December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by owner-cypherpunks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: April 26 column -- Swiss militia
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 03:36 PM 4/18/98 -0500, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: [snip] >My impression was that, aside from guns, Switzerland is not such a free >country, with myriads of local laws restricting every fathomable activity. I have never been to Switzerland. >> ObGunStuffPlug: >> I just got a catalog from Cheaper Than Dirt!, which has an impressive array >> of gun accessories, ammo, and survival equipment for excellent prices. A >> few examples: >> >> Bushnell 4-12x40 scope $59.97 I love mine! > >They are used, actually, but very good. You are correct on both counts, although the only way I could tell mine wasn't new was a couple of nicks in the adjustment screw caps. My MAK-90 looks much more impressive now... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5 iQA/AwUBNTkb6cJF0kXqpw3MEQIc8gCeJaNL5T18Fclh2B4NAQRE699t9WUAoNYn xHz8Mzs6PGPgq6HFjdFgvzHM =hLlN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC Proud to be a charter member of the vast right-wing conspiracy! RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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GSM Security Study
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The GSM consortium claims that the recent cloning was not actually cloning, that the SIM crack was not news, that it is ridiculous to claim that US intelligence deliberately crippled A5, and that customers should not be alarmed: http://jya.com/gsm042098.txt To assess this spin we offer extracts of a 1998 GSM System Security Study: http://jya.com/gsm061088.htm (44K + 3 images)

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Epilogue 1/0 -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Bienfait Nutly News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[BIENFAIT NUTLY NEWS-MongerItaville,Co1]REPORTWHORES FOR the Bienfait Nutly News spent the night in drunken, drug-crazed revelry at the home of A DANGEROUSLY CRAZED VIOLENT PSYCHO KILLER TO BE NAMED LATER, while waiting for the CoalDust Saloon to open for the day so that they could celebrate the 'Pull-It,Sir Prize' they are certain to be awarded by UNCLAD-PuN* for their contributions to the Bienfait Nutly News Special, entitled '!!!KILL THE CHILDREN!!! * Union for Naked Child Love & Death - Pedophiles und Necrophiles Bubba Rom Dos, a fictional character from 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts being circulated by an underground computer cult gratefully deadicated to the memory of Jerry Garcia, rode into Bienfait on a Pink Elephant about 6 a.m., as the ninth case of beer bit the dust and the rosy pink cheeks of the sonofgomez began peeking slowly under the whore rising to meet the thick, dark fog lingering in her mind from the pill that had been slipped into her drink at bar-closing time the night before. "Onward through the Fog!" she mumbled, as she was handed her first offical bong of the same-new-day by Oat Willie. She had just a couple of hours to get home and get ready for another dreary day at the Junior-High ten KILLometers down the road, in Estevan. She saw Bubba Rom Dos slowly appearing out of the fog and wisely turned so that her butt was up against the wall she was using for balance. The drunken whord of Nutly News reportwhores, gathered from around the world for the illustrious occassion, took the appearance of Bubba, widely known as a crazed, drunken pedophile representing a long lineage of voices barfing in the wilderness, to mean that the BNN promotional announcement (cleverly disguised as a news story) was about to come to an end, and it was time to begin the serious work of actually writing the News Special, which was thus far only a vague concept consisting of ludicrous ideas thrown out at random during a series of mumbled and slurred, semi-incoherent ramblings in between hashish-induced laughing spasms, munchies attacks, and pissing contests of both a physical and conceptual nature. "I guess it's time to put in that right-square bracket." Defcon McCullagh Chainsaw informed the Author. "What the hell is it really called?" the Author asked, causing the gathered reportwhores to pause whatever they were doing and search their minds for the proper word, or wonder if it wasn't just called, 'the right-square bracket.' The attempted mental exercise was to little avail, since the MongerItaville official motto is, "It's always drunkest just before dawn." and they quickly found themselves sucked into the Grateful Void in which one realizes that the Grateful Secret Of Life is properly balancing one's drug intake and proceeds to slowly suck on a fresh beer to counter the effects of the last bong. The Author surveyed the suddenly serious somber scribes, and quiety ended the promotional announcement disguised as a news report by typing a]

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DCSB: Donald Eastlake; "The Internet Open Trading Protocol"
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:28:23 -0400 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce(a)ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB: Donald Eastlake; "The Internet Open Trading Protocol" Cc: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee(a)cybercash.com>, "Michael S. Baum" <michael(a)verisign.com>, Jeremey Barrett <jeremey(a)bluemoney.com>, Rodney Thayer <rodney(a)sabletech.com> Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Donald Eastlake 3rd Cybercash, Inc. The Internet Open Trading Protocol Tuesday, May 5, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The Internet Open Trading Protocol provides an interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is payment system independent and will be able to encapsulate payment systems such as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GeldKarte, etc. IOTP is able to handle cases where such roles as the merchant, the payment handler, the deliverer of goods or services, and the provider of customer support are performed by different parties or by one party. See <http://www.otp.org>. Donald Eastlake 3rd is a Principal Systems Engineer at CyberCash, Inc. before which he was in the Pathworks network group at Digital Equipment Corporation. At CyberCash, he helped design the "CyberCash message format" documented in RFC 2898 and implemented the library routines that support them. He also architected and did the preliminary implementation of CyberCash's SET implementation. He is active in IETF standards efforts and is currently the document editor for the IETF DNS security working group including RFCs 2065 and 2137. [Moderator's note: Unfortunately, Jeremey Barrett of BlueMoney, the speaker originally scheduled for May, found himself unable do so this month. We are in the process of rescheduling his talk on digital bearer settlement for a later date. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. The DCSB Program Committee thanks Mr. Eastlake for coming forward on such short notice with such a splendid replacement topic.] This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, May 5, 1997, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, May 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: June Michael Baum PKI Requirements from a Commercial CA's Perspective July Rodney Thayer IPSEC and Digital Commerce TBA Jeremey Barrett Digital Bearer Settlement We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com> . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNTtbVsUCGwxmWcHhAQE18wgAi+p0BOxJgeOd3IhmpljB17Wj5iU1aJQB KN6IsuWu5BkKlh9sTg+OihHkF0AygHk8BUCKcK+2dn8s3CYzUY+MNRnuv+d1iGPN bvt/B/2Y4m99beJ5pAixFcqrRdkmfqvUJyh9g1gfFPqbE+M9a0OMGX1/eZM6JIEk PYAVwNTFDnkk9Rz8bVyDeESu0jAoUaHicCN1Jdq8umCXKURecWkvtfOlR7NE5Bdp No8e5C8C99qgdKFxSSX7h9NEX+Eviq51A958eoyj5dWahYbHCHNFQEhDlZXaPhBO 8jDOmsOlAJeDCWbUKiqMELy6ZpJX8IFBQE7XOVFYemSVgPOF4Df0mw== =Qs/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 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/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB(a)ai.mit.edu --- 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/

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speech that aids and abets does "not enjoy the protection of the First Amendment."
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Supremes let stand civil charges against a publisher for information they published. Crypto relevance: some kidnapping/propoganda victim sues a ThoughtMonger... Supreme Court Won't Review Murder Manual Case http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/top_stories/story.html?s=z/reuters/9804 20/news/stories/murder_2.html choice excerpts: The central legal question, as previously defined by the Supreme Court in a landmark First Amendment ruling, is whether an entity, in distributing information in a general way, can be found to have advocated or incited lawless action. ... Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig wrote in the ruling that Paladin may be held liable because speech that aids and abets does "not enjoy the protection of the First Amendment." ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Epilogue 2/0 -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Bienfait Nutly News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epilogue 2/0 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _____________________________________________ *** BIENFAIT NUTLY NEWS SPECIAL *** ********************** *** KILL THE CHILDREN !!! *** ********************** Introduction By: A DANGEROUSLY CRAZED VIOLENT PSYCHO KILLER TO BE NAMED LATER It is with great fondness and trepidation that I recall the wonderful summer days spent on the ball diamonds of Austin, Texas, in the late 1970's. Behind the dugout, under the stands, sharing a quick toke with other members of Armadillo World HeadQuarters' jock-supporters--fans and players of the legendary PSYCHO KILLERS, widely recognized as the most dangerous-to-themselves opponents in the history of the Grand Game, no matter where or how it was played. Slapping David Byrne upside his Talking Head for Bogarting the Belushi and then realizing that his momentary lapse in proper drug-addict ettiquette was a result of his attention being rivetted to some terrifying incident of reality taking place out on the ball diamond. Seeing the outfielder nonchalantly digging his toe in the dirt at the edge of the infield as a conference took place on the pitcher's mound between the other members of the Austin Police Department ball team. Watching in horror as the outline of a small finger could be seen poking out from the dirt as the outfielder prodded his spiked toe in the dirt, and then watching it being covered again, as he unconsciously tapped it back down in the dirt. Knowing that you should have taken little Delbert's body to the river and washed it down, with Tex Thomas & the Dangling Wranglers singing, "I Am Washed In The Rum of the Lamb" softly in the background, according to the instructions Rocky Erickson had received from Mars through the fillings in his teeth after stepping out of the elevator on the 13th floor, only to find himself in a vast wasteland of the mind where fear and superstition coming from the Real (TM) floors of his brain structure would sometimes cause him to doubt the voices. Hearing C.J. Parker, The County Mountie, drunkenly singing the ending strains of the chorus of 'Armadillo (Are You Sure Jesus Done It This Way?)': "And they catch those fly-balls on the head. And they never steal second, they steal first instead, Cause they learned all those moves that they make, From Panama Red." I don't wish to end up boring you with the youthful reminesces of a doddering, senile old fart reliving the Glory Days in a time and place where mental instability was honored and valued, whether it was C.J. Parker singing about drug-induced mental instability of the Psycho Killers, or Kinky Friedmann singing the praises of organic mental disorder by hosting a Charles Whitman Memorial Reunion bash, with the Texas Jewboys playing their harps in the background... Where was I...? Oh yes, I don't wish to end up boring you, but I'm a doddering, senile old fart, so what the fuck can you expect, eh? The way this relates to CRYPTology is... At the end of MeatSpace lies...the Crypt! "Everybody want's to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." "Nobody gets out of here alive." "I cooked Belushi's last spoon!" These are just a few of the song-titles which reflect the inherent understanding of the muse that the rotting MeatSpace carcasses of the CypherPunks will eventually turn to dust, but that the stench of their vile, sick and twisted, 'shunned by every decent citizen' ideas and philosophies will live on eternally in the biosemiotic evolution of analogue life-forms crystallizing into the digital bits and bytes which will exist forever in the CyberSpace home of virtual reality, the Eternity Server. It was a lack of the esoteric understanding held by the Circle of Eunuchs (AC/DC Rules!) Bienfait Nutly News reportwhores which led to DC (Direct Current) journalists to proclaim the "Death of the CypherPunks," not understanding that the Toad was not dead, but had merely turned into a Handsome Prince whose experiences in the bath houses of Sif Fiasco had led him to realize that Human Gus-Peter should be shared with all who wished to drink from the spigot of his knowledge, male *and* female, regardless of whether or not they were wearing panties. Where was I...? Oh, yes... The sudden appearance of Bubba Rom Dos at the celebration for the Pull-It,Sir Prize certain to be awarded for the, as yet, unwritten, "KILL THE CHILDREN!!!" Bienfait Nutly News Special, reminded those gathered of Bubba's infamous quote, "If murder is to have any meaning at all, you must kill your friends." After singing a few verses of Bang! Crosby, Deathly Still & Gnashing of Teeth's hit song, "If you can't kill the one you love...kill the one you're with." the reportwhores suddenly became stone-cold sober and, realizing that the Canadian Author is Stone-Cold Crazy (TM), instantly realized the true import of the Canadian AuthorTitty's efforts to drag the InfoWar being waged in CyberSpace down into MeatSpace (where they could kick the Author's sorry ass), by the confiscation of the physical tools which he used to mirror analogue life onto the digital plane, Electronically Forging ahead, past the historical boundaries of MeatSpace Identity, into the Multi-User Persona Paridigm where TruthMonger and [YourNameHere](a)dev.null are free to live together in peace and discord... Excuse me. I had to pause for a breath... Anyway, Armed Thugs With Massive MeatSpace Weaponry (TM) have a deathly fear of being transmorgified into Mental Midgets by the UnComprehensible InConceptual Distributed Digital Artistry (TM) taking place in the parts of the brain used by the muse-- which go far beyond the part of the brain where their own elevator stops, and they can go no further, because taking the stairs isn't in their job description and would probably get them in trouble with the union. Accordingly, they strike out like primitive savages at that which they do not understand, using their heavy clubs to destroy the tools which digital muses use to spam the MeatSpace Reality of the Decent Folk (TM) with the '8 Words George Carlin Can't Say On The InterNet' : 1. Shit 2. Piss 3. Fuck 4. Cunt 5. Cocksucker 6. Motherfucker 7. Tits 8. Comstockery ~~~~ From: Wordsmith <wsmith(a)wordsmith.org> To: linguaphile(a)wordsmith.org Subject: A.Word.A.Day--comstockery Comstockery (KOM-stok-uh-ree, KUM-) noun Censorship of literature and other forms of expression and communication because of perceived immorality or obscenity. [After Anthony COMSTOCK.] WORD HISTORY: Bowdlerism, named after Dr. Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), has been around longer than Comstockery, named for Anthony Comstock (1844-1915). All Bowdler did to enter the world of common nouns was to expurgate Shakespeare, the Bible, and Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. On the other hand, Comstock, the organizer and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, helped destroy 160 tons of literature and pictures that he deemed immoral. Comstockery, the word honoring his achievements, is first recorded in 1905 in a letter by George Bernard Shaw to the New York Times: "Comstockery is the world's standing Joke at the expense of the United States.... It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a provincial place, a second rate country-town civilization after all.". "The best argument for upholding this electronic Comstockery can be summed up in a single world: zoning." Jeffrey Rosen, Can the government stop cyberporn?, The New Republic, 31 Mar 1997. ........................................................................... Send your comments about words to anu(a)wordsmith.org. To subscribe or unsubscribe A.Word.A.Day, send a message to wsmith(a)wordsmith.org with "Subject:" line as "subscribe <Your Name>" or "unsubscribe". Archives, FAQ, gift subscription form, and more at: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ ~~~~ Uuhhh...I remember where I 'was,' but I don't remember where I'm 'going'... Uuhhh....hhmm........... [End of Epilogue 2/0, I guess]

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Gary Lee Burnore and His Anti-Privacy Zealots are on the Warpath!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Belinda Bryan <eridani(a)databasix.com> wrote: > The bottom line is that you'd better get down on your knees every night > and pray to whatever you hold sacred that I don't find out who you are > because if I do, I will make every minute of the rest of your miserable > life an absolute hell. And I won't break any laws to do it, nor will I > hide behind a veil of anonymity. This is no threat, it's a *promise*. Why don't you just tell you child-molesting friend Gary Lee Burnore that if he would keep his pants zipped up around the children, he wouldn't need to hire you to fight his battles. If he didn't molest a child in Santa Clara, CA and then move to NC and register as a sex offender, the fact of his conviction for that crime wouldn't have been published for all to see on Nort Carolina's public registered sex offender's website, would it? Just because you don't like the message, don't shoot the messenger. This was the same loud-mouthed Burnore that previously said that republishing publicly available data to Usenet was acceptable, and that he had nothing to hide. Now he's pissed that someone else is following his own example. Anti-privacy kooks like you and DataBasix CEO Gary Lee Burnore are one of the best arguments for the existence of anonymous remailers. You and your friends at DataBasix have a hard time bullying and harassing people into silence that you can't identify, don't you? Lest anyone forget, Gary launched his first tirade against anonymity when someone tipped off his molestation victim's mother and school officials anonymously. Whistleblowing has always been one of the important functions of anonymous remailers. Of course, Gary denied the charges and accused the victim's anonymous benefactor of "harassment" and "libel". Now the public record shows that Gary was guilty after all, by his own admission and guilty plea. Belinda, if you want to make Gary's "miserable life an absolute hell", why don't you just marry him? Now if I really wanted to start a vicious rumor, I'd wonder aloud whether Raleigh, NC's two most famous resident kooks, Gary Burnore and the Rev. Steve Winter are really one and the same person!

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Gary Lee Burnore, Convicted Child Molester in Raleigh, NC
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Belinda Bryan <eridani(a)databasix.com> wrote: > And let's not forget how he did exhaustive research of my posting > history in Deja News and created a summary which included the location > of my son's (former) preschool and submitted it for permanent archival > on the Netscum page. You need to be careful about posting information like that about your children, especially since there is a registered sex offender, Gary Lee Burnore <gburnore(a)databasix.com>, living in your neighborhood. Why did you post information like that publicly in the first place if you didn't want people to read it? Also, it's amazing what people can dredge up on you. One fellow was harassed by having a 10 year old California tax lien posted worldwide to usenet in an attempt to silence his dissenting opinions.

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Epilogue 3/0 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! (Now containing special advertising inserts geared toward the reader's individual interests, based on your choice of password sfor your secret encryption keys.)
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epilogue 3/0 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _____________________________________________ *** BIENFAIT NUTLY NEWS SPECIAL *** ********************** *** KILL THE CHILDREN !!! *** ********************** ...Oh, yeah...now I remember! TalkTV! It's a bastard-child of two forms of media--radio and television--whose parents could never truly enter into a real marriage because of slight differences in their techno-ethnic backgrounds. Nonetheless, CITV-Edmonton has a TalkTV program which is a televised radio call-in talk show.apparently designed to circumvent the potential danger of another 'War of the Worlds' fiasco resulting from the tendency of gullible Sheeple to believe everything they hear, and thus ending with them racing en-mass off the edge of a cliff because the current demand for the teaching of equality in the educational system does not allow the students to be taught that there is a difference between sheep and lemmings. [The New World Mathematical Order Equality Equations: 0 + 1 = 1 ; 1 + 2 = 1 ; 4 * 7 = 1 ; (38 -12) * (6 + 4) = 1 "Why can't we just all get a one?" ~ Rodney King, after being beaten by L.A. police for driving faster than 1 mph] These facts alone have little or no bearing on the point I am about to make, but, taken together with a giant leap of logic, they lead to the unmistakable conclusion that I am receiving secret messages from the Gods of Communication through TV, radio, email, InterNet browsers and the things pinned to the bulletin board at the local laundromat. The messages say, "KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL..." This fact in itself is not particularly troubling, nor even noteworthy, for that matter, since, as a TechnoInfoWarrior, I am free to slip into the Righteous Armour of the TruthMonger Multi-User InterNet Persona and use my massive hidden stocks of excess commas, overused capital letters and misplaced quote marks to wreak havoc upon the English language in a frenzy of random slaughter that will eventually lead to a total draining of the life-blood of meaning coursing throughout the veins of the ascii-output thrown upon the Screen of Reality (TM) which is no longer Silver, but any color that the end-user chooses it to be, with a click of a mouse-button. {I am once again losing my train of thought, here, but please bear with me, as I suspect that I will find it devilishly hiding on a side-track of the next few paragraphs.} The Jesus Futures Market--run by TOTO Enterprises in Bienfait, Saskatchewan, and backed by BlackTar Junk Bonds-- reflects the evolution of religious-faith technology into the Digital Salvation Age where Jesus becomes a true Multi-User Savior who can redeem the sins of anyone who has a credit-card number that can be used to receive a valid password from the SoulCheck Validation System that allows them access to a wide variety of Redemption sites capable of meeting their individual needs according to the nature of the Adult Sex sites they have been visiting (although the.individual Redemption WebSites reserve the right to add surcharges for the redemption of sins involving graphic reproductions of sex acts with life-forms or inanimate objects which are not covered by the Original Crucifixion). As well, the proliferation of WebSites reflecting the validity of a wide range of religious beliefs (i.e. - GodHatesFags.com, 'God's Canadian Biblical Hate Page', not to mention the ever popular http://www.balaams-ass.com/journal/balaam.htm) has led end-users to the realization that they are no longer limited to the 'official' bullshit being fed to them by government, corporate, religilous and social leaders, but can actually make their own bullshit official by slapping it into HTML format, uploading it to the InterNet, and making it as valid a part of Virtual Reality as the MSNBC news URLs singing the praises of a kindlier, gentler IRS. In fact, if you can convince some other lunatics to 'Link' to your WebSite, in return for providing 'links' to the bullshit and garbage that they have made manifest from what started out as a bad case of gas from eating too many refried beans, then you have a shot at the BigTime (TM), perhaps becoming part of some Ring of Worms that will throw total strangers randomly into your own professed belief system, even if you just made it up when you were drunk and have no idea what it all means when you, yourself, read your own WebSite, yourself, even when you are drunk again (like now). So, as you can plainly see, it is equally easy to get back on track to what may have been the original point I was trying to make, by throwing a crossing-switch in your mind which links the validity of all religious beliefs, regardless of their truth, in Reality (TM) (as long as they are an HTML formatted part of the New World DisOrder arising from an unregulated InterNet), with the equal validity of believing each and every wave, bit or byte of analogue or digital information capable of knocking on the Doors of Perception, as a Message from MadDogInPossessionOfTheLastFalseSmile exhorting The Perceiver to "KILL...KILL...KILL!!!" everything that moves, and some that don't, on the theory that, since THE LIE is the 'Mother of the 10,000 Lies', whereas The Truth (TM) is hard to come by, rabidly biting them all so that they will die a slow and agonizing death (unless they get the whole series of rabies shots in time) and letting Dog sort them out will be mathematically verifiable as being in the overall best interests of WeTheSheeple, in the long run, over the long haul, on average, for the most part, despite the pathetic whining of individual survivors of The RAGE (TM) (i.e. - Fred Goldman), who selfishly petition for individual justice at the expense of the current hit-and-miss justice system which averages out (in the long run, over the long haul, for the most part) instead of just moving to Russia, if they don't like it. In short, the entrance bar on the Turnstile of the Gate Heaven has been lowered by WeTheNetizens, so that pretty much anyone can jump over it if they are short on officially recognized righteousness tokens, as long as their beliefs and actions have been validated by a single hit on their "HOW MANY DEAD BODIES DOES IT TAKE TO SPELL, 'I *TOLD* YOU I WAS CRAZY'" WebSite. Thus it follows, that MeatSpace Authorities who choose to engage InfoWarriors in battle on the physical plane are ultimately responsible for any mayhem and destruction that may result from the transmission of Digital InformationWaves (which are fairly harmless in their natural optic fiber cable environment), over the Analogue MeatSpace Medium of a human brain which has a level of electric resistance that makes it a bad conductor, leading to the buildup of the heat of inner rage that can only be released by the gentle breeze provided by the heat-reduction attachment on a rapid-fire assault rifle being fired in a suitable environment, such as a Denny's Restaurant, a Post Office, or within 500' of a school. ******** Text Only Commercial Break [I regret that the added expense of bribing my oldest nephew to lend me his laptop in order to route around the damage caused by Decent People With Family Values (TM) has forced me to rent space in the 'SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!' manuscripts to A-Word-A-Day, who have kindly provided me with a steady supply of excess commas, overused capital letters and misplaced quote marks gleaned from the rough drafts of their work by consciencious editors who are hoping that the Author will 'choke' on them.] ******** CAN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE * Robert Gettman Boone, 51, was arrested at his home in a Baltimore, Md., suburb in January and charged as the man who had been firing two-foot-long, homemade bombs from his front yard, across a busy thoroughfare, to a lot behind a car wash. According to police, Boone told them, "There's nothing to get excited about," that he was "just doing some experiments with high explosives." (Later, it took authorities almost eight hours to remove all the explosives that were in his home.) * In September, police at Los Angeles International Airport stopped Mark L. Kulp, 34, at a metal detector before his flight home to East Grand Forks, Minn. In his carry-on bags, Kulp had several guns, 100 rounds of ammunition, knives, handcuffs, a ski mask, and a fake sheriff's badge. The police confiscated the equipment and detained Kulp, and even learned that he was wanted on an arrest warrant in Minnesota for threatening a police officer. However, they decided they could not arrest him because the guns were not loaded, and when Minnesota authorities declined to send anyone to bring him back, Kulp was released. BOOKS BY CHUCK SHEPHERD: The Concrete Enema and Other News of the Weird Classics by Chuck Shepherd (Andrews and McMeel, 1996, $6.95) is still available in some larger bookstores. Or you can order by mail from Atomic Books, 1018 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21201 (add $2 postage for the first book, $3 for two to the same address, $4 for 3, and $5 for more than 3) (credit card orders 1-800-778-6246, http://www.atomicbooks.com) Or by credit card from Andrews and McMeel, 1-800-642-6480 (they bill $2 postage per book). Also by Chuck Shepherd and available at some larger bookstores (and at Atomic Books): News of the Weird (Plume Books, 1989, $9), More News of the Weird (Plume, 1990, $9), Beyond News of the Weird (Plume, 1991, $9), and America's Least Competent Criminals (HarperPerennial, 1993, $9). (The 1989, 1990, and 1991 books were co-authored with John J. Kohut and Roland Sweet.) Chuck Shepherd does not sell books, himself. ******** We Now Return You To Our Regularly Scheduled Chaos ******** Insertion of an advertisement for publications by Chuck Shepherd, perpetrator of the News Of The Weird, in a space bought and paid for by A-Word-A-Day's Anu(s), should be taken as proof of the veracity of my long-standing claims to be a drunken, senile old fart whose inability to control either his bladder, his mind or his mouth, makes him a natural-born TruthMonger (A Subsiduary Of Bubba Rom Dos Enterprises). Speaking of which... I need to take a leak and grab another beer, so this seems as good a place as any to end this portion of the Bienfait Nutly News "KILL THE CHILDREN!!!" Special. So..."Smoke 'em if you got 'em.", grab yourself a Brewski, and write you mom an email with no capital letters or punctuation marks (in order to help save the linguistic environment from the ravaging effects of the hole in the Bozo Layer of the Author's mind, leading to the creative juices of the muse dripping down to form a bizarre mixture with his procreative, gastric and intestinal juices, resulting in a conceptual cocktail containing chaotic corruptions of linguistic manipulations which have the capacity to suck the creative juices out of both the minds and the cocks of those currently under Grand Jury investigation by Special Persecutor, Dimitri Vulis KOTM, for CypherPunks Activities.

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Nickel-A-Minute Long Distance Service Here NOW!
by 57873.Tim 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NICKEL- A- MINUTE Long Distance Service is Here NOW. YES, IT IS REAL: 5¢ per minute Long Distance Service 7 days/week, 24 hours/day! with an 18 second minimum, and 6 second billing increments. - and incredibly Low International Rates too. But here's the best part: you can use this rate from any phone: your Cell Phone, Pay Phones, your neighbors phone, etc. For details simply mailto:tim@allways.net with "info" in the Subject Header //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// You're online. and likely make long distance toll calls, so here's a chance to reduce long distance costs. Tthis is a benefit to you, however, if you wish, simply put "remove" in the subject heading, and you will be placed on our Permanent Remove List and will never intentionally recive email from us again. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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OpenBSD possibly affected by Canadian Export Laws [Fwd]
by Sunder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: announce(a)openbsd.org Subject: Urgent appeal: Gov't action on encryption: Please respond today!! From: ian(a)darwinsys.com (Ian F. Darwin) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:47:11 -0400 Sender: announce-request(a)openbsd.org OpenBSD is a secure operating system. To thrive, we need to be able to continue making reliable and secure electronic communication technology available. It is possible that the Canadian government is about to take (well meaning but ill-informed?) policy decisions that would result in the curtailment of our rights to export OpenBSD as we know it. Apologies for the short notice but it appears that the Canadian government may be trying to put a fast one over by having a sham "public comment" period before going ahead with their own agenda. Possibly not. In any case, the DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS APRIL 21, so please act on this message today. [If you get this a day or two after the deadline, please send a short note anyway; better late than never!]. Thanks Ian Darwin ian(a)darwinsys.com ian(a)openbsd.org ----- Begin Included Message ----- April 17, 1998 >From Mark D. Hughes Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com The following was posted in: GLIC Alert (the Global Internet Liberty Campaign Newsletter) Volume 2, Issue 5 April 13, 1998 http://www.gilc.org [B4.4] Canada Sets the Stage for Encryption Action On March 31, 1998, leaders of Canada's cryptography industry and privacy advocates met in Ottawa to discuss and suggest an encryption plan for Canada. Wired News reported that "the consensus among the group was that Canada should continue its current stance of not implementing any domestic crypto controls, and liberalize its existing export policies." The article quotes David Jones, president of Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC is a GILC founding member): "We are firmly opposed to any policy or legislation that would prohibit the export of encryption of encryption products, either stored or transmitted." In February, the Canadian government invited public comment when it issued "A Cryptography Policy Framework for Electronic Commerce," where it depicts several different cryptography possibilities. According to Mark Hughes, executive director of the Victoria-based Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI): "its call for public comment is, in my view, a cruel joke because the paper was only just issued (February 21, 1998) and all public comment must be made by April 21, 1998. As few Canadians comprehend what encryption is and how it affects them, two months is simply not enough time for Canadians to sufficiently educate themselves in order to make informed comments on the future of their electronic privacy." Read Wired story: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/1 Canada's "Framework" proposal: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/cy00005e.html Electronic Frontier Canada: http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI): ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ******************************************************************************** ----- End Included Message -----

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paid for making war on Iran & The Improbable Inventor of Frequency-Hopping Radio
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 4/21/98 9:32 AM J Orlin Grabbe John Young John Gilmore ABQ J 4/21/98 A6 U.S. Aided Communist Foe Pol Pot Richard Reeves LOS ANGELES - ... Even after he fell from national power, we helped supply and protect Pol Pot because the Khmer Rouge was tying down large number of occupying North Vietnamese troops. These are some of the names of the evil who were or still are paid friends: o Saddam Hussein, paid for making war on Iran. o Gulbuddin Hekmatry, who made his name throwing acid in the faces of female students in Kabul who dared to wear western dress, paid for making was against communists in Afghanistan. o The Taliban, the religious warriors we helped train to fight communists who are beating or killing those same women right now in Afghanistan. o Manuel Noriega, the soldier-thug we encouraged to overthrow elections in Panama because we did not like the results. o Mobuto Sese Seko, one Joseph Mobutu, our man in Zaire. o Jonas Savimbi, in constant war in Angola The list goes on. It has for a long time and will, even if communism is dead as a national security threat of the United States. In may of these cases our interest involved resources - oil, usually, ... Details of exactly how the US helped Saddam are coming out. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Lets change to a more positive topic. Lively people. Scientific American, April 1998, 95, Spread Spectrum Radio ... The Improbable Inventor of Frequency-Hopping Radio She was gorgeous, glamorous and talented. And she had a mind for technology. In 1941 actress Hedy Lamarr, along with the avant-garde composer and musician George Anthiel filed for a patent to cover their Secret Communication System, a device designed to help the U.S. military jump from one frequency to another, thus making enemy interception and jamming difficult. Born Hedwig Maria Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, Lamarr may have gotten the idea of frequency hopping while she was married to Fritz Mandl, an armament manufacturer who sold munitions of Adolph Hitler. Through a marriage arranged by her parents, Lamarr was Mandls trophy wife, and she accompanied him to the many business dinners and meetings, where unbeknownst to the participants, she silently learned about Axis war technology. After four years with Mandl, Lamarr, a staunch anti-Nazi, fled to London, where MGMs Louis B. Mayer discovered her and convinced her to move to the U.S. In Hollywood she me Antheil, who helped her figure out a way to synchronize the frequency hopping between the radio transmitter and receiver. Their invention, which they gave to the U.S. government for free, called for two paper rolls, similar to those used in player pianos, punched with an identical pattern of random holes. One of the rolls would control the transmitter on the submarine which the other would be launched with the receiver on the torpedo. Though ingenious, the device was deemed too cumbersome for use in World War II. Still, the seminal idea of frequency hopping lingered. By the late 1950s U.S. Navy contractors were able to take advantage of early computer processors for controlling and synchronizing the hopping sequence. Since then, the U.S. military has deployed more sophisticated techniques with even faster processors in costly, classified devices, including satellite communications systems. And today. And today the technology has become widespread in cell phones and in personal communications (PCS), among other civilian applications. - D.R.H. HEDY LAMARR, the Hollywood actress, was the co-receipient of a patent (inset) for basic technology that is now widely used in cell phones and personal communications services(PCS). US News & World Report, April 20, 1998 page 16 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Saying shes been humiliated and embarrassed ... has suffered mental pain and anguish, the sultry 1940s screen star Hedy Lamarr, 84, has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages from the Corel Corp., a Canadian software maker. The case, now in U.S. District Court, claims Corel used her image with authorization. My impression is that NSA attempted de-emphasize the most important PRACTICAL technology for spread spectrum frequency-hopping an ciphering/authentication: shift register sequence [Galois fields, mod 2]. But this is not working largely because of Internet http://www.semionoff.com/cellular/hacking/phreaking/ NSA, a user of Forth, also tried to do hide threaded code technology. This isn't working for NSA either. Let's hope for settlement so that we can get on to more, if I can even imagine such, projects. Later bill

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Re: GSM Security Study
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> To assess this spin we offer extracts of a 1998 GSM System > Security Study: > > http://jya.com/gsm061088.htm (44K + 3 images) Looks like that is the 'two brown envelopes' doc from which Ross Anderson reconstructed the A5 algorithm as reprinted in Applied Cryptography. Racal Research writes that there were French, Swedish and British proposals. Ross indicated that the French one was chosen as A5, while Julian Assange says that two different "A5" algorithms are in use. What happened to the Swedish and the UK proposal? Do you also have Appendix A and Section 8 of the A5 analysis? They write that COMP128 was proposed 'by the German administration'. Does anyone know which role the BSI (then called ZfCh) played in the design of this algorithm?

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Fwd: 1998 EPIC Cryptography Conference - June 8 - Washington, DC
by Kathleen Ellis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > Top Government Officials, Industry Leaders, Cryptography Experts > and Public Interest Advocates to Discuss Encryption Policy > > > Washington, DC > Monday, June 8, 1998 > > http://www.epic.org/events/crypto98/ > >Top government officials -- including Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO), >William Reinsch (Undersecretary of Commerce for Export Administration) >and Robert Litt (Principal Associate Attorney General) -- will discuss >current U.S. encryption policy at the largest policy conference on >cryptography ever held in Washington, D.C. Other leading experts from >government, industry, public interest community and academia will also >debate important legal, political technical issues. If you are >interested in cryptography policy, this is the one meeting you must >attend! > >The 1998 EPIC Cryptography and Privacy Conference is organized by the >Electronic Privacy Information Center, in cooperation with the Harvard >University Information Infrastructure Project and the Technology >Policy Research Group of the London School of Economics. > > >- THE 1998 EPIC CRYPTOGRAPHY AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE - > >HIGHLIGHTS > > o Meet the technical experts, industry leaders, litigators, and > policy makers who are shaping the global debate over encryption > and privacy. > > o Get the latest news, reports, legislative information, and > technical results. > > o Receive the 1998 edition of the highly-acclaimed EPIC Cryptography > and Privacy Sourcebook. > > >THE PANELS > > o Top US government officials will debate top industry > representatives on current U.S. policy on domestic restrictions, > export controls, and pending legislation. > > o A panel of senior government officials from France, England, > Canada, Germany and the European Union will describe encryption > policies in their countries and future trends. > > o Leading cryptographers and technical experts will discuss the > dangers and benefits of key escrow and key recovery systems and other > important technical issues. > > o Attorneys representing the plaintiffs and the U.S. Government in > the pending legal challenges to the constitutionality of export > controls will discuss and debate the cases and their outcomes. > > >FEES: > >Register before May 15 for reduced fee. > > Standard > > o $300.00 (before May 15) / $400.00 (after May 15) > > Academic/Govt/501(c)(3) > > o $150.00 (before May 15) / $200.00 (after May 15) > > >MORE INFORMATION, FULL AGENDA AND ONLINE REGISTRATION: > > http://www.epic.org/events/crypto98/ > > Kathleen M. Ellis Admin. Asst., Electronic Privacy Information Center Voice Mail: (202)298-0833 http://www.epic.org PGP 5.0 Key ID 9bf725b4 65FF B997 62B8 C396 A527 2D6A 4901 F701 9BF7 25B4

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Re: UDP for cybernothing.org
by Animal Protection League 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:00 AM 4/21/98 -0700, J.D. Falk wrote: >Thanks for using NetForward! >http://www.netforward.com >v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v > >On 04/21/98, Eureka Eleven <eureka11(a)email.msn.com> wrote: > >> Please be advised that your domain has been >> issued a UDP for your censorous actions on Usenet. > > How interesting. Would you be willing to explain exactly when > (assuming it's within the past two years) these actions took > place, hopefully with copies of the offending messages? You must be dense to even ask. > Please also explain which type of UDP you have issued, and > who is participating, so that I'm not worried when those sites > don't get my messages. Your worries are nobody else's concern.

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I would like for me to subscribe.
by Jake Shannon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I did not have time to search for the list server address and I want to subscribe to the cypherpunk list. Thanks for your attention. Regards, Jake

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DoD Zips Echelon
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DoD News Briefing Tuesday, April 21, 1998 - 1:45 p.m. (EDT) Briefer: Captain Mike Doubleday, USN, DASD (PA) Q: Can you comment about a report recently to the European parliament concerning the development these last years of U.S. and British eavesdropping system called Echelon. A: I'm sorry to say I have absolutely nothing on that.

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GSM cellphones cloned - THREATS !!
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Forwarded message from Dave Emery <die(a)die.com> ----- > > Several radio enineers I talked with speculated that it /might/ even be > possible to modify a standard GSM phone to act as a rouge "key reaper" > base station. I am not a radio engineer and have no way to verify this > claim. The modifications would be fairly major and rather difficult on a surface mount high density low cost phone PC board. A lot of the stuff required is in ASICs in a typical phone, and they are not in general easily adapted to playing a different role even if the full design database and phone schematics are available to the hacker which it would not be. On the other hand, some of the components of a standard GSM phone could be used to fill a number of functions in such an animal, and a couple of partially stripped GSM phone PC cards would certainly be useful as part of such. I would see such a probe base station as a briefcase size object run by a laptop or powerful palmtop spliced into two or three hacked up phone PC cards with some added signal processing logic in a FPGA or two (and maybe an added RF modem chip as well). There would be a significant amount of software required, depending on how completely one would have to emulate a base stations and mobile switch. Of course some older phone designs might be less ASIC intensive and more adaptable, although the 1.9 ghz PCS US versions are mostly pretty recent. And there may be some universal multi-standard brand that is much more software configured than others and might be an easier jumping off place - I certainly have not investigated this at all (nor do I expect to). On another topic - privacy... Your break suggests that A3/A8 may have been deliberately weakened to allow such SIM probing. Intelligence agencies are not in general interested in cloning, but for those without access to whatever magic hardware (or software) exists for cracking A5/1 at low cost in real time, the ability to once recover the SIM secret allows easy listening to all subsequent calls from that phone (or SIM) with no required cracking hardware time or access. And this is very valuable in lots of situations, such as covert operations out of hotels in foreign places where having highly classified A5 cracking boxes in tow would be a significant security risk. And for countries with GSM phone systems interested in spying on visiting diplomats, heads of state, or trade delegations who are using their GSM phones in a roaming mode and depending on the fact the GSM home switching office does not disclose their long term secret, such probing can be quietly concealed in the real traffic of a legitimate base station. The secrets recovered can then be used to crack traffic back in the visitor's home country where he may be trusting his local system to be secure. And the ability to probe the phones of visiting dignitaries from nearby hotel rooms and recover their secrets must be awfully useful to many even third rate intelligence operations - this allows listening to all their subsequent traffic without requiring an A5/1 cracking capability at all - let alone one that works real time from low cost portable units. And even if there is some sanity test in GSM phone firmware that would catch or prevent enough probes to crack the SIM secret, your physical access method allows black bag jobs to recover the SIM secret of phones left poorly guarded for a few hours. This alone is very obviously of great use to intelligence types (at least unless there is some hardware backdoor in the SIM to allow the readout in seconds rather than hours). -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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Re: Position escrow
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 4/21/98 7:33 PM, Mark Armbrust (marka(a)ff.com) passed this wisdom: >At 03:08 PM 4/21/98 -0700, you wrote: >>This is a really difficult issue. Even the most diehard cypherpunk >>cannot doubt the usefulness of a cellular position reporting >>capability in an emergency situation, when the user *wants* the cops >>or whoever to know where he is. The big problem is how to keep it >>from being used (or abused) for "law enforcement" purposes without the >>consent of the user. > >Don't archive the information -- supply it as part of the CNID. If the >user has disabled caller-ID don't supply the location info either. > >This depends on the integrity of the service provider and whether they have >the balls to stand up against CALEA. It seems to me that security dependent upon someone else's ethics/guts or lack of them is no security at all. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose."

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GAO's Latest on Domestic Terrorism
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The General Accounting Office published today its April 9 report to Congress, "Combating Terrorism: Threat and Risk Assessments Can Help Prioritize and Target Program Investments." It reviews the status of the domestic preparedness program, and recommends that for continued funding cities be required to perform threat and risk assessments. There's interesting discussion about the Feds sharing sensitive intelligence with locals. And, FEMA questions if it will be legal to require cities to perform the assessments. The report is available from GAO in PDF format: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns98074.pdf (363K) We offer an HTML conversion: http://jya.com/nsiad-98-74.htm (78K + 4 images)

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Re: Position escrow
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The idea of a 'cellular remailer' will run afoul of the fact that the FCC has control of the spectrum allocations. Unlike an Internet remailer where the FCC has little say, it is not likely that they would permit a commercial enterprise that would be able to be setup and run in that manner. I don't even mention 'non-commercial' as that spectrum is so valuable there is no way it would ever be turned over to 'amateur/citizen' use ... it will either be setup according to the FCC/FBI dictates or it won't exist. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNT1W8D7r4fUXwraZAQE6oAf/RYtHSSlQSUqWTKgWgmMLj9avCxWFE02L ckqs15RVjeMYAWT93aiQnvepMT5i48KRbE9PYJi89CoAFaiiboeQOW4KA+QF9YVN +MoRDn+rsKjRsSwciKxwWN8ym9i6i/rLZW9CJ+6qHxPHkn3TLQlqUWCOw7M8gOMM ut18hKl0uzufITSEtB1s9shUZxog67dXKkzSEqLY4WjNuNyJIAgFk4Ad/IU0OaaY 6nhgwygJ1UKWqhHXqompXi4JnZEUJZZSM4m6tqNOsu/qYuarHNusqVP46V4BHPIR D0jqcJTMOPnaZA1V7T9OBtCDyNOf/25fTfIdEAa9skV1wvqM+AoOrw== =x/eA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin, ~1784

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here
by Jetta mf12 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Epilogue 4/0 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epilogue 4/0 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _____________________________________________ *** BIENFAIT NUTLY NEWS SPECIAL *** ********************* ***KILL THE CHILDREN !!!*** ********************* Thank you...I'm feeling much better (The rEvolution Is) NOW! As if confiscating the MeatSpace tools and CyberSpace home that the Author uses to channel the violent demons warring to burst out of the thin walls of moral character imprisoning them inside his brain wasn't enough... THEY (TM) have been conspiring to inundate the Author with a multitude of secret message transfers via the available cable channels in the small community in which he resides. The blatantly subliminal messages being ceaselessly spammed into the Author's MeatSpace environment, via the TV cable originating at an underground Reptilain Nazi resort and spa deep beneath LizardMoor Labs and Gold Retrievers. A typical day in the cleverly disguised nuclear/biological laboratory in the small, quiet prairie town of Bienfait, Saskatchewan, begins with a variety of subliminal messages pointing out to the Author that his lifelong dream of being invited as a guest on the David Letterman TV show, in order to confront him with the fact that the Author is carrying Dave's baby (despite the lies being spread that it is really just a 'beer belly'), can never be realized unless he makes a concerted attempt to cash in on the new, improved version of 'National Security,' commonly known as 'Save The Children.' [Editor's Note: Current polls indicate that unconstitutional laws and criminal actions by those in authority are currently very difficult to justify under the wrapped-flag of 'National Security', since an increasing number of Americans are probing for weaknesses in that security in order to judge the viability of attacking it in a grass-roots rEvolution. However, the 'Save The Children' scam seems to currently still be an effective ruse for perpetrating all manner of self-serving actions/injustices, due to the success of the government's efforts to hide the fact that the 'innocent' children are murdering their parents, classmates and total strangers at an increasing rate, by trying them as 'adults'.] TV Reality: Good Morning America: Interview with the authors of 'The War Against Parents." Beats the drum of working parents being forced by government regulation, corporate policy and economic reality into being overworked, underpaid Bad Providers who get no financial support/breaks in the razing of their children in today's society. Successful Singles and Childless Couples point out that they are all in favor of 'saving' the children, as long as they are not expected to pony-up their hard-earned cash to support the progeny of those who want to multiply like rabbits at their expense. Maury Povitch: Child Food Abuse! Felony Fat! Parents Tried As Adults! The Big Bones of government officials gets shoved up the rectums of Big Boned citizens who are imprisoned and have their children taken away for child abuse as a result of having 'overweight' children. The Defenders of Children Who Eat Too Much fail to point out that society and government don't seem particularly concerned that these same children, if they have no health coverage, or are 'protected' by an HMO plan which needs to cut corners in order to give their chief officers hefty pay increases, will be allowed to die untreated in a hospital waiting room, at which point their parents will be guilty of 'felony' child abuse. CBC Midday News: Bad Medicine Reactions A Leading Cause of Death. Makes it obvious that even if the Felony Fat Kids prove to be financially worthy of receiving medical treatment to counter the effects of their parent's Child Food Abuse crimes, they still have a good chance of dying from a bad reaction to the medicine being forced upon them by government officials, and die, once again making their parents guilty of 'felony' child abuse. The Fifth Estate: Save The Geese! A seemingly heartwarming story of CityGeese being saved from the slaughterhouse by those who train them to fly south for the winter alongside of ultralight planes (complete with heartwarming scenes and music from the official Made For TV Movie). THEY (TM) could not resist, however, slipping in a statement which might seem innocuous on the surface, but is filled with deep, dark meaning for he who realizes that, since he is now a toothless old fart who can no longer receive messages from Mars through the fillings in his teeth, that the Space Aliens who Hide His Drugs are sending him their secret messages by communicating with him through the new Electronic Reality (TM) based on TV-DNA and InterNet-RNA. "The problem is not an overpopulation of *geese*, but an overpopulation of *people*" Excerpt from "Save The Tiger" (c) 1978 C.J. Parker: "As Jack Lemmon kicked in a contribution to help save a dying breed similar to himself, I realized that the Tiger did OK for tens of thousands of years, until man got in the way, so that the true solution to saving the Tiger was to kill all of mankind. "So I wrote a group-participation song dedicated to spreading hate and dissension amoung those listening to it, and the crowd participates, not just by singing, but also by killing each other at the end of the song." "The people on your right are homosexual, The guys have long nails and think they're intellectual, The women, they are dikes, and their friends all call them Spike, And they hang around our schoolyards late at night... "They've won the right to teach school to our children, And they'll turn them into faggots by the million, Till the day will finally come, when you have to guard your bum, With a K-Tel mail-order Asshole Protector, Or your front, with a K-Tel Double-Dong Rejector. "Sing, Oh-Oh-Oh, you Dirty Mother, I've hated you from the first day that we met, And you know I won't get high, until I see you die, A slow and painful, unnatural death. "And we can still Save The Tiger, my friend, it's not too late, If we all get together, and show a little hate." It is blatantly obvious that the CyberLamers incapable of buying the slightest clue as to the true nature of the forces set in motion at 9:02 a.m., 19 April, 1998, are reduced to intercepting the Messages From Mars directed toward the Author's Digital Implant, and replacing them with subliminal messages certain to lead her to the conclusion that, if Freedom, Liberty and Privacy are becoming an endangered species, due to their being attacked by the selfish needs of Innocent Children (TM), then the answer to 'preserving' Freedom, Liberty and Privacy is to KILL all of the Innocent Children. Thanks to the efforts of A DANGEROUSLY CRAZED VIOLENT PSYCHO KILLER TO BE NAMED LATER, an Army of Dog, Cult of One veteran who risked bodily harm in a night spent physically destroying most of his personal property, even putting his head through the gyproc and pressed-glue panelling of his home, the blood dripping from his chin onto his keyboard, combined with the output of a million spilled Scotch and coke drinks, wrote: "The only way to preserve Freedom, Liberty and Privacy in the world is to KILL THE CHILDREN!!! who are responsible for the attacks on the Constitution which are designed to 'protect' the Innocent Children. "Since it is imperative to KILL them all, and let Dog sort them out, in order to uphold the concept that it is better for ten guilty children to die, than for one innnocent child to wrongly be allowed to live, the only way to truly 'save' a child is, therefore, to destroy that child's innocence. "Those who are hesitant to do everything possible to crush the human spirit of innocent children until they strike out savagely by committing crimes so horrifying that society will allow them to be tried as 'adults', or those who hesitate to make every effort to put an end to childhood innocence by forcing the children to face Reality (TM), instead of The Fairy Tale That Passes For History--Past, Present and Future (TM), should remind themselves that, If It Saves The Life Of A Single Child..." The Army of Dog, MeatSpace Division, experiment performed recently in Jonesboro by two young Army of Dog Warriors, has proven successful in moving the two out of the line of fire in the battle being waged over the lives and souls of Innocent Children, and has placed them under the protective mantle which ensures that those convicted of murder as adults will live a long and healthy life during the appeals process. One wonderful aspect of the KILL THE CHILDREN!!! approach to preserving Freedom, Liberty and Privacy is that it has the potential to unite the government and the citizens together in a common cause to remove the pressing need to Destroy the Constitution in order to Save the Children. The children who died in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City certainly have no further need of 'protection' by taking away the Constitutional rights of their parents. The children who died in the slaughter of non-mainstream religion worshippers at Waco certainly have no need of further 'protection' by taking away the weapons the Constitution allows citizens to possess in order to defend themselves against religious persecution and government oppression. Those who have an interest in the preservation of Freedom, Liberty and Privacy should make every effort to support the efforts of the New World Order to gain access to all communications on the face of the earth, as well as placing video surveillance systems in all public and private areas, so that both Innocent Children and UnIndicted Adults can be proven beyond doubt to be Felons Under An Increasing Number Of Laws, thus negating the need for their Constitutional Rights to be taken away in order to 'protect' them from the Bad People (TM). "When Innocence is Outlawed, Nobody will be Innocent." ~ A Platitude To Be Named Later Since it may prove impossible for Defenders of the Constitution to encourage massive numbers of children to committ Adult Crimes, without overwhelming the legal system, every effort should be made to destroy the childhood innocence of as many children as possible by helping them to break through the deadly facade of Offically Recognized Mainstream Reality, and realize that their inherent birthright of Constitutional Rights makes them terrorist criminals at war with their government. Children, unlike Adults, are still capable of recognizing that the screams of the babies, as their voluntary-mandatory SSN is slapped on their butts at birth, are a newborn's way of announcing to the whole world that... THE REVOLUTION IS *NOW*!

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Information From The Microsoft Personal Information Center
by mscompia＠microsoft.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is your password you requested from the Microsoft Personal Information Center at http://register.microsoft.com/regwiz/personalinfo.asp. Password: writecode If you continue to have access problems or want to report other issues, please contact us through the Write Us button at the top of any Microsoft page.

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express mail
by Success＠mauimail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Position escrow (triangulation, cell "remailers")
by Austin Hill 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Navy's Onion Routing project (www.onion-router.net) actual makes reference to anonymous cell phone networks by using encrypted proxies (Onions). The current implementation is IP based, but the briefing documents refer to any public networks including pager and cell networks. -Austin Quoted text from Phil Karn (karn(a)qualcomm.com ) on 4/22/98 12:33 PM >>On cell "remailers": Why resend the cell signal? Why not instead set up a >>generic phone call resender, which could be used by cell users and >>non-users alike? As long as you use the call resender for all of your >>important calls, the feds (and others) will find it very difficult to >>figure out what cell phone ID to triangulate or home phone number to tap > >Exactly. And I think this brings the remailing concept full >circle. Wasn't the basic idea invented for telephones way back in >(alcohol) Prohibition days? As I recall, a device called a "cheesebox" >connected two phone lines. When a call came in on one line, it went >back out on the other. You'd place a cheesebox in some third party's >back room, e.g., a restaurant owner who was paid for the privilege and >to keep his mouth shut. If the cops traced a call, it would lead them >to the restaurant owner, who would tip off the bootleggers. > >Does anyone have any historical references for these things? I think it >would be fun to see how an earlier age made use of anonymous remailers >based on a much simpler technology. > >Phil > > _________________________________________________________________________ Austin Hill Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. Chief Technical Officer Montreal, Quebec Phone: 514.286.2636 Fax: 514.286.2755 _________________________________________________________________________ "Anonymity represents for many people a liberating even more than a threatening phenomenon." -Harvey Cox, The Secular City

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Network Security Solutions Conference Announcement
by Bruce Schneier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Network Security Solutions Conference Announcement July 29th and 30th, Las Vegas Nevada ****************** Call For Papers Announcement *************************** Network Security Solutions is now accepting papers for its 1998 event. Papers and requests to speak will be received and reviewed from March 24th until June 1st. Please submit an outline on a self selected topic covering either the problems or solutions surrounding network security. Topics of interest include Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), distributed languages, network design, authentication systems, perimeter protection, and more. Talks will be an hour with a half hour for Q&A. There will be LCD projectors, overhead, and slide projectors. Updated announcements will be posted to newsgroups, security mailing lists, email, or visit the website at http://www.blackhat.com/ Current speakers include: Marcus Ranum, Network Flight Recorder CEO. Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Systems CEO. Ira Winkler, president of the Information Security Advisory Group. Theo DeRaadt, OpenBSD Lead Developer. Tom Ptacek, Secure Networks Inc. Scott Waddell, Cisco-Wheelgroup corporation. Dominique Brezinski, Network Security Professional at Secure Computing Corp. Peter Shipley, Independent Security consultant. Richard Thieme, Thiemeworks, Inc. Winn Schwartau, Interpact Inc. Dr. Mudge, L0pht Heavy Industries administrator. Ray Kaplan, Meet the Enemy panel discussion, Q&A. Jennifer Granick, Attorney at law. **************************************************************************** It's late. You're in the office alone, catching up on database administration. Behind you, your network servers hum along quietly, reliably. Life is good. No one can get to your data or disrupt your WAN. The network is secure. Or is it? The Network Security Solutions conference has been organized to put an end to concerns like these. While many conferences focus on information and network security, only Network Security Solutions will put your engineers and software programmers face-to-face with today's cutting edge computer security experts and "underground" security specialists. Only the Network Security Solutions conference will provide your people with the tools and understanding they need to thwart those lurking in the shadows of your firewall. The reality is, they are out there. The choice is yours. You can live in fear of them. Or, you can learn from them. **************************************************************************** Conference Overview The Network Security Solutions Summer '98 conference (Formerly known as The Black Hat Briefings) was created to fill the need of computer professionals to better understand the security risks to their computer and information infrastructures by potential threats. To do this we assemble a group of vendor-neutral security professionals in the same room and let them talk candidly about the problems businesses face, and the solutions they see to those problems. No gimmicks, just straight talk by people who make it their business to explore the ever changing security space. Spanning two days with two separate tracks, Network Security Solutions will focus on the vital security issues facing organizations with large Enterprise networks and mixed network operating systems. Topics will include Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), denial of service attacks and responses, secure programming techniques and tool selection for creating and effectively monitoring secure networks. NSS's intense sessions will bring to light the security and misconfiguration problems confronting organizations and network administrators, most of which go unnoticed by today's preoccupied system admins where security gets put off in lieu of constant network growth and upgrades. Our experts will discuss the strategies involved in correcting existing problems and any problems on the horizon. Current Intrusion Detection Systems and strategies will be covered so that attendees may learn how to stop these problems before they occur. CIO's are welcome, but they should bring the people implementing their network strategies and building their applications, because this conference is for them. **************************************************************************** Speakers There will be 18-20 speakers covering two tracks speaking over two days. Speeches will be more technically oriented and last 1 1/2 hours each. The goal of the talks are to inform the audience with quality current state system vulnerabilities and fixes. Because of our unique speakers NSS will offer the audience a deep insight into the real security issues facing your network with no vendor pitches. Wednesday, July 29th 08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast 09:00 - 09:45 Keynote Address: Marcus Ranum - How to REALLY secure the Internet. 10:00 - 11:30 Track A Richard Thieme - Convergence -- Every Man (and Woman) a Spy. Track B Dominique Brezinski - Penetrating NT Networks Through Information Leaks and Policy Weaknesses. 11:40 - 13:10 Track A Ira Winkler - Information Security: Beyond the Hype. Track B Theo DeRaadt - A discussion of secure coding issues, problems with maintaining OS source trees, and secure program design philosophies. 13:20 - 14:20 Lunch 14:25 - 15:20 Ray Kaplan: Meet the Enemy Session. 15:30 - 17:00 Track A [Empty] Track B Scott Waddell - Thursday, July 10th 09:00 - 09:45 Keynote Address: Bruce Schneier - Mistakes and Blunders: A Hacker Looks at Cryptography. 10:00 - 11:30 Track A [Empty] Track B Dr. Mudge - Real world VPN implementation problems. 11:40 - 13:10 Track A Jennifer Granick - Track B Peter Shipley - An overview of a 2 year effort in massive multi-modem wardialing. 13:20 - 14:20 Lunch 14:25 - 15:20 Panel 1 The benefits and problems of commercial security software. This panel of 5 people and moderator will explore what products work, and what doesn't in specific applications. Q&A. Panel 2 The Merits of Intrusion Testing - What is the benefit of having people break into your network. A panel 5 people. 15:30 - 17:00 Track A Winn Schwartau - Track B Tom Ptacek - Problems with Intrusion Detection Systems. **************************************************************************** Speaker Topics and Biographies - - MARCUS RANUM, President and CEO of Network Flight Recorder, Inc. How to REALLY secure the Internet. Is it possible to really secure the Internet? With current technology and methods, the answer would appear to be a resounding "no." We've tried security through stepwise refinement and security through consensus - the best remaining solutions are totalitarian and draconian. Marcus will present an outline for how the Internet could be secured through some simple, cost effective methods. He'll also explain why it won't happen. Marcus Ranum is CEO of Network Flight Recorder, Inc., and has been specializing in Internet security since he built the first commercial firewall product in 1989. He has acted as chief architect and implementor of several other notable security systems including the TIS firewall toolkit, TIS Gauntlet firewall, whitehouse.gov, and the Network Flight Recorder. Marcus frequently lectures on Internet security issues, and is co-author of the "Web Site Security Sourcebook" with Avi Rubin and Dan Geer, published by John Wiley and Sons. - - BRUCE SCHNEIER, President of Counterpane Systems and author of Applied Cryptography. Mistakes and Blunders: A Hacker Looks at Cryptography. - From encryption to digital signatures to electronic commerce to secure voting--cryptography has become the enabling technology that allows us to take existing business and social constructs and move them to computer networks. But a lot of cryptography is bad, and the problem with bad cryptography is that it looks just like good cryptography; most people cannot tell the difference. Security is a chain: only as strong as the weakest link. In this talk I'll examine some of the common mistakes companies make implementing cryptography, and give tips on how to avoid them. Bruce Schneier is President of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a frequent writer and lecturer on cryptography. - - THEO DERAADT, Lead developer of OpenBSD. A discussion of secure coding issues, problems with maintaining OS source trees, and secure program design philosophies. Regular systems software has many security problems. A number of approaches at auditing and repairing these problems have been developed as a result of the OpenBSD project. Theo de Raadt heads the OpenBSD project. This 4.4BSD derived operating system project has increasingly placed its focus on discovery and repair of security issues. Due to a 2 year auditing process by a 10-member team, OpenBSD is probably the most secure operating system in common use today. For more information, see http://www.OpenBSD.org/security.html - - IRA WINKLER, President of the Information Security Advisory Group. Information Security: Beyond the Hype If you read the headlines today, you would think that no matter what people are doing to secure themselves, they will never be secure. The reason this idea comes across is that the media focuses on the threats and stories about unstoppable geniuses that can compromise even the Pentagon. The truth is that you can protect yourself from even the most diabolical genius. This presentation discusses Information Security from a Risk based perspective. The threats to your systems are discussed, but more important the vulnerabilities that actually allow the threats to compromise your systems are discussed. Using that information, you can then choose the countermeasures you need to protect yourself and your organization. This presentation will show you that while there is no such thing as perfect security, you can protect yourself from almost all of the most serious threats. Probably what is most valuable to attendees is guidance on how to spend limited funding in the most efficient manner. Ira Winkler, CISSP is considered one of the worlds leading experts on Information Security, Information Warfare, investigating information related crimes, and Industrial Espionage. He is author of the book, Corporate Espionage, and President of the Information Security Advisors Group. His clients include some of the largest companies and banks in the world. He is also a columnist for ZDTV with his column titled SpyFiles. He also functions as the network's security expert. Previously, Mr. Winkler was with the National Security Agency and was the Director of Technology with the National Computer Security Association. He has also performed studies on Information Warfare for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. - - DOMINIQUE BREZINSKI, Network Security Professional at Secure Computing Corporation. Penetrating NT Networks Through Information Leaks and Policy Weaknesses. The focus of this presentation will be a demonstration of how Windows NT hosts can be queried for information and how the information can be correlated to provide an attacker with a path of least resistance. Even though many Windows NT networks have few remotely exploitable technical vulnerabilities (buffer over-runs, flawed CGI scripts, address based authentication etc.), most NT networks give away too much information. By analyzing the information it is easy to find policy weaknesses that can be exploited to gain access to the NT hosts. Custom tools will be demonstrated on a small network. Dominique Brezinski is a Network Security Professional at Secure Computing Corporation and has been concentrating on Windows NT and TCP/IP network security issues for four years. Prior to working for Secure Computing, Mr. Brezinski worked as a Research Engineer at Internet Security Systems where he was responsible for finding new vulnerabilities and security assessment techniques for Windows NT. In 1996 Mr. Brezinski published a white paper entitled "A Weakness in CIFS Authentication" which revealed a serious flaw in the authentication protocol used in Windows NT (NT LM Security). It was shown for the first time that an attacker could completely subvert the network authentication in Windows NT to gain unauthorized access to Windows NT servers. Mr. Brezinski has continued to demonstrate advanced techniques for assessing the risks present in Windows NT networks. - - RICHARD THIEME, Thiemeworks, Inc. Convergence -- Every Man (and Woman) a Spy. Arbitrary digital interfaces - television, PCs, PDAs - are converging, but that's only part of the story. The roles people play in work and life are converging too. Intelligence agents, knowledge managers for global corporations, competitive business intelligence agents, sysadmins, hackers, journalists, and CIOs are becoming indistinguishable. Why does that matter? Because the ability to synthesize and integrate information, manage complexity and ambiguity, morph continually into roles appropriate to a shifting work context, and somehow remember who you are - that's what matters most. Our presentations of ourselves are the powerful levers that move mountains in the digital world. Richard Thieme discusses why and how to do it. Richard Thieme is a business consultant, writer, and professional speaker focused on the human dimension of technology and the workplace. His creative use of the Internet to reach global markets has earned accolades around the world. "Thieme knows whereof he speaks," wrote the Honolulu Advertiser. He is "a prominent American techno-philosopher" according to LAN Magazine (Australia), "a keen observer of hacker attitudes and behaviors" according to Le Monde (Paris), "one of the most creative minds of the digital generation" according to the editors of Digital Delirium, and "an online pundit of hacker culture" according to the L A Times. Thieme's articles are published around the world and translated into German, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. His weekly column, "Islands in the Clickstream," is published by the Business Times of Singapore, Convergence (Toronto), and South Africa Computer Magazine as well as distributed to subscribers in 52 countries. Recent clients include: Arthur Andersen; Strong Capital Management; System Planning Corporation; UOP; Wisconsin Power and Light; Firstar Bank; Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.; W. H. Brady Company; Allstate Insurance; Intelligent Marketing; and the FBI. - - RAY KAPLAN. Generally, "hackers" are regarded as criminals by the "legitimate community." Who are these "hackers" that seem to keep whacking on our systems and networks? Are they merely scumbag reprobates that should be purged from the society? Is there anything to learn from them? This session is intended to introduce the two sides of the security equation to one another in a forum which fosters open, detailed, honest communication. Bring your questions. Who are the enemies of computer and network security? What techniques do they employ against us? Are those that attack our systems all just a bunch of slime balls that are devoid of morals, ethics, and common sense? While in the minority of reported computer crime statistics, the skilled outsider still represents a significant threat. This session explores who they are, their attitudes, their techniques, their successes and their failures from the perspective of what we have to learn from them to better protect your systems and networks. This classic session allows you to interact directly with members of the computer underground. Join us for some stimulating conversation with those who computer security professionals consider to be their enemies. Mr. Kaplan has been actively involved with system and network security as a consultant for over half of his more than 20 years in the industry. There is no question that he hacks. However, he is not a criminal. His clients have included the world's largest financial institution, smallest commodities broker and a wide variety of organizations, including multinational and Fortune 100 companies from all segments of the economy, and public institutions all over the world. Mr. Kaplan is a very prolific lecturer, instructor and writer. He consults, lectures and teaches technical system and network-related topics all over the world. His articles are frequently published in major computer journals and magazines. In over ten years of public speaking and audio/video conference production, he has given over 2,000 technical, tutorial-style presentations and lectures in forums such as professional societies, seminars and his consulting. As a frustrated inventor, he is forever trying to rid the world of inefficiency, frustration and waste by pursuing new paradigms in the delivery of training, education and technical information. - - PETER SHIPLEY - An overview of a 2 year effort in massive multi-modem wardialing. Security problems occur when obvious security problems are overlooked. One commonly overlooked problem is alternative access methods to a corporate Intranet from an external machine. Many if not most companies are overlooking their secondary vulnerabilities surrounding alternate methods of network access. Mr. Shipley will present research covering an overview of a 2 year effort in massive multi-modem wardialing. His findings will include some personal observations and the results obtained from scanning the San Francisco Bay area. When Mr. Shipley started this project he noted that there were no published research references to wardialing or documented statistical results of the types of equipment and computer networks commonly found on the POTS (Plain old telephone system) network. Mr. Shipley decided to change that through his research. Mr. Shipley Is an independent consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area with nearly thirteen years experience in the Computer Security field. Mr. Shipley is one of the few individuals who is well known and respected in the professional world as well as the underground and hacker community. He has extensive experience in system and network security as well as programming and project design. Past and current clients include TRW, DHL, Claris, USPS, Wells Fargo, and KPMG. In the past Mr. Shipley has designed Intranet banking applications for Wells Fargo, Firewall design and testing for and, WWW server configuration and design for DHL. Mr. Shipley's specialties are third party penetration testing and firewall review, computer risk assessment, and security training. Mr. Shipley also performs post intrusion analysis as well as expert witness testimony. Mr. Shipley is currently concentrating his efforts on completing several research projects. - - Thomas Ptacek, Network Security Professional at Secure Networks, Inc. Defeating Network Intrusion Detection. Network intrusion detection (ID), a technology that attempts to identify attackers by monitoring network traffic, is fast becoming one of the hottest products in the security market. Beneath the hype, however, lie some serious concerns about the reliability of currently available ID systems, as well as the fundamental techniques they use to collect information. This talk will explain why the most popular ID systems on the market can't be trusted, demonstrate how to avoid detection by them, and, in the process, eliminate some very widespread misunderstandings about the capabilities of sniffers and intrusion detection systems. Thomas Ptacek is a developer at Secure Networks, Inc. His work focuses on vulnerability assessment, which involves researching and testing network systems for exploitable design and implementation flaws. In the course of this work, his team has discovered some of the Internet's most serious security problems, including vulnerabilities in Windows NT, Checkpoint Firewall-1, and Solaris, as well as core Internet software such as the BIND, INN, and Apache. - - DR. MUDGE, Administrator of the Boston L0pht Heavy Industries. Real world VPN implementation security issues. As one of the prominent members of the hacker group 'The L0pht', mudge has been responsible for numerous advisories and tools in use in both the black hat and white hat communities. L0phtcrack, the Windows NT password decryptor - monkey, the S/Key password cracker, Solaris getopt() root vulnerability, sendmail 8.7.5 root vulnerability, Kerberos 4 cracker, and SecurID vulnerabilities are some of the recent offerings that mudge has contributed to the security community. Mudge recently finished cryptanalysis work with some of the top US cryptographers - papers will be published within the next several months. The BBC, Wired Magazine, Byte Magazine, and the Washington Post have all recently covered mudge and the L0pht's ongoing projects. - - SCOTT WADDELL, Cisco-Wheelgroup corporation. **************************************************************************** Fees and Registration Registration fees before July 10th are $995, after the 10th are $1195 US. To register please use the online registration page at https://convmgmt.com/security/reg.htm Current payment methods include American Express, Master Card, Visa, and company checks and money orders. You will receive a confirmation letter in the mail informing you of a successful registration. **************************************************************************** Hotel Information Network Security Solutions '98 will take place July 29th and 30th at the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. To take advantage of conference rates, reservations must be made prior to June 9. When making arrangements, please reference Network Security Solutions. The Plaza Hotel and Casino, Number One Main Street Las Vegas, NV Phone: 1-800-634-6575 **************************************************************************** Network Security Solutions Summer '98 Sponsors Aventail Corporation http://www.aventail.com/ Aventail (tm) Corporation is the pioneer of policy-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) software solutions. Its award winning product, Aventail VPN (tm) , enables corporations to privately communicate, share applications, and securely exchange business-critical information over the Internet with their business partners, customers, suppliers, and remote/mobile employees. Aventails adherence to open security standards simplifies VPN deployment, enables interoperability, and leverages corporations existing network investments. Network Flight Recorder http://www.nfr.com/ Network Flight Recorder builds traffic analysis and monitoring tools that help you see how your network is being used. Nobody's network is shrinking or getting less complicated - and networking is becoming the lifeblood of many modern businesses. In other words, your job is getting harder and more important. Network Flight Recorder's monitoring package gives you a flexible, user-programmable system that lets you: Recover or monitor online transaction records, keep historical statistics about how your network grows, generate detailed breakdowns of how your network services are being used and by whom, watch for patterns of abuse of network resources and identify the culprit in real-time, set burglar alarms that alert you to security violations or unexpected changes in your network, log and monitor who went where on your network, and replay attackers' sessions and learn what they did. Knowledge is power, and knowing what's going on within your network is the key to keeping it operating smoothly. Like our namesake, the aircraft flight recorder, our system records the information you want about what happened when, where, and how. If you need to go back and look at a reliable record of events, your Network Flight Recorder is the first place to check. We are dedicated to providing the best possible tools for understanding your network traffic, so you can maintain it and secure it. Counterpane Systems http://www.counterpane.com/ Counterpane Systems is a cryptography and computer security consulting firm. We are a virtual company based in Minneapolis, with three full-time employees and six part-time contractors. Counterpane provides expert consulting on Design and Analysis. This is the majority of Counterpane's work: making and breaking commercial cryptographic systems and system designs. We can analyze all aspects of a security system, from the threat model to the cryptographic algorithms, and from the protocols to the implementation and procedures. Our detailed reports provide clients with information on security problems as well as suggested fixes. ********************************************************************** Bruce Schneier, President, Counterpane Systems Phone: 612-823-1098 101 E Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis,MN 55419 Fax: 612-823-1590 http://www.counterpane.com

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Assume The Position, Escrhole!
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lt.Carnal Karns, Antsin Mia Frantz, et al, are undoubtedly first class TechnoWarriors and/or OhmResistance Fighters in the InfoWar being fought on the new Electronic BattleGround. However, I can't help but wonder if even the most brilliant of technical solutions to potential BigBro tools such as 'position escrow' are of any use, in the long run, if the majority of society continues to unquestionably accept any form of unconstitutional intrusion into their lives, as long as it comes in 'a pretty red box', or is promoted by Michael Jordan as a 'must have' March To Battan model. I find it interesting that TechnoWarrior accomplishments such as the GSM exloit seem to have more effect on the psyches of those concerned with the 'constitutional rights' of corporations and governments, rather than being of great concern to the average individual. I find it disconcerting that governments and corporations recognize the dangers to their own position and power by an all-seeing BigBro, while the Sheeple rush to take advantage of the latest in Digital Implants, in order to take advantage of the 'convenience' and 'safety' that results from having themselves, their children and their goldfish tracked and monitored by governments and corporations from the moment of their birth to the day of their last purchase at the '[YourNameHere] Tombstone Shop'. Perhaps what the Digital rEvolution needs is a Marketing Manager and a seat on the NASDAQ. How does the 'Michael Jordan Remailer' sound? 'Nike Nukes', with a joint advertising campaign with Samsonite and Timex? Toto

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CIA to Kids: I Spy, You Spy
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wednesday April 22 3:57 PM EDT CIA to Kids: I Spy, You Spy By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Central Intelligence Agency has unveiled a World Wide Web site aimed at introducing the spy game to the kindergarten set. The CIA's "Home Page for Kids" at www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids, features geography quizzes, interactive disguise games and thumbnail sketches of cloak-and-dagger figures dating back to the Revolutionary War against Britain. It also showcases "Who We Are and What We Do," a very basic primer on intelligence-gathering and analysis. "What we're really trying to do is encourage kids to use computers, explore geography and give them an understanding of what the CIA does," said Anya Guilsher, an agency spokeswoman. "We're also putting a human face on the people who work here," she said. The section on those behind the scenes opens with a shot of a woman possibly meant to personify the CIA's vision of the American James Bond for the late 1990s. Slender, smiling and black, she is conservatively dressed in a white blouse and smartly tailored outfit. Other pages give a glimpse of an espionage operation, complete with a man wearing dark glasses and a trench coat. "If you worked in the Directorate of Operations, you would like to travel and have a great curiosity about the world and its different cultures," reads the text in the People section. "You would like to work with people from all over the world, be able to adapt to any situation (especially dangerous ones!), be well educated, know other languages, be good at working at with other kinds of people, and be courageous, well disciplined, and able to accept anonymity," it says. The text goes on to explain that such undercover operatives -- whose job typically includes recruiting foreigners to steal secrets for the United States -- know they will toil chiefly in the twilight. "The rewards for the officer are the knowledge that he or she contributed to the security of our country and is recognized by his or her peers," the text adds. The site lays out the work of the CIA's other three branches as well -- those analyzing intelligence for policymakers, solving science and technology challenges ("To work beyond the state of the art every day is normal in this directorate") and administering the CIA's estimated 16,000 full-time U.S. employees and its $3 billion budget. One fringe benefit of the site, which went online last month, is that it helps CIA personnel explain their jobs to their kids, said Karen Gilbert, an agency public affairs specialist who was part of the four-woman design team. "Finally people who work here now have a way to talk to children about what they do here," she said in an interview at CIA headquarters in the Washington suburb of Langley, Virginia. To appeal to children as young as six, the designers picked the CIA's bomb-sniffing canine corps of Black Labradors and Belgian Shepherds to conduct "first-person" tours of the CIA's leafy campus. The site will be updated regularly. The Web site, which the agency said has been receiving as many as 950 visits a day, contains links to the CIA's signature World Factbook and the agency's main Web page, said to get almost two million "hits" a month. The kid page has nothing to do with recruiting future U.S. spies, the agency said. But job-seekers can read about pay and benefits by clicking on the employment tab on the main site. It stems from an executive order last April 19 in which President Clinton told federal agencies to match White House efforts to put more educational material online for children. The CIA effort, hardened against would-be hackers and housed on computers separate from those used for its sensitive work, was done on "a real shoestring budget," said Gilbert. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/top_stories/story.html?s=z/reuters/9804 22/news/stories/cia_2.html ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation." ---Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright

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Re: Position escrow
by Dan Todd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is a similar (probably a number of them) service in parts of the US. While visiting Michigan recently I saw a wireless phone with a "calling card" from a company called Isis. It appeared to be an anonymous, pre-paid cellular phone but I didn't investigate to see if it runs on standard cellular or if they ask for and verify personal information upon purchase. I've also seen this product advertised on DSS (I don't recall what market) and the commercial seems to support this as an anonymous service. I guess the advantages are that is wouldn't give up any identifying information while still allowing for tracking in an emergency. cheers, dan -----Original Message----- From: Geraint Price <Geraint.Price(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> To: Phil Karn <karn(a)qualcomm.com> Cc: frantz(a)netcom.com <frantz(a)netcom.com>; geer(a)world.std.com <geer(a)world.std.com>; die(a)die.com <die(a)die.com>; cypherpunks(a)toad.com <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; cryptography(a)c2.net <cryptography(a)c2.net>; Geraint.Price(a)cl.cam.ac.uk <Geraint.Price(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Position escrow > >> >One interesting, but unlikely possibility is an originate-only phone which >> >pays for calls with cash (e.g. Digicash, or a prepaid phone activation >> >card). Since it can't receive calls, it doesn't need an identity. What >> >would come out of the system is, "Someone in cell X called telephone number >> >Y." >> >> There's already a way to do this: cloning. This is not always done >> just to avoid paying for service. Certain cloners are entirely able >> and willing to pay for cellular service, but they demand anonymity. >> >> Somebody should point out to the carriers that they could get rid of >> much of the incentive to clone phones if they simply offered a >> legit way to remain anonymous. >> >> Phil > >This technology already exists in Britain (I don't know about any other >countries), where you can buy a mobile without any subscription information >off the shelf. To use the mobile, you go and purchase a 'token' which allows >you to use the mobile on a pay-per-call basis much the same as a public phone. >I don't know the method of token implementation. > >The police have started kicking up a fuss over this technology as they claim >it hinders their investigation into criminal activity, because if they trace a >cellular phone which turns out to be one of this type then they can't pull the >info on the customer to go round knocking on doors. > >Geraint > > >

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From Russia With Love
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A CyberPsychotic wrote: > So what you think?:) > I want to place it somewhere anonymously.. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > <html><head><title>the Black List</title> > </head> > <body> > <center>The most honest page ever been made. > </center> > > <hr> > Disclaimer: The things covered in this page are just expressing my > sence of the reality. I don't even pretend to claim that my own opinions > express the minds of all the people around, even though I feel that many friends > of mine would agree with me here. Writing it I just use my right > for "speaking freely".If you get pissed off you'd better > <a href=http://www.happytoy.com> leave it NOW</a> > <hr> > Description: This page covers the (su|o)bjects which generally have been > pissed me off during my life, so I decided to publish 'em. Wonder Why? > Just because I want to.. If you ever want to contribute you may send > me your ideas to <a href=mailto:fygrave@usa.net>fygrave(a)usa.net</a> However > if you feel like flaming me send it to <a href=mailto:root@localhost>separate > address</a> so i could sort it out:-). > > Be ready for the most disturbing and pathethic truth you ever heard.. > > <quote>Remark:Most of statements here are provoked by Tequila Breeze. Alas, Great Drink. > </quote> > <hr> > <ul> > <li> I hate <a href=http://www.online.kg>the Fucking Country</a> I live in... > > Why? There are many reasons. > <ul> > <li>This country makes me feel > like a bunch of monkeys rule it. They make rules and laws for people, > but what the fuck they don't follow 'em themsleves? > > <li> They have fucking right to claim we are democratic? But why the hell they violate even basic human rights ? > <li> They claim they build civilized country, but civilized country > cares of its citizen, not robes them. > <li> They claim that everyone is equal before the face of law? > But What the FUCK some are more EQUAL than others? And why the hell, > they forget of equality when things start dealing with MoneY or Relatives? > > <li>You may claim that there are some (lots) of things which are free for now, > and which are "real freedom". But i will tell you that's because those > Morons just are too stupid to figure out how to exploit it, or it is just being > > overlooked .. yet... But be sure they will sell your country to <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov>Yankee's Goverment</a> some Day.. > </ul> > <li> Does it make you feel than any other country is better? No WAY. > Take a look on <a href=http://www.gov.ru> Russia </a> > with their moronic Drunk-head President and Puppet-like parlament > or <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov> United States</a> > with helpless president and crazyBUCK-ruled congress.I could state > more arguments why those countries suck, but I'd better leave it for > those who <a href=http://www.antionline.com> live there</a> > > <li><a href=http://www.microsoft.com> MiKr0SlopHt</a> > > If you are Wind0gze user, i hope there are even no reason to > explain You why MicroSloft sucks. Ever have found yourself standing > Helpless before their stupid GUI and "Can't remove tmp directory. Reformatting Disk C:.." like message and wondering for the XXXth time "why the heck > i started using Microsoft products?", or finding one day morning all > your files being stolen and removed due to lame security<a href=http://oliver.efri.hr/~crv/security/bugs/NT/nt.html>(read NO SECURITY)</a> developed by'em? > > <li> Lamers and Wannabies .. > Hah... there are no MORE annoying people than those who think they KNOW everything or peretend to .. > <li> Fuckin' Elite > I just can't understand why those fucks claim they are better than me > just because their Dads made more bucks that I do, or they could > > move their asses there and here in the cars while i have to walk. > </ul> > </body> > </html>

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Oral Argument to Be Held April 24 in Crypto Export Case
by Shari Steele 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Everyone in the Akron area is encouraged to attend this hearing (8:30am, Akron federal courthouse) and show the judge how important it is that the export controls on encryption be repealed. If you are able to attend, please remember to dress in your best courtroom attire and to be respectful of the court. EFF and the Bernstein legal team wish Peter Junger, Gino Scarcelli and the rest of the Junger legal team the best of luck. For more information on the Junger case, see http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/jvd/. Shari Oral Argument to Be Held April 24 in Crypto Export Case Stipulation of Undisputed Facts Filed in Law Suit Challenging Federal Licensing of Publishers of Encryption Software Junger v. Daley on Fast Track ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cleveland, Ohio, Monday, April 13, 1998 For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: Peter D. Junger (216) 368-2535 <junger(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu> Raymond Vasvari (216) 522-1925 <freespeech(a)mail.multiverse.com> Or see URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/jvd/ To be added to, or removed from, the list of those who were sent this press release, please send e-mail to <lawsuit(a)upaya.multiverse.com>. _________________________________________________________________ Cleveland, Ohio, April 13 -- Arguments in Junger v. Daley, the law suit challenging the constitutionality of the export regulations on encryption software, will be held in front of Judge Gwin on April 24 at 8:30 AM at the federal courthouse in Akron, Ohio. The parties have filed a Stipulation of Undisputed Facts which is now available from the cryptography archive maintained by John Young at <http://www.jya.com/pdj8.htm> and from the plaintiff's archive at <http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/jvd/pdj8.htm>. The suit was brought by Peter Junger, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio against William Daley, the United States Secretary of Commerce, to establish that the export regulations restricting the publication of computer programs used to protect privacy and confidentiality violate the freedoms of speech and of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Those regulations, which apply only to publication on the Internet and the World Wide Web and by other electronic means, but not to traditional books or magazines, have been extensively challenged by the computer industry and by civil rights groups. There is now legislation pending in Congress that would relax or abolish the current restrictions on ``exporting'' encryption software, restrictions that endanger the competitive position of the United States software industry and effectively prevent many within the the United States from obtaining the computer programs that they need to preserve their privacy. ``Those are very important issues,'' Professor Junger says, ``but the issues raised by my suit do not just affect encryption software. If the government can restrict the writing and publication of encryption programs because they are useful--and that is basically what the government is claiming--without regard to the authors' and publishers' constitutional rights under the First Amendment, then, by the same reasoning, it could forbid the publication of any computer program that earns the disfavor of the authorities. At this time of year, for example, I find it easy to believe that the government would like to forbid the publication of tax preparation software that the tax collectors feel are too good at detecting loopholes.'' Both sides have asked for summary judgment and it is expected that Judge Gwin will be able to decide the case shortly after the hearing on the 24th without any further proceedings, but if any issues remain to be be decided after that Judge Gwin has set July 20th as the date on which the case will go to trial. ``It is good to be back on the fast track,'' Junger says, ``and I am confident that the case can be decided without a trial. The dispute is not about the facts. The only real issue is whether, and to what extent, the constitution protects the writing and publication of computer programs. And a trial is not going to be necessary to settle that issue. ``But this is only the first step,'' he adds. ``No matter who wins in the district court, it is almost certain that the other side will appeal the case. My lawyers, and particularly Gino Scarselli, have done a wonderful job at considerable personal sacrifice. As I think about the prospects of an appeal, I only hope that we can raise some support for them.'' A fund has been established to defray the cost of this litigation and contributions may now be sent to Professor Spencer Neth, Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, OH 44106. Checks should bear the notation ``Junger Litigation Fund'' or ``Crypto Litigation Fund.'' -30- -- Shari Steele, Staff Attorney ssteele(a)eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation 301.375.8856 (v) P.O. Box 649 301.283.5337 (f) Bryans Road, MD 20616 http://www.eff.org/homes/steele.html

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Thank you for downloading Calendar.pl v1.1
by calendar＠jann.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks for downloading the Calendar.pl v1.1! I will keep you up to date on all enhancements and bug fixes to the program via email from now on. Again, thanks! Jann Linder jann(a)jann.com ------------------------------------- For bug reports, please send email to: mailto:calendar_bug@jann.com For questions, please email to: mailto:calendar@jann.com

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Re: Traceability of Calling Cards, Phones, Remailers
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > At 12:27 PM -0800 4/23/98, Anonymous wrote: > >Keep in mind that Timothy McVeigh thought he had anonymity with his > >use of a prepaid 'anonymous' phone card over public payphones. He was > >wrong. > If I recall correctly, they determined that the same calling card was used > to call various places. Once they had identified the card, correlation was > easy. It is even easier to track in real-time if one has prior information in regard to the possessession of such 'anonymous' instruments, either through in-place informants on either end (or both ends) of the transaction. > What I took from this was the advisability of buying a dozen or so cheap > prepaid cards, from a machine dispenser or shrinkwrap/cardpack untraceable > sale, and then not use any single card over and over again. Mr. May is astute enough to recognize that law enforcement agencies are fully capable of reading (or writing) the same guerrila-outlaw how-to books and manuals available to would-be anonymous activists, and that it is dangerous for an individual to fail to use their own wit and wisdom to add additional layers of protection and deception to guerilla methods commonly championed. e.g. - a 'known plaintext' becomes one-step deeper when translated into an unfamiliar language. > >It is highly unlikely that electronically-based 'anonymous' technology > >is going to be any more untracable than meatspace-disseminated tools > >of anonymity. > With all due respect, I think you're talking out of your ass on this one. One should be careful about insulting people named 'Anonymous', since we come from such a large family... > The math of tracing messages routed through a network of N selected > remailers each properly executing a remailer protocol (e.g., accumulating M > messages, encryption at each stage, etc.) is far, far stronger than > anything McVeigh was using. Very true, but I was thinking more in terms of the pre-existing compromise of the tools of anonymity which will be offered/marketed to the masses. e.g. - Decades ago, after picking up a book order from Loompmatics which I had sent to a cold-address (USPS), I shortly thereafter watched in amusement as border-guards tore my vehicle apart looking for material that they theoretically were not supposed to know I had taken possession of, not knowing that my 'unreasonable' paranoia had resulted in my making a 'test run' before crossing the border with them. > I had hoped there would be many more remailers in use by the time the next > Big Event happened and involved remailers, but it appears remailers are > spreading slowly and the pressure cooker is reaching the bursting point for > more patriot or militia or terrorist actions. There are many more remailers in existence than is readily apparent. The Winsock remailer software, for instance, has been modified to allow 'clustered' remailers to exist on a single server, wherein a number of individuals can channel their email to a separate in-house remailer designed to give them an outgoing consistent persona that is not traceable to their incoming message through ordinary man-in- the-middle tracking. Totoally Anonymous

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Epilogue 5/0 -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epilogue 5/0 -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _____________________________________________ A REPTILIAN NAZI WHO NARROWLY ESCAPED BEING MADE INTO A PAIR OF BOOTS WHILE TRAVELLING THROUGH TEXAS wrote: > Hello, Toto...this is just a friendly response. You sound just like I did > when I was first exposed to Illuminatus! and Mexico City Blues...both really > nifty books. Wow. You must have been some sick puppy... > The whole reason I got involved in government work at all was because I needed > to find out what it was all about, and I grant you, it's VERY EASY for a good > "social engineer" to warp the living dogshit out of any organization, because > the more hierarchical a structure, the fewer variables you have in bending it > to your will. It was this very Prince Apia of Physics that allowed Linda McCartney to be secretly buried as an imaginary driver in the log book of a finely tuned Volkswagen with a fifth-wheel which could be retracted when outside the jurisdiction of the Kansas Control Commission, thus allowing the Bug to be hidden outside of the prying blinds of the papparazzi, whose long, reptilian tongues were busy snapping at fruit's flies. > This all makes sense...BUT...this is America, and, as this mailing list > illustrates, our population is not so easily subdued. In my not-so-humble > analysis (as a loud-mouthed student of propaganda), great propagandists like > Ayn Rand and a few others gave essentially shielded us from herd-responses > on a government scale. Ayn Rand's 'propaganda' apparently didn't shield us well enough from herd-responses to keep her books off of the best-seller lists, while *real* classics such as 'Thinker Dumped' were used to prop up the corner of couches around the nation. > This is entirely unprecedented (and kicks ass) > because we have an ACCEPTED CULTURE of resistance against any unnecessary > controls. However, one needs to keep in mind that top government officials and members of the military are being provided innoculation to provide them with resistance to the cultures that they experiment with, while making them illegal for the average bean-counter to possess. > There will always be regulation-mongers who try to pull shit like the War on > Drugs, but, as you can see, they lose public support *really* fast. Lack of public support does not seem to prevent the regulation-mongers from continuing their various forms of the War on Drugs over the course of hundreds of years, while imprisoning and killing large numbers of citizens, in the process. > I don't > know anyone in the military...INCLUDING people who are assigned to the "War on > Drugs"...who think this is a good idea. Friends of mine who have gone on > missions to assist in drug-siezing have outright stated that they were going > to watch for "stupid-shit" of which we all know law enforcement officials to be > capable. And I don't know anyone in a child-sex ring...INCLUDING those who only hold them down...who think this is a legal activity. Friends of yours who have gone on missions to assist in child-seizing have outright stated that they were going to watch for holes in the condoms being used. "If it saves the life of a single child..." > In other words, keep your head...because as you begin to fear imagined threats, > you're much less "on guard" against REAL threats to your individuality. I've been keeping my head in glass canning jars, and so far I have enough saved up to hold out for forty days and forty nights if the Y2K Volkswagen results in a shortage of Tequila, Kahlua and Cream. I, and countless other citizens, are fully capable of dealing with the REAL threats which life serves up on a daily basis. The 'imagined' threats are the ones that truly need to be guarded against, as they are the ones that the Oppressor uses most effectively to crush both the spirit and verse of the Constitution. > Hopefully, this rather opinionated little comment hasn't offended you too > terribly. Well, I am rather thin-skinned, but at least I'm not thin-scaled... > (Of course, I am aware that your response to my description of the reality of > modern warfare could have been humorous, but I know some people actually think > that there's some gigantic organized conspiracy to fuck with their heads. Some of the more mentally unstable of those indivdiduals actually believe that they are receiving secret messages through their televisions from large-breasted women who are attempting to sell them fast cars, toothpaste and other consumer goods. > There ARE a lot of tiny organized conspiracies, but you'd be bloody shocked > to find out how little influence they really have.) Certainly not as much as the 'large' organized conspiracies... > Tossing a golden soccer ball marked "Khallisti", > Dxmxtxy Tossing a golden lager marked "Pilsner", Txtx

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17 Dec '03

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corvette.bxa.doc.gov
by mgraffam＠mhv.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This morning I was going through my logs and I saw an anonymous ftp connection to my machine, which ordinarily I wouldn't care about.. I distribute my RSA keys from this machine.. but the connection was from corvette.bxa.doc.gov, so I looked further at the FTP commands issued and it looks like a bot. Several instances of "SIZE", even on directory names; it recursed into the tree got some smaller files and that was it. So, I went sniffing. www.bxa.doc.gov: " Bureau of Export Administration Home Page The Bureau of Export Administration enhances the nation's security and its economic prosperity by controlling exports for national security, foreign policy, and short supply reasons. We administer the Export Administration Act by developing export control policies, issuing export licenses, and prosecuting violators. " A quick web search for corvette.bxa.doc.gov brought up several "web statistics pages" .. it crawls all over the place. It seems as if it targets technical sites. I just thought you guys might like to hear about it. If anyone needs anymore info, or wants the sections from my logs just let me know. Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam(a)mhv.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc "..subordination of one sex to the other is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.." John Stuart Mill "The Subjection of Women" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNUCFIAKEiLNUxnAfAQFa0gP+LiSSMOy5kNi7nmxitrcO5xv1pbk3nWRk rW984qlAr+1Y9PKAIrkSboT239RJb2L2+JYlCUvYxt7CeZMCHcjtrcbrxjiUxKeL Vk6z/31BetWNkilE+fizfOHwhHnnHaJ8PgAlPGjmByjNQAHXSRBMZ1m00Z4hDl6w TnM80Cds2BQ= =J5FV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Gifts from Hawaii for Mother's Day
by moms＠uniquehawaii.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Epilogue 666/0 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epilogue 666/0 -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _____________________________________________ Imagine: An average citizen legally ordering a variety of books from legitimate mail-order publishers and distributors, such as Paladin Press, Loopmatics, etc., and having the books sent to a private U.S. Postal Service mailbox in Buttfuck, North Dakota. The citizen picking the books up late at night and stashing them in a safe place before heading across the Canadian border in the middle of a variety of late-night revelers returning from the Land of Cheap Drinks. Canadian Customs Agents tearing the citizen's vehicle apart, even tearing open the seats, in an effort to search for some mysterious, unnamed items of 'contraband'. (Even though they had not done this on recent, almost daily, occassions when the citizen had crossed at the same border station *without* picking up the books from the Post Office box.) The citizen, years later, receiving confirmation from Canadian Government documents of Customs agents knowledge of the specific pseudonyms the various books were shipped to, which should have theoretically only been known to the publisher and the USPS. The citizen, decades later, reading the court records surrounding a lawsuit against one of the publishers, and drawing the conclusion that the Stipulation of Undisputed Facts signed by the publisher seemed designed to ensure that their case would be lost and thus set a dangerous precedent in the legal wars being waged against freedom of speech. The citizen having a long history of being paranoid...and right... Imagine: A famous activist actress journeying to a Communist country to express support for their cause of leftist world-domination at a time when her democratic homeland was engaged in a massive war with that country. The actress marrying a like-minded individual who built a media-empire capable of manipulating world-wide opinion in regard to wars being waged by the former head of a secret intelligence agency who, upon becoming a world-leader, espoused the need for a New World Order while justifying world-wide military action under cover of joint actions with the United Nations. The husband using the entertainment wing of his media-empire to provide the citizenry with non-stop, repetitive propaganda illustrating GoodGuys in law enforcement and the justice system violating professional ethics, and the legal rights of BadCriminals, in the interests of a Good Cause. (Can you say, "Matlock?" Sure, you can...) (Can you say, "Twenty-Four Hours of Eastwood," "Forty-Eight Hours of Eastwood," "Four-Thousand Hours of Eastwood?" Sure, you can...) The husband donating a billion dollars of the money he earned manipulating the news coverage of United Nations Police Actions to...<gasp><surprise!>...the United Nations. Imagine: A major new TV network springing up at a time when the BigThree no longer seemed to be singing the tunes requested by the shadowy figures from secret intelligence agencies who had been moved into industry positions which controlled programming and schedules. Imagine that new network engaging in a successful march toward a programming schedule geared toward promoting the existence of extraterrestrial entities in our midst, and the safety of the citizens being in the hands of armed, secretive federal government agents, stop-search-and-seizure activities by armed local and state government agents, video surveillance by government, law-enforcement, business and private individuals. Imagine that network airing a story on May 7 which is designed to use the individual heroism of the country's soldiers to gloss-over the fact that their superiors threw them into a battle in which they could only survive by engaging in the indiscriminant slaughter of men, women, children and babies who rose to defend their homes and their country from armed invasion by a foreign power. Imagine: All major television networks, after receiving a gift of billions of dollars of public digital airwaves, filling the airwaves with a plethora of entertainment programs designed as propaganda to whitewash the images of various sectors of the law enforcement community. The major networks providing their viewers with a wide variety of entertainment and viewer-polls designed to suggest that their opinions and beliefs matter, and can be adequately expressed by a phone call to an 800 number, or by shouting along with the audience at an overweight, communist skinhead who is beating up the sister he got pregnant for having the Swastika tattoo surgically removed from the baby they stole from a hospital maternity ward. Imagine: Adam Shostack, sending a post to the CypherPunks list, "How I learned to stop worrying and love anonymity," which was a clever take-off on another post sent to the list which contained a movie-title from the same era, "From Russia With Love." Adam's post being a tad 'too clever', since the 'other' post didn't arrive on the list until over an hour later, although it had been sent to the 'anonymous' remailer hours before Adam's clever mimicry was composed. Imagine: BadBillyG fleeing the country to avoid the potential MeatSpace threat posed by a lunatic in a small prairie town who had driven past the local liquor store while fiddling with his truck radio, and who continued on across the country, through the heart of M$pace, on a soft-target tour of North America. BadBillyG walking into an ambush halfway around the world, ending up with more than one type of pie on his face. Imagine: Reading Epilogue 666/0 of SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! and finally seeing the true extent of the Evil, far-reaching Web of Conspiracy and Dark Energy running throughout all of civilization, government and society, only to realize that, in the end, it all matters very little in comparison to the fact that the rent is due next Friday, your cat is pregnant again, and you're wasting your time reading the mad ramblings of an asshole who forged your name to a post to the CypherPunks list which made you look like a fucking idiot. Imagine: Yourself hitting the <Delete> key...

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SHIFT REGISTER technology
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 4/24/98 7:33 AM John Young J Orlin Grabbe John Gilmore The stuff on linear and non-linear shift register sequences which is now appearing on jya.com is the military-grade crypto technology. Semionoff and http://www.jya.com/crack-a5.htm contains material similar to what I saw Brian Snow present in schematics of NSA KG units. The statement by david.loos(a)eudoramail.com The A5 algorithm uses a three level, non-linear feedback shift register arrangement, designed to be sufficiently complex to resist attack. points to the technology used for military-grade crypto. The reason NSA regarded the R register, seen at http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm, feedback function classified was that it contained a non-linear feedback function. I was ORDERED to build UNCLASSIFIED hardware. This is why I stuck the R register feedback function in a fast ram. This similarity between the structure of the nonlinear feedback function in the CAVE algorithm seen at http://www.semionoff.com/cellular/hacking/phreaking/ to the feedback function published in my SAND report : A11 A1 A5 AND A1 0= A9 0= AND XOR A6 A10 XOR XOR ; reveals military-strength technology. SHIFT REGISTERS. Words shift registers also caused the Great American Spy Sting bust. http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html The Cold War is over. And the crypto cat is now about fully out of the bag. Lets hope for settlement so that we can all go on to more constructive tasks. Later bill

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FBI Sued on CALEA
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NYT's John Markoff reports today on a suit to be filed today by the cellular phone industry against CALEA regs on wiretapping -- alleging improper FBI guidelines under the legislation. A lead on getting a copy of the filing would be appreciated; U.S. District Court in Washington DC is the venue.

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Cutoff Date
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ftp://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/1998/HB/0100-0199/HB0196IN.htm MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE 1998 Regular Session To: Judiciary A By: Representative Moak House Bill 196 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE REMOVAL OF A BODY PART IN LIEU OF OTHER SENTENCES IMPOSED BY THE COURT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES LAW; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI: SECTION 1. In lieu of any other penalty prescribed by law, the court may allow any person who is convicted for a violation of the Controlled Substances Law to have a body part removed. The convicted person and the court must agree on which body part shall be removed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1998.

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Re: Programmers flee Y2K problem -- and we're spooked too
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Didn't Hal Finney recently debunk Y2K apocalyptic millenarianism? Or is Y2K-mongering now competing with the elint industry for more domestic preparedness for techno-seancing, tap, tap, tap? Pray 00-00-00 unplugs the global Echelons.

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Secure your E-mail with your Digital ID
by VeriSign Customer Service 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: IRS cratering
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 10:05:09AM -0700, Jim Gillogly wrote: > > > Similar efforts in the past to modernize the FAA have failed...as someone > > noted, the FAA and control towers are still dependent on vacuum tube > > computers. The problem lies not with finding newer computers, but with the > > software for the many subsystems, displays, communcations links, radars, > > Is this really true? They do have obsolete vacuum tube equipment, but > I thought it was all radars and radios rather than computers. The up-side > of it is that vacuum tubes are more resistant to EMP than silicon... but > I'm pretty sure that's not why they're still using them. > IEEE Spectrum of ran a story on this last year. Apparently they do have some vacuum tube radio, audio and radar gear, but all the computer systems in use are solid state such as antique 360s and the like with lots of custom interfaces that can't be readily replaced. And much of the software is such patched spaghetti that nobody has been able to reimplement it. But telling is the fact that most of the radar display consoles are late 60s designs manufactured in the early 70s with a 5-10 year expected lifetime, and wires and connectors and other parts not normally replaced in the field are getting brittle with age after 20-25 years of continuous operation at temperature. And maintaining them and the computers is made harder each year by the increasingly total unavailibility of electronic components of the types used back then... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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17 Dec '03

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