December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

"This way to the egress"
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

P.T. Barnum also said something about suckers, too... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- First Data, First USA Paymentech, GE Capital Invest in First Virtual Holdings Wednesday 96.09.18 - San Diego, CA USA - First Virtual Holdings, Inc., developer of Internet transaction systems, announced today that First Data Corp. and First USA Paymentech, Inc., two of the nation's largest credit card processing companies, and GE Capital have invested a total of $12.5 million in First Virtual Holdings, Inc. "This strategic alliance reinforces our belief that electronic commerce is coming of age on the Internet," said Lee Stein, chairman and chief executive officer of First Virtual. "It creates a powerful new combination between First Virtual, with its proven on-line transaction system, and leading credit card acquiring and processing companies. This represents a tremendous vote of confidence in our system by three industry leaders." In addition, the companies are discussing joint marketing agreements based on the concept of giving more than 200 million card holders automatic buying power on the Internet using the secure VirtualPIN(TM) identifier from First Virtual. "We expect that this partnership will enable First Virtual to significantly broaden its global marketing," Stein said. "Our secure e-mail based system is proven, easy to use and doesn't require specialized technologies. The VirtualPIN(TM) serves as the only identifier an individual needs for conducting business in cyberspace. It enables sellers and buyers on the Internet to link securely to any currency, payment system or standard verification system. With First Data, First USA Paymentech and GE Capital as partners, we anticipate more rapid acceptance of the Internet as an important distribution channel for businesses of all sizes." Stein said First Virtual created its VirtualPIN and Internet payment system to be part of a more complex transactional e-mail system for future marketing, customer service, communications and transaction applications. "The VirtualPIN provides the single identifier that can tie together all parts of the marketing and distribution chain: initial information, outbound offer, purchase order, confirmation, credit verification, transaction settlement and fulfilment of the order," said Stein. "The VirtualPIN serves as a convenient and secure alias for an individual's identity, including e- mail address and personal, demographic, shipping and financial information. This gives new power and privacy to the individual and puts him or her at the center of the electronic marketing universe." Stein said Pamela Patsley, chief executive officer of First USA Paymentech, Inc., and John McKinley, chief technology officer of GE Capital, have been elected to the First Virtual board of directors. ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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Re: A daily warning regarding Timothy C. May
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Thu Sep 19 23:39:14 1996 Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Fri, 20 Sep 96 01:23:58 EDT for paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA02597 for dvl(a)bwalk.dm.com; Thu, 19 Sep 96 23:39:14 -0400 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([(null)]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ah16490; 19 Sep 96 17:22 BST Received: from fatmans.demon.co.uk ([158.152.120.223]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa18174; 19 Sep 96 17:06 BST Received: from fatmans.demon.co.uk by fatmans.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA843059897 ; Wed, 18 Sep 96 15:18:17 +0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> From: paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk To: dvl(a)bwalk.dm.com Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:18:16 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: A daily warning regarding Timothy C. May Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Message-Id: <843149202.18174.0(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> > Timothy C. May is a lying sack of shit. Look, that is enough, I`m going to move to have you removed from the list if you keep this up... get a life fuckhead, if you are going to flame at least do it from your real address so people can killfile you, or maybe you believe censorship is better? 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: 2.6.3ia mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az6JAJUDBRAy NwfvNkCBjDT0xHEBATQPA/9TORmN/UjNecj03q4anpvdyCLiez5sKuNbnYK50RiP Jj4QpWWvST3smyQ0A86DrZY/re056MXwQmARESx0rFZxdnD0oORICl5r8dJLIy3b j8rbA5olXwZwKz73/X5s13v/pvHYX4cIsbVK8NHXqh5llSKt6TBAuGgkIGF29z5k C4kAlQMFEDI3B9mdtf/umVkv7QEBcRYD/1FBteLqsUmr81euxqqnnrpLlyHb58B/ 9sdATuua4uSjX46hXDZ264YozspNrzSB4NEdrmXOWVX3fiE0ga6XkSSkIeF23V90 En37Z0BdbFzgF00FRYTFyTq8eezQrdg/+rBPUsZUmG5wpq3e12FKHQsX01i+1mB2 YmqqwCV5e95eiQCVAgUQMh8uSb5OPIRbv66xAQEqJwP/fxQyiCasjFcbDpsFfsYp put5cCC/9pOx6X3DlbKShPMpUOS+A9HsTEmJQN8Iawv1nSwPdtc2cR/GhW6ilVjW LSloGdMVLabm9pGpZZMkRaZlXFUkOv7VhfgsUiL+vIDryBCAwUZCzQiWycjt/cPi mUqFH41Z7NkyO8ZFdi5GGX0= =CMZA -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: CIA hacked
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DMiskell(a)envirolink.org (Daniel Christopher Miskell) writes: > > > >Who created you? You tub of shit? > > > Dude, why do you even bother? It is simply not constructive to keep insulting > and stabbing at people. You gripe about the non-crypto-relevent stuff, then > you go and create it repeatedly. If you don't like what people have to say, > take your potty mouth to another list. You are confused. The above question was e-mailed to me by one of Timmy May's friends. I just forward their e-mail to this mailing list. I don't read it. If you have any comments about Timmy May's friends not knowing English, trying to insult people, and posting non-crypto-relevant political rants, address them to Timmy May and his friends. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: CIA hacked
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From koontz(a)netapp.com Fri Sep 20 09:16:24 1996 Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Fri, 20 Sep 96 11:08:54 EDT for dlv Received: from weaver-gw.netapp.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA10139 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Fri, 20 Sep 96 09:16:24 -0400 Received: from netapp.com ([192.9.200.1]) by weaver.netapp.com with SMTP id <15867-119>; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 06:17:39 +0100 Received: from elgreco.netapp.com by netapp.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19140; Fri, 20 Sep 96 06:16:19 PDT Received: by elgreco.netapp.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04474; Fri, 20 Sep 96 06:21:50 PDT Date: Fri, 20 Sep 96 06:21:50 PDT From: koontz(a)netapp.com (Dave Koontz) Message-Id: <9609201321.AA04474(a)elgreco.netapp.com> To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com Subject: Re: CIA hacked >Who created you? You tub of shit? Actually, english being my native language, and having paid attention in school, that should be: Who created you, you tub of shit?

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RE: Fuckhead
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Anonymous Oddsman 2
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Current English U.S. Presidential betting odds are now offered on 2 services, but there's no Perot bet at Ladbroke House, and no Harry Browne on either. Ladbrokes customer service @ +44 181 8621820 is still at Clinton 1:7, Dole 4:1 As promised, this time our roving reporter inquired about Harry Browne. The Libertarian candidate, once offered at 50:1 by Ladbroke House earlier this year, is not now offered. H. Ross Perot, perhaps reflecting the decision of the debate commission not to invite him, is also not offered at Ladbroke House. The wonderful thing about a free gambling marketplace, though, is that you can always go elsewhere if you want to take a gamble on Ross. The William Hill customer helpline @ +44 990 181715 said Clinton 1:8, Dole 9:2 and for Perot they can give you a whopping 250:1! Also, no odds given on Browne at William Hill, so in summary: Ladbroke House William Hill ------------------------------------------------------------ Clinton 1:7 (no change) 1:8 Dole 4:1 (no change) 9:2 Perot (was 50:1 now 0) 250:1 Browne * * ------------------------------------------------------------ *Not currently offered. Next posting when we get around to it, or when the situation seems to have changed substantially. Many thanks to our roving reporter for these numbers. anonymous oddsman.

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? for everyone!!!!
by PETER JAMES HRABINSKY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have a simple password.cgi script for HTML authorization/access? If so, please send it to me... Thank you for your time... Peter

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FCC's Hundt calls for univ service for Net, nixes iphone regs
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To the FCC's Reed Hundt, the Internet community is "governmentally challenged." But then, the commission's chairman honestly believes that FCC stands for "Friendly to Computer Communications." Yeah, right. That's what he said in a speech this week. The FCC faxed it to me today after I returned from a Cato Institute conference -- where, ironically enough, we spent a day talking about private ordering of the Net. The concept makes a kind of intrinsic sense to me: who needs government subsidies for Net connections when an account is just $10/month? The first half of the fax was mangled, thanks to the FCC's anything-but-high-tech communications technology, so I shoved it in my pocket and went for pizza with folks from the conference -- Eugene Volokh, Charles Platt, Duncan Frissel, Alan Lewine, Solveig Bernstein, and Brian LaMacchia. We chatted -- surprise! -- about the Feds' future Net-regulation attempts. When I got home and unfolded the fax, I found I could read the second half. It was horrific. While Hundt did say he'd keep the FCC's hands off of Net-telephony, he called for universal service for the Net. Universal service is bad, from an economic perspective, for the same reason that any subsidy scheme is bad: you're taking money out of one part of the economy and pushing it into another. It's also vulnerable to DC lobbyists in tasseled cordovan loafers descending on Capitol Hill calling for more cash. Hundt's scheme is more damming than it looks at first. In his speech, Hundt calls for reconsidering how the FCC will "vote next year on a new universal service funding mechanism." This slush fund isn't funded from general taxpayer revenues. The 1996 Telecom dereg act directs the FCC to rework the payment mechanism that feeds the universal service fund that all phone service providers must pay into. It does things like make urban customers pay more to subsidize rural telephone service. Companies that are eligible for subsidies suck cash from the fund -- and of course lobby for more along the way. Now Hundt seems to want to wire schools from this fund. (And what else? He doesn't quite say.) To replace the money from the account, the FCC has to grab more from phone companies, which means higher phone bills. Does this make sense or what? -Declan (PS: Note Hundt's email address is rhundt(a)fcc.gov.) ********* (Keystroked by declan(a)well.com) Reed Hundt speech excerpts: "My hope is that the power of the Internet will forcedrive our two-point FCC agenda -- competition in communications and public benefits from communications. That's why we've resisted all efforts to bring Internet communication within the out of date regulatory scheme we have inherited at the FCC. "The challenge now is for the govenmentally challenged Internet community to figure out how to talk to the FCC on this subject and what to say? After all, FCC stands for Friendly to Computer Communications. After all I'm the first FCC chairman ever to be on the Net -- so let me know -- rhundt(a)fcc.gov. What should our policies for bandwidth growth look like? "Now I'd like to move on to the second aspect of Hundt's Law, which is that everyone needs access to the Internet, either at home, at school, or in a library. Metcalfe's Law only applies when people can access the network, and if they know how to take advantage of the network access that is available to them... So even if we are successful in meeting the bandwidth challenge, we must still ensure that there is access. [...] "The investment to network our schools and libraries is so small and the payoff so large. Look at the math... Can it be that we have a 700 billion-dollar-a-year information technology industry and yet we can't afford to give every teacher the tools we give every shipping clerk at Wal Mart? Or that we could afford to network every classroom by the beginning of the next century, but somehow we just neglected to do it? At the FCC we will vote next year on a new universal service funding mechanism... The challenge I'm talking about is to provide bandwidth and access to all Americans, but especially in kids in classrooms... [Note that the 'we" paying for the shipping clerk's network is a private corporation spending its own money. But the second "we" is the government spending netizens' money. Guess the FCC can't tell the difference. --Declan] ###

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Re: FCC's Hundt calls for univ service for Net, nixes iphone regs
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote: (in quoting Reed Hundt) >"The investment to network our schools and libraries is so small and >the payoff so large. Look at the math... Can it be that we have a 700 >billion-dollar-a-year information technology industry and yet we can't >afford to give every teacher the tools we give every shipping clerk at >Wal Mart? Or that we could afford to network every classroom by the >beginning of the next century, but somehow we just neglected to do it? >At the FCC we will vote next year on a new universal service funding >mechanism... The challenge I'm talking about is to provide bandwidth >and access to all Americans, but especially in kids in classrooms... > >[Note that the 'we" paying for the shipping clerk's network is a >private corporation spending its own money. But the second "we" is the >government spending netizens' money. Guess the FCC can't tell the >difference. --Declan] Correct. And if "we" fund universal service, then "we" don't want to see anything on the Net about non-GAK crypto, the right to bear arms, freedom of association, chemistry, non-clothed persons, taxes, etc. etc. "We" feel that many if not "all American, but especially kids in classrooms" would be injured by these thoughts.

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G48_bul
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CIAC has issued Bulletin G-48 on the denial-of-service attacks by TCP SYN flooding and IP spoofing. Two "underground magazines" for intruders have recently published code to conduct denial-of-service attacks by creating TCP "half open" connections. Any system connected to the Internet and providing TCP-based network services such as a Web server, FTP server, or mail server is potentially subject to this attack. Systems providing TCP-based services to the Internet community may be unable to provide those services while under attack and for some time after the attack ceases. See the bulletin below for information on how to protect your site from these attacks. ----- http://jya.com/g48bul.txt (15 kb) G48_bul

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