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altavista.digital.com
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From a friend at work. Marginal crypto relevance but useful for alerting those who think public mailing lists and Usenet are one-time pads. :) >A friend of mine at Digital implemented the Alta Vista search engine. >Here's the configuration he's working with today, with plans for scaling >as necessary. > >>The web index is built and queried by a two processor 300MHz Alpha. >>There's 2GBytes of RAM and 200GBytes of disc on RAID controllers. >>We'll have to expand if load really takes off. There are other, >>smaller machines doing the HTTP server, the news index, the news spool, >>and the web robot. /r$

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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers
by Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I don't know if I am the only one who this is happening to, but I keep > getting two copies of every post you send. Has anyone else commented on > this? I will forward them back to you following this response so that > you will have the header info if you choose to track down the source of > the duplication. I don't know where the dups are coming from - my logs don't show that I'm sending two copies, and no one else has complained. I'm also not sending out dups on any other list I'm on... - -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp(a)linux.org, ecarp(a)netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp(a)netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744(a)anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMOlcFyS9AwzY9LDxAQFSjQP/dYUpg2SNMb3qGhrkerD5nIU0GcopXkZ+ odhi4KhyUiipPljwwBcPxLfrduxW/A8QOviXJR++Fz/ZOnRrZ6NfKC2sgiO3GuYn W642nNFEJ/cf+pFVxvxcyDMyOc0db+hOWC54JrctyjckNkJKTyE6OyLIfQ3O+aBF l2YhORWBWOQ= =0Idn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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No Subject
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks write code. With that phrase and the wave of attempts to censor the 'Net, I've embarked on a quest to make remailers easier to use. Has anyone written an easy to use Windows or DOS application that will let someone chain a message through several remailers, perhaps with support for the mailer at alpha.c2.org? Would the writer of such a program, if in the US fall under the provisions in ITAR? Obviously, calls to the PGP program would have to be made. I recall reading that such hooks do fall under the ITAR. If this is true, so much for a more user friendly version of chain for the masses.

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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 22:51 1/2/96, Steve Gibbons wrote: >I had a similar thought about a month ago. In particular, I was thinking that >skyrise office buildings would be a great market for ISPs to target. Rent a >closet in the basement/top floor close to the telco demarc. Run lots of >UTP to >the cients through the existing conduit, ceiling acces, air ducts, or whatever >and boom, lots of clients, low overhead, telco bills cut to 1/2 of the >competitions'. Up-front costs might (or might not be) higher, since the wire >installation would now be the burden of the ISP. [...] >FWIW, (and if anyone winds up doing something like this, I want a "finders >fee" ;-) ) Sorry, I thought of this months ago :-) But there is an even better business opportunity out there. Wireless T1 service covering a whole downtown area. I speced the whole system for the last company I worked for before they ran out of money. My calculations show that you can deliver close to T1 speed to corporate customers at fraction of the cost using land lines. In the best case scenario, you can produce the individual connection at below $200. No land line based ISP can ever touch that. The total cost for a land line based IPS is at least $395/T1. Set-up fee is lower too. Best, the whole thing can be set up self financing. If I wasn't so busy with other projects, I'd implement it myself. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: Guerilla ISP's...
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:49 1/2/96, Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] wrote: >And the servers could really be set up anonymously. Pay cash to an ISP >for a SLIP or PPP account, get a phone line under a ficticious name, set >up a PO box for the (few) bills, find somewhere to set up the machine, >and away you go... Only to have the box impounded within a few days after going on-line. A very costly and likely short lived hobby. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 22:11 1/2/96 -0800, Anonymous wrote: >frantz(a)netcom.com (Bill Frantz) wrote: > >> Don't forget about infrared to cross public rights-of-way. > >What about fog? How much reliability do you need? As a first approxmation, look out your window. How often is it that you can't see your neighbor's house? Here in California, power failures are more frequent. (N.B. higher level protocols will recover from interruptions due to, e.g. large trucks.) I first heard of people using the technology to extend an IBM mainframe channel across a freeway 15 or 20 years ago. Bill

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Inter-Patch Voice Network
by J. Kent Hastings 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- [ From: J. Kent Hastings * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Cpunx, This may be old hat, but now that PGPfone is available, why don't we start an "Inter-Patch" Network using PGP and ecash? Here are features to consider: * Computer users generate pre-paid phone cards for non-geeks. * Rate is say, 2 cents per minute, for near-real-time voice. * "Voice Mail" service is not subject to telco utility regs. * PIN#s can be changed by users, who can also confirm value. * Thus a user can sell remaining time on a card to others. * A local participant to the target number is selected. * Ecash is instantly delivered in exchange for communications. * Perhaps a 50 percent split, 1 cent per minute for example. * Bad participants are removed from the network. Kent - -- J. Kent Hastings Assistant Director of The Agorist Institute zeus(a)pinsight.com, http://www.pinsight.com/~zeus/agorist/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMOn0hTTxxI221vktAQHs3AQAj/uI2xYGSfE9iSVttCncBrS7yDAUaecX +s1U8zF29zx4a/zq6yUOOJncxS7GWXavUhNLcjuruH7f9tHO1Sam8XcT59rwVlvv P+xnrV/NwaDW0q+TxWjnNhVgTJePC6Hq+6bLRiod+hOTuawkJ3vx50CmDoEKC1Fk HrNqiRLzNQc= =O3Bo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Foiling Traffic Analysis
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 23:21 1/2/96, Carl Ellison wrote: >This is merely a technical means for producing anonymous communications. > >Anonymity = conspiracy? Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans is eager to allow warrantless searches of their homes and property to aid the War on Drugs. Every non-CP person that I tell about remailers asks me "This is legal?". Meaning that they would expect it to be illegal. Surely a prohibition against anonymous remailers and especially against DC nets is a small prize to pay for perceived security against the Four Horsemen... Inevitably, a DC net or the Token Ring approach described earlier will be used for illegal purposes. Once, not if, that comes to pass all participants will be guilty of conspiracy and their property subject to forfeiture. No trial needed and it will happen to the applause of the general public. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:37 PM 1/2/96 -0800, you wrote: >> It seems to me that phone line costs are turning into a floor price for >> Internet access, when they shouldn't really be. The main asset telephone >> companies have, right now, is in RIGHTS OF WAY. Put an ISP in a business >> park that allows you to run your own dedicated copper pairs, and you've >> bypassed $25/month/line business phone line charges. >> >> At some point, individual urban and suburban blocks could easily be >> "guerilla re-wired" for ISP access without serious trenching, etc. The >> phoneco would still be involved, but in a far lower-profit mode, as the >> supplier of a single T1 to a multi-block area. > >For the "last mile" to the ISP user, wireless could be a better bet. >Have antenna, will surf. Yes, you're absolutely right. It would be great if some entrepreneur could buy a T1, put up a 2000 MHz (or somewhere around that; whatever frequency was allocated appropriately) local "cellular" data system which would be able to connect to up to, say, 100 simultaneous or so local users using modems little more complicated than a current 900 MHz cordless phone. Okay, maybe all this stuff is already being worked on at a few dozen or hundred companies around the globe, but I can't wait... >(Not speaking for Qualcomm, etc.) > >Peter Monta pmonta(a)qualcomm.com >Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar Question: Is this the "Qualcomm" that does the Internet access software, or the "Qualcomm" who builds the wireless amps/filters/hardware/etc? Or is it all the same company?!?

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Re:US calls for measures against Internet porn
by Mark Neely 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> WASHINGTON DC (Reuter) - The US called Sunday for improved >management of the Internet to prevent people seeing pornographic >material on the world computer network. Perhaps it is a result of many self-interested parties who have hyped the Internet to the hilt, but it never ceases to amaze me how people think that as soon as you connect a PC to the Internet, suddenly, all this information and computer wizardry _leaps_ down the phone line and _jumps_ out of your screen. It can be clearly demonstrated (even to US politicians) that the Internet is not a passive media - users must go out and find what they are looking for (especially pornography). You cannot "stumble" upon pornography, as you might by, say, channel surfing on cable. You can't tell me that someone who fires up their Web browser and points it to http://www.playboy.com, or clicks yes to a request that they acknowledge that they are over 18/21/majority and agree to access adult material doesn't know what they are getting themselves into... Mark ___ Mark Neely - accessnt(a)ozemail.com.au Lawyer, Professional Cynic Author: Australian Beginner's Guide to the Internet Work-in-Progress: Australian Business Guide to the Internet WWW: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~accessnt

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