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anarchy cookbook???
by Michael Cortes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

cypherpunks Ok this is what happend.I was looking around on the www. And came across the jolly roger "anarchy cookbook" and i was wondering.Any one know what happend to jolly roger? -Zac ps: Oh and sorry for like all fucken up on my last letter heh

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Re: Drive the SF Central Freeway, have your license plate photo'ed.
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:55 AM 8/9/96, i am not a number! wrote: >CBS radio news this morning: 80,000 commuters traveling the central >f'way in SF will have information mailed to them regarding the quake >retrofit blah blah. > >How? Their license plates have been photographed. >... and the cheery "news" anchorwoman sweetly moved on to the next ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >story..... Don't expect anchorbimbos to have a thought about anything. (*) Though it might have given her more pause if the story was about how 80,000 women in California are being mailed special information on birth control options because their license plates were photographed in Planned Parenthood parking lots.... It really ought to be illegal for any level of government to monitor citizen-units this way, for any purpose. By the way, it also underscores something we've talked about before: surveillance technology is moving so fast that the Chaumian idea of avoiding movement-tracking by "digital cash" may be impossible to achieve. You can spend your digibucks to avoid being tracked on a toll road, but their cameras will see your (mandatory) license plate and maybe even your face anyway. --Tim (* In the first "Robocop," anchorbimbo extraordinaire Leeza Gibbons, clone of Mary Hart, did a wonderful satire of bubbleheaded hairspray journalists.) 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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Oregon DMV database: "Needs a good home"
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Oregon DMV database needs a new home. I've seen a few mentions of willing volunteers, but I've deleted the notes. Could you re-send offers of interest to me? Thanks. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Imprisoned for Not Having a Gun?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:57 AM 8/9/96, The Deviant wrote: >I agree with you. I don't have anything against guns, but either >requiring them or disallowing them is just plain dumb. It should be >noted that the Supreme Court's interpretaion of "Congress shall make no >law" is basicly "no lawmaking body that holds any jurisdiction shall make >no law"... On this last point, I used to think so, too. However, one of the law professors on one of these lists gave various examples purporting to show that this is not so, that local jurisdictions can and do pass laws which Congress is not permitted to pass. If they read this, they can comment. --Tim 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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alien life found
by pjb＠ny.ubs.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

it's no good them showing up now. welfare for alien life forms, even if they are just germ life forms, is definitely out, as of right now, so they shouldn't even ask. -paul crypto relevance? it's obviously, isn't it? > From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Wed Aug 7 18:47:42 1996 > X-Sender: schryver(a)radiks.net > X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset="us-ascii"> > Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 05:20:33 -0500 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > From: Scott Schryvers <schryver(a)radiks.net> > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Content-Length: 380 > > NBC News at Sunrise has just announced the discovery of alien life on the > planet Mars. The lifeform that became extinct more than 2 billion years > ago was found as a fossil in a meteor that originated from mars and landed > on earth. The fossil found was a primitive germ life form. > > PGP encrypted mail preferred. > E-Mail me for my key. > Scott J. Schryvers <schryver(a)radiks.net> > >

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Re: PGP Mailer for the masses ?
by geoff＠commtouch.co.il 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: provos(a)wserver.physnet.uni-hamburg.de, coderpunks(a)toad.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Fri Aug 09 15:56:37 1996 Niels, Thanks, for describing the features of Pronto Secure :) This is how Pronto Secure matches up to your checklist: > Here is just a short list what such a programm should be able to > do: ( all options should be optional ;) > > Sending Mail: > - Clear signing of outgoing mail YES > - If public key of recipients is known encrypt with those keys YES > - If there is access to a public keyserver try to get a public key > for the recipients YES > Receiving Mail: > - While reading mail ( similiar to premail ) try to check existing > signatures if public key is available otherwise try to get > public key from server YES (do on the fly signature checking as mail arrives in inbox) > - Traverse the web of trust and show how the public key is > related to one own keys to mutual signatures on other public keys > ( For example mean distance to a key signed by the recipient > himself ) NO (we handle certification by allowing the user to modify a list of trusted certifiers for signing keys) > - If the mail contains a public key add it to the keyring NO (Key is shown as an attachment icon double click on it adds it to the keyring) > - Don't show pgp blocks in Mail since they might confuse YES > Keymanagement: > - Should be integrated in the addressbook together with E-Mail > Address and name. YES > - Keys should be imported via generation or via mail or via a file YES (or the clipboard) > - If you have a public key without an entry in the addressbook > take the EMail and Name from the public key YES (or prompt user to supply address) > - One should be able to sign the keys during import if origin is > known NO (signing keys is a separate process. This gives the user an opportunity to authenticate on another channel) > Misc: > - Passphrase should be kept in memory for a definable time, 0 for > immediate deletion, thus you would be prompted for the passphrase > each time you use it. Question about Windows Swapspace ? or tag the > memory as uncacheable ? NO (Keyboard sniffing is too easy to do in Windows, This would give a false sense of security) > I would suggest creating a library with seperate io and gui parts in > order to motivate peeple in helping who do not want to support > mainstream products like Windows. Like taking the PGP 3.0 lib ( is it > out yet ?) and modify it a bit. YES (Separating UI from security functionality is also the right way to go for offering plug in security providers) > Since there are a variety of good functioning mailers available > already it wouldn't make sense developing the whole stuff but instead > only integrate the library into existing products. NO (It will not be an easy task to design a general library of UI elements that any mail client will be able to seemlessly plug into.) > Do you think that such proposal is senseable and that there are > people who would be willing to support the idea with programming > affords ? It exists. Plus a few additional features not mentioned, and a much longer wish-list in the process of being implemented. Check it out. It is available from http://www.commtouch.com/p1.htm IMPORTANT: COMMTOUCH WILL GIVE A FREE COPY OF PRONTO SECURE TO ANY MEMBER OF THE CODERPUNKS/CYPHERPUNKS LISTS SUPPLYING USEFUL FEEDBACK ABOUT THE PRODUCT. The impressions of early users of Pronto Secure can be viewed at: http://www.commtouch.com/testers.htm (many of whom are list members) Regards, Geoff. - --------------------------------------------------------------- Geoff Klein, Pronto Secure Product Manager; www.commtouch.com My PGP public Key 1814AD45 can be obtained by sending a message to geoff(a)commtouch.co.il with "Get PGP Key" as the subject. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMgs1ikLv5OMYFK1FAQGe/gP/RdXtVIwo7aupkJn6X4VNTuNHHymPf9fJ k7FAsONAAP9qbr4UaWzJXxWuvmxLgt5gsMpk6yzp6vY80krQqPf6SqphW7FOjGTq PB05bNLDHm9SRGjVvKRHzGbOr094gkFpeso2C3MeMiDbT0J5gsLJOeMJsIb4NW2A lHZ6e+o535w= =R2jc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Oregon License Plate Site in the News Tonight!
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:26 AM 8/9/96 -0700, David Wagner wrote: >I say, what we need is a little more abuse. I say, a well-publicized >incident of abuse of the driver's license database can do more to >help the cause of privacy than any amount of intellectually compelling >debate. Perhaps one horrible incident of abuse would ignite enough >public backlash to stop states from selling their databases at the >drop of a hat. The murder of the actress Rebecca Schaefer (sp?) by an obsessed fan (who paid a private detective to get her address from the California DMV) did cause California to somewhat restrict license and registration information. I think they eased up though later. I don't know who can get info there these days. This particular problem can be avoided privately by reporting a mail drop rather than your real address to the state. DCF

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Stealth Buildings Was Re: "X-Ray Gun" for imperceptible searches
by Scott Schryvers 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:56 PM 8/12/96 EDT, you wrote: Since metal blocks the waves and stands out on the screen one could affectively block its use by putting up a fine metal mesh on the interior of all walls that are exterior to the house. The same could be said for clothing that looks normal but has a metal mesh liner, like say a trench coat. > I would wonder if a jamming device (preferably area-effect with a >slowly randomly varying swathe of area, to avoid figuring out who was carrying >it) would be possible, or some variety of shielding (i.e., emitting waves >looking similar to flesh). > -Allen > >> Direct Media >> NEW X-RAY GUN TRADES PRIVACY FOR SAFETY >> Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net >> Copyright &copy 1996 The Associated Press > >> SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Aug 12, 1996 09:47 a.m. EDT) -- The latest >> weapon against terrorism can see right through you. > >> The Passive Millimeter Wave Imager can X-ray through clothing to "see" >> a concealed weapon, plastic explosives or drugs. A police officer can >> surreptitiously aim it into a crowd from as far away as 90 feet. > >> The new X-ray gun is becoming a symbol for an unlikely alliance of >> civil libertarians and gun owners who fear the fight against crime and >> terrorism may be waged at the expense of personal freedoms. > >> "I'm incredibly concerned," said John Henry Hingson, a past president >> of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, meeting here >> this past week. "The entire nation could become a victim of illegal >> searches and seizures and the law is powerless to protect them from >> these police abuses." > >> But in these nervous times following the the crash of TWA Fight 800 >> and bombings at the Olympics, Oklahoma City and the World Trade >> Center, many Americans are now willing to trade some of their privacy >> and civil liberties for greater security. > >> A poll last week by the Los Angeles Times found that a majority of >> people -- 58 percent -- said they would curtail some civil liberties >> if it would help thwart terrorism. Thirteen percent said it would >> depend on what rights were at stake. The poll didn't ask people to >> single out any rights. > >> The Clinton administration has proposed increased wiretapping and >> other anti-terrorism steps, and is doling out research grants for >> cutting edge anti-crime technology that once may have been intended >> for only military use. > >[...] > >> Two models are being developed of the Passive Millimeter Wave Imager, >> a creation of Massachusetts-based Millimetrix Corp. > >> The larger one, about the size of a shoebox, is mounted on a patrol >> car and pointed at the unsuspecting person. The gadget doesn't send >> out X-rays; instead, it picks up electromagnetic waves emitted by >> human flesh. > >> Anything that stands in the way of those waves -- like a gun -- or >> anything that emits weaker waves -- like a bag of cocaine or a plastic >> explosive -- will show up on a little screen in the patrol car. > >> Clothes emit no waves. Neither do walls, allowing the device to be >> used from even outside a room. > >> A second model is a smaller, battery-operated version that an officer >> can operate by hand, like a radar gun. > >> Millimetrix hopes to field test the larger model soon at a police >> agency. > >> Hingson argues the device runs roughshod over bans against illegal >> searches and seizures. The law says police can stop and frisk a person >> only when an officer has a "reasonable suspicion" the person is armed >> or involved in a crime. > >> Millimetrix points out that while the imager can see through clothing, >> it still leaves people some privacy. The device's display screen, the >> company says, "does not reveal intimate anatomical details of the >> person." > >> Chip Walker, spokesman for the National Rifle Association, noted that >> devices like the imager threaten the legal rights of people in 31 >> states who are allowed to carry concealed weapons with proper >> licenses. > >> "We certainly support efforts to disarm criminals, but we need to be >> careful that we're not painting with too broad a brush here," he said. > >> Walker said that as troubling as terrorism is, people may be playing >> into terrorists' hands by giving up their privacy. > >> "One of the broader issues is that if we start giving up certain civil >> liberties, that essentially means that the terrorists are starting to >> accomplish one of their goals," he said. > PGP encrypted mail preferred. E-Mail me for my key. Scott J. Schryvers <schryver(a)radiks.net>

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Re: Tim's Mac Tales
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thaks to Tim for politely noting that I alfingered most admirable Gordon Moore as mal intendu Intel-inside wheeler-dealer. That's actually Andy Grove, el supremo maestro of Intel intel despicably untellable -- except to those deep, deep inside black budgeteering. A crank SciFi fantasy, to be sure, long ago, and well into the intel futures, disproven. Like NASDAQ never cheats consumers.

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open diplomatic pouch
by morgan＠keilin.helsinki.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to the Economist (20 July p. 28) the Danish ombudsman has ruled that correspondence between the foreign ministry and embassies must be available to the public. -- ===================================================================== Joel.Morgan(a)Helsinki.FI http://blues.helsinki.fi/~morgan "Over the mountains there are mountains." -- Chang-rae Lee =====================================================================

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