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Cypherpunk FAQ and Gopher
by rishab＠dxm.ernet.in 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

klbarrus(a)owlnet.rice.edu writes (in private mail): > Try gophering to chaos.bsu.edu and looking around for an abbreviated > [Cypherpunks] FAQ Matt Ghio wrote. Thanks Karl, but after picking up the FAQ I saw all sorts of interesting things on Digital Cash etc. Now Gopher is about the most painful method of getting info if you know what you want, and I can't even run it in the background. I've picked up most of the *text* files from soda.berkeley.edu//pub/cypherpunks, and it would definetely be more convenient for people like me, who prefer to download everything onto gig drives and browse through them at leisure, if chaos.bsu.edu info was available at an FTP site... At least the DC stuff is NOT at soda. WWW is a decent method of accessing info, and I'm making htmls of all the docs I've picked up. If someone makes chaos' docs available through FTP, I'd be happy to include and release a WWW 'Guide to C*punks'. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "What is civilisation rishab(a)doe.ernet.in, rishab(a)dxm.ernet.in but a ribonucleic Voicemail +91 11 3760335; Vox/Fax/Data 6853410 hangover?" H-34C Saket New Delhi 110017 INDIA -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Infomercial
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Most people couldn't care less. They don't encrypt data, and will >never use a clipperphone. The FBI can *already* listen to all their >phone calls and see all their medical records. Why should people >do anything to protect something they don't have anyway? I don't encrypt my stuff but I gain much peace of mind when I know that I could. This suggests that I should encrypt in order to maintain that right.

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Clipper and Amendment 4
by Robert A. Hayden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ------- Is it just me, or is the government ignoring the word 'secure' in the above statement? ____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden(a)krypton.mankato.msus.edu \ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=- \/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> In the United States, they \/ Finger for PGP 2.3a Public Key <=> first came for us in Colorado... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (GEEK CODE 1.0.1) GAT d- -p+(---) c++(++++) l++ u++ e+/* m++(*)@ s-/++ n-(---) h+(*) f+ g+ w++ t++ r++ y+(*)

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FOIA's and you...
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One facet of using the FOIA legislation is that such requests will GUARANTEE that a file is started on you even if one did not previously exist. If yo you make FOIA requests then it behooves you to include in them at some point (I suggest at least annualy) to make a FOIA of your own records. The reason is that if there is a security question you will at least get a form letter refusing to release the information which should act as a warning bell. Just thought I would mention it since nobody else has made reference to it.

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RoboFest 5
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am including this notice to cpunks since my group (ssz.com) will be there and among other things we will be doing crypto related presentations. We are also looking at getting some form of virtual-community going w/ 2600 and Ripco. If any of the cpunk related sites would like to get involved then please contact me or the Robot Group. RoboFest 5 March 26, 27 1994 Austin City Coliseum Austin, TX Robot Group: voice: 512-794-9105 email: robot-group(a)cs.utexas.edu ssz.com: voice: 512-458-5818 512-832-4849 modem: 512-458-6084 fax: 512-832-4848 email: ravage(a)bga.com Note: my email address will soon also include ravage(a)ssz.com as well. Note: ask for 'Jim' if you contact ssz.com or CyberTects. We will have a T1 link available and you should also be able to use the T1 that is Ripco's feed as well. If all goes well you should also be able to use my modem number assuming bga.com gets my SLIP feeds straightened out (not there fault, GE is dragging and Ma Bell is ladding insalling the new lines). If you don't have any interest in this event or feel it is irrelevant please don't waste bandwidth, your time, or my time by replying. Please ignore it and don't respond in any manner.

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Nuclear Capone in Russia?
by nobody＠jarthur.claremont.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Los Angeles Times, Saturday, Feb. 26, 1994, p.A10 FBI Director Sees Parallels Between Russia Now, Chicago Then Crime: Louis J. Freeh doesnÕt want a Slavic Al Capone to endanger U.S. investments or undermine the fragile democratic process. And he is working to help prevent it. By Ronald J. Ostrow Times Staff Writer Washington - To FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, organized crime in Russia today bears disturbing similarities to ChicagoÕs in the 1920s and 1930s - violent but fractionalized, a danger to itself as much as to the rest of society, and with a potential for much more. The likes of Al Capone, unchecked by the FBI or any other law enforcement body, welded the Chicago mob into a unified force that preyed on the community for decades. Freeh does not want a Slavic equivalent of Capone to do the same today in Russia, for fear not only of endangering American Business activity there but also of undermining that countryÕs fragile democratic process. And he is working to help Russian authorities prevent it. Already, Freeh said, elements of Russian organized crime are responsible for everything from "bushwhacking" American businessmen to dealing in materials that could be used in nuclear weapons. If authorities do not act soon, he said, organized crime will become so entrenched throughout the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites that, like the Mafia in Chicago, it will take decades to remove it. "We have to look at it as something that's clearly directed toward the United States, toward our economy," Freeh said in an interview. "Even with decreasing resources, we can't afford to do what the FBI did with respect to La Cosa Nostra for 30 years, and that was to completely ignore it." The situation in Russia today, Freeh acknowledged, is not as dire as in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. But German and Russian law enforcement authorities "are concerned about the very rapid inroads that these gangs are making into officialdom, into police and government officials," the FBI director said. To help the Russians cope, Freeh wants to station up to three FBI agents in Moscow by the end of spring to serve as liaisons with Russian authorities. Contacts are now handled largely by two agents based in Bonn, who have responsibilities beyond the former Soviet Union. Authorities in Russia's Interior Ministry and the Moscow police "are desperately in need of our help," Freeh said. "They want our training, our methodology." He also wants to bring Russian agents for 11 weeks of training at the FBI's National Academy in Quantico, VA., where they would learn about laboratory and computer work and the other technologies that the FBI uses against organized crime. For now, Freeh said, the victims of Russia's organized crime are mostly Russian Entrepreneurs and other business people. But he warned that American businesses seeking a foothold in Russia are just as vulnerable. "Part of the [Clinton] Administration's program is to give not only economic aid but to [assist] economic institution-building and to encourage American and other foreign investments" in the former Soviet Union, he said. "If the scouts for leading American corporations are getting bushwhacked in their hotel rooms in Moscow or, perhaps worse, establishing a foothold and having to face extortion and economic criminal activity they are not prepared to do, our economy takes a serious hit," Freeh said. "The end product is that the process for democracy and a free economy in Russia takes a very significant step backward. "I guess it's an irony, but it's much harder to police in a democratic fashion than than to police in a totalitarian fashion," Freeh said. "Police work is very hard if you do it according to due process and democratically." Authorities in the former Soviet Union "don't have that experience and haven't had it for 70 years. So they're having to learn all of the tools, skills and techniques and, at the same time, deal with a burgeoning crime crisis," Freeh said. U.S. authorities are particularly concerned that Russian gangs "are aggressively looking to buy and sell nuclear materials," the FBI director said. The materials so far are less than weapons grade, but they could be used for designing devices deadly to population centers, according to FBI intelligence. "That's a whole different threat than we've faced before," Freeh said. He declined to give any more specifics on the threat, but said the United States under the law now lacks authority to fully deal with it. Under the 1950 Atomic Energy Act, the FBI has authority to investigate the transfer or shipment of nuclear materials only if their origin or destination is American or they have entered and left the United States. Freeh said he has discussed with Atty. Gen Janet Reno and other Justice Department officials the need for a law broadening the FBI's authority over such matters. The FBI is also interested in the criminal activities of Russian immigrants in the United States, according to Jim Moody, who directs the FBI's efforts against organized crime. In the late 1970's and early 1980's, about 200,000 people entered the United States from the Soviet Union, and Moody estimated that about 1% of them - 2,000 - were "hard-core criminals." But he regards them as second-string players who are now being replaced by more highly skilled, educated lawbreakers. In one of the more sophisticated conspiracies involving Russian emigres, a federal grand jury in Philadelphia last June charged 15 people and two corporations with evading federal and state excise taxes on the sale of more than 51 million gallons of diesel fuel in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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Mailing list software losing posts
by Matthew J Ghio 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The list software seems to be having problems again. I sent the below post to the list three times, and it never got sent out. But since another post from me just showed up, maybe it's working now... (Let me know if you got more than one copy, because I sure didn't.) ----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: lists of U.S. cypherpunks and Tentacles. CC: Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+(a)andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <9402260131.AA08270(a)toad.com> References: <9402260131.AA08270(a)toad.com> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 11:34:54 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+(a)andrew.cmu.edu> mg5n+eaibiubkxb58z84cy2iaf9r61u26ra5x26mc0h(a)andrew.cmu.edu wrote: > Please add me to your list. As you can see, I clearly have > a US-based email address. :) hehe... This didn't come from my site tho. It looks like a clever port 25 hack. However, the return address is valid. I suppose this points out another problem with the US export laws: How can you know where a message came from? As the above example shows, there is really no way to know where the person you're communicating with is. In other words, you can't not break the US export laws. All you have is someone's word that they are in the US or not, but you really can't know for sure. Something to mention in your letters to Rep. Cantwell. > -Ibiu Cute... using part of your encrypted address as a handle? I never thought of doing that... hmm...

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Re: I have FOIA'd the Clipper Key Escrow databases
by smb＠research.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I confess -- I expect one of two outcomes. First, they may say that the database is classified, if only at the level of ``For Official Use Only''. Second, maybe they will release it -- but remember that the keys are stored encrypted. Can you file an FOIA request for the key, too?

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using mediamoo - correction
by David Galiel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

re:previous message about possible use of mediamoo for mtg. Ooops - the ultimate NetSin - mispelled my address. It's galiel(a)world.std.com (sheepish grin) Flout 'em and scout 'em -- and scout 'em and flout 'em; Thought is free. -- Shakespeare

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Cryptography, fascism; Perot
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There has been a lot of discussion of cryptography/communications issues on the UWSA reflector (uwsa(a)shell.portal.com) This list is monitored by people who work for Perot, so post there and it might get his attention. You can be added to the reflector by e-mailing to: telcon(a)shell.portal.com [I think that's right - I believe it used to be telconsort(a)shell.portal.com] Brad bdolan(a)well.sf.ca.us

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