Exporing Military encryption to China

2001-08-31 Thread Malcolm Idaho
Customs halts export to China, charges 2 By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES  Two men, one a naturalized U.S. citizen and the other a permanent resident alien, were arrested yesterday by the U.S. Customs Service on charges of attempting to export military encryption technology to China.

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 28 Aug 2001, at 7:13, Jim Choate wrote: What makes you think that new regime who used your tool to take over won't then shoot you and take 'your profits'. By participating you may in fact be signing your own death warrant. All the liberty that there is in the world today results

RE: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- Many people however believe that we [read: our government(s)] are in a downward spiral that is converging on police-and-welfare-state. In the US for example, we long ago abandoned our constitution. We still give it much lip service and we still have one of the more free

Re: Exporing Military encryption to China

2001-08-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
Politech coverage: Feds nab two PC crypto-exporters allegedly shipping to China http://www.politechbot.com/p-02453.html On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:58:27PM -0700, Malcolm Idaho wrote: Customs halts export to China, charges 2 By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Two men, one a

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread measl
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : zap my old stuff : Another facet is that the well-to-do are attempting to remove their funds from the systems so they can use those funds to educate their children as they choose. A voucher system would surely

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread measl
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:12:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: much true stuff snipped But even given the tattered First Amendment, there is still a difference between speech and

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:12:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: much true stuff snipped But even given the tattered First Amendment, there is still a difference between speech and action. Complete and utter bullshit. Measl sometimes

Re: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 02:11 PM, Faustine wrote: True, of course they do. Technology is morally neutral, sure, whatever. Yay capitalism. I still think handing over your security product beta on a silver platter in exchange for a nice fat government contract is a stupid,

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RE: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 29 Aug 2001, at 14:25, Faustine wrote: Which reminds me, I don't know why people here seem to think that any sort of deception operation would come from people who show up using nyms to express unpopular opinions. (e.g. you said something I don't want to hear; threfore its FUD

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 28 Aug 2001, at 23:00, Nomen Nescio wrote: The objection was raised, yes, it is moral, but is it profitable? There are not many communist-opposed freedom fighters around today, not much money to be made there. Most regimes on President Bush's shit list have an insurrection going

Re: Fwd: Re: Tim May and anonymous flames.

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 29 Aug 2001, at 16:40, Gary Jeffers wrote: My fellow Cypherpunks, Some time ago Tim May flamed me and I responded with the post: Tim May goes bush shooting. http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2000.09.25-2000.10.01/m sg00388.html . Note: The 3rd reference was

RE: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
Adam writes: As far as your opinions of our business, well, I'm really uninterested in getting into a pissing match with you. The reality is that customers and investors give us money tp produce privacy tools, and they, not you, are the ones I need to keep happy. The reality is that people

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim May writes: And in both of these examples I gave, Nomen Nescio took a literal reading of the examples. But Ireland is not a communist regime! But they are not Jews! Examples, like the half dozen I gave, are designed to convey to the reader the range of uses, needs, and

speech + action

2001-08-31 Thread mmotyka
Tim, It's not easy to find great links but I still say that speech + action is something that a prosecutor can use to the disadvantage of the accused even if the speech is legal and the action appears to be ineffectual or undirected. Look at how AP was used. 18 U.S.C. 23 1 seems to link speech

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Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Paul Pomes
At 09:12 PM 8/30/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But even given the tattered First Amendment, there is still a difference between speech and action. Complete and utter bullshit. And complete and utter loss of reputation capital on your part. It disagrees 100% with my interactions with law

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Re: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Adam Shostack
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:14:46PM -0700, Tim May wrote: | A mixnet of the N extant remailers offers pretty damned good | untraceability. Needs some work on getting remailers more robust, but | the underlying nested encryption looks to be a formidable challenge for | Shin Bet to crack.

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Fisher Mark
When you were asked where were all the supposed wealthy freedom fighters in communist controlled regimes, you came back with Osama bin Laden. Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool that enforces the privacy, anonymity, and pseudonymity of a women striving for equal

Re: The Tim May Question

2001-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
A. Melon wrote: [...] I'm not sure if Reese was replying to one of my messages, but this obsession less productive posters have with Tim is peculiar. Looked at as an engineering problem, one tends to look at the underperforming components. Let's say you are running a steel mill, and the

Re: Borders UK and privacy

2001-08-31 Thread John Young
Ken Brown bragged: OTOH I know people who have sampled the air in underground stations for spores and bacteria so on. There are a lot of odd organisms down there :-) A skivvied MoD scientist from Portland Downs raced past me ogling Buckingham in my red plaid tam and matching sweater,

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
Nomen Nescio replied to Tim May: [...] You need to read your own posting more carefully: Draw this graph I outlined. Think about where the markets are for tools for privacy and untraceability. Realize that many of the far out' sweet spot applications are not necessarily immoral: think

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
Is it necessary to send this message to cypherpunks twice? -Declan --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:21:45 -0500 (CDT)

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
Faustine wrote: [...] Of course it has a trap door, that's probably the whole point of getting it over there in the first place. And by the way, if you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling a boatload of the Freedom beta

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2001-08-31 Thread Duncan Frissell
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Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 10:02 AM 8/30/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: Alas, the marketing of such dissident-grade untraceability is difficult. Partly because anything that is dissident-grade is also pedophile-grade, money launderer-grade, freedom fighter-grade, terrorist-grade, etc. --Tim May How about a

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Re: speech + action

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 10:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, It's not easy to find great links but I still say that speech + action is something that a prosecutor can use to the disadvantage of the accused even if the speech is legal and the action appears to be ineffectual or

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Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:52, Faustine wrote: And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to sell their betas to the NSA, you never will. There is nothing wrong with selling betas to the NSA. I make my crypto

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:41, Faustine wrote: Of course it has a trap door, that's probably the whole point of getting it over there in the first place. And by the way, if you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling a

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- James A. Donald: (the Russian communist revolution was not a revolution, but merely a coup by a little conspiracy. Same for the Sandinista revolution). [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm curious how you draw the line? I.e., what defines a genuine revolution as opposed to a mere coup? A

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 02:52 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Faustine wrote: And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to sell their betas to the NSA, you never will. ~Faustine. If knowledge of how something works breaks it, it wasn't worth having.

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A revolution involves mass participation, and widespread spontaneous defiance of state authority. A revolution is when one part of a populace takes up arms against another part of the populace. The argument is over who gets the final say. It's

Tim's Tips on Avoiding Prosecution

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 07:10 AM, Fisher Mark wrote: Look at how AP was used. Mike, the main reason the Jim Bell prosecution started was his actions, not his words. Some of us on the list (myself included) would be majorly upset if a stink bomb strong enough to make us vomit was

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Nomen Nescio
Mark Leighton Fisher writes: Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool that enforces the privacy, anonymity, and pseudonymity of a women striving for equal rights in Afghanistan can also be used by the Taliban in their quest to track down and kill Afghans who

Re: speech + action

2001-08-31 Thread mmotyka
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Which is why I asked for you some actual cases. I pointed out that--so far as I have heard--there have been _no_ prosecutions for paramilitary training. (There may have been some paramilitary types busted for firing AK-47s, for trespassing, whatever. This is

Re: speech + action

2001-08-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where I think you misread me is this : I don't think that the government *has* this power, I think the way the laws are written and discussed, this degree of power is something for which they reach. Which must be continously tested by

Re: CDR: Tim's Tips on Avoiding Prosecution

2001-08-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote: By the way, the SS also demanded that I give them my name and show them my driver's license. I refused, so at least they never got my name entered into the Master Data Bank of Presidential Threateners. There is this device called a camera... --

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 02:41 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Faustine wrote: And by the way, if you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling a boatload of the Freedom beta to the NSA in 1999 as well. What did they think they wanted it for, farting around on

Enemies of the People...the customers of strong crypto

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 07:22 AM, Fisher Mark wrote: When you were asked where were all the supposed wealthy freedom fighters in communist controlled regimes, you came back with Osama bin Laden. Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool that enforces

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Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread mmotyka
Duncan Frissell wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I said was that actions can have unintended consequences. Make well considered choices. Look at the power industry deregulation in CA. Too much, too quickly and poorly crafted. By all means let's improve the

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Faustine
Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. Maybe in the long run, it's right to view any objections as

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread georgemw
On 31 Aug 2001, at 19:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: But the more sophisticated technologies are not self-contained tools. They require a supported and maintained infrastructure to operate. Anonymous posters are painfully aware of how inadequate the current remailer system is. A truly reliable

RE: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-31 Thread Faustine
Jim wrote: On 29 Aug 2001, at 14:25, Faustine wrote: Which reminds me, I don't know why people here seem to think that any sort of deception operation would come from people who show up using nyms to express unpopular opinions. (e.g. you said something I don't want to hear; threfore its

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason.

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Morlock Elloi
There are *no* tools which are useful *only* for powering down government. Well, there are some *biased* tools. Anuthing that builds real or virtual walls impedes the spread of monocultural fungal infection (aka the government). The more power an entity has, the less walls it needs. So

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. As I recall, this was an

Re: News: U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship

2001-08-31 Thread Faustine
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design eventually were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason.

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread mmotyka
To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to read poopyhead (isn't that now the official CP insult?). Actually, I think the currently hip term would be twit :-) Dunno, I've seen both recently. Just trying to live up to my slave training and conform. Look at the part you snipped : I'm not saying

An efficient Scheme for Proving a Shuffle

2001-08-31 Thread Fisher Mark
An efficient Scheme for Proving a Shuffle, Crypto 2001, Jun Furukawa and Kazue Sako (NEC Corporation), apparently could be used to show that a remailer is processing all messages without revealing the header or contents of any message. (Apparently because I haven't read the paper -- just heard

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:59:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, why do you think that when someone is a government employee they are automatically inferior to everyone in the private sector? That's irrational. Right. Folks in the policy arms of the federal government can be quite

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Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 02:29 PM 8/31/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some jobs do not attract the best and brightest but I think it's safe to assume that even in what you might consider the least likely places you will find some very sharp people. Your example of the Bush WH staffers is proof ;) More seriously,

Re: secure IRC/messaging successor

2001-08-31 Thread Derek Atkins
gale has scaling problems to large numbers of users, in particular for group messaging. -derek Eugene Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gale http://www.gale.org/ seems a well thought out infrastructure. Is the consensus this is it, or have I missed any alternatives? TIA, -- Eugen* Leitl

Re: secure IRC/messaging successor

2001-08-31 Thread Rich Salz
gale has scaling problems to large numbers of users, in particular for group messaging. What doesn't? :) Gale seems to have a better security story, but Jabber certainly has the momentum and large force behind it. ironyPlus, it's XML so you *know* it's good./irony /r$ -- Zolera