December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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

17 Dec '03

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stupid remailer-ignorant stud3nt caught by NY polic3
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/psychopaths-educ.html Potential Killer or Just Disturbed? Psych Class Seeks Distinction By KAREN W. ARENSON NEW YORK -- The 20-year-old man with a Mohawk haircut, multicolored pigtails, tattooed arms and rings on every finger was an engineering student at a New York college when he sent e-mail to a public official threatening to torture him and rape his young daughter. The FBI arrested the student a few days later as he sat in his pajamas eating breakfast. Late last year, the case landed on the desk of Dr. Naftali Berrill, a forensic psychologist who had conducted court-ordered examinations of Joel Rifkin, the serial killer, and Colin Ferguson, the Long Island Rail Road killer. Now, Berrill is using the e-mail case in the class he teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. The class is part of the college's fastest-growing area of study: forensic psychology. Six years ago there were 96 students in the masters program; now there are 271. "There is a fascination with this stuff," said Berrill, who assigns movies like "Klute," "Silence of the Lambs" and "Psycho" as homework, along with articles in scientific journals. "Popular culture has gone nuts with the idea of taking someone who has committed a crime and profiling the person, thinking about why he did it, what is behind it." The goal on a recent day was to get his students to judge whether the tattooed man was fit to stand trial, whether he was legally responsible for his behavior, or whether he might be considered legally insane, and whether he is in need of treatment. Berrill had evaluated the man and knew the court's ruling, but he wasn't about to tell his students until the exercise was over. "How should the young man be handled?" he asked the students. "Is he really dangerous or is he only sick? Is prison appropriate or does he need medical treatment?" First, the students wanted more information. They did not have the young man to question, so they began firing questions at their professor. Did the young man have prior problems with the law? Berrill shook his head no. Any history of psychological problems? Berrill reported that the young man had "apparently always been an odd duck, a person who felt separated from the group and who capitalized on his oddness." Since his arrest, he says he has had fleeting ideas of killing himself. How did he behave when arrested? He spoke quietly and his speech was fluent, articulate and terse. His reaction was more surprise than remorse. Any other unusual behavior? He used to have fantasies of protecting people beset by attackers. Sometimes he sensed the taste of chocolate, even when he had none in his mouth. Sometimes he walked around New York City with knives strapped to his chest and arms. For half an hour, the psychological sleuthing continued: What kind of family history did he have? He was the last of several children in an Irish-American working-class family, and he had brothers who had been arrested for drug use. Was he overprotected and coddled? The young man had said he was well cared for, but it was difficult to learn whether there was true affection. Finally, the students were ready to lay out their theories. The young man showed signs of a narcissistic personality disorder or a histrionic personality disorder, some said. He might have sent the e-mail message just to get attention, adding the rape threat for shock value but not really as something he intended to carry out. One group thought the student himself had been abused. And some saw his threats as reflections of his own sexual inadequacy. Some students suggested blood tests and psychological tests to see if he was depressed. For many students, the analysis was better than an evening in front of the television set. "I love it," said Adrienne Higgins, a former florist who returned to college and hopes to go on for a Ph.D. in neuropsychology. Eva Norvind, who has a master's degree in health education and counsels sexual deviants, calls the class one of her most challenging. Some students go on to earn doctoral degrees in psychology and begin a practice. Others go to law school, and still others go into social service or police work. But Berrill estimates that about a third of the students take the class to indulge in their own fascination with crime. Berrill got to the heart of the question: "If you were in law enforcement, is he a dangerous person?" Most class members nodded yes. The most telling piece of evidence, said one student, was "the fact that he was walking around the city, like an armed bomb waiting to go off." And the dissenters? "He needs help. I am very concerned about the homicidal and suicidal thoughts." Another commented, "In terms of being dangerous, he has no history. His use of e-mail shows a fear of social contact, and that doesn't fit the character type of a killer." Berrill was pleased. He had one more question: Does the young man have a shot at the insanity defense? No, most students said. "He was aware of everything he was doing," said one. "But he would be helpful to an attorney." Berrill beamed. In his view, the class had captured the important elements. "If I were asked by a judge," he told them, "I would say he is dangerous. Always err on the conservative side. He is in need of mental health services. But incarceration? No. He is not psychologically equipped to deal with real criminals or psychopaths." The court concurred. Earlier this year, a judge put the young man on probation and directed him to seek psychological counseling. - Igor.

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Anonymous Post Control
by ph＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It's hard to filter anonymous posters. I want to see what a few of them have to say so I can't filter on the remailers. If anonymous posters PGP sign their posts, it is still hard to filter using a lame filter software such as that which comes to Eudora. It would be nice if toad.com would verify signatures and insert a header into the messages with the PGP User Id of every poster. Then it would be very easy for many people to filter the messages using widely available off-the-shelf mail software. (I volunteer to adapt majordomo for this task if it seems like a good idea.) Peter Hendrickson ph(a)netcom.com

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FIPS for AES
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Federal Register: January 2, 1997, Pages 93-94. Announcing Development of a FIPS for Advanced Encryption Standard Agency: NIST Notice; Request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: A process to develop a FIPS for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) incorporating an Advanced Encryption Algorithm (AEA) is being initiated by the NIST. It is intended that the AES will specify an unclassified, publicly disclosed encryption algorithm capable of protecting sensitive government information well into the next century. [Described as a successor for DES by 1998.] ----- http://jya.com/aes010297.txt (8K)

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by ijlnotes＠joblocator.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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anonymous <-> anonymous; dcnets
by Laszlo Vecsey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can someone point me towards a mailing list or two that is dedicated to the discussion and development of dcnets? Thank you! - Lester - A recent study has found that concentrating on difficult off-screen objects, such as the faces of loved ones, causes eye strain in computer scientists. Researchers into the phenomenon cite the added concentration needed to "make sense" of such unnatural three dimensional objects. -

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Re: Crypto reg clarification from Commerce Department
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: >I just got of the phone with Bruce Kutz, Export Policy Analyst, Office of >Strategic Trade and Foreign Policy Controls. (202) 482-0092. He seems to be >the contact person for the new regs. Well done, Lucky. This is what's needed to kick off a lot of commentary during the next 45-days. Backed by research, to be sure. The outpouring of such commentary on the full EAR from May 1995 to March 1996 shaped the final document, and that process is an excellent case study for how to affect the final form of the latest crypto regs. It's worth perusing the full EAR in the Federal Register: March 25, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 58), Pages 12713 et seq. for 325 pages (well over a 2.5MB -- it's also on our site, see URL below). Here's the portion of the EAR that Lucky and Kutz discussed: [Page 12805] Sec. 744.6 Restrictions on certain activities of U.S. persons. (a) General prohibitions--(1) Activities related to exports. (i) No U.S. person as defined in paragraph (c) of this section may, without a license from BXA, export, reexport, or transfer to or in any country other country, any item where that person knows that such item: (A) Will be used in the design, development, production, or use of nuclear explosive devices in or by a country listed in Country Group D:2 (see Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR). (B) Will be used in the design, development, production, or use of missiles in or by a country listed in Country Group D:4 (see Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR); or (C) Will be used in the design, development, production, stockpiling, or use of chemical or biological weapons in or by a country listed in Country Group D:3 (see Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR). (ii) No U.S. person shall, without a license from BXA, knowingly support an export, reexport, or transfer that does not have a license as required by this section. Support means any action, including financing, transportation, and freight forwarding, by which a person facilitates an export, reexport, or transfer without being the actual exporter or reexporter. (2) Other activities unrelated to exports. No U.S. person shall, without a license from BXA: (i) Perform any contract, service, or employment that the U.S. person knows will directly assist in the design, development, production, or use of missiles in or by a country listed in Country Group D:4 (see Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR); or (ii) Perform any contract, service, or employment that the U.S. person knows directly will directly assist in the design, development, production, stockpiling, or use of chemical or biological weapons in or by a country listed in Country Group D:3 (see Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR). (3) Whole plant requirement. No U.S. person shall, without a license from BXA, participate in the design, construction, export, or reexport of a whole plant to make chemical weapons precursors identified in ECCN 1C350, in countries other than those listed in Country Group A:3 (Australia Group) (See Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR). (b) Additional prohibitions on U.S. persons informed by BXA. BXA may inform U.S. persons, either individually or through amendment to the EAR, that a license is required because an activity could involve the types of participation and support described in paragraph (a) of this section anywhere in the world. Specific notice is to be given only by, or at the direction of, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration. When such notice is provided orally, it will be followed by a written notice within two working days signed by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration. However, the absence of any such notification does not excuse the exporter from compliance with the license requirements of paragraph (a) of this section. (c) Definition of U.S. person. For purposes of this section, the term U.S. person includes: (1) Any individual who is a citizen of the United States, a permanent resident alien of the United States, or a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3); (2) Any juridical person organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States, including foreign branches; and (3) Any person in the United States. (d) Exceptions. No License Exceptions apply to the prohibitions described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section. (e) License review standards. Applications to engage in activities otherwise prohibited by this section will be denied if the activities would make a material contribution to the design, development, production, stockpiling, or use of chemical or biological weapons, or of missiles. ----- The EAR covers all kinds of exports, so encryption and cryptography provisions are found by searching. The Federal Register published it in seven 50 page chunks, and is available at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html Enter the search term: "Page 12713" (with quotes; repeat six times in sequence). We've combined the seven parts for searching: http://jya.com/ear032596.txt (2,570K)

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One-time pads
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The arrival of warm weather is heralded by the pig shit (or whatever kind of shit Intel swines have for brains) getting soft in Timmy C[rook] Mayhem's mini-cranium and the resulting green slime seeping through his cocaine- and syphilis- damaged nose and onto his keyboard. o_, o <\__, v|> Timmy C[rook] Mayhem | < \

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

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: > > A scenario: > > 1) The spooks put a bug (named Eve) on the link between > kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu and the Internet. > > Whenever kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu sents out the pubring.pgp Eve intercepts > it and replaces it with a file of the spooks' choosing. This file will > selectively replace the public pgp keys of some of the remailers (say exon) > in pubring.pgp with keys to which the spooks know the private key. > > 2) A similar bug is put on the link between the exon remailer and the > internet. All email to exon is intercepted, and if found to be encrypted > with the spooks' PGP key, it is decrypted, saved, re-encrypted with exon's > real PGP key and sent on. > > It is only a scenario. I am still using premail to send this. > A good scenario. A truly paranoid premail users should verify who signed the remailer keys. If you trust the signators and they signed the keys, you are "safe". Just do pgp -kvv some(a)remailer.com and see what comes up. Maybe remailer operators should asks someone reputable to sign their remailers' keys so that the users can easily verify the signatures. - Igor.

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by iolkos＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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