December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Remailer passphrases
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:13 AM 3/14/96 -0600, Alex Strasheim wrote: >(I have no idea how hard it would be to steal information from a running >machine's ram -- or if it's even possible). It is probably possible. Put a clip across the CPU chip, and take over from it by raising it's chip disable will work with some microprocessors. However, the proper application of various kinds of rubber hose to the operator should make that kind of attack unnecessary. "Perfect" Forward Security or some approximation helps protect the operator against such an attack by reducing the amount of compromised material, and therefore the incentive. Regards - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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SCHWA - New Web Search Engine!!
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Something of interest... >X-Www-Page: http://www.fringeware.com/MSG/index.html#digest >Keywords: pleashes heorg horizona disabili freques inspecurs >Subject: SCHWA - New Web Search Engine!! >Reply-To: Troy.Sheets(a)Eng.Sun.COM (Troy Sheets) >Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:47:27 -0800 >Apparently-To: fwlist-daily(a)fringeware.com >X-UIDL: 70f914736d382f472d2b9d22d8a07327 > >Sent from: Troy.Sheets(a)Eng.Sun.COM (Troy Sheets) > >The Schwa Corperation, Global Media and Infomation Services is proud >to present "Intrude", the search engine for the next century. Intrude >is working 24 hours a day, sucking infomation and carefully indexing >data from all four corners of the global infosphere. Sure, other >search engines scan Usenet and mailing list archeives... but Intrude >goes even further. Using the powerful parallel-processing supercomputer, >"Pal 4000" (courtesy of Schwa Microsystems Computer Corperation), Intrude >reads credit ratings, cable TV viewing habits, mail-order products received, >videos rented, parking tickets received, and of course, every single >peice of email transmitted over the Internet. Tired of those pesky >PGP messages? They are no match for Pal's Reverse Escrow Orthoganal >decryption software. > >But don't feel bad about knowing that everything you ever said online >is now available to any crazy with a 14.4, all search querries on Intrude >are logged also... so you can always Intrude the person Intruding on you. > >Try Intrude today, and see what juice facts it pulls up. You might learn >things about yourself you never knew! > >"The Schwa Corperation, making information work harder... and harder >infomation to work... or working infomation hard" > >-Troy Sheets, VP of Marketing, GMIS. > >http://www-scf.usc.edu/~tsheets > > --- 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/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon

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e$: Neal Stephenson's geodesic economy
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Sender: e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com Reply-To: rah(a)shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga) Mime-Version: 1.0 From: rah(a)shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:19:49 -0500 Precedence: Bulk To: Multiple recipients of <e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com> Subject: e$: Neal Stephenson's geodesic economy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- e$: Neal Stephenson talks e$ I used to joke that I read science fiction by the yard. I certainly *buy* it that way. I finally got around around to reading Neal Stephenson's The_Diamond_Age,_ or,_A_Young_Lady's_Illustrated_Primer. I thought that his first book, _Snow_Crash_ was marvellous, and thought that, in ability to create utterly er, novel, reality out of whole cloth, he was right up there with Gibson. I was wrong. He's much better. Gibson's first book, _Neuromancer_, was his best. _Diamond_Age_ was an order of magnitude better than _Snow_Crash_ , and I get the feeling that Stephenson's just getting warmed up. Why am I saying all this? Well, I'm in the process of reading _Diamond_Age_, and there, on page 270 of the recent paperback edition, (Copyright 1995, Neal Stephenson), Stephenson describes, in perfect detail, a geodesic economy-- complete with digital cash, payer anonymity, and money as software food. The story concerns a girl named Nellodee, Nell to her friends, an abused waif of no means whatsoever, and her adventures with a very large nanocomputer disguised as a book. The scene in question is about Miranda, a "ractor", an interactive actress, who has been effectively raising Nell interactively through a cleverly disguised Grimm-like fairytale with Nell as the protagonist. Actually, Miranda's just been acting lines provided by the nanocomputer in the book, back through to Nell over the net. After 2 years of this, Miranda decides she wants to meet Nell. She goes to her boss for help... Miranda sat very still for a moment, hypnotized by the colorful flashing lights on a vintage jukebox. "This is related to Princess Nell, isn't it?" "Is it that obvious?" "Yeah. Now, what do you want?" "I want to know who she is," Miranda said. This was the most guarded way she sould put it. She didn't suppose that it would help matters to drag Carl down through the full depth of her emotions. "You want to backtrace a payer," Carl said. It sounded terrible when translated it into that kind of language. Carl sucked powerfully on his milkshake for a bit, his looking over Miranda's shoulder to the traffic on the Bund. "Princess Nell's a little kid, right?" "Yes. I would estimate five to seven years old." His eyes swiveled to lock on hers. "You can tell that?" "Yes.", she said, in tones that warned him not to question it. "So she's probably not paying the bill anyway. The payer is someone else. You need to backtrace the payer and then, from there, track down Nell." Carl broke eye contact again, shook his head, and tried unsucessfully to whistle through frozen lips. "Even the first step is impossible." Miranda was startled. "That seems pretty unequivocal. I expected to hear 'difficult' or 'expensive.' But--" "Nope. It's impossible. Or maybe" -- Carl thought about it a while -- "maybe 'astronomically improbable' is a better way of putting." Then he looked mildly alarmed as he watched Miranda's expression change. "You can't just trace the connection backward. That's not how media works." "How does media work, then?" "Look out the window. Not toward the Bund -- check Yan'an Road." Miranda swiveled her head around to look out the big window, which was partly painted over with colorful Coke ads and and descriptions of blue plate specials. Yan'an Road, like all of the major throughfares in Shanghai, was filled from the shop windows on one side to the shop windows on the other, with people on bicycles and powerskates. In many places the traffic was so dense that greater speed could be attained on foot. A few half-lane vehicles sat motionless, polished boulders in a sluggish brown stream. It was so familiar that Miranda didn't really see anything. "What am I looking for?" Carl was right. At a minimum, everyone had a small plastic bag with something in it. Many people, such as the bicyclists, carried heavier loads. "Now just hold that image on your head for a moment, and think about how to set up a global telecommunications network." Miranda laughed. "I don't have any basis for thinking about something like that." "Sure you do. Until now, you've been thinking in terms of the telephone system in the old passives. In that system, each transaction had two participants -- the two people having the conversation. And they were connected by a wire that ran through a certral switchboard. So what are the key features of this system?" "I don't know -- I'm asking you," said Miranda. "Number one, only two people or entities can interact. Number two, it takes a dedicated connection that is made and broken for the purposes of that one conversation. Number three, it is inherently centralized -- it can't work unless there's a central switchboard." "Okay, I think I'm following you so far." "Our media system today -- the one that you and I make our livings from -- is a decendant of the phone system only insofar as we use it for essentially the same purposes, plus many, may more. But the key point to remember is that *it is totally different from the old phone system*. The old phone system -- and its technological cousin, the cable TV system -- tanked. It carshed and burned decades ago, and we started virtually from scratch." "Why? It worked, didn't it?" "First of all, we needed to enable interactions between more than one entity. What do I mean by entity? Well, think about the ractives. Think about _First_Class_to_Geneva_ . You're on this train -- so are a couple of dozen other people. Some of those people are being racted, so in that case the entities happen to be human beings. But the others-- like the waiters and porters-- are just software robots. Furthermore, the train is full of props: jewelry, money, guns, bottles of wine. Each one of those is also a separate piece of software-- a separate entity. In the lingo, we call them objects. The train itself is another object, and so is the countryside through which it travels. "The countryside is a good example. It happens to be a digital map of France. Where did this map come from? Did the makers of _First_Class_to_Geneva_ send out their team of surveyors to make a new map of France? No, of course they didn't. They used existing data-- a digital map of the world that is available to any maker of ractives who needs it, for a price of course. That digital map is a separate object. It resides in the memory of a computer somewhere. Where exactly? I don't know. Neither does the ractive itself. It doesn't matter. The data might be in California, it might be in Paris, it might be down on the corner-- or it might be distributed among all of those places and many more. It doesn't matter. Because our media system no longer works like the old system- dedicated wires passing through a central switchboard. It works like *that*." Carl pointed to the traffic on the street again. "So each person on the street is like an object?" "Possibly. But a better analogy is that the objects are people like us, sitting in various buildings that front on the street. Suppose that we want to send a message to someone over in Pudong. We write a message down on a piece of paper, and we go to the door and hand it to the first person who goes by and say, 'Take this to Mr. Gu in Pudong.' And he skates down the street for a while and runs into someone on a bicycle who looks like he might be headed for Pudong, and says, 'take this to Mr. Gu.' A minute later, that person gets stuck in traffic and hands it off to a pedestrian who can negotiate the snarl a little better, and so on and so on, until it eventually it reaches Mr. Gu. When Mr. Gu wants to respond, he sends us a message on the same way." "So there's no way to trace the path taken by a message." "Right. And the real situation is more complicated. The media net was designed from the ground up to provide privacy and security, so that people could use it to transfer money. That's one reason that nation-states colapsed-- as soon as the media grid was up and running, financial transactions could no longer be monitord by governments, and the tax colelction systems got fubared. So if the IRS, for example, wasn't able to trace these messages, theen there's no way that you'll be able to track down Princess Nell." "Okay, I guess that answers my question," miranda said. "Good!" Carly said brightly. He was obviously pleased that he'd been able to help Miranda, and so she didn't tell him how his words had really made her feel. She treated as an acting challenge: Could she fool Carl Hollywood, who was sharper about acting than just about anyone, into thinking that she was fine? Apparently she did. He escorted her back to her flat, in a hundered story high-rise just across the river in Pudong, and she held it together long enough to bid him good-bye, get out of her clothes, and run a bath. Then climebed into the hot water and dissovled into awful, wretched, blubbery, self-pitying tears. Eventually she got it under control. She had to keep this in perspective. She could still interact with Nell and still did, everyday. And if she paid attention, sooner or later she would find some way to penetrate the curtain. Barring that, she was beginning to understand that Nell, whoever she was, had become marked out in some way, and that in time she would become a very important person. Within a few years, Miranda expected to be reading about her in the newspapers. Feeling better, she got out of the bath and climbed into bed, getting a good night sleep so she'd be ready for next day of taking care of Nell. Go buy this book. Cheers, Bob Hettinga -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMUipXfgyLN8bw6ZVAQGhfwP/SpOP6F07hLzxTxyR8XpBBZsqUzPKMSRK 3OLc0xYjTLkQvunuhZ6vyGwUqadCu0My2wIMspgSakjhUJkN0dmMBWif2zzWBsLP fSe+WUJiVuT8dJkcLC844pkLE2fjg07rqRMdHRXSbq5TDEMsHllfyBKb5GfW+NM3 TVUgwwiIX/A= =YDVU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------- The e$ lists are brought to you by: Making Commerce Convenient (tm) - Oki Advanced Products - Marlboro, MA Value-Checker(tm) smart card reader= http://www.oki.com/products/vc.html Where people, networks and money come together: Consult Hyperion http://www.hyperion.co.uk info(a)hyperion.co.uk See your name here. Be a charter sponsor for e$pam, e$, and Ne$ws! 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Re:LACC: PC Phones Home?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:41 PM 3/13/96 -0800, Jim McCoy wrote: >Dennis Hilliard writes: >> >>"Software to the rescue: >>If somoeone steals your PC, you may be able to get it back because of >>software that acts as a kind of tracking device. Home Office Computing >>magazine reports that the software CompuTrace TRS will automatically dial >>the office of its creator, Absolute Software, if a thief hooks up a stolen >>PC's modem to a phone line. The software reveals the location of the PC and >>Absolute Software will call the police" - Providence Journal-Bulletin - >>March 12, 1996. >1- How does the PC know where it is? >2- How does the PC know it has been stolen? > >Since this is a software product I am assuming that the answer to #1 >is the use of CallerID on the line when the software calls, which is >defeated by the use of line blocking by the thief. I think that 1-800 services provide caller ID information to the company or organization that pays for the service. Whether or not this is blocked by standard caller-ID I don't know. Nevertheless, like you, I am not impressed with the likelihood of success of this system. > The obvious answer >to #2 seems to me to have the system call the CompuTrace office at >odd intervals to see if it has been reported stolen yet... One thing that might be useful would be a OTP (one-time programmable) EPROM chip installed on all major system components (monitor, HD, motherboard, CDROM drive, maybe even DRAM SIMMs). It would be a serial device for low cost, such as a 3-pin TO-92 chip, which would have a capacity of about 4k bits, enough to store a hash of the owner-history (at about 100 bits per owner) for any owner that decided to leave a record. Like an EPROM, bits could only be written once; the chip itself would prevent write-overs previous to the last-written bit. Subsequent owners could read the history and publish the hash codes; anyone looking for such a stolen product could have their losses checked automatically, and perhaps semi-anonymously or anonymously, by a service set up to do this. Innocent owners could be adequately compensated for finding a piece of stolen hardware, to the extent that nobody is deterred about reporting a find. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Why escrow? (was Re: How would Leahy bill affect crypto
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 14 Mar 96 at 12:00, jim bell wrote: > At 07:57 AM 3/14/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote: > >On 13 Mar 96 at 15:27, jim bell wrote: > >[..] > >> If I were trying to detect government investigation in such a situation, I > >> would buy a crypto phone, open an "escrow account" on a totally voluntary > >> basis, give them a phony key, and then (as part of the > >(presumably?) [..] > > > >Would it be legal to deceive an escrow agent? > > It _should_ be legal. At least, assuming the arrangement is truly voluntary > and the escrow agent gets his part of the bargain (his usual fee) he has no > interest in knowing whether or not the data he's holding for you is "real" > or "imaginary." I mean illegal in the sense that your true purpose is to decieve law enforcement. (Yes, it'll also fake out anyone who bribes the escrow agent for your keys, though....) Of course that depends how you give your key to an escrow agent. If it's already escrowed when you buy a phone, for instance... [..] > It is sections of the bill like that which will guarantee that nobody > provides an unencrypted key for escrow: Nobody will want to risk having the > escrow agent "forced" to release the key, even (and especially!) under a > court order. Fortunately, modern technology will provide the solution to > government-simpleton thinking. It's part of warrants. Nobody likes having the cops search their apartments either. (I'd say a warrant is better than none, but judges are generally all too willing to grant a warrant, and the bill allows for "good faith" when no warrant is used anyway...) Rob. --- Send a blank message with the subject "send pgp-key" (not in quotes) to <WlkngOwl(a)unix.asb.com> for a copy of my PGP key.

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[HUMOR] SCHWA - New Web Search Engine!! (fwd)
by Bruce Zambini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought this was rather amusing... it's labeled as humor, so maybe people won't flame me for posting it... :) Jon Lasser ---------- Jon Lasser (410)494-3072 - Obscenity is a crutch for jlasser(a)rwd.goucher.edu inarticulate motherfuckers. http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ Finger for PGP key (1024/EC001E4D) - Fuck the CDA. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:47:27 -0800 From: FringeWare Daily <email(a)fringeware.com> Subject: SCHWA - New Web Search Engine!! Sent from: Troy.Sheets(a)Eng.Sun.COM (Troy Sheets) The Schwa Corperation, Global Media and Infomation Services is proud to present "Intrude", the search engine for the next century. Intrude is working 24 hours a day, sucking infomation and carefully indexing data from all four corners of the global infosphere. Sure, other search engines scan Usenet and mailing list archeives... but Intrude goes even further. Using the powerful parallel-processing supercomputer, "Pal 4000" (courtesy of Schwa Microsystems Computer Corperation), Intrude reads credit ratings, cable TV viewing habits, mail-order products received, videos rented, parking tickets received, and of course, every single peice of email transmitted over the Internet. Tired of those pesky PGP messages? They are no match for Pal's Reverse Escrow Orthoganal decryption software. But don't feel bad about knowing that everything you ever said online is now available to any crazy with a 14.4, all search querries on Intrude are logged also... so you can always Intrude the person Intruding on you. Try Intrude today, and see what juice facts it pulls up. You might learn things about yourself you never knew! "The Schwa Corperation, making information work harder... and harder infomation to work... or working infomation hard" -Troy Sheets, VP of Marketing, GMIS. http://www-scf.usc.edu/~tsheets

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Re: CD-reading for random keys
by JonWienke＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 96-03-14 08:34:57 EST, you write: >I would >suggest recording thermal noise (Eg the hiss from an untuned FM radio), >perhaps XORing with a pseudo-random sequence to remove residual bias. XORing 2 or independent thermal noise sources together would be even better. Jonathan Wienke

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CONGRESS: Online Parental Control Act of 1996
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:21:53 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk From: telstar(a)wired.com (--Todd Lappin-->) To: Multiple recipients of list <cda96-l(a)willamette.edu> Subject: CONGRESS: Online Parental Control Act of 1996 Today in the House of Representatives, legislation was introduced to encourage parental empowerment on the Internet and eliminate the vague and overbroad "indecency" standard that became law under the Communications Decency Act. The new legislation, called the "Online Parental Control Act of 1996," was introduced by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), whose district includes much of California's Silicon Valley. Representatives Pelosi (D-CA), Dellums (D-CA), Farr (D-CA), Gejdenson (D-CT), and Woolsey (D-CA) are co-sponsors of the bill. (The full text of Rep. Eschoo's press release on the new legislation follows below.) The Online Parental Control Act of 1996 seeks to replace the "indecency" standard (which is mainly used to regulate speech in BROADCAST media) with the more narrowly-drawn "harmful to minors" standard which has already been upheld as constitutional in 48 states. My understanding is that "harmful to minors" is a PRINT-based standard, but I'll research this and send out a more detailed evaluation as soon as possible. In the meantime, I can say this: "harmful to minors" is viewed as a middle-of-the-road standard, and as such, it remains *highly* controversial. There are many who would argue that *any* attempt to restrict access to content other than obscenity (which does not enjoy First Amendment protection) is unwarranted. Stay tuned. All of this, by the way, comes on the heels of a bill (S 1567) Patrick Leahy introduced in the United States Senate last month in an effort to repeal the Communications Decency Act altogether. Spread the word! --Todd Lappin--> Section Editor WIRED Magazine ============================================================ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lewis Roth CONTACT: (202) 225-8104 March 14, 1996 Eshoo Introduces Online Parental Control Act Legislation Strengthens Parental Control Of Online Materials, Eliminates "Indecency" Standard Washington, D.C.--Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) today introduced the Online Parental Control Act of 1996 (OPCA) to strengthen the control parents have over their children's access to online materials, eliminate the "indecency" standard from the Communications Act of 1934, and provide additional defenses against liability for publishing online materials. Representatives Pelosi (D-CA), Dellums (D-CA), Farr (D-CA), Gejdenson (D-CT), and Woolsey (D-CA) are original cosponsors of OPCA. When the Telecommunications Reform Bill was signed into law earlier this year, it made sweeping changes to America's telecommunications policy. Among those changes was the establishment of a ban on using telecommunications devices to provide "indecent" materials to minors, as well as defenses against being held liable for a violation of that ban. For example, people could avoid liability by using software that blocks the access of minors to such materials or restricts access through the use of credit card numbers or adult access codes. Some U.S. Representatives, including Rep. Eshoo, opposed the "indecency" standard because the range of material it would ban was so broad that it violates the right to freedom of speech. The "indecency" standard is currently being challenged in court by a large coalition of free speech advocacy groups and high technology companies. "The Online Parental Control Act will encourage an open dialogue in Congress about the best way to both give parents control over what their children see online and protect the First Amendment rights of Internet users," said Rep. Eshoo. "My proposal builds on last year's efforts to reach a compromise on this issue by offering more incentives for the online community to provide families with better parental control technologies. "I'm supportive of efforts to address this issue in the courts, but I believe Congress also needs to offer a legislative solution. Given the political realities of the current Congress, I think OPCA offers the most realistic way to settle this dispute in a timely and effective manner." The Online Parental Control Act of 1996: Replaces the "indecency" standard with a "harmful to minors" standard; Establishes a definition for "harmful to minors;" Maintains the Communications Act of 1934's legal defenses against liability for people who choose to give parents technology that: 1) blocks or restricts access to online materials deemed obscene or harmful to minors, and 2) restricts access to such materials through adult access codes or credit card numbers; Adds two new defenses: 1) the use of labeling or segregating systems to restrict access to online materials, such as systems developed using the standards designed by the Platform for Internet Content Selection project (PICS), and 2) the use of other systems that serve the same function of the other defenses if they are as reasonable, effective, and appropriate as blocking, adult access code, and labeling technologies; and Protects providers or users of interactive computer services, information content providers, and access software providers from civil or criminal liability under state law for making available to minors materials that are indecent or harmful to minors if they take actions to qualify for the defenses mentioned above. "I'd rather have Mom and Dad monitoring their children's online viewing habits than the government," concluded Rep. Eshoo. "Technology offers the best opportunity for parents to manage what their kids have access to, and the Online Parental Control Act encourages those technologies to be developed more fully." The "indecency" standard is a vague term that has been subject to legal challenge by a wide range of free speech advocates and high technology companies. The broad nature of the "indecency" standard means that it could lead to a prohibition on material such as classic art like Michelangelo's David, classic literature like "Catcher In The Rye," and frank discussions about birth control, sexuality, or disease transmission. "Harmful to minors," on the other hand, already works successfully in 48 states, more directly addresses speech that actually harms children, and passes constitutional muster. PICS is a cross-industry working group assembled under the auspices of MIT's World Wide Web Consortium to develop an easy-to-use content labeling and selection platform that empowers people worldwide to selectively control online content they receive through personal computers. The Recreational Software Advisory Council recently announced that it will soon implement a detailed voluntary ratings system, using PICS standards, that will let computer users filter out varying degrees of sex, violence, nudity, and foul language. Companies and groups supporting PICS include Apple, America Online, AT&T, the Center for Democracy and Technology, CompuServe, IBM, France Telecom, Prodigy, Providence Systems/Parental Guidance, Surf Watch Software, and Time Warner Pathfinder. For more information about the Online Parental Control Act of 1996, please contact Lewis Roth at (202) 225-8104 or look on the Internet at http://www-eshoo.house.gov/opca.html. ### +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+- This transmission was brought to you by.... THE CDA INFORMATION NETWORK The CDA Information Network is a moderated mailing list providing up-to-the-minute bulletins and background on efforts to overturn the Communications Decency Act. To subscribe, send email to <majordomo(a)wired.com> with "subscribe cda-bulletin" in the message body. WARNING: This is not a test! WARNING: This is not a drill! +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-

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Welcome to Switchboard
by registrar＠switchboard.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Interesting Egghead freebee
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

While at Egghead today, I found out that they are giving away copies of Spry Mosaic in a Box. (You have to buy something, but that was why I was there anyways...) So far, it seems to be worth about what you pay for it. It is designed to connect you to Compu$lave. What has this to do with this list you ask? The product actually claims to support S-HTTP! (No export warnings on the package and no real info as to how it is implemented... I suspect brand-name snake oil here.) For those of you who do web development and are interested in a client that actually supports S-Http (I do not believe the d/lable version does), take a look. (It does install alot of crap, like a new Winsock, so be warned.) --- 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/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon

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