June 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CNN.com - Man wins right to sue U.S. government over pot car - Jun. 2, 2003 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

;) http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/02/pot.lawsuit.reut/index.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me
by Tyler Durden 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

>"I'd say issues of putting aerial photography on the internet and how that >changes the status of previously "secret" information are pretty close to >our core issues - they're not directly cryptography, but neither are the >"guns, lots of guns" discussions." What the hell...I see plenty of room for socializing-type talk, particularly if it's not inifintely removed from the concerns of the list. Actually, in this case there was a subtext that was also of interest. May put 2+2 together and used publically available, easy-to-access search tools and was able to figure out what a secretive neighbor was doing. Makes you wonder if the TLAs really need to do much covert snopping these days. -TD >From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com >Subject: Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me >Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:48:31 -0700 > >At 11:00 AM 06/03/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: >>That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks? Where's >>the relevance to this list? Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an >>interest to the cypherpunks? Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions against >>him relevant to the topics of this list? >> >>What's next? The Cypherpunk Equirer? > >Well sure - because not all the Black Helicopters flying over Tim's house >have belonged to Feds/UN/etc. - one of them's probably been Ken's :-) >I've also found Tim's comments on Pynchon living nearby interesting. > >>IMHO, neither he, nor the Streisand creature have any relevance here - >>there perhaps was some relevance in terms of that lawsuit the bitch >>started, but, who gives a shit who your neighbors are? > >I'd say issues of putting aerial photography on the internet and >how that changes the status of previously "secret" information >are pretty close to our core issues - they're not directly cryptography, >but neither are the "guns, lots of guns" discussions. > >I don't know if Hugh ever pulled off the "export RSA by standing in >a bar-code when the Russian 1-meter-resolution spy satellites fly over"... _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me
by Bill Stewart 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

At 11:00 AM 06/03/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: >That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks? Where's >the relevance to this list? Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an >interest to the cypherpunks? Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions against >him relevant to the topics of this list? > >What's next? The Cypherpunk Equirer? Well sure - because not all the Black Helicopters flying over Tim's house have belonged to Feds/UN/etc. - one of them's probably been Ken's :-) I've also found Tim's comments on Pynchon living nearby interesting. >IMHO, neither he, nor the Streisand creature have any relevance here - >there perhaps was some relevance in terms of that lawsuit the bitch >started, but, who gives a shit who your neighbors are? I'd say issues of putting aerial photography on the internet and how that changes the status of previously "secret" information are pretty close to our core issues - they're not directly cryptography, but neither are the "guns, lots of guns" discussions. I don't know if Hugh ever pulled off the "export RSA by standing in a bar-code when the Russian 1-meter-resolution spy satellites fly over"...

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Censorship, link prohibition
by Major Variola (ret) 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

(from politech, with additions) The New York Times article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/national/02INTE.html Excerpt: >Judge Lewis ruled on May 6, before Mr. Max was notified of the suit and >without holding a hearing. She told Mr. Max that he could not use "Katy" >on his site. Nor could he use Ms. Johnson's last name, full name or the >words "Miss Vermont." >The judge also prohibited Mr. Max from "disclosing any stories, facts or >information, notwithstanding its truth, about any intimate or sexual acts >engaged in by" Ms. Johnson. That prohibition is not limited to his Web >site. Finally, Judge Lewis ordered Mr. Max to sever the virtual remains of >his relationship with Ms. Johnson. He is no longer allowed to link to her >Web site. >The page of Mr. Max's site that used to contain his rambling memoir now >has only a reference to the court order. The Max story is mirrored here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Katy-Johnson (The preamble here, authored by the mirrorer, is an excellent read. As he says: "Ms.Johnson has not thus far sued him for libel, only for revealing "embarassing private facts". Ms. Johnson is indisputably a public figure who holds herself out as a moral example, so the legal standard for proving either libel or invasion of privacy would be quite high.") ............. Katy Johnson Katy Johnson was Miss Vermont in 1999 and 2001. She has a relatively sucessful website (http://www.katyjohnson.com) promoting abstinence until marriage and general sexual purity. Tucker Max wrote a story about all of the nasty sexual things she did to him and posted it on his website (http://www.tuckermax.com) Johnson sued Max. As a result, Max is receiving the huge amount of publicity he desired. His picture was on the front page of the 7 May 2003 Chicago Sun-Times. Meanwhile, Johnson's image has been widely tarnished because of the publicity drawn by her suit. Gun. Foot. Bang! http://www.munsoned.com/people/list.cfm?person=125 There's a flashless site at http://www.pageantcity.com/signon.html where you can ask her a question. We have, viz. what she thinks Monica was talking about: I think people have not quite gotten their hands around the speed at which information can be disseminated online. -Monica Lewinsky, LATimes 9 may 01

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[ChemBrin] Tracking NYC farts
by Major Variola (ret) 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

[And in a few years, the sensors will be augmented with tobacco, pot, maybe programmable DNA-scurf detectors.] http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/89128p-81072c.html Federal scientists will soon blanket the heart of midtown and the West Village with high-tech sensors designed to track biological, chemical and radiological agents in the event of a terrorist attack. The security project is a first step toward creating a vast network of sensors that can predict how the fallout from a weapon of mass destruction might spread through the city. "We would like to work out what areas would be dangerous and, more importantly, what areas would be safe," said Bruce Hicks, director of the Air Resources Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The research is considered crucial because mathematical and computer models that forecast the airborne paths of toxins were designed for rural areas, not cities. "Right now, the models that we have are not set up for dense urban areas with the canyons and the complexities that exist in New York," said Dr. Ralph James, director of the Energy, Environment and National Security unit at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. Five sensors already have been placed as part of the project, called the Urban Atmospheric Observatory. The instruments, attached to a federal building near Varick and W. Houston Sts., measure wind direction, velocity and turbulence. Scores of similar sensors, as well as radiation detectors, are expected to be placed this year around midtown and the West Village - considered potential terrorist targets. Tracing gases "Anywhere we can hang an instrument, we are going to try to get one out there," said Michael Reynolds, a research scientist at the Brookhaven labs, part of the Energy Department. This summer, federal scientists plan to release benign gases in Manhattan and use the sensors to track them. "That way, we can really get an idea of how well the models work," Reynolds said. A similar program, called DCNet, is underway in Washington, where 13 sensors have been placed near sensitive sites, including the White House. New York is seeking up to $10 million from the Homeland Security Department to expand its network. Reynolds said it would cost about $30 million to $40 million a year to fully implement the sensors in New York.

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Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me
by Adam Shostack 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:00:07AM -0400, Sunder wrote: | That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks? Where's | the relevance to this list? Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an | interest to the cypherpunks? Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions against | him relevant to the topics of this list? | | What's next? The Cypherpunk Equirer? We can hope they return. http://www.haven.boston.ma.us/~benji/wheels.html http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1997/03/msg00102.html -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me
by Tim May 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

Ken Adelman, the retired gazillionaire who has gained new fame as a photographer of the California coastline, lives a couple of parcels from me, perhaps half a kilometer. For a while now, I'd wondered who owned the heliport that had helicopters departing and arriving a few times a week (that I knew of...could have been more). I couldn't actually see the heliport, due to some ridges and some trees, but I could see the choppers banking over my hilltop and disappearing behind a ridge. Well, today I did some Googling on Ken Adelman, who I already knew was a Corralitos resident. I had no idea where in my little community he lived, only that he had California's largest private solar cell array (and had gotten into yet another controversy, with PG&E, our power monopoly, when he proposed to connect his array to the grid and be paid for the power he _added_ to the grid, as per official law and PG&E policy...it seems PG&E really doesn't _want_ the sheeple generating power, though they tolerate tiny, hobbyist generators...but Adelman['s array was an actual competitor, and would cost them money, so they tried to nix it...another story). In reading about the controversy over Streisand's property, I saw that Adelman is using his own helicopter. A bell went off in my head and I Googled to find his home address. His address in the phone book is unlisted, but he gave his home address in one or more of his ventures, and so up it popped in a Google search on his name: 1365 Meadowridge Rd., the road just before mine (Allan Lane) off of Brown's Valley Road. My address is 427 Allan Lane. Entering these into Yahoo or Mapquest shows how close our properties are. Here's one such street map: <http://www.mapquest.com/maps/ map.adp?zoom=8&mapdata=xU4YXdELrnBvmOFq2kcGOEQi7CbOldSJXG%2fHyl1%2fRq6Pe 4iyA3NaeyFOzwHt%2f59dLuXHRyy%2bIQSsOdYkttX8p5XZaw8IQC2MsQha1yRfzwQEdkcrT BRm4kENrZ2%2fgc6RCtIF5Yq1kQSRiLgSE%2bPL3SI8WloPMbT25qbIYzAmfr76TkHJ2RAZe 809GEwt7Utfq95yhGw%2f8r6J3b%2bdl5aPdiUdFaOV62t2BuHrlX7W%2b2EFfsGA%2be0r8 px2WBRa4HFSUfzgxZyva%2bgXBlqmO2q%2fUeDYZgUuJCBKcXpXJ2LYIj3OCGwHpqJO0Q%3d %3d> His property is about where the first "d" in Meadowridge Rd. appears. My property is at the end of Allan Lane. Obviously, then, it is his helicopter I've been seeing flying over to about that spot. (Tiny chance it's someone else's...) BTW, I don't think this Ken Adelman, who is now 39-40, is the same Ken Adelman who advised Reagan in the 1980s on arms control--the D.C.-based Adelman was graying and balding at least 15 years ago, so I doubt they're the same person. But I haven't done enough Googling, nor have I found images of the Corralitos version, to be sure. More research is needed. --Tim May "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams

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web apps with large volumes of bidirectional http traffic
by Ryan Lackey 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

I need to find some relatively widely deployed applications which have frequent user interactions (rapid clicking on links, from as large a population of links as possible, and also form filling and such). (it should be pretty obvious what this is for) I'd like: 0) *rapid*/frequent user interactions; fast clicking on things (like every second, no more than 5 seconds) 1) "sticky"...long interactions with a given site (on the order of hours) (also all links need to be under the same url/same server) 2) large number of potential links for users to click on, with desirable properties for click distribution (I *think* I want them to be nearly equally likely, but I might just want a defined distribution, or I might even want the opposite of that) 3) relatively small data sizes for downloaded data, UNLESS downloaded data is generated unique and "randomly" 4) widely deployed already on the internet, or compelling enough that there would be a decent number of potential server operators. Obviously I could *create* an app which has the desirable characteristics, but I'd like something which can deal with existing data or apps served over the internet) 5) good data on how likely users are to click on things, how fast they click, etc., so one could easily operate within those parameters. So far, the best ideas: 1) Porn 2) Mailing lists with lots of internal links (next, reply, etc.) 3) Sites with search engines with lots of linked data (encyclopedia, etc.) 4) html games (or flash, maybe) -- either imagemaps, or just tables, things like chess, or puzzles, or whatever I'd definitely appreciate any suggestions on possible web apps which meet these criteria; reply to lists or ryan(a)venona.com. I'll post when it's ready. Thanks, Ryan -- Ryan Lackey [RL960-RIPE AS24812] ryan(a)venona.com +1 202 258 9251 OpenPGP DH 4096: B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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KMOKMOXT .... instructions for you Max ...
by Mark Saarelainen 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

KMOKMOXT .... instructions for MAX Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com

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Human Rights Program Rescues Computer Data [crypto, distributed storage]
by Major Variola (ret) 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

Human Rights Program Rescues Computer Data On April 7, thieves broke into the offices of Guatemala's human rights ombudsman, in a town about 150 miles from Guatemala City; several hours later, the home of a human rights advocate in the capital was also burglarized. The crimes, which were reported by the Associated Press (AP) the next day, did not surprise Gustavo Meono, director of a group founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu. He told the AP (New York Times, 8 April 2003) that thieves often target the offices and homes of human rights activists. They "come for information and take files and computer hard drives." What the thieves may not yet know, however, is that AAAS's human rights staff has devised a way of protecting the data that have become so precious to both sides in the effort to demonstrate who did what to whom during the country's civil war from 1960 to 1996. Some of the information collected in the stolen computers represented science-based evidence for prosecuting people accused of killings and torture, rapes and kidnappings, according to Alvaro Caballeros, an archivist at the Association for the Advancement of the Social Sciences in Guatemala (AVANCSO). "The need for AAAS's help was related to security," Caballeros said. "Our archives are very important to our work collecting information and interviews regarding what happened during the war." AAAS's data-protection project was carried out with funding from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which recently provided $700,000 to allow the Association's human rights program to continue providing technical assistance and quantitative analyses for large-scale human rights data projects in Africa, Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe. AAAS computer engineer Miguel Cruz flew to Guatemala in November, carrying a "giant black duffel bag, full of tools and computer networking equipmentcables, routers, hubs..." His job was to set up a system that would allow Guatemala's human rights groups to encrypt the information they generated and to have it automatically copied onto network servers managed from safe locations in other countries. "We determined that the only really safe place to keep the data was out of the country," Cruz said. Word of his work spread among the human rights organizations, and volunteers began showing up to help Cruz install the basic infrastructure that was missing in most of the buildings. "I initially trained about half a dozen people in the basics of network wiring, and they all pitched in, putting their jobs on hold to work late into the evening wielding crimpers, digital cable testers, screwdrivers, and hammers," Cruz recounted. "In an incidental way, of course, the project has provided some good old-fashioned direct development assistance, by providing hands-on learning about cutting-edge technology. It wasn't the goal, but it's a nice side-effect, especially considering that all the assistance actually made the project faster and cheaper." http://www.aaas.org/news/newsandnotes/inside96.shtml

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