December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Stop sending me your shit
by Robert Nadra 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Get me off your list or else ..... . Get me out your fuckin list assholes.

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Interesting question: how to safely keep passwords online
by Ed.Falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's a question that's been on my mind lately: Often, you like to keep external passwords stored on your personal computer. As a quick example, Eudora will remember your POP password for you so you don't have to enter it every time. Obviously, Eudora keeps this on disk somewhere. The question is: is there any (relatively) safe way to do this? Obviously, Eudora encrypt the saved password with some secret key, but this key could probably be found by examining the code. A slight improvement would be for Eudora to generate an encryption key on the fly based on some external system state, but this is also susceptible to reverse-engineering. -ed falk

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Re: Constitution and a Right to Privacy
by Vin McLellan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Marshall Clow wrote: >Let's not start this.... <snip> >If we are going to discuss privacy, that's fine. >It we are going to discuss abortion, there are better fora. Right, Marshall. I was attempting to respond directly to Tim's comment, but I too have no desire to let the end of C'punks be yet another sinkhole Abortion Debate. Foil at guard. I'll subside and let any riptide response roll over me;-). (Jeeze! Anyone else feel like these are the Final Days, like when a company goes bankrupt, or graduation day or the like?? I hope one of these C'punkish alternatives will provide an opportunity for some of the same thoughtful and stimulating engagements that toad.com hosted.) Respect to all, pro-choice and pro-life, _Vin

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article on "Wired News"
by Bryce 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "http://www.wired.com/news/" -- headline: " Monday Homeless Cypherpunks Turn to Usenet The 1,400-strong group splinters into three alt. subgroups and a mailing list - but they have plans for staying united. " "STAYING united"? Ha ha ha ha! That's funny! Keep in touch, y'all. :-) Bryce PGP sig follows -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMwoIlkjbHy8sKZitAQHccQMAuN28CdLh8r7qbJ08IFHEPihY0EwnUJu3 kMauwXlNdhI+VzNpBnQLkmtUdpGvTKbx2Il77fWrHJD+NM/AuEOY2wfdWJlimMZ5 zvRROoEJwG/dTS4BvsbQFqt62dZAiPH6 =dpG6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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JSC Security Report
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Redefining Security," a 1994 report to the DoD and the CIA by The Joint Security Commission, offers bountiful information on US security strategies, policies, agencies, methodologies, and techniques, you name it, with designs for the future. http://jya.com/jcs.htm (454K) If you ever wanted to talk like the spooks, parrot this dictionary of NatSec ebonics.

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Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
by Martin Minow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/news/97/942news/encryp.html To summarize, the Digital Video Disk standard contains an encryption standard for copyright and anti-piracy protection. however, "some U.S. PC and silicon vendors have just about abandoned hope of keeping to their revised launch schedules for DVD-enabled systems." ... as far as anybody knows, "none of the U.S. PC vendors today has a license to use the DVD-decryption algorithm" in software. "We all know the situation; we don't have a license," said Michael Moradzadeh, program manager of Intel's copy-protection task force. A solution may be in the offing within days. Some sources said late last week that Matsushita [who owns license rights] and key U.S. computer companies may resolve the software-licensing issues by the end of this week. The PC industry seeks amendments to the licensing-agreement language that would result in equivalent treatment of software- and hardware-based CSS decryption. ... there apparently has been some speculation among the U.S. PC community that Matsushita may be stonewalling on the software-licensing issue so that it can establish its hardware-based decryption solution in the marketplace. --- Nothing in the article suggests that "national interests" are involved. Martin Minow minow(a)apple.com

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Stop sending me your shit
by Robert Nadra 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Get me off your list or else ..... . Get me out your fuckin list assholes.

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Re: Constitution and a Right to Privacy
by Marshall Clow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>(And I always thought the "woman's right to privacy" argument for abortion >>was flaky. Accepting such an argument, wouldn't infanticide be equally >>protected by a woman's right to privacy?) >> >>--Tim May > > Whoa! This begs a thoughful response, but I don't have time right >now. Might it suffice to suggest that a privacy claim -- a demand for >control over what concerns her, her alone, or (on balance) her more than >any other -- seems reasonable to extend to both contraception and early >abortion? For many of us, by the same logic, and with the same moral >comfort. > [ more discussion of abortion snippped. ] > To my mind, any attempt to control what is done to the woman's body >(by her choice) while the prospective child is but a bit of enhanced >potential, much much less than a viable child, is an unconstitutional and >morally-invalid attempt by others (the state, the church, the country club) >to pre-empt her will, and prescribe or dictate a wholly new value system >for her. > > Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin(a)shore.net> > 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 Let's not start this. Tim wasn't arguing for or against abortion; he made no comments about abortion. His comment was that the _argument_ used to "legalize" abortion was unconvincing to him. If we are going to discuss privacy, that's fine. It we are going to discuss abortion, there are better fora. -- Marshall Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> Warning: Objects in calendar are closer than they appear.

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Re: Any more like www.anonymizer.com ??
by Jeremiah A Blatz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- edgarswank(a)juno.com (Edgar W Swank) writes: > Does anyone have a list of web proxies for anonymous surfing? > > I already know about www.anonymizer.com, and there was a > "canadianizer" that would alter text to make it more "Canadian", > but that is now apparently defunct. There's a Zippifier (inserts Zippy the Pinhead quotes) at: http://www.metahtml.com/apps/zippy/welcome.mhtml Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMwn7vskz/YzIV3P5AQEOwgL/RhNiyJUBtcVa8o2mqmflXRDJ89QSoYHL y7gLjhzY30/VXWUL14/m3jn3kN2EUrD9XKA12bauvST769TeRw0AAUepIsijrUAr xKDCG2Jqe4ThLS56AuTmiJQVkDLBDJx6 =gLdy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Stop sending me your shit
by Robert Nadra 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Get me off your list or else ..... . Get me out your fuckin list assholes.

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