December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Spam from the FBI
by David Bull 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.firstbase.com/fbi.htm -- PGP welcome. Finger for key.

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An extra five years? / Re: An apology...
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Devious Dave Honig wrote: :Indeed. So that we can prevent this from happening again, I'll :reveal my deadly hacker tools. Alta Vista and Beer. Doesn't use of Alta Vista and Beer in commission of what authorities wish was a crime make you subject to an extra five years in prison for your next speeding ticket? :Why is the CIA is so full of spies? To keep an eye on each other... ~~~~ Toto <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca> ~~~~ "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/webworld "InfoWar -- The Digital Revolution" http://bureau42.base.org/public/infowar3 "Space Aliens Hide My Drugs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/sahmd

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Password For No Bullshit Sex Site
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is an honest to god ma and pa run sex site as far as I can tell. I didnt get a million UCEs after requesting their password. +++++ The following legal warning is sent with EVERY username/password that we send out, (as this little note will now be), and is not written specifically toward you, but as a general warning for everyone, so please don't write back and take it personally. This is our way of further protecting ourselves legally, without using an AVS or Credit Card Number. The username and password ARE contained in the body of the letter which follows this warning. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This letter is NOT SPAM! It is being sent to you at YOUR OWN REQUEST. If you did not request this letter, then someone else using your e-mail account or posing as you, most certainly did. Please reply immediately if you suspect someone else is fraudently accessing your mail account, so that we can contact the proper authorities with the headers of the original email, and add you to our mail filters so that any further mail sent from your address will immediately be discarded, and you will NEVER receive a password from us again. We repeat, THIS INFORMATION WAS NOT SENT UNSOLICITED! DO NOT EVEN READ THIS LETTER IF YOU ARE NOT OF LEGAL AGE TO VIEW ADULT MATERIALS IN YOUR COMMUNITY! By requesting, reading and acting upon this letter, you have sworn that you are of legal age to view said material and would not be breaking any of the laws of your community. In most areas of the USA the legal age for access to adult materials is either 18 or 21. You MUST know the law for your area! YOU are responsible for your own actions. If someone using this email account attempts to gain access to our site by hacking a fraudulent account, we will be forced to file charges. Please help us keep the internet safe and free by honoring our request to make certain that it is legal for you to view hardcore adult materials. Our only alternative to counting on your honesty is to take our site to credit card only access. We don't want to do that if we don't have to, so please be honest with us and keep the net free for everyone. Thank you <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Hi there, Mr. and Mrs. Hackula here... Thank you for your help. Please don't bookmark our picture pages, as they are subject to change. You can always access our site through: <http://www.pornquest.com/>http://www.pornquest.com OR <http://www.ixpres.com/hackula/porn/index.html>http://www.ixpres.com/hackul a/porn/index.html And while you're there, please check out our sponsors, because they are the one's who are now keeping us free, instead of us having to use an AVS or making our site a pay-site. Even our sponsors offer a whole month completely free. :) HERE IS THE CURRENT USERNAME AND PASSWORD FOR OUR HOMEPAGE. Username: lazlosnerd Password: nitrocola To enter these passwords, you must first click the link on our page that says, "Come on in for some Milk and Cookies." You will then see a box requesting the un/pw. Enter the words exactly as they appear here... No capital letters. Please save this email, or if you write down the un/pw, make sure you spell them correctly. Please remember not to give these to anyone else. Please do not publish them anywhere, and please inform us if you find them published somewhere on the web, or you find a page that links PAST our password request page... Thank you for your cooperation! Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. Hackula <http://www.pornquest.com/>http://www.pornquest.com

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So we can expect lower taxes, now...right?
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Paul Craig Roberts -- former Treasury Department subaltern during the Reagan administration -- makes a convincing case that America's "Department of Justice" is now engaging in fund-raising tactics little removed from that old standby of Tijuana justice. "Junk Bond King" Michael Milken -- now semi-retired to Northern Nevada -- "has been thrice held for ransom" in unjustified prosecutions, Roberts argues in a March 31 column in Investor's Business Daily. "Milken forked over $600 million to buy his way out of a 98-count indictment that University of Chicago law professor Daniel Fischal has shown to be as phony as a $3 bill. "Milken was next seized by the Resolution Trust Corp. and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. To buy his way out of endless litigation" -- funded by the taxpayers, of course -- "Milken handed over $900 million." Casting covetous eyes on the $42 million consulting fee Milken had been paid by News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and MCI's Bert Roberts, the regulators demanded Milken fork it over -- plus a $5 million bonus -- before they would give him a clean bill of health with his parole judge. Once the government had his money in hand, the Justice Department wrote to the judge, indicating it had found no reason to pursue Milken for parole violations -- that Justice had decided he was innocent of any wrongdoing (start ital)before(end ital) he handed over his latest ransom. Milken was held up and robbed by the SEC in broad daylight for no other reason than the power the SEC has to extract ransoms from chosen victims." Furthermore, Robert concludes, "...What we have witnessed is a conspiracy between the SEC and the Justice Department to rob a man of $47 million." All this would be bad enough if we could believe Mr. Milken alone had been singled out for such attentions. But in a passing reference in its March 9 coverage of the federal "antitrust" case against Bill Gates' Microsoft, Newsweek mentions the same antitrust team has "painful memories of the endless 1970s and '80s IBM breakup case, which turned into an O.J.-like courtroom comedy until it was rendered moot by a market-spawned challenger to IBM ... Microsoft." How's that again? The "crimes" in question became "moot" once the chosen victim lost his preeminence in the market, and thus his attractiveness for milking? So a necessary part of the definition of this "crime" is success, while all one must do to escape official "justice" is to lose market share? Curiouser and curiouser. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The web site for the Suprynowicz column is at http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. ~~~~ Toto <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca> ~~~~ "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/webworld "InfoWar -- The Digital Revolution" http://bureau42.base.org/public/infowar3 "Space Aliens Hide My Drugs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/sahmd

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Re: Cryptography Policy poll at computer.org
by Terry Drymonacos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can you be more specific Mike? exact URL? I can't seem to find it.. At 01:25 PM 4/5/98 -0400, you wrote: > I thought that this might be of some interest to cypherpunks... > > Go to http://www.computer.org and follow the member poll link >from there. > > Mike Terry Drymonacos MailTo:statt@usa.net get 0xE5751CD1 via keyserver fingerprint= 1AD3 F57E 7751 2107 A561 42E7 1C9C C14B Hail Eris!

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Info War Festival
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://web.aec.at/infowar/ ----- Ars Electronica Festival 98 INFOWAR - information. macht. krieg. 7. - 12.9.1998 Linz, Austria Presse - Information [Excerpts] 20.3.1998 Ars Electronica, one of the world's most highly-acclaimed festivals at the interface of art, technology and society, has been presented annually since 1979. INFOWAR, the title of this year's festival, places the strategies of data-supported wars - from the Gulf Conflict to the skirmishes of cyberguerillas - into the focal point of artistic as well as theoretical and scientific interest, to thereby shed light on the internal logic of the information society in connection with war. Numerous events, installations, network projects, performances and a symposium make up the festival's program to confront and deal with this subject. Symposium INFOWAR September 8 - 9, 1998 New weapons systems and military strategies will not exclusively occupy the middle point of these discussions. The aim is to elaborate on "information as a strategic weapon," the power of the media as political power, the new potential hot spots of conflict and new images of "enemy" in an information society characterized by global economic and financial markets. But this also has to do with hacker myths, cryptography, electronic bugging operations, and the serious concerns regarding national security versus private citizens' fears of the complete loss of the right of privacy. This symposium will deploy works of art and artistic responsibility as methods for coming to terms with these issues and achieving increased sensibility toward them. ----- Introduction The information society - no longer a vague promise of a better future, but a reality and a central challenge of the here-and-now - is founded upon the three key technologies of electricity, telecommunications and computers: Technologies developed for the purposes, and out of the logic, of war, technologies of simultaneity and coherence, keeping our civilian society in a state of permanent mobilisation driven by the battle for markets, resources and spheres of influence. A battle for supremacy in processes of economic concentration, in which the fronts, no longer drawn up along national boundaries and between political systems, are defined by technical standards. A battle in which the power of knowledge is managed as a profitable monopoly of its distribution and dissemination. The latest stock market upheavals have laid bare the power of a global market, such as only the digital revolution could have fathered, and which must be counted as the latter¹s most widely-felt direct outcome. The digitally-networked market of today wields more power than the politicians. Governments are losing their say in the international value of their currencies; they can no longer control, but only react. The massive expansion of freely-accessible communication networks, itself a global economic necessity, imposes severe constraints on the arbitrary restriction of information flows. Any transgression of a critical control functions in the cybertechnologies¹ sphere of responsibility and influence puts central power wielders in a hitherto unheard-of position of vulnerability and openness to attack. The geographic frontiers of the industrial age are increasingly losing their erstwhile significance in global politics, and giving way to vertical fronts along social stratifications. Whereas, in the past, war was concerned with the conquering of territory, and later with the control of production capacities, war in the 21st century is entirely concerned with the acquisition and exercise of power over knowledge. The three fronts of land, sea and air battles have been joined by a fourth, being set up within the global information systems. Spurred on by the "successes" of the Gulf war, the development of information warfare is running at full speed. Increasingly, the attention of the military strategists is turning away from computer-aided warfare - from potentiation of the destructive efficiency of military operations through the application of information technology, virtual reality and high-tech weaponry - to cyberwar, whose ultimate target is nothing less than the global information infrastructure itself: annihilation of the enemy¹s computer and communication systems, obliteration of his databases, destruction of his command and control systems. Yet increasingly the vital significance of the global information infrastructure for the functioning of the international finance markets compels the establishment of new strategic objectives: not obliteration, but manipulation, not destruction, but infiltration and assimilation. "Netwar" as the tactical deployment of information and disinformation, targeted at human understanding. These new forms of post-territorial conflicts, however, have for some time now ceased to be preserve of governments and their ministers of war. NGOs, hackers, computer freaks in the service of organised crime, and terrorist organisations with high-tech expertise are now the chief actors in the cyberguerilla nightmares of national security services and defence ministries. In 1998, under the banner of "INFO WAR", the Ars Electronica Festival of Art, Technology and Society, is appealing to artists, theoreticians and technologists for contributions relating to the social and political definition of the information society. The emphasis here will lie not on technological flights of fancy, but on the fronts drawn up in a society that is in a process of fundamental and violent upheaval.

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MCs Write Clinton on Crypto
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

More congressionals are sending POTUS cryptograms: http://jya.com/mcs-potus.htm Signers: Richard A. Gephardt, M.C. Zoe Lofgren, M.C. Vic Fazio, M.C. Martin Frost, M.C. Sam Gejdenson, M.C. John Conyers, Jr., M.C. Edward J. Markey, M.C. Anna G. Eshoo, M.C. Rick Boucher, M.C. Calvin M. Dooley, M.C. James P. Moran, M.C. Adam Smith, M.C.

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17 Dec '03

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by Interactive Services 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[noise] Java Ring Crypto iButton
by travish+cp-02＠dejanews.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.dalsemi.com/News_Center/Press_Releases/1998/prjavaring.html JVM, 8-bit processor, 6k SRAM, some tamper-resistant features, RTC, and 1024-bit math accelerator in a US$50 ring. Cool. I remember someone telling me recently some MIT folks had done some research in using the human body as a communication bus. That seems like a synergistic technology to wearable crypters. ObSorryIfYou'veSeenThisAlready: true -- Travis Hassloch Database Administrator, Deja News Inc. More funky styles than Adobe has fonts

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