October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

New UK anti-terrorism powers to be rushed through.
by Tolan Blundell 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

The UK gov't is trying to push through new anti terrorism measures, including id cards, indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, and there's more talk of key escrow too.. from the Gaurdian : http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour2001/story/0,1414,561052,00.html [snip] Concerns about the effect on civil liberties of at least three pieces of anti-terrorism legislation, which ministers promise to introduce in four to six weeks, were raised. A cross-party alliance, supported by sacked Home Office minister, Mike O'Brien, has already been formed to resist the introduction of identity cards. New powers being introduced will include faster powers of deportation and extradition and an end to the mandatory obligation to consider asylum applications from known supporters of terrorism. [snip] -Tolan.

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AL Digital Acquires Second Nuclear Bunker
by Bill Scannell 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AL Digital Acquires Second Nuclear Bunker Doubles Space Available for Security of Computer Assets London, UK (1 October 2001) AL Digital (Telecommunications), Ltd., a leading provider of secure computer hosting and owner of The Bunker, today announced the purchase of a second nuclear bunker from the Ministry of Defence. The terms were undisclosed. This second bunker now known as The Other Bunker will effectively double the space available for the secure storage and hosting of Britain's digital economic assets. Located northeast of London, The Other Bunker will undergo retrofitting before being deployed as a computer co-location facility. The Bunker and The Other Bunker were designed and built during the Cold War as physically secure communications centres. Both offer the ultimate in protection from a myriad of attacks including; crackers, terrorist attack, electro-magnetic pulse, HERF weapons, electronic eavesdropping and solar flares. The rate of firms moving into The Bunker has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks, creating the need for additional secure computing space in the UK. "Increased demand has caused us to move forward our timetable ," said AL Digital Director Dominic Hawkin. "The Other Bunker needs to be open for business sooner than we planned." The Other Bunker is scheduled to have its first client servers installed by mid-2002. The storage capacity of the The Bunker will be able to absorb the needs of the market until that time. ENDS About The Bunker and The Other Bunker The Bunker is redefining the market for secure hosting. The facility provides the physically secure environment needed to protect digitally secure data. All the encryption in the world can't stop a server from being stolen, sabotaged or destroyed: The Bunker does. For more information, visit The Bunker web site at http://www.thebunker.net About AL Digital A.L Digital design, develop, deploy and run computing systems. These range from sophisticated software applications, to online stores, to custom designed hardware. For more information, visit AL Digital's web site at http://www.aldigital.co.uk Contact: Bill Scannell The Bunker, Ltd. ++44 (20) 8742 5902 bill(a)thebunker.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.1 iQA/AwUBO7giZfUhQXH5dzNXEQKIQwCgp/NVeSk/I4Spw1FlGVKaRQrU7q4AoM09 TXtxLaFmMtZa1zKA+rQutYu6 =c0pE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Larry Ellison wants National ID Card database
by Bill Stewart 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Somebody on the list, promoting a total boycott of Oracle, quoted Larry Ellison as saying: >"We need a database behind that, so when you're walking into an airport >and you say that you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it >in a reader and you put your thumb down and that system confirms that >this is Larry Ellison" We need a database that knows, when you walk into an airport and say you're Larry Ellison, whether to take the big orange boot off your private jet's wheels that's there because you keep violating the quiet-hour curfew at San Jose airport And it needs to do this at every airport in the country so that, if your flight plan gets you into San Jose too late at night, they won't let you take off, even if you have caught up on your fines.

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Nuclear reactor sites no longer readily findable on Web
by Tim May 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

I was checking some of my URLs for maps of nuclear power plants, maps once heavily publicized as parts of civil defense preparedness plans from the U.S.G. Guess what? Many of them are gone. The Web caches are not fully useful, as the indexed sites point to the subpages containing the large image GIFs (and other formats). So Google's cache has the first page, but all attempts to access the subpages give the same "information no longer available" sorts of messages. The main Nuclear Regulatory Commission site no longer allows downloading of maps, and results in this message: http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/GEOSPATIAL/lvsites.html Nuclear Site Locations This site is no longer available. For another example, http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html "Unsuccessful Access to INSC Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The page you requested cannot be found on this server. Please check your URL for spelling errors. If you requested access to the maps of nuclear power reactor locations, these maps have been taken off-line temporarily pending the outcome of a policy review by the US Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory. " Maybe this is a temporary thing, maybe some lower-down burrowcrat thought to himself: "Oooh, I could lose my job for having a map of nuclear power plants at my site! Fortunately, the U.S.G. has no monopoly on simple maps of where nuclear power plants are! http://www.nucleartourist.com/ still works. I wonder for how long? How long before printing something so simple as a map, a map which has been around for decades, is considered espionage? As Nietzsche once said, be careful how you choose your enemies, for you will become them. --Tim May

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01 Oct '01

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