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

[Anonymous]

>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 be a popular URL
to look up. Maybe you could even sell some ad space there.

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

[Eric Cordian]

Major Variola wrote:

> You put nukes in subs to avoid getting them blown up
> esp. by a first strike.

You mean like the Jews blew up the Iranian nuclear reactor?

> So whoever nukes Israel had best do so without a
> piece of real estate associated with it, because the sub
> nukes will persist.  Even if the ground-based intel
> the subs might have relied on for targeting is smoking slag.

What make your think Israel will have to be nuked in order to respond with
its own nukes?  I should think anything that threatens Israel's existence
as a racist apartheid human rights violating state in perpetual contempt
for the will of the international community would serve as a sufficient
excuse for War Criminal Sharon to launch a nuclear attack.

After which, of course, AmeriKKKa's Neocon Dictator, George W. Bush, would
call a press conference to deliver the usual "Israel has a right to defend
itself" line, and order his UN ambassador to veto all security council
resolutions critical of Israel.  The EU would be critical, the Jews would
call them anti-Semites, and the US Congress would fall all over itself to
suport the action, fleeing in terror to avoid becoming targets of
AmeriKKKan jewish voters, and Zionist pressure groups.

In other words, business as usual.

> Yet another advantage to being a unlocalized organization.

> Or working out of an untouchable like Saudi arabia.

Saudi Arabia is hardly untouchable.  It is simply not at the top of the
list.  The Neocons plan for all the Arab dominos to fall eventually.

AmeriKKKa needs to purge itself of external influence on its government
through covert non-foreign policy channels, especially by "Orientals."

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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

[John Young]

Matt wrote:

>Why open the door to them? I have a few friends who as a matter of principle 
>do not open their doors to people they do not know. Letting a Fedgoon in is 
>akin to inviting a vampire into your house.

I was expecting someone else at about the same time. True, I could
have refused entry after the agent showed his ID. However, it
seemed too good an opportunity to pass up: it is pretty common
for Cryptome to get unexpected contributions. We try to remain
open lines of communication to unknown sources, if not a goodly
amount of info would never come out way.

For all I knew, and now know, the Special Agents were frauds,
of which Cryptome gets a taste regularly, perhaps more than
we know. As discussed here, spoofing is trivial to do.

Toward the end of the visit I asked SA Kelly to see his ID up close
and he displayed a wallet with a brass badge on the left and a
two-leaf ID on the right: flip left, then flip up. Was it real?

The two-leaf ID looked like the version SA Renner showed at
the door.

Trim haircuts and dark suits, healthy-looking young Caucasians,
no facial hair, shined shoes, clean teeth, no noticeable mouth 
or body odor, no obvious weapon bulges, polite, actually not
polite all the time: there were a few instances when mild
friction occurred, low-key warnings sent my way about
inadvertent threats to the nation with too much information
like that on Cryptome.

SA Renner was cooler than Kelly during questioning -- Kelly 
slightly bristled when I made a comment about free flowing 
information making the US stronger, the agent saying, yes, 
but information can be misused. He bristled a lot more when
I said I would publish their names, "make them famous." At
the word "famous" Kelly said, smiling "really, I haven't had 
that before."

Renner was quieter on naming names, knowing that there
was a CNN story out about him. But he too mildly protested
with the "hazard to the family" shtick.

Kelly said, "you know we can be found by knowing our
names, get shot for what we do." That reminded me of
Jeff Gordon, but I didn't snort.

Kelly leaned forward in his wing-back chair, slightly aggressive, 
whereas Renner sat upright at a table, case file in front, posing 
most of the questions to me.

Now, if I had refused the agents entry could I be telling this
dinky inside story? Perhaps better will be the second visit, or 
door-busting and marching downstairs in handcuffs, or 
dark-van-snatch on the street, or my family and customers
and friends questioned and warned, my assets seized
and listed in the New York Times, gosh, what notoriety
being a questionable patriot can lead to -- maybe right
up there at the foot soles of the Special Agents, real or 
fraudulent.

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.

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 01:44 PM 11/14/03 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613
>Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines

You put nukes in subs to avoid getting them blown up
esp. by a first strike.

So whoever nukes Israel had best do so without a
piece of real estate associated with it, because the sub
nukes will persist.  Even if the ground-based intel
the subs might have relied on for targeting is smoking slag.

The problem of real estate:
Look what happened to the Afghans who gave ClintonBush
a place to target.

Yet another advantage to being a unlocalized organization.

Or working out of an untouchable like Saudi arabia.

Re: [Mac_crypto] MacOS X (Panther) FileVault

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Status:  U
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:03:33 +0100
From: "Ralf-P. Weinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Nicko van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Mac_crypto] MacOS X (Panther) FileVault

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:15:03PM +, Nicko van Someren wrote:
> This is basically correct.  FileVault uses an auto-mounting version of
> the encrypted disk image facility that was in 10.2, tweaked to allow
> the image to be opened even before your main key chain is available
> (since the key chain is stored inside your home directory).  The
> standard encrypted image format uses a random key stored on your key
> chain, which is itself encrypted with a salted and hashed copy of the
> keychain pass phrase, which defaults to your login password.  My
> suspicion is that for the FileVault there is some other key chain file
> in the system folder which stores the key for decrypting your home
> directory disk image and that the pass phrase for that is just your
> login password.

A... So FileVault actually is just a marketing term for the encrypted
disk images! Thanks for the explanation! I just hope my login password can
be longer than 8 characters then.

>
> > File Vault will automatically expand or contract the disk image at
> > certain points. It creates a new image, copies everything over, and
> > deletes the old image.
>
> Yup, it essentially does an "hdiutil compact" command when you log out.

Do you know whether the source code to hdiutil and hdid respectively its
10.3 kernel equivalent is available? I can't seem to find it in the
Darwin 7.0 public source.

> > I don't know what mode of AES-128 it uses.
>
> I believe that it uses counter mode, since it's efficient when doing
> random access to the encrypted data.

Of course counter mode would be ideally suited for this application. The
question is whether the people at Apple implementing this feature knew this :)

I believe in peer-reviewed source code for crypto apps/features.

Cheers,
Ralf

-- 
Ralf-P. Weinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PGP fingerprint: 1024D/EF114FC02F150EB9D4F275B6159CEBEAEFCD9B06

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R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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

[Freematt357]

In a message dated 11/10/2003 3:02:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

They showed up without warning, no call ahead, got
past our Doberman doorman (we're on the 6th floor)
who usually calls us about visitors but didn't this time, 
and hasn't said a peep since the visit.


Why open the door to them? I have a few friends who as a matter of principle do not open their doors to people they do not know. Letting a Fedgoon in is akin to inviting a vampire into your house.

Regards,  Matt-

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

[Sarad AV]

hi,

Enimies enemy=friend. but for how long?

Sarath.



--- Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So much for non-proliferation of "weapons of mass
> destruction", right?
> 
>
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613
> 
> -
> 
> Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines
> Peter Beaumont in London and Conal Urquhart in
> Jerusalem
> Sunday October 12, 2003
> The Observer
> 
> Israeli and American officials have admitted
> collaborating to deploy
> US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with
> nuclear warheads in
> Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, giving
> the Middle East's only
> nuclear power the ability to strike at any of its
> Arab neighbours.
> 
> ...
> 
> -- 
> Eric Michael Cordian 0+
> O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
> "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"


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[Lucky Green]

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