December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CJ Key Check
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bear in mind that that information on this matter may be used to hammer or help Carl Johnson if not others. As Adam Back has proposed: To check the validity of the allegations made by the IRS about Toto(s)'s messages in the Carl Johnson complaint, a review is underway of archived messages to see if there are any signatures by a key before the private key has been posted, especially if the post in question has been (or may be later) cited by the IRS. If there are none, then the IRS "authentication" of the claimed Toto posts evaporates. Even if there are some, the `authentication' becomes more suspect if there are others which are made after the key post. To assist checking messages an initial list of candidate keys is available (none of the anonymous keys show a link to Carl Johnson of the IRS complaint): http://jya.com/anon-keys.htm Additional candidates and findings of message checks are welcomed, with a nod to the opening caution.

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Netly News article on Toto/Johnson PART II
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980910-14595,00.html

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 10, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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CFP: The Insider December 1998 edition
by Technical Incursion Countermeasures 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Call for Papers The Insider - December 1998 edition The Insider (http://www.ticm.com/info/insider/index.html) has been in publication since November 1997. Since then it has gone trough a number of changes - all for the better :}. The latest change is to move from a newletter containing just the musing of its editor to a "learned journal". Yes, the papers will be refereed and the editorial board has some weight in the IT security world. On that note this is the first Call for papers. We are looking for papers on Information Technology Security and fitting within the following broad areas: Audit, Design and Maintenance of IT Security. The Papers can be from 1000 to 2500 words. We may accept papers of down to 600 words or up to 5000 words but they will have to be of the utmost quality. For more information see http://www.ticm.com/info/insider/current.html Yours Bret Watson - Editor Technical Incursion Countermeasures consulting(a)TICM.COM http://www.ticm.com/ ph: (+61)(041) 4411 149(UTC+8 hrs) fax: (+61)(08) 9454 6042 The Insider - a e'zine on Computer security - August Edition out http://www.ticm.com/info/insider/index.html

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Re: Forwarded mail....
by EpicTeU＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 98-09-10 01:11:05 EDT, you write: << Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:27:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jrjeffro(a)aol.com HaCkaZ OnlY Da EliTeHelLO YaLL DiS is Da MaDD AAOOLL HaCka Ima startin a GreWp fOR HaCs Only So In OthA WerDS yA gOttA KnOw The WAreZ anD HoW toO UsEr FaTe AnD AOL So MaIl Or Im Me FoR Da TeTaIls If YeR LeeTo K Pe@CE FrOmE The LeeTs HacKJeFFrO) >> What the hell is this? No wonder why AOLers have a bad name Im going to Flame this guy

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Re: computer implant in 1997
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nothing surprising about it - just implant your basic lost-pet ID chip, and set up a detector to read it. All commercially available except perhaps the computer interface to the detector, which isn't all that complex either. The more interesting journalism question isn't the lack of archive-checking by the journalist or this year's claimant to firstness, but what political spin the professor tried to push with his press release and interviews and whether it was accepted blithely or skeptically. >> > READING, England -- Professor Kevin Warwick claimed Tuesday to be the >> > first person in the world to have a computer chip surgically implanted >> > into his body. >> [...] >> > Warwick demonstrated the chip in action by walking through the front >> > door of his department. "Good morning, Professor Warwick. You have five >> > new emails," said a computerized voice activated by the inserted chip. >> [...] > >Kac implanted a computer chip in his body last year [...] >i wonder to what extent journalists fact-check these "firsts". Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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RE: Computer hard disc scanning by HM Customs & Excise
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> > Just set the BIOS not to boot to floppy, >> If the customs people have any clue, the first thing they do >> is hit DEL at the appropriate BIOS prompt >I think you give them WAY too much credit, not to mention many systems >give no such prompt. But highly suspect if anything they will check the >BIOS *after* first not being able to boot to floppy successfully. Any tax-collector who's illiterate enough to ask "Do you have Internet on your computer" is probably not going to know what's happening, especially given the disparity of system boot behaviour. Some things may get their attention, like the sound card yelling "Begin destruct sequence! 10, 9, 8, 7....." or, more politely, "Stop, thief! Help, someone is stealing this computer!" or "Virus detected. Please remove the infected diskette and contact corporate security for further instructions" but your basic subtleties like a Linux boot screen and copying the diskette to backup and then wiping it are beyond the typical border guard's technical training, and don't smell interesting enough to get his dog's attention (unless there's a good high-pitched tone as well.) I may post a more thoughtful article about the offensiveness of this practice or the technical cluelessness, but for now I'll just rant about the sheer folly of allowing anybody to touch your computer whose primary training is in Shouting and looking for people who match profiles, like Irish accents or obvious wealth or obvious poverty. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Archives and such - I can host these...
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If the folks that run or ran archives need a mirror site to host their mirrors, I can happily provide space for them on sundernet. I've plenty of space on the drive, and if not I can get more spindles for it... If you have already written perl scripts to archive incoming mail I'd put those up too... -- =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ==========================

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SSZ down (whatta story!)...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Sorry for the downtime but a big (40ft.) tree fell and took out the phone lines, nearly squished one of my dogs, and had the power lines under some considerable tension. If you're receiving this then everything should be back up and operating normaly. No further downtime is expected. Now back to your normal bat channel... ____________________________________________________________________ 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: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:29:14 -0500 > From: Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> > Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd) > There are lots of things you can make alcohol out of. Seaweed, etc. True, but the amount of land needed to replace the oil reserves is a tad excessive... > for importation into the US. Why? It's in their best interest to use the product in their own country. > And what would you need to add to it to "color" the flame? Indy racers add various things to make it burn (usualy a orange) but I don't have any references at hand and don't remember. Sorry I can't answer that one specificaly. > Put about 2% detergent (just about any grade will do) into that > "water spray", and the fire goes out quicker, and stays out longer. That'll work for gasoline because soap and gasoline are soluble. I doubt it would work very well for alcohol but once I get this mess with the tree straightened out I'll do a little backyard experiment. What I had in mind was to pour some alcohol on the concrete drive way and light it. Then use a waterbottle with a water/soap mix. Do you think that would be a suitable simulation? > There are plenty of unused roof tops here in Chicago bouncing free > energy off into the air. Yep, use the roof of every 10+ houses to power a single house... > Again, there are a lot of tall buildings here where the wind is > constantly moving. Also, we have this large, flat, relatively undeveloped > area just to the east of chicago where the wind is constantly at least 10 > m.p.h. (from (admittedly imperfect memory) 7 m.p.h. is necessary to run an > electric generator from a windmill) and where no one lives. Ok, so you have acres and acres of power turbines on towers around Chicago, where does Chicago move to? What about the rest of the country? The issue after all is what happens when a renewable *replacement* for oil based fuels is found? This is a much more global issue than Chicago. Besides putting a wind generator on a building wouldn't even power the building. > It's called Lake Michigan. Ok, something got lost here... > No, but it is PART of the solution. Actualy it's not, if anything the pollution of mining, production, byproducts of use such as acid rain, and some I've probably left out are only an extension of the problem. The ignorance of long term costs of disposal and ecological impact is one of my personal pet peeves with traditional economic theory and why I pretty much think it's a pile of shit and economist in general are idiots. > Again, PART of the solution. Ok, so we let PART of the people starve and die in the dark. > The waste problem goes away of you build a decently stable launch > platform and drop the shit into the sun. We don't have engines at this point that can do that. The fact is that it takes more energy to get to the sun than it does to leave the solar system. Nope, not the answer. (I do experimental, ie big bird, rockets for grins and giggles) > "power sats" into orbit (altho I am not real clear on how the energy gets > back down, something about using microwaves <shrug>) Microwaves, and god help you if you happen to fly through one. I won't even talk about the costs of development, control, maintenance, etc. This won't fly any time in the next couple of hundred years at least. What about the heating of the water in the air, can you say global warming on a scale that would make the current issues irrelevant. > Also, you ignored, or didn't see the "mix of" statement. Oil CAN be > replaced, and should be. There are plenty of ways to replace the energy Absolutely, I want to replace it. I want to replace it with something that is renewable, won't have the ecological impact of the others, won't squeeze the small countries out, etc. If it requires killing a single salamander then it's the wrong choice simply to make a profit. > for clean air as much as the next guy, and I guess trees are kinda nice to > look at, but I'd like to see far more diversity in energy sources, and > investigation into more long term, renewable sources. I love trees. The problem is that there aren't that many renewable resources that won't break the bank or create a have/have-not situation that would be rife with conflict potential. > Actually it looks like something that could be made in a factory. > Take a methane source (sewage, rotting plant matter) pump it into really > cold water under pressure, and blam. You need pressure as well. But yes, this is a possibility as well. I haven't seen the energy costs on this approach. The largest producers of methane on the planet are cows. Perhaps we should shove a hose up the hinney of all the cows...:) > Depends on what you want it to replace. The one of the largest uses > of oil is in the transportation sector, and "they" have been pushing > Natural Gas there for years to little effect. Absolutely, there is a hurdle to jump. One of the main issues with the traditional natural gas deposits are that they are expensive because of the drilling requirements, non-renewable, and not evenly distributed to potential users. Something deep-ocean clathrates and potentialy your industrial process idea don't have. ____________________________________________________________________ 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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