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by Pasha I 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

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Re: "Passive Blackmail" - Does this kind of application exist?
by Incognito Innominatus 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

> Suppose a scenario in which an individal has knowledge or substantial > suspicion that another person, group, or state are interested in > letting him have an accident or otherwise making him disappear. > > Now, that individual could have generally important information, evidence > about exactly that plot, or other evidence or black-mail material > against those people who potentially harbor these intentions against him. It's a common plot in spy thrillers and the like: if you kill me I've arranged to release all the evidence, details of your secret plans, etc. Mysterious envelopes labeled "To be opened only in the event of my death" play a prominent part. Your basic idea seems sound: you would split the data up among a group of people, or publish the data encrypted and split the key up. Ideally the key holders don't know who the other ones are, but all are instructed that if they don't see a message from you for some period of time that they should publish their key. You could use k out of n secret sharing in case some people lose the key or don't get the message. You might want to consider Matt Blaze's "oblivious multicast" protocol, which lets you split the key up among a large number of people without knowing who those people are. This would prevent an attack where you are tortured into revealing who you had given the information to, which might allow the attacker to eliminate those people before they could leak the secrets. It's at his site, www.crypto.com/papers, in the paper on Oblivious Key Escrow. In the traditional spy novels people can find out if so-and-so is killed just by reading the obituaries. If you want to deal with the pseudonymous case, where no one knows your true identity, that won't work. You suggest publishing a signed and dated statement periodically, but one risk of this is that your attackers could coerce you into revealing your secret key, allowing them to keep up the pretense that you are still alive by publishing messages in your name. In David Chaum's credential system, there could be an is-a-person credential associated with your physical biometrics. This can be secretly linked to your pseudonyms such that credentials on any one of your identities can be shown on your others. In that system you could get periodic "Still Alive" credentials issued on your physical identity, by an agency which was trusted to reliably determine that you are still breathing. These could then be shown by your pseudonymous selves and in that way you could pseudonymously prove that you are still alive without revealing who you are. Obviously a world with such insitutions is far from where we are today, and where we are heading, unfortunately. Maybe you don't care if your True Name is revealed after your death, in which case you can link the data release to public information about your True Name's death. This wouldn't leak any information about your pseudonym until you die. If you're actually killed then presumably your attackers know your True Name as well, so it's not that bad to reveal it.

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Cash - egold co-op
by mean-green＠hushmail.com 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

Egold attempts to solve a number of transactional issues, especially non-repudiation. It doesn't directly address privacy concerns. One aspect of establishing financial privacy is unlinkability and one of the best ways to offer that quality is to use bearer instruments during the buy and/or sale of an otherwise trackable transaction. I'd like to invite those with an interest in egold (and other metal backed ecurrencies) to contact me. If there is sufficent interest I'd like to kick off a cash-egold co-op to provide a introduction agency for these activities. I'll be at the Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting this Saturday ready to buy and sell limited amounts of egold. Come bring your web enabled and configured Sprint PCS phone or laptop with wireless link. If you wish to buy or sell more than a few hundred dollars please contact me by Friday.

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EMB Corp. - Profile Of The Week!
by Wallstreet Universe 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

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11 Nov '01

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Re:Your Classified Ad
by Patty 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

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Info Request: People Banned from Flights Based on Reading Material
by Matthew Gaylor 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

[Please forward to relevant lists and forums] The American Booksellers Foundation has asked me for examples of individuals being detained or escorted off planes, airports or other facilities based on their reading material. They have expressed an interest in protecting our choice of reading material and want to take the appropriate action. Please send any and all examples of people being harassed, banned,asked to leave,confiscation of the reading material- Anything- to me and I'll send it to them and share the information with all of you. Thanks- Regards, Matt Gaylor- ps I already have the Philadelphia example of "Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey" <http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml> ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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Ashcroft prepares for martial law
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

Unlike America's Most Wanted the new dire but vague warnings are unlikely to cause citizens to uncover a massive new plot, I doubt they would have uncovered the 911 even if predictions of impending trouble have been announced a few days prior. Since Congress gave him virtually everything he asked for the next step is martial law, though how that might help uncover any new plots is beyond me.

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Sedition
by Anonymous 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

Looks like the announcement of the new use of sedition laws sure put a damper on the cypherpunks list, eh?

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by Selfhelpgroup 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

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