December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Washington Post -- "Block but Verify"
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"frissell(a)panix.com" "Duncan Frissell" 18-JUL-1996 06:17:23.58 > 57. The CyberNOT list contains approximately 7000 >sites in twelve categories. The software is designed to enable >parents to selectively block access to any or all of the twelve >CyberNOT categories simply by checking boxes in the Cyber Patrol >Headquarters (the Cyber Patrol program manager). These >categories are: > Racism/Ethnic Impropriety: Prejudice or discrimination > against any race or ethnic culture. Ethnic or racist > jokes and slurs. Any text that elevates one race over > another. In other words, if I say that there's something wrong with a culture that doesn't encourage education (e.g., the "acting white" name-calling in American lower-class black subcultures), the entire Cypherpunks list archives would be banned by their standards by any parents who didn't want their children seeing KKK literature? TCMay has also said things of that nature (and I agree). This definition is way overly PC. -Allen

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Re: Corporate e-mail poli
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* Carbons sent to: In: jims(a)mpgn.com -=> Quoting In:jims@mpgn.com to Harka <=- In> The whole question comes down to this: In> Is a collection of words written from an employee to another In> individual property of the company when it was written, edited, In> and transmitted by company equipment. I think, a 'collection of words', especially when exchanged on a personal level should be regarded as 'intellectual property' and thus should be protected from outsiders. The technical means of physically creating (i.e. writing) and transmitting the words are secondary for above all they are thoughts, that are meant to be exchanged from one mind to another. It is too natural a thing to be subjected to invasion. Harka ... Not tonight, dear. I have a modem. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR]

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Re: Anonymous Remailers at work
by peter.allan＠aeat.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 21:05:24 -0700 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > From: Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> > Subject: Anonymous Remailers at work > I've recently run into a couple of business problems at work > that could be solved by (slightly modified) remailers. > 1) Manager performance review, suggestion boxes, and questions to > visiting honchos - there are several departments that are using > "email to the secretary who'll take your name off and forward it" > to handle this problem. Remailers are an obvious solution. > It would probably be worth modifying the remailer to use a permit-list > as well as a block-list for destinations and maybe sources, > Any other reasons to install anonymous remailers at work, > and things you'd do to make them more attractive or > less scary to corporate network administrative types? I have a very crude + simple remailer using shell scripts. There is re-ordering and a standard message size. There is no scope for receipts or replies. I limit messages to 1kb to make it harder to send images. (There was once a management complaint about images- nothing to do with me or the remailer which hadn't started then.) It can only send and receive mail INSIDE the company. I have not advertised it widely, for fear of a management veto. It carries a warning to be sensible, and I'd be able to read the mail log following complaints. There is a short banned list, intended only to stop looping. In another message Bill said: > immigrant Brits and ... speaking funny-soundin' English at you. Um, some of us really do speak English. To the point where we struggle to make out Larry King and guest both mumbling away at high speed.

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Job Opportunity - Distributed Document Work
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I can see some cryptographic implications to distributed documents, such as the relatively obvious one of making sure your competitor can't tap into them. -Allen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, send an empty message to rre-help(a)weber.ucsd.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 04:04:00 PDT From: Allan_MacLean.Cambridge(a)RXRC.XEROX.COM Subject: Research Position at Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Research Position in Distributed Document Technologies at Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Laboratory is part of an expanding European based research centre which includes a second site in Grenoble. The Cambridge Laboratory carries out interdisciplinary research in the development and use of technologies for supporting distributed organisations, with a strong emphasis on the human and organisational aspects of technology in use. The laboratory has close links with a number of divisions of Xerox and Rank Xerox, and collaborates with other research groups in the UK, continental Europe and the US. Our research programme (Studies of Technology, Organisations and Work) combines social science and technical perspectives on the design of systems for use in the workplace. Our current research projects are examining the boundaries across which distributed document work is conducted. In formulating our long-term research strategy we are focusing on investigating these in terms of personal; inter- and intra- organisational; work-practice; cultural; temporal, and geographical boundaries, and developing ways to take account of their implications for system design. We are seeking a research scientist to play a major role in developing new approaches to distributed document technology from this perspective. The appointee is likely to have a background in computer science or a related discipline, with an understanding of distributed and collaborative technologies. Applicants are expected to have a keen interest not only in the infrastructural issues of distributed systems, but also in incorporating social, organisational and psychological dimensions of work into the design and development of novel networked systems. The appointed person will take primary responsibility for the technological component of our programme and will join a multi-disciplinary team involving computer science, pychology and sociology. (Applicants for the recently advertised post in Requirements for Distributed Services need not re-apply as they will automatically be considered for this position.) Informal enquiries may be made to: Graham Button (button(a)cambridge.rxrc.xerox.com) +44 1223 341500 Allan MacLean (maclean(a)cambridge.rxrc.xerox.com) +44 1223 341517 Applicants should submit a Curriculum Vitae to: Sian Wicklow (ref. S1) Rank Xerox Research Centre 61 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1AB, U.K. wicklow(a)cambridge.rxrc.xerox.com Tel:+44 1223 341553 Fax: +44 1223 341510 http://www.xerox.com/RXRC/

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Mena
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Washington Post, August 7, 1996, p. A6. CIA Probed in Alleged Arms Shipments Reports Claim Agents Involved in Arkansas-Nicaragua Drug Swaps By Susan Schmidt The CIA's inspector general is investigating claims that U.S. intelligence agencies were involved in illegal arms shipments and drug smuggling at an isolated airstrip in Mena, Ark., during the years Bill Clinton was governor. A spokesman for the CIA said Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz is preparing a report on allegations that the CIA was involved in arms shipments from Mena to the Nicaraguan rebels during the 1980s, and that pilots hired by the agency brought back large shipments of cocaine. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said the inspector general will report on possible contacts between the agency and Arkansas state officials during the 1980s. His report also will deal with allegations that the CIA attempted to influence or curtail law enforcement investigations of Mena. Hitz was asked to investigate the Mena airport by CIA Director John M. Deutch, who was acting on a request from House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach (R-Iowa). Leach's panel is looking into the possible laundering of drug money generated at Mena. Leach's Banking Committee staff has been looking a variety of claims about Mena emanating from a collection of Arkansas law enforcement officials and various figures operating in the shadowy netherworld on contract with intelligence agencies. One congressional investigator likened sorting through the allegations to being trapped in "a hall of mirrors." Congressional sources said Leach made the request to the CIA about six months ago and expects a report from Hitz in late summer or early fall. The latest Mena claims are contained in "Boy Clinton," a book by American Spectator Editor R. Emmett Tyrrell published this week. In it, Tyrrell asserts that Clinton knew about CIA operations and cocaine smuggling at Mena. He cites as sources Arkansas state troopers, including one on the governor's security detail who says he was also a contract employee for the CIA during the mid-1980s and informed Clinton of what was going on at Mena. Clinton has said he had nothing to do with any activities at Mena. "Mena is the darkest backwater of the right wing conspiracy industry," said White House spokesman Mark Fabiani. "The allegations are as bizarre as they are false." [End]

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Mondex security
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 09:11:16 +0900 From: Yuji Sakata <sakata(a)open.rd.nttdata.jp> To: www-buyinfo(a)allegra.att.com Subject: Mondex security Mime-Version: 1.0 Status: U once,I asked you violation of Mondex security. now ,I hear more information about this rumor. it is very ambiguous info, it is .. Mondex ask some universities to try to violate Mondex IC card security unofficialy. and every univ can do that or show how to do that. Mondex don't reveal this fact. please give me some infomation about this rumor,if you know. /// Yuji SAKATA(NTT Data Corporation) /// /// Voice:+81-3-5546-9571 Fax:+81-3-5546-9572 /// /// E-mail:sakata@open.rd.nttdata.jp /// --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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Re: FAA to require transponders on all aircraft passengers
by Arun Mehta 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 00:49 06/08/96 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >They better hold off loading the containers with the luggage until they >lock down/up the plane so they can verify who got on (and can pull any >unaccompanied luggage). It is either that or unloading the plane if there >is a missing passenger. Many airports (e.g. Zurich) require you to identify your baggage on the way to the plane. If somebody merely keeps watch to ensure that you don't run away after identifying your baggage, the system works. There are problems that can be solved without computers :-) Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta(a)cpsr.org http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta/ finger amehta(a)cerfnet.com for public key

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South Korean ID Card
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Phil Agre <pagre(a)weber.ucsd.edu> [I have enclosed, with the author's permission, a letter from Joohoan Kim <sjokim(a)icg.stwing.upenn.edu> raising alarms about a proposed national electronic identification card in South Korea. JK encourages you to repost the information where appropriate.] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, send an empty message to rre-help(a)weber.ucsd.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= [I don't have the original header.] Hi, all, I would like to alarm you that another Big-Brother is coming with its most ambitios dream in South Korea: The Electronic Identification Card, which will be issued to every citizen as a mandatory within a year or so. The Electronic Identification Card project is a part of South Korean government's ultra-speed communication network building project. Managed by the Ministry of Domestic Affairs, the US $413 million project is being carried out in cooperation with the Korea Computer Institute. Once the project is completed in 1997, every Koreans of 18 years or older will be assigned a single integrated circuit (IC) card which will include photo and all kinds of personal digitized information: current universal ID card (currently every adult Korean has a photo ID issued by the Government), driver's license, medical insurance card, national pension card, proof of residence, and scanned fingerprints (!) among other things. (I don't know how many "demoratic" governments are collecting fingerprints of their whole citizens.) DACOM, a big telecommunication company in Korea, which won the bidding for the project, describes it as following: "As 8,000 characters worth of information can be stored on the single credit card-sized card, personal information needed for issuing official documents and certificates can be accessed promptly by public offices, institutions, companies, and banks or other organizations. The Ministry of Domestic Affairs has announced that the new cards will be distributed starting in January 1997. Full implementation is scheduled to be completed by early 1998. While there are some nations in which drivers' licenses are used in place of ID cards, this project will be the first system in the world which combines multiple functions onto one card. Once distribution is completed, the card will greatly boost efficiency, saving the government US$1.3 billion and enabling it to eventually reduce its work force by 5,000 employees." (Quoted from: http://bora.dacom.co.kr/bora/dacom/news-clips.html) As you can see, they have no concerns about protection of personal information and privacy. True, they are a company making money from that project, and probably we shouldn't expect any criticism against the Project. The problem is, however, that almost all of the South Korean news media are talking the same thing about it: the "efficiency" and the "convenience" that the Electronic Identification Card might bring about. I tried to find critical arguments against the project via a comprehensive news data base in Korea, but I could not find any. I also checked many web sites of non-governmental organizations and socio-progressive groups in Korea, but none of them have raised the issue yet. They do not seem to realize the suspending dangers of their own privacy and human rights. Despite obvious and serious danger in protecting personal information and privacy , there is just no social discourse concerning the issue. I have also checked relevant laws (especially newly approved communication-related laws) through the database of the Korean Government, but there seems to be no clear legal basis for the project. The project has been mentioned only in the "10 Plans for Efficient National Informatization," announced by the Ministry of Information and Communication. But the City of Seoul already started to issue the Card as a "test" in March. The Ministry of Domestic Affairs said, as they were issuing the "test" version of the Card to 1,000 citizens, "we will prepare relevant laws and regulations," implying that they are doing the project "before" (and probably "above") the law. Currently, I am writing columns and news stories for "Sisa Jouranl," the weekly news magazine in South Korea, which decided to deal with the Card project as a special topic as I suggested. To write a critical article against the Project, I am starting to gather info about the similar cases, if there is any. And I hope to hear from you about some theoretical and practical knowledge about the similar issues; I would like to quote your opinions in my article, if you allow me to do so. Right after the publication of the news article, I will try to contact various NGO's in South Korea to inform them of the importance of the issue. And I will try to organize an anti-electronic ID Card movement in the cyberspace, if that is necessary. I am very happy to meet you in the cyberspace, who really concerns the privacy issues in the computerized age. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Joohan ****************************************** Joohoan Kim Ph.D. Candidate 3620 Walnut Street Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 sjokim(a)icg.stwing.upenn.edu http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sjokim/home.html

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Re: ****Tacoma, Washington Starts Taxing Internet Access 07/30/96
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:08 AM 8/7/96 GMT, Brian C. Lane wrote: > A slight correction. They are imposing a 6% tax on the Gross receipts of > all Internet Providers who have customers in Tacoma. This includes AOL, > Compu$erve, and my local favorites - aa.net and eskimo.com So if someone has six thousand customers, one of whom is in Tacoma, they want six percent of his gross on the other 5999 customers? --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: Public report of the EU crack.
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Hallam-Baker wrote: >>I consider the political dimension of this affair to >>be more significant that the technical. This brings the >>US and the French into the same category of anti-crypto >>government with a habit of poking its nose into other >>people business and getting caught. Phill - do you know if the French ever got caught actively breaking computers or telecomm equipment outside their country, or have they only been hit for eavesdropping and breakins on their subjects and foreigners within their boundaries? It seems like the US government, if they really did this, has gone a step beyond even France's level of tackiness, as well as exceeding the "legitimate needs of law enforcement" that Louis Freeh has been ranting about. Is this some campaign to reinforce Clinton's call for protecting the National Information Infrastructure, or have they decided that voluntary key escrow is too slow so they'll steal what they can now? The technically interesting part is just that there are bugs in routers and SNMP can be used to attack them. We've seen bugs before, and we've seen bugs used to bug people. At 02:20 PM 8/5/96 -0700, drose(a)AZStarNet.com (David M. Rose) wrote: >> >> Phill > >Say what? John Young I can understand; this blather? > >Att: "Doc" Baker/Mr. Hyde, err, Hallam: any rudimentary text on >diction/grammer/syntax might be helpful to you. > >Sheesh! At least Sternlight seemed to be acquainted with the English language. > David - It's good form, if you _must_ flame people's spelling and grammar on the net, to spell grammar correctly. Understanding grammar well enough to recognize correct English when you see it is a fine point mainly noticed by people whose abilities run beyond the capability of running a spellchecker; Phill's is fine (except a missing 's), if lacking JYA's obscure poetic touch. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Defuse Authority!

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