December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list (fwd)
by gimonca＠skypoint.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:05:33 -0700 (PDT) > From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)eff.org> > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list > HotWired, The Netizen > 19 August 1996 > > Trouble in Paradise > by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) > Washington, DC, 18 August > > Indonesian democracy activists have taken their fight for freedom > to the Net, and the government doesn't approve. > > After distributing email messages about riots in Jakarta last month to > an international Indonesian-politics mailing list, Prihadi Beny > Waluyo, a lecturer at Duta Wacana Christian University, was arrested > and interrogated by the military. Since then, the mailing list has > been banned from the country and Waluyo has returned to his house, > where he remains under surveillance. > [dan lain-lain...] Exactly which mailing list was "banned from the country"? All the Indonesian mailing lists I'm on, including apakabar(a)clark.net, are functioning normally, with no unusual complaints or interruptions.

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

17 Dec '03

tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) writes: [snip] > There are of course now more than 20,000 newsgroups. > Searches and greps of the newsgroup list are a way to find > potentially relevant newsgroups for posting a message or > finding messages of interest. > (As is well-known, the Usenet Cabal gets its orders from > the Bilderbergers as to which newsgroups fit in with New > World Order sanctioned epistemologies.) > Some are saying there is an alternate method. With the > advent of search engines which can index messages on the > Usenet (and in Webspace, but the idea is the same), why not > this alternative: put your message in a bottle and just > throw it into the "sea" of possible messages. Let search > engines find the messages of interest (modulo a day or two > of latency, as the spiders reach the space where the message > was placed). No newsgroups needed. 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. One of the nice things about IRC is that if the Empire State Building suddenly blows up, you can tune to #bomb and generally find several hundred people interested in discussing it without having to go through some complicated newgroup/rmgroup/discussion procedure. The real data base of Usenet is the totality of messages, indexed by message ID, and there are so many newsgroups now that allowing the Newsgroups: line to have arbitrary contents in the message header would do little to increase the confusion. Entering each arbitrary entry in the Newsgroups: line into a secondary searchable index would provide the same functionality as we have now with the conventional arrangement of newsgroups. News software would certainly be free to map the Usenet hierarchy onto a directory structure, as is done today, or to simply keep it as a large flat database with multiple indices, or to do any combination of the above, such as an arrangement where populated newsgroups get their own directory, and everything else resides in a giant directory called "/usr/spool/news/krap." With governments creating lists of "banned" newsgroups, and an official creation process managed by the "Cabal", Usenet is much more vulnerable to state control than it would be if newsgroups were simply arbitrary strings which existed somewhere in the current window into the history file. A newsgroup would then exist if there were messages in it, and wouldn't exist if it had remained unused for some reasonable period of time. Now that search engines are becoming the best way to read Usenet anyway, and the Newsgroups: line is just another field in a set of search specifications, there is no reasonable reason to limit what may be placed there to some list of "20,000" pre-defined strings, or some government controlled subset of the above. If Singapore bans alt.sex.hooters, you could simply post to alt.culture.singapore.i.got.your.hooters.right.here. This would effectly jerk the rug out from under the "banned newsgroups" gestapo, and create a namespace so large you would always be able to construct an appropriately suggestive new entry in the compliment of any part that was blocked. It would also send the correct message that "newsgroups" are simply one of many labels on an article, and are not cyberspacial tearooms where bad people congregate and there is guilt by association. 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. As long as people can post anonymously, they will simply switch to another existing newsgroup when the one they are posting to becomes blocked. Once the inevitable reciprocal pissing contest between posters and censors gets going, Usenet as we know it will likely be destroyed. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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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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Anonymous password assignment failure (no password)
by daemon＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You have requested the assignment of a new password However, your message text didn't contain any password. Remember that passwords should only contain letters and numbers.

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Naked woman decapitates man on Internet!!!
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You just gotta love the headline. Anyone have the URL? Seen on Newspage headlines; I assume the full text is on ClariNet. NAKED WOMAN DECAPITATES MAN ON INTERNET - Pictures of a naked young woman decapitating a man with a saw are available on the Internet, to the consternation of police in Munich who say they are unable to do anything about it. [AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, 175 words] -rich who thought the associated press was bad

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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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