December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by MAILER-DAEMON＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Slick Willie Joke Book Collectible!
by MAILER-DAEMON＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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HP Crypto Hardware
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

With regard to: > Hewlett-Packard Granted License For Encryption System > > The Commerce Department has granted Hewlett-Packard an > export license for its VerSecure encryption architecture... > The catch is that the products must take their orders > from a central computer...will dictate how...products > will behave in each country. No fucking way! > The company hopes that the solution would break the > deadlock between the Clinton Administration...and the > computer industry... "The company hopes that its solution of a gun that will shoot forward in jurisdictions that allow possession of firearms and backward in jurisdictions that prohibit same will break the deadlock between overweening, self-inflated, scum-sucking, dog-fucking, shit-brained totalitarians and those seeking nothing more than to be LEFT THE FUCK ALONE." Whores! Two-dollar whores! 25-cent whores! HP can stick its encryption card and everything else it makes straight up its mercenary ass. HP just created a powerful incentive for a lot of very capable and creative people to see to it that HP products don't exactly shine in the marketplace, if you get my drift. > The new solution effectively disconnects the problem > of distributing encryption technology from the process > of determining the policy for government access to > information. Wonderful! That's like selling nerve gas that calls Washington to ask permission before it deploys. Stupid, stupid, STUPID fucking assholes! > The heart is a new class of trusted hardware cards and > chips that take their orders from a central company > known as a Security Domain Authority or SDA. In countries > like France that require people to keep a record of keys > for unlocking data, the SDA would only allow the computers > to encrypt information if it complied with the laws. The communists were right on one point. Capitalists will sell them the rope that will be used to hang them. And hang their children. Stupid, stupid, STUPID! > In countries with no laws about encryption usage like > the United States, Germany and Great Britain, the SDA > would allow users to encrypt in whatever manner they > choose. Yeah, _today_. And what about _tomorrow_, you astronomical fuckwits? What about when the USG decides that with this neat mechanism in place they will just advise Slavery Central that citizen-units in the US may no longer encrypt things "in whatever manner they choose?" Names. We need names publicized. Who thought of this monstrous product? Who approved it? Who developed it? Who signed off on it, saying, "Yeah, this will really make our stockholders proud! Who gives a shit if their kids and grandchildren live under the iron fist of a U.S. technocratic dictatorship? We're gonna score a few points here, make a little extra bonus this year, lock it in with a couple of patents... Who cares if we all end up with brainchip implants?" > Hewlett-Packard sees the solution as a win for the > industry, which will be able to build one set of > hardware and software that can be shipped throughout > the world. The SDA's will set the local rules because > the computers will not encrypt information without > first getting permission from the SDA. This is too abominable for words. It's the ultimate sell-out. I know now that there is no hope, not even a spark of the flame of freedom to illuminate the gloom into which we are headed. What's the use of being a well-behaved citizen-unit when this kind of utter shit is afoot or underfoot? It's war. It's always been war, we just haven't understood that it was war. The other side has understood it from the start. > Doug McGowan, one of the director of Hewlett-Packard's > efforts, said in a telephone interview, "Never before > has a general purpose cryptography tool been exportable > from the United States, with or without key recovery. > We're opening a huge market for American industry to > enable commerce on a worldwide basis." !!! Some justification, eh Doug? Hey Doug! When they ask for cerebral implants that explode on command, will you offer a similar product that checks with Citizen Control Central before detonating, to make sure the target is in a country that authorizes it? "Hey, no problem!" says Doug. "Our new CerebSecure will only explode heads in countries like Iran, Iraq, Cuba, and North Korea when people attempt to make unauthorized purchases with its electronic purse feature. In countries with no laws about political or religious transactions like the United States, Germany^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H and Great Britain, the SDA would allow users to purchase in whatever manner they choose." > The price for this flexibility is the need for > specialized hardware that treats the SDA as its > master. In an ordinary computer, the owner can > control all aspects of what the computer does. > This extra hardware will raise the price of machines > and is bound to be more expensive than software which > can be distributed at minimal cost. Yeah, this is just the kind of thing that Americans, even with their severly dulled sense of freedom, will run right out to buy! Sure. First we can expect to see the feds mandate this for all government purchases, then at some point mandate the chipset for all computers, then outlaw encryption that doesn't use the chipset. And I don't even own a crystal ball anymore! > Feisal Mosleh [said], "...It...gives us a lot of > strength in terms of tamper resistance." OK, I give up. Where is the tamper resistance for the Constitution? Is anybody working on that? HEL-lo???? <deathly still silence> FuckWithMeMongerII

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by business＠checkfax.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Killing the Unabomber
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > : Didn't the government finally back down on their > > : attempt to legally kill the Unabomber? > > This point strikes me as pretty funny. Kinda like a nurse rooting > > for Charles Starkweather. >Or trying to be consistent. >Raygun: abortion is killing, but pro-death penalty. >If killing is wrong, killing again is wrong. No consistency involved - many of them would like to kill him. But they've Got Their Man, and he's made it clear that a trial will be difficult, long, expensive, involve lots of firing lawyers and arguing about mental competency, and generally be trouble, and he's offered to plead guilty if they won't kill him. Even though he's a highly intelligent cold-blooded killer, he's also close enough to crazy that the public will have enough sympathy for him that killing him won't be highly popular, especially because his brother wouldn't have turned him in if he'd expected him to be killed. Also, while his killings have been somewhat scary and weird, they haven't generated the kind of public outrage that the OKCity bombing did, with dead babies on the front page of the papers. The defendents there are going to get killed, and the public is going to enjoy it, and the Neilsen Ratings will be high. >Next time, the killer might not be caught because >the person who recognized (yea traffic analysis) >his talktalk might not want them killed as a result. >i.e. in the long run it will save lives. I think you're right here. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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68 Million Email Addresses - 99.00
by owner-cypherpunks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Return of Bass-O-Matic (was PGP)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 15:25:00 +1000 > From: Reeza! <howree(a)cable.navy.mil> > Subject: PGP > I'm looking for some real information on PGP. > I have a friend who swears up and down that every version of PGP since the > first one has been compromised by key escrow and is not really safe. > > Does anyone know where the source for the *original* version of PGP can be > found? Holy bezesus... It just so happens that I have a copy of pgp10.arj and pgp10src.arj. Send me a note and I'll make arrangements to get them to you provided you're in the US and a US citizen (I hate these fuckin' laws - I wanna be paid for this shit!). ____________________________________________________________________ When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property. Thomas Jefferson _____ The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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I'd like to join your mailing list...
by Michael Hall 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I read about your mailing list in The Happy Mutant Handbook, and I am inclined to get on the list. Address is <A href="mailto:stevehall@csi.com">stevehall(a)csi.com .

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Fw: Missing the Big Picture
by Eric Tune 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

William H. Geiger III said: > I have noticed that many members of the list are missing the "big >picture" when it comes to fighting censorship. > >While I support the various efforts to combat the numerous attacks on >personal liberties world wide it is all for nought unless we push for >fundamental changes in government. > >There is an old saying: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts >absolutely". > >So long as we have Statist governments (fascists, communist, socialist, >they are all the same) we will suffer a never ending infringement of our >basic civil liberties. You can not give a government overwhelming powers >to control every minute aspect of our lives and not expect them to use it >AS THEY SEE FIT. > >We go on wining little battles over this law or that law only to be losing >the war. Every year governments become more powerful, more repressive, >and are freedoms are curtailed even more. We need to strike into the belly >of the beast, and rip out it's hart. We must remove it's power to tax, to >regulate, to control only then will we be free. > >Not only must we castrate this beast leaving it a shell of it's former >self but we must stop being children and act like free men. We must be >willing to stand on our own and take our destinies into our own hands. We >must resist running to Big Brother every time we have a problem like a >small school boy running to mommy when he scrapes his knees. > >It is far better to try and fail as a free man than to have never tried at >all living the life of the slave. > >-- Well said William, very well said. Free men must cooperate in their own defeat, refuse to cooperate, refuse to give in, and you will not lose. In the end, tyranny will fall. In the history of our civilizations, all governments have eventually failed, regardless that they may have had noble intent in their beginnings, and they have fallen. So have each succeeding government after them. They fail because when times passes, decades or centuries (doesn't matter) the average citizenry becomes accepting and complacent while said government becomes more and more abusive, excessive, impulsive, and corrupt. Finally, those people who can no longer tolerate this from those who would call themselves their rulers, rise to the occasion and the now festering, malignant government is torn down. Unfortunately, the cycle repeats itself. The U.S. government has lasted this long only due to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution, but it still has been following in the tracks as all the previous governments before it. In lasting longer than any other constitutional form of government, it is now so corrupt that at this point only 1 of 2 things can really happen: a 2nd American Revolution, and hopefully a new start and (for the time being) a change for the better, or total Fascism, and the last remaining freedoms people have will be quickly extinguished. I don't want to live in a socialist environment. I don't want somebody telling me how to raise my children, and I don't want someone telling me I'm a criminal because I don't want to let the government read what I have to say. It doesn't "Take a Village" and it doesn't take Big Brother.... it takes freedom, ingenuity, drive, determination, self-worth, cooperation, and dedication to build something better. Scream to your Senators and Representatives, as loud as you can, we all must do what we can, or we will be lost, and as William said, in perpetual, permanent slavery, with no privacy, no rights, and no hope for a self-determined future. To hell with that. Eric J. Tune

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Newbie pgp question
by Mike 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi guys, I've got a question - may be it is FAQ, the please point me. I need - well, it sounds funny - to crack PGP-encrypted text ;) I have secring.pgp but not the keyphrase - does it make things easier or not? I also have pgpcrack99.zip (DOS-version, zip means that I unzipped it for the 1st time :) But I guess it will take megahours with big dictionary - and it will cover only single words, not sentences. Please, can somebody introduce me a little? TIA PS. I also know few words in that file, may be even phrases. -- ******************************************* Mike Blazer blazer(a)mail.nevalink.ru *******************************************

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