December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Federal Emergencies, Martial Law, etc.
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I ran across this short summary of various national emergency orders. A useful reminder that the government views us as cogs in the machine, to be used as necessary. And that private property may be seized at will. So much for the actual Constitution. (Declan cited a poll showing ignorance of the Constitution. I would have flunked, too. E.g., "What do you call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?" My answer: "You call them "null and void."") Search engines will turn up the full versions of each of these orders. Some are part of the Continuing Economic Emergency (tm), either the one declared in 1971 by Nixon, or the one declared by Johnson or Kennedy or Eisenhower. Or perhaps the one declared by Roosevelt (when banks were shut, when gold was declared contraband, and so on). Or maybe the one declared 135 years ago by Lincoln. Or maybe the emergency declared during the Whiskey Rebellion. And so it goes. --Tim > From: mrostov <mrostov(a)doitnow.com> > Newsgroups: misc.survivalism > Subject: Re: DEFINITION OF MARSHALL LAW ? > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 03:24:01 -0700 > > FEDERAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS > > 10995 Seizure of all print and electronic media in the United States > > 10997 Seizure of all electric power, fuels, and minerals, public and > private. > > 10998 Seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private, > including farms and equipment. > > 10999 Seizure of all means of transportation, including cars, trucks or > any other vehicles, including control over highways, harbors, and > waterways. > > 11000 Seizure of all American people for work forces under federal > supervision; it allows the government to split up families if they > believe that it is necessary. > > 11001 Seizure of all health, education, and welfare facilities, public > and private. > > 11002 Registration by the Postmaster General of all men, women, and > children for government service. > > 11003 Seizure of all airports and aircraft. > > 11004 Seizure of all housing and finance authorities; authority to > establish forced relocation, designate areas that must be abandoned as > 'unsafe'. Establishment of new locations for population groups, building > of new housing on public land. > > 11005 Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways, and storage > warehouses, public and private. > > 11051 Authorize the Office of Emergency Planning to put the above > orders into effect in times of increased international tension or > financial crisis. > > > Rostov -- There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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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Re: FCPUNX:Let sleeping dogs lay
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:04 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Tim May wrote: > Nothing good can come out of crypto legislation. If it had not been for SAFE, now unSafe, we would be facing this crisis a bit later, when we will have more money, more power and more crypto deployed. There is no legislation like NO legislation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Your Privacy and Your Life
by Myron Lewis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bob: After spending a lot of time following the mail recently, I informed a friend (a prominent economist with a major firm that manages money and investments for governments and the like) about the latest goings on in the U.S. government's attempt to essentially ban privacy. He came up with a new twist that I thought might be interesting to many. Editorial note: Jay is not a cryptographer, so by "unbreakable" I think he should mean breakable only with extreme difficulty (i.e. its not worth the effort)) without the key(s). I have encapsulated the term in quotes. .....MRL. PROPOSED BAN ON "UNBREAKABLE" DATA ENCRYPTION ITS NOT JUST YOUR PRIVACY THAT IS AT STAKE: IT COULD BE YOUR LIFE! The Federal government wants to make it unlawful for anyone in the US to use any form of data encryption, to which a key has not been provided to the Federal government. In effect, the proposed laws outlaw privacy. Government officials claim there is no communication which they should not be able to read. Government officials claim they need this power so they can catch criminals, terrorists and spies. Key questions that must be asked of those who support giving government officials this extraordinary power: Why should the doings of criminals set the standard of behavior to be applied to the vast majority of Americans, who are law-abiding? Do government officials expect criminals to obey this law? Do government officials have any data series which show the number of cases in which intercepted data/telephone communications were the only evidence available for use against the accused? "Unbreakable" encryption can save your life. Most of us have records in all sorts of databases, for all kinds of good reasons (tax records, payroll records, medical records, military service records, credit card usage, car rentals, etc.). The advent of cheap computing power makes it possible for these databases to be linked, so that a quite complete picture of each American can quickly be assembled. These data can be potentially lethal. For example, if an abused woman has fled to a distant part of the country, these data can be searched with relative ease by her abuser, if he has the requisite computer skills. With "unbreakable" encryption, his efforts will be blocked. Rather than banning "unbreakable" encryption, Federal law should mandate it for key personal databases, of the type listed above. At an extreme, your personal data could be used to target you for genocide. In most European countries, citizens must carry national identity cards, a form of internal passport. When one moves to a new town, one must register with the police there. Those who have watched movies depicting World War II in Europe perhaps recall Gestapo agents stopping persons on the streets and demanding to see their "papers". Police officers in Europe can still demand to see national identity cards when they wish to do so: minorities are often targeted. We do not have "national identity" cards here in America. Yet. But the various databases, if linked, could formal a virtual "national identity" card. Thus, if as future administration decided it wanted to target a certain group of Americans, as was the case with Japanese-Americans during World War II, those databases could become a virtual death warrant for those in the target group. Rather than supporting a ban on "unbreakable" encryption, every American should demand that Congress require key databases be "unbreakably" encrypted, and that severe punishments should be meted out to those who refuse to "unbreakably" encrypt such databases. The Federal governments argument that a ban on "unbreakable" encryption will cripple its efforts to protect us against criminals overlooks a key fact. The biggest criminals in this century have not been common or organized criminals. The biggest murderers in this century have been officials of governments "gone bad". In eight major genocides between 1915 and 1994, 57 million were murdered, including millions of children. In the Nazi genocide alone, 13 million were murdered in 13 years. It would take Europes common criminals about 400 years to murder so many, if Americas peak murder rate in the past 20 years (10.2/100K in 1980) were applied to Europe. Plenty can be done to curb violent criminals. But asking us to accept a ban on "unbreakable" encryption is asking us to commit suicide for fear of death. Call your Congress member and demand they vote against the ban on "unbreakable" encryption. The life you save may be your own, or those of your spouse, children and grand-children. Jay Edward Simkin, Research Director, JPFO (Milwaukee, WI) Ed. note: This is not his real job.

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US dissident in Sweden
by Asgaard 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Dagens Nyheter reported yesterday that a US citizen, Mr Ritt Goldstein, is in Sweden asking for political asylum. Alledgedly he has been systematically harassed and persecuted by US police after organizing resistance against police violence and brutality. The NYPD 'zero tolerance success' has recently been praised here as something for the Swedish police to learn from. Luckily the 'up yours' story surfaced soon afterwards. The latest crypto policy news here says that Sweden will not go along will mandatory GAK. In the long run there is little hope for European resistance to the New World Order, though. Only France has nuclear warheads out of US control and France is The Enemy as the leading proponent of an EU Superstate. Asgaard

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Adam Back in British Science Journal
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

When the British Science Journal asked readers to recommend redesigns of the human body, one imaginative soul said he'd like the esophagus separated from the trachea with different apertures so he could drink a yard of ale and sing "God Save the Queen" at the same time.

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The NetBuyer Basement is Open!
by announce＠lists.zdnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Sen. DiFi in the Merc 9/15 - Same old Same old
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The SanJose Mercury News interviewed Senator Dianne Feinstein for today's paper. She gave a good answer on why encryption is im[prtant for protecting our privacy, then segued into why Law Enforcement needs access to it. Q:"Doesn't government control of encryption technology used by American citizens infringe on their constitutional rights? A:"No one is talking about intrusion on privacy rights".... telephone analogy... "Encryption is already being used by criminals, terrorists, and drug cartels. THe terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center had plans to blow up 11 American commercial airliners. Encrypted files detailing these plots were found on one of the terrorists' computers. Imagine the tragedies that might not be prevented if Law Enforcement officials are unable to decode encrypted files when necessary." Q on her district strongly wants encruption A: "California's high-technology industry is one of the most potent economic and technological forces in the world. The industry is being asked to develop this technology in a way that does not take away Law Enforcement's ability to protect public safety. People's safety must keep pace with new developments in technology or we will live to regret it. I understand the desire, the need even, for companies to be competitive in a world market. In this case, the industry is being asked to put people's safety ahead of their bottom line. It's that simple." - --- and much more rot along those lines. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBNB1dD/thU5e7emAFAQGv+gH+I71kgKcEpZ5Z93T33TFg/vyD5eUvXB+5 JC+HXwC7XTPtghW3ETB8h+GbtkOwumFpq0Xmd3a4xqaF+x4E+JIwUw== =dF+5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Attacking GAK--team effort assembling
by Michael Wilson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Given that the U.S. and E.U. governments seem to be moving toward a policy of key escrow/recovery, 7Pillars Partners is starting a team effort to demonstrate the practical problems in implementing such a system. The plan is to have the team block out the probable design of the infrastructure, with as many of the options available outlined and discussed (e.g., 'escrow' itself--will a copy of the secret key need to be sent to the escrow agent, will it be created by the agent and assigned to the device, will the method be the use of two receiver keys (one packet to the intended party, one to the escrow agent), will the method be to implement a 'back door' into the cryptosystem itself), and then a thorough expansion on all possible methods of attack on the various elements of the infrastructure (denial, flooding, espionage, etc.). The intent of this project is two-fold: it will provide a practical guide that I hope will demonstrate that any key escrow/recovery system and infrastructure, no matter how secure/safe, will fall to attack; if such a system does end up being implemented and come into operation, the analysis will serve as a first-approximation guide for resistance. We could use a solid outside cryptographer, as well as an attorney to work through the probable legal elements involved in the system. Interest in being on the team should be indicated to: Michael Wilson, 5514706(a)mcimail.com or partners(a)7pillars.com MW http://www.7pillars.com/

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Wit Capital Update -- Unprecedented investment opportunities
by brandy＠witcapital.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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InfoWar 11 / HTML
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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