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Official RCMP HateMailer Launched
by RCMP HateMailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Bienfait Nutly News]Dangerous Armed Thugs sitting in parked cars hiding in the alley behind the CoalDust Saloon, waiting to tax the citizens under the obscenely low breath-alcohol laws in place, celebrated the launching of the 'Official RCMP HateMailer' after the sudden and mysterious disasppearance of the 'Official RCMP Hate Page' at a Sympatico website. The unusually high number of vehicles and officers hanging around the small Saskatchewan town was attributed to a 24-hour watch on the former host of the vanished webpage, in the hope of catching him walking on the left side of the sidewalk and arresting him under authority of a law which applied only to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, when it was in force, and was recinded years ago. "We weren't notified of the recinding of the law." one of the waiting constables stated, smiling like a banshee. RCMP officers around the country were angered by what they regarded as trickery and betrayal by a scoundrel who had professed support for the concept of a website where officers could freely express their true thoughts, beliefs and feelings, under cover of their webpage being hosted by a known lunatic and forger, thus providing them with deniability in the event of great public outcry. An anonymous constable (whose home phone number is (306)388-2561) told a local reportwhore, as he had him standing on one foot, singing 'God Save The Queen' and skinning a live cat, blindfolded, "The average citizen expects us to harass the riff-raff, the poor, and the people we stole the land from, in order to keep them in their proper place, but the minute we try to give one another postive public support for our personal and group successes, all we get is a ration of shit." His partner, going through the blindfolded reportwhore's truck seat and pocketing the change, added, "You spend years doing the boring grunt work of oppressing the low-life, and suddenly, you get a chance to achieve one of the premiere experiences of your professional career. You get to whack out a WagonBurner. "But just try *bragging* about it." he continued, shaking his head sadly about the hypocritical criticism of the citizens who cry out to be protected from those with less money or social standing than themselves, and then turn around and cry 'shame' when those hired to do the job ask for their efforts to be appreciated. Mounties everywhere were outraged when the website was suddenly Yanked out of Canuck CyberSpace by an unknown entity. Speculation among the RCMP rank and file was that the website host had wiped out the website pages himself, and then concocted a wild conspiracy theory involving police abuse of power and the violation of free speech and the Canadian Charter of Rights. "That fucking asshole son-of-a-bitch is well known for taking facts which can be explained quite simply and using them to build some bizarre, inane story that reflects badly on those in positios of authority. "There was no huge, dark conspiracy to seize his computer and files. The Customs officer at Regway is thinking of buying a laptop, and he simply confiscated the man's computer so that he could try one out for a while before making a decision. The RCMP officers who drove down from Regina to break into his house were just making sure that the place was secure during his absence. They thought they should take his nephew's computer in order to find out if he had any illegally acquired Warez files, so that we could imprison the child and save him from a life of crime. "Conspiracy, my ass...it was just two separate instances of ordinary, everyday abuse of the citizens that he has magnified into some deep, dark plot in order to feed his paranoid fantasies." The general consensus among the drunken, licentious crowd gathered around the Video Lottery machines in the pub was that the man in question was "pretty much toast," since the Mounties 'always get their man,' as a result of many of them coming from small farming communities and having a great deal of experience in 'planting.' Some of average, small town alcoholics were of the opinion that the Official RCMP Hate Page was rather self-serving and vastly overblown, anyway. "That little glue-sniffer that the Mountie whacked out while he was clinging to his momma's skirt was pretty skinny...I doubt that he was worth more than fifty points, max." As I was leaving, the blindfolded reportwhore threw up on the shoes of the officer giving him the drunk-test, and those waiting in line to be humiliated and abused gave him an average of 9.6 for style, 9.8 for presentation, and a perfect 10 for artistic merit, since he had eaten an all-dressed pizza for dinner.

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Re: Apps: Unix for Windows 95
by AwakenToMe＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Is this for REAL?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

- OFFICIAL RCMP HATEMAILER - "Police physicians still slap newborn babies on their soft little bottoms because they know that this new little citizen will eventually be guilty of _something_!" - This message is NOT from from some namby-pamby, pacifist citizen who bitches and whines every time that Canada hosts foreign dictators who know how to keep their citizens in line (to conserve the firing squad's bullets). It was remailed by *real* men and women who have the guts to make citizens *pay* for attempting to draw attention to non-official viewpoints and values by assaulting them with potentially deadly toxix substances. Send all complaints and requests for blocking to: <PRESIDENT(a)WHITEHOUSE.GOV>. -

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by ballman＠thebestemail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by owner-cypherpunks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Sympatico Reaches Compromise With Censored Author
by RCMP HateMailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Bienfait Nutly News]SYMPATICO, A CANADIAN INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER, reached a compromise with a notoriously unknown Saskatchwan author whose website had been destroyed after the ISP was threatened with legal and physical violence by Royal Canuckian Mounted Police. Sympatico agreed to restore 'half' of the author's 'Semi-Revisionism' webpage, which espouses the view that the Holocaust, although a true 3D event, was neither fact nor fiction, but merely "overblown." The half-restored webpage originally had a variety of links to sites on the InterNet which provided information confirming the author's theory that a variety of ethnic groups were the targets of genocide during World War II, and that the real reason behind most of the Revisionist literature on the InterNet was the result of the Jews milking their tragedy for more sympathy (and money) than the other ethnic groups. "If the same events took place in today's society," the author speculates, "then the resulting media frenzy would ensure that all parties involved would receive a proportionate share of the gigantic rubber-necker/tragedy market. "As it is, it happened that the Jews managed to corner the small genocide-sympathy market that existed at the time, and succeeded in building a Holocaust Empire that was able to squash all competition from the survivors of other ethnic massacres." The Anti-SemiRevisionist Coalition, fighting against the current DOJ anti-trust actions targeting the Jewish monopoly of the genocide market, agreed to make Holocaust promoter Simon Wisenthal and Zundelsite's revisionist creator, Ingrid Rimland, joint chairmen of the Coalition. They joined together in arguing that breaking up the Jewish Holocaust monopoly would destroy the genocide market and eventually lead to minor ethnic groups who had only experienced "inconvenience and discomfort" to saturate the market with inferior horror stories. "Already, we are seeing examples of people with short numbers tatooed on their arms, pressing for equal rights legislation." one alleged Holocaust victim told gathered reporterwhores. However, when a German reportwhore pointed out that the man had a Scandanavian nose and name, the man's tattoo, upon closer inspection, turned out to be three lines of Perl code. The man was immediately seized by the the host of the Politically Correct TV show and deported to a Death of the CypherPunks camp run by Declan McCullagh outside of Bienfait, Saskatchwan.

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Re: www.anonymizer.com
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:53 PM 7/25/96 -0700, mpd(a)netcom.com (Mike Duvos) wrote: >I had occasion to try www.anonymizer.com recently, and noticed >that it does not make SSL connections to other Web servers, nor >does it seem to accept them from the user. > >Is there some technical reason for this? If I wish to grep the >Web without my browsing habits becoming known to someone >monitoring my Net connection, https://www.anonymizer.com with 128 >bit encryption would probably be a good thing to connect to. I suspect the primary reason is "that takes work we haven't done yet" rather than anything more cryptographic :-) However, there are a couple of theoretical problems with doing it as well. 0A) Suppose You and Webserver are secure by definition (because otherwise you're hosed anyway....) 0B) Let -s- denote an SSL connection and --- denote a non-SSL connection. 0C) A connection from You-s-Webserver is as secure as SSL. 1) A connection from You-s-Anonymizer-s-Webserver is less secure, because any flaw or breakin or dishonesty or compromise of the Anonymizer compromises the security of your connection. 1A) You may get ripped off or arrested if the Anonymizer's compromised 1B) The Anonymizer may be liable if you get ripped off through it. 2) An SSL connection may carry a certain amount of indentification data across it (I'm speculating a bit), which isn't really what you want in an Anonymizer. 3) A connection You-s-Anonymizer-s-Webserver may not always work the same as You-s-Webserver, because the latter may make assumptions about the connection that don't hold with the former. 3A) Of course, that's also true with non-SSL connections*, but there's less likely to be money riding on the deal. 3B) In particular, there may be different identification data passing across the Anonymized connection than the non-Anonymized. 3C) You may trust the Anonymizer and not the Webserver, or vice versa, and SSL probably isn't designed to do both correctly. 3D) The Webserver may trust the Anonymizer and not You, or vice versa, and SSL probably isn't designed to handle those correctly either. 4) The Anonymizer may have different encryption types/strengths than You or the Webserver. 4A) If You only do 40-bit RC4 and the Anonymizer can do 3DES, the Webserver may think it's got a secure connection when your end is weak - especially a problem if the Anonymizer is a popular wiretap target. This can be remedied by having the Anonymizer only make https: connections to Webservers at the same strength as its connection to You, which either requires annoyingly complex programming (bad) or a cheap hack like running several Anonymizer servers, one with wimpy encryption and one with strong encryption. 4B) If You have a strong crypto connection to the Anonymizer and the Webserver only has wimpy RC4/40, there isn't any good way for the Anonymizer to tell you about it - so your browser may be happily telling you it's got a two-toothed 3DES/RSA-2048 connection while it's really just RC4/40/RSA-512. 4B1)And that happy Java+JavaScript application your browser is running can check that it's got the MachoCrypto flag set and send your credit card number and Secret Plans to the Secret Plan Evaluation Service Website, which is a Bad Move... 4B2)Maybe you could program the Anonymizer to check out https:URLs to see what kind of crypto they support, and return anonymizered URLs that use the different-strength Anonymizers referred to in 4A. Not sure this would always work. 5) The extra RSA encryption from using SSL would probably cause a non-trivial amount of extra load for the anonymizer machine. Summary: Having said all that, I'd probably still like to have it. <<<<>>>> * Frames, for instance, do bizzare things when anonymized, at least with Netscape 3.0b5. Frames are, of course, _evil_, and are banned by the CDA, and anyone who uses them should be flamed mercilessly and forced to use Lynx on a 24x80 monochrome display until he or she repents and sees the error of their ways, and if that doesn't work they should be exiled to AOL with only Microsoft Word Internet Assistant. But that's a flame for another day.... <<<<>>>> # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Confuse Authority!

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Re: Burden of proof
by mike＠fionn.lbl.gov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Aug 15, 7:25pm, Scottauge(a)aol.com wrote: > system to not deal with such and such bank (or datahaven)? How are you going > to get it out and spend them deniros? Make 'em an offer they can't refuse ?^)

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No Subject
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 7/25/96, Louis Freeh said: - - In the Aldrich Ames spy case, where Ames was told by his Soviet - handlers to encrypt computer file information to them. - - - In a child pornography case, where one of the subjects used - encryption in transmitting obscene and pornographic images of children - over the Internet. - - - In a major drug-trafficking case, where one of the subjects of one - of the court-ordered wiretaps used a telephone encryption device which - frustrated the surveillance. - - - Some of the anti-Government Militia groups are now advocating the - use of encryption as a means of preventing law enforcement from - properly investigating them. Thats 4 count em FOUR horsemen. Have a nice day.

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Bernstein files for partial summary judgement in crypto case
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's the press release on the latest development in the Bernstein case. Mark your calendars for the "oral arguments" on this motion, which cypherpunks are invited to attend in full formal dress regalia. The hearing will occur on September 20 at high noon, in San Francisco. Bring your Stetson. Check the URL at the bottom of this message to see the latest filings in the case. It'll take us a day or two to get them all in there. We have statements from various crypto luminaries about the impact of ITAR on the free exchange of software, etc. The government's cross-motion, arguing their side of the issue, will arrive within days, and we'll scan that in as well. John BERNSTEIN FILES FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN CRYPTO CASE Claims Government's Restrictions on Export of Cryptographic Speech Violates First Amendment July 26, 1996 Electronic Frontier Foundation Contacts: Shari Steele, Staff Counsel 301/375-8856, ssteele(a)eff.org Mike Godwin, Staff Counsel 510/548-3290, mnemonic(a)eff.org Lori Fena, Executive Director 415/436-9333, lori(a)eff.org San Francisco, CA -- A University of Illinois at Chicago faculty member who is suing the U.S. Department of State will file a motion Friday that could strengthen his claim that government restrictions on information about cryptography violate the First Amendment's protections for freedom of speech. Relying on Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's prior ruling that computer source code is speech protected by the First Amendment, mathematician Daniel J. Bernstein will file a motion for partial summary judgment in his suit against the State Department. In his 45-page memorandum in support of his motion, Bernstein sets forth several First Amendment arguments: LEGAL ARGUMENTS * Any legal framework that requires a license for First Amendment protected speech, which may be granted or withheld at the discretion of a government official, is a prior restraint on speech. In order for this framework to be acceptable, the government has the burden of showing that publication will "surely result in direct, immediate, and irreparable damage to our Nation or its people" and that the regulation at issue is necessary to prevent this damage. The government has not met this burden regarding the ITAR legal framework. * Because restrictions on speech about cryptography are content-based, the court must apply a strict scrutiny test in determining whether individuals can be punished for engaging in this speech. A strict scrutiny test requires that a regulation be necessary to serve a compelling state interest and that it is narrowly drawn to achieve that end. The ITAR regulatory scheme has adopted the *most* restrictive approach by prohibiting all speech in the area of cryptography. * The ITAR regulatory framework lacks the necessary procedural safeguards. Grants of administrative discretion must be limited by clear standards, and judicial review must be available. "Quite simply, the ITAR Scheme allows its administrative agencies to make inconsistent, incorrect and sometimes incomprehensible decisions censoring speech, all without the protections of judicial review or oversight." * The ITAR framework is unconstitutionally vague. The government doesn't even seem to know what its regulations include and exclude! Here, the lack of standards has allowed the government to misuse a statute aimed at commercial, military arms sales to limit academic and scientific publication. * The ITAR regulatory scheme is overbroad. In an internal memo written almost 20 years ago, the government's own Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the ITAR s licensing standards "are not sufficiently precise to guard against arbitrary and inconsistent administrative action." The OLC specifically warned that the coverage was so broad it could apply to "communication of unclassified information by a technical lecturer at a university or to the conversation of a United States engineer who meets with foreign friends at home to discuss matters of theoretical interest." This is exactly what is happening here, and it is unconstitutional. CASE BACKGROUND While a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, Bernstein completed the development of an encryption equation (an "algorithm") he calls "Snuffle." Bernstein wishes to publish a) the algorithm, (b) a mathematical paper describing and explaining the algorithm, and (c) the "source code" for a computer program that incorporates the algorithm. Bernstein also wishes to discuss these items at mathematical conferences, college classrooms and other open, public meetings. The Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (the ITAR regulatory scheme) required Bernstein to submit his ideas about cryptography to the government for review, to register as an arms dealer, and to apply for and obtain from the government a license to publish his ideas. Failure to do so would result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Bernstein believes this is a violation of his First Amendment rights and has sued the government. In the first phase of this litigation, the government argued that since Bernstein's ideas were expressed, in part, in source code, they were not protected by the First Amendment. On April 15, 1996, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in the Northern District of California rejected that argument and held for the first time that computer source code is protected speech for purposes of the First Amendment. Because of its far-reaching implications, the Bernstein case is being watched closely by privacy advocates, the computer industry, the export and cryptography communities, and First Amendment activists. In fact, several members of these communities provided declarations that were submitted in support of Bernstein's motion. ABOUT THE ATTORNEYS Lead counsel on the case is Cindy Cohn of the San Mateo law firm of McGlashan & Sarrail, who is offering her services pro bono. Major additional pro bono legal assistance is being provided by Lee Tien of Berkeley; M. Edward Ross of the San Francisco law firm of Steefel, Levitt & Weiss; and James Wheaton and Elizabeth Pritzger of the First Amendment Project in Oakland. ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to online resources and information. EFF is a primary sponsor of the Bernstein case. EFF helped to find Bernstein pro bono counsel, is a member of the Bernstein legal team, and helped collect members of the academic community and computer industry to support this case. Full text of the lawsuit and other paperwork filed in the case is available from EFF's online archives: http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/ ftp.eff.org, pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/ gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/

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