December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Chaffing and winnowing
by Mark Rosen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Mark> ... g. Data authentication equipment that calculates a > Mark> Message Authentication Code (MAC) or similar result to > Mark> ensure no alteration of text has taken place, or to > Mark> authenticate users, but does not allow for encryption of > Mark> data, text or other media other than that needed for the > Mark> authentication; > >But wasn't that the gist of Rivest's paper: he's not encrypting the >message, he's just obscuring it really, really well. > >All this needs someone with the cash & the time to push it to court... > Actually, the first parts I quoted applied to chaffing and winnowing too: a. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing digital techniques to ensure ``information security''; b. Designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions; c. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing analog techniques to ensure ``information security''; Part a. basically prevents any sort of "encryption" technique, whether that technique uses a normal encryption algorithm, a hash function, or quantum cryptography -- anything that can be used for "information security" I think that the NSA knew about chaffing and winnowing, and they talked with the people who wrote the EAR and helped them make the legislation cover chaffing and winnowing. Please know that I, in no way, like the EAR; it just seems that everyone's hopes that chaffing and winnowing gets around the export controls are invalid. The EAR doesn't care *how* you do the encryption, it only cares that some sort of "encryption" was performed. Are there any legal-types out there that can give a more definitive answer? - Mark Rosen http://www.mach5.com/

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Re: Abusive crossposting by anonymous remailer user (Was: Gary Lee Burnore is a Convicted Sex Offender in Raleigh, NC)
by gburnore＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 13 May 1998 15:11:11 +0200 (MET DST), in article <199805131311.PAA05504(a)basement.replay.com>, nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote: :eridani@databasix.com (Belinda Bryan) wrote: : :> And there we have it, folks. The anonymous stalker who's spent the past :> year following Gary Burnore around Usenet found a post in :> triangle.general that mentioned him, added a propaganda-filled follow up :> to it, and posted it to 9 newsgroups--many of whom have repeatedly :> requested that this crap be kept out of said groups. : :"Anonymous stalker"? For merely posting a reply to a public post on :Usenet? What state or country has a statute against that, and what makes :you think the poster falls under its jurisdiction if it does exist? As for :whether a certain post is "propaganda", that is for the reader to decide, :especially when of the content is independently verifiable. The :"propaganda" you refer to was apparently intended to refute the fallacious :assertion that since Gary Lee Burnore's entry in the North Carolina :official database of registered sex offenders had apparently been removed, :then the underlying crime for which he was convicted and required to :register somehow automagically never happened. To make such an assertion :is to invite rebuttal. Only for someone as obsessed in this as you. Everyone else I've seen post except those who have a grudge directly against me has said something similar to "who gives a fuck?" Your obsession continues. : :The thread you're whining about involved Steve Crisp <crisp(a)pageplanet.com> :threatening an anonymous poster with "beating the living fuck out of you" :if his/her identity could be determined, a second anonymous poster :challenging the propriety of such a threat, and yet another DataBasix :groupie, William McClatchie <wmcclatc(a)primenet.com>, calling the second :anonymous poster a "remailer abuser" for daring to make such a challenge. :So rather than denouncing the threat itself, you choose to call the person :challenging it an "anonymous stalker"? If you feel no need to "hide" :anything, please feel free to post your street address and home phone :number. But I imagine that many people with small children would not want :their names, from which their street address can be derived by someone with :the resources available to you and Gary Burnore, to fall into the hands of :a convicted child molester with a history of abusive retaliation. Geesh you ignorant fuck. It's been posted more times than I can count. You don't remember posting it right? Oh wait, that was someone else who's obsessed with me right? Uh huh. The same way you posted Steve's info you posted mine. : :Being threatened with physical violence for making an unpopular post is :one of the best arguments available as to why anonymity is necessary when :people like Steve Crisp and convicted child molester Gary Lee Burnore are :running around loose making those threats. If people like you weren't allowed to abuse remailers, people like chris wouldn't make comments that he knows are not threats to draw you out. You buy it hook line and sinker. You must certianly know that he's not threatning anyone since you're posting anonymously and he couldn't possibly know who you are. But obsessed as you are you can't take it. : :> Oh and lookee what else: it was mailed to cypherpunks(a)toad.com, :> presumably for archival on the cypherpunks mailing list, where it will :> be picked up by WWW search engines. Since those folks don't seem to :> mind having their archives used in personal grudge matches, I'll just :> start cc'ing my responses there as well. I'm sure, as champions of free :> speech, they can understand the necessity of making sure both sides of :> the story get equal time. : :This, of course, comes from the same Belinda Bryan who impersonated a :lawyer for DataBasix to demand the disclosure of (fortunately non-existant) :user logs from the Huge Cajones remailer in a failed Scientology-esque :attempt to embarass its users. More lies from the obsessed one as Belinda NEVER impersonated a lawyer for anyone. Beating dead horses is your specialty isn't it? : And that attack, BTW, started because Gary :Burnore was pissed that an anonymous whistle blower used a remailer to tip :of his victim's mother to the molestation. As is typical of his style, :Burnore denounced that legitimate use of anonymity as "harassment" and :"abuse". More unproven lies. If you, the anonymous asshole were really interested in the truth (rather than your obsession with me) you'd get the court documents and see that the dates do not support your libelous statements. Libelous statements are the best argument for remailers. If you need to make a libelous statement, do it from a remailer. Nothing will happen to you. (Other than folks will begin to ignore the remailer) : :It was also Burnore who chose to make PUBLIC what had previously been a :private e-mail, thus inviting his critics to factually evaluate the claims. :One of them apparently did so and discovered Gary Burnore's name and mug :shot were published on an official PUBLIC website of registered sex :offenders maintained by the state of North Carolina where Burnore moved :after leaving San Francisco. More lies from the anonymous asshole. It's not been that long since this started that people don't remember how and why it was posted to USENet. It had nothing to do with an email. : Perhaps he should have learned a lesson from :Gary Hart and not have taunted the wrong people to find evidence of his :wrongdoing. Perhaps I should continue to improve my tracing skills and find you one day. : :Will the continual harangue against privacy and anonymity by Gary Lee :Burnore, Belinda Bryan, Billy McClatchie, and other staffers and sock :puppets of the DataBasix wrecking crew never end? Translation: If Gary Burnore and Belinda Bryan and Bill McClatchie leave the internet, the anonymous asshole will stop lying. : :BTW, Belinda, cross-posting your whining drivel in the fashion you're :threatening negates your lame attempts to achieve deniability by using the :infamous X-No-Archive header that has become the trademark of DataBasix' :denizens. You've never given a valid reason why someone should or should not use an X-No-Archive header. You hide behind a remailer and libel and then complain when someone X-No-Archives. Typical hypocritical thinking. : IOW, you won't be able to retroactively claim that an :embarassing post from you was "forged" because it's not archived at an :unbiased, third party site. Can you say "oops"? Well we'll see about unbiased sites now won't we? -- for i in databasix netcom primenet ; do ; gburnore@$i ; done --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Burnore | ÝÛ³ºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³³ÝÛºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³Ý³Þ³ºÝ³ÝÝÛ³ | ÝÛ³ºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³³ÝÛºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³Ý³Þ³ºÝ³ÝÝÛ³ DOH! | ÝÛ³ºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³³ÝÛºÝ³Þ³ºÝ³Ý³Þ³ºÝ³ÝÝÛ³ | ÝÛ³ 3 4 1 4 2 Ý³Þ³ 6 9 0 6 9 ÝÛ³ spamgard(tm): zamboni | Official Proof of Purchase =========================================================================== PGPprint: C63B CF4E 1B71 4D7E C6F8 AF4E 338D 5CB4 KeyID: 0x0F7EDBD9 (RSA) finger gburnore(a)netcom.com for public key ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was looking at my RAM when I noticed several passwords I have frequently used were still there, and as I never turn off my comp, I was wondering if there is a way you can "clean" your RAM? I also got errors when installing LILO on my DOS partition, so now I *CAN'T* boot without a bootdisk, and I think LILO sticks itself on the master boot record, is there an MBR editor? Where can I get a list of Candian Remailers? Is there a DOS and/or Winbloze 3.* Email program that I can "forge" headers? (ex: Like in Linux fastmail adding: -f billc(a)whitehouse.gov) thnx.

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17 Dec '03

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by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re:
by alt1＠snowhill.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:35 AM 5/14/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >I was looking at my RAM when I noticed several passwords I have >frequently used were still there, and as I never turn off my comp, I >was wondering if there is a way you can "clean" your RAM? >I also got errors when installing LILO on my DOS partition, so now I >*CAN'T* boot without a bootdisk, and I think LILO sticks itself on Use LOADLIN instead. It's much nicer, and a LOT faster than LILO, and doesn't require a boot floppy. I would have replied only to you, except for the fact that you posted anonymously.

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Re:A 'Nobody' Out From 'Obscura'
by StanSqncrs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 5/14/98 1:28:03 AM Central Daylight Time, tcmay(a)got.net writes: << > Bad beginning, Sir Will. The willingness to pass along material of dubious > authenticity is not a good sign in my book. As Mr. Natural would say, "Check > your source." So, what *IS* your source? This qualifies as an Official News Story Quote under the guidelines released by 'True Lies On The InterNet Coommiittee' which was formed on Oct. 3, 1954. >> Maybe so, but does something 4 years old qualify as "news"? Only to a victim(/perpertrator) of a anti-reality campaign. Stan

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Re: Anymous twit dealing in hypocracy
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

wmcclatc(a)primenet.com (William J. McClatchie) wrote: > X-Comment: Aw, are you offended? [...] > > Do you operate a remailer, McClatchie? > > Do you? Which one? > > Personally, too many people use them for abusive purposes these days to > feel like making the effort. Just look in triangle.general for posts from > nobody(a)replay.com for an example of someone using a remailer to harrass > someone else. Perhaps you ought to reread your own header line, if you don't like what is being posted: "Aw, are you offended>". Many remailer users utilize them to avoid retaliation for hypersensitive netcops like you, Gary Burnore, and Steve Crisp. If everyone posted strictly politically correct content that wouldn't offend anyone, there would be little need for anonymity. But threatening to "beat the living fuck out of" someone because he disagreed with what someone posted is ample reason to withhold one's name and e-mail address. If you don't like to read anonymous posts, please feel free to learn the proper use of a killfile, McClatchie. BTW, only one of us is using a proper, RFC-compliant e-mail address in the From: line.

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by Dave Banisar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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