December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [LEGAL] Crypto as Contraband?
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 11:41:41PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Qouting worst proposal before congress... > > LEGAL TO USE CRYPTO: "After January 31, 2000, it shall not be > unlawful to use any encryption product purchased or in use prior to > such date." > > At the risk of raising yet another stupid and silly issue, does anybody know how this would apply to crypto (such as PGP) available in source form ? Would only binaries produced by compiling the source before the cutoff date be legal ? Or would compiling the source under a new version of the OS or new OS or even new instruction set (ISA-64 on a Merced for example) merely constitute reasonable use of the existing source product ? How about mechanical translations of the object to another environment or instruction set ? And what level of patches, bug fixes, or actual changes and improvements to the source would be legal if it was legal to compile the source and use the resulting binary after the cutoff ? -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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Re: Only In Anonymous...
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: > > There's nothing wrong with satire, but people ought to mark it as such, > when posting to a list filled with weak-minded and ideologically > blinded individuals. I've long said the same thing about the purported 'news' stories carried by the mainstream press, but the replies I have received from the news giants merely state that their office gang all had a good laugh over my 'satire'. Until the mainstream press begins marking their articles with such labels/disclaimers as 'half-truth'/'politically-biased'/'government- handout'/'self-serving'/'total-bullshit', etc., then I see no reason to require such labeling by individual netizens who may well be doing nothing more than writing the news of the near-future. You go cut wood, carry water--chop, chop, splash, splash... ZenRacistMonger

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House of Commons Library on US Sigint in Europe
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Simon Hossack has sent us a copy of a letter to Oliver Heald MP (UK) from the House of Commons Library on US signals intelligence in Europe, with focus on Menwith Hill. It is an answer to Mr. Heald's request for information on the charge of US spying in the STOA report as described by Duncan Campbell and Nicky Hager. The letter documents successive parlimentary and journalistic inquiries about the USA/UK 50-years-long arrangement for joint intelligence and HMG's answers. http://jya.com/hoc-ussigint.htm

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17 Dec '03

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ANNOUNCE: March Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting Saturday March 14, 12-6pm
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The March Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be held Saturday, March 14th, at Network Associates in Menlo Park. Time - 12 noon hang out, 1-5 program, followed by dinner nearby, various evening parties Agenda: Ian Goldberg's HINDE algorithm Reports from FC98 Anguilla Financial Cryptography conference Reports from Computers, Freedom, and Privacy CFP 98 Open PGP status discussion Work in progress Location: Network Associates, Inc Total Network Security division (formerly PGP, Inc) 4500 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park Directions to NAI: Take 101 (from North or South) Exit at "Marsh Road/Atherton" Go West (young man) off exit (right exit lane coming south from SF). Turning to the West (away from the Bay / freeway) Get in Left lane immediately. Turn Left at very first light (Scott Drive, not far from freeway exit) (landmark: Shell gas station is on your right as you turn left) Go South on Scott ~2/3 mi (parallel to 101 freeway fence). Pass one Stop sign (do not turn yet). (landmark: Sun Microsystems has an office on the right) Scott curves to right, becomes Bohannon Drive. Turn left into first driveway: "Menlo Oak" Business Park Go straight through parking lot ~2-300 yds Curve 270 degrees around Fountain (effective left turn) #4500 is on left as you curve around fountain. Go down ~50 yds to main lobby entrance (south side of building). Ask reception for Dave Del Torto (call 415.730.3583 cel if any problem). Meeting room is behind reception area through first door on left. Known or Suspected Parties: Sandy's Masquerade in or near Oakland PENSFA at Jim & Heather's in Campbell "It's Green" filk-oriented potluck in San Jose (afternoon/evening) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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San Bernardino... New Technology !!
by richardh＠cwsredlands.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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FBI CALEA Rule for Electronic Surveillance
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Federal Register: March 12, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 48)] [Page 12217-12310] SUMMARY: The FBI is providing the Final Notice of the requirements for actual and maximum capacity for the interception of the content of communications and call-identifying information that telecommunications carriers may be required to effect to support law enforcement's electronic surveillance needs, as mandated in section 104 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) (Public Law 103-414, 47 U.S.C. 1001-1010). ---------- For full copy: http://jya.com/fbi031298.txt (685K) Zipped version: http://jya.com/fbi031298.zip (101K)

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Protection Commander 1.0
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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distribution
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thursday 3/12/98 7:34 AM Certified - Return Receipt Requested Cynthia McKinney 124 Cannon Building Washington, DC 20515 Office: (202)225-1605 Fax: (202)226-0691 http://www.house.gov/mckinney/ Dear Representative McKinney: PURPOSE of this letter is to ask your help for us to obtain copes of docket sheets from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for cases No. 94-2205, Payne v Sandia and 95-2204, Morales v Sandia. All of our legal efforts to obtain these documents, which any citizen has a right to, have failed. REASON you are selected to help is that you appear to be knowledgeable about operation of the current US federal government and willing to speak out in an attempt to solve problems. You appeared Friday February 27, 1998 on PBS, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, along with senators Campbell, Hollings, Lott, Shelby Robb and representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Harold Rogers. These senators and congressmen appeared not to support your views because they are either mis- or not well-informed about US involvement in support of Saddam Hussein. Stories supporting your view appear on Internet at NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict by J. Orlin Grabbe http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm and Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? by Wayne Madsen http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html Madsen begins It may be the greatest intelligence scam of the century: For decades, the US has routinely intercepted and deciphered top secret encrypted messages of 120 countries But NSA , and as a result the US federal government, apparnetly got caught involved in complicity of deaths of about 500,000 Iranians. This is the subject of a Federal lawsuit seen on Internet at http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm US federal government help of Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war may possibly backfire on innocent US citizens. The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 1998, pp. B1, B9. reports A Peek Inside a Giant Germ Warehouse By Rochelle Sharpe Rockville, Md. -- They keep anthrax bacteria in the basement of a faded red-brick building here. It isn't far from the yellow-fever virus, the botulism bacteria and some of the hundreds of organisms that cause the common cold. In fact, there are samples of 85,000 different fungi, viruses, cells, genes and bacteria here at the American Type Culture Collection, by far the largest of the 450 repositories of biological materials scattered around the globe. ... The ATCC legally shipped 10 vials of anthrax, botulism and other deadly substances to Iraqi scientists in the 1980s -- when the U.S. and Iraq were on much friendlier terms -- all with the Commerce Department's approval. ... http://www.jya.com/btn031198.txt The US federal government apparently intended these bioweapons to be used against the people of Iran. You demonstrated on PBS TV a quality identified by Francis Bacon The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention. by your statement about Saddam Hussein on PBS ...our man and our creation... Perhaps after reading the above materials and The Problem of Paradigm Shifts - Terrorism and the Threat From Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East Working Draft Anthony H. Cordesman, Senior Fellow and Co-Director Middle East Studies Program October 22, 1996 http://www.csis.org/mideast/terror.html senators Campbell, Hollings, Lott, Shelby, Robb and representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Harold Rogers MAY NOW understand why you are correct and they are mis- or not well-informed about US involvement with Saddam Hussein. PROBLEM we face with the US court system is that court clerks and judges have committed Title 18 felony violation of law IN WRITING in an attempt to deny us monetary compensation due us for the cases WE WON at the Tenth Circuit on Appeal. But judges awarded victories to the US federal government in violation of Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Cases No. 94-2205, Payne v Sandia and 95-2204, Morales v Sandia were both won pro se on appeal. We have filed a writ of mandamus with supreme court judge Scalia in an attempt to get the docket sheets for the two above cases. But Scalia will not answer our certified letters. Senator McCain wrote Payne on December 23, 1997 I wanted to take this opportunity of than you for you letter of December 3, 1997. Your situation is in the jurisdiction of Senator Pete Dominici. Therefore, I have forwarded you letter to his attention. William, I hope you situation can be resolved favorably. Lawyers and politicians Dominici and Bingaman are part of a problem not a solution. Dominici and Bingaman have the following agenda University of New Mexico Bureau for Business and Economic Research reported on October 14, 1997: A The Gross State Product of New Mexico is $37.8 billion. B The US Federal government sends $11.3 billion to New Mexico each year. C For each $1 New Mexico sends to Washington, New Mexico gets $2 back. THEREFORE, Representative McKinney, we ask your help to get copies of the docket sheets. Citizens of the US are becoming more upset with the behavior of bureaucrats, the courts [lawyers], and the US federal government. Some Americans have no other way to express their dissatisfaction with US federal government mismanagement of our country except by violence. Frederick Douglass either wrote or said on August 4, 1847 Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. These will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. We chose to use the words and law to hold government employees accountable. Please encourage Scalia to do his job. Help get us copies of the docket sheets. And even perhaps help investigate further and settle this American tragedy. Sincerely, Arthur R. Morales William H. Payne 1023 Los Arboles NW 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87107 Albuquerque, NM 87111 Enclosures 1 NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict by J. Orlin Grabbe 2 Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? by Wayne Madsen 3 Swiss Radio International Audio tape, 15 May, 18 July 1994 Distribution Ben Nighthorse Campbell administrator(a)campbell.senate.gov Ernest Hollings senator(a)hollings.senate.gov Trent Lott senatorlott(a)lott.senate.gov Richard Shelby senator(a)shelby.senate.gov Charles Robb Senator_Robb(a)robb.senate.gov Jim Lehrer newshour(a)pbs.org

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new on Peacefire: TracerLock search monitor service (fwd)
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ken Williams /-| ORG: NC State Computer Science Dept VP of The E.H.A.P. Corp. |-\ | EML: jkwilli2(a)adm.csc.ncsu.edu ehap(a)hackers.com | | WWW: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jkwilli2/ http://www.hackers.com/ehap/ | | PGP: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jkwilli2/pubkey | \-| Chief weapons of UNIX: Fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency. |-/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:10:09 -0500 From: bennett(a)peacefire.org To: peacefire-broadcast(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: new on Peacefire: TracerLock search monitor service [You are receiving this after signing up for membership in Peacefire at http://www.peacefire.org/join/. To unsubscribe yourself from this list and cancel your Peacefire membership, see unsubscription instructions at the end of this message.] ******************************************************* "They set 'em up. We knock 'em down. And here we are again." -Emily Whitfield, national ACLU spokeswoman, on the Internet censorship bill recently passed in New Mexico Even though the Communications Decency Act was struck down by the Supreme Court in the summer of 1997, New Mexico has just passed their own statewide version of the infamous Internet censorship law. Senate Bill 127, recently signed by the governor of New Mexico, makes it illegal to place information "harmful to minors" on the Internet where a person under 18 would be able to access it. The EFF and the ACLU have said they will fight the law in court; the ACLU has already won lawsuits to overturn similar laws in four other states. If you know someone living in New Mexico, or if you live in New Mexico, we need your help! Peacefire is creating a "civil disobedience" page for Internet users to protest the New Mexico law. By filling out a form on our Web site, a user will be able to click a button and automatically send a Bible verse that mentions sex, or an excerpt on birth control from the plannedparenthood.org Web page, to a Peacefire member under 18 living in New Mexico. These are the type of materials that would violate the Communications Decency Act and New Mexico's S.B. 127. Although the volunteer living in New Mexico can simply delete the messages as they arrive, it will still count as an act of civil disobedience for the user to fill out the form that causes the message to be transmitted. Please help us find someone living in New Mexico who could volunteer to receive the automatic e-mails and delete them. The number of e-mails should be small (less than 10 per day), and they will all have the same identical subject line so they will be easy to recognize and delete. (If the number of e-mails grows beyond that, we can have several volunteers.) More online coverage of the New Mexico law: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,19859,00.html -Bennett --- To leave Peacefire and unsubscribe yourself from this list, send a message to "majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu" with the message body: unsubscribe peacefire-broadcast Please note that the only requirement for being a member of Peacefire is to remain subscribed to peacefire-broadcast, but if you unsubscribe from this list you will no longer be a member. bennett(a)peacefire.org (615) 421 6284 http://www.peacefire.org

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