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Re: lambda 2.08 (1/2) - Surveillance du contenu : l'oeil biais_
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 10 Jun 96 at 19:08, Jerome Thorel wrote: > DANS LE NUMERO --> 2.08 <-- du bulletin lambda > http://www.freenix.fr/netizen/ <snip> > - Les agents, lors des PV, ne signent plus par leur nom, mais par > des numeros d'immatriculation, a remarque la revue Chroniques Bonjour Jerome! Que signifie PV? Traduction libre par: / non-official translation by: jf_avon(a)citenet.net ... The agents, during PVs(?), are not signing with their own names anymore but with an ID number, pointed out "Chroniques" magazine... La version anglaise de ce texte a-t-elle ete envoye a cypherpunks(a)toad.com? Si non, pourriez-vous l'y envoyer. Aussi, en faire parvenir une copie anglaise a jimbell(a)pacifier.com, ca sera du plus grand interet pour lui. Salutations JFA DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee; Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants: physicists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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USS_hit
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

6-11-96. FiTi: "US squares up to cyberterrorists." Until recently, the concept of "information warfare" has been widely dismissed as alarmist rhetoric and viewed as "post Cold War hysteria" generated by those with an interest in maintaining the vast US intelligence apparatus. But the potential use of computer networks to undermine public confidence, disrupt essential services, play havoc with the economy or damage military capabilities is now being taken seriously in Washington. Encryption may be just one of many battlegrounds -- others include: proposals for mandatory reporting of corporate computer intrusions and for exceptions to US laws that prohibit intelligence agencies from snooping on domestic communications; the forthcoming ruling by US courts on free speech on the Internet, in response to laws aimed at stopping distribution of pornographic material; and possible limits on information that marketers may gather and use about children who surf the Internet. Also the Clinton administration is planning a rapid-response team to take charge in the event of a cyberterrorist attack. USS_hit

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RE: ANNOUNCEMENT: HACKERPUNKS MAILING LIST
by Blake Coverett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> H A C K E R P U N K S > "Obscurity through Security!" > > > Hi! We are delighted to announce a new mailing list, Hackerpunks! This list > is for serious folks who know stuff about computers _AND_ want to keep > their privacy. Oooo. Folks who know 'stuff' about computers. The free world is in danger now. > This list is UNMODERATED. Due to our organization, we are unable to > find out your true identity, and you are unable to find out where > our list-bot resides. So - you can now have free discussion about all > exploits and great hacks! Just use remailers and be safe... Smells like 'elite'punks to me -Blake (in a cranky mood)

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Venture capital financing/partnering for unique website ideas/entrepreneurs
by Ventureweb＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Re: Venture Capital Funding/Venture Partnering For Web Site Developers/Entrepreneurs Hello; My firm, DataMerge, Inc. is currently developing a program to provide financial backing and strategic assistance for commercially viable website development. It is my job to locate individuals with ideas and/or plans for creating high profile, niche market websites that, with our assistance, can be profitably brought to maket. We are very interested in unique, highly innovative, information based sites which are targeted to meet the needs of a specific market, industry or user group. While we are interested in creative services offered through the internet to a targeted group, we are not interested in backing companies for expanding into run-of-the-mill areas such as ISP, contract web-site design, or outsourced graphic design. We prefer to work with individuals or small teams (no more than three). Don't be discouraged if you don't have a lot of business experience. What we look for more than anything else is creativity and "entrepreneurial spirit." We find some of the best ideas come from college, and even high school students. What we can provide the entrepreneur includes the following: * Strategic, marketing and business planning assistance * Financial support during development * Marketing/promotional assistance (capital, coordination and partnering) * Long term royalty stream from site * Further site development and maintenance contracts DataMerge is currently the largest provider of niche market financing information and financing software applications to US businesses, intermediaries and finance professionals. DataMerge has a user base of 21,000 individuals, and a newsletter subscriber base of 73,000. DataMerge has been featured in publications including Inc., Financial Times, Entrepreneur, Success, Denver Post, and LA Times to name a few. If you wish to be considered for this program, please email me (Spencer Kluesner, CEO, DataMerge, Inc.) at VentureWeb(a)aol.com. Please provide a brief (one page or less) description of the website you propose to develop. Snail mail: DataMerge, Inc. Website Development Dept 1720 S. Bellaire Suite 310 Denver, CO 80222

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Oblivious key escrow
by Matt Blaze 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've revised and expanded the paper on decentralized key escrow that I presented at the Cambridge Information Hiding workshop and mentioned here a few weeks ago. The paper is now called "Oblivious Key Escrow", and is available from: ftp://research.att.com/dist/mab/netescrow.ps (postscript) ftp://research.att.com/dist/mab/netescrow.tex (latex source) -matt \begin{abstract} We propose a simple scheme, based on secret-sharing over large-scale networks, for assuring recoverability of sensitive archived data ({\em e.g.,} cryptographic keys). In our model anyone can request a copy of the archived data but it is very difficult to keep the existence of a request secret or to subvert the access policy of the data ``owner.'' We sketch an architecture for a distributed key escrow system that might be suitable for deployment over very large-scale networks such as the Internet. We also introduce a new cryptographic primitive, {\em oblivious multicast,} that can serve as the basis for such a system. \end{abstract}

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Re: plugging in
by Alex Strasheim 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Indeed -- the notion is that one could do things like put support for > encrypted/signed pages or other cryptographic tools (I haven't checked > if Netscape mail handles plugins, too) directly into Netscape where > ordinary users could smoothly use them. Doing tech support at my ISP has made me very skeptical of anything that requires a plug in. Most people aren't willing or able to download and install them. Obviously that's not a problem for large organizations who want to run something internally -- they can make people install them and provide support to make sure it happens. But if you want to publish to the mainstream of people who use the net, using a plug in is a very bad idea. (I don't know anyone that doesn't design web pages for a living who's installed the shockwave plugin, for example. I'm sure that people do, just not the people I know. Only a marketing hack would download a couple of megabyte plug in to look at a soda company's web page.) SSL has a lot of problems (Verisign's pound of flesh, signatures on sites rather than documents, etc.), and those problems make a PGP based system attractive. But SSL's ubiquity (is that a word?) and the inherent kludginess of a PGP based plug-in make me think that the latter wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of catching on.

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Re: No Kidding
by Hal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> The absence > of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably > produced a kind of chaos, but as one of plaintiffs' experts put > it with such resonance at the hearing: > What achieved success was the very > chaos that the Internet is. The > strength of the Internet is that > chaos.[23] > > Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of > our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the > unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. This is beautifully eloquent. I hope it will be persuasive with the Supreme Court. Does anyone know which witness came up with the quote above? Obviously it resonated with the judges. Hal

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: HACKERPUNKS MAILING LIST
by David Rosoff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10.12 AM 6/11/96 -0400, SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N wrote: >I don't have a C2 account, and don't really want to pay for one. >I trust someone will put the hackerpunks archives on the web so >the rest of us can read them. C2 nym accounts are free. =============================================================================== David Rosoff (nihongo o chiisaku dekimasu) -------------> drosoff(a)arc.unm.edu For PGP key 0xD37692F9, finger drosoff(a)acoma.arc.unm.edu or get from keyservers pub 1024/D37692F9 1995/07/01 David Rosoff <drosoff(a)arc.unm.edu> Key fingerprint = 25 7D AA 01 85 41 43 89 50 5A 33 76 F1 F1 99 67 I accept anonymous mail. If I didn't sign it, you don't know I wrote it. === "Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find-- and not to yield." <---- "Ulysses", by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMb4A5xguzHDTdpL5AQGxLQP/YXH9uWmXC2xK/Pr/c4kdyopE213bsQpL +T3RD2qSK+qO234fHL3nJmQVBTS5Eyyw4YtMEmnV87vclpWbP9WIr+7RDvYpr/aM 1/6QBEux3f/K6SaPD5iBHfuoc8XkriqhfXgiiUnVK4IxbhHaLatPpSeKLQmX0o2Q 3fVXFjWuEGs= =sSf7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Correction to "Hackerpunks and C2"
by Ecafe Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There was a minor error in my earlier post. If someone were to notice a node on the internet receiving a bag with L(In)=L(Posted) *before* any other nodes on the internet, then one could guess that node had a user who was the owner of Hackerpunks.

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Re: Slander of Catholic Church
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:40 PM 6/11/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: > the "net.war" declared by some on > the Church of Scientology is little different than having a similar war > against Catholics, Rosicrucians, Parsees, whatever. There is a very great difference: Scientology made war on the net. The Catholics, Rosicrucians, whatever, have not. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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