December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Scientology and police visit XS4ALL Amsterdam
by carolann＠censored.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anon.penet.fi succinctly scribed: > If a police officer has a warrant then I really don't have much > choice about letting him in. Am I also under an obligation to > allow the people who filed for the warrant into my home or > business? The aren't, but they do, and only a good civil rights lawyer can help you out of the resulting quagmire. It's done in a lot of civil cases, particularly where restraining orders are used. Love ALways, Carol Anne -- Member Internet Society - Certified BETSI Programmer - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.42.112.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [017/713] ------------------- M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M MF=O0H+*%(-S%&>S%+FS&<LS%3(Q&#W1"<]2%`H^;,]^1C$'HBN8PX$4SYAU^ MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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Re: SSLRef (SSLtelnet)
by an5877＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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I've got a Volvo (and I'm not afraid to use it!)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz 'The fight's over. There's no one left to fight' "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged" On June 4, 1997 the trial of the only Viper Militia defendant to face a jury -- after months in jail, 10 have pleaded guilty to one charge or another, while one still awaits trial -- got underway before Judge Earl H. Carroll in the federal district courthouse in downtown Phoenix. ... Defense attorney Ivan Abrams objected to the government's hauling machine guns belonging to other Vipers into the courtroom, since Knight was not charged with owning any such weapons. Objection overruled. I told Knight I'd heard that some of the "unregistered machine guns" presented by the prosecution had actually been built by the government out of spare parts found at the homes of the various militia members. "This is the way the law reads: If they can take parts and with eight hours of professional work by professional gunsmiths working full time in Washington, D.C., make it fire more than one round, then it was a machine gun. There was a guy who published a magazine piece on this a couple of years ago, a guy who took a wrecked Volvo and in about seven hours made a weapon that would fire four or five rounds. So by the legal definition used in this case the Volvo was, technically, a machine gun. We're talking about professional gunsmiths, with access to sophisticated machine shops."

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Re: e$: More fun with cash: Senate Bill 307
by Davidwfox＠eworld.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----------------------------- Begin Original Text ----------------------------- Has anyone heard about this bill? Comments? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------------------- End Original Text ----------------------------- There was an investigative article in a recent Readers Digest (no I'm not a regular reader, heard it through Radio for the Print Handicapped in Australia) regarding a major counterfieting operation that uses same printing presses as used by US Treasury. The proceeds amount to BIG numbers and are used to fund various terrorist organizations. regards David Fox The e-commerce directory www.kweb.com

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ANNOUNCE: September 1995 SF Bay Area physical meeting
by eric＠remailer.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ANNOUNCEMENT ============ What: September 1995 SF Bay Area physical meeting When: Saturday, 9 September 1995 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m. Where: that hard-to-find loft space at 2nd & Brannan where we had July's meeting This month's meeting is the "Even More Catastrophically Overnamed Fourth Annual Cypherpunks Conclave, Congress, Schmooze-Fest, Meeting, and Feast". It's been three years since the first meeting at my house at the time in Oakland. If you only come to one meeting a year, come to this one. It's canonical. The agenda for this meeting is completely empty. I've been out of town for all but a total of about three weeks since the last meeting two months ago (and I'm gone the rest of this week and flying in Saturday morning). So where in the past we've had something approaching a schedule, this time I've not made even a pretense at scheduling. So just show up -- we always find something good to talk about. And besides, if you don't show up, you can't here about my unexpected genetic discovery! Directions follow. See you there. Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exact Location: 340 Bryant St., 4th floor (top level); SF. Directions: 1) From the East Bay--Cross the Bay Bridge and take the LEFT exit for Main St./Embarcadero. You will be making a series of LEFT turns as follows : LEFT on Harrison LEFT on 2nd LEFT on Bryant. PARK! There is parking around the back of the building, and also across the street. 2) From the Peninsula--101 North, take the 4th Street exit. (The last SF Exit before the Bay Bridge. GET OFF HERE!) Follow to the RIGHT onto Bryant. Once you've crossed Second St., PARK! 3) If you get LOST: Call 415/284-0252.

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TEST
by apache＠bear.apana.org.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

latency test

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Equinox/cypherpunks/www
by Andy Brown 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone that missed or was unable to get the UK TV programme Equinox might like to take a look at: http://www.cityscape.co.uk/channel4/big_bytes/cybersecrecy/cyber000.html - Andy

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Secure Device 1.4 Question Secure Device 1.4 Question
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just installed Secure Device, v1.4 on a PC at work. After installing it, I looked at the encrypted volume and found the string "SECDEV " starting at the fourth byte of the file. I'd prefer that this file look like some temporary file that got left on the disk by a program that didn't clean up properly after itself, and not be identifiable as an encrypted volume. Is there a way to get Secure Device to not leave identifiable plaintext like that in the file? Will I do any harm to the file if I replace that string with blanks, or something more innocuous? If it's required to be there, then I'd like to put its removal on the "wish list" for the next version. (I copied the file, replaced the string "SECDEV" with blanks using a hex editor, and then mounted the copy as an encrypted volume, and it seems to be working OK, but I wanted to make sure this won't cause unforseen problems in the future.) As you've probably guessed, I'm not supposed to have any personal files on my work computer, and an entire encrypted volume would undoubtedly make someone go ballistic if they discovered it. When I want to use my encrypted file system, I reboot off of a floppy, and all Secure Device programs and drivers are kept on the floppy. The only thing that has to be left on the hard drive is the encrypted volume itself. Please post a copy of any replies to the Cypherpunks mailing list at "cypherpunks(a)toad.com". Thanks.

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RE: Mathematics > NSA + GCHQ
by rab＠stallion.oz.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This thread touches a memory of mine from 18 years ago when I was at university. While studying for a mathematics exam I became sidetracked by one of Fermat's Theorems (Last? or Little?) and am convinced to this day that I came up with an algorithm for determining if a number was prime by a "simple" combination of shifts and logical operations. The beast part was that the amount of calculation was linearly related to the number of bits in the binary representation of the number. I only ever spent a couple of hours on it, working through it on paper, and after the exams were finished and I went back to it I could not find the original notes and I could not remember exactly what I had done. However it seems like someone else has... > ---------- > From: Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM[SMTP:dlv@bwalk.dm.com] > Sent: Saturday, 23 August 1997 7:12 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Re: Mathematics > NSA + GCHQ > > > John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> writes: > > > Along this line: > > > > A few days ago we received an 8-page excerpt from "Shift Register > > Sequences," by Solomon W. Golomb (at USC), Holden-Day, Inc., > > no date, with a handwritten note: > > > > NSA has tried to suppress knowledge of this stuff. Nearly all NSA > 'good' > > algorithms are based on this technology. > > > > IANAM, so would any of the mathematicians here give any credibility > to > > this claim? We'll scan and put the excerpt on our Web site if > worthwhile. > > It's composed of the book's 3 page preface and 5 pages of text and > > diagrams of Chapter 2 on The Shift Register as a Finite State > Machine, > > with principal focus on de Bruijn diagrams for shift registers. > > The NSA certainly did try to suppress much shift-register-related > stuff. > > The recent Sandia lawsuit is over shift register stuff. > > There are increasingly persistent rumor of a fast factoring algorithm > based on shift registers. > > Therefore anything mentioning them is of interest. > > But: Was there any info in the package other than the passages from > the book? > > I don't think it's a good idea to put up chunks of the book - the > publisher > might cry copyright infringement, and everybody probably has it > anyway. > > [I'm about to turn off this box, so I won't see any responses in a > while.] > > --- > > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM > Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, > 14.4Kbps >

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Re: Police and scientology visit XS4ALL Amsterdam
by Kari Laine 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> PRESS RELEASE > ------------- > Police and members of Scientology church enter offices of XS4ALL > ================================================================ They really are not getting it - are they stupid or what? Scientology people are not behaving so I take a standing that I don't have to behave when I treat them as well. Good, remember they started it ... > Today at about 14:00, XS4ALL was visited by Mr. S. Braan, > bailiff. Sorry to hear that Mr. Braan >Religious Technology Centre O camoon - that name sounds great what's inside it? Research department of Brainwashing? Wast that the technology you tried to sell to CIA? And luckily CIA told you to piss off. >, better known as the Scientology Church, or > Scientology for short. He was assisted by a local police officer and Mr. > Hermans from the 'Nauta-Dutilh' legal firm that represents Scientology > in The Netherlands. We would need a list of all legal offices representing scienos in all countries. Also does anyone has a list of top scienos and some kind of organization flow chart of this evil emperium? >Also present were two computer experts (Mr. Ootjes > and Mr. Van Suchtelen) a locksmith (to enter had we not been present) and > two American employees of Scientology, Mr. Weightman and Ms. Jenssen. Does anyone has tel number to these Co$s? > Scientology is filing for seizure of XS4ALL's computer equipment. Under > dutch law, this means that a bailiff comes in to record your assets. In > real-life, the computer-experts that were present have recorded the > types and serial numbers of all the computers in our offices. They did > not take any equipment, the continuity of XS4ALL's services is not in > jeopardy. Good - you have civilised police there. > XS4ALL is not alone in receiving this kind of attention from > Scientology. Scientology, a semi-religious multinational, is at war with > a number of people on the Internet. They wan't a war - well let's give them one! I don't mean this bashing in the net - I mean a REAL WAR! Co$ has been on offensive for some time now and they must be got to the defence mode. > Until recently, the church has always managed to supress critical voices > by means of sheer intimidation and by engaging in endless legal battle. I think it would be a jolly good day if they would try that against me. I would make best of it... > One of these documents is a piece to which Scientology supposedly holds > the copyright and which has been added to the kit without the church's > permission. Screw with their permission. Sorry for the raw language but I get so damn angry when I even see these scienos mentioned. To fight them we need an organization to fight them. Todays situation is like uncontrolled and thefore unoptimised guerrilla operations. Results will be weak. Best Regards Kari Laine Kari Laine buster(a)klaine.pp.fi LAN Vision Oy Tel. +358-0-502 1947 Sinikalliontie 14 Fax +358-0-524 149 02630 ESPOO BBS +358-0-502 1576/1456 FINLAND

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