Subject: censorware reveng under legal attack
from slashdot
A few weeks ago we ran Keep It Legal to Embarrass Big
Companies, detailing Peacefire's decryption of X-Stop's
blacklist. Then just a few days ago, we noted that CyberPatrol's
encrypted list had also
Subject: body scan
Customs Expands Body
Search X-ray Plan
But Civil Libertarians See Privacy Violations
March 27, 2000
By Jane A. Zanca
NEW YORK (APBnews.com) -- A U.S.
Customs Service plan to expand use of
an X-ray
Subject: brits to listen to GSM on Mayday
Police to tap calls
at May Day
protest
Civil rights group attacks move
Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s. Suppose you know
100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all aggree to pay $1 upfront for the
release of the next album then it is released. If the artist does their job - and
keeps turning out good albums people
David Molnar Wrote:
Anyway, recipient-hiding is most obviously useful when public bulletin
boards are involved. I'm not so sure it's useful between remailers, since
the underlying transport protocol will tend to reveal the ID of the next
hop anyway...but it strikes me as something to have as
Seems to me that this whole question was settled years ago when the
US Supreme ruled that a newspaper couldn't be stopped from publishing
instructions for making a nuclear bomb. Can't remember the exact case,
but it was around the time of the Pentagon Papers case.
Not quite. It didn't
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Harmon Seaver wrote:
And the below poster is absolutely right, of course --
Swinestein's efforts are futile. Perhaps some nice anon poster should
start plastering the net with explosive recipes. E-mail them to
Swinestein herself, along with Reno and Freeh.
Sure!
On 06/27/2000, David Honig wrote:
Would you use the L Ron Hubbard Anonymizing Service?
The local Co$ has a big "Now Hiring" sign in their window.
I wonder if I should doctor my resume and apply.
Objective: To open the L. Ron Hubbard Anonymizing Service.
US citizens who work for a foreign government
have to register with the US govt. Agents
Jim Dave are clearly working for the Japs.
They ought to register, or being FBI, self-destruct.
Cayman Islands passes anti-money-laundering laws
Updated 12:33 PM ET July 25, 2000
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) - The Cayman Islands
government has passed four anti-money-laundering bills in an effort to
confront critical scrutiny by
Gambling is stupid but voluntary,
criminalizing it is evil. The US
needs to get slapped upside its head.
Thursday August 10 2:49 AM ET
Man Jailed in 1st U.S. Online
Gambling Conviction
By Gail Appleson, Law Correspondent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first person to
Anticompromise Emergency Destruct (ACED)
3) Until the ACED system is available, the M-610 incendiary file
destroyers and thermite grenades, employed primarily to destroy
crypto materials, will be used for all PRIORITY ONE emergency
destruction within appropriate Army activities. Adequate
It would be nice if someone got a copy of
the Police-Only version of the city's flyer
and say forwarded it to cryptome..
City Employee Booklets Draw Criticism
Security: Officials decry lists of
delegates'
On Monday, August 14, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could probably come up with uses for cat pee if I set my mind to it.
I'm having considerable difficulty with the idea of commercially-
available cat pee. Is it sanitized? Are Dept of Health certificates
needed? How on earth can you make
Quantum cryptography will be of little practical value for the average
person. That's because you need to get photons unchanged from one
person to the other. This requires either a line of sight or a fiber
optic cable, neither of which is likely to be available.
Quantum computers allow fast
test - please delete w/apologies.
Scores of accidents involving nuclear reactors and weapons
have occurred worldwide since the Nuclear Age began in 1945.
And an estimated 50 nuclear warheads still lie on the bottom of
the world's oceans, according to Joshua Handler, a former
excerpt:
He said Nevitt turned in his old
PC to a CompUSA repair shop in July, but they could
not fix the computer and replaced it with a newer one.
Under the terms of the swap, Mann said, CompUSA
took legal possession of the old
Steve Mann of the wearables group at media.mit
has a well-thought out essay on privacy and
cameras at http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html
He discusses some of the issues that have
been discussed here.
FYI
http://www.users.skynet.be/avalon/avalonuk/technical/radio1.htm
Describes radios that can go through 500 m
of rock. (This is not easy with conventional
RF; they use an 87 Khz carrier.) Of passing
interest for TEMPEST afficionados, it indicates
how far certain whispers carry.
By Robert X. Cringely
I wouldn't want to be a cop. It is a difficult and generally thankless job performed
by people who are often unappreciated and certainly not overpaid. Most of us think of
the police as the givers of undeserved though probably earned speeding and parking
tickets. But when
È David Ludlow and Liesbeth Evers, Network News , Wednesday 27 September 2000
Developers in the US have uncovered a way of snubbing the American equivalent of the
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill, prompting speculation that a similar
system could be introduced into the UK.
The
from /.
"According to The New York
Times (free registration required, for those who care
about such things), a prominent judge recently wrote an
article saying that the delete key should actually delete
things, not just hide them away where lawyers and
from /.
"According to The New York
Times (free registration required, for those who care
about such things), a prominent judge recently wrote an
article saying that the delete key should actually delete
things, not just hide them away where lawyers and
Subject: Photograph alteration CPUNK
Last week a NOECHELONcannabis legalisation activist/NOECHELON
handed a posy of said plant, wrapped as if it had been bought in a
florists' shop to Her Majesty the Queen. HRH accepted it as just
another bunch of flowers, and the photographs hit the
e symbol of salvation and =
divine=20
gifts. On many children's toys, it represents supernatural power. Double =
bolts,=20
popular with contemporary skinheads, symbolize Nazi =
power./FONT/TD/TR=20
PIIf it isn't the Power Rangers it'll be Pikachu...=20
PDoes anyone know if the similarity between the
Will the Austrians treat the
US injunction like Cryptome treats
letters from HRH?
Monday October 23 07:00 PM EDT
Vote auction site attempts to skirt
shutdown order
By Patricia Jacobus, CNET News.com
A rogue Web site purporting to sell votes for the upcoming U.S.
Israeli government, army
Web sites crash after hostile
hits
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Several official Israeli Web sites crashed
after being flooded by thousands of simultaneous hostile hits in
a digital onslaught by
you are not being paranoid enough. The FBI managed to get a search
warrant based on logs from a firewall, that showed my IP only connecting, not even
logging in, hours after news
of the cracking had appeared on news sites. If they can get a search warrant this
easily, your data is not safe,
Bruce McKim
DOB: 2/26/69
Soc Sec. No.: 212-04-8280
Martin Benjamin (for classified)
DOB: 7/6/68
Soc. Sec. No.: 089-56-3596
Mary De Wolfe Stone
DOB: 7/7/63
Soc. Sec. No. : 047-60-6209
http://cryptome.org/usa-v-qaeda-po.htm
"The advantage of lone wolf and small cell activity is that it is
untraceable and is the best use of our meager resources- no
membership dues, rental of meeting halls, driving, lodging and
time-off for endless conventions," Curtis says in an article
EXPERTS FEAR CYBERWARS SPREAD
Tuesday,October 31,2000
By NILES LATHEM
The growing electronic war between Israeli and
http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20001120s=price
by DAVID PRICE
On December 20, 1919, under the heading "Scientists as Spies," The Nation published a
letter by Franz Boas, the father of academic anthropology in America. Boas charged
that four American anthropologists, whom he did
Librarians Running Into Trouble Monitoring Net Use
The Associated Press
B E R K L E Y, Mich., Nov. 6 Ñ Librarians trained in opening doors to knowledge must
find ways to slam some of those doors shut, agitating many who donÕt appreciate laws
requiring them to censor Internet use.
Geographic tracking raises opportunities, fears
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 8, 2000, 4:00 a.m. PT
New technology that can pinpoint the physical location of Web surfers is creating
opportunities for online merchants
and advertisers but could signal new
If you look at http://cnews.tribune.com/news/image/0,1119,oso-nation-82373,00.html
you see the gripe about the Palm Beach
ballots.
What they dont mention is that, by
the same visual-illiteracy that
lets Gore votes go to Buchanan,
votes for Browne go to Gore.
There is far more difference
Federal appeals panel upholds
computer child-porn law
By David Hudson
The Freedom Forum Online
11.07.00
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
has become the third federal appeals
court to uphold
You wrote:
(This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the
election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)
Y2K didn't happen either... Your expecting way too much from this.
Soldier Testifies on Germ Warfare
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
Writer
TOKYO--Yoshio Shinozuka is
still haunted by the ghoulish experiments he
just like most telephone customers
now list their numbers.
But Davidson said Internet
users ought to have a choice -for instance, they
may want to stay anonymous if they
are human rights
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO54114,00.html
Carnivore FOIA Docs http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html
By JENNIFER DISABATINO
(November 17, 2000) Carnivore, the FBI's e-mail surveillance software, is capable of
capturing "all unfiltered traffic,"
Well, we talked for a while, and by that time Hoppe knew it was a joke. I said, "Have
times changed? Ive threatened to drag
people around Washington by their nuts behind Oldsmobiles at a hundred miles an
hour. Ive advocated the slaughter of all
politicians. What are the guidelines now?"
This guy has spammed the list at least
4 times. If you call the number below
his name, you get this bozos personal
cell phone.
Why not say hi, or fax him something?
Mike Bender
888-532-8842
U.S. Army kick-starts
cyberwar machine
From...
by Ellen Messmer
(IDG) -- The U.S. military has a new
mission: Be ready to launch a cyberattack
against potential
U.S. Spy Office Dying, Group Says
Reuters
1:30 p.m. Nov. 14, 2000 PST
Nov 28, 2000 - 12:12 PM
Court to Review Whether Boys
Drawings Constitute a Threat
The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) - The states highest court is reviewing two
drawings penned by a 12-year-old Worcester, Mass.,
student, to
Monday November 27 8:35 PM ET
U.S. Judge Orders sex.com Address
Returned to Owner
By Andrew Quinn
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A judge ordered a major sex
change on the Internet on Monday, ending a hot-blooded
Ken Brown wrote:
Check the HTML source
The page contains the text of a story, but there are HTML errors that
prevent it being displayed on my browser)
Adding a /table at the end fixes it.
... or just use lynx.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000114832908976rtmo=0xGisxNqatmo=0xGisxNqpg=/et/01/1/20/ndna20.html
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
THE prospect of routine DNA screening of the entire population drew nearer yesterday
when the Government proposed to give the police the power to
Aimee Farr wrote:
QUESTION #1.
You are walking through the woods alone. A beautiful unclothed woman
magically appears in front of you. She holds out an apple.
1. Please darken in the correct choice using a Number Two pencil:
(a) you bite the apple.
(b) you take the woman.
. . .
(g)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aimee Farr)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:48:31 -0600
Subject: CDR:Cypherpunks IQ Test to the Sirs of Dillinger, Brown Packet,
et. al.
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CYPHERPUNKS IQ TEST
QUESTION #1.
You are walking through the
TV ANNOUNCER: In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer was
quoted as saying: Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an
intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
The medical researchers at Beaker-Bunsen took up the challenge to
carefully dissect Balmer's statement.
Black Blockers are willing to operate in ways diametrically opposed to the
core anachist ideology, the whole thing seems both clueless and
Bullshit. The anarchist ideology (which is a stupid assertion in itself)
does not comprise of standing on the road alone to be run over by the
truck.
Tim May wrote:
I will say that there is no country out there that seems to be
beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement, pace the points we discuss
so often about drug warriors, freezing of accounts, extradition,
etc. Even Yugoslavia has just bowed to U.S. financing pressures
(sending
Tim May wrote:
At 2:37 AM +0200 7/11/01, Anonymous wrote:
Tim May wrote:
I will say that there is no country out there that seems to be
beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement, pace the points we discuss
so often about drug warriors, freezing of accounts, extradition,
etc. Even
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 17 (Reuters) - Rep. Gary Condit's popularity
rating took another dip today when the U.S. House of Representatives
voted to censure the errant Congressman and, in a surprise move, to
have him publicly flogged next week at the George Washington Memorial
Whipping Post in the
Black Unicorn wrote:
Your complaints about free research suggest that you have the sense
that you are more valuable than or superior to other contributors.
I think that's quite a reach on your part if you are pointing it out
generally.
I don't think so. Other people don't think so.
Please
An Unknown Party wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Anonymous wrote:
We need a good mixmaster net.
working remailer:
1. Average latency less than 5 min
Bad. See the papers done on threats of traffic analysis/spam attacks
against remailers.
Average latency exists. What do you think
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200108/df20010808.jpg
Steve Thompson wrote:
Quoting Anonymous ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
If a block of a metal is hollowed out and a small port is drilled
to see in, the radiance of the cavity is substantially higher than
that of the surface of the metal. As if that weren't shocking
enough, it turns out
Offender Registration: Duty to Register
DMCA Offenders and WIPO Offenders
It is a crime to fail to register. If you have been convicted of a DMCA
offense or WIPO crime, you may be required to register with local law
enforcement under California law. If the offense was
John Young wrote:
Time to lay off Jim Choate, too, Sandy, smells like hysteria.
What, are they still posting to this list? ;-)
John, killfiles work great. Once you try it, you'll never go back.
The Village Voice has an article which approaches the question of how
to make a citizen's arrest of Henry Kissinger:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0133/ridgeway.php
The article is apparently hostile to Kissinger, but plays down the
horror and extent of his crimes. Boilerplate excuses are
Tim - I've been off the list for a long time but return to find that I actually agree
with a bunch of your posts. What the fuck happened? Aimee you have done wonders for
love.
Feds here put my bits into the vacuumed up collection of the day for later style and
word adjacency analysis and
Anonymous wrote:
The cypherpunk world replaces coercion with cooperation. It
provides the shield of anonymity against those who would offer
violence and aggression. As we move into the information age,
control of information is control of the individual. Thus, privacy,
control
And I expect you are just another of the anonymous or pseudonymous
ranters, maybe the same one recently using Nomen Nescio or A
Melon.
I know for sure that there's more than one.
Any message posted to cypherpunks via an anonymous remailer gets an
automatic +2 on hit points, for it practices
Tim May wrote:
I don't recall the context, but I don't have any such friends or
even acquaintances. Even those I know on the Far Right don't want to
kill _all_ Jews, just the pesky freedom-stealing ones, and the
millions who form the Zionist Occupation Government in the Zionist
Entity of
When I saw the general response to bombz post with the below mentioned book, I asked
my significant other to please order a copy for me, because she gets a very nice
reduction on prices of books she buys as an employed of Borders Bookstore chain.
She refused to enter this request into their
In another message Tim wrote:
On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 12:11 AM, Reese wrote:
It's easy to stay on topic, or on a topic, it's another thing to be
appropriate. Tim is good, but easy improvement is within reach, as
you sort of noted.
Fuck off. I'll take constructive criticism from
-5: Posted through node which modifies subject line
-4: Pointless flame
-3: Me Too comment
+1: Posted through mixmaster remailer
+2: Posted something funny
+3: Posted something new and worth knowing or thinking about
+4: Posted useful code
+5: Signed with Cantsin Protocol No. 2 (Hi, Monty!)
of the World Trade Center began to spread, the operators of
the MagusNet Public Proxy Server, an anonymous remailer designed to
provide security for Internet e-mail and other online communiqués,
voluntarily shut down to prevent the system's being abused by terrorists
(or pranksters). Meanwhile
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/gen.america.under.attack/
I notice this bullet point in there:
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft calls on Congress to amend federal
laws so that people convicted of helping terrorists would receive
sentences similar
Hidden messages revealed:
1. Go into Microsoft Word.
2. Type in all caps and highlight: NYC
3. Make the font size 48
4. Change the font to Webdings and read what it says
5. Then change the font again, this time to Wingdings
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Quoting the Washington Post Article: To Attacks' Toll Add a
Programmer's Grief...
Contributing to [the guilt] is the hate e-mail [Zimmermann] got
Sunday night.
It began, Phil -- I hope you can sleep at night with the blood of
5,000 people on your
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Sandy Sandfort said:
Spineless Anonymous or lain or whomever wrote:
Grow a spine, Phil, you jellyfish.
a) Anonymous fell for the oldest trick in book, he uncritically
believed what he read in the newspaper. Missed my forwarded message
from Phil
For the lawyers and lawyer larvae out there...
In an article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian this week, there is an
article about MUNI's policy of making audio recordings of passengers.
quote
Nathan Ballard of the City Attorney's Office told the Bay Guardian that
they were well aware of the
It's beginning to look more and more like Tim is absolutely right.
There are just one fuck of a lot of people in this country that really,
seriously, need killing. It is utterly amazing how quickly, because
of one incident, all these leaders are jumping thru the trash
the Constitution hoop.
Thomas Leavitt writes:
I'm tired of hearing my fellow Americans referred to as cowards,
weaklings, sheep, ignorant, easily mislead - this is a profoundly
undemocratic sentiment, the same kind of crap spewed by totalitarian
and authoritarian types from the far left and the far right as
There are a lot of postings like this one. The poetry is very excellent perhaps?
Dylan Thomas meets PeterWayner at Starbucks in Palo Alto.
We eerily shoot behind slow discarded cybercafes. Alice will
sneakily post in back of Francine when the chosen LANs twist
in front of the minor
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/04/wref04.xmlsSheet=/news/2001/10/04/ixhome.html
Confirm? Deny?
Ebola-style killer virus sweeps Afghan
border
Tim Butcher in Quetta ( you have to be skeptical!)
(Filed: 04/10/2001)
This is brilliant. All pigs have to do is discover a codebook, which,
when XORed with your past e-mail, reveals dark designs.
--
By ABCNEWS.com Wednesday, October 3, 2001
French investigators think they've found terrorists' code book.
French investigators say they have discovered a
At 11:34 AM 10/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
Virtually everyone who visits the WTC site reports the same effect:
news media. They just show broken metal. You can get the same thing
at the local junkyard.
not if you ever lived in new york, ate lunch
innumerable times in the courtyard below the
A man in Florida has been infected with anthrax, according to the CDC.
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/20011004b.html
But don't freak out, they say. Don't buy a gas mask or antibiotics.
Don't panic. Get back in your cubicle. Keep working. Stay at your
desk.
Under no circumstances
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc162417210oct16.column
Wartime Secrecy Presents Hazards to U.S. Freedom
Marie Cocco
October 16, 2001
ABDALLAH YASSINE says he is going home.
Nothing can dissuade him. Not the aid and comfort he's received from his suburban
neighbors, who have
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/text_only.cfm?id=116404
Magicians lottery list accurate
THE American illusionist David Copperfield said yesterday he has been
bombarded by requests for tips on the winning numbers in Germanys
national lottery on Saturday night - numbers he said he predicted seven
Does this remailer work anymore?
The really weird thing about this whole anthrax scene is that all
the spores seem to be of the Ames variety, which is a militarized anthrax
developed in Ames, Iowa. It really seems suspicious to me that these are of
domestic origin -- bin Ladin or whoever would be in all likelihood be using
a
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:51:00AM -0700, Anonymous wrote:
Reading the article
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:29:58 -0600 (CST), Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Adam Shostack wrote:
Perhaps you should expand your analysis to non-excludable goods (those
things which, like air, don't get used up).
Air (O2) does get used up. Kill the algea and the trees and see how long
Woah! Actual cypherpunks related SPAM!!!
SHOCK!!! HORROR!!! A MILD TINGLY SENSATION ON THE BACK OF THE NECK!!!
Haven't spammers yet figured out we can identify spam by a random
alphanumeric string at the end of the subject line?
PS. Is there an easy way to stop windoze from adding a shortcut
british males call eachother cunts all the time.
i'm not sure if this is related.
- Original Message -
From: Sandy Sandfort [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: RE: more on Nancy Oden
That's nonsense.
All this talk about government, USG, TLAs etc is rather
unprecise, vague and general.
Can we compile a list of 100-200 persons that ARE the US government,
maybe then we can examine the issues more scientifically ?
1. George mini-Bush
2. Collin Powel
3. Ashcroft, whatever the fuck's name is.
4.
Form over function. Same as airport security. Psyops. Like the warnings
to keep people off balance. Should we start a pool to see who can guess
when ashcruft will put everyone 'on highest alert' next? It'll probably
The airport security show is clearly designed to intimidate
sheeple.
From what
Second, training in such matters would be useless and counterproductive.
There is no point in patriotic Americans learning to use weapons and
explosives for the purpose of terrorism. Any attempt to use such tools
would injure or kill people and lead to an even greater loss of our
Fuck you, pig.
Jei writes:
I thought this would be relevant to the list members.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/2003-27.html
http://cryptome.org/pmo111301.htm
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/11/13/193921.shtml
And what is a Crypto Terrorist, you ask? Of course,
it
from http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/amerithrax/amerithrax.htm :
is likely an adult male.
strong interest in science
may not be comfortable or practiced in writing in lower case lettering
has exhibited an organized, rational thought process in furtherance of his criminal
behavior.
AGAIN, IF YOU
Whew! I was getting a little worried. Went out and dug up my
silenced MP5, then went back and buried it again, did that 3
fucking times this weeked.
Several of us were in the Sierras this past weekend for a training
session on weapons use, explosives, terrorism measures, and methods for
After learning that computer OEMs cannot obtain a license to play DVDs on
a system with a tv out port unless the graphics card supports (and
respects) Macrovision, I am in the market for some anti-Macrovision
hardware.
A number of people are selling the Sima SED-CM for anywhere between $25
and
Tim wrote:
The bomb instructions Joe provided are as accurate as most recipes in
The Anarchist Cookbook.
(A book my local Sheriff's Department banned in 1970.)
How did the Sheriff's Department manage to do this?
From: Peter G. Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Risks of belief in identities
For those of you who might believe that national ID cards might be a good
idea, check out the December 2001 *Commun.ACM* Inside Risks column by me
and Lauren Weinstein, previewed on my Web site
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