December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: penet.fi attack
by lcottrell＠popmail.ucsd.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was clearly not just ignorance. Check out alt.test. The Anon and real ID of hundreds of people has been posted there. -------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell who does not speak for CASS/UCSD loki(a)nately.ucsd.edu PGP 2.3 key available by finger or server. "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche

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Adding PGP capability to Majordomo
by Lyman Hazelton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This sounds great, though I am somewhat confused about the mechanism and effect... just giving Majordomo a keyset would not (at least to my understanding) cure the problem of an??? recipients resulting in new an??? accounts. Perhaps I am missing something fundamental here, but what would this buy us? Lyman Finger lrh(a)crl.com for PGP 2.4 Public Key Block.

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SpamlessPointer: Internet Shopkeeper
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the interest of spam-less info citations, please check out the posting in biz.comp.services for "Internet Shopkeeper", which allows people to set up their own internet malls (mini-malls already???), not just buy a shop in someone else's mall. No mention about transaction security in their post, really. I have a copy if anyone misses it. When I get some time, I'll put on my dumpster diving outfit and see what I can find out. If you get there before I do, share all... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) "There is no difference between someone Shipwright Development Corporation who eats too little and sees Heaven and 44 Farquhar Street someone who drinks too much and sees Boston, MA 02331 USA snakes." -- Bertrand Russell (617) 323-7923

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Re: Children and the Net
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by cactus(a)bibliob.slip.netcom.com ("L. Todd Masco") on Tue, 2 Aug 1:5 PM > >Am I the only one that's struck by the similarity >between the propaganda about the Waco massacre and the >propaganda preceding the Persion Gulf massacre? Along with post-massacre spin on the slaughter to teach lasting fear of the killers beyond the event: don't fuck with us, obey or die. Captives an be terrorized into adoration of their captors, whether kids, soldiers or citizens, and propaganda is an uncontrolled munition.

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Ann: PGS v0.99e
by ER CRAMER 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Just another release of Pretty Good PGP Shell: PGS v0.99e is the bug fix for the public beta version of PGS v0.99d. PGS is a very good shell for PGP. PGS has an advanced keyring management system and reads keyring it selves!!! PGS is very easy to use! PGS supports PGP versions 2.3a 2.6MIT 2.6ui. And ViaCrypt PGP versions 2.4 and 2.7. Special requirements: 80286 or up. Changes: A few minor bugs where fixed. The major memory leak in the key information section has been fixed. Because some users did have some problem with PGS changing the color pallet a new color mode has build in that uses standard (STD) colors. It is now possible to save the color mode (PGS, STD (default) or MONO) in the configuration file. PGS v0.99e is available for download at the following sites: Internet: (Right now) wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/msdos_uploads/pgs/pgs099ee.zip 128.252.135.4:/pub/msdos_uploads/pgs/pgs099ee.zip (notice that the filename is pgs099eE.zip and not pgs099e.zip, pgs099e.zip was not uploaded correctly). Fidonet: 2:282/317 Request: PGS099E.* 2:280/202 Request: PGS099E.* - -- ... If you outlaw Privacy, only Outlaws will have Privacy! Eelco Cramer <crame001(a)hio.tem.nhl.nl> ------ - -------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLj7UH4DAdPKe9hHLAQFowQP/Qm2AYxxRGBCf8tMFUE5KJGPd97GsXOkZ 9fnG/ofYHkpVgTRNc/jiTWd7502zQdcI95DM0WZoDirnHVjw1Iqxq8HXaxJ9h37X N+d/ClHTfWao9BTXN4FiO0urY/383kFWSlanZYSTQxatHeiIC/9BRVWoIbj8DndX sRMrKVSfrTY= =csjx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Children and the Net
by kkirksey＠world.std.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> On Sun, 31 Jul 1994, Mike Duvos wrote: > >> > Had it not been for the fact that having children covered with >> > scars, welts, and bruises is not considered child abuse in the >> > state of Texas, all the children would have been removed from the >> > compound prior to the raid, and only the adults would have been >> > toasted. > >> Puh-leeze! There has been little to no evidence of ANY abuse of the >> Branch Davidian children. The only thing we know is that Koresh liked his >> mates young but that doesn't mean the rest of hte children were abused >> and, of course, Koresh's kink is quite normal in quite a few places. Are >> you forgetting that the BDs were investigated for child abuse and cleared >> earlier? > >These facts were well documented. Child welfare workers visited the >compound and examined the children. Signs of previous physical >punishment were noted as well as a room devoted to that purpose and ^^^^^^^^^^ >the appropriate paraphernalia. We were talking about physical ABUSE, not physical PUNISHMENT. There is a difference, unless of course you're one of those people that believe that they're one in the same and that parents shouldn't be allowed to physically discipline their children in any manner whatsoever. When I was a child, we had a room devoted to the physical discipline of us children: my parents bedroom. And in that room, specifially the closet, my father kept the appropriate paraphenalia: belts. Do you believe my parents should have been arrested for "child abuse"? I don't. The fact stands that there was no evidence that the children in the compound were ABUSED. The Texas department of child welfare cleared Koresh of all such charges. If you have any documentation to the contrary, I would certainly be interested in seeing it. I don't want to see evidence of PUNISHMENT, only ABUSE. Ken ============================================================================= Ken Kirksey kkirksey(a)world.std.com Mac Guru & Developer - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." - Abraham Lincoln -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLj7FhusZNYlu+zuBAQGENgP/V6G/gCuFJ40+AeY0rs++AB73260q9jzk iLScYWfPwQ0JyMd3XJ9K4GW0eVaiV+LmWbAIFXj0FdBOVmzAnpFtw2zWTZep4UMO awrUFsp0UioGi3web3q2cfgxi3Z5YQiaZQN6rvpAeECsXyi+mutG8dQ8HdYgNY1N TRiTwsf+5pk= =86cK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Anonymous code name allocated. // penet hack
by L. Todd Masco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Doug Cutrell writes: > >So, in between my check and yours, Todd posted the cypherpunks hack > >telnet 25 and the anonymous id disappeared. Hmmmmm. I wonder how > >that happened? :-) > > > >Thanks Todd! > > > > Rick > > I'd like to understand what Todd's "hack" means... I assume that he's > talking about telnetting to the sendmail port. But I thought that anyone > could unsubscribe anyone from cypherpunks by simply sending a message with: > > unsubscribe cypherpunks obnoxious(a)jerk.com > > It isn't even necessary to forge the return address, because majordomo > doesn't check. I just pulled majordomo's help file. It's appended below. In my experience, listservers will clear any commands that don't come from the person affected by passing them on for processing by the list maintainer as a security precaution. I had assumed majordomo did this, but I'm not certain. -- Todd

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Chaum ecash
by Joseph Block 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry to clutter the list but: I had sent email about beta-testing Chaum's ecash scheme. I've since lost my copy of the original announcement (had a drive crash - joy!) and have never received a reply. Could some kind soul send me a copy of the announcement? thanks jpb(a)gate.net

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One last acronym...
by Joseph Block 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Federal Usurpation of Citizen's Keys Eliminates Real Security " " " " " " Secrecy

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Re: Ethics of Anonymous Remailers (Re: Needed for a computer ethics class)
by jburrell＠crl.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >No, but it's something that I often get asked. I would be interested to hear >examples of good things that people are using my anonymous remailer for. Take Pr0duct Cypher, for example. Many believe that what (s)he's doing(*) is a Good Thing, and I've seen him/her using the Cypherpunk remailers to conceal his/her identity. * If you don't know, (s)he's the person who wrote PGPTOOLS, and a hack for PGP 2.3a to decrypt messages written with 2.6. I assume (s)he's doing it anonymously due to ITAR regulations. --- Hey Feds! How's it goin'? (LIke you're not reading the list. :) -- Jason Burrell <jburrell(a)crl.com> Finger for PGP public key. There is no such thing as limited censorship. If you want your freedom, fight now. Don't wait until you've lost it. WWW: ftp://ftp.crl.com/users/ro/jburrell/WWW/home.html

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