December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Fuck UseNet
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> So, basically, you're saying that the flight from censorship should > be toward a new CypherPunk 'home' where one is effectively censored > automatically unless one kisses the ass of a Cabal? Absolutely, It is really, as far as I see it anyway, just a stop-gap measure. The caballers haven`t got enough room to do their censorship on the 18000 or so big 7 groups so they decide to fuck up the alt. heirachy as well ;-) Hopefully Igor and co.`s network of Majordomo's should be fully operational soon (as I understand it two are up and a third is on it's way) then we can move back there. Might even get it finished before the 20th????? Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"

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Congress is at it again; renewed defenses of the CDA
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sen. Coats has been ranting about the CDA again. I have more in the Afterword section of http://netlynews.com/ -- "As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments next month in the Communications Decency Act case, morality crusaders in Congress are launching a renewed defense of the law..." -Declan ------------------------- The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/

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Re: [Declan McCullagh: "A List Goes Down In Flames," from Netly]
by Timothy C. May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:31 AM -0800 2/14/97, Martin Minow wrote: >What bothers me more than anything else about the "solutions" I've >seen proposed to the death of Cypherpunks is that they rely on >technology -- and reject human judgement -- to solve what is, in >reality, a social problem. (One can certainly make the same argument >about the V-chip, browser porn filters, and similar hacks.) Au contraire, Martin! Many of my posts have _explicitly_ pointed to the human filtering services offered by Eric Blossom, Ray Arachelian, and perhaps others. Arranging to have others edit or filter the information flow is a fine and dandy thing, and it's a very "anarchist" thing to do. The "anarchy" of the restaurant business, the book business, and so many other markets and sectors, where end-users are forced to look for filtering mechanisms (such as restaurant reviews, advice of their friends, advertisements, etc.) works pretty well. And, I believe, the Cypherpunks list was doing pretty well before the Moderation thing happened. The noise from the 'bots was no worse than the noise of 2-3 years ago from Detweiler. The claims that "the list has become unusable" were bogus, in my opinion. (Hence the claims that "you Cyherpunks only complain" are also bogus. I for one was not complaining and demanding that John and Sandy "do something" to "fix" the list. I accepted the nonsense spouted about me and John and others as just part of the chaos expected in any forum. I just filtered and deleted such nonsense.) It is true that some signal producers have either moved on to other things--in many cases to crypto-related companies directly or indirectly spawned by the Cypherpunks list and contacts!--or are not writing as many basic essays as they once did. Such is to be expected. People get tired of writing explanatory articles, and handling newbies. The key to improving signal is to increase the amount of signal, not to just suppress noise so as to make the S/N ratio look better. I can easily hit the "delete" key to remove noise, but I can't hit the "create" key to increase signal. --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" 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: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re:
by Omegaman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > Is it legal or illegal to send a > > PGP encrypted message from the US to someone in another country? > > Yes. > > No it's not. Where do you get this? It would be illegal to send them a copy of the PGP program. But sending encrypted messages is not illegal. Please, cite your source --------------------------------------------------------------------- Omegaman <mailto:omegam@cmq.com>|"When they kick out your front door, PGP Key fingerprint = | How are you gonna come? 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 | With your hands upon your head, 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63 | Or on the trigger of your gun?" Send email with "get key" as the| -- The Clash, "Guns of Brixton" "Subject:"to get my public key | _London_Calling_ , 1980 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dave Hayes wrote: > You'll find those of us who -truly- want free speech are extremely > good at ignoring what we don't like. Not all of you freedom-knights are good at it at all. I would go as far as to say that only you, Dave Hayes, are good at it. - Igor.

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Congress is at it again; renewed defenses of the CDA
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sen. Coats has been ranting about the CDA again. I have more in the Afterword section of http://netlynews.com/ -- "As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments next month in the Communications Decency Act case, morality crusaders in Congress are launching a renewed defense of the law..." -Declan ------------------------- The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/

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Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
by Dave Hayes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Dave Hayes wrote: > > You'll find those of us who -truly- want free speech are extremely > > good at ignoring what we don't like. > Not all of you freedom-knights are good at it at all. The "us" I mentioned did not refer to the freedom knights, but "those of us who -truly- want free speech"...a slight english parsing problem. The freedom knights are a subset of those who want free speech. ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave(a)jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet It is our ability to act as ourselves, freely and of our own choosing, that is the greatest gift to mankind; my Creator, the sole being in the universe who legitimately had power over me, gave me that power freely in order to enable me to become what I am. -- Russ Allbery

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Re: Feds OK 128-bit crypto amid protests
by Timothy N. Hill 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 19:14 -0500 97-02-13, Bradley Dunn wrote: >See: >http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,7925,00.html >for details. Thanks for the pointer. Note that, unlike the previous three recipients of crypto export licenses, Open Market did not enable government access to keys. Instead they went through the "expensive ... exercise" of convincing "government officials that the product could not be used to encrypt anything but specific financial numbers." - Tim Timothy N. Hill <tnh(a)acm.org> "We all love to instruct, Wellesley, Massachusetts though we can teach only <http://www.ma.ultranet.com/~tnh/> what is not worth knowing." PGP F058F75D 99C5122F 21C5BEF5 620C1D3C - Elizabeth Bennet

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Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dave Hayes wrote: > > Ok. I'll "put up". > > If the cypherpunks will have me, -I'll- run the cypherpunks > list. Those that know me know that I will *not* censor, moderate, or > otherwise alter the content (other than the stuff majordomo does with > "resend") of any messages to the list. I think that it is a great idea. If you want to contribute to the effort to keep the list, this is great. You could join the network of other cypherpunks mailing lists. There is a small list for discussing these networking issues, cypherpunks-hosts(a)algebra.com. It is not for crypto-discussions per se, but rather for discussing how we proceed with these lists. You can subscribe to it through majordomo(a)algebra.com. - Igor.

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Re: Cypherpunks afraid of spam?
by Cynthia H. Brown 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 aaron(a)herringn.com wrote: <explanation of anti-spam e-mail addresses snipped> > I put a spam-busted address in my .sig and give root(a)127.0.0.1 as my email > in the from: header. Sure, somebody out there is going to be unhappy with > me, but if they have a clue they'll figure it out. Meantime, the SpamBots > are bouncing mail to the admin of the site instead of to me. <evil grin> That's *much* better than the mundane c.y.n.t.h.b(a)i.o.s.p.h.e.r.e.dot.n.e.t =============================================================== Cynthia H. Brown, P.Eng. E-mail: cynthb(a)iosphere.net | PGP Key: See Home Page Home Page: http://www.iosphere.net/~cynthb/ Junk mail will be ignored in the order in which it is received. Klein bottle for rent; enquire within.

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