December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: NSA Rainbow Series.
by Genocide 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Tobin Fricke wrote: Turns out they were just late in gettin it to me, but I did get it. > > 1-800-688-6115 press 0 or just wait for the operator. My second > > order consisting of posters and video has not arrived either. It has been > > about 6 weeks. The Rainbow order was only 2 weeks. Be prepared that when > > you order the Rainbow series you will be getting a large box.Their are > > something like 30+ booklets in the series. > > There is a set of security posters that include a Santa > > poster.And there is also a video with two films on it (Acess Ins and outs > > adb Acess Control). > > How much does all this stuff from the NSA cost? > > Tobin Fricke > (please reply privately, tobin(a)mail.edm.net) > > Genocide Head of the Genocide2600 Group ============================================================================ **Coming soon! www.Genocide2600.com! ____________________ *---===| |===---* *---===| Genocide |===---* "Courage is not defined by those who *---===| 2600 |===---* fought and did not fall, but by those *---===|__________________|===---* who fought, fell, and and rose again." Email: gen2600(a)aracnet.com Web: http://www.aracnet.com/~gen2600 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the Mountain Dew that the thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion. ================================================================================

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Remailer Network Under Attack
by Wazoo MixMaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It looks like a new round of attacks against the remailer network is underway. Once again, the provocation is "abuse". Unknown persons have been using anonymous remailers and mail2news gateways to "plant" e-mail addresses in various NGs for the spam-bots to harvest and deluge with spam. The original intention appears to have been to "poison the well" for spammers by planting addresses that they'd get in trouble for sending their junk mail to. It appears that one or more copy-cats is now using the same methodology to plant the addresses of people who they'd like to see spammed. (I'm using the term "plant" rather than "forge" since the messages seem to contain sufficient disclaimers that the From: addresses are not genuine. Sufficient for a normal HUMAN reader, but not an automated address harvester, that is.) Within the last week or so, a chorus of complaints has arisen about this practice, orchestrated by about a half dozen individuals who meet an interesting criteria -- they all hold dual accounts on both Netcom and a small ISP known as DataBasix.com. The scenario is quite similar each time this has happened in the past, such as with the cross-posted pro-smoking/anti-smoking threads last year. One of the complainers politely asks that the abusers be identified and their abuse stop. This is, of course, impossible because the perpetrators are posting anonymously. The second step, which follows the first very closely, is a demand that the remailer be shut down with threats being CCed to sysadmins and upstream providers. Given the variety of addresses being "spam baited", the only logical target of this abuse is the remailers themselves. Both sides of certain heated controversies report being made the target of this spam bait, each side accusing the other of being responsible. The only question is whether the main group of complainers (the Netcom/DataBasix group) are merely innocent bystanders or whether they may have initiated the "abuse" as an excuse to shut down the remailers in furtherance of some unknown agenda. Either that, or someone else is attacking the remailer net and it's just a coincidence that a group fitting such a curious pattern (dual accounts on the same two ISPs) should step in and demand the dismantling of several elements of the remailer/m2n-gateway infrastructure. HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION: Would mentioning the "Reichstag Fire" invoke Godwin's Law prematurely? <g>

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Firewalls
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy May proves that the Midwestern gene pool needs some chlorine in it. o o o o o /~> <><><> <> Timmy May o...(\ |||||| ||

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Re: Transmission of Crypto material and ITAR
by Benjamin Grosman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The answer is that no one knows, but if the doctrines that apply to >cargo in transit between countries applied, there would be no >consequence to it. Of course, that doesn't mean that there will not be >consequences associated with this given U.S. governmental insanity. Or it could be dealt with differently, as with a ship that docks for refueling carrinyg munitions (a catergory shared with crypto), or nuclear waste (not quite, but you get my point...) Ben ---------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Grosman - Programmer, Magna Data Internet Solutions Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. [Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.] ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Private property & cypherpunks
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, After talking w/ Sten (firebeard) I have agreed to drop the explicit PD proviso. This means the Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer is operaing under the Burne Convention of implicit copyright. This is gonna be fun. Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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Dale-Further proof
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yet another Dale day (blah): :Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:37:58 -0800 :From: Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> :To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com :CC: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com :Another blood stain on Gilmore's shroud, as it were. As further evidence that Dale is unworthy to participate in any socially interactive behaviour other than grinding (that is, grinding) his nose in the naysayers, collective ass, I submit that he posts mixed and otherwise unclear metaphores. Ipso facto. As difficult as the good doctor can be, Dale is not intellectually worthy to lick his boots, though he tries. And, cc: Doctor V., no less. What cabal is this with cc's in the clear? Love you, fella. (You can tell, can't you.)

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REMOVE FROM MAILINGS
by KENNETH A. LEONE 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME AND ADDRESS FROM YOUR MAILINGS. THANK YOU

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REMOVE FROM MAILINGS
by KENNETH A. LEONE 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME AND ADDRESS FROM YOUR MAILINGS. THANK YOU

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FW: I would like to be out of your mailing list
by Robert Nadra 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I would like to get out of your mailing list , please indicate the correct procedure. Thanks.

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Private property & the cypherpunks list(s)
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(Readers curious about Jim Choate's list ownership/acceptable use policies might take a look at <http://www.ssz.com/ssz/conditions.html>.) Jim Choate wrote: > Please explain how making submissions de facto public domain censors > anyone? What the fuck is "de facto public domain"? It's public domain, or it's not. Your scheme imposes a cost (loss of intellectual property rights) against authors who would like to make themselves heard. It also prevents a certain class of messages (those messages whose status is "copyright claimed") from being distributed. Further, your suggestion that posters be required to include a "fair use header" is compelled speech. That's three flavors of "censorship" right there. I thought that the new list(s) were supposed to allow anyone to say anything they wanted. (Does "no fair use" count as a "fair use header"? It's not legally enforceable, but it seems like the easiest way to specify "minimum fair use required by law". If not, are you planning to moderate the list to make sure that people use only approved fair use headers? Hmm.) Even if the "copyright abandonment by implication" trick works (and I suspect it will not, given that an assignment or transfer of copyright must be in writing, 17 USC 204; and abandonment is essentially an assignment or transfer to the public domain), it will not apply to all text sent to the list. A person cannot abandon or assign something they do not have; so if someone sends a message to the list which contains text whose copyright is held by a third party, that copyright will still be valid. So what you've got is a list where you can't be sure that its contents are public domain, and a draconian rule requiring authors to give up their rights to what they've written. Do you imagine that all of the many-majordomo servers will implement your "public domain only" rule, or only yours? If the rule only applies to the ssz.com version, what's the point? If the rule is intended to apply to all servers, and servers aren't going to be allowed into the network without agreeing to implement it locally, um, tell me again about that "free speech" thing? Aren't you just taking advantage of your position as a person working on the many-majordomos project to impose your ideas about intellectual property on the rest of the list? Is such a strategy compatible with "free speech"? Also, how could a rule like this possibly be compatible with a Usenet gateway? There's no chance at all that you can expand a local rule on your system to all of Usenet through a gateway. And Declan McCullagh wrote: >I forward articles to cypherpunks that are copyrighted by my employers, or >magazines like Playboy and Wired for which I write freelance pieces. > >I like to think these articles have some value. I will not forward any of >them, nor would I be able to, if they magically became "public domain." Which are good points - also, don't forget that, from time to time, people have even posted code to the cpunks list, and many software authors like to retain copyright in their code so that they can insist on things like noncommercial distribtion or credit where the code is reused. If a work is truly "public domain", the author has no power to insist on those things. This proposed rule seems to limit postings to those which are perceived by their authors to be without commercial or reputational value. Is that a good idea? -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy gbroiles(a)netbox.com | in a nutshell: http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto.

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