December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

IP: Biometrics: SAC Tech: Complete Electronic Security Solution
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Biometrics: SAC Tech: Complete Electronic Security Solution Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:02:58 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com SAC Technologies Showcases Complete Electronic Security Solution Company To Unveil Next Generation Biometrics Technology Prototype Product at Security 2001 Conference NEW YORK, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- SAC Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SACM), a biometrics technology development company, today announced the Company will unveil a manufacturing prototype of its fully integrated solution for electronic security applications through biometrics identification technology at the September 16-17, 1998 Westergaard/Mallon Security 2001 Conference in New York. "A recent survey by the American Society for Industrial Security noted that losses due to intellectual theft have reached almost $300 billion," according to SAC CEO Mr. Barry Wendt. "Computer security is a major concern with electronic commerce, Internet transactions, on-line banking and security in general. Unlike other security measures such as PIN numbers, passwords or tokens which can easily be lost, stolen or forgotten, biometrics technology is based on an individual's physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint, so it requires the physical presence of an authorized user." SAC Technologies, Inc. plans to introduce the next evolution of its SACcat(TM) product at the two-day investment conference. Bundled with 'best of breed' biometrics technology consisting of fingerprint identification, voice verification and facial recognition, SACcat(TM) features software applications of computer log-on, screen-saver, and desktop security and configuration. Additional integrated software applications will include Bio-Key(TM) secured video teleconferencing and video e-mail and SAC_Secure(TM) for selectively encrypting program applications, data files and network communications using Certicom Corp.'s elliptic curve engine. At the heart of SAC's biometric identification technology is the Company's "Vector Line Type" Algorithm (VLTA) considered by some to be the most robust, reliable, scaleable and discriminating algorithm available today. VLTA represents a true paradigm shift from current industry minutiae-based methods of storing and analyzing fingerprints. VLTA processes the entire pattern of the fingerprint to derive a list of vector line types and their associated relationships. These unique characteristics of the fingerprint are subsequently transformed into a vector line type mathematical model or Bio-Key(TM), which is highly unique and easy to process for comparative purposes. Unlike biometric verification (one-to-one matching) processes produced by its competitors which require an additional identifier (pin number, token or password), SAC's technology provides for true, real-time identification (one-to-many) -- the process of comparing the biometric characteristics of an unknown individual against characteristics stored in a database to determine their identity. SAC's certified biometric identification technology can provide the necessary discrimination to determine the identity of a user and thereby insure the integrity of an application by eliminating the possibility of 'aliases' (multiple identities). SAC is the first, and currently remains the only, company in the world to earn the International Computer Security Association's (ICSA) biometric 'identification' certification. "This latest version of the SACcat(TM) product is a 'turn-key,' cost-effective hardware and software biometrics security and convenience solution for individual computer workstations and networks," said Mr. Wendt. "We believe that SACcat(TM) is an ideal complement to computer network security suites provided by such companies as Network Associates, Secure Computing, Check Point and Security Dynamics." "Within a year from now I am convinced that consumers will be asking whether biometrics security is included in their information systems and computer applications. Companies who do not add biometric security to their product offerings will lose market share. Compaq, one of the world's largest providers of PCs, will have a biometrics peripheral product available this fall. Other computer providers could gain competitive advantage by negotiating an exclusive license with the Company to manufacture, embed and distribute SACcat(TM) technology," added Mr. Wendt. Companies interested in SAC Technologies' SACcat(TM) biometric security solution should contact Mr. Barry Wendt at 708-798-9777 or for more information on the Company check out its website at http://www.sacman.com. Safe Harbor Statement Statements contained herein, other than historical data, may be forward-looking and are subject to risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to the Company's ability to successfully integrate its technology with other technologies, and its ability to achieve its sales and marketing plans while effectively managing costs and expenses, as well as those risks set forth in the Company's 10KSB, 10QSB, and other SEC filings. SOURCE SAC Technologies Web Site: http://www.sacman.com ©1998 PR Newswire. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Redesigned $20 Bills Debut Sept. 24
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Redesigned $20 Bills Debut Sept. 24 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:08:59 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Department of Defense http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep1998/n09151998_9809157.html [Note: Images at this site if you want to look at the new bill.] Redesigned $20 Bills Debut Sept. 24 By Rudi Williams American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON - The government rolls out its new redesigned high- tech, tough-to-copy $20 bill worldwide Sept. 24. Revamped $50 and $100 notes are already in circulation. The $20 bill, though, is key to thwarting counterfeiters, because it's the most widely circulated "big bill" and the most counterfeited, Secret Service spokeswoman Chaun Yount said. The Secret Service -- the organization that guards the president -- is the Treasury Department unit that oversees counterfeiting issues. Both sides of the redesigned $20 bills include numerous anti-counterfeiting measures, she said. Security features include embedded threads with micro-printing; a watermark; a large, off-center portrait of President Andrew Jackson with micro-printed words and hard-to-copy engraved details; the Federal Reserve seal; and color-shifting ink. Yount said people are the first line of defense against counterfeiting. People need to be familiar with the new twenties because they'll be seeing a lot of them, she said. According to U.S. Treasury figures, the mints print $20 notes in numbers second only to $1 notes. "We always have $20 bills in our pocket, if we're lucky," she noted. "The general public pays little attention to the $20 bill because it's the most commonly used note. Counterfeiters look at that as an opportunity. They like twenties because of their 'nice profit margin'" -- they have the highest face value that doesn't draw most people's attention, and passable fake twenties cost no more to make than fake fives and tens. "People who are passing counterfeit money are looking for a high volume of cash," she said. "They target people who are rushed and don't take time to authenticate the bills." She said military people are not typical targets of counterfeiters. However, the Treasury Department has been working with possible targets, such as the military exchange services, to train employees on the look and security features of the new $20 bill. In 1995, $231 million worth of counterfeit U.S. money was seized worldwide, Yount noted. That dropped to $64 million in 1996 and 1997 after the similarly redesigned $100 and $50 notes were introduced. She said the new notes will spread as fast as financial institutions order $20 bills and circulate them. "So for some time, the old and new $20 bills will circulate at the same time," she noted. "As the old $20 bills wear out, they'll be replaced with the new ones. The life of a $20 bill is about two years." Treasury officials are working on new, high-tech $1, $5 and $10 notes with anti-counterfeiting features. For more information about redesigned U.S. currency, visit the Treasury Department Web sites at www.treas.gov or www.moneyfactory.com/currency/20.cfm. [IMAGE} Security features on the front of the new $20 note include an embedded security thread; a large, off-center portrait of President Andrew Jackson; the Federal Reserve seal; and color-shifting ink. U.S. Treasury Department [IMAGE} The backside of the new $20 note contains fine-line printing patterns; an easy-to-read large $20 numeral; and an embedded security thread. U.S. Treasury Department ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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SNET: Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton) Subject: SNET: Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 03:06:46 +1200 To: snetnews(a)world.std.com -> SNETNEWS Mailing List http://www.mcs.net/~lpyleprn/jpfo.html <- Looks like a noble effort [jpfo(a)prn-bbs.org] JFPO Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." --Henry Kissinger TODAY's COMMUNIQUE ================== Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card ============================================ First a little on the handy... BIG BROTHER WATCHING Has anybody thought about the fact why Goverments are pushing the GSM-Handys so much. More and more people will change over to the "handy" Handy, not thinking that this system is utterly unsafe. There are various A5 chips build-in which supposed to encrypt the conversation between the Handy and the nearby station. This encryption - if there is any at all - can be switched off and is a 4 Bit Kode which can be cracked in Minutes. But the biggest danger was exposed by the (Swiss) Berner Sonntagszeitung which wrote that the Swisscom - which really belongs to AT&T or another US-company (a subsidiary of the CIA/MOSSAD) is collecting data from every GSM-User and the movement of the owner for at least 6 Months (Bewegungs-Profile). The owner of a GSM Handy can be located with the GPS (General Position System and Sattelites) within few Meters, no matter if he uses the Phones or not. The complete German Text (article) you will find on the Ostara-Website http://www.ostara.org/autor/gsm.txt The question is now what can we do, because the same "big brother" things are going on everywhere and nobody knows who is exchanging data with whom. Not only the owner of the GSM will be recorded, but also the telefon Nr. of the receiver. And this warning goes even more for people using ISDN which is no problem to hack into. The Story of the LOTUS-NOTES where the US-Goverment holds the decryption key is well known by now - hopefully. If you have to use a Handy, use a anonymous Credit-card Handy where you can buy the cards in any communication shop with cash (no bankcredit-card). 30.12.1997 fwd from: Satellite offers spy pictures by credit card By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent Electronic Telegraph UK. THE first civilian spy satellite will soon allow anyone with a credit card to peek into a neighbour's garden or a highly secret military base for as little as engl. Pounds 200,- EarlyBird 1, the first commercial spacecraft to use recently declassified spy technology, was successfully launched from a military base in eastern Russia last week, ending the 40-year monopoly of the world's most advanced military and intelligence services on gathering high-resolution pictures from space. EarthWatch Inc, the satellite's owner, confirmed yesterday that, subject to a last calibration and alignment test, it was ready to start broadcasting clandestine pictures from its orbit 295 miles above Earth. With the exception of the governments of Cuba, North Korea, Libya, Iraq and Iran, anybody can order highly-detailed images from anywhere in the world, for as little as 31.80 per square foot, subject to a 3200 minimum order. The sharpest commercial satellite images available now capture features no smaller than 33ft across, good enough for media pictures of the Tiananmen Square massacre but not detailed enough for covert examinations of neighbours' activities. However, once EarlyBird 1 starts taking pictures, customers will be able to control it via the Internet and place orders for black-and-white pictures that will show features as small as 10ft across. EarthWatch promises that pictures will be taken and sent to customers within two days of receiving the target co-ordinates. "It's detailed enough to distinguish a car from a truck, or to measure the size of a neighbour's extension," said Bob Wientzen, an EarthWatch spokesman. Colour pictures will also be offered, but with a resolution of only within 45ft. Most of the time, the satellite is expected to focus on targets related to town planning, map-making, disaster relief or mining. It will also allow the media and the public to scrutinise environmental and military crises. Some industry experts expect the biggest customers to be foreign governments and intelligence agencies who do not have access to spy satellite networks of their own. Companies in India, Israel, Russia, China and America plan to launch a further generation of spy satellites capable of distinguishing objects with a diameter of about three feet. --=====================_883451814==_-- http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html Electric Eye in the Sky is a song by ? [Take a guess] ====================================== The lyrics go like this. Electric Eye Up here in space I'm looking down on you. My lasers trace Everything you do. You think you've private lives Think nothing of the kind. There is no true escape I'm watching all the time. I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean. I'm elected, electric spy I'm protected, electric eye. Always in focus You can't feel my stare. I zoom in on you You dont know I 'm there. I take a pride in probing all your secret moves My tearless retina takes pictures that can proof. Electric eye, in the sky Feel my stare, always there There's nothing you can do about it. Develop and expose I feed upon your every thought And so my power grows. Protected... Detective... Electric Eye... If you would like to hear this song, please ask. In our neck of the woods, We have a new system called "Aggressive Driving Imaging" but the state will not divulge details of this system to us. I thought we paid their salaries, etc, how can they "not disclose the details of the system to us". With the numerous "Red Light" cameras ($50,000 a piece $5000 to install) up that automagically mail tickets to the OWNER of the car that ran the light, you will have friends and family (who borrowed the car) being forced to testify against themselves to prevent the owner from being deprived of his property. Since same cannot be forced to bear witness against themself, where is the due process that must precede the taking of the owners property, however small it may start out to be ? Keep in mind that if there is no victim there is no crime, and that you should always be able to face your accuser, and that the state cannot sue or be sued, fair is fair right ? i.e. the plaintiff MUST be an individual of flesh and blood. Also the right to travel by the means available in your day, is a RIGHT, not a priviledge, and as such CANNOT be licensed or taxed or infringed in any manner whatsoever against your will if noncommercial. (SEE: http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html) And how are eye level camera shots of people in their cars legal when there is NO PROBABLE CAUSE and no SIGNED SPECIFC WARRANT !? http://www.bts.gov/smart/cat/images/274/274F1.GIF Some urls to explore: http://webserv.dot.co.montgomery.md.us/jpgcap/camintro.html http://www.atmsonline.com (latest in this sick industry) http://www.truckers.com/trafcam.htm http://www.dcn.com/usa.html http://www.bts.gov/smart/cat/images/274/274F1.GIF http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html Looking for more maps of exact locations of these cameras and police state devices so we can share them with others and compile an exhaustive inventory of them. We should be allowed to know where the NO-PRIVACY ZONES ARE and start letting others know the scope breadth and depth. CAUGHT You used to watch television. Now it watches you. By Phil Patton _________________________________________________________________ It's early morning in the 'burbs. My eyes are barely open, but the video eye is on me. I stop by the convenience store for coffee and newspapers. On the grainy screen of a boxy monitor behind the clerk, I catch a glimpse of a tiny figure that, after a moment, I realize represents me. Opening my wallet reminds me that I'm as short of cash as usual, so I stop at the ATM. Through a one-way mirror, a video camera is recording the transaction. I drive along New Jersey's Route 3 toward New York City, quite possibly under the video observation of the New Jersey State Police, my state being one of several that have tested remote stations that capture radar-gun readings and license-plate numbers and mail out speeding tickets. As I descend the dread "helix" into the Lincoln Tunnel, I go on TV for Panasonic. Atop a huge billboard advertising the company's camcorders is the "Panasonic Traffic Cam," an absurdly tiny device that perches like an insect above a sign bearing the face of a white-knuckled driver. The driver looks a bit like the late John Candy - all exasperation as the kids behind him quibble and scream. I can tune the radio to 1010 WINS to hear what the camera sees: in a cunning marketing tie-in, I get "reports from the Panasonic Traffic Cam high above the helix - there's a 15 minute delay at the Lincoln...." CUT, if you would like to read the rest of this ESQUIRE MAGAZINE Article, let me know and I will forward it to you... ralph Phil Patton (pattonp(a)pipeline.com) is a contributing editor to Esquire. He is the author of Made in the USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write Peter.Navy(a)Rocketmail.com to find the BLOCKBUSTER suppressed book: "Tragedy & Hope" by Carroll Quigley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To find out how to get the suppressed hush hush 384 page BLOCKBUSTER book: "FINAL JUDGEMENT" by Michael Collins Piper, that argues that ISRAEL's MOSSAD murdered President John F. Kennedy, or Myron Fagan's tapes, contact peter.navy(a)rocketmail.com and ask for a FREE copy of The SPOTLIGHT. --------------------------- TO RECEIVE email from ralph: send email to ralph(a)TeamInfinity.com and in the Subject make sure your email address and the word GO-RALPH (no spaces) is in the subject. 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Isaac Lee
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Run hands through hair. Tighten clothing on each arm using the opposite hand. Pull excess clothing around chest tight around chest, then pull clothing forward. Sweep back of hand through cleavage and under breasts. Loosen belt and sweep fingers through belt-line front to back. Use back of hand to sweep down zipper-line. Search legs using hands making very slow movements. Loosen shoes and sweep fingers through top of shoes. The president? No, the air force, searching personnel during 'Peace'. http://call.army.mil/call/trngqtr/tq2-99/hutton3.htm and cars: http://call.army.mil/call/trngqtr/tq2-99/hutton2.htm

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DARPA Hires NetAss/TIS TO Develop Secure DNS
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is somewhat tacky. SecureDNS exists, and TIS got export approval a while back to publish a "bones" version, minus encryption routines. John Gilmore and his lawyer decided that, since it only does authentication, not message encryption, it should be ok to publish _with_ the crypto algorithms, and it's been quietly sitting on his web pages. Recently the Feds sent him a letter saying "Oh, no, we didn't mean it was OK to publish/export this encryption-based authentication system just because the law says you can, so stop it".... Now they're paying for another version. Are they going to try something DSS-based instead of RSA, just so you don't need encryption-capable crypto with it, or is this going to be another scam? Or is it just different parts of the Feds not talking to each other? At 08:57 AM 8/28/98 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote: >At 1:57 PM -0400 on 8/27/98, Edupage Editors wrote: >> DARPA LEADS FIGHT AGAINST DOMAIN-NAME HACKERS >> The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $1.4 >> million contract to Network Associates to develop a cryptographic >> authentication system for the Internet's domain-address system. The new >> system will enable the Net's routing points to verify the origin of any >> given Web page, preventing hackers from corrupting Web page caches or >> rerouting domain traffic altogether. It will not, however, prevent hackers >> from breaking into individual Web servers and changing pages. "That's not >> part of this particular approach," says the director of Network Associates' >> TIS Labs. The company is working with the Internet Software Consortium, >> which will distribute the security system to Unix vendors when it becomes >> commercially available. Beta versions are expected to be ready in about six >> months, with a final product on the market in about 18 months. (TechWeb 26 >> Aug 98) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Re: PGP again....
by Jia Yan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ftp://net-dist.mit.edu -----Original Message----- From: Bernardo B. Terrado <bbt(a)mudspring.uplb.edu.ph> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 11:50 AM Subject: PGP again.... >I've tried looking for PGP and found many. >All are platforms for IBM PC's (using ms dos, windows). > >Is there one for Sun Sparc and the likes or I'll just run the PGP for >PC's in my Sparc (using unix or PC's using unix). > >(forgive me for my lack of info about PGP and platforms). > > > > > > > > > > > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ >Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. >I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. >Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. >I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. > >It's me Bernie. >metaphone(a)altavista.net >``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ``` > >

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by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: DARPA Hires NetAss/TIS TO Develop Secure DNS
by Marshall Clow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>This is somewhat tacky. SecureDNS exists, and TIS got export approval >a while back to publish a "bones" version, minus encryption routines. >John Gilmore and his lawyer decided that, since it only does authentication, >not message encryption, it should be ok to publish _with_ the crypto >algorithms, and it's been quietly sitting on his web pages. >Recently the Feds sent him a letter saying "Oh, no, we didn't mean >it was OK to publish/export this encryption-based authentication system >just because the law says you can, so stop it".... >Now they're paying for another version. Are they going to try something >DSS-based instead of RSA, just so you don't need encryption-capable >crypto with it, or is this going to be another scam? >Or is it just different parts of the Feds not talking to each other? > Delay is the deadliest form of denial. -- Marshall Marshall Clow Adobe Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." --Thomas Jefferson

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Re: radio net
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote: > > Hey, guys, > > Someone here already said it, but nobody else got it, so I'll repeat it: > SSB, or Single Sideband. It's commercial ham radio, if you will, and all > the ships use it. I expect that you can shove anything down an SSB set that > you want, including encrypted traffic. > > Ham radio is a government nerd subsidy, and as such, doesn't do much but > make more government funded/sactioned/approved/whatever nerds. :-). > > SSB would do just fine. It's an international standard, after all, and > probably not under the control of any one government, even.e Do you need a license for that one? Can someone explain what exactly the sidebands are? It rings a bell and I used to know, but it's been around 15 years since I played with this kind of thing. It's just under the surface of my brain, but I just can't place it.

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