November 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Bush took ss# off his Texas license!!!
by George＠Orwellian.Org 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Some misc first: Drudge says he's not waiting for the polls to close, he's posting exit-poll results as soon as they come in. I once worked for NES [News Election Service] the combined effort of CBS/NBC/ABC etc to receive exit-poll info from around the nation. Job title was "Error Editor". Anyone have any current info on them? ---- Clinton has vetoed the new secrets bill. ---- The Texas license uses your SS#. http://www.msnbc.com/news/466882.asp [snipped] CHANGED DRIVER'S LICENSE AT ISSUE Sources told MSNBC.com's Jeannette Walls that Bush associates had been worried for several years about his arrest record and had hoped that because it was in Maine, and not Texas, it wouldn't surface. The sources said Bush took one step to keep it under wraps in March 1995, when his driver's license number was changed. Walls first reported this in August 1999 in The Scoop, an MSNBC.com column. At the time, the sources told Walls that Bush got his license number changed because he was worried about an arrest record surfacing. "He has an arrest record that has to do with drinking," a source said then. "He's worried it will come out, but his handlers keep assuring him it won't." The allegation was not disclosed by MSNBC.com at the time because the arrest could not be confirmed. Also in August 1999, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles told MSNBC.com that changing one's driver's license number was "highly unusual" and that it is done only when the holder of the license can prove that someone is using the license number for illegal activities. Repeated calls to Bush's camp back at the time were unanswered, until a spokeswoman for Bush said the motor vehicle agency would have an additional comment. An agency spokesman then called MSNBC and said Bush's license number was changed for "security measures." He declined to comment further. A spokesman for Bush left a phone message Friday saying license numbers are changed "as a matter of course and courtesy for statewide elected officials. It's offered to all statewide elected officials in Texas." A spokesman for the governor's office in Texas reiterated this and said other governors were also given the option of changing their license numbers.

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CDR: Re: Zero Knowledge changes business model (press release)
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

At 7:08 PM -0500 11/1/00, Tim May wrote: > An ordinary little girl using Freedom, the putative target candidate for > Freedom, say the ads, is not going to need PipeNet-style traffic > padding!!! A little girl wanting to sell nude digital snapshots of herself for milk(bar) money might. You never can tell what passes for "ordinary" these days. I think ZKS just needs to revamp its "little girl" ads. That should increase their subscri(b/v)er base.

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CDR: RE: The Market for Privacy
by Lucky Green 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Tim wrote: > The real market for robust security and privacy tools is, as > always, elsewhere. > > The _interesting_ market has always been for those who > are--demonstrably!--willing to pay big bucks to get on a plane to fly > to the Cayman Islands or Luxembourg to open an offshore account. For > those who are actively interested in untraceable VISA cards. For > those selling arms. For those trafficking in illegal thoughts. > > In short, for crypto anarchy. > > Not for fluff. In my view (I suspect this may be in agreement with Tim's comments above, though I naturally do not presume to speak for Tim) ZKS' inability to derive meaningful revenue of the Freedom (TM) product can be explained quite trivially: the product fails to meet market requirements. Those willing to pay cash to protect their Internet activities demand real privacy. Not the watered-down, Mickey Mouse "privacy" Freedom provided. Freedom does not offer the user untracable IP. Hence those seeking untracable IP didn't buy the product. Little surprise here. Freedom's current fate was predicted in detail on this list the moment ZKS' deviated from their initial anon IP promises. It appears that ZKS is yet another company that fell prey to the DigiCash "we know better than the market what the market wants" syndrome. What a shame, really. --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

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CDR: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after security breached
by Bill Stewart 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

the following pleasant article on privacy was on RISKS.

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CDR: question
by Kamil Wisniewski 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Hello my name is Kamil Wisniewsk, I do not know if i found the right internet site, but I am looking for software that crates voices depending on measurements of an individuals body. For example if I would like to have Bill Clintons voice i would type in the measurements of his body, and the software would calculate his speech pattern. If you may know any thing about this technology I would greatly appreciate it.

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CDR: question
by Kamil Wisniewski 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Hello my name is Kamil Wisniewsk, I do not know if i found the right internet site, but I am looking for software that crates voices depending on measurements of an individuals body. For example if I would like to have Bill Clintons voice i would type in the measurements of his body, and the software would calculate his speech pattern. If you may know any thing about this technology I would greatly appreciate it.

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by Nobody 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

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CDR: Email&Fax
by fax_email＠email.com 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

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CDR: Suing for SS# exposure
by George＠Orwellian.Org 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Can't Tim May sue if he finds his SS# exposed? ---- http://www.foxnews.com/national/110300/va_privacy.sml Veterans Department Sued By Employees Over Privacy Breach Friday, November 3, 2000 By D. Ian Hopper WASHINGTON - Department of Veterans Affairs employees are suing the government, accusing the VA of breaching their privacy by giving fellow workers and some patients access to their Social Security numbers and dates of birth. The class-action suit on behalf of the VA's 180,000 employees seeks $1,000 for each one, the minimum amount under the 1974 Privacy Act. If successful, that would total about $180 million. The suit says that through an internal patient record system, employees' personal information appeared along with the medical information on patients. Workers at any VA facility could check up on VA workers anywhere else, said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin last month. It said there were no warning screens or logs of who accessed the information. [snip]

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CDR: Fwd: Re: Data havens...
by Tim Manspin 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

--- Benjamin Reeve <breeve(a)IBM.NET> wrote: > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:13:46 -0500 > Reply-to: Law & Policy of Computer Communications > <CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM> > From: Benjamin Reeve <breeve(a)IBM.NET> > Subject: Re: Data havens... > To: CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM > > Yes. Absolutely. I would similarly argue that the better "data > haven" is > not a distinct "site" of any kind but a structure, indeed in the case > of a > network, a network distributed structure. > > People appear not to create such things just because people minds > think > according to particular conventionalities, most of them phyiscalistic > The > same set of presuppositions that gives us an auction "site" (e-bay) > when > the nature of the thing sought be to accomplished is a market/network > thing > (everybody gets a buy/sell client just as everybody gets an e-mail > client > and a network marketplace develops), gets people to think that the > way to > make informational "havens" is mostly like the way physical safes and > vaults (and closets and...) work. > > Every informational thing must be embedded in a physical thing and to > take > out the physical entity is to compromise the information embedded in > it, > true enough. But that does not mean that informational things act, > or are > "protected," in the way physical things are. > > The data havens of the moment appear organized to attract the > physicalistic > mindset, not the genuine dynamics of what might be informtional > protection. > > > At 09:28 AM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Bill Stewart [mailto:bill.stewart@POBOX.COM] > > >Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:39 AM > > >To: CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM > > >Subject: Re: Data havens...PH-B > > > > > > > ><snip> > > > > >Havenco is playing different games - providing a location for > > >servers running traffic analysis protection, > > > >To help thwart traffic analysis, shouldn't havens also become loci > for the > >origination of spam and for popular free sites (porn, sports, > whatever) to > >generate lots of basically benign in- and out-flow, within which the > >"substantive" messages of folks who really need a haven can hide? > > > >Chris S. > > > > > >*************************************************************************** > >This electronic mail transmission may contain confidential or > >privileged information. If you believe that you have received the > >message in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission > >and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. > >*************************************************************************** > > Benjamin Reeve <breeve(a)ibm.net> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

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