July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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

26 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found DEVELOPMENT PLAN FY 2002.doc.pif infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: DEVELOPMENT PLAN FY 2002", was sent from Keith Recker and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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

26 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found Agere-Ron.zip.pif infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: Agere-Ron", was sent from Ron B and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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Illegal government surveillance programs
by George＠orwellian.org 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

OH OH OH I am soooo pissed off, I'm gonna flame for the fire of it. ---- One of the most stunningly vile attempts to attack an individual occurred just a couple years ago, in 1995. The attack was itself a throwback to the old days of COINTELPRO, (Counter- Intelligence Program), a massive unconstitutional FBI operation --- one of it's most abusive ever --- to discredit the politically incorrect. * Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9 * * And it was not just the FBI. The CIA, the Pentagon and the National * Security Agency [Military] had all turned their intelligence-gathering * capabilities on American citizens. And who was targeted? Qubilah Shabazz, second oldest daughter of Malcom X. * Both Sides in Shabazz Case Say Tapes Prove Their Point * by Don Terry, The New York Times, April 1995 * * Ms. Shabazz was indicted on Jan 11 on nine counts of using the telephones * and travelling across state lines to hire a hit man to kill Mr. Farrakhan. * Eight of the counts involved taped telephone calls between Ms. Shabazz and * Mr. Fitzpatrick, a cocaine addict who faces a possible five-year prison * sentence in an unrelated drug case. [read: blackmailed] * * Of the 40 recorded conversations, 38 were initiated by Mr. Fitzpatrick. * "Most of the conversations during these calls consisted primarily of * remarks by Mr. Fitzpatrick." said defense lawyer William M. Kunstler. * [Kunstler was a silvered haired angel even while still on Earth] * * The Government had a statement initialed from Ms. Shabazz. * * "I jokingly asked Fitzpatrick if he would kill Louis Farrakhan." * * The statement was written by two FBI agents, who did not advise her of * her right to remain silent and have a lawyer present. * * Federal officials in Washington and Minneapolis say Ms. Shabazz was * 'obsessed' with killing Mr. Farrakhan, and they had enough on her to * put her away for 90 years. * * Mr. Fitzpatrick prodded her: "I'm willing to do whatever you want me to * do, this feels righteous." Ms. Shabazz replied "I don't really know * what you're asking me." Mr. Fitzpatrick later told her "I'm just going * to proceed." Qubilah Shabazz was 4 when she saw her father die in a hail of bullets in 1965. She has been a trouble woman ever since. * "...Shabazz...", The New York Times, June 8 1997 (front page) * * In telephone conversations taped by Federal prosecutors, Ms. Shabazz * acknowledged she had psychological problems and had spent time at Bellevue. Her mother long asserted Mr. Farrakhan played a role in the death of her husband. Three members of Mr. Farrakhan's Nation of Islam were convicted. And just what was so extraordinarily vile about this case? Its purpose was to tear the black community apart. Mr. Farrakhan, no fool when it comes to manipulation, joined in her defense. And: Mr. Fitzpatrick had been a high school classmate of Qubilah Shabazz. In courting her lifetime of anger at Mr. Farrakhan, he also courted her. Love. "A vile and evil seducer," said William Kunstler to the court. He had proposed to her. * "Always the Violence", The New York Times, by Bob Herbert, June 9 1997 * * Percy Sutton, a close friend of the Shabazz family for more then three * decades, said "It was so sad. This little kid [Qubilah's son Malcolm, 10] * he ended up feeling guilty because he tried to persuade his mother to * marry this guy [Fitzpatrick told the son about his marriage proposal]. * The guy told him 'We'll have our own house.' And Malcolm got all excited * and he said, 'I'll have my own bedroom?' And the guy said 'Yes, you will.'" It is safe to say this directly contributed to the burning and subsequent death of Betty Shabazz. A distraught, torn, ten-year-old suffering the effects of this persecution. He had been taken away from his mother because of Fitzpatrick. NBC Newschannel 4 NY, on the death of Betty Shabazz: "Police say the boy was upset he couldn't live with his mother." Kunstler forced the Government to drop its case... * "...Shabazz...", The New York Times, June 8 1997 * * Prosecutors dropped the case when it became * clear she had NOT committed to the crime. ...and instead settle for her getting professional counseling. Mainly to recover from what Mr. Fitzpatrick and the FBI did to her. Mr. Fitzpatrick was paid $45,000 of our tax money for his services. Mr. Fitzpatrick is a cocaine addict. Remember, it's the 1990s now: same as it ever was. ---- Tim May wrote: # # I believe Ruby Ridge was an example of a barricade situation # which didn' t need to happen. The "crime" of selling a long gun # with a barrel one quarter of an inch too short was both a "set # up" (to induce cooperation by Randy Weaver) and shouldn't have # been a crime in the first place. These are mistakes, not evidence # of a Bureau that has become incompetent or malevolent.) Not malevolent? Not malevolent? Tim, they targetted him solely to help them with one of their surveillance programs. Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. Persisting, a BATF informant persuaded Weaver, a DECORATED GREEN BERET VETERAN of Vietnam with NO CRIMINAL RECORD, to sell him two shotguns, but insisted that Weaver saw the barrels off one-quarter inch short of the legal limit. Monitoring him, they knew Mr. Weaver needed money for his family. Why did the government target Mr. Weaver? Blackmail. One of the FBI's favorite activities is spying on political organizations. They wanted to use him to infiltrate white supremacists groups for the government. Or face prosecution. When Weaver refused, he was indicted on guns charges. He was sent two conflicting court appearance dates. He became paranoid the Government was out to get him, so he didn't show up. [He was eventually acquitted of all charges except the original not showing up in court!] To justify a militaristic retaliation, BATF agents lied to the U.S. attorney's office. BATF agents claimed that Weaver had a criminal record and that he was a suspect in several bank robberies. Both charges were fabrications, even according to BATF Director John Magaw, who admitted the accusations were "inexcusable" in testimony before Congress. THREE HUNDRED armed federal agents conducted a siege of the Weavers' mountain home, first killing Randy Weaver's dog, then his son, then his wife. A law enforcement wilding. * The CATO Institute, "Congressional Testimony", May 24, 1995 * http://www.cato.org * * The Marshals, wearing camouflage and carrying silenced machine guns, did * not identify themselves or their purpose, but they did shoot one of the * dogs. Sammy Weaver, fourteen-years-old, returned fire, and was promptly * shot by a Marshal. * * Sammy turned and fled, with his nearly severed arm flopping as he ran. * * Sammy was promptly shot dead in the back. An FBI sniper, Lon T. Horiuchi, testified he could hit a quarter at 200 yards. * The CATO Institute, "Congressional Testimony", May 24, 1995 * * An FBI psychological profile, prepared before the attack, called Vicki * Weaver the "dominant member" of the family, thus implying that if she * were "neutralized" everyone else might surrender. Horiuchi shot Weaver's wife in the head while she held her baby. Her head exploded. Her dead body was laid out on the cabin floor, covered with a blanket: [ Tim, this rates as 9 out of 10 on the malevolent scale: ] * The CATO Institute, "Congressional Testimony", May 24, 1995 * * During the next week, "the FBI used megaphones to taunt the family. * 'Good Morning Mrs. Weaver. We had pancakes for breakfast. What did * you have?'" asked the FBI agents in at least one exchange. * * Weaver's daughter, Sarah, 16, said the baby, Elisheba, was often * crying for her mother's milk when the FBI messages were heard. The Justice Department's own report recommended criminal prosecution of federal agents; the surviving Weavers won $3.1 million in civil damages from U.S. taxpayers. Deval Patrick, the Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, and Louis Freeh, Director of the FBI, took no serious action. Larry Potts was the senior official in charge of the operation. Not only was he not prosecuted, Freeh promoted him to acting deputy FBI director. * "Documents Were Destroyed as FBI Resisted Siege Investigation, Report Says" * By David Johnston, July 16, 1995 * * Mr. Pott's former subordinate Michael Kahoe admitted he destroyed key * documents on the Ruby Ridge assault. The Justice department reports * documents were destroyed and missing. "We are troubled by the apparent * lack of a system to preserve such critical records." * * The Justice Department, in a March 18, 1993 memo stated, "the FBI's * intransigence appears to EMANATE from Larry Potts level OR ABOVE." Larry Potts was a buddy of Louis Freeh. Within the FBI, these special people are called "FOL" - Friends of Louie. [NYT 5/11/97] Janet Reno (who had veto power over the promotion) testified what happened at Ruby Ridge wasn't enough to cause her to veto the promotion, foreshadowing her actions at Waco. After two months, controversy (as opposed to events) over Potts' role in Ruby Ridge prompted Freeh to remove him from the position, to politically cover his own tush. Potts and four other top FBI officials have been suspended while a federal criminal probe investigates the destruction of documents related to the incident. A total of twelve agents were disciplined. None have yet been prosecuted. The Federal government subsequently named after a U.S. Marshal who was killed, but who also shot Randy Weaver's son dead in the back: a new Marshals training center. The Federal government's behavior in the incident can only be described as sickening: targeting a citizen (a veteran, no less) who committed no crime AND EVEN HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD (but had politically incorrect views) for blackmail, then acting vengefully when he wouldn't act as their rat fink. Shoot-to-kill. Sniper team. Military fatigues. A terrorizing organization: how else to explain the cruel cruel taunting. A terrorist organization by virtue of shoot-to-kill orders. ---- What did that one thing say again? * Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9 * * And it was not just the FBI. The CIA, the Pentagon and the National * Security Agency [Military] had all turned their intelligence-gathering * capabilities on American citizens. Who are the lead team members is this new surveillance unit? http://www.infowar.com/law/01/law_050701b_j.shtml # # The center (NIPC) coordinates the cyber-terrorism fighting efforts # of the federal government, including the Justice Department, # the Pentagon, the CIA, the National Security Agency... Who is targeted by this surveillance program? # Agents are advised to seek out means of forcing these [crypto # anarchists] out of the public debate. Tim, know of anyone who would call themselves a "crypto anarchist"? Someone the government considered dangerous and was actively [yea SirCam intelligence] targeted by this latest government surveillance program of politically incorrect citizens? A U.S. government surveillance program with marching orders to squash citizens and their public debate.

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spam & new user
by Rubinstein, Dmitry 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Hello, dear cypherpunks! I subscribed to this mailing list after having read the "Cryptonomicon" novel by Neal Stephenson (which some of you may be familiar with). I've read that this mailing list audience is supposedly similar to the "Secret Admirers" list depicted in the book. While subscribing I've been warned that this is a high volume list. So, I've been on the list for 3 days now. All I got is 3 spams (one in a language I don't understand but suspect to be either Spanish or Portuguese) and a single request for help with a single response. Now, my question is, is this a typical phenomenon or are all cypherpunks happen to be on holidays these days? (Correction, it's 4 spams now. Seems to be high volume indeeed). And, while at it, a question on topic: does anyone here has any idea about how widespread the secure e-mail is? By secure e-mail I mean: 1. SSL over IMAP/POP/SMTP 2. S/MIME vs. PGP 3. All kinds of web based secure e-mail systems, such as hushmail. How much is this all "power user" stuff, do the "regular people" use these communication means? -- Dmitry Rubinstein

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

26 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found Socail.doc.bat infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: Socail", was sent from Al & Jen Long and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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

26 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found Agere-Ron.zip.pif infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: Agere-Ron", was sent from Ron B and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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by James K 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

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Your Membership Exchange, #436
by Your Membership Newsletter 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

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Re: Weird message from someone named "NIPC"
by John Ashcroft's Persecuting Penis 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Tim May forwarded SirCam output: # # Michael Vatis, deputy assistant director and chief of the Federal # Bureau of Investigation's National Infrastructure Protection Center # (NIPC) created February 26, 1998, told the Senate Judiciary # Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information June # 29 that 'crypto anarchists" see Washington's computers as "the final # exam, the ultimate challenge, the enemy which must be destroyed." # Agents are advised to seek out means of forcing these persons out of # the public debate. Declan the Wired Reporter wrote: # # Now that I've actually read through some of # what Tim posted, I think it's clear what it is. # # Hint: Vatis wasn't in charge of NIPC by June 29 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Declan, this IS REAL STUFF. June 1998 !!! http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/12915.html # # US' 'Soft, Digital Underbelly' # Reuters # # 1:10pm 11.Jun.98.PDT # # WASHINGTON -- The head of a new US cyber law-enforcement agency # says a half dozen substantial attacks have been launched against # government computer systems since February. # # "A good percentage of the incidents we see ... involve [the # Department of Defense], because DOD is such a prime target for # even individual hackers who want to test their skills," said # Michael Vatis, the chief of the National Infrastructure Protection # Center of the FBI. "They see the Department of Defense as the # big banana, the final exam, the ultimate challenge to test their # skills." The casual (or otherwise) surveillance of cypherpunk traffic has now backfired in conjunction with this virus-trojan! What wonderful things did Tim May get and flush, not knowing the potential??? Tim, quick send Declan, JYA, and me a text extract! HOT DAMN!!! # Agents are advised to seek out means of forcing # these persons out of the public debate FUCKING FEDS!!! # The take-down is being planned for maximal public impact, # as per AG Ashcroft's memo of 24JUN01. Let them have it with both barrels, Declan!

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RE: FINALLY!!! A REAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!!!
by James K 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

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