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D.C.'s Sister City?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* According to a report in the Washington Post in November, armed robbers in the large Nigerian trading city of Onitsha are so bold, and the police so outmanned, that they often notify the victims in advance that they will be coming to rob them, to encourage the residents to be away from the house at the time. A few days after the police announced a crackdown, one gang of 50 armed robbers cordoned off a street and looted every apartment building on the block. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 15, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary?
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:47 3/27/96, Michael Froomkin wrote: >I see no reason whatsoever to believe that an un-warranted wiretap would >be legal in any but two cases. (1) Emergency threatening life (e.g. >hostage-taking) pending judicial authorizaiton -- very rare. >(2) The president claims residual authority to wiretap on national >security grounds without a court order. Since the FISA court provides >the authority, this (one is told) is not used. On what do you base your belief, give that the law explicitly allows for "other forms of authorization"? Where does it say that these "other forms of authorization" are limited to the examples you give? TIA, -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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ANNOUNCE: remail@extropia moves
by Miron 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, My remailer moved from: remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com to: remail(a)miron.vip.best.com Please adjust your pointers accordingly. Mail through extropia should be forwarded for the next few days. There is no change to the encryption key. Miron

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Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:49 AM 3/29/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote: >On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, jim bell wrote: > >> Escrowing encrypted keys makes them useless to subpoena, and in >> fact it helps the key owner because the escrow agent can (and, in fact, >> must!) be obligated to inform the key owner if his key is requested. > >I thought I would take the time to let everyone know that this is >baseless as well. Most jurisdictions forbid third parties to reveal >prosecution inquries to the principal for which they are holding >documents or other information. A VERY few have laws on the books that >require this disclosure. Switzerland is no longer one of them. As usual, Unicorn is FOS. Not entirely in his facts, but in his conclusions. To "forbit third parties to reveal prosecution inquiries" is an obvious violation of freedom of speech, and in fact is PRIOR RESTRAINT. Maybe Unicorn can't see what's wrong with that, but I can. It is unclear whether this has ever been tested in court, or whether that test occurred recently. Now, in practice I recognize that in the past large organizations which are subpoenaed usually comply with requests to keep an inquiry secret, but one of the effects of the "crypto revolution" and the "net revolution" is clearly to decentralize information power from the places it used to be carefully kept (IBM, ATT, etc) and is now distributing it among many more, far smaller organizations which are much closer to the people the prosecutors might be inclined to target. (for example, your friendly neighborhood ISP). Furthermore, the development of good encryption will allow a willing ISP (for example) to send an encrypted (and possibly semi-anonymous) message to the target of the investigation (or possibly a public USENET area, unaddressed), containing a pre-arranged alarm code to be sent to the target of the investigation, in such a way that any other people (for example, the brainless cops) won't know. The target will be assured (though encryption and signing, or prior arrangement) that the message could only have originated from the contractor (ISP) but the target (and nobody else, as well) will not be able to prove this knowledge to a third party. For example, if I ask my ISP to send me an anonymous, encrypted message with the word, "Rosebud" in it to me if he receives any requests to tap my connection, he can do so with no fear of being discovered, because no third party can decrypt the message, know who is is from, or know the real meaning of the word, "Rosebud" in the context of an encrypted, anonymized message. Further, since the whole thing is by pre-arrangement, even I cannot prove (to the satisfaction of a third party) that the message really meant what I would interpret it to mean. The message is useful to me, as a warning, but it could never turn around and "bite" the ISP. The end result is that your foolish opinion of what the law allows will simply become irrelevant: The government cannot mandate what it cannot enforce, and it cannot enforce what it cannot detect. You may ask, "Why would the operator of a small ISP want to take even a minor risk informing the target of the investigation?" There are a number of obvious answers: 1. He's promised his customer to do so. 2. It's in the contract. 3. And the ever-popular, "He's afraid of getting killed, or his ISP business torched, if word later leaks out that he failed to inform his customer of an investigation." Don't underestimate the significance of such a risk to those people. Destruction of even a full phone switch would not have fazed ATT in the 1960's, but a small ISP depends on valuable equipment at (presumably) a single location. Getting a person mad at them for failing to anonymously inform them of an inquiry would NOT be the best tactic for these small-time operators. >Even if a judge was convinced by the defense not to levy heavy fines >against a third party who pleaded that he or she was simply unable to >comply, informing the principal would literally assure such fines would >be imposed regardless. Again, you assume that informing "the principal" would be detectable. Your wishful thinking is palpable. I really wish you'd be able to distinguish what "the law" could do, given limitless knowledge of the actions of the population, and the REAL WORLD, in which those judges and prosecutors and cops are limited in what they can do by what they can know. This is critical, because we are rapidly approaching a time in which what these people know will be dramatically limited by many of the technologies regularly discussed on Cypherpunks. >Criminal charges of obstruction could easily attach. Bullets could easily fly. You repeatedly state what might, hypothetically, happen, but you don't back it up with a realistic assessment of what actually would _likely_ happen. > Obstruction in connection with narcotics cases or other major >felonies are generally extraditable offenses as well. Someday, obstruction of the Constitution by government agents will be a death-penalty crime. >Once again Mr. Bell pulls legal analysis out of his rectum rather than >basing it in fact or research. > >With Mr. Bell as a defense attorney, who needs prosecutors? If I intended to limit myself to the tools of the court room (that's the enemy's playpen, BTW) I would probably be just as ineffective as the next defense attorney. I've frequently found that the question of who wins in any confrontation is strongly affected by whether I allow myself to be lured into the home territory of the other. This is actually more a psychological battle than a physical one. You obviously believe that the cops and judges can frequently win, if they are able to control the location of the battle; this is true, but it ignores the fact that "the legal system" is generally an 8-hour-per-day, 40-hour-per week system. Going outside the system and attacking directly bypasses all the rules and restrictions which are set up to allow THEM to win. This may sound unfair to people brainwashed to believe that the court system is and should be the final arbiter, but I suggest that long ago they lost whatever moral authority they once might have had. Every time you talk about them fining or prosecuting some third party for not cooperating, you demolish your own claims. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Netscape 2.01 fixes server vulnerabilities by breaking the client...
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now I suppose they'll want me to fix all the pages where I do a finger with a gopher://host:79/0user. Any chance this nonfix can be unfixed? This nonfix was applied to the UNIX and Win32 versions; I haven't checked the other platforms. -rich >From http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.01/relnotes/unix-2.01.html >go to the security stuff and find: > > * Relating to Ports: > > 2.01 fixes a problem where it was possible for a Gopher URL to be > used to send commands to ports other than those that were > reasonable for the Gopher service. It was possible that this > feature could be used to exploit other security vulnerabilities > behind firewalls. Navigator 2.01 fixes this problem by limiting > the ports that a Gopher URL can access and by disallowing certain > control characters in a valid Gopher URL.

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The Revolution is NOW! (Think about it, Gertrude...over a Stein of beer, perhaps?)
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* What Goes Around, Comes Around: Since taking control of most of Afghanistan in September 1996, the religious Taliban army has enforced strict, conservative Islamic rule, especially regarding the work, recreation, and dress of women. Now, according to a report in the London Daily Telegraph in November, a splinter Muslim group about 200 miles north of Kabul has begun to train a women-only battalion to fight the Taliban. Females from the Hazaras, a Turkic Mongol ethnic group, have been training at a secret location and will soon begin a major recruiting campaign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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Re: (X:x)e$ 's other use
by Scott Schryvers 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:30 PM 3/26/96 -0800, you wrote: >At 04:05 PM 3/26/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: >> The >> Fed has done an actually rather admirable job of standing up to the pressure > >Every couple of years the politicians start leaning on Greenspan. Greenspan >lets it be known they are leaning on him, the money markets mark the >dollar down and the politicians stop leaning on him. > >The Greenspan standard is not a good as a gold standard, but its not bad. Only >trouble is he is mortal, unlike gold. > >Come to think of it, there is actually some crypto relevance here: Internet >currencies will be necessarily non physical and it will be difficult to go >after the issuer in the event of default, so the best currency will have a >value that depends on peoples belief that the issuer will defend the value >of the currency. Strange how religion and monetary markets work. They both demand the suspension of fact and or physical items in favor of some ethereal object or person's view of reality. I'm not saying that the dollar is some object that does not physically exist, I'm just saying that the value inherent is no longer based on a physical item. Question. If e-cash were backed by gold would that make it more reliable than say the dollar? PGP encrypted mail preferred. Scott J. Schryvers <schryver(a)radiks.net> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzFX9usAAAEH/2r2eovPAoYZbxzmfJ1DW7yjjdVnckXjUVKU/zZNAUV/IjzF GDEq040wbAG1rFHDYoBOjjJTOGWMFuZ9apqoAvvI7Q4NAmVrNif0Rp8q/j4jib13 dlAA4Q0nvJZ5YNw4sf4r0iug76+9i0WpIZoP60DEB8BTuyCP55+nsbe7Ii3xLRyq ThZ2fhNqK2hD/rFugXK29Ynyzuc6TuFfu78kVOsYUUbQpplXyaLjhGKN94pZ5jox x7/wvqmBoH9E3rnaIPY9vOwy3kvMmCTlkjhlCzMXZHDn0e3UHWAax2mUTMttRzzi +SUv45h6ua+eSwUkA8uojojn/JiPOKIPwPk3hq0ABRG0KFNjb3R0IEouIFNjaHJ5 dmVycyA8c2Nocnl2ZXJAcmFkaWtzLm5ldD4= =58dK -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Randomness paper (posting it)
by rollo＠artvark.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK. Post it WHERE? >> Postscript, only in FrameMaker format, or as Interchange - MIF or as Text. > >If you can save it as text, then please post it as text. > > Yiorgos Adamopoulos adamo(a)noc.ntua.gr > National Technical University of Athens, NOC Rollo Silver | e-mail: rollo(a)artvark.com | Artvark | Home page: http://www.artvark.com/artvark/ | PO Box 219 | Voice: 505-586-0197 | San Cristobal, NM 87564 USA | Compuserve 71174,1453 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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InfoWarCon IV - Final Schedule
by winn＠Infowar.Com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

P L E A S E D I S T R I B U T E W I D E L Y F I N A L S C H E D U L E IW4 -- InfoWarCon (Europe) '96 Fourth International Conference on Information Warfare: Defining the European Perspective Brussels, Belgium May 23-24 1996 Sponsored by: National Computer Security Association Winn Schwartau, President and CEO, Interpact, Inc. Robert David Steele, Chairman & CEO, Open Source Solutions Group CoSponsors: IBM Internet Security Systems, Inc. Jane's Information Group Network Systems, Inc. Norman Data Defense Background Information Warfare represents a global challenge that faces all late-industrial and information age nation states. It also represents the easiest and cheapest way for less developed nation-states and religious or political movements to anonymously and grieviously attack major nations and international corporations. Not only are the definitions of InfoWar unclear, but they span many areas and disciplines. This conference will examine the European perspectives on all three classes of Information Warfare while contributing some American lessons learned, mistakes made and successes enjoyed. Class One: Personal Privacy Class Two: Industrial and Economic Spying and Warfare Class Three: Global Conflict, Terrorism and the Military As at all other Information Warfare Conferences, this special European Conference encourages active audience participation, contribution and debate. May 22, 1996 17:00 - 20:00 Pre-Registration 18:00 - 21:00 Hosted Cocktail Party with Music Meet Mr. Schwartau, Mr. Steele and many of our other distinguished guests and conference speakers for casual 'off-line' conversation.. May 23, 1996 07:00 - 08:30 Registration 07:00 - 08:30 Sponsored Continental Breakfast PLENARY SESSIONS 08:30 - 09:00 Keynote Speech Maj. General Edwin Ebert J-6 Assistant Chief of Staff (C4I) USA 09:00 - 10:00 "Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway" Winn Schwartau, President and CEO, Interpact, Inc., USA 10:00 - 11:15 East Versus West: Military Views of Information Warfare Moderator: Robert Steele East: General Nikolai Ivanovich Turko, Information Warfare Russia West: US - Gen. Jim McCarthy USAF (Retired) 11:15 - 11:45 Sponsored Break 11:45 - 13:00 Information Warfare or Information in Warfare? Support for Conventional War Fighting Moderator: Winn Schwartau Panel: Russia: Admiral Vladimir Semenovich Pirumov (Retired) Chairman of Scientific Counsel of the Russian Security Counsel Sweden: Navy Captain Bo Wallendar UK: Captain Patrick Tyrell, Assistant Director, Information Warfare Policy, Ministry of Defence 13:00 - 13:30 Dealing with Internet Intruders in Emergency Mode: An IBM Perspective Peter Streibelt, IBM Europe Program Manager for Advanced Networking and Internet Emergency Response 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch BREAKOUT SESSIONS 14:30 - 16:00 Breakout One: Defending Against the Internet: The Threat to European Civil Prosperity Moderator: Mich Kabay, Klaus-Peter Kossakowski, DFN-CERT, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Christopher Klaus, CEO and Founder, Internet Security Systems, US Peter Streibelt, IBM Europe Breakout Two: "Paradigm Shift" Moderated by: Winn Schwartau Dr. Phillipe Beaumard, University of Paris, France Colonel George Dunlop, USAF 16:00 - 16:30 Sponsored Break PLENARY SESSION 16:30 - 18:00 "Hackers: National Resources or Merely Cyber-Criminals?" Co-Moderators: Mich Kabay, Ph.D., Director of Education, NCSA and Robert Steele, President, OSS, Inc. Rop Gonggrijp - Hactic and The Digital City, Amsterdam, Andy Mueller-Maguhn, CHAOS Computer Club Germany "Frantic" - Anthony C. Zboralski - Convicted French Hacker 18:00 - 21:00 Hosted Reception 21:00 - 23:00 Self-paid Dinners for "Birds of a Feather." Rallying points will be provided. May 24, 1996 07:00 - 8:30 Sponsored Continental Breakfast 08:30 - 9:00 Keynote Speech "Efforts to Maximize Information As New Age Weapon" General Pichot-Duclos, France PLENARY SESSIONS 9:00 - 10:00 "Creating Smart Nations Through National Information Strategies: Intelligence And Security Issues" Robert David Steele, President, OSS, Inc. US 10:00 - 11:15 "The Convergence of Military and Commercial Vulnerabilities" Moderator: Winn Schwartau Panel: Bob Ayers, Chief IW Division, DISA, Department of Defense, US Captain Patrick Tyrell, Assistant Director, Information Warfare Policy, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom 11:15 - 11:45 Sponsored Break 11:45 - 13:00 Societal Impact of Information Warfare Moderator: Winn Schwartau, Panel:The Croatian View: Pedrag Pale, Chairman of the InfoTech Coordinating Committee, Ministry of Science, Technology, and Informatics Dr. Ken Dark, Fellow, University of Camabridge, UK 13:00 - 13:30 Sponsored Luncheon Presentation 13:30 - 14:30 Special Luncheon Presentation BREAKOUT SESSIONS 14:30 - 16:00 Breakout One: Legislation & Personal Privacy: A Global Electronic Bill of Rights? Dr. Mich Kabay, Director of Education, NCSA Simon Davies, Electronic Privacy International, UK Dr. Leroy Pearce, Senior Technical Advisor, representing MajGen Leech, Asst. Deputy Minister of Defence Information Services, Canada Breakout Two: "Industrial Espionage: An Update" Moderator: Robert Steele Maurice Najman, Television Coorespondent, France Miguel Chamorro, Exec. Director, Interpol (invited) UK, Arish Turle, Kroll Associates 16:00 - 16:30 Sponsored Break PLENARY 16:30 - 18:00 Defining War in the Information Age "The New National Security" Brief comments by Winn Schwartau and Robert Steele - and then a lively interactive audience debate. 18:00 - 18:10 Closing Comments 18:00 - 20:00 No-Host Reception For complete schedules, and information on InfoWarCon IV (Europe) MAIL OR FAX OR EMAIL: National Computer Security Association 10 South Courthouse Avenue Carlisle, PA 17013 Phone 717-258-1816 or FAX 717-243-8642 EMAIL:conference@ncsa.com To obtain the latest edition of this program, send EMail to: euroinfowar(a)ncsa.com For more information about NCSA: WWW: http://www.ncsa.com CompuServe: GO NCSA Email: info(a)ncsa.com Sponsorships for various InfoWarCon (Europe) 96 events are still available. To Find out how to sponsor portions: Contact Paul Gates at the NCSA: pgates(a)ncsa.com To reach: Winn Schwartau: winn(a)infowar.com Robert Steele: ceo(a)oss.net V 1.19/3.11.96 SH Peace Winn Winn Schwartau - Interpact, Inc. Information Warfare and InfoSec V: 813.393.6600 / F: 813.393.6361 Winn(a)InfoWar.Com

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