September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Messinian Salinity Crisis - Select Bibliography for Students (Again for those browser challenged)
by Jim Choate 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/messin.htm -- ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDR: Canada outlaws anonymous remailers (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily News, September 15, 2000)
by R. A. Hettinga 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

I wonder what this does to Zero Knowledge Systems? Cheers, RAH At 3:52 AM -0700 on 9/15/00, GigaLaw.com wrote: > Canadian Ruling Could Unmask Anonymous E-mailers > Canadian e-mailers can no longer hide behind a cloak of anonymity if > reasonable grounds exist to show they've distributed defamatory statements > over the Internet. The change in Canadian law came after a landmark court > ruling this week when an Ontario Superior Court Justice ordered Internet > service provider iPRIMUS Inc. of Toronto to reveal the identity of an > anonymous e-mailer. > Read the article: Wired News @ > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38734,00.html -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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CDR: is there any way ?
by dark horse horse 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

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CDR: Some interesting progress
by jim bell 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

Jessica and Darcy: I've been doing a lot of local research at the Clark County (Washington) courthouse, and by telephone to the Multnomah County (Oregon) and Clackamas County (Oregon) , and I've discovered how the government thugs originally paid off Ryan Thomas Lund. They did it in two separate ways. First: Federal courts do sentencing on a matrix system, combining both prior criminal history of the defendant and the seriousness of the existing offense. (See United States Sentencing Guide). The government gave Lund a phony sentence by manipulating both his "criminal history" and the "offense level." Lund was sentenced as if he had a criminal history category of "V", when he should have been sentenced as if he was in column "VI". Lund was previously guilty of four felonies, and perhaps over 10 misdemeanors, easily justifying a column "VI" classification. ( Alone, this would have increased his sentencing range from "27-30" months to "30-37" months.) But in addition, for the purposes of the sentencing the government also faked the offense level: Check Sentencing Guide 2K2.1, and you'll see as a person previously guilty of two "controlled substances felonies" (one in Clackamas County Or. and one in Clark County Wash., both in 1994) he should have gotten a "base offense level" of (24-2=22), rather than the (14-2=12) he was actually given. (In either case, 2 points are usually removed for "acceptance of responsibility.") But in addition, Lund possessed a gun in connection with his ongoing business of trafficking methamphetamine and buying and selling illegal drugs, so he should have gotten an additional 4 points for that. (28-2=26). Check the sentencing matrix for the proper sentence for a "criminal history" of "VI" and an offense level of 26, and you'll see that his proper sentence should have been 120-150 months (10-12.5 years.) (the sentencing included a collusive "stipulation" by the government that he didn't possess the gun in connection with that illegal activity, but in fact the contrary was the case and the search warrant served July 2, 1997 was obtained for the purposes of collecting drug-sales evidence. (Check with Portland BATF agent Mike McNall, who was present on the search, despite the fact that it was not a Federal search warrant. I suspect it was agent McNall who did the deal with Lund.) In short, Lund was saved about 8 years of time for...what??? Well, I know, and you now already know because I've told you. He was offered this deal, probably on November 21, 1997, for the "job" he agreed to do a few days later for the government. That "job" was a crime: attacking and intimidating me (which he did on November 25, 1997) to accept a phony, crooked plea deal that the government never intended to honor. The second way he was paid off is really interesting: At the end of 1998, Lund filed a lawsuit against the Federal government, based on the claim that he had slipped and fallen while taking a shower while (alone, no witnesses, etc) in "the hole" on December 14, 1997. This date was two days after my sentencing date on December 12, 1997. I suspect that my crooked lawyer Peter Avenia passed the word to various other government people (prosecutor, etc) that, to Avenia, I accused Lund (and his handlers in the government) of coordinating the attack. I wouldn't be surprised to hear, later, that the US Marshals actually got a hold of Lund and retaliated (by roughing him up) against him for "spilling the beans". In any case, apparently Lund had real injuries, although I don't know the details. The last reference in the civil case file was that the government and Lund had settled the case (for what amount, they did not say) in August 2000. I now have copies of that civil case file, as well as numerous other Lund papers. Wanna see 'em??? Jim Bell

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CDR: Some interesting progress
by jim bell 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

Jessica and Darcy: I've been doing a lot of local research at the Clark County (Washington) courthouse, and by telephone to the Multnomah County (Oregon) and Clackamas County (Oregon) , and I've discovered how the government thugs originally paid off Ryan Thomas Lund. They did it in two separate ways. First: Federal courts do sentencing on a matrix system, combining both prior criminal history of the defendant and the seriousness of the existing offense. (See United States Sentencing Guide). The government gave Lund a phony sentence by manipulating both his "criminal history" and the "offense level." Lund was sentenced as if he had a criminal history category of "V", when he should have been sentenced as if he was in column "VI". Lund was previously guilty of four felonies, and perhaps over 10 misdemeanors, easily justifying a column "VI" classification. ( Alone, this would have increased his sentencing range from "27-30" months to "30-37" months.) But in addition, for the purposes of the sentencing the government also faked the offense level: Check Sentencing Guide 2K2.1, and you'll see as a person previously guilty of two "controlled substances felonies" (one in Clackamas County Or. and one in Clark County Wash., both in 1994) he should have gotten a "base offense level" of (24-2=22), rather than the (14-2=12) he was actually given. (In either case, 2 points are usually removed for "acceptance of responsibility.") But in addition, Lund possessed a gun in connection with his ongoing business of trafficking methamphetamine and buying and selling illegal drugs, so he should have gotten an additional 4 points for that. (28-2=26). Check the sentencing matrix for the proper sentence for a "criminal history" of "VI" and an offense level of 26, and you'll see that his proper sentence should have been 120-150 months (10-12.5 years.) (the sentencing included a collusive "stipulation" by the government that he didn't possess the gun in connection with that illegal activity, but in fact the contrary was the case and the search warrant served July 2, 1997 was obtained for the purposes of collecting drug-sales evidence. (Check with Portland BATF agent Mike McNall, who was present on the search, despite the fact that it was not a Federal search warrant. I suspect it was agent McNall who did the deal with Lund.) In short, Lund was saved about 8 years of time for...what??? Well, I know, and you now already know because I've told you. He was offered this deal, probably on November 21, 1997, for the "job" he agreed to do a few days later for the government. That "job" was a crime: attacking and intimidating me (which he did on November 25, 1997) to accept a phony, crooked plea deal that the government never intended to honor. The second way he was paid off is really interesting: At the end of 1998, Lund filed a lawsuit against the Federal government, based on the claim that he had slipped and fallen while taking a shower while (alone, no witnesses, etc) in "the hole" on December 14, 1997. This date was two days after my sentencing date on December 12, 1997. I suspect that my crooked lawyer Peter Avenia passed the word to various other government people (prosecutor, etc) that, to Avenia, I accused Lund (and his handlers in the government) of coordinating the attack. I wouldn't be surprised to hear, later, that the US Marshals actually got a hold of Lund and retaliated (by roughing him up) against him for "spilling the beans". In any case, apparently Lund had real injuries, although I don't know the details. The last reference in the civil case file was that the government and Lund had settled the case (for what amount, they did not say) in August 2000. I now have copies of that civil case file, as well as numerous other Lund papers. Wanna see 'em??? Jim Bell

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CDR: Re: SWAT Team Guns Down 11 Year Old In His Own Home
by David Marshall 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

Eric Cordian <emc(a)chao.insync.net> writes: > http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,194747,00.html > > An 11-year-old Modesto boy was fatally shot early Wednesday morning > when police SWAT team officers on a federal narcotics sweep raided his > parents' home. Police said the shooting was an accident. > > Alberto Sepulveda, a seventh-grader at Prescott Senior Elementary > School, was pronounced dead in his home at 2524 McAdoo Ave., just east > of Highway 99 in the north Modesto neighborhood commonly known as > Highway Village. He died from one shotgun round to the back, Police > Chief Roy Wasden said. How very odd. If I stop a psychopath from gunning down an entire mall full of people by shooting him a few times in the back, the government would most likely have me arrested, hauled downtown for questioning, and I would be demonized by the media. I might even be charged for some bullshit "weapons violation." And HEAVEN FORBID that in the process of stopping dozens of people from being killed one of my bullets go through the gunman and hit a bystander, or that I simply miss and hit a bystander. In that case, the USG and courts wouldn't care how many lives I saved. They wouldn't say "shit happens" and let me off the hook. There would be national outrage probably. Yet the government can execute a predawn raid in a residential area and shoot an 11-year-old (doubtless wielding an "assault pencil") with a shotgun in the back? No questions asked, no national media coverage, no national outrage? Disgusting. Oh, I forgot. It was a drug raid, and it was executed by the USG. That makes it all okay. Particularly that last part.

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CDR: failure notice
by MAILER-DAEMON＠mail.utexas.edu 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.utexas.edu. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <aaron.evans(a)mail.utexas.edu>: Recipient's mailbox is full, message returned to sender. (#5.2.2) --- Below this line is a copy of the message.

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CDR: Good work by FBI and SEC on Emulex fraud case
by Tim May 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

I just watched the live press conference by the FBI, District Attorney's Office, and SEC folks. The full story should be on Yahoo and other news sites. The gist is that an arrest was made this morning. A former Internet Wire employee, who left in early August, was the arrestee. Internet Wire was of course the service which passed on the false press release. The e-mail was traced back to a public access computer at El Camino Community College, in the LA area. The arrestee was enrolled during the summer at this college, was known to use these computers, and in fact was seen last Thursday night using the public computers, at the time when the e-mail was sent from one of these computers (in a media lab of some sort). The cops apparently correlated former and current Internet Wire (and probably other companies, like Emulex, Bloomberg, PR Newswire, etc.) with employees and students at El Camino. The FBI/SEC obtained his stock trading records, determined that he had shorted Emulex at around $70, had then lost a lot of money as Emulex went up above $100, and then had bought stock in Emulex as the stock fell to $45 after the hoax. (There may have been various put and call trades...consult the detailed stories.) In short, this was classic FBI and law enforcement legwork: correlations, subpoenas, and, as appropriate and with warrants, searches and arrests. Kudos. I mention this here on Cypherpunks because this is an example of how law enforcement should work. By contrast, imagine the enforcement protocol in a Big Brotherish world of intercepts, escrow, bans on encryption, etc. There _was_ some rhetoric at the press conference about "hiding behind the Internet." Of course, this message was not "strongly untraceable." It was almost trivially traceable. And traced to a former employee (probably disgruntled, but I am only speculating) of Internet Wire who had specific knowledge of how press releases were handled, how the authentication could be spoofed, etc. Now, what if the perp had used "Cypherpunks technologies"? Aside from the likely subpoenas of Anonymizer, Inc., and varous remailers, the cops could have sought search warrants of the employees who departed, obtained records of their stock trades, etc. Someday, truly strong methods will be more widespread. Along with trading accounts unlinkable to meatspace names. Will this thwart such efforts to catch fraudsters? To some extent, yes. However, such a world will produce other changes which work in the other direction. Digitally-signed press releases, for example, are easy to do. (And I expect them to start happening Real Soon Now. Possibly with the strong urging of the SEC and others.) So, kudos to the FBI and SEC for their detective work. And let it be a lesson that we don't need a Big Brother world to stop computer crime. --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: settlement
by bill payne 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

Clinton Let's get these clinton and gore messes settled. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8327/ http://members.tripod.com/bill_3_2/ worst http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8327/buehlerpayne.html Time to get on to better things http://members.tripod.com/bill_3_2/load2.htm http://www.geocities.com/computersystemsdocumentation/

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CDR: RE: RSA Patent Expiration Composite Party - Sept. 21
by Fisher Mark 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

> The fact that _all_ of the so-called music entertainers at the SF > event are "trancers" is...symptomatic...of something. It's symptomatic of the age gap on the list -- you, me, RAH (now there's a combination) and others are *way* beyond the 20-something party crowd. Even if I lived in the area, there'd be lots of stuff I'd rather do than go to the party. I hope they have lots of (age-appropriate) fun, though. A new (minor) era dawning and all that... ==================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm(a)tce.com Indianapolis, IN, USA "Display some adaptability." -- Doug Shaftoe, _Cryptonomicon_

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