February 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Greetimgs
by SPaulThom＠cs.com 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

Greetings! If you want to know where anarchy is going in the next few years, check out the <A HREF="http://ourworld.cs.com/spaulthom">C&B</A> website. The Association page will simply blow you away. Shannon

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16 Feb '01

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NS sells domain database. What a shock.
by George＠Orwellian.Org 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

WSJ.com, 2/16/2001 # # Network Solutions Offers Its Database # Of Domain-Names to Marketing Firms # # By THOMAS E. WEBER # Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL # # The Internet's phone book is up for sale -- and though the # listings may represent a treasure trove for marketers, the move # also risks a serious privacy backlash. # # At issue are millions of entries in the domain-name database # operated by the Network Solutions unit of VeriSign Inc., Mountain # View, Calif. It is, essentially, the master address book for # the Internet. Since the dawn of commerce on the Web, companies # that want their own dot-com addresses have registered with Network # Solutions. # # Now Network Solutions is selling that information. "On your mark, # get set, go!" gushes a recent advertisement in a newsletter for # direct marketers. "Available for the first time ever. # Approximately 6 million unique customers, sliced and diced for # you to target prospects, learn about a specific audience or retain # customers ... Take this information and run with it." # # Exactly what's for sale may come as a surprise to many of the # individuals and businesses who have registered Web addresses. # In addition to names, street addresses, and other routine # information gathered when someone signs up for a domain name, # Network Solutions promises marketers information on whether sites # are dormant or up and running, whether they're set up for # e-commerce -- even whether a site has security precautions # installed. # # Network Solutions says that while the sales pitch is new, it # actually has been quietly selling such data for at least a year. # Now, the company says, it is moving more aggressively to cash # in on the information. "It's old wine in new bottles," says Doug # Wolford, general manager for Web presence at VeriSign. # # The move underscores the growing pressure on Internet companies # to find new sources of revenue. Now that the Net boom has slowed, # many dot-com companies view customer databases as a tempting # asset. # # But such strategies can be perilous given consumer concerns about # privacy online. Last year, online-ad concern DoubleClick Inc. # was forced to back off a plan to combine Web-tracking data with # offline databases after the move triggered a firestorm. And when # online retailer Toysmart.com shut down in May, a plan to sell # its customer database provoked a similar controversy. Walt Disney # Co., a Toysmart investor, offered to purchase and then destroy # the data after the Federal Trade Commission moved to block # Toysmart's plan. # # The Network Solutions database is a key part of the Internet's # infrastructure. Internet computers rely on numerical addresses # to route information around. When someone registers a domain # name, the information is used to tell computers all over the # Internet how to translate that dot-com address into the # appropriate numerical address. # # Registrants also must provide the name, telephone number and # e-mail address of a technical contact for their site -- # information that can prove vital for someone trying to trace # a hacker's attack or verify whether an online business is # legitimate. # # Under its agreement with the U.S. government to operate the # database, Network Solutions is required to provide public access # to the data. Anyone can visit the Network Solutions site and # look up information on Web addresses one by one. And indeed, # some marketers -- especially those sending unsolicited "spam" # e-mail -- have laboriously harvested information this way. # # But for marketing purposes, it's much more useful to have a # complete set of data outright. Network Solutions offers marketers # this option -- for a price and under its guidelines, which include # stripping out e-mail addresses and forbidding the use of the # information for e-mail marketing. # # Mr. Wolford says the data are typically used by companies that # want to send direct postal mail to Web businesses or simply want # to merge the data with existing lists to flesh out customer # dossiers. Network Solutions also allows its customers to opt # out of the list and takes steps to insure that only businesses, # not consumers, are included in the marketing efforts. # # While downplaying any privacy concerns, Network Solutions is # telling marketers that its data are a great way to sell things, # especially where small businesses are concerned. "Nobody offers # a better snapshot of this hard-to-reach group ... over 80% of # our customers are small businesses, representing every major # small business category you could hope to reach," proclaims an # information page at www.dotcom.com, the site Network Solutions # uses to promote its data business. # # And the fact remains that it's impossible to obtain a Web address # without registering for one -- either with Network Solutions # or with one of the other companies that popped up when the U.S. # government opened up what had been a Network Solutions monopoly # on dot-com domain names. # # Consumer advocates say any organized effort to use the data for # purposes other than the intended goal of obtaining an address # is troubling. "There's an increasing loss of faith in the ability # to have your information used only for reasonable, legitimate # purposes," says Lauren Weinstein, a privacy advocate who writes # an e-mail newsletter about cyberspace issues. Mr. Weinstein # alerted his readers to the Network Solutions effort in a bulletin # this week. # # Registering a domain name is a simple process that can be done # online in minutes. Network Solutions charges $35 a year for each # address, and asks for a contact name, phone number and e-mail # address that go into its database. # # So how does it know whether a site is up and running, or whether # it is engaged in e-commerce, or any of the other pieces of # information that it is promising to sell to marketers? Mr. Wolford # says the company sends software "robots" out onto the Web, using # much the same method that search engines use to catalog sites. # Those robots can look for key phrases such as "online ordering" # or "credit cards accepted" to determine whether a site has # e-commerce.

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None
by d6064＠dragonet 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

tengo un programa con problemas en el dongle puedes ayudarme ?

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Re: Taxes on hard drives
by George＠Orwellian.Org 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

May Man wrote: # # Practically, did the "tax" on blank tapes ever "work"? Of course not. # Metallica and Eminem did not see meaningful revenues. The tax # vanished into the maw of the government, the RIAA and ASCAP # bureaucracy, and the pockets of the shake down artists. I once asked a musician here in NYC what became of the money. Yeah, the local unions got it. ("shake down artists"?) That's as close as it got to the musicians. Yet another thing that should be put online for integrity: its distribution.

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Antigen found W32/Hybris@m virus
by ANTIGEN_EXCHANGE 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

Antigen for Exchange found enanito fisgon.exe infected with W32/Hybris@m virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Enanito si, pero con que pedazo!", was sent from Hahaha and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at ITC/Corporate/EXCHANGE.

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St Valentine the Terrorist
by David Honig 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

News this PM: Salinas electricity was cut by an aluminized mylar Valentines Day balloon. Clearly the National Center For Infrastructure Security And Ornamental Helium Balloons needs more funding.

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Keep my fettuccini out of the microwave.
by George＠Orwellian.Org 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

(wired link http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar01/schmidt.asp) Good? Bad? Useful for both, as usual... http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=23175&pod_id=13 ---- # Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, June 1994 issue # # The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S. # Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research called "Embedded Electronic # Fingerprint" to develop a transponder the size of a grain of wheat that # could be attached to a garment until the owner threw it out. # # Heretofor, this application has been considered only for security purposes. # # The definition of "security", according to the textile industry magazine # 'Bobbin', has been expanded to include "anti-counterfeit" tracking after # purchase. [What???] # # Could a machine-readable tag on a person's clothing serve many of the same # tracking purposes an one embedded in the body?

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people to kill
by Blank Frank 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

Thursday February 15 2:42 PM ET New Jersey Student Posts 'Hit List' on Internet MIDDLESEX, N.J. (Reuters) - An eighth grader was suspended from a New Jersey middle school this week after posting a ``hit list'' of fellow students on an Internet Web site, school officials said on Thursday. The list was found on Tuesday posted on a Web site called ''People2kill.'' It named several students of the Mauger School and showed their pictures, school superintendent Patricia Johnson said. Police in the central New Jersey town are investigating the incident. Middlesex Police Capt. Gregory Sharkey said no charges have been filed but had no other comment. ``I'm horrified and very disturbed by this. It's a sign of the times,'' Johnson told Reuters. The student, a girl, was immediately removed from school and is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. School officials do not believe the girl was going to carry out the threats but searched her locker and personal belongings for weapons. None were found, Johnson said. The student has no prior disciplinary record. School officials said interviews with the girl indicated the posting may have been a prank, Johnson said. The incident is one of the latest in an epidemic of shootings and threats in the nation's schools and workplaces, reminiscent of the 1999 Columbine massacre in which 15 people died, including the two teenage gunmen.

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Suggested Reading
by Jim Choate 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

Coercion: Why we listen to what "they" say. Douglas Rushkoff ISBN 1-57322-115-5 (1999) $25 US An interesting book by the author of Cyberia, and one which is nearly diametrically opposite. What makes this book so interesting is the authors about face with his past views. "Coercion spotlights the manipulative sides of commerce today, with a sobering look at its power in the Internet era. A must-read for anyone who wants an antidote to techno-utopianism." Mitch Kapor backcover quote ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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