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Re: Mondex
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C[unt] May is a pimply dweeb sitting at a computer chortling at his own imagined cleverness. ||||||||||| \~0/ \0~/ < (0) > --oOO--/|||\--OOo- Tim C[unt] May

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Re: War & InfoWar
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TruthMonger wrote: > Of course, you have your own definintion of innocenent bystanders, >while others may have different definitions. .......................................................... To me, an innocent bystander would be someone who was walking by a building which was blown up by someone with a grudge against its occupants. You lose the point of your attack when you kill those who do not relate to the reason for your attack. "To save the village, we had to destroy it." .. Blanc

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Money orders, debit cards, ...
by daw＠cs.berkeley.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Some court transcripts from the McVeigh case contain interesting information about real-life anonymous systems. See http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/okc.trial/transcripts/may/050697.eve.html Did you know that money orders are not so anonymous as you might think? On the order itself are digits identifying the post office where the order was purchased, as well as the date of purchase. Also, a private company testified on their money order service, and it comes out that they keep a computerized record of every money order purchase in a central database. Eek. And read about a real-life instance of traffic analysis of phone calls based on timing correlations. This one really happened, folks (though it was by mistake). Also, read about how a company offering prepaid debit cards searched through billions of records to find all phone calls to or from a certain number, etc. Read about how they entered a disk containing information on 100,000--200,000 phone calls (!) into evidence. (Note: contents of calls are protected by law, but traffic analysis specifically is allowed, far as I can tell.) And you value your privacy? Too bad!

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by computermas＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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INFORMATION
by twinsvideo＠infosel.net.mx 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

donn't think that i'm lame or somthin' but i realy need information on how to hack so, could you please tell me how to hack and what do i need in order to hack. don't worry i won't get into trouble. please hurry it's urgent. T H N X A L O T ! ------------------------------------- Name: twins video,s.a. de c.v. E-mail: twinsvideo(a)infosel.net.mx Date: 18/06/97 Time: 6:46:10 PM This message was sent by Chameleon -------------------------------------

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HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

C2Net Software, Inc. 1212 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612 510-986-8770 For Immediate Release HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD Oakland, California (June 18, 1997)-The 56-bit DES encryption standard, long claimed "adequate" by the U.S. Government, was shattered yesterday using an ordinary Pentium personal computer operated by Michael K. Sanders, an employee of iNetZ, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based online commerce provider. Sanders was part of a loosely organized group of computer users responding to the "RSA $10,000 DES Challenge." The code-breaking group distributed computer software over the Internet for harnessing idle moments of computers around the world to perform a 'brute force' attack on the encrypted data. "That DES can be broken so quickly should send a chill through the heart of anyone relying on it for secure communications," said Sameer Parekh, one of the group's participants and president of C2Net Software, an Internet encryption provider headquartered in Oakland, California (http://www.c2.net/) "Unfortunately, most people today using the Internet assume the browser software is performing secure communications when an image of a lock or a key appears on the screen. Obviously, that is not true when the encryption scheme is 56-bit DES," he said. INetZ vice president Jon Gay said "We hope that this will encourage people to demand the highest available encryption security, such as the 128-bit security provided by C2Net's Stronghold product, rather than the weak 56-bit ciphers used in many other platforms." Many browser programs have been crippled to use an even weaker, 40-bit cipher, because that is the maximum encryption level the U.S. government has approved for export. "People located within the US can obtain more secure browser software, but that usually involves submitting an affidavit of eligibility, which many people have not done," said Parekh. "Strong encryption is not allowed to be exported from the U.S., making it harder for people and businesses in international locations to communicate securely," he explained. According to computer security expert Ian Goldberg, "This effort emphasizes that security systems based on 56-bit DES or "export-quality" cryptography are out-of-date, and should be phased out. Certainly no new systems should be designed with such weak encryption.'' Goldberg is a member of the University of California at Berkeley's ISAAC group, which discovered a serious security flaw in the popular Netscape Navigator web browser software. The 56-bit DES cipher was broken in 5 months, significantly faster than the hundreds of years thought to be required when DES was adopted as a national standard in 1977. The weakness of DES can be traced to its "key length," the number of binary digits (or "bits") used in its encryption algorithm. "Export grade" 40-bit encryption schemes can be broken in less than an hour, presenting serious security risks for companies seeking to protect sensitive information, especially those whose competitors might receive code-breaking assistance from foreign governments. According to Parekh, today's common desktop computers are tremendously more powerful than any computer that existed when DES was created. "Using inexpensive (under $1000) computers, the group was able to crack DES in a very short time," he noted. "Anyone with the resources and motivation to employ modern "massively parallel" supercomputers for the task can break 56-bit DES ciphers even faster, and those types of advanced technologies will soon be present in common desktop systems, providing the keys to DES to virtually everyone in just a few more years." 56-bit DES uses a 56-bit key, but most security experts today consider a minimum key length of 128 bits to be necessary for secure encryption. Mathematically, breaking a 56-bit cipher requires just 65,000 times more work than breaking a 40-bit cipher. Breaking a 128-bit cipher requires 4.7 trillion billion times as much work as one using 56 bits, providing considerable protection against brute-force attacks and technical progress. C2Net is the leading worldwide provider of uncompromised Internet security software. C2Net's encryption products are developed entirely outside the United States, allowing the firm to offer full-strength cryptography solutions for international communications and commerce. "Our products offer the highest levels of security available today. We refuse to sell weak products that might provide a false sense of security and create easy targets for foreign governments, criminals, and bored college students," said Parekh. "We also oppose so-called "key escrow" plans that would put everyone's cryptography keys in a few centralized locations where they can be stolen and sold to the highest bidder," he added. C2Net's products include the Stronghold secure web server and SafePassage Web Proxy, an enhancement that adds full-strength encryption to any security-crippled "export grade" web browser software. # # # Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Netscape and Netscape Navigator are registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation Stronghold and SafePassage are trademarks of C2Net Software, Inc.

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Declan as a Crime Beat Reporter
by lucifer Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> hee, hee, I hope that Declan comes up with an amusing mishmash of your > own life. turnabout is fair play. maybe if he doesn't, someone else > can take a stab at satirizing mr. debauched millionaire playboy > who dabbles in cryptography theory. An interview with cypherpunks founder Timothy C May, Jim Bell and various other Cypherpunks also present. Interview conducted by Declan McCullagh Declan: Tim, can you tell us how you first became interested in the use of cryptography to preserve freedoms supposedly guaranteed by the constitution. Tim: Well, I had just quit working at Intel, where I made more money than all of you put together, when I really started to get interested in cryptography, At the first physical meeting, when John, Eric and I had just founded the cypherpunks, we discussed anonymity, digital cash and compared rifle collections. Jim: Something wonderful is about to happen. Tim: No it isn`t, I thought of anonymous digital assasination contracts first, now everyone calls it AP, and you get all the publicity (Tim reaches for his .45). Declan: Calm down, I`m sure it isn`t that simple. Tim: Yes it is, lets nuke D.C. Dimitri: Tim May blows small children, and is an anti semetic bigot. Graham-John Bullers: I think we should all send Vulis back 10 copies of this Truthmonger: Nuke Ottowa too. Kent Crispin: Nuking anywhere is just an adolescent fantasy Vladimir Z Nuri: I agree Tim May: No it isn`t, go away Kent. Paul Bradley: Yes indeed, nuke London as well. Ray Arachelian: There should be a law against this, surely it`s an infringement of privacy! Dimitri: Ray Arachelian is a dandruff covered censorous purebred sovok forger. Se7en: Lets hack their servers and erase all the kiddie porn. Truthmonger: I propose 3 minutes of silence for Tim McVeigh Dimitri: Ah, so you are trying to censor us then, Truthmonger is really Chris Lewis, who is also really Richard Depew. ObTruthMongerFodder: Tim McVeigh is a murderous cocksucker Hallam-Baker: AP is a murder and censorship scheme. Tim May: I thought of this and wrote an essay on it back in `78 when most of you were still in high school, I probably posted it once, trawl the archives and you shall be enligtened. Jerry K U-Ramos: Break this, because we are so confident in the strenth of our cipher we are giving you a week to cryptanalyse it, if you can`t, it must be unbreakable. Tim May: This offer of a prize for cryptanaysis is highly suspect, I am now placing rifles in strategic positions, lock and load. I remember a similar offer back in `64, before most of you were born, (mumble, mumble, mumble)... Toto: I`m sure the NSA have something to do with it, or is that the CIA, the FBI, the DEA ??? I don`t remember, but it`s some scary TLA composed entirely of men in long black coats. Kent Crispin: Lets be realistic about it, you are all obsessed with assasination. Vladimir Z Nuri: I agree (In a post only 3 seconds later than Kents original one, I wonder how that could happen? ;-)) Declan: None of you understand, I have to attend dinner parties, like the one with Steve and Bill the other night, to get information for my articles. Tim May: I thought of this back in `84 too, I concluded that people should read what I say more carefully, and you *might* sell out in future. Jim Bell: Something wonderful is about to happen Tim May: Jim, you are killfiled for being a loon. Declan: Right, I`m sorry but we appear to have run out of time, we`ll have to go home. Dimitri: So you are trying to censor us then. Declan McCullagh is a cocksucker Tim starts packing the several dozen rifles he brought with him back into boxes. Everyone gets in their cars to go home, except Tim May who brought his tank with him. THE END

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index.html
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo US navbar Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Main banner Start your retirement planning using Portrait Planning. Click Here. rule REPUTED MOBSTER'S ADMISSION MAY CAUSE CASE TO CRUMBLE Mercurio June 18, 1997 Web posted at: 9:47 p.m. EDT (0147 GMT) BOSTON (CNN) -- The trial of reputed mob boss Frank "Cadillac" Salemme was thrown into disarray Wednesday when mob journeyman Angelo "Sonny" Mercurio told a U.S. District Court he had been an informant for the FBI. The dramatic admission came after federal Judge Mark Wolf asked Mercurio if he had been an informant for the FBI in 1989 -- the same year his pals were being wiretapped by the agency. Mercurio, who is serving time in Georgia for marijuana possession, faced a jail sentence for contempt if he did not answer the question. _______________________________________________________________ PEG TYRE's report as seen on CNN VXtreme logo VXtreme Streaming Video _______________________________________________________________ "Yes," he replied in a loud and clear voice. His disclosure could threaten the government's case against Salemme, the reputed head of the New England Mafia, and four other reputed mobsters. Mercurio's answer raises questions about whether the Justice Department misled a federal judge to get a wiretap that helped lead to the conviction of other organized crime figures. Judges will not grant wiretaps if they know authorities haveinvestigative alternatives, such as informers. "It is an important part of a mosaic that we're going to build to argue that there has been outrageous government misconduct in this case and ask for a retrial," defense attorney John Mitchell said. Salemme's lawyers say they'll ask that the wiretaps be thrown out. If the judge agrees, the case against Salemme, as well as mobsters already convicted on wiretap evidence, could be in jeopardy. Judge says government's credibility is at stake The government's case against Salemme hinges on a wiretap recording of a ceremonial induction into the Patriarca crime family in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1989. The wiretap information led to convictions against Salemme's alleged predecessor, Raymond "Junior" Patriarca, and several others. Mercurio's admission proved the FBI lied in sworn statements they used to get permission for the tap. Agents claimed they needed the electronic surveillance of the induction, when instead they had Mercurio on the inside to help them. Scarpa "The entire premise and entire foundation of the tap may well be rotten, and the tape will be suppressed," defense attorney Anthony Cardinale said. It also potentially undermines 20 major mob convictions in New England. "I think FBI agents have gotten the message from the courts and from Congress that in organized crime cases, anything goes," criminal defense attorney Gerald Shargel said. Wolf said he will continue to press to see if the FBI obtained other wire taps by providing false information. At issue he says is the credibility of the government in the eyes of its federal judges. Correspondent Peg Tyre contributed to this report rule Read the next US story: * Negotiators optimistic about tobacco talks - June 18, 1997 Related stories: * CNN - Federal jury convicts 12 suspected Mexican Mafia members - May 30, 1997 * CNN - Mob bosses took a beating last year - Jan. 3, 1997 Related sites: * US Mafia, Short History & Key Players + Patriarca, Raymond L.S. * CSS Organized Crime Menu * Gangsters! * The New Mafia Order A history of the mafia from Mother Jones Magazine * GANG LAND: The Jerry Capeci Web Page Search for related CNN stories: ________________________________________ ______ [Help] Tip: You can restrict your search to the title of a document. Infoseek grfk Example: title:New Year's Resolutions rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards Tell us what you think! You said it... [INLINE] Start your retirement planning using Portrait Planning. Click Here. rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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PGP 5.0 source shipped to Europe!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Unknown Cypherpunks shipped the PGP 5.0 source to Europe. http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/pgp50.shtml See the source books! Read the shipping label! Trace the package! --SourceMonger

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Re: INFORMATION
by David Downey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----Original Message Follows---- >From owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Wed Jun 18 23:17:57 1997 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by sirius.infonex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id WAA08563 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cpunks@localhost) by sirius.infonex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id WAA08541 for cypherpunks(a)infonex.com; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rigel.cyberpass.net (root(a)rigel.infonex.com [206.170.114.3]) by sirius.infonex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA08529 for <cpunks(a)sirius.infonex.com>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toad.com (toad.com [140.174.2.1]) by rigel.cyberpass.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA29918 for <cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA09031 for cypherpunks-unedited-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kim.teleport.com (kim.teleport.com [192.108.254.26]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA09026 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kluge (ip-pdx38-11.teleport.com [204.202.160.13]) by kim.teleport.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA07841; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970618221325.01cf2b00(a)mail.teleport.com> X-Sender: alano(a)mail.teleport.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 b4 (32) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:13:25 -0700 To: twinsvideo(a)infosel.net.mx From: Alan Olsen <alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com> Subject: Re: INFORMATION Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.970618185549.twinsvideo(a)infosel.infosel.net.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Alan Olsen <alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com> X-List: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net At 06:46 PM 6/18/97 PDT, twinsvideo(a)infosel.net.mx wrote: > >donn't think that i'm lame or somthin' but i realy need information on how to hack so, could you please tell me how to hack >and what do i need in order to hack. I suggest really strong turkish cigarettes. Smoke them constantly and soon you will be hacking before you know it. >don't worry i won't get into trouble. Depends on the age of tobacco purchace in your state. You might have to get into High School before trying the above method. >please hurry it's urgent. That is what they all say... =================================================================== Hacking is something that you learn on your own. While there are a few folks that will show you the ropes, you have to learn on your own. Knowledge is precious, and even more so when you gain it through your own bllod sweat and tears. I hope you really mean hacking, and NOT cracking. There are many of us in the hacking community that are ticked off because the media and the government have lumped us hackers in with the Crackers. Crackers are folks that enter systems for no other reason that malicous damage of systems and vital infromation. These folks are usually punk kids out to romp around Cyberspace doing damage for kicks. There are professional crackers but are usually hired by governments and major corporations for either "NAtional Security" reasons or plain old Corporate espianage. Hackers on the other hand, are folks that believe in the free exchange and flow of information, and yearn for knowledge. While they occationally do break into systems, it is usually only for the challenge of doing so and NOT with the intent of causing damage. Most hackers that enter systems, will usually clean up after themselves after merely looking around the system for awhile just to see what is there with no intent to cause harm, only making modifications to logs and passwd files to clear traces of their entry. They NEVER damage files intentionally and that is a MAJOR no no with most folks in the real hacking community. Some hackers even go so far as to tell they System Administrators of the systems they enter that they did so, and how they did it so the Admins may plug the holes. Unfortunately, the government and the media have placed us within the same catagories as the Darksiders. I, for one, do hope you are a hacker and not trying to become a cracker. --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------

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