December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

simple socket forwarder
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have a simple packet forwarder to run on a unix system? I want to set up a daemon on an account to just redirect traffic from a particular port to another host for some basic anonymity, but I don't have experience doing socket coding, nor a book.

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Fwd: Re: Snowball fight '98 - '99
by ethena＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Fw: Fwd: Re: Snowball fight '98 - '99
by Tony 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Search and Seizure abuse...
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:22:14 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: NOTE: I AM NOT ON CYPHERPUNKS. PLEASE Cc ME DIRECTLY. >>We're out of luck here! Owning explosive is verboten! >>And real soon, passing gaz with a high content of methane will be an >>indictable offence! :-) > >Certainly you're not constraining a response to an illegal use of force to >legal means ;-) Well, maybe, maybe not. It depends. No use of becoming a martyr if nobody cares... Blowing a SWAT team would be just the right thing to get forever in the klink, while blowing up the story over the net might blow-up the klinks themselves... It is all a question of return on investment, and what price you can afford. Happily enough, we now have strong encryption and the net. There is much less need to spill blood in order to disseminate information. >>Everything you own is a privilege given to you by the Ruler. Didn't you >>know that komrade? > >Rights are what you insist you have and can make stick through any means at >your disposal. If the use of force was optimal, historically, we'd have been living in paradize since the first fight of all time happened. Only, it doesn't work that way... > Our colonial revolutionaries certainly didn't limit the >scope of their rights by what King George allowed. I wholeheartedly agree, but neither did they live in the same context. Beside, it was the only way they could act. Nowadays, we have the phone and the net. But I agree that without threath of physical action, no govt (itself based ultimately on physical threath) will ever stop doing just as it pleases him. Only, you don't have to come up with big house blow-up things. Only the menace of physical resistance and of the dissemination of information suffice. The govt is fed by the voluntary actions of the citizenry. The day large groups decide to stop paying taxes, the govt will simply starve and grind to a halt. Ciao jfa Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:0xC58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:0x5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C PGP ID:0x6CBA71F7:485888E9FD68415A2945 ACCB366D38486CBA71F7

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Re: Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (fwd) > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 98 10:48:53 -0800 > From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri(a)netcom.com> > jim, don't be a bonehead. > what would it gain you if one defined 1 as prime?!?!? > "very bad science/math"?? yeah, coming from you!! Quite sendin this shit to my private email, send it to the list. It gains a consistency at the axiomatic level that isn't there now. If it won't do anything to the math you shouldn't object to adding it (course you'll have to add 'applies to all primes except 1' to a lot of theorems. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) 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: Fwd: Re: Snowball fight '98 - '99
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Guess what time it is? That's right! It's time to FUCK OFF! Why don't you jam a rusty nail in your snowball, shove it up your ass, spin it around violently, and get back to me when you're dead. Thanks. At 12:42 PM 11/19/98 -0700, ethena(a)usa.net wrote: > > > GOTCHA!!! > > > \ | / > > > \\ \ | | / // > > > \\\ \\ // /// > > > \\\ ####### /// > > > \\## ##// > > > -- ## ## -- > > > -- ## squish!! ## -- > > > //## ##\\ > > > // ### ### \\ > > > /// ####### \\\ > > > /// // \\ \\\ > > > // / | | \ \\ > > > / | \ > > > > > > You have just been hit with a snow ball! > > > > It's the start of..... > > > Snow Ball Fight '98/'99!!!! > > > > > > One rule to this game.... > > > You can't hit someone who has already hit you! > > > Now...go out there and hit as many people > > > as you can before they get you!! > > > >____________________________________________________________________ >Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

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Re: simple socket forwarder
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ichudov(a)Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov @ home) wrote: >Anonymous wrote: >> >> Does anyone have a simple packet forwarder to run >> on a unix system? I want to set up a daemon on an >> account to just redirect traffic from a particular port >> to another host for some basic anonymity, but I don't >> have experience doing socket coding, nor a book. >> > >It seems that what you need is called a proxy server. > >There was a perl script floating around that worked as a proxy server. > >If you do it for web accesses, consider using Crowd, a distributed >network of anonymizing proxy servers. > > - Igor. > I want to use it as a proxy for NNTP.

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RE: Goldbach's Conjecture (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: "Blake Buzzini" <bab282(a)psu.edu> > Subject: RE: Goldbach's Conjecture (fwd) > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:37:09 -0500 > >From _Elementary Theory of Numbers_ by William J. LeVeque, pg. 6: > > "It was conjectured by Charles Goldbach in 1742 that every even integer > larger than 4 is the sum of two odd primes. (All primes except 2 are odd, > of course, since evenness means divisibility by two.)" Ok, so this one says it was Goldbach himself and in particular states two odd primes completely eliminating 4 from the get go ... > >From _Excursions in Number Theory_ by C. Stanley Ogilvy and John T. > Anderson, pg. 82: > > "Goldbach's conjecture. Is every even number expressible as the sum of two > primes?" This one is the second version... > >From _Goldbach's Conjecture_ by Eric W. Weisstein > (http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/math/GoldbachConjecture.html) > > "Goldbach's original conjecture, written in a 1742 letter to Euler, states > that every Integer >5 is the Sum of three Primes. As re-expressed by Euler, > an equivalent of this Conjecture (called the ``strong'' Goldbach conjecture) > asserts that all Positive Even Integers >= 4 can be expressed as the Sum of > two Primes." And finaly a third completely different slant. They at least get Fermats contribution right. > Am I misreading somewhere? Well I'd say that all three of your references tended to contradict each other. Which one do you want to stand on? This is my quote: > No, that was Fermat, Goldbach just says every even number greater than two > can be represented as a sum of primes. Basicaly Fermat says that if we have > n primes we can reduce them to 2 primes only, in all cases. Which happens to > exclude using equilateral triangles as a test bed since you can't tile a > equilateral with only two other equilaterals, you could use rectangles > though. So basicaly from a geometric perspective Fermat says that given a > rectangle of even area it is possible to divide it with a bisector into two > rectangles of prime area. > > It's interesting that Fermat doesn't mention that the only prime that can > use two as a factor is 4. And you can't factor 2 at all since we eliminate > 1 as a potential candidate (another issue of symmetry breaking simply so we > don't have to write '....works for every prime but 1' on all our theorems). I'll stand by this statement. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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VSNL Censors Indian Internet Sites.
by Vipul Ved Prakash 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

( My 19th nov. post to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net never showed up on the list, so I reposting. Thanks. ) 17 November, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Vipul Ved Prakash, 2233328. VSNL Censors Indian Internet Sites NEW DELHI, INDIA - VSNL, the Indian Internet monopoly, has been illegally blocking Internet access to a number of Indian web sites for the last several weeks, a Delhi-based Internet presence provider revealed today. The block affects only Indian citizens in India - users anywhere else in the world are not affected. One of the sites targeted is Sense/NET, (www.sensenet.net) Sense/NET lets users of VSNL's text-based shell account use the graphical Netscape browser over their shell accounts, while using only the normal shell account facilities that VSNL provides. With Sense/NET, the common man can surf the Internet just like with VSNL's premium TCP/IP service, but at a fraction of the cost. General Logic, the startup company behind the Sense/NET service, is not taking the blocking of its server lightly. "We did not so much as receive any communication from VSNL about this step, which has the potential to seriously affect our business," said Dr. Pawan Jaitly, a director of the company. "It seems very strange, too, that a security breach was attempted on our server over the Internet just days before the blockage." The censored server, at the (currently blocked) IP address of 208.222.215.97, hosts a number of other web sites including the largest Yellow Pages of Indian exporters and importers available on the Internet and the corporate web sites of the Apple Publishing Technology Center, NewGen Software, and Educational Consultants India Limited. The award-winning web site of Connect magazine, the first Indian print publication to launch a web edition, is also located on the General Logic server. Sense/NET users and others affected by the block who called up VSNL's help desk to request clarification on this issue and access to the sites were told by VSNL staffers that they did not know what the problem was, and that they themselves could not access the sites in question. No official intimation or even acknowledgement about the block has been forthcoming from VSNL. This is not the first time VSNL has blocked access to selected sites on the Internet. On September 19, 1998, online activist Dr. Arun Mehta's writ petition was admitted for hearing in the court of Justice Anil Dev Singh, Delhi High Court, against VSNL, challenging its blockage of certain Internet sites. The sites listed in the petition provide information and software for voice transmissions over the Internet. The petition argues that this action "is wholly without basis in law and amounts to arbitrary and illegal censorship of the petitioner's Fundamental Right to freedom of speech, expression and information as well as an illegal denial of his right to freedom to practice his chosen profession." The petition seeks affirmation that the constitutional rights to free speech apply equally in cyberspace, and it also opens up the issue of VSNL's ban on Internet telephony to judicial scrutiny. The matter will come up for hearing on December 9, 1998. The case is being argued by Mr. Ashok Aggarwal. The Exporters and Importers Yellow Pages web site hosted on General Logic's recently blocked server is a vital e-commerce resource for over sixty-five thousand traders who earn India valuable foreign exchange. "This ban will hurt Indian exporters as well. By banning access to sites... VSNL is cynically choosing to let the nation suffer severe loss if in the process it can safeguard its own monopolistic profits," said Dr. Mehta. "Ironically, VSNL also blocked Educational Consultants, a public sector government organization, with its action." General Logic was able to move all the web sites that were the victims of VSNL's action to a non-blocked area within hours. "Most of our clients didn't even notice their sites and email messages were being blocked by VSNL," said Dr. Jaitly. The Sense/NET site remains blocked, however. "What VSNL is doing is completely illegal. A website is a means of expression and is covered by the right to expression of all indian citizens under article 19(1)a of the Indian Constitution. This can only be restricted under article 19(2) on 'reasonable grounds' which include obscenity, but certainly not the provision of competitive services at reasonable cost," commented Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, managing editor of First Monday, a European journal on Internet law. Last year a duo of computer whiz-kids in Cochin released Shellsock, a software package that made it possible for users of VSNL shell accounts to browse the 'Net graphically. VSNL quickly set about working on ways to break Shellsock, and eventually succeeded in restricting the environment on its shell accounts to the extent that Shellsock was unable to function. General Logic launched its Sense/NET service soon after, with the goal of providing TCP/IP Internet 'tunneling' service to users worldwide, not just in India. "There are other countries suffering under the yoke of state censorship of the Internet, like China, whose authoritatian government, without warning, blocked access to the BBC web site for its citizens," said Dr. Mehta. "VSNL is a monopoly that is crippling India's progress on the Internet front." Even Microsoft, he observed, which holds an effective monopoly in the operating system market worldwide, has no mandate by any government in the market - it has to keep forging ahead or lose to its competitors. "VSNL does not have that motivation, and so it is that the Indian consumer and India suffer." Besides the threat of censorship and poor service, another risk with state monopoly Internet access providers is that they can read your mail, and monitor your communications, as the data flows through their systems. Jaitly disclosed that his company is working on providing strong military grade encryption as part of its Internet tunneling services, to provide secure private networks across untrusted links for business and personal use. "We envision Sense/NET as a sort of 'Meta ISP' providing secure, uncensorable Internet tunneling service to people in places where local access providers are unable or unwilling to deliver full access," said Vipul Ved Prakash, Director of research at General Logic. "We believe in every individual's fundamental right to access human knowledge without restriction. Our message to these people is: 'There's light at the end of the tunnel.'" It's not all crypto-anarchy and dreams of digital revolution, however. Sense/NET is a valuable service for ordinary users who are attempting to make the most effective use of their VSNL shell accounts with the limited services provided. Many of the subscribers to the service are students and other low income groups, who simply cannot afford VSNL's higher priced services. A case in point is that of Pranav Lal, a New Delhi student. Pranav is blind, and VSNL's shell account is next to useless for him. Sense/NET on the other hand allows him to use voice-enabled software to surf the 'net. "I can't afford the VSNL TCP/IP account, but for me it is vital that I am in touch with my peers over the world over the Internet," says Pranav. "Sense/NET is great because it lets me handle my email and navigate the web really simply." "We see the global free flow of ideas across national borders, enabled by digital data communications and encryption technology, as the most liberating development of the 20th century," said Ashish Gulhati head of development at General Logic. "Regulation is futile," he added. The company expects its services will be most in demand in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. "It's shocking that this kind of thing continues to go on in India," observed Dr. Mehta. "We're the world's largest democracy, on the brink of entering the 21st century as a major player in the global software industry. But we're still enslaved by laws created during the British Raj, even in high priority areas like telecom." [1324 Words] _________________________________________________________________ Notes: 1. Dr. Arun Mehta's petition is at <http://members.tripod.com/~india_gii/telepet.html>. 2. The Forum for Rights to Electronic Expression articles are at <http://www.eff.org/pub/Groups/FREE> 3. Censored sites: + http://www.sensenet.net/ (Currently blocked) + http://www.trade-india.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.aptc-india.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.edcil.org/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.newgensoft.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.newgen.net/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.connectmagazine.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.net2phone.com/ (Currently blocked) + http://www.vocaltec.com/ (Currently blocked) + http://www.netspeak.com/ (Currently blocked) 4. Email addresses: + Dr. Arun Mehta - amehta(a)cerf.net + Ashish Gulhati - ashish(a)generalogic.com + Ashok Agarwal - ashokagr(a)del2.vsnl.net.in + Dr. Pawan Jaitly - pawan(a)generalogic.com + Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - ghosh(a)firstmonday.dk + Vipul Ved Prakash - vipul(a)generalogic.com _________________________________________________________________ Rev: SNPR v0.06 1998/11/17 15:58:14 webmaster(a)generalogic.com -- VIPUL VED PRAKASH Cryptography. "Everything is what mail(a)vipul.net | Distributed Systems. | it is because it got http://vipul.net/ | Network Agents. | that way." 91 11 2233328 | Perl Hacking. | 198 Madhuban IP Extension | Linux. | d'arcy thompson. Delhi, INDIA 110 092 / Networked Media. /

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