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Re: WhoWhere Robot strikes again
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Btw, when they bought me lunch a few weeks ago, they promised to register their robot and follow the robot exclusion standard right away. -rich

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Re: Mixmaster version usable with POP?
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"markm(a)voicenet.com" "Mark M." 26-MAY-1996 18:46:13.23 >On Linux this works: >popclient -3 -c POPHOSTNAME | formail -s mixmaster -R >> $MAIL >It will work on any system that has formail and popclient on it. Is this only for getting mail, or also for sending it? Sorry, I'm not very familiar with UNIX, especially the pipe commands. -Allen

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Re: MixMaster fair use
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"loki(a)infonex.com" 26-MAY-1996 16:50:16.67 >I think the current license is fine for most purposes. I am not some >monolithic corporation. If someone needs a license with special terms, my >email address is public knowledge and I am generally very accommodating. You have a point. Speaking of this issue, as I understand it the RSA patents only apply in the US; their copyrights apply outside the US, but there are replacement "parts" for their library for outside of the US which don't run into those copyrights. What happens if I telnet into an account outside the US and download into that account, from an outside of the US distribution point, a copy of Mixmaster with the substitute ones, then start using it for profit (an ecash-accepting-program or whatever)? I assume that I'd get around ITAR this way - I'm not exporting it, I didn't even bring it into the US to bring it back out - but can RSA sue me/my company (I'd do it through a company) for patent infringement? -Allen

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Re: Orbiting Datahavens
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:32 PM 8/17/96 -0500, snow wrote: > > It is just as easy to take out a satelite in LOE as it is to sink an >oil rig, plus swapping defective Hard Drives is a real bitch. Hard drives don't work in a vacuum, at least conventional ones don't. (And I'm not aware of any hard drives which are designed to be permanently pressurized against a hard vacuum, either...) Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney(a)shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail(a)c2.org> eric pgp hash reord"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon(a)anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer(a)flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post reord"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"ecafe"} = "<cpunk(a)remail.ecafe.org> cpunk mix"; $remailer{"amnesia"} = "<amnesia(a)chardos.connix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ksub"; $remailer{'alpha'} = '<alias(a)alpha.c2.org> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"lead"} = "<mix(a)zifi.genetics.utah.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"treehole"} = "<remailer(a)mockingbird.alias.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"vegas"} = "<remailer(a)vegas.gateway.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (c2 alpha) (flame replay) (alumni portal) Use "premail -getkeys pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu" to get PGP keys for the remailers. Fingering this address works too. Note: The remailer list now includes information for the alpha nymserver. Last update: Mon 27 May 96 6:45:11 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- portal hfinney(a)shell.portal.com ####+##*#-+# 5:49 99.97% penet anon(a)anon.penet.fi -_______-. 51:37:29 99.86% exon remailer(a)remailer.nl.com ****** +***# 2:57 99.83% replay remailer(a)replay.com *+***+ ***** 5:42 99.60% alumni hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu ##* + *#-+# 5:29 99.58% lead mix(a)zifi.genetics.utah.edu ++++++ +++++ 37:43 99.47% vegas remailer(a)vegas.gateway.com -*#**+*** * 7:27 99.28% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com ++-+++ .--++ 5:21:48 99.11% haystack haystack(a)holy.cow.net *####- +*-*# 33:43 99.01% flame remailer(a)flame.alias.net ++++++ ---- 1:31:02 98.86% amnesia amnesia(a)chardos.connix.com ---+-- ---- 3:18:01 98.65% ecafe cpunk(a)remail.ecafe.org -##### ####+ 3:20 97.12% c2 remail(a)c2.org -++-** +- ++ 45:44 96.90% alpha alias(a)alpha.c2.org -++-++ *+ ++ 50:38 96.87% extropia remail(a)miron.vip.best.com ..-.----- 10:35:00 92.95% treehole remailer(a)mockingbird.alias.net --+---- - 3:58:26 85.32% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Privacy Development Project
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Developer & Consulting Positions Available Software development firm focusing on Internet privacy and anonymity tools is looking for developers and consultants. Applicants should be interested in the possibility of relocation or travel as development is being done outside of the United States. Applicants will be applying to join an aggressive team, where intelligence, entrepreneurial spirit and technology skills are valued and rewarded. Positions offer competitive salary and benefits along with stock options and bonuses. Interested applicants are asked to forward your c.v. by e-mail to: anonjobs(a)nym.alias.net Positions Offered: ------------------ Project Consultant - Anonymous Technologies and Cryotography ************************************************************ The ideal candidate should be very familiar with anonymous remailers (Type I, Type II, Nymservers), anonymous cash (Digicash), Blind Signatures, Public Key Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. A detailed understanding of anonymous networks and mailer systems will be required to help review the security model of companies system. Experience with C/C++ and software development projects on Solaris, Linux, Windows 95 also a definite asset. Experience on implementation of Cryptography libraries in software design also a definite asset. Software Engineers - Windows 95 ******************************* Successful candidates will have extensive development experience in the Windows environment, good organizational skills and be very success driven. Good knowledge of Visual C++, MFC and OOP a requirement. Interest in privacy, security and cryptography a definite asset. Software Engineers - Unix (Solaris/Linux) ***************************************** Successful candidates will have extensive development experience in the Solaris or Linux environment, good organizational skills and be very success driven. Good knowledge of C++, Internet protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, NNTP), X.509 Certificate authority servers (LDAP) and experience with cryptography are all considered definite assets. The applicant should have a serious interest in technologies as they relate to Internet privacy, security and cryptography.

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Updated type2.list/pubring.mix
by John A. Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Everyone, I just updated the type2.list/pubring.mix combination on jpunix.com to reflect the opening of the czarevna type-II remailer. The lists are available by anonymous FTP from ftp.jpunix.com as well as by Web from www.jpunix.com John Perry - KG5RG - perry(a)alpha.jpunix.com - PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMamUHlOTpEThrthvAQHGFAP+IAE4NCXH20XuhpYoEZHJYMP4oAkiFxl7 TwkNWcbCC+GJVddjQVoORvLtNNwgeA6RxkJR+sAnwB3NbtynBi1NVymKEUj6FO4W 4Q5i/0BaRbYpMdqpgmYwCbvrFtG3IJh715o9oGG9ylP3f89vDMN9CBw0iSMhJDva DeIyKxaFseA= =RK3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ACLU: Secret Intelligence Budget
by Bob Witanek 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Posted: sspnj(a)exit109.com ACLU News 05-23-96: *House Votes to Keep Intelligence Budget Secret* In a blow to open government, the House of Representatives has rejected a move by the Clinton Administration to -- for the first time -- make public the overall national intelligence budget, The Washington Post reported today. The rejection came on a vote of 248 to 176 on an amendment to a bill that would fund the CIA and 11 other, mostly Pentagon-based, intelligence agencies. The ACLU had supported the amendment, saying that "taxpayers have a right to know what their tax dollars support." But the Post said that House Intelligence Chairman Larry Combest, R-TX, opposed disclosure in committee and led the opposition on the floor yesterday. He said making the overall figure public inevitably would lead to disclosure of individual intelligence accounts, which, he said, could harm clandestine sources and methods. ACLU Legislative Counsel Gregory T. Nojeim disagreed. "Disclosure of the bottom-line figure is the absolute minimum that Congress should do to make the intelligence agencies accountable to the American public," he said. "All of these intelligence agencies have acknowledged that any Cold War justification for keeping the total budget secret has passed." -------------------------------------- -------------------------- *State Police Search Blacks More Than Whites* PERRYVILLE, Md. -- Black drivers are being stopped and searched for drugs at least four times more often than whites by a special Maryland state police squad that patrols stretches of Interstate 95, the East Coast's main north-south artery, the Associated Press reports today. This finding from an Associated Press computer analysis of car searches raises questions of whether troopers are following their own written training procedures and complying with a court ruling that specifically bars them from using racial profiles to determine likely drug couriers. More than 75 percent of all drivers whose cars were searched by the special drug squad through the first nine months of last year were black, the AP said. State police steadfastly denied using racial profiles, which in the past typically targeted young minority men driving late-model cars and carrying pagers or wearing gold jewelry. The Maryland police maintained that black motorists were searched for reasons other than race and that the preponderance of blacks searched amounted to coincidence. Maryland state police are forbidden to use racial profiles in traffic stops under terms of a legal settlement reached in 1994 with Robert Wilkins, a black Washington lawyer searched for drugs as he drove home from a funeral in 1992. The settlement also requires troopers to provide records on all 1995-97 highway searches to the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland. The AP examined the records for January through September 1995. The AP said that it asked the ACLU for the early reports after a Philadelphia couple filed a discrimination suit in January against three troopers. Charles Carter, now 66, and his wife, Etta, 65, were driving north on I-95 in a rented minivan on July 12, 1994, their 40th wedding anniversary, when troopers pulled them over and searched the van for drugs. The couple claim they were searched because they are black. ``This entire incident was and continues to be deeply humiliating for my wife and myself,'' Carter said in an affidavit. ``It is inconceivable to us that, as American citizens of the late twentieth century, we would be treated in this manner by officers of the law.'' The ACLU said the data may eventually prove a pattern of discrimination. If the organization can show in court that blacks are being searched in inappropriately high numbers, it may consider a class-action lawsuit, said Debbie Jeon, an ACLU attorney. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ONLINE RESOURCES FROM THE ACLU NATIONAL OFFICE ---------------------------------------------------------------- ACLU Freedom Network Web Page: http://www.aclu.org. America Online users should check out our live chats, auditorium events, *very* active message boards, and complete news on civil liberties, at keyword ACLU. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ACLU Newsfeed American Civil Liberties Union National Office 132 West 43rd Street New York, New York 10036 To subscribe to the ACLU Newsfeed, send a message to majordomo(a)aclu.org with "subscribe News" in the body of the message. To terminate your subscription, send a message to majordomo(a)aclu.org with "unsubscribe News" in the body of the message. For general information about the ACLU, write to info(a)aclu.org. - ---------------------------------------------------------------This message was sent to the news

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Re: [SCARE]: "If you only knew what we know..."
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 27 May 96 at 0:22, Subir Grewal wrote: > Real world anonymity is difficult to buy, and actions such as murder > (or what you'd like to call "self-defense") take place in the real > world. But that is the principle by which AP operates. That *is* the whole point that seems to miss you: encryption technologies makes that perfectly feasible. I agree that it is a novelty in the history of humankind... > I'd expect a realization of AP to promote a great backlash from a > variety of quarters. Such methods, besides being unethical, are > probably going to be used as fodder to infringe the liberties of > others. During the transition period, definitely. >In other words, a witch-hunt will result, AP advocates > marginalized (if they are discovered). My original reservations, on > the grounds of unjust means still stand, maybe we can return to this > discussion sometime later. Why, is it becoming too hot? Are you tempted to send the cops at Jim Bell's place? > "Religious" fanatics have great appeal, I don't think even AP will > make them "go away", the odds are they'll become martyrs. And we > know where that takes us. Against *whom* will they retaliate? And more down to earth, I bet that in the advent of AP becoming operationnal, their leaders will go down even faster than our own. > I wasn't talking about the legal system in an AP world, but the idea > that AP is justice in some sense. "In a competition between a pickpocket and a murderer, hte murderer always win" -Ayn Rand > Incidentally, a purely civil law > court is what I'd like as well, and competing courts and arbitration > systems sound good to me. Since you said yourself that the actual govt will *never* relinquish power, I find that statement a bit of a contradiction. JFA PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST DOES NOT MEAN THAT I ENDORSE MR. BELL'S SYSTEM. MY RATIONNAL CONCLUSIONS ABOUT IT'S INTERNAL MECHANICS AND IT'S INTRINSIC LOGICS DOES NOT MEAN THAT I LIKE NOR ENDORSE THE SYSTEM. I SIMPLY CONCLUDED THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREVENT THE SYSTEM FROM BEING IMPLEMENTED. IMO, IT IS UNAVOIDABLE. DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Limoges porcelain, Silverware and mouth blown crystal glasses JFA Technologies, R&D consultants. Physists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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Edited Edupage, 26 May 1996
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"educom(a)educom.unc.edu" 27-MAY-1996 14:46:47.89 From: Edupage Editors <educom(a)educom.unc.edu> >FLAT PC SCREENS HEAD FOR THE DESKTOP >Liquid crystal display screens currently cost about five times that of a >similarly-sized cathode ray tube screen, but that should be changing over >the next couple of years, say LCD makers. Next year, major LCD vendors >expect to halve the difference, bringing prices down to two-and-a-half times >that of CRTs. Analysts say when the difference comes down to that point, >the desktop replacement market could really take off. "CRT replacement is >inevitable, it's just that in the near term there are a lot of hurdles," >says an analyst at Stanford Resources. "The place where it makes the most >sense are with large-screen LCDs." NEC recently unveiled a 20-inch >high-resolution LCD screen with wide-angle viewing designed as a >"CRT-killer" according to a NEC engineer. (Investor's Business Daily 23 May >96 A8) IIRC, LCD screens are considerably harder to read off of by Tempest equipment than normal CRT screens. An encouraging change. >NORTHERN TELECOM PHONES GET JAVATIZED >Northern Telecom plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems' Java microprocessors >and software in a new class of inexpensive "smart" telephones designed to >double as Internet appliances. The move makes Northern Telecom the first >telephone manufacturer to license Java chips for its products. The chips >will be used in its wired PowerTouch phones and its wireless digital phones, >and customer trials should start next year. (Wall Street Journal 23 May 96 >B3) I would guess that these phones would still not be crypto-capable, but I'm not quite sure what they have in mind to use Java in them for. -Allen >*************************************************************** >Edupage ... is what you've just finished reading. To subscribe to Edupage: >send mail to: listproc(a)educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage >John McCain (if your name is John McCain; otherwise, substitute your own >name). ... To cancel, send a message to: listproc(a)educom.unc.edu with the >message: unsubscribe edupage. (If you have subscription problems, send >mail to educom(a)educom.unc.edu.)

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