- cypherpunks-legacy - lists.cpunks.org

cloning as heresy (Re: Fresh Hell)
by Major Variola (ret) 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

At 09:44 PM 1/17/03 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: >>>1) Fucks up the prevailing religion doctrine. >>> >>Funny, but I can't seem to find the passage in the Bible where it talks >>about cloning. In fact, I can't find any passage that even remotely >>impinges on the subject. > >Provided that I had the christian cult in mind (where I am not an connoisseur), >wasn't there something about exclusivity of conceiving without fucking ? He's talking about parthogenesis. You know, a young unwed palestinian gets knocked up, has a schizophrenic bastard son who makes it big in the city, gets a following, and is WACO-ized, more or less.

1 0

Re: Vampires, GM Food and Malawi
by W H Robinson 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Malawian vampires now using sleeping gas > > New York Times > > "Malawi, despite the best efforts of its government, is in the grip of a > form of hysteria. Vampires are attacking the villages, people say. [snip] > Their prey, witnesses > insist, are modern-day vampires: men carrying flashlights who disable their > victims with sleeping gas." > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/international/africa/14VAMP.html?ex=10432… [snip] > Conspiracies abound ;) "Gee! It's Mr. Adams, the theme park owner!" "I would have got away with it, if it weren't for you pesky meddlin' vigilante villagers." Quoth the article... "Everyone knows that politicians lie, Mr. Kaiya said, which is why few people trust the government's position on vampires." How many people in *your* home town would buy out local garlic stocks if this was the latest orange alert?

1 0

Re: Desert Spam
by Major Variola (ret) 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

At 03:44 PM 1/16/03 +0100, Anonymous wrote: > Does anyone know a source for a spam list for US military? Use google. Search for @*.mil Also large bureaucracies use standard forms like First.Surname@blah or FSurname@blah Be subtle. Ask them to disable their weapons and defect. Tell them you don't hate americans, just the regime. Make sure you don't post such info where furringers will see it ---they might abuse it. Also all that furringer mail coming into .mil will annoy DIA

1 0

Re: The Plague
by Major Variola (ret) 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

At 03:18 AM 1/16/03 +0000, Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote: >And all westerns have some level of aquired imunity, for we are the Surely you mean inherited, not acquired. >descendents of the plague survivors. See _Guns Germs and Steel_ Note however, without occasional plagues, a population would lose resistance...

1 0

RIAA turns against Hollings bill
by Nomen Nescio 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

The New York Times is reporting at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/technology/14CND-PIRACY.html that the Recording Industry Association of America, along with two computer and technology industry trade groups, has agreed not to seek new government regulations to mandate technological controls for copyright protection. This appears to refer primarily to the Hollings bill, the CBDTPA, which had already been struck a blow when Hollings lost his committee chairmanship due to the Democrats losing Senate leadership. Most observers see this latest step as being the last nail in the coffin for the CBDTPA. Some months ago there were those who were predicting that Trusted Computing technology, as embodied in the TCPA and Palladium proposals, would be mandated by the Hollings bill. They said that all this talk of "voluntary" implementations was just a smoke screen while the players worked behind the scenes to pass laws that would mandate TCPA and Palladium in their most restrictive forms. It was said that Linux would be banned, that computers would no longer be able to run software that we can use today. We would cease to be the real owners of our computers, others would be "root" on them. A whole host of calamaties were forecast. How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such a threat of a mandated Trusted Computing technology, how bad is it for the system to be offered in a free market? Let technology companies decide whether to offer Palladium technology on their computers or not. Let content producers decide whether to use Palladium to protect their content or not. Let consumers decide whether to purchase and enable Palladium on their systems or not. Why is it so bad for people to freely make their own decisions about how best to live their lives? Cypherpunks of all people should be the last to advocate limiting the choices of others. Thankfully, it looks like freedom may win this round, despite the efforts of cypherpunks and "online freedom" advocates to eliminate this new technology option. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

4 3

WPI Cryptography Seminar January 20
by Berk Sunar 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

WPI Cryptography Seminar Towards a Theory of Variable Privacy BY: Dr. Poorvi Vora, Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, OR DATE: Monday, January 20, 2003 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: Atwater Kent, Room 218 ABSTRACT The traditional theory of security, with its focus on perfect secrecy, does not provide a satisfactory framework for the study of situations where information revelation bears a privacy cost and also provides a benefit. We define variable privacy as the use of randomization with user participation in the choice of parameters, and propose the beginnings of a theory for its study. Variable privacy enables the user, or a computational agent working on the user's behalf, to choose a level of interaction, based on a personal cost-benefit analysis of an instance of information revelation. Our theory is based on treating the randomization protocol as a channel for the information to be protected. We demonstrate a one-to-one correspondence between channel codes and a certain class of attacks. Shannon's theorems show the existence of very special attacks, and upper bounds on their efficiency. We use the bounds to motivate a privacy measure of randomization similar to one proposed the database literature, and thus provide connections between the theory of security and statistical privacy protection techniques. We are not aware of any other work that uses Shannon's theorems to construct the special attacks on cryptographic protocols. We are also not aware of any other work that connects error-correcting codes to attacks on randomization. DIRECTIONS: The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the WPI campus. Directions to the campus can be found at http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html ATTENDANCE: The seminar is open to everyone and free of charge. Simply send me a brief email if you plan to attend. MAILING LIST: If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk announcements together with abstracts, please send us a short e-mail message. On the other hand, if you want to be removed from the list, just send a reply to this message with the word "remove" in the subject line. Regards, Berk Sunar and Bill Martin ______________________________________________________________ Berk Sunar, Assistant Professor Electrical & Computer Eng. Dept. Ph (508) 831 54 94 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Fx (508) 831 54 91 http://www.wpi.edu/~sunar http://ece.wpi.edu/research/crypt/ CRIS Laboratory ______________________________________________________________ --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

1 0

WPI Cryptography Seminar January 20
by Berk Sunar 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

WPI Cryptography Seminar Towards a Theory of Variable Privacy BY: Dr. Poorvi Vora, Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, OR DATE: Monday, January 20, 2003 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: Atwater Kent, Room 218 ABSTRACT The traditional theory of security, with its focus on perfect secrecy, does not provide a satisfactory framework for the study of situations where information revelation bears a privacy cost and also provides a benefit. We define variable privacy as the use of randomization with user participation in the choice of parameters, and propose the beginnings of a theory for its study. Variable privacy enables the user, or a computational agent working on the user's behalf, to choose a level of interaction, based on a personal cost-benefit analysis of an instance of information revelation. Our theory is based on treating the randomization protocol as a channel for the information to be protected. We demonstrate a one-to-one correspondence between channel codes and a certain class of attacks. Shannon's theorems show the existence of very special attacks, and upper bounds on their efficiency. We use the bounds to motivate a privacy measure of randomization similar to one proposed the database literature, and thus provide connections between the theory of security and statistical privacy protection techniques. We are not aware of any other work that uses Shannon's theorems to construct the special attacks on cryptographic protocols. We are also not aware of any other work that connects error-correcting codes to attacks on randomization. DIRECTIONS: The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the WPI campus. Directions to the campus can be found at http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html ATTENDANCE: The seminar is open to everyone and free of charge. Simply send me a brief email if you plan to attend. MAILING LIST: If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk announcements together with abstracts, please send us a short e-mail message. On the other hand, if you want to be removed from the list, just send a reply to this message with the word "remove" in the subject line. Regards, Berk Sunar and Bill Martin ______________________________________________________________ Berk Sunar, Assistant Professor Electrical & Computer Eng. Dept. Ph (508) 831 54 94 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Fx (508) 831 54 91 http://www.wpi.edu/~sunar http://ece.wpi.edu/research/crypt/ CRIS Laboratory ______________________________________________________________ --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

1 0

Re: The Plague
by André Isidoro Fernandes Esteves 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

On Thursday, 16 de January de 2003 02:20, Tyler Durden wrote: > Actually, this may turn out to be more an academic issue than anything. > > If someone wanted bubonic or pnuemonic samples, all he'd have to do is just > grab someone from the western hospitals that contract it each year. > > Contrary to popular belief, it still exists, but we have effective > treatments against it. (Although when I was in China, there were cities in > southern Xinjiang that had a bad bubonic problem and had to be shut from > the outside world. Much worse was the HepA epidemic that hit Shanghai at > the time...stores and schools were oncverted into Hep wards, and you could > go there provided you brought your own bed.) > > -TD And all westerns have some level of aquired imunity, for we are the descendents of the plague survivors. (Actualy, in the dark ages, it wasn't only one plague.. it was several plagues (mutants and new pathogens) that spread wavelike through europe... the populations died mainly because of sistematically reduced imunity) Greetings aife

1 0

Pete Townshend and Pee-Wee
by Eric Cordian 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Remember that age verification service which got busted a few years back when the feds managed to convince a jury that the owners were the "madams of a child porn bordello," based on two overseas sites which featured illegal material? http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2001.08.06-2001.08.12/msg00433.html Well, after managing to entrap a few hundred US citizens into ordering KP from the feds, the feds are now grepping the list of 250,000 customers by country, and shipping the data off to other nations so that they may attempt to lure their own citizens as well. In the UK, this is of course the currently being reported on "Operation Ore" which is nailing pervy brits right and left, including Who musician Pete Townshend. In the US, the distortion continues full speed, with the age verification service still being referred to as "The World's Largest Child Porn Ring", with "250,000 child porn customers" paying millions for "pay per view" access to "over 6000" sites featuring pictures of "babies being raped," which is a small part of the "insatiable demand" for the" child sexual abuse pictures" featured on "over 100,000 web sites", or so Connie Chung tells us. Well, at least it makes being in the age verification business exciting. In the midst of all this frivolity, the Village Voice has written a very intelligent article on the current charges against Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, which apparently stem from an occasional minor featured in his vintage collection of 1960's muscle magazines, and a few grainy possible underage males in his now meticulously combed through collection of antique 8mm gay porn. The Village Voice: Features: Richard Goldstein: Persecuting Pee Wee http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0303/goldstein.php All this, and a dead Echols too. It's been quite a week. :) -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

1 0

Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill
by Will A. Rodger 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Nomen said: > How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no > Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, > as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such > a threat of a mandated Trusted Computing technology, how bad is it for > the system to be offered in a free market? John Gilmore replied: >The detailed RIAA statement tries to leave exactly this impression, >but it's the usual smokescreen. Check the sentence in their "7 policy >principles" joint statement, principle 6: "... The role of government, if needed at all, should be limited to enforcing compliance with voluntarily developed functional specifications reflecting consensus among affected interests." >I.e. it's the same old game. TCPA is such a voluntarily developed >functional spec. So is the "broadcast flag", and the HDCP copy >protection of your video cable, and IBM's copy-protection for hard >disk drives. Everything is all voluntary, until some competitor >reverse engineers one of these, and builds a product that lets the >information get out of the little "consensus" boxes. Consumers want >that, but it can't be allowed to happen. THEN the role of government >is to eliminate that competitor by outlawing them and their product. This is exactly correct. Wonks on both sides in DC been drawing this distinction quite clearly for some time. Yesterday's RIAA "concession" is in fact, reiteration of their established position. The only thing different today is MPAA now seems even further outside the mainstream of American legal tradition. Will Rodger Director Public Policy CCIA www.ccianet.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

1 0