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[NOISE] Re: Firewall Penetration
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:29 PM 7/19/96 +0800, Jerome Tan wrote: >Is it possible to penetrate a firewall? Yes, but it requires alot of time and money. (As well as a nice car and a six figure income.) I recommend taking the firewall out to a nice restaurant, feeding it dinner, taking it out for drinks and then back to your house or apartment. If everything works, you should be able to penetrate said firewall. But she will not return your calls in the morning... --- |"Computers are Voodoo -- You just have to know where to stick the pins."| |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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Re: Censorship through proxy
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 18:12 8/6/96, Timothy C. May wrote: >I wonder what would happen if "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '98" was >held in Sing Sing? We'd all get caned? -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. Defeat the Demopublican Unity Party. Vote no on Clinton/Dole in November. Vote Harry Browne for President.

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Curfews again
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:37 PM 7/20/96, Alan Olsen wrote: >I bet the "National Curfew" crap that Clinton is trying to push is not going >down well either. He seems to think that the problems of a small fraction >of the country apply to the whole country... (But it makes for good sound >bites.) Yes, I have written about the local "curfew" in my local newsgroup (scruz.general), and I forwarded at least one of these articles to this list, as you may recall. Consistent with my views on gun control, mandatory doping of children, the outlawing of certain dietary items, and on and on, I would be mighty pissed if a kid of mine was picked up the cops and hauled off to a processing center for eventual disposition for the thought crime of being on the street without an excuse acceptable to the local gendarmes. (In fact, I think I'd be tempted to just not answer any phone calls from the reeducation center staffers; getting through to me on the phone can often be difficult, of course, and I doubt they know about e-mail.) I told someone in scruz.general who argued strongly for the need for curfews on kids that her points had convinced me, that I now understood her position, that I now agreed with it, and that I would be doing my part by making a citizen's arrest of any curfew violators I found in my area...especially cute 16-year-old girls. (I never heard from her again...after she stopped foaming at the mouth she probably contacted the Thought Crimes Task Force of the Sheriff's Department.) --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Fixes to loop.c et al. for DES,IDEA,stego now done
by Ian Goldberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- As I mentioned before, the hooks to DES (and IDEA; with Nicholas Leon's patches) in loop.c and {mount,losetup}(8) are horribly broken. For example, the DES key you type in is totally ignored, and only the first byte of the IDEA key you enter is relevant. As well, the DES code was using PCBC mode, and IDEA was using ECB mode. I've fixed the key management (the key is based on a SHA1 hash of the pass phrase you enter), and changed both DES and IDEA to use CBC mode. Adding other encryption methods (Blowfish, for example) should be straightforward. In fact, I'm planning to add a facility for dynamically adding and removing general data transformation modules (maybe for 2.1...). In addition, I've implemented steganography (hiding a filesystem in the low bits of, say, an audio file), and fixed some assorted bugs in loop.c (incorrect variables were being used in some places, and a deadlock was fixed having to do with making a loop device on top of another loop device). The patches are available from: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/index.html Since that site seems to be down a lot, there's an alternate site: ftp://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pub/linux-stego/index.html Note that there's one file that contains crypto that users outside of the US and Canada must not download. See below for further details and instructions. Attached is the text version of index.html. Share and enjoy. - Ian - -----------------8<--------------------8<---------------- Encryption and Steganography for Linux This directory contains patches to the Linux kernel to enable encryption and steganography of filesystems. Encryption allows you to have a scrambled partition or file that, with the proper pass phrase, you can mount, just like a normal filesystem. Steganography allows you to hide a filesystem in the low bits of, say, an audio file. You can even combine these two to hide a scrambled filesystem in the low bits of an audio file (see the example, below). Installation instructions 1. Get a fresh copy of linux-2.0.11.tar.gz from your favourite site. 2. Patch it with the loopfix-2.0.11.patch file found in this directory. This fixes some bugs in the loop block device driver, and adds steganography support to it. Hopefully this will go into the standard kernel soon. 3. Now you want to add cryptography support. Due to a strange US regulation, this has to be split up into two pieces. The first piece, export-2.0.11.patch, doesn't actually contain any cryptograhy; it just contains the changes to the Makefiles and documentation, etc. to reflect the eventual presence of cryptography. You should get this file and patch it into the result of step 2. 4. If the site you are downloading these files from is in the US or Canada, you may only download the second piece, crypto-2.0.11.patch, if you are also in the US or Canada. If you are not, here's what's in the file, and where to get it: o The file contains the files drivers/block/idea.c, kernel/des.c, include/linux/idea.h and include/linux/des.h. o To get these files, go visit http://www.binary9.net/nicholas/linuxkernel/patches/ and get the patches des-1.0.patch and idea-1.0.patch. o Edit these patches and remove everything in them that isn't related to one of the four files listed above. o What you have left should be functionally equivalent to crypto-2.0.11.patch. 5. Take either crypto-2.0.11.patch or what you got from outside the US, and patch it into the result of step 3. 6. You now have a complete kernel. Compile as usual. You will also need an updated version of the mount and losetup commands in order to use this. To get these, download mount-2.5k from ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/util/mount-2.5k.tar.gz. Then get the patch mount-2.5k.patch from this directory, and patch it into the sources. Compile and install. It would be really good if these patches to the kernel and to mount for steganography and encryption were made standard, and enabled by default. The reason for this is that it would be more suspicious for someone to have a "special" kernel with stego capabilities than to just have a regular kernel, configured in the default way. Sample encrypted and stego'd filesystem In this directory are two audio files. Alice-Bob.orig.au is a file I downloaded from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/theorique/Alice-Bob.html. The other file, Alice-Bob.au, is the same, except that it has an encrypted filesystem hidden in the low bit of each byte. You can listen to each of them, and see how much difference there is (it's just in the noise). To see the filesystem, get a new kernel and mount/losetup as descibed above. Also make sure you have loop devices in /dev/loop*, as described below. Then: # losetup -e stego /dev/loop0 Alice-Bob.au Use the low bits of each (b)yte, (s)hort, or (l)ong? (Use lowercase letters for little-endian; uppercase for big-endian.) b/s/l/B/S/L: [b] # mount /dev/loop0 /mnt -oloop,encryption=idea Pass phrase: What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain? # ls -al /mnt total 220 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Aug 4 10:47 ./ drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Aug 4 01:50 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Aug 4 10:46 lost+found/ - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 Aug 4 10:47 passwords - -rw------- 1 root root 208247 Aug 4 10:47 world_domination_plans # umount /mnt # losetup -d /dev/loop0 Usage instructions First, make sure you have devices called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1, ..., /dev/loop7. If not, make them as follows: # cd /dev # for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod loop$i b 7 $i; done # chgrp disk /dev/loop[0-7] # chmod 660 /dev/loop[0-7] A note on choosing pass phrases: Pass phrases can be up to 128 characters long. It's in your best interests to choose a good one. Make it long, and hard to guess. There are FAQs out there on how to choose a good pass phrase, I think. Finally, here is a copy of the file Documentation/filesystems/loop_crypt.txt: Encryption and Steganography for Linux - -------------------------------------- The "loop" block device driver allows you to "hide" a filesystem in a disk partition or in a regular file, either using encryption (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low bits of, say, a sound file). To use this, you will need updated versions of the "mount" and "losetup" commands. They are both in the mount-2.5k, which you can get from ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/util/mount-2.5k.tar.gz but you will need to patch it with the changes from ftp://ftp.csua.berkley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/mount-2.5k.pat… Also, if you want to use DES or IDEA encryption and not just XOR (which, encryptionwise, is really terrible), you'll need to get the crypto patches to the kernel. If you're in the US or Canada, you can get them from ftp://ftp.csua.berkley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/crypto.patch Otherwise, check ftp://ftp.csua.berkley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/index.html to see how to get them. How to use it - ------------- Here are a number of examples: To create an encrypted floppy (using IDEA): Put a floppy in drive 0. # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k seek=8 # losetup -e idea /dev/loop0 /dev/fd0 Pass phrase: (type a pass phrase here, up to 128 characters) # mke2fs /dev/loop0 # losetup -d /dev/loop0 To use it again: # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -text2 -oloop,encryption=idea Pass phrase: (type the same pass phrase) # cd /mnt (use the disk) # cd / # umount /mnt To make a DES-encrypted filesystem in a regular file: Decide on a filename and how big you want your encrypted filesystem to be. Suppose you choose /root/private/rndseed as your filename, and you want it to be 10MB (10240K). Create it as follows: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/root/private/rndseed bs=1k count=10240 # losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /root/private/rndseed Pass phrase: (type a pass phrase here, up to 128 characters) # mke2fs /dev/loop0 # losetup -d /dev/loop0 To use it: # mount /root/private/rndseed /mnt -text2 -oloop,encryption=des Pass phrase: (type the same pass phrase) # cd /mnt (use the disk) # cd / # umount /mnt There is an additional "feature" (well, _I_ think it's a feature) by which you could mount the above filesystem on /root/private, even though a file in that directory is being used to store the filesystem itself. (Note of course that the encrypted file won't be visible when the filesystem is mounted, and that only loop files don't count as "usage"; if you're _in_ that directory, or some process has any file in that directory open, the mount won't work.) To hide an IDEA-encrypted filesystem in the low bits of an audio file: Let "penguin.au" be your sound file. # losetup -e stego /dev/loop0 penguin.au Use the low bits of each (b)yte, (s)hort, or (l)ong? (Use lowercase letters for little-endian; uppercase for big-endian.) b/s/l/B/S/L: [b] (.au files store 1-byte samples, so say "b" here) # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/loop0 bs=1k seek=8 # losetup -e idea /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0 Pass phrase: (type a pass phrase here, up to 128 characters) # mke2fs /dev/loop1 # losetup -d /dev/loop1 # losetup -d /dev/loop0 And to use it: # losetup -e stego /dev/loop0 penguin.au Use the low bits of each (b)yte, (s)hort, or (l)ong? (Use lowercase letters for little-endian; uppercase for big-endian.) b/s/l/B/S/L: [b] (.au files store 1-byte samples, so say "b" here) # mount /dev/loop0 /mnt -text2 -oloop,encryption=idea Pass phrase: (type a pass phrase here, up to 128 characters) # cd /mnt (read secret info from files here) # cd / # umount /mnt # losetup -d /dev/loop0 Note: if you don't have /dev/urandom, do this: # cd /dev # mknod random c 1 8 # mknod urandom c 1 9 # chown root.root random urandom # chmod 666 random urandom Last update: 19960806 by Ian Goldberg <ian(a)cypherpunks.ca> This work derives from work by a number of people, including: Werner Almesberger <almesber(a)bernina.ethz.ch> Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer(a)cwi.nl> Ian Goldberg <ian(a)cypherpunks.ca> Nicholas J. Leon <nicholas(a)binary9.net> Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)athena.mit.edu> Eric Young <eay(a)psych.psy.uq.oz.au> - -----------------8<--------------------8<---------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMgfZsEZRiTErSPb1AQGf9wP8Cu0h79vowZVME3dJGhCQM8AbelCOHEck O51uZ6o5Fwv3mPsZ0E15IyYns1mLYT4slWQ2VY2vEoTsT6pM4og+45/ZP3aRJh5i mBgNulbRvxf/eqlmDBT6433JFrdAVAWHwGcMFTUXewHQJZ3x4WyIzvk1hHv++OGo jn96Pbr71Qs= =13QI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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"Eternity service" paper request
by Allen Robinson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Aug 06 20:53:31 1996 A couple of weeks ago Hal mentioned Ross Anderson's Eternity Service paper (URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk:80/users/rja14/#Lib) As Hal described it at the time: >The goal of the Eternity service is to make published information >permanently and ineradicably available, despite efforts on the part of >powerful attackers to destroy it. The attack model explicitly >includes governments. This has obvious relevance to current >controversies involving copyright, trade secrets, etc. [. . . .] >Anderson's basic concept is of a network of storage servers in widely >scattered jurisdictions. He uses cryptography so that although the >servers store data, no single computer knows exactly what is stored in >the encrypted files it holds. Keys to the data are spread across the >network using secret sharing techniques, with mutual cooperation among >the servers being necessary to decrypt files. (I believe the files >themselves are redundantly stored on individual servers, but they are >encrypted with keys which are split.) Anonymous communications are >used among the network of computers to reply to requests, so that >attackers can't tell which computer produced a requested document. At the time I thought this sounds quite interesting and filed the information away for a time when I would have an opportunity to get the paper and read it. I finally created that opportunity recently only to find the paper at the above URL in a format I have a *lot* of difficulty reading. I'm a little embarrassed to ask such a thing, but does anyone know a location where this paper resides in plain-vanilla ASCII? Many thanks. AR #%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%# "The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton, Oct. 15, 1995 at the University of Connecticut. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Allen Robinson.........................sebago(a)earthlink.net PGP public key FE4A0A75 available from major keyservers fingerprint 170FBC1F7609B76F 967F1CC8FCA7A41F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMgf3H3sdZ07+Sgp1AQHEYQP/cthh/U8MwguYjuDJkrMNScwCaLrBm+rv 7SJS5Oogln7ItVfMDCUGISVNABCg4gr4taqW8OnStmegZxqsYJevLu5qYVTPvdWG wPDbBu2rHfHc6aHS1am727Vv9EJTb452tlDkXQuQApH4TUh9mYUe6oIxVenKSxNC jbPGgzxgvvo= =qhoi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: regulating the internet
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: Jennifer DePalma <jdepalma(a)cato.org> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Thursday, April 02, 1998 11:24 AM Subject: regulating the internet >Anyone have any opinions on the feasibility of regulating the internet? What is life? [Please reply by private, encrypted email--I plan to sell the answer by email MLM.]

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The modem tax never left...
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> >To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu >Subject: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1869,00.html The NotReally News ReportWhore informs us: > * * * > Is the "modem tax" back? FCC Commissioner Susan Ness said on > Monday that ISPs might have to pay so-called universal service charges > that help subsidize cheap rural phone service and school and library > Internet connections. Declan, Something that Republican children of the post-JFK generation all remember is where they were when George Bush said, "Read my (moving) lips...No New Taxes!" The great tragedy of their times, though they still fail to recognize it even today, is that the citizens present at that occassion did not rush the stage and drag him to the nearest tree with a limb strong enough to hold his weight when a rope was thrown over it and attached to his neck. The sticky PrePubescizens of the WebGeneration will someday regret that their parents stood by and didn't even bother watching as the Analogue Lies of the Controllers were transformed into Digital Lies suitable for implant into the brains of the Robotizens, via the infrared wave emission capabilities of TeleTunnelVision and JavasCrapGraphics. I know that you make your living in the Belly of the DCBeast, so you don't want to slay the Monster Who Lays The Golden Eggs, but couldn't you at least try to make sure that the Monster gets a little of the Bad Eggs it is hurling at the Flockizens on its own face? How about some headlines such as: "Lying Piece of DC Shit Claims Hands-Off Internet Policy" "Arrogant Thieves Expect Victims To Believe They Won't Shake Down NetUsers." "Armed Terrorists Fake Retreat To Draw Victims Into Ambush." > * * * >Some excerpts from Commissioner Ness' remarks: > > "Local telcos complain that data calls typically last much > longer than voice calls, tying up switches and requiring > the addition of more capacity in the loop and the central > office. And this is True (TM)? Are there any real reporters left in the media who are capable of analyzing the Claims (TM) being made by those promoting Facts (TM) meant to serve their own-self interests? (Not a 'crime', but neither should it be a 'gimme.') Is their anyone in the techno-reporting industry who is capable of including an analysis of the claims of various players in the game of Buy The Pot? Are any of those reporting on the Telecos' claims capable of informing those with a limited knowledge of the technology involved if the analog and digital signals being discussed are comparable in terms of the 'burden' that they place on the Telecos, or if InterNet service would be more efficient or competitive if put into the hands of other communications infrastructures? If the local Telecos are finding themselves 'burdened' by InterNet traffic, then perhaps they should share that terrible burden with Cable Companies, and other entities who would like a chance to compete for the InterNet business which is currently in the dictatorial grip of the Regulators Who Feed At The Teleco Trough. I expect that I can find the answers to the questions I have about these matters by reading a mountain of information from various sources, and then distilling it down to manageable proportions suitable for analysis. It seems to me that if the media is not providing that type of service to me, then I might save myself time by accessing the original 'press releases' by various government and corporate entities, and not have to wade through mountains of media 'news' which adds little to what was handed to them on a silver platter for advertising/disinformation/promotion purposes. ~ ~ Toto ~ ~ "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/xenix "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/webworld "InfoWar -- The Digital Revolution" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/infowar3 "Space Aliens Hide My Drugs" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/sahmd

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by V75ortex 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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instructs for using PGP 5 freeware with Eudora and 2.6.2 keys
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since I grew impatient navigating geocities' UI, I am sending this in the hope that it will be useful. Propogate at will. Using Eudora+PGP 5 with 2.6.2-Compatible RSA Keys for Win95 for Dummies 4/3/98 honig(a)alum.mit.edu Intro I explain how to install and use the slick Eudora and PGP 5 freeware on Windows95 while maintaining full back-compatability with PGP v. 2.6.2 users. The installation path for compatability with 262 is not the obvious one a new user would take. Thus this document. The install takes about 10 minutes and the software is free. The strength of your key is the same. What is Eudora? PGP? Eudora is a popular, powerful, easy to use GUI POP3 email client. Free versions are available. PGP is a public-key encryption package. PGP 5 freeware includes a plug-in for Eudora, making secure email not only possible, but nearly transparent. That is key to widespread use which is key to the success of any protocol. But some people use only PGP 2.6.2, or 262 it is built into their MacOS. The problem is that 262 uses "RSA" keys only, but PGP 5 can also use "Diffie-Hellman" keys. In fact, the freeware version of PGP 5 does not allow the creation of RSA keys. These instructions tell you how to set up Eudora + PGP so you can painlessly use these tools with all popular PGP versions. The newer PGP does not generate keys that the earlier PGP can use; but the newer version imports them. So if we take the trouble to use the older version of PGP to make our key, we can use our slick GUI email tools with everyone, even the 2.6.2 throwbacks who probably use rotary phones, carburators, etc. I use "PGP 2.6.2 key" to mean the RSA key version supported by PGP 2.6.2, and "PGP 5 key" to mean the Diffie-Hellman key supported by the freeware version. Both variants are based on the ease of multiplying two numbers and difficulty of factoring the product of large indivisible ("prime") numbers. Installation Instructions You will use defaults everywhere. 1. Download and install Eudora lite 3.05 (eul305.exe) from http://eudora.qualcomm.com/eudoralight/ This creates c:\Eudora by default. Use Tools | Options | Getting Started and Hosts to specify your POP email account (e.g., joe(a)xyz.com) and your SMTP (outgoing) host (e.g., mail.isp.com) TEST: Run Eudora, send yourself email, wait a minute, retrieve it, exit. 2. Download and install PGP 5 freeware (pgpinstall.exe) Do NOT create a key if asked to do so. PGP 5 makes keys incompatible with PGP 2.6.2. You will use a 2.6.2-compatible key you make later on. This creates c:\Program Files\PGP\PGP5.0 and installs a plug-in to Eudora. TEST: Start Eudora, look for PGP tools in toolbar. Easier Setup If You Can: 1 & 2. Download Eudora + PGP together from http://eudora.qualcomm.com/eudoralight/ and install. (I can't access this so I don't know about installing it.) TEST: send yourself email as above. Check for PGP tools as above. HERE'S THE RETRO-COMPATABILITY PART 3. Download pgp262.zip. Create new directory c:\pgp262. Go there. Unzip the file there. Read the instructions, you may have to set some variables before using PGP262 SET PGPPATH=C:\PGP262 SET PATH=C:\PGP262;%PATH% SET TZ=PST8PDT While in that directory: 4. Create a 2.6.2 key with PGP 2.6.2: Run "pgp -kg" and do what it says. You will provide a username. Use your email address. You will also provide a passphrase to hide your private key. Pick a phrase you can remember, that others can't guess. You'll have to type your passphrase to prove who you are (when you use your private key). 5. Export your 2.6.2 key to a file: Run "pgp -kxa yourname mykey" where "yourname" is the username you used above. This creates a file mykey.asc which is your public key suitable for emailing. 6. Import your key into PGP 5: Double click on the file "mykey.asc" that you just created. 7. Make sure your PGP262 key is your Default (e.g., if you made a PGP 5 key): Run PGPKeys, e.g., from Eudora. Select your key with the blue icon. Right-click to see its properties. Its key type should be "RSA". Right-click and select Set As Default. TO TEST PGP Send yourself a regular email addressed to the username you used above, which should be your email address, to verify that functionality didn't break. Then send a second letter, this time, select Eudora's PGP MIME button AND the PGP Encrypt button. Then send your letters. Wait a bit, and retrieve your mail as you did before. To read the encrypted version run the Plug-in. You will be prompted for your passphrase. If one of your dinosaur 2.6.2 associates sends you a block of text, use the PGP Decrypt button. You will be prompted for your passphrase. To send email to other people, you will have to import their public keys. Security Note Your private key is hidden in the \Program Files\PGP\PGP50\SECRING.SCR file. Its also in the c:\pgp262\SECRING.PGP file. If threse files are copied by opponents, only your passphrase stands between them and your secret key. Your mykey.asc file is the opposite: it should be published so people can send messages to you (and verify that you signed and sent what was received by them, etc.) PGPKeys lets you export your key to a well-known server which functions like a phone directory. honig(a)alum.mit.edu ------------------ "Are we going after their tax returns? I can only hope that we are, frankly, doing a little persecuting" ---Nixon to Erlichman, on tax audits of wealth Jewish contributors to the Democrats. -LA Times 1.4.98

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V-Chip Reruns...
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A member of Peacefire (http://www.peacefire.org/join/) who has volunteered to pull the Fire Alarm at a White House To Be Named Later, on April 19th, at 9:02 a.m., forwarded: ******************************************************* [In honor of April Fool's Day, the following message about a "V-Chip for books" was first posted on the Internet two years ago on April 1, 1996. During that time, Internet censorship was a national concern after the passing of the Communications Decency Act, and censorship systems for the Internet, like the V-Chip for television, were just starting to gain public attention. The news of a "V-Chip for books" was met with an outpouring of support from some parents who apparently didn't recognize it as a joke.] [Forwarder's Note: There was also a great outpouring of support for the gentleman who began the non-profit society promoting the clothing of animals, to cover their 'private parts.' While fools like yourself 'work for a living,' eh?] News Release -- April 1st, 1996 V-chip rating system extended to books CLA endorses 'V-barcode' plan The Canadian Library Association today announced its intention to comply with the wishes of millions of Canadians who had signed a petition decrying the increasing presence of "vivid imagery of sex and violence" in books targetted at children. "Once my daughter started reading books in the 'Goose Bumps' series", says one concerned parent, "reading became like an addiction to her." Even though the books were so violent and scary the girl had nightmares. "Soon she started reading beyond her grade level and was getting into books with 'adult themes'." The problem, say most busy parents, is that kids can visit the local library and borrow anything they choose, regardless of their family's values. The new book rating system, modelled after television's highly successful V-chip, has been dubbed the V-barcode, because each book will have a machine-readable "barcode" on the spine that encodes a rating of the book's contents on several scales: sex, violence, coarse language, drug use, religion, and 'alternative lifestyles'. "This isn't about censorship", says Keith Spicer, who recently joined the CLA as policy director after leaving the CRTC, "this is about choice, ... about empowering parents to make choices." Under the new system, parents will select their family's "tolerance levels" on each scale. These are encoded as a barcode on their child's library card. When a child wants to borrow a book, the librarian simply passes the library card and book over a scanner (just like the ones used in the supermarket) and a screen instantly displays whether authorization should be granted. "It's a marvel of technology", bubbles Spicer, "it's just like the child's parent is there, saying to the child -- 'No, we don't borrow that kind of book in this family.'". The CLA dismisses complaints the system will be burdensome. "We already have barcodes on most books, so the cost of the new system will be incidental", said a CLA spokesperson. Library patrons can expect to pay an additional $5 per year over their normal borrowing fees. "The V-barcode is just a small part of the overall solution for dealing with violence in books," says Spicer. "The best way of dealing with bad books is to have more good books, and we hope that once children stop borrowing the bad books publishers will start printing books of better quality." There are still a few wrinkles to be worked out, however. Some skeptical parents think children might start hanging out in libraries -- where they can still read books they aren't allowed to borrow. Still, to many parents, the new system gives a parent more control over what their child reads than is the case without this technology. "It's a social experiment worth trying", says one parent, "It will be interesting to see what guidelines will be drawn up and who will be doing the drawing. It will force people to reflect on ethics and reading, which is something we could afford to be more reflective about." Enthusiasts of the V-barcode would like to see its use expanded. "We'd like to see the V-barcode system adopted in bookstores", says Keith Spicer, "We've already got a pilot project going with the Cole's Bookstore chain and the Bank of Montreal where the parental tolerance levels are encoded into the mag-stripe on the child's bank card." A book purchase can be declined at the checkout if it exceeds the family's tolerance levels. "Cash purchases," says Spicer, "are still a problem."

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