December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NSA/NIST Security Lab
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NSA and NIST will set up a new lab for evaluation of information-security products, including crypto algorithms: http://jya.com/nsa-nist.txt The lab will coordinate with other nations. Plans include eventual shifting the evaluation to private testing labs once accreditation standards are set. With critiques by Bruce Schneier and Steve Walker, and a slap from NCSA, which now provides testing, "They've been talking about this stuff for years."

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Re: 35,000,000 People...
by staff＠mailcorporation.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: 35,000,000 People...
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17 Dec '03

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Meet-in-the-middle attack
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy C[retin] May is just a poor excuse for an unschooled, retarded thug. (((> /< ( / ((({{{{{:< Timmy C[retin] May \ \<

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You really do want to volunteer, don't you?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Item: Getting a transponder or bar-coded "EZ Pass" for your vehicle is completely voluntary....but if you don't have one of these transponders or passes, you'll have to go to the "manual" lane...Oh, and it seems that due to budget cutbacks we're short on staff and so you'll have to wait a while...maybe _quite_ a while. (Plus, while you're waiting maybe we'll just snap a photo of your license plate anyway, as you might be a terrorist or Mann Act felon trying to evade our surveillance....) Item: The U.S. is proud to call its tax system "voluntary," in terms of what citizens report. (The voluntary term was never that participation was voluntary, only that a tax collector did not show up in person and decide what a person owed.) However, to ensure compliance with the voluntary part, citizen-units will find that their bank narcs them out to FinCEN and IRS, and that electronic intercepts of financial dealings are common, and that "compliance audits" are far more draconian than ordinary citizen-units imagine. Item: Key recovery is purely voluntary. Unless you try to communicate with foreigners. Unless you are involved in any communications with drug dealers, money launderers, terrorists, child pornographers, or any other Horsemen. (Wouldn't you really rather play it safe and use the Government Approved Krypto?) Item (in the Very Near Future): "But, Mr. and Mrs. Zludnick, the ChildFinder (TM) implant is painless and quick. Based on the technology used to find lost pets, ChildFinder (TM) allows authorities in public places to scan for kidnapped or lost children. Surely you'd want your daughter to have access to this technology? While completely voluntary--after all, Mr. Zludnick, we are still a democracy, aren't we?--you should be aware that the school nurse will be most unhappy if your children are not ChildFinder-compatible. Not to mention the teachers who count on using RollTaker (TM) to automatically take the roll of students. And your children will have to take tests in special rooms, and checked for evidence of identity spoofing. All in all, Mr. and Mrs. Zludnick, I think you can see the problems. Why, in a sense, it would be a kind of child abuse, don't you think, to make your little Johnny and Suzy such oddities in the class. I'm sure you wouldn't Child Protective Services to make one of their "visits," would you? They're oh-so-thorough in uncovering signs of an unwholesome home environment. And then where would you be? So, can I assume you'll be volunteering?" What we are seeing is an Orwellian abuse of the English language. Programs are introduced as "voluntary" ones, but the alternatives are either deliberately made time-consuming and annoying, or the alternatives are just dropped completely. (I'm not talking about what private individuals or companies ask for. Alice's Restaurant is free to require patrons to wear silly hats, as it is their property. What I'm confining my comments to is the "mandatory voluntary" nature of more and more government programs.) The airline bag confirmation system is an in-between situation. It is partly a security matter to require bags be correlated with actual flying passengers...cuts down on bombs sent in bags. But it is also a surveillance/tracking issue, and the airlines are playing the tune the government calls for. (Else why would airlines not accept passengers who a) in fact board the plane, and b) pay in cash for their tickets? It used to be this way. No more. Now they demand a True Name, regardless of how easy it is to buy phony documents. If I can buy a phony set, or can even make up my own, imagine what actual terrorists can do.) And there's the whole issue of Social Security Cards. My card, issued in 1969, says it's not be used for any purposes except SS and income tax matters. Tell that to the many agencies, public and corporate, demanding it. The point? Our privacy is being "escrowed." The automobile transponders and barcoded vehicle passes are touted as voluntary, but they really are not. Chaumian, identity-protecting technologies need to be deployed. Frankly, I think Cypherpunks are getting off track with all the recent focus on "old" technologies (which I'll leave unspecified, as my point is not to attack certain pet projects). The real stuff is going undone. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Information
by Integration 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Anonymous wrote: > > > > > > |> >>Dave K-P <k.p(a)snet.net> writes: > > > > |> >> > > > > |> >>>> > > > Information, please! > > > > |> >>>> > > Dont go swimming on a full stomach. > > > > |> >>>> > Don't "escrow" your keys. > > > > |> >>>> Don't take advice from strangers. > > > > |> >>>Don't ask, don't tell. > > > > |> >>Don't eat yellow snow. > > > > |> >DonŽt spit, just swallow. > > > > | >Don't touch anything. > > > > Don't touch _there_. > > > Never piss into the wind. > > Don't pull on a psycho's cape. > Don't jump to confusions.. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

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Re: Information (yeah, two in one night..so sue..)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Abstruse wrote: > > > > > > |> >>Dave K-P <k.p(a)snet.net> writes: > > > > > > |> >> > > > > > > |> >>>> > > > Information, please! > > > > > > |> >>>> > > Dont go swimming on a full stomach. > > > > > > |> >>>> > Don't "escrow" your keys. > > > > > > |> >>>> Don't take advice from strangers. > > > > > > |> >>>Don't ask, don't tell. > > > > > > |> >>Don't eat yellow snow. > > > > > > |> >DonŽt spit, just swallow. > > > > > > | >Don't touch anything. > > > > > > Don't touch _there_. > > > > > Never piss into the wind. > > > > Don't pull on a psycho's cape. > > > Don't jump to confusions.. > > Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. > > Don't *hate* the media.. > *become* the media" - Jello Biafra Don't talk to yourself (even by email).

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Re: Fate of Jews in America (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks are in no position to make remarks about Jewish racism. Jews were far more welcoming to such as Sammy Davis, Jr. than many cypherpunks would be. "Off my porch, nigger!" would be the undoubted greeting from some of our ostensible leaders, as they take shotgun in hand.

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Re: Missing Kids and Porn Links
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > > Most of people who publicly "care for children" are hidden pedophiles or > control freaks, in my humble opinion. I agree. Does anyone have any pointers to child pornography sites, so that I can warn people which sites to avoid? T.C. Mayonnaise <tm(a)dhp.com> "Hey little girl, want to make some mayonnaise with _real_ eggs?"

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Re: Death Pictures of Diana on InterNet!!!
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nobody writes: > Made you look! > "We have met the public, and he is _us_." > UsMonger Now that pictures of Princess Diana trapped in the wreckage have been printed in European tabloids, it is only a matter of time before someone scans them and posts them to alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless. Clicking on such pictures, of course, is not the moral equivalent of having personally run Princess Diana off the road, regardless of what your neighborhood CPAC member would like you to believe. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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