July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

At 09:48 PM 11/24/00 -0500, Greg Newby wrote: > >But seriously, folks: How would you work with a like-minded >distributed group to murder someone? Preferably with guaranteed >no risk of discovery or prosecution to the participants. RTFM

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Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

At 09:48 PM 11/24/00 -0500, Greg Newby wrote: > >But seriously, folks: How would you work with a like-minded >distributed group to murder someone? Preferably with guaranteed >no risk of discovery or prosecution to the participants. RTFM

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spyware on Blackberries
by Steven M. Bellovin 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/CFV8MEwH_rM/ A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages, according to a researcher who examined it. The update was billed as a b performance enhancement patchb by the UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat, which issued the patch for its 100,000 subscribers. ... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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spyware on Blackberries
by Steven M. Bellovin 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/CFV8MEwH_rM/ A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages, according to a researcher who examined it. The update was billed as a b performance enhancement patchb by the UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat, which issued the patch for its 100,000 subscribers. ... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

At 09:48 PM 11/24/00 -0500, Greg Newby wrote: > >But seriously, folks: How would you work with a like-minded >distributed group to murder someone? Preferably with guaranteed >no risk of discovery or prosecution to the participants. RTFM

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About private networks (Was Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat)
by Alain Hebert 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

( Well I'm sure that there is a few hundrends of paper on this subject ) I have a few ideas but it involve: .Dark Fiber; . All devices at FIPS 140 level; . Tonnes of resin; . Wire mesh; . Fiber DB monitoring; . Cable Shield monitoring; . Single Encryption Key injection for the FIPS 140 devices; . Central Provisioning; . Kill switch for suspected segments; <add your own crazy ideas> <etc> <add more of your own crazy ideas> And a private fab because it would not be a good idea to sub-contract that to lets says... some Chinese outfit =D TLDR: Feasable, hella costly. PS: http://spybusters.blogspot.ca/2010/11/fiber-optics-easier-to-wiretap-than.h… Enjoy this week end of the world news. ----- Alain Hebert ahebert(a)pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 ----- 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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Bitcoin v0.1 released
by Satoshi Nakamoto 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending. It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority. See bitcoin.org for screenshots. Download link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar Windows only for now. Open source C++ code is included. - Unpack the files into a directory - Run BITCOIN.EXE - It automatically connects to other nodes If you can keep a node running that accepts incoming connections, you'll really be helping the network a lot. Port 8333 on your firewall needs to be open to receive incoming connections. The software is still alpha and experimental. There's no guarantee the system's state won't have to be restarted at some point if it becomes necessary, although I've done everything I can to build in extensibility and versioning. You can get coins by getting someone to send you some, or turn on Options->Generate Coins to run a node and generate blocks. I made the proof-of-work difficulty ridiculously easy to start with, so for a little while in the beginning a typical PC will be able to generate coins in just a few hours. It'll get a lot harder when competition makes the automatic adjustment drive up the difficulty. Generated coins must wait 120 blocks to mature before they can be spent. There are two ways to send money. If the recipient is online, you can enter their IP address and it will connect, get a new public key and send the transaction with comments. If the recipient is not online, it is possible to send to their Bitcoin address, which is a hash of their public key that they give you. They'll receive the transaction the next time they connect and get the block it's in. This method has the disadvantage that no comment information is sent, and a bit of privacy may be lost if the address is used multiple times, but it is a useful alternative if both users can't be online at the same time or the recipient can't receive incoming connections. Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. It'll be distributed to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half every 4 years. first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins etc... When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if needed. It's based on open market competition, and there will probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free. Satoshi Nakamoto --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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"Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon"
by Jerry Leichter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=565 "NSA spooks gather for a colleaguebs retirement party at a bar. What they donbt know is that an RFID scanner is picking them out - and a wireless Bluetoothwebcam is taking their picture. Could that really happen? It already did. (The Feds got a taste of the real world risks of RFID passports and IDs at DefCon, the annual hacker conference. According to Wired http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/fed-rfid/) : . . . federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader. The reader, connected to a web camera, sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks as they passed a table where the equipment was stationed in full view...." -- Jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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E-voting in Japan
by Rodney Van Meter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>From Sunday's Daily Yomiuri: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070527TDY03003.htm The last sentence is by far the most intriguing, and I wish I knew more. E-voting system eyed for national elections The Yomiuri Shimbun An electronic voting system using touch-screen panels likely will be phased in for national elections starting from next year, it has been learned. The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito is eyeing the new system after New Komeito reversed its initially cautious stance and decided to support the move, according to sources. The ruling parties will submit a bill to revise the special law for the Public Offices Election Law in the current Diet session, which will stipulate Jan. 1, 2008, as the date for the law's enforcement, the sources said. However, the electronic voting system will not be introduced simultaneously in all municipalities. Among municipalities that already have ordinances allowing the use of electronic ballots for mayoral and assembly elections, the internal affairs and communications minister will choose municipalities based on applications received from election boards. Currently, eight municipalities have such an ordinance. The use of electronic polling systems for local elections became possible in February 2002, since when it has been used for 15 elections held in 10 municipalities. The result of one election that employed the system was nullified after errors were detected in the electronic voting machines. ===== Last week there was an article about quick election results here. In prefectural (state) elections, some towns returned their results in as little as 20 minutes even when using hand-counted paper ballots! (Some other municipalities ranged as high as a couple of hours.) One simple expedient is that when you go to vote, you are given separate ballots for each office you are voting for. Then returns for any given office are a simple matter of sorting the ballots into one stack per candidate, and counting the stacks. To me, this would seem to make ballot challenges more difficult. There may also be additional opportunities for various forms of fraud -- ballot box stuffing, etc. depending on the protocols used. But it does appear to have the advantage of being efficient. If paper ballot results can be returned in so little time, what is the incentive for electronic balloting? --Rod (P.S. Speaking of elections, did you know that department chairs and even the presidents of universities here are chosen by direct election among the faculty? There are campaign speeches and balloting at an all-faculty meeting.) ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.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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[IP] E-voting in Japan
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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