December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NSA Losing Crypto Experts
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Government Executive, August, 1998: The National Security Agency is losing ground in the fight to keep hard-to-find cryptography experts from being lured to greener pastures. By Richard Lardner Price Waterhouse didn't become a force in the consulting world by ignoring market trends. So it was no surprise when the firm decided to expand its information security operation. After all, the Internet has completely changed the way business is done: Paper is out, electrons are in. But just as electronic commerce is skyrocketing, so too are the odds that sensitive corporate information might be tampered with as it travels through cyberspace. With the private sector beginning to recognize that the digital door swings both ways, there's growing demand for the "risk management" services Price Waterhouse and other companies are offering to help keep the hackers at bay. To snare these potential clients, the company needed to hire hundreds of information technology professionals. Trouble is, information protection may be a huge growth area, but the talent pool is mighty shallow. So officials at Price Waterhouse did what many other commercial enterprises have done, and continue to do. They targeted a group of employees at the Defense Department's secretive National Security Agency, where thousands of the federal government's best and brightest spend their days eavesdropping on other countries while at the same time ensuring that U.S. information networks are secure. Because of the highly sensitive missions the agency performs, companies like Price Waterhouse know they are getting employees who are extremely good at what they do and are solid citizens too-NSA is picky about whom it hires and conducts thorough background investigations. Full text: http://www.jya.com/nsa-loss.htm

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Amused but still looking for...
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I love the SPACE ALIENS stuff : it's like the X-files on a druggie's version of a Long Island Iced Tea. The politics are agreeable and predictable. The up-to-the-minute news and the entertainment is fun but there's really not much that is technical happening here. Is there a coderpunks mail archive available anywhere? The URL that I've found has been down for too long. How about a list of ongoing projects? When is the next CP meeting? Mike "Just because a taste of freedom made you lose your lunch doesn't mean it should be removed from the menu."

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Re: Spamming
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Art1Carol wrote: > > I do not spam! I don't think....The Government Lets it's post office's > around the country spam everyone every day, for the postage Don't we wish we > had a delete button for that? Hello, McFly? Anybody home? McFly! When somebody sends mail through the postal service, they pay postage. It costs the recipient nothing and, if anything, is actually useful for getting a fire started in the winter. When somebody spams through the Internet, they pay virtually nothing, yet everybody else gets to pay to deliver, store, and filter the shit. Then there are the morons who connect to other peoples' machines and use those to relay mail; that's quite obviously theft. Take your spam, for instance. You go out and pay MSN a bit of money for some account. You mail the Cypherpunks list with your ad for porn or whatever it was. The list operators then have to deliver it to a few thousand people. You steal the resources of the CDR operators to deliver it. You steal the resources of the Cypherpunks to store it. You steal CPU time all over the place to filter it. You steal bandwidth all over the place to deliver it. This is obvious to anybody with more than a few dozen brain cells to rub together. Then again, this kind of grammatically-challenged and logically invalid garbage is what I've come to expect from users of lame services like AOL, Prodigy, MSN, Hotmail, et al. It goes with the territory for sites which cater to the lowest common denominator. > I do believe each provider should have a block for unsolicited email and > instruct their customers how to use it, and if they don't, Spam Away... Right, and they still get to pay for the transmission, temporary storage, filtering, etc. Let's see. Say I filter it. My ISP gets the spam. It has to store it. I log into the POP3 server to get my mail. I have to transfer it. After it's been stored on the ISP for quite a while, after it's been transmitted, after it's eaten my bandwidth, and after I've waited around for it to transfer, I have to blow CPU time to filter it. Yeah, like in postal junk mail the sender is really the one paying, not the recipient. Your clue check has bounced. [Remainder of drivel snipped.] Copy to MSN. Copy to the Cypherpunks list for the other lamers who like to spam it.

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cryptographic signatures
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A few months ago I posted statistics of the types of digital signatures used on Usenet and in mailings lists. It turns out that the moderators' signatures in a moderated newsgroup were tabulated for the individual posters, resulting in somewhat too big figures for one particular version of PGP. Here are the current figures: 56.6% PGP 2.* 33.7% PGP 5.* 3.6% other OpenPGP implementations 4.0% S/MIME The sample contains 249 unique (e-mail address, software version) pairs taken from various international and local newsgroups and mailing lists that happen to be available in my news spool (consisting of some 24,000 articles). Perhaps someone with a full newsfeed -- whatever that is in these days -- would like to try the same? These are the PGP Version headers: 55 2.6.2 24 2.6.3i 19 2.6.3ia 17 PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use <http://www.pgpi.com> 15 2.6.3in 14 PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 10 PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.3 9 2.6.3a 8 PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use 7 PGP 5.5.5 6 2.6.2i 4 PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 4 2.6.3a-sha1 3 PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0.1iRu 3 PGP for Business Security 5.5 3 2.6.3 2 PGPfreeware 5.5.5 for non-commercial use <http://www.nai.com> 2 PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use 2 PGP for Business Security 5.5.6 2 PGP for Business Security 5.5.2 2 PGP Cyber-Knights Templar build 5.5.3ckt 2 GNUPG v0.3.1 (GNU/Linux) 2 GNUPG v0.3.0 (GNU/Linux) 2 CTCDOS 0.1 1 Version 2.0.0 1 PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use 1 PGPfreeware 5.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> 1 PGPfreeware 5.5.2 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> 1 PGPfreeware 5.0 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> 1 PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 1 PGP 5.5.3 It's not only for cool looking messages! 1 PGP 5.0i 1 PGP 5.0 1 GNUPG v0.3.2a (GNU/Linux) 1 GNUPG v0.3.2 (GNU/Linux) 1 GNUPG v0.3.1a (GNU/Linux) 1 4.0 Business Edition 1 2.7.1 1 2.7 1 2.6.i 1 2.6.3uin 1 2.6.1 1 2.6

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MORE!!!!
by CLCTCHR＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

More!

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by Babybee390＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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In and out brothel/My wife lays eggs like a chicken
by STUFFED/EUREKA! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - July 30, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Resources on how to track spammers
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

These are two address I thought might be useful. This is a guide on tracking down real addresses in usenet faked posts. Once you find the real addresses or at least have a couple good guesses on what provider they use reply to their message and cc: it to the postmaster and technicle contact of all the ISP's you think it might be. They can use message ID's and logs to check where the message originated from. http://newdata.box.sk/neworder/harmless/GTMHH1-4.TXT this is the same for forged e-mail. http://newdata.box.sk/neworder/harmless/GTMHH1-5.TXT The reason I'm sending this is because of the fact that I almost never get spam. When I do I respond quickly and appropriately and the spam dies out. When I joined and then posted to this list I was flooded with mail. Personally I this has to be one of the stupided lists to spam. How many technical peopl that are interested in crypto are really gaing to respond to some of these stupid ads

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