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by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<TITLE>ammonium nitrate</TITLE> AMMONIUM NITRATE Ammonium nitrate could be made by a terrorist, or it could be stolen from a construction site, since it is usually used in blasting, because it is very stable and insensitive to shock and heat. A terrorist could also buy several Instant Cold-Paks from a drug store or medical supply store. The major disadvantage with ammonium nitrate, from a terrorist's point of view, would be detonating it. A rather powerful priming charge must be used, and usually with a booster charge. The diagram below will explain. <HR> <PRE> _________________________________________ | | | ________| | | | | T.N.T.| ammonium nitrate | |primer |booster| | |_______| | | | | | |_______|_______________________________| </PRE> <HR> The primer explodes, detonating the T.N.T., which detonates, sending a tremendous shockwave through the ammonium nitrate, detonating it. <HR> From the Terror Handbook

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by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<TITLE>T.N.T.</TITLE> T.N.T T.N.T., or Tri-Nitro-Toluene, is perhaps the second oldest known high explosive. Dynamite, of course, was the first. It is certainly the best known high explosive, since it has been popularized by early morning cartoons. It is the standard for comparing other explosives to, since it is the most well known. In industry, a T.N.T. is made by a three step nitration process that is designed to conserve the nitric and sulfuric acids which are used to make the product. A terrorist, however, would probably opt for the less economical one step method. The one step process is performed by treating toluene with very strong (fuming) sulfuric acid. Then, the sulfated toluene is treated with very strong (fuming) nitric acid in an ice bath. Cold water is added the solution, and it is filtered. <HR> From the Terror Handbook

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Sabotaging the U.S. Military-Industrial War Machine
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(I sent this article to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net, but am getting no traffic from that site, and some of my messages have bounced. I've subscribed to cypherpunks(a)algebra.com and will resubmit some of my recent articles to that address. It would be nice if the "interlinked lists" system could work to handle outages of sites, and not just mutual distributions of articles. Any ideas?) >Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 19:39:47 -0800 >To: Kent Crispin <kent(a)songbird.com>, cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Sabotaging the U.S. Military-Industrial War Machine >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > > >(Contrary to rumors, I _do) have a live outside of the Net. I've been away >this weekend. I probably can't, or won't, respond to all of the comments >about my recent posts.) > >At 12:57 PM -0800 5/10/97, Kent Crispin wrote: > >>I would expect a "cypherpunk riot" to be a little more aimed at >>cyberspace than real-world suburban neighborhoods. Wouldn't you? >> > >Sorry. I misunderstood you to be speaking of the "fouling of one's own >nest" (or whatever the ebonics translation might be) riots of recent years. > >You are correct that a kind of riot in cyberspace is possible. However, I >think the attacks (not riots) will not be oriented toward mayhem (no pun >intended) toward one's neighbors, but towards destablization of >democracies and military-industrial facilities. > >In particular, various attacks against the national labs. > >And technologies to make the "force of democracy" lose their teeth. > >Subscribe to the Info-War news list for more, although they are >unfortunately biased toward the U.S. propaganda machine. (It was by some >of them that I was characterized as an "information terrorist," a label I >view as an honor.). > >(Hint: I was quoted/interviewed in oppostion to the Pentagon's >"info-warriors" in a BBC television show called "The I-Bomb." My thesis, >not all of which was inclued in the BBC programme, was that strong crypto >would and should be used to destablilze U.S. efforts to dominate the New >World Order. If an I-bomb could destroy the Pentagon, Livermore, Los >Alamos, and so on, I would press the button tonight. The U.S. military >machine is vastly more powerful than it needs to be meet the threat of >invasion of our shores (hint: even Hitler and Tojo were not real threat to >U.S. shores) and whatever is needed should be done to destabilize and >sabotage the U.S. industrial war machine.) > >The spread of anonymous remailer is already being used to break the back >of the U.S. war propaganda system. (Given that Lowell Wood's crimes are >being liberated and sent to non-U.S. sites for their use in defeating the >war machine). > >Cypherpunks stand for making the United States just another bunch of >contiguous geographic regions. > >--Tim May > > There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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by Kamil Golombek 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Disinformation in L.A.
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just watched on CNN the images of the raid on the "militia cell" in L.A., cited as a cell having "thousands and thousands" of rounds of ammo (ooh, scary!), and of having "anti-government literature" (there ought to be a law against this kind of stuff!). They also claimed they found "armor-piercing rounds" and "cop-killer bullets." Well, I saw the cops and their shill reporters demonstrating what many of us have in our own arsenals. (The Second Amendment should be repealed!) The cops claim they know that "something was being planned." And how do they know this? Probably the standard method: infiltrate a narc into the group and have him plant ideas and spout extremist rhetoric, then use this same rhetoric to get a compliant judge to issue a search warrant, even if no actual crime has been committed. (Except the search warrant is used as a "raid warrant," with black-clad ninjas breaking down the doors...and if the victims inside think they're under attack by unnamed thugs and try to fight back, a good reason for the ninjas to start shooting. A good way to dispose of dissidents and heighten the sense of panic.) We live in a police state. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Cryptography Forum
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forward from Cyberia-L: Cryptography Forum May 22, 1997 at 7:00 p.m. Association of the Bar of the City of New York 22 West 44th Street, New York City Interested persons are invited to attend. No fee or reservation is required. TITLE OF PROGRAM: Guns, Ammunition and Cryptography: Is the Government's Policy on Digital Encryption Creating a Crisis? A moderated panel will discuss issues raised by the Government's policy on cryptography. MODERATOR: Charles R. Nesson, Professor, Harvard Law School PANELISTS: Jim Bidzos President and CEO, RSA Data Security, Inc. Scott Charney Computer Crime Unit, Department of Justice Kenneth W. Dam Professor, University of Chicago Law School; Chair, National Research Council Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy Dorothy E. Denning Professor, Computer Science Department, Georgetown University David J. Farber Professor, Computer and Information Science and Electrical Engineering Departments, University of Pennsylvania Marc Rotenberg Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center Sponsored by the Committees on Computer Law, Civil Rights, Science and the Law, and Symposia, of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York For additional information, e-mail jzammit(a)fulbright.com or dcohen(a)bway.net

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Re: The War is Underway (fwd)
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:10 PM 5/10/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: >Hence the value of the "Crypto is Cool" approach. A valuable addition >would be crypto packages designed for high school kids. All my many >nieces and nephews are on the net... I usually don't reply to these kind of posts, but since you have mentioned this before and since you obviously still don't deem it appropriate to get yourself up to speed by reading the archives, your idea has been discussed and tried. People won't use crypto unless it is either transparent, meaning put there *for* them by the OS vendor/application developer or because the see a need for using it. The few fanatics that use crypto because "it is cool" are inconsequential when the objective is bringing crypto to the masses. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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The Interlinked Cypherpunks Lists?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've recently had some of my articles sent to "cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net" bounce (more precisely: "<cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net>... Deferred: Connection timed out with rigel.cyberpass.net. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours"). And I've received no Cypherpunks list traffic more recently dated than Saturday morning. (I'm subscribed to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net.) I surmise that something is wrong. So I've subscribed to one of the alternates, cypherpunks(a)algebra.com. Some thoughts: * Is it possible for the interlinked lists to send out announcements of list problems to subscriber of all such lists? (Each list owner could do a periodic "who cypherpunks" of the other lists, then use this list to send a message if a problem comes up. More sophisticated cross-processing could eliminate duplicates, etc.) * Alternatively, if one of the sites goes down, such as "cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net" seems to have done, could the other sites automagically pick up the task of distributing articles until the site comes back up? * How feasible is it to have a single "virtual subscription address" which gets traffic from one of the various list sites? (To avoid having to subscribe to two or more lists and thus getting duplicates.) I'll resubmit a few of my recent articles to cypherpunks(a)algebra.com. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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RE: RSA, PGP IN LEGAL FLAP OVER ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY
by Chris DiBona 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This really came as no surprise to anyone who deals with RSA. Note I am only talking for myself when I write this, but there is a LOT of money to be made by someone (certicom?) if they can give a cross-platform rsa type solution. I mean RSA has a fairly good product,but I can name at elase two other companies who've had this exact same problem with cross-licensing. Really, does RSA expect Netscape or Microsoft to re-license every time they allow an oem to repackage thier products into or as part of a suite of programs with a third party vendor? RSA has a bunch of bullies at thier helm. They should realize that pulling this kind of crap will only make people jump ship faster when another company comes calling with a similar product and less restrictive licensing. I think that RSA should also realize that without PGP, their market would be much smaller, I think every time RSA licenses thier (now renewed) patents, they should think of Phil. I don't mean to saint the guy here or anything, but they owe him a debt that is difficult to quantify. By suing PGP they are basically saying , if I can extrapolate in a rather extreme manner, "privacy is okay, but only if we make money at it." And keep in mind , I don't begrudge RSA thier right to make money off thier intellectual property, but suing your customers except in the most extreme situations should be seen as a warning sign to the industry that to deal with RSA as a vendor is to take a risk that may be dangerous. Chris DiBona dibona(a)acm.org

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Announcing: a new John Wiley book on Web Security
by Avi Rubin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Announcing: The Web Security Sourcebook (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) by Avi Rubin, Dan Geer, Marcus Ranum foreward by Steve Bellovin A new book on all aspects of web security. More information can be found at http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/websec/ ********************************************************************* Aviel D. Rubin rubin(a)research.att.com Secure Systems Research Dept. Adjunct Professor at NYU AT&T Research Labs 180 Park Avenue http://www.research.att.com/~rubin/ Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 Voice: +1 973 360-8356 USA FAX: +1 973 360-8809

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