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Re: GSM crypto upgrade? (was Re: Newt's phone calls)
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:41 PM 1/16/97 GMT, Adam Back wrote: > >Bill Frantz <frantz(a)netcom.com> writes: >> As long as the man in the middle can't imitate a familiar voice, >> this procedure is reasonably secure. > >This is the approach taken by PGPfone also. If the value of the >conversations was high (>$100,000?) passable voice imitation wouldn't >be that hard I suspect. I have long considered how easy it would be to use a sound card to modify the human voice to match within certain tolerances the voice of another. There are currently on the market, phones specifically designed to modify the voice of the user so that kids can answer as adults, women can answer as thier own protective boyfriends, bosses can answer anonymous calls as the secretary, etc... There are currently on the market keyboards that allow you to sample some real world sound and use it as a voice in your music, (the model I saw, a toy produced by Radio Shack, simply sped up or slowed down the sound to achieve this.) I have thought, if a machine were to take the incoming voice, analize (apologies for spelling) it to get a spectrum signature, a pattern that can be added or subtracted from another, and could then add the difference between that and the victims signature to the users voice, then real-time, on-the-fly con jobs would be easy. The only thing that the user would be responsible for would be the accent, and the day-to-day vocabulary of the victim. I told a friend about this and he confirmed that such was available if you knew where to look.

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Re: Newt's phone calls
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:07 PM 1/20/97 -0500, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote: >Depending on the country and bank you can probably perform almost >any transfer you like by fax. I moved my pension from one bank >to another simply by sending a fax. I have done similar transactions >with Swiss, German and UK banks. > >For some reason the fax is considered to be a practically >infallible authentication device. Quite why is beyond me since >it should be obvious to anyone that all one needs to fake a >fax is a photocopier, document signed by account holder, paste >and scissors. You get everything needed on a signed cheque. > A check is no good, most checks are now printed on paper with special lines that are supposed to become obvious after copying. A signed letter or even a mailing envelope would probably be better. Also, scotch tape makes those pexky shadows disapear like magic. My dad uses it to make multiple versions of make-up math tests that trivially look like the origional in order to goad persons who were sick on test day so that they could get the answers from someone else into printing down those answers and getting less than random probability. (multiple choice)

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Re: Menwith Hill / NSA
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've just heard from Duncan Campbell (who made the documentary), he'll send me a copy of the script which can be put on the web. I'll let people know when it's available. Copies of the tape can be ordered from his company: IPTV Ltd 1 Meadowbank Edinburgh EH8 8JE Scotland, UK E-mail : duncan(a)gn.apc.org Tel : +44 131 659 6566 Cost is \pounds 14.50 stg + any postage costs for outside UK - \pounds 5 will cover it. They have no NTSC versions in stock but can make them from the master. Provided they get orders for at least 10, the cost will be the same. They accept payment in US$ cheques as well as \pounds stg cheques; no credit cards, sorry. He is, in theory, on holiday for another month or so and only has intermittent net connectivity, so please don't flood him with email just yet. Peter.

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Re: UNS_top
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You'll get the full article soon enough, I expect. The Reuters story isn't quite right, though. Burma has no Net-connection. I stood outside the building that will house it last month (they wouldn't let me in) after hiking five miles through fields to get around police barricades. It should go live this year. For China and Singapore Net-censorship, check out my web site at http://www.eff.org/~declan/global/ -Declan On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Toto wrote: > John Young wrote: > > Governments in China, Burma and > > Singapore have already tried to discipline this on-line activity with > > minimal success. > > Do you have any pointers to information in regard to this, or are you > just being a goddamn tease? > > Toto > > > >

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Re: Menwith Hill / NSA
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've just heard from Duncan Campbell (who made the documentary), he'll send me a copy of the script which can be put on the web. I'll let people know when it's available. Copies of the tape can be ordered from his company: IPTV Ltd 1 Meadowbank Edinburgh EH8 8JE Scotland, UK E-mail : duncan(a)gn.apc.org Tel : +44 131 659 6566 Cost is \pounds 14.50 stg + any postage costs for outside UK - \pounds 5 will cover it. They have no NTSC versions in stock but can make them from the master. Provided they get orders for at least 10, the cost will be the same. They accept payment in US$ cheques as well as \pounds stg cheques; no credit cards, sorry. He is, in theory, on holiday for another month or so and only has intermittent net connectivity, so please don't flood him with email just yet. Peter.

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Arkansas Phone Scramblers, etc.
by John C. Randolph 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just had an interesting exchange with the latest person to take up residence in my bozo filter. I get this message from some clown I've never heard of, sent from AOL, saying that he wants one of these Radio Shack scrambler frobs, and hinting that he'd be willing to pay lots for it. I sent him back a note pointing out, among other things, that I don't know him, he doesn't know me, and that we're talking about buying and selling a frob that at least one set of JBT's doesn't think he should have. I concluded by telling him that I wouldn't sell him one if I had one, that I wouldn't tell him whether I had one, and that if he wants to have a private conversation with someone, he should just get a copy of PGP phone, like everyone else. He sent me a huffy note, saying I'd better learn some diplomacy. So, what do you think guys? Did I just piss off some federal prosecutor who was hoping to body-grab me to a clueless jusrisdiction like Arkansas to try me for crypto-terrorism, or did I piss off another fucking AOL'er? Amused and Torqued at the same time, -jcr

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Hard Drive Encryption
by FrozenHell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found a program on the internet called POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE that says it will encrypt your hard drive... then when ever you turn on your computer it will request a password before it even accesses your DOS. If you put in the right password it will load as a TSR that will let your access your encrypted hard drive. But I have a Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive and have the use the W.D. Disk Manager v6.03d that comes with it... this is another program that loads before your DOS... does anyone know if this program Potassium Hydroxide will work with W.D. Disk Manager and work under Win 3.11/95. I don't want to risk gibbling all the info on my hard drive. If not does anyone know of a program that will let me encrypt my hard disk and decrypt it will a password before my DOS is loaded and work with the above programs of mine. If it helps I am using DOS 6.21 with Windows 3.11 ( I'm upgrading to `95 soon ;> ) -FrozenHell (fhell(a)nether.net)

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Re: Thoughts re moderation, filtering, and name changes
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hjk wrote: > Just one thing about the names of the different lists: I received a > mail listing the changes to come. It was very easy to understand that > I am going to get the moderated list if I do not change my subscription. > I'll find out if I will miss something. We'll see. > I wonder who is so brainless, not to understand what's going on. > Do you really think the subscribers are pure Idiots? Well, Heinz. You live in a country full of people, ordinary people, variously called the hoi polloi, the sheeple, the unwashed masses, and other interesting names. Many credible and respected authors and commentators have made references to the masses in one form or another as "stupid, lazy, ignorant, selfish, etc.", or even "almost useless". Now whatever you think of your fellow citizens, or even those of the USA (to name an example), I'm sure is OK on whatever basis you apply your judgement. But I guarantee you that the people on the cypherpunks list are no more or less intelligent than the people who vegetate in front of their TV sets every day, right there where you live, in all probability. If you believe that your fellow citizens vote intelligently, then I respond that cypherpunks vote intelligently. What do you think?

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Re: Dr. Vulis' social engineering experiment
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jane Jefferson wrote: > > The heart and soul of the problem is that "sin", "freedom", "good", > and "evil" are abstract concepts which fluctuate from individual to > individual. An excellent point, Jane. Worth remembering. - Igor.

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Re: Thoughts re moderation, filtering, and name changes
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Cc: alex(a)agate.net] Dale Thorn wrote: > > Many credible and respected authors and commentators have made references > to the masses in one form or another as "stupid, lazy, ignorant, > selfish, etc.", or even "almost useless". > In the classical example, you should say "LYING, FUCKING, THIEVING, STUPID," and so on. The art of insults has developed somewhat. Alexplore is one of the best masters after Dr. Vulis (some would say even better than Dr. Vulis, but that depends on taste). if you do not get it, it is because you need to know the context... - Igor.

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