December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: NABMLA embattled -- mirror sites?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous (no, another Anonymous!) wrote: >Anonymous wrote: > >> I'm not sure the right to free speech includes the right to endorse guys >> fucking little boys, whether they give it a moniker like "transgenerational >> love" or not. Any sex with a minor is rape, since they can't legally give >> consent. > >That's right. People who are too lazy to drive a fourteen year old >to New Mexico, where they can legally fuck their brains out, should >go to jail for a long, long time. >When I cruise the children's chat lines, I always tell them I would >like to meet them in New Mexico and fuck their brains out. That's >legal. > >What I love about the law is that it gives us clear guidelines to >help us recognize the difference between those filthy fucking >child-molesting perverts fucking fourteen year olds in California, >and the decent, upstanding citizens fucking the fourteen year >olds in New Mexico. Excellent! So have NAMBLA move their HQ to New Mexico. Then they can talk about fucking little boys' brains out to their heart's content, in person or on their Web site, without breaking any local laws. Welcome to the Fifty Fiefdoms. Of course, there'll be changes in the next revision of the Constitution: 1) The First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments will be missing. 2) The Tenth Amendment will be altered so that the it says: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people -- unless we feel like usurping them, or we can convince people they don't need them by spreading FUD."

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Source code obfuscation
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is anyone familiar with tools that can be used to obscure source code so that it builds, but no longer contains comments or useful variable or procedure names? Thanks, -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"

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dumb and dumber
by Ariel Glenn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

every day I think, 'things can't possibly get any stupider'. and invariably, I am proven wrong. from CNET: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,15721,00.html Next year's Pentium II computers will be subject to export controls if a bill pending in Congress passes. It's expected to come up in the House today. Under an amendment to the 1998 Defense Authorization bill, computer makers shipping machines that can perform 2,000 million theoretical operations per second (MTOPS) or more to developing nations will have to apply to the Commerce Department for an export license. ... Lofgren explained that about the only way to stop the provision from becoming law at this point would be a presidential veto, because the sprawling piece of legislation has already been approved in substance by the House and Senate. etc., etc., etc. sheesh... Ariel Glenn ariel(a)columbia.edu

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Search warrants and Senate hearing on medical privacy
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm sitting in a Senate hearing room right now; the topic is medical privacy. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), an occasional friend of civil liberties, is speaking: "How is our right of privacy, one of our most cherised freedoms, going to be protected?" Well, senator, perhaps the best way of protecting our privacy is to ensure that law enforcement officials need a search warrant before browsing through your medical files. Right now police do not need to go before a judge to get your records from your hospital or doctor's office; often "informal arrangements" exist. If a doctor or hospital wants to promise to "protect your privacy," they can't. Yesterday a senior Justice Department official told journalists (in a background briefing at Main Justice) that requiring police to obtain a search warrant could derail counter-terrorism efforts. "Imposing a probable cause standard is something we would vehemently object to," he said. Which explains why he doesn't vehemently object to the legislation this committee is considering. The versions of the "medical privacy" bills I'm familiar with don't include such strict safeguards. We require the FBI to obtain a search warrant to enter your house or office: why shouldn't we require the same for medical files? At yesterday's briefing some of us asked what safeguards are in place to prevent dragnet fishing by police. For instance, what if agents access a 1,000,000-person database during a medical fraud case and stumble across someone who's being treated for illegal drugs? Can they prosecute that person for drug crimes? Yes, they're allowed to but they probably won't. "I don't see that as being a realistic issue," the Justice Department official said. -Declan

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Re: Source code obfuscation
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green sez: : Is anyone familiar with tools that can be used to : obscure source code so that it builds, but no longer : contains comments or useful variable or procedure : names? I believe HP once was forced to supply sourcecode to a French guvmint agency. They did just that, the source they supplied would compile but there were no clues inside. (don't have a ref for this story though) The French weren't amused. -- Alex de Joode | usura(a)SABOTAGE.ORG | http://www.sabotage.org Sabotage Internet: Your Internet Problem Provider.

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PGP and GMR
by Matthew Maxson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- All, Sorry about that blank post. It was qued up to send and I did not realize it I am new to this list and cryptogrophy, and have a few questions. 1)what is CMR? 2) how does it relate to PGP? 3) what is GAK? I have gathered that it is a back door that will encrypt all messags to the goverment (or some other official body) as well as encrypting it to the recipiant. Also, I assume that PGP 5.X has added this to their encryption scheme to allow companies to read employee e-mail. Does PGP 2.6.2 have this back door into it? tnx for your help. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNFYSjQ5f1xn5SKgdAQEEAwP/VGRd2CcQubkDAQH7G6lOU7ShvxjqBYke 4ZJ3RyMLvWkTIFtJJIpIY0fRtkkw9OL0dxQdfCSyk/gNedh7viTEB5ozTwBT7jfd Jaz4euv+XHuvVfTXTI6Iy+i0XufRaxGxX9sn8vj6UKdLa+L/nzEwRsbyDOpASqvK Pb4t7jJj0FE= =wPLv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <>< e-mail: maxson1(a)marshall.edu www: http://webpages.marshall.edu/~maxson1 My ham call is KC8CDT.

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Thanksgiving Cookbook
by 68363368＠gte.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Roby latest
by Jeff Barber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

See http://www.sj-r.com/roby.html for the latest. My favorite excerpt: > Illinois State Police feared that any progress in getting Allen - who's > suspected to suffer from paranoia, delusions and suicidal thoughts - to > exit on her own may have been undone. On Sunday, troopers broke out most > of the remaining windows in Allen's house, tossed nine pepper-spray > grenades inside and sent a police dog in to subdue Allen. > > All the tactics failed: Allen fired what police believe was a small-caliber > handgun as troopers inserted mirrors into her house to look around, she > apparently huddled in a bathroom to ward off the pepper spray, and she > shot the police dog through the mouth. [snip] > Police movement toward the house was sparked by a long silence inside. > Despite sophisticated surveillance and listening devices monitoring > the house, Allen hadn't been seen or heard since 1 p.m. Saturday, > McDonald said (not 1 a.m. as previously reported). Troopers wanted to > see if she had collapsed or fallen ill. > > Should similar circumstances arise again, police may try different > tactics to check Allen's health. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oh! They were checking her health! Of course. -- Jeff

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RE: Source code obfuscation
by Fisher Mark 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Is anyone familiar with tools that can be used to >obscure source code so that it builds, but no longer >contains comments or useful variable or procedure >names? <URL:http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/software/devtools/> has 2 shareware tools for C code. I also know there is/was some kind of commercial tool, that used to be used by Abraxas <URL:http://www.abxsoft.com/> for their CodeCheck product in Unix configurations. ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm(a)indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"

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ITAR a la Canada
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone know if Canada has accepted all of the restrictions under ITAR? Specifically, U.S. companies must (I assume) identify your domain before permitting access to restricted versions of software. Does the same apply for Canada?

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