December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: IRS cratering
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 10:05:09AM -0700, Jim Gillogly wrote: > > > Similar efforts in the past to modernize the FAA have failed...as someone > > noted, the FAA and control towers are still dependent on vacuum tube > > computers. The problem lies not with finding newer computers, but with the > > software for the many subsystems, displays, communcations links, radars, > > Is this really true? They do have obsolete vacuum tube equipment, but > I thought it was all radars and radios rather than computers. The up-side > of it is that vacuum tubes are more resistant to EMP than silicon... but > I'm pretty sure that's not why they're still using them. > IEEE Spectrum of ran a story on this last year. Apparently they do have some vacuum tube radio, audio and radar gear, but all the computer systems in use are solid state such as antique 360s and the like with lots of custom interfaces that can't be readily replaced. And much of the software is such patched spaghetti that nobody has been able to reimplement it. But telling is the fact that most of the radar display consoles are late 60s designs manufactured in the early 70s with a 5-10 year expected lifetime, and wires and connectors and other parts not normally replaced in the field are getting brittle with age after 20-25 years of continuous operation at temperature. And maintaining them and the computers is made harder each year by the increasingly total unavailibility of electronic components of the types used back then... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Surveillance of police raids...
by decius＠ninja.techwood.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> But the knock on the door and the presentation of a warrant is > increasingly being replaced by these "dynamic entries." Given that this > is exactly how teams of home invaders hit houses, and given the element > of surprise, is it any wonder that many of us keep loaded and ready > semiautomatic rifles and shotguns to repel such invasions? (And many of > us use SS-109 green tips, which essentially punch right through > ballistic vests up to Class III. How many SWAT members need to die in > such raids before the courts restore the Fourth Amendment?) These sort of "dynamic entries" and other cases of clearly burtal behavior by the police are fearsome indeed. They also appear to be a problem the public is very unhappy about... Rodney King riots to the public reaction to Waco and similar incidents. It is obvious that if you hire a bunch of people for an adrenaline intensive job where they will be taking down "bag guys" with machine guns they are going to be difficult to keep in line. These aren't lawyers or philosophers. Its not the right/wrong for these people but the thrill of the hunt. However, I don't beleive I've seen any evidence that "keeping loaded and ready semiautomatic rifles" is an effective response. Most people who "fight back" seem to be killed quickley or (rarely) they get involved in long standoffs which often end in death. Eitherway, if you do make it out alive you will likely have racked enough charges against you in the process of defending yourself that the original legal issue pales by comparison. Do you know of anyone who has stood up to police raiders and WON? The majority of cases that I have seen where abusive police "got theirs" occured in a court room and not a "compound." The Steve Jackson Games decision put a pre-emptive stop to a lot of unreasonable searches... It doesn't really matter if the Secret Service understands *WHY* it was in the wrong. What matters is that police agencies are aware that they can't walk into a house and take everything with a plug on the premise that they are investigating computer crime. Like it or not... Now the issue of police lieing about a raid in court is at hand, and this brings an interesting twist here for privacy advocates. Video surveillance is an effective weapon against police brutality. Thats a fact. Many police agencies have taken to installing "tamper proof" cameras in patrol cars. These are effective in court when the cops are in "the right." (Philisophical arguments about anarchy vs. democracy notwithstanding...) They are also quite effective when the cops are in the wrong. One officer in Atlanta was stupid enough to engage in an unprovocted beating of a suspect right in from of his own camera. He's out of a job now. One could imagine a CCTV system in a home with an easily accessable switch which engages it. And X-10 remote is handy and could be programmed to do this. The cameras could be designed to be unobtrusive. For real security the video data would need to be streamed (over the net?) to a remote site for storage and the system must be difficult to shut down under duress without evidence of such coersion being saved. Audio data could also be saved. The nice thing about this is that the surveillance is in the control of the home owner. Problem with surveillance is that its a weapon. I don't want to be surveilled. However, I might wish to surveil others for my protection as in the above example. I absolutely hate the idea of cameras in the workplace or in general public places. Especially in the hands of the government rather than store owners. Crytography can protect you from phone taps, but what can protect you from a network of digital cameras connected to face recognition software? Thats the direction I see this overall issue heading. One can envision a future in which all your online dealings can be extremely secure and anonymized by virtue of crypto, but your movements in the physical world are tightly monitored by automated video processing systems... -- */^\* Tom Cross AKA Decius 615 AKA The White Ninja */^\* Decius(a)ninja.techwood.org "If the economic, social and political conditions... do not offer a basis for the realization of individuality, while at the same time people have lost those ties which gave them security... powerful tendencies arise to escape from freedom into submission." -- Erich Fromm

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UK E-Comm-Crypto Policy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The UK DTI issued today a policy statement and papers on electronic commerce and encryption policy, which were posted to UK Crypto. We offer the initial three docs: http://jya.com/uk-ecomm.htm (28K)

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by webface＠moneymania.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Position escrow
by Smoking Man 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> This is a really difficult issue. > >And how. > >How does this interact with phones whose What, like a party line? >access (telephone) number is non-unique? >Could where I am calling from be divorced If the standard of COM >from what instrument I am using to call? is uniform, yes. >Is there a parallel between smearing the >signal over a spectrum of radio frequencies Radio frequencies are >and smearing the identifying information a physical representation >over a spectrum of numbers? Could calls of numbers...YES. >to 911 carry no phone number but just >"here I am" information -- a panic button They could, and what if >function, in other words? you hang-up in distress. > >I imagine I sound like someone calling in There are no experts here. >to an ASK THE EXPERTS radio show... They don't broadcast. > >--dan > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: Position escrow
by Smoking Man 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I might wish that the government had the >means to track every automobile's location. ...Planes come standard with ILR? (International Locator Radio). Cars hav accidents too often for that...too expensive to serv it maybe. >What we need are cellphone remailers. Some might. I'm not sure how much though. >Third parties who want to use ordinary/automated cellphone tracking systems >will get the physical address of the relay, not that of the phone. Hmmmm. Same principles as remailers...Latency? Relay switching? >number of antennae/base stations that the regular cellphone folks do, so >it'll be harder for them to use trianguation and timing to derive physical >location. Contrarily, the fewer the remailers, the EASIER--could be only one remailer to compromise. Realtime Mixmaster? Heh. Parallel MixMaster. >>I expect the main countermeasure to cellular position tracking will be >>the use of one-way pagers. That depends on the protocol they use. Simplex? Old things. Probably. >But one-way pagers are a dying technology - and I'll bet that within 3-5 >years, it'll no longer be possible to turn off cellphones. >>Perhaps if the "just turn it off" approach is widely promoted, the Won't hav too. How many people does it take to keep a secret? Anything you say or do offensively, wrongly, or illegally can and probably will be used against you somehow, especially if you mention it or you're caught. You hav the right to be silent. No one has the right to understand you if you giv up that right. You may purchase the right to authenticate financial transactions. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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