Re: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

> >new terrorist target: Union Station > > You used a remailer for THAT?!! You used a pseudonym for THAT?!

RE: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

You wrote: > >new terrorist target: Union Station > > > You used a remailer for THAT?!! So what if he did? There's no requirement that people say insignificant stuff under their real name or real alias.

Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050511/2005-05-11T173816Z_01_N11199658_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-WASHINGTON-DC.html > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fighter jets scrambled over Washington and > authorities hurriedly evacuated the White House and the U.S. Congress > on Wednesday when an unidentified plan

Re: zombied ypherpunks (Re: Email Certification?)

> > And then, of course, in the off chance they can't actually break the > > message under that flag, they can merely send a guy out with > > binoculars or whatever. > Don't forget about rubber-hose cryptanlysis. Rumour has it that > method is preferred in many cases since it makes the code-break

DTV Content Protection

DTV Content Protection Two content protection systems are in use to protect digital television (DTV) signals on the wires of American home video systems: HDCP and DTCP. HDCP is used for the most common digital cable connection to HD monitors, HDMI, which is a variant of DVI. DTCP is used for digi

Re: Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

"Tyler Durden" writes: > An interesting though I had last night was that the Drug trade in the > Golden Triangle (Burma, China, Thailand, etc...) might exist for precisely > this reason...in other words, as a form of arbitrage of sorts between > the actual local cost of goods and services and manp

MD5 collision method published

At last, the secret of how to make MD5 collisions is out! See http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/MD5_collisions.html. This includes the Wang report, probably the one which will be presented at Eurocrypt: http://www.infosec.sdu.edu.cn/paper/md5-attack.pdf. As a bonus, it includes an independent rec

End of a cypherpunk era?

to go. The > point of being a cypherpunk is to live in cypherspace, the mythical land > where online interactions dominate and we can use information theory and > mathematics to protect ourselves. Of course, cypherspace is inevitably > grounded in the physical world, so we have to use ano

Re: End of a cypherpunk era?

, while attracting as > little attention to ourselves in other places. Unfortunately, cypherspace even more than cyberspace tends towards the perfect-shield side of the equation. You can't harm a person if your only interactions are anonymous communications. About the worst you can give him is a stern

Re: SEC probing ChoicePoint stock sales

R.A. Hettinga wrote: > While this is marginally more cypherpunks-related than Hunter Thompson's suicide, I think we're all capable of reading the daily headlines if we care about the SEC investigation du jour.

Re: Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide

R.A. Hettinga spoke thusly... > > > Townhall.com > > An inglorious suicide > Jeff Jacoby (back to web version) | Send > > March 4, 2005 > > Hunter Thompson's suicide was an act of selfishness and cruelty. But more > depraved

What is a cypherpunk?

Justin writes: > No, I want the right to fair use of material I buy. If someone sells > DRM-only material, I won't buy it at anything approaching non-DRM > prices. In some cases, I won't buy it at all. Well, that's fine, nobody's forcing you to buy anything. But try to think about this from a

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Eric Murray writes: > The TCPA chip verifies the (signature on the) BIOS and the OS. > So the software driver is the one that's trusted by the TCPA chip. I don't believe this is correct. The TPM does not verify any signatures. It is fundamentally a passive chip. Its only job is to store hashes o

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

As far as the question of malware exploiting TC, it's difficult to evaulate without knowing more details about how the technology ends up being used. First there was TCPA, which is now called TCG. Microsoft spun off their own version called Palladium, then NGSCB. But then Microsoft withdrew NGSC

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

I spent considerable time a couple years ago on these lists arguing that people should have the right to use this technology if they want. I also believe that it has potential good uses. But let's be accurate. > Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your PC, even if this > one is e

mail2news gateways?

Are there any in the remailerspace still operating? Google fails me, after following so many dead links from dying pages. Specifically want to route to alt.anonymous.messages.

"State of Fear" by Michael Crichton

Just finished reading it (It was a Christmas present). The story involves the heroes foiling a plot by eco-terrorists who attempt to create "natural" disasters in an effort to push their agenda regarding global warming. Along the way the Crichton presents a pretty convincing argument that s

Re: RAH's postings.

Someone wrote: > > At 10:23 AM -0500 12/21/04, Somebody wrote: RAH, if you want to anonymize a quoted email, it helps if you remove the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. > >What the hell does an article about gypsy > >mechanics have to do with cypherpunks? > > I plead anarchic markets, m'lo

Re: Militia or other Terrorists?

> >> PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the > other > >> day, what would Gen George W think? > > > >which fedscum, do you have a mentionable source, &c.? > > It was ATF, about some gun-robbers; it seems to be a reply to trollbait > by the Faux news channel or spontaneous

Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

Major Variola typed: > If he really gave a shat he'd investigate the RDX stored in the > Murrah building, next to daycare, but that was just a (.mil trained) > 'Merican, > not a bunch of specops Ay-rabs. the proper pejorative is "'Merkin." > JYA may be Architects (snicker) but methinks he groks

Steve Thompson

Out of nowhere cometh Steve Thompson, and sayeth he all manner of things. But, while his mouth moveth one way, he seemeth to move the other. http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%22steve+thompson%22&start=0&hl=en&safe=off&; What hath suddenly attracted our AUK creep?

Re: Michael Riconosciuto, PROMIS

Steve Thompson: > If that's true, then the government couldn't have stolen it. > However, I suspect that mainfraim code of any sophistication is > rarely released into the public domain. I imagine the author would > be able to clear that up, assuming he has no financial reason to > falsify its

Re: Retinal Scans, DNA Samples to Return to Fallujah

> > > > The Boston Globe > > > US Marines rode in a convoy through Fallujah on Friday. The US military is > continuing missions to secure the city. (AFP Photo / Mehdi Fedouach) > > Returnin

Re: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype

> Bring em on, oops, they are here already. Darn, it wasn't > the commies and nazis who were the threat, it was your > indolent life-style paid for by your swell-paid, smarter wife, > up to women-empowered thieving the marketplace and > making innumerable enemies for you to blame for your > swel

nyms being attacked by malware

I've noticed a very high increase of incoming virii and malicious code of various sorts to one of my nyms. Since the nym is not used anywhere publically I really wonder if these are deliberate attacks to try to compromise the machines of people using nyms to protect their identity. Is this somethi

Re: Anonymizer outsourcing customer data?

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > They claim they have over 1 million users. Is a class action suit in > > order? Their privacy policy clearly states > > > > "We consider your email address to be confidential information. We will > > never rent, sell, or otherwise reveal it to any other

Re: NSA Overcomes Fiber-Optic and Encryption

I can see fatherland securitat goons raiding a certain restaurant at Stanford next weekend ... assume all keys are compromised due to RH attack. >The NSA has also found a silver lining to the use of encrypted e-mail: >Even if a particular message cannot be read, the very use of encryption >can

Re: Anonymizer outsourcing customer data?

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Yes, this bugs me. But the person they outsourced it *to* scares me even > more! They claim they have over 1 million users. Is a class action suit in order? Their privacy policy clearly states "We consider your email address to be confidential infor

Anonymizer outsourcing customer data?

Recently I received the Anonymizer "PrivacyShield Alert", as an Anonymizer user, and was distressed to note that it appears Anonymizer has now outsourced its mail and marketing infrastructure. Partial headers from new mail system: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from anonymizer.lyris

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

>I can't imagine any intelligence professional wasting her time reading >the crap at times coming over this list. As of mid 2000 most of traffic is recorded. By this time 'most' is very close to 'all'. But if you e-mail someone with account on the same local ISP, using dial-in at the recipient

Final stage

Praise Allah! The spires of the West will soon come crashing down! Our Brother wishes for us to meet at the previously discussed southeastern roadhouse on August 1st, in preparation for the operations scheduled for August 6th and 9th. Alternative targets have been chosen. Contact Jibril if you h

Re: UBL is George Washington

Major Variola (ret) writes: > > The yanks did not wear regular uniforms and did not march in > rows in open fields like Gentlemen. Asymmetric warfare means not > playing by > *their* rules. But asymm warfare has to accomplish its goal. It's not being very successful. The only people who are si

Reusable hashcash for spam prevention

Recently someone proposed a system which combined ecash and hashcash for email postage. The effect is to get a form of reusable hashcash. Here is some analysis. There are already proposals and even some working code for hashcash email postage. See http://www.camram.org/. This is intended as an

Re: Diffie-Hellman question

Thomas Shaddack writes: > I have a standard implementation of OpenSSL, with Diffie-Hellman prime in > the SSL certificate. The DH cipher suite is enabled. > > Is it safe to keep one prime there forever, or should I rather > periodically regenerate it? Why? If yes, what's some sane period to do so:

Re: Blind signatures with DSA/ECDSA?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Often people ask about blind DSA signatures. There are many known variants on DSA signatures which allow for blinding, but blinding "plain" DSA signatures is not discussed much. Clearly, blinding DSA signatures is possible, through general purpose t

Re: Meshing costs (Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies)

Tyler Durden wrote: > RAH wrote... > >Only if they pay me cash > > few miles. If I'm a router, I'm also sending that info behind me (which is > routing I'm paying for basically), but I will understand that the reason I > am getting my telemetry is precisely because there's a string of "me's" in

Re: voting

protocols have been in development for 20 years, and there are dozens of proposals in the literature with various characteristics in terms of scalability, security and privacy. The votehere.net scheme uses advanced cryptographic techniques including zero knowledge proofs and verifiable remixing,

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

# In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Major Variola wrote: > A fence is being considered around the Capital in DC also. Capitol.

Re: Mercs need to wear clean underwear

Hettinga advocates: > So, what, declare all current property claims in Fallujah to be null and > void, sell claims off to the highest bidder, and whoever gets there with > the most men owns it. I mean, it worked in Texas with the Comanches and > Apaches... > Yeah, it's a fantasy, but we all have

Re: corporate vs. state

Harmon Seaver wrote: > > >If a member of a club, to which you belong, commits an act of > > > violence, are you liable for that act? > >No, but if the "club", as an entity, does such, you should be. If > the corporation pollutes, all and sundry owners and employees should > be equally liable. O

Re: Saving Opportunistic Encryption

Hi, Sandy Harris wrote: >Tarapia Tapioco wrote: >>A possible implementation looks like this: >>... >> >>* Linux/KAME's IKE daemon racoon is patched to attempt retrieval of an >> RSA key from said DNS repository and generate appropriate security >> policies. >> >>Cleaner solution, but more work pr

Re: Freematt's review of "A State of Disobedience" By Tom Kratman

Tyler Durden wrote: > Damn. I'd say "that's the most intolerant hate-filled garbage I ever..." > > But shit. It's basically true. Or at least the fundamentalists in charge of > the government these days seem to equate their two-dimensional cartoon view > of the world with reality, and that's da

Re: Freematt's review of "A State of Disobedience" By Tom Kratman

Yes, unfortunately most of the literature of this type fails to recognize the basic problem in the US -- that what really is needed to ensure freedom for the rest of us is to round up all the christians and put them some place where they can no longer bother anyone. Preferably a gas chamber.

cpunkish movie this Sat in SF

at noon: http://www.sfindie.com/films/echelon_detail.html How about ad-hoc SFBAY cpunk meet ? TLAs need to refresh their lists. Lots of good eateries in Mission. No, del Torto, not you.

Internet Voting, Safely

Recently there has been publicity about a report critical of a proposed internet voting experiment, http://servesecurityreport.org/. The authors critique the SERVE system, which was designed to allow overseas military personnel to vote absentee via the internet. The authors were four members of th

Assoc Press sports contact list

Some # for GWB is in this. > The AP Sports desk accidentally emailed out there sports rolodex > today to other newsies. If you've been wanting to raise hell with > Peter Ueberroth, talk to Hammering Hank, or see how much Pete Rose > was actually wagering - give em a call. Before they change thei

DoS-ing fatherland goons

If we put aside the probable and obvious cause for disrupting the air traffic - namely, introduction of the permanent emergency state (in the future 2-3% of all flights may be affected - small price for maintaining the power), I wonder what are the logistics of injecting false information into t

fox news

http://www.fauxnewschannel.com/

(No Subject)

Re saddam et all... http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL19Ak01.html The war of words over Saddam & Bush is quite amusing. The blind faith in ones govt structure and the willingness to support force that is in such extreme measure overpowering and statist such as the dropping of tons of depl

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

Greetings Has Saddam recieved a lawyer yet? Will Saddam be judged by a court having jurisdiction and being recognized internationally?

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

Harmon Seaver wrote: > > This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. > > We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. > > No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. > Twenty years ago it was a different story. The propaganda mills were working fo

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, BillyGOTO wrote: >> Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter >> what he has done (or we say he has done). This is not a punishment. >> "Innocent until proofen guilty" anyone? This is the basis for the >> "enlightened" western society, no? >This

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

I am not sure I agree. I am no expert on this however. I saw several people commenting the issue of Geneva convention on CNN during the day. Also I saw an expert on this field from another country commenting on the issue stating that it was a clear violation of the convention. In either of these

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

While I agree with much of what you say I don't think it's likely that any kind of advanced SIGINT operation was what brought him down. The most important thing to have is intelligence from humans. From insiders. This is partly the problem with the intelligence agencies today. They think

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

>The U.S. official's way of behaving like Texas rednecks are embarrassing. Not Crosspost from nettime: Subject: wrong signals If symbols really do matter we might conclude that American administration's PR machine has got it badly wrong. In the carefully orchestrated news management of Saddam

U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

The U.S. official's way of behaving like Texas rednecks are embarrassing. Not only are they cheering "we got him" like a child who can not withhold his enthusiasm. Displaying Saddam the way they did are also possibly a clear violation of the Geneva convention as far as I can tell. What was t

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

A question for the moment might well be how many if any of the remailers are operated by TLAs?

RE: Zombie Patriots and other musings [was: Re: (No Subject)]

LEO John Kelsey whined: > Well, I think for most terminal illnesses, by the time it's obvious you're > really not going to live much longer, you're pretty damned sick. And until > then, you'd probably like to make some personal use of what days or weeks > you have left doing something like talki

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

Nomen pondered: > Why robbing banks? Aside from allowing the > government to regulate them, what have they > done to deserve being robbed Why not? Revolutionaries need money, and the financial sector has always been asshole buddies with the police, politicians, and other pigs.

Re: Idea: Using GPG signatures for SSL certificates

Thomas Shadduck writes: > The problem that makes me feel uneasy about SSL is the vulnerability of > the certification authorities when they get compromised, everything > they signed gets compromised too. Technically this is true, but the only thing that the CA signs is other keys. So it merely me

members

Hello I'm curious. You say the list got some 400+ members right now and that's only the lne node too. Can you provide some statistics on the users? How many addresses are .gov? Any valid TLA addresses in there?!

Type III Anonymous message

-BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext Tim, I AM GETTING TIRED OF SEEING CYPHERPUNKS RESTRICTING WHAT INFORMATION FLOWS AND TO WHERE IT FLOWS... -END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

Let's look at some real-world metric of cpunkish issues: 1. Surveillance and data harvesting. The main reason many "joined" cpunks (including me) was the issue of wide-spread surveillance and sophistication of data harvesting that computer networks enabled. I could protect my traffic no problem

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

Here's one younger person who follows cypherpunks very closely. I do not post because I have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Someday, when I've learned enough to be useful, then I will contribute what I can. Tim's postings re:crypto are the most thought-out, insightful writings you cou

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

Major Variola (ret) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-11-25: > Vinny the Votebuyer pays you if you send a picture of your > face adjacent to the committed receipt, even if you can't touch it. * Voter locks in choice on touch screen. * Paper receipt is printed and shown to voter. * Voter cho

Re: Ashcroft's bake sale, no questions allowed, gvt-issued photo ID required

Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-11-19: > There will be no questions and answers. To a non native speaker, this phrase seems to imply a scary level of control over the media people. "There will be no questions. Dissenters will be shot on the spot."

Re: Cypherpunks meetings?

id that, if San Francisco can have those dumb but quite anonymous flash mobs, maybe it's time for ... SAN FRANCISCO FLASH CYPHERPUNKS ! Three locations will be given in downtown area this Sat, partitioning to be done by birthdate (or your PGP key fingerprint's last digit.) In each

Cypherpunks meetings?

Are the Bay Area Cypherpunks meetings finally dead? It's been ages since I've seen anything about them.

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

>Confirming the allegation about idiot witnesses, I am >sure I would not recognize either agent if I saw them >again. The IDs yes, and the questions, but not the >bland biometrics. You do have right to take pictures in your residence, no ? I am sure that "John Young's real time door webcam" would

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

>I tried to get them to sit together but they carefully >bracketed me. John, it's imaginable how it feels. It's very inconvenient when men with guns send their minions - and it wouldn't surprise me if it does, over time, change Cryptome's attitude. Avoid heroic stupidity. Optimize for the long run

Stanford security conference

This looks interesting: --- Stanford Law School Media Release For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 30, 2003 CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL LOCKYER TO ADDRESS CYBERSECURITY AND VULNERABILITY DISCLOSURE AT STANFORD LAW SCHOOL Conference at Stanford Law School, Saturday November 22, 2003, 8

Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

>Cryptome received a visit today from FBI Special Agents Todd Renner and Christopher >Kelly from the FBI Counterterrorism Office in New York, 26 Federal Plaza, telephone >212) 384-1000. Both agents presented official ID and business cards. Good stuff. Pigs getting concerned about cryptome means th

Re: radiusnet archives

> Anyone knows what happened to the radiusnet crypto archives? > I bookmarked them at once. > Now the whole domain seem dead. Maybe not "dead" Registrant: Ultimate Search GPO Box 7862 Central, HK na HK Registrar: NAMESDIRECT Domain

New info on Palladium

For some updated news about NGSCB, aka Palladium, go to the Microsoft NGSCB newsgroup page at http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=ngscb&slcid=us. This might be a good forum for cypherpunks to ask questions about Palladium. There was a particularly informative posting by Ell

Re: LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week

Seth Schoen writes: > Intel has posted its Policy Statement on LaGrande Technology: > > ftp://download.intel.com/technology/security/downloads/LT_policy_statement_0_ > 8.pdf > > LaGrande is in the interstices between TCG and NGSCB. Rather, it seems that LaGrande is the hardware component of NGSCB,

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

Sunder wrote: > The only way that this could work is if they put up some sort of > splash screen at some point to let the luser know that the program > isn't buggy, but that the copy protection noticed it's a backup. > After all, if you get a copy of a game from a friend, and it crashes > on you al

EFF Report on Trusted Computing

[Permission is granted to repost this document in its entirety, without other limitation. See http://invisiblog.com/1c801df4aee49232/ for an online copy.] The EFF has published a report on the "Promise and Risk" of Trusted Computing at http://www.eff.org/Infra/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php. S

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