August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by INSIDER 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

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Re: Thinking About the Crypto Unthinkable
by Faustine 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Tim wrote: >Well, good luck. I disagree. I can't see someone coming out of a Ph.D. >program in "super analysis" being magically endowed with the skills to >influence policy. There's nothing magical about it: I never said any amount of formal education is "guaranteed" to do a thing for you--it is very much where you are, who you know, and what you can get them to tell you. But even in the richest of environments, if you're not making the effort to acquire fundamental analytic skills, you might as well concede that you don't "speak the language" and would be better off taking the "capitol hill ho" route instead. Which is odious--and overrated, I might add. >An obvious point that perhaps needs to be emphasized: all of those >scientist-policy wonks we have discussed were first and foremost >brilliant scientists. Absolutely. But they all shared a certain mindset which made them far more than that, the whole point of bringing them up in the first place. Is that something anyone can teach you? Probably not. Does it depend on having an extremely high IQ and a lot of innate raw potential? You bet. But once you make the decision that there's something to be gained by demanding a lot from yourself, you need to find the right kind of program to facilitate getting you where you need to be to best further your ideas. And as far as I can tell, for me, the "super analyst" approach is the way to go. If you have any other suggestions I'd be glad to hear them. There's no lack of smart cypherpunk-friendly lawyers, but brilliant pro- freedom policy analysts are in short supply. If more people here at least considered this an option, I think it would be a good thing. ~Faustine.

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Scarfo Judge Politan lets FBI Not Tell how bugging was done.
by Bill Stewart 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

Sigh. The FBI buggers convinced Nicky Da Judge to let them slide. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21296.html FBI let off cyber snooping hook By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 28/08/2001 at 10:41 GMT The FBI has been let of the hook in its court case against mobster Nicodemo Scarfo. US District Judge Nicholas Politan has now ruled that the Bureau will not have to reveal precisely how it managed to log evidence that Mr Scarfo was involved in illegal gambling and loan sharking. Mr Scarfo's lawyers claim that the FBI bugged him without possession of a bugging warrant and so the evidence it gathered is inadmissible in court since it was obtained illegally. Previously Judge Politan said the FBI would have to reveal how it managed to bug Mr Scarfo's computer after it had failed to unscramble encrypted files on his computer. Not unreasonably, the judge said that for him to decide whether it had been obtained legally or not, he would have to know the method that was used. This information would have had to be given to the defence. But the US government has persuaded the judge that the defence should only get an "unclassified summary". How'd it do that? Well, would you believe it but there's some strange law that can be invoked at times such as this. This one is called the Classified Information Procedures Act - which amazingly allows information to be withheld if national security is at risk. The FBI also promised to give a secret meeting in which it would go into further details over how the system worked. The FBI installed some kind of key-logging software on Mr Scarfo's machine after it failed to crack his encryption software. Since it didn't have a warrant to bug him, Mr Scarfo's lawyers say his constitutional rights have been infringed. The FBI says the technology it is using falls under current bugging legislation but many remain unconvinced and claim the FBI is going beyond current laws. It doesn't inspire confidence either when the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, testified to the Senate a few weeks ago that he was "not familiar" with key-logging technology. That seems about as likely as the Pope being a closet Jew, but then Robert wouldn't lie, would he? Many observers will be concerned at the failure for the American legal system to bring out into the open the unnerving possibilities that the latest technology makes available to intelligence agencies. . Related Stories FBI chief Mueller lied to Senate about key-logging Mafia trial to test FBI psying tactics

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28 Aug '01

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Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison
by emc＠artifact.psychedelic.net 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

John Young writes: > Motherfucking sonsofbitching shiteaters. Of course, this is just part of the continuing trend in defining "crimes" by the subjective fantasies of a party claiming to be aggrieved. *I'M* afraid, therefore *YOU'RE* stalking. *I'M* ashamed, therefore *YOU'RE* indecent. *I'M* poor, therefore *YOU'VE* discriminated. *I'M* offended, therefore *YOUR* book is pornography. In legal circles, this bears a strong resemblance to the rightly-named "Heckler's Veto," in which a crowd deliberately misbehaves in order to have a speaker they disagree with charged with "incitement." The ultimate evolution of such nonsense is clearly the current situation in which Jeff "PussyBoy" Gordon's bad Hattie McDaniel impersonation means Jim Bell has committed a crime. Combine this with Judge Jack "Token Negro With Chip on Shoulder" Tanner's attempts to compensate for his genital inferiority by sentencing people before they commit crimes, and it is easy to see why Jim Bell can get 10 years and $10,000 for doing, as they would say on "Weakest Link," absolutely nothing. The larger question is what are we going to do about it? Somehow "Cypherpunks Write Code" doesn't quite rise to the level of an appropriate response to these pigfuckers. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Aimee's sweet spot
by Subcommander Bob 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

At 10:42 AM 8/28/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: > >"BlackNet; Case History of a Practically Untraceable System for Buying and >Selling Corporate and National Secrets.... to foreign adversaries, and to >spur the collapse of governments." > BlackPowder: Applied Chemistry for Defeating Knights With Swords With Application to Selling Bibles in venaculars and other Vatican Secrets.... allowing oppressed foreigners to join us, and to spur the collapse of feudalism.

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Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison
by Eugene Leitl 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Eric Cordian wrote: > The larger question is what are we going to do about it? Somehow > "Cypherpunks Write Code" doesn't quite rise to the level of an > appropriate response to these pigfuckers. The most appropriate response would seem to implement http://zolatimes.com/v2.26/jimbell.htm with the judge being the first name on the list. Getting digicash to work would be a real starter, anynymous donation submission infrastructure another step. Of course, cypherpunks are either too lazy, or to chicken for that. Eugene <-- both

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explosives
by Pagoda8779＠aol.com 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

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Fwd: NewsScan Daily, 27 August 2001 ("Above The Fold")
by None 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

> >'PARASITIC GRID' COULD UNDERMINE WIRELESS REVENUES >An underground movement is afoot to deploy free wireless access zones in >urban areas, building on the increasing popularity of wi-fi or 802.11b >technology -- a standard for wireless Ethernet that works on an unlicensed >portion of the spectrum. The movement, dubbed the "parasitic grid" by some, >is already thriving in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, British >Columbia and London. The concept is based on community-minded volunteers, >who offer other Internet users within a certain range -- say 300 feet -- a >"free ride" on their wireless connections. The trend is not going unnoticed >by the large wireless carriers in these cities. "We are aware of the free >services springing up and are considering 802.11b wireless access as well, >not in place of currently scheduled rollouts but as an adjunct," says an >AT&T Wireless spokesman. Meanwhile, so-called "aggregators" have developed >software that resides in the mobile device that can find any available >network and connect the user to it, creating, in effect, metropolitan-wide >free networks that may ultimately compete with fee-based wireless services. >"It would even be able to say, 'Here is a list of the networks found' and >indicate which are free and which charge a fee," says an official at a >company that provides 802.11b services at hotels and airports. (InfoWorld 24 >Aug 2001) >http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/24/010824hnfreewireless.xml [...]

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