December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

News: Spy Base Expanded
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CLEAR Net - News Spy Base Expanded The Government has announced a planned expansion at Blenheim's Waihopai spybase to boost New Zealand's ability to monitor satellite communications. And the Prime Minister, Jim Bolger, says a change to the Crimes Act will allow the base to monitor phone calls by foreigners, which was formerly illegal. Full story at http://www.clear.net.nz/common/news/archives/articles/00001937.html. Peter.

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Florida Drivers Permits
by Michael Froomkin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Will, starting next year, containg a digitized photo, plus the current info. The Miami Herald reports that the technology could also be used to store "other" info, such as medical data, or "could be" used by banks. Anyone know any details about the technololgy? A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | mfroomki(a)umiami.ir.miami.edu U. Miami School of Law | P.O. Box 248087 | It's hot here. And humid. Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | See (experimentally & erratically) http://viper.law.miami.edu/~mfroomki

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All about Bernstein
by Peter F Cassidy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Folks, I'm the guy who authored an upcoming piece about Bernstein's law suit with the state department for WIRED. WIRED loves the piece but, in the style of popular mags, wants more personal stuff on Bernstein, who is super articulate about the science and law of crypto but super shy about his heroic self. (Guy wouldn't even disclose his age! Had to threaten to throw myself in front of a bus to get him to tell me he's from Long Island!) Editor thinks guy comes across as a ghost, not surpisingly. . . One fellow from the list, following up an appeal I made here for Friends of Bernstein to call me and tell me about the litigant's best qualities, I'd appreciate greatly hearing from again. He called when I'd pretty much passed deadline for manuscript delivery. I'm calling Dan again, but after one trip to Delphi, I dunno if the responses from the Oracle will be any more forthcoming. Thanks and regards to all, Peter Cassidy

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Re: Tim 1 - Joichi 0 - DreamMonger NULL / Re: Joichi gives up (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 16:50:51 +0900 > From: Joichi Ito <jito(a)eccosys.com> > Subject: Re: Tim 1 - Joichi 0 - DreamMonger NULL / Re: Joichi gives up > / Tim Throws a "Leaner" / Re: Tim Speaks the > At 00:44 97/08/04 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > > Forwarded message: > > > > > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 22:02:24 -0700 > > > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > > > Subject: Re: Tim Throws a "Leaner" / Re: Tim Speaks the Truth > > > > Any journalist in Europe or in the U.S. would be seen as having > irreparably > > > compromised his journalistic objectivity by serving on such a panel! And > > > properly so, of course. > > > > As long as they were representing their personal opinions and not acting as > > a journalist (ie being paid by a 3rd party) and they disclose the action > > there would be compromise on objectivity. > > Jim, I hope you meant to say "wound not be compromising" in the above > statement. Actualy it was supposed to be a question mark at the end... > This may sound like an afterthought, but one of the reasons that I did > such a stupid thing as post my association with a police study group > here was as a part of being very open about what I was doing and > trying to ask for advice on that basis. Also, FYI, I am not being paid > by the government or any 3rd party. I am not a "consultant" to the > government. I am an "outside expert". I am not representing the police > to the people of Japan, I am trying represent the peoples' interest to > the government... but I'll stop now before I get bashed again. If all it takes to take over the citizens of Japan is to bash them a little then you folks are Doomed. Perhaps you have spent one too many days hammering nails that stick up... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Participation requires more than just bitching! | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Online Merchant Accounts...Accept Credit Cards! Low Rates!
by Smitty 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord ?"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"cracker"} = "<remailer(a)anon.efga.org> cpunk mix remix pgp hash esub latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'redneck'} = '<config(a)anon.efga.org> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"bureau42"} = "<remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"neva"} = "<remailer(a)neva.org> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub ?"; $remailer{"lcs"} = "<mix(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> mix"; $remailer{"medusa"} = "<medusa(a)weasel.owl.de> mix middle" $remailer{"McCain"} = "<mccain(a)notatla.demon.co.uk> mix middle"; $remailer{"valdeez"} = "<valdeez(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"arrid"} = "<arrid(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"hera"} = "<goddesshera(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"htuttle"} = "<h_tuttle(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix reno winsock) (weasel squirrel medusa) (cracker redneck) (nym lcs) (valdeez arrid hera) The remailer list here has been out of date for some time, but should be up to date now. I'm still working on updating the web page. Last update: Mon 4 Aug 97 6:47:45 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- redneck config(a)anon.efga.org *##-+##**#** 4:41 99.98% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de -++-+------ 2:40:53 99.96% cracker remailer(a)anon.efga.org +++-++++++** 21:28 99.96% weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de +++-+-+-+-- 1:48:16 99.95% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net **-++*****+* 11:47 99.88% nym config(a)nym.alias.net *-+###*####+ 20:38 99.88% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net ------------ 5:48:23 99.83% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com -*-++***+*+* 46:32 99.80% arrid arrid(a)juno.com *++++-+- + 1:06:16 98.51% replay remailer(a)replay.com * ** ***- 15:25 97.91% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net +*+ + +++- 55:18 93.85% neva remailer(a)neva.org + +*-- ++* 2:52:22 92.55% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca +*-- +** 2:25:28 88.85% hera goddesshera(a)juno.com -------- - 3:36:00 83.26% valdeez valdeez(a)juno.com --- 4:14:27 14.58% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Third Eternity Server Operational
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is a third eternity server at http://moloko.insync.net/eternity Enjoy! -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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"The Big Sellout," on self-labeling, from Time
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Netly is running Josh Quittner's column in this week's Time Magazine as our story today. It's about the perils of self-labeling systems for the Net, especially for news organizations. Stop by and check it out. Also, on p48-49 of this week's magazine is a look at censorware programs and public libraries. It's called "Censor's Sensibility: Are Web filters valuable watchdogs or just new online thought police?" Bruce van Voorst and I worked on the story from the Washington bureau. (It's not on pathfinder.com yet, so you'll have to pick up a physical copy.) Also, stop by our Netpolitics chat area where we're discussing self-labeling and censorware: http://cgi.pathfinder.com:80/cgi-bin/boards/read/206/9 -Declan --- http://pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1247,00.html The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com/) August 4, 1997 The Big Sellout by Joshua Quittner (quittner(a)pathfinder.com) The greatest threat to free speech these days is coming from the most unlikely quarter: journalists. It's happening - where else? - on the Net. A self-appointed council of "industry representatives," including people from the Wall Street Journal, the Newspaper Association of America, CNET, Wired and - no surprise! - Microsoft, is debating whether the online world might be a safer, happier place if a subcommittee of the council decides what's news and what's not. Anything deemed "not news" would be forced to submit to a rating system or risk being blocked by software browsers. And being blocked on the Web could mean extinction for small, independent-minded online publishers - the very folks who have benefited most from the Internet revolution. The whole thing reeks of the powerful beating up on the weak. The roots of the betrayal go back to June 1996, when the notion of rating Web content first took off. That was when Microsoft forced its myriad web sites to adopt a system that analyzes content according to the degree to which it contains sex, nudity, violence or obscene language. The official reason for this was to make the Net a "safe place" without government censorship - which made sense, I guess, given that the Supreme Court had not yet ruled the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional. It also made good business sense for Microsoft to adopt an idea that adds value to one of its key products, the Internet Explorer. Explorer is the second-most popular browser on the Web; a software component that gives parents the option to filter out the naughty bits is a big selling point. But what's good business for the software industry is nonsense for journalism - as the folks who run Microsoft's news web site quickly realized. [...] ------------------------- Declan McCullagh Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/

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How age and PICS ratings may go down...
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One way "voluntary" age ratings--very similar to PICS ratings--may be mandated is through the kind of "plea agreement" cited below. (I don't know if this site is real or not, but the post presents a scenario which will become more common, I think.) Someone writes something, or has a site, and is busted for some charge. (There are many, even with what remains of the First Amendment. Child porn, obscenity, the new copyright laws, the Anti-Terrorism Act, etc.) A nolo contendre or guilty plea to a lesser charge is entered, with the agreement that an age verification system will be used, or a PICS rating, etc. And so the government gets the kind of censorship it wants. (Duncan will likely argue that this is impossible to enforce. Maybe in the limit, in the sense that some will fall through the cracks. But the dangers to anyone hosting words or pictures on their sites is very real. As more and more ISPs drop controversial material--think of several recent cases, and perhaps even the case of our own John Young--and as more child porn/celebrity nude/obscenity cases are filed....by the time the Thomases are both out of prison, most sites will likely be heavily editing themselves, imposing age limits, and using PICS ratings.) The article is below. --Tim May > From: <thebridge(a)andau.com> > Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.joanne-guest > Subject: The celeb site illegal in Texas > Date: 3 Aug 1997 10:20:21 GMT > Organization: Commuter Communication Systems, Austin TX > Lines: 36 > Message-ID: <5s1m15$2m6$732(a)quest.ccsi.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: savage24.ccsi.com > Xref: news.znet.com alt.binaries.pictures.joanne-guest:5351 > > The fakes page, along with the XXX passwords page, is the one that got me in trouible with the law ans the community action groups. I used to have these two pages in the free access web, and it seems that many people found it objectionable that kids could get to the "Celebrity Blowjobs" and other work. They were right. I was wrong. I tried the Ulysses argument, but they just wouldn't accept the rationale that watching Kathy Lee give head had serious and important literary value. By the way, this is the same page that generated the two-page write-up in Internet Underground. > > So, I copped a plea, agreed to Adult Verification. Anyway, there is age verification now, and I am free to offend the adults of my community, and hopefully all communities everywhere. > > AdultSights members......you're there dudes. > > non-members, you can get one instantly > (also gets you in to my passwords page, my Encyclopedia (2200 celebs), and much more, plus 2,000 other sites) > > http://www.scoopy.net/fooled.htm

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Humor: Extracts from the News of the Weird mail list
by Paul Bradley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In March, armed with evidence that a drug dealer had been killed with a single gunshot during a robbery by two men, Torrance, Calif., district attorney Todd D. Rubenstein obtained separate jury convictions of both men for firing the fatal shot. Both robbers' guns had fired, but one missed, and a conclusion as to which one could not be drawn from ballistics tests. Rubenstein asserted confidently to one jury that Stephen Edmond Davis, 19, shot the man, and just as confidently to the other jury that it wasn't Davis, but rather John Patrick Winkleman, 19. * Former Prestonburg, Ky., school board member Wood R. Keesee, 59, filed a lawsuit in May against a female court clerk to whom he had allegedly loaned money in 1996. Under the terms of the $1,800 loan, according to Keesee, she was to have 18 sexual encounters with him, but when she stopped after three, he filed the lawsuit.

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