December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Voting Monarchist?
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

unicorn(a)schloss.li wrote: <snip> >I hate lightning it's pretty, but it can be nasty. most pretty things can. > Vote Monarchist who is the candidate? LaRouche?

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GAR [was:Re: What is the EFF doing exactly?]
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tim May wrote: ... >The reason this is such a hot button for Cypherpunks is that "responsible >freedom" and "accountability" are often code words for controlling some >very basic freedoms. Placing limits on anonymous speech would involve some >very fundamental restrictions on freedoms of various sorts. Even if >"safeguards" are built-in, the effect would almost certainly be to >illegalize remailers (unless they had "escrow" features!). Again, and as Tim is aware, this is not the true meaning of the fine old word "escrow," which as we all know involves neutral, trusted third parties. I think that this requires a new term, so I am now proposing one: "GAR -- Government Access to Remailers." In real life, the gar is a fish that lives in great numbers in the Everglades, just west of where I type. They can grow to a very large size. The fossil record indicates that this species has been around, unchanged, since dinosaur times. Keeping the Pinnochio tale in mind, I find it quite fitting that the gar has a *very* long nose in relation to its body. ;) >And a wide array >of other freedoms, too numerous for me to write about here. Indeed. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." -- Benjamin Franklin "As govt.s grow arithmetically, corruption grows exponentially." -- Ray's Law of official corruption. Defeat the Duopoly! Stop the Browne out. Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president. http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ http://www.twr.com/stbo ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMi12Nm1lp8bpvW01AQHHRwQAsr2a7rPwC9mfZ/ht2dF1jvRt/yuWJptL Utg1nm0YY5WrbvA12YAmkYBc4P7/xyqEARlIUWK3Z9qhcMFXjfXMRI5IwyfBmXSQ Ilra/XIUd6ES2p9jNupiKDO2yn56bpbubVS/T1QFkjRDgrLuRMEUndhNK8n5pGUA jL2L/IwMVCo= =seP6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Workers of the Web, UNITE!
by Martin Minow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Tired: Libertarian cypherpunks >Wired: Crypto-socialists > The Wobblies are a prime example of Tom Leherer's comment: "They won all of the battles, but we had all the good songs." Up the Revolution. Martin (crypto social democrat)

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Spam, and how to stop it.
by Steve Shelby 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed Sep 04 08:53:00 1996 Hello all. I assist in running an ISP. We recently had a problem with some of the users massmailing from our server. We would have never known, but someone on CompuServe that didn't like it mailed our support email address. We checked into it, and I called the two people voice. It pretty gratifying to be able to talk to one of these spammer massmailer 'get rich quick' scheme people directly. What I'm looking for is a way to monitor the amount of mail leaving the system per user. I'm not interested in poking into users mail, but I would like the ability to spot other users sending out more than x messages per x minutes. If anyone has any tips on this subject I'd like to hear them. Spam and massmailing is one of the major things that's bogging down the net these days, I believe. Thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMi2Xz/uS3FANHwnlAQFDEAQAgj1ngBhFk1J2IEzmWnPROA5RYPgAnkcN iZPCJ+mnaGppts6MqurCbWv4lPvHZ8Mm6RlMXsPVUCQKu2PsHG6Vmik/3bAZ1D67 V6Zin1bq1027fvsE2i0tbg0t2wWTLgZkFl3JOWxz7nExaLNgM2WNxw3FbgqrnKXa Ufm7YICPH2I= =Hr63 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: What is the EFF doing exactly?
by Jon Lebkowsky 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:04 PM 9/3/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >The reason this is such a hot button for Cypherpunks is that "responsible >freedom" and "accountability" are often code words for controlling some >very basic freedoms. Placing limits on anonymous speech would involve some >very fundamental restrictions on freedoms of various sorts. Even if >"safeguards" are built-in, the effect would almost certainly be to >illegalize remailers (unless they had "escrow" features!). And a wide array >of other freedoms, too numerous for me to write about here. The terms "responsibility" and "accountability" are misused, which is unfortunate, since I think we'd all argue in favor of taking responsibility for our speech/actions in a positive sense. The negative is in asking me to sacrifice my freedom because some few behave irresponsibly. This is like setting an illogical default, assuming that it's a preventive, but it prevents nothing. Getting beyond this discussion of EFF, has any global entity discussed making remailers illegal? jonl -- Jon Lebkowsky <jonl(a)hotwired.com> FAX (512)444-2693 http://www.well.com/~jonl Electronic Frontiers Forum, 6PM PDT Thursdays <http://www.hotwired.com/eff> "No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."--Saul Alinsky

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Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
by Rick Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

: On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Joel McNamara wrote: : > Just a matter of time before some builds a dedicated Satan type tool that : > scans for HTTP server holes or messed up file permissions to make locating : > potential victims easy. Snow replied: : Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base directory into the : webserver. Or host it on something with mandatory access control protections. There are still a handful of us building such things, and they can give really good protection to web page contents. Rick. smith(a)sctc.com secure computing corporation

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Re: What is the EFF doing exactly?
by Jon Lebkowsky 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:44 AM 9/3/96 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >At 03:17 PM 9/3/96 -0700, Jon Lebkowsky wrote: >> Not necessarily. The character of the anonymous speech is decisive. If you >> use anonymity to cloak harassment, for instance, the anonymity (which >> removes accountability) is a problem. The accountability issue is real and >> should be addressed, not evaded. > >No: The harassment is the problem, not the anonymity that makes it >possible. The harassment is one problem, the lack of accountability another. Which is not to say that 'lack of accountability' should be 'fixed' by some sort of blanket restriction...but it should be acknowledged as a problem. -- Jon Lebkowsky <jonl(a)hotwired.com> FAX (512)444-2693 http://www.well.com/~jonl Electronic Frontiers Forum, 6PM PDT Thursdays <http://www.hotwired.com/eff> "No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."--Saul Alinsky

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Re: What is the EFF doing exactly?
by Jon Lebkowsky 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:40 PM 9/2/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote: >> what *constructive* >> alternative to EFF do you propose? if you have none, please shut up. > >I think any organization that would apply political pressure rather than >bow to it would be an alternative. I think an organization in touch >enough with its own policy to prevent its staff and board from making >embarassing big brother type proposals to curtail the ability of any of us >to post without attributation would be an alternative. I think an >organization without the internal conflict and strife that has clearly >marred EFF in past and made it a laughable attempt at cohesive political >persuasion would be an alternative. I think an organization that had >official policies on the core issues which it proposes to influence would >be an alternative. > >In short, an organization that had even one of the needed elements of >legislative influence. (Cohesive, directed, persistent, and >uncompromising). "Uncompromising" is not an "element of legislative influence," at least not on this planet. -- Jon Lebkowsky <jonl(a)hotwired.com> FAX (512)444-2693 http://www.well.com/~jonl Electronic Frontiers Forum, 6PM PDT Thursdays <http://www.hotwired.com/eff> "No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."--Saul Alinsky

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Deleted Message (fwd)
by <pstira＠escape.com> 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One must wonder about these military types. Hm... -millie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 96 16:50:21 -24000 From: MAILER-DAEMON(a)mqg-smtp3.usmc.mil To: pstira(a)escape.com Subject: Deleted Message To: "Gary Howland" <gary(a)systemics.com> From: MQG-SMTP3@USMC_MASTERINET@Servers[<pstira(a)escape.com>] Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE: GERMANY CENSORS DUTCH WEBSITE WWW.XS4ALL.NL Message in Transport deleted by: ADMINISTRATOR@USMC_MASTERINET@Servers

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Re: What the NSA is patenting
by jfricker＠vertexgroup.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:03 PM 9/6/96 -0700, you wrote: >At 12:50 AM 9/7/96, Jean-Francois Avon wrote: >>A maybe usefull program would be a little tsr that constantly >>overwrite unused sectors of the entire drive with random patterns >>(maybe seeded with a fast keyboard interval timer). Like at the very >>moment I am writing this, my HD has been idle for several minutes... >> > > >The NSA STM method is related to reading _very subtle_ variations in >magnetic domain modifications. Jitter in read-write head positions can be >thought of as a noise (N) added to some signal (S)l. Extraction of signals >in low S/N ration environments is a well-developed science. > This excerpt from a Wired article/interview http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.10/departments/electrosphere/data.html "No data is totally safe," says Sharp, who runs his Data Recovery Labs from the coincidentally named town of Safety Harbor, Florida. "But you can recover data that's been overwritten up to nine times. The only way to permanently remove data is with programs that can do a 'severe security erase,' when the drive is over-written 10 consecutive times." Believe it or don't!

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