December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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

17 Dec '03

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Does anyone have any historical references for these things?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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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Re: Position escrow
by Dan Todd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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by youropportunity98＠mailexcite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

17 Dec '03

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

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SHIFT REGISTER technology
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

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FBI Sued on CALEA
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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Re: IRS cratering
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Surveillance of police raids...
by decius＠ninja.techwood.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> But the knock on the door and the presentation of a warrant is > increasingly being replaced by these "dynamic entries." Given that this > is exactly how teams of home invaders hit houses, and given the element > of surprise, is it any wonder that many of us keep loaded and ready > semiautomatic rifles and shotguns to repel such invasions? (And many of > us use SS-109 green tips, which essentially punch right through > ballistic vests up to Class III. How many SWAT members need to die in > such raids before the courts restore the Fourth Amendment?) These sort of "dynamic entries" and other cases of clearly burtal behavior by the police are fearsome indeed. They also appear to be a problem the public is very unhappy about... Rodney King riots to the public reaction to Waco and similar incidents. It is obvious that if you hire a bunch of people for an adrenaline intensive job where they will be taking down "bag guys" with machine guns they are going to be difficult to keep in line. These aren't lawyers or philosophers. Its not the right/wrong for these people but the thrill of the hunt. However, I don't beleive I've seen any evidence that "keeping loaded and ready semiautomatic rifles" is an effective response. Most people who "fight back" seem to be killed quickley or (rarely) they get involved in long standoffs which often end in death. Eitherway, if you do make it out alive you will likely have racked enough charges against you in the process of defending yourself that the original legal issue pales by comparison. Do you know of anyone who has stood up to police raiders and WON? The majority of cases that I have seen where abusive police "got theirs" occured in a court room and not a "compound." The Steve Jackson Games decision put a pre-emptive stop to a lot of unreasonable searches... It doesn't really matter if the Secret Service understands *WHY* it was in the wrong. What matters is that police agencies are aware that they can't walk into a house and take everything with a plug on the premise that they are investigating computer crime. Like it or not... Now the issue of police lieing about a raid in court is at hand, and this brings an interesting twist here for privacy advocates. Video surveillance is an effective weapon against police brutality. Thats a fact. Many police agencies have taken to installing "tamper proof" cameras in patrol cars. These are effective in court when the cops are in "the right." (Philisophical arguments about anarchy vs. democracy notwithstanding...) They are also quite effective when the cops are in the wrong. One officer in Atlanta was stupid enough to engage in an unprovocted beating of a suspect right in from of his own camera. He's out of a job now. One could imagine a CCTV system in a home with an easily accessable switch which engages it. And X-10 remote is handy and could be programmed to do this. The cameras could be designed to be unobtrusive. For real security the video data would need to be streamed (over the net?) to a remote site for storage and the system must be difficult to shut down under duress without evidence of such coersion being saved. Audio data could also be saved. The nice thing about this is that the surveillance is in the control of the home owner. Problem with surveillance is that its a weapon. I don't want to be surveilled. However, I might wish to surveil others for my protection as in the above example. I absolutely hate the idea of cameras in the workplace or in general public places. Especially in the hands of the government rather than store owners. Crytography can protect you from phone taps, but what can protect you from a network of digital cameras connected to face recognition software? Thats the direction I see this overall issue heading. One can envision a future in which all your online dealings can be extremely secure and anonymized by virtue of crypto, but your movements in the physical world are tightly monitored by automated video processing systems... -- */^\* Tom Cross AKA Decius 615 AKA The White Ninja */^\* Decius(a)ninja.techwood.org "If the economic, social and political conditions... do not offer a basis for the realization of individuality, while at the same time people have lost those ties which gave them security... powerful tendencies arise to escape from freedom into submission." -- Erich Fromm

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UK E-Comm-Crypto Policy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The UK DTI issued today a policy statement and papers on electronic commerce and encryption policy, which were posted to UK Crypto. We offer the initial three docs: http://jya.com/uk-ecomm.htm (28K)

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Position escrow
by Smoking Man 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> This is a really difficult issue. > >And how. > >How does this interact with phones whose What, like a party line? >access (telephone) number is non-unique? >Could where I am calling from be divorced If the standard of COM >from what instrument I am using to call? is uniform, yes. >Is there a parallel between smearing the >signal over a spectrum of radio frequencies Radio frequencies are >and smearing the identifying information a physical representation >over a spectrum of numbers? Could calls of numbers...YES. >to 911 carry no phone number but just >"here I am" information -- a panic button They could, and what if >function, in other words? you hang-up in distress. > >I imagine I sound like someone calling in There are no experts here. >to an ASK THE EXPERTS radio show... They don't broadcast. > >--dan > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: Position escrow
by Smoking Man 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I might wish that the government had the >means to track every automobile's location. ...Planes come standard with ILR? (International Locator Radio). Cars hav accidents too often for that...too expensive to serv it maybe. >What we need are cellphone remailers. Some might. I'm not sure how much though. >Third parties who want to use ordinary/automated cellphone tracking systems >will get the physical address of the relay, not that of the phone. Hmmmm. Same principles as remailers...Latency? Relay switching? >number of antennae/base stations that the regular cellphone folks do, so >it'll be harder for them to use trianguation and timing to derive physical >location. Contrarily, the fewer the remailers, the EASIER--could be only one remailer to compromise. Realtime Mixmaster? Heh. Parallel MixMaster. >>I expect the main countermeasure to cellular position tracking will be >>the use of one-way pagers. That depends on the protocol they use. Simplex? Old things. Probably. >But one-way pagers are a dying technology - and I'll bet that within 3-5 >years, it'll no longer be possible to turn off cellphones. >>Perhaps if the "just turn it off" approach is widely promoted, the Won't hav too. How many people does it take to keep a secret? Anything you say or do offensively, wrongly, or illegally can and probably will be used against you somehow, especially if you mention it or you're caught. You hav the right to be silent. No one has the right to understand you if you giv up that right. You may purchase the right to authenticate financial transactions. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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GSM A5 Papers
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We would be grateful for assistance in obtaining copies of the following papers, particularly the first: S J Shepherd, "Cryptanalysis of the GSM A5 Cipher Algorithm", IEE Colloquium on Security and Cryptography Applications to Radio Systems, Digest No. 1994/141, Savoy Place, London, 3 June 1994, (COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE). S J Shepherd, "An Approach to the Cryptanalysis of Mobile Stream Ciphers", IEE Colloquium on Security and Cryptography Applications to Radio Systems, Digest No. 1994/141, Savoy Place, London, 3 June 1994, (COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE). S J Shepherd, "Public Key Stream Ciphers", IEE Colloquium on Security and Cryptography Applications to Radio Systems, Digest No. 1994/141, pp 10/1-10/7, Savoy Place, London, 3 June 1994. These are listed on Dr Shepherd's bio at: http://vader.brad.ac.uk/finance/SJShepherd.html

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Futures Doomed
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

More on the future of money in the NYT today, "Crime's New Cash of Choice," the Euro, which plans larger denominations than the mobs' favorite $100 US. If the Euro catches on, it says, the USG could lose billions in interest-free loans on stashed C-notes, unused except in the underground -- which the US turns a blind tax eye to because more revenue comes from the seignoriage. http://www.nytimes.com Or: http://jya.com/euro-threat.htm On competing millenarist doomsaying, the NYT has on page one a report on an exercise last month which revealed how ill-prepared the US is to handle a germ attack, with PDDs coming shortly to address anti-terrorism (with a Czar), and the squabbles among competing agencies for intel fed shock scenarios leading to terrific stockpiles of money antidotes, preferrably all non-fictional, but not likely since the report says that the PDD the President gets aroused at is Richard Preston's "The Cobra Event" -- sold out for miles around the bunkers' intake vents of the germs' most wanted. http://jya.com/germ-threat.htm Bear in mind that Kennedy's hard-on for James Bond shaped a generation of whiz kids looking for gory galore, the fathers of natsec implanted kids now in late boomer breakdown seeing the future all too clear, inclined to predict their end The End.

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Re: Hettinga promoted to Head Critic In Charge...
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Asgaard wrote: >But Timothy C. May never 'claimed' any such things outside of an >entirely humorous context. On the other hand, *you* obviously had >some kind of fit some months back, feeling singled out by 'M', but >now are remembering it completely backwards. This is true. And helpful to file for future reference. Data show that Tim's thoughts are not what they appear to be in text. The needle -- yes, the mind-reading machine's analog -- jumps all the way to left, Bizarre Humor, whenever no mercy emissions emanate from the hilltop bastion's outgoing array. Only unclues take Tim's deadpan assays for deadshot intent. Those black talons are black jokes, Bob, laugh. You never been shot at to keep you dancing? Don't stop, though, or the fun ends.

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80% of cash is in underground economy!
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A surprising finding from New York Times: Economists once believed that just 10 percent of all currency in circulation was tied up in the underground economy. Now it turns out that 80 percent is closer to the mark. Most of it is in $100 bills, which are the largest available and now account for well over half the value of the nation's paper money. American banks and businesses hold very little cash. American households are also loath to keep much of it lying around. Yet according to the Federal Reserve there is enough currency floating around to make it appear that every American family of four has $6,000 or so in cash stashed under the mattress, including three dozen $100 bills. And despite the ubiquitousness of credit cards, ATMs and electronic transfers, the sea of cash has been growing much faster than the nation's gross national product. - Igor.

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Screw You Packet
by Illuminatus Primus 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.theonion.com/onion3315/screwyoupacket.html BACK * 22 April 1998 _________________________________________________________________ WASHINGTON, DC--In an effort to streamline degradation of the American populace and consolidate all forms of bureaucratic hassle into one convenient mailing, federal officials announced Monday that, beginning in 1999, the government will issue all citizens an annual "Screw You" packet. The packet, which is to be distributed in conjunction with federal tax forms, will condense the government's countless methods of abuse into a single handy 9x12 envelope. "The federal government's current citizen-persecution system is inefficient and wasteful," said Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY), who spearheaded the congressional task force that developed the "Screw You" packet. "This compact packet is not only cost-effective, it's user-friendly and intuitive. Simple instructions and easy-to-remember acronyms make the filing process as quick and painless as possible." The packet's easy-to-understand forms will free citizens of the nightmare of red tape normally associated with federal filings. Filling out and returning the "Screw You" packet is mandatory and easy. Here's how: The first step is to calculate your Economic Mobility Factor using the convenient EMF 1138 calculation sheet included in the packet. Those with an Economic Mobility Factor of 90 or above may mail or fax forms SC0089-L and SC0065-DD to their local Screw You EMF Processing Center. They may also drop them off at SYEMFPC kiosks conveniently set up at post offices and public libraries across the U.S. Those with an EMF between 30 and 90 must submit their forms in person to a Screw You EMF Processing Center Clerk. Such applicants must meet with the SYEMFPCC, and should arrange appointments via the State Application Auditing Appointment Bureau. Once an appointment date has been set by the SAAAB, a Screw You Appointment Confirmation Card will be mailed to you within three to four weeks. Upon receipt of the Screw You Appointment Confirmation Card, applicants will be required to register the appointment with the Screw You Appointment Registry Bureau. Failure to register the appointment within a 48-hour period will result in a fine automatically added to your estimated SYEMF-1138 quotient. The amount of the fine can be determined by using Screw You Fine/ Penalty Schedule 565612, which is available at all local Department of Fiduciary Adjustment branch offices. If there is no DFA office in your immediate Screw You zone, district, state or township, you should contact the Federal Department of Fiduciary Adjustments in Washington, D.C., and ask to speak to a Citizen's Outreach Representative who will look up the predetermined fine on SYF/PS565612. There is a $50 processing fee for any and all telephone queries to the FDFA. Those wishing to charge the $50 fee can do so by making three copies of forms SYEMF-1138, KSJU-387-SK, SKSP-90-EZ, and SC-2389, along with computer code 0100010 and ACC-842, and forwarding them to the Federal Department of Fiduciary Adjustments Postal Processing Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Forms received by the FDFAPPC will be processed and returned to applicants within six to eight weeks. Those who wish to have their forms returned in less than six to eight weeks may file a Fiduciary Calculation Acceleration Form 9056 at their local SYEMFPC. FCAF-9056 forms will be available Monday to Tuesday between the hours of 7:45 a.m. and 8:15 a.m., and are distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Completed forms should be returned to the FDFA in Washington, DC. All FCAF-9056 forms that have not cleared authentication via the FDFA in Washington, DC, will be rendered null and void, and will not be forwarded to the FDFAPPC in Colorado Springs. Applicants who misdirect their FCAF-9056 forms will draw a $10 per SYEMF-1138 fine. The fine must be paid within 36 hours, or the applicant will be subject to house arrest and strip-search by the Armed Outreach Response Team, an independently operated division of the Screw You Outreach Consortium. _________________________________________________________________ BACK * 22 April 1998 © Copyright 1998 Onion, Inc., All rights reserved. View masthead for more information. Questions/comments? Please consult our contact information page.

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Re: Futures Doomed
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:53 AM 4/26/98 -0400, John Young wrote: >More on the future of money in the NYT today, "Crime's >New Cash of Choice," the Euro, which plans larger >denominations than the mobs' favorite $100 US. If the >Euro catches on, it says, the USG could lose billions in >interest-free loans on stashed C-notes, unused except >in the underground -- which the US turns a blind tax eye >to because more revenue comes from the seignoriage. Why haven't the undergrounders adopted the SF1000 note (just under $700 these days)? Nice denomination. DCF

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17 Dec '03

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NTT Develops Secure Public-Key Encryption Scheme
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://pr.info.ntt.co.jp/news/news98e/980416.html Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced today the development of Efficient Probabilistic Public-Key Encryption (EPOC), a highly secure and mathematically verified public-key encryption scheme that encrypts information on the transmission side with a public-key (encryption key) and then decrypts it on the receiver side with a secret -key (decryption key). Encryption technology has become necessary to prevent information on the Internet from being monitored by others without authorization. Public-key encryption is being widely researched as a practical means of encrypting communication for security. The paramount feature of any public-key encryption schemes is ensuring that figuring out the decryption key from the encryption key is as difficult as possible, to prevent unauthorized use of ciphered information. The RSA*1 scheme uses factoring and the elliptic curve encryption scheme*2 uses elliptic curve discrete logarithms, both of which can take a supercomputer a very long time to determine the key. It has not been verified, however, that either scheme provides the necessary security to prevent ciphered information from being broken by a method other than factoring or elliptic curve discrete logarithms. The Rabin encryption scheme*3, which also uses factoring, offers no algorithm other than factoring for computing the complete plain-text, but it has not been proven that any bit of plain-text cannot be computed. EPOC is a practical scheme in that the computer computation workload for encrypting and decrypting is about the same as that for the RSA and elliptic curve encryption schemes. Also, EPOC is a highly secure scheme which uses a trapdoor discrete logarithm*4 as the key mathematical technique and can be broken only by factoring. Factoring is difficult to accomplish, even with a supercomputer, and the probability that an efficient solution to factoring will be found soon is very low, because mathematicians have been studying the problem for years. EPOC ensures that partial, as well as whole, texts cannot be broken. Finally, EPOC uses probabilistic encryption, so re-encrypted text is encrypted differently each time, unlike the Rabin and RSA scheme, which use deterministic encryption. NTT now plans to incorporate EPOC in systems for enhanced security on the Internet. Public-key encryption is used primarily for key distribution, because computation load is greater than that for secret-key encryption*5, so EPOC will be used in existing encryption modules for key distribution. Other applications will also be developed. In particular, EPOC is suitable for electronic voting and anonymous telecommunication since it has a homomorphic property, unlike the RSA, Rabin and elliptic curve encryption schemes. The theoretical details will be presented at Eurocrypt '98 in Finland this June. Notes: *1: The RSA scheme was developed by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman in 1978 and is based on the difficulty of factoring. It was the first public-key encryption scheme. *2: The elliptic curve encryption scheme was proposed independently by Miller and Koblitz in 1985 and is based on the difficulty of elliptic curve discrete logarithms. The basic technique is based on a scheme developed by Diffie and Hellman in 1976. *3: The Rabin scheme was developed by Rabin in 1979 and is based on the difficulty of factoring. It was the first public-key encryption scheme to verify the impossibility of breaking a complete text without factoring the public-key. *4: A trapdoor discrete logarithm is a newly discovered discrete logarithm problem that can be solved only if a secret-key is known. *5: Secret-key encryption differs from public-key encryption in that the sender and the receiver use the same key for encryption and decryption. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Serpent - A New Block Cipher Proposal for AES
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Serpent - A New Block Cipher Proposal for AES Over the last six months, I have been working with Ross Anderson and Lars Knudsen to develop a candidate block cipher for the Advanced Encryption Standard. Our algorithm, called Serpent, is described in a paper that will appear at the 5th workshop on FastSoftware Encryption.A reference implementation by Frank Stajano, a research students of Ross, is available here. The authors' home pages can be found both in http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/, http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/, and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/. The authors' email addresses are biham(a)cs.technion.ac.il, larsr(a)ii.uib.no, and rja14(a)cl.cam.ac.uk. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Prologue 14/0 -- Passoword: cypherpunks
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Thought you'd like this alot (fwd)
by Romulo Moacyr Cholewa 17 Dec '03

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Begin of forwarded email message ------------------------------- From: bs@day.research.att.com[SMTP:bs@day.research.att.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 10:58 AM To: albertoa(a)msconecta.com.br Sorry to send you a form letter, but I have now received dozens of copies of that "IEEE interview" hoax. Yes, it is (obviously) a hoax. No, it is not a hoax done by me or any of my friends; had it been, it would have been less crude and more funny. If you want information about C++, see my articles and books. You can find references, articles, book chapters, and even a couple of genuine interviews on my homepages. - Bjarne Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Labs, http://www.research.att.com/~bs End of forwarded email message -------------------------------- This is the answer, by himself. Romulo Moacyr Cholewa Home Page: http://rmcweb.home.ml.org Corporate: RomuloC(a)MSConecta.com.br Personal: RMCholewa(a)Bigfoot.com --------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Fyodor <fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su> To: Bad_B0yZ:; <Bad_B0yZ:;> Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Quinta-feira, 26 de Março de 1998 02:03 Subject: Thought you'd like this alot (fwd) >Heh... Wanna hear the C++ creator thoughts regarding the malevolent >creation, he made?:-) > >=========/qoute/=======================/quote/==================== >[snip snip] >Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 23:31:02 -0800 >Subject: Stroustrup's interview leaked... > >On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview >to the IEEE's 'Computer' magazine. > >Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective >view of seven years of object-oriented design, using the language >he created. > >By the end of the interview, the interviewer got more than he had >bargained for and, subsequently, the editor decided to suppress >its contents, 'for the good of the industry' but, as with many of >these things, there was a leak. > >Here is a complete transcript of what was said, unedited, and >unrehearsed, so it isn't as neat as planned interviews. >You will find it interesting... >__________________________________________________________________ >Interviewer: Well, it's been a few years since you changed the >world of software design, how does it feel, looking back? > >Stroustrup: Actually, I was thinking about those days, just >before you arrived. Do you remember? Everyone was writing 'C' >and, the trouble was, they were pretty damn good at it. >were turning out competent - I stress the word 'competent' >graduates at a phenomenal rate. That's what caused the problem. > >Interviewer: Problem? > >Stroustrup: Yes, problem. Remember when everyone wrote Cobol? > >Interviewer: Of course, I did too > >Stroustrup: Well, in the beginning, these guys were like >demi-gods. Their salaries were high, and they were treated like >royalty. > >Interviewer: Those were the days, eh? > >Stroustrup: Right. So what happened? IBM got sick of it, and >invested millions in training programmers, till they were a dime >a dozen. > >Interviewer: That's why I got out. Salaries dropped within a >year, to the point where being a journalist actually paid >better. > >Stroustrup: Exactly. Well, the same happened with 'C' programmers. > >Interviewer: I see, but what's the point? > >Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I >thought of this little scheme, which would redress the >balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if >there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, >that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with >programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, >you know, X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics >system, that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things. >They had all the ingredients for what I wanted. A really >ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and >pseudo-OO structure. Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows >code. Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain >your sanity. > >Interviewer: You're kidding...? > >Stroustrup: Not a bit of it. In fact, there was another problem. >Unix was written in 'C', which meant that any 'C' programmer >could very easily become a systems programmer. Remember >what a mainframe systems programmer used to earn? > >Interviewer: You bet I do, that's what I used to do. > >Stroustrup: OK, so this new language had to divorce itself from >Unix, by hiding all the system calls that bound the two >together so nicely. This would enable guys who only knew >about DOS to earn a decent living too. > >Interviewer: I don't believe you said that... > >Stroustrup: Well, it's been long enough, now, and I believe most >people have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste >of time but, I must say, it's taken them a lot longer than I >thought it would. > >Interviewer: So how exactly did you do it? > >Stroustrup: It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought >people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a >brain can see that object-oriented programming is >counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient. > >Interviewer: What? > >Stroustrup: And as for 're-useable code' - when did you ever hear >of a company re-using its code? > >Interviewer: Well, never, actually, but... > >Stroustrup: There you are then. Mind you, a few tried, in the >early days. There was this Oregon company - Mentor >Graphics, I think they were called - really caught a cold >trying to rewrite everything in C++ in about '90 or '91. I >felt sorry for them really, but I thought people would >learn from their mistakes. > >Interviewer: Obviously, they didn't? > >Stroustrup: Not in the slightest. Trouble is, most companies >hush-up all their major blunders, and explaining a $30 >million loss to the shareholders would have been >difficult. Give them their due, though, they made it work in the end. > >Interviewer: They did? Well, there you are then, it proves O-O >works. > >Stroustrup: Well, almost. The executable was so huge, it took >five minutes to load, on an HP workstation, with 128MB of >RAM. Then it ran like treacle. Actually, I thought this >would be a major stumbling-block, and I'd get found out >within a week, but nobody cared. Sun and HP were only too >glad to sell enormously powerful boxes, with huge resources >just to run trivial programs. You know, when we had our >first C++ compiler, at AT&T, I compiled 'Hello World', and >couldn't believe the size of the executable. 2.1MB > >Interviewer: What? Well, compilers have come a long way, since >then. > >Stroustrup: They have? Try it on the latest version of g++ - you >won't get much change out of half a megabyte. Also, there >are several quite recent examples for you, from all over the >world. British Telecom had a major disaster on their hands >but, luckily, managed to scrap the whole thing and start >again. They were luckier than Australian Telecom. Now I >hear that Siemens is building a dinosaur, and getting more >and more worried as the size of the hardware gets bigger, to >accommodate the executables. Isn't multiple inheritance a joy? > >Interviewer: Yes, but C++ is basically a sound language. > >Stroustrup: You really believe that, don't you? Have you ever sat >down and worked on a C++ project? Here's what happens: >First, I've put in enough pitfalls to make sure that only >the most trivial projects will work first time. Take >operator overloading. At the end of the project, almost >every module has it, usually, because guys feel they really >should do it, as it was in their training course. The same >operator then means something totally different in every >module. Try pulling that lot together, when you have a >hundred or so modules. And as for data hiding. God, I >sometimes can't help laughing when I hear about the problems >companies have making their modules talk to each other. I >think the word 'synergistic' was specially invented to twist >the knife in a project manager's ribs. > >Interviewer: I have to say, I'm beginning to be quite appalled at >all this. You say you did it to raise programmers' salaries? >That's obscene. > >Stroustrup: Not really. Everyone has a choice. I didn't expect >the thing to get so much out of hand. Anyway, I basically >succeeded. C++ is dying off now, but programmers still get >high salaries - especially those poor devils who have to >maintain all this crap. You do realize, it's impossible to >maintain a large C++ software module if you didn't actually >write it? > >Interviewer: How come? > >Stroustrup: You are out of touch, aren't you? Remember the >typedef? > >Interviewer: Yes, of course. > >Stroustrup: Remember how long it took to grope through the header >files only to find that 'RoofRaised' was a double precision >number? Well, imagine how long it takes to find all the >implicit typedefs in all the Classes in a major project. > >Interviewer: So how do you reckon you've succeeded? > >Stroustrup: Remember the length of the average-sized 'C' project? >About 6 months. Not nearly long enough for a guy with a >wife and kids to earn enough to have a decent standard of >living. Take the same project, design it in C++ and what do >you get? I'll tell you. One to two years. Isn't that >great? All that job security, just through one mistake of >judgement. And another thing. The universities haven't >been teaching 'C' for such a long time, there's now a >shortage of decent 'C' programmers. Especially those who >know anything about Unix systems programming. How many guys >would know what to do with 'malloc', when they've used 'new' >all these years - and never bothered to check the return >code. In fact, most C++ programmers throw away their return >codes. Whatever happened to good ol' '-1'? At least you >knew you had an error, without bogging the thing down in all >that 'throw' 'catch' 'try' stuff. > >Interviewer: But, surely, inheritance does save a lot of time? > >Stroustrup: Does it? Have you ever noticed the difference >between a 'C' project plan, and a C++ project plan? The planning >stage for a C++ project is three times as long. Precisely >to make sure that everything which should be inherited is, >and what shouldn't isn't. Then, they still get it wrong. >Whoever heard of memory leaks in a 'C' program? Now >finding them is a major industry. Most companies give up, and send >the product out, knowing it leaks like a sieve, simply to >avoid the expense of tracking them all down. > >Interviewer: There are tools... > >Stroustrup: Most of which were written in C++. > >Interviewer: If we publish this, you'll probably get lynched, you >do realize that? > >Stroustrup: I doubt it. As I said, C++ is way past its peak now, >and no company in its right mind would start a C++ project >without a pilot trial. That should convince them that it's >the road to disaster. If not, they deserve all they get. >You know, I tried to convince Dennis Ritchie to rewrite Unix in >C++. > >Interviewer: Oh my God. What did he say? > >Stroustrup: Well, luckily, he has a good sense of humor. I think >both he and Brian figured out what I was doing, in the early >days, but never let on. He said he'd help me write a C++ >version of DOS, if I was interested. > >Interviewer: Were you? > >Stroustrup: Actually, I did write DOS in C++, I'll give you a >demo when we're through. I have it running on a Sparc 20 in the >computer room. Goes like a rocket on 4 CPU's, and only >takes up 70 megs of disk. > >Interviewer: What's it like on a PC? > >Stroustrup: Now you're kidding. Haven't you ever seen Windows >'95? I think of that as my biggest success. Nearly blew the >game before I was ready, though. > >Interviewer: You know, that idea of a Unix++ has really got me >thinking. Somewhere out there, there's a guy going to try it. > >Stroustrup: Not after they read this interview.. > >Interviewer: I'm sorry, but I don't see us being able to publish >any of this. > >Stroustrup: But it's the story of the century. I only want to be >remembered by my fellow programmers, for what I've done >for them. You know how much a C++ guy can get these days? > >Interviewer: Last I heard, a really top guy is worth $70 - $80 an >hour. > >Stroustrup: See? And I bet he earns it. Keeping track of all the >gotchas I put into C++ is no easy job. And, as I said >before, every C++ programmer feels bound by some mystic >promise to use every damn element of the language on every >project. Actually, that really annoys me sometimes, even >though it serves my original purpose. I almost like the >language after all this time. > >Interviewer: You mean you didn't before? > >Stroustrup: Hated it. It even looks clumsy, don't you agree? But >when the book royalties started to come in... well, you get the picture. > >Interviewer: Just a minute. What about references? You must >admit, you improved on 'C' pointers. > >Stroustrup: Hmm. I've always wondered about that. Originally, I >thought I had. Then, one day I was discussing this with a >guy who'd written C++ from the beginning. He said he could >never remember whether his variables were referenced or >dereferenced, so he always used pointers. He said the >little asterisk always reminded him. > >Interviewer: Well, at this point, I usually say 'thank you very >much' but it hardly seems adequate. > >Stroustrup: Promise me you'll publish this. My conscience is >getting the better of me these days. > >Interviewer: I'll let you know, but I think I know what my editor >will say. > >Stroustrup: Who'd believe it anyway? Although, can you send me a >copy of that tape? > >Interviewer: I can do that. > > > > > >

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Mexican Bugs
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/ Mexican wiretapping scandal places political reforms in doubt March 26, 1998 By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) When members of an opposition party burst into a secret government wiretapping station this month, they did more than reveal a political scandal: They exposed some of the deepest secrets of common citizens in the coastal city of Campeche. The wiretapping, apparently orchestrated by the state government to get information on opposition groups, has spawned a scandal that reaches into at least four other states. In most cases, opposition politicians were the targets. But nowhere has the damage been as great as in Campeche, where a powerful eavesdropping system set up in a private home had the capacity to tap virtually all phones in the southern city of 200,000 people and record some of their darkest lies and infidelities. "We stood there in shock, in rage, impotence, as we heard recordings and read transcripts of our telephone conversations,'' said Layda Sansores, a senator for the leftist opposition Democratic Revolution Party who discovered the surveillance center on a tip. "There are difficult moments over the course of seven years, things you don't want to remember.'' "We heard a tape of one telephone call in which a man said he was with another man's wife. The wife was there in the room with us, listening,'' Sansores said at a news conference Wednesday. A local journalist present during the March 3 raid on the surveillance center was quoted in one wiretap transcript as denying accusations of rape, noting he `just had fun with' an unidentified woman. "We haven't seen him in public since,'' Sansores said. The taping in the city on the Gulf of Mexico, which used sophisticated computer equipment supplied by an Israeli firm, apparently began in 1991. Three men caught operating the bank of computers and phone switches have been arrested and charged with espionage and criminal association. Two had worked at some point for state police. "We are a small family in Campeche, and this hurts our very fabric,'' Sansores said. Documents uncovered by Sansores in the tiny, computerized wiretapping center including dozens of tapes and transcripts of her own conversations "and those of everyone around me, nieces, sisters, my parents'' suggest the eavesdropping was paid for by the Campeche state government. The current government, which took office in late 1997, has blamed the wiretapping on a previous state governor and said the current governor didn't know about it. Experts and politicians disagree on whether Mexico is experiencing a surge in wiretappings and surveillance, at a time when opposition groups are threatening the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's 69-year uninterrupted grip on power. Sansores claims that there are up to 22 of the eavesdropping stations around the country, and mentioned four other states where her supporters or party colleagues believe they have evidence of such surveillance. On March 18, authorities seized a network of phone-tapping equipment and secret cameras in Monterrey that reportedly had been rented by politicians and businessmen in the northern city. Several weeks earlier, a top official in the Mexico City government and also from the Democratic Revolution Party the first opposition party ever to govern the capital said she found two tiny surveillance cameras in her office. "There is a new way of doing things when a new group comes to power,'' said Joel Estudillo, an analyst at the Mexican Institute of Political Studies. "Politicians say, `We have to find out what these people have done''' in the past. In a closed political circle like that which has dominated Mexico for most of the century, secrets like past corruption are often known but seldom publicized until a grudge or a competition makes such information a valuable weapon, Estudillo said. "Those kinds of understandings and internal arrangements have so far prevented espionage from becoming a big problem.'' ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Maybe them boys in Jonesboro were trying out for Lon Horiuchi's job.

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FW: U.S. Official Cites Key Escrow Flaws
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Found this in sci.crypt. I'm suprised it didn't hit the lists yet. Peter Trei trei(a)ziplink.net > -----Original Message----- > From: epic-news(a)epic.org [SMTP:epic-news@epic.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 11:37 PM > Subject: U.S. Official Cites Key Escrow Flaws > > > ================================================================== > > U.S. OFFICIAL CONCEDES THAT "KEY RECOVERY" ENCRYPTION > IS INFERIOR TO ALTERNATIVE PRIVACY TECHNIQUES > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: > Wednesday, March 25, 1998 David Sobel/Dave Banisar > (202) 544-9240 > > WASHINGTON, DC -- A top U.S. official acknowledged more than a > year ago that the Internet privacy technique championed by the > Clinton Administration is "more costly and less efficient" than > alternative methods that the government seeks to suppress. The > concession is contained in a newly-released high-level document on > encryption policy obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information > Center (EPIC). > > In a November 1996 memorandum to other government officials, > William A. Reinsch, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for > Export Administration, discussed the Administration's efforts to > promote "escrowed" or "recoverable" encryption techniques in > overseas markets. Such techniques enable government agents to > unscramble encrypted information and they form the cornerstone of > current U.S. encryption policy. > > After noting that government regulations permit the export of non- > escrowed encryption products only to "safe end-users" such as > foreign police and security agencies, Reinsch recognized the > inferiority of the Administration's favored technology: > > Police forces are reluctant to use "escrowed" encryption > products (such as radios in patrol cars). They are more > costly and less efficient than non-escrowed products. > There can be long gaps in reception due to the escrow > features -- sometimes as long as a ten second pause. Our > own police do not use recoverable encryption products; > they buy the same non-escrowable products used by their > counterparts in Europe and Japan. > > Ironically, Reinsch's concession is contained in a memorandum that > discusses the Administration's strategy to "help the market > transition from non-recoverable products to recoverable products." > According to EPIC Legal Counsel David Sobel, the newly released > document "suggests that the Clinton Administration is trying to > sell key recovery technology while quietly recognizing its > inferiority. This approach will ultimately weaken the global > position of the American computer industry and hold back the > development of the privacy protections so badly needed on the > Internet." > > EPIC and other critics of current U.S. encryption policy have long > maintained that "key escrow" and "key recovery" approaches > compromise the security of private information by providing > "backdoor" access to encrypted data. > > The Reinsch memo was released in response to a Freedom of > Information Act request EPIC submitted to the Department of State > concerning the international activities of former U.S. "crypto > czar" David Aaron. That request is the subject of a pending > federal lawsuit initiated by EPIC last year. > > The memorandum is available at the EPIC website at: > > http://www.epic.org/crypto/key_escrow/reinsch_memo.html > > > - end - > > .

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WordSmith Crypto -- Fw: AWADmail Issue 8
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: Wordsmith <wsmith(a)wordsmith.org> To: linguaphile(a)wordsmith.org <linguaphile(a)wordsmith.org> Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 1:35 PM Subject: AWADmail Issue 8 > AWADmail Issue 8, March 26, 1998 > A Compendium of Feedback on the Previous Week's Words in AWAD, > and Other Interesting Tidbits about Words and Languages > >------------------------------ > >From: Anu Garg (anu(a)wordsmith.org) >Subject: AWADmail is back! > >AWADmail is back after a long hiatus. Last week's theme, "Words whose >pronunciations differ a lot from their spellings" generated a huge response. >Some sent their favorite words in this category (colonel coming at the top >of the list), while others forwarded poems lamenting the intractability of >English orthoepy and orthography. Here are selected responses. > >------------------------------ > >From: E. Richard Cohen (ercohen(a)aol.com) >Subject: Phonetic Pronunciation > >In line with this week's critique of English pronunciation, dare I bring up >George Bernard Shaw's plea for spelling reform with the word 'GHOTI" > >GH as in "rough" >O as in "women" >TI as in "nation" > >GHOTI = "fish" > > Also noted by Marc J. Broering (dad(a)louisville.edu) Ted Schipper > (ted.schipper(a)utoronto.ca) (Tim Nelson) tsn(a)deakin.edu.au, Sheila > Crosby (sheila(a)ing.iac.es) Vimala Rodgers (vimala(a)iihs.com) and > martina(a)aol.com. -Anu > >------------------------------ > >From: Derek Winkler (derek(a)aim-systems.on.ca) >Subject: Ruminations & Ponderances > >It's funny that a couple of the words you're featuring for being pronounced >differently than they are spelled have French origins. Being from Canada and >therefore being exposed to French, I look at the word and think "What do you >mean pronounced differently then they are spelled, how else would you >pronounce oeuvre." > >------------------------------ > >From: David Isaacson (isaacson(a)wmich.edu) >Subject: Another Pronunciation for "chaos" > >One of the characters in Sean O'Casey's play, "Juno and the Paycock," (it's >either Captain Jack Boyle or his sidekick "Joxer" Daly) regularly >mispronounces this word as "chassis." > >------------------------------ > >From: Fred Bartlett (fredb(a)springer-ny.com) >Subject: Chaos > >When I traveled to the old Soviet Union to edit the proceedings of a >conference on nonlinear dynamics, I was baffled by the (English) speech >of my Russian colleagues. They kept talking about "House" -- that is, >"chaos". It was all perfectly reasonable (though wrong, of course): >transliteration to Cyrillic and then pronunciation as if it were Russian. > >------------------------------ > >From: Steve Royster (roysters(a)sec.gov) >Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--rendezvous > >I was willing to let oeuvre pass after I mistook it initially for the French >word for "egg." I learned something on that one. But isn't "rendezvous" a >direct French import? > > See next message. -Anu > >French, as the comedian Steve Martin has noted, is more torturous than >English: "It's like those French have a different word for everything!" On >the album "A Wild and Crazy Guy," from early in his oeuvre, Martin describes >a man who dies trying to speak French. > >------------------------------ > >From: Ken Maher (ken_maher(a)nhmbm1.dos.nortel.com) >Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--chaos > >Your note on the need for pronunciation guidance in English reminds me of >what I used to tell students when I taught English as a second language for >ten years, mostly to native speakers of Spanish, Arabic, or Swahili. All >languages are thieves, but most languages have the good sense to hide what >they've stolen by making it look like their own. English, however, is more >vain or, perhaps, careless, and often keeps the stolen goods in their >original forms. For example, when Spanish stole the word for driver from >French, it changed the spelling to "chofer," whereas English kept it as >"chauffeur." This linguistic practice makes English one of the most >difficult of the Latin-alphabet languages to learn to spell. > > In polite company it is called borrowing. Whether these > loanwords are ever returned is another matter. -Anu > >------------------------------ > >From: Bob Simmons (bsimmons(a)compassnet.com) >Subject: (Mis)pronunciation Guide > >While I applaud your intention to include pronunciation in AWAD, I think you >should look for another source. Specifically, I have a problem with each of >the last three days' pronunciations: > >oeuvre (oe-VRUH) -- since this one retains its French pronunciation, it is >just about impossible to render in English. When I say it, it sounds more >like e(r)-vra (with neither syllable accented). The way you've written it, I >would say e(r)-VREW. > >segue (SAG-way) -- I have never heard this pronounced other than SEG-way > >rendezvous (RAN-day-voo) -- I would argue that RON-day-voo is closer. > > > While reducing a spoken sound to its written form is tough enough > in any language, it is nearly impossible to accurately represent > pronunciation information using only the lowest common denominator > of characters -- those found on a standard English keyboard. Not > all systems have the capability to show phonetic characters. (Once > Unicode is more widely adopted, it would be possible to show all > IPA characters but for now we have to do with the seven bit ASCII > character set). It must also be noted that the pronunciation of > words varies a great deal from region to region and any single way > of pronouncing a word cannot be called the only correct one. In that > spirit, the pronunciation guide provided with the words here should > be taken as an approximation and not as a precise phonetic equivalent. > > If you disagree with a given pronunciation or anything else in AWAD, > please drop me a line at anu(a)wordsmith.org. Due to large volume of > messages, I can't always respond to you but I do read all messages. -Anu > >........................................................................... ... >Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to >escape reproach. -Samuel Johnson > >To see previous issues of AWADmail, visit www.wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html >You can get them by email too. Send a blank message to wsmith(a)wordsmith.org >with Subject line as: AWADmail nn, where nn is the issue number. For example, >to get the first issue, make the subject line as: AWADmail 01 . >

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Junger v. USA Notice
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: pr_list4(a)samsara.LAW.CWRU.Edu Subject: Press Release Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:37:38 -0500 From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger(a)samsara.LAW.CWRU.Edu> Press Release New Judge to Decide Whether Export Restrictions on Software Violate Constitutional Guarantees of Freedom of Speech and of the Press Reply Briefs in Junger v. Daley Available on World Wide Web Government Argues that Much Software is Harmful ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, March 26, 1998 For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: Peter D. Junger (216) 368-2535 <junger(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu> Gino Scarselli (216) 291-8601 <gscarsel(a)mail.multiverse.com> Or see URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/jvc/ To be added to, or removed from, the list of those who were sent this press release, please send e-mail to <lawsuit(a)upaya.multiverse.com>. _________________________________________________________________ Cleveland, Ohio, March 26 -- A status conference in the case of Junger v. Daley, the suit in which a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio seeks to enjoin the enforcement by the United States Department of Commerce of the export regulations on encryption software, will be held Friday, March 27, at 10:00 a.m. in the chambers of Federal District Judge James S. Gwin in the federal courthouse in Akron, Ohio. The case turns on the issue of whether the publication in electronic form of encryption software---software that is used to preserve the privacy of electronic communications and data stored on a computer---is entitled to protection under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Judge Gwin, a recent appointee to the federal bench who previously served on the Ohio Court of Common Pleas, has replaced Judge Donald C. Nugent as the judge responsible for the litigation. The plaintiff, Professor Peter Junger, who teaches a course in Computing and the Law and who wishes to publish his class materials containing some encryption programs on his World Wide Web server, seeks an injunction against the enforcement by the defendant, Commerce Secretary Daley, of the export regulations promulgated the Department of Commerce that require anyone who wishes to publish encryption software of the Internet or on the World Wide Web to first obtain a license from the Bureau of Export Administration. Both sides have filed for summary judgment. Junger argues that the freedoms of speech and of the press that are secured by the First Amendment protect the writing and publication of computer programs. The government, on the other hand, argues that computer programs are not entitled to the protection of the First Amendment because they are ``functional''. Each side has filed a brief in support of its motion for summary judgment. These briefs and the complaint and motions for summary judgment are available at <http://www.jya.com/pdj.htm> and <http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/jvd/>. In addition both sides have filed reply briefs that are now available at: <http://www.jya.com/pdj6.htm> <http://www.jya.com/pdj7.htm> In his reply brief the plaintiff's lawyers argue: ``Making software available on the Internet and the World Wide Web is publication of that software, and publication in that medium is entitled to the unqualified protection of the First Amendment.'' The government responds to this argument in its reply brief by claiming that software is a ``functional item'' and thus not entitled to protection as speech. In furtherance of this claim it points out, ``Much software ... is designed to cause substantial harm,'' and that ``software can be used to invade privacy, commit fraud, and substantially disrupt and endanger people's lives.'' ``That is rather a perverse argument,'' says Junger, ``considering that encryption software is used to protect against exactly the harms that the government lists and that there is no law against the use of encryption software, while, of course, there are laws against invading privacy, committing fraud, and substantially disrupting and endangering people's lives. It is clear that the government does not claim just the right to regulate the writing and publication of encryption software. It claims the right to forbid the writing and publication of any type of computer program whatsoever without being in any way restricted by the First Amendment. There are, of course, some types of speech, like obscenity, that the courts have held are not entitled to the protection of the First Amendment, but no court has ever subscribed to the government's remarkable theory that the First Amendment does not protect functional speech.'' ``My case,'' says Junger, ``is not just about the constitutionality of the regulations forbidding the export of encryption software, though that is an extremely important issue. The real issue is whether the First Amendment protects the writing and publication of any type of computer program.'' -30-

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