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RE: Junger et al.
by Ernest Hua 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think we are in violent agreement here ... Except that it seems odd that speech is no longer 1st amendment protected as soon as it can be interpreted by a machine to do something. So, then, if I want to deny you first amendment protections for something, I can simply write a compiler to turn your words into machine executable code, and suddenly, your words are no longer protected speech. How could that be a reasonable interpretation of functional versus not? Secondly, Gwin said that encryption is a special class of software which is MORE functional. This is definitely a misunderstanding, to say the least. I don't see how any particular class of software is necessarily more or less functional than other classes of software. In the functional sense, all software, when compiled and executed is functional, period (whether it performs according to its original design is irrelevant). Ern -----Original Message----- From: Ed Gerck [SMTP:egerck@laser.cps.softex.br] Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 9:09 PM To: Ernest Hua Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com; 'cryptography(a)c2.net' Subject: RE: Junger et al. On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Ernest Hua wrote: >So today, I can write the following: > >1. Find a container. >2. Fill container with explosive substance. >3. Move container to target location. >4. Detonate container. > >As soon as I have a compiler and a target machine that can execute these >instructions, suddenly this is not speech. However, before this >compiler and machine combo exists, event the electronic form of this is >speech! > >How could this be? Gwin has written a phrase which deserves more analysis, IMO -- free from political overtones if we want to be impartial. The phrase can be reworded as: "source code is a device, that actually does a function" The difference and importance here is between syntatic and semantics. Your 4-instruction source code above is not a device today -- it cannot perform any function. It has only syntatics, not the "how to". But, if there were a machine that could supply the proper semantics (ie, actually perform the functions 1-4) then your source code above would be a device. Further, your source code may not be a device today but be a device tomorrow. As another example, bringing together one pound of inert metal with another one pound of the same inert metal was not considered to be explosive -- until U235 was used for the inert metal and properly compressed. The difference is semantic, not syntatic. In that, Gwin is correct. Can the source code actually perform a function? Then, it is a device. Irrespective of the needed platform, in the same way that an electric shaver is a device irrespective of the local availablity of an appropriate power outlet. IMO, even though I consider Gwin to be correct to a very large extent, widespread use of crypto will not come from lifiting such bans ... but from real need -- which does not outweigh the hassle, today. The EFF has a wrong target there. Do you know how much Internet e-mail traffic is encrypted today? Can you believe less than 10%? Notwithstanding the rethoric exercises and limelight it may provide, talking about encryption export bans may not be as effective as desigining better and easier uses of strong crypto -- that can then really drive market, legislation and courts. Need to use is a better key than need to know, it seems. Cheers, Ed Gerck > >Ern > > -----Original Message----- > From: jkthomson [SMTP:jkthomson@bigfoot.com] > Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 7:12 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Junger et al. > > > > Reuters > > 3:40pm 6.Jul.98.PDT WASHINGTON -- A district court has >dismissed a law > professor's challenge to US regulations strictly limiting the >export of > computer data-scrambling technology. > > Judge James Gwin ruled late Friday that the export limits, which >prevented > Case Western Reserve University Law School professor Peter >Junger from > posting the text of encryption programs on the Internet, did not >violate > the constitutional right to free speech. > > The Ohio court's ruling contradicts a California district court >ruling last > August that said source code -- the instructions a person writes >telling > the computer what actions to perform -- constitutes a form of >speech > subject to First Amendment protection. > > "Unlike instructions, a manual or a recipe, source code actually >performs > the function it describes," Gwin wrote. "While a recipe provides > instructions to a cook, source code is a device, like embedded >circuitry in > a telephone, that actually does the function of encryption." > > Neither ruling gave speech protection to compiled code, a >version of source > code converted into an actual software program that could be run >on a > computer. > > The US government appealed the California decision and the issue >may > ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court. > > Civil libertarians and high-tech companies had hoped the court >would > overturn the export limits on encryption technology, which uses > mathematical formulas to scramble information and render it >unreadable > without a password or software "key." > > Once the realm of spies and generals, encryption has become an >increasingly > critical means of protecting electronic commerce and global >communications > over the Internet. > > But law enforcement agencies, fearing encryption will be used by >terrorists > and international criminals to hide their activities, have >instituted > strict controls to limit the export of strong scrambling >products. > > Lawyers opposed to the export rules said the Ohio court >misunderstood the > difference between source code and compiled code. > > "The Ohio court clearly doesn't understand the communicative >nature of > software," said Shari Steele, an attorney with the Electronic >Frontier > Foundation. "It's true that software helps to perform functions, >but it > does so by telling computers what to do.... It certainly is >speech > deserving of the highest levels of First Amendment protection." > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > james 'keith' thomson <jkthomson(a)bigfoot.com> >www.bigfoot.com/~ceildh > jkthomson:C181 991A 405C EAFB 2C46 79B5 B1DC DB78 8196 122D >[06.07.98] > ceildh :1D79 59AF ED75 5945 6003 8240 DA34 ACCA 9DE4 6BC9 >[05.14.98] > ICQ:746241 <keys> at pgp.mit.edu ...and former sysop of >tnbnog BBS > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Technology is introduced, utilized, depended upon, obsolete, > standardized, and understood, in that order > >======================================================================= _ > ______________________________________________________________________ Dr.rer.nat. E. Gerck egerck(a)novaware.cps.softex.br http://novaware.cps.softex.br --- Meta-Certificate Group member, http://www.mcg.org.br ---

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no subject! Anti-National ID Bill
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Where is this? Stalled. Looks dead in the water. Any further insights? H.R.3261 SPONSOR: Rep Paul (introduced 02/25/98) SUMMARY: (AS INTRODUCED) Privacy Protection Act of 1997 (sic) - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from using a social security account number or any derivative as the means of identifying any individual, except for specified social security and tax purposes. Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his social security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis. Prohibits any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual, except as authorized under this Act. ---- STATUS: Detailed Legislative Status House Actions Feb 25, 98: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Mar 2, 98: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. Feb 25, 98: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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keystrokes and crooked judges
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Xandi MADE low-power transmitters, http://www.gernsback.com/HyperNews/get/forums/resource/226.html like the kind I MIGHT use IF I were going to spike a keyboard [most which use an 8051 http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2] so that the keystrokes would be broadcast. This, of course, defeats crypto attempts to cipher keystrokes. But I DO NOT DO, or have to do, ILLEGAL THINGS for the FBI or any other government agency. I, as a DOE contractor employee, was protected under 10 CFR 708. http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=10+cfr+708&hc=0&hs=0 But 10 CFR 708 does not appear to be working well in my case. Therefore, we had to try other remedies. VOCALL is getting real close to digital cash, one of Orlin Grabbe's interests. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/dcguide.htm I have to do mostly technical work on the digital FX this week but will try to get two notices of appeal to the Tenth circuit written. http://jya.com/whp043098.htm Morales and I, with all the publicity you and Orlin have given us, can go all the way to the Supreme Court with our genocide and crypto deficiency lawsuits. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm Pro se, of course. Too bad NSA did not take my criticisms of its shift register work more constructively. http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm, click on Appendix S Perhaps NSA should have worked with some of us at Sandia to come-up with fixes to overcome deficiencies. This unpleasantness could have been avoided. I've had ideas to improve shift register algorithm operation before. http://www-hto.usc.edu/software/seqaln/doc/html/gfsr.3.html Let's all hope for settlement of this UNFORTUNATE matter before it gets worse. Later bill And this too. Subject: FBI agents and Junger Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 07:32:36 -0600 From: bill payne <billp(a)nmol.com> To: jy(a)jya.com CC: art morales <armoral(a)sandia.gov>, whitfield diffie <diffie(a)eng.sun.com>, tom carpenter - halcyon <tomcgap(a)halcyon.com>, marc rotenberg <rotenberg(a)epic.org>, national employee rights institute <neri(a)nerinet.org>, mab(a)research.att.com, mejudson(a)mail.wdn.com, lwirbel(a)aol.com, klayman <jwatch(a)erols.com>, john gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com>, jpcarson(a)mindspring.com, jdelia(a)gnn.com, jeff debonis <76554.133(a)compuserve.com>, jay coughlan <ccns(a)nets.com>, jason vest <vestj(a)aol.com>, j orlin grabbe <kalliste(a)aci.net>, david sobel <sobel(a)epic.org>, Cindy(a)McGlashan.com Tuesday 7/7/98 7:28 AM John Young I am reading http://www.jya.com/pdj10.htm FBI agents Perez, Rodrigues, and Silva warned us about the crooked judges at the appellate level. The FBI blackmailed Perez, Rodrigues, and Silva into a cheap settlement of their race discrimination lawsuit win in Lucius Bunton's West Texas court. They all lost money. And all got divorced. Perez is a buddy of Morales and Gonzales. Gonzales and Armenta are buddies of Silva. Hugo Rodrigues moved to Florida. This information is VERY VALUABLE to Morales and me. It shapes our response to the two letters from the Tenth I put in the mail to you yesterday. NO FUTURE IN ARGUING POINTS OF LAW WITH CROOKED JUDGES. bill Counterfeiting Wiegand Wire Access Credentials Bill Payne October 16,1996 Abstract Wiegand wire access credentials are easy and inexpensive to counterfeit. Access Control & Security Systems Integration magazine, October 1996 [http://www/securitysolutions.com] published the article, Wiegand technology stands the test of time by PAUL J. BODELL, page 12 Many card and reader manufacturers offer Wiegand (pronounced wee-gand) output. However, only three companies in the world make Wiegand readers. Sensor Engineering of Hamden Conn., holds the patent for Wiegand, and Sensor has licensed Cardkey of Simi Valley, Calif., and Doduco of Pforzheim, Germany, to manufacture Wiegand cards and readers. ... A Wiegand output reader is not the same thing as a Wiegand reader, and it is important to understand the differences. In brief, Wiegand reader use the Wiegand effect to translate card information around the patented Wiegand effect in which a segment of a specially treated wire generates an electronic pulse when subjected to a specific magnetic field. If the pulse is generated when the wire is near a pick-up coil, the pulse can be detected by a circuit. Lining up several rows of wires and passing them by a cold would generate a series of pulses. Lining up two rows of wires - calling on row "zero bits" and the other "one bits" - and passing them by two different coils would generate two series of pulses, or data bits. These data bits can then be interpreted as binary data and used to control other devices. If you seal the coils in a rugged housing with properly placed magnets, and LED and some simple circuitry, you have a Wiegand reader. Carefully laminate the special wires in vinyl, and artwork, and hot-stamp a number on the vinyl, and you have a Wiegand card. IN THE BEGINNING Wiegand was first to introduce to the access control market in the late 1970s. It was immediately successful because it filled the need for durable, secure card and reader technology. Embedded in the cards, Wiegand wires cannot be altered or duplicated. ... Bodell's Last statement is incorrect. Tasks for EASILY counterfeiting Wiegand wire cards are 1 Locate the wires inside the card to read the 0s and 1s. 2 Build an ACCEPTABLE copy of the card. Bodell's clear explanation of the working of a Wiegand card can be visualized zero row | | | one row | | binary 0 1 0 0 1 representation Solutions to Task 1 A X-ray the card B MAGNI VIEW FILM, Mylar film reads magnetic fields ... Edmunds Scientific Company, catalog 16N1, page 205, C33,447 $11.75 is placed over the top of the Wiegand card. COW MAGNET, Cow magnetics allow farmers to trap metal in the stomachs of their cows. Edmunds, page 204, C31,101 $10.75 is placed under the card. Location of the wires is easily seen on the green film. Mark the position of the wires with a pen. Next chop the card vertically using a shear into about 80/1000s paper-match-sized strips. Don't worry about cutting a wire or two. Note that a 0 has the pen mark to the top. A 1 has the pen mark at the bottom. Take a business card and layout the "paper match"-like strips to counterfeit the card number desired. Don't worry about spacing. Wiegand output is self-clocking! Tape the "paper-match - like" strips to the business card. Only the FUNCTION of the card needs to be reproduced! History Breaking electronic locks was done as "work for others" at Sandia National Laboratories beginning in 1992 funded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation/Engineering Research Facility, Quantico, VA. The FBI opined that this work was SECRET/NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION. 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17 Dec '03

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US to Ease Crypto Export
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

7 July 1998 Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-07/07/064l-070798-idx.html Thanks to FT U.S. to Ease Limits on Export of Data-Scrambling Technology By Elizabeth Corcoran Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 7, 1998; Page E04 Commerce Secretary William Daley plans to announce today that the government will give U.S. software companies new freedom to export their most sophisticated data-scrambling technology to financial institutions chartered in 45 countries, according to Clinton administration sources. Under the new rules, which officials said are likely to take effect in late summer, eligible banks, securities firms, brokerage houses and credit-card companies will need to receive approval only once from the Commerce Department before they can license the most sophisticated "encryption," or data-scrambling, technology. Once they receive approval, those institutions will be permitted to share the technology with any of their branch offices, except for those located in terrorist states. Government sources estimate that the new rules will include about 70 percent of the world's banks, including the 100 largest (ranked by assets). For years, the government has closely regulated export of encryption software, on the grounds that terrorists or hostile governments might use it to cloak their communications. The software industry argues that the rules are unworkable and unfairly block foreign sales. Unfriendly parties wanting to use encryption already can obtain it overseas, industry executives said. The new rules on banks are "a move in the right direction," said one industry executive familiar with the regulations. "But we're still leaving some groups out. Basically, we need to keep spreading the circle wider," to include the growing number of businesses offering financial services, such as insurance companies. "What we've heard sounds great," said Kawika Daguio, a lobbyist for the American Bankers Association. "We've been arguing [for several years] that the regulatory structure we have guarantees we're good citizens" who wouldn't make illicit use of the technology, he said. Now the government appears to have agreed. Current regulations require that U.S. companies apply for permits before exporting anything but the simplest versions of encryption products. To export more sophisticated technology, organizations must have a plan for creating so-called "spare keys." That way, law enforcement officials who have obtained a court order would be able to unlock the information. In May 1997, the Commerce Department said it would not restrict the sophistication of the data-encryption technology sold to financial institutions. But it required spare keys and case-by-case licensing. Approvals have been slow. Now the government is doing away with the key requirement, defining more precisely which financial institutions qualify and pledging to end case-by-case approval. Because of concerns about money laundering, the government will grant the new permission only to financial institutions chartered in countries that have agreed to take steps against money-laundering. If U.S. companies want to sell to financial institutions chartered in other countries, they will have to apply for licenses from the Commerce Department. Such provisions still fall short of the demands of U.S. companies. "To take a piecemeal approach [to loosening encryption restrictions] is the wrong direction," said Ed Gillespie, executive director of Americans for Computer Privacy, a lobbying group. "We need a blanket lifting of restrictions with individual prohibitions," such as bans on sending such technology to terrorist states, he said. In a related development, a federal court in Ohio ruled on Friday that posting the text of an encryption program on the Internet, where people all over the world could see it, was not protected by the constitutional right to free speech. The ruling, made late Friday, contradicts a ruling made by a California district court last August. Privacy advocates predict that the issue will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court. © Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company

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by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Private-enterprise wiretapping
by bill.stewart＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

STOLEN NUMBERS -- [New York Times, p. 31, 7/5.] Federal investigators said the scam was ingenious in its simplicity: Five people in New York City would tap into public pay phones at major airports across the country, then steal calling-card numbers punched in by unsuspecting travelers. The scheme ended last month with the arrests of four men and one woman. But the case is only the latest machination in a $4-billion-a-year telephone fraud industry that keeps reinventing itself. "This is something we have not seen before," said Boyd Jackson [of] network security at AT&T, one of the industry experts who helped Federal investigators on the case. "And there is nothing I am aware of that customers can do to fully protect themselves." The Secret Service was tipped off by AT&T, Bell Atlantic and MCI after they received an unusually high number of complaints from customers who had recently used their calling cards in airports. [Also San Jose Mercury News, 1C; Rocky Mountain News, 33A; Sun-Sentinel, 3A, 7/4.]

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Junger decision
by Cindy Cohn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For those who haven't yet heard, Judge Gwin in the District Court in Ohio has granted the government summary judgment in the Junger case. Judge Gwin apparently agreed with the government that the "functionality" of encryption source code, and the government's claims that it only intends to regulate that "functionality" mean that the regulations are not "narrowly and directed at expressive conduct" and so do not merit prior restraint analysis. The Judge then held that the regulations were content neutral, applied the intermediate scrutiny tests and found that the export restrictions meet those tests. I haven't had the opportunity to review the decision yet. As soon as I have, I will post some brief comments. Still no decision from the 9th Circuit in Bernstein. Cindy ****************************** Cindy A. Cohn, Cindy(a)McGlashan.com McGlashan & Sarrail, P.C. 177 Bovet Road, 6th Floor San Mateo, CA 94402 (650) 341-2585 (tel) (650) 341-1395 (fax)

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RE: Junger et al.
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nevermind that source code is suppose to be "human readable" material that is _translated_ into function instructions of machine code. A play is normally considered 'protected' free speech under US law, but what if robot was created which acted out the play and Gwin's argument was extended to apply the situtation where a play performed. Would the play itself no longer be a protected form of free speech, because it is seen as "functional" instructions to the robot actor? Would the playwrite become responsible for the robot's actions, such as killing a character/actor? As a programmer, I have "acted out" source code myself, as part of the debugging process. It is normally called "a walkthrough," so the difference between source code and a play is not as broad as some people may view it. I have followed the source code like a script, acting out the instructions like stage directions in a play. Does it matter who might 'read' the material, in regards to the protection of free speech? Whether it is written so that Russians or computers might be able to read it? If source code is written on a napkin, it can be currently exported, but what if tomorrow a vendor announces a 'napkin computer' which can directly read from napkins akin to a super-low densiy floppy disc. At 07:20 PM 7/6/98 -0700, Ernest Hua wrote: >Did anyone demonstrate the "functionalness" of any arbitrary language >via a scanner and a compiler? > >Why doesn't Gwin understand that the moment one successfully claims that >a specific class of source code is not speech by the virtue of the fact >that a compiler can transform it automatically into executable code >which performs a function, then ANY speech of ANY sort is fundamentally >vulnerable to being classified as functional as soon as a compiler can >transform it into real machine code. > >Ern > > -----Original Message----- > From: jkthomson [SMTP:jkthomson@bigfoot.com] > Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 7:12 PM > Reuters > >3:40pm 6.Jul.98.PDT WASHINGTON -- A district court has dismissed a law >professor's challenge to US regulations strictly limiting the export of >computer data-scrambling technology. > >Judge James Gwin ruled late Friday that the export limits, which prevented >Case Western Reserve University Law School professor Peter Junger from >posting the text of encryption programs on the Internet, did not violate >the constitutional right to free speech. > >The Ohio court's ruling contradicts a California district court ruling last >August that said source code -- the instructions a person writes telling >the computer what actions to perform -- constitutes a form of speech >subject to First Amendment protection. > >"Unlike instructions, a manual or a recipe, source code actually performs >the function it describes," Gwin wrote. "While a recipe provides >instructions to a cook, source code is a device, like embedded circuitry in >a telephone, that actually does the function of encryption."

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A note on the latest randomness quarrel
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* Never use "the lowest few bits" or (t1>t2)?1:0 for the actual random number generation. You only use things like that for estimating the amount of entropy in a source. The number of bits of entropy in a pile of bits is one more than the base-two logarithm of the average number of guesses required of a badguy knowing your condidtioning routine, observing what it can, and interfering with your generator to figure out the value of the bits in the pile, so if your studies and statistical analyses estimate that it requires 2^127 guesses to guess the output of your conditioning routine, good for you, you've estimated that somewhere in its input are 128 bits of entropy. Um, I digress...point is, don't use that output straight. Take twice as much unconditioned input, non-random-looking stuff and all, as you estimate your conditioning routine needs to produce a key's worth of entropy and _hash_it_. Your conditioning routine can introduce some little bias you didn't see or make some unnoticed mistake that lets through predictable bits. Hashing can, too, but we've studied the hash functions to make sure they're good a lot more than we've studied your conditioning procedure. * A badguy's introduction of extra events doesn't poison your randomness. A badguy could introduce a multitude of predictable-but-random-looking events to make your generator close shop before it has enough unpredictable events to get its entropy. However, that only works if extra events make your generator stop collecting earlier. The amount of time it spends collecting randomness shouldn't depend on _any_ output of the generator, because that needlessly leaks entropy. Also, a badguy could introduce two nearly-simultaneous events near the beginning of the process, when it can be fairly sure that the wait between its events and the previous event will make a zero or make the lowest few bits of the delay between the bits match a certain value. (Interpreting that sentence is left as an exercise to the reader :) However, you can only do this in a system where your conditioning routine allows extra events to cause the routine to output bad bets. However, if you hash your raw data rather than using one of those conditioning routines, it's nearly -- nearly, that's your cue to say it has to be always -- impossible to weaken the output without knowing the other data hashed. Third, el badguy could introduce so many events that the gap between events was always less than the measurement threshhold. However, note that the Geiger counter, the computer, and the operator would all fail under these circumstances. Therefore, pretty much any strategy allowing extra events to kill entropy is flawed. ================================================================================ /// anonymous : nobody(a)replay.com : http://replay.com /// ================================================================================

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Kings & Queens/George Michael/Knocked up with NyQuil
by STUFFED/EUREKA! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Apology
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Might have just posted a message intended for coderpunks to the list, depending on whether toad still forwards. Sorry.

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thinking about you and http://www.qainfo.se/~lb/crypto_ag.htm
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 7/7/98 6:57 PM Laszlo Baranyi You DID NOT mention the Swiss radio international radio broadcasts. http://www.qainfo.se/~lb/crypto_ag.htm Rep McKinney and Sen Grassley now have copies. Send me a snail mail address and I will send you a copy. Using postcard, of course pob 14838 abq, nm 87191 usa Gustavus J Simmons Cryptanalysis and Protocol Failures COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, November 1994, vol 37, no 11, page 56 The 'spiking' story, in obscure language. Simmons and R J Hanson http://sina.tcamc.uh.edu/~haskell/rjh/rjhres.html were two of the most responsible people for me coming to Sandia from Washington State U. Here are two of my former Ph.D. students in computer science from wsu. http://www.mhpcc.edu/general/john.html http://www.friction-free-economy.com NSA employee PAUL BRIDGE in about 1987 told me that Simmons was a security risk and that I should not talk to Simmons. In about 1992 I figured out something was fishy and began to talk to Simmons again. Simmons told me that he asked NSA employees Morris and Proto 1 NSA is sorry it delegated responsibility for implementation of electronic locks in the us nuclear arsenal to Sandia. 2 NSA wants the business back. Simmons told me neither Morris or Proto would respond to his question. Let's ALL http://www.wpiran.org/ hope for settlement of this UNFORTUNATE MESS. bill

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Junger Press Release
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: jvd-announce(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu Subject: Press Release: Judge holds software is not protected speech Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 09:39:36 -0300 From: "Junger v. Daley Announcements" <jvd(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu> Federal District Court Holds That Software Publishers Are Not Protected by the First Amendment Government Wins Summary Judgment in Junger v. Daley Judge Gwin's Opinion Is Available on Line ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, July 8, 1998 For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: Peter D. Junger (216) 368-2535 <junger(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu> Raymond Vasvari (216) 662-1780 <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, July 8 -- On July 3, 1998 Judge Gwin of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Ohio held that computer programs are not writings protected by the constitution because they are ``inherently functional'' and granted summary judgment dismissing a suit challenging regulations that forbid the publication of encryption programs on the Internet or the World Wide Web. The suit was brought by Peter Junger, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, to enjoin the enforcement of export regulations on encryption software that prevent him from publishing his class materials and articles for his course in Computing and the Law on the Internet because they contain some encryption programs. Junger claimed in his suit that those encryption programs were writings that were entitled to the full protection of the First Amendment. ``Of course they are writings,'' Junger says, ``I know because I wrote some of them. And I need to be able to publish them if I am ever going to be able to explain to lawyers and law students how computers work and how the law should be applied to computing.'' The government, on the other hand, argued that its export regulations, which require that one obtain a license from the Commerce Department before publishing materials containing encryption software on the Internet or the World Wide Web, seek only to restrict the distribution of encryption software itself, not ideas on encryption. And Judge Gwin agreed with the government, finding that: ``the Export Regulations are constitutional because encryption source code is inherently functional, because the Export Regulations are not directed at source code's expressive elements, and because the Export Regulations do not reach academic discussions of software, or software in print form.'' In a related case in California brought by mathematics professor Daniel Bernstein, Federal District Court Judge Patel held that computer programs are speech that is protected by the First Amendment, but Judge Gwin rejected that argument, saying: ``The Bernstein court's assertion that `language equals protected speech' is unsound. `Speech' is not protected simply because we write it in a language.'' It is Judge Gwin's position that computer source code is a purely functional device: ``The court in Bernstein misunderstood the significance of source code's functionality. Source code is `purely functional,' in a way that the Bernstein Court's examples of instructions, manuals, and recipes are not. Unlike instructions, a manual, or a recipe, source code actually performs the function it describes. While a recipe provides instructions to a cook, source code is a device, like embedded circuitry in a telephone, that actually does the function of encryption.'' There is thus a clear split between the two courts: Judge Patel holding that computer software is protected by the First Amendment and Judge Gwin holding that it isn't. The Bernstein case is on appeal and Professor Junger says that he intends to appeal Judge Gwin's decision: ``We have had almost no financial support for this case, but the issue of whether encryption software and software in general is protected like other writings under the First Amendment, or whether it is to be treated as a special exception like obscenity and fighting words as Judge Gwin held, is so important that we will have to scrape up the resources somehow to bring an appeal.'' Judge Gwin's opinion is now available at <http://jya.com/pdj11.htm> and is mirrored at <http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/jvd/pdj11.html>. -30-

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RE: RSA in perl illegal to export (Re: Junger et al.)
by Ernest Hua 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I still have a few of those shirts left (I ate the cost ... along with a few copies of Secret Power). If anyone wants to do this, I will be happy to donate the T-shirt (and be an "arms" supplier). In fact, one of the people who expressed an interest in buying the T-shirt wanted to send one to Dave Letterman (Letterman was hot at the time). Did you ever do it? Ern -----Original Message----- From: Chris Liljenstolpe [SMTP:cds@mcmurdo.gov] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 3:31 PM To: Adam Back; jim.burnes(a)ssds.com Cc: Ernest Hua; egerck(a)laser.cps.softex.br; cypherpunks(a)toad.com; cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: Re: RSA in perl illegal to export (Re: Junger et al.) Greetings, There are t-shirts out there with both human readable and machine readable (bar code) versions of the RSA in 3 code.... Wear it when boarding an international flight.... They even state that they are a munition and ITAR controlled in BIG letters on the back... Chris On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:04:44AM +0100, Adam Back wrote: > > Jim Burnes writes: > > Obviously there is no difference between 10 lines of PERL and > > 1500 lines of assembler (or machine code). > > One of Peter Junger's examples (I think used in the case) is the RSA > in 2/3 lines. He actually obtained the US export administrations > written decisions on which of a small collection of titchy programs > was exportable. RSA in 3 lines of perl they stated was illegal to > export. > > So fun things with RSA are possible because they have decided that it > is not exportable, so perhaps you could export it on a floppy, or as > your .signature, with media cameras rolling, and try to get yourself > arrested for willful violation of dumb export laws. > > Adam > -- > Have you exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ > > 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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by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Initial summary/analysis: Junger v. Daley
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to Greg for the excellent summary and analysis. Responses by Peter Junger and his attorneys, those involved with Bernstein and Karn, and others on the technical and legal interpretation would be welcome. On the interplay among the three cases: We have heard that there was meeting in DC of the three teams with the US side. And that there may have been a report on this meeting at the recent DC security conference. Is there a public report available? Note: Greg meant to quote Judge Gwin on source code: "all but *un*intelligible to most people." The contrast between Patel and Gwin remind of the campaign of Wassenaar members to claim relaxation of crypto controls while not truly doing so, as in the recent Irish and US press release deceptions. More are expected as the US trade and crypto czars make their global rounds to arrange overt-covert deals for marketing munitions. The complicity of the banks and giant corps is not surprising with their legacy of doing just that -- as one defense expert says, expect ex-gov crypto watchdogs to aid the market titans to lure government buyers while peddling cheap knockoffs to voters. Amazing that the NYT sent up that trial balloon for government access to key strokes in lieu of GAK. Who's pushing that, working on the technology?

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Ephemeral, was RE: Junger et al.
by Ed Gerck 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Regarding my comment below: >Ed Gerck writes: >[...] > > BTW, I think that Gwin was struggling to express the notion that > > source code (syntax) is a device whenever there is a clear binding > > between that source code and known semantics, together with proper > > pragmatics (the enviroment, as defined in semiotics), in order to > > perform the desired function. > I received some private postings which questioned it by questioning its logical consequences, as for example: >So the judge should forbid publishing/export of Applied Cryptography >and the PGP Book with source code, right ? > First, IMO, this subject is hard to discuss because it is politically involved and also applies just to a particular set of countries -- so it is not based on a "universal" ruling. Further, I also think it is absurd to try to outlaw cryptography because it is essential and not just to obtain privacy (as in my posting on logical semantics and crypto, some months ago [1]). In fact, I think that cryptography is needed to provide *secure routing* [1] (a property that is more basic than secure content and which I think will be impossible to forbid in the future). However, I also think that the arguments being thought by each side may carry their own intrinsic worth. Further, even though the whole subject is IMO ephemeral because unworkable, some of those arguments may have a far reaching consequence and transcend the issue. Should we overlook that? IMO, no. Even thrash can be recycled ;-) My remark above was in this line of reasoning. So, it ought not to be extrapolated to printed books -- I am not at all concerned about the legal aspects. In fact, laws can be wrong and IMO this is a clear example. But, regarding printed books -- yes, the comment above (and others in that line) are right. If this logic exercise is carried to its fully immoral end, then books should not be allowed to carry complete and workable source code. Which does not show that the argument is illogical, just immoral. Technically, the argument is sound. As Hume pointed out a long time ago, if we were guided only by reason and logic then surely I should prefer to destroy the rest of the world instead of enduring even a small pain in one of my fingers. While this shows that logic is not all, it also shows that one cannot deny logic by moral or ethics but rather define what precedes what in case of conflict, for each society. While this can have different answers for different societies, eg where in some suicide is moral, the cryptography issue may take a different twist if the link to secure routing is further investigated and cryptography is not only used just for secure content as it is today. Thanks, Ed Gerck =========== Reference: [1] http://www.mcg.org.br/trustdef.htm#A.4.1 ______________________________________________________________________ Dr.rer.nat. E. Gerck egerck(a)novaware.cps.softex.br http://novaware.cps.softex.br --- Meta-Certificate Group member, http://www.mcg.org.br ---

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RE: Junger et al.
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mok-Kong Shen [SMTP:mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de] > Anonymous wrote: > > > Does it matter who might 'read' the material, in regards to the > protection > > of free speech? Whether it is written so that Russians or computers > might > > be able to read it? If source code is written on a napkin, it can be > > currently exported, but what if tomorrow a vendor announces a 'napkin > > computer' which can directly read from napkins akin to a super-low > densiy > > floppy disc. > > Put the source code on a neuro-disk and you can export it under > any crypto law that can ever be invented till eternity. > > M. K. Shen [Trei, Peter] Tell that to the thousands forbidden to leave the nations which claim or claimed to own them, on the basis that they once had access to state secrets. The thankfully defunct Soviet Union regularly forbade dissidents to emigrate, on the basis that at some point in their lives they had had access to 'sensitive' information. I have no doubt that similar restrictions could be put in place in other nations. Peter Trei

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Re: Lotus Notes signature / encryption
by Charlie_Kaufman＠iris.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Could someone kindly tell me about the drawbacks of the Lotus Notes >signature / encryption system (export version)? I guess my first question would be "compared to what?". Compared to the Lotus Notes domestic version, the crypto is weaker in two ways. First, there is a backdoor by which all but 40 bits of each symmetric key is encrypted under a public key whose private half is known to the U.S. government. This encrypted value is included in all messages where the key is passed aroung. Depending on how you feel about breaking 40 bit keys, this means it is somewhere between easy and trivial for the U.S. government to eavesdrop on your communications It also uses 512 bit RSA keys for distribution of encryption keys, which makes it attackable by attackers other than the U.S. government. While no one has ever publicly demonstrated breaking a 512 bit RSA key (last I heard), the workfactor is well understood and it's clearly feasible (and in fact overdue). Compared to exportable versions of S/MIME or SSL, the crypto is considerably stronger. Against attackers other than the U.S. government (and even a paranoid would admit there are other attackers to be concerned about (e.g. the French government)), the workfactor to attack the symmetric keys is 64 bits - a little shakey but not the weakest link in most systems. Further, RSA signature keys are 630 bits, which is better than most exportable systems. Compared to non-exportable (but internationally available) systems, like PGP and strong S/MIME and SSL, the crypto is substantially weaker. Another aspect to consider is the strength of the PKI. Lotus Notes uses an organizationally based PKI, meaning that to a large degree your security depends on the trustworthiness and competence of your system administrator. With PGP, your security is under your own control to a much larger degree. For people who are more security aware than their administrators (as most PGP users are), the PGP PKI offers better security. For people who are less security aware than their administrators (as most Lotus Notes users are), the Lotus Notes PKI offers better security. Finally, a "drawback" that might be relevant to this group is the fact that because the Lotus Notes export version has a key-escrow-like backdoor, using it offers tacit political endorsement for the U.S. government's contention that key escrow is a technically practical compromise between the needs of users for privacy and the "needs" of government to know all the secrets of everyone on the planet. In my mind, this argues strongly in favor of using real strong crypto if that is an option, but using weak crypto as an alternative is offering tacit political endorsement for the even more dangerous contention that weak crypto is good enough. Your mileage may vary. --Charlie Kaufman (charlie_kaufman(a)iris.com)

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Re: IP: "CyberCash can't oust credit cards"
by Dave Birch 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ryan Lackey said >I think resistance to new payment schemes on the part of a merchant is in >cost and effort to set up. Having a free apache commerce plugin which >handles >a variety of payment systems... What's wrong with this model is that it imports historical physical models that are irrelevant on the Net. Why does the merchant take payments at all? Imagine this scenario: you go into the Good Guys and buy a Walkman. The clerk gives you a ticket. You go round to your branch of Wells Fargo and get a cashiers cheque made out to the merchant, walk round to the merchant's branch of BankAmerica -- or BankBank, or whatever it's called now :) -- and deposit the cheque in the merchants account. BankBank gives you a receipt which you take back to the Good Guys and pick up your Walkman. Now, apart from all of the walking around, this is not a bad system. The Good Guys don't need cash registers, links to First Data etc etc. The Good Guys don't need to put up stickers saying "we take Visa", because the bank takes everything. The Good Guys don't care how you paid. The bank is much better placed than the merchant to handle the risks associated with payments and therefore the information asymmetries associated with the payment are significantly reduced (there's a good article about this in the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Economic Review, 1Q98). On the Net, there's no walking around. In the physical world, it clearly makes no sense for every bank to build a network out to every merchant: hence it makes sense to have physical payment instruments (e.g. notes, cheques) and credit/charge cards. On the Net, though, every participant is connected. When you buy a book from Amazon, what is the point of sending your credit card details to Amazon just so that they can send the details on to an acquiring network, third-party processor etc. Surely it makes more sense for merchants to have deals with payment agents (this is the model in OTP, Smart Access etc). When you press the button marked "Pay" on your browser, wouldn't it be more natural for a message to go to your bank than to the merchant? Thus, I get a "ticket" from Amazon saying "you owe $20 for this book". I pass the ticket to a payment agent (which may be a bank) and pay them (the negotiation being between my wallet and the agent"). The agent sends me a receipt to keep: I send the receipt to Amazon and they send me a book. Alternatively, perhaps the receipt let's me play Doom for a month or get ten upgrade to an item of software or whatever. All Amazon care is that the money has been paid: what do they care whether I used DigiCash or Mondex, Visa or MasterCard? You might argue that the merchant would discount for cleared funds (pay by Mondex and get 2% off) but I think that its frankly too much bother for them to work out N different prices by M different payment methods. I would imagine that just a merchants run loyalty schemes ("double points if you buy cornflakes") then so would payment agents ("double points for DigiCash") but each could operate their business independently. I would argue that the idea that merchants take payments is outdated. Since merchants don't care about cypherpunk favourites such as bearer instruments and anonymity, they'll be perfectly happy to have an acquiring account with BigBank and get a statement at the end of the month that details the payments taken and says "Money collected $1000, our fee $50, deposited to your account $950". Now, the merchant hasn't had to buy a commerce server, negiotiate 10 different acquiring agreements, implement SET or do anything else. Hey, so it's 5%: so what? Regards, Dave Birch. === mailto:daveb@hyperion.co.uk ===== http://www.hyperion.co.uk/ ===

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Re: Rats in the Walls
by Reeza! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:21 PM 02 07 98 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >"Reeza!" <howree(a)cable.navy.mil> wrote: > >> At 04:41 PM 02 07 98 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >> >and there are indeed safe havens elsewhere, >> > >> >"Educate, don't Agitate" >> > >> >> Tell me more,,, > >You and who's army? > What army? I'm in the navy, and I'm getting sick of it.

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Re: Covert Access to Data and ID
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Froward From: Anonymous To: die(a)pig.die.com Cc: jy(a)jya.com Subject: Intel plans for world domination Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:51:04 -0500 Good afternoon gentlemen, I've been reading the correspondence on the possibility of govt keystroke access with some interest. I'm in a slightly odd position as I'm responsible for security in one of the larger wintel companies. As such I've been getting quite a feeling of deja vu reading your mails. Intel and others are moving in exactly this direction with a number of initiatives, most notably the PC98, PCXX, and "Wired For Management". WfM in particular is very scary - one of the components is a facility for PC's to download and run digitally signed software before the OS is booted - between "the end of BIOS initialisation and when control is transferred to a high-level OS" in the words of one Intel document. The code is verified by routines embedded in the BIOS and will allegedly use some subset of X.509v3 and PKCS#1. As so often happens in circumstances like this I can't risk passing documents directly as I can't be sure of their provenance - I really have no idea which ones are now considered trade secrets and which have been made public. Instead I recommend you have a look at the Intel WfM site http://www.intel.com/ial/wfm/ with particular reference to the "Pre-Boot Execution Environment" (PXE) and "System Management BIOS" (SMBIOS). The Microsoft pc98 site is at http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc98.htm and the Intel one at http://developer.intel.com/design/pc98/. ---------- And, DM reminds of the DIRT program Ray Arachelian first posted here: There's an article on page 37 of the July 6, 1998 issue of NetworkWorld about a new software product for Windows machines that is basically a trojan horse that allows access to all keystrokes and files on a system from a remote "America's Most Wanted"-type HQ. I can't find the article online at www.networkworld.com, but you can go the the company's site at http://www.thecodex.com/dirt.html to see it. Sale of DIRT is "restricted to military, government, and law enforcement agencies", the article says.

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by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded from a long-time cpunk who received a call from Jim Bell yesterday. Jim asked that this message be publicized: 7/7/98 By this post he is publically accusing the Federal Government of having spied on him from two physical addresses. These are two houses to the North & to the East of his parent's house. The government moved in within 6 months (approx) of the time before his arrest. One of the addresses is 7217 Mississippi, which is listed as "Billy King", who died a couple of years ago. The house is ostensibly being occupied by his widow (or that is the impression). It is listed as being as owned by Alverna King, but he has his doubts. The other is address is 7302 Corregidor, purchased about 2.5 - 3 years ago by someone. Listed as being the address of Sundown Development, a small business company. A second floor was added soon after it was acquired by the company. They aren't listed as the owners on record, but they are listed as being at that address. Thinks this is a sham. The govmt was basically next door spying on him for at least a year, before it started provoking him. In response to his using the internet for freewheeling debate, they engaged in some bugging that is illegal under Washington State law. It is illegal to use bugging without the knowledge of the participants. He has developed a technique for identifying when someone is tailing him. Found this on Father's day when some people got a little too close to him. He drove to his Sister's party on Hayden Island in Oregon, and noticed the tails. Identified them as Rixen Marine, which he thinks is a sham, another front organization. One of the reasons he was arrested (though they're not willing to admit it) is because was way too successful in tailing _them_. A few more days and he would have blown their entire operation. He couldn't go into the details of how he found out these things. Did research & sophisticated observation. Will be getting friends to do searches in databases, etc. to gather more info to substantiate his suspicions. He said his recent arrest was on a probation violation charge - failure to pay a fine or something, wasn't clear on the specifics. There will be a hearing on his case this Friday the 10th. Prosecutors last year didn't know what the govmt was up to - not told of the spying (a "black operation"). Their method of spying on him are techniques which are possible, though rarely used. If people knew they would be very surprised. It will be a big story - big as Watergate - when it comes out. Their usage of these high-tech methods for access is difficult, so not used often. The government is trying to cover up their reaction to what he wrote in his essays. ------------------- <end of message>

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Covert Access to Data and ID
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dave Emery's remarks on government access to keystrokes (proposed by the NYT as an alternative to GAK) points to the probable increase of intrusive devices to counter increasing use of encryption and other privacy and anonymity measures. This topic comes up here now and then, with mentions of a slew of methods to protect privacy of data during transmission or storage. But the possibility of logging the initial creation or manipulation of data is not as often discussed, nor how to tie a person to the data, as now being asked in legal and law enforcement fora to identify, catch, convict and jail computer culprits. That the NYT floated the idea surely means someone is testing public response to an idea that seems to be more intrusive than GAK: the logging of initial data and any manipulation of it, prior to encrypting, and maybe including a means to link the actions to the user. If this is logging (and related retrieval) is done covertly, encryption could thereby become a falsely reassuring cloak of privacy. Dave thinks devices like these are surely in the works, and he can say more about their sponsors, technologies and implementations. One driving force, as he previously noted, is the desire for devices to assure copyright protection, backed by the WIPO treaty, which now being considered for approval. See the House report on it at: http://jya.com/hr105-551.txt (141K) And the EFF and ACLU opposition to it: hr2281-opp.htm Other forces, though, are employers who want to snoop, law enforcement, government, marketers, actually the same groups who dislike privacy protection measures, but often prefer to snoop covertly while loudly proclaiming support for privacy. Thus, the more general question Dave has raised is how widespread is the development and implementation of technolgies for covert surveillance on the Web and in desktop boxes -- happily spreading quietly while attention is focussed on the very encryption which it will circumvent? And what are these devices, or what might they be, what might be countermeasures and who might be working for and against them. SDA must have insights to share. Over to Dave Emery and those more knowledgeable. For those who missed his earlier message we've put it, with a follow-up at: http://jya.com/gaks-de.htm

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U.S. relaxes licensing grip on encryption
by Xena - Warrior Princess 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(From the Mercury News, see subject line) http://www.sjmercury.com/business/center/encrypt070898.htm It's a start, at least.

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RE: Democracy... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Matthew James Gering <mgering(a)ecosystems.net> > Subject: RE: Democracy... (fwd) > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:46:04 -0700 > > So if a Texas DPS officer pulled over a car from Louisiana he couldn't > > hassle them in regards to the pot they had in the car. Even > > though it was illegal for Texas citizens. > > Wow, you learn something new every day. You didn't learn anything because you weren't paying attention. This was supposition based on a strict interpretation of the Constitution. You should try reading *every* word. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Larry Gilbert, AOLers, and the Hyper-real flamer
by AIMSX＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hmm... have you ever thought... that my mother may not exactly love the idea of me having access to other people's accounts... so I need to do what she DOES condone? You just don't seem to be using your brain. >Some of them have over 100 accounts on the same ISP, and are >truly so full of shit, that they're swimming in it. Kid, by bullshiting, all >you're doing is enforcing the view that AOL users are really AOLusers.

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Re: software
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 CHerr58414(a)aol.com wrote: > > if u got any freeware for encripting and decodeing that would be great so if > you can mail me back some info. Thanks > > we gots lotz of hardware for people of ur abillitiez in fact our hardware is really really hard so if u got any pictures of urself that would be great so if you can mail us back some. Thanks LamenessMonger

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Nita Daniel
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Democracy...
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/15/98 10:27 PM, Jaeger (Jaeger(a)hempseed.com) passed this wisdom: > >hey, would you care to show us where "seperation of church and state" is >to be found in the constitution/bill of rights? absolute right and >wrong is not a religious belief (necessarily).. your religious beliefs >do not affect the nature of reality. there are absolute truths by [snip] >> Ever heard of seperation of church and state? Democracy? the rights of >> >> the individual? While you certainly have the right to practice your >> religion in what ever manner you so choose demanding that everyone >> else >> does, or that the president of the us of ais subject to you PERSONAL >> faith decisions is outragous The first amendment states only that there shall not be 'an establishment of religion' it says nada about 'separation of church and state.' The intention was simple; that there would never be an 'official' state religion. It didn't say religion had no place. They were escaping a regime with an established state religion that used the goverment to stamp out religious deviationism. That was the sole reason for that clause in the 1st amendment. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "...if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison." and it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later" _Alice in Wonderland_: (Lewis Carroll)

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Democracy...
by Vivek Vaidya 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>>Almost 60 percent of those polled said they thought Clinton was fit to be >>>president. By what standard? That's the trouble. Americans have no >>>standards -- no unchangeable yardsticks by which they measure right and >>>wrong, truth from fiction. > >>By *their* standard, by their own personal judgement. There's no moral >>yardstick, and God help us if there is in the future. Who makes the >>yardstick? Who sits down and says, "This is the moral standard in this >>country, abide by it or suffer the consequences"? > >Sorry but there are absolutes and there is a moral yardstick. Whether this > is accepted or not is beside the point. > >There has to be absolutes otherwise any action can be excused (or damned). > The real cry should be >"God help us to instigate Your yardstick". God doesn't change and neither >does His measure. > >1)Love the Lord, with all your heart, with all you soul with all your mind >and all your strength >2)Love you neibour as yourself. > >Everything else hangs on these. > Ever heard of seperation of church and state? Democracy? the rights of the individual? While you certainly have the right to practice your religion in what ever manner you so choose demanding that everyone else does, or that the president of the us of ais subject to you PERSONAL faith decisions is outragous Vivek Vaidya ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Electronic Security & Counterintelligence" must become pervasive, and this is only possible if we release the private sector from artificial constraints on encryption, and if we return to our democratic foundation, the respect for personal privacy. We cannot regulate this, we can only nurture this fundamental national security arena. TAKEDOWN: Targets, Tools, & Technocracy Robert David Steele http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usassi/ssipubs/stratcon/steele.htm Another excerpt: 2.The greatest obstacle our government faces today in assuring national security and national competitivenessthe cause of causes for conflict and economic lossis the growing gap between those with power and those with knowledge.

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serene rebel
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Encrypting files.
by Neels Kriek 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Try DataSafe. Dunno which algo it uses but easy to use and anything is better than zip ;) www.novastor.com hope this helps -----Original Message----- From: Sunder <sunder(a)brainlink.com> To: Lars Weitze <chromedemon(a)netcologne.de> Cc: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 18:25 Subject: Re: Encrypting files. >Lars Weitze wrote: >> >> Does anyone now a program for WindozeNT to store encrypted data on harddisk. >> At the moment i use >> ZIP-Files with a Password on them (I now it is not very secure). >> I am living outside USA and do not want any software with backdoors >> ,"masterkeys" or stuff like that. > >http://www.pcdynamics.com/SafeHouse/ > >-- > >=====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== >.+.^.+.| Sunder |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. >..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ ><--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ >../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. >.+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... >======================= http://www.sundernet.com ========================== > >

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SNET: U.S. Patent Programmable subcutaneous visible implant
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton) Subject: SNET: U.S. Patent Programmable subcutaneous visible implant Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:35:49 +1200 To: snetnews(a)world.std.com -> SNETNEWS Mailing List United States Patent 5,638,832 Singer, et. al. Jun. 17, 1997 Programmable subcutaneous visible implant Abstract A subcutaneous implant for displaying various re-programmable information or decorative patterns beneath the surface of the skin of a person or an animal. A biologically inert subcutaneous implant is constructed of a flexible material so as to conform to the skin's surface. The subcutaneous implant includes a battery for providing power to the implant. The subcutaneous implant also includes a receiver for receiving programming information from a user, and a display for displaying the programming information through the skin. Inventors: Singer; Andrew J. (Palo Alto, CA); White; Sean (San Francisco, CA). Assignee: Interval Research Corporation (Palo Alto, CA). Appl. No.: 477,096 Filed: Jun. 7, 1995 Intl. Cl. : A61B 19/00 Current U.S. Cl.: 128/899 Field of Search: 128/897-899, 654 References Cited | [Referenced By] U.S. Patent Documents 4,233,964 Nov., 1980 Jefferts et al. 128/899 5,041,826 Aug., 1991 Milheiser 5,074,318 Dec., 1991 Campbell et al. 5,205,286 Apr., 1993 Soukup et al. 128/899 5,322,034 Jun., 1994 Willham et al. 5,324,940 Jun., 1994 Ekstrom 5,482,008 Jan., 1996 Stafford et al. 128/899 Primary Examiner: Cohen; Lee S. Assistant Examiner: Lacyk; John P. Attorney, Agent or Firm: Brooks & Kushman 19 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo(a)world.std.com -> Posted by: jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)

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SNET: U S Patent: Identification system
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton) Subject: SNET: U S Patent: Identification system Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:35:51 +1200 To: snetnews(a)world.std.com -> SNETNEWS Mailing List United States Patent 5,041,826 Milheiser Aug. 20, 1991 Identification system Abstract A passive integrated transponder (PIT) is attached to or embedded in an item to be identified. It is excited via an inductive coupling from an interrogator. The PIT responds to the interrogator via the inductive coupling with a signal constituting a stream of data unique to the identified item. The signal is in the form of two different frequencies, a shift from one frequency to the second during a bit cell representing a data "one", and a shift from the second frequency to the first frequency representing a data "zero". The responsive signal is then detected and processed for utilization in a data storage or display device. Inventors: Milheiser; Thomas A. (Littleton, CO). Assignee: Destron/IDI Inc. (Boulder, CO). Appl. No.: 481,833 Filed: Feb. 16, 1990 Related U.S. Application Data Division of Ser No. 388,761, Aug. 2, 1989, abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 165,310, Mar. 8, 1988, abandoned, which is a division of Ser. No 814,492, Dec. 30, 1985, Pat. No. 4,730,188, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 580,401, Feb. 15, 1984, abandoned. Intl. Cl. : H04Q 1/00 Current U.S. Cl.: 340/825.54; 340/825.69; 375/272; 455/41 Field of Search: 340/825.54, 825.55, 825.69, 825.72, 825.34, 825.94, 572; 455/118, 41; 375/45, 62, 78, 81, 52; 370/53, 112 References Cited | [Referenced By] U.S. Patent Documents 3,109,143 Oct., 1963 Gluth 375/81 3,510,779 May, 1970 Klapper 375/81 3,689,885 Sept., 1972 Kaplan et al. 455/41 X 4,287,596 Sept., 1981 Chari 375/52 X 4,313,033 Jan., 1982 Walker et al. 370/112 X 4,368,439 Jan., 1983 Shibuya et al. 375/62 X 4,388,730 Jun., 1983 Nash et al. 375/81 X Primary Examiner: Weldon; Ulysses Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sirr; Francis A., Hancock; Earl C. 14 Claims, 8 Drawing Figures [USPTO] -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo(a)world.std.com -> Posted by: jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)

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IP: White House decision affects e-mail scrambling software
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: White House decision affects e-mail scrambling software Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:17:36 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Fox News - AP White House decision affects e-mail scrambling software 6.56 p.m. ET (2256 GMT) September 16, 1998 By Ted Bridis, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) The Clinton administration relaxed some restrictions Wednesday on the export of powerful data-scrambling technology a decision that could help Americans who want to guarantee the privacy of their e-mail and other electronic information. The White House said U.S. companies can begin selling high-tech tools overseas that use the so-called 56-bit Data Encryption Standard or its equivalent, which has an unlocking key with 72 quadrillion possible combinations. The government imposes limits on exports of the most powerful scrambling technology now anything above 56-bit because it fears that authorities, even with a judge's permission, won't be able to read the messages of criminals or terrorists. The export limits do not directly affect Americans, who are legally free to use encryption technology of any strength. But U.S. companies are reluctant to develop one version of their technology for domestic use and a weaker overseas version, so they typically sell only the most powerful type that's legal for export, even to Americans. Vice President Al Gore called the new rule's balance between privacy and not helping criminals "probably one of the single-most difficult and complex issues that you can possibly imagine.'' "We must ensure that new technology does not mean new and sophisticated criminal and terrorist activity,'' Gore said. "And we must ensure that the sensitive financial and business transactions that now cruise along the information superhighway are 100 percent safe in cyberspace.'' Privacy advocates, though, derided Wednesday's announcement as a modest step, noting that a non-profit group of researchers demonstrated earlier this summer it can unscramble a 56-bit coded message in just days. Experts have suggested that scrambling sensitive e-mail or online credit-card transactions using less than 90 bits is vulnerable, while most experts consider 128-bit encryption practically unbreakable. Some companies that sell encryption products nonetheless praised the announcement. The president of the Business Software Alliance, Robert Holleyman, called it "a significant improvement over what we have today.'' The administration previously limited the export of 40-bit encryption technology, which has more than 1 trillion combinations. "It's a step but it's a small step,'' said Alan Davidson, an encryption expert for the Washington-based Center for Democracy and Technology. "We're worried that 56 bits is not enough.'' Barry Steinhardt, president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group, said: "We assume this is done to throw a bone to industry at a time when the administration needs all the friends it can get.'' "But it's half a step, and it continues to rely on dangerous technologies,'' he said. The White House also said Wednesday that it will allow U.S. companies to use unlimited-strength encryption to communicate with their subsidiaries in all countries except seven terrorist nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba. It also agreed to allow U.S. encryption companies to sell the most powerful scrambling tools overseas to insurance companies and health and medical organizations in more than 40 countries. And the administration said it will establish a technical support center for federal, state and local authorities who might be confronted with criminals using encryption. In June, the Electronic Frontier Foundation used a custom-built computer worth less than $250,000 to crack a 56-bit encrypted message in less than three days to win an industry contest. The EFF published a book describing exactly how to build a replica of its code-breaking computer. © 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Digital Biometrics Awarded Rhode Island State Contract
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Digital Biometrics Awarded Rhode Island State Contract Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:00:41 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com Digital Biometrics Awarded Rhode Island State Contract DBI Tenprinter 1133S Systems Selected For Rhode Island's Live-Scan Fingerprinting MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Biometrics, Inc. (Nasdaq: DBII) a leader in biometric identification systems integration company, today announced the award of the Rhode Island State contract for an initial order of six TENPRINTER 1133S live-scan fingerprinting systems. These systems will enable police agencies to eliminate the need for the traditional ink method of taking fingerprints, and significantly speed fingerprint processing of criminal and suspected criminal fingerprints with a higher degree of accuracy. Live-scan systems such as the 1133S are special-purpose computer-based systems which capture, digitize and transmit fingerprint images, and provide a significant improvement in image quality and ease-of-use compared to the traditional ink-based method of taking fingerprints. Live-scan systems are used in law enforcement and increasingly in non-law enforcement applications such as employment screening, new employee enrollment, firearms registration, and security screening. James C. Granger, President and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Biometrics commented, "We are very pleased that Rhode Island has chosen DBI for their fingerprinting network. Rhode Island joins the growing list of states that have chosen our live-scan technology." Rhode Island joins Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Oregon, Nevada, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, California and Virginia as recent U.S. purchasers of Digital Biometrics TENPRINTER Series live-scan fingerprinting systems. Digital Biometrics also supplies live-scan systems to the Scottish Criminal Records Office and has recently won an OEM agreement with TRW for England and Wales. Digital Biometrics is a provider of biometric identification systems and systems integration services. DBI is a leading supplier of computer systems-based products and services for fingerprint capture for law enforcement and commercial applications. In addition, its Integrated Identification Solutions Division delivers total solutions through customized applications and product integration to solve complex information systems problems, including identification problems, in commercial and government markets. SOURCE Digital Biometrics, Inc. ©1998 PR Newswire. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: ****British Police Attempt To Sidestep E-mail Protection
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Richard Sampson <rjsa(a)sprintmail.com> Subject: IP: ****British Police Attempt To Sidestep E-mail Protection Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:15:28 -0400 To: "ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com" <ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ****British Police Attempt To Sidestep E-mail Protection LONDON, ENGLAND, 1998 SEP 16 (Newsbytes) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Newsbytes' sources have revealed that the Metropolitan Police have been holding a series of low-key discussions with major Internet service providers (ISPs) in the UK, aiming to streamline police access to e-mail and ISP user logs. According to one reliable source, the aim of the discussions is to develop a ground-breaking agreement between the police and ISPs so that, where the police have reasonable suspicion that an individual is sending or receiving e-mail, or downloading images that involve paedophilia, then they can formally request full details of the Internet user's mailbox and system logs, for example, from the ISP in question. While the aim of the project is to avoid the need for police to obtain a formal court order to access the ISP's computer systems, Newsbytes expects there to be a massive outcry from civil libertarian groups, since the police order could well be implemented against anyone with an account with a British ISP. Newsbytes understands that an expose on the police plans will be broadcast on Channel 4 news at 19:00 hours on British television this evening. Newsbytes' sources suggest that British ISPs are under immense pressure to comply with the police system since, if they do not comply and request a court order, the police could theoretically impound their computer systems, effectively putting an ISP out of action, and perhaps business, for an unknown period of time. "While I can understand the police wanting to gain access to Internet users' files who are accessing the Net for paedophile images, this does seem something of a steamroller approach," said one industry source who spoke to Newsbytes after agreeing anonymity. Newsbytes notes that a major flaw exists in the British police's modus operandi for the proposed system, since the e-mail file servers for America Online (AOL) and CompuServe (AOL is the UK's largest ISP) are held in the US. Only the company's sales and support operations are located in the UK. "It will be interesting to see how the management of AOL and CompuServe in the US react to the news that they have to willingly hand over user logs and e-mail files to the British police," said the anonymous source. As has been proven by various cases in the US, the normal legal protection afforded postal and telephone communications by anti- wiretap legislation is not automatically extended to include e-mail. In the UK, it had been thought that the Interception of Communications Act might apply to e-mail, but the law relating to e-mail remains unproven, Newsbytes notes. Reported by Newsbytes News Network, http://www.newsbytes.com . -0- (19980916/WIRES LEGAL, ONLINE/) News provided by COMTEX. [!BUSINESS] [!HIGHTECH] [!INFOTECH] [!PUBLIC+COMPANIES] [!WALL+STREET] [BUSINESS] [COMPUTER] [E-MAIL] [ENGLAND] [GOLD] [INTERNET] [LEGISLATION] [LONDON] [NBY] [NEWS] [NEWSGRID] [ONLINE] [POLICE] [SALES] [TELEVISION] -- ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Biometrics: SAC Tech: Complete Electronic Security Solution
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Biometrics: SAC Tech: Complete Electronic Security Solution Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:02:58 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com SAC Technologies Showcases Complete Electronic Security Solution Company To Unveil Next Generation Biometrics Technology Prototype Product at Security 2001 Conference NEW YORK, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- SAC Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SACM), a biometrics technology development company, today announced the Company will unveil a manufacturing prototype of its fully integrated solution for electronic security applications through biometrics identification technology at the September 16-17, 1998 Westergaard/Mallon Security 2001 Conference in New York. "A recent survey by the American Society for Industrial Security noted that losses due to intellectual theft have reached almost $300 billion," according to SAC CEO Mr. Barry Wendt. "Computer security is a major concern with electronic commerce, Internet transactions, on-line banking and security in general. Unlike other security measures such as PIN numbers, passwords or tokens which can easily be lost, stolen or forgotten, biometrics technology is based on an individual's physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint, so it requires the physical presence of an authorized user." SAC Technologies, Inc. plans to introduce the next evolution of its SACcat(TM) product at the two-day investment conference. Bundled with 'best of breed' biometrics technology consisting of fingerprint identification, voice verification and facial recognition, SACcat(TM) features software applications of computer log-on, screen-saver, and desktop security and configuration. Additional integrated software applications will include Bio-Key(TM) secured video teleconferencing and video e-mail and SAC_Secure(TM) for selectively encrypting program applications, data files and network communications using Certicom Corp.'s elliptic curve engine. At the heart of SAC's biometric identification technology is the Company's "Vector Line Type" Algorithm (VLTA) considered by some to be the most robust, reliable, scaleable and discriminating algorithm available today. VLTA represents a true paradigm shift from current industry minutiae-based methods of storing and analyzing fingerprints. VLTA processes the entire pattern of the fingerprint to derive a list of vector line types and their associated relationships. These unique characteristics of the fingerprint are subsequently transformed into a vector line type mathematical model or Bio-Key(TM), which is highly unique and easy to process for comparative purposes. Unlike biometric verification (one-to-one matching) processes produced by its competitors which require an additional identifier (pin number, token or password), SAC's technology provides for true, real-time identification (one-to-many) -- the process of comparing the biometric characteristics of an unknown individual against characteristics stored in a database to determine their identity. SAC's certified biometric identification technology can provide the necessary discrimination to determine the identity of a user and thereby insure the integrity of an application by eliminating the possibility of 'aliases' (multiple identities). SAC is the first, and currently remains the only, company in the world to earn the International Computer Security Association's (ICSA) biometric 'identification' certification. "This latest version of the SACcat(TM) product is a 'turn-key,' cost-effective hardware and software biometrics security and convenience solution for individual computer workstations and networks," said Mr. Wendt. "We believe that SACcat(TM) is an ideal complement to computer network security suites provided by such companies as Network Associates, Secure Computing, Check Point and Security Dynamics." "Within a year from now I am convinced that consumers will be asking whether biometrics security is included in their information systems and computer applications. Companies who do not add biometric security to their product offerings will lose market share. Compaq, one of the world's largest providers of PCs, will have a biometrics peripheral product available this fall. Other computer providers could gain competitive advantage by negotiating an exclusive license with the Company to manufacture, embed and distribute SACcat(TM) technology," added Mr. Wendt. Companies interested in SAC Technologies' SACcat(TM) biometric security solution should contact Mr. Barry Wendt at 708-798-9777 or for more information on the Company check out its website at http://www.sacman.com. Safe Harbor Statement Statements contained herein, other than historical data, may be forward-looking and are subject to risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to the Company's ability to successfully integrate its technology with other technologies, and its ability to achieve its sales and marketing plans while effectively managing costs and expenses, as well as those risks set forth in the Company's 10KSB, 10QSB, and other SEC filings. SOURCE SAC Technologies Web Site: http://www.sacman.com ©1998 PR Newswire. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Redesigned $20 Bills Debut Sept. 24
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Redesigned $20 Bills Debut Sept. 24 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:08:59 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Department of Defense http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep1998/n09151998_9809157.html [Note: Images at this site if you want to look at the new bill.] Redesigned $20 Bills Debut Sept. 24 By Rudi Williams American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON - The government rolls out its new redesigned high- tech, tough-to-copy $20 bill worldwide Sept. 24. Revamped $50 and $100 notes are already in circulation. The $20 bill, though, is key to thwarting counterfeiters, because it's the most widely circulated "big bill" and the most counterfeited, Secret Service spokeswoman Chaun Yount said. The Secret Service -- the organization that guards the president -- is the Treasury Department unit that oversees counterfeiting issues. Both sides of the redesigned $20 bills include numerous anti-counterfeiting measures, she said. Security features include embedded threads with micro-printing; a watermark; a large, off-center portrait of President Andrew Jackson with micro-printed words and hard-to-copy engraved details; the Federal Reserve seal; and color-shifting ink. Yount said people are the first line of defense against counterfeiting. People need to be familiar with the new twenties because they'll be seeing a lot of them, she said. According to U.S. Treasury figures, the mints print $20 notes in numbers second only to $1 notes. "We always have $20 bills in our pocket, if we're lucky," she noted. "The general public pays little attention to the $20 bill because it's the most commonly used note. Counterfeiters look at that as an opportunity. They like twenties because of their 'nice profit margin'" -- they have the highest face value that doesn't draw most people's attention, and passable fake twenties cost no more to make than fake fives and tens. "People who are passing counterfeit money are looking for a high volume of cash," she said. "They target people who are rushed and don't take time to authenticate the bills." She said military people are not typical targets of counterfeiters. However, the Treasury Department has been working with possible targets, such as the military exchange services, to train employees on the look and security features of the new $20 bill. In 1995, $231 million worth of counterfeit U.S. money was seized worldwide, Yount noted. That dropped to $64 million in 1996 and 1997 after the similarly redesigned $100 and $50 notes were introduced. She said the new notes will spread as fast as financial institutions order $20 bills and circulate them. "So for some time, the old and new $20 bills will circulate at the same time," she noted. "As the old $20 bills wear out, they'll be replaced with the new ones. The life of a $20 bill is about two years." Treasury officials are working on new, high-tech $1, $5 and $10 notes with anti-counterfeiting features. For more information about redesigned U.S. currency, visit the Treasury Department Web sites at www.treas.gov or www.moneyfactory.com/currency/20.cfm. [IMAGE} Security features on the front of the new $20 note include an embedded security thread; a large, off-center portrait of President Andrew Jackson; the Federal Reserve seal; and color-shifting ink. U.S. Treasury Department [IMAGE} The backside of the new $20 note contains fine-line printing patterns; an easy-to-read large $20 numeral; and an embedded security thread. U.S. Treasury Department ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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SNET: Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton) Subject: SNET: Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 03:06:46 +1200 To: snetnews(a)world.std.com -> SNETNEWS Mailing List http://www.mcs.net/~lpyleprn/jpfo.html <- Looks like a noble effort [jpfo(a)prn-bbs.org] JFPO Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." --Henry Kissinger TODAY's COMMUNIQUE ================== Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card ============================================ First a little on the handy... BIG BROTHER WATCHING Has anybody thought about the fact why Goverments are pushing the GSM-Handys so much. More and more people will change over to the "handy" Handy, not thinking that this system is utterly unsafe. There are various A5 chips build-in which supposed to encrypt the conversation between the Handy and the nearby station. This encryption - if there is any at all - can be switched off and is a 4 Bit Kode which can be cracked in Minutes. But the biggest danger was exposed by the (Swiss) Berner Sonntagszeitung which wrote that the Swisscom - which really belongs to AT&T or another US-company (a subsidiary of the CIA/MOSSAD) is collecting data from every GSM-User and the movement of the owner for at least 6 Months (Bewegungs-Profile). The owner of a GSM Handy can be located with the GPS (General Position System and Sattelites) within few Meters, no matter if he uses the Phones or not. The complete German Text (article) you will find on the Ostara-Website http://www.ostara.org/autor/gsm.txt The question is now what can we do, because the same "big brother" things are going on everywhere and nobody knows who is exchanging data with whom. Not only the owner of the GSM will be recorded, but also the telefon Nr. of the receiver. And this warning goes even more for people using ISDN which is no problem to hack into. The Story of the LOTUS-NOTES where the US-Goverment holds the decryption key is well known by now - hopefully. If you have to use a Handy, use a anonymous Credit-card Handy where you can buy the cards in any communication shop with cash (no bankcredit-card). 30.12.1997 fwd from: Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent Electronic Telegraph UK. THE first civilian spy satellite will soon allow anyone with a credit card to peek into a neighbour's garden or a highly secret military base for as little as engl. Pounds 200,- EarlyBird 1, the first commercial spacecraft to use recently declassified spy technology, was successfully launched from a military base in eastern Russia last week, ending the 40-year monopoly of the world's most advanced military and intelligence services on gathering high-resolution pictures from space. EarthWatch Inc, the satellite's owner, confirmed yesterday that, subject to a last calibration and alignment test, it was ready to start broadcasting clandestine pictures from its orbit 295 miles above Earth. With the exception of the governments of Cuba, North Korea, Libya, Iraq and Iran, anybody can order highly-detailed images from anywhere in the world, for as little as 31.80 per square foot, subject to a 3200 minimum order. The sharpest commercial satellite images available now capture features no smaller than 33ft across, good enough for media pictures of the Tiananmen Square massacre but not detailed enough for covert examinations of neighbours' activities. However, once EarlyBird 1 starts taking pictures, customers will be able to control it via the Internet and place orders for black-and-white pictures that will show features as small as 10ft across. EarthWatch promises that pictures will be taken and sent to customers within two days of receiving the target co-ordinates. "It's detailed enough to distinguish a car from a truck, or to measure the size of a neighbour's extension," said Bob Wientzen, an EarthWatch spokesman. Colour pictures will also be offered, but with a resolution of only within 45ft. Most of the time, the satellite is expected to focus on targets related to town planning, map-making, disaster relief or mining. It will also allow the media and the public to scrutinise environmental and military crises. Some industry experts expect the biggest customers to be foreign governments and intelligence agencies who do not have access to spy satellite networks of their own. Companies in India, Israel, Russia, China and America plan to launch a further generation of spy satellites capable of distinguishing objects with a diameter of about three feet. --=====================_883451814==_-- http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html Electric Eye in the Sky is a song by ? [Take a guess] ====================================== The lyrics go like this. Electric Eye Up here in space I'm looking down on you. My lasers trace Everything you do. You think you've private lives Think nothing of the kind. There is no true escape I'm watching all the time. I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean. I'm elected, electric spy I'm protected, electric eye. Always in focus You can't feel my stare. I zoom in on you You dont know I 'm there. I take a pride in probing all your secret moves My tearless retina takes pictures that can proof. Electric eye, in the sky Feel my stare, always there There's nothing you can do about it. Develop and expose I feed upon your every thought And so my power grows. Protected... Detective... Electric Eye... If you would like to hear this song, please ask. In our neck of the woods, We have a new system called "Aggressive Driving Imaging" but the state will not divulge details of this system to us. I thought we paid their salaries, etc, how can they "not disclose the details of the system to us". With the numerous "Red Light" cameras ($50,000 a piece $5000 to install) up that automagically mail tickets to the OWNER of the car that ran the light, you will have friends and family (who borrowed the car) being forced to testify against themselves to prevent the owner from being deprived of his property. Since same cannot be forced to bear witness against themself, where is the due process that must precede the taking of the owners property, however small it may start out to be ? Keep in mind that if there is no victim there is no crime, and that you should always be able to face your accuser, and that the state cannot sue or be sued, fair is fair right ? i.e. the plaintiff MUST be an individual of flesh and blood. Also the right to travel by the means available in your day, is a RIGHT, not a priviledge, and as such CANNOT be licensed or taxed or infringed in any manner whatsoever against your will if noncommercial. (SEE: http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html) And how are eye level camera shots of people in their cars legal when there is NO PROBABLE CAUSE and no SIGNED SPECIFC WARRANT !? http://www.bts.gov/smart/cat/images/274/274F1.GIF Some urls to explore: http://webserv.dot.co.montgomery.md.us/jpgcap/camintro.html http://www.atmsonline.com (latest in this sick industry) http://www.truckers.com/trafcam.htm http://www.dcn.com/usa.html http://www.bts.gov/smart/cat/images/274/274F1.GIF http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html Looking for more maps of exact locations of these cameras and police state devices so we can share them with others and compile an exhaustive inventory of them. We should be allowed to know where the NO-PRIVACY ZONES ARE and start letting others know the scope breadth and depth. CAUGHT You used to watch television. Now it watches you. By Phil Patton _________________________________________________________________ It's early morning in the 'burbs. My eyes are barely open, but the video eye is on me. I stop by the convenience store for coffee and newspapers. On the grainy screen of a boxy monitor behind the clerk, I catch a glimpse of a tiny figure that, after a moment, I realize represents me. Opening my wallet reminds me that I'm as short of cash as usual, so I stop at the ATM. Through a one-way mirror, a video camera is recording the transaction. I drive along New Jersey's Route 3 toward New York City, quite possibly under the video observation of the New Jersey State Police, my state being one of several that have tested remote stations that capture radar-gun readings and license-plate numbers and mail out speeding tickets. As I descend the dread "helix" into the Lincoln Tunnel, I go on TV for Panasonic. Atop a huge billboard advertising the company's camcorders is the "Panasonic Traffic Cam," an absurdly tiny device that perches like an insect above a sign bearing the face of a white-knuckled driver. The driver looks a bit like the late John Candy - all exasperation as the kids behind him quibble and scream. I can tune the radio to 1010 WINS to hear what the camera sees: in a cunning marketing tie-in, I get "reports from the Panasonic Traffic Cam high above the helix - there's a 15 minute delay at the Lincoln...." CUT, if you would like to read the rest of this ESQUIRE MAGAZINE Article, let me know and I will forward it to you... ralph Phil Patton (pattonp(a)pipeline.com) is a contributing editor to Esquire. He is the author of Made in the USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write Peter.Navy(a)Rocketmail.com to find the BLOCKBUSTER suppressed book: "Tragedy & Hope" by Carroll Quigley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To find out how to get the suppressed hush hush 384 page BLOCKBUSTER book: "FINAL JUDGEMENT" by Michael Collins Piper, that argues that ISRAEL's MOSSAD murdered President John F. Kennedy, or Myron Fagan's tapes, contact peter.navy(a)rocketmail.com and ask for a FREE copy of The SPOTLIGHT. --------------------------- TO RECEIVE email from ralph: send email to ralph(a)TeamInfinity.com and in the Subject make sure your email address and the word GO-RALPH (no spaces) is in the subject. 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Isaac Lee
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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