November 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Osama Says
by Anonymous 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

>Full text (translated into English) of his latest communication: He should keep his mouth shut. Or at least copyright his speeches and prevent unauthorised translations. He seems to be a cross between primitive religious dickhead of the TV-evangelist sort and a texan politician. But he never got his show, so ... The fact that a bigot like this can attract some sympathies from the "west" dissidents (and that's what most cpunks are) tells how bad it became in our cherished western part of the world.

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More silly stuff ( was RE: Enemy at the Door )
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

keyser-soze(a)hushmail.com wrote : > Of course you could connect an automated firearm. (Crime Stoppers Note: > aways aim for the head to avoid protective vests) Any lawyers on the list > know what penalties might be brought. I seem to recall that tying a > shotgun to the door knob was ruled an "indescriminate weapon" But a > FaceCam controlled gun wouldn't be indescriminate. > > ks > A deadly weapon triggered by unreliable SW using a nonexistant database would just give away the fact that you're on to the enemy and cause you undue legal grief. If your own surveillance remains a secret you're in a stronger position. Besides, should you care to tip your hand you might start with something simpler like indelible purple dye. IIRC human skin has a replacement period of ~3 weeks. Chances are your intruders would be from some local or regional installation. Purple people shouldn't be too tough to spot as they make their way to the office and home again ( unless you live in California ). Your more aggressive tactics could then be employed at a time and place of your choosing.

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Re: URL for Timothy May death story
by Nomen Nescio 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

APTOS - One of the country's most influential anarchist internet activists was killed early Tuesday in a hail of gunfire when law officers tried to arrest him on a warrant accusing him of aggravated assault. Timothy C. May, 50, whose apocalyptic, anti-government internet postings were a major influence on Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, was shot to death after May shot and critically wounded a Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputy who had tried to arrest him, officers said. Sandy Sandfort, a Bay Area lawyer and friend of May, said he didn't think the police operation was unjustified. "I think Tim just went nuts. He was looking for martyrdom anyway and swore he would never surrender," Sandfort said. "They had him dead to rights on the aggravated assault." "He had vowed that he would not be taken alive," said Tom McCombs, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshal's Service in Santa Cruz. A spokesman for a group that tracks anarchists said the shooting wasn't surprising given May's history. In addition to his postings, he was known within the anarchist movement for an influential document called the Cyphernomicon, in which he wrote about overthrowing governments. "For more than 3 1/2 years, he had been holed up in his house in Corralitos, threatening to kill police officers and federal agents," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "He was talked about as a guy who talked crazy and made a lot of threats. The reality is that people like him are frequently exceedingly dangerous."

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07 Nov '01

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RE: Enemy at the Door
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

At 10:19 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > Of course you could connect an automated firearm. (Crime Stoppers Note: > aways aim for the head to avoid protective vests) Any lawyers on the list > know what penalties might be brought. I seem to recall that tying a > shotgun to the door knob was ruled an "indescriminate weapon" But a > FaceCam controlled gun wouldn't be indescriminate. > > ks > Try explaining that to the widow of the fireman who was trying to save your house. ...of course, that's assuming that it works perfectly, with no false returns. Reality rarely matches marketing. The accuracy rates for face recognition are good iff and only iff the subject is cooperating. With your proposed system, if you forgot to take off your sunglasses when you went in the house, you're probably dead. Peter Trei -------------------------------- All professional alarm systems have an "armed state" and "triggered" warning so the property owners can shut it off before any action is taken. I'm sure something appropriate can be devised to handle false IDs. As for the firemen, this would indeed be a weakness. BTW, open source face recognition SW is available from Intel. http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/research/opencv/pr/visionSystemsDesignMag… Does anyone know of open source SW which could be adapted for target tracking and fire control? Imagine how feature-face recognition could be married with targeting and anaonymous open broadband wireless access (commuication is encrypted and only used when a possible target match has been identified) to identify, target, authorize and eliminate vermin. OpenJackal anyone? ks

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Microsoft scripting and other "repulsive garbage", redirection
by Khoder bin Hakkin 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

http://wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,48177,00.html This is perhaps the most amusing part: "My computer has been totally taken over by disgusting porn ads," Martha Nichols, a secretary in Chicago, said. "A few months ago the browser began spontaneously opening up to a dozen windows displaying triple-X-rated ads every time I entered a website address that couldn't be found. I have five kids, and they were being exposed to this repulsive garbage. I finally had to switch to Netscape to stop the ads." Nichols said that she had never downloaded any programs from adult websites, or even visited such websites. "I don't want to sound like a prude, but I just don't do that sort of thing online. And the computer is in our living room, so I know the kids didn't do it either."

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Re: [CNN] FBI: Threat against Western bridges 'not credible'
by Anonymous 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

>Form over function. Same as airport security. Psyops. Like the warnings >to keep people off balance. Should we start a pool to see who can guess >when ashcruft will put everyone 'on highest alert' next? It'll probably The airport security show is clearly designed to intimidate sheeple. >From what I saw, the security consists of asking for photo ID 3 times instead of once (used to be at the check-in counter, now also when entering security check and at the gate). Mind boggles trying to understand how these two extra checks help. Is there a single documented case of a terrorist *not* having a proper ID ? Or losing the ID *after* the check-in ? The carry-on bagage X-raying and personal inductive test still fail to detect non-metallic knives, perhaps hidden in the shoes. Restaurants at airports still offer metal knives. After the security check. There are *so* many armed people at airports and so much more guns that inside jobs become much simpler than before. No one is going to ID armed man in military fatigue. Cockpit doors have better locks now, but I wonder where do pilots urinate during long flights ?

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URL for William Cooper death story
by Tim May 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

Got the URL for the AP story on William Cooper's death in a midnight raid: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/1106deputyshot06-ON.html --Tim May "If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around." --attribution uncertain, possibly Gunner, on Usenet

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I thought I would tell you....
by S. Jensen 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

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Enemy at the Door
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

Seems those opposed to the coming civil liberties crack down need to start employing some of the very same technology proposed to corral us. For starters how about PC FaceCam to punish sneak and peek? Seems that if the data base of such a system were programmed to detect entry and discriminate family members or others who should have legit access to your property you could use it to deter their searches.(Probably a good idea to put a good UPS on the PC and FaceCam to thwart power interruptions, though why they would want to risk causing a tell tale time reset to one of you appliances I can't imagine.) For example, you could hook a compressed air tank to a high frequency whistle via a control valve connected to you PC. Shouldn't be much of a problem reaching damaging or even lethal sound levels and might hard to stop once triggered. (Ever try find which one of your smoke detectors was triggering?) Not recommended if you have pets :-) (I once connected a buzzer in the center of a large wall-mounted array of flash lamps to an under-the-carpet pressure sensor to form a burglar bugger. When triggered the system would sound the buzzer for about 1/2 second, to attract the eyes of the burglar, and then fire. A few months after install our place was burgled and the thieves fled without taking any items, probably with some permanent retinal damage.) Of course you could connect an automated firearm to the PC. (Crime Stoppers Note: always aim for the head to avoid protective vests) Any lawyers on the list know what penalties might be brought? I seem to recall that tying a shotgun to the doorknob was ruled an "indiscriminate weapon". But a FaceCam controlled gun wouldn't be indiscriminate.

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