April 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by J.I.＠toad.com 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

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Our spy plane, and...
by George＠Orwellian.Org 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

Well, if no one has a picture of The Gordon, maybe I can just make one up as symbolic. If someone does want to mail me one, do not make it an attachment because I don't pop them down, and I delete the emails after the download. Include it in-line. Also, I can hand concatenate data that you split because of remailer limitations. ---- I don't know when and if I'll get around to it, but putting up a picture of The Gordon would be, as John Young put it, for purposes of ridicule. So, let's take an image I mentioned earlier: Jeff Gordon fucking himself with his own gun. As you know, "parody" is legal. What you might not have seen was in Hustler within the past few months: a parody of Jenna Bush, with a clear photo of her pretty head/hair grafted (fairly well) onto a nekked model's body, and Jenna was fucking herself with a dildo. Alrighty then. The title: "Parody of tough guy Jeff Gordon, Federal Agent and cypherpunk" Text in picture: "I'm so tough I fuck myself with my own gun!" Then a PhotoShop creation. ---- None of which is meant to stalk, intimidate or threaten The Gordon. Just ridicule. Which brings up something interesting: The Gordon reading this. If he, his legal mouthpiece, or any other Fed thinks this Jeff Gordon parody would be in any way _illegal_, say so, to the list, from a .gov address. Failure to object will be held against you in any possible future court action. Including ones initiated by me, if I find out you lifted a finger to collect any intelligence on me, or instigated someone else to do so. I would consider that the equivalent of, say, an IRS employee (which I know he's not any longer) looking up tax returns of people they had no business snooping on. The IRS now fires such people. Better check with your lawyer. ---- Most Federal employees and agents are fine people. The ones that aren't need attention. Tim May might say they need killing, but that's his silly schtick. That and blacknet might get him scrutiny, but not any action. Newt Gingrich put it this way: "We must closely scrutinize those we lend power to." Just don't be taking mail out of people's mailboxes, okay? And if anyone is following John Young in a car, it's just to razz him into making paramoid statements. After all, John _sometimes_ sounds like he's going batty. Bless his pointed little architected head.

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Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Joey Ramone, R.I.P.
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/04/15/joey/index.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Court: No Selling Credit Data
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43097,00.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Motherjones.com -- Web Exclusives - Privacy 'On the Road'
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/newshole.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Slashdot | How Corporate Lobbyists Colonized the Net (copyright)
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/12/1533240.shtml -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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"cypherpunks" [there is no movement] lose out to fear of crime?
by Ken Brown 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

A quick Choating: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/04/15/magazine1.html?10070 The burden of the article is a brief (& mildly inaccurate) account of James Ellis & Whit Diffie & PKC, a complaint about the rise and rise of TV (& other) monitoring of public places, and a rant about the UK's absurd TV licencing system. It uses the word "cypherpunk" more than once. "NO HIDING PLACE" "Britain is now a surveillance state. The authorities may be prying into your 'private' life this second. And in the electronic age, it is much easier for innocent people to be mistaken for criminals. Bryan Appleyard investigates..." [...] "Since both the NSA and GCHQ are founded on the principle that they should be able to read any communication anywhere in the world, this is their worst nightmare. Since 1975 they have been battling to find ways of ensuring they can still eavesdrop on anything. And, because Diffie's trick was already out there among the nerds and hackers of the world, this battle had to take place in public. Essentially, both the British and American security services wanted copies of all keys to be lodged with government agencies - so-called "key escrow" - or, as in the system we now have in Britain, they wanted to be able to demand the surrender of keys." "But the libertarian nerds, known in this field as "cypherpunks", fought back in the name of freedom from the all-seeing eyes of Big Brother government. In the United States they have had some success, thanks to the native distrust of government; in Britain they have had almost none." "After the collapse of communism in 1989, this issue became even more urgent. The primary targets of the security services were no longer the Soviets. Now they were organised criminals, drug traffickers and terrorists. This meant they wanted to watch their own citizens rather than just foreign spooks. The possibility of the high-tech, constant-surveillance Big Brother state was threatening to become a reality." [...] "Do we care? In Britain, apparently not." [...] [Perhaps odd that it turns up in the Sunday Times which hasnlt had much of a reputation (dare I use that word, having never met the journalists in the flesh?) for civil liberty campaigning for the last few years. It's a Murdoch paper, Britain's best selling "serious" newspaper, traditionally a little downmarket of it's more famous daily sister - the default weekend reading of 2-car, 2-parent mildly right-wing Tory-voting suburban families. For a couple of decades it has been leading the march of the Sunday papers away from campaigning journalism and into vast piles of supplements and sections full of beautiful photographs of sundried vegetables]

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anarchy and your opinions
by Kenneth Sigafoose 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

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RE: Starium?
by Trei, Peter 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

At the RSA conference I saw a company selling Starium-equivalent units, both for voice and data encryption. The voice only units were about $1400 apiece. (frankly, at that price, you could plug a PC with an A/D converter card between the handset and the base, and roll your own). I'm still decompressing, and have not unpacked all my bumph, else I'd have more specific data. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Declan McCullagh[SMTP:declan@well.com] > Reply To: Declan McCullagh > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:46 PM > To: Dr. Evil > Cc: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: Re: Starium? > > I have a pair of their preproduction units they sent me in December. > --Declan > > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:01:10AM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote: > > Does anyone know if Starium is ever going to release anything? I > > noticed on their News section that they have engaged an M&A > > specialist. That's probably not a good sign for them operating as a > > stand-alone company. email to them bounces.

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From Teen Hackers to Job Hunters - 2600 is a positive influence
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.washtech.com/news/media/9091-1.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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