December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Declan appearing on "Europe's Most Wanted"
by Robert A. Rosenberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:26 2/1/96, Timothy C. May wrote: >The Nebraska-based neo-Nazi publisher who was picked up in Denmark and >extradited to Germany pretty much knew his actions were illegal in Germany, >but I doubt (sheer speculation on my part) he had ever been formally >notified that an arrest warrant had been issued by Germany and could be >exercised in Denmark. It is even worse since they invited him into the country (and issued him a Visa with the intent of arresting him and shipping him to Germany) to attend a Nazi Convention. It was, in essence, a Government Authorized Sting Operation.

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Toronto ZS radio coverage
by SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The first item on the 8:00 AM radio news this morning was about the Zundelsites, cypherpunks, and German censorship. The station was CFNY 102.1, an alternative music station that is quite net.aware. We probably got the coverage here because Toronto is Zundel's home town.

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Re: Germany investigates AOL for providing Zundelaccess
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:34 PM 2/2/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote: > America Online spokesman Ingo Reese in Hamburg said his company >also was happy to work with the prosecutors. The company is ``totally >opposed'' to illegal propaganda, he said, but argued that commercial >on-line companies have as much control over materials posted on the >Internet as telephone companies have over their customers' >conversations. That's what happens when you hire Germans for your German operations. DCF

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Re: [NOISE] Futplex makes the news!
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:24 PM 2/2/96 -0500, lmccarth(a)cs.umass.edu wrote: >Just to be clear, I haven't been expelled or suspended from the school, and >I have not been notified of any kind of pending disciplinary action against >me. The pages are indeed gone, however. > >Lewis "Futplex" McCarthy, checking in from Rumor Control Central > So that's why my How to Read Banned Newsgroups on Compuserve is unavailable. I'll get it back up on IOS later today. Would someone else like to mirror it for redundancy? It's only one page. Sameer -- if you're listening, maybe you and I could start an updated site "Censorship Central" that maintains updated links to banned materials so people can do "one stop shopping." DCF

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What is this threat?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous questioned the meaning of the FBI-DECA national security threat: >Perception management and active measures activities. ---------- Updated "The Puzzle Palace" will have more on this. "Perception management" means any method used to conceal intelligence or counterintelligence -- HUMINT, ELINT, SIGINT, etc. -- including encryption or other operations or communication technologies not accessible to, or comprehensible by, the USG. "Active measures activities" means any operations, human, technological or administrative, that threaten the US. The threat is a catch-all for interference with, or operation against intelligence and counterintelligence, surveillance and counter-surveillance or any other means used by the USG to protect against threats. Its obscurity is used to cover in general what is not covered explicitly by the other six well-known threats -- and to avoid revealing details of what is known or may yet be discovered. It points to USG, and likely international, operations more blackly cloaked than those garishly paraded.

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No Subject
by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) charges a licence fee of $50,000 per _annum_ for BBS operators, and nearly twice as much for e-mail providers. It is preparing to finalise a policy for Internet service providers; as it doesn't understand the distintion between Internet _networks_ (MCI, Sprintnet etc) and "retail" providers (the geek in the garage), it is planning to charge well over $100,000 in annual licence fees. This is totally against the opinions of Telecom Secretary R K Takkar, as expressed to my newsletter, The Indian Techonomist, some months ago. I spoke to Mr Takkar for some time, providing him the "education" that he asked for in my newsletter and that large datacom companies here have been curiously averse to give him. He appreciated my point of view, and invited me to send a proposal for an alternative datacom policy, which I have done (and which is summarised below). I hope to meet him next week to follow this up. As a major part of my call for removing restraints is based on the Internet's treatment by other world governments, I would like letters of support to show this. My proposal may appear tame, but it isn't really. It will allow small ISPs to pay as little as $150 a year in licence fees; reduce the (high) likelihood of cartels between large companies; and entrench electronic free-speech at (some) parity with other media. (Note that the DoT has said that it is "not considering" blocking access to parts of the Net for reasons of morals or security. This despite the local media's loudly proclaimed discovery that the Net is 97.34% paedophile, or whatever.) Highlights 1. Definitions - The category for E-mail providers becomes redundant, leaving international gateway, national network, and "retail" service providers - Content providers have constitutional protection as electronic publishers - BBSes do not require licensing, being content providers 2. Goals - Licence fees not for revenue generation, but to ensure responsibility (unavoidable. Mr Takkar's words) - Licence fees based on telecom infrastructure costs, not revenues (at the moment, a licence is almost like income tax) - Regulation required for free and fair competition (see below) - TRAI should also handle datacom regulation, and datacom consumer complaints (the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is likely to be very independent of the government, headed by a former Supreme Court judge) 3. Regulation - Equal access to gateway, network and service providers (to prevent denial of service and cartels, very likely here without explicit rules preventing them) - Rationalisation of DoT leased line tariff structure (now, a network costs more than the sum of its parts! too complicated to explain briefly) 4. Licensing - Uniform fee structure for gateway, network and service providers (say 2.5% of leased line costs, which are known as they are provided by the DoT) - Barriers to entry greatly reduced (minimal ISP pays $150 p.a) - However, total licence fee revenue for DoT not significantly reduced (important for success of this proposal; large nationwide network may still pay $100,000+ thanks to its huge leased line requirements) The full text of the proposal will be made publicly available on the Net sometime next week. Those who would like to see it, and a template for a letter of support, should send me mail at dcom-appeal(a)dxm.org. I would like letters from non-commercial organisations, lobby groups, policy bodies, and so on, but NOT datacom companies (I wouldn't mind _personal_ letters of support from them, but they wouldn't do for the DoT). I would particularly like to see something from Hong Kong, which I have used as a good example of how to do things in Asia. Thanks, Rishab ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Indian Techonomist - newsletter on India's information industry http://dxm.org/techonomist/ rishab(a)dxm.org Editor and publisher: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab(a)arbornet.org Vox +91 11 6853410; 3760335; H 34 C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA

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Don't shot till you see the gray of their eyes
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now I understand it. That thing on the cover of Applied Crypto is really one of the Gray's space ships that they use to abduct aspiring cryptographers and implant microchips in them, controlling their minds and making them obey RSA's license agreement. Very interesting indeed. On a lighter note, a local NBC station advertised a special they will have this monday, about the 1-800-INFO-PET chips... only that parents are opting to have them implanted in their newborn children.

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(fwd) National Security Agency
by Julian Assange 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Germany investigates AOL for providing Zundelaccess
by Declan B. McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

German prosecutors appear to be using the *threat* of charges to force AOL and CompuServe to block access to web sites. I suspect they'd rather not actually file formal charges... This is escalation. Faced with criminal charges for "inciting racial hatred" or with enraged customers if they block access to web servers in the U.S., what will AOL do? Try to block by URL? -Declan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2, 1996 BERLIN (AP) -- Prosecutors trying to keep Germans from reading neo-Nazi propaganda on the Internet have notified America Online Inc. that it may be charged with inciting racial hatred. Last week, prosecutors served similar notice to another U.S.-based computer on-line service, CompuServe Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, and T-Online, a division of the German phone company. [...publishing neo-Nazi lit is illegal...] Prosecutors in Mannheim are considering bringing incitement charges against the three Internet providers in Germany for allowing access to material posted on the Internet by Ernst Zuendel, a German neo-Nazi living in Toronto. [...easy to create a web site...] T-Online, Germany's largest Internet access provider, responded to the prosecutors' investigations by blocking its 1 million subscribers from gaining access to the computer in California where Zuendel had posted his tracts. Computer users accused T-Online of overreacting because the block also prevented them from reaching more than 1,500 other sites on that part of the network. CompuServe, with 4 million subscribers worldwide, including 220,000 in Germany, has not blocked the California server but said it was working with the prosecutors to find a solution. America Online spokesman Ingo Reese in Hamburg said his company also was happy to work with the prosecutors. The company is ``totally opposed'' to illegal propaganda, he said, but argued that commercial on-line companies have as much control over materials posted on the Internet as telephone companies have over their customers' conversations. America Online, based in Vienna, Va., only began operating in Germany in December in a joint venture with a German company, Bertelsmann AG. The joint venture has 40,000 subscribers in Germany; America Online has 4.5 million customers worldwide. [...]

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Re: RC2 Source Code - Legal Warning from RSADSI
by Karl A. Siil 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:00 PM 2/1/96 -0600, Mr. Boffo wrote: >> WARNING NOTICE > > It has recently come to the attention of RSA Data [ text omitted ] >secure their own site against break-ins? If they want to be the >prima-donna site for encryption with all of the "copy-written" crypto, >you would think that they could protect their own resources better. I strongly suspect RSA distributes source to those customers who pay enough, with the caveat that the customers don't share it, of course. My company does that, even with its most sensitive code (of course, for a lot of money :-) ). I find it extremely unlikely (from just a probabilistic standpoint) that this leak came from within RSADSI. I would first suspect someone of disassembly, of which I am envious. Not because I couldn't do it, but because I don't have time to install a new CD-ROM drive, never mind sit down and read hex dumps and assembler. My second suspect is a disgruntled or "Crypto Freedom Fighter" employee at some customer's site. If this is the case and the given anonymous remailer's (or remailers') integrity is (are) not compromised, good luck to RSA in trying to prosecute: They're gonna need it. This horse is out of the barn, down the road, and in the next county. My one question: Who cares about RC2? Karl

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