December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Jobs
by Sean T Carnes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am looking for a job in the computer business doing basically anything computer related, except something like typing all day, where i could get some experience around different computer enviroments. I have good knowledge of PC's and of some basic network situations. If anyone is in the NY metro area or on Long Island and is looking for some summer help could you please e-mail me back. Thanks

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Re: Internet solution for law enforcement
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Alan Horowitz" alanh(a)infi.net wrote: >It appears that someone has figured out that medium-sized jurisdictions >don't want to be left out of the trendiness. And has put together a >product that can be peddled at the trade shows where Police Chiefs go. > >I recall reading that there's something like 25,000 different police >departments in America. It's a sizeable market. And a very politically >correct one, right now. > >Do these managers _need_ this stuff? Well, did they _need_ all those >black-ninja hollywood flavored SWAT uniforms? > >Now, if they could just get a few more PC-of-the-month phraseologies into >the title of their product, they'd sell twice as many. Start with >"anti-deadbeat-dad software", maybe. "Pro Diversity". "Environmentally >Friendly Software". > >Is America great, or what? You bet. PC stuff is essential. Here in Tucson, the cops came up with a novel, simple, cheap, and efficacious method to determine cocaine HCl usage: Put a strip of Scotch (TM) tape across the nostrils of a suspectee/apprehendee and see if there's any toot on it. Local judges disallowed this procedure because, in the absence of a substantial presence of African-Americans in the "community" (they comprise <2% of local population), almost all of those arrested were Hispanic-surnamed Latinos.

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lets hack German Telekom
by Christian.K＠t-online.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello guys, i am from Germany and i want to ask you, if you know something about the password-encryption of the T-Online Decoder from German Telekom! I tried to crack it, but it is not easy! The password is hidden in a file called DBSERVER.INI. If someone know how to crack it or has any programms please let me know! -------------------------------------------------------------------- written by Atomic (christian.k(a)t-online.de) ;-) But remember! A Homepage will soon be variable, too. :-o --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NOISE] Buying whales with digicash Re: Anonymous stock trades.
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hallam(a)Etna.ai.mit.edu wrote: >Whether the teacher was >expected to gun down Hamilton with the Kalashnikov she carried to school each day or >whether the tots were expected to come to her aid with Smith and Westons I'm not sure. Are Smith and Westons like Bolt .45s? -Master D.M. Rose, M.B.A (Harvard) Looks pretty foolish, doesn't it? But usually, people just call me Davve.

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US: Domestic Encryption Protected by US Constitution?
by C Matthew Curtin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Something that has come up in my recent random thoughts... Given that the US State Department classifies strong crypto as munitions, is it possible that any laws passed outlawing the use of strong crypto among US citizens could be declared unconsitutional, in violation of the second amendment? Are there any legal precedents that apply here? Is the question purely academic (i.e., no such laws exist, no such bills are in the works, or none have been tried)? Does anyone know of any laws on the books that might be relevant to my question? -- C Matthew Curtin Chief Hacker Fahlgren, Inc. 655 Metro Pl S, Ste 700, Box 7159 Dublin OH 43017-7159 http://www.local.com/~cmcurtin/ cmcurtin(a)fahlgren.com PGP Mail Preferred

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Whalepunks, Marginpunks, Gunpunks, Clintonpunks, and Politics
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To all the Whalepunks, Marginpunks, and Gunpunks, I've been deleting after only a brief glance the dozens of posts on these subjects (funny how some people who issue "pissograms" telling people things are "off-topic" apparently think their own long rants on off-topic subjects are just fine). However, this misstatement caught my eye: At 6:30 PM 6/8/96, hallam(a)Etna.ai.mit.edu wrote: >by government. I have even heard it stated that had gun ownership been >more widespread >in the UK the Dunblane massacre would not have occurred. Whether the >teacher was >expected to gun down Hamilton with the Kalashnikov she carried to school >each day or >whether the tots were expected to come to her aid with Smith and Westons >I'm not sure. >In short I don't think that there is any type of piffle that the "most >fuzzy headed free >market types" cannot offer. Some of the folks I know would point out the logical flaws in this model. First, a Smith and Wesson is not what the tots should be carrying. An MP-5K would fit nicely in their bookpacks (especially now that all yuppie kids carry de rigeur designer backpacks, though mostly for designer water). More firepower. Second, the preferred "trans-humanist" solution is much cleaner: blow up the classroom and then restore the innocents from backups. (High-tech variant: "Kill them all and let the nanotech truth machines sort them out.") My point of view is that while schools should be free of guns, adult citizens should probably have access to guns. There are, sadly, nutty people who will use nearly any available weapon to commit mayhem and mass murder. Rifles, shotguns, axes, knives... The "Luby's" cafeteria massacre in Texas several years back is a better example than the Dunblane school shooting (or the one in Tasmania, or the one in California....). There, had some of the restaurant patrons been armed, it is likely that at least one of them could have gotten off a shot. Further, many of these nutcase killers are basically cowards, according to profiles I've read, and might be fearful of sitiuations where there victims can shoot back. When they know their victims are unarmed, are sheep for the slaughterhouse, I think this causes more such "mukkings" (to use Brunner's prescient term from "Stand on Zanzibar...Christ, what an imagination he had). Remember, "Guns don't kill people, postal workers do." In general, I think Phill raises some good points about the efficiency of free markets. However, I doubt that Cypherpunks is the proper forum for debating economic theory, for various reasons. I lean strongly toward the free market side, inasmuch as I think most non-free market economies are actually just cases where the government controls the _single_ corporation they let run an industry, and thus one gets a worse situation that with the grossest excesses of capitalism. More pollution, more strip-mining, more denudation of forests, more destruction of lakes, etc. Look at the former U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe for a glimpse of what "state capitalism" can do. However, the reason many of us don't jump in and write defenses of free markets here (and I would not have except to make my transhumanist joke--so sue me) is that this list is not "Libernet" nor any of the similar political discussion lists. Secondly, there is almost zero chance that any of us will have our views changed by such political arguments, so why bother? (I do discuss what I think are the _logical implications_ of strong cryptography and cryptoprivacy, and even the implications of crypto anarchy, and I think these issues are "on-topic" for this list. Even if one is a socialist, a fascist, a royalist, or a Wobbly, the implications remain important.) But arguing the merits of capitalism vs. socialism, for example, has rarely been fruitful in the past 10 years of the Usenet, or on mailing lists, and I doubt the debate will be more fruitful here. The same goes for debate about Clinton, Hillary, Vince Foster, Whitewater, etc. The fact that someone forwarded a Brock Meeks story in which he (apparently, as I skimmed-then-deleted the story) make negative comments about the Clintons, and then someone chimed in with points about her allegedly illegal stock trades....well, these are clearly not list topics, in my view of course. (I claim no right to set the list agenda. Nor do I accept Perry's oft-repeated claim that I am "causing" the list's decline by stating my views on this point.) --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Elementrix Snake Oil Spam...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Was it just me, or did others on this list get three whopping MS Word docs sent to them from the POTP snake-oil folks? Came from one Charles W. Morgan, <charlie(a)outcomesinc.com>, of "Outcomes 2000, Inc.", whoever *that* is... Probably somebody trying to give the Albuquerque Spam King a run for his money, I bet. Feh! Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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Thank you for the Archives 100 messages
by qut4.qut＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Apologies, but rich has deleted me from his mailboxes, and for a few days now, somebody has placed a global cancel bot on me. I'm gonna have plenty of fun figuring this out. Kwow any good sniffers? I agree the list should be public usenet: A mail gate-way to a usenet group that ALSO permits unmoderated posts. This would be a nice way to combine a strict moderated mail-list, with a standard netnews group.

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Re: Anti-Scientologists
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>1. There's a gang of flamers (David Gerard, Jon Noring, Ron Newman, Rob J. >Nauta, and the like) who try to stop $cientologists from discussing their >religion on the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. Most of them are >disgruntled former cult members and/or members of other similar cults. Untruth #1. Aside from the "religion" red herring you tossed in (it's a cult), the critics expose the lies, doubletalk and inconsistencies posted by cult apologists. (It should be noted that these people aren't generally "just another satisfied Scientologist," but are cult employees who are carefully vetted to distribute propaaganda without ever answering critics' questions.) [snip] >3. These harrassers are Usenet Cabal supporters, and they are sometimes >joined by initerant cabal enforcers such as Peter Vorobieff, who visit a.r.s >to lend a helping hand and to flame Co$. So what's your point? Besides, there is no Cabal fnord. :-) >4. Recently the anti-scientologists have asked me for a copy of my cancelbot, >and have been using it to forge cancels for scientologist posts on a.r.s. Untruth #2. Articles canceled from a.r.s. have been multiple postings of standard Scientology tracts (over 10,000 in all, so my newsreader says), spread out over various alleged users. These aren't intended to promote discussion -- they're intended to bury the newsgroup in noise. Apparently being selected Kook of the Month causes disturbances in one's ability to distinguish the correct from the incorrect. (Or is that how one gets the award in the first place?)

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Rabin patented?
by Mark M. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Is Rabin encryption patented? I have never heard of any patent covering Rabin encryption, but I have also heard that Diffie-Hellman will be the first PK algorithm that is patent-free when the patent expires in '97. I know that until recently, ElGamal was considered to be covered under the DH patent. I wonder if the same is also true for Rabin. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm(a)voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xe3bf2169 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 "In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." -- Friedrich Nietzsche -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMbozMrZc+sv5siulAQH2ugP8C0ymdTJJLUa9NQxj7ahkcGD/u0tFZWfN DtMDRm08b0aupADNgDntn7ZHAZKXo5RRAClLfvB3Z/gIGMbqAQKFMItSN7CbJ4k1 osY2enhnrDN840LH0jQmC/dS0MjVWh5CaC3R9SqHqhiu5S5oZUP4fAJhIyDMcQuo VLGUQzLZVxs= =P3wZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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