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17 Dec '03

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New free speech oriented civil rights site
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Civil rights Web site to fight cyberhate > > November 24, 1997 > Web posted at: 6:01 p.m. EST (2301 GMT) > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- Responding to President Clinton's call to fight hate > crime, the nation's largest civil rights coalition and a regional Bell > telephone company have created a Web site designed to combat Internet > hate speech. > > The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights said Monday the site -- > www.civilrights.org -- was developed and will be maintained for two > years with a $100,000 contribution from Bell Atlantic. > > <snip> > > Wade Henderson, LCCR executive director, said the idea to create a Web > site was triggered by a proliferation of Internet hate speech by groups > such as the Ku Klux Klan and White Aryan Resistance. ...and some cypherpunks? > Bell Atlantic chairman Ray Smith cited a study by the Anti-Defamation > League showing the number of hate sites on the Internet has doubled to > 250 in the past year. He called the new site "an antidote for poison." > > The idea is to "counter the frightening espousal of hatred and violence > against Americans because of their race, gender, religious or sexual > orientation," he said. Not to mention nationality. "You go, chop chop," says Tim May, making fun of someone apparently from Japan. > Henderson said hate groups have become more sophisticated in communicating > their doctrines and recruiting. "Instead of the street, they recruit on > the net," he explained. > > There is also concern for the First Amendment protection of free speech, > Henderson said. "This Web site will respond to hate with information > and competing ideas without seeking to restrict Internet speech." > > In addition to providing information on hate crimes around the country, > the site will explain various strategies to address those crimes and offer > materials for young people, parents and teachers to encourage diversity. Cypherpunks other than May, Geiger, and the despicable Vulis will welcome a new civil rights effort which is built around respect for freedom of speech. Cypherpunk technologies will be a major force to eliminate racism. With privacy protected transactions, the color of a person's skin, his religion and his ethnicity are no longer apparent. People will be able to succeed on merit - and not the "good old boys" definition of merit, where somehow only white males seem to have what it takes. Cypherpunks need to build bridges to minority communities, to show them how these technologies can advance their cause. Racist comments by supposedly respected list members are harmful and must be countered in order to show that these views do not reflect the feelings of most cypherpunks.

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Wired: Faceless Freedom on the Net
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/8762.html Faceless Freedom on the Net by Theta Pavis 7:30am 25.Nov.97.PST NEWPORT BEACH, California - When a whole weekend is dedicated to exploring the principles of electronic anonymity, some big concepts about basic human freedoms get thrown around. And though he has spent a lot of time in the past couple of years providing tools that allow people to maintain their privacy while communicating in the wide-open spaces of online communications, Lance Cottrell has seen the more mundane realities of the anonymity issue. A couple years back, Cottrell began distributing his Mixmaster anonymous remailer. The ability to tell the truth without announcing to the world, or reprisal-minded enemies, just who is speaking might be a cornerstone of digital freedom. But it also opens the door to those for whom anonymity is just a novel tool for pulling a nasty prank. Cottrell, who created Mixmaster while working on his physics doctorate at the University of California, San Diego, said the pure novelty of anonymous tools made them attractive at first. "People used them in abusive ways for the same reason people climb Mount Everest - because it's there," Cottrell said during a weekend-long conference here on the technical and philosophical underpinnings of electronic anonymity. The session, titled "Anonymous and Pseudonymous Communication on the Internet," was sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Cottrell, who describes himself as a "hard-line extremist in favor of anonymity," said the only real way to measure the problem is by looking at how many complaints there are about the use of software that protects a user's identity. The pattern Cottrell has seen suggests that as use of anonymous remailers and the like increases, complaints about faceless harassment and other abuses have declined. His simple thesis for the dip: Anonymity tools are quickly becoming familiar, and users are becoming more responsible in their use. Cottrell, who is also president of Infonex Internet Inc., owner of the popular Anonymizer email and Net access service, said that, given the deeper personal-freedom issues inherent in the anonymity issue, it's crucial that such services become profitable. "There's only 15 or 20 of them [anonymous remailers] in the world, and they're all run by volunteers. Those volunteers are under a lot of pressure and are taking significant risks," he said. Dealing with law enforcement requests for information comes with the territory, for instance. When confronted with such demands, Cottrell said, "We comply completely and give them everything we have - which is nothing. The FBI, so far, is content [to be given] log files with nothing useful in it." Overseas, police have tried to get information a "handful" of times, he said. Austrian and German agents have come to Infonex to find out who is hosting a Web site that includes Nazi propaganda - a site run by Austrians but illegal in their home country. But, Cottrell said, just as the people behind that site trust the company with their anonymity, so too can human rights organizations, which will increasingly be using anonymous remailers in the future. "Groups of people will be putting their lives in our hands, very literally," Cottrell said.

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Re: "Good job NANAE. You really fucked up royally."
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

eridani(a)netcom.com (Belinda Bryan) wrote: > Sorry, Steve. I can't let this one go. Uh, huh... [...] > I am speaking on behalf of myself and Gary L. Burnore. Cat got his tongue? > When something > is repeated often enough, some people will believe it to be true. You mean something "repeated often enough" like this claim in your own header?: > Organization: Boycott E-Scrub Technologies. > The owner is an admitted spambaiter. You've repeated that smear against Ron Guilmette over and over. Doesn't your petty little vendetta against him get tiresome after awhile? OTOH, you really flipped out and royally potty-mouthed a poster a few months back for nothing more than a URL in his/her .sig advocating a boycott of Gary Burnore's former employer, Wells Fargo Bank, by the AIDS Action League. Flaming someone for a URL in a .sig with which you disagree is rather petty and censorious, don't you think? > All we ask is that you not share our physical addresses and our ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > non-published telephone numbers with anyone but your attorney. As you ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > may realize, there are a lot of kooks out there and I have a small child > to protect. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Unlike other people (namely the one posting this crap anonymously), we > have nothing to hide. ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Really? Then why are you hiding your own post from being archived by a neutral third party? Trying to maintain "plausible deniability" if you post something you later regret saying and want to claim it was "forged"? > X-No-Archive: yes Maybe you ought to get it through your head that some of us use "non-published e-mail addresses" for the same reason you wish to hide your own physical address and telephone number. You're right. "There are a lot of kooks out there", and bad things have a tendency to happen to people who dare to challenge the opinions of your buddy Gary "Sadaam" Burnore. Of course, it could be just another coincidence... Or maybe it's those "databasix goons" that "Rev. Tweek" referred to in his post. At any rate, you lost any credibility as being a friend of the right to privacy when you pulled your Helena Kobrin act this summer. Posing as a "lawyer" for DataBasix, you demanded that Jeff Burchell turn over all of his user logs to you and Gary, just as the so-called "Church" of $cientology did with the anon.penet.fi remailer in Finland last year. The end result was the same in both cases, too. Both remailers shut down to avoid the continued harassment from people like you, Gary, and Helena. I hope you're proud of yourselves. > Belinda Bryan > eridani(a)netcom.com --

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Re: Further costs of war
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tim May wrote: >At 6:20 PM -0700 11/24/97, Anonymous [Monty Cantsin] wrote: >>Fabrice Planchon wrote: >>>Once again, if 1812 the [British] invasion [of the United States] >>>actually occured,... >> >>They burned the White House to the ground. Does that count? ;-) > >Wait...they burned the White House to the ground? > >Maybe we need to rethink this...maybe the British were ur-Cypherpunks. Hmmmm.... Isaac Newton, Tom Paine, and Alan Turing were all British. Looks like a pattern! (And the Great ur-Cypherpunk, Thomas Jefferson, was born British. ;-) Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHpwSZaWtjSmRH/5AQH5zQf/UyxmXpfqXeGOCT+8ObtLF2seXvw4ifdb 26Uo2rNDcLCEPtVEj5gG8Vz1xncI2+kbjQBkn8jrRpYNQExanxQn4kXvo6c+a1u6 sbaKOP4zjFwjfkthqxerA4NA1Yr7VXOyGqxGKoBqV9e3/Yo/Zp19RYOtPoagheSc Dw4U4mI6XqPSJe8His3EiM24ZT3X0vYB6AoMXmrcdJ697lH6jxkcb4se47Wu0H0d ew9dHZAZe2jgDc+hf7XgNuau4DRFZOv8tWQh1ax2ywr2m2qyWCEMltV5l80Xc2Lg BcploCHrkp30Othxh9g95+r3rDeoOZzMlenmi6DBbUslLyjRMem6mw== =3rrM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Whining
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anonymous <nobody(a)REPLAY.COM> writes: >There is no such thing as an off topic post on the new cypherpunks >list, at least according to Tim May and Monty Cantsin. Whatever >interests them is automatically on-topic. My heart bleeds for you. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHtox5aWtjSmRH/5AQESLQf/VavelxK1adXU/OvA/Xt3Fd982B2QBhpA J+fdqtuk7Cx4uURszlOEAvJtKgwpKkb0i46vjkGPgkTJFNNKp/fhaoOdLQpaOOb1 ss5L+nGzr+6WGYd2dpMl4AjlPjqdkGc0BX5EB/4LR767erfisoYnxuZtpi0HKIyq F38Jv+hZE1P9yCaRMDcKxY0E2HwGDQuhBqoZD7oYetddajThnecTFA222bBHqeXm GEnexM64uvjNzuy6aLBRfAnk/RBqQQ/GyVnYMzCtQ33/9xy+SuQe9YIGmqA9vemK zS2hibNUQlO5Sypy8Elb1xdJazVZQ9a3KGh5yIshcpOHB3KJeTq57g== =bEzL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: PGP 5.0??
by pclow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ah! You got it! ---------- > ...and isn't all.net the site of the Good Doctor Fred Cohen?? andrew

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mccain remailer backlog
by Antonomasia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Owing to a huge pile of mail messages on Monday (and perhaps my effort to process them faster by running smap without smapd) some messages to mccain have had the following destinations: ordinary inbox, bypassing procmail procmail to the wrong recipe, (you may have received an info message) For both of the above I still have the mail in a backlog of about 200 messages that will be getting sent RSN. I am unable to determine whether any mail was lost. Sorry about the possibility of this, and the delay some messages are experiencing. I have increased the POOLSIZE of mccain from 3 to 4, and reduced the RATE from 100 to 90. The tea remailer does not seem to have hit the same problem, perhaps attracting less traffic by lower performance stats. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAgUBNHtuGUrZ5ZQH9XIxAQEaqQP9GUptYlg4j5gO7pBdijia+S+EDmqcvsli kuiisTaDVMxhW93v0rIGv92bUcI/Mx16DuZH+1o7VJ3LpounHwV8yXbfpiD8yHOz fzepEayfj+egwa0ldmg8jHjtbSrupPMYVSKmqotdMJetwjsu0AlLnHzjBnd8QELb 8CaT7eHwAyM= =dvxO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant(a)notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ##############################################################

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Re: Anonymity at any cost, from The Netly News
by Mikhael Frieden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:47 PM 11/25/97 -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 >An entity claiming to be Mikhael Frieden wrote: >: Making the cookie read only and erasing previous additions does the >: same thing for free. Cottrell is PT Barnum speaking. >Considering that the bulk of the online population doesn't even know how to >use the 'attrib' command, that's a useless argument. Anyway, that's only one >aspect of the Anonimizer service. If he is charging $60, I will do it for them for $50. For $40 I will sell detailed instructions. For $30 I well tell them about attrib /h. For free it tell how not to be individually tracked. I do not think my prices are out of line. If people are worried about more than individual tracking, they are doing things that they should not be doing with a browser in the first place. -=-=- The 2nd guarantees all the rest.

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Re: Quoting Portions of a Signed Document
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monty Cantsin writes: 01> It would be neat if you could quote people and prove that they signed 02> the particular paragraph quoted without supplying the entire text. Is 03> there a way to do this? (It seems impossible, but so does mental 04> poker.) 05> 06> A crude approach would be to sign every paragraph or line separately, 07> but that's obviously inelegant. 08> 09> Monty Cantsin 10> Editor in Chief 11> Smile Magazine 12> http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html 13> http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm An easy way to do this works only if the quoted paragraph comes from the very end of the text. You can supply the cumulative hash of all the material before the quoted part, then the quotation itself, which goes all the way to the end of the document. From this the hash of the whole document can be calculated, and the signature checked. A more general approach calculates the document hash in a line oriented way. Normally we start at the top and work down through the document to get the hash, which is signed. Instead, we would calculate a hash for each line of the document separately, and then combine them using a tree. In the example above hashes would be calculated for lines 1-13. Call these H1A - H13A. Then second level hashes could be calculated by taking H1A through H13A in pairs: H1B = hash(H1A,H2A) H2B = hash(H3A,H4A) H3B = hash(H5A,H6A) ... H6B = hash(H11A,H12A) H7B = H13A We repeat this until we have one hash for the whole document: H1C = hash(H1B,H2B) H2C = hash(H3B,H4B) H3C = hash(H5B,H6B) H4C = H7B H1D = hash(H1C,H2C) H2D = hash(H3C,H4C) H1E = hash(H1D,H2D) We sign the final hash, H1E. Now you can extract a paragraph, say lines 6 and 7 above. The hashes H6A and H7A can be calculated from this. Supply the other hashes needed to calculate the final hash: H5A, H8A, H1C, H2D, will be enough. This will allow calculating H1E and the signature can be verified. The required number of hashes will generally be logarithmic in the size of the missing part of the document.

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