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RE: "Hello, You're Dead"
by Bill Stewart 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

At 11:50 AM 12/6/00 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >[ukcrypto and Perry's list deleted] >> Dave Del Torto[SMTP:ddt@lsd.com] wrote >> >> <http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/phone001205.html> >> >> "...Hitting the 5, 6, 7 and 8 buttons on the phone gun fires >> four .22-caliber rounds in quick succession. ..." >> >The article goes on to say that the Men With Guns may now take reaching >for a cell phone as adequate excuse to kill you. Guess you don't get your One Phone Call To Your Lawyer any more... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Buying Mein Kampf via the Net
by Duncan Frissell 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

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Re: Knowing your customer
by Declan McCullagh 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

Oh, and the proposed KYC rules would have required banks to go further than requiring ID (other current rules, as you say, require that) and try to determine source of funds, etc. -Declan >You're thinking of something slightly different. The Fed-Treasury-FDIC >action that caused so much fuss would have made "suggested" KYC rules that >apply to banks mandatory. Here's the federal register notice abandoning >the propsed KYC regs: >http://www.politechbot.com/p-00315.html > >-Declan

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Re: ecash, cut & choose and private credentials (Re: Jim Bell)
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

Adam Back wrote: > I think the thing that killed MT / digicash for this application was > MT at the time was reported to be closing accounts related to > pornography -- they apparently didn't want the reputation for > providing payment mechanisms for the porn industry or something. James Donald replied: > Payee traceability made it possible to close accounts related to > pornography. Ecash is not truly cash like if the issuer can prevent it > from being used by tax evaders, child pornographers, money launderers and > terrorists. Payee traceability had nothing to do with it. Every customer of MTB, whether an end user or a merchant, had to fully identify himself to the bank, including SSN and for merchants, type of business, etc. This is SOP for other payment systems like credit cards. It was on this basis that MTB was able to screen their merchants. No payee tracing was necessary. A fully untraceable cash system would have been equally amenable to merchant screening. Any vendor has the right to control whom it does business with, and MTB chose to exercise its discretion in this way. The Texas couple in the news recently made a different choice and decided to provide payment services for child pornographers, as James Donald recommends. Now MTB is still in business (after merging with MTL and then FSR) and the Texans are in jail. Which made a better choice?

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RE: iPaq
by Trei, Peter 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

There's also a Linux port, if you want to kid yourself that you're going to check the OS security yourself. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: mmotyka@lsil.com[SMTP:mmotyka@lsil.com] > Reply To: mmotyka(a)lsil.com > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:00 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: iPaq > > The device has extension ports that allow PCMCIA and Compact Flash. > These adapters are in the $50 range. There are wireless modems available > but they're fairly pricey : ~$350 for the modem, $50.month for the > service. All in all it looks pretty good. Schematics/specs open, Linux/X > already ported. The specs are reasonable ( unlike Palm ) it's a 206MHz > ARM9, USB, Audio, 320x240x12bit display, 16Mb FLASH, 32Mb DRAM if I > recall correctly. Throw in a 512Mb IBM microdrive, CFS, it's not bad. > Looks like the most secure option to me. Gateway SW over USB ( even for > M$ OS ) shouldn't be too tough. I guess you could trust an M$ machine to > handle already encrypted packets. > >

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iPaq
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

The device has extension ports that allow PCMCIA and Compact Flash. These adapters are in the $50 range. There are wireless modems available but they're fairly pricey : ~$350 for the modem, $50.month for the service. All in all it looks pretty good. Schematics/specs open, Linux/X already ported. The specs are reasonable ( unlike Palm ) it's a 206MHz ARM9, USB, Audio, 320x240x12bit display, 16Mb FLASH, 32Mb DRAM if I recall correctly. Throw in a 512Mb IBM microdrive, CFS, it's not bad. Looks like the most secure option to me. Gateway SW over USB ( even for M$ OS ) shouldn't be too tough. I guess you could trust an M$ machine to handle already encrypted packets.

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RE: "Hello, You're Dead"
by Trei, Peter 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

[ukcrypto and Perry's list deleted] > Dave Del Torto[SMTP:ddt@lsd.com] wrote > > <http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/phone001205.html> > > "...Hitting the 5, 6, 7 and 8 buttons on the phone gun fires > four .22-caliber rounds in quick succession. ..." > The article goes on to say that the Men With Guns may now take reaching for a cell phone as adequate excuse to kill you. (Of course, in New York City, just pulling a wallet in response to an apparent mugging can get you shot 40 times by plainsclothes cops). Seeing the subject line, I was reminded more of the case a couple years ago when the Isrealis murdered a man via his own cellphone. A Palestinan, who was known as 'The Engineer' and was allegedly behind a number of terrorist attacks, used a known cellphone. As I recall, the hit went like this... The phone was made to appear 'broken' by the telephone company. It was taken in for repair/replacement. Soon after the new phone was delivered, the Palestinian received a call. The caller asked "Is this [name]?" On receiving an affirmative reply, a small explosive charge detonated in the phone, blowing the Palestinian's head off. Peter Trei

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06 Dec '00

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Keystroke monitoring
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

>> A PDA would have been harder to hack, one imagines. > What are the problems with something like the Compaq iPaq? Open HW design, replaceable OS. Buy for cash. Possession is somewhat obscured. If you can boot external SW ( no reason why not ) you can check the ROM integrity. The CPU is relatively quick. Looks OK to me. Has audio i/o too. Too bad no enet on-board. >This is why Chaum wants a small cryptographic device with it's own I/O, >certainly. > >We'll get one when there's enough money behind it. Money's edge of the wedge... > >Cheers, >RAH >

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