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Vince Cate is Breathing ;-)
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think I can be foregiven for sharing a little private mail interchange I just had with Vince Cate, the Anguillan ex-cypherpunk/technomad, who's digging out from under Hurricane Luis... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:47:36 +24000 From: Vincent Cate <vince(a)offshore.com.ai> Subject: Re: How are you doing? To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 > I figure by now the phone lines might be up, though I had heard there was > only one line up on Anguilla the day after. > > Can we do anything here to help? I am not sure if my other mail made it. Ya, the roof blew off of the phone company and also the electric company. All the phone company could do was set up an inmarsat phone line and charge $60/min to make calls. Thanks. I can't think of anything I need. Unless you know who sells directional cell phone antennas. Thanks! -- Vince --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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COMMUNITY CONNEXION OFFERS REWARD FOR EXPOSING ENCRYPTION FLAWS
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For Immediate Release Contact: sameer(a)c2.org 510-601-9777 COMMUNITY CONNEXION OFFERS REWARD FOR EXPOSING ENCRYPTION FLAWS Sept 19 1995 - Community ConneXion, a privacy server and ISP in Berkeley, California, today announced that it will be offering an incentive to the net to expose security flaws in some software that is advertised on the net as secure. This weekend a member of the cypherpunks community, Ian Goldberg, and his officemate, David Wagner, revealed a method which would allow someone to break the encryption used by Netscape Navigator in 25 seconds. Netscape Communications Corporation has been advertising their products as a "secure" way of communicating sensitive information over the net. People have been using this Netscape software to send their credit card numbers over the net, communicate with their brokers, and other tasks requiring security. "Netscape was apparently relying on security by obscurity in this case," said Community ConneXion's founder, Sameer Parekh. In light of this recent break and the earlier two brute force attacks on the encryption used in the international version of Netscape Navigator (crippled because of restrictions on the export of cryptography from the United States) Community ConneXion has offered a challenge to the net community to find more holes. Ian, David, and the people responsible for the brute-force attacks will be receiving free limited-edition T-shirts for their work. "The more holes people find, the more holes will get fixed. Netscape makes the most widely used commercial WWW software out there, so it is in the net's best interest for netscape to have good security. By exposing the holes in netscape, we will hopefully get them fixed," said Sameer. Details about the HackNetscape promotion are available from http://www.c2.org/hacknetscape, or by sending mail to hacknetscape(a)c2.org. Community ConneXion is the premier internet privacy ISP. They offer anonymous accounts, remailers, and psuedonym servers, in addition to the standard ISP fare of webspace and dialup IP access. Information is available from http://www.c2.org or mailing info(a)c2.org. Netscape and Netscape Navigator are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. This promotion is not affiliated with NCC.

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John Young You are KEWL!
by carolann＠censored.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It is really nice what you're doing here. It is appreciated. Love Always, Carol Anne -- Member Internet Society - Certified BETSI Programmer - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.42.112.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [017/713] ------------------- M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M MF=O0H+*%(-S%&>S%+FS&<LS%3(Q&#W1"<]2%`H^;,]^1C$'HBN8PX$4SYAU^ MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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Re: Caribbean Internet Services? (fwd)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:00 AM 9/19/95, Jim Choate wrote: >> ObCypherpunks Relevance: A couple of past or current list members have >> nascent Internet plans in some of these islands. (I think one of them is >> way south, just off Venezuela.) >> >> I suspect "Caribbean Data Havens" and "Internet Sites" are further off than >> they were a few months ago. >> > >Satellite dishes and a steady supply of gasoline via a couple of tankers >would make such an operation completely portable. A more ideal solution >would be to moore a ship in international waters (wasn't some group wanting >to do this for 'humanitarian' reasons or somesuch?). Sure, there are possible fixes to the various problems. I'm not saying the Caribbean will shut down, only that this will likely increase operating costs, in at least some of the areas, and will frighten off some investors. Human nature. The model need not be physical sites in these locales, of course. But even maintaining a business office in some of these locales will be a hassle. (This is where I expect the usual folks will jump in and shout "On the contrary!" Note however, how few of them actually live in St. Barts, or Anguilla, or Curacao, or the Bahamas.) --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Hurricane Luis in Anguilla / Cellphone Antenna
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:24:33 +24000 From: Vincent Cate <vince(a)offshore.com.ai> Subject: Hurricane Luis in Anguilla / Cellphone Antenna To: Steve Roberts <wordy(a)qualcomm.com> cc: Technomads <technomads(a)UCSD.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Hurricane Luis took Anguilla apart. The three utility polls right near my house all blew down. My house, computers, etc are all fine. Nobody was killed in Anguilla, but in St Marten (5 miles away) it seems there were many people killed. They have a lot of poor people there and also a lot of people used to live in boats. More than 1,000 of about 1,400 boats sank. They eye went right over Anguilla. For awhile it was calm enough that everyone went outside to stretch and say hi to everyone. Overall it took about 4 days to pass. It has been nice to have solar pannels, batteries, an interter, etc. I did not have a cellphone, but I do now. And now that I have one I am really interested in the directional antenna that might let me reach other islands - in particular the US Virgin islands where long distance rates are $0.10/min at night with sprint instead of the $2/min that we pay here in Anguilla. Does anyone know where I can order a directional cellphone antenna (boat antenna) good for 100 miles? -- Vince --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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taxonomies of 'real money' and e-cash
by P.J. Ponder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On the 15th of September, Tim May wrote - . . . > "Digital money" currently has only a few ways of dealing with transfers of > value in transactions. A lot of the problems come, in my view, from this > relatively spartan set of "primitives." > > Where are the cryptographic equivalents of: > > - money orders > > - promissary notes > > - receipts > > - warrants > > - lockboxes > > - bearer bonds > > - options > > - time deposits > > - coupons > > - escrow > > - IOUs > > - zero coupon bonds > > - checks > > ...and so on. The terms in any good dictionary of financial terms (such as > the "MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics," ed. by David Pearce, 1992). (Many > of these things are built up out of more basic things, with mix-ins from > other classses, or with modified methods.) > > A look at any book on money and finance shows a rich "microworld" of > "things" and "procedures" (classes and methods attached to classes). The > classes have subclasses, and the methods have various behaviors and > "expectations" attached (more than just simple class behavior, more of an > AI or agent flavor, in my view). > . . . . > > --Tim May > > ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- > Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, > tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero > Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, > Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. > "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway." > Maybe I'm missing the larger point, but isn't it accurate that in the digital world, one protocol or procedure may take the place of perhaps several of the 'real-world' procedures or protocols? An effective mechanism of signing with non-repudiation that was recognized as binding on the signer would permit 'checks', 'promissory notes', 'IOUs', and 'warrants'. Some of the other species listed in your post aren't really money, anyway. They are things you can buy with money, like stock certificates or Maseratis. One could conceivably buy convertible debentures with e-cash, the same as one could buy them with 'real money', but it doesn't follow that there should be some one-to-one mapping of real money objects and classes onto electronic analogues. Once again, i've probably missed the forest, but a couple of the trees distracted me. --PJ Ponder

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FC's Opus
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Radio is blaring it out on KFAN and ABC RADIO now. What if all it is, is a Detweiler tentacle? hahahaha Love Always, Carol Anne.....coming to DC and NYC soon The NY Times reports in tomorrow's paper that it and The Washington Post are publishing the Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto as a separate pullout in The Washington Post tomorrow, as advised by AG Reno and FBI Director Freeh.

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Re: AOL monitoring
by stevenw＠iglou.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Ohhh-God, not again... > >Can anyone remember the Prodigy rumor? How IBM was snooping around >your hard disk, and it turned out to be nothing but a swapfile. Does >"Good times" ring a bell? And don't get me started on MicroSoft >Network rumors... > >1) 90% of the FTP sites I use mention that they log xfers. > >2) My .newsrc file can tell anyone that I read alt.hackers and alt.2600 > >3) My address book shows who I send mail often enough to warrent me > putting in a nickname. > >4) My sent-mail folder shows who I sent mail to in the past year. > >5) My bookmark file shows that I read the NYC-Speedtraps page one or > two time a week. Zterm and Anarchie both default to logging transfers. AOL on the Mac has a button on the download manager that lets you view a list of items you have downloaded. It's everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more +1 415 390 9732 | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw(a)iglou.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995

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Re: Caribbean Internet Services? (fwd)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim wrote: >>> I suspect "Caribbean Data Havens" and "Internet Sites" are further off than >>> they were a few months ago. The governments of the affected islands will have to make some tradeoffs - do they allow providers of these services to operate freely, bringing in new telecomm facilities so they can get the revenues from (let's keep the Minnesota AG happy) gambling and other private-communications trade, or do they leave their telecomm monopolies in place, so they can get the telecomm revenues which get into government coffers more quickly? Is there enough market to convince them to open up, which will attract more services? How much does being first matter? #--- # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---

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Quick ITAR question....
by descarte＠mcqueen.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've just about finished the perl SSLeay implementation and I was musing about how I would manage to do one for SSLref also....... Here's the situation: I'm in Britain, but I have access to a machine which I wll develop on in the States. Can I develop Net::SSLref on this machine? My feeling is, no, since I'm not a US citizen ( does this matter with ITAR? ). Similarly, it could be construed that the characters constituting the source code are crossing the Atlantic to my machine here, albeit not being stored. Conversely, I'm not reading *all* the code, so I couldn't necessarily build SSLref from this action ( a parallel may be the export of 1/723 of PGP in a .sig! ) Any comments would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- Alligator Descartes | PGP Key available on request. descarte(a)mcqueen.com | http://www.mcqueen.com/hermetica

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