December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Three Horsemen???
by William Knowles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- It seems most everywhere I turn, either on the Internet or on television there is some reference to the Four Horseman of the Infocalypse, -Terrorists, Pedophiles, Drug Dealers and Money Launderers, But no real hard evidence. But since the story broke in the Observer I have been trying to remember where I heard of Toby Tyler before, I belive it was on a television show on the Discovery Channel that Tim May was in, and recently I found this about Mr. Tyler in the Clari. newsgroups reporting on the child sex trade. == One professional cybercop is Toby Tyler, who surfs the Net from his computer terminal in the San Bernadino (Calif.) County Sheriff's Department. He searches for scams, sources of child porn, and deceptions designed to entrap children. Five investigators in his department are busy full-time investigating child sexual exploitation - much of it flowing from pedophiles trying to set up meetings with children by computer. The Internet is a ``two-edged sword'' for child pornographers, Deputy Tyler says. On the one hand, he says, it seems to have damaged the profitability of pornographers who sell their wares via dial-up computer ``bulletin board.'' There is so much free stuff on the Internet - why would anyone pay? == Wouldn't the Observer article about anon.penet.fi transmitting 75 to 90% of the child porn on the Internet lead you to belive that since it has been shut down that all Internet child porn will pretty much dry up? I Wonder if its now the Three Horsemen of the Infocalypse? <g> William Knowles erehwon(a)c2.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMimNkQURbnwsNLz5AQEncgQAonfr7b67BZfLOjJxnS8GzlZ3RSoGYBMT 07uacF3sIkH9vyXVnG3O4BKbptb28dPBm1OoN7dufTyu7WxEi91sQNcY++MUmwhO vRR+yWcSWTAeOb1AwDZFXxRLdFCJHbshb6M6P4ECa2VA6ONGH/lTgy/dZS6Zk1Nb vD7jCUw8k2s= =jRGc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- William Knowles <erehwon(a)c2.net> PGP mail welcome & prefered / KeyID 1024/2C34BCF9 PGP Fingerprint 55 0C 78 3C C9 C4 44 DE 5A 3C B4 60 9C 00 FB BD Finger for public key -- Vote for Harry Browne in November -- http://www.HarryBrowne96.org

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Re: Code Review Guidelines (draft)
by qut＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

! Dave Harman OBC wrote: ! > ! > ! At 09:58 AM 8/29/96 -0500, Igor wrote: ! > ! >The decision that have just made is not a technical decision, it is ! > ! >a business decision. You just decided that the needs of security ! > ! >outweight the need to be able to deal with 100% of potential customers. ! > ! ! > ! I strongly agree. You've also potentially annoyed a bunch of Europeans, ! > ! Unicode-speakers, and other users of non-ASCII alphabets. ! > ! Just because the domain name in somebody's address is case-insensitive ! > ! (and culturally-insensitive :-) ASCII, that doesn't mean their user ! > ! name will be also, especially if their _real_ mail system is some ! > ! ugly proprietary thing like Microso-Cc:PR0FS-HS.400 or if their ! > ! name is Swedish or Chinese. ! > ! > Agreed, the DNS and other systems should be upgraded to 8bit. ! > Unix should also allow / in file names, it can be escaped somehow. ! ! It is not possible. Oh, every value can be escaped, there's no reason that the full 8bit range cannot be incorporated throughout every operating system. It's just legacy junk which keeps us putting up restrictions in everything that we really don't want. Ditto for network software.

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hackers texts
by patrickbc＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If any of you hackers out their have wrote any texts for beginning hackers or know of any please send them to me at patrickc(a)juno.com thank you P. cummings Patrickbc(a)juno.com

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PLEASE Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:06 PM 9/1/96, James Seng wrote: >To understand the sitution better, you should not impose America >idealogy and perspection on how things to be done to Singapore. Singapore >maybe young but there are certain culture too. Who says this has anything to do with "American ideology"? The Usenet is propagated around the world. All we are saying is that honest commentary on the corruption of Lee Kwan Yew (and his billion dollars in Australian and European banks) will be reported on the Usenet. This is not "imposing American ideology" on anyone. Singapore, being the dynastic dictatorship that it is, may decide to block access all newsgroups which discuss Yew's tyranny, or pornography, or pro-Malay sentiment, or anything else banned in the Benevolent Republic of Singapore. This will be their choice, to ban access by citizen-units to Evil Thoughts. It is not an issue of "imposing American ideology" on the helpless in Singapore, any more than a book or magazine is "imposing" an ideology. It sounds to me, James, that you need to get out of Singapore and visit a country where free speech and free ability to read material is not treated as "imposed foreign ideologies." (I think you also need to look up what "imposed" means. The "Wired" magazine banned in Singapore is not something that is ever "imposed" on others....anyone is free to simply not read the magazine!) >is Singapore. As an example of what i mean, few years back, when they >introduced R rating movies uncensored in Singapore for people above 18, >it cause a surge in soft-porn movie to be screened. There is a general So? Your point being? After all, nobody is forcing _you_ to go watch these R-rated movies. You are free to not watch if you find them offensive. In a free society this is how things work. I think you'll find this mailing list anathema to your apparent ideology. ... >Singapore culture. Do not impose the general idealogy and culture within >your country into your argument. (Oh yea, dont give me the "Bull shit! ... >Now, what makes you think that citizen of Country A has the power or >rights to tell politicians of Country B what to do and what they cannot do? >Just wondering. Again, you really need to look up the meaning of "impose" more carefully. By posting a comment about how Singapore sucks, or how Lee Kwan Yew raped his country and deposited his profits in Australian and European banks, just what am I "imposing" on Singaporans or anyone else? I think you have little understanding of how the global Internet works. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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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Re: anon.penet.fi: URGENT REQUEST
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:09 PM 9/1/96 +0000, paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote: > I don`t know what the response to this will be, I need approximately > 5000 UK pounds to set up such an operation (Yes, a leased line really > does cost that much in the UK) and then a monthly income of around > 3000 UK pounds. A little greedy. Other people have set up a multitude of remailers for substantially less. We now need remailers, preferably many, many small remailers rather than one big remailer, that is as easy to reply to as alt.penet.fi, but which gives substantially better security, that is to say the reply address can map to a remailer chain, instead of being constrained to map to a regular address as the penet.fi remailer did. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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Beta Scam
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.economist.com/issue/31-08-96/wb1.html Beware Geeks bearing gifts The Internet is well known as a pioneer when it comes to technology. Less noticed is its role on the cutting edge of management fashion. Nowadays, it is fashionable for firms to "outsource" product development to just about everybody. Leading Internet firms have developed this method a stage further: they have found an outside supplier so keen to tender his services that he is sometimes willing to pay for the privilege. The name of this fool? The consumer. [More on beta-scamming at the URL.]

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Hacker list information
by agt387465＠blackhel.fbi.gov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Patrick: I am interested in a copy of your mailing list. Thank you. David Pfeiffer

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re:hackerlist
by patrickbc＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am planning to make a list of hackers and would appreciatte it if you would e-mail me with the following information. handle e-mail city,state url whether or not you would like to recieve the list when finished thanks for your help P. Cummings Patrickbc(a)juno.com

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Re: WARNING vIRuS!
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

kickboxer is full of shit --or trolling. since when can a jpeg or gif file viewer execute anything --nothing starts automatically, in any operating system. that is expecting a jump call of some sort. we haven't yet fallen into the impending insecure abyss of MS objects. to have a piece of code embedded execute, a "start-up" program would need to be previously passed to the target machine which literally scanned all memory for the startup sequence in the foreign material --and translate it. on unix, the code would need to be sophisticated enough to remove itself from the process table --even in sleep modes. and, in any system, the startup sequence must be readable, and therefore traceable by anti-virus routines. now that kickboxed has baited the hook for trolling, what new wet dream will we have for rebuttals?!? On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, kickboxer wrote: > There is a new and VERY dangerous virus called the HAZ-MAT virus! > it fucks up the sectors on your hd, and really messes up the partition > tables. It does this once a week, picking a random time to do it. 99.9% of > virus scanners and other antivirus programs will not recognize it, for it is > a totally new strain, using a never before seen code.... Be warned! The > HAZ-MAT virus usually resides in JPG, and GIF files... once the files are > viewed, the virus takes effect. > scan all images upon download! > > > -- you can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time. --Lincoln? cc: Paul Penrod <ppenrod(a)earthlink.net>

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Re: hackers texts
by crichardson＠earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I working on a WWW page for people who want to recieve text articles on hacking/phreaking/etc. It's not very extensive now, but were working on it. Point your browswer to: http://home.earthlink.net/~crichardson/omega.html Also on this page are some files, as well as some other misc indexes. All feedback is apprechiated. -flux

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