December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

EMI, Van Eck, etc.
by The Spectre 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In almost every writing I've come across regarding Van Eck, I notice the phrase "...simply a modified television" or something along those lines. Does anyone have a document for actually modifying a television set to do this sort of thing? It doesn't have to be extremely long ranged, and could in fact be very short range.. I am interested in performing my own experiments into defeating this sort of eavesdropping. Also, would it be possible to scramble the signal into an unusable level by simply putting another device emanating RF at the snooping frequencies nearby the machine that you want to protect? Something generating white noise at that frequency, but with a purposely built antenna, say a high gain type turned outward from the monitor, with a significantly higher power output than the monitor? Thanks.. -The Spectre [SP4 w/ Clam Cluster] -http://www.anthrax.net/cos "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." - La Rochefoucauld

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No Subject
by Kevin Mahoney 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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You've got to save room for desert...
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Takes 18 bee hummingbirds to weigh as much as a shot of whiskey. ============================================== LMBoyd Web Site / U. S. Newspapers / Start Email / Stop Email http://www.LMBoyd.com/postscript.htm

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They don't need no stinking privacy!
by A. Sheeple 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

An Open Letter To The CypherPunks: Due to the large amounts of ridicule heaped upon the Sheeple family by members of the CypherPunks list, I have decided to write to the list to clarify a few of the issues on which our family's stances are apparently misunderstood by people outside the pen. First of all, we are AdamAnt about retaining our right to privacy, but we recognize the need for the authorities to invade other people's right to privacy, in order to protect us from them. We demand our right to a fair and impartial trial before a jury of our peers, but we recognized the need for law enforcement agencies and the justice system to take whatever steps are needed to make certain that others are convicted in accordance with the desires of the majority of their betters, according to the results of the Sheeple polls taken by CNN and People's Court. (Note: We, the Sheeple, are willing to do our part, and look the other way when those responsible for our protection need to stretch the boundaries of belief by claiming that a black wife-beater is not a suspect in the murder of his wife and her white lover, as they climb over a fence onto his private property, without a warrant, saying, "We're white men from the government, and we're here to help a Black-Afro American.] We wish to exercise our right to have security in our private communications by employing strong cryptography, but we also recognize the need for our government to intercept communications by foreigners, in order to protect us and to manipulate world events in a manner that will keep the price of our TV's as low as possible. We wish to exercise our right to free speech, but we recognize the need of authorities to prevent filth and vermin from using disgusting and perverted language such as, "Baah...Baah...", instead of righteous and politically correct language such as "Baaa...Baaa." In short, or position is that we wish to retain all of our rights and freedoms, but support them being compromised or taken away from others, for the good of the Sheeple. A. Sheeple

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fight back at SPAM!
by nobody＠nsm.htp.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I received some annoying spam today. Unbelievably, they included a 1-800 number. Since they wasted my time, I thought I'd call them up and waste their time (on their nickel!). I got a recording asking me to leave a message. I then called back and it stated that this was my last call for the day. Apparently they only accept two phone calls from each distinct phone number. The phone number is 1-800-338-6150 if anyone else feels like calling them up and tying up their phone line. I'm not going to mention what they're selling, since that would be doing them a favor. Maybe when they get their phone bill they will realize the problems associated with direct email marketing on the Internet. ;-) If a honest-to-goodness live person answers, just talk to 'em and try to keep them on the line as long as possible. Ask questions about their product, etc. The longer they talk to you, the more it costs them! You get the picture! Enjoy!

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The Rapist from the Internet Chat Room
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alleged `Cybersex' Victim Testifies By SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK -- A woman who says a graduate student she met online tied her up and raped her in his apartment tearfully described for jurors how she begged, "Don't rape me, don't dismember me, don't kill me" before escaping. In emotional testimony Tuesday, the 22 -year-old woman said she managed to untie herself from a futon, fight off her assailant and flee. "I was sore. I was exhausted. I didn't want to move," she said, then describing how she loosed the cloth strips: "I felt so good! I got it undone and I stood up! I got it undone! I looked at him and he looked frightened! I'm not going to die!" The witness, who said she was naked while tied up, said she grabbed her clothes and got dressed while running for the door and fighting off the man who had held her as a sex captive for more than 20 hours. "He tried to catch me," she said. "I just kept fighting. I wouldn't let him get any part of me. I ran to the door and clenched the handle because I was not going to be tied up again." The woman says her tormentor was Oliver Jovanovic, 31, a Columbia University doctoral candidate in molecular biology whom she met in an Internet chat room. Jovanovic is charged with kidnapping, sodomy, aggravated sex abuse and assault against the woman in his apartment following their first date Nov. 22, 1996. The woman said Jovanovic had tied her up, dripped hot candle wax on her abdomen and genital area, bit her breasts until they bled and used a nightstick to sexually abuse her. The woman said Jovanovic attacked her after a discussion about good and evil and became upset when she said she believes people are not inherently evil. He then ordered her to undress, she said. Defense lawyer Jack Litman said no violence occurred between the two and that any sexual activity, while it might have been unusual, was consensual. He quoted from e-mail messages sent by the woman to Jovanovic before and after their date in which she talks about sadomasochism in what appear to be terms of approval. The e-mail messages the woman sent to Jovanovic included one that reads "Rough is good," and another that reads "I would go through the pleasure of hell's pain." The woman testified that she sought out Jovanovic because she thought he was intelligent, knowledgeable and interesting. Litman called the woman unstable and overly imaginative. He said she is blaming the evening's activity on Jovanovic to absolve herself of something she likes but considers dirty.

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PRZ on PGP/NAI/TIS/Key Recovery
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:48:48 -0500 To: jya(a)jya.com From: Ed Stone <estone(a)synernet.com> Subject: PGP/NAI merger and key recovery I received the following email from Phil Zimmermann, regarding concerns I have expressed about NAI's acquisition of TIS, a substantial contractor to the National Security Agency, and a major developer of key recovery capabilities. >> begin PRZ email<<< Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:20:34 -0800 To: estone(a)synernet.com From: Philip Zimmermann <prz(a)pgp.com> Subject: PGP/NAI merger and key recovery Cc: prz(a)pgp.com Ed, I saw your recent remarks in comp.security.pgp.discuss. I'd like to make a few points. You may quote me on this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mergers are complex operations, especially mergers of publicly traded companies of this size. NAI and TIS will not fully close the merger deal for about 60 days. Until then, there are many policy details we cannot discuss in public. NAI has no plans to incorporate TIS's key recovery technology in any version of PGP, including our business versions. I have discussed this point with NAI management. I have not changed my political values regarding privacy and crypto. I would not have allowed the sale of my company to NAI if they were going to buy PGP in order to bury PGP, as some have feared. They bought PGP because they value the reputation that PGP has earned in the industry. They want to preserve that reputation by preserving PGP's product integrity. I plan to keep watch over PGP's product integrity for the foreseeable future. NAI plans to keep publishing our source code for peer review. Source code publication in printed books is a vital part of NAI's business strategy, especially its overseas strategy. There will be an important announcement on this subject on 20 March at CeBit in Hannover Germany. -Philip Zimmermann -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.5.5 iQA/AwUBNQ+RzWPLaR3669X8EQLuRwCcDowyBBr32YtbsnYSHy6clTW+7CwAnjpk KnVN0NVreBNuIOyxsAcWIb40 =vY/q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>end PRZ email<<< -- ------------------- Ed Stone estone(a)synernet.com -------------------

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Re: EMI, Van Eck, etc.
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Michael Graffam wrote: >Find the Unofficial Tempest Homepage (sorry, dont have the URL handy.. That's Joel McNamara's bountiful and ever-growing TEMPEST site: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html While the work of Markus Kuhn and Ross Anderson provide more recent unclassified information Joel has a standing request for any TEMPEST material that is created by research or liberated from tax-pits and fat corp labs. Some black stuff comes over the transom. RF and EM offensive and defensive weapons are whitehot in national security labs around the globe, and probably equally so in commercial cages where NDA transgressors are hoovering dual-usage technologies out of MOD's coffers like subway turnstile-suckers.

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PRZ comments
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> begin PRZ email<<< Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:20:34 -0800 To: estone(a)synernet.com From: Philip Zimmermann <prz(a)pgp.com> Subject: PGP/NAI merger and key recovery Cc: prz(a)pgp.com Ed, I saw your recent remarks in comp.security.pgp.discuss. I'd like to make a few points. You may quote me on this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mergers are complex operations, especially mergers of publicly traded companies of this size. NAI and TIS will not fully close the merger deal for about 60 days. Until then, there are many policy details we cannot discuss in public. NAI has no plans to incorporate TIS's key recovery technology in any version of PGP, including our business versions. I have discussed this point with NAI management. I have not changed my political values regarding privacy and crypto. I would not have allowed the sale of my company to NAI if they were going to buy PGP in order to bury PGP, as some have feared. They bought PGP because they value the reputation that PGP has earned in the industry. They want to preserve that reputation by preserving PGP's product integrity. I plan to keep watch over PGP's product integrity for the foreseeable future. NAI plans to keep publishing our source code for peer review. Source code publication in printed books is a vital part of NAI's business strategy, especially its overseas strategy. There will be an important announcement on this subject on 20 March at CeBit in Hannover Germany. -Philip Zimmermann -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.5.5 iQA/AwUBNQ+RzWPLaR3669X8EQLuRwCcDowyBBr32YtbsnYSHy6clTW+7CwAnjpk KnVN0NVreBNuIOyxsAcWIb40 =vY/q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>end PRZ email<<< -- ------------------- Ed Stone estone(a)synernet.com ------------------- I'm just curious, and no offense intended, but Phil's signature is bad in the signed message. I'm using PGP 5.55, and it has his key in it, and it doesn't check out. "Things that make you go 'hmmmmm'".......

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by inquiry＠asset-max.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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