July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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Meatspace anonymity manual
by Alfred Qaeda 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

> but in order for a Black Bloc to truly > be effective, then that means that we should dress appropriately. Do Anarchists observe casual Fridays?

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Denver to use facial biometrics on drivers' licenses
by Alfred Qaeda 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Colo. to 'map' faces of drivers http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,11%257E57823,00.html By Julia C. Martinez Denver Post Capitol Bureau Wednesday, July 04, 2001 - First it was the photo-radar vans snapping pictures of Denver-area speeders. Now, some fear Big Brother's roving eye soon will be watching all of Colorado with the arrival of a new European import called "face recognition." The Department of Motor Vehicles, in an effort to prevent identity theft and driver's license fraud, is buying cameras that will map every driver's facial characteristics like a three-dimensional land chart. The danger, critics say, is that the technology could eventually be expanded to monitor the comings and goings of ordinary Coloradans. This week, Tampa, Fla., became the first city in the United States to install similar high-tech security cameras on public streets to scan crowds in the city's nightlife district. Images will be compared against a database of mug shots of people with active warrants. "There is a danger," said Rep. Matt Smith, a Grand Junction lawmaker and attorney who serves on a statewide task force studying the issue of privacy. "The intended purpose of facial recognition is to help the state prevent the theft of identity. Now the question is, "What will its future use be?' "There has to be a point where the government doesn't have its nose over every shoulder," he said. Mug shots compared Old driver's license photos will be scanned into a computer database using the new technology. Then, starting next July, new mugs will be compared with those on file to make sure people are who they say they are when they go to get, or renew, a Colorado driver's license. It doesn't matter if you gain 200 pounds and go bald between photographs. Short of plastic surgery, the camera will recognize you. "Facial recognition deals with spatial details, where a nose is compared with the eyes," said Dorothy Dalquist, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Revenue. "Baldness doesn't count, and weight doesn't either. It's the basic facial structure." The state legislature authorized the technology during the last session. State officials won't disclose the cost of the system until they meet later this month with officials from Polaroid, one of the companies involved in making the system. In the beginning, face recognition will be used to try to prevent criminals from obtaining multiple driver licenses under others' names, Dalquist said. "We know of cases where individuals steal personal information from other people, forge documents and go to six or seven driver license offices getting licenses with their pictures and other people's identities. In theory, they have a legitimate license, but in actuality, they're not who they say they are," Dalquist said. "Now, we will be able to say after the first one, "No, you can't have another one.'" Or the police could be called in. "My guess is if we saw something that is an egregious misuse of the system, we might alert law enforcement to that," she said. The cameras can't prevent the types of fraud that now occur when people make their own driver's licenses using home computers and the Internet. However, as part of the new program, invisible markers will be added to each new license so stores or banks can scan the card to see if it's genuine. Privacy concerns The technology has raised concerns about privacy, ethics and government intrusion. Privacy advocates are concerned that a database of photographs could itself spill into the Orwellian realm. "We all want to catch as many criminals as we possibly can, but we also have to be concerned about the privacy issues," said Sen. Ken Gordon, D-Denver, a member of a state task force set up to craft legislation aimed at protecting privacy. "Information obtained for one purpose is sometimes used for reasons that were not contemplated by people who set up the system to begin with." Gordon said Colorado already sells driver records to insurance companies for $5 million a year. "If we're going to create a database of photographs of every driver in Colorado, will it be used only to protect against criminals?" Gordon asked. "Or will it be used for commercial purposes or marketing or to produce books of people's photos. We have to be careful." Colorado's new system could pave the way for expanded use, say for instance tapping into a criminal database and finding out if someone getting a driver license is a fugitive. "I'm sure law enforcement would appreciate it sometime in the future," Dalquist said. "Right now, we're not hooking into their data process. We're trying to protect citizens against identity fraud, and businesses, too." But some say this latest technology could continue to grow into a Tampa-like monitoring system. Last month, Denver police used low-tech, hand-held video cameras to catch rowdy partygoers celebrating the Colorado Avalanche's Stanley Cup victory. "We haven't discussed it," said Denver police Sgt. Tony Lombard, "not at this point."

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05 Jul '01

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Re: Forbidden Knowledge (Banned Research, Part II)
by Ray Dillinger 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote: Tim May writes: >>Why not restrict computer virus research? > >Hasn't it been, already? If I'm not mistaken, people already go to prison >for writing viruses. Ditto for hacking tools, TPM circumvention software, >and soon probably spamming tools as well. Not quite yet. People have gone to prison for *releasing* viruses, not for *writing* them. Heck, I've written a dozen viruses myself, and not one has ever been run on a machine I didn't reformat within the week. An amusing pastime - not a crime. Bear

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by Jim Choate 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

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05 Jul '01

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RE: Tampa using cameras to scan for wanted faces--
by Sean Roach 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Can the program be thrown off with masks? If so, how about making some of those advertisement fans with the pictures of random people wanted for parking tickets on them, then walk through that end of town. Possibly better yet would be fliers, balloons, and bumper stickers. These could be given away to people in areas that don't particulary trust the local police anyway, or simply applied to cars of people who frequent areas such as the employee parking of the local court house. Either could be distributed to bars. Can the things be fooled by using black markers to add shadows where there should be none? Will painted on faces become the new rage in Tampa? I can just see people wearing "war paint", some to avoid the cameras, the rest because it's fashionable. At 09:26 PM 7/2/2001 -0400, George(a)Orwellian.Org wrote: Someone is Usenet wants to hassle the cameras with paintball guns. ---- http://www.baynews9.com/newsstory.asp?storyname=2001/June/30/ybor # # Orwell wrote 1984 warning for Britain. It is truly spooky how close he # was to the truth, though a bit late in the time frame. # # No one expected it to apply, too, to America. Yet, here it is. It is # far more sinister than people realize. As one reader already mentioned # in one thread: " this can readily be used for people carrying guns." # That, and the identification of members of the NRA, JPFO, GOA, North # Caucus, CCOPS, RKBA, and instant notification of the street cop in the # vicinity, and we have a far more THOROUGH Tyranny than even the North # Caucus envisioned when it began warning the people and government some # years ago. # # Our question, this time: "how accurate are paint guns? Seriously. # Could a # good shot peg these cameras from the street below?" We have similar # cameras # in a towns in Georgia, watching traffic for people running stop # lights. How long before those cameras are silently hooked into this # network for face recognition? # # It's time for civil disobedience. # 1) Arm yourselves in anticipation of a governmental advance on your # firearms. # 2) Get paint gun specialists to try these cameras. # 3) WARN the governments, local, state and national, that we won't stay # put # for such tyranny as they envision. # Our warning: # http://www.geocities.com/north_caucus [ an extremely alarmed over gun rights site ] # # Ben Waldo # North Caucus of America # Florida Section

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RE: Most of a nation on probation?
by Sandy Sandfort 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Sampo Syreeni wrote: > Yep, the US does lock a whole lot of > people up. But what about the constant > whining about "overflowing prisons", > then. Unfortunately, "whining" is just that. Not much is done about it. > Or the many instants where prisoners > are put on parole en masse to cut > costs and/or to free up prison real > estate? That's really a separate problem having to do with our insane mandatory sentencing laws (primarily for drug-related offenses). When they do release folks, they are usually the ones convicted of really vicious crimes. > There would be ways to control this > too. One way is to make it possible > for inmates to sue for damage due > to overcrowding and the violence it > causes. This would make for a > superlinear increase in cost, and > eventual balancing in the density > of inmates. Well that would be nice, but why not focus in on the real problem, too many laws? Forget suing, leave parole alone, just get rid of the myriad of laws. > From the standpoint of individual > freedom, one might argue that more > people are now hurting. Than what, Utopia? That isn't the choice now. It's between getting out or staying in a hell-hole prison. Nobody is hurt by parole. Get rid of the laws and the parole issue goes away by itself. > ...the cost of putting people away > should be high enough to become > prohibitive for anything but the > most serious of crimes. Shoulda, woulda, coulda. It's not, so why fantasize? Nobody is hurt by parole, itself. Eliminate the bad laws, they are the real problem. S a n d y

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