December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

[Fwd: Re: [RePol] Donations Received]
by Six 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was sent through EFGA's Georgia Cracker Remailer, but seems to have gotten 'lost' in the remail. Go figure... To: remailer(a)anon.efga.org Subject: Re: [RePol] Donations Received From: TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 22:24:00 -0600 Organization: "It's not FUD until *I* say it's FUD!" References: <3.0.3.32.19971105220233.03538154(a)rboc.net> Reply-To: tm(a)dev.null :: Anon-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Robert A. Costner wrote: > > This week Electronic Frontiers Georgia (EFGA) found donations in our > mailbox for the first time. I'd like to thank those of you who have sent > us your support. As you know, EFGA has no endowment or source of income. I was rather surprised when I received a plea for donations from these people via my subscription to a suicide survivors mailing list. Likewise when my 10 year old daughter mentioned receiving one through her 4H Club mailing list. Upon asking others at work, I found that these people have been sending their requests to millions of people, through every conceivable internet forum, and that quite a few of the recipients had been taken in, and sent them donations. In the interests of stopping this obvious scam, I have founded a group dedicated to wiping out this kind of fraud on the internet, starting with the scum at the EFGA. If you are interested in contributing to our effort, send donations to: Electronic Fraud Fighters (EFF) Box 281, Bienfait, Saskatchewan CANADA S0C 0M0 or email me at: TruthMistress <tm(a)dev.null> > If we raise $2,000 we will be getting a new > server. If we raise $900, we will be doing upgrades on the current machine. > The address again is > > Electronic Frontiers Georgia > Suite A-205 > 4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road > Atlanta, GA 30338 > > For membership info, http://www.efga.org/about/membership.html

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FTC Making It's Move / FTC, Canada, Mexico officials launch "health claim surf day"
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote: > [From Nov 5 Natural Healthline. --Declan] > by Michael Evers > The Federal Trade Commission recently joined with public health and > consumer protection and information agencies from the United States, > Canada, and Mexico to "surf" the Internet for potentially false or > deceptive advertising claims concerning treatments or cures for heart > disease, cancer, AIDS, diabetes, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. TruthMonger Terrestrial Translation: The FTC, fearing loss of its dictatorial powers over the information that citizens are allowed and not allowed to access, wants the citizens to do its legwork for them so that they can step forward to 'save' us all from people who use herbs instead of nuclear radiation to maintain their health. You remember the FTC, don't you? They are those wonderfolks who gave us the 'mainstream media' that used the citizen's airwaves to read us the spoon-fed government propaganda during the Gulf War. In other news: That pesky Sadaam Hussein is acting up again, as he always does during US elections. Funny how the Democrats always come out of wars with Sadaam looking bad, and CIA-backed Republicans always come out looking good. Note to Clinton: You're a Democrat. If you try to show-off in the Gulf, all of your helicopters are going to crash. TruthMonger

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Re: [SURVEY try again] pgp5.x / pgp2.x users
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

20 % of the users who have posted digitally signed messages that are available in my news spool (international and local newsgroups and mailing lists) use PGP 5. The sample contains 545 unique e-mail addresses. YMMV. S/MIME Cryptographic Signature 10 Version: 2.3a 1 Version: 2.6.1 1 Version: 2.6.2 68 Version: 2.6.2, by FileCrypt 1.0 2 Version: 2.6.2i 5 Version: 2.6.3 4 Version: 2.6.3a 8 Version: 2.6.3i 37 Version: 2.6.3ia 278 Version: 2.6.3ig 1 Version: 2.6.3in 9 Version: 2.7.1 2 Version: 4.5 6 Version: Cryptix 2.2.2 2 Version: Cryptix 2.21 3 Version: Cryptix 2.3.0 1 Version: PGP 5.0i 1 Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5 12 Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 86 Version: PGPfreeware 5.0 Charset: noconv 1 Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use 7

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Ooops....!
by Dirko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

That should have been cypherpunks-request(a)toad.com ... SH** sorry ... It's coffee buzz... *shake* ---------------------------------- Dirko van Schalkwyk Dead Engineers Society E-Mail: meddle(a)adept.co.za Date: 11/07/97 Time: 01:28:37 ----------------------- Movie Quotes for Willow (1988) ----------------------- Sorsha: What are you looking at? Madmartigan: Your leg. I'd like to break it. ------------- All of the following stolen from selected poeple mailing to the AfterStep mailing list ----------------------- Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. ----------------------- Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition

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plugin to sell digital files in cyberspace announced!!
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

wow, I have been thinking that netscape/microsoft would put something like this in their browser and that this would kickstart the microcurrency market. however, it sounds like someone has preempted them for the moment and built a plugin. this is an extremely significant development imho. I don't know how credible they are (the notice was spam) but it's a step in the right direction, and the creation of a whole new market I predict. Date: Thu, 06 Nov 97 06:28:47 EST To: InternetUser(a)The.Net Subject: Turn your web-site into a pay-per-view site free in 10min! Reply-To: powerit(a)venus.t-1net.com I-vendor is offering a freeware version of a software plug-in that allows anyone to sell digital files such as photos, programs, text based information etc. from any web site. You don't have to be a company, you don't have to have credit card facilities, you don't have to do anything fancy with your web site - just convert your files, put them on your site and wait for the monthly checks. The software works with Window 3.x & 95 and current versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer - full instructions for use are provided. - - --- Visit http://members.aol.com/ivendor/index.htm to download the freeware plug-in and information pack. - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [RePol] Donations Received]
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Six wrote: > This was sent through EFGA's Georgia Cracker Remailer, but seems to > have gotten 'lost' in the remail. > Go figure... Perhaps they objected to you not using your Government approved 'Prisoner of Citizenship' name.

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new lanl patent?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: blacklodge.c2.net: majordom set sender to owner-cryptography(a)c2.org using -f From: proff(a)iq.org Date: 6 Nov 1997 06:35:37 -0000 To: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: new lanl patent? Sender: owner-cryptography(a)c2.net From: "Jongsma, Ken (NM75)" <ken.jongsma(a)das.honeywell.com> Date: 24 Oct 1997 10:32:24 -0600 Subject: Hiding In Plain Sight from the Oct 20 Aviation Week: "Researchers at Los ALimos National Laboratory have patented a new software technique that can hide secret information in the electronic "noise" associated with the transmission of data and electronic images. Called "data embedding," the method allows classified data to be stored and transferred in open transmissions and can serve as an "electronic watermark" to prevent unauthorized manipulation of digital images and other information, according to Ted Handel, project leader. The software can be used on a desktop personal computer and consumes only 512 kilobytes of memory, less than most word processing programs. It is written in "C" computer language which conforms to virtually any digital storage medium. Overall document length can remain the same." Aside from the obvious errors in the story, do you suppose that someone ought to clue the patent office in that steganography has existed for quite a while now? If anyone would like to research the patent and report back, it would be interesting to see what is so unique that the could get a patent on it. -- ken.jongsma(a)das.honeywell.com 505 828-5876 Voice 505 828-5500 Fax --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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Re: Hughes Markets? (Was Re: Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: hutchinson(a)click.ncri.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:52:30 -0500 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> From: hutchinson(a)ncri.com (Art Hutchinson) Subject: Re: Hughes Markets? (Was Re: Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol) Cc: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hutchinson(a)ncri.com (Art Hutchinson) Robert Hettinga wrote: >A whole bunch of people are now talking about these cash-settled recursive >auction processes, and they're a direct, and now obvious, consequence of >bearer (or at least instant) settlement markets for information on geodesic >networks. When you add anonymity to the transaction, you pretty much have >the final straw for "rights" tracking. Watermarks just tell you who the >information was stolen from, for instance. So, one more industrial >information process bites the dust. Whoa! Hang on here. Sure, watermarks will tell you who information was stolen from, but they're just a stalking horse... a weak second cousin to *persistent* content control technologies (such as IBM's Cryptolopes and Intertrust's Digiboxes). These allow rightsholders to manage a wide range of parameters (including price, usage context, and any other variable for which you can imagine having a certificate). Whats fundamentally different about what are generically referred to as secure envelopes, is that they can maintain controls *indefinitely* (persistence), across an un- known, ad hoc, web of distribution over which one otherwise has no control. And yes, this can all work even in a completely disconnected environment (laptop at 35,000 feet). They allow rightsholders, if they so choose, to *continue* being rights- holders in a highly networked, digital world, and in a wide range of new ways, based on entirely new (or old) business models, that take advantage of rich/elaborate conditions for usage (e.g. you can view this picture anonymously, but it will cost you 2X as much, and you can only get it at low resolution, and you can't view it at all unless you can prove that you don't live in the Middle East). No certificate for these conditions? Sorry, no content. They are based the same basic stuff (public key cryptography of course) that *can* fuel wild anarchic visions of anonymous exchange. ;) But they aren't at all deterministic of any particular economic model. Regards, - Art Art Hutchinson hutchinson(a)ncri.com Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc. phone: (617) 654-0635 One Liberty Square fax: (617) 654-0654 Boston, MA 02160 www.ncri.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Working at the intersection of business and IT strategy to help organizations embrace electronic commerce opportunities" 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 Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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Jam Six
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jam Six Six

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FEMA site using cookies
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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