December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

US AIRFORCE SITE HACKED
by BJORN2LUZE＠prodigy.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It is true, so many government sites have been hacked! The FBI home page was replaced with SATANIC stuff. A picture of the upside down cross as a background and various other changes regarding SATAN. i think it's funny, but hey it's our own goverment. I wonder how often they check their sites. BTW, my friends site - http://pages.prodigy.com/VT/hackersguide has a link to the FBI's MOST WANTED LIST. See if you are there!

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No Subject
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:15 PM 12/29/1996, Timothy C. May wrote: >This fascist move by the U.S. government is a huge threat to our liberty. >It may be time to simply give up on communicating with these assholes and >give them the treatment they have earned. > ... >And this a very big one indeed. Not only does it probably put organizations >like C2 out of business, at least in terms of supporting the development of >things like the South African and British Web products, but it also may >mean the *Cypherpunks list itself*, and some of its members, are ipso facto >in violation of this "giving comfort to the enemy" (to paraphrase) language! > ... >This very list advocates violation of the ITARs in various ways (I speak of >"the list" as a person in the sense of the consensus of the list...there >may not be unanimity, but the consensus of the vocal members of the list is >obvious). > > >It may be time for us to go underground. It may be time to take much, much, >much, much more extreme steps. This fascism is unacceptable. While Tim May has had many many great ideas, this is not one of them. To paraphrase Joseph Stalin: Tim, how many divisions do you have? The cypherpunks have virtually no force at all. If the battle is moved to that arena, the cypherpunks (and everybody else) lose big time. If the cypherpunks manage to pull off some sort of "extreme step", those who aren't shot while resisting arrest will go to prison. Worst of all, most people will applaud the action. "Extreme steps" legitimize the radical proposals of the Clipper crowd. While I wouldn't go so far as to say "I feel your pain", I am sympathetic with the frustration you must feel when your own government is the greatest threat to all that it is right and decent. But, "extreme steps" are the wrong approach and play right into the hands of the defense establishment. It saves them the trouble of implementing a "strategy of tension." The right approach is to continually reiterate that the cypherpunks are mainstream and fairly conservative. Many of us like the "bad boy" image, but most of what has been proposed is very solidly rooted in American traditions. If the ITAR regulations can be amended to make discussions on this list a "conspiracy", then they are very likely unconstitutional. Article I, Section I, "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States..." Pretty unambiguous. We should not underestimate the broad public support for private communications which exists in the United States. Even people who are unfamiliar with the issue are shocked when they learn that the U.S. government is trying to gain access to all communications. The only people who want GAK are in the government. There is no constituency in the population which wants it, and quite a few that do not. The more publicly the issue is discussed and the more actively we scrutinize the lies and deceptions of the U.S. government, the more successful we will be. The GAK crowd have not been honest or forthright in their public statements on their plans. We must reiterate this again and again and again. If they cannot be honest about their proposed policy, how can we trust them to hold the keys? Obviously, we cannot. This will be obvious to most Americans, and even some reporters. Red Rackham

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None
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:41 AM 12/25/1996, Anonymous wrote that Noam Chomsky said: >More than ever, libertarian socialist ideas are relevant, and the >population is very much open to them. Despite a huge mass of corporate >propaganda, outside of educated circles, people still maintain pretty much >their traditional attitudes. In the US, for example, more than 80% of the >population regard the economic system as inherently unfair and the >political system as a fraud, which serves the special interests, not the >people. Overwhelming majorities think working people have too little voice >in public affairs (the same is true in England), that the government has >the responsibility of assisting people in need, that spending for education >and health should take precedence over budget-cutting and tax cuts, that >the current Republican proposals that are sailing through Congress benefit >the rich and harm the general population, and so on. Intellectuals may tell >a different story, but it's not all that difficult to find out the facts. Can anybody explain in what way Chomsky is an anarchist or a libertarian? Opposition to some government schemes but not others makes a Republican or a Democrat, not an anarchist or libertarian. Chomsky is a smart man. What's he up to? Sir Galahad

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Re: New crypto regulations
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:57 AM 12/30/96 -0800, Hal Finney wrote: >The regs, as Lucky pointed out, do hint at restrictions on OCR fonts in >the future. However this is obviously doomed since as OCR technology >advances the distinction between OCR and non-OCR fonts will vanish. >I imagine that a special purpose character recognition engine could be >built to work on any known, monospaced font, as is typically used for >source code. It seems to me that the authors of the regulations have come to the same conclusion. Which is why the ban on scannable text is not in the current version of the regs. But the regulators want to see scannable source banned that much is clear. At the same time, they do not want to run up against the wide ranging protections printed speech enjoys. I expect the solution ultimately employed to use a method similar to what is currently used in color copiers and digital audio mastering equipment. Normal color copiers will copy just about all colors except the particular shade of green used in US currency. Consumer digital audio recording equipment makes use of copy protection features. Only hideously expensive "professional" equipment has the copy protection turned off. We might see something similar for printed source and OCR programs. Printed source will have to be printed in a specific font. A font that OCR programs are required to not recognize. OCR programs that do recognize this specific font will of course be export controlled. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred Make your mark in the history of mathematics. Use the spare cycles of your PC/PPC/UNIX box to help find a new prime. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm

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Just another government fuckover: New crypto regulations
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- books are and have been protected prior to the US Constitution. one can presume books with crypto source code would be protected accordingly; one Federal judge (Patel in SF) has ruled source code is protected under freedom of speech and therefore can be published; yet another judge in the Washington area has ruled it is not. There is no question the feds will appeal Patel's ruling in the Ninth Circuit (known to be pro rights in general, but difficult to predict). eventually it will go to the US Supreme Court. my personal opinion is the Supreme Court will rule against it using a rationale that the actual source code sections of a book can be classified as can any other intellectual property under the National Security Act. Secondly, they will not consider that form of speech an inalienable right. I had my rounds with the bastards years ago, no fucking humour whatsoever, and prone to use the IRS to enforce what the courts could not afford to enforce due to the requirements of disclosure in the courtroom at the time (which have since been plugged); and if that does not work, set you up for financial fraud, fraud by wire, or dope. Today dope is the perfect charge; it has been whipped into a frenzy by the feds and their CIA infiltrated media. let me assure any doubters the real extent of terror which the spooks can apply. the US Government has not been a legal government for years; it is a private club which can be bought, and its services sold to the highest bidder. It is a collection of whores who are part of a cabal of the very rich and powerful; it is totally unaccountable to the public it represents. Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the bombing of their own federal building in Oklahoma City in order to scare Joe Couch Potato into giving up personal freedoms for security are perfect examples of a government drunk on it owns powers. Just like Oswald, they have a perfect patsy with the defendants in OKC. P.J. O'Rourke states it correctly: "And the Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns." O'Rourke also said: "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys" and there is no better example than the cocaine stoned, reckless mentality of Bill Clinton. an important fact to keep in mind in US judicial review: few of the judges can be relied on 1) to resist pressure from the Feds and 2) to take the rights of the people seriously and as 'inalienable rights.' this may sound pessimistic and cynical, but the courts have been sliding, in some cases rather quickly, to a position that echoes the UN Bill of Rights: the UN's "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" (ICCR): Article 18 states that "everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" but specifies that "freedom to manifest one's religions or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and necessary..." in other words, I do not think we will see the feds permit the use of books to export cryptography. this almost becomes irrelevant outside the academic world in the provisions of the regs which effectively block hardware or software products and in effect seem to cut off the loophole of US companies funding overseas operations and importing the results, etc. the new regs basically ban it all ways. and the new regs are not the supposedly improved and friendly versions promised --they are draconian. books are an intellectual 'solution' to the problem. the real problem is the hardware. in order to negate governments and their virtually stated intentions of blocking our inalienable freedoms, particularly freedom of speach, we must be able to distribute universal crypto worldwide, and be able to improve it as the shadow governments of the various spook shows improve their ability to break our code. this last round on the ITARs blew out distribution. asking visitors to your web sites if they are U.S. citizens is not going to be sufficient for Bubba's goons: Janet Reno and Jamie Gorlich. the only real solution is guerilla warfare; anonymous distribution; overseas' establishment of clearing houses for updates and source code. freedom of information is just that simple; there are no compromises. Patrick Henry said: "Give me Liberty or Give me Death." publish, publish, and civil disobedience. Patrick Henry used handbills. knowledge is knowledge --get it in the public domain, and in the public's hands even if you must go door to door like a fuller brush salesman... but your product is free and it is for their freedom. don't waste your time getting out the vote; get out there and fight. contribute. if you do not have the balls to do it, you are not for freedom. the only natural cure for corrupt government is bright sunshine. and a rope. == Tyranny Insurance by Colt Manufacturing Co. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: Encrypted with 2.6.3i. Requires 2.6 or later. iQCVAwUBMsd+nb04kQrCC2kFAQGxVQP5AUM06j8anB3MLUzMUe8WjOqhVwPjSd7d RhaGyrRwAdSpU1CPSYNX9+zsTnaJtgsN0rQYLrbKQD1eKDPKAQlnz5vJ6SAVhRwi nNF2e4Pj/wD7SVBwHFmjsaOpWmNx9+ON++/EZNbs3c3nH/2n7tiC7eJJcte+apNE G3lwdSSxXhU= =MD+E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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it's back up again
by cybersource＠pwrnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I just wanted to take a moment and let some of the folks with whom we've participated in online discussion on the Usenet boards know that our website if finally back up! Please feel free to visit us there. Have a great New Year! The Downline Experience http://lifequest.net/tronix/ 1-800-678-5522 ext 8056 "Timing is everything... but positioning is critical!" (Larry Thompson -- Mentor to the Millionaires 1996)

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Re: OCR and Machine Readable Text
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It's really embarassing to have to pay salaries of "public employees" who can't come up with better arguments than the paper/magnetic/OCR nonsense but don't have the guts to stop trying and admit they've wrong. Does the President still make $200K/year salary? You'd think he'd either read what he signs or tell his employees to only ask him to sign at least half-way credible stuff. The old regulations used to pretend that foreigners were too dumb to implement computer programs from algorithms; now they're pretending that foreigners are too dumb to type.* People used to say we have the best politicians money can buy, but you ought to be able to buy better politicians than that. At 10:31 AM 12/30/96 -0800, Tim May wrote: >And not only is OCR able these days to handle general fonts easily enough, >but almost all printed code is in fixed-width fonts, i.e., non-proportional >fonts. This makes OCR easy. The basic difference between "easily OCRed source code" and "not easily OCRed source code" is pretty much limited to two things 1) Half-decent print quality (black on white in Courier at 300dpi should do....) As Tim says, this stuff is child's play. Back when OCRs were $10,000 machines with cutting-edge 68010 processors, reading Courier was pretty easy but it helped to put in checksums; these days you don't really need that. (It also didn't like wet-process 240-dpi laser printing or faxes, but modern OCR software can generally deal with good-quality faxes and 2) Bound pages vs. loose pages (printing with perforated pages or selling the source code in loose-leaf might count as an "attractive nuisance" :-), but a band-saw can solve that problem for the OCR user unless it's printed on Tyvek or something silly :-) In the Karn case, the Feds made the silly argument that the floppy disk version had the files neatly separated, while the paper version split files between pages and had page numbers at the bottoms of the pages that weren't part of the source code. Even the $10K 68010 wonderbox could handle page headers/footers and margins, and modern software can do decent translations into different word processor formats. >For just the amount of money we've spent (in our consulting fees) on >discussing just this issue of OCRing, the entire content of the MIT PGP >source code book AND Schneier's AC could have been manually inputted by >Barbadans or Botswanas, or probably even by Europeans. There's one German university that OCRed the MIT PGP source code book. The PGP folks passed out copies of their new 3.0 Pre-Alpha and an update at a recent Cypherpunks meeting. See http://www.pgp.com/newsroom/sourcebook.cgi for ordering informaiton. It's been donated to some local libraries, such as San Jose CA, and I hope they'll send it to the Library of Congress and various non-US university and other public libraries - the recent rules change clarifying that it's ok to export source code should make this much easier. [* OK, it's not really possible to type or proofread perl code accurately :-) More to the point, OCRs aren't always real good about `backquotes' and other little blotchy marks that some languages use, and even humans don't always get them right.] # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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"Onion Routing" Pipenet-like project at NRL
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ITD/5540/projects/onion-routing/overview.html Michael G. Reed, Paul F. Syverson, and David M. Goldschlag have a bunch of papers on the Naval Research Laboratory Information Technology Division web site about Onion Routing, a pipenet-like anonymous communication system that sets up chains of encrypted IP tunnels between servers. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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Re: New crypto regs outlaw financing non-US development
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 31 Dec 1996 22:32:38 -0500 (Lucky Green) <shamrock(a)netcom.com> wrote: > At 01:05 PM 12/31/96 -0800, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > >But it _specifically_ restricts virus-checkers (and, also, it would seem, > >backup programs, but that could be stretching it): > > > >ECCN 5D002.c.3: > ># ``Software'' designed or modified to protect against malicious > ># computer damage, e.g., viruses > > My mistake. I overlooked this paragraph. I thought it had not made it into > the final version. Virus checkers, programs like Tripwire, and all firewall > products are export controlled under the new regs. Regardless if the > program uses crypto or not. > How long before the United Police States of America bans the export of medicines and medical technology because it can be a defense against biological warfare?

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Re: cookies
by kimkl＠calweb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Return-Path: <rwright(a)adnetsol.com> >Comments: Authenticated sender is <rwright(a)adnetsol.com> >From: "Ross Wright" <rwright(a)adnetsol.com> >Organization: King Media and RW Marketing >To: kimkl(a)calweb.com (Kimberly Leahy) >Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 23:01:11 -0800 >Subject: Re: cookies >Priority: normal >X-UIDL: f3b0b16d616765cf37b9c5fa5150407f > >Send an inquiry to cypherpunks(a)toad.com You will get many >informative answers! >I be looking for your inquiry, I read that list also! > >On or About 1 Jan 97 at 21:55, Kimberly Leahy wrote: > >> Rossta, >> please enlighten on cookies that invade a browser's >> computer. where can i get more info? i was told that >> a utility is available to track and/or crush cookies. >> can you tell me where to get it or get info on such a >> thing? >> hopefully, >> kimmer >> >> > >=-=-=-=-=-=- >Ross Wright >King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services >http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia >Voice: 415-206-9906 > Cypherpunks, would you please send me infor or direct to a location where I may acquire information of these "cookies"? Thank You Ever So Much.

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