December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Keeping America safe from Soy Milk
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 1 Aug 96 at 14:35, E. ALLEN SMITH forwarded: > > JONESBORO, Ga. -- An 18-year-old self-styled anarchist who allegedly > > distributed a free, homemade pamphlet with anti-government rhetoric > > has been charged with advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government. > [...] > > The pamphlet was laced with with anti-police cartoons, obscenities, > > and anarchist slogans. The one overt reference to violence was an > > illustration of a "Molotov cocktail" on the same sheet with a recipe > > for "soy milk" made from water-soaked soybeans, sugar and vanilla and > > strained through a T-shirt. Nuff said. Rob --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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My crypto-export URL was in the wrong place
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I typo'd on the URL. http://www.osf.org/~rsalz/crypto-export.html Sorry for any confusion.

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Re: Tolerance (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi All, Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:35:00 -0700 > From: shamrock(a)netcom.com (Lucky Green) > Subject: Re: Tolerance > > Hell no. Do I believe he has a right to join the list? Yes, with one > possible exception. The list owner can ban anybody, since the list is using > the owner's resources. In this case, from a libertarian standpoint, not > even an explanation of such an action would be required. If the person joining the public list is warned that the list owner reserves that right I would agree. It would require such a warning to be issued at the time the person received their notification of successful joining. If that warning is not present and the list is advertised as PUBLIC then NO, not even the list operator can ethicaly refuse membership to anyone for any reason other than criminal activity by a member. Otherwise it isn't public. Just because you provide a service does not give you unlimited or even limited control if you make it clear it is public and therefore open to anyone. Libertarian views should be basicaly if it doesn't harm anothers person or property without their prior consent then it should be legal and permissible. A public list means that the owner does not reserve any rights of moderation or cencorship. This is the way public is applied to the government and it is the way it MUST be applied to private individuals. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. In short the ethical situation is the same as if a city declares a park to be public and then begins to bar people from sleeping there at night. Jim Choate

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Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now ...
by Ernest Hua 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Louis Freeh is now asking the Congress for $2 billion to fund Digital Telephony. Yes, that is FOUR TIMES what he said it would cost the taxpayers to give up their own privacy. Score one for the cynics who said $500 million was not enough. Ern

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Re: "adjust your attitude with their billy club" (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:36:56 -0400 (EDT) > From: Alan Horowitz <alanh(a)infi.net> > Subject: Re: "adjust your attitude with their billy club" > > "Given the loss of privacy tolerated by 99.9999% of American citizens in > the past twenty years, no one has a right to complain about the > government taking new powers for itself." > > You cannot have it both ways. If you are free to define what is or is not > a public nuisance when you do it; likewise am I. To the first comment, numerical superiority is not sufficient reason in a democracy to justify actions by that democracy. One of the basic ideas behind democracy is that certain aspects of individuals are inherent and uncontrollable by that democracy (ie rights). To my mind democracy is the only form of government which recognizes a priori that everyone is not alike and therefore will want different things. This can be said of no other form of government which treats persons as identical cogs in a government machine. In short, democracy is not mob rule however much the majority might like that idea. I would say that the first comment above can be said another way, "If you have been raped once then you should not complain any about subsequent rapes." Clearly utter bullshit. This is pure and simple victim-speak. As to the second, you are not free to define public nuisance, only nuisances to yourself. The burden of proof rests on the individual to prove that such actions by a third party are a public nuisance. For something to be a public nuisance its effects MUST extend to property or persons other than the instigator AND it must be shown that damage occurs without prior permission. Simply because they do something that irks you does not make it public let alone a nuisance. Jim Choate

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Bombs & bomb threats in LA
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, dry ice bombs are in the rec.pyrotechnics FAQ, stored among other places at: http://www.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/faq/pyrotechnics-faq and everyplace else all the news.answers FAQs are stored. What, precisely, is an acid bomb? Also note the standard blame-the-Internet (not, say, increased irritation with government after the Republicans failed to reduce it) rhetoric. -Allen > Cobb Group - Netscape > NUMBER OF LEGITIMATE BOMB THREATS HAVE INCREASED IN L.A. OVER 1995 > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > Copyright &copy 1996 Los Angeles Daily News > LOS ANGELES (Aug 1, 1996 10:11 a.m. EDT) -- A bomb threat closed the > entire roadway network within the Los Angeles International Airport > for 45 minutes, creating a massive traffic tangle that came on top of > delays from heightened security. [...] > Police say the case is the latest in a rash of bomb threats and > suspicious package discoveries in Los Angeles borne of heightened > concern and publicity surrounding the recent bombing at the Olympics, > the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800 and last year's Oklahoma City > bombing. > Each threat is taken seriously by law enforcement officials, who who > say they are responding to a greater number of calls -- and, in Los > Angeles County, finding a greater number of explosive devices. > A Sheriff's Department spokesman said 178 potentially explosive > devices have been found in the county out of a total of 273 calls > answered in the first six months of this year. > By contrast, only 86 such devices were found out of 259 calls in the > first half of 1995. [...] > "We're going to top 70 for the month -- that is a record in this > unit," Spencer said. "And the actual devices that really cause damage > has gone up." > Among devices found by sheriff's deputies: nine pipe bombs, 53 pieces > of military ordnance, 44 Molotov cocktails, 12 fireworks-pyrotechnic > devices, two acid bombs and five dry ice bombs. > In the city, the Los Angeles Police Department's bomb squad responded > to 972 calls in 1995 -- up from 717 in 1994. > Of those calls last year, 181 were for either fireworks, ordnance or > other potentially threatening items, police said. > The squad destroyed 73 devices and investigated 41 explosions -- many > in mailboxes -- that occurred over the year. Most calls, however, were > for suspicious packages that turned out to be harmless. > "We have had an excessive amount of bomb calls on the heels of the > pipe bombing in Atlanta," said Lt. Tony Alba, an LAPD spokesman. "They > have been running around like crazy ever since the Atlanta incident, a > lot of suspicious package calls." [...] > Also on Wednesday, 55 miles north of downtown Los Angeles in > Lancaster, the sheriff's bomb squad was summoned to the parking lot at > an Elks Lodge where deputies found a homemade device -- which included > half-sticks of dynamite and BBs. [...] > And Monday, an Ensenada, Mexico-bound Carnival cruise ship, filled > with 1,846 passengers, was forced to turn around and head back to port > after a bomb threat was made. No bomb was found. > "To some it is a power thing," said Sgt. Al Humphries of the Sheriff's > Department bomb squad. "With 20 cents and a mean spirit you can make a > cruise ship turn around, or make an airplane turn back." > Spencer and security experts agree media attention that focused on > bombs in the aftermath of the Centennial Olympic Park and TWA > explosions have factored into the flurry of threats and reported > suspicious packages. > William Daly, managing director at Kroll Associates, a New York-based > security firm, said the activity will diminish as the spotlight fades. > "If you look after the World Trade Center bombing, there was a > dramatic increase the next day, unfortunately tied to the attention on > the issue," Daly said. > "These people who are on the fringe, they enjoy seeing emergency > service, knowing that it is going to disrupt a city," he said. "This > is the way they live out their fantasy. The more they see it being > received and responded to, the more it will continue." [...] > Spencer said information about bomb-making on the Internet may be the > answer to the greater numbers of actual devices being made. > "This information is readily available on the Internet," he said. > "What we've noticed is that a lot of juveniles have gotten the > information off the Internet -- they admit it." > Alba said the most common devices found by the LAPD are pipe bombs and > dry ice bombs, often used to blow up mailboxes. > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net

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Pipe bombs
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So now we are to spend the next six or eight months putting instructions on how to build pipe bombs in our .sigs, reading endless analyses of how the "Antiterrorism and Safety Act of 1996" is unconstitutional, following the CDA-type emergency challenge mounted by VTW/ACLU/NRA, and wondering who will be arrested first. Fuck them. Fuck Swinestein, Klinton, Gingrich, and all the rest. And fuck Dole. (On second thought, don't--it might not be a survivable experience.) I say they've all earned only our contempt. It's time to accelerate our efforts to undermine this foolish experiment in pandering to the masses. --Tim May Buy a section of metal water pipe 1/2 by 6 inches long, threaded on both ends. Buy two metal caps to fit. These are standard items in hardware stores. Drill a 1/16th hole in the center of the pipe. This is easy with a good drill bit. Hanson is a good brand to use. Screw a metal cap tightly on one end. Fill the pipe to within 1/2 inch of the top with black powder. Do not pack the powder. Don't even tap the bottom of the pipe to make it settle. You want the powder loose. For maximum explosive effect, you need dry, fine powder sitting loose in a very rigid container.

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Who the hell is ....
by Charley Sparks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- OK, I'v been on the list a bit now. I see a lot of the same people posting to it, My question is " Who the Hell is Sternlight" At first I thought it was a pen name ( the light on the end of a boat ?? ) Thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCXAwUBMgHOEeJ+JZd/Y4yVAQEu4gQLB0BjGZB+ezonyMrzCEE4+FWA/l18CeLz tIyRRuLiCKw/IO/sNAJeaCQP0D0IsFcMVnjs6rlQ5hiVX09+P4P8IlNfFjH6TdN0 HezEsU9yupltcNpje9PoxnGI38QgN3yQbjB06+xHf37KPxdIzBr+/7/pRyash5dl z5StfU0SSZIhPg== =cUAP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: SSNs (was Re: Internal Passports)
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:59 PM 8/5/96 -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote: >Well, it would be nice if it was that easy. You (legally) need to give >the correct one to anyone who has to make a report about you to the IRS, >right? Such as your employer. Virtually no one in the history of the world has done any time for giving a false SS#. Considering the fact that millions of Americans daily drive drunk, exceed the lawful speed limit, drift through stop signs without coming to a complete halt pick each other up in bars and do a host of other things that are much more likely to get them in trouble than making up an SS#, I am constantly *amazed* that people always advise you not to do so. If it's good enough for the President of Israel, it's good enough for anyone. >Is it >needed to get a driver's license? (The fine print on the DMV forms says >"yes".) But most DMVs don't check and the SS is still resisting verification services (at least until the Immigration Bill passes). >Is it necessary to make use of employer-sponsored medical >insurance? (I suspect that the answer to this one is "no", except for >the fact that when my employer set up my medical insurance they let the >insurance company use my SSN as my insurance-related-ID-number. But in >any event, my dentist told me, "if you don't give it to us, they won't >pay.") Just make sure you give the insurance company and the doctor the same number. >If you already have a SSN, can you get a *new* one in any legal way? >(Sort of the same idea as changing your phone number to avoid >telemarketing scum...) The SS resists issuing new numbers in spite of widespread duplication and theft. Soon people will find themselves denied the right to work in this country unless the SS reverses this reluctance. If your SS# is stolen and used "too many times" in a future worker verification program, you're screwed. And there won't even be any welfare for you. Use Alta Vista to find the SS Number FAQ. There's more stuff. DCF

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appropriate algorithm for application
by Cerridwyn Llewyellyn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I need an algorithm/protocol that is capable of encrypting numerous files with separate keys, but there also needs to be a master key that will be able to decrypt all of them. Is there such a system that is relatively secure? I'd prefer the system to be as secure as possible, but in this application, security is secondary to functionality. Thanks... //cerridwyn//

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