December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [NOISE] Naked woman decrapitates man on Internet!!!
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sick, stuff. Yet everyone has to sneek a peek, just like a car crash. Hey, I did. I made the whole trip through the lurid pages. Ross =========== Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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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: [RANT] Death of Usenet: Film at 11
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:34 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote: >The alternative to doing something reasonable like this is >probably to see mass migration from "banned newsgroups" to >off-topic groups, like Lolita pictures in rec.pets.cats, when the >inevitable crackdown comes. Or, perhaps, rec.humbert.humbert.humbert.humbert.humbert.humbert B^) (2x3=6) Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: [RANT] Death of Usenet: Film at 11
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:34 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote: >Permit me to go off in an orthogonal direction here and say that >I think that we should do away with the concept of a pre-ordained >newsgroups in Usenet entirely, in favor of an IRC-like dynamic >creation of message pools. Moderated newsgroups gain reputation from their moderation policies and probably should not be included in this scheme. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius lebri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Netscape 3.0 and encryption choices
by Ted Cabeen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In Netscape 3.0, the program allows the user to specify which encryption standards to allow connections with. It allows encryption with 128-bit RC4, 128-bit RC2, and 156-bit(I think)3DES. Of these three, which would be the most secure method? It is possible to restrict all secure connects to be of 3DES only for example. What would be the most secure way to go, DES or RC4? this is the newly released US-Only downloadable copy of Netscape 3.0 -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Ted Cabeen http://shadowland.rh.uchicago.edu cabeen(a)netcom.com Check Website or finger for PGP Public Key secabeen(a)midway.uchicago.edu "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon cococabeen(a)aol.com "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot 73126.626(a)compuserve.com

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search engine improvement
by bryce＠digicash.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Keywords: distributed ratings systems, search engines, spiders, spiderspace, idea futures, The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner You know there is a trick that might greatly improve the effectiveness of a search engine at almost no cost to the end user. It is the well-known heuristic of "If Person A likes X and Y, and Person B likes X, then Person B probably likes Y.", combined with passive polling (which is getting information about people's opinions just by watching their actions, instead of by asking them). A first simple implementation would keep a table of the pages that people choose, keyed from the query that they originally submitted. Those pages that people choose most frequently from the list of matching pages (and/or those pages that people "stop" on-- that they do _not_ follow by further searching), would get bumped up a little in the list. This would be massively expensive in networking, storage, and computation, giving those hi-tech Alpha clusters at AltaVista something to do... :^) There are plenty of extras and refinements that could be added (for example, put some keywords identifying your "affiliation" in a separate field. It will only consider the results from other people who entered the same affiliation keywords when weighting your search results.). And there are some good topics for further discussion, such as is it worthwhile to distinguish between "relevancy" and "value"? I don't have a comprehensive list of people who are already working on this area (distributed ratings) (if I did, I might have Cc:'ed them), but I know that many people are. I hope that they and the search engine people get together and make cool stuff soon. There is the interesting issue of whether this will cause self-reinforcing "degeneration", where people (or an "affiliation"-keyed group of people) accidentally overlook a worthy page early in the game, and then, using each other's behavior to influence their own, reinforce that mistake. As a final attribution note: John Brunner thought of this idea idea in his prophetic novel _The Shockwave Rider_ in the 75. There is a wonderful line which I can't find right now, about how it turned out to be a flywheel instead of an oracle, merely aggregating human mistakes and successes. Regards, Bryce P.S. ObCryptoRelevance: Um... you could get paid for your ratings using Chaumian ecash, and even have your ratings popped into the right "affiliation" using Chaumian credentials... P.P.S. CryptoRelevance isn't very Ob anymore, is it? Just as well, IMESHO. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMhjA+EjbHy8sKZitAQGpIQMAyDcdHUgK9/KhNskvUG8AAbourl1Hg6J5 ZIzo7aTnDq3ZGN9RnqKRkBRRmk4hjN1rFFWvQUYtA3XQQl85scE2XVGG/oURBoTW EU4WwB2oMSsAVGkYHn02B4gFn8gO6hmA =tZn3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [NOISE] Naked woman decrapitates man on Internet!!!
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:30 PM 8/19/96, Ross Wright wrote: >Sick, stuff. Yet everyone has to sneek a peek, just like a car >crash. Hey, I did. I made the whole trip through the lurid pages. > Seven billion (thousand million for you Brits) people in the world. More than 10,000 deaths every hour, or about 5 deaths per second. What's so sick about one measly death? Just another crime, like thousands of others every day. They just got caught. At least he's immortalized on the Net. --Tim 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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AZ DMV: Citizenship to Drive? (fwd)
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Your papers, please? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:04:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Witanek <bwitanek(a)igc.apc.org> To: Recipients of pol-abuse <pol-abuse(a)igc.apc.org> Subject: AZ DMV: Citizenship to Drive? Posted: gdiazj(a)IMAP1.ASU.EDU Today the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles began requiring proof of citizenship before issuing a drivers license or a state identification. This policy was established by HB 2154 which passed this last session (this one slipped passed me). I am helping organize people in Arizona to oppose this. Please send your information ASAP, we need you your help. VIVA LA RAZA George Diaz, Jr. gdiazj(a)imap1.asu.edu GDIAZJ(a)aol.com gdiaz(a)ci.phoenix.az.us

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Re: Naked woman decapitates man on Internet!!!
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Or About 19 Aug 96, 20:37, Timothy C. May wrote: > 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: > >> > >> http://www.grotesque.com/ > >That was intense... > > But not as intense as it could be with Internet video! > > --Tim May Sick, stuff. Yet everyone has to sneek a peek, just like a car crash. Hey, I did. I made the whole trip through the lurid pages. Ross =========== Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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128-bit IE3.0 adventures
by David.K.Merriman＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com, webmaster(a)microsoft.com Date: Tue Aug 20 09:42:56 1996 I *finally* managed to get through to the 1-800 number that pops up when an attempted download of 128-bit MSIE 3.0 fails. They can only send out 128-bit version *2.0*, it seems. They referred me to the 1-800 Sales number, but of course, the sales droids weren't savvy enough to understand the problem, and tried to hand me off to a 206 area code number. At that point, I called off the drill - I'm not going to pay for a toll call to fix MS's screwup. "original" 800 number: 1-800-455-2959 Alternate 800 number: 1-800-426-9400 (autobot) - select 3, then 4, then 1 to get a Real Person. Anyone else upset about being denied might want to give them a call, too. Who knows, maybe if they get enough calls, they'll send someone to fix it. Dave - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PGP Email welcome, encouraged, and PREFERRED. Visit my web site at http://www.shellback.com/p/merriman for my PGP key and fingerprint "What is the sound of one hand clapping in a forest with no one there to hear it?" I use Pronto Secure (tm) PGP-fluent Email software for Windows -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMhkYK8VrTvyYOzAZAQE0SgQApRBedkueeR2JTAJknfA7JGER/oNReVUK i8ImmNzjQDeionIkMbV2CuGOE/DwblVQ2yDgnUIBteNAFeiebwzdxaw9ysRKshRY 5AuvmXCyVsFJMNICFlZwNTRH+x4h7EPqA5BPxXJb+3b0sxWxqFcnU8QocJlFq+ap ksb0mwgbVYc= =L3IC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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