December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Kid hacker changes his grades (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>>>> Forwarded message From: http://www.accessatlanta.com/local/news/1997/04/30/gradehacker.html Student faces felony for hacking grades >From NewsTalk 750 WSB A 15-year-old Florida High School student faces felony charges for allegedly hacking his way into the school computer to change "F's" into "A's." Jason Westerman claims it was only a joke, but he faces felony charges for offenses against intellectual property and computer users. He's been suspended for ten days. Westwood high school administrators want to expel him. << End forwarded message

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CDT Flash: SADE Bill -- "Hold a belief, go to prison"
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks, talk.politics.crypto, comp.org.eff.talk) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____ _____ _______ / ____| __ \__ __| ____ ___ ____ __ | | | | | | | | / __ \____ / (_)______ __ / __ \____ _____/ /_ | | | | | | | | / /_/ / __ \/ / / ___/ / / / / /_/ / __ \/ ___/ __/ | |____| |__| | | | / ____/ /_/ / / / /__/ /_/ / / ____/ /_/ (__ ) /_ \_____|_____/ |_| /_/ \____/_/_/\___/\__, / /_/ \____/____/\__/ The Center for Deities and Theologies /____/ Volume 42, Number 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A briefing on public policy issues affecting religious liberties online ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CDT POLICY POST Volume 42, Number 1 May 1, 1997 Status Report on SADE, "Serenity and Dignity Through Enlightenment" FLASH! The Center for Deities and Theologies announces that the "SADE" Bill is past markup by the House Committee on Beliefs and Creeds, and is headed for passage in the full House. We urge you to call your representative and support this important Bill. While CDT believes the Bill has certain flaws, particularly the criminal sanctions for use of religious beliefs in furtherance of a prosecutable offense, we believe the benefits outweigh the problems. This Bill will give to American believer-units the religious freedoms they have so far lacked, while also ensuring the legitimate needs of religious enforcement are satisfied. The characterization of SADE as a kind of "hold a belief, go to prison" law is completely unjustified. No believer-unit who does not use his or her beliefs in connection with a prosecutable offense has anything whatsoever to fear from this landmark piece of legislation. CDT is proud to be a supporter and industry shill for this important step forward. --Klaus! von Future Prime, Policy Director, Center for Deities and Theologies Text of H.R. 666, the "SADE" Bill, "Serenity and Dignity Through Enlightenment" A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, to affirm the rights of Americans to practice the religious beliefs of their choice, and to recognize the legitimate needs of law enforcment and national security concerns in this area. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Serenity and Dignity Through Enlightenment (SADE) Act". SEC. 2. PRACTICE OF RELIGION. (a) IN GENERAL. Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after chapter 121 the following new chapter: CHAPTER 122-RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES "2801. Definitions. "2802. Freedom To Practice Religion. "2803. Freedom To Sell Religous Materials. "2804. Prohibition on religious licenses. "2805. Unlawful use of religious beliefs in furtherance of a criminal act. "§2802. Freedom To Practice Religion "Subject to Section 2805, it shall be lawful for any person within any State, and for any United States citizen in a foreign country, to hold any religious belief, regardless of the deity, god, goddess, idol, or higher being believed in. "§2803. Freedom To Sell Religous Materials "Subject to section 2805, it shall be lawful for any person within any State to sell in interstate commerce any religious tract, scripture, Bible, or pamphlet, regardless of the deity, god, goddess, or higher being supported. "§2804. Prohibition on religious licenses "(a) PROHIBITION. -- No person in lawful possession of religious materials may be required by Federal or State law to disclose or surrender to another person those materials. "(b) EXCEPTION FOR ACCESS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES.-Subsection (a) shall not affect the authority of any investigative or law enforcement officer, under any law in effect on the effective date of this chapter, to gain access to those beliefs and religious materials. "§2805. Unlawful use of religious beliefs in furtherance of a criminal act "Any person who willfully uses religious beliefs or practices in furtherance of the commission of a criminal offense for which the person may be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction -- "(1) in the case of a first offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both; and "(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or stoned to death, or both.". SEC. 3. EXPORTS OF RELIGIOUS MATERIALS. (a) AMENDMENT TO RELIGIOUS EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT OF 1979. -- Section 17 of the Religious Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2416) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(g) BIBLES AND RELATED MATERIALS. -- "(1) GENERAL RULE.--Subject to paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), the Inqusitor shall have exclusive authority to control exports of all religious materials, tracts, Bibles, Torahs, and statements of belief for religious matters and beliefs, except that which is specifically intended or modified for use by religious zealots, martyrs, and those involved in crusades, jihads, or holy wars. "(2) ITEMS NOT REQUIRING LICENSES. -- No validated license may be required, except pursuant to the Praying For the Enemy Act or the International Emergency Higher Powers Act (but only to the extent that the authority of such Act is not exercised to extend controls imposed under this Act), for the export or reexport of-- ... "(3) MATERIALS WITH PROSELYTIZING CAPABILITIES. -- The Inquisitor shall authorize the export or reexport of religious items with proselytizing capabilities for non-jihad end-uses in any country to which exports of similar Christian or Jewish materials are permitted for use by religious institutions not controlled in fact by United States churches and synagogues, unless there is substantial evidence that such materials will be -- "(A) diverted to a an Islamic jihad or other holy war or used for religious terrorism; "(B) modified for crusade and.or holy war end-use; or "(C) reexported without any authorization by the United States that may be required under this Act. -- There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re:
by Trevor Goodchild 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I assure you sir that it was meant to be posted without anonimity, and that it was lovingly hand crafted for your reading pleasure. Now who is this Gruber fellow? --- Trevor Goodchild On Fri, 25 Apr 1997 paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote: > > > From: Trevor Goodchild <trevorg(a)dhp.com> > > > Dimi Vulis is just another garden variety KGB whore that has > > [REST OF RANT DELETED] > > Hmm, a slippage I wonder by Trevorg(a)dhp.com, this was presumably > supposed to be sent anonymously. But why would it not be bot`ted? > > I always thought these posts were emanating from somewhere like > dhp.com (Recally dhp.com is the domain which Dr. Grubor has his > addresses on). > > >

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Re: Do government employees have freedom of speech?On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Adam Back w
by Trevor Goodchild 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sod.Off. --- Trevor Goodchild On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, snow wrote: > Pot. Kettle. Black. >

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Re: [CRYPTO] ZKP
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 10:00:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Graham-John Bullers <real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> To: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: [CRYPTO] ZKP Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com I think Vulis needs each of us to send ten copies of this back to him. On Thu, 1 May 1997, Anonymous wrote: > Tim May is widely recognized on the net, because of his > frequent vitriolic postings, as someone/thing ready to cut > off his own penis to spite Graham-John Bullers, although his > friends recognize him better from the rear. > > __ > /_/\__ > \_\/\_\ Tim May > /\_\/_/ > \/_/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Graham-John Bullers Modulator of alt.2600.modulated ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email : real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca : ab756(a)freenet.toronto.on.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~real/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Artikel about XS4ALL in New York Times
by tank 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE NEW YORK TIMES/CYBERTIMES www.nytimes.com April 29, 1997 By BRUNO GIUSSANI For an ISP in the Netherlands, Controversy Is an Old Friend AMSTERDAM -- April has meant business as usual at XS4ALL (access-for-all), the third-largest Internet service provider in the Netherlands. The month started off with the XS4ALL Web site being out of reach for a substantial portion of the European online population, and it is ending with the provider's adding a notch to its track record as a champion of freedom of speech. On April 11 the Dutch Web site was blocked by the German academic network, Deutsche Forschungsnetz (DFN), which serves about 400 universities and research organizations and provides Internet access to a half million people. DFN acted under pressure from the Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau pointing out the illegal -- in Germany, though not in the Netherlands -- content of Radikal Magazine, which is housed on the XS4ALL server. Radikal, a left-wing underground magazine, advocates "militant and armed interventions" to overthrow the government, and has published a "Short guide to hindering railway transports of all kinds" -- a handbook describing how to attack and damage tracks. Since selectively barring single home pages is technically impossible, the DNF action cut off all 6,000 pages on the XS4ALL servers, including those of Serbian opposition radio station B-92 and several scientific databases. Thus, while blocking illegal material, the German network was also hampering scientific work -- which DFN has been established to nurture. Not to mention that skilled Internet users could route around the obstacle by using a remailing system or a proxy server located abroad. What's more, Radikal Magazine can be found on several dozen "mirror sites" around the world. Ten days later -- after being flooded by protests -- the German network lifted the ban on XS4ALL. "An effective blockage of illegal information has not been within the realms of possibility," Klaus-Eckart Maass, a DFN spokesman, conceded in an interview with The Associated Press. Now, this happened the very same week as the indictment of a German manager of CompuServe, a leading international online service, for the transmission of allegedly illegal materials over the Internet and as the German Parliament opened discussions on a new multimedia law. The new bill would place the responsibility for content on the supplier of the data, thus Internet service providers would not be held liable for illegal information that could pass over their wires unless they have been alerted and "have the technical ability" to delete or block it -- the very same scheme the German academic network found impossible to enforce. It was not the first time XS4ALL had been at the forefront of an Internet skirmish. Last September, most German ISPs blocked XS4ALL for a month after complaints by a regional prosecutor about Radikal. (In January Angela Marquardt, a Bavarian socialist politician, was indicted for linking to the banned magazine from her personal home page). "After a couple of weeks, the censored information was mirrored on some 50 Web sites around the world and voluntarily removed by our user from the XS4ALL server," the company's founder, Felipe Rodriquez, 28, explained. "After the block had ended, our user put the documents back on his page." Along with German prosecutors, the Amsterdam-based provider has lined up a fair list of other adversaries: the McDonald's fast-food chain, the Serbian government and the Church of Scientology, just to name a few. XS4ALL's roots reach into the hacker movement. The venture started out in 1993 "to give anyone the possibility to access the Internet." At that time there were no commercial access providers in Holland. It has grown into a respectable and very successful business in less than four years, yet the principles on which it was created have not changed: "Internet for the masses" is still its motto. XS4ALL currently has 55 employees, boasts 21,000 subscribers and hosts some 6,000 home pages. "A few years ago, we would have been portrayed as a band of dangerous anarchists, bent on disrupting society," Rodriquez told the Dutch daily Trouw. "But now they have come to see that we are nice and quiet people really." The company was instrumental in the creation of the Amsterdam Digital City project, a community networking initiative backed by taxpayer's money, and Rodriquez himself played a key role in setting up the Dutch anti-child-pornography hotline, the first of its kind, last year. "Before we started the hotline, Holland had a reputation of being a kid-porn freehaven," he said in an interview last week. "We designed it as a non-censoring form of self-regulation." The hotline is run by Internet users and providers. Unlike Britain's Internet Watch Foundation, the Dutch hotline doesn't censor any information nor does it ask the provider to do so. Hotline operators contact the author of the information and ask him to remove the offending content. "If the author does not comply, we report him to the police, and he'll be prosecuted," said Rodriquez, who also is chairman of the Dutch Providers Association. "The Internet Watch Foundation forces the provider to remove the illegal content," he added. "This is a fundamentally different approach to responsibilities on the Internet. We think the author of the information is responsible for his own actions, not the provider." That's why XS4ALL didn't take any steps against the customer who posted Radikal Magazine on its server. "Our policy is that as a provider we are not in the position to judge whether this magazine is illegal in the Netherlands, therefore we do not interfere with our users' freedom of speech," Rodriquez stated. "If there is any doubt about the legality of the publication in Holland, a Dutch court of law would be the proper place to remove these doubts," he added. This was the case when, in September 1995, the Religious Technology Center -- better known as the Church of Scientology -- filed for the seizure of all the XS4ALL computer equipment "because one of our users had put on his home page some information to which Scientology said it owned the copyright." The document -- the now famous "Fishman affidavit" -- is the actual transcript of a testimony given by Steven Fishman in a Los Angeles Court in which he accused the church of having forced him to act illegally. "We denied any responsibility for the content on our users' pages; they decide for themselves what they will publish," Rodriquez recalled. "We won the litigation." The user preferred to take down the controversial document. Yet when violation of the law is flagrant, XS4ALL doesn't hesitate to comply, as it did a few weeks ago when it shut down a customer's home page called Neuroroom, which sold marijuana and other soft drugs in Holland and abroad. The company's commitment to support free expression and democratization of the Internet doesn't stop here. Last fall when the Serbian government censored radio station B-92, XS4ALL helped design an Internet campaign and started to carry news broadcasts (in RealAudio format) that kept the rare opposition voice alive and the international public informed through independent accounts of the events occurring during the mass demonstrations in Belgrade. "They gave us disk space, donated network traffic and helped in training people," said Frank Tiggelaar, a Dutch activist for democratization in former Yugoslavia. "Basically any project we like gets free resources from XS4ALL," Rodriquez commented. The campaign of Helen Steel and Dave Morris is among the projects XS4ALL's old hackers do like. The two British environmentalists are the main characters of a civil case that started in 1990 when the McDonald's restaurant chain sued them for distributing flyers pointing at what they called the company's economic and ecological "ravages." The trial is not over yet -- but it has spawned a large Internet-based support network and fed a huge anti-McDonald's Web site called McSpotlight hosted, not surprisingly, by XS4ALL. EUROBYTES is published weekly, on Tuesdays. Click here for a list of links to other columns in the series. Related Sites Following are links to the external Web sites mentioned in this article. These sites are not part of The New York Times on the Web, and The Times has no control over their content or availability. When you have finished visiting any of these sites, you will be able to return to this page by clicking on your Web browser's "Back" button or icon until this page reappears. Bruno Giussani at eurobytes(a)nytimes.com welcomes your comments and suggestions. Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company -- XS4ALL Internet BV - Felipe Rodriquez-Svensson - finger felipe(a)xs4all.nl for Managing Director - - pub pgp-key 1024/A07C02F9

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ECR_ypt
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Two news reports on Big Bro e-cards: 1. E-Pass -- a UK product that is both smart card and PC, will have one or more screens, and hopes to dominate the global government and business market for all-CU-data-in-one-easily-tracked-device. 2. Proton -- Belgium's cartel card, the mostly widely used device to en-SAFE Belgians, and a candidate to be recruited by Visa or MasterCard or Mondex or Halliburton or Armadillo US/UK/AUS. And a report on a speed demon crypto card from Eracom in AU, which claims to be "the world's first PC-based PCI bus cryptographic processor which can punch through cryptographic traffic at up to 30 times the speed of ISA bus products." ----- ECR_ypt or http://jya.com/ecrypt.txt

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Layoffs at PGP
by Super-User 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.wired.com/news/business/story/3543.html I what part of the employee base was purged? Anyone we know? Sounds like PGP sold their soul to the company store... (or the corporate binge and purge mentality.) [arrow] PGP Pretty Good on Privacy of Layoff Details by Kristi Coale 6:09pm 30.Apr.97.PDT In keeping with its core technology - information security - Pretty Good Privacy was tight-lipped about the details of the layoffs it announced to employees Tuesday morning. "We prefer not to mention the number as we are a privacy company, but it was small in number and limited in scope," spokesman Mike Nelson told Wired News on Wednesday. The layoffs are part of what Nelson described as a shift in the company's strategy from developing products for protecting individual privacy to being a security specialist for the Fortune 500. Analysts say this rejiggering of priorities is not a drastic one, pointing to the 24 March purchase of ZoomIt, a company that specialized in corporate, enterprise-wide security systems. The shift represents a maturation of a company that built its reputation through a type of grass-roots organizing: distributing its products through freeware, said Ezra Gottheil, director of Internet business strategies in Newton, Massachusetts. "They're a real Internet company. They're also an ambitious company that sees it's time to move into corporate IS departments," Gottheil said. Part of that shift may mean that Internet Fast-Forward, an ad-filtering technology developed by PrivNet, which PGP acquired last November, will take a back seat - perhaps permanently. Although PGP wouldn't say that it is pulling the plug on the product, Fast-Forward is considered a "lower priority" than other developments, Nelson said. "Internet Fast-Forward is not as closely related to the tools we develop for individuals for privacy," he said. And the fact that Fast-Forward filters ads which are an "inimical part of some of the emerging Web commerce models ... we don't want to hinder this development." Nelson wouldn't say whether the layoffs affected anyone in PrivNet but noted that the acquisition generated engineering talent PGP wanted. That technical know-how along with other resources are being focused on centralized corporate security systems. In fact, the company has put out a casting call for more engineers to satisfy its resource dearth in research and development in this area. Ultimately, all of these adjustments could simply be PGP's preparation to woo the investors it seeks for a public offering. Although PGP has no immediate plans to go public, company officials intend to review these investment schedules this summer, Nelson said. Related Wired Links: PGP's Export Solution: Stamps, Envelopes by James Glave PGP Zooms into Corporate Security by Spencer E. Ante PGP Lets You Take Charge of Your Cookies by James Glave Beat That Tap - It's PGP For Sale by David Lazarus [arrow] [Image] Find Read a story in the Wired News archive. Feedback Let us know how we're doing. TipsHave a story or tip for Wired News? Send it. Copyright © 1993-97 Wired Ventures, Inc. and affiliated companies. All rights reserved.

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Re: Rejecting Dialog with Government Vermin
by snow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> On Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 06:03:43PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > Think of it this way: there are tactical and strategic decisions. > > Strategically, I would like the Federal government to evolve into a form > > that's consistent with the principles of individual freedom, peace, and > > limited government enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. >><SNIP><< > To put a finer point on it, what flaw existed (exists) in the founding People. They are the flaw. The Constitution relies on the voters being rational, or at least putting the country before themselves. Stupid assumption. > fathers dream and actualization that prevented it from being a stable > condition?

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New Israel
by Gordon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oh geez... Have you heard about NEW ISRAEL yet? It is a 510 page book that addresses one of the primordial obstacles to human life and happiness on our planet Earth, the accursed Middle Eastern conundrum between the Jews and the Palestinians- Arabs-Islamics. The predicate of NEW ISRAEL calls for the creation of a coexistent, with Israel, New Israel in the southern two thirds of the Baja Peninsula, south of California, in North America, with immense benefits for all of those effected. Faced with an impossible dilemma, another choice must be made available. The book explains that new option and all the history, difficulties, and transgressions, that makes the creation of New Israel absolutely necessary. For more information, including an 18 page detailed outline of NEW ISRAEL, and the full 41 page Preface to NEW ISRAEL - which provides rich details about the reasoning and rationale foundation of NEW ISRAEL, visit the NEW ISRAEL website at : http://www.seymourtex.com/newisrael/ni.htm

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