October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

More on Anthrax cases at publishing company in Florida
by Tim May 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

--begin excerpt...my comments are in brackets-- Monday October 8 2:52 PM ET FBI Probes Anthrax, Terror Link By AMANDA RIDDLE, Associated Press Writer BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - The FBI (news - web sites) is investigating the possibility that anthrax bacteria found in two Florida men is a result of terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) said Monday. The bacteria killed one of the men Friday. It has since been detected in the nose of a co-worker and on a computer keyboard in the newspaper office where both men worked, health officials said. The co-worker was in stable condition Monday at an unidentified Miami-Dade County hospital, according to health officials. He had been tested for anthrax because he happened to be in a hospital for an unrelated illness. [Tim Note: CNN says the 73-year-old man had been admitted to the ICU/emergency room with "pneumonia-like" symptoms on Friday/Saturday. He was released when he improved. Those who know about anthrax know that this fits the model of the "anthrax honeymoon," the period of a few days after an initial bad period where the patient seems to be get better. Then it gets much, much worse. In fact, by the time the patient is in the anthrax honeymoon, it's too late. so look for this second patient to be dying soon.] David Pecker, chief executive of the tabloid's publisher, American Media Inc., said the man worked in the mailroom. [Tim Note: The mail room. And spores have been found on a keyboard. Anyone still think the first guy got it out in the wild someplace?] ... Stevens lived about a mile from an air strip where suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta rented planes, said Marian Smith, owner of the flight school, said Monday. Several suspected hijackers also visited and asked questions at a crop-dusting business in Belle Glade, 40 miles from Stevens' home in Lantana. --end excerpt-- A lot of coincidences. Too many. Be interesting if the anthrax spores were mixed in with outgoing copies of The Sun and The National Inquirer! Ignore that fine powder shaking out of the paper as people read their copies at the Waffle House... (Be interesting if it turns out a pressman bagging the newspapers for shipment around the country has ties to the other WTC Jihad warriors. "The FBI has confirmed that Mustafa bin Azolot, a 22-year-old worker in the printing plant, has disappeared from his apartment in Lantana, Fla.") --Tim May

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RIAA Secret Meeting
by John Young 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Anonymous reports on a secret meeting of RIAA: http://cryptome.org/riaa-secret.htm Excerpt: "On Thursday October 4 there was a closed-door RIAA meeting at the Ritz-Carlton, which was 'a direction setting' meeting. The individuals of note attending were: Hillary Rosen - RIAA Chief Steve Heckler - Sony Music Strauss Zelnick - BMG Edgar Bronfman - Universal Gerald Levin - AOL Time-Warner Ken Berry - EMI Leonardo Chiariaglione - SDMI Chair (Leaving Soon) Francis Jones - Codex Data Systems Fritz Hollings - Senator Ted Stevens - Senator Michael Eisner - Disney CEO Jack Valenti - President, MPAA Andy Grove - Intel CEO Lou Gerstner - IBM Yoishi Morishita - CEO Matsushita Tsutomo Kawata - CEO Toshiba Jay Berman - IFPI Chair Paul England - Microsoft Advanced Cryptography research group One particularly disturbing fact is that Codex Data System's DIRT software is supposed to be restricted to law enforcement agencies, yet the RIAA, MPAA, and IFPI have all purchased it, and use it routinely to monitor servers which are suspected of infringing content, yet are password protected such as servers which require one to sign up for a password account like hotline servers that have no guest download."

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Re: Let's Attack The Irish White Christian Terroroists...
by Tabla bin Rasa 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

At 11:11 AM 10/8/01 +0000, Steve Mynott wrote: >because the terrorists said, probably on purpose, the wrong end of the >street and the people were moved towards the bomb. It is an interesting question, as yet unexplored, whether the 2nd WTC plane/manned-cruise-missile (made by Boeing in either case) was intended as an "emergency personnel bomb" (following the christian anti-abortionist bombing, et alia model) or whether they were just going for redundancy/extra effect. After all, the lameass parking lot WTC bomb a few years ago didn't do a hundredth of the effect of 10 guys and two planes.. Orderz of Magnitude, DOOD.. -No Foxes in Aholes...

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Tony Blair's body language
by AARG! Anonymous 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

>Is Tony Blair lying when he touches his nose? Are his lips moving? Please name one truthful politician.

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freezing Osama; burning down the house
by Tabla bin Rasa 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Stormin' Norman (tm) leaked the following: the US can ID humans in the *cold* desert. And its getting *buttcold* in certain parts of the world. If we can't find him, we can starve and freeze him. One nice bit of karma: the Mullah's house burned down. Probably without warning, and only his house. Nice hand of god fireworks, general.

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Notice
by Yapalot Communications 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

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Re: Let's Attack The Irish White Christian Terroroists...
by Steve Mynott 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

FogStorm <fogstorm(a)mac.com> writes: > On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 04:53 PM, jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: > > > On 7 Oct 2001, at 12:24, CJ Parker wrote: > >> Of course we're not attacking a Religion or a Country's > >> 'people'... So let's prove it by launching Air Strikes > >> against the Irish Republican Army Terrorists and the Irish > >> Government entities that give them aid and support. Lets > >> launch Air Strikes against the homes and families of the > >> SeanPennSeanFeind Irish Politicians who support terroroism. > > > > The IRA did not kill six thousand US civilians in a terrorist > > attack. > > IIRC when the IRA attacks economic infrastructure targets they generally > phone in a warning far enough in advance that the area can be evacuated. Myth. 29 people were killed in an real IRA bombing in Omagh in 1998. This was a shopping High Street full of people. The warning given was incorrect and _increased_ the number of deaths because the terrorists said, probably on purpose, the wrong end of the street and the people were moved towards the bomb. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve(a)tightrope.demon.co.uk "no man or group of men shall aggress upon the person or property of anyone else." -- murray n. rothbard

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RE: Risks of bogus e-mail addresses "FROM: ObL": Risks Digest 21.68
by Bill Stewart 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Actually, the press article describes the message as an "SMS", which is a GSM Short Message Service cell-phone text message, rather than an email. This implies that the Belgian police are either routinely eavesdropping on GSM text messages, or else some intelligence service is doing so and asked them to do the local legwork. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:50 PM To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Risks of bogus e-mail addresses "FROM: ObL": Risks Digest 21.68 >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:11:16 -0400 >From: Peter Wayner <pcw(a)flyzone.com> >Subject: Risks of bogus e-mail addresses "FROM: ObL" > >Sincerely yours, *Not* Osama bin Laden? > >A Filipino in Belgium ended up in jail after *receiving* a joke e-mail >seemingly from Osama bin Laden (but apparently from one of his friends), >asking to "stay with you for a couple of days." The man was freed only >after a Catholic priest vouched for him as a regular attendee each Sunday. >[http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125822] > > Ah, there's nothing like putting faith in identity, keyword scanning > surveillance, and data stored in computers.

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by business1＠tangfeng.org 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

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09 Oct '01

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