December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Hacking Mobil Telephone System ?
by Stephan Schmidt 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Allgaeuer Zeitung, 9.9.96 says: (A German newspaper) The German Company MobilCom wants to proove that the German GSM networks D1,D2 and E+ are secure. There have been rumors that it's possible to phone with a hacked code. If a hacker is able to phone using the number 0171 / 3 28 99 66 in Germany with a hacked code, the company will pay 100.000 DM (~65.000$) to a non profit organisation of the hackers choice. Is someone able to do this ? :) (No responsibility taken for the translation.) -stephan

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New type2.list/pubring.mix
by John Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just updated the type2.list/pubring.mix combination on jpunix.com to reflect the disappearance of the ncognito remailer. I've been getting nothing but bounces and the owner doesn't seem to be around to fix it. The updated lists can be obtained by WWW from www.jpunix.com and by anonymous FTP from ftp.jpunix.com. -- John Perry KG5RG perry(a)alpha.jpunix.com PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers.

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What is best policy paper on crypto?
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I happen to know that an influential Congresspern will be meeting with some Cato folks tomorrow morning, so I'm assuming this isn't an idle request. -Declan // declan(a)eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan(a)well.com // ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:46:09 -0400 From: Solveig Bernstein <sberns(a)cato.org> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: What is best policy paper on crypto? If you folks were to pick one policy paper or book or magazine article that did the best job of explaining why export controls on crypto were bad, and/or why key escrow is not a good idea, which one would you pick? I'm looking for something that would be helpful to a Congressperson. Please feel free to e-mail suggestions to me privately so as not to clutter up the list. ********************************************************************** Solveig Bernstein, Esq. (202) 789-5274 (202) 842-3490 (fax) Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies Cato Institute 1000 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001

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Re: na673130@anon.penet.fi gone [Anonymous service rejected your mail.] (fwd)
by Johan Helsingius 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 21:49 96/09/11 -0400, Andy Dustman wrote: >Looks like Spambo either deleted his id or Julf pulled the plug on him. I pulled his plug. But his real address has been on this list several times. Julf

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Sen. Burns' statement on postponement of Crypto vote today.
by jseiger＠cdt.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As you may have heard by now, the Senate commerce committee markup of the Burns/Leahy "Pro-CODE' bill, originally set for today, has been postponed. Indications from the Commerce Committee staff are that this was largely due to scheduling issues, although end-of-the-session politics are also playing a role. Both the Committee staff and Senator Burns himself (see note below) have said they are committed to holding a markup before the end of the session. We expect more information early next week and will post updates as soon as new information becomes available. Senator Burns asked us to forward the following note to the net.community: >X-POP3-Rcpt: jseiger@mailserver >From: Conrad_Burns(a)burns.senate.gov >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 09:55:35 EST >To: jseiger(a)cdt.org >Subject: Open Letter to the Internet from Senator Burns > > The Commerce Committee markup on Pro-CODE, S. 1726, that we had > expected to have held on Thursday, September 12 has been postponed. I > am fully committed to taking Pro-CODE to markup, out of committee and > onto the floor of the Senate in this Congress. I believe that this > legislation is vital to ensuring the continued strength of America's > high-tech community and the privacy of its citizens. I would like to > thank the many thousands of Netizens who have expressed their support > for Pro-CODE. > > Sincerely, > > U.S. Senator Conrad Burns > Please keep your phone calls coming to the Senate Commerce Committee members offices, and be sure to sign the petition at http://www.crypto.com/petition/. A coalition alert with more information will be posted soon. Jonah ** THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH ONLINE CONTINUES TO THE SUPREME COURT ** It's not too late to be a part of history -- Join the Lawsuit <http://www.cdt.org/ciec> -- <ciec-info(a)cdt.org> -- Jonah Seiger, Policy Analyst Center for Democracy and Technology <jseiger(a)cdt.org> 1634 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 PGP Key via finger (v) +1.202.637.9800 http://www.cdt.org/ (f) +1.202.637.0968 http://www.cdt.org/homes/jseiger/

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[BOOK] Competitive Intelligence
by Brian D Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Competitive Intelligence "From Black Ops to Boardrooms- How Businesses Gather, Analyze, and use Information to Succeed in the Global Marketplace." ISBN 0-684-81074-3 Simon and Schuster ($24.00) Preface: Being a Hero and not a Bum Part One: What is Competitive Intelligence? 1.) The Rise of Competitive Intelligence 2.) What Competitive Intelligence can do for your company: Information vs Intelligence 3.) Why most managers are still stuck in the information age Part Two: Real-World Competitive Intelligence 4.) The Intelligence Cycle 5.) Planning and Direction 6.) Collection 7.) Analysis 8.) Dissemination 9.) Mergers and Acquistions 10.) Benchmarking and Competitive Intelligence 11.) How the Japanese Perform Competitive Intelligence 12.) Competitive Intelligence in other Countries 13.) Building a Competitive Intelligence System Part Three: Issues, Opportunities, and the Future 14.) Justifying the cost of Competitive Intelligence 15.) Using Competitive Intelligence in the European Union 16.) Ethics 17.) The New Gatekeepers 18.) Why the U.S. Government must get involved in Competitive Intelligence 19.) Competitive Intelligence-The Next Generation Glossary of Competitive Intelligence

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PANIX.COM down: denial of service attack
by #6 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

WSJ 9/12/96 Paraphrasing: Panix has been under attack for the last week by someone flooding their server with bogus "requests for information" [see below] ... The attack(s): * "Have rendered almost defenseless the small NY company" * "...began late Friday afternoon ... were still continung yesterday" * have targeted "computers that control WWW pages, store e-mail, and still others that link Internet addresses to Panix subscribers." "The hacker [sic] has been sending up to 150 requests a second to Panix's computers, seeking to establish a connection ... the requests, presumably generated by a malicious computer program, contain fake Internet addresses, which the computer must sort out before they can discard them. The computers have choked under the deluge." "As to who might be targeting Panix, the firm's Mr. Rosen speculated it could be someone upset by the fact that the site hosts, free, the Web site for Voters Telecommunication Watch...."

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Re: Bubba Bottoming out on Cocaine Paranoia?
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In <v03007808ae5dadc0f80f(a)[207.79.65.35]>, on 09/12/96 at 08:16 AM, Chip Mefford <cmefford(a)avwashington.com> said: = > 2. the rewrite of history to reflect not only the = > politically correct views, but to reflect history as = > the elite wish to see it --even to the point of rewriting = > quotations of Thomas Jefferson to suit their purpose. = > = Can you give a clear example of this?? = Just asking the most blatant one was the rewording of Jefferson's words for the equality of all men about two years ago. As we know, Jefferson was all for freedom, and had a "God bless you, you're a slave" attitude, but he was clearly not for the equalization. when that one came out of washington, several papers had a hard time with it, but I have seen it since. I have been collecting Jefferson quotes for years; frankly, I always considered the Dems were off base: Jefferson was the Republican --leaving Hamilton and his Federalists as pawns pawns of the Illuminati as advocates of the independent Federal Bank (the worst of the Rothschilds (Maurice, I think) who made the statements regarding control of the government by control of the money was in his prime around 1800). I am not a dedicated Jeffersonian scholar, but he has been the corner stone of my (now long blown) faith in our government. I would a complete set of Jefferson's works --if, and only, if I could find a good edition published over a 100 years ago. secondly, Jefferson is now interpreted as being the great enfranchiser, which is not even close to his view. Jefferson's writings clearly emphasize that the electorate should be comprised of the landed and merchant class; secondly, it was Jefferson's statement that the electorate, and therefore the juries should be composed "...of a well educated and informed citizenry." Jefferson was interested in an electorate which was of substance and possessing of a stake in America. One of the clear principles of Jeffersonian thought was that jury, beyond the requirement of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, was to _vote its conscience_. Jefferson was responsible for including the constitutional language which makes this possible, even today, despite instructions from judges who could care less about the intent of the constitution and are treating the accused as nothing more than cattle on the way to the abattoir --if they are not guilty this time they will be next time, so why waste further time --sometimes known as "collateral damage." = > Why has it gone this far? because Joe-Six-Pack will sell = > all his freedom in return for the promised security. who is = > the Judas goat? the captive press. = > = Actually, being a "Joe six pack" my own damn self, I'd have to say = that this is simply not the case. It is Joe six pack who makes up the = body of the NRA and most other freedom watch dog organizations. = Just for yer information, the pendulem has been swinging very much = the other way, with 36 or 37 states recently following Floridas lead = on concealed weapons carries. Not only that, but even NPR has even = admitted that it has been effective. Agreed on the restoration of concealed weapons rights which had been regulated out of existence. Granted, Joe-Six-Pack may not be the perfect analogy, but I refer to America's working class, blue collar and the grunts of the white collars as Joe-Six-Pack --maybe I should say Joe-Couch-Potato. the class" referenced is a collection of many levels --what they have in common is they work and then confrom to the current norm of 7.2 hrs/day in front of the tube which becomes their entire source of information --THEY will sell out from ignorance. If you refer to Joe-Six-Pack as the the classic Southern red neck, any attempt to limit their freedom, particularly the right to a pickup truck with a gun rack, and their handguns --that's a very different situation. and that extends to small town westerners, like myself, and to the plains. I grew up on a farm, went to Harvard, joined the spooks for six years of a bloodpath, bounced around the world in different fields, and I am back in a very small community in the high desert: 100 families. Noone around here questions my bad attitude --the admissions requirements are at least 5 kids and 2000 rounds. However, I think Joe-Six-Pack, in this constrained social set, for the vast majority would sell out on freedom of cryptography. they do not understand it, particularly against the onslaught of the pinko-liberal captive media. Our job is to educate them --and not with defiant rhetoric (such as mine). As for concealed weapons permits, bank robberies should certainly drop --all it would take is one cowboy (and I'll volunteer) and anything other than a large coordinated operation is in serious trouble. One unsuspected, mean and surly patron with a .357 who seriously knows how and when to use same is very effective. On the other hand, I do not recommend carrying an assault rifle on a sling over your shoulder to visit the bank.... The simple (I think) point I was trying to make was: the vast majority of our U.S. citizens would acquiesce to the deployment of federal troops in return for security, rather than being armed, Posse Comitas not withstanding, to wipe crime off the streets. The point could even be made: the troops might as well be doing something useful rather than sitting around their bases; we do have a rather large standing army --unfortunately, they would become poorly trained and poorly disciplined --and could easily be part of the massive corruption in our cities (and every other government over many people). Frankly, we should all vote in a _free_ cyberspace; forget the current system of choosing party loyalists and presidential electors. The application of a military mentality on the streets is not my idea of law and order --they could kill off the majority of the crime by legalizing all drugs and dispensing them in clinics. Britain reduced their second story (burglary) crime rate by over 60%; they did find they had a great many more addicts than the thought, however. A second benefit is that it takes some of the mystery and challenge out of drugs --however, be prepared for the alcohol problem, although that effect would be significantly less than the current social cost of having 10% of the male black population in lockdown. no, my bottome line is the Bubba has sunk to bottom with paranoia, both he and the elite money interests which jerk all of the politicial habituites who depend on their soft money for their campaings and who wish to participate at the trough of influence and greed (ever see someone retired after many years in Washington without a bundle). --attila -- one of the few things we all share: the utter, corrosive contempt for our elected officials.

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Re: Child Porn as Thoughtcrime
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Rick Smith wrote: > : ...the "little girls in leotards" case was only a few years ago, etc.) > > Don't know about that one. Is it illegal for little girls to be > photographed in leotards now? "Nutcracker" is X rated? Move over, > Bambi. But this proves precisely Tim's original point, that child pornography is a thoughtcrime. Here's a working definition of child pornography at the end of the millenium: it's a picture of a child, in the hands of a pedophile. Pictures of girls in leotarfds are not child pornography per se, but if you think evil thoughts while watching them, then they become child pornography. What got Stephen Knox in trouble was leaving so much evidence that he was thinking those evil thoughts.

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Re: ISODE Consortium X.509 Certification system
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill, thanks for forwarding this to me. It really bothers me whenever I see someone mouthing plattitudes about certificates, like: >The ITU-T, through X.509, recommend strong authentication based on public >key cryptosystems as the basis for providing secure services. The ISODE >Consortium uses X.509 as the core of its security strategy. >X.509 provides a flexible, scaleable and manageable algorithm-independent >authentication infrastructure, which can be used as the basis for a wide >range of security services such as message encryption and access control. Fact is, identity certification (which is what X.509 gives) is neither necessary nor sufficient for providing secure services -- and there's nothing magic about X.509. There are marketeers, however, who want the world to believe that the generation and use of X.509 certs will somehow give you security -- so they can sell machinery or a service which makes those certs. - Carl P.S. My USENIX paper giving the case against certification authorities is on-line now at <ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/cme/usenix.ps> = <http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/usenix.ps> +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | | PGP 2.6.2: 61 E2 DE 7F CB 9D 79 84 E9 C8 04 8B A6 32 21 A2 | +-Officer, officer, arrest that man. He's whistling a dirty song.--+

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