Tor 0.0.9pre1 is out (fwd from arma@mit.edu)

[Eugen Leitl]

- Forwarded message from Roger Dingledine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

From: Roger Dingledine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 03:19:44 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tor 0.0.9pre1 is out
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We've fixed quite a few bugs. We've also added compression for
directories, and client-side directory caching on disk so you'll have
a directory when Tor restarts.

tarball:   http://freehaven.net/tor/dist/tor-0.0.9pre1.tar.gz
signature: http://freehaven.net/tor/dist/tor-0.0.9pre1.tar.gz.asc
(use -dPr tor-0_0_9pre1 if you want to check out from cvs)

Changes from 0.0.8:
  o Bugfixes:
- Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  if you don't want it open.
- Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
- Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
- Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  intermittent connections.
- Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  happier.
- Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
- When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
- We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
- Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
  before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
  assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
  the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
- Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  our cpath would expire while we're building the path.

  o Features:
- Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
- Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
- Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  options.
- Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  appropriate.
- Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
  We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
  specified in HTTP 1.0.
- Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
- Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  than once per minute
- Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.

- End forwarded message -
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[John Kelsey]

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 30, 2004 5:06 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

...
>For instance, is it indeed possible that revealing this rule would pose an 
>additional security risk? If such a rule exists (and it does) then hijackers 
>obviously already know about it. Could this rule also reveal some deeper 
>secrets about how hijackers can be detected? I seriously doubt it.

One possibility raised by Dan Simon (I think) on Eric Rescorla's excellent blog is 
that the rule is part of some monthly briefing that is sent out, which might include 
some kind of information they'd rather not have published, e.g., "be especially 
careful about anyone carrying a guitar case; we've heard rumors about using one to 
bring a Tommy gun onboard."  

>Then of course, the argument may be that the government wanted to hide the 
>rule for the very reason of making it more unassailable. In other words, if 
>the rule were known, then it might be more easily contested in court. Hiding 
>the rule protects the law which in turn protects national security.

Maybe.  I guess the thing that's confusing about any of these answers is that the 
rules as they're applied must be propogated to thousands of people.  It's not like 
they could easily hide guidance like "no more than 10 Arabs per flight" or 
"double-screen anyone with brown skin and a Koran"--someone would leak it.  Perhaps 
the written rules include things like this that they don't want to subject to court 
scrutiny, but then how do they get that down to the people doing the screening at the 
gate?  

The whole idea of laws that the citizens aren't allowed to see just sounds like 
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Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

[Tyler Durden]

John Kelsey wrote...
Maybe.  I guess the thing that's confusing about any of these answers is 
that the rules as they're >applied must be propogated to thousands of 
people.  It's not like they could easily hide guidance >like "no more than 
10 Arabs per flight" or "double-screen anyone with brown skin and a 
Koran"-->someone would leak it.  Perhaps the written rules include things 
like this that they don't want to >subject to court scrutiny, but then how 
do they get that down to the people doing the screening >at the gate?
That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the 
crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so 
if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it 
out of one of em. (INVOKE SPIRIT OF TIM MAY HERE)...dress all official-like 
with a clipboard and some random badge, and start quizzing the locals about 
the current rules. Maybe that wouldn't work at JFK, but go to the airport 
at, say, Lexington So Carolina or Bumfuck Idaho and you'd get the 
information faster than a hillbilly can skin a possum for dinner.

So no way they could keep such a big secret, and I would suspect that the 
Brazil-factor is not so great that the TSA doesn't already know that.

I think you may be onto something w.r.t the Profiling issue. That may have 
more to do with it than anything. In other words, they don't want the thing 
contested in court, and the powers that be may not want to be personally 
liable.

So in other words, this law is basically secret so that it can be secret. If 
nothing else, the Iraq WMD debacle should teach that they really don't have 
some deep, secret and "justifiable" information.

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Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

[Steve Furlong]

Talking out his ass, Tyler Durden wrote:

> That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the 
> crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so 
> if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it 
> out of one of em. (INVOKE SPIRIT OF TIM MAY HERE)...dress all official-like 
> with a clipboard and some random badge, and start quizzing the locals about 
> the current rules. Maybe that wouldn't work at JFK, but go to the airport 
> at, say, Lexington So Carolina or Bumfuck Idaho and you'd get the 
> information faster than a hillbilly can skin a possum for dinner.

Have you ever done penetration testing? It would be harder at a small
airport because the people all know each other. It's the larger
organizations in which you're able to cloak yourself in anonymity.

You are correct, however, in your characterization of the screeners.
Sheesh, what a bunch of mouth-breathing imbeciles and petty thieves. I
haven't flown since 2001, but I bring people to NYC airports frequently,
and am always impressed with TSA's level of professionalism. Not
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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 
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["Hal Finney"]

There was a brief mention of this technology at the Crypto conference.
I provided some pointers in a comment to an Ed Felten blog entry at
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000677.html#comments (scroll
down to the 3rd comment).

Dan Boneh et al presented a proposal for a group signature scheme so that
the data collected would not be personally identifiable.  The problem is
that the data needs to be authenticated, otherwise rogue transmitters
could send false data and perhaps cause traffic flow problems or even
serious accidents.  So they want to use some cryptographic method.
Putting a common key in the whole system would make it too easy for
rogues to get access to, would be unrevocable, and we are back to the
rogue transmitter problem.  Using individual certified keys is the
default solution but has privacy problems: everyone would be constantly
transmitting a cryptographically verifiable record of their driving
patterns, speed, lane changing and who knows what else.

With the group signature, everybody has a unique key but their
transmissions are not bound to that key.  And if a key gets scraped
out and goes rogue, it can be revoked.  This is supposed to provide
flexibility, authentication, and privacy.

In practice I am skeptical that society will choose to protect privacy at
the expense of security.  One optional feature of group signatures is a
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the author of a particular message.  I suspect that any vehicle based
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How small towns are reversing a century of corporate personhood

[R. A. Hettinga]

Mopping off the leftist drivel from the facts below, :-), the idea of
abolishing the personhood of corporations, as a step towards freeing
enterprise from the claws of the state, is a very attractive idea. A
limited partnership can get the same results, without the "artifical
person" nonsense.

Financial cryptography actually has solutions in this regard, of course,
with bearer equity, anonymous voting, m-of-n key sharing, etc.

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How small towns are teversing a century of corporate personhood

STORY:
 KEN PICARD

Tom Linzey speaks at Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Thursday,
September 30 at 12:45 & 7 p.m.

Image: Tim Newcomb

Porter Township in northwestern Pennsyl-vania was an unlikely hotbed for an
anti-corporate uprising. The tiny rural community about an hour north of
Pittsburgh has a population of only 1500 people, many of whom are staunch
Republicans with deeply-held conservative values.

But after the Alcosan Corporation, a Pennsylvania sewage-sludge hauler,
threatened to sue Porter Township in 2002 for passing a local ordinance
regulating the dumping of sludge in their community, town officials decided
that their citizens had taken enough crap from corporations. Literally. So
on December 9, 2002, Porter became the first municipality in the United
States to pass a law denying corporations their rights as "persons" under
the law. Weeks later, Licking Township, another rural Pennsylvania
community facing a similar lawsuit, passed a more expansive ordinance
revoking all constitutional rights of corporations within their
jurisdiction.

Since then, dozens of other municipalities across Pennsylvania, some with
as few as 1000 residents, have followed suit, reversing nearly 120 years of
corporate encroachment on the rights guaranteed to all citizens under the
U.S. Constitution. Prompted by the failure of state and federal regulatory
agencies to protect citizens' health, safety and quality of life from
large-scale corporate activities, these municipalities took matters into
their own hands and reclaimed their right of self-rule. Though the laws fly
in the face of more than a century's worth of legal precedents that say
corporations are "persons" protected by the Bill of Rights and the 14th
Amendment, thus far these ordinances seem to be working.

Now some Vermonters are looking to follow Pennsylvania's example and draft
similar ordinances here to address environmental and public-health problems
stemming from large corporate activities: the influx of big-box stores, the
spreading of toxic sludge, even the proposed power increase at the Vermont
Yankee nuclear power plant. Proponents of this strategy suggest that these
laws may even be used one day to challenge undemocratic principles that
were written into the World Trade Organization charter and the North
American Free Trade Agreement.

Championing this fight is Tom Linzey, a 35-year-old Alabama-born attorney
who is the executive director and co-founder of the Community Environmental
Legal Defense Fund. Founded in 1995, the Pennsylvania-based CELDF was
initially set up to provide free legal services to small community groups
that were fighting big environmental battles: toxic-waste incinerators,
landfills, municipal sludge fields and corporate factory farms. Since then,
however, the nonprofit law firm has expanded its mission to help
municipalities around the country roll back corporate rights through local
ordinances. CELDF conducts "democracy schools" - intensive, weekend-long
seminars that trace the history of corporate rights and help citizens
reframe local issues according to a new paradigm. Once such democracy
school was held two weeks ago in Putney for 20 Vermonters from the
Brattleboro area.

Linzey, who speaks on September 30 at Vermont Law School, explained in a
recent interview how this movement began. In the mid- to late-1990s, large
out-of-state agribusinesses began applying for permits to build large-scale
hog farms in rural Pennsylvania. Local residents, who over

Re: Suit complicates First Data's move to cut porn tie

[James A. Donald]

--
On 1 Oct 2004 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>  First Data has been terminating all of its contracts with 
>  adult entertainment providers as they expire, a spokeswoman
>  said.

Way back at the beginning, cypherpunks said that the internet 
could result in alarming loss of privacy, or alarming 
improvement in privacy.  As events turned out, it went to 
alarming loss of privacy, as Bill Gates, Oliver North and the 
porn sites have discovered.

The problem is not irreversible.  If Oliver North had consulted 
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make sure his emails were really deleted.

I would have thought that the anti-trust debacle would have 
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preserving software.

Now that we finally see potential threats becoming real, 
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Re: How small towns are reversing a century of corporate personhood

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 7:04 PM -0400 10/1/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>the idea of
>abolishing the personhood of corporations

Of course, the act of abolition, using the law itself, is an exercise in
mental masturbation, which is what is really happening in Pennsylvania.

Financial cryptography gives us at least the hope of property -- or control
of property -- without legislation, if not prior legal agreement. David
Friedman's private law without public law.

Corporations, as creatures of this state wouldn't have to exist in such a
world, where limited liability could be done the old fashioned way: with
anonymity. :-)

Cheers,
RAH

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At 05:12 PM 9/30/2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
What's a "quantum repeater" in this context?
It's also known as a "wiretap insertion point"...
> As for "Hype Watch", I tend to agree, but I also believe that Gelfond
> (who I spoke to last year) actually does have a 'viable' system.
> Commerically viable is another thing entirely, however.
"Practical" implies that there's a crossover point between
cost and benefit and that implementation is on the "benefit" side.
Implementation may now be possible, and the costs may be lower
than their previous infinite value, but the main benefits I see are
public relations hype to impress the rubes and protect against
zero-day exploits against Diffie-Hellman or Cisco IOS.
But you could protect against the Cisco exploits just as easily
with a conventional-key encryption hardware box,
and you wouldn't need contiguous fiber.

Nightclub you'll want to skip - RFID microchipping the guests [BBC article]

[Bill Stewart]

Here's a nightclub you'll want to skip, unless you feel like hacking RFIDs...
("Nothing up my sleeve but this Rivest RFID Blocker!")
** Barcelona clubbers get chipped **
Some clubbers in Barcelona have opted to have a microchip implanted which 
lets them pay for drinks.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/3697940.stm >

BBC Science producer Simon Morton goes clubbing in Barcelona with a 
microchip implanted in his arm to pay for drinks.

Imagine having a glass capsule measuring 1.3mm by 1mm, about the size of a 
large grain of rice injected under your skin.

Implanting microchips that emit a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) 
into animals has been common practice in many countries around the world, 
with some looking to make it a legal requirement for domestic pet owners.

The idea of having my very own microchip implanted in my body appealed. I 
have always been an early adopter, so why not.

Last week I headed for the bright lights of the Catalan city of Barcelona 
to enter the exclusive VIP Baja Beach Club.

The night club offers its VIP clients the opportunity to have a 
syringe-injected microchip implanted in their upper arms that not only 
gives them special access to VIP lounges, but also acts as a debit account 
from which they can pay for drinks.

This sort of thing is handy for a beach club where bikinis and board shorts 
are the uniform and carrying a wallet or purse is really not practical.

Thumping heart
I met the owner of the club, Conrad Chase, who had come up with the idea 
when trying to develop the ultimate in membership cards and was the first 
person implanted with the capsule, made by VeriChip Corporation.

With a waiver in his hand Conrad asked me to sign my life away, confirming 
that if I wanted the chip removed it was my responsibility.

Four aspiring VIP members sat quietly sipping their beverages as the nurse 
Laia began preparing the surgical materials.

Like a scene from a sci-fi movie, latex gloves and syringes were laid out 
on the table as the DJ played loud dance tunes that made my heart thump, or 
was it just fear?

Questions were going through my mind. Would it hurt? What are the risks? 
What if I want to get it out?

I ordered another drink.
Comfortably numb
Laia started by disinfecting my upper arm and then administered a local 
anaesthetic to numb the area where the chip would be implanted.

With the large needle in her hand, she tested the zone which made me flinch 
and led to another dose of the anaesthetic.

With a numb arm, Laia held up the rather large needle containing the 
microchip and inserted it beneath the layer of skin and fat on my arm.

She pressed the injector and it was in - my very own 10 digit number safely 
located in my body.

The chip is made of glass and is inert so there is no risk of it reacting 
with my body.

It sits dormant under the skin sending out a very low range radio frequency 
so it will not set off airport security systems.

The chip responds to a signal when a scanner is held near it and supplies 
its own unique ID number.

The number can then be linked to a database that is linked to other data, 
at the Baja beach club it make charges to a customers account.

If I want to leave the club then I can have it surgically removed - a 
pretty simple procedure similar to having it put in.

Now, the question of did it hurt. Having the chip inserted was a breeze, no 
real pain to report of.

The real pain was the sore head the following day after a night on an open 
bar tab.

You can hear more about Simon's experiences on the BBC World Service 
programme Go Digital
Story from BBC NEWS:
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[R. A. Hettinga]

ShmooCon.  2005.  No moose.  We swear.

 ShmooCon will be an all-new, annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent
on offering an interesting and new atmosphere for demonstrating technology
exploitation, inventive software & hardware solutions, as well as open
discussion of critical information security issues.  The first annual
ShmooCon will be held February 4-6 2005, at the Wardman Park Marriott
Hotel, in Washington, D.C., just minutes from your choice of overly-curious
3-letter agencies.  So register early to keep the feds from taking up all
the space.

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 In a nutshell, over three days, there are three tracks:

 "Break It!" - a track dedicated to the demonstration of  techniques,
software, and devices devised with only one purpose in mind--technology
exploitation.  You will bear witness to some of the most devious minds,
source code, and gadgets on the planet that focus their energies on
breaking the technology we mindless sheep keep on buying.  Ba.

 "Build It!" - a track that showcases inventive software & hardware
solutions--from distributed computing or stealth p2p networks to miniature
form-factor community wireless network node hardware or robotics even.  Let
loose your inner geek, and feel free to gawk.  With all the neat stuff,
it's important to take notes--that way we all have evidence to shoot down
some sleazeball patents 5 years from now.

 "BoF It!" - a track that promotes the open discussion of critical
information security issues in a "birds of a feather" format.  From
lightning open source code audits or wireless insecurity discussion panels
to DRM rants or anonymity & privacy strategies--it's down and dirty, with
plenty of controversy for folks who like hashing it out with fellow
hackers.  Feel free to throw your Shmooball here, but no fisticuffs,
please.  Settle your differences at Hack-or-Halo in the evening, instead.

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 Naturally, with one entire track dedicated to getting similar minds in one
room to openly discuss interesting topics, and with each topic discussion
being chaired by one or more intensely involved experts in that particular
field, people who attend ShmooCon are bound to give the muscle between
their ears a good workout.  You see, that's a key goal of this
conference--to get people thinking.  Whether it's thinking about the
future, thinking outside the box, thinking about where some of your freedom
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your two cents in, and pick up a lifetime's worth of experience and
knowledge in return from the people around you.

ShmooCon will be entertaining.

 We might not have DefCon debauchery, but we heavily stress the might part
of that.  Damn near anything could happen when nearly a thousand hackers
descend upon the nation's capital.  While the Winter chill is sure to keep
most folks clothing on, the bar-crawls, club dancing, Hack-or-Halo
tournament, WLAN Bash 4 Cash, Shmooball violence, and unsanctioned attempts
at penetrating the 100+ .gov or Beltway Bandit wireless networks within 5
miles should make for quite an interesting time.  We've even convinced the
NFL to have the big game that weekend, so you and your buds can immediately
follow up the convention watching terribly expensive and mind-numbing
commercials while you try compiling all the cool code that was presented
earlier in the day.

ShmooCon will be affordable.

 As you can see, we're certainly not spending money on a web developer, but
don't be fooled by our l33t html Fu, ShmooCon is about high-quality without
the high price.  If you wait to register until the last minute, oh yeah,
you're going to pay out the ass--$250, in fact.  However, if you're not a
fed that has to wait until next fiscal year to get permission from your
mommy, daddy, and Uncle Sam, and you positively know that you are going to
ShmooCon, then we're down with that, as it were.  And so is the
cost--ShmooCon is $99 for anyone who registers before September 30, 2004! 
Aww, just shy of the new fiscal year, see?  No, we're not sorry for the
feds.  They can afford full price--have you seen your paycheck lately? 
Uncle Sam and cousin FICA could pay for ALL of us to go to ShmooCon, but
nooo.  Regardless, space IS limited, so register before the feds do.

 Can't afford $99?  Check out the call for papers!  Selected speakers AND
alternates get free admission to ShmooCon!

ShmooCon will be accessible.

 Well, except for our West coast friends.  Doh.  ShmooCon will be at the
Wardman Par

Patriot Act Misinformation

[R. A. Hettinga]

The Wall Street Journal


 October 1, 2004

 REVIEW & OUTLOOK


Patriot Act Misinformation
October 1, 2004; Page A14

The American Civil Liberties Union has been spinning its victory in a
federal court in New York this week as a blow against the USA Patriot Act.
One typical headline: "Federal Judge Calls Patriot Act Secret Searches
Unconstitutional." An ACLU press release hails the decision as "a landmark
victory against the Ashcroft Justice Department."

Well, no. If reporters had bothered to read Judge Victor Marrero's
decision, they would have learned that the law he actually struck down was
a provision of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. Section
2709 authorizes the FBI to issue "National Security Letters" to obtain
information from wire communications companies about their subscribers.
NSLs are issued secretly and the recipient is prohibited from notifying
anyone about the request.

As Judge Marrero noted in his ruling, "Section 2790 has been available to
the FBI since 1986." He concludes that there must have been "hundreds" of
NSLs issued since that time. The Patriot Act did amend Section 2790, but
that amendment has nothing to do with the part that Judge Marrero says is
unconstitutional.

One more thing: The Electronics Communications Act was not the invention of
John Ashcroft. It was sponsored by that famous and menacing right-winger,
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who said at the time that Section 2790
"provides a clear procedure for access to telephone toll records in
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-- 
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The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
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'

Call for Papers: ShmooCon. 2005. No moose. We swear.

[R. A. Hettinga]

 Washington, D.C.

 Call for Papers [PDF]

 http://www.shmoocon.org

 The Shmoo Group is soliciting papers and presentations for the first
annual ShmooCon. ShmooCon 2005 will be a highly-technical and entertaining
East coast hacker convention focused on technology exploitation, inventive
software and hardware solutions, as well as open discussion on a variety of
technology and security topics. ShmooCon 2005 will be held on February 4-6,
2005 at the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, D.C., just minutes from
your choice of 3-letter agencies.

 ShmooCon 2005 will have three tracks, each dedicated to the following:
 Break It! - Technology Exploitation
 Build It! - Inventive Software and Hardware Solutions
 BoF It! - Open Discussion of Technology and Security Topics

 Topics for the "Break It!" track may include, but are not limited to,
EXPLOITATION of:
 - Consumer electronic devices
 - Application, host, and network security
 - Telephony
 - Physical security

 Topics for the "Build It!" track may include, but are not limited to,
inventive software and hardware SOLUTIONS in:
 - Robotics
 - Distributed computing
 - Community wireless networking
 - Mobile personal computing

 Topics for the "BoF It!" track may include, but are not limited to, open
DISCUSSION of the following:
 - Privacy and anonymity
 - Exploit and vulnerability disclosure / databases
 - DRM (Digital Rights Management), fair use, copyright infringement
 - Open source software world domination strategies

 Presentation Format
 All presentations and discussions will be 55 minutes in length.
Presentations in the "Break It!" and "Build It!" tracks must include
demonstrations of personally developed techniques, working code, and/or
devices, with code and/or schematics being open-source and released to the
public for free. Initiating an open discussion for "BoF It!" requires
subject matter expertise, active involvement with the topic at hand, and a
brief presentation of the topic/problem scope.

 Shmooballs will be issued to the audience, to facilitate a frank and open
discussion of opinions. Speakers are encouraged to present innovative ideas
that not everyone agrees with.

 Submission Procedure
 To submit, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following information:
 1. Speaker name(s) and/or handle(s)
 2. Presentation Title
 3. Track preference
 4. Two to three paragraph presentation description and/or outline
 5. List facilities required. Projector for use with VGA input, flipchart,
sound projection, Internet connectivity will be provided.
 6. Speaker bio
 7. Contact info for speaker (email AND mobile number, please)

 Accepted speakers will receive free admission to the conference, as well
as a $100 honorarium after evaluation of their completed presentation. 6
runner-ups will receive free admission as hot-alternates. They should come
to ShmooCon 2005 prepared to speak, and, if it becomes necessary for them
to speak as an alternate, they too will receive a $100 honorarium after
evaluation of their completed presentation. NOTE: select presentation
submissions which are not accepted will be awarded a 50% discounted
admission to ShmooCon 2005. Presentations must be designed to include
source code, schematics, or other substantial details that demonstrate the
topic being discussed.

 Presentation proposals will be reviewed by members of the Shmoo Group. A
list of the reviewers will be posted on the ShmooCon 2005 web site when the
Call For Papers is formally issued.

 If you feel you have a presentation that would be appropriate but that
does not meet these guidelines, feel free to submit it anyway but be sure
to include a cover letter explaining your reasoning so we can evaluate your
proposal.

 All questions regarding this call for papers should be addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Schedule
 Check the web site for final dates
 July 30, 2004 CFP opens
 Early Fall 2004 papers for preferential first round consideration due
 Middle Fall 2004 final due date for all papers
 Late Fall 2004 speakers notified

 Submissions are due by late fall 2004. Preference will be given to
submissions received by early fall 2004. Selected speakers will be notified
by Halloween, 2004. We look forward to receiving your submissions as well
as seeing you at ShmooCon 2005!

 ShmooCON 2005 CFP 1.0 RC6


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R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
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'

'Frustrated' U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns

[R. A. Hettinga]

local6.com

'Frustrated' U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns

POSTED: 11:32 AM EDT October 1, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The government's cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned
after one year with the Department of Homeland Security, confiding to
industry colleagues his frustration over what he considers a lack of
attention paid to computer security issues within the agency.

 Amit Yoran, a former software executive from Symantec Corp., informed the
White House about his plans to quit as director of the National Cyber
Security Division and made his resignation effective at the end of
Thursday, effectively giving a single's day notice of his intentions to
leave.

 Yoran said Friday he "felt the timing was right to pursue other
opportunities." It was unclear immediately who might succeed him even
temporarily. Yoran's deputy is Donald "Andy" Purdy, a former senior adviser
to the White House on cybersecurity issues.

 Yoran has privately described frustrations in recent months to colleagues
in the technology industry, according to lobbyists who recounted these
conversations on condition they not be identified because the talks were
personal.

 As cybersecurity chief, Yoran and his division - with an $80 million
budget and 60 employees - were responsible for carrying out dozens of
recommendations in the Bush administration's "National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace," a set of proposals to better protect computer networks.

 Yoran's position as a director -- at least three steps beneath Homeland
Security Secretary Tom Ridge -- has irritated the technology industry and
even some lawmakers. They have pressed unsuccessfully in recent months to
elevate Yoran's role to that of an assistant secretary, which could mean
broader authority and more money for cybersecurity issues.

 "Amit's decision to step down is unfortunate and certainly will set back
efforts until more leadership is demonstrated by the Department of Homeland
Security to solve this problem," said Paul Kurtz, a former cybersecurity
official on the White House National Security Council and now head of the
Washington-based Cyber Security Industry Alliance, a trade group.

 Under Yoran, Homeland Security established an ambitious new cyber alert
system, which sends urgent e-mails to subscribers about major virus
outbreaks and other Internet attacks as they occur, along with detailed
instructions to help computer users protect themselves.

 It also mapped the government's universe of connected electronic devices,
the first step toward scanning them systematically for weaknesses that
could be exploited by hackers or foreign governments. And it began
routinely identifying U.S. computers and networks that were victims of
break-ins.

 Yoran effectively replaced a position once held by Richard Clarke, a
special adviser to President Bush, and Howard Schmidt, who succeeded Clarke
but left government during the formation of the Department of Homeland
Security to work as chief security officer at eBay Inc.

 Yoran cofounded Riptech Inc. of Alexandria, Va., in March 1998, which
monitored government and corporate computers around the world with an
elaborate sensor network to protect against attacks. He sold the firm in
July 2002 to Symantec for $145 million and stayed on as vice president for
managed security services.

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R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
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'

Effort to Create Terror Watch List Is Falling Behind, Report Finds

[R. A. Hettinga]

The Wall Street Journal


 October 1, 2004

 PAGE ONE


Effort to Create Terror Watch List
 Is Falling Behind, Report Finds

By ROBERT BLOCK and GARY FIELDS
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
October 1, 2004; Page A1


A government report concludes that efforts to protect U.S. borders and
better identify terrorist suspects by compiling a single consolidated watch
list -- from more than a dozen currently in use by federal agencies -- have
badly foundered.

The inspector general of the Homeland Security Department, in the sometimes
scathing report, cites poor cooperation among many agencies and says his
own agency failed "to play a lead role" in oversight. The report has been
delivered to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and congressional
leaders.


Compiling a viable, unified list of terrorist suspects was mandated by
Congress and ordered by President Bush after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Such a list is considered by law-enforcement agents as the most basic tool
in their arsenal and vital for protecting the country.

But now dozens of agencies, from the Federal Aviation Administration to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, continue to use different lists that
sometimes contain outdated or incorrect information and even contradict
each other. That can hamper the sharing of vital data and identifying of
suspects -- and make it easier for terrorists to slip through cracks in the
system, officials say.

"The watch list is the poster child for information sharing for all our
intelligence and government agencies," said Daniel B. Prieto, research
director for the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative at the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University. "It has been the one project
that is the most straightforward; the most defined, the most politically
accepted idea, supported by every investigative commission since 9/11. If
they can't get this one right, then shame on them." Mr. Prieto is a former
Democratic congressional staffer who monitored the watch-list issue.

An edited version of the inspector general's report is to be publicly
released on Sunday. A copy was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The findings come amid an intense debate about improving intelligence in
the wake of the 9/11 Commission's damning findings about government
failures before and after the Sept. 11 attacks. Congress is wrestling over
the creation of a new intelligence czar to better coordinate government
counterterrorism efforts. Intelligence changes also have become a campaign
issue, with the Bush administration asserting it has dramatically improved
information-sharing among law-enforcement agencies.

In the first presidential debate last night, Sen. John Kerry said the
president had failed to support police, firefighters and other programs,
saying, "This president thought it was more important to give the
wealthiest people in America a tax cut rather than invest in homeland
security. Those aren't my values. I believe in protecting America first."

REPORT EXCERPTS Below is an excerpt of the draft report to be issued by the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General on
challenges in consolidating terrorist watch list information.

Results in Brief
DHS is not playing a lead role in consolidating terrorist watch list
information. Instead, these consolidation activities are generally
administered by the entities that were responsible for collecting and
disseminating terrorist information prior to DHS's formation. DHS officials
said that the new department lacked the resources and infrastructure to
assume leadership for the consolidation. While this contention has merit,
DHS can still play a more robust role than at present by overseeing and
coordinating watch list consolidation activities across agency lines. Such
oversight would help DHS fulfill the role required by the Homeland Security
Act and better ensure that the past ad hoc approach to managing watch list
consolidation is not continued.

Stronger DHS leadership and oversight would also help improve current watch
list consolidation efforts. Although some progress toward streamlined
processes and enhanced interagency information sharing has been made, the
consolidation is hampered by a number of issues that have not been
coordinated effectively among interagency participants. Specifically, in
the absence of central leadership and oversight for the watch list
consolidation, planning, budgeting, staffing, and requirements definition
continue to be dealt with on an ad hoc basis, posing a risk to successful
accomplishment of the goal. A number of additional challenges, such as
identifying links between violent criminals and terrorism, privacy, and
duplicative federal activities related to watch list programs, could be
pursued in the context of a centrally coordinated approach to watch list
management.


In response, the president said his administration had triple

Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

[R. A. Hettinga]

The New York Times

October 1, 2004

Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag
By RACHEL L. SWARNS

EWARK, Sept. 30 - Laetitia Bohn walked into Newark Liberty International
Airport on Thursday, dazed and sleepy after an eight-hour flight from
Paris, and was jolted from her reverie when an immigration officer asked
for her photograph and fingerprints along with her passport.

 The officer took a digital scan of her left index finger, then her right,
and then snapped her picture with a tiny camera. The entire process took
only a few seconds, but for Ms. Bohn, a 29-year-old tourist from France, it
was an unnerving symbol of how much the United States had changed since the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"It made me feel kind of guilty, like a prisoner," Ms. Bohn said. "You can
feel the difference since 9/11. I was in New York seven years ago and
people were happy to have visitors. I don't think it's the case anymore."

 And so the day went - with a click of a camera and sharply conflicting
emotions as foreign visitors across the country arrived at American
airports, where officials for the first time began photographing and
electronically fingerprinting travelers from 27 industrialized nations,
including longtime allies like England, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and
Australia.

The policy shift, which was announced in April and took effect on Thursday,
will affect about 13 million visitors each year from 22 European countries
as well as Brunei, Singapore, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, who can
currently travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa.

 The change was made after intelligence reports indicated that terrorists
might take advantage of that provision, which allows travelers from Europe
and other industrialized countries to travel to the United States with
little scrutiny.

Until now, only travelers who needed visas to visit the United States were
fingerprinted and photographed at American airports in a program started in
January to ensure that suspected terrorists, criminals and violators of
immigration law do not enter the country. The program, which is now
expected to screen about 20 million foreign visitors at 115 airports and 14
seaports annually, is the latest security measure to affect foreign
visitors since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Last year, American embassies and consulates around the world began
collecting digital fingerprints from foreigners applying for visas.

 And beginning this fall, officials will require overseas visitors at some
airports and seaports to be fingerprinted and photographed before they
leave the United States to monitor whether visitors are in fact returning
to their home countries.

 "America has been a welcoming country and it continues to be one, but in
the post-9/11 era it has been necessary to make sure we know who is
traveling to our country," said Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, who directs
the customs and border protection unit at the Department of Homeland
Security.

Reaction from foreign governments was mostly muted. But some officials said
the policy raised privacy concerns. Japanese officials said they had asked
that the fingerprints and photographs be deleted when their citizens leave
this country.

"We understand the necessity of the U.S.'s new measures," Motohisa Suzuki,
who coordinates antiterrorism programs for Japan's Cabinet Office, said on
Thursday. But Mr. Suzuki added, "We need to be fully discreet about the
handling of the private information."

Airline and airport officials were bracing for longer lines on Thursday.
But customs officials, who surveyed about 20 airports on Thursday
afternoon, said that only 40 of the 1,500 flights reported slower than
normal waiting times attributed to the new procedures.

Officials noted, however, that September was typically a slow month for
overseas arrivals and that Thursday was typically a quiet travel day.

"So far, so good," said Joseph A. Cardinale, acting port director for
passport control at the Newark airport. "We've had the experience of doing
the fingerprints and the photographs for several months now, so it's not
new to the officers. That's a tremendous help.''

Tourists greeted the system with a mixture of nonchalance and irritation.

 Bruce Reid, a 59-year-old doctor from Australia, said he did not object.
"I haven't got a criminal record, so it doesn't worry me much," said Dr.
Reid, who flew into Los Angeles.

 Marleen Maas, 43, a homemaker from Frankfurt, disagreed.

"What's next? Are they going to take pieces of my hair, too?" asked Ms.
Maas, who flew into Miami to visit her daughter. "It didn't take long, but
it made me feel like a criminal."

In Newark, Marc Eisenchteter of Paris said the process moved efficiently.
Ms. Bohn agreed and said that despite her misgivings she would still return
to the United States.

 "It was more easy to visit before," she said. "But I will still come

Re:zjx,The Next Grand SlamSt0ck

[Ida Choi]

Kieth Fields,

Sequoia Interests

Trading Symbol SQNC PK

What if a  company  had  a  product  that  would  allow oil wells to
produce much more oil?

What would that stock be worth with todays oil prices  close  to  50
USD per barrel?

10,  20, 30, 100 USD? and now several of the major oil companies are
currently testing the product.

At 0.50 we think SQNC is a homerun.

To  solve  this  problem,  the  oil  industry  is  looking  for  new
alternatives for  increased  exploration  and  production. The clear
solution for increased demand and consumption can already  be  found
in  the  ground, with nearly two thirds of oil left in the ground at
US wells,  too  technically  complex  or  expensive  to extract with
traditional technologies. Enhanced oil recovery, EOR, is an exciting
new frontier in the oil and gas industry which you are going to hear
more  of  in  the  coming  years.  SQNCs  innovative  new   product,
DiamondFlo, could be at the forefront of this frontier.

SQNC  has  strong  interest  from  major  oil  and gas companies for
testing and potential licensing of this product, and is in the final
stages of the research  and  development of DiamondFlo. With testing
expected to be completed in the next 60  to  90  days,  and  planned
patent application shortly thereafter, announcements from SQNC could
cause  price  gains  for  this stock over the coming months. What is
more, DiamondFlos  unique  chemical  properties,  make  it  an ideal
solution for a number of  other  application  in  the  oil  and  gas
industry,  including  remediation  and  environmental cleanup of oil
fields, refineries, and storage facilities; an estimated 8.1 billion
market. With this revolutionary product in the development pipeline,
SQNC has also made some aggressive moves into oil and gas production
with its recent acquisition of  leases in Pecos Valley, Texas. These
operations will act as a testbed for development and  validation  of
the  DiamondFlo  product  and  could  provide  an additional revenue
stream and source of cash flow for SQNC.

With the commercialization of  its  DiamondFlo product looming near,
we feel that it  is  only  a  matter  of  time  before  Wall  Street
recognizes  this  stock.  What is more, SQNC is positioned within an
industry that has seen tremendous  upside  growth, and is headed for
even  more  appreciation  as  the  global  oil  crisis  demands  new
production solutions. Over the last  twelve  months,  the  oil  well
services  and  equipment  industry has seen an average price gain of
more than 88 percent, and savvy investors in emerging companies have
witnessed tremendous pr0fits. We  believe  that  SQNC  is one of the
most  revolutionary  new  companies  on  the  market.   With   major
announcements stemming from the completion of R and D on DiamondFlo,
do you think SQNC could make a nice move in the coming day?.

A Few Reasons to Own SQNC.

1.  With  its  innovative  DiamondFlo product, SQNC is positioned to
help alleviate the  impending  oil  and  gas  crisis, with producers
struggling to keep up with growing US  energy  demands,  as  foreign
exploration  and  production  comes  under  increasing  geopolitical
pressures.  Increased  consumption  demands  have  combined  with an
increasingly unstable  international  production  climate  to create
some of the highest prices seen at the  pump  since  the  1970s  oil
embargo,  and  crude  oil  prices  on  the spot market have recently
approached the 50  USD  mark.  As  oil  companies  seek  new ways to
maximize domestic oil recovery, the chemical EOR  approach  of  SQNC
will  be  a  major  factor  in  increasing  production  and removing
dependence on foreign oil.

2. Enhanced oil recovery, EOR,  represents  the logical next step in
expanding domestic oil production, and represents a  tremendous  and
presently  underappreciated market potential. Over two thirds of oil
in US reservoirs  is  left  unproduced  after  primary and secondary
production, leaving an incredible and untapped source for US  energy
needs.  According  to  the  US  Department  of  Energy,  EOR has the
potential to recover 35 billion barrels of oil, 50 percent more than
the current US  proven  reserves  of  23  billion  barrels, and even
greater than the US estimated undiscovered potential of  30  billion
barrels.  With  its  DiamondFlo chemical EOR solution, SQNC could be
ideally positioned to  benefit  from  a  renewed focus on production
from these untapped oil reserves.

3.  SQNC  has  developed  a  revolutionary  chemical  EOR   product,
DiamondFlo  which  offers tremendous advantages over thermal and gas
EOR methods. Thermal and  gas,  primarily CO2 injection to stimulate
production are costly and require a  complex  infrastructure,  while
other  chemical  EOR  products  have  had  limited  success  and are
environmentally damaging.  By  contrast,  DiamondFlo  is expected to
generate recovery of 20 to 40  percent  above  current  methods,  is
environmentally  safe  a