December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Roby latest
by Jeff Barber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

See http://www.sj-r.com/roby.html for the latest. My favorite excerpt: > Illinois State Police feared that any progress in getting Allen - who's > suspected to suffer from paranoia, delusions and suicidal thoughts - to > exit on her own may have been undone. On Sunday, troopers broke out most > of the remaining windows in Allen's house, tossed nine pepper-spray > grenades inside and sent a police dog in to subdue Allen. > > All the tactics failed: Allen fired what police believe was a small-caliber > handgun as troopers inserted mirrors into her house to look around, she > apparently huddled in a bathroom to ward off the pepper spray, and she > shot the police dog through the mouth. [snip] > Police movement toward the house was sparked by a long silence inside. > Despite sophisticated surveillance and listening devices monitoring > the house, Allen hadn't been seen or heard since 1 p.m. Saturday, > McDonald said (not 1 a.m. as previously reported). Troopers wanted to > see if she had collapsed or fallen ill. > > Should similar circumstances arise again, police may try different > tactics to check Allen's health. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oh! They were checking her health! Of course. -- Jeff

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RE: Source code obfuscation
by Fisher Mark 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Is anyone familiar with tools that can be used to >obscure source code so that it builds, but no longer >contains comments or useful variable or procedure >names? <URL:http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/software/devtools/> has 2 shareware tools for C code. I also know there is/was some kind of commercial tool, that used to be used by Abraxas <URL:http://www.abxsoft.com/> for their CodeCheck product in Unix configurations. ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm(a)indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"

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ITAR a la Canada
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone know if Canada has accepted all of the restrictions under ITAR? Specifically, U.S. companies must (I assume) identify your domain before permitting access to restricted versions of software. Does the same apply for Canada?

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Re: cryptographic anecdotes
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Julian Assange wrote: >I'm involved in producing a segment on cryptograpic issues for Radio >National (ABC) to be aired latter this week. I have no problems with >the technical issues but could use some (reliable) "colour" i.e small >quirky or unusual anecdotes that will draw in and hold the larger >order of listeners who don't otherwise have any cryptography/ >cryptographic-policy background. > > e.g o RSA export-a-crypto-system .sig > o algorithm tatoos (couldn't find any confirmation of > this :() http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ has a picture and name of the person with the RSA tattoo.

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Kids...don't try this at home! / Re: Roby latest
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jeff Barber wrote: > See http://www.sj-r.com/roby.html for the latest. > My favorite excerpt: > > > Illinois State Police feared that any progress in getting Allen - who's > > suspected to suffer from paranoia, delusions and suicidal thoughts - to > > exit on her own may have been undone. On Sunday, troopers broke out most > > of the remaining windows in Allen's house, tossed nine pepper-spray > > grenades inside and sent a police dog in to subdue Allen. I know what you're thinking, kid. You're thinking, "I'm going to try doing this on Halloween, and if I get caught, I'm going to tell mom and dad I was checking on the old lady's health." Forget it. You don't have a badge, and you're going to get your bottom tanned. KidMonger

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Bob - FYI -- not sure if this was already posted ?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:24:41 -0500 From: David Kaufman <davidk(a)air.com> Reply-To: davidk(a)air.com Organization: Allied International Resources MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rah(a)shipwright.com Subject: Bob - FYI -- not sure if this was already posted ? 12:51 PM ET 10/28/97 FBI chief calls for computer crime crackdown ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - FBI director Louis Freeh said Tuesday that criminals were moving increasingly into cyberspace and without new laws ``drug dealers, arms dealers, terrorists and spies will have immunity like no other''. Freeh told the International Association of Chiefs of Police that software manufacturers should be required by law to include a feature that allows police to descramble encrypted communications. ``It could take a $30 million supercomputer a year to figure out the simplest encrypted message without this feature,'' Freeh said. ``And that message might be 'we have the victim and will kill him in an hour'.'' ``We're not opposed to encrypting. Encrypting is very important when transacting business but encrypting makes it very hard to enforce court orders for surveillance.'' Freeh said he supported a cyber surveillance law with these features which passed out of the House Intelligence Committee. That bill has the support of the FBI, Justice Department, Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal law enforcement agencies but does not have White House backing. ``Our own administration has not gotten behind this initiative. There are some very powerful industry forces opposing this,'' Freeh said. The ability of criminals to communicate with one another with computers is changing the face of law enforcement, Freeh said. ``All the boxes of evidence we used to bring back have been replaced by hard drives and discs. When we graduate our agents we give them in addition to a gun and a badge a laptop computer.'' ^REUTERS@ --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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Use a Mac...Go to Jail / Re: Saving money
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Brian B. Riley wrote: > Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr > For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> > > "...Those of you who turned your swords into plowshares will soon > find yourselves under the yokes of those of us who kept our swords..." > -- author unknown I have always envisioned Mac users as sitting at their computers and drawing flowers while they bounce a cute baby on their knee. Lately, however, I have seen increasing militantism from a wide variety of Mac users, from the quote above to "MacNuke DC" ranters. Is this a 'Death of the '60's' thing, or a sign of 'Armageddon'?

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Another CDR member?
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I received a subscription today from cypherpunks(a)comsec.com. I believe there is another node on the CDR. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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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(off-topic--delete now) Re: Search warrants and Senate hearing o
by Michael Sims 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> If you're going to respond to Tim's post, you should copy him or > cypherpunks... I've attached your whole message below... > > I will respond to one point, though: > > >The free market approach won't keep medical records private. > > We haven't tried that approach yet, at least in the late 20th > century. The wealth of federal regulation and involvement in health > care is breathtaking. Ever since after WWII when for tax reasons > businesses began bundling insurance and the rise of > medicare/medicaid, well, the "free market" in healthcare has become > much less robust. (Fortunately Clinton's socialistic health care > plan was derailed.) > > In other words, the reason a "free market" approach may not work > right now is because the market isn't free. Declan, every part of the "health-care market" that people are complaining about, the parts of it that routinely and for fiscal reasons violate people's privacy, are completely and utterly dollar-driven and do not result from big nasty government making any laws. That HMO shlepping your medical record around to a dozen adminstrators to decide whether or not to pay for your care? Those huge insecure insurance databases with information about what diseses you're genetically susceptible to? Those intrusive questions and psychological screening tests at job interviews? Those urinalysis tests which screen for the presence of illegal drugs, undisclosed prescription drugs and nicotine, with the intention of firing you if *any* of the above test positive? All are examples of a free market in health care information. Oh, there are a few examples of government-caused privacy violations of health-care information. I'm thinking of mandatory HIV/AIDS disclosure laws, Medicare information, and the fact that the government still hasn't figured out that putting all the health-care information they can get ahold of into a big database is a bad idea. These can certainly represent gross threats to individuals' privacy. (Haven't CDT and EPIC discussed this from time to time? Though not extensively on either of the lists this is sent to, where it's assuredly off-topic.) Yet, these aren't the abuses that people complain about /today/. You're confusing services and information. The US has the closest to a free-market in health-care information of any of the industrialized nations. And people suffer for it every day. You can say it's cool, it's Libertarianism in action, or you can think it stinks. But don't try to blame those abuses on the government. I found it astonishing that Tim May wrote: "All we need to ensure medical privacy is a return to the right of contract. I pay Dr. Jones for his services and for his agreement to not pass my medical file around to his buddies, or to sell it to advertisers, or to let "counter-terrorism" agents snoop around in his files. Sounds fair to me." Tim, you've got that right today, with a few minor exceptions like gunshot wounds. You have it! You can insist on only going to a doctor, or only belonging to an HMO, that won't share your information around town! The government has nothing to do with it! This "problem" you're talking about is solely a market failure resulting from a nearly-pure, barely-adulterated free-market --- completely confidential health services are hard to obtain because they cost more and there isn't a sufficient market! Those privacy violations occur because it helps companies make a profit, which outweighs your measly privacy concerns! Gawd, libertarians complaining about a market failure. I may cry. -- Michael Sims

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Re: Another CDR member?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > > Hi, > > I received a subscription today from cypherpunks(a)comsec.com. > > I believe there is another node on the CDR. Do you think it is malignant?

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