December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Brilliant Anti-Armor Submunition: Opportunity Exists to ConductCritical Test Prior to Production Decision
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The following item was added to GAO's World Wide Web site in Portable Document (PDF) format. - Brilliant Anti-Armor Submunition: Opportunity Exists to Conduct Critical Test Prior to Production Decision. NSIAD-98-16. 13 pp. plus 1 appendix (6 pp.) October 30, 1997. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns98016.pdf Abstract The Army is developing the brilliant antiarmor submunition, with acoustic and infrared seekers working in tandem, to autonomously search for, track, and destroy moving armored targets. This submunition is to be carried deep into enemy territory by the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) Block II missile, which is still in development and is a modification of the in-production ATACMS Block IA missile, which carries a different submunition. The brilliant antiarmor submunition and the ATACMS Block II missile are a $4-billion system designed to support the Army's "deep fires" mission, which calls for the destruction and/or disruption of enemy forces at ranges exceeding 100 kilometers. Each Block II missile is to carry 13 submunitions that will be dispensed over large clusters of high payoff targets to attack and destroy individual targets. The advantage of the submunition is that it can cover a large area when dispersed, which allows it to compensate for target location errors.

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Cybercrime Summit, from Netly/Afternoon Line
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

************* http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/afternoon/0,1012,1626,00.html The Netly News / Afternoon Line (http://netlynews.com/) December 10, 1997 Big Eight Ball At a briefing at FBI headquarters today, top police officials from eight countries outlined a 10-point action plan calling for greater cooperation, joint training and a revision of national laws to combat malicious hackers and "cybercrime." Anne McLellan, Canada's attorney general, said her country wanted to crack down on "old crimes using new technology -- for example, child pornography or hate." Left unsaid was how, for instance, the U.S. could follow Canada's lead and ban racist web sites, which are permissible under the First Amendment. Among the virtual crimes listed were the "cyber-offenses" of money laundering and... H-bomb smuggling? (In response to a reporter's question, the Russians denied they had misplaced 84 of their nuclear weapons.) Heinz Lanfermann, Germany's state secretary, added to the list of Internet undesirables "all those who are organizing slave trading and drug trafficking and car theft." U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno pointedly declined to address encryption, saying "it was generally not a topic" discussed. She did, however, applaud the Internet industry for offering to "work together in a collaborative manner" to track "computer criminals." But she clearly intends to do more than collaborate: The joint principles call for the government "to continue providing the public and private sectors with standards for reliable and secure telecommunications and data processing technologies." Like the Clipper Chip, maybe? --By Declan McCullagh/Washington [More Afternoon Line stories are at http://netlynews.com/ ]

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Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:54:26 -0800 > From: Steve Schear <schear(a)lvdi.net> > Subject: Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd) > > At 3:43 PM +0000 12/9/1997, jonathon wrote: > >On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Jim Choate wrote: > > > >> analogous situation you would need to use a *listed* phone number registered > >> to anonymous in such a way that ANI displayed the number but any directory > >> search resulted in anonymous w/ no address or other tracing info even for > >> the phone company. To the best of my knowledge no phone company anywhere > > Third party, anonymous, telephone services are available. One in Las Vegas (at least it used to be) is Private Lines, which is an anonyous re-dialer using 900 number billing for payment. Yeah, and the way it works is that some 3rd party buys a trunk from the local RBOC and then sets up their PBX and then re-sells the lines. Here's your test for them. Buy a line and have them list it in the RBOC directory under 'anonymous'. Not the same thing as going directly to the RBOC and having them list your number under 'anonymous'. THAT is the litmus test for true anonymous phone service *and* to make it equivalent to an anonymous remailer with address persistance. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | We built your fort. We will not have it used against us. | | | | John Wayne - Allegheny Uprising | | | | | | _____ 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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Clinton in the doghouse (humor)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

LAUGH TRACK The Clintons' new dog -- Bill Maher: "This dog is going to live in the White House, so it's going have to go outside if it's going to make fund raising calls" ("PI," ABC 12/9). David Letterman: "And now they've got him working on training him to dig cemetary plots at Arlington National Cemetery" ("Late Show," CBS 12/9). Jay Leno on VP Gore: "New movie coming out called "Digging to China' It's all about Al Gore's search for campaign donations" ("Tonight," 12/9). For more on the complicated family tree of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, who just had a baby (his 6th, her 4th), click Back Bench. TOP TEN COMPLAINTS OF PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NEW PUPPY 10. Whenever you bury a bone, president digs it up and eats it. 9. Late-night walks always end up at local Hooters. 8. Much too easy to mistake Al Gore for a tree. 7. Keep getting yelled at for "fetching" Sam Donaldson's hairpiece. 6. When the president says "Roll over," he's usually talking to his date. 5. Roger hogs all the best chew-toys. 4. If you so much as look at Janet Reno, you get an assfull of size-13 pump. 3. Leash not as nice as the one Hillary uses on Bill. 2. Unfair having to get "fixed" when Clinton's the one who really needs it. 1. Fighting with Bill over the last snausage (CBS, 12/9). TV SOUNDBITE "This story's not going to die." -- ABC's Cokie Roberts on the fundraising scandals, "GMA," 12/10

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update.350 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From physnews(a)aip.org Wed Dec 10 16:59:59 1997 > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 97 14:35:44 EST > Subject: update.350 > > PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE > The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News > Number 350 December 10, 1997 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben > Stein > > QUANTUM TELEPORTATION has been experimentally > demonstrated by physicists at the University of Innsbruck (Anton > Zeilinger, 011-43-676-305-8608, anton.zeilinger@ uibk.ac.at; Dik > Bouwmeester, Dik.Bouwmeester(a)uibk.ac.at) First proposed in > 1993 by Charles Bennett of IBM (914-945-3118), quantum > teleportation allow physicists to take a photon (or any other > quantum-scale particle, such as an atom), and transfer its properties > (such as its polarization) to another photon--even if the two photons > are on opposite sides of the galaxy. Note that this scheme > transports the particle's properties to the remote location and not the > particle itself. And as with Star Trek's Captain Kirk, whose body > is destroyed at the teleporter and reconstructed at his destination, > the state of the original photon must be destroyed to create an exact > reconstruction at the other end. In the Innsbruck experiment, the > researchers create a pair of photons A and B that are quantum > mechanically "entangled": the polarization of each photon is in a > fuzzy, undetermined state, yet the two photons have a precisely > defined interrelationship. If one photon is later measured to have, > say, a horizontal polarization, then the other photon must "collapse" > into the complementary state of vertical polarization. In the > experiment, one of the entangled photons A arrives at an optical > device at the exact time as a "message" photon M whose > polarization state is to be teleported. These two photons enter a > device where they become indistinguishable, thus effacing our > knowledge of M's polarization (the equivalent of destroying > Kirk).What the researchers have verified is that by ensuring that > M's polarization is complementary to A's, then B's polarization > would now have to assume the same value as M's. In other words, > although M and B have never been in contact, B has been imprinted > with M's polarization value, across the whole galaxy, > instantaneously. This does not mean that faster-than-light > information transfer has occurred. The people at the sending station > must still convey the fact that teleportation had been successful by > making a phone call or using some other light-speed or > sub-light-speed means of communication. While physicists don't > foresee the possibility of teleporting large-scale objects like humans, > this scheme will have uses in quantum computing and cryptography. > (D. Bouwmeester et al., Nature, 11 Dec 1997; see also > www.aip.org/physnews/graphics) > > DO EARTHQUAKES HAVE ELECTRICAL PRECURSORS? The [material deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | We built your fort. We will not have it used against us. | | | | John Wayne - Allegheny Uprising | | | | | | _____ 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: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd)
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 12/9/97 3:57 PM, Jrbl Pookah (lists(a)castle5.castlec.com) passed this wisdom: >>Jim Choate writes: >>> >>> To the best of my knowledge no phone company anywhere >>> will allow a customer to purchase service without identifying >>> themselves to the phone company. Please let me know if there is >>> such a beast somewhere. > > Hmm. Excuse the interruption into your conversation here, but I've >signed up (in the past) for long-distance service under an assumed >name, on a telephone line that I held in a different assumed name. >At least in Cincinnati, OH, the phone company didn't (doesn't?) >really care, as long as they had a place to send the bills. When >they asked for my SSN, I simply told them I wouldn't give it to >them, and offered my date-of-birth - which I lied about. They >didn't mind. ... hmmmm ... for my .02 ... isn't the entrie arguemnt rather academic/ Thje simple matter is regradless of whose name it is in, its tied to a physical location where sooner or later you can be apprehended/discovered. A more reasonable question might be has anyone secured cellular service without some serious credit/identity queries? If one can work out he details of getting payment to them (they seem to care little about what goes on so long as they are paid!) that preserves anonymity, as well as keeping on the move to defy the cell trackers then maybe there is some anonymity to be achieved. ... hey anybody designed a 'crowds' for cell phones??? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNI8qOD7r4fUXwraZAQF3TQf+PSDf6ZhYd3TQN4fpRWYe2FP1dv5ATrTD 44ENHDDLUplcvcZuTYf4kqM5PoOYQ0qsEfJu/YXRA5Ygpoj2q0yTUvkH194WbXk+ dzplLkc74kjMTVT48Jj3+ax5HlRhl7moQcXHDEYzdAHz1iIKvKWsPDkj0+5quaAb FldkENUU0HRLkyxmh6E7bICDPXUfaBCWzlspwYHK2iP138qpIe7TE1gNUrUrwK3P 8GUzjXr2iCjB6jqgyBEdN52p7iGIMNRfkwhOSB0JLoOaD6egBywHahq3tMB9casF ot3wpGKABsgsCFLDiSFCV9sud7j92lkf+svyJr1ate3VzW94z6mQLw== =zGLX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work" -- Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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DCSB: Donald Eastlake; "SET and UNSET"
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 09:38:51 -0500 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce(a)ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB: Donald Eastlake; "SET and UNSET" Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Donald Eastlake 3rd Cybercash, Inc. SET and UNSET Tuesday, January 6, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA After great gestational pain, version 1.0 of the complex, heavyweight Secure Electronic Transacation (SET) protocol has been promulgated by the credit card association, is being deployed in pilots, and is continuing to have features added to it in a SET 2.0 design effort. Meanwhile, the environment that lead to SET continues to change and new alternatives for securing card/account based transactions are being suggested. Donald Eastlake 3rd is a Principal Systems Engineer at CyberCash, Inc. before which he was in the Pathworks network group at Digital Equipment Corporation. At CyberCash, he helped design the "CyberCash message format" documented in RFC 2898 and implemented the library routines that support them. He also architected and did the preliminary implementation of CyberCash's SET implementation. He is active in IETF standards efforts and is currently the document editor for the IETF DNS security working group including RFCs 2065 and 2137. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 1997, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, January 3rd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com> . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 iQEVAwUBNI/6c8UCGwxmWcHhAQGzGwf/TIIKQv+DlgJUZ5KfQsOLZWw0W0IXvZ4w ouQWDSFfleJFAtNIS4+TX+pT2MnRQ2SdsGDt/t+WDdC/0AHgX/4anOPXC7gKAjIF WNmGzP+DEvFvdFb5EcGCt6I7wYbEQhqIQs6/ULrItY3IqNVMQ4ZWzwknlcRWqVzl dwXX5JXYNRj9Wk5+la2e9BCeW5mKq3vURtr8xm2MIYwq3wdfzp9ydWZ20D7dJedH Z1SQeTae1obbUhTnljNqNtdKHEdTVcHsZVfkYA44JsBMMty9A3R8xqOKPCMGIcoI 65RWZOYmjkKlLAdb0OmmW/O32dnEcir0S4RCmdfiZYB9WXaVKLewQA== =6Lik -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 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/> For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- 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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Back to the drawing board ...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:32:10 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: qnx.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Subject: Back to the drawing board ... Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:19:18 -0500 From: glen mccready <glen(a)qnx.com> Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org X-Mailing-List: <0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org> archive/latest/2539 X-Loop: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev(a)bostic.com> Forwarded-by: "Michael A. Olson" <mao(a)mag.com> Forwarded-by: frew(a)icess.ucsb.edu (Jim Frew) From: simpson(a)alexandria.ucsb.edu This is the new family-friendly filtered search engine put out by the folks at Altavista: http://family.netshepherd.com/ Try the query "fucking porn" and see what you get... exactly what I want my kids to see when they are looking for "fucking porn": fucking porn. I guess we can't expect them to filter just anything with the word fucking in it, it might be an educational site or something. -jason --- 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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alias.cyberpass.net
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is alias.cyberpass.net down or no longer active? I can send mail but not receive anything not even a confirmation.

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RE: On Air
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: "Nightline, News MS" <NITELINE(a)abc.com> >To: "'SMTP:schear@lvdi.net'" <schear(a)lvdi.net> >Subject: RE: On Air >Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:32:00 -0500 >X-Priority: 3 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >ÐÏà¡± > > >====== Your Original Letter Follows ===== > > > >_browser = Mozilla/4.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) >_script = http://www.abcnews.com/onair/email.html >>from = schear(a)lvdi.net >last_name = Schear >subj = On Air >first_name = Steve >Question = Re: Dec 8, Revolution in a Box, Part 11 > >The number trotted out on your show of 100,000 penetrations, or >attempted penetrations, of Pentagon computers as an indication of poor >security is misleading. If you had taken the time to dig behind these >numbers you would have found that most all of these intrusions, or >attempts, were against DoD computer systems connected to public networks >(e.g., Web sites) containing no secret information and with minimal >security provisions. > >100,000 certainly sounds like a major problem. Suggest you check you >facts first, next time and scale your numbers appropriately. > >Steve Schear >CEO >First ECache Corp. >_cookie = SWID=4E29F2F7-710A-11D1-82AF-00A0C921A5DB >_time = 12/09/97 19:47:40 >_ipaddress = 208.129.55.202 >_user = - - schear(a)lvdi.net >

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