December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
by Anonymous User 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Black Unicorn wrote: >In this case the people paying the offshore company for Mr. May's services >are also subject to reporting requirements and a 30% withholding tax for >which they will be held liable. Nobody pays offshore for Mr. May. They pay a domestic corporation for his services. The corporation pays Mr. May a sufficient taxable salary for his domestic expenses. Anything above that (i.e. money that Mr. May don't need right now) is paid to the offshore entity as (for instance) deductible license fees. The payment should probably go to a jurisdiction with a double taxation agreement with the US, like Holland or Ireland. In Ireland it's easy to setup a tax free corporation that sends all it's income to an offshore trust, where the money stays until Mr. May needs them. >This adds the requirement that the individuals or corporations receiving >Mr. May's service be involved in this conspiracy. If they could have >been, why do you need the offshore connection? Why not just conspire with >them to pay Mr. May in cash and not report it? They just deal with the vice president of a typical domestic consulting corporation. That the CEO of the company is an alcoholic living on a park bench (for the ultra cheep setup) is nobody's business. He's on permanent vacation for all they care. >If your above scheme is intended merely to conceal funds it is a fairly >poor example as it depends on the secrecy of each and every 'employee' of >the company. Only one individual and he's too drunk to remember anything. >Continue your participation in such a plan. I will send you cigs. Thanks, but I can afford Cuban cigars. I'm selling setup's like the above for a very nice fee. And this is the kiddie version of serious tax planning. After all, Mr.May would still pay taxes on his domestic spending. X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEUAwUBMZJGdFtwWVJrMFYlAQFcAgf2JtuGoc+NE+rl+ZJV5B8PBg2N+u8gpRvt biX+y3asBIkynniRRga9kS00601AHgRQlEkH46BY179PhUNdVV+Q4cv3h4TQ3azl dENuanxLE1xJZnROfkbxNDyg71yogaUGC8dMlQs2vRZ31OdlPnz5E0WafPX4TDNy jI6FZsdYQeqLcFH6xzDS15pLAvh9NXAklzHBGLafuzzDQaVBO9GHRf/MCU5FzXJE KosQ3P2n/qb73kbFOxu7mebR3Emf3sAYRfmlqpe8bHM47Sy34hbPutvzMMIrrF+t dPQHbHDWGgaoEQ6mDhOdqmlZSjdObNmMcll4snoaiU02HsYNo0rc =+nH5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Penet-style web remailer?
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:17 PM 5/8/96 EDT, "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH(a)ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> wrote: > As a result of scanning through the Nando Times' > (http://www.nando.net/nt/) Infotech section, I came across a piece on email > with the following address: http://noah.pair.com/anon.html. It appears to > be sort of a penet-style anonymous remailer, only without return messages. > Anyone know anything else about it? Of course, given the number of web > interfaces to fully anonymous remailers, I wouldn't encourage anyone > to use it. Well, if you look at the remailer part of the web page, it's just one of many web pages that are a form interface to a remailer CGI program. Basically a friendly way to use a standard 1-way Cypherpunks remailer. The guts of the page (from View Source) are use replay's CGI and the ecafe remailer: <form method="post" action="http://www.replay.com/cgi-bin/anon.exe"> <input type="hidden" name="remailers" value="cpunk(a)remail.ecafe.org"> <table border=2> <tr><td align=right> to: <input size=20 type=text name="to" value=""><br> subject: <input size=20 type=text name="subject" value=""></td> <td align=center><input type="submit" value="send mail"></td></tr> <tr><td align=center colspan=2> <textarea name="message" rows=12 cols=70 value="test"> Put your message here.</textarea> </td> </tr> </table> </form> There is an amusing stealthed message at the bottom of the page, designed to attract high relevancy ratings from spiders..... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation

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Re: Penet-style web remailer?
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> http://noah.pair.com/anon.html. Oh, forgot to add that it's also got a mailto: for anon(a)noah.pair.com, so it is running its own remailer as well as pointing to another remailer's CGI. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation

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Re: Remailer in a box
by Matts Kallioniemi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 17:39 1996-05-10 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: >Yes, for the cryptographic purposes. It doesn't make much difference >on the juristictional end of things - I'd need to locate a UNIX account >in another country for that. Hmm... possible. > -Allen Anybody who want's an anonymous shell account in Sweden, send me MTB ecash and I'll get an account opened for you with a local ISP. Sweden has the best Internet access outside North America. A 34 Mbps line to the US, soon to be upgraded to 155 Mbps! Matts - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3i mQENAzEfDgAAAAEIAOSUUb2IOrKOOVhkoagTe4Feo14Ltmyo8ihpkmkUUE62Ydb5 La6Q6HRj6X51fFWIPp+1IM+GNTbb/OmZOo2vhseYbofJBZB+TwasX0HU5EyzJIGS 2R/T7DSzcv+XbLdwfLXBeAQomt3ETKIN9dCkUy9oMiHhvNbgLG6KLvzE5QP8O4Re /QnIxoWX/k9EpJjR21K4EUncBahWzqL6oWKLKf4GyrA7NMQoaWazvfPIkGyhP8v2 qPIBbePcYD0COd8vHLvw45rv3hjRc1b/l4kcZ4ZMiLDfLkd3tHqbYrJA3grAQeiS LZ+y/O2X04/zrLO5ieExfjyL6zDUFUWFZTKJRBEABRG0H01hdHRzIEthbGxpb25p ZW1pIDxtYXR0c0BwaS5zZT6JARUDBRAxHw5YFUWFZTKJRBEBAQSpB/9rzmQ96pFD 6wYUMOsOBO+3SxZzk2mYA0AGcmpy9nd8fij70Vfvx2na/oslH2V/KEXlLXJz7EZm WdVkDub+JMQsBODK50rD5KTZ6vmLzAXuTzJM9SKUsPBAJxul2f287SP2kI2T/LS9 iTkuWdZjPLKAZJ/ga4+M31m3eNiJeBTcris0ET51qMt+blzipu6y1LvhOj80IInh bZLge+YBHAzVaK8NdbD3OWlnVat57ImPiBsfeJ0Y6v6YC3YepbyQZDGb1/Gi+do2 OIWr3OfYyVwzzcDclZ/tme7+2h2u1CHDBJNcOcOdk9fwX/4tdUIXnV60g0dM49MN h54S0VAVF9K1 =O083 - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMZRwuhVFhWUyiUQRAQFZvQgAyVhiQ+rDLsaR82GnhJL0MT+imIdJJYmw MDrKFQ3ddMSFqqskIF+ZHwnVmNPek2b/f17gnamTWE5qxxHWszUA5AeA0q1Jz8dm HeMp3j1rbLvBFdUoZImK+YhNCjUcregc3Ud0rBunYrRDIsrkdHbWuGjcQkIr3V56 9LFC9xyJ6WYrn8/DvcArSbYlU6btrq8oaE29AxcWyw3ehrV4+TMKBOEHjUkssnzW Qptx/+daXOwB1qml86jDThL7VdvM6EiMr+DmyGKnZGsms2FsOhnBGlYq1fOS9XnA ik2+yLmH59O+wDtXEsuOd4NR8Ufmg38AvRAbULdP9XA2jiBmH6VODg== =ADJC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: distinctive properties of ecash, netbill, cybercash and iKP
by Jüri Kaljundi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sat, 11 May 1996, Jon Moore wrote: > Bert-Jan said: > > >=B7 Monetary value: it must be backed by either cash (currency), bank > >authorized credit, or a bank-certified cashier's check, so that it is > >easily accepted by others. > > The banks/cash-issuing corporations are likely to support anything > that is secure enough, and looks like a runner, because any e-money > scheme is profitable to them (they earn interest on the > corresponding real cash while the e-money is in circulation). This is one question why the central bank in Estonia (I am not sure about other countries) does not allow issuing e-cash here in Estonia. While the banks issue e-cash to people, they get some real cash from people. This leads to actually doubleing the money in circulation, each monetary unit, either dollar or kroon, can at the same time be used by owner of e-cash and at the same time by the bank. The central banks are afraid that when the amount of e-cash in circulation gets big, this could lead to devalvation of money, especially a small country like Estonia is afraid of such development. Anonymity of monetary transactions is another thing that Bank of Estonia has declared illegal. Juri Kaljundi jk(a)stallion.ee AS Stallion

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Re: Hacktic remailer shutdown
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-rich sez: : > Is there any information available on why the Hacktic remailer was shut : > down? : Church of Scientology. Someone posted too many Secret Scriptures, it : seems. The details, nobody has shared. Conspiracy theories, galore, but I : have faith in their judgement and commitment to free speech and anonymity. : I'm sure it was a tough decision. : Btw, I don't believe it has shut down yet. Rather, the operators announced : that due to "recent events," there would be a planned shutdown on May : 20th. : I *would* like to know if the mail2news gateway is going down in addition : to the remailer. I'm assuming that it is. utopia.hacktic.nl is currently MX'ed to basement.replay.com, and the mail2news gateway has been installed there to. mail2news(a)utopia.hacktic.nl will work as long as utopia is MX'ed so one better use the one installed directly by mailing your posts to mail2news(a)basement.replay.com. bEST Regards, -- -AJ-

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The perfect IPO
by Simon Spero 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Secure Fingerprint verification over the World Wide Web in Java. So cutting edge, I haven't even installed powerpoint yet. Simon --- Cause maybe (maybe) | In my mind I'm going to Carolina you're gonna be the one that saves me | - back in Chapel Hill May 16th. And after all | Email address remains unchanged You're my firewall - | ........First in Usenet.........

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need nym-differentiation, perpetual motion, and FTL travel please
by bryce＠digicash.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi. I was thinking as I stood in the lunch line talking with Arnaud that what I like about <a href= "http://www-ugrad.cs.colorado.edu/~wilcoxb/faq/DefnOfPseudonymity"> pseudonymity </a> is the part about being free from the threat of violence. I _don't_ like the part about being able to have multiple identities nearly as much. It would really please me if I could figure out a way to reliably determine that Alicenym is not the same human as Bobnym without compromising the anonymity of the human(s) behind Alicenym and Bobnym. (Since if their anonymity was thus compromisable, they would be susceptible to the threat of violence.) Unfortunately I can't think of a good way to have both pseudonymity and nym-differentiation. I think that it is possible, however. Can anyone suggest a mechanism? Regards, Bryce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMZTal0jbHy8sKZitAQFn0gL+M5h/G1WlI6DMF2ZqQhllx+YDu23HGVdp VJbSd0VuBvqKLtDeJ+css9uZ90nUDcsqT8Dws1xxdU+ejSe2Zh3HYLip3+L3LmWV YDf446Pfswgkgs20HRyPzBs2B8c8JpNm =xJYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Yadda Yadda Heil Dave] Re: Rich is leaving for thetapunks
by Rich Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:04 PM 5/10/96 -0700, you wrote: >If I didn't know him better, I'd have thought that Dave had entirely >missed my sarcasm. Thanks for the laugh, Skippy! LOL. Dave, don't believe what you read on theta.com... ;) >-rich > FUCKING SCIENTOLOGIST* > > * - FUCKING SCIENTOLOGIST is a registered trademark of the Religious > Technology Center You know it. All of you copyright terrorists who keep infringing on RTC's trademarks by using the word Freed*m will pay, too, I can assure you... Rich ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb(a)teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon New EF zine "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause

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Re: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Alan Horowitz wrote: >Wage earners - people who are the subjects of W-2 forms - are the class of >individuals who can't benefit from offshore maneuvers. Just go to your boss and tell him that you have an offer from a consulting company. You'd be happy to continue working for him until he finds a replacement (which could take decades) for 90% of your old pre-tax salary. You should get a big smile in return. >I believe the entry costs for a reliable offshore structure from a >reliable vendor - ie, one who keeps up with court cases and the Code of >Federal Regulations on a daily basis - is $50-100k. Ok for guys who own >a Dart Inmdustries, but not the unwashed masses. And I believe that you don't need that. Going to a major offshore vendor makes you vulnerable to traffic analysis (most of them can't spell Mixmaster). You can get a better setup for $2999 than you get if you spend $50k. Or do it yourself for $1k. Start by reading everything from Scope (www.britnet.co.uk/scope) The books you find there cover everything you need to know in perfect detail. Thanks to Philip Zimmermann and Lance Cottrell the balance of power between the state and the little guy has changed completely. It's good to see that both of them are going into mass market business. Perhaps they can get some of the billions of dollars they deserve. X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMZWVpFtwWVJrMFYlAQFZ/wgAkqLlArXuoPS9PwM/Zd1fmEg5ttB7xeid Cmbt+R8Jt53NFITCy1DpbNOTzSdPW4wjSV4HKg6R5TvkcvbxFPA+PzBhzVsgGKdV GFdYNoIMlbAH5xw6A4+8zsPOeqRDo6WOMccteSctUd8sydCgr/5qw5TfU9aqq5Rq tawYii4tJ8Za+SiI8PZj6JtljeHplZduTVYmwtOcanFl4/Gi9Zpu/GKXYga+P4ob rswnh3NDRBHgNDUkn+79lztDGKYoTLhif+Ayem4aFoOjjiIM4QLg61teSw0zxTeH zJ2c623rI/2XaaqFmiXguHIKSNDLKq5obqJ0PhmnTI577Xz8TvzbrQ== =jC/p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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