December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Alex le Heux
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Alex le Heux <alexlh(a)xs4all.nl>" typed: > Hey HEY! It's the man who nearly managed to single-handedly derail the PGP legal export hack by playing the block rocking beats (all vinyl) which inspired the vacationing hackers to spill the drinks on the source books. But in his defense, he also nurtured the cpunks network in between sets. Welcome to the list! Zooko the Mysterieux P.S. MP3 is coooool. CDNow.com needs to start selling MP3's in return for digital cash small change! P.P.S. No really-- I'm _not_ a cypherpunk, because cypherpunks appear to be overwhelmed with blind, self-destructive bloodlust since 1996 or so. I'm just here to try talking some sense into the salvageable ones.

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CPAC Quotes Templeton
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Brad Templeton's thoughts on hyperlinks as copyright infringement may be browsed at... http://www.clari.net/brad/linkright.html -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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It's Official...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The ganglia, as they say, twitch... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:20:16 -0400 From: rah-web <rah(a)shipwright.com> Reply-To: rah(a)shipwright.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: It's Official... http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/aug/0813addict.html <snip> August 19, 1997 It's Official: Net Abusers Are Pathological (08/13/97; 7:00 p.m. EDT) By Evan Schuman, TechWire CHICAGO -- Another yardstick of success will be achieved by the Internet community on Thursday: It will be awarded its first official mental health disorder. For Related Stories: The newly identified disorder will be dubbed Pathological Internet Use Fatal (PIU) and will be christened during Distraction? -- the presentation of a major medical Learning The paper at the annual convention of Signs Of Online the American Psychological Addiction--HomePC Association in Chicago. We're Becoming The term is being coined by Dr. Cyber Kimberly Young, an assistant Junkies--Electronic professor of psychology at the Engineering University of Pittsburgh at Times Bradford, in Bradford, Pa. With her paper's presentation, the APA will classify excessive Internet use as addictive, in the same way that drugs (including alcohol), gambling, video games, and some types of eating disorders are today officially considered addictive. Like those other ailments, Internet addiction starts when the rest of the person's life starts to fall apart, the paper stated. The Internet is a fine hobby or work tool, until it causes problems with social partners, work, or school, Young said. Young studied 396 cases of PIU-afflicted people and drew some overall conclusions. Net marketers need not fear, as traditional Web surfing accounted for only 7 percent of the Internet addicts and even more information-oriented tools (gophers [Image] and FTP[Image] sites, for example) represented only an additional 2 percent. "Upon examination, traditional information protocols and Web pages were the least utilized compared with more than 90 percent who became addicted to the two-way communication functions: chat rooms, MUDs [Multi-User Dungeons], newsgroups, and E-mail," Young said. "This makes the case that database searches -- while interesting and often time-consuming -- are not the actual reasons Dependents become addicted to the Internet." Young said one surprise in the results was the lack of high-tech people among the addicted. "While it is a common perception that those addicted to the Internet are computer savvy individuals, these demographic results show that only 8 percent came from high-tech jobs," she said. "Compare this to the 42 percent who indicated having no permanent jobs and the 39 percent who worked in low-tech fields. It is typically newbies who become excessive Internet users." Among the jobs that she classified as low-tech were secretaries, bank tellers, teachers, advertising executives, and journalists. The report said that the attraction of the Internet revolves around its perceived anonymity, where people feel comfortable acting out in ways they would never consider in real life. "The ability to enter into a bodiless state of communication enabled users to explore altered states of being that fostered emotions that were new and richly exciting," Young said. "Such uninhibited behavior is not necessarily an inevitable consequence of visual anonymity, but depends upon the nature of the group and the individual personality of the online user." "For those who felt unattractive, it was perceived easier to pick up another person through cybersex than in real life," she said. But beyond sexual issues, newsgroups and chat lines allow people to literally create and secretly test new personalities before trying them out in the real world. "Beyond amusement, reinventing oneself is a way to fulfill an unmet need. The loss of a social identity online allows one to reconstruct an ideal self in place of a poor self-concept," Young said. "Those who suffer from low self-esteem, feelings of inadequacy, or frequent disapproval from others are at the highest risk" of becoming Net addicts. She quoted one participant in the survey as telling her, "By day, I am a mild-mannered husband, but at night I become the most aggressive bastard online." The addiction can become a problem when the new emotional creation makes inroads into real lives or when the time spent in the virtual life takes away from responsibilities in the real life. The addicted Internet user will spend an average of 38 hours per week online dealing with nonemployment/nonacademic efforts, compared with "nonaddicts" in the survey who averaged eight hours. Almost half of the participants diagnosed with PIU reported that they get less than four hours of sleep per night due to late log-in sessions. Another reason for some of the addictions is the sense of community that some newsgroups create. "With routine visits to a particular group (chat area or newsgroup, for example), a high degree of familiarity among other group members is established. Like all communities, the cyberspace culture has its own set of values, standards, language, signs, and artifacts, and individuals adapt to the current norms of the group," Young said. "One can easily become involved in the lives of others almost like watching a soap opera and thinking of the characters as real people," she said. Young's report said that this is especially attractive to people who might find it difficult to establish other social circles. "Homebound caretakers, the disabled, retired individuals, and homemakers have limited access to others," she said. Internet addiction centers have already been created at facilities ranging from the University of Maryland at College Park to Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Ill., to Harvard affiliate McLean Hospital. The test group broke down into 157 men and 239 women; the average age for the males was 29, and the average age for the women was 43. [end] WHAT CONSTITUTES PATHOLOGICAL INTERNET USE? Do you: 1. feel preoccupied with the Internet (i.e., thinking about the Internet when offline)? 2. feel a need to use the Internet with increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction? 3. have an inability to control your Internet use? 4. feel restless or irritable when attempting to cut down to stop Internet use? 5. use the Internet as a way of escaping from problems or of relieving a poor mood (i.e., feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety, or depression)? 6. lie to family members or friends to conceal the extent of involvement with the Internet? 7. jeopardize or risk the loss of significant relationship, job, educational or career opportunity because of the Internet? 8. after spending an excessive amount of money on online fees, often return another day? 9. go through withdrawal when offline (e.g., increased depression, anxiety, etc.)? 10. stay online longer than originally intended? Individuals who met four or more of these criteria during a 12-month period were classified as dependent. Take the full survey, and find out if you're addicted to the Net. source: the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Search for more related stories: [Techsearch] Search TechWire & CMP Archives [Image] C M P n e t S P E C I A L R E P O R T S · Can't find a 56-Kbps Internet service provider? [Image] Here's help for you. · Internet Explorer 4.0 got you perplexed? Ask Dr. 4. [Image] [Image] · There's an intranet for every company, but not the same one for everyone. [Image] · How come Internal users don't like Sun's JavaStation NC? [CMPnet] [Image] [Click Here To Visit Canon!] [Image] --- 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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The Real Bell Issue / Re: Bell, etc
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mike Duvos wrote: > 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. The following, from the Columbian, lies at the heart of the real issue that Bell's persecution was all about. > According to the affidavit, Bell came to the attention of the > Internal Revenue Service in November when he sent the agency's > Ogden (Utah) Service Center a letter asking for a tax refund. Every year, just before Income Taxes are due, the IRS picks out a few people to unjustly persecute in order to strike fear into the heart of the taxpaying sheeple. They always manage to completely fuck over a variety of citizens in a manner that will generate maximum publicity at that time of year. They always seem to include at least one fairly average citizen who gets everything he owns seized, including bank accounts, etc., over a tax dispute involving nickles and dimes. Those who express outrage over these actions are the IRS's best friend. "They have no right to..." "They are out of control..." "They can do anything they want to you..." This is all music to the IRS's ears. Jim Bell was like manna from heaven for the IRS. It gave them an opportunity to bring down the fascist forces of a wide variety of government agencies to back the IRS's play in this instance. Bell's persecution was not a mistake, it was a loud and clear message to the taxpaying sheeple that they are "a felon under an increasing number of laws," and that the IRS has a plethora of government agencies ready and willing to join them in fucking over anyone who gets out of line. And what is the IRS's definition of "getting out of line?": > According to the affidavit, Bell came to the attention of the > Internal Revenue Service in November when he sent the agency's > Ogden (Utah) Service Center a letter asking for a tax refund. Apply for a tax refund and have every real or imagined sin you have ever commited used against you. "A person who asked the IRS for a tax refund, had his home raided today by 20 armed government terrorists from a wide variety of government agencies. "This person who asked for a TAX REFUND has never been proven to have anything to do with DRUGS such as METHAMPHETAMINE, and is not known to be a SPEED FREAK or a DRUG DEALER. As well, government agents investigating the person asking for the TAX REFUND have never found any ILLEGAL DRUGS on his person or property, but the person who asked for the TAX REFUND will be mentioned in connection with DRUGS and METHAMPETAMINE, or SPEED, CRANK, etc., for the rest of his life, every time he "comes to our attention" as a result of asking for a TAX REFUND." I would not doubt that the IRS asked the local newspapers to put a picture on their front page of 20 armed governement terrorists putting guns to the heads of Ma and Pa Bell, with Jim on the ground with a boot at his throat, and a huge headline reading, "MAN ASKS FOR TAX REFUND!" The IRS spends the whole year going after people who they deem to be guilty of tax evasion, and it is usually a fairly boring affair involving accountants and lawyers. The weeks preceeding the date taxes are due to be filed are reserved for high-profile cases which the sheeple can easily recognize as persecution by a heartless agency with supreme power at their disposal. The real issue in Bell's case is not just persecution, but easily recognizable persecution. Otherwise, the whole Bell affair would be pointless. Perhaps, upon sentencing, we will see a headline, "MAN WHO ASKED FOR TAX REFUND IMPRISONED FOR HIGH SCHOOL PRANKS!" TruthMonger

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None
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:26 AM 8/19/97 +0100, you wrote: >Cypherpunks are individuals. No shit. >Pick 10 cypherpunks, you'll get 10 different views. Well, that may be a no shitter. >Don't see the need to disclaim non-cypherpunk status due to >`bloodlust'... Are you anticipating that the list readership will be >collectively locked up for non-government approved thoughts? They're not taking my ass alive, or at all. >Are you sure that having a 10 mile crater where there used to be a >bunch of power-crazed beaurocrats wouldn't be a net improvement :-)? It would truly be a day to celebrate. >It's not as if anyone is planning to nuke them anyway, it's just >invective. There might be some danger of some of us writing a bit of >crypto code, or saying some negative things about politicians. No >laws against either of those (yet). Just wait until they can read thoughts. Man, that'll be a sight to see. >A lot of the systematic torture, intimidation, carried out by 3rd >world dictatorships is done at the hands of CIA trained government >employees. Well, since they can't read thoughts yet, that's the best way. It would be a day to celebrate loudly if someone put a crater in DC.

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

17 Dec '03

A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Steve Schear <azur(a)netcom.com>" typed: > > May I suggest that we abandon the term AP, as being too narrowly focused, > and use something more academic (looks better in FC's proceedings, anyway) > such as Anonymous Betting Pools, or some such? <snip> > Definitely. Also, a legal treatment would be nice (Broiles?). I've > posited that ABPs rely on elements of skill rather than chance to avoid > being tagged as gambling (e.g., Beat the Psychics). Actually ABP could be > viewed as an insurance policy. Um, as soon as you broaden AP from libertarian fantasy into rigorous hypothesis, it turns out that it _isn't_ _anything_ but Idea Futures/insurance/ABPs/(payee-anonymous) contract markets plus the murderous daydream junk. That is to say, from the rigorous (technical) point of view, AP _IS_ Idea Futures _IS_ ABPs _IS_ contract markets _IS_ insurance. TCMay has mentioned before that AP is nothing new... If you want some scholarly exposition, write up some definitive treatise on AP/IF/I/ABPs/CMs as such so that in the future crackpots who semi-independently come up with the idea won't be able to tie it to political fantasies or other specific would-be-applications in the (un-)popular consciousness. Zooko, whose prose is JYA'ifying in frustration P.S. Allow me to repeat in simple words: "'ASSASSINATION POLITICS' IS NOTHING BUT IDEA FUTURES PLUS CRACKPOT POLITICAL FANTASY!" P.P.S. I am not a cypherpunk. I'm only a guest! I didn't know there was marijuana in the brownies, officer! I didn't PGP sign this message. Nobody saw me do it -- you can't prove anything.

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MAN_iax
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

9-4-95. NYPaper: "Computers Beware! New Type of Virus Is Loose on the Net." A new and deceptively simple type of computer virus, one that can sneak past security devices by hitching rides on electronic mail and other common Internet files, is causing deep concern among computer security officials around the world. Mr. Schmidt of Sun says, "There are criminals in the world and some of them are programmers. With computer networks, they have an amplifying effect that they've never had before. If I were a criminal with a gun, I might attack one person. But with a computer network, I can attack a million people at a time. It's like an atomic bomb." To avert a potential disaster, Mr. Schmidt has enlisted three of the world's top computer security experts, including Tsutomo Shimomura, Dan Farmer and Whitfield Diffie. "Cybervirus Whodunit: Who Creates This Stuff?" Ms. Gordon conducted detailed interviews, by electronic mail, Internet chat, telephone and in person, with more than 60 virus writers. "The virus writer has been characterized by some as a bad, evil, depraved, maniac, terrorist, technopathic, genius gone mad, sociopath." This, she said, "is a gross oversimplification of the situation." "Dick Tracy, Eat Your Heart Out." Move over, Captain Midnight. Heads up, Mata Hari. Now anyone can have a real-life decoder ring. The ring has a computer chip encoded with an identification number that gives the wearer access to secret computer files or locked rooms. The chip transmits your secret ID number or data at the space-age speed of 16,000 bits a second. Triplets: MAN_iax

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No Subject
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:30 PM 8/22/97 +0200, A druken remailer user wrote: > To continue... > Being an anonymous coward who hides behind remailers the few times Did Patrick Oonk send this one? > Tired of being an anarchist? Tired of waiting for Jim Bell >to rat you out as being a co-conspirator in his evil plot >to overthrow the government? Tired of standing in front of your >mirror, trying to practice acting surprised when armed forces >from a dozen government agencies kick down your door to announce >that someone nuked D.C., and they'd like to "ask you a few >questions?" If someone nuked D.C., most of those bastards would probably be dead. Then again... they propably have em stuffed in capsules, to be opened when communication is lost with Washington D.C. Millions of theses bastards!!!! All located on the surface of Uranus. Upon losing the signal with D.C., they'll fly to Earth, to once again enslave the free. What's the solution???!!!??? We must send all our nuclear arsenals to the surface of Uranus, and set them off, ONLY THEN WILL WE BE SAFE!!! >Peter Trei: > "Hi. I used to be a boring guy. I was so boring that none of the >assholes on the list even bothered insulting me, or forging posts in >my name. > "Then one day, my life suddenly changed. Someone forged a post to >the list in my name, and it was exciting. It was like getting robbed >at gunpoint. What a rush! Heheheh >Kent Crispin: > "This isn't Peter's conspiracy, its MINE! I mean, get real, I >work in a secret underground lavoratory as a government shill. > "Think about it. Who would you expect to conspire against a >bunch of anarchists...the government! You all know how much I >love the government and authority. I'm Louis Freeh's secret >lover. Janet Reno is going to have my baby. > "It's me! *I* am the one behind the SECRET CONSPIRACY AGAINST >THE CYPHERPUNKS LIST. I'm a STATIST, for God's sake, why won't >you believe me? > "Because I'm not one of the elitist 'chosen?' Fuck you." Heheh, well, at least they got Kent summed up in 3 paragraphs. >TruthMonger: > "Now Hettinga is stealing Tim May's lines. What the hell is >going on, here? Has *everybody* on this list gone crazy? > "*I* am the one who is *really* behind the SECRET CONSPIRACY >AGAINST THE CYPHERPUNKS LIST. Think about it. Everyone knows >that I'm a 33rd degree Mason. No...that's Tim May. > "Fuck this shit. From now on, I'm posting as Toto." heheh > There is no conspiracy by a secret government to destroy > the Constitution, enslave the people, and rule the world. "Like them new Stealth Helicopters, equipped with devices to drown out the sound." "Dale, where the hell did you hear that!?" "Alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters" > Remember, this is just a normal mailing list with a few list > members who are a little odd. There are no spooks. Except for Kent Crispin. > Waco was just a tragic accident. Ruby Ridge was a simple error > in judgement by a government agent who really feels bad about > following his superiors orders. Heavily armed U.S. Marines are > no match for a goat-herding boy with a .22, and it is only by > the grace of God that they are alive today. Oswald acted alone. Yeah, no one's safe when those god-damn goat herding sniper kids, lucky those good soldiers hit him fast! There is, however, a secret-conspiracy by Paul Pomes to shut down remailers. ConspiracyMonger "Ahhh, look, another mutilated cow." "Musta been them aliens." "Nah, it's them damn black helicopters. Killin' all my friggin livestock."

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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, which is available at: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.33.tar.gz For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on how to use them, finger remailer.help.all(a)chaos.taylored.com 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{"avox"} = "<anon(a)vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk pgp post"; $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney(a)shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail(a)c2.org> eric pgp hash reord"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon(a)anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer(a)ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub reord"; $remailer{"hacktic"} = "<remailer(a)utopia.hacktic.nl> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer(a)flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post ek reord"; $remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer(a)rahul.net> cpunk pgp hash filter"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord"; $remailer{"syrinx"} = "<syrinx(a)c2.org> cpunk pgp hash cut reord mix post"; $remailer{"ford"} = "<remailer(a)bi-node.zerberus.de> cpunk pgp"; $remailer{"hroller"} = "<hroller(a)c2.org> cpunk pgp hash mix cut ek"; $remailer{"vishnu"} = "<mixmaster(a)vishnu.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord"; $remailer{"crown"} = "<mixmaster(a)kether.alias.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut mix ek reord"; $remailer{"robo"} = "<robo(a)c2.org> cpunk hash mix"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"spook"} = "<remailer(a)spook.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{"gondolin"} = "<mixmaster(a)gondolin.org> cpunk mix hash latent cut ek ksub reord"; $remailer{"rmadillo"} = "<remailer(a)armadillo.com> mix cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"ncognito"} = "<ncognito(a)gate.net> cpunk"; 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. Use "premail -getkeys pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu" to get PGP keys for the remailers. Fingering this address works too. Last ping: Mon 4 Sep 95 4:00:26 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- alumni hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu ***+****--** 12:42 99.99% hacktic remailer(a)utopia.hacktic.nl ************ 11:36 99.99% hroller hroller(a)c2.org --********** 9:55 99.99% c2 remail(a)c2.org --++++++++++ 45:17 99.99% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com .---------+- 2:49:48 99.99% flame remailer(a)flame.alias.net +++++-++++++ 44:09 99.99% spook remailer(a)spook.alias.net -+-------.- 2:58:30 99.99% syrinx syrinx(a)c2.org ----------- 1:42:59 99.99% bsu-cs nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu ***++*****-* 23:51 99.96% rmadillo remailer(a)armadillo.com ++++*+*++ + 1:04:53 99.93% replay remailer(a)replay.com _***+******* 17:24 99.86% ideath remailer(a)ideath.goldenbear.com ----- ----- 5:13:51 99.60% ncognito ncognito(a)gate.net #+**-** ** 6:07 98.99% portal hfinney(a)shell.portal.com ***+** **** 5:08 98.91% ford remailer(a)bi-node.zerberus.de *********** 5:15 97.26% extropia remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com .-.._._ --- 16:38:13 95.81% crown mixmaster(a)kether.alias.net --- ----- - 4:03:05 95.06% vishnu mixmaster(a)vishnu.alias.net -----. --- 6:20:56 90.88% robo robo(a)c2.org -********** 17:00 90.58% rahul homer(a)rahul.net ******++*+** 7:45 99.99% penet anon(a)anon.penet.fi ---++++-- ** 3:02:16 87.70% gondolin mixmaster(a)gondolin.org ---- . 5:35:11 77.43% For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html 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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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It's not an _Onion_ satire: <http://apocalypse.berkshire.net/~ifas/fw/9707/update.html#aliens> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bofus? Subject: Pat Robertson advocates stoning for crypto enthusiasts Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:39:49 -0800 Message-ID: <33FDB249.335F(a)mindspring.com> RuffinP(a)aol.com wrote: > > > > > > FREEDOM WRITER PRESS RELEASE > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 1997 > CONTACT: Skipp Porteous (413) 528-3800 > > > > Robertson advocates stoning for UFO > enthusiasts > > > Great Barrington, MA -- In a recent > pronouncement, television evangelist and > head of the Christian Coalition, Pat > Robertson, advocated death by stoning for > crypto enthusiasts. > > Freedom Writer magazine, in its July/August > issue, mailed today, disclosed Robertson's > statement. Freedom Writer is published by > the Institute for First Amendment Studies, > a group that monitors the right. > > Robertson used the news of the July 25th > Senate Commerce Committee hearing to promote > his extreme beliefs. A segment on the July 27, > 1997 broadcast of The 700 Club featured news > of the Senate hearing. Employing the > historical event as a starting point, the > program delved into the possibility of the > existence of anonymous free speech on the > Internet. > > While Robertson viewed the Internet with > suspicion, on a more serious note, he > launched into a diatribe against those who > entertain the existence of uninhibited free > speech on the Internet. He said, in a > rambling discourse, that if such a thing > existed, it would simply create demons that > would lead people away from Christ. > According to Robertson, the threat is so > serious that people who believe in free > speech should be put to death by stoning -- > according to "God's word." > > "The Bible says the Earth belongs to man, > but the Word belongs to the Lord," > Robertson said. > > "He has given us the Earth. He also warned > us in the book of Matthew of the dangers of > corrupting forces such as the Internet which > can be used for evildoers: > > "'A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can > a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that > does not bear good fruit is cut down and > thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their > fruits you will know them. (Matthew 7:17-20)' > > "And you see, there is only one Word, and > that is the Word of God: > > "'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word > was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)'" > 'For the Word of the Lord is right; and all his > works are done with faithfulness. He loveth > mercy and judgment: the earth is full of the > mercy of the Lord. (Psalm 32:4-5)' > > So there is no question about it." > > "Can a demon appear as a slanty-eyed, > funny-looking computer hacker? Of course > he can, or it can. Of course they can deceive > people. And if they can lead somebody away > from the true God, or away from Jesus > Christ, anyway it happens, it doesn't > matter, you will lose your salvation. It > doesn't matter how they get you. The > question is, did they get you, and under > what guise? > > "This is man in rebellion against God, who > refuses to take God's Law. And God says, > 'My covenant says you won't do this. And if > I find anybody in Israel,'-- "which is his > pure nation" -- 'If I find anybody in > Israel that's doing this sort of thing, > then I want you to take him out and dispose > of him." > > "It's a clear violation of God's word. > Stone them." > > Skipp Porteous, Freedom Writer publisher, > commented: "As the founder and chairman of > the Christian Coalition -- a group > dedicated to becoming the most powerful > political force in America -- Robertson's > extreme ideas need to be taken seriously, > for they not only negate pluralism, but > condemn to death those who dare to believe > differently." --------- End forwarded message ----------

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