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RE: Yeo, Pea-brained Imbecile
by Michael Peponis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Economist, 16 March 1996, pp. 42-43. Asia and the Internet: Not too modern, please Here is my two cents on the whole subject of countries wanting to recieve the technical and economic benifits of the internet, but reject groups they have moral or ethical problems with. Like myself, there are a number of subscribers on this list that maintain sites, archives, or have public domain software. Given the plethera of reports like this, I will start maintaining a list of country that will not be given access to my site, no FTP, no HTTP, no nothing, on top of that, I will hard code into all the new versions of my network aware programs to check for a domain subfix, if it is on of the black list, the software will not function. Thus until policies I find offencive are not changed, everything I create will not be acceptable or functional within those regions. I am only one person, but if this practice becomes common place, those countries will find that their access is limited to their own limited world view, and can only obtain goods and services that they create themselves. They want isolation, let them enjoy the full benifits of that decision. One thing I would like to see happen rather quickly is to eliminate thier access to usenet, or other areas of common knowledge. It seems they want the benifits of the technical expertise of the western "morally defuct" experts, but not the opinions of those ares. Well it's an all or nothing deal. Filtering works both ways, they filter out the political and sex groups on their end, we filter out the technical information on ours, I hope they enjoy what is left, which is not much. Regards, Michael Peponis PGP Key Avalible from MIT Key Server

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Cypherpunk Enquirer
by enquirer＠alpha.c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE CYPHERPUNK ENQUIRER "Encyphering minds want to know." The recent opening of One Time Pad season was a resounding success, with previously unknown competitors Internet.Security.Guaranteed throwing out the first troll. Unfortunately, the annual cypherpunk contest may have to be renamed as it has been discovered that the phrase "One Time Pad" has been trademarked by the Kotex division of Johnson & Johnson. A second entrant, Stonewall-Drawbridge, was disqualified when it was found that the so-called "Infinite Venegere Key (IVK)" is the same one used by the New York Times for its popular Sunday Cypher series. Dr. Fred Cohen, noted virus expert and President of Info-Sec, recently announced the discovery of a new Internet security threat, the telnet bomb. First discovered when Dr. Cohen found, to his surprise, that people were actually trying to access the information that Info-Sec was posting on the Internet, this insidious attack seems to only go after sites that are getting down on their knees and begging for it by announcing to the world that people are actually trying to access our site and if you don't stop, we're going to tell the CERT and the FBI on you. Info-Sec quickly announced its solution, a $20,000 "Air Wall" (tm) turnkey computer with it's serial ports and ISA and PCI bus slots filled with crazy glue. Tim May's IQ dropped ten points today after the noted cypherpunk and retired Intel engineer was stopped at the Mexican border by Customs agents, who seized and confiscated over two hundred grams of an "unspecified pharmaceutical substance". Mr. May was released on his own recognizance when presented with an Alta Vista list of over two hundred aliases he has used to post to various Internet newsgroups and mailing lists and admitting, "Yup, that's me!". Eric Blossom has announced that CPLite is NOT out of business, but the S/N ratio has been so low for the past month that no posts made it through the CPLite filtering system. Not a single subscriber has requested a refund, claiming, en masse, "Hey, that's what we pay him for!". Asgaard's popular web site, a revisionist view of Viking history, has relocated to c2.org after being shut down by his original ISP due to complaints from the French government, which has declared as illegal Asgaard's claim that the Viking raiders were not actually early terrorists, but merely law-abiding tourists who didn't take any shit from rude French waiters. Surfwatch today reinstated access to AOL after the Wall Street Journal explained that their claim that AOL was "getting into bed with Bill Gates" was standard business school terminology and did not refer to consensual sexual activities. Neither party has responded to requests to clarify who was pitching and who was catching. Jim Bell died this week when a homemade "nuclear detonator" exploded in his hands. The detonator was immediately awarded the over ten thousand dollars bet on Mr. Bell in the Blacknet "Dead Pool" when the committee decided that the detonator had correctly predicted Mr. Bell's time and place of death, and that the prediction of "death by radiation poisoning" was "close enough for cypherpunk work." Nathaniel Borenstein was arrested on sexual harassment charges today after several female employees of First Virtual reported that he had been wandering around the offices for the past two months sniffing their keyboards. Next time in the Enquirer - the photos that DIDN'T get posted at www.c2.org/party/masquerade! How far did Lucky Green get his hands up Peter Pan's costume? What was Sandy Sandfort REALLY doing with that gun, or was he just happy to see her? What WAS that strange religious icon under "Father" Eric Blossom's robe? Did Dan Farmer REALLY design the rec room? Encyphering minds want to know!

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Commercial crypto in Zurich
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just got back from doing some consulting in Europe. In the Zurich airport, there was a large illuminated sign (near the business class lounges) that proclaimed: Reliable cipher systems for absolute telecom protection TST 7790 Secure telephone, sat phone, ISDN TST 5573 F/U Fax ciphering TST 5573C Data ciphering with 10 EXP 80 Key TST 4045 HF SSB krypto modem TST 8010 Spread spectrum transceiver TST TeleSecurity Timmann Timman Gmbh Lutzing, Germany Full color photos of all of the above products were displayed. No technical details on the cryptosystems being used, but quite refreshing, considering the current state of things in the good old US of A...

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nootropic drugs, etc...
by Phil G. Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Path: hks.net!news-mail-gateway!owner-cypherpunks From: asgaard(a)sos.sll.se (Asgaard) The reason FDA has not approved this drug is most probably because it does not make mildly retarded boys less retarded. But of course, ... Well, it wasn't until the past year that the FDA approved depakote for things like bipolar disorder. It can be prescribed for seizures. Psychiatrists have been prescribing it to their manic-depressive patients for the past ten years to help with their "seizures" when the patients have been unable to tolerate the lithium to treat their "seizures." (Depakote is usually used as an anticonvulsant.) I suspect the FDA hasn't ever approved _anything_ as a nootropic. And I guess the nootropic in question isn't useful for something else. Depakote has been known safe and successful for about ten years for the treatment of bipolar disorder. It's been approved for that for the last year. If the FDA had been more zealous, they would have probably forced many people into nine years or so of the progression of bipolar disorder _or_ lithium toxicity. on snake oil. It becomes more difficult to uphold a pure market philosophy when it comes to poisonous snake oil or, as is often the case with potent drugs, effective oil but which will kill you from side effects after a delay. FDA has a very good reputation of not 'recommending' drugs with (delayed) adverse effects outweighing the beneficial ones. Why not let the patients research the drugs themselves? They'll find out more than their doctors will ever tell them. [...] Until this happens, trust FDA. Have you ever stopped and wondered just how many drugs out there cause birth defects, and asked yourself why thalidomide is illegal and other drugs are legal? Asgaard Phil

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Re: The return of the IPG Unbreakable System
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>| I have entered into no agreements to inspect, test or validate the IPG >| software suite. In the absence of a valid contract for my services, I >| shall not inspect, test or offer opinions regarding the security of this >| product. IPG Sales is specificly enjoined from using my nym in any >| reference to validation of their product. Further, IPG is cautioned >| against using "cypherpunks" as a validation reference, as my >| subscription to this mailing list could then be construed as >| contributing to the claim of validation. This action is intended to >| guard against claims of the form "roy(a)sendai.cybrspc.mn.org has been >| unable to break our system", among others. >| >| Note to IPG: I review all contract offers. Feel free to contact me for >| terms, but be advised that I'm somewhat expensive. >| >| Note to c'punks: apologies for burning listwidth, but this looks like >| the proper Publication of Record for this notice. > > I'd like to add my name to Roy's letter. I also received an >unsoliceted (1700 line) copy of an algorithim. I do intend to review >it. I strongly caution IPG against using my name in their >advertising. > >Adam > > For my part, I invited them to submit their information to me; however, I have to jump on the wagon here and also state publicly that this implies no obligation on my part, nor my permission to use any information about me in their advertising or other material. Thank you. geeman(a)best.com >

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Re: The return of the IPG Unbreakable System
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- No copy of this program has arrived in my mailbox, which is a good thing. I am no cryptography expert. Even _I_, however, see massive problems in letting _others_ generate my crypto-keys for me. If this egomaniac gets the respected experts on this list to review his software at no cost, & if the experts actually say, "he's right, it's unbreakable," the system will still have this weakness. This is even worse than the "Power One Time Pad" snakeoil. Am I missing something? JMR Regards, Jim Ray <liberty(a)gate.net> "The era of big government is over." -- Bill Clinton "Prepare for the era of _HUGE_ government." -- Jim Ray _______________________________________________________________________ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Public Key id. # E9BD6D35 -- http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray _______________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh. iQCVAwUBMU8JKW1lp8bpvW01AQFK2gQAlxTZlfC9Dwx6nbbliSMxYqMp9Uvf9y0r ntFZfobQQ4OZsX0cNGDYIvwWMDztV+07d/seEqqEnGVvk8yFqcKPuFIo/WyFqxEc TqDzCp/i1XtndHDrfJb4hZDgizJKHXXrHO2dfuTecxS9uTgFvT3bUuTOfJme2hOx DNZz/Sm5rfs= =SaSo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Judge blocks French ISPs from connecting to revisionist sites
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:30 PM 3/17/96 -0800, Rich Graves wrote: > In other news, Holocaust Revisionist mgiwer(a)combase.com (Matt Giwer) has > been *openly bragging* about getting a political opponent kicked off of a > conservative Texas ISP. The main difference between the French and Texas > cases being that the information on Rack Jite's web pages was true, and > the information on the Holocaust Revisionist sites is not. I guess that's > not important, though, since by definition, Political Correctness only > targets the right. Jack Rite was kicked off for gross and repeated violations of netiquette, not for his political views. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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: Judge blocks French ISPs from connecting to revisionist sites
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:07 PM 3/18/96 +0100, Anonymous wrote: > >So that y'all can see what the fuss is about, try the following sites : A far better site that is not being censored is: http://members.aol.com/ironfrog/ubootwaffe/brown.html > Institute for Holocaust Revisionism > <a href="http://www.kaiwan.com/~ihrgreg"> This site is not blocked. Greg Raven is a serious Neo-Nazi wacko who took over the IHR by force. The police were called in to break up the fight, and the Nazis spent some time suing each other for control. See the Willis Carto/IHR FAQ for alt.revisionism. > Committee for Open Debate On the Holocaust > <a href="http://www.valleynet.com/~brsmith/"> This site is not blocked. The "censorship" page is full of events that never happened. Brian acknowledges that the errors I pointed out are errors, but complains that he "doesn't have time" to go back and correct them. He has had time, though, to add more events that never happened. See the URL below [sic]. See also http://www.stormfront.org/, which has widely been reported to have been "censored." It's not. That front page is just Don Black's idea of a joke. See http://www.stormfront.org/stormfront/, http://www2.stormfront.org/default.htm, and http://www3.stormfront.org/. The Nazis are quite well-connected. IHR uses AOL because they *want* to be censored so that they can play victim, and get more support from the otherwise reasonable people here. Even Steve Case knows this, which is why, uncharacteristically, he isn't booting them off. -rich http://www.c2.org/~rich/Press/Swedish/

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Request for reference info + Possible job offer
by Edgar Swank 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I would like people to send me (pointers to) reference information on how to write WinSock-compliant client software. Also tools required, hopefully free/shareware ones. The particular application of interest is a "web-crawler" which can log certain information in web pages it finds. If such reference information is not available or forthcoming, but there are people reading this who nevertheless know how to write such software, they are invited to contact me about contracting to write such an application for a negotiable payment. Please respond by Email, as I only subscribe to a digest of the Cypherpunks list. Edgar W. Swank <edgar(a)Garg.Campbell.CA.US> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMU4jnN4nNf3ah8DHAQEdwgP/RaYtSbT9RCA2MtR3++r6U7Sj9HAYKFZp GKunKKgDaE+/7mb08ixOq4/rtZ0THqwb9GyrYhoebKPKX3HeHIv4y4JbrG06zIMg YZQg7ex2YSZXBu2xcjuXDaVsLIdhpfBaJsuJ8RKODIFtElvXJkMpIaJFVAXg9P7K r8/2os1uMfs= =PgH7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- edgar(a)Garg.Campbell.CA.US (Edgar Swank) The Land of Garg BBS -- +1 408 378-5108

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ANNOUNCE: Donut: Web Basic Interpreter. (fwd)
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just received this as the moderator for comp.os.ms-windows.announce. Would that be "Donut" as in "big hole"? -rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:56:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Burford <mj_burford(a)pnl.gov> To: comp-os-ms-windows-announce(a)cs.washington.edu Newgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: Donut: Web Basic Interpreter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richland, WA. March 20, 1996. Battelle Memorial Institute today released Donut (1.00 Alpha 1), a Visual Basic form Interpreter for the Web. Donut is a program that allows a Visual Basic form file to be transmitted over the internet and viewed on a user's computer as a form. This form will then interact with the user and their web browser to send or request information just like a normal Visual Basic program. Donut does not require any Visual Basic files or DLLs in order to work. This will allow creation of web forms that give the author more control over exactly what the form will look like, allows interaction between the Donut applet and the user's browser, and allows processing of form information on the user's computer instead of on the server. And it allows you to use existing expertise with the very popular and common Visual Basic programming language to do so. Currently Donut is available for the Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows 3.x, Windows 95 or NT). It works with any Windows web browser that supports the standard interprocess (DDE) communication for web browsers. It has been tested and works with Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and several variations of Mosaic. Donut should be able to run most simple Visual Basic programs with few if any modifications. (Unlike VBScript where you must now cut and paste the source code into a HTML page.) Donut is available without charge to end users. For more information or to obtain Donut and development information: http://apc.pnl.gov:2080/donut/ Microsoft, Windows and Visual Basic are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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