January 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: VIVA Agentina LIBRE!
by mattd 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

>>...Think of a combination of Fama/Black, et. al's early 1980's notion of "new" monetary economics coupled with an index of (bearer-held :-)) assets in transit and in wearhouses, along with commodities, plus the usual equity and debt mixture. Pretty much what the fed does now, only the index will be sold, just like the S&P is now. When IBUC's site's back up, I'll point to an essay I did on it a couple of years ago... Cheers, RAH<< Extract. If Barter Units Money or BUMs take off and are pegged to the Dollar/Euro/Yen,then sooner or later Something like this will be necessary as State sanctioned currencies wither away.Thanks RAH.Kill the President and VIVA Argentina LIBRE! Direct action_ is what it's all about. Undermining the state through the spread of espionage networks, through undermining faith in the tax system, through even more direct applications of the right tools at the right times. When Cypherpunks are called "terrorists," we will have done our jobs. Font: Daschle-Anthrax-Bold

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Re: Cypherpunk Ban
by mattd 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

>>Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > As to the space cadet idea that space should be bought in newspapers so > that CJ or Toto or Jimbell or Choate or Vulis or Detweiler or mattd or > any of our other mental cases, knock yourself out. I wouldn't contribute > a microcent. That wasn't the idea. The idea was to push the publication in the State's face, daring them to respond. (D.Popkin) Exactly and the Stranger might do it.They are the alternative/leftist paper there.Tim May is a boring old fart.

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by BrigitLove3＠aol.com 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

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Citigroup salvage session
by Petemail 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Thank you for contacting me. Due to the high volume of e-mails, I have changed how constituents e-mail me. Please visit http://www.house.gov/stark/email.html to send me a message. Sincerely, Pete StarkWell look at this! Just like Lieberman, Tom's top donor is Citigroup which stands to lose $3 billion in the Enron debacle. So it's really about the congressional whores attempting to salvage whatever monies available for their corporate masters. Yes, keep digging you idiots, the corpses are buried everywhere. Enrongate, we can hardly wait. Tom Daschle Top Contributors 1993-1998 1 Citigroup Inc $56,750 2 Northwest Airlines $44,150 3 Joseph E Seagram & Sons $38,000 4 US West Inc $32,500 5 HealthSouth Corp $29,300 6 Bear, Stearns & Co $24,500 7 Time Warner $23,500 8 Occidental Petroleum $22,500 9 Gallo Wine Distributors $22,000 9 Gateway 2000 $22,000 11 Bank of America $19,000 12 Verner, Liipfert et al $16,850 13 DreamWorks SKG $16,500 14 Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co $14,500 15 Cassidy & Assoc $14,310 16 Invacare Corp $14,000 16 Prudential Insurance $14,000 18 Walt Disney Co $13,998 19 Loral Spacecom $13,500 20 Holland & Knight $13,499

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Ken Taylor: After the fire, into Africa
by Anonymous 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

After the fire, into Africa By JOHN BARTLET Monday 21 May 2001 Now hear the hollow hills, now walk on shards, hear the death of color, watch white birds hawk the blackened plains. Sit among stones, sing summer songs of dust and ashes, and let the lessons begin. Now Hear the Hollow Hills With these words, poet Ken Taylor began to put into words the grief and depression into which he fell after the destruction of his Mount Macedon home and possessions in the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires. It was his decision to "deal with grief in order to live" and marks the first poem in Africa, his collection that this week won the New South Wales Premier's Kenneth Slessor prize for poetry. Africa is his first published work for 15 years and indicates the profound effect Ash Wednesday had on his life. The fires meant not just the loss of house, possessions, paintings and library but works in progress, journals and notebooks he had kept during the years he had been developing the Natural History Unit of Australia. "It was a major loss for me, a career loss, and an exponential loss, hard to explain to anyone," he says. Like many people who have been through this type of disaster, the post -fire depression was overwhelming and it took Taylor almost 10 years to recover from the experience. "I was lucky to survive," he admits now. The poems of Africa represent his recovery from that loss. Taylor was born in Ballarat in 1930 and his life was unsettled by his father's absence at the war. "My mother suffered on account of this and it was a difficult time for her. I was sent as a boarder to Ballarat Grammar School but strangely I enjoyed the life." Even then, he expected to go to war and went to infantry training schools in Watsonia and Puckapunyal. His real ambition, at 17, was to leave Ballarat for the wider world, where he could "have adventures and write books". His "adventures" included working as a cub reporter in New Zealand, where he covered the shipping round. One night a British refrigerated meat-boat had to replace two deserters in order to sail with a full crew. Taylor volunteered and became a fireman on the ship. He not only survived the threat of being thrown overboard but also a force-12 storm in the Western Atlantic. It was this experience that he wrote into the first of his Africa poems, "to get rid of the fire, to deal with an enduring, pervasive sense of depressive grief". He says he needed images of upheaval and transformation and found them in that experience. "A little ship like ours would creep up the side of a great wave and then tip over the top. The screws would race in air and the governors would cut in like machine gun fire to stop the big engine destroying itself. Then the ship would go down the other side of the mountain." Taylor was an established writer and film maker by the 1960s. On his return from a Harkness Fellowship at Cornell University, he was one of the founding writers of the La Mama Writers Workshop in Melbourne. His first poems were published in the United States. He went on to found the Natural History Unit of the ABC in 1969. But he was never satisfied to record wilderness from a distance and once spent 10 days on a fishing boat riding out a storm in Bass Strait. "I think I spent 12 hours studying a small patch of red linoleum on the floor while blue and white water smashed over the wheelhouse," he says. Over two years, the unit produced 12 films on natural Australia. Wild Australia was the first series of Australian documentaries to win a worldwide television audience. Africa speaks of a man surprised by love, not a mawkish or adolescent love, but one that is startling and harshly realistic "that happens / across the stretched white paper / we both walk on." "A long friendship turned into an intense relationship," he says, "and this made me write again. One day I became conscious I could see color in the world about me and I wrote of "that / particular silence as / color seeps into the edges of a washed out / world." "Poems," he says, "start with a certain thought or observation and then the pulse takes it on. I'm usually not trying to write for effect, although there are effects. "It's a substantial honor for me (to win the prize),coming after 40 years of serious writing and I think it will encourage me enormously." According to poet and critic Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Taylor's is a "poetry that felt fast, natural spontaneous as though the landscape itself were pouring onto the page in words". Taylor is a poet who interprets the landscape with an eye that is not European. He credits a long list of people as having shown him the way to look at landscape- "fishermen, farmers, film makers, pilots, rangers, divers, scientists, bird people, reptile people, arid land people, station managers and one publican/pilot". Africa is published by Five Island Press.

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CHEAP PRESCRIPTIONS ON-LINE
by larryowen＠ynnmail.com 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

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Liability issues in computer security (fwd)
by Jim Choate 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:25:57 +1300 (NZDT) From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: Liability issues in computer security For those who don't normally read it, the December issue of ;login (which you'll eventually be able to get at http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/ if you're not a member) has a nice legal analysis of the issue of liability for negligent computer security. It's probably the best (and certainly the most detailed) discussion I've seen on this topic (unless there's something hidden in an obscure law journal somewhere which I'm not aware of). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Password Safe (was Re: The Scout Report -- January 11, 2002) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:42:23 -0500 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rahettinga(a)earthlink.net> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: Password Safe (was Re: The Scout Report -- January 11, 2002) At 5:05 PM -0600 on 1/11/02, Internet Scout Project wrote: > 16. Counterpane Labs: Password Safe > http://www.counterpane.com/passsafe.html > > Tired of trying to memorize numerous computer passwords? Password Safe is a > free Windows 9x/2000 utility that provides users the opportunity to keep > their passwords securely encrypted on their computers and provides a single > Safe Combination that unlocks all passwords. Password Safe "protects > passwords with the Blowfish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative > to DES." The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane > Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of _Applied > Cryptography_ and creator of the Blowfish algorithm. Password Safe features > a simple, intuitive interface that lets users set up their password database > in minutes. One can copy a password just by double clicking and pasting it > directly into his/her application. Best of all, Password Safe is completely > free: no license requirements, shareware fees, or other strings attached. > [MG] -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Re: VIVA Agentina LIBRE!
by faustine.＠hushmail.com 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- jamesd wrote: >If, as seems likely, the Argentinian economy makes an >unplanned and prohibited coversion from pesos to dollars, in >defiance of government policy, the likely result is that the >value of the peso will drop to zero. Yep. Which reminds me: one of the most fascinating people behind the push for currency boards/dollarization in Argentina (and around the world) has a regular column at Forbes, great stuff. Anyone interested in a comprehensive backgrounder on the whole situation should really start here... ~F. *** Steven H. Hanke: Forbes Column Archives http://www.forbes.com/columnists/col_archive.jhtml aname=Steven+H.+Hanke&author=steve+and+hanke Steve Hanke Professor of Economics John Hopkins University DR. STEVE H. HANKE is a professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Professor Hanke has been writing a column in Forbes Magazine since 1993, and also advises governments on currency reform, privatization and capital market development. His appointments have included: Senior Economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors (1981-82); Advisor to the Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, Republic of Argentina (1995-96); Advisor to the President of Bulgaria, Petar Stoyanov (1997-present) and Special Counselor to the Economic and Monetary Resilience Council, Republic of Indonesia (1998-present). Professor Hanke is a member of the Steering Committee of the G-7 Council in Washington, D.C. and a Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. Dr. Hanke's books include: The Revolution in Development Economics (1998), Currency Boards: The Financing of Stabilization (1997), Alternative Monetary Regimes for Jamaica (1996), Currency Boards for Developing Countries (1994) and Russian Currency and Finance (1993). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAjxBhM0XHGZhdXN0aW5lLkBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQGwpHwwWoj8Wx CwCeOf1If1w+pPdGg4+kBJT7sv8nkUoAn2AVThP73C19OBVWBlb+wEs7Ipud =qs92 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: FreeSWAN Release 1.93 ships!
by Anonymous 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

On Sunday 09 December 2001 07:32 pm, Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> wrote: > The big question is: will FreeS/WAN latest release after some 4 or 5 > years of development finally both compile and install cleanly on > current versions of Red Hat Linux, FreeS/WAN's purported target > platform? The latest releases of both Suse and Mandrake are both able to install kernels with Freeswan already integrated. It's a little newer addition to Mandrake, so you may want to use Suse. Suse makes it easy to set up encrypted file systems and other nice features. The major problem that holds back the development of FreeS/WAN is with its management. [Management that cares more about sitting on its pulpit, than getting useful software into the hands of people.] Unless things have changed recently, they still won't accept contributions from the US. This makes no sense. GPG is shipping with every Linux distribution I know of, and the German's take contributions from the US. The primary kernel developers have been willing to integrate crypto into the kernel since the crypto regs were lowered. It's the policy of no US contributions that's holding back Linux IPSEC. IMHO: If Freeswan had never been created, an alternate, more mature implementation would already exist in the mainline Linux kernel. --Anonymous

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