December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

FW: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
by blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Black Unicorn (in reply to TCMay): > I have no doubt that "tax planning" works for some people, and I think > certain people like Vince Cate may do well in places like Anguilla, > essentially starting a business from scratch. I even have longterm hopes > for tax havens, cyberspace tax havens, anonymous systems, etc. But this > ain't happening soon. Here I'm not so sure I agree. Several of us are working on making it happen, soon. .................................................................................................. I have a great idea - let's start a closed, elite mailing list for "Offshorepunks". Uni, Sandy, & Duncan et al could "show us how it's done". <G> .. Blanc

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Re: WWW proxies?
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 14:37 5/5/96, Mark M. wrote: >The same is also true for cpunk and penet-style remailers that do not use >encryption. You always have to trust remailer operators regardless of whether >encryption is used or not. You have to trust *one* of the remailer operators in the chain. If there is no chain, you have to trust the sole remailer's ISP as well. >The situation will become much better when there >is some way to chain proxies and encrypt to each individual proxy. That's why we need PipeNet. Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not those of my employer. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Key
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Crowds now available on LINUX
by Mike Reiter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Crowds, a system for increasing your anonymity while you browse the web, now runs on RedHat Linux 4.2, in addition to SunOS, Solaris, and Irix. The code can be requested from our web site: http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds We would like our next target OS to be freeBSD, but unfortunately we don't have a machine running it. If anyone running a recent version of freeBSD on a machine with a direct internet connection (not behind a firewall, not over a modem) would be willing to donate a few minutes to helping us port it there, we would be grateful. Typically the port doesn't take long ... basically we just need to figure out what args to pass to some fcntl calls. Mike Reiter Avi Rubin

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Good mail program, Netcom settings
by jonwienk＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just switched ISP's to Netcom, and I HATE their web browser and REALLY hate their mail program. Can anyone direct me to a good mail program that will allow me to download my mail and read/reply to it offline, as well as the NETCOM compatibility settings necessary to make it work? Even Netscape would be preferable to the status quo, if I had the proper settings (DNS IP address, mail server address, etc). Please respond by email to avoid further list noise. Jonathan Wienke

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Re: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:48 PM 5/5/96 -0400, Alan Horowitz wrote: ><< " I paid approximately 60%...." >> > > >didn't the feudal vassels only pay 33% ? To paraphrase - I forget >which Presidential candidate of yore - "are you better off than you were >a thousand years ago?" I asked my wife about this (she is a midaeval history buff) and her response was "depends on the time and king". She proceeded to list off the long list of taxes that vassels could be expected to pay. The current taxes in California do not come close to the arbitrary and intrusive taxes imposed in feudal times. Taxes could be levied at any time the lord demanded. (Check into the custom of "Tallage".) Of course this did not include the tithes to the church (which were manditory) or any of the special taxes for wars, ransoms, and the like... >ANd that's not even counting the interest you pay on your mortgage. Count >that, and the vassels were head and shoulders above Californians. I suggest reading what life in that time was really like. It makes California seem like a Libretarians paradise in comparison. (For example, unmarried villein women were taxed due to the assumption that their being unchaste lessened their value to the lord. Sounds like something Pat Buchannon would like to bring back...) --- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon

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17 Dec '03

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Re: [NOISE] CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:37 PM 5/5/96 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote: >On Sun, 5 May 1996, Jon Leonard wrote: > >> Obviously we should send Sandy $1000 whether or not we follow the >> other steps, in order to defeat traffic analysis. > >Now you're talking. Defeat traffic analysis, yeah, that's the >ticket. I thought that was what the guys sitting in the semi-concealed cars next to the freeway were for... ]:> --- | Remember: Life is not always champagne. Sometimes it is REAL pain. | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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Re: Money Laundering Conference with Government Types
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"unicorn(a)schloss.li" "Black Unicorn" 5-MAY-1996 18:25:57.83 >I think that should be >http://www.oceanalaw.com/20/conf/ml.htm ^ Yes; thank you. Weird spelling. -Allen

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Politcal Action Toolkit now available
by David HM Spector 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

...not having much in the way of sleep since reading Louis Freeh's testimony and his plans to assault the US Constitution I decided to do something about it, and try to develop something that would help others get involved too... I would like to announce the availability of a Personal Political Action Kit (PersPAK). It contains full databases of members of the House and the Senate and may be used for mail merging, faxing (senate only at the moment, house members hopefully this week with the next release), email campaigns, as well as plain old phone calls. The data were culled from the House and Senate directories that are on the Web, and are current as of September 3, 1997. The datasets are provided in two formats, tab-delimited and as an Excel spreadsheet. Two sample letters are included that show how to use the mail-merge features of Office95/97, along with a README file that will step users through the basics of using this kit and offers some hints on what to say -- and sometimes more importantly NOT to say -- in a letter to their congress-folk. The kit can be accessed at: http://www.zeitgeist.com/crypto I plan on updating this toolkit with more features soon with some more tools, and the ability to send mail/faxes to entire committees (as opposed to picking congress persons/senators by individually), some Java Applets to auto-generate letters, etc. I'm making it available under the GNU Public License, so feel free to use this kit as a base for other tools. Constructive criticism/ideas may be sent to perspak(a)zeitgeist.com regards, _DHMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector spector(a)zeitgeist.com Network Design & Infrastructure Security -.-. --- -. -. . -.-. - .-- .. - .... .- -- .- - . ..- .-. .-. .- -.. .. --- "New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them?'" --H. G. Wells

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