October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

possession of brown sugar and envelopes illegal ?
by Morlock Elloi 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

I wonder how long will the anthrax hysteria last. Repetitive stimulation yields diminished response over time. This is not to say that there is no danger - but perception of danger seldom has any relation to danger itself. The only way to protect from living organisms used as weapons (after all - life is a weapon) in the long run is immunity. Sooner or later any small determined group will be able to create some bug. I see no way that government can stop this - it's like trying to stop crypto or C coding. Will not happen. Maybe the high density living that we are so used to is incompatible with new weapons. Maybe societal structures based on projectile-throwing weaponry are passe. New weapons always changed rules, and it was called progress. One obvious advance is that using and defending from bugs requires more intelligence than pulling the trigger. This may be the main cause of Fear from WMD. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

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14 Oct '01

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Got Beef? Re: evil empire meets evil disease
by Optimizzin Al-gorithm 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

At 09:24 PM 10/13/01 +1000, mattd wrote: >Pre emptive strike? In the 29th sept new scientist theres a story on US >financed(mainly)biowarfare testing >for a fungus poppy root destroyer. Old news. UK does this research too; not just poppies, but cannabis, coca, etc. Its current research. Of course, the US is *currently* engaged in biowar in Columbia, spraying glyphosphate, (which you can buy at home depot, and kills everything it touches, the locals' food too). But the folks with the Soviet Sub Surplus connections haven't taken it personally yet. The *real* fun would be the introduction of hoof and mouth disease into the livestock regions of the country. Auction sites would be good as lots of flux, like sneezing variola in an airport. What was that Terry Gilliam movie, 12 monkeys?

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geopoker
by Optimizzin Al-gorithm 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

>"The GBU-28 is a 5,000-pound laser-guided conventional munition..." I see your gps-bbuster and raise you a railcar of phosgene upwind of a city. Or the first domestic FAM using unodorized gas in a metro area. Etc. What part of "asymmetric warfare" don't you understand?

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sinister beards
by Optimizzin Al-gorithm 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

At 03:45 AM 10/13/01 -0000, Dr. Evil wrote: >obvious question: if you're firing an AK left-handed, how do you avoid >getting brass stuck in your beard? > Hmm. Gas masks don't fit over beards too well.

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Safeweb Hotmail Question
by John Young 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

Safeweb principally offers web browsing anonymity. Our source for the RIAA meeting allegations used a hotmail address which resolved to a Safeweb IP address. However, I don't see on Safeweb's site an anonymizing mail service. Is there such a service by Safeweb or does it sell an anonymizing e-mail program? The source last wrote that "multiple" Safeweb protection was used to cloak the messages. Is there a way to chain Hotmail to Safeweb, or some other way to "multiple" Safeway protection as preamble to Hotmail? It would be intriguing to learn that the source is connected to Safeweb itself, or Safeweb's backers.

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Travelling Salesman Problem solved! (Was: One-way tickets)
by Secret Squirrel 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

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anthrax down under
by mattd 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

Its probably sweet and lo,sprinkle some on your vote next month,also your ISP bill for broadband. When is the chicken shit US federal fuckhead govt of united snakes going to encrypt the everlovin' reward money for the evel one? AP NOW,if not now,When?

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anthrax down under?
by cpaul 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/14/national/national102.html Anthrax scare evacuates Sydney Airport Parts of the International Terminal at Sydney Airport have been evacuated following the discovery of a suspicious package. A Qantas spokeswoman says the international counter was closed after a white powder-like substance was found in some meal vouchers about 4:30 this afternoon. She says no flights have been affected. Australian Protective Services are now investigating the area. It's believed some shops have been evacuated but the spokeswoman could not confirm that. AAP

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Missing details on Afghanistan: Natural Gas (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 13 Oct 2001 14:29:45 -0400 From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym(a)canada.com> To: fork <fork(a)xent.com> Subject: Missing details on Afghanistan: Natural Gas Something I haven't seen appear on this list before but which may or may not be significant: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html "Afghanistan's significance from an energy standpoint stems from its geographical position as a potential transit route for oil and natural gas exports from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea. This potential includes the possible construction of oil and natural gas export pipelines through Afghanistan, which was under serious consideration in the mid-1990s. The idea has since been undermined by Afghanistan's instability. ... "The Soviets had estimated Afghanistan's proven and probable natural gas reserves at up to 5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in the 1970s. Afghan natural gas production reached 275 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d) in the mid-1970s. However, due to declining reserves from producing fields, output gradually fell to about 220 Mmcf/d by 1980. At that time, the Jorquduq field was brought online and was expected to boost Afghan natural gas output to 385 Mmcf/d by the early 1980s. However, sabotage of infrastructure by the anti-Soviet mujaheddin fighters limited the country's total production to 290 Mmcf/d, an output level that was held fairly steady until the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. After the Soviet pullout and subsequent Afghan civil war, roughly 31 producing wells at Sheberghan area fields were shut in pending the restart of natural gas sales to the former Soviet Union. "At its peak in the late 1970s, Afghanistan supplied 70%-90% of its natural gas output to the Soviet Union's natural gas grid via a link through Uzbekistan. In 1992, Afghan President Najibullah indicated that a new natural gas sales agreement with Russia was in progress. However, several former Soviet republics raised price and distribution issues and negotiations stalled. In the early 1990s, Afghanistan also discussed possible natural gas supply arrangements with Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and several Western European countries, but these talks never progressed further. Afghan natural gas fields include Jorqaduq, Khowaja Gogerdak, and Yatimtaq, all of which are located within 20 miles of the northern town of Sheberghan in Jowzjan province. Natural gas production and distribution is the responsibility of the Taliban-controlled Afghan Gas Enterprise. In 1999, work resumed on the repair of a distribution pipeline to Mazar-i-Sharif. Spur pipelines to a small power plant and fertilizer plant also were repaired and completed. Mazar-i-Sharif is now receiving natural gas from the pipeline, as well as some other surrounding areas. Rehabilitation of damaged natural gas wells has been undertaken at the Khowaja Gogerak field, which has increased natural gas production." http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork

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