December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Freedom Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Post: Spy Agency Hoards Secret $1 Billion WASHINGTON (AP) - The super secret agency that manages the nation's spy satellite program has built up unspent funds totaling more than $1 billion without informing Congress or even its supervisors at the Pentagon and CIA, according to a published report. The Washington Post cited unidentified Capitol Hill sources in Sunday editions as saying the ability of the National Reconnaissance Organization to put away so much money from its classified multibillion-dollar budget reaffirmed concerns that intelligence agencies sometimes use their secret status to avoid accountability. The Post said the funds, called a "pot of gold" by one Senate aide, were discovered after the Senate intelligence committee raised questions more than a year ago about a $300 million new headquarters building the agency was building in suburban Virginia. The committee determined that the agency, not generally known to Congress, was using base operating funds it already had without seeking a specific appropriation for the building. The pool of unspent money accumulated as a result of NRO's practice of having Congress pay in advance for multiyear, billion-dollar-plus satellite programs, the Post quoted CIA Director John Deutch as saying in an interview. Agency managers let incoming funds pile up when spending on contracts took place at a slower pace than planned. Although he said a CIA inquiry found nothing illegal about how the NRO handled the money, Deutch told the Post he put a new chief financial officer in at the agency and ordered a "separate budget scrub" of all its programs. NRO's funding is part of the Pentagon budget, but many of the agency's intelligence programs are under CIA supervision. The Post said one congressional aide put the total of unspent funds as high as $1.7 billion, but that others said it could turn out to be less than $1 billion. It said Deutch declined to put a figure on the unspent money. Story Number: 00598 Story Date: 9/23/95 This material may not be redistributed. Copyright 1995. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Re: "Going after Netscape"
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199509231914.MAA01326(a)infinity.c2.org>, sameer(a)c2.org (sameer) wrote: >> So, keep on "attacking" Netscape (kudos to Ray, by the way, though I've >> seen Netscape bomb on certain sites, as with the Cypherpunks archive site, >> as several of us noted a few months ago...probably a different problem, but >> indicative that Netscape can be corrupted). But let's be careful not to >> convey any flavor of this being a vendetta. > > I agree. The goal is not to kill Netscape but to make the net >secure. Absolutely. We aren't on a vendetta. We want to make the net secure for privacy. If hacking a Netscape server will help that goal, surely Netsape's own would be the most appropriate server to try, since it will generate the largest exposure in the press and thereby the strongest motivation for Netscape to fix the hole. - -- - -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMGRoHyoZzwIn1bdtAQHJCgF9FbuTP1VBbzGJANFX48hvje4V7pzhyEaQ ItXGdXHCPbxjKbQ0bLApkt4yTtHJREMk =wEyv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Crypto in Wired
by stevenw＠iglou.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Good issue of Wired this month (10/95) > >Vic Sussman has a half page on PGPfone. Asked why he's giving away PGPfone >with an inditement hanging over his head Zimmermann says "... I am a >cryptographer. This is what I do". You need the full quote to get the real effect: <<Why is Zimmermann giving away voice-crypto when the feds are still dangling an indictment over his head? "Because it's still legal for Americans to hold a private conversation," he says. "And because I'm a crypographer. This is what I do.">> That is a remarkably concise, intelligent, informative, unequivocal, savvy, and personal statement. Hats off to PZ (or whoever told him to say that). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more +1 415 390 9732 | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw(a)iglou.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995

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Anti-GAK Software Release
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Real issue of crypto controls: security or taxation loss?
by jf_avon＠citenet.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 13 Sep 97 at 23:58, iang(a)systemics.com wrote: > That's right, there is a section of the population that is extremely > interested in holding onto their e$. Let's call them the rich, because > they have e$ to think of. Let's get into modelization! So, let's put first things first. First, you shouldn't say e$ but $, because it is what thoses you call "the rich" have. Now, does e-$ would permit govt to behave the same way as they do now? > Then there is a section of the population that is not that so > interested, because they fundamentally have very little e$ to > protect. Let's call them the poor; nothing to think about except > lack of e$. > The problem is that the rich win in the system known as the > capitalist economy, but the poor win in the system known as the > democracy. There is a balance between the capitalist economy and > democracy that runs like this: How do they win? By the use of coercion (and this is why guns should not get registered). > 1. a democracy is the best protector of an open economy. Out of what hat did you got that one? Who said so and why? :-) My opinion is that your remark is falling into the same category as the the old fallacy saying "everything is uncertain but death and taxes". > 2. an open economy generates a small group of rich, > and a large group of poor (relatively speaking). Statistically, yes. But it doesn't intrinsically generates *envious* poors. But that is a discussion about Values and Ethics and their link to emotions and nobody who's not an Ayn Rand fanatic or who doesn't have a few more terabytes of disk space to spare doesn't want to get into it... :-) > 3. a large group of poor will vote within a democracy > to tax the rich. It depends on which moral code the legislative authorities base their actions. But the sentence "a large group of poor will always try, within a democracy, to justify the muscling-in on the rich transactually-acquired wealth" would be true. > It's the difference between politics and economics: Are you going > to tell the voters that the rich can hide their e$ or are you going > to tell them that the Feds will spy on them? As the voters are > mostly poor, I'd be sticking with the second option. True > Remember, everybody gets one vote, but only the smart get lots of e$. This one for-the-time-being reason why crypto should be deployed. The true answers will be found in the nature of the data exchange system, it's robustness and reliability, and the impact of dropping the govt out of the money loop. Sometimes, an invention can change the face of the world. Mathematics did, gun powder did, the printing press did, the microprocessor did, so why not crypto? And what is the most Joe Everybody consumer-oriented use of crypto? Ciao jfa P.S. Anybody who has a clue about modelizing the effects of a behaviour/entity (use of e$) that hamper the survival of another one (govt) in a complex system, please drop me a line (any micro-biologists online?) -- Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Finest of Limoges porcelain and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants physicists and engineers, LabView programing. PGP encryption keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 ID# 5B51964D : 152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Foreign language traffic on the CDR?...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Freedom Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server > From: shamrock(a)netcom.com (Lucky Green) > Subject: The subtle danger of using Mixmaster > Message-ID: <shamrock-2409951151310001(a)192.0.2.1> > Sender: shamrock(a)netcom19.netcom.com > Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) > X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0 > Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 19:51:30 GMT > Lines: 19 > > There are about twenty Mixmaster remailers. Reason to celebrate? Hardly. > Though we have more remailers than ever, I doubt that the twenty or so > Mixmasters are operated my more than six or seven people. I would not be > surprised to find out that some folks are running several Mixmasters on > the _same_ machine, using different IP addresses. > > While the enthusiasm for increasing the number of remailers is > understandable, the operation of more than one Mixmaster by the same > person is downright dangerous, because it reduces the effective lenght of > the remailer chain. The message that you sent through five remailers may > have only been handled by two operators. When you thought that five people > had to colaborate to trace your email, only two are in fact required to do > so. > > Comments? > > -- > -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> > PGP encrypted mail preferred. >

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by 43809380＠msn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Cybersecurity
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 7 Sep 1995 hallam(a)w3.org wrote: > The UK laabour party is opposed to key escrow "we do not accept the "clipper > chip" argument". The Tories have less than half the level of popular support an > are barely recognisable as a government. > > Phill Wait till Labour finds out that crypto makes "The Caring Society" impossible. Perhaps they'll change their view then. DCF

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Re: http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/13/97 8:37 PM, bureau42 Anonymous Remailer (remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org) passed this wisdom: > >Since Sept. 11th: > >http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ > >Forbidden > >Your client is not allowed to access the requested object. > I tired to connect to it several times in the last half hour and MSIE returned and 'unable to connect" Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?" - Tom Clancy

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