December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: 25,000,000 People
by mail＠sendmailco.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Greetings
by dr261＠cleveland.Freenet.Edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Greetings, everyone. I just discovered this list a few days ago and have been monitoring since then. It's pretty interesting. I'd like to get involved. I'm very interested in cryptography and mathematics, but I have very little cryptographic experience. (hm. Is there a Cypherpunks FAQ?) From the conversation that's going on, I am led to beleive that Cypherpunks is setting up a distributed system to break some cryptographic system or factor a large number. I would expect that a constant net connection would be a requirement to participate in such an interesting event. In any case, I have a 486DX-50 running Linux and I'm interested and curious and willing to learn and help in any way I can. -- ================================================================= Tobin Fricke, Alias Light Ray dr261(a)cleveland.freenet.edu TobinTech Engineering KE6WHF Amateur Radio The Digital Forest BBS (714) 586-6142, 28800bps

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RE: 25,000,000 People
by mail＠sendmailco.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Demagnetizing
by dr261＠cleveland.Freenet.Edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> demagnetizing pads they use at department stores and libraries How exactly does that system work? They can't instantly demagnetize something with a quick tap on a pad, can they? Also, what are they demagnetizing? Is it a strip embedded in the spine of the book, or is it just in a sticker on the outside? For instance, how do they do it to magazines (or do they? they go through the process with magazines, too, or is that just because they don't know better?)? -- ================================================================= Tobin Fricke, Alias Light Ray dr261(a)cleveland.freenet.edu TobinTech Engineering KE6WHF Amateur Radio The Digital Forest BBS (714) 586-6142, 28800bps

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Re: Demagnetizing
by dr261＠cleveland.Freenet.Edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Where exactly is the r/c circuit? Is it very small and in a label? Book publishers don't put them in, do they? Also, if the thing gets "burned out" by the magnet in the pad, what do libraries and such do where materials are reused? Just slap on another label thing? -- ================================================================= Tobin Fricke, Alias Light Ray dr261(a)cleveland.freenet.edu TobinTech Engineering KE6WHF Amateur Radio The Digital Forest BBS (714) 586-6142, 28800bps

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Third party rating systems are good for society
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:33:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: Stanton McCandlish <mech(a)eff.org> Cc: mnorton(a)cavern.uark.edu, jellicle(a)inch.com, fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Third party rating systems are good for society On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Stanton McCandlish wrote: > [Lest more people send hatemail, please keep in mind that the description > of third party ratings as "good things" here means a proliferation of > third party reviews of content, goods and services just like we have in > the real world. It does not mean Milburn imposing his morality on the I'm still wrestling with how to think about third party rating systems in general and clunky, pejorative systems like RSACi in particular. How to differentiate the two in principle? Time to reread the ALA's statements again. For I think in general, third party rating systems are boons to society. Think of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, Underwriter Labs, and kosher rating agencies. These are socially useful devices, each one of them. (I'd be interested to hear what similar systems have sprouted in other countries.) Or, to put it in cypherpunkly terms, marks allow the redistribution of reputation capital. The Time logo and the Netly News URL on my business card may boost my reputation when presented to someone who doesn't know me. An Intel Inside logo may (or may not!) do the same. Even SATs and GMATs are rating systems of a sort, for they tell a prospective employer or college something about me. Then there's TRUSTe. Third party rating systems are nothing more than the formalization of gossip, which has lubricated the social wheels of every society that has ever existed. So I suggest one should not oppose third party rating systems in general but instantiations of these systems in particular. RSACi is certainly one of those. -Declan

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Re: Greetings
by dr261＠cleveland.Freenet.Edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ah. By address space, you mean a set of possible keys, right? Is there specific software we use to test this 'address space,' or do we come up with our own? It seems that there ought to be a more exotic method other than a brute force attack. I don't know much about cryptography, but if there's a way to get "feedback" as to how "close" a key is to the real key, then some sort of genetic algorithm could be devised. Actually, perhaps not, since there are no "genes" envolved, just a big number. Hm. -- ================================================================= Tobin Fricke, Alias Light Ray dr261(a)cleveland.freenet.edu TobinTech Engineering KE6WHF Amateur Radio The Digital Forest BBS (714) 586-6142, 28800bps

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Re: non-censorous spam control (was Re: Spam is Information?)
by Mark Grant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Jeff Barber wrote: > Network bandwidth used for the purpose of email transport, > even with increased spamming factored in, is simply too low to justify > charging much for it. It will still be *way* cheaper than surface mail. Yep; which is why it's a bad idea. We don't need net postage to pay the ISP, we need net postage to pay *me* to read the spam. Making them pay $0.0001 to send a message will have little impact, but making them pay me $1 to read it certainly will (i.e. my filters could block all potential spam unless it includes a dollar of ecash). I have no problem with spammers subsidising my Net access, I just object to having to pay for their crap. > So unless the percentage of people who delete it instantly, sight-unseen, > is higher than I suspect or new tools make it easy to filter out all > spam, it's going to remain economically advantageous for the spammers > to target broadly. I've seen one spam in the last two weeks. The other 100k or so was blocked by my filters; I'm almost starting to miss it. When you actually sit down and analyse the spam most of it has so many obvious 'spam-tags' that you can easily work out a set of rules to catch them. The only disadvantage is that on a couple of occasions it's caught mail from friends when they sent it through a site which appends advertising rather than from their normal address. Mark

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nym server development mailing list
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message To: Remailer-Operators(a)c2.org From: Bryan Strawser <feanor(a)anduin.gondolin.org> Subject: Nym Server Development.... Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 21:04:22 -0500 (EST) John Fleming, along with a bit of support help from myself, is developing a nym server that he is intending to release to the public once we are satisfied with the performance and the state of the code. At this point and time, John has pushed the code to the point where we have am experimental nym server operating that is being constantly refined and features added. Along the same lines, I am presently working on solid documentation for when the nymserver is ready for public use, and for the later public release of the code. John created a mailing list for those interesting in contributing to the development of his nymserver and as a forum for discussion of nymserver related issues. So far, there have been few folks subscribed, and no answer from those that are presently subscribed to the list. I find this rather disappointing. This is your chance to get involved in developing this server. There has been alot of interest expressed in nymservers on this list previously, as well from other folks that presnetly use the type I and II remailers that are running today. Just like the other types of anonymity out there, a nymserver has many viable reasons for existance. The lack of publically available code for such a server, as there is for remailers, should motivate us to get behind John and his efforts. To subscribe to the nymserver development & discussion forum, send a message to majordomo(a)sephiroth.org with the line "subscribe nyms <your name>" in the body of the message. Questions about the nymserver should be directed to that list so that all can be involved in the development. Thanks for your input, Bryan - -- Bryan Strawser, Gondolin Technologies, Bloomington, IN USA Remember Waco feanor(a)gondolin.org Live free or die ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Re: Qualcomm employee attacks the remailers
by Casey Iverson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:37 PM 8/6/97 EDT, The Anti American, KGB loving bucket of animal dung and human excrement : Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote the following, and again the master of disinformation and harassing e-mail, points out that others are targeting him for the abuses that he is famous for. Are we expected to have sympathy for this dick brain? > >Paul Pomes <ppomes(a)Qualcomm.com> writes: > >> |Paul Pomes sends me harrassing e-mail and quotes more obscenities from >> |the anonymous remailers: > >such as: > >]I take this all to mean that you are Master Cocksucker Dimwit Vulis? > >> As you posted the obscenities in the first place I fail to understand your >> objections. > > >Lie from Pomes: I never in my life sent anything to this motherfucker. > >Another lie from Pomes: a few days ago the motherfucker wrote: > >]Subject: Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download >]From: Paul Pomes <ppomes(a)Qualcomm.com> >]Organization: Qualcomm, Inc. >]To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) >]Cc: freedom-knights(a)jetcafe.org >]Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:13:52 -0700 >]Message-Id: <9502.870279232(a)zelkova.qualcomm.com> >]Sender: ppomes(a)Qualcomm.com >] >]At 9:22 EDT on Wednesday, July 30, 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: >] >]|I ask everyone on these two forums to inform Northern Telecom Forgers / >]|Bell North Forgery Research / Entrust that we will boycott their >]|"security" products as long they continue to employ the child-molesting >]|pedophile Chris R. Lewis - the biggest forger on Usenet. >] >]Sorry, I'm afraid that honor belongs to you, Dimi. What I will do is >]killfile you as also the biggest un-cultured twit on Usenet. High honors >]of a sort. >] >]/pbp > >Clearly Pomes lied about having killfiled me. > >Pomes harrasses anonymous remailer operators: he has been complaining to >Jeff Berches's employer and upstream, contributing to his decision >to shut down the cajones remailer: > >]To: abuse(a)hotwired.com, abuse(a)bbnplanet.net, remailer-admin(a)cajones.com >] jeff(a)hotbox.com, ops(a)bbnplanet.com, toxic(a)content.org, >] dgaudet-djg20(a)arctic.org >]From: Paul Pomes <ppomes(a)Qualcomm.com> > >Tim Skirvin condones and supports net-abuse by Net.Scum like Pomes, >Hannigan, and Varshavchik. > >Please tell Qualcomm what you think about their employee attacking >the anonymous remailers. > > >

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