December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Fun with bleach and nail polish remover
by Eugene Leitl 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > Yes, it's unstable, but what, exactly, is it that makes $H_{2}O_{2}$ > organic? Hydrogen peroxide is not an organic peroxide. Concentrated hydrogen peroxide is unstable, and can violently decompose, especially if catalysts (finely distributed metals, pyrolysite) are present, but it does not detonate. The usual use for it is for hypergolic rocket fuel (with unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine). Organic peroxides is something else entirely. You can make organic peroxides using hydrogen peroxide, though it is not advisable for laymen. In fact, due to their instability, it is better not to work with them at all. Considerable potential for severe or even terminal injury there.

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Re: BlackNet customers/suppliers needed.
by mattd 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

>>Why should I feel guilt over what previous generations have done? Insects do it, birds do it, mammals do it and people do it. Even dolphins, the breeding heart liberals favourite, kill their competitors. Cro-Magnon man displaced Neanderthal man, where do we draw the line? My Romanian relatives had their land taken from them by Ukranian imperialists, within the last 100 years, why can't I make a claim? << Guilts not called for,blacknet (and other) direct action is called for.You could make a claim with APster against paticular Imperialists,Ill contribute.Dolphins rape and Kill,so what? We draw the line with crypto-friggen-anarchy,blacknet and APster (see the Cyphernomicon and http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html >>The Canadian government abuses all of their citizens, why should aboriginal people of today get special treatment? The Canadian government doesn't appear to be any worse than the US or Australian governments, or for that matter any other government. << Govts days are numbered,Crypto-anarchy is coming,haven't you heard? REAL Anarchy.(see assassination politics) >>I never thought this list was a home for the bleeding heart liberal tree hugger crowd. << It aint,goose.I was a tree climber/feller for 15 years.I never thought this list was a home for the lunar right.Left wing or right wing its the same dirty bird,watch for claws and droppings.

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A bad man...but a greek!
by mattd 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

ANARCHY NEWS SITE FROM GREECE (english) by ANARCHOPUNK 7:18pm Sat Dec 29 '01 redblackflag(a)yahoo.gr ANARCHY SITE ANARCHY SITE FROM GREECE WITH NEWS ,PHOTO AND MP3 WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/REDBLACKFLAG Euletheria! Selection and the systematic search of data bases by thomas meyer-falk 11:26am Sun Dec 30 '01 Selection and the systematic search of data bases called "Rasterfahndung" after September 11th In the German language there are certain terms with a negative connotation. "Selection" is one of them. In the Nazi empire from 1933 to 1945, for instance, the medical doctor, Mengele, made a "selection" at the ramp of the concentration camp Auschwitz. He separated people into several groups. One group consisted of people who were to be killed immediately, another one with people who were "allowed" to live on for some time, yet another group was made up of people destined to become victims of his "experiments". Today selections are taking place again! In the context of the so-called "Rasterfahndung", the systematic search of certain data bases, e. g. at registration offices and universities, the local court of D|sseldorf gave certain "criteria for the selection of people": male, birth date between October 1st, 1960, and October 1st, 1983, birth name, first name, etc. The author of this small article was registered at a comprehensive university in the district of this court from 1993 to 1998, so he complained against the decision of the court, because in his opinion his data was not the business of the police and secret service offices. According to the decision, all universities were forced to hand out their data on all current and former students who were born between 1960 and 1983. Instead of objectively contradicting the political arguments of the complainer, who argued, for example, that there was no real danger justifying this spying on data in the least, and that the Pentagon and the WTC had been attacked, not the Federal Republic of Germany, the federal court of D|sseldorf [a court on a higher level than the local court] followed the absurd "arguments" given by the police president (decision made on October 30th, AZ 25T 874/01). On page 4 of the decision it says: "There is a current danger for the security of the State and the federal states. A danger is current when the damaging event has already started, or when the disturbance will start with an almost certain probability in the near future. This assumption is justified due to the attacks of September 11th and the reactions to this event. This is obvious already due to the fact that the German government has repeatedly announced unlimited solidarity, including military means, with the steps taken by the United States." In this case the collection of data was allowed and a complaint against it denied without giving even a small hint how this measure should help to find alleged "sleepers". On the contrary - all students, non-Germans and Germans, are put under a general suspicion; the fact of having been student is already enough to be selected! Many decades ago Orwell had published his vision in the novel "1984" - the reality of today is orientated along those lines. If you behave unconspicuously, you are under suspicion - and if you attract attention, you are under suspicion anyway. The police state is not at the door - it is right in our homes! No to the police state! No to observance! No to the "Rasterfahndung"! For a free and just world! Viva la Anarchie! Thomas Meyer-Falk, z.Zt. JVA -Zelle 3117, Schvnbornstra_e 32, D-76646 Bruchsal, Germany On or near this day.1835 -- US: Treaty of New Echota signed by Cherokee, agreeing to move beyond the Mississippi River. Leads to Trail of Tears & several thousand Cherokee deaths. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/trailtea.htm 1890 -- US: Wounded Knee Massacre of Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. 300 mostly unarmed Indians killed when the 7th Cavalry (Custer's old command) discharges artillery amidst women, children, & fleeing men. 29 soldiers die in this final major military battle in genocide against Native Americans. 18 soldiers get Congressional Medals of Honor for their 'bravery'. "Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent." Ayn Rand, http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html Four days after Christmas...the soldiers riddle women, children, & the few men with bullets like so many buffaloes. The blizzard strikes the dead & freezes them on the snow. http://woptura.com/ 1910 -- Mexico: The anarchist Praxedis Gilberto Guerrero is killed after leading a small band in capturing the town of Janos. Now has a city named for him. http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchists/guerrero.html "The PIONEER has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination [sic] of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong & wipe these untamed & untamable creatures from the face of the earth. " L. Frank Baum, Publisher & editor of "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer", & later author of the Wizard of Oz books.

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BlackNet customers/suppliers needed.
by mattd 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

Subject: dene suline Kanada The Dene Suline of Cold Lake: Reasserting aboriginal title and opposing the NATO war machine On December 12, 2001, the Dene Suline people of Cold Lake, "Alberta, kanada", are supposed to vote on an offer from the government to give money and land in exchange for Dene territory on which the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range is located. Primrose Lake is a favored NATO playground, where they have tested out numerous missiles, bombs, weapons and aircraft that are currently being used in the War against Terrorism. The Dene Suline have established a camp at the main entrance of the weapons range and are opposing the theft of their land to feed the war machine and the oil industry. Since their earliest memories, the Dene Suline have lived peacefully on the land that is now the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range. Through hunting, fishing, trapping, and food gathering, the Dene Suline have sustained themselves as a people in the face of genocide from the kanadian government and NATO. The Dene people live from northern kanada, in "Alberta, Saskatchwan, Manitoba, and Northwest Territories," down to Black Mesa in "Arizona." The U$ and kanadian governments and corporations have stolen their land, killed their people and forced the Dene onto reservations. Like the Dineh (Navajo) people at Big Mountain, the Dene Suline of Cold Lake have faced forced relocation. The first Europeans on Dene Suline territory were Hudson Bay Company fur traders and by 1867 a treaty, known at Treaty #6, was forced onto the Dene Suline. In 1952, the kanadian government, under the pretense of protecting the freedom and safety of kanada, stole the land encompassing Primrose Lake Air Weapons, land that was garunteed to them in their treaty. When this happened, the Dene Suline had a 7 day sit-in at Suckerville, on the shores of Primrose Lake, refusing to move until their land was returned. After heavy coercion from the government, a deal was made; a 20 year lease of 4,490 sq. miles for military use only and after 20 years, it was to be returned or a new lease renegotiated with the Dene Suline. Before 1952, a large deposit of oil was discovered on their territory and by the early 970s the technology had been developed to extract that oil. Since that time, the oil companies, primarily Alberta Energy Corporation, have been raping the earth in Dene Suline territory, taking billions of dollars worth of oil yearly and destroying the environment in the process. The voices of opposition from the Dene Suline have been ignored by the government and, not surprisingly, after 20 years was up, the government still maintained control over Primrose Lake and did not renegotiate the lease. The territory of the Dene Suline is being bombed and decimated everyday. Burial grounds, traplines, hunting and fishing grounds are destroyed by the greed of the oil industry and the bombs of the NATO war machine. Through alcohol, residential schools, poverty, and forced assimilation, the government has tried to break the culture and strength of the people. NATO, the War Machine and Native Territory Many other indigenous Nations on Turtle Island have seen the effects of the war machine testing on their territories. The Western Shoshone people in Newe Segobia, (Nevada), have suffered from massive nuclear testing on their territory. Many people have contracted cancer and other illnesses and died from nuclear radiation and the subsequent destruction of the land and the sustenance it provides for their people. Low level flight trainings have shattered the lives of many Innu people in North Eastern kanada. Thousands of low level planes fly over their territory every year, negatively affecting the environment, the food sources and culture of the Innu. For 6 weeks every year at the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range, more than 18 NATO countries use the range for "Operation Maple Flag" in which they test new laser and ballistic missiles, and depleted uranium bombs. In the 50 years since the Department of National Defense stole this land, Primrose Lake has become the second largest airforce base in kanada. The Tomahawk Cruise Missile was first tested at Primrose Lake, and then used in Iraq, Yugoslavia and now Afghanistan. The formation of the U$ and kanada was based upon the terrorizing and genocide of Native people. Christian fanatics conquered new lands through war, biological warfare (including the the intentional spread of small pox), land theft, forced assimilation, deceit, torture, rape, and destruction of villages, long houses, gravesites, carvings, totem poles etc. The West perfected colonization here on Turtle Island and now "Globalization" is its latest offspring with "Operation Enduring Freedom" (the War Against Terrorism) as its military arm. The War against Terrorism is colonization in the 21st century, as more areas and countries are turned into U$/Western military occupied zones and the people are forced to give their oil to the hungry western market and assimilate their culture and economy into the world capitalist market place. What NATO and kanada has done to the Dene Suline and their territory is what they want to do to the world. People have been lead to believe the war against terrorism is a war for freedom and democracy, to liberate Afghanis and other muslims from repressive governments and radical fundamentalists. But the Talibans treatment and oppression of women and non-Muslims is no different than the kanadian treatment of the Dene Suline and other indigenous people on Turtle Island. As "Operation Enduring Freedom" continues, there is only going to be more genocide committed against Native people of Turtle Island in the name of military testing. Dene Suline Resistance For the past 6 months the Dene Suline have been asserting their aboriginal title and opposing the NATO war machine by reoccuppying their traditional territory at Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range. On June 3rd, 2001, the Dene Suline blocked the AEC (Alberta Energy Corporation) access road and the Weapons Range and established a camp there. They are re-asserting their title to their homelands by physically being and living on them, and by doing so, implementing the 1997 Delgamuukw supreme court decision, which affirms the inherent rights of Native people in kanada. The Dene Suline are now faced with a new attempt by the government and the Department of National Defense to steal their territory. The government has offered $25.5 million and a measly 5,000 acres of land in exchange for 4,500 square miles of their territory which encompasses the whole weapons range. This works out to a measly $35 an acre. The government has been working with the Chief and Council (state sponsored Band Council government) in an attempt to fast track this deal past the people. They hastily organized only 2 information meetings, one in Cold Lake and one in Edmonton, but in both places they were met with heavy opposition from the people. The government and the Chief and Council have been trying to cover-up this deal and silence media attention. The Chief and Council have enacted Indian Act voting regulations to make the voting age 21 (it9s normally 18), so as to exclude opposition from the youth. The Dene Suline are not giving up or backing down because of this latest tactic by the government. 20-30 people are still at the camp regularly (despite bitter winter colds) and they recently finished building their first permanent cabin and are in the process of building more. The Dene Suline will not let this deal through and are trying to stop it even before it comes to vote. Dene Suline Warriors are promising direct action against Primrose Lake, the government, Alberta Energy Corporation and anyone else in support of this deal. The Dene people have survived this long in the face of genocide and they will continue to fight to defend their territory against kanada and the NATO war machine. "WE need the world to look close at this act of aggression. We need human rights and environmental groups as well as the peace / anti-war movements to act on their resolutions and defend the territories," said Dene Warrior Brian X. For more information contact Dene Suline of Cold Lake Box 8497, Cold Lake, Dene Suline Territory "AB" T0M 1M2 Cell: 780-812-0306 Phone: 780-639-4592 How to support: The Dene Suline are desperately in need of funds: transfers can be made to Cold Lake Dene People9s Fund, acct. 230 6017 01-maximizer, Cold Lake Credit Union, Cold Lake, AB or donations can be sent directly to the address above. They need communications gear (video cameras, cell phones, radios). You can also support by organizing actions against any of the government bodies, Department of National Defense, corporations, and NATO. The Dene Suline want this information to get out to people, so please help by spreading the word. If you want to go to Cold Lake to directly support their actions on the front lines, contact the above phone number.

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LA Law.
by mattd 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

Nic Clyde and Stuart Lennox flew out of Australia yesterday in time for a New Year's Eve party in Los Angeles. But unlike other revellers, few at the party will be making plans for 2002. The two Australians, along with 13 other Greenpeace activists, face an uncertain future. On January 8, they front a federal court jury in Los Angeles charged with felonies, one of which carries a maximum jail term of six years. In July, the FBI arrested the activists and two freelance journalists after they delayed the test of the Bush administration's controversial Star Wars anti-missile defence system. Opponents of the system claim it will increase the likelihood of nuclear war. They were charged with conspiring to violate a safety zone and entering a military zone without permission after swimmers on boogie boards went ashore at the Vandenberg Airforce Base in California. The US coastguard chased other activists in inflatable dinghies. Mr Clyde, 32, who is on bail but was allowed home for Christmas, said the last few days had been stressful. "I don't know how long it's going to be before I see my family and friends again," he said. "I guess I'm psychologically preparing for the eye of the storm in LA." Mr Lennox, 43, has also been preparing for his time away from Australia. Christmas was "a quiet day", during which he "cleared stuff away" at his home in Murdunna, near Port Arthur. He said it was "a difficult time", because he was unable to meet up with his partner, who is in Japan. Mr Clyde's brother, Ian, a Melbourne lawyer with experience in human rights law, said his family supported his brother's stance but were worried about his future. "It upsets and distresses us that Nic might have to languish for months in a penitentiary, simply for a peaceful protest," he said. Ian Clyde, who along with other family members has written letters to federal politicians to highlight the men's plight, believes the charges are disproportionate to the men's actions. "It seems to me very unlikely that if the shoe was on the other foot, and it was a bunch of Americans who were conducting these sorts of protests over something we were doing, I very much doubt that we would have treated the Americans in the same way," he said. He said it is difficult to predict the outcome of the trial because of the political climate in the US following the September 11 terrorist attacks. The trial was originally set for November 20, but was delayed because defence lawyers believed it may have been difficult to obtain a fair hearing. It is widely seen as a test of how the US now responds to civil disobedience. Despite their arrest, the pair said they had been buoyed by support from the leader of the Greens, Bob Brown, who drafted a Senate motion earlier this year urging the men's speedy return to Australia. The ALP and Democrats supported the motion. The Catholic Bishop of Canberra, Pat Power, and trade unions have also offered support. The men remain committed to protesting against the use of nuclear weapons. Mr Lennox, a Greenpeace activist for more than 10 years, said while he was in California he visited a Buddhist temple on Hiroshima Day and was struck by the message contained in a survivor's story. "She said, 'I'm going to die soon. It's up to you people to make sure this doesn't happen (again)'," Mr Lennox said. The trial is expected to last about four weeks. http://theage.com.au/news/national/2001/12/30/FFXRQKY9SVC.html Photo.

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Old Hobbits die hard.
by mattd 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=01/12/26/6849756 Josi Bovi A French farmer who dismantled a McDonalds By Florence Williams, Outside The accused threads his way up the steps of the stone Palais de Justice in the ancient French city of Montpellier. He has receding sandy hair and a comically long walrus mustache, wears a little yellow neck scarf, and clutches a pipe. Muscular young activists in yellow T-shirts escort him past dozens of aggressive TV cameramen, all jockeying for a better angle. Halfway up the stairs, the defendant turns, smiles into the cameras, and gazes over the several hundred protesters gathered on the street below. He gives a thumbs-up and pumps his fist. The crowd goes wild. Their hero is, with the possible exception of President Jacques Chirac, Frances most famous political personality. His name is Josi Bovi. He makes cheese. It is the morning of February 15, 2001, and Bovi, 47, and his nine (virtually unnoticed) co-defendants are appealing their sentences for criminal vandalism convictions, charges resulting from a 1999 protest in which a McDonalds under construction just outside the farming village of Millau was disassembled, bolt by bolt, and carted away. Bovi, sentenced to three months in prison, is unapologetic. He took apart the McDonalds to protest American imperialism, its trade policies, and the general, noxious spread of malbouffe. Malbouffe, Bovi has said, "implies eating any old thing, prepared in any old way . . . both the standardization of food like McDonaldsthe same taste from one end of the world to the otherand the choice of food associated with the use of hormones and GMOs [genetically modified organisms], as well as the residues of pesticides and other things that can endanger health." Read more

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Rules Will Allow Airport Screeners to Remain in Jobs
by Steve Schear 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

[So, as expected many of the same nitwits before 9/11 will continue to offer the mere semblance of safety and security for the foreseeable future. Good reason to stay away from air travel. steve] Rules Will Allow Airport Screeners to Remain in Jobs By DAVID FIRESTONE In a shift, the federal agency supervising aviation security has decided not to displace thousands of current screeners by requiring them to be high school graduates. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/national/30AIRL.html

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Bubblegum Crisis 2040
by mattd 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

Abhorrent markets may arise. For example, anonymous systems and untraceable digital cash have some obvious implications for the arranging of contract killings and such. (The greatest risk in arranging such hits is that physical meetings expose the buyers and sellers of such services to stings. Crypto anarchy lessens, or even eliminates, this risk, thus lowering transaction costs. The risks to the actual triggermen are not lessened, but this is a risk the buyers need not worry about. Think of anonymous escrow services which hold the digital money until the deed is done. Lots of issues here. It is unfortunate that this area is so little-discussed....people seem to have an aversion for exploring the logical consequences in such areas.) Can crypto anarchy be stopped? Although the future evolution in unclear, as the future almost always is, it seems unlikely that present trends can be reversed: Dramatic increases in bandwidth and local, privately-owned computer power. Exponential increase in number of Net users. Explosion in "degrees of freedom" in personal choices, tastes, wishes, goals. Inability of central governments to control economies, cultural trends, etc. [9] The Net is integrally tied to economic transactions, and no country can afford to "disconnect" itself from it. (The U.S.S.R. couldn't do it, and they were light-years behind the U.S., European, and Asian countries. And in a few more years, no hope of limiting these tools at all, something the U.S. F.B.I. has acknowledged. [11] Technological Inevitability: These tools are already in widespread use, and only draconian steps to limit access to computers and communications channels could significantly impact further use. (Scenarios for restrictions on private use of crypto.) As John Gilmore has noted, "the Net tends to interpret censorship as damage, and routes around it." This applies as well to attempts to legislate behavior on the Net. (The utter impossibility of regulating the worldwide Net, with entry points in more than a hundred nations, with millions of machines, is not yet fully recognized by most national governments. They still speak in terms of "controlling" the Net, when in fact the laws of one nation generally have little use in other countries.) And as for a camera-filled society, Brin spins out a more positive possible future, one already hinted at by the real-life furor surrounding the videotape of the Rodney King beating. "Imagine how the social climate of our inner cities will change," he says, "when both the cops and ghetto youths carry around cheap little shoulder-mounted TV cameras, monitoring their encounters in real time. Conviction rates may go up, while illegal rousting and hassling of the innocent will certainly go down. Accountability goes both ways." Brin's on such a roll it seems a shame to point out that cameras only have power when accompanied by the political and social will to act on the information they record. Despite the infamous King videotape, the Simi Valley jury still acquitted the accused officers. But the one thing that freedom needs to survive--and without which it must fail--is accountability. In other words, the answer is not masks. It is light. Not armor plate, but the light saber." Brin's espousal of openness and corporate accountability also put him at odds with the "techno-libertarian" ethos so prevalent among other science-fiction and technology writers such as George Gilder and techie organs like Wired magazine. "Today, we have as many bright young libertarians who believe passionately in the mystical power of the market as [there were] bright young college graduates transfixed by the persuasive mantras of Marxism in the 1930s," Brin says. "Each generation has to learn the hard way that no ideology can describe complex human beings, who are both cooperative and competitive by nature." In a similar vein, it would seem that the tug-of-war between privacy and openness needn't be an all-or-nothing matter, at least not in a society where citizens clamor for "call return" features on their phones (a perfect real-world example of Mutual Transparency) while simultaneously asking to have unlisted numbers. "When given a choice between privacy and accountability," observes Brin, "most people tend to choose privacy for themselves and accountability for others." http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.06.97/cover/brin1-9706.html David Brin has a lot to say and says it discursively, but he's done his homework--dipping into an impressive range of social science, philosophical, crytographic, and technical literature--thought carefully, marshalled compelling arguments seasoned with humor and bright metaphors, and, as a result, is worth listening to, arguing with, or simply pondering. The Transparent Society works out, with much supporting detail, ideas about secrecy and privacy first raised in Brin's magisterial novel, Earth, and does so in a civilizational context. I risk doing Brin and his book grave injustice by oversimplifying, but let me say Brin views "accountability" and "criticism" as central to the progress of neo-Western civilization (fight the power!) and further posits that criticism works very like T-cells in an immune system, providing (to a greater and greater extent as the collective grows in knowledge) autonomous and impersonal correctives against all manner of "error." Brin argues for greater informational transparency--almost total disclosure--observing that, if universal surveillance cameras and other snoop technologies are inevitable (and they almost certainly are), then a generalized oversight capability, or a mutual surveillance capacity (in other words, my ability to watch the government with the same technologies that the government can watch me) is the answer to the classic question, quis custodiet ipsos custodes (who shall guard the guardians?)? In short, we all will. Brin's ingenious argumentation may strike some readers as cavalier or reductionist. It's not. It's serious and is, moreover, and a serious response to flamewar proponents of "encryption as the answer" to the privacy dilemmas of the wired age Suppose that the cost of surveillance technology continues to fall. What are our options? (a) try to ban certain types of surveillance technologies altogether (b) try to restrict surveillance technologies so that "we" have it but "they" don't (c) try to escape surveillance technology by using encryption (d) try to encourage broad access to surveillance technology David Brin argues persuasively that (d) is the least problematic solution. The other strategies are both more difficult to execute and less likely to produce a desirable outcome. For example, with (c) you have the problem that encryption may not be perfectly reliable. Moreover, even if you can encrypt your bits, you cannot encrypt your atoms. So you still may be subject to surveillance by a network of cameras, by centralized databases, etc. The greatest strength of the book is the way that Brin analyzes the situation from the perspective of different opponents to his position. The greatest weakness is that he rarely delves into details about how to implement his overall recommendation. What incentives need to be created? How do laws need to be changed, etc.? He offers hints, and occasional examples, but leaves a lot out. The relevance of this book has increased dramatically as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11. For example, on p. 320 there is this passage: "Terrorists operate under cloaks of anonymity and secrecy...This is especially true of their concealed finances...the real impulse to force them open may only come after some band of terrorists manages to kill thousands..." What Brin advocates is not a stronger police state but a more open system that allows any citizen to trace how money flows. Thus, although he would agree with the national security establishment that secret bank accounts are a problem, he would part ways with the establishment in that he would not give the police special privileges to examine bank transactions. Instead, he would expose such transactions to anyone. This is just one of many interesting ideas in this provocative book This is a great book. Its well researched and takes issues a step further for analysis. But, I do think that some of his solutions will not work in the real world. The basic premise of the book is that privacy and freedom are not 2 sides of the same coin. He goes on to explain, giving various examples, that if we lose our freedom, we will have no privacy left to defend. But, if we have our freedom, we will be in a position to demand some privacy. His solution is to have complete transparency i.e. shine the light in both the directions...from the govt. towards the people and vice versa. He explains how this will work wonders and solve various problems and he analyzes each problem in detail. Although he has suggestions on how to do it, he does NOT have any concrete method to make the govt or other power houses to be accountable. Thats where accountability and transparency fail.(+ APster succeeds)

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Start the New Year with a clean credit report! Learn how!
by thecreditguy＠EINSTEIN.ssz.com 30 Dec '01

30 Dec '01

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Mini me Memo to Dr Evil
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Gonzo Marketing Winning Through Worst Practices Christopher Locke 0-7382-0408-0 | Avail 2001-09-21 | Hardcover | 256 pages | $25.00 | Business & Management Ladies and gentlemen, please return your tray tables to the fully upright and locked position, suspend your disbelief and put on your tinfoil pyramid hats. We are now entering [cue lights, cue music] the Brand Dimension! Gonzo Marketing is a knuckle-whitening ride to the place where social criticism, biting satire, and serious commerce meetand where the outdated ideals of mass marketing and broadcast media are being left in the dust. As master of ceremonies at the wake for traditional one-size-fits-all marketing, Locke has assembled a unique guest list, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Hunter S. Thompson, to guide us through the revolution that is rocking business today, as people connect on the Web to form powerful micromarkets. These networked communities, based on candor, trust, passion, and a general disdain for anything that smacks of corporate smugness, reflect much deeper trends in our culture, which Locke illuminates with his characteristic wit. Just as gonzo journalism arose in response to objective news standards that claimed to foster fairness but in practice discouraged writers from speaking their minds in their own voices, so too does gonzo marketing call for a similar response to assumptions about consumer behavior that no longer relate to how people actually live their lives. Gonzo Marketing is not yet-another nostrum for hoodwinking the unwary. Its about market advocacy. It describes how the artist formerly known as advertising must do a 180. Its about transforming the marketing message from we want your money to we share your interests. Its about tapping into, listening to, and even forming alliances with emerging on-line markets, who probably know more about your company than you do. Its a hip-hop cover of boring old best practices played backwards. The paradox is that companies that support and promote these communities can have everything theyve always wanted: greater market share, customer loyalty, brand equity. Irreverent, penetrating, profoundly simple, and on-the-money, Gonzo Marketing is the raucous wake-up that no one interested in any aspect of twenty-first century businessfrom the trading floor right up to the boardroomcan afford to ignore. Chris Locke is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, president of Entropy Web Consulting, and editor/publisher of the widely acclaimed and justly infamous webzine, Entropy Gradient Reversals. He has worked for Fujitsu, Ricoh, the Japanese governments Fifth Generation artificial intelligence project, Carnegie Mellon Universitys Robotics Institute, CMP Publications, Mecklermedia, MCI, and IBM. Named in a 2001 Financial Times Group survey as one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world, he has written for a wide variety of business and technology publications, including Forbes, The Industry Standard, Information Week, Harvard Business Review, and Release 1.0. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. He can be reached at clocke(a)panix.com. www.gonzomarkets.com

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