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Re: Electronic Revolution and Guerilla Warfare?
by System Operator 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Kelly.Goen(a)Eng.Sun.COM (Kelly Goen [CONTRACTOR]) writes: > I would suggest initially that one examine the > e-book "Terminal Compromise" by Winn Schwartau and also > Information Warfare by the same author. In addition one also may want [...] > Check out loompanics press... they have many such titles useful to your > research... also checkout Paladin Press and Loompanics press. I second the motion for Loompanics and Paladin Press. Two books that might be directly related, both from Paladin Press and both by Lawrence W. Myers are "SPYCOMM: Covert Communication Techniques of the Underground" and "Improvised Radio Jamming Techniques: Electronic Guerrilla Warfare." Both are full of practical, "nuts and bolts" discussions of the issues you're pursuing. Dan -- system(a)decode.com (System Operator) Cryptography, Security, Privacy BBS +1 410 730 6734 Data/FAX

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Re: your mail
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Black Unicorn <unicorn(a)access.digex.net> Market forces are lathargic, sometimes they need a boost. I propose this boost be accomplished with motivators like tax breaks, market assisters and privatization. . . . . Anyone who thinks the Federal Government is the driving force behind the majority of technological advancement (aside the space program and military hardware) needs to take a good look. .............................................................. Market forces being lethargic, sometimes they need a little boot, a little tax break, a little assistance. Anyone who doesn't think so needs to examine their current Federal allowance. Blanc

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penet remailer
by fhalper＠pilot.njin.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What's the status of the penet.fi remailer. Is it secure? Reuben -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reuben Halper "I'm not growing up, I'm just burnin' out." Montclair High - Green Day - Montclair, NJ E-mail: fhalper(a)pilot.njin.net or PGP 2.6ui Public Key Reuben8878(a)aol.com available upon request --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: A practical use of c'punk brain power.
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

bogus(a)no.return.address sez: :Greetings c'punks! : I have an Excel 4.0 spreadsheet to which I do not have the password. :Do any of you know a clever way to break the Excel protection either :by divining the password or removing the layer of encryption in the :file? : I reply: Found this on alt.security, you said any help appriciated so here goes. Pleeeeeeeze, no flames. Newsgroups: alt.security From: agriffiths(a)vnet.ibm.com (Alan Griffiths) Subject: Re: Excel pass crack Sender: news(a)hawnews.watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Message-ID: <CwH0Jo.15sv(a)hawnews.watson.ibm.com> Approved: myself Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 08:21:24 GMT Lines: 103 Reply-To: agriffiths(a)vnet.ibm.com (Alan Griffiths) Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM. References: <Rw+xX1t.cinepott(a)delphi.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: nhbrp75.caanerc.uk.ibm.com Organization: LORAL CAA NERC Project X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.01 In <Rw+xX1t.cinepott(a)delphi.com>, Bob <cinepott(a)delphi.com> writes: >Someone was looking for a crack to excel's passwords, apparently they >forgot their password ? Well I found these helpful tidbits posted >previously. > >|>Encryption of Ms Excel files >|> From: Fabio Ottolina <fabio(a)tdc.dircon.co.uk> >|> Date: 29 Jan 1994 12:51:18 GMT (1 screen) >|> >|> I have saved an Excel 4.0 for Windows file with password-protection, and >|>I can't remember the password (how remarkably stupid! :-)). >|>Is there any way to crack the password-protection of Excel files? You may find the following program of help. I am sorry it's in QBasic but that's the only free language I have at present. The program removes document protection from Excel worksheets. I haven't tested it extensively so there are no guarantees or warranties. Always keep a backup copy of your files etc... The protection scheme does two things: 1. When you protect your document, Excel hashes your password to a 16 bit value, stores it somewhere and sets a few flags to say that the document is protected. 2. When Excel saves a protected document it encrypts the content of each block using 16 different alphabetic substitutions. This allows Excel to read and display protected documents before knowing their password. The program below unscrambles a protected document, removes an extra 8 byte block at the beginning, and resets the flags and passwords to zero. I don't know if it can cope with all combinations of protection available in Excel. It works fine on the simple protect document option. Similarly, charts etc. will probably get munged since I don't think the titles etc get scrambled. Hope this stuff is of use to someone. Alan. PS. Ironically enough, I found Excel of great value in recovering the set of magic numbers used in the program. It allowed me to very quickly generate and evaluate possible decryption formulae! -------------------cut here------------------------------ DECLARE FUNCTION decrypt$ (c$, adr&, blen%) DEFINT A-Z DIM SHARED magic(15) FOR i = 0 TO 15 READ magic(i) NEXT DATA 196, 115, 164, 32, 60, 91, 212, 23, 240, 31, 40, 19, 240, 75, 180, 3 COLOR 14, 1 CLS INPUT "Enter input Cyphertext filename: ", cf$ INPUT "Enter output Plaintext filename: ", pf$ OPEN pf$ FOR BINARY ACCESS WRITE AS #1 OPEN cf$ FOR BINARY ACCESS READ AS #2 chdr$ = INPUT$(18, #2) phdr$ = LEFT$(chdr$, 10) PUT #1, , phdr$ fp& = 10 cbh$ = INPUT$(4, #2) WHILE NOT EOF(2) PUT #1, , cbh$ blen = ASC(MID$(cbh$, 3, 1)) + 256 * ASC(MID$(cbh$, 4, 1)) btyp = ASC(MID$(cbh$, 1, 1)) + 256 * ASC(MID$(cbh$, 2, 1)) fp& = fp& + 4 IF blen > 0 THEN cblk$ = INPUT$(blen, #2) x$ = decrypt$(cblk$, fp& - 4, blen) IF blen = 2 THEN SELECT CASE btyp CASE 18, 19, 99 x$ = STRING$(2, 0) END SELECT END IF PUT #1, , x$ END IF fp& = fp& + blen cbh$ = INPUT$(4, #2) WEND CLOSE #1 CLOSE #2 END FUNCTION decrypt$ (c$, adr&, blen) offset = (adr& + blen) AND 15 d$ = STRING$(blen, 0) FOR i = 1 TO blen c = ASC(MID$(c$, i, 1)) crot = ((c * 8) MOD 256) OR (c \ 32) ctst = magic(offset) clss = (2 * (crot AND ctst)) AND 255 d = (256 + crot + ctst - clss) AND 255 MID$(d$, i, 1) = CHR$(d) offset = (offset + 1) AND 15 NEXT decrypt$ = d$ END FUNCTION -------------------cut here------------------------------ Alan Griffiths CAA NERC Project agriffiths(a)vnet.ibm.com Tel: +44-705-561325 Fax: +44-705-214094 All opinions expressed are my own and do not represent IBM in any way

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NYC C'PUNKS MEETING
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, If you live in the NYC area or will be visiting this coming weekend, you are invited to a Cypherpunks get-together. We will be meeting at Linn & Barbara Stanton's apartment on Saturday from noon till whenever. The Stanton's live at 315 W. 106th, Apt. 2A in Manhattan. This is between West End and Riverside. The nearest subway station is on the 1 and 9 lines at 103rd. If you need better directions, call them at (212) 316-1958. We will actually start at noon, so plan to arrive sometime before that hour. Everyone should eat first or bring some snacks with you. Later, if attendees want, we can have food delivered or go out for dinner afterwards. Though I will attempt to hold court, I expect it will be every bit as anarchistic as the Bay Area meetings. Anyone wishing to depose me, is welcome to do so. If someone has something for the "agenda," let me know when you RSVP. Or don't. If you are sure, kinda sure, or think maybe you will attend Saturday, please e-mail me at this address. (If your message bounces, try ssandfort(a)attmail.com) Give me your best guess on the likelihood of your showing; I'd like to have a reasonably accurate estimate of how many we will have. Please feel free to bring anyone you think might be interested/interesting. If possible, let me know that too. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: He's dead Jim (Chomsky)
by nobody＠jpunix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

James A. McDonald wrote: >There is ample Chomsky material outside this quote supporting socialism, >and as well as socialism, those measures that socialism makes necessary, >namely silencing of dissent, mass murder, and rule by terror. Ah, so now we see why Mr. McDonald feels forced to interpret everything Chomsky writes as meaning the exact opposite of what it says - why Mr. McDonald thinks that Chomsky *must* be trying to promote totalitarian repression, even though Chomsky nowhere advocates repression of any kind. >There is ample Chomsky material outside this quote supporting socialism, correct. >and as well as socialism, those measures that socialism makes necessary, >namely silencing of dissent, mass murder, and rule by terror. Mr. McDonald infers this because, although Chomsky, if taken at face value, does not _appear_ to be advocating "mass murder, and rule by terror", McDonald __knows__ that: 1. a society without capitalism must be based on rule by terror. and 2. anybody as intelligent as Chomsky knows (1). thus anybody who advocates socialism is really advocating rule by terror and so Chomsky clearly means the opposite of what he says. Mr. McDonald's reasoning is perfect except that (1) is false. If the "unwashed masses", the unruly mob should forget their place in life (to be subservient to the elite, who are superior, because they claim they are) and abolish the state, the army and the police and if they in their foolishness should decide that they never liked capitalism and from now on everything should be free then they have no need to oppress people like Mr. McDonald if he wishes to try to accumulate capital by offering goods and/or services for a price. Since everything is free in this hypothetical society, nobody will have any reason to buy your goods and/or services Mr. McDonald, because they can get them somewhere else for free. Thus capitalism will never return (unless people who prefer a repressive society restore capitalism by force) without anybody doing anything to repress capitalism or other dissident ideas. I think this is the sort of society Mr. Chomsky is advocating. Of course, Mr. McDonald _knows_ that such a society is impossible because everybody is as selfish as he is so nobody will want to share anything or give anything away for free and they won't do so unless forced to. Again, you are mistaken. The unwashed masses, while far from perfect, are much more altruistic than right-wing cypherpunks such as yourself (I realise that many cypherpunks are not right-wing) and when given the chance they have shown that they prefer something that resembles Chomsky's society more than the usual state/army/police-enforced capitalism. Examples where the working class has had a brief taste of freedom are Paris, 1871, Ukraine ~1917, Spain, 1920s and Derry, Ireland ~1969. In every case capitalism (Soviet state capitalism in the case of the Ukraine) was restored by force within a few months or years. I don't think anyone thinks this mailing list is the right place to discuss your Chomsky conspiracy theories so if you haven't finished yet, take them to alt.conspiracy. Note: if Mr. McDonald pig-headedly insists on replying to this post on the mailing list, I will almost certainly ignore him, out of consideration for the rest of you. P.S. Lewis McCarthy wrote: "Quick, somebody mention Hitler". Okay. Mr. McDonald is as fascist as Hitler.

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NYC C'PUNKS PHOTO SESSION
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Herbie wrote thusly about the upcoming NYC C'punks meeting: how do we know this isn't an NSA attempt to get us to show our faces so they can get our photos? Photos? We *already* have your photo, Herbie. It's *you* we want now. Do not struggle; resistance is futile. Report to the "meeting" for final processing. (B.Y.O.B.) S a n d y Official NSA agent provocateur ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Quick, somebody mention Hitler
by Lewis McCarthy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Recently the Cypherpunks list received ------------------------------------------ From: jamesd(a)netcom.com (James A. Donald) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 17:46:19 -0700 (PDT) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My apologies to everyone for starting this thread. I will try to restrain myself from making any further inflammatory posts that would tend to keep the thread going. ------------------------------------------ but then we received ------------------------------------------ From: jamesd(a)netcom.com (James A. Donald) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:11:15 -0700 (PDT) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anonymous writes > What? Non sequitur! No where in Chomsky's quote do we find any remote > resemblance of a reference to mass media; I said context, not quote. [many lines clipped...] ------------------------------------------ Looks like you need to lock yourself up a bit tighter, James. -L. McCarthy "I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem" -Offspring Send me mail using "Subject: remailer-help" for an autoreply about Underdog

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test44
by Tsuyoshi Hayashi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

| Tsuyoshi Hayashi (hayashi(a)scs.sony.co.jp) | Tech. div., Sony Computer Systems Inc. | | PGP public key NOT available now.

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Sorry, I made a mistake...
by Tsuyoshi Hayashi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

All cypherpunks, Sorry. I made a mistake. At 05 Oct 94 21:30:19 +0900, I have sent a test mail (to checking my mailing environment) to cypherpunks(a)toad.com. |To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com |Cc: cpunk(a)scs.sony.co.jp |Subject: test44 |Date: Wed, 05 Oct 94 21:30:19 +0900 |From: Tsuyoshi Hayashi <hayashi(a)scs.sony.co.jp> Sorry. Please overlook my mistake for once, please. # But this is my first (second?) mail to cypherpunks... | Tsuyoshi Hayashi (hayashi(a)scs.sony.co.jp) | Tech. div., Sony Computer Systems Inc.

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