December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

"Lawful access" vs warrants: I found the difference today!
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Remember how in the Clipper debate, the government insisted on using the term "lawful access" when talking about what the government had to do to get keys out? They implied it meant a warrant issued by a judge, but actually the proposed rules said any "lawful access" would do. That phrase kept reappearing in government proposals. I've been looking for years in the laws to find what secret loophole they've been trying to protect. Today I ran across it! It's Executive Order 12333, signed by our favorite senile president, Ronald Reagan, in 1981. It says: 2.5 Attorney General Approval. The Attorney General hereby is delegated the power to approve the use for intelligence purposes, within the United States or against a United States person abroad, of any technique for which a warrant would be required if undertaken for law enforcement purposes, provided that such techniques shall not be undertaken unless the Attorney General has determined in each case that there is probable cause to believe that the technique is directed against a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. Electronic surveillance, as defined in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, shall be conducted in accordance with that Act, as well as this Order. In other words, if the Attorney General claims that someone is an agent of a foreign power, no warrants are needed; the target has no Constitutional rights any more: Fourth Amendment The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. You will recall that the Attorney General made exactly this claim about Martin Luther King (that he was an agent of a foreign power), to justify the years of FBI surveillance. For all we know, they have been claiming that anyone who advocates crypto legalization must be an agent of a foreign power. It really wouldn't surprise me. We shouldn't stop looking for more loopholes -- they may have several -- but I think this is the big one. John

4 3

Re: Position escrow
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Geraint Price wrote: > This technology already exists in Britain (I don't know about any other > countries), where you can buy a mobile without any subscription information > off the shelf. To use the mobile, you go and purchase a 'token' which allows > you to use the mobile on a pay-per-call basis much the same as a public phone. Dan Todd wrote: > > There is a similar (probably a number of them) service in parts of the US. > While visiting Michigan recently I saw a wireless phone with a "calling > card" from a company called Isis. It appeared to be an anonymous, pre-paid > cellular phone Keep in mind that Timothy McVeigh thought he had anonymity with his use of a prepaid 'anonymous' phone card over public payphones. He was wrong. The testimony in this regard at McVeigh's trial was 'fixed'--not in the 'facts' of tracing his identity, but in the 'timing' of tracing his identity. i.e. - It was made to appear to be a longer and more difficult process than it truly was. It is highly unlikely that electronically-based 'anonymous' technology is going to be any more untracable than meatspace-disseminated tools of anonymity. X-1.237Y-2.459Z-37.46Monger

1 0

Build a Web Site - Free test drive, tell a friend!
by designagreatwebsite2＠mailcity.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Finally, something on the Web that's Fun, Interactive and adds Value! Take advantage of the Free Trial and be sure to forward this to a FRIEND. Build your own Web Site in less than 15mins. in 9 easy steps! Visit http://www.siteblazer.com and simply enter your info and watch your site built before your eyes. Click here http://www.siteblazer.com anybody can do it! Your Web Site will be updateable and requires no programming skills. Starting at $199 Free Trial, No Obligation - Enjoy!!!! Tell a FRIEND! or Please forward this message to a Friend! Remove Instructions If you do not wish to receive any of my future emailings, you can be removed by sending a message to designagreatwebsite2(a)mailcity.com.

1 0

Las Vegas Vacation For $25
by 63595.Casino.Junket.Manager＠cygnus.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// This information was sent because you have Favored Client Status with us and have evidenced interest in either enjoying a Las Vegas Vacation or Casino Gaming. If we were mistaken, NO PROBLEM, because unless you reply, you will never intentionally receive email from us again. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// LAS VEGAS, USA - VACATION FOR $25* $500 VALUE TRIP (PER COUPLE) ROOM FOR 2 NIGHTS STAY AT THE PROMOTION HOTEL $126 CASH PER COUPLE (NICKELS, QUARTERS, DOLLARS) $342 TABLE PLAY (CASINO MONEY FOR TABLE PLAY) TWO LAS VEGAS SHOW TICKETS MEAL COUPONS JACKPOT VEGAS PASS 100 FREE ROLLS OF KODAK FILM JACKPOT (15.9) PHONE CARD PLUS, EARN $$$ GIVING AWAY LAS VEGAS VACATIONS. *Travel Expense Not Included &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& If this offer interests you, for details send an email to: <tim(a)allways.net> with "gimme" in the Subject Heading. **************************************************************** If this promotion does not interest you, "Have a Great Day" You will never intentionally receive email from us again.

1 0

*Four Very Hot Services*
by owner-cypherpunks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

#1 24 HOUR GAY TV ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN http://www.buzzlink.com/gtv/mgl Incredible MEN on MEN movies from the privacy of your own computer chair. Let Them entertain you! The movies play on your computer screen. You do not need any special software. We have the fastest video anywhere. 24 hours / 7 days a week, with over 200 hundred Hardcore Shows Playing. We add new movies each week. No per-minute charges, we have one low priced monthly fee, of $19.95. (Cancel at any time). It really is an Incredible value!! It is private and portable with any lap top with a modem. #2 GAY MOVIES, CHAT, PICTURES, PERSONALS, CHAT ROOMS, GUIDE TO SIGHTS AND SERVICES http://www.buzzlink.com/gaysights/mgl We offer Gay Pictures, Movies, State-of-the-art all male chat rooms, Personal adds, Stories, and an On Line Guide to gay web sights and services. You will have access to Movies from around the world, (no special software needed + no per minute fee) 24 Hour Hardcore Gay TV with 200 hundred movies running 24 Hours per day. We believe in Complete Customer Satisfaction. You will not be disappointed! (Cancel at any time). #3 STRAIGHT MOVIES 24 HOUR http://www.diode.com/sextv/mgl We have over TWO HUNDRED Hardcore sex movies running 24 hours a day! Watch from the privacy of your computer chair, on your screen. No special software is needed, No per- minute fees, stay on as long as you like. You only pay one reasonable fee of 19.95 per month, cancel at any time. You will have unlimited access. We add new movies each week. #4 STRAIGHT CHAT, PERSONALS, PICS, LINKS,MOVIES http://www.coolink.com/sexlink/mgl Chat Rooms, Personal adds, Pictures, Stories, Movies, 10 Thousand Sex Links (The largest collection on the web)! 24 Hour Hardcore Porn Channel, (no special software needed). Quick time Movies from around the world. You will have unrestricted access to all of these features for one low price. We believe in Complete Customer Satisfaction. You will not be disappointed. (Cancel at any time). * We Aim to Please ! *

1 0

Re: April 26 column -- Swiss militia
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 03:36 PM 4/18/98 -0500, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: [snip] >My impression was that, aside from guns, Switzerland is not such a free >country, with myriads of local laws restricting every fathomable activity. I have never been to Switzerland. >> ObGunStuffPlug: >> I just got a catalog from Cheaper Than Dirt!, which has an impressive array >> of gun accessories, ammo, and survival equipment for excellent prices. A >> few examples: >> >> Bushnell 4-12x40 scope $59.97 I love mine! > >They are used, actually, but very good. You are correct on both counts, although the only way I could tell mine wasn't new was a couple of nicks in the adjustment screw caps. My MAK-90 looks much more impressive now... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5 iQA/AwUBNTkb6cJF0kXqpw3MEQIc8gCeJaNL5T18Fclh2B4NAQRE699t9WUAoNYn xHz8Mzs6PGPgq6HFjdFgvzHM =hLlN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC Proud to be a charter member of the vast right-wing conspiracy! RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

1 0

GSM Security Study
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The GSM consortium claims that the recent cloning was not actually cloning, that the SIM crack was not news, that it is ridiculous to claim that US intelligence deliberately crippled A5, and that customers should not be alarmed: http://jya.com/gsm042098.txt To assess this spin we offer extracts of a 1998 GSM System Security Study: http://jya.com/gsm061088.htm (44K + 3 images)

1 0

Epilogue 1/0 -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Bienfait Nutly News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[BIENFAIT NUTLY NEWS-MongerItaville,Co1]REPORTWHORES FOR the Bienfait Nutly News spent the night in drunken, drug-crazed revelry at the home of A DANGEROUSLY CRAZED VIOLENT PSYCHO KILLER TO BE NAMED LATER, while waiting for the CoalDust Saloon to open for the day so that they could celebrate the 'Pull-It,Sir Prize' they are certain to be awarded by UNCLAD-PuN* for their contributions to the Bienfait Nutly News Special, entitled '!!!KILL THE CHILDREN!!! * Union for Naked Child Love & Death - Pedophiles und Necrophiles Bubba Rom Dos, a fictional character from 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts being circulated by an underground computer cult gratefully deadicated to the memory of Jerry Garcia, rode into Bienfait on a Pink Elephant about 6 a.m., as the ninth case of beer bit the dust and the rosy pink cheeks of the sonofgomez began peeking slowly under the whore rising to meet the thick, dark fog lingering in her mind from the pill that had been slipped into her drink at bar-closing time the night before. "Onward through the Fog!" she mumbled, as she was handed her first offical bong of the same-new-day by Oat Willie. She had just a couple of hours to get home and get ready for another dreary day at the Junior-High ten KILLometers down the road, in Estevan. She saw Bubba Rom Dos slowly appearing out of the fog and wisely turned so that her butt was up against the wall she was using for balance. The drunken whord of Nutly News reportwhores, gathered from around the world for the illustrious occassion, took the appearance of Bubba, widely known as a crazed, drunken pedophile representing a long lineage of voices barfing in the wilderness, to mean that the BNN promotional announcement (cleverly disguised as a news story) was about to come to an end, and it was time to begin the serious work of actually writing the News Special, which was thus far only a vague concept consisting of ludicrous ideas thrown out at random during a series of mumbled and slurred, semi-incoherent ramblings in between hashish-induced laughing spasms, munchies attacks, and pissing contests of both a physical and conceptual nature. "I guess it's time to put in that right-square bracket." Defcon McCullagh Chainsaw informed the Author. "What the hell is it really called?" the Author asked, causing the gathered reportwhores to pause whatever they were doing and search their minds for the proper word, or wonder if it wasn't just called, 'the right-square bracket.' The attempted mental exercise was to little avail, since the MongerItaville official motto is, "It's always drunkest just before dawn." and they quickly found themselves sucked into the Grateful Void in which one realizes that the Grateful Secret Of Life is properly balancing one's drug intake and proceeds to slowly suck on a fresh beer to counter the effects of the last bong. The Author surveyed the suddenly serious somber scribes, and quiety ended the promotional announcement disguised as a news report by typing a]

1 0

DCSB: Donald Eastlake; "The Internet Open Trading Protocol"
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:28:23 -0400 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce(a)ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB: Donald Eastlake; "The Internet Open Trading Protocol" Cc: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee(a)cybercash.com>, "Michael S. Baum" <michael(a)verisign.com>, Jeremey Barrett <jeremey(a)bluemoney.com>, Rodney Thayer <rodney(a)sabletech.com> Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Donald Eastlake 3rd Cybercash, Inc. The Internet Open Trading Protocol Tuesday, May 5, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The Internet Open Trading Protocol provides an interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is payment system independent and will be able to encapsulate payment systems such as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GeldKarte, etc. IOTP is able to handle cases where such roles as the merchant, the payment handler, the deliverer of goods or services, and the provider of customer support are performed by different parties or by one party. See <http://www.otp.org>. Donald Eastlake 3rd is a Principal Systems Engineer at CyberCash, Inc. before which he was in the Pathworks network group at Digital Equipment Corporation. At CyberCash, he helped design the "CyberCash message format" documented in RFC 2898 and implemented the library routines that support them. He also architected and did the preliminary implementation of CyberCash's SET implementation. He is active in IETF standards efforts and is currently the document editor for the IETF DNS security working group including RFCs 2065 and 2137. [Moderator's note: Unfortunately, Jeremey Barrett of BlueMoney, the speaker originally scheduled for May, found himself unable do so this month. We are in the process of rescheduling his talk on digital bearer settlement for a later date. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. The DCSB Program Committee thanks Mr. Eastlake for coming forward on such short notice with such a splendid replacement topic.] This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, May 5, 1997, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, May 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: June Michael Baum PKI Requirements from a Commercial CA's Perspective July Rodney Thayer IPSEC and Digital Commerce TBA Jeremey Barrett Digital Bearer Settlement We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com> . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNTtbVsUCGwxmWcHhAQE18wgAi+p0BOxJgeOd3IhmpljB17Wj5iU1aJQB KN6IsuWu5BkKlh9sTg+OihHkF0AygHk8BUCKcK+2dn8s3CYzUY+MNRnuv+d1iGPN bvt/B/2Y4m99beJ5pAixFcqrRdkmfqvUJyh9g1gfFPqbE+M9a0OMGX1/eZM6JIEk PYAVwNTFDnkk9Rz8bVyDeESu0jAoUaHicCN1Jdq8umCXKURecWkvtfOlR7NE5Bdp No8e5C8C99qgdKFxSSX7h9NEX+Eviq51A958eoyj5dWahYbHCHNFQEhDlZXaPhBO 8jDOmsOlAJeDCWbUKiqMELy6ZpJX8IFBQE7XOVFYemSVgPOF4Df0mw== =Qs/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB(a)ai.mit.edu --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

1 0

speech that aids and abets does "not enjoy the protection of the First Amendment."
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Supremes let stand civil charges against a publisher for information they published. Crypto relevance: some kidnapping/propoganda victim sues a ThoughtMonger... Supreme Court Won't Review Murder Manual Case http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/top_stories/story.html?s=z/reuters/9804 20/news/stories/murder_2.html choice excerpts: The central legal question, as previously defined by the Supreme Court in a landmark First Amendment ruling, is whether an entity, in distributing information in a general way, can be found to have advocated or incited lawless action. ... Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig wrote in the ruling that Paladin may be held liable because speech that aids and abets does "not enjoy the protection of the First Amendment." ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

1 0