December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

(fwd) USA / Australia - Civil Liberty
by unknown＠example.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Path: news.aus.world.net!news.us.world.net!usenet From: tomk(a)world.net Newsgroups: aus.legal Subject: USA / Australia - Civil Liberty Date: Sun, 03 Mar 96 01:59:02 PDT Organization: (none) Lines: 78 Message-ID: <4hbcu6$jco(a)news.i.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: portland04.world.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage 1 March, 1996 At 1:50 pm today PST in the Federal Court of the USA in the State of Oregon, an Australian national Ms. Amanda Wilson was unfairly incarcerated by Justice Haggerty of the US Federal Court. During her incaceration, she was denied legal counsel, her request to have her embassy contacted was refused and she was informed by the Sherrif of Oregon, that she had no rights until she was transferred to a Federal Jail. This individual was a witness in a civil case and was neither named as the plaintiff nor the defendant. Work that she had performed for the plaintiff under contract was not being paid for by the Plaintiff and Ms. Wilson was not inclined to provide the information without her agreed remuneration. Justice Haggerty then claimed that Ms. Wilson was an agent of Koltai Inc and Thomas P. Kotlai and that her work was not Intellectual Property owned by herself until remunerated. Ms. Wilson claimed that she had evidence that she was acting as an independent agent. Justice Haggertys' response was that "I'm not interested in your evidence". Justice Haggerty ordered the Sherriff to detain Ms. Wilson for Contempt of court. Ms. Wilson then informed the court that she had done nothing wrong and that she was an Australian resident. The sherriff and his assistant then handcuffed and removed Ms. Wilson to the holding cells on level four of the Federal Courthouse in Portland. She requested leave to contact her embassy. This was refused. She requested the right to counsel, this also was refused. She then requested that the sherriffs office contact her parents in Australia to notify them of her arrest. The sherriff refused this request. She was then photographed, finger printed and informed that she would be removed to a jail later that afternoon if she did not comply with the courts order to divulge the passwords giving Ausnet Services Pty. Ltd. free access to her Intelectual Property. Justice Haggerty then visited Ms. Wilson in the holding cells to counsel her. Ms. Wilson requested from Judge Haggerty that she be allowed to contact her father and/or the Australian Embassy. Justice Haggerty declined this request. Ms. Wilson then gave into the pressure applied and gave the passwords required by Justice Haggerty. During her three hours and fifteen minutes of incarceration Ms. Wilson was humiliated with a personal body search. Threatened with transport to a jail in California. Informed that she had no rights and was generally verbally and mentally abused. Under USC 28, 1603, (B)(3) Ms. Wilson is an alien and the US Federal court has no jurisdiction over her. It is the opinion of this individual that the US Federal Court has exceeded its authority and has failed to recognise the civil rights of an Australian National. This file was posted by: Thomas P. Koltai Ex Managing Director of Ausnet Services Pty. Ltd. (http://www/world.net) Mobile: 1-503-260-3666 -- "I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?" - Leo Burlero/PKD +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff(a)suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+

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(fwd) Re: The police came knocking
by unknown＠example.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Path: news.aus.world.net!news.us.world.net!news.inc.net!trellis.wwnet.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mel.aone.net.au!newshost.pcug.org.au!blchupin!blchupin From: blchupin(a)pcug.org.au (Basil Chupin) Newsgroups: tip.general,aus.org.efa,aus.legal Subject: Re: The police came knocking Message-ID: <09A420598905(a)pcug.org.au> X-Mailer: Osiris v4.1 Registered To Basil Chupin References: <4gisqm$s4c(a)wabbit.its.uow.edu.au> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 96 17:06:59 +1000 Organization: Back To The Future CBIS, Canberra, Australia Lines: 223 Xref: news.aus.world.net aus.org.efa:1808 aus.legal:2660 In article <4gisqm$s4c(a)wabbit.its.uow.edu.au> Phil Herring <revdoc(a)uow.edu.au> writes: > In article <312beb37.18538395(a)newshost.pcug.org.au> Owen Cook, > rcook(a)pcug.org.au writes: >1. All traffic into and out of Australia passes thru this >building at St Leonards >2. Xty millions of dollars were spent by Telecom and ASIO to >install, secretly, computers in the site. >3. The purpose of the facility was to monitor all traffic thru >keyword searches, originator and destination addressees. > > Erm, no. It's just a version of the "NSA line eater" myth. Aside > from > the fact that there are international links all over the place, > including satellite uplinks and leased phone lines, the plain > truth of > the matter is that the government just doesn't care about the > Internet > all that much. Politically it's of little consequence, and law > enforcement and "intelligence" services have small budgets that > just > don't stretch to this kind of conspiracy. > > On the other hand, the insecurity of email is legendary. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Date : 10 Mar 94 13:11:46 From : Relay To : All Subject : Government Eavesdropping In New Zealand ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ * Message originally : From: Relay To : All Date: 10 Mar 94 11:42:35 Area: alt.dcom.telcom * Forwarded by Tech Support using Sphinx! 2.0 The following article was posted to the Student Journalists mailing list (STUMEDIA(a)UABDPO.BITNET) by Malcolm Hutchinson (malcolmh(a)waikato.ac.nz) This is an article that appears as the centre feature in our first issue for the year. as the token NZ representative on this list, i thought i would post it to show that the US is not the only country experiencing problems keeping their govt in line when it comes to digital privacy & secure comms. NZ is known around the world for it's anti-nuke stand in the mid- eighties, yet we allow this sort of thing to continue. the waihopai spy base feeds information *directly* to the NSA. it is because of the existance of installations like this that i encourage all my digital friends to take control of their own information and start using strong cryptographic software. PGP is available from any number of anon FTP sites around the world. get it, use it. i apologise if posting an article like this is considered wasting bandwith on this list y'all stay safe mal title: The Biggest Sour Grape in Marlborough At a predetermined signal the two groups of protesters split apart. The group I was in went round the fence to the main gates and started pushing them back and forward making a hell of a racket. The gate was secured in three places. We broke the top padlock and the steel rod holding the gate in the ground. We heard a shout from the other group. They were through the fence. Nine people arrested and many more if we didn't stop our vigorous attack on the main gates. This was it, we were there to do something radical, to make our protest well and truly heard. No-one had breached the huge inner fence of the Waihopai Spybase for years. It was my first protest at Waihopai but not the last. The Waihopai protest just South of Blenheim is an annual event organised by the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC). Ever since the first survey pegs were planted in the ground in 1987, New Zealand women (originally) and men have protested against the existence of the secretive Waihopai Spybase. Yet despite its colourful history the vast majority of people still don't know it exists. Held from January 27-29 this year's protest was larger than usual. About 80 people (including an unspecified number of university students) from Dunedin to Auckland converged on a makeshift campsite nestled beside the Wairau River to plan what action they would take against the Spybase and all it stands for. The word "spybase" conjures images of undercover cops, secrecy, high security, mystery and murder. While this is a bit dramatic there are similarities. The Waihopai base is run by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), a discrete organisation which only reports to the prime minister. Hidden in a barren valley deep in the Marlborough outback, the Waihopai base is not something the GCSB wants New Zealanders to know about. Workers at the base aren't allowed to talk about what they do and even their spouses don't know how much they earn. The base has a secret budget and secret objectives. Secrecy is the aim and so far 'they' have been successful. That is until 6.00pm Sunday night of the protest when on TV3 thousands of viewers saw the Waihopai Spybase for the first time. The next day articles were published in Sunday papers, with further articles in major daily papers on the Monday. Supportive comments by Nelson MP John Blincoe added to the debate on a topic usually considered closed. For the first time many New Zealanders became aware that a government agency was spying on our neighbours in the South Pacific and giving that information straight to the United States. What is a Spybase? A more official name for the Spybase is Satellite Communications Station. This sounds very innocent but there's no escaping the fact the base invades the privacy of thousands of people, businesses governments and other organisations throughout the South Pacific without their consent. The information gleamed is not meant for the GCSB or the US, that's why it's called spying. The base consists of an 18 metre receiving dish covered by a huge white dome, an operations building and workshop, all protected by a 14ft security fence backed by another electric fence, security cameras and floodlights. The base monitors communications transmitted via satellite: private and commercial telephone, fax, e-mail, telex and telegrams. These messages are scanned for key words by computer. The information collected is then relayed to the GCSB headquarters in the Freyberg building in Wellington. Useful information is then sent to the United States National Security Agency or the larger Spybase in Geraldton, Australia. Why protest? "The Waihopai Spybase uses your money to invade your privacy for other countries' benefit?" This statement taken from an Anti-Bases Campaign pamphlet about the base sums up the general reason why people are motivated enough to protest, and to be arrested. In the past, politicians like David Lange claimed the Waihopai base will give New Zealand more independence in intelligence matters and that the information would be under New Zealand control. However a document obtained from the US Navy by peace researchers last year has confirmed long held suspicions that the GCSB passes the intelligence collected at Waihopai to the powerful US National Security Agency. This evidence completely contradicts the claims made by New Zealand politicians. What's more, according to British investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, the Waihopai Spybase is part of a world wide network of spybases monitoring satellite communications for the benefit of the NSA. What really sticks in the throats of those who know about the Waihopai Spybase is that despite the fact that the information is given to the US, New Zealand pays for it. Based on the costs of similar bases in other countries, the Anti-Bases Campaign estimates that the base cost $20 million to set up and up to $100 million so far. Protesters ask why should we be paying for this 'service' especially when we weren't even told about it. The Waihopai Spybase was established without the consent of the New Zealand people and operates without the permission of the Pacific countries who's sovereignty it intrudes on. The Spybase is part of a reliance on military power and cold war politics which reinforces the nuclear powers domination of the globe. Instead of building relationships with our neighbours based on trust, cooperation and peace we are furthering the interests of oppressive military alliances by the world super powers. Under international law it is in fact illegal to intercept international communications. The activities of the Waihopai Spybase contravene the International Tele-Communications Convention to which NZ has agreed. It is also illegal under NZ law to act on such information. The question we must ask ourselves is "Do we want New Zealand to participate in this misuse of technology?" "Do we want to be consulted before we enter into secret military alliances with the super powers? Would we rather the money spent on spying was spent on education or health? Protesters at Waihopai demand a Parliamentary inquiry into the activities of the GCSB, and that the activities of this organisation be subject to review by the judicial system. We also demand the closure of the Waihopai Spybase and the redirection of the money spent on its operations to be put toward a peaceful future. Until this happens we will continue to protest at Waihopai. I didn't try to be unbiased in this article. For a start I was actively protesting the base myself. It is also difficult to get another side to the story when politicians won't talk about it. The head of the GCSB even refused to answer MP's questions in Parliament about the Spybase. But secrets never last forever and thanks to the New Zealand peace movement at least some of the truth is becoming public. The more people who demand knowledge of the Spybase and accountability for its operations, the more likely politicians will take notice. Already Nelson MP John Blincoe (Labour) has come out in support of the Waihopai protest. In the Christchurch Press Blincoe said international circumstances had changed and it was time for the "cloud of secrecy" over the base to be lifted. "The public is entitled to know what is being done from its own soil," said Blincoe. "At the very least there should be Parliamentary scrutiny of Waihopai and the other listening station, Tangimoana, near Palmerston North." Yes there are other spybases, of different sorts, but did you know about them? I find it unnerving to think people could be listening to my phone conversations, that foreign spy networks are operating through New Zealand and I am helping finance something I don't believe in. But then we don't have to like it and nor do we have to accept it. It is our right to question and protest. To find out more information about Waihopai and other bases in New Zealand write to the Anti-Bases Campaign, PO Box 9314, Wellington. [NEW ZEALAND] Paul Smith wc 1345 ********************************************************* Malcolm Hutchinson internet: malcolmh(a)waikato.ac.nz Editor: NEXUS 1994 The Waikato Students' Union Te Wharae Wananga O Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand PGP Public Key available on request ********************************************************* -- Nigel Allen ae446(a)freenet.carleton.ca ---------------------------------------------------------- Basil Chupin Internet: blchupin(a)pcug.org.au Fidonet: 3.620.269.0 +61-6-285-2353 XLTNet: 370.100.1.0 +61-6-285-2353 ---------------------------------------------------------- -- "I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?" - Leo Burlero/PKD +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff(a)suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+

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Re: Cypherpunk remailer
by johan＠eniac.campus.luth.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 07:24 PM 2/29/96 +0100, you wrote: >>>The mixmaster remailers require special client software on your machine. >> >>What special software? What will the client do? >It's "The Mixmaster Client Software". Mixmaster is a relatively complex >system that breaks up the message into encrypted pieces that get sent >separately to a destination mixmaster, which decrypts and reassembles the >pieces and sends the message on to the final destination. It's more secure, >partly because all the transmissions are encyrpted, and partly because it's >much harder to do traffic analysis on a network of indentical-sized chunks >floating around than on messages with distinct sizes that you can watch. >I think the client only runs on Unix, or at least doesn't run on DOS, >though there's some porting work being done, and you can probably find >it on one of the Netherlands remailer sites. Ok.. that explains it! But If I really need to be that sure of not being tracked down I could use the Mixmaster on my unix shell account!

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NYT login
by David Lesher 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At one point, some kind souls were entering "username: cypherpunks" logins for all the various "free" www sites. Did anyone catch the www.nytimes.com one? If so, what password? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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Re: Win a free Apache-SSL-US Commercial license
by Steve Gibbons 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In Article: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960301204634.8380C-100000@chivalry>, Simon Spero <ses(a)tipper.oit.unc.edu> wrote: # On Fri, 1 Mar 1996 sameer(a)atropos.c2.org wrote: # > See http://apachessl.c2.org/ for more details. # Not quite an entry, but am I the only one to pronounce SSL "Cecil" # (SEcure Socket layer), to go along with SHTTP as "Shit-p" (nil)? # Cecil The C2 Web server? The word that always springs to my mind is "sessile." (Granted, I'm a pessimist, at heart... ;) -- Steve(a)AZTech.Net

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Re: PGP PRNG seeds?
by Mutant Rob 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada) wrote: > I tinkered with the switch > pgp +makerandom=size output.fil > > Is there a way to "seed" the PRNG with another file, say , part of an > encrypted text file? Copy the first 408 bytes of that file to the randseed.bin file in your pgp directory. (I'd save the original randseed.bin file or use a good RNG to generate a new one when you're done). - --- [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 iQBFAwUBMTf8qyoZzwIn1bdtAQHrZQF/dM8RgYDEB+pTSmdy9HSIi38YKy9LG9FE yBZtka9z28A2UyVvi37ijP8DrcOYg4zI =duUA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Anonymous Web Browsing
by Mark Grant, M.A. (Oxon) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: > These are "web proxies," and searching on this should produce some > information to answer your questions. There's a problem with that. I've noticed several pages recently with hidden mailto: links that aren't marked as such. So you can be happily browsing away through a web proxy only to click on a link and have your real id mailed to the site's owners. As people have mentioned, this is even worse with Javascript. Note to Netscape people: Is it possible to have an option that will *always* pop up a mail window and request confirmation before mail is sent out? Or disable mailto altogether? It would be a lot easier than binary editing the executable to remove all the mailto strings... Or does it exist? I can't find it. Mark

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Re: Problems with certificates.
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:35 AM 3/1/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote: >Today, each person generates their own PGP key. While it is unlikely that >any two will match, it is likely that at some point some two will match >(see matching birthdays in a bar - number is less than you would think). If if we colonized every planet in the galaxy, and every planet had a trillion people, and every single person on every planet generated a billion keys a second for a billion billion years, not one pair would match, assuming they were generated from truly random seeds. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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New PRNG method!
by Olcay Cirit 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello, All! I was just thinking about how to generate random numbers, when I hit upon an interesting idea: If the internet is so huge and complex, why not, say, use the least significant bits of ping times from random internet hosts as seeds for a PRNG? (Practical Random Number Gen.) You could then break the resulting binary value into 128-bit blocks and modulus/xor each with a stream of random numbers taken from a keyboard timing. After all this, you could wash it with a secure symmetric cryptosystem such as idea in CBC mode. Any thoughts, comments? -olcay - -- "For he who lives more lives than one, |) Olcay Cirit -- olcay(a)libtech.com more deaths than one must die" (| http://www.libtech.com/olo2.html - --- [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 iQBFAwUBMTh9pCoZzwIn1bdtAQGuDAGA1QM1KyGQ2i6n9LLF00HrVn7OvBftesA9 +Jsu4W3yZothdL1pFQLt2v5l9mjgTspW =2x/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Anonymous Web Browsing
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:24 AM 3/2/96, dwhite(a)pris.bc.ca wrote: > Hi guys..... I'm new here and I don't have the same technical >expertise as I am witnessing with most of the other posters here. > My question is this: Would it be possible to create a web site that >would function along the same lines as remailers do? Something that would >allow a person to browse anonymously. So lets say I surfed into a These are "web proxies," and searching on this should produce some information to answer your questions. Most of us, I think, are not using them. Your intuitions are correct, that protection steps are needed. The technology is developing, but the perceived need (anonymous browsing) is probably less than the perceived need for anonymous e-mail. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" 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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