December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

'software error' 37,000 to cato.a "libertarian" institute.
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

http://www.mediatransparency.org/Stories/bradley_error.htm Lie down with dogs declan...

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Micropayments and accurate polling
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

203.238.135.35. Return of Micropayments By Michael Hurwicz Early attempts at micropayments have failed. Is it an innovative idea that needs more work, or a doomed concept? Programming with Perl Want accurate polls? Randal L. Schwartz provides a solution built around the fact that form validation using images is too clever for most robots. from http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/

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Declan murdered george harrison
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

www.accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm IPA Articles - Cato Institute ... Libertarian" in a Corporate Way. ... book "No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and ... over the years. Cato's main philanthropic backing ... come from the right-wing Koch ... Description: Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry funding... Category: Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Industry > Supporters www.accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages

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Re: Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks (fwd)
by Ken Brown 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Eugene Leitl forwarded: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: 2 Dec 2001 23:23:55 -0000 > From: Bruce Sterling <bruces(a)well.com> > To: Eugene.Leitl(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de > Subject: Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks > > Key concepts: cryptography, information warfare, > imaginary products, American national security [...big article snipped...] Yee-hah! The most poly-on-topic post that has a appeared in cypherpunks for a while. Read it early and often. Except for the nasty bit about the British near the bottom of course. We are friendly people really. We couldn't help getting that empire you know. All you guys just sat around not looking after your countries at all properly and without anywhere near enough artillery or steam engines, what did you expect? Trade or something? If it hadn't have been us it would have been the Germans, or the French, or the Spanish, and we're *much* nicer than them. Ken Brown

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by Alley Maurer 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

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IP: Re: Interesting Clarke interview in case you missed it (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 16:06:43 -0500 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Re: Interesting Clarke interview in case you missed it >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:50:33 -0800 >To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu >From: Jim Warren <jwarren(a)well.com> > >>>Howard Schmidt, Microsoft's chief security officer, is expected to leave >>>within the next month to join the Bush administration and work with White >>>House cyber-security adviser Richard Clarke, according to sources in the >>>computer-security industry. >>> >>>Mark Sachs, a U.S. Army major who is an operations analyst at the Joint >>>Task Force for Computer Network Operations, also expected to join Clarke's >>>team. The task force Sachs currently works for oversees the Pentagon's >>>global information systems, sources said. > >Given > >(1) the pervasive-net-surveillance and freedom-to-snoop-sans-court-orders >that Attorney General Ashcroft and Bush's federal agencies are pursuing so >eagerly and aggressively, against American residents and citizens alike; > >(2) the endless security holes in Microsoft's software and MSN-network, >that crackers and miscreants have exploited for years of virus and DDoS >attacks, and > >(3) the fact that "the Pentagon's global information systems" can as >easily refer to the military's *surveillance* systems, as to the DoD's MIS >systems ... > >... then, one cannot help but wonder: > >How much time will Microsoft's "security" officer and the Pentagon's >"global information" officer spend on improving government and/or >corporate/citizen computer security ... > >... versus ... > >How much time will they spend on expanding and deploying the >administration's long-existent Echelon >dragnet/fishing-expedition/communications-surveillance system, and the >FBI's recently-announced covert keystroke-grabbing software ... > >... into and onto all citizens' and organizations' computers? > > >After all, one of the Republican's last Attorneys General before Aschroft -- >Reagan's Ed Meese -- made their perspective clear for all to see. He >said, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect." (Of >course, he said that *before* criminal investigators began investigating >*him* around 1988.) > >And all the polls show that the public *supports* whatever it is that the >administration is doing, including demolition of [other people's] personal >privacy and civil liberties. > >All 'Right'-minded, properly-subservient citizens and business people >should applaud this! They're from the government; they're here to help us. > >--jim >Jim Warren; jwarren(a)well.com, technology & public policy columnist & advocate > >[self-inflating puffery: Playboy Foundation Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award; >Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Calif. James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award; >founded InfoWorld, Dr.Dobb's Journal, and Computers, Freedom & Privacy Confs.; >Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award (in its first year), blah blah] > > >And if you think this is something new, remember the 1995 Republican >Congress' legislation to legalize use of evidence obtained by unauthorized >search -- as reported by Farber on his IP list at the time: > >So long, Fourth Amendment >From: David Farber <farber(a)central.cis.upenn.edu> >Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:36:57 -0500 >... (Fri Jan 27), the House Judiciary Committee approved this abrogation >of the Fourth Amendment, on a 19-14 vote, after breaking it out of H.R.3, >"The Taking Back Our Streets Act of 1995": > > In General.--Chapter 223 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by > adding at the end the following: > "Sec. 3510. Admissibility of evidence obtained by search or seizure > "(a) Evidence Obtained by Objectively Reasonable Search or Seizure.-- > Evidence which is obtained as a result of a search or seizure shall not > be excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground > that the search or seizure was in violation of the fourth amendment to > the Constitution of the United States, if the search or seizure was > carried out in circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief > that it was in conformity with the fourth amendment. The fact that > evidence was obtained pursuant to and within the scope of a warrant > constitutes prima facie evidence of the existence of such circumstances. > "(b) Evidence Not Excludable by Statute or Rule.--Evidence shall not be > excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground > that it was obtained in violation of a statute, an administrative rule or > regulation, or a rule of procedure unless exclusion is expressly > authorized by statute or by a rule prescribed by the Supreme Court > pursuant to statutory authority. > > From S.3, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Improvement Act > of 1995 (still pending [in February, 1995] before the Senate Judiciary > Committee): > > "Sec. 3502A. Admissibility of evidence obtained by search or seizure > "(a) Evidence Obtained by Objectively Reasonable Search or Seizure.-- > Evidence obtained as a result of a search or seizure that is otherwise > admissible in a Federal criminal proceeding shall not be excluded in a > proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground that the search > or seizure was in violation of the fourth amendment to the Constitution. >"(b) Evidence Not Excludable by Statute or Rule.--Evidence shall not be >excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground >that it was obtained in violation of a statute, an administrative rule, or >a rule of court procedure unless exclusion is expressly authorized by >statute or by a rule prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to chapter >131 of title 28. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/

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by Valerie Patterson 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

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IP: FBI agents rebel over new powers (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 18:29:44 -0500 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: FBI agents rebel over new powers > >FBI agents rebel over new powers > >Liberty Watch: Observer campaign > >Ed Vulliamy in New York >Sunday December 2, 2001 >The Observer > >The US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, was yesterday reported to be >ready to relax restrictions on the FBI's powers to spy on religious >and church-based political organisations. > >His proposal, leaked to the New York Times, would loosen limits on the >FBI's surveillance powers, imposed in the 1970s after the death of its >founder J. Edgar Hoover. > >The plan has caused outrage within the FBI itself with agents expected >to act upon new surveillance powers describing themselves as 'very, >very angry'. > >... > >http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610381,00.html For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/

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by UNI-BROK 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

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It's just inevitable
by Adam Shostack 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

>"One former senior F.B.I. official described the investigation this >way: "When you send a whole lot of agents out after a whole lot of >people, they're going to find some who committed various crimes. It's >just inevitable." > >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/national/29DETA.html (The article focuses on the fact that only about 1% of the 1200 detainees are suspected of terrorist involvement. It's a crime that they still haven't gotten due process, and we haven't seen their names...) Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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