From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:51:27 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Fuck the usenet cabal
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Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> writes:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
>
> > What if a non-US person paid them $40 to spam people outside the U.S.
> > with strong crypto?
> >
> > Is it possible to stuff a blatant ITAR violation into about 100 lines of as
>
> Already been done.  RSA in 4 lines of Perl, etc...  Heck there was even a

I mean a useable package.

> site out that that cut a UUENCODED copy of PGP into many bits and asked
> people to grab one of the bits to use as their signature.  I.e. Part 50
> out of N of PGP, etc...  Someone with huge usenet archives (or cd's) could
> search for all of these outside of the USA and put them together into the

Yes, but how practical is it?

> whole. :)  No need to pay someone $40 to spam when people will freely do
> this.

Stanford Wallace gives out free autoresponders.

> You could also take a packet radio modem and spam short wave (or
> whatever packet radio uses or can use that can get outside the usa) and
> send PGP that way if you like.  Or take PGP, uuencode it and fax it
> outside of the USA.  Or feed it through a voice synth and read it to
> a foreign phone number that has a voice decoder, or compose it as a
> MIDI song as Kent suggested and broadcast the song...  Or tatoo it on your
> ass then when you visit russia have someone take a picture. :)  (Though
> you might then be arrested in russia for porno or whatever the laws are
> there, heheheheh....)

Unsilenced use of crypto.

However the point is to get Cyberpromo to export crypto in violation of
ITAR without annoying people with spam.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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