December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Liberating the Bits
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

BigNuts wrote: > I can understand that Tim May wants to hang on to the mountain of >cash that was made possible by his company's software copyrights, >but I am surprised that he seems so boastful about denying others >any compensation for their ideas, talent, and labour. I have to agree with Tim that ideas have no worth and we should not compensate those that share them. Once anything is made public it should be up for grabs by anyone who wants to use it for any purpose they desire. Enforcement of copyright laws only denies the world access to such treasures as "Cyhpernomicon" by Toto, which I recently found on a few websites. It had pointers to where one could purchase the "Official CypherPunk" T-shirts and mugs, as well as information about how to make donations to Toto's "GreenPeace" foundation. "All your private property is target for your enemies." -Jefferson Airplane There's something wrong when Kent Crispin is not a felon under an increasing number of laws. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Sandy Sandfort | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ssandfort(a)ATTMAIL.COM | 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. "Reputation Capital isn't even a speed bump to Identity highway robbery."

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by webpromo＠compuserve.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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This was forged:: Re: This is NOT trespassing.
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Looking through a shitload of old messages, looks like someone decided to write some mail in my own name. Carefully looking at the headers shows that this was sent through torfree.net or something, and didn't orginate here. Too bad I didn't spot this earlier... =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian | "If you wanna touch the sky, you must |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com| be prepared to die. And I hate cough |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ | syrup, don't you?" |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, | For with those which eternal lie, with |.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"| strange aeons, even death may die. |..... ======================== http://www.sundernet.com ========================= ============================= From sunder(a)brainlink.com Sat Jun 14 09:46:14 1997 Received: from mail.torfree.net (root(a)danforth.torfree.net [199.71.188.17]) by beast.brainlink.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA03645 for <sunder(a)brainlink.com>; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:46:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> Received: from brainlink.com ([153.35.233.146]) by mail.torfree.net ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.8; 15-jan-97) via sendmail with smtp id <m0wct7B-000DDHC(a)mail.torfree.net> (sender sunder(a)brainlink.com) for <sunder(a)brainlink.com>; Sat, 14 Jun 97 09:43 EDT Message-Id: <m0wct7B-000DDHC(a)mail.torfree.net> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 97 09:43 EDT Apparently-From: <sunder(a)brainlink.com> Apparently-To: <sunder(a)brainlink.com> Subject: This is NOT trespassing. Comment: Authenticated sender is <sunder(a)brainlink.com> Status: RO X-Status: Did you pay for your TV? Do you buy electricity by the KWH? Pay a monthly cable bill? If so, then why isn't a television commercial considered theft of your televised resources? Doesn't it cost something to ride the bus? Then why aren't the public transport's advertisers guilty of stealing your wallspace? What about newspapers, magazines, radio stations, going to the movies, driving on any road, almost any PAID activity in life? Each has its attendent advertisments and commercials. We PAY for an enormous percentage of solicitations. Everyday. >>>>>>> WHY SHOULD YOUR EMAIL BOX BE ANY DIFFERENT? <<<<<<< Fact is, it isn't. Nor will it ever be. When you make any contact in public via any media or communication form, there will come invitations, solicitations, possibly vexations and the like. It's one of the prices we must pay in order to be able to communicate at all.

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Dr. Dobbs Cryptography and Security CD-ROM
by Wesley Felter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 7/2/1997 10:10 AM, Paul Bradley said: >> A simpler solution (which I believe was used for Unix distribution >> CD's) would be to encrypt the naughty bits using a strong algorithm, >> say 56 bit DES :-), but only distribute the decryption key to >> USA/Canadian citizens. If you could get this past the Export people, >> you could make a single CD available world-wide. Don't forget to >> escrow the key with the French authorities. > >If someone made such a CD, then someone who obtained it within the US >posted the key so people outside US/Canada could decrypt the data, who >would be charged with exporting the software? Could there even be a case >for charging anyone, after all, keys are not covered in the export regs???? >It`s probably a moot point anyway as I doubt such a CD would be given an >export licence. Which reminds me of... Netscape can export 40-bit versions of Communicator, and according to one of their own employees (search back in the archives if you don't believe me) the only difference between the 40-bit version and the 128-bit version is a license file. Now license files aren't covered in export regulations, are they? So it's legal to export the 40-bit version of Communicator (which contains disabled 128-bit crypto) and it's legal to export the license file. Sounds like it's either not true or the government is stupider than I thought or the government is tired of trying to enforce such futile laws. Wesley Felter - wesley(a)binarycompass.com - Binary Compass Enterprises In BizRate we trust - <http://www.bizrate.com/> Disclaimer: My employer knows I'm crazy.

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Cooper/Birman message service / IBM's anonymous remailer
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have been pointed to a paper that addresses the problem of receiving messages anonymously without using a return path: David A. Cooper, Kenneth P. Birman: Preserving Privacy in a Network of Mobile Computers. IEEE symposium on Security and Privacy, May 1995. http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/TR/CORNELLCS:TR95-1490 Their solution is similar to the one recently described by Matt Ghio on cypherpunks. Many of you sure are aware of the BABEL anonymous remailer developed by Ceki Gülcü and Gene Tsudik of IBM Zurich, but I have not seen it mentioned here. Their proposal for return paths is a significant improvement over cypherpunk-style reply blocks, but I still think that return addresses should be provided via message pools or similar means, while the mix net is used only to send messages anonymously. The paper, which is cited in the papers on Crowds and Onion Routing, contains a well thought-out section motivatiting the use of anonymous e-mail. Ceki Gülcü, Gene Tsudik: Mixing Email with BABEL. Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (SNDSS '96). http://http://www.isi.edu/~gts/paps/gt95.ps.gz

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by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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They want your keys
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A former federal organized-crime prosecutor in Los angeles has pleaded guilty to three felony charges in a scandal involving death threats, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of fraud and the acceptance of cash payments from defendants. The former prosecutor, Andrew Pitt, 39, faces between 24 and 30 months in a federal prison. Last month Pitt filed a sworn statement admitting, among other things, that he had taken $98,000 from one infrmer facing criminal charges and $35,000 from another. He said he then recommended probation, instead of a prison sentence, for the first informer and repeatedly asked that the second informer be given additional time at large before reporting to prison. In addition Pitt admitted taking $33,000 from an illegal stock deal and transferr it to his own account. But Securities and Exchanges commission charged that Pitt also obtained at least $400,000 in illegal profits by manipulating stock in a company he controlled while serving as a prosecutor. And federal officials also charged that Pitt was associated with a group of stock swindlers who went to Montreal in 1995 with $350,000 to bribe people described in an indictment as "belived to be" Quebec government officials. A former assistant Los Angeles district attorney, Pitt was hired in 1988 as a prosecutor with a federal organized-crime task force The task force was merged the following year with the U.S. attorney's office. Pitt was the lead prosecutor in a high-profile case lining organized crime to the recording business. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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