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Re: Children's Privacy Act
by Bruce Baugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:45 PM 5/25/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: >such as monopolistic and oglipolistic corporations). You do have a choice in >dealing with other entities. I make that choice; I minimize my use of a credit >card, for instance. I've had months where my bill was $0.00. Now, if the >agency in question is required to collect such information because of coercion, >then that's wrongful, and that information shouldn't be retransmitted. Righ. But in addition to the forcible acquisition of information, there's the unwitting acquisition - you are never informed that party A has transmitted information X to party B, who in turn passed it to C, who garbled it and then passed the erroneous info to D.... I'm a raving anarcho-capitalist, and I see not the slightest ethical problem in requiring people to tell me what information they're gathering on me. At that point I can make an informed decision to deal or not deal with them - and that's a complex decision. I might well prefer to do business with, say, Tim's House O' Stuff even though it's collecting more info than I'd prefer, if there are compensatory factors. But I can't weigh my options in a void. -- Bruce Baugh bruce(a)aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce

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Re: Announcing CryptaPix 1.0
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"jimbell(a)pacifier.com" "jim bell" 25-MAY-1996 03:29:13.89 >What they ought to do is to "stegofy" this system by binding a picture with >a lower-quality, non-suspicious picture which can be brought up with a >"duress code." The idea has come up before; I raised it a while back, for instance. Your simple version has the problem that if the system is known to hide info in this way, the cops or whoever will just pressure you for the other picture's code. Really, the only way to get around this is to have a system that allows an indeterminate (from the perspective of those who don't have all the phrases) number of pictures/blocks of text/whatever to coexist, thus allowing one to pull up a subset of them and realistically claim that that's all of them. While, as Uni has pointed out, a judge can still toss you in jail for contempt of court, that is preferable to the results for the discovery of some other information (i.e., that which would get you the death penalty). -Allen

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Several things..
by John A. Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 1. Damn! Another remailer bites the dust. I've removed ncognito from the type2.list/pubring.mix combo on jpunix.com. The updated lists are available by web (www.jpunix.com) and by anon FTP (ftp.jpunix.com) 2. I wonder if we are going to see more "middleman" remailers now that the code has been released? Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on the subject? 3. Since remailers are dropping like flies, I've decided to bite the bullet and wake up nymrod. I no longer have the obligations that I had in the recent past that caused me to question running a nym server. I can now do so with a clear, unfettered conscience. Nymrod is now awake and active, ready to accept your nyms on nym.jpunix.com. The two names that that nym server will answer to are: nymrod(a)nym.jpunix.com (preferred) alias(a)nym.jpunix.com (to support some nym packages) John Perry - KG5RG - perry(a)alpha.jpunix.com - PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMadvJ1OTpEThrthvAQFrwAQAqcUIMAnSliEX5eZ9R30+NMk3pmrYuxEH TvzdK0mMfvkP+i+/1hj1muw+yAmomNogaphXYMbHDFBYCXjNscFSMCCWyECsjE6H Jm5B8/FzRYuLy83JugHE6KGLcmRkZeSmxG6p7O3W/IAoO2ThAyW8YYYOBZGASqQy qD1gEFWO9EI= =GpYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Children's Privacy Act
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"bruce(a)aracnet.com" "Bruce Baugh" 25-MAY-1996 09:21:06.18 >I don't see that this is necessarily true for information any more than it >is property. Property can be bought, sold, traded, given away, made...but it >can also be stolen. Just as I have a right to complain if you walk off with >my couch without my permission, so if you walk off with data on my blood >chemistry or credit history without my permission. Certainly, if you were coerced into giving up this information, it would be wrongful - including to knowingly retransmit it. But that's only the case for dealing with governments (and, I would include, other coercive groups such as monopolistic and oglipolistic corporations). You do have a choice in dealing with other entities. I make that choice; I minimize my use of a credit card, for instance. I've had months where my bill was $0.00. Now, if the agency in question is required to collect such information because of coercion, then that's wrongful, and that information shouldn't be retransmitted. -Allen

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407 Arms Traffickers in first month of training
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the first month the Arms Trafficker Training Page has helped 407 people to become Arms Traffickers. Here are the stats: International Arms Traffickers 407 Public List of Known Arms Traffickers 147 Letters to the president 83 Number of times page was read 2498 So about one arms trafficker for every 6 times the page is read (some people read the page more than once so the real ratio is better). Kind of fun that a web page can turn 1 out of 6 people into criminals. Thanks for your support both as arms traffickers and for linking to this page. It is off to a good start. For anyone who had missed it, the URL is: http://online.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/ -- Vince Cate

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Re: nCognito is Dead..
by Censored Girls Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Long Live nCognito! 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: "Key Escrow without Escrow Agents"
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:56 PM 5/25/96 -0700, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: > >I can see that you might create a code of law that determines >what procedures that these "distributed key juries" are supposed >to follow. but like our legal system, the interpretation and >application is ultimately left up to them. > >an interesting system, that is commendable for trying to >find a compromise between two seemingly irreconcilable polarities >(privacy and surveillance) but I doubt anyone in law enforcement >(with the mindset, "I can't be stopped from doing my job as I >see fit or criminals will get away") would go for it in the current form. But as long as key-escrow is claimed to be "voluntary," then the police should be happy if it is used at all. If they object that it is possible somebody won't agree that the person involved shouldn't have his data revealed, we can remind them that the jury system prevents conviction if not all of the jury agrees as to guilt. This is no worse than having, say, 12 key-escrow organizations and allowing any one to not reveal the correct key. Naturally, it will be necessary to ensure that they can refuse without anyone else knowing who opted out... Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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

17 Dec '03

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cryptlib debugging for Win95, WinNT
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In order for the RSA encryption functions in cryptlib (ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/security/crypl110.zip, but that one's without the RSA stuff for reasons which will become apparent) to work, I need to find someone to test the Win95 and WinNT random-number generation code, which calls various Win32 statistics-monitoring functions to seed its internal random number pool. I've written most of the code, but since some of the documentation for the API's is pretty dodgy, it'll need a bit of debugging and testing to get going. Is there anyone here who can help with this? I estimate that it's an hour or so of work for the Win95 side (which has Toolhelp32), and maybe half a day for NT (which has the incredibly complex registry-walking system and semi-documented network statistics gathering). There are two files to compile, with a total size of about 20K. I can't do it myself since I don't have easy access to any sort of Win32 system. Oh yes, this part of the code has nothing to do with crypto, so there are no problems with US people doing it. Peter.

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Re: [SCARE]: "If you only knew what we know..."
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 26 May 96 at 12:23, Subir Grewal wrote: > the > struggle does not always have to be violent, and it hurts our cause > to instigate violence when none has been used directly against us. How would you qualify the seizing of 50+ % of our productive work? Since only the productive work permits an individual to live, could you say that they steal half of your life? Why not? Then, any tax man targeted by AP who is past 1/2 the life expectency is getting an "an eye for an eye" or better deal... Are you telling that giving your wallet to a mugger is not done under violence directed against you since he did not shoot you or beat you in the first place? Do you tell me that the fact that he did not use his gun means that there is no violence implied? Under every pile of red-tape lies a fully loaded gun. And *this* is what gives govt employees their attitude toward you. Just some thoughts. Ciao JFA ...and actually, I am not even on CP mailing list... PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST DOES NOT MEAN THAT I ENDORSE MR. BELL'S SYSTEM. MY RATIONNAL CONCLUSIONS ABOUT IT'S INTERNAL MECHANICS AND IT'S INTRINSIC LOGICS DOES NOT MEAN THAT I LIKE NOR ENDORSE THE SYSTEM. I SIMPLY CONCLUDED THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREVENT THE SYSTEM FROM BEING IMPLEMENTED. IMO, IT IS UNAVOIDABLE. DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Limoges porcelain, Silverware and mouth blown crystal glasses JFA Technologies, R&D consultants. Physists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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