drexler, Kiki Vanderweghe, Bill Walton, Larry Holmes, Joe Namath, Dorothy Hamill and others. Mako Capital has the right combination of great products, a proven management team and a name recognized around the world, which will lead them into the next millenium. We are looking for the stock to trade $2 - $3 short term and $5 - $7 by summer of 1999. For more information contact: Financial Internet Group 800-959-9122 Disclaimer: Mako Capital has paid Freedom Rock Partners 150,000 shares of free trading stock and options to purchase 100,000 shares at $1.00. For more information please see our disclaimer. NOTE: For those on the internet who do not want to recieve exciting messages such as this..... *We strive to comply with all state and federal laws and to send ads only to interested parties. *This ad is not intended for nor do we knowingly send to Washington State residents. * OR CLICK_HERE_TO_GOTO_REMOVE-LIST.COM (http://remove-list.com) Remove-List is a free public service offering to help the general public get removed from commercial mailings lists and has not sent this message. If you want their help please add your name to their list and we you will not receive a commercial email from us or any other member bulk emailer.

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17 Dec '03

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Non Explosive Weapons
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Richard Danzig, new Navy Secretary, op-eds in the NYT today about the threat of "Non Explosive Weapons (NEW)," posed by WMD and information warfare. http://jya.com/mil-panic.htm He terms them "weapons of mass disruption" which may lead to mass panic and will require the military and law enforcement agencies to unite in a new kind of US national defense, while, you bet, at the same time obeying law against domestic military operations. In passing, he notes that the military has encryption to protect itself against information attacks but that the public and infrastructure does not. Cavalry to the rescue. Danzig's message is remarkably similar to the Kyl report noted here a few days ago, and may indicate what's long been coming in the way of deploying military forces while falsely proclaiming Posse Comitatus is being fulfilled. Or that the law is about to be changed to meet the urgent threats of the Info Age, media-decorted, to be sure, like WMD Freddy or our own media-terrifying Toto. Bruce Hoffman's recently published "Inside Terrorism," lays out the full panoply of outlaw and lawful terrorism, by groups and nations, cults and religions. Like the "Thugs" of India who killed 1 million over 1200 years -- an impressive persistence. Hoffman claims that terrorism works in most cases. The reasons why have been discussed here, though not his depth and range of successes. And that the military seldom knows what to do about it except to engage in even greater terrorism itself, particularly against perceived supporters of the enemy. That's food for thought for those calling for military protection at home, whether by the military or the increasingly militarized and armed LEAs and support agencies. This linkage of WMD terrrorism and information threats appears to be the policy strategy to demonize information in order to criminalize it. "Information threats" under this policy does not mean anything protected by the 1A or WTO copyright, see how it works, is that clear motherfucker, do you need a missile in the head to get the point you fucking terrorist, read the NEWs, this aint TV Cops, Joe 6-Pack, it's high-tech GI Joe sapping your bunker, night-vision video rolling, family suicide by Semtex.

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Non Explosive Weapons
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Richard Danzig, new Navy Secretary, op-eds in the NYT today about the threat of "Non Explosive Weapons (NEW)," posed by WMD and information warfare. http://jya.com/mil-panic.htm He terms them "weapons of mass disruption" which may lead to mass panic and will require the military and law enforcement agencies to unite in a new kind of US national defense, while, you bet, at the same time obeying law against domestic military operations. In passing, he notes that the military has encryption to protect itself against information attacks but that the public and infrastructure does not. Cavalry to the rescue. Danzig's message is remarkably similar to the Kyl report noted here a few days ago, and may indicate what's long been coming in the way of deploying military forces while falsely proclaiming Posse Comitatus is being fulfilled. Or that the law is about to be changed to meet the urgent threats of the Info Age, media-decorted, to be sure, like WMD Freddy or our own media-terrifying Toto. Bruce Hoffman's recently published "Inside Terrorism," lays out the full panoply of outlaw and lawful terrorism, by groups and nations, cults and religions. Like the "Thugs" of India who killed 1 million over 1200 years -- an impressive persistence. Hoffman claims that terrorism works in most cases. The reasons why have been discussed here, though not his depth and range of successes. And that the military seldom knows what to do about it except to engage in even greater terrorism itself, particularly against perceived supporters of the enemy. That's food for thought for those calling for military protection at home, whether by the military or the increasingly militarized and armed LEAs and support agencies. This linkage of WMD terrrorism and information threats appears to be the policy strategy to demonize information in order to criminalize it. "Information threats" under this policy does not mean anything protected by the 1A or WTO copyright, see how it works, is that clear motherfucker, do you need a missile in the head to get the point you fucking terrorist, read the NEWs, this aint TV Cops, Joe 6-Pack, it's high-tech GI Joe sapping your bunker, night-vision video rolling, family suicide by Semtex.

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DES Trolls
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vin McLellan, apparently not satisfied with only one flame, makes this response to a very conveniently appearing anonymous remailer troll saying something silly about Matt Blaze: > The real Matt Blaze would also not be making these absurd and false > claims that some mysterious "book" describing a cryptosystem identical > or equivalent to the RSA public key cryptosystem was published "years" > before Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adelman first published their > RSA PKC algorithm in April, 1977. (It's well documented in the > Cypherpunk archives, Codrian assures us;-) Here the disingenuous Vin gives his own description of my prior post, which he then proceeds to loudly refute, and I certainly didn't use the word "identical" or the word "equivalent." I stated that descriptions of "that which is now known as RSA" have appeared in print, and that the one-way characteristics of the RSA trap-door function were also previously known. The arguments for invalidation of the RSA patent were based on two central claims. First, that work which contained similar material was distributed by preprint and presented at conferences more than one year before the RSA patent was applied for. This would include the Diffie-Hellman paper on "Multiuser Cryptographic Techniques", the early Merkle-Hellman work, and the Pohlig-Hellman work. The second claim that may be made against RSA is that the system is "obvious." Support for this claim may be found in books dating all the way back to the 19th century which discuss both the cryptographic usefulness of one-way functions, and the factorization of the product of two primes as one example of such a function. Quoting "Cyberlaw": "There are a number of references in the prior art, moreover, to using the problem of factoring composite numbers in cryptography, dating back to the 19th century. "In 1870, a book by William S. Jevons described the relationship of one-way functions to cryptography and went on to discuss specifically the factorization problem used to create the "trap-door" in the RSA system." > There was no such book. Cordian's statement is just not true. Only a complete moron would place himself in the position of trying to prove such an all-encompassing negative. > (Actually, I'd bet that even Robert Hettinga knows that this is > untrue.) People_insulted_by_Vin_in_this_thread++; > The real Matt Blaze would not have 15 donors -- as Mr. Cordian reports > -- but be stimied on how to get five more. If you had correctly read the FAQ, you would see that we have 5 sponsors, and 15 open sponsorships. We are not stimied, we are writing and debugging many thousands of lines of extremely complex code, and do not wish to be distracted by further marketing activities at this time. > I wish Mr. Cordian well in his algebraic attack on DES All together now. "Bwahahahahahahhahaahah!" This concludes my response to Vin, who may now return to his regularly scheduled trolling lessons. Now, if this weren't all hilarious enough, Matt Blaze, who is usually smarter than this, feels an urgent need to leap in with... > Whatever this is about, however, I assure you that any use of my name > in connection with a solicitation for funds for some sort of > "analytical DES cracking" effort, or any suggestion that I'm involved > in such a project, is absolutely false and perhaps fraudulent. Let me state for the record that the DES Analytic Crack Project has made no claims about any of the prople working on it, other than that they are competent implementors of complex algorithms. Matt Blaze is not associated with the project, and if any other crypto notables wish a similar public statement made about them, they have only to email and request it. Sponsorships for the project are being solicited on the basis of the statement of work in the FAQ, and work product to date. They are not being solicited based on any representation that various individuals with recognizable names are associated with the project. Anonymous trolls making such allegations, followed by irate rebuttals by shills, and scientists who should know better, are clearly an attempt at disruption. Continued such antics will be met with an appropriate legal response. -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html

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Link test [1432]
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hi -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

9 Nov 98 Carl Johnson #05987-196 P.O. Box 4000, Springfield, Missouri 65801-4000 I thought that given the fact that The Kontrollers seem to be Lying Out of Their Dirty Little AssHoles (TM) at every turn, in regard to my incarceration and legal situation, that I might as well use my time in Prison to improve my knowledge of Law & Politics. I am assuming that The Usual (TM) legal defenses are not an option for me, since my Public <hee-hee> <snortle- snortle> <hack-hack> Defender <spit> <fart> seems to be too ashamed of his role in my Legal Case that he has not once contacted me. Perhaps it would be best for me to study the possibility of presenting an SOG-Z0G AmericaLand of the The Freeh Defense (TM). If you know of any Cpunx Shit Disturbers who are familiar with Zionist Occupational Government concepts literature and legal defense histories, I would be happy to study whatever material they could send me. (Information from The Flat Earth Society would also come in handy, to prepare a Back Up Defense, eh?) Tell Zog that Chuck and Squeaky say, "High!" CJ

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Could E.M. Cordian be Matt Blaze in Disguise? (Nah!)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

:-) Bwahahaha! Isn't this fun??? Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text X-Sender: vin(a)shell1.shore.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:31:21 -0500 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu From: Vin McLellan <vin(a)shore.net> Subject: Could E.M. Cordian be Matt Blaze in Disguise? (Nah!) Cc: Matt Blaze <mab(a)research.att.com> Status: U Out on the Cypherpunks List, "Anonymous" claimed to reveal the real identity of E.M. Cordian, the organizer of the DES Analytical Crack. See: http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html >Shouldn't we be using "Mr. Cordian's" real >name? Matt Blaze (mab(a)research.att.com) also >occasionally known as "M.F. Tones", and even less >often as "Mr. Rouge" (There should be an accent mark >there actually). In response, Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> declared: >Just to clear the air a smidge. > >If Matt Blaze says he's looking for an algebraic inverse to DES, I tend to >believe him... Jeeze, Rob! This is your attempt to help "clear the air?" I do not for a moment believe that Eric Michael Cordian <emc(a)wire.insync.net> is a pseudonym for Matt Blaze <mab(a)research.att.com>! You should maybe query Matt directly <mab(a)research.att.com> before you endorse E.M. Cordian as Matt Blaze in drag. You could confuse a whole lot of people who trust your insider knowledge of these steamy Net Affairs. To anyone familiar with Blaze's essays, speeches, & on-line posts, a scan of Mr. Codrian's FAQ and published comments should make it apparent that this suggestion is unlikely, if not perposterous. The real Matt Blaze would also not be making these absurd and false claims that some mysterious "book" describing a cryptosystem identical or equivalent to the RSA public key cryptosystem was published "years" before Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adelman first published their RSA PKC algorithm in April, 1977. (It's well documented in the Cypherpunk archives, Codrian assures us;-) There was no such book. Cordian's statement is just not true. The real Matt Blaze -- the guy who wrote the pithy Afterward to Schneier's Applied Cryptography,II -- would know that this is not true. (Actually, I'd bet that even Robert Hettinga knows that this is untrue.) Mind you, if the real Matt Blaze announced that he was seeking $500 from twenty people to fund a private research project which he felt had a meaningful chance of casting DES as a NP-hard combinatorial problem and attacking it with an appropriate combinatorial algorithm, I'd send a check off tomorrow. The real Matt Blaze would not have 15 donors -- as Mr. Cordian reports -- but be stimied on how to get five more. I wish Mr. Cordian well in his algebraic attack on DES -- but, unfortunately, he is not the real Matt Blaze. Not even a near-clone. We could do with a few more professionals with Blaze's talent, energy, and integrity in general circulation. Suerte, _Vin ----- "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _ A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm. * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin(a)shore.net> * 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Find Out Anything About Anyone On The Net !!!! /"][
by emilhusb＠online.no 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Plug: Check out wasp.org...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.wasp.org/ is a site which belongs to WASP's author, and DBS and DCSB member, Steven Smith. When it's finished, the current version is about 70%-there alpha, WASP will be an open source web application delivery platform written in JAVA for XML/HTML. Steve and I were talking about using WASP for digital commerce, financial cryptography, and dbts applications Friday night, at Anthony's Pier 4, during the Constitution Yacht Club awards banquet. (Naw, not *that* kind of yacht club. CYC, while I'm plugging things, for those of you who sail in Boston, charges all of $75/yr, and it mostly does <very friendly, but hotly contested :-)> 'round-the-bouy races and cookouts, all out of a one-room prefab houseboat clubhouse tied up at the Constitution Marina in Charlestown. Steve graciously answered a cattlecall on the DCSB list for crew this summer, and now does foredeck on Corisan, the 1968 Columbia 38-footer a bunch of us old farts race on every Thursday night in Boston harbor, when it's warm enough to, anyway.) So, seeing that WASP is still being built, and Steve is crypto-clueful, I thought I'd spam the crypto community (and a few others :-)) about WASP so that Steve could get some comments on what he has now, and requests for new stuff he can add to WASP. And, of course, since it's open source, to solicit WASP additions, if WASP indeed doesn't suck, both crypto and otherwise, from other clueful people both inside the country and otherwise. :-). The following is from Steve's FAQ on WASP, sans links, so it might read strangely here in text. Cheers, Bob Hettinga > 1. What is the WASP? > > The WASP is an OpenSourceTM platform (library) for developing complex web >applications. It is written in Java and runs under any system which will >support the Java Servlet API. (eg. Sun's JavaWebServer, Apache (via Live >Software's JRun), NetScape, IIS and others.) > > The current version is: 0.7a. Download it now. I think this is 70% to a >1.0 release. 0.8a will be out by 11/16 and will include the >DataAccessObject (org.wasp.data.*). > > 2. How does the WASP work? > > The WASP parses .wasp files which consist of standard HTML and some >additional XML tags that are used to control the behavior of the WASP. >All .wasp files should be consistent with XML syntax. The WASP allows you >to add new tags and functionality easily. The default set of tags provide >standard script features, including: variable substitution, conditional >processing, looping, dynamic SQL queries (for prototyping only), >interfaces to Data Access Objects, etc. Session management is provided by >the underlying Servlet API and WASP applications have access request, >session, and global namespaces. See the Javadoc. > > 3. Who can use the WASP? > > Anyone can use it for Free! Better yet, you can download the source. >The WASP is released under the Library General Public License (LGPL), so >if you make any improvements to the WASP, the results must be free as >well. WARNING: This software is still alpha stage. It works, but there >are no Makefiles or INSTALL instructions yet. You're on your own. An >example .wasp page will be posted soon. > > 4. Why would I want to use the WASP? > > That is probably the subject for an entire whitepaper which I don't have >time to write. I wrote this software because all the methods I have found >for developing web applications suck in some way or other. Even >monumental OpenSource treasures like Apache and Perl leave something to be >desired when considering a complex application. Before I go trashing >everyone else's stuff though, let me tell you why The WASP doesn't suck: > > It is easily extended so you can make it do whatever you want. It is >written in Java so you can use any server OS or Database. It seperates >HTML from SQL and Java application logic, thereby allowing designers to >design and programmers to program. It is fast and scaleable. It will run >well enough on your hopped up 486 linux box and it will scream on your 10 >CPU Sparc Mega Server. If you run NT, I'm sure it'll work there too. >(Shame on you for wasting good hardware!) It encourages the development of >reusable business objects. It can talk to dynamic data sources/services >that are not SQL-Based! (Important for complex distributed object >applications.) It is OpenSource, so when you run into a bug, you can fix >it! It is comprehendable by any experienced object programmer. (Only >~3000 lines of code) It is Free! > > 5. What's wrong with the other stuff? > > The other standard methods for developing web apps all suffer from one or >more of the following: > > They involve editing single files containing 5 or more programming >lanugages, all with different syntax, and which execute in 5 different >places at 5 different times. They require you to surf the tech-support >websites of your tools vendors hoping for clues to some bug. They yield >unmaintainable / throwaway solutions. They tie you to a single vendor's >hardware, operating system, or database. They force you to use some arcane >GUI environment to create your "application". This process always feels >like Voodoo to me. M1CR0S0F4 R00LZ D00D!!!1!!1!. They cost money whether >they work well or not. > > 6. What can I do for the WASP? > > I will be setting up a database here soon to keep track of a wishlist, >bugs, etc. In the meantime, consult the source code and look for XXX in >the comments. These indicate areas that need work. Obviously, general >stuff like cleaning up error paths/exception handling would help. Anyone >with experience in the area of Enterprise Java Beans who could offer >suggestions on how to implement the Data Access stuff in the approved Java >framework would be greatly appreciated. I understand the EJB isn't baked >yet. I guess I'll buy a book on it after I finish the contract I'm on. > > After the Parser is reworked, the Page cache might be reworked to >serialize and write to disk or use some persistant store. The WASP caches >pages to avoid expensive parsing but I haven't yet measured how much >memory this uses. (RAM sure is cheap these days!) > > Also, if you really want a pure OpenSource stack of software, someone >needs to implement an OpenSource servlet runner. That is truely a >"chasing taillights" problem (as the Halloween Document put it) so it >should be easily enough accomplished. If no one steps up to plate, maybe >I'll get around to it, but don't hold your breath. I'm enjoying writing >WASP applications too much! > > There is a net-CVS repository for the WASP code. Read-only access has >not been set up yet. Contact steven.t.smith(a)pobox.com to obtain access. > > 7. What about the LGPL and Java Virtual Machine? > > I'm no licensing expert. Ostensibly, I want this program to be freely >used and improved while not enriching the lawyers, taxmen and all the >other parties that surround commercial software. Mostly, however, I want >to share this cool program with my friends. If anyone else can use it, >that would be great! If anyone could help me debug it, that would be even >greater! That's why I chose to OpenSource. > > What exactly defines a program running inside a JVM is not immediately >obvious. I just assumed that Java classes are all kind of like libraries. >That's why I chose to use the LGPL. > > In my view, the WASP consists of every class in the org.wasp.* heirarchy. >I don't consider any Data Access code that is specific to your >website/application and which may be "linked" into the WASP at runtime, to >be "part of" of the WASP or create some kind of derivative work. If you >do write additional Taglets which are of general use, I expect those to be >included in the WASP. This is sort of "enforced" by Taglets registering >themselves via code in the main org.wasp.engine.Servlet.init(), thereby, >in my view, making them part of the WASP. Data Access stuff that is >custom to your application can be configured in via initialization >parameters and thusly not considered to be part of the WASP. > > For what it's worth, the more you poke around this stuff, the more you >realize that Software isn't a THING at at all. All those phantasms people >use to think about it are simply anachonistic hold-overs from industrial >era, scarcity thinking. Software Licenses and the businesses they support >begin to look like so many Voodoo incantations and pointless >pontifications about angels on the head of pin. Or worse, they seem like >the rules of a silly boardgame which is played with real money, and in >which the house (government, lawyers, VCs, Investment Banks and corporate >shareholders) always wins. Casinos at least offer better odds. I believe >a programmer is better off figuring out how to get people to actually use >and propagate code in ways that enrich each of us individually and empower >individuals generally. > > 8. Who wrote it? > > Me. (steven.t.smith(a)pobox.com) And whoever I could sucker into helping >me. ;-) See the CONTRIBUTORS file for details. ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: U.S. Attorney Morgenthau on Money Laundering
by David Watts 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can't blame the Feds for this one; Morgenthau is actually the District Attorney for Manhattan, not the U.S. Attorney. My bad. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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No Subject
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:28:04 -0500 (EST) From: "K. M. Ellis" <protozoa(a)tux.org> To: protozoa(a)tux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-cryptography(a)c2.net Crack open your palm pilots and take note! And please repost widely. Our mailing list (dccp(a)eff.org) along with the rest of eff.org, is sadly out of commission. DC Cypherpunks will hold a meeting at the Electronic Privacy Information Center office in Washington, DC. DATE: Soon! Saturday, November 21, 1998 TIME: 5pm Featured speaker: Richard Schroeppel, University of Arizona rcs(a)cs.arizona.edu The Hasty Pudding Cipher "NIST is organizing the search for a new block cipher, the Advanced Encryption Standard. The Hasty Pudding Cipher is my entry in the AES competition. The design goals for HPC are medium security, speed, and flexibility. Hasty Pudding works with any block length and any key size. It is optimized for 64-bit architectures, operating at 200 MHz on large data blocks. Hasty Pudding introduces a new feature, Spice, which allows useful non-expanding encryption of small blocks, even single bits. The cipher includes some unusual design principles." Location: Electronic Privacy Information Center 666 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, at the corner of Pennsylvania and 7th in South East DC Across the street from Eastern Market Metro station (Orange & Blue Line) To get into the building, go around to the 7th street side next to the flower shop and use the call box to call the EPIC office. We'll buzz you in. True to DCCP form, we'll probably hit a local resturaunt afterwards for dinner. If you need more explicit directions, please contact Kathleen Ellis at (202)298-0833 or ellis(a)epic.org. For more information about the DC Cypherpunks, see our web page at http://www.isse.gmu.edu/~pfarrell/dccp/index.html --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Search and Seizure abuse...
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Note to elected officials: please inquire on this event an reply. Thanks JFA ========== forwarded from the Canadian Firearms Digest, V2 #701 ======== Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:23:49 -0600 From: Marstar <marstar(a)hawk.igs.net> Subject: Re: Cdn-Firearms Digest V2 #699 I WOULD LIKE TO ADD MY TWO CENTS WORTH, THIS IS A VERY SENSITIVE SUBJECT WITH US.... 1. Ask to see the search warrant. NFA: The searchers are required to SHOW you a COPY of the warrant or TELL you what is in it before executing it, and LEAVE you a copy of it when they leave.. 100% RIGHT, BUT WHEN THE PERSON POINTING THE MP-5 AT YOU TELLS YOU TO SHUT-UP AND MOVE AWAY, WHAT WOULD SUGGEST ?? 2. Ask the person in possession of the warrant to identify himself and all of those with him and to indicate whether those persons are authorized to aid in the execution of the warrant. WITH 40 PEOPLE ALREADY TEARING THINGS APART AND AN ENTIRE SWAT TEAM ON HAND HOLDING YOU AND YOUR EMPLOYEES AT GUNPOINT, THEY REFUSE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES, HOW SHOULD WE IMPRESS THEM WITH OUR DEMANDS ?? TO ADD A BIT OF CHALLENGE TO THE AFFAIR MOST OF THE PEOPLE WERE IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES AND WORE NO ID....MOST OF THE TRUCK AND CARS WERE UNMARKED.... HAD WE NOT TAKEN PICTURES WE WOULD NOT EVEN KNOW WHO HAD "VISITED" US. 3. Request time to review the warrant and to obtain advice with respect to the appropriate course of conduct. EXCELLENT IDEA, WHEN I REACHED FOR THE PHONE TO CALL OUR LAWYER TWO OF THE SWAT TEAM SMEMBERS WITH MP-5s POINTED AT ME INSTRUCTED ME "TO GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THE PHONE" THE FACT THAT I TOLD THEM I WANTETO CALL MY LAWYER DID NOT SEEM TO IMPRESS THAT AT ALL.... AS FOR HAVING TIME TO REVIEW THE WARRANT, THEY DID NOT SEEM INTERESTED IN HEARING ANY ARGUMENTS ON THE SUBJECT.... IS THERE SOME OTHER APPROACH I SHOULD HAVE USED ?? 4. Read the warrant carefully to determine: the premises covered WE ADVISED THE OFFICER IN CHARGE THAT THIS WAS INCORRECT...."NOT IMPORTANT" WAS THE REPLY the specific documents or objects it covers WE ALSO ADVISED THEM OF THE ERRORS IN THIS SECTION...."IT DOES NOT MATTER" REPLIED THE ONE IN CHARGE OF THE RAID.... the alleged offence(s) subject of the warrant NEW: Read the DATE and TIMES that the warrant authorizes search. THESE POINTS WERE CORRECT.... Often, the warrant is invalid because they were supposed to do the search YESTERDAY, or EARLIER TODAY, and entry can then be legally refused. CC s. 488 forbids the execution of a search warrant AT NIGHT, unless "(a) the justice [who issues it] is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for it to be executed by night, (b) the reasonable grounds are included in the Information [laid before the justice to get the warrant], AND (c) the warrant authorizes that it be executed by night." 5. At the same time that the warrant is being reviewed, instruct someone to make the following calls (if not already made): legal counsel I INDICATED ABOVE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE ATTEMPTED TO USE THE PHONE, WE WERE SOME TIME INTO THE SEARCH BEFORE MY WIFE WAS ABLE TO CALL OUR LAWYER.... individuals named in the warrant whose offices are to be searched each should be advised that the search is pending and cautioned that they must not remove, alter or destroy any documents or other material in their offices. HEY THAT MANY PEOPLE CARRYING SUB MACHINE GUNS, SHOTGUNS, STUN GRENADES, HANDGUNS, ETC, ETC....HAVE MY INSTANT OBEDIENCE ASSURED.... >NFA: ADD the local news media GOOD LUCK, IN OUR CASE THEY CLOSED OFF OUR ROADWAY AND TURNED AWAY EVERYBODY WHO SHOWED UP.... FEW PEOPLE APPRECIATE THE "HOSPITALITY" OF ARMED POLICE AT YOU GATE.... >NFA: ADD NFA HQ: (403)439-1394 or NFA- (add prov.branch # here WE WERE UNABLE TO CONTACT THE NFA FOR SEVERAL HOURS.... >NFA NOTE: If told that you must sit down and not use the phone, ask: "Am I under arrest?" If the answer is "No, not YET!" then no one has any right to TOUCH you, or to hinder your use of the telephone. WE TRIED THAT APPROACH BUT I'M A CHICKEN AT HEART, TWO MP-5s POINTED AT MY MID-SECTION MADE ME THAT WAY.... If an officer DOES touch you, then ask again: "Am I under arrest?" If the answer is no, then say: "In that case, take your hand off me -- or I will arrest YOU for assault." [Yes, you ARE authorized to do that by Canadian law, CC s. 494(1) and (3)]. 6. Do not "agree" that the search can be expanded beyond the limits described in the warrant. IN OUR CASE THEY DID ABSOLUTELY AS THEY PLEASED, THEY HAD GUNS AND WE DID NOT.... 7. Do not answer any substantive questions. NFA: More people are convicted from what they SAY than from any other cause. You have a right to SILENCE. USE IT. Unless you know as much about firearms law as the NFA does, you have NO IDEA whether or not you ARE guilty - -- because you may SEEM to be guilty, and yet the NFA can often tell your lawyer why you are NOT. YOU ARE QUITE RIGHT, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.... 8. Do not attempt to impede, physically or ot otherwise, the person executing the warrant. NFA: That is obstruction, and a criminal offence. AND IF YOU HAVE A PUMPED UP BUNCH OF PEOPLE CARRYING AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WITH FINGERS ON THE TRIGGER DON'T EVEN THINK OF GIVING THEM A PROBLEM.... THESE PEOPLE WILL SHOOT FIRST AND ASK QUESTIONS LATER....THEY PROVED THAT ON A NUMBER OF RAIDS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS.... 9. If any documents exist in respect of which solicitor-client privilege may exist, identify the documents and their location and indicate to the search officer that the documents are subject to solicitor-client privilege and that you require that the appropriate procedures be followed to protect the privilege. OH YEAH, THAT IS GAURANTEED TO IMPRESS THEM, HELL WE EVEN HAVE PICTURES OF AN OFFICER STEALING DOCUMENTS.... 10. Keep an accurate log (or copy) of all documents seized. NFA: the searchers are required to file an "Information" with the court to get a search warrant. Unless the justice blocks it, the "Information" is a public document. After executing the warrant, the searchers must file a "Return" with the court, explaining what they did with the warrant and listing what they took. SO: After being searched, go to the court that issued the warrant and request a copy of the Information and Return relating to that warrant. You should be able to get them for the cost of photocopying, and they are VALUABLE. IN OUR CASE THEY SEALED THE WARRANT THEREBY DENYING ACCESS TO ALL WHO ASKED.... THEY WILL GIVE YOU WHATEVER RECEIPTS THEY FEEL LIKE GIVING YOU....WHEN THEY PLEASE.... ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS ACCURATE AND A MATTER OF COURT RECORD. WE CHALLENGED THE WARRANTS AND THEY WERE DECLARED ILLEGAL.... WE CHALLENGED THE RAID UNDER TWO SECTIONS OF THE CANADIAN CHARTER, WE WON.... I THINK WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS "DON'T EXPECT THINGS TO GO DOWN IN A SMOOTH AND ORGANIZED MANNER, THEIR PEOPLE ARE RUNNING ON ADRENALIN, YOU ARE UPSET AND NERVOUS, THE HEAD MAN IS TRYING TO IMPRESS HIS MEN, DON'T BE A HERO, DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID, LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. SORRY FOR DRAGGING ON BUT EVEN AFTER 3.1/2 YEARS THIS EVENT STILL HAS ME FURIOUS. JOHN F ST AMOUR Definition: FASCISM: n.: a political and economic movement, strongly nationalistic, magnifying the rights of the state as opposed to those of the individual, in which industry, though remaining largely under private ownership, and all administrative political units, are controlled by a strong central government. ------------------------------------------------- "One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms". - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. ------------------------------------------------- the German gun control laws were enacted by the "liberal" Weimar Republic government that preceded Hitler, and were a strong aid to his coming to power -- because they disarmed Hitler's opponents, and Hitler's adherents ignored them -- as criminals have always ignored gun control laws. Disarming the public is a frequent first step toward dictatorships and genocides. Once the disarming is complete, the public is helpless against those who have the guns. ------------------------------------------------- "Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, "Politics" ------------------------------------------------- PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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update.402 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:04:23 -0500 (EST) > From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) > Subject: update.402 > PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE > The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News > Number 402 November 13, 1998 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben > Stein > > IMMISCIBLE QUANTUM LIQUIDS. The wavelike overlap of > cooled alkali atoms known as Bose Einstein condensation (BEC) > represents a new form of condensed matter in which physicists can > pursue studies of fluid dynamics, sound propagation, persistent > currents, and many of the coherence phenomena occurring in other > "super" states such as superfluids and superconductors. One notable > BEC innovation introduced in the past year by Wolfgang Ketterle > and his colleagues at MIT was the development of an all-optical trap > (Update 362) which can hold condensate atoms in a number of > distinct (hyperfine) internal states. And just as helium-3 (which has > a magnetic substructure) is a more complex superfluid than > nonmagnetic helium-4, so the multi-component MIT condensate > ought to exhibit behavior not seen in single-component BEC. > Indeed, at the New Horizons in Science meeting in Boston last week > Ketterle reported that when he immersed his BEC in a uniform > magnetic field and a stream of radio waves, those portions of the > condensate in different hyperfine states (m=0 and m=1) quickly > segregated themselves into alternating domains (differing in energies > equivalent to only a few nanokelvins) as if they were oil and > vinegar. Furthermore, these layers unexpectedly persist; in effect > this arrangement of the condensate constitutes a metastable > macroscopically occupied excited state. > THE ARROW OF TIME has been directly measured by two groups > of physicists, one at CERN in Geneva > (www.cern.ch/cplear/Welcome.html) and one at Fermilab > (http://fnphyx-www.fnal.gov/experiments/ktev/ktev.html) near > Chicago. Time reversal (T) is one of those symmetries, along with > charge conjugation (or C, the operation which turns particles into > antiparticles) and parity (or P, the reversal of a particle's > coordinates from x,y,z to -x,-y,-z) that were once thought to be > preserved in interactions at the atomic level. But then experiments > showed that P, C, and the combination CP were not sacred. And > since the triple symmetry of CPT is still thought to be valid, T by > itself was thought to be vulnerable. That is, it is not thought that > physics does differentiate between the forward or backward > movement of time. The two groups have now seen evidence for this > T violation in the observed decay rates for neutral K mesons. > (Science, 2 Oct.; Science News, 31 Oct.) > SONIC BANDGAPS, frequency ranges in which sound waves are ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Satellites Brace for Space Storm
by Frederick Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AP story explains the real reason for the latest showdown with Iraq; Satellite damage from a brush with the lion's tail, the Leonid meteor storm. America's satellite fleet, born under a bad sign, will be sprinkled with high velocity fairy dust in the wake of Comet Tempel-Tuttle. Communications satellites and GPS face the highest risk. The latest Persian Gulf skirmish is mentioned a couple times. Apparently the loss of UN monitors and star-crossed destiny was too much for US security interests. With the loss of satellite services a remote possibility, reestablishment of UN monitoring was paramount. Residents of Baghdad will look at the starry display as a chilling reminder of who controls their destiny. Satellites Brace for Space Storm By Paul Recer AP Science Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-11/15/221l-111598-idx.html

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IP: Wired News: Y2Kaboom?
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Wired News: Y2Kaboom? Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 02:27:52 -0600 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16217.html Y2Kaboom? by Declan McCullagh 12:27 p.m.12.Nov.98.PST WASHINGTON -- America and Russia should shut down their nuclear arsenals rather than risk Armageddon because of Year 2000 glitches, a military research group says in a report released Thursday. Y2K errors could cause the systems to go haywire, leading to erroneous early warning reports or even triggering an accidental launch of a nuclear missile, the British American Security Information Council warned in a 36-page report. Both superpowers keep their arsenals in a constant state of readiness -- a Cold War-era strategy that could backfire with devastating results if the computer gremlins strike. "If Y2K breakdowns were to produce inaccurate early-warning data, or if communications and command channels were to be compromised, the combination of hair-trigger force postures and Y2K failures could be disastrous," said the author of "The Bug in the Bomb: The Impact of the Year 2000 Problem on Nuclear Weapons." Nuclear weapons systems are laced with embedded systems -- controlling functions such as ballistics and sensors -- that have not been declared free from Y2K worries, the report says. Most missles also keep track of time since the last monthly or yearly servicing, which could transform weapons into plutonium-packed paperweights if the systems shut down on 1 January 2000. A Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said nuclear weapons systems have received the Pentagon's full attention and will be in good shape. He added that military leaders are already discussing Y2K issues with their Russian counterparts. Those assurances are not enough to allay the fears of Michael Kraig, the report's author. "There are two problems together that make up one big problem: The sorry state of the [Russian] program and the fact that they don't know information about it," said Kraig, a BASIC fellow. "They're still committed to launch-on-warning and hair-trigger alert status. That, combined with the fact that their program is in such a sorry state, makes us worry." BASIC lobbies for international agreements restricting arms sales and supports complete nuclear disarmament. The Defense Department has been battling accusations that it lags behind other federal agencies in making Y2K repairs, something the agency's top officials are acutely aware of. "I think we're probably going to be the poster child for failure," John Hamre, deputy secretary of defense, told Fortune 500 executives in July. "Nobody cares if the Park Services computers don't come on. OK? But what's going to happen if some do in the [Department of Defense]?" The Clinton administration's September quarterly report on federal agencies says: "The Department of Defense has a massive Year 2000 challenge which must be accomplished on a tight schedule. The Department has improved its rate of progress in addressing the challenge, but the pace must be increased to meet government-wide milestones." The administration's report says that as of this summer, 42 percent of the Pentagon's most vital systems -- 2,965 in all -- have been Y2K cleared. But numbers alone don't reveal the complexity of the Defense Department's Y2K woes, Kraig argues. "There are severe and recurring problems across the entire DOD Y2K remediation program, including ill-defined concepts and operating procedures, ad-hoc funding and spotty estimates for final costs, lax management, insufficient standards for declaring systems 'Y2K compliant,' insufficient contingency planning in case of Y2K-related failures, and poor inter-departmental communications," Kraig wrote. In the preface, Paul Warnke, BASIC's president and chief arms-control negotiator under President Carter, says: "The only prudent course may be to de-alert those nuclear systems where date-related malfunctioning in associated command, control, and communications systems poses even a remote possibility of accidental launch." Copyright © 1994-98 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: [FP] Governors push national ID plan - WND
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> Subject: IP: [FP] Governors push national ID plan - WND Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:44:40 -0600 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com SCAN THIS NEWS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1998 [excerpts from:] Governors push national ID plan Rewrite of executive order could be key http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19981113_xex_governors_pu.shtml By David M. Bresnahan Copyright 1998 WorldNetDaily.com The National Governors Association would like to have a national ID system, and plans to work with the White House to reinstate Executive Order 13083 to make that a reality. The bipartisan NGA is claiming much of the credit for stopping Executive Order 13083, but they also plan to help craft a revised version of the order that will alter the relationship between states and the federal government. An internal document used by the NGA to inform all governors of their goals and objectives was made available to WorldNetDaily, along with a "Fact Sheet on Federalism" used by the White House staff. Both documents were provided by a Republican source. Each document shows that both the White House, and the nation's Governors, plan to put the currently suspended executive order into effect. [snip] "This is because of demands by citizens, businesses, and the federal government to make all government more accessible and open," claims the NGA. "Pressures for uniformity and simplification come from globalization in trade and telecommunications policy, regional environmental quality solutions, and a greater need for some type of personal identification mechanism to combat fraud, crime, illegal immigration, and mismanagement of funds. [snip] Congress passed the "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996," which authorized the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the Department of Transportation to establish a national ID system through the use of driver's licenses. Those guidelines are spelled out in Section 656 (b) of the act. They include the use of Social Security numbers on all licenses, and in all data bases beginning Oct. 1, 2000. The act also calls for digitized biometric information to be a part of each license, or "smart card." The biometric information will include fingerprints, retina scans, DNA prints, and other similar information. Thousands of letters of protest were received by the Department of Transportation during a public comment period, which concluded in October. The exposure of the plan in WorldNetDaily, and the outcry that followed, prompted Congress to place a moratorium on the national ID, as well as the medical ID law. [snip] Congress included three clauses in the omnibus appropriations bill to withhold funds for implementation of the national ID, medical ID and Executive Order 13083. Apparently the governors are not pleased with those actions, according to their document. [snip] The documents obtained by WorldNetDaily clearly show that the NGA would like to facilitate a national ID system, and the organization believes Executive Order 13083, with some revisions, is needed to facilitate that. ------------------------------------------ David M. Bresnahan (David(a)talkusa.com) is a contributing editor of WorldNetDaily.com, is the author of "Cover Up: The Art and Science of Political Deception," and offers a monthly newsletter "Talk USA Investigative Reports." David M. Bresnahan - Investigative Journalist P.O. Box 1168, West Jordan, UT 84084-7168 off: (801) 562-5362 fax: (801) 562-1341 book orders: 800-338-8824 website: http://talkusa.com e-mail: david(a)talkusa.com ------------------------------------------ For more on the NGA, go to their web page at: http://www.nga.org/ where you'll find articles on such tipics as: "o Voice of the Governors: 50 States Surge Past Deadline To Extend Children s Health "o News: Governors Report on Legislative Record and Condition of the Federal-State Partnership "o Policy Forum: New Flexibility, New Opportunities: Strengthening State-Local Workforce Systems Using the Workforce Investment Act [Thanks to Jim Groom for the article link] ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <fingerprint(a)networkusa.org> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <majordomo(a)efga.org> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. 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IP: Stranger than fiction....
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Stranger than fiction.... Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 02:09:20 -0600 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: London Times http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?2182225 Computer bobbies to take over from PCs POLICE in Greater Manchester are to test plans to replace some police stations with unstaffed computer kiosks that resemble hole-in-the-wall bank machines. People anxious to report an emergency or speak to a policeman would use a touch screen to be put through by telephone, and eventually by video link, to the nearest control room. They would be able to ask the time or receive directions electronically, at the touch of the screen. Senior officers believe that the machines, known as customer interaction points or communications kiosks, will appear in every high street and will become as familiar as cash machines and the old blue police boxes. The hole-in- the- wall proposals - which will be tested in Salford as part of a plan to reduce the number of police stations - grew from a review of the Greater Manchester Police force's property as part of a budget crisis. Supporters of the plan insist that the need to cut costs is only a means to push through an inevitable and welcome technological change which more adequately reflects changing police methods. Stuart Render, the force spokesman, said that most people reported crime, from burglaries to emergencies, over the telephone, and increasingly by mobile phone. They rarely needed to go to a police station, except to present documents. The kiosks would release money for frontline officers instead of tying it up in property. The first machines could be in libraries, supermarkets or on the street, he said. "In the future in every high street there will probably be some kind of hole-in-the-wall police contact point where you will be able to make contact with a 24-hour control room or find out things about community safety and so on. That way technology gives us flexibility and accessibility to improve our level of service and keep officers on the front line rather than having them manning police stations." The pilot scheme will be discussed as part of the larger rationalisation at a meeting of the Police Authority on Friday. Chief Superintendent Chris Wells, Divisional Commander in Salford, said: "None of the existing police stations will close until replacement facilities have been installed. "The vast majority of people that access our service do not visit a police station, they use a telephone. We are looking to increase our effectiveness and these proposals together with new technology will take us in that direction." He said people would be able to see town centre maps and get basic directions from the kiosks, as well as information on crime prevention, details about area constables, missing persons, Crimestoppers and witness support. Senior officers acknowledge that their biggest problem will be persuading a sceptical public of the advantages. Barry Evans, the force's director of information technology, is aware of the need to "carry a myriad of people" along with him and that the machines must prove their worth. Karen Garrido, chairwoman of the Boothstown police and community consultative group, based in Salford, is opposed to the scheme. Boothstown police station is scheduled to be closed within 12 months. She said: "I am totally against the closure. The people should be asked what they want and I don't think they will want a little box or a hole in the wall instead." A spokesman for Age Concern, which has offices in Eccles, Salford, said: "We believe it would be quite daunting for an old person who does not have a telephone to leave their home and use one of these machines." Copyright 1998 Times Newspapers Ltd. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: U.S. Must Re-Think Strategy to Counter WMD Threat
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: U.S. Must Re-Think Strategy to Counter WMD Threat Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:14:50 -0600 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: US Newswire http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1113-110.txt Weapons Expert: U.S. Must Re-Think Military Strategy U.S. Newswire 13 Nov 11:04 Weapons Expert: U.S. Must Re-Think Military Strategy to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat To: National Desk Contact: Paige McMahon, 301-320-8053. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The United States must devise a military force structure that makes possible a rapid response to future crises involving the manufacture and use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), according to Dr. Robert W. Chandler, an expert in the strategic use of WMD and author of the just-published The New Face of War (AMCODA). "The U.S. military mindset is rooted in conventional warfighting tactics," said Chandler, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former NATO advisor. "While we're waiting for carriers to get in position and making sure our fighters have a place to park, Iraq is working feverishly to hide and disperse the targets, which are the labs and equipment they use to manufacture biological and chemical weapons. At this moment, they're unbolting machinery and moving it to sheds, to civilian residential areas, and out into the desert. By the time we get around to bombing the factories, they will be empty." "Wouldn't it be nice to destroy their weapons of mass destruction before they are hidden? Targets are perishable, like vegetables and fruit. If you wait too long to destroy them, by the time you hit the target it's rotten. That is to say, they've been altered to the point where they have little or no value," said Chandler, who predicted Iraq's intent to use weapons of mass destruction to alter the balance of power in the region in his first book, Tomorrow's War, Today's Decisions (AMCODA, 1996). "Absent a U.S. ability to strike quickly and deliberately, we have no choice but Saddam's current game, where he plays the Roadrunner and we are the wiley coyote," Chandler said. "Saddam Hussein sees peace with U.N. weapons inspections as a losing proposition. From his perspective, the only chance to end the hated weapons inspections and end the U.N.'s economic sanctions is to force his countrymen to endure another bombing in the anticipation that it will satisfy world opinion, and lead to the lifting of sanctions. Dictators like Saddam Hussein need to pay off those who keep them in power military, police, and other elites with economic rewards. The sanctions cut into that ability and weaken his grip. "The U.S. must create a Global Reconnaissance and Strike Complex to develop the military strategy and fighting forces necessary to meet the challenges of WMD proliferation. We must mass firepower, not forces, and we must make time work to our advantage." ------ Dr. Chandler lives and works in McLean, Va., and is available for broadcast and print interviews. You may contact Chandler directly at his office, 703-356-6927 (evenings/weekends: 703-883-0324). For more information, contact Paige McMahon, 301-320-8053. -0- /U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ 11/13 11:04 Copyright 1998, U.S. Newswire ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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