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. Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author, Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he would be set up for trafficking narcotics unless he complied. The Government agency's demands were simple: He was to put a virtually undetectable trapdoor, designed by the NSA, into all future releases of PGP, and to tell no-one. After reading this, you may think of using an earlier version of PGP. However, any version found on an FTP site or bulletin board has been doctored. Only use copies acquired before 1992, and do NOT use a recent compiler to compile them. Virtually ALL popular compilers have been modified to insert the trapdoor (consisting of a few trivial changes) into any version of PGP prior to 2.1. Members of the boards of Novell, Microsoft, Borland, AT&T and other companies were persuaded into giving the order for the modification (each ot these companies' boards contains at least one Trilateral Commission member or Bilderberg Committee attendant). It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler is older than from 1992.
anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com writes:
I snagged this off a news group this AM.. comments??
NSA/FBI/CIA/MJ12...Craig Steingold......Trilateral Commission.... Bilderberg Committee
Heh. They forgot the Black Heliocopters manned by agents of the UN/New World Order, and the Greys from Zeta Reticuli.. It's a hoax, with several clues that it is a hoax in it. Of course you're welcome to prove me wrong by disassembling a PGP binary. Examination of the random numnber generator, IDEA key setup, or RSA key setup vs what's in the source code should show if something fishy is going on. -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Eric Murray wrote:
Heh. They forgot the Black Heliocopters manned by agents of the UN/New World Order, and the Greys from Zeta Reticuli..
It's a hoax, with several clues that it is a hoax in it.
Of course you're welcome to prove me wrong by disassembling a PGP binary. Examination of the random numnber generator, IDEA key setup, or RSA key setup vs what's in the source code should show if something fishy is going on.
Unless of course the program you're using to view the disassembled instructions has also been altered by the TriLats. And make sure you use any pre-1992 compiler on a pre-1992 operating system on a computer that's not hooked up to the Net or even located where NSA agents can get to it. "Steingold" was a nice touch. -Declan // declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com //
Unless of course the program you're using to view the disassembled instructions has also been altered by the TriLats. And make sure you use any pre-1992 compiler on a pre-1992 operating system on a computer that's not hooked up to the Net or even located where NSA agents can get to it.
For what its worth I have a copy of DOS 3.3 running Borland Turbo C 1.0 with the original Turbo Debugger/Assembler on an IBM Model 30 that has never been hooked up to the Net. Any takers? :) Ben. ____ Ben Samman.................................................ben@edelweb.fr Paris, France Illudium Q36 Explosive Space Modulator
The one-and-only anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com once stated: ! I snagged this off a news group this AM.. comments?? [ Part of previous message deleted ] ! It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. ! The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", ! in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The ! result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above ! 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC ! with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into ! itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler ! is older than from 1992. I vote for Bogus, since it resembles too much a story from the ancient days of UNIX. This story stated that Ken Thompson modified the UNIX CC compiler to include a trapdoor in each version of (I think it was) the login program, thus ensuring the placement of a trapdoor enabling him to enter each and every system. After that (since all compiler passes are written in C) he modified the compiler to include this code (to modify the login program) into the compiler and compiled the compiler, after which he destroyed the original sources. Hope this story will not become the next "Good Time Virus" story or some similar hoax... -- GreetZ, Unicorn. ==== _ __,;;;/ TimeWaster on http://www.IAEhv.nl/users/hvdl ============ ,;( )_, )~\| Hans "Unicorn" Van de Looy PGP: ED FE 42 22 95 44 25 D8 ;; // `--; GSM: +31 653 261 368 BD F1 55 AA 04 12 44 54 '= ;\ = | ==== finger hvdl@sequent.com for more info ===================
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
I snagged this off a news group this AM.. comments??
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Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author, Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he
The author of PGP is PHILLIP Zimmermannm not Paul. This file has been making the rounds for a few years now...it was first posted to one of the humor newsgroups, but pops up every now and then on one of the more serious places, like here. It's bogus. --- Zach Babayco zachb@netcom.com <----- finger for PGP public key http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4127
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.
I suppose this part could be true.
Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author, Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he would be set up for trafficking narcotics unless he complied. The Government agency's demands were simple: He was to put a virtually undetectable trapdoor, designed by the NSA, into all future releases of PGP, and to tell no-one.
Phil Zimmerman has been shown to be a person of remarkable personal integrity and since he was up on and beat charges of illegally exporting munitions, I some how find a lame threat of a frame up for narcotic trafficking as making him cave to the "shadowy" government wishes a bit hard to swallow.
snip< Members of the boards of Novell, Microsoft, Borland, AT&T and other companies were persuaded into giving the order for the modification (each ot these companies' boards contains at least one Trilateral Commission member or Bilderberg Committee attendant).
Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot that the all powerful TC was behind it all, so of course its true.
It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler is older than from 1992.
Somehow, I just don't see the FSF collaborating and caveing to threats. Also please note that all of this code under discussion has been and is constantly being reviewed by some of these here fine folks and thus far, ain't no one found this often rumored secret back door, but then again, I am quite sure the TC is behind the coverup. have a day in fact, they're cheap, have 2 chipper
It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler is older than from 1992.
Umm, no. I work for the Foundation in my copious free time. This has never happened. And I just asked Richard about it to be sure. He was amused. It would be *very* difficult to pass this by anyone. People at FSF diff the source code a lot, and we're far from the only ones.
It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler is older than from 1992.
Umm, no. I work for the Foundation in my copious free time. This has never happened. And I just asked Richard about it to be sure. He was amused. It would be *very* difficult to pass this by anyone. People at FSF diff the source code a lot, and we're far from the only ones.
This has been a common joke for years now, the gcc "virus". Its nothing more than a troll. (Its getting boring, however)
Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author, Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he would be set up for trafficking narcotics unless he complied. The Government agency's demands were simple: He was to put a virtually undetectable trapdoor, designed by the NSA, into all future releases of PGP, and to tell no-one.
This is wrong, and easily disproven. There was no way to put a trap door in PGP because the source code was made publically available. Modifying every C compiler in the world is just not realistic. However, the situation has become considerably different with PGPfone. Source code to PGPfone is kept extremely secret. A few outsiders may be given the source to review, but they will not be allowed to compile and distribute it. Only binaries of PGPfone compiled by the authors will be available. Some interesting portions of the program have even been intentionally obfuscated to make them extremely difficult to disassemble and analyze. With PGPfone, a back would be considerably easier to install...
! 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. ! ! Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to ! allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author, ! Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he ! would be set up for trafficking narcotics unless he complied. The Government ! agency's demands were simple: He was to put a virtually undetectable ! trapdoor, designed by the NSA, into all future releases of PGP, and to ! tell no-one. ! ! After reading this, you may think of using an earlier version of ! PGP. However, any version found on an FTP site or bulletin board has been ! doctored. Only use copies acquired before 1992, and do NOT use a recent ! compiler to compile them. Virtually ALL popular compilers have been ! modified to insert the trapdoor (consisting of a few trivial changes) into ! any version of PGP prior to 2.1. Members of the boards of Novell, Microsoft, ! Borland, AT&T and other companies were persuaded into giving the order for ! the modification (each ot these companies' boards contains at least one ! Trilateral Commission member or Bilderberg Committee attendant). The only true part in this hoax is the extent of corporate and political membership in international capitalist organizations like the Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderbergers, and hundreds of other redundent alike organizations dedicated to making the whole world the same. ! It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. ! The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", ! in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The ! result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above ! 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC ! with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into ! itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler ! is older than from 1992. This identical post was included in an issue of Phrack about three or four years ago. So this bogus post is already pretty old. With all the real creepy stuff happening in the world, who needs to make up lies?
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