Re: Connie Chung fucks up things are not as they seem.A good example of the tremen
Declan McCullagh writes: Source? TV show? Date? Transcript? -Declan Declan, my source is the net address listed below. At the top of that page are a "general info" button and a "contact us" button. Under "general info" they list [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their email address. They also list there their snail mail address. That's all I know of the source. This looks like a job for an investgative reporter such as yourself:-) Sorry I am not more helpful. If you can actually validate from tv network sources that that sequel occurred, you will have a great big can of worms to play with :-) -Good luck! On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:20:10PM -0600, Gary Jeffers wrote: My fellow Cypherpunks, The following is interesting. http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/Quinn/phoenix1.htm find string: Connie Chung A good example of the tremendous degree to which the major news media organizations are called to heel is seen in the facts surrounding the two year hiatus in the professional career of CBS broadcaster Connie Chung, who had the misfortune to have ended up being paired with Dan Rather several years ago. On a live call-in TV talk show some two years ago, Ms. Chung responded with a bit too much candor to a question as to what actually gets reported publicly by the major news media, given the great number of stories and items which come from the numerous sources of "raw" information. How are the stories which get the attention of the media chosen and by whom? Connie Chung replied to the effect that it wasn't too hard to decide what stories get aired--they just checked with Washington D.C. to see what had been cleared for publication by the government. As a result of her being foolish enough to tell the truth in what was likely just a naive, probably unintentional and inadvertent slip, within no more than a few hours Ms. Chung was out of a job and remained blacklisted in the industry for a good two years, only resurfacing in 1998 with a position at ABC--sufficiently chastened, some no doubt believe, to allow her to grace the public airwaves once again. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE!!! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Connie Chung fucks up things are not as they seem.A good example of the tremen
My fellow Cypherpunks, The following is interesting. http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/Quinn/phoenix1.htm find string: Connie Chung A good example of the tremendous degree to which the major news media organizations are called to heel is seen in the facts surrounding the two year hiatus in the professional career of CBS broadcaster Connie Chung, who had the misfortune to have ended up being paired with Dan Rather several years ago. On a live call-in TV talk show some two years ago, Ms. Chung responded with a bit too much candor to a question as to what actually gets reported publicly by the major news media, given the great number of stories and items which come from the numerous sources of "raw" information. How are the stories which get the attention of the media chosen and by whom? Connie Chung replied to the effect that it wasn't too hard to decide what stories get aired--they just checked with Washington D.C. to see what had been cleared for publication by the government. As a result of her being foolish enough to tell the truth in what was likely just a naive, probably unintentional and inadvertent slip, within no more than a few hours Ms. Chung was out of a job and remained blacklisted in the industry for a good two years, only resurfacing in 1998 with a position at ABC--sufficiently chastened, some no doubt believe, to allow her to grace the public airwaves once again. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE!!! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Tim May goes bush shooting.
http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2000.08.21-2000.08.27/msg00157.html "...you are _probably_ either ML or GJ." Well, that almost flew under my radar:-) Hey, I don't do anon. flames of Cypherpunk regulars. Hey, watch out ML. You're next. = = http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2000.09.18-2000.09.24/msg00148.html http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir2000.09.18-2000.09.24/msg00167.html Bush Shooting: There is a breed of deer hunter who, when hearing a noise in the woods, fires into the bush in roughly its direction hoping that it may be a deer and that he may hit it. :-) Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers Beat State!! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: RC4 source as a literate program
Fellow Cypherpunks, THE LAWYER GAMBIT I remember reading in old anti-IRS literature about a technique for avoiding prosecutions. A client would tell a lawyer that he wanted to do something and would ask if it were legal to do. The lawyer would then give his opinion as to wheather it was legal or not. If the lawyer said that it was legal and gave his opinion in writing, then the client could proceed without out worry. The lawyer's opinion would stop any criminal prosecution. I wonder if this would work with publishing crypt code. I think it might put the lawyer at risk. If we had a lawyer who really thought that publishing crypt code on the Internet was legal and wasn't afraid of sticking his neck out then his published statement on the Internet to this might open the floodgates of crypt code Internet posting for Americans. Donald has stated that the law in this area is quite vague. I would think even if the law prohibited it, then the law would be unconstitu- tional and therefore null and void. Any thoughts on this? Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: RC4 source as a literate program
Fellow Cypherpunks, I was aware that posting binary/executables of crypt code from the U.S. was illegal. Is source posting of crypt from U.S. illegal too? Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
KOH, the friendly disk encryptor virus.
such a modification unless circumstances really warrant it! Just consider what the legal implications might be. Would the government excuse an infection? Or would they use it as an excuse to put a new computer in their office, or some revenue in their coffers? What do you think? UNQUOTE KOH comes with several options including uninstall, change pass phrase, and a floppy disk migration toggle ( you want to encrypt floppies automatically or not). I have not tested KOH myself but it looks quite nice. Also, Ludwig's idea of forced hard disk encryption with a passphrase looks like it could have a number of variations that Cypherpunks might want to consider. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE!!! HOW ABOUT BIG BUSINESS TOO!!! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: WSJ: Backdoor in MS WWW software
My fellow Cypherpunks, Tim May reports in a post: http://www.inet-one.com/cyberpunks/current/msg00306.html soon to be: http://www.inet-one.com/cyberpunks/dir.2000.04.09-2000.04.15 Federal prosecutors intend to charge the two men who illegally looked at Microsoft's "Front Page" software and thereby discovered a security hole. Note: I am assuming that Tim May is not doing some kind of spoof here. What he reports sounds like a sort of vicious fantasy. What the 2 men did was a PERCEPTUAL crime. This crime is 100% imaginary! However, the crime the U.S. will commit will be real. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS A STATE ARTIFACT! Without the state it would not exist as we know it. The U.S. will commit two crimes. First, a crime against the heros. Second, our right to know (this is a part of free speech). It will also help to silence our watchdogs so that we may be better enslaved. The crimes are both individual and collective. There seems to be some class of moral error that is rarely mentioned: Serving a small right at the expense of a large right. This occurs when values contradict each other. It also occurs often in U.S. when state crushes important and real rights while using imaginary rights as the rational. The above is an instance of this. The heros warned us of a substantial security threat. We have few people who would be willing and able to find this threat for us. Now they are going to be charged with an imaginary crime. The service they did for society is completely ignored. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
computer assisted fingerprint impersonation
COMPUTER ASSISTED FINGERPRINT IMPERSONATION My fellow Cypherpunks, I am troubled by the article from the American Sentinel that was posted by Jean-Francois Avon. - STATE FINGERPRINTING OF DRIVERS IS DIRECTED FROM WASHINGTON. currently at http://inet-one.com/cypherpunks /current/msg00020.html . Soon to be http://inet-one.com/cypherpunks/ dir.2000.04.10-2000.04.16 . I have heard that it is possible to temporarily artifically change your finger prints with some kind of adheasive membrane. I do not know if this is correct. However, it would seem to be a very doable technology. I propose this scheme: Design fingerprints with a computer! This seems very doable as a technology. A computer program could have a function that used random number input to design individual 10 digit (fingers) fingerprints. The fingerprints would use a digital code to describe the prints. That is, for instance: My fingerprints would be assigned a decimal number string by the computer. Any time my prints (analog) were displayed to the computer, the computer would assign them the same decimal number string. Also, if the computer program were inputed this decimal number string, then it could output a perfect picture of my physical fingerprints. A scanner would be used to input actual prints. That is: ink your finger tips, roll them on a white paper, then scan them in. An algorithm would assign the decimal number string. For outputing the prints, the program would change the number string to the analog print (the physical look). Then print them on a printer. I do not know what kind of scheme to use in making a membrane print from this. - photography, lithography, electronic board like etching? - an elaboration on one of these. Libraries of prints could be saved for different aliases. They could be sent over the Internet to other people to continue imper- sonating the id's. If fingerprinting became very common, then this tech. would have great value. Also, it could be an asset to privacy. If your finger- prints said you were a certain person, what clerk or official would question your identity? Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Disk INsecurity:Last word on deletes, wipes The Final Solution.
Jim Choate writes "...Fourier Analysis..." for ressurecting wiped data. This is interesting but a question arises: How do you interrogate the data? That is: what INT's (pc interrupts) do you use to look at the data? Actually, maybe I should say the sectors rather than the data. Are these undocumented DOS? Also, I hear stories of companies that unwipe data. Who are these companies? What is the name of the software that they use? Is it available to cops only? Where can we get it? Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Disk INsecurity:last word on deletes, wipes The Final Solution.
Disk INsecurity:last word on deletes, wipes The Final Solution. My fellow Cypherpunks, On the matter of getting rid of dangerous info on your hard disk, here is a very interesting quote from The GIANT BLACK BOOK of COMPUTER VIRUSES, second edition by Dr. Mark Ludwig American Eagle Publications,Inc P.O. Box 1507 Show Low, Arixona 85902 see http://www.logoplex.com/resources/ameagle QUOTE If one views a diskette as an analog device, it is possible to retrieve data from it that has been erased. For this reason even a so-called secure erase program which goes out and overwrites clusters where data was stored is not secure. (And let's not even mention the DOS delete command, which only changes the first letter of the file name to 0E5H and cleans up the FAT. All of the data is still sitting right there on disk!) There are two phenomena that come into play which prevent secure erasure. One is simply the fact that in the end a floppy disk is analog media. It has magnetic particles on it which are statistically aligned in one direction or the other when the drive head writes to disk. The key word here is STATISTICALLY. A write DOES NOT simply align all particles in one direction or the other. It just aligns enough that the state can be unambiguously interpreted by the analog- to-digital circuitry in the disk drive. For example, consider Figure 36.2. It depicts three different "ones" read from a disk. Suppose A is a virgin 1, written to a disk that never had anything written to it before. Then a one written over a zero would give a signal more like B, and a one written over another one might have signal C. All are interpreted as digital ones, but they're not all the same. With the proper analog equipment you can see these differences (which are typicall 40 dB weaker than the existing signal) and read an already-erased disk. The same can be said of a twice-erased disk, etc. The signals just get a little weaker each time. The second phenomenon that comes into play is wobble. Not every bit of data is written to disk in the same place, especially if two different drives are used, or a disk is written over a long period of time during which wear and tear on a drive changes its characteristics. (See Figure 36.3) This phenomenon can make it possible to read a disk even if it's been overwritten a hundred times. The best defense against this kind of attack is to see to it that one NEVER writes an unencrypted disk. If all the spy can pick up off the disk using such techniques is encrypted data, it will do him little good. The auto-encryption feature of KOH can help make this NEVER a reality. 1.2 | 1 | ..CM | ..AA 0.8 | ..BG | . N 0.6 | . E | . T 0.4 | . I | . Z 0.2 | . A |T 0 -I O Figure 36.2N \\\ ||previous write | p | \\ | R |\ | | e | last | | v | write | | i | | | ous| | \--- \ \ \|--\--\ Figure 36.3 UNQUOTE Another problem with wipes is that, as long as 5 years ago, manufactures of disk drives were adding caching functions to the hard drives that were not visible to software. Maybe you can program around a software cache when writing a wipe program but a hardware cache looks like a real problem. Are writers of wipe programs aware of disk hardware caches? With disk caching, you may get one real wipe and several virtual wipes. When I started writing my wipe program, SUPERWIPE, I was not aware of hardware caches. THE FINAL SOLUTION The only way to make sure of disk security is to use encrypted disk programs. That way dangerous plain text never touches your hard drive. I would recommend SECUREDEVICE SECUREDRIVE. Both are excellent. SECUREDEVICE is easier to use but SECUREDRIVE is a better product. Both may be found on the Internet. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CLINTONS!!! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
