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Re: cryptographic fantasy (ca. "Stego, my ass" by WF Buckley)
by Michael Motyka 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

> The notion that Osama would use a filmed interview to > send out recondite commands is cryptographic fantasy. > > William F. Buckley Jr. > OSAMA THE INVINCIBLE > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ucwb/20011211/cm/osama_the_invincible_1.html > OK piece. I usually write off Buckley as a pompous ass. I wish we would hear more skepticism about GWB and Ashcroft and their domestic treasonous idiocy. As far as his assertion about the popularity of UBL in the Philippines : sounds like a stretcher to me - Muslims are only strong in the extreme south e.g. Mindanao. Most of the population is pretty strict Catholic. There may be some resentment of the US but I think overall there is a hunger for all things US : education, media, goods, travel and trade. The older folks definitely still remember the Japanese. Mike

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CNN.com - Army confirms anthrax production in Utah - December 12, 2001
by Jim Choate 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

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Sameer on the History of Remailers
by Anonymous 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2/remailers/ ... what that CNN article wanted to say.

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MS Patent for DRM OS
by John Young 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Microsoft's patent for a Digital Rights Management Operating System was awarded yesterday: http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm Abstract A digital rights management operating system protects rights-managed data, such as downloaded content, from access by untrusted programs while the data is loaded into memory or on a page file as a result of the execution of a trusted application that accesses the memory. To protect the rights-managed data resident in memory, the digital rights management operating system refuses to load an untrusted program into memory while the trusted application is executing or removes the data from memory before loading the untrusted program. If the untrusted program executes at the operating system level, such as a debugger, the digital rights management operating system renounces a trusted identity created for it by the computer processor when the computer was booted. To protect the rights-managed data on the page file, the digital rights management operating system prohibits raw access to the page file, or erases the data from the page file before allowing such access. Alternatively, the digital rights management operating system can encrypt the rights-managed data prior to writing it to the page file. The digital rights management operating system also limits the functions the user can perform on the rights-managed data and the trusted application, and can provide a trusted clock used in place of the standard computer clock.

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JDL topples WTC
by Tabla bin Rasa 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

At 09:45 PM 12/12/01 -0600, Jon Beets wrote: >What would you do if a foreign government occupied >your country? Ask the French Resistance or Osama :-) >Subject: Jewish Terror Attack on US Foiled >> LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chairman of the militant Jewish Defense League and >> a follower have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los >> Angeles mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman, federal They have now provided *excellent* evidence for the conspiracy nuts who suspect that Mossad downed the WTC.

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Re: CNN.com on Remailers
by Anonymous 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Meyer Wolfsheim writes: > How much of an increase in dummy-messages could the remailer network > withstand? I'm trying to think of interesting ways to create more > widespread dummy traffic coming from many different origins, but that > could get out of hand rather quickly. Do you know how many messages are going through the remailer network now? How many do you think the average remailer processes in a day? Now, how many do you think a remailer ought to be handling in order for there to be enough traffic for people to feel safe? Let's see some quantitative figures, both to show that you've done your homework and to make clear what security assumptions you are making.

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Re: CNN.com on Remailers
by Faustine 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Meyer wrote: > Or how about this one: enticing people interested in developing > cryptography into an closed system based in Canada (international, so > using full-blown Echelon technology against it isn't a problem) >>Except for the pesky fact that the NSA can't spy on US citizens, even if >>they're in Canada. (Exceptions can be made, but the hoops become higher >>and more numerous than a simple FBI investigation.) True, but if a communication involves "information relevant to a matter of national security" and crosses national borders, US citizens are fair game. - From what little I've seen about it, it seems like if someone decided it was worth the effort to intercept all private communications about remailers and crypto, the language is ambiguous enough to allow for a pretty large loophole. So setting up shop in Canada might do the trick, unfortunately. Back to remailers: this might have a boneheadedly obvious answer, but is there a role for non-publicized privately-run remailer networks to serve as a "privacy buffer" before putting messages thorugh the public remailer system? For example, if I had the hardware, software, phone lines, internet connections and time to run multiple autonomous mixmaster remailers out of my basement to route my own messages (and dummy traffic) around before funneling them to a public remailer, would there be any way to keep all-but-the-last box entirely shut off from view? Could you achieve this degree of anonymity from running Reliable? What would it take to keep a private remailer network truly private? Not that I really expect anyone to talk about it here, but it's an interesting set of questions to mentally kick around, at any rate. Maybe a link to a white paper or two would put me out of my misery. ;) And what about the idea of surreptitiously installing this kind of private remailer network via piggybacking a stripped-down highly-anonymous version of remailer software onto other people's badly-maintained networks--free POP accounts to hold the traffic, maybe along with some sort of remote administration tool for maintenance. A tiny trickle of traffic has all the obvious problems, but is it possible that a "single user" scheme like this might be sufficiently under the radar to go completely unnoticed? Little invisible pinprick remailers that pop up all over the place, and dissappear almost as fast as they spring up. Mosquito Remailers? Just a thought. Nothing but 100% hot air on my part, but I hope somebody finds something interesting enough here to take it and run with it. ~Faustine. p.s...and yes, I'm off to "Go Read the Archives"TM. *** As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression....There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. - --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPBgIjPg5Tuca7bfvEQLJQQCg65fZ5m4aYB52m9KAAt4Rc2TigFIAniMX v9FXN+TynvB6R9QifnWkq1+S =F5yb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Jewish Terror Attack on US Foiled
by Eric Cordian 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Gosh - doesn't anyone like the United States anymore? Give the fuckers $3 billion a year in aid, and they elect a war criminal as their Prime Minister and pull shit like this. ----- LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chairman of the militant Jewish Defense League and a follower have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los Angeles mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman, federal authorities said today. Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the group, Earl Krugel, 59, both of Los Angeles, were arrested last night after the last component of the bomb -- explosive powder -- was delivered to Krugel's home, U.S. Attorney John S. Gordon said. Authorities said the two planned to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City and the office of freshman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Hola friend greetings from Guerrero Mexico
by Artcamp SC de RL 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Hola friend greetings from Guerrero Mexico Algunas de nosotras estudiamos ingles en los Estados Unidos (las jóvenes que se fueron con sus papas mientras ellos trabajaban de braceros por allá). Gracias a ellas, ahora tenemos mas facilidad para aprender y usar este idioma. Nosotras estamos aprendiendo a base de traducciones que hacemos comoejercicios en nuestras casas y ellas nos corrigen y así poco a poco vamostodas mejorando en esta difícil tarea. Nos cuesta mucho trabajo y es muy difícil, pero sabemos que si queremos tener éxito, esto va a ser primordial manejarlo, así que pues ni modo, lo tenemos que hacer cueste lo que cueste. Some of us studied English in the United States (as youth going with their parents who worked as bracero laborers there) Thanks to them we have the facility to learn and use the language. We are learning based upon translations that we make as exercises in our homes and they correct us and little by little we are improving in this difficult task. It costs us a lot of work and it is very difficult, but we know that if we wish for success, this is necessary to work for it, and so therefore we do what we must do. Hace años nos dijeron que debíamos utilizar el Internet para poder dejar de ser lo desconocidos que somos. Years ago we were told that we ought to utilize Internet to stop being the unknowns that we are. Algunos de los miembros de nuestra cooperativa han trabajado por casi tres años en aprender HTLM y los programas necesarios para poder crear nuestro sitio web. Contratamos algunos maestros de computación para que nos ayudaran. Some members of our cooperative have worked for nearly three years to learn the HTML code and the programs necessary to be able to be able to create our web site We hired some teachers of computation to help us. Finalmente creamos nuestro sitio web pero todavía estamos tratando de hacer que funciona para nosotras Finally we created our web site and we are trying to make this work for us. Confiamos en que Dios nos va a ayudar porque tenemos mucho que ofrecer y porque sabemos producir nuestras artesanías y constantemente buscamos cada día nuevas formas para crear lo que nos indican que el mercado de hoy quiere. We believe that God is going to help us because we have much to offer and because we know how to produce our handcrafts and constantly we seek each day new forms to create what the markets of today desire. Quiero darte la dirección del sitio web que creamos (este es el tercer intento mejorado) de Artcamp (esto es una abreviación de Artesanas Campesinas), y es el nombre de nuestra cooperativa. I want to give you the address of our website that we created (it is the third attempt to improve it) of Artcamp (this is an abbreviation of Artesanas Campesinas which means in English, Rural Women Artisans. Me gustaría que lo visites y nos aconsejes sobre lo que debemos de estar haciendo para mejorarlo y poder obtener beneficios del mismo, como nos dijo el amigo que nos aconsejo hacer este proyecto. I would like that you visit it and advise us about what we should be doing to improve and to gain advantage of it like our friend said who advised us to do this project. La dirección es http://www.artcamp.com.mx Estaré esperando tus comentarios. The address is http://www.artcamp.com.mx We will wait for your commentaries. Eso es todo por el momento, muchas gracias por reconocernos y esperamos estar en contacto. That is all for the moment, many thanks for recognizing us and we hope to be in contact. Sus amigas en Guerrero México, saludos todas las mujeres de la cooperativa de Artcamp: Your friends in Guerrero México, greetings from all the women of the Artcamp cooperative. Yolanda Areli Tamara Marcela Maria Hilaria, Luz, y Anglica y las otras Ojalá que un dia nos puede visitar aquí en México! We hope that one day you may visit us in Mexico! Atentamente, Nohemi _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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more shitty tradecraft from agent faustine
by mattd 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

>>don't try to close the barn door after the cow has followed the bull to the pasture! Do you ever listen to yourself,F? Come away from the dark side of the force.While you still can.

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