December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

There is no Agent Toby Tyler at the FBI [UK Observer Story]
by Richard Charles Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

...two different sources, both of whom are anonymous because they work for competing newspapers, tell me. Could someone else with contacts/time to kill/attributability please confirm this? Kinda puts a dent in the whole story, don't you think. -rich

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Re: DoJ is poking around
by Corey Minter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > >looks like the DoJ have been looking around at the mirrors.. maybe to > >legally hassle people about them.... > > Or, just maybe, some DoJ employees wanted to see what folks on the outside > were doing to tweek their bosses:-)? Reminds me of the *thousands* of hits > the "Intel Secrets Page"(http://www.x86.org/) has gotten from users at > intel.com exactly. watch out, some DoJ revisionist might get into your mirror site and get you back for trying to keep a history of the incident :). well... maybe not. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Corey Minter | cminter(a)mipos2.intel.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, Yahoo!, I'd have all my money back. --Jack Handy

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Mimic Function Stego Programs?
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anybody have a stego program along the lines of Peter Wayner's Mimic Functions? I'm looking for something that you can hand a grammar and a set of bits that will produce sentences in the grammar, plus a decoder that can take the sentences and reconstruct the bits. I have a friend who lives in a kleptocratic country where the local bureaucrats have made it clear they'll confiscate the main email node in his town if they catch traffic they recognize as encrypted, and text in some non-popular language may be less obvious than, say, Mandelbrot sets with stego-bits or other artwork. ----- PHB would work ok... http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert960821-9577.gif ----- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!

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Re: Edited Edupage, 18 Aug 1996 [SATELLITES]
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 15:46:13 -0500 (CDT), Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >> >I'd worry far more about the stresses of launch bothering >> >the drives. >> >> That's not a problem at all. Most modern drives are rated for 10's >> of G's, non-operating. Satellite launches are probably a breeze >> compared to this. >I remember reading that Russian satellite launches with people aboard >had acceleration of about 9-10G. Since when do satellites have people on board? (Or was this some new way of silencing politcal prisoners?) / If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. / Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp / Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" / Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 / Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: Real or Not ?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:09 PM 8/28/96, Declan McCullagh wrote: >On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Eric Murray wrote: > >> Heh. They forgot the Black Heliocopters manned by agents of >> the UN/New World Order, and the Greys from Zeta Reticuli.. >> >> It's a hoax, with several clues that it is a hoax in it. >> >> Of course you're welcome to prove me wrong by disassembling >> a PGP binary. Examination of the random numnber generator, IDEA >> key setup, or RSA key setup vs what's in the source code >> should show if something fishy is going on. > >Unless of course the program you're using to view the disassembled >instructions has also been altered by the TriLats. And make sure you use >any pre-1992 compiler on a pre-1992 operating system on a computer that's >not hooked up to the Net or even located where NSA agents can get to it. Ha! You think a pre-1992 compiler and OS wil fix this? What about the processor? I can assure you, as a longterm Intel employee during these formative years, that Intel was pressured into including the famous "NSA instructions" into the 8080, in 1974. These instructions are well-known, and the Cray had them as well. Inasmuch as the 8080 instructions live on in every x86 processor--like the reptilian brain inside all of us--this gives the NSA instant access to all contents of the processor. This is why I use a Mac, of course. --Perry Noyd We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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: (flatulence): Reply-to loops
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"rah(a)shipwright.com" "Robert Hettinga" 28-AUG-1996 02:44:31.09 >We don't do it because of reply-to loops. >Only idiots, or charitably, those with very low traffic, run their mail >lists any other way. >Accidentally sending private e-mail to the list is bad enough without >bringing the listserver to its knees... Umm... only one other list I'm on does reply-to to something other than the list, and some of those lists are running majordomo. Reply-to to the list doesn't have to cause problems; only a few domains (compuserve.com, wow.com, and one other that I can't remember offhand) cause error problems to reply-to addresses. The point about low volume mailing lists vs high volume ones is, however, a good point; the other list with reply-to to other than the list that I'm on is one designed for low traffic. -Allen

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Hmmm MSIE V2.0
by John Hemming - CEO MarketNet 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It seems to be that MSIE V2.0 transmits its data in the clear once it has transmitted the client hello and received the server hello SSL records in some limited circumstance or other. I don't know how widely this bug exists. Neither do I know which versions other than the French one has it. However, if you point your version of MSIE at https://beta.mkn.co.uk/help/system/msie and it indicates that the client has encryption problems. Then you have that problem as well. I would watch this one. Anyone feeling like tracing the packets will find it easier to crack than 2 bit SSL. (let alone 40 bit or 128 bit). Any thoughts?

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Re: DoJ is poking around
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:21 PM 8/28/96 -0800, Adamsc wrote: >>> >looks like the DoJ have been looking around at the mirrors.. maybe to >>> >legally hassle people about them.... > >>> Or, just maybe, some DoJ employees wanted to see what folks on the outside >>> were doing to tweek their bosses:-)? Reminds me of the *thousands* of hits >>> the "Intel Secrets Page"(http://www.x86.org/) has gotten from users at >>> intel.com > >Out of curiosity, has anyone used a decompiler to check if any of the >undocumented stuff is getting used in shipping programs? I have not heard of anyone doing this with the Intel code, but I have seen info on the "Secret APIs of Bill" (Undocumented Windows API calls) being used in various programs. (For more info on this, check out "Undocumented Windows" by Schulman, Maxey, and Pietrek.) I am sure that the people who produce SoftIce could give you more info on this. (Either that or talk with whoever is doing the undocumented feature column for Dr. Dobbs.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."

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Re: stego virus
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:56 PM 8/28/96, Moroni wrote: > If a virus is embedded into a giff ,is it executed when the giff is or >does it require the usual overwriting etc methods to execute it? > TIA The virus is activated when the GIF is _viewed_. The viewing of the GIF activates the cerebro-visual processing centers of the brain, activating the ancient Sumerian meme complex. I assume, of course, you are referring to the deadly Snow Crash Good Times virus. If infected, the only solution is to unsubscribe from the Cypherpunks list before others are similarly infected. Hey, Moroni, we've missed your particular slant these last few months. --Klaus We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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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Clinton follies ideas?
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed Aug 28 21:57:52 1996 Our esteemed figurehead, Bill Clinton, will be doing the first stop of his "Road to Victory Tour" campaign this Friday, just a few blocks from my apartment. Does anybody have any cool suggestions on things to do to harass, heckle, or maybe get taken down by the Secret Service? (Or should I just yell, 'Clinton, you suck!'? :) dave Special P.S. to all FBI wiretappers: This is a joke. - ----- David Smith, Thinker of Deep Thoughts :) http://www.prairienet.org/bureau42/library.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMiUHMzVTwUKWHSsJAQE4ygf9F5ihhla2NguUFEFEgqDEb97haqqIv2ak MQ07CRohP+QHYBsMnsnqjMvZslVnQCkr+mJWa8DC22dEPvGQ58+8NdsuykspIgEE jegvZuQqGBmHex3fz6NLcYBQXFuyF8fbGEaXuHJjmvszkZDBqe3Fo95ywuMJPklZ TIpZjE2xbX7T+H6yK2itIi/cmyPHN7zTfHKpdvjWcAY6hMVXuQwLx5g/cg3AErA4 R7MhDTnL2uH/16ccYQKPnpyBqxZ/DYg/DzrwO0Jj1RzeXBllTyALXMt5pQRKrbuy xl8IJJ4j1cFIjeiOvg/tTBpOoFP1f3tj8iDLBYrzqxCytelyWxgQnw== =LK29 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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