August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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13 Aug '01

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by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 13 Aug '01

13 Aug '01

Michael Rubin's August 9th piece, "Indict Saddam," did not address two key questions upon which international criminal courts rest: are they founded on a universally recognized basis, and are their processes being uniformly applied? Basis Fundamental questions have been raised regarding the legal and moral foundation of ad hoc judicial forums, such the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague and Rwandan tribunals. Both were created by the U.N. Security Council though its charter mentions no such authority. Isn't this little more than mob justice carried out by nation states? Come to think of it isn't the purpose of all murder trials "civilized Vengeance" (small c, big V)? The espoused purpose of these courts is to enforce "norms of justice in the international community." But who constitutes that community and what are those norms? The truth is justice like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Historically, the notion of what is just has varied considerably and often based on economics and religion. Modern western justice tends to ignore these factors and so sets the stage, indirectly, for a trial of cultures. Even within the west these norms seem to be rapidly changing. Can or should such norms be used a basis for international law? Uniform Application Like the Nuremberg trials before them, these tribunals appear ripe with application of ex post facto "laws" and inattention to technicalities. They often bear little resemblance to the laws and their application within the major U.N. member states. The states have no great interest in either bringing a consistent moral basis to their foreign and domestic policies or establishing strong extra-national courts which could conceivably bring national leaders to account their actions. All potential violators must be investigated with equal vigilance and judged according to a uniform standard or none should be. Serious charges have been leveled against Henry Kissenger yet no criminal indictments have been brought or even discussed by the tribunals. Unless these courts are held by world citizens to the motto "Equal Justice Under Law" carved on our Supreme Court building then no courts should be convened. Current procedures brand the courts as a propaganda puppet show merely using forms of justice to carry out a predetermined policy. Competition Despite frequent evidence that economics trump justice, national governments continue the charade of representing all the interests of their citizens. Mohammed Douri, Iraq's U.N. ambassador's quote in the article put it cynically and succinctly, "Politics is about interests. Politics is not about morals." I believe Mohammed is right. That these courts aren't better is because, like most governmental services, they have no need: there is no viable alternative. If one accepts the American Constitutional notion that all rights are originally vested in the sovereign individual and that competition is usually the best path to maximizing quality of a service, then a clear path extends to a market based solution. Effective private justice may not provide a fairer outcome but it will offer an alternative which will challenge the current tribunals and their masters to either abandon pretexts that they are impartial, abandon the tribunals altogether or improve them. Any attempt to establish a private global (as opposed to international, as in between nations) justice system are likely to be met with harsh responses by the major nation states. They don't want the competition and some of their current or former leaders and their lieutenants could be the first facing indictments. So, anonymity of supporters is a prerequisite. The Internet has shown us that it can be an effective medium for annealing those with out of the mainstream political views into formidable groups whilst offering effective privacy. Money often buys justice. So, a means for moralists to anonymously fund their interests is needed. Fortunately, a number of effective and popular electronic currencies (e.g., e-gold) with adequate privacy features exist. Every successful social movement requires leadership. Hopefully someone of great character and stature will step forward or emerge and take the reins to either bring all to account for their war crime actions (by whatever means necessary) or thwart (by whatever means necessary) the ability of the U.N. tribunals to operate from their baseless pedestal. Free, secure Web-based email, now OpenPGP compliant - www.hushmail.com

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Re: Linux On Steroids: DIY supercomputer +Distributed Terascale Facility
by Tim May 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

On Sunday, August 12, 2001, at 02:41 PM, Faustine wrote: > J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: > >> 232.6 billion operations a second still looks fairly impressive to me. >> >> ~Faustine. > >>> Cryptographically speaking, *yawn*. > > "Fairly impressive" in that it's better than what I've got in my > basement > right now. And for me, part of the appeal lies in the satisfaction of > putting something like that together entirely yourself out of components > other people considered worthless and discarded. Not to mention being > able > to use it for whatever you want, whenever you want, without depending on > anyone else's machine: a wonderful blend of self-sufficiency, ingenuity > and > megalomania, ha. So, are you now claiming you plan to build one? Why else the "part of the appeal lies in the satisfaction of" bit? As I showed in some calculations a few days ago, power costs dominate hardware costs with older CPUs. Not cost-effective to use older processors. > Personally, I'd like to run problems through some > optimization and simulation software, do a little code-based qualitative > analysis, etc. without hogging resources somewhere else with all the old > wizards looking over my shoulder, tapping their feet. Tim made a lot of > great points about the drawbacks. Still, it's "a nice toy", as someone > here > characterized it. As with AI and other speculative applications, 99.9% of solving a computational problem is finding the right approach, the right algorithms. I strongly doubt that there is anything along the lines of "run problems...simulation...code-based qualitative analysis" that you "need" a mere factor of 10 or 20 speed improvement with. (Said 10-20x speedup needing roughly 30-100 times as many CPUs, as I outlined in my recent post on using 66 MHz-300 MHz Pentiums and Pentiums IIs in place of 1.1 GHz Pentium IIIs, 1.4 GHz Athlons, 1.7 GHz Pentium 4s, etc.) It's sort of like astronomy: having a Keck or Hubble telescope sounds like a nice thing, but keeping it "loaded" is difficult for a user unless he has a very clear observation program in mind. Hence the intensive reviews for proposed uses. If you are already running a CPU-intensive task on a "mere" 10 GOPS machine, and you think that you can load a 500 GOPS machine efficiently, and you are willing to spend more in electrical power in the first year than buying faster CPUs would have provided (!!!), go for it. But if you just think it would be "neat" to have a 500 GOPS machine tripping your power mains when you turn the array on (you _did_ think about the additional power you'd have to provide, didn't you?), think harder. The Terascale machine is one of several such _large_ arrays. My old company, Intel, makes the IA-64 (Itanium, and followups) architecture. > Linux supercomputing grid unveiled for science use > > By TODD R. WEISS > The National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday announced a $53 million > project to connect a series of remotely located powerful computers > into a > high-speed Linux supercomputer grid that could open vast new > opportunities > for scientific and medical breakthroughs. > The project, to be funded by a three-year grant from the NSF, will be > built > by the middle of next year, giving scientists and researchers access to > massive combined supercomputer power they have until now only dreamed > about. > .... > Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM will provide more than 1,000 IBM eServer Linux > clusters that will be running more than 3,300 of Intel Corp.'s upcoming > McKinley Itanium processors for the system, as well as IBM data storage > products and support services. And, of course, tasks for this machine will be very carefully picked. By the way, the involvement of IBM is an important point. No mention of their own "Power" architecture in this project. This is yet another hint that they moving in the same direction Compaq just signalled when the dropped the Alpha and adopted the IA-64. Since H-P is already a partner with Intel in the IA-64 effort, this means that every significant computer and server maker has adopted the IA-64 except for one: Sun Microsystems. They're still using the SPARC architecture, but clearly it has not become the building block they once hoped it would (for others). The fact that they don't control their own manufacturing of the chip is also an issue. MIPS has become a microcontroller and game machine CPU--consumer electronics. Alpha is being discontinued. H-P's PA-RISC is being merged into the IA-64 path, and IBM is hedging its bets on "Power" (PowerPC a la G3/G4 and its higher-end Power chips for large computers) by aggressively marketing Pentium, Xeon, and Itanium machines. That's all the major architectures gone or going, except for UltraSPARC. And knowing what I know about upcoming chips and processes, I'm hanging on to my Intel stock for the rocket ride that is coming. --Tim May

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12 Aug '01

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12 Aug '01

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12 Aug '01

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Re: Secret Warrants
by Bill Stewart 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

At 06:50 PM 08/11/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, A. Melon wrote: > > What is needed, seriously needed right now, is some good, open source > > surveillance dectection software. Something that would find key-logger > > software or hardware, something that would check your phone line thru > > your modem, maybe even could be used as a frequency analyzer with a > > usb or serial port "antenna" connection for laptops. > > I'm sure this would be a really good commercial hit. > > Especially if the price could be kept under $500. > >Try more like $50-100k...it will also require specific/special hardware, >software alone is not enough. It's not a request that makes sense - - you can detect electromagnetic radiation emanating from your house, if you're willing to look at a wide enough range of frequencies and can differentiate from other similar radiation, such as that from your computer or your tv or cabletv or vcr or power line or PDA (if you're not in a single-family home) your neighbors. Costs money, probably too much work, difficult, but semi-possible. = you might be able to detect changes in the analog side of your phone line, at least if they're twiddling it nearby where you can watch them, but they can diguise that by working from a Phone Company truck. You've got no chance of detecting tapping on the digital side. - Neither of these methods will detect equipment that lurks around waiting for commands before transmitting. - It's also difficult to detect elint eavesdropping hardware in your neighbor's place that's pointed at you, especially if you have many neighbors. - It's difficult to detect black-box jobs that add hardware features to your PC; you might see bump-in-the-cord keyloggers, but you probably won't see anything hidden inside the case itself. Epoxying everything together can reduce this risk, and increase the chances that you'll notice, especially if your PC is a laptop that you stick in the safe when you're not using it or carrying it. But you're not that paranoid. - It's difficult to detect software changes - you can discourage them by using a Real Operating System instead of Windows, and running things like Tripwire that detect changes in critical files, and of course making sure that nobody's snuck in and swapped the CDROMs of software you're using for bugged versions so that the next time your hard disk crashes and you need to reinstall Red Hat or Win2001 or applications get hosed and you need to reinstall Palm tools or other apps that you're not getting bugware as well. A much easier approach is to bug your own place - set up your cheap camera pointing toward your PC desk, with that small pc running motion detection and tracking who's been there. Or at least use a burglar alarm that's got some off-site or other reliable mechanism for telling you when you've been burgled. In Nicky Scarfo's case, picking alarm companies is a tough decision - being in a Mafia Watch neighborhood is find for non-players' protection, but players have to worry whether they're being set up by ex-friends...

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Stem Cell Speech?
by Matthew Gaylor 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

[Charles Platt is senior writer for WIRED Magazine and an author and former science fiction editor when he's not enjoying his "retirement" in northern Arizona. I don't know the answer to Charles' question, but perhaps my distinguished readers will?]

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Re: Linux On Steroids: DIY supercomputer +Distributed Terascale Facility
by Faustine 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

J.A. Terranson wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: > 232.6 billion operations a second still looks fairly impressive to me. > > ~Faustine. >>Cryptographically speaking, *yawn*. "Fairly impressive" in that it's better than what I've got in my basement right now. And for me, part of the appeal lies in the satisfaction of putting something like that together entirely yourself out of components other people considered worthless and discarded. Not to mention being able to use it for whatever you want, whenever you want, without depending on anyone else's machine: a wonderful blend of self-sufficiency, ingenuity and megalomania, ha. Personally, I'd like to run problems through some optimization and simulation software, do a little code-based qualitative analysis, etc. without hogging resources somewhere else with all the old wizards looking over my shoulder, tapping their feet. Tim made a lot of great points about the drawbacks. Still, it's "a nice toy", as someone here characterized it. Here's something you might find a little more interesting: Linux supercomputing grid unveiled for science use By TODD R. WEISS The National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday announced a $53 million project to connect a series of remotely located powerful computers into a high-speed Linux supercomputer grid that could open vast new opportunities for scientific and medical breakthroughs. The project, to be funded by a three-year grant from the NSF, will be built by the middle of next year, giving scientists and researchers access to massive combined supercomputer power they have until now only dreamed about. Called the Distributed Terascale Facility, the project will link powerful servers running Linux into a high-speed grid that will allow researchers to use all the computing resources they need, regardless of where the servers are located. At their disposal will be computing power of huge proportions, with a total of 8.1 TFLOPS and the ability to perform 13.6-trillion calculations per second. The grid will have storage of more than 450TB of data through a high-speed optical network called a TeraGrid, which will link computers and data at four academic research facilities in the U.S. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM will provide more than 1,000 IBM eServer Linux clusters that will be running more than 3,300 of Intel Corp.'s upcoming McKinley Itanium processors for the system, as well as IBM data storage products and support services. Qwest Communications International Inc. in Denver will provide a 40-gigabit high-speed network for the grid system, which will be 16 times faster than what is available today. The supercomputer grid will link the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois, the San Diego Supercomputer Center in California, the Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena into a cohesive group of computers with tremendous research potential, according to project organizers. "This is the first salvo in transforming how science and engineering research is done in the world," said Dan Reed, the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The facility is expected to reach peak performance of 13.6 TFLOPS by April 2003, and will be used for a wide range of projects, including research related to storm, climate and earthquake predictions; development of more- efficient combustion engines; chemical and molecular factors in biology; and physical, chemical and electrical properties of materials. "This facility will stretch the boundaries of high-performance computing and give U.S. computer scientists and other researchers in all science and engineering disciplines access to a critical new resource," said National Science Board Chairman Eamon Kelly. Eventually, similar grid computing systems are seen as having many uses for business computing, according to proponents. The announcement is the second related to grid computing this week. On Monday, IBM announced that it's building a worldwide grid computing network to tie together systems at its various data centers to combine their computing power for customers. Users would pay for processing time on an as- needed basis, similar to any other utility. IBM also said it's been chosen by the British government to build a national grid for various universities for collaborative scientific research. The grid will be run using middleware being built under the open-source Globus Project, a research initiative funded by various U.S. government agencies. Globus software will allow servers and computers to be connected into seamless networks that can be used together to conduct research and other work. Also involved in the project are cluster computing vendor Myricom Inc., software vendor Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.

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