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anonymous oddsman
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Please repost these odds where appropriate.] Below, we find one of the oddsman's final gambling reports on all the candidates listed on 50 states. The anonymous oddsman service will cease for about 3&1/2 years or so after Nov. 5th, but we hope to bring you at least one more update before then. Thanks to all who have helped. Prices @ 09:05 BST Sat 26th Oct 96 +---------+----------------+----------------+ | | Ladbroke's | William Hill | +---------+----------------+----------------+ | Clinton | Not currently offered by either | | Dole | 7:1 | 8:1 | | Perot | No bets | 500:1 | | Browne | Not currently offered by either | +---------+----------------+----------------+ | Phone | +44-800-524524 | +44-800-444040 | | Numbers:| | | +---------+----------------+----------------+ Our roving reporter reports "still nothing from Coral." Then, in his own inimitable terminology, he offers the following: "Does the fact that they are not offering any bets on Harry Browne mean that they reckon his chances are as good as trouser-brain ??? :-)" The oddsman cannot comment on this for the following two reasons: 1. Like the U.S. news media, he is trying to maintain a "sheen of objectivity," even though pretty-much-everyone knows who the oddsman is pulling for. 2. The anonymous oddsman is a family service! ;) Still no word from Moscow, and now the oddsman is getting more curious than ever about whether there are still Clinton odds in mother Russia. Interesting that Ladbroke house has even stopped taking _Perot_ bets now. The horse race ends before it begins. anonymous oddsman "Demeaning the integrity of the U.S. Presidential election process for you on a regular basis, at no charge."

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BYE_4th
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-27-96. WaPo: "Heightened Tensions Over Digital Taps. Telecommunications Industry, FBI at Odds Over High-Tech Tools" Telco officials say that the FBI aims to force phone companies to build extensive surveillance systems into their telephone networks that will likely open new avenues of surveillance for government wiretappers. Freeh has testified that his agency is "simply trying to catch up with technology." In recent interviews, however, his senior aides insisted there are virtually no limits to the types and amount of information they can intercept once a judge signs a court order. "It would be stupid of us, as a police agency, not to take advantage of information in the system to solve crime," said James Kallstrom. "That shouldn't shock you. The technology offers a lot more." ----- http://jya.com/bye4th.txt (10 kb) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/bye4th.txt BYE_4th

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Re: Fed Ct hrg re Diffie-Hellman & Hellman-Merkle patents
by thad＠hammerhead.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Peter D. Junger observes: > The server at www.cruzio.com reports: > The requested URL /~schlafly was not found on this server. > Does anyone have a valid URL for this information? It's really http://bbs.cruzio.com/~schlafly/ thad -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Visual Effects Supervisor 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/people/thad

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Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:47 PM 10/26/96 -0500, Roger Williams <roger(a)coelacanth.com> wrote: >I caught an interview on the BBC last night with a representative from >PacBell, who claimed that this subsidy resulted in ISPs actively >discouraging customers from using data service (ISDN) instead of POTS. For those of you not in PacBell territory, PacBell really misunderstood the Internet access market when they set their current rates. ISDN costs $X/month (about 2-3 x POTS) plus (daytime) per-minute charges of 4 cents, (nighttime 7pm-7am) free. (This probably requires that your ISP have Centrex access in your local calling area.) What they didn't realize was that computer people think "It's free at night" means "It's free at night", so they dial up and stay on. (Many of us non-ISDN users do the same with POTS, of course.) ISDN call setup times are fast enough that it's possible to do IP support that tears down calls after X seconds of non-use and sets them up again when there's traffic, which is practical since you don't have 30 seconds of modem retraining time per setup. If PacBell's really bugged enough about usage patterns, they could go write a good Winsock package to support it themselves and give it away free to ISDN customers.... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk Imagine if three million people voted for somebody they _knew_, and the politicians had to count them all.

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HIT_key
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-24-96: "Hitachi, Fujitsu to develop key-code data security system." They will cooperate to develop "hack-proof" encryption for telecommunications networks. Planning for the system includes formation of a "bank" to maintain duplicates of decoding keys, an aspect which has raised some concern over potential invasions of privacy. The U.S. has been lobbying other nations to adopt such a system. "Singapore devises system to combat Internet business fraud." The new technology, known as the Singapore Enterprise Security Architecture (SESA), could be applied over the Internet "within the next few months" in Singapore. It may begin in Singapore first and then, depending on the response from those outside, overseas." Patent: "Computerized theme park information management system utilizing partitioned smart cards and biometric verification." Abstract: A computerized theme park information system to automatically process and issue a multi-service guest card, control and monitor admission, *perform value-added manipulation of the guest card's contents and to analyze the visitor's buying behavior*. "U.S. Attorney Gen. Janet Reno offered to "set the record straight" on encryption policy and key recovery at FCBA lunch Oct. 17." RFI: Anybody know of a transcript of the AG's talk? ----- http://jya.com/hitkey.txt (7 kb for 4) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/hitkey.txt HIT_key ---------- We have put Quisquater's "short cut for exhaustive key search using fault analysis" at: http://jya.com/quikey.htm

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LIQ_uor
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-25-96: "Litronic Releases the Fast and Powerful CipherServer." Litronic announced the release of a hardware-based add-on device for high speed processing of cryptographic functions. The newly released CipherServer holds up to eight cryptologic PC Cards which may concurrently process the same or different algorithms including RSA, DES, and FORTEZZA. CSI Explains Countermeasures to Cyberspace Attacks Authored by an eminent authority, Dr. Dorothy E. Denning of Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), CSI's "Manager's Guide to Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures" assists information technology professionals in keeping abreast of dizzying developments on the dark side of the virtual world. Target/ Electronic spies The FBI is expanding the Awareness of National Security Issues and Response (ANSIR) program, its public voice in national security matters, espionage, counterintelligence, economic espionage and physical- and cyber-infrastructure protection. ----- http://jya.com/liquor.txt (10 kb for 3) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/liquor.txt LIQ_uor

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RE: considering internet/privacy periodical
by blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Greg Broiles I see it not as a business but more like a way of organizing what I'm thinking about already in a way that might be interesting to others. ................................................................................... Once you create your web newsletter and see how many hits you get, you can better gauge the interest. In any case, you will have your thoughts and references organized and can always use it in your communications to others on mailing lists or newsgroups, etc. Since there's so much info on the net, one of the most valuable elements to introduce into it, besides search engines, is the organization of all that data in ways which make sense and speeds up the time involved in grasping the issues. Plus, of course, if you give it a libertarian/anarchist slant, it would be an added "feature" for certain people. Like Cpunks. .. Blanc

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Re: When did Mondex ever claim to be anonymous?
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:13:04 +0100 (MET), Asgaard wrote: >> I don't think spreading false rumours is a good idea - it can discredit >> the spreader if anyone bothers to check any details. > >Disinformation is a time-honoured weapon in political struggle. >A rumour is called just that because it can't easily be checked >- somebody heard from somebody, who heard from somebody etc. The >spreader is hardly ever discredited since he does not guarantee >the validity of the information. 'It's just a rumour, but...' And don't forget the old he-denied-a-wild-claim: "Mr. Politician denied reports that he spent several days in the Lovebird Inn with a goldren retriever, six gallons of coolwhip and a hoover vacuum." # Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # <cadams(a)acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY" "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them." --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)

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Re: ITAR / S 1726 / Civil Disobedience
by c62op27＠ibx.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Would it be appropriate for other users to forward this message to the prez with their signatures?

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Rumours of NSA breakin
by hallam＠ai.mit.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I've been hearing rumours of an alledged compromise of the NSA Web server but no hard evidence. The claim made is that several Mb of files were downloaded from the server and posted to the "Internet". I can't see it in sci.crypt or alt.conspiracy though. I am more than a little skeptical of the claim, unless the files in question were not considered sensitive - and there is no reason to believe that the NSA would be keeing anything secret on their Web server. Banks do not keep money stuffed under mattresses and the NSA does not keep secrets on Internet servers. The origin of the rumour may be an "observation" that the DOJ hack was on the 19th August, the CIA one on the 19th of September. It is no secret that several sites were watching out for attacks on the 19th October. Has anyone heard anything more than a rumour of this alledged event? Phill

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