December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NYT Crypto OpEd
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The NYT has a fairly good OpEd on encryption today, written by a novelist, who makes a good case for the citizen's need for the privacy protection, now that there are a zillion ways computers pry into private affairs. http://www.nytimes.com For those outside the US: NYT today began its free worldwide online service, so the whole world can log on to its prying computers. (Non-USes heretofore had to pay for privacy loss.) It claims to have 4 million daily online consumers and is happy to run an advertiser drivern operation to suck in millions more around the planet. Take note, Slate.

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - July 22, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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(fwd) Topic is Internet server stalkers AKA Cyberpunks
by ZeroInt.at.birmingham.crosswinds.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Though this might be of interest On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:40:48 -0500, in misc.survivalism "~The Seventh Sign~" <Higuy&Galswhatsup(a)the.com> said: Nobody important wrote<Snipped the bullshit> Hello people I will address this in an off topic way to many of you but you must learn about the type of individual we have been dealing with. 1.)Has plenty of time on his hands and may be something else in his had is you catch my drift. 2.)Thinks it is a cool thing to try to shut down servers and hack into systems. Use to have his own web site but not now. 3.)Has use of library computers so he thinks he won't get caught. 4.)Mad at his Dad for not being there for him. Making him made at the world. 5.)Has been posting sollog crap trying to shut down servers that burned him. 6.)Thinks 'Archangle'(A well known name in the hackers sites.) is his mentor. 7.)Has probably send hate mail to you and other members of the group using the anonymous remailers rigging the response to finger the other member of the group. Who's servers is he trying to shut down you ask. www.theasi.com (Hacking (Don't get your info here a page cost you $9.95USA), sollog and other bullshit) www.theeunderground.net Ditto the above! www.replay.com Anonymous remailers that he has been abusing like rubber gloves after hemorrhoid surgery. You could send the stuff to abuse(a)replay.com but I think the little punk wants you to mail bomb his account. or you could send your complaints to postmaster(a)nym.alias.net but you would play into the little punks hand like I did. DEFENSE AGAINST THIS ANTAGONIST IS SIMPLE: whatshitten will be his name from this point on. Solagged would be good too. A profit prophet is what sollog is no predictions have ever come true. Just take my message and repost it under all of his post thank you!

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Robot Tears - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Robot Tears - SPACE ALIENS HIDE M DRUGS!!! ___________________________________________ If you XOR digital copies of Brave New World, 1984, Terminator and Terminator 2, They Live, Mein Kamf and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, then you end up with copies of Part V, Part VI and Part VII of 'The True Story Of The InterNet': Part V - Tears Of A Robot Part VI - The Day The Screen Came Alive Part VII - Don't Crush That End-User, Hand Me The Pliars I have always been much more comfortable transmorgifying the effluvia excreted from my GreyMatter into ScienceLess Fiction than A Factual Treatise On A WorldWide Conspiracy To Promote The Belief In The Existence Of A WorldWide Conspiracy. As Trooper said, "We're here for a good time, not a long time, so have a good time, the sun doesn't shine every day." The reason that the general public is absolutely terrified of being confronted with the Truth (TM) and Reality (TM) is that they know that it is a Horrifying Beast capable of ripping their Perceived World View to shreds and destroying any hope they might have of attaining peace of mind and tranquillity of soul in this lifetime. What the average person doesn't realize, however, is that when you make the supreme effort to face the Truth, whatever it may be, you will find yourself laughing like a fucking banshee. our Body, Mind and Soul *will* be subjected to a violent, excruciating pain beyond human endurance, but your Spirit will laugh its ass off... When I first read about the InterNet being created by the military, in order for scientists, researchers, et al, to be able to freely exchange information in a secure environment, I recognized that they were doing so with the goal of being able to totally access the complete spectrum of educational and scientific progress and development. I took it as a given that their purpose in providing a communal forum for exchange of information was to have complete access to, and control over, that information. To me, this is as plain as night and day. I think it is ludicrous for supposedly intelligent individuals to have failed to recognized this fact until the presence of Echelon became public. Well, to be more precise, until Official Government Recognition of the reality of Echelon's wide- ranging presence became public. Of course, I had the advantage of having had the opportunity to become acquainted with the military's attitude toward, and plans for, the public and its individual citizens by finding myself at the forefront of their experimentation in monitoring and controlling the minds of the citizenry, as well as directing their thoughts, beliefs and attitudes according to their own desires and goals. My original insight into this arena of life came from a perspective of watching and listening, from the ceiling, the medical and scientific researchers who were below me, casually engaged in manipulating and modifying the physical tool which they seemed to believe held the secret to control of my mind. I gained additional insight into the aims of the Controllers by making a point of developing self-hypnosis tapes which I used to override the subconsious suggestions of Dr. Fogel, one of Dr. Hoffer's associates, before submitting to his hypnosis 'treatments.' If anyone finds some of the things I say a bit odd, then think about how 'odd' they would have sounded twenty-or-so years ago. I have recently read much of the InterNet literature on CIA and military mind-control experiments, etc., and found it quite humorous the lengths to which those providing information went to document and verify each and every instance of what they were describing, and the claims that they were making, yet still maintaining a subtle undercurrent of "No! Really! I wouldn't shit you! This stuff is *true*, I tell you! TRUE!!!" I find it equally humorous that so many of those who have obviously spent a great deal of time, effort and resources to uncover/discover the enormous extent of government research and experiments into mind- control somehow manage to keep from screaming "BullShit!" at the claims of those involved that they spend decades and millions of dollars in this area without making any progress, whatsoever, and that they just happened to have stopped all research and experimentation in mind-control the very Tuesday before a Congressional (or whatever) investigation decided it was not a good thing, and they shouldn't be doing it. And now, the IRS wants to be our best friend... When I taught for the Bartonian Metaphysical Society and the Institute of Applied Metaphysics, an agency of the Canadian government that was involved in PSI research at a university in Toronto used to plant 'spotters' in the classes, to target potential experimentation and research subjects. According to one of the spotters who had difficulty holding his liquor and his tongue at the same time, our Saskatoon group was considered 'untouchable' as a result of a visit by 'friends' of the organization that was funding their research. The evening after I read Robert Munroe's 'Journeys Out Of The Body,' I astral travelled. After reading a book on Lucid Dreaming, I did lucid dreaming. Upon reading Carlos Castenada's various works, I entered into many of the same experiences he wrote about. When my mother's persona/ soul went AWOL during her bout with cancer, I bought a book on Shamanism that told how to travel into the Underworld and retrieve a person's 'animal/animus' and place it back in their body, and I did so. This is my life...it is not a matter for belief/disbelief or debate. To me, my life and my capabilities are simply the way it is, and I don't consider them particularly extraordinary. To me, what is extraordinary is the fact that pedal-steel players can actually make wonderful music with those instruments. I tried like hell, and all I could make was noise. My only real purpose in telling you all of this is to impress upon you the fact that there is much more going on in the background of government, life, society, science, etc., than what is readily apparent, not only to the general public, but even to those who research secret government activity and projects from the outside, as well as many who work on them from the inside. Anyone the least bit familiar with the world of secret intelligence is aware that it is composed of concentric circles-within-circles, with each layer remaining mostly a mystery to the layers external to it. The CIA's involvement in mind-control research was merely the second inner layer, with the public/private research community being the outer layer. As mind-boggling and incredulous as the details of the CIA's involvement may seem, they are merely grunt-workers for inner layers of agencies and organizations who expand and develop the techniques and information that filters down into practical applications on both a macrocosmic and microcosmic level. To believe that the most essential research and development in military intelligence is being done by people that you can call or visit at the local CIA office is naieve, at best. The CIA, according to my understanding of the military personnel who were involved with the Saskatchewan Cabal of mind-research, are little more than heavy-handed amateurs whose chief asset is their willingness to get involved in projects which have the potential of blowing up in their faces and requiring complex damage control. It is my impression that the psychiatric butchery epitomized by Canada's Dr. Ewen Cameron is typical of operations that are delegated to the CIA, since the military prefers to experiment on their own personell and subjects with methods that are unlikely to destroy their minds, to no apparent purpose. Although the mind-wiping electroshock techniques used by Dr. Cameron were apparently used in my 'treatment,' it is my recollection that, rather than being wheeled into a room with some amateurish, inane, tape-loop used to 'reconstruct' my mind, there were a variety of psychological and medical professionals who spent a great deal of time involved in activity designed to restore/restructure what had previously existed, as well as creating a variety of new mental paridigms which were designed to be able to function in a fashion similar to the interlinkable modular structure of the C-Programming Language. To tell the truth, although the research and experimentation that I was subjected to was undoubtedly invasive and unethical, I could see it as being beneficial to the evolutionary human equation if it was done in an above-board manner, as opposed to being hidden in the private enclave of secret agencies, to be used with the goal of outside control of the minds and behavior of others, without their consent. Mind-control, as described in terms of the MKULTRA ET AL Projects, is actually only a single arm of secret-government efforts to monitor and control the citizenry. The ultimate goal of the research and experiments in this arena of human evolution is the combination of an interdisciplinary combination of methods, processes and techniques which will enable a globalization of control over humanity--affectionately known by wild-eyed conspiracy theorists as the New World Order. If I can restrain myself, for a few hours, from breaking into screaming fits of rage calling for the public execution of all members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, forthwith, I might just share with you some of the things that one learns when they read the file which was accidentally attached to an email from Kent Crispin, which contains a download of the complete hard drive of the top secret military facility at which he works. {Hey! Really! Do you think I would just make that up?}

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INTELLIGENT VIRUS
by ILovToHack＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

****************************************************************************** ************************** ****************************************************************************** ************************** THIS IS TO BRING OUT THE TRUTH AND INFORM THE PUBLIC ABOUT A POTINTAL THREAT ****************************************************************************** ************************** ****************************************************************************** ************************** I was recently informed from sorces who choose to remain annomous about a viri that uses macafe's update tool to detect when it is found then it modifys its code and forms a new strain of the virus this pattern continues although it has only been tested through a clone of macafees server to 100 mutations it looks like it could be a big problem I will inform you of any more information i learn about it but for now "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE"

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Truth will make us free!
by juagarknight＠msn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We are an American social activist group called Las Americas, and we need your help. It is time to end the lies that everyone publishes about the Chiapas situation. We have to stop the war now! We are tired of not being believed: the truth needs your help. The truth has to be told. Our main purpose is to show what is really going on in Chiapas. We want the world to know how neglected the people in Chiapas are. In order for us to accomplish this mission, we need to provide tangible proof of all the events. We need pictures, sounds and video testimonies. We all have some kind of photographic equipment we don't use anymore. Right now, send us any type of new or old recording material: * Cameras * Videos * Tapes * Cassettes * Film * Typewriters * All kinds of recorders All of these materials will be distributed to the indigenous communities so that they will be able to provide proof of their living conditions. The collected information will make up a huge and raw testimonial, which will convince even the skeptics that the war in Chiapas must end. We are tired of lies being said about Chiapas. We need your support for this effort. Take your chances, don't waste this great opportunity to participate and make a difference. Send the materials to: LAS AMERICAS Attn. President Ronald Granados 12501 East Imperial Highway Norwalk, CA 90650 You may also remit your suggestions and comments to our president. We thank you in advance for your generous contribution and please forward this e-mail to as many people as you can. P.S. If you are planning on making a personal visit, please find information enclose and don't forget to send us your testimonies!! http://www.adventours.com http://www.derechos.org http://www.globalexchange.org http://www.NONVIOLENCE.ORG

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Thoughts on the demise of DES
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, I'm a happy camper. Single DES is dead as a credible cipher. I feel *very* vindicated. I called for the hit, RSA bankrolled it, and the EFF pulled the trigger. DESChall and Distributed.net did severe damage, but the Deep Crack machine was the fatal blow. While the possiblity of bruting DES has been discussed at various times in and out of cpunks for years (for example, see Adam Back's message of 17 August 1995), my involvement started 22 July 1996, when I proposed a DES crack as a follow on to the previous autumn's RC4-40 attack: ------------------------------ >Subject: Re: Borders *are* transparent >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 10:32:47 -6 [...] >Any one up for a distributed brute force attack on >single DES? My back-of-the-envelope calculations >and guesstimates put this on the hairy edge of >doability (the critical factor is how many >machines can be recruited - a non-trivial cash >prize would help). >Peter Trei >trei(a)process.com --------------------------- This got a flurry of responses, mostly positive, including some in which Matt Blaze announced his intention to build a hardware DES cracker. ----------- Later that day, I had run some more numbers: >Subject: Re: Brute Force DES >From: "Peter Trei" <trei(a)process.com> >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:55:17 -6 >[...] >The fastest general purpose, freely available des >implementation I'm aware of is libdes. by Eric >Young. With this, I can do a set_key in 15.8 us, >and an ecb_encrypt in 95 us/block. That adds up to >about 9,000 keytests/sec (this is on a 90 MHz P5, >running NT). [...] --------------- This looked much too slow, and discussion trailed off. I was still interested, and grabbed some x386 assembler by Phil Karn, and worked on optimizing it for the Pentium. It worked well. A few months later: http://infinity.nus.edu.sg/cypherpunks/dir.96.09.26-96.10.02/msg00567.html >Subject: Can we kill single DES? > From: "Peter Trei" <trei(a)process.com> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:27:18 -6 >[...] >Unlike many cypherpunks, I actually write code >(:-). I took Phil Karn's DES386 as a starting >point, and modified it to run effiiciently on the >Pentium. The code I've written will run 14 round >DES (all that is required for a key test app) at >254,000 crypts/sec on a 90 MHz Pentium. >[...] I had managed a better than 25x speedup. My biggest innovation was a new method of producing key schedules, which when applied for key search purposes was a hundred times faster than the canonical method [Perry doubled the speed by suggesting the use of Gray codes.] Later that month, I wrote to Jim Bidzos at RSA, suggesting a DES challenge, using my prototype's speed to demonstrate feasibility. He was interested, and the Symmetric Key Challenges were born. Soon other programmers (notably Svend Mikkelsen in Dennmark) substantially improved on my speed - by better optimization, and by clever shortcuts which allowed earlier rejection of bad keys. A major innovation was use of Eli Biham's 'bitslice' algorithm, which tested large blocks of keys in parallel. The speed of his initial implementation was doubled by the work of Matthew Kwan in Australia and Andrew Meggs, et. al. at distributed.net. By the end of the latest challenge, the fastest software search engines had speeds (in clock cycles per test) well over 100x as fast as my original 10,000 cycle/key estimate. Here's one more quote from the archives: >From: "Peter Trei" <trei(a)process.com> >Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:55:24 -6 [...] >Prediction: By the millenium, we'll have made >single DES look about as silly as 40 bit RC4 is >today. Written well before I started to think about a DES crack, this, at least, has come true. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with my work at my employer.

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Re: INTELLIGENT VIRUS
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 ILovToHack(a)aol.com wrote: ... > THIS IS TO BRING OUT THE TRUTH AND INFORM THE PUBLIC ABOUT A POTINTAL THREAT ... > I was recently informed from sorces who choose to remain annomous about a viri > that uses macafe's update tool to detect when it is found then it modifys its > code and forms a new strain of the virus this pattern continues although it > has only been tested through a clone of macafees server to 100 mutations it > looks like it could be a big problem I will inform you of any more information > i learn about it Oh, this is that virus I heard about which introduces typos and makes email incoherent! That's old news. AOL users were infected with that years ago.

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Netscape FOIA Docs
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We offer the FOIA docs EPIC got on Netscape's presentation for export of cryptographic products which was cited in the July 20 Network World report on NSA's long, strong arm: http://jya.com/nscp-foia.htm

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