December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Non-Lethal Terrorism
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For background on the recent cyber-terrorists reports from London, we offer the Council on Foreign Relations' 1995 report: NON-LETHAL TECHNOLOGIES Military Options and Implications Report of an Independent Task Force The long history of military operations has been marked by steady increases in the lethality of weapons. U.S. commanders and policymakers face excruciating dilemmas in decisions to use lethal force. They strive to maximize protection of their own troops and to minimize collateral casualties among noncombatants. Authoritarian regimes -- as in Iraq -- and factions in civil wars -- as in Bosnia -- may see fear of American casualties as one factor in deterring intervention against them. Terrorists, guerillas, and other irregular forces often exploit noncombatant populations by mounting attacks from their midst. Can technology, ease these dilemmas by providing acceptable, effective non-lethal capabilities to supplement conventional weapons across a broad spectrum of conflict? In major wars or similiar cases of high-level violence, can such capabilities reduce the risk to U.S. forces by, in effect, substituting technology for manpower in performing certain missions, for example, by shutting off power transmission and communications of adversaries? In situations short of traditional warfare -- for example, the humanitarian intervention in Somalia -- can non-lethal systems help provide calibrated coercion proportional to the objectives? How do they relate to the lethal systems on which U.S. forces depend? What policy issues do such technologies pose? In this report a bipartisan task force, including former Air Force and Army chiefs of staff, leading scientists, and other experts, examines these questions. The task force concludes that a number of non-lethal technologies deserve serious consideration in U.S. planning and development for future military contingencies. http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/nltech.htm (47 kb) Beware snooping, consider using the anonymizer at: http://www.anonymizer.com ----- Or, if http fails, NLT_ech to <jya(a)pipeline.com>

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Re: pretty good reputation
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 15 Jun 96 at 13:09, Hal wrote: [..] > There was considerable discussion in the design of PGP's key signatures > on this issue, and Phil decided against trying to let people express > publicly how much they trust others. Among other things, he was afraid > that people would feel compelled to lie for social reasons, leading to > inaccurate trust estimates and weak key validations. Good point. Any system with multi-valued or yes/no signatures becomes unresolvable in a web, making these values useless beyond an order or one or two levels. We've argued about this before on the list... Another interesting point, though: feature creep. Something like that may be another intimidating factor that turns people off from PGP. Rob --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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MITI began to develop electronic notary system
by Hayashi_Tsuyoshi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A small report. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sun Jun 16 JST 1996, Nihon Keizai Shinbun (called as "Nikkei" in Japan), Side: 1 ## XURL: X.16Jun1996JST.newspaper:xy//Nikkei/1/x210y0/ ==== # NOTE: [insufficient] translated and summarized by me. # # [untrusted] ... Because I don't use English very # well. Sorry. I recommend that you will read a # English version of Nikkei Shinbun. o MITI (Japanese Government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry) began to develop electronic notary system with some biggest computer company in Japan; Hitachi, Nihon I.B.M., NEC and Fujitsu. Some Japanese bigger bank (such as Daiichi-Kangyo Bank) will also take part in it. o It seems to me (by reading this article) that MITI want to develop Japan-original technology for the electronic notary system. o Milestone of the plan: - Misc. preparations for it until the end of 1996. - Doing experimental examination in 1997. # I don't know that 1996/1997 are fiscal year (called # "(kaikei-)nendo" in Japan) or not. Japanese fiscal year # starts April in every year. o This system will be applied for following term: 1) submitting of public docments to public offices, 2) electronic commerce, 3) electronic publishing, 4) electronic warehouse service. o IC card will be used in order to store digital key information. /// -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMcOHvNYQrW27B3yFAQEO2AP/YZsgZ+cQLrztUIQMmBeOC5X53RVlBldH SHG/QkydKd37un5OYC5HMUBdqgCWO9jfVtrCdZg10i6QKeWsdz02m2HcmYTcArLv X9i2+KRuih6eBtxaxKfKV97TZC9bVzbv4J3c+2YEU7C2KNFB/IbwEpoSzu4MOkYo 3uMwGJV9etc= =h/sH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Tsuyoshi Hayashi <take(a)barrier-free.co.jp> - PGP public key: http://www.barrier-free.co.jp/take/pgpkey - (CF 27 34 5B 46 FA 2A 12 D2 4C E3 F7 2A 45 E0 22) - Barrier Free, Inc. (established on 25 Jan 1996)

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More info on this?
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Found this on the NY (Cyber)Times site (http://www.nytimes.com) under This Weeks Stories... L exis-Nexis, one of the nation's leading private information brokers, has discontinued a new online offering that provided access to millions of individuals' Social Security numbers, after an onslaught of complaints from customers and the credit information bureau that originally supplied the data. The service, which was offered by the company for 10 days before it was discontinued Monday, was one feature of the new "Lexis-Nexis P-Trak Person Locator" that Lexis-Nexis had developed to attract new business from law firms and law-enforcement agencies. [..]

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Re: [noise] (was Re: PBS show)
by AwakenToMe＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 96-06-15 16:15:17 EDT, perry(a)piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes: > > new lows??? Its a rather reasonable question about the protected mode on the intel chips considering the limits of 640K mem...Sorry if Im not as 'versed' in proteected mode as you,master, seem to be. Oh please teach us lesser ones. Gee. But..... Is it OK to go over encryption ran in straight ASM to you?? Would that maybe please you a little more oh mentor. Gee.. Later god. or is that............. nevermind.

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Netscape Mail Security and PGP Plugins
by Greg Kucharo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There hasn't been a lot of discussion on this list about the future of secure e-mail via Netscape. The most i've seen has come from Raph Levien on the standards battle between S/Mime and other various implementations including one using PGP. Raph has said at various Cypherpunks meetings now that( and not wanting to totally put words in his mouth) the PGP based implementations have lost ground to S/MIME. The reason I believe that this whole area has received so little quarter on the list is that either few people use Netscape for e-mail and that few people actually send encrypted e-mail. I'm going to try and put together a compendium of web links on this so it's a little easier to track the developments and various schemes. At the second to last Cypherpunks Bay Area meeting we had a discussion of crypto GUI's. It's my opinion that Netscape would be an excellent place to start because it does encryption relatively seemlessly. Incorporating S/MIME into the mail would be a great step forward in bringing easy crypto to the general community. Any PGP plugin I would hope eleviate the many UI problems PGP has. A couple of questions I have right off the bat are; 1. In Hal's Java mail encryptor, what are the legal aspects of sending code across that contains crypto? 2. Can any plugin access the Netscape Mail program. 3. When is S/MIME going to be in Netscape, I tried to find info on the web site but thier statements about S/MIME seem vague. I hope I'm not running over old ground, but this has to be alot more intresting than discussing that PBS show! Greg Kucharo sophi(a)best.com

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Netscape Mail Security and PGP Plugins
by Greg Kucharo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Actually there is a web page covering quite a bit www.c2.org/~raph/pgpmime.html This is Raph's page and is still under construction. The whole gist of my last mail was to level more discussion at using Netscape and browsers in general as a low common denominator way of getting more crypto out there.

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Re: [Slightly less Off-topic] Re: Insults (was: PBS show)
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:18 PM 6/15/96 -0000, nelson(a)crynwr.com wrote: > But the "crypto-" prefix has an additional > meaning that may make its use somewhat problematic. A "crypto-" > something can be a "fake-" or "hidden-" something. So if it actually > became popular to be a geek, you'd have cool people becoming > crypto-geeks. Incorrect: Crypto-something means a hidden something, not fake something: Most popular usage is "cryptofascist" since fascism is so terribly politically incorrect these days, and many fascists are politically correct, so they do not call themselves fascist. Another common usage is crypto-totalitarian. A crypto-anarchist could mean either someone who seeks to destroy the state by higher mathematics, or someone who conceals his real aim of destroying the state. Because cryptography is in many ways subtle attack on the state, with consequences far more radical than is at first apparent, those who seek to destroy the state by this means often are not obvious anarchists -- crypto-anarchists are often crypto-anarchists. The intended meaning is usually obvious from context: I have never seen the word crypto-anarchist used in the sense of a secret anarchist. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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: WEB: Child molester database
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 14 Jun 96 at 22:40, Damaged Justice wrote: > Along with the arms trafficker page, now we have a "child molester > database": > > http://www.greatworld.com/public > > Deadbeat Dads, Drug Dealers and more, coming soon according to blurb. I took a look at the "Crooked Cops" page. There was an anonymous note about this one copy from AL(abama?) who smoked grass while the contributer had sex with his daughter in the next room. Amusing, sort of. Rob.

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Re: Attorney General wants to "expand crypto laws"
by Scott Staedeli 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Nando Time has a short story at: http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/info/061596/info2_10501.html I have to give Janet some credit for persistance, after all the events of the last week, she's still pushing the four horsemen. --- ==================================================== Let's see, Dole, Clinton... Do I get another choice? ====================================================

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