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[NOISE} Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:10 AM 7/20/96 -0800, Vinnie Moscaritolo wrote: >Speaking of Bob Hettinga put it to words best, told me that standing on the >Concord bridge he could see the colors of the American flag eminating >outwards to the rest of the country. Yup this is where it all started.. Should teach him not to drink so much in the combat zone in Boston. ]:> --- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."

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Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:38 AM 7/20/96 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >Llywarch Hen writes: >> You have not had the opportunity to look closely at the business end >> of a gun. The hole looks enormous. > >The opening in the barrel of just about every rifle or pistol I've >looked at seems to be about half an inch or less. Perhaps you have >been looking at the 18" guns on the battleship "New Jersey"? There is a time and space dilation when the gun is pointed directly at you and about to be fired. (Been there, done that...) Perception tends to be skewed when all of the adrenaline is pumping into your bloodstream because of a perceived impending death. Believe me, it does look big. A 12 gauge especially... (Had a brother who came close to shooting me because he thought I was a burglar. Not fun.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."

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Re: ABC News on internet telephony
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:12 AM 7/19/96 -0500, snow wrote: > It is my understanding that billing is one of the biggest headaches >and expenses for a phone company. Going to a flat rate would solve a >decent amount of that wouldn't it? I've heard it claimed that billing and customer service is half of their costs, at least. If that's the case, then "flat rate" billing can't be far behind. Prodded by "free" Internet phone, they can't avoid it for much longer. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: [Noise] was Re: Giving 6 year old kids Uzi's
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:31 AM 7/20/96 -0400, Brad Dolan wrote: >> Would you just hand out guns to all teenagers? > >My twelve-year-old daughter asked for and received a .22 for her birthday. >Her four and six year old siblings enjoy shooting it, under close >supervision. I learned how to shoot very young. My father taught me, as well as enrolling me in NRA competitions around age 14. They still have high school rifle teams where I used to live as well. But then the culture is quite different towards guns in Alaska than it is here... (For one, people do not view them as toys and/or possessed by evil spirits or the like...) >Rural America has a very different culture than urban America and urban >America's recent attempts to impose its values (like hoplophobia) on us >really chafes. I bet the "National Curfew" crap that Clinton is trying to push is not going down well either. He seems to think that the problems of a small fraction of the country apply to the whole country... (But it makes for good sound bites.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."

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[NOISE] Re: Firewall Penetration
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:29 PM 7/19/96 +0800, Jerome Tan wrote: >Is it possible to penetrate a firewall? Yes, but it requires alot of time and money. (As well as a nice car and a six figure income.) I recommend taking the firewall out to a nice restaurant, feeding it dinner, taking it out for drinks and then back to your house or apartment. If everything works, you should be able to penetrate said firewall. But she will not return your calls in the morning... --- |"Computers are Voodoo -- You just have to know where to stick the pins."| |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
by Arun Mehta 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:10 20/07/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >By "you," I have to presume you mean "me." No, I am not at likely to use >this weapon in a rage against a loved one. Trust me. This was not intended to suggest how "you" might behave, I don't know you that well, it would have been less confusing for me to have used the pronoun "one." >It may sound "stupid" to you...I suggest you read up on evolutionary game >theory. Sometimes one has no choice but to respond to an arms buildup. >Unilateral disarmament rarely works. There are surely alternatives to the extremes of unilateral disarmament and an arms race? For instance, slowing down the race? More often than not, it is the US that has upped the ante. They consistently had more nuclear warheads than the Soviet Union, new technologies that disrupted the status quo came generally from the West. Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta(a)cpsr.org http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta/ finger amehta(a)cerfnet.com for public key

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Curfews again
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:37 PM 7/20/96, Alan Olsen wrote: >I bet the "National Curfew" crap that Clinton is trying to push is not going >down well either. He seems to think that the problems of a small fraction >of the country apply to the whole country... (But it makes for good sound >bites.) Yes, I have written about the local "curfew" in my local newsgroup (scruz.general), and I forwarded at least one of these articles to this list, as you may recall. Consistent with my views on gun control, mandatory doping of children, the outlawing of certain dietary items, and on and on, I would be mighty pissed if a kid of mine was picked up the cops and hauled off to a processing center for eventual disposition for the thought crime of being on the street without an excuse acceptable to the local gendarmes. (In fact, I think I'd be tempted to just not answer any phone calls from the reeducation center staffers; getting through to me on the phone can often be difficult, of course, and I doubt they know about e-mail.) I told someone in scruz.general who argued strongly for the need for curfews on kids that her points had convinced me, that I now understood her position, that I now agreed with it, and that I would be doing my part by making a citizen's arrest of any curfew violators I found in my area...especially cute 16-year-old girls. (I never heard from her again...after she stopped foaming at the mouth she probably contacted the Thought Crimes Task Force of the Sheriff's Department.) --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: PGP Keyserver at jpunix.com
by John A. Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The problem with the PGP keyserver at jpunix.com has been corrected. It turned out to be a corrupted keyring. The keyserver is once again available via email at pgp-public-keys(a)jpunix.com as well as by WWW from www.jpunix.com. The WWW interface uses Bal's PGP WWW interface. I apologize for the downtime and the inconvenience. On the up side, I didn't lose any key requests during the downtime. John Perry - perry(a)alpha.jpunix.com - PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMfFE6lOTpEThrthvAQE3cQP/cy7x/LnmfC/31AcIgom3X2Cc/YMR01Jw 95kPt7W0JAz154DZezXLyR79Q7fJ4DYSkHRO6HFGwd5QiCkHrUjv/xweECPf9Q4s x41VnTFxrXGr3+YTm47vL+gBnuVmSTP4ujMC9s6r2zcGOCE3jQXKBLEhGNB6kPxg ab37bM4iGHo= =oONb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Can't block caller ID in Massachusetts?
by Bill Olson (EDP) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What's worse, is that if you just want to call and get information about a particular product, they can log you for their marketing database. >---------- >From: David Mazieres[SMTP:dm@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu] >Sent: Friday, July 12, 1996 8:55 AM >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Subject: Can't block caller ID in Massachusetts? > >My last phone bill said that Nynex is now giving out people's names in >addidtion to their phone numbers over caller-id. I therefore called >Nynex and told them to block caller-id on my phone line. > >They said no problem, but... They said nothing I can do will block it >when I call 800 numbers. "The people with 800 numbers have special >software, and there is nothing you can do to block your identity when >calling them. Not even *67." > >Wow. Maybe I'm not paranoid enough, but I never expected this. I can >never again call an 800 number anonymously to get information about >something unless I go out to a pay phone. What an incredible >inconvenience, and how truly depressing. > >I know 800 number owners probably used to be able to get lists of >calling phone numbers on their phone bills, but this is less >disturbing as it would take significant effort to match up the lists >after the fact. I just want to be able to call up companies and say, >for instance, "If I buy your product, can it do X?" as opposed to, for >instance, "I'm stuck with your product, can it do X?". People are >often more helpful in the former case. Now, though, they'll know >exactly who I am before they even say hello. > >David >

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Good dictionary files?
by Sentiono Leowinata 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As many people say, a good password cracker is very dependent on the dictionary file(s). When one has a very good dictionary file(s), the chances of password being cracked is bigger. I am wondering if someone can tell me where I can get good dictionary file(s). Search on the web result to nothing. I have one large dictionary file (about 14Mb) to check it, but I still not feel comfortable to say it's a good one. This might be off topic from cryptography, but until we can reverse engineer (decrypt the crypt or crypt(3)) functions, nothing we can do but to rely on those good dictionaries. Thank you and I apologize for anyone who might get offended by my post. Regards, Sent.

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