December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Secure drive under Win95... a better way.
by Geoffrey C. Grabow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

After much fiddling, I've found (IMHO) a "good" way of using secure drive 1.4a under Win95. After doing the partitioning and encrypting, put the following in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file... cd\utils\secdr14a sectsr login D: /S @choice /T:N,1 @if errorlevel 2 goto ContinueLoad :EnterPP login D: @if errorlevel 1 goto Again @if errorlevel 0 goto ContinueLoad :Again @choice Try again? @if errorlevel 2 goto ContinueLoad @goto EnterPP :ContinueLoad cd\ cls abviously you have to replace the D: with your drive letter, and the directory at the top with your SECDR14a dir. Then, in Win95 you have to turn off 32 bit disk access. To do this without losing all the speed of virtual memory, do the following... right-click on My Computer click on Properties, Performance, File System, Troubleshooting and check the box labeled: Disable all 32 bit protect-mode disk drivers. Re-boot. If you have a CD-ROM drive, you will have to load the DOS drivers in order to be able to access it. Granted, this is just a kludge until Secure Drive is re-designed for Win95, but I've tried a dozen different combinations, and this gives you all the SecDrv security under Win95 (except being able to lock/unlock after Win95 starts) and sacrafices the least amount of system performance. Enjoy! G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | Great people talk about ideas. | | Oyster Bay, New York | Average people talk about things. | | gcg(a)pb.net | Small people talk about people. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP 2.6.2 public key available at www.pb.net/~wizard | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | That which does not kill us, makes us stranger. - Trevor Goodchild | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Reuter on P8 Anti-Terrorism
by David Rosoff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12.59 AM 7/31/96 GMT, John Young wrote: > G7, Russia adopt anti-terror pact, avoid sanctions > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:00:07 PDT > > > PARIS (Reuter) - The world's major powers closed ranks to > combat terrorism Tuesday, urging other nations to join > forces with them but sidestepping a dispute over U.S. > demands for sanctions against what Washington calls > "terrorist states." [...] > The ministers also vowed to prevent extremists from using > the Internet computer network to plan attacks and spread > bomb-making instructions. > > > Participants heard Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy > recount how his 11-year-old son had shown him where to find > such content on the Internet. That damn Alta Vista. We should have had it outlawed years ago. "If searching is outlawed, only outlaws will do searches." =============================================================================== David Rosoff (nihongo ga sukoshi dekiru) ---------------> drosoff(a)arc.unm.edu PGP public key 0xD37692F9 -----> finger drosoff(a)acoma.arc.unm.edu or keyservers 0xD37692F9 Key fingerprint = 25 7D AA 01 85 41 43 89 50 5A 33 76 F1 F1 99 67 Do you know who's reading your email? ---> http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/ Is it a forgery? --- I have PGP signed all email and news posts since May 1996. =============================================================================== "Relax. It's not a real alarm. They can't crack _Pentagon_ codes. Can they?" :p -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMf+h4hguzHDTdpL5AQFveQP9GVX6xOLl5gFcwGP4NGBLKOBGTiphul0Z wqv+Tk7fpOvR66jg3xcl5Bhvmjx1oVaXQQnPPt39/R8vOBzD1HXcvnknRf4uhO7z xp06KZPeKf1V9MA8E1wzRJnifi2EBQEBcj5AzjHBtgN+gLZ3KhMpmguq+kZTxpa4 +TXozx5CrxQ= =RNL9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: A Libertine Question
by jbugden＠smtplink.alis.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alan Horowitz <alanh(a)infi.net> wrote: <Something about horseshit not being allowed on city streets> _________________ Punkers denounce arrests - Police nab 70 Montreal Gazette, July 30, 1996, Page A1 Punkers returned to Berri park last night to protest against the arrest of 70 of their own during an earlier demonstration in defiance of a city curfew on parks. More than 250 punkers and other marginalized youth gathered in the park around 12:30 a.m. yesterday to protest against a new bylaw that changed the designation of the site from a *public place* to a city park. The change means that the park closes between midnight and 6 a.m. and can't be used overnight by punkers and the homeless. The bylaw also gives police the power to ticket people for such infractions as walking on the grass or taking up more than one space on a park bench. _________________ Greg Broiles <gbroiles(a)netbox.com> wrote: >The regulation of ordinary social and economic activity is not a >"homelessness issue", it's a "freedom issue". If you admit that it can >legitimately be regulated but reassure yourself with your trust in the >discretion and good judgement of the regulators, your liberty is more a >matter of grace than of right. Have a nice day. Welcome to our model community. Please don't walk on the grass. Sit up straight. And remember to smile at all times. James

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Re: Dry Under the Waterfall
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:57 AM 7/30/96 -0700, David Kline wrote: > >A question though: What about the 3 million hard-working, reading, >middle-class folks who have been downsized into oblivion the last three >years alone? What about the tens of millions of readers who had the skills >needed for the industrial age, but not for the information age? I forgot to include a little anecdote about education in my original post. There seems to be a belief extant that education is something that you are completely dependent on others for. The masses will just sit there and melt away unless they are given a "program." "I need a program. Who's got a program? We need a program. All God's chillun's got programs." This is provably false. People can learn whatever they have to. (Within very broad intellectual limits.) If they *choose* not to learn (and you are not their parent or employer), it is a violation of their autonomy to browbeat them. You should leave them alone in their ignorance and, of course, not waste any money helping them since they have demonstrated that they aren't interested. An economist might say that those who reject education are making a choice. They are deciding that, for them, the value of today's leisure (L) plus today's income (I) is greater than the recreational value of education (R) plus the present value (PV) of future financial and psychic gains from education. L + I > R + PV In other words, all those people who were drinking beer or working construction while TM was going to college, graduate school, studying physics, and working for Intel were making the decision that *for them* the value of all that time off, plus current income, plus lack of skull sweat was greater than the chance of becoming a millionaire and retiring at 30-something. And they may well be right. In any case, we should honor their choices as we expect them to honor ours. To intervene in a big way in their lives (or in TMs) to challenge their choices is deeply wrong. We can't tell from the outside what the value of the education/work/leisure tradeoff is for an individual. All we can do is observe their actions. If you doubt that people can learn if they really have to... Greta spent her teens fleeing with he mother from Poland into the USSR on foot in advance of the Wermacht (religious differences). As the Wermacht receeded, so did Greta and her mother who preferred the West. In the course of events, they ended up in a Displaced Persons (DP) camp in Austria. There was an understandable reluctance on the part of the DP to be repatriated to areas in the Soviet Zone of Occupation. (Operation Keelhaul would later hand many thousands of DPs over to the commies.) England or America were *by far* the first choice. A rumor went around the camp that England was desperately short of glove makers. Some people in the camp knew how to make gloves. Within a few weeks, everyone in the camp knew how to make gloves. English lessons were also very popular. There were no "programs" to teach either of these skills. The happy ending to the story is that Greta and her mother secured a trip to New York City. In the 45 years since she's been here, Greta has neither returned to Europe or ever felt the desire to do so in spite of the superior European social welfare systems. When asked why, she says that Europe had its shot at her and she doesn't believe in tempting fate. The point is that people can learn if they have to and if they don't have to they don't have to. Life in America today is as easy as it's ever been in human history (at least since the invention of agriculture), so if people want to relax we should let them -- and not subsidize them. DCF

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Re: Photo IDs (Re: A Libertine Question)
by William Knowles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote: > At 02:56 AM 8/1/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: > >I can easily make my own photo I.D.s, or even order "fake I.D.s" from > >various mail-order outlets advertising in the Usual Places. If I show up at > >the airline with two photo I.D.s, one showing me to be "Security Officer > >Mickey Mouse" and the other showing me to be "Mickey Mouse, Internal > >Security Agency," will I be violating any laws? > > > >--Mickey Mouse (I just changed my name--if you don't like it, FAA, fuck off) > > They want "government-issued" photo ID. They haven't said which government > have they. Time to get my Barbados driver's license. What about one of those camouflage passports from Britsh Honduras that they sell in the back of the Robb Report for $300? I personally doubt that your basic $4.75 an hour airport security guard knows about that. William Knowles erehwon(a)c2.org -- William Knowles <erehwon(a)c2.org> PGP mail welcome & prefered / KeyID 1024/2C34BCF9 PGP Fingerprint 55 0C 78 3C C9 C4 44 DE 5A 3C B4 60 9C 00 FB BD Finger for public key --

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RE: Game Theory and its Relevance to Cypherpunks
by Jerome Tan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In Iran, Chenghis Khan killed 30 millions out of 40 who previously lived there. Ghenghis Khan, not Chenghis Khan. It basically proves that people now are no better and no worse than people then. Really, there is no reason for things to be otherwise. I agree with you. Massacre done before is more worst than now. But there are a lot of moral people in those times.

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Re: G7T_err
by koontz＠netapp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

thanks

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RE: Violation or Protection? [OLYMPICS]
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:51 PM 7/31/96, Blanc Weber wrote: >>From: tcmay(a)got.net >> >>If the Centennial Park is a public place, not a private one, as I believe >>to be the case, then it seems to me a person is within his rights to turn >>down the offer to be inspected, frisked, interrogated, etc. >........................................................ > >But if the park was a private one, would it make any difference? Of course, which is why stores can have "bags will be searched" policies, restrictions about atire, and all sorts of other policies which are not allowed in public places. Disneyland is a private park, and has rules which are not the rules a public park can have. Put it this way, "My house, my rules." > I mean, either it is, or it isn't, a "right". When could it really be >okay to violate that definition. How are the law enforcers to do their >job if they can't intrude into your shopping bag, when it's a critical >National Emergency. This is what Denning is always referring to. One needs to distinguish "rights" vis-a-vis government actions, and the policies of private actors. The usual point about "freedom of speech" applies. E.g., Blanc has "freedom of speech," but not inside Microsoft. Not to lecture, but this frequent blurring of public vs. private areas, of government vs. corporate actions, of "property rights," is hurting the cause of liberty. --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, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Photo IDs (Re: A Libertine Question)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:09 PM 7/31/96, William Knowles wrote: > >What about one of those camouflage passports from Britsh Honduras >that they sell in the back of the Robb Report for $300? > >I personally doubt that your basic $4.75 an hour airport security >guard knows about that. All of the I.D. checks I have received have been at the ticket counter, to receive my boarding pass. The airport security guards have never asked me for any form of I.D., picture or otherwise. (As has been commented upon by many analysts, it's likely that the airline companies are enforcing the picture I.D. rule so as to stop the practice of people buying discount tickets and then selling them to others. Specifically, many corporations buy tickets in advance of knowing who the actual business traveller will be. The airlines are causing many who arrive at the ticket counter to "upgrade" to a full-fare ticket under their real name.) The "security" implications are a joke. More pablum fed to the gullible. --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, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: "And who shall guard the guardians?"
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:57 PM 7/31/96, Martin Minow wrote: >On Cyperpunks recently, Tim May wrote: > >>The Latin maxim "And who shall guard the guardians?" has some relevance to >>the headlong rush into converting the U.S. into even more of a security >>state than it is now. > >About 30 (thirty) years ago, I asked the same question at a large >computer conference. Then, a representative of the FBI was presenting >the NCIC computer system that was under development at the time. This >system gives local officials access to a national database of arrest >and conviction information. Abuses of the NCIC system are legend. I once received the home address (and other particulars) involving the famously-reclusive Thomas Pynchon. (The author of "Gravity's Rainbow," "V," "The Crying of Lot 49," and "Vineland" has not ever given a public interview, no photos are known to exist of him since his 1954 high school yearbook photo, and even his residence was unknown.) Pynchon, as I have noted before here, lived for almost 10 years about 3 miles from me; I may have passed him many times in local stores and on the street. Without knowing it, of course. A "fan" of his used the NCIC system, the data base into which all drivers and many others are placed, to locate him. At least this fan did not stalk and kill him, as has happened in the past with NCIC data base accesses. As we computerize the Surveillance State, the possibilities for abuse and for repression (if not by Clinton, then by others, or by Aldrich Ames-type situations) become astronomical. The "key registration" and "national I.D. card" proposals just square or cube the problem. --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, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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