December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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Re: (null)
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:54:29 EDT, patrick b cummings wrote: >I am planning to make a list of hacker's of america and would appreciate >it for your help. please send me your > handle 3VIL HACK3R > e-mail address hacker(a)stupid.troll.com > city, state > (optional) your mailing address <G> Paranoia lives deep. I wouldn't count on many addresses from real hackers. > and url http://www.stupid.troll.com/HACK3RZ/k00d_d00d.html > whether or not you would like to recieve hackers list No. > type of hacking you do Dismembering people who post off topic? <g> >Thank You for your cooperation - "'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: Sen. Leahy's "impeccable cyberspace credentials"
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:11:52 EDT, patrick b cummings wrote: >I agree with what you are saying but not all polititions are that bad. >You make it sound as if their are no politisions are for freedom of the >net. For the most part there aren't. Why? Well the media has sensationalized it. How many politicians want to go on record as "protecting the rights of child-pornographers"? Now, this isn't a major portion of Internet usage, but you'd never know that from what you read in the paper. If you only listened to them, it'd be something like this: 40% kiddie-porn 20% terrorists, bomb instructions, etc. 15% "evil hackers" who are going to steal our money, shut off our power, etc. 10% hate groups 10% pornography 03% right-wing gun nuts 02% other (research, entertainment, etc) - "'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: Los Angeles Times article on Helsingius and anon.penet.fi
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:54:37 -0700, Lance Cottrell wrote: >>Note Esther Dyson's comments: >> "The damage that can be done by anonymity is far bigger" than in >> any other medium, said Esther Dyson, chairwoman of the Electronic >> Frontier Foundation. "In the end, you need to be able to get at >> somebody's identity to enforce accountability, and the question is how >> do you also enforce freedom of speech and freedom from prosecution for >> unpopular opinions." <SNIP> >Is this the official EFF position on remailers? This strong anti-remailer >position needs to be retracted or widely publicized. I doubt they'd publicize it; it'd probably cost them a *lot* of supporters. - "'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 Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:21 AM 8/31/96 -0500, kickboxer ingnoring the "clueserver refused by host" messages 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! This is the clueless kind of crap I expect pitched to AOL users and upper level management. GIF and JPEGs contain *NO* executable code. You cannot get viruses from them. You obviously have no clue as to what the hell you are talking about. The only way that you could obtain the effects described above is with Black Magic and/or Voodoo. (And not even then.) I remember a similar hoax going around about 3-4 years ago about viruses in image files. I guess nothing on the net is ever forgotten entirely. Especially the urban legends and bullshit. --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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RE: Desubscribe
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Whoever uses the term "spam" in derogatory manner, opposes free > speech and deserves to be caned. 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. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =riHc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Encryption
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Algorithm: Select bit-groups of random length from the file until the file is > completely processed. Shuffle the bits in each group randomly and > save each group back to the file. Repeat if needed using different > key-strings for each successive encryption, for increased security. You pay no attention whatsoever to key distribution, the fact that this is just a form of permutation and no substitution is used, also how do you account for the fact that the user`s random number source may not be strong, even recognized rng`s like the keyboard latency routines in pgp grind to a halt when faced with a hardware perculiarity like a keyboard buffer etc... Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =riHc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Esther Dyson on Remailers
by Dave Farber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

EFF does not, to my knowledge, (and I am a Board Member) have an organizational view on this issue. There are a lot of different views and each member of EFF has their own view that they can and will state as private people. The tendency of the Press to label people with organizations affiliation ship gives the impression of organizational views. For example I certainly don't speak for the University of Pennsylvania when I say thing to the newspapers. Dave http://macpond.cis.upenn.edu

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Pseudonym server: Jenaer Anonymous Service <anon@as-node.jena.thur.de>
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jenaer Anonymous Service <anon(a)as-node.jena.thur.de> looks like a high-security pseudonym server. You can send outgoing mail to email or newsgroups. It accepts encrypted email addressed to anon-hexkeyid(a)as-node.jena.thur.de, where hexkeyid is the keyid for a PGP key you send it; it doesn't store any information about the owner of the key. To pick up your mail, you send it an encrypted message with the keyid and a Reply-To: header, and it sends you your mail by mixmaster. It's a bit less user-friendly than some servers, since you not only need PGP, but you need to pick up your mail rather than having it arrive directly. But in return, it's pretty secure, since you can only get caught if the remailer or its operator are compromised when you request a delivery. I haven't yet checked if how flexible it is about the location of Reply-To: in the headers, since some mailers make it difficult to paste that in. The public key for the server is signed by Lutz.Donnerhacke(a)Jena.Thur.De, which is in turn signed by 0x3B7F286D, which MIT thinks is an unknown signator... The help message has a policy against illegal activity, flamewars, and binary files, and says people can be blacklisted for abuse. Because you don't get your reply email until you ask to pick it up, it does seem easy to abuse; complaints, flames, and mailbombs won't reach you if you don't ask for them. I hope the operator doesn't mind the workload of managing the remailer - it looks like a good service, and with Julf's remailer shut down, we need more nymservers. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!

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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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