December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

remailer@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ?? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:45:56 -0500 > From: John Deters <jad(a)dsddhc.com> > Subject: remailer(a)rcmp-grc.gc.ca ?? > There are many anonymous re-mailers in operation across the Internet. That's being just a tad charitable I think. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: FCPUNX:Jim Bell 6
by James Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:34 PM 7/8/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > I mean, get real...Bell is imprisoned without bail with no charges > having been filed against him. One might suppose this is because of his political ideas. In actual fact, in America only those with subversive ideas AND WHO CANNOT AFFORD A LAWYER are imprisoned for long periods without charges or trial.

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Subj: Kiwanis Club Update (7/97)
by autosavr＠albany.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

E-Mail News Service (E.N.S.) of Clifton Park, NY USA Top Story: Clubs Are Making Big Bucks With The Kiwanis Car Care Fund-Raising Program! --- Kiwanis clubs all over the country are signing up to participate in one of the most profitable fund-raising programs around! The Kiwanis Car Care Fund-Raiser is a fully licensed Kiwanis fund-raiser, and produces unbelievable profits for clubs of all sizes. The Kiwanis Car Care Fund-Raiser is able to reach over 231,000,000 car owners, all of which want to keep their cars looking new. Your club can get started right away by calling 1-800-724-8155, or by looking up http://www.albany.net/~autosavr/kiwanis on the World Wide Web. Related News: Kiwanis Car Care Manufacturer Has Over 9 Successful Years In The Automotive Appearance Business! --- The manufacturer of the Kiwanis Car Care Fund-Raiser is AutoSaver Systems, located in Clifton Park, NY. They have been in business for over 9 years, providing high quality automotive appearance products to car care professionals world wide. "We started our company a while back, and turned it into a success. We're confident that we can provide the same level of high quality products for Kiwanis, and help them become successful at fund-raising. Any Kiwanis club, in any area of the country can raise money for their community with the Kiwanis Car Care Fund-Raising Program..." - Warren Camp, President of AutoSaver Systems AutoSaver Systems provides factory direct convienence and pricing (no middlemen). The Kiwanis Car Care Fund-Raiser is competitively priced with similar store bought products, and literally has "Kiwanis" written all over it! For full details, check out their web site at http://www.albany.net/~autosavr/kiwanis or by calling 1-800-724-8155. If you have received this message in error, and are not affiliated with Kiwanis, send mail to autosavr(a)albany.net and type "REMOVE" in the subject heading. This will remove you from the E.N.S. news list. E.N.S. of Clifton Park, NY USA July Edition 1997 Kiwanis Members Only

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Bizarre e-mail in the orphan mailbox
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is, like, bizarre. Why do they send this stuff in cleartext, and why does it come to my orphan mailbox? We have no "tcheung" here. ]Received: (from www@localhost) by hotbox.danni.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA21869 for tcheung(a)dm.com; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) ]Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) ]Message-Id: <199707131953.MAA21869(a)hotbox.danni.com> ]To: tcheung(a)dm.com ]From: Kris <kris(a)danni.com> ]Subject: Hotbox ]Errors-To: kris(a)danni.com ] ]Your HotBOX passwords have been activated! ] ]New Members: ]A charge will appear on your credit card statement (if that is how you ]paid) as "V.B.P. call for info (310) 258-0930." The cost of HotBOX is ]$9.95 per month, automatically charged to your credit card. We ]also offer trial memberships of one week at $2.99. ] ]All accounts will automatically renew at the end of the billing period ]at a rate of $9.95 per month in order to assure you uninterrupted service. ] ]You can now access the HotBOX at: http://hotbox.danni.com/hotbox ]If you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to contact us: ]Hotbox(a)danni.com. ] ]Make sure you read the FAQ first before contacting us: ]http://hotbox.danni.com/faq.html ] ]*To cancel your account*, and stop all future billing: go to the following ]address and enter your name and your access codes. ]http://hotbox.danni.com/cancel.html ] ] ]Current HotBOX Members: ]If you have recently contacted us about being unable to access the HotBOX ]With your codes, this is a message to notify you that your codes have been ]reactivated. This does not mean that you are being billed again, unless you ]have allowed your membership to lapse and are now restarting it. Please call ]our office if you are unfamiliar with the details of your account. ] ]Danni's Hard Drive can be contacted at: ](310) 258-0930 from 9am to 6pm, every day, Pacific time. ]Our toll free number is (888) 878-7252 ]Hotbox(a)danni.com for HotBOX problems ]madison(a)danni.com for merchandise problems ]danni(a)danni.com for fan mail and suggestions ] ]If you send us any e-mail regarding your account, *please* send us your ]Full name, username and password -- it will help us rectify any problems much ]more quickly. ] ]Enter your username & password in the *exact same* upper/lower case ]patterns shown here: ] ]username: antonio ]password: 9183tc ] ]Please note: your username might have been modified if another member ]had already selected it. ]Have Fun! ]Jannine and kris, ]HotBOX Administration ]kris(a)danni.com ]http://www.danni.com ]http://hotbox.danni.com ] What is this stuff: http://hotbox.danni.com username: antonio password: 9183tc Why are they spamming me with their passwords?

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Going to any festivals?
by Shift Control 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In this week's Festival Issue of the award-winning Shift Control (http://www.shiftcontrol.com) Reg Presley, lead singer with Sixties legends the Troggs, provides a sound argument for today's festivals; we supply full listings for 30 summer events throughout Britain and Europe; and this week's interactive quiz asks: how wild are you about festivals? Plus... "Take your own food. Some people see a festival as an opportunity to lose a couple of stone, and judging by most of the food sold at them it's not difficult to see why. Just because it's organic doesn't mean it's edible, man. Take your own bread and Pringles. A baguette is also a good idea, as you can wave it in the air during an Orbital gig." - Nick Green on what to take and what not to take to a summer festival. "While Richard Krajicek and friends took early showers, mud baths were the order of the day at Glastonbury. It seems that those at Glastonbury enjoyed a weekend of filthy, sweaty, fun, while at Wimbledon it was all code violations and double faults. If we are really to admire our sporting heroes, isn't it about time they had some more balls in the rain?" - Roland Rocks rants about British tennis's lack of sporting courage. "We ate felafel, chick-pea curry and something with yellow peas poured from a bucket, then decided to head backstage. There we bumped into too many people we know who proceeded go on about their hotel rooms, showers and marble-lined bathroom suites with pre-heated loo paper. We decide it was time to either leave or kill them." - Simon Waldman on the great Glasto wash-out. Shift Control: raking the muck, NOW, at http://www.shiftcontrol.com __________________________________________ Shift Control is produced by the Guardian's New Media Lab with help from Boddingtons and Stella Artois Dry To unsubscribe from this mailing list send e-mail to shiftcontrol-request(a)nml.guardian.co.uk with the following text in the body of the mail message: unsubscribe

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Keep Feds' nose out of the Net, by Sen. John Ashcroft
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Keep Feds' nose out of the Net, by Sen. John Ashcroft >Copyright (c) 1997 Investors Business Daily, All rights reserved. >Investor's Business Daily - Guest Editorial (07/11/97) >Encryption: Keep Feds' Nose Out Of The Net >By SEN. JOHN ASHCROFT > > J. Edgar Hoover would have loved this. The Clinton administration wants >government to be able to read international computer communications - >financial transactions, personal e-mail and proprietary information sent >abroad - all in the name of national security. > >In a proposal that raises obvious concerns about Americans' privacy, >President Clinton wants to give agencies the keys for decoding all exported >U.S. software and Internet communications. Such a policy also would tamper >with the competitive advantage that our U.S. software companies currently >enjoy in the field of encryption technology. > Not only would Big Brother be looming over the shoulders of >international cybersurfers, he also threatens to render our state-of-the-art >computer software engineers obsolete and unemployed. > Granted, the Internet could be used to commit crimes, and advanced >encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the >government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, >then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will >and in real time to our communications across the Web? > The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to >protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. > The president has proposed that American companies and computer users >supply the government with decryption keys to high-level encryption programs. >Yet European software producers are free to produce computer encryption codes >of all levels of security without providing keys to any government authority. > Buyers of encryption software value security above all else. They will >ultimately choose airtight encryption programs - not those for which the U.S. >government maintains keys. > In spite of this obvious fact, the president is trying to foist his >rigid policy on the exceptionally fluid and fast-paced computer industry. >Furthermore, recent developments in decryption technology cast doubt on the >wisdom of any government meddling in this industry. > Two weeks ago, the 56-bit algorithm government standard encryption code >that protects most U.S. electronic financial transactions, from ATM cards to >wire transfers, was broken by a low-powered 90-megahertz Pentium processor. > In 1977, when this code was first approved by the U.S. government as a >standard, it was deemed unbreakable. And for good reason - there are 72 >quadrillion different combinations in a 56-bit code. However, with today's >technology, these 72 quadrillion different combinations can each be tried >-it's only a matter of time and determination. > Two days after this encryption code was broken, however, the Senate >Commerce Committee voted, in accordance with administration policy, to force >American software companies to perpetuate this already compromised 56-bit >encryption system. > Meanwhile, 128- bit encryption software from European firms is available >to every Web user. Interestingly, European firms can import this supersecure >encryption technology (originally developed by Americans) to the U.S., but >U.S. companies are forbidden by law from exporting these same programs to >other countries. > So to move forward with the president's policy or the Commerce >Committee's bill would be an act of folly, creating a cadre of government >peeping Toms and causing severe damage to our vibrant software industries. >Government would be caught in a perpetual game of catch-up with whiz-kid >code-breakers and industry advances. > Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., has signaled his objection to both >proposals. He and I would like to work to bring to the floor a version of the >encryption legislation by Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont. Burns' bill closely >resembles the popular House encryption bill sponsored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, >R- Va. Both measures would not require sharing of keys with the goverment. > In essence, these proposals would give U.S. encryption software >manufacturers the freedom to compete on equal footing in the worldwide >marketplace. They would set up a quasi-governmental board for the industry to >decide encryption bit strength based on the current level of international >technology. > U.S. companies are on the front line of online technologies - the value- >added industries of the future. > The best policy for encryption technology is one that can rapidly react >to breakthroughs in decoding capability and roll back encryption limits as >needed. The Burns and Goodlatte proposals would accomplish this. In contrast, >the Clinton administration's unnecessary and invasive interest in >international e-mail is a wholly unhealthy precedent, especially given this >administration's track record on FBI files and Internal Revenue Service >snooping. > Every medium by which people communicate can be exploited by those with >illegal or immoral intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big >Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records or >translate our international communications.## > > John Ashcroft is a Republican U.S. senator from Missouri and a member of >the Senate Commerce Committee.

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by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Spread Spectrum Update
by James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

=========================================== TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List Monday, July 14 1997 Postings: TSCM-L(a)tscm.com Unsubscribe: unsubTSCM-L(a)tscm.com Subscribe: subTSCM-L(a)tscm.com Admin: jmatk(a)tscm.com =========================================== Several weeks ago I had a chance to examine a number of spread spectrum microwave bugging devices. Since that time I've conducted some analysis and gathered further intelligence on the circuit. Here are a few of my observations. ======= C O N F I D E N T I A L ======== 1) Most of the products use a high bandwidth QPSK/BPSK modulator, multi channel audio CODEC, and a RISC micro-controller chip (all components are either surface mounted ICs or multiple dice potted in epoxy). 2) RF Circuit seems to be a simple homodyne audio transmitter (6 Ghz Gilbert Cell Mixer) which is driven by a single CPU/microcontroller (with a clock speed of 180 Mhz). 3) Frequencies used for the ultra low power device are clean from 130 Mhz to 4 Ghz, circuit starts to fail above 5.5 Ghz (but is still operable to about 8 Ghz). 4) Emitter is driven directly from vector modulator chip, with no power amp circuits. PIN diode found on output appears to provide gain control or disconnect of circuit, but provides no amplification of signal. 5) Noise floor of circuit is -135 dBm (below 2 ghz), -142 dBm (2-4 ghz), and -150 dBm above 4 Ghz. 6) Signal has a variable bandwidth which varies between 350 Mhz and 900 Mhz. Appears to be designed for a 900 Mhz bandwidth signal. Device operates "deep" inside the noise floor. 7) Virtually impossible to detect at close range with a conventional RF spectrum analyzer (492/494/8566/etc). 8) Detectable with most wideband systems (with IF BW above 300 - 900 Mhz, 700 Mhz ideal). 8) VCC = +3.0 VDC, all circuits functional 2.3 to 6.8 VDC 9) Output applied to PIN diode ranges between -28 and -42 dBm (depending on frequency and span) 10) Device enters some type of sleep mode when power is present but audio level is low (seems to auto squelch). Total current draw when in sleep mode is 12 µA. Device does not emit RF energy when in sleep mode. ------------- 11) One of the devices has no type of connection for external power, but instead uses a uses a network of Schottky diodes and capacitors which constitute an effective RF to DC converter. 12) The RF to DC circuit requires an un-modulated 10-15 Ghz RF signal, and seems to respond well to X-Band microwave motion detectors used for many corporate alarm systems. 13) Device also has a small microphone built onto the circuit, microphone measures 4.5mm * 1.6mm * 4.1mm. 14) Entire device measured 3.2 cm * 5.2 cm and about 3 mm thick (or about the thickness of a standard business envelope). 15) Device contains some type of adhesive on both sides of a foil backing. Suspect it's applied as some type of "sticky label". Once the device is installed any attempt to remove results in its total destruction (unless you freeze it off). 16) The French government has been know to use a similar device in some of its "Diplomatic" activities. -jma ======================================================================== "For those who risk, life has a flavor the protected shall never enjoy." ======================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (508) 546-3803 Granite Island Group - TSCM.COM 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk(a)tscm.com ======================================================================== The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM Counterintelligence Site on the Internet ========================================================================

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer(a)dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer(a)huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman(a)jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"wazoo"} = "<remailer(a)wazoo.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"shaman"} = "<remailer(a)lycaeum.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"hidden"} = "<remailer(a)hidden.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) (weasel squirrel) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers. The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems for incoming mail. The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 14 Jul 97 6:47:04 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com ..-.--*.-*.+ 7:06:50 99.95% weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de -+++.++--++ 2:00:20 99.91% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de -+++.++--+++ 2:00:46 99.86% nym config(a)nym.alias.net +#*###+*#*#+ 1:36 99.82% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net ----.------+ 5:42:48 99.78% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net ++***# ***** 8:13 99.71% replay remailer(a)replay.com *****+*** * 4:23 99.25% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca **++.*+ ** * 13:03 99.10% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net -***+ **+ - 1:02:17 98.68% hidden remailer(a)hidden.net 4:44:03 -14.70% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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