August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Governors Seeking Internet Tax
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010804/pl/tech_governors_tax_dc_1.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Good News Source
by Frog2 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

This will sound crazy to most readers, but the "World Socialist Web Site" ("Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International") is a pretty good source of news. You have to ignore some jibes at free markets and the like, but I like it better than the New York Times, The Economist, CNN, and Wired. The articles are oriented to providing information rather than entertainment. (No reporters reporting on reporting with cute leads like 'If it's true that Al Gore created the Internet, then I created the "Al Gore created the Internet" story.') For example, this article on HIV in rural China is good: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/aids-a06.shtml HIV spread like crazy in rural China because commercial blood collection centers mixed the blood of several people before separation and return to the donors. "The operators were generally government bodies, such as hospitals, or private entrepreneurs connected with government officials." The Chinese government has discouraged efforts to honestly educate the population about HIV, including banning ads recommending the use of condoms as a prevention measure. While the U.S. government is not as backward, the article strikingly illustrates the problem of governments that view change with fear and suspicion and actively prevent constructive responses to serious problems. While China has achieved more horrific results, the basic behavior of the U.S. government towards cloning, cryptography, and the Net, is not fundamentally different.

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GAO Report: U.S. Govt. Computers Open to Hackers
by Jim Choate 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/12513.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ natsugusa ya...tsuwamonodomo ga...yume no ato summer grass...those mighty warriors'...dream-tracks Matsuo Basho The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by info 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

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OPT: Distributed OSs, The State of the Art
by Jim Choate 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1112/byt20010806s0003/20010806_bar.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ natsugusa ya...tsuwamonodomo ga...yume no ato summer grass...those mighty warriors'...dream-tracks Matsuo Basho The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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California victims can't sue gunmakers
by Steve Schear 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Victims cannot sue weapons manufacturers for damages when criminals use their products illegally, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a closely watched case testing gunmaker liability. http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/08/06/california.guns.ap/index.html

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Russian programmer out on bail
by Steve Schear 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

Russian programmer out on bail Three weeks after his arrest, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is out on bail. Sklyarov was ordered to post $50,000 bail Monday in San Jose Federal Court. He is not allowed to travel outside of Northern California. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 23. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6794178.html?tag=mn_hd

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Operating the Gold Economy
by Steve Schear 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

Fot those who haven't read it. A good rebuttal to Back Robert Cringely's article touting PayPal and condemning the gold economy. http://www.standardtransactions.com/paypal_is_not_gold.html

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Risks of Microsoft Passport
by Steve Schear 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

Risks of Microsoft Passport We all know the risks of trusting DNS and the fact that users click OK when presented with certificate warnings in their browser. So what happens when you build a single sign-on model for e-commerce that leverages these technologies? You end up with some risks that users might not expect. Microsoft's ambitious Passport service uses these common Internet standards. Avi Rubin and Dave Kormann from AT&T Research Labs document the risks of the Passport system in their research report, "Risks of the Passport Single Signon Protocol". http://avirubin.com/passport.html

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Laptop theft causing global havoc
by Steve Schear 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

Laptop theft causing global havoc What do the U.S. State Department, the British military and the FBI have in common? Each of these security-centric organizations has recently lost laptops with sensitive information. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2801184,00.html

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