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"The Observer" calls the internet a child pornography ring
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Banner Front page headline in the British Observer, Sunday 25th "The Peddlers of child abuse" see http://scallywag.com/ The internet is presented as a conspiracy by child molesters. There is a picture of Johan Helsingius, the man who free of charge provides an anonymous remailer service: The picture is captioned "The internet middle man who handles 90% of all child pornography" He is represented as personally profiting from the distribution of child pornography, though in fact no posts to binary newsgroups can go through his system, and no large binaries can go through his system, and he provides the anonymising service free of charge. There is a picture of Clive Feather, the man who runs the largest internet service provider in Britain, captioned "The school governor who sells access to photos of child rape"]] The observer article savagely demonizes all who use the internet, presenting it as primarily existing for the purpose of distributing child pornography, and demonizes and libels by name those who have sought to defend the liberty of netizens. I urge you all to check out this article, and send snail mail letters to the observer condemning (since they are obviously too low tech to read email) and email letters of support to those netizens who have been savagely libeled for their defence of liberty. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald jamesd(a)echeque.com

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RE: File System Encryption
by Wayne Clerke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- From: Drifter[SMTP:drifter@c2.net] Sent: Monday, 26 August 1996 16:19 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: File System Encryption I'm aware of the three main disk encryption programs SFS, SECDRV, and SECDEV, but I need to find a solution that works with Windows 95 32bit or Windows NT 4.0. I'm currently using SFS 1.17 and Secure Drive under Win-95, but am unable to continue to work in dos compatability mode due to severe performance hits. I am open to commercial products that have passed peer review, but know of none. If anyone could suggest a solution (outside of switching OS's), I would be *most* gratefull. Please respond to the list, as I am a subscriber under another account. Tried secdev? Edgar Swank (author of secdrv) recently posted that secdev (note, not secdrv) does, in fact, uses 32 bit disk access with win95. Win95 reports that the secure device is in compatibility mode, but the host disk (and therefore the secure volume file) is being accessed in 32 bit (disk) mode. Not sure what issues there are with '32 bit FILE access' mode here. Sounds worth a try though. Please post the results if you try this. The Drifter EMail: wclerke(a)emirates.net.ae PGP key ID: AEB2546D FP: D663D11E DA19D74F 5032DC7E E001B702 PGP mail welcome. Voice: +971 506 43 48 53 <a href=mailto:wclerke@emirates.net.ae>Wayne Clerke</a> If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

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Re: AFDA Web Site
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed Aug 28 09:08:59 1996 > MEMORANDUM > > SUBJECT: AFDA Web site, located at: http://www.afda.org > > In September, the Web site for the Association of Federal Defense > Attorneys > (AFDA) will become password-protected for members only. Those of you > who > have paid your membership dues for 1996 will be receiving an email > message > containing a User ID and Password, which will be good through December > 31, > 1997 -- almost a year and a half of unlimited usage for the small > membership Okay, so are they going to encrypt the email, or should I go ahead and make arrangements to steal a message :-) Dave Merriman - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PGP Email welcome, encouraged, and PREFERRED. Visit my web site at http://www.shellback.com/p/merriman for my PGP key and fingerprint "What is the sound of one hand clapping in a forest with no one there to hear it?" I use Pronto Secure (tm) PGP-fluent Email software for Windows -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMiOcLsVrTvyYOzAZAQG4XAQAnNHZtuU5rB9cttuP4xIJ16N/XO3Ds6+L k4sS0w0I8+Rm+0Py9kYf3en3I9oPrP8fuQxXefBtlTO9FltWrApSR5otgO1LJtX6 EzYtDcXnXwD7nRZ74efLFktn5DXG4xODIFT0fRWbohZOkukh6ePheWWnOiPc+nFr e8hXmqO7KWk= =IfoC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Bullshit or Not ?
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:57 AM 8/28/96 -0700, anonymous-remailer(a)shell.portal.com wrote: >I snagged this off a news group this AM.. comments?? > >A lot of people think that PGP encryption is unbreakable and that the >NSA/FBI/CIA/MJ12 cannot read their mail. This is wrong, and it can be a >deadly mistake. In Idaho, a left-wing activist by the name of Craig Steingold >was arrested _one day_ before he and others where to stage a protest at >government buildings; the police had a copy of a message sent by Steingold >to another activist, a message which had been encrypted with PGP and sent >through E-mail. This is quite bogus. The first clue is the mention of "Craig Stiengold". A variation of "Craig Shergold" a widely known (and misspelled) urban legend. This has been debunked a number of times. --- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."

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Re: DoJ is poking around
by Will Rodger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 03:42 AM 8/29/96 +1000, Skeeve Stevens wrote: > >Im running a mirror of the DoJ site on http://www.skeeve.net/doj/ > >It has had some 14000 hits or so since I put it up.. so I installed a stats >package to see where they were coming from... > >low and behold! > >US Government >wdcsun1.usdoj.gov > 09:07:07 /doj/ > >wdcsun1.usdoj.gov unknown - [28/Aug/1996:09:07:07 +1000] "GET /doj/ HTTP/1.0" 20 >0 8416 > >also > >US Military >palisade.spacecom.af.mil > 07:21:50 /doj/ > 08:30:51 /doj/ > > >looks like the DoJ have been looking around at the mirrors.. maybe to >legally hassle people about them.... > Or, just maybe, some DoJ employees wanted to see what folks on the outside were doing to tweek their bosses:-)? Reminds me of the *thousands* of hits the "Intel Secrets Page"(http://www.x86.org/) has gotten from users at intel.com since it went up. True, Intel was considering legal action against the site, but there's almost no way all those hits are from Mr. Grove's investigators.... Will Rodger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMiTHI0cByjT5n+LZAQFObAf9G1fBFETkuWL5mlTmKb2RwLTs/HyTGML7 c8nSdpS+Hsj/I+ofvqUHn07ahulsr+kDLWQmmR3JHFKlT0KCsfydmAn0CvjTVRw+ dyeRTFzxW5fbcmwLBpzmijKllQjoEa7GiM3kUgaGb7MYqssnDoa5YDIA9jYtFvTY 3cKymCiyqNUGWTsskLLAS8zjClIH9q9yF6qq+unY66PyRo44dUGkDH6L1Jd4AOZ6 b/Mgphj3oW59veX/scfxKcLlMAnxvJoLpdlLysJHeU2jhVB/tjRneAxNxZqCTFi8 uVXpPbL568V1xR9uyxmaZbbQqG7+0PgEj+kW5r99zvTZfd0fMd6irA== =EwSd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: DoJ is poking around
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:21 PM 8/28/96 -0800, Adamsc wrote: >>> >looks like the DoJ have been looking around at the mirrors.. maybe to >>> >legally hassle people about them.... > >>> Or, just maybe, some DoJ employees wanted to see what folks on the outside >>> were doing to tweek their bosses:-)? Reminds me of the *thousands* of hits >>> the "Intel Secrets Page"(http://www.x86.org/) has gotten from users at >>> intel.com > >Out of curiosity, has anyone used a decompiler to check if any of the >undocumented stuff is getting used in shipping programs? I have not heard of anyone doing this with the Intel code, but I have seen info on the "Secret APIs of Bill" (Undocumented Windows API calls) being used in various programs. (For more info on this, check out "Undocumented Windows" by Schulman, Maxey, and Pietrek.) I am sure that the people who produce SoftIce could give you more info on this. (Either that or talk with whoever is doing the undocumented feature column for Dr. Dobbs.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."

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Re: There is no Agent Toby Tyler at the FBI [UK Observer St
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> writes: > At 03:17 PM 8/28/96 -0700, Richard Charles Graves wrote: > >...two different sources, both of whom are anonymous because they work for > >competing newspapers, tell me. > > > >Could someone else with contacts/time to kill/attributability please confirm > >this? > > When I first saw the name, I remembered my misspent youth: > Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960) > USA 1960 Color > Produced by Walt Disney Productions Which proves little (though it is suggestive). People get names for a variety of reasons, and before 1960, there would have been little reason *not* to use the name. Back in the 70's I remember hearing many reports from a news announcer at the BBC World Service named Dick Tracy. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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Re: In reference to comments made to me and to the Group
by Remo Pini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com, whgiii(a)amaranth.com Date: Thu Aug 29 11:53:46 1996 I kind of like this valid discussion going on. PERIOD. But I believe that although there's something (maybe, maybe not) politicians (be they Protestant, Palestinians or from Dresden) might find a misdemeanor, one shouldn't boast with possible unwarranted encryption. No, seriously, your arguments tend to be belittled by your spelling. (Maybe you should get Pronto Secure, it has a spellchecker included) BTW, I don't get paid by Commtouch for writing that (SNIF!). A quick overview: beleive, politions, disscusion, orginised, sponcered, orginization, wekness, vailid, Dresdin, durring, expantion, Prodistant, Palisinians, unwarrented, PEROID, somthing, mistamener, mabye, mabye not, possiable, encyrption, disscussing, bost I hate teachers and people who show of with their spelling (and I'm a split personality). Yeah, me too. - ------< fate favors the prepared mind >------ Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html - ----< words are what reality is made of >---- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMiVoqxFhy5sz+bTpAQFYUgf/eu+dQvQALz7Of3DCWLoBWVICY2fmnDJB tQcHTNbuPXybjACVq8+LxdKT2wjXzuU401/rv4dW5+LgrMRlKMIhjx8xAIKSKBOg VBb2ruV9SG2/+sY0iYzJY1Dz4opf5c9aCLgN5ptM2LeWyWOtK71VtV8ASDaoGBP7 HIs9jVJ3sbyQaf8CPfR+pEQSjGLHCm8QshazSjPvuUdIRxB5f9Etpy+45vK4FVPP EXWYaN3jTBOPC24Qe8qGs+Dn/9C5ZR9y0Y2edv/XzWDZrdg951lSdQKxca4wtCbD nyKQ/R86wvfy65uwrBDzUSFupuA1M8TcF63ncybQ/316cHl8x/z0rA== =musf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Hayek (was: Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:26 AM 8/28/96, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: >Senile tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) rants: >> Indeed, Hayek has had a _lot_ to do with the Cypherpunks! From "The Road to >> Serfdom" to "Law, Legislation, and Liberty," his works have exerted a >> profound influence on me, and on many others. > >But he's fucking unreadable. I plan to teach economic this semester and >make every student read Hazlitt (economics in 1 lesson). I can't force them >to read hayek (or Rothbard) because they're fucking unreadable. Shit. Well, to one who inserts "(spit)" after nearly every name he cites, and critiques Hayek as "fucking unreadable. Shit.," I suppose Hayek must indeed seem unreadable. Shit. After all, Hayek rarely writes things like: "The senile Von Mises (spit) and his Sovok Cabal plotters...." As to "forcing" your students to read Hayek, just who is in charge? If you're the instructor, they can choose to read what you tell them to read, or be unprepared on the exams you give and possibly flunk the class. What part of "Required Reading" do you or your students not understand? --Tim (spit) May 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, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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www.anonymizer.com
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

www.anonymizer.com got a nice plug in David Plotnikoff's column in today's San Jose Mercury News. He quotes Community ConneXion's motto, "Because on today's Internet, people do know you're a dog." He also mentions its similarity to anonymous remailers. His capsule review: "On the upside, it's very easy to use and it supports gopher and FTP transfers as well as Web pages. On the downside, it's predictable slow and pages, bracketed top and bottom with Anonymizer banners, often don't display quite right." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius libri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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