December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy]
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-ROUTED: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:35:58 -0500 X-TCP-IDENTITY: Bucsplace Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:30:29 -0400 From: oldbat <bucsplace(a)cchat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: IP <ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com> Subject: IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy] Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: oldbat <bucsplace(a)cchat.com> From: "Bill Prince" <webprince(a)SPAMmindspring.com> Newsgroups: misc.survivalism Subject: new threat to privacy Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:14:54 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <6t9bu9$spm$1(a)camel15.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kbbqr.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 10 Sep 1998 20:14:01 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Path: news.dx.net!news.accessus.net!news2.rdr.net!news-out.internetmci.com!news.intern etMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bb nplanet.com!firehose.mindspring.com!not-for-mail There is another powerful tool for surreptitiously intercepting data, but it is only available to law enforcement and the military. Called DIRT (Data Interception and Remote Transmission), it was released in June by Codex Data Systems. http://www.thecodex.com/dirt.html Investigators need only know your e-mail address to secretly install the program. Once they do, investigators can read your documents, view your images, download your files and intercept your encryption keys. DIRT was developed to assist law enforcement in pedophilia investigations, but future uses could include drug investigations, money laundering cases and information warfare. - - Bill Prince | Orlando, Florida | Linuxori te salutamus! Take out the SPAM to email me! - - --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: radio net
by Soren 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SSB xceivers cost <$700. Try any marine electronics store. Best choice is a ham xceiver with strap selectable SSB (actually a violation of FCC dictate to enable SSB on a ham rig, but everyone does it anyway). This would cost ~$1500, the Icom 7658 is a good one I know of. Go and get your local equivalent of a VHF license, send in the extension to cover SSB (~$50). Then purchase a 'PacRat' from any ham hangout. I got mine in Redwood City CA, on El Camino real - some years back now though. This is a little box that hooks into the back of the ham/SSB set and into a serial port of your PC. It comes with some basic packet handling software. Last time I looked, PacRats were <$200. Don't expect any great xfr rates however. Noise to signal requires many packet retransmissions as the ionosphere is not a very good mirror. Running TCP/IP over it should be easily doable. Basic use is to dial in the frequency yourself on the SSB (this usually requires an auto-tuner ~$700 AND a manual tuner ~$100, for best results). You need to get the best antenna you can afford. Unfortunately, antennas are frequency range specific, so you'll probably need 3: one for 0-5000 miles, 5000-12000, 12000-?. Its easy to rig the tuner to support 2-3 antennas, switch selectable. You need a Good Earth for anything to happen as expected. By now it should be possible to get some extra SW to drive the freq selection, so you could do spread spectrum. This is not allowed of course, as you are expected to do the call-sign exchange protocol on each freq session. There are freqs that are dedicated to digital (ship-to-shore commercial). You may have to get a commercial license for this though. One nasty thing about radio is that you share the spectrum with others, so collisions tend to make a hash out of reliability. Store and forward at unpopular times such as 3:00 EST, could be a good alternative. The longer distance freqs (>12000), are the most uncluttered, but suffer from the most noise to signal. A bounce across the pacific to the house next door, would be potentially more reliable than a lower freq. Most of the ham sets also support FM, so it would also be possible to piggyback on the ricochet freqs for line of sight use. Or for a real adrenaline rush, piggyback the mil freqs. If you really want to give the hams fits, write a noise to morse engine (or better yet, some captured call signs repeated endlessly) and swamp the channels, where the old popular mechanics guys discuss their antenna envy, at random intervals. 9:00 in the Ozarks is a fine time. Sit back and wait for the black vans to drive up. "Educate, don't Agitate"

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

son of gomez

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Re: radio net
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:11:29 -0700 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> From: Somebody Subject: Re: radio net > >I know what Single Sideband means. As I've said before, and what you failed >to read later on in this thread, evidently, is that there are commercial >Single Sideband radios out there which have the range of ham sets. These >radios are used for commercial ship-to-shore traffic, and I expect that >encryption is legal on them. I expect that, because these frequencies are >subject to international convention rather than federal law, they have more >leeway (heh... nautical pun) on their use. Including, I bet, digital >packets and encryption. > > If I remember correctly, this is escrowed encryption using code books deposited with the appropriate authorities. <Somebody's .sig> --- end forwarded text *That* sucks... I wonder who the "appropriate authorities" are? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Revenge of the AOLHoles
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 AIMSX(a)aol.com wrote: > > I truly hope you don't stereotype all AOL users for this idiot's insane > ramblings. > Unfortunately, some people are just morons, but you get them on every ISP > anyway, they just aren't so obvious on others, because unfortunately, AOL > makes it easier to communicate. AOL makes it easier to communicate. This has the intended side effect of attracting every moron with a home computer. Thus, AOL has a disproportionate number of morons. They get what they ask for. The problem is that most of the AOL users who publish to the net seem to be morons. They use some annoying Russo-Germanic quoting style, they can't use English, they're clueless, they post off-topic, or something else. Examples of AOL catering to morons: 1) "AOL is the Internet!" 2) Using the fact that their software *says* "You have mail!" as a selling point. 3) They use a platform-specific client package. Further, "AOL is the Internet," therefore AOL-specific conferences and newsgroups must be "on the Internet" or "on the net" *and are advertised that way*. Uhh... 4) They make no effort to educate their lamers...err, users. 5) They send out tons of "free trial" disks, trying to snare every idiot they can find. 6) They make their service as easy to use as possible, which is fine, except that it attracts people who don't have the mental capacity to use it when they venture outside of AOL. Witness the drek they pour onto the Cypherpunks list. I'm sure Mr. May could expand on this with a few dozen additional points, if not a few hundred. Now maybe this stuff is good marketting practice, but it's a lousy way to serve the community which gives them life. It's the equivelent of a swim coach bringing his students to a public pool and instructing them to release their bowels whenever they feel the urge. If you use a site which caters to morons, expect to get treated like one, especially if said site celebrates the fact that they're defecating in the pool. They've earned the stereotype that they have. While we're at it, maybe some of the statistics-types out there can analyze the archives for, say, the last month. Remove postings, if any, which are routed through an anonymous remailer at AOL. Then remove random or systematic spam (ex: the New York Times, that Javascript "child-molester" exploit). Then compare the number of clueless postings to Cypherpunks by AOL users to the number of useful and on-topic postings to Cypherpunks by AOL users, and compare that ratio against other ISPs. When determining clueless postings, include postings which use Russo-Germanic ("<< >>") quoting, or which are completely off-topic (ex: "how u do that"). Count postings which are clueless but were originally from another site and got forwarded here as originating from the original site. Maybe repeat for Juno and Hotmail. Exclude flames and subsequent discussions concerning these clueless postings (ex: don't include AIMSX's response or this response in either category). Then again, there probably isn't any need.

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Re: Clinton's fake apologies (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 08:49:56 -0700 > From: jimg(a)mentat.com (Jim Gillogly) > Subject: Re: Clinton's fake apologies > In any case, despite these legalisms, I'm not convinced that perjury in > any case should be considered treason or high crimes and misdemeanors. > The Founding Fathers could have been more specific about what was > impeachable, and they chose not to be, leaving it intentionally ambiguous. What part of: High crimes and misdemeanors don't you understand? Oh, and it isn't 'high misdemeanors'... I figure it's the fact that 'principles' are involved that is confusing everybody, no room to move like there is with relativism. Bottem line, he held a public office, while in that office he should commit *NO* crime or else he should loose that office. There was no abmiguity there in the minds of the founding fathers and there shouldn't be in yours either. If this confuses you then take it as an indication that you have a axiomatic contradiction in your world view and need to rethink things in a serious way. As Jefferson said, if you hold a public office your public property. Nail the son of a bitch to the wall, he did the crime let him do the time. It's a pitty he doesn't have this sort of empathy for all those people he's put in jail for consensual crimes during his tenure. The man has a base double standard, let him pay for it. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Revenge of the AOLHoles
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ryan Anderson wrote: > > > The problem is that most of the AOL users who publish to the net seem to > > be morons. They use some annoying Russo-Germanic quoting style, they can't > > use English, they're clueless, they post off-topic, or something else. > > In all fairness, many of the users on AOL *know* that the AOL quoting > style is utterly horrible. Unofrtunatley, they don't have much choice in > what they use. Sure they do. They can use a different mail reader. (After all, 32-bit AOL allows AOL users to use all the TCP/IP protocols...) They can cut and paste manually, or, probably best, they can go to another ISP. I understand what you're saying, Ryan, and I understand what they're saying, but there all alternatives out there; they just don't want to use them. In fact, they've installed proprietary packages that do this. There are plenty of free alternatives out there which don't have this problem. If my ISP pushed a bunch of proprietary software down my throat, I'd find another ISP. That goes double if the proprietary software sucks. That goes triple if the software sucks and the ISP is trying to get every idiot they can to use it. (I got a "100 hours free network abuse" disk in the mail recently from AOL.) Another AnonMonger

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"It has been claimed, for example, that free application of cryptography enables drug traffickers and terrorists to communicate in secret, without the law enforcement officials being able to intercept their messages. In some countries, strong encryption has been banned or the keys have to be escrowed for government officials. With invisibility readily available to anyone with moderate programming skills, it is obvious that any such measures are ineffective. " This from the most recent online National Counterintelligence Center Counterintelligence News and Developments Volume 2 June 1998 http://www.nacic.gov/cind/june98.htm#rtoc4 "In some countries" indeed.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Found this: http://offshorehaven.nu/banking/index.html no idea whether a trap or a jewel.

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Offshore Banking In Latvia
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- > > Found this: http://offshorehaven.nu/banking > > noidea whether a trap or a jewel. Just in case my first message was unclear: Offshore banking in Latvia looks good. The above website looks like a con. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JXDMmaEyma+jN7wyVhvlYcOrLB7iNaWSDaDfE2dl 4B2lFoTKEej/7263gNwJ8CpUWXMXIdco2pG0PzcFL ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald

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