Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-04 Thread John Young
The White House Communications Agency is also working hard to secure presidential communications, with legacy systems needing ever-increasing maintenance and upgrades, the market continuing to outpace the big-ticket legacy clunker equipment, too expensive to chuck outright, yet having flaws begging

Spread Spectrum Image Steganography Patent

2003-06-13 Thread John Young
The US Army today announced the availability of licensing of its patent for "Spread Spectrum Image Steganography:" http://cryptome.org/usa-patent.htm(with copy of the patent) Patent Abstract The Spread Spectrum Image Steganography (SSIS) of the present invention is a data hiding/secret co

US Encryption Export Clarified

2003-06-17 Thread John Young
The Bureau of Industry and Security today issued: Export Administration Regulations: Encryption Clarifications and Revisions SUMMARY: This rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to clarify when encryption commodities and software may be given de minimis treatment, when short-r

Re: Destroying government computers

2003-06-19 Thread John Young
Hatch issued a press release yesterday softening his remarks but not recanting. His statement at the hearing does indeed raise the national security threat of P2P in which mil and gov computers using P2P could be attacked by evildoers and grab nation-threatening information, or damage the machines.

Re: Reporter writing article on proffr/mattd and threats

2003-07-03 Thread John Young
It is a fact that proffr/mattd is Declan. Confirming the practice of cpunks confecting imaginary personas to vent their inner evildoing then protesting the vile behavior, disclaiming any contact with their perps. Then campaigning to have the shits banned from an putative open liars forum. That's w

Web Privacy War

2003-07-03 Thread John Young
WSJ today reports on the war between web privacy firms and the feds: http://cryptome.org/web-priv-war.htm Lance Cottrell and other privacy protection firms are featured -- does Anonymizer really bring in up to a $1M a year? Lance says he doesn't keep logs thus cannot respond to subpoenas. Othe

Radiation Sniffer

2003-07-04 Thread John Young
The radiation sniffer in NYC and proposed for elsewhere in the US is described in this DOE doc: http://www.eml.doe.gov/factsheets/HS_Platform.pdf Here's the aircraft monitoring program: http://www.eml.doe.gov/factsheets/rampscan.pdf There's more on a variety of homeland security monitoring

Re: Unsubtle Wetwork

2003-07-19 Thread John Young
Perhaps a suicide but if so it was induced by Kelly's treatment, not only by the goofus members of parliament, but more likely by the Ministry of Defence threatening to punish him for violation of the draconian Official Secrets Act. The Brits for all their admirable humor about vulgarity -- the ne

Re: Jerk with a t-shirt

2003-07-24 Thread John Young
The rights of property owners, especially commercial property, are not as absolute as sometimes argued. Due to the public services provided by governmental authorities, tax perqs not the least, property owners are required to abide a diverse range of laws and regulations to provide assurance that p

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

2003-07-25 Thread John Young
Oh, like Uday and Qusay, you can't kill this immortal fucker, nobody got the guts to plow a TOW in it. Instead, thousands of gutless have hari-kiried by exiting the battle for well.com nutlick where the dead live in perfect, silent synchrony, so that is a no-brain, no-work option. Sit still, chi

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-13 Thread John Young
The infallible archives show that the top users here of "fuck off" are ... well, not to provoke additional applications of the highly acceptable use term, check the archives yourself. Reese is no where near the top user, except at sea. This is not to suggest that heavy users of the term have no

CIA Wizardry

2001-07-14 Thread John Young
Robert Windrem, national security correspondent for NBC, reported on July 12 about Jeffrey Richelson's new book, "The Wizards of Langley," on the CIA's deceptive technologies: http://www.msnbc.com/news/599637.asp Blurb: "Intelligence historian Jeffrey Richelson's latest book focuses on four de

Re: This Adobe stupidity...

2001-07-19 Thread John Young
Mirror of the ElcomSoft AEBPR trial version: http://cryptome.org/aebpr/aebpr22.zip (746KB) For cryptographic scientific research allowed under the DMCA here is a key from Anonymous to boost the trial version to its 100% capability (though not verified): LEPR-T2K7-NA8Z-3DUE-EVDQS-TMPV-MB

Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

2001-07-21 Thread John Young
Why bust Dmitry and not the head of ElcomSoft if the primary crime is commercial gain? That he is claimed to be the copyright holder is thin stuff, for that does not support his being the main commercial beneficiary (unless the FBI has evidence that was not revealed about Elcomsoft's internal fi

Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread John Young
Declan: >Your guess is as good as mine, and I'll defer to the criminal lawyers here, >if there are any. My suspicion: In truly "criminal" enterprises, I suspect >they'd go after the officers of the corporation. But in practice >"trafficking" is a broad prohibition, and the Feds will arrest any

Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

2001-07-21 Thread John Young
Declan: >The problem with this analysis is that he does not have to be the >main commercial beneficiary for the charges to stick. But, to repeat, why the worker and not his bosses? Is this a way for Adobe/FBI/DoJ to signal the interest of its own bosses? And why are the protests limited to Adob

Adobe, EFF Call for Dmitry Release

2001-07-24 Thread John Young
>From a press release today: --- Adobe Systems Incorporated and the Electronic Frontier Foundation today jointly recommend the release of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov from federal custody. Adobe is also withdrawing its support for the criminal complaint against Dmitry Sklyarov. "We str

Re: Adobe, EFF Call for Dmitry Release

2001-07-25 Thread John Young
In follow-up to Adobe's claim in the press release that AEBPR is no longer available in the US we would appreciate pointers to sources for the program in the US or elsewhere (other than Elcomsoft's offerings of the trial versions). Full capability versions preferred but pointers to sources of

Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

2001-08-01 Thread John Young
Black Unicorn wrote: >If I were a duly appointed law enforcement official I could arrest you for the >kind of shoes you were wearing. You'll have recourse eventually, but it will >be after a 24 hour (or so) stay in the pokey and posting bail and hiring an >attorney, and Yes, yes, and the cl

RE: Laws of mathematics, not of men

2001-08-01 Thread John Young
The time for confidences is over. Lawyers are considering a change in their ethics about ratting on clients (see NY Times today); priests are ratting about criminal confessions; reporters are ratting on interviewees, psychiatrists are ratting patients. DoJ and the courts are squeezing all the priv

What You Don't Know Will Kill You

2001-08-04 Thread John Young
Hans Mark, a septugenarian DoD official in a seminar at Harvard on "Intelligence, Command and Control," in Spring 2000 said: "It is as bad to have too much information as it is not to have any. Both contribute to Clausewitzs fog of war. It is not good to have a completely transparent co

Re: Slashdot | Roasting Sacred Cows

2001-08-04 Thread John Young
Jim, Some of the titles of URLs you offer appear interesting. Could you include a paragraph or two for each? Say, at least as much text as the skull clutter of your headers and sig.

Re: "Space War"

2001-08-06 Thread John Young
Don't overlook what is reportedly happening on the back side of the moon. The URL for an IF-mooncam was posted here a while ago. The stream is encrypted but with weak crypto -- the crypto-processor is 1968-9 vintage. The cam is part of a data package placed on the dark side in a classified opera

Public Records in USA v. Sklyarov

2001-08-06 Thread John Young
Cryptome has obtained 60 pages of public records filed in USA v. Dmitry Sklyarov: five pages of Court documents and 55 pages of submissions in support of Dmitry's character and achievements. They are offered in compressed TIFF format: Court Documents: Order Setting Conditions of Release and A

Re: Star Chamber America

2001-08-08 Thread John Young
Note that it was the United States Attorney's office which first published the criminal complaint on July 17 while the case records remained sealed until August 6, 2001. The judge's Minute Order of August 6 stated: "Complaint is ordered unsealed," three weeks after the USA deployed the complaint

IRS War Against US Homeland

2001-08-08 Thread John Young
On the likelihood of undercover IRS agents being long active on cypherpunks, and/or the use of Jim Bell as a lure for entrapment: Can anyone with experience in law and/or law enforcement comment on what other law enforcement agencies are permitted to do what the IRS agents can, as noted here yes

Cell Phone Gun

2001-08-12 Thread John Young
Anonymous forwarded a video (with sound) of a cell phone gun, showing it being assembled and fired four times: http://cryptome.org/handy-gun.htm This device was described here some time ago, I believe, and while the forwarded post appeared to come from a USAF officer on Milnet, I wonder if th

Re: Cell Phone Gun

2001-08-13 Thread John Young
Thanks to Interesting People and Matthew Gaylor here is the ABC News report of December 6, 2000, on the cell phone gun: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/phone001205.html

Re: Bomb Law Reporter - special edition

2001-08-18 Thread John Young
Somewhere it has been written that it is high chickenshit to post a claim that it will be "my last in the thread" rather than just not shit that last pile and then walk away a little distance to spy who comes to sniff and shit on yours thus requiring yet one more dollop of numero uno grafitti, u

Re: FBI Tries to Set Up Brian K. West

2001-08-19 Thread John Young
The name of the prosecuting attorney is on the plea bargain sent to Brian, copy below. I agree that this kind of once-okay data-mining and publishing will now get you Bell-jarred, CJ-jugged. --- Full listing of Brian West case files: http://www.bkw.org/pdf/ From: http://www.bkw.org/pdf/us

Re: FBI Tries to Set Up Brian K. West

2001-08-20 Thread John Young
Sperling is the office boss, not the case prosecutor, who is AUSA Gallant. A report claims that a person with the last name Gallant is the sysadmin at Brian's competitor - who operated the Okie Rag's Web site Good Cyber-Citizen Brian reported to be holey and got cyber-criminalized forthwith. Whe

RE: Raid 'em, raid 'em now.

2001-08-22 Thread John Young
>JYA may be obscure but you're just loony. And I'm warning you it's the minerals in Texas water, we can't help ourselves from being apes of Lyndon Johnson, Billy Sol Estes, Steve Jackson, Judge Roy Bean, Ike Eisenhower, George Shrub, Janis Joplin, Governors Ma Ferguson and Pappy Lee O'Daniel, the

Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-25 Thread John Young
Eugene, I'd appreciate your not addressing mail to me concerning Jim Bell, though that may be due to the way your mailer is set up to respond to cpunk mail. I got subpoenaed to the grand jury and trial because Jim Bell's responses to my messages to cpunks were addressed to me and cc'ed to cpunks

Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-25 Thread John Young
See 9-page judgment in TIF format: http://cryptome.org/jdb-hit.tif (262KB) In addition to 10 years Jim was also fined $10,000 due immediately and faces three years of probation. No computer use and a long list of other prohibitions including "no direct or indirect contact with the victim

Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-25 Thread John Young
Judgment converted to PDF: http://cryptome.org/jdb-hit.pdf (404KB)

RE: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-25 Thread John Young
I've been typing in the cpunks address in reply for months, and don't mind, after reading about a host of problems associated with automatic replies and cc's and hidden header information that doesn't show up kiddie-script mailers. And nothing I've written about avoiding private contact with Jim

Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-25 Thread John Young
We'll have up this weekend a 180-page report by the Defense Science Board on "Protecting the Homeland -- Defensive Information Operations," a study conducted in the summer of 2000, published in March 2001, which describes in detail multi-billion dollar proposals for combating threats to the US b

Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-25 Thread John Young
Declan, you are still tarring me with messages addressed to me and cc'ed to cpunks. So I state: I want no direct e-mail to me about cybercriminals convicted or likely to be that. Anybody does that after I ask them not to I will consider working with the authorities, wittingly or unwittingly. Le

Bell Sues

2001-08-26 Thread John Young
Here's the 14-page court docket for Jim Bell's case through August 25, 2001: http://cryptome.org/jdb082501.htm This lists several of Jim's appeals, the last on August 14. For a flavor of what's been going on to deny Jim his rights here's a footnote to a "Sentencing Memorandum" of August 9 b

Bell Case Files

2001-08-26 Thread John Young
We've put up some 80 court filings in the Bell case, hyperlinked to the August 25 docket cited here yesterday: http://cryptome.org/jdb082501.htm Recall that Judge Tanner sealed all the public files that were available when he learned one of the filings provided names of the jury pool and name

RE: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-28 Thread John Young
Aimee Farr could be a nice lady lawyer who just appeared here by serendip or a ... MS shiteater operating under the entrapment rules of IRS investigation manual. Speaking what my nose tells me about Aimee's taunts and ear licks here, and after smelling the shit spread in Tanner's courtroom, sh

RE: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-28 Thread John Young
DF wrote: >They need an overt act. Mere chat won't be enough. True, to a point. What constitutes an act appears to be going through a dramatic redefinition in cybercrime and allegedly terrorist-related actions. An overt act is not the same for everyone; authorities commit acts (crimes) that th

Bell Testimony Day 2

2001-08-30 Thread John Young
Day 2: http://cryptome.org/jdb040901-2.htm Completion of direct questioning by Robert Leen, Jim's many-times-fired attorney, and cross-examination by Robb London. Two cpunks are mentioned by Jim by name, with glowingly admirable death kisses. But he also kisses Leen (says Leen threatened t

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, whisp

SIGINT Law in the US

2001-09-01 Thread John Young
Lawrence Sloan writes in the Duke Law Journal http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?50+Duke+L.+J.+1467 - "The various allegations surrounding ECHELON can be roughly grouped into two categories. The first set of allegations, coming primarily from Europe, concerns the use of the ECHELON

Re: cryptosocialismo

2001-09-02 Thread John Young
Choate wrote: >crypto-anarcy <> anarcho-socialism <> crypto-capitalism That's part but not all. Anarchy is not an absolute, only an opposition to the prevailing archy whether capitalist, socialist, capitalistic-socialism, socialistic-capitalism, and their mealy-mouthed democratic-communistic- ol

Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread John Young
On ZKS selling anonymizing products that are publicly available to governmental officials does raise an issue of whether officials should, or should be able to, conceal their official identities when working cyberspace in an official capacity. I think not, though it might be as impossible to get

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread John Young
I try to abide the principle that if one gets anonymized all should. However, there is a disparity in who gets to leverage that anonymity -- from the citizen to the empowered official. We have now more privilege of conealment on the official side, and that needs redress, constant redress a rebel

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread John Young
Sorry, I'm not proposing a law, certainly not on this list. Rather a voluntary concordance for reputation building, not only in citizen-world but in government-world. There has been a lot of good discussion about this here in the past and I'm not going against that wisdom. Greg is tracking that

Re: Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

2001-09-05 Thread John Young
Declan, you condescending prig, I did read your message and was trying to askance your clubfingeredness about "possession," which isn't as monolithic as you vaunt and which smacked overmuch of LEAs' agressive erasure of distinctions. Hector me not, for the failure to look behind heavy-handed l

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-05 Thread John Young
Let me jump in to say that I'm not advocating no access to anonymizers by officials only that that access be disclosed. It shouldn't be an embarrassment to reveal that federal agencies have bought such products. Disclosure as well of any features of the products sold to officials that are differ

Begging for Enemies of the State

2001-09-07 Thread John Young
WSJ had a hilarious report yesterday about the frantic search for prisoners to fill empty prison beds that have resulted from frantic construction to meet court orders and mandatory sentencing now offset by declining crime rates -- or sentencing rates -- and governments kicking prisoners out of

UKUSA Courts Monitoring

2001-09-10 Thread John Young
Wouldn't it be provocative to imagine that HMG and USG were exchanging monitoring of high courts under a "you watch mine, I'll watch yours" UKUSA pact. For example, this DNS entry: Host, master (HM-ORG-ARIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nortel Plc F.A.O. Andrew MacphersonLondon

Many bin Ladens

2001-09-14 Thread John Young
The Germans report that Ata and others planned the attacks while at an electrical engineering school in Germany and so far no connection to bin Laden has been found. That a small, smart, talented group could conceive and carry out the attacks may be inconceivable to those who believe in massive,

Cheering WTC Exports

2001-09-14 Thread John Young
The NY Times has a brief story today about the arrest of five guys in Jersey busted for celebrating the takedown of WTC. They are identified as Israelis, and "exportable."

Re: Crypto Access

2001-09-15 Thread John Young
Blocks and limitations on downloads have been removed on Cryptome and JYA. We ask that bots and spiders be configured and monitored to avoid repetitiveness, looping, recycling and checking for previous downloads. Bandwidth trashing programs will be seen as attacks and blocked to assure access b

Crypto Access

2001-09-15 Thread John Young
might grab more for inclusion unless others are doing that. To comply with law we'd have to notify BXA of any new offerings. ----- John Young PK: -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http:

Re: [linux-elitists] Cryptome up for mirroring (fwd)

2001-09-16 Thread John Young
Eugene, Perhaps as a result of my lifting blocks at your request Cryptome is nearly shutdown by people sucking contents for mirroring. My intention was to encourage mirroring not of Cryptome but of important crypto tools listed at: http://jya.com/crypto-free.htm Most of Cryptome is non-esse

RE: SYMBOL

2001-09-16 Thread John Young
Yes, Sandy, how do you do that? Sincerely, I'm not being a wiseass. Some building types have disappeared over time due to understanding that they don't work any more. Glorious buildings that once were once seen as absolutely the best ever. Forts, for example. Gothic cathedrals that failed after e

RE: SYMBOL

2001-09-16 Thread John Young
Sandy, not to disagree with you, but >Ants do not build cloud piercing towers of adamantine steel and glass, the >mind of man does. YMMV. this describes stolen jumbo-sized Stingers, dual-use at its best. No joke, the mind of man is a hyde and jekyl, at home and overseas. What I like about thi

Re: SYMBOL

2001-09-17 Thread John Young
Visions of mega, ultra, unbelievable high rise towers are a stock off the shelf stuff for architects and tall building engineers. Clients and designers with delusions of grandeur, or need for PR to help fend off debtors and unwanted bastards, dream up these fantasies all the time. A crony and I wo

RE: Zimmermann\'s shameful display...

2001-09-21 Thread John Young
But isn't obligatory for all world class cpunks to have several nyms they post under, and to bad mouth and obsequy those fictions with exactly the same identifiable writing style, shifting one register to the left then to the right? I have here a list of names and perfectly intercoggal nyms. The

IRS, Deceit, Rats, Narcs

2001-09-21 Thread John Young
Ashcroft's anti-terrorism bill proposes allowing IRS data to be shared with law enforcement and intelligence agencies. As if that would be a new. The bill would also lift the stay of US attorneys taking part in illegal undercover work. As if that was new. Bush has asked citizens to inform on th

Re: Code Red seems to be back.

2001-09-18 Thread John Young
The worm hit Cryptome at 8:43 AM EST and is now sucking at a rate of about 90% of the load. As others have noted, the bulk of the hits appear to be coming from our own ISP, either by design or by spoofing the origin. Our server is on Apache but the worm generates endless errors attempting to find

Re: Intercepts foretold of 'big attack' -- The Washington Times

2001-09-24 Thread John Young
Bill Gertz has received an extraordinary number of leaked documents. Most of those occurred during the Clinton era when national security mongerers opposed to Clinton's policies leaked top secret stuff. Those kinds of leaks seemed to have diminished now that those anti-Dems are in power again. Th

Re: Smallpox?

2001-09-26 Thread John Young
David Honig wrote optimistically: >Zero unemployment, rents drop in cities, and smooth >skin becomes even more desirable. Not if New York City leaders get their way: high rents, pestilence, repulsive jobs, diseased bodies, will continue as intended for the Apple like other great cities of the

Re: Baltimore Digital Commerce Society-- Korhammer on Lava Trading, Nov 6

2001-10-01 Thread John Young
Peter Wayner wrote: >But please come to listen to hear about their company not about the >WTC. But when do we hear about the really important stuff the company employees learned from 80 feet away, to hell with hearing more online trivia of phonexing the ashes. Not that the lucky CEO knows an

Re: cryptome down ?

2001-10-03 Thread John Young
At the moment it appears that Verio's DNS server failed to register cryptome.org as a valid domain name, whereas jya.com was. We've placed an order to correct that. We had ordered that the two domains be put on two different boxes, geographically distant, to avoid both sites going down if one was

WTC Crime Scene

2001-10-03 Thread John Young
Today I managed to walk around the stupefying WTC disaster site for half an hour, doing what a serious professional would be doing: taking dozens of careful photographs of the ruins. Then an NYC cop asked to see my authorization to be photographing a crime scene. I said nobody told me not to.

WTC Photos

2001-10-03 Thread John Young
We're now tranferring the 72 WTC photos to Cryptome at full resolution, each about 1 MB. Due to the size we would appreciate a few mirrors being set up before we announce to ease the load on our new finicky server. If anyone can handle a collection of about 76MB, send me a message and I will prov

Re: WTC Photos

2001-10-04 Thread John Young
Agreed that reduced-size images are desirable. One or more of the mirrors are offering those, Parrhesia for example. We elected to initially offer the full size to not limit what can be offered by others and to feed those with terabyte maws. When image downloads jam shut Cryptome, which seems li

Re: WTC Photos

2001-10-04 Thread John Young
Yes, Incognito is correct. But what you need for experiencing the real thing is this little bag of rainbows which Guiliani and Pataki and Bush hand out to special visitors. I grabbed a bunch of these grandiloquenizers from Red Cross which freely dispenses them to the cadaver bits mongerers. The

Re: cryptome down ?

2001-10-02 Thread John Young
There have been a half dozen folks who said today they could not access Cryptome, but it's accessible from here. And there are only a half dozen blocks of rampaging bots. However, we are in the process of switching the archives to new machines and IP address changes are in the works -- completion

Re: Congress drafts new "anti-terror" bill -- with expiration date

2001-10-02 Thread John Young
There are numerous changes in PATRIOT from MATA and ATA, and it has over twice their length. It still uses the same obfuscation style of burying dozens of proposals as modifications of existing legislation, making it hard to understand what is being proposed without jigsaw puzzling the pieces into

Re: Kill Killfile

2001-10-17 Thread John Young
Declan unimpressively underwrote: >Oh, you're being too generous in Fedpraise. Only one cypherpunk >subscriber that I know of is currently in gaol, that's Jim Bell of >course, and this list was just one of many fora he frequented. CJ now >appears to be on the loose again, showering us with his, u

Crypto Typing ID

2000-06-29 Thread John Young
The NY Times reports today on an encryption product which has a biometric password set by typing rhythm -- speed, key-hit impact, pattern, maybe a few more. Developed by Net Nanny, the producer claims no two people type exactly the same way. Its called BioPassword. The product is to be used by Mu

Re: Rijndael & Hitachi

2000-10-05 Thread John Young
Has NIST provided other information on the Hitachi patent and the USG's evaluation of it other than Jim Foti's inscrutible comments on the discussion forum and similar inscrutibity in the R2 report? If this is all there is, it stinks of rancid red herring being called this year's never-you-mind

Re: Musings on AES and DES

2000-10-09 Thread John Young
Vin wrote: > It will be interesting to see how explicit it is, and what sort of >demand for an overt stamp of approval from the NSA still exists in the >marketplace. NIST has stated that the maximum endorsement will be to use AES for non-classified government information. So the questi

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

2003-11-10 Thread John Young
SA Renner did most of the talking and carried a manila folder with a file name on it beginning with "SP," I think. Couldn't see the remainder. He didn't open it during the session and it may have been a prop. They showed up without warning, no call ahead, got past our Doberman doorman (we're on

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

2003-11-30 Thread John Young
My comment about the SAs having no noticeable body odor came out the notion that persons on a dangerous mission emit an easily identifiable smell, a smell not unlike that emitted by an unwary target when suddently confronted with danger. Innocents need not worry about these unintentional fear ema

FOIA Data Mining

2003-11-30 Thread John Young
We've made a few FOIA requests, but none have produced a flood of paper like that made to the US Army INSCOM for a list of military intelligence files provided by anonymous, most dating from the 1940s and 1950s but some up to the 70s and 80s. An aspect of the response has been INSCOM forwarding o

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-07 Thread John Young
When I got censored by [EMAIL PROTECTED] a couple of weeks ago I tried to subscribe to these nodes: Algebra Infonex Lne Minder Sunder Pro-ns Openpgp Ccc Subscription was successful only on: Algebra Pro-ns Both of thse provided a "who" response on 11/10/03 of Algebra 122 Pro-ns 14 I get the sa

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-07 Thread John Young
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Re: cypherpunks discussions

2003-12-09 Thread John Young
Nomen Nescio wrote: >I find it strange that some people here so often wants to >intimidate those that dares to ask some questions. >Eric put it very well in his post about dicksizewar. Very >true indeed. > >I find it very *l*a*m*e* to all the time tell people to RTFM >when something comes up t

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

2003-12-13 Thread John Young
It was discovered a while back, check the archives, or Tim's FAQ, that all the remailers were compromised, with or without the operator's complicity with TLAs. After that discovery there was a turning of the covert control to re-direct it toward its implementer(s). That was soon re-turned by the T

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread John Young
There's a good possibility that Saddam was traced by Tempest sensing, airborne or mundane. The technology is far more sensitive than a decade ago. And with a lot of snooping technology kept obscure by tales of HUMINT, finks, lost laptops and black bag jobs. For less sensitive compromising emanati

An Analysis of Compromised Remailers

2003-12-15 Thread John Young
This came in response to Cryptome's posting of Len Sassman's comments on remailers. - From: S Subject: Re: remailers-tla.htm Compromised Remailers, December 15, 2003 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:16:17 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you for posting the "Comprom

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism

2003-12-31 Thread John Young
What's pleasurable about reading the fiction of ideologues like Tim is the smack-down tone of their prejudices. Fake, fake, fake. Nowhere in Tim's spew is the recognition that the largest beneficiaries of government favoritism are corporations and wealthy individuals like himself, especially those

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism

2003-12-31 Thread John Young
>On 31 Dec 2003 at 12:45, Tim May wrote: >> People like Tyler Durden, James Donald, and John Young are >> using the tired old cliches about how it is "society that >> paid for business" and hence "society" has some right to take >> a cut of each trans

Re: So many statists

2004-01-03 Thread John Young
Tim has become so proprietary about cypherpunks it's strange that he's never operated a node himself, or underwritten all of them in the generous spirit of John Gilmore. Maybe Tim has been underwriting them quietly and that accounts for his obnoxious bitching when the discourse doesn't go the way

Re: Nuking USG: not just for cypherpunks anymore

2003-10-11 Thread John Young
According to the Reuters account below, it was Robertson, not Mowbray, who called for the State Department nuking. A Virginia citizen who would be nuked if State is, has reported Robertson to the FBI TIPS, observing that a Muslim cleric who made such a comment would surely be arrested or detaine

Test of BIOS Spyware

2003-10-14 Thread John Young
We received the note below about spyware allegedly created for a Maryland agency with code which needs to be tested. We'd appreciate feedback on the note and the code. Beware of a sting. The code: http://cryptome.org/ExpCode.ASM - The note: CPR Tools Inc. of Labelle, Florida is engaged in

Iranian Code Crack

2004-06-02 Thread John Young
Information, speculation or leads on the Iranian cryptosystem allegedly cracked or black-jobbed by the US are welcomed for publication on Cryptome.org. Reported today in the NY Times and elsewhere. The Times claims it was asked by the USG to withhold information about the crack (allegedly revea

Re: Stu Baker on CALEA and the Net

2001-10-19 Thread John Young
Julian Assange affianted: >It's wise understand someone's agenda based on their past actions >and attempts at influence and not the affability of their face. When I first got within 20 trace aromas of the lushness of Baker's double cultivated what-grows-wild-elsewhere above his peepers, my bub

Biowar Disinfo

2001-10-19 Thread John Young
Dr. Evil wrote: >There is no counter-countermeasure necessary. The goal of the >terrorists isn't to take down America by killing Americans. The goal >of anthrax is to spread hysteria and terror, and it is doing that with >great efficacy. The Wall Street Journal of October 18 quoted portions of

War Criminals

2001-10-24 Thread John Young
Paul Krugman, Economic Columnist, New York Times, 24 October 2001: At worst, war bonds will offer a lower return than ordinary bonds. And if some people buy them nonetheless, what will they finance? Here's where that tax bill enters the picture. The remarkable thing about the 'stimulus' packag

WTC Choppers

2001-10-24 Thread John Young
Frog wrote: >Not a plausible claim, to anyone who recalls the situation at the >top of the WTC on those days. The incredible heat and smoke from >an entire jetliner full of fuel a hundred feet below would make >helicopter operations impossible. Trying to land on the roof under >those circumstan

Re: Where The Torture Never Stops...

2001-10-25 Thread John Young
Come on Onin, watch the numbers skyrocket after Bush signs off on Ashcroft's wet dream. The US has the most bloated "justice" industry in the world, far bigger than any in history, and the spate of bills appearing will fatten these pigs beyond anything seen in the commie and fascist regimes. We ar

Re: MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001®

2001-10-24 Thread John Young
Hillary was in good company: Richard Gere got booed for suggesting tolerance not vengeance, and the NYC Fire Commissioner got booed the loudest by firemen for being a publicity whore and Guiliani flunkey who has been trying for years to cut back on firefighting services under Rudy's orders. The F

Re: JOHN EDWARD

2001-10-27 Thread John Young
Wait, Sandy, John Edward does sci-fi comedy. Like Penn and Teller catching bullets with teeth, David Caine levitating. Dr. Spin on Fox, Dr. Germ in Iraq. It's reality TV, like Dan and Tom and The Intelligent One. Fukrisakes all is Sci Fi. Call them and bitch, or send funny mail. Join in the tom

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