July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

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Fwd: HiveCache - P2P Backups
by Fearghas McKay 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

--- begin forwarded text From: Peter Gradwell <peter(a)gradwell.com> (by way of Fearghas McKay <fm-news123(a)st-kilda.org>) To: fm(a)espace.net Subject: HiveCache - P2P Backups Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:04:35 -0800 Hello Apologies for the intrusion. As well has running an ISP, I have an interest in Grid Computing systems and micro accounting architectures. As part of the interest, I would like to deploy a product called HiveCache (www.hivecache.com) to my customer base, and others interested. HiveCache is a p2p backup system where by you define an amount of disk space available on your machine (which is connected via broadband of course!) and vice versa, your files get split up, encrypted and then stored on everyone elses' disk space. HiveCache does all sorts of clever things, like making sure enough copies are kept in various places, files are split & encrypted, allowing you to retrieve them, etc. Ultimately, I would like to faciliate a system where by we act as a clearing house so that users can buy & sell disk space & resources. In order to get going however, I would like to take part in the HiveCache pilot. To do this, I require 25-50 willing volunteers. You will need: - an always on broadband connection - a few gig of spare disk space - a little enthusiasm and a willingness to return comments If that sounds like you, then please could you drop an email to hivecache(a)gradwell.net stating your - name, - email, - type of internet connection and - what operating system you're running on. Any questions, let me know. many thanks peter -- peter gradwell. gradwell dot com Ltd. http://www.gradwell.com/ engineering & hosting services for email, web and usenet --- end forwarded text --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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[Politech] Judge denies Feds' cell-phone tracking request, in first case of its kind [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5846037.html "Police blotter" is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law. This episode: Feds' location-tracking rebuffed. What: In the first case of its kind, a federal judge chastises the U.S. Department of Justice for trying to constantly track a cell phone user's location without providing any proof of criminal behavior. When: Decided Aug. 25 by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Outcome: Justice Department's Patriot Act surveillance request was denied. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 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] crypto & security/privacy balance (Re: Digital cash in the news...)
by Nico Williams 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Adam Back <adam(a)cypherspace.org> wrote: > Well said StealthMonger, I suspect Nico is in the minority on this list with > that type of view. > > I read Nico's later reply also. Short of banning crypto privacy and > security rights stand a better chance of being balanced by more deployment > of crypto. (In terms of warrantless wiretaps etc which seem to just keeping > going and getting worse in many supposedly civilized western democracies.) > There are still plenty of things government security people can usefully do > towards security - spend the money on inflitration of groups who are real > security threats. Don't misunderstand me: I think crypto has a place, and that place is mostly to protect us from other private citizens, from foreign powers, and from casual inspection by one's state (i.e., keeping the state and its minions honest). It's only when push comes to shove that crypto doesn't help. Long before push comes to shove you have to deal with the fact that your crypto is only a small part of the big picture: do you know if your peers are malicious? are your compute resources physically secure? are you certain of that? are they tamper resistant? are there unpatched, or worse, unknown-to-you vulnerabilities in your software (or worse, firmware, or worse, hardware) that others could exploit? is your key management secure? Security is oh so much more than just using AES, so much more than just using secure cryptographic protocols and algorithm suites. Crypto does not completely change the nature of security in the online world versus physical security in the off-line world -- there's analogies for most situations. Crypto alone is not a panacea. If you want to live in a free society you must do more than hide behind ciphers. You must participate in its politics to keep your society free. If it isn't already free, then you have a very big problem -- crypto can only be a small part of how you might address it. For example, if in order to free your society you conclude that you must change its culture openly, then crypto won't help you for you must speak publicly. Crypto will help you, to a point, if you're trying to organize a revolt, but don't be surprised when crypto fails to keep you safe in that case -- you'll likely need weapons and to be willing to use them. BTW, I'm surprised any of what I've said on this is remotely controversial. Nico -- _______________________________________________ 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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Fwd: HiveCache - P2P Backups
by Fearghas McKay 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

--- begin forwarded text From: Peter Gradwell <peter(a)gradwell.com> (by way of Fearghas McKay <fm-news123(a)st-kilda.org>) To: fm(a)espace.net Subject: HiveCache - P2P Backups Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:04:35 -0800 Hello Apologies for the intrusion. As well has running an ISP, I have an interest in Grid Computing systems and micro accounting architectures. As part of the interest, I would like to deploy a product called HiveCache (www.hivecache.com) to my customer base, and others interested. HiveCache is a p2p backup system where by you define an amount of disk space available on your machine (which is connected via broadband of course!) and vice versa, your files get split up, encrypted and then stored on everyone elses' disk space. HiveCache does all sorts of clever things, like making sure enough copies are kept in various places, files are split & encrypted, allowing you to retrieve them, etc. Ultimately, I would like to faciliate a system where by we act as a clearing house so that users can buy & sell disk space & resources. In order to get going however, I would like to take part in the HiveCache pilot. To do this, I require 25-50 willing volunteers. You will need: - an always on broadband connection - a few gig of spare disk space - a little enthusiasm and a willingness to return comments If that sounds like you, then please could you drop an email to hivecache(a)gradwell.net stating your - name, - email, - type of internet connection and - what operating system you're running on. Any questions, let me know. many thanks peter -- peter gradwell. gradwell dot com Ltd. http://www.gradwell.com/ engineering & hosting services for email, web and usenet --- end forwarded text --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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[Politech] Judge denies Feds' cell-phone tracking request, in first case of its kind [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5846037.html "Police blotter" is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law. This episode: Feds' location-tracking rebuffed. What: In the first case of its kind, a federal judge chastises the U.S. Department of Justice for trying to constantly track a cell phone user's location without providing any proof of criminal behavior. When: Decided Aug. 25 by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Outcome: Justice Department's Patriot Act surveillance request was denied. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 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] crypto & security/privacy balance (Re: Digital cash in the news...)
by Nico Williams 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Adam Back <adam(a)cypherspace.org> wrote: > Well said StealthMonger, I suspect Nico is in the minority on this list with > that type of view. > > I read Nico's later reply also. Short of banning crypto privacy and > security rights stand a better chance of being balanced by more deployment > of crypto. (In terms of warrantless wiretaps etc which seem to just keeping > going and getting worse in many supposedly civilized western democracies.) > There are still plenty of things government security people can usefully do > towards security - spend the money on inflitration of groups who are real > security threats. Don't misunderstand me: I think crypto has a place, and that place is mostly to protect us from other private citizens, from foreign powers, and from casual inspection by one's state (i.e., keeping the state and its minions honest). It's only when push comes to shove that crypto doesn't help. Long before push comes to shove you have to deal with the fact that your crypto is only a small part of the big picture: do you know if your peers are malicious? are your compute resources physically secure? are you certain of that? are they tamper resistant? are there unpatched, or worse, unknown-to-you vulnerabilities in your software (or worse, firmware, or worse, hardware) that others could exploit? is your key management secure? Security is oh so much more than just using AES, so much more than just using secure cryptographic protocols and algorithm suites. Crypto does not completely change the nature of security in the online world versus physical security in the off-line world -- there's analogies for most situations. Crypto alone is not a panacea. If you want to live in a free society you must do more than hide behind ciphers. You must participate in its politics to keep your society free. If it isn't already free, then you have a very big problem -- crypto can only be a small part of how you might address it. For example, if in order to free your society you conclude that you must change its culture openly, then crypto won't help you for you must speak publicly. Crypto will help you, to a point, if you're trying to organize a revolt, but don't be surprised when crypto fails to keep you safe in that case -- you'll likely need weapons and to be willing to use them. BTW, I'm surprised any of what I've said on this is remotely controversial. Nico -- _______________________________________________ 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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