December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:51 1/2/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: >At some point, individual urban and suburban blocks could easily be >"guerilla re-wired" for ISP access without serious trenching, etc. The >phoneco would still be involved, but in a far lower-profit mode, as the >supplier of a single T1 to a multi-block area. Don't forget about infrared to cross public rights-of-way. I have long dreamed of tossing a piece of coax over the fence to my neighbors. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: Foiling Traffic Analysis
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 20:02 1/2/96, Jon Lasser wrote: >When the group of packets arrives at a given station, it replaces its >current encrypted packet with a new packet; if it doesn't have any new >packets to send, it puts up a garbage packet that is indistinguishable >from a normal packet. It then scans all the other packets and attempts to >decrypt them with its private key. Any it can read, it does; all the >packets are forwarded to the next station in the ring. All participants in this network are clearly guilty of conspiracy. Their assets will be confiscated under RICO. As Brian mentioned, the law enforcement agencies are creating a surplus by such seizures. The costs associated with more prosecutions are more than offset by the revenue generated. Your computer will make a welcome addition to their budget. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:27 PM 1/1/96 -0800, you wrote: >Jim Choate: >> If you live in the Austin, TX area I will setup a dedicated slip for you at >> only $100/mo. > >in the Portland Oregon area, the price ranges from $234/year to >$1750/year for unlimited ppp access. (I have no idea how long the >$234/year is going to stay in business. that won't even cover the >cost of a phone line.) It seems to me that phone line costs are turning into a floor price for Internet access, when they shouldn't really be. The main asset telephone companies have, right now, is in RIGHTS OF WAY. Put an ISP in a business park that allows you to run your own dedicated copper pairs, and you've bypassed $25/month/line business phone line charges. At some point, individual urban and suburban blocks could easily be "guerilla re-wired" for ISP access without serious trenching, etc. The phoneco would still be involved, but in a far lower-profit mode, as the supplier of a single T1 to a multi-block area.

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[local] Portland OR Cypherpunks meeting
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It looks like the Portland Cypherpunks meeting is going to happen. The meeting plans are not set in stone. (I am still trying to make certain that the maximum amount of people can attend.) The current plans: Location: The Habit Internet Cafe 21st and Clinton Portland Or Time: 5:23pm (Discordian Standard time) Date: January 20th, 1996 There are machines and Internet connections available at the site. I am concidering adding an IRC channel for virtual Cypherpunk attendance. (Encrypted IRC anyone?) Planned activities include keysigning, discussing various issues and projects of the day, drinking lots of coffee, and whatever else we can come up with. (A Detwiller Doom patch?) No video cammeras, regualer cameras, and/or other soul stealing devices will be allowed on the premises. (Many of the people attending have pork and pork-substitute related alergies.) A more detailed porting will occur in a couple of days. For more information, complaints, flames, etc., just send me e-mail. Thanks! Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Governments are potholes on the Information Superhighway." - Not TCMay

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altavista.digital.com
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From a friend at work. Marginal crypto relevance but useful for alerting those who think public mailing lists and Usenet are one-time pads. :) >A friend of mine at Digital implemented the Alta Vista search engine. >Here's the configuration he's working with today, with plans for scaling >as necessary. > >>The web index is built and queried by a two processor 300MHz Alpha. >>There's 2GBytes of RAM and 200GBytes of disc on RAID controllers. >>We'll have to expand if load really takes off. There are other, >>smaller machines doing the HTTP server, the news index, the news spool, >>and the web robot. /r$

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Re: Inter-Patch Voice Network
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 19:25 1/2/96, J. Kent Hastings wrote: >-- [ From: J. Kent Hastings * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Cpunx, > >This may be old hat, but now that PGPfone is available, why >don't we start an "Inter-Patch" Network using PGP and ecash? The time for that type of project is definitely here. There is a "Free World Dial-up" project out there that offers free calls worldwide. It is modeled after the remote printing fax network. <http://www.pulver.com/fwd/> -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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2047 bit keys in PGP
by Douglas F. Elznic 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What is the deal with the 2047 bit keys? How do you produce one? IS it compatible with international versions? -- ==================Douglas Elznic=================== delznic(a)storm.net http://www.vcomm.net/~delznic/ (315)682-5489 (315)682-1647 4877 Firethorn Circle Manlius, NY 13104 "Challenge the system, question the rules." =================================================== PGP key available: http://www.vcomm.net/~delznic/pgpkey.asc PGP Fingerprint: 68 6F 89 F6 F0 58 AE 22 14 8A 31 2A E5 5C FD A5 ===================================================

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Criminal Money-laundering Offshore Digital Banks
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:34 AM 1/2/96, Lucky Green wrote: >Will C2 carry certain newsgroups/info after doing so has become a felony? >Who wants to be an 'illegal data' kingpin and face execution? (Kingpins are >'data trafficers' that carry more than 1.5 Megs of 'controlled >information'.) I've also heard that some of these Data Kingpins (shudder!) are making use of Criminal Money-Laundering Banks (tm), including a bank called "The Mark Twain Bank"! (I hear that MTB has been offered a deal they cannot refuse.) These criminal "offshore" banks are of course illegal for ordinary citizen-units (aka proles) to use, being the sole province of Certain Government Agencies. Authorized Offshore Criminal Banks, like the Castle Bank, the Nugan-Hand Bank, and the Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) are of course needed by legitimate government as a way to fund Contra resupply efforts from the Southeast Asian drug trade. (Seriously, really seriously, our list is generally not a place to obsess on conspiracies. But anyone who has any doubts about what is going on, and how some parts of government have become too large/too corrupt, should spend at least a day or so looking into these things. You should all know the search keywords by now (BCCI, Mena, Castle Bank, Air America, Khun Sa, Banco Lavoro del Nazionale, Gehlen, etc.). Anyone who looks into the tangled web of such dealings will never, ever think the government is trying to ban encryption so it can protect us from child pornographers.) --Tim May 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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FCC require ISDN? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 20:40:25 -0600 > From: "David K. Merriman" <merriman(a)arn.net> > Subject: FCC require ISDN? > > At 07:46 PM 01/2/96 -0600, Jim Choate bespake thusly: > > >The FCC is enacting a new regulation that will cause every phone company to > >provide 100% of their service areas with ISDN (you should have received some > >kind of notice last week, I did). This also sets some minimum standards as > >well as to the type and quality of service the phone company must provide. > > Citation? Here in Amarillo, if it rains, the phone lines start caving in, > and I'd like to beat up SWBT for ISDN service :-) > > Dave Merriman > > PS - sorry for posting this to the whole list, but couldn't get this past my > ISP to Jim directly :-( Public Utility Commission of Texas 7800 Shoal Creek Blvd. Austin, TX 78757 512-458-0256 512-458-0221 Please be advised that the PUC is not responsible for enforcing the technical standards overall, that is the FCC. It is responsible for setting rates and resolving problems with customers on specific problems. The letter I received from SWBT is as follows: Dear Customer: On November 17, 1995, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (SWBT) filed an application (assigned Tariff Control No. 15024) concerning its ISDN-based services, as required by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (Commission) Substantive Rule (SR) 23.69 Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). ISDN is a digital network architecture that provides a wide variety of services, a standard set of user-network messages, and integrated access to the network. Access methods to the ISDN are the Basic Rate Interface (BRI) and the Primary Rate Interface (PRI). This application does not increase the currently approved rates or optional ISDN based services (i.e. SWBT's DigiLine(sm), SmartTrunk(sm), SelectVideo Plus(sm) and PLEXAR(sm) ISDN services) and their features. SR 23.69 sets forth the requirements for the provision of optional ISDN-based services. In accordance with SR 23.69, at a minimum, ISDN-based services shall comply with National ISDN-1 and National ISDN-2 Standards and be capable of providing end-to-end digital connectivity. SWBT's application includes the offering of ISDN with PLEXAR(sm) II Service and new features to DigiLine(sm) and SmartTrunk(sm) Services to meet the standards required to meet standards required by SR 23.69. Also, SBWT is proposing in this application to eliminate the minimum station requirement for PLEXAR II(sm) Service and the offering of occassional user plan for DigiLine(sm) Service to future customers. In addition, SR 23.69 requires SWBT to make ISDN-based services available to all its exchanges in Texas by July 1, 1996. SWBT is currently offering ISDN-based services in its exchanges comprised in the Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Lubbock and San Antonio LATAs. In compliance with the rule, SWBT will make ISDN-based services available in its remaining exchanges comprised in the Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Hearne, Longview, Midland, Waco, and Wichita Falls LATAs by July 1, 1996. SR 23.69 also establishes the effective date of this application to be no later than July 1, 1996. The new optional ISDN-based service and features are expected to generate first year net revenues of approximately $372,000. Persons who wish to comment on this application should notify the Commission by January 12, 1996. Requests for further information should be mailed (faxed material is not acceptable for filling) to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 7800 Shoal Creek Blvd., Austin, Texas 78757, or you may call the Public Utility Commission Public Information Office at 512-458-0256 or 512-458-0221 for text telephone.

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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers
by Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I don't know if I am the only one who this is happening to, but I keep > getting two copies of every post you send. Has anyone else commented on > this? I will forward them back to you following this response so that > you will have the header info if you choose to track down the source of > the duplication. I don't know where the dups are coming from - my logs don't show that I'm sending two copies, and no one else has complained. I'm also not sending out dups on any other list I'm on... - -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp(a)linux.org, ecarp(a)netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp(a)netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744(a)anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMOlcFyS9AwzY9LDxAQFSjQP/dYUpg2SNMb3qGhrkerD5nIU0GcopXkZ+ odhi4KhyUiipPljwwBcPxLfrduxW/A8QOviXJR++Fz/ZOnRrZ6NfKC2sgiO3GuYn W642nNFEJ/cf+pFVxvxcyDMyOc0db+hOWC54JrctyjckNkJKTyE6OyLIfQ3O+aBF l2YhORWBWOQ= =0Idn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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