December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Immoral Cryptographers vs. Kindlier, Gentler Cryptographers
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In April, Premier Lien Chan of Taiwan ordered a crackdown on the national craze of public betel-nut chewing, which he said was responsible for mouth cancer, slimy sidewalks when they are spit out, and immorality, in that they are mostly sold by young, underdressed women at sidewalk stands. The betel nut is reportedly a mild stimulant and is slightly more expensive than a cigarette. * The Washington Post reported in May that some tribes in Yemen routinely kidnap tourists and hold them for days, though treating them well, regaling them with propaganda, and ultimately offering them to the government in exchange for political concessions, such as new road construction. Said the speaker of the Yemen parliament, "Kidnapping is part of tourism. [The] tourist will end up learning about the customs of the tribes, as well as their good hospitality." ------ To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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Re: Internet Via Electric Lines
by Ian Sparkes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 12:06 08.10.97 -6, Peter Trei wrote: >> Ian Sparkes <ian.sparkes(a)t-online.de> > >> Peter wrote: >> >[...] Putting a few optical >> >fibers into a power line is cheap, easy, and widely done. >> >> But much cheaper and easier is using the signalling gulleys that run >> along the side of the railways - no High Tension precautions, no >> scaling pylons. This, incidently is the reason that a number of >> telecomms consortia (in europe, at least) include a railway element - >> they provide the long-haul backbone. > >It looks like we're seeing different parts of the problem. You're >worried about the long-haul backbone. I'm trying to see ways to >get a 10Gbps fibre into my living room. > >The backbone cost is a tiny fraction of the cost of getting fiber >into every house in the country. > Maybe in retrospect I was just tugging your leash a bit, for which I apologise. I agree, in principle there are few entities which are more aptly placed than the power utilities to provide a roots to leaves high- capacity network into your home. Telephone companies could do it, although the very final stage in the link (twisted copper) is a capacitive load, and therefore not very well suited to high frequencies. Power wires, on the other hand, would exhibit better properties and are universally installed. The solution, however, must be a fibre/copper hybrid. The trick will be getting the bridges between fibre/copper and copper/copper (across the step-downs) cheap and reliable enough. This is probably the breakthrough. The post from Judith Lewis seems to hint at about 0.5MB/s. Good enough for your average Joe. Sorry for the obtuseness of my reply. Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNDu6gvzOjjBJiFUeEQIewACdGPe87UKBq7aGRkFew/02fHNBwh0AnAqN eidJ2PV2IVO05Gg+ZSXD9NRI =RxdS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Need Info
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

sampler-request(a)lmboyd.com wrote: > ====================================================== > Q. Can you confirm the claim that a ferocious bull won't > attack a naked human being? > A. Hard to find an authority on this. Those who know > won't explain the circumtances wherein they found out. > Such has been reported, though. snow? Zooko? Anyone...? > LMBoyd Web Site / U. S. Newspapers / Start Email / Stop Email > http://www.LMBoyd.com/postscript.htm

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17 Dec '03

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The 5th Horseman: Cryptoanarchist doctors.
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I don't often get Forbes, but the Oct 6 issue caught my eye. Leafing through it, I found something fun in the letters column. It's in response to a 'fact & comment' column in the Sept 22 issue, the core of which is: ---------------- Here's how this basic attack on our personal freedom will work: A doctor who provides medical services to a Medicare-eligible patient without billing Medicare must sign an affidavit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services that he or she will not treat a single Medicare patient for the next two years. Any doctor found treating both Medicare patients and Medicare-eligible private patients will be subject to fines and perhaps prison. As Moffit points out, Section 4507 is "deliberately designed to make private contracting and medicine all but impossible except for physicians who reside in very wealthy communities." Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) correctly observes that this prohibition is the equivalent of Social Security's barring retirees from dealing with stockbrokers: "Surely, a law that made it illegal to supplement with private funds the amount received from Social Security would be met with disbelief and derision." Yet that is the equivalent of what this Medicare regulation does. ------------------ The letter reads: SIR: I have been treating Medicare patients for cash without filing Medicare claims for years. I do not intend to stop. If the government receives no forms, how will it know that a beneficiary received care from me? And the feds can't seize my records. They are all computerized and encrypted. Anthony A. Cassens, M.D Los Angeles, Calif. --------------------- Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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Fund-Raisers Allege long term DNC Wrongdoing
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Two Democratic fund-raisers have agreed to testify in exchange for immunity that Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 and the Democratic Party engaged in an array of questionable activities, a House committee disclosed today. see: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-House-Fund-Raising.html the allegations will cover incidents from 1991 to the present including Indonesian, Chinese, and other foreign interests; details on Peter Trei; influence peddling; a letter with Clinton's name on it for a now SE Asia head of state, etc. Big Macs as legal tender. bacon extra. these folks are ready to do some serious singing! the proposed revelators were convicted and sentenced on one of the charges and are apparently willing to sing to avoid prosecution on the rest. if they had enough evidence to put them in jail for the tip of the iceberg... so, when the fat lady sings, and Valhalla incinerates, do you think the market will have a confidence crisis? too bad stock certificates are electronic; they could bring on the dancing girls and have a tickertape parade with the output of the shredders as the fraudsters run for cover. Wall Street is going to look like Pol Pot came to visit, left a few calling cards, too. since clinton has been busy tossing Gore to the sharks, maybe we will have the Grinch as President --he's next in line. at least the Grinch will look better in a Santa suit! he may be just in time. that might be enough to have the whole infrastructure collapse; it might be time to close the bankruptcy proceedings initiated by Mr. "chicken in every pot" himself on 09 Mar 1933. ironic that his ad her intellectual <g> baggage is being cared for by the current occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania --full circle! as debtors are absolved when bankruptcy is satisfied or liquitdated, do you suppose we can get rid of that stupid fringed [admirality] flag and the contract courts? maybe even have common law and habeus corpus restored? of course, we must remember to hire the Merchant of Venice's lawyer to save us each a pound of flesh. dang, I had old William's plot phone number here somewhere. naw, that's too much to ask for; the four horsemen just came over the horizon... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNDvTOb04kQrCC2kFAQHm+gP/YEG9GK7jLSy7nJ4p/jQ+C967M4+tPwEs nBkQZ5qwCYm2M3U2D0UQ/hE3Pcphrfcc8xzCNstIjtM5bS4ZW7zGqQJG8PwZzRc6 QkSaEOigL4USpj208juDTQB4dxg57EGjQTLCLFma3J481zEVWUXcJPsXs9ee2WYR HC6se+auV1M= =eCld -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[news] Azalea releases encryption software
by Vipul Ved Prakash 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*** Azalea releases encryption software Azalea Software has just released three new encryption and security products: DESTools v1.5, BlowfishTools v1.5 and SHATools v1.0. All three packages are SDK's (software developers kits) targeting Windows developers who need to add encryption and security features to the applications they write. DESTools and BlowfishTools provide encryption and decryption based on the DES (Data Encryption Standard) and Blowfish algorithms respectively. DES provides 56-bit keys and is used extensively in banking and finance. (PR Newswire) For the full text story, http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5315843-c31 -- Powell lingered. "How's Earth?" It was a conventional enough question and Muller gave the conventional answer, "Still spinning." -- "Reason", Asimov. ================================================================== Vipul Ved Prakash | - Electronic Security & Crypto vipul(a)best.com | - Web Objects 91 11 2233328 | - PERL Development 198 Madhuban IP Extension | - Linux & Open Systems Delhi, INDIA 110 092 | - Networked Virtual Spaces

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Anthrax Bombs
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:37 AM -0700 10/8/97, Bill Frantz wrote: >At 3:01 AM -0700 10/8/97, Peter Trei wrote: >>I don't know if it's comforting or worrying knowing that these >>devices degrade - any in the hands of terrorists have a limited >>time that they are a threat, but that fact may pressure a terrorist >>to 'use it or lose it'. > >What I have heard about these suitcase nukes is that they yield about 1-2 >kilotons. I know of no technical reason for them to be thermonuclear >devices. As such, the decay of tritium would not seem to affect them. >(They will still need a source of neutrons, which might go bad faster than >the plutonium/U235.) > >I feel very little comfort. I'd fear an "anthrax bomb" a lot more than a 2 KT suitcase nuke. (If I lived in a crowded target zone, aka a soft target, which I don't.) (As is well-known, or should be, folks survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki as close as 400 meters from ground zero. And they were both roughly 20 KT nukes. Inasmuch as the blast effects scale as the cube root of megatonnage, a 2 KT blast might be expected to be survivable as close as a few hundred meters or even less. Of course, some will die even out at a 1000 meters, but not many.) By comparison, anthrax bacillus is relatively easy to manufacture, and aerosol dispersion could kill hundreds of thousands or more before even being detected. Aerosolized dispersion in Washington or Manhattan could be a far worse human and infrastructure disaster than a suitcase nuke. I expect this sort of attack to occur fairly soon. (The Aum Shinretsu cult in Japan was working with such things, including Sarin, a nerve toxin. Some of the sites knocked out in Iraq were CBW sites.) P.S. I used to work a lot with radioisotopes. Pu-239 has a long half-life, as noted here by others, and is not going to decay significantly in human times. But poising and neutron-stealing can render nukes duds in just a few years. However, battlefield nukes are typically made with some design choices which minimize the routine maintenance/refurbishing which the main MIRV nukes need. My understanding is that most of the NDT (nuclear demolition) devices have a shelf-life of up to a decade or so. Anthrax is a whole lot cheaper. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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17 Dec '03

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