December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by sharadid＠cbn.net.id 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Junkbusters: Invite the Government in!
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

QUOTE A direct quote from: http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/spam.html We think that junk email should be made illegal in the same way that junk faxes have been outlawed in the US. Unfortunately it will take lawmakers some time to get around to it, and even then spammers would probably try remailing through other jurisdictions to evade regulation. END QUOTE. I have only posted to this list RE: Internet Marketing and Spam. I have found that the general feeling runs against regulation of the internet. These Junkbuster people are crying for government intervention. The government coming into the internet is a bad idea. Therefore: Junkbusters is a bad idea. Ross =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:47 PM 10/26/96 -0500, Roger Williams <roger(a)coelacanth.com> wrote: >I caught an interview on the BBC last night with a representative from >PacBell, who claimed that this subsidy resulted in ISPs actively >discouraging customers from using data service (ISDN) instead of POTS. For those of you not in PacBell territory, PacBell really misunderstood the Internet access market when they set their current rates. ISDN costs $X/month (about 2-3 x POTS) plus (daytime) per-minute charges of 4 cents, (nighttime 7pm-7am) free. (This probably requires that your ISP have Centrex access in your local calling area.) What they didn't realize was that computer people think "It's free at night" means "It's free at night", so they dial up and stay on. (Many of us non-ISDN users do the same with POTS, of course.) ISDN call setup times are fast enough that it's possible to do IP support that tears down calls after X seconds of non-use and sets them up again when there's traffic, which is practical since you don't have 30 seconds of modem retraining time per setup. If PacBell's really bugged enough about usage patterns, they could go write a good Winsock package to support it themselves and give it away free to ISDN customers.... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk Imagine if three million people voted for somebody they _knew_, and the politicians had to count them all.

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HIT_key
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-24-96: "Hitachi, Fujitsu to develop key-code data security system." They will cooperate to develop "hack-proof" encryption for telecommunications networks. Planning for the system includes formation of a "bank" to maintain duplicates of decoding keys, an aspect which has raised some concern over potential invasions of privacy. The U.S. has been lobbying other nations to adopt such a system. "Singapore devises system to combat Internet business fraud." The new technology, known as the Singapore Enterprise Security Architecture (SESA), could be applied over the Internet "within the next few months" in Singapore. It may begin in Singapore first and then, depending on the response from those outside, overseas." Patent: "Computerized theme park information management system utilizing partitioned smart cards and biometric verification." Abstract: A computerized theme park information system to automatically process and issue a multi-service guest card, control and monitor admission, *perform value-added manipulation of the guest card's contents and to analyze the visitor's buying behavior*. "U.S. Attorney Gen. Janet Reno offered to "set the record straight" on encryption policy and key recovery at FCBA lunch Oct. 17." RFI: Anybody know of a transcript of the AG's talk? ----- http://jya.com/hitkey.txt (7 kb for 4) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/hitkey.txt HIT_key ---------- We have put Quisquater's "short cut for exhaustive key search using fault analysis" at: http://jya.com/quikey.htm

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Florida Supreme Court Home Page Adorned With Porn
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Florida Supreme Court Home Page Adorned With Porn TALLAHASSEE, Fla (Reuter) - A Florida court's Web page was restored Friday after two days' absence following a break-in by a hacker who placed pornographic images on the site. Court officials Wednesday took the state court system home page off-line after a computer hacker apparently broke into the site and added pictures of nude men and women in various stages of sexual activity. The photos caused a stir among those who use the court page to access Florida Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions. The home page is normally a little more staid, with a plain wood-grained background and hypertext links. Prurient, but disappointed, surfers looking for thrills on the net gave the court system home page one of its busiest days ever Friday. "We've had a significant number of hits today on our home page," said Craig Waters, executive assistant to Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald Kogan. "With all the publicity surrounding this, a lot of people are curious." No files were tampered with and court records remained intact, Waters said. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was contacted and was investigating the break in. Court officials intend to prosecute the perpetrator, Waters said. ========================================== Blake Wehlage <jwilk(a)iglou.com> ±» RëVðLû¡ØÑ Bø+ ©ÖmP@ñ¥ «± Goto: http://members.iglou.com/jwilk *********PGP KEY On Request*********

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Reason for AP anonymity
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Astrologer released after predicting death of Venezuela president By Vivian Sequera ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela - An astrologer who predicted 80 year-old President Rafael Caldera's "death" next year was released by political police Thursday after two days of questioning in detention. Jose Bernardo Gomez, 47, said he was detained "because I spoke about the possibility of the death of President Caldera." The widely feared Department of Intelligence and Prevention Services wanted to know where Gomez At his information, he said, and whether he was connected to leftist political groups. Caldera's astrological chart ,show that "Uranus is over the sun, Pluto is in ascendancy and Mars is going behind its moon" - not a good sign for the president, Gomez told police. "I've been sustaining the possibility of the death of the president of the republic for a long time," Gomez said, adding that the word "death" is "symbolic language that could be physical or something of another order." The arrest of the rotund, boarded and jovial 47-year old philosophy professor at Venezuela Central University was treated as front-page news by the mainstream daily newspaper El Nacional and other media. Government officials, perhaps a little embarrassed, played down the incident. "He's not accused of anything," Interior Minister Jose Guillermo Andueza said tersely. Political police merely wanted to know "what basis he has for making this kind of statement." Gomez, an academic with postgraduate degrees in history, education, psychology and philosophy from three Venezuela universities, said he meant Caldera no wrong and, in fact, voted for Caldera for his first term in 1968. "I wish the president good health. I'm not betting on his sicknesses, much less on his death," Gomez said in an interview in his home two hours after his release. "It's just that from an astrological point of view, 1997 looks dark for Caldera." Gomez spoke publicly on the topic at a conference of businessmen on Oct. 12.

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FDA_dis
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-28-96. WaPo: Dissing Declan's Hotwired slam of the FDA conference on regulating Internet advertising and promotion: "Ultimately, this debate isn't about speech. It comes down to how much regulation we want." Declan, singe dis negro inquisto, si? ----- http://jya.com/fdadis.txt ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/fdadis.txt FDA_dis

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Re: considering internet/privacy periodical
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:31 PM 10/27/96 -0800, Tim May wrote: >But Greg probably already knows about all these things. If he thinks >there's a market, maybe there is. Actually, I don't think there's enough of a market to justify a real business; I don't see any serious $ here (in fact, there's probably very little $ here). As far as I can tell, most of the money being made with the Internet so far comes from selling things to people who think they can make money on the Internet. My mention of a price comes from my impression that there may be some folks who'd be interested - mostly law-oriented folks but this is likely true of other "serious professionals/academics" - but who have organized their information gathering practices around paper, such that an electronic-only publication isn't "real" to them. But given my relatively poor cash flow situation and the tendency of human beings to sign up for anything that's free, I don't think it's a good idea to offer free FAX or paper distribution, since those media choices would cost me per subscriber. Mostly I see a hole right now in between the one-shot web pages/FAQs people build which explain remailers (and other privacy technologies) and Raph's remailer list, which is pretty tightly focused on the technical/reliability aspects of cypherpunk-style remailers without providing a lot of historical or technical context. (To clarify, I think both the FAQ's and Raph's remailer reliability tracking are valuable, and I see them as inspirations to also do something useful.) Also, the privacy/remailer market is fragmenting (evolving), with pro-privacy (or faux pro-privacy, or anti-privacy) mail receiving/forwarding services, viz c2.org, netbox.com, pobox.com, thebook.com, mailmasher.com, hotmail.com, etc. I see it not as a business but more like a way of organizing what I'm thinking about already in a way that might be interesting to others. -- Greg Broiles | "We pretend to be their friends, gbroiles(a)netbox.com | but they fuck with our heads." http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | |

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LIQ_uor
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-25-96: "Litronic Releases the Fast and Powerful CipherServer." Litronic announced the release of a hardware-based add-on device for high speed processing of cryptographic functions. The newly released CipherServer holds up to eight cryptologic PC Cards which may concurrently process the same or different algorithms including RSA, DES, and FORTEZZA. CSI Explains Countermeasures to Cyberspace Attacks Authored by an eminent authority, Dr. Dorothy E. Denning of Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), CSI's "Manager's Guide to Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures" assists information technology professionals in keeping abreast of dizzying developments on the dark side of the virtual world. Target/ Electronic spies The FBI is expanding the Awareness of National Security Issues and Response (ANSIR) program, its public voice in national security matters, espionage, counterintelligence, economic espionage and physical- and cyber-infrastructure protection. ----- http://jya.com/liquor.txt (10 kb for 3) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/liquor.txt LIQ_uor

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Re: considering internet/privacy periodical
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:31 PM 10/27/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: >The article somewhat longwindedly gets into the problems these "hot sites" >are having. The lack of loyalty, the lack of _payment_, etc. I would like to report that even though the WSJ site supposedly started charging at Midnight on 20 September, I can still log on using my old free account (and I'm not using the MS browser). Haven't been charged yet. DCF

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