December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

hello
by Alexis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hello, Can anybody teach me the abc's on Hacking, Cracking, Phranking, Cryptomography, I know that to be a good hacker you have to know all, but speciallize on one. Or do any of you are in the LA area that willing to teach me face to face. Thank you Alexis.

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Re: ncash? (was Re: pgp details)
by Feanor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Aug 26, 13:47, Mike wrote: } Subject: Re: ncash? (was Re: pgp details) > Lucky Green wrote: > >It doesn't provide payee anonymity, coins are neither divisible nor > transferable, why do you bother? > > Could it be... because Chaum won't license? That's not nescessary, actually. All you need is for the mint to put _no_ information at with the coin except it's serial number and a signatrue (possibly a timestamp as well). Voila, anonymity. I was thinking of implementing a low-cost server ofthis type, but there's the trust problem: this nym is relatively new... > Any ecash is better than none, and until Chaum's patent expire we > probably won't have an ecash system with all the bells and whistles. > Just consider that Mark Twain has been up for two years and they still > don't have a client that implements crash recovery (recover your money > if your disk crashes)! At last count they had all of 32 merchants signed > up. There might be other reasons for this: have you looked at their _fees_??? Holy crap! That's the only reason I don't have an account. They're charging top dollar for every aspect of a system that has it's only overhead in minimal amounts of CPU time. I was thinking of having my server charge only on deposit of real money and only a tiny amount (like 1-2%). I.e. no charge at all to open an account to recieve money...

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Re: gephardt slams crypto regs
by Bill Frantz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 06:16 PM 8/24/97 -0700, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: >>Encryption is vital to the Net >> BY RICHARD A. GEPHARDT > >Thanks for posting this! My hat's off to Senator Gephardt for >coming out in favor of economic and personal freedom! > >(Of course, it's not like I'd set my hat _down_ where he could >steal it or check its national origin label :-) Dick's still a >statist protectionist, but even if he's doing the right thing >just to annoy the right-wing statists like Clinton, it's a good start!) I also thank Vladimir for posting the article. I was going to post a summary, but I found myself buried under a kilomessage or so of back email after my trip to Switzerland. I think this article is principally interesting because Senator Gephardt is the Democratic leader in the House. It seems to indicate considerable disarray in the administration on what our crypto policy should be. As the ever optimist, this article, along with Dorothy Denning's new stand, and the Burnstein decision indicates that the forces of crypto repression are in retreat. GO TEAM! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet was designed | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | to protect the free world | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | from hostile governments. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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CPEH announcement/statement
by tank 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Congress for Peace in Euskal Herria (CPEH) cpeh(a)aol.com The Euskal Herria Journal (EHJ), an Internet publication reporting on the Basque struggle for self-determination and independence, is available temporarily at the following "mirror" sites: http://osis.ucsd.edu/ http://www.desaparecidos.org/ehj/ http://www.easynet.co.uk/cam/censorship/ehj http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/ehj/ http://zthomas.digiweb.com http://www.contrast.org/mirrors/ehj/ The mirror sites support free speech without necessarily supporting the views and goals of the Euskal Herria Journal. On July 18, 1997, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) suspended the EHJ web site for review. This occurred after IGC endured a virulent "e-mail bombing" attack promoted from Spain by political forces who opposed EHJ's reports on the Basque resistance movement and claimed IGC was hosting the Basque armed organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna itself. The attack overwhelmed IGC's ability to keep their system running and threatened to temporarily end services to other clients. IGC is "reviewing whether EHJ membership in the `progressive pages directory' promoted by IGC is consistent with IGC's mission." In light of the controversy surrounding the Euskal Herria Journal web site we state the following: First, we believe that Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom) has a right to a web site just like the Zapatistas, the FARC-EP, the MRTA or any other resistance movement. However, EHJ is published by the Congress for Peace in Euskal Herria, an independent grassroots organization that promotes political negotiations and Basque self-determination. EHJ has historical information and documents about/from ETA but it would be presumptuous to speak for ETA. Second, we promote dialogue for a peaceful solution of the Basque conflict. And there cannot be real dialogue without including ETA, a principal antagonist in the conflict. Our campaign both in France and Spain includes seeking support for the restoration of key procedural rights and safeguards to comply with the international principles for the protection of people in detention or imprisonment in both countries, and the transfer of all Basque political prisoners to jails in the Basque Country--a first step to break the logjam conflict. Third, the intervention of the Spanish government--telling CNN to remove the links between its site and the Euskal Herria Journal--and the media that encouraged the "e-mail bombing," is a signal that EHJ is effective. Finally, we hope IGC restores the EHJ web site at the earliest possible date. We believe that no matter how threatening "e-mail bombing" was to IGC, the suspension of the EHJ web site gives into such attackers and endangers free speech. We appreciate IGC's difficulties but free speech does not come free. We remain committed to peace with JUSTICE and will continue--with or without a web site--to make known the struggle for civil and national rights in the Basque Country under French and Spanish rule and to get political negotiations started between the Spanish government and Euskadi Ta Askatasuna. Congress for Peace in Euskal Herria (CPEH) New York ENDS.

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Re: Socio-Economic Cults (Re: Cypherpunk Cults)
by Feanor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Aug 28, 9:59, Ian Sparkes wrote: } Subject: Re: Socio-Economic Cults (Re: Cypherpunk Cults) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 14:43 28.08.97 +1000, you wrote: > >On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >> If one person becomes too much of a nuisance (real trigger happy > for > >> ultra minor infractions [...] relatives, friends, or concerned > citizens > >> will correct (fill trigger happy person with lead). > > > >Dosn't help the poor person who got shot dose it? Am I mad to > beleave > >that getting killed is a reduction of basic civil liberties? > > > >> That's how the wild west worked anyway... outlaws didn't last that > >> long. > > > >Nor did the wild west. > > > > And nor the innconent bystanders. The 'you pissed me off - bang bang > you're dead' mentality was the reason for one of the largest > genocides in human history. One assumes you are reffering to the wild west again? Regardless, a point about the wild west: I have it from a fairly reliable source that in teh entire time period labeled 'The Wild West', there were about 8 shooting deaths in Dodge City (a particularily 'Wild' town), of which 5 were shotgun deaths.... Makes you wonder. I also have a pointer to an excellent, well researched US paper on why gun control is bad, if anyone wants it, but it's been posted here before I'm pretty sure.

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Aussies discover regulatory arbitrage...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text >From today's Australian Financial Review. http://www.afr.com.au/content/970829/inform/inform1.html ATO urges no Internet slug _By Hans van Leeuwen_ The Australian Tax Office's attempt to tax electronic commerce should include no new taxes and as little extra red tape as possible, according to the recommendations of a major ATO report to be released today. The report, _Tax and the Internet_, urges close monitoring of some key industries with a growing Internet presence -- including computer software, news and information, recorded music, gambling, travel services and retail goods. But its emphasis is on creating a tax and regulatory environment that keeps the online industries in Australia, rather than driving them to more lenient tax jurisdictions. The report will be the basis for discussions with the information industry on how the ATO can prevent the undermining of the tax base by electronic commerce. The report said the ATO would need to tax and regulate the Internet only in concert with other countries if it was to encourage online businesses and industries in Australia. "As the Internet allows electronic payment system providers to locate their operations anywhere in the world, they might choose to flee a jurisdiction that unilaterally introduces a strong regulatory regime . . . Unilateral action may be more damaging than no action," the report said. But the tax base must be protected, with electronic commerce posing a significant threat in the longer term to the revenue base of many taxes. "There are not too many existing taxes worldwide that are not vulnerable," the Tax Commissioner, Mr Michael Carmody, said yesterday. The recommendations to strengthen the tax policing of the Internet included: * Numbers displayed on websites. * Licence commercial internet sites ("webshops") and webshop hosts. * Introduce denomination limits for electronic cash, like those already existing for physical cash. * Review the current wholesale sales tax categories, given that new products were being thrown up by the process of digitisation. But Mr Carmody ruled out introducing any taxes on data flows, such as a bit tax, in the short term. "We don't see major advantages to that at the moment. For Australia to jump immediately to a bit tax would just drive Australian business out of the country," he said. The report said electronic commerce threw up some tough challenges to tax administrations, including the difficulty in identifying the parties to an electronic transaction, the ability of cyber- businesses to store records offshore and encrypt them, and the removal of "middle men" -- such as wholesalers and brokers -- from the distribution process, who usually make the ATO's tracking of transactions easier. But Mr Carmody said the ATO would not be assuming that the reason businesses went online was to avoid tax. "It's just another medium of transacting business, which does not of itself say they're not going to meet their tax obligations," he said. "But there are concerns that the Internet opens up wider fields for those who are seeking to avoid their liabilities." _________________________________________________________________ [27]Back To Top _© This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited._ --- 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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Re: Shrinks as Narcs for the State
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > At 2:14 PM -0700 8/28/97, Sean Roach wrote: > >A lot of people are > >afraid to tell thier doctors everything that the doctors need to know to do > >thier jobs because the patients are afraid that, as illegal as it may be, > >the patients medical history may end up in the hands of insurers, employers, > >prospective employers, and numerous other people who may want it but > >shouldn't have it. > I know a psychologist/therapist who is very worried about this issue, as > are his associates. His records are no longer his, as he must inform the > insurance agencies who are paying for his services what the diagnosis of a > patient is. And this diagnosis can be found by all sorts of snoops... Dear Detective May, My name is Dick Long, and I am a former DEA agent now working for the big bucks in private enterprise. It has come to the attention of my employer, "Your Best Friend Health Insurance, Inc.", that they are paying over $5,000.00 a month for drug rehabilitation therapy for: Mr. C. Punks, WeKnowWhereYouLive Drive, WeKnowEverythingAboutYou, U.S.A. The records of Mr. Punks' psychiatrist and personal physician state that he still uses on occassion, mostly on weekends, at home. If he were to be lawfully arrested and incarcerated for criminal drug use, then my employer would no longer be required to pay for his therapy, and would be very grateful, indeed. How grateful? Check the accompanying envelope. We could be that grateful for every month Mr. Punk is incarcerated. We are not asking you to do anything illegal, only to prioritize your legally sworn duties in a manner which could prove to be very mutually beneficial for both law enforcement and private enterprise. Sincerely, Dick Long <long.dick(a)rude.ca.ca>

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Re: Sit, Bubu. Sit! / Re: Stay issued; modified stay to follow
by Sam Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Monkey Wrench into the works
by Feanor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Aug 27, 10:44, Robert Hettinga wrote: } Subject: Monkey Wrench into the works > > --- begin forwarded text > > > Reply-To: "Myron Lewis" <mrlewis(a)keygen.com> > From: "Myron Lewis" <mrlewis(a)keygen.com> > To: "Robert Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Monkey Wrench into the works > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 22:25:55 -0400 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.1008.3 > > We communicated today about the DCSB luncheon at the Harvard Club and I have > been looking at some of the e$pam traffic. I am somewhat amused because our > company is about to throw a monstrous perturbation into Public-Private Key > encryption. > > We invite you and everyone on the list (Please send this invitation out to > them as the info on how to do that didn't come through.) to visit the KeyGen > webpage, www.KeyGen.com and learn about Automatic Synchronized > KeyGeneration(TM). If you think you recognize it as something you have seen > before, you're close but wrong. > > We are obviously biased, but we feel strongly and so do many others, that > ASK will solve many of the security problems presently under discussion. In > time, it will probably sink Key Management and Certificate Authorities. It won't change dick all as long as it's got that nice (TM) beside it, which I assume means it's not source available or open to peer review. Please, no-one trust proprietary algs in the arena. <bzzzt> Sorry, try again.

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Re: Stewart Baker on Bernstein encryption decision (fwd)
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote: >I share part of the blame here; I forwarded Baker's message to >cypherpunks. Now, you shouldn't blame the messenger. >I should point out that Baker is an interesting fellow. Check out his >article on Japan's crypto export ctrls in last Oct? Wired. He currently >represents Netscape; he's one of two lawyers in DC who does. He's an interesting fellow, all right; it can't be denied that his current position is a rather opportunistic conversion from his previous attitude. Like Bill Frantz said, it "indicates that the forces of crypto repression are in retreat." What would be *really* interesting is to know the reasons, their own explanations, for this. I mean, they can't expect that no one will notice the change. .. Blanc

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