December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

We promised!
by bill payne 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

John Young We made it. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm With some help of nmol, I got wsftp working this afternoon. I failed to click on a filename. Good stuff at webmasters.nmol.com. This site is under construction. New employee Randy is putting his software at this site. In particular, look for hypersnap which captures screen shots. This WILL NOT BE OUR WORKING SITE. Only testing so see if I sort-of understand html. Without your advice and ALOPress's html compiler putting-up a web site in one day wouldn't have been possible for me. We plan to post other people's pro se and other lawsuit progress at our site. And try to get some CROOKED JUDGES and clerks removed from the federal court system. Let's hope McKinney and Grassley can help get this settled before IT GETS EVEN WORSE! bill Title: Main(Page 1) Pro se [for yourself] Pro Se Litigation with the US Federal Government Purpose of The Real World is to help Movers, Shakers, and Do-ers

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Star Trek and Microsoft (fwd)
by Max Inux 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:35:34 -0500 X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Christopher Baker <chrisbaker(a)iname.com> Reply-To: isp-linux(a)isp-linux.com To: isp-linux(a)isp-linux.com Subject: Star Trek and Microsoft Star Trek and Microsoft... <Picard> "Mr. LaForge, have you had any success with your attempts at finding a weakness in the Borg? And Mr. Data, have you been able to access their command pathways?" <Geordi> "Yes, Captain. In fact, we found the answer by searching through our archives on late Twentieth-century computing technology." <Geordi presses a key, and a logo appears on the computer screen.> <Riker looks puzzled.> "What the hell is 'Microsoft'?" <Data turns to answer.> "Allow me to explain. We will send this program, for some reason called 'Windows', through the Borg command pathways. Once inside their root command unit, it will begin consuming system resources at an unstoppable rate." <Picard> "But the Borg have the ability to adapt. Won't they alter their processing systems to increase their storage capacity?" <Data> "Yes, Captain. But when 'Windows' detects this, it creates a new version of itself known as an 'upgrade'. The use of resources increases exponentially with each iteration. The Borg will not be able to adapt quickly enough. Eventually all of their processing ability will be taken over, and none will be available for their normal operational functions." <Picard> "Excellent work. This is even better than that 'unsolvable geometric shape' idea." .. . . 15 Minutes Later . . . <Data> "Captain, We have successfully installed the 'Windows' in the command unit and as expected it immediately consumed 85% of all resources. We however have not received any confirmation of the expected 'upgrade'" <Geordi> "Our scanners have picked up an increase in Borg storage and CPU capacity to compensate, but we still have no indication of an 'upgrade' to compensate for their increase." <Picard> "Data, scan the history banks again and determine if their is something we have missed." <Data> "Sir, I believe their is a reason for the failure in the ' upgrade'. Apparently the Borg have circumvented that part of the plan by not sending in their registration cards. <Riker> "Captain we have no choice. Requesting permission to begin emergency escape sequence 3F . . ." <Geordi, excited> "Wait, Captain I just detected their CPU capacity has suddenly dropped to 0%!" <Picard> "Data, what does your scanners show?" <Data> "Apparently the Borg have found the internal 'Windows' module named 'Solitaire' and it has used up all the CPU capacity." <Picard> "Lets wait and see how long this 'solitaire' can reduce their functionality." .. . . Two Hours Pass . . . <Riker> "Geordi what's the status on the Borg?" <Geordi> "As expected the Borg are attempting to re-engineer to compensate for increased CPU and storage demands, but each time they successfully increase resources I have setup our closest deep space monitor beacon to transmit more 'windows' modules from something called the 'Microsoft fun-pack'. <Picard> "How much time will that buy us ?" <Data> "Current Borg solution rates allow me to predicate an interest time span of 6 more hours." <Geordi> "Captain, another vessel has entered our sector." <Picard> "Identify." <Data> "It appears to have markings very similar to the 'Microsoft' logo." <Over the speakers> "THIS IS ADMIRAL BILL GATES OF THE MICROSOFT FLAGSHIP MONOPOLY. WE HAVE POSITIVE CONFIRMATION OF UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE IN THIS SECTOR. SURRENDER ALL ASSETS, AND WE CAN AVOID ANY TROUBLE. YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS." <Data> "The alien ship has just opened its forward hatches and released thousands of humanoid shaped objects." <Picard> "Magnify forward viewer on the alien craft." <Riker> "Good Grief, captain! Those are humans floating straight toward the Borg ship with no life support suits! How can they survive the tortures of deep space?!" <Data> "I don't believe that those are humans sir, if you will look closer I believe you will see that they are carrying something recognized by twenty-first century man as doe skin leather briefcases, and wearing Armani suits." <Riker and Picard together horrified> "Lawyers!!" <Geordi> "It can't be. All the Lawyers were rounded up and sent hurtling into the sun in 2017 during the Great Awakening." <Data> "True, but apparently some must have survived." <Riker> "They have surrounded the Borg ship and are covering it with all types of papers." <Data> "I believe that is known in ancient vernacular as 'red tape' it often proves fatal." <Riker> "They're tearing the Borg to pieces!" <Picard> "Turn off the monitors. I can't stand to watch, not even the Borg deserve that." ~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Ultimately, education is about our place in the universe, our place in it. The bigger that connection, the bigger our lives and dreams. Through what we take to know and understand, we can be as immense as the milky way--glorious indeed." --Grace Llewellyn, _Teenage Liberation Handbook_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Baker -- chrisbaker(a)iname.com, chrisbaker(a)nls.net "If you keep looking back, you'll lose your momentum." _______ The http://ISP-Linux.com/ EMAIL DISCUSSION LIST ______ To Remove, Send An Email To: mailto:remove-isp-linux@isp-linux.com To Join, Send An Email To: mailto:join-isp-linux@isp-linux.com

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Stinger strike stagesetting
by Frederick Burroughs 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

There's a story in the Dec. 30, 1998 Washington Post about how US intelligence acquires foreign weapons technology. Specific mention is made about trading US Stinger missile know-how to China for whatever. My guess is the government's trying to set the stage to shift blame away from CIA for leaking antiaircraft missile technology, 1000 Stingers in the hands of Afghan rebels notwithstanding, and the aircraft disasters to come. Story at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/vecto… And, of course the esteemed Mr. Young is always on top of things: http://jya.com/vector.htm

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True Random Numbers
by Kevlar 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Several months ago, someone was talking about "True random numbers" and how to obtain them, and I (rather ignorantly) suggested they run a recorded sound through a program to record a 1 for every peak of volume over a certian threshold , and a 0 for every thing quieter.(I think i suggested a russeling tree, or a waterfall) Just adjust the threshold according to the volume of your sampling. (it was clear in my mind, even if I can't explain it here) Little did I know... Read phrack 54.5. -Kevlar <Webmaster(a)max-web.com> Does God know Peano Algebra? Or does she not care if strong atheists couldnt reason their way out of a trap made of Boolean presumptions? A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, but zero knowlege is absolutely subversive. Overspecialization breeds in weakness. It's a slow death. Beat your algorithms into swords, your dumb terminals into shields, and turn virtual machines into battlefields... Let the weak say, "I am strong" and question authority.

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BXA Crypto Rule
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

BXA has issued today an interim rule on encryption items which implements the administration's September export policy announcement, and requests comments: http://jya.com/bxa123198.txt (79K)

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DCSB Call for Speakers
by Robert Hettinga 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:51:21 -0500 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce(a)ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB Call for Speakers Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Program Committee of the Digital Commerce Society invites any member of the dcsb mailing lists to submit their proposal for a luncheon talk to the Society. Speakers can be any *principal* in any field of digital commerce. That means anyone who is doing interesting research or development in, or who is making significant market innovation in, the technology, finance, economics, law, or policy of commerce on the global public internetwork. The Committee tends to consider the person giving the talk first, and then gives the speaker lots of discretion in the content of their talk -- as long as it pertains to DCSB's charter to promote innovation in internet commerce. The Society's meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street, Thirty-Eighth Floor, in Boston, from 12 to 2 in the afternoon. Unfortunately, the Society can not remunerate a speaker for any fees or expenses other than, obviously, the speaker's lunch, and basic overhead projection equipment. There is dial-up internet access for the meeting room. If you, or anyone you know, are interested in speaking to the society, please send, via email, a proposal, consisting of a single paragraph on the speaker, and a single paragraph on the proposed talk, to Robert Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>, the chairman of the DCSB Program Committee, and the Society's Moderator. A list of previous speakers can be obtained with the following URL <mailto:majordomo@ai.mit.edu?body=info%20dcsb>, or, if your mailreader/browser doesn't support mailtos, send info dcsb in the *body* of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . Thank you for considering DCSB in your speaking plans, and, if you have any questions on your submission, please contact me directly. Cordially, Robert A. Hettinga Moderator and Program Committee Chair, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 iQEVAwUBNhTb/sUCGwxmWcHhAQHO2Qf/czV5QvJpM8RsX7UPydK0XAigPU6z+KxR 7sRwSOG+uguMLcEgvp+UItAOtXQc4ZGxMZib3LyqS9Hq3iZVHWTJkY/Qvk9kGUYH WNia7+1JTWfpeScDn8VSLQP4SgXSDXPoAagzxkTGs8fOuuwndb3TeDQOsTZvC/Br +Cb6cH5AM1rUr8IZBw7VJoLAkf0Hi3f1rtrWOp0lQ6DMcTVkfXy3lfa7scVXP90+ Wswa40wCrCp0O1N9mwhZa9BKGzztlksMRZzDLKVZe8tXqBMqdnQ6Un8cLLHIWdpK PFs32XSN9YqXvUQozsthc2Ao0rz4wqlTE26UNhcwCqDff04KrJ5/BA== =IhaG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations." -- David Friedman, _The_Machinery_of_Freedom_ For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- 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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Learning experience
by bill payne 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Thursday 12/31/98 9:49 AM John Young I did the first update this morning. I wonder how many rows one gets in a table until the system bombs? The Great Satan tries to bury its dissident citizens in its hidden SECRET cemetery. We will try to fix this problem. bill Title: pro se(Page 2) Pro Se [for youself] Litigation with the US Government Click 12/29/1998 - Date TenFrap40 Legal manuvering- Fed. R. App. P. 40. Petition for Rehearing 12/31/1998 foia3a47.txt Payne and Morales NSA lawsuitLetter accompanying Tenth Circuit ruling 12/31/1998 foia3a46.txt Payne and Morales NSA lawsuit Tenth Circuit Rule 54(b) ruling 12/31/1998 foia3a44.txt Payne and Morales address US Government lien 12/31/1998 foia3a43.txt Payne and Morales NSA lawsuit STATEMENT OF RULE 54(b) CERTIFICATION 12/31/1998 bur13.txt Payne exhausts administrative remedies at EEOC 12/29/1998 pena7.txt Payne exhausts administrative remedies at DOE 12/29/1998 jya.com This is a link to John Young's Cryptome web site 12/29/1998

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RE: Norway - go to jail for naming baby illegal [CNN]
by Trei, Peter 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Choate [SMTP:ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 24, 1998 4:43 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)EINSTEIN.ssz.com > Subject: Norway - go to jail for naming baby illegal [CNN] > > Forwarded message: > > > X-within-URL: > http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9812/23/BC-Norway-NameLaws.ap/ > > > Mother of 14 jailed for violating Norway's baby-name law > > > > December 23, 1998 > > Web posted at: 9:52 AM EST (1452 GMT) > > > > > > OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A mother of 14 was jailed this week because she > > refused to change the name she picked for her young son, even though > > that violated Norway's name law. > > > > Kirsti Larsen, 46, told the Verdens Gang newspaper that she named her > > son Gesher after she dreamed the child should be named "bridge." > > Gesher means bridge in Hebrew. > > > > Norway has strict laws regulating names, including lists of > acceptable > > first and last names. In 1995, Larsen tried to register her son's > name > > as Gesher at her local county office, which rejected the choice as > > illegal. > > [text deleted] > [Trei, Peter] This is the case in many countries - Germany and France for two. In Iceland, immigrants are required to change their names to Norse ones as part of the citizenship process. Peter Trei

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un-erata
by Alan Tu 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

The URL in the README.!ST file in the package is correct, thanks to Ralf. Alan

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FWD: Boston Globe on International Net Threats
by Stewart, William C (Bill), BNSVC 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

The Boston Globe December 28, 1998 Pg. A1 Nations strive to limit freedom of the Internet By David L. Marcus, Globe Staff WASHINGTON - As promised, the Internet is turning into an unstoppable geyser of information, a source of data, news and opinions that flow freely around the world. Except in China, which blocks access to sites about Tibet, Taiwan, democratic movements and dissident groups. Except in Saudi Arabia, which censors sites critical of the royal family. Except in Germany, where a judge sentenced a CompuServe manager to two years in prison for allowing access to pornography. Except in Cuba, which has seized laptop computers from dissidents as "subversive instruments." In short, despite grand promises, the Internet is not yet an unrestricted electronic village green for the world. The more information that becomes available, the more governments try to stanch the flow with new filtering technologies or strict limits on who can use computers. Democracies as well as dictatorships are cracking down on sites that are found to be too dangerous, too lurid, or too controversial. "The restrictions are coming fast and furious," said Barry Steinhardt, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group based in San Francisco, and head of the American Civil Liberties Union's task force on cyber-liberties. "The Internet is very frightening to many governments because it's an inherently democratic medium, so the first reaction is to reach out and control it." At least 20 countries restrict access to Internet sites, from Bahrain, which bans electronic versions of Playboy magazine and home pages that the government says are pornographic, to Singapore, where the Ministry of Information and the Arts keeps out sexually explicit material and news critical of the government. More than a dozen other countries are considering restrictions. The European Union, for example, is weighing proposals to ban child pornography and xenophobic materials. In Germany, freedom-of-speech advocates are outraged by a judge's decision in May to sentence the CompuServe official to jail (the judge suspended the sentence). The United States, too, is trying to restrict the Internet. A 1996 law, the Communications Decency Act, criminalized on-line communcations that were "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person." Under that definition, independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's report to Congress on President Clinton probably would have been banned from the Net. The Supreme Court struck down the law, but another aimed at sites harmful to children is supposed to take effect next year. A growing number of civil liberties groups - such as Global Internet Liberty Campaign, Digital Freedom Network, Internet Freedom, OpenNet, and Britain's Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties - vehemently oppose restrictions on the Internet. But many specialists argue that the issue is more complex. Shouldn't Germany have the right to restrict false and provocative Nazi propaganda? Shouldn't American states have the right to stop electronic dissemination of step-by-step instructions on assembling a car bomb? And why should any government allow child pornography to proliferate? "In all countries, you will find people who argue that certain things should not be available to other people," said David Webster, chairman of the Transatlantic Dialogue on Broadcasting and the Information Society, a group that includes private industry and government. "No politician gets up and says: 'I think the availability of pedophilia material is concomitant to liberty.' He'll lose his seat." The impulse to restrict access has been highlighted this month in China, where the government is holding its first trial of a "cyber-dissident." Lin Hai, a 30-year-old software engineer, is charged with inciting subversion by providing 30,000 Chinese e-mail addresses to a dissident group in Washington. Lin, who says he is innocent, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. Lawyers who follow China's one-sided judicial system say he is likely to be convicted. In Shanghai, a physicist named Wang Youcai, who registered an independent political party, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. His crime: communicating with democracy activists inside and outside of China. As President Jiang Zemin cracks down on dissent, other cyber-sedition trials are likely in 1999. Less dramatic but just as important, China's day-to-day censorship of the Internet affects scores of groups. The International Campaign for Tibet, for instance, often receives reports that the Chinese government has blocked access to its web site, said communications director Teresa Perrone. But she added that enterprising scholars in China often find ways to circumvent the censors and look at the group's information. Several groups report that when the government blocks sites, the information still reaches Chinese via e-mail, bulletin boards, chat rooms, web sites with code words that filters cannot detect and a variety of creative ways. "China may be the extreme case because they attempted to up a pretty impervious wall around the Internet," said Adam Clayton Powell III, vice president of the Freedom Forum, which advocates unrestricted media. "However, because China wants to be a world economic power they need high-speed, real-time, financial information." Financial reports from services such as Dow Jones or Reuters often contain political news. For every new restriction on the Net, there are new ways to get around it, said Vint Cerf, senior vice president for Internet architecture and technology at MCI-Worldcom. "It just isn't possible," to keep things away from Net viewers, he said. But Jonathan Zittrain, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, said improved technology will make it easier to keep track of who is looking at the Net and to restrict what is seen. "China has fairly crude tools for filtering, but my prediction is the Internet of 2000 is one that China will have less difficulty in regulating," he said. Some countries that have sampled the Internet have found it distasteful. Last year, Vietnam decided to allow the public to use Internet services. But 10 days ago, the Communist Party decided to set up a committee to consider restrictions as a way of "correcting mistakes and bias," the Liberated Saigon newspaper reported. "The stronger the central government, the more conservative they are in terms of allowing political information on the Internet," said Grey Burkhart, a retired communications expert from the Navy reserve who helps international groups get access to technology. Burkhart has taken a special interest in developing countries, including Russia, Bosnia, and Syria. It isn't easy. Despite the government's pledges to open Syria, the country still has no Internet service provider. To access the Internet, computer users have to make long-distance calls to Lebanon and other countries. Syrians aren't allowed to have cellular telephones, which are considered a security risk. This year, however, Syria allowed computer modems to be installed and an Internet service is promised. The most restrictive countries, including Iraq, North Korea and Cuba, are those that control all forms of media, not just the Internet. In Havana's airport, several laptops carried in by passengers and intended for dissident groups have been seized in the last couple of years, said Frank Calzon, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba. Police even took a $150 electronic typewriter from a dissident becaue it was "an instrument of high-tech subversion," Calzon said. Surprisingly, Latin America, which has a tradition of censorship, has been quite open to the Internet. Pedro Armendariz, the director of Investigative Editors and Reporters in Mexico, a non-profit group, has traveled to conferences in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru and throughout Mexico. Outside of Cuba, he has found no restrictions on the Net, other than the expense of service and unreliable telephone lines. "I would dare to say that far from having serious restrictions in Latin America, we have a problem with sorting through so many things on the Net and discriminating about what is useful and what is garbage," Armendariz said.

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