December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Computer unmasks Anonymous writer...
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: sasha1(a)netcom.com (Alexander Chislenko) > I ran my essays through Word grammar checker a while ago, >and was surprised how stable the grammar statistics were. >Complexity of the text (grade level) was the same to the decimal point, >average length of sentences was consistent, etc. >People also use the same styles of smileys or *highlights*, make >consistent spelling errors, have their habits of indentation, etc. I'd like suggestions from people on what style/grammar checker is best for reducing this kind of interpersonal variablity (and increasing the intrapersonal variety by only using it sometimes). I use Grammatik 5 on some posts, and it does seem to help. >My suggestion at the time was to have randomizing output filter that >would substitute synonyms, change spelling, modify paragraph formatting, >etc. - Style anonymizer, I'd call it. Also, if small random changes are At least for the synonyms, I'd hope that a good grammar checker was seeing if you weren't using a very large vocabulary. That's one problem I have with Grammatik 5, in that it doesn't do this very well. -Allen

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Re: Online Zakat Payment: Religious tithe.
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"tallpaul(a)pipeline.com" 16-FEB-1996 01:02:01.32 >Why oh why am I getting the idea that "cypherpunks" would better be called >"cryptoauthoritarians." From murder-as-political-liberation, to the >universalization of the libertarians "feelings" onto everyone else in the >world, to the mass nuclear bombings of civilians to the mass nuclear >elimination of religions. I'm a libertarian, and I mailed TCMay about that post - in private email. I preferred not to clutter up the list, and am only doing so now in case of political newbies otherwise believing you. I would point out that Islam is currently noticeable for wrongdoing _when in control of a government_; the same tends to be true of any religion, including my own of Christianity. An example of such wrongdoing is the restriction of women in countries such as Saudi Arabia (and, of course, Iran). Have you seen any libertarians advocating banning the chador in the United States? >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

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Any cpunks around San Diego, CA want to chat this weekend?
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'll be down through Tuesday morning looking up public records on my new Neo-Nazi friends (and their opposition, some of which is also unseemly), stuff like that. I'll be talking to Ingrid, Zundel's press secretary, on Tuesday, I hope. I'd love to do lunch with someone who knows the local San Diego/North County/Fallbrook ISP environment, especially a level-headed libertarian type. I'll buy. - -rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMSUan43DXUbM57SdAQHuzgP+Knsdtctdm7wcQAXKPFRlcBLqvJYK0CTT i48kermENQgioYMqUgvXJ5H7CVO8I7+0r76TsBBv3oK9ffFUrtoqJqW5CmjTnF7y yxIgPAVyebYPD34lIIWX7kVAPzcJL0E8M3qDO3Gty+T7Q7nj1s54tAMAdKH7V4tH EbpQo/+9u5w= =sX7i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cypherpunks Decency Act
by jdoe-agamemnon＠alpha.c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Frantz wrote: >Perry sent me a polite note asking why I had posted the original post, and >He suggested that in the future I make it clear why I think my posts are >relevent to the subject of the list. Is this what we call the chilling effect?

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Re: AT&T Public Policy Research -- hiring for cypherpunks
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:23 PM 2/15/96 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: >DNS names are not IP numbers. > >IP numbers are not portable, DNS names are. You can move toad.com >anywhere on the network, but you can't move 140.174.2.1 anywhere on >the network. FYI - IP portability, both in the sense of disconnecting in one place and reconnecting in another and in the sense of keeping a TCP connection alive while moving from place to place are design goals of IPv6 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: PGP
by thad＠hammerhead.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Could you settle a dispute? Is it, or Is it not, legal to take > PGP source code and the like out of the country if it is written on > paper? It is unclear. Up until recently, there was never any restriction imposed on taking code out of the country. Technical papers are presented, the book Applied Cryptography as explicitly allowed to be exported. Then MIT came out with the PGP book. The book contains the entire source, in a easy to scan font. I don't know for a fact, but it seems to me that it was designed to push the line a little bit. A CJR request was filed for the book. There is a statutory requirement that the response come back within some small number of weeks. So far it's been over a year, and while it has not been rejected, it has not been approved either. So, it is unclear. Check out Phil Karn's web page. If you are interested in just how far the gov't will go; how foolish they are willing to look; it's all there. http://www.qualcomm.com/people/pkarn/export/index.html#govt thad -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Technology Development 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/~thad

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Re: Computer unmasks Anonymous writer...
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:20 AM 2/16/96 -0800, Alexander Chislenko wrote: > I ran my essays through Word grammar checker a while ago, >and was surprised how stable the grammar statistics were. >Complexity of the text (grade level) was the same to the decimal point, >average length of sentences was consistent, etc. >People also use the same styles of smileys or *highlights*, make >consistent spelling errors, have their habits of indentation, etc. What's the next step? Writing a program which "fakes" somebody's style, right?

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Re: CDA Yes Votes; Collection
by John C. Randolph 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Kevin S. Van Horn" <vanhorn(a)hks.net> writes: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >tallpaul(a)pipeline.com (tallpaul) wrote: >> >>Isn't it the libertarian types on the list who are into mass killings of >>civilians with nukes and the "socialist statists" who tend to oppose it? >No. >Tim May is the first person I've ever encountered who calls himself a >libertarian and yet thinks dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki >was justified. I think that, from a consistent libertarian perspective, >using the Bomb was equivalent to taking out a Mafia chieftain by napalming >the neighborhood in which he lived. Perhaps the bad guy being targetted was >a killer who deserved to die, but that doesn't justify snuffing his neighbors. Well, you can count me as the second. I also consider myself a hard-line libertarian, and I'm not going to second guess Truman on the use of the bomb. His duty was to save American and allied lives. He had no duty whatsoever to limit the destruction that was visited upon the japanese mainland, particularly in view of the fact that Japan's war against the United States of America began in an unprovoked, suprise attack. Japan suffered for allowing their government to run amok. So did Germany. Germans who were paying attention during the thirties fled their country, and those who were unfortunate enough to be trapped, and yet still loved freedom, became members of an anti-NAZI underground. Japan, Germany, Italy, and other countries like Iraq, where people place obedience to their leaders above their own moral responsiblity, will suffer mass destruction. Think of it as evolution in action. -jcr

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Re: True random numbers
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- maruishi(a)netcom.com wrote: > > I was trying to think of a way to come up with true random numbers... > And knowing a bit of UNIX socket TCP/IP programming I made a small [..] I wouldn't trust the samples taken from networked sources. You're better off with a kernel patch that samples from local sources directly like disk or keyboard timing variations... such patches already exist, with similar drivers developed for DOS and OS/2 systems as well. Check the archives. Rob. - --- [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 iQBFAwUBMSZciyoZzwIn1bdtAQFhJgF+Pu/sPUlHoppfz8ZVp9Fb5vRgERuw+cIL eabKLlR6wN6Ey+HukIxdWNAVBDuIjDa0 =C8h7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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LP infiltration of ballot boxes
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:58 AM 2/17/96, "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" >BTW voted for Ed Clark once since "none of the above" was not an option. >Spent the next year getting beg letters from various libertarian groups. You clearly did more than merely vote, as even the LP has no way of knowing who you voted for. Maybe you registered formally as a member of the LP, maybe you made a donation, maybe you volunteered your name. Whatever. But suggesting that by voting for Ed Clark you got on a mailing list is unlikely in the extreme. -Tim May, who once dreamed about Geraldine Ferrarro and got beg letters from the Democratic Party for the next year! 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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