December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Cross-posted to cyberia & cypherpunks] Links, albeit rather thin ones, to background info on the Technical Advisory Committee to Develop a Federal Information Processing Standard for the Federal Key Management Infrastructure appear at: http://csrc.nist.gov/tacdfipsfkmi/ The first (public) meeting will be Dec. 5-6 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel at Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport [Highway 114 & Esters Boulevard], 4440 W. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving, Texas. Alas, I won't be able to make it. On-the-spot reports most welcome... The committee is also asking for written submissions (35 copies!!). A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin(a)law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warm here.

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Pathfinder Personal Edition Launches
by help＠pathfinder.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Sphere packings
by nobody＠zifi.genetics.utah.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C. May's police record is many times longer than his prick (well, that's not hard). \|/ @ @ -oOO-(_)-OOo- Tim C. May

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Re: wealth and property rights
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Adam Back wrote: >> >> Steve Boursy writes: >> >>> That's a fair question. I don't begrude one's ownership of their >>> fair share--but I do have serious problems with what we shall >>> call 'accumulators' if you will. For them I have contempt and no-- >>> they do not have that right of possession and often such 'work' is >>> at the expense and on the backs of others. >> >> I'm an accululator :-) >> >> The investments I have I worked for. > > Well of course you have--but the majority of people >in the world that are poor have worked just as hard >and do not derive the same benefits--that needs to >be changed. > > <clip> > >> See, if you spend your money now, on the above, you have no right to >> criticize me when I look relatively wealthy later. It's your choice >> to blow your money. > > > I agree--that's not what I was talking about--the majority of wealth >is handed down not earned--and the ability to earn also more often >than not results in hand me down priv. I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who was successful at getting the practice of primo geniture outlawed in Virginia (it was later adopted by all the other states). He believed in a 'meritocracy' or sorts and abhored any practice which would create a merchant or political aristocracy in the new Republic. Unfortunately much of his wisdom was ignored (e.g. objection to a central bank, and the forbidding of one generation to indebt another) and we suffer the consequences to this day. > > >> Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it >> very difficult for me to accumulate, > > We do our best--some day we'll take it all away--really. > > Steve

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Re: IP address
by AwakenToMe＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 96-12-02 02:44:30 EST, you write: << >What is the risk of publishing your dynamic IP address to a web page while you are on line? How vulnerable is someone just connected to the internet, w/o any server running? What attacks are feasable? --Internaut Well, if you are running Win95 (all) or 3.1 (w/certain TCP/IP stacks) your machine can be locked up or rebooted at *any* time using just PING! >> Im not sure under what circumstances you were referring this happening in, but I use win95 and so do friends of mine whom I ping ALL the time with their dynamic IP address. I do this to check the time before we do some online gaming across the net. Mind you.... I dont have to be connected to a KALI gaming server to do this.. He lets me know his IP address via his 2nd phone line, I log on the my ISP, goto dos and PING him.. and voila! Adam

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FRIDAY THE 13TH PICTURES
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Well, better late than never. Photos from my last costume party or now on the Web. Check them out at: http://www.c2.net/~sandy/web.htm (My eyebrows and most of my hair have grown back in the ensuing two and a half months.) Mark 15 February on your calendars. I'll be having another gala masquerade ball on that date. The venue will be Pacifica, CA. A formal invitation will be posted to the list a month or so before the party. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: IP address
by AwakenToMe＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 96-12-02 20:11:05 EST, you write: << try ping -l 65510 host.name.edu >> from what ive heard, the sytem going down from a ping command is only when you ping with a wrong size packet

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Phrack, where can i find it?
by varange＠crl.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim Scanlon <tfs(a)adsl-122.cais.com> writing [ 762] bytes in <$m2n21503-.9612012338.AA09683(a)adsl-122.cais.com> from nexp.crl.com!usenet73.supernews.com!news.good.net!news.good.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!phase2.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.171.44.51!scramble.lm.com!mail2news!toad.com!cypherpunks-errors said: > > where can i find latest (and old) phrack issues? > > > ftp.fc.net /pub/phrack has all the back issues, as well as the > current ones. Mid-1995 is about their latest issue. Their older issues truely sucked with mucho false info. -- Cheers!

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ANNOUNCEMENT: New low-noise cryptography mailing list
by Perry E. Metzger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Sorry that this is several weeks late, folks.] "Cryptography" is a low-noise mailing list devoted to cryptographic technology and its political impact. WHAT TOPICS ARE APPROPRIATE: "On topic" discussion includes technical aspects of cryptosystems, social repercussions of cryptosystems, and the politics of cryptography such as export controls or laws restricting cryptography. Discussions unrelated to cryptography are considered "off topic". If you subscribe, please try to keep your postings "on topic". In order to assure that the quality of postings to the mailing list remains high, repeated postings "off topic" may result in action being taken by the list moderators. MODERATION POLICY: In order to keep the signal to noise ratio high, the mailing list will be moderated during its initial weeks of operation. This will be changed if it appears that the list will remain on topic without moderation. TO SUBSCRIBE: send mail to majordomo(a)c2.net with the line subscribe cryptography in the body of your mail. If you wish to subscribe a mailing address other than the one you are sending from, send a message with the line subscribe cryptography [address]

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NEWS.COM Dispatch 12.02.96
by The CNET newsletter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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