December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [OFF TOPIC]Comments about CFP '97
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: > At 08:55 PM 3/25/97 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: > >At 4:07 PM -0800 3/25/97, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > >>>--Tim May, who was comped into the conference and who only paid for one > >>>night at $130, preferring to drive in from elswhere and use the saved money > >>>for something permanent, a new Stihl chainsaw. > >>Just in case the Assault Rifle and pistols aren't enough? :-) > Stihl chain saws are *the best*. Stihl chainsaws are the choice of serial killers from Texas to Xenix. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Re: Corrupted "From:" headers in my posts
by Alec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 01:27 AM 3/26/97 -0600, Toto wrote: |I emailed John Gilmore, asking his advice, and he informed me that |he has run into this problem before, and would be happy to provide the |solution, on one condition. | | He wants one million monkeys to send 5737 messages to the list, saying |"John Gilmore is NOT a cocksucker." | Then, he will provide the solution, and not a moment before. OK, John, count me in. #1! "John Gilmore is NOT a cocksucker." Alec -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBMzkeTSKJGkNBIH7lAQHI3QP8DgE91P6O1jF00rBJkv0h2KiXwBf72sXo xrrwRg36PLnYK0+6se5Ldh3mro4J25a7pNdErOlMCEEnkuLz2HHDApgF+bikzEw4 WvZa/3OlSAd1o54/HbMuHnfmZBfsLiEiYIzGGDVJsqTzjiUdqvYJpH3Caq605qT5 5uN7A3fhACc= =Rh5N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Anonymous mail as spam?
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

snow wrote: > > At 10:49 PM -0800 3/25/97, snow wrote: > > > What would I do if I were a spammer? > > > Submit the _same_ coin to every mailing I sent out. It will pass > > >your coin filter, and so you see the message, but will fail when you try > > >to spend it, or clear it. What do I care, you've already seen the message. > > I should always try to clear your coin and if I like your message send you > > a new coin. If I can't clear your coin, then your message goes to > > /dev/null. > > This assumes a system where coins can be cleared in real time, and > that people read thier mail while online. At least the second is not an > assumption that can be bourn out. > > > I hope those public key operations are cheap. :-) > > Or at least less than 10 cents. I believe that the 'money-point' for UCE (unsolicited commercial email) spammers is somewhere around .02% for most of their offerings. In other words, they need to send out 10,000 emails and get a response just to break even. So, to make it unprofitable for them to spam god and everybody, it would only take a small surcharge. i.e. a penny or less. I don't actually object to the average Jane/Joe trying to use the 'new medium' to turn a buck, since I don't think that they should be denied the same opportunity as the mega-buck corporations. However, I would like to see the cost of operations for these types of activities be substantial enough that they will be forced to adopt a method of operations that will ensure that there is least a chance that I will be interested in what they have to offer. As things stand, I could buy some UCE/spamming software and send out my proverbial "How To Make $$$ Licking Your Own Dick" missives and probably make some money, since it would not cost me much to send my messages to a few million people. If it was actually costing me even a small sum to send each message, then I would no longer be able to afford indiscriminate spamming, but would still have the option to use hardwork and intelligence to narrow the field of recipients to only include those who might be interested in my offer, such as Bill Frantz, Jim Bell, and Bill Stewart. I truly believe that the InterNet should be left accessible to those without a lot of resources/cash, and that any effort to control abuse through cost should be so minimal as to not interfere with the ability of those who are currency-challenged to participate in its benefits. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Re: New WinSock Remailer Available; Compatible with Win95
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Joey Grasty <jgrasty(a)gate.net> writes: > You can now download the latest version (version ALPHA1.3B) of the > WinSock Remailer from my webpage at: > > http://www.cyberpass.net/~winsock/ ... > The WinSock Remailer is the Windows version of a cypherpunk remailer. > This version, ALPHA1.3B, runs under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. > A version for Windows NT will be released shortly. ... > I need to know if you have success with any of the following untested > configurations: > > a) Windows NT (now known not to work) What exactly is the problem with NT (if any)? You might want to take a look at the source code to the cancelbot I published last year - it has some winsock calls that work fine under NT. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: [Proposal:] Revolving Web Mirrors
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Timothy C. May" <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > At 9:00 AM -0600 3/26/97, William H. Geiger III wrote: > > >>How does this actually provide any benefit to anyone? Search engines ala > >>Altavista etc. are entirely too unreliable and too slow to pick up on > >>these magical mirrors, especially if they are as dynamic as they would > >>appear to be. And if there's a central "come here and get all the > >>mirrors!" page, the Bad Guys can simply block that page too. > ... > >Does Altavista, ...ect accept notification of new URL's and if so what is > >the average lag time between receiving notice and the URL making it into > >the search engine? > > > >The problem that I am trying to address is that a determined State could > >block all static mirrors over a period of time. By making these sites > >dynamic it makes the job much more difficult for them. > > Why not have e-mail notification about mirrors? To whom? > (Like Raph's remailer list, where an e-mail version is sent out in tandem > with the Web site update.) > > Sure, some Big Mommy filtering services will block the Web sites, but they > probably are completely unequipped to try to interfere with e-mail. It's a piece of cake to scan all incoming e-mail and to see who's getting notifications of the new locations of the "banned pages". It doesn't matter if the "authorities" are the local gubmint or a corporation... If the incoming e-mail is encrypted then the authorities can scrutinize all incoming encryped e-mail and ask the recipients what's in it, why it's encrypted, and whether it's solicited or not. If the notofications of the "banned pages" locations are unsolicited, they have good grounds for a complaint to your ISP. If they're solicited... the recipient's in trouble. But if the notifications are a small part of traffic on a large- volume mailing list, like this one, then the recipient can claim that they've subscribed to the mailing list for the other content (like the ASCII art :-). --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: improving public acceptance: "alt" mail domain
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Andy Dustman <andy(a)CCMSD.chem.uga.edu> writes: > FYI, anonymous.net is registered to John Gilmore. SHIT!!! Someone, quick, complain to the InterNIC. Who let the cocksucking NSA shill kidnap a domain name? --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: [OFF TOPIC]Comments about CFP '97
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:55 pm -0500 on 3/25/97, Timothy C. May wrote: > Yes, inasmuch as I already have a Troy-Bilt chipper/shredder for disposal > of the byproducts of home defense. > > (Bought even before I saw "Fargo."] Actually, what you *really* want is one of those 400-lb-flywheel jobs that the tree surgeons use to mulch big tree limbs up with. I worked behind one one summer in college. They are *indeed* impressive. Don't forget to freeze everything before you put it in there, though. Works cleaner and faster. Actually, there was a case a few years where a guy did exactly that with his wife, her deep-frozen and all. Only problem was the cops figured it out after they found out he had rented one of these things shortly before she disappeared. Though they didn't find anything of her after the critters in woods behind his house had their "one *tasty* burger", John Law did break the tree mulcher down and find DNA-confirmed microscopic bits of her in the machine's um, interstices... Remember, return the tools clean folks, or you don't get your deposit back. Reminds me of the headless biker we talked about here a while ago. Whoops! Gotta run. Time for lunch! I *love* this list... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by stupidity." -- Jerry Pournelle The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/

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TEMPEST Doc
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've digitized several chapters of the US Army Corps of Engineers "Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and TEMPEST Protection for Facilities." http://jya.com/emp.htm Pretty good specs for what to do outside the laboratory to protect against compromising emanations (and rude nukes), many previously discussed here. Reminder: Joel McNamara hosts the non-classified cornucopia: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html

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Re: KRAP
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jeremey Barrett wrote: > > Key Recovery Agents Plan > I dunno, but they couldn't have picked a better acronym :-) Good eye. I read about it and never noticed their truth-in-advertising acronym. You are hereby awarded 50,000,000 Toto Eca$h credits. (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 peso) -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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New remailer
by Kevin McGowan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Features: cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub Public key for remailer(a)neva.org -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzL2F4AAAAEEAL2G5u427j6LBWgUi8S1OlCsnaPhoB6h4V0xS2FQfuIQQS9Q dtTL/p406sdGAKtQEm/BecIgY+MLNKNukuOU9ifgz7jAs3kmm7i4yS714ua4vwag Kg3fJIOiNxIk38ieKJE0s3vfPMZPeGNt8x8y7jfxZuMvuVyjNrYJG4a+gwxNAAUR tBoyTXVsZXMgPHJlbWFpbGVyQG5ldmEub3JnPg== =ta0J -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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