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Re: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy
by John Kelsey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ To: cypherpunks ## Date: 11/05/97 ## Subject: Re: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy ] >Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:05:16 -0700 >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Re: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy >What an insurance card is really a *line of credit*. Or a >*proof of payment*. The admitting hospital knows they'll at >least be reimbursed for the initial visit and emergency >treatment. >Perhaps there's a business idea for some enterprising >Cypherpunk. A prepaid hospital card, good for a few days' >worth of treatment (e.g., $5000), but only at the better >rates. This could even be done with Chaumian >privacy-protecting methods. There's an idea. This seems straightforward enough in principle. It's just like a prepaid credit card, or even a normal credit card, right? I mean, what it says on the card is probably different, but the financial arrangements are pretty-much the same. I suspect it would be easier to implement this (at least in the US) as an extra function on a credit card, rather than as a new kind of insurance, since there are so many odd insurance regulations out there. Currently, lots of credit cards offer special benefits like automatic insurance on rental cars--this seems like a close variation on the same idea. >--Tim May -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNGDdm0Hx57Ag8goBAQF32wQAt995HVMQafsP+vDB3YdixDghNvS0LABE Qy1a1Cy+Gzzlsox4c6NnoOXB2ETWANtTknw3gn/KiNVFxSmSDqihvhmeAiZ8BQ2N pKIY9me/NPHKTSsPzYAA4gi3jrAFF58qIky9BATcneJLos1qpw3P8TlTZF+MmXU/ 0TZl6llN+4U= =SDLk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, kelsey(a)counterpane.com PGP 2.6 fingerprint = 4FE2 F421 100F BB0A 03D1 FE06 A435 7E36

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SSL Browser info
by Gary Howland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, You may be interested to know that I've set up a web page at http://www.hotlava.com/demos/ssl-query.html which displays the SSL version and cipher types of your browser. Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary(a)hotlava.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06

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Crypto in Videoconferencing?
by Jim Burnes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

anyone: is anyone aware of a videoconferencing system that supports strong crypto -- or any type of crypto for that matter? jim burnes ----- Jim Burnes Security Software Engineer, SSDS Inc. Denver, CO Remove the n-o-s-p-a-m. from my email to respond -----

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church of crypto anarchy (Re: Taxing Churches for their views? Bad idea. (fwd)) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:25:02 GMT > From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > Subject: church of crypto anarchy (Re: Taxing Churches for their views? Bad idea. (fwd)) > Seems to me that the distinction that churches are exempt from taxes > partly hinges on their non-profit, or not-for-profit status. No, it stems from the fundamental democratic axiom of seperation of church and state. If the churches pay taxes they aren't seperate. If the state supports churches they aren't seperate. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ 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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Home Buisness Opportunity
by billy＠bingo.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Forwarded mail...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 97 07:47 MET > From: Jenaer Mixmaster Anonserver <mixmaster(a)as-node.jena.thur.de> > Subject: Libertaria in Cyberspace > For a truly free communications medium we must have strong cryptography. Seems to me that this is false. To have a truly free communcations medium we must have no censors. The very fact that crypto is involved guarantees that it isn't free. The use of crypto itself is a form of censorship if you don't have the key. > This is a given. No, it isn't. > Anonymity cannot be insured without strong cryptography Tell that to publius. 200+ years later and we still fight over who wrote what and they didn't even use a simple substitution cypher. The secret to anonymity is the same as keeping a secret, those who know keep their mouths shut. > and the freedom of remailers or similar mechanisms to operate > unobstructed. How is crypto going to keep them from kicking the turning the phones off, turning the power off, and kicking the front door in? It isn't. > Speech is never truly free unless it can be anonymous if > the author so chooses. Speech can't be truly free as long as any party can censor the traffic. > Who wants to espouse an opinion which will get > them flogged, either figuratively or literally, by their neighbors, their > government, or in some cases even their family? Then be so kind as to explain people who are intentionaly trying to force legal cases in order to challenge standards? This is a clear 1-to-1 mapping to flogging (per your example). > In my opinion, Mr. May is correct when he says that physical space is too > small and too exposed to outside intervention. Unfortunately cyberspace can't exist without meatspace. > Yes, cyberspace does look much more promising. Only if you don't have a clue as to the technical, social and economic milieu that it exists within. Show me a way to run a remailer program without a computer which exists in meatspace and your proposition might work. > The amount of "space" in > cyberspace is unbelievably large. You have a small imagination. The amount of space in cyberspace in no more than the sum total of all the hard drives in use on the network or network accessible at any given time. It's measured in terabytes but that is hardly unbelievable. > The amount of data I can store on one > gigabyte of hard drive is incredible by conventional standards. Your standards are pretty low when one considers that the largest databases on the planet are measured in terabytes (1,000 gig's). > And space is very cheap > in cyberspace. Really? Then please be so kind as to pay my monthy bills related to Internet access. I assure you they are far from 'cheap'. > A truly free communications medium must allow its users to be anonymous. No, it must provide no moderation on traffic. All anonymous access buys one is reasonable deniability, a far cry from free communcations; and in fact fundamentaly unrelated to the concept of free speech. > That an opinion is unpopular does not make that opinion wrong or invalid. Doesn't make it correct either, the proof is in the pudding. > That an author does not want his "true name" attached to an opinion does > not diminish the value of that opinion. In fact the validity of a thesis should in no way ever rest on the personality or reputation capital, it should rest solely on what can be proven and tested about it. [other stuff deleted] > Tim May is correct: Libertaria will thrive in cyberspace. Only in your collective wet dreams. Libertaria as described by Tim, yourself, and others will never come to pass in that form. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ 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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IRS reform bill going strong [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > IRS Reform Bill Skates Through House > > [INLINE] > > WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Nov. 5) -- A bill to reform the Internal > Revenue Service skated through the House of Representatives today on > an overwhelming 426-4 vote. > > The measure picked up the support of Democrats after its sponsors made > key changes that drew the approval of the Clinton Administration. > > The most significant change would preserve the president's power to > appoint the IRS commissioner. The original version of the bill would > have transferred that duty to an independent board. > > The bill's centerpiece is an 11-member board made up mostly of private > citizens that would oversee the IRS and help manage its long-term > projects. > > Bill sponsor Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said the measure marked "the first > time in 45 years that we have attempted as a Congress to enact > fundamental reform."

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Re: [news] TV station sets cybersex sting
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>*** TV station sets cybersex sting >With cyperporn and cybersex ranking as sensational news items on >local TV stations, Fox's Los Angeles outlet has taken the trend a >step further by ensnaring adult sexual predators. KTTV's Fox 11 News >at 10 worked with a 21-year-old woman posing as a 14-year-old to >conduct cybersting operations that led to the arrests of five men. >KTTV used the unnamed woman as bait, having her enter online chat >rooms where she was immediately targeted. The station filmed the >online seductions as well as the arrests of the men, who included an >attorney, a doctor, a retired Army officer and an investigator for >the Dept. of Labor. See story at >http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5777644-464 And then they tricked a real 14 year old girl into meeting with them and having sex so that maybe, if they really, really tried very hard, they could argue that a real crime had been committed, right? Didn't think so.

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Re: Government goons force Goddard to recant
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: > > Time to add a new horseman: "conspiracy theory-spreading libertarians" > Goddard says he wanted to promote libertarian ideology by > encouraging distrust of the government. It's amazing how a few minutes in a cell with Jim Bell can help people see the error of their ways.

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Re: IRS reform bill going strong [CNN]
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > > IRS Reform Bill Skates Through House > > The bill's centerpiece is an 11-member board made up mostly of private > > citizens that would oversee the IRS and help manage its long-term > > projects. > > > > Bill sponsor Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said the measure marked "the first > > time in 45 years that we have attempted as a Congress to enact > > fundamental reform." Gee, and the IRS is being put in the hands of private citizens just before the Y2K problem comes to a head. Hhmmm...

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