The US Army today announced the availability of licensing
of its patent for "Spread Spectrum Image Steganography:"
http://cryptome.org/usa-patent.htm(with copy of the patent)
Patent Abstract
The Spread Spectrum Image Steganography (SSIS)
of the present invention is a data hiding/secret co
New book by cpunk Joel McNamara who runs the Tempest website:
http://www.eskimo.com/~joel/tempest.html
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/
Secrets of Computer Espionage: Tactics and Countermeasures
by Joel McNamara
Covers electronic and wireless eavesdropping, computer surveill
The White House Communications Agency is also working
hard to secure presidential communications, with legacy
systems needing ever-increasing maintenance and upgrades,
the market continuing to outpace the big-ticket legacy
clunker equipment, too expensive to chuck outright, yet having
flaws begging
There was more fighting and carnage in Gulf War 1 than this
piddling latest. This was not a war but a training exercise, a
rattling of sabers, gunboat diplomacy.
The military provided more information in Gulf War 1 than all
the embedded and free-lancers in the latest. Almost no gunship
videos and
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2002
The Department of Justice and The United States Attorney's
Office for the Northern District of California today asked a
federal court in San Francisco to approve its service of a
John Doe summons on VISA International. "John Doe"
summonses permit the IRS t
Declan,
Three Key West The Newspaper articles by Dennis Cooper
about the Key West government scandal:
http://cryptome.org/kwtn-bust.htm
John
Debate on whether the NSA spies domestically on US
persons appears to be "yes" according to USSID 18, dated
July 23, 1993, which was obtained by the National Security
Archive a while back, for which we offer an HTML:
http://cryptome.org/nsa-ussid18.htm
Parts previously redacted concerning d
Check out today's EU final copyright directive which perfectly
mirrors the DMCA:
http://www.europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2001/l_167/l_16720010622en00100019.p
df (153KB)
We offer an HTML version:
http://cryptome.org/eu-copyright.htm (57KB)
Here's an excerpt on circumvention devices:
Article
Philip Zakas wrote:
>is a legal defense fund in place for felten/dean/wallach? if so, anyone
>have the contact info for it?
EFF is funding the suit and welcomes contributions:
www.eff.org
Drew Dean should get separate headlines on the Xerox axing.
If shit comes down on the other plaintiff
A Wall Street Journal article today on the SDMI/DCMA lawsuit
by Ed Felten, et al, includes this nasty:
"The decision to file the lawsuit hasn't been without consequences.
Dr. Drew Dean is scheduled to resign from the Xerox research
center tomorrow and says, without elaborating, that the res
Let me try again after reading Time's Q&A and the responding
attorney claiming that anything inside a home is protected but
nothing outside it is.
My question concerns the methodology of "illuminating" or
"radiating" an object, say, within a home, in order to acquire
signal that may be striking t
David Honig wrote:
>Two words: antenna design.
A third is signal analysis.
A principle argument against being able to sort through the geometric
increase in devices that leak emissions since the 1960s is that it is
nearly impossible to find a pin in the hugely noisy haystack of the
electrogmag
Bill Stewart wrote:
>TEMPEST really refers to two kinds of technology -
>keeping equipment quiet, and reading signals from not-quiet-enough
>equipment. The former category is the main thing that would
>apply to private citizens, and it's not addressed here.
Yes, and the confusion between the tw
The Supreme Court's decision against thermal imaging appears
to be applicable to TEMPEST emissions from electronic devices.
And is it not a first against this most threatening vulnerability
in the digital age? And long overdue.
Remote acquisition of electronic emissions, say from outside a
home
A tactic used by the anti-pedo vigilantes and narcs is to
covertly bury pedo porno amongst adult porno and then
finger the adult downloaders as pedophiles knowing the
evidence will be found without the downloaders knowing
it is there until discovered during a raid.
A federal case here in Manhatta
http://cartome.org/homeland.htm
"So, say goodnight to Joshua ..."
Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell
Deborah Natsios
Cartome
8 June 2001
A sparsely attended trial which unfolded in Tacomas US district
courthouse the first week of April 2001 hardly seemed an event
that
Many years ago I explained that I, like Sandy, write explicitly
for money, as much as possible, and the people who pay me
expect that I will do whatever text can do to get readers to
obey those who pay for the text. One method for this is to
write clearly in the most authoritarian language of the
In Code: a Mathematical Journey, Sarah Flannery
with David Flannery, Workman Publishing, New York, 2001
http://www.workman.com/
"Sarah Flannery is a fun, sports-loving teenager from County
Cork, Ireland. She also happens to be an award-winning
mathematician whose discoveries in Internet cryp
Note that Princeton University is not a plaintiff. Though that might come
later if the institution does not have contracts with any of the defendants.
So it is not yet clear if the case will benefit those affiliated with an
institution, which must ever supplicate to the copyright industry.
Discl
May it please the court to spell Ed's name Feltun, or Feltren, or Fellwock,
or just et al.
Perry Fellwock wrote the anonymous 1972 Ramparts article that first
described Echelon. Ed Felten is Perry's namesake, though Ed believes
there's no connection between worldwide misspelling of Ed's last
name
The venerable DIRT remote interception program,
first reported here in 1998, is now offering an anti-
firewall feature that will spoof all known firewalls
and allow an investigator to get inside a violated
computer, to hide behind a simulated firewall icon,
and then to rummage undetected, to inst
Several have pointed out that Frank Jones, of Codex,
DIRT's producer, has allegedly had some problems with
the law, fiercely attacks whoever calls attention to these
problems or questions the quality of his services, and
more sleaze.
There have been questions about DIRT's fulfilling its
promis
Bear, get ready to be Kirklanded for we are negotiating to buy
the Bell trial transcript for publication.
I share your chagrin at being also named and twice subpoenaed
as a Bell correspondent by a prosecuting asshole who deliberately
misread and miscontrued to two juries a couple of my cpunk
I don't believe Declan knows what was in Robb London's opening
statement, when witnesses were excluded. London named a lot of
people in that statement, not innocently, not merely for the purpose
of the Bell trial. That statement, and all witness statements, are
what must be in the truly open publi
We offer an HTML version of a 92-page draft EuroParl
report on ECHELON, dated May 4, 2001:
http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep.htm (246KB)
This is derived from the leaked PDF original:
http://fas.org/irp/program/process/europarl_draft.pdf (868KB)
Before a session last night of four ex-Directo
Eric fingered:
>But Tim, don't you realize that you, by posting to the list, have just
>placed the banned information into every single Cypherpunks archive
>on the entire Internet?
And that's why Tim will get a subpoena to a Grand Jury to explain
why he did this. And for him to deny who he is w
Eric gets a star for raising a genuinely hard-core political topic here.
And there has not as much good discussion for it as for other,
easier, if hoary, disputes. From that lacuna, one might suspect that
the feds and remnant nuclear family proponents would find
sympathizers here for the crackd
A 1952 document from the CIA's MKULTRA program reports
on an interview with a professional hypnotist about
ideas that might be useful to the Agency. An excerpt:
"An individual who has been hypnotized makes a very
excellent courier. They can be given messages while
under hypnosis which they themse
A Washington State judge has issued an injunction against
publication of SSNs in City of Kirkland Cops v. JusticeFiles.org:
http://cryptome.org/cops-v-1A.htm
The judge ruled that publication of the names and addresses of
the cops and their families is protected by the First Amendment.
Tim M
AF:
>"We're losing our edge due to encryption," he said. "We're having a hard
>time finding information and understanding it." --FBI
It's time the US government criminalized the use, even the possession,
of crypto, and ease this unreasonable burden on the FBI.
Make the crime retroactive to boot
Sandy prognost'd:
>What I'm waiting for is the portable, concealable "boom box" killer. It's
>time to "take back the streets."
Amen, sugah, and killing the car alarm, car tracker, cellphone, digital lock,
keyboard sniffer, PAL, and, and, go on, do a SCS reachback communications
snuffer, to, a
We offer "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System,"
Version 1.0, 17 February 2000:
http://cryptome.org/hdcp-v1.htm (98K text, 20 images)
This is a 61-page document contains no information on its
author or source but appears to be a specification for the system
released by Intel in
Steve Thompson blundered:
>With all due respect, only geezers reminisce about the good old days.
>
>You're age is showing.
Steve, if you live within a nuke's radius of NYC, move.
Tim's got at least a dozen Samsons lockered in this area
already. This bunker can resist only a baker's.
Last time I
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