December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Quebec Libre
by J. Kent Hastings 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- [ From: J. Kent Hastings * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- Cpunx, especially offshore banking "fonts of wisdom," A friend asks: > Concerning Quebec Libre, I would love to establish residence there before the > separation (not necessarily physical residence). Have these fonts of wisdom > on St. Louis and Anguilla banking anything on getting Quebec residency, mail > services, and bank accounts? Any plans if Quebec secedes? Kent -- "Put pages for your business on the World Wide Web, just $5 per month!" -- J. Kent Hastings -- zeus(a)pinsight.com -- http://www.pinsight.com/~zeus/

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Re: Court proceedings under new SAFE act
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote: > > >secret court that has never denied a request for a wiretap) jurisdiction; > > Is there any way of finding out the names of the judges sitting on the FISA > > court? > Not that I know of, though I do know that U.S. District Court Judge Joyce > Green served on the FISA court for seven years. > > Background: The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Survelliance Act established a > special, secret court of current Federal district court judges. They > approve warrants in secret hearings, with no opposing attorneys present. > The judges are required to be available 24 hours a day for emergency > hearings. Some happen in the middle of the night in the judge's home. Also, you are not likely to see a FISA judge's name on a warrant. Instead, you will see warrants by regular judges which are backdated to dates such as, say...March 28 at 9:02 a.m. There are a variety of court systems within which they have the clerks regularly 'skip' certain document numbers, leaving them with hard to trace back-dated paperwork capabilities. This is a 'Democracy', which is why, in addition to secret police, we also have 'secret judges', and 'secret executioners'. (Do we also have 'secret voters'?) Anonymous #23-2b Cypherpunks Chief Spokesperson #328

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Re: MD5 weakness ? [was Re: Netscape Logic Bomb detailed by IETF]
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>As to weaknesses, I seem to remember that someone managed to forge a >>modification to a program used to observe networks on a Sun so that it >>had the same MD5 checksum as the official trusted version. But whether >>this is real is not strictly the issue. There was a program that forged CRC checksums that came out a couple years back, letting you create a Trojan Horse and modify it to match Unix "sum" checksums by adding junk to the end. I'd be extremely surprised if anyone did this with MD5; CRCs are invertable, and generally short enough to brute-force as well. #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---

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Re: S. 1284 To Amend (C) Act
by msprague＠owens.ridgecrest.ca.us 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Tom Bell" <BELL(a)odo.law.udayton.edu wrote: >The 9/28/95 Congression Report states that Senators Hatch and Leahy >have introduced a bill to amend the Copyright Act in accord with the >suggestions of the recent White Paper on the National Information >Infrastructure. In relevant part, S. 1284: 1) makes transmission of copies a >type of publication (and thus potentially a means of infringing a >copyright); and 2) prohibits the importation, manufacture, or >distribution of any device the primary purpose of which is to >deactivate any technological protections that prevent or inhibit the >violation of copyrights. What occurs to me is that PGP could be considered a "device" to obscure contents of data therby preventing the determination of a copyright violation. (delitia) > >Tom W. Bell >Assistant Professor >Law and Technology Program >UD Law School >bell(a)odo.law.udayton.edu > >PGP fingerprint: >78 06 76 AC 32 38 A6 4C B3 81 F4 1E 2E 27 AC 71 > > >

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Fuck them all. Lock and load. Rock and roll. / Re: Liberals and their tacit
by The Real Guy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > >> It's war. Too late for a public relations campaign so that some future > >> Congress will slightly relax their laws. > >> And in a war, gotta break some eggs. > Perhaps if it were J. Edgar Hoover doing this instead of Democrat Louis > Freeh, we wouldn't see "nominal" liberal Ron Dellums, amongst so many > others, standing shoulder to shoulder with the fascists. (Not that I ever > though Dellums was anything other than a fascist, mind you.) > Perhaps if it were former CIA director George Bush pushing this (in his > alternate universe second term) there would be more outrage from liberals. > I'm beginning to think Federal Bureau of Inquisition Director Unfreeh must, > as rumors have long had it, have the goods on Janet Reno and Bill Clinton. > Left to our imagination what these items may be. I know for a fact that the Spooks had nothing to do with Richard Nixon recording every dirty deal that took place in the White House. I know for a fact that they certainly wouldn't use all that criminal information for blackmail. I know for a fact that they wouldn't spy on politicians and major financial figures, or take advantage of nefariously gained information in order to increase their money and power. People who smoke dope, dodge the draft, commit adultery, and perform financial fraud while govenor get to be elected President all the time, and nobody ever tries to 'control' them, or manipulate them in any way. I know all of this because I'm The Real Guy, "I used to be The Bad Lie until I got caught cheating at golf and was nominated for the Presidency."

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QUF_jpg
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We have scanned "Quantum Computation's" seven formulae and six figures as JPEG graphics files and will send for a plea: quf1.jpg -- Formulae 1-7; 32 kb. quf2.jpg -- Figures 1 and 2; 72 kb. quf3.jpg -- Figures 3 and 4; 95 kb. quf4.jpg -- Figures 5 and 6; 72 kb. Or, we will mash'em up .TIF, .PCX, .GIF, or tire-smeared pigeon. QUF_jpg (4-part package, or items selected) [or *_tif, *_pcx, *_gif, *_tsp]

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Brit conference asks for more cyberspace violations
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- *** Fraudbusters seek fresh angles as cybercrime grows Crimebusters must devise more ingenious ways of combating fraud and will need new international policing powers to stem a rising tide of high-tech economic crime, experts say. Delegates at an economic crime conference in Cambridge, England, this week complained they lacked the tools and power to take the fight to the organized criminals whose only barrier was the speed of their modems. Culprits were hard to pin down, said Rosalind Wright, head of Britain's Serious Fraud Office. It was harder still to "swat the fly-by-nights," she said. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=4974072-ff5 ______________________________________________________________________ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNB9t9704kQrCC2kFAQGLEQP/Xo9+l5MV3KE3X1X7hCdJpaWr8gprctKR jIm2k+2RwHIVBT9IzQ0s/VEWI+8ftO43b18qlYYdbyiSGCPnJsoZtXOmivTTdcg3 U8FAJNTrbILZ4lcTYbxsAUm0U12xc4flOjK16UWzKrI3gli8Y/YPO2hMbxkBcH6P aknorOx6BpY= =1+3N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Digicash will not fly (not)
by msprague＠owens.ridgecrest.ca.us 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: >While Chaum is a brilliant cryptographer, he is an incompetent businessman > >He has demonstrated this in numerous ways. > >The latest being "Cash" where the bank skims off 4% to 10% every time. > >No one is going to use digicash under these kinds of terms and >conditions. Doesn't just about everyone do precisely this when they pay sales tax? Every time a buck arrives or departs a hand one pays a tax yet the system (you and I)continues accepting these terms albeit painfully. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | >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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Re: Digicash will not fly (not)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:41 AM 10/30/95, M. F. (Pat wrote: >"James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: >>While Chaum is a brilliant cryptographer, he is an incompetent businessman >> >>He has demonstrated this in numerous ways. >> >>The latest being "Cash" where the bank skims off 4% to 10% every time. >> >>No one is going to use digicash under these kinds of terms and >>conditions. > > >Doesn't just about everyone do precisely this when they pay sales tax? >Every time a buck arrives or departs a hand one pays a tax yet the system >(you and I)continues accepting these terms albeit painfully. Many types of business dealings are exempt from sales tax, through arrangements for resales. I don't know if the "skims off 4% to 10% every time" point accurately describes how the current Digicash model works, but certainly this will not fly as a long term rate. So many monetary transactions happen in the course of business that even a 4% fee _per transaction_ would rapidly wipe out most of the value. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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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Cuban Security Conference
by Ross Anderson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mr Guevara of the Cuban embassy in London asked me to post this announcement. Pass it on. CALL FOR PAPERS INFORMATICS 96 International Conference Center Pabexpo, Havana, Cuba March 4-9, 1996 INCLUDING 3rd Ibero-American Seminar on Protection against Computer Viruses and Security of Information Technologies * Antivirus and protection software * Security of information technologies, including - diagnostic and security plans - risk analysis, contingency and recovery plans - technical aspects: identification and authentication, cryptography, security models - security organisation and management, security policy, information sorting, training of users and authentication - security evaluation - integration of security systems - audit trail * Experience Chairman of the organising committee: Jose Bidot Pelaez, Chairman, National Committee for Data Protection AND 1st International Seminar on Information Audit * Information audit in business and financial management * Information audit and current technology * Tools for information audit * Controls and risks in information systems * Information audit for information systems Chairman of the organising committee: Fransisco Deiros, President, Information Audit Group, National Committee of Informatics Papers should be sent to the convention secretariat: Lic. Nancy Batard Najarro INFORMATICS 96 Executive Secretary Palacio de las Convenciones Apartado 16046, La Habana, Cuba Tel: +537 33-1466 / 20-6850 Fax: +537 33-1657 / 33-1708 Email: infor96(a)cenisi.cu

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