December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: alt.anonymous.messages
by Nostradumbass＠SAFe-mail.net 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> > > You do not need to use remailers to take advantage of > alt.anonymous.messages. If someone posts directly to > alt.anonymous. messages, still the adversary cannot tell who he > is posting to. (Assuming his recipient sets his newsagent to > always download all new messages) Or access Usenet via a satellite feed.

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ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]
by Nostradumbass＠SAFe-mail.net 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

At 10:37 AM 12/10/2003, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 9 Dec 2003 at 0:47, edo wrote: >> What I'm curious about is digital currencies. Can anyone >> speak about the Digital Monetary Trust or DMT? I'm sorry I >> have not read the last upteen years of mail archives, but I'm >> interested in what people think NOW about Orlin Grabbe, DMT, >> e-gold etc. ...snip.. >None of these accounts provide Chaumian anonymity, which means >they can track identity, which means they must track identity, which costs them. >However one can withdraw, and deposit, physical gold, which actually is anonymous, and provides a physical mix, since one gold atom looks very like another. E-gold and other DGCs do not do much if any due diligence in checking account holder identification, so if you use an effective proxying means (e.g., an open Wi-Fi hotspot) to create and access your accounts you are pretty safe. If you fund you accounts using money orders, you may be safe (depending on whether you've employed others to purchase the money orders or your physical identity is being captured at the money order agent during the transaction). Although ALTA/DMT doesn't support blinded tokens, it does support tokens. http://www.orlingrabbe.com/dmt_bearercert.htm ALTA/DMT does have a certain degree of un-linkability in that once accounts are deleted all db references in the system to that account are also deleted from all ALTA/DMT dbs. This means if value is transferred from account A to Account B and subsequently Account A is deleted all traces of the transaction should be unlinked from Account B. It also means if you delete an account with a balance, accidently or otherwise, the money is gone. Two e-gold exchange agents have announced either formally or informally that they will now transact with ALTA/DMT. I beleive thay both accept money orders for fuding. Money can be withdrawn using e-gold and/or ATM cards either directly supporting ALTA/DMT (https://www.liquidprivacy.net/) or e-gold.

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Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?
by A.Melon 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

Tyler Durden (camera_lumina(a)hotmail.com) wrote on 2003-12-08: > Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was > sent to me) contained stegoed information, but that it was intercepted in > transit and the real message overwritten with noise or whatever? Hardly, given the simple fact that well-encrypted content is indistinguishable from noise.

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Type III Anonymous message
by Nomen Nescio 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

-----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE----- Message-type: plaintext Tim, I AM GETTING TIRED OF SEEING CYPHERPUNKS RESTRICTING WHAT INFORMATION FLOWS AND TO WHERE IT FLOWS... -----END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----

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Codecon 2004 CFP - Just a few days left
by Bram Cohen 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

CodeCon 3.0 February 20-22, 2004 San Francisco CA, USA www.codecon.org Call For Papers CodeCon is the premier showcase of active hacker projects. It is an excellent opportunity for developers to demonstrate their work and keep abreast of what's going on in their community. All presentations must include working demonstrations, ideally open source. Presenters must be one of the active developers of the code in question. We emphasize that demonstrations be of *working* code. CodeCon strongly encourages presenters from non-commercial and academic backgrounds to attend for the purposes of collaboration and the sharing of knowledge by providing free registration to workshop presenters and discounted registration to full-time students. We hereby solicit papers and demonstrations. * Papers and proposals due: December 15, 2003 * Authors notified: January 1, 2004 Possible topics include, but are by no means restricted to: * community-based web sites - forums, weblogs, personals * development tools - languages, debuggers, version control * file sharing systems - swarming distribution, distributed search * security products - mail encryption, intrusion detection, firewalls Presentations will be a 45 minutes long, with 15 minutes allocated for Q&A. Overruns will be truncated. Submission details: Submissions are being accepted immediately. Acceptance dates are November 15, and December 15. After the first acceptance date, submissions will be either accepted, rejected, or deferred to the second acceptance date. The conference language is English. Ideally, demonstrations should be usable by attendees with 802.11b connected devices either via a web interface, or locally on Windows, UNIX-like, or MacOS platforms. Cross-platform applications are most desirable. Our venue will be 21+. If you have a specific day on which you would prefer to present, please advise us. To submit, send mail to submissions(a)codecon.org including the following information: * Project name * url of project home page * tagline - one sentence or less summing up what the project does * names of presenter(s) and urls of their home pages, if they have any * one-paragraph bios of presenters (optional) * project history, no more than a few sentences * what will be done in the project demo * major achievement(s) so far * claim(s) to fame, if any * future plans Program Chair: Bram Cohen General Chair: Len Sassaman Program Committee: * Bram Cohen * Len Sassaman * Jonathan Moore * Jered Floyd * Brandon Wiley * Jeremy Bornstein Sponsorship: If your organization is interested in sponsoring CodeCon, we would love to hear from you. In particular, we are looking for sponsors for social meals and parties on any of the three days of the conference, as well as sponsors of the conference as a whole, prizes or awards for quality presentations, scholarships for qualified applicants, and assistance with transportation or accommodation for presenters with limited resources. If you might be interested in sponsoring any of these aspects, please contact the conference organizers at codecon-admin(a)codecon.org. Press policy: CodeCon strives to be a conference for developers, with strong audience participation. As such, we need to limit the number of complimentary passes for non-developer attendees. Press passes are limited to one pass per publication, and must be approved prior to the registration deadline (to be announced later). If you are a member of the press, and interested in covering CodeCon, please contact us early by sending email to press(a)codecon.org. Members of the press who do not receive press-passes are welcome to participate as regular conference attendees. Questions: If you have questions about CodeCon, or would like to contact the organizers, please mail codecon-admin(a)codecon.org. Please note this address is only for questions and administrative requests, and not for workshop presentation submissions.

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by FB` 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

I really would expect that preventing *spiders* (some spiders, even) using the *publicly accessible* robots.txt would be a pretty horribly ineffective form of "skullduggery"... can think of 10 things to do that are easier, more effective and less of a potential pr fiasco... see http://shock-awe.info/archive/000965.php FB`

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whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Eugen Leitl 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up on the web? http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Tim May is Free!
by Tyler Durden 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

"I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. >On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. >When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately >these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim >near the keyboard very often." I dunno...sometimes his racism and child-killing and "fuck them deads" seem to be fairly logical consequences of his basic philosophies. In fact, Tim May can only be truly free after every other human being in the world is dead... (Fade to wavy fluctuations of the visual field) The time is 2023, and Tim May finally figures out how to release a plague of nanobots that kill every human being in the world but himself. Now we see Tim May driving a Hummer over the rolling hills of No Cal, on his weekly excursion to view the piles of dead bodies on the outskirts of San Fransisco. He stops by a 7-11, picking up some supplies, and tosses a handful of pennies onto the counter, in front of the skeleton of the counter boy. "That's what the market can bare, my friend, and then some," he says with a sly grin. Arriving at the outskirts of San Fransisco he drives up to a tall hill, where some bodies are visible in the foreground, and downtown San Fransisco is visible in the distance. Complete silence pervades. Raising his fist in the air he shouts at the top of his lungs: "SODOMITES! NEGROS! STATISTS! BOLSHIES! I'M FREE, DO YOU HEAR ME! FREEEEEE!" Today he needs to re-gas the small powerplant that keeps his server farm alive. He decided to open his own Cypherpunks node, to which he posts on a regular basis. He's been issuing a stream of posts on "Darwinian Implications of Humanocide", and on how Darwinian evolution will eventually create a species much more advanced and free than the one he killed off. -TD >From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com >Subject: Re: Speaking of Reason >Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:26:22 -0500 > >At 4:57 PM -0800 12/9/03, Eric Murray wrote: > >I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. > >On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. > >When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately > >these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim > >near the keyboard very often. > > > >> Fuck you dead. Fuck all of you Bolshies dead. > > > >Ok, bye! > ><plonk> > > > >Eric (just to make it crystal clear, Tim's going in my _personal_ >killfile) > >To quote a famous flying squirrel, that trick never works. Tried it myself >a few times over the years, and one usually misses too much of what this >list is for, as you noted yourself, above. > >Unfortunately, if you want to read Tim, you have to read his evil twin >Skippy, too. > >Living in *his* killfile, on the other hand, and if he actually uses it, >can be useful. Try it, you'll like it. > >Cheers, >RAH > >-- >----------------- >R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> >The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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' _________________________________________________________________ Get holiday tips for festive fun. http://special.msn.com/network/happyholidays.armx

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Re: Speaking of Reason
by Freematt357＠aol.com 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

In a message dated 12/9/2003 6:12:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, timcmay(a)got.net writes: > As for you, Gaylor, you subscribe for a while, contribute nothing, > vanish from the list for a couple of years, then resubscribe and > immediately start ranting that I am not doing enough for the cause. > > > Fuck you dead. Fuck all of you Bolshies dead. > It's interesting to note you keep track of subscription patterns. "Fuck you dead", hmmm, I suppose that's better then your old refrain of threatening to shoot someone. Do you feel self-censored, afraid of the authorities, or just don't want to get your got.net account yanked? My point about Reason Magazine is your inability to understand that the magazine has improved. Regards, Matt-

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Re: Speaking of Reason
by Freematt357＠aol.com 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

In a message dated 12/9/2003 11:58:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, rah(a)shipwright.com writes: > Green = Red. > > Bruce Sterling is, for all intents and purposes, a commie. > > "Veridian", my ass. > My thoughts exactly. Regards, Matt-

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