Stego worm

It's unknown to which extent the Adversary can detect presence of steganography in images being sent over the Net. But whatever capabilities they have, they can be jammed. Imagine a worm that spreads from machine to machine, and on the infected machine it finds all suitable JPEG files, generates

Re: Dangerous Proxies to Avoid

At 1:05 PM -0500 12/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The Internet Access Company Bingo. You just won "spot the fed". ;-) Cheers, RAH (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,

Re: Speaking of Reason

At 12:07 PM -0500 12/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sterling is a capitalist in the same way that Brin is a libertarian. Better be careful when you say that, or Brin'll fire up his screaming monkey routine at you... >therefore feel some need to candy coat their statism. Say 'amen', somebody...

Re: interesting pattern

It's a test if you aren't running an open proxy. Its purpose is antispam. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, An Metet wrote: > I have noticed this lately: > > When someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , shortly thereafter a query comes from > the ISP that runs the outgoing SMTP and loads http://www.thisdo

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

At 02:35 PM 12/11/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Variola wrote... > >"How do you know the signature of the unaltered carrier-medium? >E.g., have you measured the LSBit noise from my camera recently? >Under which lighting conditions?" > >Well, having done some optical signal processing (and getting

LAPD captain busted for selling bootleg DVDs

December 10, 2003 Just days after Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton pledged a crackdown on motion picture piracy, department investigators on Tuesday helped arrest an LAPD captain suspected of selling bootleg DVDs. Julie D. Nelson, a decorated patrol captain and a 28-year veteran of the

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

At 09:22 AM 12/11/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Ken wrote... "Tyler Durden's" GET them damn quote marks offa my name, or I'm comin' over there to stomp your pasty-white British ass! Ahem. Definitely. He should've written "Tyler Durden"'s instead ;-)

interesting pattern

I have noticed this lately: When someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , shortly thereafter a query comes from the ISP that runs the outgoing SMTP and loads http://www.thisdomain.com. The query does not load any images, just the base html page. It comes from IP usually in the same cloud as ou

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy

On Dec 11, 2003, at 11:54 AM, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 10 Dec 2003 at 19:31, Tim May wrote: I receive several messages a month saying I need to re-verify information with an E-gold account (which I never recall establishing, by the way). These are messagers from scammers. e-gold never sen

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

Variola wrote... "How do you know the signature of the unaltered carrier-medium? E.g., have you measured the LSBit noise from my camera recently? Under which lighting conditions?" Well, having done some optical signal processing (and getting a patent in that area, come to think of it), I imagined

Re: Cryptophone delivers source

At 05:14 AM 12/11/2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.cryptophone.de/html/downloads_en.html Perhaps a small point, but unless I'm mistaken they didn't offer the Windows client source. I think both should have been give as compromise of one side is a compromise of both. steve

Totalitarianism & Revolution

At 01:19 PM 12/11/2003 -0500, cubic-dog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:47:27AM +0100, edo wrote: > > > With the USA > > > becoming the world's most totalitarian state in disguise..

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:56 AM, ken wrote: Corporations have sales tracking software out the wazoo. If it sells, they buy more and sell them. Sounds like they're doing precisely what their owners want them to do. Yes, but, it might be that a corporation makes more money for its owners by centralis

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy

-- On 10 Dec 2003 at 19:31, Tim May wrote: > I receive several messages a month saying I need to re-verify > information with an E-gold account (which I never recall > establishing, by the way). These are messagers from scammers. e-gold never sends out email. > E-gold was never even sligh

Dangerous Proxies to Avoid

If you use anonymous proxies it would be wise to save the list below and compare the IP's to make sure you are not surfing in shark-infested waters. I often use tools to scan for and test 'public' proxies, and other tools to chain or rotate through the best. I'm sure others of us do the same. T

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings [was: Re: (No Subject)]

At 03:04 AM 12/11/03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Nothing less than a guerilla war seems necessary to restore something akin to the original constitutional balance in the U.S. But where to recruit these people? My suggestion: the terminally ill. > >Many TI come to the table with a 'gift', the

Re: (No Subject)

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:47:27AM +0100, edo wrote: > > > With the USA > > > becoming the world's most totalitarian state in disguise... > > > > That's a pretty silly thing to say. > > Sure you don't

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Anonymity)

At 06:22 PM 12/10/03 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote: >> We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance & >> co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof. >> >> We have anonymity in email thanks to remail

RE: Zombie Patriots and other musings [was: Re: (No Subject)]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nothing less than a guerilla war seems necessary to restore > something akin to the original constitutional balance in the > U.S. But where to recruit these people? My suggestion: the > terminally ill. > Many TI come to the table with a 'gift', the certaint

Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

I'd suggest "wget" for spidering sites. It can be told to ignore .robots files. It is good for mirroring sites which you suspect may be taken down. Win/Unix versions available.

Re: cypherpunks discussions

At 11:24 AM 12/8/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >No, I think few topics on the Cypherpunks list are taken private. > >My reasons are two-fold: First, to get them to stop lurking and >participate. Second, to work up the energy to compose an essay (or >mini-essay, whatever), I need some motivation. I am no

Re: Speaking of Reason

In a message dated 12/11/2003 10:04:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If that is true, why can't it simply be called "capitalist?" > > I suspect because actual capitalists would have some problems with it. Sterling makes a comment betraying what Ludwig Von Mises called t

Re: Speaking of Reason

R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 4:57 PM -0800 12/9/03, Eric Murray wrote: I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately these days the latter Tim isn't letting the

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

Tim May quoted Tyler Durden who wrote: Well, I wouldn't apply the word "oppressive" across the board to the cultures of big companies, but the fact is that modern American coporate culture more often than not imitates a top-down, 'statist' culture that is so universal we rarely recognize it. We

Re: (No Subject)

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:47:27AM +0100, edo wrote: > > With the USA > > becoming the world's most totalitarian state in disguise... > > That's a pretty silly thing to say. > Sure you don't want to educate yourself on those other states in the > worl

Re: Speaking of Reason

Declan McCullagh wrote: I don't know what "entryist" means. It might be helpful to define your terms. Really? That's odd. Taking you at your word it means someone who joins (i.e. enters) a political party or another organisation in order to take it over and change it to their own point of view

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

On Dec 10, 2003, at 6:20 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > E-gold and other DGCs do not do much if any due diligence in > checking account holder identification Unfortunately, they also don't due much if any due diligence in identifying themselves in messa

Re: (No Subject)

This reminds me of that old saw about the fellow who falls off a 100 story building: "Floor 75, everythings still okay" "Floor 50, still lookin good" "Floor 25, situation nominal" "Floor 5, feeling fine" Unfortunately, there were some communication issues after he past floor 1. We're still waitin

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

Well, that sounds reasonable on the face of it, but there's got to be a lot more discussion before I'm convinced. Remember that psuedorandom or encrypted data has a certain noise spectrum. This noise spectrum is extremely different based on what PRBS one is using...PRBS 2^23-1 looks completely

Re: Speaking of Reason

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:37:27AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > Veridian green is entryist, not commie. The watermelons would > perceive it as right entryist, or libertarian entryist. I don't know what "entryist" means. It might be helpful to define your terms. > The standard green viewpoint

Re: (No Subject)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Dec-03, at 11:10 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > Just a few hundred dead federal goons, spread over a relatively short > period > (~6 months), where the attacks were obviously coordinated, made against

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

-- From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For now, my basic assumption is that any communications I > receive that purport to be from them are a fraud, and it's > frustrating that there's no good mechanism for reporting that > to e-gold. e-gold advises that any communications you receive tha

Re: alt.anonymous.messages

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:39:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Use your laptop and random open Wi-Fi hotspots (esp. a consumer's) > for such sensitive communication. Make sure you set your WiFi NIC MAC to something random before, and that your MUA is not leaking bits into the headers. -- Eu

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

Ken wrote... "Tyler Durden's" GET them damn quote marks offa my name, or I'm comin' over there to stomp your pasty-white British ass! Ahem. As for Tim May's replies to my original post, he seems to have misenterpreted most of the basic gist of it. My basic point was that corporate cultur

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

> If you spatially fft a random photo, you'll find that the image detail > energy largely occupies certain bands. These are not the bands that stego > uses (or so I assume...it really can't be otherwise). The stego-able > spectrum will indeed be noise, but this noise will have a certain spectrum

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > E-gold and other DGCs do not do much if any due diligence in > checking account holder identification Unfortunately, they also don't due much if any due diligence in identifying themselves in messages to real or potential customers, so it's extrem

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

Original Message From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apparently from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)] Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:13:59 -0800 > -- > On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If yo

Re: Speaking of Reason

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:31:22PM +, ken wrote: > Declan McCullagh wrote: > > >I don't know what "entryist" means. It might be helpful to define > >your terms. > > Really? > > That's odd. > > Taking you at your word it means someone who joins (i.e. enters) > a political party or another o

Re: alt.anonymous.messages

From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You do not need to use remailers to take advantage of > alt.anonymous.messages. If someone posts directly to > alt.anonymous. messages, still the adversary cannot tell who he > is posting to. (Assuming his recipient sets his newsagent to > always d

Re: alt.anonymous.messages

Original Message From: Anatoly Vorobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You do not need to use remailers to take advantage of > > alt.anonymous.messages. If someone posts directly to > > alt.anonymous. messages, still the adversary cannot tell who he > > is posting to. (Assuming his reci

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

Original Message From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > E-gold and other DGCs do not do much if any due diligence in > > checking account holder identification > > Unfortunately, they also don't due much if any due diligen

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

At 07:12 PM 12/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: If you spatially fft a random photo, you'll find that the image detail energy largely occupies certain bands. These are not the bands that stego uses (or so I assume...it really can't be otherwise). The stego-able spectrum will indeed be noise, b

Re: alt.anonymous.messages

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:07:33PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On 10 Dec 2003 at 18:22, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. > > Google Groups says they have a bit more than 200 messages in > > it on December 9, for example. I assume nearly

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

In a message dated 12/10/2003 10:34:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I receive several messages a month saying I need to re-verify > information with an E-gold account (which I never recall establishing, > by the way). > > If I ever determine that E-Gold personnel have

Cryptophone delivers source

http://www.cryptophone.de/html/downloads_en.html -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org

Re: (No Subject)

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:10:03PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > > With the USA > > > becoming the world's most totalitarian state in disguise... > > > > That's a pretty silly thing to say. > > Sure you don't want to educate yourself on those other states in the > > world? > > It's not silly

Zombie Patriots and other musings [was: Re: (No Subject)]

From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:47:27AM +0100, edo wrote: > > > With the USA > > > becoming the world's most totalitarian state in disguise... > > > > That's a pretty silly thing to say. > > Sure you don't w

Two interesting communication privacy tools

1. Invisiblog http://invisiblog.com/ lets you publish a weblog using GPG and the Mixmaster anonymous remailer network. You don't ever have to reveal your identity - not even to us. You don't have to trust us, because we'll never know who you are. 2. File-Exchange https://www.meshmx.com/fe/ allo