December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Is the list down?
by Scott Schryvers 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PGP encrypted mail preferred. E-Mail me for my key. Scott J. Schryvers <schryver(a)radiks.net>

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Level30 Newsletter (fwd)
by William Knowles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Recently, you requested from our email autoresponder a copy of The Agincourt Project. You were not alone. That document has made its way around the world. Law enforcement agencies, public officials, prosecutors, ISP's and concerned citizens have all been reading it. And it has made a difference. Illegal obscenity and child pornography IS being removed from the Internet. And now that the first round of the CDA legal battle is over, and the focus in the battle against Internet pornography will change back to the enforcement of local obscenity and child pornography laws. But the issues are complex, and a single document is just not enough to keep the public informed. And so we have started Level30. Since you had an interest in The Agincourt Project (whatever your position on it), we thought you'd be interested in Level30. To receive this biweekly (or more frequently) newsletter, simply send an e-mail message To: majordomo(a)databack.com Subject: (leave blank) Message: subscribe level30 About the Purpose - To instruct families on how to safely use the Internet, and to inform families, law enforcement, the media and other interested Internet organizations about breaking news in the fight to keep illegal pornography and child pornography OFF the Internet. About the Title - This is the Offense Level mandated by the United States Sentencing Commission for the trafficking of child pornography often found on the Internet in Usenet newsgroups. (Base offense level - 17; if the material involves a prepubescent minor, increase by 2 levels; if the offense involves distribution, increase by at least 5 levels; if the offense involves material that portrays sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence, increase by 4 levels; and if a computer was used to transport or ship the visual depiction, increase by 2 levels.) (The Sentencing Table can be found at http://www.ussc.gov.) About the Author - Paul D. Cardin, P.A Member of the Board of Directors of Oklahomans for Children And Families (OCAF) Author of The Agincourt Project - the electronic expose that explains how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are responsible for the distribution of illegal pornography and child pornography throughout America. Architect of the most effective and successful campaign in the United States today to stop the electronic distribution of illegal pornography and child pornography. Former officer in the Oklahoma Civil Liberties Union About the Regular Features - America's Most Wanted - A list of public corporations that are the enemies of America's children and families because of their continued electronic distribution of illegal pornography and child pornography. (Your State Here)'s Most Wanted - A state by state list of ISPs that are the enemies of children and families because of their continued electronic distribution of illegal pornography and child pornography. Commentary - Incisive and hard hitting analysis of the legal and constitutional issues facing the Internet today. Battle Reports - Updates from the front lines, from "war correspondents" across the country- The court battles over the Communications Decency Amendment. The status of OCAF against the Oklahoma ISPs. The status of Loving v. Boren - is it a ridiculous waste of taxpayers money or will it be the definitive Internet court ruling? The status of other important electronic obscenity court cases. The status of battles yet to be engaged. Special Reports - Testimonies from the victims of pornography. Profiles of the men and women who are engaged in the battle to free our society from its plague. Interviews with law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and ISPs. You should subscribe to Level 30 if: You are an INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER who wants to stop violating federal and state obscenity and child pornography laws. You are a LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER or PROSECUTOR who wants to learn how to stop ISPs from violating federal and state obscenity and child pornography laws You are a PUBLIC OFFICIAL who wants to learn how to keep illegal pornography and child pornography off of publicly owned and operated computer systems. You are a UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL or LIBRARY OFFICIAL who wants to learn how to keep illegal pornography and child pornography off of your university or library computer system. You are a SCHOOL OFFICIAL or TEACHER who wants to learn how to keep illegal pornography and child pornography off of your school's computer system. You belong to a CHILD ADVOCACY or WOMEN's RIGHTS group and you want to learn how to fight illegal pornography and child pornography on the Internet. You belong to a CHURCH or RELIGIOUS GROUP and you want to learn how to fight illegal pornography and child pornography on the Internet. You are a CORPORATE EXECUTIVE or PR OFFICER who wants to learn how to avoid extremely damaging publicity for your company. You are a REPORTER who wants to stay one step ahead of the above. Or, finally....... You are a PARENT or GRANDPARENT who wants to learn more about how to keep the Internet safe for your children and/or grandchildren. Thank you for your time. --

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WEB: Child molester database
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Along with the arms trafficker page, now we have a "child molester database": http://www.greatworld.com/public Deadbeat Dads, Drug Dealers and more, coming soon according to blurb. -- http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm ...for the best in unapproved information "We think people like seeing somebody in a uniform on the porch." -US Postal spokeswoman, quoted in AP, 1/27/96. I don't know about you, but most people I know who saw someone in uniform on their porch would pull out the shotgun...

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update.275 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From physnews(a)aip.org Fri Jun 14 18:39:08 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 16:45:16 EDT From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) Message-Id: <9606142045.AA11832(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.275 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 275 June 14, 1996 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE FIRST QUANTUM COMMUNICATION USES "TRITS" INSTEAD OF BITS. For the first time, physicists have exploited the laws of quantum mechanics to send data, and with their technique have conveyed information more efficiently than with traditional means. In contrast to a traditional computer, in which messages consist of tiny electric pulses encoded in binary form (i.e., streams of 0s and 1s), researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria send messages consisting of single photons which can be coded as 0s, 1s, and 2s, setting up a base three system called "trits." The Innsbruck group (Harald Weinfurter, harald.weinfurter(a)uibk.ac.at) converts a single ultraviolet photon into two photons whose properties are quantum mechanically interlinked, or "entangled." Devices then encode a 0, 1, or 2 onto one of the photons by performing an operation on it (such as flipping its spin or shifting its phase); since the devices are blind to the initial state of the photon, they change the overall properties of the entangled photon pair without determining its final state. The two photons are recombined and then the interlinked pair travels towards a network of detectors. Two-photon interference creates three different sets of detection possibilities in the Innsbruck setup that reveal the quantum state of the entangled pair and whether the photon was encoded with a 0, 1, or 2. The physics of entanglement has been exploited in numerous recent experiments, to build quantum logic gates (Update 250) and perform an atom-level demonstration of Schrodinger's cat (Update 273), but until now it has never been used for quantum communication---encoding a message at one location and receiving it at another. Furthermore, the same information contained in a typical ASCII character, normally requiring the use of 8 bits, can also be transmitted using only 5 trits. (K. Mattle et al, Physical Review Letters, 17 June 1996. More information and graphics can be found at http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/c7/c704/qo/photon/_qdc) THE CLOSEST EXTRA-SOLAR PLANET yet discovered orbits the star Lalande 21185, only 8.1 light years from Earth. George Gatewood of the University of Pittsburgh observed a telltale wobble in the light coming from the star, indicating the presence of a Jupiter-sized planet circling the star in a Saturn-sized orbit. Gatewood's data, presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Madison, WI, even hinted at the possibility of other planets in the same solar system. (Washington Post, 12 June.) Also, another planet has been found by Geoff Marcy of San Francisco State and Paul Butler of Berkeley, who announced two new planets in January 1996. Their new find is a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Rho Cancri (40 light years from Earth) at a distance of only 0.1 astronomical units. It completes a "year" in only about two Earth weeks. (Sky & Telescope, July 1996) A MOVIE OF THE CRAB NEBULA provides new details about pulsar dynamics. At the heart of the nebula is a pulsar (the remnant of a 1000-year-old supernova) which casts powerful streams of particles into the surrounding debris-filled medium. The Hubble Space Telescope has recorded a sequence of pictures which show where much of the pulsar's energy goes. One surprise was how quickly the landscape alters: noticeable changes in the region around the pulsar sometimes occurred in a matter of days. A second surprise is that the outward flow of energy is confined largely to two zones: jets shooting out from the poles and wisps of material in the pulsar's equatorial plane. (Science News, 8 June; Science, 7 June.)

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Re: PBS show
by wxfield＠shore.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Blake; I agree with you...(re:Apple II was a toy)... <smirk> Eniac, by comparison was also a toy...(I wonder how many lives it saved???) Heck, Eniac has it 'all over' the Abacus - Gosh, those darn Babylonians seem so primitive nowadays! >At 11:23 PM 6/13/96 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote: >>At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: > >>>But the Apple II WAS a toy! Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset >>>key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY >>>SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile >>>legal situation regarding the building of clones. Hell, they even objected >>>to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus! >> >> >>I was not a toy it was what started the PC revolution > >Grandly ignoring the Altair, the TRS-80 Model I, the IMSAI, et al. Even Jolt! > > >Jim Bell >jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Fuseable Links - no guarantees??
by wxfield＠shore.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have never paid much attention to the protection of firmware or the technical issues revolving around such schemes...was wondering: I recently saw an add for a UK based group that says they can take a PIC OTP micro and read the prom (for a fee, of course) - How the heck is this done?? I have my suspicion that they (somehow) magically peel off the ceramic coating (without destroying the chewy center), get a circuit mask and 'micro probe' the I/O of the IC...they then download the secret recipe to the afore mentioned 'chewy center'. Is this close to accurate?? How is it 'done' ??? -Just Curious

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Re: PBS show
by AwakenToMe＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 96-06-14 23:48:14 EDT, jwilk(a)iglou.com (Blake Wehlage) writes: << At 12:51 PM 6/14/96, Josh Sled wrote: >On Thu, 13 Jun 96 23:23 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote: > >>Mac rule they have an awesome GUI (graphical user interface), easy of use it >>way up there and they have bitchin' software. >> >>I know i will regret saying this but: >> >>The mac OS is 3 times better than Windows '95 > >Though I agree with you, and I think OS/2's WorkPlace Shell and >Presentation Manager is about 10 times better than MacOS, this isn't >the place for GUI or OS holy wars... > >ObCrypto: Incorporating crpyto into a GUI : strong crypto (RSA, 3DES) >represented as strong locking devices (safe, vault, etc), weak crypto >represented as weak devices (padlock, chain-link)... what do you think? > >Joshy > > > > Oh my God someone agrees with me I see the light at the end of the tunnel, in this window covered world. >> WELllllll Id hate to say.... but after coming across A LOT of different users from both systems.. It has seemed to me that... IN GENERAL, Mac users are more computer 'illiterate' seeing as the mac's ease of use. Fine for the everyday person... but not for me. Secondly.....as far os the computers software are concerned...... Not much beats winNT => windows=> PC THe chips arent 'too' much different. and that leaves me to say..... There's more PC's out there... which seeing as whats presented..... Leads me to thinks PC's are 'better' in my eyes. So... how baout those mets?

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alpha.c2.org problem?
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For the past two days, all mail to my alias at alpha.c2.org has arrived with the message stripped out. All I'm getting is the end remailer's disclaimer statement. ?????

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Re: [Off-topic] Re: Insults (was: PBS show)
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:06 PM 6/14/96 +0100, Derek Bell wrote: >In message <Pine.3.89.9606140305.A10802-0100000@netcom19>, jonathon writes: >> Note in passing that both "Baptist" and "Mormon" were >> originally terms of insult heaped on members of those >> respective faiths. > > I think "Quaker" had a similar history.. > > Derek Bell > > > I think "hacker, cyberpunk, and phone phreak" are want people think are insults but me and my friends take them a unthought out complaments. P.s. who ever sent me mail calling me pokey should stop hiding behind a remailer, and show yourself, you coward. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake "Pokey" Wehlage Age-13 Gaa- 3.69 (for ice hockey goalie) <jwilk(a)iglou.com> My page- http://www.iglou.com/members/jwilk.html Quote- Does whiskey count as beer? -Homer Simpson

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Hackerpunks and C2
by Anonymous User 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ecafe Mixmaster Remailer wrote: > The proposal for a Hackerpunks nym based mailing list is interesting, > however, there are some concerns regarding the susceptibility of the list > to traffic analysis. I think that the belief of the owner of hackerpunks that s/he won't be discovered is somewhat naive. Even though your traffic analysis ideas are right (see below), the most likely way to discover the owner is his/her unintentional screwup. I just feel like monitoring traffic of all internet is too expensive. Still, the secrecy of the location of the hackerpunks-owner is not such an important thing (as long as the list is not located in some police state not honoring free speech). The knowledge of said localtion is not even really important since the contents of this list may be montored anyway by simply subscribing to the list. > The solution to the two dilemmas seems to be to ask that the C2 re-mailing > code be modified so as ensure that each messages is padded to a fixed size > before encrypting and being sent through the reply block. On the other > hand, this would give away information that anyone receiving messages of > this fixed length was likely the owner of some C2 nym. [maybe I saw it on this list] How about this: that every remailer adds a cookie of size X where S == size( message ) X == 20KB - S + rand( 40KB ) if S < 20KB X == 40KB - S + rand( 80KB ) if 20KB <= S < 40KB X == 80KB - S + rand( 160KB ) if 40KB <= S < 80KB and so on. This way, only 2-3 bits of information about size will be available to traffic analyzers, instead of about 10-12. For the most typical situation of messages being about 5KB in size, there is no information leaking. Of course, if an incoming message contained a cookie, it should be dropped by the remailer to be replaced by the new one on the next hop. Same cookie feature could be added to premail. Have fun.

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