December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Airline ticket information -- help
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm trying to find out what airline flight someone is taking. I have a name and know the general travel plans and likely date. How can I find out the airline, flight number, and seat number? This is somewhat urgent. (You have my assurance that the purpose is legit.) If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks, Declan

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Re: The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right ofAnonymity"...)
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:51 PM -0800 2/1/98, Black Unicorn wrote: >Mr. May said: > >>Suffice it to say that I find nearly all cases where someone is "demanding" >>personal information to be cases where the government has required them to, >>for various unseemly purposes, or in cases where credit is being arranged. > >Of late I tried to pay off a rather large American Express bill. > >Suddenly, AMEX won't take cash in excess of $1,000 in any single billing >period (30 days). The large sign on the wall indicated the substance of .... It's worth noting (again) that a very simple technological/social solution to the "credit card companies have records on people" problem, the one often cited by "privacy law advocates" as the reason for a Data Privacy Act, is easily found. Namely, remove any impediments to the issuance of credit or debit cards unlinkable to the True Name of a user. A card issuer could feature this as a Privacy Card, either backed by transfers of backing capital to accounts, or using Chaum-style methods. This is fully feasible using Chaumian credential-revealing mechanisms. (Cf. Chaum's seminal "Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete," in Communications of the ACM, November 1985. Updated a few times and available in reprints or other places. Try search engines for latest locations.) However, the trends are in just the opposite direction, as both Black Unicorn and Bill Stewart have noted in this thread. Between the War on Drugs, the laws about money laundering, the fears of tax evasion, and the general burrowcrat desire to record the movements and actions of citizen-units, such a Privacy Card would be frowned-upon. Various roadblocks, ranging from "know your customer" restrictions on banks to anti-money-laundering laws, would be thrown up to stop any such Privacy Card. The real solution is easy. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right of Anonymity"...) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: "Attila T. Hun" <attila(a)hun.org> > Date: Mon, 02 Feb 98 18:07:57 +0000 > Subject: Re: The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right of Anonymity"...) > >I've been doing it for many years. Don't have a checking account, don't > >own a credit card. I do have a saving account with a local credit union > >and go in every 3-4 days and withdraw what I need for the next 3-4 days. > >Pay every bill in cash or money order. > > first, the use of the credit union includes your SSN and > they have a total cash transaction at least on your primary > expenses. Wrong. I go in once a week and pull out money in a lump sum. I then budget that money myself. The only thing they have is a sequence of deposits from paychecks and withdrawals to cash. > if you have "consulting" income which can be > converted to cash, and dont deposit it, then you can do you > 'high on the hawg' living with the cash --until they bring > the IRS CID along and look at your 'imputed' income which is > almost indefensible in their kangaroo courts. I either take the fees in check and deposit them or else take 'in kind' trade (eg I did a job if installing Win95 for a customer on some laptops he'd bought via auction. There was a Tadpole 3XP Sparcbook on there. I took it for my fee). > >I'm going to go tomorrow and buy a new laptop at around $1500. > > what are you getting for $1500? out here in the boonies > we dont see those kind of prices. Looks like a Toshiba Satellite 445CTX (133MHz Pentium). > well, in the first place, you live in Texas where the > attitude to the Feds is rather strong --not as strong as our > attitude in rural Utah where the usual transaction is in > cash. out here, a Fed is the same as a revenuer in Eastern > Kentucky or Tennessee. reminds me of the Fed approaching a > child and telling him he'd give him $5 if he took him to his > father (still) --the boy asked for the money up front. when > the Fed asked why, the boy said: "...'cause you aint coming > back". You don't know Texas or Texans very well... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ 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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by Russell Nelson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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distributed cryptographic attack demo
by Jon Cooper 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hi, i'm trying to do a demo of a distributed object technology and it seems to me that many cryptographic attacks would be facilitated by our approach. do you have any ideas for what a neat distributed effort might be? the ones i've thought of just don't seem too exciting: * GNFS of RSA modulus * attacking SSL * brute-force RC5 attack i'm looking for something that would be a sort of viscerally engaging attack, something that will make people who aren't necessarily number theorists or cryptographers take note. any input would be helpful! *jon PS - note that I'm not on cypherpunks so a direct reply would be most highly appreciated.

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distributed computing
by Jon Cooper 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm in the planning phase of a demo which should demonstrate the power of a distributed object technology which I'm working with. Any ideas for neat crypto-related distributed computation demos would be much appreciated. I've thought of: * brute forcing RC5 (lots of people are doing this already) * factoring attack on RSA modulus * Certicom's ECC challenge But I'm looking for something with more of a sort of gut-level appeal. Cracking SSL packets might be good. Hrmm. thanks for any input ... *jon

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by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right of Anonymity"...)
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:07 PM 2/2/98 +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote: > I did-- tried to lay $14K out for a Mercedes (25 years ago). > they wouldnt take it. so I went and picked up two $7K > cashiers from two different banks. same thing with a pair > of Lycoming IO540 aircraft engines: 2 8s and a 9 --stay > under the $10K transaction. Careful. This may well be illegal now. Structuring transactions to avoid reporting requirements is a felony. (I'm not on cpunks, mail me).

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