January 2004 - cypherpunks-legacy

Avoiding US mail fraud charges while protecting your financial privacy
by Steve Schear 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

[From another list..] A charge of "mail fraud" or "securities fraud" doesn't mean jack shit anymore. If you exchange money or other financial instruments a prosecutor can nail you for something. Real fraud does occur, but prosecutors prefer to go after targets they want to cut down to size, such as Michael Milken or Martha Stewart. They base their cases on obscure subjective laws that violate private property rights and are designed to ensnare everyone. Using the US postal system can be damaging to your freedom. I was thinking of re-selling pre-paid domestic, private carrier, envelopes as this circumvents the USPS and the associated discretionary federal charges (e.g., mail fraud). Do any on the list think there would be interest? Will not maintain any postal info after ack of receipt. Haven't thought about price but it won't be a gouging. steve

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Encrypted phones/scramblers, etc.
by Harmon Seaver 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

Someone was just trying to tell me that the FCC, et al, won't allow encrypted phones or even the old style scramblers to be sold anymore. Have there been any moves in that direction? -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

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System security data about to be made public (Cobell v Norton) (fwd)
by J.A. Terranson 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

Of interest to may I'm sure. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:34:57 -0500 From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner(a)nic-naa.net> To: nanog(a)merit.edu Cc: brunner(a)nic-naa.net, triballaw(a)wabanaki.abenaki.net Subject: System security data about to be made public (Cobell v Norton) The background is probably not of interest to many on NANOG, but the operational art of the Department of the Interior's network operators and security staff, and the host managers of the Indian Trust systems, which has been rated the worst in the Federal Goverment, is about to enter the public record, minus host and subnet identifiers, and any bits that "might jeopardize the security of individual Indian Trust Data". The text of the order is at this URL: http://www.indiantrust.com/_pdfs/20040121FileSMITReportsinRecord.pdf In a nutshell, its an Iraq-sized pile of thousands of individual trust accounts -- a major regional bank -- with no known audit trail, and an open access policy until quite recently. If I get the doc-u-boxen, I'll be happy to share with other NANOGers, as the DOI appears unable to move its operational art from an "F" to a "D" without assistance. Eric P.S. Triballaw list cc'd.

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final test message
by ObL 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

final test -ObL

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test, please ignore
by ObL 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

Test, please ignore. -ObL

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test message
by Riad S. Wahby 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

test message --- please ignore -- Riad Wahby rsw(a)jfet.org MIT VI-2 M.Eng

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None
by John Docwra 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

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plausible deniability, watermarking / stego busts
by Major Variola (ret.) 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

FBI makes arrest in movie 'screener' case Chicago man to be charged with copyright infringementThe Associated Press Updated: 9:02 a.m. ET Jan. 23, 2004LOS ANGELES - A man who allegedly used the Internet to distribute Oscar screener movies sent to him by a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been arrested in Illinois, authorities said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4037016/ Agents said the films have been traced back to a longtime Academy member, 69-year-old actor Carmine Caridi, who was described as a friend of Spragues. In addition to the movies, agents said they found an array of duplicating and illegal satellite television interception equipment in Spragues home about 20 miles south of downtown Chicago. Caridi told investigators he sent VHS copies of about 60 movies he received each year to Sprague. He allegedly told investigators he received no money for the films, and believed Sprague was merely a film buff who wished to watch them.

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Re: 1st amend, compelled speech in US
by Major Variola (ret) 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

At 08:29 PM 1/22/04 +0000, petard wrote: >On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:47:07AM -0800, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> ...public health officials are considering legal action to force AOL and >> certain websites to warn members about... >> >> http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62005,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 >> >> Compelled speech is prohibited, suggesting it is treason, no matter the >> reason. >> >So is it prohibited that drug companies are compelled to disclose known >side effects of their medications in order to sell them, and treason on >the part of FDA employees who enforce that? [ The Ministry of Mental Health would like to caution you that the accompanying text may contain unsoc ideas that may lead to discontent and other psychomedical conditions requiring treatment from licensed MiniHealth technicians. Have a nice day.] Excellent question. It is conceivable that a state can legitimately define some terms of commerce so as to prevent *fraud*. (Congress may do so for interstate trade.) Eg, plant and chemical names, weights and measures, etc. If some physical object has proved side nonobvious effects, its conceivable that the state can compel that speech. Note that these are physical objects, not bits, and its to prevent fraud in commerce that enables state action. [ The Ministry of Mental Health would like to caution you that the accompanying text may contain unsoc ideas that may lead to discontent and other psychomedical conditions requiring treatment from licensed MiniHealth technicians. Have a nice day.] When the state wants to insert speech into other's *conversations*, someone needs to read the BoR. [ The Ministry of Mental Health would like to caution you that the accompanying text may contain unsoc ideas that may lead to discontent and other psychomedical conditions requiring treatment from licensed MiniHealth technicians. Have a nice day.] And note: In a free nation, folks would be able to decide who endorses products, including foods and drugs. If the kosher council required some kind of warning ("Do not smoke this product with diary products") then you would have to follow their rules if you wanted to use their logo. Any federal rating or private Consumer Reports organization would simply be a competitor in the field of reputations. [ The Ministry of Mental Health would like to caution you that the accompanying text may contain unsoc ideas that may lead to discontent and other psychomedical conditions requiring treatment from licensed MiniHealth technicians. Have a nice day.]

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Announcing a new cypherpunks node: al-qaeda.net
by Riad S. Wahby 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hello, I recently posted saying I'd be starting a new cypherpunks node; it's now (close to) fully operational. Since LNE's policies were very popular and yielded an extremely high SNR, I've decided to replicate them more or less exactly. Thus: - everything is passed on to other nodes - posting is only allowed from addresses subscribed to one of the CDRs, or from almost all of the well-known anonymous remailers. PGP messages, messages with Hashcash, and things that look like replies to current threads are also allowed. I've also gone back through the LNE archives and pulled out addresses of "known good" users from 2002-2003. - you can email me to request that I manually add an address to the allowed posters list - "CDR" is removed from the subject line - "reply-to" header is removed - MIME attachments are removed To subscribe, send "subscribe" to cypherpunks-request(a)al-qaeda.net. The list entry point is cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net. Current list operators, please add cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net to your backbone feed. In addition, if you could set up a cron job to send your user list to me, that would be great; please send the output of the Majordomo "who" command to cpunk-users(a)al-qaeda.net (or, alternatively, if you allow public access to the who command, let me know and I'll set it up on my end). Finally, please email me if you'd like me to send my user list to you. I think this takes care of everything, but if I've left anything out please let me know. -- Riad Wahby rsw(a)jfet.org MIT VI-2 M.Eng

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