July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[IP] Update on the INDUCE Act (now renamed the "IICA")
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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[IP] Government Is 'Reshaping' Airport Screening System
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Government Is 'Reshaping' Airport Screening System By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: July 16, 2004 ASHINGTON, July 15 - The government is backing away from a plan to use commercial databases in its computerized system for determining which airline passengers might pose a security risk. But it is pressing ahead with a new computer system that will rely on government databases. The goal is a better screening tool that will select about 4 percent of all passengers for more intense scrutiny, compared with the 14 percent identified by the current system. Some travelers are now chosen for more intensive "secondary screenings" at random, and others are chosen for reasons that are supposed to be secret but are thought to include booking at the last minute, buying one-way tickets and paying with cash. The acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, David M. Stone, told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday that his agency was "reshaping and repackaging" the screening system, which was originally supposed to use commercial databases that sweep in data on credit, home ownership, telephone records and car registration as a way to evaluate whether the name given by a passenger was real. That plan, called Capps 2, for Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening, had been criticized as an invasion of passengers' privacy. On Wednesday the secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge, was quoted in USA Today as saying that Capps 2 was dead. But a spokesman for his agency, Brian Roehrkasse, said Thursday that "the administration continues to move forward on an automated aviation passenger prescreening system to replace the existing antiquated airline system, to better manage risk and be more efficient." Mr. Roehrkasse said he did not know when the new system would be put into place. Much of it is still under development, he said. The law that established the Transportation Security Administration, passed by Congress in November 2001, two months after the terrorist attacks, included a variety of requirements for the new agency. One was to screen all baggage. That destroyed the rationale of the original Capps system, which was established in 1998 in response to the possibility of a bomb in a checked suitcase like the one that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Another requirement was to develop a better screening tool to pick which passengers, with their carry-on luggage, should be scrutinized. The new system is supposed to rely on government databases. The government already has a so-called no-fly list, which is actually a list of people whom the airlines are not supposed to carry, and a larger list of people who are supposed to be put through secondary screening if they seek to fly. According to an administration official who asked not to be identified, those two lists have fewer than 10,000 names but the new computer system would integrate a list of names that is "dramatically larger." The official would not be more specific about either number. In addition, various government agencies maintain lists of names now, including the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. A federal agency established last December within the Department of Homeland Security, the Terrorist Screening Center, is supposed to integrate these lists. The agencies use a variety of bases for identifying individuals as suspect. The Capps 2 system was supposed to be based on passengers' names, addresses and phone numbers; the original proposal for the system would have required passengers to submit their dates of birth as well. The new system might still do that, according to the official. Laura W. Murphy, the director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the organizations that had been critical of Capps 2, said a system that relied solely on government databases could still be unfair, because the databases themselves would have errors. But she said she was glad that the government was no longer proposing to run every name through commercial databases. "We don't want to turn into a society where everybody is treated like a suspect and everybody is investigated," Ms. Murphy said. The recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report and the hearings held by the Sept. 11 commission have demonstrated shortcomings in intelligence, Ms. Murphy said, and no-fly lists based on flawed intelligence would mean a security system "built on what right now appears to be a house of cards." The government should improve aviation security by concentrating on simpler challenges, like access control at airports, she said. <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/politics/16fly.html> ------------------------------------- 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> ______________________________________________________________ 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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[fc-announce] Financial Crypto February 23-26 in Barbados,
by Tyler Moore 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Early Registration Deadline Approaching Call for Participation Financial Cryptography and Data Security '09 http://fc09.ifca.ai/ Thirteenth International Conference February 23-26, 2009 Accra Beach Hotel & Resort Barbados Early registration deadline approaching fast! Register by January 21 to receive a discount. For full details, visit: http://fc09.ifca.ai/registration.html Also, reserve your hotel room by January 22 in order to guarantee availability: http://fc09.ifca.ai/accommodation.html Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration and debate regarding information assurance in the context of finance and commerce. We have assembled a vibrant program featuring 21 peer- reviewed research paper presentations, two panels (on the economics of information security and on authentication), and a keynote address by David Dagon. To view the complete program, visit: http://fc09.ifca.ai/program.html We look forward to seeing you in Barbados! Tyler Moore FC '09 General Chair _______________________________________________ fc-announce mailing list fc-announce(a)ifca.ai http://mail.ifca.ai/mailman/listinfo/fc-announce

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Update on the INDUCE Act (now renamed the "IICA")
by Richard Forno 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Two updates to last week's note on the so-called INDUCE ACT to stiffen copyright enforcement activities. I will also note that the bill title has been changed to something a bit more rational than its prior proposed title -- it's now known as the "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA)." I wonder if the OS vendors will be considered as inducing infringement by allowing their systems to connect to the internet. Or how about for providing protocols such as ftp, scp, smtp, etc. that facilitate P2P sharing? Are the inmates running the asylum? No, wait -- don?t answer that. - rick Infowarrior.org UPDATE (1): Some quick thoughts on the revised bill and its broader goals TechLaw Advisor Susan Crawford also reports that "counsels" - an overly abusive term used here - has been dropped from the bill. Unfortunately there is no copy of the bill available at the moment. Susan also hears that the bill is fast-tracked to the Senate floor after a quick hearing either Thursday or Friday of this week. Susan's tech-law blog is located at: http://techlawadvisor.com/blog/ 2004_06_13_archive.html#108744622389089703 Susan also links to a discussion document at the Senate Judiciary Committee's website that shows the desire to make P2P equated as software that's illegal, illicit, immoral, etc. The Senate document is found at: http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/content_protection.pdf UPDATE (2): More in-depth information from News.Com Senate bill bans P2P networks By Declan McCullagh The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, which was made public Wednesday, represents the latest legislative attempt by large copyright holders to address what they see as the growing threat of peer-to-peer networks rife with pirated music, movies and software. Violations of the IICA would be punished with civil fines and, in some circumstances, lengthy prison terms. < snip > The IICA is designed to overturn an April 2003 ruling from a federal judge in Los Angeles that said file-swapping services StreamCast Networks and Grokster were legal to operate. In that decision, which the entertainment industry has appealed to the 9th Circuit, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson wrote that "Grokster and (Morpheus operator) StreamCast are not significantly different from companies that sell home video recorders or copy machines, both of which can be and are used to infringe copyrights." Wilson said those networks were not as centralized as Napster, which the 9th Circuit declared to be illegal in 2001, and could continue to exist. < snip> http://news.com.com/Senate%20bill%20bans%20P2P%20networks/2100-1027_3 -524479 6.html?tag=techdirt ------------------------------------- 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> ______________________________________________________________ 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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[IP] Update on the INDUCE Act (now renamed the "IICA")
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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[IP] Government Is 'Reshaping' Airport Screening System
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Government Is 'Reshaping' Airport Screening System By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: July 16, 2004 ASHINGTON, July 15 - The government is backing away from a plan to use commercial databases in its computerized system for determining which airline passengers might pose a security risk. But it is pressing ahead with a new computer system that will rely on government databases. The goal is a better screening tool that will select about 4 percent of all passengers for more intense scrutiny, compared with the 14 percent identified by the current system. Some travelers are now chosen for more intensive "secondary screenings" at random, and others are chosen for reasons that are supposed to be secret but are thought to include booking at the last minute, buying one-way tickets and paying with cash. The acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, David M. Stone, told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday that his agency was "reshaping and repackaging" the screening system, which was originally supposed to use commercial databases that sweep in data on credit, home ownership, telephone records and car registration as a way to evaluate whether the name given by a passenger was real. That plan, called Capps 2, for Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening, had been criticized as an invasion of passengers' privacy. On Wednesday the secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge, was quoted in USA Today as saying that Capps 2 was dead. But a spokesman for his agency, Brian Roehrkasse, said Thursday that "the administration continues to move forward on an automated aviation passenger prescreening system to replace the existing antiquated airline system, to better manage risk and be more efficient." Mr. Roehrkasse said he did not know when the new system would be put into place. Much of it is still under development, he said. The law that established the Transportation Security Administration, passed by Congress in November 2001, two months after the terrorist attacks, included a variety of requirements for the new agency. One was to screen all baggage. That destroyed the rationale of the original Capps system, which was established in 1998 in response to the possibility of a bomb in a checked suitcase like the one that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Another requirement was to develop a better screening tool to pick which passengers, with their carry-on luggage, should be scrutinized. The new system is supposed to rely on government databases. The government already has a so-called no-fly list, which is actually a list of people whom the airlines are not supposed to carry, and a larger list of people who are supposed to be put through secondary screening if they seek to fly. According to an administration official who asked not to be identified, those two lists have fewer than 10,000 names but the new computer system would integrate a list of names that is "dramatically larger." The official would not be more specific about either number. In addition, various government agencies maintain lists of names now, including the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. A federal agency established last December within the Department of Homeland Security, the Terrorist Screening Center, is supposed to integrate these lists. The agencies use a variety of bases for identifying individuals as suspect. The Capps 2 system was supposed to be based on passengers' names, addresses and phone numbers; the original proposal for the system would have required passengers to submit their dates of birth as well. The new system might still do that, according to the official. Laura W. Murphy, the director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the organizations that had been critical of Capps 2, said a system that relied solely on government databases could still be unfair, because the databases themselves would have errors. But she said she was glad that the government was no longer proposing to run every name through commercial databases. "We don't want to turn into a society where everybody is treated like a suspect and everybody is investigated," Ms. Murphy said. The recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report and the hearings held by the Sept. 11 commission have demonstrated shortcomings in intelligence, Ms. Murphy said, and no-fly lists based on flawed intelligence would mean a security system "built on what right now appears to be a house of cards." The government should improve aviation security by concentrating on simpler challenges, like access control at airports, she said. <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/politics/16fly.html> ------------------------------------- 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> ______________________________________________________________ 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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[IP] Yep, it's the apocalypse: RFIDs are the "mark of the beast"
by Dave Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Yep, it's the apocalypse: RFIDs are the "mark of the beast" Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:16:53 -0500 From: Kevin G. Barkes <kgbarkes(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: kgbarkes(a)gmail.com To: dave(a)farber.net And for years I thought it was my Social Security card... Wired News RFID: Sign of the (End) Times? By Mark Baard | Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Mar, 02, 2006 EST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Katherine Albrecht is on a mission from God. The influential consumer advocate has written a new book warning her fellow Christians that radio frequency identification may evolve to become the "mark of the beast" -- meaning the technology is a sign that the end-times are drawing near. "My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm," said Albrecht, in a conversation over tea at a high-end grocery store. Albrecht has been a leading opponent of RFID, which is fast becoming a part of passports and payment cards, and is widely expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. RFID chips contain unique identification codes, and can be read at varying distances with special reader devices. Albrecht hopes her new book, The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance, will be embraced by the millions of Americans (59 percent of them, according to a 2002 Time/CNN poll) who share her belief that the Book of Revelation in the Bible forecasts events that are yet to come. The Spychips Threat is in fact a Christianized version of its secular predecessor, Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID, which came out last fall. Both books are published by the Christian publishing powerhouse Thomas Nelson. Both lay out the same totalitarian scenarios, based on documented plans by Philips, Procter and Gamble, Wal-Mart and other companies, along with the federal government, to track consumer goods and people individually. (Including, one assumes, the copy of "The Spychips Threat" one picks up at WalMart.) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70308-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Regards, KGB ----- Kevin G. Barkes Email: kgb(a)kgb.com | Web: www.kgb.com KGB Report: http://www.kgb.com Commentwear by KGB: http://www.commentwear.com National Temperature Index: http://nationaltemperatureindex.com DCL Dialogue on line: http://www.kgb.com/dcl.html Random Quotations Generator: http://www.goodquotations.com Over 12,000 searchable quotations. ------------------------------------- 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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Re: [cryptography] Military chip crypto cracked with power-analysis probe
by Peter Gutmann 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Jeffrey Walton <noloader(a)gmail.com> writes: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/27/chip_crypto_cracked/ That's a really, really misleading tagline. They've successfully attacked the bitstream encryption for Xilinx FPGAs, and while some of those are used by the military, they're also used in vast numbers of other things. In addition recovering the bitstream doesn't help you break any crypto the military may have implemented in the FPGA. I guess "Tamagotchi encryption cracked"[0] doesn't make as good a headline. Peter. [0] Yeah, I know, technically they use an ASIC not an FPGA. Insert the name of some no-consequence FPGA-using toy here. _______________________________________________ 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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[IP] Yep, it's the apocalypse: RFIDs are the "mark of the beast"
by Dave Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Yep, it's the apocalypse: RFIDs are the "mark of the beast" Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:16:53 -0500 From: Kevin G. Barkes <kgbarkes(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: kgbarkes(a)gmail.com To: dave(a)farber.net And for years I thought it was my Social Security card... Wired News RFID: Sign of the (End) Times? By Mark Baard | Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Mar, 02, 2006 EST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Katherine Albrecht is on a mission from God. The influential consumer advocate has written a new book warning her fellow Christians that radio frequency identification may evolve to become the "mark of the beast" -- meaning the technology is a sign that the end-times are drawing near. "My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm," said Albrecht, in a conversation over tea at a high-end grocery store. Albrecht has been a leading opponent of RFID, which is fast becoming a part of passports and payment cards, and is widely expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. RFID chips contain unique identification codes, and can be read at varying distances with special reader devices. Albrecht hopes her new book, The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance, will be embraced by the millions of Americans (59 percent of them, according to a 2002 Time/CNN poll) who share her belief that the Book of Revelation in the Bible forecasts events that are yet to come. The Spychips Threat is in fact a Christianized version of its secular predecessor, Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID, which came out last fall. Both books are published by the Christian publishing powerhouse Thomas Nelson. Both lay out the same totalitarian scenarios, based on documented plans by Philips, Procter and Gamble, Wal-Mart and other companies, along with the federal government, to track consumer goods and people individually. (Including, one assumes, the copy of "The Spychips Threat" one picks up at WalMart.) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70308-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Regards, KGB ----- Kevin G. Barkes Email: kgb(a)kgb.com | Web: www.kgb.com KGB Report: http://www.kgb.com Commentwear by KGB: http://www.commentwear.com National Temperature Index: http://nationaltemperatureindex.com DCL Dialogue on line: http://www.kgb.com/dcl.html Random Quotations Generator: http://www.goodquotations.com Over 12,000 searchable quotations. ------------------------------------- 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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Re: [cryptography] Military chip crypto cracked with power-analysis probe
by Peter Gutmann 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Jeffrey Walton <noloader(a)gmail.com> writes: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/27/chip_crypto_cracked/ That's a really, really misleading tagline. They've successfully attacked the bitstream encryption for Xilinx FPGAs, and while some of those are used by the military, they're also used in vast numbers of other things. In addition recovering the bitstream doesn't help you break any crypto the military may have implemented in the FPGA. I guess "Tamagotchi encryption cracked"[0] doesn't make as good a headline. Peter. [0] Yeah, I know, technically they use an ASIC not an FPGA. Insert the name of some no-consequence FPGA-using toy here. _______________________________________________ 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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