December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NSA T-shirt FTP site
by Jonathan Corbet 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, the NSA T-shirt gifs are on ftp.atd.ucar.edu in pub/Crypto -- help yourselves. "Don't forget to use binary mode to fetch them." Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division corbet(a)stout.atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html

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NSA T-shirt FTP site
by Jonathan Corbet 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, the NSA T-shirt gifs are on ftp.atd.ucar.edu in pub/Crypto -- help yourselves. "Don't forget to use binary mode to fetch them." Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division corbet(a)stout.atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html

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NSA Security Manual
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You realize, of course, that by posting the manual verbatim you have allowed them to discover where the leak was. They have the ability to change the wording slightly on every document, so that when you quote the document they can discover who gave it to you. That is why newspapers no longer report quotes from documents that they have, or never show pictures of secret documents. Then again, for something as simple as a manual, they may not bother to change each one. But the capability exists. user(a)host.domain.site <- This sort of manual is never seeded. I'm sure the NSA will fuss because there has been a technical violation, but in the grand scheme of things this is not a major concern except the the extent it shows that an individual has the moral ability to release the stuff to the public. The information itself is not damning but law enforcement tends to frown on the CONCEPT of such releases. If it were seeded, Grady never would have been called. ./ -uni- (Dark)

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RE: RMorality and Ethics (was Pseudonym's and Reputation)
by cfrye＠ciis.mitre.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Blanc Weber says: > >>*** Morality is the ablility to differentiate between right and wrong, >>without denotation. Thus, each situation defines an eidetic decision >>and implementation which would be the application of an ethical standard >>based on past experience. Therefore, endogenous morality is quite tangible, >>while exogenous morality is most likely unethical, and detrimental to the >>purity of being. *** > >I couldn't understand this paragraph very well, as it is too cryptic. > Attempted translation: Morality is both individual and situational, and must not be externally imposed as the imposition would violate individual sovereignty. -- Best regards, Curtis D. Frye cfrye(a)ciis.mitre.org or cfrye(a)mason1.gmu.edu "Here today, gone ?????^H^H^H^H^HFriday, April 8th"

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remailers GONE!
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ List of Running Remailers Last Response ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0 remailers listed. <- OH NO!

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Rejected mail
by John C. Brice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ag588 is rejecting mail from you

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Re: NSA Security Manual
by grady＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

When I spoke to the NSA Security Officer for NSA he was very interested in Phrack (not having heard of it before). I gave him subscription information, etc. If you are listening Erik, I want a cut of the take. :-) Actually I speculate that someone who saw my reposting helpfully phoned the NSA about the security breach. But SDO10 didn't give me that information... Grady

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Re: 1984 Shirt Ordering Info
by markh＠wimsey.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > 1984 NSA T-shirt ordering information: > A reminder: The shirt is available for viewing at > http://phoenix.aps.muohio.edu/users/jdblair/t-shirt.html >... > It will be available soon via anonymous ftp. I will post the address > when that is confirmed. available from ftp.wimsey.bc.ca:/pub/crypto/shirt

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Re: NSA T-shirt FTP site
by Graham Toal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, the NSA T-shirt gifs are on ftp.atd.ucar.edu in pub/Crypto -- help yourselves. "Don't forget to use binary mode to fetch them." Whoever designed these hasn't done a t-shirt before I suspect. The white on black may look pretty on your screen, but it's the worst thing for printing. The best thing to supply would be the graphic, trimmed to its border, as a single file, and the text as a postscript file. Ditto the reverse side should be postscript too. Gifs don't scale well for printing so the larger the original of the graphic, the better. G

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MIT sysop faces piracy charges.
by Alexander Chislenko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Today's Boston Globe has an article on a 20yo MIT student David LaMacchia who 'enabled Internet users around the globe to pirate more than a million dollars worth of copyrigthed software'. David 'faces a possible jail term and fines of up to $250,000'. David's scheme involved usage of anonymous remailers [?] in Finland. The article starts on the front page with a big color picture of David in his computer room. Here's a repsonse to the case I found oncomp.org.eff.talk:

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