December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

French Navy Security Compromised (Current by Shallow)
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Heard that a very large break from computer 'hackers' has taken place in France's navy. Information regarding ship-identification was stolen. ------------------------- Regards, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu 0C 69 D4 E8 F2 70 24 33 B4 5E 5E EC 35 E6 FB 88

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A helluva way to run a country, er, a world (fwd)
by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Prof. Sternlight, do you admit that you were wrong? Please share your thoughts with cypherpunks(a)algebra.com Thank you. igor ----- Forwarded message from Tim May ----- >From owner-cypherpunks(a)Algebra.COM Sat Sep 6 12:06:52 1997 X-Sender: tcmay(a)mail.got.net Message-Id: <v03102809b03734c24855(a)[207.167.93.63]> In-Reply-To: <970906105358_284527778(a)emout18.mail.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 09:41:38 -0700 To: cypherpunks(a)Algebra.COM From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> Subject: A helluva way to run a country, er, a world Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)algebra.com Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com X-List-Admin: ichudov(a)algebra.com X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com At 7:54 AM -0700 9/6/97, Syniker(a)aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 97-09-06 07:15:18 EDT, vznuri(a)netcom.com (Vladimir Z. >Nuri) writes: > ><< maybe I'm not following closely enough, but I haven't seen a *single* > reference. that's really eerie. can't we get a *single* > senator to bring up that issue? >> > >me neither... it's fucking mind-boggling.... >and where's all the 'censorship' people???? >it's like -- no one can make the 'connection' .... >the CDA and FCA lists are dead ... not a word ... >how can we all have wet powder at the same time? I didn't see Detweiler's original message ('til just now), but I think this is wrong, the "I haven't seen a *single* reference" (to the constitutionality of mandatory key escrow). In some of the accounts of the Freeh-Feinstein-etc. colloquy, there were mentions that mandatory key escrow probably would be desirable, but probably not be possible. (I took this to mean they, including Freeh, recognized it would be unconstitutional). Of course, then the draft text of the GAK bill floated by the next day, and it of course contained no references to constitutionality (not surprisingly, as draft bills are not self-analyses). Despite my cynicism, I'd expect the courts to issue an immediate stay on enforcement on such a law, as happened with the CDA. With probably an expedited hearing before the Supreme Court. As so many have noted, it seems to be a slam dunk infringement on the right to speak freely and in whatever language one wishes. And some 4th and 5th and other involvements. It may be a stalking horse. A threat. Designed to force a compromise. "If you don't pass McCain-Kerrey, this is what you'll get." A helluva way to run a country, er, a world. But look on the bright side: the militias and other patriot groups are getting a huge bounce out of this. Stay far away from the nests of vipers. Jefferson's wisdom that we need a revolution every generation or so is apt...though it's been about 180 years too long. Now even those, like Sternlight, who claimed the government would never require key escrow, have to admit we were right all along. --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." ----- End of forwarded message from Tim May ----- - Igor.

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17 Dec '03

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Cpunks War Dance, Feinstein Hari-Kari
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697patent.html A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances By Peter Wayner >From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data. ---------- http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697feinstein.html Feinstein's Remarks Rankle Constituents By Laurie J. Flynn If Dianne Feinstein, California's voice in the U.S. Senate, were looking for the fastest way to alienate her most powerful block of voters, she may have found it this week.

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netscpe will release code?
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just spoke with a reporter from the sfchronicle who told me that when she talked to Netscape they said that they would be releasing parts of their source code to the net. -- sameer Voice: 510-601-9777 Community ConneXion FAX: 510-601-9734 An Internet Privacy Provider Dialin: 510-658-6376 http://www.c2.org (or login as "guest") sameer(a)c2.org

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Re: Puppet Masters
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sunday, September 07, 1997 - 03:16:32 MET > > i am getting a very bad feeling that maybe the level of inside/outside > > censorship of the press may be a good indicator, like the Doomsday > > Clock, of how close we are to the day when the Puppet Masters finally > > step out from behind their masks. > > Puppet Masters don't step out from behind thier masks. They have > someone else step out for them. > > ~kp -Creeping encrouchment-Puppet Masters Get Increasingly Bold- With each succeeding assault on the constitutional rights of citizens the gov't both tests and increases the public's willingness to give away those rights. As we sit idly by, parlor intellectualizing, anyone who really dares to organize, gets fried, on national tv for the trouble. Make a timeline from the first live at 5 fry of the 'bad guys' in the 70s, to the present and observe the circumstances surrounding each one. When they started this- judged on television, fried on television- brainwash, they at least tried to put on a semblence of justifiability,..ie SLA," kidnappers, bankrobbers,thugs disguised as mad dog radicals"..etc and went to great lenghts to see that the point was well propagandized to the 'people' and that the 'people' accordind to neilson or gallup or somebody, were in consensus and then 'puff'', charcoaled the constitution with human kindling before EVERYBODIES eyes. A few op ed pages later, with no real political or social fallout. They decide to do it again, and then do it again, upping the ante each time.. .the Order, Mt. Carmel, Weaver, etc ...By the time they do the Davidians, they offer specious reckless charges that were never substantiated and in fact were easily discredited and 85 people burned alive on national tv. people who were never charged with any crime-when federal goons attempted to serve a specious search warrant as if they were marching into lebenon. The militias of today are saying and doing what the Panthers advocated 25 yrs ago. Though each of these groups held to radically different ideologies, the common denomionator is they took a stand against an illegal abuse of local and federal power by organising into a community of interests that was prepared to defend it's right to do so against outside intrusion, and that is whatthe puppet masters would not tolerate. They aren't going to come jackbooting into our cities and towns. They are already there, shoving plungers up our ass when they don't like the way we look. They isolate any pocket of dissension (and to dare to organize into a community is to dissent) , whether it is black, white, christian, islamic or whatever,..can you say "cypherpunk".. and burn them out of existence, putting it on tv as an object lesson for the rest of us, The local police, the military, both houses, the administration and all the various goon squads are all pigs drinking from the same trough. The presidential elections are a tv show designed to give us the illusion of a democracy. Its no accident that the houses reconvene with the new tv season. It is all for mind control nothing else. Now I am no christian fundementalist, white supremicist, black power fanatic or anything else; just an average person trying to live my life simply and freely but the only way things will change is when we the 'coach potato sheeple' including intellectual armchair quarterbacks who think they are superior and above it all because they can run a few sentences together, docmartin, airjordan, dingo, nike and ourache our way into washington with some plungers of our own and enlighten the fucking white house the same way they enlighten us. Timothy McVeigh for President Committee-

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Please send me SSL problems...
by Jeff Weinstein 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'd just like to let all cypherpunks know that I'm really interested in getting any feedback you might have about security problems with Netscape products. I'm particularly interested in bugs in the our implementation of SSL, and problems in the protocol that are not addressed in SSL 3.0. We have been collecting comments on SSL 3.0, and have started incorporating that feedback into our spec. Please don't assume that our lack of response means that we are ignoring your comments. Between Navigator 2.0 and things like the SSL challenge and the RNG fire drill, we just have not had the time to get a new rev of the spec out. Hopefully soon... I should also warn folks that Navigator 2.0 will not include SSL 3.0. We just don't have time to do it. It will become a high priority for us after 2.0 goes out, or maybe sooner depending on hiring. --Jeff Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw(a)netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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Cypherpunks Press release
by goedel＠tezcat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- We've seen the word "hacker" kicked around rather arbitrarily in the press. Are we to conclude that the cypherpunks are a bunch of hackers? I think its time for some cypherpunks spin. How about a logo *and* a press release? The press release would give contacts (email, phone, etc.) so that someone on this list would be contacted by journalists when a crypto story breaks. If we get enough volunteers, we can fax blanket every newspaper, station, and network in the world. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBgAwUBMGBA2XIf3YegbdiBAQG0RQJXdWG0beFoFEk6BfEkhIDYxB6NsbSSIGWe Nzob7W7Gd/YyRqsVhU5T8jQEpD6sNLwTP+4SypSC9Mk8EauKAvklHkkfGr53scQh 5Tzp =Fxdn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Dietrich Kappe | Red Planet http://www.redweb.com Red Planet, LLC| "Chess Space" | "MS Access Products" | PGP Public Key 1-800-RED 0 WEB| /chess | /cobre | /goedel/key.txt Web Publishing | Key fingerprint: 8C2983E66AB723F9 A014A0417D268B84

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Re: RSA Prevails In Arbitration Against Cylink
by jordan＠Heuristicrat.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From baldwin(a)RSA.COM Wed Sep 20 09:09:30 1995 Here's an article on the RSA-Cylink arbitration from the business wire. [ ... elided -JMH ] Just a note for those who aren't aware, Business Wire is a pay-per-use "news release" service. That is, RSA wrote the contents of what Bob (Hi!) posted. The clue is at the bottom of the "story": CONTACT: RSA Kurt Stammberger, 415/595-8782 kurt(a)rsa.com This is not to say anything pro or con about the content of the press release; just that it wasn't written by a third party. /jordan

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Texas CypherPunks Take Up Arms!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We need to thank Jim Choate for his tireless efforts in this regard. * According to USA Today in May, a bill pending in the Texas legislature would allow anyone with a record of mental illness nonetheless to obtain a concealed weapon permit if approved by a doctor. http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html

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