September 2004 - cypherpunks-legacy

[i2p] weekly status notes [sep 14] (fwd from jrandom@i2p.net)
by Eugen Leitl 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

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Re: Nanometer Bamboo Carbon TEMPEST Protection
by Major Variola (ret) 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

t 10:10 AM 9/14/04 -0700, John Young wrote: >From: "dumbshit" <ffw(a)hkxf.com> >Subject: effectively prevent computer radiation > >especially computer radiation, which does much >harm to human body. Yeah, it really taxes my feng-shei >The main material of FANGFUWANG is active nanometer >bamboo carton. Through Chinese and Japanese experts' many >years research and repeatedly proof, the nanometer bamboo >carbon has the characteristics of being close and porous, and >having strongly absorbable capacity. Hey, my charcoal briquettes have nanometer structure too! Maybe I'll sell them as a stealth coating for chinese bombers! And if taken internally they can remove toxins! How do you say scam for the clueless in Mandarin?

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Spam Spotlight on Reputation
by R. A. Hettinga 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

<http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=134748,00.asp> EWeek Spam Spotlight on Reputation Spam Spotlight on Reputation September 6, 2004 By Dennis Callaghan As enterprises continue to register Sender Protection Framework records, hoping to thwart spam and phishing attacks, spammers are upping the ante in the war on spam and registering their own SPF records. E-mail security company MX Logic Inc. will report this week that 10 percent of all spam includes such SPF records, which are used to authenticate IP addresses of e-mail senders and stop spammers from forging return e-mail addresses. As a result, enterprises will need to increase their reliance on a form of white-listing called reputation analysis as a chief method of blocking spam. E-mail security appliance developer CipherTrust Inc., of Alpharetta, Ga., also last week released a study indicating that spammers are supporting SPF faster than legitimate e-mail senders, with 38 percent more spam messages registering SPF records than legitimate e-mail. The embrace of SPF by spammers means enterprises' adoption of the framework alone will not stop spam, which developers of the framework have long maintained. Enter reputation analysis. With the technology, authenticated spammers whose messages get through content filters would have reputation scores assigned to them based on the messages they send. Only senders with established reputations would be allowed to send mail to a user's in-box. Many anti-spam software developers already provide such automated reputation analysis services. MX Logic announced last week support for such services. "There's no question SPF is being deployed by spammers," said Dave Anderson, CEO of messaging technology developer Sendmail Inc., in Emeryville, Calif. "Companies have to stop making decisions about what to filter out and start making decisions about what to filter in based on who sent it," Anderson said. The success of reputation lists in organizations will ultimately depend on end users' reporting senders as spammers, Anderson said. "In the system we're building, the end user has the ultimate control," he said. Scott Chasin, chief technology officer of MX Logic, cautioned that authentication combined with reputation analysis services still won't be enough to stop spam. Chasin said anti-spam software vendors need to work together to form a reputation clearinghouse of good sending IP addresses, including those that have paid to be accredited as such. "There is no central clearinghouse at this point to pull all the data that anti-spam vendors have together," said Chasin in Denver. "We're moving toward this central clearinghouse but have to get through authentication first." -- ----------------- 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: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?
by Major Variola (ret) 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

At 08:59 PM 9/13/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >If a nuke goes off a few dozen meters under a mountain, is there anyone >there to see it? What is the sound of one mountain moving? You can get dust rising off the mountain ---find the video of the Paki tests. But not a big rising cloud. An underground test is a few *hundred* meters below surface. And sometimes you get a chimney of crumbled rock leading to either a crater or a dome on the surface, depending on the rock type; Nevada is pockmarked with them. But no big cloud.

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Shanghai strives to monitor internet bars
by R. A. Hettinga 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/14/content_1979731.htm> www.xinhuanet.com XINHUA online Shanghai strives to monitor internet bars www.chinaview.cn 2004-09-14 10:02:41 BEIJING, Sept.14 (Xinhuanet) -- Shanghai will invest 7 million yuan, or nearly 850,000 US dollars, to monitor internet bars. The monitoring is also aimed at keeping underage youngsters away from the bars. The government will supervise the operations of nearly 1400 bars to make sure they don't stay open past the official closing time of midnight. China Radio International reported Monday. The monitoring is also aimed at keeping underage youngsters away from the bars. The government will foot the bill for the monitoring, which is estimated to be around 2.58 million yuan, or 312,000 US dollars a year, but bars will face stiff penalties if they break the law. Central government regulations limit internet bars to opening only between 8:00am and 12:00 midnight. The monitoring will be in place by the end of the year. -- ----------------- 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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Nanometer Bamboo Carbon TEMPEST Protection
by John Young 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

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Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?
by Tyler Durden 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

I still think we're seeing the early stages of a Jonestown-like scenario. If we see Kim Jong Il summoning the entire NK population to PyongYang, then we can be pretty sure they're going to nuke themselves! -TD >From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j(a)ix.netcom.com> >To: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv(a)cdc.gov>, "cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net" ><cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net> >Subject: Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*? >Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:27:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00) > > >From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv(a)cdc.gov> > >Sent: Sep 13, 2004 3:50 PM > >To: "cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net> > >Subject: Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*? > >... > >AN is extremely deliquescent; perhaps the sulphate was for that? > >Removing chunks with dynamite is trying rather hard for a Darwin award. > >As far as I can tell from what's reported in the new, a great deal of North >Korea's daily operation fits that category. > >--John _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?
by John Kelsey 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv(a)cdc.gov> >Sent: Sep 13, 2004 3:50 PM >To: "cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net> >Subject: Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*? ... >AN is extremely deliquescent; perhaps the sulphate was for that? >Removing chunks with dynamite is trying rather hard for a Darwin award. As far as I can tell from what's reported in the new, a great deal of North Korea's daily operation fits that category. --John

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pci hardware for secure crypto storage (OpenSSL/OpenBSD)
by Eugen Leitl 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

I'm looking for (cheap, PCI/USB) hardware to store secrets (private key) and support crypto primitives (signing, cert generation). It doesn't have to be fast, but to support loading/copying of secrets in physically secure environments, and not generate nonextractable secret onboard. Environment is OpenBSD/Linux/OpenSSL/gpg. Any suggestions? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Each to his own, except in Britain
by R. A. Hettinga 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/09/14/do140…> The Telegraph Mark Steyn Each to his own, except in Britain With rumours of mushroom clouds over North Korea and genocide in Sudan, it's good to know the Government has identified the real threat in the world today. As The Telegraph reported: "Chief constables intend to site CCTV cameras on hedgerows, fences and trees along known hunting routes to enable them to photograph hunt members who break the law after hunting with hounds is outlawed. "The controversial measure was agreed at a secret meeting between David Blunkett and the chief constables of England and Wales after the hunting ban was announced last week. Police chiefs warned the Home Secretary that enforcing the ban would cost in excess of #30 million and divert resources from front-line policing." Of course. Doesn't everything? I don't know what "front-line policing" is these days - do they still have those detachments of plain-clothes officers idling over the vindaloo in curry-houses of an evening eavesdropping on adjacent diners in case anybody makes racist remarks about the waiters? But, whatever it is, "front-line policing" isn't so urgent that "resources" can't be "diverted" in order to stick a CCTV camera on every tree in England. Maybe they can all be powered by wind turbines. But, if they can't and they have to snake the electric cable down every tree trunk in simulated wood-effect vinyl casing, it will still "send the right message" - which is that the monumentally useless British constabulary is happy to invent an entirely new criminal class if it reduces the already minimal time they have to spend dealing with the real criminal class. "D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gay?" "Roger, Tree 74. He's just rounding Hedgerow Q89." But I don't suppose we'll be hearing "D'ye Ken John Peel?" much any more. The new countryside will need new songs: "Tie A CCTV Round The Old Oak Tree It's been three whole yards Since you last filmed me." I love hunting - which in my corner of the Eastern Seaboard means whitetail, bear, turkey and moose. "Hunting" in the sense of a lot of fellows prancing around in sissy gear holds less appeal, and the couple of times I've done it I had my four-fold scarf on but I'd accidentally five-folded it (or vice-versa) and people exchanged pitying glances. Still, each to his own - which is a good motto for a civilized society. But the toff thing makes hunting a hard sell. You may recall a few weeks ago I quoted John Kerry's somewhat unlikely observations on his favourite kind of hunting. He has been at pains all campaign season to be photographed with guns and in various sporting scenarios. Democrats spend most of every election year going to great lengths to demonstrate they're regular guys, and that usually involves some hunting or quasi-hunting activity. After the Republicans' triumph in the 1994 Congressional elections, Bill Clinton felt it useful to be filmed duck hunting - in order, if I remember correctly, to kill all the talk that he was a dead duck by going out and shooting a duck dead. So every newspaper had a picture of him emerging from the rough with his gun in one hand and a ventilated mallard in the other. Message: unlike the closing credits of his Hollywood pals' lousy movies, ducks were harmed in the making of this photo-opportunity. Did he really want to go hunting? I doubt it. I expect he'd much rather have been breaking in the new intern pool. But the point is he felt it was in his political interest to be seen killing animals. Can you imagine any development in British political life which would prompt Tony Blair's image-makers to tell him to climb into the jodhpurs and push off down to Badminton to be filmed yelling "yoicks!" and "tally-ho!" with the Beaufort? For all the talk of vibrant "multi-culturalism", Blair's Britain is strikingly unicultural - diversity of race, gender and orientation, but a ruthless homogeneity of metropolitan modishness imposed by a highly centralised politico-media culture. America is a federal state and thus local majorities prevail: in New Hampshire, we like hunting; in the gay environs of Fire Island, the thrill of the chase lies elsewhere. Each, as I said, to his own. In Britain, Soho's views on hunting should be no more relevant than Somerset's opinion of gay leather bars. But they are. And those Left-wing columnists who go on about the "climate of fear" in Bush's America ought to remember that, even in their wildest power-crazed dreams, Bush and John Ashcroft will never be able to issue a national ban on centuries-old traditions merely because they offend metropolitan taste. Nor, unlike the modern British state, are they able to keep the populace under 24-hour video surveillance, whether you're at the railway station, in the shopping centre, or strolling down a leafy country lane. Hunting is a small loss in a country bent on tearing up so much of its past, but it is a significant one. The criminalisation of a law-abiding group is not something respectable governments should embark on lightly, and in this case, regardless of how many trees and hedgerows they wire up to the network, the cure is almost certainly worse than the disease, extending to the police more opportunities for frivolous intrusion. The inability of Conservatives to defend hunting sums up the problems of British conservatism. At the time of the first Countryside March, Joanna Trollope said that the essential ingredients of village life are "church, pub, farms, cottages, a small school and a Big House". That's swell if you're the one in the Big House, but presenting rural Britain as a haven of deference and social order cripples its political viability. In Britain, this is an undeferential age - see Digby Anderson on oiks et al. Rural America is about individual liberty - where even the brokest of broke losers with no teeth can still have a few acres, a rusting trailer, a hunting licence and a "Survivors Will Be Prosecuted" sign at the foot of his drive. As long as British conservatism recoils from individual liberty and clings to Joanna Trollope Big-House social order, it will be unable to offer a viable modern defence of that which it wishes to conserve. -- ----------------- 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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