December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com To: Adamsc Date: 31 May 1996 05:28:24 pdt Subject: Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition >_Country/Area_ _Name_ _Email_ >Anguilla Cable & Wireless webmaster(a)candw.com.ai >Anguilla Offshore Information Services*** info(a)offshore.com.ai There are a number of small countries that aren't part of the US/European/Chinese/Singaporean Hegemonies, where telecom is expensive and Fidonets and uucp are the way to get email there. If you're willing to pay some money to support one, you might get some real anonymity for financially critical data. Also, there are periodic articles in magazines like Wired about how George Soros is wiring the Balkans; perhaps someone there would like to make some money running remailers. If you are willing to go that route, you can setup a Fidonet mailer VERY easily, and send mail that looks like it is from any of the 36000 bulletin boards in the nodelist. Generally it will be refused by a board that has a session password. However, it is exceedingly unlikely that a bbs in Singapore would have a passworded session with a bbs in Texas. You could send it randomly to a BBS using the name of another random board. However, this would probably be very very very UNPOPULAR, particularly if someone got nailed because of it. It would be better to work it out with some sysop in a small 3rd world country... Alternately, if you were to run a board, it is VERY simple to fake the addressing on a Fidonet mail packet... This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com. /* From Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> on a Warped PC running a proudly unregistered (for now) PMMAIL 1.5! The Enigman Group - We do Web Pages! */ This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com.

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Fwd: Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >To: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> >Date: Fri, 31 May 96 23:06:02 >Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: PMMail 1.5 UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Subject: Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition > From: stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com To: Adamsc Date: 31 May 1996 05:28:24 pdt Subject: Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition >_Country/Area_ _Name_ _Email_ >Anguilla Cable & Wireless webmaster(a)candw.com.ai >Anguilla Offshore Information Services*** info(a)offshore.com.ai There are a number of small countries that aren't part of the US/European/Chinese/Singaporean Hegemonies, where telecom is expensive and Fidonets and uucp are the way to get email there. If you're willing to pay some money to support one, you might get some real anonymity for financially critical data. Also, there are periodic articles in magazines like Wired about how George Soros is wiring the Balkans; perhaps someone there would like to make some money running remailers. If you are willing to go that route, you can setup a Fidonet mailer VERY easily, and send mail that looks like it is from any of the 36000 bulletin boards in the nodelist. Generally it will be refused by a board that has a session password. However, it is exceedingly unlikely that a bbs in Singapore would have a passworded session with a bbs in Texas. You could send it randomly to a BBS using the name of another random board. However, this would probably be very very very UNPOPULAR, particularly if someone got nailed because of it. It would be better to work it out with some sysop in a small 3rd world country... Alternately, if you were to run a board, it is VERY simple to fake the addressing on a Fidonet mail packet...

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Re: whitehouse web incident, viva la web revolution
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Bruce Baugh, wrote: > > Fascism [...] is a theory of economics, > > basically, in which the state has ultimate authority over production and > > distribution without (as in socialism) actually _owning_ the means of > > production or distribution. . At 11:18 AM 6/6/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote: >Yes, I'm afraid these ahistorical myths are widespread. What _do_ they teach >in these schools? As usual you display profound ignorance of history and politics. Far from being an ahistorical myth, this is an entirely accurate description of fascist ideology: Or do you claim that Mussolini, Peron, etc, were not fascists? Mussolini was the one who coined the name fascism. The theory and ideology of fascism was developed by the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, and there is nothing particularly racist or right wing about either Gentile or Mussolini. Fascism is not Republicanism on steriods, nor is it racism. Fascism is basically romanticism plus socialism plus nationalism. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: [crypto] crypto-protocols for trading card gam
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 29 May 1996 18:57:58 pdt, alanh(a)infi.net wrote: >What _did_ Solitaire do for Windows 3.1? Distract the attention of >the unwashed masses away from the actual merits of the beast? Actually, I believe it covered a direct lack thereof. (Of course, you could have been intending this in a heavily sarcastic form. In that case, I agree entirely) This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com.

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Anonymous stock trades.
by hallam＠Etna.ai.mit.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I suppose it depends on what you call "open", eh, Phill? >If by "open", you mean financial markets where, as Milton Freedman says, >each new regulation raises the cost of entry and protects the surviving >firms by killing their smaller competion with red tape, then we have "open" >markets. Well, Milton Friedman's method for saving the whale is to leave it to the free market, if people want whales in the oceans they won't buy whale meat. The point that even if no US person eats whale, a few thousand "gourmets" in Japan can eat their way through the remaining stocks of many species in a few years escapes him. So forgive me if if find you authority somewhat less than compelling. Adam Smith makes the point rather better in his analysis of monopolies and how they affect the market. But remember that although regulations may be instituted as protectionist mechanisms that is not the only purpose that regulations are introduced. >If by "open", you mean that people can't purchase the attention of their >favorite politician fair and square, without having to play zero-sum games >with barnyard animals, then we have "open" markets. ;-). There are so many negatives in that sentence I can't figure out which way you are arguing. Certainly there are many senators, congressman etc who can be bought for a contribution to their election fund or a huge advance on their memoirs. >Nothing personal, Phill, but it does seem like it's more a question of what >you're afraid of, than what *is*, right? No, it is a case of whether you are applying ideological judgements or prepared to analyse the system itself. I do not believe in the idol of the free market. I do not consider ecconomists to have justified the level of inane self-satisfied certainty about their field that they exude. I was talking to a professor at the Sloane school yesterday who made precisely this point. Deciding what is right implies an ethical judgement. Are you basing your argument on Kantian or consequentialist assumptions? I can argue either but since most of my thesis is based on a logical positivist approach I'm far more sympathetic to the utilitarian point of view. The free market is not in itself an ethical basis - that would be creating an ought from an is. The problem which libertarian idelogues are affraid to face up to is that markets have required regulation to keep them open and free. Its all very well for people to jump up and down, stampt their feet and claim the opposite but this is what every government in the free world believes. The effects of deregulation in the savings and loans area make it unlikely any further experiments in that area will be tried for a while. Phill

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Re: Norton Eyes only
by minow＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >Has anyone been able to analyse the 'patent pending', 'on-the-fly' >encryption in Norton's 'For your eyes only'? > Why bother? If it's freely exportable, we have a good estimate of it's cryptographic strength :-) Martin.

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Re: ID this 31173 NCR keyboard
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does it have any identifying numbers? NCR OEMed a line of ADDS Viewpoint terminals for a while, and while the numbers no longer come to mind (unless they're like 2920), they might look familiar if I saw them. This keyboard sample doesn't look quite like them, though. Most of their keyboards like that were for terminals, not for PCs. Are the connectors even PC-like? Also, if there are function keys through F20, it might very well be a 3270-emulator of some sort. At 01:52 PM 6/6/96 -0700, you wrote: >Oops. I wrote that just looking at the keyboard. >Picked it up at Seattle's Ex-Pc for $3. >It's so old, I think it requires a non-PC BIOS. >No manual, labels etc. > >Anyone have a clue as to what this is: > >NCR > >F1 F2 [...] F18 F19 F20/RESET| >ESC [...] TAB |[five direction keys] >CONTROL Q [...] }/] CONTROL |CLR 7 8 9 / >CAPS_LOCK A [...] ~/` |NEW | - 4 5 6 * >[up] |/\ Z [...] [upup] |LINE | + 1 2 3 |NEW > [space] | 0_ 00 . |LINE > >It was designed for easily customizing your keytable, >being an actual flat terminal with square keys easily >pulled out and interchanged. > >The back of the keyboard has three switches for >the boolean selection of languages: US English, >UK/Int. English, French, German, Swedish/Finnish, >Danish/Norwegian, Spanish, Italian. > >So, where to get a NEW keyboard like this: > >FLAT, with a full set of SQUARE, EASILY pulled out keys. > > > # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Rescind Authority!

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Re: Cost of brute force decryption
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:44 PM 6/5/96 -0700, you wrote: >> > "For example a 40-bit key takes about $10,000 worth of supercomputer >> > time and two weeks to crack. Although this key may be adequate to >> > protect my checking account, it's probably not large enough for the >> > accounts of a major corporation. >> The figures look familiar. No references around. I'm not sure it would >> require a whole two weeks for 40-bits, though. Possibly less than a >> day? (Or was that why you asked baout the figures?) It was from The Newspapers, of course :-) The "$10,000 of supercomputer time" was in an initial press release description by somebody in Netscape or RSA after the RC4/40 Netscape crack, and was way high. (Check Altavista...) However, it's not too far off for the cost of a DES crack, where "supercomputer" is defined as "a special-purpose cracking machine" rather than "a Cray".. (Maybe an order of magnitude high for that.) And the description of $10,000 as "maybe enough to protect my checking account, but not large enough for the accounts of a major corporation" is about right. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Rescind Authority!

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Re: Class III InfoWar
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 2 Jun 1996 03:06:14 pdt, hal9001(a)panix.com wrote: >At 21:33 -0400 6/1/96, winn(a)Infowar.Com wrote: > > >>The article discussed the advanced information warfare techniques used by the >>perpetrators. "According to the American National Security Agency (NSA), they >>have penetrated computer systems using 'logic bombs' (coded devices that >>can be >>remotely detonated) > >Unless the definition has changed recently, a "logic bomb" is normally a >piece of code in a program that is triggered when a specific event occurs >(such as the programmer's name not appearing in a payroll file for a >designated period of time [which might trigger a salami round off routine >to start cutting checks 2 months after s/he is no longer working for the >company]). I believe that is what they were referring to. However, the press garbled it as usual. It seems like the original was something like 'logic bombs' (bits of code that can be triggered remotely). Probably sounded more impressive the reporter's way... This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com.

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Fwd: Second email address
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >To: "sysop(a)io-online.com" <sysop(a)io-online.com> >Date: Mon, 03 Jun 96 19:50:50 >Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: PMMail 1.5 UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Subject: Second email address > How much would it be to get a second email address? (Just POP access. Doesn't even need to be able to send mail) That way I could have an address to send stuff like mailing lists to. Also: Web pages - I believe I saw something that mentioned that some space was included w/the subscription. How much, and how do I access it? This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== /* From Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> on a Warped PC running a proudly unregistered (for now) PMMAIL 1.5! The Enigman Group - We do Web Pages! */ This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com.

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