December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Bulk Mailing Software
by Jorge Hernandez 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mailloop is bulk mailing software that will revolutionize how people advertise on the internet. See what all the fuss is about: http://www.mailloop.com

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Who is the first new web page of 1997?!
by factnet＠rmii.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Announcing the healthy birth of a bouncing new web page on January 1, 1997 at 12:00 a.m.: FACTNet International Digest, a non-profit Internet digest, news service, library, dialogue center, and archive dedicated to the promotion and defense of global free thought, free speech, and privacy rights. Please come visit and help spin the guest counter at: ********************************** ** http://www.factnet.org ** ********************************** If you would like to subscribe to our free FACTNews newsletter and you cannot access the web, or your browser does not support forms, send e-mail to: facnet(a)rmii.com With a subject line that reads: subscribe-FACTNews =========================================== Happy New Year from the FACTNet staff!

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RCMP on InfoSec
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Mounties have put out an impressive document on comprehensive security for information technology: encryption and TEMPEST, construction standards and secure rooms, hardware and software, management and personnel: Technical Security Standard for Information Technology Royal Canadian Mounted Police August 1995 Part One (Chapters 1-4) http://jya.com/rcmp1.htm (71K, plus graphics) Part Two (Chapters 5-8) http://jya.com/rcmp2.htm (81K, plus graphics)

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Let you know
by sls123＠prodigy.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please forgive me for this e-mail, but I felt I just had to let more people know about this and get in on the ground floor! The program I am involved in incorporates "Spillover". Spillover is probably one of the best ideas ever developed for network marketing. Here's why: Anyone I sponsor after you, will probably be placed under you. You then earn commissions on these new people as if you had signed them up! Why? The way the program works I am trying to fill my downline and I can only have so many people on each level. After a given level is full, anyone else I sponsor "spills over" to the next level. This is where they start getting placed under you. So you see, it doesn't matter if you sign them up or I do, in the end the result is the same. ******************************* * Djgroup/Streamline * * will place 2 people under * * you automatically!!! * ******************************* I just signed up Monday and I already have 2 members in my downline, just from SPILLOVER! I didn't do anything! The program just started, in fact it has less than 550 members. This IS the ground floor! The company is advertising in several major print publications next month! I have been in several MLM's and I can finally say; "This is the one I've been looking for!" If you know what it's like to lose sleep because your so exited, email me NOW! Don't miss this opportunity, email me for more details. I will give you my URL (webpage) for more information. Thanks Sonya

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FinCEN reports from GAO
by Howard W Campbell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A GAO report to congress "MONEY LAUNDERING- Progress Report on Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network"(GAO/GGD-94-30) is available by snail mail free of charge for the first copy. All one needs to do is cut-and-paste the form below and send it to the address provided. The report gives a general overview complete with a few details describing methodologies. Of particular interest is the "Source Database" which "is designed to facilitate coordiation and cooperation among agencies that might be investigating the same suspects. The database serves as a central repository for information on suspects requested from FinCEN as well as ..." No doubt this will be part of the FAA/Airlines/Law enforcement data matching scheme when it is eventually implemented. The second report(GAO/GGD -95-156) supposedly details changes that the FinCEN people have suggested as needed improvements in the reporting system. I just recently requested the second report and haven't read it. Aloha, Woody email to : orders(a)gao.gov just fill out the name and address sections _______________________________________________________________________________________ Customer ID Number*: (* If using ID#, you ONLY need to provide your name) (**See FAQ Section 2.1 - Customer ID#'s - for details.) First Name: Last Name: Organization/Division/Office: Building: Room #: Street Address: City: State: Zip: Country (if not USA): ---- DOCUMENT/REPORT NUMBERS For example: HEHS-95-58 (You do not need to include leading "GAO/") DATE* Report #1:GAO/GGD-94-30 Report #2:GAO/GGD -95-156 Report #3: Report #4: Report #5: >>>CUT HERE<<<

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Re: [IMPORTANT] Forgery detection
by nobody＠zifi.genetics.utah.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's a rumor that Tim C[reep] Maypole sells his dead relatives as fertilizer as they constitute the best shit in California. _ {~} ( V-) Tim C[reep] Maypole '|Y|' _|||_

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"Submit to over 500 urls" <new@valley-internet.com>
by Kerrie Mercel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Do you know about the fully automatic submission program which will link your Web Pages to over 500 Search Engines & Directories? You Can Download the Program and have a FREE TRIAL at: http://www.freegoodies.com/wizard/submit.htm it's great mate! Happy New Year Kessa

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Hardening lists against spam attacks
by jamie＠comet.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A stopgap measure.... Perhaps an X-header that changes weekly, monthly, whatever. Is there a way to configure the list software to reject a message that doesn't have the X-header? This won't stop all spam, but it'd put a damper on a bunch of it. A lot of spammers don't even know what an X-header is (though a lot do), much less how to put one in a message. Lists are one of the last havens from spam, and though spam seems to be the grafitti and billboards of the future, I don't feel particularly amenable to having to waste time hitting the "D" key. jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ jamie(a)comet.net | Comet.Net | Send empty message | Charlottesville, Va. | to pgpkey(a)comet.net | (804)295-2407 | for pgp public key. | http://www.comet.net | "Information wants to be $1.98." -I dunno who said it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks
by John H West 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The idea of distributing tokens by clever and complicated schemes seems interesting as a thought-experiment, but I wouldn't want to have to study the fine art of "cypherpunk posting technique" in order to insert my rare comments into a discussion thread. Charging posting fees is also interesting, but as already discussed, has many weaknesses. An easy solution would be to grant unlimited posting rights to anyone with more than one month's membership in the list. This idea could be called "the endorsement scheme." If anyone wishes to make an anonymous post, their submission would go into a "general pool" along with all the submissions from non-members and people who have subscribed for less than one month. The "general pool" would be a webpage somewhere which has on the screen an "Approve" button which would bring up a "Username/Passowrd" box. Anyone with more than three months membership in the list could apporove messages from the general pool. If the senior member (_any_ _one_ senior member) feels that a post in the general pool is worth sending on to the full list, then the message gets general distribution, date- and time-stamped: "Determined by --your_name_here-- (not the author) to be of possible interest to at least one member of the list." (no problem ... Vulis could still approve his "Huge Cajones Remailer" and his "Suck_My_Big_Juicy_Cock" postings, and none of us will ever figure out where they're coming from) Senior members would never be in any way reprimanded for any item that they forwarded, unless through some "call-for-votes" type of action their item-inclusion privileges were curtailed (that'll never happen). No one can "disapprove" or otherwise block any message from forwarding to the list. The principle to be followed for which items to approve would be "essentially everything." The idea is to strive to not block postings, but to leave "herbal remedy" ads hanging unendorsed. Maybe the unendorsed posts could expire if unendorsed after 72 hours -- of course, the item would be immediately removed from the general pool when it received an endorsement and went to the list. We have to be careful to not cause any legal liability to fall onto an endorser for approving an item (eg, source-code) which is later determined to be, eg, an ITAR violation, a copyright violation, etc. The endorsement must have an effective disclaimer. john

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Re: FinCEN reports from GAO
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The GAO reports Woody cites(*) and others are available online at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces160.shtml Here's a list on money laundering reports, and one which reports on the burgeoning federal law enforcement agencies. (*) Money Laundering: Progress Report on Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Letter Report, 11/08/93, GAO/GGD-94-30). Money Laundering: Characteristics of Currency Transaction Reports Filed in Calendar Year 1992 (Fact Sheet, 11/10/93, GAO/GGD-94-45FS). Money Laundering: U.S. Efforts To Fight It Are Threatened By Currency Smuggling (Chapter Report, 03/09/94, GAO/GGD-94-73). Money Laundering: The Volume of Currency Transaction Reports Filed Can and Should Be Reduced (Testimony, 03/15/94, GAO/T-GGD-94-113). (*) Money Laundering: Needed Improvements for Reporting Suspicious Transactions Are Planned (Chapter Report, 05/30/95, GAO/GGD-95-156). Money Laundering: Stakeholders View Recordkeeping Requirements for Cashier's Checks as Sufficient (Letter Report, 07/28/95, GAO/GGD-95-189). Money Laundering: Rapid Growth of Casinos Makes Them Vulnerable (Letter Report, 01/04/96, GAO/GGD-96-28). Counterfeit U.S. Currency Abroad: Observations on Counterfeiting and U.S. Deterrence Efforts (Testimony, 02/27/96, GAO/T-GGD-96-82). Money Laundering: U.S. Efforts to Combat Money Laundering Overseas (Testimony, 02/28/96, GAO/T-GGD-96-84). Money Laundering: A Framework for Understanding U.S. Efforts Overseas (Letter Report, 05/24/96, GAO/GGD-96-105). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Federal Law Enforcement: Investigative Authority and Personnel at 13 Agencies (Letter Report, 09/30/96, GAO/GGD-96-154). [Excerpt] Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the 13 federal agencies with the largest number of law enforcement investigative personnel. ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms DS - Bureau of Diplomatic Security CPDF - Central Personnel Data File DEA - Drug Enforcement Administration FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation INS - Immigration and Naturalization Service IRS - Internal Revenue Service NCIS - Naval Criminal Investigative Service NPS - National Park Service OPM - U.S. Office of Personnel Management GAO found that: (1) 10 agencies employ over 90 percent of federal law enforcement investigative personnel and 3 agencies have 700 or more such personnel; (2) these agencies investigate criminal violations including organized crime, bank fraud, civil right violations, illegal immigration, violations of mail integrity and security, custom, drug trafficking, and money laundering violations, income tax violations, and passport and visa fraud; (3) the agencies derive their investigative authority primarily from statutory laws which are implemented through executive orders, agency regulations, and interagency agreements; (4) the 13 agencies employed about 42,800 law enforcement investigative personnel at the end of fiscal year (FY) 1995 and, except at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 100 percent of the personnel could execute search warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms; (5) there was a 19 percent overall increase in investigative personnel between 1987 and 1995; and (6) the change in the number of law enforcement investigative personnel ranged from an increase of about 66 percent at INS to a decrease of about 14 percent at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

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