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SI - The End of Nations, Part 1
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 18 Sep '01

18 Sep '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Changes that diminish the power of predominant institutions are both unsettling and dangerous. Just as monarchs, lords, popes, and potentates fought ruthlessly to preserve their accustomed privileges in the early stages of the modern period, so today's governments will employ violence, often of a covert and arbitrary kind, in the attempt to hold back the clock. Weakened by the challenge from technology, the state will treat increasingly autonomous individuals, its former citizens, with the same range of ruthlessness and diplomacy it has heretofore displayed in its dealing with other governments. The advent of this new stage in history was punctuated with a bang on August 20, 1998, when the United States fired about $200 million worth of Tomahawk BGM-109 sea-launched cruise missiles at targets allegedly associated with an exiled Saudi millionaire, Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden became the first person in history to have his satellite phone targeted for attack by cruise missiles. ! Simultaneously, the United States destroyed a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, in Bin Laden's honor. The emergence of Bin Laden as the enemy-in-chief of the United States reflects a momentous change in the nature of warfare. A single individual, albeit one with hundreds of millions of dollars, can now be depicted as a plausible threat to the greatest military power of the Industrial era. In statements reminiscent of propaganda employed during the Cold War about the Soviet Union, the United States president and his national security aides portrayed Bin Laden, a private individual, as a transnational terrorist and leading enemy of the United States. The same military logic that has seen Osama bin Laden elevated to a position as the chief enemy of the United States will assert itself in governments' internal relations with their subjects. Increasingly harsh techniques of exaction will be a logical corollary of the emergence of a new type of bargaining between governments and individuals. Technology will make individuals more nearly sovereign than ever before. And they will be treated that way. Sometimes violently, as enemies, sometimes as equal parties in negotiation, sometimes as allies. But however ruthlessly governments behave, particularly in the transition period, wedding the IRS with the CIA will avail them little. They will be increasingly required by the press of necessity to bargain with autonomous individuals whose resources will no loner be so easily controlled. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wmAEARECACAFAjum7LkZHGtleXNlci1zb3plQGh1c2htYWlsLmNvbQAKCRAg4ui5IoBV n4zwAJ9+40j74jjbcbrzY0/fF3xHjUoW/gCghKtU/SoccCUIUI6wxAH5k6ybdxU= =YKwk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Stay on the sunny side of cyphers
by Howie Goodell 18 Sep '01

18 Sep '01

Hi -- My cousin asked me to give her some ideas for a SNL-style skit about, "The Software Group from Hell." I had a lot of fun complying. Unfortunately it seems easier to be funny exploiting stereotypes than challenging them. The Software Group from Hell (characters with descriptions and varying amounts of dialog) Game Boy He's on the 8715th level of UltraGigaQuake. Don't bother him; he's closing in on the world record level of 9217. He announces a new level every minute or so. Jason and Bob Two young punk programmers running through the office playing paintball, popping in between other vignettes to splatter one another or an innocent bystander. Jason wrote a program that is about to complete the company's big project, but Bob hacked into his computer and inserted a virus. Now the program runs so slowly that the answer only comes up a line at a time every few minutes. Each time a line comes up, people rush to his monitor and desperately copy it down before the screen goes black. The D.O.T. Daniel O. Torvalds, AKA "The Dot", erstwhile dot-bomb billionaire CEO, sits on the phone all day chasing deals and munching pizza while dropping jaded, world-weary asides and telling war stories about the 4 spectacularly successful startups he sold to AOL, Sony, Microsoft, and IBM. The other 11 including the latest were flops; so right now he is broke and crashing here. He is 22. The Autistic Savant (Model his mannerisms and speech on Dustin Hoffman's performance in "Rainman.") He is standing, wearing a head-mounted display and typing on a chording keyboard in his back pocket, complaining that his AI speech recognition program won't fit on a single CD anymore. "But a CD has 650 megabytes. How many lines of code is that?" "45,213,917 lines of code. 5,313,713 of them are 'if' statements. I like 'if' statements." "How did you have time to write that much code?" "Your keyboard is inefficient. I remapped my keys. Not Dvorak. Dvorak is optimized for English. My keyboard was optimized for C++. I don't use my keyboard any more. I put 7 switches on a round frame. 7 switches gives me 7 bits. I chord in ASCII." "Oh yes, ASCII. That stands for 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange', right?" "No, ASCII is what it produces. It's the ass-key. It's in my back pocket. Pretty soon I won't need my keyboard. It understands voice input. 'Computer, new program. File name helloworld dot c. Start of text. Sharp include less than stdio dot h greater than. New line. main open paren close paren. New line. Open brace. New line. Indent printf open paren double quote capitalized Hello capitalized World exclamation double quote close paren semicolon. New line. Close brace. End of program. Save file. Compile helloworld dot c. link helloworld. Run helloworld. Look, it runs." (passes head-mounted display and microphone to narrator, who puts it on.) "Cool! May I try one?" "Alright." "'Hello world!' Hey; how come it says, 'halo wart'? 'This is AI' How come it says, 'tease East rayon?' Why, it only works for you. It only recognizes autistic programmer voice input!" Dr. No (The supervisor; he has no idea what his people are doing, but gets a feeling of power by refusing all their requests, even the most reasonable.) The Cypherpunk (He's sitting at his computer wearing combat fatigues, a pistol, and ninja throwing stars) "I write codes. Nobody can break them" "I used the Data Encryption Standard once." "DES? I can break DES with a pocket calculator! I found the backdoor NSA put into it." "The National Security Agency? The really secret one?" "Yeah, or, 'No Such Agency', because for years they wouldn't admit it existed. At least that's what my buddy Osma says. I never know when he's kidding, though; he's such a clown." "I used RSA once, too." "RSA? I can break 512-bit RSA keys with the code cracker in my basement. You feel safe when you see that little closed lock icon in Netscape or Explorer, right? SSL encryption. I can break that puny little 128-bit SSL with my eyes closed. I've been collecting credit card numbers from Amazon for weeks. See? (he fans a huge stack of paper) I haven't used any of them, though. I have plenty of money from the code I sold my buddy Osma. It's a really cool code. Much better than RSA. Better than elliptic curve. Nobody can break it. Osma loved it. Get this; he put a note on the check, 'I used this to order the World Trade Center bombing.' What a clown, that Osma." "Osma? You mean Osama?" "Yeah, that's how he said it: Osama Been Loadin or something." "Holy shit! You sold a code to Osama bin Laden? We're gonna get killed!" (Agent #1 jumps out in shooter stance, pistol pointed at Cypherpunk) "Freeze! NSA!" (Agents #2, #3, etc., ditto) "Freeze! CIA!" "Freeze! FBI!" "Freeze! DEA!" "Freeze! ATF!" "Freeze! ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP!" (The agents disarm and handcuff Cypherpunk) Agent #1: "He's a terrorist!" Agent #2: "He's not an American, he's a friggin Ayrab! I'll bet his skin is really brown! (pulls out a handkerchief and scrubs Cypherpunk's face vigorously.) Agent #3" "A sand nigger!" (as they haul Cypherpunk away, he starts shouting) "You can't stop me! Information wants to be free! The unbreakable code function is modular exponent p over q to the .." (All the agents shoot Cypherpunk with their silenced weapons, and the one with the handkerchief cleans up the blood as they drag away his limp body. Two other agents take his computer. The last agent addresses the horrified software group, standing with their backs to the audience, ) "Let me show you something that will explain why this happened. Watch closely!" (he holds up a camera and flashes it at the audience with full _Men In Black_ schtick) "You just had a layoff. People received a generous severance package, but they won't be back." (he takes Cypherpunk's timecard from Dr. No and departs.) Jason: Oh look; a cool desk chair! (trundles it off) Dr. No: Post-Its! Take care! Howie Goodell -- Howie Goodell hgoodell(a)cs.uml.edu Pr SW Eng, WearLogic Sc.D. Cand HCI Res Grp CS Dept U Massachussets Lowell http://people.ne.mediaone.net/goodell/howie Dying is soooo 20th-century! http://www.cryonics.org

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kuro5hin.org || War, in the name of God!
by Jim Choate 18 Sep '01

18 Sep '01

http://www.Kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/14/23342/3078 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Drop acid, not bombs..............1960's Anti-war Slogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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paki@pakobserver.com - Action Needed
by Veripost - Your E-mail Change of Address Solution 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

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US push for terror coalition sparks rift with Israel
by Jim Choate 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=hk… -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Drop acid, not bombs..............1960's Anti-war Slogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Gulf nations balking at US campaign
by Jim Choate 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

http://www.worldtribune.com/wta/Archive-2001/me_gulf_09_17.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Drop acid, not bombs..............1960's Anti-war Slogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by �� C�� 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

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[Fwd: Mirror offer for crypto/stego developers and authors (Was: Re: [FYI] (Fwd) Please make stable NON-US homes for strong crypto projects (fwd))]
by Harmon Seaver 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Mirror offer for crypto/stego developers and authors (Was: Re: [FYI] (Fwd) Please make stable NON-US homes for strong crypto projects (fwd)) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:05:07 +0200 From: David Gmbel <david.guembel(a)gmx.de> Organization: - To: linux-crypto <linux-crypto(a)nl.linux.org> CC: Hauke Johannknecht <ash(a)ash.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0109160021120.15405-100000(a)backoffice.ash.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Sunday, 16. September 2001 00:31, you (Hauke Johannknecht) wrote: > i hereby offer mirroring service for projects on servers operated > by different legal entities in different european cities on > different backbones. I'd like to make a similar offer to any developer and/or author of cryptographic and/or steganographic software or other related material (HOWTOs , books etc.). We are setting up a mirror at University of Tuebingen in Germany, which is eventually going to have a reasonable amount of HDD space (~10 GB, perhaps more) and HTTP access (eventually CVS for developers) for that purpose. Anybody who's interested should simply drop me a line (best would be PGP-encrypted, see header). Regards, David - -- "Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- T. Jefferson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://david-guembel.de/webpgp.html iD8DBQE7pmWDcWkuqYXk/uwRAgFpAJwPE1o2r+lKbXrdiQ5AxL7VdKePVQCgiByJ 8NSBV+OzkyskFs1I4JKpdUo= =BzVs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/

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Re: How to ban crypto? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:37:41 -0700 From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> To: David Honig <honig(a)sprynet.com> Cc: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos(a)cs.columbia.edu>, Carl Ellison <cme(a)acm.org>, cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com, ukcrypto(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk, provos(a)citi.umich.edu Subject: Re: How to ban crypto? At 07:21 PM 09/16/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote: >At 06:02 PM 9/16/01 -0400, Angelos D. Keromytis wrote: > >Niels Provos (U. of Michigan) has a very interesting paper on detecting > >steganography on the network (he talked about it during the USENIX Sec. WIP > >session). Basically, he didn't find any steganography in about 2 million >images > >he tested on Ebay. He's working on doing the same for other mediums/sites. > >He did a positive control, right? Obviously this means that the stego-mongers are sufficiently good :-) It's not clear that EBay would be the right place to put stego, though I suppose it's an interesting idea. The popular method people discuss is Usenet porn spam; another obvious approach is webcams, since they're typically going to have pictures that aren't broadcast everywhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Re: I hope this war puts an end to PC nonsense
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

An Metet <anmetet(a)freedom.gmsociety.org> pontificated : >Frissy whined: > >> >> As I said to some one the other day, "If this is war no smoking regulations. >> SWmoke 'em if nyou've got 'em." >> >> DCF. > > Fuck that noise. If this is war it means I get to blow your stupid >ass away if you blow smoke in my direction. > If you guys are going to restate old ideas at least add something to them. I prefer the old Far Side cartoon : two men in a boat fishing, mushroom clouds in the distance : You know what this means? Yeah, no more limits and screw the size restrictions. Or somehing to that effect. >May belched: > >> I wonder if the GenXers (and younger) will be taking out their nose >> rings, tongue studs, and other bits of metal stuck through their bodies, >> primitive-style. (And not just so they can pass through metal >> detectors...) > Old is new. > Fuck that shit too -- you really are showing your age, aren't you >old folks? You got a problem with archaic revival? As this little ditty >plays out, you will see (if you survive at all in your solitude, which >isn't too likely) that "society" will re-group into tribes (what you >call gangs, old man) and all that jive will be everywhere for tribal >identification, rank, or just plain beauty. > New is old. Conrgatulations. You have predicted what already IS. You have overlooked the all too obvious fact that society is already grouped into tribes complete with a host of primitive behaviors. > Where do you people get this weird crap from anyway? > Does it matter?

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