December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

FW: Now we have it all
by Butler, Scott 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Abaddon wrote: >>susbscribe Surely we have seen it all now. I find it hard to believe that a word like suscribe....subsribe....subcribes.. SUBSCRIBE..is so difficult to spell correctly. :-) ScOtT

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Re: [rant] Re: Censorship on cypherpunks
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:44 PM 11/5/96 -0800, Sean Roach wrote: >May I remind you that if you want to leave this country, all you have to do >is board a plane. Many people have suggested similar things about various >groups for about two centuries. The major difference between this list and >this government is that it is easier to start a new list. However since governments attempt to maintain a geographical monopoly and there are a very limited number of them, it is not possible to find another country you can enter as a matter of right so you may not be able to escape. In contrast there are millions of private organizations of various sorts (corporations, etc) and it is trivial to find one to join if you like. DCF

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Parents effectively lose their right
by kb4vwa＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Family Research Council Washington Watch News - October 25, 1996 - Vol. 8:1 "Parents effectively lose their right to direct the upbringing of their children when they drop them off at school, according to one federal court judge. Earlier this year, Judge Melinda Harmon, appointed by President Bush, ruled that Katy Independent School District in TX did not violate parents' rights by allowing Child Protective Services to interrogate a student without notifying his parents, nor by instructing him to lie to his parents about the incident."

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UNSUBCRIBE CENSORSHIP
by Pos Indonesia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

UNSUBCRIBE CENSORSHIP

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SEC_ure
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

11-04-96. "Web security threat grows" With a variety of new technologies like stronger encryption, smart cards and digital signatures and envelopes emerging to tighten Web security, experts working on various aspects of the problem agree the goal of end-to-end security on the Web will remain elusive as long as insecure operating systems dominate the commercial market. "You can't build security on top of insecurity," said Netscape's Jim Roskind, who spent much of a session on Webware fending off criticism of Java security flaws. "We have to assume that the [security] problems will be pervasive forever," warned Peter Neumann. "This is a holistic problem, and we have to deal with it in a global way." "Protection sought for U.S. systems" The initiative will be led by the Pentagon's Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University and the Energy Department's Computer Incident Advisory Capability. "Motorola unveils chip for contactless smart card" One chip designing a contactless card that meets all frequencies of a proposed standard while the other adds cryptography to a single-chip solution. The other card incorporates a 1,024-bit modular encryption processor that is reportedly one of the fastest in the industry. "U.S.Joint Venture to Market Acoustic Smart Card Technology" NeTegrity also announced it has invested $1 million in Encotone, Ltd., for a 10% equity interest in the Israeli company. Other Encotone, Ltd. investors include ECI Telecom, a $500 million Israeli telecommunications firm, and Professor Michal Ben Or, Head of the Department of Computer Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a worldwide authority on cryptology. "Microchip Technology launches highly secure smart card family with KEELOQ code hopping technology" The SCS152 provides a programmable 64-bit cryptographic key used to create a digital signature unique to each card, which reduces the possibility of unwanted access to card information and the "cloning" of these cards for unauthorized payments. Other features include programmable user memory and "anti-tearing," which prevents the information in the card from being corrupted if the supply voltage is interrupted. "EEMA Lobbies Over Limiting US Encryption Controls" EEMA recognizes that the principal reasons for this is the disparate European legislation that surrounds the use of encryption, and the fact that inter-working with dominant US-based computer software -- operating system and application software -- is subject to US legislation and restrictions. "Putting EDI to the test" Security continues to be the main sticking point for using the Net as a vehicle for EDI. Vendors that will demonstrate secure E-mail messages transporting EDI documents over the Web. The technology used is S/MIME, an encrypted version of the popular MIME protocol. "V-One Secures New Clients" NSA runs the nation's code-breaking operations, and DISA is supposed to keep the nation's networks secure, so there is not much chance of finding out what they do with the software they have bought from V-One. ----- http://jya.com/secure.txt (28 kb) SEC_ure

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RE: Censorship in Western Australia
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 21:59:33 +1100 From: Irene Graham <rene(a)pobox.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Re: Australia drafts Net rating system On Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:53:24 -0800 (PST), Declan McCullagh <declan(a)eff.org> wrote: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- [...] >http://www.smh.com.au/computers/news/961105-news03.html [...] >Under the code, which is being developed by the >Internet Industry Association of Australia (INTIAA), >content will be classified under the existing code used >by the Office of Film and Television Classification. >"R" or "X" rated material would have to be clearly >identified and provided only to registered subscribers. [...] The subject line of this thread is misleading, which is understandable given the content of the newspaper report. "Australia" is not drafting a Net rating system (yet anyway). I doubt INTIAA actually is either. INTIAA purports to be (i.e. wants to be) the "peak Internet industry body" in Australia. However their code *does not* have the support of much of the "industry". The present stage of the fight in Australia is, not against government censorship, but against "privatised" censorship. There is presently no Net content rating system based on the OFLC classifications, nor with any luck is there likely to be. The Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) in its July report on Net regulation was of the view that that system is unworkable for on-line content (which is correct) and proposed the development of a purpose-built classification system. Unfortunately it appears the director(s) of INTIAA have not read that report. The following extract from Electronic Frontiers Australia's response (of 22 Oct 96) to the ABA report tells the rest of the story about INTIAA and its code: "It appears that the ABA has been influenced by a particularly complicated proposed industry code of practice drafted by Patrick Fair of a Sydney corporation "The Internet Industry Association of Australia". That proposed code of conduct, released on the 10th September 1996, proposes a top-heavy industry body, drawing extensive levies from the Internet access providers in order to sustain a professional council as well-funded and well-staffed as a national professional body. INTIAA was established with board members representing hardware and software vendors, a national law firm and several large Internet access providers. Other members of the company include media and the Taxation Institute of Australia. It is fair comment that INTIAA represents a sector of the market with deep pockets and contacts in government, as indeed the Minister for the Communications and the Arts launched INTIAA on the 15th December 1995. The proposed code of practice makes use of the ABA's favoured PICS web page rating standard compulsory , creates an Administration Council with a government appointee as Chair and no direct voting by member service providers on changes to that Code. For those worried about censorship of the Net through the back door, the proposed Code places on service providers the obligation to block "X-rated" material as if it were child pornography. A further problem for service providers is the requirement that they report "illegal" sites to the authorities , report "RC" violations to other site administrators and delete users to enforce compliance with censorship. INTIAA's code of practice does not represent a consensus within the industry. There are State Internet Associations (WA Internet Association, South Australian Internet Association, ACT Internet Association) which do not subscribe to such a bureaucratic system and which instead are developing codes of practice which more fully fulfil industry aspirations and conform more fully to industry experience [...and...] make it quite clear that an Internet access provider cannot be held responsible for content not originating on his or her system under any circumstances. [...] The gloss and complexity of the INTIAA code by comparison has obviously promoted to the ABA the notion that the industry can self-fund a policing function as the government may direct." The INTIAA code is a threat to free speech on the Net (at least in Oz) equivalent to, and possibly worse than, government censorship. Regards Irene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irene Graham, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. PGP key on h/page. The Net Censorship Dilemma: <http://www.pobox.com/~rene/liberty/> "A year from now you may wish you had started today." Karen Lamb. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Mixmaster Test
by The Black Knight 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry for the spam, folks ... just looking for a mixmaster that puts the Subject: line into cypherpunk messages. Name-Withheld-By-Request Editor in Chief, Cypherpunk Enquirer

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Re: Cypherpunk Inquest?
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Yeah, I got it too as <2.2.32.19961104184908.00715ebc(a)popmail.mcs.net>. If I answer it, I'll Cc the list, but I figure he can read what I write here as easily as anyone. Anyone who'd send this same text to both me and John Young hasn't been lurking very closely. - -rich John Young wrote: > > Return-Path: lzkoch(a)mcs.net > X-Sender: lzkoch(a)popmail.mcs.net > Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 12:28:29 -0600 > To: jya(a)pipeline.com > From: Lewis Koch <lzkoch(a)mcs.net> > Subject: Regarding a story for Upside Magazine > > John Young: > > This is an identical letter to a limited number of contributors to > Cypherpunks regarding an article I will be writing for Upside Magazine - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMoER5yoZzwIn1bdtAQHXwwGA4FjBcDK1RSWC727Wk/nJM+ztn2/DEwbp 3gRhlPtUTfZ8oXMORvwjL4NEikb+iYfn =KmTb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Vulis profile Vulis profile
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I had some free time this morning, and just for fun, thought I'd create a brief Net profile of our friend Dr. Vulis. Here's what I found (sources included): Dimitri Vulis #4k Burns St, Forest Hills,NY 11375-3506 (718)261-6839 Source: http://www.yahoo.com (Four11 people search) Birthday: December 29 Source: http://www.boutell.com/birthday.cgi/december/29 D&M Consulting Services (DM-DOM) 67-67 Burns Street Forest Hills, NY 11375 Domain Name: DM.COM Administrative Contact: Administration, PSINet Domain (PDA4) psinet-domain-admin(a)PSI.COM (703) 904-4100 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Network Information and Support Center (PSI-NISC) hostinfo(a)psi.com (518) 283-8860 Record last updated on 31-Oct-96. Record created on 19-Jun-91. Domain servers in listed order: NS.PSI.NET 192.33.4.10 NS2.PSI.NET 38.8.50.2 Source: InterNIC Q: Who is Dimitri Vulis? A: Dimitri is an XSoviet immigrant who is enrolled (or used to be enrolled) in CUNY, and who is a computer professional involved i.a. in unicode matters. The realspace Dimitri is a polite person and a devoted family head. It's cyberspace image is not nearly as nice, unfortunately. He harasses people all over the net with the most offensive sorts of messages, and uses dirty tricks to retaliate to the people who do get offended. Among his accomplished feats is a series of articles about cat-eating dogs posted to rec.pets.cats (which caused a wave of complaints and made him lost his CUNY account) ; a series of porno binaries with obscene comments about his opponents posted to math-related newsgroups (he lost another academic account, at fordham.edu, after this scandal); and a series of racist articles denigrating all aspects of romanian life and culture which used to haunt the romanian newsgroup for years. Of course most of his net.bile is spilled over his fellow XSoviets, particularly of Jewish origin (such as Michael Verbitsky, Boris Veytsman, Vlad Rutenberg or myself, as well as all Brighton Beach together); and a lot of stuff comes out from his alleged aliases in bwalk.dm.com, aol.com and fly.harvard.edu. Some of these aliases match the names of his opponents, as I already mentioned. Sometimes not only the names but also addresses match (although paths don't). Dimitri Vulis also advertises the capabilities of his site for forging and cancelling articles. Sometimes he shrewdly comments articles of his own saying : "This article is most certainly forged, after all I spent a lot of time teaching you how to forge... but I nevertheless like this article's content". Source: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~verbit/scs/cranks/from-Shlomo.html (much more there too) AUTHOR PROFILE: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis) 510 articles posted between 1995/06/29 and 1996/11/02. 71 % followups. Number of articles posted to individual newsgroups (slightly skewed by cross-postings): 132 misc.jobs.misc 67 news.admin.net-abuse.misc 67 news.groups 40 mail.cypherpunks 32 nyc.food 18 soc.culture.russian 13 news.admin.misc 12 nyc.general 10 news.admin.censorship 9 news.admin.policy 8 alt.censorship 7 alt.usenet.kooks 7 soc.culture.pakistan 6 alt.revenge 5 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy 5 soc.culture.soviet 4 alt.sex.plushies 4 sci.math 4 sci.physics 4 talk.politics.medicine 3 alt.folklore.computers 3 alt.security 3 comp.lang.ada 3 comp.security.misc 3 sci.crypt 2 alt.nocem.misc 2 alt.sci.physics.plutonium 2 aus.flame 2 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy 2 comp.unix.advocacy 2 microsoft.public.netiquette 2 soc.culture.israel 1 alt.2600 1 alt.anonymous 1 alt.bible 1 alt.computer.consultants 1 alt.consumers.experiences 1 alt.fan.bill-gates 1 alt.fan.my-big-hairy-penis 1 alt.privacy 1 alt.shenanigans 1 alt.society.neutopia 1 aus.general 1 comp.ai 1 comp.mail.uucp 1 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc 1 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup 1 comp.sys.mac.advocacy 1 humanities.language.sanskrit 1 misc.entrepreneurs 1 misc.invest 1 news.newusers.questions 1 nj.misc 1 nyc.seminars 1 rec.humor 1 rec.motorcycles 1 sci.psychology.psychotherapy 1 soc.motss 1 tor.general Source: http://www.dejanews.com profile Dimitri Vulis: Contrib. post: whose obnoxious, derivative and not-very-funny Soviet emigre jokes from Brighton Beach were a weekly feature about a year ago on rec.humor . He ignored completely any requests to stop. Eventually he started getting flamed in demotic Russian-quite fun for those of us who could read it. - Dan "And to think he felt it important enough to waste his two hours of daily connect time on it" Case -- so what _is_ the deal with vulis? is "russian emigre" a codeword for "jew", or for "russian emigre", or for something else? (if i recall correctly, minor and now somewhat reformed net.loon mikhail zeleny claimed rather convincingly that vulis's posts contained certain tell-tale phrases which are highly un-idiomatic in english ("dandruff-covered" was one of them, i think) which were dead giveaways of classic pathological russian anti-semitism.) so is vulis russian? an emigre? a jew in some sense? self-hating? maybe a self-hating russian jewish emigre who hates only the jewish half of themself? or maybe they hate the russian half too? are they now or have they ever been, while residing in america, on the payroll of any branch of any soviet or russian government? did they stop posting russian emigre jokes when the paychecks stopped coming? are they a zhirinovsky supporter now? the most recent messages posted by vulis that i have seen seem designed mainly to convince people that both zhirinovsky and valery fabrikant are (russian?) jews. (it's very likely true in fabrikant's case, at least.) maybe vulis is a self-hating supporter of zhirinovsky and fabrikant? -- Posts on soc.culture.soviet, and is apparently something of an institution there; likes to stir things up, and to flame and/or troll people. I'm not up on which sides are good and/or bad on s.c.s, which among other things seems to have been ravaged by Serdar Argic for a long time as well, driving away many of the gentler posters. Is currently engaged in flamewar with Peter V. Vorobieff there. Posts from dlv(a)CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math). Source: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/legends/legends3.html Dimitri Vulis's barcode font ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/barcodes.mf There is a mailing list, rustex-l, for discussion of typesetting Cyrilic-based languages. To subscribe, send mail to listserv(a)ubvm.bitnet containing the text SUBSCRIBE RUSTEX-L <your name here> or mail Dimitri Vulis, DLV%CUNYVMS1.BITNET(a)cunyvm.cuny.edu [or dlv(a)dm.com?] Source: http://wsspinfo.cern.ch/faq/fonts-faq/metafont-list Bar code fonts ymir.claremont.edu by Dimitri Vulis [anonymous.tex.mf] BibTeX eedsp.gatech.edu for MS-DOS v99 by J. Demel and Dimitri Vulis Source: http://www.clinet.fi/pd/doc/texts/TeX-FAQ-supplement_(part_2_of_3 ) (this FAQ is dated 10 May 93) Server The files of type para used in the index were: /u3/wais/mirror/cissites/cissites.txt A list of contacts for most known organizations in the former Soviet Union who either have or plan to have e-mail connections. Provided by the SUEARN-L list, SUEARN-L(a)UBVM.BITNET. Keywords: USSR, CIS, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Baltic, Moscow, Leningrad, Siberia. The original document is stored on impaqt.drexel.edu:/pub/suearn/misc/cissites.txt and is available for anonymous FTP. >From the front matter: * The Authoritative Soviet E-Mail Directory and Guide ** For more information, subscribe to the SUEARN-L mailing list, or send e-mail to Michael Meystel or Dimitri Vulis (c) 1992 All rights reserved This file contains contact information (correct name / address / phone / fax #... possibly e-mail address) for sites of interest in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). We occasionally get asked questions like 'What is the Russian name of IAS?' or 'What is the postal address of St. Petersburg State U's math faculty?' or 'What does IPPI stand for?'. Over the years I've collected a fairly complete electronic address book of addresses of Soviet sites where mathematical research is done, which I gladly share. Sergej Gelfand and Don Parsons have kindly contributed their address lists (respectively, more math and oncology). An even more complete version of such file, listing sites of possible interest to people in other fields, and freely available on the Internet, would be very useful to many. Please send additions, corrections, suggestions, etc to: CISMAP(a)DM.COM I can't acknowledge everything, but I will try to read every e-mail. Dimitri Vulis ) Source: http://www.elvis.ru/wais/c.html

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Re: Censorship on cypherpunks
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:51 AM 11/6/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: >As I've said before, all forums on the net can be arranged at some point in the future >to be "privately" owned, and the question is, can there be a free speech forum where >you won't be arbitrarily banned? > We call it Usenet.

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