December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

can i join
by Drifter0＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

thanx

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Jim Bell 6
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On June 26 the court handling Jim's case extended the time from June 30 to July 11 for the USA to file an indictment. This is from an on-line docket of the case via Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) a subcription service for federal courts. No indication that Jim has been released, jailed since his arrest on May 16. No reason given for repeated waiver of right to a speedy trial. The docket's at: http://jya.com/jimbell-dock.htm

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nsa+gchq spying operation
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

as I recall we have gotten early hints of this operation/book. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 21:37:30 -0600 To: snetnews(a)world.std.com, act(a)efn.org From: Leander <leander(a)xmission.com> Subject: SNET: "Secret Power" by Nicki Hagar - -> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List Forwarded from alt.2600.moderated by me. Leander leander(a)xmission.com >"Secret Power" by Nicki Hagar >The International Spying Networks UKUSA and ECHELON >301pp ISBN: 0-908802-35-8 > >According to this remarkable book, that has somehow escaped the flames of >book banners crying "national security," the United States NSA and the >United Kingdom's GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) operate a >global spying network called UKUSA. To listen in on conversations across the >planet, a massive eavesdropping apparatus was built, with tentacles which >reach into dozens of different countries beyond the shores of either the US >or UK as well as across the skies. > >Describing the nature of UKUSA, its global affiliations, and operations >represents a huge effort on the part of author Nicki Hager. He states early >on in 'Secret Power': > > "Many people are vaguely aware that a lot of spying occurs, maybe even on > them, but how do we judge if it is ubiquitous or not a worry at all? Is > someone listening every time we pick up the telephone? Are all of our > Internet or fax messages being pored over continuously by shadowy figures > somewhere in a windowless building? > > "What follows explains as precisely as possible - and for the first time > in public - how the worldwide [spy] system works, just how immense and > powerful it is and what it can and cannot do. > > "The global system has a highly secret codename: ECHELON." > >And that is the foundation of a tremendous amount of research that describes >in detail how the vast global spying network "collects all the telephone >calls, faxes, telexes, Internet messages and other electronic communications >that its computers have been pre-programmed to select," and then analyzes >the contents and distributes it to members UKUSA and ECHELON partners >world-wide. > >The operational details of how the US (NSA), UK (GCHQ), Canada (CSE), >Australia (DSD) and New Zealand (GCSB) intercepts signals, throws high power >computing behind ECHELON 'KeyWord' dictionary attacks and what they do with >that information is potentially alarming; especially since so much of this >decades old practice has been kept under the wraps of security. > >Secret Power names the names, provides the dates and the technical details >on the world's largest, best financed and coordinated global spying >apparatus ever conceived. Full of pictures, maps and charts, the reader will >get a complete picture of just how much effort and resources go into >international security, long distance eavesdropping, and spying. > >>From the Cold War to today, UKUSA and ECHELON have been fascinating and >powerful intelligence functions to spy both on enemies and friends. "Secret >Power" provides the first peek inside the world's most secretive and >powerful electronic spy organization. > >"Secret Power" reads like a thriller, except that it's true. It should be >read by everyone with an interest in intelligence, espionage and the >technology that modern spies use. > >"An astonishing number of people have told him [author Nicki Hager] things >that I, as Prime Minister in charge of the intelligence services, was never >told...It is an outrage that I and other ministers were told so little." > -David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1984-89 > >"...the most detailed and up to date account of the work of any signals >intelligence agency in existence. It is a masterpiece of investigative >reporting, and provides a wealth of information." > -Jeffrey T. Richelson, leading authority on United States >intelligence agencies and author of America's Secret Eyes in the Sky, and >co-author of 'The Ties that Bind.' > >------------------------------ > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Graham-John Bullers Moderator of alt.2600.moderated >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > email : <real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> : <ab756(a)freenet.toronto.on.ca> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~real/index.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >-- end of forwarded message -- > > - -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo(a)world.std.com - -> Posted by: Leander <leander(a)xmission.com> ------- End of Forwarded Message

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by unknown＠example.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Forged Posts
by BadRemailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > The Canadian whacko who goes by "Toto," "TruthMonger," "Xenix Chainsaw > Massacre Author," "Colonel C.J. Parker" (or somesuch) is apparently at it > again. > > While I was out of town, he arranged to have this message sent: > > At 5:20 PM -0700 7/2/97, Tim May wrote: > > Anything that isn't nailed down, is mine. > > Anything that I can pry loose, isn't nailed down. "Toto" is actually an anonymous pseudonym of Adam Back, who resents Tim May's respected position on the list. "TruthMonger" posts are usually written by John Young and Robert Hettinga as a result of having the same drug connections and thus a common outlook on life when they are stoned out of their gourds. Lucky Green's recent posts are actually forgeries done by snow, and Kent Crispin has been sending posts purporting to be from Dr. Vulis. The fact is, forgeries have gotten so out of hand on the cypherpunks list that even the "can i join" and "subscribe me" posts of late are probably coming from John Gilmore, who is forging AOL return addresses in an attempt to bring calls for his return to hosting the list in order to save us from "The Night of the Living Newbies." BadRemailer "Some people just can't keep a secret."

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[STEGO] RSA
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Given Tim C. May's propensity to molest little children, is it any surprise that the state of California wants to have him castrated? o o /< >\ Tim C. May \\\_______/// // \\

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Re: Dr. Dobbs Cryptography and Security CD-ROM
by Mike 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Frantz wrote: >Excuse me. Certain parts of that CDROM are already available overseas. >If they are not posted to the net how does that prevent them from being >available overseas? You mean that it would be fine for foreigners to copy and sell the CD, but not to put it on the net? Well, copyright law being what it is, makes this a bit tricky. An ftp administrator have never been sentenced for copyright violation (please correct me if I'm wrong), but CD copiers are thrown in jail all the time. The distinction that the courts make is that of profit. Sure, they can buy the book, but the electronic version is obviously more useful to some people, or there wouldn't be any market for it. I know foreigners who would like to put a copy of Applied Cryptography in their PalmPilots, to carry around for reference. They can't do that legaly, and that makes crypto less accessible. Mike.

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer(a)dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer(a)huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman(a)jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"wazoo"} = "<remailer(a)wazoo.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"shaman"} = "<remailer(a)lycaeum.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"hidden"} = "<remailer(a)hidden.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) (weasel squirrel) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers. The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems for incoming mail. The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 7 Jul 97 6:47:50 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca +**+*****++* 12:58 99.95% weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de +++-+---+++ 1:43:42 99.91% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com .-*...-..-.- 10:13:59 99.80% replay remailer(a)replay.com +**+**- **** 4:56 99.79% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net - -.------- 5:53:17 99.58% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de +++-+ -+++ 1:42:06 99.46% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net **+* +++*** 13:35 99.43% nym config(a)nym.alias.net +##+##++#*## 2:48 99.36% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net --+.--* -*** 1:39:45 99.31% hidden remailer(a)hidden.net 4:44:03 -0.56% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Re: Jim Bell 6
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> writes: > On June 26 the court handling Jim's case extended > the time from June 30 to July 11 for the USA to file an > indictment. > > This is from an on-line docket of the case via > Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) > a subcription service for federal courts. > > No indication that Jim has been released, jailed since > his arrest on May 16. No reason given for repeated > waiver of right to a speedy trial. > > The docket's at: > > http://jya.com/jimbell-dock.htm Thanks for keeping us up to date. Jim always seemed to me to be a loony, but I never (and still don't) think he's capable of the things the warrent alleges him to have been planning. Peter Trei DISCLAIMER: The above is my opinion, no one else's.

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Re: Dr. Dobbs Cryptography and Security CD-ROM
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > Mike <Michael.Johnson(a)mejl.com> writes: > > You mean that it would be fine for foreigners to copy and sell the CD, but > > not to put it on the net? Well, copyright law being what it is, makes this > > a bit tricky. An ftp administrator have never been sentenced for copyright > > violation (please correct me if I'm wrong), > > An MIT student named Lamachhia(sp?) reportedly operated a warez FTP archive. > He got arrested and charged with something irrelevant (wire fraud??). The case against him was lost.

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