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Jimbelling the Sheep
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The FBI informant who orchestrated the capture of the recent "Anthrax Terrorists" turns out to be a man twice convicted of felony extortion. He presently markets something called "The AZ-58 Ray Tube Frequency Instrument Prototype" which he advertises as being able to somehow purify the body of bacteria and viruses. Sounds like a rehash of Radionics. You may view the contraption at its very own web site, http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/jmckenzie ----- LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Far from planning an anthrax attack, William Leavitt Jr. was involved in a bizarre deal to buy a $2 million germ-killing machine from an FBI informant who double-crossed him, Leavitt's lawyers said Friday. Leavitt was described by his attorneys as a well-meaning, if gullible scientist. He and Larry Wayne Harris, both microbiologists, were arrested in suburban Henderson Wednesday outside a medical office and charged with conspiracy to possess and possession of a biological agent. His lawyers said Leavitt was operating under the assumption that what Harris had was Anthrax vaccine, which is legal and safe. The FBI was awaiting tests Friday to determine if it was vaccine or material grade anthrax, which is potent enough to kill thousands of people. Leavitt is married with three children and runs his own fire-protection business. The FBI says he also owns microbiological laboratories in his hometown of Logandale, Nev., and Frankfurt, Germany. His criminal attorney, Lamond Mills, said the FBI's informant, Ronald Rockwell, was trying to ``scam'' Leavitt into buying a germ-killing machine. ``When he couldn't scam 'em, he went the other way. He became a good guy for the FBI,'' Mills said. Leavitt's business lawyer, Kirby Wells, said the machine was called the AZ-58 Ray Tube Frequency Instrument Prototype, and was hyped by Rockwell in glossy brochures as being able to flush the body clean of bacteria and viruses. ``It looked like a bunch of bells and whistles,'' said Wells, who said he saw a picture of the machine. ``What made my client believe there was substance to that thing, I don't know. I wish I did.'' A promotion on the Internet has a bold headline: ``ANTHRAX,'' and goes on to say the AZ-58 ``can treat large numbers of people at the same time.'' ``Has the greatest health discovery in history been suppressed?'' the ad asks. Leavitt was close to buying the machine in a $2 million deal, but wanted to test it before making a $100,000 down-payment and arranged to fly Harris to Las Vegas about a week ago to help, said Wells. Leavitt believed that Harris was transporting anthrax vaccine, Mills said. But Rockwell told the FBI that Leavitt described it as military-grade. On the''NBC Nightly News'' Friday, Rockwell reiterated that Leavitt and Harris said they had military grade anthrax. ``They lied on what they were going to do,'' Rockwell said. ``It scared me so bad.'' There is no phone listing for Rockwell in the Las Vegas area. His attorney has not returned calls to The Associated Press. Leavitt and Harris were arrested Wednesday night after the FBI, with Rockwell's help, tailed the men to a medical office in suburban Henderson. Authorities removed a cooler and petri dishes from the office, and sealed the men's beige Mercedes in plastic before transporting it to an Air Force base. Leavitt, 47, and Harris, 46, of Lancaster, Ohio, are being held without bond. In an affidavit, the FBI said described Rockwell as a cancer research scientist who was convicted of felony extortion in 1981 and 1982. But the FBI has vouched for his credibility, saying he came forward without getting a deal and was a ``citizen performing his civic duty.'' Harris' attorney, Michael Kennedy, said Thursday that Rockwell's credibility ``is something we're going to look into.'' It was unclear how Leavitt, a Mormon bishop with strong political ties, got hooked up with Harris, an alleged white supremacist who has been plugging his self-published book about germ warfare. The FBI has said Harris met Rockwell last summer at a Denver science conference, while Leavitt's attorneys said they believed Rockwell got the men together. Mills said the results of the FBI tests will determine if they remain united in their defense. ``If the tests come back non-toxin, there is no case,'' said Mills. ``If it comes back military grade, then whoa, time out, that's not our fault. We separate from (Harris) completely.'' -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Re: Declan pro-cencorship (sorta) (fwd)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Unfortunately, there's a conflict between real definitions of spam (you knew it when you sent it, and the recipients knew it too) and the real-world problems encountered with blocking/canceling spam, which tends to result in either censorship or under-blocking. Number of recipients _isn't_ the right criterion at all - but it's objective enough to agree on, and usually makes a clear enough boundary between most spammers and most non-spammers. Rigidly defining numerical limits can also have serious problems, because there are good messages that get excluded. The more important number is the number of people deciding which things are and are not spam - "More than 1" is best, while "There can be only one" is censorship, either deliberate or as a side-effect. At 10:52 PM 2/17/98 -0500, Robert A. Costner wrote: >At 07:20 PM 2/17/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >>So, we actualy do agree that the number of recipients is irrelevant. > >When it comes to spam, the ONLY thing that is relevant is the number of >recipients, and whether these recipients have offered some form of implicit >or explicit permission to receive the email. ... >Any attempt whatsoever to define spam in terms of content and how liked or >not liked the message is, interferes with traditional 1st amendment >definitions of speech, if codified in law or promulgated through (gov't) >rules. Ignoring first amendment concerns, any attempt to define spam in >terms of anything other than numbers causes a severe curtailing of the true >communication and business purposes of the internet. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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news chaos
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/wired/story.html?s=n/reuters /980220/wired/stories/chaos_1.html Friday February 20 9:44 AM EST Chaos may hold key to encryption, researchers say WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The key to secret communications may lie in chaos, researchers reported Thursday. They said they managed to encrypt information by making use of a noisy and chaotic optical circuit. Gregory VanWiggeren and Rjarshi Roy of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta said they were able to use the chaotic fluctuations in a light signal to hide information. Duplicating qualities of the transmitter allowed them to decode the message. The value of such tools is growing as electronic commerce becomes more widespread and businesses try to encode their material for secure transactions and communications. They did not suggest how their scientific experiment, which they reported in the journal Science, might be given a practical application. VanWiggeren and Roy said they used an erbium-doped fiber ring laser. "These lasers are particularly well suited for communication purposes purposes because their lasing wavelengths roughly correspond to the minimum-loss wavelength in optical fiber," they wrote. "A small 10 megahertz message was embedded in the larger chaotic carrier and transmitted to the receiver system," they added. "The receiver has the same non-linearities as the transmitter, allowing it to unfold the message from the chaos." Researchers have in the past been able to bury messages in a noisy electronic circuit but the low bandwidths of the systems make them less practical for high-speed communications. Optical circuits have higher bandwidths. "These preliminary but intriguing results suggest that chaos-based applications may be more than just a laboratory curiosity," D. J. Gauthier at Duke University wrote in a commentary on the findings. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu If you plan to enter text which our system might consider to be obscene, check here to certify that you are old enough to hear the resulting output. http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html

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On War, Legends, and Crypto (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:06:36 -0500 > From: Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> > Subject: On War, Legends, and Crypto Are you proposing that Cypherpunks are the Sheriff and his posse or the outlaws? > There is an old story about a band of outlaws in the wild west. The local > sheriff and his men had decided to make an example of this group of > troublemakers, and chased them into their hideout in a cave outside of > town. > After a few weeks a man came riding by to tell the Sheriff that the outlaws > had just robbed a train in the next town, and everyone was wondering what > the law enforcement idiots were doing guarding an empty cave instead of > chasing the criminals. > > It seems that the cave had another way out. Whether or not this story is > true, it illustrates an important point - The battle which is won, is the > one not fought. >From the trainrobbers perspective this is certainly true. From the Sheriff's perspective it shows the futility of his job if his goal is to stop all crime. Are the Cypherpunks here to rob trains or to keep trains from being robbed? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | When a man assumes a public trust, he should | | consider himself public property. | | | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Public transportation open to terrorism [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > STUDY: PUBLIC TRANSIT INVITES TERRORISM > > graphic February 20, 1998 > Web posted at: 6:59 p.m. EST (2359 GMT) > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- The arrests in Nevada of two men accused of > possessing anthrax or its precursor highlight the findings of a > recent federal report warning that public buses and trains are > vulnerable to terrorist attack. > > Indeed, an FBI affidavit said that one of the Nevada men had talked > about plans to spread bubonic plague toxins in the New York City > subway system. > > "For those determined to kill in quantity and willing to kill > indiscriminately, public transportation offers an ideal target," the > report said. > > The report was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Transportation > and written last year by terrorism expert Brian Jenkins. [text deleted] > Amy Coggin, a spokeswoman for the American Public Transit > Association, the trade group for public transportation authorities, > said in an interview: "There are multiple entry points (to transit > systems), most of them on a street. There's no way screen everybody > who walks down a street. Unless we're going to become a police > state, you won't see that thing happening." [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | When a man assumes a public trust, he should | | consider himself public property. | | | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: DLing from Replay.com
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <a7a15ef0e0850cd6298e5b6f0dd20958(a)squirrel.owl.de> you wrote: : |Forbidden : |You don't have permission to access /security/browsers/128bit/CommunicatorUS-v401-Pro/windows/cp16d401.exe on this : |server. : |There was also some additional information available about the error: : |[Mon Feb 16 21:13:24 1998] access to : |/pub/WWW/www.replay.com/security/browsers/128bit/CommunicatorUS-v401-Pro/windows/cp16d401.exe : |failed for xxxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxx, reason: file permissions deny server execution My fault: the extension .exe is used for cgi-scripts @replay, so the webinterface thinks that the file is a cgi script, and not a downloadable archive so it tries to execute it which ofcourse doesnŽt work. try the following URL: ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/browsers/128bit/ Sorry for the mess .. -- Alex de Joode | adejoode(a)REPLAY.COM | http://www.replay.com Replay Associates: Your Internet Problem Provider.

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CryptoGate, from CAQ
by mf＠mediafilter.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? by Wayne Madsen FOR AT LEAST HALF A CENTURY, THE US HAS BEEN INTERCEPTING AND DECRYPTING THE TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS OF MOST OF THE WORLD'S GOVERNMENTS It may be the greatest intelligence scam of the century: For decades, the US has routinely intercepted and deciphered top secret encrypted messages of 120 countries. These nations had bought the world's most sophisticated and supposedly secure commercial encryption technology from Crypto AG, a Swiss company that staked its reputation and the security concerns of its clients on its neutrality. The purchasing nations, confident that their communications were protected, sent messages from their capitals to embassies, military missions, trade offices, and espionage dens around the world, via telex, radio, teletype, and facsimile. They not only conducted sensitive albeit legal business and diplomacy, but sometimes strayed into criminal matters, issuing orders to assassinate political leaders, bomb commercial buildings, and engage in drug and arms smuggling. All the while, because of a secret agreement between the National Security Agency (NSA) and Crypto AG, they might as well have been hand delivering the message to Washington. Their Crypto AG machines had been rigged so that when customers used them, the random encryption key could be automatically and clandestinely transmitted with the enciphered message. NSA analysts could read the message traffic as easily as they could the morning newspaper. [...] >From CAQ #63 http://caq.com/cryptogate

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Re: In todays CyberTimes--"European Study Paints a Chilling Portrai
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: "Charles Anthony" <canthony(a)info-nation.com> > The article can be found at: > > http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/022498euro.html "The network, dubbed Echelon, is described in a new study by the European Parliament titled 'An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control.'" It's high time Don Mclean (sic) or someone took the extensive documentation collected in the Cryptography Manifesto regarding this, which includes massive USA domestic spying, and started writing news stories about it, and get other news organizations interested in the questions raised. Questions to be put to Senators. Why? Because it is ECHELON, not pedophiles, not drug dealers, that is not only the hold-up for freely exportable software, but also for why the FBI has openly moved to regulate all domestic cryptography into oblivion. The story of massive spying is one "the American people" can understand. Cryptography is too distant. Go for it, someone, please. ---guy No one listens to me.

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Re: Group to Attack Clinton on Crypto
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Tue Feb 24 21:27:15 1998 > To: ukcrypto(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk > Subject: Group to Attack Clinton on Crypto > > >From http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,19388,00.html > > Group to Attack Clinton on Crypto > By Courtney Macavinta > Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM > February 23, 1998, 2:40 p.m. PT > > A bipartisan group of politicos, high-tech companies, > and privacy advocates will announce a broad coalition > next week to overturn the White House's current > encryption policy through a million-dollar media blitz > and lobbying campaign, CNET's NEWS.COM has > learned. # # ####### # ### # # # # # ### # # # # # ### # ##### # # # # # ####### # # # # ### # ####### # # ### ---guy Poor grumpy William H. Geiger III, odd-man-out.

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Fwd: Party Invitation
by BBopper 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: "'bbopper(a)aol.com'" <bbopper(a)aol.com> Subject: Party Invitation From: "Steer, Dave" <steerd(a)fleishman.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:51:45 -0600 Return-Receipt-To: "Steer, Dave" <steerd(a)fleishman.com> > **** KEEP READING -- YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS PARTY!!**** > > > Join us for the first annual > > Fleishman-Hillard > Technology Practice 'IPO' -- Internet Party Offering > > during Spring Internet World in Los Angeles > > It's happening at Billboard Live on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood > on Tuesday, March 10th from 7:00-11:00 PM > > We've invited our favorite industry bands Where's Julio? (featuring > founders of Excite) and The Flying Other Brothers, and a couple > hundred of our friends, colleagues, soulmates and supporters (that > means YOU) for a night of music, food & drink. > > Please RSVP by March 6th to Robert Delgado > (email:delgador@fleishman.com or phone: 415/356-1034), and let us know > where to snailmail your entry ticket. > YOU MUST HAVE AN ENTRY TICKET TO GET IN!!! > > We will also provide shuttle transportation to the party from the Omni > Hotel in downtown L.A. at 6:30 PM. Just let us know if you think > you'll be taking it! > > > > > > ************ Dave Steer Fleishman-Hillard/SF 595 Market Street, #2700 San Francisco, CA 94105 415/356.1024 steerd(a)fleishman.com *************

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