July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Congress in action: Three years for "product tampering"
by Declan McCullagh 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Title: Crime Subcommittee Hearing Thursday U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Chairman News Advisory For immediate release Contact: Jeff Lungren/Terry Shawn July 25, 2001 (202) 225-2492 Crime Subcommittee Holds Hearing and Markup Thursday on Consumer Product Tampering Legislation What: Legislative hearing and markup on H.R. 2621, the "Consumer Product Protection Act of 2001" Who: Subcommittee on Crime - Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman When: 2:00 p.m. Thursday, July 26, 2001 Where: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building Tracey Weaver was preparing her family a New Year's Eve dinner complete with dessert to be made from a box of cheesecake mix she had bought at the local market. When the box was opened, her husband found a coupon for a "Free Trip To Africa". It was really no coupon at all but a demand for all African- Americans to return to Africa and included racial slurs that understandably upset Mrs. Weaver's family. Under current law, tampering with a product's packaging is legal as long as the perpetrator does not cause the labeling to be false or misleading or adulterate the product. This legislation, H.R. 2621, would make tampering with a product's packaging a crime punishable by up to three years in jail. Problems... * Current consumer protection laws cover tampering which endangers the health or safety of consumers or renders the labeling of a product false or misleading. * Tampering which does not taint or contaminate the contents or the labeling of a product is not covered under federal criminal law. However, such tampering harms both the consumer and the manufacturer. * Package tampering has become more and more pervasive; Kraft Foods estimates that they have received nearly 100 complaints in the last five years but that many more cases are not reported to them. This Legislation will... * Make knowingly stamping, printing, placing or inserting writing in or on a consumer product prior to its sale a crime with penalties up three years imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $25,000 per offense. Witnesses: Rep. Melissa Hart (R-PA), sponsor of H.R. 2621; William Macleod, Partner, Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, on behalf of the Grocery Manufacturers of America; David Zlotnick, Professor, Roger Williams University; and Tracey Weaver, Victim, Leavenworth, Washington. ###30### Terry A. Shawn Press Secretary Committee on the Judiciary 202.225.2498

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Re: spam & new user
by DS 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

I've been on the list for about 12 hours now, and have also recieved three spams, and what appears to be a reply to the group to discuss a spam. I was expecting spam (as it is an unmoderated list), but was hoping for some actual traffic as well. I'm certainly going to give it more time, but I'm still wondering where the moderated list went, unless securityfocus.com was mistaken and there was no moderated list. I know either securityfocus or the majordomo hinted at some moderated list! Oh well. As for _Cryptonomicon_, it was a great book, and also piqued my interest in the field. Going to have to give it a re-read soon, I think. One thing I was wondering, and perhaps the list can help me out here if they also read the book, is how much the events and procedures in the book correlated to methods used by cypherpunks in the real world? I don't have any specific event from the book in mind, indeed, it's been so long since I read it, I probably couldn't come up with one, just wondering in general. Thanks __________________________________________ Get your free domain name and domain-based e-mail from Namezero.com New! Namezero Plus domains now available. Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found fakstransfrontier.doc.lnk infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "fakstransfrontier", was sent from Ave Poom and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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POLICY FOR GROUP BOOKINGS
by Xara Palace 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks

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Is minder.net really screwed up?
by Trei, Peter 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

When cyberpass started messing up a few weeks ago, I unsubbed there and resubbed at minder.net Several times, I've noticed that messages I sent were replied to long before I ever saw the original message come back. Yesterday I sent a message around 11AM, and just got the original back, over 24 hours later. I'm used to a delay of an hour or so, but this is ridiculous.... Here are the headers showing the delay taking place at minder (I've obscured some local nodes). Received: from minder.net-gate.com ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) by AAAAA.securitydynamics.com via smtpd (for BBBBB.securitydynamics.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) with SMTP; 26 Jul 2001 15:22:40 UT 4+ hours between pax.m.n and RSA. Received: from waste.minder.net (root(a)waste.minder.net [64.80.76.82]) by pax.minder.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6QBagP81775; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:36:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmm(a)waste.minder.net) 20 hours holdup between waste.m.n and pax.m.n Received: (from majordom@localhost) by waste.minder.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00895 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:07:58 -0400 Anyone else seen this? Peter Trei

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Award Winning Automated Daytrading Software Helps you Trade the Market Swings everyday
by Sales 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

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Navajo Codetalkers to Receive Congressional Medal
by Jim Choate 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/26/code.talkers/index.html James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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Kuro5hin - A passel of articles of interest...
by Jim Choate 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

http://www.Kuro5hin.org/ James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found Hi Juniper.doc.com infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Hi Juniper", was sent from Jan Lundberg and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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Regularizaciones
by adanal＠uidgn.cfemex.com 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Hola como estas ? Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista Nos vemos pronto, gracias. ------------------ Virus Warning Message (on the network) Regularizaciones.xls.bat is removed from here because it contains a virus. ---------------------------------------------------------

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