December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Bobby Inman
by jerry＠terminus.dell.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <2erq3c$n4h(a)uudell.us.dell.com> you write: >From owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Fri Dec 17 08:19:53 1993 >Return-Path: <tcmay(a)netcom.com> > id XAA27037; Thu, 16 Dec 1993 23:58:14 -0800 >From: tcmay(a)netcom.com (Timothy C. May) >Message-Id: <199312170758.XAA27037(a)mail.netcom.com> >Subject: Re: Bobby Inman >Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >> There was some mentions that he spend some time in the private sector >> since "then". Anybody knows what he was doing? >> >> Pierre Uszynski >He was head of MCC in Austin for several years and then his own >company, a kind of high-tech holding company (Westmark was the name, I >think). >--Tim May If my memory serves me correctly Inman's Westmark was involved in the buying and selling of Tracor a few year back. Although I'm not sure on that one. Also of note he was(is?) on the board of directors for a Austin based PC company. I don't know what role he played or if he was just on the board for the money. I think it will be interesting to see his opinions on things like, the "fall" of communism, the "crapper" chip, ITAR, etc... I would not like to be on this guy's bad side... If anyone finds out when the confirmation hearings are going to be, it would be nice to know in time to setup the VCR... Good or bad this guy could radically alter the face of crypto policy in the US, much quicker than congress, or most anyone else could act. -- | Jeremy Porter ----------------- Dell Computer Corp. ---- | Systems Engineering --- jerry(a)terminus.us.dell.com -------- |------------------------------------------------------------- | Support your Second Amendment rights to encryption technology.

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Internet Security Scanner
by Jeremy Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anybody where there is an FTP'able copy of the aforementioned program? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tried archie, but no hits for 'iss' 'internetsecurityscanner' or combinations thereof. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Smith -*jersmit(a)eis.calstate.edu*- My views are my own and nobody else can have them! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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My Party NOT!
by Harry Shapiro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, A member of this list (Edgar Swank) recently posted a message to this list providing details of a private party I am holding. That message should not have been forwarded here. The party in question is, as I mention above, private and is not open to the public nor the membership of the Cypherpunks list. (This is most due to the VERY limited size of the "party room.") I am posting this message for anyone who felt that message was an open invitation to join my party and to indicate that was not the case. The party guest list is limited to members of the Extropians list who have RSVPed, others will not be admitted. /hawk -- Harry S. Hawk habs(a)extropy.org Electronic Communications Officer, Extropy Institute Inc. The Extropians Mailing List, Since 1991 EXTROPY -- A measure of intelligence, information, energy, vitality, experience, diversity, opportunity, and growth. EXTROPIANISM -- The philosophy that seeks to increase extropy.

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No Subject
by President＠whitehouse.gov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I Love encryption. I Love PGP. I Love PseudoSpoofing. Please send me lots of mail about my Health Care Plan. And always remember... Free Willy! --Slick

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No Subject
by ferguson＠icm1.icp.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ahem. > Return-Path: <President(a)whitehouse.gov> > Received: from [144.92.136.35] by toad.com id AA13485; > Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:16:03 PST > > I Love encryption. I Love PGP. I Love PseudoSpoofing. > Please send me lots of mail about my Health Care Plan. > > And always remember... > > Free Willy! > > --Slick MACC (NET-UWMSN-NET) University of Wisconsin - Madison 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 Netname: UWMSN-NET Netnumber: 144.92.0.0 Coordinator: Dorl, Michael (MD40) dorl(a)MACC.WISC.EDU (608) 262-0466 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: DOGIE.MACC.WISC.EDU 128.104.30.17 TELGATE.ADP.WISC.EDU 144.92.104.20 Record last updated on 16-Dec-93. Nice try, Willy.

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Detweiler: still paranoid
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto,alt.privacy,alt.privacy.anon-server,news.admin.policy,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.admin.policy,alt.conspiracy From: ld231782(a)turner.lance.colostate.edu (L. Detweiler) Subject: Re: CRYPTOANARCHIST INFILTRATION ALERT Sender: news(a)yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Dec19.075042.7988(a)yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 07:50:42 GMT References: <PMETZGER.93Dec6212145(a)snark.lehman.com> <1993Dec7.235821.25954(a)oracle.us.oracle.com> <pgf.755746191(a)srl03.cacs.usl.edu> <1993Dec17.001757.1814(a)oracle.us.oracle.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: turner.lance.colostate.edu Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 021193BETA PL3] Followup-To: talk.politics.crypto,alt.privacy,alt.privacy.anon-server,news.admin.policy,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.admin.policy,alt.conspiracy I seem to have missed much of this thread. My news server seems to have scrolled off all the interesting articles. I was hoping more cryptoanarchists would show up to call me insane. Quite a pity. David Criswell (dcriswel(a)oracle.uucp) wrote: : There's only one in the phone book. Cupertino's not all that : big, and Szabo's a fairly uncommon name. If I were, umm, you : know, in Mr. Detweiler's mental state, this might lead me to : conclude that somebody was lifting "pseudos" from Bay Area : phonebooks, and the one in the directory does not post. I : don't really care about it enough to call him. Mr. Criswell, could you describe the difficulty of getting fake names into a phone book? is this trivial or impossible? This is not to in any way imply that N.Szabo is such an occurence. I don't know why everyone on the internet gives every single email address they meet the benefit of the doubt. They all should get the detriment of the suspicion. But what do I know? I am just a paranoid lunatic who is progressing quite nicely on Prozac and intense psychoanalysis, thank you very much. Imagine that someone has made an art, science, and religion to pseudospoof. Why would they do it? because there is immense power behind such a technique. And minor barriers like phone numbers and phone books would be the first mediums they corrupt. People trust phone numbers -- they believe that if you can supply a phone number, you are are not a pseudonym. What is the basis for this belief? The foundation? Nothing but naive trust that is easily betrayed by those who have build their lives around deceptions. Don't care? well, don't blame me when tomorrow you find out that the cryptoanarchists own the largest share of the world mafia, and have succeeded in doing so by coordinating it over the Internet. Even better yet, let you be tortured by them all your life without ever discovering the true source of your wretched desperation. -- ld231782(a)longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU

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data point re. Inman
by an58933＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have (sort of ) worked for Inman twice. He is currently serving as a director for the company which employs me. Recently, the company has launched a campaign to coerce employees to sign agreements relinquishing their rights to sue the company and its officers if the employees are willfully injured, sexually harrassed, etc. I have been told that this was done at the request of the board; certainly I would expect board review on something like this. I don't know what position Adm. Inman took, but this still reveals a bit about the corporate culture he contributes to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help(a)anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin(a)anon.penet.fi.

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Crypto security
by charliemerritt＠BIX.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Return-path: President(a)whitehouse.gov > Received: from delphi.com by bix.com (CoSy3.31.1.45) id > <9312191740.memo.19248(a)BIX.com>; Sun, 19 Dec 1993 17:40:07 -0500 (EST) > Received: from relay2.UU.NET by delphi.com (PMDF V4.2-11 #4520) id > <01H6O7JJ9BJK94H43Q(a)delphi.com>; Sun, 19 Dec 1993 17:37:58 EDT > Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP > (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA10179; Sun, 19 Dec 93 17:37:09 -0500 > Received: by toad.com id AA13572; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:19:04 PST > Received: by toad.com id AA13552; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:17:31 PST > Received: from [144.92.136.35] by toad.com id AA13485; Sun, > 19 Dec 93 14:16:03 PST > From: President(a)whitehouse.gov > Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 14:13:02 -0800 (PST) > To: charliemerritt(a)bix.com > Message-id: <9312192216.AA13485(a)toad.com> > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > X-Envelope-to: bix.com!charliemerritt > Apparently-To: Cypherpunks > > I Love encryption. I Love PGP. I Love PseudoSpoofing. > Please send me lots of mail about my Health Care Plan. > > And always remember... > > Free Willy! > > --Slick Dear Slick, as you can see from (enclosed copy of your) message, electronic communications are NOT secure without free enterprise encryption and signatures. I hope Bobby Inmann doesnt put too much presure on you to go with some stupid idea like Clipper. Lets not let America be an embarrased second rate country when it comes to electronic security. FREE CRYPTO! -- Charlie Merritt

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MTGS: 1/8/94 Party only for Extropians
by edgar＠spectrx.saigon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Harry (Hawk) Shapiro asked me to mention: I appreciate your concern about the conflict but it is not an open party as my room can only hold a couple doz. people at best... I would appreciated it if you noted to the cypherpunks that it is a party for the Extropians mailing list only. /hawk -- edgar(a)spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca

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A little ditty about PGP (I especially like the part about prayin' Phil"ain't dead"!)
by ssteele＠eff.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This message was from LESLIE FISH to STEVEN ROSS, originally in conference Filk and was forwarded to y'all by BRUCE FEIST. Note: Despite the copyright, the author permits distribution of her work with proper acknowledgement. ------------------------- Hi, glad you liked my stuff. Just for the yell of it, here's my latest atrocity, based on a hackers' in-joke (would you believe, my very first computer filk?). P.G.P. words: L. Fish (c)12/18/93 tune: ditto The G-men all are cryin' And tearin' out their hair, 'Cause there's a new cryptography That's shown up everywhere. Nobody can break it, However good they be. Everybody's PC got the PGP. It guarantees who's callin' And just who gets the call. If you ain't got your code-word, You can't get in at all. Oh, there ain't nothin' like it To keep your privacy. Half the world's computers got the PGP. There's not a way to crack it, Not in a hundred years. All the spooks & wiretappers Are cryin' in their beers. They can't spy on E-mail Here or oversea When every home computer's got the PGP. Bless the man who made it, And pray that he ain't dead. He could've made a million If he'd sold it to the feds, But he was hot for freedom; He gave it out for free. Now every common citizen's got PGP. So go say what you want to, Of love or war or hate, Kinky sex, or dirty words, Or overthrow the state. Nobody can stop you. Speech is really free When everybody's PC got the PGP. Whee! Enjoy! ...And if anybody out there knows how to adapt PGP for the Atari 130XE, please get me a floppy. Thanx. ___ Maximus/2 2.01wb * Origin: ORAC/2 Home of Log/2 (Log for OS/2) (602) 277-1334 (1:114/12) ****************************************************************************** Can we talk in private? Not if our new Secretary of Defense has his way!!! "Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas." --Adm. Bobby R. Inman in a February, 1982 article for _Aviation Week and Space Technology_ on why cryptographic research should be limited to government scientists. Full text of this article is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org as pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/inman.article. If you want to help fight government limitations on your right to privacy, join the Electronic Frontier Foundation! For more info, write to ask(a)eff.org.

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