December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

sorry for the spam!
by Psionic Damage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I apologize 4 the spam, not my doing, Haven't figured out who waz responsible, but I will understand if I amd kicked off this list. Once again, I am sorry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Zer0 Faith Inc. H/P/A/V/C UNDER-WORLD www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2608 MEMBERZ: GATEMASTER, VIRIZZ, KRASH, EVIL TWIN, PHONEHAZORD, PSIONIC DAMAGE, MANTIKORE, ERADIKATOR, PSYCHODROME, SONIK, kOBRA, & KRYPTIK! EMAIL:zerofaith@nlights.net (headquarterz) hakker1(a)hotmail.com (Delious's Haus!) hackerz(a)juno.com (The Gatemaster'z palace) zerofaith(a)geocities.com (delivery/help/requests/suggestions)

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Re: sorry for the spam!
by msprague＠ridgecrest.ca.us 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

as of Sunday 23:00PST 12/15 he was using a mailto IP of 206.129.116.5 and http's to 192.41.31.20/thatguy/upyours.zip >Psionic Damage enscribed thusly: > >> I apologize 4 the spam, not my doing, Haven't figured out who waz >> responsible, but I will understand if I amd kicked off this list. >> Once again, I am sorry. > > The individual is a little shit operating a windows system on >IP address 206.129.116.108 as of Sunday evening. While the messages >where poping up on cypherpunks, one of the Received-By headers was >indicating his IP address. I was able to confirm his presence on the >network and determine it to be a windows system operating with the workstation >name of "MARLAEST" and a workgroup name of "ESTES ADVENTURE". He's not >operating a windows messaging pop-up or I would have sent him an appropriate >message of appreciation. Since it IS a windows system (and not running >sendmail) I think it is safe to assume that he IS the end point of this >bullshit. > > 206.129.116.108 is in a block assigned to Premier1 Internet, >Coordinator Michael Heuerman, mikheu(a)PREMIER1.NET (360-793-3658), who is also >getting a copy of this... > > This individual is still on line as of 22:43 EDT 12/15/96 > > Can someone kindly track this little asshole down and dump his sorry >ass in the nearest toxic waste dump? > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------- >> Zer0 Faith Inc. H/P/A/V/C UNDER-WORLD >> www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2608 >> >> MEMBERZ: >> >> GATEMASTER, VIRIZZ, KRASH, EVIL TWIN, PHONEHAZORD, PSIONIC DAMAGE, >> MANTIKORE, ERADIKATOR, PSYCHODROME, SONIK, kOBRA, & KRYPTIK! >> >> EMAIL:zerofaith@nlights.net (headquarterz) hakker1(a)hotmail.com (Delious's >> Haus!) hackerz(a)juno.com (The Gatemaster'z palace) zerofaith(a)geocities.com >> (delivery/help/requests/suggestions) > > Mike >-- > Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw(a)WittsEnd.com > (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 925-8248 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all > PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! > >

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Re: Van Eck articles
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Looking for: > >"Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping >Risk?" by Wim Van Eck, published in "Computers & Security," 1985, Vol 4 I OCR'd this and have it as either an 895K Word 5.1a (Mac) or 705K Acrobat document. I'll email a copy to anyone that's interested. > >and > >"Protective Measures Against Compromising Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted >by Video Display Terminals" by Professor Erhard Moller, Aachen University, >1990 (no source citation) I seem to have misplaced this document. However, I don't recall OCR'r it. -- Steve

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Re: sorry for the spam!
by Dagmar the Surreal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:49 PM 12/15/96 -0500, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw(a)wittsend.com> wrote: >Psionic Damage enscribed thusly: > >> I apologize 4 the spam, not my doing, Haven't figured out who waz >> responsible, but I will understand if I amd kicked off this list. >> Once again, I am sorry. > > The individual is a little shit operating a windows system on >IP address 206.129.116.108 as of Sunday evening. While the messages >where poping up on cypherpunks, one of the Received-By headers was >indicating his IP address. I was able to confirm his presence on the >network and determine it to be a windows system operating with the workstation >name of "MARLAEST" and a workgroup name of "ESTES ADVENTURE". He's not >operating a windows messaging pop-up or I would have sent him an appropriate >message of appreciation. Since it IS a windows system (and not running >sendmail) I think it is safe to assume that he IS the end point of this >bullshit. > > 206.129.116.108 is in a block assigned to Premier1 Internet, >Coordinator Michael Heuerman, mikheu(a)PREMIER1.NET (360-793-3658), who is also >getting a copy of this... Aside from that, the traceroute of that IP address just happens to take it to nlights.net, which is apparently somehow affiliated with AOL, but in any case, the WWW pages the spam points to just HAPPEN to list down at the bottom an email address to contact the author which isn't a remailing service like geocities or hotmail. It's zerofaith(a)nlights.net. ^^^^^^^^^^^ Normally I don't like to call people liars in public, but I think that if Mr. Faith doesn't know who's responsible for the spam, then I'm the Queen of @#$%! England. ---------- Dagmar the Surreal, now with 50% less sodium! Coming in 1997--Surreal III, http://edge.edge.net/~dagmar (...now where did I leave that darn salt?)

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xxx
by IIR GmbH & Co 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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name.space. call for content
by mf＠MediaFilter.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello All, The black.hole in the net project is now online and functioning. Please add your project to the "switchboard" via the links generator accessable from the black.hole page: http://black.hole (or http://blackhole.autono.net) The page is beginning to get lots of hits, so now's the time to put up your stuff! Best wishes, Paul Garrin

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NYT: Faulty Crypto Policy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times, December 16, 1996, p. A14. Another Faulty Encryption Policy [Editorial] The Clinton Administration has issued its third plan in as many years to keep powerful encryption programs for telephone and computer messages out of the hands of international terrorists and criminals. But this latest plan to control the export of encryption software, like the two before it, is unworkable and risks trampling on privacy rights and harming American software firms. Encryption in the hands of criminals unquestionably makes law enforcement hard. But the greatest use of encryption is by banks and other legal businesses that need to transmit confidential data without fear of interception. In legitimate hands, encryption helps to prevent crime. The Administration first sought to steer all Americans toward an encryption standard that Washington would design, thus preserving the Government's ability to tap phone calls. But after sharp criticism of Government snooping, the Administration retreated to a policy, still rejected by most privacy advocates and software firms, aimed at exports of encryption programs. The newly released regulations, which were supposed to implement the October policy, in fact make a flawed policy even worse. The one consistent thread through the Administration's plans is commitment to an encryption standard that uses mathematical "passwords" to scramble messages. The Government would then have the technical capacity to recover passwords, upon court order, and unscramble the phone or computer message. But the new policy will not succeed abroad. The Administration insists it needs not only to unscramble stored computer files but also to tap phone and computer messages, without the caller's knowledge, as they are transmitted. That would in effect require the foreign purchaser of American software to deposit its passwords with a reputable outside party -- a government agency, a bank or the computer firm from which it bought the software -- which would relinquish them upon court order and without notifying the user. What foreign company or individual will purchase software that is prey to undisclosed Government snooping when they can, buy equally powerful encryption from foreign firms that offer no such path for eavesdropping? The plan runs into other insolvable problems. It does not propose prohibiting powerful encryption software for domestic purchase, where such programs are constitutionally protected and already in wide use. Thus anyone could, with a few key strokes, send the domestically available programs over the Internet to Europe and beyond. The Administration also fears that software firms will write their programs so that the powerful domestic versions communicate readily with the easier-to-tap export products. If so, the technical result would be that criminals here and abroad could communicate out of reach of Government wiretaps. The Administration proposes to solve that problem by prohibiting software firms from providing easy communication between their domestic and export products. But that would make American export encryption programs unsellable abroad. A panel of the National Research Council recommended that Washington drop export restrictions on encryption software already available abroad, beef up the F.B.I.'s ability to crack private encryption codes and support private efforts to develop high quality encryption to stop illegal eavesdropping. Those steps will improve communications security and will not put Government law officers in corporate boardrooms, open E-mail to instant wiretaps or send foreign customers toward European and Asian software firms. [End]

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FER_mat
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12-16-96. NYP Book review: Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem By Amir D. Aczel The world has many worlds, with the priestly cult of mathematicians, so mystifyingly and inaccessible to most people, among the more esoterically interesting of them. Aczel describes the intrigue and double-dealing in the international world of mathematical speculation, some of which involves Andrew Wile's proof of Fermat's theorem. ----- FER_mat ---------- The NYP reported on Wile's proof in January, 1995: http://jya.com/fermhak.txt (15 kb) FERM_hak

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Re: ITARs effects
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

azur(a)netcom.com (Steve Schear) writes: > >Adam Shostack writes: > [snip] > > In my case the > >government's lawyer has made it quite clear that they would consider > >putting cryptographic software on a web site as a violation, and I > >don't think that for this purpose there is any distinction either in > >the government's mind or in reality between an FTP site and a web > >site. > > > > These changes are all aimed at making it harder to make money from strong > crypto and therefore reduce its common availability worldwide. They do > little to keep it from circulating worlwide, what ever its country of > origin as anonymous posting to a newsgroup is still straightforward. > > Look for more shareware and commercial crypto source to circulate in > printed, rather than machine-readable, form to take advantage of freedom of > speech rules. > > -- Steve >From the proposed regs: ----------------------- 16. Section 734.7 is amended by revising paragraph (b) to read as follows: 734.7 Published information and software. * * * * * Accordingly, such encryption software in both source code and object code remains subject to the EAR even if published in a book or any other writing or media. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------------------------ Peter Trei trei(a)Process.com

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fwd: e-mail for free children's books for hospitals (fwd)
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded this anonymously so as not to get flames for being OFF Subject. Spread the spirit of Christmas :-) > --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- > From: Janet_Alfermann%TCI_DALLAS(a)trinityconsultants.com > To: James_McDonald(a)radian.com, > GARDNER.MINDY@epamail.epa.gov,kelemetcsl@bv.com, eriqe(a)aol.com, > ericscheier@worldnet.att.net,Denise_Ratcliff@mgind.com,CN=KNICKREHM.DENISE_A/O=Trinity_Consultants@KANSAS-CITY.VA.GOV,jumisch@cris.com, > stelzer(a)tannalum.attmail.com, effland@juno.com,kopecky@sky.net, > tjalfer(a)is.usmo.com, pderner@umr.edu,jderner@marvin.ecc.cc.mo.us, > eckelkac@river.it.gvsu.edu,gg14stu@semovm.semo.edu, > Laura.Dulle@anheuser-busch.com,rseggelk@redwood.DN.HAC.COM, > rebecca.light@qm.sprintcorp.com,michelle_wilde_at_NIL001@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com,redingers@earthlink.net, > spring@terra.geology.indiana.edu,schroedp@mail.olathe.k12.ks.us, > kupneski.mj(a)pg.com, plutz(a)umr.edu > Subject: Please read > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:22:45 -0500 > Message-ID: <862563FF:006DB8EA.00@mail.trinityconsultants.com> > > > > > > Christmas spirit INTERNET style. > > The Houghton-Mifflin publishing co. is giving books to children's > hospitals; how many books they give depends on how many emails they > receive from people around the world. For every 25 emails they > receive, they give one book--it seems like a great way to help a good > cause. > > All you have to do is email share(a)hmco.com. > > Hope you can spare the seconds...and let your friends know. So far > they only have 3, 400 messages...last year they reached 23,000. > > Merry Christmas > > > > > --------- End forwarded message ---------- > > > --

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