SURFPUNK Technical Journal

issues/0001 : From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Doctor COCOT) Subject: [surfpunk-0001] TESTING: Issue Number One issues/0002 : From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Doctor COCOT) Subject: [surfpunk-0002] CRYPT: John Gilmore sues the NSA From: gnu@toad.com Subject: Re: John Gilmore vs. NSA Date: Sat, 28 Nov 92 23:23:24 -0800 issues/0003 : From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Doctor COCOT) Subject: [surfpunk-0003] UNIX: The ever-quotable Scott McNealy From: keith@cc.gatech.edu (Keith Edwards) Subject: The ever-quotable Scott McNealy Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 17:08:30 EST issues/0004 : From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Doctor COCOT) Subject: [surfpunk-0004]...

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 20:26:58 PST From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0105] FOIA: the Clipper Key Escrow databases * "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers * of the society but the people themselves, and if we * think them not enlightened enough to exercise that * control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not * to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." * * -- Thomas Jefferson, 1820 * [passed along by librarian Ruth Reynolds] SURFPUNK BACKISSUES: ftp://ftp.yak.net/pub/surfpunk ALSO: ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/...

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 00:46:23 PST Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0104@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (frphevgl pyrnenapr erdhverq) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0104] CLIPPER: some reactions Prof. Denning has issued a defense of the Clipper proposal (which she advocated in a CACM article long before the initiative was announced). Her specifics are easy enough to refute and I'm sure others will do so. However, she closes with an idea so radical that it shocke...

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 19:16:10 PST Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0103@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (gur Obfavn bs Gryrpbzzhavpngvbaf) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0103] ESCROW: The Bosnia of Telecommunications # [wrt Mitch Kabor and the Electronic Frontier Foundation] # # "The foundation promotes the hope of cheap, easy # and equal access to a data highway constructed # along the lines of the Internet, the impromptu net- # work of 1.3 million computers in ...

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 17:42:55 PST Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0102@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (Qral orvat fanxr be gragnpyr) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0102] SQUISH: The Internet Snake Hunt @ ... from PC Magazine ... @ @ "Haventree Software's Honest Disclaimer" @ @ If EasyFlow doesn't work: tough. If you lose millions @ because EasyFlow messes up, it's you that's out the @ millions, not us. If you don't like this disclaimer: @ tough. We reserve the...

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 01:35:59 PST Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0101@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (GEHR ANZRF) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0101] FOIA: writing the NSA [] THE HACKER CRACKDOWN, Bruce Sterling CYBERPUNK, Katie Hafner and John Markoff HACKERS, Steven Levy GIRLS LEAN BACK EVERYWHERE, Edward de Grazia THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER, John Brunner NEUROMANCER, William Gibson (optional) BURNING CHROME, William Gibson TRUE NAMES, Vernor Vinge -- reading list...

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 10:47:51 PST Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0100@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (Jr unir plcurechaxf va xrl cbvagf) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0100] TLG: an Internet buyers club I've personally been interested in finding out more about The Little Garden. [Thanks for writing, Tom!] I've got my sun3 at home running again, and would like to back-door IP to friends with macintoshes, etc. This sounds like the kind of net I'd like to join & ...

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 20:17:14 PDT Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0099@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (n uhtr nzbhag bs frvfzvp snhyg-fyvccvat) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0099] $$$: Commercialization of the internet. * "Singapore is an astonishingly efficient and * repressive hyper-modern state, like Disneyland * with the death penalty." * * -- William Gibson I've heard that Mike Doonsbury is now on the internet... Here are a bunch of articles about the co...

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 21:57:49 PDT Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0098@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (gur AFN cnvq gur ovyy) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0098] DC-NET: Dining Cryptographer Nets More and more I become a Free Speechist. I do not think it should be a crime to possess information, of any kind, or to tell it to others who are interested. This issue of SURFPUNK contains only one article, the original Dining Cryptographers problem (and its solutio...

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 93 22:28:34 PDT Reply-To: <surfpunk@versant.com> Return-Path: <cocot@versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0097@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@versant.com (onpx ba gur nve) To: surfpunk@versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0097] PRZ: trouble brewing # In Starfleet, all communications are encrypted # automatically. Although there is no honor in # knowledge gained through stolen transmissions, some of # our enemies have no honor. A true Klingon does not # "sneak"-he shouts into the face of his enemy. But I have # seen many types of ...