December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

son of gomez

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Re: radio net
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:11:29 -0700 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> From: Somebody Subject: Re: radio net > >I know what Single Sideband means. As I've said before, and what you failed >to read later on in this thread, evidently, is that there are commercial >Single Sideband radios out there which have the range of ham sets. These >radios are used for commercial ship-to-shore traffic, and I expect that >encryption is legal on them. I expect that, because these frequencies are >subject to international convention rather than federal law, they have more >leeway (heh... nautical pun) on their use. Including, I bet, digital >packets and encryption. > > If I remember correctly, this is escrowed encryption using code books deposited with the appropriate authorities. <Somebody's .sig> --- end forwarded text *That* sucks... I wonder who the "appropriate authorities" are? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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'

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How about a line-of-sight (LOS) infrared network, a neighbor-net? Always thought this could be a method for a local technical entrepreneur to fund and share their personal T-1 link or for some small network enterprise to avoid local and US federal regulations and compete with the big cable and telephone companies. Appears that LOS infrared is currently unregulated and could be encrypted. Get enough people in a neighborhood to put LOS infrared relays on top of their houses, allow them to tap in, and feed this neighbor-net from some central point that is equipped with a more conventional link. I dunno why infrared, which theoretically has much more capacity than a phone line or coax cable, seems currently so slow, i.e., less than 10 MB in many commercial offerings. Ive no cost estimate for the roof top boxes. Heavy wet weather, fog, rain, snow obviously can affect LOS infrared, esp. low power. Personally, I would like more choices than just the phone and cable lines, especially something that is locally controlled. However, I imagine that if any significant traffic was generated over such infrared or wireless neighbor-nets, the Feds would eventually step in and regulate them. They'd probably want to regulate the traffic over a taut string, between paper cups.

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Re: Revenge of the AOLHoles
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ryan Anderson wrote: > > > The problem is that most of the AOL users who publish to the net seem to > > be morons. They use some annoying Russo-Germanic quoting style, they can't > > use English, they're clueless, they post off-topic, or something else. > > In all fairness, many of the users on AOL *know* that the AOL quoting > style is utterly horrible. Unofrtunatley, they don't have much choice in > what they use. Sure they do. They can use a different mail reader. (After all, 32-bit AOL allows AOL users to use all the TCP/IP protocols...) They can cut and paste manually, or, probably best, they can go to another ISP. I understand what you're saying, Ryan, and I understand what they're saying, but there all alternatives out there; they just don't want to use them. In fact, they've installed proprietary packages that do this. There are plenty of free alternatives out there which don't have this problem. If my ISP pushed a bunch of proprietary software down my throat, I'd find another ISP. That goes double if the proprietary software sucks. That goes triple if the software sucks and the ISP is trying to get every idiot they can to use it. (I got a "100 hours free network abuse" disk in the mail recently from AOL.) Another AnonMonger

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"It has been claimed, for example, that free application of cryptography enables drug traffickers and terrorists to communicate in secret, without the law enforcement officials being able to intercept their messages. In some countries, strong encryption has been banned or the keys have to be escrowed for government officials. With invisibility readily available to anyone with moderate programming skills, it is obvious that any such measures are ineffective. " This from the most recent online National Counterintelligence Center Counterintelligence News and Developments Volume 2 June 1998 http://www.nacic.gov/cind/june98.htm#rtoc4 "In some countries" indeed.

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Offshore Banking In Latvia
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- > > Found this: http://offshorehaven.nu/banking > > noidea whether a trap or a jewel. Just in case my first message was unclear: Offshore banking in Latvia looks good. The above website looks like a con. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JXDMmaEyma+jN7wyVhvlYcOrLB7iNaWSDaDfE2dl 4B2lFoTKEej/7263gNwJ8CpUWXMXIdco2pG0PzcFL ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald

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sixdegrees
by Well now I am a Mommy! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Remailers
by nnburk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are _any_ of the remailers working?

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Your new password
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Remailers (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:49:58 -0700 > From: nnburk <nnburk(a)cobain.hdc.net> > Subject: Remailers > > Are _any_ of the remailers working? > Which remailers? The CDR members or the anonymous remailers? ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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