December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Press URL's from today's Bernstein appeal hearing
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Today's hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals went very well. The judges clearly understood the case -- both the picky legal details, and how it fits into the general social issue of encryption regulation. While we can't predict their decision (or even when it will come out), we are cautiously optimistic. We'll put transcripts of the hearing up on the Web as soon as we get them from the court reporter (in days or weeks). You may want to examine some early press coverage of the hearing at: http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/120997encrypt-bernstein.html http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17114,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/1208/261695.html (The Times requires a username/password; use "cypherpunks" and "cypherpunks" if you don't want them to track your accesses.) John Gilmore Electronic Frontier Foundation

1 0

Time Magazine on America Online pornospam and Kids Summit
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

********* http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/971215/technology.why_john… .html Time Magazine December 15, 1997 Page 76 AMERICA ONLINE'S LITTLE PROBLEM By Michael D. Lemonick Reported by Bruce van Voorst and Declan McCullagh/Washington If you logged on to America Online last week, you may well have found E-mail waiting from someone you never heard of imploring you to JOIN US AT PINK PUSSY CLUB THE HOTTEST SITE FOR XXX LIVE GIRL SEX SHOWS!! or proclaiming OVER 1,000 EROTIC AND EXOTIC SHOWS!!!!!! CLICK HERE TO ENTER or any of hundreds of similar electronic come-ons. Spam--unsolicited junk E-mail--is perhaps the most irritating feature of online life. Its purveyors use powerful software to "harvest" screen names and then ship out bulk electronic mail bearing sales pitches or get-rich-quick schemes. [...] Other Time features: Bruce Handy on last week's Kids Summit: "Why Johnny Can't Surf": http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/971215/technology.america_… .html Time poll on Are Your Kids Safe Online? http://cgi.pathfinder.com/cgi-bin/gdml2x/game/time/internet

1 0

Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Doesn't Anonymous have a brother, Neal? Isn't he a playwrite, or > author, or something? > Anybody? Neal Coward?

1 0

Re: Complete package for Cantsin Protocol No. 2
by Charlie Comsec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Steffen Zahn <zahn(a)berlin.snafu.de> wrote: > I have put together a package for Cantsin 2 Signatures, to > generate the keys, sign documents and check signatures. > > Prerequisites are: > > perl Version 5 > libgmp Version 2.* > a C compiler > currently /dev/random for generation of keys and signatures > > precompiled binaries are provided for Linux-ELF (libc-5.*), if you have > that you don't need libgmp. > > Pick it up from http://www.snafu.de/~zahn/cantsin.tar.gz (70 KByte) Have you got a URL I can check out which explains this protocol and how it's superior to, let's say, PGP? Thanks. - --- Finger <comsec(a)nym.alias.net> for PGP public key (Key ID=19BE8B0D) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNIwWngbp0h8ZvosNAQG9CQf+M9d05odxcm4s0D+hQltI5XbXFIE3iCzx Bjl6n7Bs0rrs/oCy3goxTjGwrwrYlDNa7bNYpnXBPDGbRiZ2UE9vGSNY1B4aa/NL vSwjlpG2chPp9rt5JEHiKV2EgUg0zvnK53L+wT4a2EB8xDkBIzcIbdTjThQqegnu IxKD8oGXwloq8hHOxZO9kCqGiUrbUTbLsY2Swt7clYwxnFGL54JS9mw9nlUCgv8m /MKU9w+RWBLzvuQv3yNK4VaTqyu/PJ8hm/9iMLCqiiF6Rghs+8euUVUSseeLJDrc ZApkfzt/JNiu58DLpt1pI3ZReR4lCEVHjbOID/WyOPeVSKdnRrkyug== =q1Hg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

2 1

Singapore & Freedom
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

harish.pillay(a)brokat.com wrote > ..much deleted text... > >So, yes, the govt does at times choke the entrepreneurship drive >of the local population, but there are industries where the >coexistence of private initiative and govt-linked companies have >been possible and viable. Please advise what industries and the companies involved. >Let's analyze the premise of an educational system. .... >It has been a fine balance between a fully liberal system and >one that generates worker units for the most part of the last >30-35 years. ... It will take 5-10 years before an increasingly >liberal system is in place - an increasing thinking population >that is part of the global information flow that will >characterize the next centuries economies. This last sentence appears to have been taken right out the PAP policy manual, and it is a good policy statement. Educational systems are generally engineered by society to help prepare the students for life in that society. In western societies the educational system is engineered by a number of different groups in that society in what is thought to be in the best interest of the society. Who is doing the planning in Singapore and for what ends? I believe you will find Elder Statesman Lee has a major involvement at this time. If you look you will find an accelerated push to generate a more technical population. Children in Singapore start school at 5 years of age, after 5 years of schooling, what is the daily homework load for a 10 year old student?? Three to 5 hours per day? If this figure is not correct please advise the correct figure. What percentage of parents feel compelled to hire tutors to enhance their child's education or just so they get good grades? Is 60% too low?? What type of bonuses do school principals receive, is it based on the overall grade-point average of the students in their school? Why the big push? Who is the primary beneficiary of this push? Is this being done for the benefit of the worker units or the collective good of the controllers of the political group in power? Harry and his buddies have done a fantastic job with Singapore Inc. over the last 40 years. Harry had a great vision and splendid execution of that vision. Problem now is that he is rather long in the tooth and his people have changed. Instead of loosening up and allowing more democratic freedoms Harry and the boys are finding excuses to state that Singaporeans must work harder and expect less in the way of freedoms. Harry has stated many times that one of the biggest problems with western style democracies is that the voters can defeat a perfectly good government and install a bunch of goofs who spoil everything. True enough, we sometimes vote goofs into power, but at least we have the choice. Harry and the PAP have destroyed every bit of political opposition or made the opposition unpalatable to the voters. >Pray tell me how the SG govt has brought BB into reality? ... Singapore is surrounded by the Muslim hordes who covet their wealth and it has no internal security apparatus? In the 50s Singapore literally had a den of spies. The regional den of spies is now Bangkok. Why do ya figure they all moved their operations?? The Singaporeans politely asked them to leave? Have you ever had any dealings with your nation's security apparatus? If you did you would notice something strange. You just got picked up for something that happened last week but these people know about your whole life. They know how many hours you spend at the office, when you are out of the country, who you socialize with, and any vices you may have. Maybe they really don't do the Big Brother thing, they probably just have a crystal ball and got lucky with a few guesses and bluffed the rest. If you believe this last statement I have a real deal for you on some excellent used cars. When the Singapore government announced their intent to connect every household to the Internet they asked every citizen to become an informant and watch their neighbors (neighbours) for subversive activity and report any such activity to the authorities. Now, if you connect to those 100 restricted porn sites and saved copies of all you viewed on your computer and the authorities discovered that porn what would be your fate? Or are you immune to this threat? >Interesting that you hide behind an anomymous name... I notice your government does not like anonymous dissent either. The standard procedure in Singapore in dealing with trouble makers is to dig up their records, school, National Service, employment, and whatever else they can get and then tear the poor souls apart. Harry has participated in this tactic many times. Just so it will not bother you, I admit I am a low-life. Dropped out of school, fired from every job, do drugs, abuse alcohol, guns, no church, beat my kids, beat my wife, beat my dog, and I hang-out in second-rate strip-joints with bikers who deal drugs and loanshark. Plus I collect welfare..... I use anonymous mail for many reasons. The reason here should be pretty obvious. SingMonger

2 1

No Subject
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hmm. Okay, then. I think Vulis needs each of us to send twenty copies of this back to him in a horribly mutilated state. >I think Vulis uses procmail. > >On 7 Dec 1997, Secret Squirrel wrote: > >> I think Vulis needs each of us to send ten copies of this back to him. >>

2 1

(no subject)
by Alan Holliday 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

1 0

Re: Time Magazine on America Online pornospam and Kids Summit
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On or About 8 Dec 97 at 12:44, Declan McCullagh wrote: > http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/971215/technology.a > merica_onlin.html >From the above: "But parents may have to resort to the crude but effective technique of keeping the computer in public view and looking over the kids' shoulders every once in a while. " What a novel idea, Declan, parental supervision! Who would have thought? Ross =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://ross.adnetsol.com Voice: (408) 259-2795

1 0

Safe Speech
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Blue-Nosed Guardian (Nikki Craft, NJ) December 4, 2000; THURSDAY; ALL EDITIONS SECTION: OPINION; HEADLINE: PEDOPHILES IN THE BIOSPHERE; WE MUST STOP SPOKEN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY EVERYWHERE BYLINE: The Record BODY: The increasing presence of child pornography in spoken communications is a national problem that must be dealt with aggressively and quickly. This is not a free-speech or First Ammendment issue. Child pornography is a crime. We do not tolerate it on our computers, and we should not tolerate it in audiospace. Unfortunately, as a Page One article in the Blue-Nosed Guardian pointed out yesterday, audiospace is tailor-made for the dissemination of child pornography. It allows peophiles instant access to explicit descriptions of childhood sexual activity almost anywhere, and it gives distributors and collectors enough anonymity to avoid getting caught and being prosecuted. Using advanced non-digital technology, two pedophiles can meet almost anywhere, and exchange explicit descriptions of childhood sexual activity, with little fear of detection. Phrases like "Timmy, aged 7, has a stiffie" and "Little Mary's muffin swelled and moistened when she saw little Timmy's cute red knob" can be exchanged with ease vicariously victimizing inocent children worldwide by transforming them into sexual objects for pedophiles' selfish gratification. In fact, the ease of communicating descriptions of childhood sexual activity through the spoken word may actually have broadened the audience for child pornography. And law enforcement officials worry that this may lead to increased child abuse, because American parents might actually begin to believe that guilt-free sex-positive messages are good for children, in lieu of the normal beatings and state-mandated psychotherapy. Vice President and famed child-rearing expert Dr. James Dobson has been leading a campaign to make sound waves safe for children. This week, he announced a new partnership between cities and the Justice Department effort to crack down on child pornography, and a toll-free hotline where people may report any neighbors heard discussing the sexuality of minors in terms other than those used in Surgeon General Phyllis Schlafly's "Innocence and Abstinence" report. But law enforcement officials, sound wave experts, and child advocates say it's not that easy, by any means. Even if landlords, businesses, and professionals cooperate in monitoring all speech uttered by persons on their premises, there are hundreds of small conversations which take place in other locations, where people are loathe to police others, because of liability concerns, or because they consider it to be a waste of time. The Blue-Nosed Guardian's article also pointed out that most law enforcement officials are not knowlegable enough to track down child pornography distributors, who are experts at whispering spoken descriptions of child sexual activity and finding new ways to conceal their communications from onlookers. Law enforcement officials may also lack the manpower needed to track down pedophiles. "If we want to break into someones house and install recording equipment," one investigator said, "we actually have to go in front of a judge and get a warrant." Child advocates say they hope to eliminate such "loopholes for pedophiles" in the future. Many more "audiocops" are needed at the federal, state, and local levels, who have the expertise to stay ahead of spoken communication, and much more manpower and training is needed. In New Jersey, state Sen. stupid fuck Andrew Ciesla, has introduced a bill which would set aside $400,000,000 of money stolen from the taxpayers for a special unit to investigate spoken child pornography, and create a 24-hour toll-free state hot line for people to turn in their neighbors. Alerting the authorities is a key component of this crackdown, and Dr. Dobson also announced a national "AudioTip" hotline to report any comments about childhood sexuality which might be overheard. Dr. Dobson also took the opportunity to plug his new book, "Dare to Discipline III: Electrotorture and Enemas." The Vice President is to be commended for seeking ways to stop these ugly predators. But this effort must be more than just lip service. It must result in all Americans understanding that children have no sexual feelings, and engage in no sexual behavior prior to age 18 unless they have been corrupted by pedophiles, and that abstinence is the expected behavior of those over 18, before entering into a stable marriage which can only be terminated by the death of one of the partners. In the meantime, intense pressure should be brought to bear on the non-mute citizen units, and those who supervise them, to make a huge dent in this particularly vile audiocrime, through aggressive self-policing and frequent government-sponsored self-criticism sessions. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

1 0

Re: Complete package for Cantsin Protocol No. 2
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steffen Zahn wrote: >I have put together a package for Cantsin 2 Signatures, to generate >the keys, sign documents and check signatures. I've been looking this over and it's a nice job. The code is clean and orderly. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but it looks like everything is done the right way. For example, it doesn't tell you how many valid signatures a file has, it outputs a fragment of the file for each valid signature. The database of known keys has the nice property that you can name each key anything you like. The source code is completely unencumbered. This is great! For some reason, it has been the custom to issue free software with all sorts of restrictions, in particular restrictions which hamper its commercial use. But, if we are giving it away to people so they will use it, why restrict it? If somebody can use it to start a cypherpunk company, this is a Good Thing. (This can even be a Very Good Thing for the original programmer. ;-) It might be a good idea to publish the SHA1 checksum of the file you are distributing. The checksum of the file I got (cantsin.tar.gz) was: D054C9E4ABD5CEE0C5A4343E5D1E2EF91C00048A I may not approve of the restrictions on free speech in Germany, but at least the German government isn't trying to stop people from publishing arithmetic. The truth is, that for Monty Cantsin's activities, he would get a better deal on free speech if he were German. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm Subject: Re: Complete package for Cantsin Protocol No. 2 To: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com 25BA1A9F5B9010DD8C752EDE887E9AF3 [Cantsin Protocol No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

2 1