December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Market Failures, Monocultures, and Dead Kids (Oh My!)
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mac Norton <mnorton(a)cavern.uark.edu> writes: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Timothy C. May wrote: > > > At 5:48 PM -0600 3/17/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > > >do you also oppose mandatory liability insurance? > > > > Yes. > > And do you also oppose financial responsibility requirements > for obtaining the privilege of operating an automobile on > public roads? > MacN Dunno about Akransas (that's where Uark.edu is, ain't it). Your state is the home state of the muerderer Bill KKKlinton. You should commit suicide at once. But in the more civilized states, like New York or California, if you have an accident and your (good) car is totalled, then one of these three things will happen: * The other driver, who's at fault, has fled. You sue your own insurance company. * The other driver has minimal insurance and no assets. You sue your own insurance company (and the other guy). * You don't carry the appropriate insurance with your own insurance company and have no chance to recover much. Things would be much easier for everyone, including the drivers and the insueres, if the mandatory liability insurance was abolished and evryone delt with their own insurer - who would then try to recover damages from the other party if they had assets. The only people who benefits from the existing system are state bureaucrats. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Secure checksums
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's a rumor that Tim May sells his dead relatives as fertilizer as they constitute the best shit in California. \|||/// ~|||// ____ .) // Tim May (____ @ / \ \ ) /\ \ \/ (_

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Re: Market Failures, Monocultures, and Dead Kids (Oh My!)
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

camcc(a)abraxis.com (Alec) writes: > Tim, > > There would be more room if your sig weren't so long. :-> Guys with short dicks use long sigs. > As you know, every year there are a certain number of child deaths as a > result of reactions to state-mandated innoculations/vaccinations. Gone too? > > Perhaps the difference, or rationale, here is the possible spread of disease > to others, rather than trying to protect the individual from himself. Suppose X chooses to innoculate their kids and Y chooses not to innoculate their kids against, say, polio; and Y's kids get it. They're not going to give it to someone whose parents chose to innoculate them. (This is a kind of borderline example, not unlike circumcision. The individual affected by the choice is too young to understand what it's all about, but doesn't want to be stuck with a needle. Why are the parents more qualified to make decisions for him than the state?) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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(fwd) CarlMStarrsimulationExperiment
by ichudov＠galstar.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Path: mercury.galstar.com!not-for-mail From: ichudov(a)galstar.com (Igor Chudov) Newsgroups: ok.general Subject: CarlMStarrsimulationExperiment Date: 16 Mar 1997 00:36:32 GMT Organization: Bool Sheet Software Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5gffag$3gb(a)mercury.galstar.com> Reply-To: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov) NNTP-Posting-Host: galaxy.galstar.com X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] joe was pulled off a major drug case in the wiretapping of my phone i expect a jealous husband to tap my phone on in gardner ks on and the aftermath info need not lead to indictments or arrest call me or write me your info is worth money also it will help stop wiretap authourity from expanding i will give you your reward as soon as i accept your infomation and we agree what that reward is it could be a trade a car cash etc i have nothing to hide i know what i did and @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ No, the above was NOT written by me, nor by carl starrs. It was generated by a perl script, which emulates writing styles of different people. The way it does it is by keeping track of pairs of words and their most frequently used subsequent words. It reads articles (or any text really) written by the target person, builds the style tables, and then geenrates the "most likely" text. Carl starrs was a good target for two reasons, one of which is that he does not use punctuation. KIBO RULES!!! CLONING MADE EASY!!!

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WebWorld 17-18
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

its deployer. Subject: Re: game theoretic analysis of junk mail Bryce wrote: > If I send a message to cpunks, and it is destined to reach > 1000 mailboxes, do I have to include USD 100.00 with my > message, which will be split by the majordomo into 1000 > 10-cent pieces? Yikes! And then I have to hope that all of > the cypherpunks return my deposit. Sounds like a bad bet. All discussions of eca$h charges for email seem to refer to a figure of $ .10 as a reasonable sum. I suspect that this is due to people subconsciously equating email with snail mail. I think that email, however, is a creature of its own design, and its essence lies somewhere between snail mail and conversation. Think about this: What if, everytime you spoke to someone during the day, you had to pay a dime? How would this change the interpersonal rapport that goes on daily between friends, acquaintances, and strangers? What if you are a polite person, who thanks others regularly? And it costs you a dime every time you do so? What if people rarely reply, "You're welcome." and it ends up costing you an arm and a leg to be polite? This is just a simple conversational example, to illustrate that a small cost can have major ramifications when applied to various situations. The Internet and the Web indeed have the potential to bring global change in the arenas of knowledge and communications, but the question is, will it do so in a manner that promotes equality, or in a manner that promotes elitism and increased class-structures? The concept of limiting UCE/Spam through use of an email surcharge may be viable, but then one has to deal with issues surrounding those who have a need to communicate and few funds to devote towards doing so. For example, people with disabilities who have legitimate needs to receive support and information via support forums. The minute that $$$ enter the picture, then a class-system begins to develop, and all sorts of individual, corporate and government entities come out of the woodwork to level the playing field, or to build many different levels on the playing field. The Internet's future may well parallel the development of the public school system, in some ways. Public education was indeed something which raised the level of all, but private schools made certain that those who had the edge kept it. My view is that the nadir point in any new direction that society takes comes fairly early after its inception. Thus the near future is the time when it will be decided which direction the Net and the Web will move, and in what areas its potential will be developed. Those who shape the Internet and the Web in the next year or so will have a vast effect on the future. TruthMonger

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Re: improving public acce
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In> Adam Back, <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk>, writes: > What we need to do, is to arrange a wide-spread anonymous mail system > on the internet, which is accepted as unchangeable on a practical > basis, where no reply addresses, and no indication of sender is given, > and it accepted as a given that the sender can not be traced. Hmm, could a NYM account maybe serve as entry and exit point for a remailer? That would - - have the advantage, that the remailer, the domain and the operator aren't even known ("Anonymity for anonymous remailers" - my former proposal of usage of "shared account" remailers becomes an actual possibility here) and therefore shut-downs are unlikely. With the exception of the NYM-account, which is trivial to replace. - - make traffic analysis even harder, for alone by the reply block chain an incoming and outgoing message would "disappear" in other traffic, not to mention, that the NYM account remailer (and the attached reply block chain) could be only one adress in an even longer chain of remailers. - - encrypt even plain-text messages at least on their way through the reply block chain conventionally, thereby adding to resistance to traffic analysis. - - even out the message load of the available remailers by using preferrably the remailers with only little traffic for the reply block chain, yet again helping against traffic analysis of the general remailer network. Ciao Harka /*************************************************************/ /* This user supports FREE SPEECH ONLINE ...more info at */ /* and PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS! --> http://www.eff.org */ /* E-mail: harka(at)nycmetro.com (PGP-encrypted mail pref'd) */ /* PGP public key available upon request. [KeyID: 04174301] */ /* F-print: FD E4 F8 6D C1 6A 44 F5 28 9C 40 6E B8 94 78 E8 */ /*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ /* May there be peace in this world, may all anger dissolve */ /* and may all living beings find the way to happiness... */ /*************************************************************/ ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBMzoCVTltEBIEF0MBAQEWPwf/VnssE40IAI0IbHsuzMpYcEg2NaivLXTL teqLYujZJEZPOKh+N+/uZrsPx1qyzppLXtPHLfbG7H4YGsZLX/nDcesRfwHMC5z5 R8SE90VEKkTRIWGE5OsXaeJaNWhb+GBJzzRosGlgLv6YT5lTuMO5jfuNxdmbcprh M2W6RPRljNpg2SRlq/Y1Ci8dOAJFigQUoiZju0+ZrmnZUCddE0Ot5zDA/su8yKX2 5/Ul4/1ccZeBJNbZbZF/c4zEDshZcWqwD+5vAdg9yIhyixMPsJb184+SKLl/Nwrb nAkDIn7QBWJiRJnW2ZYl2KmuKmjPGhZ2FSvCuAjYD5K3eCvuh9wO9A== =uiY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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Microsoft ammunition
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Infoworld: March 24, 1997 Coda dependency may contribute to the fall of the great Gates empire Last week's column demonstrated that Microsoft is unable to respond to the network computer in its usual "co-opt the technology" manner -- a fact that may signal the turning point in the company's history. (Why am I leaving Intel out of this prediction, you ask? Because it is in a far more flexible position than Microsoft. Its chips can run anything. Microsoft needs them to run Windows.) Add to this NC threat the mounting troubles for Microsoft, and it's no wonder there's no joy in Redmond tonight. Look at the trends. According to International Data Corp., Microsoft SQL Server for Windows NT has been losing significant market share for two years to competing products that run on multiple platforms. Microsoft's Wolfpack clustering technology is turning out to be a Chihuahuapack. (See "Toothless Wolfpack," March 17.) Seemingly endless rapid-fire announcements by ISVs to support standards such as Java, JDBC, LDAP, IMAP4, and CORBA are shoving Microsoft's TAPI, MAPI, ISAPI, "SLAP-HAPI," and a host of other Microsoft-centric specifications right out of the limelight. By now you have undoubtedly heard more than you want to hear about the fellow in Germany who demonstrated that a malicious ActiveX control can secretly empty your bank account. Leaks, bugs, and hastily cobbled service packs have been drawing attention to the immaturity of Windows NT. And, most recently, college kids have found more holes in Internet Explorer than it takes to fill the Albert Hall. (My apologies to those outside the Beatles generation who don't get the reference.) Meanwhile, Microsoft has crushed or alienated practically every potential partner that might otherwise have helped it out of its current fix. Network hanky panky This latest Microsoft Internet Explorer security dustup really isn't a bug, it's a feature. Internet Explorer was built to make it easy to launch a file, whether that file is on your hard drive or sitting on a server somewhere in Freedonia. Unfortunately, it took someone outside Microsoft to realize last August that the file one launches from Explorer could be a Word for Windows document packing a malevolent macro. Then, in the past few weeks, .URL, .LNK, and .ISP files were added to the danger list. Then it surfaced that Microsoft's Common Internet File System opens the door to network hanky panky. This is clearly a company that isn't used to thinking outside of the universe of the local LAN. The Microsoft patches configure Explorer to ask your permission before launching a potentially dangerous file type (similar to Netscape Navigator). OK, but this solution makes it virtually impossible for Microsoft or anyone else to integrate a browser seamlessly into the Windows desktop. If seamless, safe desktop access to remote files on the Internet is the goal, Microsoft is spinning its wheels. There is really only one way to provide these features without introducing a local security risk. You have to eliminate the possibility that anything you run can affect your local drives. Better still, get rid of your local drives. In short, a Java-based browser is a good way to do it, but a Java-based network computer is best. Which brings us back to the conclusion of last week's column. But, if you're tired of the repetition, here's a reason you should sit through another sermon: RandomNoise's Coda. Coda lets you design entire Web pages in Java rather than use a mixture of HTML content, tags, and Java applets. Most pundits seem to be fixated on the fact that Coda gives you a way to display fancy fonts that HTML can't handle. Our own Bob Metcalfe is the only one I know of who addressed the bigger picture. (See From the Ether, March 10). He pointed out that Coda may lead the way toward replacing HTML with Java. A Java-based Web page removes the distinction between application and data. It presents data just as an HTML page would, but every element on the screen has the potential to be an interactive part of a sophisticated application. In other words, the Web page becomes both powerful and safe enough to earn the right to be the new desktop user interface to the world. But Internet Explorer and Windows are nowhere in that equation. So is Microsoft in a batting slump, or is this the beginning of the end? Personally, I think Microsoft can pull out of this one. All it would have to do to fully recover is turn Windows NT into Unix, drop Distributed Component Object Model for CORBA, phase out its Windows-centric protocols for platform-independent standards, adopt NetWare's Novell Directory Services, kill ActiveX, port SQL Server to several different platforms, and abandon the idea of integrating Internet Explorer into the desktop. Well, I'm going to take a nap. Wake me when all that happens.

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Re: [Proposal:] Revolving Web Mirrors
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Stewart wrote: > > >> Maybe a mailing list/news group that could > >> post current URL's for the mirrors? > > Having the pattern matcher look for (and delay) potential mirror lists > is more productive, since you can catch them at the Nationalist Firewall > before they get into the country. Maybe. If readers know what to > look for in their news postings, censors probably do to. > > Email is tougher - the Bad Guys don't need to find the source of the > mirror listings (presumed to be in a non-cooperative country, > if you can find it at all) - they can find the recipients of the lists, > and go beat them up. Maybe it's time to set up an "InterNet Free Europe" type of program. Crypto and remailers seem to be well-suited to the task of implementing the dissemination of information and protecting identities of the many individuals who would be involved. CyberHackers could compromise a few systems, to turn them into innocent remailers, and this would open the door for the administrators of other systems to 'fake' system attacks, and do some remailing themselves. CryptoRebels could disseminate encryption programs containing the public keys that would be used for the InterNet broadcasts in certain cases. One of the keys to "InterNet Free World" (a better name?) would be to make a habit of disseminating a plethora of 'false' encrypted messages with little or no meaning, and no available key, as a cover for the messages that are actually targeted for certain users or systems. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Re: PKC
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Warning: if you fuck Tim Maya in the ass, a rabid tapeworm might bite your penis. /\ _ /\ | | 0 0 |-------\== \==@==/\ ____\ | \_-_/ _|| _||

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