July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

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Why a separate WWW box issued a copy, I dunno. There's about a dozen of the WWW boxes tied together via AFS.

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Cato study: U.S. government leaves public unprepared for terrorism
by Patricia Mohr 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Cato Institute News Release November 27, 2000 U.S. Government Leaves Public Unprepared For Terrorism Preparation for nuclear, biological and chemical attacks is deeply flawed, study says WASHINGTON -- Many experts agree that the United States is likely to experience a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction, probably within the next decade. But how prepared is America for a nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) attack on the homeland? Not very, according to a new study from the Cato Institute. Despite spending tens of billions of dollars annually on preparation programs, the federal government has failed to take advantage of existing emergency management structures and to educate the public about how to react to an attack, argues Eric. R. Taylor, a chemistry professor and former officer in the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical branch of the U.S. Army. In "Are We Prepared for Terrorism Using Weapons of Mass Destruction?" Taylor exposes the flaws in the federal Domestic Preparedness Program (DPP), which was set up in 1997 and directs various federal agencies to train state and local governments to deal with NBC terrorism. When the federal government decided who should be trained, it targeted only cities, and then only halfway, leaving "personnel in more than 50 percent of the major U.S. population centers ... unprepared for such an attack," he says. But since NBC contamination spreads quickly, it's not just cities that need to know how to respond, Taylor argues. State and regional structures such as the State Emergency Management Agencies and National Guard units have been largely bypassed by the DPP, Taylor says. Those agencies already have experience in coordinating responses to terrorism and hazardous material disasters. Furthermore, they could have been passing on acquired knowledge to subordinate groups while the federal government moved on to other states, Taylor argues. The "pyramid effect" has been reduced by focusing on cities in isolation, he says. Even if the training programs were better targeted, Taylor argues, they are useless without public involvement. "The lack of any organized program to actively educate the public in matters of NBC awareness and preparedness is the Achilles' heel of the entire national plan," he writes. Without education, the government "will have two foes to combat during an attack: the NBC agent and rampant civil panic," he says. "The concepts and principles of NBC taught to the private first class soldier can be understood by Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public," Taylor says. But they must be taught in advance. "Any official who thinks he can adequately inform the public during an NBC incident will be preaching to the morgue," he says. Policy Analysis no. 387 (http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-387es.html) Contact: Eric R. Taylor, associate professor of chemistry, University of Louisiana, 337-482-6738 Ivan Eland, director of defense policy studies, 202-218-4630 Randy Clerihue, director of public affairs, 202-789-5266 The Cato Institute is a nonpartisan public policy research foundation dedicated to broadening policy debate consistent with the traditional American principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: On what the NSA does with its tech
by hal＠finney.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

MV writes: > Yes. They can't break a 128 bit key. That's obvious. ("if all the > atoms in the > universe were computers..." goes the argument). Not necessarily, if nanotechnology works. 128 bits is big but not that big. Eric Drexler, in Nanosystems, section 12.9, predicts that a nanotech based CPU fitting in a 400 nm cube could run at 1000 MIPS and consume 60 nanowatts, performing 10^16 instructions per second per watt. Let's design a system to break a 128 bit cipher. Let's suppose it has to do 2^10 instructions per test, so this is 2^138 instructions total, or about 10^41. Let's let it run for four months, which is 10^7 seconds, so our necessary processing rate is 10^34 instructions per second. This means we need 10^34 IPS / 1000 MIPS or 10^25 of Drexler's gigahertz cubes, call it 10^25 cubic microns or 10^7 cubic meters, a cube about 220 meters on a side. The system will consume 10^25 * 60 nanowatts or about 6 * 10^17 watts. Now, that's a lot. It's four times what the earth receives from the sun. So we have to build a disk four times the area (not volume) of the earth, collect that power and funnel it to our computers. Probably we would scatter the computers throughout the disk, which would be mostly composed of solar collectors. (Keeping the disk gravitationally stable is left as an exercise for the student, as is the tradeoff involved in making it smaller but moving it closer to the sun.) Fortunately, exhaustive key search is perfectly parallelizable so there is no need for complex communications or synchronizations between the processors. As you can see, breaking 128 bit keys is certainly not a task which is so impossible that it would fail even if every atom were a computer. If we really needed to do it, it's not outside the realm of possibility that it could be accomplished within 50 years, using nanotech and robotics to move and reassemble asteroids into the necessary disk. Now, 256 bit keys really are impossible, unless the whole contraption above can be made to operate as an enormous, unified quantum computer, in which case it could theoretically break even 256 bit keys. 512 bit keys... now those really are impossible. Hal Finney --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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We have a new Windows Tor installer
by Roger Dingledine 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi folks, Matt Edman has created a "package bundle" that includes Tor, TorCP, and Privoxy. We've rewritten the Tor win32 instructions to tell people to use that rather than doing all the steps manually: http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-win32.html If you're a Windows user, please take a look and let us know if there are any installation problems, and if there are any documentation things we should fix. Thanks! --Roger ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Re: [cryptography] Digital cash in the news...
by Adam Back 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Bitcoin does not have to end with the pyramid scheme outcome - where it stalls and all those still holding any lose - so long as there remain people willing to exchange goods for bitcoin after the dust has settled. Anyway my point is even if the deployment phase is a wild ride, with some winners and some late losers who bought in above the final stable value, so long as a stable value results at the end, I dont see that as a big problem. Its not like we havent had bubbles and instability in various phases of any other forms of money or assets. If you take out the speculation, currently with people minting coins until they get to 21 million coins that would be inflation (limited inflation due to the mining cost); but also that more people are joining is deflationary (less coins per person). Then there is supply and demand - supply from minting (so long as the sell price is above minting cost), supply from people cashing out, and demand from people buying in. Cashing out and buying in maybe for trading or speculation. Once the 21 million coins are created bitcoin would remain deflationary during the next phase as until the user base grows to saturation. Once bitcoin grows to saturation, the remaining deflation would be limited by the underlying population and economic growth. That might be workable rate of deflation. Adam On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:55:38PM +1000, Ian G wrote: > On 13/06/11 5:54 PM, Adam Back wrote: >> Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme, and doesnt have to have the collapse and >> late joiner losers. If bitcoin does not lose favor - ie the user base grows >> and then maintains size of user base in the long term, then no one loses. > > Um, Adam, that's the very definition of a pyramid scheme :) > > No-one need lose as long as the size of the user base grows, long term! > > So everyone is incentivised to bring in new victims^H^H^H^H^H^H users :P > > That's why they're illegal, typically. > >> I think in the current phase the deflation (currency increasing in value) >> helps increase interest and number of users. > > Um, yeah, whatever. Look, whatever you do, don't tell anyone of your > friends or family to invest in it. > >> Say that in the next phase bitcoin stops rapid expansion and reaches some >> stable number of users, the deflationary period stops, and the remaining >> users use it for transactions only (not speculation). I dont see the losers >> in that scenario. > > No, but the scenario is incomplete: Those speculating on an increase > in value will realise it has reached stability. So they'll sell. > Which will cause a reduction in value. Which will cause a run, as > those that didn't understand the mechanics of a pyramid scheme get > their rude lesson. > >>> However. Unless the laws of financial conservation have been repealed >>> by the design, those who follow have to invest a lot and come out with >>> less... > > > > iang _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[liberationtech] Drones are not storytellers or why Syrians need better storytelling was Re: Pirate Bay turns to drones
by Brian Conley 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Not only the development costs, but the litigation/jail time costs as well are a huge issue with more innovative applications of drone tech. Further, the idea of implementing drones in Syria first of all is a huge safety risk, and could fundamentally change the perception of an already hostile regime to encourage increasingly worse actions. Secondly, the drones for human rights stuff all forgets a fundamental issue, people care about stories, not grainy footage, unless the crimes are so enormous, and even then they don't encourage action nor do they help inform outsiders what exactly Syrians want or need. For example, there is a fundamental difference between videos like these that Iraqis we worked with in Baghdad were producing years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVib2fMtP1w http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org/2008/07/28/al-sahwa-mistakes-in-adhamiya/ http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/08/us-military-destroys-iraqi-homes-b… ...and shaky content and long range images of what often may or may not be the "heinous crimes" individuals claim. see this video for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQMSkdo_jc&feature=player_embedded I think its pretty clear why more efforts are not being made to more effectively and repeatedly tell the stories of individual refugees and people who have lost homes and loved ones. The people documenting are most often men, and as a man who has had the same problem myself when documenting police violence, war, etc, we too often resort to documenting horrible events, both because we are shocked and because that involves an adrenaline rush and provides its own sort of benefit to us as individuals, and leaves beside the wayside any review of whether this content is really moving minds or pushing forward a liberation agenda. As a trainer who has worked with individuals all over the world in conflict areas and the developing world, I have found that women are the best trainees, followed closely by older men. Young people are often too caught up in the moment and the injustice of it all to more effectively document or listen to recommendations about composition, pacing, etc. I guess this is a bit off-topic, but after spending a long time in a fairly pointless discussion with a man from Hama about this subject last night, I felt the need to mention it here. I'm still trying to sort out exactly why I think the idea of drones as human rights documentation may make sense, but it certainly cannot replace storytelling or investigative reporting. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Andrew Lewis <andrew(a)pdqvpn.com> wrote: > Yes, telecomix is looking at drones, and really the proposal by TPB is > outlandish to current drone builders/operators, but most of the limitations > seem to be artificially limited technical issues that no one has thought > past due to limitations by US/UK/EU regulations. If you disregard these > rules, long range drones are well within the realm of possibility. I think > an open source drone program is possible, if people are willing to commit > the resources and accept the overall development costs. > > Andrew Lewis > Twitter: ThePunkbob > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:53 PM, KheOps <kheops(a)ceops.eu> wrote: > > > Indeed, we're working on drones to film and livestream stuff in hostile > > environment such as Syria :) Will keep you posted if something concrete > > is somehow produced :) > > > > On 03/23/2012 04:57 PM, David Johnson wrote: > >> It sounded ridiculous, but ideas can come from jokes. > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM, KheOps <kheops(a)ceops.eu > >> <mailto:kheops@ceops.eu>> wrote: > >> > >> This is a joke - at least according to tetsu0, one of the TPB folks > :) > >> > >> On 03/23/2012 04:44 PM, David Johnson wrote: > >>> http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210 > >>> > >>> > >>> /TPB LOSS/ > >>> > >>> /We were down a few hours earlier today. There's no need to worry, we > >>> haven't been raided this time. We're only upgrading stuff since we're > >>> still growing./ > >>> > >>> /One of the technical things we always optimize is where to put our > >>> front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic to a > >>> secret location. We have now decided to try to build something > >>> extraordinary./ > >>> > >>> /With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap > >> radio > >>> equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi > >>> <http://www.raspberrypi.org/>, we're going to experiment with sending > >>> out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. > >>> This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in > >> order > >>> to shut down the system. A real act of war./ > >>> > >>> /We're just starting so we haven't figured everything out yet. But we > >>> can't limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. > >> These Low > >>> Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern > >>> radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km > >> away. For > >>> the proxy system we're building, that's more than enough./ > >>> > >>> /But when time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy, > >> being true > >>> to our slogan of being the galaxy's most resilient system. And all of > >>> the parts we'll use to build //that system on will be downloadable./ > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> David V. 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[liberationtech] German police monitors Skype, GoogleMail and Facebook chat
by Anne Roth 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The German government a while ago answered questions about expenditures by the federal ministry of home affairs for private service providers b hardly noticed by the English speaking world. The parlamentary enquiry (b Minor interpellationb) no. 17/10077 by Jan Korte, MP of The Left party, has now been translated into English. The answers were far more detailed than one would expect. Therebs 43 pages (this includes questions), 20 of which are tables that list who was contracted, how much money was paid, what for and how each paid item was used. The German ministry for home affairs and thus the German police clearly state that they are monitoring Skype, Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook chat if deemed necessary. Money is spent on trojan viruses and we can be quite certain which company produces the IMSI catchers used by German police. We know how much money was spent by the Federal Police on border control biometrics, on passenger information systems and telecommunications surveillance. Digitask, a company whose reputation was clearly damaged after its trojan virus was found and analysed by the Chaos Computer Club in 2011, seems to still be a regular contractor of German authorities. Altogether more than a billion Euro was spent on private services by German police and other public authorities in the realm of the ministry of home affairs in the years 2002 b 2012. A slightly longer version of this plus the pdf can be found here: http://annalist.noblogs.org/post/2012/10/03/german-police-monitors-skype-go… Best, Anne -- http://about.me/annalist http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x7689407F942951E2 -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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EFF legal brief defends Narco News
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

July 17, 2001 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleagues, The Narco Newsroom is now in New York City preparing for our hearing at the New York State Supreme Court on Friday, July 20th, 9:30 a.m. in the Drug War on Trial case. Please attend Friday's hearing at the Courthouse at 71 Thomas Street, Manhattan, New York (three blocks east of Foley Square), court room 205, Justice Paula Omansky presiding. We are also very grateful and pleased to announce that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief in support of our motion to dismiss the Banamex lawsuit against the free Internet speech of Narco News. Enclosed, please find a copy of EFF's press release of today. Please pass it along to journalists and freedom fighters everywhere, especially in the New York metropolitan area, and invite them to attend Friday's hearing. Immediately after Friday's hearing, in front of the Courthouse, we will hold a press conference. Shortly, we will be posting the latest round of legal briefs on Narco News. See you Friday, >From somewhere else in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher-on-leave, fulltime defendant The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ narconews(a)hotmail.com --- Enc: EFF Press Release Available online at: http://www.eff.org/Censorship/SLAPP/Forum_shopping/20010712_eff_narcon et_pr.html Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release Advisory Bank Pres Drags Journalist into NY Court Over Drug Expose Electronic Frontier Foundation Urges U.S. Court to Respect Mexican Rulings For Immediate Release: July 12, 2001 Contact: Cindy Cohn, EFF Legal Dir., cindy(a)eff.org, +1 415 436 9333 x108 Will Doherty, EFF Online Activist / Media Relations, wild(a)eff.org, +1 415 436 9333 x111 New York - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged a New York state court to respect Mexican court rulings that have disallowed lawsuits against independent journalist Al Giordano for publishing allegations of drug trafficking by Banco Nacional de Mexico President Roberto Hernandez Ramirez. EFF seeks to protect the First Amendment rights of online, independent journalists against the abusive "shopping" by large, powerful corporations for favorable jurisdictions. The Mexican bank brought the case against a Mexican-based website, produced solely by Giordano, the Narco News Bulletin: http://www.narconews.com/. "The EFF is concerned that the bank resorted to New York courts to try to shut down this website because it could not do so in Mexican courts," said Cindy Cohn, Legal Director for the EFF. "This kind of forum shopping threatens to shut down one of the greatest benefits of the Internet -- giving a voice to independent, Internet-based journalists. Faced with having to defend themselves in far-flung jurisdictions, many independent journalists will simply choose not to publish on the Internet." The case arises from allegations published on the the Narco News Bulletin website that the bank president was involved in illegal activities in Mexico. The EFF filed an amicus brief urging the New York court to rule that it was improper for the bank to force Mr. Giordano into New York state court for the statements posted on the website. The hearing on the case is set for July 20, 2001. Since April 18, 2000, Al Giordano has produced the Narco News Bulletin, an online newspaper devoted to spirited investigative journalism on the US-Latin America drug trade. Articles posted on the Narco News Bulletin website have discussed allegations by others that Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, the president of the Banco Nacional de Mexico, is involved in drug trafficking. Some of these stories were reprinted articles from the Mexican newspaper Por Esto!, published in Mexico by Mario Renato Menendez. After failing three times to successfully sue Menendez in Mexico over the allegations, Banco Nacional de Mexico now seeks to force Menendez and Giordano to defend themselves in New York state court against the same basic claims. The New York case groups together the allegations against the Mexican-based website, hosted in Maryland, with statements made by Menendez and Giordano in New York City on a radio broadcast and at a Columbia University Law School conference. The EFF amicus brief asked the Court to adopt one of two courses of action. First, in order to deter abusive forum shopping, the EFF asked the court to dismiss the case since Mexican law governs the dispute. Alternatively, since Narconews.com mainly republished investigative work done by others, the EFF asked the New York court to apply a distinct legal standard for libel claims related to republished statements. The legal standard requires that a republisher had, or should have had substantial reasons to question the accuracy of the articles. EFF believes that this higher liability standard for republishing on the Internet is necessary to encourage the growth of Internet journalism. About EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most linked-to Web sites in the world: http://www.eff.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

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New Legal Briefs: Friday's Hearing Heats Up
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

June 17, 2001 Please Spread the Word Dear Colleagues, Just a quick note, as we race toward Friday's New York Supreme Court hearing in the Drug War on Trial case, to let you know that: - Two new legal briefs are now linked from page one: http://www.narconews.com/ (Joint memorandum by Narco News Bulletin and I, and my own sworn affidavit about the latest court Exhibit, "The Mexico Papers" with lots of interesting drug war facts) - Tomorrow we shall post the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) amicus brief in support of Narco News' motion to dismiss the Banamex lawsuit. - At press time, we have heard of another amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief being filed on our behalf, and as soon as we receive it, we will post and announce it. Apologies for being so brief about the briefs. For a pro se defendant, this is worse than cramming for the bar exam. from somewhere else in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher-on-leave, full-time defendant The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ narconews(a)hotmail.com HEARING ON ORAL ARGUMENTS NEW YORK STATE SUPREME COURT FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2001 9:30 A.M. 71 THOMAS STREET MANHATTAN ROOM 205 JUSTICE PAULA OMANSKY, PRESIDING HEARING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND PRESS _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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