July 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Accuris - Company History
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

<http://www.accuris.ie/history.htm> Accuris - Company History Accuris is a specialist provider of lawful interception solutions in the communications field. Based in Dublin, Ireland - the software capital of Europe - Accuris continues to lead the market in its niche field. Established in 1997 as a product provider in the telecommunications arena, Accuris grew rapidly as a result of the input from its founders - KPN, Eircom and Telia. In 2002 the company was purchased by a group of investors and charged with becoming the European leader in Lawful Interception, as well as extending its expertise in other areas of the telecommunications sector. Accuris has a core specialist workforce that provides the full range of services from initial consultancy through development and ongoing customer support. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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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Accuris launches "Tap In A Box"
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

<http://www.accuris.ie/product_tap.htm> Accuris - Product News Item Accuris launches "Tap In A Box" Accuris has recently launched "Tap in A Box" as a low-cost method to enable smaller ISPs to comply with their country's Lawful Interception requirements. Key Product Elements 7 Management System 7 Interception Capability 7 Hardware Components 7 System Installation 7 Delivery and on-site system test included 7 All relevant cables, connectors supplied 7 Technical Support 7 Warranty 7 Help desk 7 Call logging & problem management 7 Lines of support 7 Response times 7 Notifications 7 Optional Extras 7 Increased network capacity upgrade 7 Additional Tap Points 7 Upgrade to Enterprise solution 7 Professional Services 7 Additional support cover 7 Training Management System This system provides secure access to warrant/interception management features as well as control of interception point configuration. Interception Capability The basic number of tap points is 2 single Fast Ethernet points. The traffic interception types consist of TCP/IP, SMTP, POP3 and Radius. Additional services will be catered for in maintenance releases, as required by legislation. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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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Re: Dna samples of world leaders
by Sunder 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Yes, brain fart. :) s/b Emmanuel Goldstein. Doh! Need more coffee... Yup, but you don't have to splice a tape, you can do it all digitally these days, then create a signle low quality audiotape recorded so poorly that your analyst won't be able to acurately say yes or not. The real question is whether or not you can have a speech synth that can put out convincing inflections, pauses, um's ah's, coughs, etc. to the point that it sounds like a human with emotions, not a machine. You can get the samples from existing speeches/addresses and extract just the phonemes. Your speech synth's output shouldn't sound like a bunch of clips of words of course. :) I don't know how many phonemes would be required for a convinging Iraqi leader... For English there's like 30 something... If you get them all at the same tone from the same speech, you're set. If you've ever played with MacOS's speech synth, they have some that are somewhat realistic human voices, but they still speak with out human sounding rythms - rather they sound like a human trying to imitate a computer a la old Star Trek episodes. Add the inflections to get emotion like sounds, and increase the quality of the synth so you don't hear machine artifacts, and you're set. It's not an easy problem, but neither is it impossible. As to DNA: Uh, I was talking about Sadam's palaces - lots of skin flakes, clothes, hairs in combs, etc to be had there. Ok, well that presumes that sufficient samples were collected before the nice palace parties. :) ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > At 12:42 PM 07/23/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: > >Bah! Saddam has become the new Eric Goldstien since Osama Bin Ladin is > >quieter. > > I'm guessing you're mixing up Emmanuel Goldstein, from 1984 > and Eric Corley aka Emmanuel Goldstein, from 2600 ? > It might be hard to splice together a tape that would > fool a forensic expert into thinking the tape was really > an authentic recording by the same person who was speaking on > several other known-to-be-authentic recordings. > It's not at all hard to put together a press release from > an ostensible forensic expert claiming that a tape > is or isn't authentic, or even to find an expert who'll say it. > It's probably not too hard to put together a tape with > the speech you want and a set of claimed-to-be-known-authentic samples > that the expert can compare with the voice on the tape, > if the expert doesn't have good independent samples of his own. > > After all, your objective isn't to fool the experts - > it's to fool the public, or rather to make sure that the public > that you've already fooled continues to stay fooled. > As Bush said, "fool me once, shame on... shame on.. " > > > Besides, to get the DNA samples, they just checked with > Illuminati Headquarters - you thought that when world leaders > sign their employment contracts in blood, it's only for decoration?

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Re: Jerk with a t-shirt
by Tyler Durden 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

"This happened just a few miles from me, so perhaps I've paid closer attention than you have. T-shirt man wasn't merely minding his own business while wearing an offensive shirt. He was stepping in front of people and haranguing them in front of a large anchor store in the mall. After a while he was asked to leave by a store employee, so he took himself to the food court and repeated the procedure. After complaints from several mall patrons, a security guard asked T-shirt man to either knock it off or leave." Well I haven't heard the story told this way before. If this were the case, he should be removed no matter what T-shirt he was wearing. As for the "private property" issues, I'm still not convinced they're cut-and-dry (though in some cases maybe they are). If nothing else, the demonstration the following morning lets the local thugs know that consensus reality these days does not equate benevolence with US foreign policy. Thus, the barely-made-it-out-of-high-school managers of the Mall's Security will know that anti-war T-shirts may not be any more controversial than pro-war t-shirts, despite what the TV has instructed them. -TD >From: Steve Furlong <sfurlong(a)acmenet.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com >Subject: Jerk with a t-shirt >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 06:42:24 -0400 > >On Wednesday 23 July 2003 09:18, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > But it sounds like a rehash of the mall incident > >You don't know what you're talking about. This happened just a few miles >from me, so perhaps I've paid closer attention than you have. T-shirt >man wasn't merely minding his own business while wearing an offensive >shirt. He was stepping in front of people and haranguing them in front >of a large anchor store in the mall. After a while he was asked to >leave by a store employee, so he took himself to the food court and >repeated the procedure. After complaints from several mall patrons, a >security guard asked T-shirt man to either knock it off or leave. >T-shirt man refused, growing more and more aggressive, and eventually >the local cops came along and arrested him. (I may have fudged some >details, as I'm working from memory, but I don't think I screwed up >anything important.) > >OK, so far it could be the spontaneous actions of one guy. But, even >though the story wasn't reported until the late news that evening, >there was a large (hundreds, IIRC) crowd of protesters when the mall >opened the next morning. This might not sound like much to someone used >to NYC crowds, but by the standards of this area that was a huge crowd. >I guess it _could_ have been a spontaneous rising of a populace fed up >with jack-booted thug harrassment of dissenting opinion. But the more I >hear about it, the more this sounds like a planned operation. > >-- >Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel > >"If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using >their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that >these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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kinko spying: criminal caught Scarfing keydata
by Major Variola (ret.) 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Kinko's spy case: Risks of renting PCs NEW YORK (AP) -- For more than a year, unbeknownst to people who used Internet terminals at Kinko's stores in New York, Juju Jiang was recording what they typed, paying particular attention to their passwords. Jiang had secretly installed, in at least 14 Kinko's copy shops, software that logs individual keystrokes. He captured more than 450 user names and passwords, and used them to access and open bank accounts online. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/23/cybercafe.security.ap/index.html

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RE: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online
by Vincent Penquerc'h 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

> Just because it's cool and we can call it electronic cash? What's the > point? Why would you bother building it? Why would anyone > bother using > it? Ah, to make money off it of course! Advertize it, and people will use it. Maybe. For a time. And when it wears off, you launch another one. Sure, it's pointless technically, but so are many gimmicks that are commercially viable, if only for a limited time. And maybe the LEAs are actually even pushing it as a way to easily catch clueless criminals :) -- Vincent Penquerc'h

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[fc-announce] FC '04: Call for Papers
by R. A. Hettinga 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

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Re: Dna samples of world leaders
by Nomen Nescio 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

> Yesterdays briefing on the death of saddams sons-the What is most troubling is that USG assumes (correctly ?) that assassinating relatives of enemies of the state will be welcomed by the public.

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Re: Fwd: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore's email
by Major Variola (ret) 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

At 11:36 PM 7/20/03 -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Steve Schear wrote: > >> >remove a small 1" button pinned to my left lapel. I declined, saying >> >that it was a political statement and that he had no right to censor >> >passengers' political speech. The button, which was created by > >Where do these ridiculous ideas come from ? If I own a piece of private >property, like an airplane (or an entire airline) for instance, I can >impose whatever senseless and arbitrary conditions on your use of it as I >please. Yes. Except that you entered into a contract to transport a human in exchange for money. No where in the contract was "banned speech" mentioned. Suppose that instead two men were kicked off a flight for holding hands, or a woman & offspring for breast-feeding. That would be a violation of the transportation contract. Because such behavior does not endanger the flight or passengers. (Although all behaviors cannot be enumerated, under a "reasonable" common-law interpretation of the contract, passive speech (vs. say screaming the whole flight) is harmless.) Private property rights, of course. But contract law too.

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Re: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore's email
by Freematt357＠aol.com 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

In a message dated 7/23/2003 9:23:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, camera_lumina(a)hotmail.com writes: Actually, that's an interesting point. Let's first of all remember that Gilmore was allowed onto the plane in the first place, so airport security didn't care or notice. You are correct, and this means that the TSA Nazis failed to adequately identify a potential security threat. The button being discovered by British Airways. Remember 9/11 was a failure of our alphabet agencies for adequately protecting us, and naturally in response we've run to protection to another new alphabet agency, how sad. http://www.freeohio.us/pamphlets/airport.pdf Regards, Matt-

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