December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

computer modelling of cryptanalytic thought processes (references)
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was reading the Military Cryptanalysis Field Manual at ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/cryptanalysis/ basic_cryptanalysis.ps.tar.gz and was reminded of a book I had partly read a while ago, Doug Hofstadter's _Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies : Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0465024750/r/0509-6726066-321937) 'Hofstadter and his colleagues created a variety of computer programs that extrapolate sequences, apply pattern-matching strategies, make analogies, and even act "creative." ' For instance, he developes a model that solves a type of newspaper-puzzle cryptogram. The interplay between levels of abstraction ---recognizing words in the plaintext language, and reconstructing the key together from statistical and other constraints (Ch. 4)--- is what's similar between Hofstadter's model and what the field manual describes. Caveats: Hofstadter's book is very dry. The Field Manual only mentions that computers may be useful, and gives advice that may have been useful 70 years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "Windows 95 is a technologically complex product that is best left alone by the government..." ---MSFT Atty B. Smith

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Re: Completely anonymous communications ARE only for "Criminals"
by Charlie Comsec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- gburnore(a)netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) wrote: > :> Nope. If a lawyer believes he can win and there big money involved, he'll take > :> it on the premise that he gets paid if he wins. If the defendant has nothing > :> to offer, the lawyer won't do it. Thus, the falsly accused may not be able to > :> afford to go to court. The decision to sue is mostly based on how deep the > :> pockets of the defendant would be. > : > :Then what's the point of going to all the trouble of tracking someone down if > :you're unwilling or unable to take appropriate legal action against him > :after he's found? > > That's not what I said. If your decision to sue or not sue is based on the deepness of the defendant's pockets, and if you didn't know this until after he was identified, then you very might well end up tracking down and identifying someone that a lawyer wouldn't be willing so sue (on a contingency fee basis), right? My question was, if Politas' suggestions were implemented and an unknown individual was tracked down using the procedure he outlined, and it turns out the individual was "judgement proof", who's going to pay for the costs of the investigation? Otherwise, you end up with an "in terrorem" remedy. That's one that you probably wouldn't or couldn't aqctually use, but the potential to do so might serve as a deterrent. Unfortunately, when free speech is involved, that's exactly what many of us don't want. It cuts both ways. Look at what the scientologists did to Julf and the anon.penet.fi remailer. Alleging some violation of Swedish law, they almost succeeded in retrieving Julf's entire "traceability" database linking account names to their "real" owners. The end result was that the remailer was destroyed. Having privacy invading data like that available put all of Julf's clients at risk. In the end, Julf felt that it was better to close down rather than risk future raids. That has pretty much driven a nail in the coffin of the sort of "traceable" remailers Politas is now proposing. It's a case of "been there -- done that". Few people relish ending up on the Scientologists' (or the next organization like it that comes along) hit list, and most now realize how vulnerable a remailer operator is to coercion -- even the "legal" variety. One doesn't even have to be an anti-scieno to be a victim of such a raid. Since they're so paranoid about anonymity and the ability of people to publish their "secret scriptures" anonymously, they might just steal such a database and anonymously publish it themselves. Outing thousands of innocent remailer clients would irreparably harm the reputation of remailers, which would work to their advantage. I'll even go so far as to say that you'll never be able to eliminate truly anonymous remailers. First of all, you'll never get every single country to adopt Politas' suggestions. All it takes is one untraceable remailer in an encrypted chain to make back-tracing a message impossible (or at least prohibitively costly, in terms of money, time, and computing resources). > :> :So you're suggesting that the victim should suffer. You are really saying > :> :that it is perfectly acceptable for someone to be run out of a newsgroup by > :> :a single person who refuses to be killfilable. > :> > :> > :> Yup, that's what he's saying. > : > :I don't recall ever saying that. How do you run a person out of > :an unmoderated NG? > > Charlie, if he doesn't like your posts and you continue to post and he just > can't bring himself to killfile you the next best thing is for him to leave, > right? That's one option, but I wouldn't make it a blanket suggestion. Some ideas are worth defending and some are better off dropped. I've seen fanatics on some NGs who have attracted exactly ZERO supporters to their position, and dozens of people rebutting, flaming, ridiculing them, etc. yet these folks persist. Ultimately it's their choice. Let me cite an example. I believe the earth is round and presumably you do too. But if you visited a NG that was the hangout of dozens of flat-earthers, you probably wouldn't stick around too long to argue the point. At least I know I wouldn't. Being right doesn't require you to convince everyone. You just accept the fact that some arguments are unwinable and move on to more productive things. The same could be said for religious or political flame wars. If I expressed my opinion, and some religious kook accused me of being the devil incarnate for espousing such heresy, I wouldn't waste my time trying to netcop the person. Maybe calling me "the devil incarnate" is libellous, but IMO it's not worth the time and effort to pursue. And that's even with a net.kook who's posting with a genuine e-mail address and his "real name". An anonymous kook is even less worthy of bothering with. If he crosses the line and commits behavior that is flagrantly illegal, then he's exposing himself to risk by doing so. Let's face it, people may walk down the street with ski masks on, and even if it annoys you, you're probably not going to be able to unmask them. If one robs a bank, though, he stands a far greater chance of being identified and apprehended. Politas' solution is like requiring name tags on ski masks. Let's worry about the bank robbers rather than the people who wear ski masks. > : And if it's moderated, and the moderator is allowing what > :you consider libel against you, then you probably have a case against him. > > True. > > :That's what the courts decided in a landmark case against an ISP. When you > :manage the content then you become responsible for it as well. > > Exactly. The bottom line being, if you have a POV you wish to express, and you encounter opposition in one forum, choose another one. If you can't find one, start one. > :Nor do I understand the "who refuses to be killfilable" part, either. > > I believe he meanse by continously altering his name or by posting > anonymously. If he's posting anonymously, then he's easily killfilable. Just put the return address of the remailer(s) he's using in your killfile. If he's not posting anonymously, then that scenario is not related to remailers. If you're talking about multiple GENUINE IDs, then the ISPs involved might be able to help -- assuming he's really committing abuse OF the net, and not merely being annoying. If they're bogus IDs, then his ISP might have a policy about that as well. > : How can > :someone you don't even know control your killfile? I can killfile anyone I > :want to, including "nobody@some_remailer". I haven't killfiled anyone, but > :I could do so if I wanted to. > > You could but it's not worth it. Killfile anyone posting anonymously because > of one idiot? I don't do that either. Again, that's a choice you have to weigh. Take each remailer ID and decide whether the valuable posts from that ID outweigh the junk. But, again, annoying posts aren't really what Politas' proposal dealt with. He was talking about actual laws being broken. > :Why would that prevent you from contacting the police? But consider that > :libel is a civil tort not a criminal offense, so the police aren't likely to > :get involved, even if you could identify the culprit. > > True that a traceless remailer makes it impossible, not that getting the > police involved would work. Sorry I wasn't clearer. If you had a matter that truly concerned the police, the lack of a suspect's name shouldn't hinder you. After all, if someone had stolen your car, you'd report it even if you didn't know who did it, wouldn't you? As I said previously, many bank robbers are caught even if they wore masks or drove a car without license plates. > :I'm really trying to understand what Politas' wants, but it's difficult. > > I think he wants one particluar person to leave him alone. I must have missed that point in following the thread. If I recall correctly, I asked him what particular problem he was trying to solve, since it's easier to solve real, existing problems that hypothetical ones. He said that he didn't have any problems like that himself, and doubted he would because he didn't normally engage in behavior that would attract enemies, but he was concerned that it might happen to others. [Politas: please feel free to jump in and clarify this point.] - --- Finger <comsec(a)nym.alias.net> for PGP public key (Key ID=19BE8B0D) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNKFE6wbp0h8ZvosNAQESpQf9GO+lwhRsKMWnn24n9LJR8bE/Wih+gmXg sFYVVAQDExRCiCcoBMcvg1+EvxKvOrpLMKOiyf3ErxPiSxmn6ngb8n0PlraEpURt ioBOrg6/BDUGU5tGxdyfot2kOpc89S/c+bdjOBKWmKe0zKi4PObinX+yIaJ+EnOG 3HajH3B4ND3KSO9nwtQmtCuu8HBt8S0qA3o5H6fXSOmVfknZZIpnYaneYWUAqn8G ey8jVyIUdBjLYP36U1JCsvIPbcW/vhAEpO0qnbmWf11fLfJGAW8aVl+wHuZVbqyL lAqXil0r0QuAyksJ5OoMHMA6SOofMkR4CUiPZhQE2VC+sWE9rKiHFQ== =0ndp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Best Cypherpunk War Text
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The "lock and load," "Best Cypherpunk long gun" and other similar threads have gotten me thinking. Can any fellow Cypherpunks suggest any books or documents on the net concerning urban warfare, generic non-urban warfare (e.g. plains), differences between weapons, suggestions, etc. Basically a survivalist's almanac, I suppose. Threat model: For whatever reason the U.S. just collapsed. Civil war is imminent and there is little or no civility in the streets.

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Best Cypherpunk War Text
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The "lock and load," "Best Cypherpunk long gun" and other similar threads have gotten me thinking. Can any fellow Cypherpunks suggest any books or documents on the net concerning urban warfare, generic non-urban warfare (e.g. plains), differences between weapons, suggestions, etc. Basically a survivalist's almanac, I suppose. Threat model: For whatever reason the U.S. just collapsed. Civil war is imminent and there is little or no civility in the streets.

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Re: Civil War Crypto Question...
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: >Myer implimented including a 'cipher disk' whereby the Union was able to >change their telegraph codes on an hourly schedule. It was apparently very >effictive in dealing with taps and such. > >Anyone know of another source that discusses this disk? Myer's code and cipher disk (with illustration) are briefly described in Fred Wrixon's "Codes and Ciphers" along with an entry on Civil War crypto with a photo of a Confederate cipher disk. We've put the entries and illustrations at: http://jya.com/cydisk.htm The book is: "Codes and Ciphers: An A to Z of Covert Communication, from the Clay Tablet to the Microdot," Fred B. Wrixon, Prentice Hall, 1992, paper. $18.00 ISBN 0-13-277047-4

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Cryptographers Do It With Protection
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpts From: None of Your Business: World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive Peter P. Swire & Robert E. Litan >The Tension Between Data Protection >and Modern Information Technologies >On almost any conceivable dimension, we are in the midst of an information >explosion. Data protection rules, by contrast, seek to block flows of >information. Data 'Control' is oppression. Data 'Protection' is our friend. "If putting all information about every individual on the face of the globe in the hands of the New World Order saves the life of a single child..." >Seen another way, the rise of computers and computer networks is undoubtedly >a major reason why countries have promulgated data protection rules in >recent decades. In both the United States and Europe, current debates >about privacy are being driven by fears about how computers pose a threat >to privacy. >That is, computers are the key reason for data protection rules. ... >International flows of data. International flows of information are >climbing rapidly within companies, as they create global Intranets, >and between companies, as they use Extranets with their strategic >partners. And these "data protection rules" are going to be enforced equally for everybody, right? If you and I are fined and imprisoned for violation of these rules, then it will be likewise for owners of megacorporations, government employees, etc. Just like at Waco and Ruby Ridge, Kent State and Tiennachinc Square... Just like murdering dictators at the APEC summit would have been maced and arrested if they carried signs saying "Freedom & Democracy." Get real. While Bernstein has the Dogs of InfoWar set on his ass, RSA is exporting cutting edge encryption technology to Communist China. Bottom Line: Just as is the case today, the "data protection" laws and regulations of the future will apply only to those individuals and corporations who fail to fall in line with the New World Order's desire for all new technologies to contain tools of surveillance and oppression. "Those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear." Put a cork in your asshole...the government is going to 'protect' you again. BendOverI'mHereToHelpYouMonger |<----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------->| 6"

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This post is none of your business
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpts From: None of Your Business: World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive Peter P. Swire & Robert E. Litan >The Directive's limits on transborder data flows directly confront >organizations' expectations to be able to circulate information freely >inside the organization's firewalls and other security. Operations >in the United States and other third countries will often expect to >exchange data about employees with European operations. >Wherever there is no finding of adequacy, however, sending data to >third countries risks violating the data protection regime. >Organizations thus face a compliance dilemma of whether they can >implement Intranet and other information technologies consistent with >European law. Keep in mind that ignorance of laws written on foreign shores, in foreign languages, will be no excuse. Americans can expect to be indicted as coconspirators of people they have never met, have never seen, and have never communicated with. "Put down that copy of the Constitution, and slowly back away from the keyboard, Monsieur!" >In an era of transnational business, the accounting and auditing >functions of companies require transfer of an increasingly wide range >of information across borders. To carry out these functions, auditors >and accountants must have the ability to examine the underlying >documentation of transactions. This documentation often includes >personally identifiable information. >The Directive thus challenges the ability of transnational firms to >follow accepted and appropriate procedures for audit and accounting. So we can expect to see governments and megacorporations blow off billions of dollars in order to protect Dimitri Vulis' privacy. Right... "None of Your Business" is full of references to "transnational" corporations and organizations, and the development of "Intranet" and "Extranet" webs within and among them. While it addresses many of the issues which will come into play regarding regional laws and regulations in the expanding global InterNet (and does a damn fine job of it), I believe that, in the end, the single issue which will decide the fate of all who use the InterNet will be the right to privacy. Without privacy, freedom and self-determination are not possible. The more things globally change, the more they will remain the same. Individual Bernsteins will find themselves pitted against the bottomless pockets of governments and corporations, while 'transnational' RSAs will be free to engage in activities of momentous proportions which are forbidden to the Bernsteins of the world in even the smallest of instances. 'Data Protection' will be as big a farce as 'News Protection' currently is. It will be a tool for those with money and power to control and manipulate the information that citizens are allowed to access, and the form in which they will be allowed to view it. The 'personal information' concerning the 'guerilla' mothers and babies who are slaughtered by US troops will be 'protected' (and thus 'unavailable), while the 'personal information' regarding the 'men of valor' who died while slaughtering them will be made available for a nation told to mourn only them. The 'personal information' concerning those who get filthy rich selling the government $10,000 toilet seats will be 'protected', while the 'personal information' regarding every small sin in the lifetime of the whistleblower who exposes the thief will be made available to every media souce on the face of the earth. The citizen's answer, "None of Your Business," will inevitably be countered by the government's question, "What do you have to hide?" With the expansion of global laws to cover every action and activity possible to humankind, 'data' becomes translatable as 'evidence.' And "everything" becomes the government's business. Is it my imagination, or are Swire and Litan, as well as all others who write about the current state of development of global technology, society and law, merely providing real-time footnotes to '1984', without providing Orwell's insight into our true future? ~~~~ 1984AnimalFarmBraveNewWorldMonger "Everything not permitted, is forbidden."

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Digital Revolutionaries
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> None of Your Business: >World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive > Peter P. Swire & Robert E. Litan > > > B. Some Reasons for Data Protection Laws. >Before plunging into the Directive and its potential effects, >it is useful to understand why laws have emerged in recent decades -- >not only in the United States but elsewhere throughout the world -- >to govern uses of personal data. And perhaps the best, although >admittedly overdrawn, way to do this is by imagining a privacy ^^^^^^^^^ >advocate's worst nightmare -- the presence of an Orwellian, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >all-knowing computer, which contains a complete dossier on >every individual in a society. "Overdrawn?" Methinks Peter and Robert are on the outside, looking in. Forwarded from the London Telegraph: ----------------------------------------------------------- >Daily Telegraph Connected Supplement 16th December 1997 > >A European Commission report warns that the United States has developed an >extensive spying network on European Citizens and we should all be worried, >reports Simon Davies. > >A global electronic spy network that can eavesdrop on every telephone,email >and telex communication around the world will be officially acknowledged >for the first time in a European Commission report to be delivered this >week. Of course, anyone who suggests that they would use this information to compile a complete dossier on everyone in sociey is a paranoid lunatic, just as those who suggested the above *before* it became an open secret were paranoid lunatics. >Briefly consider what sorts of harms might occur if such a computer existed. >If the computer were controlled by the government, then individuals might >feel chilled by constant surveillance. They might fear government would use >the computer to retaliate against its political enemies. They might be >afraid that those who controlled the computer would become an unaccountable ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >elite, whose command over secret files would help entrench themselves in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >power. ^^^^^ Are Peter P. Swire & Robert E. Litan the *real* Author of 'The True Story of the InterNet'? Is this why no one has ever seen them and TruthMonger together? >The fears hardly disappear if the computer were controlled by corporations >in the private sector. In that case, private actors would gain extraordinary >power vis-a-vis the government. Meanwhile, corporate-controlled computers >can be just as invasive of personal privacy as those controlled by >government. Can you say "Fascism?" Sure you can... >What should be a society's response to these doomsday scenarios of the >all-knowing computer? To the extent the scenarios are plausible, society >should seek ways to prevent and correct the abuses of power that can occur >with centralized control over information by the public and private sectors. "Society?" Is "society" ready and willing to spend five *extra* years in prison for the use of encryption and/or anonymity in the commission of such crimes as exporting strong encryption? Is "society" ready and willing to fight the battles of tomorrow, *today*? "If you meet Dan Rather on the road, kill him." >On the other hand, there may be important reasons why the doomsday scenarios >will not occur, and especially reasons for doubting that information >technologies inevitably lead to centralization of control over information. >As we explain in detail in subsequent chapters, both the United States and >European Union have taken steps to address the perceived risks caused by >individuals' loss of control over their personal information. Excuse me? We can expect to be 'saved' by governments which have already taken away our basic human rights, and who continue to do so in increasing quantum leaps? We can expect to be 'saved' by Jim Bell's government? Or by the Branch Davidian's government? Or by the government which arrested and maced its citizens for possession of signs saying "Freedom & Liberty" during the APEC summit where unelected dictators met with elected dictators to divvy up the world's financial spoils? "We're from Adolf Hitler's government, and we're here to help you..." NEWS FLASH!!! The inevitable forced march to centralized information and centralized power over the face of the globe will be successfully resisted only as it has been done so in the past, through the efforts of Revolutionaries and Warriors. This time, by Digital Revolutionists and InfoWarriors. Who is going to inform the public of what is taking place in the secret war against the citizens? The Desert Storm reportwhores? The mainstream media who whipped the public into being outraged by the sight of the bodies of US soldiers being dragged through the streets of Somalia, while ignoring the stories of Somalian mothers with babies in their arms being slaughtered by those US soldiers? What segment of "society" is going to rise up in protest against the outrages of the future? The segment that watched JFK, RFK, MLK, et al, be slaughtered by the Dark Allies, and slept comfortably with mainstream media visions of lone gunmen and Magic Bullets dancing in their heads? The segment that watched the Iranian hostages responsible for the election of RR and his CIA running mate being released on the same day as RayGun's and BushWhacker's inauguration, and never smelled a ratfucker? The segment that can sleep comfortably after watching their government burn to death the men, women and children of a religious group targeted for persecution? The segment whose best revolutionary efforts have been to make feeble attempts to fight yesterday's battles years after they have already been lost, and the lies, hypocrisy and dark intentions of our government masters begin to become public? The Revolution is Now! Tommorrow's battles are already being won today by secret government agencies and unelected secret commissions who control the reality seen by the citizens through the mainstream electronic opiate of the masses. The tools of encryption and anonymity are the weapons of the Digital Revolution. Software sabotage and backdoors are the secret battles of the InfoWarrior. Warez is the lifeline that provides InfoWarriors with the tools necessary to fight with the latest available weapons. The Clipper Chip is a digital implant. The V Chip is a digital implant. The Save A Missing Child Chip will be a digital implant. Orwell and Kafka saw the Beast. Saint John the Divine saw the Great Beast...the Global Beast. Those who do not learn from the future, are doomed to live it... TruthKidMonger |<---->| 8" "If this is the revolution, why are the drink prices so high?" ~ Patron at New York City guerilla bar

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CRYPTIC WARNING !!!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOMETHING small IS GOING TO HAPPEN !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Little Peter |<--------------------------------------------------->| 2"

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Server Registration
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Server Registration Excerpts From: None of Your Business: World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive Peter P. Swire & Robert E. Litan >Consent and jurisdiction, however, may be much bigger problems on the Web. >As for consent, an ordinary user often will not know the identity of the >person or organization that is hosting a web site. The user often will >not know about the site's privacy practices. Does the site keep track >of personal information, and perhaps sell that information to third >parties? >Is a "cookie" being placed on the user's hard drive to track his or her >movements in cyberspace? Even if a site claims to have privacy protections >in place, how can the user verify that the polices are followed? >In addition, the user also has no ready way to determine whether the site >is within Europe, and thus clearly subject to the Directive, or else in >a third country that may lack privacy standards. >In light of all of these uncertainties, there may be little basis for >assuming that an individual has consented to a site's uses of personal >information. In the coming InfoWar, servers will be classified as "munitions" and will be subject to registration, regulation and control. This will, of course, be for the 'Data Protection' of the citizens, corporations and the government. "In the interests of National Security." will become, "In the interests of Data Protection." or somesuch new catchphrase of oppression. >Outside of Europe, U.S. and other web site operators are even less >likely to comply with the Directive, and many of these operators may >remain beyond the jurisdiction of European law. >Web sites will also likely be established outside of Europe precisely >in order to process data in ways that are forbidden by the Directive, >and it is far from clear that technical methods exist to prevent data >from flowing to such sites. Naturally, the InfoWar waged against Data Criminals will have to be a global effort, with the increasing merging of worldwide LEA's described by Reno and Freeh. God help the American who is an international coconspirator of Jaime Belle. God help the American who exports strong encryption developed by RSA in Communist China, and subject to their laws. Face it...any government or corporation that could be guaranteed exclusive access to the Chinese market would send a Strike Force back in time to murder baby Jesus in Bethlehem, if that was what it took. The citizen's ass will soon be global grass... >This legal enforceability will only provide effective protection of data, >though, if there is actual compliance by the many controllers within >Europe, and some legal and practical way to gain compliance from web >site operators elsewhere in the world. "In order to Data-Save the Global Village, we had to burn it." >It is indeed possible that data protection rules will increase consumer >confidence and thus the level of electronic commerce -- if the public >knows about and trusts the data protection rules, and if those rules >inspire more confidence than other approaches to protecting privacy. Bullshit! The sheeple will sell out their human rights birthright for a bowl of instant gratification pottage, and, in the twisted reality of present day 'democracy', will sell out the rights of the rest of us, as well. "If you don't click on the button that states you agree with the loss of all your human rights, you cannot access the "Naked Teenagers Sucking Donkey Dicks" streaming videos." NEWS FLASH!!! The news stories describing how reluctant consumers are to give out their credit card information out over the InterNet never seem to mention that the largest financial transaction base on the InterNet is not fueled by customers who wait a week or so for 'snail mail' payments to "Adult Check" to give them access to hard-core pornography. The sheeple will "trust the data protection rules" when they are 'told' to do so (by the same government officials who told them that there would indeed be jacuzzi's at Aushwitz -- "Now climb aboard, please.") "They came for the encryption, and I had no encryption, so I didn't speak up. They came for the server registration, and I had no server, so I didn't speak up. "Then they came for access to the hard drives, and I had a hard drive, but nobody spoke up." Saving the life of that "single child" is going to be the death of us all. ServerRegistrationMonger #326-A57-IE54876-29

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Re: Civil War Crypto Question... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 15:35:00 -0500 > From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > Subject: Re: Civil War Crypto Question... > Jim Choate wrote: > > >Myer implimented including a 'cipher disk' whereby the Union was able to > >change their telegraph codes on an hourly schedule. It was apparently very > >effictive in dealing with taps and such. > > > >Anyone know of another source that discusses this disk? > > Myer's code and cipher disk (with illustration) are briefly described > in Fred Wrixon's "Codes and Ciphers" along with an entry on > Civil War crypto with a photo of a Confederate cipher disk. > > We've put the entries and illustrations at: > > http://jya.com/cydisk.htm > > The book is: > > "Codes and Ciphers: An A to Z of Covert Communication, > from the Clay Tablet to the Microdot," > Fred B. Wrixon, Prentice Hall, 1992, paper. $18.00 > ISBN 0-13-277047-4 Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll order a copy from the local bookstore today! Merry Christmas! ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
by The Sheriff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> Where do you get the right to tell others how they can make a living? > >I don't have that right. However, the Supreme Court has said that the >Congress has that right. If you would be so kind as to a) specify that supreme court ruling, and b) identify an online resource where I can obtain the text of that decision, so that I can 1) confirm or deny your allegation, and 2) debate your position intelligently, I would greatly appreciate it. >> I am not allowed to place toxic waste, or noise, where it can affect >> others; I can ingest toxins privately and listen to whatever music I >> like so long as you don't detect it in your backyard. > >Well, racism is hiring decisions is something that is detected in other >people's backyards. That's why its illegal. What if I run a business out of my house? What if I don't need employees (such that I could affort to hire a couple of people, or nobody at all)? If I hire someone who is white because I don't want to hire someone is black, then it is not a loss that is felt within the black community, since I don't *need* to hire anybody in the first place. >>> In a fantasy world, it is mutually consensual. It the real world, it is >>> seldom mutual. > >> You prefer a shotgun or otherwise arranged marriage? > >I prefer a level playing field. The above phrase is something that I hear a lot, and it deeply disturbs me. Regulation is allways seen as the arm of fairness, when the above phrase is mentioned. I am not allowed to choose to hire someone based on skin color, and yet the country is riddled by "affirmative" action programs -- which, in the short and brutal version of the description of "AA" is just a system of RACE-BASED PREFRENCES. I find it very interesting that liberal activists in California, who rabidly insist that racism is wrong, that we must have racial dialogues, that we should all "just get allong," used the court system to fight Proposition 209, which ends affirmative action in that state. The people voted their will, and the activists took to the courts to override the people's will -- in effect, saying that the California voting public is just a bunch of idiots. I don't like someone telling me that I don't know better. When I like is as little government influence in my life as humanly possible, be it in my choice of breakfast cereal, or employees. >> Private behavior is private behavior, and trade is a private behavior. > >Not in this country. If you don't believe me, check out Article I, >Section 8 for one explicit example. I read Article I, Section 8. I shall quote the relevent portion that relate to this discussion: "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; ... " Now, then. Notice the eighth word -- "amung." As I understand it, this means that the Fed can regulate INTERstate commerce, not INTRAstate commerce. This is why (again, as I understand it) the Fed will inspect meat crossing state lines, but not meat that is moved around within a state. It is for this reason that not all meat is inspected by the Fed. If anybody has refrences to texts that prove me wrong, bring them forward so that I can refine my argument. :) So, back to my home business. Let's say I build computers and sell them around the state. Since I'm not transporting my product from one state to another, the Fed can't constitutionally regulate how I do business. >>> With freedom comes responsibility. Decency is one of them. This is ALLWAYS the case. You earn freedom through being a responsible adult. When you don't infringe on the rights of others, the government has no grounds under which to infringe on yours (through punishment or direct order). >> But obligate decency at gunpoint is not worth it. > >It's called civilization. You should try it some time. No, no, no. To obligate "decency" at gunpoint is definitely NOT anything but facicism (sp?). I remember a time when people were obligated to do the "decent" thing and worship God and Jesus Christ -- and, as the bumper sticker says, "The last time religion and politics were mixed, someone got burned." Decency is a very fuzzy word. After all, the KKK says that white people are the only decent people. The KKK is in the minority. To use your own words: "No majority group has a right to discriminate against a minority." By your own words, the KKK should be allowed to discriminate against blacks when they hire if they want to, since they are in the minority when compared (by numbers) to all of the groups they think are lesser than those of white skin. After all -- does skin color constitute the only minority? Not according to the definition of the word. Best wishes and fresh-roasted peanut taste, The Sheriff. -- ***<REPLY TO: sheriff(a)speakeasy.org>*** --- As kinky as it sounds, finger me to see my PGP key and confirm the signature attached to this message. --- Any and all SPAM will be met with immediate prosecutory efforts. Solicitations are NOT welcome here! --- ----BEGIN INFLAMATORY BLOCK---- Version: 160 (IQ) Comments: Definitely one of their greatest misses. Reporter: "Do you know what Public Enemy is?" --- Citizen: "Public enemy?" [long pause] "Probably somebody in office." -----END INFLAMATORY BLOCK-----

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Civil War Crypto Question... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, There is a historical problem w/ the accredation of the various signals in use during the Civil War in the book: > "Codes and Ciphers: An A to Z of Covert Communication, > from the Clay Tablet to the Microdot," > Fred B. Wrixon, Prentice Hall, 1992, paper. $18.00 > ISBN 0-13-277047-4 The author claims (from John Young's cydisk.htm): <B> Myer, Albert</B> (1829-1880), U S. Army surgeon and cryptographer. To finance his medical studies, Myer worked as an operator for the New York, Albany, and Buffalo Telegraph Company. After entering the army, he developed a visual signaling method in 1856 and called it flag telegraphy. (Two British officers, Sir Francis Bolton and Vice Adm. Philip Colomb, independently developed a similar system at about the same time.) Though it was approved for use in 1860, the year Myer became chief signal officer, the system was not fully appreciated until the outbreak of the U.S. CIVIL WAR in 1861. Myer's technique then came to be known as "wigwag," from the motions of its hand-held flags or disks for daytime signaling and torches or lanterns for sending messages at night. This is clearly several errors regarding 'wig-wag' signaling techniques and Myer. These techniques go back to pre-Napoleonic times. Myers was a alphabetic system where arm position denoted the letter, not the arm motion (hence wig-wag). In: The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare Edward Hagerman pp. 40 "But the primary motive was recognition of the benefits of this technology to tactical and strategic coordination. The increasingly extended lines of large American armies, especially their tactical extension with the rifled musket, as well as the rough terrain, challenged existing technology based on wigwag signals supplemented by couriers." In addition, McClellan didn't appoint Myer to be his signal officer until August 20, 1861. Further, there was *no* signals department in the US Army to be appointed to until *after* March 3, 1863 when legislation was passed bringing the official Signal Corp. into being. I don't have clue what Wrixon is talking about, but it clearly doesn't have anything to do with history in general or crypto specificaly. Cite this Wrixon's book with care. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If anyone wants to drop by #Cypherpunks on EFNet this evening, myself and others will be around to chat. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Press
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Disgusted with the censorous antics of Declan the Lying Forger, some of us may be forgetting there are still some good journalists out there. Today's newsday has an excellent article by Gail Dutton, reporting from the AAAS's Conference ion Anoynmous Communications on the Internet. She managed to identify all the important issues in a ways that a layperson can understand, without oversimplifying; presented different points of view, including her own without editorializing and/or pushing her opinions as facts. I'm not saying that Declan should learn from her, because Declan is clearly too stupid to learn; but other aspiring journalists should get hold of this piece and use it as a paradigm for their own writing. I urge JYA the Copyright Violator to get hold of Newsday and to add Gail Dutton's article to his collection of Copyright Violations. Also: a guy named Joe Celko writes an SQL column for the freebie DBMS magazine, which I sometimes read. Here's a short except from his january column: Crypto and Databases More and more raw databases are being sent out on CD-ROMs because the price per unit to publish them and the cost of equipment to read them is so low per byte. For example, you can get some fo the Miller Freeman magazines on CD-ROM, and one Miller Freeman magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal (www.ddj.mfi.com) has been very successful with software and textbook collections on CD-ROM. if you missed an issue when you went to the dentist's office, national Geographic and Misdscape are releasing 1078 years of national geogra[hic on 30 CD-TROMs for $300 for educational institutions - every page of every issue. As of this writing, I do not have a price for individual buyers. For mroe informaiton contact Mindscae at www.mindscapeschool.com or 800-231-3088. On the same subject, a U.K. company, PAN Technology Ltd (www.pantechnology.com) has launched CopyLok, a method of copy protecting CDs. CopyLok prevents copying on CD recordable devices and on expensive Laser Beam Recorders that produce replicators, glass masters, and stampers for injection molding. In allows any information to be loaded on the hard disk of a computer, but will only allow that software to run if the original CD is in the drive. It stops friend-to-friend copying, illegal shop replication, and mass replication and also prevents Internet distribution. The product looks good and will be popular with PC software and computer game companies, which have to dal with software piracy rates in China and Vietnam of 96 percent and 99 percent, respectively. CopyLok is the reslt of three years of research, and is the first and only anticopying technology to have received Philips approval and a Philips' patent Application. it doesn't contravene any of the Philips worldwide standards for CD-ROM recording, such as the Yellow or Blue Book. The downside of all this is that part of the protection scheme uses strong cryptography to recognize the CD. The Clinton administration is still opposed to strong crypto, so U.S. companies could be put in a situation whee they have to publish their CD databases overseas to get protection. Once more, we disarm the victims and punish the innocent. Hmm. Other than the observation that copy protection sucks (I broke it back when it was used with 360K floppies and I'll break it on CDs if it's worth my while), we observe that if the COpyLok software uses crypto to authenticate the CD, not to encrypt the data, then it could be exported with no paperwork. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
by lord_buttmonkey＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> You aren't being oppressed the other party doesn't want to interact >> with you, unless that party is government providing base services to >all >> (e.g. police/courts/border protection). > >Actually, you can be. How? >> You *are* being oppressed if mutually consensual behavior is >interfered >> with by >> others including the State. > >> You *are* being oppressed if you are coerced into a relationship you >don't >> want. > >You are not being coerced into anything. If you don't want to serve >food to Blacks, don't open a restaurant. It's your choice. Umm, no, freedom doesn't work like that. If you open a *private* establishment, you have the right, according to the constitution, to deny *anyone* the right to enter or eat in your restraunt. However, if you were banned from using the government postal service for being Jewish, then yes, you are being oppressed. >By the way, you are also not allowed to dump toxic waste in your own >backyard. Are you being oppressed? Depends. Does it affect your neighbors? If so, then no. If not, then yes. >> An employer-employee relationship is like a marriage or any other >arrangement >> between adults -mutually consensual. > >In a fantasy world, it is mutually consensual. It the real world, it >is >seldom mutual. Tough shit. If you don't like your job, no one's forcing you to stay. Just leave it and get another one.

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Anonymity Press
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(New York) Newsday, December 24, 1997, pp. C5, C6. Anonymity and the Internet Balancing freedom of speech with the need to protect identities By Gail Dutton Special Correspondent "Is Singapore the future?" asked information scientist Dave Farber of the University of Pennsylvania. If it is, the right to communicate anonymously on the Internet must be protected now, to ensure continued freedom of speech, according to participants at the Conference on Anonymous Communications on the Internet, sponsored by the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences last month in Irvine, Calif. "Law enforcement in the U.S. is a trusted third party," Farber said. But, Lance Cottrell, president of Obscura Information Security, added, "What is considered a good government today may become an oppressive government 50 years from now." The debate hinges upon whether any government should be able to trace messages--encrypted or not--to their sources. Singapore's repressive system is probably not the future here, but participants at the conference agreed that the right to communicate anonymously must be addressed now. Anonymous e-mailers have been around since the beginning of the Internet, but they have become increasingly simple to use. Anonymous Internet e-mail and Web visits aren't just for techies. For example, with The Anonymizer, developed by Cottrell sending untraceable, anonymous e-mail is as simple as clicking on the Web site (http://www.anonymizer.com) and uploading your message. Entering a Web site is just as easy, and can be done from the same site. Now that anonymity is simple and available to everyone, law-enforcement agents are getting nervous. There is always the potential for abuse. Laws are written for a paper-based society, according to attorney Joe Rosenbaum, who specializes in information technology at Hughes, Hubbard and Reed in Manhattan. "But, with the Internet, access is multiplied so that individuals lose control of their personal information," Rosenbaum said. For example, public information becomes widely and quickly accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, and private information is available for mining by any site a user visits. As a result, profiles of households can be developed and linked directly to them, based upon Web visits and information they provided individual sites--such as names income, news preferences and any other information a site requires for registering. The profiles could be used for academic research or--what more people dread--market research. "Corporations need to recognize the right of data ownership by individuals," maintained conference speaker Donna Hoffman of Project 2,000, a communications project at Purdue University. "Lack of trust [between customers and companies] is the primary barrier to Internet commerce. People are bothered by things online that they aren't significantly bothered by offline," she added. At work, if your employer asked your honest opinion of a very sensitive, politically charged work issue, would you give your unvarnished opinion? In writing? Would your answer change if you were guaranteed 100 percent, untraceable anonymity? If you said "yes" to the last question you just gave corporations a reason to promote anonymous communications. Companies tend to be as protective as individuals when it's their information being mined. They can filter out certain addresses, banning them from the site. However, individuals-- often competitors--sometimes can enter anonymously and get the data they need. To combat this, "You can build a site that doesn't allow anonymity," Cottrell said. That would only slow that research --not prevent the data from being compiled. Often the information companies are trying to protect is publicly available sometimes in their own printed literature. With The Anonymizer, developed by Lance Cottrell of Obscura Information Security, sending untraceable, totally anonymous e-mail is as simple as clicking on the Web site and uploading your message. Pseudonymity "Most people aren't looking for the same type of security as the National Security Agency," Rosenbaum said. Generally, pseudonymity--which is traceable --provides acceptable security for all but the most sensitive communications, he said. The right to protect personal information, even from corporations and market-research firms, is a driving force behind pseudonymity. So far, consumers do not trust the security and privacy of the Internet. "Contrary to what companies believe, consumers aren't interested in selling their personal information. Instead, people want a relationship based upon trust-- trust that the company won't sell their information," Hoffman said. By using pseudonymity, Internet users can prevent companies from linking customer profiles to their true identities. This option also promotes commerce, by allowing customers to use another name for their transactions, while using a public key encryption method to let companies confirm and authenticate an order. To maintain pseudonymity, customers can pay their bills with electronic cash from companies such as like DigiCash ( http://www.digicash.com ), and have merchandise shipped to a postal box, she said. Although that option is possible technologically, it is far from standard practice. The problem with this solution, Hoffman said, is that buyer and seller would have to rely upon a trusted third party. But, "No one knows who the third party may be, what their responsibilities are and who will reinforce their obligations if there is a dispute." What Are You Hiding? "Anonymity and pseudonymity both involve hiding knowledge from somebody," according to Terrell Bynum, professor of philosophy and director of the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University. "Therefore, what are you hiding, and from whom?" The answer, obviously, is identity, and the reason is to avoid repercussions of certain actions. That is a particularly valuable option for whistle-blowers, dissidents, human rights activists and others who put their jobs and, sometimes, their lives on the line. It becomes less palatable when the purpose is to defame or defraud. Concerns The need for anonymity in the United States is very different from that in countries where human rights may be stifled or, for that matter, in Europe, which has data-protection laws, Rosenbaum explained. In the United States, anonymity more often protects careers and reputations than lives. It means users can protect their personal data when visiting Web sites, minimize scrutiny by law enforcement agents or others because of expressed opinions, visit X-rated Web sites without their employers or spouses knowing and send e-mail confidentially. In other nations, anonymity offers sometimes the only way to voice dissent or send human rights information out of the country without risking lives. The downside is that true anonymity also facilitates illegal activities, such as fraud, libel, transmission of child pornography and money laundering. And that ability makes some people--notably law enforcement agents--nervous. "The issue," Rosenbaum said, "is the degree of difficulty in charging and convicting criminals. Making communications more untraceable is creating problems that didn't exist before." Nonetheless, "Acts of physical destruction and violence are almost impossible" on the Internet, said Peter Wayner, a consulting editor at Byte Magazine. Limiting anonymity, however, also can harm by limiting opportunities for free speech. "It is not clear that a happy middle ground can be found that provides sufficient anonymity without risking serious abuses," said Peter G. Neuman, principal scientist of SRI International. Attendees agreed that the dangers of banning anonymous communications are greater than the dangers of allowing them. Site Guidelines Recommended "If you know information is from an anonymous source, you treat it differently than if it is from a known identity or a known and respected pseudonym," said Helen Nissenbaum, associate director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Therefore Web sites should say, up front, whether they allow anonymous postings, the conference attendees agreed. Ideally, anonymity guidelines would come from the Web communities themselves, similar to professional associations' codes of ethics. Individual newsgroups or each person on the Internet could decide whether to accept anonymous or pseudonymous communications. Gail Dutton is a freelance writer. [Box] Keeping Secrets Anyone can drop a letter in a mailbox or place a call from a pay phone anonymously. On the Internet, however, Internet service providers track each message. Because they can be easily read, they also can be scanned for keywords. "The ease of surveillance on the Internet is unprecedented in the history of communication," according to Lance Cottrell, president of Obscura Information Security ( http://www.anonymizer.com ). Because the act of sending and receiving messages is logged, messages must be remailed assure anonymity. "A message is still vulnerable to traffic analysis," said Peter Wayner, Byte Magazine consulting editor. In practice, remailers receive mail, ignore the "from" part of the address, package it into a uniform size message and mail it to another remailer, who does the same thing. "All messages have to be identified in size and form," Cottrell explained. To ensure anonymity, mail is routed through several remailers, in and out of several countries, before it reaches its destination. When remailers' records are checked, as they sometimes are by U.S. law enforcement officials, there should be nothing that allows the e-mail to be traced, Cottrell said. Another free program, currently being developed by Lucent Technologies, offers pseudonymity for Web browsing by changing a user's name, password and return e-mail address automatically for each site a user logs onto. For example, after logging onto http://lpwa.com:8000/, users can visit Web sites in privacy and any e-mail sent to their return address will be forwarded by the Lucent server to the actual address and "carbon copied" to the pseudonym. Lucent knows who uses the service, but other Web sites do not. [End]

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[SOCIOBIO] Happy PC Holidays
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 22:25:24 -0800 Reply-To: phausman(a)digizen.net Sender: Discussing the Evolutionary Approach to Human Development <SOCIOBIO(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Patricia Hausman <phausman(a)digizen.net> Subject: [SOCIOBIO] Happy PC Holidays To: SOCIOBIO(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Greetings all, Found this on the Internet, and thought it might bring some comic relief to our discussions of late. A very happy holiday season to all of you, My best, PATRICIA HAUSMAN _________________________________________________________________________ > > Political Correctness gone too far... > > The 12 Days of Christmas, Deconstructed > > On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my > potential-acquaintance-rape-survivor gave to me: > > * TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual > drumming. > > * ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of > members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called > for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to > play a note...) > > * TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the > patriarchal ruling class system leaping, > > * NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression, > > * EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing > milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Europeans, > > * SEVEN endangered swans swimming on protected wetlands, > > * SIX enslaved fowl-Europeans producing stolen nonhuman animal > products, > > * FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic > incarceration, > > NOTE: after member of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to > throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens > and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To > avoid further animal-European enslavement, the remaining gift > package has been revised. > > * FOUR hours of recorded whale songs, > > * THREE deconstructionist poets, > > * TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree > carcasses > > * And an Animal Rights activist chained to an old-growth pear tree. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ Christmas: Index | Humour Index | Merton College Home Page ] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Merton College WWW Service, webmaster(a)merton.oxford.ac.uk --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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The Worm Before Christmas
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Worm Before Christmas By David Bradley, Betty Cheng, Hal Render, Greg Rogers, and Dan LaLiberte T'was the night before finals, and all through the lab Not a student was sleeping, not even McNabb. Their projects were finished, completed with care In hopes that the grades would be easy (and fair). The students were wired with caffeine in their veins While visions of quals nearly drove them insane. With piles of books and a brand new highlighter, I had just settled down for another all nighter --- When out from our gateways arose such a clatter, I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter; Away to the console I flew like a flash, And logged in as root to fend off a crash. The windows displayed on my brand new Sun-3, Gave oodles of info --- some in 3-D. When, what to my burning red eyes should appear But dozens of "nobody" jobs. Oh dear! With a blitzkrieg invasion, so virulent and firm, I knew in a moment, it was Morris's Worm! More rapid than eagles his processes came, And they forked and exec'ed and they copied by name: "Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On Comet! On Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen! To the sites in .rhosts and host.equiv Now, dash away! dash away! dash away all!" And then in a twinkling, I heard on the phone, The complaints of the users. (Thought I was alone!) "The load is too high!" "I can't read my files!" "I can't send my mail over miles and miles!" I unplugged the net, and was turning around, When the worm-ridden system went down with a bound. I fretted. I frittered. I sweated. I wept. Then finally I core dumped the worm in /tmp. It was smart and pervasive, a right jolly old stealth, And I laughed, when I saw it, in spite of myself. A look at the dump of that invasive thread Soon gave me to know we had nothing to dread. The next day was slow with no network connections, For we wanted no more of those pesky infections. But in spite of the news and the noise and the clatter, Soon all became normal, as if naught were the matter. Then later that month while all were away, A virus came calling and then went away. The system then told us, when we logged in one night: "Happy Christmas to all! (You guys aren't so bright.)"

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by eureka-help＠eureka.abc-web.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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HUMOR: A Bah Humbug (fwd)
by Alan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was send to me by a friend. it was too good not to share... alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: HUMOR: A Bah Humbug Sung to the tune of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" You better watch out, You better not cry, You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping, Your phone. He's buggin your room, He's reading your mail, He's keeping a file And runnin a tail Santa Claus is tapping Your phone He hears you in the bedroom Surveils you out of doors And if that doesn't get the goods Then he'll use provocateurs. So you mustn't assume That you are secure On Christmas Eve He'll kick in your door Santa Claus is tapping Your phone...

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Merry X-Mas
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sung to the tune of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" You better watch out, You better not cry, You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping, Your line. He's buggin your room, He's reading your mail, He's keeping a file And runnin a tail Santa Claus is tapping Your line He hears you in the bedroom Surveils you out of doors And if that doesn't get the goods Then he'll use provocateurs. So you mustn't assume That you are secure On Christmas Eve He'll kick in your door Santa Claus is tapping Your line... Merry X-Mas

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Censorious trends: PICSRules & digsigs & anonymity, starring Feather & Templeton
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12/25/1997 It started out small: PICS, a simpleton rating language. And "for a good cause": ideas about everyone needing digital signatures to use the Net. Then came Clive and others: let's expand PICS to be world-wide, and start reporting items politically incorrect to the police. In comp.org.eff.talk Clive D.W. Feather <clive(a)on-the-train.demon.co.uk> wrote: : I'll declare my affiliations up-front: : * One of the authors of the PICSRules proposal. : * Chairman of the IWF Management Board. : * Member of the IWF Policy Board. : * Associate Director of Demon Internet. : * Managing Director of CityScape Internet. : * Member of the LINX Content Regulation sub-committee. : * Parent of three children. : * Primary school governor. : * Free-speech advocate. Free speech advocate? As long as it has been reviewed first. The FBI has come out in favor of mandatory Key Recovery on all *domestic* encryption in the USA. Reason? : * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * : * [ Al Bayse was assistant director of the FBI's Technical Services : * Division, in charge of spending more than half a billion dollars : * for research, development and computer operations. ] : * : * "Sure", said Al Bayse of the FBI, "I believe there is an absolute : * right to privacy. But that doesn't mean you have the right to break : * the law in a serious way. Any private conversation that doesn't : * involve criminality should be private" : * : * In other words, as the debate was framed by Bayse, the right to : * privacy is at least partly contingent on a determination by an FBI : * agent or clerk that the conversations they already intercepted and : * understood do not involve a crime. PICSRules takes it a step further: review all material, report everything politically incorrect to the police, allow each country to censor to its own tune. An information infrastructure to do so. It will make us long for the days of false hits by current filtering programs, where a White House page was censored because the word "couples" was on it. Decrees will control what we see. In Australia: # From: bobb(a)acslink.aone.net.au (Bob Bain), re: PICSRules # # There are some here in Canberra who seem to view the Internet as an # extension of the "computer game" laws. There isn't a single computer # game that can be marketed in Australia which would be suitable for # adults - due to the fact that somebody in Canberra has decreed it. Can't make an effect decree without a mechanism in place. More on decrees later. ---- Clive Feather wrote: : Information Security writes: : Speaking as one of the authors of the proposal in question, I can quite : confidently say that the *only* purpose of PICSRules is to provide a : convenient and standard notation for writing such rule sets and passing : them around. : >The only stated purpose is to "protect" kids. : Right. : Suppose that there is a secret government plan for "mass global : censorship" of material... Yes, let us suppose there is...what would be a good innocuous name for it? Oh, let's see, how about "Internet Watch Foundation"? One big Evil Eye of Mordor, watching all. Sorry, I'm ahead of myself... It's all for a good cause, right? "Protect the children" ---Clive Feather Clive Feather wrote: : As for a "global rating system", the whole point : of PICSRules is to make one *less* needed. Wrong: PICSRules will allow each country to censor to its own satisfaction. By labeling all content far beyond the control even keywords in the original document would give you. You're not a censor of pornography? # From the Lapdance News Service (a division of ASSCnn)....12/1997 # # LONDON, ENGLAND -- Demon Internet, which claims to be Europe's # largest Internet service provider (ISP), has begun testing an # automated scanning system for Usenet pornography. # # The system relies on data from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), # a UK association of ISPs, which has set up telephone and online # hotlines for members of the public to advise on suspect Usenet # newsgroups and Web addresses. # # "The aim of this new system is to help streamline the process of # finding duplicated illegal material on the Internet and reduce the # number of abusers of the Internet by reporting and removing the # material that has been sent," he said. # # "The software takes an MD5 format fingerprint of each sexually # explicit image that has been posted to the Usenet and has been removed # for legal reasons," he said, adding that, when the software spots the # same fingerprint anywhere else on the Internet, it alerts staff at the # ISP, so they can take appropriate action. # # Plans call for the new software to be used in conjunction with the # IWF's program of identifying, reporting, and removing illegal material # from newsgroups. # # The association is an independent organization to implement the # proposals jointly agreed by the government, the police... Oh, my. Clive Feather is a liar. He is bending over backwards to give the government and the police exactly what they want, just as if it had been legislated. Clive's excuse: this way _newsgroups_ won't be dropped by government decree. Oh, big improvement, Clive. ---- The political whims of the moment will be accommodated. This is quite different from user-local filtering, or allocating just one bit for labeling everything as "child-only" or not. It's not close to something for merely providing user-level filtering. # http://www.internetwatch.org.uk/p040797.html # # IWF PROPOSES A GLOBAL RATING SYSTEM # # David Kerr, IWF's Chief Executive, is addressing government # ministers from Europe, United States, Canada, Russia and Japan at # the Global Information Networks Conference in Bonn on "rating and # filtering Internet content". # # It is advocated in the EU's latest policy paper on # "Protection of Minors and Human Dignity in Audiovisual and # Information Services" and has been suggested as an alternative # approach to protecting children in the USA following the fall of # the Communications Decency Act. # http://www.internetwatch.org.uk/stats.html # # September 1997 statistics: # # o 1600 items reported to other ISPs # o 1800 items reported to the police You reported 1800 items to the police in one month already? Wow. Sounds like you _are_ the police. Their eyes. # http://www.internetwatch.org.uk/legal.html # # The first role of the Internet Watch Foundation is to operate a # hotline service for users to report illegal material on the Internet. Oh, right: enforcing whatever governments pass as law, taking responsibility for content passing through the Net (WWW/Usenet). No matter how silly, stupid, or censorious. -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Also, there seems to be a disagreement between citizens and the Government over what even constitutes child pornography. * The New York Times, 1995 * Newark, NJ, Jan 12 (AP) * * A judge ruled today that a father must stand trial for taking nude photos * of his six-year-old daughter, despite the man's claim that the pictures * were art, not pornography. * * The judge ruled they were not art, despite Mr. Feuer's instructor, Susan * Klechner of the International Center of Photography in New York City, * submitting an affidavit saying the pictures were taken for the course * and were consistent with the assignment. * * After his arrest, Mr. Feuer was ordered not to have contact with his * daughter and could not stay at his home while the prosecution's * investigation continued. * * The order was lifted last April, but David Ruhnke, Mr. Feuer's lawyer, * said "It's really difficult to overstate what a nightmare this has * been for him." * * Mr. Ruhnke further complained that the judge revealed Mr. Feuer's name * in court papers while he was still making motions to dismiss the case, * to protect the girl. Parents charged with child pornography for taking photos of their children. Thought Police. -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Even respected photographers are hassled. -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- We netizens are rightfully paranoid of the American government, because it has no scruples. What the FBI did to photographer Jock Sturges was criminal. Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992: * Hounded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a bizarre witch-hunt * at an expense to the taxpayers of over a million dollars, Sturges had * survived an attempt to destroy his life and his work and was now * countersuing the agency. * * Recapitulated briefly, Sturges, who's based in San Francisco, has for * years been photographing young people whose families practice nudity. * * He's done so with his subjects' permission, as well as that of their * parents, who often appear in the photographs along with their offspring. * Rejecting the use of standard model releases, with their blanket * permissions, the photographer chooses instead to request approval * from his subjects for each and every exhibition and publication * of each and every image --- an exemplary scrupulousness. * * Then, in 1990, alerted to the "questionable" content of some of his * images by a local processing lab, the FBI arrested Joe Semien, Sturge's * assistant, invaded the photographer's San Francisco studio without a * warrant, and seized all his prints, negatives, records, and equipment; * thereafter, without arresting Sturges, or even charging him with * anything, they refused to return his property and did everything * possible to destroy him personally and professionally by branding * him a child pornographer On September 15, 1991, The New York Times reported that the Feds took the case to a grand jury after 17 months, and they immediately threw it out. And that "this was unusual because only the prosecution's evidence is presented to a grand jury and they generally return indictments at the Government's request". Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992: * Jock Sturges: * * It took another month to get the U.S. Attorney to admit they had * finished the investigation and that the case was closed. * * Before they were through they had interviewed forty-four families in * France to whom they lied outrageously. * * It seems the Feds were unable to get the French interested because * the French Police thought the photographs were just lovely. So the * French were given the impression by the U.S. government that I had * been convicted of incest in the United States and that I was a * dangerous individual. * * And based on this assumption, the French Police conducted their own * interviews, but my friends happily knew me well enough. When they * found out they had been misled, the French Police called everybody * back and apologized. * * Nevertheless, an enormous amount of effort was put out in France to * go and talk to all these people and a similar thing was done in * Germany. This was not all free. It was hideously expensive. And the * repercussions --- I don't know what they are yet. I haven't talked * to all the families. * * In the end, everything I received back was essentially destroyed. * * My computer was broken. * * All my prints were badly damaged. * * Some of them had been wadded up and thrown away and then taken out * of the waste basket and flattened out again. It cost Sturges $100,000 in legal fees, loss of major clients, much income, seizure of his life's work, the tools of his trade, and made him feel depressed about his life's work. Our government uses Orwellian terror tactics to control the politically incorrect: Jock Sturges: At my lowest point in this affair, I almost decided to jump from the San Francisco bridge. I had stopped my car. -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Where have I heard that "Human Dignity" stuff before? Oh yeah: Congress passed a law (overturned by the US Supreme Court) called something like "Decency and Honor in the Military", which outlawed selling Playboy and Penthouse magazines from military base stores. And... In comp.org.eff.talk Dave Bird <DevNull(a)xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote: : The European Commission today adopted a proposal for an Action Plan on : promoting safe use of the Internet. [snip] : The Action Plan is closely linked with the Commission Communication and : proposal for a Recommendation of 18 November 1997, which outlines : political measures on protection of minors and human dignity in the : audiovisual services (http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg10/avpolicy/new_srv : /comlv-en.htm). # telematics crimes Ooooh, new terminology for Internet crimes. Your are a telematic criminal. Must have laws to control telematic criminals. Porno bad. Nudity bad. Pretrial publicity bad. (Illegal in England & Canada? Not the USA!) Copyright violations bad. Bad bad bad. http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/internet/wp2en-chap.html#2A # 4. FINLAND # # d. Other initiatives # # 27. The report holds the view that anonymous use of the Internet should # be allowed, however, traceability of persons using the Internet # should be ensured. Oh, great, the Usenet II definition of "anonymous". Anonymity will be under direct attack next. Next thing you know, Chris Lewis will be recommending to the NNTP standards people that each and every user should be identified via a "Sender:" line. # From owner-ietf-nntp(a)academ.com Fri Dec 19 18:43:15 1997 # Cc: ietf-nntp(a)academ.com # From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis(a)nortel.ca> # Subject: re:ietf-nntp Minutes from the WG # # Once authenticated, the server SHOULD generate a Sender: line # using the email address provided by the authenticator if it # does not match the user-supplied From: line. Yep. Chris says he merely wants it for "statistics". Chris Lewis has declared I am on his content-based NoCeM list. I apparently profess views he doesn't appreciate, so I am labeled as "bad" so I can be "filtered". People couldn't possible choose to killfile me on their own. It's just a "global killfile" said someone. Same goes for the whole PICSRules deal...completely unnecessary. PICSRules wants to "objectively" label content. A Senator Feinstein here in the USA keeps introducing a bill to outlaw "bombmaking information on the Internet". * C-SPAN Television, Wednesday June 5th, 1997 * * Andrew Grove, Chairman & CEO of Intel Corporation, is asked whether * bomb-making information should be censored from the Internet. * * "No. The same information is available in libraries, and we don't * censor libraries, nor should we. When I was thirteen I built a * nitroglycerin bomb. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do, * and I knew someone who had their hand blown off, but I am * adamantly against censoring such material." * * "And unlike a library, a parent can buy a program that uses keyword * monitoring to disallow Internet traffic per the parents' wishes. * Such a program is available now, and costs only $29." Mr. Grove was just awarded Time magazine's "Man of the Year". So, one day there's material labeled "adult/bomb info", and the next day: it's illegal in the USA. Only way to do it: require PICSRules filtering at the ISP level. Nothing else scales. : Demon Internet: : "The aim of this new system is to help streamline the process of : finding duplicated illegal material on the Internet and reduce the : number of abusers of the Internet... Filtering software will reduce "the number of abusers"??? # http://www.gilc.org/speech/ratings/gilc-pics-submission.html # # PICSRules 1.1 go far beyond the original objective of PICS to # empower Internet users to control what they and those under their # care access. They further facilitate the implementation of # server/ proxy-based filtering thus providing a more simplified # means of enabling upstream censorship, beyond the control of the # end user. You aren't fooling anyone, Clive. Except maybe yourself. ---- And what was that about getting rid of anonymity, by - at the least - guaranteeing traceability even through anonymous remailers? Brad Templeton, EFF director, has a few ideas of his own: "no fake addresses is one of my non-negotiable requirements...eventual Usenet will require digital signatures" --- Brad Templeton Funny, how MLM companies (yes, ISP accounts are an MLM-able product) including Brad's Clarinet company would like to get rid of short-term ISP accounts too. Brad states he wants commitment and accountability. This EFF director wants all email and Usenet posts signed by your digital signature, a massive control-freak change in the status quo. This twists some of the very technology netizens hoped would protect us to being used against us. *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #1: # I am not talking about law. I am talking about practice. # You want to mail me, you put a digital sig on your mail. # You want to send a posting into my news server, # you put a digital sig on it. *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #2: Brad Templeton emailed: * Information Security emailed: * > Nor does your digital signature idea do anything to prevent * > throw-away accounts from doing major spams; you'll have to * > put even MORE controls on people. * * Correct, no throw away accounts. It's coming. * * > The digital signature idea is an astonishingly bad idea, that * > only frustrated control-freaks will accept. * * You are mistaken. I surveyed a roomful of usenet admins at a * conference last year. They were 95% in favor of it. [I replied that those were the control-freaks I was talking about] *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #3: Brad Templeton emailed, formatted by guy: > As far as I am concerned, no fake addresses is one of my non-negotiable > requirements, because > > the eventual USENET is going to have digital signature requirements. > > It's the only way to stop [people from] posting under fake addresses > where we can't find them, and that means stopping honest users from > doing it too. *** Brad is emphatically for digital signature authentication, #4: http://www.clari.net/brad/spam.html [snipped] Solutions... First, improve internet mail systems and protocols to identify mail with a fake or forged return address. There are some simple steps to do this, and eventually digital signature allows complete verification of the sender. http://polka.clari.net/usenet-format/cert.html Q: What about anonymous remailers? A: A person with an anonymous address that sends mail back will probably be able to get a certificate. They can post without revealing their name, except perhaps to the person who gives them a certificate. Digital signature works fine to prove the same person sent two messages without saying at all who that person is in the real world. Forced to authenticate they are the same person, even through the anonymous remailer. A certificate by another person needed. I call that traceable. No comment by the EFF. ---- PICSRules is just the first step in putting the entire Net under government control. See how important it is to Brad that ~"people can be found"? Everyone with power becomes a control freak, apparently. ---- Clive Feather wrote: : Modern special effects are quite capable of producing such films : without requiring a real murder. Consider a wide range of recent : cinema releases. No good enough for our rulers, Clive. Video & drawings suddenly considered illegal here in the USA... No new law was passed... -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- The law refers to "lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area". The FBI takes that to mean naked. Obviously. A poorly written bill, interpreted by predatory pinheads. Guess what? 1/18/95 NYT: In a case that did not involve nudity or genital visibility, Attorney General Janet Reno filed a brief with the Supreme Court that said it was not necessary for a child pornography conviction. That is how she interprets the language of the bill. Wow. And I thought Ed Meese was a bad Attorney General. Meese had written to companies like the owners of 7-11 and told them selling Playboy and Penthouse could get them Federal obscenity charges. That was his attempt to get around the First Amendment. 10/3/96 NYT: Because of computers, a bill was passed that changes the definition of child pornography to include generated images that do not involve actual children. Thought crime. Law enforcement child pornography hysteria. Sturges incident: attacked by the FBI Thought Police Squad. Massive corrupt use of governmental law enforcement authority to enforce mere political correctness. Due to its size: by definition not an aberration. It cost one million dollars of our tax money. -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- That's right: the laws can be re-interpreted at any time by the police. In the above mentioned case, Janet Reno's Department of Justice had first filed a brief with the US Supreme Court AGAINST a child pornography conviction for the person involved. During election year politics, over 200 Senators wrote to her and said they'd make a big campaign issue of it if she didn't change her mind. She changed her mind and filed an OPPOSITE brief in the Supreme Court. Sheesh. The "law" is a shifting sand...quicksand for those "on the edge"... "Protect the children" ---Clive Feather Oh, how quickly people forget all the manipulation involved in "protecting children"... -------------------- Begin Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- On June 19, 1997, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain introduced his own bill (Senator Kerrey co-sponsor) which parrots the Clinton administration's position and forced it to replace the Pro-Code bill. He banged the Drum of War against Child Pornography. * http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly, By Declan McCullagh * * In the end, it was child pornography that derailed encryption legislation * in the U.S. Senate and dealt a bitter defeat to crypto supporters. * * Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), committee chair and chief sponsor of the * measure, led the attack, saying Congress must "stop child pornography * on the Internet." * * He warned that "allowing encryption to be exported would permit child * pornographers to use it." * * "If it's being used for child pornography? Are we going to say * that's just fine? That's it's just business? I don't think so." * * Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO) tried to disagree. "It's like photography. We're * not going to [ban] photography if someone takes dirty pictures." * * At this point, one of the more deaf committee members asked, * "Pornography? Are we going to ban pornography?" * * The Senate Commerce Committee then approved McCain's bill. * * For a committee whose bailiwick is commerce, the senators seemed somewhat * detached from their mandate with business taking a backseat. * Thank you once again, oh Free World Leaders, for that intelligent discourse. * The New York Times, June 15 1997 * * "Washington Kidnaps Dick and Jane - See How Washington Uses Dick and Jane" * * These days much of the nation's political debate focuses on children - or * on the needs and interests of children as defined by politicians. * * Mr. Horn, who was chief of the Childrens Bureau in the Bush Administration * added, "A cynic would say that children are being used as props or proxies." Color me cynical. * "WHITE HOUSE IS SET TO EASE ITS STANCE ON INTERNET SMUT" * The New York Times, By John M. Broder, June 16 1997 * * Administration officials, in a draft report dated June 4 1997, have been * quietly fashioning a new communications policy that leaves most regulation * of the Internet to industry and people themselves, due to an expected * repudiation of the Communications Decency Act by the Supreme Court. * * Reno's people, [beating the Drum of War] told the Supreme Court "the * Internet was a revolutionary threat to children rendering irrelevant all * prior efforts" to protect them from pornography. * * "We all knew at the time it was passed that the Communications Decency Act * WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL," said an anonymous senior government official [yea * anonymity!]. * * "This was purely politics." * * "How could you be against a bill limiting * the display of pornography to children?" -------------------- End Cryptography Manifesto excerpt -------------------- Ah, yes, how could anyone be against a mega world-wide organization for labeling all WWW and Usenet so it can be reported to the police when the law is reinterpreted for the moment's politically incorrect information? Er, I mean, for protecting children? ---- Anyone wishing a copy of the 'Cryptography Manifesto', email guy @panix.com using subject line 'Requesting Cryptography Manifesto'. It's 519K (about 75 double-sided pages). It documents world-wide spying by the US National Security Agency. Merry Christmas kudos to cypherpunk John Gilmore for putting himself at risk by publishing RSAREF source code on the Net recently. http://www.toad.com/~dnssec He is directly taking on the US National Security Agency. Fred Salchli <fjs(a)mcs.net> wrote: : I heard a brief report on BBC World News last evening that an internal : report has been issued by European Union criticizing the NSA for : bugging ALL of their communications. (Yes, ALL was the word used in the : report!). The BBC mentioned that all communications were being filtered : (voice and data) for key words and phrases, and the EU had some compelling : evidence to support this. Interesting to see what, if anything comes of : this. Awww, the EU is upset the NSA is spying on it... ---guy Just don't say anything illegal, what's the problem? ;-)

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Re: Best Cypherpunk War Text
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>><A HREF=http://www.atsc-army.org/atdls.html> Army Manuals</A> >> >>go to field manuals >> >>you can find all you want and more >> >>igor > >They've restricted it and want full names, addresses, military unit, SSNs, >phone numbers, etc. Anyone have a mirror of it somewhere? Baaaaaaaah humbug. Let me rephrase that: They've restricted some of them and want full names, addresses, military unit, SSNs, phone numbers, etc. Does anybody have a mirror of *those* specific documents somewhere?

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Re: Digital Revolutionaries
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 24 Dec 1997 at 21:47:09 +0100 (MET) TruthKidMonger wrote: "If this is the revolution, why are the drink prices so high?" ~ Patron at New York City guerilla bar "'Cause There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Revolution, kid." ~ Patron's host and tour guide, coiner of TANSTAAFR

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Re: Best Cypherpunk War Text
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

><A HREF=http://www.atsc-army.org/atdls.html> Army Manuals</A> > >go to field manuals > >you can find all you want and more > >igor They've restricted it and want full names, addresses, military unit, SSNs, phone numbers, etc. Anyone have a mirror of it somewhere?

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Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>If anyone wants to drop by #Cypherpunks on EFNet this evening, myself and >others will be around to chat. I suggest we schedule another one for New Year's Day. New Year's Eve is when everybody parties and gets drunk. Also, is there any way to IRC anonymously? The situation is complicated by the fact that IRC, like any real-time communications system, requires real-time stream connections which are traceable back to their sources. CROWDS isn't advanced enough or designed to hide arbitrary TCP/IP traffic, though it could have been.

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Chodorov (was Freedom Forum)
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 23:19:36 -0500 Duncan Frissell wrote: > I sort of like Tim's reasoning. > > It's reminiscent of Frank Chordorov's remarks back > during the McCarthy Era. "If you're worried about > Communists in government jobs; get rid of the > government jobs." Required reading for revolutionaries of the digital era, from a very bright light of the 1950's and one who did much to shape the movement that became libertarianism. Following are two excerpts, the first from commentary on a current Web page, the second from Chodorov's 1954 book. "The Sixteenth Amendment passed because the country thought only the rich would pay. In 1910 William Shelton, a Georgian, wrote that Southerners favored ratification 'because none of us here have $4,000 incomes, and somebody else will have to pay the tax.' This view proved shortsighted. As Frank Chodorov noted in The Income Tax: Root of All Evil: 'At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability-to-pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.'" - www.elibrary.compuserve.com/qotd/10087/fetch/philk_04.htm "Author's Introduction: Argument "Tradition has a way of hanging on even after it is, for all practical purposes, dead. We in this country still use individualistic terms -- as, for instance, the rights of man -- when, as a matter of fact, we think and behave in the framework of collectivistic doctrine. We support and advocate such practices as farm-support prices, social security, government housing, socialized medicine, conscription, and all sorts of ideas that stem from the thesis that man has no rights except those given him by government. "Despite this growing tendency to look to political power as the source of material betterment and as the guide to our personal destinies, we still talk of limited government, states' rights, checks and balances, and of the personal virtues of thrift, industry, and initiative. Thanks to our literature, the tradition hangs on even though it has lost force. "But there are many Americans to whom the new trend is distasteful, partly because they are traditionalists, partly because they find it personally unpleasant, partly because reason tells that it must lead to the complete subjugation of the individual, as in Nazi Germany or Communits Russia, and they don't like the prospect. It is for these Americans that this book is written. They are the "elite" -- the questing spirits who in all times effect revolutionary changes. For a revolution now is certainly in order. And by "revolution" I mean the return to the people of that sovereignty which our tradition assumes them to have. I mean the return to them of the power which government has confiscated by way of the Sixteenth Amendment. "When you examine any species of government intervention you find that it is made possible by revenues. A government is as strong as its income. Contrariwise, the independence of the people is in direct proportion to the amount of their wealth that they can enjoy. We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, or that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment." - F. C. "XII. For Freedom's Sake [excerpted] "Whether there are any mystic forces pushing men along a path from which there is no escape, is a moot question. But there is no questioning the fact that throughout history men have regularly made excursions in quest of freedom, and that every one of these excursions was identified by its leadership. It is a logical inference therefore that when men of that stripe appear on the scene the cause of freedom is not neglected. Perhaps, after all, the present plight of freedom in America is due to lack of leadership. "If, for instance, those who prate about 'free enterprise' were willing to risk bankruptcy for it, even as the men of the Declaration risked their necks for independence, the present drive for the collectivization of capital would not have such easy going. Assuming that they are fully aware of the implications of the phrase they mouth, and are sincere in the protestations, the fact that they are unwilling to suffer mortification of the flesh disqualifies them for leadership, and the case for 'free enterprise' is hopeless. "The present low estate of freedom in this country must be laid to lack of the proper leadership -- to men who know that freedom is and who do not equate it with their own 'standard of living.' Whether or not leadership could have averted, or can still stop, the trend toward socialism, may be open to question; that a glorious fight for freedom might yet enliven the American scene is not. Whether a fight for freedom will be crowned with success, is less important than the fight itself, for if nothing comes of it, the improvement in the spirit of the fighters will be a gain, and they cannot help but keep alive the values that will make America a better climate for their offspring to live in. "There is no accounting for the emergence of these superior men, these "sports of nature," who sporadically shape the course of mankind. They come, as it were, from nowhere, and nobody has yet conclusively explained their advent. But, they come. When in her own time and her own pleasure Nature deems America ready for and worthy of them, she will give us the men who will make the good fight. It seems reasonable to assume that their first objective will be -- Repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment." _the_income_tax_ (subtitled _root_of_all_evil_) by Frank Chodorov, foreword by J Bracken Lee Copyright 1954 by Frank Chodorov The Devin-Adair Company, Old Greenwich CT 06870 Second printing Feb 1963 Third printing Jun 1974 (no ISBN) Although I don't know, I think it likely this precious little book is out of print. We Jurgar Din

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actual, on-topic post (tm)
by jkthomson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

does a large number of 'bounces' between randomly selected remailers increase security/untraceability? what if you made each message go through ALL remailers, or nearly all? be gentle... I'm just a lurker. -------------------------------------------------------- james keith thomson <jkthomson(a)bigfoot.com> ICQ:746241 PGP 263i keysig: 85C6 F156 5F8E 1457 F613 AA3A 5E69 E873 public keys availible at <pgp.mit.edu> -------------------------------------------------------- The Whispered Rule: People will believe anything if you whisper it. ========================================================

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Size Doesn't Matter
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOMETHING small IS GOING TO HAPPEN !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Little Peter |<--------------------------------------------------->| 2" ----

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Little Things Mean A Lot
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOMETHING small IS GOING TO HAPPEN !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Little Peter |<--------------------------------------------------->| 2" ----

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wiggie woo for free
by zewioca＠delphi.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[NTSEC] SKIPJACK / NT4.0 (SP3?) (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: [NTSEC] SKIPJACK / NT4.0 (SP3?) (fwd)
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It is most definitely an SSL 3 supported cipher but unless you have the token or such, then it is not going to be used for anything, and then only if you try to connect to a Skipjack (ie. fortezza) site. I doubt you have the code as it is classified and available (at this time) only in hardware. Don't sweat it, it looks like it's just a hook or ..... What environment/flavor of stuff are you running? I can help you with this if you want to contact me off the list. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 4.5 mQENAzRQsnUAAAEIAMclvXulVps67+GFijTzNspUsWBYihovyvzlfzdHxkXYWiSg FyZ4KUVLDvVwMIvFFQ3S48VtkT6i8+P8gwZFBNXyuOO+e8nv1o3b90Og6imiN2Eg PTg3rJCKun2kP6AkUN+J1m7AuYjDML7caPzRM9kbws4JmSb+U5RSeUq5g8aA9mRr oJwE3YKolM7uNAaiBwJuRRxltJG/P8XilY/J6NMhx2M1TpjXg0+9jasr7DMMFRFI sVX9uumibFOWT9xUB5eW6rTLJOXf5H5vUnDykRErtbFsLp6cOZ++3qtzHzMYbbSW xGPe2eL7tCF/y8eKh6l0U8UkWUTuQFuvyEhHg90ABRG0HGdyZWdnIDIwNDggPGdl ZW1hbkBiZXN0LmNvbT4= =F1s3 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- At 11:45 AM 12/26/97 -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote: >Now this is interesting! :) (Either that or JA is smoking crack... - no >idea on JA's reputation capital though...) > >=====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== >.+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. >..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ ><--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ >../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. >.+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... >======================= http://www.sundernet.com ========================== > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 01:29:07 -0600 >From: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin(a)mfn.org> >To: 'NT Security Listserv' <ntsecurity(a)iss.net> >Subject: [NTSEC] SKIPJACK / NT4.0 (SP3?) > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >I was rooting around in the registry tonight, (looking to repair my own >stupidity!), >and guess what I saw? SKIPJACK is installed, and ENABLED! I have NOT >(now would I EVER) installed it voluntarily, and Micro$loth only advertises >the >"standard" ciphers (which I also found). > >Is anyone else aware of this? Is it safe to delete the key (and code? >Hopefully >this is DLL driven: I'm still looking!). > >Also, anyone know what it was put there for? It's certainly not what I would > >consider an SSL issue! > >J.A. Terranson >sysadmin(a)mfn.org >A small fading light in a vast and obscure universe... > >PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY - ENCRYPT! >PGP/DSS: 0x12896749 FP: 63F2 1777 BC38 AC1E 3359 > 0B0E C6C0 ED6B 1289 6749 >PGP/RSA: 0x9D85DF05 FP: 810C 25E9 7DD3 C157 > 3081 A202 DDFD 4245 >If Government wants us to behave, it should set a better example! > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 >Charset: noconv > >iQEVAwUBNKC5wqAMF5Wdhd8FAQFsDQgAkietW1awMFDE9ZY5d9B+Zc0cGuGxlPC+ >XzVy6+RleDngUecSAf8MbZZlTDDyN69liKG2Of0n+pZnlJSbKZWZiG0cRN592bbL >xCF/cwgNdJi1/HTA/mDZ7fpRT1phCMi/b2U3XXyV3QG2fv+Z8M5o4LjykYT+u4Lt >aEkfedFZKjkURO+artvGFnISfVxAMwpW0TfdbxE2Izw8iSjX2w+4aT0ub+Ck3OA4 >X3Bek8ZPhbmsf9lIfBSe38ZPMZGrk7VwTPaMo7JiU5MM58OmCMaodKlwyxfsptKf >khLnbWJbwHrlbW2yXL7nh7Ttnxv1WJ6BHaaJhxX/5EWSU4xAc/FjaQ== >=jsvV >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Attachment Converted: "F:\GDW\Mail\[NTSEC] SKIPJACK NT4.0 (SP3)" >

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Re: actual, on-topic post (tm)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

jkthomson <jkthomson(a)bigfoot.com> writes: >does a large number of 'bounces' between randomly selected remailers >increase security/untraceability? what if you made each message go through >ALL remailers, or nearly all? Going through all the remailers is overkill. The rationale for multiple remailers (four are usually recommended) is that it's harder to trace a message through the remailer network. Say you want to send a message to person X. So you send it to remailer A. Now there's a chain linking you to that remailer (probably your ISP's smtp log), and your friendly local jackbooted thug could say, "Aha! You sent a message to that remailer, and then person X got an anonymous message! It must have been you!" They might not be able to make it stick, but they'd certainly be able to take you downtown for a quick wooden high colonic. Now, suppose instead that you'd sent it through a chain of four remailers, chosen in some reasonably random fashion. So the thug has a record of you sending something to remailer A, but the message came from Remailer D. He has to construct a chain linking you to Remailer D, via remailer B and C. If you PGP-encrypt the messages in layers, as with Premail, then no remailer other than the last in the chain has the final destination, and no remailer other than the first knows where the message originally came from. Hope this helps.

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Happy Holiday Wishes :)
by greetings＠cards.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by eureka-help＠eureka.abc-web.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Cryptographer examines Kaczynski's journal
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: fma66.fma.com: majordomo set sender to owner-espam(a)lists.espace.net using -f X-Orig-From: William Knowles <erehwon(a)dis.org> X-e$pam-source: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 20:09:27 -0500 To: espam(a)intertrader.com From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Cryptographer examines Kaczynski's journal Sender: owner-espam(a)lists.espace.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail is brought to you by the e$pam mailing list --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: William Knowles <erehwon(a)dis.org> To: "Perry's crypto list" <cryptography(a)c2.net>, DC-Stuff <dc-stuff(a)dis.org> cc: DCSB <dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu> Subject: Cryptographer examines Kaczynski's journal Organization: Home for retired social engineers & unrepented cryptophreaks MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: William Knowles <erehwon(a)dis.org> SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Driven by secrecy, Theodore Kaczynski kept a cryptic diary for two decades, substituting numbers and mathematical symbols for words and letters. Prosecutors say the Unabomber suspect's encoded journal is the cornerstone of their case against the mathematics professor-turned -forest recluse. They say it provides a remarkable, step-by-step view of years of wrongdoing -- in the defendant's own words. And they intend to have FBI cryptographer Michael Birch lay out his ``translation'' of the entire document to jurors. ``Although Mr. Birch's expertise is breaking codes, in this case the 'key' to the defendant's code was found in the cabin,'' the government said in its trial strategy brief. ``Therefore, Mr. Birch's expertise will be directed to explaining to the jury how to apply the code to the defendant's coded writings and the admission into evidence of his completed translation.'' Earlier, lead prosecutor Robert Cleary said the journal records are ``the backbone of the government's case.'' He said the diary describes in detail the 16 Unabomber attacks from 1978 to 1995 that killed three people and injured 29. Kaczynski, 55, is charged with using bombs in four attacks: He is accused of killing a lobbyist and a computer store owner a decade apart in Sacramento, and maiming a geneticist and a computer professor with Sacramento-postmarked mail bombs in 1993. Opening statements in the trial are scheduled for Jan. 5. Kaczynski could get the death penalty if convicted. He is charged separately in New Jersey with the third fatality attributed to the Unabomber's 18-year siege. Unlike the Unabomber manifesto, a 35,000-word treatise that depicts technology as an evil force, the coded diary was never intended to be seen by anyone else. The diary, written in pencil on several hundred pages of notepaper and several inches thick, includes details of experiments with explosives. It was among 20,000 documents seized from Kaczynski's tiny Montana shack. The diary contents have not been made public, although Birch's decoded version was given to the defense last year. Sources familiar with the journal describe it as a sophisticated jumble of numbers, an intricate enigma wrapped in a riddle befitting a Harvard-trained mathematician described by one prospective juror as a ``smart weirdo.'' But code experts aren't so sure. They believe Kaczynski, who shunned computers and electronic devices in his cabin without electricity, may actually have cloaked the journal in a ``hand code'' that would have been relatively easy to break, even without the key. Such codes vary widely, but one basic variety resembles a checkerboard or grid, numbered on the sides, with each square filled randomly with a letter of the alphabet. The coded message is a string of numbers, which are the coordinates corresponding to the letters in the grid. To read the message, one needs to translate the numbers using the grid, or key. But typically, those numbers may be scrambled using a second code, and even a third, so that the final message is shrouded in layers of secrecy. Although such a numeric code looks daunting to the lay person, it is no more difficult to crack than the kind of basic substitution ciphers popular in pulp fiction or newspaper word games. ``You may have `A equals 1', and `B equals 2,' stuff like that in a numeric code with pencil and paper. Numbers look a little more mysterious and harder, like `39647181.' But it doesn't have anything to do with the complexity of the code. 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17 Dec '03

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RE: [NTSEC] SKIPJACK / NT4.0 (SP3?) (fwd)
by J.A. Terranson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Since I've had so many people either ask what s/w was installed on this box, or else claim that "J.A. must be on crack! :-)", here is the breakdown... NT4.0; SP3; Every post SP3 hotfix through the third week of December; NT4.0 Server Resource Kit; I.E. 3.02 with Java VM pkg installed; PGP 5.0 Commercial; Adobe Photoshop 4.0 with a couple of special filter plugins; Adobe Illustrator 4.something, no addons; Adobe Premier with no addons; Micrographics Webtricity; Front Page 97 with assorted HotFixes; Outlook 97 with assorted HotFixes; TCL/TK; J++; Java 1.something with SDK; WordPerfect Suite 7.something. Obviously, this is on a Web Authoring station, so there is absolutely no reason for any of the above programs to be playing around with Skipjack... Never the less... I brought up a testbed system over the Xmas break, using the same install packages that I used to build the workstation in question. No sign of ANY ciphers: Skipjack or anything else! Which makes sense. The question now is just how in the h%@#& did it get here in the first place? And why are my others ciphers explicitly disabled for SSL? This is a really disturbing finding. I am more concerned that Skipjack was *silently* installed than anything else: I have plans to completely reinstall all of the software from scratch on this particular box, and then enable full key ACL logging in an attempt to find out how it got there. I am VERY concerned about this! The ONLY way I can conceive of this machine having this configuration is if it was silently downloaded to the machine during a W3 session. And it would NOT likely have been an SSL session: We do absolutely NO on-line transactions here. If Skipjack is being silently, I want to know by whom, and for what purpose. OK, maybe I'm just paranoid, or smoking crack, but I spent several years in the late '80's working in COMSEC, and the scenario which first comes to mind is not too far-fetched (at least for me) to be believable... It is most definitely an SSL 3 supported cipher but unless you have the token or such, then it is not going to be used for anything, and then only if you try to connect to a Skipjack (ie. fortezza) site. I doubt you have the code as it is classified and available (at this time) only in hardware. Don't sweat it, it looks like it's just a hook or ..... What environment/flavor of stuff are you running? I can help you with this if you want to contact me off the list. At 11:45 AM 12/26/97 -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote: >Now this is interesting! :) (Either that or JA is smoking crack... - no >idea on JA's reputation capital though...) > >=====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== >.+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. >..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ ><--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ >../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. >.+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... >======================= http://www.sundernet.com ========================== > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 01:29:07 -0600 >From: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin(a)mfn.org> >To: 'NT Security Listserv' <ntsecurity(a)iss.net> >Subject: [NTSEC] SKIPJACK / NT4.0 (SP3?) > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >I was rooting around in the registry tonight, (looking to repair my own >stupidity!), >and guess what I saw? SKIPJACK is installed, and ENABLED! I have NOT >(now would I EVER) installed it voluntarily, and Micro$loth only advertises >the >"standard" ciphers (which I also found). > >Is anyone else aware of this? Is it safe to delete the key (and code? >Hopefully >this is DLL driven: I'm still looking!). > >Also, anyone know what it was put there for? It's certainly not what I would > >consider an SSL issue! > >J.A. Terranson >sysadmin(a)mfn.org >A small fading light in a vast and obscure universe... > >PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY - ENCRYPT! >PGP/DSS: 0x12896749 FP: 63F2 1777 BC38 AC1E 3359 > 0B0E C6C0 ED6B 1289 6749 >PGP/RSA: 0x9D85DF05 FP: 810C 25E9 7DD3 C157 > 3081 A202 DDFD 4245 >If Government wants us to behave, it should set a better example! > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 >Charset: noconv > >iQEVAwUBNKC5wqAMF5Wdhd8FAQFsDQgAkietW1awMFDE9ZY5d9B+Zc0cGuGxlPC+ >XzVy6+RleDngUecSAf8MbZZlTDDyN69liKG2Of0n+pZnlJSbKZWZiG0cRN592bbL >xCF/cwgNdJi1/HTA/mDZ7fpRT1phCMi/b2U3XXyV3QG2fv+Z8M5o4LjykYT+u4Lt >aEkfedFZKjkURO+artvGFnISfVxAMwpW0TfdbxE2Izw8iSjX2w+4aT0ub+Ck3OA4 >X3Bek8ZPhbmsf9lIfBSe38ZPMZGrk7VwTPaMo7JiU5MM58OmCMaodKlwyxfsptKf >khLnbWJbwHrlbW2yXL7nh7Ttnxv1WJ6BHaaJhxX/5EWSU4xAc/FjaQ== >=jsvV >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Attachment Converted: "F:\GDW\Mail\[NTSEC] SKIPJACK NT4.0 (SP3)" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNKRqWaAMF5Wdhd8FAQEoawf+PlZlxSUBhsO1Pj37arRPt0YDIiCX0e5K UzKIOyIk82Q3s2py5LQmqUv8hrqIY2NxTcn2DaNYm4yS2UOgKDfgfJbswmWdRlYZ UHOt+ROiUn5P7qJqMThKHxE2EnQKhhtyiRJaUYgilGbgKCAAs/YYtP5uu7XOfd3l u9TNmZwz6GCUv3+QrGXBi3g5+KQkzNZ/4cJLn+LYV5dGBzbGAsnSaAjQ+Kai0Xs9 tNTLZjM2wWvUDU7BNUYu/mHyY+ltiURgaqUSQpz9VV3y6SOlyh/Oef2JMtZtYkVc K8EkebhEQNQ4uECxChyGYsmiuDmnt8yCYeX3moCcu+szHebQ/YyPeA== =KIsG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Kwanzaa hijacked by white businesses... [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > SOME RETAILERS SAY WHITE CORPORATIONS ARE HIJACKING KWANZAA > > graphic December 26, 1997 > Web posted at: 9:53 p.m. EST (0253 GMT) > > WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As celebrations begin for Kwanzaa, the > 30-year-old African-American holiday, some black business owners say > they worry the celebration, which emphasizes black self-reliance, is > being hijacked by white-owned corporations. > > "When this holiday came into existence, it was almost a > laughingstock," says Magaji Bukar, a gift shop owner. "And now that > (retailers) can make some money, now (they) want to be a part of > this. We're saying, 'No.'" > > "This is more than just money. This is culture," he said. > > Bukar is one of about 1,000 African-American business owners who > have launched a letter-writing campaign, demanding that large > companies -- including Hallmark Cards and Giant Foods -- stop > selling Kwanzaa-related items. They are urging African-Americans to > buy Kwanzaa supplies and goods only from black businesses. > > But not all African-Americans agree. For example, Pamela Rucker of > the National Retail Federation says merchants are simply responding > to the free market and showing respect for the holiday. Magaji Bukar > Magaji Bukar > > "Retailers have a responsibility to serve their consumers, whether > African-American, Hispanic, Asian, whatever," she said. "If > consumers didn't tell us they wanted Kwanzaa-related products, or > other ethnic or culturally-related products, retailers wouldn't > stock them." [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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BAY AREA CYPHERPUNKS MEETING 1/17/98 - Preliminary Schedule announcement
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The January Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be on January 17th, rather than the normal second Saturday, to accommodate the RSA conference and W3C conference that will be in town that week. The agenda is not set, but will include - Export law presentation by Lee Tien, Greg Broiles, and maybe Cindy Cohn - Secure DNS export - Latest PGP / McAfee / Network Associates merger and related discussion - More topics appreciated Location will probably be PGP headquarters in San Mateo, but may be another convenient Bay Area location. A more detailed announcement will follow. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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cypherpunks missing from Usenet
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I know most of you don't use Usenet anymore... Nevertheless, I'd appreciate any help. ---guy # From: guy+U2_Czars_suck(a)panix.com # Subject: Re: EFF Director calls for requiring digital signatures for Net access # Newsgroups: comp.org.cauce,comp.org.eff.talk # Followup-To: comp.org.cauce,comp.org.eff.talk # Organization: Information Security at NYC, Third Planet From the Sun T. Max Devlin <mdevlin(a)eltrax.com> wrote: : On 20 Dec 1997 05:28:35 -0500, Cipher <cipher(a)mindspring.com> wrote: : >The CAUCE group is just getting started and *Digital Signatures* are : >mentioned in the same breath with anti-UCE techniques. From knowing : >absolutely who everyone is to knowing absolutely what everyone is saying : >seems a logical progression. I see the *Good users are known users* : >mentality as the leading edge of draconian restrictions on Usenet and : >e-mail that are in the works. : It is not a logical progression. : Nevertheless, civility (which is what we're trying to achieve) : requires a balance between individual "rights" of privacy and : public knowledge of who is saying what. A "balance" between "privacy" and "public knowledge of who is saying what"??? Like the FBI wants a "balance" between the rights of people to use cryptography and law enforcement concerns? You are truly a nutcake. T. Max Devlin <mdevlin(a)eltrax.com> wrote: : This extremist view that to be able to identify who is saying something is : automatically the same as censorship is getting more and more ludicrous. The US Supreme Court disagrees with you regarding anonymous speech. T. Max Devlin <mdevlin(a)eltrax.com> wrote: : Without rational examination of the issues, the ultimate solution will : inevitably be that the Internet is unusable for public discourse. Imminent death of the Internet, film at 11. An MIT study has shown civility is *unnatural* among heavy email users. Even Russ Allbery will through out a "bullshit" and more now and then, or do you want to argue about what "civility" means? ---- What does civility mean to Usenet II Czars? It means deleting off-topic posts (which they've done), because they are "abusive". # * [usenet2] A New Virtual Community # * From: Stephanie da Silva <arielle(a)bonkers.taronga.com> # * Reply-To: usenet2(a)usenet.com # * Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 03:12:04 -0500 (CDT) # # I'm somewhat disillusioned because two of my favorite newsgroups seem # to be plagued by a similar problem -- an increase in off-topic chatter. # # This has gone to the point on one of the groups # where some people have actually adopted an OFF-TOPIC keyword and use it # in subject headers. # # In a very recent discussion where I pointed out that this went against # ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ # the very foundation of Usenet and that off-topic threads were 100% noise, # ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ # a user that has been posting less than a year and a half (from Netcom) # patiently explained to me how she felt the main appeal of the newsgroup # was its diverse nature and that she found the off-topic threads # "invigorating." # # So I guess my point is I wish there were some mechanism in place to # reinforce that newsgroups are focused discussion groups and not informal # chat rooms or coffee klatches. People are not taking it to email the # way they tended to in the "good old days." # # I was just talking about this with someone in email. She described an # incident that had happened on rec.arts.books. Someone flamed (ironically # enough) Mike Godwin for posting off-topic. She said Godwin's response # ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ # was that rec.arts.books was not a place for talking about books per se, # but a place where 'bookish' people could get together and chat. # # That pretty much sums up the point I was trying to make. What else? What have the U2 Czars controlling CAUCE also done? Not allowed the admin of a one-way remailer who returned the required token for posting to comp.org.cauce to post here; no explanation given despite repeated requests. That's not "civil", Max. ---- T. Max Devlin <mdevlin(a)eltrax.com> wrote: : Authentication is a required capability of any multi-user communications system. Apparently you have never heard of pay-phones, 900 re-dial services, etc. : The question is not whether we can get away without it (in the long run, I fear, : we cannot). The question is how we can implement it in a rational fashion that : isn't too slanted one way or the other between personal and public desires. The question is: how can control-freaks like you be beaten to a bloody pul^W^W^W^W back? ---guy

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Re: cypherpunks missing from Usenet
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In <199712270822.DAA12498(a)panix2.panix.com>, Information Security <guy(a)panix.com> wrote: >I know most of you don't use Usenet anymore... > >Nevertheless, I'd appreciate any help. >---guy We don't like Usenet because it's full of faggots like Guy Polis. A useful function for a government would be to round up all the AIDS-infected faggots like Guy Polis and to put them publicly out of their misery in fun creative ways, like they do in Iran. I see great possibilities for live family entertaintment. Thank God for AIDS!

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