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Not enough phone competition? Answer: regulate more!
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<B>By JEANNINE AVERSA<P> <B>Associated Press Writer<P> WASHINGTON (AP) - Just 18 months after Congress deregulated the communications industry, the nation's top telephone regulator asked lawmakers Thursday for more tools to bring Americans local phone competition. "So far, scarcely any local competition has been delivered to residential or business consumers," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt said in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute. "We have a major challenge to introduce competition in the local telephone markets and that challenge is not yet being met," he said. Hundt asked Congress to write into law provisions: -Giving the FCC authority to set national pricing rules for those seeking access to local phone networks. -Requiring courts to defer to reasonable FCC judgments in disputes over the telecommunications law. -Consolidating appeals over the telecommunications law and FCC rules before a single unspecified court. -Creating a national policy to enforce the telecommunications law, giving the FCC power to compensate injured parties. The FCC now can order violators to stop breaking the law and fine offenders. Congressional hearings into the slow pace of local phone competition are slated for this fall. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Commerce Committee that oversees telecommunications policy, said when asked about the proposals, "I do not think that giving the FCC more authority to regulate is the answer." [...]

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FYI: c2.org now has reasonable net
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Community ConneXion finally has reasonable net. If you thought about getting an account here in order to take advantage of privacy services but thought that the lag was too great for it to be useful, you may want to try again now, as our network line was just upgraded today. Check out http://www.c2.org -- sameer Voice: 510-601-9777 Network Administrator FAX: 510-601-9734 Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley Dialin: 510-658-6376 http://www.c2.org (or login as "guest") sameer(a)c2.org

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Re: The illegal markets of cyberspace
by carolann＠censored.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thank you for the easy to understand concepts. Now where was that nobody(a)nobody.org key again? Love Always, Carol Anne....wondering if the Undernet was as good as the Blacknet? -- Member Internet Society - Certified BETSI Programmer - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.42.112.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [017/713] ------------------- M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M MF=O0H+*%(-S%&>S%+FS&<LS%3(Q&#W1"<]2%`H^;,]^1C$'HBN8PX$4SYAU^ MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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Netsurfer Focus on Cryptography
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Netsurfer publishes free HTML "periodicals" delivered by email -- filled with the links the short articles refer to. The latest one just hit my mailbox (with tags removed): ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 17:45:39 PDT From: editor-bounce(a)netsurf.com Subject: Netsurfer Focus: Vol. 01, #03 (HTML) Netsurfer Focus on Cryptography and Privacy Wednesday, August 21, 1995 - Volume 01, Issue 03 TABLE OF CONTENTS Intro to Cryptography Cracking the Code In ? We Trust</a> Key Certification Postcards from Cyberspace</a> E-mail Issues Digital Envelopes</a> Secure E-mail The Pen is Mightier than the Electron</a> Export Issues Hiding In Plain View</a> Steganography Money Makes the World Go Round</a> Cash and E-money No Names, Please</a> Anonymous Remailers Big Iron, Big Brother</a> Database Drilling and Surveillance It's B-a-a-ck!</a> Clipper and Digital Telephony 'Bots, Agents, and Wizards</a> Trusting Software Information at Your Fingertips</A> Additional Resources Inky Fingers</A> Print Resources ********************************** Netsurfer Focus is currently a periodic supplement to Netsurfer Digest and Netsurfer Tools. Netsurfer Focus Home Page: http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/index.html http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/index.html Back Issues: If you would like to obtain copies of back issues or resource files (in HTML format only) via e-mail, send mail to info-focus(a)netsurf.com with "send crypto-index" in the body of the message. To subscribe to Netsurfer Digest or Netsurfer Tools: By WWW form: <A href="http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/subscribe.html">http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/subscribe.html</A> By e-mail: nsdigest-request(a)netsurf.com Body: subscribe nsdigest-text subscribe nsdigest-html

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ANNOUNCE: mailing list for Eternity Service developers/users
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Laszlo Vecsey <master(a)internexus.net> has setup a mailing list for users and developers of the eternity service. On topic will be development, design of improved protocols, also design of a general distributed file system (DFS or worldFS) which some are interested to implement based on Ross Anderson's paper `The Eternity Service', plus issuses surrounding being an eternity operator. The mailing list address is "eternity(a)internexus.net", to subscribe send a mail to "majordomo(a)internexus.net" with body: subscribe eternity To submit articles to the mailing list send them to "eternity(a)internexus.net". Adam

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Re: SSL trouble
by ab411＠detroit.freenet.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I wrote: >"Daniel R. Oelke" <droelke(a)rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com> writes: >> >> date "+%S %M 60 * + %H 3600 * + %j 86400 * + %y 31536000 * + p" | dc > >date +"%S %M 60 * + %H 3600 * + %j 1 - 86400 * + %y 70 - 31536000 * + %y >69 - 4 / 86400 * + 3600 4 * + p" |dc which has a bit of cruft in it to get universal time, and >date +"%S %M 60 * + %H 3600 * + %j 1 - 86400 * + %y 70 - 31536000 * + %y >69 - 4 / 86400 * + p" |dc > >which returns local time, which is probably what you wanted anyway. Well, I overlooked the obvious: You can simply add -u to the above to get universal time i.e., date -u +... etc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMEOyexEcrOJethBVAQGtFwP9GG27cR3UvJX4/gsO8SK3L3pHGv5mjNp+ 0mkRwOg+bj+cf44xAxXZ7/iFU2xaT4sAUvqwIaqbv6AfQgwnqTjAZKIR11KtlKPN 1xDkPXArU4PWSjoFal60Qsuqzacauu99wwUfsILhr8S2xWMj406JdTZPMapgZJI0 N2agSYMj6pY= =LI+M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David R. Conrad, ab411(a)detroit.freenet.org, http://www.grfn.org/~conrad Finger conrad(a)grfn.org for PGP 2.6 public key; it's also on my home page Key fingerprint = 33 12 BC 77 48 81 99 A5 D8 9C 43 16 3C 37 0B 50 Jerry Garcia, August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995. Requiescat in pace.

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journalism, travel and manufacturing
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Dr. Dmitri Vulis, KOTM <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com>" typed: > Do drop by whenever you're in NYC. :-) I appreciate the invitation. I'll be sure to do so when I'm in NYC. In other news, I made some t-shirts at HIP. On the front they have an excerpt of an e-mail message looking something like this: From: Stan <wallace(a)netvertisement.com> To: Winston <1072SmithW(a)citizenunits.org> Subject: MAKE FREEDOM FAST!!! "I may disagree with every spam you send, but I will defend to the death your right to send it." -- Voltaire On the back they have the following slogans: MAKE FREEDOM FAST!!! Spam is Speech. Censorship is Censorship. And at the hem there is the legend: This is: AN OFFICIAL SPAM DEFENSE T-SHIRT Manufactured at: HIP, 1997 By: Zooko Industries I gave one shirt to Alex de Joode and one to Joichi Ito, and I kept one for myself. That leaves one, which I originally intended to snail mail to Dr. Dmitri M. Vulis, KOTM. But if you don't want it then I'll auction it off via cypherpunks. (Currencies accepted will include PGP-signed letters stating your undying adoration of and loyalty to Zooko.) Regards, Zooko

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Re: SSL trouble
by keelings＠wu1.wl.aecl.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Incoming from Daniel R. Oelke: > [presumably piete brooks?]: > > >PS3: I'd like to get the raw date in brloop (a sh script). In perl I'd just > > > use "time", and I can't see a way to get "date +" to yield the raw time. > > > I could use "date=`perl -e 'print time'`" but that seems OTT, and perl > > > may not be on teh users PATH. Any suggestions ? > > [anonymous?] > > "date '+%s'" does it under BSDI, but I'm not sure how portable it is. > > This is what I got from SunOS 4.1.x > > $ date +%s > date: bad format character - s On Ultrix, I get: $_ date '+%s' s $_ and on OSF/1: $_ date '+%s' %s $_ XMan (OSF/1) says: "To display the date and time in a specified format, enter: date +"%r %d %h %y (%a)" [note the `+' outside the ""] which gives me: 08:58:39 AM 29 Aug 95 (Tue) FWIW ... -- "Remember, obsolescence (Win95) isn't an accident; it's an art form!" keelings(a)wu1.wl.aecl.ca s. keeling, aecl - whiteshell labs

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Important Notice
by Phil＠dship.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Hypothetical situation for networks
by Mike Jones 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is a 100% hypothetical situation, though would be interesting to see if it is possible. A company does some R&D work, which it wishes to keep classified from competitors. However, they have two main offices on opposite sides of the country. Not wishing to use sneakernet type file transfer, they wish to pass confidential material from one network to the other using the Internet. Now we all know that anyone with a little bit of knowledge can intercept the packets as they go past and read the information. Email is out, as they do use a system of file mirroring, keeping each set of data as a backup as well as for usage. Would make sense for them to use a type of NFS system, but is there an implimentation of secure (ie: encrypted) NFS available? OS doesn't really matter, as it is a hypothetical system, but we'll assume either some form of unix/linux, or perhaps winNT or novell NetWare. Thanks in advance for the info and knowledge...sorry if it's been asked before. -- Mike Jones -- CNA, CNE, pursueing MCNE and MCSE currently. email: Mkljones(a)cris.com Finger Mkljones(a)cris.com for Geek code and PGP key "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places."

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