Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 13:53:33 EST
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From: Computer Privacy Digest Moderator <comp-privacy@uwm.edu>
To: Comp-privacy@uwm.edu
Subject: Computer Privacy Digest V6#057
Computer Privacy Digest Fri, 23 Jun 95 Volume 6 : Issue: 057
Today's Topics: Moderator: Leonard P. Levine
ID CARDS in the UK
Re: Freedom to Read
Privacy WWW Site
Where in the world is PGP?
Re: Credit-Privacy Resources
DEF CON III
Anonymous Remailer Information
Info on CPD [unchanged since 12/29/94]
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From: Simon Rogerson <srog@dmu.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jun 1995 09:15:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ID CARDS in the UK
Recently the UK Government has published a Green Paper on the
introduction of ID cards. These cards are likely to be compulsory and
intelligent in that they will hold computer readable information and may
even be capable of being updated if SMART Card technology is used.
There are a many societal and ethical issues associated with the use
of ID cards particularly if they are sophisticated and computerised. I am
seeking help to:
1. Compile a comprehensive list of issues
2. Produce a directory of ID cards used around the world
3. Collect information about problems and advantages from other countries
that have national ID cards
Please respond direct to me. Once collated this information will be made
freely available on the Internet.
Thank you for your help.
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Simon Rogerson
Director, Centre for Computing & Social Responsibility
School of Computing Sciences
De Montfort University TEL: +44 116 257 7475
The Gateway, Leicester FAX: +44 116 254 1891
LE1 9BH, UK EMAIL: srog@dmu.ac.uk
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From: "MADAVIDS.US.ORACLE.COM" <MADAVIDS@us.oracle.com>
Date: 19 Jun 95 17:46:23 PDT
Subject: Re: Freedom to Read
(Glenn Stone) wrote The ALA has defended its position for over 40
years, against the likes of McCarthy, the Silent Majority, and the
New Right. It has a proven track record in the print media.
The implication is that it is only from the right that censorship
comes. The ALA needs to also defend themselves from the politically
correct left. I noticed on a web page of banned books recently that
libraries in Brooklyn had banned Huckleberry Finn for using the word
'nigger.' (It may be an ugly word, but that's how people talked in the
19th century.)
Censorship from the left is just as ugly and unacceptable as censorship
from the right.
--
Mary Ann Davidson
madavids@us.oracle.com
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From: gregoryh@cs.utexas.edu (Greg Hawener)
Date: 21 Jun 1995 23:55:53 GMT
Subject: Privacy WWW Site
Organization: UT at Austin
We have set up a WWW site to discuss and research these issues, it's
located at:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/gregoryh/main.html
--
Greg.
[moderator: I assume he means privacy issues]
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From: bongo@teleport.com (bingo-bango-)
Date: 22 Jun 1995 21:50:47
Subject: Where in the world is PGP?
Organization: Teleport, inc.
I can't seem to find any info on the mit.edu site, or any pgp
newsgroups. Can someone steer me right? Thanks,
--
Bongo
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From: danturk007@aol.com (DanTurk007)
Date: 23 Jun 1995 09:19:05 -0400
Subject: Re: Credit-Privacy Resources
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
What would you like to know. We operate one of those evil little
companies that seek out information on people. Nothing is private.
We have access to over 1400 commercial & private data bases and can
tell you just about anything about just about anybody. We access
several hundred credit reports each month attempting to locate people
(for a variety of reasons).
Questions??
--
Interstate Data Resources, Inc. / The Missing Persons Bureau / Publisher
of: "The Missing Persons Gazette" Published Monthly 219-484-1823
Credit Reporting / Background Investigations
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From: mfctalk@aol.com (MFCTALK)
Date: 21 Jun 1995 16:42:33 -0400
Subject: DEF CON III
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
For Immediate Release
For More Information Contact: Tom Woolf at 415-508-1554 or Mitchell
Friedman at 415-824-1466
Computer Hackers, Law Enforcement Professionals To Convene this August
for DEF CON III
Seattle, Wash. (June 19, 1995) -- Computer hackers, law enforcement
professionals, and other interested individuals will convene in Las
Vegas this August 4-5 for DEF CON III. This annual convention
addresses technical and legal issues related to the rapid
computerization of society.
Illegitimate computer access, fraud, privacy concerns, and encryption
technology are among the topics to be covered in two days of
presentations by speakers such as Bruce Schneier, author of Applied
Cryptography, Winn Schwartau, author of Information Warfare and
Terminal Compromise, and Curtis Karnow, a formal federal prosecutor.
Special talks by hacker luminaries Len Rose and Lewis De Payne will
cover the latest in hacking tactics and technology.
DEF CON III will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. The
convention begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 4 and concludes at 6
p.m. on Sunday, August 5. The registration fee is $30 until August 1,
or $40 at the door. For more information, call Jeff Moss at
206-790-3628 or e-mail at dtangent@defcon.org.
More information on DEF CON III is available from the convention's
World Wide Web page (http://www.defcon.org) or FTP site
(ftp.fc.net/pub/defcon). The DEF CON III mailing list provides updates
on convention speakers and activities, as well as instructions for
ordering tapes of presentations at DEF CON I and II. To subscribe,
send an e-mail message to majordomo@fc.net with the following statement
in the message body: "subscribe dc-announce."
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From: tbyfield@panix.com (T. Byfield)
Date: 23 Jun 1995 06:12:51 GMT
Subject: Anonymous Remailer Information
Organization: SURD
Via the Cypherpunks list, I've been informed by the maintainer of the
Usura remailer that the remailer address with which VA-Newswatcher
2.0b27.1+ is preconfigured is incorrect:
usura@replay.com
should be
remailer@replay.com
Usura's maintainer has reimplemeted the preconfigured adrress, so it
will work--probably only temporarily--so if you plan to use this
feature, please change that preference now; in general, please spread
the word.
FYI, here's the _most recent_ "list of reliable remailers" circulated
by Raph Levien; as Raph notes, you can get timely updates of this info
by fingering
remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu
or browsing:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
Details notwithstanding, two cheers for David Brewster, Bob Boonstra,
and Brian Clark (who implemented this addition, I'm told) for adding
the anon-remailer feature to VA-NW. And, of course, to John Norstad as
well, supergenius, for writing NW.
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> Date: 19 Jun 1995 06:50:07 -0700
> From: Raph Levien <raph@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: List of reliable remailers
> Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
> Precedence: bulk
>
> I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed
> information about remailer features and reliability.
>
> To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu
>
> There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of
> interesting links to remailer-related resources, at:
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
>
> This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP
> encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at:
> ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.33.tar.gz
>
> For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on
> how to use them, finger remailer.help.all@chaos.taylored.com
>
> This is the current info:
>
> REMAILER LIST
>
> This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first
> part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration
> options and special features for each of the remailers. The second
> part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each
> remailer. You can also get this list by fingering
> remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu.
>
> $remailer{"vox"} = "<remail@vox.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post";
> $remailer{"avox"} = "<anon@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk pgp post";
> $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special";
> $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney@shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash";
> $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal@alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash";
> $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub";
> $remailer{"rebma"} = "<remailer@rebma.mn.org> cpunk pgp. hash";
> $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail@c2.org> eric pgp hash reord";
> $remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer@csua.berkeley.edu> eric post reord";
> $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon@anon.penet.fi> penet post";
> $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk
> hash ksub reord";
> $remailer{"hacktic"} = "<remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl> cpunk mix pgp hash
> latent cut post ek";
> $remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer@flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash
> latent cut post ek reord";
> $remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer@rahul.net> cpunk pgp hash filter";
> $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster@obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut
> ek ksub reord";
> $remailer{"syrinx"} = "<syrinx@c2.org> cpunk pgp reord mix post";
> $remailer{"tower"} = "<remailer@tower.techwood.org> cpunk pgp post";
> $remailer{"hroller"} = "<hroller@c2.org> cpunk hash reord mix post";
> $remailer{"vishnu"} = "<mixmaster@vishnu.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash
> latent cut ek ksub reord";
> $remailer{"crown"} = "<mixmaster@kether.alias.net> cpunk pgp hash latent
> cut mix ek reord";
> $remailer{"robo"} = "<robo@c2.org> cpunk pgp hash mix";
> $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer@replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut
> post ek";
> $remailer{"spook"} = "<remailer@spook.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent
> cut ek";
> catalyst@netcom.com is _not_ a remailer.
> lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer.
> usura@replay.com is _not_ a remailer.
>
> Use "premail -getkeys pgpkeys@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu" to get PGP keys
> for the remailers. Fingering this address works too.
>
> 21 Apr 1995: The new version of premail (0.33) is out, with direct
> posting, perl5 and better MH support, and numerous bug fixes.
>
> Last ping: Mon 19 Jun 95 6:00:05 PDT
> remailer email address history latency uptime
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> rebma remailer@rebma.mn.org -.+ ++-+++- 7:13:46 99.71%
> vox remail@vox.xs4all.nl -.--.------+ 17:11:11 99.03%
> ideath remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com 4:14:48 98.71%
> penet anon@anon.penet.fi +****++++*** 1:15:27 99.94%
> tower remailer@tower.techwood.org * *****#*#** 6:11 97.74%
> alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu * #*#**###*# 2:48 97.73%
> bsu-cs nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu * #*+**-##*# 1:03:18 97.73%
> portal hfinney@shell.portal.com * #*#**###*# 2:02 97.73%
> c2 remail@c2.org + *++++-+.-+ 3:10:43 97.73%
> hacktic remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl * #********* 8:37 97.68%
> hroller hroller@c2.org * #***+##.-* 2:33:39 97.68%
> robo robo@c2.org * ****+**.-* 2:55:32 97.67%
> replay remailer@replay.com * ***-+++--+ 53:25 97.66%
> vishnu mixmaster@vishnu.alias.net * ****+***+* 45:54 97.59%
> soda remailer@csua.berkeley.edu + *-+-+-+-+ 2:24:39 97.37%
> spook remailer@spook.alias.net * ********** 11:01 97.33%
> mix mixmaster@obscura.com - *-++---+- 2:40:14 97.07%
> crown mixmaster@kether.alias.net + *-+---+-- 3:26:14 97.01%
> syrinx syrinx@c2.org - -+ ----.- 4:00:58 96.77%
> flame remailer@flame.alias.net * #*+++-+-++ 2:46:08 96.22%
> extropia remail@extropia.wimsey.com _ --.....-. 20:46:54 92.00%
> rahul homer@rahul.net * #*#**##**# 2:40 97.72%
>
> For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
>
> History key
> * # response in less than 5 minutes.
> * * response in less than 1 hour.
> * + response in less than 4 hours.
> * - response in less than 24 hours.
> * . response in more than 1 day.
> * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days).
>
> cpunk
> A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To:
> field.
>
> eric
> A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead.
>
> penet
> The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses
> X-Anon-To: in the header.
>
> pgp
> Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the
> keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email
> address, should be used as the encryption key ID.
>
> hash
> Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of
> outgoing messages.
>
> ksub
> Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode.
>
> nsub
> Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode.
>
> latent
> Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option.
>
> cut
> Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option.
>
> post
> Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header.
>
> ek
> Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header.
>
> special
> Accepts only pgp encrypted messages.
>
> mix
> Can accept messages in Mixmaster format.
>
> reord
> Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note:
> I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and
> haven't verified the reord info myself.
>
> mon
> Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email.
>
> filter
> Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If
> not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined
> for public forums are subject to filtering.
>
>
> Raph Levien
__________________
tbyfield@panix.com
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Date: 29 Dec 1994 10:50:22 -0600 (CST)
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