December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy]
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ummm ... not to sound skeptical, but were did -this- thing come from? looks like a crock to me. here, guys: have at it, here's my email address. ps: can you spell "agent provocateur" ---- (I'm not sure *I* can...) At 11:43 AM 9/12/98 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote: > > >--- 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.i ntern >etMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!ne ws.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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Is cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com broken?...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Access to Eudora Export Controlled Archives
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Eudora Export Control Team wrote: > Be sure to keep this username and password to yourself. If someone You know, this kind of crap never ceases to make me chuckle. Mail a list with thousands of people, which is archived all over the place, and add in "Be sure to keep this username and password to yourself." This is very effective export control.

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Deletion test
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Deletion test ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Investigating the Suspect Computer
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is there a PKZip-encryption cracker online for the following program which claims to offer a link to a couple of dozen shareware password crackers of popular programs? The exe-file is easily downloaded. There's a copy for testing for privacy protection: http://jya.com/pci-pack.exe (20K) Investigating the Suspect Computer PC Data Recovery for the Criminal Investigator Law Enforcement Use Only http//www.forensicdynamics.com/pccrime.htm WHAT EXACTLY, DOES THE SOFTWARE DO ? The software is designed to almost completely automate the formidable task of extracting forensic data from today's modern personal computers with large or multiple hard drives. The program automatically examines startup files for "booby traps", and searches the entire machine for "bomb" programs which, if triggered, could destroy valuable evidence on the machine. PC-Investigator runs exclusively from diskette, at the DOS level, and does NOT perform any write operations to the hard drive. This insures that fragile data, or files that may be evidence which have been deleted, or are resident in "slack space", are not inadvertently overwritten. A unique feature of the software is the ability to construct custom-tailored reports. The catalog function extracts and organizes all the files on the hard drive, and sorts them into order by type, date and time, according to directory. During this process, all the readable (text) files are extracted into a separate list, and are organized by type in the report. Also available is an extracted report listing of graphic (picture) files, and files that are typically used on the Internet, along with an extracted list of word processor files, backup files, ASCII text, and files that are recovered by CHKDSK or SCANDISK, which are commonly overlooked as a source of forensic evidence. PC-Investigator has unique features that duplicate the manual functions normally performed during such forensic investigations. The most valuable feature is the ability to search all the files on the disk for the presence of up to 600 words or phrases called HotWords, that you supply in an editable file. This function is the equivalent of the manual process of "Find Files and Folders" / "Files Containing" under Windows 95 , which typically takes 30 seconds to 3 minutes to do manually for each word or phrase you are looking for. The function is performed using words and phrases from the HotWord list, hundreds of times per second. A typical 2 Gigabyte hard drive may contain over 500 readable text files. A manual search for the occurrence of a single word or phrase occurring in those files typically takes 90 seconds. If you had to search for those 200 words manually, the time required would be 5 hours at the keyboard. The HotWord search feature of PC- Investigator performs this function on a 486/50 machine in just under 45 minutes. If the number of files to be searched is substantially higher, such as on today's large hard drives (typically 2 to 4 Gigabytes, with 12 Gigabyte drives available on top-end systems) the time required to perform an exhaustive search would be proportionately higher (500 to 1,000 man-hours). PC-Investigator completely searches a 2 Gigabyte drive n a 486/120 machine in just under 24 hours. The faster the processor, and hard disk controller, the faster the program will run to completion. The best part is that each file containing any of the words or phrases in your list is cataloged in the report, along with the number of "hits" or HotWords found in the file. After the program is started, and the desired options are selected, the program will run un-attended, doing the work that would normally not be done in such cases because of the tremendous amount of time and effort involved. Of course, files which do not contain "clear text", or are DES or BLOWFISH / PGP encrypted will not be flagged by the program. However, we have software which addresses the problem of APPLICATION encryption - that is - files which are encrypted by the application which created them. For example, LOTUS 123, Quick Books, PFS Professional, and WordPerfect are among the few programs which offer in-application encryption of files. The program does NOT extract or examine the data from "slack space". However, running the program is easy, and can be done by almost anyone with a bit of computer skills. The software is designed as a preliminary investigative tool, to determine if a machine should be examined by a professional. If this program indicates a "HOT" machine, you can be certain that a more extensive investigation is warranted. ----- PCI-PACK.EXE Includes PC-Investigator software, manual and Investigating The Suspect Computer THIS PACKAGE IS DISTRIBUTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS ONLY!! THE ARCHIVE FILE IS [PKZip] ENCRYPTED, AND YOU WILL NEED A PASSWORD TO EXTRACT THE ARCHIVE. IF YOU ARE NOT WORKING IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, DON'T BOTHER TO DOWNLOAD THE FILE, WE WILL NOT DISTRIBUTE THE PASSWORD UNLESS WE CAN VERIFY YOUR CREDENTIALS.

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2A (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:00:12 -0400 > From: David Miller <dm0(a)avana.net> > Subject: 2A > The thought I had (actually, it was explained to me), about the > BoR is that, you know that in contracts/law, if there is a conflict > within a text/body of law, that which was legally written last > overrides the earlier statement. (e.g. the fine print is always > at *the bottom* of contracts). Think: a law is passed saying > that something is legal, now another one is passed saying that it > is illegal... Which law wins? The second one, obviously, so long > as it was legally passed. Contract law is civil law, the Constitution isn't civil law it is the charter defining how the government is supposed to work. If we accept this then no part of the Constitution is safe because it could be over-ridden this way, clearly not what the founding fathers intended in practice or principle. > Well, same with the BoR/Admendments. As AMENDMENTS, they override > the main body of the Constitution, if there is a conflict. This > is plain, simple, contractual law, and holds anywhere that people > negotiate contracts. > > Consider: The main body of the C says that the Senate can ratify > treaties, such as the UN resolution to confiscate privately-owned > small arms. Yet there is the 2A. Which wins? The 2A because it > is the overriding law of the land, higher than the authority of > the main body of the C to give the Senate that power when there is > a conflict between parts of the law. > > Conclusion: The UN should get your guns and ammo one bullet at a > time. This is lawyer bullshit, the 10th states very clearly, as well as the last sentence of the inter-state commerce clause, that the Constitution has to be taken in toto. The legislators and courts don't get to pick and choose. Furthermore, since the amendments dealing with prohabition were passed prior to the 16th they set a precedence that requires that subsequent amendemnts must specify what they are changing, the 16th doesn't do that. One could argue on that alone that the 16th as currently worded is invalid since it didn't meet prior precedence and by extension wasn't passed legaly. ____________________________________________________________________ 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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voice from the past
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Secrecy of Secrecy Without the freedom to expose the system proposal to widespread scrutiny' by clever minds of diverse interests, is to increase the risk that significant points of potential weakness have been overlooked. A frank and open discussion here is to our advantage. http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3765/RM3765.chapter2.html Chapter 3 has an excellent picture of a binary key on a hollerith card... http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3765/RM3765.chapter3.html

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Ooops...16 is before 18th & 21st
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ooops, guess I was in some sort of fugue and forgot how to count... Clearly the 16th is before the 18th or 21st amendments. ____________________________________________________________________ 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: radio net
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/8/98 2:29 PM, Ryan Lackey (ryan(a)systemics.ai) passed this wisdom: >Is anyone else interested in setting up a radio net (probably packet radio >relay) to relay small quantities of data in the event the telecommunications >infrastructure becomes unavailable (either technically or >legally/politically/militarily)? There are existing packet relay nets, but >in my experience amateur radio people, especially in the US, are very >willing to roll over for the government at the slightest cause. you tar with too wide a brush ... one of the pioneers of ham packet radio is Phil Karn, who definitely isn't in to submissive roll overs! For that matter neither am I, though, sadly the greater number of hams do fit your description. >I think the cost would be something like $1-5k per station, and it could >be done in a fairly turnkey fashion. Exactly how to handle routing and >what protocol to use on the network is kind of an open question -- there >are a lot of solutions, none of them optimal. so what are you interested in setting up???? Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with in the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy." -- Gassee - Apple Logo

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Re: radio net (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: radio net (fwd) > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 20:03:56 -0400 > From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr(a)together.net> > open for things like the ham radio satellite command channel uplinks > being encrypted for security reasons ... but to do so they must, upon Actualy the control channel for satellites must be encrypted by international law. ____________________________________________________________________ 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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