December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Or About 20 Aug 96, 23:12, Rich Graves wrote: > > > So is mailbombing the motherfucker, or more productively, > > > virtually picketing his ISP until they kick him off for net > > > abuse > > > > That is the kind of self righteous crap that gives me the > > creeps!!! > > Good. That's called deterrence.* The market decides. > > >From your earlier message, though, describing the "spamming" you > >do, I > really don't see you as needing deterrence <SNIP> > indiscriminately. OTOH, if you really target your audience well, > especially if a human and not a bot is in charge of selecting > prospects, then I'd call that "cold calling," not "spamming." Well, that's just the way I look at it. But some people overreact... > Unsolicited email is moderately annoying, but I don't think it's > anything to complain about. I filter all mail from unknown addresses > anyway. > > * - The cool thing about this kind of deterrence is, since you're > only defending virtual turf, you can sabre-rattle to your heart's > content without worrying about having to actually follow through. I do enjoy a little of that from time to time. 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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Fwd: Re: No Subject - Lesson in cracking (cryptoanalysis 001)
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >To: "Scottauge(a)aol.com" <Scottauge(a)aol.com> >Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 00:14:19 -0800 >Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Chris Adams's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Subject: Re: No Subject - Lesson in cracking (cryptoanalysis 001) > On Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:34:07 -0400, Scottauge(a)aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 96-08-19 05:44:34 EDT, you write: >> SAMPLE MESSAGE: ("HAIL ERIS") >"e" is a very popular letter, so is t and s. Collect enough cypher text and >ya just match frequency to frequency - a high number of 6's are replaced with >an e, and so on down the line. >Now we just start chunking up the peices according to spelling rules we know >about - then with the help of a handy dandy spell checker like thing, when we >get close to a word, we clump the chunks together. >Actually, mixing your letters around helps cuz one needs to do a lot of >shuffling here - but believe me, algorithms are out there. Plus, the more >cipher text you provide, the easier it is to nab your info cuz there is >more >information for the particular algorithm I'm thinking of to work with. Okay wise guy. I'm going to give you a 14300 character string that starts out EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. . . How are you going to tell *what* I was talking about? I guaruntee with any message of practical length (i.e. not " ckosuuy") will have multiple possibilities, particularly when you take things like mispellings, software artifacts ("----- BEGIN PGP --------" "X-Received ..." etc.) and deliberate attempts to throw you off. That's why it's unbreakable - by anyone! |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 ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== |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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the number of the the beast is [666] (was: CIA Contra Crack and LA Gangs)
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Addressed to: Rich Graves <rich(a)c2.org> Cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> I'll see your bet... and raise you five.... THE MARK OF THE BEAST "He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark in their right hand and in their foreheads, and that no one may buy of sell except one who has the mark or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name" Revelation 13:16-17 The following article appeared in Nexus magazine Vol 2, No.20: The Microchip and the Mark of the Beast Dr Carl W. Sanders is an electronics engineer, inventer, author and consultant to various government organisations as well as IBM, General Electric, Honeywell and Teledyne. He is also a winner of the Presidents and Governors Award for Design Excellence. "Thirty two years of my life was spent in design engineering and electronics designing microchips in the Bio-Med field. "In 1968 I became involved, almost by accident, in a research and development project in regard to a spinal bypass for a young lady who had severed her spine. They were looking at possibly being able to connect motor nerves etc. "It was a project we were all excited about. There were 100 people involved and I was senior engineer in charge of the project. This project culminated in the microchip that we talk about now a - microchip that I believe is going to be the positive identification and mark of the beast. "This microchip is recharged by body temperature changes. Obviously you can't go in and have your battery changed every so often, so the microchip has a recharging circuit that charges based upon the body temperature changes. Over one and a half million dollars was spent finding out that the two places in the body that the temperature changes the most rapidly are in the forehead (primary position), right below the hairline, and the back of the hand (alternative position). "Working on the microchip, we had no idea about it ever being an identification chip. We looked at it as beig a very humanitarian thing to do. We were all excited about what we were doing. We were doing high-level integration for the very first time. This team was made up of people out of San Jose, people fron Motorolla, General Electric, Boston Medical Center - it was quite a group of people. My responsibility had to do with the design of the chip itself, not the medical side of if. "As the chip came to evolve, there came a time in the project when they said that the financial return on bypassing severed spines is not a very lucrative thing for us to be into, so we really need to look at some other areas. We noticed that the frequency of the chip had a great effect upon behaviour and so we began to branch off and look possibly at behaviour modification. "The project almost turned into electronic acupuncture because what they ended up with was embedding the microchip to put out a signal which effected certain areas. They were able to determine that you could cause behavioural change. "One of the projects was called the Phoenix project which had to do with Vietnam veterans. We had a chip that was called the Rambo chip. This chip would actually cause extra adrenaline flow. "I wonder how many of you know that if you can stop the output of the the pituitary gland (the signal from the pituitary gland that causes oestrogen flow), you can put a person into instant menopause and there is no conception. This was tested in India and other different parts of the world. So here you have got a birth control tool, based on a microchip. Microchips can also be used for migraine headaches, behaviour modification, upper/downer, sexual stimulant and sexual depressant. This is nothing more that electronic acupuncture, folks. "There are 250,000 components in the microchip, including a tiny lithium battery. I fought them over using lithium as a battery source but NASA was doing alot with lithium at that time and it was the going thing. I had talked to a doctor at the Boston Medical Center about what that concentration of lithium in the body could do if the chip broke down. He said that you would get a boil or grievous sore. "As the development moved along, I left the project and came back as a consultant several times. I was used in many meetings as an expert witness in regard to the uses of the microchip. "I was in one meeting where it was discussed. How can you control a people if you can`t identify them ?" All of a sudden the idea came: "Lets make them aware of lost children, etc." "This was discussed in meetings almost like people were cattle. The CIA came up with an idea of putting pictures of lost children on milk cartons. Since the chip is now accepted, you don`t see the pictures anymore, do you. It's served it's purpose. "As we developed this microchip, as the identification chip became the focal point, there were several things that were wanted. They wanted a name, an image (picture of your face), Social security number with the international digits on it, finger print identification, physical description, family history, address, occupation, income tax information and criminal record. "I've been in 17 "one world" meetings where this has been discussed, meetings in Brussels, Luxembourg, tying together the finances of the world. "Just recently in the newspapers they`ve talked about the Health Care Program, the "Womb to Tomb" identification! A positive identification. There are bills before congress right now that will allow them to inject a microchip in your child at the time of birth for identification purposes. "The president of the United States of America, under the "Emigration of Control Act of 1986", Section 100 , has the authority to deem whatever type of identification is necessary - whether it be an invisible tattoo or electronic media under the skin. So I think you have to look at the facts, folks: this is not coming as some big shock. The paving has been done ahead of time." -- "The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton, Oct. 15, 1995 at the University of Connecticut.

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Re: Husband/Wife jailed for saying Clinton Sucks
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:32 AM 8/21/96, Z.B. wrote: >Published in Washington, D.C. July 9, 1996 >Insult to Clinton leads to 2 arrests > >------------------------------------------------------ >By Ruth Larson >THE WASHINGTON TIMES >------------------------------------------------------ >[A] Chicago-area couple were arrested on charges of > disorderly conduct and interrogated for more than >12 hours last week, simply because the woman told >President Clinton exactly what she thought of him. > Last Tuesday, Mr. Clinton made an impromptu stop at >the "Taste of Chicago" festival in Grant Park at >midafternoon. > According to her husband, Patricia Mendoza, angered >and upset by the recent deaths of 19 U.S. airmen in >Saudi Arabia, told the president, "You suck, and >those boys died!" ... Thanks for passing this on. So much for "free speech" in a formerly free country. I've modified my .sig yet again, to include the Verboten Phrase. Clinton is truly looking like a power-mad fool. Still, I hope he wins in November. (I want to see a real impeachment, as the Arkansas news continues to come out.) By the way, the case against Richard Jewell, "THE ATLANTA BOMBER!!!!," continues to crumble...the voice on the 911 call doesn't match his, he couldn't have gotten to the phone at the time the call was made, and the hordes of investigators who tore his apartment apart (and his cabin, and so on) found no real evidence (just the "profile" evidence: some gun magazines, a photo of him cradling an AR-15, his weight, and probably a subscription to The Playboy Channel). Further, experts point out that if Jewell was working with an accomplice (to make the phone call), this blows all conventional theories of a "would-be hero" out of the water: the last thing such a would-be hero wants is an accomplice, who shares in the risk but gets none of the credit, and who could turn him in. Finally, even CNN is picking up the "CIA supplied drugs to L.A. gangs" story that the "San Jose Mercury News" ran a few days ago. Nothing in this story was a real surprise to me, as I listen occasionally to Dave Emory on the radio. Emory is no raving lunatic, in my opinion (I've met him a couple of times). The connections with the Mena, Arkansas airfield are of course quite interesting. --Tim May Illegal speech if said to Herr Clinton: "You suck, and those boys died!" 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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Security Dynamics <-> Microsoft
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.briefing.com/storystk.htm 15:20 ET ****** SECURITY DYNAMICS TECHNOLOGIES (SDTI) 60 +4 1/4. Maker of security products used to protect and manage access to computer-based information is seeing its stock get a lift from news that company's RSA unit has reached licensing agreement with Microsoft (MSFT 122 1/4 -1 1/8). In return for technical cooperation and additional licensing rights for integration of RSA's technology with Microsoft's cryptoapi, Microsoft will license cryptoapi to RSA, including rights to incorporate cryptoapi into RSA's toolkit products. According to company, RSA will receive an ongoing stream of revenue from MSFT based on the use of patented RSA technology. Also, company will license software to MSFT that will enable it to include support for SDTI's hardware tokens and ace/server authentication products in future versions of Windows NT and MSFT Internet Information Server.

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Re:Edited Edupage, 18 Aug 1996
by mccoy＠communities.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH(a)ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> writes: > Speaking of Net-in-Orbit (while distributed datahavens have their > points, sometimes you'd prefer not to have a given chunk of data on your > hard drive - even encrypted with a passphrase), what's the physical setup > for rewriteable optical drives? Are there any methods of doing those that > will work OK in orbit? You want to avoid moving parts like the plague in orbit. They eventually wear out or fail and once that happens you have a very expensive piece of junk in orbit. Solid-state storage is the _only_ way to go if you want to avoid things like neding to pressurize the drive (eliminating any cost advantage over solid-state.) Its not like you can go up to swap a dead drive out you know... The big problem with orbiting datahavens is the cost. Access requires going to a commercial launching agency (approx $100K cost to put a smallsat in LEO.) The smallsat itself is relatively cheap at $25K. Then multiply that by 30 because with LEO (you will not get a GEO slot, ever) you will need a swarm of sats to provide constant coverage; the orbit the sats are in means that they are only overhead for minutes at a time. When you add all of this up it begins to make the idea of buying an old tanker or fish processing boat pretty cost effective. The big problem is that no one has data that is worth protecting enough to make such a venture pay off. jim

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Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ross Wright writes: >On Or About 20 Aug 96, 18:09, Rich Graves wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote: >> >> > I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of >> > spamming here? Is spamming free speech? >> >> Yes. >> >> So is mailbombing the motherfucker, or more productively, virtually >> picketing his ISP until they kick him off for net abuse > >That is the kind of self righteous crap that gives me the creeps!!! So civily dealing with a net abuser gives you the creeps? THAT gives ME the creeps, honestly. >> >> Ethically? We don't talk ethics much here, but I'd say it's highly >> unethical to abuse a service paid for by the pooled resources of >> many. > >I pay for my net access. I pay for my Sunday paper, it's full of ads >too!! Ethics??? Let's rat out on the EVIL spammers!! Let's turn >them into thier ISP!!! That's a load of CRAP!!!! We /all/ pay for our access. Most of us work, most of us pay for the paper, most of us put up with ads. Spam is the price of free speech. One must either, in minor cases, ignore it and move on, so as not to encourage; or, in case of extravagent abuse, send word to the isp, spread the word on the net that xxx.com is a spammer's haven (and otherwise discouraging further memberships), as well as filling the sysadmin's mailbox until the spammer is deleted and we can all move on again. It's not a load of crap, it's reality. Everything provided for civil use and enjoyment will be abused repeatedly, it's all in how we deal with it. Greetings from $hell, Daniel.

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Re:PreRFD: comp.org.cypherpunks
by mccoy＠communities.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

qut(a)netcom.com (Skip) writes: > The Subject: line says it all. > > My suggestion number #1: > > No moderation. Suggestion 1 on how to diminish the feeble S/N ratio on cypherpunks: make it a newsgroup Suggestion 2: make it an unmoderated newsgroup I can think of nothing that would cause the remaining clue to flee faster than a CP newsgroup in wide distribution (if it were gatewayed to the list) jim

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Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ross Wright writes: >On Or About 20 Aug 96, 16:23, Jim Gillogly wrote: >> >> Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul(a)pobox.com> writes: >> >I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of >> >spamming here? Is spamming free speech? >> > >> I oppose spamming because it's rude and inefficient, lowering the >> S/N everywhere it happens. Market droids > >Market Droids???? As a salesman I take offence at this slur. Well, look at it from the consumer point of view. We log on, and see what is eccentially a junk-email, written as a form letter, sitting in our box. It's gotten to the point were I have barely enough patience to skim my junk before I delete it, just to be fair. So, to most of it, it seems quite droidlike. If you want people referring to it in a more respectable manner, earn more respect. Do a more personalized canvass, or find better ways to advertise, other than junk email. You'll piss less people off, and get more respect. >> favor it because it's >> cheap, and no matter how many people they piss off bigtime, they >> make some sales. > >Even make sales to people who are pissed off at first... That doesn't make it right, in my opinion. It just makes it worse, because salesmen will not consider how annoying their canvass is to people before sending it out, and more and more people get pissed. Selling is no justification, the ends do not justify the means. People are still angered. After all, you are not counting how many pissed off people you do NOT sell to. Greetings from $hell, Daniel.

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Re: [NOISE]CIA Contra Crack and LA Gangs (fwd)
by Jim Ray 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed Aug 21 08:35:15 1996 Rich Graves wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jim Ray wrote: ... > Oh, I don't think it's impossible or even unlikely that at least > some of the > groups lumped together as "contras" were involved in drug > smuggling, and I > think it's reasonable to have different views regarding how much > money was > involved and who knew what when (my view is very little, and > medium). Anyone who says "very little" money is involved in any aspect of the cocaine importation trade definitely doesn't live in Miami. >What I > object to are conspiracy theories along the lines of: > > 1. The Reagan Administration used the Contras to smuggle crack > to the US in > a deliberate attempt at genocide against Black people. (I > heard this a > lot, though seldom in so many words, on KPFK in the mid-80's; > the SJ Merc > series certainly has this as a subtext.) I never said that, and I object to calling something a "conspiracy theory" just because it's politically inconvenient. People in power conspire to get rich and stay in power. Sometimes they use laws they write and sometimes they break laws they wrote. This is a fact of life, not a conspiracy theory. > 2. Clinton was a CIA agent involved in the Contra drug-smuggling > CaBaL. He was governor of Arkansas when Reagan was President of the United States. Do the search I already gave you, and read the articles. mena /p cocaine ... > > It is a major, bipartisan, Watergate-style but bigger > > scandal, and the strange bedfellows in the media who were > doing a > > halfway decent job of covering it [The Wall Street Journal and > > "High Times" magazine(!)] have fallen strangely silent on the > > subject as the election approaches. Hmmmmm. > > 4. Anything where vague unsupported asserions are thrown out, > followed by > a Hmmmmm (sorry). OK, looks like I have to say it again, and remember this is NOT me, it's those conspiracy theorists at CBS News, printed in that radical purveyor of vague unsupported asserions...The Wall Street Journal: "The FAA, FBI, Customs, CIA, Justice, DEA and the IRS were all involved in Mena. They won't say how they were involved, but they will tell you there is nothing there." -- Bill Plante, CBS News Correspondent, & Michael Singer, Producer, CBS News, New York. [In Tuesday, May 3, 1994's Wall Street Journal letters to the editor section.] Look it up. I am not a journalist, but it sometimes seems I have a better institutional memory than they do. This story was covered poorly, even though there was/is plenty there, because of politics and power masquerading as "national security." The story is there for journalists who want to risk covering it, but the trail is getting cold, and yes, some loons have latched onto it, due in part to the vacuum in "legitimate" media coverage. [This will be my final word on this subject in this forum.] <sound of Perry cheering> JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy "'Filegate' is starting to make _Ed_ _Meese_ look ethical." -- me Defeat the Duopoly! Vote "NOTA," not Slick/Dull in November. Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president. http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ ___________________________________________________________________ PGP id.E9BD6D35 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 <mailto:liberty@gate.net> http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray Coming soon, the "Pennies For Perot" page. Keep billionaires off welfare! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMhsCim1lp8bpvW01AQHsYQP+JeN4t0Cd/d+Woy0eyvvVtCHy//RoSWJI K3gWOAHTMB71xZDKu7qbuUMRBs1nsFv2dlvYlKMIJLxn9Bl2H+13IpOsYTtPntg+ r+YOPazgwVVm8wNICEekdKjki9MaiTj1AFIX2P2LbVp7EZkmQIwxJfkYZituWNIy LNFZyOGhVaQ= =b3jZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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