A friend of mine is expressing concern over the recently passed REAL ID act
which will supposedly require RFID-readable driver's licenses (which it doesn't
say in the text of the bill which just makes a vague reference to
machine-readable technology.)
My questions are:
1. Have any states already
On 2 Jan 2005 at 15:43, John Young wrote:
A. writes:
I have just launched a new discussion group related to hardware
discussion for signal analysis and communications security systems:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sigint/
Why would we use a groups beta at google's when there's a
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Take away complexity, and Mix *could* flourish - in spite of the fedz.
What about mixminion? Setting up a node is about five minutes of work on
a somewhat current Linux system.
There were some talk about archives here recently.
I found two here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/index.php?hunt=cypherpunks
And this does indeed seem to be an active archive of the list:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks%40minder.net/
I seem to have not received a few of the emails in the PROMIS thread.
What is the best approach if one really wants to receive all emails?
I'm currently only on minder and it seems from time to time mail
doesn't get through?
Should one simply subscribe to several nodes (and receive some
Peter Trei:
Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-)
Try scruz.general.
or misc.survivalism
Steve Furlong:
Random racist ranting is also required. There are some racist
assholes currently posting on cpunks, but none have quite the May
flavor.
LOL
You can say that again. Here are a few examples of what this once
renowned cypherpunk usually writes nowadays.
First five quick quotes
Bill Stewart shrieb:
There are several different issues related to PROMIS
Thanks for your comments.
But what about the person Michael Riconosciuto? I did some searches
online and I got the feeling that a lot people see him as an
extremely intelligent person, a one-in-a-million type of person,
I read a few old email messages I had and stumbled over some
interesting material relating to NSA, CIA and one Michael
Riconosciuto among other things.
I followed up on the info and did some surfing on the subject and got
quite interested. I also did some searches in my cypherpunk mail
folder and
Is it true that the jews have these texts in their scriptures?
#1. Sanhedrin 59a:
Murdering Goyim (Gentiles) is like killing a wild animal.
#2. Aboda Sarah 37a:
A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.
#3. Yebamoth 11b:
Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is
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For those interested in intelligence, munitions smuggling by
authorities and so on - a few words concerning military smuggling of
munitions on the Estonia, feared to have played a part in the sinking
and killings of 852 people on Sept 28, 1994, when
J.A. Terranson schrieb:
This election *proves* that at least half the electorate, about 60
million people, are just Useless Eaters, who should be eagerly
awaiting their Trip Up The Chimneys.
Wow! A Tim May copycat!
(Both the 'useless eaters' and the 'chimney'!)
John Young:
Tyler,
Commie is the term used here like is nazi used elsewhere
as the most fearsome if thoughtless epithet. Nazi here is a
term of endearment, and also admirable role model by some.
Calling someone both is not allowed, check the FAQ under impurity.
Tim May, praise Allah,
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R.A. Hettinga:
Are you high, junior? Or is it just your politics that sound so...
sophomoric?
Communism, Fuck Yeah!!! States are People Too
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
(Euripides)
You too. Sad it is.
Howcome
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James A. Donald:
You are quite right, it is unjust that people like Bin Laden are so
immensely rich with oil wealth. To remedy this problem, Bush
should confiscate the Middle Eastern oil reserves.
You are using stale old communist rhetoric -
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R.A. Hettinga:
You're gonna love this one: You can't have terrorism without
state sponsors.
Nonsense! Are you in junior high?
We take out (by whatever means at hand...) state sponsors of
terrorism, and, hey, presto, no terrorism. Iraq.
Why don't Americans honour security and privacy higher?
Look at this page
http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/depts/police/prostitution_photos_current.ht
ml
Which is from a police department!
http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/depts/police/
If we look at the spirit of this quote I don't see how it is ok to
The subject says it all. Read more here:
http://www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/
We must retire this criminal from office now!
Link to the full 89 MB pdf below
http://www.debatecomics.org/assets/Sources/US_Fascism/
A-2%20FascistFriendly%20Power%20Brokers/
Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants
Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.
The Attorney General of Mexico, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, recently
announced at the opening of Mexico's National Information Center that
he
and some of his staff had been implanted with
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R. A. Hettinga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2004-09-10:
Critics say the cameras ought not be regarded as a panacea in crime
fighting. They say the more there are, the greater the potential for abuse.
So, since this is titled
We want to be able to provide the means for whistleblowers and
others to communicate in a secure and anonymous fashion. Yet we need
to make sure we're not abused too much since sooner or later laws
will catch up with the remailers should abuse sky-rocket.
The ratio of remailer use to
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Are remailers an unsolveable paradox?
We want to be able to provide the means for whistleblowers and
others to communicate in a secure and anonymous fashion. Yet we need
to make sure we're not abused too much since sooner or later laws
will catch
Can someone post a listing of all active CDR nodes please?
Information from pages like this one lists some inactive nodes I'm
sure
http://www.al-qaeda.net/cpunk/
Very interesting speech by Michael Moore in Cambridge July 27, 10 MB
http://hem.bredband.net/b114631/tillf/Michael_Moore_in_Cambridge_04072
7.rm
The file will be available for download a short period of time.
Michael shows us what the upcoming election is all about.
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From: a.melon@
To: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Bcc:
Subject: Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
Reply-To:
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Major Variola (ret) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on
At 05:39 PM 4/1/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Tastes just like chicken?
Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese,
Does she have a chip implant?
I've already eaten
things that I wouldn't have considered to be food
Ask her to
Justin says:
If they know you're trying to shake them, that alerts them and
eliminates any opportunity you might have otherwise had to feed them
misinformation in the future.
That's when you strap on the C-4 vest.
Zombie Monger
Thanks Steve, I don't think I have heard this before. I googled on the text you quoted
and found this url
http://wais.stanford.edu/Iraq/iraq_andambassaprilglaspie22303.html
and a few more
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/april.html
After WWI the winners humiliated the loosers badly. This is one of the main reasons
Hitler came to power and got support from the Germans for the aggressions that started
the war. He managed to use these feelings of being treated as dogs and paying to heavy
for the first war. Also they were
Ken, Eh what?
Yes I've heard a lot of the Soviet union, however I don't see what you meant by that
comment here.
What I was referring to was the winning powers' treatment of the Nazi war criminals
after WWII, Nurnburg trials and so on. (Note the word trials here)
I don't think I've ever heard
US is currently run by thugs supported by the cheering consumer crowds that have been
bred and conditioned to be infantile.
So the situation is best evaluated in the Lord of Flies context. As long as masters
are winning and have stronger army than anyone else, nothing will change. You will
Tim, sorry it was unclear from my post whom I was referring to. It was James A.
Donald. I did put his message id in a reply-to header.
Jim Dixon wrote:
Hitler, you mean? Or did you have Milosevic in mind?
No what I meant was what IF somehow Bush or Blaire or some other high ranking
coalition
Even though I agree this issue is important I wouldn't be surprised if NONE were run
by TLAs today and NONE has ever been run by TLAs. We will never get any such answer
and therefore these speculations will continue. Personally I think it sounds really
stupid when I read comments like you can
This makes me a bit curious. Tell me, is your opinion then that the U.S. has done
nothing questionable here? You don't feel that treating a former head of state
(regardless of what you happen to think of that person) in this manner and
videorecording it AND transmitting it to the entire globe
Would it be possible to have a self adjusting dummy traffic generator feature
in remailers? Operator decides that he wants to process x number of incoming and y
number of outgoing messages each time period t. Then the software adjusts the number
of dummy messages to this value using
Off All the Pigs!
Death to the Oinks!
Another excellent group of potential recruits are prisoners.
Especially if you can create a new religious movement teaching
them to stop the interracial, intergang fighting and concentrate
on their true enemy, the Man. Teach that killing cops, soldiers,
any type of government agent, is a holy
Anonymous wrote:
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
I find it strange that some people here so often wants to intimidate those that dares
to ask some questions. Eric put it very well in his post about dicksizewar. Very true
indeed.
I find it very *l*a*m*e* to all the time tell people to RTFM when something comes up
that happened to be have been
Cameras in the voting booth? Jesus Christ, you guys are morons. If you
want to sell your vote, just vote absentee. The ward guy will even stamp
and mail it for you. Happens every election.
Hello
I was trying to find some old references I used to have concerning an idea men tioned
in sci.crypt way back.
It was Phil Zimmermann I think who mentioned something about a possibly new idea for
a new public key scheme. He called it The cryptographic uses of polygonal sequences
and is
Just thought someone should take the trouble to rebut the anonymous
pro-treacherous-computing rantings...
I have heavily trimmed our anonymous ranters verbose writing style to
keep just the bits I'm responding to (inline...)
The EFF tries to distinguish between good and bad aspects of TC,
but
The company I work for forbids its employees to discuss crypto issues
in public forums like this one. That's why I only post anonymously.
They have several concerns. One is the still-existent crypto export
regulations which could be construed to forbid technical discussions
of cryptography in
http://cryptome.org/jetblue-spy.htm
The attorney for Torch Concepts has sent cease and desist letters to Bill Scannell and
Len Sassaman for offering the Torch Concepts file, the smoking gun in the Jet Blue
privacy violation scandal.
The file is currently still available on Len Sassaman's
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:12:19 -0600, you wrote:
On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:55 pm, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga
Remailer wrote:
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:25:51 +, you wrote:
So which American on the list is going to write to Congress to demand
that the Statue of Liberty be sent
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:20:47 -0500, you wrote:
on Saturday...
It will be difficult to help freedom take hold in a country that has known
three decades of dictatorship, secret police, internal divisions, and war.
I *think* he's talking about Iraq.
Maybe Kuwait? How is democracy and freedom
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,905899,00.html
Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security
Council members
Read the memo
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905954,00.html
For starters your signature is bad, at least here.
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:18:35 -0500, Patrick Chkoreff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have devised what I believe to be a foolproof and completely
portable way of setting an array of bytes to all zeroes, a common
security operation in cryptography
These IPs downloaded access log from cryptome during hacked state.
pcp259331pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net
212.54.205.184
host.159-142-70-179.gsa.gov
c-889471d5.021-3-73746f50.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se
217.167.197.20
193.128.179.38
217.167.197.20
host.21.88.68.195.rev.coltfrance.com
216.155.104.95
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:37:33 -0800 (PST), John Young wrote:
Jefferson's
reputation has been taking on water at an alarming rate, from
the twin leaks of Sally Hemings and the larger question of
slavery.
If, when you speak of Martin Luther King, Jr., you speak of him
in bed with a white woman,
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:45:37 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
America's founding crackers set up a slave-owning nation, after 300 years of
murdering natives, following the still alive and well European/Asiatic/African
tradition of stealing from others while being doped by witchdoctors and astrologists
The New York Times is reporting at
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/technology/14CND-PIRACY.html that
the Recording Industry Association of America, along with two computer
and technology industry trade groups, has agreed not to seek new
government regulations to mandate technological controls
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A trivial point, barely worth making time for, but folks ought not to
think that brainwashing via t.v. has _anything_ substantively causal to
do with the sad state we are in today.
It's amusing that Mr. May thinks that anyone gives a fuck if he (Mr. May) filters
him/her out for whatever reason
Tim May wrote...
I don't believe, necessarily, in certain forms of the Copenhagen Interpretation,
especially anything about signals propagating instantaneously, just the quantum
mechanics is about measurables ground truth of what we see, what has never failed us,
what the mathematics tells us
According to the message below, Palladium will not include a serial
number revocation list, document revocation list, or similar
mechanism to delete pirated music and other unauthorized content.
These claims have been made most vocally by Ross Anderson in his TCPA
FAQ,
For years we cypherpunks have been telling you people that you are
responsible for protecting your own privacy. Use cash for purchases, look
into offshore accounts, protect your online privacy with cryptography
and anonymizing proxies. But did you listen? No. You thought to
trust the
I get a lot of compliments on my anonymous posts here. Thanks very
much guys, keep those cards and letters coming.
But cypherpunks isn't that great a forum for publishing ideas. Take a
look at http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/maillist.html to
see the unfiltered list feed. Sure, no
Markoff writes in the NY Times about a proposal called eDNA which would
reconfigure the Internet to forbid anonymous usage of certain parts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html
The scheme was explored by DARPA a few months ago, which gave a contract
to SRI to look into it.
James Donald writes:
In principle it should be possible to create poker playing
software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious
to me how this can be done.
Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm?
Sure, there are any number of poker algoerithms which prevent the server
from
Gary Jeffers writes:
The purpose of the coming Iraq war is to steal their oil. After we get
Iraq oil, which arab country is next? If U. State can get away with the
theft of Iraq, then why not just keep on stealing?
The beneficiaries of this war are:
1. United State:
2. Corporations,
another woman, Rose Ann Carroll, were arrested March 27 at a Kohls
department store in Fort Worth on charges of theft $50 to $500.
I wasn't follownig the news ... they didn't get Osama, did they ?
Peter Biddle writes:
Pd is designed to fail well - failures in SW design shouldn't result in
compromised secrets, and compromised secrets shouldn't result in a BORE
attack.
Could you say something about the sense in which Palladium achieves
BORE (break once run everywhere) resistance? It
8pm update
Corralitos, September 14th, 2002.
A group of armed white supremacists, known to support anti-american activities and
publicly calling for dismantling of US government, has been in stand off with police
for six hours now. The incident started when a guest at Mr. May's party called
It looks like Camenisch Lysyanskaya are patenting their credential
system. This is from the online patent applications database:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50co1=ANDd=PG01s1=camenischOS=camenischRS=camenisch
Carl Ellison suggested an alternate way that TCPA could work to allow
for revoking virtualized TPMs without the privacy problems associated
with the present systems, and the technical problems of the elaborate
cryptographic methods.
Consider first the simplest possible method, which is just to
David Chaum gave a talk at the Crypto 2002 conference recently in which
he briefly presented a number of interesting ideas, including an approach
to digital cash which he himself said would avoid the ecash patents.
The diagram he showed was as follows:
Optimistic Authenticator
James Donald writes:
I can only see one application for voluntary TCPA, and that is the
application it was designed to perform: Make it possible run
software or content which is encrypted so that it will only run on
one computer for one time period.
You've said this a few times, and while
I think that people are beginning to understand that TCPA is not a
black and white issue. It is neither the overwhelming threat that some
activists are describing, nor the panacea that the vendors are selling.
It is a technology with strengths and weaknesses.
As an exercise, try thinking of
Ben Laurie wrote:
Albion Zeglin wrote:
Similar to DeCSS, only one Palladium chip needs to be reverse engineered and
it's key(s) broken to virtualize the machine.
If you break one machine's key:
a) You won't need to virtualise it
b) It won't be getting any new software licensed to it
Nomen Nescio wrote:
Are you saying that if someone is legally resident in the US
for a while, the US IRS will attempt to get his assets all
over the world forever? I find this hard to believe.
On 10 Jul 2002 at 15:40, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
Not necessarily get them, but tax them
On Tue, Jul 09, at 02:02PM, Tim May wrote:
Also, a person having extensive offshore (outside the U.S.)
assets may well find his assets are now taxable in the U.S.
And for those with capital assets not taxed in their home
countries (e.g., Germany, Japan), this may be quite a shock.
On 9
Evil = bad = counter to our goals. One of our goals is to have
general-purpose computers widely available. A DRM layer between us
and the hardware is counter to that goal, ergo, undesirable from this
perspective.
Its like a governor in a car. Do you want one in yours? Are you willing
Lucky Green writes regarding Ross Anderson's paper at:
http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/toulouse.pdf
I must confess that after reading the paper I am quite relieved to
finally have solid confirmation that at least one other person has
realized (outside the authors and proponents of
Jason Holt writes:
Trent generates primes p,q. He publishes n=pq and some random value g.
Trent calculates a and a' such that aa' = 1 % (p-1)(q-1) and a' is prime. He
sends Alice a' and g^a%n. a' is her secret exponent and g^a%n her public
value.
Another way to think of g^a is as the
Jason Holt writes:
In his paper on Lucre (2nd defence against marking):
http://anoncvs.aldigital.co.uk/lucre/
Ben Laurie gives this as a (possibly patent-free) blinding technique,
where h is the message, and g is the public generator:
r = blind(h) = h^y * g^b (mod p)
To
Is there any other possible interpretation other than that
we have no other choice than to take up arms against the police,
the FBI, or any other TLA, that seeks to deprive us of our rights?
Ask yourselves -- what would Jefferson or Washington do at this moment?
Ask yourselves -- what is
Peter Trei writes:
My mind has been boggled, my flabbers have been ghasted.
In the name of protecting their business model, the MPAA
proposes that every analog/digital (A/D) converter - one of
the most basic of chips - be required to check for US
government mandated copyright flags. Quite
Tim May writes:
I'll go back to lurking, as this thread, so to speak, is not
interesting to me.
(More interesting is reading Chris Hillman's page with his Categorical
Primer on it, http://www.math.washington.edu/~hillman/papers.html. And
to BL and JA, I downloaded O'CAML and picked up a
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