December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

IP: This Country *Needs* to Come to a Screeching Halt!
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Patricia Neill <pnpj(a)db1.cc.rochester.edu> Subject: IP: This Country *Needs* to Come to a Screeching Halt! Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 15:44:42 -0400 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com This Country *Needs* to Come to a Screeching Halt! by Patricia Neill (c) 1998 All week I've had to listen to the ever more irritating mass media clones droning on about how Americans want "the country to move on" and how all these polled citizens want the President and Congress "to get back to the business of running the country." The media droids (and they have such a droidic quality that they're beginning to sound all alike to me) have of course used their boring technique of repeating these dimwitted phrases over and over and over and over in the bright hope that we get the message. As always, I have to wonder who the hell these media people poll. It surely isn't me nor the millions upon millions like me! My bet is that the pollagandizers (a newly minted, wonderful fresh coinage from the pen of Publius Press) ask each other what they think, and use that as their statistically significantly absolutely similar population. Or maybe they ask the animals at the Washington Zoo and take the calls, snarls and roars for the dulcent tones of assent and consent to their pollaganda (lifted from the same place, today's Federalist Digest). But what I do know is that they are not asking *anyone* who remotely disagrees with their bias, and if they mistakenly call someone like me, I'm probably one of the ones they would simply ignore, as not statistically significant, or at least not significant, to their wizened little minds. As for me, do I want "the country to move on?" Hell, NO! I want it to come to a screeching halt! I want everything else to stop, cease, desist until the American people and those spurious Spongelords down in Congress have a chance to fully investigate Mr. Clinton and his White House. I don't care if no other "business of the country" gets handled. I don't care if NO federal agencies get funded. In fact, I'd just as soon they weren't. Let's not fund them for a year, and see if we miss any of them. I doubt it. We'd all be a lot happier if they disappeared off the face of the earth. Ain't that the truth. I don't even care if Congress has to close down. That'd be another blessing in my book. They can all meet outside of Congress and hold their investigation. They don't need to be under oath--they never pay any attention to it anyway. In fact, why doesn't the Republican majority shut down Congress while they go about checking out those lying sacks of gas up on 1600 Pennsylvania. They can rent the Watergate Hotel--it'd be a fitting touch. I want to know every little detail of what Mr. Clinton did, and when. I want to know how Hillary's billing files for the Rose Law Firm "disappeared" and then "showed up." I want to know about all the millions Bill and Hillary and gang stole from Madison Guaranty. I want all the myriads of scandals of this White House--both Clintons and ALL their cohorts--laid open for the public to see--and I know it will be ugly, real ugly. Actually, my bet is it will be pretty fascinating in a sick kind of way. Like watching a huge spider crawl up the wall if you have arachnaphobia. One fatheaded demagogue (I think it was Barney Frank) was quoted on NPR this morning as saying (and this is not exact, as I was busy trying to get the escaping smoke back into my ears). In the whining, puling tones, characteristic of this particular specimen of Congress: "We should censure Clinton, but he did nothing impeachable. Do you *really* want this thing to drag on for a year, while the 'business of the country' is waiting?" Short answer to that is, there is absolutely no reason under the sun for this to take a year, you dissembling, mammering twit! You could do it in a day, an hour, a nanosecond.You ALREADY know the crimes of Bill Clinton and his wife. You already *know* he lied, he lied to you, he lied to the grand jury, he lied to the American people. And my question for you is, what the hell is your *problem.* Do you honestly think Bill Clinton should be allowed to get away with not only his adultery and lying, but with all his other malfeasances, offenses, violations, felonies, torts, misconduct, misdeeds, sins, transgressions, iniquities and outrages--did I miss anything? Oh yes, murders! You have six years worth to sort through. In fact, Bill Clinton is such a crook that he should have been impeached, tried, convicted and jailed *before* he became president. You have his Washington crimes, but if you go back to his Arkansas years, you'd really have a bonanza! So, please, stop everything else and deal with this impeachment, immediately. The financial global crisis can go right on crisis-ing, for all I care. You all created that problem in the first place, and you ain't gonna get my money to solve it by bailing out Wall Street again. The heck with that. So put everything else to the side, and yes, bring this country to a screeching halt. And see to Mr. Clinton's crimes. My respect for the government is already a mere wisp at this point, if that. If Congress does not impeach--and do a serious job--then ALL my respect for government and what you folk cynically call "rule of law" will be gone. That's a promise. ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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A Scud in California!
by William Knowles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From another one of the several lists I'm on, I figured someone might know who the new pseudo-proud owner of a fully-operational SS-1C Scud missle *WITH* moblie launcher is... Cheers! William Knowles erehwon(a)dis.org Intelligence, N. 86, 5 October 1998, p. 12 USA THE SCUD THAT DIDN'T GET AWAY At "Intelligence", we're taking bets that you won't hear about the unidentified British firm which used an unnamed British freighter to import a fully-operational SS-1C Scud missile -- complete with launcher, but missing its warhead -- into the United States. According to a 25 September report in the "Washington Times", special investigators from HM Customs and Excise have been asked to determine how paperwork sent with the system came to be falsified, but they're probably going to run into ... the Pentagon because the Scud missile and its mobile transporter-erector launcher were seized on 2 September by the US Customs Service at Port Hueneme, California, about 56 km. north of Los Angeles and ... next door to the US Navy Point Mugu Pacific Missile Range, and ... the closest military port to the Vandenburg US Air Force Base where all classified US military launches take place. The Russian-designed, Czech-manufactured missile system was licensed for importation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), but ... it was wrongly described. Although addressed to a wealthy -- but so far unnamed (and bets are he will never be named) -- US citizen, who is regarded as a bona fide weapons collector rather than an arms dealer, the missile system had not been made inoperable as required by import rules. This is, of course, of interest to the Pentagon. "This is a full-blown missile," stated John Hensley, a senior agent of US Customs Service in Los Angeles. "The only thing missing is the warhead." The launch chassis is a MAZ-543 truck, commonly used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces. "The guidance system was totally intact and the engine was ready to go," Mr. Hensley said. "All you needed to do was strap on a garbage can full of C-4 high-explosive and you had a weapon." The guidance system and engine would, of course, be of intense interest to Pentagon intelligence, and the Israeli Mossad, particularly if the weapon is a later date or recent model. Hensley said the buyer, who lives in Palo Alto, had previously purchased a Scud missile that had been properly demilitarized. Under US law, such weapons may be imported, provided they are first cut up with a blowtorch so that they can never be reassembled. But in this case, in an effort to fool customs officials, a photograph of the first -- cut up -- missile to be imported was attached to the illegal -- intact -- system, which was seized on 2 September. If the "buyer" really wanted his missile, then the San Francisco Bay, which Palo Alto overlooks, is a much better port of entry. Bets at "Intelligence" are also out on the "buyer" being associated with the military- funded Stanford Research Institute (SRI) or similar Pentagon- dependent firms in nearby Silicon Valley. COMMENT -- The SS-1C Scud is a liquid-fueled missile which is among the most widely deployed weapons in the world. It is in service in 16 nations. Iraq's military forces were able to extend the range of the missile ("with baling wire and plywood", according to certain specialists), and used it extensively during the 1991 Gulf war. International transfers of such missiles, which normally have a range of 300 km., are banned under the Missile Technology Control Regime. Although the major media suggested the seizure would embarrass the Clinton administration, currently engaged in a major international diplomatic effort to halt exports of weapons of mass destruction and missile-delivery systems by Russia and China to the Middle East, it would seem more likely that the affair will "drag out indefinitely" in a California court, unless an appropriate "buyer" can be "sacrificed" publicly. --------------------------------------------- Olivier Schmidt, Editor of "Intelligence" <oschmidt(a)francenet.fr>

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Hidden WebTV signatures
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For those of you who don't read sci.crypt, Robert Ames <gnome(a)istar.ca> has posted an article in which he observes that all WebTV posts contain an X-WebTV-Signature: line containing base64-encoded data. For samples of WebTV-generated posts, try the alt.weemba newsgroup, which is filled with WebTV-user drool (caution: remember to employ protection when exposting your mind to the content of the messages). Some samples: X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQDqtur/jfleJ2CDOnNrVoeyALEQAIUOQyCBbzjx5HHfxeMERDgCjztXOU= X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAmCCzQt+Tqt6fNX+L9+gDCECaqQkCFA0YCPz5tk85mUgq7iX/u4vWvOgG These decode into ASN.1-encoded DSA signatures, eg: 1 30 45: SEQUENCE { 3 02 21: INTEGER : 00 98 20 B3 42 DF 93 AA DE 9F 35 7F 8B F7 E8 03 : 08 40 9A A9 09 26 02 20: INTEGER : 0D 18 08 FC F9 B6 4F 39 99 48 2A EE 25 FF BB 8B : D6 BC E8 06 : } for the second one. The key isn't included in the header, presumably the @webtv.net address can be tied to the hardware which contains some hardcoded DSA key. I wonder if WebTV users know they're signing each message they send? Peter.

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Re: Hidden WebTV signatures
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) > > I wonder if WebTV users know they're signing each message they send? Of course they don't. 8*( How about email? If they Usenet-post via replay? ---guy

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by info＠sparky.clearworks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Hidden WebTV signatures
by Robert A. Costner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:29 AM 10/12/98, Peter Gutmann wrote: I have experimented with an X-signature line for "remailing" messages. I was recently trying this with the dragoncon.net service. Cracker is a traditional Cypherpunk remailer. Properly used, messages from Cracker are not traceable even to governments. Cracker generates enough complaints to be bothersome. Redneck, the nymserver, on the other hand produces almost no complaints. I perceive the different on the user's side as being accountability and the use of a persistent identity. On the recipients side, the issue is retribution. There are people who receive anonymous messages who simply want retribution. Cracker does not allow this retribution to the user (so they pick on me:). Redneck does allow retribution. http://anon.efga.org Cracker and Redneck are "special" in that under no circumstances are logs kept, messages traced, or any attempt done to track users. So I started a variation of a nym service at another domain, http://www.dragoncon.net Based on comments from recipients and users of anonymous messages, I kept two requirements * No user based encryption required * Retribution against the user is available There is/was a back door in that while all messages go out with an X-IP header, this is "lost" if the user originally registered with a first name of "Anonymous". I will not claim this is as secure as Cracker or Redneck, but the service does fit the needs of many people. I wanted to keep my original requirements in mind and allow messages to be sent "From: Anonymous" such as a cypherpunk remailer does. In an effort retain my requirement of recipient retribution, I experimented with the idea of adding an X-Signature header which verifies the messages and the sender address, but only to the dragoncon.net mailer software. I experimented with PGP and the smallest key length hoping to get signatures down to two lines, but this was not possible. The idea was that only a registered user could post a message using the "Anonymous" user id. But if there were complaints, then I could assist the complainant in getting retribution. In fact, it would even be possible to send replies to "Anonymous" and the remailer would determine who to send the message to. I played with it for a day. Maybe I'll pick it up again later. Any comments on the idea are appreciated. I don't usually read all cypherpunk messages, so cc'ing me if you start a new thread would be nice. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Get your free email at http://www.dragoncon.net

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