December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

fight back at SPAM!
by nobody＠nsm.htp.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I received some annoying spam today. Unbelievably, they included a 1-800 number. Since they wasted my time, I thought I'd call them up and waste their time (on their nickel!). I got a recording asking me to leave a message. I then called back and it stated that this was my last call for the day. Apparently they only accept two phone calls from each distinct phone number. The phone number is 1-800-338-6150 if anyone else feels like calling them up and tying up their phone line. I'm not going to mention what they're selling, since that would be doing them a favor. Maybe when they get their phone bill they will realize the problems associated with direct email marketing on the Internet. ;-) If a honest-to-goodness live person answers, just talk to 'em and try to keep them on the line as long as possible. Ask questions about their product, etc. The longer they talk to you, the more it costs them! You get the picture! Enjoy!

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The Rapist from the Internet Chat Room
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alleged `Cybersex' Victim Testifies By SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK -- A woman who says a graduate student she met online tied her up and raped her in his apartment tearfully described for jurors how she begged, "Don't rape me, don't dismember me, don't kill me" before escaping. In emotional testimony Tuesday, the 22 -year-old woman said she managed to untie herself from a futon, fight off her assailant and flee. "I was sore. I was exhausted. I didn't want to move," she said, then describing how she loosed the cloth strips: "I felt so good! I got it undone and I stood up! I got it undone! I looked at him and he looked frightened! I'm not going to die!" The witness, who said she was naked while tied up, said she grabbed her clothes and got dressed while running for the door and fighting off the man who had held her as a sex captive for more than 20 hours. "He tried to catch me," she said. "I just kept fighting. I wouldn't let him get any part of me. I ran to the door and clenched the handle because I was not going to be tied up again." The woman says her tormentor was Oliver Jovanovic, 31, a Columbia University doctoral candidate in molecular biology whom she met in an Internet chat room. Jovanovic is charged with kidnapping, sodomy, aggravated sex abuse and assault against the woman in his apartment following their first date Nov. 22, 1996. The woman said Jovanovic had tied her up, dripped hot candle wax on her abdomen and genital area, bit her breasts until they bled and used a nightstick to sexually abuse her. The woman said Jovanovic attacked her after a discussion about good and evil and became upset when she said she believes people are not inherently evil. He then ordered her to undress, she said. Defense lawyer Jack Litman said no violence occurred between the two and that any sexual activity, while it might have been unusual, was consensual. He quoted from e-mail messages sent by the woman to Jovanovic before and after their date in which she talks about sadomasochism in what appear to be terms of approval. The e-mail messages the woman sent to Jovanovic included one that reads "Rough is good," and another that reads "I would go through the pleasure of hell's pain." The woman testified that she sought out Jovanovic because she thought he was intelligent, knowledgeable and interesting. Litman called the woman unstable and overly imaginative. He said she is blaming the evening's activity on Jovanovic to absolve herself of something she likes but considers dirty.

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PRZ on PGP/NAI/TIS/Key Recovery
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:48:48 -0500 To: jya(a)jya.com From: Ed Stone <estone(a)synernet.com> Subject: PGP/NAI merger and key recovery I received the following email from Phil Zimmermann, regarding concerns I have expressed about NAI's acquisition of TIS, a substantial contractor to the National Security Agency, and a major developer of key recovery capabilities. >> begin PRZ email<<< Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:20:34 -0800 To: estone(a)synernet.com From: Philip Zimmermann <prz(a)pgp.com> Subject: PGP/NAI merger and key recovery Cc: prz(a)pgp.com Ed, I saw your recent remarks in comp.security.pgp.discuss. I'd like to make a few points. You may quote me on this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mergers are complex operations, especially mergers of publicly traded companies of this size. NAI and TIS will not fully close the merger deal for about 60 days. Until then, there are many policy details we cannot discuss in public. NAI has no plans to incorporate TIS's key recovery technology in any version of PGP, including our business versions. I have discussed this point with NAI management. I have not changed my political values regarding privacy and crypto. I would not have allowed the sale of my company to NAI if they were going to buy PGP in order to bury PGP, as some have feared. They bought PGP because they value the reputation that PGP has earned in the industry. They want to preserve that reputation by preserving PGP's product integrity. I plan to keep watch over PGP's product integrity for the foreseeable future. NAI plans to keep publishing our source code for peer review. Source code publication in printed books is a vital part of NAI's business strategy, especially its overseas strategy. There will be an important announcement on this subject on 20 March at CeBit in Hannover Germany. -Philip Zimmermann -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.5.5 iQA/AwUBNQ+RzWPLaR3669X8EQLuRwCcDowyBBr32YtbsnYSHy6clTW+7CwAnjpk KnVN0NVreBNuIOyxsAcWIb40 =vY/q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>end PRZ email<<< -- ------------------- Ed Stone estone(a)synernet.com -------------------

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Re: EMI, Van Eck, etc.
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Michael Graffam wrote: >Find the Unofficial Tempest Homepage (sorry, dont have the URL handy.. That's Joel McNamara's bountiful and ever-growing TEMPEST site: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html While the work of Markus Kuhn and Ross Anderson provide more recent unclassified information Joel has a standing request for any TEMPEST material that is created by research or liberated from tax-pits and fat corp labs. Some black stuff comes over the transom. RF and EM offensive and defensive weapons are whitehot in national security labs around the globe, and probably equally so in commercial cages where NDA transgressors are hoovering dual-usage technologies out of MOD's coffers like subway turnstile-suckers.

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PRZ comments
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> begin PRZ email<<< Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:20:34 -0800 To: estone(a)synernet.com From: Philip Zimmermann <prz(a)pgp.com> Subject: PGP/NAI merger and key recovery Cc: prz(a)pgp.com Ed, I saw your recent remarks in comp.security.pgp.discuss. I'd like to make a few points. You may quote me on this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mergers are complex operations, especially mergers of publicly traded companies of this size. NAI and TIS will not fully close the merger deal for about 60 days. Until then, there are many policy details we cannot discuss in public. NAI has no plans to incorporate TIS's key recovery technology in any version of PGP, including our business versions. I have discussed this point with NAI management. I have not changed my political values regarding privacy and crypto. I would not have allowed the sale of my company to NAI if they were going to buy PGP in order to bury PGP, as some have feared. They bought PGP because they value the reputation that PGP has earned in the industry. They want to preserve that reputation by preserving PGP's product integrity. I plan to keep watch over PGP's product integrity for the foreseeable future. NAI plans to keep publishing our source code for peer review. Source code publication in printed books is a vital part of NAI's business strategy, especially its overseas strategy. There will be an important announcement on this subject on 20 March at CeBit in Hannover Germany. -Philip Zimmermann -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.5.5 iQA/AwUBNQ+RzWPLaR3669X8EQLuRwCcDowyBBr32YtbsnYSHy6clTW+7CwAnjpk KnVN0NVreBNuIOyxsAcWIb40 =vY/q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>end PRZ email<<< -- ------------------- Ed Stone estone(a)synernet.com ------------------- I'm just curious, and no offense intended, but Phil's signature is bad in the signed message. I'm using PGP 5.55, and it has his key in it, and it doesn't check out. "Things that make you go 'hmmmmm'".......

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Consolidate Debts, Home Improvements
by inquiry＠asset-max.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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interNIC is a bunch of fuckwads... (fwd)
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:19:15 -0800 (PST) From: Christian Hedegaard <chs(a)silcon.com> To: dc-stuff(a)merde.dis.org Cc: kemkidd(a)clearink.com Subject: interNIC is a bunch of fuckwads... A friend of mine put in a request to reg "pimpshit.com" the other day but it was DENIED by interNIC because it was deemed "innapropriate".. WHAT THE FUCK? lets see, fucker.com *isn't* innapropriate? assmaster.com isn't? what the hell crawled up their asses and died? why is a commercial corporation running the internet? why is free speech being taken away by these fuckwads? let me guess, they also will support CDA2. and any other censorship bullshit that our government tries to "protect us" with? goddamnit,. people should be able to reg whatever the fuck they want. from pussy.org, to nigger.com... I don't give a fuck if it's offensive to me or anybody, people should still have that very simple right. so, does anyone know what the story is? is interNIC going to refuse re-registration for such names as fucker.com nigger.com pussy.com etc...? or are they just refusing new registration with "innapropriate" stuff? They'd better refuse re-registration, otherwise it's totally unfair to EVERYBODY... hell, they're already being unfair to everybody.. fuckers. -- ICQ: 8141565 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibilty" -Chris Knight, "Real Genius" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Out the SPARC, through the router, down the fiber, off another router, down the T3, past the firewall... nuthin but NET" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: PRZ comments
by jim＠mentat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Somebody quoted PRZ's message about the NAI/PGP/TIS merger deal, which puts to rest for now some of <my> concerns about the weird juxtaposition of companies, anyway. He didn't address the issue of NAI becoming a KRAP again. Anonymous quoted: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ... > announcement on this subject on 20 March at CeBit in Hannover Germany. > > -Philip Zimmermann > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- and then s/he said: > I'm just curious, and no offense intended, but Phil's signature is > bad in the signed message. I'm using PGP 5.55, and it has his key > in it, and it doesn't check out. "Things that make you go 'hmmmmm'"....... Just a formatting problem. If you put a space before the "-Philip" the message checks just fine. There are several other copies of the message posted around the Web already with the correct formatting, and the other one I checked had the spacing right already (which is how I knew where to look on this copy). See, for example, the copy at http://jya.com . Jim Gillogly

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Re: interNIC is a bunch of fuckwads... (fwd)
by Eric Tune 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >A friend of mine put in a request to reg "pimpshit.com" the other day but >it was DENIED by interNIC because it was deemed "innapropriate".. > >WHAT THE FUCK? lets see, fucker.com *isn't* innapropriate? assmaster.com >isn't? what the hell crawled up their asses and died? why is a >commercial corporation running the internet? why is free speech being >taken away by these fuckwads? let me guess, they also will support CDA2. >and any other censorship bullshit that our government tries to "protect >us" with? > >goddamnit,. people should be able to reg whatever the fuck they want. from >pussy.org, to nigger.com... I don't give a fuck if it's offensive to me or >anybody, people should still have that very simple right. > >so, does anyone know what the story is? is interNIC going to refuse >re-registration for such names as fucker.com nigger.com pussy.com etc...? >or are they just refusing new registration with "innapropriate" stuff? >They'd better refuse re-registration, otherwise it's totally unfair to >EVERYBODY... hell, they're already being unfair to everybody.. > >fuckers. > Don't that just suck... I was a bit pessimistic about finding fucker.com, but lo and behold, there it was, www.fucker.com ...talk about bullshit. If they will register this, they should register "pimpshit.com" too. Talk about "selective memory loss"...sheesh. I'm heading to their site (internic) to bitch about their selective and prejudicial policy "change"... Eric J. Tune paladin(a)lvcablemodem.com PGP 5.55 and 2.62 keys available upon request. DO NOT EXPORT STRONG CRYPTO BELOW...OH NO! print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"| dc`

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PRZ 'corrections'
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous (from anon(a)anon.efga.org) wrote: > Anonymous (from this-will-bounce(a)zoom.nu) wrote: > > I'm just curious, and no offense intended, but Phil's signature is bad > > in the signed message. I'm using PGP 5.55, and it has his key in it, > > and it doesn't check out. "Things that make you go 'hmmmmm'"....... > You took out the space before "-Philip Zimmermann". Put it back as it > was originally and the signature verifies fine: I'm getting mighty tired of the anonymous motherfuckers posting through efga.org interfering with the attempts of the anonymous saints posting through the other anonymous remailers to spread CSM (Cluelessness, Stupidity and Misinformation) throughout the Internet. Remember: "If you're not living in space, you're taking up too much of the edge." ~ No Beer

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