September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Crypto events 22-24 Sept in Bay Area?
by Trei, Peter 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

I've been stupid (no suprise to those who know me :-). Last week I booked a ticket out to SFO assuming the RSA party would be on Saturday the 23rd. As we now know, it's actually on the 21st. Unfortunately, I booked through priceline.com, and their policy is "no refunds, no transfers, no modifications" (yes, they're up front about this - I can't claim it was buried in the fine print). I'm debating whether to 1. Blow off the whole thing, and write off the ticket as an (fairly expensive) lesson. I'd go to the Harvard Club event anyway. 2. Come out Friday, even though I miss the party. 3. Use 20k of FFM on USAir to get to the party 2 hours late, and stay till Monday. (I've booked this, but that, at least, is cancellable.) I'm resistant to a long trip (family/job obligations at home), but if there's a bunch of interesting crypto related events aside from the party on Thursday, I may come out anyway. Any suggestions? Peter Trei

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Re: CDR: SWAT Team Guns Down 11 Year Old In His Own Home
by Michael Motyka 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

> >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. > >... > >-- >Eric Michael Cordian 0+ >O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division >"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law" > What life was going to be saved by this armed raid? Shouldn't the standard for justifying such a raid be a bit higher than "it's a drug charge your honor?" Who elected the "law and order" morality-spewing politicians? We are our own worst enemy. We made this evil crawling monster.

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CDR: Sent Respectably 50,000 in 90 Days
by my90000page＠hotmail.com 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

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We have quit our jobs, and will soon buy a home on the beach and live off the interest on our money. The only way on earth that this plan will work for you is if you do it. For your sake, and for your family's sake don't pass up this golden opportunity. Good luck and happy spending! Charles Fairchild, Spokane, WA ORDER YOUR REPORTS TODAY AND GET STARTED ON YOUR ROAD TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM! NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOUR TURN DECISIVE ACTION YIELDS POWERFUL RESULTS ================================================================== FEEL FREE TO VISIT MY WEBSITE AT : http://www.freehomepages.com/workfromhome/ SOME GREAT WAYS FOR PROMOTING THE MONEY MAKING PROGRAM ================================================================== To be REMOVED from this list type REMOVE in the subject area of a new e-mail and send to: msperic1(a)netscape.net

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CDR: SWAT Team Guns Down 11 Year Old In His Own Home
by Eric Cordian 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

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. ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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CDR: New Roundtables On Planet IT
by PlanetIT Announcements 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

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CDR: RSA Patent Expiration Composite Party - Sept. 21
by Ian Goldberg 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

As most of you know, the RSA patent expires next week (that they issued a press release waiving some rights early notwithstanding). We've been waiting a *long* time for this, and now we're throwing a long-anticipated party to celebrate! This is a benefit for the CryptoRights Foundation, which, among other things, promotes the use of cryptography by Human Rights workers in "less-friendly" countries in order to protect both the workers and the people they're trying to interview and help. [If you've never heard a talk by one of these people who goes to train said human rights workers in the use of crypto and steganography, you should get someone to tell you about it; it's not otherwise obvious how related the fields are, and it's extremely enlightening.] There will be no charge at the door, but t-shirts and stuff will be available to buy. You need to reserve (free) tickets in advance, though, which can be had by emailing <rsa-patent-benefit(a)cryptorights.org>. Below is the full announcement. Corporate stuff starts at 8, music starts at 10. Let people know about this, and I hope to see you there! - Ian A copy of this note will be at: http://www.cryptorights.org/benefit http://www.shmoo.com/rsa Celebrate with us as we celebrate the end of an era The Big RSA Patent Expiration Composite Party A fundraiser for the Cryptorights Foundation (http://www.cryptorights.org/) September 21, 2000 8PM-2AM produced by Cryptorights Foundation BPM Consulting International with special thanks to our Gold Sponsor Certicom also sponsored by VA Linux Electronic Frontier Foundation PAIP International The Shmoo Group The Secret Order of Former Primes The Great American Music Hall 859 O'Farrell St. (between Polk & Larkin) 21+ http://www.musichallsf.com/info/directions/ By invitation only. In order to receive your invitation, send an email with the # of people who plan to attend to <mailto:rsa-patent-benefit@cryptorights.org> Entrance is free, but the Cryptorights Foundation will be accepting donations at the door. The first few hours will feature short speeches and presentations from luminaries in the fields of cryptography and human rights. We will present awards to various individuals for technical and activist contributions. The tail end of the presentations will feature a "Wheel of Fortune" with by your friendly hosts, John Gilmore and Cindy Cohn from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Solve the puzzle (donation suggested) or buy one vowel and benefit human rights! Finally, at 10:00PM, the beats will drop and your evening will end with the slamming techno sounds of the San Francisco underground! Featuring Sameer (FnF, Cloudfactory, Urban Wasteland, Mad Hatter, trustcrew) Sameer has been active in the San Francisco underground throwing parties since 1993. In 1999 with some of the crew he met through Friends & Family he started throwing the legendary Urban Wasteland parties in urban renegade locations in and around the East Bay. He also picked up his first slab of wax in early 1999 and has been playing sick pounding techno at parties around the world since then. He is also involved in producing a weekly club in Oakland called the Mad Hatter. Sameer is also known as the founder of C2Net, the company that pioneered the international development of strong cryptography to avoid United States export restrictions. DJ Tektrix (Sister, Tetractys, Influence Recordings) Cary, a/k/a DJ Tektrix, moved to San Francisco in 1997. Since then Tektrix has played alongside DJs such as Forest Green, Twerk, Terrac, Plateshifter, Mike Sims, Darin Marshall, Sean Murray, J-Bird, Tom L-G, 2x4 with DJ Zeel, Sifu, HoneyB, and Ethan. In 1999 she threw a party called Circle that took place at the Mother's Cookies Warehouse, conducted weekly live internet and pirate radio broadcasts on Vulcan Free Radio, and this year became a resident at Tetractys and Sister. She has played at parties such as Static, Circle, Overworld, and Topica. Forest Green (Cloudfactory, Sister, XLR8R, technologix, FnF) Forest Green has been throwing down beats with the sickness for several years. She has traveled both across the nation and into Canada to bring the sick Techno sound to those in need. you might also know her as one of the starring DJs from the hit underground movie Groove!

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CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?
by Secret Squirrel 15 Sep '00

15 Sep '00

Jodi Hoffman wrote: > If you're serious, send it. We own a law firm. Furthermore, a lot of > the cases we handle are pro bono, especially when children are involved. You "own" a law firm, eh? Big surprise there.

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CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?
by David Honig 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

At 05:53 PM 9/14/00 -0400, L. Sassaman wrote: > >I don't enjoy the fact that some people are being harassed through my >remailer. But I cannot prevent that without limiting the effectiveness of >the remailer. > >Have there been any court rulings that define the level of liability for >remops whose remailers are used to facilitate criminal actions? > >Is someone like myself, running a public remailer, considered an ISP? (I'm >thinking of the Prodigy ruling, where Prodigy was deemed not responsible >for content posted on its BBS system.) > Shouldn't your remailer include 1. mention of what it is 2. how to exclude an address from being a destination? It has not yet reached the supremes, nor do I imagine you want to fund that path. We can only hope your upstreams have as much backbone as you.

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CDR: Re: New World Coffee Disparagement Sites to be Shutdown?
by David Marshall 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Lizard <lizard(a)mrlizard.com> writes: > At 10:40 PM 9/13/00 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote: > > The company is claiming breach of franchise agreement by franchisees who > are supposedly saying unkind things about it. It is also claiming that > the domain names newworldcoffefraud.com and newworldfraud.com are likely to > confuse innocent surfers looking for coffee. > ======= > Why, yes! When I want to look at the wares of company "X", I often go to > www.companyxsucks.com, or www.companyxripoff.com! > > Any judge who buys that line of reasoning should be impeached, on the > grounds our Founding Fathers did not intend that the judiciary be populated > by fungus. Hey, now. Some of these incompetent judges are slime molds, and some are even amoeba. Most aren't vertibrates, in any case. On the other hand, some members of the fungus kingdom are probably more competent than the judges in these recent cases.

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CDR: domestic bioterrorism incident in FLA school
by A. Melon 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Middle school student arrested in poisoning Wednesday, 13 September 2000 0:18 (ET) Middle school student arrested in poisoning Middle school student arrested in poisoning JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., boy was arrested Tuesday for allegedly putting rat poison in salsa served at his schools cafeteria, resulting in the illness of 34 students, WJXT-TV reported. The name of the Paxon Middle School student was not released. The teenager was charged with poisoning food or water, a first-degree felony that carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. A 12-year-old student was also questioned but had not been charged. Jacksonville Sheriffs Office Sgt. Gordon Bass said authorities have no motive for the crime. Investigators said 25 grams of Talon-G, an anti-coagulant, was put in the condiment during lunch Tuesday. Fifteen students were taken to hospitals complaining of nausea, headache, vomiting and stomach pains, while the others were treated at the school. Some parents said they cant afford to pay for the hospital treatment their children received and they want the school board to cover the cost.

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