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[pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz: Echelon papers leaked]
by Eugen Leitl 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

----- Forwarded message from Peter Gutmann <pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz> -----

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[perry@piermont.com: NY Times reports that spy program is not narrowly targeted]
by Eugen Leitl 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

----- Forwarded message from "Perry E. Metzger" <perry(a)piermont.com> -----

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] our way of life is indeed in trouble:]
by Eugen Leitl 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

If only voluntary segregation with subsequent secession was an option. ----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> -----

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17 Jan '06

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16 Jan '06

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Apple's new dual-core iMacs come with Infineon TPM onboard
by Eugen Leitl 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68398 </kraut> -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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WIRED: Anonymity on a Disk
by Eugen Leitl 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70017-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 By Quinn Norton | Also by this reporter WASHINGTON DC -- To many privacy geeks, it's the holy grail -- a totally anonymous and secure computer so easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks. That was the guiding principle for the members of kaos.theory security research when they set out to put a secure crypto-heavy operating systems on a bootable CD: a disk that would offer the masses the same level of privacy available to security professionals, but with an easy user interface. "If Granny's into trannies, and doesn't want her grandkids to know, she should be able to download without fear," says Taylor Banks, project leader. It's a difficult problem, entailing a great deal of attention to both security details and usability issues. The group finally unveiled their finished product at the Shmoo Con hacker conference here Saturday, with mixed results. Titled Anonym.OS, the system is a type of disk called a "live CD" -- meaning it's a complete solution for using a computer without touching the hard drive. Developers say Anonym.OS is likely the first live CD based on the security-heavy OpenBSD operating system. OpenBSD running in secure mode is relatively rare among desktop users. So to keep from standing out, Anonym.OS leaves a deceptive network fingerprint. In everything from the way it actively reports itself to other computers, to matters of technical minutia such as TCP packet length, the system is designed to look like Windows XP SP1. "We considered part of what makes a system anonymous is looking like what is most popular, so you blend in with the crowd," explains project developer Adam Bregenzer of Super Light Industry. Booting the CD, you are presented with a text based wizard-style list of questions to answer, one at a time, with defaults that will work for most users. Within a few moments, a fairly naive user can be up and running and connected to an open Wi-Fi point, if one is available. Once you're running, you have a broad range of anonymity-protecting applications at your disposal. But actually using the system can be a slow experience. Anonym.OS makes extensive use of Tor, the onion routing network that relies on an array of servers passing encrypted traffic to permit untraceable surfing. Sadly, Tor has recently suffered from user-base growth far outpacing the number of servers available to those users -- at last count there were only 419 servers worldwide. So Tor lags badly at times of heavy use. Between Tor's problems, and some nagging performance issues on the disk itself, Banks concedes that the CD is not yet ready for the wide audience he hopes to someday serve. "Is Grandma really going to be able to use it today? I don't know. If she already uses the internet, yes." Experts also say Anonym.OS may not solve the internet's most pressing issues, such as the notorious China problem: repressive governments that monitor their population's net access, and censor or jail citizens who speak out against the government. Ethan Zuckerman, fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, works extensively with international bloggers and journalists, many of whom live under constant threat from their own governments. He see Anonym.OS as a blessing for some -- but not for those at the greatest risk. "I think it's going to be tremendously useful for fairly sophisticated users when they are traveling, but where it may not be as effective as people would hope is in counties where the government is really seriously about locking down the net, constraining internet access," Zuckerman says. Because most people in the developing world use the internet from shared desktop environments, services for them have to consider office place and cyber cafe-based computer situations. "Rebooting isn't often an option," explains Zuckerman, who would like to see anonymity solutions move toward minimally invasive strategies like the TorPark, a USB key that allows access to a Tor enabled browser without rebooting, and private proxies matched up one by one with dissidents. But kaos.theory members say Anonym.OS is just the first step in making anonymity widely available. Future versions, they say, may run on a USB keychain. Additionally, they plan to implement Enigmail to allow encrypted e-mail for Thunderbird and Gaim Off The Record, which allows users to use instant messaging without their logs being tied to them. David Del Torto, chief security officer of the non-profit CryptoRights group, says projects like Anonym.OS are heading in the right direction, but thinks the project overreaches by trying to be useful to everyone. "Grandmas are not the ones that need this right now.... My instincts tell me that it's a very small number of people (that can use Anonym.OS). You can't really solve this problem by simplifying the interface. It's almost impossible to anticipate everything a user can do to hurt themselves." -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Thanks for being a good friend!
by Lee Duffy 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

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size gains
by alison hill 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

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Sovereignty in cyberspace: Two legal scholars puncture the myth of the borderless, lawless Internet
by Eugen Leitl 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/15/sovereignty_in_c… erspace?mode=PF Sovereignty in cyberspace Two legal scholars puncture the myth of the borderless, lawless Internet By Christopher Shea | January 15, 2006 LESS THAN a decade ago, in his famous ''Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," the Internet theorist John Perry Barlow wrote, ''Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel....You have no sovereignty where we gather." How quickly things change. In a 2000 case, a French court ruled that Yahoo, an American company, had to follow French law and make sure that no Nazi memorabilia could be purchased online in France via Yahoo auction sites. Yahoo first decried the effort as censorship, then claimed it was impossible to identify French Web surfers. Now, just as French judges demanded, Yahoo uses geographic-filtering software to make sure websites viewable in France comply with French standards. (It uses that same software to give French viewers French-language ads.) China, another flesh-and-steel giant, has also proved itself surprisingly agile. Chinese officials use Cisco hardware to keep any website with an ''offensive" message from getting through its borders and Microsoft products to screen words like ''democracy" and ''multiparty elections" from blogs. Last fall, Chinese officials demanded that Yahoo trace the identity of a journalist who had leaked information about a Communist Party meeting to an American website. Yahoo complied, and the man is now serving a 10-year sentence. In other words, forget all that talk about a borderless utopia and about blogs dissolving dictatorships-or at least tamp it down. When it comes to the Internet, ''The story of the next 10 years will be one of rising government power," says Tim Wu, a former marketing executive for a Silicon Valley company who now teaches law at Columbia. While some countries are committed to a fundamentally ''closed" Internet, others want it open. Since technology permits both approaches, Wu adds, ''I wouldn't be surprised if we saw an Internet version of the Cold War." Wu is coauthor, with Harvard law professor Jack L. Goldsmith, of the iconoclastic forthcoming book, ''Who Controls the Internet?" (an excerpt of which appears this month in Legal Affairs magazine). The book, to be published in March, could be called an example of ''cyberrealism" in two ways. It grafts the hard-nosed ''realist" school of foreign policy-states and state interests are what matters-onto an analysis of what's going on with the Web today. It also tries to deflate hype by arguing that most of the supposedly unprecedented issues raised by the Internet can be handled by existing concepts in international law. . . . Goldsmith, an international law expert hired by Harvard in 2004, has a history of contrarianism. He has already shaken up his field with his claims that treaties never force nations to do anything that isn't already in their interest to do. In ''The Limits of International Law" (2005), cowritten with Eric A. Posner, of the University of Chicago, Goldsmith and Posner argued that there are various reasons a country might decide to end torture-if it wants to take an issue away from dissidents or to gain access to American markets. But human-rights treaties and ''international law talk" are mostly window dressing. That book infuriated some international-affairs scholars, and the new book-which contains entertaining accounts of key episodes in Internet history as well as legal arguments-similarly flouts conventional wisdom. For example, what do you think protects eBay customers from fraud? Is it the much-lauded ''feedback" system that lets buyers and sellers rate one another's trustworthiness-the feature the columnist and globalization guru Thomas Friedman says has made eBay a ''self-governed nation-state." Or can you shop on eBay safely for the same reason Friedman can walk New York streets without getting mugged: American laws and American cops? In fact, Goldsmith and Wu observe, eBay's ''level of integration with and dependence on law enforcement is remarkable." The company employs hundreds of internal security experts, who mine data for suspicious patterns of activity and alert US officials when they detect scams. Indeed, eBay has found it can't operate in countries-like Russia-without strong legal systems. The rising importance of national borders creates headaches for online stores and publishers, but Wu and Goldsmith mostly shrug at the difficulties-unlike many of their peers. Some civil libertarians find it rather ominous that foreign nations have claimed their citizens' right to file libel suits against American websites. But Wu and Goldsmith note that England's wanting to ban libelous speech (by its standards) streaming across its borders is no different than America's wanting to keep shoddy Chinese cars from crossing its. And international law already handles cases-like pollution drift-in which domestic events have effects abroad. Wu and Goldsmith argue that a varied patchwork of national laws will be more representative of peoples' desires than any Internet-wide standard could possibly be. Filtering software makes it relatively easy for media companies to keep information out of countries that don't want it-and individual bloggers are probably unreachable by foreign lawsuits, since they have no assets in those countries. Plus, people like the bordered, geographically rooted Internet. What good is that delightful 1-800 FLOWERS ad if you live in Kenya? That will surely sound a bit too neat to the cyberlaw theorists who think it is new that anyone with a website is now subject to the laws of hundreds of nations. Still others will contest the book's claims that China has gotten so good at controlling the Internet that its liberating possibilities are effectively counterbalanced. ''There's no doubt the [Chinese] government is tightening controls on the Internet," says Robert Wright, author of ''Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny," ''and there's a reason for that: The old controls aren't working." It's too soon, Wu responds, to know whether China will master thought control on the Internet. He thinks it might. But the authors' larger point is unassailable. National laws, national borders, and physical bodies matter a lot more online than people used to think. ''There is this surprising lasting relevance to physical coercion," Wu says. It still matters-for online writers, eBay scamsters, and Chinese dissidents alike. Christopher Shea's column appears biweekly in Ideas. E-mail critical.faculties(a)versizon.net. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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