December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Janet Reno warns of "lawlessness on the Internet"
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's weekly press conference, held this morning at the Department of Justice. She's speaking about an upcoming meeting of the G-7 nations and Russia: At this meeting we will be discussing ways in which our countries can work together to better identify and locate cybercriminals. Automation, computers, the Internet have now made boundaries, in many instances, meaningless. As I have said on a number of occasions at this table, a man can sit at a computer in Europe and steal from a bank in the United States. Someone in Germany can get a list of credit card numbers here and try to extort people for money on the threat of using these credit cards. I think it is imperative that we develop practices, procedures, and laws that will enable these countries - and indeed other countries throughout the world - to work together to focus on criminals who are exploiting the new technologies that so many of us are relying on. The solution is working together as nations. Our law enforcement agencies must learn to work together more closely on these issues and more quickly than ever before, since a split-second response can help catch a hacker while he is still online. The fight against lawlessness on the Internet will be one of the greatest law enforcement challenges of the next century. By working on agreements to help meet that challenge, we won't be left fighting 21st century threats with 20th century solutions. I think it is going to be incumbent upon us all to develop the expertise on the part of law enforcement, both at the federal and state level, to make sure that we know who our counterparts are around the world and that we come together on this issue. I guess this is the Department of Justice's response to "cryptoanarchy." -Declan

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Indeed, and in a wonderful case of schadenfreude, when the >Dworkin-MacKinnon anti-porn law was enacted in Canada, "Lesbitan Erotica" >bookstores and publishers were shut down. (I believe this was in Toronto, >and it may have only been in that city or region that the law was enacted, >not in all of Canada. Toto can clarify.) Tim you miss the best part one of the first books to be banned was by Dworkin. Dworkin writes with a pseudo academic style but despite a third of her book being 'references' very little of her argument is supported. She deliberately quotes out of context and tries to claim feminist icons such as Simone de Beauvoir for her cause despite the fact that "Mrs Jeane Paul Satre" was anti censorship. Don't write the feminists off too quickly Tim, de Beauvoir's essay 'Must we burn de Sade' is the anti-censorship equivalent of your cypherpunk manifesto. MacKinnon is a more respectable flake. Her book 'Towards a Feminist theory of the state" starts off explaining that she is trying to construct a Marxist theory of the state. Even this wouldn't be quite so bad if what she was writing had some recognisable connection to anything Marx wrote. Its more a sort of left wing US academia game in which the object is to shock your liberal friends. Phill

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About the way of regulating Japanese encryption export
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

About the way of regulating Japanese encryption export Permission shouldn't be necessary. ( For example, in such cases as the dealings of providing the technology of the public wisdom. ) And, if corresponding is considered, Export permission isn't needed. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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blowback
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Fed made up UFO stories to cover military flights. Later on, morons who believe this end up breaking into Feds computers looking for evidence. Ah, irony. Blowback is what Intelligence calls it when, e.g., soldiers you trained and armed to repel your mutual enemy do so, then turn on you. >> > More Naked Gun than Top Gun >> > >> > THE THREE year long case of the world's most notorious >> > "information warfare" attack on US government computer systems >> > collapsed last Friday. On a grey morning in a south London >> > court, a 23-year-old computer programmer from Cardiff walked >> > free as crown prosecutors told the judge it wasn't worth the >> > cost of trying to hold his trial. They acknowledged that he had >> > posed no threat to security. >> > >> > But Matthew Bevan, who was obsessed with the X-Files and the >> > search for alien spacecraft, and his 16-year-old accomplice, >> > Richard Pryce, had achieved a notoriety out of all proportion >> > to their actions. They were "Kuji" and "Datastream Cowboy" - >> > hackers whose haphazard penetration of US Air Force and defense >> > contractors' computers have been portrayed since 1994 as the >> > work of foreign agents and the greatest electronic danger yet >> > to hit the US Air Force on its home turf. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Information is a dense, colorless, odorless material readily transmitted across empty space and arbitrary boundaries by shaking charged particles.

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Re: Transcript of Gore's remarks at "Censorware Summit"
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just had an incorrect thought that I've decided to share with everyone: The reason Al Gore (and the others) are focusing on helping All the Little Children, is that this is the only group they can offer assistance to in the U.S. who would accept it. Everyone else is stocking up on guns & ammo, waiting for The Big One. .. Blanc

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AMEN. > >so far to the left comes out a libertarian rightist. No, this chick Dworkin > >is so far left she's just plain _left_. She argues that porn for womyn (or > >is it wimmin?) is fine and dandy, because this represents lesbian > >sisterhood exploring their own blah blah blah, but porn aimed and directed > > > > What you watch is pornography; > What I watch is erotica. >

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Unless there was decryption hardware in the monitor itself. Then I suppose you'd have to video the screen as each new "always encrypted" "totally secure" frame came up. > > On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote: > > > > Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the > > digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a > > court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter > > how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently > > redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted. It is never left > > decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed. > > They have lost their mind. Since humans are notoriously bad at performing > decryptions in their head in real time, whatever is sent to the display > *must* be cleartext. Any competent programmer can grab it at that point. > > -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. > "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?" > --

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Fear of a Random Planet...
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

the following excerpt from tomorrow's WSJ... {snip} YELLOW C's NOW AVAILABLE... Be the first on your block to comply with HR-666/S-7, the 'Freedom and Sane Conservation in Social Technology' (FASCIST) Law, recently signed by Chancellor Clinton... As you know, new Federal Regulations require all cryptographers, both professional and amateur, to register with the State Department, surrender their passports, and sign Form 11065-R (Int'l Travel Prohibition Ban Consent Decree). The recent amnesty granted to the cryptographic community due to the shortage of YELLOW C badges ends January 1, 1998. The badges are now available at your local Post Office, Federal Building, or authorized Microsoft retailer. Remember, 'Export a Cryptographer, Go to Jail!' {/snip} love and kisses, CPL Kaos.

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Mob Combat
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The those with an interest in extraordinary descriptions of the bloody, vicious mayhem and carnage of urban warfare, The Philadelphia Inquirer has been running a series since late November describing in gory detail a disastrous battle between US Special Forces and Somalian mobs in 1993. With gunship video, maps and audio of US and Somalis participants. You won't forget it: http://www3.phillynews.com/packages/somalia/nov16/rang16.asp

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