January 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

hardware store surv. cam. nabs ELF
by Blank Frank 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Jan 26, 2001 - 10:07 AM Man Accused of Spiking Trees for Radical Environmental Group The Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - An alleged member of a radical environmental group connected to a series of arsons and other crimes has been arrested for putting spikes in trees to destroy logging equipment. Frank B. Ambrose, 26, is accused of driving 10-inch spikes into trees last June in an area of the Morgan-Monroe State Forest slated for logging. Authorities believe Ambrose is affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front, a loosely knit group that claimed responsibility for spiking the trees. The ELF has claimed responsibility for 22 major crimes, including arson attacks and other acts of sabotage across the country. The FBI has attributed $37 million in damage since 1996 to the group. In a statement released Thursday, Ambrose denied spiking the trees. After his arrest, he refused to answer questions, including whether he's affiliated with the ELF. Ambrose told The Herald-Times of Bloomington he was targeted by authorities for publicly refusing to condemn destroying property to prevent harm to the environment. "Is it illegal to say that? It may not be popular with some people, but it doesn't mean I was involved in it," he said. A six-month investigation by state conservation officers and the FBI traced the spiking nails to Ambrose through store surveillance tapes. According to an affidavit, Abrose's car was spotted outside the forest at the time of the incident, and police found hammering and metal-cutting tools and cotton gloves with a residue similar to that from the spikes in Ambrose's apartment. Ambrose is the Midwest coordinator for the American Lands Alliance, a mainstream environmental group headed by former Indiana congressman Jim Jontz. "American Lands doesn't support tree spiking," Jontz said from his Portland, Ore., office. "Of course, I hope that these allegations aren't true." Ambrose was released on $2,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 2. Tree spiking is a felony in Indiana punishable with up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Leslie Pickering, a spokesman for the North American Earth Liberation Front, said he is not sure if Ambrose is a member of the ELF. Conservation officer Marlin Dodge said it is hard to prove involvement in the group. "There's no way you'll ever prove who an ELF is," he said. "However, we're prepared to show that he did a criminal act that ELF took responsibility for."

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Re: Bell Grand Jury
by A. Melon 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

mmotyka said: > I wonder what's the budget to date for chasing down one apparently not > so dangerous guy? They may be creating, at great expense ( is there > another way for a government to create? ), what it is they want to find. > If they push him over the edge, in 5 years or so they can have a real > manhunt with bullets and everything. What's the saying? 'The race is not > always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to > bet.' Good for The Department ultimately. Well, what would you expect, really? Jeff Gordon and all the others of his ilk are just a bunch of low-life, degenerate morons or they would not be working at the jobs they do. There isn't anything of the slightest redeeming value in *anything* they do -- their role in life is to create as many victims as possible, destroy as many lives as possible, make as many decent people as miserable as possible, while they suck away at the public tit, and generally burn up as many resources as possible. I was really disappointed that those 7 guys from Texas got caught so easily -- it really would have been nice if they could have wasted a politician or two or three, or at the very least greased a few more cops.

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Dixie Chavera
by W.F. Sellers 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

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Re: Bell Grand Jury
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

I wonder what's the budget to date for chasing down one apparently not so dangerous guy? They may be creating, at great expense ( is there another way for a government to create? ), what it is they want to find. If they push him over the edge, in 5 years or so they can have a real manhunt with bullets and everything. What's the saying? 'The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.' Good for The Department ultimately.

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Microsoft DNS back up.
by Bill Stewart 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Declan - Microsoft's DNS is back up; the article in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16340.html says their problems were due to DNS issues, not security or denial of service attacks. Previous story about it being down http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16321.html There's much discussion on Slashdot, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/24/1455247&mode=thread but not much of it's useful :-) With Microsoft trying last year to push the term "Digital Nervous System" to usurp the acronym DNS, in spite of it being the third or fourth most important aspect of the Internet (and one of the most controversial), having a Digital Nervous Breakdown seems like poetic justice. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Fwd: Paper Handsets or on Their Way
by Steve Schear 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Imagine the possibilities... >Paper Handsets or on Their Way > >8:28:04 AM 1/24/2001 Believe it or not a paper mobile phone is due to be >land on the market later this year, making an appearance in retail stores, >fast food restaurants and vending machines. A U.S. investor has backed the >disposable devices, which were created by Randice-Lisa Altschul, and plans >to sell them for $10 a pop. Dubbed the Phone-Card-Phone, the paper phone >is as thick as three credit cards and is constructed from recycled paper >products. The phones will come with 60 minutes of calling time and a >hands-free attachment. The phones can be thrown out once the minutes are >used, or more minutes can be added. Altschul, who has 22 patents on the >technology, says her business, Dieceland Tech Corp., has 100 million units >on order. Reported by The Feature.

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Grand Jury Docs
by John Young 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

We offer two documents on federal grand juries, Rule 6 of the Federal Rules for Criminal Procedure, and the US Attorney Manual section on Grand Jury: http://cryptome.org/grand-jury.htm

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DeCSS ruling in DVD case must be reversed, eight amicus briefs say
by Declan McCullagh 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Eight different coalitions -- from cryptographers to journalist groups -- are filing amicus briefs in the DVD/DeCSS case. The briefs -- an unusually high number -- urge that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturn the district court's ruling of last August. Wired News article on the briefs being filed today: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41441,00.html The journalist/media brief, which focuses on the right to link: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/linking-amicus.012601.html The computer scientists' brief (the only one filed earlier in the week): http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bac.htm Photos from trial, protests, anti-DMCA march: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dvd-2600-trial.html http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/2600.html http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dmca-protest.html http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-5/tshirt-cssscramble.html Other briefs include one by the ACLU, one by the ACM, one by law professors, and one by Ernest Miller, Siva Vaidhyanathan et al. that says "to be governed by the District Court's version of the DMCA is to be stripped of the right to make the valuable fair uses of copyrighted materials upon which new contributions to the field are so often based." Judge Lewis Kaplan's ruling last August: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38287,00.html EFF is funding 2600 magazine's defense and appeal. The appeal brief to the circuit court, filed last Friday, is here: http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010119_ny_eff_appeal_pressrel.… http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010119_ny_eff_appeal_brief.html Brief of MPAA member companies is due February 19. Their amici must file a week later. Some of the briefs, including ones I've perused, are still in draft form. EFF promises to have all of them online shortly. ACLU says their brief -- still in draft form -- will be up on their site by noon. -Declan

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26 Jan '01

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anonymous internet - a right?
by Tom 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

a good (german) article in telepolis today: http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/4774/1.html an interview with the green speaker for media-politics (the green party is currently in a coalition with the social democratics, thus part of the german government). highlights: anonymous internet usage is considered very important, nobody should be forces to reveal any personal data and electronic signatures should be available to pseudonyms and have equal rank than those made with a real name.

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