December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Crazy Isreali's... [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > CHILD HEIRESS AT THE CENTER OF TWISTED PLOT > > Onassis November 7, 1997 > Web posted at: 7:50 p.m. EST (0050 GMT) > > JERUSALEM (AP) -- As part of a battle over a young girl's $2.4 > billion trust fund, former Israeli secret service agents tracked her > father's movements using paragliders and cameras hidden in trees. > > At least, that's the Israeli version of what happened to Athena > Roussel, the granddaughter of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle > Onassis. > > Swiss authorities, however, suspect the Israelis may have been > involved in a plot to kidnap the 12-year-old girl and want them > arrested. > > Much of the story, hushed up for months, remains shrouded inmystery, > though bits and pieces have emerged in the Israeli media. > > The daily newspaper Maariv ran a banner headline Friday about"An > operation to save the Onassis fortune." Next to it was apicture of > an angelic-looking Athena wearing a white dress and a garland of > white flowers in her honey-colored hair. > > Athena is the only child of Christina Onassis, the shipping > magnate's daughter, and her fourth husband, Thierry Roussel. The > couple divorced 1987 and Christina Onassis died a year later. > Roussel has remarried and has three children with his new wife. > Athena lives with her father and his new family in Switzerland and > France. > > Athena stands to inherit some $2.4 billion when she turns 18,and in > the meantime her father and the Greek executors of hermother's will > have been fighting over control of the money. > > Roussel receives $5 million a year for personal expenses, under his > ex-wife's will. Expenses for Athena are confidential. > > Roussel recently sued the charitable Alexander S. Onassis Public > Benefit Foundation, accusing it of having mismanaged and embezzled > millions of dollars. A Greek court acquitted the foundation earlier > this year. > > Israeli police said that at some point, Greek trustees turned to > Israeli private investigators and asked them to find evidence that > Athena's father was involved in "immoral acts." > > The seven Israelis -- among them former top agents in Israel's Shin > Bet security service -- began by preparing surveillance on the > Roussel mansion near Geneva, according to Maariv and the Yediot > Ahronot daily newspaper. > > This was a complicated task, the newspapers said, sinceintruders > could easily be spotted near the heavily guarded,isolated compound. > One solution the agents came up with, saidYediot, was to use > paragliders to fly over the Roussel home and take pictures from the > air. > > Another scheme to avoid drawing attention was to have > agentsmasquerade as environmentalists driving around in a > vanplastered with "green" stickers. > > The Israeli team also proposed to hide surveillance cameras in the > trees of the compound and use state-of-the-art laser technology to > wiretap Roussel's home and office, Maariv said. > > In a second stage, the surveillance team hired another Israeli > investigator to check out Roussel's Paris apartment, the newspaper > said. The agent learned, said Maariv, that Roussel was running a > modeling agency there, and at one point hired a British model to try > and infiltrate Roussel's business. > > The surveillance efforts came to light when an Israeli businessman > and a friend of the Paris agent found out about it and tried to sell > the information for profit. The businessman was questioned by Swiss > police who began an investigation. > > It was at this stage, said Maariv and Yediot, that the Greektrustees > ordered the Israeli team to drop its efforts. > > In a statement Friday, the Onassis Foundation accused Roussel of a > campaign to remove his daughter from the control of the trustees, > "even in matters of security." > > However, foundation officials refused comment on the record when > asked whether trustees had hired the Israelis. > > Last month, Swiss police officials came to Israel to questionseveral > of the Israeli investigators who had since returned home. > > Israeli police said they decided to close the case because they had > no evidence of wrongdoing. An Israeli police investigator said he > was convinced the Israeli agents had simply carried out surveillance > and were not involved in a kidnapping plot. > > But a Swiss judge investigating the kidnapping suspicions said he > doubted the Israeli version. > > "It's their way of seeing things and it's convenient forthem," said > Judge Jacques Delieutraz of Geneva. "They don't have all the facts > we have."

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Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting announcement
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tomorrow's Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be held at the offices of C2Net Software in Oakland. Agenda: o Andrea Liles will present some cool new ideas about virtual CA's. o Lucky Green will demonstrate the Dumb Mouse, a universal chipcard reader, and associated analysis/manipulation software. If you are at all interested in smartcards, especially smartcards for crypto and authentication purposes, you don't want to miss this one. If there aren't too many attendees, we will host a workshop. Attendees are encouraged to bring any smartcards in their possession and discover what is /really/ happening on the card. The Cypherpunks Smartcard Developers Association will accept smartcard donations after the workshop. o Cypherpunks Tonga will announce the release of BSAFEeay, a BSAFE 3.0 API compatible crypto library based on SSLeay. o Cypherpunks Tonga will then combine BSAFEeay with the freeware SETref (which requires BSAFE for the underlying crypto) and demonstrate the first ever globally available *freeware* SET solution. Location: C2Net Software 1440 Broadway 7th Floor Oakland, CA Date/time: Saturday, 11/8, noon Directions: By BART: Exit the system at 12th Street Oakland. Walk north on Broadway one block. 1440 is on the right side of the street. By car: http://www.mapquest.com/ Choose "Trip Quest" from the menu. - -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.0i Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNGPhYvXUPTw3WtkkEQKztACeIQwx4voyUVIP6u1HmosCWklX7osAnROD TTJn3K2jCIrKUQtOc5Z3oW1P =byR/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TruthMunger wrote: > Does Ernst Zundel have the right to deny the Holocaust and brag > about it on the Net? In the U.S. the answer is unequivocally yes. But > in Canada, where Zundel resides, the Human Rights Commission has been > holding hearings on whether the "Zundelsite" violates the country's > hate speech laws. Thus, the Canadian Human Rights Commission's primary goal seems to be to limit Canadian's access to infomation to only that which is in alignment with the goals of those holding the reins of power. TruthMunger ----------- The World Wide Web and its liberating impact is being confronted with some realities from Big Brother. I don't know the technicalities of how these things are done. Would someone enlighten me (us) on how government can shut out internet traffice from or to undesireables? Browsing back through some article by S. Garfinkel recently led me to Electronic Border-Control, 14 July, 1997, Wired's Synapse http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/feature/97/28/garfinkel0a_text.html Some of Garfinkel's ideas about quite conventional about keeping the bad guys out and using government as the means of putting up a cyber barbed-wire-fence. I don't agree with his opinion about this, but it clued me in on the possiblities regarding what might be done under the conditions of a controlled & regulated environment. It would seem that as band-width increases dramatically, cheaper access and greater familiarity with the net occurs that government (taxes, regulations, der polizei, etc.) will come with it. The prospects of having the internet smothered under regulations is a disappointing idea. What are the possiblities for censoring/blocking communications on a technical basis? Sparticus

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Free Website for Any Business
by inbiz＠ultramax.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting announcement
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: >o Cypherpunks Tonga will announce [...] > >o Cypherpunks Tonga will then combine [...] ........................................................ What is Cypherpunks Tonga? .. Blanc

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WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard reboot the only cure): char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }; main () { void (*f)() = x; f(); } This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. Demand a new CPU from Intel.

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by brian＠firstgear.com.firstgear.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Totally breakable V(aporware) M(oney-making) E(ncryption)
by semprini＠theschool.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just finished reading the contents of the VME web-site. I have a few things to say. :) First of all the web-site blows elephant cock. You would think with guys smart enough to come up with "unbreakable encryption", they would at least be able to design a good site. Second, they make a big deal about how fast it is and how it can encrypt *ONE WHOLE FAT MEGABYTE A MINUTE*! Big whoop. Hope nobody wants to encrypt anything useful besides teensy weensy e-mails, 'cause you're gonna grow old before it finishes encrypting. Third, what the hell good is it if nobody can see the source code? It's well known that a trademark of bad cryptographic systems are the ones that rely on secrecy of the algorithm. Some happy little geek in his college computer lab is going to spend the time needed to reverse engineer the program, which they claim is "impossible to reverse engineer". Well, they didn't say it was "impossible", but they did say that the code is so complicated that nobody would be able to understand it if they ever did reverse engineer it. Bullshit. I know a 15 year old kid who actually has the patience to go through a few thousand lines of assembly code just to see what a program really does. Fourth, as someone else pointed out, the description of the algorithm is filled with words like "revolutionary" and "super-fast", etc. The descriptions of how the program works are so vague and general that it hards to believe they even have a running program. The description of the encryption sounds all very pretty, but I seriously wonder if that's the extent of the security. Almost like having a gold plated sign on your door saying "Keep out!" and then leaving your door unlocked. Fifth, their "challenge" to these major corportions merely states that they gave IBM, MS, and Netscape this big challenge to crack the system, but it never actually says the companies took up the offer and are actively trying to crack it. How's this one? "Microsoft, Netscape, and IBM!! I challenge you to crack my version of the Caesar Cipher!" There. I can now claim that I have challenged all the big corps to crack my crypto scheme. Challenging a big company doesn't prove a thing. Anyway, that's my rant and rave. Just as a small side note, if you would like to see some good examples of Madison Avenue at work then just visit this web-site: http://www.meganet.com > News report Nov 7, 97: > > AT&T, Hewlett Packard, Intel Corporation, Dell Computers, and > many other leading computer corporations have been added to the > challenge list by Meganet Corporation. The challenge started > last week with Bill Gates, now some of his peers have an opportunity > to validate or discredit the bold claim that Meganet's VME > (Virtual Matrix Encryption) is totally unbreakable. > > Unbreakable encryption is the only answer to security > in our electronic world. This is graphically illustrated > by the recent report from the National Security Agency > reporting the open market availability of a $10 chip that > can test up to 200 million keys per second. The 56-bit key, > government and banking standard, can be compromised in > twelve (12) seconds with brute force using ASIC > (Application-specific Integrated Circuits) chips. > > Meganet has the answer with its new VME (Virtual Matrix > Encryption). The impenetrable VME also has extreme speed, > much faster than any existing program available today. > > Major computer companies are already starting discussions > to acquire the rights to market this incredible new data > encryption system. More information about this > exciting new technology can be found at: www.meganet.com > > ---------- > > Hmm, wonder if it has impenetrable GAK and CAK options. > >

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17 Dec '03

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CHALLENGE to Meganet VME: million dollar hype?
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Meganet Corporation (818) 757-3890 19528 Ventura Blvd. Suite 317 Tarzana, CA 91356 OPEN CHALLENGE TO YOU over the last 30 years I have seen hundreds of new "unbreakable" encryption programs; all of them have the same claims, the same challenges, and the same secrecy. but, with several notable exceptions, each has contained a fatal flaw. and I have seen even my own "perfect" algorithms fall apart when I awake... therefore, if you want any serious encryption experts to endorse your product as having a factor of "unbreakability" by forcing the level of brute force necessary to do so, provide the algorithm and the associated source code to a few of us who enjoy breaking algorithms as much as we enjoy trying to create them. I dont have time, any more than my colleagues will have time, to waste on foolishness represented by your amateur challenge. until you are willing to submit to an open review by your peers, your supposed encryption product is YAP. secondly, until your methodology is reviewed, we will consider the product a schill to Louis Freeh and other GAK and trap door mandated system advocates. if you wish to be considered a serious contender to replace RSA, it's time to put your cards on the table; we see your nickel and call. in the matter of public encryption, there is no secrecy, or there is no use. your move. attila out... cc: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNGRf3LR8UA6T6u61AQGbHgH8CRQZShIUzW0wr1ib7cQGSfMcUbJTygx9 ckzuU/NB4W4u11rEjSQzC5ozybWWxHcjSQel+CZ79wPAP0vM+HM7Jg== =zTyp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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