August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Surveillance by Design By Wendy Grossman
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

> Even without the proposed legislation, anonymity is increasingly fragile on > the Net. Corporations have sued for libel to force services to disclose the > identities of those who posted disparaging comments about them online. > Individual suits of this type are rarer, but last December, Samuel D. > Graham, a former professor of urology at Emory University, won a libel > judgment against a Yahoo user whose identity was released under subpoena. Actually the tide is turning on this issue. There have been two high-profile cases this year in which suits designed to reveal the identities of pseudonymous posters have failed. In May, Medinex dropped its lawsuit attempting to learn the identities of its online critics. http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Medinex_v._Awe2bad4mdnx/20010522_eff_dismiss… Wonder why they were concerned? Take a look at http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=MDNX.OB&d=c&k=c1&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l. The stock has fallen from almost 10 to about 0.2 in the past 18 months. Ouch. A month earlier, the EFF and ACLU were successful in quashing a subpoena by foundering auctioneer 2TheMart.com attempting to identify pseudonymous participants in an online bulletin board. http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/2TheMart_case/20010420_eff_2themart_pr.html The company is currently defending itself against charges of securities fraud. It seems that the same kind of people who run a company into the ground are the ones who want to muzzle their critics and who are least tolerant of anonymity. These two recent successes by the EFF will hopefully set precedents for better protection of identity. Of course, the real problem is the use of utterly inadequate technology for pseudonymous activities. People don't realize how risky it is to participate in an online financial discussion without adequate technological protection. When things go wrong, litigants will lash out at anyone who is a target. Financial chat without layered protection is like sex without a condom. The list posted earlier (thanks, Seth) provides a good starting point for online protection: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php. The gold standard for this technology is the Freedom software from Zero Knowledge Systems. But if you're not willing to pay, at least go through another site before trusting your identity to an online chat service. Practice Safe Chat!

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Physicspunks
by Anonymous 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

The photon discussion a few weeks back got me reading about cavity radiation. I'm puzzled. Perhaps somebody can point me in the right direction. For those who don't already know, cavity radiation is a surprising phenomenon which required quantum theory to model. Metals radiate energy in the form of light. Each metal has a characteristic "radiance" for each temperature, the amount of energy it radiates. If a block of a metal is hollowed out and a small port is drilled to see in, the radiance of the cavity is substantially higher than that of the surface of the metal. As if that weren't shocking enough, it turns out that the radiance of cavities is the same no matter what kind of metal is used. (This is so counterintuitive that I almost don't believe it!) My book suggests that this is intuitively sound because if cavity radiation had different values, a violation of the second law of thermodynamics would occur. Set up two cavity radiators of a metal X and a different metal Y like so: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX YYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXX XX YY YYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXX XX YY YYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX YYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY If X and Y have the same temperature and Y has a higher level of cavity radiation, then X will get hotter and Y will get cooler. In other words, you would have a perpetual motion machine. So the radiance of each cavity must be the same. So far so good, but this argument should also apply to surface radiance, which we know to be different: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY If Y has a higher level of surface radiance than X, then one would expect X to grow hotter, also making possible a perpetual motion machine. Clearly, something went wrong somewhere. Can anybody clue me in?

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RE: Bomb Law Reporter - special edition
by Aimee Farr 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

Reese: > >[Some cpunk] wrote: > > > >>You are familiar with the terms "FUD" and "Propaganda" aren't you, > >>Aimee? Is there a real case that can be cited properly? > > > >Accusing me of trickery on the tribunal? Himf. See US v. EATON, > >No 00-1276 (10th Cir. August 14, 2001). > > Skimmed it. So the account was more real than not? Verbatim. > You are obviously > willing and able to provide the real citation, so what purpose was > served by changing all the names and obscuring the real cite, if > trickery was not a factor? No, Reese, I didn't want to expose an agent to Googling. > Talking about yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater is not the same as > doing it, no matter how "is" is defined, talking about bombs and making > them is no different. Who was it? Said "I disagree with what you say > but support your right to say it" or words to that effect? A modern version: "I disagree with bomb recipes, but support your right to provide bomb recipes, as long as I am not standing next to you, or associated with you in any way." Things work differently now, see? > I take it you have no interest in dealing with this topic seriously, > it's evident you are having too much fun clowning around. :) ~Aimee

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Surreptitious polygraph surveillance.
by Aimee Farr 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

In the field. Courtesy of the "I-have-nothing-to-hide" people.... "Go Ahead, Try to Lie" Discover (07/01); Wright, Karen The U.S. Department of Defense is attempting to create a better polygraph machine. The polygraph machine, which was first introduced almost 100 years ago, is routinely used to screen thousands of job applicants and government employees every year, as well as in criminal investigations. In recent times, however, the device's reputation has suffered from claims that its use violates people's privacy and that it is not always reliable. Over the last 24 months, the U.S. Department of Defense has increased research on alternative technologies through studies regulated by its Fort Jackson, S.C.-based Polygraph Institute. Andrew Ryan, chief of research at the institute, is working with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to create software that can detect minor variations in biofeedback to tell if someone is lying. The institute is also looking into technologies that could augment polygraph testing with techniques that are less invasive. The U.S. Customs service has been testing a remote-sensing device for the capture of smugglers, which measures incriminating inflections, vibrations, and tones in a person's voice. Muscle tremors might also provide indications that someone is lying, and these can be detected using a body-scanning laser, which also determines respiration and heart rates. The level of blood flow, which can be configured by measuring skin-surface temperature, might also change when someone is lying: a recent pilot study using thermal imaging cameras was able to detect a person lying 78 percent of the time. (www.discover.com/) --- Source: NLECTC Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology News Summary should be cited as the source of the information. Copyright 2001, Information Inc., Bethesda, MD. --- If that ever becomes spousal-dateware, I bet they change their mind THEN. Next, they will figure out a way to do that with keystroke dynamics (and keystroke dynamic biometrics) and stop people lying on the Internet. The death of us all! ~Aimee See Long Beach City Employees Ass'n v. City of Long Beach, 41 Cal.3d 937, 719 P.2d 660 (1986), for a good explanation of why polygraphs are considered more intrusive than a written or verbal interrogation.

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17 Aug '01

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Effective Cancer Treatment
by Robert 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

Dear Sir/Madam This e-mail is sent to you by family and Friends of a girl named Robin Prange. This e-mail contains information concerning very effective methods of cancer-treatment, with as little side effects as possible. Furthermore it contains a request for help for Robin Prange. I hope you are willing to spend 5 minutes of your time, it can make a difference GENERAL INFORMATION Robin Prange is a 7 year old Dutch girl who has been fighting Acute Leukemia since her third birthday in 1996. Her treatment was done in the Netherlands, and was initially successful. She relapsed however in 1999. She had a bone-marrow transplant in June 2000 and looked successful until December 2000 when she had her second relapse, just before Christmas. Doctors in Holland told us that she had no chances of survival, our only option would be to stop treatment or to administer low doses of chemo to keep her alive, with a good quality of live, as long as possible. After the first shock was over we started investigating through the internet. We did not get any support from the doctors or any one else in our search. Things started to look really bad at the end of May 2001. The doctors told us that she had only 10 more days to live (this was on May 27). In the mean time we found 2 or 3 alternatives in the USA. On May 28th I talked to the medical Director of the Parker Hughes Cancer Center. He gave us a 50% survival chance for the next 2 to 3 years. We took a flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis on May 30. I would like to tell you more about their approach to cancer treatment. CANCER-INFORMATION: Today most of the cancer-treatment administered to patients is done according to a set protocol. This means that the patient's type of cancer is determined. This patient is than treated according to a protocol, which is written for an entire group of people with the same type of cancer. Everybody in that group is treated with exactly the same sort and amount of chemo. As you might understand treatment results vary in such a group. Reactions to chemotherapy differ per individual. The individual patient might even get chemo which is not effective, or the dose is too high (with possible side effects) Most oncologists agree that an individual approach in treating cancer would give the patient better chances of survival and better quality of life. In our search for treatment options for Robin we came across two institutions that offer an individual approach in treating cancer. At the Parker Hughes Cancer Center in Minneapolis (MN) and at Rational Therapeutics in Long Beach (CA) they offer an individual approach in treating cancer. They look at each patient and through advanced technology determine what kind of chemo is most effective in the patients cancer with the least side effects. We have been fighting this disease together with Robin (she has been a real trooper al this time) for five years now. We are strongly in favor of their approach. Currently Robin is treated at Parker Hughes Cancer Center. The doctors there determined which chemotherapy is still effective in Robin and consequently treated her accordingly. In the past 49 days she had no side effects and she has not lost her hair. She looks good and she is in good spirits. The Parker Hughes Cancer Centre is an outpatient clinic which treats 50 to 60 patients on a daily basis. Their website is www.parkerhughes.org Rational Therapeutics determines, together with the patients physician, which chemo is the most effective. Their approach is similar to the Parker Hughes approach. Their website is www.rationalterapeutics.com If you are interested or ever in need for more information on cancer treatment do check out their websites REQUEST FOR HELP Robins insurance company (based in the Netherlands) is not covering the cost of treatment in the USA. Estimated cost for the coming 3 years is $300.000-$400.000. Her parents are not able to come up with such a huge amount of money. If you find our information valuable and if you also want to help Robin. We than kindly request a small donation of $1-$3 (if you want to donate more, please do. DONATION-INFORMATION Money-transfer to US-account of R. Prange Vuurlaan 52 2408 NC Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands account nr. 1364345577 at: Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A. Minneapolis, MN 55479 (aba# 091000019) Money-checks sent to Wells Fargo and made payable to the above mentioned. Or money enclosed in an envelope send to the address in the Netherlands You can verify Robin's story on her website at www.robinprange.nl Her homepage is in English and in Dutch. You could also call the Parker Hughes Cancer Center at 651-628-0098 to verify her treatment. We started a foundation in the Netherlands called Friends of Robin Prange (in Dutch: "vrienden van Robin Prange") If you find our information valuable please forward this e-mail to the people listed in your address-book We sincerely hope you are not offended or emotionally hurt by this e-mail. We also hope that you never have to fight this battle, but if you do we hope that you remember this e-mail. Kind regards Friends and family of Robin Prange

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