July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Slashdot | More on Riemann Hypothesis (fwd)
by Jim Choate 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

http://science.slashdot.org/science/02/07/02/1428227.shtml?tid=134 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - indymedia.nl loses anarchist hyperlink case (UK) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/25992.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by Telcom Forum 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

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Worldwide Caution Public Announcement (fwd)
by Jim Choate 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:35:19 -0400 From: PA List Manager <statelists(a)STATE.GOV> To: DOSTRAVEL(a)LISTS.STATE.GOV Subject: Worldwide Caution Public Announcement Worldwide Caution Public Announcement U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman July 1, 2002 This Worldwide Caution supersedes the previous Worldwide Caution of March 17, 2002 to alert Americans to the need to remain vigilant during the upcoming summer season and to remind them of the continuing threat of terrorist actions which may target civilians and include suicide operations. This Worldwide Caution expires on October 1, 2002. The U.S. Government continues to receive credible indications that extremist individuals are planning additional terrorist actions against U.S. interests. Such actions may be imminent and include suicide operations. We have no further information on specific targets, timing or method of attack. We remind American citizens to remain vigilant with regard to their personal security and to exercise caution. Terrorist groups do not distinguish between official and civilian targets. Recent attacks on worshippers at a church and synagogue underline the growing possibility that as security is increased at official U.S. facilities, terrorists and their sympathizers will seek softer targets. These may include facilities where Americans are generally known to congregate or visit, such as clubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools or outdoor recreation events. Americans should increase their security awareness when they are at such locations, avoid them, or switch to other locations where Americans in large numbers generally do not congregate. American citizens may be targeted for kidnapping. U.S. Government facilities worldwide remain at a heightened state of alert. These facilities may temporarily close or suspend public services from time to time to review their security posture and ensure its adequacy. In those instances, U.S. Embassies and Consulates will make every effort to provide emergency services to American citizens. Americans are urged to monitor the local news and maintain contact with the nearest American Embassy or Consulate. As the Department continues to develop information on any potential security threats to Americans overseas, it will share with them credible threat information through its Consular Information Program documents. These documents are available on the Internet at http://travel.state.gov. In addition to information on the Internet, U.S. travelers may hear recorded information by calling the Department of State in Washington, D.C. at 202-647-5225 from their touch-tone telephone, or receive information by automated telefax by dialing 202-647-3000 from their fax machine. *********************************************************** See http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html for State Department Travel Warnings ************************************************************ To change your subscription, go to http://www.state.gov/www/listservs_cms.html

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RE: biometric containment (privacy, fingerprints, dead utah blond es)
by Trei, Peter 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

> Optimizzin Al-gorithym[SMTP:al@qaeda.org] wrote: > > So the neighbors of that dead blonde Utah jailbait volunteered their > fingerprints, presumably for discounting them, though possibly not. > In any case: how could a neighbor-friendly cypherpunk give > prints which were *not* entered into the Fed Oracle? > > Only way I can think of is to physically control your deadtree print > sheet > and require the Feebs to manually enter the dozen topo-feature-locations > > of your print from a memoryless measuring device, (eg, a glass lens and > reticle) in front of you, then take the print sheet with you. How you > verify > that the imaging system is memoryless is up to you. > > Comments? > It's SOP to take fingerprints of anyone who frequented the crime scene, even if there is no doubt of their innocence. This enables the majority of fingerprints collected to be eliminated from consideration. I remember reading of one of the very earliest fingerprint cases, somewhere in Europe (Austria?)in the late 1800s. A murder had taken place in a boarding house, and the crime scene was seriously disturbed by reporters, on-lookers, souvenier hunters, etc. However, a bottle with a clear handprint was found under the bed. There were no fingerprint registries at that time. The detective had to get fingerprint cards for everyone who was near the site, and found the murderer. The book included a photo of the bonfire they made of the fingerprint cards afterwards. Since then, of course, the level of ethics of the LEAs has deteriorated markedly - if they get a set of prints for whatever reason, it is never destroyed. ----- One civic volunteer program I work with is CHIP, a free local child identification program (www.mychip.org) It provides parents with data to help in identifying their children if they go missing. This includes a fingerprint card taken by a policeman. All the data collected is retained by the parents - nothing by the police, and CHIP retains only a permission slip. I've been very heartened by the fact that now the majority of parents who are signing up their children actually raise the privacy issue - they want to make sure that neither we nor the police keep copies of the data. Peter Trei

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02 Jul '02

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Re: maximize best case, worst case, or average case? (TCPA
by xganon 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Ryan Lackey provides a detailed analysis, but he gets off to a bad start right at the beginning: > DRM systems embedded in general purpose computers, especially if > mandated, especially if implemented in the most secure practical > manner (running the system in system-high DRM mode and not allowing > raw hardware access to anything at any time on the platform, rather > than trying to allow concurrent open and closed operation a la CMW), > and in a closed manner for revenue protection purposes (only > rich people get to sign the code, or at least only the keys of rich > people are widely distributed by default, and anything else requires > special operations by the user), are evil. So DRM systems are evil? Why? What makes them evil? There is no justification offered for this claim! Are we all supposed to accept it as obvious? And note that when someone says X is true, especially when Y, they also mean that X is true even if not Y. Therefore, Ryan is claiming that DRM systems embedded in general purpose computers, even if not mandated, even if not implemented in the most secure manner, even if not in a closed manner, are evil. That is, even voluntary and not all that secure DRM systems are evil! How can any software which people adopt voluntarily be evil? If Alice releases music with DRM restrictions, and Bob runs DRM compliant software to play it, which of them is evil? Is it Alice, for releasing her music with restrictions? Is it just because she encoded them in a file format, or is it evil to release any creative product and ask people not to copy it freely? Or is Bob evil, for voluntarily choosing to run DRM compliant software in order to listen to Alice's music? Or perhaps the software developer is the evil one, for giving people more options and choices in the world? One other point must be mentioned while we wait for clarification: > What I'm genuinely in terror of is #5. I'd be fairly comfortable with > (1,2) from philsophical grounds (and actually, some of the uses in #2 > are things which interest me). 1,2,3 are probably tolerable even from > a wanting-widespread-piracy standpoint, and really, anything but #5 > (and to some extent, #4) is tolerable in terms of protecting computers > for anti-government use. Are we to read this as an endorsement of the "wanting-widespread-piracy standpoint"? Is the implicit assumption here that widespread piracy is GOOD??? Well, that would certainly explain why DRM is evil in Ryan's eyes. If so, in Ryan's ideal world, every creative artist has no choice but to do nothing, or release their works with permission that anyone can copy them for free. This is not just an unfortunate consequence of technological reality, in this view. It is an outcome to be desired and even fought for, to the extent that voluntary technologies which would give people other options must be opposed from the beginning. The only evil here is the viewpoint that people must not have choices, that they must be forced into a Communist from-each-according-to-his- ability system where creative people have no choice or control over the products of their minds. Surely a libertarian such as Ryan can see the horrific evil involved in taking away freedom and choice from creative people, and he will clarify his words above.

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