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Re: Dead Body Theatre
by Major Variola (ret) 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

At 06:00 PM 7/24/03 +0100, Dave Howe wrote: >the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of >the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be "ok" >provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes? Dude, if Julius Caesar had magnetometers we might all be speaking Italian now. The one with the bigger guns makes the rules. Which is why those with smaller guns don't play by those rules. Just because the UN fnord hasn't been given the paperwork or Congress hasn't made the required fnord legal declaration, don't think there isn't a war on. Or several.

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Congresscritters want to be more... permanent
by Declan McCullagh 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

POLITICS News conference to announce bipartisan legislation for a constitutional ammendment to increase the term of House members from 2 years to 4 years. Participants: Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md.= Location: House Radio/TV Gallery, U.S. Capitol. 3:30 p.m. Contact: Anne Keller, 202-225-6605 or 202-225-2721

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Re: Fwd: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore's email
by Tyler Durden 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Eric Cordia wrote... "I mean, a 1 inch button, for Christ's sake. They must have had to use a magnifying glass to read the slogan." Actually, that's an interesting point. Let's first of all remember that Gilmore was allowed onto the plane in the first place, so airport security didn't care or notice. And it doesn't seem that onboard Gilmore was causing a ruckus or creating the sense of insecurity. And I'm willing to bet that none of the staff actually felt/believed that the guy was a threat (let's assume they have the right to remove somebody that perceived to be a threat). So clearly this was punitive. No don't get me wrong, I would have thought the guy was a little bit of dick for "spooking the straights", and I would have been tempted (note the word tempted) to punch that button off of him so we didn't have to turn around. But it sounds like a rehash of the mall incident...had he walked onto the flight with a button that said "I support our troops", he wouldn't have been thrown off. Thus everyone has become a kind of thought cop....but what they're enforcing is not the collective perceived reality, but what most people believe the collective perceived reality is supposed to be. There're cracks already though, and the fact that NY Times ran that photo on the front page the other day means a lot, actually... -TD >From: Eric Cordian <emc(a)artifact.psychedelic.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)minder.net >Subject: Re: Fwd: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors >Gilmore's email >Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:31:15 -0700 (PDT) > > > I felt sorry for the other 300 people on the plane who had their flight > > delayed for some guy with a small badge on his chest, and a big chip on > > his shoulder. > >The other 300 people on the plane had their flight delayed by the actions >of the carrier, not by the actions of Gilmore. > >You are falling for the usual mental trap here of viewing authority as >some sort of inviolate physical law, and transferring responsibilty onto >the victim for "making them do it." > >You should watch that in the future. > >I mean, a 1 inch button, for Christ's sake. They must have had to use a >magnifying glass to read the slogan. > >-- >Eric Michael Cordian 0+ >O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division >"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law" _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Accuris - Challenges Facing You
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

<http://www.accuris.ie/challenges.htm> Accuris - Challenges Facing You The current situation has left operators facing a considerable list of challenges: As the services you offer your customers increase so too do the number of Interception services and therefore the workload on your company should a manual approach continue to be adopted. The EU law imposes a legal duty on all operators to meet many standards in the Interception network including: 7 Integrity - The target must not be able to detect that the traffic is being intercepted. 7 Quality - The quality of the real-time Interception delivered to the Law Enforcement Monitoring Facility (LEMF) must be of the same level as that delivered to the target. 7 Performance - The operator must be able to implement urgent requests within minutes. 7 Lawful - Interceptions must commence and terminate at the exact start/end date and time referred to on the Interception warrant. 7 Security - Only individuals who have been appropriately screened and require access to Interception data should have this ability. In an increasingly global economy LEAs are increasingly requesting Interceptions from operators outside their home county. It is important to ensure that the handover interface you use to an LEMF is based on a commonly used standard. In the telecommunications business this usually means compliance to either ETSI or CALEA. Potential Implications 7Interception warrants are issued by the courts and need to be complied with exactly in order to ensure that the Interceptions carried out are in fact lawful rather than unlawful. 7Manual processes are costly, inefficient and prone to error. 7Provision of Interception on any service you offer may be required under the terms of your license. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Accuris - Data Network Interception
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

<http://www.accuris.ie/datnetint.htm> Accuris - Data Network Interception LMD-IP The LMD-IP is Accuris' IP mediation product, it mediates between the ISP's network and the Law Enforcement Monitoring Facility, delivering intercepted target traffic according to the relevant national standard. LMD-IP has been built on a component-based architecture, enabling the distribution of components where necessary to handle the intercept volumes and to tailor with the ISP's network. Features 7 Automatic activation/de-activation on all appropriate interception points. 7 Delivery of content and intercept related information in compliance with TIIT standards. 7 Support for warrant management. 7 Discrete billing capability. 7 Support for all Ethernet-based IP services (10MB/sec, 100MB/sec or 1GB/sec.) 7 Support for ATM and POS Benefits 7 Fully compliant with TIIT. 7 Passive interception ensures no impact on your network services. 7 Facility to manage multiple logical domains. 7 Architecture supports future value-added applications. 7 No software interception limits. 7 A product roadmap that is in step with the TIIT & ETSI standards as they evolve. 7 Deployed on non-proprietary hardware and software thus reducing operating and deployment costs. Common management system controls all interception services ensuring increased security and reduced operating costs. The Product The LMD-IP consists of five key components: 7 Intercept Management 7 Target Access Point (TAP) 7 Network Filter 7 Service Filter 7 Delivery Intercept Management This component is responsible for the activation/de-activation of the interception on the ISP's network at the start/end time indicated on the warrant. It passes the target's IP address to the Network and Service Filters and the appropriate LEMF delivery address to the Delivery module. TAP TAP splitters or layer 2 splitting can be used to replicate the IP data stream. This passive mechanism has the dual benefit of ensuring that the ISP's network is unaffected and that the target is unaware of the interception of the service. Prior to deployment, Accuris engineers assist ISP staff in determining the most efficient location to place TAPs on the network. Network Filter The Network Filter intelligently selects the IP packets of interest i.e. where the source/destination IP address is that of a registered IP target or a dial-in user is attempting to logon. Once identified this packet is then sent to the appropriate service filter. Service Filter The Service Filter is responsible for re-constituting the IP datagrams into their native service e.g. SMTP, POP3, etc. Delivery The delivery module is responsible for delivering the intercepted data and/or intercept related events to the LEMF according to the applicable national standard. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Accuris - Company History
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

<http://www.accuris.ie/history.htm> Accuris - Company History Accuris is a specialist provider of lawful interception solutions in the communications field. Based in Dublin, Ireland - the software capital of Europe - Accuris continues to lead the market in its niche field. Established in 1997 as a product provider in the telecommunications arena, Accuris grew rapidly as a result of the input from its founders - KPN, Eircom and Telia. In 2002 the company was purchased by a group of investors and charged with becoming the European leader in Lawful Interception, as well as extending its expertise in other areas of the telecommunications sector. Accuris has a core specialist workforce that provides the full range of services from initial consultancy through development and ongoing customer support. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Accuris launches "Tap In A Box"
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

<http://www.accuris.ie/product_tap.htm> Accuris - Product News Item Accuris launches "Tap In A Box" Accuris has recently launched "Tap in A Box" as a low-cost method to enable smaller ISPs to comply with their country's Lawful Interception requirements. Key Product Elements 7 Management System 7 Interception Capability 7 Hardware Components 7 System Installation 7 Delivery and on-site system test included 7 All relevant cables, connectors supplied 7 Technical Support 7 Warranty 7 Help desk 7 Call logging & problem management 7 Lines of support 7 Response times 7 Notifications 7 Optional Extras 7 Increased network capacity upgrade 7 Additional Tap Points 7 Upgrade to Enterprise solution 7 Professional Services 7 Additional support cover 7 Training Management System This system provides secure access to warrant/interception management features as well as control of interception point configuration. Interception Capability The basic number of tap points is 2 single Fast Ethernet points. The traffic interception types consist of TCP/IP, SMTP, POP3 and Radius. Additional services will be catered for in maintenance releases, as required by legislation. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: Dna samples of world leaders
by Sunder 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Yes, brain fart. :) s/b Emmanuel Goldstein. Doh! Need more coffee... Yup, but you don't have to splice a tape, you can do it all digitally these days, then create a signle low quality audiotape recorded so poorly that your analyst won't be able to acurately say yes or not. The real question is whether or not you can have a speech synth that can put out convincing inflections, pauses, um's ah's, coughs, etc. to the point that it sounds like a human with emotions, not a machine. You can get the samples from existing speeches/addresses and extract just the phonemes. Your speech synth's output shouldn't sound like a bunch of clips of words of course. :) I don't know how many phonemes would be required for a convinging Iraqi leader... For English there's like 30 something... If you get them all at the same tone from the same speech, you're set. If you've ever played with MacOS's speech synth, they have some that are somewhat realistic human voices, but they still speak with out human sounding rythms - rather they sound like a human trying to imitate a computer a la old Star Trek episodes. Add the inflections to get emotion like sounds, and increase the quality of the synth so you don't hear machine artifacts, and you're set. It's not an easy problem, but neither is it impossible. As to DNA: Uh, I was talking about Sadam's palaces - lots of skin flakes, clothes, hairs in combs, etc to be had there. Ok, well that presumes that sufficient samples were collected before the nice palace parties. :) ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > At 12:42 PM 07/23/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: > >Bah! Saddam has become the new Eric Goldstien since Osama Bin Ladin is > >quieter. > > I'm guessing you're mixing up Emmanuel Goldstein, from 1984 > and Eric Corley aka Emmanuel Goldstein, from 2600 ? > It might be hard to splice together a tape that would > fool a forensic expert into thinking the tape was really > an authentic recording by the same person who was speaking on > several other known-to-be-authentic recordings. > It's not at all hard to put together a press release from > an ostensible forensic expert claiming that a tape > is or isn't authentic, or even to find an expert who'll say it. > It's probably not too hard to put together a tape with > the speech you want and a set of claimed-to-be-known-authentic samples > that the expert can compare with the voice on the tape, > if the expert doesn't have good independent samples of his own. > > After all, your objective isn't to fool the experts - > it's to fool the public, or rather to make sure that the public > that you've already fooled continues to stay fooled. > As Bush said, "fool me once, shame on... shame on.. " > > > Besides, to get the DNA samples, they just checked with > Illuminati Headquarters - you thought that when world leaders > sign their employment contracts in blood, it's only for decoration?

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Re: Jerk with a t-shirt
by Tyler Durden 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

"This happened just a few miles from me, so perhaps I've paid closer attention than you have. T-shirt man wasn't merely minding his own business while wearing an offensive shirt. He was stepping in front of people and haranguing them in front of a large anchor store in the mall. After a while he was asked to leave by a store employee, so he took himself to the food court and repeated the procedure. After complaints from several mall patrons, a security guard asked T-shirt man to either knock it off or leave." Well I haven't heard the story told this way before. If this were the case, he should be removed no matter what T-shirt he was wearing. As for the "private property" issues, I'm still not convinced they're cut-and-dry (though in some cases maybe they are). If nothing else, the demonstration the following morning lets the local thugs know that consensus reality these days does not equate benevolence with US foreign policy. Thus, the barely-made-it-out-of-high-school managers of the Mall's Security will know that anti-war T-shirts may not be any more controversial than pro-war t-shirts, despite what the TV has instructed them. -TD >From: Steve Furlong <sfurlong(a)acmenet.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com >Subject: Jerk with a t-shirt >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 06:42:24 -0400 > >On Wednesday 23 July 2003 09:18, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > But it sounds like a rehash of the mall incident > >You don't know what you're talking about. This happened just a few miles >from me, so perhaps I've paid closer attention than you have. T-shirt >man wasn't merely minding his own business while wearing an offensive >shirt. He was stepping in front of people and haranguing them in front >of a large anchor store in the mall. After a while he was asked to >leave by a store employee, so he took himself to the food court and >repeated the procedure. After complaints from several mall patrons, a >security guard asked T-shirt man to either knock it off or leave. >T-shirt man refused, growing more and more aggressive, and eventually >the local cops came along and arrested him. (I may have fudged some >details, as I'm working from memory, but I don't think I screwed up >anything important.) > >OK, so far it could be the spontaneous actions of one guy. But, even >though the story wasn't reported until the late news that evening, >there was a large (hundreds, IIRC) crowd of protesters when the mall >opened the next morning. This might not sound like much to someone used >to NYC crowds, but by the standards of this area that was a huge crowd. >I guess it _could_ have been a spontaneous rising of a populace fed up >with jack-booted thug harrassment of dissenting opinion. But the more I >hear about it, the more this sounds like a planned operation. > >-- >Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel > >"If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using >their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that >these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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kinko spying: criminal caught Scarfing keydata
by Major Variola (ret.) 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Kinko's spy case: Risks of renting PCs NEW YORK (AP) -- For more than a year, unbeknownst to people who used Internet terminals at Kinko's stores in New York, Juju Jiang was recording what they typed, paying particular attention to their passwords. Jiang had secretly installed, in at least 14 Kinko's copy shops, software that logs individual keystrokes. He captured more than 450 user names and passwords, and used them to access and open bank accounts online. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/23/cybercafe.security.ap/index.html

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