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bears repeating, part 2
by Pallas Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

another try: An alternative to the pyramid form of organization is the cell system. In the past, many political groups (both left and right) have used the cell system to further their objectives. Two examples will suffice. During the American Revolution, "committees of correspondence" were formed throughout the Thirteen Colonies. Their purpose was to subvert the government and thereby aid the cause of independence. The "Sons of Liberty," who made a name for themselves by dumping government taxed tea into the harbor at Boston, were the action arm of the committees of correspondence. Each committee was a secret cell that operated totally independently of the other cells. Information on the government was passed from committee to committee, from colony to colony, and then acted upon on a local basis. Yet even in those bygone days of poor communication, of weeks to months for a letter to be delivered, the committees, without any central direction whatsoever, were remarkably similar in tactics employed to resist government tyranny. It was, as the first American Patriots knew, totally unnecessary for anyone to give an order for anything. Information was made available to each committee, and each committee acted as it saw fit. A recent example of the cell system taken from the left wing of politics are the Communists. The Communists, in order to get around the obvious problems involved in pyramidal organization, developed to an art the cell system. They had numerous independent cells which operated completely isolated from one another and particularly with no knowledge of each other, but were orchestrated together by a central headquarters. For instance, during WWII, in Washington, it is known that there were at least six secret Communist cells operating at high levels in the United States government (plus all the open Communists who were protected and promoted by President Roosevelt), however, only one of the cells was rooted out and destroyed. How many more actually were operating, no one can say for sure. The Communist cells which operated in the U.S. until late 1991 under Soviet control could have at their command a leader who held a social position which appeared to be very lowly. He could be, for example, a busboy in a restaurant, but in reality a colonel or a general in the Soviet Secret Service, the KGB. Under him could be a number of cells, and a person active in one cell would almost never have knowledge of individuals who were active in other cells; in fact, the members of the other cells would be supporting that cell which was under attack and ordinarily would lend very strong support to it in many ways. This is at least part of the reason, no doubt, that whenever in the past Communists were attacked in this country, support for them sprang up in many unexpected places. The effective and efficient operation of a cell system after the Communist model is, of course, dependent upon central direction, which means impressive organization, funding from the top, and outside support, all of which the Communists had. Obviously, American patriots have none of these things at the top or anywhere else, and so an effective cell organization based upon the Soviet system of operation is impossible. Two things become clear from the above discussion. First, that the pyramid form of organization can be penetrated quite easily and it thus is not a sound method of organization in situations where the government has the resources and desire to penetrate the structure, which is the situation in this country. Secondly, that the normal qualifications for the cell structure based upon the Red model does not exist in the U.S. for patriots. This understood, the question arises "What method is left for those resisting state tyranny?" The answer comes from Col. Amoss who proposed the "Phantom Cell" mode of organization which he described as Leaderless Resistance. A system of organization that is based upon the cell organization, but does not have any central control or direction, that is in fact almost identical to the methods used by the committees of correspondence during the American Revolution. Utilizing the Leaderless Resistance concept, all individuals and groups operate independently of each other, and never report to a central head-quarters or single leader for direction or instruction, as would those who belong to a typical pyramid organization. At first glance, such a form of organization seems unrealistic, primarily because there appears to be no organization. The natural question thus arises as to how are the "Phantom Cells" and individuals to cooperate with each other when there is no inter-communication or central direction? The answer to this question is that participants in a program of leaderless resistance through "Phantom Cell" or individual action must know exactly what they are doing and how to do it. It becomes the responsibility of the individual to acquire the necessary skills and information as to what is to be done. This is by no means as impractical as it appears, because it is certainly true that in any movement all persons involved have the same general outlook, are acquainted with the same philosophy, and generally react to given situations in similar ways. The previous history of the committees of correspondence during the American Revolution shows this to be true. Since the entire purpose of leaderless resistance is to defeat state tyranny (at least in so far as this essay is concerned), all members of phantom cells or individuals will tend to react to objective events in the same way through usual tactics of resistance. Organs of information distribution such as newspapers, leaflets, computers, etc., which are widely available to all, keep each person informed of events, allowing for a planned response that will take many variations. No one need issue an order to anyone. Those idealists truly committed to the cause of freedom will act when they feel the time is ripe, or will take their cue from others who precede them. While it is true that much could be said against this kind of structure as a method of resistance, it must be kept in mind that leaderless resistance is a child of necessity. The alternatives to it have been shown to be unworkable or impractical. Leaderless resistance has worked before in the American Revolution, and if the truly committed put it to use themselves, it will work now. #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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Potential Crypto Development Sites (re: Stallman)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:52:00 -0500 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Richard Stallman: Encryption software volunteers needed in > countries without export control > List of countries signing the Wassenaar agreement: > > Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, > Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, > Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherland, New Zealand, Norway, > Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, > Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States. > > --- end forwarded text Belize isn't on the list and it's only 2 hours from Houston. Citizenship can be had for as little as $40k US. They market themselves as a tax haven. Apparently anyone living there for 5 years can qualify for citizenship. ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: PGP Disk for free??
by Walter Burton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@replay.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 2:42 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: > > > McAfee has announced that they are giving away the commercial > version of PGP 6.0.2 for free for a limited time. It also > includes PGP Disk, which creates virtual encrypted drives. > PGP 6.0.2 also claims to have anti-TEMPEST protection, by > using a special font. My question is: what's the catch? They feel guilty 'cause there was a flaw in previous versions of PGP Disk. It's a gesture of good will. > It is a fact that Network Associates (McAfee's owner) is a > member of the Key Recovery Aliance. Is the decision to give > the software away part of something that's not being said > (i.e. reduced security) The source for 5.x is freely available, and I expect the source for (at least the free versions of) 6.x will soon be. Now, as far as I'm aware, the source for PGP Disk is not yet available, and probably won't be, since that's a commercial product. Not that that's a GOOD reason ;). > or did I spend $39.99 on PGP and an > additional $39.99 on PGP Disk for no reason because it would > become available for free two weeks later? Bingo. Perhaps they'll give you a refund! > And, has anyone tested the anti-TEMPEST features in PGP 6.0.2? Not I. That would take some serious equipment! I doubt even Phil Zimmerman or Network Associates has tested it thoroughly. Throughout the online help regarding the Secure Viewer and Tempest attacks, they use phrases like "MAY reduce levels of radio frequency emissions" and "MAY make it harder for the signals to be remotely detected" (my emphasis). --- Walter S. Burton <mailto:wburton@pipestream.com> For my PGP public key, send a message with the subject "get public key." Fingerprint: 3E28 7C81 536C 92FE ED01 6B70 0E37 DB49 9F6C 8DF8

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Crypto related... [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://slashdot.org/ > RIAA's Encypted Music-Working with defense contractors? The Internet > Posted by Hemos on Friday December 18, @08:32AM > from the things-that-make-you-go-hmm dept. > Tom Holroyd passed along some interesting pieces of information from > Eric S Arnum's recent piece over at SonicNet. Many of you saw that the > RIAA has decided to lauch their Secure Digital Music Initiative > (SDMI). Well, that's not so interesting on it's own, but their choice > of company is. It's a subsidary of SAIC, a privately held company that > does work in secure defense commnuications. The company (SAIC) has > worked with the CIA, NSA, and Navy, amongst others. Click below for > the full story. > Read More... > (18 comments, 2554 bytes in body) > Wassenaar agreement not to apply to free software? Encryption Posted > by sengan on Thursday December 17, @04:53PM > from the eh? dept. > The Free Software Foundation states that the Wassenaar agreement does > not apply to free-software. It'd be nice to know why. Is this a > provision for research, or some sort of loophole? Link countesy of > Linux Today. > Read More... > (89 comments) ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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17 Dec '03

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RE: "They've started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!"
by Harvey Rook (Exchange) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The scene from Babylon 5 is hardly original. The same thing happened in Vietnam, The Korean War, WW2, WW1.... This is war, and in war innocent people die to further the cause of the leaders. You just have to hope and pray that some good will come out of it. Harv. > -----Original Message----- > From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@remailer.ch] > > "We just intercepted a coded transmission from Earth Force > Command. They've > started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!" > > (scene of two fighters on approach to a biodome) > > Omega One: "Standing by. Weapons hot." > Radio: "Don't do it! We have women and children down here! > Don't do it!" > Radio2: "Omega One, you are clear for drop." > > (weapons fly, killing a few thousand innocent men, women, and > children.) > > It amazes me how much similarity Babylon 5 has to reality. Is > Clinton a fan > who fancies himself as President Clark? I'm starting to worry. >

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Re: whois cypherpunks.org ?
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On the Ft. Meade addresses for two of the cpunk domains, was there not a humorous explanation for this posted a couple of years back? Dimly remembered: there's a town of Ft. Meade as well as The Mad Fort itself, or something like that, and that a mail drop would be handy for swapping useless bits of bs-buffer overflow. If this is now classified, hit D, Degausse and deodorize your Farradage!

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REPORT ON CYBER-TERRORISM
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A new report on national security, titled "CyberCrime, CyberTerrorism and CyberWarfare," calls for a complete overhaul of U.S. national security agencies and policies in order to avoid crippling sabotage of the nation's and corporate America's information infrastructure. The report, which is the product of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Global Organized Crime project headed up by former FBI and CIA director William Webster, chronicles the results of a recent joint chief of staff exercise code-named "Eligible Receiver." The exercise involved a group of security experts, known as a "red team," that used software widely available from cracker Web sites to demonstrate the capability to penetrate and disable major portions of the U.S. electric power grid and deny computer systems to the entire Pacific military command and control operation. The report recommends the establishment of private sector-organized groups that would evaluate and endorse information security standards in various industries, coupled with increased government support for such efforts and the development of a national security policy for the Information Revolution. "The private sector cannot sit back and wait for government to lead," says Sen. Charles Robb (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. (InternetWeek 16 Dec 98) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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Forwarded mail....
by Missouri FreeNet Administration 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- ::Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 05:21:34 +0100 ::From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> ::To: sysadmin(a)mfn.org ::You should be expecting a visit from the boys in the suits very soon. ::Have fun. I hope your cellmate is a big guy they call "The Bull." ::Traitorous scum. ---------- Message Ends ---------- What I *really* love about these "patriots" is how they are not _afraid_ to stand by their words! Awwww, c'mon! You're on the "Side Of Right(tm)", so why hide? You afraid I'm gonna piss on your white picket fence? Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org -- If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Intel security hub
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I wonder what government sponsored back doors they plan to include... > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981214S0008 This has been mentioned before. Only suggested response so far is to fight tooth and nail to ensure that hub-dependent programs can work transparently with a software fill-in. Otherwise you could potentially need to break a tamper-resistant chip, patch the software (fortify^2...), or pull off some such superhuman feat. (By the way, the address for letters to the editors of Mobile Computing and Communications, in case you want to respond to the articles mentioned, is <letters(a)mobilecomputing.com>) More redundant reiterations of senseless nonsense: I'm not so confident it'd be backdoored, but if it's closed-source (not unlikely) that is, for obvious reasons, bad. Even if not, it will, with probability just barely <1, result in Intel as a major CA. I don't think the hub'd be backdoored because it'd be a risky investment for anybody to backdoor it; although I'm not sure the hub'd be closed-source, anything trivially and undetectably compromised is about as bad; Intel'd use the hub to become a CA just because it makes business sense. > > Intel's Security Plans Worry PC Builders > > (12/14/98, 3:49 p.m. ET) > By Rick Boyd-Merritt and Mark Carroll, EE Times > > Intel will add new security and software functions to future > chip sets in a move that will boost the profile of its > upcoming Katmai processors as key silicon for multimedia > and e-commerce. But the plan is raising concerns among > software, semiconductor and systems companies that fear > the processor giant could wind up encroaching on their > markets, extending its own reach deeper into the PC > architecture. > > Intel's plans center around a so-called firmware hub, > essentially a flash memory with key BIOS functions, > which will be part of its Camino, Carmel, and Whitney chip > sets. Those products will accompany next year's Katmai > processors and are expected to be used in the Merced line, > too. > > "This is an example of Intel taking in one more piece of the > PC architecture," said a senior R&D manager with a major > PC company who asked not to be named. > > Intel would not comment on its unannounced products. > However, the key features of the chip are beginning to > come to light based on reports from multiple sources. The > firmware hub is "basically a flash chip with locks on its > read and write capabilities that can be opened using a > cryptographic protocol," said another source briefed by > Intel. > > Hardware security functions include a cryptographic > engine to authenticate digital certificates Intel or a third > party could load in. The chip could hold multiple > certificates, each with permission to grant specific > features, such as to permit an operating system or an > MPEG player to run. They would also ensure a software > program licensed to one user was not copied and run on > another machine, a common practice. In addition, the > certificates will act like unique serial numbers, identifying a > given machine in any Internet or corporate network > transaction, sources said. > > The hub may also include a random-number generator to > create public keys for encryption and help enable > encrypted transmissions between PCs. That would provide > security for e-commerce and software downloads, > possibly including software modules for host-based > modems, MPEG players, or audio codecs that are > housed in the firmware hub and run on the CPU. > > Another feature sources have mentioned is physical > security, linking sensors to the hub so it may report > problems to a central network administrator if the case is > tampered with or peripherals are removed. > > Even though the firmware -- and the chip sets it is part of > -- are not due for production until at least mid-1999, > samples have been available in Taiwan for some time. > > "We have had samples of the firmware hub for a while," > said a project manager at First International Computer, in > Taiwan. "We really haven't done too much with it yet. It is > still not quite clear when it will be used and what its > full functions will be." > > The hub chip is designed to incorporate new features into > the PC upon start-up, the manager said, not to replace the > standard BIOS, the key software that controls system I/O > peripherals software. > > "After a PC is turned on, the firmware hub will be > accessed and then the regular BIOS," said a BIOS > engineer with another Taiwanese company. "The hub will > affect the standard BIOS architecture, but it certainly > won't replace it. That's not its purpose." > > Yet the prospect of a possible Intel incursion into BIOS is > giving some industry observers the willies. Adding to their > concern is the fact that Intel has not provided technical > details about its implementation yet. One analyst said the > hub will act as a BIOS registry, a place from which > software emulation and upgrades can be controlled. > > Sources close to Intel suggested the Santa Clara, Calif., > company would be leery of entering a new PC-related > market while under the shadow of a Federal Trade > Commission investigation. The company's motive is simply > to bring new features to the PC, enhancing sales for > corporate and consumer users, these sources said. > > Still, "If Intel controls what and how stuff gets put in the > BIOS, that's really significant," said one analyst. > "That's a wonderful control choke point." >

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