Re: REAL assassination politics
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: from fas: ASSASSINATION POLITICS In a new bill introduced in the House of Representatives on January 3, Rep. Bob Barr proposed to eliminate the longstanding official prohibition against assassination. Ew, ick. This seems to be devolving to the level of "Fear and Loathing". Don't these clowns realize where political assassination goes once it gets started? Do they just not read history books? I don't know, maybe it will thin the herd a little bit. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ** "As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in business, I want to puke."--Thomas Sowell.
Re: Banned MI6 Book
Ex-MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson's book, "The Big Breach: From Top Secret To Maximum Security," is available for order on a Russian Web site: http://www.thebigbreach.com It also seems to be available at spAmazon. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ** "As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in business, I want to puke."--Thomas Sowell.
[Fwd: TBTF Log, weeks of 2001-01-07 and 2001-01-14]
Apologies for Choating (at least there is no inline HTML in it) but every single one of the articles in the most recent Tasty Bits log is relevant to something or other that has been on the list recently. If you don't already know of TBTF you should consider signing up to it. Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TBTF Log, weeks of 2001-01-07 and 2001-01-14 These weeks' log entries: http://tbtf.com/blog/2001-01-07.html http://tbtf.com/blog/2001-01-14.html __ Friday, 2001-01-19 ++ Light stopped in its tracks 9:47:41 am Now this is flat amazing. The scientist whose group last year slowed light to a saunter [1] has now stopped it dead. Another group of scientists, also in Cambridge, MA independently achieved the same result. Frozen light. Turn on the laser and it starts up again. You could even pick it up and carry it across town, if your supercooling rig and laser setup were portable. The BBC coverage [2] is good, but the NY Times [3] outdoes the Beeb with a handy illustration of how you encode a light beam in the spins of chilled rubidium atoms. The research is to be published in forthcoming issues of the journal Nature (Lene Vestergaard Hau et al., Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge) and the Physical Review Letters (Ronald L. Walsworth et al., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge). The Times piece quotes extensively from the work of Walsworth's group; Hau refused to discuss her work in detail because of restrictions imposed by Nature. [1] http://tbtf.com/archive/0176.html#s11 [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1124000/1124540.stm [3] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/science/18LIGH.html?pagewanted=all Thursday, 2001-01-18 ++ Time to dump NSI 9:17:32 am Been waiting for the right moment to transfer your domain names out of the control of Network Solutions? It may have arrived. This morning I moved the last two domains in my stable to Dotster [1]. Until Feb. 18 this registrar is offering free transfers and a one- year extension on the registration of any (.com, .net, .org) domain name for $11.95 US. The last time I transferred a domain name, 6 months ago to the day, the process involved faxing a registration form with a copy of my driver's license. Today's transfers were initiated entirely online. I already had a name registered with Dotster, so the process re- quired only 5 steps and 5 minutes. If you need to set up a new account, add another 5 minutes. Dotster's registration agreement [2] is middle-of-the-road. Like all ICANN-affiliate agreements, it binds you to the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy. Unlike some, it names you as the "owner" of the domain name, not its lessor. Dotster's prices are very good, but bargain shoppers can find lower (for example at joker.com [3]). Go here [4] to initiate a domain-name transfer. I get no consider- ation if you do. I looked into Dotster's affiliate program, but they use something called Commission Junction [5], which asked for my Social Security number and bank information (!) and had no privacy policy that I could find. Welcome to the world of affiliate market- ing. Life is too short. If you want to support TBTF, please visit the Benefactors [6] page, and thanks. [1] http://www.dotster.com/ [2] http://www.dotster.com/Register/Agreement/ [3] https://joker.com/domain/index.html?lang=EN [4] http://www.dotster.com/anniversary/ [5] http://www.cj.com/ [6] http://tbtf.com/the-benefactors.html ++ Underground online 7:30:39 am By now the entire world knows that Suelette Dreyfus and Julian As- sange, the authors of Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier, have made available the full text of the book online as "Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use." The book's home [1] has been unavailable since the first moment I tried -- surely before it was Slashdotted [2]. (The flash crowd will have died down by now.) Julian Assange has sent a followup note pointing out some mirror sites. I list a few here and reproduce Julian's note below. - (mirror) http://rubberhose.sourceforge.net/underground - (mirror) http://the.wiretapped.net/security/info/books/ - (zip) http://demonstreet.com/underground.zip - (text) http://www.matthewmiller.net/underground.txt - (Palm) http://www.matthewmiller.net/underground.pdb - (text) http://www.core.org.au/mystuff/underground.zip - (Palm) http://www.core.org.au/mystuff/underground.pdb Several people have noted that that www.underground-book.com has been slashdotted
Re: Yet another spam generator
Ken Brown wrote: so (the author claims) bypass Echelon. Hmmm. Whoever put the site up doesn't seem to have a clear distinction between cryptography, stenography obfuscation. Does everyone have to reinvent the wheel every time? Are we going to go through it all *again* with mobile phone text messages? unlikely. 160 chars doesn't leave much room for a stego message. I don't think it is going to cause NSA any headaches. What chance do they have of knowing about a method which has only been described in Byte and on Risks? Presumably if you identify a posting as having been through Mimic you can get enough text to recover the model you can retrieve plaintext reasonably easily - it would probably be much cheaper and reliable to either infiltrate or black job the company.
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Re: Recommendations for Cypherpunks Books
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: "Trouble and Her Friends" has some good treatment of cryptographically protected subcultures, though that's more as redeeming-social-value for a book that's written for genre. Yes, that had been nagging at me. I haven't read it in years so didn't want to speak up and find that I'd confused it with some other book...but I remember it being really good. Etizoni is a very technical boy. Unfortunately, his value system led him to invent "Fair Cryptography" (that's "fair" as in "Fair Trade", not "fair" as in "actually fair to anybody" :-), which covers a couple of variants on key escrow. Hmm. So this explains all those papers on "fair cryptosystems." Well, at least one paper (and patent!) by Micali... -David
Re: Recommendations for Cypherpunks Books
At 07:09 PM 1/22/01 -0500, dmolnar wrote: Etizoni is a very technical boy. Unfortunately, his value system led him to invent "Fair Cryptography" (that's "fair" as in "Fair Trade", not "fair" as in "actually fair to anybody" :-), which covers a couple of variants on key escrow. Hmm. So this explains all those papers on "fair cryptosystems." Well, at least one paper (and patent!) by Micali... Gak. How did I spaz so badly on that one? Of course it was Micali. Ignore my whole paragraph! I think Etizoni did something technical though, but maybe it was some other privacy-degrading thing, or maybe I'm remembering him commenting on fair cryptosystems. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
Re: Recommendations for Cypherpunks Books
One of the major values to fiction is that it lets you think about the social implications of technology, in most cases without going deeply into the technology itself. That's important for cypherpunks, though the street finds its own uses for tech, and it's easier to describe crypto non-bogusly than it is to describe star-drive engines or brain-machine interfaces. Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is of course recommended, and classics like Vinge's "True Names" and "A Fire Upon The Deep". and Stephenson's "Snow Crash". Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" has some nice treatment of reputation systems and pseudonymity - unfortunately it's *much* harder to get the tech correct than it is to write about what if feels like to use well-designed systems :-) Brunner's "Shockwave Rider" and Sterling's "Islands in the Net" hit some of the appropriate space. "Trouble and Her Friends" has some good treatment of cryptographically protected subcultures, though that's more as redeeming-social-value for a book that's written for genre. "Idoru" by Gibson does some of the same. Then there's "ruthless.com" by "whatever hack writer Tom Clancy's franchised his name out to these days" - Bad Tech, 1-dimensional characters, but it's interesting to see whose political agenda he's selling out to. Bring your barf bags, but read it One effort in this direction which comes to mind is the "communitarian" approach applied to privacy by Amitai Etizoni. What I've heard of it I don't like, but I don't know much more than a few basic things - "community" above all, corporate invasions of privacy pure evil, state intrusions less evil because subject to scrutiny. Etizoni is a very technical boy. Unfortunately, his value system led him to invent "Fair Cryptography" (that's "fair" as in "Fair Trade", not "fair" as in "actually fair to anybody" :-), which covers a couple of variants on key escrow. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
