December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: PGP 5.0 beta is out at PGP.com
by nobody＠hidden.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > > More than that, did they decide to release the source code? > Last I heard, the answer was "of course not!!!!" I recently heard from a PGP employee that they plan to release ALL source code, including non-crypto code.

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17 Dec '03

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

17 Dec '03

Declaration of Digital Independence ------------------------------------- We, the computer-literate and technologically superior, in order to break the ignorant chains of those who hold us back, do hereby declare our freedom from those who control what they do not understand. We wish to no longer hear the cries of "pornography-superhighway" and "cyber-patrol". We reject the repulsive nonsense shoved down our throats by all forms of media telling of the dangers of piracy, pornography, and in general, free thought. There are no "cyber-molesters" we cannot stop as a people. If you educate your children like the good parent you should be, they should know what is right and what is wrong, and will be wise, young judges, with free thought and judgement. We cannot simply "block" what we find offensive, on the net, on bulletin boards, and as we all know, in real life. We must learn to deal with the "day to day inadequacies" of life, and we must not simply become mindless drones of those that fight to restrict freedom. We must fight even harder than they, and we must fight to stay free, or all right is lost. If it's not worth fighting for, then you have already been brainwashed. The internet (NOT info-superhighway, or i-way, as those terms are simply insulting and degrading, made up by the ignorant) cannot and SHOULD NOT be regulated. It should be allowed to make it's own rules. It is bigger than any world you can and can't imagine, and it will not be controlled. It is the embodiment of all that is free; free information, friendship, alliances, materials, ideas, suggestions, news, and more. The "Cyber-Angels" are only well-meaning do-gooders with nothing better to do than to "tattle" on those with different ideas than they. They use entrapment, and have twisted their ideas and values to make them apply to cyberspace, trying to rule an area they do not understand. Fighting for the freedom to think is good, but to fight for an idea you believe is the only true idea is itself ignorance. The nazis believed that they were superior, in ideas and actions, and the "Cyber Angels" are nothing more. You cannot stop freedom of thought, and they try anyway, to convert anyone and everyone to their mode of thought. But those of us who see clearly know that the internet is the greatest invention ever, topping the telephone and electricity. It is a gathering of the mental body of billions of people, and we will not be stopped. The media, as it is known, is the propaganda vending machine of today. As a whole, they trip over themselves, feeding lies to the ignorant, and we who are not will watch too, to laugh at the stupidity that is the media. We sit in front of our televisions, or listening to the radio, or looking at a newspaper or a magazine, and we laugh. We laugh and laugh, because the media has become a ridiculous pool of lies and half-truths. They say we're more dangerous than sicknesses, and nuclear weapons, because we choose to laugh at their ideas and boundaries, and we fight to expand them. We laugh at the pitiful security devices used to keep knowledge from spreading, and we rip down the beaurocratic bullshit tape they put up in virtual doorways. We call the boards they show on the news, covered in ideas and values different than theirs, and we like it. We like asking for a computer program that we never would have bought, and having it show up in our mailboxes. We like leaving messages on BBS' containing information on how to blow up a building or how to kill a man with your bare hands. We like it, not because it scares people or because it's "twisted" or "evil", but because it's forbidden, and lost. You do not know what a "redbox" is? Come, friend, and I will spread the lost knowledge. And when I tell you, you will tell another, and we will be held together by the knowledge which we "should not know". We are the illuminati, and the enlightened. We look not to the old sciences of textbook learning, but to the primitive ways, of communication and experience. We are sickened by the unenlightened. We despise those who wish not to learn, and those who read the same books, over and over again, under different names, believing that they are learning. We are the "different", and the "abnormal", those who are sometimes disliked because we regurgitate the lies fed to us by the governing. Everyone has the need to know, the curiosity of the caveman who invented fire, but some have been trained like monkeys, not ever knowing it's there. They simply accept things, and do what is expected of them, and this is sad. They are those who never fight back, and never open their minds. And they are, unfortunately, usually the governing bodies; the teachers, bosses, police, federal agents, congressmen, senators, parents, and more. And this, my friend, must change. We will not be "voted out", and we will not be mentally disfigured. If they had the chance, government and the media would give everyone a virtual labotamy. Our minds to be held in chains, forced to take in what is given. This is unacceptable. We will not be held down, by the ignorant, the foolish, and especially the lazy. We take your textbooks and your lies, and we put them back in the dusty storerooms where they belong. And we share ideas, and make new ones, and sometimes ask for a hand to hold, and not one around our throat. We see what no others can, and what no others want to see. It is a technological revolution, and a revolution of ideas. We will fight in battles for our freedom to think, should there be any, but we will not start any. We are not a violent group, but our opposition believes ideas should not be let loose to grow, and they will begin the battle. They have no honor, stealing from us our rights, our liberty, and our freedom of thought. And for this, we label them unforgiven... - Anarchy, and the AoC...

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Re: Distributing cryptographic code
by iang＠cs.berkeley.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <3.0.1.32.19970517183655.00867d60(a)mail.io.com>, Greg Broiles <gbroiles(a)netbox.com> wrote: >But a clerk in Egghead who sells a copy of 128-bit Netscape to a "foreign >person" is also guilty of an export violation. Not the way I read the regs (IANAL)... 734.2(b) provides a completely different definition of "export" for encryption software ((b)(9) instead of (b)(2)(ii)). - Ian 734.2(b): (b) Export and reexport--(1) Definition of export. ``Export'' means an actual shipment or transmission of items subject to the EAR out of the United States, or release of technology or software subject to the EAR to a foreign national in the United States, as described in paragraph (b)(2)(ii) of this section. See part 772 of the EAR for the definition that applies to exports of satellites subject to the EAR. See paragraph (b)(9) of this section for the definition that applies to exports of encryption source code and object code software subject to the EAR. (2) Export of technology or software. (See paragraph (b)(9) for provisions that apply to encryption source code and object code software.) ``Export'' of technology or software, excluding encryption software subject to ``EI'' controls, includes: <snip, irrelevant to EI> 734.2(b)(9): (9) Export of encryption source code and object code software. (i) For purposes of the EAR, the export of encryption source code and object code software means: (A) An actual shipment, transfer, or transmission out of the United States (see also paragraph (b)(9)(ii) of this section); or (B) A transfer of such software in the United States to an embassy or affiliate of a foreign country. (ii) The export of encryption source code and object code software controlled for EI reasons under ECCN 5D002 on the Commerce Control List (see Supplement No. 1 to part 774 of the EAR) includes downloading, or causing the downloading of, such software to locations (including electronic bulletin boards, Internet file transfer protocol, and World Wide Web sites) outside the U.S., or making such software available for transfer outside the United States, over wire, cable, radio, electromagnetic, photooptical, photoelectric or other comparable communications facilities accessible to persons outside the United States, including transfers from electronic bulletin boards, Internet file transfer protocol and World Wide Web sites, unless the person making the software available takes precautions adequate to prevent unauthorized transfer of such code outside the United States. Such precautions shall include: <snip; this part was in the previous note> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM38TokZRiTErSPb1AQHZJgP/aFc77erbX8CTK5dKDOskMas5eqHPTj36 VkALz17gkkZLbOs8jafc/hCVRgAC5wiF29CLE33XX2Ngvb8O98mwQFFGnJaUj0+9 70Q7fuKKvjvo19V+yPWVw/Q9ZJR4uA+qpIyyIZf28HIn+949Mpyq75eOs686se3t AX5q7acfjJc= =7kz4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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17 Dec '03

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improving reliability of cypherpunks@algebra.com
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi There, I have come up with a way to reduce latency and improve reliability of cypherpunks(a)algebra.com node, by way of tinkering with DNS and mail aliases at a friendly site. I plan to implement the new scheme and then seamlessly transfer cypherpunks(a)algebra.com to a better connected host. This transition is supposed to change NOTHING in the way cypherpunks(a)algebra.com looks to its users, subscribers, and peers. It is also supposed to be painless to the subscribers. Operation of cyperpunks(a)algebra.com will NOT be interrupted at ANY time. However, whenever computers are involved, there are things that can go wrong. You will also receive some number of test messages. I hope that you will understand that and I will take all steps to prevent any inconveniences. Thank you igor

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Crypto, C4 Explosives, and Destroying the Infrastructure
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: 10855
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: referers and W3 (fwd)
by Hal Finney 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Rich Graves, <llurch(a)networking.stanford.edu>, writes: > A friend who webmasters a large site that is implementing referer-specific > content sent me this when I mentioned the cpunks/cryptography thread of a > few months back. I basically agree with the W3C. While user education on the > potential privacy threat is essential, I do not believe that Netscape should > violate published technical standards. There are also privacy and property > issues from the server's perspective. I'm not sure what Netscape action you are referring to, but if it is giving the users the option to block the Referer tag, RFC2068, which is HTTP/1.1, already endorses this: Note: Because the source of a link may be private information or may reveal an otherwise private information source, it is strongly recommended that the user be able to select whether or not the Referer field is sent. For example, a browser client could have a toggle switch for browsing openly/anonymously, which would respectively enable/disable the sending of Referer and From information. and later: We suggest, though do not require, that a convenient toggle interface be provided for the user to enable or disable the sending of From and Referer information. I use Eric Murray's fine "cookie jar" privacy program when I am web browsing on my Linux system (http://www.lne.com/ericm/cookie_jar/) It blocks cookies and advertisements via a very flexible config file mechanism. It also eliminates other privacy-revealing outgoing data, including Referer, and could be easily modified to play all kinds of games with Referer for the adventurous. In the news recently, Ticketron is blocking links from some Microsoft affiliated sites due to a disagreement about licensing. I don't know the details of how it is done technically, but possibly it is done by looking at the Referer tag to see if the user linked from the Microsoft site. If so, this would be a good example of the browser sending information which is detrimental to the user. Hal

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Re: Crypto, C4 Explosives, and Destroying the Infrastructure
by Michael Wilson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >However, there are a couple of *obvious* errors. My supposition is that he >"pulled his punches" a little, choosing to gloss over certain things which >would have made the "terrorist" essentially impossible to detect. (The most >glaring error, which he surely knew better about, was to assert that NSA >could break any cipher if given enough time and computer power.) I would assume that anyone considering the potential of infrastructural warfare attacks in a dramatic setting would have to handicap the moves of the opposition force--the mechanisms of tradecraft in the modern age are such that the anti- and counter-terror forces are whistling in the dark as they pass the graveyard. Steve Schear wrote: >Any intelligent terrorist knows that explosives are old hat. >Perhaps this is an opportunity for CPs to join in and re-write the book >with a more factual basis and outcome, are re-publish on-line. I volunteer >to OCR. The modern terrorist or opposition force will use whatever makes them the most effective--if that means, on the cost/benefit curve, that they use explosives, then by all means they will. Terrorism evolves under pressures much the way any other social element does; in this case, evolutionary pressures are those of environment and predators. As the security increases or improves, terrorists have historically advanced as well (guns to explosives when airport security improved, and the coming shift to chemical or biological weapons, as thermal neutron analysis comes on-line). Predators, such as intelligence or law enforcement, merely serve to cull the herd a bit, which is why you see fewer but more effective terrorist attacks, even as narrowly defined in the recent U.S. State Dept. reports. As for publication or other expansion on the subject matter, let me point out my own work on the topic (always pro strong crypto, pro cypherpunks, incidentally). Infrastructural warfare is a field that should interest cypherpunks-- it has been my strongest argument for getting government out of the security and cryptography business for a number of years now. Feel free to reference the URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4843/ Particularly of interest to cypherpunks (or anyone with an interest in how to run an untraceable opposition force that could give most of the infrastructure a good thrashing): Waging IWAR (1997) >From the Introduction: "So as not to alarm the reader, let me advise you that this paper is intended as an informal presentation of the material, very much in the spirit of 'let us conspire!' What has been sorely lacking in treatments of the infrastructural warfare (IWAR) subject matter has been a practical, personal approach of thinking about, planning, and waging IWAR operations. Given the nature of most of the professionals acting as documentarists, the published materials are strong on theory and speculation, and short on practical guidelines. I shall attempt to begin to fill that gap, and I hope the reader will accept a temporary 'partnership in crime' as we work through the problems facing an opposition force (OpFor) together. This paper is be broken into four sections: -Definitions, assumptions, and theory; the conceptual basis of IWAR is important to review; -Exploration of OpFor as a practical matter; -A set of IWAR potential operations, for which I have chosen a variety of examples; -Defense-In-Depth, battling IWAR." Infrastructural Warfare Threat Model (1997) Abstract: A threat model is essential to proving the validity of the threat posed by infrastructural and information warfare (I2WAR); exploration of the scope/activities of the threat are essential to understanding the threat and mounting a defense against it. An opposition force' is postulated and explored for its intent, organization, communications, recruiting, armament, intelligence gathering and analysis, and funding. A methodology for defining the infrastructure and dependencies is proposed. I2WAR is defined as conflict oriented around denial of service attacks on physical infrastructure elements (including targets such as communications, public utilities, financial organizations, transportation mechanisms, public facilities/events, emergency management services, commerce, and government), denial of service attacks on virtual' infrastructure elements (information warfare), psychological warfare operations (attacks on decision processes), and technologically augmented political warfare (agitation, subversion, rioting; propaganda). Conclusions are drawn, including suggestions for a defense-in-depth. Battle for the Soul of Information Warfare: Pearl Harbor vs. the Hashishim (1997) Abstract: Infowar has at least two distinct camps, each operating with different basic assumptions on the threat. As these assumptions are critical to threat modeling and defense strategies, comparing the differences is essential. The assumptions of the Pearl Harbor' mass denial-of-service infowar attack are contrasted with those of the Hashishim,' subtle efforts of perversion; the historical case is presented to demonstrate the reasoning regarding the labels. Contrasted are assumptions regarding opposition force approach, intent, focus, targets, scale of attack, resources of opposition force, management, command and control, organization, funding, intelligence, defensive focus, and political view of the problem. Considering the Net as an Intelligence Tool (1996) An exploration of the fitness of the net for intelligence gathering and operational support; this is usually an assumption made by many of the theorists on the subject, but I thought a detailed explanation worth engaging in. Michael Wilson 5514706(a)mcimail.com

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Nature of Anarchy/ Anarchy of Nature
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sunday, May 18, 1997 - 20:46:37 MET Our form of gov't is based on the Judeo-Christian rooted belief in unalienable rights. (though the concepts has been around long befor judaism) These are rights endowed upon us by the life force, they are inherent in our creation and are subject only to the laws of the universe not by any king, or human leader, and so they cannot be taken away by or infringed on by any human leader or groups. The whole of the physical universe is bound by laws we do not make but can only seek to understand. Tuning in and acting in harmony with the laws of the universe furthers us in our development( ie agriculture). Exploiting the laws greedily leads to our destruction.(ie thoughtless industrialization). Furthering nature/the life force is good, opposing nature, seeking to conquer and exploit it, is bad from our human perspective. The constitution and bill of rights was the original AP document with a series of checks and balance designed to keep ultimate power, the right to speak out, organise, gather together, rise up and bear arms, in the hands of the people so no one group could impose the tyranny of their beliefs and the masses. I believe it is human nature to cast off the bonds of oppression. This is the assertion of the life force that always seeks to sustain and perpetuate itself in the greatest possible array of diversity. I believe this was a major quantum leap in the history of human thought and concioussness. A giant step in the right direction of our true divinity but it was sorely flawed; By the concept of property rights. This is where the founding fathers eogos got in the way. The liberation movements of the last century have been based on the same concept of unalienable rights and have attempted to fine tune the document for a more equitable distribution of planet power to correct the flaw. You don't need a weatherman or a clinton to know which way the wind blows. You don't need to be literate to know who is taking what from whom. You don't need a judge to tell you right from wrong. you have instincts that can tell you just fine. Religion in the earliest sense was the bringing together of the group in an understanding of their commonanlity and uniqueness in a way that stirred up ones feelings of awe for the power of the universe in order that we would discover our commonality while at the same time instilling a repect for each of our uniqness. So we could be inspired to submit to our inner and outer natures and act in harmony with it and show benevolence in our relations with each other. This is the ultimate anarchist, a ninja warrior of natures rainbow, who fights to defend the unalienable rights endowed on all by life force. I believe that most of the folks on this list aspire to a form of self govt. A belief and trust in the anarchy of nature tempered with the benevloence brought about by the recognition of our common humanity. A state of affairs where each is a ninja/captain of their own soul. Who recognize the inhernet rights of all and act accordingly without coercion or direction from an outside source, for the laws of the universe are within us. Who respect the rights of the individual and can let them that would destroy themselves destroy, themselves and them that would live to live. To live and let live and live and let die. I believe the network is the link to the next level of evolution of human thought and self gov't. A new religion where we can rediscover our common humanity and regroup as a planet, as the one human tribe. A way to explore our comon roots and learn and develop appreciation and respect for our differences. Where in spite of all efforts to propagandize and spread hate our commanality will emerge. Where all voices can be heard and equitable solutions worked out. Not by "sheeple" but by people allowing their primal natural instincts to govern their actions to be it to shun, support or defend or defeat someone or something. We are retaking repsonsibility for our selves and our fellow humans. Again, you don't need a Weatherman or an FBI man to know which way the wind blows. Look outside your window then look inside your window. Rainbow Warrior

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sunday, May 18, 1997 - 20:46:37 MET Our form of gov't is based on the Judeo-Christian rooted belief in unalienable rights. (though the concepts has been around long befor judaism) These are rights endowed upon us by the life force, they are inherent in our creation and are subject only to the laws of the universe not by any king, or human leader, and so they cannot be taken away by or infringed on by any human leader or groups. The whole of the physical universe is bound by laws we do not make but can only seek to understand. Tuning in and acting in harmony with the laws of the universe furthers us in our development( ie agriculture). Exploiting the laws greedily leads to our destruction.(ie thoughtless industrialization). Furthering nature/the life force is good, opposing nature, seeking to conquer and exploit it, is bad from our human perspective. The constitution and bill of rights was the original AP document with a series of checks and balance designed to keep ultimate power, the right to speak out, organise, gather together, rise up and bear arms, in the hands of the people so no one group could impose the tyranny of their beliefs and the masses. I believe it is human nature to cast off the bonds of oppression. This is the assertion of the life force that always seeks to sustain and perpetuate itself in the greatest possible array of diversity. I believe this was a major quantum leap in the history of human thought and concioussness. A giant step in the right direction of our true divinity but it was sorely flawed; By the concept of property rights. This is where the founding fathers eogos got in the way. The liberation movements of the last century have been based on the same concept of unalienable rights and have attempted to fine tune the document for a more equitable distribution of planet power to correct the flaw. You don't need a weatherman or a clinton to know which way the wind blows. You don't need to be literate to know who is taking what from whom. You don't need a judge to tell you right from wrong. you have instincts that can tell you just fine. Religion in the earliest sense was the bringing together of the group in an understanding of their commonanlity and uniqueness in a way that stirred up ones feelings of awe for the power of the universe in order that we would discover our commonality while at the same time instilling a repect for each of our uniqness. So we could be inspired to submit to our inner and outer natures and act in harmony with it and show benevolence in our relations with each other. This is the ultimate anarchist, a ninja warrior of natures rainbow, who fights to defend the unalienable rights endowed on all by life force. I believe that most of the folks on this list aspire to a form of self govt. A belief and trust in the anarchy of nature tempered with the benevloence brought about by the recognition of our common humanity. A state of affairs where each is a ninja/captain of their own soul. Who recognize the inhernet rights of all and act accordingly without coercion or direction from an outside source, for the laws of the universe are within us. Who respect the rights of the individual and can let them that would destroy themselves destroy, themselves and them that would live to live. To live and let live and live and let die. I believe the network is the link to the next level of evolution of human thought and self gov't. A new religion where we can rediscover our common humanity and regroup as a planet, as the one human tribe. A way to explore our comon roots and learn and develop appreciation and respect for our differences. Where in spite of all efforts to propagandize and spread hate our commanality will emerge. Where all voices can be heard and equitable solutions worked out. Not by "sheeple" but by people allowing their primal natural instincts to govern their actions to be it to shun, support or defend or defeat someone or something. We are retaking repsonsibility for our selves and our fellow humans. Again, you don't need a Weatherman or an FBI man to know which way the wind blows. Look outside your window then look inside your window. Rainbow Warrior

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test
by Jacks-Biz＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

test

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No Subject
by wraith＠ahrens.callnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Jim Bell goes to Jail!
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - From the Oregonian Sunday edition May 18, 1997 page D-10: IRS agents arrest Vancouver man who called for killing federal workers * James D. Bell, who wrote the 10-part essay, "Assassination Politics," faces charges of interfering with a U.S. officer By John Painter Jr. of the Oregonian staff VANCOUVER - A Vancouver man who has written about assassination of government officials and whose home was raided in April has been arrested by IRS agents on charges of interfering with a federal officer. James D. Bell was held without bail in the Clark County jail. On Monday, the IRS will transport him to U.S. District Court in Tacoma for his first appearance. He was arrested without incident Friday evening while waiting for a bus after work. IRS agents could not be reached for comment, and the complaint underlying the criminal charge was sealed and unavailable. The Clark County Jail confirmed that Bell was a prisoner there, held on a federal detainer. A friend of Bell's, Robert W. East, said Bell phoned him from jail and told him he was arrested for interfering with a federal officer. The affidavit for the April search warrant accused Bell of "directly soliciting others to set up a system to murder government officials" and "obtaining the home address of an IRS employee, as well as information about bombs and bomb-making materials." Bell is the admitted author of a 10-part essay called "Assassination Politics," which has been circulated widely on the Internet, particularly in anti-government forums. "Assassination Politics" discusses creation of an organization to reward those killing public officials while protecting assassins' identities. IRS agents searched East's home in Vancouver on Thursday. East said he was questioned for about 90 minutes, during which time agents asked him about a "stink-bomb attack" on an IRS office in San Diego or Long Beach, Calif., and a "propane bomb" found at another IRS office. In that search agents found a 3- foot carbon fiber that East said he got from Bell for an electrolysis experiment. Federal agents since have focused on a Bell theory that carbon fibers could be used to sabotage computer hard drives, thus disabling them. East confirmed Bell's interest in using carbon fibers as a "computer killer" but dismissed it as a "goofball idea." The search warrant for East's home shows that the government also is interested in determining whether Bell and others have experimented with volatile chemicals in preparation for attacks on IRS offices and agents. The search warrant for Bell's home shows that agents were searching for evidence of "threats, assaults, obstruction, intimidation, solicitation of murder, false statements, and the unlawful use of false social security numbers." Jeff Gordon, a Portland-based IRS special investigator, said he discovered "Assassination Politics" among items seized when IRS agents took Bell's 1986 Honda for unpaid back taxes in February. Bell denied the car was his. An IRS tally of the items inside the car included a document about a "trial" by the Multnomah County Common Law Court in January of several IRS agents, a federal magistrate in Portland, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and an IRS commissioner, Margaret Richardson. - --- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBM3/BJeQCP3v30CeZAQFSLwf/S5Drnovm0dZQQE5HLODevTOVz6d9NNXK 9f+Aif6Qkf3p+iAsv98vKJv8w/M0ps3st0POuwgPZL8lQNm1IpvnOO1ef70d6vGB 0xuu87+WriZRU1MVScKIxAOYhBAtEOBZEgEAa5RNJi9XzafdMoCTx8VUsDcnVnhg WkNthZ7yB/YouDcOZ3NYk6nsbXC8SxVr8QtDRa2IhIKSCWc3QoAJ7i2Vh//bGZ22 RJBIiF/PxtE/pTLlpJLFgJLmfyffieskdi192kj0ABhp0qxmTiRiaYWftxH2T+s6 2OytBMHYQe8xGqK9ophXVOu/t5hb2aEIH3diEoSkVUG02wdAlAgTqA== =0sB7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- | "Bill Clinton - Bringing back the sixties one Nixon at a time." | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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Re: PGP 5.0 beta problem
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:55 PM 5/18/97 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >Have any other Mac CPs tried using verion 5.0 with CryptDisk? When the >PGPMenus extension is installed any attempt to open an encrypted volume >generates a "Not enough memory to mount disk" message. I ahve pleanty of >RAM abd suspect a lack of System memory (e.g., stack space). Seems PGP 5.0 still has some major problems. I can't even get the installer to work on Win95. It complains about a lack of disk space. I have >1GB 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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DES search making serious progress
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Folks, The DES key search is making serious progress. The leading contender seems to be DESCHALL http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm They are currently searching >3.5 billion keys per second. Estimated time to completion is 14 weeks. It is no longer a question if the key will be found. We now need to make sure that it is found as quickly as possible. Please download and run the software. Thanks, -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred

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More on the Jim Bell case
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The local news just had a story on the Jim Bell case. They are now claiming that the search warrent (how the news people got a copy is a big question) included Sarin nerve gas and Anthrax (not the band). The news story was a pretty interesting hatchet job. Included a number of horsemen and prominently mentioned encryption. They claimed that the reason for the raid on East's home was because he sent Bell encrypted messages containing various evil and unauthorized thoughts. Why am I not surprised... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBM4D6e+QCP3v30CeZAQHE4Af/TVM1CJHKCu+1YE1MJ7rifbRmfINGI7jv EPYv/6Hd4ymKTuvVL40lvjCCTUTcOvPssFsJRUpjiRSBugVmbw7q4FbbBwG8cE3Y SsaB+hFcJWBoWfs/aGBbHPv5ZBFdmWDoqFBIfAbnxeSBNLCEPYF5Uv+b59BbwSeL fk8yavmAeCO0tieXU0MZwZUpavodNAD1WC7JlPHE1UYZAjy67WOW2UxwLaNgI5VM LeHmBKYBUxEUdofuUUGbLoUNAFvj009Lq4n0vTR5op1bxoClaXia20t8BW4xAZoR Y8ZqEBrQ+hlDjRJaWKUjVSq1AmOeoVbhL/18fN7WvxiAPn6aNuP++A== =w8P/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- | "Bill Clinton - Bringing back the sixties one Nixon at a time." | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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Re: referers and W3 (fwd)
by Hal Finney 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Murray, <ericm(a)lne.com>, writes, regarding Referer spoofing: > What would make sense to use, other than sending > "http://this/is/a/bogus/referrer/sent/to/mess/up/your/stats"? > How about sending the current URL as Referrer? One practical idea would be to set up the config file so that whenever URL X is referenced, specified URL Y is sent as the referer. This could be useful for accessing web sites which won't show you information unless (or if) they see a certain value in the referer field. Hal

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Sun Sells Encryption Software Overseas, Skirting U.S. Policy
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal: http://interactive3.wsj.com/edition/current/articles/SB863997652645676500.h… Sun Sells Encryption Software Overseas, Skirting U.S. Policy By DAVID BANK Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to sell advanced data-security software from a Russian supplier to overseas customers, a move that skirts U.S. export regulations and is likely to receive close U.S. government scrutiny. Sun is expected to announce Monday that it will sell encryption software licensed from Elvis+ Co., a company formed by scientists from the former Soviet space program. Sun I actually think that Elvis+ is mostly composed of the former KGB scientists, not space scientists. I may be mistaken though. -- igor has a 10% equity stake in the Russian firm. The Elvis+ products will be shipped to overseas customers from Sun distributors in third countries to keep them from falling under U.S. jurisdiction. Sun's move illustrates how global market pressures are making it increasingly difficult for U.S. officials to control the spread of advanced encryption hardware and software. The technology, which scrambles data to protect it from computer eavesdroppers, is considered vital to the growth of electronic commerce. But export of powerful encryption products is barred under U.S. export-control laws, on grounds that terrorists and others will use it to evade surveillance. Challenge to U.S. Policy The Sun action will cause the Clinton administration to face a difficult decision, said Jim Bidzos, president and chief executive of RSA Data Security Inc., a unit of Cambridge, Mass.-based Security Dynamics Technologies Inc., a major supplier of encryption technology. "The government has to shut this down, or else the competitors of Sun probably have to say, 'We're going to do the same thing,' " he said. Mr. Bidzos, a long-time critic of the export controls, praised Sun's move as "blatant and in-your-face." An administration official said Sunday the White House didn't have enough information to comment. Computer-industry executives, concerned that they could lose a valuable market to foreign competition, have long discussed strategies to exploit loopholes in the export laws. But Sun appears to be the first major company to use foreign software to supply overseas customers. Sun executives said they hadn't discussed the plans with U.S. government officials but had strictly adhered to current laws. "This is not being done to subvert export-control laws but to deliver solutions to customers," said Humphrey Polanen, general manager of Sun's network-security products group. "Never before have organizations outside of the United States had access to such advanced security software." Privacy advocates said Sun's initiative would boost their goal of making high-strength encryption widely available. "We think the benefit for security outweighs the liability for law enforcement," said Jerry Berman, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C. Critical Distinction Elvis+ is based in Zelenograd, a Moscow suburb that was once known as the "Soviet Silicon Valley." The company's products are based on a security protocol called SKIP that was developed by Sun, but Sun says it provided no technical assistance to the Russian company. The distinction is crucial; the export controls cover any product developed with such assistance from a U.S. company. The product, which will be marketed under the name SunScreen SKIP E, employs various encryption algorithms, or formulas, including so-called three-key triple DES and 128-bit ciphers, which security experts consider to be virtually unbreakable. The algorithms, in wide use within the U.S., are used to scramble digital communications; in general, the longer the bit length of the encryption key, the more difficult the code is to break. Current export controls allow the export of cryptography keys up to 40 bits, which have been cracked by computer hackers in as little as 10 minutes. Companies with special approval from the Commerce Department have recently begun exporting 56-bit encryption software, but customers have been clamoring for much stronger keys. Global Competition The restriction on U.S. exports has opened market opportunities for strong encryption products from foreign competitors, including Germany's Brokat Informationssysteme GmbH and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, a unit of Siemens AG. "Sun's announcement is further evidence that current U.S. policy is forcing companies to look overseas to obtain strong encryption," said Edward Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a Washington D.C., trade group that is lobbying for relaxation of the export controls. Last year, RSA Data Security announced plans to fund an effort by Chinese government scientists to develop strong encryption technology, but the effort has stalled, Mr. Bidzos said. RSA now sends legally exportable products to its Japanese subsidiary, RSA Japan, for bundling with Japanese encryption software. "I can't just let this world-wide global electronic-commerce market take off without participating," Mr. Bidzos said. Sun's Mr. Polanen said SunScreen SKIP E+ will work with other products based on the SKIP protocols. A commercial version will be available in August; evaluation copies are available for download from an Elvis+ site on the World Wide Web. The software will be priced at $99 for versions that run on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 operating systems and at $149 for the Windows NT version.

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Jim Bell News
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Painter, the Oregonian reporter of Jim Bell's arrest, said this evening that he's got another story coming out tomorrow that will reveal more of the situation, and that he'll fax a copy (which I'll post unless Alan does). Mr. Painter says: Jim's still in the Tacoma, WA, federal jail. There was a prelim today and a hearing is due Friday. The feds are keeping the case documents sealed. Speculates that someone may be squealing on Jim in a deal. Jim cannot receive calls but can call out collect. A U.S. Federal Defender has been assigned to represent Jim: Peter Avenia, tel: 253-593-6710. Mr. Avenia did not return a call. The U.S. District Court Judge is J. Kelly Arnold. Court Clerk is Kelly Miller, tel: 253-593-6313. The Oregonian's telephone: 1-800-452-1420. A man at Jim's home politely said he did not want to talk about it. Tel: 360-696-3911.

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Re: Nature of Anarchy/ Anarchy of Nature
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Schear wrote: >Even better, "The Road to Surfdom," F.A. Hayek, totally debunks the basis >of a planned economy and how the loss of property ownership and economic >freedom leads directly and inevitably to totalitarianism. ............................................................ Or my favorite of all time: "Human Action" by Ludwig von Mises. It's a large book - it could keep a collectivist New Age philosopher busy for hours. But even just reading the first few chapters would be sufficient to provide some usefully deep ideas to explain fundamental things about economic truths, of the kind which many cpunks are already in agreement with. .. Blanc .. Blanc

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Re: Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:26 PM 5/18/97 -0800, Tim May wrote: >As I explain in my message to Steve Schear, I have no way of >removing such "mail bombs" with my Eudora/POP system until they >have been downloaded to my machine (I don't have a shell account anymore). Eudora does have a "Only download messages less than ___K" option that can reduce this problem; I don't know if there's also a way to delete the message from Eudora without downloading it. Netscape Mail has similar options. The old Netcom Netcruiser mail client software let you download just the headers and then pick what messages to read ; I don't know if the new NetComplete stuff does that or not. Netcruiser was ugly and somewhat broken, but occasionally did useful things. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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Re: Jim Bell goes to Jail!
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:12 PM 5/18/97 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: >It is interesting that they have kept the warrent sealed. This, more than >anything makes me question the legitamacy of the whole affair. Sounds like >the IRS is planning a preemptive strike on the Common Law Courts and the >people behind them. There are two reasons I can think of immediately why the feds would keep the warrant sealed. The first is that they don't want to reveal just how little evidence they have. The second reason is that the warrant might give some clue as to future actions/other suspects. Remember that the IRS agent found the AP essay by means of an Internet search engine. That almost certainly means he is following the discussions about Jim Bell on the Net. Such as the discussion on Cypherpunks. It must be truly frightening to this person to read some of the threads on this list. Nerve gas, C4, race-specific biological weapons, bypassing airport security systems, not to mention money laundering and tax evasion, what hasn't been discussed here? The feds may not be aware that the discussions on this list are usually of a theoretical nature. Perhaps they decided to go after the "co-conspirators". Like the anarchists in California with their AR-15's who have so many mags that they can't even remember where they all are. :-) The fact that Jim is held _without bail_ would indicate to me that there is more going on than might meet the eye. -- 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: Jim Bell goes to Jail!
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:28 PM 5/18/97 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: >(There are also a number >of >psychological studies that show that people will do all sorts of horrific >things to their fellow man when someone in authority tells them to. If they >are led to believe that they are "bad" in some way, many will enjoy it.) Right. I read a book on that. I think it was called "The Millgram Experiment". Normal people would administer (fake, but they didn't know it) electroshocks to a subject even after the subject had stopped moving and could have been assumed to be unconscious or even dead. An excellent demonstration of the power of authority. And the gullibility of the average person. -- 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: Just Say "No" to Congress
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vladimir Z. Nuri, blowing smoke out his ears, wrote: >the question is not "how do we hold the government accountable for >our cash" but, "*when* will we"? [and] >anyone who disbelieves in the authority of the US government >yet sends them their tax money is a hypocrite. .......................................................................... The first sentence implies that Nurilogical proposes that government should be held accountable by its citizens, including himself ("*when* will we"). On the other hand, he obviously believes in the authority of the US government, as he has always supported it in arguments on the list, especially in counter arguments against TCM. So, it appears that VZN is not *ready* to hold the government accountable, preferring not to protest when his own money is withheld for him, but hypocritically wondering when everyone will make this will happen. However, he's correct: similar to the argument I made about there being no difference between those who kill the good along with the bad & the ugly (that's from the title of a Clint Eastwood movie, for those who aren't familiar with that line), all those who argue for morality and libertarian ideals, but still "give in" when it comes to tax time, are all losers. <g> But this shameless capitulation is intellectualized away with the explanation that everyone is outnumbered by the men holding the legalized guns, who are in turn supported by all those true believers in The American Socialist Way of Life; that way being: the reception of benefits without any need to be consciously aware of, to identify, their actual source or the actual method of their obtainment. .. Blanc .. Blanc

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The Recent Trend in "Collective Contracts"
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm not a lawyer, but I am interested in the various ramifications--and the constitutionality--of recent "sweeping contracts" between vendors, lawmakers, consumers, etc. Two recent example: 1. The "tobacco agreement." Supposedly a deal involving the transfer of $360 billion from some number of tobacco companies in exchange for dropping of liability suits, immunity from future claims, voluntary restrictions (!) on advertising, etc. (And the "etc." is especially complicated in this huge case.) 2. The "voluntary ratings" agreement being announced today by Al Gore and some of the television networks. (Earlier "voluntary agreements" were implemented, but, according to supporters of censorship, "failed." Hence the new push for newer voluntary restrictions.) The issue, it seems to me, is that ordinary concepts of illegality and civil liability are being swept aside in favor of these huge "deals" to reduce liability in exchange for various actions. Well, who is bound by these deals? If "Tim's Tobacco Company" starts up next year, after this deal is "signed," is his company bound by this deal? If Tim the Smoker develops lung cancer, is he blocked from suing? (Caveat: My personal and libertarian view is that lawsuits against cigarette companies are wrong and should not be supported in a free society. And lawsuits by various states to "recover health care costs" are especially bogus. By this logic, McDonald's could be sued by California because California paid out more health care benefits to meat-eaters than it did to vegetarians. Utterly bogus.) Anyway, the free speech aspects of these deals are also worrisome. The "voluntary restrictions" on advertising, for example. Would the aforementioned "Tim's Tobacco Company," not a party to this Grand Deal, be somehow bound by a deal wherein it could not sponsor sporting events? Or advertise? Or even speak out against the deal? Imagine the implications for cryptography, using the logic of these kinds of deals: "The voluntary agreement reached between the cryptography industry and Washington calls for companies to voluntarily limit key sizes to 64 bits unless a key recovery scheme is used. And Washington agrees to drop RICO charges against PGP Inc. and RSA Data Security Inc. in return. Book publishers, who became part of the negotiations last summer, have agreed to limit the information published in books in exchange for relaxations on the export requirements for computer media. " Far fetched? Perhaps. But note the similarities to these other "collective contracts." And in many ways the Telephony Act, aka CALEA (Communications Act for Law Enforcement Access), was just such a deal. When the various telecom companies essentially said "we can live with this bill," they were tacitly committing themselves to just such a collective contract. (What happens when a new telecom company starts up and finds that it has been "bound" to provide wiretap points into its switches?) It seems to me that these contracts are going to collapse completely when the Supreme Court points out that they bind nonparticipants to terms which limit their constitutionally protected rights. (Quibblers can claim that "corporations have no constitutional rights," but the publishing companies which publish newspapers would take exception to this. And so on. There are many cases where corporations are enjoying the fruits of the Constitution. As it should be.) These huge mega-deals are a crummy way to interpret the U.S. Constitution. I fear the "Grand Compromise" deal that the telecom and crypto companies are being drawn into. --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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Electronic Commerce Book
by Ravi Kalakota 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Announcing a new book on Electronic Commerce -------------------------------------------- Electronic Commerce: A Manager's Guide by Ravi Kalakota and Andrew Whinston -------------------------------------------- ISBN: 0-201-88067-9, softcover, 440 pages, 1997 PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley (1-800-822-6339) -------------------------------------------- This book is a manifesto for a new set of managers who seek to reap the elusive rewards of the online marketspace. This book offers a multitude of real-world scenarios and lessons for building value and creating the competitive edge. The book answers strategic questions such as: - What business models are competitors using in the various industry segments of e-commerce? - What are the key management questions that need to be addressed in order to create an effective buisness online? - How should companies be organized using Intranets to manage the external commerce? If you lead a small startup or work in a Fortune 1000 firm, whether your company has an established online presence, or is just starting out, The Manager's Guidemay be the most important book you read this year. Table of Contents: ------------------ 1. Introduction to Electronic Commerce Defining Electronic Commerce Brief History of Electronic Commerce Forces Fueling Electronic Commerce Electronic Forces Marketing and Customer Interaction Forces Technology and Digital Convergence Implications of Various Forces Electronic Commerce Industry Framework The Information Superhighway Multimedia Content and Network Publishing Messaging and Information Distribution Common Business Services Infrastructure Other Key Support Layers Putting the Framework into Action: Microsoft Corporation Types of Electronic Commerce Inter-organizational Electronic Commerce Intra-organizational Electronic Commerce Consumer-to-Business Electronic Commerce Intermediaries and Electronic Commerce Key Questions for Management Competitive Pressure External Threat Incorporating Changes Designing New Organizational Structures Managerial Options and Priorities Summary 2. The Internet and the Access Provider Industry Internet Service Providers Key Market Drivers for the Internet Who Is Making Money on the Internet Clarifying Internet Terminology Companies Providing Internet Access Internet Topology Differentiating Market Segments: Commercial versus Consumer Internet versus Online Services Open versus Closed Architecture Controlled Content versus Uncontrolled Content Metered Pricing versus Flat Pricing Innovation versus Control Predicting the Future of the IAP Market Convergence Leading to Competition Service and Capacity Management Customer Service, Loyalty, and Retention Marketing Customer Education Changing Technology behind Internet Access Changing Technology behind the Access Provider Summary 3. World Wide Web--Applications Brief History of the Web What Exactly Is the Web? Why Is the Web Such a Hit? The Web and Ease of Use The Web and Ease of Publishing The Web as a New Distribution Channel The Web and Network-Centric Computing The Web and New Intra-Business Applications The Web and Electronic Commerce The Web and Intra-Business Commerce Other Intranet Applications Intranet Advantages and Disadvantages Management of Intranets Understanding the Intranet Architecture Summary 4. World Wide Web--Concepts and Technology Key Concepts behind the Web Overview of the Web's Technical Architecture Interactive Web Applications Interactive Applications Interactivity and Information Integration Web Extensions for Interactive Applications Web and Database Integration Web Database Products HTML Forms and CGI Programs Web Software Developmental Tools Need for Better Programming Languages New Programming Language: Java Technically Speaking: What Exactly Is Java? Role of Java in Electronic Commerce How Does Java Work? Business Reasons for Using Java Multimedia Web Extensions Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) RealAudio Internet and Web-based Telephony Directories and Search Engines Lycos Summary 5. Firewalls and Transaction Security Firewalls and Network Security Types of Firewalls Firewall Security Policies Emerging Firewall Management Issues Transaction Security Types of Online Transactions Requirements for Transaction Security Encryption and Transaction Security Secret-Key Encryption Public-Key Encryption Implementation and Management Issues World Wide Web and Security Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer Security and Online Web-based Banking Summary 6. Electronic Payment Systems Overview of the Electronic Payment Technology The Online Shopping Experience Limitations of Traditional Payment Instruments Electronic or Digital Cash Properties of Electronic Cash Digital Cash in Action Electronic Checks Benefits of Electronic Checks Electronic Checks in Action NetCheck: A Prototype Electronic Check System Electronic Check Project Online Credit Card-Based Systems Types of Credit Card Payments Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) Other Emerging Financial Instruments Debit Cards at the Point of Sale (POS) Debit Cards and Electronic Benefits Transfer Smart Cards Consumer, Legal, and Business Issues Summary 7. Electronic Commerce and Banking Changing Dynamics in the Banking Industry Changing Consumer Needs Cost Reduction Demographic Trends Regulatory Reform Technology-based Financial Services Products Home Banking History Why Will It Be Different This Time? Home Banking Implementation Approaches Home Banking Using Bank's Proprietary Software Banking via the PC Using Dial-Up Software Banking via Online Services Banking via the Web: Security First Network Bank Open versus Closed Models Management Issues in Online Banking Differentiating Products and Services Managing Financial Supply Chains Pricing Issues in Online Banking Marketing Issues: Attracting Customers Marketing Issues: Keeping Customers Back-Office Support for Online Banking Integrating Telephone Call Centers with the Web Summary 8. Electronic Commerce and Retailing Changing Retail Industry Dynamics Overbuilding and Excess Capacity Demographic Changes Consumer Behavior Technology Improvements in Electronic Retailing Online Retailing Success Stories Online Retailing: Peapod's Experience CUC International Wine on the Web: Virtual Vineyards Web-based Travel Agencies Mercantile Models from the Consumer's Perspective Distinct Phases of a Consumer Mercantile Model Prepurchase Preparation Purchase Consummation Postpurchase Interaction Management Challenges in Online Retailing Come Up with a Retailing Strategy Manage Channel Conflict Learn to Price Online Products/Services Deliver a Satisfying Shopping Experience Design the Layout of an Online Store Manage Brands Create the Right Incentives Summary 9. Electronic Commerce and Online Publishing Why Online Publishing? Online Publishing Strategies Online Publishing Approaches Full-Text and Bibliographic Databases Personalized and Customized News Business Information and News Delivery Edutainment = Education + Entertainment Online Publishing Success Stories PointCasting Time Warner's Pathfinder Disney Online Integrating TV and Data Streams: Intercasting Advertising and Online Publishing An Online Publishing Missing Piece: Measurement Digital Copyrights and Electronic Publishing Online Copyright Protection Methods Summary 10. Intranets and Supply-Chain Management Supply-Chain Management Fundamentals Pull versus Push Supply-Chain Models Elements of Supply-Chain Management Integrating Functions in a Supply Chain Managing Retail Supply Chains The Order Management Cycle (OMC) Supply-Chain Application Software Software for Supply-Chain Management Recent Trends in Application Software What Is the Business Market? Understanding the Application Software Architecture Future of Supply-Chain Software Intranets and Network-Centric Computing Intranets and Application Software Impact of the Web on Application Software Elaborating on the Intranet Architecture What Remains to Be Done? Summary 11. Intranets and Customer Asset Management Why Customer Asset Management? Challenges in Implementing Customer Asset Management Customer Asset Management and Supply Chains Online Sales Force Automation What Is Sales Force Automation? Elements of Online Sales Automation Intranets and Sales Automation What Are the Management Issues? Online Customer Service and Support The Web and Customer Service The Role of Technology in Customer Service What Are the Business Requirements? The Enabling Intranet Technology Technology and Marketing Strategy Marketing Decision Support Systems Marketing Decision Support Applications Summary 12. Intranets and Manufacturing Defining the Terminology Integrated Logistics Agile Manufacturing Emerging Business Requirements Customer-Driven Manufacturing Rapid Internal Response to Demand Changes Efficiently Managing Supply Chain Complexity Manufacturing Information Systems Discrete versus Process Manufacturing Market Types of Manufacturing Information Systems Intranet-Based Manufacturing Customer-Driven Manufacturing Real-Time Decision Support Intelligent Process Management Logistics Management Problems with Traditional Logistics Management Case Study: Microsoft Corp Integrated Logistics Objective of Modern Logistics Function Forecasting Purchasing Distribution Management Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Benefits of EDI EDI in Action Why Has EDI Adoption Lagged? Summary 13. Intranets and Corporate Finance Intranets and Finance What Exactly Are Financial Systems? What Do Financial Systems Do? Financial Intranets Understanding the Different Software Modules Transaction Accounting and Electronic Commerce Financial Analysis and Management Accounting Inventory Accounting Payment Management Treasury and Cash Management Human Resources Management Systems HRMS Functions Size/Structure of Financials Software Market Product Strategy Financial Data Warehouses How Are Firms Using the Web for OLAP? Desirable Software Requirements Summary

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Domain names and "The Network $olution", from The Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*********** http://pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1155,00.html The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com) July 10, 1997 The Network $olution by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) It could have been the perfect way to liberate the Net from the much-reviled monopoly of Network Solutions Inc., the company that handles almost all U.S. domain name registrations. Backed by well-regarded groups such as the Internet Society, the seven-page proposal promised to reduce prices, increase choices -- and best of all, really put the screws to everyone's least favorite domain name registrar. But a month before the curtain is set to lift on a host of new domains to supplement .com and .org, the ambitious plan suddenly seems as doomed as the recently extirpated Communications Decency Act. Not only did just one government, Albania, sign the "Memorandum of Understanding" (MoU), but the U.S. actively opposed it. So did Network Solutions, after they realized with gut-wrenching dismay the consequences of losing their lucrative monopoly on .com. Yesterday another group of MoU critics met in Washington to form the Open Internet Congress, which hopes to wrest control of Net governance from "hobbyists" and "volunteers" and haul it into the mainstream. "I don't want a bunch of volunteers playing around and trying to run the show. I don't want petty battles over who's in charge and who's keeping the lights on," says Andrew Sernovitz, the president of the Association for Interactive Media, which organized the summit. Sernovitz envisions a ruthlessly commercialized cyberspace that's safe for companies like IBM, Intel, NBC and Time Warner (Netly's corporate big brother) that cough up $9,000 a year to be governing members of AIM. The talk yesterday was of revolution. Sernovitz spoke about holding an Internet "Constitutional Convention" this fall. He passed out supportive columns quoting from "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine. I even heard folks call the MoU the move that will spark the online equivalent of the Boston Tea Party. (Led, presumably, by firms like Time Warner? Since that media giant also owns CNN, you can be sure the revolution will indeed be televised.) [...]

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17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy Mayhem's father, an idiot, stumbled across Timothy Mayhem's mother, an imbecile, when she had no clothes on. Nine months later she had a little moron. ---- '@ *> Timothy Mayhem |\ 7 / `-- _

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Re: More PGP volunteers needed
by Mark Grant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: > It would speed things up if more non-US citizens living outside the US > willing to proofread source were to contact Stale Schumacher at > <stale(a)hypnotech.com> to volunteer some time. You can wait for the source > to show up on your favorite ftp site, or you can make it happen. Your > choice. Well, when I mailed Stale about it a week or two ago he said he already had over seventy volunteers. The problem may just be latency; my hundred pages took about twelve hours of mind-numbing work to correct (mostly spent getting the right number and combination of spaces and tabs in strings), so while I was able to do it in two days I could certainly understand some people taking a week or more to finish theirs. Plus, of course, the inevitable delays from sending the pages out by snail-mail. Mark

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Re: Cast of Characters for Crypto Politics (Judiciary Hearing)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > At 8:06 PM -0700 7/9/97, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >Here's a cast of characters from today's hearing... > > Except maybe for Ashcroft--and it may be too soon to tell about him--the > rest have just shown their expected colors. I say we just hang them all and > be done with it. Legislators should be made to vote with their dicks hanging out. Any legislator with fresh lipstick on his dick gets his vote thrown out. It may not be a perfect system, but I wouldn't bet against it being better than what we have now. > Many of us warned long ago that Leahy was no friend of liberty, despite his > soothing comments at the SAFE forum last summer. His support of other > statist policies makes him just another fool on the Hill. The "classified briefing" by LEA smells like a classic example of "Of course, if you vote against this bill then we will be forced to expose you as a champion of pedophiles and drug czars." > A law to ban domestic use of strong crypto is coming. All it will take is > some horrific incident--another bombing in a building, another Dahmer case, > etc., where crypto is involved in any way. This will be the catalyst for > the outlawing of unapproved crypto. So you're sitting there at the police computer, checking out Dahmer's floppies, which contain only letters to his mother, and you realize that if they are encrypted, then they are proof that he has something sinister to hide. Hmmm... Or you realize that the Judge will imprison Tim May for contempt of court until he provides his secret key, and you realize that if it is encrypted with a key Tim doesn't have, that the Judge will have to decide whether to believe the outrageous accusations of Tim May, Jim Bell's best friend (according to a reliable informant), against a champion of law enforcement. > ... > >SEN. JOHN KYL (R): Criticized Kerrey for being too > >moderate. "My own view is that the legislation does > >not go far enough," Sen. Kyl said of the McCain-Kerrey > ... > > The competition to outdo the others is beginning, signalling the usual > stampede toward the passage of a bill. There are times that I wish Tim was a little less perceptive. It would give me a little room for self-deception when I need to take a break from reality and try to tell myself that there is some slim ray of hope for freedom and liberty to prevail. Why is it that the "stampede" always seems to manage to head in the direction needed to trample the constitution underfoot (like tornados sniffing out trailer parks)? SEN. JOHN ASHCROFT (R): Emerged as a staunch crypto-defender. I originally thought that perhaps he was taking this stance as a matter of principle, but then I heard that he had purple lipstick on his dick. Does anyone know what color Blanc wears? (Just curious. I certainly wouldn't want to start any unfounded rumors. However, for the record, I would like to assure Blanc that if the bill happened to be defeated by a substantial margin, I wouldn't think any less of her.) I think I need to go spank myself. TruthMonger

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TRUTHMONGER UNMASKED!!!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate, realizing that he finally had solid evidence as to the true identity of the coward hiding behind the TruthMonger persona, forwarded to the list: > OPEN MICROPHONE CATCHES CHRETIEN'S CRITICISM OF CLINTON > From Senior White House Correspondent Wolf Blitzer > > Apparently unaware the microphone in front of him was on, Chretien > bragged that his country does not let the United States dictate its > policy, and suggested American politicians make decisions solely for > reasons of expediency. > > "In your country, in my country, all the politicians would be in > prison because they sell their votes," Chretien said. Spoken like a TruthMonger! I always had my suspicions that the main person using the TruthMonger multi-user persona on the CypherPunks list was acting out of some kind of obsessive, guilt-driven psychosis as a form of repentance for great evils being commited under his true identity. Chretien, as Prime Minister of Canada, has to live with the knowledge that in order for his country to survive he needs to kowtow to a gang of criminals in a neighboring country who have the firepower to smoke the Canadians' butts in a heartbeat. The TruthMonger posts are more sporadic when Chretien is involved in international conferences, and it is now obvious that the pressure of living a lie builds up and spills out at these times when he cannot relieve himself of his guilt using his TruthMonger posts. I suspect that Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene is Rabid Wombat and Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker is masquerading on the list as Dr. Dimitri Vulis, KOTM. The CypherPunks list is the one place where they can let their hair down and tell Big Brother Bill and the whole goddamn world what they really think. > He also said Clinton was in favor of inviting Poland, Hungary and > the Czech Republic to join NATO because it would woo voters. > > Speaking in French, the Canadian prime minister said: "It's not > reasons of state. It's all done for short-term political reasons, to > win elections. Take the quarrel over whether to admit the Baltic > states. That has noting to do with world security. It's because in > Chicago, Mayor (Richard M.) Daley controls lots of votes for the > nomination." Or, as Chretian would have put it, as TruthMonger, "Big Brother Bill is a lying, Nazi, sack of shit whose main concern in regard to world security is his ability to use it to suck Daley's big vote-cock." > The three leaders laughed as they waited for the Clinton and his > advisers to arrive for the meeting. True CypherPunks, they are laughing their asses off that "we the sheeple" let these charlatans and criminals rob and oppress us under the guise of democracy. > He (Chretien), he's used to not doing > what they want," Juncker said. > > "I make it my policy," Chretien said. "But it's popular. The Cuba > affair. I was the first to stand up" against it U.S. policy > tightening the economic embargo on Cuba. Unfortunately, he didn't have the political balls to testify for the defense in the Timothy McVeigh trial, so he had to express his support for McVeigh as TruthMonger. > The three leaders chuckled among themselves. What the fuck is wrong with the American people? Here are three world-leaders who openly acknowledge that the U.S. is in the hands of gangsters who would be imprisoned for crimes against the citizens and the country if justice truly prevailed in America. And a single conversation, accidentally(?) revealed such as this one, is no doubt just the smallest of samples of the stinking rot that lies at the heart of a gang of criminals who are actively working to subvert the constitution of the country in the interests of furthering their ever- tightening, fascist grip on the reins of power. The same government which trained Timothy McVeigh to kill (and then fucked over his Desert Storm compatriots when their service to their country cost them their health) used their trained, "it's all there in the press release" news dogs to turn their own penny-ante hired gun into a "monster" symbolizing patriotic paramilitarists whose concern lies with defending America at home rather than murdering foreigners for "votes." Slipping in the polls because you murdered and fucked over too many of your own citizens? Whack out a pile of worthless foreigners with high-tech weapons that allow us to slaughter them wholesale without losing any American lives. Watch your poll stats rise as Americans stand and cheer the murder of defeated, retreating troops by aircraft missles which weren't designed to take prisoners. Act surprised when 800 government law enforcement agents with the latest in technology claim to be unable to prevent men, women and children that were victims of a botched government assault from dying a horrible, burning death. Act outraged when the chickens come home to roost in Oklahoma City. > "In your country, in my country, all the politicians would be in > prison because they sell their votes," Chretien said. The reason they are not in prison here is because they are armed and dangerous and have managed to disarm and disenfranchise their citizens, making any resistance to government fascism a criminal offense. We get to vote for the criminal of our choice from among the group of criminals that the other criminals pre-select for us and whose campaigns they support with our stolen booty. If a "ringer" slips through, such as Kennedy, he is murdered and the criminals make a great show of patriotic mourning. If a no-name schill is foisted on the public as vice-president,like Agnew, and will take power because the "gang leader" is getting busted, remove him on the basis of what are "parking tickets" compared to the crimes of most of your cronies. World-leaders recognize that the American citizen is just a stupid 'mark' who is getting fucked in a sophisticated con by men who have no qualms about stealing senior citizen's life savings (Social Security) stealing votes and elections (bribery, sabotage and power mongering), and stealing the rights and freedoms of the citizens by lying about the need to stop illegal drugs (which remain freely available no matter how many of our rights and freedoms are stripped). I don't have a death-wish of any sort, but if I happen to get killed by someone striking back at the enemies of freedom who are usurping the constitution to tighten their criminal control over the citizens, then I can think of far worse reasons to die. We lose 169 people every time a bean-counter decides it's cheaper to pay off the families of the dead instead of spending an extra nickle on every seat-belt installation in an automobile. We lose 169 people every time some Senator decides we need a new weapons system instead of new hospitals or medical services. We lose 169 people every time the President decides to stomp on the citizen's rights instead of giving them enough freedom to feel like they can face life without numbing their senses to the stench around them with ever-increasing amounts of narcotics. Gambling is a government-regulated criminal enterprise, now, and Timothy McVeigh's ante was just to establish that the citizens are in the game. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see some heavy betting taking place from all the players who choose to "sit in." American sheeple may regard McVeigh as a "monster," but world-leaders make a strong case for viewing him as a "crime-fighter." A. Cretin

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Acclivity - A global web of change management
by Marc Fourny 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

acclivity Apologies for cross-posting Excuse me if this message does not concern you. web site: http://www.acclivity-consultants.com email:acclivity@interweb.be Dear , I am pleased to announce the formation of Acclivity, an international network of independent management consulting practices in fourteen countries in Europe, North America and Africa, specialising in all aspects of corporate transformation. For corporate executives managing change in the transformation of their business is an increasingly complex task. How can they manage risk ? How are they to control change and still keep the initiative ? How much creativity should be involved in new projects ? Will their staff fully participate and cooperate in the changes envisaged ? Acclivity has been set up to assist clients, many of whom are international companies and are transforming across national boundaries, to answer these and other questions: and at the same help them master all aspects of the transformation process so leading them towards a more competitive position and profitable future. Acclivity differentiates itself from its competitors in that all the consultants in the network are senior experienced people whose role is to provide advice and guide the clientUs staff through the various stages of the transformation process. There are no junior consultants and analysts as we believe all the detailed work should be carried out by clientUs staff. All the consultants are used to working in different countries and carrying out cross border assignments. Together, the Acclivity consultants provide the full range of methodologies used in change management and transformation. From their different backgrounds, they bring the full value of their professional and cultural skills as well as their competencies and creativity to help the client: 7 determine new value proposition for his target markets 7 reengineer his business 7 develop cross-functional organisations 7 transform his strategic and operational processes 7 open his operations to external partners - clients, suppliers and contractors 7 renew his innovation processes, awaken hidden talents, and enhance his creativity and knowhow 7 reshape the culture and values within his business 7 strengthen his human capital 7 restructure his support functions: human resources management, finance and accounting, and information systems and technology. The distinctive added-value offered by our network lies not only in the mastery of these particular methodologies. An effective transformation also requires that the consultant provides assistance in all areas where the organisation has to be mobilised. In order to secure long-lasting sustainable results each Acclivity assignment is composed of three modules: 7 we lead the executive team through the transformation journey. The use of organisational prototypes, for instance, minimises the business risks. We help management modify its modus operandi so as to provide the opportunity of involving the whole organisation in the change process 7 our own research, observation, and analysis of best practice cases are used as guidelines for the companies change efforts, from strategy definition to detailed implementation of the new organisation 7 finally, we train the change team to innovate, install and implement new structures and systems. In addition we develop a new project management capability which is particularly key to success when radical change is involved. I would welcome the opportunity therefore of discussing with you your own tranformation programme to see how we might be able to add value to your own resources. Yours sincerely, Marc Fourny President web site: http://www.acclivity-consultants.com email:acclivity@interweb.be

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MEETING: July SF Bay Area Meeting Saturday at Stanford
by Hugh Daniel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What: San Francisco Bay Aera Cypherpunks Phyical Meeting Where: Under the Oak Tree at Tressider Union, Stanford University When: Saturday July 12th, 1997 Agenda: HIP'97 Planing, Dave Del Torto Freeh's Statement before Congress, Group ECash update, Jeremey Barrett PGP Library 5 & PGP/MIME Updates, Dave Del Torto FreeS/WAN dryrun, Hugh Daniel What ever else comes to mind... We will be meeting under the Oak Tree that is inside the "U" shape of Tresidder Union, the weather report looks good. Bring your Ricochet... Tresidder Union is a little (peninsula) west of the Stanford main Quad, there is a parking lot just p-west of of the Union that you can park in on weekends. The best automotive access is from the west via Junipero Serra Blvd. (also somtimes called Foothill Expressway, Santa Cruz Ave & Alameda De Las Pulgus) into the 'back' of the Stanford Campus, look it up on a map folks. For some semi-useful maps try: http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps.html or for a zoomed in view to the right section of campus: http://www.stanford.edu/home/map/stanford_zoom_map.html?209,284

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Re: Underground extract: System X
by proff＠iq.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > Anyone read this book? Apparently the first in-depth investigation > > into the international computer underground to come out of the > > Southern-Hemisphere - or so I'm told ;) - J.A > > > > Extracts from Underground - The true nature of System X > > > > Extracted from Chapter 10 - "Anthrax - The Outsider" > > > > Note: System X's name has been changed for legal reasons. > > > > Do you know where I could get the full version of this book. > Thanks > Dale > E-Mail: humbles(a)new.co.za Try www.underground-book.org/order.html Cheers, Julian.

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Jim Bell (FINALLY!) Charged
by Alan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oregonian Friday July 11, 1997 Page B3 Man whose home was raided by IRS agents is charged A man whose Vancouver home was raided by IRS agents in April has been charged with two felonies in Tacoma. James D. Bell was charged Wednesday with interfearing with a federal officer and using false Social Security numbers. He has been held without bail in the Pierce County Jail since his May 18 arrest. Bell, 38, is scheduled to be arrained July 18 before U.S. Magistrate J. Kelly Arnold. However, sources close to the case said Thursday that plea negotiations are under way and are likely to be concluded before then. Bell's home was raided and searched April 1 by an IRS task force of 20 agents. In an affidavit for the search warrant, IRS Special Investigator Jeff Gordon said that Bell was "directly soliciting others to set up a system to murder government officials" and that he had devised a plan to overthrow the government. At a detention hearing in Tacoma, Arnold ordered Bell held without bail on both allegations. alano(a)teleport.com | "Those who are without history are doomed to retype it."

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FBI wants domestic crypto keys
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,12317,00.html FBI wants domestic crypto keys By Alex Lash July 10, 1997, 12:45 p.m. PT After months on the fence, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Louis Freeh is making it clear that controlling the domestic use of encryption software is a greater priority than limiting its export. "Law enforcement is more concerned about the significant and growing threat to public safety and effective law enforcement that would be caused by the proliferation and use within the United States of a communications infrastructure that supports strong encryption products but cannot support timely law enforcement decryption," Freeh told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The director's comments yesterday underline the conflict within the administration on encryption policy and the influence the security agencies have on that policy. Other voices in the administration, including Vice President Al Gore and an early draft of the White House's e-commerce white paper, have long insisted that domestic use would remain unregulated. In the hearing convened by committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Freeh also expressed concern that pending Senate legislation doesn't go far enough in giving law enforcement access to encrypted electronic data within U.S. borders. "These legislative proposals still do not contain adequate assurances that the impact on public safety and effective law enforcement of the widespread availability of encryption will be addressed," he told the committee. Freeh was referring specifically to Senate bill 909, which mandates domestic key recovery--a technology that gives access to a user's private keys--for all encryption products purchased with federal money and for all federally funded electronic networks. Security officials like Freeh argue that inaccessible encryption will let criminals communicate on the Internet without fear of being caught. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska) and John McCain (R-Arizona), would also require key recovery for anyone within the United States using a government-approved digital certificate. Digital certificates are ID tags that verify the sender of a communication or transaction as well as the integrity of the data within. "Registration and the use of registered agents and [digital certificate] authorities are entirely voluntary," Kerrey told the committee yesterday. Because digital certificates are considered necessary to spur Net-based commerce, critics of the McCain-Kerrey bill argue that a federal "stamp of approval" program for certificates creates an environment of mistrust for those who choose not to participate in the program. Such an environment is bad for business, critics say, and will make the federal program and the use of key recovery a de facto standard. The bill has already been approved by the Senate Commerce Committee, and Judiciary might take it up for debate soon. The bill has not yet been referred to the committee, however, and no further hearings have been scheduled, according to the committee press secretary Jeanne Lopatto. Opponents of McCain-Kerrey are already taking unprecedented steps to state their case. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online rights organization, has gone beyond its usual Net-based advocacy to create a 60-second radio spot. The commercial urges listeners to contact McCain and complain about the bill. "We feel that if this bill passes it will have an extreme impact to privacy for the American public in the next 100 years, and the majority of people walking down the street will never know what even happened," EFF executive director Lori Fena told CNET's NEWS.COM. "We're preaching to the choir already on the Net; it's more effective to reach people in their cars." The radio ad is airing this week during rush-hour drive times in San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. The organization will gauge the volume of response to the ad before buying more air time, but Fena is encouraged by the response so far. The nonprofit group has spent "in the low thousands of dollars" on the advertisements, Fena added.

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Re: Freeh's Testimony (FBI Seeks Domestic GAK)
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Statement of Louis J. Freeh, Director, FBI, before the Senate Judiciary >Committee Hearing on Encryption, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. - >July 9, 1997 >Would we allow a car to be driven with features which would evade and >outrun police cars? But we do. Two hundred MPH cars remain street legal most places. With a good driver, these cars can even move fast enough to outrun radio communications (or rather the response time involved in radio communications). The search circle that contains them becomes too big too fast. >Would we build houses or >buildings which firefighters could not enter to save people? These remain legal as well. Heinlein's reinforced concrete house on Bonny Doone road in the Santa Cruz mountains. It is perfectly legal to build a reinforced concrete structure that could defeat entry for many days. More generally, it is legal not to speak and thus to deprive police and prosecutors of the contents of your mind. Crypto just extends this right. >Most importantly, we are not advocating that the privacy rights or personal >security of any person or enterprise be compromised >or threatened. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater. I don't think this has ever been tested in court. I'll bet their are many circumstances in which it is perfectly legal to shout fire in a(n unburning) crowded theater. >You can't with >impunity commit libel or slander. Unless you're judgement proof. These are usually civil not criminal matters in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. >In support of our position for a rational encryption policy which balances >public safety with the right to secure communications, >we rely on the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. There the framers >established a delicate balance between "the right of the >people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects (today we >might add personal computers, modems, data >streams, discs, etc.) against unreasonable searches and seizures." Those >precious rights, however, were balanced against the >legitimate right and necessity of the police, acting through strict legal >process, to gain access by lawful search and seizure to the >conversations and stored evidence of criminals, spies and terrorists. Course you long ago dropped the bit about "reasonable cause to believe a *crime *has been* committed." Loads of preventive wiretaps and regulatory searches in the absence of even the accusation of a crime. Violating Regs is usually not a crime. >The precepts and balance of the Fourth Amendment have not changed or >altered. What has changed from the late eighteenth to >the late twentieth century is technology and telecommunications well beyond >the contemplation of the framers. Course the Framers didn't have wiretaps either since they had no wires. We're just trying to restore the balance to the way it was in those days. No wiretaps. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM8ZdwYVO4r4sgSPhAQFzuwQAsIaHDDZgqS7j2Fit59XgF/6dRMtVlMc8 cSdEZcJX+PgNPSfLMnJ3YzYZ0tchmtRseD3xpx/eSnFrs5mTk8EhwPoPjMec1ydc yzHKkQJ/Nv0aNDkGGv/ertjA9TsbLBnKYHMEmDLAq9EyQ6rnnbeedJx36GwTw9BM RYabw2seBxU= =HIgS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Recreational pharmaceuticals by genetic engineering (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:09:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eileen Tronolone (Pathfinder)" <eileent(a)pathfinder.com> To: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> Subject: Re: Recreational pharmaceuticals by genetic engineering (fwd) Also Sprach Ray Arachelian: > Psilocibe mushrooms usually cause vomiting. Most Amanita species > have an lethal dosage which is uncomfortably close to the > effective dosage, not a good thing in a drug. Amanita muscaria > however was used by the vikings to help induce their 'berserker' > state for battle. Actually - and you can forward this to relevant parties - woad, the infamous herb used by the Celtic warrior in the form of blue body paint, when mixed with urine (which is how they applied it to their bodies) causes a reaction very similar to cocaine and most amphetamines. The reduction in pain that is felt from wounds and the ecstacy brought on can easily be confused with a typical beserker reaction. The term beserk originates from "bare sark" - the beserkers wore little if no armor and the Celts are particularily famous for going into battle "in the altogether" except for the blue war-paint. The feeling of invulnerability that comes from the woad "high" led to this custom. Other semi-legal although dangerous "highs" can result from the ingestion of too much nutmeg or jasmine, both hallucenogens. -- Eileen Tronolone | eileent(a)pathfinder.com | Do not CD c System Administrator | redsonja(a)giti.com | taunt --------P===\==/ Commerce Team | gotagun(a)liii.com | happy fun /_\__ Time Inc. New Media | 212-522-9121 | fencer! _\ \

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Re: The Recent Trend in "Collective Contracts"
by Peter Swire 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:29 AM 7/10/97 -0700, Tim May wrote: >I'm not a lawyer, but I am interested in the various ramifications--and the >constitutionality--of recent "sweeping contracts" between vendors, >lawmakers, consumers, etc. > >Two recent example: > >1. The "tobacco agreement." Supposedly a deal involving the transfer of >$360 billion from some number of tobacco companies in exchange for dropping >of liability suits, immunity from future claims, voluntary restrictions (!) >on advertising, etc. (And the "etc." is especially complicated in this huge >case.) So far as I know, the agreement has no legal effect until and unless a bill is enacted in Congress. Once a bill is enacted, there can obviously be far-reaching ramifications. For instance, an individual's right to sue in tort can be cut off. Punitive damages can be abolished for the defined class of suits, etc. If such a bill is enacted, various groups would likely sue on the basis that it is unconstitutional. That's what happened with CDA -- the indecency provisions first became law, and then were overturned in the courts. > >2. The "voluntary ratings" agreement being announced today by Al Gore and >some of the television networks. (Earlier "voluntary agreements" were >implemented, but, according to supporters of censorship, "failed." Hence >the new push for newer voluntary restrictions.) The big legal fight on ratings is whether any "state action" takes place. The First Amendment governs efforts by a federal or state government to restrict speech. If private companies "voluntarily" agree to do something, the First Amendment simply does not apply. But if the coercive power of the state forces them to do the same thing, then the courts can get involved under the First Amendment. Here, if the government is too explicit that it will ban certain speech unless the networks ban it, then a court might find that the government in fact is involved in an impermissible way. >The issue, it seems to me, is that ordinary concepts of illegality and >civil liability are being swept aside in favor of these huge "deals" to >reduce liability in exchange for various actions. Well, who is bound by >these deals? > >If "Tim's Tobacco Company" starts up next year, after this deal is >"signed," is his company bound by this deal? If Tim the Smoker develops >lung cancer, is he blocked from suing? > The basic concepts are pretty clear. A contract among various parties binds that group of parties. A statute of general applicability can regulate everyone in the jurisdiction. The existing tobacco companies can't bind "Tim's Tobacco Company" in their contract. However, if they support a bill in Congress, and the statute is enacted, then their actions might indeed play a role in restricting your actions later on. Peter Prof. Peter Swire Ohio State University College of Law mailto:swire.1@osu.edu web: http://www.osu.edu/units/law/swire.htm (in early stages of construction)

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Airlines to start profiling, bag matching
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncs17.htm 07/10/97 - 08:26 AM ET Airlines to start profiling, bag matching New security measures for domestic flights, combining limited bag matching with a controversial computerized profiling system, will be operating by Dec. 31, Federal Aviation Administration officials said Wednesday. But the proposal, scaled down from what a presidential commission recommended in September, immediately drew fire from airline safety and civil rights proponents. The FAA will require that "first, passengers are profiled and selected bags are searched or matched," said Bruce Butterworth, director of civil aviation security operations, in an interview with USA TODAY. Airlines are expected to match bags with about 5% of fliers. A computerized profiling system will identify those who might pose a security risk. Example: passengers who buy tickets with cash. If someone matches the profile, their bags would not be stowed until they actually board the plane. Total bag matching is routine on international flights. But American Airlines executive vice president Robert Baker says he doubts that the Dec. 31 deadline will be met because airlines are still developing a profiling system. "We'll be lucky to have this in place by next year," he says. The FAA says it was encouraged that a test of bag matching in May at 12 U.S. airports didn't cause massive delays. Proponents of 100% bag matching say the FAA caved into the airlines' demands. "This weakens the whole idea of bag matching. It's about time the FAA decides whether it's on the side of profits for the airlines or on the side of safety," says Susan Cohen, whose daughter was killed by the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. The presidential commission had proposed that every passenger be matched with every bag on all domestic flights. But after the airlines objected, fearing massive delays, it agreed to a combination of profiling and limited matching. Others say profiling may discriminate against some ethnic groups. "Passengers should not have to give up essential liberties just to get on planes," says the ACLU's Gregory Nojeim. By Donna Rosato, USA TODAY

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[NEWS] Computer Coding Could Cripple Cops, FBI Warns
by Dave Del Torto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Computer Coding Could Cripple Cops, FBI Warns By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuter) - FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday issued his sternest warning yet that widespread use of computer encoding technology could wreak havoc on crime-fighting efforts. But computer industry participants warned that U.S. restrictions on encryption products, which scramble information and render it unreadable without a password or software "key," would merely boost sales by foreign companies. Freeh urged Congress to promote the use of a type of encryption that allows law enforcement agents to crack the codes by getting access to the software keys. "Law enforcement is in unanimous agreement that the widespread use of robust non-key recovery encryption ultimately will devastate our ability to fight crime and prevent terrorism," the FBI director testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Freeh has spoken out numerous times against the unrestricted export of strong encryption products, but his remarks Wednesday focused mainly on the threat to law enforcement efforts within the United States. Current laws impose tight controls on encryption exports but domestic use is completely unregulated and some scholars believe restrictions on U.S. citizens might be unconstitutional. Much of Wednesday's hearing rehashed well-worn arguments in the encryption debate. The software industry has backed legislation to relax export controls and promote the use of encryption as a means of securing electronic commerce and global communications over the Internet. Freeh and other members of the Clinton administration oppose those policies. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who is co-sponsor of a bill to dramatically relax export controls, argued that use of encryption could help prevent crimes. "Taking affirmative steps to use strong encryption can aid law enforcement and protect national security by limiting the threat of industrial espionage and foreign spying, and reducing the vulnerability of electronic information to online snoops and breaches of privacy," the Vermont Democrat said. Raymond Ozzie, author of the popular Lotus Notes messaging software, said the private sector's experience with key recovery schemes revealed significant problems. "All key management systems are inherently subject to failure of one sort or another," Ozzie, chairman of IBM Corp. <IBM.N> subsidiary Iris Associates, testified. "Mandated key management and key recovery methods remove diversity and centralize our vulnerabilities," he said. "This is likely to increase crime," Ozzie said. In addition to the Leahy measure, the Senate is also considering a bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Sen. Bob Kerrey, Democrat of Nebraska. That measure would continue to strictly limit export of encryption without key recovery and require all computer networks used by the federal government or funded in part by the government to include key recovery. The Kerrey-McCain bill faces substantial opposition in the Senate, said Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based cyber civil rights group. "I don't think it has clear sailing on the Senate side," he said. An industry-backed bill in the House similiar to the Leahy approach has strong support and is expected to be approved by the International Relations Committee there soon, Rotenberg added. Wednesday, 9 July 1997 17:45:40 RTRS [nN09285032]

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A cheery note from USA Today
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.usatoday.com/usafront.htm This from their little happy factiod section... "Since FDA approval of Prozac in 1987, the number of Americans taking the anti-depressant has grown to 20 million." And considering the side-effects of Prozac, it is any wonder we live in a sexually frustrated nation?

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Re: Hacker cracks ESPN
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lynn Harrison wrote: >Starwave is warning customers about an "intruder" who took credit card >numbers from the ESPN and NBA Web sites and then sent messages to the card >owners about the alleged security flaws. Will the security breach on the >popular sports sites affect emerging e-commerce efforts? Is this the same story as the one in The Wall Street Journal today about Phiber Optic's "accidentally" sending worldwide a security test that automatically returns passwords stored on supposedly secure systems? Phiber claims he did not know the test would generate a flood of passwords to his e-mail address: from corps, mils, and govs. Says he's so sorry, especially because he's still doing community service. Phiber's employer refused to name the computer corp that installed the secure system Phiber was testing. However, experts interviewed said the password snarf feature is, ahem, well-known to experts, and that the only security worth trusting is the one you build and run yourself and test frequently and still makes you lay awake at night shivering in doubt fear and uncertainty -- like guilty-parental senators, TLA directors, and all the world's bearers of the public trust and such fundy druggies.

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Re: Acclivity - A global web of change management
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At , Marc Fourny wrote: >7 finally, we train the change team to innovate, install and implement new structures and systems. In addition we develop a new project management capability which is particularly key to success when radical change is involved. > >I would welcome the opportunity therefore of discussing with you your own tranformation programme to see how we might be able to add value to your own resources. ............................................................ Well, we could use some help with the Revolution. We need a crack team of precision go-getters who will lead the way towards the new anarcho-capitalist utopia, overcoming all the obvious & sundry obstacles in the way, particularly over by D.C. way. Or, how about another way to have an alternative internet which develops the way it originally grew and became so popular, before commercial organizations and spamming gold-diggers noticed it and got this idea that they could syphon advantages from it if only they could just control it, shaping it in their image, turning it in their direction. That would do it, for me. <g> .. Blanc

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Re: Cast of Characters for Crypto Politics (Judiciary Hearing)
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:15 PM 7/10/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > Does anyone know what color Blanc wears? ....................................................... White. .. Blanc

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Subject: Re: The Recent Trend in "Collective Contracts"
by Peter Swire 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:12 PM 7/10/97 -0700, Marshall Clow wrote: >> <snip from previous posts> >> The big legal fight on ratings is whether any "state action" takes >>place. The First Amendment governs efforts by a federal or state government >>to restrict speech. If private companies "voluntarily" agree to do >>something, the First Amendment simply does not apply. But if the coercive >>power of the state forces them to do the same thing, then the courts can get >>involved under the First Amendment. >> Here, if the government is too explicit that it will ban certain >>speech unless the networks ban it, then a court might find that the >>government in fact is involved in an impermissible way. >> >What is the (legal) downside to a network (or producer) >saying "No, I won't rate my shows."? >Personally, I'd love to see Disney do this. Today's papers are filled with the new "voluntary" rating system that most of the networks agreed to. One of the threats, for whoever didn't join, would be a *ban* on violent programming before 10 p.m. Networks that did join would do the rating, and so would not be subject to the ban. So, the analysis really takes two steps: (1) If "voluntary" and "private", the courts don't get involved under the first amendment, because no state action. Yesterday, Camel announced that it "voluntarily" had decided to stop using Joe Camel. (2) If "involuntary" and "state action", then it's like the CDA case. The Court looks at the size of the burden on protected speech, and then looks to see if their is a less restrictive alternative. For instance, the "no violence before 10 p.m." rule would be scrutinized like the "indecency" provision in the CDA. Then you go to Vegas and bet on what the courts will say. :) Peter Prof. Peter Swire Ohio State University College of Law mailto:swire.1@osu.edu web: http://www.osu.edu/units/law/swire.htm (in early stages of construction)

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Re: NEWS: Freedom of Movement Could Cripple Cops, FBI Warns
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Tim May wrote: > No comment needed. > > >Freedom of Movement Could Cripple Cops, FBI Warns > > > > By Klaus Prime > > > >WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuter) - FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday issued > >his sternest warning yet that freedom of movement by citizen units could > >wreak havoc on crime-fighting efforts. This is proof that Freeh has finally learnt to read, and has completed (we hope) "1984" and is applying it to his own world. Perhaps Freeh wasn't allowed to become a Big Brother, for the group of the same name. On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Tim May wrote: > No comment needed. > > >Freedom of Movement Could Cripple Cops, FBI Warns > > > > By Klaus Prime > > > >WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuter) - FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday issued > >his sternest warning yet that freedom of movement by citizen units could > >wreak havoc on crime-fighting efforts. This is proof that Freeh has finally learnt to read, and has completed (we hope) "1984" and is applying it to his own world. Perhaps Freeh wasn't allowed to become a Big Brother, for the group of the same name.

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