September 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows
by Sandy Sandfort 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

Huh? Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > Assume that you could nearly guarantee a > profit of $5mil or more by shorting your > stocks before a terrorist attack on the > World Trade Center. > > Would you perpetrate such a crime, and > frame the "sand-niggers"? > > What's the cost/benefit here? > > How much potential profit would be > necessary for a crime like this to > occur with profit as the only motive? I have NO IDEA what this strange post has to do with the original question. I'm a libertarian. As such, I see no problem in doing well by doing good. Just because I would jump at $5 million (plus Witness Relocation) to finger Bin Laden does not mean I would do something evil for that amount or more. Remember, the original question was, would a $5 million reward plus a new identity under the Witness Relocation Program be enticing enough to get someone to roll over on Bin Laden. My best guess is 'yes' and I merely used myself as an example. Look, I don't CARE about the purity of the motives of someone who would give up Bin Laden. The only question in my mind is whether or not there is somebody who would do it for the stipulated inducement. That was--and is--the question. S a n d y

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Debate over warrantless Carnivore bill with Stu Baker
by Declan McCullagh 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

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Imagining the Next War: Infrastructural Warfare and the Conditions of Democracy
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces of uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense ... the nation in wartime attains a uniformity of feeling, hierarchy of values culminating at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced through any other agency than war ...." - --- from the first part of an essay titled "The State," left unfinished at Randolph Bourne's untimely death in 1918. <much deleted> >Let us say, then, that George W. Bush commences a war against Osama bin Laden, or even against the greater abstraction of "terrorism". What happens then? A state of war is a serious thing. States of war have routinely been used to justify censorship, the curtailing of civil liberties, and the repression of dissidents. States of war are also understood to require the opposition in the legislature to moderate its otherwise essential functions of criticism. Calls are issued to stand behind the political leadership and to display unity, with the implication that the enemy is watching and that failure to unite is tantamount to treason. These are not healthy conditions for a democracy; indeed, they are the opposite of democracy. >War in the old conception was temporary: the idea was explicitly that the state of war would end, and that the normal rules of democracy would resume once their conditions had been reestablished. Civil liberties and the institutions of democratic government are not entirely eliminated during wartime; rather, they are reduced in their scope while retaining their same overall form. Even in conditions of total war mobilization, clear boundaries between the military and civilian sides of society are maintained. But war, we are told, no longer works that way. No such boundaries are possible. It follows, therefore, that "war" in the new sense -- war with no beginning or end, no front and rear, and no distinction between military and civilian -- is incompatible with democracy, and not just in practice, not just temporarily, but permanently and conceptually. If we conceptualize war the way the defense intellectuals suggest, then to declare war is to destroy the conditions of democracy. War, in this new sense, can never be justified. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wmAEARECACAFAjui0s8ZHGtleXNlci1zb3plQGh1c2htYWlsLmNvbQAKCRAg4ui5IoBV n2BNAJwJbLI5bDKczKMfmnF0bW5pvVskagCaAvgUEipQvNjqKSdM5zaF94gSsJk= =wVvz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re:
by Gabr690＠hotmail.com 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

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Compiling Mixmaster 2.9 beta under FreeBSD
by Greg Broiles 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

Earlier I mentioned that I was having difficulty building the current Mixmaster on FreeBSD - I'm confident that I've identified the problem. Specifically, the OpenSSL that's integrated into FreeBSD doesn't include IDEA, by default, because of patent concerns. To remedy that, one needs to change the line in /etc/defaults/make.conf so that it reads "MAKE_IDEA=YES". Then - this is the part I missed before - it's necessary to recompile the system libraries, so that they're rebuilt with IDEA support included. It sounds simple in retrospect . . . go to /usr/src and run "make buildworld; make installworld", which may take 12 hours or so on a slow PC. There's got to be a better way to just rebuild the crypto parts, but I didn't stumble across it yet. After those steps are completed, the Mixmaster stuff builds and runs happily. Mixmaster 2.9beta23 is available at <ftp://ftp.shinn.net/pub/remailer/mixmaster> or <ftp://mixmaster.anonymizer.com>. I suspect that the OpenBSD fix will be similar, but it may take some time to track it all down. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles(a)well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

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Re:
by Gabr690＠hotmail.com 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

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RE: A Brevital Moment (was..Ignore Aimee Farr)
by jamesd＠echeque.com 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

-- On 14 Sep 2001, at 16:25, Trei, Peter wrote: > I haven't paid enough attention to AF to be able to form an > opinion as to whether she's threatened anyone. She did not say "I am going to kill a judge". She did however say that somone else was going to kill a judge. She and Nomen are trying to bring about a RICO conversation. Whether they are doing this out of a sinister government plot, or because they are stupid assholes, I do not know. Of course the internet has a considerably larger supply of stupid assholes than government agents. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG vMcE3M5nkj3Kodqq2CoA0LrPYjh2Yyfv2M4bNL0V 4bV0p9xh+C/5ye5W8o+8379e3hdd1F6bbXo/MK/Iq

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BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Who is Osama Bin Laden?
by Jim Choate 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Ananova - Gunmen shoot boy as warning to India not to help US against Taliban
by Jim Choate 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_399225.html?menu=news.latestheadlines -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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FT.com | TotalSearch | Global Archive | Article - Putin won't support US invasion of Afghanistan
by Jim Choate 15 Sep '01

15 Sep '01

http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010915001404 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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