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drivers for HP LaserJet
by vitamin＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am looking for drivers for US Robotics for my HP Laserjet . I've contacted theU.S. Robotics support via an e-mail. They confirmed that this driver exists but it is available from BBS only. Is there anyway I can access through web or ftp site? Thanks a mil

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Jewell shows warrants are frauds
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There was yet another item on Richard Jewell today on the national news. If our goal is to return this country to allowing the government to do only the "reasonable" searches that the Constitution allows, we shouldn't miss the opportunity to take the Jewell case and shove it up their...well...use it to our best advantage. The _theory_ is that the only way the government could have gotten a warrant against Richard Jewell ONLY by showing some likelihood that evidence of the crime would be found. The facts, the end result is quite the opposite; the FBI has had a full opportunity to do their investigation and they've found...nothing. Or, at least nothing they're now willing to leak. Nothing, certainly, which they feel justifies filing charges. So they're probably going to just drop the investigation of Jewell. But at this point, we should consider that practically an engraved invitation: The theory behind ALL warrants is that they are granted only upon a showing to a judge of a legally satisfactory reason to grant the warrant. Given the outcome, it is almost certain that no such showing ever occurred. What happened, on the other hand, was probably just another fraud. Some prosecutor or investigator did some magic dance in front of a judge, pretending to tell the truth, and the judge pretended to believe him. The difference with this case, however, is that a few hundred million people heard about it. That's why this case, unlike nearly all others, presents a marvelous opportunity. All of the various Clipper/GAK proposals are based, ultimately, on the same weakness: The idea that we, the people should be able to trust some overpaid government-thug-sympathizer in a black robe to decide whether or not a given set of evidence is sufficient to decide to grant a warrant. Perhaps the best challenge to this idea is to show a clear example of how the system fails, precisely when it's expected to WORK! The Jewell incident is a good test-case, if for no other reason that it was highly publicized and many if not most people know the basics. In addition, unlike a case which was thought insignificant before and only later became well-known, all of the officials who had anything to do with it were, presumably, fully aware how important it was and could be expected to be "on their toes" about ensuring that they do their jobs correctly. Quite simply, the authorities had every reason to get this one RIGHT, as opposed to getting it wrong. They got it wrong. We should insist that the details of this disaster be exposed to show them for the lying frauds they are. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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another MMF?
by Matthew Sheppard 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[Noise] Re: Missionaries (was: "Mormon Asshole?" re: GAK)
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:08 PM 10/8/96 -0700, Paul S. Penrod wrote: >On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Stephen Humble wrote: >> Biblical creationism is "wrong": there's ample evidence that the Earth >> is *much* more than 6000 years old. Yet lots of seemingly rational >> people believe biblical creationism. >> > >The "evidence" is based upon the belief that such techniques as carbon >dating and statistical radio active half life bearing rocks give an >accurate measurement of time as we know it. Geologically speaking, we are >just pissing in the fan to see which way it blows and calling it good. >And, considering the number of text books and egos to be restrung if it >was ever conclusively proven wrong would be devastating to say the least to >the current crop of scientists. I suggest you take your beliefs to talk.origins. I am sure that there are a great number of people who will be willing to explain just *WHY* creationism is no longer accepted as a rational belief. The current line of thought in evolutionary science is not just a whim or "pissing in the wind", it is based on WHAT WORKS. Creationists have spent alot of time making claims as to why the earth was created by God, but none of them has come up with the slightest shread of EVIDENCE as to it actually being done that way. What passes for "Creation Science" is alot of nitpicking about evolutionary theory. (As if somehow "disproving" evolution will somehow "prove" creationism.) Most of the so-called "proofs" for Creationism are based on ignorance of what evolutionary theory actually consists of. I suggest that you actually read the talk.origins FAQs. They might teach you something about real science instead of that pretend science you have been getting at church. As for what this whole thread has to do with crypto, i have no idea... --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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RE: "Soul Catcher" Computer Chip (fwd)
by Alex Filacchione 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

QUOTE SOUL CATCHER IMPLANTS British scientists are developing a concept for a computer chip which, when implanted into the skull behind the eye, will be able to record a person's every life time thought ands sensation. =-=-=-=-=-=- Hahaha! That's a good one. Maybe these guys should share some of their findings w/ the worlds leading neurologists, since they seem to know so much. "Every lifetime thought"?????? Even one thought. Hmmm, perhaps they would care to explain human emotions in scientific terms, fully explained, no vagueness allowed? Care to share "translation tables" for neuro-electric impulses that show signature of certain emotions? This is just so ridiculous. I would just like to ask them one question. "How?" Record what someone sees? Maybe.... Alex F alexf(a)iss.net

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Re: 2Re: Best-of-Crypto
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: > I read the full list, so I don't keep these URLs bookmarked or handy. > Arachelian posts to Cypherpunks regularly, so contact him from those > messages. Blossom is involved with his company, "Infosec," so some > combination of these words in a search engine should turn up something. Eric Blossom is eb(a)comsec.com. His URL is http://www.comsec.com/ check out his nifty bump-in-the-cord 3DES phone encryption device. --Lucky

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RE: radio net (fwd)
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So much for "no domestic crypto restrictions." I really hate when people say that, there are plenty, and export restrictions on cryptography software and cryptography in software DOES indirectly but substantially affect the availability and cost of domestic encryption, not to mention that most people download export-grade crypto from the web for convenience. Isn't there a similar ban on encryption-capable telephones and other electronic devices (other than computers). Matt > > The FCC prohibits the transmission of encrypted data via > > analog or digital signals by amateurs.

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Govt wants to read your e-mail
by Christian Claborne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In case you haven't heard.... "AN ALLIANCE OF 11 SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE COMPANIES HAS JUST ANNOUNCED ITS FORMATION TO DEVELOP KEY-RECOVERY SOLUTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC ENCRYPTION, a crucial component of the Clinton administration's latest plan to loosen the export of encryption technology. Announced yesterday, the administration's plan gives exporters of encryption or encrypted software a two- year window starting Jan. 1, 1997, to build what the administration calls 'key recovery' into their products. [The alliance will] develop systems that will give the [U.S.] government what it wants, which is access to suspicious encrypted messages, so that compliant software companies will be able to get export licenses for hard-to-crack encryption codes. . . . " 'The fact that 56-bit DES [a type of encryption] will be available from significant sources is going to jump-start electronic commerce,' said Ken Kay, executive director of the Computer Systems Policy Project, a public policy group comprised of 12 computer industry CEOs. . . . While Gore directly stated yesterday that domestic use of encryption will remain unregulated, the double standard for domestic and international products might discourage U.S. companies from developing two different versions, leaving U.S. and Canadian customers with the same products that the federal government has deemed safe to ship overseas." ["C/Net" Oct. 2; also covered by "Reuter" and "Dow Jones"] ... __o .. -\<, Claborne(a)CYBERTHOUGHT.com ...(*)/(*)._ Providing thoughts on your computing needs. http://www.CYBERTHOUGHT.com/cyberthought/ PGP Pub Key fingerprint = 7E BF 38 3F 24 A7 D1 B0 54 44 96 AA 10 D0 5D 51 Avail on Pub Key server. PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! Dreams. They are just a "screen saver" for the brain.

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Re: Global Strike to protest Wassenaar
by Richard.Bragg＠ssa.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ever played Mornington Crescent? Try the same thing with e-mail. The idea is that only those in the game know "the rules". These rules can change at any time in any way and all "real players" can tell about the new "rules" and adjust accordingly. The idea would be to exchange nothing while make it appear to be exchanging information of real importance. OK so this will be just like any managment memo but you must get my drift. Hack together a proggy to "encrypt" a message but really just generates garbage, just like politicians. Leave patterns in it so it looks real.

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Re: Binding cryptography - a fraud!
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:00 PM 10/9/96 MET, Bert-Jaap Koops wrote: >The text is also available at >http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/binding.htm. > >9 October 1996 >Eric Verheul, everheul(a)ngi.nl >Bert-Jaap Koops, koops(a)kub.nl >Henk van Tilborg, henkvt(a)win.tue.nl >(c) 1996 Eric Verheul, Bert-Jaap Koops, Henk van Tilborg >This message may only be redistributed in its entirety and with >inclusion of the copyright notice. Credit if quoting. > >_Binding Cryptography, a fraud-detectible alternative to key-escrow >proposals_ [stuff deleted] >The idea is that any third party, e.g., a network or service provider, >who has access to components 2, 3 and 4 (but not to any additional >secret information) can: >a. check whether the session keys in components 2 and 3 coincide; >b. not determine any information on the actual session key. > >In this way, fraud is easily detectible: a sender that attempts to >virtually address a session key to the TRP (component 3) that is >different from the real one he uses on the message (or just nonsense) >will be discovered by anyone checking the binding data. If such >checking happens regularly, fraud can be properly discouraged and >punished. I am at the same time dismayed and disgusted at the tendency of some people to want to "detect fraud" on the part of ordinary citizens, as this paper appears to want to do, but says _nothing_ about preventing fraud _by_government. How is the average citizen to know if keys are being given out to government agents for valid reasons? I am further enraged by the last portion of the paragraph above where he says, "fraud can be properly discouraged _and_punished_" Why "punished"? Why call it "fraud"? Why should sending the "wrong" bits become a crime? The US government, for example, has repeatedly claimed that key-escrow systems should be "voluntary." Presumably, except for authoritarian and totalitarian countries, no other country should force their own citizens or others to use any sort of key-escrow/GAK system. Maybe I'm biased: I'm a libertarian who believes that sending the wrong bits shouldn't be considered a crime. The problem we have is with the politicians, NOT primarily the criminals. Giving the government the ability to punish people merely for sending the wrong bits (absent some other, REAL crime) is an enormous step backward. And if they're guilty of a real crime, why bother about the bits? Even if I believed in GAK, which I don't, I don't think governments or anyone else should be able to determine whether the "correct" code is included with the data until and unless the government has a valid warrant, with protections against government fraud, and has received the correct code. That is the only point at which the government (even arguably) has a legitimate reason to know this. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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