December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

With Respect to the Japanese
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 2/27/98 5:27 PM Merat After Sandia unloaded on me for TRYING to be friendly with a Japanese [and perhaps other things too] , I enrolled in the UNM US-Japan program. One of the professors in the program is Jack Condon. name: John Carl Condon work_phone: 505 277-5811 title: Professor organization: Communication & Journalism org_address: C & J Building Condon teaches both at the University of New Mexico and a Japanese University. Condon is a very nice touchy-feely-type person. Condon wrote [amazon.com] With Respect to the Japanese by John C. Condon List: $12.95 Our Price: $12.95 Availability: This title is currently on back order. We do not have a reprint date for this title, but we expect to be able to ship it to you within 3-5 weeks. Paperback Published by Intercultural Press Publication date: June 1983 ISBN: 0933662491 Condon told our class, The US does not do very well without an enemy. So. Lets do OUR BEST to insure that that US does not do very well, at least with Iran. And Merat, another of my former Ph D students in Computer Science is name: John Sobolewski work_phone: 505 277-8125 title: Assoc VP,Info Technology organization: CIRT - Administration org_address: 2701 Campus Blvd NE email: jssob(a)unm.edu Let's all hope this mess gets settled. Best bill Title: UNM Computer and Information Resources and Technology (CIRT) Help! How to get quick help: Answers to frequently asked questions, Help Desk, publications and documentation, who to contact, CIRT hours. Services What CIRT can do for you: Details about our services such as computing facilities (pods), help desk, consulting, hardware maintenance, security, software distribution, computer accounts, training, conference support and much more. ¿Qué Pasa? What's happening at CIRT: Announcements, important systems news, scheduled system availability, major projects we've undertaken, technical directions and job opportunities. About CIRT Who we are and how we are organized: Our mission and vision, a map of the CIRT building, CIRT group organization, the annual report, our system configurations and standards. Send us your ideas on how CIRT can improve services to the UNM community! Comments to CIRT Publications: docs(a)unm.edu Last Revised: 10/28/97 The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Copyright © 1995 The University of New Mexico. Title: Welcome to the Japan America Society of New Mexico <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/crane.GIF" alt="Crane logo" width="127" height="138"> JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/crane.GIF" alt="Crane logo" width="127" height="138"> Ohayoo Gozaimasu! Greetings and welcome to the Web site of the Japan America Society of New Mexico. The Board of Directors and the Membership extend to you our desire that you visit the "Land of Enchantment" and sample the "chili-hot" welcome and hospitality shown here. The vistas are broad; the cuisine superb. In a multi-cultural environment, we embrace all that is the state, and wait to enfold you as well! Please enjoy. Yoroshiku, onegai shimasu! <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/cvr-pg2.gif" align="top" width="579" height="653"> <a href="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/bg&miss.htm" name="Buttons"><img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> BACKGROUND AND MISSION <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> MEMBERSHIP <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> BENEFITS <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> FUNDING <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> CONTACT INFORMATION <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> FUTURE EVENTS <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> PAST EVENTS Friday February 27, 1998 3:15 PM By e-mail and US mail Lieutenant General Kenneth A Minihan, USAF Director, National Security Agency National Security Agency 9800 Savage Road Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000 Dear General Minihan: Purposes of the letter are to 1 request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2 explore settlement possibilities of our current lawsuit. In about 1986 Sandia National Laboratories assigned me the task of design and construction of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty seismic data authenticator. In the initial stages of the project, Sandia cryptographer Gustavus Simmons attempted to convince both Sandia management and NSA employees Tom White, Mark Unkenholtz, and Ed Georgio that a form of public key authentication should replace NSA employee Ronald Benincasa's National Seismic Station/Unmaned Seismic Observatory 11-bit data authentication algorithm. My Sandia supervisor John Holovka and project leader H B [Jim] Durham ordered me to write a paper explaining public key cryptography. This paper, RSA ENCRYPTION, along with my SAND report describing my implementation of Benincasa's algorithm and filings in our lawsuit, now appear on Internet at http://www.jya.com/index.htm, click CRYPTOME, then OpEd, then http://www.jya.com/whprsa.htm. Sandia explored the merits of switching from Benincasa's algorithm to a public key-based authentication method suggested by Simmons. For Sandia's evaluation of the merits of public key, electronic tagging, and Bureau of Engraving and Printing projects , I bought for Sandia samples both the Cylink CY1024 and AT&T A & B two chip sets for modulo m arithmetic computations. NSA employee Tom White sent me a copy of the SECRET classified NSA report on IBM's hardware public key chip FIREFLY. I wrote in my tutorial paper RSA hardware computations The slow speed of software RSA computations plus the potential wide use prompted several companies to build chips which compute modular arithmetic to at least several hundred bits. Most of these chips "cascade" to compute with a larger number of bits. Corporations involved in building these chips are 1 IBM Firefly 2 AT&T 3 Motorola (apparently a three chip set) 4 Cylink Pittway-First alert 5 Sandia Labs (Algorithm M and predecessor chip) Details of the IBM chip is classified. AT&T as of July 1987 has not released details of their chip. Little information is available on the Motorola chip set. The Cylink chip is commercially available. Its price dropped from $1,500 to $600 each in June 1987. Data is transferred to and from the chip with serial shift register communication. The early Sandia chip was limited in speed. The replacement chip is cascadeable, communicates with 8 or 16 bits parallel, matches the speed of the Cylink chip, but is not out of fabrication. Rumors circulate that there is about an order of magnitude performance difference between some of these chips. These hardware chips improve exponentiation speed about 3 orders of magnitude over software implementation benchmarked on an Intel 8086 family microcomputer. Whitfield Diffie writes about both the Cylink and Sandia chips. And is quoted at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/nukearse.htm. Sandia had terrible luck with its public key chips. I reported SOME of the troubles to Electronic Engineering Times editor Loring Wirbel [http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/823/] on March 23, 1994. Dr. John Wisniewski was a supervisor at Sandia's Center for Radiation-hardened Microelectronics. Wisniewski was a graduate student at Washington State University in about 1975. I was a professor at WSU. Wisniewski knows all about the failing Sandia chips in the nuclear arsenal. I took notes on February 13, 1993. Wisniewski reviewed the problems again for me. 1 No quality initiative. Each chip lot had a different process. 2 Overall yield - 40-50%. Down to 10% after packaging. 3 Metalization problems. No planarization. No flow of glass. Couldn't use high temperature. Step coverage problems. Layed down over tension. 100% field returns over several years. 4 Sandia would store lots of parts for replacements. Sandia management made the decision to place low yield parts in the nuclear arsenal. Sandia must meet DOD schedules management reasoned. Hundreds of millions spent on CRM. Sandia must show productivity. Wisniewski told me that low yield chip test survivors are those whichthe tests failed to detect failures. Wisniewski will talk. 503-625-6408. Wisniewski now works for Intel in Oregon. Have Wisniewski tell you about the fire in the CRM clean room! Sandia supervisor Jerry Allen later told me it cost $300,000 each to remove Sandia's failing chips at Pantex from a nuclear bomb. NSA apparently is biased toward hardware implementations of cryptographic and authentication algorithms. As opposed to software implementation. NSA representatives and Sandia management decided not to use a public key authentication scheme for its CTBT seismic data authenticator because of all of the problems with implementing public key algorithms. But NSA surely has spent MUCH MONEY on public key chip implementations. NSA is promoting its Clipper crypto chips as described at http://cpsr.org/dox/clipper.html. And we get some information about technical specifications of NSA's Clipper chip at http://www.us.net/softwar/http://www.us.net/softwar/clip.html Clipper Chip Information MYK-78 CLIPPER CHIP ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION ON A CHIP 1 micron double level metal CMOS technology 0.35 watts power 28 pin plastic leaded chip carrier (PLCC) package Transistor to transistor logic (TTL) interface Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming. Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming facility and are completely transparent to the user. Therefore, Under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC 552, I am requesting access to: 1 Copies of all invoices from A AT&T B Motorola C IBM D Sandia National Laboratories to NSA for payments for developing ANY public key-related chips between January 1, 1980 and February 27, 1998. 2 Copies of all invoices to NSA from ANY corporation involved in development of ANY Clipper chip-related hardware between January 1, 1980 and February 27, 1998. The public has a right to know how much NSA spent on TRYING monoploize the crypto business. If there are any fees for searching for, or copying, the records I have requested, please inform me before you fill the request. As you know, the Act permits you to reduce or waive the fees when the release of the information is considered as "primarily benefiting the public." I believe that this requests fits that category and I therefore ask that you waive any fees. If all or any part of this request is denied, please cite the specific exemption(s) which you think justifies your refusal to release the information and inform me of your agency's administrative appeal procedures available to me under the law. I would appreciate your handling this request as quickly as possible, and I look forward to hearing from you within 20 working days, as the law stipulates. With respect to our current FOIA lawsuit, I feel that we should settle this unfortunate matter. I see from your biography at http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ and http://www.nsa.gov:8080/dirnsa/dirnsa.html that you are 1979 Distinguished Graduate Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California One of my former M.S. and Ph.D students in Computer Science, Ted Lewis, is currently the chairman of Computer Science at Naval Postgraduate School [http://www.friction-free-economy.com/] Small world. But I think that this emphasizes that WE SHOULD all be on the same side. Not engaged in a conflict in US federal court. Or on Internet. NSA attempts to withhold requested information are possibly unwise. In our wired world the aggrieved know what happened to them. [http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm] http://www.wpiran.org/, http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/impact/namir/namirm.html And moderates in Iran, [http://persia.org/khatami/biography.html] appear want settlement too. My family and I have been damaged by these crypto wars. I ask you that consider fair settlement of damages caused by the National Security Agency. I cannot find your e-mail address on Internet. Therefore I will forward the e-mail copy of this FOIA/settlement letter to Ray Kammer of NIST [http://www.nist.gov/] who along with the FBI [http://www.fbi.gov/, http://www.fbi.gov/fo/nyfo/nytwa.htmand] and NSA are trying to control the crypto business so that Kammer can possibly forward an e-mail copy of the FOIA/Settlement letter to you. Sincerely, bill William Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias Albuquerque, NM 87111 505-292-7037 [I am not reading e-mail]

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: FC: Quotes of the Day (and cybercrime)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

James Glave's Wired News article at http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10605.html is nice, especially the quote from Peter Neumann about how this may be a con game by Janet Reno to get more budget. After all, the Feds has been doing computer security for a while, though not with the expertise of the NSA. So if they're so hot, why do they keep getting cracked so badly, and on such critical stuff as payroll data, which in the government is almost certain to include SSNs? There's already a National Computer Security Center - she could ask them for help, rather than starting a competing one. >LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - To combat the threat of cyber attack, Attorney >General Janet Reno said Friday a new high-tech crime center will be >created under the jurisdiction of the FBI. ... > Reno played down the Big Brother aspects of an Internet police >force. > "We must not and we will not sacrifice any constitutional >protections," the attorney general said. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Radio Frequency Warfare Hearing
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy." http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm (112K) Or zipped: http://jya.com/rfw-jec.zip (39K) It provides descriptions of the RF weapons, their development, research and testing, global spread, and threat to the infrastructure and national security. The Internet availability of Carlo Kopp's paper on the E-bomb and similar RFW information is cited as evidence of the spread of the threatening technology. The hearing evolved from JEC hearing testimony in June 1997 which described the threat from RFW, especially that developed by the Former Soviet Union: Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Frequency (MHDGF) Explosive Magnetic Generator of Frequency (EMGF) Implosive Magnetic Generator of Frequency (IMGF) Cylindrical Shock Wave Source (CSWS) Spherical Shock Wave Source (SSWS) Ferromagnetic Generator of Frequency (FMGF) Superconductive Former of Magnetic Field Shock Wave (SFMFSW) Piezoelectric Generator of Frequency (PEGF) Superconducting Ring Burst Generator (SCRBG)

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Backyard RF Weapon
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpt from congressional hearing on RF weapons: Mr. David Schriner is the Principal Engineer directed energy studies with Electronic Warfare Associates and a recently retired engineer with the naval weapons testing facility at China Lake. He has numerous patents, has received superior service awards, and given technical presentations over 42 years of civil and military service. He will discuss the difficulty in building a RF weapon and the terrorist threat. [Excerpt] In support of the information presented in this testimony and taking advantage of the winter's need to work indoors, a unit that uses oil spark-gaps was designed, built, and tested. The materials for it were mail-ordered at a cost of about $500 and about one week was needed to fabricate the mechanical hardware. It use two ignition coils and a battery for power, an automobile fuel pump and filter for the oil circulation, and commonly available transformer oil. An additional week was required to work out all of the electrical wiring, the oil lines, and the general finishing details. This unit was ready for testing in two weeks after starting the effort. The signal radiated from the unit was measured and found to be a very significant power level that can be compared against available vulnerability and susceptibility levels of military equipment. When the weather permits, this unit will be tested against a set of infrastructure targets at an official test range. >From the measurements and known signal levels, this unit is expected to be consistently deadly to many types of infrastructure items at ranges suitable for terrorist usage. This quickly-developed low-cost system could easily be placed in a small van and used in a parking lot or directed at buildings that the van was driven past. It is highly likely that this type of device would be a very effective terrorist system and the findings of its design could be factored into another either a larger, higher powered device, or a more advanced design each with significantly greater effectiveness. The net result of all of this design, experimentation, fabrication and measurement proves that such a weapon system could be made by anyone with an engineering degree or even a bright technician with good hardware experience. The technical information required can be found in open sources, if not just from good common engineering sense. The materials needed are nothing special and if the effort is made, advanced concepts can be made using everyday hardware such as automotive ignition systems. The testing to date has been very limited but the results of this testing have provided considerable insight to just what is vulnerable in infrastructure systems. This insight and work leads to a firm opinion that a terrorist would have little trouble developing such technology and that he would have a high probability of success in the use as an RF weapon against our infrastructure elements found in any city or near facilities around the country. This work has been done within the proper security guidelines since: 1.The models made in my home laboratory/workshop used off-the-shelf materials and open-source references. 2.The laboratory tests of this hardware were made in a controlled environment with the proper security in place. 3.The results of these tests, the data capabilities, and the target set identities are kept in a facility cleared for classified storage. 4.The development of any of this hardware is reported on a regular basis to those with whom I relate at a classified level to assure that they are informed of the work and are able to apply this to their interests and efforts if necessary. Any of this hardware can be used by them for any determination of utility to military interests. Work in this area will be continued and an aggressive test and evaluation of these "back yard" techniques and methods will be accomplished. This process will be done in cooperation, and if requested, under the direction of agencies with an interest in this non-military weapon related process. The author of this report will, if requested, provide to the Committee further details at a classified level in the proper security environment. ----- Full hearing testimony: http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm

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by BBopper 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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HP Crypto Export
by Michael Elder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the NY Times online (www.nytmes.com) February 28, 1998 Hewlett-Packard Granted License For Encryption System By PETER WAYNER The Commerce Department has granted Hewlett-Packard an export license for its VerSecure encryption architecture allowing the company and its licensees to export strong encryption tools, the company announced Friday. The catch is that the products must take their orders from a central computer system that will dictate how all the products will behave in each country. The company hopes that the solution would break the deadlock between the Clinton Administration, which continues to restrict the export of secure computer technology throughout the world, and the computer industry, which contends that foreigners are not interested in buying products that don't protect their secrets. The new solution effectively disconnects the problem of distributing encryption technology from the process of determining the policy for government access to information. The heart is a new class of trusted hardware cards and chips that take their orders from a central company known as a Security Domain Authority or SDA. In countries, like France, that require people to keep a record of keys for unlocking data, the SDA would only allow the computers to encrypt information if it complied with the laws. In countries with no laws about encryption usage like the United States, Germany and Great Britain, the SDA would allow users to encrypt in whatever manner they choose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is very hardware-specific with the flexibility of software and that gives us a lot of strength in terms of tamper resistance Feisal Mosleh, business development manager at Hewlett-Packard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hewlett-Packard sees the solution as a win for the industry, which will be able to build one set of hardware and software that can be shipped throughout the world. The SDA's will set the local rules because the computers will not encrypt information without first getting permission from the SDA. Doug McGowan, one of the director of Hewlett-Packard's efforts, said in a telephone interview, "Never before has a general purpose cryptography tool been exportable from the United States, with or without key recovery. We're opening a huge market for American industry to enable commerce on a worldwide basis." The price for this flexibility is the need for specialized hardware that treats the SDA as its master. In an ordinary computer, the owner can control all aspects of what the computer does. This extra hardware will raise the price of machines and is bound to be more expensive than software which can be distributed at minimal cost. Feisal Mosleh, a business development manager at Hewlett-Packard, pointed out that specialized hardware can offer faster performance and more security. "It is very hardware-specific with the flexibility of software and that gives us a lot of strength in terms of tamper resistance" he said in a phone interview. Many security experts continue to point out that general-use microcomputers and their operating systems are dangerously insecure. In one recent attack, hackers were able to begin transfers from a bank account by manipulating accounting software. Off-loading the process to specialized hardware makes it simpler to ensure that the system is secure because the special hardware has only one job. Hewlett-Packard says that it is licensing the architecture to a number of different computer vendors and announced that IBM, Motorola, CertCo, Trusted Information System, Microsoft and RSA Data Securities had already signed licenses. The vendors will be free to choose how they implement the special computer hardware, but most will probably use firmware with an embedded microprocessor. The initial version will reportedly include DES, tripleDES, RSA, RC2, RC4 and DiffieHellman algorithms. Each of these solutions can be sped up by specialized hardware, but only a general microprocessor can handle all of them with equal agility. The specialized hardware will also be tamper-proof to prevent people from circumventing the commands of the SDA. When an encryption card is first started up, it cannot begin working until it has received instructions from an SDA in its country. This information is contained in a "policy token." Joe Beyers, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Internet Software business unit, explained, "The token says, 'You can use this amount of key, this amount of strength for this amount of time.'" Beyers went on to say, "The aspect of time allows the government to evolve their policy. Time limits are one of the attributes that made it attractive to the U.S. government." It would be possible for a government to change policy with the system from time to time, perhaps forcing citizens to use long keys in time of war to protect themselves and then relaxing the policy after peace emerged. In the current plan, policy tokens would be good for one year, forcing computers to re-register with an SDA in order to keep working. The SDA would have no control of a token after it was issued and would only be able to change policies at the renewal. The relationship between the SDA and the key recovery program is more difficult to describe. The SDA would not keep any records of any keys that would allow the police to eavesdrop on calls. But the policy tokens would force the embedded hardware to obey the local laws that might include key recovery. The FBI has asked Congress to mandate key recovery systems that give it clear access to all communications. The yearly interrogation between the SDA and the individual computers does not mean that the system will be foolproof. Someone could simply carry a laptop from a country that allows personal privacy to a country with more invasive laws and use it freely until the policy token runs out. Also, it may be possible to spoof the token authorization procedure by pretending that the request came from one country instead of another. Some critics found the use of special hardware to be problematic. Jim Lucier, a policy analyst for the Americans for Tax Reform, a Republican think tank, pointed out that specialized hardware was ignored by the marketplace in the past. "None of it ever works" he said, "because the more obvious solution, which is end-to-end encryption, is already there." Lucier also pointed out that specialized hardware is more complicated to engineer and much more expensive to distribute than software. "Atoms cost more than bits, it just comes down to that," he said. In a press conference Friday morning, Beyers promised that the new hardware was "months, not years away" and also promised that the hardware costs would be as low as possible. Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, suggested that replacing the current export control bureaucracy with a network of SDA's was not a significant advance. "Government efforts to regulate crypto will only slow the development of commerce," he said. In fact, the decision by the United States government to grant a license to Hewlett-Packard's architecture is far from liberating. Companies making VerSecure products can only ship them to countries approved by the United States government, a list which at this time is limited to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark and Australia. More countries will become open if and when they create an SDA infrastructure that is acceptable to the United States. Hewlett-Packard has gone to great lengths to prevent rogue nations from setting up their own unauthorized SDA's by cloning hardware. The infrastructure uses CertCo's secure certificate servers to restrict the ability to create the software necessary to build the tokens. Beyers says that no one person at Hewlett-Packard has the ability to do this in order to reduce the potential for corruption and theft. Hewlett-Packard is also working heavily with foreign countries to assure them that the system does not include back doors that might be accessible by the United States government. Beyers said that the company had retained an international group of cryptographic experts to vet the system and allay any fears of hidden back doors. A press release from Hewlett-Packard quoted William A. Reinsch, undersecretary of commerce, as saying, "We are pleased to support HP's effort to develop and market encryption products that encourage the use of key recovery in providing robust, secure encryption. This approval and our ongoing dialogue with the industry are consistent with the Clinton Administration's goal of allowing the market to develop recoverable encryption products." Peter Wayner at pwayner(a)nytimes.com welcomes your comments and suggestions. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company

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cyber FOIA/settlement e-mail
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

God, what a nut! Friday February 27, 1998 11:18 AM By e-mail and US mail Lieutenant General Kenneth A Minihan, USAF Director, National Security Agency National Security Agency 9800 Savage Road Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000 Dear General Minihan: Purposes of the letter are to 1 request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2 explore settlement possibilities of our current lawsuit. .... etc. shit deleted.

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Well here it is...
by VG2Hot 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This really is a blast. With all these movies coming out about virtual reality, it's amazing to actually have a virtual reality program like this for your own computer. The Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend are artificial intelligence programs for your IBM PC or compatible and also for MACINTOSH. You can watch them, talk to them, ask them questions, tell them secrets, and relate with them. Watch them as you ask them to take off different clothes and guide them through many different activities. Watch and participate in the hottest sexual activities available on computer, including: several sexual positions, using many unique toys, even bringing in multiple partners. This is no doubt one of the most realistic, sexually stimulating computer games available. They will remember your name, birthday, your likes and your dislikes. Every time you start the program, they say different things, and act differently. Each time, they have a different personality. With the VGA digital graphics, the Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend software have some of the hottest, sexiest graphics out there. You can actually hear their voice as they talk to you. This is the first adult software title that was designed for both heterosexual and homosexual people. We would like you to try the actual full copy out before it is put on the market this spring. It will be sold for 1/7 of the actual price (only $7.95) until we can get back some information on what people think of the program before it hits the stores. Please give it a try and write back any comments. Thank you. Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend are artificial intelligence programs, meaning they are completely interactive. It would be just like if you were talking to someone. You can actually have simple conversations. Their attitudes change with the different things you say, so you can say things that will upset them, and then say things that will please them. The more you play/talk with them, the more you learn what they can do, and what they like to do. It's easy to install and instructions are easy to follow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Special Offer~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Get two more new and exciting adult games for an additional $13.45* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here are two of the best adult games ever!! This is to inform you about the new adult game that VCS Magazine rated "The best game of "97" and gave an "Outstanding ****" (4 stars). "The Search for Paradise is no doubt one of the greatest XXX adult games available". The first game where it is as much fun as it is a turn on! Travel the world to every continent, every country you can think of, and meet some of the most beautiful women in existence. These women will treat you like a king and obey your every command. Any sexual wish you can think of, these women know it all. There is a certain paradise for every guy out there, and this game will have them all. This game uses real models, digital video, and digital sound to make it as realistic as possible. You will feel like you're in the same room as the girl you're talking to!!! The last adult game we are going to inform you about is the newly released "Club Celebrity X". Imagine being in a club with some very beautiful, well known, ACTUAL celebrities that with skill, will be making you breakfast in bed the next day. These girls you have seen on television, magazines, and billboard ads, and now they are on your computer, begging for action. Each girl you will recognize and you won't believe your eyes when you got them in your own bedroom. This game is hot, and once you start playing, you won't be able to stop. ****************************************************************************** ********** (((((((((LIMITED TIME ONLY)))))))) T00 H0T!! for Virtual girlfriend.... These were too sexually graphic to include in VG and VB. These are some of most arousing & attractive models ever put in one collection. You MUST be 18 or over to purchase & not easily offened. ****************************************************************************** *********** *Required: 386 or better, 4 meg ram or better, Windows 3.1 or higher (Win95 is fine), sound card or CD-rom are optional. Games are given either on CD-rom or compressed 3.5" diskettes. Required is VGA graphics, and a hard drive. Macintosh requires at least 4 meg of ram. They will run on any IBM or MACINTOSH compatible. If you are interested and would like to order a copy, then you can read the mailing instructions below. Games come in an unmarked package and are sent out at most 4 days after the order is received. You are not put on any mailing lists whatsoever, guaranteed. ~At your request, the programs can come with a password protection utility that only allows the program to run when the correct password is entered.~ To order, please send to: C&M PROMOTIONS 6185 Magnolia Ave. Suite# 360 Riverside CA, 92506 Phone # 1-888-341-1643 Please fill out the following form and mail it to the address above. (Feel free to write out the order form by hand, if you wish). ________________________________________________________ __________________________ (Cut here)_________________________ send to: C&M Promotions 6185 Magnolia Ave. #360 Riverside CA, 92506 Your Name __________________________________ Date ___________ Address _____________________________________________________ City ____________________________ State ___ Zip Code ____________ Phones: Home ___________________E-mail Address _______________ Do you use a? IBM__ MACINTOSH __ Would you like? 3.5 Disks__ CD ROM__ ( ) Virtual Girlfriend..............................................................$7.95 ( ) Virtual Boyfriend.............................................................$7.95 ( ) Both Virtual Girlfriend and Boyfriend................................$13.95 ( ) The Search for Paradise & Club Celebrity X......................$13.45 ( ) Too HOT for VG & VB....................................................$17.50 ( ) Everything!!! The Search for Paradise, Club Celebrity X and Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend.......................$21.90 (ADD) S&H.......$2.00 *money order or check* Amount enclosed?________ ~Please indicate year of birth___________ Code:3785

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