December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: FBI calls for mandatory key escrow; Denning on export ctrls (fwd)
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sometimes these guys can still surprise even me. That statement below is about as blatant as it gets: [Freeh] There are a number of ways that that could be implemented, but what we believe we need as a minimum is a feature implemented and designed by the manufacturers of the products and services here that will allow law enforcement to have an immediate lawful decryption of the communications in transit or the stored data. That could be done in a mandatory manner. It could be done in an involuntary manner. But the key is that we have the ability. -------------------------------------------------------------- Let me get this straight: they need *as a minimum* instant access to all cleartext. So what is the "more than minimum" they truly desire? And the two alternatives Freeh proposes to obtain this *minimum* are either "mandatory" or "involuntary". What a choice! --Lucky

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Stand up and be heard!
by dr261＠cleveland.Freenet.Edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yes, I'm still working on a magazine, I still need authors! Write about cryptography and coverups and clipper and whatever else you find interesting, and write about it! Become rich and famous! (ahtoughalthough the rich and famous part won't be a result of writing for TCW...) I also need reporters to write blurbs about things that happen. If interested, mail me privately at dr261(a)cleveland.freenet.edu.. not on the list. -- Tobin Fricke (aka LightRay) The Digital Forest BBS (714)586-6142 dr261(a)kanga.ins.cwru.edu KE6WHF Amateur Radio, 1:103/925 fido

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Re: Anonymous WWW proxies
by James Caldwell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 17 Sep 95 at 11:24, Aleph One wrote: > Points taken. But I belive the are (or will be patches) for CERN to > d SSL. Check the SSLeay ssl-user mailing list. > While we talking abut anonymous proxies. I always wanted to set up > an IP anonymous proxie using Linux IP tunnel and maybe also IP > Masquareding. This would allow people to have anonymous Web Servers, > etc. (But as anything it would probably be abused for hacking, etc > at no end). Any commments? You can add a bit of protection for yourself to this, just some way of preventing the unwanted from using the service and terminating abusers.

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by dbmkts＠kryan.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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WWW: Unabomber Manifesto
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Unabomber Manifesto as published in the September 19th Washington Post Special Supplement is available in a slightly HTML-ized version at http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm/unabomb.html I welcome all comments on both the form and the content of this page. -- http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm ...for the best in unapproved information To be a skeptic is to refuse to be a victim. "This is my .sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine." Freedom...yeah, right.

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Re: AOL monitoring
by James Caldwell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 19 Sep 95 at 15:45, Thomas Grant Edwards wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Sal Denaro wrote: > > > 2) My .newsrc file can tell anyone that I read alt.hackers and > > alt.2600 > > Hmmm...potential new crypto product...a "secure" newsreader with > encrypted .newsrc? How hard is it to record downloaded newsgroups/msgs from the news server? Here locally, I just found out that a group of local internet providers use a centrally located NNTP server. Bummer.

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Re: Scientology and police visit XS4ALL Amsterdam
by cg＠bofh.lake.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > This is the second or third time I've seen descriptions of such > raids where cult (no, I'm not trying to be diplomatic) > representatives were present and participating. Is this legal in > Amsterdam? How about in the U.S.? Britain? > Probably. Amsterdam isn't exactly the wild west, and they didn't take the computer equipment with them, they just inventoried everything so to have something to sell when their claims prove valid. Which I doubt (shit, I will be moving to this country in a couple of weeks...) > 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? > I don't know whether this is valid. I assume so. I also think it is about time we develop some ideas about anonymous web publishing. Probably some chained cgi scripts could do, but how to get around traffic analysis? -- Cees de Groot, OpenLink Software <cg(a)bofh.lake.de> 262ui/2048: ID=4F018825 FP=5653C0DDECE4359D FFDDB8F7A7970789 [Key on servers] http://www.lake.de/sonst/homepages/s2449/index.html

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Death of Privacy / Was: Di Privacy, Die!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the Not-ly News !Server: [Mainstream, Terra] -- "Huh?" by Defcom McCull'em Mainstream Media sources today denied rumors of news stories from real people, in the real world, finding their way into the bowels of the mainstream press before being burped out to make way for more of the same-old-same-old. Asked why the initial reports of eyewitnesses using words such as "explosion" were quickly buried in favor of the word "crash," sources replied, only one guy, somewhere in Canada, was awake at that hour, and he will soon be dead, so we can't really confirm the existence of those eyewitnesses, since no one wants to talk to them. Asked why initial accounts had "five" reporters being detained and why a rumor concerning the accidental death of "two" reporters, suddenly turned into "seven" reporters being detained, the sources would only comment, "These were only preliminary estimates, before we had a chance to talk to our media prisoners and explain the severity of what they would be facing if their stories were not 'politically correct'." Asked why statements by Fayed family members concerning their views that Dodi and Diana were 'offed' by the monarchy in a bid to thwart a gain in the political influence of sandnigger mobsters, mainstream media sources said, "We saw no need to cover old ground which had been dealt with on the Cypherpunks list, both before and after the event." Asked about the missing right wheel on the death vehicle, sources inferred that it was found on the stretcher that carried Diana to the hospital, next to the magic bullet that killed Kennedy. NotlyNewsMonger "All the news that gets you killed."

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Re: NYT on Netscape Crack
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I take a long term view of security. Basically I don't trust security software >until it has been released in a stable condition for a few years. Really? So I assume you won't be using an ATM card to buy gasoline until the next millenium? >Visa and Mastercard will be comming out with a spec which will have very tight >requirements for implementations. I thought it was Visa and MC and Microsoft are coming out with an implementation, and then will get around to releasing the specs. One of V or MC also said that the only approved way to do Internet commerce with their card was to use this new system. /r$

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Re: SFChron
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>"Mike Homer, vice president of marketing for Netscpae, said that >recent breaches do not mean the products are flawed" Of course, it would have been better if the VP of Marketing said that they had a bug, but that the fundamental architecture is sound. /r$

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