December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Tim May's offensive racism (was: about RC4)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> wrote: > At 10:37 PM -0700 11/12/97, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote: > >There are RC4 sourcecode in ftp.replay.com. > >but, Is it same RC4 developed RSADSI ? > > > > It am developed. > > You go back where you came. You go back hotmail. We tired your stupid > questions on RC4 and your Misty posts. > > Sayonara! > > (And they wonder why we kicked Japan's butt.) Paul Bradley <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> writes: > As for white supremacy, look elsewhere, I think you`ll > find Tim`s post an example of what the developed world knows as humour, > not a serious attack on any ethnic group. Tim May's post seems funny to you? Not a racist comment? His imitation of a Japanese accent is purely offensive. Paul, would you feel comfortable offering this kind of "humor" in a gathering which included Japanese visitors, perhaps potential customers? That comment about kicking Japan's butt would really be humorous, wouldn't it? It is astonishing that people like you and William Geiger, who apparently make their living as consultants, feel so comfortable publicly approving racist comments directed against the Japanese. Does William expect ever to work with a Japanese customer, after suggesting that Truman should have dropped additional atomic bombs on Japan? Even if you share Tim May's lack of moral constraint, you presumably do not also share his wealth. Pragmatic considerations alone should make you reluctant to be an apologist for racist comments, or in William's case to compound the error with shockingly offensive remarks of his own.

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Re: This judge needs killing
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Paul Bradley writes: >Judge David Selwood today sentenced 3 writers for the magazine "Green >Anarchist" to 3 years imprisonment each for their articles in the >magazine which he concluded incited others to break the law. >The magazine contained diaries for the previous months animal rights >activism events and contained articles generally favourable to the cause >of animal liberation. > >Another judge who has richly earned the death penalty. Another example of the violent rhetoric which goes without comment on this list. The death penalty is completely inappropriate for this kind of crime. It should be reserved for the most serious of criminal actions, the most egregious murders, terrorism, genocide. An appropriate punishment for a judge who violates his oath of office and sentences someone wrongly to prison would be a prison sentence for the judge himself, some multiple of the unjust sentence. Calling for the death penalty for crimes which do not themselves involve killing only cheapens life. Before long you too will support shooting graffiti vandals and nuking London.

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Tim plans to kill a federal judge
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:43 PM -0700 11/13/97, Neva Remailer wrote: >Robert Hettinga wrote: >>> If Tim and others fail to exercise their right to say what they >>> believe, then it is likely those rights will be suspended in due >>> time. >> >>Like I said before, it makes sense, but not because Foucault said >>it. Broken clocks, and all that. Besides, Monty, I hate appeals to >>authority almost as much as I hate ad honminae. I just saw this, courtesy of Monty's reply. This is really rich. Hettinga hates "ad hominae." This from the guy who started this latest flame war with such choice phrases as: "Tim's Way Cool Latter-Day Farnham's-Freehold in the Santa Clara mountains.... a bunch of "freedom fighters" like the one you fancy yourself to be these days... instead of shoving your favorite Mac-10 up the nose of every statist treehugger you bump into out there in lotusland.... you won't have to clean the snot off the end of your gunbarrel so often..." Hettinga, heal thyself. A comment or two on the rest of what Monty is saying: >Are you asking me to use Foucault's line without giving him credit? >That doesn't seem right to me. > >Foucault's essay was insightful and significantly influenced my point >of view. Not only does he deserve the credit, but mentioning his name >may direct other interested readers toward his work. > >BTW, how much of Foucault have you actually read? I am generally >unfamiliar with his work, but I have a sinking feeling the same can be >said for certain of his critics. > >It is easy to give French intellectuals a cursory reading and conclude >that there is nothing there. However, often there is quite a lot of >something there, but it comes from people with a different >intellectual tradition than our own so it is harder to understand. An >apparently absurd sentence is often a reference to a body of work with >which we are not familiar. By the way, the same can be said about the work of Heidegger, a thinker who has had some influence on me. Whenever I cite anything Heidegger ever said, I can count on some numbskull to parrot the "Heidegger was a Nazi" shtick. (These same kind of folks use to automatically label anything Nietzsche said as tainted because of the Nazi's later affinity for some of his works, but the "rehabilitation" of Nietzsche has been largely successful, and N. is of course now a hero of the Left. Whatever. Nietzsche was of course neither a leftist nor a rightist...he was just who he was.) Hettinga has admitted basic ignorance of Foucault, just as he backpedalled furiously on the "Aurora" claims he made. (about Hettinga's repeated, and loud, claims in recent days that I have called for the death of a federal judge) >Tim has repeatedly made it clear to the world that this was not his >meaning. What is your purpose in declaring otherwise? > Hettinga shows his true colors by repeating these lies over and over again. I would not be at all surprised if he has forwarded carefully excerpted fragments to his friendly FBI offices, hoping they'll make a move to investigate me. >In every other instance in which Tim has discussed capital punishment, >it has been in the context of a trial. > >If OJ had committed a brutal murder in a state without the death >penalty, say Massachusetts, and Tim said "OJ is guilty of a capital >crime", would you conclude that he was calling for his murder? > I have, over the years, expressed my constitutional opinion about many people whom I think have committed capital crimes. OJ, of course. And Lon Horiuchi, the shooter at Ruby Ridge. And, if you check the archives, Tim McVeigh. Fact is, many people have committed capital crimes. And I don't particularly feel like paying my share of the $50-100K a year to keep them well fed and housed at Club Fed, so I'd just as soon spend a quarter on a rifle round and be done with them. I don't have a clue who "Monty Cantsin" is, but his clear thinking makes it kind of a shame he will remain a nym forever, unless he declares himself. (No one, not even Vinge or Card, ever said nyms would carry the same reputation capital True Names do. Maybe someday. But not in the foreseeable future.) >Clearly that would not be reasonable. So why do you feel the meaning >changes when "OJ" is substituted for "The judge"? Perhaps you harbor >latent urges to murder our public officials and wish to draw attention >from yourself by pointing the finger at Tim. You seem to be talking >about it more than anybody else. > Indeed. Hettinga keeps quoting this "Tim plans to kill a federal judge" mantra so much that I'd better rename the thread to this just to keep Hettinga happy. There, it's done. >Incidentally, it is well documented that in the 1980s, the USG had >detailed plans for mass arrests of dissident citizens. Ten army camps >had been selected for this purpose. The plan was to be executed in >the event the country invaded Nicaragua. The USG has incarcerated >masses of U.S. citizens without trial at least twice during the 20th >century. > Yep. And to show that I am not the jingoist Ito presumes I am, arresting and imprisoning those of Japanese descent without due process was, of course, a capital crime. Had I been a Japanese-American, deprived of my liberty for several years, with no evidence that I had committed a crime, and with my property forfeited to the government (often for failure to pay taxes--duh!!!!), I'd have advocated the death penalty for those who falsely imprisoned me and stole my land. But most Jap immigrants were wimps. .... >Perhaps it is your turn to crack open a book and find the reference. >I would be quite interested (and surprised) if you can substantiate >your claim. Hettinga doesn't bother with research. He just shoots from the hip. He concentrates on _style_ over substance. Must be his liberal arts training. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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How anonymous? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:36:59 -0500 > From: Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> > Subject: How anonymous? > > It seems that if Dick has a certain vocabulary, > > uses a certain sentence structure, etc., and > > regularly posts using a nym, that this form and > > content could be traced to Dick, so the likelihood > > of the post coming from him and not Jane would > > be that much increased. > > This is true. Probably most people know who I am. Most people don't care who you are. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ 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: Key Signing
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>BTW, I was farting around and discovered that I could change the >password on a revoked secret key. This means that someone can crack >the password on your revoked secret key if they have access to it. >This would make your new key vulnerable if you used the same password. > >I suppose this qualifies as PGP trivia, but if it saves the life of >just one fascist dicator... > >!Knott (Who's dare?) When I read this a quote from Independance Day came to mind. The aliens just blew up New York and a cable exec is sitting in his car. As the firestorm comes towards him and he's facing both immiment death by being crushed by cars displaced by the explosion and becoming a Whopper(tm) from the firestorm he looks out and says simply: "Ohhhhhhhh craaaaaaap."

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Woodwose.Nym
by Benjamin Chad Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Jim Bell's Mug Shot
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Bell's mug shot from US News (and mine): http://jya.com/jbjy.jpg The terrifying story itself: http://jya.com/next-wave.htm

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Re: Tim May's offensive racism (was: about RC4)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Joichi Ito, <jito(a)eccosys.com>, writes: > And not all Japanese are racist pigs. And before you flank me, > I take back my previous remark where I insinuated that Americans > were racist. Not all Americans are racists. Just the stupid ones are. This is not true. Tim May is not stupid. He is insensitive and bigoted, violent and dangerous. He is certainly a racist, and believes in the superiority of the white race. But he is not stupid.

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What cypherpunks used to be
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks assume privacy is a good thing and wish there were more of it. Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence. Cypherpunks know that people have been creating their own privacy for centuries with whispers, envelopes, closed doors, and couriers. Cypherpunks do not seek to prevent other people from speaking about their experiences or their opinions. The most important means to the defense of privacy is encryption. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy. But to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Cypherpunks hope that all people desiring privacy will learn how best to defend it. Cypherpunks are therefore devoted to cryptography. Cypherpunks wish to learn about it, to teach it, to implement it, and to make more of it. Cypherpunks know that cryptographic protocols make social structures. Cypherpunks know how to attack a system and how to defend it. Cypherpunks know just how hard it is to make good cryptosystems. Cypherpunks love to practice. They love to play with public key cryptography. They love to play with anonymous and pseudonymous mail forwarding and delivery. They love to play with DC-nets. They love to play with secure communications of all kinds. Cypherpunks write code. They know that someone has to write code to defend privacy, and since it's their privacy, they're going to write it. Cypherpunks publish their code so that their fellow cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Cypherpunks realize that security is not built in a day and are patient with incremental progress. Cypherpunks don't care if you don't like the software they write. Cypherpunks know that software can't be destroyed. Cypherpunks know that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down. This is why cypherpunks itself is a distributed mailing list. Cypherpunks will make the networks safe for privacy.

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Announcing a disposable remailer
by Benjamin Chad Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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