March 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [Did you notice]
by LUIS VILDOSOLA 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

You made a simple but sharp question Jim. Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> wrote: > > > In the FBI stats that came out the majority of police officers killed are > killed with their own gun? They'd probably been better served by a > stun-vest... > > Perhaps we should take guns away from them, then those fine officers would > probably have lived longer. > > If you can't trust a weapon to a individual, how can you trust it to a > group of individuals? > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution > not the final precedence since it's the primary authority? > > The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate > Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com > www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 > -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

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Re: [Re: content owners vs. ISPs]
by LUIS VILDOSOLA 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

Every station an ISP, 1++ vote Ray Dillinger <bear(a)sonic.net> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > > > > >900MHz packet (<$100/site) coupled with Plan 9 is the base you want to > >start from using current tech. It will require updating firewall software > >so that it also handles bandwidth throttling and fail-over routing. > > > I've looked at that, but I'm unsure about it... the problem is that > if not enough people have it you're out of range - but if too many > people have it, you're choked for bandwidth and get interference > problems. > > With a range of a few hundred feet to a few miles, routing can also > become problematic. > > It would be nice though: a $100 'packet box' for each station, that > allows you to set up independent IP connections with your neighbors. > If you can get them common enough, it would be impossible to cut > someone off by cutting their ISP access -- 'cause out in the wild, > a packet is a packet is a packet, and if all the stations run IP > protocol, even if every ISP in the world rejects a packet, it could > still make its way across any continent in short hops from station > to station. > > And this is not just an anti-censorship thing, either; this is > more properly a tool for 24/7 uptime for people who can't afford > t3's and can't get PacBell's attention to fix their damn line in > the first minute after it goes down. I can picture that sales > pitch appealing to a lot of home businesses who get cut off from > their DSL connection for a week at a time while PacBell pulls its > head out of its collective ass. Or Cinci Bell, or Southern Bell, > or NTT, or Deutsche Telecomm, or whoever serves their area. > > I like it. Every station an ISP. > > Bear > > ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

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Cybercrime LE: a future of privatization, vigilantism & corporate rule?
by Aimee Farr 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

"Just as settlers in the old west couldn't necessarily always rely upon the local sheriff to provide good crime control, it may be in fact the case that Internet users may have to rely upon private parties, and third party concerns, for preventing crime, and enforcing certain criminal norms." <snip> "And in fact, these sorts of folks, whether its the software vendor, the hardware vendor, the Internet Service Provider, or the phone company, can in fact sometimes be in the best position to monitor the activities of their clients online, ...." [jump link for context] - March 16 Federalist Society Address by Michael O'Neill http://www.techlawjournal.com/security/20010316.asp Private protection rackets, rights management, and corporate enforcers abound for control and investigation functions....but self-defensive aggressive acts and vigilantism theories are often viewed askance. Any thoughts on how cybercrime and cybermaleficence will be addressed in the future? Support your argument with reason, selected quotes, prose or bardic lyre. ~Aimee Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" -- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, On Laws http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibran13.html

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innocent get 5th too
by Blank Frank 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

John Young, you get the 5th too.... Mar 19, 2001 - 11:49 AM Court Says Innocent Can Refuse to Testify By Anne Gearan Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - "Taking the Fifth" is an option open to the innocent as well as the guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The unanimous decision stems from the conviction of an Ohio man in the "shaken baby" death of his infant son. The Supreme Court affirmed the right of the family baby sitter to claim Fifth Amendment protection from self-incrimination even if prosecutors did not accuse her of wrongdoing. Matthew Reiner claimed the baby sitter harmed 10-week-old Alex in 1995, but Toledo prosecutors instead focused on him and planned to call the baby sitter to testify against him. They did not intend to prosecute Susan Batt, but she nevertheless refused to testify unless given a promise of immunity. Otherwise, she would exercise her Fifth Amendment right not to testify, she told prosecutors. When she testified, Batt denied ever harming Alex or his twin brother, who suffered broken bones. Reiner was convicted in 1996 and sentenced to probation. The Ohio Supreme Court ultimately threw out the conviction on grounds that Batt's protected testimony unfairly undermined Reiner's defense. Ohio prosecutors appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a short, unsigned opinion Monday without hearing oral arguments. "That tells us it was so clear the Ohio Supreme Court was wrong in its analysis of the facts and the law," Toledo prosecutor J. Christopher Anderson said. Monday's decision apparently reinstates Reiner's conviction, Anderson said. Even if Batt had nothing to do with Alex's death, she had a reasonable fear that testifying "might tend to incriminate her," the justices wrote. "Batt spent extended periods of time alone with Alex and his brother in the weeks immediately preceding discovery of their injuries. She was with Alex within the potential timeframe of the fatal trauma," the justices wrote. Hence, Batt was free to assert her Fifth Amendment rights, the justices said. Previous Supreme Court decisions set a precedent that the Fifth Amendment "protects the innocent as well as the guilty," the court said. The case is Ohio v. Reiner, 00-1028.

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Choke, Choate
by John Young 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

Jesus Kristmas, Jim, look at the stinking garbage you send with a single subject line of information. Have you no shame, or do you not smell your own farts? And this is with babble turned off. Sys yr msg. [Quote]

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Spread Spectrum
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

> > Jim Choate wrote: > > > > 900MHz packet (<$100/site) coupled with Plan 9 is the base you want to > > start from using current tech. > > > Microwave networking providers price vary considerably, and a number of > ISPs are reluctant to unroll this stuff due to implementation pricing. > > Can anyone recommend good nice, and inexpensive packet radio LAN > technology ? I've heard that breezecom is pretty nice, what do you guys > think ? > > How secure are the spread spectrum modulation schemes on these things > anyway ? > I had one brief go at the FCC site but didn't find a what I was looking for. However, I think that for surveillance reasons the channel hopping sequences are canned. I'm *kinda* sure that a private pseudorandom walk is not allowed. Mike

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by steve 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

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by Hannah 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

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CNN.com - U.S. Supreme Court allows school T-shirt ban - March 19, 2001
by Jim Choate 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/03/19/scotus.shirt.ap/index.html -- The Laws of Serendipity: 1. In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. 2. If you wish to make an improved product, you must first be engaged in making an inferior one. Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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germans .mil punts US software for security reasons
by Blank Frank 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17679.html German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping By: John Lettice Posted: 17/03/2001 at 18:59 GMT The German foreign office and Bundeswehr are pulling the plugs on Microsoft software, citing security concerns, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Spiegel claims that German security authorities suspect that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets. The Bundeswehr will no longer use American software (we surmise this includes Larry and Scott as well) on computers used in sensitive areas. The German foreign office has meanwhile put plans for videoconferencing with its overseas embassies on hold, for similar reasons. Under secretary of state Gunter Pleuger is said by Spiegel to have discovered that "for technical reasons" the satellite service that was to be used was routed via Denver, Colorado. According to a colleague of Pleuger's this meant that the German foreign services "might as well hold our conferences directly in Langley." We're not entirely sure whose interesting video conferencing via satellite service has a vital groundstation in Denver, but we note that Pleuger seems to have gleaned this information from a presentation held earlier this month in Berlin by, er, Deutsche Telekom. Which just happens, along with Siemens, to have picked up the gig. The two companies have supplanted Microsoft (and anything else American) and will be producing a secure, home-grown system that the German military can be confident in. Related link: Spiegel story (in German)

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