October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by AllSurvival 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

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Re: FBI anthrax posters.
by Tabla bin Rasa 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

At 07:32 PM 10/18/01 -0500, measl(a)mfn.org wrote: >Anyone else find their work environment covered with the new FBI >"posters" (8 1/2 x 11 color) on how to recognize mail which may be from >terrorists, and/or contain anthrax? They'll be worth money to the survivors about 50 years hence.

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19 Oct '01

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Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates
by Garnet Jackson 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

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Re: Stu Baker on CALEA and the Net
by Tabla bin Rasa 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

At 12:54 AM 10/19/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: >On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:43:22PM -0700, Greg Broiles wrote: >> If the FBI really is preparing for a domestic surveillance initiative, >> hearing about that months in advance is a lot more helpful than yet another >> incompatible peer-to-peer content distribution system. > >Greg makes an excellent point. Think of it as an early warning. You're being generous to the launcher of an evil trial balloon because he is a personable guy.

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Reporters Without Borders Attacks U.S. Pact on Satellite Images
by Tabla bin Rasa 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGABC3LEZSC.html Reporters Without Borders Attacks U.S. Pact on Satellite Images The Associated Press Published: Oct 18, 2001 PARIS (AP) - A media advocacy group on Thursday criticized the U.S. military for buying exclusive rights to commercial satellite imagery of Afghanistan and said the move amounts to censorship because it blocks media access to views of the war zone. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders urged Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to revoke a deal that gives the U.S. military sole access to pictures taken by Ikonos - considered the most efficient civilian satellite - that display the area involved in Operation Enduring Freedom. The Pentagon duty officer could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday night. "This contract, effective since the first day of U.S. military strikes on Afghanistan, is a way of disguised censorship aimed at preventing the media from doing their monitoring job," Reporters Without Borders director Robert Menard said in a statement. Though there are other imagery satellites with pictures for sale, Ikonos pictures are considered the best available to civilians.

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FBI anthrax posters.
by measl＠mfn.org 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

Anyone else find their work environment covered with the new FBI "posters" (8 1/2 x 11 color) on how to recognize mail which may be from terrorists, and/or contain anthrax? My wife has not yet seen one at her work (she works retail), so I'm wondering if these have only been distributed to certain kinds of [high-tech?] businesses??? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Verba Volant del 18-10-01
by verba＠rol.it 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

Verba Volant del 18-10-01, Every day a new quotation translated into many languages. Logos Translations - www.logostranslations.com _________________ Quotation of the day: Author - Norman Mailer http://www.logos.it/bio/norman_mailer.html English - why do we kill people who have killed other people? To tell other people that killing is wrong? Italian - perché si uccidono le persone che hanno ucciso altre persone? Per dimostrare che le persone non si debbono uccidere? Spanish - por qué matamos a quienes han matado a otros? Para demostrar que matar está mal? French - pourquoi tuer ceux qui ont tué d'autres personnes? Pour démontrer qu'il est interdit de tuer? Portuguese - porque é que matamos aqueles que mataram outras pessoas? Para demonstrar que é errado matar? Brazilian Portuguese - por que matar pessoas que matam outras pessoas? Para demostrar que matar é errado? German - warum tötet man Menschen, die andere Menschen getötet haben? Um zu zeigen, dass man Menschen nicht töten darf? Hungarian - miért öljük meg azokat, akik másokat megöltek? Hogy így demonstráljuk az ölés helytelen voltát? Finnish - miksi surmaamme ihmisen, joka on surmannut toisen? Näyttääksemme, ettei ihmisiä saa surmata? Catalan - per què es matan persones que han matat altres persones? Per demostrar que les persones no es tenen que matar? Croatian - zato se ubijaju ljudi koji su ubili nekoga? Da bi se dokazalo da ne treba ubijati? Czech - proc zabíjíme lidi, kterí zabili jiné lidi? Abychom naznacili ostatním, e zabíjet se nemá? Dutch - waarom vermoorden we mensen die andere mensen hebben vermoord? Om aan de andere mensen aan te tonen dat moorden fout is? Emiliano-Romagnolo - cum'ela c'a s'amaza dla zenta c'la amazed l'eltra zent? Par fe vida ch'an bsogna amazer unquel? Latin - cur homines qui alios homines necaverunt necantur? Num ad probandum homines necandos non esse? Latvian; Lettish - kadel mes nogalinam cilvekus, kuri ir nogalinajui citus cilvekus? Lai paraditu citiem cilvekiem, ka nogalinat ir slikti? Polish - dlaczego zabija sie osoby, które zabily innych? Aby pokazac ze nie powinno sie zabijac ludzi? Romanian - pentru ce sunt ucise persoanele care au ucis alte persoane? Pentru a demonstra ca oamenii nu trebuie sa fie ucisi? Slovak - preco zabíjat osoby, ktoré zabili iných? Aby sa ukázalo, e sa nesmú zabíjat ludia? Venetian - parché se copa le persone che ga copà altre persone? Par far vedare che no' se ga da copare le persone? Sicilian - picchì s'ammazzunu 'i cristiani ca 'mmazzunu a autri crisriani? Pi dimustrari ca 'i cristiani non s'ann'ammazzari? Flemish - waarom vermoorden we mensen die andere mensen hebben vermoord? Om aan de andere mensen aan te tonen dat moorden fout is? Ferrarese - parchè a's copa il persòn ch'i a cupà d'altar persòn? Par far vedar ca'ns dev brisa cupar il persòn? Bolognese - parché as mâza dla zänt chi an mazè dlètra zänt? Par fèr da vàdder a chî èter chan bisåggna brîsa mazèr la zänt? _________________ All languages, please click on this link http://www.rol.it/owa-k/press.frasiproc.carica?code=425 _________________ To unsubscribe from Verba Volant, please follow this link: http://www.rol.it/owa-k/press.rol_ml.verbavolant and write in the empty field next to unsubscribe the email address that you find after "TO:" in the Verba Volant emails alternatively write to the following address: unsubscribe_volant(a)rol.it always copying the EMAIL address written after "TO:"

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Wartime Secrecy Presents Hazards to U.S. Freedom
by Anonymous 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc162417210oct16.column Wartime Secrecy Presents Hazards to U.S. Freedom Marie Cocco October 16, 2001 ABDALLAH YASSINE says he is going home. Nothing can dissuade him. Not the aid and comfort he's received from his suburban neighbors, who have provided food for his family and even arranged for a local church to pay a month's mortgage. Not pressure from his in-laws, who remind him that he has much in the United States - five children on the honor roll, a brand-new home, a car - and that he would have nothing back in Lebanon. Not even seeing the possibility that the immigration violation for which he was picked up a month ago, on the Saturday after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, might be resolved without further distress. "I told him he's making an irrational decision," said Samir Shaban, Yassine's brother-in-law. "He said, 'You didn't spend 18 days in jail for doing nothing.'" Yassine showed up for his shift with a security company at Dulles Airport on the weekend after the attacks. He was shackled, led from the terminal and brought home to get his papers - then carted off to jail. His family was told he'd be released in an hour. But, for about two weeks, Yassine was held on a violation that involved working a second job for an employer - the security company - that was not listed as the employer on his guest-worker visa. He was kept in shackles and moved to three different jails. He was first denied bond, but later - after his lawyer, Denyse Sabagh, was quoted describing the way immigrants were being held virtually incommunicado on minor violations - he was freed on $2,500 bond. Yassine is one of some 700 people who have been rounded up since the terror attacks. The Justice Department does not claim these hundreds have any connection at all to the crimes. In fact, administration officials have suggested those with clear links may number only about a dozen. There are another 190 people at large, Attorney General John Ashcroft has said, who are being sought because they may have aided the terrorists. And so, by the administration's own count, hundreds of people are now in jail who the authorities do not believe can be of help in this terrible matter. Some - 148 at last count - are immigrants held on violations such as Yassine's. That leaves more than 500 about whom we are told absolutely nothing. Not their names, nor where they are being held. We are not told whether their offenses amount to having the misfortune of a Mideastern name and a broken tail-light. Or whether local authorities, who conducted many of the sweeps, have already released some who are guilty of little more than looking like an Arab. Or how many are material witnesses. "We haven't released that," said Justice Department spokesman Dan Nelson. It is the administration's all-purpose answer. Wartime powers to legitimately restrict the press from getting information that could jeopardize troops or law-enforcement operations are stretched to new proportions. The public is told nothing about hundreds in jail. Television isn't supposed to broadcast the videotaped propaganda of Osama bin Laden and his henchmen. We were supposed to submit to the idea that the people's elected representatives weren't to be briefed on the war or the threats at home. So strained was this over-reach that it was pulled back in a day. Secrecy in war is most necessary, and most dangerous. Efforts to control information slip easily into cover-ups. "Trust us" soon becomes a veil that erodes public trust. We are unanimous in saying this war against terrorism is waged to protect freedom. Ashcroft himself, commenting on the targeting of media outlets in the anthrax attacks, turned a nice phrase when he described this latest line of attack: "If people hate freedom, they ought to hate information that allows free people to make good decisions," he said on the CBS program "Face the Nation." Well put. We wait, now, for this advice to be well followed. Copyright ) 2001, Newsday, Inc.

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MWandawi art
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

I fooled around with the filtering but the source data is pure crap. It's a low quality JPEG and there are artifacts everywhere, especially around the "towers" and the rider. Has anyone found better source material : higher resolution, lower quantization? BTW - there's lots more art, mostly sinister if you care to see it that way. Look at the one in gallery 4 : WTF is a wooden shoe ( sabot ) doing next to an Indian elephant? Also in pic 0110 there is a nice death's head in the clouds to the left of the flying cherub thing.. I have some trouble with the interpretation of yellow as a biowar, since it seems to be something he horse is wanting to graze on. http://people.a2000.nl/mwandawi/

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