December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

InfoWar 19 / GeigerBurg III Text
by A Player To Be Named Later 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

B ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The True Story of the InterNet Part III InfoWar Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Copyright 1997 Pearl Publishing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWar Table of Contents * Extra! : News From the Front ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extra! : News From the Front ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [News Flash! From: http://www.turnleft.com "The Home of Liberalism on the Web"] What They Don't Want You to Know by Auto-Correspondent "http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/conspiracy.html" In order to understand InfoWar you need to realize that everything is controlled by a CypherPunks list made up of Cult of One members with help from Nobody and Anonymous. The conspiracy first started during the Censorship Experiment in majordomo(a)toad.com. They have been responsible for many events throughout history, including the InfoWar. Today, members of the conspiracy are everywhere. They can be identified by their Code writing. They want to electronically forge TruthMonger posts and imprison resisters in Silicon Valley using Trei Transponders. In order to prepare for this, we all must Nuke DC. Since the media is controlled by Declan McCullagh we should get our information from Black Unicorn's yellow-menace writing in blanc snow.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just as he had suspected! A Player To Be Named Later read the output of the Java script at Left Turn's 'Make Your Own Conspiracy Theory' page. Left Turn had confirmed everything he had been discovering on his own, even when he had discovered facts and information which pointed toward completely contradictory conspiracy theories. A Player To Be Named Later recognized that this was positive proof that the roots of the Great Conspiracy had spread throughout the very fabric of reality, itself. He now knew that the conspiracy was no longer just some outside entity which lived in the shadows around him, waiting for him to let down his guard before it sprang its waiting traps and enclosed him with its vicious iron jaws. He now knew that it went much, much deeper than that. Now, he knew the conspiracy was in his Mind! A Player To Be Named Later had immediately dropped all of his other InterNet personas and erased all signs of them from his hard drive. With the new knowledge he had gained, he knew that he could no longer trust even himself. The first sign that the conspiracy had managed to spread throughout both reality and virtual reality were the posts to the CypherPunks mailing list by Damaged Justice. Subject: Internet putting truth in danger From: Damaged Justice <frogfarm(a)yakko.cs.wmich.edu> Organization: Somewhere just far enough outside of your jurisdiction To: cypherpunks(a)Algebra.COM THE generation that has grown up on The X-Files poses a threat to the future of journalism, Fergal Keane, the BBC's Asia Correspondent, said last night. Subject: Assassination Politics of a sort There's a bounty on Gordie Howe's head. And Gordie isn't laughing about it. Howe, 69, is planning to file a police complaint against a California radio personality who offered a bounty to have "the old fool pummeled back to reality." Subject: FBI vs Silicon Valley: Guess Who's Winning? The likely outcome: a tactical retreat by industry to avoid an all-out rout. The electronic wizards seem to have met their match in a Washington cop named Louis Freeh. Subject: Trac[k]ing the Successful Drug User By deploying their questionnaire on the Web, the researchers are hoping to use the relative anonymity of the Net to access a "hidden population" of drug users who would be disinclined to give accurate reports of illegal use to face-to-face interviewers, Nicholson says. In a short series of posts, Damaged Justice had managed to subtly point out that: The InterNet, in the hands of the public, was a threat to truth. Assassination Politics would lead to the death of heroes such as Gordie Howe. Louis Freeh is going to kick the electronic wizards' butts. Successful people on the InterNet are all secret drug users. A Player To Be Named Later had seen the duplicity in Damaged Justice's posts long before this, just as he had in the posts of Se7en. Se7en purported to be a diabolical hacker turned lecturer, working the security and LEA (law enforcement agency) circuit, but it had become obvious that it was they who were working him. Se7en had got caught up in the LEA's child pornography ruse and wrote a lengthy diatribe to the CypherPunks list about the millions of pedophiles lurking in the shadows of the InterNet. This came at a time which was convenient for adding support to the agendas of several of the government shills working the list at that time. A Player To Be Named Later had followed the trail of alleged pointers and addresses that were provided by Se7en, only to find the usual spooks lurking in the background. It was obvious that the spooks were doing their best to cultivate a crop of genuine pedophiles by seeding the InterNet with pointers to trails of perversion that they had carefully laid out themselves. No doubt they would keep their self-generated perverts on ice until it came time to drag them out into the public eye for one of their show-and-tell displays of the 'good fight' they were putting up against the evil InterNet. A Player To Be Named Later hadn't run his usual analysis on the past posts and email traffic of Damaged Justice and those connected to him, but he was not sure that it really mattered anymore, anyway. There were indications that FUD/DoubleSpeak/SpinDoctoring/VirtualTruth-whatever you wanted to name it-had reached critical mass. He took another look at one of Choate's posts to the CypherPunks list: Subject: 6 USAF Crashes in 7 days = InfoWar? From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> To: cypherpunks(a)ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer) Just a thought... The connection was obvious. A number of stories made it into the periphery of the mainstream press concerning the U.S. spooks campaign to murder 'bad' foreigners by introducing defective parts into the products they bought for their armed forces. Then the U.S. forces immediately got hit with a rash of high-profile 'accidents' to their own military units. It was a clear message to the U.S. spooks that two (or more) could play that game. So clear, in fact, that the Pentagon publicly and privately pulled in the reins on a variety of normal and special operations, in order to shake the trees for defective parts and defective soldiers. (Mostly the latter.) The Real Guy had planned an expose on the background events taking place in this area, but had decided not to do so, uncertain as to why he had made that decision, at the time. Now, A Player To Be Named Later realized that it was because FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Disinformation) had become the rule of the day, and there was no longer anyone left to preach to but the converted-and the converted were becoming unconverted at an increasingly rapid rate. It had become obvious, I suppose, when it took so little effort on the Pentagon's part to cover up the pair of rogue U.S. Air Force pilots who had been positively linked to the Circle of Eunuchs by the secret task force dedicated to rooting them out of their hiding places deep within the bowels of government and corporate agencies around the world. It was not surprising that they had managed to cover up the involvement of the nuclear bomber pilot, since they were able to label her a sex criminal before she had taken any overt action that would serve to trigger the interest of those paying close attention to such things. It was her proximity to the Author's current location that had led to her discovery. The retired Air Force intelligence officer who had been assigned to shadow the Author in Do Well, Saskatchewan, had alerted Canadian Customs to notify him any time that soldiers from Minot Air Force Base crossed into his territory. Although she never made physical contact with the Author, her mere presence in close proximity to him led to an in-depth investigation that turned up enough 'coincidences' to require her removal from service. What was very troubling, however, was the fact that another of the Author's contacts, from the Air Force base at his old stomping grounds in Tucson, had been able to break formation on a training run, fly halfway across the country with live bombs, almost making it to the site of the McVeigh trial in Denver, and yet it hardly rated a "Gee, I wonder why he did that?" in the mainstream press. Tentative suggestions that the pilot was 'emotionally troubled' were eaten up by the press, despite evidence to the contrary from his friends and relatives, so readily that the Air Force never even had to release the 'psychiatrist reports' that had been hastily prepared to be 'leaked' to the right sources, if needed. A Player To Be Named Later wondered if all reporters for the mainstream press were not, in fact, still incarcerated in the press compounds set up for Operation Desert Storm. Were the 'backgrounds' they appeared to be reporting from in reality just virtual creations from inside their media prison? A pilot carrying live bombs makes a beeline for the site of the Oklahoma Bomber's trial; a truck full nuclear warheads goes missing; soldiers on a base are the target of an armed assault; the pilot of a nuclear bomber is shanghaied on curiously slim pretexts; a horde of major armed forces figures suddenly resign or are shifted to non-sensitive positions-and the world hardly seems to notice. When a single former Russian General, however, with close connections to the spooks, writes a no-brainer book with unsupported claims about nuclear suitcases falling into the hands of the US's proclaimed 'enemies,' then the mainstream press snaps to attention and gives full coverage to the dark threat posed by theoretical, unseen, dark-skinned people who we will need to be protected from, in the future. "Gee, I wonder why he would do that?" A Player To Be Named Later said, sarcastically, while visualizing a dark-skinned person in a foreign country purchasing a nuclear suitcase from CIA-run Russian spooks. "I suppose that if there was hard, non-refutable evidence of an Air Force soldier purchasing a nuclear suitcase and going AWOL, headed for Washington, DC, that this would be the reaction of the mainstream press. But let a foreign 'darkie' try it, and all of a sudden we need to suspend some more basic human rights, even if it was a BATF shill who was being run by a CIA connected, former German intelligence operative who is related to a high-ranking German politician who was involved in the Iran-Contra drugs-for-arms scandal." A Player To Be Named Later reached for a bottle of Scotch sitting behind his laptop, taking a slow pull off of it as he reviewed the signs of the death of investigative journalism in the past few years. The CIA had used Woodward and Bernstein effectively during their assault on the Presidency at the close of the Nixon scandal. The problem was that it inspired a plethora of uncontrollable impersonators who wreaked havoc with their efforts at FUD control. So they orchestrated the movement of investigative journalism into the mundane mainstream of everyday life. The sheeple didn't care about world politics and behind the scenes power struggles. Their real interests lie in secret videos of an employee dipping his dick in a coworker's coffee; a mechanic putting the old distributor cap back on and charging the customer for a new one; a black mayor snorting coke and getting a little trim from the ladies of the night. All of this became breaking news which required the full force of the media digging into the dark corners of these people's lives. Until the world's nasty little secrets became just another everyday, run of the mill part of normal life. Now, Media Reality had finally approached critical mass, as foreseen by a variety of voices crying in the wilderness, from George Orwell to Marshal McLuhan. Now, it was only a matter of time. A Player To Be Named Later read the "Internet putting truth in danger" post by Damaged Justice, once again: Mr Keane, delivering the Huw Weldon Memorial Lecture at a television convention, said that he was worried about the growing influence of the Internet, and the conspiracy theories that are aired on it. God help us if things deteriorated to the point where ordinary people put the mainstream media 'truth' in danger by pointing out the obvious to people who didn't really want to know why a U.S. Air Force pilot would head for the site of McVeigh's trial with a load of live bombs. Maybe he just got lost He told the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Convention that the rash of rumours about the circumstances of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales showed that there was a public appetite for speculation and fantasy. He said: "Will the generation growing up on The X-Files really want to choose calm, considered reportage when they have science-fiction and fantasy?" "Calm, considered reportage." A Player To Be Named Later intoned, solemnly, thinking about the first interview he had seen by the major media with someone who had been close to the Princess's fatal accident. "Explosion." That was the first, and only, time he had heard that word used by someone who had been present at the time of the accident. By the time the rest of North America had awoken that morning, there were only reporters feeding the world the disinformation being officially released by the authorities. And in a world where reporters will dig up a dead body to do DNA tests to see if the deceased was, indeed, fucking Tom Cruise, the major networks somehow managed to 'lose' the footage of interviews with the original witnesses, offering, instead, interviews with people who thought that maybe something was perhaps taking place down there in the tunnel, but who really knows? We were told that there were no witnesses to the accident, yet we were still fed unlikely reports of a motorcycle with photographers on it zigzagging in front of the death vehicle at over a hundred miles an hour, and sundry other inanities reeking of 'now you see it, now you don't' spin doctoring. He said that the trend threatened to plunge reporting into the "rumour-ridden gloom of the Middle Ages". God forbid that unseemly rumors might spread concerning a man heading a covert organization involved in running illegal drugs and arms ascending to the Presidency after succeeding the front-man who had come to power as a result of those illegal actions, and who had invaded a foreign country to capture the drug-dealing monster who had been his closest bum-buddy during his spook days. God forbid that Joe Average should be exposed to the knowledge that a succession of their Presidents were backed by the big bucks made by their friends and relatives in business with the Nazis right up to the end of World War II. Knowledge such as this was dangerous knowledge that would put the spoon-fed "truth" of the mainstream media "in danger" if the InterNet was allowed to become a purveyor of 'unofficial' or 'non-approved' news. A Player To Be Named Later thought of the three days of intensive press coverage in which a multitude of mainstream media personnel spent hour upon hour adding fuel to 'official leak' inspired rumors while not seeming to be able to get any information at all on the players who were part and parcel of the media's daily business activities. He had been waiting to see the pictures of the concrete column that the heavily armored death vehicle had supposedly hit at over a hundred miles per hour. Nothing. {In Toledo, or Detroit, or some other 'cable channel' city, a day or so later, some no-name John Doe was killed after his vehicle struck a concrete column on a local road structure. There were reporters from a number of media sources there, getting close-ups of the vehicle, the column, and the damage to it, the broken scraps of concrete at the accident scene. A Player To Be Named Later saw it two or three times that day, as the media ensured that all the circumstances surrounding the death of John Doe would be subjected to the light of mainstream media 'truth.' He saw pictures from a variety of different angles, obviously taken in the interest of satisfying his 'right to know' all of the details surrounding the death of John Doe, Anywhere, USA.} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet') ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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nuclear_2.html
by maria＠linux.nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Reuters New Media [ Yahoo | Write Us | Search | Info ] [ Index | News | World | Biz | Tech | Politic | Sport | Scoreboard | Entertain | Health ] _________________________________________________________________ Previous Story: Mir Computer Working; Gore Cautious on Future Next Story: AIDS Doctors Volunteer to Test Vaccine _________________________________________________________________ Monday September 22 3:54 PM EDT Russia May Have 'Lost' Nuclear Bombs By Andrei Khalip MOSCOW (Reuter) - President Boris Yeltsin's former environmental safety adviser said in remarks published on Monday that some of Russia's portable nuclear bombs might indeed be missing, as asserted by another former Yeltsin aide. "The statement by Alexander Lebed concerning suitcases with nuclear bombs is definitely not groundless," academician Alexei Yablokov wrote in a letter to Novaya Gazeta weekly. The letter was written on September 9, days after Lebed, former presidential security adviser, told the CBS News "60 Minutes" programme that the Russian military had lost track of some of its nuclear weapons. He mentioned more than 100 suitcase-sized nuclear bombs, any one of which could kill up to 100,000 people. Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev insisted on Monday that Russia's nuclear arsenal was under firm control. "There are no concerns over this issue," Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. "The nuclear weapons are under permanent control." The minister appeared to be making a general remark and did not mention Yablokov or Lebed. Nuclear experts with international think-tanks have said in the past that Russia has strict control over its military nuclear sites and that they viewed nuclear bomb and missile theft as extremely unlikely. But they said there had been cases of theft of nuclear materials from power plants and scientific laboratories. Yablokov said the military might simply have no record of some of the portable nuclear bombs, which he said were made in the 1970s for the Soviet KGB for "terrorist purposes." "These nuclear charges were not registered by the Defence Ministry and as a result could have been dropped from the list of nuclear devices under international disarmament negotiations," Yablokov said. Yablokov, an outspoken advocate of environmental protection, also did not exclude that Russia carried out a nuclear test at its Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya last month. The United States said then it had detected a seismic event "with explosive characteristics" near the Novaya Zemlya test site, but Russian officials flatly denied any nuclear tests. They said Russia had voluntarily given up testing in 1992 and was sticking to this position. Yablokov's charges come at an embarrassing time for Russian officials, who are hosting U.S. Energy Secretary Federico Pena and Vice President Al Gore for wide-ranging talks due to include nuclear safety issues. Washington has more than once expressed concern over nuclear safety in Russia and what it called a possible transfer of Russian nuclear technologies to other countries, primarily Iran, which it views as a sponsor of international terrorism. Moscow says it is adhering strictly to its international nuclear non-proliferation obligations. Yablokov was sacked from Yeltsin's administration earlier this year. He had been in charge of environmental issues at top bodies of the former Soviet Union and Russia since 1989. He was chairman of Greenpeace-Soviet Union before 1990. _________________________________________________________________ ________________________ ___________ Help _________________________________________________________________ Previous Story: Mir Computer Working; Gore Cautious on Future Next Story: AIDS Doctors Volunteer to Test Vaccine _________________________________________________________________ [ Index | News | World | Biz | Tech | Politic | Sport | Scoreboard | Entertain | Health ] _________________________________________________________________ Reuters Limited Questions or Comments

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Minnesota Appeals Court Affirms Jurisdiction of the State
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Rolling Good Times: In a recent action, the Minnesota Court of Appeals states that the Attorney General has the right to regulate internet activity. This is one of the first pieces of case law to arise in the area of internet gambling. http://www.rgtonline.com/MinnAppeals.html

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InfoWar 19 (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet)
by A Player To Be Named Later 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Coalition letter opposing Oxley amendment -- from Apple to USWest
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is an encouraging letter, especially given the number and breadth of firms that signed on. But this section strikes me as telling: >We urge the Committee to reject the Oxley-Manton amendment and any other >form of domestic encryption control. Then the committee should reject even the "original" draft of SAFE, which has the first-ever domestic encryption control: penalties for the use of crypto in a crime. When crypto is widespread, //any// "crime" (like posting "indecent" materials?) will involve crypto. Domestic controls on encryption are not a reasonable tradeoff for lifting export controls. Don't sell out my rights to make a quick buck. (Then of course there's White's "compromise" language floating around that would double these criminal penalties. And Oxley -- in an effort to split the coalition -- is circulating draft language that might exempt some forms of mundane crypto-devices from his crypto-ban. Who knows? Maybe some Congressmen would vote for Oxley II in hopes of staving off Oxley I. But all these "compromises" are dangerous.) Advice to undersigned firms: Tell your lobbyists to block //all// encryption legislation that might come out of Congress. Then fire them. Spend the millions of dollars on R&D. Get crypto in the hands of the grandmothers of America. Or if you're not going to fire your lobbyists, at least order them not to try and push a bill through. I know it's difficult; that's all they know how to do. But, you see, not only is such a plan doomed to fail, it likely will backfire and threaten all of our freedoms in the process. -Declan ====================== September 22, 1997 The Hon. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. Chairman House Commerce Committee 2125 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Bliley: We are writing to express our strong opposition to the Oxley-Manton amendment to HR 695, the Security and Freedom through Encryption Act (SAFE), which the Commerce Committee will consider this week, and to any form of government domestic controls on encryption. The Oxley-Manton amendment would impose unprecedented restrictions on the domestic manufacture and availability of encryption, thus potentially compromising the security of the nation's telephone system and the Internet alike. The amendment would: * prohibit the domestic manufacture, sale and importation of any encryption product or service unless the government is given immediate access to the plaintext of communications and stored files without the knowledge of the user; * prohibit network service providers, including telephone companies and Internet service providers, from offering encryption products or services unless communications can be immediately read without the knowledge of the user; and * give the Attorney General unprecedented, broad new powers to establish standards for encryption products and services. Encryption technologies are the vital tools consumers and businesses need to operate with security and privacy in the information age, and are a cornerstone of electronic commerce. Government domestic controls on encryption are incompatible with the consumer, corporate, and national security benefits of the national information infrastructure. Numerous communications products and services are now under development that incorporate encryption as an essential feature. Oxley-Manton will stifle these new products and services, end the deployment of market-driven key recovery systems, and undermine the potential of the new communications media for electronic commerce and the promotion of democratic values. * Strong encryption will not only ensure privacy but also help prevent crime on the network. However, by mandating trap doors in all domestic encryption products and communications networks, the Oxley-Manton amendment will make the personal records and communications of individuals and businesses more vulnerable to hackers, terrorists, industrial spies and other criminals. Put at risk will be medical records, tax returns, private email, business proprietary information and transactions, attorney-client communications, and cellular phone conversations. * Oxley-Manton's broad requirement for "immediate access" to decryption keys without knowledge of the user would force Americans to forfeit their constitutional right of privacy as a condition of participating in the information age. * Oxley-Manton invites disastrous industrial policy. It is industrial policy with criminal sanctions attached. The amendment authorizes the Attorney General to promulgate technical requirements for all encryption products and gives the Department of Justice prior approval authority over all encryption systems for computers and telecommunications. This will stifle innovation. It will drive encryption expertise out of this country. The market should be allowed to develop its own solutions, many of which in fact will meet law enforcement's needs within our existing system of legal authorities and safeguards. * Oxley-Manton will be ineffective in keeping strong encryption out of the hands of criminals. Criminals and terrorist groups will not use a system that gives the government access to their decryption keys. In fact, the FBI has admitted in Congressional testimony that criminals will always have access to strong unbreakable encryption. We urge the Committee to reject the Oxley-Manton amendment and any other form of domestic encryption control. Sincerely, ACL Datacom, Inc., California American Electronics Association American Automobile Manufacturers Association Americans for Tax Reform America Online, Inc. Ameritech ANS Communications, Inc., New York Apple Computer, Inc. Ashton Communications Corp., California and Texas Bell Atlantic Bell South Bowles Farming Co., Inc. Business Software Alliance Center for Democracy and Technology Commercial Internet eXchange Association CommerceNet Compaq Computer Corp. CompuServe, Inc. Computer & Communications Industry Association Computer Software Industry Association Consumer Electronic Manufacturers Association Counsel Connect Crest Industries, Inc. DataXchange Network, Inc. Direct Marketing Association Electronic Data Systems, Corp. Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Messaging Association Epoch Internet Fiber Network Solutions, Inc., Columbus, Ohio Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company IBM Corp. Information Technology Association of America Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - US Activities International Communications Association Intuit Inc. Internet Providers Association of Iowa Microsoft National Association of Manufacturers NETCOM On-Line Communication Services, Inc. NetINS, Inc., Iowa Novell Online Banking Association National Association of Manufacturers National Retail Federation Netscape Communications Corp. Phoenix Media/Communications Group Pro-Trade Group PGP, Inc. RSA Data Security, Inc. SBC Communications Inc. Securities Industry Association Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition Software Forum Software Publishers Association Sun Microsystems, Inc. TheOnRamp Group, Inc., Ohio Trusted Information Systems United States Council for International Business United States Internet Council United States Telephone Association U.S. Chamber of Commerce US West Voters Telecommunications Watch

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Re: US Senate bans laptops
by John Kelsey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> > To: Cypherpunks Lite <cp-lite(a)comsec.com> > Subject: US Senate bans laptops > Date: Sunday, September 21, 1997 10:37 AM > These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who > will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses. This is really encouraging news! Computers would likely lead to increased efficiency in Congress, and *that* isn't in the interests of any of us. These folks are in the business of taking peoples' life, liberty and property, for fun, profit, and ideology. Just about anything that slows them down, including their own mind-numbing stupidity, is a good thing. --John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, kelsey(a)counterpane.com PGP 2.6 fingerprint = 4FE2 F421 100F BB0A 03D1 FE06 A435 7E36

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Elliptic Curve library for visual basic
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Re release: http://www.jim.com/jamesd/tools.htm An OLE extension to visual basic, written in C++, providing elliptic curve cryptographic operations, SHA1 and big true random numbers to visual basic I have re released the cryptographic extension to Visual Basic This release is thoroughly tested, and I have therefore raised the version number from beta to 1.0 I have added visual basic program that tests and demonstrates the KongTools functions to the release. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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 state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: MatchPseudonym Technology / Re: encouraging digital pseudonyms
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Igor wrote: > > That cypherpunk project came to fruition a year and a half ago. Kudos! You are the greatest! I look forward to spreading and evolution of your software. Regards, Zooko

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IntraLoan
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: ahernlj(a)swift.alaska.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:28:03 -0900 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu From: lance ahern <ahernlj(a)alaska.net> Subject: IntraLoan Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: lance ahern <ahernlj(a)alaska.net> A new service lets parties communicate online via encrypted, digitally notarized documents posted on a secure site. http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/1997/09/0922bank.html nothing special, just a working service... <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> Lance J. Ahern Internet Alaska, Inc. ahernlj(a)alaska.net 907-562-4638 unlimited - ppp - 33.6K - $19.50/month For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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InfoWar 20 / Text Version of "The True Story of the Internet" Part 3
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The True Story of the InterNet Part III InfoWar Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Copyright 1997 Pearl Publishing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWar Table of Contents * Prelude to the Past ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Did you notice the way 'Mojave' was misspelled?" the Shadow asked the Rich Man. Bad BillyG nodded slowly, looked up at the Shadow and said, "I also noticed that he used the 'replay' remailer and spoke of 'deja vu.'" "Indio?" the Shadow asked Bad BillyG, not having to wait for his confirmation to know that the anonymous writer was referring to the Wackenhut/Cabazon weapons fencing operation. "I've got someone checking the physical site as we speak," BillyG told the Shadow, "but I think it's obvious that the references to Lefty and the tassel-haired young woman firing a shotgun with one hand means that these people recreated an event that happened over a decade and a half ago, only" Bad BillyG paused to swallow, "only this time, the targets are us, not them." The Shadow and his earthly compatriot turned their attention to the anonymous post, once again, confirming what they already knew, and scanning for more details of the writers veiled message, therein. Subject: Not-News Gorilla NutWork Rocket-Launched From: nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com [Not-News NetWork-- Mohave Desert] Aug 4/97 WHAT DOES A FIVE HUNDRED POUND GORILLA READ AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE? - sog The "Not-News Gorilla NutWork" was rocket-launched in the Mohave Desert early yesterday morning by a rag-tag bunch of paramilitarist computer gurus who unveiled an InterNet Bill of Bytes that included the words, "MicroSoft shall make no laws..." Angered by a self-appointed council of computer industry magnates who have announced their intention to seize fascist control of the quickly burgeoning Information Highway by controlling the definition of all information, the rebels set up a shooting range which contained a wide variety of targets ranging from copies of the Wall Street Journal to life-sized cardboard cut-outs of a hooded figure referred to only as, "a billionaire to be named later." A Che Guerva look-alike named Lefty (a nickname changed from "Lucky" after a laboratory accident took three of the fingers on his right hand) spoke openly about the group's loose-knit plans to impose their own ratings system on corporations who have "taken it upon themselves to decide what is news and what is not--what is information and what is obscenity." "We have decided on two classes of ratings." explained a tassel- haired young woman as she slid shells into a Winchester Defender sitting on her lap. "On..." she said, lifting the shotgun with one hand, then liberating the hooded head from a nearby cardboard cut-out, before turning back to say, with a Cheshire grin, "...and off." The wide array of luxury automobiles and high-end computer gear on display at the gathering lent credence to the claim of a quiet older man whose only comment during my presence was, "The people here probably have a combined access to more soft targets than the NSA." He turned to punctuate his statement, as many others did that day, with a volley of fire that penetrated targets carrying the corporate logos of a variety of big-name players in the computer industry. Surprisingly, the conversation consisted almost totally of issues surrounding privacy, self-determination and freedom from censorship, with hardly a word being spoken about potential plans of action by individuals or the group. As the quiet man's equally quiet wife spoke in what seemed to be a deathly whisper, telling me, "Everyone here knows what they have to do.", a man with a crude, homemade rocket-launcher sent a flaming projectile into the side of a small propane tank several hundred feet away, as if punctuating the last and most meaningful statement of the day. After quietly dispersing a few minutes later, the group packed up their weapons and climbed into their vehicles without a word between them, each seemingly going their own separate ways. I stayed on after the last of the others had left, reflecting on the fact that I had arrived at this gathering by virtue of a late-night phone call to my unlisted number, and found that I knew none of the participants in the activities. I had the strangest feeling that the others there had arrived by the same anonymous process as I had, and I wondered if they were equally mystified as to who had arranged this impromptu assembly of apparent strangers joined in a common cause. Immediately, one of the pickup trucks driving away backfired, and I thought of synchronicity, knowing that the truck would backfire once again, which it immediately did, before disappearing quietly out of sight. Climbing into my own vehicle, I took a last look at the site, which had been cleaned and left exactly the way it was when I had first arrived on the scene. I experienced a moment of deja vu, as if I had just arrived and none of what I had experienced that day had truly transpired. Somewhere in the distance, a vehicle backfired... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Disclaimer - I am not a reporter, I am not a paramilitarist, and I am not a computer expert. I have no idea what I was doing there and I am not even certain that I should be speaking about the event...but I am. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Player To Be Named Later put down the 'Not-News Gorilla NutWork Rocket-Launched' post and scanned portions of the INSLAW/Octopus report from NaziWorld, once again. The INSLAW Octopus Software piracy, conspiracy, cover-up, stonewalling, covert action: Just another decade at the Department of Justice By Richard L. Fricker But prior to his arrest in 1991, Riconosciuto provided the Hamiltons with an affidavit that once again brought Brian into the Inslaw picture. "I engaged in some software development and modification work in 1983 and 1984 on proprietary PROMIS computer software product," he stated. "The copy of PROMIS on which I worked came from the US Department of Justice. Earl W. Brian made it available to me through Wackenhut (a security company with close FBI and CIA connections) after acquiring it from Peter Videnieks, who was then a Department of Justice contracting official with the responsibility for PROMIS software. I performed the modifications to PROMIS in Indio, Calif.; Silver Springs, Md.; and Miami, Fla." The modifications included a telecommunications "trap door" that would let the US Government eavesdrop on any other organization using the pirated software, Riconosciuto said. Although Brian denies any involvement with Inslaw or Riconosciuto, the House Judiciary Committee received a report from a special task force of the Riverside County, Calif., Sheriff's Office and District Attorney, stating that on the evening of Sept. 10, 1981, arms dealers, buyers and various intelligence operatives gathered at the Cabazon Indian Reservation near Indio, Calif., for a demonstration of night warfare weapons. The demonstration was orchestrated jointly by Wackenhut and the Cabazon Indian tribe. (Many published reports allege that the Wackenhut/Cabazon joint venture served as a weapons fencing operation for Oliver North's Iran- Contra dealings.) Bad BillyG involved in that mess? A Player To Be Named Later shook his head negatively, to himself. It seemed unlikely, but it would explain a few things which had been troubling him, lately. And it would mean that the anonymous poster knew enough intimate details of an event that had been shrouded in deep secrecy to pose a threat to all those connected with the Indio affair. It would also explain the apparently strange ending to a major play by the news and computer industry heavyweights calling themselves the 'Internet Content Coalition' that the anonymous post seemed to be threatening. For starters, Microsoft made an immediate about-face, within hours of the anonymous post, on their plans to include technology supporting the Internet Content Coalition's aims in their next version of Internet Explorer. >From - Wed Aug 06 19:31:05 1997 From: nobody(a)neva.org (Neva Remailer) Subject: MicroGorilla Postpones Rocket-Launch Plans Until..."likely sometime next year." >Anonymous wrote: > > The "Not-News Gorilla NutWork" was rocket-launched in the Mohave Desert > > early yesterday morning by a rag-tag bunch of paramilitarist computer > > gurus who unveiled an InterNet Bill of Bytes that included the words, > > "MicroSoft shall make no laws..." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > Microsoft Corp. has tabled plans to include new technology in its > Internet Explorer 4.0 browser that would have made "news" oriented > sites exempt from content rating standards promoted for use on the > Internet. >Anonymous wrote: > > Angered by a self-appointed council of computer industry magnates who > > have announced their intention to seize fascist control of the quickly > > burgeoning Information Highway by controlling the definition of all > > information, the rebels set up a shooting range which contained a wide > > variety of targets ranging from copies of the Wall Street Journal to > > life-sized cardboard cut-outs of a hooded figure referred to only as, > > "a billionaire to be named later." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > RSAC President C. Dianne Martin said Microsoft is running out of time > to implement the separate designation for news sites before the launch > of the 4.0 version of Explorer later this year. >Anonymous wrote: > > "We have decided on two classes of ratings." explained a tassel- > > haired young woman as she slid shells into a Winchester Defender > > sitting on her lap. "On..." she said, lifting the shotgun with one > > hand, then liberating the hooded head from a nearby cardboard cut-out, > > before turning back to say, with a Cheshire grin, "...and off." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > However, the company > plans to include the news designation in the 5.0 version of Explorer > when it is made available..."likely sometime next year." There wasn't much doubt that 'Nobody' was pointing out to one and all that the Internet Content Coalition was under siege, and that the opening salvo by 'Anonymous' had brought the largest corporation in history to its knees, in surrender. A bold claim, but would this declaration of war in the battle of the giants to seize control of the official reigns of news and information on the InterNet be backed up in the end, by across the board results? A Player To Be Named Later pored over a FreeAmerica report on the resurrection of the Inslaw ghosts in the mid-1990's. Federal Corruption INSLAW Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995 Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas has opened a new investigation into the INSLAW case. Brooks is investigating allegations that Justice Department officials, including Meese, conspired to force INSLAW into bankruptcy in order to deliver the firm's software to a rival company. The rival firm, according to court records and law enforcement officials, was headed by Earl W. Brian, a former Cabinet officer under then California Governor Ronald Reagan and a longtime friend of several high-ranking Republican officials. [Earl W. Brian! Who had seized control of United Press International (UPI) in a deal every bit as shady as the Inslaw affair] On March 21, 1992, [Michael] Riconoscuito stated in an affidavit to the Court and Congress, and before he was arrested, the following: * During the 1980s he served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation. [Near the Salton Sea, a long-time haunt of the Author, who brought a strange variety of computer gurus to the area, purportedly for Corvina fishing, but what was the real story about their travels there?] * The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel- air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons. * The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of FOREIGN governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture. * The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture maintained close liaison with 'certain elements' of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies. * Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years. * The purpose of the PROMIS software modification that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software. * Some of the modifications that I made were specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of PROMIS within two agencies of the Government of Canada: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Earl W. Brian would check with me from time to time to make certain that the work would be completed in time to satisfy the schedule for the RCMP and CSIS implementations of PROMIS. [The RCMP and CSISthe same entities that the Author had shared a Russian language class with in Regina, Saskatchewan, just before the Moscow Olympics. Who had he encountered in that group who would later be instrumental in acquiring the PROMIS software for the Canadians?] * The propriety version of PROMIS, as modified by me, was, in fact implemented in both the RCMP and the CSIS in Canada. It was my understanding that Earl W. Brian had sold this version of PROMIS to the Government of Canada. * A Player To Be Named Later suddenly remembered the email to the CypherPunks mailing list and the corporate headquarters of the Internet Content Coalition that had been forwarded from the LMBoyd Website, which was known to be a forum for the Circle of Eunuchs to send veiled messages to set the stage for their more pointed attacks on the Dark Forces. It was an email that was sent out when the dark specter of the Internet Content Coalition first began to flex their muscles. >From - Fri Jul 25 19:38:14 1997 Subject: Sampler: July 25 To: multiple recipients of <sampler(a)lmboyd.com> ====================================================== The serial killer does in one person at a time in intervals. The mass killer murders however many in a single mad rampage. The mass killer is usually suicidal. The serial killer isn't. Q. Does any animal deliberately stalk human beings for food? A. None but the polar bear. At least, such is the claim of the experts. ====================================================== LMBoyd Web Site / U. S. Newspapers / Start Email / Stop Email http://www.LMBoyd.com/postscript.htm "Of course!" A Player To Be Named Later slapped his forehead, amazed that he had not seen the connection sooner between the 'mass murderer, serial killer stalking humans from the North' email, the Not-News threat singling out "a billionaire to be named later," and the email sent to the Internet Content Coalition players just before they held the meeting where they effectively folded their hand in their attempt to take over control over defining what was 'official' news on the InterNet, and what was not. He reread, once again, the anonymous post sent just hours before the Internet Content Coalition's grand agenda bit the dust: "In July, Anson Ng, a reporter for the Financial Times of London was shot and KILLED in Guatemala. He had reportedly been trying to interview an American there named Jimmy Hughes, a one-time director of security for the Cabazon Indian Reservation secret projects. "In April, a Philadelphia attorney named Dennis Eisman was found DEAD, killed by a single bullet in his chest. According to a former federal official who worked with Eisman, the attorney was found dead in the parking lot where he had been due to meet with a woman who had crucial evidence to share substantiating Riconosciuto's claims. "Both Eisman's and Ng's deaths were declared 'suicides' by authorities. "Fred Alvarez, a Cabazon tribal leader who was in vocal opposition to the developments on the reservation, was found SHOT TO DEATH WITH TWO FRIENDS in 1981. Their murder remains unsolved. At last, the whole bizarre, implausible scenario finally came together in A Player To Be Named Later's mind. The Author's presence near the belly of the beast in Indio had not been a mere coincidence. When the Internet Content Coalition made their move, the Circle of Eunuchs already had the information they needed to connect several of the players in the proposed news cartel with the trail of deaths surrounding both those involved in the INSLAW debacle and the reporters closing in on the real story involved. And they had made it more than plain that some of those involved in the Wackenhut-Cabazon arms deals were now playing for the oppositionand that bullets don't discriminate between the rich and the poor. A Player To Be Named Later was still mystified as to how the Magic Circle had been able to pull off such a bold, in-your-face maneuver on some of the Titans of the news and computer industries. In the early days, after the dissemination of "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" had begun in 1989, the Circle of Eunuchs had come under fierce attack from a variety of sources from within the secret government hunting them. Mysterious deaths, established careers going up in flames, overnight. The Magic Circle had quickly disappeared far into the underground of computer society. Then, the Circle had begun to show their hand, more and more, now reaching the point where they could apparently do battle with the heavyweights working behind the scenes with Gomez and the Dark Allies. But A Player To Be Named Later hadn't seen any indication that the Circle of Eunuchs had managed to gain possession of a hole-card that could account forunless "Casolaro!" A Player To Be Named Later whispered, as if speaking the name aloud might bring down fire from the heavens. Quickly, he did a disk search for a vaguely remembered article from Conspiracy Nation Forwarded: >From the Patriot Archives ftp site at: ftp://tezcat.com/patriot Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ("Quid coniuratio est?") THE OCTOPUS =========== By Karen Bixman (For The People *News Reporter*, 11/14/94) On the morning of August 11, 1991, Danny Casolaro was found dead in the bathroom of his hotel room at the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. His wrists had been slashed ten times; his briefcase and notes were missing. The authorities labeled the death a suicide, and before Casolaro's family had been contacted, the body was embalmed. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like "Conspiracy Nation" sent to your e-mail address, send a message in the form "subscribe conspire My Name" to listproc(a)prairienet.org -- To cancel, send a message in the form "unsubscribe conspire" to listproc(a)prairienet.org but with absolutely nothing in the subject line of the message. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Damn! He had nailed it! Karen Bixman's article had confirmed everything that A Player To Be Named Later had increasingly suspected as his mind pored over the mountain of information which had seemed so tentatively, but treacherously, related. Bixman had laid down an utterly astounding, twisted trail of closely connected, mysterious deaths and blatant murders surrounding the INSLAW and Iran-Contra misdeeds that completed the connections between the past and current players in the battle for control of world supremacy in computer information and communications. What's more, the timing of the disappearance of Danny Casolaro's extensive notes on the winding serpent of evil surrounding these affairs coincided with the Magic Circle's unmistakable reentry into manifest participation in the battle against the Evil One and the Dark Forces under his command. The Coupe de Gras, however, was the source of the Conspiracy Nation newsletter. Prairienet.org! From whence sprang the apparently unrelated Bureau42 clique who had seized the opportunity to host 'The True Story of the InterNet' transcripts, despite the troubled and bloody history of those who had done so in the past. Bianca had mentioned to Mike Denney, at Basis Inc., that she had been prepared to hack the Bureau42 servers when they came under attack upon placing 'Part II' and 'Part III' on their system, but that they had managed to clear up the problems that developed on their own, and had done so in a surprisingly short period of time. Only one thing was still bothering A Player To Be Named Later. Microsoft had been the first member of the Internet Content Coalition to publicly fold their hand in the battle to control news and information ratings across the InterNet, but Gates seemed, on the surface, to be less visibly connected to the extremely messy past misconduct of the others, and thus seemed to have the least to lose if the shit hit the fan. Gate's quick concession to the veiled threats had definitely been the catalyst in causing the hasty retreat of the other members of the news cartel that had seemed to be on the drawing board for quite some time in the plans of Gomez and the Dark Alliesbut why? Bill Gates had not become the richest and most overtly powerful individual on the face of the earth by fighting against the grand designs of the Evil One, but he seemed to be playing his cards close to his chest, in a manner that suggested that he had an agenda of his own that might not run exactly parallel to that of the Dark Forces. What was BillyG's game? A Player To Be Named Later had been involved in the grand battle taking place behind the scenes of everyday reality for long enough to know that it was all done with mirrors. "And each man, in his time, plays many parts." he said, perplexed for the moment. "To Shakespeare!" A Player To Be Named Later said, lifting his glass in toast. "A member of the Magic Circle, if there ever was one." "If there ever was one" he repeated, smiling at his unintentional inside joke. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Shadow was watching Bad BillyG closely, for any sign of subterfuge in his inner demeanor. "You're certain about Blanc Weber?" he asked, once again. "Well, I could be wrong, but we've investigated her thoroughly, and every indication is that all that nonsense about her development of the HydroCube is just that-nonsense." BillyG shrugged his shoulders, apparently unconcerned with what he regarded as a small, internal company matter. "I could have her isolated, but I don't really see much point. If she is hiding something, then it's probably better not to let her know how closely she is being monitored. Perhaps you should put some of the Dark Allies on her tail for a while, in case there is something that my people have missed." "No, I don't think that will be necessary." the Shadow replied, casually. He had instructed his men to monitor Blanc Weber's movements and activities months ago, as well as those of the spooks Bad BillyG had assigned to watch her. His own spooks had likewise turned up nothing positive, but he had pressed the matter with Gates in order to judge his reaction just the same. "Well, her digital implant went according to plan," BillyG added, "so we will be able to yank her chain on a moment's notice, if it becomes necessary to do so, in the future." The "billionaire to be named later" sat back and allowed himself to indulge in the luxury of looking forward to the moment when A Player To Be Named Later would find out much, much more than he really wanted to know about Bad BillyG's plans for the tattered remnants of the Magic Circle who were attempting to interfere with his own vision of the direction the future of the InterNet should take at this nadir point in time, when the battle for control of virtual reality was about to explode into every single facet of human life ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bubba Rom Dos thought about the forefather of his technical namesake, who had so far managed to walk with the Evil One as far as the bridge in his rise to riches, fame and power a hundred years in the past. The Cowboy, Priscilla, Alexis, Jonathan, and d'Shauneaux were likewise joined with him in contemplation of this paradoxical figure from the past whose role in the great battle between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness had remained an enigma throughout the history and legends of the Circle of Eunuchs. Friend or foe, there was no denying that Billy the Kid was going to play a major role in the direction that the thundering train of history was about to take as it approached the crossroads of destiny on its way to an ElectroMagnetic Future where freedom would hinge on the free flow of Taoist bytes routing around the enslaving chains of Fascist bits that Gomez and the Dark Allies had been carefully laying in place since the dawn of the Computer Era. Bubba Rom Dos, sage and savant, deviant and derelict, raised a glass of "Bubba's Special Reserve" in toast, proclaiming as the tattered remnants of the Magic Circle joined him in his libations, "To Billy the Kidor Bad BillyGto the things that he didor to what he may be" The Trei Transponder began softly humming in the background, as if trying to tell the small assembly something very, very important for them to know. Then it fell silent Copyright "Anonymous TruthMonger <billg(a)microsoft.com>" "That's not a government backdoor <bug>. It's a hacker's backdoor <feature>." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet') Soviet Union Sickle of Eunuchs Secret WebSite ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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