December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

SSZ down (whatta story!)...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Sorry for the downtime but a big (40ft.) tree fell and took out the phone lines, nearly squished one of my dogs, and had the power lines under some considerable tension. If you're receiving this then everything should be back up and operating normaly. No further downtime is expected. Now back to your normal bat channel... ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:58:16 -0500 > From: Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> > Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism > >Sure thing, and where you live, exactly who's land was it before you got > >there? > > Point is, the "Arabs" didn't start it, the UN/European leaders (US, > UK, FR, and RU) did. Actualy the tension between followers of Allah and Yahwe split long before us poor westerners were doing much more than getting naked, painting oursleves blue, and stabing each other with bronze and iron rods. While it is true the modern political scene has exacerbated the situation, it is untrue that it was the causation. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: radio net (fwd)
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Brian W. Buchanan" <brian(a)smarter.than.nu> writes: >I'd love to see them try to enforce that. What about chaffing and >winnowing? Stego? Transmission of random noise? ;) Anyone have the text >of the actual rules concerning this? I found what you're looking for. I failed in my search at the FCC and ARRL web-sites, except for offers to purchase the applicable regulations in hardcopy. C.F.R. 47, Part 97 covers the Amateur Radio Service. The full set of regs is available at: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/simons/al/radio/part97.html The specific regulation you're looking for is at: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/simons/al/radio/part97_b.html#97.113 S 97.113 Prohibited transmissions. (a) No amateur station shall transmit: ... (4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere in this Section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act; messages in ^^^^^^^^^^^ codes or ciphers intended to obscure the meaning ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ thereof, except as otherwise provided herein; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ obscene or indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or identification; ... The exception clause probably makes reference to an allowed "code", that being morse code.

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RE: radio net (fwd)
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So much for "no domestic crypto restrictions." I really hate when people say that, there are plenty, and export restrictions on cryptography software and cryptography in software DOES indirectly but substantially affect the availability and cost of domestic encryption, not to mention that most people download export-grade crypto from the web for convenience. Isn't there a similar ban on encryption-capable telephones and other electronic devices (other than computers). Matt > > The FCC prohibits the transmission of encrypted data via > > analog or digital signals by amateurs.

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PRESS RELEASE: Data Fellows Introduces F-Secure NameSurfer Version 2.0
by Marita Näsman-Repo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For your information: ####################################################### Data Fellows Introduces F-Secure NameSurfer Version 2.0 SAN JOSE, CA -- Data Fellows, the global leader in Internet security solutions, has today announced the new version 2.0 of its F-Secure NameSurfer DNS (Domain Name System) management tool. DNS translates host names to IP addresses and is a critical component of any IP based network. F-Secure NameSurfer provides network managers an easy- to-use Web interface for DNS administration, saving time and maintenance resources. Its intuitive graphical user interface and automatic error checking prevent network managers from generating faulty DNS data. Faulty DNS data can bring down the entire IP network, so correctness of DNS data is essential for reliable and secure Internet and intranets. F-Secure NameSurfer 2.0 has been extensively restructured to achieve peerless performance in the markets, especially in large DNS installations. The new version also makes it possible to prevent the network manager from creating address records whose IP address falls outside his own network. Thus, ISPs can give their customers the permission to change addresses and still be sure that customers stay in their own network zone. F-Secure NameSurfer translates into significant savings in network management. The intuitive graphical user interface saves network managers' time in doing DNS configurations. The configurations can be done remotely and by multiple network managers with personal administration rights. The routine tasks can be delegated to clerical staff. Ultimately even end-users or ISP customers can administer their own DNS data, with a Web browser, as a self-service. Prime target customer groups for F-Secure NameSurfer are telecommunication operators, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and other organizations that need the best tool in the markets to manage Internet or intranet security. Among F-Secure NameSurfer customers are ISPs like US WEST INTERACT, Concentric Network Corporation, and The Finnish University and Research Network, as well as international corporate customers such as Barclays Bank PLC, Motorola Semiconductor Product Services, and UPM-Kymmene. F-Secure NameSurfer 2.0 is now available from Data Fellows' resellers around the world. The product is available for all the popular Unix platforms. Pricing starts at $990. With offices in San Jose, CA, and Helsinki, Finland, privately-owned Data Fellows is the leading technology provider of data security solutions for computer networks and desktop computers. The company's F-Secure data security product line includes the groundbreaking F-Secure Anti-Virus, which facilitates two of the world's best scanning engines, F-PROT Professional and AVP, within the same system for unparalleled virus detection rates; F-Secure SSH for securing all popular TCP/IP applications; and F-Secure VPN for creating secure virtual private networks. The company's products are relied on by many of the world's largest companies, governments, universities and institutions. The products are available world-wide in more than 80 countries through Data Fellows and its business partners. For more information, please contact USA: Data Fellows Inc. Mr. Pirkka Palomaki, Product Manager Tel. +1 408 938 6700 Fax +1 408 938 6701 E-mail: Pirkka.Palomaki(a)DataFellows.com Europe: Data Fellows Oy Mr. Petri Nyman, Director of Sales PL 24 FIN-02231 ESPOO Tel. +358 9 859 900 Fax +358 9 8599 0599 E-mail: Petri.Nyman(a)DataFellows.com All media inquiries: Open City Communications, 212-714-3575 or Opencity(a)aol.com ########################################################### Kind regards Marita Nasman-Repo Communicator, Media Relations -- marita.nasman-repo(a)DataFellows.com, World-Wide Web http://www.DataFellows.com

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Springfield Medical Center
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alia, Thanks for the update on CJ. Please keep us informed. More on CJ's music and how to get it, and help promote it, would be welcomed. It sounds wonderfully rude and vulgar, all right! Below is a 1994 thumbnail description of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, taken from a long, critical report on prisoner health care with more on the Springfield facility available at: http://jya.com/hehs-94-36.txt (81K) Bureau of Prisons Health Care: Inmates' Access to Health Care Is Limited by Lack of Clinical Staff (Letter Report, 02/10/94, GAO/HEHS-94-36). [Excerpt] SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL REFERRAL CENTER MISSION OF REFERRAL CENTER The U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, is one of the Bureau of Prisons' six referral centers that treat male medical, surgical, and mental health patients. LOCATION AND CONDITION OF FACILITY The Springfield Medical Referral Center is an administrative facility, meaning it is equipped to house inmates of all security levels. It was built about 1933. Inmates live in six connected buildings, each of two or three stories. The medical facilities are concentrated in four of the six buildings. The acute and chronic care medical and surgical patients are housed in units that resemble typical hospital rooms, except that several rooms in each unit have locked doors. These locked cells are used for patients who are (1) dangerous to staff or other inmates, (2) participating in the federal witness protection program, or (3) waiting for their custody status to be determined. The mental health patients are housed in units that resemble typical prison cell blocks with one-man cells. Springfield also has a unit that can contain up to 37 inmates in individual locked cells for disciplinary or protective reasons. NUMBER OF INMATES AND PATIENTS SERVED Springfield serves approximately 1,120 inmates, including 439 patients who require medical or surgical care and 294 who need psychiatric care. The medical and surgical care is provided to about 46 acute care patients, 54 patients receiving renal dialysis, and 393 other chronic or recovering patients. The mental health population includes 177 treatment patients and 117 forensic inmates who are being evaluated for their mental ability to stand trial. NUMBER AND TYPE OF MEDICAL BEDS The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations rates Springfield as a 46-bed acute care and 177-bed mental health hospital. NUMBER AND TYPE OF STAFF POSITIONS AUTHORIZED AND FILLED In July 1993, Springfield had 279 authorized health care positions, including 5 psychiatrists, 15 medical/surgical physicians, an optometrist, 12 physician assistants, 127 nurses, 9 pharmacists, 12 psychologists, 6 quality assurance staff, 10 medical records staff, and 82 other health care staff. At that time, 18 positions were vacant, including 3 medical physicians, a surgeon, a psychiatrist, a physician assistant, 10 nurses, 1 medical records staff, and 1 other health care staff. The following specialists were working at Springfield: 3 general practitioners, 4 psychiatrists, 2 internists, 2 neurologists, 1 physiatrist, 1 anesthesiologist, 1 orthopedic surgeon, and 1 chief of health programs. Physicians and physician assistants are available 24 hours a day. However, physicians generally work from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. During the evening and night shifts and on weekends, one physician, one psychiatrist, and one psychologist are on call. Physician assistants are available in the facility 16 hours a day. Nurses are responsible for medical care between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Nursing service is provided 24 hours a day. STAFF ORGANIZATION The Associate Warden for Medical Services supervises most of Springfield's health care staff, including nurses and technicians. The Clinical Director is responsible for the internal medicine physicians, psychiatrists, surgeons, dentists, physician assistants, the quality assurance coordinator, utilization manager, and infection-control practitioners. The Associate Warden for Mental Health Services is responsible for the psychologists and social workers who work with the mental health patients.

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Spot The Fed
by Raymond D. Mereniuk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

About a week ago I sent a message the list regarding Toto and how I found it hard to believe he was a country & western artist. I mentioned a tribute to Toto and an URL pointing to a web page on a data security product at a web site which is total spoof. The URL lead to a page touting a data security product called PUP, Pretty Useless Privacy. I shamelessly plagiarized Toto's concept, and even some of sentences, from a post on Pretty Lousy Privacy. I even managed to get most of the characteristics of Snake Oil in one sentence. The graphics on the page is a Snake Charmer. Now you figure the Feds will visit for sure, just try and spot them. Resolve the IP addresses to a domain name might work but if they had a clue they would use dummy domains. I would like to nominate the folks at IP address 204.249.179.54, or better yet the whole Class C as possible Feds. The IP address does not resolve to a domain name, actually all the IP address in the Class C plus the 204.249.178 Class C. I didn't bother to try any other neighbouring Class Cs. I can understand a few IP addresses of isolated machines not resolving to a domain name but not the whole Class C. You should also be able to see the default gateway's domain name. Seems like this may be the site of some paranoid privacy loving folks. If I have slandered any Cypherpunk and their company, who may be at least privacy loving, please accept my apologies in advance but please let me know if I made a mistake.

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by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: Computer hard disc scanning by HM Customs & Excise
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> > Just set the BIOS not to boot to floppy, >> If the customs people have any clue, the first thing they do >> is hit DEL at the appropriate BIOS prompt >I think you give them WAY too much credit, not to mention many systems >give no such prompt. But highly suspect if anything they will check the >BIOS *after* first not being able to boot to floppy successfully. Any tax-collector who's illiterate enough to ask "Do you have Internet on your computer" is probably not going to know what's happening, especially given the disparity of system boot behaviour. Some things may get their attention, like the sound card yelling "Begin destruct sequence! 10, 9, 8, 7....." or, more politely, "Stop, thief! Help, someone is stealing this computer!" or "Virus detected. Please remove the infected diskette and contact corporate security for further instructions" but your basic subtleties like a Linux boot screen and copying the diskette to backup and then wiping it are beyond the typical border guard's technical training, and don't smell interesting enough to get his dog's attention (unless there's a good high-pitched tone as well.) I may post a more thoughtful article about the offensiveness of this practice or the technical cluelessness, but for now I'll just rant about the sheer folly of allowing anybody to touch your computer whose primary training is in Shouting and looking for people who match profiles, like Irish accents or obvious wealth or obvious poverty. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:29:14 -0500 > From: Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> > Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd) > There are lots of things you can make alcohol out of. Seaweed, etc. True, but the amount of land needed to replace the oil reserves is a tad excessive... > for importation into the US. Why? It's in their best interest to use the product in their own country. > And what would you need to add to it to "color" the flame? Indy racers add various things to make it burn (usualy a orange) but I don't have any references at hand and don't remember. Sorry I can't answer that one specificaly. > Put about 2% detergent (just about any grade will do) into that > "water spray", and the fire goes out quicker, and stays out longer. That'll work for gasoline because soap and gasoline are soluble. I doubt it would work very well for alcohol but once I get this mess with the tree straightened out I'll do a little backyard experiment. What I had in mind was to pour some alcohol on the concrete drive way and light it. Then use a waterbottle with a water/soap mix. Do you think that would be a suitable simulation? > There are plenty of unused roof tops here in Chicago bouncing free > energy off into the air. Yep, use the roof of every 10+ houses to power a single house... > Again, there are a lot of tall buildings here where the wind is > constantly moving. Also, we have this large, flat, relatively undeveloped > area just to the east of chicago where the wind is constantly at least 10 > m.p.h. (from (admittedly imperfect memory) 7 m.p.h. is necessary to run an > electric generator from a windmill) and where no one lives. Ok, so you have acres and acres of power turbines on towers around Chicago, where does Chicago move to? What about the rest of the country? The issue after all is what happens when a renewable *replacement* for oil based fuels is found? This is a much more global issue than Chicago. Besides putting a wind generator on a building wouldn't even power the building. > It's called Lake Michigan. Ok, something got lost here... > No, but it is PART of the solution. Actualy it's not, if anything the pollution of mining, production, byproducts of use such as acid rain, and some I've probably left out are only an extension of the problem. The ignorance of long term costs of disposal and ecological impact is one of my personal pet peeves with traditional economic theory and why I pretty much think it's a pile of shit and economist in general are idiots. > Again, PART of the solution. Ok, so we let PART of the people starve and die in the dark. > The waste problem goes away of you build a decently stable launch > platform and drop the shit into the sun. We don't have engines at this point that can do that. The fact is that it takes more energy to get to the sun than it does to leave the solar system. Nope, not the answer. (I do experimental, ie big bird, rockets for grins and giggles) > "power sats" into orbit (altho I am not real clear on how the energy gets > back down, something about using microwaves <shrug>) Microwaves, and god help you if you happen to fly through one. I won't even talk about the costs of development, control, maintenance, etc. This won't fly any time in the next couple of hundred years at least. What about the heating of the water in the air, can you say global warming on a scale that would make the current issues irrelevant. > Also, you ignored, or didn't see the "mix of" statement. Oil CAN be > replaced, and should be. There are plenty of ways to replace the energy Absolutely, I want to replace it. I want to replace it with something that is renewable, won't have the ecological impact of the others, won't squeeze the small countries out, etc. If it requires killing a single salamander then it's the wrong choice simply to make a profit. > for clean air as much as the next guy, and I guess trees are kinda nice to > look at, but I'd like to see far more diversity in energy sources, and > investigation into more long term, renewable sources. I love trees. The problem is that there aren't that many renewable resources that won't break the bank or create a have/have-not situation that would be rife with conflict potential. > Actually it looks like something that could be made in a factory. > Take a methane source (sewage, rotting plant matter) pump it into really > cold water under pressure, and blam. You need pressure as well. But yes, this is a possibility as well. I haven't seen the energy costs on this approach. The largest producers of methane on the planet are cows. Perhaps we should shove a hose up the hinney of all the cows...:) > Depends on what you want it to replace. The one of the largest uses > of oil is in the transportation sector, and "they" have been pushing > Natural Gas there for years to little effect. Absolutely, there is a hurdle to jump. One of the main issues with the traditional natural gas deposits are that they are expensive because of the drilling requirements, non-renewable, and not evenly distributed to potential users. Something deep-ocean clathrates and potentialy your industrial process idea don't have. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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