December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

[NOISE] Re: Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list (fwd)
by mccoy＠communities.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan wrote: [...] > Back to Indonesia -- my column should have said the Indonesian military is > *trying* to ban the mailing list from the country. They haven't succeeded > yet. Time will tell. > > I have more information on Indonesia at http://www2.eff.org/~declan/global/ >-- > right now, use the www2 address since not all directories seem to be > updating on the mirror servers properly right now. For those who are curious, Indonesia is an interesting test case among the Pacific Rim counties because the current iron-fisted ruler is beginning to get a bit long in the tooth and no one has any idea what it going to happen when he finally croaks. Indonesia has had almost no political opposition since a rather violent anti-Communist crackdown/coup in the 60s. All media access was rigorously controlled and the possibilities the Internet and similar computer networking technologies offer (ObCryptoAnarchy ref...) are just now becoming apparent to those who are in charge. How this plays out will have interesting reprecussions in other such countries where politicial discourse is a new phenomenon and where the Internet is just now being seen as a threat to the current order. jim, former exchange student to Indonesia who hopes the transition is less bloddy than Indonesia's last change of government...

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Agents, Spiders, Linda, and BlackNet
by Vincent L. Diaz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim: At 10:58 AM 8/19/96 -0700, you wrote: > >Key Phrases: agents, spiders, linda, blacknet, indexing, hierarchy, >alternatives to hierarchy, emergent indexing, aptical foddering, tuple >spaces, virtual communities, shared environments (Snip) >Just some ideas. Nothing new, to me at least. But I thought some of the >newer list members might not have seen some of these ideas, part of the >assumed culture to we crypto anarchists. I currently subscribe to DigitalLiberty and am very new to Cypherpunks. I wanted to thank you for thinking of us "Newbies" in the Crypto field with this submission. I hope that your will at some time in the future seriously consider a comprehensive book on this and other subjects skewed towards the general public. Regards, VINCENT L. DIAZ U-SAVE COMMUNICATIONS Business Line: 619-277-2411 Fax Line: 619-277-0298 http://www.cognigen.com/agencies/

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Re: your mail
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So, how do you UNDO the encryptation? Gee, no wonder it's uncrackable. Daniel.

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Re: Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list (fwd)
by Sean McGrath 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> ...llike the Berkeley administration's reading student email ... This was a paranoid fantasy that became a rumor and is on its was to an urban ledgend. The UC administration does not have the inclination, interest or resources to monitor email. Sean McGrath

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Re: BlackNet: Commercial Posts?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:05 PM 8/19/96, Ross Wright wrote: >On Or About 19 Aug 96, 7:03, Hal wrote: > >> service, or in fact a network of any sort. Rather, it is a vendor. >> It buys and sells information. > >My question to the list: > >Who benefits from all this publicity and brew-ha-ha? Who makes all >the BlackNet money? Who really cares if it is a Data Haven or just a >remailer? I'm just asking. Well, obviously I do. I receive $1.42 for every posting which mentions BlackNet, 7% of gross sales for all commercial transactions, and 12.5% plus a sliding finder's fee for all military and intelligence secrets sold via BlackNet. But all true paranoiacs knew this. --Aldrich Ames 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: No Subject - Lesson in cracking (cryptoanalysis 001)
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wait wait wait! I have a bridge I want to sell him first. Course, I shouldn't talk. I bought the planet yesterday. You all owe me $5k/hour rent. Daniel.

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Re: Naked woman decapitates man on Internet!!!
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:00 AM 8/20/96, Lucky Green wrote: >On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Mark O. Aldrich wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Rich Graves wrote: >> >> Yes, it's true. Her boyfriend kills the guy while she's >> giving him a blow job. Then they "get naked," hack up the body, and pose >> various body parts in, uh, 'interesting' positions. The whole story's on >> the Web site. Check them out at: >> >> http://www.grotesque.com/ >That was intense... But not as intense as it could be with Internet video! BTW, I've linked this page to my "A Childe's Own Primer on the Net," but I have warned young impressionables to only view the page if they want to see something gross. (Since no child wants to see something gross, this should deter them.) I wonder how the images were gotten? The site mentions that they were entered as evidence in the trial of the two bikers, but presumably the photo evidence would have been sealed. Not that this means much, given that the autopsy photos of Nicole Brown Simpson made it out onto the Net shortly after being taken. (I guess one of the evidence clerks or attorneys had a scanner and access to a remailer....) I do expect this to be added to the list of evils that the peo-CDA attorneys will cite. --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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Taxes on Internet access prediction
by Mike McNally 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

States and municipalities are taxing internet access. Who wants to make a prediction about if/when the IRS will start to count net access as a taxable fringe benefit of employment? (At a small company where I once worked, a tax accountant visiting one day noticed that we had a weight bench set up in a back corner of the big "back room". He advised us to be careful, because the IRS could count that as a taxable employee benefit.) -- ______c_________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being, m5(a)tivoli.com * m101(a)io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.

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Re: your mail
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I feel like a fool now. I think I'll go slam some Jello laced with Dew and quack like a dolphin now. Daniel.

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Re: Naked woman decapitates man on Internet!!!
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:00 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: >That was intense... Just goes to show you what some people will do to get a head... ]:> --- |"Computers are Voodoo -- You just have to know where to stick the pins."| |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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