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my email changed
by JASPARKES 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: JASPARKES(a)aol.com Subject: my email changed From: JASPARKES <JASPARKES(a)aol.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:49:13 EDT Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) <a href="http://members.forfree.at/~k1ng/index.html">Click here to see my picture</a>

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Re: Stego Virus
by Robb＠SpeakOut.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For a virus (a program) embedded in a .gif file to affect you, it would have to unsteg and then run. Just dont run it it you unsteg it. Robb Hill National Association for Home Care 228 7th Street SE Washington DC 20003 202-547-7424 202-547-9312 fax robb(a)speakout.org

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CyberTerrorism Thoughts
by Barry C. Collin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Mr. Geiger: Thank you for your very well-thought-out presentation. That is precisely the kind of material we need to see more of in this forum. It's tough to write, but it's worth it. >From the feedback I've received, I should make this clear: regardless of criminality issues, I do not consider hacking in to a system to view things an act of terrorism (by classical or other definition). My concern, by far, is the fragility I've found with systems connected to physical processes -- processes that affect the physical world. Your segmentation of motivation and actions was excellent. I look forward to your future commentary and postings. Also, although it is sometimes difficult (myself no exception), I think you'd agree that this factual, non-flame approach gets far more work done. Your response in that manner was appreciated. Regards, Barry C. Collin -- Institute for Security and Intelligence A Non-Profit Research Institution P.O. Box 9877 Stanford, California 94309-9877 USA

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see you guys later
by robbhill＠southwestpaper.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This list used to focus on privacy issues, crypto protocols, algorithms, national crypto policy, etc. I saw the Netscape cracks announced here, I saw squeamish ossifrage here, now I see nothing of the sort. Now I see that people are discussing heckling the pres., black helicopters???. I have heard Phil Zimmerman frequently call Paul Zimmerman. See you guys later. Robb Hill National Association for Home Care 228 7th Street SE Washington DC 20003 202-547-7424 202-547-9312 fax robb(a)speakout.org

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Welcome to the Violent Terrorists Mailing List
by Violent Terrorist Mailing List 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Your Violent Terrorists ID is 'cpunks': Your co-conspirator-email is cypherpunks(a)toad.com: Please save this message for future evidence. This confirmation message is sent to all users when they plot the violent overthrow of their government. When lusers conspire to overthrow their government, we require them to provide a valid search-warrant address. We will soon be kicking down the doors of that address. Thank you for conspiring to violently overthrow your government! Jammit Reamhole & Uno B. Freeh, NOMO

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Anti-Racist Laws Stifle Political Liberty
by qut＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

llurch(a)stanford.edu (Rich Graves) writes: > Incidentally, [don't college speech codes] belong in the past > tense? Stanford hardly lifted a finger to defend the Grey > Amendment, which was designed and widely regarded to be the most > carefully tailored speech code around. I don't know of any > universities that have tried to enact a speech code since. The > attempt would be futile. (Background: Grey applied only to > "fighting words" directed at individuals. It was fine, under the > [overturned] Stanford policy [which I voted against], to create a > "hostile environment" by screaming hostile verbiage at nobody in > particular; but you couldn't say the same thing to someone's face.) The mere lack of enforcement of an unjust law does not justify the continued extancy of that law. That very "dead letter" law can be fired up at any time to harass critics of the university's anti-racist administration. Some examples of dangerous dead letter laws: * Abortion Most people presume that abortion is legal in the USA, wrong. Most states make abortion very illegal, our whole abortion freedom as currently exists rests entirely on a few federal court decisions. If the previous Supreme Court decisions are overturned, most states will suddenly start enforcing their fascist anti-abortion laws. * Hate Crime Denmark used to be presumed by racists to be the only country in Europe where racism was legal. Denmark's anti-racist laws were not enforced in ages. Yet, the anti-racist laws sprung into action to persecute Gerhard Lauck, an American Nazi who desired to move to Denmark on the account of a provocateur that his organization would not be harrassed in Denmark. Mr. Lauck was deported to Germany where he was sentenced to four years in prison to the outrage of professional anti-racists of the "moderation" of his punishment for merely speaking in pro-Nazi terms in Germany, where politics that challenge the ruling order is strictly illegal. * Racism In Other Countries Racist politics are explicitly illegal in every "white country" in the world except, so far, the USA. The mere lack of enforcement in many of the countries such as South Africa, Canada, Denmark, Russian Federation, Malaysia, Australia, etc., does not exonerate that country from the charge of censorship as political intrigue. * "We Will Take Power" A lot of fake anti-censorship activists insist they are for free speech in the sense of allowing such political purposes as "we don't like your policies and we want you to change," but desiring to make illegal such political goals as "we don't like your power and we're going to try to take it away from you." Yet there is no purpose, no purpose whatsoever in political speech, if there is no threat allowed to the ruling order expressed in idealogical terms and organizational forms. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and all the nationalist founders of the American nation would approve of radicals organizing and expressing their goals of seizing power legally, or if denied the means of a republic for succession, illegally. * Unfree Nations Germany is an example of a nation that prohibits any type of Nazi political party. Therefore, Germany is not a free country, not an honest republic, in fact, less free even than Wilhelmian Germany in allowing radical parties to challenge the power structure. -- I marvel at the resilience of the white people. Their best characteristic is their desire to learn. No other people has such an obsession with the intellect.

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"Undocumented Features"
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:21 AM 8/29/96, Adamsc wrote: >>> >looks like the DoJ have been looking around at the mirrors.. maybe to >>> >legally hassle people about them.... > >>> Or, just maybe, some DoJ employees wanted to see what folks on the outside >>> were doing to tweek their bosses:-)? Reminds me of the *thousands* of hits >>> the "Intel Secrets Page"(http://www.x86.org/) has gotten from users at >>> intel.com > >Out of curiosity, has anyone used a decompiler to check if any of the >undocumented stuff is getting used in shipping programs? This has only marginal relevance to the list, but I'll mention in case it helps a crypto coder out there: be wary of _ever_ using undocumented features of a processor, compiler, or other system. Why? Because "undocumented features" are not promises made by the vendor, and may vanish in the next release (or, worse, change behavior in strange and hard-to-detect ways). We witnessed this several times at Intel with the x86 line. Various customers discovered "undocumented features," made the mistake of exploiting them, and then came crying to us when iterations of the processor (what we call "steppings") took out the "features" or altered their behavior. (And for a while there was even a rift between the Intel versions and the NEC versions, which copied some Intel processors and copied the undocumented features....when Intel was no longer supporting them, the two processor families diverged, causing chaos.) So, beware. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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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Announce: NCSA HTTPd 1.6b1 and XMosaic 2.6s_b1
by acain＠ncsa.uiuc.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hiya! This is to announce the availability of NCSA HTTPd version 1.6b1. It is accompanied by a version of XMosaic (2.6s_b1) which can be used for testing the security features. To participate in the beta testing effort, please see http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/beta-1.6/ What's New: ---------- The main difference between 1.6b1 and 1.5.2 is the addition of support for the following security protocols: -- Secure-HTTP (version 1.1) -- SSL versions 2.0 and 3.0 XMosaic 2.6s_b1 supports these protocols as well. Motivation: ---------- We recognize that there are many fine web servers availble on the Internet, some even for free. In releasing NCSA HTTPd 1.6b1, we are niether trying to 'outdo' other server development efforts, nor are we expecting to provide a server which will meet all possible needs. Rather, we wish to follow through on our commitment to making novel features available for experimentation and testing. The capability of performing digital signature-based authentication (via S-HTTP in 1.6b1) is an example of a feature we see lacking in the Web today. Obtaining HTTPd 1.6b1: ----------------------- Currently, HTTPd 1.6b1 is available in binary form to registered, domestic users. An exportable version will be available eventually, and we will announce its availability by the same means. To register for beta testing 1.6b1, please go to the URL given above, and select the "register here" link after reading the page. The documentation (under construction) for this release is available at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs-1.6/ The HyperNews page (good for bug reports, questions, discussion) is at http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/ncsa-httpd/1.6/beta.html Administrative requests may be directed to httpd-beta(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu. Thanks, Adam Cain acain(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu

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Re: MSIE cryptography
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:20 PM 8/29/96 +0000, John Hemming - CEO MarketNet wrote: >Essentially, however, I do not think it is right for a program to display a >locked key regardless of any other issues if the data being transferred >is not encrypted. I fully agree. I wonder if the FTC is interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius lebri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Singapore Global Action Alert (8/29/96)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

August 29, 1996 *** GLOBAL ACTION BRIEF *** * Please redistribute this document widely with this banner intact * Redistribute only in appropriate places & only until 30 September 1996 Singapore Government Curtails Online Freedoms The government of Singapore recently established strict controls on all Internet Service Providers and many World Wide Web pages. ISPs and content providers will be licensed, and required to adhere to a rigid set of content guidelines which apply to political speech, ethnic and religious remarks including satire, and public morals including "contents which propagate permissiveness or promiscuity." We believe that the licensing policy and broad content guidelines will effectively chill the free flow of information not only in Singapore, but worldwide. Because the Internet is global, transcending geographical bounds, we are convinced that censorship within any nation or state, whether implicit or explicit, poses a threat to all users of the global network. We therefore encourage the government of Singapore, and other governments implementing or considering policies of content control, to stress education rather than regulation. Singapore's approach, like the Communications Decency Act that was passed but quickly rescinded in the U.S., applies a broadcast regulatory standard to the Internet. The application of broadcast-inspired, "one-to-many" regulation to this new *many-to-many* medium indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Internet. Unlike television and radio broadcasting, the Internet does not push material at the viewer, but simply makes material available on demand - not unlike a rapid inter-library loan. And unlike broadcasting, the Internet does not present the views of a limited few privileged speakers, but allows all participants to publish, comment on, and even refute, what they read. Recognizing that every culture has its own standards regarding what is or is not appropriate, the undersigned organizations recommend that Singapore's government allow its citizens to use Internet filtering tools, with which they can block out any material that is offensive to them, rather than embark upon a closed-border approach that will cut Singapore off from the new global online library. Support of individually customizable filtration services, instead of a broad top-down censorship effort, would enable Singapore to participate in a more positive and effective way in the evolution of this new open medium, and would indicate trust in the ability of Singaporeans to choose what is right for Singapore and for themselves. *** WHERE TO FIND MORE INFORMATION For more information on the Singapore censorship situation, and other global efforts to abridge the flow of information over the net, see these web sites: http://www.eff.org/~declan/global/index.html and http://www.io.org/~sherlock/doom/threat.html Human Rights Watch's letter to George Yeo, Singapore Minister for Information and the arts, is located on HRW's gopher, at gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:5000/00/int/hrw/asia/asia/4 WHO TO CONTACT The following organizations have issued this advisory: ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy * http://www.nexus.it/alcei.html American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) * http://www.aclu.org Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) * http://www.cdt.org CITADEL-Electronic Frontier France * http://www.imaginet.fr/~mose/citadel EFF-Austin * http://www.eff-austin.org Electronic Frontiers Australia * http://www.efa.org.au Electronic Frontier Canada * http://www.efc.ca/ Elektronisk Forpost Norge (Electronic Frontier Norway) * http://www.sn.no/~efn Electronic Frontier Foundation * http://www.eff.org Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) * http://www.epic.org HotWired * http://www.hotwired.com Voters Telecommunication Watch (VTW) * http://www.vtw.org Please choose an organization above and visit their web site for contact information. A copy of this advisory is available on the World Wide Web, at http://www.well.com/~jonl/singapore.html.

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