November 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

re: Using Thermite to Drop Suspension Bridges...and U.S. plans to
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

There are various formulations for thermite. The one I like best uses barium peroxide, sulphur and very finely divided aluminum (paint pigment works great). Thermite is nice cause its not explosive or shock sensitive and can be ignited by a simple green fireworks fuse.

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Re: Warning everything you do on your computer is being logged [3G9MV]
by Anonymous 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

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by mlsxhp＠citiz.net 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

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Security & Personal Communications
by Jim Choate 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1474/byt20011017s0003/1022_hanger.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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NSA Under Attack
by John Young 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

The Boston Globe had a story on October 27 about NSA refusing to share comint on US persons with other federal agencies, destroying the data upon its lawyers' advice sooner than usual in the face of anti-terrorism pressure. (URL may wrap) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/300/nation/Spy_agency_destroys_data_anger ing_others_in_probe+.shtml If true, it's a big plus for NSA for complying with the law when others are rushing to bend, break and revise it. Some assholes are calling for unleashing NSA from its Church Committee restrictions, but a few sane people are saying, no, no domestic spying, we don't want to go through that again. To be sure, the story could be a cover for ignoring the law.

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Napster execs needing culling
by Khoder bin Hakkin 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Napster Wants License to License By Michael Stroud 2:00 a.m. Oct. 30, 2001 PST LOS ANGELES -- Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers says the government should consider compulsory standards requiring music labels to license music at a fair price if they don't close deals with Napster and other independent distributors. "Like any other business person, I'm hesitant to bring government in," Hilbers said. "But government has an obligation to set standards. If there's no agreement, the government should consider compulsory licensing." <snip> http://wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,47977,00.html Compulsory licensing = theft, buddy.

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02 Nov '01

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CNN.com - ACLU: Face recognition systems ineffective - November 2, 2001
by Jim Choate 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

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update.563 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:51:19 -0500 (EST) From: AIP listserver <physnews(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.563 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 563 October 30, 2001 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordon WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? This may seem to be more of a question for psychologists than physicists. But two researchers (Joseph Wakeling, jwakeling(a)webdrake.net, now at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Per Bak, Imperial College, 011-44-20- 7594-8528, p.bak(a)ic.ac.uk) argue that intelligence is not an abstract concept, but must be considered as a physical phenomenon. Any definition of intelligence, they say, cannot ignore a living being's environment, including its very own body. In their view, an organism is only intelligent relative to how well it solves the problems that its surroundings throw at it. This runs counter to many historical ideas, including the concept that the mind is separate from the body, or that it is possible to build a desktop computer that thinks like a human without having the same physical environment or body. To explore the idea of intelligence, the researchers ran computer simulations of artificial neural networks called "minibrains." In the simulations, 251 minibrains each attempted to pick the less popular of two choices, 0 and 1, analogous to 251 motorists all trying to pick the less congested road. This "Minority Game" would be repeated over many successive rounds. Each minibrain consisted of three layers of "neurons": "input neurons," which dictated how many past rounds it could remember, leading to an intermediary layer, which then led into an "output" layer that determined what choice was made. If the minibrain ending up making an incorrect choice, it would reduce the strength of the connections between neurons supplying the "wrong answer." The researchers were in for a surprise when they endowed all of the minibrains with equal abilities, which would be analogous to a bunch of motorists with the same amount of decision-making skill. In this situation, no minibrains correctly guessed the minority choice with even a 50 percent success rate, which is what you'd get by making the choice with a random flip of a coin. Even an E. coli bacterium, which searches for glucose by moving in random directions in its environment, is seemingly more intelligent than this. Only when the researchers introduced a "rogue" minibrain with more intermediate neurons to analyze the past rounds did it attain more than a 50 percent success rate. Their simulations suggest that intelligence often hinges on how much one can make use of the data in its physical environment. (Wakeling and Bak, Physical Review E, November 2001) X-RAY FLASH FLY PHOTOGRAPHY. Researchers at Cornell [SSZ: text deleted] ALL-OPTICAL ELECTRON INJECTOR. Conventional electron [SSZ: text deleted]

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by Claudio V. 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

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