December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Big Brother PostScripts
by Robert A. Hayden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to some help, I have the Big Brother PostScript but have reduced its size so that it is about 1" x 1" or so (no ruler, just a guest). This is a perfect size for printing on stickers, letterheads, etc. If anyone wants a copy, please drop me a line and I'll be happy to mail it to you. If someone at cpsr.org wants to put it up for FTP, please also contact me and let me know where to upload it to (or if you want me to email it to you.) [As a side note, I'm thinking of breaking into the lab some night and putting these stickers on all of the workstations. Just thinking about it, not actually going to do it :-)] ____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden(a)krypton.mankato.msus.edu \ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=- \/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> In the United States, they \/ Finger for PGP 2.3a Public Key <=> first came for us in Colorado... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (GEEK CODE 1.0.1) GAT d- -p+(---) c++(++++) l++ u++ e+/* m++(*)@ s-/++ n-(---) h+(*) f+ g+ w++ t++ r++ y+(*)

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PRIVACY: Disinformation
by nobody＠jarthur.claremont.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Consider me a hypocrite BUT.... consider the following... My AMPS cell phone is easily intercepted... yes I know I often listen to others calls on my scanner and frequency counter... myself. :) As I am one who is being investigated and tapped I often discuss Totally Fallacious and Unverifiable conspiracies (protected by crypto you see)... Given also I have had PLENTY of contact with the OPFOR(opposing force i.e. LE Mind Set)... I know ANYTHING is believeable to that mind set as long as enough crumbs(i.e. evidence is found... email seems to be sufficient dor this at least to start investigating). Make it VERY unprofitable to investigate... As far as Digital Banks go ... Yes there has always been Cashing your Check and then buying everything cash. Its INCONVENIENT AS HELL... Believe me I Live this way... Having Anonymous Electronic Credit Cards issued by the First Cyberspatial BAnk <First_Cyber(a)cyberspace.nil> and being either a Visa or MC with NO way transactions tracable to me would be a BIG convenience... Look at the recent Soft porn Bust....(by enrtapment with kiddie porn no less) The IRS is now getting hit with falacious Electronically Returns/Refunds... How about filing the next 2-3000 in the name of your favorite Judge, DA, Investigator, Senator, Representative....All fraudalent returns... with even the possibility of profit... I figure the resulting shitstorm when the IRS Revenue Officers and Criminal Section Investigators start on Federal Judges, Representatives and the like will consume MOST of the federal bureaucracy time.... Turmoil

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AT&T phone logs
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been told by someone I believe that the phone companies are ...uh... encouraged to keep call records for *at least* 3 years. bdolan(a)well.sf.ca.us

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was recently helping a new start-up phone company get in operation]We As part of the initial acquisition process of a DCO/CS (Stromberg Carlson) based switch facility which the start-up was acquiring from a previous failed company we went on a swwitchroom tour... There tucked in a back corner and hooked to the "hacker" and fraud intercept trunks of the CS was a intercept operation... the previous consultant (who was giving the tour) bragged of having listened to Hot Ladies etc (usual sort of Drivel) Talking to the former owners I find the former switchroom tech(not this guy) was fired for this type of offense... this company and its sucessor used to carry my long distance traffic... NO MORE!!!... with clipper... this will become a pernicious typr of action ... impossible to stop... BTW the company and its sucessor is SF Bay Area Based... :)

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No Subject
by nobody＠soda.berkeley.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Extremely high activation potentials caused Xenon to ionize: ## "I am afraid of knowing the truth, for when you offer it to ## people, they call you mad." But if they call you mad, it says nothing about your possession of truth. Goddamn converse-is-not-the-contrapositive-ignorant, I-couldn't-possibly- be-wrong-claiming, solipsism-tending, basic-logic-error-making, self- deceiving, to-his-own-authority-pointing, self-esteem-up-propping ranters!

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Politics, Religion, MUDs, MOOs, the Internet, the Past, and the Future
by collins＠newton.apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is some cogent text from James Burke, a guy right at the top of my `man-I-wish-I-was-that-smart' list. He is noted for his television series "Connections", "The Day the Universe Changed", "Tomorrow's World", and "The Burke Special". After the last physical cypherpunks meeting, thoughts of MOOs and whatnot floating through my head, I chanced on a Discovery Channel broadcast of "The Day the Universe Changed" and when it was over, rushed right out to get the book. His comments about computers (particularly considering he made them in 1984-5), and the kind of future they can allow mixed in my head with all the things cypherpunks normally plan for and dream about and filled me with a sense of "Wow! This guy is dead on (and even still ahead of us in his thinking)." James Burke The Day the Universe Changed (companion to the public television series) 1985, Little, Brown, and Co. ISBN 0-316-11706-4 *** the first sentence from the Preface *** You are what you know. *** the last five paragraphs in the book *** The knowledge acquired through the use of any structure is selective. There are no standards or beliefs guiding the search for knowledge which are not dependent on the structure. Scientific knowledge, in sum, is not necessarily the clearest representation of what reality is; it is the artifact of each structure and its tool. Discovery is invention. Knowledge is man-made. If this is so, then all views at all times are equally valid. There is no metaphysical, super-ordinary, final, absolute reality. There is no special direction to events. The universe is what we say it is. When theories change the universe changes. The truth is relative. This relativist view is generally shunned. Is is supposed by the Left to dilute commitment and by the Right to leave society defenseless. In fact it renders everybody equally responsible for the structure adopted by the group. If there is no privileged source of truth, all structures are equally worth assessment and equally worth toleration. Relativism neutralizes the views of extremists of all kinds. It makes science accountable to the society from which its structure springs. It urges care in judgement through awareness of the contextual nature of the judgemental values themselves. A relativist approach might well use the new electronic data systems to provide a structure unlike any which has gone before. If structural change occurs most often through the juxtaposition of so-called `facts' in a novel way, then the systems might offer the opportunity to evaluate not the facts which are, at the present rate of change, obsolete by the time they come to the public consciousness, but the relationships between facts: the constants in the way they interact to produce change. Knowledge would then properly include the study of the structure itself. Such a system would permit a type of `balanced anarchy' in which all interests could be represented in a continuous reappraisal of the social requirements for knowledge, and the value judgements to be applied in directing the search for that knowledge. The view that this would endanger the position of the expert by imposing on his work the judgement of the layman ignores the fact that science has always been the product of social needs, counscioulsy expressed or not. Science may well be a vital part of human endeavour, but for it to retain the privilege which it has gained over centuries of being in some measure unaccountable, would be to render both science itself and society a disservice. It is time that knowledge became more accessible to those to whom it properly belongs. *** end of quoted material *** Scott Collins | "That's not fair!" -- Sarah | "You say that so often. I wonder what your basis 408.862.0540 | for comparison is." -- Goblin King ................|.................................................... BUSINESS. fax:974.6094 R254(IL5-2N) collins(a)newton.apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. 5 Infinite Loop, MS 305-2D Cupertino, CA 95014 ..................................................................... PERSONAL. 408.257.1746 1024:669687 catalyst(a)netcom.com

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stickers
by Matt Thomlinson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Re: big brother stickers, Robert Hayden wrote: > Uh, how do you do dat? Well, I was able to use Word for Windows just now and drop a bunch of them on a page at once (they're postscript; import them as an .eps), resize them at will, and print the page out. If you wanted to make your own laser-stickers or whatnot, I could see this working for you. Of course, a nicer program (one more suited for the task) would be preferred, but .. :) Matt Thomlinson Say no to the Wiretap Chip! University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Internet: phantom(a)u.washington.edu phone: (206) 548-9804 PGP 2.2 key available via email or finger phantom(a)hardy.u.washington.edu

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No Subject
by remailer＠merde.dis.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

subject: xenon == ld? think about it... infiltrate and subvert, of course that would be subverting the perverts, but anyway... raven red

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Re:
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:48 2/16/94 -0800, Robert M. Solovay wrote: ... >Query: > What's ATM? ... ATM = Asynchronous Transfer Mode. This is a switched service running at at least 155 Mb/sec using optical fiber. 600Mb are expected to follow not much later. A single strand to customer premises provides that bandwidth full duplex. The strand provides for many multiplexed virtual circuits a bit like X.25 except that it will probably be priced according to a bandwidth selected at call setup and you will be prevented from exceeding that rate during the call. This service should be sufficient for video. Simillar technologies are being built for local LANs where each computer has a full duplex 155 Mb potential instead of the aggregate 10Mb provided by Ethernet.

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Detweiler blocking
by analyst＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I must admit to a certain amount of amazement to the almost universal consensus I have seen in this forum regarding censoring Detweiler's (or whomever's) Usenet postings. I believe in the remailer concept and I believe in fighting the authoritarian traceability standard that the Internet is designed around. As Xenon and others have mentioned, there are numerous ways for anyone to get around any kind of source-level filtering you might care to implement, and thus as remailer operators heading down this path, you will be put in the position of the proverbial dutch boy with a finger in the dike. The type of privacy that most of us as cypherpunks think is important and are trying to provide will necessarily leave us open to attacks such as Detweiler's. But I think privacy is more important than one more off-topic post in a random newsgroup. And if someone receives mail they don't like or don't appreciate--delete it! This medium of electronic communication is not nearly as dangerous as the current postal system, which allows you to send real mailbombs--and the postal system does NOT require return addresses. Who are these uptight schmucks writing to root and postmaster about Detweiler posts? Why on earth have they been allowed to get away with it! This is ridiculous. I think this is the battle that we must fight. The digital convergence is happening now, and unfortunately with the current authoritarian Internet model, Clipper/Capstone/Tesserae and all that nonsense--things arent't looking good for our side. Therefore, I think even more we have to stand on principle to fight this thing. (and yes, I fully intend to have my remailer running soon--I'm not just talking). Someone could send me mail now containing kiddy porn (most likely a postal inspector--they seem to be the only markey for the stuff) with no return address--should I write to the root(a)whitehouse.org as the ultimate arbiter since the postal service has delivered me this mail? If someone delivers mail through my remailer (which will ONLY support PGP encrypted mail) how am I responsible? Benjamin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- analyst(a)netcom.com mail pgp-public-keys(a)io.com for PGP key

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