December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

online-gamb.htm
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

interactiveJumpstart Spotlight [1]Phillips Publishing International, Inc. Online Gambling Exec Praises Shutdown of Gaming Site courtesy: Multimedia Wire The chairman of an online gambling industry ethics panel praised the effort of the Maryland attorney general to close down a gambling Web site as an early move to regulate the fledgling online casino industry. Attorney General J. Joseph Curran issued a cease-and-desist order against RealTIME Prizes Network for running Prizes.com, a site that offers a variety of pay-for-play sweepstakes through customers' credit cards or through CyberCash. Online gambling can be done legally and legitimately, but only by working with government regulators, said Kendell Lang, chairman of an Interactive Services Association panel devising ethics for online casino operators and CEO of CasinoWorld Holdings. RealTIME has "flown in the face of regulators and gives the industry a bad name," Lang said. "We want to support the attorneys general of each and every state to get control of the situation." Curran targeted RealTIME because its operations are in Silver Spring, Md., a spokesman said. The attorney general could take additional action if RealTIME were to move to another state and accept business from Maryland residents, he added. Despite the desist order, Prizes.com was still operational yesterday. RealTIME was not immediately available for comment. [2]Home | [3]Free Email Newsletters | [4]Membership Invitation [5]Daily Hot News | [6]Marketing & Research | [7]Deals [8]Spotlight | [9]Developers Corner | [10]Classifieds _________________________________________________________________ © Copyrighted material 1997. It is unlawful to copy, reproduce or retransmit in any medium or format without written permission from Phillips Business Information, Inc. References 1. http://www.phillips.com/ 2. http://www.ijumpstart.com/ 3. http://www.ijumpstart.com/freee.htm 4. http://www.ijumpstart.com/membrinv.htm 5. http://www.ijumpstart.com/hotnews.htm 6. http://www.ijumpstart.com/mkt_rsch.htm 7. http://www.ijumpstart.com/deals.htm 8. http://www.ijumpstart.com/spotlite.htm 9. http://www.ijumpstart.com/developr.htm 10. http://www.ijumpstart.com/class.htm

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Re: We need more surveillance--a morality play about terrorism
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> wrote: > I've been watching an HBO movie, "Path to Paradise," about the > bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993. It's quite > well-done, as most HBO movies of this sort are. Maybe I'll get a TV one of these days. Nah. > * "You mean Islamic radicals are free to preach their message of > hate and violence? Unbelievable!" (This is a paraphrase...there > were several such opinions expressed, where FBI managers express > outrage that such things are permitted in the U.S.) I can't even imagine anyone in the FBI saying anything like that. In the National Security (tm) establishment and local police forces, yes, but the FBI is pretty professional, and has heard of the First Amendment. In this case, though, there was the additional issue of Rachman being an illegal alien. (I'm not a big fan of border controls of any kind, but I do consider political hostility to the US to be a legitimate reason for a state to bar someone from entry and residence. Bleeding hearts aside, poverty and lack of language and job skills are also legitimate reasons to bar people at the golden door.) It's fashionable to romanticize the enemy as big national or supranational thugs, but in reality the corrupt local cop is the bigger civil liberties threat to most normal people. On the "other side": Look, more people died from car accidents in the last 12 days than died in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, and far fewer still (or was it nobody?) died in the World Trade Center. By the numbers, terrorism just doesn't deserve the press coverage it gets. McVeigh would have done better if he'd started an automobile factory. It worked for Henry Ford; how many copies of The International Jew and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion did he print with the money he made, and how long did respectable antisemitism delay the US entry into WWII? Food for thought. If you really want to influence people over the long term, make money, not bombs. William Pierce is on the wrong track. > * The niceties of getting wiretap orders were treated as ways to > coddle criminals. This does happen, and bugs me (so to speak). > --Tim May, who's sorry he missed the display of firepower at the > physical meeting today One of these days I'll make it to the firing range. You also missed a revealing story over dinner, which probably meant something different to me than the storyteller intended, but there it is. A guy on the way to the shooting range is pulled over for speeding. The cop notices the guns, orders him out of the car, and asks where he's going. He answers, "Let me explain the way I think this country works. I am going wherever I damn well please." So the cop gives him a speeding ticket, and he continues on his way. Now tell me, is this evidence that we're living in a police state? Of course it probably helped that the guy was white, and probably driving a "decent" car, and carrying "decent" guns and not some "Saturday Night Special." But still, I don't see the totalitarianism. While it wasn't covered in human rights school, I don't think the FBI should sit idly by and let terrorists sponsored by the government of Iran blow people up, either. And so they didn't sit idly by. They waited for probable cause. And lost one. Oops. A few random bombings seems a reasonable price to pay for all our freedoms, though, especially since it probably couldn't have been prevented in the first place. But by all means, keep the paranoia coming. That's what keeps this country more or less free. Far better to have frogs hopping wild and free (as God designed them) than sitting in the pot talking about how nice and warm the water is. Just don't lose it so badly that you start endorsing the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Murrah Federal Building, please. - -rich http://www.stanford.edu/~llurch/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQBVAwUBM6SCkJNcNyVVy0jxAQFWvAH/U8KiLVrrtq/NNSOzJWGPJuP2n7wM/6oU KvymiZkTRqMS+5WLY5WTomnVCgKcc0IQ9eMDFO0UgJf5vI28YE2VtQ== =EP88 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Homer on Terrorism
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tom Weinstein wrote: > Tim May wrote: > > Tom Weinstein wrote: > >> Tim May wrote: > > > >>> (What the Danes offered was a straight buiness deal, albeit made > >>> weirder and more frantic by the constraints of time, publicity, and > >>> worldwide attention. Still a business deal, though.) > what he said > was something like: > "Pay me lots of money or I will go to the press in such a way as to > damage you the most." > > That is blackmail. It's clear that the money is to prevent the damage, > not just for the information. This happens every day in major-league business ballparks. Information --> is power is --> money. Usually the word "blackmail" surfaces when one company takes a shit-kicking from the other company. Methinks the reason the word "blackmail" so easily springs to the lips of Netscape exec's is that they know they got caught with their pants down. They designed their code so that they or John Law could put their dicks in our hard drives and wiggle them around and now they are accusing the guy who has "pictures" of their guilt of doing something dirty. Although Netscape is claiming the "high ground" by saying they don't pay "blackmail," I think it is much more likely that they didn't need to *pay* for the information because they already *knew* exactly what the other company had discovered. Netscape calls their upcoming patch a "bug fix" when, in reality, it is the disabling of a "secret feature." Thus I wouldn't be too quick to accept their definition of "blackmail." > > Browsers are big business, and high stakes poker. It's not surprising > > to me to see this kind of bluffing and "terorrism" (to quote Homer, > > with his rosy-fingered typing). What's surprising is that it hasn't > > happened more often, or at least hasn't gotten as much publicity. It probably doesn't get reported very often because a company usually doesn't have foreknowledge of the problem (i.e. it is a genuine "bug" in their product) and thus it is in their best interest to pay to find out the specifics of the problem. When you're innocent of wrongdoing, it's called a business negotiation. When you're guilty of wrongdoing, its called blackmail? So if Tom Weinstein calls it blackmail, then I guess that pretty much indicates Netscape's position in regard to their browser's ability to be used to compromise the user's privacy and security. TruthMonger

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Current wording of SAFE criminal use provision
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Thomas: http://rs9.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery105/1?cp105:./temp/~cp105mvbg:e7198 --begin Sec. 2805. Unlawful use of encryption in furtherance of a criminal act `Any person who, in the commission of a felony under a criminal statute of the United States, knowingly and willfully encrypts incriminating communications or information relating to that felony with the intent to conceal such communications or information for the purpose of avoiding detection by law enforcement agencies or prosecution-- `(1) in the case of a first offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both; and `(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both.'. --end --Ste5e

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[ANNOUNCE] PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from MIT
by Jeffrey I. Schiller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: The PGP Community From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis(a)mit.edu> Subject: PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from MIT I am pleased to announce the availability of PGP 5.0 Freeware from the MIT Web Site. PGP 5.0 Freeware is available for non-commercial use under license from MIT, PGP Inc. It uses the RSAREF toolkit licensed from RSA Data Security. This new version is a long awaited major upgrade and improvement to PGP 2.6.2. It has a native Windows '95, Windows NT and Macintosh interface. It supports additional ciphers, as well as new key types and message formats. Internally it is much improved as well. This release marks a major transition to a new public key infrastructure based on the Diffie-Hellman (DH) public key algorithm for privacy and the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) for digital signatures. The RSA algorithm is still supported and this version will work with the old RSA keys you may already have. However all new keys generated by this version will be DH/DSS keys. Many of the internal performance improvements are only available when used exclusively with DH/DSS keys (this is because using RSA keys requires PGP 5.0 to be backward compatible with PGP 2.6.2 which requires PGP 5.0 to use less efficient message formats). This version also includes automated keyserver support. It can automatically fetch PGP keys from the MIT keyserver (and other keyservers) as well as offer to upload any newly created keys. It also comes with plug-ins for Eudora and other major mail utilities. At the moment it is only available for Windows '95, NT and MacOS. A Unix (Linux) version is in the works but isn't ready yet, but we hope to have it ready within a week or two. Source code for this version was distributed at last weekend's cypherpunks meeting in hard copy form. Source will eventually be made available electronically, but isn't ready yet. You can find the Freeware PGP at either the PGP Home Page at: http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html or directly at: http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp-form.html Note: We anticipate a significant amount of traffic while people throughout the U.S. and Canada download PGP. Please be patient with the server (and with us)! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM6V9psUtR20Nv5BtAQE9IgP+OuB+wHml5C47s3YJjfbNq+3FWmql+DrG AE5Dag8aahKGf73SYHByhCZXowCzE0g8QeAx9VYpXy9CHp5GiSE8Iks1/U0AKz1h cxcQ2Etp7x2js9GAfP8ueD01RlIguQsh2hIP0cU9ymy8Fn1b7OscWk9hhmDjgBpv O36Lt5gPBwM= =+zQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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2nd New Netscape Bug Reported
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Routers--Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan] June 17, 1997 Bellgate or Bill Gates? by Declan McCypherpunk A wanna-be programmer in this small Canadian town stumbled upon an undocumented feature in the Netscape browser which allows the user to place a bet on the date of death of computer magnate Bill Gates. While early reports are sketchy, it appears that the scheme involves Tom Weinstein, Ed McMahon and the cypherpunks remailer system. When approached by Kookie Roberts for comment, Tom Weinstein loudly proclaimed, "I don't even know Jim Bell, honest." When Kookie Roberts asked Weinstein who the hell Jim Bell was, he quickly muttered, "Never mind..." Ed McMahon would only say that on September 4th, some lucky winner would be receiving an anonymous digicash transaction from him. When pressed for details about the date, McMahon's face flushed a bright red and he quickly exited the scene, accompanied by men with Italian names, and a former CIA PR representative explained that what McMahon "meant to say" was "no comment." Unsubtatiated rumors also indicate that if the netscape.exe file is printed out as a .gif file, that it pictures a layout of Microsoft Corporate headquarters and the Gates estate. When asked for a response to the announcement of the new revelations a Microsoft spokesperson cryptically replied, "Anyone who bet on Bill Gates dying on September 4th ain't gonna win shit." When pressed as to whether he personally used the Netscape browser, the MS spokesperson only grinned and winked.

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(fwd) Demo of new personalized web "Anonymizer"
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Forwarded message from Alex de Joode ----- From: alain(a)allegra.tempo.att.com (Alain Mayer) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.crypt.research Subject: Demo of new personalized web "Anonymizer" Date: 11 Jun 1997 17:49:02 -0700 Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Message-ID: <5nnh1u$djk(a)joseph.cs.berkeley.edu> Hi! We are Bell Labs researches currently experimenting with a new tool that helps you easily create and use consistent unique personal identities at web sites that provide personalized services. LPWA (Lucent Personalized Web Assistant) creates these unique identities on demand. LPWA supports these features: - Privacy: Your true identity remains unknown to the web-sites. When a web-site asks you to provide a username, password, or e-mail address, you instead enter '\u', '\p', or '\@', and the LPWA proxy submits to the web-site an alias-username, an alias-password, or an alias-e-mail address. LPWA computes a different, but consistent, alias for you for each web-site. - Convenience: Because LPWA computes your alias identity for you, you do not need to invent and remember multiple usernames and passwords. Instead, you only need to remember and protect one secret ("universal password"). You provide your secret to the proxy, along with your e-mail address, exactly once during a browsing session, after that you browse the web transparently. Check http://lpwa.com/ to see how to use LPWA. To obtain more information about LPWA, see http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/ Pointers to personalized web-sites, where you can open and maintain accounts, are given in http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/background.html#personalized Please note that this project has not yet been publicy announced and that documentation and code are currently being revised. Also, the current (temporary) set-up, where you have to connect to LPWA over an insecure connection is not "optimal" (to say the least, but all in all much better than if you browse the "usual way"). Hence, we are really looking for "friendly users" at this time whose feedback will help us to make improvements. Regards, Alain Mayer ----- End of forwarded message from Alex de Joode ----- Groet, -- Alex de Joode usura(a)zedz.com | ZedZ InterNET Laboratories | http://www.zedz.net

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BYE_cda
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

6-16-97, NYP: With a groundbreaking Supreme Court decision imminent on a new law restricting children's access to indecent material on the Internet, senior Clinton administration officials are preparing a policy that undercuts the administration's strong support of the law until now. Administration officials, anticipating that the court will strike the law down as an unconstitutional abridgment of free speech, have been quietly fashioning a new communications policy that leaves most regulation of the sprawling online world to the industry itself. No announcement will be made until the court rules on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. And officials noted that the current draft of a working group's report, dated June 4, is not necessarily the last word spelling out the new approach. The president makes policy, they said, and this matter will not be settled until he approves. ----- BYE_cda http://jya.com/byecda.htm

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High-Class Hoards
by Shift Control 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This week in the award-winning Shift Control... The Hoarding Issue "Nowadays Charles Saatchi buys up entire shows of new talent in the Young Brit Art pack. Recently he bought nearly all the Chapman brothers' disturbing child mannequins with penises and anuses in peculiar places. And the whole of the Martin Maloney show, 'Die Yuppie Scum'. I imagine his art depository must be as big as an out-of-town IKEA store, with fork-lift trucks whizzing around it and people with clipboards checking stock." - Professor Lisa Jardine on art collectors, the ultimate hoarders. "Mum keeps throwing more and more pairs of shoes into the black hole at the bottom of her wardrobe, never to be seen again, even though she might only have worn them once. This shoe fixation is a trait the rest of the family seems to have inherited. Normal kids inherit eye colour from their parents; we all got the urge to stash flip-flops." - Emma Caldwell on growing up in a house of maniacal hoarders. "Charlie describes himself as a 'guardian of logic'. 'I've seen some super-open people, into Buddhism and Feng shui and geomancing. But that,' says Charlie, nodding towards the hoard of jumble, 'is an ecclesiastical anathema, trying to combine all things, all religions together.'" - Shift Control rumbles through jumble and finds a philosopher in the closet. Plus: The Shift Control Gallery, the world's first bionic bee, and a chance to win 200 smackers in our short story competition. All waiting for you NOW at http://www.shiftcontrol.com _____________________________________________ Shift Control is produced by the Guardian's New Media Lab with help from Boddingtons and Stella Artois Dry To unsubscribe from this mailing list send e-mail to shiftcontrol-request(a)nml.guardian.co.uk with the following text in the body of the mail message: unsubscribe

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17 Dec '03

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