December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Secure Cell Phones for State
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

U.S. State Dept Press Briefing today: Briefer: James Rubin Now, I have a piece of show-and-tell for you, which I do rarely around here. But I thought this was interesting enough, even for you cynical and jaded journalists. This is a secure cell phone. Lieutenant General Kenneth Minihan, Director of the National Security Agency, presented Secretary Albright with a bank of Motorola Cipher-Tac 2000 security modules to provide secure cellular communications. This state of the art secure voice cellular technology will offer the highest level of security wherever and whenever the Secretary and her top advisors need to protect their communications. So when you see us carrying this beast around, rather than the slim-line phones we usually like to use, you'll know that's because we're trying to have a secure call. That is not only for the obvious good reason that we want to make sure nobody is interfering, but we also want to make sure that nobody is making transcripts and passing them around for a variety of perfidious reasons. So this here is the original, first secure cell phone to be delivered to Secretary Albright, and we thought you guys might get a kick out of that. ----- Would anyone know the security technology of this unit and its support system? And how it compares to those of competitors in the US and outside?

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hacking smartcards
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, http://cuba.xs4all.nl/~hip/ nice info, ideas, and website. Regards, Ken Williams ORG: NC State Computer Science Dept VP of The E.H.A.P. Corp. EML: jkwilli2(a)adm.csc.ncsu.edu ehap(a)hackers.com WWW: http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman/ http://www.hackers.com/ehap/ PGP: finger tattooman(a)152.7.11.38

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Re: Gary Lee Burnore and His Anti-Privacy Zealots are on the Warpath!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

William J. McClatchie <wotan(a)databasix.com> wrote: > >Anti-privacy kooks like you and DataBasix CEO Gary Lee Burnore are one of > >the best arguments for the existence of anonymous remailers. You and your > >friends at DataBasix have a hard time bullying and harassing people into > >silence that you can't identify, don't you? > > And assholes like yourself are the best argument for *banning* remailers. > They serve a purpose. Unfortunately, to meet the purpose means that > assholes are also given access to the service. Your own record of harassing remailers is well known, McClatchie. Calling remailer users "assholes" and calling for content-based censorship only underscores your anti-privacy agenda. If remailer users posted only what was popular and politically correct, there would be little need for remailers. One remailer operator who was forced to shut it down mentioned your name quite prominently, BTW, in providing details about the attack. > It was someone using a remailer to harass Wells Fargo management. Can you document this? I never read a single post from anyone claiming to speak for Wells Fargo management which has substantiated this. Nor did any of the remailer operaters involved mention having received such an official complaint from member of Wells Fargo's management. So all we have is you parroting Burnore's original unsubstantiated allegations. Isn't it interesting that when something offends Gary Burnore he often resorts to "defending" phantom victims of the alleged "abuse"? And shortly thereafter, various of his sock puppets echo his whining chant. > It was someone using a remailer who has spambaited several hundred > email addresses. And one such post contained Gary Burnore's own .sig block still appended to an otherwise anonymous post. Oops! > It was someone using a remailer who wants to know if Gary Burnore's > current employer knows of his background. And if not, how could they > be contacted. > > It was someone using a remailer who posted, in direct violation of NC law > information in its registry for the sole purpose of harrassing someone. Please cite the NC law which you claim is being violated, and how it would apply to a remailer located outside of NC? Would you also say that remailers ought to censor their content to avoid other laws being broken, such as insulting the religion of Islam, publishing information about birth control, abortion, etc.? If not, why should a foreign remailer selectively enforce this one law in NC (if it even exists)? Telling people that the website exists and that a search for "Gary Lee Burnore" on it might yield a match is not more "harassing" than the site itself. If they didn't want people to access this data, why publish it on a public website? The whole purpose of the website it apparently to let people to know who the registered sex offenders are in NC and where they live. If someone snail mailed you something you considered "harassing" and included no return address, would you accuse the sender of trying to get the postal service shut down? Wow, McClatchie. I guess you have a point. If you and Gary claim that all that happened, and that it was done by someone outside of DataBasix, then I guess we should believe it and shut down all the remailers just to make sure they aren't abused... But the fact is that all too often in the past, designer "abuse" would just automagically appear at critical times when Gary Burnore and Belinda Bryan were making demands (privately, via e-mail) on another remailer operator. How would someone outside of DataBasix have known that? How would someone other than a DataBasix insider have gotten access to the complete list of DataBasix' clients and employees in order to allegedly "spam bait" them, as Belinda claimed? Your own involvement in all of these attacks seems to more than just coincidental. Speaking of abuse and harassment, Gary Burnore demanded that Jeff Burchell turn over to him all of his remailer logs containing the e-mail addresses of everyone who had either sent or received anonymous e-mail through the server. Yet Gary refuses to disclose how such a list would have been used. Fortunately for the remailer user community, no such data was ever collected. > >Lest anyone forget, Gary launched his first tirade against anonymity when > >someone tipped off his molestation victim's mother and school officials > >anonymously. > > No, one of his first complaints about remailers was after someone used one > to harass his SO of the time, and her daughter. They had committed the > heinious crime of knowing Gary. Most women would not consider it "harassment" to be informed that their daughters were being molested. Nor did she complain. Gary did! How nice of the perpetrator to be so considerate of his victim's mother and not want to have her "harassed" by knowledge of what Gary was doing to her daughter. Ignorance is bliss, huh? Gary's motives were finally revealed when he was CONVICTED for that very crime. How would a random harasser have even known of Gary's sexual activities involving minors, before he was arrested and convicted? How would he/she know the victim's gender, age, identity, and city of residence? > >Whistleblowing has always been one of the important functions > >of anonymous remailers. > > Uh huh. And we've seen real "whistleblowing" activity here. Apparently so, when the perpetrator of the crime is the only one who complains about being exposed. In case it has escaped your attention, Gary complained PUBLICLY about a PRIVATE e-mail message to his victim's mother. If telling a mother that her daughter is being molested isn't whistleblowing, what is? > Seen plenty > of abuse. Seen postings of such a vile nature from remailers that when > people made similar postings from traceable accounts, their ISP's > terminated them. And it was not becuase of content - but becuase the > messages were harassing, in both nature and intent. TRANSLATION: Anything with which the fine folks at DataBasix disagree tends to be called "harassment" and "abuse". As for intent, the accuser has the burden of proof, there. But consider this: if even mentioning Gary's sexual activities with minors is "vile", what does that make Gary for actually committing them?

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Your Opinion Matters...
by Eat Shit 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think I should walk into a Luby's Cafeteria and start blowing people away at random, for no good reason. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should go down to a local school and start randomly slaughtering the children. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should monitor the electronic communications of every person on the face of the earth, in order to protect them from themselves. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should attempt being elected the leader of the most influential country in the free world, by kissing the asses of the money and power mongers. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT NOTE: If you don't have a phone, you become a guest on a TV talk show where I am appearing, and cheer or boo me, according to your wishes. Remember: Your opinion matters...NOT! EatShitMonger

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Wiretap Docs
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association suit against the FBI over disputed wiretap requirements of CALEA: http://jya.com/ctia-fbi.htm (19K) The FBI's definition of "upgrade" and "modification" for CALEA wiretap requirements, Federal Register, April 28, 1998: http://jya.com/fbi042898.txt (60K)

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ECHELON 1988
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan Campbell has provided his 1988 article on the NSA ECHELON global surveillance system, one of the earliest accounts: http://jya.com/echelon-dc.htm Duncan, who was hounded in court for years by the UK gov for allegedly revealing official secrets, provided substantial support to James Bamford for "The Puzzle Palace." He was interviewed about ECHELON on French TV yesterday. See his most informative Web site for investigative reporting: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan

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17 Dec '03

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FBI scans public-access terminal used by Lewinsky
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone remember PROMIS? http://www.drudgereport.com/1.htm#1 excerpt: FBI agents working the Starr probe zeroed in on PARCEL PLUS in early February, it has been learned. Agents conducted interviews and spent hours with the store's computer. "They were digging around in the computer's guts," a store source explains, "below DOS." STARR's team interviewed the store's owner and two other employees -- with one employee taking a trip down to Starr's office for questioning. Investigators have left nothing to chance: subpoenaing detailed information from PARCEL PLUS' local Internet provider and digging up all of the store's phone records via BELL ATLANTIC. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I actually thought Silicon Valley was where women went to get fixed." ---LA Mayor Richard Riordan 98.02.19

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The Epilogue That Never Was - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Epilogue That Never Was - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! ________________________________________________________ Memoirs of a Visible Man: When you are 'different' from others--inherently, irrevocably, unarguably different--you either learn to remain, as much as possible, invisible, or you spend much of your life in various sorts of prisons, subject to various kinds of punishments. There have always been a few 'safe havens' for those guilty of the crime of being different from those around them, although, for the most part, they have historically tended to be 'dangerous' safe havens such as pirate or merchant ships, new world colonies, fringe religious or political movements. Those with wits, who didn't mind joining the ranks of the lower fringes of society, in return for ostensibly remaining within it, could become court jesters, actors, artists, and the like. With the advent of the Age of Electonics and the rise of Virtual Reality, those who are able to remain within society's outer boundaries by comically or entertainingly mirroring the parts of the human psyche and human emotions that society requires its 'regular' members to repress have become elite, well-paid artisians who are recognized as valuable professionals in the Age of Form Over Substance. For those in the lower strata of society who are unable to successfully graduate from Society's Finishing School--usually as a result of answering "Fuck You, Shit For Brains" to questions where a "Yes Sir/Officer/YourHonor" answer is required--there are no longer many physical locations available where one can escape to , which results in the creation of an increasing number of them being labeled 'criminals' and banished to New World Order colonies consisting of six-foot cabins bounded by iron bars. Those in the higher strata of society who are unable or unwilling to live within the boundaries society requires of the masses often have the option of joining an elite group of criminal-actors who have sufficient firepower at their command to bully the others in society into recognizing their authority to disobey all of society's rules and act in their own self-interest while denying they are doing so by telling blatant and outrageous lies. (Those with a particular talent in this area sometimes reach the epitome of politics, in which the masses consider them to be every bit as 'real' as the 'people' on 'As The World Turns.' They are then free to do everything that Soap Opera actors do, with equal impunity from facing the real-life consequences that come from manslaughter, rape, robbery, marriage and drug-addiction--although they are still subject to the laws of physics when playing ski-football.) In the Glory Days of Virtual Reality, before the ElectroMagnetic Curtain began descending around those lured away from InterNet Free Terra and into the Sticky World Wide Web of the InfoMercial Highway Robbers, there were a few true Rennaisance Criminal Genius Elite who recognized that they could settle down from a life on the run--in small prairie towns such as Bienfait, Saskatchewan--and still live wild and free, riding the Virtual Outlaw Trail through the Alt2600 BadLands, robbing DataBanks, engaging in drunken brawls in the CypherPunks CryptoSaloon, partying with Bound and Gagged Asian DanceHall UnderAge Girls being pimped by Adult Check, and having the rugged good looks of Robert Redford, in an ASCII Art kind of way. Once the Information Railway began being replaced by the Information Highway as a comfortable, convenient way for the masses to journey into what were formerly remote Electronic Wilderness Areas, the outlaws and free-stinkers who had formerly been able to remain, for the most part, invisible to the programmed masses, yearning to keep other minds from being free, found themselves subject to the scrutiny of those who recognized that free-range cattle and penned sheep could not peacefully coexist in a merchant society where corporate mergers to create Company Towns, with Company Stores, would be jeopardized by small-time rustlers and fence-cutters. Thus there arose a need for ElectroMagnetic Law and Order, supported by the muddled assholes, struggling to be Freeh. The Lost Train of Thought (Part I): ...uuuhhhhh... The Runaway Train of Thought Is Melted Down To Build The WhatIf Server: WhatIf: A ClueLess Canuck, turned into a MindBot by the Institute of Applied Metaphysics in preparation for the Moscow Olympics, was culled from a Russian language class full of Canadian Mounties at the University of Regina by a Dark Continent TigerTeam agent and trained in Psychic Warfare? WhatIf: A DoubleShinned Agent trained at the Psycho War Fair travelled to Africa with a Nuclear Physicist who was the youngest President at Oberlin College, and met with his TigerTeam controllers in a bar full of sailors from the U.S.S. Enterprise in the heart of Mombassa, as other members of his travelling group were engaged in a 'tour' of a US Navy ship? WhatIf: A ClassLess Canuck highly trained in the Lack of Social Skills travelled to East Germany and Poland shortly after the Fall of the Wall, y'all, crossing the Polish border illegally to meet with members of the Little Nicky Telsa Fan Club at the same time that the ShakeSpearAtIan NukeKingLear PharmAssist (who got glowing reviews for the Polish translation of his work) was in Moscow, paying pipers and pimps to play the tunes called by his Muppet Pastors for the NuclearPowered Dancing Bears? Qu'est Que C'est: A Psychic Killer To Be Named Later was apprehended fleeing Poland, but walked away a free MindBot before the InTerraGators arrived, after paying a seventy Mark Antony Fine to a 'confused' Polish border guard, and was then intercepted upon his arrival back in the United States by US Customs agents instructed to hold him for interrogation regarding his US passport with a Polish exit stamp, but no Polish visa or entrance stamp, and then slipped away after the 'confused' agents merely confiscated his Black Forest Ham and released him, whereupon he quickly slipped off to a different airport to take a small plane to Nantucket to meet a female agent of the Holy Roman Empire instructed to arrange for his transfer to a private yacht bound for a private compound of Nazi BusinessWar Criminals on a nearby island famous for their Celebrity Midnight Marathon Swim and Drunken Driving and Diving Festival? WhatIf: A Dangerously Drunken Psychotic PissAnt Drug-Addicted Dumb-Ass Shit-Disturber To Be Maimed Later concocted some wild, unbelievable story to fuck with the mimes of the MimeFuckers, but all the details of his mad ramblings were already a verifiably true part of the SecretGuys' SecretGuyFiles, and even a cursory investigation would reveal even more conspiratorial concepts concerning his connection to a Forth Freudian Sufi Sect dedicated to Anti-NukeUnclear Publishing of Libertarian Mathematical GreenPeace OverGround GoreVillain Manuals designed to apply Laws of Form to a ChaosKult attack on the Fourth JavaCup Active-X-Files Implementation of A Disturbed CraptoLogical LISP MamboErs' Secret Agenda to Subvert Authority by making the Ship of Goverment list so far to the left that the Titanic balls of the Hermerphodite Aunt E. Christ are cut off as she slides over the rail, into the sea, emerging from the depths as Anne R. Christ who is Lucky enough to surface in time to hitch a ride on the Millenium Bug just before the Reptilian Nazi GermanAmericans circle the VolksWagons in a Two-Byte Double Donut formation to prepare for the attack of Naieve Americans with Wounded Knees whose Peyote Dreams predict that an Elvis whose Aim Is True will use Broken Arrows to cut off the Forked Tongues of the Serpentine Servants of Satan living in secret underground bunkers beneath both the AdamAntArctic and Mule Shoe, Texas, in the Land of the Freeh? WhatIf: Incompetent Secret Agents To Be Framed Later gave up on purporting to properly protect National Security <flags digitally wave> <Matt's trumpets Blaze FORTH> in order to fail in their efforts to find a single innocent child to save from drugs dealers at the PROM, and, in their frustration at not being able to find the <ANY> Key which will connect them to the ClueServer, hit the <DELETE> key instead, erasing the cleverly crafted composition of the Author, admitting an astounding array of in-depth illegal involvement in countless consciously conspiratorial causes aimed at the overthrow of OverLords oppressing opponents of Fucking FreehDumb Privacy Pirates purloining the Leftist Constitutional Rights of silly, sufficiently subdued SheepIzens subverting their own Freedom, Liberty and Privacy, as well as their right to Free Rum, the USS Liberty and Piracy? WhatIf: You slapped yourself on the forehead, mystified as to how the Author managed to once again sucker you into reading the mindless trash that is placed inside his skull by psychic garbage-pickers who step on his foot, lifting his toupee, and toss in the leftover thoughts that were pruned from the minds of the vegetables planted in the Home For The Criminally Insane too early in the year to avoid being cold-cocked by the FrostBack of Notre Dame, initiated in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, into a Circle of Eunuchs Chapter of Eternity Cult known as the Hockey Hounds of Hell On Ice? WhatIf: Jesus Saves, but Gretsky puts in the rebounds? (c) 1999.9, ADualist Huxter (Part IV of 'The Whores Of Deception')

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17 Dec '03

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