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Re: Top 10 police database abuses (pointer)
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

At 09:58 AM 6/14/2002 -0400, Adam Shostack <adam(a)homeport.org> wrote: http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/privacy/story/0,23008,3387549,00.html > Law enforcement officers are supposed to protect and serve, but some > corrupt cops misuse police databases to get dates and more Tuesday, > 6/11 at 9 p.m. Eastern on 'CyberCrime.' > Your address, telephone number, Social Security number, date of > birth, criminal record -- all this information and more can be > accessed by police officers if they have basic information about > you. Not surprisingly, some cops abuse their privilege and use their > database access for less-than-honorable reasons. This week on > "CyberCrime" we show you how some corrupt cops used police databases > to harass exes and even get telephone numbers of pretty girls they > see in cars. Good reasons for average citizens to obtain and use alternate identification. Looks like we all need to play Spy Games if we want to control access to our personal information. Communicate in total privacy. Get your free encrypted email at https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Looking for a good deal on a domain name? http://www.hush.com/partners/offers.cgi?id=domainpeople

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You're Losing Money If You Aren't Using Us!! adv
by sendit 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

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Re: Theft Attempt or LEO Sting?
by Michael Motyka 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

Sunder wrote: > > The https cert for e-golb shows up as "snake oil" in all the fields. > > www.snakeoil.dom > Snake Oil, Ltd > Webserver Team > Snake Town > Snake Desert, XY > emailAddress: www(a)snakeoil.dom > > Snake Oil CA > Snake Oil, Ltd > Certificate Authority > Snake Town > > Nice scam... Probably snorted cypherpunks for email addrs and spammed'em > all. > > All the top bar links point to the real e-gold site.... nice... > All except for "home" and "login" - the "key" ones, so to speak. Well, I'll continue to invest/spend e-gold at my old rate of 0; Yawn. Mike

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Re: politicians vs. bill of rights (your legislature on drugs)
by cypherpunk-vin＠vmeng.com 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

maybe Kalifornians should start an referendum to drug test politicians... since most of them are dopes anyway... At 9:22 AM -0700 6/14/02, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote: >SACRAMENTO -- Dismayed by new disclosures of the use of steroids in >Major League Baseball, a state senator wants to force most professional >sports teams to test athletes for performance enhancing drugs if they >play >games in California. > >State Sen. Don Perata (D-Alameda) said the Legislature must do what >baseball and the National Hockey League have not: Mandate random drug >testing to ensure players do not compete while juiced. > >http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000041818jun14.story?coll=la%2Dheadlin… > >................ > >If politicians have this little respect for the prohibition on >unreasonable search, perhaps >they will have more respect for the noose due traitors... -- Vinnie Moscaritolo ITCB-IMSH PGP: 3F903472C3AF622D5D918D9BD8B100090B3EF042 ------------------------------------------------------- Those who hammer their swords into plows, will plow for those who don't."

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Theft Attempt or LEO Sting?
by Michael Motyka 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

Look at the two sites : http://www.e-gold.com http://www.e-golb.com - BTW the registrant's info is phony, Docent doesn't know her, carder.com user search fails, may she get boiled alive someday I never opened an e-gold account. I wonder where the fuckers got my e-mail address - here or because I check markets on kitco? Mike e-mail excerpt : Reply-To: "" <UpdatesRobot_donotreply(a)e-gold.com> From: "" <UpdatesRobot_donotreply(a)e-gold.com> --------------------------------------------------------------- * * * Important information about your e-gold account * * * --------------------------------------------------------------- e-gold Account User Agreement updates Please go in yours account and read e-gold User Agreement using the link below. * * * IMPORTANT * * Only after logging in and reading updates you can continue spend e-gold. Click here for login. --------------------------------------------- Thank you for using e-gold! --------------------------------------------- This automatic email sent to: mmotyka(a)lsil.com Do not reply to this email. www.e-gold.com

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spouse-spying software -d.i.r.t.@home?
by Khoder bin Hakkin 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

Looks like someone else is selling a trojan for paranoid monogamists: http://www.cheating-spouse-check.com/netobserve.htm With 128-bit encryption, even... yawn

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MyEnvironment: Newsletter v.1.1
by MyEnvironment Members D 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

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Re: politicians vs. bill of rights (your legislature on drugs)
by Eric Murray 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:22:58AM -0700, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote: > SACRAMENTO -- Dismayed by new disclosures of the use of steroids in > Major League Baseball, a state senator wants to force most professional > sports teams to test athletes for performance enhancing drugs if they > play > games in California. [..] > ................ > > If politicians have this little respect for the prohibition on > unreasonable search, perhaps > they will have more respect for the noose due traitors... It's already a reality in some sports and some countries. In France for instance, police can randomly drug test professional cyclists at any time. They can also search them, their houses and cars at any time and with no warrant. Italy also has somewhat similar provisions. Perata is a well-known rights-taker. He's also a well-known hypocrite, having sponsored gun-grabbing legislation while using his position to get himself a concealed weapon permit, something that is nearly always denied to ordinary California citizens. http://www.nrawinningteam.com/calnra/perata/ Eric

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Top 10 police database abuses (pointer)
by Adam Shostack 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/privacy/story/0,23008,3387549,00.html > Law enforcement officers are supposed to protect and serve, but some > corrupt cops misuse police databases to get dates and more Tuesday, > 6/11 at 9 p.m. Eastern on 'CyberCrime.' > Your address, telephone number, Social Security number, date of > birth, criminal record -- all this information and more can be > accessed by police officers if they have basic information about > you. Not surprisingly, some cops abuse their privilege and use their > database access for less-than-honorable reasons. This week on > "CyberCrime" we show you how some corrupt cops used police databases > to harass exes and even get telephone numbers of pretty girls they > see in cars. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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Re: Safe RSA variant?
by Nomen Nescio 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

Jason Holt writes: > Trent generates primes p,q. He publishes n=pq and some random value g. > > Trent calculates a and a' such that aa' = 1 % (p-1)(q-1) and a' is prime. He > sends Alice a' and g^a%n. a' is her secret exponent and g^a%n her public > value. Another way to think of g^a is as the a'-th root of g, since (g^a)^a' = g mod n. If we instead use k instead of a', then Alice gets k and the kth root of g. > Bob can establish a shared secret with Alice if Alice got a' from Trent. He > picks a random r and sends her g^ar%n. She raises it to a' to compute the > shared secret g^r%n. In my notion, she publishes her kth root of g, Bob raises it to the rth power, and Alice then raises it to the kth power to recover g^r. > So the important questions are: > > * Given g^a%n and a', can Alice derive (p-1)(q-1)? If so, she'd be able to > take over Trent's job. No, given g and the kth root of g, she clearly can't find phi(n), because every RSA signature supplies such a pair. > * Given g^k%n and k' for lots of different k, can we derive (p-1)(q-1) or > otherwise imitate Trent's ability to give out (g^k%n, k') pairs? I think this is OK too. See the Strong RSA Assumption, for example at http://www.zurich.ibm.com/security/ace/sig.pdf. Basically this says that you can't find kth roots mod an RSA modulus without knowing the factors. You might want to ask this on sci.crypt, they are pretty good with pure math questions like this one.

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