December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by satan_is_a_hacker＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are their any H/ P/ V/ A/ C ers on this list??

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Re: THE NEW YORKER on the V-Chip
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 08:23 AM 1/24/97 -0500, Alan Bostick wrote: >Gladwell makes an analogy between V-Chipped TV content and >air-conditioned cars in the New York City subway system in summertime: >" . . . we need air-conditioners on subway cars because air-conditioners >on subway cars have made stations so hot that subway cars need to be >air-conditioned." Great analogy except that it's wrong. Subway tunnels were hot before the cars ever had air conditioning. The traditional method of controlling the amount of power delivered to an electric traction motor was to run the juice through a resistor array. As the motorman moved the controller up and down, the current would pass through fewer and more banks on the grid of resistors and the amount delivered to the motors would change. Well you might guess that at 600 V DC and I don't know how many Watts, those resistor grids had to dump a lot of heat. They were/are located on the tops or bottoms of cars and are quite apparent when the cars pass you on a winter morning. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBMujKnYVO4r4sgSPhAQHgmAQAh82IvjwPXFdDchT1JvOuwf0pHGyO1xzY FsuPo2ig696dnWfXEyRhAcCvK6MKpXyaXPwtsPvJD6o8VUY2kU9UB5oddPBG7Q65 KAEwF/CBAtk3qyGmbfsd1ax65vjSkqm/+D675g/kHjAgOfaNFoRdlEXi4TLFjZZO ocj3IrSqZSE= =U0/n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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by fuck you 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are their any H/ P/ V/ A/ C ers on this list??

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Re: seeds of our own destruction
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Attila T. Hun wrote: > at 01:13 AM, Kevin Stephenson <cts(a)deltanet.com> said: > +You wrote some very interesting articles. It is the UN. > if you want a real scare, read the UN "world constitution" on > human rights and privacy --their idea of a Bill of Rights. It just > happens that it is virtually word for word equivalent to the > mainland Chinese "rights" -in other words: rights as long as they > are consistent with the aims of the state (UN) and the security > needs of the state at the given moment. [snip] > +Read Revelations (if you haven't). > the best general reference on symbology, at least of what I > have seen so far: Opening the Seven Seals (The Visions of John the Revelator) > Richard D. Draper, Desert Books, Salt Lake City, ISBN 087579-547-1, SKU 2142298 Wendy Wallace (I think) has written something about the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse, and they've been running excerpts in Paranoia magazine. I really like Paranoia mag, check it out. If you like heavy-duty scary symbology writing (can't vouch for the exact content), check out Texe Marrs who has a recent book on the subject (can't remember the title, but pictures of the symbols on the cover, in paperback).

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Re: fingerd
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Peter M Allan wrote: > > These messages have been sent about fingerd. > My preference for fiddling with remote fingers is to > leave fingerd as supplied by the vendor (run by "nobody") and > replace the finger program itself. It can be made to recognise > when it is being run by "nobody" and behave differently > from when run by another user. > > Source at the end of this file. (Bashed out fairly quickly > starting from a utmp-eraser I made for a luser who wouldn't > tolerate wall messages from shutdown.) > > I have (among other things) an extension to TCP-wrappers > (a new hosts_access.c file), and a prog to find disk space wasted by duplicated files. > (mail me with Subject: "send goodies" for these.) > /* > * > * compile and test myfinger > * > * cc -C -o myfinger myfinger.c > * > * > * (assuming the standard finger is /usr/ucb/finger) > * cp /usr/ucb/finger /usr/ucb/finger.real > * cp myfinger /usr/ucb/finger > * > * > * (if using TCP wrapper reverse-fingers, make them NOT nobody, > * but another id such as nobody2.) > * > * I disclaim any disasters........ > * > */ > > /* > * > * my finger program - local only, to be less informative than /usr/ucb/finger > * > */ > > > #undef _utmp_h > #define TRUE 1 > #define FALSE 0 > #define FAKE 1 > #define WIPE 2 > #define UTMP "/etc/utmp" > > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <pwd.h> > #include "utmp.h" > #include <lastlog.h> > > main(argc, argv, env) > int argc; > char **argv; > char **env; > { > int i, listed; > struct passwd *pwent; > > if (argc < 1) > exit(0); /* beat sneaks */ argc is never less than one. > /* If run by "nobody" (uid=65534) assume this is a remote finger */ > /* otherwise run the standard finger command */ > if (65534!=getuid()) { > execv("/usr/ucb/finger.real", argv); > /** if we get here exec failed, so we default to my finger **/ igor

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Re: seeds of our own destruction
by Lou Zer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Very soon humans will not have any purpose in life but to replicate themselves. At least before the computer came along we kept ourselves busy. But now we are getting computers to do the jobs that make up life. We already precluded the need for math a long time ago.But know their are spell checkers and even applications that check your spelling as you write. I just saw on "The Site" how computers will be in shoes, in milk cartons and in door mats. The human bodies salinity will act as a conductor for the binary information. You pick up the milk carton which then tells your your shoes that its not fresh. Then when your foot touches the door mat in Publix it tells your watch to beep and say "You DONT Got Milk" Then their will be that the floor in your apartment tells the coffee pot to make coffee because it found a low caffeine level in your body. You can shake hands with someone and automatically transmit their business card to the hard drive in your shoe. The pay phone will know exactly who to bill the second the receiver is touched. But what if I bump into you, now I have your business card. What if I steal your shoe! Oh but dont worry, all this information will be ENCRYPTED.As we all know once something is encrypted its perfectly safe.Yeah right, And Bill Gates still uses a 310 baud modem. If someone really needs to know what's on your shoeputer then they will set their 1586 700Mhz (or whatever they have by then) do do just that. So what if it takes 2 weeks or 2 months. They will have every single aspect of your life from your medical records to credit card numbers to phone number(will they even USE phone numbers by then) to your shoe size. But wait theirs more. If you haven't been crawling through a cave for the past few months you will see that Intel boasts that their chips will be able to perform 2 gigaflops or 2 billion calculations per second.Can you imagine that. If you did one mathematical calculation per second it would take you 31 thousand years. It did it in a second, don't you feel dumb. Now imagine had one of these bad boys and your shoes. How long would it take? Two hours, three or maybe, if its really dragging, a day.Thats just the good old steal it and use it technique. I don't even want to go into how people could intercept information, copy it, or make their own.Well , I think I caused you enough cranial burden for today, so remember technology is like drugs, there are always more and they keep getting more effective but you do not need them. They need you. Jonathan Leto

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by Lou Zer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does any one know of any other good mailing Lists either with crypto or anything underground

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2 Questions
by privsoft＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey guys, 2 quick questions: Are there any known hacks or weaknesses in S/Key? Has Anyone heard of a new product called SecureWin from Cipher Logics Corp. It looks like vaporware but is a little more sophisticated than the usual product spams (like IPG, POTP, Encrypt-it, WinKrypt etc.) [I checked there web page some interesting fuctions, , No software available yet and Phone numbers are either busy or not in service, go figure] thanks Steveo

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PSS_sst
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New Scientist of 25 January reviews the Bernstein's case against crypto export, US global seduction of foreign goverrments to suppress domestic calls for privacy, and therewith deftly alerts British leaders and readers to undermining the "secretive bureaucratic" Uncle Sam scam, says the deft-underminer cpunkers quoted. ----- PSS_sst

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RE: Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks maiing list
by jbugden＠smtplink.alis.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ichudov(a)algebra.com wrote> >Sandy also states rather plainly that crypto-relevance is not the >criterion by which he moderates this list. I question this policy. > >I would like to hear your opinions as to whether such policies >satisfy the current readership. > > - Igor. I am not enthused about the perceived need for moderation. But neither was I enthused with the state of the list. However, I will reserve judgement as to the success or failure of the experiment for a while yet. The question for me is how much the moderation improves the S/N ratio v.s. how much it impedes dialogue. I expect Sandy to make mistakes, even by his own criterion. But anyone who will publicly admit to shaving his eyebrows is probably not swayed by popular opinion. James

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