December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Disinformation in L.A.
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just watched on CNN the images of the raid on the "militia cell" in L.A., cited as a cell having "thousands and thousands" of rounds of ammo (ooh, scary!), and of having "anti-government literature" (there ought to be a law against this kind of stuff!). They also claimed they found "armor-piercing rounds" and "cop-killer bullets." Well, I saw the cops and their shill reporters demonstrating what many of us have in our own arsenals. (The Second Amendment should be repealed!) The cops claim they know that "something was being planned." And how do they know this? Probably the standard method: infiltrate a narc into the group and have him plant ideas and spout extremist rhetoric, then use this same rhetoric to get a compliant judge to issue a search warrant, even if no actual crime has been committed. (Except the search warrant is used as a "raid warrant," with black-clad ninjas breaking down the doors...and if the victims inside think they're under attack by unnamed thugs and try to fight back, a good reason for the ninjas to start shooting. A good way to dispose of dissidents and heighten the sense of panic.) We live in a police state. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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DoD computer security
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- May be of interest: == Forwarded Message Follows ========================================= Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 23:22:55 -0700 From: Alan Hersh <cyberwiz(a)web-site.com> To: GsuNet List <gsunet-l(a)bgu.edu> Subject: Computer Attacks at Department of Defense http://www.fas.org/irp/gao/aim96084.htm Information Security: Computer Attacks at Department of Defense Pose Increasing Risks (Chapter Report, 05/22/96, GAO/AIMD-96-84) Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the extent to which Department of Defense (DOD) computer systems are attacked, focusing on the: (1) potential for further damage to DOD computer systems; and (2) challenges DOD faces in securing sensitive information on its computer systems. ==================================================================== Ciao Harka /*************************************************************/ /* This user supports FREE SPEECH ONLINE ...more info at */ /* and PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS! -> http://www.epic.org */ /* E-mail: harka(at)nycmetro.com (PGP-encrypted mail pref'd) */ /* PGP public key available upon request. [KeyID: 04174301] */ /* F-print: FD E4 F8 6D C1 6A 44 F5 28 9C 40 6E B8 94 78 E8 */ /*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ /* May there be peace in this world, may all anger dissolve */ /* and may all living beings find the way to happiness... */ /*************************************************************/ ... Want to use PGP? -> http://bureau42.base.org/public/pgpsteps.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM3SXszltEBIEF0MBAQFmbAf/XMMsgXtxqb5o+Stsl63Kp5wFDaVbXThp bb8sIQfkxR8Zqq1CKw69wi/usX3ouw/3ejI856QviS72o50F2HLRuv3U213dOp/L AhPEBO7qF1otr9Ucrw5L42fE5nH89ZRlzHwuNr8+eA1CjjYF+IUNCAzKziebyqzY WdGeswMP8PWDocviJMl70o3FsNBJnj4HPom0Za3qVY8wXr3J+2i5LeSqLk0t7Yeo 5mDIiQiRXck/fVYeYSWR3lyXkj3nWxKSM1bhVxjfuzLaeUVbHFTB8rRxTSkqYz88 FenmXC9NFFYYrFKyQfXvb2hoRGoJxvtOBt3X76WpPw1moa3l83HTtQ== =yYeC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

## Newsgroups: Subject: Re: Disinformation in L.A. On or About 10 May 97 at 19:23, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > Duncan Frissell wrote: > > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Kent Crispin wrote: > > > > > I would expect a "cypherpunk riot" to be a little more aimed at > > > cyberspace than real-world suburban neighborhoods. Wouldn't > > > you? > > There will be a few unfortunate explosions in the world over the > > next few years so I'm sure Tim is just hoping for a beneficial > > target selection. Those who tell don't know, those who know don't tell. > Duncan, it is doubtful that there is any member of this mailing > list, at least of those whom I have seen posting, who will dare to > raise his fat ass and blow something up. Man, Igor, you really hit that on the head. My "blowing things up" days are long over. That was 20 years or more ago AND 50-75 pounds. I say "Leave that to the younger ones, who think they are indestructable, anyway" > The "radicals" are mostly sitting and waiting for something dramatic > to happen, preferably as far from their nice houses and bank > accounts as possible. I've got a nice condo, a wife who is straight arrow, and a bigger bank account than I had in the militant hippie daze. I would, however take up arms for the cause of state's rights. I love my state far more than my country, even if I am a Nam vet. Of course I do considerable fire power at my disposal. All legal, by the way (at the time of this writing). > Jim Bell might be an exception, but I would not bet on him.

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Re: One-Time Pads as Attack Method
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The problem that someone might plant a message and a one-time-pad on >your machine makes for a good spy story; I would be more worried about >someone claiming that I had illegal software on my machine, since they >can always come up with a one-time-pad that will decode some file that >I do have on my machine (if they have access to it) and have the >``decoded'' text be a copyrighted program for which I do not have a >license. All the more reason to use a good disk encryption program to keep private as muc of you disk as possible (under CryptDisk/PGPDisk its everything but the System Folder). --Steve PGP mail preferred Fingerprint: FE 90 1A 95 9D EA 8D 61 81 2E CC A9 A4 4A FB A9 Key available on BAL server, http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Schear | tel: (702) 658-2654 CEO | fax: (702) 658-2673 First ECache Corporation | 7075 West Gowan Road | Suite 2148 | Las Vegas, NV 89129 | Internet: azur(a)netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- I know not what instruments others may use, but as for me, give me Ecache or give me debt. SHOW ME THE DIGITS!

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Re: Wine Politics Again!
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I am shipping a few bottles of California's finest merlot (much nicer that >the trendy cabernets) to my sister and her husband in Hollywood, FL. Why not also include a bottle of Thunderbird for Chiles? --Steve PGP encrypted mail PREFERRED (See MIT/BAL servers for my PK) PGP Fingerprint: FE 90 1A 95 9D EA 8D 61 81 2E CC A9 A4 4A FB A9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Schear (N7ZEZ) | Internet: azur(a)netcom.com 7075 West Gowan Road | Voice: 1-702-658-2654 Suite 2148 | Fax: 1-702-658-2673 Las Vegas, NV 89129 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can; The weapons that make the difference; And the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people that got in my way;-) "Surveilence is ultimately just another form of media, and thus, potential entertainment." --G. Beato "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." -General William Westmoreland

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Crypto Campaign
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "A ghost goes around in the world...the ghost of crypto" Such as Marx's line described the general fear of governments in terms of communism, so it may be adapted to cryptography. World-wide we see strenuous work to hinder, prohibit, outlaw free crypto in favor of the surveillance states. And reality shows, why they can do so: only a fraction of the Net-population is using it. Therefore it might be time for a wide-spread campaign to further the use of crypto. "Use a cipher...be cool!". While a lot of Cypherpunks may do so on an individual level already, it will not reach the other 30 million or so. IMHO we need something of the extent of the "Blue Ribbon Campaign", where almost everybody became aware of it and involved in. On some german crypto-webpages, they have a nice symbol for their campaign against the [german] "telecommunications act": a bug. Check out http://www5.inm.de/tkg/ for some graphics (the page is in german, but the pictures speak enough). Such might be a good way to make people aware of the isues at hand and spread free crypto. The german magazine "Der Spiegel" had last week an "E-Vote" on their web page: "If it were easy enough to encrypt your e-mail, would you use cryptography?" - more than 80 percent said yes. Clearly a call to our code-writing members. If we could initiate such a campaign, that besides giving info on the current attempts to make crypto "surveillance-friendly" etc., also gives not-so-technical users an easy way to use crypto for themselves, then we might affect the current state of affaires much more, than to endlessly rant and rage against it here in our Cypherpunk-Niche. "Use a cipher - be cool!" Ciao Harka /*************************************************************/ /* This user supports FREE SPEECH ONLINE ...more info at */ /* and PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS! -> http://www.epic.org */ /* E-mail: harka(at)nycmetro.com (PGP-encrypted mail pref'd) */ /* PGP public key available upon request. [KeyID: 04174301] */ /* F-print: FD E4 F8 6D C1 6A 44 F5 28 9C 40 6E B8 94 78 E8 */ /*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ /* May there be peace in this world, may all anger dissolve */ /* and may all living beings find the way to happiness... */ /*************************************************************/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBM3SoQDltEBIEF0MBAQFsLgf+MxtIEZkAI+T3OUPywvfkkmpALKXbGDHE fsSy5/xfh1LuePX8I6daBx7ZJ8e+lHZ4NpjJ20NOTcS7Bcy2W72GvUiiqTEb9UEK siGv99CUnN0wiDtsufMZ8FAjalyzoHrebOiaMGxFW9nqa1ba2qtnVz/D4GdadcP5 vNGmw881bMZvsi4/pw2YxpjXDZY03f5lwfdfaXPDBjOqJJFkG2DId58RwvTbh+B9 ciBDXRlRaH/ZmphA2Pq10AmI6PoegplKt4SeghQT1JB6S0BRGeE7e9cxfAMWIaqt AV+e0Qcf4q/QEgwzhN61noLeacPMaoNImOhrd8vabDUn3//5YCmHFg== =Wv29 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: One-Time Pads as Attack Method
by 00043.an＠edtec.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Your response is most interesting! It almost implies you can't publish for(i=0;i < filesize(B); i++) C[i] = A[i] ^ file_contents[i]; I wonder why the difficulty in simply (I thought of actually going ahead and doing this): Take a posting (B.) to cpunks by Tim May. THese get disseminated quite widely and he's well-known; his thoughts and style should make deniability of the message difficult. Calculate C = B ^ A such that A = kiddie porn of your choice. Post the UUENCODE of C. to cypherpunks, send the binary to Tim, etc. Call your favorite Agency to investigate. Your variant in which the file B. is known, as in KRNL386.EXE is also viable, if not more so! Is posting a TRANSFORM such as a 'OTP' that converts copyrighted material A into copyrighted material B a violation of anything, I wonder... You could convert everybody's Internet Explorer into a ZIP file containing a setup and executable for Netscape 3.0!! At 10:33 AM 5/10/97 -0400, Peter D. Junger wrote: >00043.an(a)edtec.com writes: > >: >: 1. Agents of the Enemy wish to create the appearance of you possessing >: document A. >: 2. They obtain some artifact you have emailed, or posted, or possess on >: your private local storage. --- >: Possibly even signed. Call this message B. >: 3. They create the XOR of A and B, the result being a 'one time pad' C. >: which of course, gives: >: private message B XOR C = target bogus message A. This result is of course >: not a one time pad; >: the plan is to accuse you of possessing materials that prove you are >: trading with the enemy, >: exchanging kiddie-porn, any of the usual things. >: 4. This 'one time pad' file C. somehow finds its way into your possession: >: it is an email attachment, >: embedded in some binary --- it could even be stego'ed into a GIF/JPG. >: 5. The agents break down the door and seize all your effects. >: 6. They are able to prove that you possess B and C, the XOR of which is A., >: a fact that is impossible >: to have happened at random. >: 7. The jury doesn't know shit, and figures that if the chances of B ^ C = A >: by accident are 0, >: then you must be guilty. > >It was in part for the purpose of demonstrating this possibility that I >wrote the OPT program that I later realized that I could not publish in >any form under the ITAR and cannot publish in electronic form under the >new Commerce Department export regulations (unless I apply for a license >(that I probably cannot get) from the government, a requirement that >violates the First Amendment to the United States constitution). And it >was the restraints on publishing that and other crypto programs that led >me to file suit to enjoin the enforcement of the export restrictions on >cryptography. > >The problem that someone might plant a message and a one-time-pad on >your machine makes for a good spy story; I would be more worried about >someone claiming that I had illegal software on my machine, since they >can always come up with a one-time-pad that will decode some file that >I do have on my machine (if they have access to it) and have the >``decoded'' text be a copyrighted program for which I do not have a >license. > >Do you think that Microsoft has a one-time-pad that will convert >Netscape 3.1 into Word for Windows? > > >-- >Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH > EMAIL: junger(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu > NOTE: junger(a)pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu no longer exists > > >

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Re: War & InfoWar
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Blanc wrote: > TruthMonger wrote: > > Of course, you have your own definintion of innocenent bystanders, > >while others may have different definitions. > .......................................................... > To me, an innocent bystander would be someone who was walking by a building > which was blown up by someone with a grudge against its occupants. > > You lose the point of your attack when you kill those who do not relate to > the reason for your attack. Not necessarily. Free thinkers are perfectly capable of judging the reasons behind those involved on both sides of a conflict, and making an individual judgement as to the culpability of both parties. When a citizen shoots an intruder who is breaking into their house and threatening their saftey, there will always be family members, lawyers and anti-gun proponents who will decry the individual's use of force to defend their home and person/family. There are others, whoever, who will recognize that the perpetrator is the one who is ultimately responsible for placing the homeowner in the position of having a need to defend themself. Personally, if I need to worry about my life because my government's actions makes them an actionable target of an increasing number of the citizens, then I am going to take action to change the government. I do not deny anyone's right to suffer silently, but neither do I deny an individual's right to strike out at the source of their oppression. If you have developed a method for waging war without ordinary citizens coming into the line of fire, then I would like to hear about it. I don't like conflict any more than the next person, but I do not see concession to the oppressor as a viable option just because conflict will cause loss and heartache. Take a look at the results of the appeasement policy that Britain had in regard to Hitler. It resulted in scores of deaths that could have been prevented had those proposing it taken a firm stand that supported freedom from tyranny. The fact is that Tim McVeigh is facing criminal charges for his chosen actions, while the murderers at Waco are not. Until the average citizens demand the same justice for government agents as is demanded of anti-government agents, the average John or Jane Doe can expect to get caught in the crossfire. TruthMonger

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Vlad-smear blows himself...
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: > kC on TCM: > > > >"May they all be vaporized." > > > >"Every day that passes, I'm more convinced that McVeigh did the right thing. > >Some innocents died, but, hey, war is hell. Broken eggs and all that." > yeah, I've noticed that TCM is really uptight lately and has been way off > the scale (more so than usual) on the "panty-knot" scale. what gives, > Tim? I think the situation is mostly he's so upset that congress is > discussing bills with the words "crypto" in them, which is apparently > enough to make him cringe with terror. > > when the CDA was being passed, I think his hemor^h^h^h rhetoric > swelled up then too as well. but look at what happened with the > CDA-- it got challenged, killed by lower courts, > and is stuck in the supreme court, likely > to be struck down there too. far from the end of the world forecast > by some here. Get real. The Feds have attacks going on a dozen fronts on anything they support or oppose and they don't particularly care if a bill is constitutional or not, as long as it achieves the desired effect. They are happy as long as they can terrorize enough citizens and businesses with threats of imprisonment to move things in their desired direction. > do we have a constitution or not? if so, we have nothing to worry > about. What a crock of shit! This is just another variation of "It's not perfect, but it's the best sytem we've got." Why is it always the oppressors who seem so enamored of the way the system works? > TCM is terrified by virtually anything that happens in govt, which is > amusing and comical at times. If I thought Vlad-smear was not a paid government schill, then I would assume he is a fucking idiot. I love to see how quickly "patriots" stop waving the red, white and blue once the government's stick gets shoved up their own butt. Believe it or not, Vlad-smear, there are individuals who fight against loss of freedom and liberty even when it is someone else who is getting screwed. TruthMonger

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Re: War & InfoWar
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TruthMonger wrote: > The fact is that Tim McVeigh is facing criminal charges for his >chosen actions, while the murderers at Waco are not. > Until the average citizens demand the same justice for government >agents as is demanded of anti-government agents, the average John >or Jane Doe can expect to get caught in the crossfire. ........................................................ Well, you're an average citizen. Have you demanded the same justice for govmt agents, and was your demand honored? Gee, too bad. Tough luck. .. Blanc .. Blanc

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Certified primes
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Given Timothy May's propensity to molest little children, is it any surprise that the state of California wants to have him castrated? /\ o-/\ Timothy May ///\|/\\\ / /|\ \

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Money orders, debit cards, ...
by daw＠cs.berkeley.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Some court transcripts from the McVeigh case contain interesting information about real-life anonymous systems. See http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/okc.trial/transcripts/may/050697.eve.html Did you know that money orders are not so anonymous as you might think? On the order itself are digits identifying the post office where the order was purchased, as well as the date of purchase. Also, a private company testified on their money order service, and it comes out that they keep a computerized record of every money order purchase in a central database. Eek. And read about a real-life instance of traffic analysis of phone calls based on timing correlations. This one really happened, folks (though it was by mistake). Also, read about how a company offering prepaid debit cards searched through billions of records to find all phone calls to or from a certain number, etc. Read about how they entered a disk containing information on 100,000--200,000 phone calls (!) into evidence. (Note: contents of calls are protected by law, but traffic analysis specifically is allowed, far as I can tell.) And you value your privacy? Too bad!

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Re: The War is Underway
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >However, while we may think their power is gone, or is almost gone, they >think otherwise. And we're seeing an accelerating pace of lawmaking, as >laws are being generated by the 50 states, the various municipalities, and, >of course, the Feds. Even the lawmakers can't explain what their laws will >mean, or who will be prosecuted, or how many new prisons will have to be >built to handle the new felons. .......................................................... It's a terrible thing, a terrible course of events. But consider that they are but the tip of the iceberg; what fuels them is all those supportive constituents in their voting districts. What do you recommend be done to *them*? .. Blanc .. Blanc

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Re: Wine Politics Again!
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >Give me a break. The "he must be drunk" argument is the cheapest shot, no >pun intended, in the book. > >(And, please, knock of the use of "Timothy" is a post where one disagrees. >If "Tim" is fine for most responses, why the sudden formal "Timothy"? >Another rhetorical device.) ......................................................... I was being facetious, Timmy. .. Blanc (I'd say more, but right now I have to go watch "The 5th Element".) .. Blanc

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Re: Wine Politics Again!
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From frissell(a)panix.com: >At 12:35 AM 5/10/97 -0700, Blanc wrote: >>Timothy must be drunk; I can't believe he said this. Because he wouldn't >>spend so much time writing sensible things of Truth & Light, if he thought >>the better thing to do for achieving libertarian values was to kill so >>indiscriminately with a bomb. After all, he subscribes to utmost >>discrimination. So I think right now he's less in the engagement of >>Reason and more under the influence of maybe some Bud Light. > >He didn't say it was a better thing to do. He said he was coming to understand McVeigh's actions. ................................................................. He didn't explicity say it was the better thing to do. But when there is a decision to be made about a course of action to take, and there are choices available and you select one over another, you have evidenced which one you think is the better. >Tim is helping (in his way) to convince others of the facts of the matter. Dramatic statements carry the message better. Lately Tim has been making extremely dramatic death statements: "Kill them all...they are unworthy of life.", "... I pray for the deaths of these criminals.", "Washington is a cancer than can only be cured with a few megatons of nuclear disinfectant.", "May they all be vaporized.", etc. These are definitely dark in mood and understandable; I also have violently negative & despairing emotions about these people. I just wouldn't ever think of involving those who are innocent bystanders and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is the same kind of flaw which collectivists make when they set up groups, governments, any kind of organization: they take a broad sweep of the population, without being particular about any exceptions to their rules or their plans. It has always been the defining element in what is different about the U.S. from other countries, that individuals receive more attention and recognition as single entities, with their own defining characteristics, than anywhere else in the world. We are more free to descriminate, to think of people as responsible for their own actions and as deserving of just consequences for them. It muddies this concept, to lump a large aggregate of people into one and treat them all as being the same entity; it takes the mind from being able to think in terms of specifics, into thinking instead in broad considerations which overlook the particulars. Technology delivers to the single person the possibility of efficacy on their level, as compared to having to wait for some overseeing body of authorities to deliver solutions from their stock of tools & means. Technology also makes it possible to be even more precise about cause & effect - so that the tools one uses can be of benefit only to the user without affecting anyone else who is not interested in participating, or in being affected by, what anyone else may be doing. I know that critical times call for critical action, but I just don't expect from anarchist libertarian cypherpunks that they would "throw caution to the wind" (so to speak) and forget how to think about events and actions in terms of specifics and utter precision. .. Blanc .. Blanc

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Re: War & InfoWar
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: > At 09:15 PM 5/10/97 CST, TruthMonger wrote: > > The government has prosecuted dozens of individuals for planning > >to bomb the OK city Federal Building (including executed murderers). > >It has long been listed as a target of choice for anti-government > >paramilitarists. > > Can somebody confirm this? Cite? Below, from the cypherpunks archives: ------------------- As MediaFilter reported: The March edition of Taking Aim, the newsletter of the Militia of Montana, issued a call to arms for April 19, the day of the Oklahoma blast: Federal prosecutors in (Richard Snell's) the '88 trial claimed that the '83 plot_which included counterfeiting, armed robberies and plans to assassinate federal judges and the Arkansas FBI chief_was to begin with the detonation of a truck bomb at the Oklahoma City Federal Building. All of the defendants were acquitted. But that very same building would be blown up by a truck bomb on the very day of Richard Snell's execution. Snell died knowing of the explosion. His last words were a warning to Arkansas Governor Guy Tucker: "Look over your shoulder, justice is on the way..." TruthBomber ----------------------- Planning the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building has long been as standard an exercise for paramilitarists as typing "The quick brown fox..." has been for typists. The trial mentioned above is not the only one in which the targeting of the OKC Federal Building was involved as a goal of paramilitary objectives. To think that federal security personnel in Oklahoma City were unaware of this is ludicrous. The fact that they allowed a daycare to be placed there (or perhaps initiated the action) is as criminal an act as the bombing itself. Naturally, there will be no trial or investigation of government criminality in this regard, but only of the actions of anti-government criminals. Freedom and liberty in the world is not in the hands of the citizens, but in the hands of those who are concerned about it. (The same as high-fashion or many other mental constructs.) There may not be an overt war taking place between the average citizen and the government, but there is one taking place between the government and those who oppose the draconian limitations being placed on their freedom and liberty under the guise of "rule of law." Dr. Roberts ~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: The War is Underway (fwd)
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 10 May 1997, Adam Back wrote: > > Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > > However, while we may think their power is gone, or is almost gone, they > > think otherwise. And we're seeing an accelerating pace of lawmaking, [...] [The fork in the road is discussed] > > Who will actually win? > > > > I think we will. They think they will. The war is underway. > > So what are we doing to fight our side? (Apart from fantasizing > about nuking the bastards till they glow :-) > > So what can cypherpunks do? > > Write code? Yes. One of the major stumbling blocks I have run into is a lack of code which really is refined and reviewed enough to serve the purposes I need it to serve. FC97 did a lot to make some more obscure things obvious, and familiarize the players with each other, but the details are often hard to come by. Many of the applications out there are painfully behind in interface areas forcing developers to use complicated "toolkits" which often lack the basics we need. Finding an analogy to easily explain even the basics to a customer is very difficult unless the front end jibes with the attempt. The amount of confusion over what represents a good algorithm is also interesting. Take CAST, which seems a promising cipher and which we considered using over IDEA. On asking 4 "experts" about CAST, I got 4 answers. 1> A 64 bit cipher with 40 bits secret. 2> A 64 bit cipher - not expected to be very complete. 3> A 128 bit cipher. 4> "Not worth discussing." In fact, as I understand it, CAST is of variable key length (Up to 128 bits), and quite resistant to many attacks which plague DES and even IDEA. But digging out that information was painfully difficult. (It may not even be correct). > Perhaps it's time for some stego interfaces to remailers. > > Usually around this time Black Unicorn gives us his wish list of > crypto anarchy apps. I'm not sure we've progressed much towards his > wish list since the last time he posted it. Most of what concerns me is the need to keep keylengths "obscenely large" because what is obscene today may not be so obscene after 5 years of chilled crypto development. Given the success (or lack thereof) of my call to arms before, I'm not sure I'll be anxious to repeat it soon. (The largest keylength of any widely used cipher of which I am aware remains at 128. There still is no effective PipeNet, no real mainstream "stealth crypto." No significant work on detering traffic analysis or denial of service with the exception of the below). > I thought the Eternity Service I announced a week or so ago was a step > towards reducing the possibility for government censorship of web pages. > (http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/eternity/) Not much interest to date. > Ideas stand on their merit, but the success of crypto anarchy services > also depends on ease of use, funding, volunteer effort, publicity, and > evangelizing. I haven't done much of the latter yet lacking an > example server to bootstrap the system, I hope to have this up in a > few weeks. Hearty kudos. An online bank is useless if it can be blocked by a few keystrokes. (But that's what secure INMARSAT phones are for too) Still, these are areas that I wish c'punks would start looking at again. Even if strong unforfeited crypto is legal in the U.S., it will not be in other countries for quite some time. There is strength in numbers, not just safety. The more crypto users there are, the less government, or anyone else, can do about it. C'punks should wish to provide clandestine crypto services for the entire population. Laws which may or may not pass in the United States should bore c'punks, because they should realize that legislation is irrelevent because the genie is already out of the bottle. Unfortunately, I don't think the genie is all the way out of the bottle. NOTE: I'm not on cypherpunks anymore, mail me directly for replies. -- Forward complaints to : European Association of Envelope Manufactures Finger for Public Key Gutenbergstrasse 21;Postfach;CH-3001;Bern Vote Monarchist Switzerland Rebel Directive #7:Avoid soccer games when a government assault threatens.

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Re: Mondex
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C[unt] May is a pimply dweeb sitting at a computer chortling at his own imagined cleverness. ||||||||||| \~0/ \0~/ < (0) > --oOO--/|||\--OOo- Tim C[unt] May

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Political action and cypherpunks
by Michael Wilson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Given the recent comments on cypherpunks, I thought I would point out a potentially useful resource: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4843/ It might give the more 'political action' minded some useful ideas. MW Hierarchical organizations of all sorts orient around a monopoly. That monopoly may be of force (as in 'gunpowder empires'), information (particularly in intelligence organizations), command (as in military or political structures), benefit (family or religious structures, where the hierarchical control comes from the ability to dispense food, wealth, etc.), interpretation (as in the Soviet State, which was the arbiter of the dialectic), etc. Monopoly reservation or control of some resource automatically equates to a dependency. What does this say about the battle to control cryptography? This is my PGP key; there are many like it, but this one is mine: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzKfDM8AAAEEANn6IkHPSVLZS+z74L50to0yKIPyBD1620wvo28N9hZwVdaK w7NvAAbX37NPfmTAikqQyN38AB22h8+LQw6tKJQFMBFCz6slGPlRmgMOmELZQZ0w TO7NtPVpHqoe5nywd4msZr+VPFu0SuG7EWq57v/H8LG8PglvgLXwnqtr0xcZAAUT tCRNaWNoYWVsIFdpbHNvbiA8NTUxNDcwNkBtY2ltYWlsLmNvbT4= =wMsF -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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test1
by Igor Chudov ＠ home 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

test

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Intel for the War Underway
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The May 10 Economist has a special survey of global electronic commerce. It's a timely piece of battlespace intelligence for Tim's "war underway." It pinpoints financial soft target CyberPromos receiving favorable crypto treatment by the world's governments to manage the Net. Eric Hughes is featured in its analysis of the birth or death struggle of digital cash -- the key battle, if you will, of breaking the global banks and ranks of centralized information. A battle underway in the US by the TLAs, the Key Recovery Alliance and the ABAs of the banks and the lawyers aiming for supremacy -- domestic and global -- by managing ever-thinning wallets.

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Re: Wine Politics Again! (fwd)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Tim May wrote: > At 4:09 AM -0800 5/9/97, Robert Hettinga wrote: > >--- begin forwarded text ... > >Hello friends of the Virtual Vineyards and family wineries. Remember the > >felony direct shipping law in Georgia I wrote about a few weeks ago? Well, > >Governor Miller signed it, unfortunately. Ship a bottle of wine, go to > >jail. Amazing. It should go without saying that this is a classic case of a dumb bill, being passed to serve the special interest of liquor store owners. > Chiles and his co-conspirators should be shot for high crimes against the > Constitution. After Clinton, Freeh, Kerrey, and the other traitors. It should go without saying that the above is nonsense. Sorry Tim. To take only the least obvious point: the Constitution states in Amendment 21 -- ratified in 1933 and beyond any argument part of our Constitution -- that states get to make all the rules about the transportation or importation of liquor into their jurisdiction. You may not like this rule, but it is beyond any serious argument our law. A state that uses this power in a stupid way is not acting in any sense "unconstitutionally". Supporters of this bill can be called "dumb" or "bought and paid for" or other unkind things. But I fail to see how exercising a constitutional right can be a crime against the constitution. [... ugly stuff about "soft targets"] It ill behooves participants in a democracy to either advocate or even tolerate or even cluck sympathetically at mass murder for political ends. This way lies Bosnia. A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | "Cyberspace" is not a place. U. Miami School of Law | [No email to foil spam] P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warm here.

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No Subject
by Helton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

cypherpunks-request

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-------------------------------- File courtesy of Outlaw Labs -------------------------------- ============================================================================ ------------------------------------------------- - Documentation and Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb - ------------------------------------------------- ============================================================================ ______________ / \ <-} DISCLAIMER {-> \______________/ The information contained in this file is strictly for academic use alone. Outlaw Labs will bear no responsibility for any use otherwise. It would be wise to note that the personnel who design and construct these devices are skilled physicists and are more knowledgeable in these matters than any layperson can ever hope to be... Should a layperson attempt to build a device such as this, chances are s/he would probably kill his/herself not by a nuclear detonation, but rather through radiation exposure. We here at Outlaw Labs do not recommend using this file beyond the realm of casual or academic curiosity. ============================================================================ ----------------------- -+ Table of Contents +- ----------------------- I. The History of the Atomic Bomb ------------------------------ A). Development (The Manhattan Project) B). Detonation 1). Hiroshima 2). Nagasaki 3). Byproducts of atomic detonations 4). Blast Zones II. Nuclear Fission/Nuclear Fusion ------------------------------ A). Fission (A-Bomb) & Fusion (H-Bomb) B). U-235, U-238 and Plutonium III. The Mechanism of The Bomb ------------------------- A). Altimeter B). Air Pressure Detonator C). Detonating Head(s) D). Explosive Charge(s) E). Neutron Deflector F). Uranium & Plutonium G). Lead Shield H). Fuses IV. The Diagram of The Bomb ----------------------- A). The Uranium Bomb B). The Plutonium Bomb ============================================================================ -------------------------------- File courtesy of Outlaw Labs -------------------------------- I. The History of the Atomic Bomb ------------------------------ On August 2nd 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify U-235 with which might in turn be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known only then as the Manhattan Project. Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expedient research and production that would produce a viable atomic bomb. The most complicated issue to be addressed was the production of ample amounts of `enriched' uranium to sustain a chain reaction. At the time, Uranium-235 was very hard to extract. In fact, the ratio of conversion from Uranium ore to Uranium metal is 500:1. An additional drawback is that the 1 part of Uranium that is finally refined from the ore consists of over 99% Uranium-238, which is practically useless for an atomic bomb. To make it even more difficult, U-235 and U-238 are precisely similar in their chemical makeup. This proved to be as much of a challenge as separating a solution of sucrose from a solution of glucose. No ordinary chemical extraction could separate the two isotopes. Only mechanical methods could effectively separate U-235 from U-238. Several scientists at Columbia University managed to solve this dilemma. A massive enrichment laboratory/plant was constructed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. H.C. Urey, along with his associates and colleagues at Columbia University, devised a system that worked on the principle of gaseous diffusion. Following this process, Ernest O. Lawrence (inventor of the Cyclotron) at the University of California in Berkeley implemented a process involving magnetic separation of the two isotopes. Following the first two processes, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the lighter U-235 from the heavier non-fissionable U-238 by their mass. Once all of these procedures had been completed, all that needed to be done was to put to the test the entire concept behind atomic fission. [For more information on these procedures of refining Uranium, see Section 3.] Over the course of six years, ranging from 1939 to 1945, more than 2 billion dollars were spent on the Manhattan Project. The formulas for refining Uranium and putting together a working bomb were created and seen to their logical ends by some of the greatest minds of our time. Among these people who unleashed the power of the atomic bomb was J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. He literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working on this project made their brainstorms work. He oversaw the entire project from its conception to its completion. Finally the day came when all at Los Alamos would find out whether or not The Gadget (code-named as such during its development) was either going to be the colossal dud of the century or perhaps end the war. It all came down to a fateful morning of midsummer, 1945. At 5:29:45 (Mountain War Time) on July 16th, 1945, in a white blaze that stretched from the basin of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico to the still-dark skies, The Gadget ushered in the Atomic Age. The light of the explosion then turned orange as the atomic fireball began shooting upwards at 360 feet per second, reddening and pulsing as it cooled. The characteristic mushroom cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Beneath the cloud, all that remained of the soil at the blast site were fragments of jade green radioactive glass. ...All of this caused by the heat of the reaction. The brilliant light from the detonation pierced the early morning skies with such intensity that residents from a faraway neighboring community would swear that the sun came up twice that day. Even more astonishing is that a blind girl saw the flash 120 miles away. Upon witnessing the explosion, reactions among the people who created it were mixed. Isidor Rabi felt that the equilibrium in nature had been upset -- as if humankind had become a threat to the world it inhabited. J. Robert Oppenheimer, though ecstatic about the success of the project, quoted a remembered fragment from Bhagavad Gita. "I am become Death," he said, "the destroyer of worlds." Ken Bainbridge, the test director, told Oppenheimer, "Now we're all sons of bitches." Several participants, shortly after viewing the results, signed petitions against loosing the monster they had created, but their protests fell on deaf ears. As it later turned out, the Jornada del Muerto of New Mexico was not the last site on planet Earth to experience an atomic explosion. As many know, atomic bombs have been used only twice in warfare. The first and foremost blast site of the atomic bomb is Hiroshima. A Uranium bomb (which weighed in at over 4 & 1/2 tons) nicknamed "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima August 6th, 1945. The Aioi Bridge, one of 81 bridges connecting the seven-branched delta of the Ota River, was the aiming point of the bomb. Ground Zero was set at 1,980 feet. At 0815 hours, the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. It missed by only 800 feet. At 0816 hours, in the flash of an instant, 66,000 people were killed and 69,000 people were injured by a 10 kiloton atomic explosion. The point of total vaporization from the blast measured one half of a mile in diameter. Total destruction ranged at one mile in diameter. Severe blast damage carried as far as two miles in diameter. At two and a half miles, everything flammable in the area burned. The remaining area of the blast zone was riddled with serious blazes that stretched out to the final edge at a little over three miles in diameter. [See diagram below for blast ranges from the atomic blast.] On August 9th 1945, Nagasaki fell to the same treatment as Hiroshima. Only this time, a Plutonium bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" was dropped on the city. Even though the "Fat Man" missed by over a mile and a half, it still leveled nearly half the city. Nagasaki's population dropped in one split-second from 422,000 to 383,000. 39,000 were killed, over 25,000 were injured. That blast was less than 10 kilotons as well. Estimates from physicists who have studied each atomic explosion state that the bombs that were used had utilized only 1/10th of 1 percent of their respective explosive capabilities. While the mere explosion from an atomic bomb is deadly enough, its destructive ability doesn't stop there. Atomic fallout creates another hazard as well. The rain that follows any atomic detonation is laden with radioactive particles. Many survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts succumbed to radiation poisoning due to this occurance. The atomic detonation also has the hidden lethal surprise of affecting the future generations of those who live through it. Leukemia is among the greatest of afflictions that are passed on to the offspring of survivors. While the main purpose behind the atomic bomb is obvious, there are many by-products that have been brought into consideration in the use of all weapons atomic. With one small atomic bomb, a massive area's communications, travel and machinery will grind to a dead halt due to the EMP (Electro- Magnetic Pulse) that is radiated from a high-altitude atomic detonation. These high-level detonations are hardly lethal, yet they deliver a serious enough EMP to scramble any and all things electronic ranging from copper wires all the way up to a computer's CPU within a 50 mile radius. At one time, during the early days of The Atomic Age, it was a popular notion that one day atomic bombs would one day be used in mining operations and perhaps aid in the construction of another Panama Canal. Needless to say, it never came about. Instead, the military applications of atomic destruction increased. Atomic tests off of the Bikini Atoll and several other sites were common up until the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was introduced. Photos of nuclear test sites here in the United States can be obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. ============================================================================ - Breakdown of the Atomic Bomb's Blast Zones - ---------------------------------------------- . . . . . . . . [5] [4] [5] . . . . . . . . . . [3] _ [3] . . . [2] . . . _._ . . .~ ~. . . . [4] . .[2]. [1] .[2]. . [4] . . . . . . . ~-.-~ . . . [2] . . . [3] - [3] . . . . . . ~ ~ . ~ [5] . [4] . [5] . . . . . . ============================================================================ - Diagram Outline - --------------------- [1] Vaporization Point ------------------ Everything is vaporized by the atomic blast. 98% fatalities. Overpress=25 psi. Wind velocity=320 mph. [2] Total Destruction ----------------- All structures above ground are destroyed. 90% fatalities. Overpress=17 psi. Wind velocity=290 mph. [3] Severe Blast Damage ------------------- Factories and other large-scale building collapse. Severe damage to highway bridges. Rivers sometimes flow countercurrent. 65% fatalities, 30% injured. Overpress=9 psi. Wind velocity=260 mph. [4] Severe Heat Damage ------------------ Everything flammable burns. People in the area suffocate due to the fact that most available oxygen is consumed by the fires. 50% fatalities, 45% injured. Overpress=6 psi. Wind velocity=140 mph. [5] Severe Fire & Wind Damage ------------------------- Residency structures are severely damaged. People are blown around. 2nd and 3rd-degree burns suffered by most survivors. 15% dead. 50% injured. Overpress=3 psi. Wind velocity=98 mph. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Blast Zone Radii - ---------------------- [3 different bomb types] ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ | | | | | | | -[10 KILOTONS]- | | -[1 MEGATON]- | | -[20 MEGATONS]- | |----------------------| |----------------------| |----------------------| | Airburst - 1,980 ft | | Airburst - 8,000 ft | | Airburst - 17,500 ft | |______________________| |______________________| |______________________| | | | | | | | [1] 0.5 miles | | [1] 2.5 miles | | [1] 8.75 miles | | [2] 1 mile | | [2] 3.75 miles | | [2] 14 miles | | [3] 1.75 miles | | [3] 6.5 miles | | [3] 27 miles | | [4] 2.5 miles | | [4] 7.75 miles | | [4] 31 miles | | [5] 3 miles | | [5] 10 miles | | [5] 35 miles | | | | | | | |______________________| |______________________| |______________________| ____________________________________________________________________________ ============================================================================ -End of section 1- -------------------------------- File courtesy of Outlaw Labs -------------------------------- II. Nuclear Fission/Nuclear Fusion ------------------------------ There are 2 types of atomic explosions that can be facilitated by U-235; fission and fusion. Fission, simply put, is a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus splits into fragments, usually two fragments of comparable mass, with the evolution of approximately 100 million to several hundred million volts of energy. This energy is expelled explosively and violently in the atomic bomb. A fusion reaction is invariably started with a fission reaction, but unlike the fission reaction, the fusion (Hydrogen) bomb derives its power from the fusing of nuclei of various hydrogen isotopes in the formation of helium nuclei. Being that the bomb in this file is strictly atomic, the other aspects of the Hydrogen Bomb will be set aside for now. The massive power behind the reaction in an atomic bomb arises from the forces that hold the atom together. These forces are akin to, but not quite the same as, magnetism. Atoms are comprised of three sub-atomic particles. Protons and neutrons cluster together to form the nucleus (central mass) of the atom while the electrons orbit the nucleus much like planets around a sun. It is these particles that determine the stability of the atom. Most natural elements have very stable atoms which are impossible to split except by bombardment by particle accelerators. For all practical purposes, the one true element whose atoms can be split comparatively easily is the metal Uranium. Uranium's atoms are unusually large, henceforth, it is hard for them to hold together firmly. This makes Uranium-235 an exceptional candidate for nuclear fission. Uranium is a heavy metal, heavier than gold, and not only does it have the largest atoms of any natural element, the atoms that comprise Uranium have far more neutrons than protons. This does not enhance their capacity to split, but it does have an important bearing on their capacity to facilitate an explosion. There are two isotopes of Uranium. Natural Uranium consists mostly of isotope U-238, which has 92 protons and 146 neutrons (92+146=238). Mixed with this isotope, one will find a 0.6% accumulation of U-235, which has only 143 neutrons. This isotope, unlike U-238, has atoms that can be split, thus it is termed "fissionable" and useful in making atomic bombs. Being that U-238 is neutron-heavy, it reflects neutrons, rather than absorbing them like its brother isotope, U-235. (U-238 serves no function in an atomic reaction, but its properties provide an excellent shield for the U-235 in a constructed bomb as a neutron reflector. This helps prevent an accidental chain reaction between the larger U-235 mass and its `bullet' counterpart within the bomb. Also note that while U-238 cannot facilitate a chain-reaction, it can be neutron-saturated to produce Plutonium (Pu-239). Plutonium is fissionable and can be used in place of Uranium-235 {albeit, with a different model of detonator} in an atomic bomb. [See Sections 3 & 4 of this file.]) Both isotopes of Uranium are naturally radioactive. Their bulky atoms disintegrate over a period of time. Given enough time, (over 100,000 years or more) Uranium will eventually lose so many particles that it will turn into the metal lead. However, this process can be accelerated. This process is known as the chain reaction. Instead of disintegrating slowly, the atoms are forcibly split by neutrons forcing their way into the nucleus. A U-235 atom is so unstable that a blow from a single neutron is enough to split it and henceforth bring on a chain reaction. This can happen even when a critical mass is present. When this chain reaction occurs, the Uranium atom splits into two smaller atoms of different elements, such as Barium and Krypton. When a U-235 atom splits, it gives off energy in the form of heat and Gamma radiation, which is the most powerful form of radioactivity and the most lethal. When this reaction occurs, the split atom will also give off two or three of its `spare' neutrons, which are not needed to make either Barium or Krypton. These spare neutrons fly out with sufficient force to split other atoms they come in contact with. [See chart below] In theory, it is necessary to split only one U-235 atom, and the neutrons from this will split other atoms, which will split more...so on and so forth. This progression does not take place arithmetically, but geometrically. All of this will happen within a millionth of a second. The minimum amount to start a chain reaction as described above is known as SuperCritical Mass. The actual mass needed to facilitate this chain reaction depends upon the purity of the material, but for pure U-235, it is 110 pounds (50 kilograms), but no Uranium is never quite pure, so in reality more will be needed. Uranium is not the only material used for making atomic bombs. Another material is the element Plutonium, in its isotope Pu-239. Plutonium is not found naturally (except in minute traces) and is always made from Uranium. The only way to produce Plutonium from Uranium is to process U-238 through a nuclear reactor. After a period of time, the intense radioactivity causes the metal to pick up extra particles, so that more and more of its atoms turn into Plutonium. Plutonium will not start a fast chain reaction by itself, but this difficulty is overcome by having a neutron source, a highly radioactive material that gives off neutrons faster than the Plutonium itself. In certain types of bombs, a mixture of the elements Beryllium and Polonium is used to bring about this reaction. Only a small piece is needed. The material is not fissionable in and of itself, but merely acts as a catalyst to the greater reaction. ============================================================================ - Diagram of a Chain Reaction - ------------------------------- | | | | [1]------------------------------> o . o o . . o_0_o . <-----------------------[2] . o 0 o . . o o . | \|/ ~ . o o. .o o . [3]-----------------------> . o_0_o"o_0_o . . o 0 o~o 0 o . . o o.".o o . | / | \ |/_ | _\| ~~ | ~~ | o o | o o [4]-----------------> o_0_o | o_0_o <---------------[5] o~0~o | o~0~o o o ) | ( o o / o \ / [1] \ / \ / \ / \ o [1] [1] o . o o . . o o . . o o . . o_0_o . . o_0_o . . o_0_o . . o 0 o . <-[2]-> . o 0 o . <-[2]-> . o 0 o . . o o . . o o . . o o . / | \ |/_ \|/ _\| ~~ ~ ~~ . o o. .o o . . o o. .o o . . o o. .o o . . o_0_o"o_0_o . . o_0_o"o_0_o . . o_0_o"o_0_o . . o 0 o~o 0 o . <--[3]--> . o 0 o~o 0 o . <--[3]--> . o 0 o~o 0 o . . o o.".o o . . o o.".o o . . o o.".o o . . | . . | . . | . / | \ / | \ / | \ : | : : | : : | : : | : : | : : | : \:/ | \:/ \:/ | \:/ \:/ | \:/ ~ | ~ ~ | ~ ~ | ~ [4] o o | o o [5] [4] o o | o o [5] [4] o o | o o [5] o_0_o | o_0_o o_0_o | o_0_o o_0_o | o_0_o o~0~o | o~0~o o~0~o | o~0~o o~0~o | o~0~o o o ) | ( o o o o ) | ( o o o o ) | ( o o / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / o \ / o \ / o \ / [1] \ / [1] \ / [1] \ o o o o o o [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] ============================================================================ - Diagram Outline - --------------------- [1] - Incoming Neutron [2] - Uranium-235 [3] - Uranium-236 [4] - Barium Atom [5] - Krypton Atom =========================================================================== -End of section 2- -Diagrams & Documentation of the Atomic Bomb- -------------------------------- File courtesy of Outlaw Labs -------------------------------- III. The Mechanism of The Bomb ------------------------- Altimeter --------- An ordinary aircraft altimeter uses a type of Aneroid Barometer which measures the changes in air pressure at different heights. However, changes in air pressure due to the weather can adversely affect the altimeter's readings. It is far more favorable to use a radar (or radio) altimeter for enhanced accuracy when the bomb reaches Ground Zero. While Frequency Modulated-Continuous Wave (FM CW) is more complicated, the accuracy of it far surpasses any other type of altimeter. Like simple pulse systems, signals are emitted from a radar aerial (the bomb), bounced off the ground and received back at the bomb's altimeter. This pulse system applies to the more advanced altimeter system, only the signal is continuous and centered around a high frequency such as 4200 MHz. This signal is arranged to steadily increase at 200 MHz per interval before dropping back to its original frequency. As the descent of the bomb begins, the altimeter transmitter will send out a pulse starting at 4200 MHz. By the time that pulse has returned, the altimeter transmitter will be emitting a higher frequency. The difference depends on how long the pulse has taken to do the return journey. When these two frequencies are mixed electronically, a new frequency (the difference between the two) emerges. The value of this new frequency is measured by the built-in microchips. This value is directly proportional to the distance travelled by the original pulse, so it can be used to give the actual height. In practice, a typical FM CW radar today would sweep 120 times per second. Its range would be up to 10,000 feet (3000 m) over land and 20,000 feet (6000 m) over sea, since sound reflections from water surfaces are clearer. The accuracy of these altimeters is within 5 feet (1.5 m) for the higher ranges. Being that the ideal airburst for the atomic bomb is usually set for 1,980 feet, this error factor is not of enormous concern. The high cost of these radar-type altimeters has prevented their use in commercial applications, but the decreasing cost of electronic components should make them competitive with barometric types before too long. Air Pressure Detonator ---------------------- The air pressure detonator can be a very complex mechanism, but for all practical purposes, a simpler model can be used. At high altitudes, the air is of lesser pressure. As the altitude drops, the air pressure increases. A simple piece of very thin magnetized metal can be used as an air pressure detonator. All that is needed is for the strip of metal to have a bubble of extremely thin metal forged in the center and have it placed directly underneath the electrical contact which will trigger the conventional explosive detonation. Before setting the strip in place, push the bubble in so that it will be inverted. Once the air pressure has achieved the desired level, the magnetic bubble will snap back into its original position and strike the contact, thus completing the circuit and setting off the explosive(s). Detonating Head --------------- The detonating head (or heads, depending on whether a Uranium or Plutonium bomb is being used as a model) that is seated in the conventional explosive charge(s) is similar to the standard-issue blasting cap. It merely serves as a catalyst to bring about a greater explosion. Calibration of this device is essential. Too small of a detonating head will only cause a colossal dud that will be doubly dangerous since someone's got to disarm and re-fit the bomb with another detonating head. (an added measure of discomfort comes from the knowledge that the conventional explosive may have detonated with insufficient force to weld the radioactive metals. This will cause a supercritical mass that could go off at any time.) The detonating head will receive an electric charge from the either the air pressure detonator or the radar altimeter's coordinating detonator, depending on what type of system is used. The Du Pont company makes rather excellent blasting caps that can be easily modified to suit the required specifications. Conventional Explosive Charge(s) -------------------------------- This explosive is used to introduce (and weld) the lesser amount of Uranium to the greater amount within the bomb's housing. [The amount of pressure needed to bring this about is unknown and possibly classified by the United States Government for reasons of National Security] Plastic explosives work best in this situation since they can be manipulated to enable both a Uranium bomb and a Plutonium bomb to detonate. One very good explosive is Urea Nitrate. The directions on how to make Urea Nitrate are as follows: - Ingredients - --------------- [1] 1 cup concentrated solution of uric acid (C5 H4 N4 O3) [2] 1/3 cup of nitric acid [3] 4 heat-resistant glass containers [4] 4 filters (coffee filters will do) Filter the concentrated solution of uric acid through a filter to remove impurities. Slowly add 1/3 cup of nitric acid to the solution and let the mixture stand for 1 hour. Filter again as before. This time the Urea Nitrate crystals will collect on the filter. Wash the crystals by pouring water over them while they are in the filter. Remove the crystals from the filter and allow 16 hours for them to dry. This explosive will need a blasting cap to detonate. It may be necessary to make a quantity larger than the aforementioned list calls for to bring about an explosion great enough to cause the Uranium (or Plutonium) sections to weld together on impact. Neutron Deflector ----------------- The neutron deflector is comprised solely of Uranium-238. Not only is U-238 non-fissionable, it also has the unique ability to reflect neutrons back to their source. The U-238 neutron deflector can serve 2 purposes. In a Uranium bomb, the neutron deflector serves as a safeguard to keep an accidental supercritical mass from occurring by bouncing the stray neutrons from the `bullet' counterpart of the Uranium mass away from the greater mass below it (and vice- versa). The neutron deflector in a Plutonium bomb actually helps the wedges of Plutonium retain their neutrons by `reflecting' the stray particles back into the center of the assembly. [See diagram in Section 4 of this file.] Uranium & Plutonium ------------------- Uranium-235 is very difficult to extract. In fact, for every 25,000 tons of Uranium ore that is mined from the earth, only 50 tons of Uranium metal can be refined from that, and 99.3% of that metal is U-238 which is too stable to be used as an active agent in an atomic detonation. To make matters even more complicated, no ordinary chemical extraction can separate the two isotopes since both U-235 and U-238 possess precisely identical chemical characteristics. The only methods that can effectively separate U-235 from U-238 are mechanical methods. U-235 is slightly, but only slightly, lighter than its counterpart, U-238. A system of gaseous diffusion is used to begin the separating process between the two isotopes. In this system, Uranium is combined with fluorine to form Uranium Hexafluoride gas. This mixture is then propelled by low- pressure pumps through a series of extremely fine porous barriers. Because the U-235 atoms are lighter and thus propelled faster than the U-238 atoms, they could penetrate the barriers more rapidly. As a result, the U-235's concentration became successively greater as it passed through each barrier. After passing through several thousand barriers, the Uranium Hexafluoride contains a relatively high concentration of U-235 -- 2% pure Uranium in the case of reactor fuel, and if pushed further could (theoretically) yield up to 95% pure Uranium for use in an atomic bomb. Once the process of gaseous diffusion is finished, the Uranium must be refined once again. Magnetic separation of the extract from the previous enriching process is then implemented to further refine the Uranium. This involves electrically charging Uranium Tetrachloride gas and directing it past a weak electromagnet. Since the lighter U-235 particles in the gas stream are less affected by the magnetic pull, they can be gradually separated from the flow. Following the first two procedures, a third enrichment process is then applied to the extract from the second process. In this procedure, a gas centrifuge is brought into action to further separate the lighter U-235 from its heavier counter-isotope. Centrifugal force separates the two isotopes of Uranium by their mass. Once all of these procedures have been completed, all that need be done is to place the properly molded components of Uranium-235 inside a warhead that will facilitate an atomic detonation. Supercritical mass for Uranium-235 is defined as 110 lbs (50 kgs) of pure Uranium. Depending on the refining process(es) used when purifying the U-235 for use, along with the design of the warhead mechanism and the altitude at which it detonates, the explosive force of the A-bomb can range anywhere from 1 kiloton (which equals 1,000 tons of TNT) to 20 megatons (which equals 20 million tons of TNT -- which, by the way, is the smallest strategic nuclear warhead we possess today. {Point in fact -- One Trident Nuclear Submarine carries as much destructive power as 25 World War II's}). While Uranium is an ideally fissionable material, it is not the only one. Plutonium can be used in an atomic bomb as well. By leaving U-238 inside an atomic reactor for an extended period of time, the U-238 picks up extra particles (neutrons especially) and gradually is transformed into the element Plutonium. Plutonium is fissionable, but not as easily fissionable as Uranium. While Uranium can be detonated by a simple 2-part gun-type device, Plutonium must be detonated by a more complex 32-part implosion chamber along with a stronger conventional explosive, a greater striking velocity and a simultaneous triggering mechanism for the conventional explosive packs. Along with all of these requirements comes the additional task of introducing a fine mixture of Beryllium and Polonium to this metal while all of these actions are occurring. Supercritical mass for Plutonium is defined as 35.2 lbs (16 kgs). This amount needed for a supercritical mass can be reduced to a smaller quantity of 22 lbs (10 kgs) by surrounding the Plutonium with a U-238 casing. To illustrate the vast difference between a Uranium gun-type detonator and a Plutonium implosion detonator, here is a quick rundown. ============================================================================ [1] Uranium Detonator ----------------- Comprised of 2 parts. Larger mass is spherical and concave. Smaller mass is precisely the size and shape of the `missing' section of the larger mass. Upon detonation of conventional explosive, the smaller mass is violently injected and welded to the larger mass. Supercritical mass is reached, chain reaction follows in one millionth of a second. [2] Plutonium Detonator ------------------- Comprised of 32 individual 45-degree pie-shaped sections of Plutonium surrounding a Beryllium/Polonium mixture. These 32 sections together form a sphere. All of these sections must have the precisely equal mass (and shape) of the others. The shape of the detonator resembles a soccerball. Upon detonation of conventional explosives, all 32 sections must merge with the B/P mixture within 1 ten-millionths of a second. ____________________________________________________________________________ - Diagram - ------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ | [Uranium Detonator] | [Plutonium Detonator] ______________________________________|_____________________________________ _____ | | :| | . [2] . | :| | . ~ \_/ ~ . | [2]:| | .. . .. | :| | [2]| . |[2] | .:| | . ~~~ . . . ~~~ . `...::' | . . . . . _ ~~~ _ | . . ~ . . . `| |':.. | [2]\. . . . [1] . . . ./[2] . | | `:::. | ./ . ~~~ . \. | | `::: | . . : . . . | | :::: | . . . . . | [1] | ::|:: | . ___ . ___ . . `. .' ,::||: | [2]| . |[2] ~~~ ::|||: | .' _ `. .. [2] .::|||:' | . / \ . ::... ..::||||:' | ~ -[2]- ~ :::::::::::::||||::' | ``::::||||||||:'' | ``:::::'' | | | | | [1] = Collision Point | [1] = Collision Point [2] - Uranium Section(s) | [2] = Plutonium Section(s) | | ______________________________________|_____________________________________ ============================================================================ Lead Shield ----------- The lead shield's only purpose is to prevent the inherent radioactivity of the bomb's payload from interfering with the other mechanisms of the bomb. The neutron flux of the bomb's payload is strong enough to short circuit the internal circuitry and cause an accidental or premature detonation. Fuses ----- The fuses are implemented as another safeguard to prevent an accidental detonation of both the conventional explosives and the nuclear payload. These fuses are set near the surface of the `nose' of the bomb so that they can be installed easily when the bomb is ready to be launched. The fuses should be installed only shortly before the bomb is launched. To affix them before it is time could result in an accident of catastrophic proportions. ============================================================================ -End of section 3- -Documentation & Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb- -------------------------------- File courtesy of Outlaw Labs -------------------------------- IV. The Diagram of the Atomic Bomb ------------------------------ [Gravity Bomb Model] ---------------------------- -> Cutaway Sections Visible <- ============================================================================ /\ / \ <---------------------------[1] / \ _________________/______\_________________ | : ||: ~ ~ : | [2]-------> | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | :______||:_____________________________: | |/_______||/______________________________\| \ ~\ | | / \ |\ | | / \ | \ | | / \ | \ | | / \ |___\ |______________| / \ | \ |~ \ / \|_______\|_________________\_/ |_____________________________| / \ / _________________ \ / _/ \_ \ / __/ \__ \ / / \ \ /__ _/ \_ __\ [3]_______________________________ \ _| / / \ \ \ / / \/ \ \ / / ___________ \ \ | / __/___________\__ \ | | |_ ___ /=================\ ___ _| | [4]---------> _||___|====|[[[[[[[|||]]]]]]]|====|___||_ <--------[4] | | |-----------------| | | | | |o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o| <-------------------[5] | | \_______________/ | | | |__ |: :| __| | | | \______________ |: :| ______________/ | | | | ________________\|: :|/________________ | | | |/ |::::|: :|::::| \| | [6]----------------------> |::::|: :|::::| <---------------------[6] | | |::::|: :|::::| | | | | |::==|: :|== <------------------------[9] | | |::__\: :/__::| | | | | |:: ~: :~ ::| | | [7]----------------------------> \_/ ::| | | | |~\________/~\|:: ~ ::|/~\________/~| | | | ||:: <-------------------------[8] | |_/~~~~~~~~\_/|::_ _ _ _ _::|\_/~~~~~~~~\_| | [9]-------------------------->_=_=_=_=_::| | | | | :::._______.::: | | | | .:::| |:::.. | | | | ..:::::'| |`:::::.. | | [6]---------------->.::::::' || || `::::::.<---------------[6] | | .::::::' | || || | `::::::. | | /| | .::::::' | || || | `::::::. | | | | | .:::::' | || <-----------------------------[10] | | |.:::::' | || || | `:::::.| | | | ||::::' | |`. .'| | `::::|| | [11]___________________________ ``~'' __________________________[11] : | | \:: \ / ::/ | | | | | \:_________|_|\/__ __\/|_|_________:/ | | / | | | __________~___:___~__________ | | | || | | | | |:::::::| | | | | [12] /|: | | | | |:::::::| | | | | |~~~~~ / |: | | | | |:::::::| | | | | |----> / /|: | | | | |:::::::| <-----------------[10] | / / |: | | | | |:::::::| | | | | | / |: | | | | |::::<-----------------------------[13] | / /|: | | | | |:::::::| | | | | | / / |: | | | | `:::::::' | | | | | _/ / /:~: | | | `: ``~'' :' | | | | | / / ~.. | | |: `: :' :| | | |->| / / : | | ::: `. .' <----------------[11] | |/ / ^ ~\| \ ::::. `. .' .:::: / | | ~ /|\ | \_::::::. `. .' .::::::_/ | |_______| | \::::::. `. .' .:::<-----------------[6] |_________\:::::.. `~.....~' ..:::::/_________| | \::::::::.......::::::::/ | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | `. .' `. .' `. .' `:. .:' `::. .::' `::.. ..::' `:::.. ..:::' `::::::... ..::::::' [14]------------------> `:____:::::::::::____:' <-----------------[14] ```::::_____::::''' ~~~~~ ============================================================================ - Diagram Outline - --------------------- [1] - Tail Cone [2] - Stabilizing Tail Fins [3] - Air Pressure Detonator [4] - Air Inlet Tube(s) [5] - Altimeter/Pressure Sensors [6] - Lead Shield Container [7] - Detonating Head [8] - Conventional Explosive Charge [9] - Packing [10] - Uranium (U-235) [Plutonium (See other diagram)] [11] - Neutron Deflector (U-238) [12] - Telemetry Monitoring Probes [13] - Receptacle for U-235 upon detonation to facilitate supercritical mass. [14] - Fuses (inserted to arm bomb) ============================================================================ - Diagram for Plutonium Bomb - -------------------------------- [Gravity Bomb - Implosion Model] -------------------------------- -> Cutaway Sections Visible <- ============================================================================ /\ / \ <---------------------------[1] / \ _________________/______\_________________ | : ||: ~ ~ : | [2]-------> | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | : ||: : | | :______||:_____________________________: | |/_______||/______________________________\| \ ~\ | : |:| / \ |\ | : |:| / \ | \ | :__________|:| / \ |:_\ | :__________\:| / \ |___\ |______________| / \ | \ |~ \ / \|_______\|_________________\_/ |_____________________________| / \ / \ / \ / _______________ \ / ___/ \___ \ /____ __/ \__ ____\ [3]_______________________________ \ ___| / __/ \ \__ \ / / \/ \ \ / / ___________ \ \ / / __/___________\__ \ \ ./ /__ ___ /=================\ ___ __\ \. [4]-------> ___||___|====|[[[[[|||||||]]]]]|====|___||___ <------[4] / / |=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=| <-------------------[5] .' / \_______ _______/ \ `. : |___ |*| ___| : .' | \_________________ |*| _________________/ | `. : | ___________ ___ \ |*| / ___ ___________ | : : |__/ \ / \_\\*//_/ \ / \__| : : |______________:|:____:: **::****:|:********\ <---------[6] .' /:|||||||||||||'`|;..:::::::::::..;|'`|||||||*|||||:\ `. [7]----------> ||||||' .:::;~|~~~___~~~|~;:::. `|||||*|| <-------[7] : |:|||||||||' .::'\ ..:::::::::::.. /`::. `|||*|||||:| : : |:|||||||' .::' .:::''~~ ~~``:::. `::. `|\***\|:| : : |:|||||' .::\ .::''\ | [9] | /``::: /::. `|||*|:| : [8]------------>::' .::' \|_________|/ `::: `::. `|* <-----[6] `. \:||' .::' ::'\ [9] . . . [9] /::: `::. *|:/ .' : \:' :::'.::' \ . . / `::.`::: *:/ : : | .::'.::'____\ [10] . [10] /____`::.`::.*| : : | :::~::: | . . . | :::~:::*| : : | ::: :: [9] | . . ..:.. . . | [9] :: :::*| : : \ ::: :: | . :\_____________________________[11] `. \`:: ::: ____| . . . |____ ::: ::'/ .' : \:;~`::. / . [10] [10] . \ .::'~::/ : `. \:. `::. / . . . \ .::' .:/ .' : \:. `:::/ [9] _________ [9] \:::' .:/ : `. \::. `:::. /| |\ .:::' .::/ .' : ~~\:/ `:::./ | [9] | \.:::' \:/~~ : `:=========\::. `::::... ...::::' .::/=========:' `: ~\::./ ```:::::::::''' \.::/~ :' `. ~~~~~~\| ~~~ |/~~~~~~ .' `. \:::...:::/ .' `. ~~~~~~~~~ .' `. .' `:. .:' `::. .::' `::.. ..::' `:::.. ..:::' `::::::... ..::::::' [12]------------------> `:____:::::::::::____:' <-----------------[12] ```::::_____::::''' ~~~~~ ============================================================================ - Diagram Outline - --------------------- [1] - Tail Cone [2] - Stabilizing Tail Fins [3] - Air Pressure Detonator [4] - Air Inlet Tube(s) [5] - Altimeter/Pressure Sensors [6] - Electronic Conduits & Fusing Circuits [7] - Lead Shield Container [8] - Neutron Deflector (U-238) [9] - Conventional Explosive Charge(s) [10] - Plutonium (Pu-239) [11] - Receptacle for Beryllium/Polonium mixture to facilitate atomic detonation reaction. [12] - Fuses (inserted to arm bomb) ============================================================================ -End of section 4- -Documentation & Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb-

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War & InfoWar
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Blanc wrote: > Lately Tim has been making extremely dramatic death statements: "Kill > them all...they are unworthy of life.", "... I > pray for the deaths of these criminals.", "Washington is a cancer than can > only be cured with a few megatons of > nuclear disinfectant.", "May they all be vaporized.", etc. > > These are definitely dark in mood and understandable; I also have violently > negative & despairing emotions about these people. I just wouldn't ever > think of involving those who are innocent bystanders and happened to be in > the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course, you have your own definintion of innocenent bystanders, while others may have different definitions. Is someone who is in the military because of forced enscription at the point of a gun (with threats of imprisonment if they refuse) an innocent bystander? When an invading force attacks your home, do you only shoot back at those who are there willingly? How about those who willingly process and uphold the atrocities which the government commits upon its citizens? (Those who don't turn on the gas, but merely put them in the ovens {because the paperwork all seemed to be in order}.) Were the children in the daycare center at the Federal Building at OK city innocent bystanders? Then why, pray tell, did the government allow them to be placed in a building which was known to be a prime target of anti-government paramilitary idealists? Were they being used as a "shield" in the hopes that their presence would protect the others? Or were they there in order to provide sensational fodder for government response to the inevitable? History bulges with examples of governments using their citizens as human shields by placing armament factories in residential areas and there are a multitude of other examples of government disregard for the lives of their citizens. The government has prosecuted dozens of individuals for planning to bomb the OK city Federal Building (including executed murderers). It has long been listed as a target of choice for anti-government paramilitarists. For the government to deny culpability in children being present at the bombing reeks of hypocrisy. > I know that critical times call for critical action, but I just don't > expect from anarchist libertarian cypherpunks that they would "throw > caution to the wind" (so to speak) and forget how to think about events and > actions in terms of specifics and utter precision. The fact of the matter is that the government has declared war on the freedom and liberty of its citizens and passed draconian laws which prevent citizens from defending themselves from government oppression. The government protects those participating in its crimes from having to pay a price for their complicity. The government has a ruinous effect on the lives of millions of its citizens daily and is responsible for a mountain of deaths of "innocent people." Those taking part in the process should be made aware that there is a price to pay for their actions. Should the Allied war against Nazi Germany have not taken place because "innocent" lives would be lost? Should the French Freedom fighters not have fought to free their country from occupation because "innocent bystanders" would die in the process? Timothy McVeigh's position in history will likely belong in the hands of the winner of the war between the government and its citizens, but he is already considered a freedom fighter by more people than the government would like to admit. He has issued a wake-up call for those who think that they can remain nameless and faceless in their complicity with government atrocities. While I would have chosen a different approach and target for an attack, I will not pass moral judgement on McVeigh's actions. That is between himself and his conscience. Tim McVeigh at least had the fortitude to act on his outrage over what he perceived as government injustice. What did others do over the outrageous tragedy at Waco? Mostly they just turned their heads away and tried to pretend that our government is not a murderer of men, women and children. How many government employees quit in outrage, stating that they would not take part in such atrocities? How many took a vocal moral stand against their superiors, or exposed the government duplicity involved in the police action? Nobody who turns their head is "innocent" and they cannot avoid their own responsibility if they choose to place their children in the line of fire as a result of their participation in crimes against the citizens. Given the wide knowledge of the OK city Federal Building being a known target of anti-government forces, I think the placing of a daycare center there was the equivalent of military forces who cowardly advance with women and children in front of them. (And there are ample examples of this in history.) Those in government express outrage at the barbarity of an individual citizen attacking his oppressors, but apparently are not outraged enough to stop their oppression. The fact is that we have a police state whose power and abuse of power are growing by leaps and bounds because there has been no realistic amount of accountability attached to their actions. This is an unnatural state of affairs and one that human nature will correct. When things become too far out of balance, then the universal laws of nature correct the situation. I believe that the dinosaurs learned this lesson, as well. TruthMonger

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Uncontrolled Munitions List
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tim's war underway: It is not McVeigh's type of ANFO-munitions that threaten the legal-financial-governmental interests but the uncontrolled munitions available to wage war on public policy, commerce, legislation, funding, regulation, intelligence, surveillance and law enforcement. There has been an astonishing range of such munitions discussed on cypherpunks in the three years I've been around, and there's much more in the archives (handily collated in Tim's Cyphernomicon). Crypto is central, to be sure, but hardly the only munition, as many often remind. Indeed, it is noteworthy how many of the broad range of these potentially destructive munitions are not regulated by the EAR and other regimes. As with chemicals, explosives, bio-organisms, mathematics, physics, it takes highly skilled people to advise the regulators on what needs control and when, and not just the finished weapon, but its components and sub-components. (As an example, see ATF's latest list of explosives: http://jya.com/atf050497.txt ) The war underway is often waged at secret councils of scientific information and intelligence used by all government and military agencies (meetings are listed in the Federal Register, regularly reported on jya.com) So it is not the known terrorist-munitions that are worrisome; it's the ones not yet publicized but known to scientists, warfighters and keepers of secrets who keep their fingers crossed and plan for the worst -- say, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (http://www.pccip.gov/ ). It would be instructive to post here uncontrolled munitions available for the war underway, with comments on how to elude control of the burgeoning domestic and global regimes. I'd like to host a running Uncontrolled Munitions List (UML) on jya.com. To be sure, some of that information might be submitted by remailer or prudently encrypted. Use my public key if no other suits: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzHMJLAAAAEEALQamOmaVP3dWAxTWAtoK6SMp8smRTcLweBSLerX0BAAK5s8 c87yZSxKNGHwIejM0MpqbcpTOO5KwMSxAbefGfbOe815TB43pnHMET+itOCmwYsL lHiuy12o63wETsr1d5EdqWh+dS+p35Ne3qiapoADm1KktJcqIudR7MF7a6tdAAUR tB1Kb2huIFlvdW5nIDxqeWFAcGlwZWxpbmUuY29tPg== =c8jN -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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List of Explosives
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The correct URL for the latest ATF list of explosives: http://jya.com/atf042597.xt

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Telnet Anonymous
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- E-Mail...NYM-Servers WWW...Anonymizer Telnet...?? How does one telnet anonymously to another system, assuming that one's home system has identd? Thanks already in advance... Ciao Harka ... Microsoft - "Where do you want to crash today?" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM3cNtjltEBIEF0MBAQE3sAf7BHE2Gi3pEDRBPhkjAGa0yAT56Y5FL77h 5TB3XJoM0GCgy+oq+fodVpsH7/nseO6NUfIh6Yc5sZ9Rkn2sngkeHt4mpXVx95cP /IM6udvyfMlNa4Do5gIblsw7QjTaiDBaJ6hhqhyyalvkdoGsMecu4FoH04ZuccWQ yMl9O8mmG3+O3NRHfCA/bEuhiw4UJRw6d7fhixkp6IHiCRIIPrE4h7P+xRsbZsJ3 dwOoOZwNucOvm5cWjTPiybqhmCodO/QB6XfIpL008MRmtLMaux8N/SJhAmuwf37g UX1IBXW7p62gfnOiY7GE4YfN9GKTPsdHkM6M/cYUfUx1Dr3SR0em5A== =oTI6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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Copy of: UK TTP Paper - For Your Information
by Theodor.SCHLICKMANN＠bxl.dg13.cec.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<TITLE>T.N.T.</TITLE> T.N.T T.N.T., or Tri-Nitro-Toluene, is perhaps the second oldest known high explosive. Dynamite, of course, was the first. It is certainly the best known high explosive, since it has been popularized by early morning cartoons. It is the standard for comparing other explosives to, since it is the most well known. In industry, a T.N.T. is made by a three step nitration process that is designed to conserve the nitric and sulfuric acids which are used to make the product. A terrorist, however, would probably opt for the less economical one step method. The one step process is performed by treating toluene with very strong (fuming) sulfuric acid. Then, the sulfated toluene is treated with very strong (fuming) nitric acid in an ice bath. Cold water is added the solution, and it is filtered. <HR> From the Terror Handbook

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<TITLE>dynamite</TITLE> DYNAMITE The name dynamite comes from the Greek word "dynamis", meaning power. Dynamite was invented by Nobel shortly after he made nitroglycerine. It was made because nitroglycerine was so dangerously sensitive to shock. A misguided individual with some sanity would, after making nitroglycerine (an insane act) would immediately convert it to dynamite. This can be done by adding various materials to the nitroglycerine, such as sawdust. The sawdust holds a large weight of nitroglycerine per volume. Other materials, such as ammonium nitrate could be added, and they would tend to desensitize the explosive, and increase the power. But even these nitroglycerine compounds are not really safe. <HR> From the Terror Handbook

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<TITLE>ammonium triiodide crystals</TITLE> AMMONIUM TRIIODIDE CRYSTALS Ammonium triiodide crystals are foul-smelling purple colored crystals that decompose under the slightest amount of heat, friction, or shock, if they are made with the purest ammonia (ammonium hydroxide) and iodine. Such crystals are said to detonate when a fly lands on them, or when an ant walks across them. Household ammonia, however, has enough impurities, such as soaps and abrasive agents, so that the crystals will detonate when thrown,crushed, or heated. Upon detonation, a loud report is heard, and a cloud of purple iodine gas appears about the detonation site. Whatever the unfortunate surface that the crystal was detonated upon will usually be ruined, as some of the iodine in the crystal is thrown about in a solid form, and iodine is corrosive. It leaves nasty, ugly, permanent brownish-purple stains on whatever it contacts. Iodine gas is also bad news, since it can damage lungs, and it settles to the ground and stains things there also. Touching iodine leaves brown stains on the skin that last for about a week, unless they are immediately and vigorously washed off. While such a compound would have little use to a serious terrorist, a vandal could utilize them in damaging property. Or, a terrorist could throw several of them into a crowd as a distraction, an action which would possibly injure a few people, but frighten almost anyone, since a small crystal that not be seen when thrown produces a rather loud explosion. Ammonium triiodide crystals could be produced in the following manner: <HR> <PRE> MATERIALS EQUIPMENT -iodine crystals -funnel and filter paper -paper towels -clear ammonia (ammonium hydroxide, -two throw-away glass jars for the suicidal) </PRE> <HR> 1) Place about two teaspoons of iodine into one of the glass jars. The jars must both be throw away because they will never be clean again. 2) Add enough ammonia to completely cover the iodine. 3) Place the funnel into the other jar, and put the filter paper in the funnel. The technique for putting filter paper in a funnel is taught in every basic chemistry lab class: fold the circular paper in half, so that a semi-circle is formed. Then, fold it in half again to form a triangle with one curved side. Pull one thickness of paper out to form a cone, and place the cone into the funnel. 4) After allowing the iodine to soak in the ammonia for a while, pour the solution into the paper in the funnel through the filter paper. 5) While the solution is being filtered, put more ammonia into the first jar to wash any remaining crystals into the funnel as soon as it drains. 6) Collect all the purplish crystals without touching the brown filter paper, and place them on the paper towels to dry for about an hour. Make sure that they are not too close to any lights or other sources of heat, as they could well detonate. While they are still wet, divide the wet material into about eight chunks. 7) After they dry, gently place the crystals onto a one square inch piece of duct tape. Cover it with a similar piece, and gently press the duct tape together around the crystal, making sure not to press the crystal itself. Finally, cut away most of the excess duct tape with a pair of scissors, and store the crystals in a cool dry safe place. They have a shelf life of about a week, and they should be stored in individual containers that can be thrown away, since they have a tendency to slowly decompose, a process which gives off iodine vapors, which will stain whatever they settle on. One possible way to increase their shelf life is to store them in airtight containers. To use them, simply throw them against any surface or place them where they will be stepped on or crushed. <HR> From the Terror Handbook

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<TITLE>ammonium nitrate</TITLE> AMMONIUM NITRATE Ammonium nitrate could be made by a terrorist, or it could be stolen from a construction site, since it is usually used in blasting, because it is very stable and insensitive to shock and heat. A terrorist could also buy several Instant Cold-Paks from a drug store or medical supply store. The major disadvantage with ammonium nitrate, from a terrorist's point of view, would be detonating it. A rather powerful priming charge must be used, and usually with a booster charge. The diagram below will explain. <HR> <PRE> _________________________________________ | | | ________| | | | | T.N.T.| ammonium nitrate | |primer |booster| | |_______| | | | | | |_______|_______________________________| </PRE> <HR> The primer explodes, detonating the T.N.T., which detonates, sending a tremendous shockwave through the ammonium nitrate, detonating it. <HR> From the Terror Handbook

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Dr. Vulis
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dimi (Closet Homo) isa pimply old dweeb sitting at a Xenix 286 computer masturbating at his own imagined cleverness. ||||||||||| \~0/ \0~/ < (0) > --oOO--/|||\--OOo- Dimi (Closet Homo) Vulis

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>tripwire switches</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Tripwire Switches A tripwire is an element of the classic booby trap. By placing a nearly invisible line of string or fishing line in the probable path of a victim, and by putting some type of trap there also, nasty things can be caused to occur. If this mode of thought is applied to explosives, how would one use such a tripwire to detonate a bomb. The technique is simple. By wrapping the tips of a standard clothespin with aluminum foil, and placing something between them, and connecting wires to each aluminum foil contact, an electric tripwire can be made, If a piece of wood attached to the tripwire was placed between the contacts on the clothespin, the clothespin would serve as a switch. When the tripwire was pulled, the clothespin would snap together, allowing current to flow between the two pieces of aluminum foil, thereby completing a circuit, which would have the igniter or squib in it. Current would flow between the contacts to the igniter or squib, heat the igniter or squib, causing it it to explode. <HR> <PRE> __________________________________ \_foil___________________________/ Insert strip of ----------------------------spring wood with trip- _foil__________________________ wire between foil /_______________________________\ contacts.</PRE> <HR> Make sure that the aluminum foil contacts do not touch the spring, since the spring also conducts electricity. <HR> From the Terror Handbook </BODY> </HTML>

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<TITLE>ANFOS</TITLE> ANFOS ANFO is an acronym for Ammonium Nitrate - Fuel Oil Solution. An ANFO solves the only other major problem with ammonium nitrate: its tendency to pick up water vapor from the air. This results in the explosive failing to detonate when such an attempt is made. This is rectified by mixing 94% (by weight) ammonium nitrate with 6% fuel oil, or kerosene. The kerosene keeps the ammonium nitrate from absorbing moisture from the air. An ANFO also requires a large shockwave to set it off. <HR> From the Terror Handbook

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communicator
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tom -- Will netscape communicator be available for linux? It would be very very unfortunate if netscape dropped support for linux... thanks - Igor.

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Re: Spam Update/Cyber Promo attacked (fwd)
by tzeruch＠ceddec.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One simple question: where is the property right to a socket and mailbox. If Wallace has the right to fill my computer with unwanted data, then I have the same right toward his. If it is an act of free speech to send some commercial solicitation for something I would never want, it is hard not to maintain that an ARP packet isn't covered by the same theory, much less 1M+ responses of the same email. It costs me something to filter out spam, and will cost him something to filter out counterspam of whatever sort. The NSP may be in the no-man's land between the trenches, but they are providing the connection and can tell him to look elsewhere or charge a premium for the extra traffic. Any such property right will be symmetrical, so if I don't have the right to control what comes into my inbox, neither does anyone(a)spamway.com. Whether I like it or not, Anarchocapitalism is going to be the political system on the internet. Just like what is described in David Freedman's books about private protective services, a spammer will continue until he hits someone with a T3 and a good software agent that will happily fill out response forms at 6M/sec, or simply ask politely to be taken off the list several hundred times per second. At that point the lists of people who don't want to be spammed will be taken very seriously.

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Re: War & InfoWar
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:15 PM 5/10/97 CST, TruthMonger wrote: > The government has prosecuted dozens of individuals for planning >to bomb the OK city Federal Building (including executed murderers). >It has long been listed as a target of choice for anti-government >paramilitarists. Can somebody confirm this? Cite? Thanks, -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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Re: The War is Underway (fwd)
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:10 PM 5/10/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: >Hence the value of the "Crypto is Cool" approach. A valuable addition >would be crypto packages designed for high school kids. All my many >nieces and nephews are on the net... I usually don't reply to these kind of posts, but since you have mentioned this before and since you obviously still don't deem it appropriate to get yourself up to speed by reading the archives, your idea has been discussed and tried. People won't use crypto unless it is either transparent, meaning put there *for* them by the OS vendor/application developer or because the see a need for using it. The few fanatics that use crypto because "it is cool" are inconsequential when the objective is bringing crypto to the masses. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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Re: The War is Underway (fwd)
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:17 PM 5/10/97 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote: >Yes. One of the major stumbling blocks I have run into is a lack of code >which really is refined and reviewed enough to serve the purposes I need >it to serve. The reason for the lack of "refined and reviewed" code is simple. Writing such code is difficult and time consuming. Anybody on this list capable of writing it probably has a 10+ hours daytime job. It is often hard to donate the effort required into producing either a freeware system or a system that has a shaky business model at best. Yes, the original code for type I remailers was written in a few days. Their security is accordingly low, interfaces were almost non-existent. The type of software you seem to be interested in requires more than just a single individual dedicating a few evenings to it. It requires entire software development teams. That takes the development out of the realm of guerilla programming and into commercial efforts. As PGP, Inc. can attest, making money of strong crypto can be hard. That further limits the number of players willing to dedicate time to such an effort. >FC97 did a lot to make some more obscure things obvious, and >familiarize the players with each other, but the details are often hard to >come by. Many of the applications out there are painfully behind in >interface areas forcing developers to use complicated "toolkits" which >often lack the basics we need. Finding an analogy to easily explain even >the basics to a customer is very difficult unless the front end jibes with >the attempt. While I would have to agree that FC'97 was a very worthwhile event from the human networking perspective, I am confused by your claim that the "toolkits" lack the basics you need. I assume you are talking about routines in crypto libraries here. What routines do you need that aren't in the crypto libs available? I am not claiming that crypto libs have all the routines one might possibly need, but I would be surprised if they didn't have the routines you need. Perhaps it would help if you would explain what you are looking for. Furthermore, crypto libraries are not meant to address interface design. The interface design is up to the application developer. >> Perhaps it's time for some stego interfaces to remailers. Somehow I doubt they will be developed anytime soon. Only a very small fraction of remailer users wants to hide the fact that they are using remailers and not also hide the fact that they are using crypto at all. If you only want to hide remailer use, but not crypto use, a Pipe-net like system should suit you fine. >Most of what concerns me is the need to keep keylengths "obscenely large" >because what is obscene today may not be so obscene after 5 years of >chilled crypto development. I agree keylengths are an issue. An even larger issue are the properties of ciphers. We don't know that breaking RSA is as difficult as factoring. We just hope it is. And we definitely don't know that factoring can not be done in polynomial time. Not to mention that we don't even know if P != NP. >Given the success (or lack thereof) of my call to arms before, I'm not >sure I'll be anxious to repeat it soon. (The largest keylength of any >widely used cipher of which I am aware remains at 128. Not wanting to split hairs, but 3DES is 168 bits. But it is about twice as strong as DES, so the effective keylength does not exceed 128 bits. Still, there is good reason why so few of the many ciphers out there are actually being used for the high security applications. No cipher has been as thoroughly analyzed as DES. And while 3DES is often called slow (which is irrelevant unless you have to encrypt large amounts of data), it is generally considered secure. If you need better than 3DES, you want larger keylength while retaining the security of using a well analyzed cipher. I am not aware of any such cipher today. Perhaps that's why it is used so little. :-) > There still is no >effective PipeNet, no real mainstream "stealth crypto." No significant >work on detering traffic analysis or denial of service with the exception >of the below). I disagree. Just because Cypherpunks have not announced the releases of a finished product, tremendous progress has been made this year alone. And we have found new allies, such as the Onion Router team from Navy Research Lab and the CROWDS team from AT&T. Sure, their systems are far from perfect and require further development. Which is why several Cypherpunks, myself included, have been busy getting the teams up to speed, teaching them about attack methods, explaining to them why certain attacks they discounted as unlikely are actually easy to pull off, and generally advising these non-CP subscribers with very CP projects about modifications that must be made to the software before it will see widespread deployment. Understand that NRL has three scientists working on Onion Routers a significant part of their time. With full funding. This is the kind of commitment it takes to make the more advanced systems a reality. A volunteer effort is considerably less likely to be able to come up with the resources for the many projects that need design and implementation. Other Cypherpunks have been busy working on advanced systems, but this stuff takes time. Writing a crypto library is comparatively easy. If your DES code gives the right results for a given IV, the code works. Taking that DES code and some RSA code and turning it into an Onion Router is a whole different challenge. And any mistakes you make are far less obvious. [...] >An online bank is useless if it can be blocked by a few keystrokes. No offense, but Adam's "Eternity" system doesn't come close to Ross Anderson's original design. It is a fun weekend hack, but calling it the Eternity Service is a very unfortunate choice of words. It isn't any more Ross Anderson's Eternity Service than type I remailers are Chaumian mixes. >(But that's what secure INMARSAT phones are for too) And how do you feed the base station? I believe the solution to permanent servers is more likely to come from the IETF's mobile IP efforts (again a project that far exceeds what a few Cypherpunks can do) and from anonymous server designs such as recently proposed by the usual suspects and others who wish to remain anonymous. [...] >C'punks should wish to provide clandestine crypto services for the entire >population. Laws which may or may not pass in the United States should >bore c'punks, because they should realize that legislation is irrelevent >because the genie is already out of the bottle. Unfortunately, I don't >think the genie is all the way out of the bottle. Clandestine anything, almost by definition, will never reach the entire population, but only those that are willing to go out and seek it. [If it was openly available, it wouldn't be clandestine.] PGP became as popular as it did because it could be used with zero investment by any two parties, requiring only minimum connectivity. Truly secure net anonymizers will need, at least at the backbone level, multiple dedicated machines with fat 24/7 Internet connections in multiple jurisdictions. That's a significant investment. Such sites are not going to become a reality out of the goodness of somebody's heart. Even in the unlikely event that somebody has the time to write all the code for free. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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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 12 May 97 6:48:02 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- nym config(a)nym.alias.net ++**#******* 1:25 99.99% balls remailer(a)huge.cajones.com ###*######## 1:12 99.98% weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de +++-+++++-+ 2:06:18 99.84% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de +++-+++++-+ 2:05:58 99.77% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca * ********** 8:44 99.44% replay remailer(a)replay.com * -***** * 16:09 98.65% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net +**** * * *+ 19:10 97.86% dustbin dustman(a)athensnet.com .--.+-++- 2:35:37 93.78% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net ..-..----- 5:14:17 92.97% lucifer lucifer(a)dhp.com ++++++++++ 38:33 88.02% hidden remailer(a)hidden.net #__-+#### 2:32:43 76.02% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net .+_.- +- 1:47:08 70.50% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com ---.- 7:31:14 28.09% 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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Applauding Violence (was: Re: Wine Politics Again! (fwd))
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 04:07:36 +0200 (MET DST) > Subject: Re: Wine Politics Again! (fwd) > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > From: nobody(a)replay.com (Anonymous) > Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited > Reply-to: nobody(a)replay.com (Anonymous) Froomkin wrote: >> On Fri, 9 May 1997, Tim May wrote: >>Every day that passes, I'm more convinced that McVeigh did the right >>thing. Some innocents died, but, hey, war is hell. Broken eggs and all >>that. > It ill behooves participants in a democracy to either advocate or even > tolerate or even cluck sympathetically at mass murder for political ends. > This way lies Bosnia. > A. Michael Froomkin Agreed. I'm getting progressively more turned off by Tim's developing survivalist/confrontationist stance. I fear that journalists and other casual readers will mistake his positions for common 'cypherpunk' viewpoints. The type of armed, ingrained bitterness towards all aspects and manifestations of government he displays is hazardous to himself personally; I can envisage a simple traffic stop turning violent. Worse, he's demonizing his opponent. This is counter-productive. It's better to try to understand the actual underlying goals of your opponent - it gives you a much better chance at turning him into your ally, or avoiding a conflict if you cannot do that. If he can be neither turned nor avoided, the minimum action to change the status quo should be used. If Tim truly maintains that a 'war' is underway between people like him and the government, than he would be in no position to complain if Clinton's men treated his little hilltop retreat as an enemy outpost. For all his pride in it's defensibility, they could take it out in seconds if respect for due process, the Constitution, and a real concern for the lives of innocents did not stop them. The policies of the current gang in power are bad, and may well get worse. But terrorism is not yet an appropriate response, and I pray that it never will be. Peter Trei trei(a)Process.com

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Unexportable crypto
by ET 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A simple substitution cypher has a keyspace of 26! ~ 2**88 Isn't this too strong to export?

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The Interlinked Cypherpunks Lists?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've recently had some of my articles sent to "cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net" bounce (more precisely: "<cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net>... Deferred: Connection timed out with rigel.cyberpass.net. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours"). And I've received no Cypherpunks list traffic more recently dated than Saturday morning. (I'm subscribed to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net.) I surmise that something is wrong. So I've subscribed to one of the alternates, cypherpunks(a)algebra.com. Some thoughts: * Is it possible for the interlinked lists to send out announcements of list problems to subscriber of all such lists? (Each list owner could do a periodic "who cypherpunks" of the other lists, then use this list to send a message if a problem comes up. More sophisticated cross-processing could eliminate duplicates, etc.) * Alternatively, if one of the sites goes down, such as "cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net" seems to have done, could the other sites automagically pick up the task of distributing articles until the site comes back up? * How feasible is it to have a single "virtual subscription address" which gets traffic from one of the various list sites? (To avoid having to subscribe to two or more lists and thus getting duplicates.) I'll resubmit a few of my recent articles to cypherpunks(a)algebra.com. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Camera Hacking
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(I sent this article to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net, but am getting no traffic from that site, and some of my messages have bounced. I've subscribed to cypherpunks(a)algebra.com and will resubmit some of my recent articles to that address. It would be nice if the "interlinked lists" system could work to handle outages of sites, and not just mutual distributions of articles. Any ideas?) >Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 21:37:24 -0800 >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Re: Camera Hacking >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >At 9:02 PM -0800 5/10/97, Alan Olsen wrote: > >>The best weapon against a 35mm camera is a flash from a camera. Aim at the >>lens and fire. (Only if they are looking through it.) The screams are >>worth it. (One of the few joys of my high school photography class.) > >Reminds me of an old astronomy club trick. > >Take any reasonble aperture telescope. Use a reasonable magnification for >the target such that target window fills the field of view. Place a >standard electronic flash where the eye normally is. (Increased efficiency >is gotten by arranging for as much of the output to go into the eyepieces >as possible...this can be done with an "integrating sphere," e.g., an >aluminum foil sphere with a single exit at the eyepiece.) > >After dark, aim the telescope in the window of your victim. Best results >are gotten if they have the lights off, e.g., while they're watching >television. > >Trigger the flash. > >The startled reactions as their room fills with a flash of light are >interesting. Some of them may even think they're under nuclear attack. > >This of course works best from afar. Apartment buildings with views of >other apartment buildings, for example. Don't this from the bushes, or >even from across a street. > >--Tim May > > > There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Crypto Makes Nuclear Disinfectants Easier to Deploy
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(I sent this article to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net, but am getting no traffic from that site, and some of my messages have bounced. I've subscribed to cypherpunks(a)algebra.com and will resubmit some of my recent articles to that address. It would be nice if the "interlinked lists" system could work to handle outages of sites, and not just mutual distributions of articles. Any ideas?) >Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 19:58:02 -0800 >To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Crypto Makes Nuclear Disinfectants Easier to Deploy >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >At 3:25 PM -0800 5/10/97, Duncan Frissell wrote: >>On Sat, 10 May 1997, Kent Crispin wrote: >> >>> I would expect a "cypherpunk riot" to be a little more aimed at >>> cyberspace than real-world suburban neighborhoods. Wouldn't you? >> >>Tim was mostly talking about nuking the District of Columbia. You will >>note that that is an artificial community filled entirely with politicians >>and their sycophants. It is sort of like the train that Ayn has blow up >>in the Rocky Mountain tunnel in Atlas Shrugged. There are no innocents >>there. (Well a few tourists and Ethiopian immigrants who don't know better >>but you can't win 'em all.) Note also that he is hoping others will do >>the deed. He's not volunteering. >> >>There will be a few unfortunate explosions in the world over the next few >>years so I'm sure Tim is just hoping for a beneficial target selection. > >Indeed. Beneficial target selection. Though I think it much more likely >that the U.S.-recognized capital of the Zionist entity will be a more >likely target to undergo nuclear cleansing. (And even there some innocent >civilians, both Muslim and Jew, will surely be hastened to their meetings >with Allah, He Whose Name May Not be Expressed (YHWH), or the Great Honey >Bear. No accounting for wanting to live in near Ground Zero...religion is >a strange thing.) > >What I think a careful perusal of my comments about D.C. will reveal is >that I will not cry for its destruction, and would, all in all, smile a >broad grin if I wake up some morning to hear on CNN that D.C. is no more. >It's a free country, so I can express such happy thoughts about such >corruptions being cleansed. > >(As for crypto and Cypherpunks, anyone who is honest must admit that >strong crypto and Cypherpunks are helping to make this a more plausible >scenario. The bullshit that strong crypto is only for "democratic forces" >is too naive to even comment on. Strong crypto is to give a handful of >people the power to undermine statist authorities and imperial capitals.) > >--Tim May > > There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Sabotaging the U.S. Military-Industrial War Machine
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(I sent this article to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net, but am getting no traffic from that site, and some of my messages have bounced. I've subscribed to cypherpunks(a)algebra.com and will resubmit some of my recent articles to that address. It would be nice if the "interlinked lists" system could work to handle outages of sites, and not just mutual distributions of articles. Any ideas?) >Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 19:39:47 -0800 >To: Kent Crispin <kent(a)songbird.com>, cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Sabotaging the U.S. Military-Industrial War Machine >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > > >(Contrary to rumors, I _do) have a live outside of the Net. I've been away >this weekend. I probably can't, or won't, respond to all of the comments >about my recent posts.) > >At 12:57 PM -0800 5/10/97, Kent Crispin wrote: > >>I would expect a "cypherpunk riot" to be a little more aimed at >>cyberspace than real-world suburban neighborhoods. Wouldn't you? >> > >Sorry. I misunderstood you to be speaking of the "fouling of one's own >nest" (or whatever the ebonics translation might be) riots of recent years. > >You are correct that a kind of riot in cyberspace is possible. However, I >think the attacks (not riots) will not be oriented toward mayhem (no pun >intended) toward one's neighbors, but towards destablization of >democracies and military-industrial facilities. > >In particular, various attacks against the national labs. > >And technologies to make the "force of democracy" lose their teeth. > >Subscribe to the Info-War news list for more, although they are >unfortunately biased toward the U.S. propaganda machine. (It was by some >of them that I was characterized as an "information terrorist," a label I >view as an honor.). > >(Hint: I was quoted/interviewed in oppostion to the Pentagon's >"info-warriors" in a BBC television show called "The I-Bomb." My thesis, >not all of which was inclued in the BBC programme, was that strong crypto >would and should be used to destablilze U.S. efforts to dominate the New >World Order. If an I-bomb could destroy the Pentagon, Livermore, Los >Alamos, and so on, I would press the button tonight. The U.S. military >machine is vastly more powerful than it needs to be meet the threat of >invasion of our shores (hint: even Hitler and Tojo were not real threat to >U.S. shores) and whatever is needed should be done to destabilize and >sabotage the U.S. industrial war machine.) > >The spread of anonymous remailer is already being used to break the back >of the U.S. war propaganda system. (Given that Lowell Wood's crimes are >being liberated and sent to non-U.S. sites for their use in defeating the >war machine). > >Cypherpunks stand for making the United States just another bunch of >contiguous geographic regions. > >--Tim May > > There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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whine politics again
by Monique Lamont 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

on the subject of wine-importing restrictions in florida: tcmay wrote: > Chiles and his co-conspirators should be shot for high crimes > against the > Constitution. After Clinton, Freeh, Kerrey, and the other traitors. > > Every day that passes, I'm more convinced that McVeigh did the right > thing. > Some innocents died, but, hey, war is hell. Broken eggs and all > that. oh yaah. you betcha. it's illegal to ship wine to floridans now, so therefore it is okay to execute the responsible officials and blow up innocents. no doubt there are hundreds of cypherpunks out there nodding their heads in blithe agreement at this point. HELLO PEOPLE! buy a clue from the Discount Clue Store, and while you are out, stop by the Jiffy Lube and get your common human decency refilled. love, alice0 --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Money orders, debit cards, ...
by jimbell＠pacifier.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:11 5/11/97 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote: >At 02:12 AM 5/11/97 -0700, David Wagner wrote: >>(Note: contents of calls are protected by law, but traffic analysis >>specifically is allowed, far as I can tell.) > >Correct. There is no (federal) constitutionally protected privacy interest in >traffic-analysis data about phone calls, because (so the argument goes) that >data is voluntarily disclosed to a third party (the phone company). That argument is bullshit, however. Getting technical about it, you "disclose" your voice to the phone company so that it can digitize it and send it to its destination. If that argument were valid, voice would be unprotected as well. Chances are excellent that this odd position is a holdover from a time (1920's) when many if not most telephone calls were manually switched, and you had to tell the (human) operator the number you wanted to call. That act of telling was probably considered "disclosure." However, logically the adoption of a system of automatic switching (which doesn't require recording the number called; for many decades such recording wasn't even done because it was economically impractical except for charged LD) would eliminate the presumption that the number was already "disclosed." Since phone company operations subsequent to call takedown do not require the recording of destination numbers, any more than they need to record voice, the constitutional treatment of these two pieces of information should be identical. In any case, constitutional rights should not depend on (or be limited by) the state of technology 70 years ago. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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