December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

toolkits?
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

|Alice here ... | |No, *I* am the real Alice, and I refuse to use PGP signing. | |Alice de 'nonymous ... | | |P.S. This post is in the public domain. | C. S. U. M. O. C. L. U. N. E. No, *I* am the real Alice, and *I* refuse to use PGP signing. Alice de 'nonymous ... P.S. This post is in the public domain. C. S. U. M. O. C. L. U. N. E.

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Re: New Computer Security Act
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: >Blanc, >I believe the less we know about Tim's intentions for that fateful day, >the better we are off. :-) ................................................ Well, somebody please take notes, and maybe a camera for pictures for a web site (in case things get very exciting). Inquiring minds want to know! .. Blanc

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Israeli authorities censor book, confiscate copies (fwd)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 17:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Israeli authorities censor book, confiscate copies [Shame on the Israeli government. I suspect this would be an interesting case for web-based mirroring. --Declan] --- TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - A Tel Aviv court on Thursday temporarily banned the sale of a book about a missing Israeli submarine after state prosecutors claimed it endangered national security. Hundreds of copies of the book were ordered off bookstore shelves. Author Michael Eldar said police searched his house and confiscated several copies of the book as well as other documents. [...] The case is unusual because the manuscript had been approved, as required of all security-related material, by Israel's military censor. [...] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:49:20 0200 From: "Eviather H. Ben-Zedeff" <evi(a)research.haifa.ac.il> To: declan(a)well.com Subject: Israeli authorities endangering freedom of the press hi, I am a journalism teacher and an editor in Israel. A friend of mine, Captain Mike Eldar, Israeli Navy (Ret) asked me 18 months ago to edit an autobiography and a book he wrote. During 1997, both books were published and suppressed by the Israeli military. Please, help us to fight brutal censorship in Israel. Support freedom even in this remote part of the Middle East. Eviathar H. Ben-Zedeff Department of Communication Haifa University Mt Carmel, Haifa, Israel <evi(a)research.haifa.ac.il>

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Subscription sites for CDR...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:44:24 -0700 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: New Computer Security Act > (Toad.com address changed to algebra.com. Hugh Daniel confirmed to me that > about 130 subscribers are still using the toad.com address. And he > confirmed that none of them are getting the traffic sent to the "real" > Cypherpunks lists, those at algebra.com, cyberpass.net, and ssz.com. I > again urge folks to get with the program. Toad.com is going to vanish > someday, at least as any kind of distribution site for CP traffic.) There is also cypherpunks-e(a)htp.org now... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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: NSA, ITAR, NCSA and plug-in hooks.
by ahupp＠primenet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 02:10:02 +0100 >From: Tatu Ylonen <ylo(a)cs.hut.fi> >To: ahupp(a)primenet.com >Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Subject: Re: NSA, ITAR, NCSA and plug-in hooks. > >> PKZIP allows encryption (other's ?). How about a hook to that? > >PKZIP "encryption" is self-deception. A program for cracking it, >PKCRACK, is widely available on the internet. See e.g. >ftp.funet.fi:/pub/crypt/analysis. > >[For information about internationally available cryptographic >software, see http://www.cs.hut.fi/crypto.] > > Tatu Ylonen <ylo(a)cs.hut.fi> PKCRACK uses a dictionary attack. Anyway, my point was that you could use PKZIP's encryption as an excuse for passing a password.

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Re: "Junk E-Mail"
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sten wrote: > They (as in, the government) has used the RICO laws against >Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion/pro-life (pick your term) group for >protesting/picketing abortion clinics and doctors who perform abortions. And for successfully encouraging the murder of doctors. >If they had prosecuted under statutes which applied to everyone, I >wouldn't have had a problem, but they are going after OR and similar >organizations for using tactics similar to those used by civil rights >protesters in the 60s. Who were systematically arrested, beaten, teargassed, wiretapped, and even occasionally shot at. I *know*--I got firehosed, beaten, arrested, and wiretapped for what I did. That's why I'm a Cypherpunk now. OR has received far better treatment than the civil rights protesters ever did--or did I miss the news items reporting that Terry Randall and Ralph Reed had been assassinated, and that their lieutenants had been bumped off in black-bag jobs, and that their colleagues were chained down to chairs *in court*? > 'Course, civil rights is Politically Correct. >Abortion rights is Politically Correct. Protesting abortion is >Politically Incorrect, therefore illegal. Do you usually send nursery rhymes to mailing lists?

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On crypto -- "The Grand Compromise is Coming"
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim wasn't entirely correct in June. McKain-Kerrey isn't the most extreme, reprehensible bill: That honor goes to the Oxley amendment and the SAFE version that Intelligence approved. (They would ban the manufacture, distribution of non-backdoored crypto.) This is the danger of entrusting our civil liberties to legislatures, which are inherently anti-civil libertarian. No new legislation is better than bad new legislation. Something close to McCain-Kerrey could well emerge as the "Grand Compromise." -Declan ------- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:52:55 -0400 To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Subject: FC: On crypto -- "The Grand Compromise is Coming" [A House international relations subcommittee this afternoon approved Rep. Goodlatte's SAFE bill by a 14-1 vote, with some amendments. Rep. Doug Bereuter (R-Neb.) voted against it on "national security" grounds. Details to follow. --Declan] ***************** Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:33:38 -0700 To: cypherpunks(a)Algebra.COM From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> Subject: The Grand Compromise is Coming At 11:43 AM -0700 6/24/97, Declan McCullagh wrote: >Yeah, I'm going to the markup later this afternoon. I ran into Goodlatte in >the Capitol this morning; he seemed cautiously optimistic. > The terrible, terrible S.909 McCain-Kerrey bill is probably a negotiating card in the coming Grand Compromise. When even editorial writers for the Establishment Papers are against it, when industry is against it so vocally, it won't pass the full Congress. But it will have served its purpose. It will make many groups _satisfied_ to reach "a compromise we can all live with." The various cyber-rights [sic] groups will probably trumpet this as a victory, as "the best we could get." Somewhere between SAFE, a bad bill, and McCain-Kerrey, a reprehensible bill, lies the Grand Compromise. I reject it all. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." ***************** From: Eric Murray <ericm(a)lne.com> Subject: Re: The Grand Compromise is Coming To: tcmay(a)got.net Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: cypherpunks(a)Algebra.COM Tim May writes: > > The terrible, terrible S.909 McCain-Kerrey bill is probably a negotiating > card in the coming Grand Compromise. Yes. The tactic will be to use S.909 in negotiation to represent a 'fair' government-oriented solution. Then 'compromise' with a 'balanced' deal which includes all that the government really wants, with a few of the more onerous bits taken out of S.909 as 'compromise'. As Declan notes, Congress is driven to compromise. The government side can propose ever more draconian laws in order to engineer the 'compromise' to whatever it wants. On the other side, we are stuck, because we have been asking for things that we really want, not bargaining chips. Even if we were to ask for bargaining chips that are more than we really want, how much further than completely free crypto can you go? The government wins any game of compromise because it can push its side as far as it wants, then demand that we meet halfway. > It will make many groups _satisfied_ to reach "a compromise we can all live > with." The various cyber-rights [sic] groups will probably trumpet this as > a victory, as "the best we could get." They will make it out as a victory ("send us more money") but in reality it'll just be a little less of a defeat. The rejectionist stance has the presumption that, if unwatched, the government will pass a law so onerous that the people will rise up in protest. Unfortunately I don't think Americans will rise up in protest over _anything_ any more. Certainly not over basic freedoms. -- Eric Murray ericm(a)lne.com Network security and encryption consulting. PGP keyid:E03F65E5

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"The Right To Privacy" by Caroline Kennedy, et. al.
by Erik E. Fair 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In an EPIC Alert on 10:46 10/23/95, Dave Banisar wrote: >"The Right to Privacy," November 9. Authors Caroline Kennedy and Ellen >Alderman discuss their new book on privacy. Lizner Auditorium, George >Washington University, Washington, DC. Contact 202/357-3030. Did anyone here go to this event, or has read the book yet? There is a review of it in TIME magazine at this URL: http://pathfinder.com/@@iEPVLuF5EgMAQChZ/time/magazine/domestic/1995/951106/ publishing.html thanks, Erik Fair

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Re: ALERT: On Monday, call Congress to stop Big Brother amendment!
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote, citing an industry lobbyist: >The answer: "I don't think compromise is the right word. But we need to >give something to law enforcement." ...................................................... They could be given the idea that it would be of practical use to us Citizen-Units if they would help us to help ourselves. Of course, they want to be the knights who slay the fire-eating dragons, who consummate all the power and the glory, amen.

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Re: Virus attacks on PGP
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:34 11/21/95 -0500, SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N wrote: >> Certainly having PGP run from a CDROM or other read-only device would be a >> big help. Even better would be to have all the privileged code also run >> from a read-only device. > >Seeing as PGP is quite small the simplest and cheapest read-only device >would be a write-protected floppy disk. But do remember that your copy of PGP could be infected as it is loaded from the disk. You really need to protect your privileged code too. Bill

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