December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Top 10 Ways to Make a Grouchy Old CypherPunk Smile - #6
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Top 10 Ways to Make a Grouchy Old CypherPunk Smile -------------------------------------------------- #10) Find his shoes for him. #9) Buy Kent Crispin a Dr. Kevorkian gift-certificate. #8) Nuke Washington DC #7) Send ten copies of this back to Vulis. #6) Have ? the Playtpus send him an email saying "Nude D.C." #5) #4) #3) #2) #1) [This space reserved for T.C. May]

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WoT keyring (fwd)
by uSuRa 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: don(a)stat8.byu.edu (Donald M. Kitchen) > > Due to problems distributing my Web of Trust keyring from my own site, > I have uploaded a .gz version. Please announce it to cpunks as soon > as you have changed the permissions. > > Thanks > Don This file is available from: ftp.hacktic.nl/pub/pgp/pgp-key-ring/donring.pgp.gz 944 -rw-r--r-- 1 pub pub 955577 Sep 8 18:37 donring.pgp.gz EnJoY ! -AJ-

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Re: WoT keyring
by uSuRa 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Donald M. Kitchen: > > Due to problems distributing my Web of Trust keyring from my own site, > I have uploaded a .gz version. Please announce it to cpunks as soon > as you have changed the permissions. > > Thanks > > Don > It's available from: ftp.hacktic.nl/pub/pgp/pgp-key-ring total 946 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 pub pub 512 Sep 9 21:15 ./ 1 drwxr-xr-x 4 pub pub 512 Sep 9 21:14 ../ 944 -rw-r--r-- 1 pub pub 955577 Sep 9 21:15 donring.pgp.gz Regards, -AJ-

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Re[2]: [NOISE/Fun] some 'special' primes
by sharborth＠hai-net.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

No, it's ocht hundert elf Skip ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: [NOISE/Fun] some 'special' primes Author: Michael <mike(a)uac.net> at internet Date: 09-09-95 00:34 > A bit more fun : German : 811 (dunno how to write it, but it starts > with an "a") acht hundert uenf (I think) --Michael

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Re[4]: [NOISE/Fun] some 'special' primes
by sharborth＠hai-net.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by master25＠icon.co.za 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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DC-area Meeting Sept 16
by Pat Farrell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The next DC-area cypherpunks meeting will be next Saturday afternoon at Digex's headquarters in suburban Maryland. Please mark your calendars. Directions, maps, and exact time will be published soon. Doug Humphrey says that the office is less than one mile from public transportation. Carpools worked for the last meeting, so I expect rides from Northern Virginia and even Baltimore can be arrainged. Pat Pat Farrell Grad Student http://www.isse.gmu.edu/students/pfarrell Info. Systems & Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA PGP key available on homepage #include <standard.disclaimer>

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Confirmation on Diana, please?
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are there any Cypherpunks mailing list members who can confirm that there was a series of posts related to Princess Diana's death in the days before the event? I am particularly interested in information as to whether Cypherpunks were in any way responsible for a slight delay in the timing of her death. I am particularly interested in communicating with the person who sent me the anonymous messages between 8/24/97 and 8/30/97 using the nym "A'Tak A'Tdorn'. If you have information and an interest in sharing it, please send a post to the Cypherpunks list or the fight-censorship list, indicating such. If you wish for me to contact you through a neutral, third party, indicate that as well. Thank You

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Re: cryptography eliminates lawyers?
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:44 PM 9/8/95 -0400, you wrote: >We wish! We really wish! "Fill that lawyer with a few more slugs of encryption!" The argument that encryption will free us from all the legal ills of the world is pretty specious. If anything it will make more work for lawyers as the non-clue-endowed portion of the world tries to come to terms with the new technology. They will make rules and subsets of rules and exeptions to rules and variations to interpetations of rules that will make the current set look like the rules to "chutes and ladders". Part of the job of the lawyer class is to guarentee the existance of work for other lawyers (as well as themselves). It does not depend on what the medium of exchange is. Lawyers and government forces will try and figure out some way to try and extract it from you. The government is trying very hard to keep any scrap of power from creeping away from them. You can bet that they will try every thing they can think of, rational and irrational, to regulate and control the wilds of cyberspace. They will pump up every imaginary boogieman to help them get the public to swallow what they are fed. By the time they figure out they have been had, it will be too late. Cypherpunks must be the syrup of ipecac to the governments dose of poison to the body politic! (I need to start drinking more coffee in the morning. I cannot believe I wrote that...) Unfortunatly the public does not thrive on logic. They had been trained to react emotionally to things and not react logically. I am not certain what can be used to get them to realize why they need encryption. Dispelling the bogeymen is none need. The other thing is that the tools need to be made as simple as possible. The current tools for use require a fair bit of technical understanding. Until they have an integrated front-end that makes it about as easy to use as America On-Line, encryption will not gain widespread usage. This is the type of code that needs to be written. Making integrated tools like newsreaders and mail programs that support strong encryption directly is what is needed for widespread use. (As well as being usable programs in and of themselves. Many of the programs for news and mail are crap.) Making cryptography a "cool and fun thing to use" will help dispell many of the myths and may help to defuse the government created bogey men. (Of course they will claim that it aids "criminals and terrorists", but to them EVERYONE is a criminal and a terrorist.) | Visualize whirled keys | alano(a)teleport.com | |"It's only half a keyserver. I had to split the | Disclaimer: | |other half with the government man." - Black Art | Ignore the man | | -- PGP 2.6.2 key available on request -- | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano | <fnord> |

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Re[2]: [NOISE/Fun] some 'special' primes
by goedel＠tezcat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> No, it's > > ocht hundert elf > > Skip > acht, not ocht. DJK

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