June 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

MLM and Network Marketing Failures Wanted!
by residualincome4you＠excite.com 10 Jun '01

10 Jun '01

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Re: FW: City Tree Rapers
by CeejEngine＠aol.com 10 Jun '01

10 Jun '01

In a message dated 6/9/01 11:35:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com writes: > Bullshit, the 1st makes no such distinction. With respect to libel, or any > other form of speech it only says it isn't a federal issue. Note that no > Yeah, but then you've got the 14th, which has been used to apply the Bill of Rights to the states (due process clause), so that means that no gov. can restrict free speech. As for libel, its damn hard to make stick- public figures have a hight standard, which includes proving actual malice. Fun times. Ender

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DC Cir: FTOs & due process
by Aimee Farr 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

NAT'L COUNCIL OF RESISTANCE OF IRAN v. DEP'T OF STATE http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/dc/991438a.html#Footref2 DC Cir.: putative foreign terrorist organizations with a US presence, not necessarily a "substantial" presence, are entitled to notice and hearing prior to FTO designation. See also, http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/fto_info_1999.html I seem to remember some AEDPA discussions in the archives. AEDPA provides that all persons within or subject to US jurisdiction are forbidden from "knowingly providing material support or resources" to designated FTOs (among other penalties). The review process includes classified materials, so it has been the subject of some FISA-like controversy. This case concerned the designation of an "alter ego" FTO, and is interesting from several angles. ...particularly this one, if you read between the lines. >From the opinion: ================= <snip> To oversimplify, assume the Secretary gives notice to one of the entities that: We are considering designating you as a foreign terrorist organization, and in addition to classified information, we will be using the following summarized administrative record. You have the right to come forward with any other evidence you may have that you are not a foreign terrorist organization. It is not immediately apparent how the foreign policy goals of the government in general and the Secretary in particular would be inherently impaired by that notice. It is particular- ly difficult to discern how such a notice could interfere with the Secretary's legitimate goals were it presented to an entity such as the PMOI concerning its redesignation. We recog- nize, as we have recognized before, that items of classified information which do not appear dangerous or perhaps even important to judges might "make all too much sense to a foreign counterintelligence specialist who could learn much about this nation's intelligence-gathering capabilities from what these documents revealed about sources and methods." Yunis, 867 F.2d at 623. We extend that recognition to the possibility that alerting a previously undesignated organiza- tion to the impending designation as a foreign terrorist organization might work harm to this county's foreign policy goals in ways that the court would not immediately perceive. We therefore wish to make plain that we do not foreclose the possibility of the Secretary, in an appropriate case, demon- strating the necessity of withholding all notice and all oppor- tunity to present evidence until the designation is already made. The difficulty with that in the present case is that the Secretary has made no attempt at such a showing. We therefore hold that the Secretary must afford the limited due process available to the putative foreign terrorist organization prior to the deprivation worked by designating that entity as such with its attendant consequences, unless he can make a showing of particularized need. [...] ~Aimee "For holding conversation in suspicious places, whips may be substituted for fines. In the center of the village, an outcaste person may whip such women five times on each of the sides of their body."

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is this test working
by scum 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

Getting zero Posts, is the roof on hospital? Dick Laurent is a day dreamer

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Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell
by John Young 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

http://cartome.org/homeland.htm "So, say goodnight to Joshua ..." Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell Deborah Natsios Cartome 8 June 2001 A sparsely attended trial which unfolded in Tacomas US district courthouse the first week of April 2001 hardly seemed an event that might open a small but revealing view onto the shifting national security apparatus. But to outside observers following the criminal prosecution of Washington State resident Jim Bell, accused of stalking and intimidating local agents of the IRS, Treasury Department and BATF, the defendant was a symptomatic target, and the governments stated case against him only a fragment of a more complex campaign linked to the evolving landscape of national and homeland defense. In the governments estimation, Bell had placed its Pacific Northwest agents "in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury"1. But for some trial-watchers, the case against James Dalton Bell, 43, was underpinned by a constellation of factors that made him more than the disaffected neighbor projecting antigovernment bile. Bell had invited the governments fullest prosecutorial zeal because his technical skills placed him in more ambiguous terrain, that of untested gray zones within emerging national defense landscapes, which, by calling into question the impregnability of the national border, have been taking national security tactics incountry in unprecedented ways, deploying new rules of engagement to challenge national security threats within the US domestic interior. Chapters: Homeland WarCoast Cypherpunks PosterBoy Joshua Tacoma Doppleganger BattlespaceSuburbia Holdout

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by Nomen Nescio 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

> John Yeomans wrote: > > Send me the instructions to make a stink bomb > please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a male skunk and a female skunk and breed them. Have a 'stinking' good time!

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Ashcroft tells Congress he'll take hard line on porn, piracy
by Declan McCullagh 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> -----

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CAL ISO *internal ops* machines cracked
by Timothy McVeigh 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

SACRAMENTO For at least 17 days at the height of the energy crisis, hackers mounted an attack on a computer system that is integral to the movement of electricity throughout California, a confidential report obtained by The Times shows. The hackers' success, though apparently limited, brought to light lapses in computer security at the target of the cyber-attack, the California Independent System Operator, which oversees most of the state's massive electricity transmission grid. Officials at Cal-ISO say that the lapses have been corrected and that there was no threat to the grid. But others familiar with the attack say hackers came close to gaining access to key parts of the system, and could have seriously disrupted the movement of electricity across the state. Democratic and Republican lawmakers were angered by the security breach at an entity that is such a basic part of California's power system, given its fragility during the state's continuing energy crisis. One called the attack "ominous." An internal agency report, stamped "restricted," shows that the attack began as early as April 25 and was not detected until May 11. The report says the main attack was routed through China Telecom from someone in Guangdong province in China. In addition to using China Telecom, hackers entered the system by using Internet servers based in Santa Clara in Northern California and Tulsa, Okla., the report says. James Sample, the computer security specialist at Cal-ISO who wrote the report, said he could not tell for certain where the attackers were located. "You don't know where people are really from," Sample said. "The only reason China stuck out is because of the recent political agenda China had with the U.S. . . . An ambitious U.S. hacker could have posed as a Chinese hacker." The breach occurred amid heightened Sino-American tensions after the collision between a Chinese military jet and a U.S. spy plane. In early May, there were hundreds of publicly reported computer attacks apparently originating from China. Most of those incidents involved mischief; anti-American slogans were scrawled on government Web sites. The attack on the Cal-ISO computer system apparently had the potential for more serious consequences, given that the hackers managed to worm their way into the computers at the agency's headquarters in Folsom, east of Sacramento, that were linked to a system that controls the flow of electricity across California. The state system is tied into the transmission grid for the Western United States. "This was very close to being a catastrophic breach," said a source familiar with the attack and Cal-ISO's internal investigation of the incident. On May 7 and 8, as the infiltration was occurring, California suffered widespread rolling blackouts, but Cal-ISO officials said Friday that there was no connection between the hacking and the outages, which affected more than 400,000 utility customers. "It did not affect markets or reliability," said Stephanie McCorkle, a spokeswoman for Cal-ISO. Officials of the agency made no public acknowledgment of the attack until Friday when contacted by The Times. The agency did, however, call the FBI, which is investigating. McCorkle said Cal-ISO did not make a public disclosure about the hacking "because it didn't impact the reliability of any of our internal networks." "It didn't have a negative consequence and would not have impacted the public or market participants," McCorkle said. After the attack was discovered, the report says, investigators found evidence that the hackers apparently were trying to "compile" or write software that might have allowed them to get past so-called firewalls protecting far more sensitive parts of the computer system. The attackers focused on parts of the grid agency's computer system that are under development. In what may have been the most significant lapse, the system being developed was not behind a firewall, a security element designed to keep out those who are not entitled to access. Additionally, so-called tripwires that might have alerted agency security personnel to the unauthorized entry were nonexistent. Nor were there logs within the system that might have identified users entering the system as the infiltration was occurring, the report notes. What's more, dozens of ports into the computer system were open, when only a handful should have been available. "All servers should be hardened regardless of their role or location in the network," the report says. "Only ports that are required to be open should be opened; all others should be disabled." Complicating the investigation, workers at Cal-ISO rebooted their computers when the machines balked, apparently in response to the infiltration. "This action limited our ability to discover all files and activity that may be related to this compromise," the report says. Sample, the security engineer who wrote the report, downplayed the potential threat and said the attack was "something that we've been anticipating." "It was a compromise, not really an attack," he said. State legislators were not comforted by such distinctions. "That's really amazing on two counts: that there were computers not behind a firewall and it took 17 days to discover," said state Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Rey), who chairs her chamber's Energy Committee. Bowen, who was informed of the breach by The Times, called it a "serious matter" and said she was "very concerned to learn about this from the L.A. Times, rather than from the ISO itself." The lack of official notification, she said, adds to her skepticism about whether the agency has been forthcoming. "It is embarrassing, so I can understand they would not want to talk about it," Bowen said. "We're going to ask some questions." The Independent System Operator, established in 1998 when the state opened the newly deregulated electricity market to competition, is an essential component of the state's electricity system. The purpose of the nonprofit entity is to balance the flow of electricity across the state and make last-minute power purchases to match demand and avoid blackouts. The Legislature reconfigured the agency earlier this year, giving Gov. Gray Davis the power to appoint the five-member board that oversees it. "It is troubling that it happened," said Sen. Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks). "It is disturbing that it took so long to be corrected. And it is galling that it was not reported to the Legislature." McClintock labeled as "ominous" the possibility that the attack came from China. He said he is preparing a request for all documents related to the breach and is considering requesting a formal legislative inquiry. ISO board member Mike Florio, who represents consumers, said he had a vague recollection that the board was informed of the attack. But he also was surprised to learn some of the details. "We hire people to deal with this stuff," he said, "and they said they dealt with it." http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20010609/t000047994.html

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Subject: Re: Ed Felten and researchers sue RIAA, DOJ over right to publish
by A. Melon 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

Check out "F*ck the Creationists" by MC Hawking: http://www.mchawking.com/music.html. You can lay the funky shit on them creationists. Alan Olsen wrote: >To: David Honig <honig(a)sprynet.com> >Cc: mmotyka(a)lsil.com, cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Subject: Re: Ed Felten and researchers sue RIAA, DOJ over right to publish > >On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, David Honig wrote: > >> We are all scientists. >> >> And really, we are: even children apply the scientific method. Its not >> rocket science. > >You have not dealt with many Creationists I take it...

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Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell
by John Young 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

(Resent, LNE is down) http://cartome.org/homeland.htm (72KB) "So, say goodnight to Joshua ..." Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell Deborah Natsios Cartome 8 June 2001 A sparsely attended trial which unfolded in Tacoma�s US district courthouse the first week of April 2001 hardly seemed an event that might open a small but revealing view onto the shifting national security apparatus. But to outside observers following the criminal prosecution of Washington State resident Jim Bell, accused of stalking and intimidating local agents of the IRS, Treasury Department and BATF, the defendant was a symptomatic target, and the government�s stated case against him only a fragment of a more complex campaign linked to the evolving landscape of national and homeland defense. In the government�s estimation, Bell had placed its Pacific Northwest agents "in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury"1. But for some trial-watchers, the case against James Dalton Bell, 43, was underpinned by a constellation of factors that made him more than the disaffected neighbor projecting antigovernment bile. Bell had invited the government�s fullest prosecutorial zeal because his technical skills placed him in more ambiguous terrain, that of untested gray zones within emerging national defense landscapes, which, by calling into question the impregnability of the national border, have been taking national security tactics incountry in unprecedented ways, deploying new rules of engagement to challenge national security threats within the US domestic interior. Sections: Homeland WarCoast Cypherpunks PosterBoy Joshua Tacoma Doppleganger BattlespaceSuburbia Holdout

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