December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

From Spyking: DNA Technology
by Sunder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

**************************************************************** 5) From: "Timothy Robarts" <t.robarts(a)btinternet.com> Subject: DNA Technology London 16/09/98 September 16 1998 Police Superintendents' Conference: Stewart Tendler on how science is catching up with the criminal. DNA detectives will fit a face to a flake of skin A SINGLE flake of dandruff will soon be enough for scientists to build up a criminal's photofit, police commanders were told yesterday. Experts believe they … [View More]will be able to create "genetic e-fits", using information gleaned from a DNA sample to build a picture of a suspect's race, build, eye and hair colour, and even behavioural characteristics. Within a year, forensic scientists will be able to take DNA samples from minute scraps of skin left at the scene of a burglary and from such surfaces as the steering wheel of a stolen car, the keyboard of a computer and the outside of a drink can. They will be able to identify DNA from the wrappings round illegal drugs that dealers and couriers had hidden in their bodies. The photofit will be available within a decade. It will include the height of the suspect and other details including the shape of the ears and chin and inherited physical defects. The DNA advances were forecast yesterday by Kevin Sullivan, DNA research and development manager for the Forensic Science Service, speaking to the annual conference of the Police Superintendents' Association in Bristol. He said that genetic profiling was the "Holy Grail" for scientists but would be achieved within ten years, aided by international work on gene identification. Dr Sullivan, who worked on the identification of the remains of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, said that the breakthrough in taking DNA samples from dandruff would allow investigators to take material from the tiny particles of human skin that are found at every scene. He said: "People are constantly shedding skin cells. The majority of household dust is made up of dead skin and we know we can get DNA from an individual skin cell." He said that an armed robber could be tracked down by DNA evidence taken within 12 months from flakes of dandruff left behind in a discarded balaclava. It is a person's DNA, contained in every cell in the body, which predicts an enormous range of characteristics including skin, hair and eye colour, bone structure and even propensity to some illnesses and personality traits. He told the conference that DNA testing had become "1,000 times more sensitive" in the past decade. Whereas ten years ago scientists needed a bloodstain the size of a 10p piece to conduct a test, they now required just a pin-prick invisible to the naked eye. DNA samples would soon be used to re-examine unsolved sex cases and could even be used in miscarriage-of-justice cases. Scientists were working on ways of extracting DNA from sperm samples taken many years ago and still being stored. New developments meant it was possible to identify bodies that had been hidden for some time. DNA can be taken from hair shafts in the skull, from bone and faeces and matched with the mothers of possible victims. Work was developing on portable DNA testing facilities which could be used at the scenes of crimes to speed up investigations. Dr Sullivan said mass screening in major inquiries had grown. Since the first screening in 1987, in a double murder case in Leicestershire, there had been 91 screening operations in Britain involving 26,000 samples. Offenders were identified in 30 cases and in one case a suspect walked into a police station and gave himself up when DNA screening was announced by police. Dr Sullivan said that in the next five years scientists would improve the collection of DNA samples from blood and saliva left on surfaces such as cigarettes. Further work on identifying DNA in animals would begin next year. He said this could be used to solve crimes against humans. Children who were assaulted sometimes left hairs from their pets on the clothing of their attackers, which could be used to identify suspects. Tim Robarts - <mailto:t.robarts@btinternet.com>t.robarts(a)btinternet.com - http://www.robarts.com **************************************************************** 6) From: Will Smith <the-mib(a)rocketmail.com> Subject: Anonymous Net? Hi there. Do you know of any stealth program's the will stop my movement being tracked on the net i.e.: where in surfing, what sites i'm going to, what OS i'm running ect, my e-mail address ect... like a real-time netshield or fire-wall? to keep the $pooks from trackin me online? The-MIB **************************************************************** [View Less]

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:23:11 -0400 > From: Sunder <sunder(a)brainlink.com> > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > Yes, and depending on the threat model this was about 5-6 on the last I've last > sent. To get around that, you either modify the hard drive's on board > controller, or you build a CPU emulator. There is one that's freely available > called Bochs which will do this. They can happily boot from their floppy and > … [View More]

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Don't most memory scans do a keyscan anyway? looking for an ESC to >bypass the scan? So have it also check for something else to bring up >your special routine. It should pass all but the most detailed signature >analysis. > Also most BIOS'es scan for the <DEL> key (or other combinations) in order to jump to the BIOS config screens. From here you have two options: 1) add a second possible jump directly to hidden configuration for the HD, or 2) within the Bios … [View More]configuration menu add a scanner for a key sequence to enable the blacked out HD sectors. I can't imagine that anyone that wasn't already sure that you were playing tricks with the HD would be able to detect either of these on a normal startup. Again I think the key is that it would vastly expensive and very time consuming for customs services to make more than a cursory check. More and more people are carrying notebooks with them on trips and just like most bag searching has ended due to very fast, but not perfect, technology, notebook scanning is limited by the very important public factor--the people waiting in line behind you will tend to get very anxious. :) If on the other hand you are a "real" suspect then you best bet is not to carry a PC into these countries. These techniques (all of the ones mentioned in this thread) may even have a decent life-span if the ones that want to get you are locals (ie. street cops), but as has been pointed out before they don't have to know what's on your HD to place you under psychiatric evaluation, etc. I think perhaps a tougher question is, "Is there a way, without resorting to bloodshed, to regain control of our private property and private lives?" That's not a troll! I know that there are a lot people on this list with their assault rifles at the ready, that are convinced that only armed resistance will work. But. I think that's the "easy" way out. (How) can it be done another way? Especially, given the fact that so much progress has already been made by the very Anti-American US Government and others. How do we get back our civil rights that have been so eroded over the past 40 years? Is it too late? Are people in general so comfortable that liberty isn't important anymore? Why is it that almost every state has a system for introducing legislation at the popular level (referendum) but we don't have that freedom at the fed level. I wonder what the feds would do if we the sheeple could put propositions on the federal budget. Imagine...Prop PGP: no export control on crypto or work performed by US citizens living abroad; Prop 666: strict public oversight on CIA/NSA/FBI wiretapping and surveillance activities; add your favorite proposition here... eor.. Al Franco, II I can't sign this with crypto because the bastards might use it to try to "prove" that I have illegally exported software (that can be freely obtained in places outside the US). [View Less]

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Re:
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oh wow, thanks for the update on the Clinton situation. I'm grateful since I couldn't find that information anywhere else, unless of course I looked in the FIVE BILLION OTHER FORUMS BEATING THIS GODDAMNED SUBJECT INTO THE GROUND! Please do me a favor and FUCK OFF, or go stick your head up Clinton's ass and quit spamming the list with FUCKING GARBAGE! This shit is worse than the sixdegrees mail. At 06:15 AM 9/23/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >To all: >We don't care so much that WJC did … [View More]

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:02:48 +0200 > From: "Albert P. Franco, II" <apf2(a)ctv.es> > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > I can't imagine that anyone that wasn't already sure that you were playing > tricks with the HD would be able to detect either of these on a normal > startup. Again I think the key is that it would vastly expensive and very > time consuming for customs services to make more than a cursory check. More > and … [View More]

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Why lying under oath is bad and worth impeachment [fwd]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Here's a timely jewel. James Traficant's (D-Ohio) one-minute speech > before House on September 15th. > > James Traficant (D-Ohio) Home Page > http://www.house.gov/traficant/ > > E-mail: telljim(a)mail.house.gov (Rep. Jim Traficant D-OH) > > > AN AMERICA WITH TWO LEGAL STANDARDS IS AN AMERICA WITH NO LEGAL > STANDARDS > September 15, 1998 > > Mr. Speaker, if Joe Q. Citizen lied in a civil trial, he would be … [View More]

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Other ways to mod the BIOS...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is also the potential to mod the BIOS in a hot environment. Shadow the BIOS to RAM, use a program on your hard-drive that mod's that image and does a soft-reboot so the BIOS image is unaffected (since we're mod'ing the BIOS image why do it half-assed) and suddenly your 'hidden' whatever is sitting there. You could do it while the system is online even if you're careful not to mod anything but the BIOS image. ____________________________________________________________________ … [View More]

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Senate panel considers Internet regulations (fwd)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:21:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Senate panel considers Internet regulations http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980923-14632,00.html TIME Digital's Netly News September 23, 1998 Senate Panel Mulls Web Regulations By Declan McCullagh Thought a GOP-led Congress was going to hold off on regulating the Internet? Guess again. A Senate … [View More]

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 23, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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