December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:06:30 -0500 > From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory > (RAM) under Windows") (fwd) > >1. Is it OpenSource? > Is this a religious argument? I think he said it was copyrighted freeware, > so use it and leave the copyright notices in and you're ok. Where does he say that Bill? And while it ain't religious, there are some perferences to having it open source versus controlled source. > >2. I assume since it never swaps to disk the memory requirements for the > > computer are large. What is the minimum suggested if one runs say > > 5 apps that each require 16M each, 5*16M & OS overhead? > > Bad Assumption. The memory requirements are whatever you want; Wrong, since the ENTIRE OS is run under this it's not nearly that simple. The OS's internal swap page as well as by extension the contexts they point to are going to be sitting in there. The app should also encrypt the address spaces of the system structures. > if you're storing a few private keys, or intermediate calculation results, > the requirements are very small; if you're storing 16MB databases, > they're much larger. For today, 16MB seems large enough that > I'd think you'd use a crypto-disk or instead of nailing it into RAM, > but the boundaries between huge, routine, and small keep moving > in this business, so maybe you do now, and you will soon enough. Where in that description does it say it allows particular apps to use this product? > Does anybody know if Win95/98 keeps RAMdisks in RAM, or swaps them > out to real disk along with other least-recently-used data? You don't know this but you're willing to try to rake me.... Talk about unprepared. > > And what is the suggested OS overhead with no swap to disk? > > (OK, that last one might be a 3rd question) > > That's a good question. My guess is that it's probably 0-2KB, > plus however big the drivers are, might be as big as 64KB, > but presumably isn't 1MB. In other words, too small to worry about > on recent machines, where an extra 16MB RAM costs $10, > but if you're using that spare 4MB 386 as a remailer, > you've got to be more careful. Your guess is pretty much worthless. What we'd like is an aswer from the person who wrote it. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan 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: Article V - an analysis (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:07 -0500 > From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> > Subject: Re: Article V - an analysis (fwd) > The most recent amendment (27th?) sat around for nearly 200 years > before 3/4 of the states ratified it, (preventing Congress from > raising their salaries during their current term.) > The power to specify a time limit doesn't need separate mention; > the time limit is either part of the proposed amendment, or it isn't, > and it's part of the negotiations for getting Congress to pass it. Really? Where do you see that in the Constitution? > The more dangerous problem is that people keep suggesting a > Constitutional Convention, which has basically no limits on its scope And where do you see unlimited power assigned at under Article V? > (especially given the one previous precedent, which substantially > increased Federal power beyond the limits of the Articles, > and didn't require unanimous consent to adopt its product, > though the Articles required it for changing them.) That isn't a precedence. > Even if the states _say_ they're limiting their delegation to > specific tasks, that doesn't mean the ConCon won't exceed them, > and if it gets sufficient media/public support, it can get away with it. Sure it does, then the states remove their support and it isn't a convention anymore. ARTICLE V. [Constitution: how amended; proviso.] The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions of the three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which shall be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of it's equal Suffrage in the Senate. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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native onani
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:24 AM 11/27/98 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote: > Obviously >neither homosexual nor homophobic, both groups >prefer the chaste option of onani (onanism) to the perceived compromises of >marital consummation. Worse than that, they use a geijing word for masturbation... --If the spice girls mud-wrestled shonen knife, who would win?

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate misses the point, as usual: > Wrong, since the ENTIRE OS is run under this it's not nearly that simple. > The OS's internal swap page as well as by extension the contexts they point > to are going to be sitting in there. The app should also encrypt the address > spaces of the system structures. The original message said: > From: "Jim Adler" <jadler(a)soundcode.com> > The SCNSM driver supports allocation of non-swappable memory on Windows > 3.x/95/98. The principal design goal of SCNSM is to provide memory that will > not be swapped to disk, under any circumstances. Typically, security > applications require such memory to store private keys, passwords, and > sensitive intermediate results of cryptographic calculations. What is Choate thinking when he says the ENTIRE OS is run under this? This is a driver which is used by the application to allocate specific memory buffers in non-swappable memory. It allows the app to lock down those buffers so that they won't swap to disk. These buffers can then be used to hold sensitive data. It is neither possible nor desirable to run the ENTIRE OS out of such buffers. It is not possible because the OS is already written. It is Windows 3.x/95/98 (see above). That OS does not make the special driver calls which would be necessary to allocate non-swappable memory. You would have to rewrite Windows to use the special calls, which isn't possible for a luser like Choate. And it's not even desirable. There is no reason to make the ENTIRE OS use non-swappable memory. Most memory is simply not that sensitive. It holds public data, or data which is already on the disk in some form. Putting the ENTIRE OS into non-swappable memory gives up much of the advantage of having virtual memory in the first place. It would be a giant step backwards in OS architecture. Here's what Choate had to say when Bill Stewart tried to politely help him out: > You don't know this but you're willing to try to rake me.... > Talk about unprepared. > Your guess is pretty much worthless. It's bad enough to have to endure more of Choate's idiocy, but it is especially offensive to see him hassling Bill Stewart, one of the most consistently informative and valuable list members. Bill's a thick- skinned guy and it's probably no big deal to him, but it further illustrates what a negative contribution Choate makes here.

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:41:53 +0100 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > What is Choate thinking when he says the ENTIRE OS is run under this? My mistake. Since it really does only handle individual apps it's of limited utility in the Windows world because of the numerous ways to get system level access. > This is a driver which is used by the application to allocate specific > memory buffers in non-swappable memory. It allows the app to lock down > those buffers so that they won't swap to disk. These buffers can then > be used to hold sensitive data. Considering that this doesn't prohibit apps from getting access to that memory, it only prohibits that memory page from being written to disk, it has limited utility. It's only real protection is against disk scans. For example a bogus service could gain system level and initiate a DMA transfer of that non-swappable ram into their own address space. > It is neither possible nor desirable to run the ENTIRE OS out of > such buffers. Sure it is. It's the entire reason to have big online memory pools. Idealy you'd have a computer with nothing but gig's and gig's of ram and no hard drive at all. > It is not possible because the OS is already written. > It is Windows 3.x/95/98 (see above). That OS does not make the special > driver calls which would be necessary to allocate non-swappable memory. > You would have to rewrite Windows to use the special calls, which isn't > possible for a luser like Choate. No, simply provide it enough ram it never has to swap out to disk except in the case of updates to files. If ram's that cheap we could do away with the drive completely. > And it's not even desirable. There is no reason to make the ENTIRE OS > use non-swappable memory. They why do I (and you unless youre using a tty) keep adding ram to my Win/Linux/Solaris/AIX/HP/etc. boxes to reduce the swapping that is taking place? It's slow, we put up with it because we can't afford those hundreds of meg's of ram to hold our app and the entire database file (for example). > Most memory is simply not that sensitive. > It holds public data, or data which is already on the disk in some form. > Putting the ENTIRE OS into non-swappable memory gives up much of the > advantage of having virtual memory in the first place. It would be a > giant step backwards in OS architecture. No, it wouldn't. The question of swap or virtual space is one of economics and not computer architecture. If it were economicaly feasible there would be no drives just fast main ram. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:44:04 -0600 (CST) > > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:41:53 +0100 > > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > > > What is Choate thinking when he says the ENTIRE OS is run under this? > > My mistake. Since it really does only handle individual apps it's of limited > utility in the Windows world because of the numerous ways to get system > level access. I forgot to add that I'd still be interested in knowing if the utility would support the entire OS being run under this and what the memory constraints would be. If I had 2 of the Samsung 4G memory modules w/ battery back-up I could run an entire machine without a hard-drive. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan 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: Pi(x) - How many primes below x?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here are a couple of overdue Choate blooper corrections. Regarding the Prime Number Theorem, Choate originally wrote: > I had typed x/ln(x) as the asymptotic limit for the number of primes less > than x. > > This is incorrect. It should be, > > x/log(x) It should be noted that ln(x) is the logarithm to the base e of x. log(x) is somewhat ambiguous as to the base, but when it is contrasted with ln(x) as Choate does here, it implies that the base is 10. In fact the correct formula uses the base e, and x/ln(x) is not "incorrect" as Choate is claiming. When Choate's error was pointed out, he responded by quoting http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/howmany.shtml, which says that the formula is x/log x. What Choate failed to notice is that the web page clearly states that its logs are to the base e. In other words, the "log x" on that page is equivalent to the "ln(x)" which Choate originally wrote. Choate's original formula was the right one, and in writing that his formula was incorrect, he only displays his own confusion. With regard to his ludicrous model of a spark gap inside a conductive sphere, Choate originally wrote: > The spark gap generates sparks and that builds up free electrons in the > space inside the sphere (whether it is gas filled or a vacuum is > irrelevant). As that charge builds up it will be all of one type, electrons. > Now the electrons repel each other and therefor move in a circular motion > with the spark gap as the center. They strike the surface of the sphere and > tunnel through to the outside surface where they reside. The amount of > charge at any one point is related to the curvature of the surface at that > point. Since a sphere is constant curvature the charge will be evenly > distributed. It will continue to build up so long as you supply power to the > spark gap. In an ideal world it will get bigger and bigger. In the real > world at some point insulation breaks down and normal current flow takes > place. He believes that the spark gap emits electrons, which strike the inside surface of the sphere and "tunnel through" to the outside. He says that the charge will continue to build up so long as you supply power to the spark gap. Here is another message in which he made the same point: > This is in addition to the charge that steadily builds up in the shell as > the electrons accrete over time. This can be modelled with an integral of > the flow rate of the current in the battery (it after all is Coulombs/s). > It's not too hard (k * I). (I'm not going to go into what happens as the > charge on the shell builds up as we're discussing here the applicability of > wave equations as a reliable model). > > So what do you get? A hell of a charge that will go bang at some point when > some insulation give way. When it was pointed out how ignorant this idea was, and how it violates Gauss's Law, Choate tried to backpedal by proposing that the battery itself was charged in the first place. He even drew a picture: > 2N e- 1N p+ > > | | > | | > |-------------| |--------------| > | | | | > | | | | > | | > | | > |------0 0------------------0 0--| > \ > \ > spark gap switch It should be obvious that this device fails to generate the phenomena which he describes above. In the first place, since it has a net negative charge, the charge will appear on the outside of the sphere BEFORE THE SWITCH IS THROWN. There is no spark active, no electrons being emitted, yet a negative charge appears on the outside of the conductive sphere. This is an elementary application of Gauss's Law. Then, when the switch is thrown, there will be a spark, and some of the charges will neutralize each other, but of course the net charge will stay the same, by conservation of charge. The phenomenon Choate described of electrons being emitted by the spark gap, moving outward and striking the sphere, and then tunnelling through to make charge appear on the outside, will occur only in Choate's deluded imagination. Furthermore, there will be no "build up" of charge. The charge will be there from the moment the device is put into the sphere, long before the switch is thrown. Throwing the switch will have NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on the outside of the sphere. Michael Motyka spent several days trying to patiently explain all this to Choate, to no avail. He finally gave up in frustration. Choate is almost completely immune to enlightenment. He has certainly proved that patience and politeness make no dent in his thick skull. We shall see whether blunt frankness is any more effective.

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govt/business incest
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

on the incestuous relationship between govt and business... heh doesn't mention the DEFENSE industry, #@&%^* also for anyone interested, noam chomsky has many good books out on these subjects ------- Forwarded Messagone Subject: [exploration] Corporate Welfare: A Media Issue At Last? (fwd) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:24:26 -1000 From: Jonathan David Boyne <boyne(a)hawaii.edu> To: Undisclosed recipients:; By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate For many years, across the United States, huge quantities of >tax breaks and subsidies have been going to corporations. >Occasionally, the media spotlight falls on an example of how >government policies stand Robin Hood on his head -- shaking down >the poor and middle class while handing over the proceeds to >wealthy individuals and big businesses. > > Sometimes called "corporate welfare," this pattern of >legalized rip-offs has been widespread -- yet little of the story >seems to emerge in major news outlets. Overall, the coverage is >sporadic at best. In mass media, the broader picture has been >missing -- until the last few weeks. > > November brought a series of breakthroughs, thanks to two >gifted reporters and a news weekly that allowed them to engage in >rigorous journalism. All month, beginning with a cover story on >"What Corporate Welfare Costs You," Time magazine featured >extraordinary exposes by Donald Barlett and James Steele. > > Corporate welfare, they write, is "a game in which >governments large and small subsidize corporations large and >small, usually at the expense of another state or town and almost >always at the expense of individuals and other corporate >taxpayers." > > Barlett and Steele report that "the federal government alone >shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare." Meanwhile, >"a different kind of feeding frenzy is taking place" at the state >and local level -- where "politicians stumble over one another in >the rush to arrange special deals for select corporations." > > In theory, the giveaways create jobs. In practice, the >theory is hogwash: "Time's investigation has established that >almost without exception, local and state politicians have doled >out tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to businesses that are >in fact eliminating rather than creating jobs." > > Often, when localities roll out the gold carpet for firms, >government coffers shrink -- and services for the public >diminish. As Barlett and Steele document in excruciating detail, >one of the common results is health-threatening pollution that >goes unchallenged. The most vulnerable neighborhoods tend to be >where low-income people live. > > The big hogs at the tax-funded trough include popular brands >-- Intel and Dow, General Motors and Mercedes-Benz, Exxon and >Shell, UPS and Procter & Gamble, to name just a few. Some are the >parent companies of media empires, such as Walt Disney (ABC), >General Electric (NBC) and -- as the Time series acknowledges -- >Time Warner. > > "The king of corporate welfare may be Archer Daniels >Midland," according to Time. "The global agricultural-commodities >dealer has artfully preserved one of the more blatant welfare >programs -- a subsidy for ethanol that has already cost taxpayers >more than $5 billion in the 1990s. Some $3 billion of that has >gone to ADM." > > Year after year, Archer Daniels Midland has poured several >million dollars into the nightly PBS "NewsHour" television show >hosted by Jim Lehrer. ADM is also an underwriter of National >Public Radio news. And the savvy firm buys a lot of image ads on >commercial TV network programs that discuss political issues. Not >surprisingly, ADM hasn't been subjected to much tough reporting >on the national airwaves. > > Corporate welfare is an important issue. But it can easily >be spun in dubious directions. For instance, in an article >addressed "To Our Readers," Time's editor-in-chief Norman >Pearlstine throws a wide curve that breaks sharply downward and >to the right. > > "Ending corporate welfare as we know it is essential," >Pearlstine contends. But then comes the english: "Rather than >give corporations uneven and unfair exemptions, it may make more >sense to simply do away with both corporate welfare and corporate >taxation." > > Now there's an idea that Time Warner can get behind: Stop >taxing corporations! > > Another hazard is the temptation to put all forms of >government assistance in the same "welfare" category. It would be >a big mistake to equate government aid to dependent corporations >with safety-net subsidies for children, seniors and others >struggling at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. > > Government should not be using tax dollars to help the rich >get richer. But government has no business refusing to help >Americans get the nutrition, health care, housing and other >basics that are everyone's human right. > > Welcome as it is, the occasional blockbuster expose of >corporate abuses -- even in a media outlet as influential as Time >magazine -- won't accomplish very much. Without an "echo effect," >these issues are likely to remain muted. > > The need to speak up and take action is a burden that falls >on people in every community. Large corporations have been >ripping us off for decades. 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german hacker death suspicious
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

there used to be a lot of conspiracy literature circulating on the itnernet on the huge industry/black market of satellite decoding software, TV decoding software, and encryption systems.. I personally never figured this out but if someone could point out that material, I'd love to go back and look at it here's a pretty heavy article TCM will love<g> ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:12:03 -0700 Subject: Murder or suicide? Hacker's death in October still a mystery Murder or suicide? Hacker's death in October still a mystery Copyright © 1998 Nando Media Copyright © 1998 The Associated Press http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/world/112798/world37_28777_noframes.html BERLIN (November 27, 1998 3:15 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) -- He was a gifted computer whiz -- one of the best, one who'd made the jump from illegal tinkering to the legitimate, potentially lucrative business of making codes crack-proof from hackers like himself. But when Boris Floriciz was found hanging from a tree in a Berlin park on Oct. 22, his belt around his neck and his feet dragging the ground, it drew attention even outside the tight-knit world of hackers. His friends wonder whether he was caught up in the murkier side of the trade -- one of spies, espionage and black-market criminals. Was it suicide, as police suspect? Or homicide? At 26, Floriciz seemed headed for a great future. He'd just finished his computer science degree. International firms sought him as a consultant. He was happy, say his friends, who cannot believe he would take his own life. Floriciz's friends wonder if he had become a threat to someone on the wrong side of the business, leading to his death. "That was not a personal decision," Andy Mueller-Maguhn, a friend and fellow member of the Chaos Computer Club said. "For sure not. That was murder." >From childhood, Floriciz looked destined to be an engineer. He was always taking things apart to see how they worked. "Radios, television, clocks, the lawnmower - - -- nothing was safe from him," his father told Stern magazine. He dissembled a telephone booth to get at computer data inside. He was the first hacker to crack the microchips on Deutsche Telekom telephone cards, used at pay phones in Germany. His homemade card reloaded as the credit ran out. After getting caught in 1995 and sentenced to probation, Floriciz "felt the need to draw the line," said Mueller-Maguhn. He joined Chaos, a 10-year-old group of computer devotees, and he went back to college, earning his diploma in September by developing a scrambler to encode telephone calls on high-speed, digital lines. German media reports say Floriciz also was working on cracking decoders for pay television -- a booming business spreading across Europe. One of the key players is Robert Murdoch, whose digital broadcasting research firm NDS Ltd. contacted Floriciz two years ago about being a code-design consultant. "He was an exceptionally talented engineer," said Margot Field, spokeswoman at the firm's London headquarters. NDS wanted to hire him, but couldn't move forward because Floriciz hadn't yet graduated or completed his compulsory military service. The firm's last contact with him was in June. NDS apparently wasn't the only one interested in Floriciz. His father says Floriciz talked several times about being approached by people he suspected worked for spy agencies, which are believed to have mined the hacker world for talent in the past. Just a few months ago, Germany's spy agency tried to hire a hacker to get secrets out of Iran's military computers, the Chaos club said. But the contact vanished when the hacker got Chaos involved. Floriciz may also have attracted black marketeers of counterfeit chips for telephone cards and mobile phones. Deutsche Telekom estimates it loses millions of dollars each year from counterfeit cards. And industry officials worry that TV decoder chips offer gangsters even bigger profits on the black market. Money wasn't a lure for Floriciz, his friends say. He preferred to post his research on the Internet for all to see -- and use. "It was all the same to him if others raked in the bucks from what he developed," one friend, Daniel, told Stern. "The main thing for him was that he had proven what he was great at." Mueller-Maguhn says Floriciz's open attitude about his work might have threatened those who didn't want competitors horning in on their business. "He had lots of jobs, but he didn't want to become a slave of one company," he said. "Maybe that was a problem." Floriciz left his mother's apartment on Oct. 17 at about 2 p.m. She didn't think he'd be gone long, because he didn't take his laptop computer. He never came back. Calls to his mobile phone went unanswered. A passerby found his body five days later. His phone, keys, ID card and money were with him, evidence police say points to suicide. No sign of a struggle. Nothing stolen. No drugs. Detectives are waiting for test results -- fingerprint fragments or chemical traces -- before making a final determination. The Chaos Computer Club is putting together its own report, which it plans to release at its annual convention Dec. 27-29 in Berlin. Already, the death notice on the club's Web site states what Floriciz's friends believe happened: "The circumstances under which he disappeared and his extraordinary capabilities lead us to the conclusion that he became a homicide victim." By PAUL GEITNER, Associated Press Writer

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y2k/gary north delusions
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been reading gary north for quite awhile and think he is quite brilliant on some issues. for example he was quoting statistics about amt of time it takes to fix code, cost per line, govt agencies etc. a long, long time ago. he really zeroed in on the govt bureacrat "ostrichism" early on.. anyway I hate to say that I think he is really losing his mind lately.. no there are going to be some serious y2k problems, but imho the bottom approaches "garbage".. any talk of riots, mobs, martial law, stockpiling weaponry, roving bandits etc. seems to me to be really way off base to say the least. now people have been talking about this, but I've never seen gary north go quite that crazy. all the quoting of obscure, fictitious b-grade movies in this article makes me think he is really living in a fantasy world. now this is a shame because some of his research is some of the most solid and ahead-of-time than anyone on the entire net, by far. his site is a work of art in tedious archival, compilation, indexing. gary, take it easy. take a vacation. take a deep breath. well posted for your own opinion ------- Forwarded Message Gary North's REALITY CHECK Issue #33 November 17, 1998 CLOCKS TICK, BUT MOST PEOPLE IGNORE THE SOUND Tonight we will go through the Leonid meteor shower. Scientists tell us that this one will not match the 1966 shower, nor will it match the one a year and a day from now. But we will probably lose a few major satellites. Any company that has insured satellites has just entered a higher-risk period. Astronomy is a precise science. It can predict events such as this one with remarkable accuracy. The astronomers do not know how intense this shower will be, but they know for certain that tonight will be the highest density night. Some think it will be a bump in the highway, but others think it could be worse for our satellites. This reminds me of y2k forecasts. I shall go out tonight to see the shooting stars. I was on top of a hill in a desert area in 1966, lying on the trunk of a car, looking up. I did not know about the Leonids. I just happened to be in the right place to see them. The shooting stars came every few minutes. Never in history had there been so many -- and records of the Leonids go back to the tenth century. I'll never forget it. I'll never forget y2k, either. IGNORING THE OBVIOUS There are millions of people who know that y2k is coming. They will put this out of their minds until the last minute. They will pay no attention until events force themselves on men's perception. Then they will say, "Why didn't anyone tell me?" There are several answers: (1) the watchmen did not believe the evidence; (2) risks to the reputations of watchmen are high and rewards are few; (3) almost no one would have listened anyway. Let me give another example. I have mentioned in "Remnant Review," but not on my Web site, since it is not a y2k issue. But it is surely an ignored deadline issue. Brady II goes into effect in just a few days: December 1. >From that day forward, U.S. residents will not be able to buy a shotgun or a rifle without registering and paying a fee. Their names will be placed in an FBI computer, even though this is illegal and the authorities know it's illegal. Where is the ACLU? If this law applied only to Blacks, the ACLU would be fighting it. But since it applies to everyone, we hear nothing. There is a scene in "The Trigger Effect" where the two male characters go into a gun store a few days after the power has been off. So do a lot of others. They are told that they cannot buy handguns. There is a waiting period. But they can buy rifles and shotguns. They buy a shotgun with what little cash they can scrape together. As of December 1, this scene will be inaccurate. There will be an extra fee and the loss of privacy. The next step: a prohibition on private gun sales. To sell your gun to your next door neighbor, you will have to take your gun to a gun dealer, who will register the transaction and impose the 5-day waiting period. The President has said that it is his goal to shut down gun shows. I think he will be successful. Now, I'm not too worried about being in any computer. They will all be dead on 1/1/2000. But what is obvious is that those who dilly-dally now will find themselves competing with people who have cash in 2000. The collapse of the banks over the next 16 months will transfer wealth to the drug dealers on a massive scale. They will have cash, and they will be dealing in consumer goods that will function as money. Drugs are divisible, recognizable to users, have a very high value-to-volume ratio, and are durable. There is no doubt in my mind that in those geographical areas where addiction is high, the drug lords will take over the functions of government. They will be armed. They will have money. They are ruthless. And the police will be absent. The inner cities of the United States will become warlord societies within two years. Do not live anywhere near one of these areas. The criminals and addicts will fan out to extract wealth from contiguous areas. The police will be hard-pressed to respond. It will take time for martial law to be imposed, and in most places, there will not be any military presence. Neighborhood defense will be based increasingly on what local residents can muster. If the locals are disarmed, then they will be sitting ducks. Neighborhoods will set up roadblocks with cars. The two-car family will become a one-car family. The number- one defensive measure a neighborhood can take is a roadblock. Criminals will have to get into a neighborhood on foot. They will have to get out the same way. Easy transportation will disappear in 2000. Urban life will move to a crawl. On that day, you had better have your water, your food, your non-hybrid seeds, and your ammunition. Nobody else talks like this. The watchmen are in the "peace, peace" mode. That's easy talk in the days before the shooting starts. The function of the watchman in the Old Testament was military. He warned of an invading army. That's what I'm doing. The army has already invaded the central cities. It is well armed, well organized, and ruthless. It will move outward in 2000. Rent "The Friendly Persuasion." It's a great movie. Pay close attention to the pacifism of the Quaker men in the weeks before the Confederates invaded and the militarism on the day before. Talk of peace is cheap before the shooting starts. What I am saying is obvious, but it is not politically correct. Today's watchmen are afraid of politically liberal media reporters who might say, "These people recommend buying guns! Oh, woe! Oh, horrors!" I pay no attention. When I think of any reporter, I think: "Dead man typing." He will have no job, no career, no pension, and no readers in 15 months. He will be at the mercy of those around him. The mentality of the typical reporter is that of the wife on "the Trigger Effect." A liberal to the core, she wanted no part of a shotgun. The movie centers around her ideology and the costs that it imposed. It was not a good movie, but it surely did portray her in a bad light, which was well deserved. The clock is ticking. Brady II is coming. And millions of people will walk into a Wal-Mart SuperCenter next month and through all of next year and wonder: "Why didn't someone tell me I would have to register this transaction?" (See the three reasons, above.) ACROSS THE BOARD The shock of recognition that rifle-buyers will have in the next few months will be paralleled in 1999 on an international scale. "What do you mean, I can't get cash out of this bank?" "What do you mean, you're out of solar panels?" (http://www.solarextreme.com) "What do you mean, I can't buy an inverter?" "What do you mean, I can't get delivery of a diesel generator?" "What do you mean, you don't have any deep cycle golf cart batteries?" "What do you mean I can't get delivery of a wood burning stove?" In 2000, it will be food, water, and electricity. But there will be no seller to complain to. To complain, you have to be able to speak to someone. You won't be able to. Let's start with the basics: water. An urban adult uses 75 to 100 gallons of water a day. This doesn't count watering the lawn. In 2000, how many people will be under your roof? Remember, your children may show up on your doorstep, with wives and children. Families will pull together for survival in 2000. Estimate the number of people under your roof in 2000. Now, how much water will you need per day? What if the municipal water authority shuts down? It's goodbye showers. Goodbye flushing toilets. Hello sponge baths and thunder mugs. I don't think the reality of the power cut-off will hit most families until someone says, "Mom, the toilet won't flush." Then the realization will dawn at last. A new, unpleasant world has arrived. Disease will begin to spread by the end of the week. Every time you take a shower, think of 2000. Every time you flush a toilet, think of 2000. Ask yourself: How will I do this in 2000? People will not do this. No, not even those who have read my warnings for two years. They will not go through the mental exercise of planning ahead for the basics -- and water is near the top of any list of basics, right below heat in the winter. There are millions of people who live in high-rise apartments today. There will be fewer in February, 2000. Let's assume that for the first three months in 2000, you will not get paid. The banks will be down. You will not be able to write a check or use a credit card. What will you do? What will your neighbors do? What if it's a year? If it's a year, it could be a decade. What will you do? What is your exit strategy? Have you and your spouse sat down with pencil and paper and written down your family's exit strategy? No? Why not? It's not that I haven't nagged you. What of your adult children? Which ones will be able to make it through three months of no paychecks? Of those that can't, how many will wind up on your doorstep in late 1999? Or will you wind up on theirs? Should you head for the hills? Wrong question. What solid evidence do you have that you shouldn't? Should you stay where you are? What items will you need in your possession in 2000 and 2001 to make your decision to stay put a wise one for you and all of your closest relatives, who will show up on your doorstep if they know that you have prepared? That is to say, have you prepared for every close family member who will be in trouble in 2000? No? Why not? The clock is ticking. Let me give a simple example. How will you wash clothes for everyone? Let's assume that you have water. (Dreamer!) You can buy a 40-lb. tub of Wind Fresh laundry detergent from Sam's Club for $10. It will do 160 loads. For one person, that's a year of washing. What if you have 10 people under your roof? You will need 10 tubs for just one year. But this product may not be readily available in 2001. You had better buy 20 tubs. I'll bet you don't have 20 tubs, even though you can afford $200. You lack the storage space. More important, 20 tubs of detergent point to all the other things you will need under conditions that would mandate 20 tubs of detergent. So, people refuse to buy enough detergent. Now, what about your neighbors? They will be dirty. Their clothes will be dirty. You will be clean. You will not have lost 30 pounds. You will be the target of envy on a scale you can barely imagine today. You will be despised. Will you be ready for this psychologically? Of course, you can warn your neighbors now. They will not prepare, but they will remember. There will be a stream of beggars at your door from 2000 onward. You may know their names. "Please, please, we're desperate." It won't be a lie. When a society loses the division of labor, it loses just about everything that the urban "good life" requires. If you keep even a fraction of these things -- clean clothes, for instance -- you will be resented. Envy is a powerful force. "He doesn't deserve it. It's not right that he should have so much. No one should have so much." Here is a piece of information you may not have. Sam's Club offers a special service. It has a 50-page notebook with all of its products listed, with order numbers. Go to the manager and ask for a copy. Take it home. Make a shopping list. You can order everything at one time. Rent a U-Haul or borrow a pick-up truck and pick up everything. The average adult consumes 1000 lbs of food for a year. Half should be vegetables. You can grow them. Buy non-hybrid seeds. (http://arkinstitute.com) Half can be grains. You can buy 200 lbs of white rice at Sam's Club for under $60. The same for pinto beans. In terms of food, $300 will feed you for a year. You'll hate the taste by mid-2000, but you'll eat. How many of you will spend a whole $300 on food? Not many. Why not? Because if they might need this much food, they'll need water, and they know they can't get enough water in 2000. They would have to move, or put in four 1,500-gallon cisterns and gutters, or buy a swimming pool. They won't do it. My suggestion: rent "The Trigger Effect." Then make up your mind about where you should live in 2000. For those who want a public presentation, which can be used to persuade people who have not read much about y2k, my Harrison, Arkansas y2k town meeting tape is effective. You can see representatives of the public utilities and a local bank deal with y2k. The question and answer session is especially useful. It sells for $39.95: call 903-839-8822. - - -------------------------------------------- Reality Check - - -------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message containing "unsubscribe" to: remnant-list-request(a)cliffslanding.com If you have questions please contact ice(a)ballistic.com. - - --------------60B23B773DFEE8A7DA22A23D-- - - --------------12214D0997E9CA46C4BB380C-- - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:26:46 +0000 > From: "Frank O'Dwyer" <fod(a)brd.ie> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd) > Jim Choate wrote: > > If I had 2 of the Samsung 4G memory modules w/ battery back-up I could run > > an entire machine without a hard-drive. > > If you had no hard drive why the hell would you worry about disk > swapping? I wouldn't because I'd have enough RAM to cover the requisite resources of my OS and apps. You have the cart before the horse. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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"Export" controls
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A few speculations on export controls. As we all know, the concentration of so-called hard crypto is the same inside and outside US borders. Or, for that matter, inside and outside "free world" (heh heh) borders. I would even say that anyone with a computer and net link in the world has about equal access to the crypto software. And no one I know ever bothers do download anything from US-based sites with those somnambulistic export-control buttons - it is so much simpler do download it from somewhere else. If we put aside the theory of deranged government, what logic can explain this situation ? Effective domestic crypto regulation. Export farce is just a neat way of scaring companies and individual contributors from developing and providing cryptographic systems within US. Export regulations are the new high point of double-speak. Anyone providing domestic crypto runs the risk of violating EARs. Manufacturers are ultimately responsible when their products end up overseas, and there is nothing in EARs that absolves them from that responsibility. [ For example, try to buy one of IBM crypto-cards - give them a call and ask what does it take to purchase one with hard crypto on it (semi-hard - they stop at 3DES) ] Regular sales channels are closed for crypto today in US. No one dares sell crypto hardware to anonymous public. No one dares to post crypto software for US customers to download with a single-click. Small developers (like that guy from Sunnyvale) are harassed with subpoenas. The end result is a tremendous slow down of crypto systems distribution in the US. Which was the intent. Now the question: is there a way to build a case which will bring down crypto export controls because they demonstrably prevent DOMESTIC sales and therefore constitute DOMESTIC restrictions. Say, if company starts selling some hard crypto products in a storefront for cash only - how would BIX react ? Would a US citizen have to produce ID in order to buy ?

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Passport Guatemala/Nicaragua now even faster/2-3 weeks!
by helper1＠privacy-consultants.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello fellow Privacy Seeker, Sorry, it took a little longer to respond, as I just came back from my trip to Central America. I made the first deliveries, and both programs run very well. As we are getting into the christmas season things are getting somewhat busy. Please read below all additional expalanations and act accordingly. Some general guidelines, organized like a FAQ: 1. What is included? Gua: passport with entry-exit stamp of another Central American country, driver's license and cedula Nica: passport with exit stamp, driver's license and cedula 2. What is extra? Gua: name change 3000, naturalization papers 1500 Nica: name change 2000, naturalization papers 1000 3. Special features: Holders are entitled to naturalization in Spain after only two years' residency. This is valid for both countries. 4. Discounts available? As this is already a real bargain and is addressed to agents only, I will grant a 15% on orders of 2 or more GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME. 5. What is needed? Gua: Possible by mail: YES Validity of pp: VALID FOR LIFE Prolongation: EVERY 5 YEARS (AT ANY Guatemala EMBASSY OR CONSULATE) Docs legalized,notarized & registered: YES - IN ALL THE RIGHT COMPUTERS, REGISTRATION, LEGAL STAMPS, ETC. Dual nationality permitted: YES Residency possible: YES Extradition legally possible:DEPENDS ON YOUR FIRST NATIONALITY. EXTRADITON IS BETWEEN GOVT. TO GOVT. AGREEMENTS New identity/name change possible:YES (additional USD 5,000) Birth Certificate included: NO, AS THIS IS BY NATURALIZATION Double taxation agreements: DEPENDS AGAIN ON GOVT.-TO-GOVT. AGREEMENTS Travel opportunities: EXCELLENT - AS GOOD AS ANY SWISS OR CANADIAN PASSPORT! List of visa requirements: SEE BELOW Fee: US$ 10,000 Time frame: appr. 2-3 weeks after receipt of application & funds Fee for spouse: SAME AS FOR HUSBAND Fee for children under 18: DEPENDS Fee for children over 18: SAME AS FOR ADULT Photo requirements: 6 PHOTOS IN COLOR, showing the ears, no earrings or glasses 4 Photos in color for Cedula and Driver's License If you opt for name change, I do not need a copy of your current passport! Nica: same as above, except the following changes: travel opportunities: more limited, still working on a comprehensive visa list, difficult to get! Best advise is to check with your local airline, and ask them how visa requirements are for Nicaraguaians to travel to your favorite countries Fee: USD 7,500 Photo requirements: same If you opt for name change, I do not need a copy of your current passport! 6. Terms: Payment shall be 50 % deposit and the balance on delivery in 2-3 weeks. This includes delivery by courier worldwide, if personal delivery is requested, the client must bear with the additional costs. If interested, please inquire for the wire instructions, payments by wire transfer only. 7. Misc: THESE ARE NOT CHEAP FAKES!! This deal is possible based on long lasting personal relationships and donations to political groups. There is no intermediary in between, I do it myself!! 8. How to order: Please respond to privacy(a)privacy-consultants.com, I will give you: - the application form - the wire instruction - the address where to mail the photos Please bear in mind that this offer expires on Dec 31, 98. After that date prices will go up, some 60%!! Don't loose any more time now and reply asking me for the application form. Cordially Dr. Georg Adem ************************************************************************ "One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety nine who only have interest." "In the land of the blind the one-eyed is king, until the other find out he can see. Then they kill him" Our home page: http://privacy-consultants.com/ or full mirror at: http://nauru-banker-net.com/ email to: assistant(a)privacy-consultants.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our affiliated site: http://www.1-trust.net/ or: http://onetrust.net/ providing top-notch offshore services, credit cards, etc. email to: quest(a)1-trust.net WE SELL PRACTICE, NOT THE THEORY! *************** Providing Privacy Consultancy Since 1978 **************** We strongly encourage encryption!! Here you get our public key: http://privacy-consultants.com/pgpkey_home.html P.S.: Last, but not least: Don't get fooled by cheap imitators, I saw what they deliver, and it is just not worth the paper it was printed on, at some back yard printer shop in Guatemala City! Stay with the person whom you can trust if it comes to passports, I know the ropes of this business better than anybody else!

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Tired of the Rat Race? Read and Build Wealth!!
by vinjac＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Until I try it, I can only go on the testimony of people I don't know, so I will only know if I try it. I've never done this type of thing, but I decided it was time to try something. If I keep doing what I am doing I'll keep getting what I've got. Besides, people 70 years old have been surveyed and they have consistently said that the 2 regrets they have had in their lives were that; 1) They wish they had spent more time with their families and 2) They wish they had taken more chances Upon hearing this again, and hearing what the MEDIA said about it, I decided that at 42, I was going to take a small chance and see what would come of it. Question #2 - Is it legal? - Yes, (Refer to title 18, Section 1302 & 1342 of the U.S. Postal and Lottery Laws) This opportunity isn't much of a risk and could turn out to actually be a bit of fun. Bottom Line; The risk is only $20 and time on the Internet. 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Follow this example to achieve the STAGGERING results below. 1st level--your 10 members with $5.............$50 2nd level--10 members from those 10 ($5 x 100).....................................$500 3rd level--10 members from those 100 ($5 x 1,000)...................................$5,000 4th level--10 members from those 1,000 ($5 x 10,000)..................................$50,000 THIS TOTALS ---------------------------------->$55,550 Remember friends, this assumes that the people who participate only recruit 10 people each. Think for a moment what would happen if they got 20 people to participate! Lots of people get 100s of participants! THINK ABOUT IT! Your cost to participate in this is practically nothing (surely you can afford $20). You obviously already have an internet connection and e-mail is FREE!!! REPORT#3 shows you the most productive methods for bulk e-mailing and purchasing e-mail lists. Some list & bulk e-mail vendors even work on trade! About 50,000 new people get online every month ****TIPS FOR SUCCESS**** * TREAT THIS AS YOUR BUSINESS! Be prompt, professional, and follow the directions accurately. * Send for the four reports IMMEDIATELY so you will have them when the orders start coming in because: When you receive a $5 order, you MUST send out the requested product/report to comply with the U.S. Postal & Lottery Laws, Title 18,Sections 1302 and 1341 or Title 18, Section 3005 in the U.S. Code also Code of Federal Regs. vol. 16, Sections 255 and 436, which state that "a product or service must be exchanged for money received." *ALWAYS PROVIDE SAME-DAY SERVICE ON THE ORDERS YOU RECEIVE. * Be patient and persistent with this program. If you follow the instructions exactly, the results WILL undoubtedly be SUCCESSFUL! * ABOVE ALL, HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF AND KNOW YOU WILL SUCCEED! ************YOUR SUCCESS GUIDELINE************ Follow these guidelines to help assure your success: If you don't receive 10 to 20 orders for REPORT #1 within two weeks, continue advertising until you do. Then, a couple of weeks later you should receive at least 50 orders for REPORT #2. If you don't, continue advertising until you do. Once you have received 50 or more orders for REPORT #2, YOU CAN RELAX, because the system is already working for you, and the cash can continue to roll in! THIS IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: Every time your name is moved down on the list, you are placed in front of a DIFFERENT report. You can KEEP TRACK of your PROGRESS by watching which report people are ordering from you. If you want to generate more income, send another batch of e-mails and start the whole process again! There is no limit to the income you will generate from this business! NOTE: If you need help with starting a business, registering a business name, how income tax is handled, etc., contact your local office of the Small Business Administration (a Federal agency) for free help and answers to questions. Also, the Internal Revenue Service offers free help via telephone and free seminars about business taxes. If you have any question of the legality of this letter contact the Office of Associate Director for Marketing Practices Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection in Washington DC. **T E S T I M O N I A L S** This program does work, but you must follow it EXACTLY! Especially the rule of not trying to place your name in a different position, it won't work and you'll lose a lot of potential income. I'm living proof that it works. It really is a great opportunity to make relatively easy money, with little cost to you. If you do choose to participate, follow the program exactly, and you'll be on your way to financial security. Sean McLaughlin, Jackson, MS The main reason for this letter is to convince you that this system is honest, lawful, extremely profitable, and is a way to get a large amount of money in a short time. I was approached several times before I checked this out. I joined just to see what one could expect in return for the minimal effort and money required. To my astonishment, I received $36,470.00 in the first 19 weeks, with money still coming in. Phillip A. Brown, Esq. I had received this program before. I deleted it, but later I wondered if I shouldn't have given it a try. Of course, I had no idea who to contact to get another copy, so I had to wait until I was e-mailed another program...11 months passed then it came...I didn't delete this one!...I made more than $41,000 on the first try!! D. Wilburn, Muncie, IN This is my third time to participate in this plan. We have quit our jobs, and will soon buy a home on the beach and live off the interest on our money. The only way on earth that this plan will work for you is if you do it. For your sake, and for your family's sake don't pass up this golden opportunity. Good luck and happy spending! Charles Fairchild, Spokane, WA I am nearing the $90,000 mark from this program. I have used several forms of advertisement. I used regular mail and bulk e-mail. The regular mail that I used was very expensive for two reasons. I purchased a very select list of names and the postage. The third time I sent e-mails out, I did so in the quantity of 1 million. So, after 3 times participating in this program I am almost at the $90,000 mark. That isn't too bad. I hope the same success for you. Raymond McCormick, New Cannan, Ct. You have great potential for extra earnings that is available at your fingertips! You have unlimited access to wealth, but you must be willing to take that first step! The Media ALREADY PROVED That !!!! You could be making an obscene amount of money! I have given you the information, materials, and opportunity to become financially better off. IT IS UP TO YOU NOW!- THINK ABOUT IT - Your risk is only $20.? HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND ON LOTTO TICKETS- for NO RETURN? ORDER YOUR REPORTS TODAY AND GET STARTED ON YOUR ROAD TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM!!!

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Net control attempted at the local level (Va.)
by Frederick Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A couple of recent Washington Post articles demonstrate Virginia's attempt at internet regulation. A case of restricting access to internet sites by public libraries in Loudoun Co. was ruled against by a federal court: http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-11/27/020l-112798-idx.h… A copy of the ruling: http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/loudon/81123op.htm Virginia's governor, James Gilmore III, has appointed a commission on internet technology to recommend policies on guiding internet business and protecting internet users. Guidelines are touted by state officials as being the first in the nation to *protect* residents. Ratification of the recommendations is scheduled to take place at the College of William and Mary on wednesday, Dec. 2, 1998. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-11/29/216l-112998-idx.html Draft agenda of the meeting to be held on Dec. 2, titled "The State's Role in Responsible Internet Growth", is at: http://www.sotech.state.va.us/intagend.htm

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Re: SIGH... NOT!! THC tainted oranges
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: "Dr.G" <drg(a)pgh.org> > > I would certainly appreciate some pot. You need something stronger to ease the pain of being Grubor. > You use pot for medicine too, and the local supply > in nil. I may have to drive to the big Apple. Sorry, you've been sentenced to life in Pittsburgh. ---guy Boo hoo hoo > YOUR SEARCH REQUEST IS: > JOHN GRUBOR > > 1ST STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. > > Copyright 1982 U.P.I. > > March 31, 1982, Wednesday, AM cycle > > SECTION: Regional News > > LENGTH: 129 words > > DATELINE: PITTSBURGH > > BODY: > A disbarred Butler County attorney who admitted stealing $28,000 from a > client was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison Wednesday by an Allegheny > County Common Pleas Court judge. > > John Grubor, 36, of Butler, broke down and cried after Judge Robert E. > Dauer imposed the 11-to-23-month prison term to be served at the state > Correctional Institution at Greensburg, Westmoreland County. > > The judge also ordered that Grubor spend five years on probation after > completing the prison sentence. > > Grubor pleaded guilty last month to one count of theft by failure to > make required dispostion of funds entrusted to him. He admitted he bilked a > client out of $28,000 in a workmen's compensation settlement. > > The state Supreme Court disbarred Grubor as a result of the theft.

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eyeQ Signup (SID=2e4628740b7a7d730a7f6d783e3a10)
by registration＠evguide.intervu.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To complete the registration process, please reply to this e-mail. Make sure that "SID=2e4628740b7a7d730a7f6d783e3a10" appears somewhere in the subject line. Thank you for using eyeQ! eyeQ

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dctest remailer - remailer@dragoncon.net
by nobody＠dragoncon.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A new remailer will be up for the next two weeks. This is an attempt to play with and test the Win95 Reliable remailer software available at ftp://ftp.efga.org/privacy remailer(a)dragoncon.net is a Cypherpunk Type I remailer w/o Mix, which uses RSA keys. The operator had problems getting the later key types to work properly. Please send comments about the configuration and operation to admin(a)dragoncon.net

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Frames security hole
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Lindsay.Marshall(a)newcastle.ac.uk Subject: Frames security hole There is a description and demo of a security hole with frames in web browsers at http://www.securexpert.com/framespoof/start.html - there is a version that works without javascript enabled as well. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay ------------------------------ I checked it out, and it's way cool. You open some frame-using target page, such as www.citibank.com, in Netscape or Internet Exploder, and cliok on their hack, and a new frame appears on the target page, replacing some frame that belonged there. They say they can fake out Netscape's "key" icon that claims that an https: page is secure, though I didn't have any handy frame-based https pages to test with. Technical Discussion: http://www.securexpert.com/framespoof/tech.html Some defenses http://www.securexpert.com/framespoof/defense.html ==> but the rel defense is getting your browser vendor to fix the browser. Meanwhile, don't trust any web page with frames with any information you care too much about. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Internet Society: 1999 Board of Trustees Call for Nominations
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm currently serving a 3-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, and have volunteered for the nominations committee. The board is elected by the membership; every year five or six Trustees are elected to three-year staggered terms. I would like to see talented people who care about the future of society serve on the board. I know there are many such among the cypherpunks. If you are willing to serve on the Board, please nominate yourself, or if you know someone who's willing to serve and who you think would be good, please nominate them. Send such nominations to isoc-noms(a)isoc.org. The message below gives all the details. Not everyone nominated will be on the ballot; the nominations committee will winnow it to a list of ten or fifteen people. And among those people, only the top five vote-getters will be elected by the membership. Anyone who the nominations committee doesn't pick for the ballot, can get on it anyway, if they submit a petition from 65 Internet Society members to put their name on the ballot. That's how I got on the ballot when I was elected a few years ago. (IETF is a great place to run around and get people to sign your petition.) Being a Trustee makes you responsible for the acts of the Internet Society. And you get to help decide what those acts will be. It's an unpaid, volunteer job. You get to fly (at your own expense) to the board meetings a few times a year. ISOC has done many good things, like training people in a hundred countries how to set up the first Internet node there. Like publicly stating (in RFC 1984) that it will ignore US export controls when designing worldwide Internet crypto protocols. Like working hard to resolve the mess around domain-name and IP-address administration, and the mess around the "Internet" trademark. ISOC also provides the organizational structure for the IETF and the Internet Architecture Board. ISOC will probably do many more good things -- particularly if it has good people as Trustees! Whether or not you want to be a Trustee, I encourage you to join the Internet Society as a member -- see http://www.isoc.org/isoc/membership/ John Gilmore Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981118080715.00927100(a)pop.isoc.org> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:07:15 -0500 From: Internet Society <members(a)ISOC.ORG> Subject: 1999 Board of Trustees Call for Nominations 1999 Internet Society Board of Trustees Elections Call for Nominations On 26 February 1999, ballots will be posted for the election of new Internet Society Trustees. Election Day is scheduled for 3 May 1999, when received ballots will be opened and tallied. Internet Society members will be asked to elect FIVE Trustees who will serve three year terms. The role of a Trustee is detailed in the Internet Society By-Laws (not included in this notice but available on the Internet Society web server): http://www.isoc.org/trustees/ This notice is a call from the ISOC Nominations Committee for nominations of candidates for election. Nominations are to be forwarded to this committee via: - electronic mail to: isoc-noms(a)isoc.org or - fax to +1 703 648 9887 or - postal mail to: Internet Society 12020 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 210 Reston, VA 20191-3429 U.S.A. Attention: 1999 Nominations Committee Nominations are to reach the committee no later than 17 December 1998 in order to ensure due consideration of the nomination by the committee. Nominations (in the form of agreed nominations, suggestions or volunteers) are to include the name of the nominated individual, contact details and a brief explanation of the basis of the nomination. The committee will confirm with the candidates their willingness to stand for election as a nominated candidate if so selected. Nominees will also be requested to provide the committee with further personal details (in the format of a curriculum vita) as they relate to the selection guidelines that are to be applied by the committee, and provide to the committee a statement indicating their willingness and ability to devote an appropriate level of time to activities associated with the position of Trustee of the Internet Society. It is intended that the committee's selection process will result in 10 candidates for election as nominated candidates. This list will be passed to the Elections Committee on 19 December 1998, as well as informing voting members of the Society of the selected nominees. Additional candidates for election to the Board of Trustees may be nominated by membership petition, filed with the Chair of the Nominating Committee no later than 22 January 1999. A petition for the 1999 election will require the signatures of sixty-five voting ISOC members (1% of the total voting members). Specific details of the petition process will be included in the announcement of nominated candidates on 19 December 1998. Following the closure of the petition period, the list of the nominated and petitioned candidates will be announced 29 January 1999. The Election Committee will mail the ballots out to ISOC voting members on 26 February 1999 and the election date is set to be 3 May 1999. Sincerely, Kees Neggers Chair, ISOC Nominations Committee Kees.Neggers(a)SURFnet.nl tel: +31 302 305 305 fax: +31 302 305 329 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A. The 1999 ISOC Nominations Committee membership 1. Kees Neggers, Netherlands<Kees.Neggers(a)SURFnet.nl> 2. John Gilmore, US<gnu(a)TOAD.COM> 3. Jun Murai, Japan<jun(a)WIDE.AD.JP> 4. Leni Mayo, Australia<leni(a)moniker.net> 5. Steve Wolff, US<swolff(a)cisco.com> 6. Kim Claffy, US<kc(a)sdsc.edu> 7. Jill Foster, UK<Jill.Foster(a)newcastle.ac.uk> Committee Email address: isoc-noms(a)isoc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ B. Nominations Committee Selection Guidelines Candidates for ISOC Trustee should have a demonstrable involvement in the Internet. Such involvement may range from participation as a technology developer, researcher, user, network operator, policy maker (e.g. in government), sponsor of research and development. ISOC is interested in broadly-based representation on the Board of Trustees and seeks to identify candidates from industry, education and non-profit sectors and from government. The selection criteria will be directed to selecting a broad range of interests, and will include criteria of regional location, current activities, relevant experience and professional background. Ten candidates will be selected by this committee, using the criteria as outlined above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. A Profile of the current Board of Trustees "#" marks board positions that are expiring. "&" marks board members who have indicated that they will not or cannot be candidates for re-election. The current membership (as of 1 November, 1998) of the Board of Trustees is as follows: #&Scott Bradner 1993-1999 USA <sob(a)harvard.edu> Vint Cerf 1992-2001 USA <vcerf(a)mci.net> #&Susan Estrada 1993-1999 USA <sestrada(a)aldea.com> #&David Farber 1993-1999 USA <farber(a)cis.upenn.edu> John Gilmore 1997-2000 USA <gnu(a)toad.com> Christian Huitema 1995-2001 France <huitema(a)bellcore.com> Geoff Huston 1992-1995, 1998-2001 Australia <gih(a)telstra.net> Christine Maxwell 1997-2000 France <maxwell(a)chiliad.com> Jun Murai 1997-2000 Japan <jun(a)wide.ad.jp> Kees Neggers 1992-1996, 1998-2001 <Kees.Neggers(a)SURFnet.nl> Tim O'Reilly 1995-2001 USA <tim(a)ora.com> Jose Luis Pardos 1997-2000 Spain <104056.110(a)compuserve.com> #George Sadowsky 1996-1999 USA <george.sadowsky(a)nyu.edu> Ben Segal 1997-2000 Suisse <B.Segal(a)cern.ch> #Vacancy Donald Heath Ex-officio USA <heath(a)isoc.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ D. Procedures for Nomination and Election of Trustees 1. Trustee Positions to be Filled The Board of Trustees will advise the Nominating Committee of the number of Trustee positions to be filled by vote of the individual members at each annual election. The Board may also advise the Nominating Committee of its desires with respect to the backgrounds of individuals to be nominated in order to achieve the balance of experience and qualifications required by the provisions of By-Law Article III, Section 2, which provides that "the Board shall seek to have among the Trustees representative individuals from industry, from educational and nonprofit organizations and from government." 1.1 Date of Election The Board of Trustees will annually adopt a timetable for Trustee elections. The election date shall be not less than 40 days prior to the next Annual Meeting of the Society. 1.2 Use of Electronic Mail All communications concerning the nomination and election of Trustees shall be in the form of electronic mail except the ballot, which shall be in the form of first class postal mail or FAX. Members of the Society who are not reachable by electronic mail may participate in the nomination process by postal mail or FAX. 2. Nominating Committee The Board of Trustees will annually appoint a Trustee Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee will consist of 7 individual members of the Society, 5 of whom shall constitute a valid quorum. The Chair of the Nominating Committee shall be a member of the Board of Trustees. At least 2 members of the Nominating Committee shall be individual members of the Society not currently serving in any elected or appointed capacity in the Society. 2.1 Nominations by Committee The Nominating Committee will notify the members of the Society of the procedures for nominating individuals for election to the Board of Trustees, and will provide a minimum period for receiving nominations of 30 days. The number of individuals nominated shall exceed the number of Trustees to be elected. 2.2 Nominations by Petition The Nominating Committee will notify the voting members of the Society of the names of individuals nominated by the committee for election to the Board of Trustees not less than 105 days prior to the date established for Trustee elections. Additional nominations for election to the Board of Trustees may be made by petition filed with the Chair of the Nominating Committee not less than 75 days prior to the election. Petitions may be filed electronically. The Nominating Committee shall specify the number of signatures of voting members required for petitions, which shall be at least fifty voting members of the Society, or 1% of the total number of voting members of the Society, whichever is greater. 2.3 Candidates for Election The Nominating Committee will provide the names of a completed slate of candidates for election to the Elections Committee not less than 74 days prior to the election date. 3. Elections Committee The Board of Trustees will annually appoint an Elections Committee composed of three voting members of the Society which will be responsible for establishing and supervising elections. The Chair of the committee shall be a Trustee whose term of office does not expire during the year of the election. 3.1 Eligibility to Vote All individual members of the Society in good standing are eligible to vote. An individual member is in good standing if his or her annual dues are not more than 60 days past due on the date of mailing of the ballot. 3.2 Ballot The Trustee election shall be conducted by written ballot of the individual members, which shall be mailed to each member of the Society in good standing not less than 60 days prior to the date of the election. 3.3 Voting Each voting member will be entitled to as many votes as there are Trustee positions to be filled by vote of the members. Votes may be cumulated on behalf of one or more candidates for election. A member may use fewer than the total number of votes available if he or she so chooses. 3.4 Receipt of Ballots All ballots for Trustee elections shall be received by the Chair of the Elections Committee by 5 PM local time on the day prior to the date of the election, at the place established by the Elections Committee for delivery of the ballots. 3.5 Counting of Ballots The counting of ballots will take place on the election date, at a time and place established by the Elections Committee. At least two members of the Elections Committee shall be present at the counting of the ballots. The committee will establish procedures to ensure the privacy, validity and accuracy of all ballots. 3.6 Certification of Vote The Elections Committee shall certify the results of the annual Trustee election to the Board of Trustees within 10 days following the election, forwarding a list of the candidates and the number of votes each candidate has received. 3.7 Challenges No challenge to any Trustee nomination or election procedure or result may be brought except by an individual member in good standing. Any challenge must be addressed to the President of the Society with a recital of the reasons for the challenge, and must be received within 20 days of the election date. The President, after consultation with the Chairs of the Nominating and Elections Committees and the members of the Board of Trustees, shall advise the author of the challenge of the Board's decision, which shall be final, within 40 days of the election date. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1999 ISOC Nomination and Trustee Election Committee Timetable November 17, 1998 . Nominations Period Opens December 17, 1998 . Nominations Period Closes December 19, 1999 . Nominations Committee Announcement January 22, 1999 . . Petition Period Closes January 29, 1999 . . Candidate Announcement February 26, 1999 . Ballots Posted March 1, 1999 . . . Election Period Opens May 3, 1999 . . . . Election Date May 3, 1999 . . . . Challenge Period Opens May 13, 1999 . . . . Elections Committee Certifies Result May 23, 1999 . . . . Challenge Period Closes June 12, 1999 . . . . ISOC Response to Challenge Period Closes June 21, 1999 . . . ISOC Board of Trustees Annual General Meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------ F. Assumption of Office of Elected Trustees The term of office of elected Trustees shall commence at the adjournment of the next Board meeting following the completion of the election process. The term of office for departing Trustees shall end at the adjournment of the next Board meeting following the completion of the election process. The Board meeting is defined as having one agenda, which may extend over several days. The new Board may convene an organizational meeting after the completion of the meeting of the outgoing Board.

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No Subject
by vaneijk59＠sara.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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y2k/gary north delusions
by Martinus Luther 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

VNZ quoted Gary North: > Astronomy is a precise science. It can predict > events such as this one with remarkable accuracy. > The astronomers do not know how intense this > shower will be, but they know for certain that tonight > will be the highest density night. Actually they were 10 or 12 hours out - which in Europe at any rate had the effect that the highest density night was't the one predicted :-) But I agree with you. This whole apocalyptic take on the thing is (almost certainly) wrong. (Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare for it... if you honestly thought that spending a few hundred dollars could save you from a 1% chance of death, you'd probably do it. If the 99% turns out to be true what have you got - a year's supply of baked beans & sardines in tomato sauce) Computers will crash - or rather more seriously applications will produce bad results, this is much more an application problem than an OS problem - in fact things are already going wrong. But it won't happen all in one big bang on the 1st of January. Things will get slowly worse for the next year, the rate of problems will go up, more people will be knocking up quick-and-dirty work-arounds and fewer people working on new projects. North looks at it as a programming problem - but it's not, not when it actually hits, it then becomes ann operations problem. And operators, system programmers & system administrators are used to working with computer systems that don't work. They do it every day. And the peopel who rely on computer systems are used to working when they go down. And if they aren't there are all those middle-aged middle-managers they laid off in the downsizing who can come back and show them how it used to be done. There will be hassle and hard work and very possibly a depression. But there is very, very unlikely to be the kind of catastrophic failure that North seems to long for. And even if it does fall out that way, he's wrong about cities as well. We *know* cities survive a hell of a beating, we saw it again and again in WW2. (Take a look at a picture of Hamburg in August 1943. They rebuilt that. Themselves, starting the day after) The complete physical destruction of the infrastructure of a city does not kill a city. A city is made of *people*, not buildings. People with the skills that make cities work, and people who - just because they are in a city - need to get along to make cities work. If all our big systems go down we will rebuild them. And what's more we'll rebuild them quickest in the big cities, because it's the big cities that have the concentration of people with the skills, and perhaps more importantly, the motivation to rebuild them. (Anyway, despite North, in the event of a complete collapse of business and government probably the worst place to be is the outer suburbs. You need fuel to get around (in the inner cities everything is close by). If there are refugees from cities they have to pass through the suburbs - and there is a lot more to steal there than there is on the open countryside & a lot fewer people to stop you than in the city centres.) *Real* rural life will continue of course, because people have the land and the skills to use it. And becauwse they tend to have stores. I don't know if it would be a very prosperous rural life for most people in the "developed" parts of the world though. I wonder what the sudden withdrawl of pesticides, herbicides, fertiliser, & fuel to fly the crop-sprayer would do to yields on the average American industrial farm? If the year 2000 is half as bad as North says it will be there will be a massive change in the balance of economic power away from North America and towards the so-called Third World. It looks like Gary North isn't really interested in the year 2000 problem. What he is interested in seems to be guns. He's latched on to this issue because it allows him to think and write more about guns. And, like so many other gunwankers he seems to get off fantasising about the total collapse of civil society because that way he gets to feel good about his guns. All this obession with death and destruction is a bit strange in someone rumoured to be a Christian. Of course where I am in London it's all academic. The nearest genuine open country is maybe 150 miles away, in a different nation, on the other side of the Channel. Most of what passes for countyside in the south of England is really exurbia, a sort of huge extended suburbia got up to look rural. Less than one percent of the population actually works on the land. We have more computer programmers than farmers. Most people in London have never even met a farmer. If it all falls over we will just have to put it back up again because there is no-where else to go. Hey, maybe North is right about the USA. Maybe all the programmers will leave town to starve in the country. Maybe the systems will never get fixed. Maybe heavily armed gangs will take over the cities. Maybe you never will rebuild your civilization. I hope not. But if it does turn out that way we'll send you some foreign aid. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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F.U.D. ... or "The Webmaster of this site is on more than weed"
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, I came across a funny article about a "CIA, DEA, FBI, Lucent Technologies, Replay.com, Seed-bank.com Grand Conspiracy" at http://members.tripod.com/~spookbusters/sunnysnooping.htm Made for some interesting reading, and certain aspects of the site do merit discussion/investigation. Regards, Ken Williams Packet Storm Security http://www.Genocide2600.com/~tattooman/ E.H.A.P. Head of Operations http://www.ehap.org/ ehap(a)ehap.org NC State CS Dept http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu PGP DSS/DH/RSA Keys http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jkwilli2/pgpkey/ _____________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free, Encrypted Email at http://www.nsa.gov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNmKwiJDw1ZsNz1IXAQFV/Qf/TJLUEDFq8wJhgO7LLEAbBnwnZHm8jWjm 7J5KquhZXopBzZtTXb/GCitu7Wzo+MZZLi2UrtPysnyEJGgBBAqLN38NShwwS4bT iwd5MyUW37l4Ha4S2rn3HdneVcJlHLn53y9f6xaMDyW1uXbbVtfDEdXCnFXO5In1 URraEyPeNCYvvj5n2gcUeePIK1N+zLHgyRcaaAgjpVWFo6/lV/51YuLbWtC7obqS J76Ixeu1qbLV9LiYq4BsiBB8E+AemZ3Cq8U/8L1zjiUNxj5APgVG3QlNV1jjdO9H t/8c0s602IcVJJYMZhhBs4eCNvIi1dpi5Hn7VeUxsKnANm8OwJm6Fg== =GUk5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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more FUD!
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Interesting FUD-related thread on my message board that is tied in to the mail i just sent... http://www.genocide2600.com/~tattooman/wb/messages/1011.html Regards, Ken Williams Packet Storm Security http://www.Genocide2600.com/~tattooman/ E.H.A.P. Head of Operations http://www.ehap.org/ ehap(a)ehap.org NC State CS Dept http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu PGP DSS/DH/RSA Keys http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jkwilli2/pgpkey/ _____________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free, Encrypted Email at http://www.nsa.gov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNmKxg5Dw1ZsNz1IXAQFkfggAxXMR36cFDQj7drU1u2mqOrNyxIl9Ao0t SwqmoRApPwZgfnS9AG4OvVFj4DZ/vcU0YQp+lNFdlJmP/xI4CpSN+8iKS03avYdD IlasuNLV26bICpqy4cZvux1bZl2W3aaKyfPhK6nA27E83C+O3itiihqkPj/BW91Y jgCF9acVGp/axdGqjtevxXEn2cF7jqR3XzekNTtYjOj1kKhTcto9B6eZzlFu1xBy RHQa95t6SeIKsmXaEbAK0J+ztn5YomuLTT1knlZg0z3myCQ/FOuyy9/DPIU99ijv mSaGoByccUH72/H0pTyUHhmSMYAW2tTQyWqJdKnHwMGcn7V5INa1Jg== =EwZu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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custom protocol = job security
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:54 AM 11/30/98 -0600, Brown, R Ken wrote: >> Dianelos Georgoudis[SMTP:dianelos@tecapro.com] described a security system > >If I was a bank I would be very wary of proposals like "We would write our >own transmission protocol. " That seems to introduce yet more complexity, custom protocol = job security

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Re: F.U.D. ... or "The Webmaster of this site is on more than weed"
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ken Williams writes: > I came across a funny article about a "CIA, DEA, FBI, Lucent > Technologies, Replay.com, Seed-bank.com Grand Conspiracy" at > http://members.tripod.com/~spookbusters/sunnysnooping.htm This is a critique of an article describing a way to do anonymous email and how to use remailers. The original article proposed using the Lucent privacy proxy at www.lpwa.com as an intermediary to a free email server like hotmail. The critique got all hot and bothered over the fact that Lucent is a government contractor and so the original post must have been a plant by the FBI. In fact, the LPWA-Hotmail technique is suitable for moderately secure anonymity but not for lawbreaking. This poster has used the technique occasionally for over a year. It is certainly better than hotmail alone, since hotmail includes the originating IP address in its outgoing email. By using LPWA, the originating IP field holds the LPWA IP address, and the actual originating IP address is not revealed. However, as LPWA clearly states in their privacy policy (http://lpwa.com:8000/policy.html) they keep logs of connections, and will make those available to law enforcement if presented with a court order. This would make it possible to track down the originating IP which sent the mail. Despite its limitations, this technique has the advantages of ease of use and moderate security. All you have to do is to set the lpwa.com proxy in your browser, and use hotmail for email. You can both send and receive email, which is hard to do with any other technique. It is comparable in security and convenience to the late anon.penet.fi server, which did much to increase awareness of anonymity technologies on the net. (The original article was titled "Quick and Dirty Anonymity", which seems an accurate enough description.)

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Re: "Export" controls
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Export farce is just a neat way of scaring companies and individual > contributors from developing and providing cryptographic systems > within US. > 100% accurate, but old, conclusions. > Anyone providing domestic crypto runs the risk of violating EARs. > Manufacturers are ultimately responsible when their products end up > overseas... > Can you give me an example of a commercial vendor who has suffered because someone bought a "dangerous" product ( Windows, for example ) at retail and carried it out of the country in a suitcase? My guess would be that anything sold at retail would pose no problem for the manufacturer unless domestic regulations were in place. Even then the retailer is the first in line for questioning. > [ For example, try to buy one of IBM crypto-cards - give them a call > and ask what does it take to purchase one with hard crypto on it > Save me the phone call and describe your experience. BTW - IBM derives a large portion of its revenues from government contracts. They would be pretty easy to convince. An non-dependant might be different. > Would a US citizen have to produce ID in order to buy ? > Not until there are domestic regulations. Except for firearms, cigarettes, alcohol and prescription drugs I can't think of any. My guess would be that start-up manufacturers could get their tails twisted long before the retail shelf: Personal Audits Business Audits Supplier problems ( caused by similar techniques being threatened or applied ) FCC EMI Test Delays and Failures Credit Problems Lots of Traffic Tickets for everyone. It could be fun to try an embedded product. Make some development kits then try to license it. Let a manufacturer with some resources handle the heavy lifting. If you have trouble with that give 'em the bird - just write a damn book, source, VHDL etc. You can even export that. My favorites are: Secure phone - I know it exists already but still fun Disk encryptor - SCSI/EIDE, a bump in the wire between the motherboard and the disk drive. With its own smartcard/keypad interface, keys are never seen by OS. It doesn't solve the security problem while the system is on but it sure as hell makes the disk useless to opponents once it has been shut off. Good storage. Effectively shredded if you destroy the smart card or forget the key. The proper way to keep your data as long as the courts respect the Fifth Amendment. Oh well, Mike

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (fwd)
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Stewart wrote: > Back in the mid-80s, Princeton University got some SDI money for the > Massive Memory Machine Project, researching what you could do if > you had enough memory for anything you wanted. Even with the > CS approaches of the time, you'd do a lot of things differently. > Their non-massive toy machine was a 1.5MIPS VAX with 128MB RAM - > which took 10 extension racks to hold all the RAM. > These days 128MB is cheap, as are 500 MIPS P2s, but 50GB of RAM > is still bigger than most machines' busses will hold, > and even 2GB of DRAM is a lot bigger and more power-hungry than > most laptops can really support, much less 2GB of fast SRAM. There used to be a rule of thumb that you'd want roughly a megabyte per megahertz. Today, with our 200+ MHz processors, we tend to have considerably less memory than this. My Gateway PC from a couple of years ago came with a 200 MHz Pentium Pro but only 32 MB of memory. Most PCs today are not well balanced architecturally. They should really have a couple hundred megabytes of memory. Memory is cheap enough today that this can be added, but the motherboard configuration may limit the amount. If you had this much memory, swapping to disk would be a smaller problem. As for the idea of running without a disk drive, see the handheld PDAs like the PalmPilot and the Microsoft WinCE machines. The problem with these from the security standpoint is that the memory is non-volatile. With a PC, we don't worry too much about junk in memory because we turn it off occasionally. We are concerned about the disk because that is where the persistent storage is. But with a memory-only machine, you end up using your memory as a de-facto disk drive, so that the contents of memory become just as sensitive as the contents of disk would be on a PC. Someone who gets hold of your PDA can dump out memory and find sensitive data which is stored there. Theoretically you can use a password to protect data, but then there are tradeoffs between security and ease of use, and you may end up leaving data exposed for extended periods. But speaking of using passwords to protect data, how about an encrypted swapfile for a PC? There are fast enough ciphers today that the virtual memory system could encrypt data as it swaps to the disk, and decrypt as it loads back into memory. You'd type in the passphrase at boot time. This would solve the problem of sensitive data leaking onto the disk via the swapfile. There could still be traces in memory, but at least this most obvious leak would be plugged. You don't have to wait for apps to be rewritten to use secure memory allocation drivers, you get the benefit immediately. Can existing encrypting-filesystem drivers be used for swapfiles?

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Re: y2k+oil refineries
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

North's "scrap the refinery, the chip broke" scenario was forwarded to comp.software.year-2000 by Paul Milne, resident doomsayer, foul-mouthed religious fanatic, economic Marxist, and all around kook. It prompted a very knowledgable reply which pointed out how silly the whole idea was, from someone with relevant experience. Maybe next time Detweiler could check c.s.y2k to filter out North's nuttier ideas before forwarding them here. Author: SAG Email: stephen.and.marilyn.goldstein(a)worldnet.att.net Date: 1998/12/01 fedinfo(a)halifax.com wrote: > > From GN: > > Category: > Noncompliant_Chips > Date: > 1998-11-30 13:28:22 > Subject: > Fuel Production Plants > > * * * * * * * * > > I have one very, very reliable source within that industry who tells me that > the oil refining industry can't cope with the task. I am told that the problem > of embedded systems can NOT be fixed EVER, no matter how much time were > allowed. WHY? Because the refineries themselves would have to be dismantled to > uncover these embedded systems. Essentially, the refineries would have to be > destroyed and rebuilt!!! These embedded systems are buried within enclosed > systems. Identifying, testing and replacing these systems is too impractical. > It is financially unsound to do so. The better option is to build new ones. > There is no time to do this with less than 400 days left and the time to build > a new refinery is 3 to 5 years. > > So, what does this mean? My sources, especially the most reliable source tell > me that it means that on January 1, 2000... the oil and gas refineries will > cease operations. These facilities also have converted their inventory > management control systems to small inventory levels so that inventory levels > are running about 1 to 2 days capacity. A few years ago, the industry averaged > a 1 to 6 month supply in storage tanks. Not so today. > > The results: By 1/5/2000 there will be no gasoline, no diesel fuel, no > natural gas, no heating oil, no fuel oil products at all. This means trains > will have no fuel. Trucks will have no fuel. Cars will have no fuel. Electric > Power Plants will have no oil for fuel, nor coal... because there will be no > fuel to power the vehicles to get it to them. So, there will be no > electricity. And you know the remaining domino schematic from that point. > > ====== > > I have no way of knowing whether the embedded systems are just that, embedded > in such a way that they can not be accessed. I imagine that some could be > under fifty feet of concrete or otherwise inaccessable. If this is so, then > there is not the slightest doubt at all, that it is indeed all over. Period. > > I am not going to bandy about the issue of whether this source is reliable or > not. It makes no difference. The only thing I am concerned with is whether > these systems are in fact inaccessable. I know that not every system is > inaccessable. The question is whether there are enough inaccessable systems to > mean that the refineries etc. will not function. > > Of course, I would love to hear someone counter this with evidence showing > that what has been related above is not true, or it is an urban myth etc. > But, I would like 'evidence'. Not conjecture or inuendo or suppositions. > > If it were so, that there were indeed these inaccessable systems, would the > companies involved let it be known publically? I think not. > > If this report is accurate, the remediation is 100% moot as I have said all > along, and you can kiss your butt good-bye. I'm not sure if I want to play this game Mr. Milne -- you offer this article which is, conjecture, innuendo and supposition but demand that any counter story be documented by "evidence." That's pretty tough and, frankly, I'm not up to the task as my knowledge is with electric power plants -- not oil refineries. They do, of course, share some important characteristics and so I'll give it a try. The approach will be from two perspectives -- first, I'll explain some power plant construction practices that contradict the refinery story; second, I'll offer another review of the nature of the "embedded" systems that might be at issue. Power Plant (and refinery) construction . . . . Remember, power plants and refineries are: o Capital intensive o Make increased use of computerized process control systems o Operate a continuous manufacturing/conversion process employing high temperatures and pressures. Typical design life of a coal-fired power plant is 40 years. During that period, any number of components *will* fail and *will have to be replaced.* Wouldn't make much sense to put a $500million investment at risk 'cause a $20.00 part failed in some inaccessible location. Thus EVERYTHING is accessible. You want evidence and I'm not about to take you on a power plant tour but even if you've never been inside a power plant the construction practice is similar to that found in many other industrial settings and, if you've ever been aboard a naval vessel or taken a cruise, ships. These settings are nothing like your home (or even an office) with all the infrastructure components nicely hidden behind walls -- pipes are exposed and clearly labeled -- power and control cables are laid in exposed cable trays and risers. Electronic components are often mounted in racks with easy access from front and back -- probably not at all like your computer or home theatre configuration. All this is to PERMIT MAINTENANCE, REPAIR and MODIFICATION. So you need to understand that the problem isn't just maintenance, in general, or for y2k. Process plants need to be modified frequently -- market conditions demand a change in inputs or outputs. Can't get enough sweet crude? Exxon doesn't close the refinery -- they modify it to handle the new feedstock (I got the grand tour from a fellow I knew who worked at Exxon's Baton Rouge refinery, years ago). Want some pictures? Here are a few from several "continuous process" industries: http://www.powerprocesspiping.com/, http://www.bdmechanical.com/ppiping.htm, http://silverweb.nf.ca/m&m/cb-p&p.htm, and http://www.shambaugh.com/process.htm. Now consider the nature of these embedded components. This has been the subject of much discussion in csy2k. I'd like to suggest that there are three broad categories of components in this context: o The control system(s) -- SCADA -- one or more intelligent nodes build on traditional minicomputer, or more recently, microprocessor-based server technology. These are very accessible -- they're in, adjacent to, or very near, the control room. In an even more modern "distributed control system," some of the capability will be located in different areas of the plant. Nevertheless, they still have to be very accessible -- stuff breaks -- memories get hard, multibit errors, disk drives fail, etc. o Remote devices -- the control systems can't run without data and so you have dozens to thousands of remotes -- devices that measure process parameters (temperature, pressure, mass flow, volumetric flow, acceleration and mechanical position (valve position or tank levels)) and a smaller number of remotes that can act on SCADA commands (start a motor, open a valve, etc.) Though most of these devices are pretty dumb, some may have a bit of silicon-based intelligence and therefore susceptible to y2k problems. BUT, they all have to be accessible because 1) they malfunction or need to be recalibrated and 2) plant modifications often require removal/replacement to accommodate process changes. o Embedded systems -- I think that the consensus is that the real embedded systems are those systems that are not obviously run by a computer -- the power plants water chemistry analyzer or the refineries gas chromatograph. These are on the site but they're not in the "plant" -- they're in the lab -- very accessible. Now "accessible" doesn't always mean you can walk right up and touch it! Guess where the flue gas monitoring remotes (temperature, opacity) are located -- top of the boiler or in the stack. But here's the scenario -- opacity indicator increases (flue gas has more smoke in it) but the stack gas "looks" clear. Do you shut down the plan on environment limits or do you send a maintenance man to replace the remote? Now is it possible that conditions would be different at an oil refinery. Sure, like I wrote at the beginning, I'm not really familar with these. But, really, we'd be looking at some obtuse examples -- imagine that rather than using a tank level indicator to see how much gasoline is in a tank, someone came up with the bright idea of putting a strain gauge *under* the tank and determing the amount of product in the tank but computing the weight on the gauge and using that to compute the amount of product. The device fails and, we'll all agree, it is not practical to replace it. Does the refinery stop using the tank? I wouldn't think so. They retrofit a traditional tank level indicator (float) to provide the needed information. HTH, SAG

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Big Brother Banks? FDIC has snooping plans
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text <snippetasnippeta> >Big Brother Banks? FDIC has snooping plans >By David M. Bresnahan >Copyright 1998 WorldNetDaily.com > > > Are you a potential criminal? Are you a threat to banks, airlines, a >potential spy, or perhaps an IRS tax protester? The government >would like to know and they are about to force banks to be their >detectives. > >The federal government wants banks to investigate you. Soon your >banker will know more about you than anyone else in town. Banks >must not only determine your correct identity, they must also know >how you make your money, and how you spend it. Once you >establish a pattern of deposits and withdrawals, banks must inform >federal agencies when you deviate. > >Bank customers may soon find themselves explaining to the FBI, >Internal Revenue Service, and the Drug Enforcement Agency why >they made a $15,000 deposit to their bank account. According to >current Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation plans, banks will >soon establish "profiles" of their customers and report deviations >from those profiles. > >If you sell a car, for example, and place the proceeds in your >account while you shop for a new one, a red flag may go off in the>bank > computer. Such a situation puts law abiding citizens in a >situation where they must prove they are innocent, says Scott >McDonald of the watchdog group Fight the Fingerprint. > >An uproar from grass roots Americans is the only thing that will >stop the current plans for the FDIC "Know Your Customer" >program, according to McDonald. His organization has led the >charge against the national ID, medical ID, and computerized >information about private aspects of people's lives. > >A recent announcement by the FDIC provides for citizen comment >prior to implementation of their new banking regulations. The >deadline for comments is Dec. 27, 1998. > >"The FDIC is proposing to issue a regulation requiring insured >nonmember banks to develop and maintain 'Know Your Customer' >programs," according to a recent FDIC information package sent >to Congress to provide notice of proposed rulemaking, and to >banks for comment. > >"As proposed," the 29-page FDIC document begins, "the >regulation would require each nonmember bank to develop a >program designed to determine the identity of its customers; >determine its customers' source of funds; determine the normal >and expected transactions of its customers; monitor account >activity for transactions that are inconsistent with those normal and >expected transactions; and report anytransactions of its customers >that are determined to be suspicious, in accordance with the >FDIC's existing suspicious activity reporting regulation. By >requiring insured nonmember banks to determine the identity of >their customers, as well as to obtain knowledge regarding the >legitimate activities of their customers, the proposed regulation will >reduce the likelihood that insured nonmember banks will become >unwitting participants in illicit activities conducted or attempted by >their customers. It will also level the playing field between >institutions that already have adopted formal 'Know Your >Customer' programs and those that have not." > >Many banks across the country have already begun to implement >such programs, according to the FDIC. A quick search of the >Internet found many stories in press accounts of problems reported >at such banks. There have been a number of stories dealing with >banks requiring fingerprints to open accounts and to cash checks. >There are several lawsuits presently underway testing the right of >banks to make that requirement. > >McDonald has been fighting that issue, along with fingerprints on >driver's licenses for some time. He pointed out the many errors >found on credit reports and suggested that banks will soon make >similar errors when they begin creating profiles of their customers. > >The FDIC is selling the planned regulations by pointing out the >need for prevention of financial and other crime. > >"By identifying and, when appropriate, reporting such transactions >in accordance with existing suspicious activity reporting >requirements, financial institutions are protecting their integrity and >are assisting the efforts of the financial institution regulatory >agencies and law enforcement authorities to combat illicit activities >at such institutions," says the FDIC. > >The proposed regulation is, according to FDIC spokesperson Carol >A. Mesheske, authorized by current law. It comes from the >statutory authority granted the FDIC under section 8(s)(1) of the >Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 18189s)(1), as amended >by section 259(a)(2) of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (Pub. L. >101-647). > >The FDIC claims that the law requires them to develop regulations >to require banks to "establish and maintain internal procedures >reasonably designed to ensure and monitor compliance with the >Bank Secrecy Act. Effective 'Know Your Customer' programs >serve to facilitate compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act." > >The proposed regulations will mandate that all banks insured by >the FDIC must maintain an intelligence gathering department that >screens out customers and keeps an eye on existing customers. >Before you decide to move your money to a credit union, you >should know that the FDIC is not the only federal organization >making such plans. > >"Each of the other Federal bank supervisory agencies is proposing >to adopt substantially identical regulations covering state member >and national banks, federally-chartered branches and agencies of >foreign banks, savings associations, and credit unions. There also >have been discussions with the Federal regulators of non-bank >financial institutions, such as broker-dealers, concerning the need >to propose similar rules governing the activities of these non-bank >institutions," reports FDIC attorney Karn L. Main in the proposal. > >The purposes for the regulation are to protect the reputation of the >banks, to facilitate compliance with the law, to improve safe and >sound banking practices, and to protect banks from being used by >criminals as a vehicle for illegal activities. > >Current customers will be subjected to the new regulation in the >same way new customers will be scrutinized. The FDIC does not >wish to permit any loop hole which would leave any bank >customer unidentified or unsupervised. > >Each bank will create profiles. The first profile will determine the >amount of risk a potential customer might present by opening an >account. The system of profiling potential customers will be >different from one bank to the next, since the FDIC does not >provide a uniform program. The purpose of the profile is to >identify potential customers who might use a bank account for >funds obtained through criminal activity. > >The next profile will be one that is used by automated computers >to determine when suspicious activity is taking place in an account. >When activity in the account does not fit the profile, banks will >notify federal authorities so they can investigate. > >Banks are expected to identify their customers, determine normal >and expected transactions, monitor account transactions, and >determine if a particular transaction should be reported. > >The FDIC has sent copies of the proposal to all banks and is >asking for input. The questions asked by the FDIC in the proposal >do not ask whether the regulations should be put into place, only >how to implement them in the best way. None of the questions in >the proposal are directed to bank customers. > >The FDIC reassures banks that because the requirements will be >universally applied to all banks it will not hurt their business and >drive away customers. The proposal does not mention penalties for >non-compliance, nor is there any mention of regulations to provide >access to bank records by customers so errors can be found and >corrections made. > >"If 'Know Your Customer' programs are required, insured >nonmember banks can more easily collect the necessary >information because customers cannot turn readily to another >financial institution free of such requirements," stated the proposal. > >Comments from the public may be sent to Robert E. Feldman, >Executive Secretary, Attn: Comments/OES, Federal Deposit >Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street N.W., Washington, DC >20429 or faxed to (202) 898-3838 or e-mailed to >comments(a)FDIC.gov. > >-------------------------- >GunsSaveLives Internet Discussion List > >This list is governed by an acceptable use >policy: http://www.wizard.net/~kc/policy.html >or available upon request. > >To unsubscribe send a message to >majordomo(a)listbox.com > >with the following line in the body: > >unsubscribe gsl > >GUNSSAVELIVES (GSL) IS A PRIVATE UNMODERATED LIST. >THE OWNER TAKES NO RESPONSIBILTY FOR CONTENT. ALL >RIGHTS RESERVED. <snippage...> --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: more FUD!
by HaB 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello. First time poster. Been reading for awhile now and I feel like a goof for having to ask, but what does FUD stand for anyway? Thanks... HaB

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Sternbot on RSA
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vin has now cloned his vigorous defense of the RSA patent to several Usenet newsgroups, posting his "summary" of the discussion. Sternlight now leaps in, to add his two cents worth. In talk.politics.crypto David Sternlight <david(a)sternlight.com> wrote: > I simply cannot believe the post by Cordian below. His argument seem to > be: Good morning, David. We've missed you on the Cypherpunks List. > 1. I am right and the court is wrong. No, David. Vin's argument is that since the patents were upheld in court, no knowlege of the specific algorithms or methods used to construct the patented entity pre-dated the work which led to the patent. In point of fact, such things do not automatically invalidate patents. Certainly the concept of trapdoor functions, their cryptographic utility, and that multiplication of primes was such a function, were known prior to the development of the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem. I vaguely recall that encipherment by modular exponentiation has also been published as an algorithm, albeit prior to the recognition that it had utility in constructing public key systems. > 2. I vaguely recall a paper that might have been prior art. Certainly the notion that the difficulty of factoring composites could be employed in the construction of cryptographically useful things was prior art. The description of encryption by modular exponentiation I recall would have been additional prior art. > 3. It is disingenuous to say there has been no invalidating prior art > even though the court has found the patent valid. There is a huge difference between "prior art" and "invalidating prior art" under patent law. Indeed, to invalidate the patent, it would have been necessary not only to find a description of the mathematical methods used in the construction of the RSA algorithm, but also a claim for the specific use for secure communication over insecure data links. > 4. Cylink's arguments must be right even though they lost in court. Some of Cylink's points were factually accurate. A system which permits the patenting of applied mathematics, which many engineers could have independently derived, is hardly likely to stun us with a brilliant interpretation of the various shades of meaning surrounding such claims and counterclaims. Again, losing in court does not equate to ones facts being in error, any more than it equates to the mathematics being patented being unknown prior to their incarnation in the patented application. > 5. RSA won because nobody could afford to litigate against them, even > though Cylink did. RSADSI's aggressive litigation posture discouraged people from ignoring their patent, and given that the patent could be licensed for much less than a lengthy court fight, kept litigation to a minimum. Cylink was pretty much the sole exception to this, and that was a legal fight internal to PKP. > 6. Anyone can patent anything and nobody could afford to oppose them > (N.B. Presumably not IBM, not DEC, not DuPont, ..oh well, you get the > idea) Yes, David. Practically anything can be patented. The power of patents is in defending them, not in applying for them, or in receiving them. > 7. Rich, smart companies with big legal departments license bogus > patents rather than litigating. Well, that depends on how you define bogus. I consider patenting applied math to be bogus. Your mileage may vary. > 8. Someone who opposes me is a troll. Someone who responds to a one line comment about the mathematical underpinnings of RSA being previously known, with several multipage essays whose central thesis is that such a claim cannot possible be true, because the patent would have been invalidated by the courts, is a troll who either understands nothing about how patents work, or is blowing a foghorn on behalf of the patent holder. > 9. If someone takes the time to oppose me, someone must be funding him. Vin has already outed himself as someone who has done work for RSADSI. He has vociferously defended various key recovery schemes implemented in their products against critics. This, combined with his rabid insistance that the RSA patent is something novel and unique, does equate to what some of us might describe as a "vested interest" in the matter, directly funded or not. > 10. The patent office never refuses patents on "method and apparatus" > except in the case of perpetual motion machines. Patent examiners generally rely only upon the material presented with the patent application when reviewing it, and expect people to do their own searches, and correctly cite related patents. Litigation is generally the means by which patents are challenged, not by the patent office refusing them, except in extrordinary circumstances, perpetual motion machines being one well-known example. > 11. Security Dynamics is paying for those who oppose me. I merely asked if Vin intended to bill them for the time he spent writing his rants. A rhetorical question. > 12. Such opposition is "a tirade". Suggesting that I would have to retire my nym after criticizing the RSA patent and taking several pages to say a paragraph of material certainly qualifies as a tirade in my book, especially when combined with a lot of irrelevent innuendo unrelated to the topic being discussed. > 13. No corporations are buying products with GAK, key recovery, etc. > (N.B. in That is what "no corporate demand" means). To an economist, perhaps. It would be more accurate to say that demand as a function of whether such features are included is a pretty flat function. > 14. Someone who opposes stronger escrow/GAK/key recovery than RSA is > offering must be suspect. Your point here eludes me. > I could go on ... And you usually do, and on, and on, and on... > but it seems to me, knowing nothing about the parties involved and > having no views on their personalities, that on the basis of the post > below Cordian is uh, um, er, a few clauses short of a syllogism. I simply believe that patents on applied math are inappropriate. Given that they are allowed, it seems silly to cite the fact that the courts uphold them as evidence for anything, particularly claims that they are new, novel, and non-obvious. -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html

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MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN SERVICES FOR THE NEXT MILLENIUM
by Marita N�sman-Repo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Press Release For immediate release DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN SERVICES FOR THE NEXT MILLENIUM Espoo, Finland, December 1, 1998 -- Data Fellows, the leading global security solutions vendor, and Sonera, the leading Finnish telecommunications service provider, have announced a partnership to create next-generation Intranet and extranet services. The scope of the partnership is to develop a secure IP service platform by combining Sonera's leading-edge telecommunications services with Data Fellows' award-winning secure VPN and anti-virus products. "Security is not a simple issue. We see leading telecommunications service providers in a key position to help corporate customers reap the benefits of the Internet without the inherent risks," says Risto Siilasmaa, CEO of Data Fellows. "Over the years, Sonera has always paved the way with innovative telecommunications services. Well-managed strong security is the logical next step." "Our key challenges are the increasing demand for mobility and the increasing use of extranets between companies," says Jukka T Leinonen, Managing Director of Sonera Solutions. "Managed IP-based virtual private networks with a functioning Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and strong security constitute the foundation for future corporate information systems. Data Fellows can provide us with standards-based, proven security with globally available strong encryption." The first products and services will be announced early next year. Data Fellows' groundbreaking F-Secure products provide a unique combination of globally available strong encryption, revolutionary anti-virus software and policy based management. Data Fellows products are relied on by the world's largest industrial corporations, best-known telecommunications companies and major airlines, several European governments, post offices and defence forces as well as several of the world's largest banks. Data Fellows was selected one of the Top 100 Technology companies in the world by Red Herring magazine in September 1998. Sonera Ltd is Finland's leading telecommunications company, with subsidiaries and associated companies in 14 countries. Internationally, Sonera is a forerunner in the rapidly growing field of mobile, data, and media communications. In 1997, Sonera's net sales amounted to FIM 8 billion, and operating profit was FIM 1.7 billion. The Group employs 8,200 people. For more information, please contact USA: Data Fellows Inc. Mr. Pirkka Palomaki, Product Manager Tel. +1 408 938 6700, fax +1 408 938 6701 E-mail: Pirkka.Palomaki(a)DataFellows.com Europe: Data Fellows Oy Mr. Jukka Kotovirta, Director, Service Provider Business Unit PL 24 FIN-02231 ESPOO Tel. +358 9 859 900, fax. +358 9 8599 0599 E-mail: Jukka.Kotovirta(a)DataFellows.com or visit our web site at http://www.DataFellows.com Sonera Solutions Ltd. Mr. Timo Korpela, Head of Product Development Tel. +358 2040 63296, fax. +358 2040 64652 E-mail: Timo.Korpela(a)sonera.net -- Marita.Nasman-Repo(a)DataFellows.com, World-Wide Web http://www.DataFellows.com

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Re: more FUD!
by Marcel Popescu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: HaB <hab(a)gamegirlz.com> To: <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: marþi, 01 decembrie 1998 01:46 Subject: Re: more FUD! >First time poster. Been reading for awhile now and I feel like a goof >for having to ask, but what does FUD stand for anyway? Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. Alleged technique of large companies to make people think twice before buying products from lesser companies by casting doubt over the reliability of the product and its creator. Thinking twice is known to be a Bad Thing. <g> Mark

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Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN S...
by Opencity＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Mimmi Okay...this can be distributed as of today? Thanks phil

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bonjour
by Thierry Roch 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ici tout va bien, merci. On espère qu'une version fiable pour windows sortira un jour Salut ________________________________________ roch(a)liberation.fr Tel : +33 (0) 1 42 76 17 68 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 42 76 02 24 Informatique Libération http://www.liberation.fr

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Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN S...
by eschuman＠cmp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Same request. May I be removed from this list as well? falcon falcon <falconinc(a)earthlink.net> on 12/01/98 11:20:14 AM Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com cc: bcc: Evan Schuman/MHS/CMPNotes Subject: Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN S... Please remove my name from your email list. Opencity(a)aol.com wrote: > Hi Mimmi > > Okay...this can be distributed as of today? > > Thanks > phil

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RE: bonjour
by Ayoub, Mark (CAP, FLEET) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please do not click on REPLY ALL, click on REPLY only, otherwise EVERYBODY on the mailing list receives a copy of your message. -----Original Message----- From: falcon falcon [mailto:falconinc@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 11:19 AM To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com Subject: Re: bonjour please remove my name from your email list. Thierry Roch wrote: > Ici tout va bien, merci. > > On espère qu'une version fiable pour windows sortira un jour > Salut > ________________________________________ > roch(a)liberation.fr > Tel : +33 (0) 1 42 76 17 68 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 42 76 02 24 > Informatique Libération http://www.liberation.fr

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RE: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATESECURE VPN S...
by Mark Denny 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

===== Original Message from PRESS-EN @ INTERNET {press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com} at 1/12/98 16:21 >Same request. May I be removed from this list as well? > > > > >falcon falcon <falconinc(a)earthlink.net> on 12/01/98 11:20:14 AM > >Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com > >To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com >cc: >bcc: Evan Schuman/MHS/CMPNotes >Subject: Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE > SECURE VPN S... > > > > >Please remove my name from your email list. > > >Opencity(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Hi Mimmi >> >> Okay...this can be distributed as of today? >> >> Thanks >> phil ===== Comments by MAD@MM-CROY (Mark Denny) at 1/12/98 16:27 Could you please stop sending me your emails. I think that some thing has gone wrong with your server. Thanks. Mark.

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Re: Old Hat 2
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's what is likely going on right now, though its availability to LE is questionable: NSA probably maintains surveillance of all or nearly all encrypted remailers. They log and archive the content of all traffic. First arrivals of messages in the remailer "cloud" provide source identification in many cases, so a database is gradually built of all the originating email addresses and IP addresses that have ever sent messages to a remailer. The same is true for the messages exiting the cloud, although many of those go to public lists or newsgroups. Sometimes, perhaps even often, the remailer cloud is so little utilised that one-hop or even multi-hop chained remalings are easily identified as to source and final destination. All goes into the database. Spook-style stylometers develop profiles of the users. Over time, more and more of the unidentified profiles become linked to known users. All it takes is one slip, or one piece of bad luck of low traffic levels. Linkage is also done on a probabilistic basis, many-to-many. Little human intervention is used except to develop and tune the correlation mechanisms. Filters aimed at content that might help correlate messages with senders is more important to the spooks than Echelon Dictionary filters. The priorities in getting a handle on something like the remailer cloud are quite different than the priorities in scanning ordinary traffic for content. Ultimately, though, the regular content filters come into play, but in this ongoing exercise of cat and mouse, the bulk of the effort is directed at developing the combination of surveillance and intelligent processing that can provide the basis for identifying, at least to some knowable probability, the sources and destinations of given remailer messages. Source and destination correlation can benefit greatly from knowledge of conventional email correspondent relationships. Most nonprofessional-spook people who send encrypted remailed email to a non-public destination are also likely to correspond with that destination in the clear. Archival logging of traffic is like a time machine - even if one ceases conventional correspondence with another, any past traffic can reveal the correspondence relationship. Mathematical correlation, given a very large amount of raw data consisting of timestamped message events, can reveal quite a lot about likely correspondence relationships. Even given a remailer network full of chaff, with reordered message pools and such, just running correlations on the end point data - who sent and when, and who received and when - can develop likely correspondent pairs. Be assured that the manipulation of such data relies heavily on probablistic clustering supported by database mechanisms not seen much in business environments. Instead of having firm relationships within an order or two of magnitude of the terminal node population, I would want something that allows having very large numbers of fuzzy relationships numbering many orders of magnitude greater than the node population. Nodes A, B, C and D send and receive remailer traffic. Everything that A has ever sent is clearly related to A, but each item can and likely would also have a probabilistic relationship to B, C, and D. The probability assignments would be updated as later analysis and later data more clearly identify who may have received which messages. Content comes into play here, too. At any time it is possible to query the database for the likely correspondents of A, and the likely messages A may have sent to B, C, or D, and get a result ordered by confidence. Similarly, it is possible to query for the likely sender(s) and recipient(s) of a given message. Occasionally, data may be firmed up - meaning achieving higher confidence levels of the relationships - by access to someone's PC, by whatever means, by stylometry, by specific content of public messages, and by fortuitous traffic analysis successes owing to the paucity of remailer traffic. It's also certain that to provide realistic cases that can be fully revealed to measure the efficacy of the various algorithms and methods involved, spooks use the remailer network themselves. That's the only way they can be sure to have any traffic that can be fully analyzed as a yardstick for the guessing games played by their software. A few rules of thumb result from even cursory examination of the likely environment: 1. Do not send clear messages through the remailers except to public lists and newsgroups. Sending clear messages to private correspondents provides the watchers with rich style and content material linked to a correspondent. It is usually easy then to link it back to you, and a firm correspondent pair is then established in their database. 2. Do not switch between clear and encrypted, remailed communication with the same correspondent. If your correspondent relationships are mapped via clear, conventional mail, those mappings can be applied to your encrypted, remailed mail to greatly narrow down the possible recipients, and quite likely combine with traffic analysis to correlate your outgoing message with one arriving at your correspondent. If the only communications you have with your deep contacts is by encrypted, chained remailer, only fortuitous or statistical correlation analysis or access to your or your correspondent's host machines will tie the two of you together. 3. Do not send traffic to significant correspondents when traffic levels are likely to be low. Good luck at guessing this. Probably the best way to get a handle on traffic levels is to run a remailer yourself. 4. Send lots of chaff. Chain some messages through the remailer cloud every day. If you have time and the ability, write and release something that will allow large numbers of people to send lots of chaff. 5. Ultimately, the only way the remailers will provide what might be described as Pretty Good Security will be when we have software that maintains a regular or random rate of messages to and from the remailer cloud, a stream into which the meaningful messages can be inserted with no visible change in traffic. Until then, the best we can do is try to keep traffic levels up, and to send and receive frequently enough to frustrate end-to-end traffic analysis. 6. Don't send anything that can have grave consequences. 7. Take names. Always take names. Some day... FUDBusterMonger It Ain't FUD til I SAY it's FUD!

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Re: bonjour
by dan_verton＠fcw.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

this is not my list and I want off as well. falcon falcon <falconinc(a)earthlink.net> on 12/01/98 11:19:07 AM Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com cc: (bcc: Dan Verton/FCW) Subject: Re: bonjour please remove my name from your email list. Thierry Roch wrote: > Ici tout va bien, merci. > > On esp ère qu'une version fiable pour windows sortira un jour > Salut > ________________________________________ > roch(a)liberation.fr > Tel : +33 (0) 1 42 76 17 68 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 42 76 02 24 > Informatique Libération http://www.liberation.fr

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RE: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATESECURE VPN S...
by Ayoub, Mark (CAP, FLEET) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DO NOT HIT REPLY ALL, if you need to send an email send it to mailto:Marita.Nasman-Repo@DataFellows.com. Otherwise everybody on the mailing list receive your message. Mark Ayoub GECFS PC Support -----Original Message----- From: Mark Denny [mailto:mad@mm-croy.mottmac.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 11:28 AM To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com Subject: RE: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATESECURE VPN S... ===== Original Message from PRESS-EN @ INTERNET {press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com} at 1/12/98 16:21 >Same request. May I be removed from this list as well? > > > > >falcon falcon <falconinc(a)earthlink.net> on 12/01/98 11:20:14 AM > >Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com > >To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com >cc: >bcc: Evan Schuman/MHS/CMPNotes >Subject: Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE > SECURE VPN S... > > > > >Please remove my name from your email list. > > >Opencity(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Hi Mimmi >> >> Okay...this can be distributed as of today? >> >> Thanks >> phil ===== Comments by MAD@MM-CROY (Mark Denny) at 1/12/98 16:27 Could you please stop sending me your emails. I think that some thing has gone wrong with your server. Thanks. Mark.

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Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN S...
by dan_verton＠fcw.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

please remove my name from the cc address when you send this... I'm on this thing as well eschuman(a)cmp.com on 12/01/98 11:21:21 AM Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com cc: (bcc: Dan Verton/FCW) Subject: Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN S... Same request. May I be removed from this list as well? falcon falcon <falconinc(a)earthlink.net> on 12/01/98 11:20:14 AM Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com cc: bcc: Evan Schuman/MHS/CMPNotes Subject: Re: MEDIA RELEASE: DATA FELLOWS AND SONERA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE SECURE VPN S... Please remove my name from your email list. Opencity(a)aol.com wrote: > Hi Mimmi > > Okay...this can be distributed as of today? > > Thanks > phil

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RE: bonjour
by Ayoub, Mark (CAP, FLEET) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DO NOT HIT REPLY ALL, if you need to send an email send it to mailto:Marita.Nasman-Repo@DataFellows.com. Otherwise everybody on the mailing list receive your message. Mark Ayoub GECFS PC Support -----Original Message----- From: SimpleNet Informatica LTDA [mailto:dalmo@simp.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 11:35 AM To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com Subject: Re: bonjour Remove me too !!!!!!!!!!!!!! At 08:19 AM 12/1/98 -0800, you wrote: >please remove my name from your email list. > >Thierry Roch wrote: > >> Ici tout va bien, merci. >> >> On espère qu'une version fiable pour windows sortira un jour >> Salut >> ________________________________________ >> roch(a)liberation.fr >> Tel : +33 (0) 1 42 76 17 68 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 42 76 02 24 >> Informatique Libération http://www.liberation.fr > > >Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" >Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature > >Attachment Converted: c:\internet\eudora\attach\smime10.p7s > +===================================================+ SimpleNet Informatica LTDA - mailto:simp@simp.net Tel/Fax : (+55-21)509-0944 http://www.simp.net/ Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 3com Partner - Cyclades Reseller - Wingate Reseller Attachmate Premium Partner Medallion - SCO Reseller +===================================================+ Visite o Rio de Janeiro : http://www.guiario.com.br Sinalizando o Brasil em : http://www.signbrazil.com

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RE: bonjour
by Ayoub, Mark (CAP, FLEET) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DO NOT HIT REPLY ALL, if you need to send an email send it to mailto:Marita.Nasman-Repo@DataFellows.com. Otherwise everybody on the mailing list receive your message. Mark Ayoub GECFS PC Support -----Original Message----- From: "dan_verton"@fcw.com [mailto:"dan_verton"@fcw.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 11:39 AM To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com Subject: Re: bonjour this is not my list and I want off as well. falcon falcon <falconinc(a)earthlink.net> on 12/01/98 11:19:07 AM Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com cc: (bcc: Dan Verton/FCW) Subject: Re: bonjour please remove my name from your email list. Thierry Roch wrote: > Ici tout va bien, merci. > > On esp

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RE: bonjour
by Mark Denny 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

===== Original Message from PRESS-EN @ INTERNET {press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com} at 1/12/98 16:38 >this is not my list and I want off as well. > > > > >falcon falcon <falconinc(a)earthlink.net> on 12/01/98 11:19:07 AM > >Please respond to press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com > >To: press-english-technical(a)lists.datafellows.com >cc: (bcc: Dan Verton/FCW) >Subject: Re: bonjour > > > > >please remove my name from your email list. > >Thierry Roch wrote: > >> Ici tout va bien, merci. >> >> On esp >ère qu'une version fiable pour windows sortira un jour >> Salut >> ________________________________________ >> roch(a)liberation.fr >> Tel : +33 (0) 1 42 76 17 68 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 42 76 02 24 >> Informatique Libération http://www.liberation.fr ===== Comments by MAD@MM-CROY (Mark Denny) at 1/12/98 16:43 Please remove me. Mark. Mott MacDonald Limited, Registered in England No. 1243967 Registered office St. Anne House, 20-26 Wellesley road, Croydon CR9 2UL Tel: +44 (0) 181-774 2000 Fax: +44 (0) 181-681 5706 Email Mad(a)mm-croy.mottmac.com

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somebody clue this person in please!
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- i'm laughing too damned hard to do it myself. Regards, Ken Williams Packet Storm Security http://www.Genocide2600.com/~tattooman/ E.H.A.P. Head of Operations http://www.ehap.org/ ehap(a)ehap.org NC State CS Dept http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu PGP DSS/DH/RSA Keys http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jkwilli2/pgpkey/ _____________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free, Encrypted Email at http://www.nsa.gov - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Received: from cc02mh.unity.ncsu.edu (cc02mh.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.1.144]) by cc01mh.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00863 for <jkwilli2(a)cc01mh.unity.ncsu.edu>; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:04:29 -0500 (EST) From: ILovToHack(a)aol.com Received: from imo22.mx.aol.com (imo22.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.66]) by cc02mh.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA05341 for <jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu>; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:04:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from ILovToHack(a)aol.com by imo22.mx.aol.com (IMOv16.10) id QVOZa08724 for <jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu>; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:01:47 +1900 (EST) Message-ID: <f7e063e.366331eb(a)aol.com> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:01:47 EST To: jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: more FUD! Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Casablanca - Windows sub 224 In a message dated 11/30/98 10:15:50 AM EST, jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu writes: > Get Your Private, Free, Encrypted Email at http://www.nsa.gov I looked around there site and couldnt find anything about geting a e-mail could you please be more specific. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNmM9eZDw1ZsNz1IXAQGp2ggAyiZR2yTdawgv5Dcrh4dOxpK1RCZD3+rL YgQEf9JlvhG43KpK5ZXJNwG46gLZ/G1utg1Ux3DfsotBgce8Y5xO1GdXm+SmSw3S fXlPSeeY93B+NQ5xaRHyLmMzV/YLMspNYKPZYuA+AI5XIWyL2fcWR8TcOpISWQ5r UQphc7KBhZfDIObJ5nJzkv8gIDHn4qvlBqhNcjukw3GvJ9Edm8vS/P3Jlm9wiuXW +kXWEVTX21xdBnG3iYdnQOyG69cmSQWKVN64Hetbi1tf0um2BJXQj82VOJtwbTp/ KFF650etU6OhrCnhV/Z/LYYNBYbG5r4/en2TbPyumIWd1DgujU8oNg== =ed5P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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student project suggestion; PGP trap and trace
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Given: if the adversary captures your PGP keyring, he will know your contacts. Your secure contacts. Therefore: it would be mighty nice if access to your keyring's address list required a passphrase (which perhaps was valid for several hours, it being a pain to retype a decent passphrase). You will note that the PGP plugins for Eudora allow any buffoon with access to your machine to discover who you talk to securely. --Laced aliens fried my pugs

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Freedom & AnonymousIP network
by Austin Hill 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This may be of interest to members of this list or people that you may all know. If you have any questions, or know of ISPs who support privacy on the Internet, please forward this to their attention. Thanks. -Austin --------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom Partnership Program: Value-Added Service For ISPs Zero-Knowledge Systems is currently in seeking ISPs to join as "Founding Members" in the Freedom Network. Freedom is revolutionary software that provides the first complete privacy solution to Internet users, including email, web-browsing, chat, telnet and Usenet. By allowing users to create and manage multiple authenticated identities and using full-strength cryptography, Internet users can also block SPAM and manage their person information. See http://www.zks.net for full details. Being a member of the Freedom Network will allow an ISP to differentiate itself from the competition while fighting for on-line privacy. The Freedom Partnership Program has been designed to be revenue generating and cost reducing for ISPs. Freedom software is provided free of charge to all ISPs. Internal beta-testing of the Freedom network will begin in mid-December, 1998 and the "Founding Members" of the Freedom Network should be prepared to begin working with our technical staff at that time. Beta testing should last 4-8 weeks. The Freedom server software runs on a Linux or Solaris operating system and needs to run on a dedicated machine. Server participants should be able to contribute a T-1 during the beta testing period. Members will also be entitled to proceeds from the revenue sharing program (after the beta testing period). The revenue sharing program is designed to provide ISPs with 110% - 130% of bandwidth costs. Participation has its advantages. Founding Member ISPs will receive "Preferred Member" status on our web-site and software. When users of the Freedom client do a search for an ISP by telephone area code, Founding Members will be the recommended ISP in a given geographical area. All Founding Members will be listed in relevant press releases made by Zero-Knowledge Systems. Founding Members will also be guaranteed to earn 10% on all click-thru sales (web-link program) for the next two years. Participating ISPs will also get "Prominent Placement" - have their company name/logo displayed on a high-traffic area of our web-site. Distinctive buttons and banners will be given to all founding members receive to put on their web-site. Initially, the Freedom Network will be comprised of 15 Founding Member ISPs which will be located around the world. We plan to have an ISP in each of the following areas: Canada(3) - east coast, central, west coast; U.S.A.(7) - northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, west coast, silicon valley, Midwest; United Kingdom(1); Holland(1); Germany(1); Australia(1); and, the Caribbean(1). If you are interested in becoming a "Founding Member" or simply joining the Freedom Network or know of an ISP that would be interested, please contact Greg Adelstein, Director of Business Development, Zero-Knowledge Systems, greg(a)zks.net or 514-286-2636. -------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Austin Hill Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. President Montreal, Quebec Phone: 514.286.2636 Ext. 226 Fax: 514.286.2755 E-mail: austin(a)zks.net http://www.zks.net Zero Knowledge Systems Inc. - Nothing Personal PGP Fingerprints 2.6.3i = 3F 42 A2 0D AF 78 20 ED A2 BB AD BE 8B 40 5E 64 5.5.3i = 77 1E 62 21 B3 F0 EB C0 AA 6C 65 30 56 CA BA C4 94 26 EC 00 keys available at http://www.nai.com/products/security/public_keys/pub_key_default.asp _________________________________________________________________________

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