December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

New pgp key server open for testing...
by gtoal＠an-teallach.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could any cypherpunks who regularly use pgp key servers try switching to the new one at pgp-public-keys(a)io.com which has been set up courtesy of Steve Jackson Games. Don't announce this elsewhere yet please - it's only open for alpha test - this is all new server code that *doesn't* use pgp or any PKP-patent-claimed algorithms. If it survives some live testing by cypherpunks then we'll make the server code widely available, and get more servers online too. Thanks G

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eavesdropping detection
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How would one go about detecting any suspected eavedropping devices in one's home in an inexpensive fashion? Sorry about the off-topic question, but what the heck.

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Kid Scan (tm)
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Everbody, I was watching Beyond 2000 today and they had a episode on Kid Scan. This technology came from Europe where it is used to id dogs and such. The premice is to have criminals and children fited w/ a micro-chip in their fatty tissue. This transponder would allow persons to be monitored. This seems like a prime candidate to infringement of civil liberties.

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Re: Kid Scan (tm)
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > "Fortress": very stupid movie about a high-tech megaprison in the > future. Prisoners are implanted with "intestinators" that have some > local intelligence as well as communications abilities. The > intestinators can of course be made to cause the prisoners to blow up. > > > -- > Mike McNally : m5(a)tivoli.com : Day Laborer : Tivoli Systems : Austin, TX > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Remember that all experimentation does not produce extrapolated results. > - k. pisichko > Thanks, I feel a little less ignorant now, I thought it was something real... Merry Christmas

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Eavedropping devices
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I appreciate the replies I received on "how to cheaply detect eavesdropping devices," but I'm afraid that I do not have access to the types of equipment which were mentioned (IR glasses, etc). Any further suggestions? PS - Has anyone else been watching the lunatic ravings of one l.detweiler on comp.org.eff.talk? This guy is a fucking fruitcake!

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Hut six
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Hut Six" by Welchman seems to be out of print. The book describes early Bletchley Park work on the German Enigma cypher system. Does anyone know where to get a copy?

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It had to happen...
by Mike Ingle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Today I got an interesting message. It seems that someone was doing some hardcore hacking of machines at a university campus. The person used one of these accounts to send me a message requesting a copy of Secure Drive. This message and my response were wiretapped by the people investigating the hacking. They traced the hacker and arrested him. His computer was encrypted with Secure Drive. The IS manager involved sent me a message asking me how to break Secure Drive, because they can't prosecute the person without the data, and the suspect has of course forgotten the encryption passphrase. So far I don't have many details other than these. I hope to find out more. I'd like to talk to the investigator and to the suspect. I sent the IS manager a copy of Secure Drive and told him how it works, but that's about all I can do. --- Mike

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The Cypherpunk Equation
by L. Detweiler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Pseudospoofing == Privacy

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mail-to-news gateway
by Eric Hollander 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm currently setting up my soda.berkeley.edu remailer so it will post stuff to news. It's working fine, but I'm having an internal debate with myself: Do I want it to automatically anonymify the postings (that's what it's doing now) or should I have them with names on them? The only real difference is that if they have names on them by default, people will have to bounce it through a remailer first if they want anon. Also if it's always anon, it may lead to more abuses, and might not be as useful in some ways. What do people think? Btw, it's open for testing right now. To use it, send mail hh(a)soda.berkeley.edu with the following line in the header: Request-Post: alt.test and it will post. NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT PUBLICIZE THIS SERVICE YET, BECAUSE IT IS STILL IN "BETA". PLEASE DO NOT USE IT TO POST TO GROUPS OTHER THAN TEST GROUPS. e

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Re: It had to happen...
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The cracker who's using Secure Drive could be an interesting case. Unfortunately, assuming that a cracker at a university is probably a student, he may not hve very good legal representation, and I'd hate to see bad precedent on "can you be forced to reveal your key" set because someone is not only a tresspasser but a stupid one as well. Do you know if the wiretapping was being done by police, or if it was just the university staff with ethernet sniffers? I was interested by your comment that they can't prosecute the person without the data; while it could certainly be helpful to have, one would hope they had a reasonably solid case *before* they went and arrested him..... Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart NCR Corp, 6870 Koll Center Parkway, Pleasanton CA, 94566 # Voice/Beeper 510-224-7043, Phone 510-484-6204 # email bill.stewart(a)pleasantonca.ncr.com billstewart(a)attmail.com

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