December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Anonymous phone calls (was: What is the EFF doing exactly?)
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:03 PM 9/7/96 CST, roy(a)scytale.com wrote: >In Minneapolis, USWest has Telecard phones everywhere, and vending >machines with bill accepters. The calls are also flat rate at $0.25. ... >Can Telecards be audited for usage? If a TLA black-bags my $25 Telecard >from my wallet, can they reconstruct what calls I made with it? Easily. They get the card number off the card, and then check their long distance records for calls made with that card number. With some cards, you can recharge the card instead of getting new ones, if for some reason you want to increase the audit trail substantially. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto

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Re: talker [is illiterate
by pjn＠nworks.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In> = You know man I am a profesional so don't reply to me In> = as a novice or anything. I have been doing this since I In> = wuz 12. And I'm not young for my age I know alot In> = about hacking and FYI there's alot you could learn from In> = me so don't think 23 is a young age pal. In> = In> = Doom13 In> = Listen you little juno-using twit... I have been hacking (Yes, the Electronic B&E type of hacking) sinse before you were a twinkle in the mailmans eye... YOU want to learn something? Sit on your ass, and read... Dont waste mailbot space with the crap you write... P.J. pjn(a)nworks.com ... Eliminate spare time - buy a modem! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]

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Re: talker
by pjn＠nworks.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The shitless fake hacker doom13 tried to say: > I am doom13. If there is anyone out there who is a hacker or >would like to be one you can talk to me and find out stuff like cracking. >Just drop a message at doom13(a)juno.com. In> Hmmmm... Want to bet our other friend at juno.com sent him? I might In> just end up killfiling juno.com... Obviously a low-IQ area of the net. Its not low IQ... Its non-existant... It is a free E-Mail group, you dont pay, but you have to look at ads... P.J. pjn(a)nworks.com ... I would rather be judged by twelve then carried by six. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]

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Church of Scientology
by pjn＠nworks.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In> Scuttlebut is, CoS rolled over on some pesky ultra-right-wingers as a In> favor to Morris Dees and various scumbag associates. For this, CoS got In> their long-awaited (40-plus years!) federal tax-free status. I think, after their part in the closing of anon.penet.fi, some people should RUN over some CoS members... :) P.J. pjn(a)nworks.com ... "Bother," said Pooh, as he was assimilated by the Borg. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]

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Followup to 9/1 Observer article printed
by Z.B. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Found this on alt.privacy today: Zach Babayco zachb(a)netcom.com <----- finger for PGP public key http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4127 --- From: naughty(a)scallywag.com (Naughty Boy) Newsgroups: alt.privacy Subject: READ TODAY'S OBSERVER ARTICLE - THEY SINK TO THEIR TRUE LEVEL! Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 20:36:47 GMT Organization: Scallywags of the World Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32332e5c.4219376(a)news.u-net.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host3.animal.u-net.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 READ TODAY'S OBSERVER ARTICLE - THEY SINK TO THEIR TRUE LEVEL! Today, September 8, the Observer publish a follow-up-follow-up article for their amazing "child porn" expose which so grossly libelled Clive Feather and Johan Helsingius ... a review of the "first" toddler CD-ROM... How have the mighty crusaders fallen ! Sic transit gloria mundi.... Actually, the Observer new technology reporters may have found their true niche at last - it's a bit egotistic for the reporter to print such a large picture of himself, though ! Read it all at http://www.scallywag.com PS: Private Eye published an intelligent and amusing commentary on this whole sorry business recently, and scallywag.com will post it, but, in deference to PE, not until the current issue goes off sale. NAUGHTY BOY (The Scallywag)

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Zimmermann gets CPSR's Wiener Award
by Susan Evoy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* * NEWS ADVISORY * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 22, 1996 --------------------- Contact: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Duane Fickeisen, Interim Director Phone: 415-322-3778 E-mail: dfickeisen(a)cpsr.org Phil Zimmermann, controversial inventor of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), earned the prestigious Norbert Wiener Award of 1996. The Wiener award is for excellence in promoting the responsible use of technology and is given annually by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). The award will be presented by CPSR board member Nathaniel Borenstein at CPSR's annual meeting on October 19-20, 1996 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The award to Zimmermann is related to the theme of the conference, "Communications Unleashed: What's At Stake? Who Benefits? How to Get Involved!," which focuses on the public interest in stewardship of the dazzling array of emerging communications services and issues related to free speech, copyright protection, and privacy online. CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society. CPSR attempts to direct public attention to difficult choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society. According to CPSR Interim Director Duane Fickeisen, PGP brings critical privacy issues to public attention, because PGP allows the average person to encode his or her email so only the receiver can read and understand it. Until PGP came along, only governments or large corporations could make their email secure. In computer jargon, PGP is a "public-key encryption software." Zimmermann, 42, created PGP and published it in the U.S.A. as "freeware" (free software) in June of 1991. Since its creation, PGP has spread all over the world, and has since become the de facto worldwide standard for encryption of email. Controversy came with government attempts to control encryption. For three years Zimmermann was the target of a criminal investigation by the US Customs Service, who assumed that laws were broken when PGP spread outside the US. That investigation was closed without indictment in January 1996. Zimmermann wrote PGP from information in the open literature, putting it into a convenient package that everyone can use in a desktop or palmtop computer. "I gave it away for free, for the good of democracy. This technology belongs to everybody," he says. According to Zimmermann, the recent strides in electronic digital communication brought with them a "disturbing erosion of our privacy. In the past, if the government wanted to violate the privacy of ordinary citizens, it had to expend a certain amount of effort to intercept and steam open and read paper mail, and listen to and possibly transcribe spoken telephone conversation. This is analogous to catching fish with a hook and a line, one fish at a time. Fortunately for freedom and democracy, this kind of labor-intensive monitoring is not practical on a large scale." Today, human rights organizations such as Amnesty International are using PGP to protect their people overseas. "PGP has spread like a prairie fire, fanned by countless people who fervently want their privacy restored in the information age," says Zimmermann. Unfortunately, email messages are too easy to intercept and scan for interesting keywords, such as "revolution" or "abortion." This "fishing" can be done routinely and invisibly on a grand scale. When most of the population becomes reliant on email, the government will be able to do "driftnet fishing" -- making a quantitative and qualitative Orwellian difference to the health of democracy, Zimmermann said. Law enforcement and intelligence interests in the government have attempted many times to suppress the availability of strong domestic encryption technology. However, Zimmermann doubts their chances for success. He says, "The rest of the world uses encryption and they laugh at the US because we are railing against nature, trying to stop encoding messages. Trying to stop this is like the buggy whip manufacturers trying to stop the adoption of cars -- even with the NSA and the FBI on the government side, it's still impossible. The information revolution is good for democracy -- good for a free market and trade." "The government has a track record that does not inspire confidence that they will never abuse our civil liberties," says Zimmermann, who is now Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer for Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. (PGP). For more information on the conference or the Wiener Award, contact CPSR at 415-322-3778, 703-739-9320, cpsrannmtg(a)cpsr.org, http://www.cpsr.org/home.html. -- Susan Evoy * Deputy Director http://www.cpsr.org/home.html Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility P.O. Box 717 * Palo Alto * CA * 94302 Phone: (415) 322-3778 * Fax: (415) 322-4748 * Email: evoy(a)cpsr.org *

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Re: <none>
by pjn＠nworks.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-=> Quoting Int:snow@smoke.suba.com to P.j. <=- In> On Thu, 5 Sep 1996 pjn(a)nworks.com wrote: > In> what do you know about hackers > > More than you appariently... > In> Which isn't necessarily all that much. Not for him... P.J. pjn(a)nworks.com ... Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and m ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]

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/\/\/\/\/HELP\/\/\/\/\ !
by pjn＠nworks.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In> I really need help unsubscribing from the Cypherpunks list! it is In> imperative! Just shoot yourself and it will all go away. . . P.J. pjn(a)nworks.com ... Exercise your right to arm and keep bears! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]

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Re: [WAS xs4all.nl] Terrorists
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:16 PM 9/9/96, snow wrote: > Then again, the only reason I am not a terrorist is that the government >hasn't YET defined hate speach directed against the government to be >terrorism. Don't be so hasty in saying this. A couple of months ago Clinton signed some sort of bill having to do with terrorism, terrorist organizations, funding of same, and deportation of alien-units suspected of being allied with terrorist organizations. (I seem to recall another such act being passed in early 1995, so there may be more than one of these things...) Given the mounting hysteria about terrorism (by the government, at least), and given the various laws on the books, I would not be surprised to see some Web sites prosecuted as "harboring" terrorists terrorist-symps. If any of you are not citizens of the U.S., and are here on visas, I would give this some real serious thought. Of course, maybe deportation is a blessing in disguise. --Tim May 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, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Yahoo!'s Picks of the Week (September 9, 1996)
by William Knowles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Did anyone else catch this one? > Welcome to this week's selection of Picks, declassified and hot off > the press thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. Well, okay, not > really. But we like to pretend. On the other hand, if you would like > to peruse what once was private but now is public (in a federal > government sense of the word), head on over to The National Security > Archive. An independent, non-governmental research institute and > library, the NSArchive is where you'll find declassified > U.S. documents that shed light on anything from the Nixon-Presley > Meeting (Elvis wanted to be a Federal Agent at Large!) to the Cuban > Missile Crisis and a handful of White House e-mail in-between. > > http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/ William Knowles erehwon(a)c2.net -- William Knowles <erehwon(a)c2.net> PGP mail welcome & prefered / KeyID 1024/2C34BCF9 PGP Fingerprint 55 0C 78 3C C9 C4 44 DE 5A 3C B4 60 9C 00 FB BD Finger for public key -- Vote Harry Browne for President -- http://www.HarryBrowne96.org

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