December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CNET Digital Dispatch Vol. 2 No. 38
by Rick Osborne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This week's c|net digital dispatch had the following top ten list. For number 8, did they mean DES or is the EDS something I'm not aware of. I figure it has to be because what does DES have to do with chat rooms? >9. TOP TEN REASONS WHY THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES WON'T TAKE >PLACE ON THE WEB > >10. Kemp would fight with Dole over who gets to > "quarterback" the keyboard. >9. Oops: Gore plugged information superhighway cable > into White House central vacuum system. >8. Perot's crack team of EDS hackers would get him > in somehow. >7. Hotwired editors say presidential candidates not > hip enough. >6. Hillary doesn't let the President in ANY chat rooms. >5. Debate commission insists: event must be on Prodigy. >4. Bill Gates owns the rights to online debates. >3. Dole's Selectric won't connect to the Net. >2. Chelsea is using the White House PC to write a > book report. >1. In cyberspace, no one can feel your pain. ____________________________________________________________ Rick Osborne osborne(a)gateway.grumman.com "The universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."

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Comments on Emoney regulation
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

JYA has the complete version of this, but I wanted to make a comment that this allegedly pro-consumer group is wanting mandatory receipts - decidedly anti-privacy. Typical; Consumer Reports keeps calling for limits on what can be made available instead of making the information available and letting people decide on their own. There is also the problems associated with welfare-on-a-card - namely limits on what can be purchased, a requirement for full identity disclosures, etcetera. I'd call this effort by government also a form of the pressure-by-economics we saw with the initial Clipper proposal (leaving aside the actual agenda), namely using government purchasing to distort the market (away from anonymous digital cash, in this case). The last statement also brings up the question of why shouldn't banks move out of high-crime areas? I'd appreciate lower bank fees, and so would most people. -Allen > _________________________________________________________________ > Centura > _________________________________________________________________ > REGULATORS TURN SPOTLIGHT ON CYBERMONEY > __________________________________________________________________________ > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > Copyright &copy 1996 N.Y. Times News Service > (Sep 19, 1996 00:41 a.m. EDT) -- As concerns grow about electronic > money-laundering, cybercounterfeiting and bank runs on the Internet, > regulators in the United States and around the world are scurrying to > catch up with the rapid development of electronic money. [...] > Moreover, there is now no requirement that a company that issues > stored-value cards must be a bank or be regulated in any other way. > That raises the question whether these cards, if they become popular, > will become as unruly as the market for prepaid telephone cards, in > which a number of card vendors have failed to deliver the calls that > were promised. [...] > To prevent such problems, a number of other countries have decided to > require that stored-value cards be issued only by banks. > The Federal Reserve has issued proposals on whether the consumer > protections guaranteed for other electronic-funds transfers -- like > direct deposits and debit cards -- will apply to stored-value card > purchases. These protections include the requirement of receipts with > every purchase and a limit on liability if a card is lost or stolen. > The Fed has proposed that card systems that cannot hold more than $100 > and those that have no central records of how much money is on each > card be exempt from the strict consumer-protection rules. > "The Fed proposal is destroying consumer protection," said Janice > Shields, the consumer-research director for the U.S. Public Interest > Research Group in Washington. "They don't want to disclose > error-resolution procedures, and they want unlimited consumer losses." [...] > One force pushing the development of the technology, however, is the > government itself, which has mandated that by 1999 all payments to or > from government accounts must be made electronically. This may have > the most significant effect on the recipients of various welfare > programs, many of whom now do not have bank accounts that could > receive an electronic money transfer. > To deal with this, various groups of state governments are developing > special cards on which benefits payments will be stored. Recipients > will be able to use the cards to withdraw cash at automated teller > machines and to make purchases. > One of the thorniest issues is whether holders of these welfare cards > get the same protections as holders of credit and debit cards issued > by banks. State and local governments do not want to absorb the cost > of issuing refunds, for example, though some readings of the > electronic funds transfer act would require that they do. > Some are also concerned that as banks move more toward offering their > services electronically, they will have more reason to close branches > in inner-city areas. [...] > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net

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Insider Trading - news report
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'd be curious as to the comments of Black Unicorn and others on that legal finding - it does appear to make things at least a bit better in this area... including making it difficult to claim that insider information shouldn't be transmitted on the Net. Incidentally, I find AP's calling insider trading "fraud" rather biased. -Allen > _________________________________________________________________ > Direct Media > _________________________________________________________________ > INSIDER TRADING NEVER WENT AWAY > __________________________________________________________________________ > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > Copyright &copy 1996 The Associated Press > WASHINGTON (Sep 18, 1996 10:35 a.m. EDT) -- One of the most infamous > acts in the financial fraudster's playbook, insider trading, remains > at record levels, despite a decade of steady crackdowns by regulators. [...] > The SEC brought one of its more unusual insider trading cases on > Monday, when it sued the unnamed account holders in a Swiss and > Bahamian accounts with insider trading ahead of The Gillette Co.'s > merger proposal for Duracell International. [...] > One disturbing development for regulators is a recent decision by the > 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down one of the SEC's > main enforcement tools in insider trading cases. > The court, which covers several Midwestern states, rejected the > so-called "misappropriation theory" in insider trading cases, which is > used to nab people trading on inside information who don't owe a > fiduciary duty to the company's shareholders. The court also rejected > an SEC rule used to snare insider trading in tender offers. > The 8th Circuit decision came in August in a Justice Department case > against Minneapolis attorney James H. O'Hagan, who was charged with > insider trading during the 1988 takeover bid of Pillsbury Co. by Grand > Metropolitan PLC. SEC General Counsel Richard Walker has asked the > appeals court for a rehearing on the matter. > While the 8th Circuit decision represents a setback for the SEC, the > agency usually brings its cases in the New York and Chicago areas, > where the federal courts acknowledge these insider trading rules. > Regulators say these enforcement tools are important because insider > trading follows few patterns. In an analysis of 35 cases brought in > 1995 that solely dealt with insider trading, Gerlach said 20 involved > trading ahead of mergers, three ahead of other positive corporate > announcements and six ahead of bad corporate news. > He described 16 of the cases as "classic insider trading" involving an > executive, company director or employee who traded on confidential, > market sensitive information or tipped friends about it. Among the > remaining cases, four involved trading by securities brokers or other > industry officials, four involved law firm employees and one, an > employee at an outside accounting firm. > Investigators at the Nasdaq Stock Market's market surveillance unit > refer a significant number of insider trading cases to the SEC. Halley > Milligan, who heads a team of nine insider trading investigators at > Nasdaq, said the market has made 73 referrals on suspected insider > trading to the SEC so far in 1996, which is on par with last year, > when 107 cases were referred to the agency. > Nasdaq, like major stock markets, uses sophisticated computer > technology to sniff out illegal trading. The Nasdaq system is called > SWAT, or Stock Watch Automatic Tracking, which scans news databases > after detecting any unusual trading. [...] > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net

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Re: CIA hacked
by Lord of Entropy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:11 AM 9/20/96 +1000, you wrote: >+http://www.odci.gov/cia >+Seems the DOJ hack was a good inspiration. Heh! Life's good when you're >+willing to work at it. >Did you or anyone get a mirror of the site?! I wanna set one up! ;) http://www.ilf.net/hacked.websites/cia/ -- T 37 5F 68 3F 0F 1B A3 6B 7F 90 EA 40 73 49 2F B0 R Information Liberation Front U NO http://www.ilf.net/ chaoS(a)ilf.Net T E

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Re: monkey-wrenching GAK
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:46 PM 9/19/96, Ray Arachelian wrote: >Another thing you can do: generate huge key pairs all day long and submit >them to the NSA. If enough people do this, they will be flooded and >overworked, of course they may ignore them, etc, or make it hard to do >so, but if everyone generates a 4K key every hour or two and discards it, >but gives the key pair to the NSA anyway, they will run out of storage >space, or at least it will make it much much harder for them to figgure >out which key you are using for conversation X. Ah, but what about the _fee_ for registering a key? You really didn't think this would be free, did you? (It costs money to register cars, guns, etc., so why would it be "free" to register a key?) Besides being a revenue enhancement tool, charging a fee stops this sort of flooding attack. (Note: One of my biggest objections to GAK, besides the political/civil rights issue, is what it does to systems which generate lots and lots of keys on an ad hoc, continuing basis. GAK, if enforced, puts a major speed bump in the way and increases costs, possibly making certain kinds of systems infeasible.) --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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Declaration against German censorship
by Felipe Rodriquez 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Send a mail to tuamotu(a)duplox.wz-berlin.de to sign this declaration against current German censorship and IP-filtering of sites. ------------------------------------------------------------------ A Letter of Protest On August 30th 1996, the German Federal Prosecutor wrote to German Internet providers and on-line services telling them that they could possibly be charged with aiding and abetting persons who are currently the subject of a preliminary inquiry by the German Federal Prosecutor due to an article published in a magazine which offended German anti-terrorism laws. The German Federal Prosecutor wrote (excerpt): "Under the following Internet addresses ... [the GFP names two WWW sites, which will be not quoted here because we do not refer to the actual case of a specific text which gives cause for complaint, instead we are interested in the act of censorship as such] ..the complete issue is available... [of the magazine who is subject of preliminary inquiry by the GFP. The GFP explains why they deem the text to be illegal in Germany]... We want you to be aware that you are possibly making yourself liable to prosecution by acting as an accessory to criminal offences [according to German anti-terrorist laws '' 129a,3 and 130a,1 StGB] if you allow the text to be accessed via your Internet dial-ins and host computers." Although the German Federal Prosecutor merely pointed out the possibility of being liable to prosecution and although the opinion of the GFP as expressed in the letter has not as of yet been proven right by a court decision, several German providers responded to the letter by temporarily (for no longer than 28 days) closing off the WWW sites where the electronic version of the article was previously available to Internet readers. From the point of view of a WWW site, for example xs4all.nl in the Netherlands, the action of German providers (among them the largest German providers) means a blockage of all of their WWW information for a great number of German netizens because of a single web page among the thousands of pages xs4all offers at their site. We think denying access to WWW sites is wrong. Beside the fact that it is practically impossible to filter the flow of data in order to keep specific WWW pages which are stored on WWW sites in other countries outside of the German state territory when Germans are allowed to contact these countries by phone for example - unless the German government decided upon massive censorship measurements which would be not according to German Laws as they are today - we demand equal rights for Internet providers and TelCo providers, thus making the GFP's letter unsubstantiated if equal rights were applied. So far, neither German Telecom nor the German postal service have been liable to prosecution by acting as assessories to criminal offences by simply transporting telephone or mail data. xs4all and xs2all Internet Information! back to the letter of protest in german language Internet Information (available in English, Dutch, German): http://www.xs4all.nl/~felipe/germany.html --- latest news Internet Information in German language http://www.spiegel.de/aktuell/sonv0296370906.html http://www.nadir.org/NA/Text/Archiv/Medien/Zeitschriften/radikal/netzzensur/ http://www.anwalt.de/ictf/mirror

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Re: CIA hacked
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From remailer(a)mailhub.bart.nl Thu Sep 19 13:18:03 1996 Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Thu, 19 Sep 96 16:10:20 EDT for dlv Received: from spoof.bART.nl by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA03960 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Thu, 19 Sep 96 13:18:03 -0400 Received: (from remailer@localhost) by spoof.bart.nl (8.7.5/8.6.8) id TAA28972 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:19:58 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:19:58 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609191719.TAA28972(a)spoof.bart.nl> To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com From: remailer(a)2005.bart.nl (Anonymous) Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to <remailer-admin(a)remailer.nl.com> The contents of this message are neither approved or condoned by nl.com or our host bART Internet. *** Replying to it will not send your reply to the sender *** There is no way to determine the originator of this message. If you wish to be blocked from receiving all anonymous mail, send your request to the <remailer-operators(a)c2.org> mailing list. The operator of this particular remailer can be reached at <remailer-admin(a)remailer.nl.com> Subject: Re: CIA hacked Return-Path: <cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: CIA hacked From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) Comments: Dole/Kemp '96! Date: Thu, 19 Sep 96 08:08:39 EDT Organization: Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y. Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Mike van der Merwe <mikev(a)is.co.za> writes: > I'm sure we will find out in a few years that Microsoft invented the > Net. Or brought it to the masses. Or saved it from a certain and > early demise. Or all of the above. > JAMES SEYMOUR >Dr. John M. Grubor created the 'net. Who created you? You tub of shit?

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RE: Private key server
by James A. Tunnicliffe 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Gary Howland[SMTP:gary@systemics.com] wrote: f_estema(a)alcor.concordia.ca wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Gary Howland wrote: > > > If you really want this functionality, a nicer solution is to use your > > passphrase as a seed to the key generator - that way you never need > > So much for entropy. If you can actually remember your seed generator, it > can't be that random, can it? I don't know about you, but I can certainly remember enough bits to be secure. The fact that passphrases are so widely used goes to show that I'm not the only one that can do this. [Darth Vader voice:] "Don't overestimate the entropy of your passphrase" Let's see, 128 bits (say) of info, mapped comfortably into the upper case letters and digits (5 bits/char), means a string of about 26 *really random* characters. An example might be "KQI8CH49SCK3PKWNA37AYV9QJ5". If that just rolls off your toungue, you have my respect (and I have pi memorized to 110 decimal places!) This assumes a full 5 bits of entropy/character. If your passphrase is more coherent (i.e., less entropy) than that, like "Strange kr0ws fly 1azily at MIDnight", it almost certainly contains _far_ less entropy than that. 128 bits of truly arbitrary (random) info is a fair amount of information to comfortably remember. Mind you, I think a properly constructed passphrase (like the one above) is pretty darn resistant against any sort of reasonable dictionary or quasi-brute force attack. But I don't think it's got anywhere near, say, 128 bits of entropy. Probably closer to half that. Anyway, the point I was making that this method would be preferable to a "secret key server". My proposal would offer the same security, would it not? (The secret key server is arguably less secure than generating keys from passphrases, since key generation takes longer than IDEA decryption - however, they are still of the same order). Using a pass phrase to seed key generation (or more directly, using the hash of a pass phrase as a key) does not increase the entropy, of course. Not sure if this is relevant to your claim, as I've sort of lost track of the original context! Best regards, Gary Tunny ====================================================================== James A. 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Commentary on news coverage of attacks
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought it was interesting to note what got deleted - namely cryptographic (signature) protection against such attacks - and what got included - namely faked addresses. You can get the original NYT version via JYA. -Allen > _________________________________________________________________ > webslingerZ > _________________________________________________________________ > CONCERN AT RASH OF ATTACKS BY HACKERS ON INTERNET SITES > __________________________________________________________________________ > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > Copyright &copy 1996 The Financial Times > SAN FRANCISCO (Sep 19, 1996 00:23 a.m. EDT) -- A rash of hacker > attacks on commercial Internet sites -- including one in which the > services of Panix, a New York-based Internet access provider, were > seriously disrupted -- has raised new concerns about the security and > reliability of the worldwide computer network. [...] > Attacks have been "isolated incidents," said Pete Solvik, > vice-president of information systems at Cisco Systems, the leading > manufacturer of routing equipment for the Internet. The company, > however, is concerned that the problem could spread, disrupting > Internet service for millions of users and effectively closing down > large commercial sites on the Internet. > With many banks and retailers now planning Internet services, the > potential for financial losses as a result of such attacks is rising. > Disruption of Internet service can also be a serious problem for the > tens of thousands of businesses that now rely on electronic mail and > sites on the World Wide Web to communicate with their partners and > customers. > The impact of a large-scale "denial-of-service attack" can be > devastating, said Solvik. Within a minute, a computer linked to the > Internet can be completely overwhelmed and it may take days before > service can be restored. [...] > Because the attacks came from fake addresses on the Internet, it was > "impossible to trace the source without a major effort on the part of > all Internet service providers between Panix and the attacking party," > said Rosen. > "The nature of the Internet, which is designed to let machines > communicate with a minimum exchange of identifying information, makes > every site on the Internet vulnerable," said Rosen. > The Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York Computer Investigations > Threat Assessment Center is understood to be investigating the attack > on Panix. Computer Emergency Response Teams, a US organization that > collates information about security and technical problems on the > Internet, are looking into the incident. [...] > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net

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It seems a million dollars in cash is illegal...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

...in India, anyway. Yes. I know. He probably didn't *earn* it. Well, not *that* way, anyway... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text To: economist-politics(a)postbox.co.uk From: The Economist <null(a)postbox.co.uk> Subject: Politics This Week (September 13th - September 19th) Data: Thu Sep 19 17:33:56 GB 1996 Sender: Nobody <nobody(a)ivision.co.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:33:57 +0100 **************************************************************************** Welcome to Politics This Week (September 13th - September 19th) A weekly summary of the world's main events from The Economist Also available at http://www.economist.com/ **************************************************************************** <snip> Indian police arrested Sukh Ram, a former communications minister, a month after police found over $1m in cash hidden in his house. Mr Ram was arrested on his return from abroad. <snip> Information about this newsletter This is a free newsletter published by The Economist newspaper. To find out where best to direct queries to The Economist, do not reply to this message. Send a blank e-mail message to help(a)economist.com If you are having problems receiving this list, send an e-mail to support(a)postbox.co.uk To cancel your subscription, send an e-mail with the message "leave economist-politics" to newscaster(a)postbox.co.uk Alternatively, you can cancel your subscription (or re-subscribe at any time) by visiting http://www.economist.com/mailing/ Copyright The Economist Newspaper Limited --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 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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