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Re: Regards
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Witty retort to the flames :) I like this one. ---Christopher Barkley <christopher.barkley(a)srcm.com> wrote: > > Apparently, I just spammed your list a couple of days ago; my > apologies. Some zithead listed your email address in the Six Degrees > networking service and starting asking people to be his contacts. One > can only hope his fate is neither swift nor pretty. (I bear some of the > blame; I should have recognized the email address since I have several > friends on the list.) > > At any rate, my thanks to Tom Perry for his polite explanation of the > situation. > > As for the REST of you who responded, you have my sympathies. With any > luck, they'll get that thorazine prescription refilled soon. > > Cheerio, > Christopher > == "The same thing we do every night Pinkey, try to take over the WORLD!" - The brain _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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arms collectors...
by David Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Forwarded message from "Thomas B. Roach" <sigint(a)thegrid.net> ----- Washington Times, 25 Sep 98 Operable missile seized in customs By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES U.S. and British authorities are investigating how a Russian-design Scud missile was imported illegally by a weapons collector in California, The Washington Times has learned. "This is a full-blown missile," said John Hensley, a senior agent of the U.S. Customs Service in Los Angeles. "The only thing missing is the warhead." A Scud B missile and its mobile transporter-erector launcher --minus the warhead -- were seized Sept. 2 by customs agents in Port Hueneme, Calif., about 35 miles north of Los Angeles, said officials familiar with the case. The missile system was licensed for importation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. But paperwork in the case was falsified, and the missile system was not "demilitarized" -- rendered inoperable -- as required by import rules, Mr. Hensley told The Times. British customs officials are investigating the seller, a small firm outside London, and U.S. investigators are questioning an arms collector from Portola Valley, Calif., near Palo Alto, who bought the system, Mr. Hensley said. The missile transfer has raised fears about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile-delivery systems. It also could be an embarrassment for the Clinton administration, which is engaged in a major international diplomatic effort to halt missile exports by Russia and China to the Middle East. The importation raises questions about U.S. national security controls. Mr. Hensley said U.S. military experts examined the missile and determined that it was produced in Czechoslovakia in 1985. The missile was identified as an SS-1C, which the Pentagon has designated as a Scud B. Transfers of missiles like the Scud B, with a range of 186 miles, are banned under the international export agreement known as the Missile Technology Control Regime. Customs officials said the missile was not identified until it was driven off the British freighter that delivered it and an inspector called customs agents to examine it. Such weapons can be imported but must first be cut up with a blowtorch so they can never be reassembled. The officials identified the buyer only as a wealthy man who is a U.S. citizen. He is a legitimate arms collector -- apparently not linked to terrorists or illicit arms dealers. But the false paperwork has raised questions about the deal and prompted the U.S. investigation. Mr. Hensley said the buyer had purchased a Scud missile earlier that had been properly rendered inoperable. But a photograph of that missile was attached to the illegal system, seized Sept. 2, in an effort to fool customs officials. After examining the missile, customs agents called the ATF and were surprised to learn that an ATF license had been issued for the missile importation. "We thought they were nuts," said one official close to the case. The missile system is being stored at the Navy's Pacific Missile Testing Center in nearby Point Mugu, near Oxnard, where it has been impounded. John D'Angelo, an ATF agent in Los Angeles, had no official comment on the case. "Routinely, the ATF and U.S. Customs Service examine items to determine their suitability for importation under federal regulations," he said. "We have not yet completed the inspection of this importation and therefore can't discuss it." The SS-1 Scud is a liquid-fueled missile that is among the most widely deployed weapons in the world. It is in service with more than 16 nations. Iraq's military forces were able to extend the range of the missile, which was fired extensively during the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The chassis of the missile's launcher was identified as a MAZ-543 truck used commonly by the former Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces for short-range missiles. "The guidance was totally intact and the engine was ready to go," Mr. Hensley said. "All you needed to do was strap on a garbage can full of C-4 and you had a weapon." C-4 is military high explosive. Concerning how the missile was handled by the British firm, Mr. Hensley said, "It is illegal to import this into the U.K., so the Brits are wondering how this guy got this company to do this." Investigators suspect the missile may have been bought in Europe on the black market. "Our concern is not so much that [the buyer] might have a licensing problem," Mr. Hensley said. "It's just that in the aftermath of the embassy bombings in Africa and the Oklahoma City bombing, that this could be a real problem." The Customs Service is intensifying its efforts to check for illegal imports of such weapons, he said. Stephen Bryen, a former Pentagon technology-transfer official, said weapons like the Scud must be fully dismantled before they can be allowed into the country. "You have to worry anytime somebody brings a missile into the United States, whatever cover it might be," Mr. Bryen said. He noted that terrorists or rogue states could use such collectors to acquire missiles illegally.

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High-Class Hoards
by Shift Control 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This week in the award-winning Shift Control... The Hoarding Issue "Nowadays Charles Saatchi buys up entire shows of new talent in the Young Brit Art pack. Recently he bought nearly all the Chapman brothers' disturbing child mannequins with penises and anuses in peculiar places. And the whole of the Martin Maloney show, 'Die Yuppie Scum'. I imagine his art depository must be as big as an out-of-town IKEA store, with fork-lift trucks whizzing around it and people with clipboards checking stock." - Professor Lisa Jardine on art collectors, the ultimate hoarders. "Mum keeps throwing more and more pairs of shoes into the black hole at the bottom of her wardrobe, never to be seen again, even though she might only have worn them once. This shoe fixation is a trait the rest of the family seems to have inherited. Normal kids inherit eye colour from their parents; we all got the urge to stash flip-flops." - Emma Caldwell on growing up in a house of maniacal hoarders. "Charlie describes himself as a 'guardian of logic'. 'I've seen some super-open people, into Buddhism and Feng shui and geomancing. But that,' says Charlie, nodding towards the hoard of jumble, 'is an ecclesiastical anathema, trying to combine all things, all religions together.'" - Shift Control rumbles through jumble and finds a philosopher in the closet. Plus: The Shift Control Gallery, the world's first bionic bee, and a chance to win 200 smackers in our short story competition. All waiting for you NOW at http://www.shiftcontrol.com _____________________________________________ Shift Control is produced by the Guardian's New Media Lab with help from Boddingtons and Stella Artois Dry To unsubscribe from this mailing list send e-mail to shiftcontrol-request(a)nml.guardian.co.uk with the following text in the body of the mail message: unsubscribe

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17 Dec '03

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New CIA Rule on Information Access
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The CIA has published in the Federal Register today interim rules and soliciting comments prior to adoption of final rules to implement its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, and Executive Order 12958 provisions relating to classification challenges by authorized holders, requests for mandatory declassification review, and access by historical researchers. http://jya.com/cia061697.txt (150K)

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer(a)dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer(a)huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman(a)jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"dustbin"} = "<dustman(a)athensnet.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek mix reord middle"; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"wazoo"} = "<remailer(a)wazoo.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"shaman"} = "<remailer(a)lycaeum.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"hidden"} = "<remailer(a)hidden.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) (weasel squirrel) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers. The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems for incoming mail. The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 16 Jun 97 6:49:32 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de +--+--+--+- 1:51:30 99.94% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de +-+++-+--+- 1:48:38 99.93% hidden remailer(a)hidden.net -###_____.+- 31:17:55 99.88% balls remailer(a)huge.cajones.com ####+# -+## 37:39 99.73% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com --.-.-...-. 10:15:59 99.71% replay remailer(a)replay.com ** * **-++* 7:46 99.62% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca ***** ++ ++* 12:39 99.58% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net ---+_---.--- 2:05:48 99.44% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net ** * **+++** 21:08 98.20% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net ---------- - 6:05:20 98.03% lucifer lucifer(a)dhp.com ++ ++++-+++ 42:58 97.94% nym config(a)nym.alias.net # 2:46 51.51% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challenge.
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Press Release Anguilla, June 16, 1997 Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challenge. The Caribbean country of Anguilla has searched through more than 2,380,000,000,000 code keys as part of the Deschall effort to break a DES encrypted message. This is in response to a challenge by RSA Inc to show that DES 56 bit keys are not large enough given the rapid advances in computing technology. As of June 16th, the entire US military effort, represented by Internet machine names ending in ".mil" in the Deschall statistics pages, has searched fewer keys. Anguilla host names end in ".com.ai". Anguilla is a free and democratic country, that does not limit key lengths. Offshore Information Services organized the Anguilla effort. OIS also hosted a conference in Anguilla called "Financial Cryptography 97" in February of this year. Deschall: http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm RSA: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/ Offshore: http://www.offshore.com.ai/ Statistics: http://www.frii.com/~rcv/krstat/ FC97: http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vincent Cate Offshore Information Services Vince(a)Offshore.com.ai http://www.offshore.com.ai/ Anguilla, BWI http://www.offshore.com.ai/vince ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Jim Bell 6
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On June 26 the court handling Jim's case extended the time from June 30 to July 11 for the USA to file an indictment. This is from an on-line docket of the case via Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) a subcription service for federal courts. No indication that Jim has been released, jailed since his arrest on May 16. No reason given for repeated waiver of right to a speedy trial. The docket's at: http://jya.com/jimbell-dock.htm

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[ANNOUNCE] PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from MIT
by Jeffrey I. Schiller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: The PGP Community From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis(a)mit.edu> Subject: PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from MIT I am pleased to announce the availability of PGP 5.0 Freeware from the MIT Web Site. PGP 5.0 Freeware is available for non-commercial use under license from MIT, PGP Inc. It uses the RSAREF toolkit licensed from RSA Data Security. This new version is a long awaited major upgrade and improvement to PGP 2.6.2. It has a native Windows '95, Windows NT and Macintosh interface. It supports additional ciphers, as well as new key types and message formats. Internally it is much improved as well. This release marks a major transition to a new public key infrastructure based on the Diffie-Hellman (DH) public key algorithm for privacy and the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) for digital signatures. The RSA algorithm is still supported and this version will work with the old RSA keys you may already have. However all new keys generated by this version will be DH/DSS keys. Many of the internal performance improvements are only available when used exclusively with DH/DSS keys (this is because using RSA keys requires PGP 5.0 to be backward compatible with PGP 2.6.2 which requires PGP 5.0 to use less efficient message formats). This version also includes automated keyserver support. It can automatically fetch PGP keys from the MIT keyserver (and other keyservers) as well as offer to upload any newly created keys. It also comes with plug-ins for Eudora and other major mail utilities. At the moment it is only available for Windows '95, NT and MacOS. A Unix (Linux) version is in the works but isn't ready yet, but we hope to have it ready within a week or two. Source code for this version was distributed at last weekend's cypherpunks meeting in hard copy form. Source will eventually be made available electronically, but isn't ready yet. You can find the Freeware PGP at either the PGP Home Page at: http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html or directly at: http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp-form.html Note: We anticipate a significant amount of traffic while people throughout the U.S. and Canada download PGP. Please be patient with the server (and with us)! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM6V9psUtR20Nv5BtAQE9IgP+OuB+wHml5C47s3YJjfbNq+3FWmql+DrG AE5Dag8aahKGf73SYHByhCZXowCzE0g8QeAx9VYpXy9CHp5GiSE8Iks1/U0AKz1h cxcQ2Etp7x2js9GAfP8ueD01RlIguQsh2hIP0cU9ymy8Fn1b7OscWk9hhmDjgBpv O36Lt5gPBwM= =+zQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: IBM sues critics?
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <1.5.4.32.19970614201321.009a8b38(a)pop.pipeline.com>, on 06/14/97 at 04:13 PM, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> said: >Secret Squirrel wrote: >>According to a usually reliable contact in a position to know, IBM Friday >>filed a liable suit against the 11 authors of the study >>titled "The risks of key recovery, key escrow and trusted third-party >>encryption" plus their employers and the Centere for Democracy and >>Technology, which sponsored the report. According to my contact, IBM >>feels that the report directly targets their own key recovery system, >>and falsely implies that it isn't reliable. They are asking for >>unspecified damages. >If this report is true it's worth taking a look at IBM's policy paper >"The need for a global cryptographic policy framework" to understand why >the key study report is such a threat to >Blue's global market strategy: > http://www.ibm.com/security/html/pp_global.html >IBM's economic incentive to attack the report is substantial, not least >because it hopes to garner the lion's share of global GAK -- >not that that's news. Has there been any conformation on this? I would like to get in touch with some of my contacts at IBM but would like to have some info on this first. Thanks, - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6VncI9Co1n+aLhhAQE7VQQAuDOBM3aqTCbaK/5nPLl1TLaAkHWSIC4h /eOJFw7/EJ1ZQWGj5lxHg2es6+MFSrue5/KnOn0evsJtLnQjX4icYyhzhao2cXYY 9EPaew0FMLHRtJrB0sXlWOeyteRqFstVEkQb7jtqUqxbjNU1A/FZlbr7dclRZ56B nVTBAqZBOzA= =tD2h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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