December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Mail OnNet
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In my never-ending search for the perfect PGP e-mail client, I just stumbled on to a beta of a product put out by FTP Software called Mail OnNet. Unlike the Pronto Secure and Pegasus, this client actually has PGP code (licensed from PGP Inc.) built directly in. No shelling out to DOS! Very nice interface and almost complete idiot-proof encrypting/decrypting/signing. Extremely powerful rules based processing too. Check out: http://www.ftp.com/mkt_info/onnet32/try.htm IMHO, this is getting very close to transparent secure e-mail for the masses. Joel Two notes. (1) It only runs under Win95 and NT. (2) It's ITAR restricted.

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wardialer
by patrickbc＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does any body know where I can get a half decent war dialer.

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Re: BoS: Re: your mail
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jan Koum wrote: > Well, I think we all seen and heard what type of people use >phrases like: "Thank You for your cooperation". Yowsuh! We sho' nuffs be all done seen 'em. Stanford, hmm?

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Re: Anti-Racist Laws Stifle Political Liberty
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:01 AM 8/29/96 -0700, Dave Harman OBC wrote: > Some examples of dangerous dead letter laws: > > * Abortion > > [...] If > the previous Supreme Court decisions are overturned, most states will > suddenly start enforcing their fascist anti-abortion laws. This seems unlikely; Abortion was illegal in the US for about 75 years before there was any serious attempt to enforce these laws. As soon as people got serious about enforcing them in the 1950s, the shit hit the fan. No semi free country has ever got away with banning abortion unless there was a convenient neighbor a short day trip away, where abortions are reasonably available. (If Ulster went back to Ireland, I predict Irelands policy on abortions would swiftly change) Your points concerning other dangerous dead letter laws are very true. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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: Penet Bites the Dust
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:13 PM 8/30/96 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote: > An interesting Net tidbit. Note that the "International Conference > on Child Sexual Exploitation" in Stolkholm which served as a platform > for these accusations and various coordinated stories in numerous > media outlets is simply a circus put on by ECPAT, a well-known > pressure group whose propaganda is modeled after the now-defunct > National Coalition on Pornography, and whose spurious and laughable > claims about child pornography and vast pedophile conspiracies would fill > volumes. The only odd thing here is that the mainstream press is > presenting this gathering with a perfectly straight face, as if it were > some sort of credible event, which of course it is not. Nothing odd about it. Everytime a new medium appears, the old media run to the politicians to have it controlled and regulated to death. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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: Desubscribe
by Johnny Eriksson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Whoever uses the term "spam" in a non-derogratory manor is an > arsehole and deserves to be shipped to sweden where they shall be > made into cheese by nuns. No thanks, we do not want them. --Johnny "A government that fears its citizens -- should"

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Re: FLT 800: From the Rumor Mill...But It Makes Sense.. (fwd)
by Alan Horowitz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 21:29:56 -0400 From: Ralph Jennett <jennett(a)citicom.com> To: Alan Horowitz <alanh(a)widomaker.com> Subject: Re: FLT 800: From the Rumor Mill...But It Makes Sense.. The problem is, from my experience at Roosevelt Roads, the Navy never conducts live fire exercises without declaring the area of operation strictly off limits to non-military aircraft. Also, the 747 would have shown up WITH ITS TRANSPONDER DATA on the screens on an Aegis ship, so why would they fire? And, I didn't think that a P3 pilot would fly around in controlled air space with his transponder shut off, especially when he might become a target himself (or just a victum of a mid air collision) if he isn't squawking. I suppose the story that you sent could be true, but if it is, I'm surprised that nothing like that ever happened before, given the sloppy procedures being followed. The latest RELEASED data makes it sound like a bomb in the cabin (row 24, right side) is responsible. I'm not sure that I don't believe that, although I am quite suspicious of anything coming out of the justice department under the current President and Attorney General.

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Re: PGP Comments Considered Occasionally Harmful Re: Pronto making a comment
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 01:44:15 -0700, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com wrote: >>> How did you get Pronto to do a comment? >>I added a "comment=" in my config.txt ;) ... the old fashionned way. >... >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>Version: 2.6.3i >>Charset: ascii >>Comment: http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock/PGP/ > >Note that the comment makes traffic analysis much easier. >Sure, you can send your mail through five different remailers, >but if each layer of PGP has your home page URL or some other >distinctive Comment:, it's traceable. OTOH, a signature has your distinctive key-id anyway. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: WARNING vIRuS!
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 11:21:05 -0500, 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! As soon as you said that, it's obvious it's a hoax. The first law of computer viruses: You have to run a program to get one. JPG and GIF files are *never* executed. There is no possible way for you to get a virus from one. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Esther Dyson on Remailers
by P. J. Ponder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

pretty grim reading in the LA Times article if that is really the EFF position on remailers. could someone straighten this out, or at least give us the EFF's view of why remailers are a bad thing? with friends like that, who needs enemies? --------------- So long, Julf - Thank you for a valuable public service! Best of luck to you! -- to unsubscribe, mail to majordomo(a)toad.com a message that reads: unsubscribe cypherpunks (in the message body, not subject line).

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