December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: The FTP Bounce Attack
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Also a nice way to walk through firewalls. Perhaps you could write a SATAN script to check it. And you should send a copy of your description to CERT. Hadmut

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AoHell
by cman＠communities.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anybody know about where to get this? (If this was discussed here during my cypherpunks-viewing hiatus, I apologize).

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pgp.zip
by Michael J. Axelrod 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So this is what it is like living on the edge ;-{ Warning: it may be illegal to use one of these as a sig file in the US ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [019/713] ------------------- MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` M=P1!C]JXUTH0KN`[',0'>!-C$8&.:`1/Y-,6[Z,-Y?O"`PK&X=$W*`,;L1HI MF(JAZ(A:$/`XF)C!]4W(Q>?(Q!*\C0YHC!+R+4`>EB`>_7%/4`86X19NX!HN ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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FW: Edupage 7/9/95 (fwd)
by Phil Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 18:58:54 +0200 From: danisch(a)ira.uka.de (Hadmut Danisch) X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Precedence: bulk > I've never seen any actual nazism on the net anywhere, but this "strict > regulation" tactic is obviously fascist in nature. There are certain nazi pages in America. They were showing them in a german tv magazine some time ago, but they didn't tell the URLs. The URL field in the Mosaic window was painted over. Hadmut How do you know they weren't local?

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Re: FW: Edupage 7/9/95 (fwd)
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> There are certain nazi pages in America. They were showing them in > a german tv magazine some time ago, but they didn't tell the URLs. > The URL field in the Mosaic window was painted over. > How do you know they weren't local? Because it was an article about Networks in America. They said it was an american web server and they explained how they found it. They found the link on one of these service web pages, and they had an interview with the administrator of this server. They asked him why he has put such links on his honorable server. He answered he didn't have the time to check all references, but in this certain case he will have a look at the page and decide whether he will keep the link or not (if I remember everything well). This was also an american server. And the nazi pages were written in english. The pages were named after the author of the pages (something like 'The XY report', where XY was the authors name, but I can't remember it. The author was an american). BTW: The german tv magazine was the "Kulturreport".

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Re: Anti-Racketeering Act
by foodie＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> "(a) It shall be unlawful-- > > . . . > > "(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts > electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the > person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible to > foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such > software has been designated nonexportable." Oh no - I can already see the T-shirt ideas congealing in people's minds: LbhÕer Ohfgrq in big block letters. -j -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a deity. __________________________________________________________________________ Jamie Lawrence and Bryna Bank <foodie(a)netcom.com>

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QED_jak
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

7-12-95. NYPaper: "U.S. Tells How It Found Soviets Sought A-Bomb: Discloses Clues That Led to Code-Breaking." The American intelligence establishment today unveiled one of its oldest secrets: how a small team of codebreakers found the first clues that the Soviet Union sought to steal the blueprints for the atomic bomb in World War II. Using just brain power -- no computers, no stolen skeleton keys -- the cryptographers slowly cracked what was thought to be an unbreakable code. Their work and the fact that they had broken the Soviets' seemingly impenetrable cipher, was until today one of the most tightly held secrets of the National Security Agency, the nation's electronic eavesdropping service. The messages were like a jigsaw puzzle with a billion pieces -- all black. They had been double-coded by a system called a one-time pad -- a unique random code for each message, converting words to numbers in a pattern used only once. HOO_doo [Book review] "What Would Happen if E.T. Actually Called: The implications of finding other intelligence in the universe." Mr. Davies is a supporter of the program called SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, which aims radio telescopes at thousands of target star systems to try to detect communications from extraterrestrial civilizations. He argues that if we do pick up any signals, or even if we just determine that there is a single microorganism out there that formed independently of earthly contamination, this "would drastically alter our world view and change our society as profoundly as the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions." It would be, Mr. Davies writes, nothing less than "the greatest scientific discovery of all time." ETT_eeg "AT&T Expected to Buy Stake In an Internet Access Provider Cementing its recent link with one of the country's largest corporate Internet access providers, the AT&T Corporation will spend $8 million to buy a stake in the BBN Planet Corporation, according to an executive familiar with the company's plans. BBN_bye 3x Pad: QED_jak

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Re: FW: Edupage 7/9/95 (fwd)
by dmandl＠bear.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Shostack <adam(a)bwh.harvard.edu> wrote: > | And the nazi pages were written in english. The pages were named > | after the author of the pages (something like 'The XY report', where > | XY was the authors name, but I can't remember it. The author was > | an american). > > The Leuter report? Leuter was a local moron who claimed to be > an engineer. He wrote a report claiming to prove that the gas > chambers somewhere were too small to kill many people. For the record: It's Leuchter, Fred Leuchter. > The Commonwealth of Mass brought him to court several years > ago for "practicing engineering without a license." A good rebuttal > of his report was written up by (I think) William McVey, in Canada. > Ask in talk.politics.mideast, or soc.history.revisionist or something. Ken McVay. And dozens of other people too. The newsgroup is alt.revisionism. If you've got any interest in the "holocaust revisionism" phenomenon, it's well worth at least a brief look in there. Incidentally, I would say that this is one of the best uses of the net I've ever seen. This particular brand of neo-nazism is tricky: in their case, it really is true that there's no such thing as bad press. Any exposure they get on TV, the radio, or in print media helps their cause, because of the inherent limitations of those media. They can throw up smokescreens, spew out blatantly false "facts" that sound plausible but can't be confirmed or denied then and there, put on the "we're just skeptics who feel that these questions need to answered even though they're controversial" act, etc. Very difficult to counter, given the strict limitations on time and resources of live broadcasts. But on the net, where claims can be researched and repudiated and responses "broadcast" almost immediately, and where people have all the time in the world to debate these issues, these guys get absolutely trounced every day. They make a claim, it gets blown to smithereens instantly by a dozen people with access to university libraries and scanned photos, and the revisionists crawl away for a while. Then they come back a month later and start again. It gets kind of old after a while, but's fascinating to see (especially for those naive young people to whom the revisionists seem "reasonable"). Even for a part-time Luddite like me, this is an excellent demonstration of how the net is in many ways fundamentally different from traditional print and broadcast media. > I have no idea why this thread is still on cypherpunks, unless > its an experiment in text stego. Well, I hope my little digression above is at least slightly relevant. --Dave. -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *******************************************************************************

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Re: QED_jak
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:53 AM 7/12/95 -0400, John Young wrote: > 7-12-95. NYPaper: > > > "U.S. Tells How It Found Soviets Sought A-Bomb: Discloses > Clues That Led to Code-Breaking." > > The American intelligence establishment today unveiled > one of its oldest secrets: how a small team of > codebreakers found the first clues that the Soviet Union > sought to steal the blueprints for the atomic bomb in > World War II. Using just brain power -- no computers, > no stolen skeleton keys -- the cryptographers slowly > cracked what was thought to be an unbreakable code. > service. The messages were like a jigsaw puzzle with a > billion pieces -- all black. They had been double-coded > by a system called a one-time pad -- a unique random > code for each message, converting words to numbers in a > pattern used only once. HOO_doo Note Julius Rosenberg's code name was "liberal". The NSA said that the Soviets were using a one-time-pad. The implication is that sloppy encryption practice caused Soviet code clerks to sometimes reuse the random material thus converting the code into a code book system that could be read. DCF "A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. . . . The man is now a man." -- Carlyle

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Re: RACIST MILITIA: ATF
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:46 AM 7/12/95 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > >And why, pray tell, did you repost this here? Presumably because government instruments of repression are entirely relevant to the Cypherpunks list. I, for one, am much relieved to know that if I avoid conforming to targeted stereotypes, I am unlikely to be incinerated by federal agencies. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.| jamesd(a)echeque.com

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