December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

SEK_hel
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

7-14-95. NYPaper: "U.S. Spells Out Antitrust Inquiry Into Microsoft." The Justice Department said today that the Microsoft Corporation might well be violating antitrust laws by including software for its new on-line network in Windows 95, its much-anticipated operating system for personal computers. JUS_kid "Sting on Internet Leads to a Child Sex Case." In a case involving child pornography, the Internet and a self-appointed enforcer whom one critical defense lawyer calls an "electronic vigilante," a Nevada man is facing prison for crossing state lines with the intention of having sex with a 14 year-old girl he had met on a popular computer network. SHE_dev [Editorial] "The Guns of Waco and Ruby Ridge." There is little doubt that the Federal Government contributed heavily to two of the biggest law enforcement fiascoes in recent memory. One was the disastrous 1993 Federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Tex. The other was the tragic 1992 encounter between the F.B.I. and a band of white separatists at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. LIT_bub 3: SEK_hel

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S. 982 Kyl-Leahy(-Grassley) NII Protection Act
by Brian A. LaMacchia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

S. 982 is "the other bill" introduced recently in the Senate, the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1995 (introduced by Sens. Kyl, Leahy and Grassley). Since it has bipartisan support plus the support of the Attorney General I thought it might be a good idea to see what it really does. I've made available via WWW the following documents: The text of S. 982: The National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1995; The text of 18 USC 1030 as it is currently; The text of 18 USC 1030 as modified by S. 982; Sen. Kyl's statement introducing S. 982; Sen. Leahy's statement introducing S. 982; A section-by-section analysis of S. 982 provided by Sens. Kyl and Leahy; All are available from my "Legal Issues" page at: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/legal/ The "text of 18 USC 1030 as modified by S. 982" is perhaps the most interesting, since it shows both text removed by the bill (in italics) and text added by the bill (in boldface). --bal

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Ssh and Macintosh applications.
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Having looked over the Ssh blurbs, I can't help but want to use it. NOW. Is anyone more skillful than I going to try and port some sort of support for those of us who are using a Mac with, say, a direct connection to a provider using Ssh? Please?

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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
by Allen Robinson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm posting this again, not because I think it contains any particularly profound insights, but rather because I initially sent it around midnight last night and it was not reflected here so I suppose it did not make it out. AR ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:12:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Allen Robinson <sebaygo(a)intellinet.com> To: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)escape.com> Cc: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd) On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Ray Arachelian wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, L. McCarthy wrote: > > > Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I rise this evening to introduce the > > Anti-electronic Racketeering Act of 1995. This bill makes important changes > > to RICO and criminalizes deliberately using computer technology to engage in > > criminal activity. I believe this bill is a reasonable, measured and strong > > response to a growing problem. According to the computer emergency and > > response team at Carnegie-Mellon University, during 1994, about 40,000 > > computer users were attacked. Virus hacker, the FBI's national computer > > crime squad has investigated over 200 cases since 1991. So, computer crime is > > clearly on the rise. > > Eh, what do "virus hackers" have to do with encryption, why is it these > morons justify the destruction of encryption by mentioning hackers and > viruses? The use of terms such as "virus" and "hacker" in a context such as this has little or nothing to do with what the terms actually mean. It's palpably obvious that they are being bandied about here solely for the knee-jerk emotional reactions they evoke. Even those more computer/net clue-impaired than Grassley (assuming that such is possible) know from watching TV and the movies that a virus is a Bad Thing (tm) and that hackers are evil! Pseudo-digital demagoguery. > Additionally, does this mean that someone outside of the USA is in danger > of being grabbed by RICO armed thugs from Uncle Sam's cadre for writing > crypto software and publishing it in the open? After all, once it winds > up on some USA site, how do we know that someone outside the USA got his > copy of SuperDuperNSASpookFree from a non-US site? Just to be sure, > we'll bust both the site operator and nab the guy who wrote it next time > he drops in, or hell, we'll have him extradited. Or simply kidnap him and escort him back to the U.S. <snip> > > I believe we need to seriously reconsider > > the Federal Criminal Code with an eye toward modernizing existing statutes > > and creating new ones. In other words, Mr. President, Elliot Ness needs to > > meet the Internet. > > Where is Elliot Ness? I don't see any mafia.org on the net. Anyone here > see any such site? It might be even more beneficial if Senator Grassley and the other members of our august deliberative bodies would meet the internet. My gut reaction to the recent tide of legislation is that they are seeking to stangle what they fear and that they fear what they do not understand. (Too melodramatic?) > > Mr. President, I sit on the Board of the Office of Technology Assessment. > > That Office has clearly indicated that organized crime has entered cyberspace > > in a big way. International drug cartels use computers to launder drug money > > and terrorists like the Oklahoma City bombers use computers to conspire to > > commit crimes. > > Was it not proven that McVeigh and Co. >DID NOT< use a computer? THe AOL > account was a hoax, no? Where are the hoardes of anti-USA terrorists, > and drug pushers on the net? You don't recognize them because they are masquerading as "virus hackers". Again, the main reason for playing the "terrorist" card is for the emotional hot-buttons they can push by so doing. Since Grassley didn't use it, look for someone to introduce something this session titled, "The Avenge Those Poor, Innocent, Bloody Dead Children Act of 1995". AR %#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#%=%#% "Government is not reason... it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Allen Robinson...................................sebaygo(a)intellinet.com PGP public key AD022AA9 fingerprint 5A3BC05B2EC67724 F5664A20AEEAB07A

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MYS_fit
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

7-14-95. NYPaper Page Oner: "2 Groups of Physicists Produce Matter That Einstein Postulated." By chilling a cloud of atoms to a temperature barely above absolute zero, scientists at a Colorado laboratory have at last created a bizarre type of matter that had eluded experimenters ever since its potential existence was postulated by Albert Einstein 70 years ago. The creation of this Bose-Einstein condensate -- named for Einstein, and the Indian theorist Satyendra Nath Bose -- was hailed yesterday as the basis of a new field of research expected to explain some fundamental mysteries of atomic physics. A Texas group later produced similar results. The achievement should allow physicists to peer directly into the realm of the ultrasmall. MYS_fit [This was also reported in The Economist of July 1.]

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Re: ADMIN: List wipeout and recovery
by tcmay＠sensemedia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:12 AM 7/15/95, Hugh Daniel wrote: >to fixit. Using two heads was better than one and we realized that we >had a online backup only 2 days old. Minutes later it was installed ^^^^^^^^^^^ >and the list is back to where it was late on 1995/07/11. I think your backup is a lot older than 2 days old, as a "who cypherpunks" request showed this as my list address: .... talon57(a)well.sf.ca.us tcmay(a)netcom.com (Timothy C. May) tentacle(a)hclb.demon.co.uk .... I haven't been subscribed as "tcmay(a)netcom.com" since mid-June. Since mid-June I've been subscribed as "tcmay(a)sensemedia.net". Why did I get this message at my sensemedia.net address if in fact "who cypherpunks" shows my subscription address is only at Netcom? Beats me. I checked and I am not subscribed under both addresses, and a grep of the "who cypherpunks" list doesn't show a sensemedia.net address for me. Maybe the "who cypherpunks" at 16:21 today is a different backup list than the supposedly 2-day old list.... Something for the X Files, perhaps. --Tim May .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)sensemedia.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Receiver anonymity in DC-nets...
by Phil Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A method occured to me that obviates the need for public-key cryptography as a method of receiver anonymity in a dining-cryptographer network. I'm *sure* someone has thought of this before. I don't, however, have access to netscape or mosaic just now to search the archive with. If this topic or method has come up before (if you know of it, you'll know what I'm talking about; if not, and noone has come up with it before, which I doubt, I'd still like the patent ;-) and one of you guys has the relevant messages handy could you send them to me? Don't go through any great trouble, you understand... Phil

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POX_usg
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

7-15-95. NYPaper Page Oners: "Director of F.B.I. Demotes Deputy: No. 2 Man's Ouster Is Tied to Inquiry on Idaho Siege." F.B.I. Director Louis J. Freeh today demoted the bureau's Deputy Director, Larry A. Potts, citing the turmoil created by an internal investigation into the destruction of documents relating to the conduct of Mr. Potts and other senior F.B.I. officials in a deadly 1992 standoff with a white separatist in Idaho. SAV_ass "B-2, After 14 Years, Is Still Failing Basic Tests." The $44 billion B-2 bomber has radar that cannot distinguish a raincloud from a mountainside, has not passed most of its basic tests and may not be nearly as stealthy as advertised, according to a draft report by the General Accounting Office. It was provided to The New York Times by a Government official skeptical of the bomber's capabilities who sought to bring into the debate the report's examples of the B-2's inability to pass performance hurdles. YB2_gud 2n1: POX_usg

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Re: def'n of "computer network"
by Andrew.Spring＠ping.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >rick hoselton writes: >> Perry, I don't understand. If the least significant bits in my gif file >> follow all the "known statistical distributions", how can anyone know >> whether they are "just noise" or are an encrypted message, If your attacker has a more sophisticated statistical model of noise distributions than you do, then he can deduce the existence of message. > >Indeed -- how could the recipient even know to look, unless these >things arrived regularly and with a fully standardized form of >stegonography, in which case why bother, all you've done is come up >with a very odd form of transfer encoding. > >If the recipient does know to look, that implies either that there is >a hint, in which case the stegonography is useless, or it implies that >you have prearrangement, in which case my comments on prearrangement >hold. Well, there's things like the subliminal channel in DSS (discussed in Applied Cryptography) whereby a DSS chip could leak bits of a user's private key. In the channel discussed, even if the user suspected the existence of the channel, there's no way he can prove it. Now, that's steganography! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6ui iQCVAgUBMAfXAI4k1+54BopBAQHF4AQA2jRHvyKQ0ojYj7GHWpmZ+hz84dsXDtUS NJHqxjjIK1RtvPFAm4QI8p3lt/ovGKLH+CjpC0QuHZ0B3O3INkz/zD7IwsU+1SJA QycBquLvh7Q/dPkZ6J6P87Bmy0gzNBJrvW7rxLuOQyu9EOUtixFS2H9lDNa8zISp xZ/4yrb1/ZE= =NKwt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Thank you VERY much! You'll be getting a Handsome Simulfax Copy of your OWN words in the mail soon (and My Reply). <Andrew.Spring(a)ping.be> PGP Print: 0529 C9AF 613E 9E49 378E 54CD E232 DF96 Thank you for question, exit left to Funway.

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Re: mistake on my part
by Andrew.Spring＠ping.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Looking for a place that: > >(1.) is reasonably free > >(2.) permits Americans to work > >(3.) a person trained as an engineer can earn enough to feed and shelter > self and 4 dependents. > Tattoo this on your arm: N.A.T.O. If you work overseas, you deduct 70 kilobucks from your gross income on your 1040. And NATO civilian employees pay NO INCOME TAX TO ANY OTHER NATO COUNTRY. Good bennies package, too. Downside? A Glacial Slug-like Beauracracy which doesn't seem to get alot done. 3-Year contracts only. Major competition from Euro's who seem to know about the perks. Organization Motto: "It's a cushy job, but somebody's got to do it." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6ui iQCVAgUBMAfXPo4k1+54BopBAQGxYwP/TkePpofICj/w554DfO2ugqKXo/Jzrz+0 YebTxGHi4cgjDSwnOco4a8GYjDtInbWdyCF9qwt1QzQli7hw4o5fjKKb6as8JOMX WGcotpJwmsiNgBcUC/aUshmAdHjpK/tkZrwumeV8hx5acxmgqvE8pGNT3Fc0QYhn QwtB/SWjS9k= =ejaZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Thank you VERY much! You'll be getting a Handsome Simulfax Copy of your OWN words in the mail soon (and My Reply). <Andrew.Spring(a)ping.be> PGP Print: 0529 C9AF 613E 9E49 378E 54CD E232 DF96 Thank you for question, exit left to Funway.

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