December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: 'Friendly Fire' in Spam War Claims Victim
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >I have seen little evidence that Scientologists have incorrect notions > >regarding accounting. > >Truth telling is another matter. > >For Shiva's sake do not sue the Scientologists! > > Earthlink folk are Scientoz? If so, didn't know that. Sky Dayton and a bunch of other top managemnt are Co$ members. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Presidential Joke on The Tonight Show
by ThePres＠bonghits.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Alex le Heux 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Picketing With Packets
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I availed myself of some free home page enhancements on the Web yesterday, and all of a sudden, my SPAM has increased by at least an order of magnitude. Obviously, one or more of the sites I visited sold my email address to Mr. Spamford. I am now getting almost continuous Cyberpromo, EmailBlaster, and SubmitKing mailings as well as one from some female entrepreneur in Singapore who wants me to send her US$10 to email me obscene stories. (sigh) The time has come to make an example of Wallace Spamford, and to mount his stuffed carcass on the gates of the Internet as a warning to those who might be tempted to follow in his footsteps. The following was suggested to me by someone on IRC this morning, and I think it's a pretty nifty idea. We write a little Perl script that keeps exactly ONE AND ONLY ONE TCP connection open to each of Mr. Spamford's machines. Keeping a single TCP connection open to someone's box is unlikely to be illegal, and does not constitute a Denial of Service attack. Consider it the packet equivalent of a single person picketing. We publish the script, and encourage every Sysadmin who hates Mr. Spamford to run it. When thousands do so, he will be out of sockets, and consequently out of business. Consider this the packet equivalent of the UPS strike. We can make the scripts clever, and have them goose a wide variety of ports on Mr. Spamford's machines. He can, of course, devise a technical defense against this, but he does not have one installed at present, and it will shut him down for the time being, and give him sufficient time to ponder his evil ways. This also has the advantage of distributing the liability over thousands of individuals, a technique shown in the recent uunet UDP to render legal redress impractical. Anyone have any comments on this scheme, or anything even more insidious to suggest? -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Re: Export rules
by Jim Ray 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 02:05 AM 8/15/97 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: ... >Well, Raph Levien applied for an export permit for the RSA-in-4-lines-of-PERL >shirt several years ago, and the export thugs stalled on it and never >responded positively or negatively, in spite of their publicly stated >policies that they "will" respond in some small number of days. ... I wonder if it's possible/practical to do a FOIA request on Raph's old permit request and why it didn't merit action. As I recall, he even sent them a couple of the shirts. Then the export thugs could never- respond to the FOIA request, I guess. Someday, the news media might even notice that it's an interesting (and humorous) story. JMR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh. iQEPAwUBM/YiLzUhsGSn1j2pAQHXTwfQ4Iwltxah6RzMhQ7T0ttNejtpwLYMdX/R nqzHvgvB/OrOpElnX7BBSUlt3kj8Evj39EaRAKbvRcXU7YagmQaRbMrZW7MD5cdT gMNBujRqEiNezi6iF3obxlQb7ZUDaCdFEscGSVq1pWacAVtJkZWUvUeKsuIs1374 X0DgdXAVMmw20JjS1An0ME17IwDyUnVsWAhgijUQmlWUMeS6WZnvfOmzClEJWTGn N919pcLzyWmL0ZGfjo5c8i2+eWCgTfY/oMBPa2TwChqAOIDuip1O1v3vHWgFpoJ7 ffXmwXOTw2yWZO5b511jQ3TLgY9UmZXYuvljndsYi1zxPA== =uVHt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: FCPUNX:McVeigh on McVeigh
by Wazoo MixMaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:27 PM 8/15/97 -0800, you wrote: > Amen!!! > More money was spent on McVeigh's defense than on O.J.'s prosecution. >For fifteen million dollars, McVeigh's lawyer couldn't be troubled to >raise his voice in his client's defense. Funny thing is, if O.J. was, say, a bus-driver with food stamps, how long do you think *his* trial would be? Besides, McVeigh's trial wasn't about truth or justice. It was all about getting revenge, drawing blood, satisfying the bloodthirsty people of America. > There are a handful of lawyers I respect as having the skill and the >integrity to properly defend me to the max, but I wouldn't give you two >cents for McVeigh's government-bought schill. McVeigh's lawyer was probably influenced (read: leaned on) by government fascists, so that McVeigh would die. > The role of McVeigh's attorney was to placate the American people's >sense of "justice" without rocking the boat. He didn't upset the >American people, he didn't upset the judge, the prosecutor, his golfing >buddies, or the court house restroom attendant. Very different from say, Atticus Finch, in "To Kill a Mockingbird". He defended a black man, in a place and time very against that. While this government controlled dickless loser that was McVeighs lawyer, didn't prosecute like a man, because then he'd be blacklisted and treated like shit. > He did upset me, however, and that might turn out to be a big mistake >on his part. If anyone out in this world feels like bumping off McVeighs lawyer, please do so. We need less lawyers like him.

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Reduce your long distance bills
by helledge＠oilfieldtrash.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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I'm writing this message to you in an effort to spread the truth about these fraudulent scam artists. I am a 60 year old, practicing international petroleum engineer and I supplement my income by working in the telecommunications industry. I have traveled to 58 countries and therefore have paid my share of high long distance calls. I have been around the block more than a few times, and I can tell you this: The best deal any average consumer is going to get in this country today is a 9.9 cent per minute flat rate, if you know where to go. Here is the reason why: Whenever a long distance call is placed, there are fees charged by your local telephone company, called "origination" fees, and fees charged by the receiver a local telephone company, called "landing" fees. These fees are regulated by the federal government. On average, the combined origination/landing fees are 6.5 to 7.5 cents per minute, depending on the telephone companies involved. In addition to those fees, the carrier that connects the call over long distances via fiber, copper, and/or satellite links carries a cost for that call of at least 1 cent, and sometimes more. This brings the COST for that call to 7.5 to 8.5 cents per minute. Then, there are the administrative costs associated with the calls in the form of "rating" the call data, "formatting" the calls in a logical manner to present them to the consumer (both processes are extremely computer intensive , AND postage, paper, and labor, in the form of customer service, and equipment maintenance. Conservatively, these costs add another .5 (one half) cent, bringing the true COST of a long distance telephone call to anywhere from 8 to 9 cents per minute. Finally, there is the cost of distribution, i.e.: marketing and advertising. The commercials that you see on television every day for the big carriers are not free to those companies. In fact, they spend millions of dollars every DAY to push their long distance service, which, remember, is costing THEM 8 to 9 cents per minute. When you see a commercial for Sprint, for example, make sure you watch the fine print. Their "dime line" only applies during evenings after 7pm, and during the weekend. Every weekday from 7am to 7pm the cost is 25 cents per minute. AT&T has taken a more honest approach recently with their "one rate", yet even they are still charging 15 cents per minute. MCI has so many plans now, you're lucky if you'll ever know how much you're paying for a long distance call until you look at your bill. (if you dare) Telecommunications "resellers" are the real wave of the future. These companies purchase transmission time from major carriers, and bill their customers themselves, while still providing the exact same service at a much lower cost. Their customers are still physically utilizing the major carriers for service, but simply receive their BILLS for their calls from the reseller or "rebiller". Since deregulation in 1984, the reseller industry has grown to over $12 BILLION per year, and industry experts predict that by the year 2000, the majority of telecommunications usage will be handled by resellers utilizing the major carriers. How can they do this? By being creative in their marketing approach, and keeping the cost of distribution down to an absolute minimum. The most cost-efficient way to market telecommunications is via an agent network, i.e.: individuals working for the reseller on a commission-only basis. The best rate any individual can receive today is through a reseller for a major carrier. I am a customer and agent for a company called FCI, which is a direct reseller for IXC Communications, Inc., the USA's 5th largest coast-to-coast fiber optic network. IXC currently provides 1000's of miles of fiber for AT&T, Sprint, MCI, and the federal government. FCI offers a flat rate 9.9 cent per minute rate for 1+ long distance AND 800 usage, and bills its customers in 6 second increments, instead of full minute increments like the big carriers do. This results in savings to consumers of an additional 10%-25%, depending on the types of calls placed. FCI is also nearly finished completing a "web page billing" system which will be a great benefit to the consumer, as they will be able to see the actual calls they place on a DAILY basis, as well as their cost for those calls. When in place, FCI will be the ONLY long distance company in the nation offering this unique service. The Wall Street journal, as well as the FOX News Channel, have recently featured FCI and their unique approach to the long distance market. FCI is a truly revolutionary company, and has been gaining acclaim across the nation and particularly on the internet. As a reseller, FCI has the right to work with other carriers if they are presented with better rates for their customers. FCI has recently chosen to work with ITL (International Telecom Ltd) for its superior international calling rates, such as the following flat rates per minute (US origination): U K .185 Russia .670 France .280 Greece .475 Israel .690 Japan .360 (this is not a typo!) China .810 For more information on FCI and how you can even earn a great residual income by promoting their service like I do, you may visit my FCI Web Page at: http://freedomstarr.com/?EL3544771. You will have the opportunity to sign up for service online, and get a free web page to promote the service, with an opportunity to earn up to 5% residual commissions on other people's usage. There is no "sign up" or "agent" fee to participate in the program. I hope this note finds you and yours in good health. Good luck and warm regards, Harold W. Elledge

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by ezx45542＠cttl.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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re: Just in case...
by Abstruse 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ok..i don't know how many of you saw this, and..given my short time recently, it may have even passed through this list..so, if it's a re-post, i apologive..if not, enjoy..but i figure with all the other side threads that come through here..this will be my fuck up if it's a re-post, ok?! well, enough of that, onto the post! ***************************from the BoS list****************** In a development that is probably sending Louis Freeh into coniptions and may represent a fatal blow to the administration's efforts to control encryption exports, the source code for Pretty Good Privacy's PGP 5.0 encryption program was posted Monday on a web site at the University of Oslo. So how did it get there, what with prohibitions on the export of 128-bit encryption encryption software? Right out the front door, that's how -- in the form of a 6,000-page book (remember them?), a format that is not covered by the law. A group of enterprising hackers set about scanning all 6,000 pages of the source code and then painstakingly double-checked for errors, a two-month process whose final fruits were unveiled in Unix format Monday, with Mac and Windows versions forthcoming. PGP says it had nothing to do with the whole thing, but was happy to have its product vetted free by a group of experts, whose trouble-shooting showed that the code is secure and contains no back doors for government visitors. More info at http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0812/zdnn0006.html

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Degausser
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C[reep] Mayflower will fuck anything that moves, but he'd rather be fucking his own mother's dead body. __o _ \<_ Tim C[reep] Mayflower (_)/(_)

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