July 2004 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies
by Major Variola (ret) 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

At 12:07 AM 7/29/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> Did you know that your teeth enamel contain isotope ratios that >> encode regions where you might have grown up around age 6? > >Yes. I am also aware that tooth enamel has the interesting property of >trapping a fantastic number of parmaceuticals. No. Your tooth enamel is static after you grow adult teeth. Your bones recycle every 10-20 years. Your hair gives away your indulgences though, which is what you allude to. Of interest to anthropologists, eg the folks who pinned Otzi's birthplace to other than where he was found. Anyone who wants to piss-test me will find his desk fully irrigated next day.

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Cruise Missile Clearance! Everything that Blows Shit Up Must Go!
by Poindexter＠SAFe-mail.net 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

My name is Bruce Simpson and I'm the guy who designed and built a low-cost cruise missile last year (as extensively reported by the world's media). As a result of this, the New Zealand government has seen fit to ensure that I can no longer engage in the activities, research or other work that resulted in this project. Indeed, I'm now effectively prohibited from using any of my key skills to support myself and my family, leaving us very much on the breadline. I have been forced to move from the modern 2,500 sq ft house (2 bathrooms, six bedrooms) I used to own, to a series of old and run-down rented houses, finally leading me to the current rat and flea-infested dwelling I'm in now. My family have suffered greatly as a result of this and, to be quite frank, I've had enough. It would appear that the only way for me to now survive with anything like a modest standard of living is to offer my skills, knowledge and experience to anyone outside of New Zealand who is willing to pay for them. So, if you're located outside of New Zealand and need a missile (or UAV or RPV) designed, built and tested for you, I'm the person to talk to. I won't charge you millions of dollars like the big-boys might. I won't question your politics or religious beliefs. I simply ask that you provide me with travel to your location plus safe, warm, comfortable accommodation for the duration of the project, and employ me at an agreed rate for my services. Whether you're a verysmall nation looking to extend its military capabilities while perhaps creating a highly profitable export industry, or an entrepreneur seeking to enter the massive market low-cost UAVs, RPVs and other pilotless vehicles, or whether you just want a single missile to mount on your SUV as a roof ornament -- I'm your man. Events of the past year have taught me the folly of patriotism, putting the interests of others ahead of your own, and trying to work with government to improve the security of the nation -- so I given up on that and adopted a far more mercenary attitude. Note however, that I will not knowingly work for anyone involved in the planning or committing of terrorist acts. Now I'm prepared to relocate to any part of the planet (at the employer's expense) and provide whatever skills, knowledge, experience and hard work is required to meet their requirements. If you need a UAV, RPV or low-cost cruise missile then look no further. You can buy 15+ years of professional experience in electronic hardware design and implementation, 15+ years of software development experience, the benefit of 5-years hard-core R&D into modern pulsejet technology, and 10+ years of small airframe design and construction all in one slightly aged package. You'll also get the benefit of all the work I've performed on my own LCCM project, including engine, airframe, stability and guidance systems. All correspondence will be kept in the utmost confidence. If you wish to discuss the options further, please establish initial contact using this form, http://aardvark.co.nz/contact/ , after which a more secure method of communicating can be established if required. ----------------------------

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The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Inflation
by R. A. Hettinga 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

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Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774-2004
by R. A. Hettinga 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

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ECC 2004
by R. A. Hettinga 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

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[OT] Apple calls Real "a hacker"
by Sunder 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/apple_real/ Interesting non-cypherpunkish stuff. So Real goes off and does some reverse engineering so it can use Apple's DRM to publish its own stuff for iPod's. Interestingly, Apple wants to sue using the DMCA, *BUT* where it gets interesting is that IMHO, Real didn't provide a crack to Apple's DRM, rather it used it for its own benefit. So will the DMCA even apply? Even more interesting, Real used "publically available documents" so they didn't do the reverse engineering themselves, so they're not likely to be sued on that aspect - though quite likely this is based on the fair play stuff which was based on reverse engineering... This might also have ramifications concerning things like X-Box and modchips. i.e. if Apple loses, then it will be legal for someone to build a modchip to allow X-Box's to run Linux (but not play copied games.) It will be an interesting fight, and if we, the consumers, are lucky, then perhaps some of the evil provisions in the DMCA will go away so we can get some more interoperability instead of vendor lock-in. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :"I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ <--*-->:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail" \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -------------------------------------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

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Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies
by Tyler Durden 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

"Remember that the spookfabs don't have to contend with *economics and yield*." Damn, this is precisely where I wish Tim May was still around. Certainly, the Spooks have their own fabs, and I don't think they even hide this fact (I doubt they could, ultimately). And certainly, the Spooks crank out all sort of special ASICs using their own IP as well as some store-bought stuff they drop onto their designs. However, where I have some BIG doubts is whether their fab is X generations ahead of the most advanced commercial fabs. Frankly, I bet they have a pretty good fab that was modified by a commercial vendor to support small production runs. This fab, however, does not utilize cosmic rays for etching or whatever. It's probably 0.13 microns at best (wait...I think Taiwan Semi and a couple of other places are one step ahead of this). This limits what they can do with a chip or chipset, and implies that they won't be orders of magnitude better at opening up LOTS of traffic. (In non-troll mode.) -TD >From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv(a)cdc.gov> >To: "cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net> >Subject: Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto >proxies >Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:34:59 -0700 > >At 03:52 PM 7/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > >Variola wrote... > >>In the *public* lit. > > > >Well, perhaps but perhaps not. Burst-mode signaling, transceivers, and > >networking technology are a good example. If you see DISA, NSA, and >DARPA > >all working with the acknoledged experts inthe academic field, and if >you > >see them spending $$$ on burst-mode testbeds, then it's clear that >there are > >some issues they haven't solved. > >You're right on this, I admit. Its clear that things like smart dust >and gait recognition and >autonomous cruising across the desert are not things the Beast has yet. > > >There just happen to be > >physical limitations. But I have zero doubt that the NSA can't make a >laser > >that is siginificantly more efficient than what I can buy off the >shelf. > >I'm not one to dispute physics. However most professional skeptics >(eg cryptographers) grant the adversary anything from 2 to 10 x the >COTS tech. Do you *really* think the NSA's DesCrack was built >with old Sun chassis like Gilmore, Kocher, et als??? > >Remember that the spookfabs don't have to contend with *economics and >yield*. >They can use *radioisotopes*. Subs can lay independant cable. >Not a lot of folks walk along the undersea cables, >to say nothing of how bribable telecom folks are. > >Conservativism sometimes means being liberal in modelling others' >capabilities. > >------ >Be Useful -the Baron > > _________________________________________________________________ Overwhelmed by debt? Find out how to Dig Yourself Out of Debt from MSN Money. http://special.msn.com/money/0407debt.armx

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X-Cypher, SIP VoIP, stupid propriatory crapola
by Dave Howe 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Particularly disgusted by the last paragraph.... |http://www.visual-mp3.com/review/14986.html | | X-Cipher - Secure Encrypted Communications | |The Internet is a wonderful shared transmission technology, allowing |any one part of the Internet to communicate to any other part of the |Internet. Like any technology, it is neither inherently good nor bad |but can be put to use for either purpose. | |X-Cipher can be used to make regular VoIP calls on any SIP network and |can also be used to make Highly Secure VoIP calls between X-Cipher |users. | |The X-Cipher Service includes: |- X-Cipher Softphone |- MD5 or SHA1 challenges |- 3DES or AES 128, 192 or 256 bit encryption |- Crypto safe random generators |- X-Cipher to X-Cipher encryption |- X-Tunnels NAT traversal functionality | |Eliminate Eavesdropping |X-Cipher is designed to combat the negative aspects of Voice Over IP. |X-Cipher ensures all voice stream data is encrypted using strong AES or |Triple DES encryption. Furthermore, X-Cipher establishes and validates |the identity of parties communicating. While voice data can be |intercepted intentionally or accidentally, it can't be understood, as |it can't be readily decrypted. | |With encryption comes the problem of either managing public/private |keys, which must be kept secret, or the annoyance of transmitting a |secure key to a remote party over other secure methods. X-Cipher |eliminates these issues. No public/private keys exist to guard and keep |safe and worry about theft and reuse. Each conversation through |X-Cipher gets a unique secure key generated by an X-Cipher server using |strong Crypto random safe algorithms.

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Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies
by Major Variola (ret) 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

At 06:44 PM 7/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> There might be blind cypherpunks, we don't discriminate[1], > >There Is No We. touche' >> [1] the original phone phreaks were blind, > >This is a ridiculous statement, and even worse, leaks information about >your nym: [young enough to have not been there]. Yes. Did you know that your teeth enamel contain isotope ratios that encode regions where you might have grown up around age 6? Ask Otzi. >You are thinking of Joe "Whistler" Joe Egressia (sp?), and the kid form >New York whose names escape me at the moment. These two do not even com >close to "the original phone phreaks were blind". More like "at least two >of the original batch of phreaks were blind". Ok, so this was book reading. Sosume. I once worked for a guy who hired Capt'n Crunch, *briefly*. [This is reference to a digression later in the thread. His dentition was not discussed.] ------ WE are all just voices in Tim May's head.

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Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies
by Major Variola (ret) 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

At 03:52 PM 7/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Variola wrote... >>In the *public* lit. > >Well, perhaps but perhaps not. Burst-mode signaling, transceivers, and >networking technology are a good example. If you see DISA, NSA, and DARPA >all working with the acknoledged experts inthe academic field, and if you >see them spending $$$ on burst-mode testbeds, then it's clear that there are >some issues they haven't solved. You're right on this, I admit. Its clear that things like smart dust and gait recognition and autonomous cruising across the desert are not things the Beast has yet. >There just happen to be >physical limitations. But I have zero doubt that the NSA can't make a laser >that is siginificantly more efficient than what I can buy off the shelf. I'm not one to dispute physics. However most professional skeptics (eg cryptographers) grant the adversary anything from 2 to 10 x the COTS tech. Do you *really* think the NSA's DesCrack was built with old Sun chassis like Gilmore, Kocher, et als??? Remember that the spookfabs don't have to contend with *economics and yield*. They can use *radioisotopes*. Subs can lay independant cable. Not a lot of folks walk along the undersea cables, to say nothing of how bribable telecom folks are. Conservativism sometimes means being liberal in modelling others' capabilities. ------ Be Useful -the Baron

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