December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Privacy Forum - Oct 20 - Washington DC
by Electronic Privacy Info Center 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

- Open to the public - PRIVACY SYMPOSIUM Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC October 20, 1997 A public symposium entitled "Privacy at the Crossroads: Law, Technology, and Public Policy", will be held on October 20, 1997, at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. This symposium will look at emerging privacy issues in the legal and technological world, with a particular focus on the European Union Data Directive, privacy enhancing technologies, and the shape of privacy protection in the next century. These issues are rapidly coming to the fore with the adoption of the European Union Directive and the increasing interest in techniques to promote privacy protection, especially with the rapid flow and exchange of information that is possible with electronic data. Privacy has recently been the subject of hearings before the Federal Trade Commission and it is a central component of the new White House policy on Electronic Commerce. The symposium will take place on Monday, October 20, 1997, at the Gerwirz Center of the Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The program will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m. Speakers will include many North American experts on privacy and technology issues, including law professors, technologists, and commentators. The symposium is sponsored by the Georgetown University Law Center, the John F. Connelly Program in Business Ethics, Georgetown University School of Business, the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program of Georgetown University, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. This is a free event open to the public. No registration is required. If you have any further questions, please contact Shauna Van Dongen at <shauna(a)epic.org>. Program "PRIVACY AT THE CROSSROADS: LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY" Georgetown University Law Center Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, DC Monday, October 20, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 9:00 Welcome - Dean Allen, Prof. Levy, Prof. Drake, Prof. Rotenberg 9:15 The European Union Data Directive Moderator: Deborah Hurley, Kennedy School of Government Prof. David Flaherty, British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner Robert Gellman, Information and Privacy Consultant Prof. Priscilla Regan, George Mason University Prof. Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School Prof. Peter Swire, Ohio State University College of Law 10:45 Privacy and Technology Moderator: Prof. Michael Froomkin, Univ. of Miami Law School Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Prof. Gary Marx, Woodrow Wilson Center Prof. Joel Reidenberg, Fordham Law School Prof. Paul Resnick, University of Michigan Peter Wayner, Cybertimes 12:15 Lunch 1:30 The Future of Privacy Moderator: Dean Anita Allen, Georgetown University Law Center Prof. Phil Agre, Univ. of California at San Diego Prof. Mary Culnan, Georgetown Graduate School of Business Prof. Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University Prof. Alan Westin, Columbia University 3:00-4:00 Reception Sponsored by - Georgetown University Law Center, John F. Connelly Program in Business Ethics of the Georgetown University School of Business, Georgetown University Communication, Culture, and Technology Program [http://www.georgetown.edu/grad/CCT/] Electronic Privacy Information Center [http://www.epic.org/]

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anonymous poster quality up
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I notice that the quality of anonymous submissions to the discussion here on cypherpunks has increased markedly lately. I can see a couple of reasons why this might be: Monty Cantsin seems to write consistently good stuff, Tim May announced he may be using some nyms, and we have this big argument with PGP Inc where their employees may feel pressure not to speak out of line. One suspects that some of the anonymous contributors exploring the issues are actually PGP employees:-) Regardless of who the new anonymous contributors are, it's nice to see quality anonymous posts, keep it up! Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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17 Dec '03

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Where is _my_ blowjob?
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Visited the CNN website earlier. I wasn't at all surprised to see the factual errors and pandering to government spoon feeders for the main sources of many CNN stories. After all, when Captial Hill'$ bottom feeders give away fify billion dollars worth of valuable digital airwave bandwidth, I expect them to ask for a few extras thrown in with the usual bribes and blow-jobs. So it was no great surprise to find CNN still reporting the LIE that the child-rapist/murderer in New Jersey had been a victim of a sexual predator he had met on the InterNet, despite the fact that the news services who *aren't* part of the fifty billion dollar giveaway of taxpayer-citizen's public resources have been reporting the FACTS for quite some time now. Seems the guy bopping the murderer met him on a 1-900 line. Should I hold my breath waiting for the loud calls by reporters and legislators for strict new laws taking away citizens' rights to free speech on the phone systems of America, or would that be dangerous to my health? I know that CNN also has to fill in a few spaces between government spoon-fed mind-control propaganda being fed to the citizens by the recipients of the public largess, so that CNN is forced to throw in a few quickie references to some other websites and information other than that which comes directly out of the assholes of Lying Fuck Freeh and Nazi Cunt Reno, such as: Crime on the Superhighway http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6647/ Investigator Lynn Zwicke However, did somebody on the staff get a blow-job in return for putting a supposed NEWS pointer to this schmuck's ADVERTISEMENT for his or her PI business? I certainly hope that this is the case, since someone should have gotten *something* for opening CNN up to a lawsuit for providing a pointer to an incompetent schmuck who is spreading extremely bad FUD (fear, uncertainty, disinformation) in regard to child abuse and abusers, in order to turn a quick buck. I imagine that CNN has some fine-print disclaimer somewhere, explaining that they are not responsible for the victims of incompetent and perhaps unlicensed schmucks that CNN blesses with their own reputation capital when directing people to supposed news/information sites, but I doubt that the parent of an abused child or a falsely accused child abuse victim is going to be to impressed, nonetheless, with CNN's lack of integrity in not spending the time, effort and expense needed to make certain that they are not throwing their trusting readers into the mouths of waiting hyenas. I'm still waiting for the CNN story which replies to the DoJ and FBI *HANDOUTS* detailing their list of 4,000 suspected pedophiles, with a question as to whether some of the 800 LEA's present at the murder of the religious group in Waco perhaps didn't have some extra time on their hands that might have been better spent investigating all of these alleged pedophiles, rather than pushing and shoving each other to get pictures of burning children. OK, I'm holding my breath, starting........NOW! TruthMonger

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No Subject
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"THE DUKE" <pleontks(a)hotmail.com> writes: >The government is not planning to murder everyone. The Government is >not keeping aliens in the 'basement'. The X-Files are not real. The >government is not murdering public figures, and setting-up pore, >civilian saps to take the fall. The only thing that the Government is >doing is running our country the best it can. The Government routinely lies to the citizens it allegedly represents. It infringes on the rights guaranteed those citizens by the Constitution. The FCC can't allocate radio bandwidth efficiently, byt they seem to have no problem telling Howard Stern not to say "vagina" on the radio. I could go on and on, ad nauseam, but you get the idea. If this is their best effort, they should be horsewhipped, tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. Unfortunately, the brain-dead populace continues to get hypnotized by their Pied-Piper tales and makes the biennial Bataan death march to the polls (nice double entendre there, n'est-ce pas?) to choose between Picto Bold and Picto Light, the two candidates in their district who have a single common goal: to get elected to an office where they can get a firm lip clamp on the teat of the American taxpayer, and skim off the lobbyists in their spare time. Neither one really gives a flying fuck about the people they represent; it's the power they want. >All you are doing for the Government, is finding fault and conspiracy in >every action. You are destroying the Government, and are thereby >destroying America. Why would I want to do anything for the Government? I already pay them a tithe (oh, sure, you can call it "income tax") to stay the fuck away from me, by and large. As soon as someone shows up at my door and says "Hi, I'm here from the Government to help you," I'm running for my life. That kind of "help" usually results in gunfire, or dependence on further Government subidies, or having mopey Government types hang around to explain to me that I should use water-based varnish so I don't wreck the ozone layer. >None of you have my pity. I spit upon you all. None of us need your pity. And wipe your chin when you're done. And say "hi" to Mr. Freeh next time you see him. Of course, it won't be his face that'll be at eye level. . . AngerMonger

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1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
by Mike Reiter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The call-for-papers for the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy can be found at http://www.research.att.com/~reiter/oakland98.html - Mike

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Re: Internet Via Electric Lines? (fwd)
by phelix＠vallnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9 Oct 1997 02:25:13 -0500, "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)invweb.net> wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >In <199710081234.HAA11747(a)einstein.ssz.com>, on 10/08/97 > at 07, Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> said: > >>Forwarded message: > >>> From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)invweb.net> >>> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 97 01:28:42 -0500 >>> Subject: Re: Internet Via Electric Lines? > >>> This is nothing new. > >>At least late 70's. > >>> I think it was GE that several years ago created phone extensions that you >>> plugged into your power outlets, no need to run wire to put in an extra >>> outlet. I believe that X-10 uses this same principle for computer control >>> of household appliances. >>> >>> Not to mention data leakage through power lines is an issue long reconized >>> by the TEMPEST crowd. >>> >>> The trick here seems to be in routing the data. How do you get data on the >>> power grid routed to the location that you want it to go?? > >>The trick with X-10 is to stay away from transformers as the signal won't >>go through them effectively. This ends any dreams of sending data to your >>neighbor, the signal won't go through your power meter. > >This seems to be a Goodthing(TM) for residential X-10 as it would seem to >take care of a lot of security issues by effectively isolating each home >from others who may be running the same system. > >Has anyone researched the security issues around X-10? Is the Transformer >isolation good enough protection from a dedicated attack (as opposed to >accidental signal leakage)? Are their alternative routes for transmitting >the FM signal (Airwaves) that the X-10 devices would pick up?? Do any of >the current X-10 devices use signal authentication/verification? > X-10? security? hehehe... that's good for a laugh. There is no security whatsover in X-10. If your neighbor knows the addresses of your X-10 units and his power comes off the same transformer as yours, he can easily turn your lights on and off. The only thing protecting you (besides obscurity) is the transformer that isolates your power line from others. X-10 doesn't use any type of FM signal. It simply transmits bits in the zeros of the ac power 'signal'. It only get 120bps and most signals are repeated 3 times (even with that, the signal sometimes gets lost in the line noise), so really you only get 40bps. A command consists simply of [address],[command]. The address is 8 bits long, I dont' remember how long the command is. In X-10 speak, and address is [A-P] [1-16]. The commands are on,off,bright,dim,all-lights-on, and a few others. There's no security, no encryption, not even collision detection when using more than one transmitter. Now, there a new system called cebus, but it's over 10X more expensive. I don't know too much about it. -- Phelix

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Seeing Both Sides
by Magus Mixmaster Anonymous Remailer Service 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bob Hettinga wrote: >But then, logic, much less independent thinking, was never >Foucault's strong point. I took this statement at face value, but out of curiousity I decided to find out who this guy Foucault was. The things I read about him lead me to believe otherwise. Some quotes from Michel Foucault: "The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social worker'-judge." "Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline." How quick we are to condemn those who step out of the "norm", no? As soon as someone says something even slightly controversial, our inner censors rush in to separate ourselves from that person, to chastise him, to condemn him, regardless of the relationship we have developed with him in the past. There is this unfortunate property in man that leads him to disassociate himself from the ideas he holds true if it is convenient, and especially if it will allow him to avoid the ridicule, hatred and disdain of others. In the never ending "pursuit of happiness" we seek to make our lives so comfortable that we will give up that which we hold dearest. "The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and...to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play)." In other words, to make people think. This is the goal of the intellectual. To subtly influence the mass of humanity by appealing to their minds, their reason, instead of their base instincts and emotions. Tolerance and acceptance are results brought about in us by communion with the mind, that which is greatest in us. Hatred, persecution, violence are what we fall back upon when we cease to live to our fullest potential. We degenerate into the animals we once were. Once again, Bob wrote: >The world's foremost pseudomystical relativist cited to support an >absolutist position. The logic escapes me. But then, logic, much less >independent thinking, was never Foucault's strong point. Perhaps one way of looking at it is that if you can't see the black and the white, you're missing the whole picture. After all, who would think that one would need to use an anonymous remailer and a pseudonym to express oneself in a free and open society such as ours? Nerthus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNGu85OFWwZe05jcJAQGvYwgAlI0R3rJW67A9fFIs9ai5FY/jEAwV2oQ1 112bd/UmgfJ11DYPWUpG6GKt2XcBUd6UfYPnidY27hT+GGBTTKjAeF88z0XMu6Ep jWUPllwb0Dw5or1o9IBg8ZAOPaAu/SMy9yVgcfaEbAqmfNken+dBhbfoAORjaLd8 BJSYCGs1Bw3Aw1gE7e3aJdjlYs/gKKNkoTQCkgkt6VBBCEQ7dXG1qbq2BTYS3py9 meK2utOM+YLG/+bJSoGRLT5oFiIpnYrkIwAziAtO7WAfydq+vwf8EsTdnX5mwUxg THngvvyaAbZtVm/yObAPgifbfpfDbnfYOL/rrJQzGMXVJCUBNKTQKg== =zZLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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A Leaner's as good as a Ringer! / WAS: Asleep on Crime
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In June, the Court of Appeal in London, England, turned down Thomas Moringiello's challenge to his fraud conviction and 18- month prison sentence. Although Moringiello was able to prove that Judge Richard Hamilton had slept through portions of the testimony at trial the year before, the higher court said Moringiello was not harmed because Hamilton still was able to give a summary of the case for the jury's deliberation. ~~~~~~~ To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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