July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Inf-17
by Alberto Chávez Ojeda 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

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Jim Choate's shadow
by Duncan Idaho 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Long ago, I killfiled Mr CHoate. Once in a while, though, my inbox is filled with dreck, of which Jim in the indirect origin. Really guys, for the amount of noise Jim adds to the list, there are several of you who seem to amplify it nicely. I can "slot filter" Mr Choate via killfile, but the reverberation (which I can't filter) is becoming deafening. Woody (a lurker) ---------- >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com >Subject: CDR: Re: A question of self-defence - Fire extinguishers & self defence >Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001, 7:08 PM > > At 8:35 PM -0500 7/23/01, Jon Beets wrote: >>Uhhh yes it will go through the safety glass.. Look at the pics.. One person >>had already put piece of lumber through it.. That was about a 15lb >>extinguisher... From what I can tell from the photos the protester DID >>intend harm to the police. Of course none of us were there so its really >>hard to know the truth.. > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Jim Choate" <ravage(a)ssz.com> >>To: <cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com> >>Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:18 PM >>Subject: A question of self-defence - Fire extinguishers & self defence >> >> >>> >>> Does throwing a fire extenguisher at a auto window constitution probable >>> cause for lethal force in self-defence? >>> >>> No. Because the fire extenguisher won't go through the safety glass. > > First, "safety glass" is said to be "safety" because it tends to hold > together instead of shattering into shards. It's not Lexan. > > Second, anyone who has spent time in a wrecking yard knows things go > through safety glass all the time. > > Third, those of us who are old enough remember that Jayne Mansfield's > head went right through the safety glass. > > Fourth, disputing Choate about the physics of safety glass is as > pointless as arguing with him over Gauss's Theorem, prime numbers, > the First Amendment, the history of Europe, law, or anything else he > has his peculiarly indisyncratic views about. > > Fifth, if someone is trying to throw a fire extinguisher through > either my front window or my side windows, I'm going to defend > myself. I expect no less from the carabinieri. > > > --Tim May > > > > > > -- > Timothy C. May tcmay(a)got.net Corralitos, California > Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon > Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go > Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns

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FW: [IMC-News] IMC PRESS RELEASE: RESPONSE TO POLICE RAID ON GENOA SOCIAL FORUM AND IMC ITALIA OFFICES
by Aimee Farr 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

> -----Original Message----- > From: imc-news-admin(a)lists.indymedia.org > [mailto:imc-news-admin@lists.indymedia.org] > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:07 PM > To: imc-news(a)indymedia.org > Subject: [IMC-News] IMC PRESS RELEASE: RESPONSE TO POLICE RAID ON GENOA > SOCIAL FORUM AND IMC ITALIA OFFICES > > > > ------------ please distribute widely -------------- > > Independent Media Center > Ad hoc Genoa Solidarity Committee > www.indymedia.org > > RESPONSE TO POLICE RAID ON GENOA > SOCIAL FORUM AND IMC ITALIA OFFICES > > 23 JUNE 2001 > > CONTACT: > Han Soete, IMC-belgium member > han(a)skynet.be > + 32 476 533 188 > > Doug Morris, IMC-chicago member > eredgreen(a)yahoo.com > (847) 657-0182 > > Sheri Herndon, IMC-seattle member > sheri(a)speakeasy.org > 206.261.0184 > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > The Independent Media Center Network (IMC) (http://www.indymedia.org) > demands that independent journalism and journalists be protected > from state > repression. We also demand this incident of grave repression be given the > full investigation and scrutiny that it deserves. Reports indicate that > black clad provocateurs were working in conjunction with Italian Military > Police in a vicious attack on peaceful organizers. > > MIDNIGHT RAID IN GENOA > > On early Sunday morning, Italian Police stormed the IMC press office armed > with tear gas and batons. Italian military police and unknown provocateurs > simultaneously raided the school building across the street that > has hosted > various groups participating in the Genoa Social Forum (GSF) > (http://www.genoa-g8.org/) > > Persons in the IMC at the time of the raid were forced to stand > against the > wall with their hands up while police searched equipment and personal > effects. Reports vary on the number of injuries sustained by IMC staff. > IMC-Italia reports that one IMC reporter from the UK is hospitalized with > serious injuries from the attacks. Materials reportedly seized during the > raid include audio mini disks, video tapes and computer hard drives. Other > reports allege that telecommunications equipment was damaged and/or > destroyed during the raid. In the same building, the police also > raided the > Radio Gap radio station and forced it off the air for a short time. > > The neighboring school building hosting GSF organizers was where the worst > violence occurred. Eyewitnesses claim that around 50 black clad > provocateurs > first entered the street in front of the school overturning dumpsters and > creating chaos. They then removed their black sweatshirts and entered the > school and began beating those inside indiscriminately; "most of the most > savage beatings were again not done by uniformed police but by characters > dressed in jeans and bandanas and helmets with 'police' written on their > T-shirts...." Hundreds of Italian police sealed off the street and a > helicopter flew low overhead as if on a military operation. Press in > attendance was kept back at a distance. > > Many individuals were awoken from their sleep and lined up along walls, > hands over heads. The ensuing brutal assault lasted over 45 minutes... > Horrible screams from the building could be heard on the streets below. > Afterwards, the floors and walls were covered in blood. Twenty > wounded were > carried out, many on stretchers, and three were unconscious (according to > BBC reporter Bill Hayton who was present during the raid). The > injured were > taken to ambulances that arrived with the police; reports today indicate > over 50 injured. Police claimed to have authority to enter and search the > building for weapons under Article 41 (an anti-terrorist act). Later an > Italian MP, Luisa Morgantini, arrived and told the police they had no such > authority since the schools resided on state-owned property, it > was at this > point the Police and provocateurs left the building. > > The Genoa Social Forum held a press conference Sunday morning > concerning the > details of the raid. (see > http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6282) Volunteer lawyers > for activists report that computers were destroyed and that police stole > information during the raid that related to their organizational work, > including the transcripts of testimonies. Materials were also confiscated > from the IMC offices that might have provided legal documentation > of police > abuses in the preceding days. One lawyer stated, "The police blitz is > contrary to a state based upon rights and brings in a climate of terror." > > Throughout the day Sunday , the IMC newswire contained reports of > continued > police beatings of activists in Genoa, both in the streets and in the > jails... Reports indicate that many injured demonstrators are fearful to > seek treatment in hospitals since the police have been removing > people with > unexplained wounds and taking them to jail. At present over 500 hundred > people are missing and unaccounted for. > > A full investigation is called for, concerning the use of violent > provocateurs by police. Reports all weekend in Genoa have > asserted that much > of the property destruction and violent provocations were carried out by > individuals apparently working in conjunction with police and dressed like > black clad anarchists. Similar reports have surfaced in past > demonstrations > in Prague, Quebec and elsewhere. This disturbing claim and the subsequent > violence and closing of the GSF and IMC demand full attention. > > > > --------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION > ----------------------------------------------- > > IMC BACKGROUND: A FREE PRESS NETWORK > > The IMCs, or Indymedia, are a network of independent media > organizations and > hundreds of individual journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate > coverage. > > Indymedia is a democratic media outlet with the mission to create radical, > accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. The first IMC was initiated in > Seattle, in the fall of 1999, during the demonstrations against the World > Trade Organization. The center was created to ensure that diverse voices > could be heard with a clarity and focus beyond the usual chatter of the > commercial media soundbite. > > The Indymedia website is an unusual phenomenon in cyberspace: visited by > literally millions, the network has led to the creation of over fifty > collaborative sites in cities all over the world. > > For people in dozens of countries, indymedia.org is news: news > that they can > rely on, news that does not have the bias of information/entertainment > corporations who have a stake in maintaining the status quo. The open > publishing software of the web site enables anyone with a basic > computer and > modem to post immediately on the news wire, without an intervening editor. > Indymedia has created a model for collaborative work that makes a real > difference. The IMC organizes collaborations between various > types of media > (print, photo, video, radio and internet) and between diverse > organizations > and individuals. The IMCs are non-hierarchical in nature. The > decisionmaking is by consensus and all participants, including > those who can > freely post on the newswire from home, are themselves empowered. > > The growing global justice movement, which is against corporate control of > globalization and for a more democratic and inclusive process of > setting the > world's priorities and allocation of resources, has depended on, and > benefitted from, the IMCs to provide breaking and unfiltered coverage of > diverse views, conferences, and demonstrations. > > > HISTORY OF STATE SUPPRESSION OF IMC AND THE FUTURE > > The recent raid on the Indymedia Center in Genoa is the latest in a series > of intimidations and threats to this movement of independent > media centers. > > As the Indymedia movement has grown, it has been subject to increasing > repression. From the first days in Seattle, when the IMC received > a tear gas > attack, there have been indications that authorities identified the IMC > movement as a target to intimidate and silence. > > At the IMC in LA during the August 2000 Democratic National Convention, a > police raid closed down the satellite van that was scheduled to > uplink live > IMC television to a national grassroots community television network. In > Prague, the Czech police raided the IMC offices, harassing and > intimidating > journalists and others. During the days preceding the Bush > inauguration, DC > police sent spy/provocateur agents to IMC-DC meetings. > > More recently, during the FTAA protests, the FBI visited the Seattle IMC > with a request for all computer logs and a gag-order injunction demanding > that no news of the request be made public on the net. The IMC in Quebec > also suffered police harassment and an attack in which tear gas was fired > into the center. Less than a month later, shortly after the Cincinnati > uprising over police brutality last spring, police served an order on a > coordinator at the Ohio Valley IMC, also requesting records and tape logs > and to appear before a Grand Jury. > > The IMC gained a victory for the independent press community when these > injunctions were withdrawn by the FBI after The Electronic Frontier > Foundation, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the > Electronic Privacy > Information Center intervened to support the IMCs. > > The IMC global network will continue to fight hard to protect the > rights of > independent journalists around the world and to ensure that the voices of > our many diverse communities are accurately and respectfully covered and > made available to the rest of the world. As stated in Article 19 of the > Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to the > freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold > opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information > and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." > > CONTINUING IMC COVERAGE > > For ongoing coverage of the Genoa protests, stay tuned to IMC-Italia > http://italia.indymedia.org, and global IMC, http://www.indymedia..org. > > Eyewitness accounts of the IMC and GSF raids. > http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=102064 > http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=8871 > > An IMC NEWS BLAST will be released Tuesday for summary, news and > updates on > the protests in Genoa. Here's the link to the first one: > http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-news/2001-July/000228.html. > > Also see: > Indymedia radio broadcasts: http://radio.indymedia.org/ > Indymedia print summaries (in distributable newsletter/flier format): > http://print.indymedia.org > IMC sites are providing detailed coverage include (see global website Left > column for links): France, UK, Belgium, Barcelona, Switzerland, Germany, > Austria, IMC-Sweden, Brasil, Argentina, Chicago, and New York City. > > > > _______________________________________________ > imc-news mailing list > imc-news(a)lists.indymedia.org > http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-news

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Howstuffworks "How does safety glass work?"
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question508.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Jayne Mansfield - Too Hot To Handle - Biography - Part Ten
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

She wasn't decapitated... http://www.bombshells.com/jayne/bio/index10.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found AFCS_seattle2001.doc.lnk infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: AFCS_seattle2001", was sent from carl & danielle 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 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

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

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FW: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes (fwd)
by measl＠mfn.org 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Headers stripped to protect the source... -----Original Message----- From: Anti Piracy Sent: 7/23/01 7:01 PM Subject: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes July 23, 2001 Via E-Mail Re: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes Dear Colleagues: We at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ("Fox") are writing to ask for your help and cooperation in the protection of our upcoming highly-anticipated motion picture, Planet of the Apes. Fox is the copyright owner and owner of exclusive distribution rights in all media, including the Internet, to this motion picture, which is being released in the United States and certain other countries on July 27, 2001. Some pre-release screenings are already taking place. As you are likely aware, technological developments currently allow the seriously detrimental and widespread infringement of intellectual property via the unauthorized electronic dissemination of films over the Internet. As widely reported in the media, up to 1 million illegal copies of first-run movies are now available on the Internet. Fox, in cooperation with the Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA"), the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, is working to combat piracy of films on the Internet. We hope to be able to count on your assistance as well. We anticipate a high volume of Internet piracy of Planet of the Apes. Illegal film footage posted and/or available for download on the Internet is usually sourced from video recordings made in movie theaters and digitally transferred into electronic video formats. As Fox is making every effort to aggressively battle Internet piracy, it is likely that you will notice an increase in the volume of correspondence which you receive from Fox and/or from the MPAA. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the department responsible for combating this issue at Fox which is authorized to act on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, the copyright owner of Planet of the Apes. Our contact information is: Fox Intellectual Property Department (310) 369-4260 antipiracy(a)fox.com Working with you and our other partners, we hope to be able to identify and remove infringing files quickly. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other civil and criminal statutes provide for severe penalties (including prison sentences of up to 10 years, forfeiture of equipment, and fines of up to $2 million per incident) against persons who record and post pirated copies of films on the Internet. We intend to pursue and prosecute infringers to the fullest extent possible in conjunction with the MPAA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and through civil lawsuits. Congress included mechanisms in the DMCA which are designed to allow copyright owners to prevent and prosecute infringement of their rights on the Internet. The DMCA requires copyright owners to notify you, as the Internet Service Provider, of infringing activities, and imposes the obligation on ISPs to act expeditiously to remove or disable access to infringing materials. This letter is intended, in part, to give you advance information that you will be receiving additional notices pursuant to the DMCA from Fox, its representatives or the MPAA. We trust that we will be able to count on your prompt action in response to such notices requesting you to disable such infringing postings and/or downloads and stop the infringement of our rights. The posting and/or dissemination of unauthorized copies/recordings of all or part of a copyrighted film on the Internet (excluding trailers authorized and licensed for such use) infringes the copyrights in both the motion picture and the soundtrack. Fox, as owner of all rights relating to Planet of the Apes, has not authorized any distribution of the motion picture or its soundtrack over the Internet. We, therefore, have a good faith belief that any Internet postings of such video and/or audio materials constitute infringement. As you become aware or are notified of them, please remove any such postings that are accessible on or through your system or network, accessed by users through your system or network, or located using your information location tools, and disable access to any sites fulfilling these criteria. This letter provides you with information regarding our rights and of the fact that we have not authorized any Internet distribution of Planet of the Apes or other films. We would greatly appreciate your assistance in our fight against Internet piracy. We hope that you will help us by using all information location tools available to you to identify such infringing material and that you will immediately remove any such postings or disable access to any location where the infringing activities described herein are or will be occurring. Please try to expeditiously remove infringing postings and/or disable access to infringing material of which you become or are made aware. We may contact you in the coming weeks, as specific examples of infringing activity accessible on or through your network or system come to our attention, and we will reiterate our request that such items be removed or disabled immediately. Please keep in mind that extremely prompt action is and will continue to be necessary in order to prevent the widespread proliferation of infringing copies of Planet of the Apes. Since Fox has not authorized the sale of any promotional items, including press kits, we may also need your assistance in stopping the sale of such items, as well as production items. The information provided in this letter is provided under penalty of perjury. We look forward to working with you. Please contact us if you have any questions, or to provide us with updated contact information for your company. Sincerely, Fox Group Intellectual Property Department cc: Motion Picture Association of America

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Customer service at Anonymizer/Cyberpass/Infonex
by Dr. Evil 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Given the fact that the Anonymizer often comes up in Cypherpunk contexts, and that many of you are probably reading this list from cyberpass.net, which is hosted by Infonex (which is the same company as the Anonymizer, all run by Lance Cottrell, I believe) some of you may be interested in what Infonex's attitude about customer service is, and how they conduct themselves as a business. First, take a look at what they say about themselves: At http://www.infonex.com/top/statement.html, they claim, "All of our services are not worth much if you are not making good use of them. That is why service is first priority at Infonex." I signed up with them several years ago (after c2net closed down its shell account service). I had my email address @cyberpass.net printed on business cards. I gave it out to everyone. At one point, they stopped offering new shell account services, and then one day, I found that I couldn't log in to my account. I called their customer service number, and found it to be eternally busy, with full voice-mail boxes. Finally, I got through to someone there who explained that there were no more shell accounts; I should get my files out by ftp. That was annoying, but what was worse was that I went to get my files off and found they were all gone. I didn't need them urgently at the time, and I thought, "maybe they're doing maintenance on the server, and they will be restored later." I went back in with ftp today, and they were still gone. I called up their customer service. They basically said that the server crashed and files were lost. Fine, that's no problem. Why not restore from tape? "All the files on /r2 were not backed up, and they are lost." Years worth of email and other files, all lost. As they say, "That is why service is first priority at Infonex." I don't expect an apology from them; there's really nothing which is a substitute for operating in a professional manner. Every time I have had to deal with their customer service, they have always been less than helpful (that is when I can get through to them). Think twice before you do business with them. On the Internet of today, there are plenty of places that do web hosting. Why not choose one that operates in a professional manner? You may say, "if they lose data, that's great for the Anonymizer service!" That would be a naive assumption. Companies which have a culture of sloppiness or unprofessionalism will end up hurting their customers in a variety of ways. If they don't know to use RAID or backup their servers, they probably also don't know to check the security of their code. Sloppy one wy, sloppy every way. Beware.

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High Test Scores == Intelligence
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Genome, the story of a species in 23 chapters Matt Ridley Chpt. 6 ("Intelligence") ISBN 0-06-019497-9 Especially recommended by you 'bell curvers' (you know who you are)... -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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