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hacking NJ: All your professionals are ours
by Subcommander Bob 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

Wired.com pointed to http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/nyregion/24VOTE.html which is about putting public records online. This pointed to http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/director.htm which lists 'professionals' that NJ tracks. Heh, All their professionals are 0urs. A few minutes using the HTML CIRCUMVENTION/CRACKING tool "Netscape" and fnord "Emacs" and we've got a nice catalog. Physicians, architects, veterinarians, master plumbers, beauticians of NJ, your info is toast. The web page limits you to, e.g., 800 physicians per surname search; yet a search for "S" surnames yields 6974 MDs. How-to: Go there, pick a profession, e.g., doctors at http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/bme/docdir.htm Save as local, and edit the HTML. 1. Find "POST". Prefix http://www.state.nj.us to the relative CGI URL earlier in that line. 2. Find "OPTION". Add a few zeroes to the number of hit results there. Open the *local*, edited page in a browser. Enter a letter, e.g., "s" and select the larger number of results to return. If you enter "." you get 59,192 matches. All the licensed MDs in NJ. Over 23M of HTML from A to T.... <tr><td>Name</td><td>TERZUOLI,ROBERT,J </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>2481 STUART ST , BROOKLYN NY, 11229-5815</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA058265</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Inactive</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESAR,JAMES,D </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>1002 VILLAGE LN , WINTER PARK FL, 32792-3416</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA044222</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Expired</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESCHNER,BERNARD </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>12 GREENRIDGE AVE , WHITE PLAINS NY, 10605-1238</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA011599</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Inactive</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESLER,MAX,A </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>661 PALISADE AVE , ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS NJ, 07632-1800</td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA028017</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Deceased</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><hr></td></tr> <tr><td>Name</td><td>TESLUK,GREGORY,C </td></tr> <tr><td>Business Name</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Address</td><td>HOPKINSON HOUSE 2104 WASHNGTN , SQUARE SO PHILA PA, 19106 </td></tr> <tr><td>License Number</td><td>MA041360</td> <tr><td>Disciplinary History</td><td>None</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Expired</td></tr>

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Re: biochemwomdterror in dc
by Faustine 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

Tim wrote: On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 05:39 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote: > TERRORIST ATTACKS Defense Department (DOD), Office of the Secretary of > Defense (F.R. Page 42998) Meeting of the Advisory Panel To Assess the > Capabilities for Domestic Response to Terrorist Attacks Involving > Weapons of Mass Destruction, to run August 27-28. Location: RAND, 1200 > South Hayes St., Arlington, VA. 12 noon Contact: 703-413-1100, ext. 5282 >>I've been seeing Declan forward a bunch of these terse paragraphs >>announcing these meetings. I never see any summaries of what was said. >>Anyone ever attend? (If they're closed to the public or journalists, why >>forward so many announcements of them?) Why? Because you're making a tacit admission that the fact that the panel is being conducted at all is significant--and has a good chance of making a serious impact on future policy decisions. Since RAND is 100% responsible for the real meat of any "assessment" going on, you might say the panel is part of the mechanism by which analysis gets turned into actual policy and legislation. I choose to take this (and dozens of similar panels on widely diverse subjects) as proof that RAND-style policy analysis is alive, well, and more central to the policy process than ever. Call it a "pale imitation" of the early days if you want to, but you have to admit you all aren't ignoring it. And as far as I can tell, you damn sure won't be able to ignore it in the years to come either. Given that, maybe encouraging more cypherpunk-friendly people to take the analysis route isn't such a bad idea after all. ~Faustine.

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D'oh ---Scarfo's password was his dad's number
by Subcommander Bob 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

Unable to crack the encryption code without a password, agents went back again with a search warrant and placed on his computer a high-tech device called a key logger, which monitors every keystroke. After nearly two months of surveillance, the FBI cracked his password: nds09813-050. A source close to the case later confirmed that it's Scarfo's father's prison identification number. The Feds had it all the time. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010823_686.htm

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nodes
by A. Melon 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

I'm a little bemused by the fact that there has been literally no comment on the closing of the cyberpass.net node of the list, and none before that on the disappearing without even so much as a notice by the admin of openpgp.net. Doesn't this seem at all odd to anyone else? Lance also shutdown the remailer function at anonymizer -- is he leaving the cypherpunk world altogether? Anyone know what happened to Geiger?

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our Aztec Calendar materials
by Artcamp SC de RL 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

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hushmail's misery
by Declan McCullagh 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=998901774&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=… HushMail: The misery continues 2001-08-27 04:47:14

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biochemwomd crop terror in dc
by Declan McCullagh 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

also today... AGRICULTURE National Academy of Science (NAS) Agriculture and Natural Resources Board meeting on "Defining Science-based Concerns Associated with the Products of Animal Biotechnology," August 27-28. Highlights: 1:15 p.m. - Open session Location: NAS Building, 2100 C St., NW. Contact: Kim Waddell, 202-334-3889, kwaddell(a)nas.edu, or http://www4.nationalacademies.org

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Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot
by mean-green＠hushmail.com 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

At 10:46 AM 8/26/2001 -0700, Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> wrote: >On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 09:13 AM, mean-green(a)hushmail.com wrote: >> Right on target. There is one aspect to this loss of nerve not >> mentioned: the correlation between those with the means and interest to >>pursue these avenues and those with merely the interest. > >There are a couple of points to make on this issue: > >First, the "correlation of interests" situation is a well-solved problem. Those with the financial means (and maybe some political/technical interest) set up a company and hire those with the technical abilities and interest. The company may be self-funded by the founders, or outside investors may be sought. > >However, this is not so easy to do when it comes to these technologies. ZKS did it and raised, we hear, something like $60 million. Quite a warchest for untraceability tools. ZKS has been much-discussed here. > >There are some major obstacles with such a public company: > >1. Patents and IP in general. Doing digital cash without using Chaum's blinding patent may be tough. (Some of the "agnostic" approaches discussed here may work, technically, but will probably still be litigated. A public company is a public target. The current owners of the Chaum patent, a Canadian company IIRC, will not look dispassionately on other companies doing an end-run.) > >2. A public company or traceable group of developers will become targets. The attacks could be just simple legal ones, but could range up to RICO and beyond. "Pedophile-grade untraceability" is powerful stuff. How long before Mojo faces lawsuits analogous to what Napster faced? Very unlikely unless it raises to challenge the current crop of Napster replacements. > >(Napster is a good example of this. Utter traceability, of both music traders and the company itself. Those who downloaded or uploaded music got nastygrams and threats of civil action, and the company itself was sued and now faces extinction. It may be that anyone developing such tools should just give up on the idea of becoming a dot com tycoon and instead release products untraceably...perhaps benefitting in other ways.) > >> One of this list's members shopped here and elsewhere a few years back >> for participation in building a DBC-based payment and value system. He >> had assembled a team with the banking experience, needing the >> technology implementors. None were willing to put their talents to the >> test. They all nodded regarding the need for such a facility but none <> would expend any efforts. > >If you are talking about Bob Hettinga, there are many things one could say about his schemes and plans. Actually, I was referring to Steve Schear. He worked at Citicorp for some time and attracted a number of former mid and senior VISA people, one help found Sonnet Financial an online foreign exchange service, to work for First eCache. >I'm more impressed with what another person is actually doing: Orlin Grabbe. Do some Web searches. Orlin has good banking credentials himself (Wharton, coined the term "regulatory arbitrage"), good libertarian credentials (a powerful newsletter for many years), some technical abilities (writes code), has been willing to move to places like Costa Rica, and, most importantly, he UNDERSTANDS the "sweet spot" argument. Steve has also argued these points. >Bob H., in my opinion, got too fixated on coining new acronyms and in flitting around to various lists and focussed in on the wrong end of the cost/benefit continuum. He kept claiming the DBC or E$bux or whatever would be cheaper to use than real money. >Anyway, it is not easy to create a public company, a public nexus of attack, and then deploy systems which target that high-value sweet spot. The real bankers and the regulators won't allow such things into the official banking system. (Why do people think the banking system will embrace "digital bearer bonds" having untraceability features when true bearer bonds were eliminated years ago?) I believe First eCache intended to be compliant with know your customer regs, depending upon independent market makers and money changers to provide the necessary indirection for unlinkability. If so it would difficult for the banking system to easily exclude them. In the same down.way the regulators have had a very difficult time bringing the Black Market Peso Exchange down. Free, secure Web-based email, now OpenPGP compliant - www.hushmail.com

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Thinking About the Crypto Unthinkable
by Tim May 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 07:15 PM, Faustine wrote: > Tim wrote: > On Saturday, August 25, 2001, at 02:46 PM, Faustine wrote: > >> ...But the ones I really admire are the mathematician-analysts, the >> hard- > science analysts: they tend not to hog the limelight like some of their > more voluble counterparts, but their influence is still enormous. > >> I'd be interesting in hearing whom you think are good examples. > > Herman Kahn, Thomas Schelling, John Nash. You already mentioned von > Neumann, he was the first to come to mind. Yes, we talk about these guys here. I read "On Thermonuclear War" in the 60s (well, I skimmed most of the "escalation ladder" details). Schelling points figure heavily into many of our analyses, and Nash equilbria are just that... (BTW, there's at least one good book describing Nash's swerve into insanity and his road back.) This said, I wouldn't advise _anyone_ to study "policy" (or its earlier incarnations, "Operations Research." "Systems Analysis," or the utterly execrable "General Systems," a la Bertanlanffy). Guys like Kahn and Schelling and Nash were mathematicians who happened to be in on the founding of a hot field in the 50s: game theory. Von Neumann and Morgenstern actually founded it, but the heyday was when RAND, Hudson, etc. were doing studies of nuclear war, disarmament, games of chicken, and so on. This has all been pretty much explored now, and these think tanks are pale imitations of their former selves. Certainly they contribute very little to "policy" of the sort of interest to us. (There may be applications...as we have talked about for many years. See the archives, searching on "game theory." However, this will come from someone versed in various kinds of game theory approaches who turns his gaze to crypto games. Likely to come from a mathematically-inclined person, unlikely to come from a sociology/poli sci/policy grad student.) If there are Herman Kahns out there, thinking about the crypto unthinkable, they are probably us. Not to put too fine a point on it. > Given that most all the people on your list and mine are precisely what > the > author was driving at, I think the "Super Analyst" approach is certainly > worth aspiring to. And as far as I've been able to tell, policy analysis > PhD programs offer the most flexible way to pursue a multidisciplinary, > scientific approach while striking a good balance between the > theoretical > and the practical. Well, good luck. I disagree. I can't see someone coming out of a Ph.D. program in "super analysis" being magically endowed with the skills to influence policy. An obvious point that perhaps needs to be emphasized: all of those scientist-policy wonks we have discussed were first and foremost brilliant scientists. Their discoveries gave them cachet, not a major in "general analysis." Do the math, so to speak. --Tim May

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Brian K. West's defense lawyer replies to U.S. Attorney
by Declan McCullagh 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

This is hysterical and worth a read. Talk about a fiery defense counsel! --Declan ----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> -----

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