December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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There's something wrong...
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday, May 30, 1997 - 21:07:32 MET > A major nail in the coffin of Justice for any accused in the U.S. > > was when the justice system promoted the concept of guilt by virtue > > of "circumstantial" evidence to the point where people can now be > > convicted as a result of speculation rather than evidence. Prosecutors > > now seem to need only to convince the sheeple that it was "possible" > > for the defendant to have commited the crime and that circumstantial > > evidence points *only* to the accused. Actually we are well passed that point. Jim Bell's arrest and pending prosecution amounts to thought crime. Its not "possible they commited a crime" now its possible that they "may" commit a crime. At Waco, dozens of innocents were killed, burned alive on national television in their home and church from an unwarranted, excessive use of force in order to serve a search warrant on David Koresh for what they "may" have been doing. No one was under indictment, under arrest or accused of an actual crime, yet through media manipulation that branded koresh and his followers Kooks, the nation watched another act of Statist-TV-Terrorism. The message through the medium this time?, "We don't need no stinking charges." Mandatory sentencing (a legislative and executive end run that usurps judiaciary power by eliminating judicial discretion) Terroristic Speech (a euphemism for 'thought crime' in many cases) are two examples of end runs around citizens contitutionaly protected rights that are being used daily to commit violent attacks on individual citizens civil rights.

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Janus (now called LPWA) ready for pre-testing)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:31:25 -0400 From: alain(a)research.bell-labs.com (Alain Mayer) To: rah(a)shipwright.com Subject: Janus (now called LPWA) ready for pre-testing) Cc: alain(a)research.bell-labs.com Hi Robert, the Janus system I presented at FC97 is now running on a proxy at Bell Labs, accessible to everyone. Maybe you can send the announcement below to the fc97 mailing list? Many thanks and I hope everything is fine with you, -- Alain ======================================== Hi, Janus (now called the Lucent Personalized Web Assistant, LPWA) is now pre-testing. Its main goal is to increase convenience, security, and privacy for browsing the web, especially with sites that require registration (and hence user names, passwords and e-mail addresses). We hope that you will use it for a while and give us some feedback on what you like and what kind of things are annoying. Note, that you can only participate if you are able to configure your browser to directly connect to our proxy. Some of you might be behind a firewall or ISP where a particular proxy is required. Instructions can be found at http://lpwa.com:8000. More on the project is located at http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/ An arbitrary list of (free) sites which require registration can be found at http://www.bell-labs.com/projects/lpwa/extended_summary_tmp.html#account Please note that this project has not yet been publicy announced and that documentation and code are currently being revised. Also, the current set-up, where you have to connect to LPWA/Janus over an insecure connection is not "optimal" (to say the least, but all in all much better than if you browse the "usual way"). Hence, we are really looking for "friendly users" at this time whose feedback might help us to make improvements. Regards, -- Alain --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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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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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 Chris DiBona 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello again... I see this sort of thing as being like when people see jesus in a bar of saop and charge a buck to the suckers who come to see it. Okay... here's the EMAIL code. I you read the following message: On Saturday, May 31, 1997 12:10 PM, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM [SMTP:dlv@bwalk.dm.com] wrote: > lucifer(a)dhp.com (lucifer Anonymous Remailer) writes: > > 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. > > But John Gilmore is surely a cocksucker. > > I've met Rips, who's supposedly behind this "bible code" nonsense. > He's an asshole, and I dismiss anything he says as total bullshit. > > --- > > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM > Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps > and put it though a filter using the "bible code" method.. you get : stupid dorks will buy this book. >From characters : 3,5,6,.... you get the point. Suckers. Chris DiBona

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