December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Jim Bell Rearrested
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

JY note: The message below has not been authenticated. The writer claimed no knowledge of the arrest at the time I spoke with him, which was after the date and time of the arrest given in the message. It's possible he was withholding the information for publication or by request of confidentiality. The message may be a forgery written after seeing the messages at http://jya.com/jdb062198.htm. The IRS has sent spam concerning Jim Bell before: http://jya.com/irs-spam.htm. From: Anonymous 3 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:31:33 EDT To: jya(a)pipeline.com Subject: Jim Bell and anon John: This is [a journalist] whom you called today about Bell. He was arrested at his parents' home in Vancouver Monday about 1:07 a.m. PDT by five federal marshals in two cars. The agents went in with guns drawn and came out with Bell's elderly parents, with whom they talked for a while. A few minutes later, they brought out Jim, who was handcuffed in front, dressed in a blue T- shirt and slacks. He was put in the back of a red Jeep, and then leg chained by an agent. (I tried to ask one of the agents if Jim was going to be taken directly to Tacoma - my assumption - but the agent was a typical marshals service jerk and just told me to stay away.) Jim was in the backseat for about 20 minutes and then two agents came out and drove him away - after one agent accidentally set off the Jeep "wa-wa" siren - ...just as TV arrived. the other three agents remained in the house, looking for "evidence," i assume. I expect him to appear before a federal magistrate in Tacoma tomorrow morning. His federal defender still has not been provided any paper by the govt. so, now yr up to date. on another matter, I was curious abt the anonymous info sent you. i've been trying to get an anon remailer for some time, but have been unsuccessful. got any tips, advice or help?

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Anonymicer
by Alex `Taker` Pircher 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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CTIA Daily News From WOW-COM
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

======================================== Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon for the most important news in wireless communications today. ========================================

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NSA Declassifies Algos
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to Ed Roback, NIST: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun1998/b06231998_bt316-98.html DoD Press Release, June 23, 1998: No. 316-78 IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 1998 (703)695-0192(media) (703)697-5737(public/industry) ENCRYPTION FORMULAS DECLASSIFIED The Department of Defense today announced the decision by the National Security Agency to declassify both the Key Exchange Algorithm and the SKIPJACK encryption algorithm used in the FORTEZZA(tm) personal computer card. FORTEZZA(tm) provides security at the desktop in the Defense Message System and other DoD applications. This marks the first time that the NSA has declassified such information and made it commercially available. This declassification is an essential part of the Department of Defense's efforts to work with commercial industry in developing reasonably priced computer protection products. This declassification decision will enable industry to develop software and smartcard based security products, which are interoperable with FORTEZZA(tm). The availability of such products will enhance the protection of DoD's sensitive but unclassified and critical non-mission communications. The decision to release SKIPJACK (an 80 bit encryption algorithm that is not extensible to higher key lengths) and KEA (a 1024 bit key exchange algorithm) is restricted to these particular algorithms, and does not apply to other classified NSA algorithms. The SKIPJACK and KEA algorithms and their source codes have been declassified pursuant to Executive Order 12958. Vendors interested in obtaining more information on this matter should contact the National Security Agency Public Affairs Office at 301-688-6524. [End] ----- Note: We called NSA Public Affairs who said that more information will be available tomorrow afternoon on NIST's Web site (no specific URL): http://www.nist.gov In the meantime NSA will respond to faxed questions; send to: Vanessa Talieri Office of Public Affairs National Security Agency Fax: 301-497-2844

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PGPdisk for win95/98?
by jkthomson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Great, so I finally get around to checking PGP's betaweb, and to my amazement, they finally have a beta version of PGPdisk for 95. Too bad it claims that I need to contact a sales rep, and when I follow their link, I get nothing that would really point me in the right direction. Any of you manage to get your hands on a copy? Currently, I am using bestcrypt NP with blowfish. I am a little concerned with this however, As I have never seen a crypto-review of the software, and their website is not too forthcoming with technical details, or known attacks. Does anyone have information (or horror stories) from using bestcrypt? --------------------------------------------------------------- james 'keith' thomson <jkthomson(a)bigfoot.com> ICQ:746241 jkthomson: C181 991A 405C EAFB 2C46 79B5 B1DC DB78 8196 122D http://www.bigfoot.com/~ceildh <keys> at pgp.mit.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- You can lead a man to slaughter, but you can't make him think. ================================================================

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Creating Wealth In America
by unknown＠example.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Creating Wealth in America >From the desk of Robert Allen, The Author of 2 Mega Best-Sellers, Nothing Down and Creating Wealth in America San Diego, California 11:29 P.M. "I can't sleep until I get this off my chest." "I'm extremely frustrated". Odds are that nine out of ten people who receive this letter will discard it without a second thought. Yet, I know that I have discovered a secret that could change your financial life forever! And I'm willing to share it with you for FREE. Do you want to end your money pressures forever? Do you want to double your income? Do you want to build an extra stream of income quickly? If you answered yes, then let me show you how you can begin living your dreams, this year before it's too late. I'll get right to the point. As it says on the letterhead, my name is Robert Allen. I'm famous for my two #1 New York Times best-selling books. Nothing Down and Creating Wealth in America. There are lots of millionaires who credit their success to one of my books or seminars. So when I share this secret with you, I want you to know that I've done my homework. Here it comes. I have discovered what I believe is the perfect home-based business. Although I'm well known for real-estate investment books and seminars, this new business has absolutely nothing to do with real-estate. In fact, it's much easier and far less risky. It involves: -No employees -Little risk -Little start up cash -It's so simple, anyone can do it You could be earning $1,000 a week in as little as 90 days. One person I know went from zero to $3,000 a week in 60 days. That's $150,000 a year extra, hassle-free income! In my 20 years of research, I can honestly say, "I've never seen a faster, easier way to create a stream of income". I know this sounds too good to be true. Frankly, I didn't believe it myself at first. Finally, I agreed to check it out. As a test, I selected a small group of people and introduced them to this incredible opportunity. Almost immediately, many of them started earning profits. Within a week, many were earning incomes of $4,000 per month in net cash flow. Now, some of them are cashing checks for $3,000 a week. And this is just the beginning! Their earning potential could be unlimited! Would you like to learn how to do that? I'd love to show you how. But only if you're interested enough to make one telephone call. The number to call immediately is 1-888-267-4455. It's a 3-minute, 24-hour recorded message. This may be the answer you have been seeking. Warmly, Robert G. Allen P.S. I want to show you how to create extra streams of income quickly, Go to the phone and call now 1-888-267-4455. //

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Re: Verisign & NAI Join Forces, PGP out the door? (fwd)
by Max Inux 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is what I was able to find out about the Verisign/NAI partnership. -- Max Inux (MaxInux(a)bigfoot.com) UIN: 207447, http://khercs.chipware.net Strong Cryptography makes the world a safer place- PGP: 0x5CCFCA59 Or Kinky sex makes the world go round- Christie: Your in my sig too ^^ If Cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have cryptography ^^ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:22:26 -0700 From: Jon Callas <jon(a)pgp.com> To: Max Inux <maxinux(a)bigfoot.com>, Sean_Paswater(a)nai.com Cc: chip(a)chipware.net, jon(a)pgp.com Subject: Re: Verisign & NAI Join Forces, PGP out the door? (fwd) At 08:10 PM 6/22/98 -0700, Max Inux wrote: Chip and Jon: Chip: Have any insight into this or is this gonna be like the TIS scare w/ Key Escrow? Jon: Since Chip will probably end up asking you or some of the other higher ups if he is unsure, Is there any truth to this story, or is this TIS #2? The tale is true -- it's the *interpretation* that's bogus. PGP is not out the door. PGP will be doing X.509 too. There's not a lot of difference between an X.509 certificate and a PGP key signature. They do the same thing. What you'll be able to do is have Verisign sign your key. The first steps of this are coming this fall -- you'll be able to drop an X.509 cert into your keyring and it will magically transform itself into a PGP key. At first, you'll only be able to use it with TLS (a.k.a. SSL), which is also coming this fall. Jon ----- Jon Callas jon(a)pgp.com CTO, Total Network Security 3965 Freedom Circle Network Associates, Inc. Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408) 346-5860 Fingerprints: D1EC 3C51 FCB1 67F8 4345 4A04 7DF9 C2E6 F129 27A9 (DSS) 665B 797F 37D1 C240 53AC 6D87 3A60 4628 (RSA)

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QANTAS discriminates against Pauline Hanson's One Nation
by Global Web Builders 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear One Nation supporter in NSW, Qantas has banned coverage of Pauline Hanson and One Nation from inflight news. Qantas has effectively censored Channel 9's inflight coverage of Australian news and has, in effect, implied that there is something "distasteful" about Mrs Hanson and her political party. The action allegedly follows a complaint by a QANTAS staff member about coverage of Mrs Hanson being offensive to Indonesian passengers on an international flight. Pauline Hanson's political adviser, Mr David Oldfield, said it was "disgraceful, un-Australian activity asking Channel 9 to be political censors on behalf of Qantas. "Everything that is said publicly, people should have the right to judge for themselves whether something matters or doesn't," he said. "But it certainly isn't up to any airline or anyone else to decide that legitimate public debate isn't to be viewed." If you feel rightfully outraged by this act of censorship by Qantas (the Australian Airline) please contact them by email: qantasmedia(a)qantas.com.au I would encourage you to take a moment to express how you feel about this issue. Finally, please note Ansett have not undertaken censorship of this sort. GWB Scott Balson

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Banning privacy: A radical proposal
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This came from Yahoo/ZDNet. Mr. Pappas suggests that we just ban anonymity and privacy to "protect the children." Now where have I heard that before? And yet again, the "Ethical Hackers Against Pedophilia" raise their heads, no pun intended. >Banning privacy: A radical proposal > >By Charles Pappas >June 22, 1998 >Yahoo! Internet Life > >Copyright (c) 1998 ZDNet > >Privacy and anonymity are our most cherished tenets of online life. A >need so immense that Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy >Information Center declared that we might need a kind of Department of >Privacy. He's not alone: 72 percent of surfers think there should be new >laws to protect their privacy. > >It's a radical, 180-degree turn to take, but...what if we're all wrong? >What if this belief that privacy + anonymity = social good has become as >self-destructive and delusional as a drunk who thinks one more scotch >will make him feel better? > >Like Marley's ghost, privacy may be coming back to haunt us. And that >ghost's name is pedophilia. How bad is it? Disguised as a 13-year-old, I >was directly propositioned on AOL in fewer than 10 minutes on each of >six separate attempts. I entered a chat room--usually called something >like "x9x10x11" or even "JonBenet Ramsey" (code words that alert >pedophiles where to swarm)--and waited for the assaults to start. > >Even when I didn't enter a chat room, the offers kept coming in from >pedophiles prowling for victims. One wanted to send me pictures of >himself. Another asked for a phone number. "I want to do my daughter," >one confessed to me. Later, when I searched for their screen names, they >had all disappeared into the anonymous electronic mist. > >AOL monitors kids' chat rooms continuously. (Parents can also set the >AOL software so their children can't use chat rooms.) "We have a >zero-tolerance policy when it comes to anything illegal," assures AOL >spokeswoman Tricia Primrose. "We have about 8,000 monitors scanning up >to 19,000 chat rooms, message boards, member profiles, and other areas. >When we get any kind of complaint, we immediately check it out. And >we're working with the FBI, customs, and other officials." > >It's not just AOL, of course. Child molesters "operate on every avenue >of the Net," says PhotonRain (not his real name) of Ethical Hackers >Against Pedophilia, a group that aids law enforcement in combating child >pornography. "WWW, newsgroups, IRC, ICQ, FTP servers..." > >We already know it's widespread and easy to encounter. But how often >have we heard--and parroted--the party line that problems on the Net >just reflect real-world problems, no more and no less? Holland slays >that sacred lamb: "The amount of pedophilia on the Net is extremely >disproportional to...society as a whole. They hide behind the anonymity >the Net offers. And they are aware of the small odds against being >caught." > >Ruben Rodriguez, director of the Exploited Child unit for the National >Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), concurs: "The Net is so >anonymous that molesters are very comfortable on it. They can go in and >hunt kids down, and attempt five or six seductions at the same time." > >"Let's face it," says a New York State investigator who requests >anonymity, "the Net's anonymity enables the sickness. In a couple of >hours I could easily get 2,000 pictures if I wanted, including the Baby >Rape series," a popular collection of pedophilia photos whose name is >horrifyingly self-explanatory. > >In recent weeks, U.S. authorities have helped nab 60 online molesters, >while the FBI reports that its 3-year-old Innocent Images >investigation--an online task force identifying predators--has resulted >in 184 convictions. An impressive stat, but less than confidence >inspiring when research suggests the average child molester will have >more than 70 victims throughout his lifetime. > >At the same time we splash sex offenders' names online, our lawmakers >weigh in with proposed privacy law after privacy law. "No one wants to >give up privacy," says NCMEC's Rodriguez, whose organization now runs a >CyberTipline for leads on the sexual exploitation of children. "But what >do you do when your laws and protections are turned against you? >Something's got to give." > >But what? Our conventional wisdom that privacy is worth any risks? Just >touching this petrified opinion will get me slapped with a swastika--but >as philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, "All truth passes through three >stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, >it is accepted as being self-evident." > >To be continued--that's for certain. > >Copyright (c) 1998 ZDNet. All rights reserved.

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Skipjack Up
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John, The files are up, and hopefully all working OK. See http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/skipjack-kea.htm Ed Roback

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