December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NASA 'educating' scientists to restrict free speech.
by Chris L. Kuszmaul 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Hi, my name is Chris Kuszmaul. I am a contractor at NASA Ames research center. I feel it would be valuable for the general scientific community to be aware of some upcoming classes designed to educate scientists here regarding what they may and may not write on the internet, or any public forum. -------------------- begin excerpt -------------------- NASA has begun responding to recent new legislation and regulations regarding the export of information or material with potential use as a weapon of mass destruction or international business competitiveness advantage. All personnel creating information, equipment or material falling within this category are now responsible to control its transfer according to regulations. NASA has created an Export Control Administrator at each Center responsible to implement a program which provides for the review, classification and approval (or disapproval) of the export of material or information which may be subject to limitations. The Center has arranged for the outreach program offices of the U.S. Customs and the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA), U.S. Department of Commerce, to conduct a brief class on their Agency's regulatory requirements in partial fulfilment of this required training. Everyone is welcome to attend, but this is a mandatory briefing for researchers, engineers and equipment developers. This session will deal with the enforcement of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), issues of the Commerce Control List (CCL), and Export Classification Control Number (ECCN). This particular session covers the regulatory requirement for the authors of scientific, technical materials and software developers. Anyone who generates and develops such materials, or sends NASA commodities overseas must attend this session. These specifically include NRC, Ames Associates, grant recipients, students, IPA's, contractors, civil service employees and all others who publish on behalf of NASA. The EAR, CCL, ECCN are important in completing block III of the Document Availability Authorization (DAA)(Form 1676). Each session will be approximately 15-20 minutes. A question and answer session will follow after the talk. The dates, time, and location are indicated below. Attendance at one session is sufficient to fulfill the regulatory requirements. Dates Time Location May 7, 1998 10 am Bldg. 213, Rm 261 .... --------------------------------------- As the text above says, everybody is welcome to attend. CLK

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Re: NASA 'educating' scientists to restrict free speech.
by x 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Thank you - chilling. Anyone have specifics on the "legislation"? and regulations, especially concerning "potential use as a weapon of ... international business advantage?" At 08:15 AM 4/28/98 -0700, Chris L. Kuszmaul wrote: > > > Hi, my name is Chris Kuszmaul. I am a contractor at NASA >Ames research center. I feel it would be valuable for the general >scientific community to be aware of some upcoming classes >designed to educate scientists here regarding what they may and >may not write on the internet, or any public forum. >-------------------- begin excerpt -------------------- >NASA has begun responding to recent new legislation and regulations >regarding the export of information or material with potential use as a >weapon of mass destruction or international business competitiveness >advantage. All personnel creating information, equipment or material >falling within this category are now responsible to control its transfer > >

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Quantum Snooping
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

New York Times' Markoff reports today on the latest in quantum computing, some of which was discussed here recently. Two points of note: IBM recently made a "snapshot" of the entire worldwide Web, eight trillion bytes of data, for an experimental database for searching and unnamed other manipulation by its quantum computers. Searching the database for a word by conventional computers would take a month, while quantum devices could do it in 27 minutes, a Beamer says. NSA is funding quantum computing at Los Alamos specifically for cryptographic investigation, "because QC could have a profound effect on modern cryptography." Others forms of warp speed snooping are discussed as well. --------- Restricted: "Snow Crash" is featured in a hot-selling book on the thought of the American Left, "Achieving Our Country," by philosopher Richard Rorty. The book is swell reading on the state of US thought, culture and politics whatever your disagreeable attitude. It's smallish, but for those completely broke and open to copyleft, grab it before IBM kicks it offshore: http://jya.com/161.htm (238K) http://jya.com/161.zip (89K)

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hacking smartcards
by Ken Williams 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Hello, http://cuba.xs4all.nl/~hip/ nice info, ideas, and website. Regards, Ken Williams ORG: NC State Computer Science Dept VP of The E.H.A.P. Corp. EML: jkwilli2(a)adm.csc.ncsu.edu ehap(a)hackers.com WWW: http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman/ http://www.hackers.com/ehap/ PGP: finger tattooman(a)152.7.11.38

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Re: Gary Lee Burnore and His Anti-Privacy Zealots are on the Warpath!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

William J. McClatchie <wotan(a)databasix.com> wrote: > >Anti-privacy kooks like you and DataBasix CEO Gary Lee Burnore are one of > >the best arguments for the existence of anonymous remailers. You and your > >friends at DataBasix have a hard time bullying and harassing people into > >silence that you can't identify, don't you? > > And assholes like yourself are the best argument for *banning* remailers. > They serve a purpose. Unfortunately, to meet the purpose means that > assholes are also given access to the service. Your own record of harassing remailers is well known, McClatchie. Calling remailer users "assholes" and calling for content-based censorship only underscores your anti-privacy agenda. If remailer users posted only what was popular and politically correct, there would be little need for remailers. One remailer operator who was forced to shut it down mentioned your name quite prominently, BTW, in providing details about the attack. > It was someone using a remailer to harass Wells Fargo management. Can you document this? I never read a single post from anyone claiming to speak for Wells Fargo management which has substantiated this. Nor did any of the remailer operaters involved mention having received such an official complaint from member of Wells Fargo's management. So all we have is you parroting Burnore's original unsubstantiated allegations. Isn't it interesting that when something offends Gary Burnore he often resorts to "defending" phantom victims of the alleged "abuse"? And shortly thereafter, various of his sock puppets echo his whining chant. > It was someone using a remailer who has spambaited several hundred > email addresses. And one such post contained Gary Burnore's own .sig block still appended to an otherwise anonymous post. Oops! > It was someone using a remailer who wants to know if Gary Burnore's > current employer knows of his background. And if not, how could they > be contacted. > > It was someone using a remailer who posted, in direct violation of NC law > information in its registry for the sole purpose of harrassing someone. Please cite the NC law which you claim is being violated, and how it would apply to a remailer located outside of NC? Would you also say that remailers ought to censor their content to avoid other laws being broken, such as insulting the religion of Islam, publishing information about birth control, abortion, etc.? If not, why should a foreign remailer selectively enforce this one law in NC (if it even exists)? Telling people that the website exists and that a search for "Gary Lee Burnore" on it might yield a match is not more "harassing" than the site itself. If they didn't want people to access this data, why publish it on a public website? The whole purpose of the website it apparently to let people to know who the registered sex offenders are in NC and where they live. If someone snail mailed you something you considered "harassing" and included no return address, would you accuse the sender of trying to get the postal service shut down? Wow, McClatchie. I guess you have a point. If you and Gary claim that all that happened, and that it was done by someone outside of DataBasix, then I guess we should believe it and shut down all the remailers just to make sure they aren't abused... But the fact is that all too often in the past, designer "abuse" would just automagically appear at critical times when Gary Burnore and Belinda Bryan were making demands (privately, via e-mail) on another remailer operator. How would someone outside of DataBasix have known that? How would someone other than a DataBasix insider have gotten access to the complete list of DataBasix' clients and employees in order to allegedly "spam bait" them, as Belinda claimed? Your own involvement in all of these attacks seems to more than just coincidental. Speaking of abuse and harassment, Gary Burnore demanded that Jeff Burchell turn over to him all of his remailer logs containing the e-mail addresses of everyone who had either sent or received anonymous e-mail through the server. Yet Gary refuses to disclose how such a list would have been used. Fortunately for the remailer user community, no such data was ever collected. > >Lest anyone forget, Gary launched his first tirade against anonymity when > >someone tipped off his molestation victim's mother and school officials > >anonymously. > > No, one of his first complaints about remailers was after someone used one > to harass his SO of the time, and her daughter. They had committed the > heinious crime of knowing Gary. Most women would not consider it "harassment" to be informed that their daughters were being molested. Nor did she complain. Gary did! How nice of the perpetrator to be so considerate of his victim's mother and not want to have her "harassed" by knowledge of what Gary was doing to her daughter. Ignorance is bliss, huh? Gary's motives were finally revealed when he was CONVICTED for that very crime. How would a random harasser have even known of Gary's sexual activities involving minors, before he was arrested and convicted? How would he/she know the victim's gender, age, identity, and city of residence? > >Whistleblowing has always been one of the important functions > >of anonymous remailers. > > Uh huh. And we've seen real "whistleblowing" activity here. Apparently so, when the perpetrator of the crime is the only one who complains about being exposed. In case it has escaped your attention, Gary complained PUBLICLY about a PRIVATE e-mail message to his victim's mother. If telling a mother that her daughter is being molested isn't whistleblowing, what is? > Seen plenty > of abuse. Seen postings of such a vile nature from remailers that when > people made similar postings from traceable accounts, their ISP's > terminated them. And it was not becuase of content - but becuase the > messages were harassing, in both nature and intent. TRANSLATION: Anything with which the fine folks at DataBasix disagree tends to be called "harassment" and "abuse". As for intent, the accuser has the burden of proof, there. But consider this: if even mentioning Gary's sexual activities with minors is "vile", what does that make Gary for actually committing them?

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Your Opinion Matters...
by Eat Shit 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

I think I should walk into a Luby's Cafeteria and start blowing people away at random, for no good reason. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should go down to a local school and start randomly slaughtering the children. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should monitor the electronic communications of every person on the face of the earth, in order to protect them from themselves. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should attempt being elected the leader of the most influential country in the free world, by kissing the asses of the money and power mongers. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT NOTE: If you don't have a phone, you become a guest on a TV talk show where I am appearing, and cheer or boo me, according to your wishes. Remember: Your opinion matters...NOT! EatShitMonger

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Wiretap Docs
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association suit against the FBI over disputed wiretap requirements of CALEA: http://jya.com/ctia-fbi.htm (19K) The FBI's definition of "upgrade" and "modification" for CALEA wiretap requirements, Federal Register, April 28, 1998: http://jya.com/fbi042898.txt (60K)

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ECHELON 1988
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Duncan Campbell has provided his 1988 article on the NSA ECHELON global surveillance system, one of the earliest accounts: http://jya.com/echelon-dc.htm Duncan, who was hounded in court for years by the UK gov for allegedly revealing official secrets, provided substantial support to James Bamford for "The Puzzle Palace." He was interviewed about ECHELON on French TV yesterday. See his most informative Web site for investigative reporting: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan

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18 Dec '03

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Why does the Navy research onion routing?
by David Honig 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Why does the Navy research onion routing? Only reason I can think of is so that .mil can study other sites anonymously, or communicate amongst themselves using anonymous-routing-tech to avoid traffic analysis. The other practical possibility is that they're happy to have smart CS people and will fund whatever they want to do, just to keep them. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I actually thought Silicon Valley was where women went to get fixed." ---LA Mayor Richard Riordan 98.02.19

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