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Re: CIA hacked
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From remailer(a)mailhub.bart.nl Thu Sep 19 13:18:03 1996 Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Thu, 19 Sep 96 16:10:20 EDT for dlv Received: from spoof.bART.nl by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA03960 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Thu, 19 Sep 96 13:18:03 -0400 Received: (from remailer@localhost) by spoof.bart.nl (8.7.5/8.6.8) id TAA28972 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:19:58 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:19:58 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609191719.TAA28972(a)spoof.bart.nl> To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com From: remailer(a)2005.bart.nl (Anonymous) Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to <remailer-admin(a)remailer.nl.com> The contents of this message are neither approved or condoned by nl.com or our host bART Internet. *** Replying to it will not send your reply to the sender *** There is no way to determine the originator of this message. If you wish to be blocked from receiving all anonymous mail, send your request to the <remailer-operators(a)c2.org> mailing list. The operator of this particular remailer can be reached at <remailer-admin(a)remailer.nl.com> Subject: Re: CIA hacked Return-Path: <cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: CIA hacked From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) Comments: Dole/Kemp '96! Date: Thu, 19 Sep 96 08:08:39 EDT Organization: Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y. Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Mike van der Merwe <mikev(a)is.co.za> writes: > I'm sure we will find out in a few years that Microsoft invented the > Net. Or brought it to the masses. Or saved it from a certain and > early demise. Or all of the above. > JAMES SEYMOUR >Dr. John M. Grubor created the 'net. Who created you? You tub of shit?

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Commentary on news coverage of attacks
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought it was interesting to note what got deleted - namely cryptographic (signature) protection against such attacks - and what got included - namely faked addresses. You can get the original NYT version via JYA. -Allen > _________________________________________________________________ > webslingerZ > _________________________________________________________________ > CONCERN AT RASH OF ATTACKS BY HACKERS ON INTERNET SITES > __________________________________________________________________________ > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > Copyright &copy 1996 The Financial Times > SAN FRANCISCO (Sep 19, 1996 00:23 a.m. EDT) -- A rash of hacker > attacks on commercial Internet sites -- including one in which the > services of Panix, a New York-based Internet access provider, were > seriously disrupted -- has raised new concerns about the security and > reliability of the worldwide computer network. [...] > Attacks have been "isolated incidents," said Pete Solvik, > vice-president of information systems at Cisco Systems, the leading > manufacturer of routing equipment for the Internet. The company, > however, is concerned that the problem could spread, disrupting > Internet service for millions of users and effectively closing down > large commercial sites on the Internet. > With many banks and retailers now planning Internet services, the > potential for financial losses as a result of such attacks is rising. > Disruption of Internet service can also be a serious problem for the > tens of thousands of businesses that now rely on electronic mail and > sites on the World Wide Web to communicate with their partners and > customers. > The impact of a large-scale "denial-of-service attack" can be > devastating, said Solvik. Within a minute, a computer linked to the > Internet can be completely overwhelmed and it may take days before > service can be restored. [...] > Because the attacks came from fake addresses on the Internet, it was > "impossible to trace the source without a major effort on the part of > all Internet service providers between Panix and the attacking party," > said Rosen. > "The nature of the Internet, which is designed to let machines > communicate with a minimum exchange of identifying information, makes > every site on the Internet vulnerable," said Rosen. > The Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York Computer Investigations > Threat Assessment Center is understood to be investigating the attack > on Panix. Computer Emergency Response Teams, a US organization that > collates information about security and technical problems on the > Internet, are looking into the incident. [...] > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net

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unimbibe cypherpunks@toad.com
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:24 AM 9/19/96, Steve Dyson wrote: >unscribe cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Please unimbibe me, too! I tried "unscrive," "unsuscrive," and "unscribe," and even "unsuckscribe," so now I'm trying "unimbibe." Help, I'm trapped on this list and I can't unscrive from it! --Tim (Of course, had I kept any of the many instructions that have been posted, or the instructions I got when I got signed up, I would've known that the correct way to "unsubscribe" is to send a message to "majordomo(a)toad.com" with the body message of "unsubscribe cypherpunks".) We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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** 9/24 Ca. Dig. Sig. Working Group Meeting **
by Kaye Caldwell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Reposted from spki. - Bill -------- Apologies for duplicates - some of you I'm sure are on multiple notice lists for this. California Digital Signature Regulations Working Group sponsored by the Software Industry Coalition and CommerceNet THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO ANYONE WHO WISHES TO ATTEND However, please let me know if you will be attending via e-mail to: kaye(a)ix.netcom.com WHEN: Tuesday September 24, 1-4 PM WHERE: Sun Microsystems, 901 San Antonio Rd, (Building PAL-1) (corner of S. A. & Charleston, just off 101), Palo Alto Cancun Conference Room, 2nd Floor AGENDA I. Report on status of Secretary of State's Task Force - request for demos of technology in Sacramento II. Review of draft of our principle 1, suggestions for additional principles III. Review of current draft of outline of regulations IV. Review of draft Digital Signature Acceptance Procedures background paper V. Draft language for additional technologies For more information, e-mail Kaye Caldwell at kaye(a)ix.netcom.com or call 408-479-8743. Kaye Caldwell Software Industry Coalition Policy Director CommerceNet Adovocacy and Public Policy Committee Chair -------------------------------

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"Confidential" medical databases
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AP, 9/19/96: Copies of a confidential computer disk containing the names of 4,000 AIDS patients were shipped anonymously to two newspapers by someone who claimed a [Florida] state health worker had been showing it on his laptop computer to friends outside a gay bar. William B. Calvert III, 35, of Treasure Island, was one of only three state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services employees with authorized access to the confidential information. Calvert was suspended with pay Thursday as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and HRS investigated the breach. "This is very serious. We are not aware of any breach of confidentiality of this magnitude," Jay Coburn of the AIDS Action Council in Washington, D.C. said Thursday. Nobody knows how many copies of the disk have been made, or who has them. If the allegations prove true, it could be the worst violation of AIDS confidentiality in history. [...] bd

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Re: HipCrime as MetaSPAM
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:10 AM 9/15/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >5) "Anarchist Info" - sigh. Where do people get the idea that publishing >recipes for drugs and explosives is anarchist info? He didn't talk >about anarchy, or getting along without governments, or getting rid of them. >Also, he neglects to note that you can simply _buy_ potassium chlorate, >rather than having to (dangerously) boil down bleach and potassium chloride In addition: Potassium chlorate based explosives are not particularly safe or reliable, but worse than that, much worse, because of their relatively slow detonation rate, they are very ineffectual for smashing stuff and killing people, --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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: All Bets Off
by pjb＠ny.ubs.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

actually, i understood that he was an insurance salesman. -paul > From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Fri Sep 20 06:43:59 1996 > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:19:44 -0400 (EDT) > From: The Deviant <deviant(a)pooh-corner.com> > To: Daniel Christopher Miskell <DMiskell(a)envirolink.org> > Cc: Rabid Wombat <wombat(a)mcfeely.bsfs.org>, cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Re: All Bets Off > Organization: The Silicon Pirates > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type> : > TEXT/PLAIN> ; > charset=US-ASCII> > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Content-Length: 754 > > On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Daniel Christopher Miskell wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:30:32 -0400 > > From: Daniel Christopher Miskell <DMiskell(a)envirolink.org> > > To: Rabid Wombat <wombat(a)mcfeely.bsfs.org> > > Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > > Subject: Re: All Bets Off > > > > >On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jeff Davis wrote: > > > > > [lots of quoting rm'd] > > > > > Tom Clancy is not a military-hired brain, but to make his novels realistic and > > to do justice to the people he portrays, he does a LOT of research. He is a > > highly respected author, and I have no doubt that his statement is based on > > his personal findings, collected for a previous novel. > > > > I beleive he was also a Capain in the Navy... > > --Deviant > Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement. > > >

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DL in exchange for fingerprint
by Jeff Barber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oh joy. You no longer need to be arrested to get fingerprinted in Georgia. On the front page of Wednesday's Atlanta Journal, under the headline "Now you can get driver's license in minutes": The average 45-day wait to get a new driver's license in Georgia will be a thing of the past under a new system that will churn them out while customers wait. "From start to finish it takes about 10 minutes," said chief examiner ... in charge of the Georgia State Patrol's driver's license office in Milledgeville where the system went into effect on Tuesday. Previously, drivers received a temporary paper license that was good for 45 days. ... ... Officials at the Department of Public Safety plan to have the new computer system in 82 locations across the state by Oct. 1. Georgia is the 32nd state with the system. After an eye exam, the applicant presses a finger down on a pad that registers the fingerprint in a state-wide memory bank. Then, the examiner confirms the name, address, and identifying information. ... The licenses have a hologram of the word "Georgia" behind the driver's name, age and address, and a bar code on the back that contains a laser recording of the driver's index fingerprints. "We keep a memory bank that matches your fingerprints with your license," [DoPS spokesman] said. "In other words, if you went to get a new license with a false birth certificate and your fingerprint didn't match the name, you wouldn't get a license. And you could also face possible investigation for fraud from the Public Safety's investigative division." ... "I think it's wonderful," said Katherine Kidd, the first Milledgeville driver to get the instant license. "It's a great idea. Now we don't have to wait forever." [ End quote ] Just what I would have called it: a great idea. Is it true that 31 other states take your fingerprint as part of the license application? I feel sick. -- Jeff

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Paradox: NO OPPRESSION IN AMERICA
by Douglas B. Renner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Those of you who took Logic 1001 will recall the paradox known as "The Heap" which goes like this: 1. A single grain of sand does not constitute a heap of sand. 2. You can create a heap from a non-heap by adding a single grain of sand. 3. Therefore, there is *NO SUCH THING* as a heap of sand. You with me here? Okay, this is important, because the public actually does think like this: 1. Our current society in America is not oppressive. (generally accepted) 2. You cannot change a non-oppressive society into an oppressive society by removing one liberty from its citizens. (also generally accepted) 3. Therefore, it is not possible for America to become an oppressive society. Sleep well, Douglas B. Renner

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Jena Remailer
by mixmaster＠remail.obscura.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

lutz(a)as-node.jena.thur.de wrote to All: >> Also, is there any other remailer (now that anon.penet.fi is down) >> that allows one to have an anonymous address to receive >> email? l> anon(a)as-node.jena.thur.de. But it's is bit tricky. The trickiest thing about it - by far - is the inscrutable English translation of the helpfile. I have been trying for over a week to make any sense of how to use the remailer. Granted, it works differently than the other pseudonymous remailers, but the helpfile is simply impenatrable. Like many translations, it is grammatical but makes no sense in spots. >From what I can make out, this is probably a very useful and innovative remailer that I should very much like to use. Can any native English speaker please paraphrase the account start-up procedure for us? Is mixmaster(a)as-node.jena.thur.de a standard T-1/T-2 remailer? Who has the key? Fingering this account doesn't work from West Coast USA. Thanks for any help...

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