October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: if not part of the solution youre part of the precipitate
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is >to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a >few ounces or gallons of PCBs (poly-chlorinated biphenyls common in >20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very >tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into >those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). A better use involves a flare and, um, an appropriately deserving building :-) Aloha Plume

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CDR: DoJ vs. Privacy
by John Young 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

In 1998 Gore proposed a national justice information system which was implemented by AG Reno. The purpose of the program is to make criminal justice and other information easily available to many the parties involved; courts, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, local officials and so on. We ran across a presentation by a DoJ official in which he outlines progress of the program and how to address the conflict posed by information collection technology for privacy concerns of citizens and organizations: http://cryptome.org/doj-ji-pi.ppt (129KB) He advocates that despite the "tension between justice needs and privacy concerns," tools for information collection and sharing be provided the national justice system as soon as possible, while a campaign is initiated to address privacy concerns primarily by PR among US, Canadian, UN and other cooperating agencies. He observes that local parties are not always sensitive to privacy concerns and that they may need education -- but that is not to hold up getting them the tools they need to collect information on citizens. He also notes that current laws do not adequately cover today's and tomorrow's technology for collecting and sharing information. What technology besides Carnivore is outside the law? Here's a June 2000 information distribution technology status report by The Global Justice Information Network: http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/global/documents/is_report.htm And here are the member organizations of the Global Justice Information Network Advisory Committee: Administrative Office of the United States Courts American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators American Correctional Association American Probation and Parole Association Attorney General Advisory Committee Criminal Justice Information Services Advisory Policy Board Criminal Justice Information Services Federal Working Group Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) IACP, State and Provincial Police Division Interpol Major Cities Chiefs Association National Association of Attorneys General NASIRE (National Association of State Information Resource Executives), Representing the Chief Information Officers of the States National Center for State Courts National Criminal Justice Association National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges National District Attorneys Association National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System National Legal Aid and Defender Association National Sheriffs Association North Carolina Department of Justice Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Police Department SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs U.S. Department of Treasury U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Investigative Agency Policies

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CDR: Declan should hope Bush is elected!
by Tim May 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

I know Declan is libertarian-leaning, but it seems to me he has good reason to hope Bush wins. Look at Bush's latest stump speech: Thursday October 19 2:13 PM ET Bush Calls Gore Out of Step with New Economy Reuters Photo By Patricia Wilson FRASER, Mich. (Reuters) - Deriding Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) for ''analog thinking in a digital age,'' Republican George W. Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday cast himself as a better steward of the new economy who would protect the Internet from ``the heavy hand of government.'' .... Bush touted the technology boom in Texas and pointed out that a Texan, Jack Kilby, won a Nobel Prize last week for inventing the integrated circuit in the 1950s. ``It was an amazing achievement, unrivaled in the annals of technology until 1986, when one senator from Tennessee, alone in his office, invented the Internet,'' Bush said. Competing Plans The reference to Gore and the Internet, drew hoots of laughter and prolonged applause. Gore, who while in Congress was credited with helping to push federal funding for research that brought about the Internet, has conceded one of his biggest mistakes was when he was seen as claiming credit for helping invent the Internet. --end excerpt-- Seems to me that if Bush wins, Declan will be quite welcome in the White House. He may even be able to influence Bush further in the direction of "hands off" approaches, especially in censorship and filtering. If Gore wins, I expect Declan will face a chilly reception. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.

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CDR: I.R.S. Seeks Credit Card Slips
by Declan McCullagh 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/business/20BANK.html October 20, 2000 - New York Times (front page) Taking Aim at Tax Havens, I.R.S. Seeks Credit Card Slips By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON The Internal Revenue Service, struggling against Caribbean havens it suspects of draining away at least $70 billion a year in personal income tax revenue, has set its sights on a new target the credit card slips of suspected tax evaders. The agency has asked a federal judge in Miami to issue summonses for two years' worth of records of MasterCard and American Express card transactions in the United States that were billed to bank accounts in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. Using the Internet and other outlets, banks in those nations openly solicit tax evasion in ways that the I.R.S. says have proved attractive to corporate executives, business owners, doctors and other wealthy people in the United States. Americans can legally move their assets offshore but are required to notify the I.R.S. of those transactions and to pay taxes on their income worldwide. Some Caribbean countries offer an alluring tax haven, however, because they impose no income tax and do not generally cooperate with I.R.S. efforts to track down incomes.

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CDR: RE: Rep. Armey questions Justice Department review of Carnivore
by Diamond, Richard 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

If you'd like, forward this to the cypherpunks list (if it rejects submissions from non-members). Mr. Armey told the Washington Post that he thought Carnivore was illegal. That should answer the question quite sufficiently, I think. But I might as well add the justification: "The American people will not simply 'trust' that the Justice Department, which allowed 900 FBI files containing personal information about American citizens to be released into unauthorized hands (i.e. Craig Livingstone), will be more careful with their online privacy." http://freedom.gov/library/technology/reno3letter.asp "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." (4th amdt.) Seems to me there's no difference between my packets and my papers. If they're sniffing all the traffic on my ISP, they're sniffing my papers without a warrant. There are other ways to conduct surveillance on criminals that don't present this difficulty.

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CDR: Rep. Armey questions Justice Department review of Carnivore
by Declan McCullagh 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

******** And a Napster poll: http://freedom.gov/vote/vote5.asp ******** http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/19/2251239 Justice Department Carnivore Review a Sham? posted by cicero on Thursday October 19, @05:44PM from the say-could-it-be-an-election-year? dept. Dick Armey, House majority leader and Republican firebrand, is once again making trouble for the Clinton administration. Armey this afternoon sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno, saying that the Justice Department's review of Carnivore appears somewhat less than objective: "I have questioned the independence of this review. Several in the media have questioned this review. Several universities refused to submit review proposals because, in their opinion, the review process was unfair." Having the supposedly secret names of the government-affiliated reviewers revealed last month sure didn't help. Neither did the information in the Carnivore documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. (Armey's letter is below.) The letter: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/19/2251239

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CDR: re:Tim May's anti-semitic rants
by auto9950013＠hushmail.com 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

Typical of May to wish that those who he hates be nuked, but please don'tt let it effect his portfolio. May Rants >And what will I think of millions of Zionists being incinerated or >coughing out their last breaths? I'll think of it as the inevitable >consequences of encouraging people in this modern age to migrate to >someone else's land and forcibly expel them. I'll think of it as >evolution in action. >My biggest worry will be what will happen to my Intel stock if the >Qiryat Gat wafer fab is destroyed. The former residents of the >Palestinian village of Al Falujah, may return.

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RE: CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?
by Trei, Peter 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

> ---------- > From: Ken Brown[SMTP:k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk] > David Honig wrote: > > [...] > > > Some scandanavian countries have complete health records on all > > their citizens and some are working on national DNA banks. Some of > > these will be made available for research after some form > > of anonymization. > > For values of "some" which are in the set of all nation-states known as > "Iceland". There is a lot of controversy about it over there (see > various news reports in Scientific American, Nature, New Scientist et.c > over the past couple of years). AFAIK it is going ahead. > > The point about Iceland is that almost all the population is descended > from a comparatively small number of Norse (& even fewer Irish) > colonists in historical times & they keep good > births-marriages-and-deaths records. So their traditional genetics is > well-known & some quite deep family histories are retrievable. So the > DNA data can maybe be matched with that to produce lots of interesting > test cases about hereditary diseases. > > Ken Brown > Assuming, of course, that the birth records accurately reflect parentage. If you take a course in human genetics you're likely to be astonished at the rate of fooling around that must occur to account for the appearence of traits within families - I've heard that as high as 10% of firstborns must have had a father different than the one on the birth certificate (no, I can't give you a cite). Peter

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Re: CDR: The end of privacy: Is technology making us transparent?
by Drake 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

FYI, for the sake of privacy, I always deny receipts unless they are from those I know, who aren't up to something. Re: your topic: Yes. Next question? cheers, -=d=- Robert Guerra wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lecture Series on Privacy and New Technologies > > TOPIC: The end of privacy: Is technology making us transparent? > > SPEAKER: Reginal Whitaker > (author of The end of privacy: How total surveillance is becoming a > reality. (1999). New Press) > > WHEN: Thursday, October 26 > > WHERE: 140 St. George, Rm. 307 (Faculty of Information Studies, > building adjacent to Robarts Library) > > TIME: 7pm to 8,30 pm > > FORMAT: 30 minute lecture and the rest of the time for questions. > > For more info contact: > > Ana Viseu <aviseu(a)oise.utoronto.ca> > Robert Guerra <robert(a)cryptorights.org> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 7.0 > > iQA/AwUBOe+a+sKdCsHMpdeSEQKC1QCeOqZRnpEYpsl1FlB4QurPiK2icF8An04h > p+F+OkmDWCq6C0RKuO7f21sS > =uIde > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > "...as we transfer our whole being to the data bank, privacy will > become a ghost or echo of its former self and what remains of > community will disappear"...Marshal McLuhan > -- > Robert Guerra <rguerra(a)yahoo.com>, Fax: +1(303) 484-0302 > WWW Page <http://pgp.greatvideo.com>, ICQ # 10266626 > PGPKeys <http://pgp.greatvideo.com/keys/rguerra/>

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CDR: FREE TRAVEL & BIZ OPP!!
by dan03＠trim-slim.com 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

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