January 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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23 Jan '01

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another math/crypto sci-fi movie
by Jim Choate 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

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Reno rocks out
by George＠Orwellian.Org 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> # # Twenty years ago was when the "3081"/Sierra version of the 370 # architecture was out. Not a small machine compared to others. Twenty years ago a 370/115 was a 16-bitter. From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> # # When I was standing on a sidewalk in front of the federal courthouse on # Pennsylvania Ave (of Monicagate and Microsoft trial fame), a deputy U.S. # Marshal told me I could not take a photo of the courthouse. For the first time, the inauguration was designated a "National Security Event." ---- Heh. Reno showed up on SNL tonight, sketch "Reno's Dance Party." She burst through a "brick" wall to confront Will Ferrel, who was impersonating her in a blue dress. You could tell she was itching to dance...she was a shakin'.

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Kneel! A SUDS J20 Roundup (fwd)
by Jim Choate 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:26:55 -0500 From: Any Mouse Reply-To: ??? To: ??? Subject: Kneel! A SUDS J20 Roundup SUDS folks are a riot-- literally. "We love Dick! We love Bush" indeed... Hah-larry-us mind fucking. I can just imagine the confusion in the minds and faces of all those easily confused... ----- Original Message ----- From: Another Mouse To: <studentsforanundemocraticsociety(a)egroups.com>; <J20action(a)egroups.com>; "NYC DAN" <NYC-DAN(a)topica.com>; "Reclaim Streets" <reclaimthestreets(a)listbot.com> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: Kneel! A SUDS J20 Roundup > Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > If you're baffled: http://www.freespeech.org/suds_unite > > Tender comrades: > > Hello to all. I was going to individually thank everyone for your > contributions to our SUDS-J20 project, and then I realized that I would end > up going on and on and thanking just about everybody involved in the thing. > And besides, there is something hierarchical about thank-yous, especially > when one considers the collective nature of this project. So if I may, I'd > like to give a big, horizontal thank-you to the SUDS on behalf of the SUDS. > We rocked. I'd say that we were the best affinity group there, but from the > footage I saw the Black Bloc had a pretty damn good day. > > Well, anyway, that was some fun, wasn't it? We started the day in front of > Union Station, donning our SUDS outfits, practicing chants, and conferencing > about various things, as laughing protesters and bewildered Bush supporters > streamed out of the station. We performed our skit for the first time to an > especially confused-looking group of Japanese tourists. For about 20 > minutes a tall, middle-aged white man in a cowboy hat ranted at us about > Jesus. He either wanted us to accept Jesus into our hearts or he was trying > to get Jesus to fry us with a lightning bolt. Hard to tell with these guys. > Eventually he left in disgust, contemptuously spitting at us, "Government's > not supposed to be fun." We started chanting it: "Government's Not Supposed > to Be Fun! Government's Not Supposed to Be Fun!" > > Therein lies the great thing about the SUDS concept: we got some of best > material from the nutty Republicans wandering around DC, yelling at us. And > boy, did we confuse them. For almost four blocks two teenage Republican > girls carried our signs until they caught on and threw them on the ground in > disgust. > > Perhaps even funnier than the reactions of the loon-right were those of the > REAL centers of Republican power, the fur-coated, hair-helmeted women and > their tuxed-and-cowboy booted husbands, at once arrogantly elitist and > defiantly unsophisticated. They seemed to be scared shitless all weekend > anyway*, but we really threw them for a loop. Kneel before Bush! > > We walked off towards the Supreme Court with what seemed to be a completely > random group of non-costumed high-school kids in tow who just thought we > looked fun. We arrived to a thin but awaiting crowd of Loud Citizens. I > think we actually saved their rally. Despite how it looked, the speakers > had shown up but had taken off by the time we got there (for more info, > visit http://www.loudcitizen.com/million/pics.asp. But even in these > pictures the crowd looks pretty thin). > > Now, these guys were something else. I was expecting a bunch of strident, > maniacal brown-shirts or something, but they were more like agoraphobic, > dorky AOL employees with bad teeth from suburban Virginia. One got the > feeling that if they weren't really into being Republican they'd be > obsessively taping Howard Stern or putting together long spreadsheet > documents for their fantasy baseball leagues. Those kinds of guys. One > white-haired guy had made himself this wacky paper hat that I guess was > supposed to represent "hanging chads." They didn't seem to get that, even > aside from the schtick, we weren't Gore supporters. In fact, they didn't > seem to understand much. They would chant at us (they had some doozies: > "Mean-Spirited, Arrogant, Condescending Liberals!" and that > "Nah-nah-hey-hey-goodbye" song). And we would just start chanting the same > thing and pretending we were with them. Occasionally we would mutate their > chants: their "President Bush" became our "Emperor Bush," their "Four More > Years" became our "A Thousand More Years," and so on. At one point I even > hooked arms with a particularly excited LC and we did a little jig. > Eventually they left Some said we drove them away, but I think they just > wanted to go to the parade route and sneak a peek at the Emperor. > > We proceeded to the parade route chanting "All Hail Bush," "No Justice, No > Problem," "Idiot Boy-King," and other fun ditties, stopping on the way to do > a show. "Kneel before Bush!" I shouted to the SUDS and the puzzled/bemused > crowd. "Do we love George W. Bush with every fiber of our beings? Would we > die for him? Say it!" And the SUDS started yelling, "We Love Bush!" "What > about his retainer? What about Dick Cheney? Do we love him? Say it! We > Love Dick!" And we goose-stepped off, chanting "We Love Bush! We Love > Dick!" > > We wandered through the city until we hit the checkpoint closest to the NOW > rally. This is where we experienced our only real crisis of the day, when > about half of us vanished (they had to pee and the back and front marshals > didn't communicate about it). But this gave us the opportunity to eat > breakfast and we were reunited soon enough. We did another performance on > line as a gesture of good-will to all the people we had cut in front of, > eventually being allowed in and putting on yet another show for the big NOW > rally. At this point we picked up some random liberal dude who wanted to do > his own Lt. Gen. John Holy Cleansing Fire Smith act, which was fine with me > because I was starting to lose my voice, but he kept bringing the > conversation back to the whole vote-count thing, and he was neither in > costume nor funny. We continued along the parade route for a while, > occasionally stopping and performing and trying to tailor the skit to > whatever group we were performing for. At one point we met up with a bunch > of lefty student types with IAC signs who played along and did a goofy > "counter-protest" thing with us. They would shout real leftist slogans at > us, and we would shout SUDS slogans back at them. At one point they started > shouting "La Puebla Unita (etc.)" at us and we shouted "Speak English!" back > at them. > > Soon after this I started to lose my voice, and we decided that we didn't > want to spent the whole day waiting for Bush and Dick to come down the pike > (story of my life, ba-dum-bump), so we decided to squeeze out via a > choke-point. Republicans and protesters alike were being crushed behind > some empty bleachers and a barricade that took up most of the sidewalk, > squeezing through a two-foot-wide space as cops looked on, amused at our > suffering. "These protesters are so rude, taking up all this space," one > hair-helmet woman said. This took us close to a half-hour, and by that time > I was about ready to collapse. Then a bunch of us went to Chinatown for > lunch. > > Well, that's my version. I'd love to hear others' > > XO > Jason, aka LGJHCFS > > *An aside: that morning, on the way to DC from Alexandria, we sat on a train > with a bunch of these Republicans. When we got into the city, an > African-American man in his 30s entered the train, seething. Finally, > unable to hold himself back, he blurted out, "fuck George Bush." He paused. > It felt good. He said it again. The third time, we joined him, chanting, > "Fuck George Bush! Fuck George Bush!" I thought the GOPers were going to > shit themselves. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to reclaimthestreets-unsubscribe(a)listbot.com >

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supremes to discriminate reality from images, censorship
by Blank Frank 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

Jan 22, 2001 - 10:29 AM Justices Will Review Ban on Virtual Kiddie Porn By Laurie Asseo Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Congress can attack child pornography by banning computer-altered pictures that only appear to show minors involved in sexual activity. The court said it will hear the government's argument that by banning sexual images that do not actually portray children, a 1996 law "helps to stamp out the market for child pornography involving real children." A coalition of adult-oriented businesses that challenged the ban says it violates free-speech rights, and a San Francisco-based federal appeals court agreed. The Child Pornography Prevention Act expanded a long-standing ban on child pornography to prohibit any image that "appears to be" or "conveys the impression" of someone under 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The law targeted computer technology that can be used to alter an innocent picture of a child into a depiction of a child engaged in sex. The Free Speech Coalition, a California-based trade association of adult-oriented businesses, challenged the law in federal court. The group said it opposes child pornography, but that films and photos produced by its members could wrongly be deemed to show minors engaged in sexual conduct. The group did not challenge a section of the law that banned the use of identifiable children in computer-altered sexual images. A federal judge upheld the law, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided in December 1999 the provisions challenged by the coalition violated the Constitution's free-speech protection. The court said the government did not show a connection between computer-generated child pornography and the exploitation of actual children. Several other appeals courts have upheld the provisions, and in the appeal acted on Monday, Justice Department lawyers asked the nation's highest court to resolve the conflict. The government has a compelling interest in preventing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, government lawyers said, adding that pedophiles often use pictures to seduce other children into sexual activity. Because it is hard to distinguish computer-generated pictures from those actually portraying children involved in sex, "The government may find it impossible in many cases to prove that a pornographic image is of a real child," Justice Department lawyers said. The Free Speech Coalition's lawyers said that even without the disputed provisions, the 1996 law "remains a comprehensive and effective tool for fighting the real evils of child pornography." The case is Reno v. Free Speech Coalition, 00-795.

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NONSTOP Crypto Query
by John Young 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

One of the Tempest FOIA docs NSA released recently concerns NONSTOP, a term whose definition is classified as SECRET. About half of the document, NACSEM 5112, "NONSTOP Evaluation Techniques," has been redacted, and we'll publish it soon. >From the clear text, NONSTOP appears to refer to protection against compromising emanations of cryptographic systems, and maybe in particular radio crypto systems. Another document refers to NONSTOP testing and protection being especially needed on vehicles, planes and ships. We've been unable to retrieve more than a few words from the redacted portions (by use of xerography to reveal text below the overwrites), and would appreciate any leads on what NONSTOP means. Joel McNamara has been searching for NONSTOP info for some time: http://eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html We would also like to learn more about covert surveillance by "resonance" technology. Peter Wright, in Spycatcher, provides most interesting anecdotes about this. He writes of remotely "radiating" specially-designed objects in a space to pick up signals, and tells of several covert operations in which MI5 used this method. Wright also describes the use of supersensitive microphones to pick up the daily setting of rotors on cryptomachines of the time, in particular the Hagelins made by CryptoAG. This loops back to NONSTOP and the question of what may be the signatures and compromising emanations of today's cryptosystems which reveal information in ways that go beyond known sniffers -- indeed, that known sniffers may divertingly camouflage. Along this line I mention for the nth time that the National Academy of Science 1996 CRYPTO report, which advocated loosening crypto controls, also recommended increased funding for other surveillance technologies that have never been identified, although Carnivore may be one such, along with keyboard sniffers and who knows what else that has been passed to domestic law enforcement by the intelligence agencies to crack crypto protection.

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22 Jan '01

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Slashdot | Author Unknown
by Jim Choate 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

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