December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: SOFT TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 03:03:53 +0100 (CET) > From: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > Subject: Re: SOFT TEMPEST (fwd) > I don't know about displaying the screens of several thousands of PC's at > a site, but you can easily select any given screen of several dozens of > PC's. Using $100 worth in equipment plus a [>>$100] quality frequency > generator. What is the $100 worth of equipment? > At HIP'97, I watched a van Eck demonstration given by a German professor. > Using cheap analog equipment and one of the better HP frequency What equipment, not necessarily the manufacturer or model but the functional description? Do you remember the configuration? > I am told screen images can be captured up to 600 meters along the power > line. As long as there isn't a transformer in there. The impedance shift will strongly attenuate the signal. This same limitation effects X-10 controllers. If the PC's are plugged into a UPS (which they should be in a business) you're SOL here. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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by o0brainiac0o＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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KCKSG Helpers List
by Janyce.com, Inc. Union Gap WA USA 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:56 PM 1/2/98 -0800, you wrote: >I noticed that on the helpers section my ph # is listed.. I must have >accidentally entered that. I would prefer that its not there.. > >Could you please remove it? >-Jim > > I have no idea who a Jim whose address cypherpunks(a)toad.com is. If you are a member, give me your membership no. and full name. As requested please address member concerns to CUSTOMER.SERVICE(a)janyce.com If you are not a member, how did you find the helpers list? -= Janyce =- Kissing Cousins Korner http://www.janyce.com/genecous/book.html JOIN TODAY: http://www.janyce.com/misc/ccformC.html

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Re: Driver Licenses
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> enlightened us with: > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Tim May wrote: > > If a U.S. Passport is not considered enough I.D., > > because it doesn't have the Big Brother Inside > > magstripe, one walks away from the transaction. > > Just as a data point, in the State of Oregon, an US > passport is *not* valid ID for alcohol purchases. > Magstripe or no magstripe. Of course not! The People's Socialist Nirvana of Oregon is a foreign country. Just the fact that almost all other foreign countries recognize the U.S. passport as valid identification for things far more momentous than the purchase of alcohol doesn't mean that the PSNofO has to! What do they require in Oregon? A little holographic tatoo in paisley? A barcode on the tongue? Oh, I know! A machine-readable ID on the inside of the rectum! Has anyone figured out the obvious answer to this shit? If you have, don't answer. And don't send me the bodies by UPS collect, either.

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Re: SOFT TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 06:46:55 +0100 (CET) > From: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > Subject: Re: SOFT TEMPEST (fwd) > That would be my analysis as well. Note that the van Eck demonstration I > saw didn't even make use of the common analog tricks, such as using a > super heterodyne receiver. In what context? The only place a super-het would buy you any selectivity, and its tight bandwidth may actualy work against you, is in capturing the data on each trace. The syn pulses aren't amplitude sensitive so much as time ordered. If you can get a clear signal use that to fire a Schmitt trigger and synthesize your sync pulses and ramps/stairstep generators from that. Using a super-het for this is over-kill. > Not to mention the near magical capabilities of > a few Fourier transforms for pulling a nice, fat signal spike out of all > that "white noise". Doing a Fourier on the grass won't pull the signal out unless you've got an integration function in there to filter the noise (ala flying cap filter). If the signal is strong enough that a Fourier can be applied to it then the signal is most likely strong enough to use directly. The data we're trying to get out isn't that complicated; two sync pulses and the e-beam modulation data. I would like to request that you provide a better description of the equipment used at HIP for the demo. If the various descriptions of that are accurate his signal detection range was around 50 - 100 ft. and he was using specialy sized fonts (special in the context that you wouldn't use them for a spreadsheet or document processing). Is this correct? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oops... Forwarded message: > From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> > Subject: Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd) > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:54:32 -0600 (CST) > And in the long run non-copyrighted software has a significant market ^^^^^^^^^^^ copy-protected > advantage. It's smaller, it is more stable, and people don't get as pissed > off when they want to make their backups. Sorry. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: TEMPEST > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 01:45:26 +0000 > From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > > If your getting your signal off the harmonics you're doing it the hard way. > > Go back and re-read your texts on Fourier Transforms and then do a > > power-spectrum analysis on the signals to the tube; what you will find is > > that the primary frequencies get the majority of the signal (eg 1st harmonic > > of a square wave (ie a dot clock) only gets, at best, 1/3 of the energy of > > the primary). > > But this is not necessarily, where the the monitor resonates nicely. > Van Eck has reported very similar results in his paper: His VDU > had a dot clock of 11 MHz and he got nice resonance peaks near 125 > and 210 MHz. 11MHz base frequency won't produce a clean ring at 125MHz or 210MHz, they're not a whole number multiple of the base. How is this accounted for? What did he calculate the Q at? At what range was he picking up these harmonics as well as the base? The lower harmonic implies a 4MHz beat and the higher a 1MHz beat, how did he account for these signals? Personaly I would be more inclined to suspect the information was riding on the beats. He didn't happen to measure the frequencies to 3 decimal places did he? Since the components are most likely 20%, 10% at best. This would indicate that his base clock was slewing from around 10MHz to around 12MHz, this would explain the 1MHz and 4MHz beats anyway; sub-harmonics due to excessive slew-rate. If he was seeing ringing it had to be very low power because such off-integer resonances only occur in low-Q tuned circuits and that implies a very quick decay constant because the majority of energy is being dissipated in heat. So, in effect, Van Eck is claiming that the propogation attenuation of the 125 and 210 harmonics is lower than for the fundamental frequencies in a low-Q tuned circuit? Or is he claiming the emitted energy of the harmonics was higher than the base drive signal? > If you have only a van Eck style receiver, yes. But as soon as you record > the reception over some time and observe the images phases to drift only > slightly against each other, you might be able to separate them using > similar processing techniques as used in computer tomography. As I alluded to with the comment I made about integrating the received signals. The easiest way to do this sort of stuff with a small budget is with a flying capacitor integrator. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Spanish biometric project 45% complete
by David Miller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Business Systems Magazine, Feb. 1998, p. 78: >BIOMETRICS PROTECTS GOVERNMENT DATA >For example, Spain's government recently integrated biometric >verification units in 633 informational kiosks that will >eventually be used by 7 million citizens (the project is 45% >complete). >... >The 633 kiosks are located in various government offices in >the Andalusia region of Spain, says John Souder, program >manager for Unisys. The Spanish Government plans to implement >the kiosks nationwide. >... >To use the kiosks, citizens had to obtain a smart card with >their name and an ID number. Citizens also had to be "enrolled" >in the system. During the enrollment process, each citizen's >right or left index fingerprint is scanned and stored to the >smart card. That way, the system can verify the citizen using >the card is the same person authorized to use it. >... >Citizens can then access databases for the National Institute >of Social Security; the National Institute of Employment; the >General Treasury of Social Security and the Social Institute >For Sea Workers.

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Re: school filter legislation
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Filtering sex off the Net in schools By Reuters NEWS.COM February 10, 1998, 5:55 a.m. PT URL: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,19002,00.html WASHINGTON--Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) and Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-South Carolina), the ranking Democrat on the panel, introduced a bill yesterday to protect children from sexually explicit materials on the Internet at school and in the library. The Commerce committee will hold a hearing on indecency on the Internet today. The legislation would force schools and libraries to filter or block access to some Internet sites in order to qualify for billions of dollars of federal subsidies aimed at bringing more computers into classrooms and public libraries. Under the legislation, schools would have to certify with the Federal Communications Commission that they are using or will use a filtering device on computers with Internet access so that students will not be able to access sexually explicit or other materials deemed "harmful." A school would not be eligible to receive government subsidies for universal access to the Internet unless it met those conditions. To qualify for the subsidies, libraries would be required to use a filtering system on one or more of their computers so that at least one computer would be "suitable for minors' use," McCain's office said. "The prevention lies not in censoring what goes on the Internet, but rather in filtering what comes out of it onto the computers our children use outside the home," McCain said. In a speech on the Senate floor introducing the measure, McCain noted that when the word "teen" was typed into a Web search engine, a site about teen sex was the first search result to appear. Civil liberties groups have criticized efforts to filter access to materials available on the Internet, saying that such technologies often block out data that children need to learn about AIDS prevention and find support for depression and issues related to their sexuality. Hollings said the legislation gave schools and libraries "an added financial incentive to filter children's access to the Internet," adding, "We must tackle this problem of children innocently stumbling onto indecent material while using the Web for legitimate research purposes or face dire consequences." Under the legislation, school and library administrators would be free to choose any filtering or blocking system that would best fit their community standards and local needs. The bill forbids the federal government from making "qualitative judgments about the system a school or library has chosen to implement," according to a summary. Sen. Dan Coats (R-Indiana) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) are also sponsoring the legislation. Story Copyright ® 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Go to Front Door | The Net | Search | Short takes | One Week View Copyright ® 1995-98 CNET, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Re: Latest Clinton dodge?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > Next thing you know, he'll say "She gave me a blow job, but didn't > swallow, so it's not sex." :) Is that like "if you don't get pregnant," it's not intercourse??? Gotta be a lot of virgins out there then.

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