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BXA Meet
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Should anyone attend this a report would be welcome. Federal Register: February 2, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 21) Page 5353 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Bureau of Export Administration Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting A meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee will be held February 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m., in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 3884, 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. The Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration on implementation of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and provides for continuing review to update the EAR as needed. Agenda Open Session 1. Opening remarks by the Chairperson. 2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public. 3. Update on implementation of the National Defense Authorization Act computer control regulations. 4. Update on the Wassenaar Arrangement implementation regulation. 5. Discussion on the ``deemed export'' rule. 6. Discussion on the encryption regulations. 7. Update on the License Process Review initiative. 8. Discussion on efforts to conform the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations on export clearance requirements. 9. Discussion on clarification of EPCI (Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative). Closed Session 10. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 12958, dealing with the U.S. export control program and strategic criteria related thereto. The General Session of the meeting will be open to the public and a limited number of seats will be available. To the extent that time permits, members of the public may present oral statements to the Committee. Written statements may be submitted at any time before or after the meeting. However, to facilitate the distribution of public presentation materials to the Committee members, the Committee suggests that presenters forward the public presentation materials two weeks prior to the meeting date to the following address: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, OAS/EA/BXA MS:3886C, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230. The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on December 16, 1996, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of the Committee and of any Subcommittees thereof, dealing with the classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) shall be exempt from the provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a) (1) and (a) (3), of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The remaining series of meetings or portions thereof will be open to the public. A copy of the Notice of Determination to close meetings or portions of meetings of the Committee is available for public inspection and copying in the Central Reference and Records Inspection Facility, Room 6020, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. For further information, call Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583. Dated: January 27, 1998. Lee Ann Carpenter, Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit. [FR Doc. 98-2393 Filed 1-30-98; 8:45 am]

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Jim Bell Update
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 Hi, John. Received a letter and phone call from Jim, as below. -------------------------------------- . He had a little altercation with a fellow prisoner ("through no fault of my own" - he thinks he was set up) and his privileges were reduced for 35 days, so that he could only make one phone call each week. . In reference to the bad publicity (all those articles and news alerts) which his case received, he speculates that the government gave a copy of AP to a 'think tank' like Rand, etc., with the request to figure out how to stop or delay AP. But it is his conclusion that AP is unstoppable, although: "I think that one last (temporary) hope for government is to delay AP. Chances are good that the "think tank" decided thatt the best way to delay AP is to discredit me, its author. It was a desperate gamble, particularly because the act of harrassing me automatically gives AP more publicity. That's the reason they will fail; the more they try to "get" me, the worse it will be for them." He wants it noted that his writing and discussions of AP ideas are in the sense of a "prediction", a "warning", or even a "vision", not an advocacy of it. . Regarding his guilty plea, he said it was because he realizes that he did do a few things wrong and that, although he did think that some of the charges against him were overblown and distorted, there was enough of a risk of being found guilty that it didn't make a lot of sense to contest them. He adds, "I also felt (and still do, of course) that government had already 'lost the war' so to speak." . He expects to be out around mid-April. Upon his release he wants to go to some of his favorite restaurants, and to have several BIG pizzas. He hopes he can get his old job back as electronics designer, and has some ideas he wants to work on for a virtual reality peripheral device which will bring everyone steps closer to the Star Trek Next Generation 'holodek'. - end

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RE: Dr Dobbs crypto CD
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I called them up a couple weeks ago to ask about this. The person I talked to had clearly fielded this question quite a few times. The story he gave is that preparation of the master CD was farmed out to some particular individual contractor who was stalling. I got the impression that I was being told that the contractor was apparently imcompetant, and could not turn in a usable master in a timely fashion. There was also some mention of the possiblity of 'legal difficulties', though I was given no details on that. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com > -----Original Message----- > From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com [SMTP:dlv@bwalk.dm.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 1998 12:14 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Dr Dobbs crypto CD > > The DDJ I just got (March 98) has a full-page ad for the crypto CD > (p.113) > saying inter alia "New Release! fast Search Engine" > > Has anyone received even the "old release"? > > --- > > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM > Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, > 14.4Kbps [Trei, Peter] I called them up a couple weeks ago to ask about this. The person I spoke to had clearly fielded this question quite a few times. The story he gave is that preparation of the master CD was farmed out to some particular individual contractor who was stalling. I got the impression that I was being told that the contractor was apparently imcompetant, and could not turn in a usable master in a timely fashion. There was also some mention of the possiblity of 'legal difficulties', though I was given no details. I'm still waiting for my copy. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord ?"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"cracker"} = "<remailer(a)anon.efga.org> cpunk mix remix pgp hash ksub esub latent cut ek reord post"; $remailer{'redneck'} = '<config(a)anon.efga.org> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"bureau42"} = "<remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org> cpunk mix pgp ksub hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"neva"} = "<remailer(a)neva.org> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub ?"; $remailer{"lcs"} = "<mix(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> mix"; $remailer{"medusa"} = "<medusa(a)weasel.owl.de> mix middle" $remailer{"McCain"} = "<mccain(a)notatla.demon.co.uk> mix middle"; $remailer{"valdeez"} = "<valdeez(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"arrid"} = "<arrid(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"hera"} = "<goddesshera(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"htuttle"} = "<h_tuttle(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix reno winsock) (weasel squirrel medusa) (cracker redneck) (nym lcs) (valdeez arrid hera) This remailer list is somewhat phooey. Go check out http://www.publius.net/rlist.html for a good one. Last update: Thu 23 Oct 97 15:48:06 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- hera goddesshera(a)juno.com ------------ 5:03:45 99.86% nym config(a)nym.alias.net +*#**#**### :34 95.82% redneck config(a)anon.efga.org #*##*+#**** 2:00 95.44% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com +++ ++++++* 19:18 95.27% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de -- ---+--- 2:34:19 95.16% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net *++***+ ++ 11:26 95.11% replay remailer(a)replay.com **** *** 10:06 94.93% arrid arrid(a)juno.com ----.------ 8:50:34 94.41% bureau42 remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org --------- 3:38:29 93.53% cracker remailer(a)anon.efga.org + +*+*+*+ 16:32 92.80% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca + +*-++++ 24:14 92.79% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net -..-..---- 9:59:18 92.22% neva remailer(a)neva.org ------****+ 1:03:02 90.39% valdeez valdeez(a)juno.com 4:58:22 -36.97% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net 1:01:28 -2.65% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Clarke denies pedophilia [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > > AUTHOR OUTRAGED AT REPORT HE IS PEDOPHILE > > Arthur C. Clarke seeks postponement of knighthood > > Clarke Clarke > > COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A British newspaper report that Arthur C. > Clarke is a pedophile is false, his spokesman said Monday, and the > science fiction writer is consulting lawyers. > > "I am outraged by the Sunday Mirror's allegations, and I am seeking > legal advise," Clarke said in a brief statement read to reporters by > his secretary, Roshan Amarasekhara. > > "Mr. Clarke is very upset by the false reports," Amarasekhara added. > > Clarke was quoted at length discussing sex with young men in the > sensationalist British newspaper's report Sunday, a day before > Prince Charles was to fly to Sri Lanka to confer the honorary > knighthood Queen Elizabeth granted the author late last year. The > prince will also take part in the former British colony's 50th > independence anniversary celebrations. > ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Bush Gang Suspected In Assault On Presidency
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

EIR is one of the mouthpieces for the Lyndon Larouche cult. I ran across them in an airport recently, and was surprised to find they're now strongly behind Bill Clinton; I'd thought that a few years ago they were accusing him of being a tool of the Tri-Lateral Commission, though perhaps it was some other group of anti-TriLateralists. At 10:22 PM 2/1/98 EST, covici(a)ccs.covici.com wrote: >Bush gang suspected in new assault on Presidency > >by Edward Spannaus and Jeffrey Steinberg > >In the midst of the worst global financial crisis in modern history, the >United States Presidency has come under renewed, vicious attack from a >combination of British and nominally ``American'' Bush-League circles. ... >From Executive Intelligence Review V25, #5. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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SmartCards in the news
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Also see: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0112/12bio.html ---guy --------------------------------------------------------------------- This article is from Internet Computing (http://www.zdnet.com/icom/) Visit this page on the Web at: http://www.zdnet.com/icom/content/anchors/199802/02/smarten.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Features ] February 02, 1998 Smart Cards Smarten the Net By Albert Pang For many contractors to the U.S. Department of Defense, the Internet will become an important ally this year, helping them resolve one of the most daunting challenges when doing business with the government: Getting paid on time and with a minimal amount of hassle. Thanks to a new breed of smart cards backed by sophisticated Web applications, 200 defense contractors will start receiving electronic checks (e-check) from the government via secure Internet e-mail through a pilot program launched in January 1998. The contractors will use their smart cards to access the mail box, validate, and endorse the checks. They will then forward the checks to BankBoston or NationsBank, the two authorized banks, that will deposit them into their accounts. The smart cards, which include digital certificates developed by GTE Cybertrust, will play a critical role in helping the defense department and other agencies comply with a mandate that requires most of the 800 million payments the government makes every year be converted to electronic form by January 1, 1999. Because of the mandate, the number of smart-card applications in different stages of development within the government has doubled to more than 900 in the past year, says Jim Hagedorn, a spokesperson for the Treasury Department. That's good news for vendors such as Anthony Caputo, chairman of Information Resource Engineering (IRE) in Baltimore, which develops the smart cards and the readers for the e-check program. "It will create a nice revenue stream," Caputo says, adding that his company has issued 100,000 smart cards to government and corporate customers mostly for use in private networks. Now with the Internet, the smart card market could grow substantially, especially in Asia and Europe. "Smart cards are the ultimate personal network computers," capable of handling everything from simple tasks such as identification to complex ones such as online banking and electronic commerce, says Philip Yen, senior vice president of chip platform at Visa International in Foster City, CA. [TABLE NOT SHOWN] Both Visa and its rival MasterCard are engaged in smart-card pilots around the world, promoting the use of stored-valued chip cards that run on private networks or the Internet. For example, AT&T Universal Card is working with Mondex, the electronic cash venture majority-owned by MasterCard, to sign up a small number of online merchants for a pilot program that will allow Internet users to buy products from them using smart cards issued by AT&T. However, analysts expect acceptance of smart cards in the United States to be slower than that in other countries because of privacy concerns, interoperability issues (Visa and MasterCard use different operating systems, for example), and the desire to put as many complex applications as possible on a single card. Albert Pang is the online editor of the Internet Computing MagaSite Send e-mail to apang(a)zd.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1998 ZDNet. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited. ZDNet and the ZDNet logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Inc.

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A new crypto-campaign, from Time/Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:07:24 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu ***** SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT READ YOUR CYBERMAIL? Time Magazine February 9, 1998 Page 20 A few years ago, ED GILLESPIE was busy orchestrating the Republican takeover of Congress as the G.O.P.'s top spinmeister. Now the man behind the Contract with America is shifting to high tech as he battles a new foe: a plan to ban software capable of encoding messages so securely that police can't crack them. A law proposed by the FBI would mandate an electronic peephole in all encryption programs so that government agents can read your files. The FBI claims this is necessary to protect against criminals. But Silicon Valley chiefs see this as a threat, and are equipping Gillespie with a multimillion-dollar lobbying and media budget. Joining him to woo Democrats is lobbyist JACK QUINN, former counsel to Bill Clinton and ex-chief of staff to Al Gore. --By Declan McCullagh/Washington ********** For details on the new encryption campaign, check out today's Netly News (netlynews.com) at: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1722,00.html -Declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: County Mounties Spit on the 4th Amendment
by Anonymous Sender 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Oh! The 4th amendment? That dusty old thing? When the scumbags >are kicking in your door which would you rather have protecting >you: a raggedy old piece of paper or a Prince George County >Mountie SWAT team in full ninja dress and the latest high-tech >law-enforcement goodies? Thought so. Cup's at the end of the >counter comrade. Have a nice day. You couldn't be talking about Prince George, Canada, could you? "Mounties" are Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and are limited to Canada, and Disney World.

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Airline ticket information -- help
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm trying to find out what airline flight someone is taking. I have a name and know the general travel plans and likely date. How can I find out the airline, flight number, and seat number? This is somewhat urgent. (You have my assurance that the purpose is legit.) If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks, Declan

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