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CDR: Apology from the Dialpad Team
by Your Friends at Dialpad 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

Dear Joe, Thank you for your interest in Dialpad.com. We want to extend our sincerest apology for sending you our newsletter without permission. When you signed up for our service, you indicated that you wish not to receive promotional email from Dialpad or any of its partners. We sent our new company newsletter to all of our users thinking it was more of an informative piece on our services rather than a promotional advertisement from a third party. We now understand this was not in the best interest of all of our users. Again, we apologize for this inconvenience and will make sure you no longer receive any emails from Dialpad. We encourage you to visit our site and sample the many new products we have recently launched. We hope you continue to use Dialpad to make long distance calls from anywhere in the world to the United States. Regards, Linda Crockett Manager, Customer Care

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CDR: gargoyling knockers
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

New Penalties for Upskirt A videocamera can now be counted as a criminal tool Video Peeping Ohio Hikes Jail Time and Fine for High-Tech Toms Oct. 10, 2000 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Gina Bell was waiting for a carnival ride at a church festival with her baby daughter when she became spooked by the man behind her. When she shifted in line, he would move with her. "As I crouched down to put the baby in my stroller, I saw a video camera sticking out of his bag, taping up my dress," the 34-year-old former kindergarten teacher recalled Monday. "It rocked my whole sense of security." Ban secret taping in public Beginning today, Ohio law increases the penalties for secretly taking pictures up a womans skirt or down her shirt, called "upskirting" and "downblousing." Most states have laws that prohibit taking pictures of people in private places such as dressing rooms or restrooms, but only Ohio and California specifically ban the practice of secretly filming someone under their clothing in public places for sexual gratification, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Similar legislation is pending in New York. Web sites promote voyeurism The Internet has made the practice more common, with Web sites posting images, buying pictures from high-tech Peeping Toms and telling users where to buy hidden cameras, the laws supporters say. "These Web sites basically promote the practice and encourage people to go out and try to do this to as many women as possible -- kind of like a mission impossible challenge," said state Rep. Ed Jerse, who sponsored the Ohio legislation after hearing Bells story. The man who photographed Bell, David Bartolucci, pleaded no contest to voyeurism and possession of criminal tools and served 10 days in jail. He was also ordered to spend 30 days in home detention, serve 200 hours of community service and enroll in a therapy program. Suspect photographed himself Bartolucci had secretly photographed 13 women that day and had unknowingly filmed his own face, which police used to identify him, police said. Bartoluccis attorney, John Luskin, says his client was under the influence of alcohol. California lawmakers banned upskirting and downblousing after police discovered hidden cameras had filmed women at Disneyland, the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival and an Orange County, Calif., beach. Many of those images were transmitted on the Internet, but police couldnt file charges against the photographers because there was no specific law against the activity. The new Ohio law increases penalties to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, from the current 30 days and $500 fine. California, where the law went into effect Jan. 1, has the same punishment.

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CDR: Burglar Politics, Tempesting PC's that watch TV and DVD regions
by sunder 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13863.html <SNIP> And, just in case you were wondering how on earth they'll know you're watching the news online, Mr Hardwell adds, "Finally our detection equipment is capable of picking up television reception via computer. And no, the BBC do not look at IP addresses for licence fee evasion." It's my understanding that TV detector vans work by picking up the radiation emitted by cathode ray tube TVs - which should mean that, if you're rich enough to run an LCD monitor they'll never know you're a secret Paxman admirer. <SNIP> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13875.html Burglar.com is illegal, coppers claim By: Lucy Sherriff Posted: 10/10/2000 at 13:19 GMT A web site that connects the victims of a burglary with the people who have their property is illegal, according to the police. Theburglar.com bills itself as a "link to the underground". There are three ways to register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13834.html <SNIP> Time Warner's home video division has changed DVD's region coding scheme to make it even harder to play movies sold in one territory in another. Other DVD distributors are expected to follow suit. Sony subsidiary Columbia Tristar has already agreed to do so. According to a leaked internal Warner Home Video document posted on Web site DVD Debate, the company began shipping discs with an "enhanced" region code at the start of this month. <SNIP> -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

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CDR: More fun with payment protocols (was Re: oh, sh__)
by R. A. Hettinga 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

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CDR: RE: STAINLESS STEEL PIPES & TUBES FOR FERTILIZER INDUSTRIES
by Oellermann, A. (Adam) 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

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CDR: PALM USER: Get QUICKSHEET for only $24.95!
by Cutting Edge Software 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

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CDR: ip: Congress on verge of approving warrantless secret searches [Free Republic]]
by R. A. Hettinga 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

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CDR: RE: Musings on AES and DES
by Trei, Peter 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

> ---------- > From: Vin McLellan[SMTP:vin@shore.net] > Reply To: Vin McLellan > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 3:22 AM > To: Ray Dillinger; cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: Re: Musings on AES and DES > > Ray Dillinger <bear(a)sonic.net> wrote: > ><snip> > > >[As the DES,] Dataseal/Demon/Lucifer was pretty good. It may not > >have been the *most* secure algorithm of its time, but neither was it a > >transparent and useless "cipher" with obvious flaws other than the > 56-bit > >keyspace. However, the important part of building up trust (or lack > >thereof) in the cipher came after it was chosen as the DES. > > I suggest that you give insufficient weight to the importance of > the NSA imprimatur on the DES. > > The DES became the standard we know today -- for years, > universally accepted in US commerce, banking, and trade -- largely because > > the US National Security Agency (NSA) issued, upon the designation of the > DES by NIST, a statement that the NSA's cryptanalysts knew of no attack on > > the DES algorithm more effective than a brute force search of all possible > 56-bit keys. [...] > DES was pretty much what they said it was (even down to that > tweak > in the S-boxes to block differential analysis, which the academic crypto > researchers didn't discover for many years.) The NSA was/is really very > good at what they did, and -- particularly in the US computer industry > (which until 1960 had been pretty much guided by NSA R&D contracts) -- > their cryptanalytic expertise was wholly unchallenged. > > If you read the ostensible charter of the NSA, its duties include assisting in the securing of US civilian communications. While I expect this mainly means making sure that Boris & Natasha aren't tapping US internal comm links without permission, it can also be interpreted to make sure we aren't using snakeoil ciphers. Making DES not suck seems well within the NSA charter. In 1986, when the second recertification came up, I remember considerable consternation over the key-length reduction to 56 bits, and the unexplained tweaking of the S-boxes. There was serious discussion at the time that one or both of these changes were done to introduce backdoors. You'd probably have to find a usenet archive from the period to confirm this. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the extra (8?) bits in the original were shown not to add to the security of the cipher. Clearly 56 was too short - Diffie & Hellman published a paper to that effect in 1977. In the end, we now know that the tweaking prevented differential cryptanalysis, but not linear cryptanalysis. DCA had apparently been discovered internally at IBM (and presumably at NSA). LCA was not then known within IBM (whether it was known inside NSA is an interesting question :-) I would not be suprised if 30 or 50 years down the road, we find out that NSA did its level best to ensure that the AES selection process picked the best candidate. Equally, I would not be suprised to find that they already have some black cryptanalytic technique which can defeat it. On the balance I favor the former: the NSA is as aware as the rest of us of the huge cost (both financial and security) of embedding a broken cipher in the infrastructure of the nation. Peter Trei

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CDR: Polynomial Time Minimum Clique Partition?
by Eric Cordian 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

Someone at the following URL is claiming NP=P based on an alleged polynomial time solution to the minimum clique partition problem. http://www.busygin.dp.ua/clipat.html Code is provided, and I am downloading it at the moment. More later. ----- An Efficient Algorithm for the Minimum Clique Partition Problem by Anatoly Plotnikov _________________________________________________________________ Foreword by Stas Busygin Publishing this paper claiming P=NP result in my Repository for Hard Problems Solving, I completely realize my huge responsibility for this decision. As you perhaps know, this paper has a predecessor -- Polynomial-Time Partition of a Graph into Cliques published in SWJPAM -- and I was its first firm opponent. Fortunately, Anatoly Plotnikov has written a new revised and expanded description of his proposal and agreed to present it here. I am very grateful to him for this. Partly because of a modification of the algorithm and partly because of made clarifications, I should say that my previous arguments are not relevant for the proposed matter so I have removed them from here. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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CDR: Re: FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education
by Trei, Peter 10 Oct '00

10 Oct '00

Funny, reading the Subject line of this, I immediately assumed that the FBI was belatedly admitting that it: the *FBI* needed some 'cyber ethics education'. This is On another note, my Microsoft Exchange (spit) mail client chopped off the 'FBI:' prefix on the subject line of the reply - Any alphanumeric (unspaced) string terminated with ': " gets dropped. Sigh..... [Yes, I know the article is a spoof] Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Tim May[SMTP:tcmay@got.net] > Reply To: Tim May > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:11 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com > Subject: FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education > > > > > Monday October 9 4:45 PM ET > > FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education > > > By DIANE HOPHEAD, Routers Press Agency > > WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education. > > Thou shalt snoop on other children. > > Thou shalt not hide cybercrimes by using encryption. > > FBI agents are spreading a new gospel to parents and teachers, hoping > they'll better educate youths that privacy in cyberspace can be > economically costly and just as criminal as refusing to narc out > fellow students. > > The Justice Department (news - web sites) and the Information > Technology Association of America, a trade group, has launched the > Cybercitizen Partnership to encourage educators and parents to talk > to children in ways that equate privacy and encryption with > old-fashioned wrongdoing. > > The nascent effort includes a series of seminars around the country > for teachers, classroom materials and guides and a Web site to help > parents talk to children. The FBI is distributing copies of > "MyPersonalCarnivore" to allow children to set up their own > Carnivore-enabled local sites. > > ``In a democracy in general, we can't have the police everywhere,'' > said Michael Vacuous, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure > Protection Center, which guards against computer attacks by > terrorists, foreign agents and teen hackers. > > ``One of the most important ways of reducing crime is trying to teach > ethics and morality to our kids. That same principle needs to apply > to the cyber world,'' he said. > > "We are willing to drop the antitrust action against Microsoft if and > when they meet the legitimate needs of law enforcement," he added. > Asked if he was referring to the proposed "WindowsMe (and Big > Brother)," he added that he could not comment on sensitive programs. >

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