December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: NSA Security Manual
by grady＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

When I spoke to the NSA Security Officer for NSA he was very interested in Phrack (not having heard of it before). I gave him subscription information, etc. If you are listening Erik, I want a cut of the take. :-) Actually I speculate that someone who saw my reposting helpfully phoned the NSA about the security breach. But SDO10 didn't give me that information... Grady

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Re: 1984 Shirt Ordering Info
by markh＠wimsey.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > 1984 NSA T-shirt ordering information: > A reminder: The shirt is available for viewing at > http://phoenix.aps.muohio.edu/users/jdblair/t-shirt.html >... > It will be available soon via anonymous ftp. I will post the address > when that is confirmed. available from ftp.wimsey.bc.ca:/pub/crypto/shirt

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Re: NSA T-shirt FTP site
by Graham Toal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, the NSA T-shirt gifs are on ftp.atd.ucar.edu in pub/Crypto -- help yourselves. "Don't forget to use binary mode to fetch them." Whoever designed these hasn't done a t-shirt before I suspect. The white on black may look pretty on your screen, but it's the worst thing for printing. The best thing to supply would be the graphic, trimmed to its border, as a single file, and the text as a postscript file. Ditto the reverse side should be postscript too. Gifs don't scale well for printing so the larger the original of the graphic, the better. G

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MIT sysop faces piracy charges.
by Alexander Chislenko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Today's Boston Globe has an article on a 20yo MIT student David LaMacchia who 'enabled Internet users around the globe to pirate more than a million dollars worth of copyrigthed software'. David 'faces a possible jail term and fines of up to $250,000'. David's scheme involved usage of anonymous remailers [?] in Finland. The article starts on the front page with a big color picture of David in his computer room. Here's a repsonse to the case I found oncomp.org.eff.talk:

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RE: RMorality and Ethics (was Pseudonym's and Reputation)
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Curtis D. Frye Attempted translation: Morality is both individual and situational, and must not be externally imposed as the imposition would violate individual sovereignty. Thanks, Curtis. For some reason, I kept reading the first sentence as: "Morality is the ablility to differentiate between right and wrong, without detonation." Which, I guess, would be another good translation. Blanc

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REMAIL: pseudo-account remailer @andrew gains anonymous feature
by Matthew J Ghio 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I added an anonymous feature to my remailer. If you have an address of the form mg5n+eaxxx(a)andrew.cmu.edu, anonymous mail can be sent to that address by changing it to the format: mg5n+anxxx(a)andrew.cmu.edu An encrypted reply address is created for the sender of the anonymous message. You can get an anonymous address by sending mail to mg5n+getid(a)andrew.cmu.edu P.S. For what it's worth, the address mg5n+anz3ajg8o1yxicqzt6v6qgpg3tkhddpqw3jl(a)andrew.cmu.edu will forward anonymously to cypherpunks(a)toad.com. If your mail software supports mail aliases, a mail alias to that address might be an easy way to post anon to the list (and get replies ;-) As before, anyone who wants the source is welcome to it, however there is nil documentation, and some of my recent hacks to it have increased the code sloppiness factor by several orders of magnitude. It does now support 3DES encryption, much thanks to Phil Karn and Jim Gillogly's PD code.

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Re: NSA Security Manual
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mr. Toal said : What I found interesting was that it was published in Phrack about a week ago, and nothing happened, but when Grady reposted it, suddenly phone-calls come aflying. Either this means that the NSA read Grady's posts more diligently than everyone else's, or Grady went out of his way to tell them that he'd posted it, which wouldn't surprise me... G <- This is partly up to Grady to verify, but I suspect the answer lies in the different frequency and lag time between examination of the net and examination of Phrack. Grady's probably just got noticed first.

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NSA manual.
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Grady says: Actually I speculate that someone who saw my reposting helpfully phoned the NSA about the security breach. But SDO10 didn't give me that information... Grady <- Sorry for the bandwidth, this sounds more reasonable than any active scanning. -uni- (Dark)

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NSA Manual and Media
by Jeff Davis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well Sports Fans, I just mailed the NSA manual to every media source with an email adress listed in Adam's _Big_Dummies_Guide_ - It took 6 aliases to get them all. Scuuuze me! I'm headed back to the Buckhorn Bar and all those drunk undergraduate fillies. This will do for a nights work >;) -- PGP PUBLIC KEY via finger! JAFEFFM Speaking & Thinking For Myself! * eagle(a)deeptht.armory.com email info(a)eff.org * *** O U T L A W S On The E L E C T R O N I C F R O N T I E R **** ***** Committed to Free Public Internet Access for World Peace *****

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Re: Today cryptography, tomorrow ??
by joshua geller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > Many of the Cynosure users hid their identities by using an > > Internet address in Finland that provided an anonymous forwarding > > service for the pirated programs, according to the indictment. > Does this mean we will soon be seeing Julf in chains on the evening news > with his coat over his head? > After all, the United States long ago awarded itself kidnapping > priveleges against anyone it claims has violated US law, with no concern > for the laws of the country in which the person resides. Just ask Manuel > Noriega. or timothy leary. josh

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