March 2006 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Liberty Dollar
by Gary Jeffers 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

My fellow Cypherpunks, The Liberty Dollar My fellow Cypherpunks, I think I may have some really great news here, but you all can check it out to be sure. I found an alternative money on the Internet. It is called the Liberty Dollar. The Internet site is: http://www.norfed.org NORFED is The National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code. The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely in America. As many of you know, the $US is a corrupt, proprietary, debt issued, fait, fractional reserved,illegal, unconstituional, U. S. State enforced monopoly currency. As corrupt as it is I don't know why it hasn't already collasped and dragged us down with it! If the Liberty Dollar is honest and robust, then it may be the vehical to beat the elite bankers tyranny and give us an honest wealth produced money. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE !!!!

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RE: Cypherpunks IQ Test
by Aimee Farr 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Mike: Are you often the victim of mercenary females? > -----Original Message----- > From: mmotyka(a)lsil.com [mailto:mmotyka@lsil.com] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:28 PM > To: aimee.farr(a)pobox.com > Subject: Cypherpunks IQ Test > > > It's an obvious setup. The woods are part of a defense installation, > apple is filled with coke, the girl is underage, the woods are full of > trigger happy fibbies. > > You hit the ground and roll into the brush, drawing on the way. You > attempt to locate opponents and identify the safest route away from the > situation. > > Mike > > > >CYPHERPUNKS IQ TEST > > > >QUESTION #1. > > > >You are walking through the woods alone. A beautiful unclothed woman > >magically appears in front of you. She holds out an apple. > > > >1. Please darken in the correct choice using a Number Two pencil: > > > >(a) you bite the apple. > >(b) you take the woman. > >(c) you run away. > >(d) a and b, but not c. > >(e) b and c only. > >(f) all of the above. > >(g) none of the above. > > > >2. Please justify your answer: > > > > > >___________________________________________________________________. > > > > > >Just curious.... > > > > -Aimee

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More on "new physics"
by Tim May 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Someone sent me a private note. I have deleted his name for this public reply. > Tim May wrote: > > >> The "new physics" stuff is quite different. It is scorned in a way >> that plate tectonics was not, and for good reason. Folks should visit >> Bearden's site. http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/index.html > > I did. Oh, dear. > > Not sure what is supposed to be denoted by "Tesla physics", but Tesla's > work with power transmission via HF is fascinating, even if there was > apparently no practical or safe use for it. No one disputes the outstanding work Tesla did on a.c. transmission. And anyone who has seen or used a Tesla coil knows how real it is. "Tesla physics" is all the cruft that has developed around some of his more obscure (and late) writings, usually mixed together with stuff Tesla could not have known about at the time of his death. To wit, the stuff about zero point energy and perpetual motion machines. And, sometimes, mixed together with the usual nutcase stuff about the Hollow Earth theory (zeta reticulans colonizing the hollow earth, Greys, underground UFO bases, secret Nazi weapons, etc.). Tesla is a hero to these "new physics" nuts, even though nothing Tesla ever worked on or built contradicts in the slightest way the predictions of Maxwell's theories. They take Tesla's very real contributions and some of his weirder theories (though none of them so weird as the Hollow Earth/antigravity/time reversal theories of modern nutters) and say that this means "They laughed at Tesla, they laugh at me!" BTW, I was/am an early ("angel") investor in a company doing work on ultrawideband transmissions. Some of the works Bearden cites, like those of Barrett, are familiar to me and others with this company. Saying that there is a role for ultrawideband pulse technology, a la spread spectrum and beyond SS, is NOT the same as saying there are confirmed "problems" with electromagnetic theory. There may be, and there are a handful of folks doing "foundational" work in E&M, but, so far, there are no indications that their foundational work is changing any engineering calculations. Quite the contrary, in my view. Electromagnetic theory basically "works"--to many decimal places of accuracy. Circuits work as expected, antennas work as expected, and there are no "unexplained observations" (as usually exist before a new theory arrives). There may be some _semantic_ issues, e.g., does a square wave or impulse "really" have components that were sent out _before_ the square wave or impulse? (A Fourier decomposition of a square wave starting at time t = 0 has "sine wave components" spread out over time and adding up in such a way as to give the square wave, or the impulse, or any other signal. Some think this means deep and mysterious things are happening, something having to do with time travel and reversing the aging process, blah blah blah. Henning Harmuth may write fairly eloquently about the "dogma of the circle" and how the Fourier decomposition of a signal into (allegedly) a near-infinite series of sine waves is "not real," but for all intents and purposes it all works. And the "new physics" people like Bearden go way beyond what Harmuth and Barrett are talking about: they bring in "curved space-time" and gravitation and antigravity and the ultra-weird notion that aging can be reversed by "pumping the conjugate time-axis of the Minkowski manifold" (OK, I made this up...don't have time to lift one of Bearden's direct quotes...and this will help train me in the jargon if I ever become a "new physicist."). Nut cases like Bearden have the patter of physics down. Very few actual physicists waste their time dissecting and refuting Bearden for obvious reasons. I urge readers of this list not to waste time on this stuff. --Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787

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Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

At 09:57 AM 5/14/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: >Yes, but how will you stop the spammer from double spending the same $0.25 >micropayment on all of his 170,000 email addresses? Depending on whether >you check that there is a payment attached or not, and also check it with >the bank before delivering it, you'd have already wasted your bandwith and >possibly have accepted a spam into your mail spool. It is true that the notions of micropayments as applied to spam (that I'm familiar with, at least) would require that the email recipient check with the bank to detect doublespending. This would introduce an additional delay before delivery from unknown senders, yes, but I fail to see how it would impose an unacceptable cost in bandwidth or CPU usage. Spammers could still try the same-micropayment-a-million-times route, just as they could try to spam without micropayments, but if their email is rejected in sufficient quantities, the cost to the spammer would outweigh the benefits. The key is achieving sufficient quantities. -Declan

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Re: AP Al Qaeda
by mattd 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>>No, no. AP is funny because it's impracticeable. One does not find an assassin exclusively by tracing who paid him to kill. One can (and often does) find him because he makes a mistake in the act of commiting the crime. Which, if I'm >>reading my history right, is what's hampered the noisy proponents of AP up to this point already. Crime? Wot crime,guvnor? Jim and CJ were not 'noisy'.imo. Im a bit noisy cos Im pushing the 'let it all hang out' version. >The point is that Bell's theory does a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination,...< Oh THATS funny.I get it. HAHAHA! >>Killing one person, especially a public official, pisses a whole bunch of people off. Those people have a tendency to come find their buddy's killer. Mmm,where do we start,lets get some firebrands and go up to the proffrs? Look at sites with no logs for quad anon 'predictors' who may be overseas briefly visiting cybercafes,Good luck china.(you just contradicted yrself btw.) Oh,unless you mean the torture/french village reprisal thang.Win friends and influence people. The one person killed will have had to have done a lot of evil shit to get enough pooled (presumably) to tempt a seasoned pro.Unless some professional killer turns all altruistic,stranger things have happened.The killer could be suicidal.another possibility.Lots of scenarios possible here,movie scripts,even.Pop songs,video games.DoCoMo assasinphones. Someone like a torturer,murderer,terrorist,pedophile is a logical candidate.(stephen roach?)Sometimes these happen to be public officials.Theres one here where I live named dennis Tanner.(vic.au) Those killers by remote control like arbusto might be be made more accountable. What better way than...Bell's theory, "a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination"according to you. KILL THE PRESIDENT! "Id buy that for a dollar!" >>No kind of real or threatened assassination can weaken a government in which a majority of the governed people >believe. It can only make it seem more righteous and be more strong. Thats true,roll over and go back to sleep,if you live under that govt you have nothing to worry about. More righteous and more smug.

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Re: wars of attrition & reverse rubber hose & the ineffectiveness of direct lethal violence against the state
by coderman 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On 3/8/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > ... > ON THE OTHER HAND, one does't need huge numbers of people wielding baseball > bats... i like to think you don't need any bats at all; waging direct lethal violence against the largest and best equipped military in the world (esp. adding up police, swat, n.guard, military, etc) fuels their propaganda machine and gets you crushed like an ant under foot. bomb throwers and assassins get no sympathy from the public no matter justified your perceived grievances. cutting at the heart of this nation-scale responsibility diffusion machine requires taxing communication and commerce engines which make its very existence possible. this tax is applied in the form of continued and targeted infrastructure disruption against those entities which are refusing and deflecting oversight and accountability for their actions, and all those who serve them directly or indirectly. punks with portable saws and thermic lances slicing fiber and junking equipment is much more palatable to the public when used against entities already perceived unpopular and abusive to fundamental rights. we've already talked about data mining and critical infrastructure analysis to direct such attacks in the most effective manner possible. although somehow i think this will get you a more severe response than killing random yes men (despite the fact this is limited to property damage alone). hmmm, the information required to organize such efforts would be a good fit for the blacknet.

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RentaCops in Public Spaces?
by Tyler Durden 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hey... Over West Street by the former World Trade Center site there are two pedestrian footbridges. Something's been pissing me off a bit: Each of those bridges (which run over West Street--public property) are staffed by non-Cops with gray jackets that say "SECURITY". periodically, if someone goes the wrong way up an escalator or a tourist crosses a line to get a better photo, these rentaCops will whistle or shout them out of wherever they are. Is this legal? Are we really allowing private rentacops to take police functions on public property? -TD

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Re: janus wireless faq
by coderman 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

On 3/28/06, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... - why "wireless"? we believe that wireless is the most robust form of communication when implemented properly*. we also believe that any communication between secure domains should be considered public and open to active attackers (like wireless is). for this reason strong privacy and authentication must always be used for secure network communication. a proper wireless implementation can transmit datagrams in an injection style manner and receive any datagrams in a monitor style manner. all packets received must be authenticated before passing up to higher level (IP/etc) stacks. all unauthenticated packets must be dropped silently. the rate of transmit should be as low as possible while still retaining sufficient communication bandwidth. the rate of transmit should also be considerate to the needs of others who can hear your transmission and may defer theirs accordingly. deference should not open up denial of service vulnerabilities but is encouraged when possible to provide a cooperative multi-network with sufficient bandwidth for all. [the technical complexity of this is high and we are being intentionally vague at this point until further refinements are in place and this can be described in detail via working implementation on atheros / prism2 hardware that does not DoS other wireless technologies. 802.11 is a good example of an improper implementation that is trivial to DoS via spoofed packets at the MAC layer (deauth/disassoc injection).]

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keys and cards and user interaction
by coderman 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

comments? suggestions? "keys" store password/passphrase protected volumes with cryptographic keys, certs, and other credentials associated with digital identities. "cards" are read only volumes with the public keys and public identifiers associated with digital identities. it is very important that they not be confused, and that "keys" are only used on a trusted system. solution: "keys" are the only volume which will ever prompt for a password/passphrase to open them. if you are asked for a password it should only be on a system you trust and as expected when using or managing your keys. keys are stored on an XFS filesystem on USB or other media (USB by default) which contains the encrypted key store. this scales well (multi-gig USB volumes) and uses existing crypted file system support to implement privacy. Any number of other volumes (for example hdd installed OS'es) can be tied to this "keys" volume by storing the AES keys and disk identifiers associated with that volume inside the "keys" protected volume. the only boot targets which may use private "keys" are: - the "keys" secure key management mode. - the "install" mode to create new loop-aes keys and install OS on this trusted system. - the "hdd" mode to boot an encrypted OS installation on a trusted system. the other boot targets should only reference public "cards" and will never prompt for authentication at boot or during operation. "cards" are ISO9660 filesystems that can be stored on a public USB memory stick or burned to mini-CDR / DVD-R, etc. "cards" are public, and can be copied freely and will never ask for authentication. the "keys" authorized modes thus explicitly mount a USB volume as XFS when a "keys" volume is expected. the key mgmt mode will explicitly mount as iso9660 when a "cards" volume is expected. thus a confused user could not accidentally write secret "keys" data to a public "cards" volume, and vice versa. this also allows the key management mode to determine what kind of volume is present as indicated by the file system type. (the secure key management mode is the only mode where public "cards" can be imported to your secret "keys". the hdd and install modes will never prompt for a public card. note that the "live" boot mode may use "cards" to connect to remote services securely.) summary: "keys" storage: [XFS volume ... (petname for this volume) (public GUID / nonce) (GPG or loop-aes encrypted file) <additional identies are stored under additional subdirs and the key mgmt mode will prompt for which identity to access/authenticate when managing keys for multiple ID's. petnames must be distinct.> ] example: .../coderman/ (petname) .../coderman/id.txt (512 byte GUID / nonce in hex) .../coderman/keys.dat (encrypted key store, gpg or loop-aes) .../mpeck/ .../mpeck/id.txt .../mpeck/keys.dat coderman might be a social context while mpeck is a professional context. "cards" storage: [ ISO9660 volume ... (sha512 hash of identity public key) (identity public key) (nickname or alias for identified entity) (additional volumes or metadata) (signatures for nicknames and other metadata) ] example: .../1496b640690342ed/ (hex digits of first 8 bytes of sha512 digest of public.key) .../1496b640690342ed/digest.txt (full hex digits of sha512 digest of public.key) .../1496b640690342ed/public.key .../1496b640690342ed/nickname.txt ("coderman's public weblog") .../1496b640690342ed/nickname.sig .../1496b640690342ed/aaaaaa.dat (arbitrary metadata - an image? etc) .../1496b640690342ed/aaaaaa.sig (signature for above) .../1496b640690342ed/foo.dat "" .../1496b640690342ed/foo.dig ""

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Fwd: [TSCM-L] Re: Feds bugged bedroom, phones of FIU pair
by coderman 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

code pad shortwave from cuba: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reginald Curtis <reginald_curtis(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mar 31, 2006 11:29 AM Subject: [TSCM-L] Re: Feds bugged bedroom, phones of FIU pair To: TSCM-L2006(a)googlegroups.com Cc: garya_curtis(a)hotmail.com In regards to this piece - I found the following in the March 06 edition of Monitoring Times at page 8. "COMMUNICATIONS Broadcasting Spies Use Shortwave Broadcasts In January, a Florida couple was accused of operating as covert agents for Cuba's communist government for decades, using short-wave radios, 5-digit numerical-code language and computer-encrypted files to send information about Miami's exile community to top Castro intelligence commanders. Carlos Alverez and his wife Elsa, both staff members of Florida International University, were denied bond before trial on a charge of failing to register with the federal government as foreign agents. The indictment, which included no mention of top-secret U.S. government information being disclosed, came months after the couple confessed to the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Frazier said Carlos Alverez had spied for Cuba since 1977 and Elsa Alverez since 1982. (See page 28 for more on Cuban 'numbers' stations.)" Page 28 "UTILITY WORLD HF COMMUNICATIONS Cuban 'Numbers': A Pattern Emerges By: Hugh Stegman, NV6H hugh stegman@monitoring times.com www.ominous-valve.com/uteworld.html Collection and analysis of several months' loggings confirms that, just as others have observed, the Cuban voice 'numbers' station does indeed have what may be its first daily broadcast schedule ever. This station is also known as 'V2,' 'Attention' (from its callup), the 5-Figure Spanish Lady, and the 'SS/YL/5F' (same thing in shortwavese'). Its the latest version of the famous Cuban spy transmissions which have mystified listeners in much of the world, while inspiring some good pop music, for several decades now. And indeed, these broadcasts are compelling in their sheer strangeness. Mumbling voices, strange noises, Radio Havana, and even the occasional parrot, can turn up on the open tuning carriers run before the messages. Technical flubs, mostly of the 'oops, wrong button' variety, are many and legendary. If everything works (always a big "if" with this bunch), that ominous machine-spliced female finally barks the distinctive 'Atencion' ('Attention'). While the name 'V2' sounds appropriately like some kind of World War II German rocket bomb, it is simply the sequential designator given this particular broadcast on the list maintained by ENIGMA2000. They're the online incarnation of the European Numbers Intelligence Gathering and Monitoring Association. Over the years, this generic V2 has had a number of lettered variants. These differ in message structure or detailed formatting. After the callup, our V2a variant sends a message designator with three 5-number groups. These are the first groups in the three following messages, which are of equal length. Each message is always 150 5-number groups, beginning (as we've noted) with the one in the designator. The whole transmission usually ends with the Spanish 'final' ('end'), around 45 minutes after the hour. While the Cubans have traditionally preferred monthly and weekly schedules, the new local-daytime V2a is a daily one. It's a long schedule by 'numbers' standards. It's more like something you'd hear from an international broadcaster, changing frequency more of less hourly while maintaining a long program. This is pretty ambitious for an operation which is so audibly straining to keep its aging, hurricane-damaged equipment going. The daily schedule starts at 1600 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and goes until the 2100 broadcasts ends, nearly six hours later. The times in UTC and frequencies in kilohertz (kHz, AM mode) are: 1600 on 7975.0 1700 on 8010.0 1800 on 8097.0 1900 on 8097.0 2000 on 7887.0 2100 on 6855.0 That's it. By the standards of 'numbers' stations, which often confront listeners with a bewildering number of times and frequencies, this is pretty simple stuff. But there is way more: All of the other V2 schedules are still on the air. These are the more traditional ones, using what may or may not be a weekly frequency rotation. Parallel transmissions frequently occur, on two or three frequencies. At press time, the rest of V2a was on from as early as 0200 UTC until as late as 1500. In other words, there's a Cuban voice 'spy numbers' station going somewhere at nearly any hour of the day. This doesn't even count the hours of Morse code broadcasts in a similar format. For whatever its worth, which may not be much, this represents an awesome volume of traffic. V2a Message Continuity These transmissions have another most interesting feature. If one logs all of the initial three-group message designators, it becomes quickly evident that they are anyting but random. In fact, they ofter increment their last figures by one with each day's broadcast. The best way to explain this is by example. On December 11, 2005, one of several sets of message designators was 38641 45851 51761. On the 12th, this one changed to 38642 45852 71762, but the messages stayed the same. On the 13th, it became 38643 45853 51763. This continued until the last digits reached 6 on the 16th. At the same time, another sequence started out as 55911 12911 31311 (they always seem to start out ending in 1). This one did the same behavior, until reaching 5 on the 15th. Currently, in early January, we have 51871 10971 04481, incrementing daily. It's been theorized that this last digit refers to the number of times a message has been broadcast. In any event, it's a real good idea to keep track of these numbers when logging the Cuban stations. As special word of thanks is due to Camilo Castillo, a dedicated ham and numbers listener in Panama, for making most of the loggings used in the data. A few others appeared on the usual Internet mailing lists, and the showed the same patterns we describe." ....................... THE artilce also shows what they claim is a "Typical code pad used with 'numbers' broadcasts." It is a small booklike pad about the same size as the match box used for the small wood or kitchen type matches ( 2" x 1" x .5") with six columns of numbers printed on both sides of the page. THE END Reg Curtis VE9RWC

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