December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Vote CypherPunk!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 20:24 -0500 10/31/97, TruthMonger wrote: >* In August, the Boston Globe profiled the Taiwan National >Assembly (which specializes in constitutional issues), where it is >fairly common for the minority New Party to filibuster by merely >grabbing the microphone and physically restraining majority-party >members so that they cannot call for votes. Fights break out, >sometimes bloody ones. Said a local political science professor, "It >may not be civilized, but it's efficient" because citizens respond by >re-electing the aggressive legislators. I'd probably have a lot more respect for Congresscritters if they cared enough about any issue to physically fight about it. Maybe we could issue them weapons, too; then term limits would become a moot point. (Who would win if Jesse Helms and Diane Feinstein had a fight to the death? The American citizens.) A suitable quote from Monty Python: We would like to apologize for the way politicians are represented in this programme. It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are concerned more with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today. Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider them as crabby ulcerous self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices which some people might find offensive. We are sorry if this impression has come across. In fact, they could run this at the top of every hour on C-SPAN. I'll call my cable company.

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Forwarded mail...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 23:10:11 +0100 (MET) > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > From: nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) > Fortunately some of these "good" lawyers already exist at the Institute for > Justice. Basically, they are a libertarian version of the ACLU. They've > accomplished some good things and deserve the support (read $$$) of > freedom-minded individuals everywhere. (note: I'm not connected with them > in any way; just letting the cypherpunk community know about an organization > in sync with our views) > > "If you seek a courtroom champion for individual liberty, free market > solutions, and limited government, look only as far as the Institute > for Justice. When politicians pass sweepingly intrusive laws and > bureaucrats build their empires of paperwork and power, only the > Institute for Justice brings them to account in court." > -- http://www.InstituteforJustice.org/ Thanks, I'll check them out as I am unaware of their position. > >>Has there ever been a law suite brought against the Supreme Court or > >>Congress claiming their actions were unconstitutional? The amendment > >>relating to taxation for a start, repeal individual taxation and return to > >>the system originaly intended by the founding fathers. > > > >I don't know. But this is the sort of issue I was thinking of. > > Bill Benson has done some extensive research (his book is called The Law > That Never Was) regarding the 16th Amendment (the so-called Income Tax > Amendment) and how it was ratified. According to the information he has > uncovered through exhaustive research in D.C. and all of the state capitals > of the then 48 states, the 16th Amendment was never ratified by 3/4ths of > the states. (see http://www.trustclarks.com/theman.html for more info) > > Friends of mine have spoken to Mr. Benson about this, and he says that the > courts won't touch it with a ten foot pole. He even sells a package (or at > least he was selling it back in 1995) of legal information about the > non-ratification of the 16th that can be used as a defense in an income tax > case. According to Mr. Benson (in 1995), each of the cases was dropped when > the defense made it clear they were going to argue their defense based on > this point. > > I understand that folks in the "patriot" movement have tried to take this to > the Supreme Court without success. The Court refused to hear it. > > Assuming Mr. Benson's research is accurate and legitimate, the 16th didn't > even come close to being ratified and is truly a Law That Never Was. Think > about that next April 15th...the IRS's "lawful" authority is based upon a > legal fiction. That's why it's called >voluntary< compliance. Actualy, his research is one of the reasons that I am so interested in an actual lawsuit. What if somebody were to go for several years with no contact at all with the IRS, and no intention of making contact. Then when approached that person makes enough noise to guarantee that they will be going to court. What would it then take to bush-whack the beggars? What is the absolute last point that your defence must be revealed prior to your presenting your case to the jury? The reason I use the first person is because to me it seems critical that no lawyer is actualy used in the defence. As I understand it, and I ain't no lawyer, there are some actions that a defendent may do if representing themselves that lawyers are prohibited from doing. Among them is stating the obvious fact, if the jurors don't believe the law is just they may refuse to find for that reason. If the Constitution and the actual record of votes in concert with the general feeling of excess regarding this matter doesn't prove the case, what will? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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: democracy?! (fwd)
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Long discussion about crypto-anarchy vs. democracy removed] I suggest reframing the argument. Right now, the discussion seems to be: "If we were Gods, how would we institute a just political system on these people." Unfortunately, only a few Gods are reading the cypherpunks list and they refuse to do our bidding. The real question is: what should we do? Our (oversimplified) choices: 1. Democracy: Participate in the political process by joining various organizations, lobbying, begging for money, voting, etc. etc. 2. Crypto-Anarchy: Write code, buy guns, make money, make more money, etc. etc. The second choice is clearly better in terms of protecting your own hide. What if we want to protect the hides of other people? I believe choice 2 is still the better one. In any event, this is the more interesting discussion. The problem with choice 1 is that even if you can convince yourself that a group of people and an institution are sound and reliable today, you do not know what it will be doing later on. Choice 2, on the other hand, is a low risk investment and brings you into contact with a better group of people. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNFzVSpaWtjSmRH/5AQG9LQf/WCepJirikSAU4DIVlRTqYQkfkahLDtxi H8E3a0HSoOYSJAJefx4h2Zl0yy2lYT6mdNjNYsjIR3lDbkDJh97DfgueLHAhmivE Ht4C9XzyzKB2CRGiLD5hlbGRzBYACUWU2sm5xNIxYJ44AuwyhHgpVp8vhQts7XRM xQzLtF4fDD+8Hc5AKq4vE4lTpJzwHUO7T2yANZlFMpx0clJDj7/pr+gSUTaWQcK4 pok4wAj+Hd9wrTtOLG40SqEQmmISi8owutvGStQgb3PSjDFsmpAQimxr4agMcylZ 7qxkNRc/sUzfdN5uc89n1cQ+E2fenocs5W6GJ7N8GRnfYP6127uveQ== =OuX5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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re: Speech as co-conspiring? I don't think so.
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Monty Cantspell, Editor in Chief of Groan Magazine, wrote: >> There was a discussion a little while ago suggesting that toad.com had >> been compromised by people who were sowing dissension by partially >> distributing certain messages. Had toad signed all of its messages, >> it would be possible to obtain evidence supporting this hypothesis >> without relying entirely on the word of people we may not know. > >How do signed messages deal with the incompleat distribushun problem? >If legit signed messages are not sent to half the list, what does the >sig gain us? When Attila says "I have this message from the list" and it has a valid signature, it makes things considerably more interesting because we don't have to trust Attila very much. For instance, it may give the owner of the signing key incontrovertible proof that his machine was compromised. If we have several examples of messages which are slightly different from each other and are signed by the list key, we know that an attack was mounted, although we may not know by whom. >> Had somebody compromised toad, they would still have to correctly sign >> messages. > >But, depending on the compromise, this could be possible. I phrased that badly. What I meant to say was that the person who compromised the machine may be able to sign messages, but he or she will still have to sign all the messages going out. Which means that they can be compared later, which may show incontrovertible proof that Something Is Wrong And It Is Wrong In A Most Interesting Way. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNFzqp5aWtjSmRH/5AQFAsgf7B2F4xDdQZc4koltSO1exTkAGIzxH8nCP 7lh5r2P3vPhC1BfxkCMr3+kTIAuTcXPhvkmGxXNGjud+wqPOW/BYDPUfyjGDQ/rD TZOM23iqVYZIfiiyEdl3DbqmiIv7W0Zrs8b9yhlDnjWPXGnqmgu5QV8LM3QHEEKk nOhKz+qm3cv4UNI9wK87+PjmFKNN9JZCq3WsFCYPI9QSCJR9qgZ7YXnGAPGs7dbG CYRhRYRUMPYBha2RfROvkU5xWH32iRE0bdLQ/uxCjL0vZxoMSq5gDMAjm1Hu02+L 8qTsyCK/LeCRBwtNBCHTO70E71lsV2jD+03Xcxm3SzYHnNo5G6RUHQ== =x/pi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 10/31/97 12:46 PM, Tim May (tcmay(a)got.net) passed this wisdom: >I had an engineer working for me who cheerfully used the company medical >plan for all it was worth. If his kid had a cold, off to the doctor. If his >wife felt feverish, off to the doctor. If he had an upset stomache after >lunch (understandable considering the state of company food and >burrito-vending machines in 1980), off to the doctor. He may have paid $5 >per visit. Of course, he took off a lot of time to make these various treks >to have his kids, himself, and his wife "treated" (given aspirin, told to >drink plenty of fluids, whatever). A nice racket for the hospitals. This is one (of many) things my ex-wife and I used to disagree on ... she would want to haul the kid or herself off to the Emergency room everytime anything happened ... the idea of sleeping on it and seeing how it seemed in the morning was foreign to her; I can see that broken limbs getting sharp raps in head etc ... but every little sniffle ... of course premiums are up. For us, it was zero co-pay since between my retired military status and back then Raytheon medical coverage I never had to lay out a penny, when its that free eats easy to over-indulge ... and during those times I spent in the ER waiting room I saw many other doing the same thing. Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Home is where your books are" -- Kitty O'Neal

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Re: Bell sentencing timed to coincide with raids on militia members?
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 10/31/97 3:01 PM, Tim May (tcmay(a)got.net) passed this wisdom: >Get ready, folks. By the way, I'll be at the gun show at the Cow Palace in >San Francisco on the weekend of November 8-9, probably Saturday, the 8th. >Seems I'm running low on certain types of ammo, and I may want to pick up a >couple more assault rifles before Swinestein succeeds in completely banning >them. I used to think that way ... but then I thought, why pay all that money and walk the line of whatever Swinesteen et al come up with. Instead I have my deer rifles and a shotgun or two and ammo for both. The way this all is working now, I have more combat experience than 90% of the active duty military and most cops, and every day goes by more and more are retiring. If it ever comes down to that, I'll take down one or two of them with my deer rifle and help myself to their weapons and ammo ... also kind of makes sure I haven't set myself up to depend on an obsolete caliber ... if I am not good enough to take some of them down and take their weapons, no 300 nor 30,000 rounds for my very own Armalite is going to make any difference. Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Everyone who lives dies; but not everyone who dies has lived" -- back of a 'No Fear' t-shirt

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S/MIME
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Smartcards - Drivers Licenses in New Jersey
by Robert A. Costner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New Jersey legislature has announced that they will begin issuing smartcards for driver's licenses. The New license is reported to contain * biographical info * auto insurance info * medical insurance info * health info The cards are also claimed to be capable of carrying * fingerprints * photographic images * health records * billing statements The Capitol Report article and a Web based feedback forum can be found at http://www.cpanj.com/legislative/drivers_license_1196.html -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key

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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{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $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{"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{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $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{"cracker"} = "<remailer(a)anon.efga.org> cpunk mix remix pgp hash ksub esub latent cut ek reord post"; $remailer{'redneck'} = '<config(a)anon.efga.org> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"bureau42"} = "<remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org> cpunk mix pgp ksub hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"neva"} = "<remailer(a)neva.org> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub ?"; $remailer{"lcs"} = "<mix(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> mix"; $remailer{"medusa"} = "<medusa(a)weasel.owl.de> mix middle" $remailer{"McCain"} = "<mccain(a)notatla.demon.co.uk> mix middle"; $remailer{"valdeez"} = "<valdeez(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"arrid"} = "<arrid(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"hera"} = "<goddesshera(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"htuttle"} = "<h_tuttle(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; 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 reno winsock) (weasel squirrel medusa) (cracker redneck) (nym lcs) (valdeez arrid hera) This remailer list is somewhat phooey. Go check out http://www.publius.net/rlist.html for a good one. Last update: Thu 23 Oct 97 15:48:06 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- hera goddesshera(a)juno.com ------------ 5:03:45 99.86% nym config(a)nym.alias.net +*#**#**### :34 95.82% redneck config(a)anon.efga.org #*##*+#**** 2:00 95.44% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com +++ ++++++* 19:18 95.27% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de -- ---+--- 2:34:19 95.16% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net *++***+ ++ 11:26 95.11% replay remailer(a)replay.com **** *** 10:06 94.93% arrid arrid(a)juno.com ----.------ 8:50:34 94.41% bureau42 remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org --------- 3:38:29 93.53% cracker remailer(a)anon.efga.org + +*+*+*+ 16:32 92.80% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca + +*-++++ 24:14 92.79% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net -..-..---- 9:59:18 92.22% neva remailer(a)neva.org ------****+ 1:03:02 90.39% valdeez valdeez(a)juno.com 4:58:22 -36.97% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net 1:01:28 -2.65% 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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the one Unbreakable crypto scheme.
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

/* Generic xor handler. With no args, xors stdin against 0xFF to stdout. A single argument is a file to read xor-bytes out of. Any zero in the xor-bytes array is treated as the end; if you need to xor against a string that *includes* zeros, you're on your own. *Hobbit*, 960208 */ #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> char buf[8192]; char bytes[256]; char * py; /* do the xor, in place. Uses global ptr "py" to maintain "bytes" state */ xorb (buf, len) char * buf; int len; { register int x; register char * pb; pb = buf; x = len; while (x > 0) { *pb = (*pb ^ *py); pb++; py++; if (! *py) py = bytes; x--; } } /* xorb */ /* blah */ main (argc, argv) int argc; char ** argv; { register int x = 0; register int y; /* manually preload; xor-with-0xFF is all too common */ memset (bytes, 0, sizeof (bytes)); bytes[0] = 0xff; /* if file named in any arg, reload from that */ #ifdef O_BINARY /* DOS shit... */ x = setmode (0, O_BINARY); /* make stdin raw */ if (x < 0) { fprintf (stderr, "stdin binary setmode oops: %d\n", x); exit (1); } x = setmode (1, O_BINARY); /* make stdout raw */ if (x < 0) { fprintf (stderr, "stdout binary setmode oops: %d\n", x); exit (1); } #endif /* O_BINARY */ if (argv[1]) #ifdef O_BINARY x = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_BINARY); #else x = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY); #endif if (x > 0) { read (x, bytes, 250); /* nothin' fancy here */ close (x); } py = bytes; x = 1; while (x > 0) { x = read (0, buf, sizeof (buf)); if (x <= 0) break; xorb (buf, x); y = write (1, buf, x); if (y <= 0) exit (1); } exit (0); }

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