Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]
Tyler Durden wrote: Actually, depending on your App, this would seem to be th very OPPOSITE of a moot point. -TD Indeed! I've been ignoring this list for a while, so sorry for the late posting. I remember sometime in late 99, I had one of the early blackberry pagers, the small ones that ate a single AA battery which lasted about a week or so, and had email + a small web browser inside of it. It wasn't the blackberry phone. Anyway, long story short, one day, said pager crashed (it is a computer after all) and I was trying to figure out how to reboot it, so I thought, fuck it, and removed the battery, the fucker stayed ON! For over 15 minutes! Gee, I wonder why anyone would design a cell phone or pager to be able to stay on after its battery is pulled out. Yeah, yeah, it's just a capacitor or an internal rechargeable battery, but why would you want such a feature? Fast forward to 2005. Most cell phones are after all small computers with a transceiver, microphone, and speaker, and recently GPS receivers. And now we have reports of the GPS info being transmitted all the time, oops! it's a bug, we meant to turn it off. uh huh. Just how much work would it be to reprogram the soft power off key, so it shuts off all the lights, and display, but still transmits GPS info, just less often? Or also transmit audio? What are the odds that the code on the phone already comes with this feature built in? Of course, if it was legal to scan on cell phone frequencies, you might be able to confirm what it's sending and when, but of course, it's not legal to do that. Even to your own phone. Of course some phones are more equal than others. For example, T-Mobile SideKick, which if you write an email and decide to cancel it, but you're out of range, exposes its evil self with Sorry, we can't let you delete the email you're composing, because it hasn't been sent to the server yet! Gee, I wonder what that means? Nah, it's just a bug. (Of course, this is a totally owned platform, where T-Mobile owns your data, not you, oops, make that the hackers of a few months ago..) Oh and if said phone is running out of batteries, it starts to complain loudly until you recharge it. Um, yeah, it likes being on at all times. You can hear it transmit occasionally when it's near amplified computer speakers or your car radio. Fun that, but could be useful. Especially if you heard it transmit while it's supposedly off. (I've honestly not heard it transmit while it's off) Are we just too paranoid? Nah, that's just a bug in human firmware, we'll fix that in the next brainwashing session. (BTW: what the fuck's up with all the weirdo subject lines? There's a perfectly good From: line in all SMTP headers, we don't need this shit in the subject line for fuck's sake! What's this, the return of Jim Choate?)
Re: Well, they got what they want...
Steve Schear wrote: The term 'securisimilitude' (from verisimilitude) comes to mind. Steve True, but I think the goal was FUD and it worked. On Tuesday (I think) both the Metro and AMNY free rags reported that all of a sudden there was a rash of suspicious packages being reported. Ya think? Another incident was of a homeless guy putting his luggage on a ticket counter and claiming it had a bomb in it. Think someone yanked his chain to the point where he'd sarcasm himself into jail? Of course the bright bulbs in charge evacuated all of Penn Station supposedly. In another article, one that stated NYCLU was against the searches, but claimed most people were happy to open their bags and some even walked up to the cops, opened their bags and said here, look at mine, another gave a quote from a supposed police officer saying that July had a ~23% drop in crime. Well, that's nice and all, but the bag searches started only 3 days before, so WTF does the crime rate for July (which hasn't yet ended) have anything to do with bag searches that just started? The funniest part are the letters to the editors thanking the police and saying how wonderful it is to be living in a country where you're safe. Of course, if you were to tell these folks 10 years ago, that you'll be subject to search when entering the subway, or that you couldn't bring a nail clipper with you when boarding an airplane, they'd go Shucks, no way that would happen in my country! I love the smell of propaganda in the morning. It smells like FUD.
Re: Well, they got what they want...
Tyler Durden wrote: Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the obvious: Random searches and whatnot are going to do zero for someone determined, but might deter someone who was thinking about blowing up the A train. In other words, everyone here in NYC knows that we've given up a lot for the sake of the appearence of security, but no one seems to give a damn. I wouldn't say we've given up at all - after all, we've had no choice in the matter. We weren't asked if we wanted to be searched, we weren't asked if we were willing to give up liberty for the appearance of security, we weren't asked if we were ok with atrocities such as the unpatriot act, or the national ID disguised as a standardized driver's license, we weren't asked if we were willing to pay lots of tax dollars to finance more police on every corner and all the toys that they have purchased for these tasks, or the various hollow cement flower pots, and other barricades. It's not exactly a liberty that we have sacrificed, when it was taken away without consent. There is another word for this: theft.
Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]
DiSToAGe wrote: not a backdoor, we forget to much that every system is only 1 and 0 through electricity and physical circuits. If you can make them you can watch them (with time and monney i agree). Perhaps thinking that datas (certs, instructions) can be hidden behind a physical thing is only a dream ? I ask myself if not every cryptosystem where you must have something hidden or physically not accessible in point of the process is not sure ? In theory the above is absolutely correct. In practice, it's extremely difficult to properly implement an accurate enough emulator, however as an emulator writer you have far more advantages than disadvantages despite the 10-100x in slowdown. (Speaking from personal experience - no, nothing on the kind of scale we're talking about here.) You can always have your virtual CPU decide that when it sees a certain instruction, to disobey it. For example, when it sees a checksum check, to decide to jump around it and so forth. Gotta love it when you can fool a program into thinking that 2+2=5 and that everything is still A-OK with that! ;-) If you can interface with real (protected) hardware, you might even be able to get around public key schemes with the emulator. HP/Agilent made some wonderful logic analyzers, which are very useful against ancient hardware (think Motorola 68K chips at around 5MHz) too bad nothing in the GHz range is (cheaply?) available out there, but there's lots that can be done. What can be done? For example, if you have something like Palladium or whatever it's called these days, you an always build a machine that has custom RAM that can change at the flip of a switch - sort of like the old EEPROM emulators, but with RAM chips that can be flipped to a ROM instead. You flip a switch after the DRM core has validated your BIOS and operating system, and at some point once the CPU cache gets drained, it winds up running code that it did not boot, code which you've written to do *OTHER* things for example - simply change the IRQ vectors to point to your code and you've taken over... Mind you, all this is easier said that done, but it is possible to implement. Remember, security is a chain, and each (media?) player out there is a link in that chain. It only takes one broken player to wipe out your entire investment in that DRM pipe dream. Any employee with access can leak the master keys and the game is over. Any wily hardware hacker with plenty of time on his hands can take a shot at reverse engineering any (media) player to the point of cracking it, etc. In the end, it's a waste of time and money for the makers of DRM as there's enough interest that someone somewhere will break it at some point in the near future. You can play cat and mouse games by watermarking the output with the serial # of the player in order to lock out cracked players, but the attacker only has to break more than one player (perhaps two different models so they get both serial # and model #) and compare the resulting outputs from the same movie to figure out which bits contain the watermarks. XOR is very nice for figuring this out. :-) None of this worries me, because I don't give a rats ass about copying movies or what not. Couldn't care less about it. I'll wait for the shit to make it to HBO, it's usually not worth watching the waste of Hollywood plotless overhyped crud anyway, so why worry about copying it? The few titles that are worth watching, are also well worth buying, and after a few months they can be had for under $20, so why bother? What is cause for worry is that it's quite _possible_ for Intel or other chip manufacturers to insert backdoors in their hardware which someone will go through the trouble of discovering, which does put everyone at risk. No matter how good your operating system and firewall rules, if your network card (and drivers) decide to bend over upon receiving a specially crafted packet, you're owned just the same. Mind you, I've never run across anything close to this, except perhaps the old F00FC7C8 bug in the original pentium (which really was a DOS, not a back door) and the old UltraSparc I in 64 bit mode multiuser hole. The Pentium IV hyperthreading bug is something recent to worry about along the same line of thought. Sadly, you haven't got much choice in this matter, you have to assume that you can trust the hardware that you run on (unless you're willing to make your own and have the resources to do so, etc.)
Re: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington
Bill Stewart wrote: Sigh. Terrified Student Pilot isn't the same as Terrorist. Yeah, but they both start with the same four letters and sound alike, which seems to be the attention span of those who are afraid of the boogie man and consequentially imagine they see him under every rock, or bush.
Re: Secure erasing Info (fwd from richard@SCL.UTAH.EDU)
Yeah, but these days, I'd go with the largest flash drive I could afford. USB2 or otherwise. I don't believe you can recover data from these once you actually overwrite the bits (anyone out there know any different?). They're either 1 or 0, there's no extra ferrite molecules to the left or the right of the track to pick up a signal from ;-) As always encrypt the data you write to the device. I wouldn't overwrite flash repeatedly (i.e. the Guttman method of 35 writes) though, there's a limit on the number of writes, after which it goes bad. I'd overwrite it once with random data. Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from Richard Glaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Richard Glaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:17:43 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Secure erasing Info Reply-To: Mac OS X enterprise deployment project [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI: Rendering Drives Completely Unreadable Can be Difficult ---
Theory of Secure Computation - Joe Killian, NEC Labs
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2233 A bit sparse on details, but a good overview of all sorts of secure protocols. Our friends Alice and Bob are of course present in various orgies of secure protocols. :)
Re: new egold phisher - this time it's a malware executable
Got another one today with a RAR attachment claiming it was a screen shot. Text is: Dear Sir Yesterday you have arrived the amount of $1000 into my account. Of course, I do not object, but you probably were mistaken number of the account when transferred, and it happens not first time. Please look an attached screenshot of all your transfers into my account. I have no idea why you transfer money to me, as I do not know you, and I need no money. If you were mistaken, I'll return this money to you! Sincerely. Nice... what's next? an egold transfer from a lawyer claiming a long lost uncle kicked the bucket and left me a fortune? :-D Wheee! sunder wrote: So, the e-gold phishers are at it again... received a very nice email this morning with an attachment. The Received-From header showed this beauty: from 195.56.214.184 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.56.214.184] (may be forged)) Indeed! Don't know if it's a trojan, spyware, virus, or worm, and I couldn't care less since I don't use egold, but would be interesting (just for curiosity's sake) if someone were to disassemble it to see what it does. It's probably a password grabber of some kind, so falls under spyware, but who knows what other evil payloads were in the attachment. ROTFL! - Text said: Dear E-gold Customer, Herewith we strongly recommend you to install this Service Pack to your PC, as lately we have received a lot of complains regarding unauthorized cash withdrawals from our customers' accounts. This upgrade blocks all currently known Trojan modules and eliminates the possibility of cash withdrawals without your authorization. We highly recommend to install this Service Pack to secure your accounts. Please note, that E-gold doesn't take any responsibility and doesn't accept any claims regarding losses caused by fraudulent actions, if your account has not been duly protected by the present Service Pack. Please find enclosed the archive of the Service Pack installation file in the attachment to this message.
new egold phisher - this time it's a malware executable
So, the e-gold phishers are at it again... received a very nice email this morning with an attachment. The Received-From header showed this beauty: from 195.56.214.184 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.56.214.184] (may be forged)) Indeed! Don't know if it's a trojan, spyware, virus, or worm, and I couldn't care less since I don't use egold, but would be interesting (just for curiosity's sake) if someone were to disassemble it to see what it does. It's probably a password grabber of some kind, so falls under spyware, but who knows what other evil payloads were in the attachment. ROTFL! - Text said: Dear E-gold Customer, Herewith we strongly recommend you to install this Service Pack to your PC, as lately we have received a lot of complains regarding unauthorized cash withdrawals from our customers' accounts. This upgrade blocks all currently known Trojan modules and eliminates the possibility of cash withdrawals without your authorization. We highly recommend to install this Service Pack to secure your accounts. Please note, that E-gold doesn't take any responsibility and doesn't accept any claims regarding losses caused by fraudulent actions, if your account has not been duly protected by the present Service Pack. Please find enclosed the archive of the Service Pack installation file in the attachment to this message.
Gait advances in emerging biometrics
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ Gait advances in emerging biometrics By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition get most of the publicity but researchers across the world are quietly labouring away at alternative types of biometrics. Recognition by the way someone walk (their gait), the shape of their ears, the rhythm they make when they tap and the involuntary response of ears to sounds all have the potential to raise the stock of biometric techniques. According to Professor Mark Nixon, of the Image Speech and Recognition Research Group at the University of Southampton, each has unique advantages which makes them worth exploring. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
RE: Optical Tempest FAQ
IMHO, if you light up two or more other identical CRT's and have them display random junk it should throw enough noise to make it worthless - (and would put out enough similar RF to mess with RF tempest) there might be ways to filter the photons from the other monitors out, but, it would be difficult. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Interesting. Contrary to what I thought (or what has been discussed here), only a 'scalar' of detected light is needed, not a vector. In other words, merely measuring overall radiated intensity over time seems to be sufficient to recover the message. This means that certain types of diffusive materials will not necessarily mitigate against this kind of eavesdropping. However, his discussion would indicate that the various practical concerns and limitations probably limit this to very niche-type applications...I'd bet that it's very rare when such a trechnique is both needed as well as useful, given the time, the subject and the place. -TD From: Sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Optical Tempest FAQ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:27:04 -0500 (est) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html Along with tips and examples. Enjoy, and don't use a CRT in the dark. :-)
Optical Tempest FAQ
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html Along with tips and examples. Enjoy, and don't use a CRT in the dark. :-) --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: Broward machines count backward
It sounds suspiciously like an int16 issue.
32K is close enough to 32767 after which a 16 bit integer goes negative
when incremented. Which is odd because it should roll over, not count
backwards.
perhaps they did something like this:
note the use of abs on reporting.
int16 votes[MAX_CANDIDATES];
void add_a_vote(uint8 candidate)
{
if (candidateMAX_CANDIDATES) return;
votes[candidate]++;
}
void report(void)
{
int i;
for (i=0; iMAX_CANDIDATES; i++)
{
printf(Candidate %s got %d votes\n,candidates[i],abs(votes[i]));
}
}
--Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---
+ ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\
\|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\
--*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/
/|\ : \|/
+ v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President.
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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/11/05/a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html
Palm Beach Post
Broward machines count backward
By Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 05, 2004
FORT LAUDERDALE - It had to happen. Things were just going too smoothly.
Early Thursday, as Broward County elections officials wrapped up after a
long day of canvassing votes, something unusual caught their eye. Tallies
should go up as more votes are counted. That's simple math. But in some
races, the numbers had gone . . . down.
Officials found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes
per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward.
Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion
As usual, South Park is a great source of wisdom. So, are you voting for the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion
No! You must vote for the Giant Douche! Or the Terrorists Win! But won't someone think of the chldren! If you vote for the Douche, the ChllLdren will die! ROTFL! --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 2:42 PM -0400 10/30/04, Sunder wrote: the Turd Sandwich? Turd Sandwich, of course. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: James A. Donald's insanity
Where did I write to you that it's horrible thing to lock people up in Gitmo, or that we (whomever that is) deserve to be attacked? Show me the email, with headers that says such a thing. Oh, wait, you can't, because I never wrote such. Let's see, so you've got lots of people questioning your version of various events, and you've got claims that various people wrote things that they did not, and lots of people challenging the accuracy and indeed, truth of your statements. Hmmm... So what is the obvious conclusion there? The whole world must be against you? Nah, you're not important enough to be paranoid. So, what is the obvious conclusion? No, no, 2+2 is not 5, even for extremely large values of 2... Come on, come on, out with it, say it, say it... That's right! *Ding* you're reality challenged. Ah! There, doesn't that feel better? Now, please, go back and take your meds before the nice men in the white coats come to take you to the funny farm. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 21 Oct 2004 at 13:41, Sunder wrote: No you imbecile, I'm telling no one anything, other than you to get a clue. Where did I tell people who are under attack to suck it up? When you tell us it is horrible to lock up in Gautenamo people who show every sign of trying to kill us , and that we deserve their past efforts to kill us, efforts that some of them promptly resumed on release. We are under attack, and you are telling us to suck it up.
Re: Printers betray document secrets
Simple way to test. Get two printers of the same make and model. Print identical documents on both printers, scan them, diff the scans. Some will be noise, repeat several times, see which noise repeats and you get closer and closer to the serial #'s. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Steve Thompson wrote: I seem to recall hearing a rumour that suggested that for years now, photocopiers have been leaving their serial number on the copies they produce. If true, and I am inclined to believe it, it follows naturally that something similar might happen with laser-printers and ink-jet printers. Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R.A. Hettinga wrote: US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. I don't think this is new - I'm pretty sure it was published about 6 or 7 years back as a technique. iang - Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals
Re: Airport insanity
I made no claims, you did, rather I asked you sarcastically to validate your claims, after which you further assumed on top of other mistaken assumptions, that I made claims countering yours, which I did not. Perhaps you should examine your own words. IMHO, you are a misguided armchair general who sees yourself as equal to those scumbags that have risen in power to lead or enslave nations since you seem to constantly say they should have done X, and not Y and are constantly seeking to go against with reality with W should be the case, not X even though W cannot happen while X does. Yes, that is my unprofessional opinion. And yet, while impotent to achive your views of reality, you insist on sharing it, as if anyone gives a rats ass. It was entertaining, but it's getting old. I doubt that it would be long before you'll be sporting a tin foil hat. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 20 Oct 2004 at 21:27, Sunder wrote: I repeat: And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's weren't tortured? We know torture did not occur, because lots of people have been released who were and are extremely hostile to the US, and who do not claim torture. And you were there and witnessed the attrocities that said prisoners committed in order to be placed in Gitmo? Why do you assert that the US must be guilty unless it can be proven innocent by extraordinary evidence, but the detainees must be innocent unless they can be proven guilty by extraordinary evidence? Doubtless there are some innocents in Gautenamo - but the usual reason they are there is for being foreigners in Afghanistan in the middle of a war with no adequate explanation. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG PwxWpHJKrzapMUAE8Xc1hvpY0CWDO780ZY/6zW7b 4b9RBklMS97dzSSANw7jVcZlASDxbNnLMhwLptK+Z
Re: Airport insanity
No you imbecile, I'm telling no one anything, other than you to get a clue. Where did I tell people who are under attack to suck it up? All I did was point out that you weren't there and therefore any comment you care to make about it is bound to be flawed. Please find yourself a clue store and open your wallet - wide. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 21 Oct 2004 at 10:26, Sunder wrote: IMHO, you are a misguided armchair general who sees yourself as equal to those scumbags that have risen in power to lead or enslave nations since you seem to constantly say they should have done X, and not Y When people are under attack, you cannot tell them to suck it up, which is what you are doing. If we had no government, we might well be doing pogroms against american muslims - and a good thing to. War causes governments, and causes governments to gain power, but the US government was not the aggressor in this war. US government meddling in the middle east was unwise and unnecessary, but it did not provoke, nor does it justify, this war. The intent of a large minority of muslims was to start a holy war between the west and Islam, and the majority of muslims lack the will or courage to stop them, or even criticize them. That was not the intent of Americans, or the American government. They started it, they meant to start it. Americans tried to avoid it, some of them are still trying to avoid it. All Americans are still trying to conduct the war on the smallest possible scale, against the smallest possible subset of Islam, disagreeing only on how small that subset can be. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG YeXgmiDN23gKNejAXLPSgfGxzFPVqFa/9pEDbWNr 41sYVdSvXQCEQniQVEIYWhWw2HjtvpvuHtQ0QXUaI
Re: Airport insanity
I repeat: And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's weren't tortured? And I add: And you were there and witnessed the attrocities that said prisoners committed in order to be placed in Gitmo? No? to both questions? Then your comment is worthless. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 20 Oct 2004 at 13:05, Sunder wrote: Re: Gitmo And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's weren't tortured? Lots of murderous terrorists have been released from Guatanamo, and in the nearly all cases the most serious of their complaints make it sound like a beach resort, except for the fact that they could not leave. A few have more serious complaints. Either they are lying or, those who say they were well treated apart from being held captive are lying. It is hard to believe that people like Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane (who after release announced his intention to resume terrorist activities and that he would attempt to murder his hosts who lobbied to get him release) are lying to cover up torture by the US army.
Re: Airport insanity
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: Here is my prescription for winning the war on terrorism We SHOULD rely on shock and awe, administered by men in white coats far from the scene. SNIP The US government should expose and condemn these objectionable practices, subvert moderately objectionable regimes, and annihilate more objectionable regimes. The pentagon should deprive moderately objectionable regimes of economic resources, by stealing their oil, destroying their water systems, and cutting off their trade and population movements with the outside world. Syria should suffer annihilation, Iran subversion, Sudan some combination of annihilation and subversion, Saudi Arabia and similar less objectionable regimes should suffer confiscation of oil, destruction of water resources, and loss of contact with the outside world. I see. I'm sure that Dubbya has his own agenda filled with Shoulds, as does Bin Ladin, as did Lenin, as did Hitler, as did Nero, as do you. Each saw (or see) their views as the way to Utopia. Trouble is, which one of you megalomaniacs is/was right? Further to the point, reality is, and what clearly should and makes sense to to you, clearly doesn't to another. The only difference between you and the others above is that you lack the power to bend reality to your whims, and IMHO, that is a very good thing. It is sad the the above list contained megalomaniacs who did possess that power and used it to cause great misery to others, and had to be removed from inflicting their whims on the world at great expense. Perhaps in a couple of weeks, US Citizens will vote one of those out the list as he's already done plenty of damage in the last four years, and save us another miserable four years. So yes, perhaps, in the fine tradition of what should be instead of what is, you, sir, should go fuck yourself. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: Airport insanity
Re: Gitmo And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's weren't tortured? Wow, you are good... or phrased another way, what brand of crack are you smokin' 'cause the rest of us thin it's some really good shit and would like to have some too... --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: I expected them to be KEPT in Guantanamo. Furthermore, they were not tortured, though they should have been.
Re: Airport insanity
There is still of course the matter of the unexploded bombs in that building that were dug out, and that the ATF received a Don't come in to work page on their beepers, and the seize and classification of all surveilance video tapes from things like ATM's across the street. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: Mc Veigh did not target innocents, and if he did target a plane full of innocents, perhaps in order to kill one guilty man on board, there is no way in hell he himself would be on that plane.
RE: Airport insanity
I think you need to read this remake of the First they came for the commies poem. Short translation - whenever anyone's rights are being trampled upon, whether it affects you or not, you should protest. Goes along with one of the unsaid credos about cypherpunks: I absolutely disagree with what she said, but I'll defend to the death her right to say it. which along with Cypherpunks write code fell quite short of its goal. http://buffaloreport.com/021123rohde.html Here I'll save you the trouble. - - - They came for the Muslims, and I didn't speak up... By Stephen Rohde (Author's Note: The USA Patriot Act became law a little over one year ago.) First they came for the Muslims, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim. Then they came for the immigrants, detaining them indefinitely solely on the certification of the attorney general, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't an immigrant. Then they came to eavesdrop on suspects consulting with their attorneys, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a suspect. Then they came to prosecute noncitizens before secret military commissions, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a noncitizen. Then they came to enter homes and offices for unannounced sneak and peak searches, and I didn't speak up because I had nothing to hide. Then they came to reinstate Cointelpro and resume the infiltration and surveillance of domestic religious and political groups, and I didn't speak up because I no longer participated in any groups. Then they came to arrest American citizens and hold them indefinitely without any charges and without access to lawyers, and I didn't speak up because I would never be arrested. Then they came to institute TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System) recruiting citizens to spy on other citizens and I didn't speak up because I was afraid. Then they came for anyone who objected to government policy because it only aided the terrorists and gave ammunition to America's enemies, and I didn't speak up ... because I didn't speak up. Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to speak up. Forum Column (from the Daily Journal, 11/20/02). Stephen Rohde is an attorney. He edited American Words of Freedom and was was president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Does Rohde's text seem familiar? It should. He based it on one of the web's most widely-circulated texts about silence in the face of evil: In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: I know when it will happen. It will happen when people interested in anon ecash go on suicide missions. :-) People who are, for the most part, not like us are trying to kill people like us. Let us chuck all those people not-like-us off those planes where most of the passengers are people like us. This really is not rocket science.
Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses
Right, just because your Passport or driver's license expired, doesn't mean that you got any younger and therefore shouldn't drink. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Riad S. Wahby wrote: Tangentially, I was once told that, at least in Massachusetts liquor stores, even an _expired_ passport was useful identification. Can anyone confirm that this is true other than at Sav-Mor Liquors?
cryptome.org down?
DNS seems to resolve, but never get to the web server. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Most Disturbing Yet - Senate Wants Database Dragnet
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65242,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65242,00.html
Senate Wants Database Dragnet
By Ryan Singel
02:00 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT
The Senate could pass a bill as early as Wednesday evening that would let
government counter-terrorist investigators instantly query a massive
system of interconnected commercial and government databases that hold
billions of records on Americans.
The proposed network is based on the Markle Foundation Task Force's
December 2003 report, which envisioned a system that would allow FBI and
CIA agents, as well as police officers and some companies, to quickly
search intelligence, criminal and commercial databases. The proposal is so
radical, the bill allocates $50 million just to fund the system's
specifications and privacy policies.
SNIP
To prevent abuses of the system, the Markle task force recommended
anonymized technology, graduated levels of permission-based access and
automated auditing software constantly hunting for abuses.
{Huh? How would anonimized access PREVENT abuses?}
An appendix to the report went so far as to suggest that the system should
identify known associates of the terrorist suspect, within 30 seconds,
using shared addressees, records of phone calls to and from the suspect's
phone, e-mails to and from the suspect's accounts, financial transactions,
travel history and reservations, and common memberships in organizations,
including (with appropriate safeguards) religious and expressive
organizations.
SNIP
--Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---
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Federal program to monitor everyone on the road
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/01/federal_program_to_m.html Federal program to monitor everyone on the road Interesting article about the Fed's plans to develop an all-knowing intelligent highway system. Most people have probably never heard of the agency, called the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office. And they haven't heard of its plans to add another dimension to our national road system, one that uses tracking and sensor technology to erase the lines between cars, the road and the government transportation management centers from which every aspect of transportation will be observed and managed. For 13 years, a powerful group of car manufacturers, technology companies and government interests has fought to bring this system to life. They envision a future in which massive databases will track the comings and goings of everyone who travels by car or mass transit. The only way for people to evade the national transportation tracking system they're creating will be to travel on foot. Drive your car, and your every movement could be recorded and archived. The federal government will know the exact route you drove to work, how many times you braked along the way, the precise moment you arrived -- and that every other Tuesday you opt to ride the bus. Link to actual story: http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/news_cover.html --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport? A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000! Details: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275 --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
stegedetect - looks like we need better mice
http://freshmeat.net/projects/stegdetect/?branch_id=52957release_id=172055 http://www.outguess.org/detection.php Steganography Detection with Stegdetect Stegdetect is an automated tool for detecting steganographic content in images. It is capable of detecting several different steganographic methods to embed hidden information in JPEG images. Currently, the detectable schemes are * jsteg, * jphide (unix and windows), * invisible secrets, * outguess 01.3b, * F5 (header analysis), * appendX and camouflage. Stegbreak is used to launch dictionary attacks against JSteg-Shell, JPHide and OutGuess 0.13b. Stegdetect and Stegbreak have been developed by Niels Provos. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet
Forgive my ignorance, but would other PK schemes that don't rely on prime numbers such as Elliptic Curve be affected? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Matt Crawford wrote: On Sep 6, 2004, at 21:52, R. A. Hettinga wrote: This would be a good thing. Because to rebuild the infrastructure based on symmetric crypto would bring the trusted third party (currently the CA) out of the shadows and into the light.
RE: stegedetect Variola's Suitcase
The answer to that question depends on some leg work which involves converting the source code to stegetect into hardware and seeing how fast that hardware runs, then multiplying by X where X is how many of the chips you can afford to build. I'd image that it's a lot faster to have some hw that gives you a yea/nay on each JPG, than to say, attempt to crack DES. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: So here's the 'obvious' question: How fast can dedicated hardware run if it were a dedicated Stegedetect processor? In other words, how easy would it be for NSA, et al to scan 'every' photo on the internet for Stego traces? (And then, every photo being emailed?) And then, how fast can someone write a worm that will make every photo stored on a harddrive look like it's been stegoed?
Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)
Um, don't know what you've been smoking but: a. there is no we, except individuals with the freedom to chose their own actions. b. cops have guns. c. some cops have armor and semi (or full?) automatics along with the non-lethal weaponry. d. non-cops don't and aren't allowed to carry the same weaponry. (Unless your version of we includes some arsenal and has been watching lots of A-Team reruns, I doubt that there's not much the cops can't do and mostly get away with it.) Yeah, Not totally. Just like Red China isn't a total totalitarian state, and it allowed the students at Tienamen Sq to demonstrate. We're not too far away from that, except these cops don't (yet?) have tanks and as far as has been reported in the media, haven't murdered anyone in the protests, and that the arrested have been let out a few days later rather than tortured. It's certainly inching towards totalitarianism and away from the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress (not, there's nothing in that text about protest pens, open your bag searches, show me your ID, or protest permits.) --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Not totally. That cop on a scooter rightfully got the crap kicked out of him for mowing down demonstrators. They can gain local, temporary control but if we take to the streets en masse then there's not much they can do, and they know it.
Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)
Wheee! NYC==Police State for the last week for those of you living under rocks... --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:26:13 -0400 From: Edward Potter To: grimmwerks Cc: wwwac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [wwwac] Yes, it's relevent! The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo He's out. You can't get near the place today. I tell people what happened and they can't believe it. I would not have believed it either, except I was there for 11 hours. Then another 15 hours downtown. Excellent first hand account here: http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/107675/index.php If I had not been arrested, I would not have known anything like this was going on. 1000- 2000 people, in barb-wire cages, at this very moment on the Hudson River. No joke. Totally surrounded by police. ACLU lawyers, Reporters, everyone being denied access. Just starting to hit the media. -ed On Sep 1, 2004, at 2:57 PM, grimmwerks wrote: I read the same thing - and the guy with the bike is STILL there? And held on what grounds? Has any pics surfaced yet? On 9/1/04 2:51 PM, Edward Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cross posted this to the Politics list, just getting so little media coverage, and yes, I met a few Java Programmers there, plus the guy that has the bike that writes messages by WifI got nailed by the police too (writing America Home of the Free) ... so I guess hopefully the word gets out. --- Does anyone on this list know there are now up to 2000 people imprisoned in barb-wire cages on the Hudson River that don't know what their charges are, have not had any rights read to them and are being denied any access to any legal representation? I was there, it was real. It would blow your mind. YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT IN AMERICA BEFORE. Or as the police call it: Little Guantanamo  Keep up with the news here: http://nyc.indymedia.org ## The World Wide Web Artists' Consortium - http://www.wwwac.org/ ## ## To Unsubscribe, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ##
Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators
allotted. Though the demonstration takes only 3 minutes, the panel refused to allow it and would not look. They did, however, meet privately with Diebold afterwards, without informing the public or issuing any report of what transpired. On Aug. 18, 2004, Harris and Stephenson, together with computer security expert Dr. Hugh Thompson, and former King County Elections Supervisor Julie Anne Kempf, met with members of the California Voting Systems Panel and the California Secretary of State's office to demonstrate the double set of books. The officials declined to allow a camera crew from 60 Minutes to film or attend. The Secretary of State's office halted the meeting, called in the general counsel for their office, and a defense attorney from the California Attorney General's office. They refused to allow Black Box Voting to videotape its own demonstration. They prohibited any audiotape and specified that no notes of the meeting could be requested in public records requests. The undersecretary of state, Mark Kyle, left the meeting early, and one voting panel member, John Mott Smith, appeared to sleep through the presentation. On Aug. 23, 2004, CBC TV came to California and filmed the demonstration. On Aug 30 and 31, Harris and Stephenson will be in New York City to demonstrate the double set of books for any public official and any TV crews who wish to see it. On Sept. 1, another event is planned in New York City, and on Sept. 21, Harris and Stephenson intend to demonstrate the problem for members and congress and the press in Washington D.C. Diebold has known of the problem, or should have known, because it did a cease and desist on the web site when Harris originally reported the problem in 2003. On Aug. 11, 2004, Harris also offered to show the problem to Marvin Singleton, Diebold's damage control expert, and to other Diebold execs. They refused to look. Why don't people want to look? Suppose you are formally informed that the gas tank tends to explode on the car you are telling people to use. If you KNOW about it, but do nothing, you are liable. LET US HOLD DIEBOLD, AND OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS, ACCOUNTABLE. 1) Let there be no one who can say I didn't know. 2) Let there be no election jurisdiction using GEMS that fails to implement all of the proper corrective procedures, this fall, to mitigate risk. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Sunder wrote: Oops! Is that a cat exiting the bag? http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78 Apparently so. Going to www.blackboxvoting.org now just gives: Don't break out the tinfoil hats yet. Maybe they exceeded their bandwidth because that link was spread around.
Wired: Attacking the 4th Estate
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64680,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 or, the HTML crap free version: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64680,00.html Attacking the Fourth Estate By Adam L. Penenberg | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next 02:00 AM Aug. 25, 2004 PT John Ashcroft and the Department of Justice must be stopped. There, I've said it. Of course, now I half expect federal agents to drag me off to prison for violating the No One Dare Question the Government While We Are Engaged in the War Against Terror Act. (Duration: perhaps forever.) Sure, you say, no such act exists. But Ashcroft himself once testified that bellyaching over what he called phantoms of lost liberty only serves to aid terrorists and give ammunition to America's enemies. And recently FBI agents attempted to intimidate political activists by visiting them at their homes to warn about causing trouble at the upcoming Republican convention. More to the point, under Justice Department guidelines, Ashcroft must approve any subpoena of a journalist, so how do you explain the rash of subpoenas that Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney from Chicago, has doled out to Time magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC? Already one reporter -- Matthew Cooper from Time -- has been held in contempt by a federal judge for refusing to appear before the grand jury that Fitzgerald convened to investigate which Bush administration senior official(s) leaked a covert spy's identity to columnist Robert Novak. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
RE: Another John Young Sighting
All Hail Cthulhu! Why worship the lesser evil? Vote for Cthulhu! Why vote for the lesser evil? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, kawaii ryuko wrote: Hail Eris. All hail Discordia!
Reason on Gilmore VS Ashcroft
http://www.reason.com/links/links082404.shtml --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: Digital camera fingerprinting...
Yes, your holiness, but how much of that will survive jpeg compression, photshop (or GIMP) cleanups, and shrinking down to lower resolutions, and insertion of stego? Or what about those disposable digital cameras that are hackable? Perhaps there should be a cypherpunks pool to swap disposable digital cameras? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Very relevant, traffic analysis and fingerprinting (intentional or not) are always tasty subjects. One question for the court would be, how many *other* cameras have column 67 disabled? One of every thousand? And how many thousand cameras were sold? Pope Major Variola (ret)
T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL Washington -- Sen. Edward Ted Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on the government's secret no-fly list. SNIP That a clerical error could lend one of the most powerful people in Washington to the list -- it makes one wonder just how many others who are not terrorists are on the list, said Reggie Shuford, a senior ACLU counsel. Someone of Sen. Kennedy's stature can simply call a friend to have his name removed, but a regular American citizen does not have that ability. He had to call three times himself. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Excerpts from Rudy Rucker's new Book
From Rudy Rucker's new book: The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul. (The interesting bits to which Tim fantasizes to.) As seen on: http://www.boingboing.net/text/guestbar.html SNIP Rant at Start of Chapter on Society I write this book during a dark time. America.s government is in the hands of criminals and morons. I.d like to break through to a radically different way of talking about society, to throw a bucket of ice-water in the face of the sleep-walking sheep who think that history is about presidents and kings. A baby filling a diaper is infinitely more significant than a congress placing a movement on the floor. SNIP Twin Towers Facts: The twin towers fell. The terrorists were Saudis. Bush invaded Iraq. .Ah,. someone might say, .if nobody wanted to fight, we.d be invaded. Look at the twin towers. The world.s not safe... And I would submit that the administration.s reaction to the twin towers was exactly the wrong one. Instead of jumping into the repetitive tit-for-tat class two Israelis-versus-Palestinians mode, the government should have gone class four. What would make men kill themselves while destroying a part of our lovely New York City? What system produced them? Isn.t there a way to get in and jolt it in some totally unexpected way, something more original than rocket fire vs. car bombs? Emigration Before virtually every American presidential election, I.ve heard people say, .If so and so wins, I.m leaving the country.. But they never do. The only time my friends eve remigrated was during the Viet Nam war, a time when the hive mind was undertaking the wholesale slaughter of a generation. But most of the time, for most of us, things aren.t bad enough to make emigration seem reasonable. If the election is stolen again in Fall, 2004, the answer could be armed revolution, not emigration. If the Bush faction tries to retain power, a significant number of people may feel compelled to go to D.C. and fight in the streets until the tyrant is deposed. However long it takes, however dearly it costs. Would it be worth it? Hopefully he'll lose the election by too great a margin to fudge. But for that to happen, we have to vote. The popular vote margin matters, if not in the electoral college, then in the hearts and minds of our oppressed populace. If the margin were big enough, the house of cards could collapse. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Gilmore VS Ashcroft opens today
http://www.papersplease.org/gilmore/ In this corner we have John Gilmore. He's a 49 year-old philanthropist who lives in San Francisco, California. Through a lot of hard work (and a little luck), John made his fortune as a programmer and entrepreneur in the software industry. Whereas most people in his position would have moved to a tropical island and lived a life of luxury, John chose to use his fortune to protect and defend the US Constitution. He's challenging the unconstitutionally evil stench of the Asscruftinator! Who will win? Place your bets, place your bets, the courtroom showdown begins today: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/16/john_gilmore_vs_ashc.html Ding! --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Morlock Elloi wrote: The purpose would be that they do not figure out that you are using some security program, so they don't suspect that noise in the file or look for stego, right? The last time I checked the total number of PDA programs ever offered to public in some way was around 10,000 (5,000 ? 100,000 ? Same thing.) That can be trivially checked for. Any custom-compiled executable will stand out as a sore thumb. How? Not if you get something like a Sharp Zaurus and compile your own environment. Hey, I want to get as much performance out of this shitty little ARM chip as I can. You will suffer considerably less bodily damage inducing you to spit the passphrase than to produce the source and the complier. What makes you think they'll have enough of a clue as to how to read the files off your PDA without booting it in the first place? 99% of these dorks use very expensive automated hardware tools that do nothing more than dd your data to their device, then run a scanner on it which looks for well known jpg's of kiddie porn. If you're suspected of something really big, or you're middle eastern, then you need to worry about PDA forensics. Otherwise, you're just another geek with a case of megalomania thinking you're important enough for the FedZ to give a shit about you. Just use the fucking PGP. It's good for your genitals. And PGP won't stand out because ? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field
Right, in which case GPG (or any other decent crypto system) is just fine, or you wouldn't be looking for stego'ing it inside of binaries in the first place. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: In the world of industrial espionage and divorce lawyers, the FedZ aren't the only threat model.
Re: A Billion for Bin Laden
Yeah, about as brilliant as a turd. Didn't they recently call Al-Qaeda's network a hydra? correct me if I don't recall my Ancient Greek myths, but when you cut off one head on the hydra, two more grow back, so are we to assume that future heads that grow back will carry such bounties? A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money. I guess they do realize that these guys are idologists and the allmighty dollar is anathema to them, so they have to raise the bounty in order to get someone to betray him... Never discount greed, no matter how ideological someone may be, at some ridiculous sum, someone somewhere will rat him out... perhaps just before the elections. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: This is brilliant, worthy of being called channelling Tim M. As it relies entirely on free association and the rational marketplace. Nevermind that the reward is stolen from the sheeple. What the DC future-corpses don't grok is that the Sheik's network is not financially or career motivated, unlike themselves. And xianity (or even amerikan patriotism which sometimes substitutes) is too neutered to counter it.
2+2=5 and mention of cryptome
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/11/al_q_geek_us_overthrow_plot/ Al-Qaeda computer geek nearly overthrew US By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk) Published Wednesday 11th August 2004 16:45 GMT Update A White House with a clear determination to draw paranoid conclusions from ambiguous data has finally gone over the top. It has now implied that the al-Qaeda computer geek arrested last month in Pakistan was involved in a plot to destabilize the USA around election time. Two and two is five As we reported here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/us_terror_alert_political_football) and here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/02/al_qaeda_cyber_terror_panic), so-called al-Qaeda computer expert Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a Pakistani, was arrested on 13 July in possession of detailed but rather old surveillance documents related to major financial institutions in New York, Newark, and Washington. Since that time, other intelligence has led the US security apparatus to imagine that a plot to attack the USA might be in the works. (No doubt there are scores of plots in the works, but we digress.) Therefore, last week, the ever-paranoid Bush Administration decided that Khan's building surveillance documents, and the hints of imminent danger, had to be connected. Indeed, if al Qaeda is to strike at all, it is most likely to strike the targets mentioned in Khan's documents, as opposed to thousands of others, the Bushies reasoned. New York, Newark and Washington were immediately put on high alert, at great expense, and to the inconvenience of millions of residents. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: maybe he would cash himself in? (Re: A Billion for Bin Laden)
Nah, if Bush already had him in a hole somewhere to produce him just in time for the elections, he'd collect the billion for himself as his personal reward. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Dave Howe wrote: of course someone *really* cynical might think they already had him, but needed to spring a billion towards shrub's reelection campaign
Don't smile for UK Big Brother's passport pix
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/06/passport_scanners/print.html Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/06/passport_scanners/ Home Office prohibits happy biometric passports By Lucy Sherriff (lucy.sherriff at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 6th August 2004 10:08 GMT The Home Office says all new passport photographs must be of an unsmiling face with its gob firmly shut because open mouths can confuse facial recognition systems. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Ridge: The Terrorists are comming! The Terrorists are coming! (wag the media)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/us_terror_alert_political_football/print.html US terror alert becomes political football By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 3rd August 2004 15:15 GMT Update As we reported recently (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/02/al_qaeda_cyber_terror_panic), the latest ratcheting up of the terror threat level in the United States was based on captured documents dating back some time. In that article, we observed that it was not clear whether any of the information recently obtained relates to current or future schemes. SNIP much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way. SNIP Why now? If anyone is wondering why terrorism, and especially attacks at home, should have been so fully hyped on such thin evidence, it's useful to consider the news cycle. Last week, John Kerry did a surprisingly good job of introducing himself to the nation as a plausible replacement for Bush. SNIP Politics But this rain dance was not undertaken from a security point of view. It was concocted with a political motive, and its purpose was to distract the public from the additive disasters in Iraq, and the unexpectedly strong showing by the Democrats in Boston last week. It was designed to make Junior look like the strong leader that his cheerleaders insist, against all evidence, that he really is. (We note that the true Prince of Darkness, Dick Cheney, has been dutifully silent, and conspicuously absent, during the recent national security festivities, to vouchsafe the limelight to Junior.) SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :War is Peace/|\ \|/ : Freedom is Slavery /\|/\ --*--: Ignorance is Strength \/|\/ /|\ : Bush is President - Bret Feinblatt \|/ + v + : -- http://www.sunder.net
Wired on Navy's new version of Onion Routing
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64464,00.html Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes By Ann Harrison Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64464,00.html 02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2004 PT Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally developed by the U.S. Naval Research Lab, to help Internet users surf the Web anonymously and shield their online activities from corporate or government eyes. SNIP The Navy is financing the development of a second-generation onion-routing system called Tor, which addresses many of the flaws in the original design and makes it easier to use. The Tor client behaves like a SOCKS proxy (a common protocol for developing secure communication services), allowing applications like Mozilla, SSH and FTP clients to talk directly to Tor and route data streams through a network of onion routers, without long delays. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :War is Peace/|\ \|/ : Freedom is Slavery /\|/\ --*--: Ignorance is Strength \/|\/ /|\ : Bush is President - Bret Feinblatt \|/ + v + : -- http://www.sunder.net
RE: On how the NSA can be generations ahead
Some interesting URL's on how this can be technologically achieved. These are just from various news sources, nothing indicating one way or another that the boys in Ft. Meade are using any of this stuff - though DARPA is mentioned in the first link. :) http://news.com.com/Sun+chips+away+at+wireless+chip+connections/2100-1006_3-5291289.html http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=1844 So this gets around some of the limits of chip to chip interconnects, etc. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net
Welcome to 1984 - almost.
This speaks volumes as to where intentions lie. http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2004/8/3/84635/46365 Justice Department attempting to remove public documents from libraries American Library Association July 30, 2004 CHICAGO -- The following statement has been issued by President-Elect Michael Gorman, representing President Carol Brey-Casiano, who is currently in Guatemala representing the Association: By Anonymous in USA: Liberty Watch on Tue Aug 3rd, 2004 at 08:46:35 AM PDT Last week, the American Library Association learned that the Department of Justice asked the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy five publications the Department has deemed not appropriate for external use. The Department of Justice has called for these five public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library. The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA). ALA has submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the withdrawn materials in order to obtain an official response from the Department of Justice regarding this unusual action, and why the Department has requested that documents that have been available to the public for as long as four years be removed from depository library collections. ALA is committed to ensuring that public documents remain available to the public and will do its best to bring about a satisfactory resolution of this matter. Librarians should note that, according to policy 72, written authorization from the Superintendent of Documents is required to remove any documents. To this date no such written authorization in hard copy has been issued. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net
Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations?
Your sarcasm detector is down, please send it back to the manufacturer for repairs. Let's hope it's still under warranty. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:58 PM 8/1/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: You Al-Qaeda types hate us for having freedom, right? You're not taken in by that mularky, are you?
Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations?
FUD Mode=True I've a better idea for the terrorists who may be paying attention, why not just leave NYC alone and target something more useful to take out - like Microsoft, for example. IMHO, the planes that were targeted at the WTC would have been better directed at various Redmond, WA buildings. They're after all a very big company with a lot of billions - that would have been far more spectacular an attack than a couple of profitless eyesores blocking everyone's view of the Statue of Liberty. BURP And what's with attacking the pentagon? They're the biggest sink of Evil American Taxpayer funds after all. Don't you want your enemies wasting billions of dollars on shitty airplanes and helicopters that crash themselves? Besides, if you want to piss off the NY Cops, don't attack One Police Plaza, take out Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme joints... well, wait, I kinda like Krispy Kreme once in a while, ok, just Dunkin Donuts... Or better yet, don't! The artery clogging fat and the diabetes inducing sugar+starch already do plenty. Nah, if you're an Al Qaeda member, it's your duty to open up more donut shops and in fact, have a policy of free donuts to every cop. Infact, you should send crates of donuts to every police precinct several times a day. I'd suggest a 10:1 donut to officer ratio. Ditto for McDonalds foods. Add extra grease. The hydrogenated soybean kind! And why bother taking out the bridge to NJ - after all, NJ is where all the stench is (remember that old joke: Girlfriend Kiss me where it smells, Boyfriend: Ok, let's drive to NJ! You're better off leaving that bridge alone, so commuters can be terrorized by the industrial stench as they drive through, and by all the delays. Infact, if you're an Al Qaeda engineer, you'll want to BUILD more bridges to NJ, so more Satan Loving American Infidels will get sickened by it. Oh yeah, and be sure to vote for Bush. He'll be sure to fuck the economy even worse and put more draconian laws into effect. You Al-Qaeda types hate us for having freedom, right? So Dubbya's your perfect boy for that. That's the real way to be a terrorist, not by wasting your time on some dumb ass fireworks by airplane. Pshaw, only amateur terrorists do it that way. /FUD --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: Article below. Just in case AQ is listening, I'd like to remind them that there are some other states that also have some *really* good targets ;-) But, if you're just stuck on New York, let me make my recommendations:
[OT] Apple calls Real a hacker
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/apple_real/ Interesting non-cypherpunkish stuff. So Real goes off and does some reverse engineering so it can use Apple's DRM to publish its own stuff for iPod's. Interestingly, Apple wants to sue using the DMCA, *BUT* where it gets interesting is that IMHO, Real didn't provide a crack to Apple's DRM, rather it used it for its own benefit. So will the DMCA even apply? Even more interesting, Real used publically available documents so they didn't do the reverse engineering themselves, so they're not likely to be sued on that aspect - though quite likely this is based on the fair play stuff which was based on reverse engineering... This might also have ramifications concerning things like X-Box and modchips. i.e. if Apple loses, then it will be legal for someone to build a modchip to allow X-Box's to run Linux (but not play copied games.) It will be an interesting fight, and if we, the consumers, are lucky, then perhaps some of the evil provisions in the DMCA will go away so we can get some more interoperability instead of vendor lock-in. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net
Osama says Vote for Bush!
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001393 Not that (m)any of us really expected Al-Qaeda to want Kerry. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net
Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society
Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. This doesn't seem to mention anything about anonymous users, however. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_7/masum/index.html Abstract Manifesto for the Reputation Society by Hassan Masum and Yi.Cheng Zhang Information overload, challenges of evaluating quality, and the opportunity to benefit from experiences of others have spurred the development of reputation systems. Most Internet sites which mediate between large numbers of people use some form of reputation mechanism: Slashdot, eBay, ePinions, Amazon, and Google all make use of collaborative filtering, recommender systems, or shared judgements of quality. But we suggest the potential utility of reputation services is far greater, touching nearly every aspect of society. By leveraging our limited and local human judgement power with collective networked filtering, it is possible to promote an interconnected ecology of socially beneficial reputation systems . to restrain the baser side of human nature, while unleashing positive social changes and enabling the realization of ever higher goals. SNIP --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net
New trend: dropping trou at the TSA
BoingBoing calls this The Freedom Flash http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/14/man_flashes_authorit.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20040714/ap_on_fe_st/airport_flasher_1 Man Exposes Self During Airport Screening Wed Jul 14, 9:07 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo! By The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS - Daryl Miller didn't make it through airport security because he couldn't keep his pants on. Airport police said a security screener was waving a metal-detecting wand over Miller's pants area on Friday when Miller pulled his shorts down to his ankles. He wasn't wearing any underwear. Miller then said, There, how do you like your job, thus ending the screening, according to the police report. He was charged with indecent exposure and released on $300 bail. .. This person exposed themself in a public area, a clear violation of the law, and we needed to take some action on that, otherwise everybody would be dropping their pants, Christenson said. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net
Re: Mexico Atty. General gets microchipped (fwd)
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Forwarded for amusement
...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do
not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out
about them.
Osama Bin Laden
- - -
There aught to be limits to freedom!
George Bush
- - -
Which one scares you more?
The about sounds like a great .signature file. :)
--
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/07/13/mexico.chip.reut/index.html
Mexico attorney general gets microchip implant
It's an area of high security, it's necessary that we have access to
this, through a chip, which what's more is unremovable, Macedo told
reporters.
Huh? any implantable is removeable... What, kidnappers, in Mexico don't
have access to alumium foil, faraday cages, frequency counters and
{hatchets,knives,scalpels,chain saws}, etc?
The chips would enable the wearer to be found anywhere inside Mexico, in
the event of an assault or kidnapping, said Macedo.
Which means it's transmitting, and to do so, it's not an RFID, it's a bug
with a battery. If if it doesn't transmit at all times, there's a scar
somewhere which points where it is.
This ploy would have only worked if the kidnappers didn't know about it in
advance. Now they do. It will stop the lame ones. The hardass criminals
know how to deal with it.
IMHO, this is a publicity op - not much else, designed to discourage
potential kidnappers, and enourage the public to get chipped.
What's the frequency Kenneth? comes to mind. ROTFL!
Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bill Stewart wrote: At 01:44 PM 7/9/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Is it possible to write a database access protocol, that would in some mathematically bulletproof way ensure that the fact a database record is accessed is made known to at least n people? A way that would ensure that either nobody can see the data, or at least n people reliably know the record was accessed and by whom? . The obvious method for the first half of your problem is Shamir secret-sharing - n out of m people need to provide their information in order to access the data item (or its key.) That isn't necessarily an _efficient_ protocol for databases, Better yet, you have the n sources provide pieces of a key which auto-expires after X days, that key is used to access the database rather than getting the data from n sources. Authenticating at random with n sources, each with a different key is also required. Store the data on some persistent, distributed stores... Bit Torrent comes to mind here. I'm not convinced that the second half of your problem makes sense. See above method and add some sort of log to it that automatically and anonymously publishes logs of access to it. So long as nm/2 and at least n people are trustworthy it should work, right? Then, you also need a watcher app to reveal that access occured. This app downloads the logs of the hashes you're interested in, plus other random ones to prevent logging from revealing who is interested in what. Would also be nice if the hash for the data you're trying to watch/access changes with the date. That way if one user of the system is compromised, the compromisers can't figure out who the other parties accessing the same data are. But I'm not sure how you'd make it happen without tweaking the Bit Torrent client a lot, or writing a new one from scratch (invoking Not-Invented Here Syndrome). Of course, even to use this requires that the application be designed in some manner where there's some kind of key that's needed to access the data, such as a mailbox that encrypts incoming mail with your public key. That doesn't prevent the secret police from forcing your mailbox company to reveal the information before encrypting it to you, but it does at least protect _old_ mail, unless n out of the m key escrow agents all cooperate. A-Yup. I don't know why you'd design a system like this when you could do it without the key escrow feature - am I missing something? How else would you do it and still be able to know when something was read? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional rights, the /\|/\ --*--:Republican leadership in the House had to rig the vote and \/|\/ /|\ :subvert the democratic process in order to prevail \|/ + v + : -- Rep. Sanders re vote to ammend the US PATRIOT ACT. -- http://www.sunder.net
Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: 1. I've seen adverts for linear sensors which image the bottoms of cars as they drive over. Sort of a scanner where the paper does the moving. Installed in the road. Come to think of it, yes, the road within the tollbooth gate was a bit raised, so there could well have been sensors underneath it. Might as well add all the sensors you can afford, after all any cars going through the gate are a captive audience. 2. There are companies developing sensors that bombard your car with neutrons (don't have to open the trunk), and detect the N from the temporary neutron-activated gamma emissions. 3. Obviously license plate OCR is trivial. Natch. I also did see the big red IR lamps behind, but that's old school in almost any toll booth. 4. I've read papers on recognizing vehicles by their inductive signature as they drive over regular road sensors. This was to passively measure road speed for traffic control. The idea is that a VW Beetle has a different inductance vs. time than a Ford-250 or an 18 wheeler. You correlate between roadloops at known distances apart and infer road speed. Or you OCR license plates which is mostly trivial these days, or a combination of both. Then again, for upstate NY, you actually get a card for NYS Throughway and pay when you exit at another tollbooth. Card has a magnetic stripe, and shows the entry point on the throughway. So there are obviously other less expensive ways to do just that. Add cameras with timestamps at each tollboth and a way to keep track of which card was where and you've got a verifiable robust tracking system. 5. One could call terahertz hard RF in same way that hard x-rays bleed into soft gammas. But calling anything hard implies danger, and we mustn't scare the proles. Perhaps soft IR is better. :) Sort of like spammers calling their trade targetted mails or opt-in Heh, would be funny if the 4am NINJA SWAT raid teams painted happy faces on their helmets and say Have a nice day as they shoot. Whatever, its still pornography if the resolution is high enough. What was that quote?... tits or nukes, it's all just bits on the wire I also recall reading recently about those colored plastic/glass embedded in the road bumps that reflect light (so you can see your lane better?) are being retrofitted with cameras in them and set at an angle to read the license plate and measure speed as you drive over them by some company. Bah, wetware memory sucks. :(
Re: Faster than Moore's law
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote: Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time. But access time has not nearly kept pace. Which is why all manner of database architectures have been created to make up for this shortcoming. Which is still perfectly fine for data that you collect but search/access very rarely which I'd guess is the type of data we're talking about here. You collect the data, index it (or extract metadata from it in other ways) and you _almost_ never access it again.
Re: Final stage
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Howie Goodell wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:26:59 -0400 (edt), Sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: Praise Allah! The spires of the West will soon come crashing down! SCREED Deleted Laying it on just a little thick, no? Here we go again. Get ready for more FUD from the LEO's, I can see Fox news now. Cypherpunks a hotbed of crypto-anarchist scum is now being used by Al Qaeda to setup new terrorist attacks... Expect to see a sidebar about rogue or evil anonymous remailers and how they're un-patriotic, etc. Bah, some feeb had too one too many Crappachino's with lunch today and pulled a Cornholio :( A few years ago it was requests on how to make bombs, now it's this shit. The UBL is GW message sounded provocateurish, too. Yup... but that's kind of standard around here. Pull up a reasonable quote from some super hated person and make people think. Nothing new. I think there was something about gun control and making people safe attributed to Hitler, etc. a while back. But as I said, here we go: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17087 Right on que too, though it doesn't mention Cypherpunks... The Internet is the home of Terror Servers of Mass destruction By Nick Farrell: Thursday 08 July 2004, 07:50 THE INTERNET has become the place for terrorist training, recruitment, and fundraising, according to a leading Israeli academic. Speaking to the Medill News Service, Gabriel Weimann, chair of the University of Haifa communications department claims that Terrorist groups are exploiting the accessibility, vast audience, and anonymity of the Internet to raise money and recruit new members. SNIP
Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight (fwd from dave@farber.net)
I recently visited the Canadian side of Niagra falls. On the return entry to the US customs, etc. meant driving through penns that look like toll booths. But I noticed little sensors in pairs and large square sensors as well. The entry gate was fairly large - I'd say about 2' deep by 2' wide by I'd guess 10/12' high. Black on the outside car facing side, white on the inner side. On the side there were pairs of large rectangular boxes at an angle pointing down toward the car. Deeper into the stall there were several pairs of sensors on vertical poles. The first pair on the left side - small rectangular ones which pointed at similar poles across the way. Something like this: | | | ]| mid - about 3-4' off the ground | | |[ | low about 1ft off the ground From the top: Booth|---arm---| | | |[| |[| |]| |]| | | ### ### | | %%% %%% | | ^ direction of driving [ = small sensor ##= large sensor %%= entry gate 3'x3' thick And there were two sets of these as I drove through. Were these the (in)famous TZ sensors? There were two guys in the booth, one obviously examining in LCD monitor, the other guy going papers please and state the nature of your visit etc. He seemed only concerned with where we were born, lived, and whether we had purchased any alcohol or tabacco products in Canada. On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:09:31 -0400 Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 8, 2004 4:53:34 AM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight A new way of identifying metal and explosives could provide a valuable tool in the fight against terrorism. Airport security has become big business following the terrorist attacks in the US. A system that detects both metal and non-metallic weapons using terahertz light has been developed by technology firm TeraView.
Re: UBL is George Washington
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Anonymous wrote: But asymm warfare has to accomplish its goal. It's not being very successful. The only people who are siding with al-qaeda are those whose brains are already mush -statist socialists, to be precise. If al qaeda bombed government buildings or targetted the private residences or offices of government officials, they might get more sympathy, from me at least. Destroying an pair of buildings and killing thousands of citizens -most of whom couldn't give an accurate account of U.S. forces distribution in the MidEast- is not a step forward. Right, WTC as a target doesn't make any strategic sense. Either they were very stupid at picking their targets, or their goals are not quite so obvious - Unless the strategy was to short-sell the stock market the day before. Did the FTC/FBI/NSA/CIA/etc find anything along these lines (yet)? I've not been paying much attention to the news as of late.
Re: Final stage
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: Praise Allah! The spires of the West will soon come crashing down! SCREED Deleted Laying it on just a little thick, no? Here we go again. Get ready for more FUD from the LEO's, I can see Fox news now. Cypherpunks a hotbed of crypto-anarchist scum is now being used by Al Qaeda to setup new terrorist attacks... Expect to see a sidebar about rogue or evil anonymous remailers and how they're un-patriotic, etc. Bah, some feeb had too one too many Crappachino's with lunch today and pulled a Cornholio :( A few years ago it was requests on how to make bombs, now it's this shit.
Re: Privacy laws and social engineering
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Sometimes you get access by telnet. Sometimes by a voice call. Hack the mainframe. Hack the secretary. What's better? (Okay, I agree, you can't sleep with the mainframe.) I feel zen today. Me too: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#31 ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.ogg ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.mp3 BSD fight buffer reign Flowing blood in circuit vein Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count Puffy rip attacker out Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default Can't fight the Systemagic Uber tragic Can't fight the Systemagic Sexty second, black cat struck Breeding worm of crypto-suck Hot rod box unt hunting wake Vampire omellete, kitten cake Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default Chorus Cybersluts vit undead guts Transyl-viral coffin muck Penguin lurking under bed Puffy hoompa on your head Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default Chorus
Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Call me cynical (no... go ahead), but if VOIP is found to have no 4th Amendment protection, Congress would first have to agree that this *is* a problem before thay could fix it. Given the recent track record of legislators vs. privacy, I'm not at all confident Congress would recognize the flaw, much less legislate to extend 4th Amendment protection. After all, arent more and more POTS long-distance calls being routed over IP? The only difference, really, is the point at which audio is fed to the codec. If the codec is in the central office, it's a voice call. If it's in the handset or local computer, it's VOIP. I think we can count on the Ashcroftians to eventually notice this and pounce upon the opportunity. And as for the SCOTUS, all they have to do is sit back on a strict interpretation and such intercepts aren't wiretaps at all. If VOIP gets no protection, then you'll see a lot of digital bugs in various spy shops again - and they'll all of a sudden be legal. I thought the Feds busted lots of people for selling bugging equipment, etc. because they're an invasion of privacy, etc. Ditto for devices that intercept digital cellular phone conversations, spyware software that turns on the microphone in your computer and sends the bits out over the internet, ditto for tempest'ing equipment (But your honor, it's stored for 1/60th of a second in the phosphor! It's a storage medium!), etc. Hey, they can't have their cake and eat it too. It's either protected or it isn't.
Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)
The Tempest argument is a stretch, only because you're not actually recovering the information from the phosphor itself. But the Pandora argument is well taken. Actually there is optical tempest now that works by watching the flicker of a CRT. Point is actually even more moot since most monitors are now LCD based, etc. so there's no raster line scanning the display, etc...
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
One phone I'd like to recommend against is the SideKick. I've no idea if it's got a GPS receiver or not - likely it doesn't need one since it's GPRS and can use tower timing as discussed before. I'm recommending against it, because while I love the phone and its features, it's too big brotherish. Example: if you write an email while it's out of range of a cell tower, and hit send, it will store the email into the Send folder. If you then try to delete that email from the Send folder it will give you an error saying I can't do this right now because I need to first synchronize with the server. Which means even emails you want to erase will be first sent to the server! It does have an ssh client, a web browser, and an AIM client, but I use these with caution, especially the SSH client. It's also got a USB 2.0 plug and an IR transceiver, but I've not been able to make any use of either, nor seen any options to enable/disable them. For all I know the IRDA could always on and will talk to anyone, etc. You don't own anything on this phone despite the appearance to the contrary. I was also considering Palm phones, but Palm OS is piss poor at memory protection so any application can clobber/read/spy on any other, so if there's spyware in the code that talks to cell towers, you're at its mercy, and it can read anything you've got in it.
Re: Antipiracy bill targets technology
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-5238140.html?tag=st.util.print CNET News Antipiracy bill targets technology A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed, dramatically reshape copyright law by prohibiting file-trading networks and some consumer electronics devices on the grounds that they could be used for unlawful purposes. What was that old saw that went Well, you're equipped to be a whore, but you're not? again? how about banning chainsaws, they can kill or main people too and yes, cars, and trains, and airplanes, plastic shopping bags without holes, belts, rope, wire, electricity, etc. they can all be used to kill. all of which is unlawful. The Induce Act stands for Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act, a reference to Capitol Hill's frequently stated concern Um, remind me again, when exactly is it lawful to exploit children? Oh, wait, that's right! When they're in other countries, then, you can make them work in sweatshops producing Nike's, Levi's, GAP, etc. products... oh, sorry, I forgot. Foes of the Induce Act said that it would effectively overturn the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in the Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios case, often referred to as the Betamax lawsuit. In that 5-4 opinion, the majority said VCRs were legal to sell because they were capable of substantial noninfringing uses. But the majority stressed that Congress had the power to enact a law that would lead to a different outcome. so how soon before we ban paper and pencil? or keyboards, hands - because they can hold pencils or type, and eyeballs and ears, because they can see video and hear music?
Re: [osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet
Or it could just be agitprop meant to raise the theat level back up a notch, or provide more funding to the surveillance kitty. On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:45 PM +0200 6/14/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote: It may be also a very cheap method of attack. True enough.
Shoulder surfing for passwords by ear
Hmmm, sounds like we now need keystroke sound jammers. Shouldn't be too hard to implement if you have a good random noise generator, but it could get annoying if you play white/pink noise while a password prompt pops up. Of course, there's still the issue of the pinhole camera in the ceiling tiles aimed at your keyboard, but that's old hat. :) I wonder if different users hit the keys in a different enough way to make any difference... http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci963348,00.html 'Whispering keyboards' could be next attack trend By Niall McKay, Contributing Writer 11 May 2004 | SearchSecurity.com OAKLAND -- Listen to this: Eavesdroppers can decipher what is typed by simply listening to the sound of a keystroke, according to a scientist at this week's IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif. Each key on computer keyboards, telephones and even ATM machines makes a unique sound as each key is depressed and released, according to a paper entitled Keyboard Acoustic Emanations presented Monday by IBM research scientist Dmitri Asonov. All that is needed is about $200 worth of microphones and sound processing and PC neural networking software. Today's keyboard, telephone keypads, ATM machines and even door locks have a rubber membrane underneath the keys. This membrane acts like a drum, and each key hits the drum in a different location and produces a unique frequency or sound that the neural networking software can decipher, said Asonov. SNIP
Re: Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'
Rgggh! And posting your full name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, the account and expiration dates of all your credit cards + the 3 digit extra code on their backs, ATM card account # and the PIN, plus, several samples of your signature (optional) in JPEG format, and the code to your alarm system on your web page will prevent identity theft. So, whaddayasay? It's a fine bridge, lightly used, as you can see, it's got a lotta traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn, I could sell it to you real cheap, 'cause you look like a nice guy and all, you know, you could make a fortune, setup a toll booth and all that. R. A. Hettinga wrote: Horseman #1, Terrorists: Check. Horseman #2, Pedophiles: Check. Next? Cheers, RAH - http://news.scotsman.com/print.cfm?id=2844122referringtemplate=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Escotsman%2Ecom%2Flatest%2Ecfmreferringquerystring=id%3D2844122 print close Tue 27 Apr 2004 2:47am (UK) Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles' By James Lyons, Political Correspondent, PA News Identity cards will help keep youngsters safe from perverts, Education Secretary Charles Clarke claimed today.
Re: Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system
Meh, same old song: NSA/CIA/FBI failed to prevent the WTC missile attacks, despite the billions of dollars they receive per annum, so guess what, they get rewarded with guess what kiddies, even more tax payer dollars! Condoleeza Rice lies about a specific PDB, calling it historical and doesn't charged with perjury after said PDB is declassified. Sibel Edmonds, a Turkish American with top security clearance, who worked as a translator at FBI HQ says that she saw information that proved top US officials knew months before 9.11.2001 that Al Qaeda planned to use airplanes as missiles, but isn't allowed to testify on grounds that it would compromise national security. Damn right it would - there should be riots in the streets over this, and those top US officials should be jailed for gross negligence causing the loss of 3000 lives. NSA, CIA, FBI weren't allowed to share databases because of wisely thought out checks and balances to prevent privacy and other types of abuses, so they were thrown out, not that they really existed in the first place. (i.e. NSA isn't allowed to spy on US citizens, so it uses one of it's buddies, perhaps UK, or Australia to do the dirty work.) Airport security fails, so Uncle Sam gets to spend even more tax payer dollars on TSA. TSA fails, and instead of it being punished, its ineptitude gets rewarded by getting justification for more draconian laws, and even more tax payer cash... woo hoo! R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26/airport_security_failures/print.html Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system By Thomas C Greene ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Published Monday 26th April 2004 20:21 GMT Recent government reports on the failure of American airport screeners to detect threat objects at security checkpoints may provide ammunition for proponents of the controversial Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II) database solution, which is currently stalled by myriad snafus too numerous to mention.
Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections
Jack Lloyd wrote: Still, I liked this quote: 'I came to vote because wasting one's ballot in a democracy is a sin, he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US these days, it seems like. What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al I Invented the Innnernet Gore, and George Nucular Dubbya?
Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections
Damian Gerow wrote: Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to represent what he said through that phrase. What he /actually/ claimed (and what he /actually/ did) was recognize its importance, and then push for funding, in the 1980's. So he didn't 'invent' the Internet, he helped provide the funding for its inventors. Yeah so what? I still wouldn't want to vote for him (except as a vote against Shrubbya) Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC against lyrics in songs. See Megadeth's Hook in Mouth for details on this censorious organization: http://www.songlyrics4u.com/megadeth/hook-in-mouth.html and http://www.geocities.com/fireace_00/pmrc.html for details about the PMRC.
Re: Fact checking
Damian Gerow wrote: Hey, I'm no fan of Tipper either. And I'm not saying that Al Gore was a /good/ choice. But in retrospect, he probably would have been a lesser evil than the current president. THAT, ultimately is the meta-point. You shouldn't have to vote for the lesser evil, but when your choice is so vastly limited, why even bother voting? After the events involving Vince Foster, Lon It was self defense, she threatened me with her baby Hioruchi(sp?), Janet Reno, and Monicagate, Dubbya Jr. seemed the lesser of two evils. Until 9.11.2001. At that point, Gore clearly became the lesser of two evils, but by that time, it was far too late to see it. How much of the public knew about the connections to Haliburton before election day? How much of the public knew about the Project for a New American Century? How much of the public knew about USA PATRIOT ACT and it's sequel? What's missing is some sort of vote out of office mechanism, a big great Undo vote as it were. There are no guarantees that if you vote for Scumbag #1 that s/he'll be less of a scumbag that Scumbag #2. When more than half the country doesn't want to do something, it shouldn't be done just because congress and POTUS decides it's in their pocketbook's interest, but where's the mechanism to stop it? Where's the recall vote? Where's the oversight committee that says When you ran for office you promised X,Y,Z and you're half in your term and haven't delivered. Where's the I want X% of my dollars to go to this issue, and 0% to go to that one option? Elections where you only chose between evil #1 and evil #2, are an ironic joke, and the ones laughing their way to the bank aren't those with your interests in mind.
Re: What Should Freedom Lovers Do?
An Metet wrote: In my devotion to freedom, I apparently go beyond the point where most cypherpunks are comfortable, in that I support private initiatives and technologies of all sorts and oppose government regulation of them. I am a supporter and admirer of Microsoft, which has achieved tremendous market success without relying on government support, indeed in the face of steadfast government opposition. I oppose government antitrust efforts in general, and specifically those directed against Microsoft. I agree with everything you've said in your post, including PRIVATE DRM measures, but, I disagree that Microsoft should be admired. I've seen far too much evil emminated from Redmond: * from outright theft of smaller companies' IP (i.e. Stacker), * dumping (We'll help you migrate from Netware to NT 3.51 for free), * FUD (GNU is communism and Anti-American), * evil contracts (if you sell blank machines without Windows, you have to pay $X more for our software) * stealth funding of SCO's lawsuit against IBM and linux end users, * to lots of needless security holes - some even by design, (i.e. security is a checkbox as a marketing feature, or an afterthought: i.e. this chant: Active X! Active X! Format Hard drive? Just say 'YES!') For the final one, I used to work at Earthweb, which ran Gamelan (pronounced gah-meh-lohn, not game LAN), a Java repository. At one point, EW decided to start an Active X repository. Some guy wrote an Active X browser component that shut off your machine if you clicked yes. The component did exactly what it said it did, but it was a good example that it could have done something else. Hence the Active X! Active X! Format Hard Drive? Just say YES! chant. Let me tell you, Microsoft tried very, very hard to get us to remove that bit of code from the repository. We didn't, because it did exactly what it claimed to do. More financial damage has been done to the planet by Microsoft than good. Far too many sysadmin/developer hours were lost because of Microsoft. You can certainly count the hours in lost human lives... Hell, just add up the cost of each virus/trojan/worm outbreak which targets Outlook, Office, and Internet Exploiter. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not some knee-jerk Linux Good, Windows bad clueless geek wannabee. I started out as a Novell Netware sysadmin. (Well, I started out as a coder, but fell into sysadming over time.) When NT starting taking over, I picked it up and thought it was cool. It's design was certainly revolutionary, and the NTFS was one of the best designed file systems I've seen, even to this day. NT's borrow a driver from the server printing was beautiful. User management via domains? Sweet! Ok, not too much better than NIS, but hey, very nice. Active Directory? Much, much mo'e better. DHCP? Great wonderful idea. Gateway for Netware Services and Migration from Netware? A bit scummy, but hey it's free with the server, might as well use it*. File and Printer sharing for Macintosh? Cool! - well, except for that one bug with the dancing icons back a few years ago... (* Gateway Service for Netware allowed a scummy sysadmin to bypass the license limitation of Netware servers. A single user from the NT server would login to the Netware server and proxy hundreds if not thousands of user requests. You suffered in performance, but one of it's uses was to bypass licensing. If you read NT's license it says something along the lines that you can't use another proxy this way against an NT server.) Registry? Hey, wonderful idea. No, really. Storing all your machine's settings in a single place and having a single editor (ok two of them) to control them was beautiful. Just make sure you (can and do) back it up. No, I'm not being sarcastic, if you know how the registry works, how to back it up, how to restore it, and how to repair it, it's a great thing - much better than lots of .ini, .rc or .conf files everyfuckingwherethankyouverymuch. Ok, in unixen everything lives in /etc. But which /etc? /etc? /usr/local/etc? /usr/local/samba/etc? and the dot files in home directories? ouch! (A regular thing that I do is to backup all of /etc /usr/local/etc just to make sure I can restore them. With Windows, you just run rdisk /s- and copy %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\repair.) At the last job, we had a dead Exchange 5.5 on NT 4.0 server. Its hardware died. I worked for a shitty little dot com. The guy admining it couldn't restore it. We didn't have another motherboard that mached the drivers on that box, so we couldn't just move the hard drive over. Know what I did? I merged the hardware related registry files from the sacrificial machine on the OS of the dead one to get it to boot, then hand reinstalled the network driver and a few other minor things like the video driver. It's not so hard if you know what you're doing, and a registry isn't a bad thing. All of the above features more or less
Re: Fact checking
Damian Gerow wrote: I don't give a flying fuck who you vote for, who the options are, what you think of them, or even if they're convicted drunk drivers hell-bent on converting the world to their belief system (...). You, sir, are in great need of an enema. *PLONK*
Re: Meshing costs (Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies)
Tyler Durden wrote: Someone enlighten me here...I don't see this as obvious. I might certainly be willing to pay to route someone else's message if I understand that to be the real cost of mesh connectivity. In other words, say I'm driving down the FDR receiving telemetry about the road conditions downtown of me by a few miles. Um, just to point out the absolute obvious, if you're DRIVING you already have a power source, even if you have to use an inverter to power your notebook. At that point you're not worried about worrying about spending a few miliamps on transmission here and there. It doesn't matter at all whether or not there's a string of other you's ahead of you. Having already paid for the tank of gas, the juice is free, and so should transmission - even routing of other users' data. If you're in the woods, or at the beach, that's a different story. :) Ok, well, if you're at the beach, you could get a solar cell and geek away. 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 the cars in front of me, routing info down to me. If I insist on getting paid, so will they, and the whole thing breaks down. Actually, this reminds me of the prisoner's dilemma. I remember (I think) Hofstaedter doing an interesting analysis that showed that smart 'criminals' will eventually realize that it pays to cooperate, even if that doesn't optimise one's chances in this particular instance. Yup, can't have a network without nodes. Of course, the battery lifetime acts as the weighting factor here...if only a small % of the traffic I'm routing belongs to me, then I may not be so willing to route it if my battery lifetime is short. As battery time lifetime increases however (though this sorely lags behind Moore's law) then more and more people will be willing to route. In which case, you won't be to willing to transmit either since receiving costs you far less battery than transmitting. In this case you're far more likely to store whatever you want to transmit for later - same as working offline with a mail user agent.
Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies
Jim Dixon wrote: The term is used because most or all trees in the region where the English language originated are shaped just like that: they have a single trunk which forks into branches which may themselves fork and so on. These branches do not connect back to one another. I believe the real issue here is one of being able to stretch your mind into seeing things from different points of view. This is the reason I brought in the quasi-mystical quote about the sphere whose center is everywhere. To see if you'd be able to go beyond your already rich knowledge and gain new benefit from another way of looking at it. (IMHO, it's important to be able to change POV's at will, it keeps you flexible and able to learn new ways of dealing with data by conversion.) In real life, the roots of a tree resemble it's branches buried underground, in an almost mirror image. A tree that terminates where the trunk meets the ground would fall. The only real tree resembling this, is one where logger's saw was applied. :) So we're already not discussing a real tree. The idealized mathematical definition of a tree doesn't quite a real tree any more than do B-Trees, B+/-Trees, nor red/black trees, or our debated friend, the internet. The Internet doesn't resemble a tree at all. It is characterized by many cross-connections, which form cycles. These are introduced deliberately by network engineers, because tree-like networks are unreliable. Of course. It's called redundancy and its goal is to eliminate as many single points of failure as possible. But from the point of view of one node talking to another, these aren't considered, I'll explain why. Firstly, don't confuse cycles with redundancy for high availability. These are two different things. Let's explain why we have multiple connections and what types of these you can expect. There are two common types of multiple connections: A) Two links to the same ISP: In terms of redundancy for the purposes of being fault tolerant, only one of the multiple links is ever used. With most ISP's, when you negotiate a contract for a backup connection, it's with the understanding that you'll only use it when the main one goes down. B) You have multiple connections to different ISP's (possibly with peering contracts, etc.) In this case when a node at your location tries to contact some other node on the internet, it's traffic doesn't go over ALL of your connections - it takes only a single path. [Ok, if your routers are correcting for an outage, then perhaps you'll see different paths being taken, but this is just the routing tables/routers settling or converging.] If both case A and case B, a single node in your location will see the entire internet as a tree with the root of that tree being the default gateway. (i.e. go back to doing traceroutes.) In the case of a multi-homed machine, or machine that participates in routing, it itself becomes the root of the tree. There are other cases but those are rare, and likely flawed. Now on to cycles and the whole reason for this debate: The whole point of many/most routing algorithms is to GET RID OF cycles. After you've done this, you're left with a tree. Loops/cycles are so anathema to the workings of tcp/ip, that one of the fields in IP packets has been added to help eliminate: the TTL. The only reason for a TTL value is to prevent packets that are going around in circles from congesting all the routers involved in the loop. (Only later did traceroute exploit this into helping provide you with a map of where your packets went.) This is why EIGRP, RIP, etc. use various mechanisms to explicitly prevent routing loops (and BGP to aggregate routes.) Routing loops are damage, they are by definition not desirable. At the data link layer (switches/hubs), this is why you want to use the Spanning Tree Protocol. Notice that name: Spanning *TREE* Protocol. After STP is done, you're left with a data link layer -TREE - not a cyclical graf. STP is even more important for LAN's than on the internet since there's no TTL on ethernet frames: a single broadcast, were it to be allowed to loop, could saturate your switches to the point of killing your LAN! What all this says to me is that a cycle is a circle, and that failover/ parallel links should be collapsed (and are by routing protocols) to a single link. Once you eliminate cycles, and you do so in real life, you go back to a tree. You only see the alternate paths used when failover or routing errors occur. Yes, I agree with you, if your POV is The Big Picture above from space, which includes all links, even the unused redundant ones, it's certainly not a tree. At the same time, I also disagree with you. If your POV is a single host, it sees the internet as a tree. In fact, one of the properties of trees is that you pick up any leaf node and designate it as the root. (Doesn't work too well on a B+Tree when you're
Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship
Justin wrote: This is one nation under God (the Christian God), or haven't you noticed? If the Christian Right thinks God doesn't like something, it's not Constitutionally protected. Even worse, I've once heard a coworker explain to me why Bush doesn't give a rats ass about the environment: just like the impromptu pilots who learned how to fly, but not land, Bush and Crew believe that this world is theirs to do with as they wish, and that pollution isn't important - so what if thousands die of cancer, so long as they earn a place in their idea paradise. Yes, between the flat-earther's, witch burners, jihadists, and other nuts, religion certain has had a wonderful influence on humanity.
Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies - the internet is a tree.
Jim Dixon wrote: Yes. I know what a tree is, and I am quite familiar with structure of the Internet. These very pretty pictures certainly look like the Internet I am familiar with, but don't resemble trees. It is a tree. I'll give you a hint. Think of this: God is like an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. Nicholas of Cusa. It is a tree, but to see it, you'll need to find the root. The quote above is a hint to where the root is. Replace god with internet, sphere with tree, infinite with 2**32 (at least until it goes to ip6.) So where's the root? Scroll down for the answer. | | | \ / V Did you see it? No??? It's actually right infront of you. Still don't know? Ok then, keep scrolling down. The root of the internet is your own internet connection. Proof: If you were to iterate traceroutes over the entire ip4 space (good luck doing that by the way), and graph the results, you'd get a tree. It's root is your default gateway. :)
Re: VPN VoIP
Eugen Leitl wrote: I've been installing a Draytek Vigor 2900 router at work lately, and found a line of models which do VoIP (router with analog phone jacks on them). They also support VPN router-router, and come with DynDNS clients. I thought I've seen VoIP over VPN being mentioned, but I can't find it right now. I've not seen, nor played with any of these, *BUT*, heed this warning which applies to all devices (and software?) that are 1) closed source and 2) offer some useful service which you'd be tempted to place inside your network, 3) are allowed to communicate with the outside world. I would highly suggest that if you chose to use one of these that you do so from a DMZ in your firewall to be safe. You don't know what OS/firmware lives there and whether it can be used via the VOIP network to spy on your internal network. You might need to add another NIC to your firewall, and depending on what else this needs, you might also need to provide a DHCP server for it. Set the firewall rules to make sure no packets from this device can go into your internal network. EVER. Don't just say, Well this thing is its own router, it does VPN, it has a firewall (does it?) I can trust it. There will likely be features which it provides (perhaps a voice mail-email gateway?) which will tempt you to place it on the inside network instead of a DMZ. Don't! Find a way to secure your network and still provide for such features. [Or, if you use these boxes inside a corporate environment and actually care about this level of security and want several of these to talk to each other, build another network just for them. Depending on your needs, I'd also say, don't let them talk to the outside world, but if you do that, only nodes inside your VPN's will be able to communicate over VOIP.] If you trust this thing to do VOIP, enjoy, (Accepting possible spying on your phone calls by LEO/intel agencies, etc.) but don't trust it enough to put the ethernet end of it on your internal network. You never know when some bright kid takes one of these apart, disassembles the firmware and finds a backdoor to use against you. Why the tin-foil sounding rant? See yesterday's slashdot regarding the recent hardwired backdoor account in a Cisco Wifi router which has been exposed resulting in a call for a firmware update. You can bet that Cisco simply changed the backdoor password/hash instead of eliminating it. If they're not too scummy, they only made it harder to find: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/08/1920228mode=threadtid=126tid=158tid=172tid=99
Re: The Gilmore Dimissal
93: One of the nice things about ignorance is that it is curable. Unlike Neo-Conservatism. Or more accurately - Neo CONfidence artist. Would be nice to turn those into NEO convicts, but we may as well dream of a free country. Many, many, thanks go to Richard Clarke for exposing the truth we all suspected. So, I'm not quite current about the Gilmore dismissal - is the subject line misspelled? Is there some URL regarding news of this? I take it from the gripes that John's lawsuit against Asscruft re: flying without ID was dismissed?
Re: Saving Opportunistic Encryption
Eugen Leitl wrote: No, anything requiring publishing DNS records won't fly. OE is *opportunistic*. It doesn't care about what the true identity of the opposite party is. Any shmuck on dynamic IP should be able to use it instantly, with no observable performance degradation, using a simple patch. If it doesn't fit these minimal requirements, it will die, just the same way FreeS/WAN did. I absolutely agree. While it's possible to do things like MIM attacks if you don't know who the other guy is, look at how successful SSH is over any other kind of solution. Its biggest competitor at the time it was introduced was kerberized telnet/ftp. How many networks do you know that use Kerberos instead of ssh these days? Look at how many folks use PGP - those who really know it and want it, or those who know enough about it and have some easily automated implementation that plugs in to their mail client. (i.e. commercial pgp with Eudora/Outlook plug in. As an aside, I'm still pissed off that the Mozilla mail client doesn't support PGP/GPG in addition to S/MIME or whatever the hell..) Adding another infrastructure requirement that requires ISP layer changes will exponentially raise resistance to its adoption. While I do run my own server for mail/web, 99.9% of the internet luser population doesn't - and even so, I chose not to run my own DNS server. (Allowing register.com to do so makes it safer for me: it's one less service that might be compromised due to possible bugs.) Making it optional to add that infrastructure layer - whether it's via DNS, LDAP, signed public keys, web o' trust / pgp keyserver, finger, or even something entirely new, is probably the safer way to go, BUT don't require it. There do exist transparent web caching proxies out there (usually advertised as web accelerators.) I ran across such a few months ago when our satellite office couldn't connect to one of our servers. We were using private dns virtual host names to access management web pages on our servers. However the proxy intercepted those requests, and tried to resolve DNS, but obviously couldn't, so everyone in the office got a DNS error. It took some pretty strong words to get the ISP to even admit that they were using such a beast, much less disable it just for us. It's certainly possible to create a proxy to do MitM interception that would foil even SSH. This wouldn't work so well against mobile devices which might fortuitously use a different route, but would work very well one hop above the server if that's the only pipe the server has. There are ways to protect against this such as publishing a line for the known-hosts entry by other means, but no one does this (yet?) (i.e: sneakernet, finger, web page, pgp signed/encrypted email, over the telephone, etc.) (Another useful thing is to use public keys for SSH instead of passwords: this way the attacker won't be able to reuse your password - but you're still compromised the second you login.) There are some rare cases where you absolutely want to know who you are talking to. For example an https server that allows control of financial data. Even in that case the server doesn't fully know who the client is, and doesn't need to (in order to establish the secure link) -- until a login (or CC info) is presented. In the case of using OE to talk to a server, the client already has some idea of the server's identity, and the server will eventually have some idea of who the client is. As an aside: Just doing the above to encapsulate emails won't help at all against spamming: the spammers will just randomly generate throw away public keys, etc. They've already written trojan spammers with their own SMTP servers built in, it's only a few more (thousand?) lines of code to incrementally bypass that layer as well. I've already seen a few years ago spam sites that return yahoo.com and msn.com in reverse DNS, but doing traceroutes reveals that they're actually in Korea or China, etc. So you can't fully rely on (spoofable) DNS info anyway. If any of you remember the recent virii attacks where the attachment is a password protected zip file with the password in the body of the email, guess what: the evil ones kicked it up a notch once more. Just yesterday, I saw a new form of this on cpunx: instead of a ZIP attachment, the new malware uses a RAR archive, and instead of the password being in clear text, it's inside an a randomly named attached .GIF file! They've not obscured it, so it's possible to add OCR to the anti-virus code, but it's now it's that much harder for the anti-virus to block. Just as the virus authors evolve their code to adapt their offenses to the defenses of virus scanners, so will the spammers evolve their code to bypass spam filters, and we've already seen that spammers use virii/worms to spread their code... Distributed computing is already here. Shame that it's biggest use is currently for evil.
Re: 'Special skills draft' on drawing board
So is this Uncle Sam's way of getting good workers for no pay? You could expect the same kinds of skills to bring in several hundred dollars per hour in the .mil consulting sphere... Huh... So working from January to April/May to pay one's tax burden isn't enough service to the republic anymore? (where tax burden = billions wasted on the Iraq/Afghanistani wars, overthrowing elections in Argentina, causing riots in Haiti and Africa, etc.) Now they're resorting to what pretty much amounts to slavery? How soon before .gov just absorbs Exxon, IBM, Sun, HP, Haliburton, Bechtel and all of interest directly? How soon before .gov comes out of the fascism closet already and announces itself for what it really is? Bah! I may as well learn to flip burgers and ask if fries will be part of the order today... being a sysadmin isn't getting me employed anymore anyway. :( R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/13/MNG905K1BC1.DTLtype=printable www.sfgate.com 'Special skills draft' on drawing board Computer experts, foreign language specialists lead list of military's needs Eric Rosenberg, Hearst Newspapers Saturday, March 13, 2004 )2004 San Francisco Chronicle | Feedback | FAQ URL: sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/13/MNG905K1BC1.DTL Washington -- The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages.
Re: I'd recognise that ear, anywhere
This is old news. No, really, I'm not channeling Mr. May and telling you to hit the archives... A few years ago, this was a topic here, and the outcome was that cypherpunks should wear their hair long so as to cover their ears. Kinda goes with the long hair - 10 gallon hat kinda look. :) I believe the INS requires pictures at 45 degrees for green cards, but not passports(???), so that they can see one ear (or enough of it to use as ID) so it's quite likely that somewhere some black budget project likely already made leaps into this technology, and that this is possibly just another example of a university doing stuff that the spooks have already done 10 years ago - or whenever... R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36106.html The Register I'd recognise that ear, anywhere By Lucy Sherriff Posted: 09/03/2004 at 10:11 GMT Never mind retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition: we'll have our ears on a national database, soon.
Re: Fwd: Re: Don't Panic - Not All Jobs Are Headed Overseas
R. A. Hettinga wrote: Any keyboard job can be shipped overseas, including engineering (CAD), XRAY and MRI analysis/interpretation. If you really think about CEO, CFO, CIO jobs can ALL be exported to India , and there won't be anything to stop the boards of major companies from doing that. India's not even the end all of outsourcing - there's nothing special about India that some other third-world country couldn't do at lower prices once enough of their populous is trained to speak almost accent free English and to pretend their names are Joan Sanchez from Ohio... Once there is cheap labor, cheap telepresence with enough bandwidth to do the job, even a boat parked 30 miles off the muddy shores of East Elbonia would work. The occasional air trip would be needed to slap skin with a few people here and there, but it's not always required... After all, the CEO usually reports to the board and is working for the board's best interests, not necessarily for the company's best interests. Most of the .com's I've worked at, the CEO was hired to do one single thing: pump up the image of the company to make it look like a big jucy steak when it was all crap internally, then sell the turd off to a sucker. This of course results in the immediate job loss of 90% of the employees, etc. (That of course isn't the case where the CEO is a founder and has reasons other than stock price to run the company.) Ok, that's a wet dream I suppose... but there's very little reason why those jobs can't be outsourced. Toward the end of the dot bomb era, there were a few companies offering part time temporary Cxx's for a fee because it was hard for the .com's to find brand name well known CEO's, etc. So if they can be bought by the hour part time, (cultural, accent issues aside) no reason that they have to be physically in the US.
Re: Virus with encrypted zip file - Important notify about your e-mail account.
Interesting virus - anyone know what this one is called and what it's payload does? Haven't seen this one before today... It attaches a zip file with a password containing an executable. (No worries, I've not run it, and only extracted it on a SPARC machine, so it can't use buffer overflows designed for intel in unzip -- if any exist.) I've seen several of these from various cypherpunk nodes, and initially thought someone was attacking cypherpunks nodes again... So what it is likely grabbing the domian name and capitalizing the first letter and inserting The and team. around it to make it look like it's from the ISP... It's also using various random reasons (mailbox is full, spamming, account about to expire, account abuse, can't go out with you tonight, have to wash hamster's hair, etc.) Interesting that a virus would use an encrypted ZIP file. Of course it does a dumb thing in terms of security purposes of sending the password with the attachment. Certainly that isn't something a security wise person would do, *BUT* the true purpose of this ploy is likely an attempt for it to get past virus scanners which demime/unzip files through multiple layers, and would be able to detect the attachment is malware. So this thing is probably carrying code to ZIP+encrypt files as well as MIME and possibly it's own SMTP client... Pretty amazing for a 12K binary... Well, not really. :) I guess I'm used to seeing bloatware like Office 2000 - oh, yeah, forgot, MSFT products are virii.. :-D Many, many, years ago, I recall there were polymorphic virii which encrypted their main body, but used various methods to build the extractor such that you (as an antivirus writer) couldn't easily get signatures from the extractor portion. I believe they used permutations of opcodes which did the same thing under x86, but enough random combinations to prevent getting a useful virus signature. It probably won't be long before we'll start seeing those again in modern virii... Certainly email virus scanners shouldn't allow .EXE - even if inside of .ZIP archives anyway, but it's still interesting to see how the evil virus writers find new ways to push their crud on the If it's got dancing nude hippos, I'll click on it gladly, safety be damned sheeple. Now it's just exploiting the I'll obey any instruction from any so called authority if you throw in the magic word 'reasons of security' in it. What's really funny to me personally is that at my last job we were asked to send self decrypting PGP EXE's that contained the actual data to clients who didn't have PGP, and wouldn't know it from a hole in a wall. We'd then tell them the (usually lame) password over the phone. If any of those clients receive one of these, I can absolutely guarantee that they'll open it and spread this evil crap. A virus pretending to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is 10361. Kind regards, The Minder.net teamhttp://www.minder.net
Re: Microsoft Plans Biometric ID Cards
No doubt such a card will automatically be linked to a Microsoft Passport account, Microsoft Wallet, etc. to make sure that the violation of your privacy can continue unhindered. No doubt, the 2nd step will be to either add an RFID chip inside it plus a reader on the PC... Or setting the next Microsoft PC spec to include a barcode/RFID reader on the PC. (Or perhaps this is already in the spec, just not advertised?) Then you'll need to login with the card, and activating Windows XP, etc. will require the card; all Office documents will be signed/stamped with a GID that matches said card, etc... Hell, it might as well be your SSN... After all, continuing abuse of the social security numbers meets all Microsoft criteria for such a thing: it's a sensitive number, that when handled in an unsecure way (Microsoft's modus operandi, of course) it's guaranteed to open you up to ID, financial, and privacy theft... That said, Backdoor* Billy Gee is about two and half years late to share the feed through at the scummy emperor of privacy invasion: You see, both Larry I wear a kimono Ellison, and Scooter (formerly known as the The Dot in dot com CEO) both had immediate wet dreams of a national ID card right after 9.11.2001. Of course, the former wanted it to involve Oracle, the latter wanted it to be on a Java smartcard... uh huh... Yes, we all know great government issued ID's worked to prevent the disposable terrorists of 9.11. I'm sure that the Microsoft ID will work even better in making us just even more secure. * Secure is a newspeak marketing feechure checklist item which is to be translated the same way as the word love in Ministry of Love, the word peace in the Ministry of Peace, the word truth in the Ministry of Truth. * Backdoor in this case refers not to Billy's preference of human interaction, but rather to the 'More Secure than before' feature of Windows XP which was made famous by various trojans, worms, and other self-replicating bits of code. R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.cbronline.com/print_friendly/b6e1a01bb2c038c380256e450038609e DATE: 25/02/2004 Microsoft Plans Biometric ID Cards
Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?
That all depends on your definition of sovereign. After all, we put, or at least helped, that monster into power. No different an action than we the many times before putting tyrants into control of small, but important nations under the guise of protecting democracy. So, while he was our puppet, he was the good guy, and no matter how many he murdered, he was a benevolent leader. Once he turned on our interests, he was no longer useful and had to be removed. It just took Jr. to do it. Now, we'll put a different democratic government in place. Of course, it won't be as free as the USA, nor have the same kind of constitution - that would be a problem since we couldn't control it's oil. Nothing new, nothing to be surprised about. We couldn't give a fuck less if Sadam was given an anal probe on TV, or if he was put in the colliseum for donkeys to use as a sex toy, as in Roman times. As entertaining as it would be for some, it's utterly unimportant. Pax Americana will march on. We have their oil - we can throw some crumbs to some other friendly countries of the COW, and lesser crumbs to those who complained, but the rest is just meaningless green colored icing on the cake. The war on terror itself will go on for as long as the voters will tolerate it, or until it's true goals succeede and it becomes impossible for the voters to do anything but accept it - or be disappeared in the middle of the night... Not much different than in Stalin or Hitler's days. Perhaps a democrat will make it back in power again, but that too is meaningless, as the infrastructure for the super surveillance, terror police state is already in place and won't likely go away. It no longer makes a difference, even if a few of the teeth of the DHS are removed... people will still be disappeared in the middle of the night, warantless searches, secret shadow trails, et al. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jim Dixon wrote: huge snip The evidence points to deep ties between Russia, France, and Iraq that goes back decades, plus somewhat weaker ties to China and Germany. Relations between the US and Baath-controlled Iraq were bad from the beginning; American bodies dangling from ropes in Baghdad were not the beginning of a great romance. And all of this is meaningless: we simply had no right to invade a foreign, *sovereign* nation.
RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)
Um, last I checked, phone cameras have really shitty resolution, usually less than 320x200. Even so, you'd need MUCH higher resolution, say 3-5Mpixels to be able to read text on a printout in a picture. Add focus and aiming issues, and this just won't work unless you carry a good camera into the booth with you. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: 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. Since the voting booth is private, no one can see you do this, even if it were made illegal. (And since phones can store images, jamming the transmission at the booth doesn't work.) You send your picture from the cellphone that took it, along with a paypal account number as a text message.
Re: Partition Encryptor
Which only works on win9x, and no freeware updates exist for Win2k/XP/NT. i.e. worthless... There is this, but it too isn't free: http://www.pcdynamics.com/SafeHouse/ --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:45 AM 11/16/03 -0500, Stirling Westrup wrote: Does anyone know of a good partition encryptor for Windows? I know of an accountant who would like to encrypt her client's financial data. She's stuck with Windows until such time as a major company starts shipping yearly tax software for linux. Look into Scramdisk. It works fine. Free, open source AFAIK. You can store run your tools (eg email client) from the encrypted virtual partition easily, as well as store data.
Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off
Not scared, hungry. They're looking for more collars they can throw in jail so they meet their quotas. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Anonymous wrote: 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 they are scared.
Re: If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win
The push to do that should be aimed at the MTA authors and package organizers. If you can get it turned on by default, you're half way there. Last time I tried to fuck with this on qmail, I had to patch qmail to support it. Not something I'd like to do again - hopefully it's changed a bit. From 1st hand experience - it is indeed a pain in the ass. But if you can get the big projects to turn it on by default for all/most of the MTA's, then you can push the bigger fish to do so as well. I'd start with OpenBSD - they're likely to be friendlier to the idea. Then you can push FreeBSD, NetBSD, RedHat Linux, Mandrake, and so on... Then the MTA authors, then Solaris (which seems to be bent on copying whatever Linux does) and so on Strangely enough, I recall that of all the entitites, out there MSFT had implemented some sort of secure SMTP in somne version of IIS.. like 4.0... Not sure about Exchange and its ilk... --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:28:08AM -0500, Sunder wrote: The biggest hurdle and the thing that will have the most effect is to have every MTA out there turn on Start TLS. It won't provide a big enhancement For the record: it's unreasonably difficult (for a pedestrian sysadmin such as me) to set up StartTLS. Debian unstable ships with postfix-tls (albeit not installed as default), but apt-get install postfix-tls doesn't take care of the self-signed cert generation, and setting up /etc/postfix/main.cf for StartTLS support. It would be a most cypherpunkly undertaking to get that package to do that. (I have no idea how Debian packages work, unfortunately).
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Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales
Ok, so I finally bothered to read said article. I assumed that they had something interesting that made it look to the error correction code like a scratch, etc... They don't. No such weakness exists in error correction used on CD's. Their protection is no more than putting bad error correcting codes on sectors, and when a CD copier is used, the error correction is corrected, but the software can detect that this is a copy. No different than current game protection (no different than the commodore 64 days either)... The new new thing aspect of it is that the copied game continues to run, making the guy doing the backup think he's got a good copy, but it slowly degrades itself. Degrade, but not in the sense of CD rot or scratches. So for a few hours(?), it's playable, but then it starts to no longer respond to user commands properly, and so it becomes a marketing tool. The luser will think it's worth buying their own copy after getting addicted to the game. So the rub, is that copies are allowed to be made, but unless cracked, the copies are nothing more than time limited demos. 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 all the time, would you think it's because the copy is bad, or because the software is as buggy as a Microsoft product? As usual, the real loser is the original purchaser, because if he scratches his CD, he's out $50-$70 or whatever games cost today, and he can't make backups. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On 12 Oct 2003, Steve Furlong wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 15:55, Tim May wrote: As the saying goes, the lessons of the past are learned anew by each generation... And each generation invents sex, too.
Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week (fwd from schoen@loyalty.org)
Tell Intel simply: We don't want no Scumware Inside We won't buy NGSCB crippleware. Want to sell motherboards? Don't include this shit. Keep it simple. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net
