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[UNIX] Re: Secured RM ? (source)
by cactus＠hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199512150218.VAA14539(a)homeport.org>, Adam Shostack <adam(a)lighthouse.homeport.org> wrote: >| >| While we're here.. I havn't been able to find anyone on the planet who's >| seen or heard of a linux un-remove, which makes testing my code very >| tricky. > From comp.unix.questions FAQ: > (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/unix-faq/faq/part3/faq-d…) [Info about delete/undelete/expunge/purge del] That's not very useful in this context: all it does is move files to .#{oldname} and then later remove them. I'd suggest that anybody interested in this topic under UNIX examine the vnode structures and understand how the filesystem keeps file lists. Many vendor UNIces have fairly well commented header files. {Only marginally cypherpunk-related, in the 'Security in the real world' category.} - -- Todd Masco | "life without caution/ the only worth living / love for a man/ cactus(a)hks.net | love for a woman/ love for the facts/ protectless" - A Rich Cactus' Homepage - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMNDqmSoZzwIn1bdtAQGorwF+KsU/UZom/+C8ldvzKDPajDh6fiVtg1K1 kxTyLGyAjf5W+SNRM1f6kU5YdJlUmZxP =yo70 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: ADDRESS DATABASE?
by Ed Carp (ecarp＠netcom.com) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 13:06:50 -0800 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > From: Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> > Subject: Re: ADDRESS DATABASE? > At 01:32 PM 12/14/95 -0600, you wrote: > >sandfort(a)crl.com said: > >> Something of privacy interest happened to me yesterday. I phoned a > >> company to ask for a copy of their catalog. The phone clerk asked > >> for my last name and zip code. After receiving that info, the clerk > >> asked me, "Is this your full name and address?" and then gave them > >> both correctly. I was taken aback. > > > > Taken aback? Its only going to get worse in the future. As Telcos, credit > >card companies, etc., start looking for new ways to make money I think > >selling information about you will increase dramatically. > > I'm in the process of moving and getting new phones, and Pac Bell asked me > if it was ok to send my Social Security Number to my long-distance carrier. > I told them "no, but you don't have my SSN anyway" "Oh, you're right, we don't; > can we have it" "No" "OK. Would you be willing to give us your driver's license > number or another form of ID? We've just started asking for this recently." > "Is it required?" "No, it's optional, but I have to ask" "No, thanks" You know why they want that, don't you? So if you don't pay your bill, they can ding your credit report. PG&E will do the same thing to you, and they will both do it illegally, without notifying you first as they are required to do by law. So, I'd advise you to check your credit report regularly for signs of abuse.

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Re: Crypto anarchist getting through customs
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:20 AM 1/16/96 +0000, attila wrote: > Bubba signed PPD 25 which permits UN control of US > forces, _in America_! and allows the UN to bring in UN troops. While there are undoubtedly people plotting a one world government, the miserable performance of the blue helmets means that there is no present danger. Soldiers are just not willing to die for the greater glory of the United Nations. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Information Sent by Netscape during Queries
by Bill.Humphries＠msn.fullfeed.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's some questions I hope some of the Netscape staffers on the list can help with. 1) Can we delete/rename or otherwise disable the MagicCookie file and still use Navigator? 2) Are there headers besides the standard HTTP/1.0 fields sent with our http transactions? What are they? 3) Can we go completely stealth inside of Netscape without a proxy server? In a privacy seeking frame of mind, Bill Bill Humphries \/\/\/ bill.humphries(a)msn.fullfeed.com /\/\/\ Madison, WI, USA PGP Public Key Fingerprint = 84 05 17 9D B9 6E 2D FE A7 D1 E0 DC D0 96 63 FB

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Re: Digital postage and remailer abuse (was Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailersto mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com)
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:47 1/13/96, Alan Bostick wrote: >Maybe I'm misunderstanding how using digital postage with remailers would >work. I was assuming that the postage stamp would be included *inside* >the encrypted envelope, that what the remailer would do on receipt of >mail would be: (a) decrypt the envelope; (b) validate the postage stamp; >and (if the stamp is valid) (c) forward the message according to the >now-decryped instructions. > >Using this model, if the perpetrator doesn't include a postage stamp, >then the message is ignored. If the perp includes a stamp, the first >horny net geek's message is relayed but subsequent ones get bounced for >invalid postage. You are right. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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new web security product
by Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wouldn't pass this along normally, but it seems to allow folks to use their credit cards at home securely. Bye-bye, First Virtual... ;) http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9601/encryption/index.html -- 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

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Re: Alta Vista, Great Stuff!
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:26 PM 1/16/96, Beethoven wrote: >Imagine your nym is related to something common-place at >the time of posting. Even though you may be well known >under that nym, simple searches for that name will turn up >loads of crapola, or at least some light entertainment >for someone searching for oyur past posts. My name is rare and matched mostly by lists of the highest points of elevation in each state (Mt. Frissell in Connecticut) and museum shows of the work of a distant cousin Toni Frissell who was a fashion photographer in NYC. Most of the rest is mine. If you have a common name/nym it would be harder to track (except by searching for email address rather than name). DCF "Now everyone knows that Mohammed and Lee are the most common names in the world. Maybe I should change my name to Mohammed Lee."

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TOR_del
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

1-16-96. NYPaper: "Louis W. Tordella, 84, Who Helped Break Cerman Military Code in World War II." A mathematician who helped break Enigma, and later spent 16 years as the deputy director of the National Security Agency. An intelligence visionary who had helped create and shape NSA even before he became its deputy director in 1958, Dr. Tordella was regarded both as a pioneer in the development of ever more powerful and sophisticated computers to break enemy codes and as a master administrator who established a combined code-breaking operation and then ran it. Since decryption devices did not exist, he and his colleagues simply designed and built them, not only breaking the enemy codes but helping to lay the theoretical and practical groundwork for what has become a vast computer industry. TOR_del [For more on Tordella, see Bamford's "The Puzzle Palace."]

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Re: Spiderspace
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>... I was under the impression that the only documents that most web crawlers >will search are documents that are link-accessible. Are you saying that this >isn't true? Are you saying that Alta-Vista will search EVERYTHING that's >publicly accessible, whether by anonymous FTP or web? Don't archie servers already pick up the anonymous ftp fairly well? Also, aside from no-robots conventions, you can build a cgi program for access to files that might be more effective at blocking searches while still preserving access. Also, it wouldn't be hard for a web-crawler to follow ftp links, as long as the root of an anon-ftp site is pointed to by a URL somewhere. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 # # "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" used to mean us watching # the government, not the other way around....

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Re: Crypto anarchist getting through customs
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:27 AM 1/16/96, Alan Horowitz wrote: >My bullshit detector is starting to pin the needle. > >US Customs doesn't care about your political status or leanings. >They want to collect the proper excise and catch contraband. > >There are INS people at passport control. I am skeptical that they >would detain a US passport holder for 36 hours. I would like to see some >evidence that this actually happened. > >US citizens can't be excluded from the country, nor have their >citizenship taken away from them. Since you're addressing this to me, what exactly did I say--be specific--that you think I was bullshitting about? They can, and do, detain entering citizens, as the Zimmermann case showed. And our own Fred Cohen confirms that he was detained upon re-entering the U.S. from Canada. --Tim May 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, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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