November 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

FC: Correction: FAA.gov *still* runs open mail relay (fwd)
by measl＠mfn.org 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

Anyone up for a little game of "Warn The Public"? :-) -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:30:08 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)politechbot.com Subject: FC: Correction: FAA.gov *still* runs open mail relay Previous (incorrect) message: "FAA.gov ran open mail relay, could let people forge FAA email" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02757.html I just verified this too. -Declan ********

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Re: First Polygraphs and Then Torture?
by Major Variola (ret) 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

At 12:09 AM 11/6/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:05:03PM -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: >> Who decides what is "cruel and unusual"? > >Well, hell, who decides what "speech" is, or "religion," or a firearm? >(Is Politech speech, is Scientology a religion, is a stun gun a firearm?) Politech is a firearm, Scientology is a stun gun, Firearms are a religion.

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Fw: Business 'rights' and free markets
by Marcel Popescu 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

I thought Choate might want someone with more authority to speak on this. Here is his reply. (Jeff Tucker is the admin of the mises.org mailing list.) Mark From: "Jeff Tucker" > This looks hopeless to me. Anyone who calls the freedom of association > "fascism on an individual level" isn't worth arguing with. > > jeff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marcel Popescu" <Marcel_Popescu(a)microbilt.com> > To: "Jeff Tucker" <tucker(a)mises.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:55 AM > Subject: Fw: Business 'rights' and free markets > > > I apologize for disturbing you; we're unable to convince this guy he > doesn't > have a clue what he's talking about, so I thought maybe we could get a few > words from someone with more authority than us. > > Basically, we're talking about the Austrian school, and whether a free > market can exist at all. We started with Tim May's statement (with which I > agree completely) that there's no contradiction between a free market, and > the freedom of a businessman to refuse to accept a customer, no matter on > what grounds. Choate disagrees. > > Thank you, and my apologies for bothering you with such triviality. (It's > not that I don't know how to respond - it's that this guy won't accept > anyone because "he doesn't really understands Hayek".) > > Mark

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NBC, ABC and CBS sic feds on Replay TV 4000
by Khoder bin Hakkin 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

Networks Suing Super VCR Associated Press Three major television networks are suing the maker of the first Internet-ready personal digital video recorder, saying the ReplayTV 4000 lets people make and distribute illegal copies of television programs. NBC, ABC and CBS filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in California against Sonicblue, claiming the ReplayTV 4000 would violate their copyrights by allowing users to distribute copies of programs over the Internet. <snip> http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48065,00.html

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network topology and covert networks
by Khoder bin Hakkin 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

More from http://www.orgnet.com/tnet.html A covert network must meet three competing goals... 1.Establish efficient communication and information flow within and between many cooperating cells by minimizing path length throughout the network. 2.Limit discovery and monitoring of the network from outsiders by minimizing the number of communication links in the network. 3.Limit damage when a node is discovered or removed from the network by minimizing the number of direct ties each node has. Because of these constraints, covert networks have a different topology than normal social networks. Illegal networks tend to exchange efficiency for secrecy.

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intelligence collection, tools
by Khoder bin Hakkin 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

http://www.orgnet.com/hijackers.html

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Dutch Police DoS Stolen Cell Phones With SMS
by Khoder bin Hakkin 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

Dangerous precedent, eh? http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171836.html Dutch Police 'Bombard' Stolen Cell Phones With SMS By Andrew Rosenbaum, Special to Newsbytes AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 05 Nov 2001, 9:30 AM CST The Amsterdam police have been using short messaging system (SMS) missives to block the use of stolen cell phones, and while the campaign has been successful, mobile providers are concerned about the cost and bandwidth strain of the campaign. About four months ago, the Amsterdam police began cooperating with the national telecommunications provider, KPN Telekom. When stolen phones are reported, the police asked KPN to use for the phone to locate the telephone number. Then, every three to five minutes, the police sent SMS messages to the telephone saying, "Warning, this is a stolen telephone, using it is against the law stealing it is a felony." The police send the repeated messages to an average of five phones every day. And, according to a spokesman for the law enforcement agency, the tactic is working. After conducting a three-month experiment with the SMS messaging, police found that illicit telephone theft declined by more than half compared to the average theft for the period. "When the stolen phone is bombarded with tough SMS announcements, it's not such a nice thing to have," says Ellie Florax, a spokeswoman for the Amsterdam Police. Pleased with these results, the Amsterdam police want to continue the program, but KPN is hesitating, according to KPN spokeswoman, Caroline Ubachs. "There are some financial and legal issues that have to be resolved," Ubachs says. First, the spokeswoman explains, KPN has to dedicate a certain amount of staff, computer time and bandwidth to both locating the phone numbers of these phones, and providing them to the police. "That costs a considerable amount," says Ubachs, who declined to say how much. KPN wants all the other mobile phone service providers to participate in the campaign as well. But those that the police have approached so far say they do not have the technology to locate phone numbers based on cell phone IDs. The Ministry of Justice now is working with the other providers to help them gear up for the move. Then there is an unresolved legal issue: it isn't clear, under Dutch law, whether police should be obliged to obtain warrants for these SMS "bombardments." Some Dutch civil libertarians suggest the campaign might be illegal under data protection laws. "It is almost certain that this would be the case in many countries," says Ubachs. Police spokesperson Florax insists that this is "a technicality which can easily be solved," but KPN wants lawyers to study the issue before it decides to continue the campaign. "With this strategy," says Florax, "we believe we can practically eliminate cell phone theft in this city." Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com

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Re: First Polygraphs and Then Torture?
by Nomen Nescio 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

> Perhaps it's important to dust off your copy of The Bill of Rights > and re-read the 5th amendment which explicitly states that: > "No person shall be nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be > a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or > property, without due process of law..." > See: <http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/billrights/billrights.html> However, this means that IF you have due process, then a person CAN be compelled to be a witness against himself, and be deprived of life, liberty and property. Hence using truth drugs or torture would be perfectly constitutional if due process is used, according to the Fifth Amendment. As a supporter of the Constitution you are now obligated to defend to the death those who would torture prisoners, as long as they first get a judge's approval.

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RE:
by Hurtado, Jorge E 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

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ScienceDaily Magazine -- UCLA Team Maps How Genes Affect Brain Structure, Intelligence; Dramatic Images Shed Light On Brain Diseases, Personality Differences
by Jim Choate 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

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