December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

International Crime Control Strategy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 12, 1998 INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL STRATEGY BACKGROUND International crime is a serious and potent threat to the American people at home and abroad. Drug and firearms trafficking, terrorism, money laundering, counterfeiting, illegal alien smuggling, trafficking in women and children, advanced fee scams, credit card fraud, auto theft, economic espionage, intellectual property theft, computer hacking, and public corruption are all linked to international criminal activity and all have a direct impact on the security and prosperity of the American people. Americans spend billions of dollars annually on cocaine and heroin, all of which originates abroad; in 1997, there were 123 terrorist attacks against U.S. targets worldwide, including 108 bombings and eight kidnappings; each year, approximately one billion dollars worth of stolen cars are smuggled out of this country; annually, U.S. companies lose up to $23 billion from the illegal duplication and piracy of films, compact discs, computer software, pharmaceutical and textile products, while U.S. credit card companies suffer losses of hundreds of millions of dollars from international fraud; and several hundred U.S. companies and other organizations have already suffered computer attacks in 1998, resulting in millions of dollars of losses and significant threats to our safety and security. PURPOSE The International Crime Control Strategy (ICCS) addresses this increasing threat by providing a framework for integrating all facets of the federal government response to international crime. This first-ever strategy reflects the high priority accorded international crime by this Administration and builds on such existing strategies as the National Drug Control Strategy and the Presidential Directives on alien smuggling, counter-terrorism and nuclear materials safety and security. The ICCS is also an important initiative in terms of enhancing the ability of U.S. law enforcement officials to cooperate effectively with their overseas counterparts in investigating and prosecuting international crime cases. At the upcoming Birmingham Summit, G-8 leaders will discuss international crime as one of the most pressing issues related to increasing globalization and rapid technological and economic change. President Clinton will highlight the new ICCS in underscoring the U.S. commitment to close cooperation with all nations who are mobilizing to confront this increasing threat. OVERVIEW The ICCS is a plan of action containing eight broad goals with thirty implementing objectives. The ICCS expresses President Clinton's resolve to combat international crime aggressively and substantially reduce its impact on the daily lives of the American people. The Strategy's eight goals and related objectives are: 1. Extend the First Line of Defense Beyond U.S. Borders by (a) preventing acts of international crime planned abroad before they occur, (b) using all available laws to prosecute select criminal acts committed abroad, and (c) intensifying activities of law enforcement, diplomatic and consular personnel abroad. 2. Protect U.S. Borders by (a) enhancing our land border inspection, detection and monitoring capabilities, (b) improving the effectiveness of maritime and air smuggling interdiction efforts, (c) seeking new, stiffer criminal penalties for smuggling activities, and (d) targeting enforcement and prosecutorial resources more effectively against smuggling crimes and organizations. 3. Deny Safe Haven to International Criminals by (a) negotiating new international agreements to create a seamless web for the prompt location, arrest and extradition of international fugitives, (b) implementing strengthened immigration laws that prevent international criminals from entering the United States and provide for their prompt expulsion when appropriate, and (c) promoting increased cooperation with foreign law enforcement authorities. 4. Counter International Financial Crime by (a) combating money laundering and strengthening enforcement efforts to reduce inbound and outbound movement of criminal proceeds, (b) seizing the assets of international criminals, (c) enhancing bilateral and multilateral cooperation against all financial crime, and (d) targeting offshore centers of international fraud, counterfeiting, electronic access device schemes and other financial crimes. 5. Prevent Criminal Exploitation of International Trade by (a) interdicting illegal technology exports, (b) preventing unfair and predatory trade practices in violation of U.S. criminal law, (c) protecting intellectual property rights, (d) countering industrial theft and economic espionage of U.S. trade secrets, and (e) enforcing import restrictions on certain harmful substances, dangerous organisms and protected species. 6. Respond to Emerging International Crime Threats by (a) disrupting new activities of international organized crime groups, (b) enhancing intelligence efforts against criminal enterprises, (c) reducing trafficking in human beings and crimes against children, (d) increasing enforcement efforts against high tech and computer-related crime, and (e) continuing to identify and counter the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures and new technologies in high tech areas. 7. Foster International Cooperation and the Rule of Law by (a) establishing international standards, goals and objectives to combat international crime and by actively encouraging compliance, (b) improving bilateral cooperation with foreign governments and law enforcement authorities, and (c) strengthening the rule of law as the foundation for democratic government and free markets in order to reduce societies' vulnerability to criminal exploitation. 8. Optimize the Full Range of U.S. Efforts by (a) enhancing executive branch policy and operational coordination mechanisms to assess the risks of criminal threats and to integrate strategies, goals and objectives to combat those threats, (b) mobilizing and incorporating the private sector into U.S. government efforts, and (c) developing measures of effectiveness to assess progress over time. ICCS INITIATIVES Highlighted below are ten Administration initiatives to further our efforts to fight international crime. 1. International Crime Control Act of 1998: Proposed legislation containing significant new law enforcement tools for the fight against international crime. 2. Comprehensive Threat Assessment: A comprehensive assessment of the threat to the American people posed by international crime, to be completed within six months. 3. International Conference on Upholding Integrity Among Justice and Security Officials: An international conference to address upholding integrity among key justice and security officials worldwide, to be organized by the Vice President within the next six months. 4. High Tech Crime: An action plan, building on the work of the G-8 justice and interior ministers and the creation of the U.S. National Infrastructure Protection Center, to protect interconnected U.S. communications and information systems from attack by international criminals. 5. Border Law Enforcement: A program to enhance border law enforcement through deployment of advanced detection technology and investment of new resources. 6. Financial Crimes: A commitment to employ aggressively new tools to deny criminals access to U.S. financial institutions and to enhance enforcement efforts against financial crimes. 7. International Asset Forfeiture and Sharing: A U.S. call for new criminal asset forfeiture regimes worldwide and new asset forfeiture sharing agreements with our international partners. 8. OAS Treaty Against Illicit Trafficking in Firearms: A program to work with our OAS partners to implement fully a hemispheric convention to combat the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, ammunition and explosives. 9. Economic Espionage and Theft of Industrial Property: A commitment to use the Economic Espionage Act to increase U.S. investigations and prosecutions of individuals and companies who attempt to steal U.S. proprietary information. 10. Strategic Communications Plan: A plan to engage the private sector in assessing the impact of international crime on that sector and in determining its appropriate role in countering this threat.

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Senate Intel Committee on Crypto
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Senate Intelligence Committee Report 105-185, on intelligence funding for FY1999, May 7, 1998: Encryption The Committee remains concerned about efforts to inappropriately ease or remove export restrictions on hardware and software encryption products. Export controls on encryption and other products serve a clearly defined purpose--to protect our nation's security. Therefore, the Committee believes that the effects on U.S. national security must be the paramount concern when considering any proposed change to encryption export policy, and will seek referral of any legislation regarding encryption export policy under its jurisdiction established under Senate Resolution 400. Export restrictions on encryption products assist the Intelligence Community in its signals intelligence mission. By collecting and analyzing signals intelligence, U.S. intelligence agencies seek to understand the policies, intentions, and plans of foreign state and nonstate actors. Signals intelligence plays an important role in the formation of American foreign and defense policy. It is also a significant factor in U.S. efforts to protect its citizens and soldiers against terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, international crime and other threats to our nation's security. While the Committee recognizes the commercial interest in easing or removing export restrictions, it believes the safety of our citizens and soldiers should be the predominant concern when considering U.S. policy towards the export of any product. The Committee supports the continued control of encryption products, and believes that a comprehensive strategy on encryption export policy can and must be developed that addresses national security concerns as well as the promotion of American commercial interests abroad. The Committee looks forward to working with senior Administration officials in developing such a strategy. ----- Full report: http://jya.com/sr105-185.txt (94K)

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Email Bot
by cons0005＠algnet.algonquinc.on.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was wondering if anyone knows of such a creature that I could send email to with an URL, and I would get a reply of that HTML file? example I email bot(a)somewhere.com with the Subject:http://www.hotmail.com and I will get an email of the HTML file at www.hotmail.com This would be handy because I don't have a broswer (2 meg RAM (I know)) and also for anonymity, cookies etc I couldn't be traced. When you send mail, do you use a postcard or an envelope? Get PGP (tm) my pgpID@ 0xD0186E85 http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~nmarion/pgp.html -yashy-

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Re: Chaffing and winnowing
by Mark Rosen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Mark> ... g. Data authentication equipment that calculates a > Mark> Message Authentication Code (MAC) or similar result to > Mark> ensure no alteration of text has taken place, or to > Mark> authenticate users, but does not allow for encryption of > Mark> data, text or other media other than that needed for the > Mark> authentication; > >But wasn't that the gist of Rivest's paper: he's not encrypting the >message, he's just obscuring it really, really well. > >All this needs someone with the cash & the time to push it to court... > Actually, the first parts I quoted applied to chaffing and winnowing too: a. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing digital techniques to ensure ``information security''; b. Designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions; c. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing analog techniques to ensure ``information security''; Part a. basically prevents any sort of "encryption" technique, whether that technique uses a normal encryption algorithm, a hash function, or quantum cryptography -- anything that can be used for "information security" I think that the NSA knew about chaffing and winnowing, and they talked with the people who wrote the EAR and helped them make the legislation cover chaffing and winnowing. Please know that I, in no way, like the EAR; it just seems that everyone's hopes that chaffing and winnowing gets around the export controls are invalid. The EAR doesn't care *how* you do the encryption, it only cares that some sort of "encryption" was performed. Are there any legal-types out there that can give a more definitive answer? - Mark Rosen http://www.mach5.com/

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Re: Abusive crossposting by anonymous remailer user (Was: Gary Lee Burnore is a Convicted Sex Offender in Raleigh, NC)
by gburnore＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 13 May 1998 15:11:11 +0200 (MET DST), in article <199805131311.PAA05504(a)basement.replay.com>, nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote: :eridani@databasix.com (Belinda Bryan) wrote: : :> And there we have it, folks. The anonymous stalker who's spent the past :> year following Gary Burnore around Usenet found a post in :> triangle.general that mentioned him, added a propaganda-filled follow up :> to it, and posted it to 9 newsgroups--many of whom have repeatedly :> requested that this crap be kept out of said groups. : :"Anonymous stalker"? For merely posting a reply to a public post on :Usenet? What state or country has a statute against that, and what makes :you think the poster falls under its jurisdiction if it does exist? As for :whether a certain post is "propaganda", that is for the reader to decide, :especially when of the content is independently verifiable. The :"propaganda" you refer to was apparently intended to refute the fallacious :assertion that since Gary Lee Burnore's entry in the North Carolina :official database of registered sex offenders had apparently been removed, :then the underlying crime for which he was convicted and required to :register somehow automagically never happened. To make such an assertion :is to invite rebuttal. Only for someone as obsessed in this as you. Everyone else I've seen post except those who have a grudge directly against me has said something similar to "who gives a fuck?" Your obsession continues. : :The thread you're whining about involved Steve Crisp <crisp(a)pageplanet.com> :threatening an anonymous poster with "beating the living fuck out of you" :if his/her identity could be determined, a second anonymous poster :challenging the propriety of such a threat, and yet another DataBasix :groupie, William McClatchie <wmcclatc(a)primenet.com>, calling the second :anonymous poster a "remailer abuser" for daring to make such a challenge. :So rather than denouncing the threat itself, you choose to call the person :challenging it an "anonymous stalker"? If you feel no need to "hide" :anything, please feel free to post your street address and home phone :number. But I imagine that many people with small children would not want :their names, from which their street address can be derived by someone with :the resources available to you and Gary Burnore, to fall into the hands of :a convicted child molester with a history of abusive retaliation. Geesh you ignorant fuck. It's been posted more times than I can count. You don't remember posting it right? Oh wait, that was someone else who's obsessed with me right? Uh huh. The same way you posted Steve's info you posted mine. : :Being threatened with physical violence for making an unpopular post is :one of the best arguments available as to why anonymity is necessary when :people like Steve Crisp and convicted child molester Gary Lee Burnore are :running around loose making those threats. If people like you weren't allowed to abuse remailers, people like chris wouldn't make comments that he knows are not threats to draw you out. You buy it hook line and sinker. You must certianly know that he's not threatning anyone since you're posting anonymously and he couldn't possibly know who you are. But obsessed as you are you can't take it. : :> Oh and lookee what else: it was mailed to cypherpunks(a)toad.com, :> presumably for archival on the cypherpunks mailing list, where it will :> be picked up by WWW search engines. Since those folks don't seem to :> mind having their archives used in personal grudge matches, I'll just :> start cc'ing my responses there as well. I'm sure, as champions of free :> speech, they can understand the necessity of making sure both sides of :> the story get equal time. : :This, of course, comes from the same Belinda Bryan who impersonated a :lawyer for DataBasix to demand the disclosure of (fortunately non-existant) :user logs from the Huge Cajones remailer in a failed Scientology-esque :attempt to embarass its users. More lies from the obsessed one as Belinda NEVER impersonated a lawyer for anyone. Beating dead horses is your specialty isn't it? : And that attack, BTW, started because Gary :Burnore was pissed that an anonymous whistle blower used a remailer to tip :of his victim's mother to the molestation. As is typical of his style, :Burnore denounced that legitimate use of anonymity as "harassment" and :"abuse". More unproven lies. If you, the anonymous asshole were really interested in the truth (rather than your obsession with me) you'd get the court documents and see that the dates do not support your libelous statements. Libelous statements are the best argument for remailers. If you need to make a libelous statement, do it from a remailer. Nothing will happen to you. (Other than folks will begin to ignore the remailer) : :It was also Burnore who chose to make PUBLIC what had previously been a :private e-mail, thus inviting his critics to factually evaluate the claims. :One of them apparently did so and discovered Gary Burnore's name and mug :shot were published on an official PUBLIC website of registered sex :offenders maintained by the state of North Carolina where Burnore moved :after leaving San Francisco. More lies from the anonymous asshole. It's not been that long since this started that people don't remember how and why it was posted to USENet. It had nothing to do with an email. : Perhaps he should have learned a lesson from :Gary Hart and not have taunted the wrong people to find evidence of his :wrongdoing. Perhaps I should continue to improve my tracing skills and find you one day. : :Will the continual harangue against privacy and anonymity by Gary Lee :Burnore, Belinda Bryan, Billy McClatchie, and other staffers and sock :puppets of the DataBasix wrecking crew never end? Translation: If Gary Burnore and Belinda Bryan and Bill McClatchie leave the internet, the anonymous asshole will stop lying. : :BTW, Belinda, cross-posting your whining drivel in the fashion you're :threatening negates your lame attempts to achieve deniability by using the :infamous X-No-Archive header that has become the trademark of DataBasix' :denizens. You've never given a valid reason why someone should or should not use an X-No-Archive header. You hide behind a remailer and libel and then complain when someone X-No-Archives. Typical hypocritical thinking. : IOW, you won't be able to retroactively claim that an :embarassing post from you was "forged" because it's not archived at an :unbiased, third party site. Can you say "oops"? Well we'll see about unbiased sites now won't we? -- for i in databasix netcom primenet ; do ; gburnore@$i ; done --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Burnore | ÝÛ³ºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³³ÝÛºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³Ý³Þ³ºÝ³ÝÝÛ³ | ÝÛ³ºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³³ÝÛºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³Ý³Þ³ºÝ³ÝÝÛ³ DOH! | ÝÛ³ºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³³ÝÛºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³Ý³Þ³ºÝ³ÝÝÛ³ | ÝÛ³ 3 4 1 4 2 Ý³Þ³ 6 9 0 6 9 ÝÛ³ spamgard(tm): zamboni | Official Proof of Purchase =========================================================================== PGPprint: C63B CF4E 1B71 4D7E C6F8 AF4E 338D 5CB4 KeyID: 0x0F7EDBD9 (RSA) finger gburnore(a)netcom.com for public key ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was looking at my RAM when I noticed several passwords I have frequently used were still there, and as I never turn off my comp, I was wondering if there is a way you can "clean" your RAM? I also got errors when installing LILO on my DOS partition, so now I *CAN'T* boot without a bootdisk, and I think LILO sticks itself on the master boot record, is there an MBR editor? Where can I get a list of Candian Remailers? Is there a DOS and/or Winbloze 3.* Email program that I can "forge" headers? (ex: Like in Linux fastmail adding: -f billc(a)whitehouse.gov) thnx.

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re:"... would cause us to look at this person as a threat"
by StanSqncrs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 5/12/98 4:37:47 PM Central Daylight Time, ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com writes: << ... Considering it's content, I have no doubt that it is manufactured - it carefully written to offend millenialist Christians, such as the SDAs. I've written the page owner to see if I can find out more. ... >> Not only that, it seems to be "spam" (the repetitive list type). You see 2 days ago we welcomed a guest to my list (FreeGroup), and in his first batch, guess what was there. Another FreeGroupie had a great response to it, I include it - ===== ... writes: > Well howdy 'yall, i'm mighty proud to have someone to chat wdith and share > ideas and some news, both good and bad. > here's some bad news to start off the day > > RE: Janet Reno, Attorney General of these United States of America > > Subject: Janet Reno Quote > > Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 10:54 > > > > A friend sent me this...sure would like to see the interview in context, > > but at any rate a very scary statement. > > > > Subject: Cults and Government? > > > > "Just ran across this quote from AG Janet Reno. From a person of such > > high power, these are scary words. --------- " <snip - the "spam"> > > "-Attorney General Janet Reno, Interview on 60 Minutes, June 26, > > 1994" > > Bad *NEWS*??? This purports to be an item that's nearly 4 years old. What's the news? I guess the news is that we're getting this 3rd hand--at a minimum, with no idea if it's true or not. But hey! This is the internet. So, again, I ask, *NEWS*???? Bad beginning, Sir Will. The willingness to pass along material of dubious authenticity is not a good sign in my book. As Mr. Natural would say, "Check your source." So, what *IS* your source? ===== Thanks for your excellent research on the origins of that, Peter! Stan, FreeGroup - "Just Say It!" http://members.aol.com/WhtsAMetaU/freegroup.html

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NoT
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Fly Windows NT: All the passengers carry their seats out onto the tarmac, placing the chairs in the outline of a plane. They all sit down, flap their arms and make jet swooshing sounds as if they are flying.

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