December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by Frank Willoughby 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As a brief aside to the current discussion. About 2 days ago, NPR (National Public Radio) had a short news blurb about a person who was suing U.S. News & World Report. It seems that his name appeared on a mailing list that USN&WR sold to a credit card company (Citibank, I believe). Basically, his main argument was that the information was private and that the had the right to control how the information was used. It should be interesting to see how this case gets settled. Sorry I didn't post this sooner, but I've been very busy with a security assessment for a company in town. Best Regards, Frank <standard disclaimer> The opinions expressed above are of the author and may not necessarily be representative of Fortified Networks Inc. Fortified Networks Inc. - Management & Information Security Consulting Phone: (317) 573-0800 - http://www.fortified.com/fortified Home of the Free Internet Firewall Evaluation Checklist

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E-Mail security
by A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> The Sun Observer -- "An Independent Journal Devoted to the > Sun and Compatible Markets" -- ran an article in the Feb 96 > issue entitled "New technology eliminates need for keys to > encrypt e-mail messages". Well I consider PGP to be "Good Enough" (C - quantum economics). And with the new "enclyptor", encrypt/decrypt from Windoze is just a clipboard away. Seems like there are two kinds of crypto/firewalls/??? these days: those that are like French cars with beautiful GUIs and a 4 cyl engine, and the American ones with great drivetrains and terrible coachwork (why is purple so popular ?). And then there was the Facel-Vega HK-500... Warmly, Padgett

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Regarding employee rights on company equipment
by lunaslide＠loop.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A day or so ago, I reasoned incorrectly that university students and employees were free to encrypt mail they sent through their student or work accounts. This was in response to a statement that the govt could retain at least some control of internet traffic through the universities and businesses. I would credit the person who called me on it, by I do not remember who it was. It seems that, at least for employees, it is totally up to the employer: >From Edupage Feb 8, 1996, INTERNET USAGE POLICIES Neal J. Friedman, a specialist in online computer law, says that "employees are under the misapprehension that the First Amendment applies in the workplace -- it doesn't. Employees need to know they have no right of privacy and no right of free speech using company resources." According to Computerworld, a number of employers are adopting Internet usage polcies, such as one developed at Florida Atlantic University: < http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/net/netpol.txt > (Computerworld 5 Feb 96 p55) It's still to bad that I was wrong :-(, but such is life. lunaslide On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller ________________________________________________________________ Digitally sign your mail too! -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCPAzEX3QEAAAEEAOGQjhnqGH29pO1WDaXs5GFOVPhCBWyYEk9XEwRmscjveWzH AhA6DeOA480zWNqQURyqE2yPmR8WzT+OXYqmeiQiycKyFA41Vs/Ruf+gXXxe7uXS L5BK3K8oKbfoH0D5/TAkMT4r6BprXFQz4pFc3gY2SSaSPElpMjKHaKBsRsyRABEB AAG0HUplZmYgQ29ubiA8bHVuYXNsaWRlQGxvb3AuY29tiQCVAwUQMRffHzKHaKBs RsyRAQGNhwP9E9xEZ9/LCKnhgtnrqgD7pDoXG2pCy8FoyfFjoImGkG+jF1wELXmB Z0mf8F8CgYkys0mif1XeGDMelr1gzlZAm6LgQt4kcvztMW/aRLn18QP+iwltVT/L p8D37mitOjvuk46sWgAChIaPPPIeg/EaYQjQkmlpWKsEYIoTRy+E8mU= =4Gku -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Forgery--wasUnknown address
by david＠sternlight.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I send this to you for your amusement and delectation. The core message below, about plonking, is a crude forgery--I did not write it nor did I send it. David >From: postmaster(a)warehouse.mn.org (Postmaster) >Subject: Unknown address >Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:32:32 GMT >Organization: The Warehouse BBS >To: david(a)sternlight.com > >The user this message was addressed to does not exist at this site. Please >verify the name and domain in the original message that follows. >Message was addressed to: SAMUEL.KAPLIN(a)warehouse.mn.org > > ----- Original Message follows ----- > >From: David Sternlight <david(a)sternlight.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:28:00 +0800 >Subject: Re: PLONK > >Plonking is an outrageous abuse of net courtesy. >Shame on you! > >David

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Re: CDA Yes Votes; Collection
by Michael Peponis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 8 Feb 96 at 22:10, Tim Cook wrote: Basically here is the problem. Like it or not, most people in the world are utter morons that behave more like stupid helpless heard animals than higher life forms. > Besides, what makes the US Congress think they have any control over > a worldwide network? Because, the are dumb as shit. It's simple really, back to the origional point, most people are about as bight as a rock, they don't care about anything other than stuffing there pathetic faces, waching the idoit box, and passing on their bad genetic structure and pathetic world view. That is all they have, it's not that they have anything to contribute to the world. They are pathetic, since they have no life, and know that their world view hasn't got a prayer in a free market place of ideas, they choose to maintain it by force. [snip] > Support THE US Constitution... > Vote Alexander in '96 and '00! Vote? we are dealing with a nation of braindeads here. Do whatever the hell you want and fuck the law. Does anybody honestly believe I actually care what the law says I should and should not do, like I actually care what other people think? I do what I want, and if somebody(s) else gets in my face, they will get hurt, if not perished. Tim May made the point, there are hundreds of nations consisting of braindead persons. All of them trying to preserve their outdated way of life, I have zero respect for them. They want to protect there religion, or national idetity, or morals, or whatever, and they know that the majority of thinking people will choose there way of life if they could pick form all of the alternatives. I do not vote, I live in AmeriKa, but do not consider myself and AmeriKian, I just happened to be born among them, and stuck living with them, not like anyother place is any better or worse, although their are degrees, they are all ran by and for brain deads. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMRsj0kUffSIjnthhAQHyQwQAgBlOPBx3nTMDZFswLUbRwcvk63q6VqAc K7Nm7NqIBUKcCng/mcblhtljkSDsUckYYB9UBJnygATeIgWux2TZwyaXYUmlQ+ux c0kwpNaSyxbGHjfretxMthnsmz4w6eV9P2+9IbWMXbgwFhNxz0+2YPJaECX6b8cR 3ftdttHXQWo= =5BLE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Michael Peponis PGP Key Avalible form MIT Key Server,or via finger

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Forgery
by david＠sternlight.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I just sent you a message, forwarding a forged message attributed to me about plonking. It strikes me that to reduce the possibility that some might claim THAT message was a forgery, I might have signed it. Too late. Well, I'll sign this one. Best; David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: MacPGPv262 iQCVAwUBMRuVP0wgH+NYrQ81AQHXAQP+NYB6xyO24vDDJORyp1PhN9ax0oorgkQu lCUKZ/G5lrCUnrDMTksy4RqA3N1401QKQGAGWmwlVESWNrMoUP1kjFX8orKZej+/ MHefCtRuh4FB6VmAWeC769Mhza0m02Fu7//R+o95em60wUk0z0O0f5KUe85V3T3T aRV47lmDQjg= =w/Nv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Telnet-ietf: AUTH, ENCRYPT
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Heads up: A discussion is starting up on the telnet-ietf list re: adding message integrity checking to option negotiation, so it can't be hacked with an active attack to defeat, for example, the AUTH and ENCRYPT options. Highlights: - Authentication and encryption are (should be) orthogonal. - The "default" encryption should be something stronger than DES OFB, which supposedly was chosen to accomodate dog-slow PCs. - Negotiation for non-authenticated, non-encrypted connections has to be protected, too, to prevent attacks. 'telnet berserkly.cray.com 23000' gets you to an interactive browser of the list archives. Subscriptions to telnet-ietf-request(a)cray.com. a

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Re: Tell me whats wrong with this
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:00 AM 2/9/96 -0800, lunaslide(a)loop.com wrote: >It is particularly the CDA which boils my blood. One other concern, >however, is that the lifting of restrictions on who can compete for what >will result in mergers and buyouts of internet providers and that when only >a few major companies own the bulk of the industry, the consumers will >suffer from content restriction, technological lag and possibly price >gouging. I note the car, oil, software and media industries as a few >examples. The total number of firms is greater and the average size in these firms is smaller than in the past. Average institutional size in America has been declining since the late 1960s. http://www.ios.com/~lroth/clips/bussiz.html. DCF

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Not so fast Newsspeak Times Article on the CDA
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Double Plus Ungood Thought Crime Regulations Unchallenged By Asphyxiated Press, 02/08/96 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The government's ban on sending "incendiary" and politically explicit material to minors over computer networks was unchallenged in court the moment President Clinton signed it into law Thursday. The Justice Department pledged not to initiate prosecutions for a week, and a federal judge declined to temporarily block the Decency Act, giving prosecutors until Wednesday to collect names of subversives. Thanks to a last-minute addition by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., it also extends a rarely enforced, 123-year-old law into cyberspace, making it a violation of obscenity laws to use computers to to teach evolutionary theory. Supporters say the law will protect children from pornography, drug traffickers, cryptographers, and evolutionists. U.S. Attorney Anthony J. Coppolino, said restrictions are necessary because computers have become increasingly pervasive and bring thoughtcrime right into people's homes. ``It's not an exaggeration to say that many of these incendiary ideas are available on a computer by ... a click of a mouse,'' said Coppolino. Coppolino also told U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter that the Justice Department will stand by its longstanding policy ``unchristian speech will be vigorously prosecuted.'' The Clinton Administration has also repeatedly raised concerns about the constitutionality of the evolution provisions, as it wasn't immediately clear how they conflicted with the teachings of Adam Smith. Vice President Al Gore dodged the question Thursday when asked by The Associated Press in Washington which side the Justice department would support. ``We're obligated to follow orders, but we said from the start this particular provision will not contradict NAFTA,'' Gore responded. Coppolino said the contested provisions will not be enforced until at least Wednesday, but gave no assurances that people who use the Internet over the next few days would not be persecuted in the future for freethinking. The law prohibits all ``speech about sex other than "lie down and think of George Washington".'' Sen. Jim Exon, D-Neb., who sponsored the wide-ranging Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996, expressed confidence in the anti-pleasure provisions. ``The Goldsteinists continues to raise red herrings that have nothing to do with our proposal,'' he said. ``The legislation will not ban works of Ingsoc or reminders to contribute to the Party.'' Cathy Cleaver, a lawyer with the Family Research Council in Washington, compared the new act to the existing sedition law, which requires all unbaptised persons to be tattooed with an identification number - to keep minors from communicating with subversives.

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Re: CDA Yes Votes; Collection
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:10 PM 2/8/96 +0000, Tim Cook wrote: >Find out if yours ( or any ) representative or senator voted for the >CDA. Send me email with the subject CDA-YES. Put their name and >where they are from in the body. I'll compile the list and post it. >When this is over they'll wish they realized how powerful the >internet REALLY is. Most of those voting against the Telecoms Bill did so because they were against the dereg provisions not the CDA. Most of those who voted for it favored the general technical provisions. Most who thought about the CDA and still voted for the bill decided to let the courts handle the unconstitutional provisions because "federal judges don't have to stand for election." Political retaliation is useless in the face of a 90% yes vote. If you are deeply upset by the high-handed manner in which the legislature has screwed around with your life, welcome to the club. Every bill they pass and every regulation upsets someone just as badly as you are upset. That is why some of us want less legislation and less regulation to minimize just this sort of human suffering. Maybe next time those of you who are into "proactive" government will think before you crush other people's lives. DCF "Par Example -- I hate the Pure Food and Drug Act and the FDA just as much as I hate the CDA. Both are utterly evil."

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