December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

HAZ-MAT virus
by kickboxer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I do not know how it is run by the JPG and GIF files, but I do know that the code somehow loads into the image viewer itself..I am not sure how it works, just that it is very destructive.. I had it destroy my 486 (using Lview Pro) Oh, well, ENOUGH already. if you have something to say that is related to "image files cant execute a virus" please do not. there are too many spams with those ideas out now

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Re: "Security risks" vs. "credit risks"
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to the WaP article, the database in question would be _required_ by the federal government... thus removing any voluntary aspect of it, so long as you want to fly on a plane. I have had the thought that it might be possible for an air cargo business to have as a stock benefit a guarantee that, for payment of any extra costs, any stockholder could ride on one of their planes. I don't know how the laws on the subject are worded, but I believe that a lot of restrictions are removed for planes other than standard passenger airlines. This might be a way to fly anonymously - Chaumian "is-a-stockholder" credidentials might be usable to arrange it (the local library's copy of Applied Cryptography is checked out, so I don't know for sure) anonymously. -Allen

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Undeliverable Message
by MAILER-DAEMON＠mqg-smtp3.usmc.mil 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Cc: Subject: Re: It is good that anon.penet.fi has been closed! Message not delivered to recipients below. Press F1 for help with VNM error codes. VNM3043: BANYAN SERVER@MAG26@2DMAW NEW RIVER VNM3043 -- MAILBOX IS FULL The message cannot be delivered because the recipient's mailbox contains the maximum number of messages, as set by the system administrator. The recipient must delete some messages before any other messages can be delivered. The maximum message limit for a user's mailbox is 10,000. The default message limit is 1000 messages. Administrators can set message limits using the Mailbox Settings function available in the Manage User menu (MUSER). When a user's mailbox reaches the limit, the user must delete some of the messages before the mailbox can accept any more incoming messages. UNDEFINED-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > Yes, subject says it all. anon.penet.fi was a whole lot worse than > cypherpunks remailers. It provided clueless users with no real security, > because it stored return addresses and did not use chaining and > encryption. It also provided anonymity to many people who needed it. I think that many people who need anonymity will probably just learn faking mail and news headers. Many people just don't want to deal with cpunk remailers. OTOH, I agree that this might actually force many people with Penet addresses to learn about more secure remailers. In this way, the closing of anon.penet.fi could be looked upon as a Good Thing. However, as long as there is no easy way for Windoze and Mac users to use secure remailers, users will sooner resort to fake-mailing then learning how to use cpunk remailers. People that need a pseudonym address to use on various support groups can get them from other, equally insecure, remailers. - -- Mark PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMinwTizIPc7jvyFpAQFpGAf/ZGEXRU7MuROtatlHoAIdaJfIiwig1oDr fwlNjRe7f1ze8dwUuh74nWFt/ofPtjwSUtpCa1xDgTptPPhzr1I6beOdjwONlUzf MVif+wnzyIp27V/DCjebAMxQc2avmYKM6mwcOKfzFwG0cfvf/walJrjmADR9K0oe EXqi7mJzY1rI08Dsw8aHXNj8maDy9pRTSz9O9e0qZTdFlQtFyVNM6PSfAnKR9e1L ebQ5Yx4qNkgkfhDZgacKNv2inkyuD1LsyQneiCIZ0obhhRL7ORU63wGgYlvqc3gx Ux8sK2mMo6kr2dvA07nRyLzl3w9vm6efrFJeZC94fjdBYxluFg6/ag== =+Qm6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: anon.penet.fi: URGENT REQUEST
by Jason Burrell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > ! on a dedicated 28.8 PPP line. The cheapest used VGA display from > ! the nearby waste dump will work just fine. > > Hell, any monitor should work! I'm curious about how to go about > acquiring one of those huge 100+ x 100+ charactor terminals that linux > supports. Is it practical, cheap and readable? If you mean something like a 132x60 character terminal, you can get a utility from Sunsite called SVGATextMode which will do that for you on a standard VGA monitor, provided you have a graphics card which supports such a mode. I have an STB Nitro 2MB ISA card, and am running a 132x60 mode on a 14 inch monitor. > ln -s /dev/null /usr/postmaster > ln -s /dev/null /usr/abuse I think you mean /usr/spool/mail/postmaster, but I could be wrong. ;) > That should filter the mail quite nicely! :-> Indeed. :) - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMiombioZzwIn1bdtAQFDUQF/drCreJbjZxyLz2rMirboSzv77W/dW/9Q k1BMBvpx9+5R39MP+bUHEJQ65UhDskV6 =Eacf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: FW: get me off of this list!!!!!
by bf578＠scn.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >>><porsche(a)themall.net> wrote: >>>I need to be taken off of this list but I can't remeber the code >>> >>>to desubscribe. Can anyone tell me what the code is? >>>------------------------------------- >> >>What's the frequency Herbert? >> >>Help, I've fallen and I can't remeber the code. >> >>Hint: Try consulting "The Codebreakers." > >I guess he deleted that all important message he got when he > duhscribed. > >it went something like this... >Welcome to the cypherpunks mailing list! > >[...] >If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, > >[...] >(and wanting to get off the list is never an emergency) > >[...] >Do not mail to the whole list asking to be removed. It's rude. > >[...] > -- ------------------------------------------ There are no facts, only interpretations. I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

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No Subject
by patrickbc＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

what do you know about hackers

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Re: Los Angeles Times article on Helsingius and anon.penet.fi
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Ms. Dyson: As a result of my knowing something of your work and additionally having viewed your highly impressive performance on Bill Buckley's CDA debate program, I used to think a great deal of you. And, as a matter of fact, I suppose that I still do. I am frankly troubled, however, by my _impression_ of your beliefs in the abovereferenced matter. Perhaps I have misunderstood your recent post to Cypherpunks; indeed, I am certain that all will be elucidated after you have had an opportunity to review more fully the article in question. I look forward to reading your further thoughts. Sincerely, -David M. Rose

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No Subject
by patrickbc＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please send me information on hacking bbs Hackmaster-p Patrickbc(a)juno.com

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American Imperialism, Firing Squads, and the Vincennes Shootdown
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:03 AM 9/2/96, Alan Horowitz wrote: >The Aegis ship in the Gulf wzs not in an exercise. It was in a war zone. > >If my memory serves, the Iranian jetliner had its squawker turned off, or >broken. The officer in charge in the CIC had about ten seconds to decide >if he was about to be locked-on by a missle. And no real information to >make the decision with. The U.S.S. Vincennes shot down an Iranian commercial airliner that was in its normal and well-known flight path out of Bandar Abbas. That the U.S. felt it was in a "war zone" was due to American imperialistic sentiments that say the U.S. can and should send its police forces to distant parts of the globe, even inside the Persian Gulf, no more than a few dozen miles from Iranian shores. (And the godless Jew Persians had the audacity to patrol its shorelines with gunboats! Jeesh. I'm sure the U.S. would not send the Coast Guard out to investigate or harass foreign warships cruising inside Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, or other coastal bays and inlets.) As to the "squawker" being turned off, this is not my recollection of the case (though it was nearly a decade ago, so memories fade...). (I just did an Alta Vista search to refresh my memory. Found this choice description: " Anderson's job in "Air Alley," the row of operators who handled air warfare, was to identify any air traffic within range of the ship. He told the Aegis system to query the incoming plane: Identify, Friend or Foe? By standard practice, all planes carry a transponder that automatically answers the IFF query with Mode 1 or 2 (military), or Mode 3 (civilian). Anderson got a Mode 3. "Commair" (commercial airliner), he figured. He reached beside his console for the navy's listing of commercial flights over the gulf. But as he scanned the schedule, he missed Flight 655. Apparently, in the darkness of the CIC, its arc lights flickering every time the Vincennes's five-inch gun fired off another round at the hapless Iranian gunboats, he was confused by the gulf's four different time zones." [http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~aranjbar/Ali/pol/4] So, the Iranian jet's IFF module _was_ working...the U.S. ship just missed it. Fact is, the U.S. shot down a commercial airliner which was in its normal flight path! One can imagine the repercussions if TWA 800 was similarly shot down as it followed its ordinary flight path. The U.S. demanded sanctions against the Soviets in '83 for shooting down a Korean airliner which had strayed (maybe) deep into Soviet airspace and which refused to acknowledge several radio messages. Though I am no apologist for the Soviets, which event was the more egregious? That the U.S. demanded actions against the Sovs, but pooh-poohed and whitewashed the Iranian airliner shootdown, is evidence of imperialistic hypocrisy. That the U.S. demands trials for alleged terrorists while having no trial for Captain Rogers is further evidence of hypocrisy. (A military court martial and a firing squad for those found guilty might have sent a more consistent message.) Make no mistake about it: I cannot support the sending of American gunboats to the backyards of other countries merely for perceived notions about American rights to their oil. Hopefully, as crypto anarchy spreads, imperialism such as this will be undermined, destabilized, and ultimately be defeated. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Let's Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:41 AM 9/2/96, Arun Mehta wrote: >At 10:35 31/08/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: > >> If discussions of Lee Kwan Yew's dynasty are considered illegal, then >>Singaporans will have to choose not to carry the various newsgroups into >>which *I* post such messages! > >How long do you propose to carry on doing that? Soon, the others >in the newsgroups will be asking you very impolitely to stop, >just as you would if someone kept on and on posting such stuff to cypherpunks. Actually, we already have several examples of how this worked, including some cases I was directly involved in. During the Teale-Homulka trial in Canada, many of us (me, too) posted numerous articles about it to the various *.canada newsgroups, such as soc.culture.canada. Canada had the choice of instructing all ISPs to halt the *.canada newsgroups. There were no real complaints that I recall about messages being "off-topic," as they clearly were very much on-topic. (Not that a few complaints have ever stopped me. While I don't spam newsgroups with auto-generated spam, I figure any article I take the time to actually write and that deals with the newsgroup involved, by my own standards, is fair game. My ISP can cancel my account if he feels I have spammed newsgroups in some way.) My proposal is not to post anti-Singapore screeds to comp.lang.java or the like, but to post them to various groups Singaporans and their neighbors might read. If Singapore wishes to disconnect itself from soc.culture.singapore, this is there choice. Then, the attack can spread to various other groups Singaporans might want to read.... (I call this a _good_ use of "info-terrorism.") ... >True, but Usenet only functions because it works most of the >time. To the extent we subvert this consensus, we damage Usenet, >make it less useful. It shouldn't happen that in trying to save >or spread Usenet, we have to destroy it... Posting the Homulka stuff did not kill the Usenet. Posting the autopsy photos of Nicole Brown Simpson did not kill the Usenet. Posting the innards of RSA Data Security algorithms did not kill the Usenet. If Canker and Sludgewell spam cannot kill the Usenet, if "Make Money Fast" noise cannot kill the Usenet, and if "Babes will fuck 4 U" posts cannot kill the Usenet, then surely some informative posts about the fascist Yew posted to various newsgroups of relevance to Singaporans and Asians will not kill the Usenet! >>And _never_ has it involved determinations of "inappropriate" by >>_governments_! > >There I'm with you -- I'm merely suggesting that you find a way >to protest Singapore's actions in a manner that would be less >objectionable to most Internet users, in Singapore and outside. Why? What is "objectionable" about exposing the truth about Lee Kwan Yew, his feeble son, and their dynasty? What is "objectionable" about teaching them how to use Web proxies, remailers, and other tools of liberty? If the citizens find this stuff objectionable, they can simply not read the stuff! As with books, movies, and magazines. What could be more natural than this? But of course it is the _rulers_ of these Asian kingdoms and satrapies which want the distribution of certain thoughts controlled and denied to their serfs and citizen-units. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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