December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Exporting cryptographic materials, theory vs. practice
by Johnathan Corgan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >No reason to risk a hassle by exporting PGP from the US on your >laptop, it's everywhere. Just take your Secret Keyring file and >download PGP from a foreign FTP site once you are out of the US. Or you can do what someone mentioned to me he does when he travels abroad: He keeps PGP and his keyrings on a floppy, but then _deletes_ PGP.EXE. Of course, being a good PC user, he _always_ carries a copy of Norton Undelete with him :) Quite creative, IMHO, and technically legal. == Johnathan Corgan "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." jcorgan(a)scruznet.com -Isaac Asimov WWW: (for now) ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/jc/jcorgan/www/homepage.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLwoKl01Diok8GKihAQH00gP/VLWJaDaS7DNp+bv1BLszEQpOlNFyS22Y BL+Wv8Rs5efF2SG5t3E+6aHwSvaRigtjE1wwF3f46QY23ZnO1x+DTuEXy9gBRu+s usNniiyfcozfT90wPU79b/qhRrnM/Uzwxn8XddWNz0ONEk/QZqXLLx/4PdczwDaN L5XclEMG8n4= =Kzyl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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H.R.4922
by VAMAGUS＠delphi.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- If I am digging up old info please excuse me, I haven't been able to read the majority of mail due to the volume of, fluff, shall we say. For U.S. cypherpunks this is it: H.R. 4922 "Interception of Digital and Other Communications" passed as of October. This is the first *I* heard about it. In short the bill requires: " ...telecommunications carrier shall insure that it's equipment, facilities, or services are capable of (1) expeditiosly isolating and enabling the government, persuant to a court order or other authorization, to intercept, to the exclusion of all other communications, all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier....etc. Time for me to generate more keys! More info available at: ftp.eff.org /pub/EFF/Policy/Digital_Telephony/digtel94.bill gopher.eff.org /1/EFF/Policy/Digital_Telephony/digtel94.bill http.eff.org /pub/EFF/Policy/Digital_Telephony/digtel94.bill ***************************Frenchie Sends******************************* * PGP Public Keys: 1024/BEB3ED71 & 2047/D9E1F2E9 on request. * * As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state * * "What does it matter to me?" the state may be given up for lost. * * J.J.Rousseau - The Social Contract * * PGP info: email to mail-server(a)rtfm.mit.edu with first line: * * send pub/usenet/alt.security.pgp/* * *****************************J. Francois******************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLwoD8LbmxeO+s+1xAQEuCgQAlI0vevAU7Gc1rkraQufpw+1NT9n2qSw5 DIoJvA0lS49ECiZeUOhwNql3cx6tPaOEeMeJIqkcv/PecX3wh3I2AzU2NGmNerOM Z2HPjdoz3xO8u0wDOJbZDRlzQafzbh0RShxAlCxPQE+qspWhmtydMvRl6KtvT1T+ s/kMO5VMkQY= =r8C+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: SAN FRANCISCO EDITORIAL
by pcw＠access.digex.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The scandalous Finland anonymous remailer is also used for good. The Samaritans, an organization in England devoted to helping folks who are thinking of suicide, often receives notes filtered through it. If someone sends me the right address, I'll send a letter to the Comical explaining this politely. We should stress the strength of anonymity.

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NYT article and LaMacchia case
by rishab＠dxm.ernet.in 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anon wrote: > I want to publicly thank John Young for making articles available. MOst of > those articles I would not otherwise have seen. I second that! > that John offered. Was there anyone in the world, well, in the cyberworld, who > was fooled by the article on the Microsoft acquisition of the Catholic church? > Anyone, who after reading that piece, considered anything other than the > creativity of the author, should be committed to St. John's Home for the > Desperately Dumb. Notice that Microsoft was flooded with complaints only after Rush Limbaugh read it on his show... > However, there was something in that article that was of concern. If the > Massachusetts judge in the MIT student case actually said that he couldn't act > because Congress had not enacted any laws, then it is for sure they will try to > and they will try to act hurriedly. Hurried actions by congress are even worse The Reuters report said: Although U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns was critical of LaMacchia's actions, he ruled he could not be prosecuted under a wire fraud statute because it could result in a flood of actions against home computer users copying even single software programmes for their own use. Anonymity had nothing to do with it. It was clear cut copyright law - which wouldn't have hurt LaMacchia as he wasn't making anything out of it, so they tried to hit him with wire fraud, and the Judge found _that_ untenable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "In between the breaths is rishab(a)dxm.ernet.in the space where we live" rishab(a)arbornet.org - Lawrence Durrell Voice/Fax/Data +91 11 6853410 Voicemail +91 11 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA

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Re: Anonymous payment scheme
by pstemari＠erinet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:45 AM 1/3/95 -0800, Hal wrote: > ... As I wrote, banks are >required to get SS#'s for depositers right now, and I wouldn't expect >that to change any time soon. If anything, the trend appears to be >towards more tightening rather than less. ... Isn't that only a requirement on interst-bearing, or potentially interest-bearing, accounts? --Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari(a)well.sf.ca.us, pstemari(a)erinet.com

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RE: Edupage 1/3/95
by Johnathan Corgan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Some selected articles from Educom that may interest you... *************************************************************************** Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is provided three times each week as a service by Educom -- a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. *************************************************************************** CYBERPHOBICS GALORE A recent Gallup poll conducted for MCI shows almost half of the 600 white collar respondents admitting they are cyberphobic or resistant to new technology. More than a third do not use a computer at all, either at home or at work, and nearly 60% don't use voice mail. Two thirds do not use e-mail at work, and about the same number don't carry a pager. The most common reason cited for anti-technology attitudes was a fear of loss of privacy. Close runners up were worries over information overload and a fear of losing face-to-face contact with associates. (Miami Herald 1/2/95 p.22) MORE INTERNET FACTS Traffic on the NSFnet grew a whopping 110% in 1994, and the number of countries online increased from approximately 137 in 1993 to approximately 159 this past year. There were 1,964 phone calls to InterNIC Registration Services during November '94. For more facts, check out http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html. (The Internet Index, Number 5) "GIVE US YOUR MONEY, BUT KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF!" A survey of small business executives conducted for IBM by Roper Starch Worldwide shows 65% of the respondents saying that building the information highway is a good use of government funds, but only 3% think the government should have "a lot" of influence on how the highway operates. Forty-four percent felt the government should have no influence, and 49% said they thought it should have "some" say in how things were run. (Inc. Technology Premiere Issue p.19) THE WIRED REVOLUTION While saluting Wired magazine's worthy premise as a publication that addresses the social and cultural effects of digital technologies, the director of the 21st Century Project at the University of Texas blasts Wired for its "fevered, adolescent consumerism, its proud display of empty thoughts from a parade of smoke-shoveling celebrity pundits, its smug disengagement from the thorny problems facing postindustrial societies, and most annoyingly, its over-the-top narcissism. If this is the revolution, do we really want to be part of it?" (New Republic 1/9-16/95 p.19) ************************************************************************ EDUPAGE is what you've just finished reading. To subscribe to Edupage: send a message to: listproc(a)educom.edu and in the BODY of the message type: subscribe edupage Sidney Carlton (assuming that your name is Sidney Carlton; if it isn't, substitute your own name) ... To cancel subscription to Edupage: send a message to: listproc(a)educom.edu and in the BODY of the message type: unsubscribe edupage. ************************************************************************ Educom -- Transforming Education Through Information Technology ************************************************************************ Written by John Gehl & Suzanne Douglas. V: 404-371-1853. F: 404-371-8057 == Johnathan Corgan "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." jcorgan(a)scruznet.com -Isaac Asimov

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EVEN MORE creis for regulation
by Nesta Stubbs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yet ANOTHER call for net regulation. There are so many now I am hard pressedto keep track of them. It appears that the media may adopt "regulation of the Internet" as it's next babe. Ya know how the adopted the Internet itself first, now watch as the entire mainstream media is flooded with calls for net regulation. Bigots' Growing Use Of Computer Networks Assailed The Simon Wiesenthal Center on 12-13-94 sent a letter to Prodigy protesting bigots online messages of hate. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the center decries the growing use by hate groups. The Wiesenthal Center wants government policing of the internet. They fear one-sided exposure of youths to white supremacist messages. Civil libertarians and white supremacists say that free speech should prevail. Marc Rotenburg of the Electronic Privacy Info Center says that it's a difficult issue and that censorship and control are ver y inappropriate. White supremacist groups like the National Alliance and the American Rennaisance can spread propaganda nationwide. These types of hate groups are kept out of mainstream media and are thus short of funds. Valerie Filds of West LA said she saw an anti latino diatribe on Prodigy that plugged American Rennaisance of Louisville KY. She says she saw a message that seemed to be from a white supremacist group. She says she saw one referring to the "Diary of Anne Frank" as a "Jewish Hoax". The Wiesenthal cente r wants such messages deleted. Anti-semitic comments on Prodigy in 1991 resulted in a policy prohibiting "blatant expressions of hatred". Kevin Strom, who produces a radio show for National Alliance, said he was recently blocked from forums on Compuserve. He said that "the system operator decided we didn't deserve free speech." His article "The Wisdom of Henry Ford" about the book "The International Jew" was downloaded 120 times. Georgia Griffith of Compuserve said "we are not oblidged to publish it for him." There are 5 m subscribers to commercial online services, 2 m to Prodigy, 20 m accessing the internet. Rabbi Cooper wants the FCC to place a cop on the internet. White supremacist propaganda is available on the internet. The Institute for Historical Review's article "Frequently Asked Questions about National Socialis m" is available. Far-right activists say anonymity removes inhibitions too. The National Alliance uses Netcom Online Communications Services in California. Texts and promotions of its radio show are available there. National Alliance chairman William Pierce said "The major media in this country are very biased against our political point of view. They present us with ridicule or in a very distorted way. The information superhighway is much more free of censorship."

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Re: Press attack on anonymity.
by dmandl＠bear.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: <koontz(a)maspar.com> > > Sandy Sandfort posted an editorial from the Mondays SF Chronicle. > > There is a front page story in todays San Jose Mercury News on why > anonymity is a bad thing. > > Its from a New York Times story by Peter H. Lewis > > The question is who launched all this stuff? Funny thing is, _I_ just wrote a long piece on anon remailers too, though it was obviously from a different perspective from Peter Lewis's (and a lot better written, natch). The local paper it was written for liked it, but thought the subject matter was "too technical" for its readership, so I'm hoping to get it published elsewhere. When I got the idea, all I could think of was why no one else had done a piece specifically on remailers. It's an important story. I guess everyone else was working on them at the same time. I hope that there are some good pro-anonymity pieces published soon to give some "balance." P.S.: Martha S. Siegel is absolutely out of her mind. If she wasn't lynched after the green card episode, this latest stunt should do it. --Dave.

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Re: 16 years old hacker arrested ?
by Octavian Ureche 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> According to AFP(London), The Independent reported on January 3, 1995 > that a sixteen years old boy was arrested for breaking into the > computer network of US Defense Department. > > The report also tells that the hacker posted documents about last > year's nuclear crisis between North Korea and USA. > > Does anyone know where can I get a copy of that documents ? > This is a repost from another list: --------------------------------------------------------- TEEN-AGE HACKER TAPS INTO U.S. DEFENSE SECRETS From wire reports LONDON - A British teen-ager allegedly hacked into sensitive U.S. government computers and was able to monitor secret communications over the North Korean nuclear crisis last spring, the Independent newspaper reported Tuesday. The boy tapped into several defense computers for seven months in what U.S. officials conceded was one of the most serious breaches of computer security in recent years, the paper said. The 16-year-old, after reading the messages, put them on a bulletin board on the Internet, an international computer network accessible to 35 million users. A British hacker who read the messages told the Independent they contained information about firing sites in North Korea and field intelligence. "He kept detailed logs of communication traffic. He really couldn't believe his luck. The Americans thought he was a spy but he told them he was just doing it for fun," the hacker told the Independent. The boy, nicknamed "Datastream" by other Internet users, was finally caught by special U.S. investigators because he left his terminal on-line to a U.S. defense computer overnight. British police arrested the boy in July and prosecutors are expected to decide this month whether he can be charged, the Independent said. In a statement to the paper, the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations acknowledged the hacker could have accessed and read the Korean files.

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Re: Exporting cryptographic materials, theory vs. practice
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

James Donald writes: > On Mon, 2 Jan 1995, Carol Anne Braddock wrote: > > Right now, I don't think U.S. Customs is going to ask you if you > > have PGP in your PC if you leave the country, or return either. > > > > They should, and I'd be proud to say yes. > > Well Carol, I am sure your heart is in the right place, but I > do not agree. > > They should not, and I'd be deranged to say yes. Of course you'd be deranged to say yes, but just imagine what would happen if every Customs Thug were required to ask everyone carrying a PC into our out of the country if they had any software on it capable of protecting the privacy of their files or communications, and requiring major paperwork of anyone who said yes.... the law would be gone in a week. My latest beef with the customs thugs was when I last came back from Mexico, I noticed that their arm badges said something about like "U.S. Customs Service - Protectors of Independence" Arrrgh! Bill

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