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Looking for CJ's or State Dept. correspondence re "public domain"
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We got a brief last week from the State Department in the Bernstein case (in which we're trying to overturn the crypto export controls on First Amendment grounds). They state: "In fact, the State Department does not seek to control the various means by which information is placed in the public domain. Lowell Decl, para. 22. The Department does not review scientific information to determine whether it may be offered for sale at newsstand and bookstores, through subscriptions, second-class mail, or made available at libraries, or distributed at a conference or seminar in the United States. Id. "These clear examples are included in the ITAR to enable individuals to determine for themselves whether particular information is subject to regulation as technical data. Indeed, individuals rarely -- if ever -- seek a determinatino from the Department as to whether information is in the public domain, and the regularions are not applied to establish a prepublication review requirement for the general publication of scientific information in the United States." I am wondering if anyone else has ever sent in a CJ request that sought to determine whether the item in question was considered "public domain" by the State Department. Several CJ's of this type can be found near the bottom of my crypto export web page, at ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/export/export.html. Has anyone else had interactions with the State Department about the "public domain" status of anything? Please let me know. -- John Gilmore gnu(a)toad.com -- gnu(a)eff.org RESTRICTED Notice. - This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Act (U.S.C. 50: 31, 32). The transmission of this document or the revelation of its contents in any manner to any unauthorized person is prohibited.

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Re: Stealth cookies
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 17:49 8/6/96, Jeff Weinstein wrote: [...] > This was a bug that existed for a short time, and was fixed about >6 months ago. Javascript can not submit mailto: forms at all, and >all mailto: forms now cause a warning dialog to come up(the dialog >can be turned off in preferences). You have done a lot to improve security. It is not going unnoticed. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. Defeat the Demopublican Unity Party. Vote no on Clinton/Dole in November. Vote Harry Browne for President.

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Re: Bombs & bomb threats in LA
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:15 AM 8/5/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: > The molecular difference between TNT and picric acid is a methyl group, > weight 15 (on TNT) substituted for a hydroxyl, weight 17 (on > picric acid.) If there is a difference, it is a very small one. Picric acid is easier for amateurs to make than TNT. It has the same energy per unit mass as TNT, but it's destructive power is greater because of the substantially higher velocity of detonation. It is far less predictable and far easier to detonate than TNT. Also TNT has the advantage that it can be melted and poured into molds, and it is cheaper to manufacture in large quantities. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: crypto CD source
by Remo Pini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed Aug 07 08:04:50 1996 That's all well (your diverse site/mirror-suggestions), but my local phonecompany charges by the minute. If I download the lets say 500MB for the CD, I'm broke! Does anyone have direkt access to the sites and can make a DAT-backup? (In some format I can read: WinNT Backupprog)? Thanks, Remo - --------< fate favors the prepared mind >-------- Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/remopini/rpcrypto.html - ------< words are what reality is made of >------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMggyBhFhy5sz+bTpAQGLjQf9EX3/mJQa6woKTZN5uz8dma8Cpv/PFQTC zsV5h0pjDLiA0RdIZexPJMfTNw+ZFyPdNkma9PgB60kGf2CrNrqLlBWv5XmZQ2HH kTqcuou2mHm/JeJv5m8v7Vckm8BmTtvdpL2mWK8pG0iB5fWbwiTo9VkyCrwfq/q+ BoAaGS4zkNOTuTlmWo/zwkheEVdV5gRjwI+IyHCTQMZ9rFRqLvmOYxClcEQ0X7C4 X5pFIZgaxw7u953MNbnmyeGVwpHqahhi8mn8mblKpVG2KIxR17lC9lKcZFygTAqA eddDvrCnCNcyH4zrWksOvPCZfqQbH5mBuFskxjSC1ZXgz+1ZoGKpOw== =veJq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Corporate e-mail policy
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> "Electronic mail may be monitored if there is sufficient reason to > believe that it is being improperly used which includes, but is not > limited to: mail to competitors, more than 20 recipients (spam), and > incoming mail from questionable sources. If such monitored mail is > encrypted the employee must provide a clear text version of the mail > which is to be unencrypted under supervision to avoid substitutions. > Any employee refusing to make available such mail will be ...." Official mail to competitors, the press, or customers is probably something you'd want an official copy of anyway, and the employee should be able to decide intelligently what to keep (unless your lawyers say to always keep everything, in which case the legal department should be responsible for maintaining the archives....) Incoming encrypted mail you can (presumably) get an employee to decrypt. Outgoing encrypted mail may not support that - PGP, for instance, supports an encrypt-to-self option, but if you don't use it, and didn't record the outgoing message, you _can't_ decrypt it. Writing something into a policy that will get an employee fired for refusing to do something that can't be done with the available tools is not a good idea. I'm not highly impressed with the idea of snooping on employees' mail, even if it _is_ your company. If you don't trust them, don't hire them. If you do trust them, don't eavesdrop. And if they're ripping you off and don't have the sense to sneak their sotlen data outside the building by sneakernet or other untappable mechanism, you probably should have fired them for incompetence long ago anyway. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Defuse Authority!

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Re: e$: Watching the MacRubble Bounce
by Christopher Hull 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >I, for one, would appreciate the chance to hear Tim May present >"crypto-anarchy" and "crypto-privacy" -- in a much more coherent fashion > >Vinnie is putting the "Mac Crypto" conference together in his spare >time using "borrowed" facilities in a way that stays below Apple's >"radar horizon". Ah, so I'm not the only one who makes nefarious use of R&D4 (Burning Man, Mike Jittlov, and other pseudo-events) ;-) Looking forward to it. > >As for the "Mac is dead," I'll leave that to another time and place. The press is a little difficult to believe when they come out with nonsense like "Apple is finally upgrading an aging product line". Excuse me? Yes, the last new Mac one could buy was the IIfx? San Jose Mercury News, A Division of Microsoft Press. (I wonder if I should extend the Shakespeare award beyond the net). -Chris .. But there *are* a million monkees on the net, .. and I still aint seen no Shakespeare! <me> ... ... smtp: nozefngr(a)apple.com .. page: 1.800.680.7351 .. http: http://virtual.net/Personal/nozefngr/ .. icbm: lat37*21'.lon121*5' .. .. the kabuki project: http://remarque.berkeley.edu/kabuki/

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Re: Censorship through proxy
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:23 PM 8/6/96, Joel McNamara wrote: >SingNet, one of Singapore's larger ISPs is telling all of their subscribers >they must move to using SingNet's proxy server by September 14, 1996 if they >want to have access to the Web. > >If you try to access one of the SBA's banned sites, you'll get a message >that says, "The site you requested is not accessible." > >Check out: > >http://www.singnet.com.sg/cache/sbareg.html Sing Sing (the country is now a prison, so...) is one of the states we should think about targetting for "special attention." Not in the sense of violence, but in the sense of offering help to freedom fighters, those who want to use stego, web proxies, etc. I wonder what would happen if "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '98" was held in Sing Sing? --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: Censorship through proxy
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:12 PM 8/6/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >Sing Sing (the country is now a prison, so...) is one of the states we >should think about targetting for "special attention." Not in the sense of >violence, but in the sense of offering help to freedom fighters, those who >want to use stego, web proxies, etc. I've been thinking of starting a "How to Defeat a Government page to pull together some of the anti-Sysadmin resources on the Net. "Your government -- just a rouge sysadmin." >I wonder what would happen if "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '98" was >held in Sing Sing? It would be smaller going out than coming in. Singapore's retired president tried to get William Safire into town for a "debate" about whether he was still running the place via his son. Safire didn't take the bait. He joked about it in his column. DCF

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Re: Digital Telephony costs $2
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:00 PM 8/6/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 11:34 PM 8/5/96 -0800, you wrote: >>What is unclear, however, is WHY they "had to" build a card that couldn't do >>full-duplex. I mean, would there have been a problem implementing that? Or >>was this just another one of those stupid design decisions which could have >>been easily fixed if it had been realized in time? >2) DSPs tend to be really tight on resources, especially RAM, > which you need to do multiple programs at once. $5-10 DSPs are > especially tight. They're starting to come with mini operating systems. I wasn't aware that sound cards made appreciable use of DSP's. Unlike modems, which inherently must massage large amounts of signal to get the data, I assumed that sound cards were more like straight A/D/A systems. >>> It also has the advantage >>>that the data is being moved through your CPU, so encryption is >>>an easy add-on, rather than having one combined modem/voiceblaster >>>card which doesn't have any hooks for crypto or other processing. >>Well, I assume that if implemented as a new type of modem card, the >>processor can be used to do the data transfer. > >If you're doing the voice crunching and A/D conversion and telephony >all on the modem card, with everything tightly integrated >to fit in your tiny cache, why put in hooks for the processor to intervene? You'd put in a hook because it would be easily done, and to fail to do so would be a serious mistake. It could also be bypassed by a hardware switch, I suppose, or a software-controlled switch, to make processor intervention unnecessary. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Alien life
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"schryver(a)radiks.net" "Scott Schryvers" 7-AUG-1996 11:08:59.39 >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. A: This is not cypherpunks material. I am replying to try to prevent urban legend formation (of the UFO suppression type). B: You are quite thoroughly misinformed, as is NBC News if it is claiming the same thing. What have been found are some molecules, of the type known as polycyclic hydrocarbons (same sort as makes up cholesterol, in essence), that _may_ have been produced by a lifeform. Other, unliving chemical processes, such as combustion under the proper conditions (see buckyballs & buckytubes), can produce the same thing. Yes, it _may_ be from life, but we aren't certain yet. It is most certainly not a fossil, and the type of life form that it _may_ have come from is as yet not possible to determine. -Allen, Ph.D. graduate student in microbiology and molecular genetics

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