December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: If guilty of a lesser crime, you can be sentenced for a greater
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:04 PM 1/9/97 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote: >On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Mark M. wrote: > ... >Sentencing enhancements: > >There is a big book called the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Handbook (or >some such). To arrive at the appropriate sentence range, you add up the >points of all the offenses the defendant was convicted of (Assume Bank >Fraud is 18 points, Murder 35 or whatever- I dont remember them offhand) >and run across a chart which has "criminal history catagory" on the >vertical axis. Where the two meet gives you the sentence range. I'm not >near my office right now, but if there is enough interest I will dig up >the current handbook and run a sample sentencing through. > >The most common one I see is "Victims helpless or infirm" which usually >boosts 2 to 5 points. > >Sentencing enhancements are not double jeapordy either. I don't see how >you can argue they are. For example, there is a provision in bank fraud >sentencing guidelines which enhances the sentence according to the size of >the loss, and I believe there is a kicker if the financial institution >folds. > >I believe the highest base offense level was "Espionage" or some such. > >There are also sentencing limiters. "Defendant displays clear remorse." >I think is one. > >Go out to a law book store and take a look at the guideline book. It's >actually a lot of fun. "Ok, say I killed my wife for her coke stash and >recruited my brother to dump the body..." > ... >> In one case, the defendant was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent >> to distribute but was found not guilty of possession of a firearm related to >> a drug charge (apparently, this is a crime). > >It's both a crime and an enhancement for most federal drug offenses. > I have seen in the paper where a person has been convicted of using a scanner in the commition of a felony. In my opinion, this is exactly how crypto would be a crime, when using it in the commission of another crime. In most cases, it seems, the scanner is used to monitor the police bands so that the criminals will have advance warning when to hide thier actions. Of course, around here, a person owning a scanner for monitoring the police and fire bands is normal. It is just one more way of gathering news. Please correct me if any of my facts are in error.

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Re: It's a great new year! telemarketers and solicitors
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:06 PM 1/9/97 -0500, relia(a)juno.com wrote: ... > You have the RIGHT to have negative >information removed in many instances. My partner and I have put together >an easy to read, easy to use manual that will explain your rights and may help >you restore your credit to A+ status. Why pay an attorney $2,000 or some >credit counselor $500 or more to do exactly what you can do for yourself? > >For less than $15, you can help yourself to better credit. We'll give you >all the tools you need and explain exactly what to do. ... >You've probably seen other offers or similar credit repair packages that >promise overnight results. Anyone who promises a quick overnight fix is >*lying* to you. It takes time and perseverance to fix your bad credit. >But, it can be done! ... >Don't get ripped off and don't take bad advice that encourages you to break >the law! Our system WORKS! Our credit repair manual will show you step by >step how to do it yourself - and it's not hard to do! ... > We purchased a >mailing list of folks who should be interested in various products that >we produce, but mailing lists can be wrong, and we don't want to take your >time again unnecessarily. Thanks for your help! > I understand that freedom of speech is a basic right, and I understand the nature of public discourse which is unhindered being more valuable, even if the signal to noise ratio is higher. I also subscribe to the idea that in a forum where only speech is possible, a persons use of that speech is the representation of that person. (Not that it never is otherwise.) What I'm trying to get at is, when does freedom of speech in a "speech only" environment" become soliciting? To me, though it is only my opinion, it seems that a telemarketer wishing to offer wares to a group on a mailing list should get permission from the lists maintainer. I apologize if this is already the case, as my accusations would be pointless. To me, it seems to be a breach of conduct for a company to use a mailing list that is not thier own as a mass mailing technique. Again, these are only my personal opinions.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: encryption program
by ed.falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I ran a quick Kappa test on it. There was a nice fat spike at key length 25, as somebody else suggested, but an almost perfect correlation at 100. The message is almost certainly a simple polyalphabetic cipher with keylength 100. I've been playing with it, and have maybe 5% of it decoded. It's full of really blatent clues. Kind of fun.

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Re: encryption program
by ed.falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> what do you mean, polyalphabetic substitution? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it refers to a cipher where each character is encrypted individually, using a different monoalphabetic cipher for each one. The ciphers repeat after a certain period, usually the key length. Vigenere is the simplest polyalphabetic cipher of them all, with the individual ciphers simply being ROT-n.

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Re: sendmail-type thing for Windows
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:00 PM 1/10/97 -0600, Igor Chudov wrote: >Hi, > >Does anyone know of a simple program for windows that can, like >sendmail, work as a mail agent ans send mail messages from its stdin? I >am interested in sending email messages from Windoze boxes as part of >some automated process driven by .BAT files. > >i.e., what I need is a program that I could invoke like this > >DOS> sendmail some(a)address.com >From: sender(a)originator.com >To: some(a)address.com >Subject: hello > >hello > I don't know if this will help you, but, I have found that by typing win winmine.exe at the dos prompt, I am taken straight to minesweeper. The program manager window is minimized in this example. It seems that most of windows programs, when accessed from File/Run act like command line programs, this is how the File Manager can bring up a text file in the Write program. I haven't tried it, but you might try nesting arguments, for instance WIN WRITE FILE.TXT to see if it comes right up into Write, working on file.txt. I will have to get back to you on rather or not this works, but if it does, and someone has cracked the windows macro Recorder, such as what you described should be possible from a batch file.

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[NOISE] Re: IMPORTANT: Additional information about UDCM.
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:13 PM 1/10/97 -0600, Igor Chudov wrote: ... >I am also wondering, I am listed as visitor 189 on his web site. Under >most optimistic assumptions, if *every* visitor bought his product, he would >have made $40*188 = $7520. Of course, it is possible that so many people visited his site that the counter started over. For instance, if the counter had 8 digits, perhaps you were visitor number 10000189. Just a thought.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: PBS program - Turing/Enigma
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

dave_gellerman(a)newbridge.com (Dave Gellerman) writes: > In article <01bbfde7$950f4820$fb1093cf(a)worldnet.worldnet.att.net>, "Tech" > <TIER-1(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote: > > > Feb 2,1997 (one 90 minute show) ref: www.pbs.org > > > > bill_h <bill_h(a)azstarnet.com> wrote in article > > <32D1F2C1.9B1(a)azstarnet.com>... > > > Just caught a teaser on Public Television for an upcoming Mobile > > > Masterpiece Theatre presentation billed as "the true story of > > > Alan Turing" titled 'Breaking The Code'. > > > > > > The little bit of clips they showed looked fascinating. > > > > > > Is this a 'new' show or a re-run? Anybody know anything about it? > > > > > From the pbs web site: > > > "Breaking the Code" (2/2) Based on the play by Hugh Whitemore and > the book Alan Turing: the Enigma by > Andrew Hodges, this program tells the story of Turing (Derek > Jacobi), the mathematical genius who was > responsible for designing the computer that enabled the allies to > crack the German Enigma code and, some would > argue, win the war. On Churchill's specific instructions, Turing was > given all the resources he required and his > personal behavior was tolerated - Turing was an active homosexual at > a time when homosexuality was illegal. > Amanda Root, Prunella Scales, Harold Pinter, Alun Armstrong and > Richard Johnson also star. > > > Dave Homosexuality was pretty well accepted in GB in 1930's, as evidenced by the success of Comrade Philby and his friends. Homosexuals have a strange attraction to cryptography, perhaps because of its connection to privacy and anonymity. But they haven't made any contribution to it (or to any other area of human knowledge). They ascribe to Turing the results of heterosexual cryptographers; they libel prominent heterosexuals like Leonardo da Vinci to argue that their perversion somehow leads to intellectual superiority. While homosexuality used to be a detriment to obtaining a security clearance, being gay at NSA was a big plus under Inman. Of course now being gay is a big plus anywhere in the KKKlintoris administration. ObHomophobocReference: cocksucker John Gilmore is full of shit. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Crypto site move http://www.sni.net/~mpj/usa/warning.htm
by Michael Johnson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The method for accessing my strong crypto library ftp site has changed to one that I hope is easier for those of you who are in the USA or Canada. Simply point your browser to http://www.sni.net/~mpj/usa/warning.htm and follow the instructions. This should work even with text-based browsers, like lynx, and should be easier to navigate for AOL customers. You may be amused that the President of the United States has determined that cryptographic software export controls are necessary for U. S. "National Security" even though the same software is available "or appears to be available" from outside of the USA. For a partial list of cryptographic software sites outside of North America, see http://www.sni.net/~mpj/freecryp.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.7.1 iQEVAgUBMtrB/G+Iqt/O4EnZAQGUVwf7BP3gqjQ5Ur1ymToHdMs2ctf8wLmrf1mS Pw4xr5QGKYMzPP4cK1dnqXSiWI4vxOTK+/WC+ZxH1Cvxrw6+3qlKp1o005qsAAY5 AetqLP6skW7hEesT27bGzwtKBEWrnFRa3YLc6vC+opu78Kz9myAQPdPcQ0tuI8mI +eD0EIiBVWEoWyvxuvW/vN/6bsqLsXZswGVV2+i3kv4HmOEBMVPwzounoA3P7L73 b7wLxiJvbIF3fld9Dcyy577U+pJ/qhXla8yss/Vs9Wmfc7id7GtVoJtrcQ7qqxm2 JiRn7W1A2YIvNQqMizUxOnoGnazkp6rMBCYvV6wTb2MCbQ8U/BLBGw== =X33F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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