December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Where to buy Terra byte protein ram/rom... [slashdot.org]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=00000702 > Gernot Bauer wrote in to tell us a bit more about organic chips. He > writes "Computer chips are nowerdays made on the base of silicon. > German computing magazine "c't" wrote about an Norwegian company > called Opticom which claims that its ready for series production of > organic mass memory (RAM/ROM and all that nice stuff). Imagine 170 > Terra-Bytes for a few cents. Read here how it works and what you can > expect if this technology is widely used (the article was translated > to english). Will new types of real virus be able to trash not only > your system but also your hardware?" Note this company is claiming 'series production' meaning you can go out and buy them. I tramped over the web but couldn't find a website for them. If anybody knows somebody in Norway please ask them to contact the company and get us some information...please. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | When a man assumes a public trust, he should | | consider himself public property. | | | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | | _____ 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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rushdie list
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Orlin Best to try to keep off the list. August 1991, Shapour Bakhtiar and Soroush Katibeh are killed in Suresnes, France. Title: Iranian Martyrs This page is dedicated to all those who stood up against tyranny KNOW THAT BEHIND EACH NUMBER, AND EACH NAME, THERE IS A MAN, A WOMAN, A CHILD, A FACE, A SMILE, A TEAR PUT YOURSELF IN PLACE OF THE CONDEMNED AND IMAGINE THE SOLITUDE AND LONELINESS OF THE MOMENT WHEN THEY COME TO TAKE THEM AWAY, THIS LAST VOYAGE, WHERE ARE YOU AT THIS VERY MOMENT, PARTISAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS ? WHY HAS THE WORLD SUDDENLY BECOME A VAST DESERT WHERE THERE EXISTS ONLY THE VICTIM AND HIS EXECUTIONERS ? HOW MUCH LONGER CAN YOU STAY SILENT ? Below is a list of all those who were affiliated to NAMIR or its military wing - NEGHAB - and were murdered by the Islamic Republic of Iran : Date Location Name 04/07/1980 Tehran A.Mohagheghi (general) 04/07/1980 Tehran G.Ghayeghran (non-commissioned officer : pilot) 04/07/1980 Tehran F.Jahangiri (non-commissioned officer : pilot) 04/07/1980 Tehran A.Kamiani 04/07/1980 Tehran A.Karimbar 30/07/1980 Tehran H.Kazemi (non-commissioned officer) 30/071980 Tehran M.Moradi (non-commissioned officer) 30/07/1980 Tehran S.Norouzi (sergeant) 30/07/1980 Tehran A.Mohamadi 30/07/1980 Tehran M.Assangochai 30/07/1980 Tehran Y.Mahboubian 30/07/1980 Tehran E.Mamaghani 30/07/1980 Tehran N.Sedarat 30/07/1980 Tehran E.Baroukhim 30/07/1980 Tehran M.B.Fard (lieutenant) 30/07/1980 Neyshabur Y.Khadjeh 30/07/1980 Neyshabur G.Jafari 31/07/1980 Tehran M.Farzam (lieutenant) 31/07/1980 Tehran H. Karimpurtari (non-commissioned officer) 31/07/1980 Tehran D.Jalaii (colonel) 31/07/1980 Tehran N.Yahyaii (lieutenant) 31/07/1980 Tehran N.Najaf-Nejad (sergeant) 07/08/1980 Tehran I. Soltani (corporal) 07/08/1980 Tehran H.Lashkari (lieutenant-pilot) 07/08/1980 Tehran M.Saghafi (lieutenant-pilot) 07/08/1980 Tehran A.Zarineh (colonel) 07/08/1980 Tehran H.Gohari (major) 07/08/1980 Tehran K.Alizadeh (major) 07/08/1980 Tehran A.Morvaridi (sergeant) 07/08/1980 Tehran S.Pourfahmideh (lieutenant) 07/08/1980 Tehran M.Najafabadi (lieutenant) 07/08/1980 Tehran M.Zahedi (lieutenant) 07/08/1980 Tehran M.Asgharian (non-commissioned officer) 07/08/1980 Tehran H.Abedini 07/08/1980 Tehran F.Azarian (lieutenant) 16/08/1980 Tehran E.Arab-Shirazi 16/08/1980 Tehran A.Awazzadeh 16/08/1980 Tehran M.Sajadi (non-commissioned officer) 16/08/1980 Tehran M.Farahpour 16/08/1980 Tehran Z.Momeni 16/08/1980 Tehran G.Khergani (sergeant) 16/08/1980 Tehran M.Kiani (sergeant) 16/08/1980 Tehran D.Bakhtiar 16/08/1980 Tehran G.NaghibZadeh (non-commissioned officer) 16/08/1980 Tehran H.Zamanpour (flight-lieutenant) 16/08/1980 Tehran K.Azartash (major) 16/08/1980 Tehran A.Azmudeh (colonel) 16/08/1980 Tehran C.Ahmadi (lieutenant) 16/08/1980 Tehran S.Mahdiun (general-pilot) 16/08/1980 Tehran M.Farnejad (non-commissioned officer) 16/08/1980 Tehran K.Mohamadi-Koubaii (non-commissioned officer) 16/08/1980 Tehran M.Tightiz (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran M.Mirlaki (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran M.Abedini-Moghadam (non-commissioned officer0 18/08/1980 Tehran K.Rahmati (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran P.Bayani (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran L.Lotfolahi (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran A.Habibi (lieutenant) 18/08/1980 Tehran N.Zandi (flight lieutenant pilot) 18/08/1980 Tehran C.Karimian (sergeant) 18/08/1980 Tehran O.Boyeri (flight lieutenant) 18/08/1980 Tehran A.Soleimani (flight lieutenant) 18/08/1980 Tehran D.Mazaheri-Kashani 18/08/1980 Tehran D.Fatehjou (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran A.Pourkarbassi-Dehi (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran D.Fateh-Firouz (non-commissioned officer) 18/08/1980 Tehran K.Afrouz (flight lieutenant) 18/08/1980 Tehran M.Azimifar (flight lieutenant) 21/08/1980 Tehran M.Arad (lieutenant) 21/08/1980 Tehran M.Sadeghi (colonel) 21/08/1980 Tehran H.Izadi (colonel) 21/08/1980 Tehran Asghari 25/08/1980 Tehran D.Rahbar (non-commissioned officer) 25/08/1980 Tehran G.Hamedani (non-commissioned officer) 25/08/1980 Tehran F.Javaherian (non-commissioned officer) 25/08/1980 Tehran M.Zade-Naderi (non-commissioned officer) 26/08/1980 Tehran G.Hejazi (female) 26/08/1980 Tehran D.Shomali 26/08/1980 Tehran H.Ahmadi 26/08/1980 Esfahan M.Altani 26/08/1980 Esfahan H.Karimi 26/08/1980 Esfahan S.Mozaii 26/08/1980 Esfahan H.Dari 26/08/1980 Esfahan A.Allahverdi 26/08/1980 Esfahan S.Hemati 26/08/1980 Esfahan M.Vesaali 26/08/1980 Esfahan B.Nikbakht (female) 26/08/1980 Esfahan E.Biglari 26/08/1980 Esfahan J.Hemati 26/08/1980 Esfahan E.Karimi 26/08/1980 Esfahan M.Karimi 28/08/1980 Tehran S.Bassani (female) 28/08/1980 Tehran M.T.Bahrami (non-commissioned officer) 29/08/1980 Tehran A.Almasi (lieutenant) 29/09/1980 Tehran H.Haleki (lieutenant) 29/08/1980 Tehran M.R.Javadi (lieutenant) 29/08/1980 Tehran H.Ahmadi (non-commissioned officer) 29/08/1980 Tehran J.Ranjbar (non-commissioned officer) 30/08/1980 Tehran A.Azizian (major) 30/08/1980 Tehran R.Soltani (colonel) 30/08/1980 Tehran A.Faria (colonel) 30/08/1980 Tehran I.Derakhshandeh (non-commissioned officer) 30/08/1980 Tehran M.Bahrami 30/08/1980 Tehran S.Shahbeui (colonel) 30/08/1980 Tehran I.Khalafbegi (major) 30/08/1980 Tehran K.Keyvanfar 30/08/1980 Ahwaz M.Borati (corporal) 30/08/1980 Ahwaz I.Marvdashti (non-commissioned officer) 30/08/1980 Ahwaz R.Yahyapasand (lieutenant) 30/08/1980 Ahwaz M.A.Mehrabi (non-commissioned officer) 30/08/1980 Ahwaz O.Atashboro 30/08/1980 Ahwaz S.Sotoudeh 01/09/1980 Tehran D.Asghari (officer) 01/09/1980 Tehran D.Raastgu (lieutenant) 01/09/1980 Tehran M.Fatahi-Nourdehi (non-commissioned officer) 03/09/1980 Ahwaz M.Hokmabadtchi (sergeant) 03/09/1980 Ahwaz E.Ostad-Nazari (lieutenant) 03/09/1980 Ahwaz F.Reissi (lieutenant) 03/09/1980 Ahwaz S.Dehgan (lieutenant) 09/09/1980 Tehran M.Sayah (sergeant) 09/09/1980 Tehran M.Rahbai-Nejad (lieutenant) 09/09/1980 Tehran M.Tajvari (lieutenant) 09/09/1980 Tehran B.Partovi (major) 09/09/1980 Tehran H.Mostafavi 11/09/1980 Tehran K.Atri 11/09/1980 Tehran M.Sadeghi (colonel) 11/09/1980 Tehran M.Sohaneki 11/09/1980 Tehran N.Morovati (lieutenant) 11/09/1980 Tehran N.Sajadi (non-commissioned officer) 11/09/1980 Tehran A.Mohammad (soldier) 11/09/1980 Tehran A.Shafigh (flight lieutenant) 16/09/1980 Tehran M.Tabrizi-Khatun 16/09/1980 Tehran E.Azadighaneh (non-commissioned officer) 16/09/1980 Tehran M.Jalali-Ghajar (major) 16/09/1980 Tehran S.Nour 13/071981 Tehran M.Khadem 10/08/1981 Tehran Amir-Tahmasbi (major) 10/08/1981 Tehran A.Abdolmalek-Pour (colonel) 10/08/1981 Tehran Didehvar (colonel) 10/08/1981 Tehran Mohajeri 23/12/1981 Tehran R.Marzban 23/12/1981 Tehran A.Mohebi 30/01/1982 Tehran A.Amir-Tahmasbi (colonel) 30/01/1982 Tehran K.Yarahmadi 30/01/1982 Tehran E.Seyrafi (colonel) 30/01/1982 Tehran A.Foroughi (colonel) 30/01/1982 Tehran A.Abdol-Malekpour 30/01/1982 Tehran G.Rahimi (colonel) 30/01/1982 Tehran M.Sabah (colonel) 30/01/1982 Tehran G.Biglou 30/01/1982 Tehran A.Mohajeri 30/01/1982 Tehran M.Lotfzari 30/01/1982 Tehran G.Naghib-Manesh 30/01/1982 Tehran G.Didehvar (colonel) 30/01/1982 Tehran G.Shahandeh-Ashtiani 30/01/1982 Tehran M.Khashayar 11/09/1982 Tehran R.Shahbakhti 11/09/1982 Tehran H.Moghbelzadeh of these victims, none had the rights of an accused as foreseen in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ............................................. Report on the Islamic Republic's Terrorism abroad Since the advent of the Islamic Republic in Iran, terrorist attempts have targeted exiled Iranians as well as citizens of other countries, condemned as heretics, around the world. These attacks were ordered by the Islamic government of Iran. 1. In July 1980, Shapour Bakhtiar escapes an assassination attempt in Paris, France. A French policeman and a neighbor are killed and one policeman is seriously injured. 2. In July 1980, Ali Tabatabai is killed in Washington D.C., United States. 3. In 1981, Shahriar Shafigh is killed in Paris, France. 4. In January 1982, Shahrokh Missaghi is killed in Manila, Philippines. 5. In April 1982, a young German student is killed during the attack of the residence of Iranian students in Mainzer, Germany, by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah. 6. In June 1982, Shahram Mirani is fatally wounded in India. 7. In August 1982, Ahmad Zol-Anvar is fatally wounded in Karachi, Pakistan. 8. In September 1982, Abdolamir Rahdar is killed in India. 9. In 1982, Colonel Ahmad Hamed is killed in Istanbul, Turkey. 10. In February 1983, Esfandiar Rahimi is killed in Manila, Philippines. 11. In February 1984, Gholam-Ali Oveissi and his brother, Gholam-Hossein, are killed in Paris, France. 12. In August 1985, Behrouz Shahverdilou is killed in Istanbul, Turkey. 13. In December 1985, Hadi Aziz-Moradi is killed in Istanbul, Turkey. 14. In August 1986, Bijan Fazeli is killed in London, Great Britain. 15. In December 1986, Vali Mohammad Van is killed in Pakistan. 16. In January 1987, Ali-Akbar Mohammadi is killed in Hamburg, Germany. 17. In May 1987, Hamid Reza Chitgar disappears in Vienna, Austria and is found assassinated in July. 18. In July 1987, Faramarz-Aghaï and Ali-Reza Pourshafizadeh are killed and twenty-three persons are wounded in residences of Iranian refugees Karachi and Quetta, Pakistan. 19. In July 1987, Amir-Hossein Amir-Parviz is seriously wounded by the explosion of a bomb placed in his car in London, England. 20. In July 1987, Mohammad-Hassan Mansouri is shot dead in his house Istanbul, Turkey. 21. In August 1987, Ahmad Moradi-Talebi is killed in Geneva, Switzerland. 22. In October 1987, Mohammad-Ali Tavakoli-Nabavi and his youngest son, Noureddin, are killed in Wembley, Great Britain. 23. In October 1987, Abol-Hassan Modjtahed-Zadeh is kidnapped in Istanbul, Turkey. 24. In December 1988, an Iranian refugee is assassinated in front of the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Karachi, Pakistan. 25. In June 1989, Ataollah Bay Ahmadi is killed in the Emirate of Dubai. 26. In July 1989, Abdol-Rahman Ghassemlou and Abdollah Ghaderi and Fazel Rassoul are killed in Vienna, Austria. 27. In August 1989, Gholam Keshavarz is killed in Cyprus. 28. In September 1989, Sadigh Kamangar is assassinated in the north of Iraq. 29. In September 1989, Hossein Keshavarz, victim of a terrorist attempt, is paralyzed for life. 30. In February 1990, Hadj Baloutch-Khan is killed by a terrorist commando in Pakistan. 31. In Mars 1990, Hossein Mir-Abedini is wounded by an armed commando in the airport of Istanbul, Turkey. 32. In April 1990, Kazem Radjavi is killed in Coppet, Switzerland. 33. In July 1990, Ali Kashefpour is kidnapped and killed in Turkey. 34. In September 1990, Efat Ghazi is killed in Sweden by a bomb intended for her husband. 35. In October 1990, Cyrus Elahi is killed in Paris, France. 36. In April 1991, Abdol-Rahman Boroumand is killed in Paris, France. 37. In July 1991, Alberto Capriolo is wounded in Milan, Italy. 38. In July 1991, Hitoshi Igarashi is killed in Tokyo, Japan. 39. In July 1991, Ahad Agha is killed in Suleimanya, iraq. 40. In August 1991, Shapour Bakhtiar and Soroush Katibeh are killed in Suresnes, France. 41. In September 1991, Saïd Yazdan-Panah is fatally wounded in iraq. 42. In December 1991, Massoud Rajavi escapes a terrorist attempt in Baghdad, iraq. 43. In January 1992, Kamran Hedayati is wounded opening a letter bomb in Vastros, Sweden. He looses his sight and his hands. 44. In May 1992, Shapour Firouzi is killed in Iraq. 45. In July 1992, Kamran Mansour-Moghadam is killed in Suleymania, Iraq. 46. In August 1992, Fereydoun Farokhzad is killed in Bonn, Germany. 47. In September 1992, Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fatah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and Nouri Dehkordi are killed in Berlin, Germany. 48. In January 1993, Ugur Mumcu is killed in Ankara, Turkey. 49. In February 1993, the fundamentalist terrorists in Turkey admit to have kidnapped and killed Ali-Akbar Ghorbani who had disappeared in June 1992 in Turkey. 50. In March 1993, Mohammad-Hossein Naghdi is killed in Rome, Italy. 51. In June 1993, Mohammad-Hassan Arbab is killed in Karachi, Pakistan 52. In October 1993, Turkish fundamentalists admit having tortured and killed for Iranian officials, Abbas Gholizadeh who was kidnapped in Istanbul, Turkey in December 1992. 53. In November 1993, William Nygaard is wounded in Oslo, Norway. 54. In January, 1994, Taha Kermanj is killed in Corum, Turkey. 55. In August 1994, Ghafour Hamzei'i is killed in Baghdad, iraq. 56. In February 1996, Zahra Rajabi and Ali Moradi were killed in Istanbul, Turkey. 57. In March 1996, Ali Mollazadeh was killed in Karachi, Pakistan. 58. In May 1996, Reza Mazlouman ( Kourosh Aryamanesh) was killed in Paris, France. Due to the lack of reliable information, this list of terrorist attempts is not exhaustive. Undoubtedly, since the advent of the Islamic Republic, the number of extra-judicial executions outside Iran, in particular in Pakistan, Turkey and Iraq is higher. Also, this report deliberately leaves out well known terrorist attacks ordered by Tehran, such as: the hostage crisis of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979; the kidnapping of British, American and French citizens in Lebanon by pro-Iranian Hezbollah; the explosive attack on the American and French military headquarters in Lebanon, which were publicly claimed by Mohsen Rafighdoust, then head of the Revolutionary Guards ; the wave of terrorist bombing in Paris in 1986, which resulted in the death of 13 persons and the wounding of hundreds of others; the death sentence against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses; and the Dahran terrorist attempts that targeted the American military in Saudi Arabia. Title: NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict [Email Reply] NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict by J. Orlin Grabbe One of the dirty little secrets of the 1980s is that the U.S. regularly provided Iraq's Saddam Hussein with top-secret communication intercepts by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Consider the evidence. When in 1991 the government of Kuwait paid the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton ten million dollars to drum up American war fever against the evil dictator Hussein, it brought about the end of a long legacy of cooperation between the U.S. and Iraq. Hill & Knowlton resurrected the World War I propaganda story about German soldiers roasting Belgian babies on bayonets, updated in the form of a confidential witness (actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.) who told Congress a tearful story of Iraqi soldiers taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and leaving them on the cold floor to die. President George Bush then repeated this fabricated tale in speeches ten times over the next three days. What is remarkable about this staged turn of events is that, until then, Hussein had operated largely with U.S. approval. This cooperation had spanned three successive administrations, starting with Jimmy Carter. As noted by John R. MacArthur, "From 1980 to 1988, Hussein had shouldered the burden of killing about 150,000 Iranians, in addition to at least thirteen thousand of his own citizens, including several thousand unarmed Kurdish civilians, and in the process won the admiration and support of elements of three successive U.S. Administrations" [1]. Hussein's artful slaughter of Iranians was aided by good military intelligence. The role of NSA in the conflict is an open secret in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Only in this country has there been a relative news blackout, despite the fact that it was the U.S. administration that let the crypto cat out of the bag. First, U.S. President Ronald Reagan informed the world on national television that the United States was reading Libyan communications. This admission was part of a speech justifying the retaliatory bombing of Libya for its alleged involvement in the La Belle discotheque bombing in Berlin's Schoeneberg district, where two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman were killed, and 200 others injured. Reagan wasn't talking about American monitoring of Libyan news broadcasts. Rather, his "direct, precise, and undeniable proof" referred to secret (encrypted) diplomatic communication between Tripoli and the Libyan embassy in East Berlin. Next, this leak was compound by the U.S. demonstration that it was also reading secret Iranian communications. As reported in Switzerland's Neue Zurcher Zeitung, the U.S. provided the contents of encrypted Iranian messages to France to assist in the conviction of Ali Vakili Rad and Massoud Hendi for the stabbing death in the Paris suburb of Suresnes of the former Iranian prime minister Shahpour Bakhtiar and his personal secretary Katibeh Fallouch. [2] What these two countries had in common was they had both purchased cryptographic communication equipment from the Swiss firm Crypto AG. Crypto AG was founded in 1952 by the (Russian-born) Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin who located his company in Zug. Boris had created the "Hagelin-machine", a encryption device similar to the German "Enigma". The Hagelin machine was used on the side of the Allies in World War II. Crypto AG was an old and venerable firm, and Switzerland was a neutral country. So Crypto AG's enciphering devices for voice communication and digital data networks were popular, and customers came from 130 countries. These included the Vatican, as well the governments of Iraq, Iran, and Libya. Such countries were naturally skeptical of cryptographic devices sold in many NATO countries, so turned to relatively neutral Switzerland for communication security. Iran demonstrated its suspicion about the source of the leaks, when it arrested Hans Buehler, a top salesman for Crypto AG, in Teheran on March 18, 1992. During his nine and a half months of solitary confinement in Evin prison in Teheran, Buehler was questioned again and again whether he had leaked Teheran's codes or Libya's keys to Western powers. Luckily Buehler didn't know anything. He in fact believed in his own sales pitch that Crypto AG was a neutral company and its equipment was the best. They were Swiss, after all. [3] Crypto AG eventually paid one million dollars for Buehler's release in January 1993, then promptly fired him once they had reassured themselves that he hadn't revealed anything important under interrogation, and because Buehler had begun to ask some embarrassing questions. Then reports appeared on Swiss television, Swiss Radio International, all the major Swiss papers, and in German magazines like Der Spiegel. Had Crypto AG's equipment been spiked by Western intelligence services? the media wanted to know. The answer was Yes [4]. Swiss television traced the ownership of Crypto AG to a company in Liechtenstein, and from there back to a trust company in Munich. A witness appearing on Swiss television explained the real owner was the German government--the Federal Estates Administration. [5] According to Der Spiegel, all but 6 of the 6000 shares of Crypto AG were at one time owned by Eugen Freiberger, who resided in Munich and was head of the Crypto AG managing board in 1982. Another German, Josef Bauer, an authorized tax agent of the Muenchner Treuhandgesellschaft KPMG, and who was elected to the managing board in 1970, stated that his mandate had come from the German company Siemens. Other members of Crypto AG's management had also worked at Siemens. Was the German secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), hiding behind the Siemens' connection? So it would seem. Der Spiegel reported that in October 1970, a secret meeting of the BND had discussed how the Swiss company Graettner could be guided into closer cooperation with Crypto AG, or could even merged with it. The BND additionally considered how "the Swedish company Ericsson could be influenced through Siemens to terminate its own cryptographic business." [6] A former employee of Crypto AG reported that he had to coordinate his developments with "people from Bad Godesberg". This was the location of the "central office for encryption affairs" of the BND, and the service instructed Crypto AG what algorithms to use to create the codes. The employee also remembers an American "watcher", who strongly demanded the use of certain encryption methods. Representatives from NSA visited Crypto AG often. A memorandum of a secret workshop at Crypto AG in August 1975, where a new prototype of an encryption device was demonstrated, mentions the participation of Nora L. Mackebee, an NSA cryptographer. Motorola engineer Bob Newman says that Mackebee was introduced to him as a "consultant". Motorola cooperated with Crypto AG in the seventies in developing a new generation of electronic encryption machines. The Americans "knew Zug very well and gave travel tips to the Motorola people for the visit at Crypto AG," Newman told Der Spiegel. Knowledgeable sources indicate that the Crypto AG enciphering process, developed in cooperation with the NSA and the German company Siemans, involved secretly embedding the decryption key in the cipher text. Those who knew where to look could monitor the encrypted communication, then extract the decryption key that was also part of the transmission, and recover the plain text message. Decryption of a message by a knowledgeable third party was not any more difficult than it was for the intended receiver. (More than one method was used. Sometimes the algorithm was simply deficient, with built-in exploitable weaknesses.) Crypto AG denies all this, of course, saying such reports are ""pure invention". What information was provided to Saddam Hussein exactly? Answers to this question are currently being sought in a lawsuit against NSA in New Mexico, which has asked to see "all Iranian messages and translations between January 1, 1980 and June 10, 1996". [7] The passage of top-secret communications intelligence to someone like Saddam Hussein brings up other questions. Which dictator is the U.S. passing top secret messages to currently? Jiang Zemin? Boris Yeltsin? Will Saddam Hussein again become a recipient of NSA largess if he returns to the mass slaughter of Iranians? What exactly is the purpose of NSA anyway? One more question: Who is reading the Pope's communications? Bibliography [1] John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, Hill and Wang, New York, 1992. [2] Some of the background of this assassination can be found in "The Tehran Connection," Time Magazine, March 21, 1994. [3] The Buehler case is detailed in Res Strehle, Verschleusselt: der Fall Hans Beuhler, Werd Verlag, Zurich, 1994. [4] "For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents," "No Such Agency, Part 4: Rigging the Game," The Baltimore Sun, December 4, 1995. [5] Reported in programs about the Buehler case that were broadcast on Swiss Radio International on May 15, 1994 and July 18, 1994. [6] "Wer ist der befugte Vierte?": Geheimdienste unterwandern den Schutz von Verschlusselungsgeraten," Der Spiegel 36, 1996. [7] U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, William H. Payne, Arthur R. Morales, Plaintiffs, v. Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF, Director of National Security Agency, National Security Agency, Defendant, CIV NO 97 0266 SC/DJS. November 2, 1997 Web Page: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/

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Re: bugged?
by rdew＠el.nec.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TATTOOMAN, Ken Williams <jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu> wrote on Wed Feb 18 10:28:21 1998: > Breezy > On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Breezy wrote: > >Babu Mengelepouti wrote: > >> Ken Williams wrote: > >> > ... > >> > I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-) > >> He's the one who needs to change his version... to 2.6.x > >Why use 2.6.x vs 5.0? Is 5.0 not as stable or something? Not as good? > >... > >====/------ Breezy ----------------------------/ > >===/---- ebresie(a)ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ----------/ > >==/---- http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~ebresie --/ > > PGP v2.6.2 for UNIX is RSA, and cannot decrypt anything crypted with > PGP v5.x. v5.0 for UNIX features the DSS/Diffie-Hellman algorithm that > all the other 5.x versions have. v5.0 is stable, better, and is basically > the current standard. it is more script-friendly and has a better > command-line. > > basically, it really sucks when every encrypted message i have gotten in > the past week was encrypted with RSA/DSS and i couldn't decrypt it with > the v2.6.2 that is installed at work. due to space limitations on my > volume server and our nihilistic copyrighted software policy, my only > solution/option at the moment is to bring my laptop to work just for > message decryption. > > i've sent in a software request for a PGP upgrade on the network, but due > to the expensive PGP licensing agreements and the fact that we have close NO, NO. PGP licensing agreements are by the server, not by the client. You need 1 server in each local net, on an exported partition (drive). Then the users can run it from UNIX(NT). You still have to combine the public keys onto a single keyring, but ... BTW, arrange your contracts in two chuncks. The small one has the high priced service agreement, and the large one has the licenses for the user majority. > to 50,000 active users, i don't expect anything to be done. > > guess state employees don't have the right to privacy any more huh? > and neither do the studnets here for that matter... > > TATTOOMAN Luck, Bob De Witt, rdew(a)el.nec.com

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Which is secure
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Which is secure block cypher,or stream cypher? Thanks

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by Netscape Communications 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Microsoft's World Domination Failing? [Forward]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, >From somebody in the gun lobby industry who doesn't mind sharing their opinion, though not their name... Forwarded message: > My attitude about Bill Gate$ is: Screw him! Ever since he helped finance a > recent anti-gun initiative in Washington state with over $1 million of > personal cash, I've considered him an elitist jerk. He recently sent out a > chain e-mail in an attempt to collect e-mail addresses, offering $1,000 to > any users who could stack 1,000 addresses below theirs. I refused to > forward it. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | When a man assumes a public trust, he should | | consider himself public property. | | | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | | _____ 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: Dealing with Spam, Part 1
by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > At 7:12 PM -0800 2/17/98, Marek Jedlinski wrote: > >Did you read to the point in my post when I said I would happily shut up if > >there *was* technology available? I agree with your "basic philosophy", > > Suppose someone said, "I will happily shut up and stop proposing laws to > restrict online pornography if someone shows me that there is technology > available to block it."? > > How about, "I will happily shut up if there is technology to block bad > thoughts from reaching me. Otherwise, I favor censorship." To add to this, the spam blocking technology is widely available and can be used by anyone with half brain. My spam filters make me spend no more than a minute or so a day on quickly reviewing and deleting spams. I do it by saving all messages that are likely to be spam to a separate folder. A quick browse through subject lines of these messages is enough to delete them really quickly. In the future such spam detection is going to become a lot harder. Perhaps a system where the first time sender pays a refundable digital fee to the reader will become necessary. - Igor.

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SAHMD / Porlo
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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SAHMD / Prologue 2/0 (kinda)
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Author's Note: This chapter, or continuation of the prologue, or whatever the fuck it is, contains an expose of the true diabolical nature of Lucky Green. Unfortunately, the only existing file-copy and printout are at the residence of a friend who is not currently at home, and it seems to be in my best interest to leave town in a hurry, without turning on my headlights and using only back roads and alleys. Anyone who is just so desperate to read Prologue 2/0 that they are peeing thier pants might want to email Jay Tolkoff at whatever internet address appears on Prologue 1/0 that was recently spammed to the CypherPunks list, pleading, bribing, threatening or thanking him, in order to see if he might possibly be open to sending you (or the list) a copy of foresaid missive. At present, continuation of "Space Aliens Hide My Drugs" seems to be largely dependent upon the speed of my vehicle and the volume of my ammo supply. (The more things change, the more they remain insane.) And the good news is... As soon as I hit 'send', Baby and I will be hitting the road, under cover of darkness, with the sounds of Linda Lou and the Drifters belting out Leadbelly's "When I Was A Cowboy" in our wake. Don't get any on'ya...]

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Re: I was auto-outed by an IMG tag in HTML spam
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

William H. Geiger III wrote: > >This could be a good sting opperation. Send an anonymous e-mail >message that points to a childporn site. The [add your jackbooted >thug orginization here] kick in your door as soon as they get the >signal that your machine has connected to the site and downloaded >the images. > >Hmmmm I wonder if there is a way to get the browser to DL an image >without displaying it. The pictures would be sitting in your cache >without even knowing it. Probably not a big issue I would imagine >that a jury would convict on website logs alone even if no pictures >were found on the machine. <img src="http://sting.tla.gov/randpix.cgi" width=1 height=1> would get shmeebs using netscab or microslop...

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