December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Anyone knows TCFS ?
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone use or know off Transparent Cryptografic File System ? More information available on URL http://mikonos.dia.unisa.it/tcfs bEST Regards, -- Alex de Joode | Berserk Consultancy -- Diemen, The Netherlands usura(a)berserk.com | mailto:info@berserk.com http://www.berserk.com/

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119_816
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

6-17-96. NYP: "11 Officers Are Accused of Failure to pay Taxes. Claims of Sovereignty and 98 Dependents." At least 11 New York City police officers have been accused of failing to pay any Federal taxes for several years by declaring they each had 98 dependents and by insisting that the Government had no right to tax them. The officers relied on a package of instructions that described how to avoid paying taxes by declaring that they were sovereign citizens who did not have to pay taxes. "16 Indicted On Charges Of Internet Pornography." Exon-Reno-ing into one of the more distant frontiers of sexual crime, a Federal grand jury charged 16 people in the US and abroad with joining in a pornography ring. Its members shared homemade pictures, recounted their sexual experiences with children and even chatted electronically as two of the men molested a 10-year-old girl. The case appeared likely to heighten concerns about the spread of child pornography over the Internet. ----- http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/119816.txt (11 kb for 2) 119_816 (For 2)

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Re: Code used by George Washington made available at last
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:35 PM 7/16/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >There's an AP article by Carl Hartman saying that historians now have >access to a secret handwritten code used by George Washington and >Marquis de Lafayette. (It's a newspaper article that somebody >across the train is reading; looks like today's SF Examiner...) They probably declassified it a week ago, discovering that the "national security" excuse no longer appeared to apply. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: preamble (was Re: Markoff on Clipper III)
by Cerridwyn Llewyellyn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:20 AM 7/15/96 -0700, you wrote: >At 3:50 AM -0700 7/15/96, Duncan Frissell wrote: >>At 09:35 PM 7/14/96 -0700, David Sternlight wrote: >>>Did you miss the part in the Constitution about "provide for the common >>>defence" >>That's a meaningless part of the Preamble. > >Anyone who thinks substantive parts of the Preamble are "meaningless" is >deserving only of contumely. Perhaps you should review your high school >civics course--you did have one of those, yes? I think what he meant (not that I'm trying to speak for him) is that the preamble was intended as an explanation of why the constitution was written, and not to be taken as an actual part of the constitution as such. //cerridwyn//

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Gorelick's Urge
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wall Street Journal, July 17, 1996 Panel to Oversee Protecting Systems From Hackers Washington -- President Clinton ordered the creation of a commission to recommend laws and regulations to protect vital government and private systems against attacks by terrorists or computer hackers. Jamie Gorelick, deputy U.S. attorney general, described the effort as having the "same level of urgency" as the Manhattan Project, the crash World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb. She said the commission, which will be headed by an appointee from the private sector, will have a large representation from corporations, because they control the nation's telecommunications system, electrical-power grid, banking, transportation and fuel-supply systems. "We are looking for a structure that cuts across the government and private sector," Ms. Gorelick told the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee. While some 22 federal agencies have some involvement with such problems, she said there is no central mechanism. While the new Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection deliberates, President Clinton ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to head an interim task force. [End]

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Re: Cookie alternatives
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hal Finney wrote: >It is interesting to consider how shopping carts might be done without >cookies and similar technologies which allow servers to get more >information about me than necessary. One partial solution would be to turn cookies into nonces - instead of using server-supplied cookies, which may or may not contain hashed/hidden information, client software (and by extension, the human(s) in charge of it) could control the generation and modification of cookies. Some cookie uses are predictable - e.g., "Put the current date and time in the cookie", or "Put the user's E-mail address in the cookie". The user could be presented with dialog boxes asking "Server sneaky.tricky.com would like to set a cookie which will record the date and time of this visit. OK?" or "Server sneaky.tricky.com would like Netscape to generate a random number to keep track of your visits. OK?" A switch from server-generated cookies to client-generated cookies shouldn't involve too many changes on the client software side. (One danger which occurs to me about such a scheme is the potential leakage of client state information, assuming that the algorithm used to generate the pseudorandom cookies is or will be known to attackers.) -- Greg Broiles |"Post-rotational nystagmus was the subject of gbroiles(a)netbox.com |an in-court demonstration by the People http://www.io.com/~gbroiles |wherein Sgt Page was spun around by Sgt |Studdard." People v. Quinn 580 NYS2d 818,825.

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New MiddleMan Remailer! (reno)
by Middleman Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ATTENTION *** ATTENTION *** ATTENTION *** ATTENTION I'm proud to announce the birth of a new middleman remailer! This new remailer uses John Perry's middleman mixmaster code and is located at cyberpass.net thanks to Lance Cottrell. Here are the statistics: NAME: Janet Reno SHORTNAME: reno ADDRESS: middleman(a)cyberpass.net MIXMASTER KEY: reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net b864a69c831f38593d24187122e954f6 2.0.3 -----Begin Mix Key----- b864a69c831f38593d24187122e954f6 258 AASx+Qa23TBIu7MTGZQekob8EJrxyhNPYPBRhzZC 17F5scF1MzFIk1PhY0O78QN29aYMHlo99jE37Hlh MvJpQ7HUrqnklRIaRZJBLxUcuBoTckMltIJEdh1r 9Lbh8e5AIoqPr6c9SAxr7Q3v2cthkwuBYEiWDlui 0vGtsX/EC6lTdwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAB -----End Mix Key----- John Perry, will you please add my remailer to your list when you get a chance? middleman(a)cyberpass.net

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Re: Opiated file systems
by Steve Reid 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> But, on the other hand, it wouldn't be to hard to have the user set both > keys (yeah, so that didn't actually say anything, so what...), and then do > an every-other-byte type thing (although that would be slow... every other > block would be more efficient), and have 2 EFS's in one file, and make it > so that on the "duress" one the extra space appears to be "free". > One could make it a real file system, and add a fake disk error to prevent > over-writing of the "non-duress" filesystem. This sounds a lot like security through obscurity... What happens when someone reverse-engineers the software and sees that it's carefully skipping over blocks? If you don't want people to know about your encrypted data, use stego. Even if They find the stego software, you can always produce the keys to unlock the duress data from two or three .gif files, and say "that's all there is." Use stego to hide data. Use encrypted filesystems for convenience. If you try to put the two together, you'll probably end up with feature-bloat. The idea of an encrypted filesystems being accessable over the internet sounds interesting, though. Sort of a cross between NFS and CFS. Would be great for backup purposes. ===================================================================== | Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | | Email: steve(a)edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | | PGP (2048/9F317269) Fingerprint: 11C89D1CD67287E68C09EC52443F8830 | | -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, TANSTAAFL, IANAL. -- | ===================================================================:)

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Re: Surf-filter lists
by declan＠well.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Fine, call it "blocking," "restricting access to," or "muzzling." My point still stands. -Declan >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >> More to the point, as I wrote at the end of the original CWD, it's a >> bait-and-switch maneuver. Go after porn, they say, but the censor political >> information. > >ARGH! I've been keeping quiet about this for a while, but I thing I >gotta say something before I throttle my Zip drive... > ><rant>A Private organization cannot "censor" anything. The fundamental >definition of the word require some agent of the government take action >to censor. To accuse Surf-Watch, net-nanny, AOL, MSU, AT&T, or whatever >of "censorship" accomplishes nothing except to make us look the >fool.</rant> > >I agree that the problem with the "bait-and-switch" filtering of net >materials by these various filtering packages needs to be addressed. If I >want to protect my kids from seeing alt.naughty.pictures, I shoudl still >be able to unfilter political and health speech. The real problem isn't >censorship, it's disclosure by the makers of filtering packages about >what exactly their packages are going to filter for me and my family. >However, in the upcoming war of filtering packages (and it will get ugly) >trade secrets are going to make any company hesitant to reveal what it is >they are filtering and what criteria they are using to determine if >something qualifies. > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: 2.6.2 >Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 2.2 > >iQCVAwUBMe0jezokqlyVGmCFAQH0SAP+ONXs2f4GxjIrC6cp2sc9CgTrebL4cBWB >UqpH4H3UO0TiKZN4T6MGVC6kCA3OwQnd0DNC0f0D6+iZTPkwN228Am6ZH4+t9hZs >OrmCbZCiWZipLfT1gphIHqFHSqIQ506LkkGgLK0gjsS2ahrI+cNYJA3yYBviMkB1 >zuj1KRJ+pMk= >=ddI5 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden(a)krypton.mankato.msus.edu >\ /__ Finger for Geek Code Info <=> Finger for PGP Public Key > \/ / -=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- > \/ http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden/Welcome.html > >-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >Version: 3.12 >GED/J d-- s:++>: a- C++(++++)$ ULUO++ P+>+++ L++ !E---- W+(---) N+++ o+ >K+++ w+(---) O- M+$>++ V-- PS++(+++)>$ PE++(+)>$ Y++ PGP++ t- 5+++ X++ >R+++>$ tv+ b+ DI+++ D+++ G+++++>$ e++$>++++ h r-- y+** >------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Philippine government moves to block incoming net-porn
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:44:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship Subject: Philippine government moves to block incoming net-porn The attached note appears to have been sent to all ISPs in the Philippines. It asks them to report back on how they can "block entry of pornographic materials through the INTERNET." Note how it equates censoring porn with preventing sex tourism. General information about international net-censorship is at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/international/ http://www.eff.org/pub/Global/Singapore/ Thanks to David Sobel for forwarding this. -Declan =================================================== REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 865 VIBAL BLDG., EDSA CORNER TIMES ST., Q. C. 15 July 1996 M E M O R A N D U M TO: ALL REGISTERED VALUE ADDED SERVICES PROVIDERS RE: REQUEST OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO BAR OR BLOCK ENTRY OF PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS THROUGH THE INTERNET The Special Committee for Children, constituted pursuant to E.O. 275 dated 14 September 1995, is tasked to ensure the special protection of children from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation, discrimination and other conditions prejudicial to their development. Said Committee takes action on specific issues involving the implementation of the provisions of R. A. 7610 which covers several areas of concern, among others, child prostitution and other sexual abuse; child trafficking; obscene publications and indecent shows using children as performers or models; other acts of neglect, abuse, cruelty or exploitation and other conditions predjudicial to the child's development. The Committee has raised the concern on the INTERNET being used as a very convenient medium for advertising sex tourism in the Philippines, with particular focus on the alleged availability of Filipino children for sexual liaisons and entertainment. Some materials used in the network for the afformentioned puprose were given to this Commission. Secretary Teofisto T. Guingona, Jr., Department of Justice, requested this Commission to bar or block entry of pornographic materials through the INTERNET. In view of this, you are requested to give your comments/position and suggestions on this matter, particularly on the possibility of barring or blocking pornographic materials through the INTERNET, and submit the same to this Commission by 18 July 1996 attention to Director Edgardo V. Cabarios, CCAD at fax no. 921-7128. Your cooperation and prompt action on this matter is greatly appreciated. Signed Simeon J. Kintanar Commissioner

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