March 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Slashdot | Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot
by Jim Choate 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/16/1256226.shtml -- 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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Now if Gilmore would provide an open phone relay...
by George＠Orwellian.Org 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

UniBlab ran up a $500 LD bill using my calling card. The little darling. ---- http://www.securityfocus.com/news/172 # # Spam war gags Gilmore # # Verio cuts off EFF co-founder John Gilmore over open mail server. # By Kevin Poulsen March 15, 2001 5:19 PM PT # # Aggressive anti-spam measures by Dallas-based ISP Verio have # stripped some of the Internet's digerati of the ability to send # email, and EFF co-founder John Gilmore is calling it censorship. # # Gilmore's home network includes what anti-spam crusaders call # an "open relay" -- a mail server that accepts and forwards email # from anyone. For decades, the practice was considered central # to good network citizenship. But in recent years, spammers have # begun hijacking open relays to multiply, sometimes a thousand # fold, the number of junk messages they can send at once. # # That abuse sparked a campaign by anti-spam activists to close # the open relays, a campaign that Gilmore, an entrepreneur, # electronic civil libertarian, and co-founder of the Electronic # Frontier Foundation (EFF), has little use for. # # "It reminds me of the X-ray machines they have in airports and # the security checks they put people through," says Gilmore. "It # doesn't actually solve the problem, it just infringes on the # rights of the innocent." # # Even as commercial ISPs began tightening down their mail servers # -- rejecting outgoing mail from non-subscribers, and forcing # subscribers to electronically prove their identity before sending # mail -- Gilmore kept his own mail server open to the world, a # service he says his friends have come to rely on. # # "Part of the reason my friends are using my machine is their # own ISPs' anti-spam measures prevent them from sending email # as they move around in the world," says Gilmore. "If one user # connects to my machine from an unknown address and sends a # message, my machine forwards it on. It's happy to. That could # be John Perry Barlow sending email from Africa to his girlfriend." # # Gilmore says he shuts down spammers when he detects them, but # acknowledges that some junk mail gets through his system. Late # last month, one such spam message -- from a would-be entrepreneur # offering professional spamming services to the public -- resulted # in a complaint to Gilmore's ISP, Verio, from an anti-spam group. # # Verio's sweeping acceptable-use policy prohibits open relays. # When Gilmore refused to put fetters on his mail server, the # company's security department slapped a filter on Gilmore's T1 # net connection Wednesday, blocking outgoing email from his # network. # # A Verio spokesperson did not return a telephone call Thursday. # Verio security team leader Darren Grabowski declined to comment. # "What we do is between us and our customer," said Grabowski. # # Anti-spam pressure Gilmore believes anti-spam efforts have gone # too far, and impact the rights of innocent people. "Verio is # filtering me because they were pressured by a pressure group, # and they don't have enough intelligence to stand up against that # pressure." # # But the head of the anti-spam business that forwarded the # complaint to Verio last month says the ISP did the right thing. # # "It's been a very long time since open relays were considered # acceptable on the net," says Julian Haight, owner of SpamCop.net. # "On today's Internet, things have changed considerably." # # SpamCop.net lets netizens easily and automatically track and # report spammers and open relays, and maintains a blacklist of # network addresses the company considers spam-friendly. Haight # acknowledges the influence his organization, and other anti-spam # efforts, can exert on an ISP, but he says no one has a right # to operate a service that lends a hand to spammers. # # "Freedom of speech is not 100 percent," says Haight. "You're # not allowed to come into my home to preach to me... Open servers # are responsible for making copies of unsolicited commercial emails # and sending it to people who don't want it." # # Gilmore argues that by making decisions about what to allow or # disallow over their network, ISPs risk losing the common carrier # status that protects them from legal liability for their # customer's actions. # # "Ultimately, they should be a pipe. They shouldn't care what # content goes through. For them to say, well, we'll send your # IP packets... except when you send this particular type of IP # packet, it takes them out of the realm of a common carrier," # says Gilmore. "That puts the entire Internet in jeopardy." 6/13/2000 Hannity & Colmbes, Representive Dan Burton, giving his URL to where he put a report critical of Clinton on the WWW: "It's at indiana.com" [confers with someone off-screen] "It's at indiana.gov.com"

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The Register
by Jim Choate 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17639.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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firewall
by cory ertle 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

Hey I want to see if my girl is cheating on me by hacking into her e-mail account at school. Now i know enough about here to bypass her pass pretty easily but i however don't know the best way to go about getting to her account. She uses a network based e-mail account through Eudora 4.3. How do I get through their firewall. The school is a small private catholic high school so their firewall is not teh best out there i am sure of that. Thanx mike

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by rudi 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

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equal protection in texas and privacy
by Blank Frank 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

Mar 15, 2001 - 10:39 PM State Sodomy Law Ruled Constitutional by Appeals Court By Kristen Hays Associated Press Writer HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas appeals court upheld the state's sodomy law Thursday in the case of two men charged with having sex in a private home. The nine-member 14th Court of Appeals voted 7-2 to overturn a June ruling by three members of the same panel that said the law was unconstitutional because it forbids sex between same-sex partners, yet allows the same acts between heterosexuals. The sodomy law, which has been on the books for more than a century, was challenged after John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested on Sept. 17, 1998 and charged with engaging in homosexual conduct. Harris County sheriff's deputies had entered Lawrence's apartment after receiving a false report of an armed intruder inside but found the men having sex. Under the sodomy law, homosexual oral and anal sex is a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500. Lawrence and Garner pleaded no contest in a justice of the peace court and later in a Harris County Criminal Court-at-Law so they could start the legal challenge. Prosecutor Bill Delmore said he was pleased with the ruling. Ruth E. Harlow, legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, who argued the case on behalf of the two men, said they would appeal. "The court's ruling failed to enforce the constitution's promise of equality," she said. She said the ruling also allows the government to overstep its bounds by "bashing down the bedroom door" to criminalize consensual sex between same-sex partners. "It guts the right to privacy," she said. Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas are the only states that outlaw sodomy between same-sex partners. Texas has had a sodomy law since 1860 but decriminalized it for opposite-sex partners in 1974. Twelve other states prohibit sodomy between same- and opposite-sex partners. Harlow said similar laws in Georgia, Tennessee and Montana have recently been thrown out.

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Fight UCITA in Texas!
by Jim Choate 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

http://www.ssz.com/ucita/index.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fight UCITA in Texas! (fwd)
by Jim Choate 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

You'll find that this works better for you... http://einstein.ssz.com/ucita ---------- Forwarded message ---------- http://www.ssz.com/ucita/index.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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15 Mar '01

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using tech during a crime
by Blank Frank 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

If you are caught using a radio in the commission of a crime your charges can be enhanced with Federal statutes based on the Communications Act of 1934 as amended. http://www.gmrsweb.com/gmrsfrswhat.html

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