December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Louis Freeh as boytoy
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From a gay friend... "As a gay man, I wouldn't mind coming home to find Louis Freeh in my bedroom -- but I can understand why others might be upset." "If Louis Freeh weren't such a pig I'd pork him." "Now I know why Bill Gates named his company MicroSoft."

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Re: Information Please (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:11:51 -0400 > From: Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> > Subject: Re: Information Please > >I am assuming of course that there must be some form of law somewhere > >which recognizes the right to resist oppression and violation of human > >rights by any government elected or not. > > In fact, the Nuremberg decisions say that in certain cases International Law > may *require* you to overthrow your government. In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. A D E C L A R A T I O N By the REPRESENTATIVES of the U N I T E D S T A T E S O F A M E R I C A, In GENERAL CONGRESS assembled. When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re:
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/12/97 1:31 AM, Anonymous (nobody(a)REPLAY.COM) passed this wisdom: [snip] >Now think about this: You're Joe Random Govt. Worker at the >official secret key repository, and there's a budget crisis going >on - instead of paychecks, you're getting I.O.U.'s. Your terminal >has access to thousands, perhaps millions, of secret keys. You grab >one of CitiBank's, forge a few transactions, and 30 seconds later >your Swiss bank account is a few million dollars fatter and >according to the digital signature, the transaction originated in >L.A.. Please correct me if I am wrong, but could not a GAK backdoor be written that will simply permit decryption only of the ciphertext and not encryption. Would not this prevent this from happening? Don'tget me wrong. It scares the hell out of me too, but maybe, in addition to that various things Tim has suggested we might also consider how to make the GAK as secure as cam be to minimize its potential for disaster. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNBnRQcdZgC62U/gIEQK+qACfSPjDLBIKmN4AgvEU6nBPmKKF+94AnR6T 4ZV9vbLb7vCpaaKGZA1mPTmH =MbPr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to stand by and do nothing" Edmund Burke

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In Defense of Libertarianism, from HotWired's Synapse (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:47:21 -0700 (PDT) > From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> > Subject: In Defense of Libertarianism, from HotWired's Synapse > Libertarianism is not about anarchy, utopia, or selfishness. Instead, > libertarians simply are skeptical of "nanny government," and recognize > the many ways state power has been abused in the past. They believe > that government programs like health assistance, Social Security, > foreign aid, and corporate welfare do more harm than good. They argue > that everyone must be equal before the law, and everyone has human > rights to personal security, to property, and to free speech that the > government must protect, not violate. If the Libertarians are so gung-ho on avoiding governmental (especialy federal) intervention in their lives why do they support the 14th Amendment? Why do they steadfastly stick to the position that the states should be forced to be homogenous in their laws under the federal government? It is clear that the founding fathers wanted the situation in the several states to be quite dynamic and diverse, otherwise why "Congress shall make no law..." and not something more comprehensive preventing the states from such laws as well? Why do they further not ask why the 9th and 10th are not fully respected and used by both the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government? No, the Libertarians have an agenda that is broader than simply reducing the intervention of government in our daily lives. They want a situation that provides them the upper hand, both politicaly and economicaly, while at the same time reducing the ability of their opponents to gain an advantage. From this perspective they are just another elephant or jackass... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Prayer to A.M. Turing
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Alan Turing writes: >> Adam Back wrote: >> >Your email to Lord Turing may bounce, your hashcash postage doesn't >> >collide: >> > >> >% ashcash AlanMathisonTuring 10110AlanMathisonTuring8ef2b1912670b51 >> >collision: 0 bits >> >% >> >> Add an "f". > >Impressed: > >% ashcash AlanMathisonTuring 10110AlanMathisonTuring8ef2b1912670b51f >collision: 33 bits >% > >That collision would take 30 hours to generate on my pentium. Dear Lord Turing, Please buy Adam a new computer. Your Friend, Monty Cantsin P.S. 10116AlanMathisonTuringf344355bfb358bdf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNBmpt5aWtjSmRH/5AQEZnAf7BbLEswS1fZYiC3oSNBPHtop7WX8sTAAg hLQYXKsEEtvg15pCA8icRZz7J6vGFjLbKeuWVu7rUVVVEPCg8t+ZRp1ZFLR+TJAO Kh4eDxWoQ1GbJnlEsFQQwyzbUBGuV4fJ2lZ66HjO43kgICemN7sPdi3U2uxwIVfo HM6c6gjMb9q17lPLa8S3d4Q4mrd/dnmO6E+b4pwND919G7GCKv7Rr4Jv5YORAqmr UiPSoFLmGaKdrTpodsuu1bZtVNAZaJv7EZBmS9lNHMkeLjmfj3rpGNMh4+Q4rQRc Nb1oR2q0b8lswmc3qpaAE5OBPSZmkwR1glxxG61fcZld58rpP+klbA== =JycN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: "Big [American] Brother" watches YOU
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Igor Chudov (ichudov(a)algebra.com) quotes Johm Markoff > But government officials disputed the idea that requiring > decoding technology would necessarily mean the technology > would be used. > ``There is nothing about putting this enabling technology > into law that will inevitably lead to it being turned on,'' > said Robert LITT [J?], a deputy assistant U.S. attorney in > the Justice Department's criminal division. ``From the > law-enforcement point of view, this is a better way to > provide for our public safety.'' In other news, Nazi Party officials disputed the idea that requiring all Jewish showers to be "gas chamber enabled" would necessarily mean that the technology would be used. "There is nothing about putting this enabling technology into law that will inevitably lead to it being turned on," said SS Obergruppenfurher Reinhard Freeh, a deputy assistant Reich Chancellor for Racial Hygiene. "From the National Socialist point of view, this is simply a better way to provide for our eugenic safety." -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Re: Note to Net-lobbyists: give it up already, abandon Congress
by Antonomasia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan, > Message to Net-lobbyists: look at what happened when this time. Please > concentrate on blocking all crypto legislation, not trying to fix it. > (Yes, I realize you won't have anything do with crypto, won't "be a > player." Shucks.) The status quo, combined with the court challenges, is > not that bad. Would you like to post confirmation that this is not sarcasm ? -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant(a)notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ##############################################################

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Party on! A patent falls, and the Internet dances
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:34:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Party on! A patent falls, and the Internet dances [Thanks to everyone who showed up to my patent celebration party last Saturday. We had a lively -- even rambunctious -- mix of cypherpunks, Hill staffers, Clinton administration officials, think tank and privacy folks, reporters, and lobbyists. --Declan] *********** http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697patent.html New York Times CyberTimes September 6, 1997 A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances By PETER WAYNER hen tyrants die, the people parade with the head on a stick; when loved ones pass on in Ireland, the families celebrate a life well-lived; but when patents expire, they often slip away into the night. >From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data. The party will toast the beginning of the end of an era when some of the greatest techniques for encrypting information were controlled by a few pivotal companies. The science of secret codes is proving to be essential technology for securing the Internet, and the techniques developed by Diffie and Hellman are some of the most useful. Banks use them to protect their money, companies use them to defend against industrial espionage and parents use them to protect their children against pedophiles and pornographers trolling the Internet. The patent granted to Diffie and Hellman is the first of a group that emerged from scientists at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the end of the 1970's. On October 6, patent 4,218,582 will expire. It was granted to Hellman and Ralph Merkle, another graduate student at the time, for a public key encryption system that was later broken. The most famous patent, however, was probably the one given to Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, who were all at MIT at the time. It will last until September 20, 2000. [...]

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Hint: He's your worst nightmare...
by Bianca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lag Test #2: Who has returned to the CypherPunks mailing list after a long fucking absence? Answer: [Your wrong guess here.] Lag Test #3: What was the most obvious sign of his absence? Answer: [Wrong answer here.] Lag Test #4: Why is he really, really pissed? Answer: [Don't worry. He'll let you know.]

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Fuck ITAR in the EAR
by I Told You So 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello CoE cell mates, I notice Bubba, or was that TruthMonger, one of them anyway, has been ranting about stirring some shit for the GAKkers by exporting something from the US by way of Canada. I have it from a good source that it is perfectly legal to do this as there is a loop-whole in Candian law. But you have to do it in a particular way. Lets say you wish to export PGP from Canada. Your American accomplice emails you PGP. You write to the appropriate canadian department of export controls telling them: "I'm going to export PGP. I just imported it from the US. I am required by Canadian law to inform you in writing before I do this. Consider yourself informed". Post the letter. Then export PGP. (The amercian accomplice is optional, you can just import it yourself if you can find a US site which will give it to you with a domain of dev.null or sympatico.ca, should be doable, William Geigher's site has it for open download for instance.) Ok the wording above in quotes is important, if you _ask_ them for permission, they'll faff around and not give it to you. But the point is you _don't need their permission_ according to Canadian law, you're just supposed to inform them _before_ the export. So apparently there have been some very interesting crypto things exported this way. All that happens to the canadian person is that they receive a letter from the Canadian export control bods with much teeth gnashing and entreatments not to export, please. Guess this letter would be worthy of framing and hanging on the wall along beside Bubba Rom Dos portrait. Voila. Course that may not have the desired effect. If you want to cause more shit, do things in the wrong order. That is export it, then write them saying "I am required to inform you prior to export. I think this is stupid. I exported PGP last week. So arrest me." btw all these clear text Bcc's... not that I mind or anything, but I prefer PGP encrypted emails, that way the bubba rants etc provides nice cover traffic for my real nefarious purposes. You can `remail' the story if you like (I'm pretty sure it's good legal advice), if you remail, do it without my name on it. Kent Crispin

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