December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Tapping these resources.
by WIZZYH2H＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I noticed that there are several programs that will let anyone send encrypted email. What about encrypted messages over a chat system like irc, chat rooms(aol, BBS) and systemwide messages (IM, whisper, private message)? The server wouldn't have to do anything except send the messages, the users software could handel all the protocols and message identification. Dialup and logon features aren't needed either, allmost all cilents will let you shell. I have been looking for, and tring to write a program to do this, but Im a rookie programmer and my attempts have yet to produce a functional send/receive utility. Where are programs like this.. are there any to be found? wizzyh2h(a)aol.com OR wizzy(a)juno.com

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Re: ITAR and Paper ROM
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:26 AM 2/5/97 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >I'm not sure if what I did in the 80s, trying to create what I called >'paper ROM, is applicable. [....] >to replace diskettes for inexpensive mass data distribution. > Although a technical success, I abandoned the effort >when I discovered someone had patented (4,488,679) something similar a >few years earlier. Yeah, our patent office is so helpful - granting a patent for "Storage of Information By Making Marks On Paper" :-) You'd think they'd recognize a few thousand years of prior art..... Xerox also has a similar patent; their method uses little diagonals to encode data in. ///\\\/// It really _isn't_ called "cuneform". More practically, sort of, there was the Cauzin Softstrip Reader, which cost about $200 and held enough data to distribute programs back when computers and programs were much smaller; a few PC magazines tried distributing programs by printing them in the back that way. Cute, but not cute enough to stick around very long. # 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: Moderation [Tim,Sandy]
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> writes: > > > > The drunk can be excluded, but when someone wants to use the drunk as > > > > an example to escalate the exclusion to other persons who are not in > > > > fact drunk, watch out! > > > If I get really really drunk, which happens very seldom, then I'm > > > too drunk to post. I don't mind an occasional beer, though. > > > Oksas, have you ever tried beer? :-) > > I had my first beer(s) in three years at one of those industrial > > parties last night. It made the craps table action seem a bit > > merrier, and the girls were friendlier too. > I like an occasional Coors Lite. BTW I think Limey Faggots are right about > one think: I like room-temperature beer better than cold beer. YMMV. Interesting coincidence for people on opposite coasts - the bar at the hotel had two choices: Bud regular and Coors light. I took the Coors.

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Re: John's: In anarchy -everyone responsible
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Attila T. Hun wrote: > on or about 970204:2343 jim bell <jimbell(a)pacifier.com> said: > +At 09:05 PM 2/4/97 +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote: > +> In a "popular" anarchy, Jim Bell's assassination politics make > +> perfectly good sense; but, a "popular" anarchy is not an _anarchy_. > +I guess I don't understand the distinction you are trying to make, > +between a "popular anarchy" and an "anarchy." Maybe you were trying > +to distinguish between "dictatorship of the few (or one)" and > +"dictatorship of the many (perhaps a majority)" but it didn't come out > +very understandably. Put simply, "anarchy is not the lack of order. > +It is the lack of _orders_." > disagree. pure anarchy is not the lack of "orders" --pure anarchy > implies that everyone is imbued with that perfect sense of responsibility. I don't know where these implications come from. Start with a primitive example, such as animals in the wild. Is that a perfect anarchy? Where do the differences come in for humans? Are they neo-religious perceptions, which could never find universal agreement? Or are they set in stone, in immutable, universal laws?

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Re: John's: In anarchy -everyone responsible
by snow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> At 09:05 PM 2/4/97 +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote: > >on or about 970204:0312 Greg Broiles <gbroiles(a)netbox.com> said: > >+ Is the desire for an anarchic community at odds with a desire for > >+ good use of resources? > Actually, it is quite possible that an "anarchic community" is _more_ > efficient in the use of resources than some sort of organized community. > It is explained, for example, that the reason there are so many different > kinds of life on earth is that there are so many ecological niches to fill. Good does not necessarily mean efficient, and efficient does not necessarily mean good. Picture--if you can--the "perfect" centrally planned economy where all possible market conditions, wants and needs are taken into account. Factories are placed optimally for access to natural resources and distribution to consumers etc. Also assume that the people running this society _are_ intersted in efficient production methods, and activly look for new and better ways of getting things done--benign facism/socialism if you will. This would (assuming perfect people, but bear with me) be the _most efficient_ method of producing and delivering goods, but it would introduce certain "choke points", one natural disaster or war could cripple production of necessary items. Picture anarchy, massively redundant, and resistent to this problem, while probably not anywhere _near_ as efficient, this "system" would have the ability to absorb damage and adapt more rapidly to changing enviroments. > No, that's traditional thinking and that's wrong. See AP part 8. Freud > believed (as "everyone" else believed, even myself, before AP) that anarchy > was inherently unstable. But it ISN'T, if the tools of AP are used to Stable is a relative thing. Are things stable now? If you think so, you either aren't looking very hard, or you are giving "stable" a wide range.

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No Subject
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

bite your penis. /_/\/\ \_\ / Tim C[reep] May /_/ \ \_\/\ \ \_\/

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Re: pgpmail 4.5
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Huge Cajones Remailer sez: : you wrote: : There is a pgpmail45.exe at ftp.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/incoming. : The file has an md5 sum of 'ffd56d7647c30152a5c9fe7616a3d9ef'. : i downloaded the same. md5 5ea438501d0133f0849c2fe8f9125b6b : can someone clear this up? [usura@basement]:/pub/ftp/pub/crypto/incoming {22}$ md5 pgpmail45.exe 5ea438501d0133f0849c2fe8f9125b6b pgpmail45.exe -- -AJ-

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Re: "alt.cypherpunks" people?
by Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com> writes: > Anil Das <das(a)sgi.com> writes: > > > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > > > > > > Learn to use an anonymous remailer. > > > > Thanks for the hint, Dr. Vulis. I have registered for a course, but > > seats are available only in fall. > > Toilet seats in the state of free fall? > > The stego on Sandy's moderated list blows my mind... And Sandy blows Sameer, and Greg blows John... --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: About: My Departure, Moderation, and "Ownership of the List"
by Ben 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > User of the list, has no place to talk. His type, to me, > > > Characterate those who quit something and complain later, > > > Knowing that some people will listen to them. > > > > > > So what, if he decided to leave? It was his own choice > > > And he can't just come back and say everyone who stayed is > > > Now impelled to listen to him, just because he used to > > > Do a bunch of posts. I don't think that hardly any of > > > You would listened to me later if I left the list. > > I write good englich, but I write it verticaly, not horizontaly. > Try reading the above up-to-down, just the first letters of > each line. > It may be kindegarten crypto, but it made it onto the censored > list. Ahh...Sorry for the flame. You're obviously not a native English speaker(the Canadian address belies your origins). Native English speakers however have no right to poor English. PS: The word you want is STILL characterize. Ben. ____ Ben Samman..................................................ben(a)edelweb.fr Paris, France Illudium Q36 Explosive Space Modulator

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Re: Moderation [Tim,Sandy]
by Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> writes: > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > > Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> writes: > > > > > > The drunk can be excluded, but when someone wants to use the drunk as > > > > > an example to escalate the exclusion to other persons who are not in > > > > > fact drunk, watch out! > > > > > If I get really really drunk, which happens very seldom, then I'm > > > > too drunk to post. I don't mind an occasional beer, though. > > > > > Oksas, have you ever tried beer? :-) > > > > I had my first beer(s) in three years at one of those industrial > > > parties last night. It made the craps table action seem a bit > > > merrier, and the girls were friendlier too. > > > I like an occasional Coors Lite. BTW I think Limey Faggots are right about > > one think: I like room-temperature beer better than cold beer. YMMV. > > Interesting coincidence for people on opposite coasts - the bar at > the hotel had two choices: Bud regular and Coors light. I took the > Coors. I remember when one had trouble getting Coors in NY: had something to do with their giving $$ to the Nicaragua contras and upsetting the politically correct distributors. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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