November 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: CIA proctologists
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

US Citizenship is required, as is successful completion of a medical evaluation, polygraph interview and an extensive background investigation. A "medical evaluation"?? http://www.odci.gov/cia/employment/jobpostings/architectstud.htm

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CDR: (CCS New Release) Futures Outlook, Broadcast
by info＠ccstrade.com 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

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CDR: Re: Fwd: First Site
by David Marshall 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

ellie900(a)usa.com writes: > THE NEW LINK FOR OUR SITE. > SORRY FOR ANY TROUBLE YOU MAY HAVE HAD WITH THE OLD LINK. > THIS ONE HAS ALL THE CORRECTIONS > > http://3638141293/36/1059436/legal.html One boggles when some idiot who spams refers to a URL as a "line," and then can't even give a valid URL. What did they do, convert the IP to a single value and then translate it to decimal? Why? It's obviously to dodge complaints. I have to wonder about anybody who would write a browser which accepts something like that in the first place.

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CDR: Re: [ca-firearms] voting
by petro 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

>> From: petro <petro(a)bounty.org> >> >> It would be fairly simple to eliminate *most* of the current >> voter fraud schemes, and fairly inexpensive. > >Please provide details of this simple technique for >eliminating voter fraud. I've always found utopian >fantasies intriguing. "Reading Comprehension Counts". Please re-read the sentence you quoted. I do not claim that it would be fairly simple to eliminate *all* voter fraud, simply to eliminate *most* of the current schemes, and at only a fairly small increase over what is now spent. Heck, in the long run it might even save money. > >(In formulating your prospectus, please keep in mind >and provide detailed specifications for dealing with the >old bugaboo identified by our old pal Juvenal: "Sed >quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? [Who will guard the >guards themselves?]" Statistics. Keep in mind that I haven't spent days or weeks working on this, and I am sure that this will open up *new* methods of fraud, but I don't claim to be able to prevent that. As in many security protocols, the goal is simply to make it more "expensive" to cheat the system than it is to go along with it, so the first step is to make registration require a little more effort. All rolls are purged after every general election. This way you need to re-register after every election. All registrations *must* be done in person, with the exception of those not *physically* present in the state for more than 5 consecutive business days during the registration period. For those people, they may request an "absentee registration request card", which they fill out, have notarized (the notary is simply notarizing that the card is filled out, not that the person filling out the card did so accurately). If constitutional (and I assume this is questionable) and feasible (this part I haven't worked out yet) one must show "proof of citizenship". It's tough, because we don't yet have "papers", and I don't really advocate mandating "papers". In fact I strongly disagree with papers. One suggestion I've heard is to require the presentation of some sort of proof of paying income tax, or at least filing for income tax, on the theory that anyone who pays into the system ought to have a say in it. I don't necessarily disagree with that. At the time of registration a "registration card" is handed to the individual. They are informed (in writing) that in order to vote they *must* present this card. This card contains a mag strip with a unique number (that is not linked to the individual), and a bar code that is the encrypted version of that number done with a the public half of a key (to prevent forgery). That key changes from election to election. The registrant must also sign for the card, and print their name. This is not to be tied to the number on the card, but just to account for every card. Each polling place has a swipe card reader and a bar-code scanner. These are used to check that each card is "proper" by checking that the number on the back is encrypted with the proper key. (this way the private key isn't released until *very* shortly before the election). At the polling place, the "voting machines" are changed so that when you punch a whole, it records vote electronically, as well as providing a swipe card reader. When you are finished voting, it prints the ballot with your choices for each office in an OCR font, and a bar code with a hash of votes at the bottom (using a different large random number). The machine then wipes everything *but* the hash, and this new number. (this completely disconnects the voter from the ballot). The voter then visually examines the ballot to make sure it is correct. If they are happy with it (well, that it's correct anyway) and then presses a "I'm done" button. This checks in the voter number and the hash, and the new random number, (stores it either on board, or on a machine on a "lan" (wire the polling place) the machine on the lan can be made fairly fault tolerant) (the voter number is to check for "double spending", the hash is a checksum for validation, the random number is for later verification). The "I'm done" also prints out a second card identical to the first. One is for the individual, should they wish to keep it, to later validate that their vote was counted properly. The other (since they are identical) goes into a sleeve (to prevent prying eyes) and into the ballot box. If they are not happy with it, they push the "do over" button, and start back from the top. Repeat as necessary until satisfied. After the polls have closed, the ballots and the vote counter (the machine storing the hashes and numbers) are taken to the collection point, where the hashes & random numbers are uploaded (at this point I think the voter number will no longer be needed), and the as each ballot is counted, it is marked off against the hash it matches. Then this list is made public (the list of hashes and random numbers). Each voter can then (if they care to) check their random number (either on line, or in a trip down to the local polling place). There would also be a reduced number of "ruined" ballots, since each ballot is human readable, and printed twice if one side gets screwed up, the other should still be useful. If that fails, then a human *should* be able to read as much of it as possible. Failing that, it simply gets listed as "unreadable", and if they voter checks, they can come down with their original ballot and present it for the count. Absentee ballots would be slightly problematic in this, but much of this could be done using a simple PC/Macintosh program, so Military bases could easily accommodate their soldiers & sailors. (Well, the marines and the flyboys as well). I would also provide a 96 hour period for counts to take place, as well as for people to be able to challenge the vote--if they can show that their vote wasn't properly counted (provable by presentation of a ballot) then things are rechecked. Since the ballots are now printed with an OCR font AND a bar code, they can still be machine read *AS WELL AS* easily verified by hand. The voting process remains (absent the registration process) almost identical to the current one. There is no use of cryptographic protocols to *protect* the voting, only to check for fraud and provide strong accounting. I believe that this would make fraud *much* harder to get away with, and eliminate much of what I have seen and heard about in the way of fraud--the "stiff wire" used to create invalid ballots, the dumping of large numbers of ballots in the trash, the "lost" ballot boxes, etc. It also makes things like voting the dead harder--since each card has to be signed for each election. Maybe there are things I've missed, and maybe this wouldn't be as cheap as I believe it to be, but I belive it would be a damn sight more secure than we have today. -- "To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished."--Pierre Proudhon

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16 Nov '00

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CDR: Dealing with the Washington media -- survivors speak out
by Declan McCullagh 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> -----

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CDR: Re: Fwd: First Site
by David Marshall 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

Joe Baptista <baptista(a)pccf.net> writes: > > > THE NEW LINK FOR OUR SITE. > > > SORRY FOR ANY TROUBLE YOU MAY HAVE HAD WITH THE OLD LINK. > > > THIS ONE HAS ALL THE CORRECTIONS > > > > > > http://3638141293/36/1059436/legal.html > > > > One boggles when some idiot who spams refers to a URL as a "line," and > > then can't even give a valid URL. What did they do, convert the IP to > > a single value and then translate it to decimal? Why? It's obviously > > to dodge complaints. I have to wonder about anybody who > > would write a browser which accepts something like that in the first > > place. > > The browser has to accept it. The number is valid. you would have to > reprogram the stack to block resolution - or alternatively block it at the > browser - and I'm not even sure that is possible at this point. The > decimal format is part of the way the internet works. Good point. I'd tried it long ago in some (most likely broken) software and never gave it a second thought. "3638141293" resolves to 216.217.161.109, which is serviced, not surprisingly, but home.net. The site is up but trying (badly) to dodge traceroutes.

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CDR: Greetings
by CrimsonShroud＠webtv.net 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

I stumbled upon your threads of interesting debates, and would like to ask if I could join in? Injustice everywhere, even in the saftey of our homes. The governments try to control everything.. practically wanting our souls. You know about the chip they put in people's hands or foreheads? It was prophecized in many religious books, and documents. The only true justice left in this world is those of us who fight the corrupt and malign megalomaniacs who call themselve's authority. We shouldnt put those who seek to destroy and control into power. What is the price of our souls, and emotions?! They hide behind cameras, satelites, and scapegoats.. and they demand us to submit.. hah. Government=Oppressive Slavery. Thanks for your time, and plz write back with your response. (aka. The Shroud)

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CDR: Zero Tolerance Gun Grabbing Glee! (and where is the ACLU?)
by Anonymous 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

[the following snipped from the current Liberator Online www.self-gov.org] Paper Guns Cause Real Trouble While waiting for school buses, a friend taught Virginia seventh grader Bruce Cruz how to make a "gun" out of paper. It's easy -- the kind of school-room origami that kids have done for ages. You just fold two pieces of paper about six times. The "gun" can just as easily be shaped like a boat or a plane. At home, Bruce showed a family member his new trick, making one "gun" out of white school notebook paper. He tossed both into his backpack and forgot about them. In school, the two "guns" fell out of his backpack while Bruce was taking out a book. A teacher seized them. The teacher said nothing. But in the second period, a security guard removed Bruce from class and marched him to the principal's office. School policy prohibits students from possessing "an instrument or device that resembles or looks like a pistol, revolver or any type of weapon..." Apparently, that's true even if the object in question is made out of *paper.* Bruce was suspended for 10 days. After protest from Bruce's mother, the suspension was dropped to "only" two days. His mom is trying to get the suspension cleared from his permanent record -- or if that's not possible, to at least have the record include a precise description of the kind of "gun" involved. What's next -- kids expelled for carrying *pictures* of guns? (Source: Newport Daily Press /Sierra Times / November 11, 2000) --- Student Expelled for Casting Spell Still more evidence -- as if it were needed -- that the government school system is getting ever loonier: The ACLU is defending 15-year-old Broken Arrow, Oklahoma high school student Brandi Blackbear. Blackbear says she was suspended for 15 days last December by school officials who accused her of being a witch and casting a magic spell that caused a teacher to become ill. According to the ACLU, Blackbear was called to the principal's office after the teacher became sick and had to be hospitalized. Blackbear, then a ninth-grader, was questioned about her interest in Wicca, a pagan religion. Officials had learned she had checked out a book from the school library that contained a section on Wicca. According to the lawsuit, after questioning her, officials told Blackbear "that she was an immediate threat to the school" and suspended her for "a disruption of the education process." Blackbear -- who says she's not a witch and does not practice the Wicca religion -- also says school officials told her that a five-pointed star with a circle she had drawn on her hand was an occult symbol and that she couldn't display it. Thus the ACLU lawsuit also accuses school officials of trying to suppress expression of, or interest in, the Wicca religion. The ACLU also argues the school violated the girl's civil rights by seizing her personal notebooks containing horror stories she had written. All in all, the lawsuit claims violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as well as breaches of the Civil Rights Act. "I, for one, would like to see the so-called evidence this school has that a 15-year-old girl made a grown man sick by casting a magic spell," said Joann Bell, executive director of the ACLU's Oklahoma chapter. She added that Blackbear had been tormented by the charges and resulting publicity. An attorney for the school district said it would "defend itself vigorously." (Sources: Associated Press story, October 21, 2000) * * * A Despotism Over Mind and Body... "A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." -- John Stuart Mill, 1859

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CDR: WWII biowarfare
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

Soldier Testifies on Germ Warfare By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer TOKYO--Yoshio Shinozuka is still haunted by the ghoulish experiments he helped carry out on captured Chinese civilians and soldiers as part of Japans top-secret biological warfare program during World War II. The Japanese military performed vivisections without anesthesia in northern China, casually referring to the people as "logs," the veteran recalled Wednesday in Tokyo District Court. "I remember using the word as we compared how many logs we cut that day with other unit members," he said. Though Shinozuka, 77, has spoken out before about his role, his testimony makes him the first member of the notorious Unit 731 to detail Japans biological warfare activities for the legal record. He was called as a witness for nearly 180 Chinese suing the Japanese government for compensation and an apology for the deaths of family members allegedly killed by the unit. Shinozuka testified about participating in the mass production of cholera, dysentery and typhoid germs at the units base in the city of Harbin in the early 1940s. He said he was often told to help out departments that needed to boost germ production for upcoming deployments, including the 1939 Nomonhan clash with Soviet troops near Mongolia and several other germ bombing attacks in southern China in the 1940s. He said that just before the Nomonhan attack, he was responsible for transferring dysentery and typhoid germs from test tubes to bigger jars, packing them into barrels, sealing them and taking them to a night train for the attack. Several unit members died after contracting typhoid. Shinozuka said he is still bothered by the vivisections, or surgical experiments on living people. "I committed all these war crimes because I was ordered to do so," he said. "The government should try to learn about the victims. I really think its time for Japan to face this issue with humanitarian consideration." Shinozuka said the unit members were prohibited from disclosing to outsiders what happened inside the unit. Notes and other written instructions were all collected afterward. Former Unit 731 pilot Shoichi Matsumoto told the court later Wednesday that he spread plague-infected fleas from an airplane over Hangzhou in 1940 and Nanjing in 1941. Matsumoto told the court he carried healthy rats from a Tokyo suburb to Harbin to get them infected with bubonic plague. He also flew to Singapore and Java with the rats. The two veterans were testifying in the case, filed in 1997, that say at least 2,100 people were killed in the experiments. The trial is expected to continue for several more months. Although some Japanese veterans such as Shinozuka have come forward in recent years and confessed to war crimes, the Japanese government has resisted making official apologies to China. Several years ago -after decades of denial -Tokyo finally acknowledged that Unit 731 existed. But it has refused to confirm the extent of its activities. Japanese textbooks too often present only brief, perfunctory accounts of the nations aggression in East Asia from the mid-1930s until the wars end in 1945. Shinozuka said one of his reasons for testifying was disappointment with the governments efforts to come clean about the war, and said he was deeply sorry for his actions. "What I have done was something that nobody should have done as a human being," he said. "I cannot escape that responsibility." http://www.latimes.com/wires/20001115/tCB00V0223.html

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