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CDR: Internet IP scan completed (> 4E9 IP's served)
by montecucchi Pier Carlo 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

Message text written by INTERNET:cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com >It's on /.< What's mean? Eurymedon

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CDR: The Ant and the Grasshopper
by Anonymous 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

CLASSIC VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs, dances, and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs, dances, and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing "Its Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share." Finally the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.

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CDR: Connie Chung fucks up & things are not as they seem.A good example of the tremen
by Gary Jeffers 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

My fellow Cypherpunks, The following is interesting. http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/Quinn/phoenix1.htm find string: Connie Chung A good example of the tremendous degree to which the major news media organizations are called to heel is seen in the facts surrounding the two year hiatus in the professional career of CBS broadcaster Connie Chung, who had the misfortune to have ended up being paired with Dan Rather several years ago. On a live call-in TV talk show some two years ago, Ms. Chung responded with a bit too much candor to a question as to what actually gets reported publicly by the major news media, given the great number of stories and items which come from the numerous sources of "raw" information. How are the stories which get the attention of the media chosen and by whom? Connie Chung replied to the effect that it wasn't too hard to decide what stories get aired--they just checked with Washington D.C. to see what had been cleared for publication by the government. As a result of her being foolish enough to tell the truth in what was likely just a naive, probably unintentional and inadvertent slip, within no more than a few hours Ms. Chung was out of a job and remained blacklisted in the industry for a good two years, only resurfacing in 1998 with a position at ABC--sufficiently chastened, some no doubt believe, to allow her to grace the public airwaves once again. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE!!! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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CDR: Re: PipeNet protocol
by Adam Back 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

Tom Vogt writes: > > This is to defend against active attacks delaying packets to observe > > the effect on the network and hence trace routes. > > I don't understand the necessity of this. if the amount of traffic is a > constant anyway, a delay would vanish at the first node. > > e.g. my upstreams provider sends out x bytes every time unit, no matter > whether or not he gets anything from me. when I stop sending, nothing in > his traffic pattern changes. You're presuming hop-by-hop padding, Wei is presuming end-to-end padding. His threat model is that some fixed set of switches is compromised: | The adversary may control a fixed subset of the nodes. Also you'll note in the scheduling description that there is nothing about switches adding or removing padding. I think Wei is implicitly considering that this is done by the caller and receiver (who open links and keep the full until they close them). Even closing links is mixed to prevent closure leaking too much: | The process of making and breaking connections must also not leak | information. This can be done by using a protocol analogous to mix-net. | Link forming/destroying requests are queued and performed in batches in a | way similar to queuing and mixing of e-mail in a mix-net. Adam

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CDR: RE: Connie Chung fucks up & things are not as they seem.A good ex ample of the tremen
by Trei, Peter 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

Seeing as the rest of this site is talking about crop circles and UFOs, I think I can ignore this report. Peter Trei [While it's not impossible for UFO-nuts to stumble across something real, their inability to distinguish reality from fantasy indicates a lack of critical faculty. In a world where the flow of claim and counterclaim has an intensity not unlike standing underneath a waterfall, filtering is essential. This claim fails one of my first level filters. PT] > ---------- > From: Gary Jeffers[SMTP:jeffersgary@hotmail.com] > Reply To: Gary Jeffers > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:42 AM > To: declan(a)well.com > Cc: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: Re: Connie Chung fucks up & things are not as they seem.A > good example of the tremen > > > Declan McCullagh writes: > > > >Source? TV show? Date? Transcript? > > > >-Declan > > > Declan, my source is the net address listed below. At > the top of that page are a "general info" button and a > "contact us" button. Under "general info" they list > info(a)iraap.org as their email address. They also list > there their snail mail address. > > That's all I know of the source. This looks like a job > for an investgative reporter such as yourself:-) Sorry I > am not more helpful. If you can actually validate from > tv network sources that that sequel occurred, you will have a great big > can > of worms to play with :-) > -Good luck! > > > > > > >On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:20:10PM -0600, Gary Jeffers wrote: > > > My fellow Cypherpunks, The following is interesting. > > > > > > > > > http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/Quinn/phoenix1.htm > > > > > > find string: Connie Chung > > > > > > > > > A good example of the tremendous degree to which the major news media > > > organizations are called to heel is seen in the facts surrounding the > >two > > > year hiatus in the professional career of CBS broadcaster Connie > Chung, > >who > > > had the misfortune to have ended up being paired with Dan Rather > several > > > years ago. >

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CDR: Giganetstore.com Apresenta Oficina do Livro
by apoio＠giganetstore.com 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

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CDR: RE: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after sec urity breached
by Trei, Peter 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

EZ-Pass is a perfect example of people choosing convenience over security, and a bad design "creating the tools for tyranny". While the accounting system most certainly keeps records of where you were, and when, so it can do billing, the system is structured in such a way that an intrusive government can place antennas anywhere they want, and clandestinely record all EZ-Pass equipped vehicles passing a given point (even if it is not a toll site). [It just struck me that there may be a novel legal challenge to this; since you have contracted with a transport agency to use EZ-Pass, any non-contractual activation of the system could be legally construed as computer hacking - the snooping antenna has to power up your EZ-pass' chip (that's what those big inductive loop antennas are for), cause it to run a program, and return a result. If the EZ-Pass is rented from the authority I don't know if you'd have standing to sue, though.] Of course, EZ-Pass could have been designed so that the device was anonymous, and prepaid stored value (bought for cash) smartcards used to meter access. It would probably have worked out cheaper as well, since the accounting overhead goes away, and they make intereset on the float of unused cards.... ....but such a mechanism would not have suited Big Brother nearly as well. Peter Disclaimer: The above represents my personal views only] > ---------- > From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] > Reply To: Bill Stewart > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:35 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after > security breached > > the following pleasant article on privacy was on RISKS. > > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:19:44 -0400 (EDT) > From: danny burstein <dannyb(a)panix.com> > Subject: EZ-Pass discovers risk of sending URLs instead of actual text > > In a story datelined 24-Oct-2000, and headlined: > > New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after security breached > > The Associated Press reported on a problem with privacy and security on > the New Jersey EZPASS website where people can review their usage. > (EZPass is a radio transponder placed in your motor vehicle which is > "read" at toll booths, enabling you to zip through without having to stop > and hand over cash. Naturally it keeps records of when and where you > were for billing purposes... Which is another RISK all together) > [...]

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CDR: Internet IP scan completed (> 4E9 IP's served)
by Jim Choate 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

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CDR: Re: Bush took ss# off his Texas license!!!
by George＠Orwellian.Org 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

Kaos wrote: # There's no SS# on a Texas DL, never has been. There is a DL# that is 8 # digits in length (and related to time and place of initial license # application, not SS#). Then someone in tx.politics was wrong (and I passed it along). But now I'm confused (no cracks please): why change your driver's license number if it doesn't mean anything special? He did change it.

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CDR: Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking
by George＠Orwellian.Org 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

# Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. # # This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. # # The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of # 399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. Don't "alternate roots" have to have a copy of what the main root servers have? Then they are doing a favor by off-loading traffic. Separately, I've noticed something on my Solaris 8 box. I often freeze my Netscape browser windows when leaving the computer for a while. That's because FoxNews and NYT (for example) keep reloading themselves again and again. This is unwanted push traffic. It's not costing me anything over my DSL/Cable modems, it's just unwanted by me. Even with browsers frozen... I recently left 'snoop' running, and found I was initiating DNS traffic...to FoxNews and NYT. Looking closer, I had DNS queries regarding non-browser-accessed sites, like ftp. So, Solaris at least, is generating 100% unnecessary DNS traffic. Oh, Joy.

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