July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: today in dc
by Trei, Peter 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

> Declan McCullagh[SMTP:declan@well.com] wrote: > > no, not a joke. yes, this is clearly an important thing for our > congresscritters to be doing. > > SENATE COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE > Consumer Protection > Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism Subcommittee hearing > on improvement in consumer choice with regard to automobile repair > shops. [...] Actually, this clicks neatly onto cp debates over open vs closed systems, TCPA, DRM, and 'freedom to hack'. Most modern cars are substantially computerized. Diagnosing a problem usually involves hooking up a PC to a port on the car's engine management system, and studying the readouts. The 'problem' that the congresscritters are trying to 'solve' is that some car manufacturers are now closing this interface - they are refusing to document the protocols, and/or encrypting the data. As a result, the manufacturers are able to restrict who has access to this diagnostic data, and are using this power to shut out independent repair shops and other competition to their own dealerships. The meeting is going to discuss whether 'something should be done'. I have no idea what will happen, if anything. So, let's see: * The manufacturers are using DRM technology, including crypto, to restrict access to the data. * If you reverse-engineered the system, the DMCA could get involved (not sure on this one). * The manufacturers are closing the system to outside inspection, and actively working to make it impossible for owners to tinker with or modify their own cars. * There is absolutely no benefit to the car's owner - this is simply large corporationsfiguring out another way to get more revenue. This is essentially 'Palladium for cars'. Peter Trei

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Toners and inkjet cartridges for less.... WN
by Autumn 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

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today in dc
by Declan McCullagh 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

no, not a joke. yes, this is clearly an important thing for our congresscritters to be doing. SENATE COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Consumer Protection Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism Subcommittee hearing on improvement in consumer choice with regard to automobile repair shops. Witnesses: Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn.; Bill Haas, vice president, Technical Division, Education and Training, Automotive Service Assn., Bedford, TX; John Cabamiss, Jr., director, Environment and Energy, Assn. of International Auto Manufacturers, Arlington, VA; Dale Feste, Dale Feste Automotive, Hopkins, MN; Josephine Cooper, president, Alliance of Automotive Manufacturers; John Nielson, director, Automotive Services and Repair Network, AAA; John Vallely, president, McLean Marathon Service, Elgin, IL Location: 253 Russell Senate Office Building. 2:30 p.m. Contact: 202-224-5115 http://commerce.senate.gov **REVISED**

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"The Quickening"
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity. People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity." Armies may one day be fielded by machines that think for themselves while devices will respond to soldiers' commands before their thoughts are fully formed, it says. The report says the abilities are within our grasp but will require an intense public-relations effort to "prepare key organisations and societal activities for the changes made possible by converging technologies", and to counter concern over "ethical, legal and moral" issues. Education should be overhauled down to the primary-school level to bridge curriculum gaps between disparate subject areas. Professional societies should be open to practitioners from other fields, it says. "The success of this convergent-technologies priority area is crucial to the future of humanity," the report says. wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC-pre-publication.pdf

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Sacco and Vanzetti,A mob-FBI hit.
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

Mob Informant Scandal Involved Highest Levels of FBI # # Saturday, July 27, 2002 # # BOSTON - For more than 20 years, FBI headquarters in Washington # knew that its Boston agents were using hit men and mob leaders # as informants and shielding them from prosecution for serious # crimes including murder, the Associated Press has learned. # # Until now, the still-unraveling Boston FBI scandal has been # portrayed largely as the work of a handful of local agents - # mavericks willing to deal with the devil to bring down a Mafia # family. # # But documents obtained by the AP directly connect FBI headquarters # to a pattern of collusion with notorious killers. # # The AP found 20 memos from Boston agents to the FBI director's # office, along with six replies, showing that headquarters was # told of the abuses and condoned them. # # Written between 1964 and 1987, the memos made it clear to # Washington that the informants had killed and were likely to # kill again, describing one of them as "the most dangerous # individual known" in the Boston area. The memos also alerted # headquarters that two of the informants were crime bosses, active # "at the policy-making level" of criminal enterprises in Boston. [snip]

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The Jim Bell System.
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

http://www.anti-state.com/vroman/vroman8.html by Robert Vroman Ed. note: This article reflects the views of the author ONLY, not the editors. We have no official opinion whatsoever on the Jim Bell System, aka Assassination Politics. Please see also Bob Murphy's response to this article. (Stuff rehashed from the archives circa 96.) Who wants to participate to help form what will be the LAST revolution on earth, the one that'll take down ALL the governments? James Dalton Bell.

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Telecom Consolidation Begins to Accelerate.................... ylr
by Kenny 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

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political abuse of judicial psychiatry in China, from 2000
by Matthew X 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

Psychiatrists to join protest over bill Article about a planned march on Whitehall by psychiatrists and 'mental health user groups', in protest against a draft mental health bill described as 'a public order bill dressed up as mental health legislation' ( Guardian ) See also this text (1.96MB PDF) of the draft bill, this summary of changes to the existing law from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and this joint statement by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Law Society, all from last month, and this paper by Robin Munro (PDF) about the political abuse of judicial psychiatry in China, from 2000 Wonder what the ROYAL colleges position on female and catholic succession discrimination is? (Ilegal in the EU .)

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