December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: DoS considered harmful [WAS: RE: Anyone striking?]
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:09 AM 12/16/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >> > disapproval published to appropriate orgs c) _short_ >> > loosely organized burst of DoS against select online >> > targets from widely distributed sources. >> A DoS (Denial of Service) action is a really, really, >> really bad idea. ["clarification", or something, elided] >Example: A public web page is setup with information on the next "sit in" or >"log writing campaign" containing the agenda behind the protest, contact >persons for more information, target site with explanation of choice, start >time and stop time. Let's further that the cause is able to get a couple >hundred or couple thousand supporters to, for example, repeatedly telnet to >port 80 on the remote server during a specific 5 minute window and type in: > >GET I do not support your sites views on such and such see >www.stop_this_now.org for details. > >Given the right level of logging on the server you'd quickly fill up the >target's logs with a record of the number of people (or actually computers) >that don't agree with the target's agenda. [...] You clearly don't run a website. Logs are very valuable. Any admin who doesn't have space for at least several days of normal traffic available on their logging device is simply not doing a good job. A network admin running a website doesn't lose logs - careers live and die on them (if this seems an overstatement to you, go look at http://www.abcinteractiveaudits.com/ and report your findings. -10 points for declaring it stupid.). If you didn't mean "fill up the target's logs" (which I took to mean overflow available disk space), but rather "pepper the logs with many instances of some sort of odd political commentary", that could have an effect. It could throw off reporting and make a new conversation topic for editors, which might, if you managed to organize enough people, earn you a CNET story. "CyberActivists Make An Obtuse Statement - Click Here For Soundbyte". Great job. Truth is, on any major site, you'd need hundreds of robots making your bogus requests to show up - manually telneting to port 80 is line noise these days to any serious site, unless you're poking at potential security problems. If you really want to try this, at least take the bother to make valid HTTP requests that most servers will recognize. Your example above should be something like: GET /I/dont/support/your/sites/views/on/such/and/such/see/www.stop.this.now.org/ for/details HTTP/1.0 (note the two newlines at the end of the request) A sysadmins reality check, T. Pynchon

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NZ government to legalise black bag jobs
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

15 December 1998 GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE AMENDMENT TO NZSIS LEGISLATION The Government will introduce an amendment to legislation this week covering the operations of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, and will also seek to appeal part of the Choudry decision of the Court of Appeal, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today. "In Mr Choudry's case, the Court of Appeal pointed out the need for Parliament to provide express authority for the NZSIS to enter private premises, without permission, to intercept communications." "It is vital that the NZSIS is able to carry out its functions properly in gathering intelligence on security threats to New Zealand. In some rare instances, this may require covert entry to private property, which the amendment to the legislation will allow. The existing law had been presumed to allow this to occur. The Court has said if this is the intention, it should be made explicit as is the case in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia." [...] Mrs Shipley said the Government would also seek leave to appeal against one aspect of the Court of Appeal's decision in Mr Choudry's case. The issue concerns the procedure the Court should follow when the Government asserts it is necessary, in the course of litigation against the Crown, to withhold from the Court, and other parties, access to information, in order to protect national security interests. Commentary: Choudry was a protestor against the 1994 APEC meeting held in Auckland (a bunch of foreign politicians turned up to talk for a week, shutting down the city centre in a way that wasn't equalled until Mercury Energy earlier this year). At the time the SIS's mandate had been widened to include "economic security", bringing the APEC meeting into its sphere of interest. As part of the APEC brouhaha, they carried out a black bag job on Choudry and got caught, causing the government some embarassment. The current bill, rushed through under urgency just before parliament shuts down (which means it gets rubberstamped with no scrutiny or debate), would legalise these things in the future, just in time for the next big politicians powwow next year (which has already lead to the army invading the university as part of some training exercise which involved a simulated search for dissidents). The second part is more worrying, what it'll do is remove any provision for judicial review of dubious actions by the government by allowing them to claim national security concerns as a blanket excuse for whatever they do. Certainly in the Choudry case the real concern was job security, not national security. Peter.

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Fwd: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration...
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Received: from bernie.compusmart.ab.ca (bernie.compusmart.ab.ca [199.185.131.34]) > by cti13.citenet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA22703 > for <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:02:25 -0500 (EST) >Received: from remote322.compusmart.ab.ca ([206.75.84.147]:1035 "EHLO compusmart.ab.ca") by mail.compusmart.ab.ca with ESMTP id <409327-12752>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:52:54 -0700 >Message-ID: <3676A210.9C6687B8(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:53:20 -0700 >From: Peter Kearns <kearns(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Organization: KEARNS & McMURCHY >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: Canadian Firearms Digest <cdn-firearms-digest(a)sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>, > "Anne Mclellan (Parliament)" <McLellan.A(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Bernard Johnston <johnston(a)pacific.net.sg>, > Bob Burgess <dq2(a)monarch.net>, Bob Lickacz <firearms(a)planet.eon.net>, > Brad Browne <coffee(a)ns.sympatico.ca>, > Dale Blue <bluedl(a)telusplanet.net>, > David Tomlinson <nfadat(a)telusplanet.net>, > Don Davies <nstn2906(a)fox.nstn.ca>, > Donna Ferollie <donnaferolie(a)sympatico.ca>, > Frank Szojka <dszojka(a)compusmart.ab.ca>, > Frank Williamson <afss(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Garry Breitkreutz <BreitG0(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Gordon Hitchen <acardin(a)v-wave.com>, > Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>, > Jim Hinter <jhinter(a)shopnfa.com>, > "John St. Amour" <marstar(a)hawk.igs.net>, > LE QUEBECOIS LIBRE <libre(a)colba.net>, > Manuel De La Paz <simonjes(a)hotmail.com>, > Mark Hughes <mkhughe(a)north.nsis.com>, > Pierre Bourque <pierre(a)achilles.net>, > Lorne Gunter <lgunter(a)thejournal.southam.ca>, > Shafer Parker <shaferp(a)sprynet.com>, > Pat & Mike Ryan <theryans(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Bennett <paul.bennett1(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Rogan <firearms(a)hypertech.yk.ca>, Peekay <peter(a)firearms.ab.ca>, > Peter Cronhelm <cronhelm(a)nucleus.com>, > Peter Figol <pjfigol(a)canada.com>, Ken Epp <Epp.K(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Preston Manning <Manning.P(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Jack Ramsay <Ramsay.J(a)parl.gc.ca>, Deb Grey <Grey.D(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Monty Solberg <Solberg.M(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Raheem Jaffer <Jaffer.R(a)parl.gc.ca>, > "Robin Leech \"SPIDERMAN\"" <robinl(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Tony Bernardo <teebee(a)sprint.ca> >Subject: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration... >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-UIDL: ddaaa1595eab8ceea7515c82b013fcca > "The Edmonton Examiner" a local community newspaper, ran an editorial entitled "Gun lobby has a point." In it they accused the "pro-gun" faction of posturing and paranoia, but then went on to say the so called "lobby" is correct in it's assessment of the registry. The paper said, "the government has failed to show how gun registration will reduce crime, which is the sole reason for registration." The newspaper also asked how would knowing that people own rifles deter crimes, while "the new law does nothing to deter the easy access to guns smuggled in from the U.S." Another statement follows, "and of course the criminal element has no interest in registering guns." The editor makes one last telling remark, "So exactly what is the point? Essentially, it is to gather information. All governments love information, the more the better. But there is no proof at all that registering guns deters criminal activity." Sounds like an editor sounding off..... Right? What follows indicates the writer likes to do a little investigative journalism.... The editor then conducted a telephone poll asking the question "ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF THE GOVERNMENTS GUN REGISTRY PROGRAM? (Remember folks, the constituents of "Idle Annie" had their say in this poll.) The results were 76% AGAINST the registration program with 24% in favour..... Oh dear, Annie..... You'd better hope they change their minds come election time...... Comments from those opposed to the registry, "I have never owned a gun, but I resent this program which smacks of a police state." Another said, "I have yet to undertstand how having the gun registered that killed those students in Montreal registered would have prevented that terrible deed." The last and most telling, "It is simply a way to enable the confiscation of firearms in order to prevent any insurrection or revolt against a government that may be imposing oppressive measures." The usual comments equating registering cars and guns, and the "only one life" bleat came from the 24% who actually liked the registry. One even said "Gun owners have to wait hours to get their guns, instead of minutes. Get over it you big whiny crybabies." (Kinda makes you question the maturity of that one!) The polls are turning in our favour, and they are doing so because we are educating the public. The more they know about the registration process and the costs, the less they like the idea. We have accomplished this without breaking any laws, and without the need to indulge in civil disobedience. If we break (even unjust) laws and engage in publicised acts of civil disobedience then we will lose. The newsmedia will then (rightly) portray us as a bunch of right wing fanatics, and elements of the lunatic fringe. The NFA has proved we can be heard, and that the public is seeing things our way without the need to engage in silly demonstrations. Let's see how far we can go within the law, during the next four years. regards, Peter Kearns NFA Communications Simon says: "Well what about it Annie? What do your spin doctors have to say about a poll that included the people who voted in the last election in Edmonton West? (Weren't you elected to represent the views of the people who voted for you?)........... ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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ARMCHAIR Commando List(Cypherpunks@cyberpass.net)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"I CANT PARTICIPATE IN THE REVOLUTION BECAUSE I DIDNT GET ENOUGH NOTICE OR ITS TOO INCONVENIENT OR THEY ARE USING LEFTIST PROTEST TECHNIQUES" EXPORTING PGP WITHIN MINUTES OF ITS RELEASE NOW THAT WOULD IMPRESS ME... (BEEN THERE DONE THAT!) NOW I am trying to shake the apathy from all of you.. Its so much easier to talk about revolution than participating or contributing... Talking about revolution does NOT make it happen magically.. I suspect the revolution will die given the above anon

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crypto boredom
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 12/15/98 4:37 PM John Young Seeing http://jya.com/kea-errata.htm makes me feel good that I am not doing crypto work anymore. I talked with Kent Parsons this afternoon at Holman's computer. Parsons was the department manager who was going to make his claim-to- fame at Sandia on the Forth code we developed. "We aren't getting the recognition [for Forth] we deserve." was a Parsons quote. I told Parsons that the Forth code we developed is executing all over the world. Jane Ellson was one of Parson's secretaries when we did the Forth 8085 and 8051 development in the weapons components department. Ellson is now Sandia president Paul Robinsons secretary. I need to revise my NSA-funded and Sandia-approved Forth book for the 80c32 and windows. http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 I saw http://jya.com/intel120898.htm. NSA's Forth expert Donald Simard talked to me about putting Forth on a x86 PC as a stand-alone secure operating system. Putting a secure RELIABLE operating system on a Pentium-class processor will be a MAJOR task. Perhaps more than just building a rad hard version of the chip. Parsons also led the effort at Sandia to build the 8051 as a rad hard chip at Sandia to replace Sandia's rad hard 8085 chip SET. Forth works great for weapons programmers. We need to get this unfortunate matter settled so that we can ALL move on to more constructive projects. Later bill

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HAS The Revolution Died??
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"I CANT PARTICIPATE IN THE REVOLUTION BECAUSE I DIDNT GET ENOUGH NOTICE OR ITS TOO INCONVENIENT OR THEY ARE USING LEFTIST PROTEST TECHNIQUES" EXPORTING PGP WITHIN MINUTES OF ITS RELEASE NOW THAT WOULD IMPRESS ME... (BEEN THERE DONE THAT!) NOW I am trying to shake the apathy from all of you.. Its so much easier to talk about revolution than participating or contributing... Talking about revolution does NOT make it happen magically.. I suspect the revolution will die given the above anon

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DARPA's Active Network page (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:50:56 -0500 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: DARPA's Active Network page > I saw an article on this in InfoWorld. NAI/TIS and DARPA talking about > putting self-switching packets into the network. I don't see this as too > far off from packets purchasing their passage across the network with > micromoney of some kind. How does the packet know what is a good price or a bad price as it makes each hop? Whose processor is it using to run its program to evaluate the costs? Who pays for that processor cost on a node that isn't selected? Who has access to the audit trail? How does a reliable copy get back to the originator? How does it do this in an anonymous network? ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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NSA Electronic Sheriff
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From a new report: "Cybercrime, Cyberterrrorism, Cyberwarfare" Tomorrow's frontline commanders will be drawn from the ranks of computer wizards. The sandal culture is challenging the wingtips. The National Security Agency's (NSA) new electronic sheriff, responsible for protecting NSA's ground stations, is a 23-year-old GS-14. In the civilian sector, "techies" have moved into senior management positions. http://jya.com/cyber-trip.htm

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Equipment Resource: December Equipment Update
by sales＠equipmentresource.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Distributed Programming with DIPC (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From owner-sparclinux-outgoing(a)vger.rutgers.edu Tue Dec 15 20:47:43 1998 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:09:40 -0600 (CST) From: Kamran Karimi <karimi(a)cs.uregina.ca> To: sparclinux(a)vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Distributed Programming with DIPC Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.981215170900.10107H-100000(a)MERCURY.CS.UREGINA.CA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Orcpt: rfc822;sparclinux(a)vger.rutgers.edu Sender: owner-sparclinux(a)vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo(a)vger.rutgers.edu To people interested in distributed programming and clustering under Linux, This is to introduce DIPC (Distributed Inter-Process Communication). DIPC is a software-only solution for very easy distributed programming under the Linux operating system. Here developers design their applications as a group of processes, each possibly running on a different Linux computer, and then use DIPC to _transparently_ exchange data between them. The main objective of the DIPC project is to make distributed programming as much like "normal" programming as possible. DIPC hides itself behind UNIX System V's IPC mechanisms, consisting of Semaphores, Messages, and Shared Memories, and makes them work over a network. This means that DIPC offers, among other things, Transparent Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) with strict consistency: Processes can read from and write to the shared memory with no need for any explicit synchronization! This makes DIPC very different from systems like PVM or MPI. The source code of a DIPC program is nearly identical to a normal UNIX program using System V IPC. Actually, a DIPC program can even run in a Linux computer with no DIPC support; no need for recompilation. System V IPC is widely available in UNIX variants, and is very well documented, meaning that developers may already know the programming interface, or they can learn it very easily, confident that the usefulness of the newly learned material is not tied to the availability of DIPC. This is in sharp contrast to most other distributed programming systems. Using a mainly "shared-memory" programming interface means that the same distributed application can also run on a multi-processor Linux machine at "full speed" DIPC modifies the Linux kerenl in order to offer its excellent degree of transparency. There are no needs for any link libraries, and it can be used from any programming language that allows access to the OS calls. The hardware can consist of a single Linux machine, or a cluster of computers connected to each other by a TCP/IP network. DIPC has been tested on inter-continental WANs and is a heterogeneous system, as it can run on Linux/i386 and Linux/m68k, with both versions being able to talk to each other. (volunteers for porting DIPC to other CPU families are welcome). People intersted in distributed systems can easily and safely try DIPC. After patching a standard Linux kernel, DIPC becomes a configuration option (make config), and can be left out at compile time if desired. When DIPC is compiled in, it can be turned off any time with no need for a reboot. For more more information about DIPC, visit http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc . You can download the package (which includes the sources and the documentation) from the web page, or from ftp://wallybox.cei.net/pub/dipc . A mailing list devoted to discussions about DIPC is addressed at linux-dipc(a)wallybox.cei.net . Feel free to send your comments and questions here. To view the previous posts to DIPC's mailing list target your browser at http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc/ml-archive . -Kamran Karimi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of the message to majordomo(a)vger.rutgers.edu

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