December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Mouse pad???
by wlkngowl＠unix.asb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I got a mouse pad in the mail today, mailed in > Maryland, but otherwise in a plain brown envelope. > It has nice, understated gold seal announcing it > is from the National Security Agency's Information > Systems Security Organization. Ah. But don't you see... it's got a hidden transmitter there. It monitors your mouse movements and can sense keyboard timings, disk access and uses a mini-TEMPEST device to moniter your screen... <G> (I love it when there's a slew of untitled "owner-cypherpunks" messages... does a job on filtering software...) - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMSH5FCoZzwIn1bdtAQGlKAF/RzgodmykMrgha9IFUYsFuxN0F+UggGeV dtGjjovfZ7FXz5UC8T4DNq9ZOvbFfsP5 =P5gF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: COO_kie
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:07 AM 2/13/96 -0800, Jeff Weinstein <jsw(a)netscape.com> wrote: > There is a lot of confusion about cookies. They do not allow >a web site to access private information such as the user's >e-mail address or other preferences as was recently reported >in Web Review. They only store information that the web site >already has. If you never give a web site private information >about you or your identity, they will not be able to match your >access patterns to your identity. What the cookie mainly does is allow a normally stateless server to maintain state while using a normally stateless protocol, letting the client machine store the state data at the cost of some extra transmission and parsing. If the cookie data is kept separate for separate web pages, this gives you more privacy than having the server keep the same information, since you can see it and maybe change it. (The documentation indicates that you _can_ do that, but it looks like the amount of separation you get depends on the cookie-generating-user's choices of options.) As a separate note, it looks like cookies will be bitten by the Year 2000 glitch; anybody who bakes cookies between now and late 1999 that wants them to expire early in 2000 should probably just give up and go for 12/31/99 expiration.... #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs Pager +1-408-787-1281

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No Subject
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Meanwhile > WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE > JIM BELL > REWARD 13 demo-cyberbucks Send your contributions to: James D. Bell 7214 Corregidor Road Vancouver, WA (503) 696-3911 (503) 737-0284 (503) 737-0357 >An assassination-sponsoring society is _not_ a polite society. The first rule of not being seen is "Don't stand up".

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Ben T. Moore "Mr. Anonymous"
by hochiminh＠alpha.c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<<<<Quoting Ben T. "Mr. Anonymous" Moore to Karl>>>> BTM> Well Karl, It seems I missed your idea/solution in this post, however, some of BTM> us figured this out some years ago... I begin a campaign almost 10 years ago BTM> of feeding the computers false information about myself. I never use the Social BTM> Insecurity Number assigned to me... I don't even give it to the Bank. This makes BTM> for some rather dicey situations. I rarely use my real name or give out my real BTM> phone number. At this point in my life... I have *NO* credit history. I currently BTM> have *NO* bank account. My goal is to be completely invisible to the system. BTM> Yes I have had a few glitches in this plan from time to time... but I continue to BTM> work on it. Well, Mr. Anonymous, let's see how well YOU have used your own advice. With just a little effort using WEB search engines available to everyone on the net I have found the following: Yes you have no credit history, at least not a positive history and you have no bank account. However, these "accomplishments" were not the result of your "goal" to be "invisible to the system". You have a credit history, a VERY poor one. This and the fact that you have no bank account stems from the fact that you are a deadbeat not some cyber-hero looking to "drop-out" of the system. You are approximately $13,000.00 behind in child support. In fact a search of the records available to the general public reveals you were recently arrested for failure to pay child support. A fund rasing campaign was instituted in several USENET and FIDONET newsgroups to raise your bail when your attorney-employer abandoned you in jail. In fact you have been arrested several times in the last 12 months for some rather abberant behavior. Let me list the things I have been able to find out about you: 1) You are an African-American Male, age 36. 2) You live in Indianapolis, Indiana. 3) You are the on-again off-again bodyguard for Militia-Patriot attorney Ms. Linda Thompson and was with her when she was arrested (again)12-23-95. 4) You were arrested for attempting to smuggle weapons (bullets?) into the Indianapolis County Jail 07-22-95. 5) You are about 6'4" tall and weigh 260#. 6) You also use the IRC name "Shaka". 7) You are a deabeat dad being $13,000.00 in arrears in child support. 8) You recovered some property for Ms. Thompson and filed a Police Report # 9531780A. 9) You wrote a letter to the editor in the Indianapolis Post Spotlight lamenting you "child support" woes. Pathetic, very pathetic. So while you are off being a cool anonymous dude the rest of us are paying for the AFDC you ex-wife has to use to feed the kids. How do you justify an internet account while being $13,000.00 in arrears on child support? You are a disgrace to your race, the Militia-Patriot movement and men in general. BTM> I just have never felt warm and fuzzy knowing that any government agency, BTM> business, or whoever can get my personal information off a computer could come BTM> knock on my door some dark night. If you're interested in fortifying your privacy, BTM> I can give you a few pointers. BTM> 1.) Go to your local DMV and inform them you've had a change of address. I BTM> selected a high rise apartment building with 15 floors and selected an address BTM> on a non-existant 23rd floor. Getting your Driver's License address changed BTM> should cost less than $10.00. This is a violation of Indiana Code but breaking the law is of no concern to you, huh? BTM> 2.) Go find a company like "Mail Boxes Etc." and rent a mailbox. The cost is BTM> nominal compared to the added privacy and security. The distinction between BTM> a mailbox and a Post Office Box is with a mailbox you have an actual street BTM> address. You can receive deliveries from UPS and Federal Express at a BTM> mailbox. You can't at a P.O. Box. BTM> 3.) This part requires some skill... befriending a graphic artist is a good idea for BTM> this one. But what you need is a phony work identification. Pick a name! A BTM> couple of "Pass Port Photos" and some lamination and you're good to go. This is a violation of Indiana and Federal Laws depending on how they are used. BTM> 4.) Take your new persona down to your local utility companies and get the serv- BTM> ice switched to the name of your new persona. Even get your phone switched BTM> and have the number non-published. You'll be pleasantly surprised from now BTM> on, everytime your phone rings, it will be someone you really want to talk to. Another violation of Indiana Code

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Re: Subject lines?
by Leslie Todd Masco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Rich Graves wrote: > The messages on news://nntp.hks.net/hks.lists.cypherpunks do have subject > lines, so at least some messages are leaving toad.com OK. I think it's > our problem. Nope, not necessarily. Hypermail goes off of different headers than most MUAs do (it's a slut: it'll use anything it can find). Too bad it dumps core on Message-ids that don't have greater-thans or less-thans (or did: that's the latest round of patches that I sent off to be ignored by its author). -- Todd - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMSLSkSoZzwIn1bdtAQH7YQF9FU1nbaYk7t/I0njC/c4ts5+hYrxYZwDg lgj4ZVc6RvYNaB7wYFq9odgbvb3ewSGl =W3SY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: FW: Laugh Of The Day - Fri, Feb 02 1996 (fwd)
by cwalton＠jovanet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just have to ask-- what does this have to do with........ >few participants; the purists spend lots of time self-righteously >congratulating each other on keeping off-topic threads off the list). oh, never mind. i see now...... Conrad Walton http://www.industrial-artworks.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- INDUSTRIAL ARTWORKS | POB 2815, El Segundo, CA 90245 | 1-310-640-3365

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Re: Spin Control Alert (LI Newsday, 2/12/96)
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

jamesd(a)echeque.com: >> While the religious right clearly supported the push to regulate the >> internet, the main push seemed to me to come from the existing mass >> media, primarily the three big TV channels. At 02:09 PM 2/14/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote: >The religious right did not *support* the "push to regulate the >Internet" -- they drafted, defended, and pushed through the damn CDA! Bunkum Name this Christian rightist who drafted or defended the CDA! The primary anti porn activists involved in the effort to regulate the net were Donna Reed, and Marty Rimm, neither of whom are members of the Christian right, and Bill Arms, who is not only not a member of the Christian right, but who in additon is a PC academic. While their campaigns received assistance, encouragement, and free labor from the Christian right, it was not the Christian right that enabled these people to exercise the disproportionate power and influence that they did. It was not the Christian right that obtained totally undeserved publicity for Rimm's spurious findings. Rimm's study had connections both with the right and the left, but the real question is where the big muscle came from. If the big muscle came from the Christian right they would have let us know by now, because they always tend to exaggerate their influence and power. While the effort to regulate the net had *links* to the Christian right, it is simply untrue to say that it was composed of the Christian right, or even to say that the Christian right played a significant role in the effort. Their role is scarcely visible. They were minor foot soldiers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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Science News - article on Quantum Crypto
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The new Science News that showed up in today's mail has a short but informative article on quantum cryptography. It explains what quantum crypto is for us newbies and gives the history of a recent success in Lake Geneva (Switzerland, not Wisconsin) - an encrypted message was sent 22.7 km over fiber-optic cable successfully. It's a nice article. dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMSLAYzVTwUKWHSsJAQHAPQf6A4h68OSIUK7qOkZVrZByDg/1VGZweiti 3FpCGC/GHqZ9jZwJJOVqx7DucWEeXkeJtnepQsGr+SB/RBEnBfPwpkbSAS0wQnMX D9mUR/p8yRPVWA8baodcG8NRWd4CMiA2+x/vxJEht6/gUx5YfSNQ5wOWQWA1AN4U 5BH/yqSe53m6Rm4h5r3z7ve9OU37wd1gjDgmqwRsiN2UsyZ035om63cPqqMFTIfd 0+PX+cQxag2tz1AXcwwyMpkKhKEmRL3FvW0eyOKXS0b9EcuYRPBEBLDmXzJnIaId lt9EN4iyRgbux4S3M4OmMJB80kaTK2TPurb2fFO+LeuJJdnWa6MfGw== =jLBT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- David E. Smith, c/o Southeast Missouri State University 1000 Towers Circle South MS 1210 Cape Girardeau MO 63701 dsmith(a)midwest.net, dsmith(a)alpha.c2.org, PGP 0x961D2B09 (573)339-3814 http://www.midwest.net/scribers/dsmith/ "Reality is only for those lacking in true imagination."

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Re: The Internet Party
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:01 PM 2/14/96 -0800, Brian D Williams wrote: >Why not form our own Party? > >The Internet party........ No matter how excellent the people and the goals of such a party: such a party would be a first step to creating a world state. Good intentions, dreadful consequences. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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Safdar and Seiger at EF Forum
by Jon Lebkowsky 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thursday, February 15, Electronic Frontiers Forum http://www.hotwired.com/club or telnet://chat.wired.com:2428 7PM PST 8PM MST 9PM CST 10PM EST Jonah Seiger and Shabbir Safdar Jonah Seiger is policy analyst/online presence for the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), and Shabbir Safdar is the driving force behind Voters Telecommunication Watch (VTW). Both have worked to track the evolution of the just-passed telecommunications reform bill and other legislation that would negatively impact the existence of a free and open Internet. Join us in Electronic Frontiers with host Jon Lebkowsky on Thursday, 15 February at 7 p.m. PST (Friday, 03:00 GMT). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jon Lebkowsky <jonl(a)well.com> http://www.well.com/~jonl Electronic Frontiers Forum, 7PM PST Thursdays <http://www.hotwired.com/club> Vice President, EFF-Austin <http://www.io.com/~efaustin> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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