October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: WTC Collapse Alternative
by Anonymous User 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

>was not the initial phase, but instead it was the floor structure >breaking away from vertical supports. The collapse in this scenario >would be that of floors dropping one after the other onto floors >below, the load of the upper floors overwhelming the relatively You are saying that 4 martyrs in strategically selected corner offices on the top floor could bring the building down ? Come to think of it, no martyrs needed, just fedex packages addressed to appropriate offices. It's a fragile world.

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Enhance Employee Competency, Productivity and Morale
by Frontline Learning 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

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BBC: US launches 'anti-terror' satellite
by xganon 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

US launches 'anti-terror' satellite http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1582000/1582673.stmT… United States has launched a satellite which intelligence analystssay will probably be used to gather information in the global campaignagainst terrorism.The Titan IV rocket was launched from Vandenberg airforce base inCalifornia on behalf of the US National Reconnaissance Office, asecretive agency specialising in providing information for the CIA andthe National Security Agency.The rocket is believed to have been carrying a top secret KH-11 spysatellite - that could monitor Afghanistan ahead of an expected militarystrike.The US Air Force refused to comment on the payload, but the NRO buildsand operates America's spy satellites and specialises in gatheringpictures and electronic data, such as telephone conversations on theground.Pin-point accuracyExperts from Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine said thesatellite was likely to be equipped with a digital camera able to pickout objects as small as 10 cm (4 inches) across on the ground.Orbiting hundreds of miles above the earth the 15 tonne KH-11 is capableof tracking small groups of people walking on the ground as well asvehicle and weapons movements.It can monitor conversations and even spot campfires at night usinginfrared technology.Identifying the enemyAccording to Aviation Magazine such information could be used to monitorthe movements of Taleban groups and refugees to help allied forcesseparate potentially hostile groups from "non-combatants".The United States is believed to have spy satellites over Afghanistanalready as US forces continue to build up nearby ahead of expectedmilitary strikes.Before 1996 the NRO did not publicly disclose the launches of itssatellites.

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Re: OT: Could you survive? advanced survival skills test
by auto301094＠hushmail.com 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 17:01:37 -0700, David Honig <honig(a)sprynet.com> wrote: >At 09:20 PM 10/5/01 +0000, auto301094(a)hushmail.com wrote: >>FOOD >>1. List 12 edible USA plants. >>2. List 8 edible tropical plants. > >This is what happens when you make a survival test for the >whole planet ---who the fsck needs to know what tropical >plants to avoid *and* has to worry about the livers of >polar bears? For one, somebody who wants to boost their odds of not being found by deciding to opt for a 100% randomization of their "bug out" location. I got the idea from Thomas Schelling, actually: don't remember the piece but "Strategy of Conflict" ought to be a good place to start. ha. Work through the math of it and it makes fiendishly good sense. Not so practical for escaping a terrorist attack, but it could prove really useful in other circumstances I'm sure you can imagine. Anyway, wouldn't you enjoy knowing you had a better chance of making it no matter what kind of environment you found yourself in? If you had no money, no food--rock-bottom flat on your ass in the middle of nowhere--that you could still manage to have resources within yourself to pull through? I find that infinitely appealing. Diogenes had it right all along...you can quote Nietzsche and Ayn Rand as much as you please but the Stoics and Cynics still have a lot to offer. Even further off topic, here's a passage from www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/latergreeks.html you might find interesting: Cynicism After Plato and Aristotle, the concerns of the philosophers moved further and further from metaphysics, epistemology, and anything resembling modern science, to the issue that had always concerned the ancient Greeks the most -- ethics. What is it to be virtuous, to have character, to live the good life, to have "arete" (nobility)? Antisthenes (445-365) was the son of an Athenian citizen and a Thracian slave girl. After starting his own school, he came to recognize that Socrates was wiser than he. He went over, students and all, to learn from the master. Antisthenes is the founder of cynicism. Cynic comes from the Greek word for dog, originally because Antisthenes taught at the Cynosarges (Dogfish) gymnasium, which had been set up for the poor of Athens. Cynicism involves living the simple life in order that the soul can be set free. It is a back to nature type of philosophy, ala St. Francis of Assisi. By eliminating ones needs and possessions, one can better concentrate on the life of philosophy. Cynicism makes virtue the only good, the only true happiness. You cant control the world and lifes ups and downs, so control yourself! Inhibit your desires! become independent of the world!...Rejecting civilization, cynics tended to withdraw from society, even to live in the desert. In this, they may have influenced early Jewish and Christian monastics. Cynicism wasnt entirely negative (from todays values perspective): They strongly encouraged individualism, believed that all men were brothers, were against war and slavery, and believed in free speech. They also believed in free love and the legitimacy of suicide! The most famous of the cynics was Diogenes (412-323), a student of Antisthenes. He saw himself as a citizen of the world ("cosmopolitan"). There is a famous story that has Alexander the Great finding him sleeping in the sun and announcing "I am Alexander the great king!" Diogenes replied "I am Diogenes the dog!" Alexander asked if there was anything he could do for him. Diogenes just asked him to move out of the sun. :) ~F. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl8EARECAB8FAju/tnUYHGF1dG8zMDEwOTRAaHVzaG1haWwuY29tAAoJEKadvsVlUK4P 8s4AoJiBADVnm8pIgGQEWz73ksMFUX/bAJ99jr1oCqbetceY8mZiOT6OhCvmww== =WEhz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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gargoyling the police site
by Khoder bin Hakkin 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

http://policeabuse.org/how.html The PCC uses state-of-the-art technology to investigate and document acts of misconduct by law enforcement personnel. For example, we use digital video and miniature cameras to investigate and analyze incidents of police misconduct around the country. Using several PC's we are a capable of processing as many as five hundred complaints per day. We maintain a video log of police incidents captured on tape throughout the country.

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Re: WTC Collapse Alternative
by Optimizzin Al-gorithm 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

At 12:51 AM 10/7/01 +0000, Anonymous User wrote: >You are saying that 4 martyrs in strategically selected corner >offices on the top floor could bring the building down ? > >Come to think of it, no martyrs needed, just fedex packages addressed >to appropriate offices. Window cleaners with det cord and/or linear shaped charges. > >It's a fragile world. "For you; not me" -Devo

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Satellite of love
by Optimizzin Al-gorithm 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

Spy Satellite Launched From Calif. By Associated Press VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A secret satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office was launched into orbit Friday by a giant Titan 4B rocket. The Titan lifted off at 2:21 p.m. and the payload separated nine minutes later, the Air Force said. The mission was not disclosed. Technical problems had delayed the launch since Monday. Outside experts have said the satellite was likely equipped with a digital camera able to show objects as small as 4 inches diameter on the ground. The NRO builds and operates the nation's spy satellites. Prior to 1996, it did not publicly disclose the launches of its satellites. The launch was the 33rd of a Titan 4, the nation's largest unmanned launch vehicle. Four Titan 4 launches have failed, including three in 1998 and 1999. Built by Lockheed Martin, Titan 4s can put a 47,800-pound payload into low-Earth orbit or more than 12,700 pounds into geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth. http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-classified-launch100… I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites It's wrong to wish on space hardware I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care A new England Billy Bragg

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New encryption laws for e-mail unlikely
by Anonymous-Remailer＠lne.com 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

New encryption laws for e-mail unlikely Carrie Kirby, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, October 6, 2001 ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/0… As lawmakers re-examined the nation's security in the aftermath of Sept. 11th's terrorist attacks, the liberal encryption policy established by the Clinton administration appeared to be a likely target for change. After all, some reasoned, the policy makes it possible for anyone -- including possible terrorists -- to send secret e-mails cloaked by codes so strong the National Security Agency can't crack them. But now it appears that no crackdown on encryption programs is coming. The technology industry and others who fought for years for free encryption were alarmed when, shortly after the attacks, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., suggested giving the federal government the keys to unscramble everyone's encoded messages. In a Senate speech, Gregg called for a system known as "key escrow," in which all the keys are stored in a database that authorities could access with a court order. But the Department of Justice -- in the past the leading proponent of such limits -- did not mention encryption when it asked Congress for expanded surveillance powers for fighting terrorism. "It's not going to happen," said Stewart Baker, a Washington, D.C., technology lawyer and former general counsel to the NSA. "The Bush people, who watched the Clinton administration struggle with that unsuccessfully for years, aren't going to revisit this." Gregg has yet to put his idea into a bill, and staffers say he has no specific plans to do so soon. "I'm feeling more and more confident each day that it won't be (introduced), " said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who pushed for liberalized encryption laws the first time around. "I think that time is on our side on this. If it was on the table ready to go right after the attack, such legislation probably would have had a better chance of passing. But as time goes on, there's more time to contemplate its full effects," said Phil Zimmermann, a computer programmer who created Pretty Good Privacy, the most widely used e-mail encryption program. Encryption is used in all kinds of Internet programs. Web browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape use it to make secure online credit card transactions possible. Before January 2000, government regulations made it difficult or impossible to export programs containing strong encryption. The tech industry and civil liberties advocates battled lawmakers' concerns, eventually convincing the Clinton Administration to lift the restrictions -- without establishing any kind of "back door" through which law enforcement could spy. Zimmermann and legislators who fought this battle the first time around say that the key escrow plan Gregg has advocated would not only diminish the privacy of individual e-mail users, but that it wouldn't achieve its goal. Terrorists probably wouldn't use encryption to which U.S. officials had the keys, said Goodlatte, who co-chairs the Congressional Internet Caucus. U.S. authorities wouldn't get the keys to encryption products made in other countries, for example. "Anybody bent on misusing encryption could buy it from hundreds of foreign sources or create it themselves," said Goodlatte. "It's been revealed that (Osama bin Laden) has some very top-notch software engineers." The plan could also endanger the security of everyone who uses encryption, critics say. "The escrow or recovery mechanisms themselves may actually be compromised by criminals," warned members of the Association for Computing Machinery, a New York society for technology professionals. Hackers who broke into the database where the keys were held might use the keys to compromise millions of computers. While spokesman Brian Hart said Gregg has gotten some positive feedback from other lawmakers, no one has seconded his idea publicly. "Gregg seems to be an isolated case," said Bruce Heiman, a Washington attorney who serves as executive director of Americans for Computer Privacy, a technology industry group. Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., has joined Goodlatte in speaking out against encryption limitations. Like Goodlatte, Burns pushed for liberalized encryption laws in the 1990s. Others who joined their fight are still in Congress, such as Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose and Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt. But one of the major proponents, former Missouri Sen. John Ashcroft, is now the attorney general. "Ashcroft was on our side at that time. It could be that maybe that's why we're not seeing something from the Justice Department specifically about encryption," Zimmermann said. E-mail Carrie Kirby at ckirby(a)sfchronicle.com. ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page B - 1

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jim bell well justified
by mattd 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

Leonard peltier,just down the hall from chris boyce,would tell you an extradition story or two.Or read "in the spirit of crazy horse' by peter matthiessen.Clintons capital offense must surely be the pardongate fiasco. Getting back to jim.WTF is the reward money doing unencrypted? I know THEY[tm] worry over their own scurvy hides but this is an emergency.(reward for usama BL reputed to be aprox 60 mill.)AP is required NOW,where are the dashing cypherpunks of yore?usama bin laden? Id buy that for a dollar!

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Gun show friggin loophole
by Steve Furlong 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

A Wired article by Jeffrey Benner ("No Smoking Gun in Terror Bill") (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47286,00.html) uses the phrase "gun show loophole" quite a few times, but doesn't mention the Second Amendment (nor even the Ninth and Tenth) even once. No mention of how "closing the loophole" would prevent any domestic terrorism. No quotes from gun rights people but plenty from gun grabbers. Perhaps this would be a good opportunity for Declan to emphasize that the opinions and obvious biases of some ill-informed, probably inbred, journalists are not necessarily the opinions of the publishers or other journalists. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato

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