July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Former head of NSA calls Bush wiretapping "authorized,"
by Steven M. Bellovin 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70855-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 NEW YORK -- Former National Security Agency director Bobby Ray Inman lashed out at the Bush administration Monday night over its continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps, making him one of the highest-ranking former intelligence officials to criticize the program in public, analysts say. This activity is not authorized," Inman said, as part of a panel discussion on eavesdropping that was sponsored by The New York Public Library. The Bush administration "need(s) to get away from the idea that they can continue doing it." As the article goes on to point out, one can hardly accuse Inman of not understanding the value of SIGINT. In fact, he wants this sort of wiretapping to continue -- but only after Congress amends the law. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- 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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[IP] Former head of NSA calls Bush wiretapping "authorized,"
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Begin forwarded message:

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Re: [IP] Can you be compelled to give a password? [was:
by Lauren Weinstein 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd] Dave, the trend is toward laws that penalize refusal to cooperate with demands for decryption keys. This concept can work in various ways. In the border case, for example, a person might be refused entry -- or perhaps suffer confiscation of related property in some cases -- if they declined to provide the keys. In the case of criminal convictions, additional sentence and fine penalties can be imposed for uncooperative attitudes in this regard. Keep in mind that in the eyes of some in government, only people with something to hide would bother using encryption in the first place. From that assumption flows a sea of potential abuses. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren(a)vortex.com or lauren(a)pfir.org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com - - - > > >Begin forwarded message: > >From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick(a)ianai.net> >Date: July 28, 2006 2:11:45 PM EDT >To: dave(a)farber.net >Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick(a)ianai.net> >Subject: Can you be compelled to give a password? [was: Police >Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd] > >On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:32 PM, David Farber wrote: > >>I don't believe it is a crime in any US Federal or State law, or in >>Canadian law, to set passwords and use encryption. In the US, I >>believe that a warrant would be necessary for law enforcement to >>ask for your password, but I don't know if you have to comply. >>IANAL. > >That is a good question - Can you be compelled to give up a >password? Would you mind posting it to IP, I am interested in the >answer. > >Seems there might be some 'self-incriminatory' arguments here. >Perhaps even an "unreasonable search" argument. But IANAL. > >-- >TTFN, >patrick > > >------------------------------------- >You are subscribed as lauren(a)pfir.org >To manage your subscription, go to > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip > >Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- >people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- 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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[IP] more on Can you be compelled to give a password? [was: Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd]
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Begin forwarded message:

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Re: PGP messages getting flagged as spam
by Werner Koch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:26, malayter(a)gmail.com said: > The real solution would be for SpamAssasin to check that the PGP > messages are well-formed, and verify signatures on any PGP message > before altering its score. A tad CPU intensive, I think, and it poses FWIW, a few weeks ago I received the first PGP signed spam. The signature was good and I believe that it was sent using a trojan utilizing the local MUA which was configured to sign all outgoing mail. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users(a)gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users --- 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'

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Re: [silk] Bitcoin
by Sirtaj Singh Kang 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 16-May-11, at 9:34 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > You bet: http://bitmunchies.com/ Complete with fractional prices, I love it. The currency is undergoing a bit of a bubble right now, by the way - https://mtgox.com/ At USD 8.373 per bitcoin, the bitcoin economy is theoretically valued at USD 209 million. I have no idea what that means. -Taj. ----- 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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Re: [silk] Bitcoin
by Sirtaj Singh Kang 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 16-May-11, at 9:34 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > You bet: http://bitmunchies.com/ Complete with fractional prices, I love it. The currency is undergoing a bit of a bubble right now, by the way - https://mtgox.com/ At USD 8.373 per bitcoin, the bitcoin economy is theoretically valued at USD 209 million. I have no idea what that means. -Taj. ----- 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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Some notes toward a fully distributed, serverless socnet/communications network using CouchDB.
by Bryce Lynch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

This is a dump from one of my desktop note-taking apps. It's not fully fleshed out, and in fact a fair amount of discussion needs to take place before it will be. As always, if we can re-use and extend an existing application, we should so we can apply time and energy toward making it do exactly what we want rather than potentially reinventing a wheel: CouchDB (https://couchdb.apache.org/) is a distributed NoSQL database which stores JSON documents rather than information in rows and columns in tables documents are managed with MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control), and the network is designed for eventual consistency automatic conflict resolution CouchDB nodes can connect to one another to replicate data very easily designed to operate offline - do what you want with your local copy of the data, and when you reconnect it'll automatically resynch with the rest of the CouchDB network you set up designed for ad-hoc connections - whatever connection it has, when it has it, it can use it to connect to the network lightweight - the proof of concept Twitter-like app (Toast) supported thousands of transactions per second while running on an older Macbook Air accessed in the fashion of a hash table, i.e. with key/value references queries are done with JavaScript the API is bog-standard HTTP(S) can be interacted with using wget, curl, or a web browser runs on everything from Windows to Android because it includes its own HTTP(S) server, it is capable of hosting apps within the database itself, so you don't need an external framework (like PHP, Rails, or Django) apps are written in HTML5 and JavaScript, stored as documents in the database apps are trivial to deploy book is online, free to download and read, can be found on Github also: http://guide.couchdb.org/ we can conceivably use CouchDB to implement Network25 (and whatever other information storage solutions we will eventually want to use) installation can be a single installer for every platform - download this, double click on it, when it's ready it'll tell you every document can have its own schema, which is simple to determine because it works just like a hash table (key/value) public profile document (gets replicated) { _id: "Bryce A. Lynch", _interests: ["long walks on the beach", "moonlit nights", "massively distributed systems"], _friends: ["friend", "friend", ...], _publickey: "<public key>", ... } private profile document (doesn't get replicated, stored on machine, optionally encrypted and must be unlocked with a passphrase when the Network25 app is started) { _id: "Bryce A. Lynch", _publickey: "<public key", _privatekey: "<you no can haz>", ... } dump the list of keys and sort through their associated values one at a time because there is no central server - every client is also a server - this also means that we could, in theory, protect arbitrary volumes of data in a given Network25 user's account with public key crypto for every user of Network25, there is a document containing the public keys of that user's friends documents can be encrypted to the public keys of only a subset of that user's friends, such that only their private keys can (automatically) decrypt them: { _id: "<SHA256 hash here>", _post: "<cyphertext here>", _encrypted: "yes", _authorized_accounts: ["<somebody>", "<somebody>", "<somebody>", "<somebody>", ...], } -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ZS-P2P" group. To post to this group, send email to zs-p2p(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to zs-p2p+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- 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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Can I work on a website from 2 computers w/ the same server?
by "bollow - bollow"＠earthlink.net 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi, I have two computers, an old Windows 3.1 and new Windows 98. (Both use Earthlink.) I built my website on W3.1 with Navigator Gold (without HTML)-- what you see is what you get and like working from there. However in bringing up website on W98-- spacing is dif. I would like to put the Navigator Gold onto W98 and work on the Website from there-- could download more pix etc. and other machine is getting creaky. (Still not sure about accessing the FTP from W98.) Any problems you foresee-- or is it possible to work on the website from TWO computers with same server? Thanks for any helpful information. Ludmilla Bollow - bollow(a)earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~bollow/ "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers..." ANSWERS:

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Two different ways to protect your images
by "Paradigm Web Design - ed"＠lakesplus.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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All images and source code are copyright 2001 } } document.onmousedown=click [/script] The other way is to create a 1x1 pixel transparent gif and use it over the top of your graphic by making your graphic the background of a TABLE. Like this. [TABLE BACKGROUND="your_graphic.jpg" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"] [TR][TD][IMG SRC="1by1transparent.gif" WIDTH="270" HEIGHT="370"] [/TD][/TR][/TABLE] ReG@rds, Ed Paradigm Web Design Because an effective website doesn't have to be costly. http://ParadigmWebDesign.net Subscribe to Web Sm@rts http://paradigmwebdesign.net/subscribe.html ______________________________________________________ >>>>>> WEBSITE SHOWCASES <<<<<< Examine carefully - those with email addresses included WILL trade links with you, you are encouraged to contact them. And, there are many ways to build a successful business. 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