December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Paul Merrill, his eyes uncovered! (or so he claims)
by Rabid Wombat 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Or you could get back on your medication. On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Anonymous wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Paul H. Merrill wrote: > > > Never has a single missive opened my eyes so thououghly. > > > > First, I had always thought that libertarians were somewhat equivalent > > to my personal philosophy of Rational Anarchism. Thanks to your pearly > > prose I now know that libertarians are not rational. I attribute my > > failure to notice this in the past to the plethora of > > pseudo-libertarians (like Tim May) that have a brain and can say > > something beyond "What I want is right and you are wrong". > > > > Second, I now recognize fully the signs of masked inferiority. Any > > attempt to allow the unwashed masses access to computer technology is > > met with contempt and belittlement. Personally, I do not fear what > > others may be able to accomplish if they have a tool that they have the > > ability to use. > > Despite your mentality, I resist the urge to hope that you should learn > from practical experience what is apparently eluding you. That would > probably take the general form of you being in an automobile accident and > getting killed because the idiot who stops to "help" you attempts to do > CPR the Hollywood way and tells somebody who actually knows what they're > doing that he can handle it. > > Because I expect people to have basic knowledge above and beyond clicking > a mouse, pushing buttons on a television remote, mixing vinegar and baking > soda, and learning CPR by watching Baywatch, I'm suffering from "masked > inferiority." > > Thank you for opening my eyes, Paul. I will now flush years of higher > education down the drain and become like the "common man" so I'm not > accused of exhibiting signs of "masked inferiority." When I'm trying to > wash mold off my house and make a "jiffy mold remover" by mixing ammonia, > chlorine bleach, and a plethora of other things, thereby releasing toxic > gasses and quite possibly causing the barrel it was in to explode throwing > shrapnel all over the block, I'll claim ignorance. > > Or maybe somebody can practice medicine by asking for "fifteen cc's > anaprovaline" in emergencies because they heard it on Star Trek. > > Or maybe I could use large quantities of butyric acid to scare dogs away > from my home. When the neighbors complain, I can claim ignorance. Of > course, the area might be uninhabitable for a while. Phew! > > After all, ignorance is what is prized in this society. The techies are > just somebody to pay when you need them, and make fun of and assault the > rest of the time. > > > Third, reality has never seemed to be a strong-point with libertarians, > > but now I see that the disregard for reality an asset in your book. > > Because the reality is that most of those poor folk out there can't use > > UNIX. Not won't, can't. Their phobia does not allow it, just as your > > phobia does not allow you to consider any possible way that they might > > gain even a fraction of the power of the Information Age that you > > already have. > > So these people now are "victims" of a "phobia" which prevents them from > reading documentation and bothering to educate themselves. If you don't > want to claim ignorance, claim that you're a victim; it always works these > days. > > They can gain all the power they want. It's when they walk in with an > assault rifle in each hand and start spraying the room randomly with > cluelessness-inducing ammo that people get mad. > > If in doubt, claim you are a victim of this widespread epidemic known as > "phobia of clue." > > > Fourth, while I am a whore and will run or build any system that someone > > is willing to pay me to, I do have my limits. I know longer accept > > contracts or employment related to the military and intelligence > > communities. Neither, do I sell my body. I leave that to the wannabe > > geeks like yourself. > > I think you're suffering from denial, Paul, and that you're lashing out at > anybody who could be a threat to your business because of masked > inferiority. > > > > > Again, Thank you for opening my eyes. > > No problem. Don't mention it. > >

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Re: Anonymous phone calls
by Richard Storey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Trei, Peter wrote: > > Bill Stewart [SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] wrote: > > >At 05:49 PM 8/2/98 -0700, scoops wrote: > >>Would some one be kind enough to suggest anonymous phone > >>call services? > >>I know about some supposedly untraceable 900# at $3.95 per > >>minute. What about an anonymous prepaid service 800# or a > >>calling card. > > >Sure - there's a much cheaper, easier approach. Go buy a > >phone card. There are some phone cards that insist on being > >recharged by credit card, but there are lots that you can > >buy at your local convenience store that don't insist on it, > >and the ones at ethnic grocery stores which let you call > >Mexico or China at moderately outrageous rates are more > >likely to be cash-only. Or you can go to your airport (if > >you're not too paranoid about Them watching you :-) and buy > >phone cards like The Official San Francisco Phone Card, in > >return for US$20 bills. > > At about the same effort, you can be even more secure. Use > cash. Change your $20 bill for a couple rolls of quarters > and walk up to any pay phone that takes coins. Put in a > quarter, and dial your number. You'll hear something like > 'Please insert $3.50 for the first three minutes.' Shove in > the coins, and talk. Works fine for long distance as well as > local calls. Much cheaper than the 900#. > > If you use a calling card for more than a single call, those > calls can be linked to each other. It may also be possible > to trace where the card was sold. > > Peter Trei > ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com Also, even the private-switch operations selling cash-paid calling cards have records of the calls made on their systems, though those records might not be in a form that makes them readily linkable to the orginator of a given call--it all depends on how much it's worth to the pursuer to pursue you. Richard Storey

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - August 3, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Mitchell 8/3/98 14:18 phone conversation
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 8/3/98 3:41 PM FAX Jan Elizabeth Mitchell Assistant U.S. Attorney U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney District of New Mexico Post Office Box 607 Albuquerque, NM 87103 505/346-7274 505/766-2868 FAX 505/346-7205 Dear Ms Mitchell: Purpose of the fax is to 1 review points covered in our 8/3/98 14:18 phone conversation 2 suggest settlement. You phoned me today. You told me that you planned to file a motion or response to the Tenth circuits request Morales and my response to the jurisdictional issue on the 21st of August. I told you that this was premature on your part since we had moved for a second time for an extension of time. I told you also that this matter was now before congress. You appeared to indicate to me that you were in the process of adding both Morales and Minihan as named parties in this appeal. You asked me if it would be agreeable to us if you filed a response to the Tenth circuit 21 days AFTER Morales and I filed our response to the Tenth circuit on the jurisdictional issue. I AGREED. I spoke to Morales on the phone shortly after our phone conversation. Arguing points of law before court clerks and judges who have outstanding criminal complaint affidavits for crimes COMMITTED IN WRITING againtst them would be unproductive on Morales and my part. Therefore, we will proceed to resolve the criminal conduct on the part of judges and court clerks before we proceed further in this matter. We will do this at the Congressional level. Senate Judiciary Committe chairman Orrin Hatch, unfortunately, failed to properly process a valid complaint on New Mexico district court chief judge John Conway in 1995. http://www.jya.com/whp071598.htm Hatchs failure to properly respond in 1995, in large part, caused our current legal conflict with DIR NSA Minihan. We foresee an unfortunate escalation of hostilities if this matter proceeds as it is. We do not wish this. We seek settlement of the UNFORTUNATE matter at the earliest time. We ask your and Congressional help to settle this UNFORTUNATE matter before it gets WORSE. If I have made any essential material errors in reporting my impression of the contents of our conversation, then I would appreciate you giving your impression of possible errors. You can do this in the letter you said you would write to us. Sincerely, bill payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Distribution Senate Judiciary Committee e-mail Arthur R Morales e-mail

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Actually, Hamre said that US companies have no Gawd-Given Right to > _export_ strong crypto. See: > http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/14098.html Oh, it's sick anyhow... A couple excerpts from jya's transcript: On the EFF DES cracker: Now, I need to explain first of all, that the government is currently permitting the export of 56 bit encryption algorithms. Now, I know that there's some huffing and puffing about whether that's strong encryption or not. But again, I say let's put this in context. There was a flap here the other day when, ta-da, somebody invented a computer that could break 56 bit encryption in 30 hours or 40 hours or whatever the time was, right. You took 40 hours to decrypt a two-second message. And it was good only for that one message. You've got to start all over again on the next two-second message. Tell me that that isn't strong encryption. [Secretary Hamre, that isn't strong encryption. Weak enough that cracking DES keys for two grand each -- reasonable price considering some of the applications using DES -- can be a viable business for the shady hacker type, in fact. Pays for your parts in ten months, pocket most everything else until the machine breaks.] On export controls: "...I'd also ask American business not to make a campaign out of just trying to bust through export controls as though somehow there was a God-given, inherent right to send the strongest encryption to anybody in the world, no matter who they are. I don't agree with that. I will never agree with that." ["I will never agree with that" -- I'd say we're talking to an open-minded individual who's really trying to work things out, eh?] > > Which, despite all the damage control and spin waves that followed > the initial report in WiRed, does not mean that the NSA and DoD believe > that anyone has been granted some privilege to speak in confidence that > they, being reverent and religious fellows, should and must respect. > > Much ado about nothing, here! > > The first (perhaps literally erroneous) WiRed News report -- that > senior DoD officials do not believe that any two people anywhere in the > world have a perfect and unassailable right to speak in confidence and > secrecy -- was spot on accurate and true. > > > ----- > "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for > good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by > its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who > deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." > _ A Thinking man's Creed for Crypto _vbm. > > * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin(a)shore.net> * > 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

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Thanks for the visit
by VideAll USA 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just a note to thank you for your past visit to our old aol based website, which presents the VideAll for video-taping everyone. Please visit our new site at http://www.videall.com.

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Angry stripper pees on punter/Girlz Toyz/Topless teens
by STUFFED/EUREKA! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Welcome to today's issue of Stuffed. To read it you should click on the URL below. If it is not made clickable by your email program you will need to use your mouse to highlight the line, copy it and then paste it into your browser (then press Return). http://stuffed.net/98/8/3/ If you have an email program that can display web pages you will find today's front cover should have already been disp- layed and can be clicked on to take you straight to Stuffed. This email is never sent unsolicited. Stuffed is the supplement for the Eureka newsletter you subscribed to. Full instructions on unsubscribing are in every issue of Eureka!

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Hi! I'm only 12 years old
by william cane 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Do you really have this much time on your hands? Man yer gonna attract the wrong attention by saying that shit, your not a very convincing 12 year old, I can see the monster glow in your eyes, the same one my sister met that day in the park. If you are 12, and are really as stupid as I think you are, and want to meet the 38 year old monster in the park, Then I say go for it, hell its not like i or anyone else really give a shit about you anyway. And if you think this is cool, then you are way the fuck off base.

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No Subject
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What characteristics make a jurisdiction (sovereign power) a good "safe-haven?"

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Whom they will destroy they first make mad.
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 8/4/98 7:45 AM J Orlin Grabbe I liked your article. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/apocalyp.htm Reminds me of one of my favorite books. The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith. Since you are a Harvard grad, mathematician Garrett Birkhoff bought me lunch at the Harvard faculty club in about 1976. We were making plans to get a machine combinatoric and stochastic algorithm subprogram library written. Like LINPACK, etc. But NSA killed that project and my NSF grant DCR75-08822. See Bruce Barns, the Puzzle Palace by James Bamford. We returned from Durango on Monday afternoon. I have some INSIDE news from the wife of a former AF base commander in Turkey about 1 Ron Brown's flight 2 Khobar towers 1 The AF warned the White House not to fly Brown's flight because of bad weather. Advice issued from Ramstein. Advice ignored. White House removed Ramstein AF base commander. 2 AF base commander was removed for the Khobar incident although base commander had nothing to do with lack of security. Former Kirland AFB and new base commander are buddies with our friends in Durango. I think that we have made the government MAD. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm Wayland told me yesterday that the Texas A&M profs went over the reasons for rejection of their SBIR grant. One of the MAIN reasons, Wayland told me, was the grant did not spell-out the WAY the profs were going to IMPLEMENT their idea. My attached method for ACCOMPLISHING the goal was included with the prof's REQUESTED revision of their SBIR grant, Wayland told me. I am getting enmeshed in techie stuff. I need and WANT to finish the digital FX PRONTO. Let's all hope for settlement of the UNFORTUNATE mess before it gets WORSE. bill Tuesday 8/4/98 7:06 AM tech(a)cyberpowersystems.com www.cyberpowersystems.com 512/238-9905 Yesterday I was trying to send a e-mail QUICK. I did not close the PowerPanel Window before invoking IE and the external ZOOM Flex modem software. Dial-Up Networking window in Windows 95B reads ! The modem is being used by another Dial-Up Networking connection or another program. Disconnect the other connection or close the program, and then try again OK I disabled the decode on the Superhigh Speed Serial Card by NOT JUMPERing any addresses. Guys, it appears to me AT THE MOMENT that the problem is that the CyberPower code is interfering with the Dial-Up Networking software within Windows 95. It would be nice to be able to use BOTH the CyberPower auto shutdown feature and Internet at the same time. I realize that the software problem is likely in Windows 95 but I am NOT OPTIMISTIC that Microsoft will fix the problem. Therefore. Got any fixes? I will phone tech support later today. I am not reading e-mail. Thanks in advance. bill WEED KILLER computer interface proposal section 7/27/98 10:11 AM Solution to controlling and collecting data from the WEED KILLER involves interfacing a personal computer running a version of the Windows operating system to the WEED KILLER analog/digital hardware. Windows is not a real-time operating system, therefore microcontroller controller/collector hardware interface must be installed between a Wintel PC and the WEED KILLER hardware. Essence of the Wintel data collector problem is that Windows 3.x or 9x responds to a hardware interrupt usually between 70 to 150 microseconds. In rare occasions the interrupt latency may extend to 1.5 milliseconds or even longer. A microcontroller responds to an interrupt in several microseconds. Wintel hardware controller interface is even more difficult than collection for the reason that the Windows operating system only gives control to an application when Windows decides. In the collection, mode at least a hardware interrupt signals Windows that the application wants control. However, the microcontroller can send the Wintel an interrupt asking the applications code whether there is any message it needs to send the microcontroller. Microcontrollers have specialized timers, serial expansion ports and are, therefore, designed to be interfaced to analog and digital hardware. An 80C32 family microcontroller is proposed for the WEED KILLER application for reasons. 1 The 80C32 will do the job. 2 Multiple vendors of 80C32 guarantee future supply at a competitive price. Current suppliers include Intel, AMD, Winbond, Dallas, Philips, Siemens, OKI, ATMEL, ... 3 High-speed parallel port bi-directional IEEE 1284 enhanced capability port 9 (ecp) communications hardware between an 80C32 and PC is in the final stage of development. 4 IEEE 1284 hardware drivers are supplied with Windows NT. Custom assembler dll drivers are available for 9x and 3.x. 5 A public-domain Forth 8051 operating system hosting a high-level language and interactive assembler with complete source code documentation is available on Internet. http://jya.com/f86/whpf86.htm Hardcover book further documenting 5 is available from Academic Press. http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 Only a Wintel machine is required for both hardware and software for the WEED KILLER project. Usually a Forth hardware/software development probject on requres a voltmeter, logic probe, and, infrequently, an oscilloscope. Reason is the INTERACTIVE control of the hardware and software from a PC keyboard and diagnostic information easily printed to a PC monitor. Justification for assertion made in the above paragraph comes from Internet. NASA uses Forth extensively for its space programs. http://groucho.gsfc.nasa.gov/forth/ Ballard used polyForth http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=polyforth&z=2&hc=0&hs=0 to locate wrecks of the Titanic, Bismarck, and Yorktown. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/98/midway Sun Microsystems workstation boot into Forth then invokes Solaris. http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/ Adobe Postscript is a version of Forth. http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/language/forth-postscript.html Video game software are written mostly in Forth. The Wintel side of the WEED KILLER project will be most-likely written in a small amount of assembler interface code and Visual Basic. While Forth threaded code software technology is extremely valuable in some settings, it is not in others. Java is a variation of Forth. http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/meyer/jvmref/ Future of Java on Wintel machines is unclear at this time. For example, The hottest items among techies is a browser called Opera. This is a $40 shareware program that in speed and compact size buts both IE and Communicator to shame. It has a slightly different interface from either of the majors - an interface some find refreshing while other find less than useful. As it's shareware, you can try and then buy if you like it. One reason for its speed is that it ignores Java - the Internet's Bandwidth Pig (IBP). The Rumor Mill by Paul Cassel ComputerScene Magazine July 1998 Forth executes code High-level at about 10% the speed of a compiled high-level language. Speed of execution of small applications is not effected by Forths slow execution. Reason is that initial code is written in high-level Forth. Inner loops are then translated into Forth assembler. Speed is maintained with the advantage that data structures are created an maintained in high-level language while the interactive operating system is retained for trouble shooting both hardware and software problem. Hardware cost of building the 80C32 the WEED KILLER boards is estimated at $10k. Hardware design is estimated at 1 month labor at $50/hr for a total of $8k. Software development on the 80C32 side in Forth and Forth assembler, software on the Wintel side in Visual Basic and assembler, documentation, and training is estimated to be 4 months for a total of $32k /\/\/\ end

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