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Re: PolicyMaker paper available
by dmandl＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:12 PM 3/16/96, ECafe Anonymous Remailer wrote: >Mab(a)Research.Att.Com posted: >>A number of people have been asking me about some work I've been doing >> >>A PostScript pre-print is available in ^^^^^^^^^^ >> ftp://research.att.com/dist/mab/policymaker.ps > >I D/Led this file last night & printed it out. I was a little suspicious >at first because you'd think if AT&T really wanted people to read (instead >of just wanting to say they published it) they'd put it on the web in http >and not use obscure printer codes. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah, not only that, but you need one of them fancy modem contraptions to get it. --Dave. -- Dave Mandl dmandl(a)panix.com http://www.wfmu.org/~davem

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Mr Emmett Page, Asst. Sect. Defense, CCCI
by Tim Fulbright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think you or someone here recently remarked the U.S.Government has the only _real_ capability to wage world terrorism on the internet, and after I read Frank Sowa's feb. Boardwatch article I'm beginning to wonder. I suppose quoting the article at length will be at least as good as some of the other traffic around here... just in case anybody missed it, Sowa reviewed 35 federal reports, and quotes Page saying "As a result, we've had no choice but to create an offensive capability in cyberspace. I can't discuss it ... However, you'd feel good and feel safe and secure if you knew about it" (yeah, really) Further, Sowa reports the Natl Defense U is forming an elite Information Corps, 'a F0rce whose scope is to fight the battles of "Information Warfare from the Pentagon war room to the home PCs" according to DOD' (p90-92).... And further, RAND corp is using an "all out cyberwar simulator at their research center in Santa Monica" and... oh well, the whole article is just crammed with stuff! Yikes! I would sure like to know what people think about it. thanks.

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Re: Backup of Encrypted Partition
by mch＠squirrel.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mar 17, 18:38, Sanwar Ali wrote: } Subject: Backup of Encrypted Partition } Hi } } Apologies if this is too much of a beginner's Q. } } Does anyone know how to backup a "SecureDrive" partition onto tape } quickly and easily. } } HPACK is really slow. } } PKZIP and then PGP is slow. } } RAWDISK, seems to be quite complex (perhaps I am just stupid!), and I } am terrified of making some sort of terrible mistake. } } I have about 100MB in the partition. I have a pretty out of date } computer which is a 386 33MHz running Windows. Ease of backup is one of the strengths of CFS which is a cryptographic filesystem for various flavours of UNIX and Linux. With CFS the encrypted files live in the ordinary UNIX filesystem (their names are also encrypted), so one can backup encrypted data without decrypting to make things intelligible and then encrypting to secure the tape. Backups take no more time than backups of ordinary unencrypted files and don't require any special tools (ufsdump, GNU tar, GNU cpio work fine). You backup files individually, which means you can also restore them individually, i.e. without restoring a whole partition. Of course, this doesn't solve your problem, because you are running Windows. But CFS might be incentive to also run a more feature-rich operating system on your PC. You don't need to give up DOS/Windows to also run Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Unixware, etc. -- Mark Henderson -- markh(a)wimsey.bc.ca, mch(a)squirrel.com, henderso(a)netcom.com ViaCrypt PGP Key Fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1 A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46 unstrip for Solaris, Wimsey crypto archive, TECO, computer security links, change-sun-hostid, Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ - http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel

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Re: Would the FTC crack down on snake oil someday?
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:45 PM 3/17/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote: >FTC TARGETS INTERNET FRAUD >The Federal Trade Commission is conducting a "wholesale crackdown" on >perpetrators of allegedly deceptive marketing schemes that are advertised in >Internet news groups or on the World Wide Web. Charges were filed against >nine individuals or companies accused of misleading the public Nine down and 100,000 to go. DCF

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Re: Judge blocks French ISPs from connecting to revisionist sites
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So that y'all can see what the fuss is about, try the following sites : Institute for Holocaust Revisionism <a href="http://www.kaiwan.com/~ihrgreg"> Committee for Open Debate On the Holocaust <a href="http://www.valleynet.com/~brsmith/"> Theres a wealth of eye opening information there, not only about the holocaust, but about freedom of speech, censorship, civil librerties, hate groups, nazi hunters etc. etc. The sites are noticeably empty of "hate speech," and are in no way "denying the holocaust," but are simply adopting a scientific approach to documenting the events of the holocaust, seperating fact from fiction. I was surprised - the authors of these sites come across as very sane and open-minded, not the foaming at the mouth bigoted types that others lead us to believe. Anyone who seriously calls him(her)self open-minded should give these sites a go - they certainly got me thinking. The recent actions of the French and German governments make me feel like I'm living in the middle ages. I am truly disgusted at the actions of such close minded people who have obviously not looked at the sites involved. Anon. (due to the emotional nature of this subject.)

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Your Majordomo request results
by Majordomo＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- Your request of Majordomo was: >>>> subscribe cypherpunks **** Address already subscribed to cypherpunks Your request of Majordomo was: >>>> end END OF COMMANDS

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Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd)
by Mike McNally 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

IPG Sales wrote: > Obviously, you meet our requirements for the release of the IPG ABC > Encryption algorithms. We need no further information from you. though we > would appreciate your telephone num and snail mail address. On the other hand, the "algorithm" as presented is so hopelessly obfuscated by the strange terminology and loose descriptions used to present it that there's no way I (or anybody else) could seriously evaluate it. Either publish an algorithm in some accepted format (a real C program, or even Knuth notation) or cut back your expectations for public analysis. ______c_____________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * pain is inevitable m5(a)tivoli.com * m101(a)io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * suffering is optional

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Re: Judge blocks French ISPs from connecting to revisionist sites
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:07 PM 3/18/96 +0100, Anonymous wrote: > I was surprised - the authors of these [revisionist] sites come across > as very sane and open-minded, not the foaming at the mouth bigoted > types that others lead us to believe. > > Anyone who seriously calls him(her)self open-minded should give these > sites a go - they certainly got me thinking. The pernicious effects of censorship: When you actually meet monsters, and see that they do not have horns and a tail, you falsely imagine that they are not monsters. You will read: "So and so went to site of the alleged extermination centers, and he saw X, Y, and Z, and this shows there are holes in the extermination story. Simple lie. Whenever I write about Cuba, leftists write: "I went to Cuba, and I saw such and such so and so". Well I went to Cuba, and I know that they lie barefaced, therefore I assume the same is true of the flatly conflicting tales concerning the holocaust. Those who defend totalitarianism, regardless of the brand name of totalitarianism, simply lie. It is as uncomplicated as that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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RE: Yeo, Pea-brained Imbecile
by Michael Peponis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Economist, 16 March 1996, pp. 42-43. Asia and the Internet: Not too modern, please Here is my two cents on the whole subject of countries wanting to recieve the technical and economic benifits of the internet, but reject groups they have moral or ethical problems with. Like myself, there are a number of subscribers on this list that maintain sites, archives, or have public domain software. Given the plethera of reports like this, I will start maintaining a list of country that will not be given access to my site, no FTP, no HTTP, no nothing, on top of that, I will hard code into all the new versions of my network aware programs to check for a domain subfix, if it is on of the black list, the software will not function. Thus until policies I find offencive are not changed, everything I create will not be acceptable or functional within those regions. I am only one person, but if this practice becomes common place, those countries will find that their access is limited to their own limited world view, and can only obtain goods and services that they create themselves. They want isolation, let them enjoy the full benifits of that decision. One thing I would like to see happen rather quickly is to eliminate thier access to usenet, or other areas of common knowledge. It seems they want the benifits of the technical expertise of the western "morally defuct" experts, but not the opinions of those ares. Well it's an all or nothing deal. Filtering works both ways, they filter out the political and sex groups on their end, we filter out the technical information on ours, I hope they enjoy what is left, which is not much. Regards, Michael Peponis PGP Key Avalible from MIT Key Server

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Cypherpunk Enquirer
by enquirer＠alpha.c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE CYPHERPUNK ENQUIRER "Encyphering minds want to know." The recent opening of One Time Pad season was a resounding success, with previously unknown competitors Internet.Security.Guaranteed throwing out the first troll. Unfortunately, the annual cypherpunk contest may have to be renamed as it has been discovered that the phrase "One Time Pad" has been trademarked by the Kotex division of Johnson & Johnson. A second entrant, Stonewall-Drawbridge, was disqualified when it was found that the so-called "Infinite Venegere Key (IVK)" is the same one used by the New York Times for its popular Sunday Cypher series. Dr. Fred Cohen, noted virus expert and President of Info-Sec, recently announced the discovery of a new Internet security threat, the telnet bomb. First discovered when Dr. Cohen found, to his surprise, that people were actually trying to access the information that Info-Sec was posting on the Internet, this insidious attack seems to only go after sites that are getting down on their knees and begging for it by announcing to the world that people are actually trying to access our site and if you don't stop, we're going to tell the CERT and the FBI on you. Info-Sec quickly announced its solution, a $20,000 "Air Wall" (tm) turnkey computer with it's serial ports and ISA and PCI bus slots filled with crazy glue. Tim May's IQ dropped ten points today after the noted cypherpunk and retired Intel engineer was stopped at the Mexican border by Customs agents, who seized and confiscated over two hundred grams of an "unspecified pharmaceutical substance". Mr. May was released on his own recognizance when presented with an Alta Vista list of over two hundred aliases he has used to post to various Internet newsgroups and mailing lists and admitting, "Yup, that's me!". Eric Blossom has announced that CPLite is NOT out of business, but the S/N ratio has been so low for the past month that no posts made it through the CPLite filtering system. Not a single subscriber has requested a refund, claiming, en masse, "Hey, that's what we pay him for!". Asgaard's popular web site, a revisionist view of Viking history, has relocated to c2.org after being shut down by his original ISP due to complaints from the French government, which has declared as illegal Asgaard's claim that the Viking raiders were not actually early terrorists, but merely law-abiding tourists who didn't take any shit from rude French waiters. Surfwatch today reinstated access to AOL after the Wall Street Journal explained that their claim that AOL was "getting into bed with Bill Gates" was standard business school terminology and did not refer to consensual sexual activities. Neither party has responded to requests to clarify who was pitching and who was catching. Jim Bell died this week when a homemade "nuclear detonator" exploded in his hands. The detonator was immediately awarded the over ten thousand dollars bet on Mr. Bell in the Blacknet "Dead Pool" when the committee decided that the detonator had correctly predicted Mr. Bell's time and place of death, and that the prediction of "death by radiation poisoning" was "close enough for cypherpunk work." Nathaniel Borenstein was arrested on sexual harassment charges today after several female employees of First Virtual reported that he had been wandering around the offices for the past two months sniffing their keyboards. Next time in the Enquirer - the photos that DIDN'T get posted at www.c2.org/party/masquerade! How far did Lucky Green get his hands up Peter Pan's costume? What was Sandy Sandfort REALLY doing with that gun, or was he just happy to see her? What WAS that strange religious icon under "Father" Eric Blossom's robe? Did Dan Farmer REALLY design the rec room? Encyphering minds want to know!

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