RE: WSJ: NSA Computer Upgrade

It is likely that a principal reason for the new NSA system is to be able to more efficiently spy on its users, as with intelink, siprnet and niprnet -- and our own beloved Internet whose users and hackers know not what is being logged. Counterintelligence has become a more important function o

Bell Trial Schedule

x27;s office, (206) 553-7970. Let me know if you have any questions. Jeff - To: Gordon Jeff TIGTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bell trial schedule Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:15 -0500 : : Jeff, Thanks for the information. Could you fi

Bell Grand Jury Experience

I've written up notes on the Bell grand jury experience, a bit too long, too entrapping in this tar pit, to post here: http://cryptome.org/jdg-gje.htm Others have told me about being warned by Robb London about perjury and self-incrimination during testimony. Lawyers say this is standard, but

Re: CDR: Re: Bell Grand Jury

Bear wrote: >There's a Pattern Here. And I even think the pattern is >based on public communications. One point: Robb London kept referring to posts to cypherpunks as if they were between individuals, say me and Jim Bell. I had to point out that the messages were to the cypherpunks list not be

Re: CDR: Re: Bell Grand Jury

Choate wrote: >How the wind changes... The point, hardhead, is to keep communications public. Private stuff can be leveraged into a subpoena. Not your own private stuff, somebody else's. Like your CDR rat. I handed my subpoenaed material (public messages to cpunks and the HTML subpoena on Cry

Re: Bell Grand Jury

or visit. Consider me a target for indictment, hanging in the wind, a warning to others, a Kafka character, PR for L&O. Do not bite "John Young" bait.

Grand Jury Docs

We offer two documents on federal grand juries, Rule 6 of the Federal Rules for Criminal Procedure, and the US Attorney Manual section on Grand Jury: http://cryptome.org/grand-jury.htm

Bell Grand Jury

This morning I testified before a Grand Jury in Western Washington District Court, Seattle, which is investigating Jim Bell for interstate stalking of federal officials. The testimony concerned what I knew about alleged CIA employee Mueller and Jim's alleged gathering of personsal information

Cole BO

>From a US Navy medical report on the USS Cole: The explosion left a significant dusting of powder aboard weather deck surfaces and a residual smell (like fetrilizer) on the mess decks as well as in other areas, including the starboard passageway leading to Sick Bay. Smoke curtains helped to cont

Re: oppose nomination of John Ashcroft

William Jennings McCullagh wrote: >But I get paid by the word for mine, generally speaking. Those are speaking words did you not say a few days ago, now worth more than wired fool's nuggets. Who's your agent for priceless yarp, and what's her cut? These questions are aimed at learning how to ped

Re: NONSTOP Crypto Query

This, from David Wagner on Cryptography, is most informative: In a paper on side channel cryptanalysis by John Kelsey, Bruce Schneier, Chris Hall, and I, we speculated on possible meanings of NONSTOP and HIJACK: [...] It is our belief that most operational cryptanalysis makes use of sid

Kahn on Yardley

Excuse my namedropping but I met David Kahn this evening at Newsweek's book party for Steve Levy. Kahn said he's working on a book about Herbert Yardley, after having studied NSA's "complete" archive on Yardley as visiting scholar, along with other Yardley papers at Columbia University. He said h

Banned MI6 Book

Ex-MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson's book, "The Big Breach: >From Top Secret To Maximum Security," is available for order on a Russian Web site: http://www.thebigbreach.com Tomlinson has been hounded by MI6 for several years, after being jailed for allegedly revealing official secrets, rather

Re: CDR: RE: RE: Rapid5 Networks, Inc.

Rush steps into a bucket of: >This is not true. I know Jim in person. Rush, get ready for a subpoena. Better, to plead, I don't know anybody or anything that will not incriminate me. Jim didn't say that, just one time, and from that came the CDR mark of entrapment and forthwith acting on behal

Bell Update

According to the Jim Bell court docket of January 11: 1. Innocent victim Jim (via attorney Robert Leen) has made motions: 1a. To suppress (unknown what). 1b. To dismiss the indictment. 1c. To continue the trial date. 1d. To change venue. 1e. To represent himself. Though AUSA Robb has responded

NONSTOP Doc Up

NSA's "NACSEM 5112 NONSTOP Evaluation Techniques," Reprinted July 1987, released under FOIA: http://cryptome.org/nacsem-5112.htm (196K, 3 images) About half of the >100-page document has been redacted, so brace for the mangle.

Re: NONSTOP Crypto Query

Joel McNamara first told me about NONSTOP and its commonly associated classified codeword, HIJACK, both somehow related to Tempest. When you do a search on either of them you get hundreds (or 1000s) of hits for the generic terms "non-stop" and "hi-jack" but few entries for the codewords, and t

NONSTOP Crypto Query

One of the Tempest FOIA docs NSA released recently concerns NONSTOP, a term whose definition is classified as SECRET. About half of the document, NACSEM 5112, "NONSTOP Evaluation Techniques," has been redacted, and we'll publish it soon. >From the clear text, NONSTOP appears to refer to prote

Re: Refutations Considered Unnecessary

Well, yes, I owe the cypherpunks founders an apology, so apology sent. Our rump session after Steve's talk last night, to which he didn't come, put me face to face with 20 nyms and let me tell you online has its virtues -- the main one being never having to have people stare at your TLA forehead

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

NY Times has a story today about the offshores being pressured by the big nations to curtail tax evasion and avoidance. The islands first resisted assaults on their sovereignty, but have agreed to do a study of the issue. On a related matter is the likelihood of nations and private interests enga

Re: Bell Case Subpoena

We've completed transcription of the subpoena and attachments: http://cryptome.org/jdb-subpoena.htm The Information for Grand Jury Witnesses says, "The witness is required to answer all questions asked, except to the extent that a truthful answer to a question would tend to incrimin

Re: Bell Case Subpoena

Jim burnes wrote: >How would you know if it was sent by him unless it had a digital signature >that you are willing to testify in court was know to belong to him and >had not been comprimised? Right. Nor could I know that "Jim Bell" who's was posting to cpunks is Jim Bell or a Jim Bell being run

Bell Case Subpoena

Today at 4:30 PM two Treasury agents, Tom Jack and Matthew Mc Whirr, served me a Subpoena to Testify Before Grand Jury, in US District Court of Western Washington, Seattle, WA, on January 25, 2001, 9:00 AM. Robb London, AUSA, is the applicant. The agents asked no questions except to verify my

Steven Levy Book Tour

Steven Levy writes: Here is a link to some sites for a book tour: http://www.penguinputnam.com/stevenlevy/tour.htm Not on there for some reason is a reading/discussion at Microsoft's Mountain View (CA) campus on Jan 12 at 3:30 p.m. that's open to the public. Another public event is Jan. 16

Steven Levy Talks Crypto

From: "Levy, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'John Young' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:40:50 -0500 : Hi, John. Can you do me a favor and spread the word around that I'll be talking about CRYPTO at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble (82n

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

A furnace makes heat, a boiler makes steam or hot water. Many small buildings have a boiler that does all three by combing components in a single unit. Large buildings have three separate units, and more for specialized tasks. In New York City, there is an important distinction between cellar an

Levy's Crypto

After reading Steve Levy's "Crypto," two points he covers still intrigue: the true origin of public key encryption and the true origin of cypherpunks. Intriguing, to this reader at least, is the link between the two in fostering public use of crypto -- and whether there was covert involvement of

Underground

Here's an informative site on underground structures -- tunnels, military bases, caves, temples, unidentifiables -- and the technology, epistimology and religion of them:    http://www.sauderzone.com/ubtlinks.htm Nearly all of the world's most secret (and

Re: Tim's Motorcycles

Motorcycle gangs as international crime threat Excerpted from: "International Crime Threat Assessment," December 15, 2000 http://cryptome.org/piccs.rep.htm (410K) Mexican traffickers have also come to dominate methamphetamine production and distribution i

Re: keyboard loggers.

Somebody wrote in response to Bill Stewart's message: At least under Windows 98 you can "Start", "Programs", "Accessories", "System Tools", "System Information", and list the "System Hooks".  Most keyboard sniffers are installed as "hooks".  If you see a new one, you may have a prob

Tim's Motorcycles

At 11:24 AM 12/18/00 +0200, Ben wrote: >> Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Corralitos, California >> Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon >> Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go >> Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/inves

FBI Sniff Correction

Correction of first URL: On December 6 Cryptome published a list of some 2600 names of alleged "CIA sources," provided by a person named Gregory Douglas, who claims to have received the list from Robert Crowley, once Deputy Director of Operations for the CIA: http://cryptome.org/cia-2619.htm

FBI Sniff

On December 6 Cryptome published a list of some 2600 names of alleged "CIA sources," provided by a person named Gregory Douglas, who claims to have received the list from Robert Crowley, once Deputy Director of Operations for the CIA: http://cryptome.org/coa-2619.htm (167KB) There are a numb

Re: About 5yr. log retention

Jim Choate wrote: > >Actually your cite is the wrong one. It has nothing to do with a court >issuance. There has never been a question in that regard. As I said in a >earlier note, destruction of evidence is a crime which is well covered. As >soon as you have any reason to believe it's evidence (a

Re: About 5yr. log retention

Here's the source for the data preservation requirement: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/COEFAQs.htm Preservation is not a new idea; it has been the law in the United States for nearly five years. 18 U.S.C. 2703(f) requires an electronic communications service provider to "take all

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

Bear surmised: >The "Needs Killing" verbiage you see here, I think, is mostly from >people who, correctly or not, tend to think in terms either of there >not being any governments, or in terms of the government being so >ineffective that they are effectively in an ungoverned state. Hold on. "

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

Ken Brown wrote: A thoughtful summary of non-US-centric view of how US technology could, probably will, come back to haunt and harm it. One of the ways the US will be harmed is by provoking its government to crackdown on what it will define as illegal use of technology. To be sure, these perceiv

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

Interesting reading, Declan. Looks as though you get another turn on the witness stand. Who besides Declan, the Oregonian reporter, the two ladies researching terrorism, the various Gordons and other nyms, and so on, got tarred by this?

Jim Bell Arrested

A family member says Jim Bell was arrested last night when he went out to the store. The person also said the feds were searching for e-mail Jim sent around August 18. I can't prove the family member is that and not a fisher.

CIA Website Update

Nothing on the site about 16,000 newly released secret docs on CIA murder-meddling in Chile. http://www.odci.gov/cia/update_service.html Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:30:02 -0500 (EST) : From: CIA Web Site Update <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: DCI/CIA Web Site Update E-mail Service Addition : Appar

Re: Bell's warrant return inventory

What's missing from the inventory is material which would disclose other ongoing investigations. And how to tell which material is of genuine interest and which is listed for camouflage. The public docs never disclose everything but are often used to misinform. Jim is being used as bait. Wheth

DMCA Final Rule

We offer the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act Final Rule on Access Control Circumvention: http://cryptome.org/dmca102700.txt (149KB) An excerpt on why there will be no exemption for circumventing access to DVDs by tools such as DeCSS: http://cryptome.org/dmca-dvd.htm (15KB) The two

Declan My Lai

Declan, Pounding out the hundreds of deathless reports you've done did you dream it would be the Gore My Lai that got you onto the NYTimes opinion page today?

Killing Judges

What has happened lately in the killing judges world? There was a spate of cases and a couple of jokers got vised, but any recently? I mean in the US, not elsewhere it's acceptable culling. Is Jeff still here hoping for another gold star, is Tim still being bullseyed for "he's gone too far, ma

DoJ vs. Privacy

In 1998 Gore proposed a national justice information system which was implemented by AG Reno. The purpose of the program is to make criminal justice and other information easily available to many the parties involved; courts, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, local officials and so on. We ran

Unified Cryptologic Architecture

The bibliography of another NSA reorganization report released today lists several entries under "Unified Cryptologic Architecture" as well as a "U.S. Cryptologic Strategy - Preparing for the 21st Century." There is also a citation of "SINEWS - GCHQ Modernization and Change Program." We would ap

NSA Releases Reorg Reports

NSA released today on its Web site two reports on its reorganization, one by an external team of 27 page, another of 76 pages by an internal team. Both are big PDF files. We have converted the first to HTML: http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-et.htm (77KB) Here is an excerpt: "We interviewed

Re: why should it be trusted?

Bruce Schneier, among others, argues that strength of algorithm is not a reliable determinant of security of information. That most successful attacks occur through more accessible weaknesses, the prime one being human. Bruce reviews several of these in his October 15 Crypto-Gram, and refers to h

Carnivore Proposal Unmasked

Somebody noted that the overwritten portions of the Carnivore review proposal in PDF can be easily lifted: http://cryptome.org/carnivore-mask.htm Nothing secret revealed, just the names of the participants, a few home addresses and phone numbers, and their security ratings. Still, that DoJ use

Ex-PSIA Noda Arrested

Hironari Noda, the ex-official in the Japanese Public Security Investigation Agency, was arrested yesterday: http://cryptome.org/noda-arrest.htm The charge is assaulting one of the PSIA agents who were constantly surveilling Noda. Noda has been getting information from former colleagues abo

Re: Re: Re: Re: family of russion sub victims drugged

Saying somebody needs to be killed was heard fairly often where I grew up. Back then there was not much law enforcement available, nor a vast justice system -- a Justice official on C-SPAN yesterday said DoJ has over 100,000 employees. And I have read that there is over 1 law officer or rent-a-c

Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)

Tim May wrote: A mighty fine statement. I'll add that too often requests come this way to learn who is downloading docs from Cryptome. Sorry, we say, no way to know that unless you got an in with our ISP's legal department who we understand from reading the newspapers has an informal arrangemen

MPAA Wins New York DeCSS Case

Judge Kaplan finds for MPAA in 93-page decision: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08117.PDF Quote: p. 89 VI. Conclusion In the final analysis, the dispute between these parties is simply put if not necessarily simply resolved. Plaintiffs have invested huge sums over t

FBI gets new hacking tools - any ideas?

Th message below was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It looks as though mail to toad is not being forwarded to the CDR or is being blocked. Jim Bell sent a long message to toad this morning, and there was a post from Cindy Cohn about Bernstein's case. Is mail from toad being blocked permanently, and i

Re: CDR: Cryptome Ex-CIA Link

Melon: >Laugh. I detest hypocrisy. "family privacy" suddenly >matters now that it's your family? > >Walk the walk. Give us his name. (Someone else will >find his phone number and address.) Yes, that's the bind. You're the first to state it. I think the ID info will come out soon, and with luck

Cryptome Up

JYA and Cryptome are fully loaded and running under their IP addresses, awating hostname switchover. The twin pages: JYA 216.167.120.49/crypto.htm Cryptome 216.167.120.50 Bookmarks using hostnames will not work just yet. There's a brief account of what seems to have caused t

Cryptome Status

JYA and Cryptome continue to be nearly inaccessible for unknown reasons. Our ISP, Digital Nation, assures that the problem is due to overload of our under-powered dedicated server. So we have rented an under-power-plus server at twice the cost. And are currently migrating files to it and modifyin

Noda Writes 2

Forgot to include Noda's e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both have jya and cryptome have been inaccessible though all files are still there. According to our ISP, Digital Nation (a Verios subsidiary), the dedicated server became overloaded and shut down. Both sites should be up soon, maybe.

Noda Writes

[23 July 2000] Dear Mr.Young I am very grateful to receive helpful tips from you. >From unknown reason, now it takes quite a long time to access your site. It also seems to be impossible for me to download the files. I am just an ordinary computer-user and unable to find solutions. Mr. Campb

RE: Jim Und Dave?

I misspelled Special Agent Dave's last name; someone has sent the correct spelling, not that that should be used to bullseye Dave, for chrissakes, or his mangy gerbils. I, for one, got no personal beef with him, the gerbils. Shit I get worse threats from our hyperbandit building super, who can

Re: Terroristically Threatening a DCSB Fundraiser for Cryptome (was RE: John Young, Freedom Fighter Extraordinaire)

We appreciate your offer, and Bob Hettinga's, but at the moment Cryptome is doing okay. We suggest contributions go to EFF which is bleeding rivers of money right now on the DeCSS cases. Regards, John

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:34:27 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PSIA Request : : July 21, 2000 Federal Bureau of Investigation NCCS, New York C37 Dear FBI, This supplements my message yesterday on declining to remove a list of names of memb

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

Yes, it is contradictory that Cryptome will publish the PSIA names but not those of the FBI Special Agents. The senior Special Agent said at the end of the conversation that if his and the other agent's names were published "you are going to be in real trouble." Until that time both agents

Re: Sealand rant (pragmas)

The venture could be a great place to run a sting by the global TLAs. As with global banks and private security firms -- especially those set up by ex-TLAs. The cost of staying in business globally is to accept secret watchers of transactions -- whether in telecom, finance, arms, education, reli

Statements on MPAA Motion for Protective Order

Cryptome has submitted a statement to Judge Kaplan in opposition to MPAA's motion for a protective order to bar revelation of deposition materials. A hearing is scheduled for June 6. http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-cs.htm Anyone can submit a statement in opposition to or in support of the M

Re: censorship of the unpopular

What about net vigilantism reported today in a US national newspaper, about the volunteers who are helping the fuzz track down miscreants? One gang goes after kiddie peds, another virii, another after "unethical" hackers. In the name of keeping the Net safe for those who promote it. Smells like W

NSA on AES2

The National Security Agency had today published "Hardware Performance Simulations of Round 2 Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithms," a 55-page report: http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/NSA-AESfinalreport.pdf (165K) Its abstract: "The National Security Agency is providing hardwa

MS and Campbell On NSA_KEY in Windows

Duncan Campbell has provided a recent exchange of informative messages with Scott Culp at Microsoft on the origin, function and purpose of NSA_KEY in Windows: http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm

Re: Backbone Cencorship - Error Condition Re: Posting rejected (fwd)

Bryan Stawser wrote: >I would be very much in favor of the CDR: in the subject going AWAY - it >continues to make reading threads on this mailing list a pain in the ass. CDR is not going away so long as Jim Choate runs a CP node. The appelation is how he brands stuff originating in his machine in

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

>need killing. Unh! Everytime "need killing" appears here I call my foundation to set aside another million for whatever need may arise. Mercenaries, Kevlar, deep excavations, informant bribes, chicken bones, whiteout, alibis, titanium plates, bibles of all conceivable immortalities, Amer-Indian

Red Cross Spying

A week ago Bo Elkjaer posted his article about the USAF/Echelon spying on the Red Cross and other NGOs. At the end were two Air Intelligence Agency URLs which he says showed the Power Point slides citing this task: http://www.aia.af.mil/homepages/cc/inddays/544_indu/sld018.htm http://www.aia

Treasury CIS

A while ago there was mention here of the Treasury Department's Computer Investigator Specialist Program (CIS) unit showing up in various logs. Here is the unit's home page, which describes its mission, and where it hosts a large collection of security tools: http://www.cis.fed.gov/menu.html

Re: French InfoSec Initiative

Barney Wolff wrote: >IR != RF. Woops, I screwed that. Here is the original French, and I'd appreciate an accurate translation of "radioélectrique." First I thought it was electromagnetic, then radio-frequency, then infra-red. My native language is grunt, s'il vous plait. - Les risques inhé

Re: NYC indicts a piece of DNA

There are reports around NYC that the DNA databank may not survive pols fears of being snagged by evidence obtained from callgirls and callboys, those from outside NYC in particular, and prosecutors and police officials, men and women, are nervous about where this is going to lead if the technolog

RE: Vin McLellan & Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

Phill wrote: >I helped change the world. You guys sat on your ass and debated >theology - policing each other for political correctness as >assiduously as any Trotskyite faction. > >I just drop in from time to time to try and make it just a little >bit harder for you guys to persuade more folk