December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Golden Key Campaign
by Dave Banisar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, April 24, 1996 URL: http://www.privacy.org/ipc/ Contact: Marc Rotenberg, EPIC, 202/544-9240 Lori Fena, EFF, 415/436-9333 Barbara Simons, USACM 408/463-5661 Kurt Stammberger, RSA, 415/595-8782 ------------------------------------------ INTERNET PRIVACY COALITION FORMED Golden Key Campaign Launched Groups Urge Good Technology for Privacy and Security Senator Burns to Introduce Legislation ------------------------------------------ WASHINGTON, DC -- A new coalition today urged support for strong technologies to protect privacy and security on the rapidly growing Internet. The Internet Privacy Coalition said that new technologies were critical to protect private communications and on-line commerce, and recommended relaxation of export controls that limit the ability of US firms to incorporate encryption in commercial products. Phil Zimmermann, author of the popular encryption program Pretty Good Privacy, expressed support for the effort of the new coalition. "It is time to change crypto policy in the United States. I urge those who favor good tools for privacy to back the efforts of the Internet Privacy Coalition." GOLDEN KEY CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED The Coalition has asked companies and Internet users to display a golden key and envelope to show support for strong encryption technology. Copies of the logo are available at the group's web page on the Internet. According to Lori Fena, director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the purpose of the campaign is to educate the public about new techniques for privacy protection. "Society's feelings about privacy have not changed, only the medium has," said Ms. Fena. US industry has pressed the US government to relax export controls on encryption as consumer demand for software products has increased. They cite the fact that foreign companies have been able to sell strong products in overseas markets that are now restricted for US firms. Jim Bidzos, President and CEO of RSA Data Security, said that US firms continue to face excessive burdens. "Encryption is the key to on-line commerce. Government regulations are simply keeping US firms out of important markets." The Internet Privacy Coalition is the first attempt to bring together a broad base of companies, cryptographers and public interest organizations around the central goal of promoting privacy and security on the Internet and urging relaxation of export controls. Dr. Barbara Simons, chair of the public policy committee of the Association for Computing said, "The broad support for the Golden Key campaign shows that the reform of encryption policy is a shared goal for companies, users, and professional associations." SENATOR BURNS TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION The Internet Privacy Coalition is being established as Congress considers new legislation to relax export controls on encryption. Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) today introduced legislation that would relax export controls on commercial products containing technologies for privacy such as encryption. Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said "We believe that Senator Burns has put forward a constructive proposal. We look forward to working with him to ensure that good tools for privacy and security are widely available to Internet users." Hearings on Senator Burns bill are expected to take place in early June. The proposal has already gathered support from a bipartisan coalition in Congress. For Internet users who are interested in following the debate about encryption policy, the IPC has set up a Web page with information about encryption regulations, court challenges, legislative developments, and organizations and companies involved in the campaign. The Internet Privacy Coalition was established by more than a dozen of the nation's leading cryptographers, and thirty associations, companies, and civil liberties organizations committed to strong privacy and security technology for all users of the Internet. URL: http://www.privacy.org/ipc/ ---------------------------------------------- A KEY, AN ENVELOPE -- Both are historic means for communicating privately and protecting personal information. Today, encryption tools provide this privacy in the electronic world. The Golden Key Campaign is being launched to raise awareness and support for the preservation of the right to communicate privately and the availability of new techniques which make it possible. Privacy, a fundamental human right, has been affirmed by the US Supreme Court, the constitutions and laws of many countries, and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Privacy must be preserved as we move from paper to electronic communications. The Internet Privacy Coalition is urging members of the net community to display a Golden Key & Envelope symbol on their Web pages to show support for the right of privacy and the freedom to use good tools of privacy without government restraints. ----------------------------------------------

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Support for crypto bills is building
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[From FARNET's Washington Update. This is interesting principally for the note about the number of co-sponsors.] SEN. BURNS' ENCRYPTION BILL TO BE INTRODUCED BY END OF NEXT WEEK The third encryption bill aimed at blowing the administration's key-escrow policy out of the water is set for introduction probably late next week. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) will introduce a bill that is similar to both the Leahy and Goodlatte bills already in the Senate and House, respectively. Both prohibit a mandatory key-escrow system for the use of encryption in the United States. Both also significantly lift export restrictions on encryption software and hardware. (Export approval would be granted for any bit length that is already generally available in foreign markets. Current policy restricts the export of encryption hardware or software products with keys greater than 40 bits long.) Hill staff said yesterday that they saw strong support for the encryption bills forming in both houses. Thirty-eight co-sponsors have signed on to the Goodlatte bill in the House so far. The Burns bill is expected to garner the support of Sen. Leahy who also has a bill in the Senate. The House bill has been referred to the Judiciary committee and may be also referred to the House Committee on International Relations. The Senate expects to hold hearings in the Senate Commerce Committee sometime in June. While proponents are working to get the bill(s) passed this year, because of the elections this fall, it will be a tight schedule. Furthermore, the bills' supporters are trying to keep the three pieces of legislation from being referred to any of the intelligence or law enforcement committees where some of the strongest opposition is likely to arise. Strong encryption is generally regarded as extremely important to the success of electronic communications. The Clinton administration's various proposals for strict export restrictions and a mandatory key-escrow system have met with significant opposition from industry, privacy groups and netizens alike. Just this week, a court in California ruled that "source code" for encryption programs is speech, and therefore protected under the First Amendment. The case came at the instigation of a programmer who was forbidden to place his source code for an encryption program that he had developed on the Internet in order to get discussion on its merits from his colleagues. The ruling was just a preliminary step in order to continue with the case. It could, however, clear the way for the overruling of export restrictions on encryption source code.

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Re: [NOISE] Re: Nazis on the Net
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"wombat(a)mcfeely.bsfs.org" "Rabid Wombat" 23-APR-1996 21:57:59.91 >I'm typing green letters on a black background. All you people with black >characters on a white background should go talk on another 'net. I never said I approved of separatism; I just consider it slightly less evil than racism. It's sort of like the distinction between Chinese censorship of the Net and American (attempted) censorship of the net - both are evil, the American one is just less so because it doesn't go as far. The distinction between racism and separatism isn't as great, admittedly. -Allen

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Majordomo patch will be available
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's the information on the majordomo patch to do the confirmation: >Allen, the patch to do this that you asked about is gonna be distributed as >part of the new majordomo beta, and will be freely available. -Allen

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Childporn found in UCSB Dean's Computer
by Hal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This from my local hometown paper in Santa Barbara. It illustrates the use of search rather than subpoena to collect information in criminal cases, as well as the dangers of having unencrypted files lying about: UCSB dean faces charge of child porn possession by Melissa Grace News-Press Staff Writer UCSB Dean David M. Kohl, under investigation for misues of universify funds, is facing a more embarrassing charge - possession of child pornography. While searching Koh's home for evidence in the investigation into the dean's alleged misuse of about $20,000 in fees charged to students applying to medical schools, campus police discovered photographs in Koh's computer files depicting minors engaging in or simulating sexual conduct. The pictures were downloaded by the 52-year-old professor into his computer from the Internet. his lawyer said Kohl was unaware of the contents until he opened the unsolicited files, which were sent by an Internet user whom Kohl does not know by name. Kohl has no criminal record, and because of that the pornography charge was filed as a misdemeanor, according to the District Attorney's Office. No charges have been filed against Kohl for his possible misuse of university funds. The police found two computer disks, with approximately 15 files containing the sexually explicit, graphic material, said Stanley M. Roden, one of Kohl's lawyers. [...] Roden explained that Kohl had been exploring what are known as chat rooms on America Online when he was approached by another user and asked if he was interested in seeing unspecified files. "David never showed, disseminated, paid for, asked for, or looked at them again," said his attorney. [...] Possession of child pornography locally is an unusual charge according to campus and city police and watchdog groups for the Internet and child pornography laws. "There have been no arrests here for child pornography over the last 10 years," said Santa Barbara Police Department Lt. Nick Katzenstein. The university police department's chief, John L. MacPherson, said he has never before had a complaint about child pornography. I also heard an interview with the lawyer on the radio this morning. He claimed that this would be a "test case" because Kohl had only had the files in the privacy of his own home and never looked at them after realizing what they were. "As soon as he needed a disk, that one would have been erased," he said. It's too bad Kohl didn't use software which automatically and transparently encrypts his floppies. Then they would have tried to subpoena the key, thinking that the floppies might have incriminating info related to the embezzling charge, never dreaming that they contained child porn. That would have been an interesting case. Hal

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Returned mail: User unknown (fwd)
by Moroni 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:24:36 -0400 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)locrian.scranton.com> To: moroni(a)locrian.scranton.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown The original message was received at Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:24:33 -0400 from moroni@localhost ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- tc(a)scranton.com (unrecoverable error) X(a)scranton.com (unrecoverable error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to lydian.scranton.com.: >>> RCPT To:<X(a)scranton.com> <<< 550 <X(a)scranton.com>... User unknown 550 X(a)scranton.com... User unknown >>> RCPT To:<tc(a)scranton.com> <<< 550 <tc(a)scranton.com>... User unknown 550 tc(a)scranton.com... User unknown ----- Original message follows ----- To: tc(a)scranton.com Subject: Returned mail: warning: cannot send message for 4 hours (fwd) From: Moroni <moroni(a)scranton.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:24:33 -0400 (EDT) cc: X(a)scranton.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:57:32 -0400 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)locrian.scranton.com> To: moroni(a)locrian.scranton.com Subject: Returned mail: warning: cannot send message for 4 hours ********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:44:18 -0400 from moroni@localhost ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- tcmay(a)got.net (transient failure) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- tcmay(a)got.net... Deferred: Connection refused by mail.got.net. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old ----- Original message follows ----- To: tcmay(a)got.net Subject: huh no mail From: Moroni <moroni(a)scranton.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:44:16 -0400 (EDT) Tim, I m not getting the mailing list for cypherpunks . This is the second no third time that I know about where entire lists have disappearedon me. One was religoius , but I wrote that off as them not liking my handle. Then I got a notice from the nueron digest that my mail was bouncing back to them and that they were cancelling my sub. That was ok too as I wasn't THAT interested in them .Now my beloved Cypherpunks is not being deliverd to my door(computer)and that hurt (even with the flaming and noise). Have I been left off because I get too much mail to my provider?Is it because I have recently only lurked and added nothing of worth? Anything else? Thanks in Advance moroni

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crypto in .ja (fwd)
by David Lesher 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: X-URL: http://www.us.net/~steptoe/276915.htm > Emerging Japanese Encryption Policy > > By Stewart A. Baker {} > Summary: The emerging Japanese consensus on cryptography This is worth reading for what it says about the US policy, if indirectly. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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Re: "Separate but equal" as a racist doctrine
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"tallpaul(a)pipeline.com" 24-APR-1996 03:36:53.30 >For some considerable period of time the doctrine of "separate but equal" >was one of the major racist theories in the U.S. I am quite aware of this; I grew up in the South. In practice, it wasn't seperate but equal; it was separate but unequal. This was the intent of the persons pushing it, which made them racist. (They are also justifiably classified as racist on many other grounds). >People who wish to organize for racist ideology behind this doctrine while >proclaiming they are not racists merely place themselves in the old racist >camp. Their organizing for (and their denials of) racist ideology does not >make them less racist, just less honest. Persons who wish to organize for _racist_ ideology, yes. But assuming that every separatist is actually a racist is about like assuming that everyone on this list is an anarcho-capitalist; while correct in the majority of cases, it isn't correct in all. (You and I are both exceptions, for instance.) -Allen

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[Fwd: CyberDoctor]
by SBinkley＠atitech.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6DF66DED67CB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Ma rk Buckaway mark(a)uunet.ca +1 800 463 8123 UUNET Canada Technical Support +1 416 368 6621 UUNET Canada Inc. support(a)uunet.ca Internet Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------6DF66DED67CB Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from cicerone.uunet.ca ([142.77.1.11]) by mail.uunet.ca with SMTP id <264090-5>; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:26:55 -0400 Received: from ghost.uunet.ca ([142.77.1.100]) by cicerone.uunet.ca with SMTP id <177226-4>; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:26:28 -0400 Received: from ghost.uunet.ca ([142.77.1.100]) by ghost.uunet.ca with SMTP id <52805-24166>; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:26:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:26:19 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman <andrew(a)ghost.uunet.ca> To: Office Support <office(a)ghost.uunet.ca> Subject: CyberDoctor Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960423152458.12136F-100000(a)ghost.uunet.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-Path: <@cicerone.uunet.ca:andrew@ghost.uunet.ca> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 This really should have been for funny, but I suspect others might get a chuckle out of it as well. Andrew -------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tatsuhiro Ikeda <ti08+(a)andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,pgh.opinion,news.admin.censorship,pgh.config Subject: CyberDoctor: READ THIS! Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 23:20:16 -0400 Organization: Senior, IM - Graphic Communications, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA CyberDoctor, This is from a pirated account at Carnegie Mellon. This was posted without ANYONE's permission or knowledge. I have been watching you activities with keen interest. I am a firm supporter of overthrowing the cabal of UUnet, and admire your bravery in defeating this evil organization. There's something you should know. In 1967, the organization that became known as UUnet was founded by a secret military cabal headed by David Lawrence, formally of the DIA and NSA. I was Lawrence's right-hand man, because of my experiences as the leader of a black operations group in charge of Psychological Warfare in Vietnam. One of our experiments was to, of course, manipulate communications to our advantage. We overthrew anyone who got in our way. In 1968, it was decided by UUnet to start genetic engineering on humans, in an attempt to create the ultimate double agent in censorship activities. We succeeded, and our agents have been surrepticiously implanted in key points all over the Internet. But some of the experiments went awry. I was one of those experiments. Because Lawrence is a meglomaniac who feared being found out by Senate probes, he turned on me. On October 17th, 1971, I was kidnapped against my will by Lawrence's goons. They attempted to brainwash me and injected genes in me that would cause me to censor anything against my will. I escaped before it was too late, and have been posing as a college student among other things for the last 25 years. After deep regression hypnosis, I recalled that one of the genetically engineered human experiments was a person by the name of John Grubor. He failed to fall under our control, and so he was left to die. A competing secret arm of the military revived him and gave him a new identity, as well as erased all his memories. Cyberdoctor, you are that John Grubor, and even worse, you are David Lawrence's bastard son by genetic engineering. This sick twist of fate was partly inspired by the movie, "The Empire Strikes Back", Lawrence's favorite movie of all time. Lawrence knows that you are still alive, no doubt, but he is not concerned. Why? Because in 14 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes, there is a 99.9% probability that your genes will mutate and you will become David Lawrence's identical genetic twin. You will censor and join the UUnet cabal against your free will, and there's nothing you can do. But I can save you. First, why am I breaking the silence? Because Lawrence tried to kill me, and my identity as a Pittsburgher is being blown. I will dissapear after I send this post from this pirated account. I can offer you salvation before I leave, as I have done to other innocent victims of "Operation Genetic Censorship". Go to the corner of Wood and Liberty and wait at the Bus Station at midnight. First be sure to close ALL your email accounts and logoff for good. That will let my agents know you are ready. Wait there, and my men will come and get you. They take you to a lab where they will execute you, but cryogenically freeze your brain until the technology exists to make a new body and replace your genes. I promise it will be painless. We already have 10 people (brains) in stasis cambers. It may sound desparate, but what's worse? Becoming a censor or indefinite stasis? Furthermore, the board has already decided that this must be carried out. No more censors must be born. I am powerless to stop them. I am only making it easy for you to accept. So close your accounts now, and prepare to meet us. It is the only option left. You have no one you can trust, not even yourself. REMEMBER TO CLOSE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNTS FIRST. In solidarity, Deep Throat --------------6DF66DED67CB--

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Re: [NOISE] Re: Nazis on the Net
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"richieb(a)teleport.com" "Rich Burroughs" 23-APR-1996 14:15:55.60 >In July, 1986, Fadeley attended the World Aryan Congress at Hayden Lake, >Idaho. During this assembly, Fadeley was introduced to Weaver, who was at >that time of no particular investigative significance to BATF.[FN25]" >Weaver may have just been attending the World Aryan Nations Congress for the >beer and chicks... Yes. For instance, I am a member of the Extropy Institute - but I'm _not_ an anarcho-capitalist, even though that's one of the things that the Institute stands for. >Portions of the report are online at >http://isdn33.eng.uc.edu/~rabagley/ruby/ruby.toc.html However, one reference in this report to Weaver's calling for a meeting to oppose the "Zionist Occupation Government" does provide an argument for calling him a racist of the anti-Semitic variety. On the other hand, the only person claiming this is the FBI's informant; the truth of his statements has been called into doubt. So far as I can tell, it's uncertain. -Allen

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