December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CNN's "Ian Goddard Plot"
by freematt＠coil.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Ian Goddard <igoddard(a)netkonnect.net> Subject: CNN's "Ian Goddard Plot" _________________________________________________ ( free to forward & copy nonprofit with attribute ) ------------------------------------------------- CNN's IAN GODDARD TWA 800 "PLOT" (c) 1997 Ian Williams Goddard I've tried to decisively extricate myself from my TWA 800 inquiry, but it seems that CNN and the gov't don't want me to go. CNN is spreading gross misinformation on television, indicating that I said my inquiry into TWA 800 was part of a "sham" and a "plot." That is FALSE!! I've always promoted what I believe, and now I believe promoting the Navy-missile theory was a big mistake! I believe that the evidence is not sufficient to blame the Navy and I wish to move away from that and all areas of conspiracy inquiry forever. But I never said my inquiries were a "plot" or a "sham." Christine Negroni with CNN contacted me a few days ago to ask about my change of direction, I did not contact her. CNN reports now suggest that I said my conspiracy inquiry was part of a "plot" (a secret scheme) to do damage to the government's reputation. That's 100% FALSE !! My only crime is honesty. I'm honest enough to admit, as I have for months, that my inquiry into TWA 800 was an effort to identify untruth in the government. I have a fact-based bias against government, I'm a libertarian. My webpage was entitled "Anti-Authoritarian Journal," identifying my bias up front, unlike most sources. Such up-front honesty is NOT a "plot," as CNN attempts to portray it. The fact is that anything that is labeled what it is up front is by definition NOT a plot. I'd say CNN has a bias for the gov't line, however, does CNN label its journalism "Authoritarian Journalism?" No. WITNESSES NOT MY FAULT I did not invent nor am I to blame for the fact that 150+ witnesses reported having seen something fly upwards and explode at the spot TWA 800 was. That there were such wit- nesses, up to 154, has been widely reported in the media. CNN just reported in reference to me: Joe Lychner of Houston, who lost his wife and two daughters in the crash, told CNN that Goddard and Salinger owe an explana- tion to the American public. The basis of the missile theory are the witnesses, and I did not invent the witnesses. If anyone owes America an explanation for the missile theory I think it's the wit- nesses, not me. All I did was report what they said and commit the error of theorizing that maybe that fiery thing shooting up was a Navy missile and the Navy is covering it up. I also did not invent the Navy-missile theory. My explanation for that theory is that the Navy is known to have many missiles and is known to be off- shore where the plane crashed. However, an inventory showed that all Navy missiles were accounted for... OK fine, I'm ready to move on, but it seems they aren't: National Transportation and Safety Board spokesman Peter Goelz told CNN that my re-reporting of witness accounts and theorizing that the Navy was at fault has done "real damage" and "caused innumerable people great agony." Wow! It seems I'm a human monster of immense proportions. I am sorry for that, yet it would seem that the fault lies in part and primarily with the major media for ever having reported the witness accounts in the first place. I then made the mistake of suggesting that the Navy may have been at fault and is covering it up, which I now see as a mistake, for I could be wrong and if I'm wrong I've impugned the reputations of America's finest, which is something I should not and do not now want to do, and for which having done in the past, I am very sorry. I don't know what happened to TWA 800, and at this point I don't care! I just want to be left alone and no longer harassed by the major media and others over the TWA 800 case. I'm sorry I thought the Navy did it. It was a mistaken thought. I'm sorry my thoughts have "caused innumerable people great agony." I'm a humani- tarian and have been a vegetarian for 19 years because I want NOT to cause suffering to any living being. CNN's "SECRET SCHEME" THEORY I've never published anything I thought was false. I even published errata notices when required. All claims I've made were meticulously referenced so that readers could check up on what I said for themselves. Providing not just referenced information and ideas but all the links necessary to access the larger body of information about the case is what made my reports so popular and what made this little guy the focus of world news. My plan has been to end my "war on the Establishment." Wanting to move on from conspiracy theory and set a new course, I asked Doctor David Stern, who hosts the DEEP TIMES webpage, to remove my conspiracy reports. However, due to CNN's misleading charges that I've admitted to having been engaged in a "plot" and thus that I will- fully attempted to mislead people to believe what I knew to be false, I have requested that David Stern temporarily replace all my reports so that people can judge for themselves if I was the liar CNN suggests. It will take David some time to get the reports back up, but when they are up you can access them directly at: http://www.copi.com/articles/Goddard or indirectly at: http://www.copi.com/articles/. Please check the first site within the next few days. _____________________________________________ Ian Goddard, now at <igoddard(a)netkonnect.net> ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd.,#176, Columbus, OH 43229 Archived at http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/listarch?list=FA@coil.com **************************************************************************

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Re: Privacy Software
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Adam Back wrote: >Java isn't so bad. Just in time compilers are being shipped with >some browsers (netscape on some platforms). Sun now has native >bigint library (good for you know what, and exportable because they >haven't included the few lines required to implement public key >encryption with it). Okay, Java sounds pretty good. The native bigint library clinches it! >> While it may seem crazy to toss compatibility, it has some >> advantages. For instance, the only people who will use it are the >> hardcore types. I like the idea of an exclusive crypto system that >> only cool people who are fairly with it use. > >I think there would be advantages to always tunneling the encrypted >messages inside PGP, that way no snoops know you're using it, until >it's too late. Aside from political correctness issues, why not? It would also be nice to have an encrypted SMTP channel which happens to be riding on IPSEC. >> If the protocol doesn't accept multiple keys for a message it is >> slightly CAK/GAK resistent. And, it's a nice statement of intent. >> It's also nice to have tools which help you to behave securely >> without carefully thinking about it when you are using them. > >Forward secrecy is what you want for GAK resistance -- can't get much >more GAK hostile than burning your keys seconds after message >receipt. The more I think about the more the separation of authentication keys from communication keys seems like the way to go. If both parties can connect to each other's machines in real time, then a negotiated key which is discarded is great. More often everybody's offline, but that just means you have to publish many different communications keys, perhaps sorted by hours. (Given remailer lag you might have to keep communications keys around for a day or two after expiration, but that's not too bad.) >> The randseed.bin file has always bothered me. What we really want >> is some good sources of entropy in which we have tremendous >> confidence. > >What's wrong with the randseed.bin and the public and private key >rings is that they should all be encrypted with a key derived from >your passphrase. It's also complicated and hard to understand. The Right Thing (TM) is to simply solve the entropy problem correctly. >> >I wonder how good linux's /dev/urandom would be if MD5 becomes even >> >more suspect. >> >> Well, neither of these would be good for a one time pad, of course. > >Linux's /dev/random might not be bad. There is some real entropy in >key strokes and mouse movements, and they are quite conservative >about entropy estimation. You can easily make it more conservative >-- XOR together a load of it to derive a smaller key. The problem with computers generating entropy is that they are complicated machines which are designed to be deterministic. While it seems reasonable that keystrokes and mouse movements have some entropy, its hard to really convince yourself that there couldn't be patterns arising from the OS somehow. For example, maybe the sample times form weird patterns which are related to the scheduler. By all means this can be XORed in, but it seems dangerous to rely upon it if you are trying to be hardcore and use one time pads. >> It would be neat to have, say, three sources of hardware randomness >> and then XOR the result with the above pseudo random output. > >That'd be fine. Personally not being a hardware type, I am >suspicious of hardware RNGs.. I can't tell when they are going >wrong.. failure modes can be dangerous (whoops lead fell of geiger >tube), etc. Most plausible failure modes in hardware should be detectable with the usual tests for "randomness". >Software and computers are easier to understand. Provided you XOR >the lot together you should be fine though. Software and computers are highly complex devices and we don't truly understand every aspect of their operation. We can say it's unlikely that there are patterns in the bits they generate, but if we resorting to one time pads, it seems to me that the entropy question has to be nailed down completely. (Not that I have a good solution, yet. As you pointed out, one time pads consume a lot of entropy. It takes a long time to flip a coin 1.5 MB * 1024 bytes/MB * 8 bits/byte times!) Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNGK7tpaWtjSmRH/5AQH1Rgf7BWVm8IsauXUry7vzL1Wiw/jlISKXO+q2 SWXOW0ce2jH1wKH+X3FbiONLYihzhp8UIvyn6FO7rVXHMdXoDXFVhrpyhbphcejM hokty69o1hQqLU9aX6z7OAA7Vjj2zKZXWc7U596UGkc0+G64qpJfh7kZoHY+Q332 uWMhEHu0AOnv9wGK9Fip4J4n/4jh/ob00VXXeTGG9peJ/AZBqtJMHV9tLW8Xu2EA Yc+zdUmk2jjSHvi2a/9u8NTsJapUVFiEaZ8+iQCZYeP8SG6oAsMmMb0rrCj1y+DK EtMt0rtC6jHGl8dag7zfZLpiIrl6mObMexbh5gAJ40Fb6Ei0HLbZ0g== =4BA0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[news] U.S. cyberterrorism report hit on encryption stance
by Vipul Ved Prakash 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*** U.S. cyberterrorism report hit on encryption stance The U.S. commission on critical infrastructure was criticized Wednesday for endorsing the Clinton administration's policy requiring government access to all private computer data. Sen. Patrick Leahy said key questions had been raised about costs and feasibility of so-called key recovery systems. "Until those significant questions are ... answered, we should be cautious in adopting grand key recovery encryption schemes that may exacerbate system vulnerabilities," Leahy said. The commission's report warned key telephone, power, water and financial systems were increasingly vulnerable to computer attack. For story http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5804555-b01

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have your GAK. Mail me your CAK and we'll trade.

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Re: Govt. key escrow justification
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back wrote: > This is scary stuff... Clipper VI (or whatever number we're up to) in > the making. Expect a fresh onslaught of government master key > attempts from the US government based on this info war initiative. > Michael Wilson <0005514706(a)MCIMAIL.COM> forwards: > > In its formal recommendations, the commission urged the government to > > speed up pilot programs on key recovery, promote efforts to plan for > > implementing large-scale key recovery systems and encourage > > private-sector key recovery efforts. > And there it is, they now want to encourage private sector key > recovery. Now why would they want to do that, if they don't plan to > use it as an infrastructure. > Building central control in _anything_ is asking for trouble > in info war terms. Everything should be as distributed as possible, > to minimise scope of an attacker who compromises keys. InfoWar goes on all the time amongst the Heavy Hitters in governement and commerce. It's called politics and money. Scenario I: Bill Gate$ reads an article where US Federal LEA's are bragging to insider politicians about their history of using their snooping and InfoWar capacities to financially disrupt 'bad' governments and corporations. Bill Gate$ then hands his company's secret keys over to the government because he trusts them to settle their dispute with him in court, instead of just 'grabbing' his money via his secret keys. Scenario II: Bill Gate$ gives his company's secret keys to Lucky Green, who runs toward the site of the Cypherpunks physical meeting, shouting, "Party time! Party time!" BillyG walks back to the limo, muttering, "That Lucky sure has a good sense of humor...I hope!" > Law enforcement with the master keys to the whole country is a huge > risk. Some law enforcement key custodian will simply be bribed or > coerced for the key, and then they really will have an info war risk. The only thing security levels do is determine the end cost of compromising security. Do you have to bribe/coerce a janitor or an executive? > > Asked by the subcommittee's chairman, Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, > > if those controls should be mandated, Marsh responded: "We think > > businessmen will find it in their best interest to incorporate these > > controls. ... Of course, in due time, that may be an option if they > > are not willing to accept them." Voluntary-Mandatory == Volmundatory ? GAK, GMR, ATP (Access to Toilet Plungers)...Cookies, Identity Tracking... What is going on is quite simply a battle for access to information. InoWar! Everybody wants access to the information of others, and to deny others access to their own information. Information is power, and power is kept by keeping the keys to that information. Corporations want to play footsie with the Government when it comes to getting access to all information and communications that pass through the self-defined borders of the Corporate Electromagnetic Curtain, but want to avoid being subject to total control within the borders of the Government's own self-defined ElectroMagnetic Curtain. The issues of power and control are the same as they have always been, but the Battle of the Bulge is now the Battle of the Byte. Government, Corporations, Organizations, Individuals...the players will be the same as in MeatSpace, and so will the issues and underlying concepts and ideals. Those seeking power and control will use the same tried-and-true methods, such as Divide and Conquer. "We don't want no 'nigger' data passing through our website. <---> We don't want no 'racist' data passing through our website." Chorus: <everybody sings together> "THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!" The Government wants to seize contol of ElectroMagnetic Reality by appointing themselves as our Electronic Protectors. Corporations are fighting to use the new technologies to protect themselves, cutting the Government out of the power loop. Individuals _should_ be trying to do the same. Government has declared Crypto munitions for the same reason they increasingly declare Guns to be 'government-munitions'. Those who have no power to protect themselves are vulnerable to those who have _reserved_ that power for themselves. Crypto or Guns...it's all about power and control of CyberSpace and MeatSpace. MunitionsMonger

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[Fwd: Re: [RePol] Donations Received]
by Six 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was sent through EFGA's Georgia Cracker Remailer, but seems to have gotten 'lost' in the remail. Go figure... To: remailer(a)anon.efga.org Subject: Re: [RePol] Donations Received From: TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 22:24:00 -0600 Organization: "It's not FUD until *I* say it's FUD!" References: <3.0.3.32.19971105220233.03538154(a)rboc.net> Reply-To: tm(a)dev.null :: Anon-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Robert A. Costner wrote: > > This week Electronic Frontiers Georgia (EFGA) found donations in our > mailbox for the first time. I'd like to thank those of you who have sent > us your support. As you know, EFGA has no endowment or source of income. I was rather surprised when I received a plea for donations from these people via my subscription to a suicide survivors mailing list. Likewise when my 10 year old daughter mentioned receiving one through her 4H Club mailing list. Upon asking others at work, I found that these people have been sending their requests to millions of people, through every conceivable internet forum, and that quite a few of the recipients had been taken in, and sent them donations. In the interests of stopping this obvious scam, I have founded a group dedicated to wiping out this kind of fraud on the internet, starting with the scum at the EFGA. If you are interested in contributing to our effort, send donations to: Electronic Fraud Fighters (EFF) Box 281, Bienfait, Saskatchewan CANADA S0C 0M0 or email me at: TruthMistress <tm(a)dev.null> > If we raise $2,000 we will be getting a new > server. If we raise $900, we will be doing upgrades on the current machine. > The address again is > > Electronic Frontiers Georgia > Suite A-205 > 4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road > Atlanta, GA 30338 > > For membership info, http://www.efga.org/about/membership.html

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FTC Making It's Move / FTC, Canada, Mexico officials launch "health claim surf day"
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote: > [From Nov 5 Natural Healthline. --Declan] > by Michael Evers > The Federal Trade Commission recently joined with public health and > consumer protection and information agencies from the United States, > Canada, and Mexico to "surf" the Internet for potentially false or > deceptive advertising claims concerning treatments or cures for heart > disease, cancer, AIDS, diabetes, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. TruthMonger Terrestrial Translation: The FTC, fearing loss of its dictatorial powers over the information that citizens are allowed and not allowed to access, wants the citizens to do its legwork for them so that they can step forward to 'save' us all from people who use herbs instead of nuclear radiation to maintain their health. You remember the FTC, don't you? They are those wonderfolks who gave us the 'mainstream media' that used the citizen's airwaves to read us the spoon-fed government propaganda during the Gulf War. In other news: That pesky Sadaam Hussein is acting up again, as he always does during US elections. Funny how the Democrats always come out of wars with Sadaam looking bad, and CIA-backed Republicans always come out looking good. Note to Clinton: You're a Democrat. If you try to show-off in the Gulf, all of your helicopters are going to crash. TruthMonger

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Re: [SURVEY try again] pgp5.x / pgp2.x users
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

20 % of the users who have posted digitally signed messages that are available in my news spool (international and local newsgroups and mailing lists) use PGP 5. The sample contains 545 unique e-mail addresses. YMMV. S/MIME Cryptographic Signature 10 Version: 2.3a 1 Version: 2.6.1 1 Version: 2.6.2 68 Version: 2.6.2, by FileCrypt 1.0 2 Version: 2.6.2i 5 Version: 2.6.3 4 Version: 2.6.3a 8 Version: 2.6.3i 37 Version: 2.6.3ia 278 Version: 2.6.3ig 1 Version: 2.6.3in 9 Version: 2.7.1 2 Version: 4.5 6 Version: Cryptix 2.2.2 2 Version: Cryptix 2.21 3 Version: Cryptix 2.3.0 1 Version: PGP 5.0i 1 Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5 12 Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 86 Version: PGPfreeware 5.0 Charset: noconv 1 Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use 7

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plugin to sell digital files in cyberspace announced!!
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

wow, I have been thinking that netscape/microsoft would put something like this in their browser and that this would kickstart the microcurrency market. however, it sounds like someone has preempted them for the moment and built a plugin. this is an extremely significant development imho. I don't know how credible they are (the notice was spam) but it's a step in the right direction, and the creation of a whole new market I predict. Date: Thu, 06 Nov 97 06:28:47 EST To: InternetUser(a)The.Net Subject: Turn your web-site into a pay-per-view site free in 10min! Reply-To: powerit(a)venus.t-1net.com I-vendor is offering a freeware version of a software plug-in that allows anyone to sell digital files such as photos, programs, text based information etc. from any web site. You don't have to be a company, you don't have to have credit card facilities, you don't have to do anything fancy with your web site - just convert your files, put them on your site and wait for the monthly checks. The software works with Window 3.x & 95 and current versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer - full instructions for use are provided. - - --- Visit http://members.aol.com/ivendor/index.htm to download the freeware plug-in and information pack. - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [RePol] Donations Received]
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Six wrote: > This was sent through EFGA's Georgia Cracker Remailer, but seems to > have gotten 'lost' in the remail. > Go figure... Perhaps they objected to you not using your Government approved 'Prisoner of Citizenship' name.

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