Re: Anonymity of prepaid phone chip-cards
At 10:51 AM 3/26/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Each prepaid "Trick" phone card has its unique serial number. The payphone reads it from the card. The busted person (let's call him "target") used the same card for multiple phone calls, thus becoming the card's number known as the target's temporary identity. What do you mean by "Trick"? Is that a local brand name, or are you implying there's something special about this card? Normal phone cards let their issuers know in almost-real-time that they're being used, because they're spending money from a specific debit account, not digital cash tokens. It's not like old-fashioned monthly phone bills, which didn't need to be in real-time because they knew where you lived (and weren't real money anyway*, except for international calls requiring settlements.) Some cards have more information - many brands can be recharged using a credit card, which might identify the user. The interesting part was that the phone company knew in realtime when the card was used - enough in real time to dispatch a police patrol car to the location. ... I strongly suspect the usage logs exist for individual cards, allowing to back-trace the phonecalls done with the given card, thus tracing the identity of the card's owner by the call patterns. Well, of course - databases are much easier these days now that megabits/second and gigahertz are slow and terabytes are small and cheap, and calling card companies _are_ fundamentally in the business of doing database queries and updates, not telecommunications. They're even easier for new competitive phone companies than for the old monopolies, because they don't have an embedded base of antique data structures. An initial call to someone might not be easily traced in near-real-time, unless the recipient was a "usual suspect" set up for it, because that's backwards from the normal database structures. But once you've done the medium or hard work to identify the source of the call after the fact, and gotten lucky by finding it was from a phone card company in your country, setting up a forward trace for future calls from that company shouldn't be very difficult. It's the kind of feature that might only be useful to police and other stalkers, but maybe the phone company had operational reasons for building it, and it looks for data in the Simple Matter of Programming direction, not the Huge Difficult Sieve Through Everything direction. Bill Stewart
Re: [osint] Martha's lesson - don't talk to the FBI
In a message dated 3/24/2004 2:02:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, the point is, as Duncan Frissell has always said on this list, when confronted with cops of any kind, shut up, and lawyer up. Period. I don't say Jack to any government worker, even the Census poller...When it comes to Apparatchiks of the police state I'm unreachable. I do pay my taxes and participate in my state's driver license requirements...so the reality is that I do talk with government workers, albeit they do have a gun to my head. In general you have nothing to gain by speaking to the Police or assorted Fedgoons, so don't. Regards, Matt-
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]From: "R. A. Hettinga"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Repeal every law enacted since
1912Sunday, March 14, 2004Las Vegas Review-JournalVIN
SUPRYNOWICZ: Repeal every law enacted since 1912Michael writes in,
asking: "I am a junior in high school, a member of theLibertarian Party and
I read your column every week. I am e-mailing you fortwo reasons: 1) Your
last article in response to that woman's letter wasgreat. ... 2) I'm not
criticizing you, but I would like to know whatalternative you propose when
saying we should do away with prisons."I replied: Hi,
Michael,The problem with proposing "pragmatic" solutions that might help
thestatists out of the hideous swamps in which they have bemired themselves
isthat we're surrounded by proud government-school graduates with
littlehistorical perspective, who therefore assume everything our government
nowdoes is historically "normal," and who are equally likely to denounce
aseither a failed comedian or a "nut" anyone who proposes anything
radicallydifferent.Take Social Security. Point out that this Ponzi
scheme is actuariallybankrupt, and the Peanut Gallery shrieks "It's easy to
criticize; what doyou suggest we do?!"In good faith, we might
suggest they do a pro-rated division of any moneythe government wants to
contend is actually in the "Social Security TrustFund" among those aged 50
and older, based on how much they paid in, whiletelling workers under 50:
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retirement, and you'd better get started."The screaming then begins:
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promised!" And is the target of this outragethose who foisted this
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have bravely assumed the role of bank examiners,merely holding open the door
to the empty vault and pointing out they'vecreated an unsustainable
system.The case is similar as we begin to examine why the United States
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MarthaStewart. They couldn't charge her with selling her stock when her
brokertold her it was going to fall in value, since that's not illegal.
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herstock. This is the kind of thing for which Americans now go to
prison.So if you find a sucker to buy your used car for twice the Blue
Book value,you can't go to jail because it's not a crime. If a cop asks you
whetheryou sold your car for twice its Blue Book Value and you say, "Sure I
did.Whatcha gonna do about it?" you can't go to jail, because that's not
acrime. But if you tell a federal cop, "No; I sold that car for
exactlywhat's it's worth" ... you can go to jail for 20
years.(While, in the meantime, the cops can lie to you with impunity,
and bribeother suspects to testify against you by promising them lesser
punishments,with no penalty to the cops or prosecutors if that testimony
turns out tobe a pack of lies.)And this is the set-up that our
critics will tell us is sane, while theycan easily be predicted to tell us
any radical changes we propose are"nuts."That said, a few modest
proposals:Today's "penitentiaries" are a weird invention of the modern
"hygienic"movement. Peaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this
is thesame movement that assured us society could be "cleaned up" by banning
thelegal commerce in alcohol and other plant extracts ("drugs"); aborting
andsterilizing the retarded and those of "inferior races"; putting
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etc.In short, these people were dangerous nuts.For starters, we
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retroactively repealing every law enacted since 1912.Was murder illegal
by 1912? Of course. Rape? Of course. Kidnapping, armedrobbery, bunko fraud?
All serious criminal behaviors had been outlawed by1912. So why have the
number of lawbooks on the shelf multiplied tenfold inthe past 92
years?Release everyone jailed on a drug law (unknown before 1916), for
income taxevasion (impossible before 1913), for any kind of illegal
possession of orcommerce in firearms (laws unimagined a century ago), or for
violating anykind of regulatory scheme or edict erected since 1912, and the
federalprisons would be virtually empty, while even the state pens would
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Liquid Natural Flatulence
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Robert Hettinga
The Geodesic Economy
Liquid Natural Flatulence
Boston, Massachusetts
March 27, 2004
After more than a decade of thankfully irrelevant silence, the usual
mathematical-reductionist ex-nihilo nonsense is again being emetted
from the "(whatever) minutes to midnight" idiots at the Chicago-based
Bulletin of the Atomic "Scientists".
This time it was amplified to pain-threshold decibels this morning in
the echo chamber on the Boston Globe's editorial page ("Boston's
Ground Zero", The Boston Globe, Sunday, March 27, 2004
). Precipitated,
apparently, by the amplified feedback of a distant Home-Alone-horrors
double-face-slap by Dick "Hey, Sumner, where's my advance check?"
Clark, in a hearing-room somewhere on Capital Hill this week.
This time, though, the usual horrors and foot-stomping Hyde Park
hissy-fit is about about Boston's liquid natural gas (LNG) port, over
in Everett.
Personally, I love their mathematical reasoning, in the same way that
I love hysterical paradoxes, contradictions and tautologies of all
kinds. It turns out that, go figure, there is a stupendous amount of
explosive energy in a very large tank of Liquid Natural Gas.
Especially, experts say -- and, what would we do without experts --
if it were released all at once. Using the same logic, of course, if
every Chinaman gave me a buck, I'd be a billionaire. Gosh.
As a point of my own personal reference, I used to walk by the
aforementioned "Scientists'" ridiculous "minutes to midnight" clock
sign every day on the way to class in Chicago during the entire M-X
missile, "nuclear freeze", "nuclear winter", "Testament",
Reagan's-President-and-We're-All-Gonna-Die garbage in the early to
mid-1980's. Every time the Democrats won a vote in Congress, the
clock would go backwards. Every time the Republicans won, it would go
forwards, counting down to nuclear oblivion. Gee. What a coincidence.
Isn't "science" amazing, that it could make a calculation with such
mathematical precision based on how *Congress* voted...
In hindsight, of course, if they'd had their way, we'd all be quoting
Marx in Russian or Chinese by now, and we'd be doing it everywhere in
the US, not just in Hyde Park, Cambridge or Berkeley, places where
they still do it now, though in English, and only when they're sure
nobody can laugh at them. At the very least, we'd be living in the
same constant terror of another kind, that of the total nuclear
annihilation of every living thing down to, say, a slime mold.
These "Scientists" are living -- barely, by some of their ages --
proof that the only thing more comical than a physicist
"psychic-investigator" is a sanctimonious
physicist-cum-crypto-politician. Especially one whose every utterance
is literally sanctified by a leftist press and parroted there ad
nauseam, like we saw happening in the Boston Globe this morning.
So, let's add a few facts to the discussion, shall we? First, a
confession of extreme personal, if not exactly plutographic, interest
in this matter. For more than a decade now, on Wednesday nights
during the summer, I crew on a sailboat that races in Boston Harbor.
We sail right *by* this place. Twice, coming and going. Yup. The very
dock where they offload the LNG that has our "Scientists'" panties in
such a severe bunch. Hell, before 9/11, we've even had to duck the
tanker occasionally in the middle of the Inner Harbor on our way to
the next mark in the racecourse.
Anyway, about a decade ago, Distrigas, the company that owns the
facility in question, ran several *military* -- not law-enforcement
- -- anti-terrorism scenarios to see exactly what would be needed to
take the place out. What I've heard, albeit second-hand, is that in
order to get a useful amount of that halfway-to-absolute-zero natural
gas actually *flammable*, much less explosive, someone would have to
ring the whole tank with a *huge* amount of explosives themselves,
requiring, I'd bet, a whole *company*, if not a *battalion* of army
troops to secure it for the time allowed to rig it all up. A time
probably measured more in days, rather than hours, of uncontested
*military* control of a very large facility. Fat chance, even in the
Clinton Administration, who would probably be more likely to
"negotiate" than fight, since everyone just *knows* that terrorism is
a law-enforcement, and not a military, problem.
Even then, even if they blew that ring of very large charges around
the circumference of a very, very, large LNG tank, dumping its
contents into the Island End and Mystic Rivers, *all* they would have
is a very-fast, moving, *wave* of flammable *liquid*, giving you a
*fire*, and not an explosion. Roughly the same as if you dumped a
bunch of gasoline into the river and lit it.
A *cryogenic* liquid, mind you, meaning that you'd have to heat the
stuff up a lot, and very quick
Re: Anonymizer employees need killing
I hope at this point the retractions by the Register have been well circulated. Just to make it absolutely clear, we have never and never will sell out a customer. This is simply shoddy reporting at its worst. A blog first reported this months ago as "an anonymizer" which was then picked up as "The Anonymizer" in some articles, which then printed corrections. In fact the company involved was Surfola which is not connected to us in any way shape or form (and which I had never even heard of before this). Months later the Register picked up on an old uncorrected version of the story and printed it without any fact checking at all. This is a shocking breach of editorial responsibility. I would have hoped that my years of working on free open source privacy tools (such as Mixmaster) before founding Anonymizer would lend my reputation some weight, or at least give me the benefit of the doubt until the matter was clarified. I am deeply troubled to see death threats against my employees (and I would assume myself) without anyone taking the trouble to even ask us to comment. It has always been easy to contact me directly, next time I hope someone will do so before assuming the worst. -Lance - Lance M. Cottrell President, Anonymizer Inc.
Re: Anonymizer employees need killing
On Mar 27, 2004, at 23:13, Lance Cottrell wrote: I hope at this point the retractions by the Register have been well circulated. Just to make it absolutely clear, we have never and never will sell out a customer. This is simply shoddy reporting at its worst. I would have hoped that my years of working on free open source privacy tools (such as Mixmaster) before founding Anonymizer would lend my reputation some weight, or at least give me the benefit of the doubt until the matter was clarified. I am deeply troubled to see death threats against my employees (and I would assume myself) without anyone taking the trouble to even ask us to comment. It has always been easy to contact me directly, next time I hope someone will do so before assuming the worst. Alright then, since you're here, maybe you could answer a couple questions: - If given a court order, would you be able to provide the FBI the same kind of information that Surfola did, which could be used to track down the customer in meatspace? (From the article, we can assume it was his paypal email addx and/or the IP addx he was using, either one of which was probably sufficient). - Assuming the answer is yes: from the customer's POV, in the end what does it matter whether you were given a court order or not... the result was the same, they were caught because they trusted your service (the fact that, in this case, the crime was despicable, is beside the point). - Can you explain the contradictions inherent in the following excerpts from your user agreement? "Usage logs are usually kept for forty-eight (48) hours for maintenance purposes, monitoring Spamming and monitoring abuses of netiquette. Any relevant portion(s) of such logs may be kept for as long as needed to stop the abuses." "We maintain no information which would identify which user had sent a given message or visited a given site" "Abusers of the Anonymizer can expect no anonymity. We regret the necessity of this policy, but without it abuse will force the shutdown of the Anonymizer." Even if we leave aside the question of whether one should trust a service which /could/ betray you if it were run by an untrustworthy operator, you state openly in your policy that you're not to be trusted! --bgt
