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Re: Past one terabit/second on fiber[PHONE GEEK TALK]
by remailer＠2005.bart.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> No comment :-) And I certainly don't presume to speak for Lucent.... And to think that some of Lucent's next fiber products will include some technology developed by cypherpunks.

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Re: Sen. Patrick Leahy's PGP key now avail.
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:50 PM 5/2/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >Why does anyone need his public key to communicate with Senator Leahy? If >it's for sender-anonymity, this does not do it, though other tools >(remailers) do. I can think of two good reasons for Senator Leahy to publish his key: (1) To show his support for the right to use encryption. (2) To sign open letters to the Internet community. I will be really impressed when he gets some big-name signatures on his key. e.g. Matt Blase, Ron Rivist, PRZ, Tim May. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: Sen. Patrick Leahy's PGP key now avail.
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:23 PM 5/2/96 -0400, perry(a)piermont.com wrote: >Timothy C. May writes: >> Why does anyone need his public key to communicate with Senator Leahy? If >> it's for sender-anonymity, this does not do it, though other tools >> (remailers) do. Unless the information is "secret," why bother? > >I would answer Tim, but I suspect that he would ignore something I >might say. I will therefore quote Philip Zimmermann. > Perhaps you think your E-mail is legitimate enough that encryption is > unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to > hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? > Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for > police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? ..... >Never thought I would see the day where Tim stopped being a >Cypherpunk. Everyone mark your calendars. One of the most important parts of any security analysis is the threat models. In this case, we're talking about sending email _to_the_government_. There may be something you want to tell the Senator or his staff that you want kept private from the public or from rest of the government, and Tim's phrase "Unless the information is 'secret'" seems to cover that. Maybe you want to say "My company lost $X to competitor Y"; that's private. Maybe you want to say "The FBI is reading your email, y'know..." Maybe you want to attach a $20 MarkTwain DigiCash campaign contribution. But usually, telling the government something is fairly similar to publishing it, in terms of expectation of privacy, even in a republic. The tradeoff is between using PGP to make a point, and getting the staff to read it. Typically, Congressional Staffs are Your Friends, at least more directly than the Congresscritters themselves. Lobby _them_; making their job easier is a good start. Maybe the right thing to do is include the digicash, encrypt the message, and attach a note indicating that the enclosed digicash is for the staff member who decrypts the note and gives it to the Senator :-) # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 begin 777 goodtimes =96-H;R!H879I;F<@9V]O9"!T:6UE<R!Y970_#0H0 end

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SF South Bay: So WhoWhere wants to meet with people interested in online privacy and security...
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The people who run www.whowhere.com (a knockoff on the excellent www.four11.com, with a database partly based on a script they wrote to extract addresses from okra.ucr.edu) want to discuss how they can serve the Internet community better while protecting privacy. I suggested "shut down your site and become cloistered monks," but they didn't find that consistent with their business plan. So they suggested we do lunch early next week. Either Monday or Tuesday would work, and we'd be meeting in downtown Palo Alto. Anybody else interested in coming? For a good demonstration of why WhoWhere? is not necessarily the greatest thing since spice racks, look up "Louis Freeh," "Fuck You," "Asshole," "System Privileged User," and "Stephen Hawking." I keep telling them that they'd better remove this last, but they don't consider it a priority. -rich http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/ P.S. Yes, I just resubscribed. I just love you too much to stay away. P.P.S. If anyone wants to carpool from the Palo Alto vicinity to Joe & Cindy's beach volleyball shindig this Sunday with an alleged FUCKING STATIST CAPITALIST SOCIALIST NAZI J*W ANARCHIST, send me a note.

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Batman on the Internet??? CyberAngels info
by Terry.Liberty-Parker＠804.ima.infomail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-=> Note: Forwarded (from: netmail) by Terry Liberty-Parker using timEd. Originally from Matthew Gaylor (1:382/87.0) to terry liberty-parker. Original dated: May 01 '96, 13:50 e-Id: <v0213050eadad22805e60(a)[198.4.94.223]> From: freematt(a)coil.com (Matthew Gaylor) From: angels(a)wavenet.com (CyberAngels Director : Colin Gabriel Hatcher) Subject: CYBERANGELS Thanks for your interest in our group. We apologize for any delay in answering your enquiry. Our service is not automated, and we have a huge quantity of enquiries to deal with. Briefing papers about our work are still in preparation. Keep in touch with us till then. If you have any personal problems on the Internet, or if you find an interesting and relevant website, then write and tell us. We will shortly be opening a new WWW site, and we will send a release when that is ready. Till then, take care, and keep your eyes open while you are cruising! Let us know if you find any material or activity that you think should be investigated! Let us know also if you find any interesting websites that share our mission! You are now on our rmailing list! Stand by for regular information and alerts for CyberAngels missions. Gabriel ************************************************************** THE INTERNET IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD - LET'S LOOK AFTER IT! CYBERANGELS - WHO ARE WE? We are an all-volunteer Internet safety patrol and monitoring project started in June 1995 by senior members of the world famous crime prevention organization The International Alliance of Guardian Angels. CyberAngels membership currently numbers more than 1000 users worldwide in15 countries, who share a common mission - to be a Cyberspace Neighborhood Watch and to fight Internet crime. Our numbers are growing daily. We are working to make the Internet a safer and more enjoyable place to work and play, by being role models for self-regulation and responsibility. 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The Internet is a newly developing global nation - and we need Cyberspace law and law enforcement if users rights are to be protected. We believe in FREEDOM AND JUSTICE UNDER LAW. And although we recognize the problems of how National Laws can be applied to an International society, we believe that the first step is that Netizens CARE about Cybercrime and the victims of Cybercrime. YOU CAN HELP US! WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! The Internet Community is huge - a worldwide network of around 40 million people, 11 million Websites, 3500 Service Providers - and it's growing every day. The more volunteers we have, the more effective we can be. And by giving a little of your time to looking after the welfare of the Net, you can make a real difference! Anyone can be a CyberAngel. The only requirement is that you commit a minimum of 2 hours per week to the project. 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Re: Sen. Patrick Leahy's PGP key now avail.
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:06 AM 5/3/96, Bill Stewart wrote: >One of the most important parts of any security analysis is the >threat models. In this case, we're talking about sending email >_to_the_government_. > >There may be something you want to tell the Senator or his staff that >you want kept private from the public or from rest of the government, >and Tim's phrase "Unless the information is 'secret'" seems to cover that. >Maybe you want to say "My company lost $X to competitor Y"; that's private. >Maybe you want to say "The FBI is reading your email, y'know..." >Maybe you want to attach a $20 MarkTwain DigiCash campaign contribution. And besides my explicit mention of "unless secret," which I suspect is not the case in the context of "communicating with Sen. Leahy," I also explicity mentioned that it is unlikely Sen. Leahy is doing the reading of e-mail or the encrypting. The PGP key is really "Leahy's office key." I'd say it's 99.95% likely that the PGP key was generated by a staffer--the resident e-mail geek--and that only staffers know how to use PGP. (In fact, probably only the one staffer who generated the key and knows the passphrase....) This gives new meaning to "man in the channel." When you send an encrypted message to "Senator Leahy," be sure to tell "Mitch" it's urgent that the Senator see it! (Don't misunderstand me, anyone. I'm not expecting perfect security, and the fact that secretaries and staffers may likely be the actual "keepers of the keys" is hardly new or surprising. They've always served this role. And until this changes, with PGP getting easier to use or with a more conventional key arrangement, I expect few senators will be typing in PGP stuff. (By "more conventional" I mean a model where some token or object is used, as with the crypto ignition keys, which I can imagine _some_ Senators actually carry and use, depending on their connections to the intelligence and military establishment. Or biometric security, etc.) >But usually, telling the government something is fairly similar to >publishing it, in terms of expectation of privacy, even in a republic. >The tradeoff is between using PGP to make a point, and getting the staff >to read it. Typically, Congressional Staffs are Your Friends, at least >more directly than the Congresscritters themselves. Lobby _them_; >making their job easier is a good start. I agree. My main point was that staffers are already extremely pressed for time, often quickly sorting incoming constituent mail into "yes" or "no" piles for later counting on some issue. It's unlikely in the extreme that a PGP-encrypted mail message will be looked at, unless the staffer thinks it must be spook-related. When the staffer finds it's just a position advocacy letter, and that he spent time decrypting it, it'll likely have the opposite effect we want. And it _still_ won't be the "real" Senator Leahy doing the decrypting! So, what is accomplished except "feel good" thoughts? --Tim May 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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Re: [Complete NOISE] Re: aufweidersehn, * grave$
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ObCpherpunkRelevance: there's a good bit about bizness views of privacy and anonymity on the Internet on the home page of the class that gave birth to that Spawn of Satan WhoWhere?. See especially the Bulletins. The class lives at http://gsb-www.stanford.edu/class/M395/home.html] ROTFL!!!!! Many thanks to jamesd(a)echeque.com for forwarding me Skippy's original message. > Glad that lying anti-racist jerk is leaving. With all his/her's > nyms, rc graves is impossible to trust. Mike Beebe, Beowulf, > ezundel, nietzsche, ernstzundel and others to make transparent > trolls the ignorant anti-racist makes up. I've never even heard of Mike Beebe, but I'll look him up on DejaNews. Boewulf is the nym of a very real racist who is so over-the-top silly (and 1/4 Jewish) that some people don't believe he's for real. I once claimed to be "Beowulf" for laughs. "Nietzsche(a)gnn.com" was a real racist who spammed widely in early January with a message smearing MLK; he later posted a lot to news.groups about the rec.music.white-power troll, but seems to have closed his account once the free hours ran out. ezundel(a)alpha.c2.org is a friend of mine who reposts Ingrid's stuff to alt.fan.ernst-zundel. ernztzundl(a)aol.com was a really annoying AOL troll who has thankfully gone away. I've got enough email between him and me to prove that we're different people, and of course he knew a lot about DC that I couldn't. Wow. At first I didn't believe that Skippy "or" Dave Harmon were anything but anti-racist spoofs, and I'm still not entirely convinced, but they're so consistently malicious that they must have something against me. I swear that "Skippy" isn't me, but on second thought, I wouldn't really mind if other people thought I was harassing myself. That would be poetic justice indeed. Maybe if we don't believe he exists, he'll go away. So, Skippy, did you forge an unsubscribe message for tallpaul, or was that someone else? I'll take my answer OFF THE LIST, PLEASE. - -rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMYmgIY3DXUbM57SdAQGmwQP+MTp0UTFkSiMKYeIbmQGpAEaC/oMns0ly Md9IPXBraHAQsxAfWOKME4DUXMaDmL0nUPJ41lRjLH2UjaLYkjE7qEzTWAazLb9+ Ub/EwTNlqitSoOSdkxxQkgX/GXNffRr08pPUpYgcPIcrWelou6MnE2hgmf8aR2bz gM5eIm1A3Og= =rO9a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Bit tax again?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I hesitate to write about this, but the old "bit tax" idea has surfaced again, this time reported in Electronic Engineering Times, page 1, April 29, 1996 issue. I include the article below. My comments will follow in another note shortly! Europe: Try to send it, we'll tax your bits By Peter Clarke Brussels, Belgium-- A report prepared for the European Commission (EC) urges it to consider levying a "bit tax" on information sent over the Internet and other networks. The recommendation runs counter to the reining sentiment among U.S. regulators, who have sought to avoid being cast as "bit cops." The EC report reasons that the value of the average cyberspace transaction will increase as time goes by, resulting in fewer physical transactions. The upshot, the report says, will be a shrinking government tax base. Evidence of such a trend may already have surfaced: Use fo the Internet to import goods and services electronically from outside the continent has allowed some Europeans to avoid payments under Europe's value-added-tax (VAT) system. Luc Soete--director of the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (Limburg, Netherlands) and chairman of the high Level Expert Group (HLEG) that prepared the report on the social aspects of the information society--has examples at the read to prove the potential of Internet commerce to erode the tax base. Soete observed last week that sending his group's report by mail or courier, rather than electronically, would involve taxes on fuel purchases and on the profits fo the companies involved in physically shuttling the document to recipients. "As society moves toward the information society, tax revenue needs to shift emphasis from material goods to virtual goods and services," he said. I think we will see a very rapid introduction [of such a tax structure] in one or two years' time." Soete said he believes the tax "can be introduced in a very straightforward way. Every telephone operator and service provider has a record of the bytes moved. They can be the tax collectors." He acknowledged the prevailing "negative view about a bit tax" and attributed it in part of "concern that it could inhibit adoption of information technology. But once people have the technology, not many would go back. Whether the tax is 1 cent per bit or 1 cent per kbit is, of course, completely open." At the same time, U.S. regulators, who hope to expand Internet access to schools, libraries and low-income individuals, have resisted efforts to cast them in the role of bit cops charged with monitoring Internet traffic. Free Internet The Federal Communications Commission, which has conducted a series of highly profitable spectrum auctions for wireless and satellite services, last week proposed reserving some wireless spectrum for free Internet access for schools and libraries. Soete last week cast the bit tax as a progressive levy that would fall hardest on big business and that would not deter private individuals from joining the information society. Indeed, the potential of the information revolution to further polarize society is among the concerns expressed in the report. Soete believes the bit-tax should be used to fund social security or welfare. "Labor can no longer be the source of revenue for social security," he said. Steve Kennedy, business-development manager at the Internet service provider Demon Internet Ltd. (London) doesn't share Soete's positive view of the bit tax. "Such a tax would be very difficult to monitor and police," Kennedy asserted. "We transfer about 1.5 Gbytes of data a day, but we don't keep a lot of customer information. Who's going to pay for the equipment and software to log all this?" He added that if his company was "simply taxed on the data transfer, we would have to pass it on to the customers, and that would penalize the small user." The HLEG report is lavelled as an interim document that is intended to generate public comment. The final report will be published by year's end. The interim report can be accessed from http://www.ispo.cec.be/hleg/hleg.htmlJim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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No Subject
by Ecafe Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Brian D Williams <talon57(a)well.com> > Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 11:16:35 -0700 > > >From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Tue Apr 30 23:58:28 1996 > >Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 00:52:03 -0500 (CDT) > >From: snow <snow(a)smoke.suba.com> > >To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry(a)piermont.com> > >cc: "L. Detweiler" <vznuri(a)netcom.com>, cypherpunks(a)toad.com > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Subject: Re: Why I dislike Java. (was Re: "Scruffies" vs. "Neats") > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > >Precedence: bulk > > Game, set, match...... No, probably done intentionally. Note the lower-case snow...

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Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by brerrabbit＠alpha.c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sandy Sandfort <sandfort(a)crl.com> wrote: >A couple of generations ago, only multinationals and the super >rich could avail themselves of offshore banks, asset protection >trust, foreign incorporation, etc. Fifteen years ago, I was >helping members of the upper middle class do the same think. > >Today, virtually anyone on this list can afford these techniques. >Non-US people have been using them for years. The reason middle >class Americans aren't savvy that yet are ignorance and inertia. >Everyday, Americans are becoming less parochial (due in part, >ironically, to government hysteria about money laundering) about >such possibilities. As the Clintons and Doles turn up the tax >and regulatory heat, they will also overcome their inertia. Do tell. How would someone, just for instance, who is considering leaving a "permanent" job for the higher compensation available to contractors and consultants be able to structure a business in such a way as to benefit from these techniques? If we assume a rate of between $60/hour and $125/hour (typical in Boston, New York, and the Silicon Valley), how much can one save? How much effort and money is required? How much risk is involved? There are many books on the shelves claiming to show how to avoid taxes using these techniques. Most of them have the smell of "dangerous crackpot" about them. Can you recommend any in particular? If this is too far off topic for cypherpunks I'd be interested in learning of a more appropriate forum. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMYpJ68NGLex6dhF9AQHKLgQAh2/j23rG3RP0VFNVcsNIUphgWjTG0mlE ojXWJ29el616YCfKHpwXzT2v9+wThdQByp047qf8zXGqsjuf5ld2rkWxgap840JH S4Wf1GkxdcCFM9Vq3Ks955YtWdWIz4PrngxEpPU6lmXTIY2Vk17HTRJoZBKJLwW0 iAPchDVd+kg= =7bKv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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