December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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netscpe will release code?
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just spoke with a reporter from the sfchronicle who told me that when she talked to Netscape they said that they would be releasing parts of their source code to the net. -- sameer Voice: 510-601-9777 Community ConneXion FAX: 510-601-9734 An Internet Privacy Provider Dialin: 510-658-6376 http://www.c2.org (or login as "guest") sameer(a)c2.org

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Re: Puppet Masters
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sunday, September 07, 1997 - 03:16:32 MET > > i am getting a very bad feeling that maybe the level of inside/outside > > censorship of the press may be a good indicator, like the Doomsday > > Clock, of how close we are to the day when the Puppet Masters finally > > step out from behind their masks. > > Puppet Masters don't step out from behind thier masks. They have > someone else step out for them. > > ~kp -Creeping encrouchment-Puppet Masters Get Increasingly Bold- With each succeeding assault on the constitutional rights of citizens the gov't both tests and increases the public's willingness to give away those rights. As we sit idly by, parlor intellectualizing, anyone who really dares to organize, gets fried, on national tv for the trouble. Make a timeline from the first live at 5 fry of the 'bad guys' in the 70s, to the present and observe the circumstances surrounding each one. When they started this- judged on television, fried on television- brainwash, they at least tried to put on a semblence of justifiability,..ie SLA," kidnappers, bankrobbers,thugs disguised as mad dog radicals"..etc and went to great lenghts to see that the point was well propagandized to the 'people' and that the 'people' accordind to neilson or gallup or somebody, were in consensus and then 'puff'', charcoaled the constitution with human kindling before EVERYBODIES eyes. A few op ed pages later, with no real political or social fallout. They decide to do it again, and then do it again, upping the ante each time.. .the Order, Mt. Carmel, Weaver, etc ...By the time they do the Davidians, they offer specious reckless charges that were never substantiated and in fact were easily discredited and 85 people burned alive on national tv. people who were never charged with any crime-when federal goons attempted to serve a specious search warrant as if they were marching into lebenon. The militias of today are saying and doing what the Panthers advocated 25 yrs ago. Though each of these groups held to radically different ideologies, the common denomionator is they took a stand against an illegal abuse of local and federal power by organising into a community of interests that was prepared to defend it's right to do so against outside intrusion, and that is whatthe puppet masters would not tolerate. They aren't going to come jackbooting into our cities and towns. They are already there, shoving plungers up our ass when they don't like the way we look. They isolate any pocket of dissension (and to dare to organize into a community is to dissent) , whether it is black, white, christian, islamic or whatever,..can you say "cypherpunk".. and burn them out of existence, putting it on tv as an object lesson for the rest of us, The local police, the military, both houses, the administration and all the various goon squads are all pigs drinking from the same trough. The presidential elections are a tv show designed to give us the illusion of a democracy. Its no accident that the houses reconvene with the new tv season. It is all for mind control nothing else. Now I am no christian fundementalist, white supremicist, black power fanatic or anything else; just an average person trying to live my life simply and freely but the only way things will change is when we the 'coach potato sheeple' including intellectual armchair quarterbacks who think they are superior and above it all because they can run a few sentences together, docmartin, airjordan, dingo, nike and ourache our way into washington with some plungers of our own and enlighten the fucking white house the same way they enlighten us. Timothy McVeigh for President Committee-

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Please send me SSL problems...
by Jeff Weinstein 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'd just like to let all cypherpunks know that I'm really interested in getting any feedback you might have about security problems with Netscape products. I'm particularly interested in bugs in the our implementation of SSL, and problems in the protocol that are not addressed in SSL 3.0. We have been collecting comments on SSL 3.0, and have started incorporating that feedback into our spec. Please don't assume that our lack of response means that we are ignoring your comments. Between Navigator 2.0 and things like the SSL challenge and the RNG fire drill, we just have not had the time to get a new rev of the spec out. Hopefully soon... I should also warn folks that Navigator 2.0 will not include SSL 3.0. We just don't have time to do it. It will become a high priority for us after 2.0 goes out, or maybe sooner depending on hiring. --Jeff Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw(a)netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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The future of Digital (Ouch!) Implants
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NotW: * An April issue of New Scientist magazine reported that Australia's national research organization CSIRO has already made three sales of its "phalloblaster" device (at about $3,500 [U.S.]) that inflates the genitalia of dead insects to make it easier to classify them. Its official name is the "vesica everter," and it will work on genitalia as small as those of moths with wingspans of 2 millimeters.

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Re: RSA Prevails In Arbitration Against Cylink
by jordan＠Heuristicrat.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From baldwin(a)RSA.COM Wed Sep 20 09:09:30 1995 Here's an article on the RSA-Cylink arbitration from the business wire. [ ... elided -JMH ] Just a note for those who aren't aware, Business Wire is a pay-per-use "news release" service. That is, RSA wrote the contents of what Bob (Hi!) posted. The clue is at the bottom of the "story": CONTACT: RSA Kurt Stammberger, 415/595-8782 kurt(a)rsa.com This is not to say anything pro or con about the content of the press release; just that it wasn't written by a third party. /jordan

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Texas CypherPunks Take Up Arms!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We need to thank Jim Choate for his tireless efforts in this regard. * According to USA Today in May, a bill pending in the Texas legislature would allow anyone with a record of mental illness nonetheless to obtain a concealed weapon permit if approved by a doctor. http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html

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SCIENCE magazine on computers
by cjl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Sept * issue of SCIENCE magazine has a special section on computers of particular C-punk interest are articles on the rise of symmetric multiprocessor solutions to supercomputer needs and a piece on the future of computing discussing quantum dots, quantum computing, holographic association, optical computers, and DNA computers. SCIENCE vol. 269 pages 1354-1385 C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy" \ / - Watson & Crick <cjl(a)welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove ( \ Finger for public key \ ) Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / )

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Oxygen Escrow (Government Regulations soon to be announced!)
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From NotW: * Bangkok's largest English-language newspaper, The Nation, reported in February on a raging war by coffin sellers in the southern Thailand city of Nakhon Si Thammarat. Eight shops are located across the street from the city's largest hospital, and bribes of hospital personnel for clients are common. A television station reported that one shop's agent sneaked into several hospital rooms to disconnect oxygen to terminal patients whose relatives were already known to the shop and thus might have given that shop their business.

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CLAIMING CHUNKS OF KEYSPACE...
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:02:01 -0700 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) Subject: Claiming chunks of keyspace... Looking at it from the outside, I thought the latest SSL challenge experiences were highly instructive. Nothing to be ashamed of. An interesting question: Is it a valid approach for J. Random User to "claim" some chunk of keyspace to search? If the "reward" of finding the gold buried in the keyspace (a key that meets the challenge) is high and the cost of claiming the keyspace is low (or nil), then game theory tells us that some folks will be tempted to claim a bigger chunk of keyspace than they can possibly process. What can be done to reduce this effect? On the negative side, ostracize or punish those who bite off more than they can chew. This approach is fraught with dangers. On the positive side, let everyone simply attack the keyspace as they see fit, picking random parts to attack. This should not be "worse" than a factor of several from a "perfectly coordinated" attack. (I haven't spent time calculating this, but my intuition is that a random attack, with overlapping keyspace, is not a lot less efficiently attacked than attempting to arrange for no overlaps...just based on my mental picture of dropping line segments randomly on some interval and figuring coverage of the line segment.) In between, market systems where itermediate agents subcontract out chunks of keyspace. Mechanisms for this are lacking. -Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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