December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Proxies
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:46 PM 2/2/96, bjohnson(a)nym.alias.net wrote: >I keep hearing references to 'proxies' as a method of anonymity. The only >information that I've been able to find, deals with firewalls on networked >systems. > >Are 'proxies' applicable to personal PCs using browsers, such as Netscape? > >Would appreciate any info or leads to information sources. A quick look with Alta Vista for the string "web proxy" reveals 25 articles on Usenet and 200 on the Web, with some of them containing further pointers, definitions, and other helpful information. --Tim May Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Looking for GSM A5 info
by Stephan Somogyi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm looking for information about the A5 encryption algorithm used in GSM phones. Specifically: - How does the algorithm work and is its encryption methodology similar to any other well-known algorithms? - Is A5's implementation mandatory to produce an world-wide interoperable GSM device? - What are the variants of A5 (there was some discussion of less secure versions), how do they differ, and where are they used? - Are there any known weaknesses in or attacks on A5-encrypted GSM conversations? - Are there notable instances where GSM deployment was delayed or halted due to A5? (I remember hearing that such a delay happened in Australia, but I don't recall details.) Any related information, or pointers to related information, appreciated greatly. ________________________________________________________________________ Stephan Somogyi Mr Gyroscope Digital Media

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Ways around "censorship" of Nazi Zundelsite (fwd)
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Similar notes have been posted to the newsgroups and faxed to a number of press critters in Germany, Canada, and the US. The Ottowa Times is probably going to be the first out with a reasonably in-depth story. If you have something of import to say, I'll give you the reporter's number. We won already. OK? I believe even the Wiesenthal Center is waking up to the fact that the only acceptable and efffective way to deal with evil lies in the modern age is by drawing them into the open and smothering them with the truth. They should have a statement shortly. Share and enjoy. -rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:34:42 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Graves <llurch(a)Networking.Stanford.EDU> To: declan(a)eff.org, fight-censorship+(a)andrew.cmu.edu, haggaik@leland Subject: Ways around WebCom censorship of Zundelsite (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Declan et al, I sent the enclosed to the white supremacists' moderated mailing list in order to foster the free flow of information, and Don Black approved it for distribution. Now they all know about all the mirrors. Since there is no longer any censorship, and since Zundel has released a press release about how "major universities have come to his defence" against this Zionist repression, I believe it would be appropriate to express our true feelings now. Of course copyright and good taste dictate that his pages remain on the Web completely unedited, but I see no reason for them to be the only thing there. I would recommend adding a link to the following additional publications of Zundel's, which were similarly "censored": http://www.almanac.bc.ca/hweb/people/z/zundel-ernst/flying-saucers/ To prevent the saving of bookmarks within his site, I further recommend moving his pages into a subdirectory with a name that changes from time to time, as I have done. I apologize for blowing up at Declan. The link text from my page to his again reads, in part: "My friend Declan's page has some more developed ideas, most but not all of which I agree with. He has more time for this." - -rich - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:55:06 GMT From: Stormfront-l <stormfront-l(a)stormfront.org> To: rich(a)c2.org Subject: Ways around WebCom censorship of Zundelsite From: Rich Graves <llurch(a)networking.stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:55:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: Ways around WebCom censorship of Zundelsite You might want to consider this on your own sites. An IP filter is no good if the IP address changes. I would also suggest holding your own press conference on February 28th. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:52:37 -0800 (PST) From: Declan To: Fight Censorship Mailing List <fight-censorship+(a)andrew.cmu.edu>, Subject: Re: A possible (though unlikely) easy way around WebCom censorship On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote: > The attached TELECOM Digest message mentions assigning a new IP address > to WebCom's web server, which would defeat the current block. Thomas Leavitt from WebCom tells me that Telekom has blocked all accesses to hosts within the webcom.com domain, though WiN has not. Apparently Spiegel TV is interested in reporting on this. One of their reporters told me that the AntiDefamation League in NYC has been compiling a list of offensive resources (primarily web pages, I think) on the Internet. They're going to hold a press conference on February 28 to "demand reduced access" to this material. - -Declan - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Anyway, this is all moot, because there are so many holes in the censorship curtain. See the full list of mirror sites and supplemental documentation at any of the following, all accessible from any computer in Germany: http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/bitbucket2/zundel/censorship.… http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/censors…. html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/censors…. html http://web.mit.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/declan/www/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/ce… ship.html The Berlin Wall has fallen. Next stop, the Great Firewall of China. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Multiple recipients of the Stormfront-L Mailing List Host: don.black(a)stormfront.org (Don Black) To unsubscribe, send e-mail to 'listserv(a)stormfront.org' with the line 'unsubscribe Stormfront-L' in the message BODY, not the subject. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----- Processed with Listserv v2.77 for Wildcat v4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMREji43DXUbM57SdAQFO0wP/XsuwmTWifPvJ2MscEWP0N+hSslXRzxfr l1FN13DnduAJBE2yhJhZUZoCxdAlpXehHP7G2ZOyycdQpxUom7sTo4X0PP95Y5k4 7psQdzFoubAN7Uv6hQh1MTALD3t8vu2bwH4pYtkOeAi13PMvTe/PRfxlPBLcFz69 Bro6hYmaeE8= =rKCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Denning's misleading statements
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by jonl(a)well.com (Jon Lebkowsky) on Wed, 31 Jan 6:34 PM >Definitely! I wonder who we could get from the FBI?? Try for Al Bayse, formerly assistant director of the FBI's Technical Services Division and its long-time senior techonology expert. Here's a quote from David Burnham's new book, "Above the Law:" Al Bayse, whom FBI documents suggest has been involved in the Clipper since its inception, was ecstatic about its inception. Shortly before the White House announced the project to reporters, he telephoned the three leading security experts in the academic world -- Dorothy Denning of Georgetown University, Lance Hoffman of George Washington University and Peter Neumann of SRI International -- and informed them that the FBI's problem had been solved. (p. 150) Burnham claims that because Bayse shaped and directed the FBI's investigative technologies from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s he "may well be the nation's single most influential law enforcement official since J. Edgar Hoover." (p. 136)

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Re: Futplex makes the news!
by jrochkin＠cs.oberlin.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:17 PM 02/02/96, Mike Duvos wrote: >We seem to be discovering more and more side effects from the >defense of free speech for the unpopular. The Holocausta Nostra >is cheering wildly at the opportunity to present the works of >Mr. Zundel under a banner reading "Nazi Scum". Zundelsites are >being set up by people whose views are so disgusting they probably >offend even Mr. Zundel himself. And now our very own "Futplex" >will have to live the rest of his life branded as a electronic >distributor of "hate literature" by the forces of political >correctness at UMASS. > >It may be time to regroup and take inventory of what we are >suposedly trying to accomplish here. The AP article on the net that someone referenced for us before (http://www.boston.com/globe/ap/cgi-bin/retrieve?%2Fglobe%2Fapwir%2F033%2Fre g%2Fag052102), fortunately portrays Futplex M accurately as a principled free speech crusador, rather then a Nazi, with a few good quotes from F (nice job Futplex!). [And Rich Graves should be pleased to see his name gets mentioned _before_ Declan's. snork.] I hope he doesn't get into too much trouble with UMASS, but I suspect he won't--after he gets called a "free speech activist" on the AP wire, umass is going to look really bad punishing him for his activism. [I guess they've already told him he has to take it down, but it served it's purpose anyway]. I think the whole endeavor was a resounding success, and I wish I had been on the ball enough to participate in it. So, nazi wierdos even worse then Zundel have appropriated his views--only goes to show that when you try to censor something (on the net especially--but this has always been true to some extent, and you can frequently hear ACLU types worthily propagandizing it), all you do is end up giving it free publicity. So what if the 'holocost nostra' is delighting in calling Zundel "nazi scum", or whatever. I haven't read his stuff, so I don't know if I think him deserving of that title or not, but they can certainly exercise their freedom of speech in saying so. (Although if they're not careful I suppose Zundel could exercise his freedom of filing a libel lawsuit against them). The important thing is that Rich, Declan, Futplex, and anyone else participating showed the world that censorship on the internet, if not impossible, is at least a good deal more dificult then people thought. And, just as importantly, that they defeated this individual act of censorship thoroughly. (Yes, I think participating in the defeat of censorship is worthy even when it's nazi stuff you're protecting. A 'banned sites' page on the WWW would be a great thing, even if it contained a majority of links to neo-nazi propaganda. If censorship attempts continue, one of us ought to make such a site--and, of course, mirror it throughout the universe). [ Thought--if Germany was blocking sites that contained pornography instead, not only would Rich/Declan/Futplex probably have been more reluctant to mirror it, but they probably would have gotten in legal trouble for doing so, even in the U.S. And, of course, would have brought their web servers to a standstill as the entire world tried to get erotic pictures from their sites. And the AP article probably wouldn't have been so kind. It's ironic and sad that in 1996 America, pictures of people having sex are more dangerous contraband then is anti-semetic propaganda.]

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Gleeful Prosecutors, Happy AOL
by James M. Cobb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friend, A 02 02 96 Associated Press newsstory ------------------------------------- AMERICA ONLINE ADDED TO PROBE OVER INCITING RACISM datelined MANNHEIM, Germany (Feb 2, 1996 3:29 p.m. EST) reports: Prosecutors hoping to ban neo-Nazi material from reaching Internet users in Germany have notified America Online Inc. that it may be charged with inciting racial hatred. and of course... America On-Line spokesman Ingo Reese in Hamburg said his company also was happy to work with the prosecutors. Cordially, Jim

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Re: Apology and clarification
by Dave Del Torto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:57 AM 1/30/96, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote: [explanation of keysniffing intentions elided] >When you put all four of these together, you have an attack that IS new, >in the sense that nobody we know of has ever mentioned it before, and >which could in fact be used by a single criminal, with only a few weeks [elided] Nathaniel, I took your posting in the spirit it was intended, I think, since it was obviously not directed at a c'punk audience. You may remember, BTW, that I did some information-gathering on keystroke sniffers early in 94. I, too, did not feel comfortable spreading the info too widely, however, though now, to a select audience, it might be timely. Thanks for pointing out a very valid set of attack parameters, BTW. >One good >programmer, in less than a month, can write a program that will spread >itself around the net, collect an unlimited number of credit card >numbers, and get them back to the program's author by non-traceable >mechanisms. Does anyone on this list doubt that this is true? I do not doubt it for an instant. I even know some Eastern Eudopeans who might be at it as we speak. dave

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Going, Going, Gone With the Flow
by James M. Cobb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friend, A 02 02 96 Boston Globe newsstory --------------------------------- GOVERNMENTS MOVE TO LIMIT FREE FLOW OF THE INTERNET datelined (Feb 2, 1996 00:17 a.m. EST) reports: ...the Internet is slowly being colonized. Colonized? Governments around the world -- from Germany to Iran to Singapore -- are moving to limit Internet access for their citizens.... Oh I see. Colonized by parasites. This move to cordon off the Internet into private plots -- some call it digital Balkanization -- is seen by experts as one of the most profound changes since the global network emerged as a commercial medium in 1991. S-s-h-h. The experts speak! Many Internet specialists say it marks the shift...to [a "network"] where users are building nation states, an evo- lution that they say will lead to the Internet's ultimate success as a commercial and communication platform. S-s-h-h! The specialists have spoken. Earlier this week, Federico Mayor, the director of UNESCO, an arm of the United Nations, called for the drafting of a global agreement that would help protect rights in cyber- space. Mais oui. Cordially, Jim

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Re: Futplex makes the news!
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:34 PM 2/2/96, Timothy C. May wrote: >(Did I hear correctly that Futplex has "volunteered" to perform 500 hours >of community service at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Boston office? And >that he has volunteered to attend 50 hours of sensitivity training? Or am >thinking of Cornell?) Ah. I think what Tim's referring to is the brand new Reeducation Campz, Inc. (RCI), "NewCommonwealth" facility currently taking on new "HappyCampers" in Cambridge just up Brattle Street from Harvard Square. I hear it's a complete appropriate-behavior Skinnerian-behavior-modification aversion-therapy facility complete with electroshock contour couches in front of surplus Digital Equipment Corporation MicroVaxen, all running a special version of CuttyBrowser, specially developed in COBOL for the MicroVaxen by Mitre and Micotronx. When the wrong URLs are selected (EF*, Cyph*, crypt*, White_W*, and "Black Rhino", to name a few grep strings), the camper is randomly electrocuted at senstitive subcutaneous nerve endings or gassed with nauseous sulpher fumes. This technology, along with direct neural stimulation of pleasure centers when Significant Figures of National Authority (SFNA) (including the First Lady, the FBI Director, and the Attorney General), are randomly flashed, although slowly, on the MicroVax's screen has proven very powerful in creating extremely motivated and happy citizens of the Commonwealth. An interesting side effect is that the process creates sexual arousal when the HappyCampers see the company logo of the computer outside of the Camp setting, which is apparently why the machines in this particular facility were donated by Digital under a "Help the Commonwealth Grow" program, reserved for Massachusetts computer companies. Digital is hoping that this will help stanche the decline in sales they've been suffering the last few years, or at least help get rid of a "very large" production run of MicroVax computers they've been writing off for the last eight years. RCI, a "hybrid" for-profit corporation owned by government/non-profit organizations, is a partnership between the NSA, both NEAs, NOW, NARAL, The Moral Majority, Oral Roberts University, The 700 Club, and, of course, UMASS in cooperation with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. After the camp, the HappyCamper is charged $37,000 in tuition for the 12-day 19-hour-a-day experience, is also required to pay for the computer (because the campers tend to become emotionally distraught when separated from the machines, and because nobody can be hired to clean the machines either), and, is required to recruit 4 other campers. Oddly enough, this last requirement has become something of a problem, because graduates of the Camp are usually overzealous in their recruitment efforts, dragging relatives, farm animals, and, in several cases, inebriated homeless residents of Harvard Square to the Camp and leaving them in unconscious piles at the Camp door. This is causing problems with neighbors in the Brattle Street area, including John Kenneth Galbraith and Governor William Weld, who are not now very happy campers at all. The Camp is now required to give the neighborhood association 24 hour advanced notice of every graduation, so that gardeners and domestic help can be locked safely indoors. Anyway, have fun, Futplex! Remember that I've moved, and don't forget your Kleenex when you go... Better yet, stay in Ithaca. Cheers, Bob Hettinga Ithaca? That's Cornell, right? Hmmmm... How about moving to New Haven, instead? ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/

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Don't shot till you see the gray of their eyes
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now I understand it. That thing on the cover of Applied Crypto is really one of the Gray's space ships that they use to abduct aspiring cryptographers and implant microchips in them, controlling their minds and making them obey RSA's license agreement. Very interesting indeed. On a lighter note, a local NBC station advertised a special they will have this monday, about the 1-800-INFO-PET chips... only that parents are opting to have them implanted in their newborn children.

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