December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Rotenberg as the Uber Enemy
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I suppose I am developing a reputation amongst the Inside the Beltway Cyber Rights Groups (tm) as a pain in the ass, but nearly everytime I see one of their chief spokeswonks giving a policy statement I realize they are "not on my side." The latest quote is from Marc Rotenberg, on a CNN piece on spam and anti-spam legislation, saying that what the legislators in Congress really need to look into is how the spammers develop their data bases..... Incredible. Does he propose investigations of private data gathering? Perhaps search warrants served on those who take public postings and construct data bases? Look, I'm annoyed by getting 5-10 "unwanted" spam messages a day. But I realize the "spammers" are merely taking publicly available (= legally available, as 99.99% of all such information is) information and using legal channels to contact me. I may not "like" it, but their behavior is as legal as someone calling me on the phone. (And ny nearly any measure of hassle factor, dashing to get to the phone only to find it's a salesman selling something I don't want is worse than any 20 unwanted e-mail messages.) So, Marc Rotenberg wants Congress to "look into" (= interfere with) compilation and use of public information. These people are NOT our allies. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Seismic Data Authenticator
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Payne has provided his 1992 Sandia report: "Data Authenticator for the Deployable Seismic Verification System" Marked "For Official Use Only." The 185-page paper describes in fine detail the design, data security and fabrication (with photos and technical drawings) of the third generation authentification device for verfiying seismic data in connection with the nuclear weapons control-START treaties with the USSR. The paper also cites deficient cryptographic algorithms provided by NSA for the device. http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm (98K)

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legal EAR work-around/Paper based remailers
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

EAR says that you can't export crypto in electronic form. EAR says you can export crypto in textual form. We have electronic cash in terms of MT banks digicash. Email is more convenient for exporting crypto source code and binaries that snail mail. Let's do it. Here's what we need: 1. US entrepreneur to accept mail with :: Snail-To: <street address (outside US)> Snail-Fee: <Fee + 2c/sheet + postage stamp charge, digicash> Scanning-Fee: <50c/sheet, digicash> Request-Remailing-To: <cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net> Anon-Post-To: alt.cypherpunks US volunteer strips off first two headers, prints out the document in a large OCR friendly font. Puts in envelope and posts at highest priority snail that can be paid for out of the included postage (overnight/air-mail/slow-boat). 2. Non-US entrepreneur to scan and remail results :: Scanning-Fee: <50c/sheet, digicash> Request-Remailing-To: <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Anon-Post-To: alt.cypherpunks US volunteer scans the sheets, mails/post them to the requested email address/newsgroup, and collects his digicash fee per sheet. I volunteer for #2. (You understand the importance of the Scanning-Fee, I can pay someone to feed sheets into a scanner if needs be with a fee, without that I can become overloaded with a ream of paper representing the binary for PGP5.0). Legal questions: I'd be interested in legal interpretations of whether the above scheme is legal for the US entrepreneur. Peter Junger said a short while ago on the list that printed material could be exported under the EAR regulations administered by Commerce Dept. Does this scheme qualify? Technical questions: If this is to include uuencoded or radix-64 mime encoding, we might want to think about redundancy to allow error correction. Perhaps we want that anyway to ensure that what we have is 100% character-by-character perfect. Or perhaps not as it may damage the legality aspects. They may start saying that you can only export human readable stuff on paper, etc. Then we move on to `texto' apparently human readable steganographically encoded paper based remailer messages. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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No Subject
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.datafellows.com/gallery/ F-Secure SSH 1.0 Windows Client pc_ssh.com - removes time-limit. Copy into SSH-directory and execute. pc_ssh.com in ASCII: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 owFbczSJqyA5vrg4Qy85P5cBCPYlML6wZ9hiu4FpVwjjWcUihcUxjFucNjB0y8Uw 7joTsJOB4aziFoedTAy74oDSr7kn7OtlfMHHsMXnrOK+5YwvWMCsLhG3hl8MJWxb mIBKPh0ODvbQc41wBZr+uvSfgptucGpyaVGqAlBYocxQz0DBuSgxOVtBV1ehKrMo OT9PQV+hINnSnJeL4Z+Ca1FRfpGCf0FqXmZeugLUILCMc35uQU5qSaoikAcA =KINJ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- WarezMonger

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A New Law Could Take Care Of The Problem
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In a September statement, Joseph Sniezek, an official of the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Injury Prevention, lamented the serious injuries suffered by rodeo bull riders and suggested a solution might be to require helmets. ...and seat belts? (When the law is passed to require this, don't be surprised if they tack on requirements regarding the use of child-seats for those riders who take the children along. And of course, if they have a copy of PGP in their pocket when they ride without a helmet...}

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EXTRO-3: Extropy Institute's Third Conference on the Future
by Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hope you may be interested... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- E X T R O 3: Extropy Institute's Third Conference on the Future August 9-10 1997, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA Saturday (Aug 9) theme: The Future of the Body and Brain. Sunday (Aug 10) theme: Future Infrastructure. The conference will include presentations by Eric Drexler - nanotechnology pioneer and chairman of the Foresight Institute, Gregory Stock - Author of "Metaman", Kevin Kelly - executive editor of Wired, Max More - President of the Extropy Institute, Mark Miller - founder of Agorics, Inc., Chris Peterson, Sharon Presley, Sasha Chislenko, Robin Hanson, Anders Sandberg, and others, as well as panel sessions devoted to progress in Artificial Intelligence, Investing in the Future, and Future of Gender and Sexuality. Extropy Institute functions as a networking organization bringing together scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, philosophers, and artists who share certain general interests including: extending life span, augmenting intelligence (both cognitive and emotional), gaining access to space, and achieving control over our own biology through genetic engineering, bioengineering, neural-computer interfaces, and molecular nanotechnology. We welcome all interested members of the public to attend and participate. Past speakers have included Marvin Minsky of MIT, Bart Kosko - fuzzy logic and neural network pioneer at USC, Roy Walford - leading gerontologist at UCLA, Hans Moravec - Director of Carnegie-Mellons Mobile Robotics Lab, Michael Rothschild - author of Bionomics, and Ralph Merkle - nanotechnologist at Xerox Parc. For more information, please visit <http://www.extropy.org/extro3.htm> or call (310) 398-0375 and leave your mailing address or email address, or send email to more(a)extropy.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html> Great Thinkers page: <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/thinkers.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Summit on Cyber-Terrorism
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

May 31, 1997, Asahi Evening News Summit leaders to combat cyber-terrorism World leaders will agree to take measures against a new high-tech element of terrorism--attacks on host computers--at the June 20-22 Denver summit, officials involved in the preparations said Friday. As part of countermeasures against cyber-terrorism, further joint efforts to control the spread of computer encryption technologies will be reaffirmed, they said. Concerns over terrorist attacks on computers and the need for heightened international efforts will be added to the 25 specific counterterrorism recommendations that Japan, the United States, Britain, Germany, Canada, Italy, France and Russia adopted at a ministerial meeting in Paris last July. ----- For full, brief article: http://jya.com/denver.htm

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SSN - when can agencies ask, and passports
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The privacy act of 1974 (public law 93-579) says that any government agency has to provide you with the follwing when asking for a SSN: 1. If the disclosure is mandatory or optional 2. The statutory or other authority they have to ask for it 3. How it will be used 4. Any penalties for not disclosing it. These should be in a "privacy act notice" the agency should already have. As far as passports, I have a pointer to an article in the Western State Law Review, Fall '92 issue by Stephen Kruger. The title is Passports, Social Security Numbers, & 26 USC sec 6039E where he points out that it is probably unconstitutional to fine someone. A plug is warranted since the above info (and a lot more of value) is in Financial Privacy Report, Vol4N8 (August 1994) - I think back issues are $15, but call first (612)-895-8757. This issue is entitled 22 ways to protect your social security number from thieves, snoops, and bureaucrats. FPR / POB 1277 / Burnsville MN 55337

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Re: The Bible Code
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young wrote: > > Published today with great fanfare, "The Bible Code" > describes the fruits of three Israeli mathematicians in > decrypting hidden messages in the Bible by textual > analysis algorithms. Blurbs claim that the work passed > peer review for publication in a math journal a few > years back, was confirmed by "a US Defense Department > code-breaker" and predicted the assassinations of > JFK, RFK, Sadat and Rabin. ... > Better, is this book the first of many to come to celebrate the > cook-ups of codes and cyphers and algorithmic chefs? Is a > film in the works, or, best, a Seinfeld of 0s and 1s? I will shortly be releasing my new book, "The ASCII Code" which outlines the predictions made based on decrypting the hidden messages in the ASCII artwork sent to the cypherpunks list. Since none of the predictions have proven accurate, my book speculates that perhaps Tim May isn't a cocksucker, after all. All proceeds from the book will be converted to eca$h and used to wager on the predicted date of death for Graham-John Bullers on the AP Bot at: http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/carljohn/AP/AP.htm DeathMonger

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Jim Bell Defense fund
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I guess everyone has forgotten about Jim Bell, but he is in no less need of help than he used to be. I would like to know how to help him, and suggest to organize his legal defense fund. igor

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