December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

PGP & Seamless Pegasus
by Adam Philipp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Can I just add a loud HURRAH! on the integration of PGP and Pegasus using the PGPJN add-on. It is by far the smoothest melding of PGP and a e-mail routine to date. The only way it would be smoother is on one program. THe learning curve is also negligible. For all those griping about no good PGP windoze e-mail programs, your wait is over. This mail program won over a die hard Eudora fan in about 15 minutes... Someone else already posted the sites to get this so forgive my laziness of not repeating their words. Oh, did I mention this is seamless under Windoze 95 as well? Adam, Esq. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMRs/RAaMHlrz9swxAQGWUwf/amggouHkGjrjoYQ3JXYXiWblHc2NBvQx wwy1jMSvEEiP0kQD1iaysA6fw4t+xU1bFAftqACRa3rTF7ZgCRRgFuhgwTwhwR8u HZ8zDed5PIgywsn9/jqXW+nqneNx2uboUjq7FsncZiC7EG90/SMK78et8QZ/sT0l ifiCvoLXaYhW4anmIeHMADLwDRqUlhVWX5RX1ccG2MrOrrrKHjJcveG4CF72M8EV hftXDTWdElUuPUHD0JUBlp555+YMuolSUuu4sq1eodwlX0L4tq9vv4QBCwnBvq0H 4XONwa9BaRvEjVJ0Gg6+HjC4/IHOt/5CJ+SfwvQAaysH7Q11nkKTZw== =/zQA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Internet Privacy Provider - Press Release
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PRESS RELEASE: 2/9/96 Anguilla, Offshore Information Services Ltd. As a result of recent efforts to censor the Internet in France, Germany, China, and now the USA, Offshore Information Services Ltd. (OIS) anticipates a larger market for privacy services over the Internet. OIS is well suited to provide such service since it is located in Anguilla, a taxhaven in the Caribbean with strict secrecy laws. OIS is now entering this market. OIS makes it easy for users to setup an online identity offshore. Setting up an offshore email identity can be as easy as changing the POP server name, user name, and password in their mail program. Using this new idendity they can again have free-speech on the Internet. If users choose, they can login to a machine in Anguilla using ssh so that their communication over the Internet is encrypted. Users can also maintain web pages offshore almost as easily as if they were onshore. Anguilla has no restrictions on publications about dead presidents of France, or information about birth control, etc. The OIS web page is http://online.offshore.com.ai/

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Re: "Plonk"
by Gordon Campbell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:31 PM 08/02/96 -0600, Ed Carp wrote: > >Because Perry has an ego bigger than Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and >Dianne Feinstein all rolled into one, that's why. <Excessive .sig deleted> This from a guy whose signature is 12 times the length of the message that it was attached to? Puh-lease.... ----- Gordon R. Campbell, Owner - Mowat Woods Graphics P.O. Box 1902, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5J7 Ph: (613) 542-4087 Fax: (613) 542-1139 2048-bit PGP key available on request.

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[NOISE] #/%age of CDA-blackened sites
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sorry to post this question here, but I know of no other group with folks who would know. Have any of the "spiders" such as Alta Vista been sent to see just how many US sites have been blackened in the protest? The approximate number and percentage of US sites blackened might be interesting. In my limited surfing, I have been gratified to see the _widespread_ response -- but I am not the typical user. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- <liberty(a)gate.net> Boycott espionage-enabled software! http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray _______________________________________________________________________ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Public Key id. # E9BD6D35 -- IANAL _______________________________________________________________________ "In wise hands, poison is medicine. In foolish hands, medicine is poison." -- Cassanova -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh. iQCVAwUBMRtQhW1lp8bpvW01AQGxaAP+LJ/C88WfFv4NzPY8jZ8JcguHk2p+knbA lp/ZW76u6U3JUPRG0qT12nF4yLzrKLL3+N4osiJvpREbuqC2YMAEg2NNJhC2e+RQ Nepe8QzU/KGuHj3Fge5Tc+Uyvaq4rzcuXMSSlemHNdlIm3JroVQ68Iebswcknjqh 4ZI3J5Cgq3o= =RYeD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Tsu.con Rishabed
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

WSJ, 9 Feb 1996 Shimomura, Pursuer of Hackers, Finds Himself Homeless on Web By Jared Sandberg A renowned hacker catcher who co-wrote the book "Takedown" just got a bit of a takedown himself. Tsutomu Shimomura, the Internet security expert credited with catching fugitive hacker Kevin Mitnick last year, set up a site on the Internet's World Wide Web to chronicle the famous cat-and-mouse chase. To supplement the book, the on-line database includes audio clips of taunting messages Mr. Mitnick left for Mr. Shimomura and transcripts of chat sessions that the hacker held with friends, under the heading "Kevin On Demand." But over the weekend, the address of the Web site, "takedown.com," was deleted at a hacker's request and replaced with a bogus entry, "takendown.com." Not exactly hilarious, but this is hacker humor. "It's pretty juvenile," said Mr. Shimomura, who got his address back by Wednesday night. But he notes that hackers could easily change the Internet addresses of corporations or even America Online Inc. "I expect that businesses like AOL would be much less amused if they were renamed 'aohell.com,' and that would cost them real money." The problem arose when Network Solutions Inc., the company that sets up addresses on the Internet, was apparently conned by someone claiming to be Mr. Shimomura. A company official said that he hadn't been able to investigate the matter because the company has been deluged with electronic mail in an unrelated prank. But many experts are concerned that Network Solutions doesn't verify the authenticity of Internet address requests, which number as many as 3,000 a day, and that the company simply takes people at their word. "They do it all the time, and they shouldn't," said Steven Bellovin, a security expert at AT&T Corp.'s research unit, who fears such dupes will grow more common. Mr. Bellovin noted that hackers have also exchanged software tools that can redirect users to phony sites. "Hackers share tools better than the good guys," he said. Network Solutions is working on a tool to check the authenticity of requests for address changes. But some think that such moves are a little late. Mr. Shimomura said, "Unfortunately, we live in a world where things need to break before they're fixed." --

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Benefits of the V-Chip
by olbon＠dynetics.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is one potential side-benefit to the V-chip -- The inverse-V-chip (the idea for which I stole from someone on this list, sorry I don't remember who to credit). I am looking forward to a time when I will never, even accidentally, have my TV tuned to "Full House" ;-) Clay READ THIS NOW:http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html (warning: just thinking about this URL puts you in violation of the CDA of 1996) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clay Olbon II | olbon(a)dynetics.com Systems Engineer | ph: (810) 589-9930 fax 9934 Dynetics, Inc., Ste 302 | http://www.msen.com/~olbon/olbon.html 550 Stephenson Hwy | PGP262 public key: finger olbon(a)mgr.dynetics.com Troy, MI 48083-1109 | pgp print: B97397AD50233C77523FD058BD1BB7C0 "To escape the evil curse, you must quote a bible verse; thou shalt not ... Doooh" - Homer (Simpson, not the other one) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Thu, 8 Feb 1996 jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: >> A law "protecting" privacy would require government supervision >> of what is on my computer and your computer. At 09:21 AM 2/9/96 -0500, Tim Philp wrote: > Private individuals are not what I was refering to. I am more > concerned about corporations First: You will not get that, because governments invariably privilege large businesses above small businesses and individuals. and invariably privilege old established businesses against new businesses. Secondly if you were able to get that, it would be even worse than the what you will actually get. If you have one law for men who run businesses and one law other folks, then we have selective enforcement and application of the laws, that enables governments to act selectively and capriciously. For example here in California private citizens who attempt to organize recall elections are often subject to extraordinary and confiscatory fines. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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: cypherpunks press
by lunaslide＠loop.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>ecarp(a)netcom.com sez: <rm for brevity> >My feeling is that Mitnick getting past security, and Mitnick not having >to decrypt at every stage, and stuff like that is good material, but these >topics generally have big ol' love handles attached to them. Describing >people's hot tub parties, for example, is not exactly cypherpunk material. <more snippin'> >I am imagine many people use (and I am headed this way) nntp.hks.net merely >to avoid large boring non crypto/political threads. Not everyone has this >capability, and now some of them have left because of the S/N. I'm talking >about real cryptographers, not weekend warriors like, well, ok I'm more like >a yearend warrior.On the other hand, Alice and others haven't posted lately, >so perhaps the noise is just the fill-the-vacuum pheonominon. > >> Why don't you go and write some code? Put those busy fingers to better > >Perhaps he is. I am. Are you? I am too, but the other half of my major is philosophy. I can't help BSing about the social issues too.....which seems to be common on the list. Perhaps there is a compromise since there seem to be interests on the part of both parties? Like cypherpunks-tech@toad,com. Any words? lunaslide On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBvAzD3EHEAAAEDAMVwZzXozPjX18mCenA5fJsdWZXcrhJCxPR+SoVCmR7d4ZVU mwITzPTHo/GyLvJrWyk5YdhheczyY2VSawaMrCN/nWA7K9lwAylbKyPxqBhRYJ3C 2wi2uD5LY2wypNOQyQARAQABtB5KZWZmIENvbm4gPGx1bmFzbGlkZUBsb29wLmNv bT6JAHUDBRAw+1bqS2NsMqTTkMkBAQkTAwCersFbCyk8O0MbGlNcZDAe24CLEWQ0 0C5EHni33W76UsG1bybcLsuMH6HVwLF7IqZivnzc7wkujYPQvCqn8HEYYTld8V9V Cou4dOvA8kV7rHvAn/LuLx7DRruLFrRoPSk= =OIT9 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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LAST REMINDER
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, I have 100+ confirmations for my party tomorrow. It's still not too late, though, to RSVP (or even show up without doing so if you have a good excuse). E-mail me or leave a message on my answering machine (510-839-3441). If you've misplaced the URL for the invitation (duh), it is: http://www.c2.org/party/masquerade.html If you miss the party (you'll regret it), there will be pictures on the above Web site sometime next week. S a n d y P.S. Among the guests will be a Cypherpunk who is flying in from out of state. Another guest will be an absolute stranger who had an ad in the personals. One guest is a movie star. Of course, many Cypherpunk luminaries will be in attendance. There will be a significant 2nd Amendment presence. Be there, or be square. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Tell me whats wrong with this
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:10 PM 2/9/96, Mike McNally wrote: >The intent of making the V chip (what does "V" stand for anyway? >"Violence?" Eerily Orwellian if so...) mandatory seems to be that it's The "V-Vhip" stands for "Virtue-Chip," as it will protect the virtue of Christians, children, and small animals who will not be subjected to cybersmut, cyberporn, and cyberbadthoughts. (An alternate theory, emanating out of the Great White North, is that it came from "View-Chip," the chip that is (apparently) availalbe in some places in Canada. I saw a blurb on t.v. (no V-chip in it) about how a panel of educators, social scientists, and moral persuaders reviews each television program and gives the show a 0-5 rating on each of 3 scales: violence, sexuality, and explicit language. The viewer sets her preferences: a 5-5-5 would let everything through, etc. The developer of the chip claimed he could mass produce the chip for a buck, and this may be where all those estimates of "$1-2 per set" have come from. However, seeing the chip--apparently a 20-30-pin square flatpack--and knowing how much PCB real estate would have to be used to accomodate it, and factoring in design and other expenses, that $1 chip will likely translate it into a $30 overall increase in t.v. set price. Not necessarily prohibitive, though I still think the effort a waste.) --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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