December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

AT&T IVES chip
by xpat＠vm1.spcs.umn.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Interpretive Summary From PC Week: "Security Chip, interface aim to assist Electronic Commerce" AT&T IVES (Information Vending Encryption System) chip will encrypt data, video on demand, banking, etc. The IVES chip will be use in AT&T cable-TV-boxes this year. It is available to OEM's for Internet data security applications. IVES uses algorithms licensed from RSA. No mention of any dreaded built-in peephole. --------------------------------------------------------------------- P M Dierking |

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Re: Remailer-on-a-CD
by jalicqui＠prairienet.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ed wrote: >If you look out on ftp.netcom.com:/pub/ec/ecarp/linux*, you'll find a bare- >bones Linux set that will install right in a DOS filesystem (it's a .ZIP file). >It's intended for SLIP clients, but it could easily be adapted for setting >up an "instant remailer". I saw your announcement on comp.os.linux.announce right after suggesting the "instant remailer" idea. (what timing!) Already got it, and plan on playing with it a little bit to see what fun we could have. (5-floppy remailer install, anyone?)

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Crypto Anarchy/Libertarians in WSJ
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 20 Jan 1995 frissell(a)panix.com (Duncan Frissell) said: Duncan aptly points to the WSJ article, lots of c'punk topics mentioned. For email copy send blank message with subject: LIB_yep Meanwhile, here's a taste: Mr. Willis says the libertarian concept has particular appeal to people in the computer industry. "We have more members in one computer company in Seattle than in some whole counties, and that company is Microsoft," he says. Indeed, when Mr. Frezza, the Philadelphia computer consultant, last month launched a computer network of like- minded thinkers called DigitaLiberty, he was so overwhelmed with responses, especially from college students, that he had to temporarily shut down the group's electronic mailbox. One member of DigitaLiberty is Bruce Fancher, a 23-year-old who in the late 1980s earned brief notoriety as a hacker who broke into computer systems, though he was never charged with a crime. He is president of a computer communications company called Phantom Access Technologies Inc. "Being involved in computers or the Internet, you inevitably move toward being a libertarian," he says. "It is basically possible to keep all of your secrets from prying eyes, particularly the prying eyes of the federal government."

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Re: "Disclosing" private email
by Brett Turcotte 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Arthur Chandler posted to the list: > Greetings! I'd like to solicit your/our best thoughts on the following > message. San Francisco State University is considering a policy of > "disclosing" private email to outside agencies. I'm aware that such a > policy is yet another argument for using crypto; and the last cypherpunks > meeting gave some encouraging instances of "transparent" encryption > schemes that are not a hassle or a fear-barrier for newbies. > But if you could post or private email me your thoughts about the > legal/ethical aspects of "disclosure," I'd be much obliged. > I've put a few of my own concerns at the end of the enclosed quote. > It is probably a CYA move on the part of the University....if someone at SFSU is plotting the overthrow of our (or any other) government, engaging in espionage, child porn, etc. and using their Internet account, SFSU admin probably wants a way that they don't get held liable. However, my view of this is that is sucks. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > >From: "Deirdre C. Donovan" <deirdre(a)mercury.sfsu.edu> > > > >I am rewriting the information handouts which we here in San Francisco > >give out to our students when they apply for Internet access accounts. > >The issue with which I am struggling is one of privacy. I have heard of > >universities (anecdotally only) where the administration reserves the > >right to read E-mail. Here, we are leaning more toward something like the > >paragraph below, which is taken verbatim from an Indiana University draft > >document. > > > > IU computing centers will maintain the confidentiality of all > > information stored on their computing resources. Requests for > > disclosure of confidential information will be reviewed by the > > administrator of the computer system involved. Such requests > > will be honored only when approved by University officials > > authorized by the [President] of the campus involved, or when > > required by state or federal law. Except when inappropriate, > > computer users will receive prior notice of such disclosures. > > > > I'm uneasy about the chain of "prior notice": > > 1) Does this policy give university administrators the power to read > private email before the decision is made to "disclose" it to outside > persons or agencies? > It would have to...otherwise how would they know if they needed to disclose it. > 2) Does this "prior notice" mean "We're going to do it" or "We plan to do > it, and if you disagree, let's discuss it before we release it"? > >From their perspective, prior notice would probably mean they tell you before they do it. While I don't have experience specifically with SFSU, it seems as though large organizations tend to do whatever they please. > 3) What constitutes "inappropriate"? > > Probably anything that is involved in an active criminal investigation. > Note that any thing in this message is just my opinion, and most assurdly could prove to be different when exposed to the real world!! Brett Turcotte turcotte(a)io.com

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T.A.Z. on Disk
by blancw＠pylon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just sent this email to Sandy Sandfort, and he suggested I share it with the list: ------------------- I was just at BlockBuster Music store this evening and happened to go by the 'H's in the Rock Music section - and saw Hakim Bey's name. Yes, there is a CD names T.A.Z *. Blockbuster allows customers to listen to CDs before they buy, so I listened to it. Hakim actually reads several chapters from his book, and there is odd music at the introduction and in the background while he reads. He has a very nice, deep, clear voice. I guess you could say this is one of those self-help books-on-tape - sort of a "save time & become an anarchist while you drive" CD. *T.A.Z. = The Autonomous Zone .. Blanc

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IBM Contra Beltway
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan or others may give a more elegant report on the Clipper debate here in NYC last night. My pleasant surprise was to see the IBM rep, William Whitehurst, far outpace the inside the beltway types, EFF's Daniel Weitzer, the White House's Michael Nelson, FBI's Kallstrom and ex-NSA Stewart Baker, as well as the local urbane handsome attorney-mathematician moderator, Albert Wells, who baby-talked the suits through the arcana. Mr. Whitehurst showed more intelligence about crypto -- domestically, politically, economically and politically -- than any of the others. No flash, no preening, just hard-nosed reports on what's happening, and what's not, due to USG cupidity, with the international spread of the heinous munition. He said industry is impatiently waiting for the USG to cooperate or get the fuck out of the way. Well, not quite, but close. The others seemed entranced by the domestic political morass. Kallstrom recited the oft-riden horse-threats, some miscreant clapped, and he said, "child pornographer". All laughed or winced or stared in pin-stripped disbelief at the disrespect shown. Mr. Weitzer recited that the crypto genie is out of the bottle. Kallstrom said over my dead body or something like that, glowering at the crowd. The dapper man in front of me pulled up his sock to show his ankle holster. Protecting the nation's chief protector against high-criminals. I ran out before getting plugged "accidently".

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Cone order?
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are these two stories related? Associated Press reports on 1/20/95: >Hewlett-Packard Co. has been awarded a $672 million contact to build a >computer system linking 20,000 terminals for the military, Sen. Bob Smith >announced. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It was previously reported: >From rsalz(a)osf.org >Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 14:25:01 -0500 >From: Rich Salz <rsalz(a)osf.org> >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Subject: Re: Cone of silence update > >---------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------- >Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 21:03:02 -0500 >From: burton(a)het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton) >To: silent-tristero(a)world.std.com >Subject: Cone of silence update [...] >GOVERNMENT'S SECRETS FLOW THROUGH AN INTERNET CLONE > >WASHINGTON - When the US intelligence community recently decided to >modernize the way it communicates, it did what countless other >government agencies, businesses and individuals have done over the >last few years: it turned to the Internet. > >But the regular Internet wouldn't do. For spies and other government >officials concerned about secrecy, that very public, very uncontrollable >global mesh of computer networks was too risky a place to do business. > >So the intelligence community created its own Internet. > >Dubbed Intelink and based on the same technology used to run and >navigate the original Internet, this new network for sharing supersecret >information---including satellite imagery and video footage---officially >began operating just a few weeks ago. > >When the bugs are worked out and a final system is in place, it will >allow analysts, policy-makers, military officials and soldiers in the >field to tap quickly and directly into classified information at the >Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon >and diverse other parts of the national security bureaucracy. [...]

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IRS "DataBase"
by Connie Sadler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In reference to the IRS database, I heard this announced on the radio this morning - that the database has existed for years and that it is being worked currently rather enthusiastically. The news announcer somewhat eggagerated the comment that followed which seemed to make clear the fact the we members of "John Q. Public" would NOT have access to these records to review or correct them. The DJ and others picked it up and talked about it afterwards and obviously did not approve. I believe that the IRS is exempt from many laws, so is this for real??? Digital Cash? Probably. Anonymous Buying? Wishful Thinking? Why not just get 10% tax from everyone and be done with it? Connie

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Re: The Remailer Crisis
by frissell＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 01:14 AM 1/19/95 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: >* I favor separating the "account that remails" from the "owner of the >site," as I have argued in vain in the past. (Example: a willing site >gives out or sells many accounts...each is legally separate, and each >must be legally challenged. My longer posts dealt with this.) I offer to pay for and operate a remailer account on any system that will have me. Do we have the software yet to run a remailer out of an account? >It's time to get cracking on this crisis. The Cable companies may come to our rescue. Even old fuddy-duddy Cablevision is going to be offering connections this year. If those connections are characterised merely as physical connections, that could offer legal protections. My contrib for now will be to draft an all purpose response letter to respond to civilian and official complaints concerning remailer abuse. DCF - -- You know, Private Idaho brings PGP signing within about 10 keystrokes in any Windows mailer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLx6vUYVO4r4sgSPhAQFjzgP/ZVAonNBsZpMCg/tlWohvC7ratGTZWtCz /WXC+Z1PAKhigdz8VhWhkPXLj/jYba1LUMBI9giNP6T9TSxMw6jjzgvs44tw4LF4 X0pF/lv9OS7GKcPw//4FyB1FKgfwpJA+mHr8gqlLrxREXv3qpHfKRuu/ecg5urmS jwiSSKsjZhU= =Aoq4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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internet world mag
by jml＠wizard.synapse.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>Sorry to bother you but can you tell me how to get this mag ? >>thanks If you can't find it at your local bookstore then contact: Internet world p.o. box 713, Mt Morris, il, 61054, USA or via email 74671.3430(a)compuserve.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wizard(a)alpha.c2.org Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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