December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Reducing Crypto-Anonymous Crime by 50%
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mike wrote: > Alice wants to receive e$1 from Bob. She creates a random number, blinds > it, and gives the blinded number to Bob. He shows the number to the > Mint, asking for a withdrawal of e$1 with a signature on this coin > number. Bob gives the signed and still blinded coin to Alice. She > unblinds it and spends it, end of story. It seems to me that many of the government's fascist goals for stopping strong crypto and anonymous financial transactions could be realized merely by whacking out Alice and Bob. An analysis of the cypherpunks list archives shows that most of the undesirable activities being perpetrated in the crypto-anonymity arena are the result of a conspiracy between Alice, Bob, and their shady friends. Anybody know their last names? A Concerned Cititzen

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Graphics
by mastergraphics714＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Fascism at Work
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:30 PM 8/15/97 +0200, you wrote: > WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department today closed its >investigation into whether the FBI's former deputy director tried to >obstruct an inquiry into the deadly 1992 seige at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, >saying it lacked evidence to bring criminal charges, governent officials >said. The bodies of Weaver's son and wife should be evidence enough! This is the same verdict as the Texas Border murders, some dick federal agent blows away some innocent civilian, and gets off the hook. > The Justice Department decided not to bring charges against former >FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts or Danny Coulson, Potts' deputy during the >1992 seige at the remote cabin of white supremacist Randy Weaver, said >government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. To those who say government workers aren't above the law: You're wrong. Damn wrong. Almost any of these pricks can kill your children and/or wife, and get away with it. If anyone bumps these assholes off, I'm gonna applaud. >The Justice Department informed lawmakers and lawyers for the FBI agents >that its review did not warrant any further criminal charges, but it left >open the possibility of disciplinary action. The only appropriate action is death to the murdering bastards who shot his wife and kid. Kill the murdering sons of bitches! > The department said in a statement obtained by The Associated >Press, "The available evidence does not support further criminal >prosecution of FBI officials ... from the August 1992 incident at Ruby >Ridge." Dead bodies don't just *happen*, someone makes them dead, in this case, the FBI schills who blew away innocents. That makes them guilty as sin, and for that, they should die slowly, and painfully. Someone, please, put some bullet holes in FBI Agents if they ever come to your house. Someone needs to teach these bastards a lesson. It seems that everything like this happens because some agency fucks something up. Waco happened because the BATF ran in like dumbasses and fucked everything up. At Ruby Ridge, some FBI dick screws up, killing Mr. Weaver's child and wife. At the Texas B! order, they blew away a kid with a .22 rifle, while on "Drug Patrol". What's should be done about these incidents? Kil those who participated, and make sure to shoot to kill if some agents from a TLA come to YOUR house. And they wonder why McVeigh said "Enough!" EnoughMonger "There's somthing wrong when innocent people die because of fascist use of military forces."

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Re: Reducing Crypto-Anonymous Crime by 50%
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>--- begin forwarded text > > >Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:34:22 +0200 (MET DST) >Subject: Reducing Crypto-Anonymous Crime by 50% >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >From: nobody(a)replay.com (Anonymous) >Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited >X-001: Replay may or may not approve of the content of this posting >X-002: Report misuse of this automated service to <abuse(a)replay.com> >X-URL: http://www.replay.com/remailer/ >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: nobody(a)replay.com (Anonymous) >X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > >Mike wrote: >> Alice wants to receive e$1 from Bob. She creates a random number, blinds >> it, and gives the blinded number to Bob. He shows the number to the >> Mint, asking for a withdrawal of e$1 with a signature on this coin >> number. Bob gives the signed and still blinded coin to Alice. She >> unblinds it and spends it, end of story. > > It seems to me that many of the government's fascist goals for >stopping strong crypto and anonymous financial transactions could >be realized merely by whacking out Alice and Bob. My analysis indicates that both risk and effort could be halfed by just wacking Alice with the same net effect. I'm passing on this suggestion to the operations desk.

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Getting back at spamford (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

=====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ========================== Begin message: Subject: Need contributions to slow Cyberpromotions down.. From: Peter Cumming <pcumming(a)ix.netcom.com> Message-Id: <3363AD45.357E(a)ix.netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Reply-To: pcumming(a)ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email I have found a Private Investigator within distance of Sanford Wallace Cyberpromotions business to look into his affairs personally. All results will be posted on the webpages of those who have one (I do not) and all newsgroups. The PI quoted $1,000. I will put up $250 and had some others add some money but we are not even halfway there. So pass the word and some money if you care to be a part of the following. The info that the PI will obtain will consist of (for Sanford W) DOB, DMV, Car type, Tag#, Bank accounts, home number, cell number, phone calls made in last 30 days, childrens name, home address, SSN, bank cards held, credit report, etc.. I do not have $1,000 this year to throw at this but if you are interested in helping out or have better ideas let me know. I will put in $250. No checks will be sent to me, all to the PI if we come up with the necessary $1,000. Also will need some good volunteers to put out some web pages with the info I post. It is up to whomever to use the info as they see fit. It is not my responsibility. Thanks, Peter

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why not cyberian?
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Everyone's so fond of promoting the RC5 effort run by distributed.net. Why aren't more people using the Cyberian software from cyberian.org? The clients are faster, and instead of blowing the money on Project Gutenberg - a dubious cause, to be sure - a healthy chunk goes right to the winner. RC5Monger (aka GreedMonger)

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by 01450468＠gte.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: FCPUNX:McVeigh on McVeigh
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

He who pays controls. If someone is charged with a politically sensitive crime, and he has a court appointed attorney, then he has two prosecutors and no defense. Very likely Mcviegh is guilty, but I could have defended him better, and so could my dog. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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OpenSoft ExpressMail
by Daniel Zen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am an ex-lurker of this mailing list that is not currently subscribed (so make sure I am in the To: or CC: list :). I wanted to ask the experts on the quality of OpenSoft ExpressMail and how it compares to competing products such as PGP for Personal Privacy in terms of security and algorithm's used ease of use, integration and installation interoperobility, compatibility and use of standards OS and e-mail platform availability export laws (OpenSoft's programming team is in Russia) etc. (is there something I should know?) If anybody has an opinion, or a pointer it would be greatly appreciated. Z

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Thanks again to the HIP'97 team
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am just starting to catch up on my email. Organizing the Cypherpunks presence (and the Cypherpunks entertainment program :) at HIP was quite an effort and the site clean-up took a while as well. But I am pretty certain that everybody that was there will attest that the experiences was worth every bit of work that went into it. I would be hard pressed to come up with an example of when I had so much fun for so long. My thanks go out to the PGP 5.0 proofreading team that kept working 24 hour a day even in the midst of a raging techno tent party. Ian Gigg, Autonomasia, Mark Cox, and the late night networking crew from the Field HQ, you guys rule. Special thanks to Rop and Maurice for organizing the festival in the first place. See you all in four years for Hacking At Large: HAL2001. --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/

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