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Re: CCC Crypto Lock
by Tim Philp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The fact that this patent was issued indicates to me that the patent office does not understand computer technology. There is nothing new here that I was not using for other purposes at least 20 years ago. Unfortunately, once a patent is issued, it cost a great deal of money to break. Tim Philp At 04:10 AM 7/6/96 -0700, you wrote: >MicroPatent, 4 July 96 > > >Systems and methods for protecting software from >unlicensed copying and use (Assignee -- Convex Computer >Corporation) > > >Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods for protecting a >software program from unauthorized use and copying >through the removal at least one of a plurality of >instructions comprising a software program, and >encrypting the removed instruction utilizing an >encryption algorithm to produce an encrypted instruction, >the encryption algorithm responsive to a randomly >generated key. > >Ex Claim Text: A processing system for protecting a >software program from unauthorized use, said software >program including one or more unencrypted instructions >stored in memory associated with said software program, >said processing system comprising: a processing unit >operable to: remove at least one selected said >unencrypted instruction from an executable area in said >memory associated with executable portions of said >program; encrypt said at least one selected unencrypted >instruction removed from said software program utilizing >an encryption algorithm to produce an encrypted >instruction; store said encrypted instruction within a >first non-executable data area in said memory associated >with said software program; and insert at least one >trappable instruction in place of said encrypted >instruction within said executable area in memory >allowing said software program to be linked with one or >more other programs. > >Assignee: Convex Computer Corporation > >Patent Number: 5530752 > >Issue Date: 1996 06 25 > >Inventor(s): Rubin, Robert J. > >If you would like to purchase a copy of this patent, >please call MicroPatent at 800-984-9800. > >Copyright 1996, MicroPatent > >

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Re: [RANT] Giving Mind Control Drugs to Children
by David Rosoff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 07.25 AM 7/7/96 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote: >On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Simon Spero wrote: >> Er... Tim... Ritalin is an amphetamine. > >Yes, normally, but doesn't it have a paradoxical reaction for >hyperactive children (i.e., it acts as a depressant for them)? Yes. I once had a friend who took it, and it calmed him down, but after I had known him for a few years, it began to have the opposite effect; and "they" decided he didn't need it anymore. =============================================================================== David Rosoff (nihongo ga sukoshi dekiru) ---------------> drosoff(a)arc.unm.edu PGP public key 0xD37692F9 -----> finger drosoff(a)acoma.arc.unm.edu or keyservers 0xD37692F9 Key fingerprint = 25 7D AA 01 85 41 43 89 50 5A 33 76 F1 F1 99 67 Do you know who's reading your email? ---> http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/ Anonymous ok, PGP ok. -------------- If it's not PGP-signed, I didn't write it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMeAJxhguzHDTdpL5AQGuPAP/T8aBKGwnNSEjv0VW/Kn8+lYgkRPxEB39 1zKPxuAzwfF+dnPpTKp5R5kdGHtv/KvRGhKRQt0V+ocUdAFHVIhI2AghxunUIPjv 9hLbzJx635LwUuHQBAONdV4tzTC6D5MqH+V5WqOWgPWe1Oqa8bHrSiDVdBX31M4P N7T2cii/s3E= =ebXI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Exciting News on Music Boulevard
by owner-mblvd＠telebase.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: [RANT] Giving Mind Control Drugs to Children
by minow＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Simon Spero comments on Tim May's Ritalin rant: >On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: >> >> When the mother (a single mother, as this is California) drops her son off >> with my friend (also single, of course), she includes several "Ritalin" >> capsules with instructions on how to dose her son with this >> depressant/behavior modification drug. > >Er... Tim... Ritalin is an amphetamine. > Yup, and it was the illegal drug of choice in Sweden in the 1960's, making its use as a convenient way to quiet down rambuncious kids a bit strange -- but the "medical professionals" have an explanation. Interestingly, it is illegal to hit kids in Sweden -- the courts call it assault, just as if you hit an adult. When I lived there (in the '60 and '70s), I took an informal survey and found only one person who had ever been spanked as a child -- and only once, for breaking her brother's violin. A good friend would infrequently give her infant a pat on the bottom (when he tried climbing on the stove), but was always careful to aim for the well-padded diaper. You may wish to consider whether Sweden's low murder rate is related to the lack of parent-child violence. Martin Minow minow(a)apple.com

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Hurricane Bertha hitting Offshore Information Services
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hurricane Bertha is almost certainly going to hit Anguilla, where Offshore Information Services is located. It will probably be at the strongest about 9 am Eastern time Monday morning. This is still not a really big hurricane, so we will not get anything like the trouble we had with Luis last year. Still, there is some chance that we will be offline at some time. If so please understand why. I have about 8 hours of battery backup. If power is out at our location for longer than that I will relocate the server to another location, as I did after Luis. There is little chance that power will go out everywhere for longer than 8 hours. There is a good chance that we get through this without going down, but I just wanted to let people know what our status is. Be patient if sometime tomorrow you can not get to our site. -- Vince Cate Offshore Information Services, Ltd. Anguilla http://online.offshore.com.ai/

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Re: NYT/CyberTimes on CWD article
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 6 Jul 96 at 16:56, eli+(a)gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu wrote: > >http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0706patrol-reporters.html > > "If we believe the encryption scheme has > > been compromised, we will make another > > one." [..] > They have to give you the list, and they have to give you software > that uses it, so there's no way to achieve complete secrecy. I think > the best they can do is to distribute a list of hashed URLs. What? After they paid for the rights to use "Infinite Vigniere Key" Technology.... I'm surprised that they went so far as to try to encrypt the naughty URLs list (but some kids would get off on just reading the list alone anyway). Hashing could be problematic... how to differentiate between a site and it's users. www.pornopix.com is obvious, but the directory tree of www.localisp.com/~perv/mypix/ is harder to filter out with hashing if subdirectories or specific images are called up, unless the software has a way to differentiate between sites and specific users or directories on those sites. (I wonder if the software can tell that ~perv/ and /users/home/perv/ or /home/perv/ can be the same directory on some systems? That would be an interesting flaw. Has anyone hacked with the software?) Another problematic with Net-Nurse type software: a database of naughty sites and naughty users... a real goldmine for prosecutors. Rob. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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Technology- vs. Human-based Surveillance
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:35 AM 7/8/96, Deranged Mutant wrote: >Who needs high-tech for a surveillance state? I remember several >years back a Soviet-history class that put a lot of emphasis on the >Czar's totalitarian regime, much of which was already in place when >the Bolshviks took power (and one of the reasons they held it). ... A human-based surveillance state is very expensive, even by the standards of modern America and its bloated government. The recent example of the DDR's "Staasi" provides an example. Hard to hide the extent of the surveillance when so many people are involved. Better, think the Thought Police, to use technology to do the intercepts and pre-screening of the take. Also, the right technology (right for them, not us) makes widespread tapping possible, where human-based systems are not. (As but one example, hard to get human spies into companies on short notice to monitor a target.) In short, technology-based surveillance is "scalable" in a way that human-based surveillance is not. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: NYT/CyberTimes on CWD article
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:01 PM 7/6/96 -0800, Norman Hardy wrote: >At 9:17 AM 7/6/96, Declan McCullagh wrote: >>"We are writers, not crytographers." >> >>-Declan >.... >This seems to be an application for Bloom filters. >See page bottom of page 561 in Knuth's "Searching and Sorting", First Edition. >(Vol 3 of Art of Computer Programming) > >With a Bloom filter you can hide which URLs you reject yet quickly rejecting >particular URLs. > >Compute SHA(URL) yielding 160 bits. Divide that into 16 ten bit quantities >b[i], for 0<=i< 10. >Reject the access if P[b[i]] = 1 for each i. P is an array of 1024 bits >computed by someone >with the index prohibitorum. (pardon my Latin) > >Yes, this excludes 1/1024 "falsely accused" URLs, but you get the idea. As Norm knows, we used this algorithm to provide a label search function (What Unix people use grep for) for an IBM OS back in the 1970s. SHA is probably overkill for the hash function, but you need something better than a barber poll hash. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet may fairly be | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | regarded as a never-ending | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | worldwide conversation. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: Word lists for passphrases
by AwakenToMe＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

perry(a)piermont.com (perry e. metzger) In a message dated 96-07-08 19:21:11 EDT, you write: << Human stupidity is never a surprise. Perry >> I know. Just look at your posting a private message to a newsgroup because of something thats just beyond your use. So... you can't handle it and become like a baby.. and start something so utterly pointless as this.. by writing me back to begin with. You dont like the program..or think its so trivial (which it is... big fuc*in deal ) then thats fine. EVERYONE has their opinion. Some people find a use out of it...obviously you dont. Its Ok man. Just take some prozac (or is the topic ritalin now??) and youll be A OK

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RE: What remains to be done.
by Andy Brown 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 09 July 1996 02:04, John F. Fricker[SMTP:jfricker@vertexgroup.com] wrote: > One of these days Microsoft will officially release NT's IFS SDK. A few > "preliminary" and incomplete copies of a 1993 beta release do float around > but for a mere $50K there's a company that will sell you the complete source > for an IFS. It's a crime that Microsoft hasn't shipped this SDK yet as the > Installable File System is one of the great powers of NT. You can do this with the existing device driver kit since they supply the entire source code to the AT hard disk driver. I took a look and decided that it would be too much work for me alone. They also seem to suggest that you can write "filters" that extend the capability of existing drivers. > So, if someone is interested in coughing up the $50K I know a couple NT > programmers just chomping at the bit to build cool IFS's like PGPDrive, etc. I'm one of them, but this low level device driver stuff makes me shudder! - Andy

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