December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Poor little child pornographer
by A. Melon 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49141,00.html Incredible. Abso-fucking-lutely incredible. After telling us all about the poor little child pornographer, Larry Benedict, and how the mean old police are out to get him, Declan finally lets the other shoe drop in part 5 of this 5-part series. Benedict pled guilty. He pled guilty, agreeing to a plea bargain calling for 37 months in prison. This "innocent" man agreed to spend 3 years in prison for something he didn't do. He agreed to brand himself for life as a child pornographer, setting himself up for 3 years of hell in prison where child pornographers are the lowest of the low. All this when supposedly all he really did was trade some computer games. One commentator points out the obvious absurdity of this claim: "I think most people, if they were trading computer games and then arrested and charged with very serious felonies involving child pornography -- I don't think most people would wait several years and plead guilty (if) in fact they had done nothing wrong." Wouldn't it have been relevant to let us know this essential fact about the case back when the series began? Wouldn't it have colored our understanding and perception of Benedict's claims, given us perspective to judge the truth of what he is saying? Or is this Declan trying to copy radio's Paul Harvey: "And now you know... the rest of the story!" Surprise endings have no place in serious reporting. Saving the punchline for the end is only appropriate for a joke. Sadly, there's no better word to describe this pitiful attempt at journalism.

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Shockwave Rider
by mattd 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

My tovarich Vulture tells me the 23 kiloton skidoo is in position.The camouflage extends to in-situ radiation! The only thing to catch this polar scud will be runaway global warming.Get out of Dodge! she's also angling for the OBL reward and is flying to Egypt to pace out one of the new finds in the valley of the kings. PS.In case you think she's full of it,scroll some of her *predictions* at indymedia. This type of jabberwockery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place...

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Re: Uzbekistan Eyewitnesses See Dozens of US Casualties
by jamesd＠echeque.com 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

-- On 13 Dec 2001, at 7:04, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: > Once again I am seeing eyewitness reports claiming more > U.S. Casualties. Yet I don't see simular reports in the > U.S. Press confirming or denying these claims. The dogs bark but the caravan moves on. In the US, unlike most other countries, there is still sufficient freedom of speech that soldiers cannot go missing without it becoming widely known. The US army does underreport wounded, and minimize the severity of wounds, but dead is dead. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ml7PAylrLroEpLdqChIZmMA6AiPcaFtXPpLio4+J 4HNvXZNf9H6eIyOEDpLVqNkFM4F/Lv+VKEfE7cELA

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Re: Cypherpunk Ban
by Nomen Nescio 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

jya>>I don't recall the rationale used by the USPO to forbid CJ from posting to cypherpunks. Anybody know the answer to that? Since when is it unusual to forbid parolees from associating with unsavory and immoral characters?

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Hey! More BS.
by mattd 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

>>Hey, Protestantism gave us the "priesthood of all believers", and if that's too much work, the ULC will ordain you for $20. The Internet lets everybody be a journalist, or at least a political commentator. Won't be a problem getting either of those jobs :-) (However, as many people have discovered with acting or Internet startup, >>getting a job in the field is easy, but getting a *paying* job is tougher...) I'm interested in the peyote priesthood.(Im already an entertainment journalist) I do want confessional box privileges.(20c?) Who needs a paying job and why do *you* do *this*? Protwhateverthefuck sounds like a real drag Maaaaan. >>The Internet lets everybody be a journalist, or at least a political commentator. You do love to smell your own farts ,dont you. Still it lets everybody be an assassin or at least a *predictor*. Thanks bill,thanks a hell of a lot.

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Nah? You don't think? (Was: FBI: Yet Another Uncorroborated threat)
by Anonymous User 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

> Heads up folks! > > http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/ap/stories/AP_STATE_0069.html > <snippet src="The Dallas News"> FBI: Uncorroborated threat received against Texas schools 12/12/2001 By CONNIE MABIN / The Associated Press AUSTIN - FBI agents have alerted schools throughout Texas that a vague threat has been received suggesting two people may retaliate against unknown Texas schools for the U.S. bombing in Afghanistan. "Basically, as vague as I gave it, is as vague as we have it," Houston FBI Special Agent Bob Doguim said Wednesday. "This is coming to us from a foreign government. We are working with them to try and determine the reliability of it." </snippet> Yeah, but those foreign government agents will believe anything they read on the internet... I guess poor Katie will be the youngest person ever to have her school club declared a proscribed terrorist-supporting NGO.

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RE: CNN.com on Remailers
by Trei, Peter 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

> Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@ssz.com] > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > Yes, I have read the letter - they need to treat input from known > remailers > > differently due to worries over spam and flooding attacks, so they treat > > > other known remailers as priviliged sources of high volume traffic. > > If the sending node doesn't know about the destination node, how does it > konw where to send the traffic (even if the sender provides the address)? > The reality is that the remailers must 'know' of each other one way or > another. Simply being part of a 'remailer network' (anonymous or not) > tends to already put one in a 'conspiratorial' situation. > > Truly robust remailers MUST be located in domains that protect speech and > association with something similar to 'innocent until proven innocent'. > That's the only defence against 'conspiracy'. > Typical Choate, missing the point. A remailer simply gets sent a message, applies it's decryption key, and sends the contents on to the next address (yes, this type of remailer does not include nice features such as cover traffic). It has no idea if the address it received the message from is a remailer. It has no idea if the address it forwarded the message to is a remailer. It doesn't need to. Chaining is the sender's problem. The point here is that the remailer treats other remailers exactly as it treats source and destination nodes. There is no file on the remailer which says "I'll treat hosts from this list specially". This prevents the remop from having to worry about being sucked into a conspiracy charge for a crime commited by a different remop. He doesn't know, need to know, or want to know what other sites are remailers. He doesn't need to know the other remops, or communicate with them, except to inform the world (not just remops) that 'there is a remailer here." Peter Trei ============================================================================ ================ This e-mail, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and are PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. Access by any other party is unauthorized without the express prior written permission of the sender. If you have received this e-mail in error you may not copy, disclose to any third party or use the contents, attachments or information in any way, Please delete all copies of the e-mail and the attachment(s), if any and notify the sender. Thank You. ============================================================================ ================

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CNN.com - U.S. vetoes Mideast peace move - December 15, 2001
by Jim Choate 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/12/15/un.resolution/ -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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PHASE 1
by jday442＠excite.com 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

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Take the kids 23823
by l14579＠waumail.com 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

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