December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

[Fwd: Your newsgroup post ...]
by David D.W.Downey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

blackjack(a)hotmail.com wrote: > Saw your post in the newsgroups. > > Check this out! > > http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Plaza/1022 Ya know, this shit really pisses me off. I understand that we have to protect everyone's rights if we wish are own to be protected. This is a classic case of what is causing the mainstream public to hash so hard about porn and such. I did nothing to solicit this beyond posting to a news group. This troller comes along, scarfs my email address and then sends me this email. If you click on the link it sends you to a place to sign up for accessing a hard porn site. This is what feeds the initiated Johnnie Q.Public's desire to control the net, and endangers all of our rights on the net. I understand that we have to protect the enemies' rights too, but can't we just shoo a few of them first? Lowers the numbers needing protection and might help us out in the end. Grrrrrrr!!!! David Downey [ If we, as humans, are so omnipotent how come we scurry like rats when a tornado hits? ]

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SL33spam2
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[1][LINK] [2]index [3]home [4]News [5]audio [6]search [7]help [8]techcity computerworld Spam attacks send angry firms to court Stewart Deck and Matt Hamblen 08/18/97 Internet spam is no longer a joke to angry businesses. They increasingly are fighting back with civil and criminal lawsuits and offering rewards for information leading to arrests. In some cases, users are even trying chargeback tactics. Driving the get-tough attitude is mounting frustration over crippled and lost business because of overloaded electronic-mail servers, trademark infringement and the nefarious combination of return address impersonation known as spoofing and blasts of spamming E-mail advertisements. Faced in some instances with death threats, exasperated and angry World Wide Web site administrators are trying anything and everything including offering bounties for the names of spammers and risking online vendettas in the process. IMAGE AT STAKE Particularly vulnerable to spamming which some observers call ``Internet terrorism'' is a company's image, which businesses spend untold dollars building, maintaining and protecting. One high-profile example is Samsung America, Inc.'s nightmare, which began July 19 when a fake advertisement blasted across the Internet to millions of electronic mailboxes. The angry replies caught Samsung by surprise it hadn't sent out the advertisement. Other messages bearing Samsung's return address have swamped unsuspecting mailboxes since then, including a missive purportedly from a Samsung attorney claiming ``fraudulent and actionable transgressions'' on the recipient's part. Two of Samsung's Web-hosted clients La Costa Resorts and Big Dog Sportswear also had suggestive and misleading advertising messages sent out with their names attached. They, in turn, have been inundated with complaints. Samsung has been so hard hit getting 6,000 to 10,000 E-mail messages per day and hundreds of telephone calls worldwide that the FBI is looking into the matter. Samsung has spent millions of dollars on its brand image and desperately wants the spamming to stop. ``We assume whoever is doing this buys lists of E-mail addresses from someone,'' said Sang Cho, Samsung's in-house counsel, in an interview with Computerworld. But the company doesn't know why or who holds the grudge. It intends to file civil and criminal charges when the perpetrator is unmasked. Fake ads are the latest twist in spoofing and spamming. The Dr. Seussian terms describe an underhanded sneak attack that tries to get ads in front of as many unsuspecting eyeballs as possible by impersonating a responsible sender. For example, Strong Capital Management, Inc., a financial services company in Menomonee Falls, Wis., is suing a spammer for allegedly stealing its address, thinking that recipients would be more likely to open mail from a prestigious firm than an ordinary Internet marketer. Such mail is hated by recipients and is a bane of Internet service providers. FIGHTING BACK But now the impersonated legions are beginning to fight back. Although there are no results in any of these cases yet, here is a sampling of businesses going on the offensive with their beefs: Two operators at SFF Net, a commercial online service used by science fiction and fantasy writers, have filed suit in Kings County, N.Y., against Carlos Lattin for sending out spamming E-mails with their forged return addresses. Their lawsuit claims trademark infringement, unfair competition, defamation and false designation of origin. The plaintiffs used New York laws to make the alleged impersonator's Internet service provider divulge Lattins name. A novice junk mailer was sued in May by an online floral information service run by Tracy LaQuey Parker, an Internet author and education market development manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. Parker opened the site's electronic mailbox one morning in March and saw what Samsung, La Costa and SFF Net have experienced: an avalanche of returned E-mail and angry letters. ``I was shocked by the onslaught,'' Parker said. Jon Tara, operator of San Diego's Live.Net site, has experienced the same problem, but he hasn't been able to track down the spoofing impersonator. He is offering a $100 reward for positive personal identification of the spoofer. A message on the site from Tara to the spamming perpetrator says, ``I am going to hound you to the ends of the earth once I find out who you are. You will regret having used a Live.Net return address. If you are lucky, I will never find out who you are. If you are unlucky, I will. It will be the worst luck that you've ever had.'' Tara has fought with a service provider who has stopped shutting down spammers and wont provide Tara with identity information, claiming privacy requirements. The provider has called Taras bounty offer vigilantism. In February, Matthew Seidl, a Colorado University computer science student, filed a lawsuit against Greentree Mortgage and an unnamed bulk E-mailer for allegedly sending out a batch of spam with Seidl's ``nobody(a)localhost.com'' address in the From and Return-Path headers. Seidl said in an Internet posting that he decided to take ``whatever legal actions we have to take to restore our good name and recover the damages we suffered. We are doing our part to put an end to this type of net abuse.'' 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New use for Eternity Server
by kelly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Maybe someone should feed the pgp 5.0i sources to a c to HTML converter and post the output to the eternity servers.. mmm

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Re: write up AP for FC++
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >I'm now mildly amused that Bell is being seen as the inventor of anonymous >and untraceable murder markets, with clueless journalists seeking >information on his discovery. But, hey, better he rot in jail than me. ....................................................... A presentation from you at FC98 would remind everyone of your own initial writings on the subject and provide you with due credit (better credit than a jail/rotting sentence). I can't think of anyone else who would be more qualified for this. .. Blanc .. Blanc

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first y2k lawsuit hits in london
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Millennium bomb: Supplier sued over cash registers MONDAY AUGUST 18 1997 By Christopher Adams in London A small supermarket owner in the US is suing a cash register supplier for allegedly providing computerised tills that cannot recognise the year 2000. The lawsuit is believed to be the first of its kind. If it is successful, it could set a precedent with dangerous consequences for the insurance industry. Mark Yarsike, a supermarket owner in Detroit, is suing Tec-America, the Atlanta-based supplier of cash registers, because he says credit cards that expire after 2000 cause the tills to shut down. The lawsuit has wide implications for the insurance industry as suppliers may be forced to make claims on insurance policies covering them against the failure of their products to cope with the date change. Legal experts say insurers might be inundated with claims over the so-called "millennium bomb", leaving them vulnerable to losses that could run to billions of pounds. The millennium bomb is expected to cause widespread chaos because most computers recognise only the last two digits of a year and will treat dates beyond 1999 as referring to the 1900s. Should litigation escalate, the cost of claims could be inflated by damages and legal fees. Mr Yarsike owns three Produce Paradise supermarkets in Detroit. He says the cash registers have failed more than 150 times in two years, causing chaos in his stores and losing him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr Yarsike says his patience with Tec-America finally snapped two weeks ago. He says that each time credit cards expiring after 2000 cause cash resisters to shut down, Tec-America comes to fix the problem. But within hours, the registers fail again. "It's gotten pretty wild in here. A lot of customers walk out upset and embarrassed. When the card zips through and the modem packs up, everybody looks at that one customer and says, 'Wow! What did she do?'. "How would you like to have 300 people in your store and the cash registers don't work with a 10-hour day ahead of you?" Mr Yarsike wants Tec-America to put in a replacement system. He spent $150,000 on the fleet of registers for his stores and says it would cost him another $35,000 for new equipment. Tec-America denied it was to blame for the shutdown of the cash registers. It said responsibility lay with the credit card industry, which was forced several years ago to establish a format for swapping data that would recognise the year 2000. The industry's efforts, however, were not completed until April. - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message

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3.html
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[1]SIDEBAR [2]Newsbytes Advertising China Internet Roaming Hit By Clampdown ****China Internet Roaming Hit By Clampdown 08/18/97 HONG KONG, CHINA, 1997 AUG 18 (NB) -- By Neil Taylor, IT Daily. Business travelers in China have had their Internet access hit by severe restrictions placed on roaming services by authorities. The trouble began a month ago, after officials began examining access services provided by Equant, a division of international airline network service provider SITA. Sources within SITA were unable to confirm the precise circumstances, but it appears that officials from within China's Posts Telephone and Telegraphs administration were unhappy with the fact that the company was reselling access to third parties including iPass, CompuServe and America Online. As a result, Equant was forced to suspend much of its non-airline business, including Internet roaming services. "We had to basically cut back on non-airline users, so this could be a case of our having to cut off some of the dead wood to save the airline side," a SITA executive admitted. "Our relationship with China is kind of up and down. It's not with the government; we get along with them fine; it's with the local PTTs," he added. The restrictions meant that iPass lost its points of presence (POPs) in Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shanghai and Xiamen. Following the closures, iPass also suspended POPs in Brunei, Cuba, French Polynesia, India, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Vietnam. Among iPass partners affected by the clampdown, Hong Kong ISPs are likely to be worst affected. But Abel Lau, president of Hong Kong ISP I-Wave, said his company had not been badly hit by the problem. "We do not have many users in China, and they've been using access in Beijing, so we haven't had many problems." I-Wave estimates that "maybe one percent" of its members use iPass roaming services in China. Chris Moore, president and CEO of iPass, said his company would soon announce solutions for affected customers. "We are actively working on expanding our access in China," he said." We have several access points in Beijing and anticipate coverage in Shanghai, southern China and other parts of the country very soon." "We know China is a very important market," Moore told Newsbytes. "We were working with providers there before this situation arose. We have always been committed to that market and want to develop strong and lasting relationships with the right organizations. Our relationship with Equant (SITA) remains strong, this is an issue we worked closely on." (19970819/ Reported By Newsbytes News Network: [3]http://www.newsbytes.com /CHINASCREEN/PHOTO) [4]Copyright ©Newsbytes News Network. All rightsreserved. For more Newsbytes see http://www.newsbytes.com. [5]Home | [6]Daily | [7]Weekly | [8]Publishers | [9]Search References 1. http://www.newsbytes.com/menus/navbar.map 2. http://www.newsbytes.com/OAS/rm/try-it.cgi/www.newsbytes.com/home.html 3. http://www.newsbytes.com/ 4. http://www.nbnn.com/copyrght.html 5. http://www.nbnn.com/home.html 6. http://www.nbnn.com/news/s_daily.html 7. http://www.nbnn.com/news/s_week.html 8. http://www.nbnn.com/publishers/publi_1.html 9. http://www.nbnn.com/html_p/search.html

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230_081897_112201_31203.html
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[1][ISMAP] [2][LINK] [3]Click here for Microsoft Intranet Solutions [4]Content For Your Intranet [5]Click here for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Preview 2 Commentary: In Japan, Moves to Regulate the Net [6][LINK] [7][LINK] By TOMOKO SAITO c.1997 Asahi News Service T he following commentary appears in Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's leading newspapers: ----- Abusive uses of the Internet, such as the illegal posting of the photograph and name of a juvenile suspect in recent Kobe child killings, have spurred government officials to consider bringing the Net under some kind of regulation. Violations of privacy and libel cases began increasing conspicuously last year, giving rise to calls for the companies that provide access to the Internet to adopt voluntary controls. In February last year, a Tokyo company employee who opened a home page with a Japanese provider was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on charges of displaying obscene images. A series of arrests was made elsewhere. This spring, advisory bodies to the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry recommended that some rules be drafted. The Telecom Services Association of Japan, a trade body having about 400 providers as members, drew up draft guidelines for voluntary regulation. The guidelines call for providers to take action for improvement in response to complaints from users. Some providers have drafted manuals for self-regulation. The circulation of the Kobe student's photograph and his real name on the Net had a particularly strong impact, prompting authorities to think that voluntary regulations may be inadequate. But official regulation could deprive the Internet of its good points. The best thing about the Net is that it enables people to exchange information freely. That is why it has grown so rapidly. There are areas where new systems are needed to protect users, such as electronic financial transactions. But in areas relating to the freedom of expression, a cautious approach is required in dealing with abuses, so that the good points of the Internet will not suffer from regulation. What is unique about the Net is that anyone, in addition to being a recipient of information through the system, can easily become a supplier of information. That becomes possible for anyone who owns a personal computer, a communications modem and has access to a telephone circuit. A contract signed with a provider enables him or her to open a home page on the Net freely. Popular home pages have thousands of accesses a day, which gives an individual the influence of a publishing company. The Internet has the potential of transforming contemporary society in which those who send out information - such as newspapers and television stations - are separate from those who receive it - such as people in general. In Europe, calls to bring the Net under control started to mount last year. In Germany, a so-called multimedia law was passed in July to stipulate the scope of providers' responsibility in dealing with troubles, such as human rights violations and libel cases. The law requires providers to appoint officials to handle complaints or give advice on the impact on juveniles of violent and obscene information on the Net. Also in July, a working group set up by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development held its first meeting to discuss international cooperation to bring the Net under control. France and Belgium were particularly vocal in calling for such a group. Compared with the Europeans, the Americans are more inclined to leave the matter of regulation to private initiatives. The Clinton administration's proposal to regulate indecent images on the Net under the telecommunications act ran into objections on the grounds that it could infringe on the freedom of expression. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the proposal was unconstitutional. In Japan, the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of expression naturally extends to individuals who supply information on the Internet. It follows that any kind of censorship about Net information should not be tolerated. Whether a certain expression is appropriate or not should be left up to people to determine in the ''freedom of thought'' market. Any attempt to force informal controls on providers should also be resisted, given the important role played by them as media in addition to being ''communications'' firms. As for the question of controlling obscene images, efforts to dissolve the gaps that have developed between the law and reality should come first. Porn books that are brought back from abroad are seized by customs officers, and a Japanese who opens a home page that shows nudes can be punished. But it is easy to access a more radical American home page, and no legal punishment awaits those who look at the images such a home page provides. The punitive provisions should be reexamined to determine whether they are really needed if people who do not want to see pornography are assured that they can avoid it. Of course, young people must be protected. A system that blocks access to porn and violence on the Net, when mounted in personal computers at home or at school, is being introduced in Western countries. Japan should consider following their example, but I believe whether or not to use it should be left up to the judgment of each household that has acquired it. ``Let us wait for the new media to mature by thoroughly educating information suppliers on their responsibility,'' said Jiro Makino, a lawyer familiar with Net troubles. What he has in mind is that suppliers who operate on the basis of the freedom of expression should have a high ethical standard and be prepared to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. I believe that is what it takes to head off state interference. ----- (The author is a reporter for Asahi Shimbun's City News Department.) 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Bell, etc
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim "What you mean *WE*, white man" May writes: > Whom are the "we" in this "We really need to put something > together..."? > I certainly don't plan to be part of the "we," and this > sounds perilously close to the notion that members of this > mailing list are part of some sort of collective entity, > with goals, charters, action plans, officers, oh my. Horrors. > As for info on Jim Bell, the article by Declan is widely > available, and is quite informative. As for elaborating it > further, or including more boilerplate, this seems > pointless. Anyone knew to the story can read Declan's > article. Anyone seeking even more information presumably > knows how to use search engines and should be able to find > the various essays and articles directly. Well, as I have often said, "There is no such thing as objective market-driven journalism." As much as I admire Declan's expository skills, we both know he isn't going to deliberately bite the hand that is holding his paycheck. > Sounds good to me. Let us know when you've finished it. > (If I sound testy, sorry. It's just that it's been a while > since I've heard this "we should get together and so > suchandsuch" stuff. The notion that Cypherpunks are some > sort of collective is not real useful. Nor is building a > page devoted to Bell's "one trick pony" terribly > interesting. Yes, people are clueless and ask "Who is Jim > Bell?" Jim Bell is an example of an individual screwed by the government using overly vague statues for alleged crimes which amounted to little more than a few high school type pranks. He took names of assholes who harrassed him, gave a made-up number to a few people, and made the IRS doormat smell bad. How much, if any taxes, were evaded as a result of one of these charges isn't even an issue. > So? Tell them to use search engines; a HotBot search on > "James Dalton Bell" just returned 1078 matches, several of > them on the first page directly applicable. Obviously > various Boolean searches on AP, Bell, IRS, etc. would act in > the predictable way.) It is in the collective interests of Crypto-Anarchists that information depicting the government's true colors should be available in a form which can be accessed by even the terminally innumerate. This means a hyperlink with the words "Jim Bell" on it, in a frequently browsed location. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Status of Cypherpunks list sites?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've noticed that the list site name, "cypherpunks(a)toad.com", is still in use by many posters. I find it on most of the posts I reply to, and I have to manually change to one of the three current lists. Not too long ago I was subscribed to the "cypherpunks(a)algebra.com" address, and the list stopped flowing to me for a day or so. I resubbed under "cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net." I noticed that Igor Chudov said he was taking a hiatus from the Net and lists, so I wondered if this meant his support for his site was either being dropped or might be subject to more frequent outages. Anyway, has anybody been doing any pings of the various lists to see which ones are most available and have the lowest latencies for redistribution to subscribers? And shouldn't we all be making a more serious effort to drop the use of the "cypherpunks(a)toad.com" address, as John said some months back that he would support forwarding stuff for a while, but not necessarily forever. As it is, it just adds another hop and another potential weak link. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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CIA unveils new ghetto drugs for '98
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:31:56 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: qnx.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Subject: CIA unveils new ghetto drugs for '98 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:32:41 -0400 From: glen mccready <glen(a)qnx.com> Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org X-Mailing-List: <0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org> archive/latest/2124 X-Loop: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev(a)bostic.com> Forwarded-by: chuck yerkes <Chuck(a)Yerkes.com> Forwarded-by: Alex Reith <alex(a)snew.com> LANGLEY, VA -- After months of eager anticipation within the nation's ghetto communities, the Central Intelligence Agency unveiled its 1998 line of addictive drugs Monday. "The wait is over," CIA Director George Tenet said at the festive drug launch, simulcast on giant-screen TVs throughout Watts, Cabrini Green, Newark, and other urban areas. "Inner-city Americans now have four exciting new ways to narcotize themselves, with the quality of product and wide distribution they've come to expect from the CIA." Reaction to the new drugs (see sidebar) was overwhelmingly positive. "They had a tough act to follow after crack," said New York-area Mafia boss Alfonse DiBiasi, Tenet's close friend and former college roommate. "But this new stuff is just as cheap and every bit as addictive. We're all very excited." President Clinton praised the CIA as well. "This is a win-win situation for all Americans," he said. "Inner-city Americans will receive the powerful drugs they love, and the CIA will raise the funds they can't get from Congress to get their Jonestown mind-control experiment up and running again." The new drugs are supported by months of CIA testing to ensure maximum potency and addictiveness. Focus groups, consisting primarily of homeless men and street orphans culled from ghettos around the country, were housed in an underground research facility beneath CIA headquarters in Langley, VA. Only after six months of exhaustive experimentation on members of this target demograph, who sampled hundreds of drugs, were the final decisions made. "Everybody loves me because I am so beautiful. Anything is possible. I am going to live a very long and happy life," said Oakland, CA, native Charles Simmons, who spent 10 weeks testing Blue Glass, the CIA's new smokable euphoric drug. Simmons then leapt out a window to his death. "I they I drugs these are very feel good right," said Dwayne Woodson of Bronx, NY, another CIA test participant. "Pork chops three for $2.99." CIA officials said that testing is necessary in order to avoid releasing potentially dangerous substances into the ghettos. "One initially promising drug was later discontinued due to undesirable side effects, such as increased intelligence and feelings of love for others," said Dr. Harold Vandermeer, head of the CIA's narcotics development team. Initial product rollout began this week in the ghetto neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Detroit and New Orleans, with all residents receiving a special drug-sampler pack in the mail, including a full-color, English-Spanish promotional pamphlet and instructional videotape. If the market response is as favorable as the CIA expects, the drugs should be available in every ghetto in the nation as soon as September 1st. "I thought I'd never say this," Tenet said, "but put down that crack pipe, ghetto-dwellers: You're going to love these new drugs." Tenet went on to state that none of the above events "ever happened" and categorically denied any CIA connection with the new drugs. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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