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Re: MD5 completely broken! -- JOKE
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

april 1 is not very near on my calendar, wiseguy. Subject: Re: MD5 completely broken! To: vznuri(a)netcom.com (Vladimir Z. Nuri) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:10:33 -0500 (CDT) From: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: > this is front page of new york times fodder for sure > if what you claim is true. in fact it is a *major* > *major* breakthrough if real. I would expect many > months of press fallout based on it. in fact if > for real, you are guaranteed instant worldwide fame. I agree, but my message was a joke. - Igor.

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Re: Software manpower exports and the power of governments
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 13:23 16/08/96 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > > It is overwhelmingly clear that the question is simply who has the > > power? Those who wish to hire peoples services in order to produce > > wealth, or those who can command peoples services because they have > > guns? At 06:17 PM 8/17/96 +0600, Arun Mehta wrote: > Are you suggesting that Indian programmers come to work with like > a chain gang, with armed government guard? No. I am suggesting that the more that power over business activities and decisions lies with those who do not need to make a profit or serve the customers needs, the less of value will be produced. > Look, governments in the 3rd world are often stupid and corrupt > -- no doubt that contributes to poverty, but that isn't the only > reason. I'm sure one of the reasons is cultural: Was the culture of the refugees who fled to Hong Kong any different from those who failed to escape from Communist China? --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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Post Office restrictions
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've told some people about a few of the loopholes mentioned on the list about the new post office restrictions on airmail packages. What's disturbing is that none of the people I'd talked to, all of whom are at least reasonably intelligent, had thought or heard, for instance, that PanAm103 only took 12 ounces or that someone could just send two packages. How does the news media justify its existence? (Down here, it seems to be serving as a propaganda arm for the Republicans)

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Hackers invade DOJ web site
by Mike McNally 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN online (http://www.cnn.com) is reporting a "breakin" by "hackers" to the DOJ web site. They don't elaborate exactly how thy did it. ______c_________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being, m5(a)tivoli.com * m101(a)io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.

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Final release of Navigator (with strong crypto) now available
by Jeff Weinstein 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The final release of Navigator 3.0, complete with non-exportable strong crypto, is now available for download by US citizens. Note that this is the released version of 3.0, so it will not expire. You can get it from: http://wwwus.netscape.com/eng/US-Current/ --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw(a)netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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Possible opportunity for school recruitment
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One wonders if they could be persuaded, in return for a donation of money or time, to include some cypherpunks-related web pages; these could include ones on PGP and on anonymous remailers, so they could later get email & ftp access and use these. -Allen > Centura > CYBERED BIG RIG TRUCKS INTERNET ACCESS TO SCHOOLS > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > Copyright &copy 1996 Los Angeles Daily News > LOS ANGELES (Aug 17, 1996 00:00 a.m. EDT) -- Like some futuristic, > hi-tech bookmobile, "Ed" came calling on Charles Maclay Middle School > in suburban Los Angeles. [...] > The privately funded CyberEd program is designed to provide hands-on > Internet experience and advanced, on-line communications training. > "Ed" -- a veritable cyber classroom on wheels, offers personal > computers, Internet connectivity and CD-ROMS, as well as presentation > facilities, printing, faxing and video conferencing capabilities. [...] > Inside the yellow-and-black big rig in the Pacoima section of Los > Angeles, children and teachers alike tried their hand at surfing the > Net, pointing and clicking and generally immersing themselves in > everything from home pages of fellow students to cyberchats with > astronauts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration > headquarters in Houston. [...] > Plank said a $3 million fund-raising campaign was under way to > bankroll a fleet of rigs modeled after "Ed," each with a different > technological focus -- manufacturing, media, biotechnical and other > disciplines. > CyberEd is funded by the MCI Foundation, the William G. McGowan > Charitable Fund, DSC Communications Corp., Milken Family Foundation, > Corning Incorporated and Microsoft. > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net

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Re: Protecting floating datahavens?
by Sean Sutherland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Sat Aug 17 20:15:22 1996 > The basic risks with such things are: > 1) Getting governments to agree to leave you alone. If you're doing a > 2) Getting governments and other pirates to actually leave you alone. > 3) Making it work financially, for the proprietors and tenants/co-owners. > 4) Convincing investors that you're safe enough on 1) and 2) Auctually, the one real big problem is that the data is all in one place. Rememeber that the whole point of a data haven isn't secure backup -- it's secure storage. And if the place gets blown sky-high (which can easily be done discreetly and possibly made to look like an accident), all the data is going to be lost, and you're basically screwed. The only workable solution to this that I can see has nothing to do with floating countries or anything of the sort. Instead, the use of data-splitting programs could be used. I'm not all up on the security or reliability of these programs, so if I'm making unwarranted assumptions, guess I did a lot of typing for nothing. This has probably been proposed before, too, but what the hey... For example, lets say you set up an office in 100 countries (it would be more effective to have more, but let's say 100). Through the use of anonymous remailers and encryption, he could apply for a customer ID number and password. To avoid any possibility of forgery, such IDs could be prehaps 100kb-1Mb (this is just for confirmation of identy when sending the data into the data havens -- shorter IDs would be used for identifcation). Then, he could split the program into 100 parts, with (say) 70 parts being needed to restore the entire file. He would then encrypt and send each of these files to each remailer through the Internet. To get the data back, he would send in the ID and password, encrypted again, to the nessecary number of offices in order to retrieve the data. Payment, if nessecary, could be made by anonymous bank transfer or something like ecash. Proprietary encryption systems (PGP-like, with IDEA/RSA hybrid in it, but can accept 5000+ bit keys and padding) might be used, as well. This scheme has several pluses. One, it doesn't rely on any fancy legal manuevering with off-shore nationalities and crap. Second, it isn't very vunerable. They would need to get legal jurisdiction in 70 different countries to sieze the data, and then they have the encryption to deal with. Third, if there's any server problems, it wouldn't affect the entire system. Fourth, you don't have to attach missle launchers and hire a private security force to defend it. There are several problems, though. First, it relies on the Internet, something which is inherantly insecure anyway. Second, if someone's being wiretapped in their own country, then the whole effort is in vain. Third, it would be incredibly costly, but probably no more so than any kind of off-shore platforms. In fact, it would probably be cheaper. Any comments? - --- Sean Sutherland | GCS/C d- s+:+ a--- C+++ V--- P L E- W++ N++ K w o O-(++) Key: E43E6489 | M-- V PS+ PE++ Y PGP++ t--- 5+++ X++ R b++ DI+ D+ G e- Vote Browne '96 | h! !r y -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Key: finger or email w/ 'send key' in subj. http://www2.interconnect.net/maverick iQEVAwUBMhZuq1ZoKRrkPmSJAQE9QQf7B+ikk1/dFKyydIzQkGcfX8+srK5GeRlr 5IhEFkXJY34dI4Dqg/yKQ6m/XwRMyqPHxcyV6lR6qU9ngaawBWjd1Q+HBtCOzEs6 Ch8AgTq5CWox8/7FZKz32xGJCVpPJ+etzeJSK2kqKfPnTW+yhz7rch+DIvEJKnM1 ktlxsi/3c1Hn89OLZrCHUeJQqBMoU7rVnmVv6sfGVUQuwJ09yWT457HCN7dZbH1z Nrc+w7ewlxivH1r6KZ1DNk8BJrroQXD7mSHvXmEwyTiyr9DzaPhtlllarz/iPNFF 295F/4Cj9K2HiwJfKH7pDy60OKLBGP72xnc0cjxj8TlIp/KDY7VsPQ== =BNfl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[NOISE] Re: Greetings from Whore.com
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nope. No web access. However, when school is back in session, and I get my radio show back and head back to the computer labs... <cackles evilly> Greetings from <property not found>, Daniel.

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Re: Orbiting Datahavens
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Or About 2 Jul 96, 17:06, Brian Lane wrote: > to have a backup satellite in case of a disaster. Once the Delta > Clipper is functional They did have that big wreck a couple of weeks ago. I am not sure of the salvage status. Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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Re: Greetings from Whore.com
by Charley Sparks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, it was getting a bit "stiff" in here.... but I guess 'ya never can tell.. I haven't checked it out.. has anybody ?

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