December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Baltimore 2600 meeting, DC meetings, cpunx meetings
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

These kind of meetings (DC 2600 meeting at Pentagon City Mall, 1st Fri. of every month in the food court, about 5-7pm or so) might be good places for local cypherpunks gatherings as well. I'm sure there are a lot of other such meetings, but the DC and Baltimore ones are the ones I know of. Forwarded message: From: an77310(a)anon.penet.fi (Desert Eagle) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 10:24:07 UTC Subject: Baltimore 2600 Meeting in May First Baltimore 2600 Meeting!!!!! When: Friday May 6, 1994 7:00PM Where: Baltimore Inner Harbor, Harborplace Food Court, Second Floor by the large newsstand Any questions, mail me! Hope to see all of you there! Desert Eagle ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- Stanton McCandlish * mech(a)eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist "In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994

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CORRECTION! Baltimore 2600
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oops Forwarded message: From: an77310(a)anon.penet.fi (Desert Eagle) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 10:48:09 UTC Subject: CORRRECTION! Baltimore 2600 Baltimore 2600 Correction!!!!!! time will be 6:00 PM EST not 7:00 Desert Eagle ________ end ___________ -- Stanton McCandlish * mech(a)eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist "In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994

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Xmosaic to pgp key server
by whitaker＠dpair.csd.sgi.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks, Warlord. Those of you who use xmosaic, add this URL to your hotlist: http://martigny.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-commands.html This is a PGP keyserver in Zurich. Happy trails. -- Russell Earl Whitaker whitaker(a)sgi.com Silicon Graphics Inc. Technical Assistance Center, Mountain View CA ================================================================ #include <std_disclaimer.h>

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re: 1984 NSA T-Shirt Available!
by tim werner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: jdblair(a)nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU >Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 14:10:20 -0400 (EDT) > >I've come up with a design for the 1984 NSA t-shirt idea which I am >finally happy with. To check it out, fire up Mosaic and jump to: > >The back is the Cyber Rights Now! Logo from Wired Magazine. > I'd be interested in a T-shirt with the "safety in large numbers" design that was on the back of the cypherpunks criminal shirt, but I didn't get that shirt because of the "CRIMINAL!!" bit. It seemed a little too shrill. I was a criminal for years. Lately, I've been relatively law-abiding. How about putting the lightning bolts over the large numbers? tw

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I'm a little surprised
by jim＠bilbo.suite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A couple of days ago I posted that Headline News displayed a "factoid" that stated US residents value privacy over police ability to wiretap. With all the excitement the Time/CNN poll generated, I expected people on this would say hurray or something. Nobody said anything. What's the deal? Jim_Miller(a)suite.com

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Zimmerman in REASON
by walter kehowski 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks and Extropians, There's an article "Code Blues" by Ronald Bailey in the recent REASON magazine [May 1994] on Phil Zimmerman, PGP, and Clipper. Walter A. Kehowski <wak(a)next1.math.pitt.edu> !FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS!

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Re: I'm a little surprised
by cfrye＠ciis.mitre.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Jim Miller writes: > > What's the deal? I guess all the publicity from the Time article, which cited the same survey as CNN (by Yanklevich Partners), deadened the response. I've begun to see reps of Yanklevich interviewed about public opinion on CNN quite a bit recently. -- 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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Re: I'm a little surprised
by jim＠bilbo.suite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Hughes writes: >It was the same poll Ah. That explains it. Tim May writes: > Second, the relevant quote is already being included in > some people's sig blocks. For example: > [..] > I think it's gotten a _lot_ of attention. You just must be > skipping a lot of messages (understandable, given the > volume). > Nope. I read almost all of them. I just didn't pay enough attention to the original article of the sig notice that the Time/CNN pool was conducted by Yankelovich Partners. When I saw the Factoid I thought it was a different poll. Jim_Miller(a)suite.com

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Re: I found this a very interesting use of anonymous mail. I am sending itnot to advertise the ad but the process
by pcw＠access.digex.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yes, this is a very good example of _real_, legitimate uses of anonymity. Headhunters usually provide anonymity as one of their "features. Another good example are the personal ads. -Peter >Posted-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 05:23:26 -0400 >To: com-priv(a)psi.com >From: an32949(a)anon.penet.fi >X-Anonymously-To: com-priv(a)psi.com >Organization: Anonymous contact service >Reply-To: an32949(a)anon.penet.fi >Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 05:29:48 UTC >Subject: Well known net business seeks COO to grow (S.F. Bay Area) > >One of the few well established companies doing business on >the internet has decided it wishes to hire a chief operating >officer to manage the growth and operations of the company. > >The company is under $5 million in sales and the president >and founder wishes to focus his skills on the products while >a new skilled manager oversees company operations, finance, >sales, marketing, staffing and growth. > >The ideal candidate has solid experience in senior high-tech >growth company management and a desire to work building >an internet related business. Because the company is >still small, this is a hands-on management position. >Perhaps the ideal person is one who was planning to start >his or her own internet related company but might also be >excited to take the helm of an established one. > >If you're the right candidate you'll be offered a competitive >salary and health benefits, but most importantly an option >plan that will give you significant equity in the firm. > >You'll also need to live in, or wish to move to Silicon >Valley. > > Note > >This is an anonymous message, posted that way because we >don't wish to advertise our future executive hiring plans to the >world. We'll naturally reveal ourselves to any serious candidate. >This anon message server works on a double-blind principle. If you >reply to this message, We'll get it anonymously from you. >You'll be assigned an ID from the server. You can of course >give your real identity in the message. You can also take >the reply ID above and change the "an" to "na" (ie. >na32949(a)anon.penet.fi) to respond non-anonymously. >You can send an ASCII resume or find out contact info for >other resume media. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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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Letter to the Government
by Jim Sewell - KD4CKQ 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI folks, I just sent this electronically and would like to urge you to express your feelings to the government officials as well. Don't copy my letter, express your own thoughts, but please do let them know how you feel about it even if you disagree with me :) Jim Sent electronically to: Representative Maria Cantwell, D-Washington - cantwell(a)eff.org Representative Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana - hamilton(a)eff.org Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs The President of the United States - president(a)whitehouse.gov The Vice President of the United States - vice.president(a)whitehouse.gov The Cypherpunk mailing list of Internet - cypherpunks(a)toad.com Greetings, I wish to express my concerns about a current issue that has drawn a lot of attention from the computing world. The issue is that of encryption and the Clipper chip. We Americans pride ourselves with the freedoms guaranteed us by the Constitution and it is freedom upon which this entire country is based. The Clipper chip threatens this freedom in an unprecedented way. I, as a professional computer programmer, am frightened by the desire of some of our Congress members to eliminate all forms of encryption except special government approved devices such as Clipper. Although I do not disapprove of the chip, nor of the ability to break it with the proper search warants, I do disapprove of what the success of this chip will bring. If Clipper succeeds then it will promote the wholesale outlawing of any encryption method. This will be undesirable for four reasons: 1. Right to privacy will be compromised if the citizens of the United States can not take steps to keep information such as financial transactions and personal data from prying eyes. 2. By requiring ONE and only one means of encryption you would be making it easier for those who wish to do harm to decypher our information. A cryptoanalyist would have a much easier time if he is guaranteed to know the form of encryption used. 3. The Clipper chip will do nothing to deter crime. A criminal smart enough to use encryption will be smart enough to use a safe code and not stupid enough to use the Clipper chip that he knows the governent can decode. The gangsters of the early to mid 20th century used nothing that could be called encryption and yet talked freely about taking packages for delivery and erasing people. The same would be true today. In fact, there are programs that exist TODAY and are readily available that will hide an encrypted message in an otherwise innocent picture. This method of hiding information is nearly undetectable. Considering this, criminals would still use cyphers if they so desired and only law-abiding citizens would be forced to make their private information vulnerable. 4. The only thing worse than having no means of privacy is to give the people a device they trust implicitly which is, in reality, not secure. Imagine a classified document from the millitary that is encrypted by the Clipper chip falling into the hands of an enemy who can decrypt it. In answer to those who say breaking the Clipper code is not practical I'd ask "Why was Clipper designed for non- classified information?" The answer is, of course, that Clipper is not secure enough to trust to protect our most sacred documents. I want to thank those of you who are working to block the "slaughter" of freedom and the elimination of American's rights to use encryption as they see fit and to implore anyone whose eyes fall upon this document to support it as well. Thank you for your time and consideration. Respectfully Jim Sewell 1209 Virginia Street Key West, Florida 33040 -- Tantalus Inc. Bringing people together Jim Sewell-KD4CKQ 2407 N. Roosevelt Blvd. to have a little fun. Internet: jims(a)mpgn.com Key West, FL 33041 CIS: 71061,1027 (305) 293-8100 "We keep coding and coding and coding..."

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