December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Berkeley ftp site moved again?
by Ian Goldberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- s1018954(a)aix2.uottawa.ca wrote: > > I've been unable to get through to ftp.csua.berkeley.edu > and www.csua.berkeley.edu for the past two days. > > Does anyone know if the site (and the cpunk archives with it) > has moved or if it's just down? (I'd mail root, but what's the > point if the machine's down?) > > Sorry if I've missed this being mentioned before. It's just down. - Ian - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMSZ7+SoZzwIn1bdtAQE74QF+LpQ4ArMpxZXxCF0HjKDkoa2oW8vMGUgP igMRtrhpScWkQOuAcXWun4/T+2hIHxCk =dKmJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Online Zakat Payment: Religious tithe.
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:56 PM 2/16/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: > > >>My, my. For a group of people so uspet at taxes you certainly have faith in >>the ability of private individuals to generate the capital for things like >>the Manhattan Project and high-cost nuke delivery systems! > > Unfortunately, neither of these would take that much. A university with >competent physics, engineering, and chemistry departments could do the first; >smuggling could do the second. > -Allen Actually, I have enough background in all these areas, to the point where I think if I were given a plutonium "pit," I could probably implement the bomb in about 6 months of part-time tinkering. The main engineering problem would be finding/producing two different homogeneous explosives with reliably defined/measured detonation velocities, and calculating the shape of the "lenses" required to cover the pit, and then machining or casting the parts. (I'd probably also want to simulate the mechanical "impedance match" of the chemical explosive to the (dense) plutonium; and as I understand it they use the mechanical equivalent of a transformer to do the matching. Sorry, but I think in terms of electronics, not mechanics. Sue me.) BTW, I think I've already solved the problem of producing a few dozen absolutely simultaneous trigger explosions (+/- 100 nanoseconds) around the periphery at the lens foci, without using multiple electronic detonators. (in fact, a single blasting cap would do nicely.) "But the margins of this book are too small to contain it" Heh heh! Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com Klaatu Burada Nikto Something is going to happen. Something....Wonderful! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMSYVWfqHVDBboB2dAQH8KAP+PBsKYf6J94hU1FLMn/vny1IU827srMPz Hvr7CRuHwPmGKc6VkKwIRBHRZ9adRd9c75HNhi4T+JA/qO1sZX8Qxk+xQUy6Z0pS fx2HoPBQvEXjqkKpCfWWBKg/sXzu1J0XCmyqM3HXt8Cw0upYsHemQD/x+llDfYRM GDV+B/Wt8pw= =vyDu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Text of personal use exemption
by Ian Goldberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Michael Froomkin wrote: > > http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/personal-use.txt > Interesting. Note, however, the following proviso (123.27(a)(1)): (1) The software product(s) are to be used only on a simultaneously temporarily exported Category XIII(b)(1) hardware product or a simultaneously exported item on the Commerce Control List (CCL) This seems to say a couple of things: o I can't bring my copy of PGP or kerberos with me on a floppy, intending to use it abroad on a conveniently available computer; I must bring a computer with me. o The computer I bring with me must be a Category XIII(b)(1) hardware product; that is, something that is illegal to export (now, except for personal use), or be on the CCL. That second one seems weird. Does the CCL have things like normal portable computers on it? Otherwise, this exemption seems pretty useless... - Ian - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMSaALCoZzwIn1bdtAQHakAF+Lu9NxtqTvIobwT8epPPK/aWP38ldAO1m zJpcRffvIUmcKjB+U+A2OxAnSFRGd6r7 =cvI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Remailers Pose Risk
by Michael Peponis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Computerworld, February 12, 1996, Front page: > "Anonymous remailers have a lot of nasty potential," said > Stephen T. Kent, chief scientist for security technology at >So do kitchen knives or automobiles. So do brain-dead journalists and "security experts". Oops, take that back, no probability involved, they are nasty problems. [..] > One snowy day last month, for example, about 25% of the > workforce at a defense contractor in Rockville, Md., went > home after they received a bogus E-mail message dismissing > them for the day. The message originated from an anonymous > remailer that allowed the user to impersonate a senior > company official. :Was that a remailer or simply forged mail? How long have people been bitching about putting digital signatures on stuff like that. If it was signed, it could of been verified if indeed it was legit or not. Irregardless of where it came from, anybody stupid enough to believe everything they read, without checking out it's validity, deserves what they get. [..] > "As in the case of smallpox, yellow fever, flu epidemics, > AIDS or malaria, it will take disasters before the public > may accept that some forms of restrictions on the > electronic freedom of speech and that privacy may be > worthwhile."FNORD! What?? like anonymous electronic media spreads the disease somehow. To the person who wrote the article, you have proved beond a shadow of a doubt that you are dense as a brick. Wrong type of virus, you mean the other kind. > Do's and don'tsAhem > Unethical or illegal uses of anonymous remailers:[..] > - To violate copyright laws ... Scientology... > - To encourage others to commit unethical or illegal > behavior Oh Boo Hoo, the moral decay of society, that is your problem shithead, not mine, some of us survive no matter what happens to the rest of you. Regards, Michael Peponis PGP Key Avalible form MIT Key Server,or via finger

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Legal status of Indian Reservations and CDA
by Michael Peponis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If I remember correctly, are not American Indian reservations considered qusi-sovergin states under the law? If this is true, what would stop me from negotiating with some tribe to establish an ISP on the reservation and then placing whatever material I wanted on that site without fear of reprisals from the US goverment. After all, if they are a soveign state, decency is covered by whatever laws they have, if any, not the CDA. If this is true, the Indians get the benift of having state-of-the-art telecommunications in thier communities, plus residual job creation, and everyone else gets freedom of speech. Any comments? Regards, Michael Peponis PGP Key Avalible form MIT Key Server,or via finger

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Privacy and Information Disclosure
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:57 PM 2/17/96, "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" >ps Tim was correct, believe I *registered* Libertarian that year - do remember > not getting invited to vote in any primaries. Thanks for confirming/acknowledging this. The larger point, not directed at Padgett is this: people voluntarily reveal information about themselves, get themselves placed on mailing lists for like-minded people (such as this list, or the Rose Growers of Alberta list, etc.), etc., and then they complain that others are compiling data on them! The classic example is borrowing money, whether via a credit card (you did know you're borrowing, didn't you?) or for a conventional bank loan. Most people who borrow money and then repay the money _want_ this to be known to other potential lenders...this is what a "credit rating" is all about. Of course, those who borrow money and then don't repay it are anxious not to have others know about this situation! If you don't want to be on a Libertarian Party mailing list, don't register officially as an LP member. If you don't want a record with the credit card companies, don't use their credit cards. If you don't want to be a list of people who buy sexual devices, don't buy them through the mail (or use money orders, mail drops, etc.). And so on. What I can't imagine anyone on this list wanting (though apparently some percentage do want them) are laws which give the illusion of enhancing privacy by taking away the rights of others. I say "illusion" because The Ones Who Really Matter will still have the goods on you. (The Lotus CD-ROM of addresses being the canonical example of this. It was hailed as a great victory that "the Net" rallied to get Lotus to abandon plans to sell this CD-ROM to me and thee, where in actuality it just meant that the sales remained to direct marketers, law enforcement, and the like. But the Ostrich Syndrome prevailed.) --Tim May Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Remailers Pose Risk
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Pitty the author of that article won't see replies to it on the list. > From: "Michael Peponis" <mianigand(a)unique.outlook.net> > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com, wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:03:09 +0000 > Subject: Re: Remailers Pose Risk [..] > Oh Boo Hoo, the moral decay of society, that is your problem shithead, not > mine, some of us survive no matter what happens to the rest of you. > Regards, > Michael Peponis > PGP Key Avalible form MIT Key Server,or via finger Rob. --- Send a blank message with the subject "send pgp-key" (not in quotes) to <WlkngOwl(a)unix.asb.com> for a copy of my PGP key.

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Re: Using lasers to communicate
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:07 PM 2/17/96 -0500, cypherpunks@toad wrote: >> Depends upon how paranoid you want to be. A small radio-controlled >> helicopter is available cheaply at Radio Shack, and might even be >> capable of holding a receiver, re-transmitter and recorder. > >If I wanted to intercept a laser beam I'd spray an aerosol mist >into the beam and look at the scatter. On a dusty or humid day I >might not need the aerosol. > >Why not just encrypt the link? Then anyone can tap and it doesn't matter. >I'm in the process of building a tightbeam microwave link that can carry >2 Mbps over 50Km. Anybody got any gunn transceivers they don't need? If you have a secure link you don't need encryption. Arguably, the converse is true; if you have secure encryption you don't need a secure link. Isn't the ability to transmit secure data over insecure channels one of the primary justifications for encryption? dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMSZeJjVTwUKWHSsJAQEhswf/Xm1QwUTrBkzYWmbBu0+c4qkBXUfZR1Ck DEzgpuBMhGV/2YO+654AwEKBMK7u91J/I8mkl6h84UIclrBUydmmh2N0m34qlZRi 4R6KdFR0w80WsvTAcX+qJoACLrf9JsrLq03Y1lytSdVYxax6NWIY+OXOQBf36xCp aSq5+HYe3498+9QQEho+LpKw3A84bWPYjh5sFBheffgf6mpbsY+Tu3/fhDOESuGc ZjBLcjNlUtZ9IYnD+dzlAJBH04Lpgigfqjj5ZkGV04Q+jgumO8+HZbE+ymJnhfX7 G4KcPESnkpcK0JaiEVJtiKA5Eh2Ur8J8MUXxou4QY4j44md22v8aZw== =qyyj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- David E. Smith, c/o Southeast Missouri State University 1000 Towers Circle South MS 1210 Cape Girardeau MO 63701 dsmith(a)midwest.net, dsmith(a)alpha.c2.org, PGP 0x961D2B09 (573)339-3814 http://www.midwest.net/scribers/dsmith/ "Reality is only for those lacking in true imagination."

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Re: True democracy in America.
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Michael Peponis wrote: > In my opinion, only the most basic of services, trash collection, road > maintenance, education (decided upon experts, not just people with opinions. > I don't claime to be an expert on history, so why should I have a say on how it > is tought, I have no expertise in that area). An off-topic quickie rant regarding "essential services" and "qualification"... I notice in the current tax-cutting climate (at least in the US) that people who resent it when garbage collectors, janitors, teachers, train conductors, etc. are making a "decent" wage because they have to pay the taxes and fees (private as well as public) for these services. They seem to view the fact that they have a college degree makes them more entitled to a reasonable standard of living than a high-school drop-out... Yet in terms of supply and demand economics, perhaps garbage collectors etc. deserve to be paid more than accountants and salesmen... This has nothing to do with cypherpunks or himalayan hackers in hot tubs, so back to the usual data trash. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMSTjqCoZzwIn1bdtAQHcmwF+LJjO9Q+6GAKVPmWyfKGOiKvPfv3/9DiY qqNhHIIUL1AH6wzq1ccTUg1i+dg+MMH7 =pIUZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Indian Reservations Redux
by Greg Kucharo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's a bit I turned up after a Alta Vista search. http://www.wtp.net/bus-con/mimn/reservation.html A sample from this page follows; Why Indian Reservations Make Good Offshore Manufacturing Sites for Foreign and Outside Investors STATUS OF THE RESERVATION IN AMERICAN LAW The reservation can be compared to as an Export Processing Zone. It represents an autonomous region within the U.S.A.; wherein, Tribal law can stipulate the exemption from State taxes and from other laws which otherwise exist in the State. The net result being... a cost savings to the investor -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCPAzEIa2wAAAEEALouE7MNxsG+QTOJSrMTygYWKblpI9MgOKaFA+5AICNelAw6 6Gj3B0EQr7bwLILk8EJULG+kYh/ND9Kn1EXBK+elXbwpFCLqoyEZrbHJnurhH/t6 VFEwhbN1V0e/bFOCTq8nykoJjZ/uq0mz8HouIbEt6BYWoKVSUIU/T+iDV3TVABEB AAG0DWdoa0Bzb3BoaS5jb20= =gwax -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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