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[Clips] Irish have little defence against terror fundraisers
by R. A. Hettinga 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 00:20:16 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Irish have little defence against terror fundraisers Reply-To: rah(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=184&si=1590619&issue…> Irish Independent Irish have little defence against terror fundraisers Saturday April 1st 2006 Tom Lyons IRELAND has major gaps in its ability to stamp out the financing of domestic and international terrorism. An international body had found that Ireland fails or only partly meets seven out of nine special UN resolutions to fight the financing of terrorism and crime. Monitoring of charities, auctioneers, lawyers, wire transfers and trusts are among the areas which need to be tightened up. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) concludes that although Ireland is carrying out a review of the charity sector, it has "not yet implemented measures to ensure accountability and transparency" to prevent terrorists posing as legitimate non-profit organisations. This is in spite of the fact that over three years ago an Islamic charity based in Dublin was accused in a US court of having channelled money to supporters of Osama Bin Laden. And the FATF, which was founded in 1989, finds Ireland has only "limited ability" to freeze funds of terrorists who have yet to be designated as such by the EU. Resolution This is in breach of a UN resolution adopted just two weeks after the September 11 attacks. The FATF also concludes that non-financial businesses or professions (such as real estate agents, casino bosses, diamond dealers or lawyers) are "not adequately monitored for compliance". Its evaluation team found that the lack of anti-money laundering or terrorist financing requirements for trust and company services providers as well as of private gaming clubs operating as casinos was "a matter of concern". It also finds that Ireland is "non-compliant" in terms of another UN resolution governing wire transfers. It finds that the requirement to record and keep the names of people transferring money abroad is "limited and currently only contained in guidance". And there is "no obligation" to verify that the identities of people transferring money is "accurate and meaningful". The report also finds a legal loophole exists that prevents the Terrorist Finance offence being applied to the collection of money to fund groups of less than three terrorists - except when the funds are actually used to carry out a terrorist act. And it states that Ireland has "no powers" to obtain a truthful disclosure upon request from individuals suspected of bringing cash or bearer notes across borders. "No sanctions are available for false declarations" in such cases, it says. The FATF also warns that Ireland has no explicit requirement to watch all unusual, complex, or large transactions with no visible economic purpose. Furthermore, it criticises Ireland's trust laws which make it "difficult to obtain and verify in a timely fashion" the beneficial owners of property or other assets. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: janus wireless faq
by coderman 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

On 3/28/06, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... - why "wireless"? we believe that wireless is the most robust form of communication when implemented properly*. we also believe that any communication between secure domains should be considered public and open to active attackers (like wireless is). for this reason strong privacy and authentication must always be used for secure network communication. a proper wireless implementation can transmit datagrams in an injection style manner and receive any datagrams in a monitor style manner. all packets received must be authenticated before passing up to higher level (IP/etc) stacks. all unauthenticated packets must be dropped silently. the rate of transmit should be as low as possible while still retaining sufficient communication bandwidth. the rate of transmit should also be considerate to the needs of others who can hear your transmission and may defer theirs accordingly. deference should not open up denial of service vulnerabilities but is encouraged when possible to provide a cooperative multi-network with sufficient bandwidth for all. [the technical complexity of this is high and we are being intentionally vague at this point until further refinements are in place and this can be described in detail via working implementation on atheros / prism2 hardware that does not DoS other wireless technologies. 802.11 is a good example of an improper implementation that is trivial to DoS via spoofed packets at the MAC layer (deauth/disassoc injection).]

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keys and cards and user interaction
by coderman 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

comments? suggestions? "keys" store password/passphrase protected volumes with cryptographic keys, certs, and other credentials associated with digital identities. "cards" are read only volumes with the public keys and public identifiers associated with digital identities. it is very important that they not be confused, and that "keys" are only used on a trusted system. solution: "keys" are the only volume which will ever prompt for a password/passphrase to open them. if you are asked for a password it should only be on a system you trust and as expected when using or managing your keys. keys are stored on an XFS filesystem on USB or other media (USB by default) which contains the encrypted key store. this scales well (multi-gig USB volumes) and uses existing crypted file system support to implement privacy. Any number of other volumes (for example hdd installed OS'es) can be tied to this "keys" volume by storing the AES keys and disk identifiers associated with that volume inside the "keys" protected volume. the only boot targets which may use private "keys" are: - the "keys" secure key management mode. - the "install" mode to create new loop-aes keys and install OS on this trusted system. - the "hdd" mode to boot an encrypted OS installation on a trusted system. the other boot targets should only reference public "cards" and will never prompt for authentication at boot or during operation. "cards" are ISO9660 filesystems that can be stored on a public USB memory stick or burned to mini-CDR / DVD-R, etc. "cards" are public, and can be copied freely and will never ask for authentication. the "keys" authorized modes thus explicitly mount a USB volume as XFS when a "keys" volume is expected. the key mgmt mode will explicitly mount as iso9660 when a "cards" volume is expected. thus a confused user could not accidentally write secret "keys" data to a public "cards" volume, and vice versa. this also allows the key management mode to determine what kind of volume is present as indicated by the file system type. (the secure key management mode is the only mode where public "cards" can be imported to your secret "keys". the hdd and install modes will never prompt for a public card. note that the "live" boot mode may use "cards" to connect to remote services securely.) summary: "keys" storage: [XFS volume ... (petname for this volume) (public GUID / nonce) (GPG or loop-aes encrypted file) <additional identies are stored under additional subdirs and the key mgmt mode will prompt for which identity to access/authenticate when managing keys for multiple ID's. petnames must be distinct.> ] example: .../coderman/ (petname) .../coderman/id.txt (512 byte GUID / nonce in hex) .../coderman/keys.dat (encrypted key store, gpg or loop-aes) .../mpeck/ .../mpeck/id.txt .../mpeck/keys.dat coderman might be a social context while mpeck is a professional context. "cards" storage: [ ISO9660 volume ... (sha512 hash of identity public key) (identity public key) (nickname or alias for identified entity) (additional volumes or metadata) (signatures for nicknames and other metadata) ] example: .../1496b640690342ed/ (hex digits of first 8 bytes of sha512 digest of public.key) .../1496b640690342ed/digest.txt (full hex digits of sha512 digest of public.key) .../1496b640690342ed/public.key .../1496b640690342ed/nickname.txt ("coderman's public weblog") .../1496b640690342ed/nickname.sig .../1496b640690342ed/aaaaaa.dat (arbitrary metadata - an image? etc) .../1496b640690342ed/aaaaaa.sig (signature for above) .../1496b640690342ed/foo.dat "" .../1496b640690342ed/foo.dig ""

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Fwd: [TSCM-L] Re: Feds bugged bedroom, phones of FIU pair
by coderman 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

code pad shortwave from cuba: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reginald Curtis <reginald_curtis(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mar 31, 2006 11:29 AM Subject: [TSCM-L] Re: Feds bugged bedroom, phones of FIU pair To: TSCM-L2006(a)googlegroups.com Cc: garya_curtis(a)hotmail.com In regards to this piece - I found the following in the March 06 edition of Monitoring Times at page 8. "COMMUNICATIONS Broadcasting Spies Use Shortwave Broadcasts In January, a Florida couple was accused of operating as covert agents for Cuba's communist government for decades, using short-wave radios, 5-digit numerical-code language and computer-encrypted files to send information about Miami's exile community to top Castro intelligence commanders. Carlos Alverez and his wife Elsa, both staff members of Florida International University, were denied bond before trial on a charge of failing to register with the federal government as foreign agents. The indictment, which included no mention of top-secret U.S. government information being disclosed, came months after the couple confessed to the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Frazier said Carlos Alverez had spied for Cuba since 1977 and Elsa Alverez since 1982. (See page 28 for more on Cuban 'numbers' stations.)" Page 28 "UTILITY WORLD HF COMMUNICATIONS Cuban 'Numbers': A Pattern Emerges By: Hugh Stegman, NV6H hugh stegman@monitoring times.com www.ominous-valve.com/uteworld.html Collection and analysis of several months' loggings confirms that, just as others have observed, the Cuban voice 'numbers' station does indeed have what may be its first daily broadcast schedule ever. This station is also known as 'V2,' 'Attention' (from its callup), the 5-Figure Spanish Lady, and the 'SS/YL/5F' (same thing in shortwavese'). Its the latest version of the famous Cuban spy transmissions which have mystified listeners in much of the world, while inspiring some good pop music, for several decades now. And indeed, these broadcasts are compelling in their sheer strangeness. Mumbling voices, strange noises, Radio Havana, and even the occasional parrot, can turn up on the open tuning carriers run before the messages. Technical flubs, mostly of the 'oops, wrong button' variety, are many and legendary. If everything works (always a big "if" with this bunch), that ominous machine-spliced female finally barks the distinctive 'Atencion' ('Attention'). While the name 'V2' sounds appropriately like some kind of World War II German rocket bomb, it is simply the sequential designator given this particular broadcast on the list maintained by ENIGMA2000. They're the online incarnation of the European Numbers Intelligence Gathering and Monitoring Association. Over the years, this generic V2 has had a number of lettered variants. These differ in message structure or detailed formatting. After the callup, our V2a variant sends a message designator with three 5-number groups. These are the first groups in the three following messages, which are of equal length. Each message is always 150 5-number groups, beginning (as we've noted) with the one in the designator. The whole transmission usually ends with the Spanish 'final' ('end'), around 45 minutes after the hour. While the Cubans have traditionally preferred monthly and weekly schedules, the new local-daytime V2a is a daily one. It's a long schedule by 'numbers' standards. It's more like something you'd hear from an international broadcaster, changing frequency more of less hourly while maintaining a long program. This is pretty ambitious for an operation which is so audibly straining to keep its aging, hurricane-damaged equipment going. The daily schedule starts at 1600 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and goes until the 2100 broadcasts ends, nearly six hours later. The times in UTC and frequencies in kilohertz (kHz, AM mode) are: 1600 on 7975.0 1700 on 8010.0 1800 on 8097.0 1900 on 8097.0 2000 on 7887.0 2100 on 6855.0 That's it. By the standards of 'numbers' stations, which often confront listeners with a bewildering number of times and frequencies, this is pretty simple stuff. But there is way more: All of the other V2 schedules are still on the air. These are the more traditional ones, using what may or may not be a weekly frequency rotation. Parallel transmissions frequently occur, on two or three frequencies. At press time, the rest of V2a was on from as early as 0200 UTC until as late as 1500. In other words, there's a Cuban voice 'spy numbers' station going somewhere at nearly any hour of the day. This doesn't even count the hours of Morse code broadcasts in a similar format. For whatever its worth, which may not be much, this represents an awesome volume of traffic. V2a Message Continuity These transmissions have another most interesting feature. If one logs all of the initial three-group message designators, it becomes quickly evident that they are anyting but random. In fact, they ofter increment their last figures by one with each day's broadcast. The best way to explain this is by example. On December 11, 2005, one of several sets of message designators was 38641 45851 51761. On the 12th, this one changed to 38642 45852 71762, but the messages stayed the same. On the 13th, it became 38643 45853 51763. This continued until the last digits reached 6 on the 16th. At the same time, another sequence started out as 55911 12911 31311 (they always seem to start out ending in 1). This one did the same behavior, until reaching 5 on the 15th. Currently, in early January, we have 51871 10971 04481, incrementing daily. It's been theorized that this last digit refers to the number of times a message has been broadcast. In any event, it's a real good idea to keep track of these numbers when logging the Cuban stations. As special word of thanks is due to Camilo Castillo, a dedicated ham and numbers listener in Panama, for making most of the loggings used in the data. A few others appeared on the usual Internet mailing lists, and the showed the same patterns we describe." ....................... THE artilce also shows what they claim is a "Typical code pad used with 'numbers' broadcasts." It is a small booklike pad about the same size as the match box used for the small wood or kitchen type matches ( 2" x 1" x .5") with six columns of numbers printed on both sides of the page. THE END Reg Curtis VE9RWC

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[Clips] Rodney Dangerfield University
by R. A. Hettinga 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Several well-known cypherpunks have been George Mason Alums. Most joined while they were in school there. Cheers, RAH -------- --- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:21:10 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Rodney Dangerfield University Reply-To: rah(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008168> OpinionJournal WSJ Online DE GUSTIBUS Rodney Dangerfield University It's time that George Mason got a little respect. BY BRENDAN MINITER Friday, March 31, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST "You've got to be kidding." That was the reaction of CBS sportscaster Billy Packer when George Mason University was invited to play in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament. Mason has since defeated Michigan State, the University of North Carolina, Wichita State and the top-seeded University of Connecticut to advance to the Final Four this weekend. The Patriots basketball team is finding out what the rest of the university has long known. George Mason is the Rodney Dangerfield of universities--it just can't get any respect. The school has attracted Nobel economists, developed a top-notch law school and, through the writings of its scholars, affected public policy in major ways. But it is continually dismissed as a no-name state school--a mere convenience for commuters from northern Virginia. Allow me to take offense. When I enrolled at Mason in 1993, a condescending friend described the school to me as a "glorified community college with pretensions of being an elite university." At that point, young and naive, I worried he might be right. By the time I graduated I knew better. With some 28,000 students, GMU resembles many large state schools in that it provides an affordable education to a broad range of people. For state residents, tuition is about $3,000 a semester; for those out of state, $8,500. (These amounts roughly correspond to a few weeks of classroom time at nearby Georgetown.) The education it offers is intellectually rigorous--I can attest to the rigor, having suffered through plenty of annoyingly demanding tests, paper-writing assignments and required courses. But George Mason has no intentions of being an "elite" institution, and a good thing too. Mason began as an extension of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became independent 15 years later. Such relative youth is a clear advantage. The school came into its own after the 1960s generation passed through the halls of higher education. Student protest, and the effort to appease it, never became part of its culture. George W. Johnson, GMU's president from 1978 to 1996, exploited this advantage. He grounded the school in technology, computer science and economics, leaving to elite institutions the competition for hot (read: postmodern) humanities scholars. He also exploited the school's proximity to Washington, using it as a selling point to bring professors to the area and also pulling into the professorial ranks various policy analysts, intellectuals and former government officials. The recruited professors included James Buchanan, who joined the university in 1983 and soon after won a Nobel Prize in economics for his groundbreaking research, with Gordon Tullock, on what drives government bureaucracies to make seemingly irrational decisions. The economists showed that government, no less than private enterprise, responds to economic incentives (e.g., bigger budgets) more than high-minded legislative goals. This idea--known as "Public Choice Theory"--became part of the intellectual framework of the Reagan Revolution. Mr. Johnson also brought to George Mason the Institute for Humane Studies, a constellation of scholars devoted to teaching undergrads (both at GMU and elsewhere) classical economics. Soon after Mr. Johnson stepped down, the economist Vernon Smith and six colleagues migrated to Mason from the University of Arizona. Mr. Smith won a Nobel Prize for developing standards to "lab test" economic theories with small groups, often using real money. Mason's law school isn't even three decades old, but it has already climbed into the first tier of the U.S. News & World Report rankings and is a leader in the field of intellectual property. It is also home to the National Center for Technology and Law, which studies how existing laws--e.g., patents and copyrights--will need to adapt to the information economy. Even the law school's legal-aid program has a novel slant. As John Miller has noted in National Review, George Mason's law students, rather than suing police departments or petitioning for access to government programs, volunteer their time to help, among others, members of the military and their families. Even the school's name cuts against the grain of conventional pieties. George Mason is the Founding Father most Americans have never heard of. He was a key architect of the Constitution (he had written the influential Virginia Bill of Rights more than a decade before) but doomed himself to obscurity by becoming one of the three delegates to the Constitutional Convention who refused to sign the final document. It bothered him that it lacked a bill of rights. Whether or not George Mason University wins on the basketball court this weekend, it is still a great school. And no, Mr. Packer, I'm not kidding. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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