December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Copyright violations
by alzheimer＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- Financial Times, 11/29/96 REUTERS STAFFER SABOTAGES HONG KONG BANK DEALING ROOMS A computer operator at Reuters in Hong Kong recently sabotaged the dealing room systems of five of the company's investment bank clients. The attack crippled for up to 36 hours the computer systems delivering market prices and news to traders at NatWest Markets, Jardine Fleming, Standard Chartered and two other banks. The banks, which resorted to alternative terminals such as Bloomberg, claimed the tampering had no significant impact on trading and said neither they nor their clients experienced losses as a result. The initial breach occurred on November 18. Reuters engineer Winston Cheng (now suspended) allegedly paid maintenance visits to several clients and used his password to gain access to the operating system at the heart of the Reuters networks. He entered commands that would delete key operating system files after a delay to allow him to leave the building. The first bank to report problems at 6:00 P.M. was Standard Charter, followed by the others. The dealing room systems were partially fixed by the morning to allow trading to continue more or less as normal but it was not until the next day that they were restored to full operation. As well as reviewing procedures on staff, Reuters is considering restrictions on its maintenance engineers' access to trading floors and the system software.

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Announce: New mailing list for PGP developers
by Gary Howland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I have set up a mailing list for PGP developers. The main topic of conversation will be issues directly related to developing PGP tools and libraries, such as non-standard cipher feedback modes :-/ The list can be joined by sending subscribe pgp-dev _your mail address_ to majordomo(a)systemics.com. Best regards, Gary Howland -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary(a)systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06

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Working Draft: "Using Markets to Achieve Efficient Task Distribution"
by Ian Grigg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Our paper on "Using Markets to Achieve Efficient Task Distribution" is now on the web at http://www.systemics.com/docs/papers/task_market.html as a working draft (please don't quote or disseminate - it is now "under offer" for FC97). I, at least, am going to have a break from paper writing and go have a go at coding it, and all the other things in the queue. However, comments are most welcome. Thanks to everyone who has commented so far. -- iang iang(a)systemics.com

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unsunscribe
by Greg Shanton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

unsuscribe cypherpunks

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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: IP address
by Internaut 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Adamsc wrote: > > Igor wrote > > > On Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:23:30 -0600, Internaut wrote: > > >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? --> >> 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! >Isn't is Unix that is actually vulnerable? I tried pinging myself off and it didn't work; maby it has to be from a remote host.

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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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COREL TO CENSOR ALL CLIP ART WORLDWIDE
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Swastikas halt Corel sales By Reuters November 25, 1996, 12 p.m. PT MUNICH, Germany--Corel (COSFF) software company has temporarily halted sales of its top-selling Corel Draw graphics program in Germany because it includes four banned Nazi symbols, a company spokesman said today. The Canadian company will remove three drawings of Adolf Hitler and one swastika from future versions of its popular software, spokesman Thomas Layer said. It is also distributing warning labels to be placed on versions now being sold, Layer said. The label warns that the "improper use of digital images and symbols" found in the programs Corel Draw 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 is prohibited in Germany, which bans public displays of Nazi symbols. Munich's state prosecutor launched an investigation into the software on October 2 after learning that someone had used the banned images to print business cards for a neo-Nazi group, Layer said. This is not the first time that the company has had complaints due to their clip art images. In 1992, pressure from US Black rights organisations forced drawings of the Ku Kux Klan to be removed from the collection. Consideration is also being given to the removal of other images from the collection, either due to legal restrictions in various countries, or due to complaints from organisations such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Images considered for removal include a burning US flag, Josef Stalin, the Star of David icon, a cannabis leaf, and a drawing of a woman in a bathing costume. Corel Draw provides more than 24,000 clip art drawings and symbols that computer users can copy. The company suspended the sales on November 19.

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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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