December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Higher Education
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From News of the Weird: * Five third-graders were suspended from school in April in Eaton, Colo., for drug use. Not only were they caught smoking marijuana during recess, but they had rolled the joints using pieces of paper torn from their homework.

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Re: [SURVEY try again] pgp5.x / pgp2.x users
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> ====================================================================== > 1. Are you using pgp5.x? Yeah...you got a problem with that? > If answer to 1 is NO skip to question 4 And if I _don't_? > 2. have you placed your pgp5.x key on the public keyservers? Yeah. They sent it back and told me to fuck off. > 3. Were you using an earlier version of pgp before getting pgp5.x 6.0. I'm from the future. > If answer to 3 is NO skip to 6 Hey, pal. Quit ordering me around! > 4. Is your pgp2.x (or 4.x) key on a public key server Yes, but it's under _your_ name. > 5. What software did you use to put your pgp2.x (or 4.x) key on the > keyserver? Was it pgp5.x, or was it some other software (eg web > browser, emailed key submission etc)? I put it on using their root account. They need better security > 6. How many people do you communicate with using PGP? None, really. I usually just babble incoherently. > 7. Of those how many are using pgp2.x (or pgp4.x) None. Do you think that is maybe why no one ever replies? > 8. and how many are using pgp5.x How the fuck would I know if they never write (Adam) back? > 9. how many of the pgp5.x users had never used PGP before pgp5.x > became available Like, I'm _sleeping_ with everyone I write to? How long till I get to the 'smart' questions? > 10. How many of the people who use pgp2.x (answer to 7) are > cypherpunks? Only the guy in the next cell. > 11. How many of the people who use pgp5.x (answer to 8) are > cypherpunks? Only the ones promoting it in anonymous posts to the list. > ====================================================================== > Thanks for your time. That's more apprecitation than the Warden ever expressed. CellMateMonger

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Digital Signatures Come of Age
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* San Francisco "conceptual artist" Guy Overfelt, 29, was prominently, if not favorably, reviewed for two recent projects: For a show at the Refusalon gallery in San Francisco, he called 2,000 toll-free numbers to request that information be sent to the gallery. (That's it.) For a show at New York City's White Columns Gallery in the winter, he exhibited two 1,000-name mailing lists of art collectors, one for the East Coast and one for the West Coast. (Overfelt offered for sale a "signed" edition of the mailing lists, on PC and Mac diskettes, for $20 each.)

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FUD
by Thomas Jefferson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts." - Thomas Jefferson

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Why Jodi Hoffman.....makes more sense than you think.
by Jodi Hoffman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Lizard <lizard(a)mrlizard.com>: > >So, allying yourself with people who would gladly force *your* childen to pray to *their* God doesn't bother you in the least. Fascinating. =========== Interesting that you should mention this. I, like many other Jews, have finally noticed something about Christians.... Seems they're actually _more_ Jewish than Jews. At least they (Christians) try to follow the Ten Commandments, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for most every Jew I've ever known. Most Jews, other than Orthodox, self-identify as atheists and don't even know how to conduct a Passover service! Unless you're Orthodox, being Jewish is a joke. IMHO, claiming to be a Reform or Conservative Jew is the same as being "kind of" pregnant. (bracing for fresh onslaught of anti-Semetic spears to be chucked) -- Jodi Hoffman R.A.M.P. http://www.gocin.com/ramp Victimization of Children/Research & Education Council of America 1304 SW 160th Avenue, Suite 122 Weston, Florida 33326 Phone: (954) 349-0366 Fax: (954) 349-0361

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Forcing someone to mow your lawn, in the commission of a crime...
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In July, police in Lexington, Ky., were searching for Delbert Buttrey, 47, who they believe is the man who kidnapped a transient couple from Indiana, took them to an isolated spot, and forced them to perform oral sex on him while Buttrey's girlfriend snapped photographs. After that, according to police, Buttrey took the couple home with him and forced the man to mow his lawn.

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If it wasn't for the Internet, you might never know this... (WAS: Your Tax Dollars At Work...)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From News of the Weird: * The February Scientific American reported on how conservation biologist Joel Berger (University of Nevada at Reno) field-studies moose, which are notoriously unfriendly to humans. Berger needed to be able to hurl fresh bear and wolf dung accurately enough to assure that a moose immediately smelled it, to see if it made the moose fearful or aggressive. To be able to get that close to a moose, he engaged a designer who worked on the movie "Star Wars" to make a moose suit, which worked so well that Berger said he spent much of his time in the suit worrying about being mounted.

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Re: Why Jodi Hoffman must be called, etc. etc.
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lizard wrote: >At 07:39 PM 11/4/97 -0500, Jodi Hoffman wrote: >>You're a bright one, aren't you? >>Not that I feel I owe anyone an explanation, but since you took the time >>and trouble to write so damn much..... >>CIN donated the webspace. Another Christian organization arranged for >>someone to build the website and, well, here I am. >>Aside from the fact that I didn't want to have to pay for _anything_, I >>think that was very generous of them, don't you? > >So, allying yourself with people who would gladly force *your* childen to >pray to *their* God doesn't bother you in the least. Fascinating. More telling, she doesn't seem to have a problem using a religious (and therefore tax-exempt) organization to push a political agenda. Apparently that whole 'separation of church and state' thing only applies when it's convenient. If religions want to play politics, the least we can do is get them to pay for the privilege. I'd feel a certain guilty pleasure seeing some of those bottom-feeders taxed into penury.

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Re: Will Jews be Forced to Accept Christ in Public Schools?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > Due to my advanced age, compared to most of you, I was attending elementary > school in the State of Virginia before the Supreme Court struck down school > prayer (circa 1962). I vaguely recall a kind of prayer at times, which > anyone was free to ignore. Obviously a child will feel social pressures to > conform...but such is life in many ways. And then the rest of the children were made to stand at attention while the Jews, the Buddhists, the Muslims, et al, performed their own religious rituals, right? > The Jew in our class was specifically exempted from school prayers. Seth > Schrager--I remember his name somehow--was excused from Christian > activities, like building manger scenes and reenacting Christian parables > in school plays. Actually, we didn't _want_ any Christkillers in our school > plays. Big news, Tim...non-violent discrimination against a particular religious faction is not quite the same as freedom from religious persecution. i.e. - Not kicking Seth's Christkilling little butt is not the equivalent of letting him engage in his religious activities in school just as the Christian kids do. Still looking for your shoes? Check under the bed... ~JC~

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Profiling/pc security at Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
by kraiwut＠samart.co.th 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Profiling/personal computer security at Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv I just had a rather unholy experience in Israel. Maybe someone with expertise can email me a few suggestions with regards to securing a PC at start up. On Nov. 2nd I arrived three hours early to Ben Gurion Airport for my flight to Bangkok(via Amman, Jordan). While standing in line before the check-in counters I listened to Shin Bet representatives interrogating passengers. When my turn came the friendly skies turned dark. Apparently my responses to the standardized questions became an unwelcome indictment. I believe a few things contributed to my being selected: 1) jobless but carrying a generous roll of C notes and a stack of trav. checks 2) purchased a one-way the day before from an Arab travel agent(with credit card, not cash) 3) declined an Israeli stamp in my passport(*red flag*) 4) numerous stamps from Arab countries; travelled overland from Sinai 5) I rented a car from an Arab agency located in East Jerusalem These characteristics qualified me for a trip to the back room where they opened my bag and discovered a computer. "Why didn't you tell me you had a computer?" the Shin Bet trainee demanded in a somewhat agitated tone. "Because you didn't ask", I replied. A few moments later someone emerged from yet another back room and asked me something stupid about the computer's battery. I removed the battery as requested. He then asked to see the computer ostensibly to send it through a machine to determine if it was actually a well-disguised bomb. That was his pretense as the computer disappeared for more than 45 minutes. About 5 minutes after he left with the computer someone else walked into the room and gave me the floppy that I always leave in that drive. I assume that this means that they began working on the machine as soon as they left the room with it. Later someone else from another building came to look at the computer so I guess this means that they have a few guys who swing between the four departure terminals checking on progress or doing whatever. When the guy returned my computer there was a half inch crack on the side of my Toshiba that hadn't been there when he left with it. Perhaps they took a hammer and chisel to my hardware. I started it up and found that the Windows 95 password was compromised(no flames, please). I know that you can by-pass the Win95 password by going to the DOS mode, then tweaking something. However, I don't think that was done as the network configuration was altered and some sort of recent Win95 utility was installed( and it wasn't mine). I say recent because I have a newer version Win95 on my desktop so the slight differences are easily apparent to me. The shut down option has a different("shut down and allow user to log on") something or other than was there before. Now the password feature is fucked and the battery management feature isn't working either. I have PGP5.0 installed and a few other easy-to-use crypto and stego programs but nothing was said about those. I have three documents encrypted with PGP but I seriously doubt that they were found. They opened four documents in WordPerfect but nothing in those documents is in the least bit interesting. They easily could have copied the entire C drive and given the machine back to me. Or they could snatch an identity or two and use them for their own corrupt pursuits. What can I do to make the computer fucking impenetrable at start up? --- to the point that they have to ask me for the password or nothing moves. The whole episode was unfucking believable and that wasn't all. I had a $50 bill stashed in a small space in my backpack. While in the terminal waiting to board I discovered it missing. One of the urchins who was protecting the Jewish state from terrorism burned me. The adapter for my Canon printer is missing as well. In short, the Israelis are unscrupulous bastards who deserve a suitcase nuke. I am convinced of this after having visited the tragedy known as the Occupied Territories--- but that is another matter. I wrote down most of the questions used for their profiling scheme. If anyone is interested I will send them if requested. If anyone is interested in creating a page dedicated to these profiling schemes(American, Israeli, anyone) I would be happy to contribute. send security suggestions to: hico(a)hotmail.com

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