December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

[noise] AGIS says "no more spam"? (fwd)
by Rabid Wombat 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[snipped] [full text at http://www.agis.net/press26.htm] AGIS, IEMMC Halt Bulk E-Mail Dearborn, MI May 27th, 1997: Worldwide Internet access provider AGIS (Apex Global Internet Services, Inc.) has challenged all members of the Internet E-Mail Marketing Council (IEMMC) to stop originating all bulk e-mail through the AGIS network. Under the terms of this agreement, Cyber Promotions, Cybertize E-mail, Integrated Media Promotions, ISG, and Quantum Communications agreed to cease sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) through the AGIS network until the IEMMC delivers a working filtration system and acceptable use policies.

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Re: Beware of encrypted processors bearing gifts...
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Burnes wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 1997, Lucky Green wrote: > > At 10:28 PM 5/24/97 -0400, Dave Emery wrote: > > > A three way encrypted handshake between an encrypted agent that > > >was part of the OS and a smart card and software at an ISP could be > > >used to enforce an internet drivers license law for example, with no > > >packets being forwarded by the ISP without hard authentication (even up > > >to biometrics) of the user. > > [For those new to Cypherpunks, I consider the requirement for an Internet > > Driver License as inevitable as the sun raising tomorrow morning. While the > > event is technically in the future, it will occur with a certainty that it > > may just as well have already happened in the past. > If this kind of thing gets through without a huge fight from the > public in general and the crypto community specifically, then we > get exactly what we deserve. > I will be heading for some quiet island at that point. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We now live in an age where, in between the slumber of the soap operas and the bewitchment of 'prime time,' we are fed our opinions and world-views in catch-phrases and ten second sound-bytes. At the same time, Gomez sees to it that there is enough trouble and turmoil in the world that the World Leaders, even in democracies, can chip away at human and individual rights under the guise of dealing with various 'threats' that they, themselves, have concocted as a means of retaining power over the masses. Even as the governments of the world strive to bring everyone and everything, however minute, under tight control and regulation, Gomez and the Dark Allies are behind the scenes, helping to guide the development of a technology that will, along with television, be the ultimate weapon in their struggle for the domination of all mankind---the Computer. The rich and powerful have managed to lull us to sleep with the hypnotizing power of television---stealing our thoughts and our reasoning processes in our slumber, feeding us our reality via the airwaves...according to the 'official' party line. The government and the media have placed us on neat little shelves where we are numbered and labeled according to their own wants and needs. We are allowed the illusion of freedom of thought, and individual choice, as long as we have our 'Freedom of Thought Permit 1136.51.709' and don't stray too far from the permitted paths. In the great battles of the past the Dark Forces have always been beaten by the individuals scattered in the secret places, living unnoticed in obscurity. Living quietly and unobtrusively, forgotten about in the madness storming the land, they have kept alive the spark of Thought and Reason. They were able to go quietly about their work, making contact with the individuals who were ready to escape the madness and work towards restoring Sanity in the land. This time there will be no escape. Every man, woman and child on the face of the earth will have a dossier documenting their life from the time of their arrival on the face of the planet. Information gleaned from the Department of Motor Vehicles, their Social Security Number, banks, credit cards, magazine subscriptions, charitable and political contributions. When Gomez removes the masks of his human allies, revealing them as dark agents who have been rewarded with wealth and power for doing the bidding of the Evil One, the names of the misfits and wrong-thinkers will be spit out of the computers at the speed of light---to be rounded up and disposed of in the opening salvo of the new Holocaust. Excerpt from "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" (1989) http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I first read the above work in 1990 when it was considered by some to be Orwellian in scope and by others to be paranoid babbling. Since then I have watched the underlying theme of the work come to fruitation slowly but inexorably. Since my first reading of it I began taking steps to secure my files and communications and in the process I discovered cryptography. In 1990 that made me a paranoid oddball to be viewed with skepticism. Now there is a name for my disease: Cypherpunk Syndrome. Not A Hypochondriac ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: List problems or is it quiet???
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:52 PM 5/27/97 +0000, root wrote: >I`m just sending this to check that this really is not a list problem, as >of course 10 posts a day is an uncommonly low traffic level for the list. ................................................................. This could be the result of a phase-shift brought on by tachyon emissions generated during the 3-day holiday weekend, creating a distortion in the space-time continuum. It likely requires an inspection of the casing for the dilithium crystals, with potentially a re-engineering of the temporal warp drive to adjust for wavelet radiations. .. Blanc

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SSN and Passports
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wednesday, May 28, 1997 - 02:10:42 MET >I don't know the reason, but the IRS tax code requires that all passport >applicants supply their SSNs to the IRS. The reason is obvious - they want to make sure they've got their hands on your wallet, especially if you might be the type of person who goes overseas, where there are more opportunities to move money outside their supervision. When I last renewed my passport, I had enough time to do it by mail (with the extra fee for expedited service.) Since I don't have legal knowledge that the Secretary of Social Security has issued me a number (my father gave me an SSN card when I was a kid, which he had probably had issued to him for my bank account), I had to strictly obey the law and leave the box blank :-) Not a problem. On the other hand, I know someone else who has the wrong name on her passport, because the State Department has trouble keeping track of divorced parents' name changes. She filled out the SSN on her passport applications, and a few weeks after she got the new passport, she got a letter from the IRS saying "Dear Ms. Wrong-Name: We don't have any tax returns with your name on them that match SSN that you gave the Passport Office. Please send us copies of all your last N tax returns!" Governments. How quaint.

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Re: Nym Servers
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Re: Nym Servers To: Cypherpunks Igor and D.V. have been discussing the viability of cyberpromo as a host site for remailers; Igor points out that many recipients will auto-trash anything from there. On the other hand, it's a good entry point for a middleman remailer or a nym remailer, as long as you can trash anything from there without also trashing your remailer's mail :-) In particular, your remailer was going to remove direct references to cyberpromo anyway. However, the prices have changed since I brought up the idea a month ago. At the time, they had auto-responders with POP mail - - - $50/2yrs POP+autoresponder, or $39 one-time for a mail forwarder. Now, however, they offer autoresponders for 3/$99 for three years, with no mention of POP mail or forwarding - I don't know if they've dropped the service (in favor of web hosting at $25/month), or if it's still there and just not advertised. (Of course, there's still the moral dilemma that even $99 is $99 in Spamford's pocket :-) Spambert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQBFAwUBM4uEWYuqXu2FMJm1AQGMWAF9FCraS1yFl5EOFPW/ISNCH+Sqc1qnUwCi +du2tY+MiRiAz64yHX95HNZ5iz/DZLij =c6PD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Wasting Away
by Wazoo MixMaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

An anonymous signature: "When they came for the 2nd Amendment, I said nothing, for I owned no gun Then the sixth was next to go, and I remained silent, as I was not on trial They took away the fourth, and I said nothing, as I had nothing to hide And then they came for the First, and I could say nothing." TruthMonger #26

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PRNG
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C[unt] Mayonnaise carries a turd in his wallet for identification purposes. /_/\/\ \_\ / Tim C[unt] Mayonnaise /_/ \ \_\/\ \ \_\/

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Mysteries of the Bible - Live on Tuesdays on the Web
by 47574096＠microsoft.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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OECD attacks one of the Four Horsemen
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

News reports this morning that the OECD is moving out of strictly economic matters and is focussing on "child porn," calling a special meeting in July to discuss the laws of various countries and how they can be regularized to control the availability of porn and child porn on the Net. (The OECD is the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, or some permutation like that, and is a kind of "economic NATO," but with various non-European players. It was the OECD that David Aaron was special ambassador to, before assuming his current duties as Crypto Tsar.) So, one of the Horsemen is being invoked to control the Net. (And the story on CNN right after this one was about cryptography, with "drug smugglers and terrorists" prominently mentioned. The spin was that citizen-units need cryptography on the Net so that they'll feel more secure about Net commerce and thus buy more stuff, but that the security cannot be good enough to make the drug smugglers and terrorists--not to mention the pornographers!--safe from being caught.) The war is moving into its next phase. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: OECD attacks one of the Four Horsemen
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > > News reports this morning that the OECD is moving out of strictly economic > matters and is focussing on "child porn," calling a special meeting in July > to discuss the laws of various countries and how they can be regularized to > control the availability of porn and child porn on the Net. > > (The OECD is the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development > The war is moving into its next phase. There will be a "War on Porn" on the internet that will mirror the "War on Drugs" currently taking place. All that the government wants is their piece of the action. Like drugs, the porn will always be available, but the price will fluctuate according to the level of government control and/or illegality. The "War on Porn" will turn into another essential national industry which will become part of the GNP. The "winners" in this war will be the journalists who have covered the "War on Drugs" as they will merely have to dust off old stories and substitute "Porn" for "Drugs" wherever it occurs. The "loser" will be the Hoover Vacume Cleaner Company, whose development of Virtual Cathouse technology will fall victim to new legislation. TruthMonger > --Tim May > > There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. > Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" > ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- > 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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