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Assassination Biz
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey, Jim Bell, here are some clients, or competitors, or best, targets? The Hit Men (Newsweek, Feb 26, 96) Call it "in-your-face-capitalism." You lose your job, your ex- employer's stock price rises, the CEO gets a fat raise. Today, the more people a company fires, the more Wall Street loves it, the higher its stock price goes. Cheer up, you're serving the greater good by being blown away by what economist Joseph Schumpeter christened "the gale of creative destruction." The world is changing and no matter how big and rich a company is, it has to adapt or die. But Wall Street and Big Business have made a bad problem worse by being greedheads. Lots of CEOs have messed up big time. They let payrolls get bloated. Then to recoup, the offer up employees as sacrifices to Mammon, god of Wall Street, hoping to get their stock price back up. When the price rises, it's like Wall Street spitting on the victim's bodies. Corporate heads, salaries and layoffs: Robert Allen, AT&T. Salary: $3,362,000, 40,000 layoffs. Louis Gerstner, IBM, $2,625,000, 60,000. Robert Palmer, Digital Equipment, $900,016, 20,000. Walter Shipley, Chemical/Chase, $2,496,154, 12,000. Charles Lee, GTE. $2,004,115, 17,000. Ronald Allen, Delta Air Lines, $475,000, 15,000. John McDonnell, McDonnell Douglas, $577,791, 17,000. Robert Stempel, General Motors, $1,000,000, 74,000. Edward Brennan, Sears, Roebuck, $3,075,000, 50,000. Michael Miles, Philip Morris, $1,000,000, 14,000. Frank Shrontz, Boeing, $1,420,935, 28,000. William Ferguson, CEO Nynex, $800,000, 16,800. Albert Dunlap, Scott Paper. $100,000,000 in salary, stock profits and other perks, 11,000.

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Re: True random numbers
by eli+＠GS160.SP.CS.CMU.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May writes: >4. I'd avoid altogether phrases such as "generates random numbers," unless >your method uses radioactive decay or Johnson noise measurements, for >example, and maybe not even then. Persi Diaconis gave a talk here last week on pseudorandom generation, during which he was asked by people didn't use hardware RNGs. He said that he wasn't aware of any that passed the standard battery of statistical tests. (He also mentioned that nobody had thoroughly tested the complexity-theoretic generators such as Blum-Micali, and got into a rather vigorous discussion with a professor who argued that testing was superfluous. Diaconis: "You theorists always take that tone!") -- . Eli Brandt usual disclaimers . . eli+(a)cs.cmu.edu PGP key on request . . arrest me: violation of 18 U.S.C. 1462: "fuck".

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Re: Req. for soundbites
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:57 AM 2/19/96 -0500, tallpaul wrote: >On Feb 18, 1996 19:27:04, 'frantz(a)netcom.com (Bill Frantz)' wrote: > > >>>A local TV station has asked me for an interview, after I sent a graphic >>>of a mono-digital hand gesture with the phrase "censor this!" to the >Prez, >>>Veep, and the area congresscritters (cc'd to 2 TV stations and a radio >>>station), accompanied by a 'confession' and demand for swift prosecution. > >>> >>>Anyone got any nifty sound bites I can try to toss in? >> For the record, that is not my statement, but one I was replying to. No offense, I think I may have made the same kind of mistake. > >I do not think that sound bites are the way to deal with these complex >issues. Tallpaul is right when he says that one SHOULD not deal with complex issues through sound bites. However, the mathematical model for this part of politics is Prisoner's Dilemma. (BTW It is also the model for negative advertising.) When your opponent goes to sound bites, you also must, or you will lose. The CDA fans have been using sound bites such as, "It will protect our children from netporn." and, "The net is a sea of pornography." Lost jobs and dead teenagers are the strongest images I can present on our side and still feel look at myself in the mirror in the mornings. Regards - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Encryption in software licenses...
by David J. Bianco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have a pointer to any good discussions on how to build programs with encrypted license keys? ftp.csua.berkeley.edu used to have such a file (/pub/cypherpunks/cryptanalysis/license.asc.gz), but the archive hasn't been accessible for a few days. Although I remember this to be mostly about how to crack such schemes, it has lots of useful information about how they are designed in the first place. Thanks, David -- ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Phone: (804) 446-9060 Fax: (804) 446-9061 Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco(a)itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/

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ITAR Amended to Allow Personal Use Exemption
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the most recent RISKS: >RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 16 February 1996 Volume 17 : Issue 75 ... Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 14:04:39 EST From: denning(a)cs.cosc.georgetown.edu (Dorothy Denning) Subject: ITAR Amended to Allow Personal Use Exemption Today's Federal Register contains a notice from the Department of State, Bureau of Political Military Affairs, announcing final rule of an amendment to the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) allowing U.S. persons to temporarily export cryptographic products for personal use without the need for an export license. The product must not be intended for copying, demonstration, marketing, sale, re-export, or transfer of ownership or control. It must remain in the possession of the exporting person, which includes being locked in a hotel room or safe. While in transit, it must be with the person's accompanying baggage. Exports to certain countries are prohibited -- currently Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. The exporter must maintain records of each temporary export for five years. See Federal Register, Vol. 61, No. 33, Friday, February 16, 1996, Public Notice 2294, pp. 6111-6113. Dorothy Denning [This will probably become known as the Matt Blaze exemption. See Matt's ``My life as an international arms courier" in RISKS-16.73, 6 January 1995. PGN] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:18:02 -0500 (EST) From: Educom <educom(a)elanor.oit.unc.edu> Subject: Spreading the Word (Edupage, 15 February 1996) *The Washington Post* has reported that a Maryland family received a number of threatening calls after a University of Maryland student used the Internet to circulate a hearsay allegation that a daughter in the family was being mistreated by her mother. Posting his message on Internet newsgroups concerned with child welfare, psychology, left-wing politics, and civil liberties, the student urged people to call the mother "at home and tell her you are disgusted and you demand that she stops." The student claims: "You should be able to write what you want on the Internet, whether it's true or not." (*Houston Chronicle*, 14 Feb 1996, 2A) ------------------------------ _______________________ Regards, "Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves." -Gene Fowler Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu 0C 69 D4 E8 F2 70 24 33 B4 5E 5E EC 35 E6 FB 88

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Net Partying Last Week?
by Bruce Baugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm noticing something odd in the course of my remailer tests. There's an across-the-board increase in turnaround times for Sunday/Monday as compared with Friday/Saturday. Was there some remailer cyberbash I don't know about, or was this more likely to be a local problem? -- Bruce Baugh bruce(a)aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce

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Re: Some thoughts on the Chinese Net
by Bruce Baugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:44 PM 2/19/96 -0600, Alex Strasheim <cp(a)proust.suba.com> wrote: >steady force towards liberalization. Once Chineese society has coexisted >with a vibrant black information market for a decade or two, making >things legal will probably seem sensible to most people -- no one will >expect the sky to fall if people are allowed to speak their minds. I'd like to agree, but I'm afraid I can't. Notice that many years of widespread use of currently illegal drugs in the US has not translated into widespread willingness to say that the drugs should be legal. Nor has the experience of decades of black markets turned into widespread Russian willingness to allow a lot more freedom: what they call "profiteering" and punish heavily is mostly what we call "wholesaling" and regard as an essential part of mundane distribution. Cognitive dissonance is really, really easy to come by, and hard to remove. -- Bruce Baugh bruce(a)aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce

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Re: NET_run [NOISE]
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 02:54 PM 2/19/96 -0800, bruce@aracnet wrote: >> Sometime next month a game will be played on the >> Internet, challenging surfers to leap between sites, >> solving puzzles and cracking codes that will give them >> access to secret data hidden behind firewalls and >> software barriers. > >Netrunner is indeed a card game. As part of the intro publicity, some demo >games will be run on the Web. (No, no info about that at the moment.) The >rest is the intersection of overenthusiastic publicity folks and clueless >reporters. "Go, marketing department, go" were the exact words of my friend. Which is based on the even more cool Cyberpunk (no, not Cypherpunk, but it seems that way in my own games) traditional role-playing game. Actually, that's not a small percentage of why I keep up with all the noise on this list - you get some _great_ game ideas. <<perrygram elided>> dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMSkafjVTwUKWHSsJAQEI7gf9HwKWFS489/ljLT9OtQxpfLP5dqOtCkFg 7IW65RvYfuwS/G6bkpc9pOUGGabnsI/rak7AtzJwXlqtI6DJnTl7MSNoA+vdddQX t7eLv4d9phTSBg3s5N1upOZuLO8239pWmx+y0Rknzo1qkZ9P0pQPOFqHdhsem5TA X/AtP1nLyno8dKlOLcdcqk3p5CLQt6v3X/sZN10Y1N6JYXcxmY3VbFWMBjmWjAZi Qv9awTjBvLem+NHF/alEkRR2AIeswLwl7jB/P9zZ/R4x1NfcGYKGWRnT+6cFITrM UYH+WxqYZGcrY3ECVJ8IrylFJ/MJsBDyUpw+ZXIbh9BjQmD8GfiukQ== =TPrG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- David E. Smith, c/o Southeast Missouri State University 1000 Towers Circle South MS 1210 Cape Girardeau MO 63701 dsmith(a)midwest.net, dsmith(a)alpha.c2.org, PGP 0x961D2B09 (573)339-3814 http://www.midwest.net/scribers/dsmith/ "Reality is only for those lacking in true imagination."

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Re: Remailers not heard from; info?
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 01:31 PM 2/19/96 -0800, bruce@aracnet wrote: >A fix along the lines of > >:: >don't-send-anything-after-this > >might be readily applicable. Don't some remailers support the "Cutmarks" header, which does essentially that? A useful reference for this is Raph's remailers list; among the numbers and cryptic little charts is a listing of which remailers support which features. dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMSkaFDVTwUKWHSsJAQGCjAf+K5TW4yRol6a0L2xclbrU84MMA3FtmpCE xyx016KEOxEfVGBflsg3phRYSfY13Ezjxkrmkv449wsOAlRamwFpgCTcpDNU+dKk YXrJGnQ2PMNYPXZNNK/CObHEFA2xl3peITMF27NrLcGkC2On4r+geajyV8QZo+RF bNmPJ6fc5FTyl1BNAe0L/spucxx1wDG+IgKZP9IX+I3niJJBdxj73N4AAz3loesq +qwB9NRceFtNYdoigYUxC9nhB0s90C1fJtkc0/M8Jv0Qd0S4FosU+e1HSCkNLgXU ALuoXkhhRFmBAIW9Qf6aLKK4ANgt9DfmKIoHaBYy1B1GBKhxLHEWqw== =Fzjc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- David E. Smith, c/o Southeast Missouri State University 1000 Towers Circle South MS 1210 Cape Girardeau MO 63701 dsmith(a)midwest.net, dsmith(a)alpha.c2.org, PGP 0x961D2B09 (573)339-3814 http://www.midwest.net/scribers/dsmith/ "Reality is only for those lacking in true imagination."

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SOTP = Snake Oil Time Pad
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:53 PM 2/19/96, Mike McNally wrote: >IPG Sales writes: > > For short messages, a true OTP is used directly. > >Quick question: does anybody at IPG know what the "O" in "OTP" stands >for? I think it is "O for Oil," as in Snake Oil. The view of some seems to be "We're selling Internet Security products because that's where the money and the suckers are, and anything with "Internet" and "Security" in it will mean a quick couple of million when we take our company public." --Tim May Boycott espionage-enabled 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, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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