December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by 53573730＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Investing on the Web?
by 53573730＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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spam is good for you
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I like it when spam is sent to the cpunks list because it makes the list less accessible to lamers and wanna-be censors while not really hurting its value to people who are familiar with configurable/ scriptable mail agents. (Heck, I've considered 99% of cpunks traffic to be about the same flavor as spam on my palate for years, so I'm already comfortable with using heavy filtering as a matter of course.) In other news, I'm going to HIP and I'm thinking I should have a t-shirt made to piss off the self-righteous socialist anti-spam activists. My favorite slogan so far is "I may disagree with every spam you send, but I will defend to the death your right to spam it. --Voltaire". I consider this to be a powerful meme to broadcast at those low-tech lawmongers, but it isn't sufficiently.. um.. offensive. Any suggestions from the peanut gallery? Of course I have to include my e-mail address on the shirt so that those who are offended by my advocacy of absolute freedom of speech can try to mailbomb me. Over, Zooko

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tcs_gateway2.treas.gov (IRS Harrassment of Cypherpunks List?)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

After failing to find in the list archives previous posts from the treas.gov address I was surprised to come across an example in a book about the cypherpunks that was sent to the list some months ago. Although I seem to recall this post as being authentic I am unable to confirm this since my browser doesn't seem to be getting along with the search engines for some reason or another. Can anyone confirm that the message below is an authentic message that was sent to the list at the time stated and with the same message ID? The reason I ask is that I have found and corelated messages from the same server which indicate that if the message came to the list with the message ID below then it was indeed composed and initially sent the day before the article quoted actually appeared in the newspaper. If someone could confirm that the following message appeared on the list with the same header as indicated below I would appreciate it. (There are some other strange discrepancies I have found in Jim Bells case too but I will refrain from commenting until I have had a chance to confirm them.) The message as portrayed in the book is as follows: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA03183 for cypherpunks-unedited-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from tcs_gateway2.treas.gov (tcs-gateway2.treas.gov [204.151.246.2]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA03178 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:40:04 -0800 (PST) From: IRSNWPR(a)net.insp.irs.gov Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:18:46 -0500 Message-Id: <199704012018.PAA00555(a)net.insp.irs.gov> To: Interested_Parties(a)net.insp.irs.gov Subject: Something of interest... Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com The Oregonian, Wednesday, April 2, 1997 20 armed federal agents raid home in Vancouver By John Painter Jr. of The Oregonian staff VANCOUVER, Wash. - About 20 armed agents from at least three federal agencies in four states raided a Vancouver home Tuesday, apparently looking for evidence of a plot to kill government officials. ....

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CIA Report on UFOs
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times reports today on a declassified CIA report on UFOs which discloses that over half of the public sightings in the 1950s and '60s were lied about by the US Government to protect dark secret spy planes and programs, primarily those of the U-2 and SR-71. "The admission raised questions about other Federal cover-ups involving U.F.O.s." The CIA report is at: http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/97unclas/ufo.html For those who wish to avoid the CIA Web site, we put a copy at: http://jyx.com/ciaufo.htm The NYT Web site: http://www.nytimes.com In you cannot access it, see the story at: http://jyx.com/ufonews.htm

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Re: bulk postage fine (was Re: non-censorous spam control)
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

jf_avon(a)citenet.net writes: > On 3 Aug 97 at 2:34, Adam Back wrote: > > Eg. Say I spam you via an anonymous remailer. So now who are you > > going to sue? > > > > Spammers use remailers already. > > > > So your suggest has dire consequences for remailers. > > What you would sue is the entity that is advertized in the > message, not the ISP (or remailer) of course. If you get harassing > mail through the paper mail, would you sue the postal service? Here's the sequence of events as I see it: 1. spammer spams you with adverisement for phone sex line 2. you try to sue phone sex line company 3. phone sex company denies all knowledge 4. government says all email must be authenticated 5. government issues internet drivers license 6. anonymous remailers work around authentication requirement 7. government outlaws remailers See any flaws in that logical and undesirable sequence of events? Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Banished JYA
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: http://jyx.com/index.htm JYX 3 August 1997 This site, JYX.COM, was set up on July 26, 1997 to substitute for JYA.COM which vanished on July 24, 1997, and thereby denied access to the site's architectural and public services. For a week technical and sales personnel of the ISP for JYA, AOL/PrimeHost, could not explain the disappearance. On August 1, 1997, AOL/PrimeHost representative Steven Graham stated that JYA.COM had been "intentionally pulled" for undisclosed reasons. Mr. Graham's telephone: (703) 265-4464. Reinstitution of JYA's architectural and public services should occur shortly, either by restart of JYA.COM with PrimeHost, or via another ISP. In the event that AOL/PrimeHost pulls JYX as well, announcement of alternative hosting and reasons for the change will be made on several mail lists: <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> <cryptography(a)c2.net> <ukcrypto(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk> <cyberia-l(a)aol.com> <design-l(a)psuvm.psu.edu> <wam-l(a)arch-mag.com> <the several Spoon lists @jefferson.village.virginia.edu> <wire(a)monkey-boy.com> and other lists and news groups as appropriate. This site is hosted by PrimeHost, which provided excellent service for JYA.COM for a year -- until now with this mysterious vanishing action. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vanished JYA.COM Denied Services Denied Files (80MB) Architectural Natsios Young Architect http://jya.com/nya.htm John Young Architect http://jya.com/jya.htm Public / Urban Deadline Cryptography Archives http://jya.com/crypto.htm http://jya.com/cryptomb.htm Architectural Archives http://jya.com/arch.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ For now offering only: Cryptox.htm

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JYA Axed
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The ISP for jya.com, PrimeHost, an AOL subisidiary, has axed the site. We learned of this today after trying for a week to get an answer to why the site vanished. Tech said call Sales, Sales said it's not us, it's got to be Tech. Tech said it's definitely not us, and if it's not Sales or us it must be Bosses. Finally, a Boss was reached who said the site was "intentionally pulled." He claimed that it was "not a serious problem, so don't be alarmed," and sang cheerily about "some files" without elaboration. Maybe more next week, and we pray it turns out to be hysterically alarming and not merely a pissed Intel Prop owner seeking pay. JYX.com is still up, thanks to PrimeHost's autosub. Ten files there -- so far. We're humping to get the latest 60-page package of the RSA v. PGP suit there this weekend, thanks to Nobody.

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Re: Tim Misfires / Re: Joichi Ito as a Junior Policeman
by Joichi Ito 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:56 97/08/03 -0600, Toto wrote: > It is clearly up to Joichi Ito to decide how he can best work toward > cypherpunk goals under his system of government, but he would do well > to listen to those on the list who have seen more than a few crusaders > sink into the swill when they make the mistake of talking to the piggies > too close to the trough. > A good sign that you have not yet been co-opted is if you still take > that "extra" briefcase to the meetings, just in case. > {"I've got to run out to my car for a moment with my briefcase, but I > will be leaving my _other_ briefcase here." <tick-tock-tick-tock>} > > TruthMonger Point well taken. I understand that it is easy to get misdirected when you are "dancing with the devil"... Currently, as one of the primary supporters of privacy and free access to cryptography in Japan, I have much more to lose and very little to gain from being "co-opted." by "the bad guys" (who aren't looking out for the interests of the people). In addition, although the Japanese Self Defense Force may be militaristic (they are the military so they probably are pretty militaristic), Japan does not have the equivalent of the NSA. It really is in Japanese national security interests to consider minimizing risk by distributing it since they obviously do not have the ability to control it in the way that the US does. Anyone who has been following the statements by the Japanese at the OECD should note that Japan has alway lagged behind in supporting government control of crypto. In addition (although this article is very seldom sited in actual cases) the Japanese constitution provides for privacy of communications for citizens. Also, most of the crypto technology is held in private companies. Really, what I am try to do is two things: 1) Make sure that Japan makes the right decision about crypto policy so that they do no stifle commercial development of crypto or put at risk national and individual security/privacy by implementing a weak system because of political pressure or domestic surveilance requirements. 2) Make sure that Japan does not repeat the US "Hacker Crackdown" and more recent Australian crackdowns which I think can cause a rift between hackers and society. Right now I think the risk of weak security from the point of view of IWar and just plain network failure is much more important than cracking down on hackers/crackers. I'm trying to head off such "crackdown" movements by trying to put threats and risks into perspective at the National Security level and take the focus away from the activities of hackers who I think can help improve security and lower risks in the long term. As for Tim's message... I keep worrying (when I am in Japan) that I'm too radical, so it's nice to hear from someone who is really hardcore to put a wimp like me in my place. ;-P I guess I still believe in trying to redirect the process of government before "dropping out"... I'm not making it any easier for the "bad guys" giving them my opinion and I can alway "drop out" when I think no one's listening anymore... Anyway, I'm going to stop writing now before all of the government people reading this list decide to put me in their kill file. Then no one will be listening to me. ;-P - Joi P.S. I wrote an article in the Daily Yomiuri about a year ago that outlines where I am coming from. Please take a look if you are interested. The Daily Yomiuri is a national Japanese newspaper. <http://www.garage.co.jp/~jito/article.html> -- Finger jito(a)nsm.eccosys.com or jito(a)garage.co.jp for PGP Key Fingerprint for RSA PGP Key ID 0x0EE23A2D 0D3A 7AAA 3DA8 E7B3 3AF1 C6FA B7ED D834 Fingerprint for DSS/Diffie-Hellman PGP Key ID 0x2D9461F1 58F3 CA9A EFB8 EB9D DF18 6B16 E48D AF2A 2D94 61F1 Home Page: http://domino.garage.co.jp/jito/joihome.nsf To subscribe to my personal mailing list send mailto:friends-subscribe@ito.com

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Microsoft RAS encryption?
by Mike 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anybody know how Microsoft RAS implements data encryption? Apparently (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q136/6/34.htm) they use RC4, but is this stuff documented somewhere, like in an RFC? Mike.

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