August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Schneier: Homeland Security Needs Cops
by John Young 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

In the September Atlantic Monthly Bruce Schneier explains yet again why cryptography is not the solution to security; what's needed are private cyber cops like his: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm Amazing how Bruce's philosopy matches that of those he once combated in the "crypto wars." He recants crypto security to remind that there is never to be found lasting security, as with the TLAs worldwide, except by well-paid vigilance of those who know best how to protect us. He may be right, or he may smell Starbucks. Quote: When I asked Schneier why Counterpane had such Darth Vaderish command centers, he laughed and said it helped to reassure potential clients that the company had mastered the technology. I asked if clients ever inquired how Counterpane trains the guards and analysts in the command centers. "Not often," he said, although that training is in fact the center of the whole system. Mixing long stretches of inactivity with short bursts of frenzy, the work rhythm of the Counterpane guards would have been familiar to police officers and firefighters everywhere. As I watched the guards, they were slurping soft drinks, listening to techno-death metal, and waiting for something to go wrong. They were in a protected space, looking out at a dangerous world. Sentries around Neolithic campfires did the same thing. Nothing better has been discovered since. Thinking otherwise, in Schneier's view, is a really terrible idea. Unquote Heroes, by god, what we need are more poster boy heroes.

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Bad month for celeb husbands! Watch Angelina Jolie cheat on tape!!!
by celebhqphfnqe＠iol.it 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Angelina Jolie gets busted having a strange maybe satanic sex ritual on tape which forces her celeb huband Billy bob Thornton to leave her! Billy Bob used this footage in court to prove that she cheated and therefore cannot take any of his estate! These rich celeb typs always have these bigshot lawyers who will try and take these videos of the net so if you want to watch them do it now. http://www.tnt-hosting.com/bti/ This home video is kind of strange..thats angelina on the bed..she has a mask on for the first minute of two but then the guy in the weird outfit takes it off and she goes nuts!!! click on the link below now! Click on the link below for your free pass to watch Angelina's weird satanic sex movie! http://www.tnt-hosting.com/bti/ plcurechaxf^nytroen(pbz

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by cypherpunks＠Algebra.COM 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

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Filtering Insanity hits NSW.
by Matthew X 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/25/1030053009698.html Cyber censor to watch out for students' bad language By Linda Doherty, Education Writer August 26 2002 When NSW's 1.33 million public school and TAFE students and teachers log on to their new "e-learning accounts" they will find every keyboard stroke monitored to ban bad language. "Sex" will be out as will the "wildcards" favoured by students who use asterisks or question marks to disguise swear words. A range of filters to block sexually explicit and offensive material is being developed by the NSW Department of Education and Training and Unisys, the prime contractor of the $33 million roll-out of new email accounts, Internet access, chat rooms, Web sites and bulletin boards. One of the largest information technology projects in Australia, the e-learning accounts will connect 1.2 million students and 130,000 teachers by June next year to a massive bank of data servers in North Ryde. A trial of 5000 users in schools will start in October. Chris Thompson, the chief Unisys executive on the project, said the filtering would include blacklisted pornographic or inappropriate Internet sites and searches for obscene language. It would be graded from kindergarten to year 12. "You search for the obvious swear words, you can also pick up words like sex," she said. "A classic is the Dick Smith Web site. Filters would normally pick this up because of the word 'Dick' but it is a legitimate Web site so it's put into an area where it can be accessed." But year 12 students studying breast cancer, for example, may still be able to access sites containing "pictures of naked bodies" if the material was relevant to their studies. Rodney Molesworth, senior vice-president of the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, said the level of filtering was probably going to be "higher than is suitable" due to community fears about children's access to inappropriate material. "It's important to have filters but parents need to recognise they are not completely effective. Web sites can be changed overnight and kids have always been wonderful at using codes to fool adults," he said. "It can't be an exercise for restricting kids from material that may be challenging. We suggest parents work with their children and have the home computer in a public part of the house." The e-learning accounts, announced in the May 2001 state Budget, will allow students and parents to email teachers. Schools and students will have Web sites, discussion groups and remote access from any location. The project, originally estimated at $21.6 million over four years, rose to $33 million by last December when the Unisys consortium, of Microsoft, Nortel and Optus, won the three-year contract. A spokeswoman for the Minister for Education, John Watkins, said the project had been upgraded to include technical support, training for teachers and filtering equipment.

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It's Stephen
by MailMunky 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi! It's Stephen, again! How are you? I found you on http://www.mt.net/~watcher/cooper1998.html. Remember? ANYway, some people (just a very few) were angered by my last poem, though most were very happy to read it. A few bad apples, and all that... They're trying to shut me down, but they can't take my database away from me. Or my poetry. Here's another one (about my mother - she's dying of Alzheimers - it's really awful): OH, THE BLACK GARDENS March 31, 2000 she listens at the whispers when they hasten to her door her keen eyes upon the shadows that make a hateful, bloody war across her ceiling and her walls without regard for private places but muster in her drawers and make within her closets such awful, spiteful faces for she listens with the whispers when they cry out for revenge for the catcalls oft returned from beneath the wells of shade so long harbored safe beneath her bed and listening to her whispers so carefully from her chair she may let slip her cautious grip she may unwind her twisted hair she may let go all meaning as a tumbler slips the wire she may free fall through black gardens where little girls dance but never tire My new web site (for now) is http://www.mailmunky.0catch.com My new email is TestMunky(a)hotmail.com Best Regards, Stephen Super Genius From: Outer Space MailMunky Design By: http://www.mailmunky.0catch.com/

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Homeland Resistance.West Coast.
by Matthew X 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

USA: PROTESTING THE BUSH REGIME Aug 24 2002 Dissent Flares Against Bush on the West Coast 'Commander-in-thief' George Bush's visit to the West Coast of the United States this week was met with protests at every stop. In Oregon, Bush's purpose was to spread lies about forest health [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ] and shake down local wealthy to raise money for Senator Gordon Smith. One hundred protesters met Bush in Medford, and briefly blocked a road 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ]. In Portland, forest activists kick-started the day of dissent by erecting a tree-sit in a downtown park. Hundreds of people gathered at a Pacific Green Party rally and then joined the main crowd at the tree-sit park for a march downtown, 3000 strong. Hundreds of police, including many in full riot gear, staked out a nine square block area around the Hilton Hotel where Bush was speaking. Protesters had free reign throughout the rest of downtown where they took the streets, blocked intersections, and made a joyful noise. In the late afternoon, police declared a state of emergency, and threatened to arrest anyone who did not disperse, though these annoucements were heard by very few people. Police then turned violent, shooting people with rubber bullets and pepper-spraying many others [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ]. Children were among the victims of chemical attacks, including a 10 month old baby [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ]. When the sun set people danced in the street and continued to protest. The general feeling among participants was that it had been a great day that offered some lessons for future efforts. Corporate media accounts of the day betrayed an institutional bias against democratic action and in favor of police brutality [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 ]. Friday morning, the chair of the Portland chapter of the National Lawyers Guild called for the police chief's resignation, and that afternoon protesters marched on City Hall to demand police accountability. | 11 | 12 | 13 ] On Friday, Bush was given a California welcome with protests inside and outside his first campaign stop for political friends in Stockton [ photos | video ]. Medea Benjamin gained entry to the event and took off her jacket to reveal a "No War On Iraq" tee-shirt. She was hauled off by police immediately, but not before Bush's televised speech was disrupted [ 1 | 2 | 3 ]. Further south that afternoon, 400 people protested Bush's arrival in Santa Ana, and another 250 demonstrated outside a fundraiser in Dana Point, Orange County. In Los Angeles on Saturday morning, 7:00 a.m. wasn't too early for hundreds to come out and express dissent [ 1 | 2 | 3 ], while hundreds of vehicles caravaned to Crawford, TX. Other recent actions against the Bush regime in the U.S. include protests at a 7/11 Bush visit in Minneapolis [ 1 | 2 ], a 7/18 Bush visit near Detroit, a 7/25 Bush trip to Greensboro, NC, Cheney visits to San Francisco (8/7) [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ] and Minneapolis (8/12) [ 1 ], and a 8/14 Bush trip to Milwaukee [ 1 | 2 ]. [ Portland IMC | SF Bay IMC | Los Angeles IMC ] http://www.indymedia.org/index.php3?newswire=open

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3 out,21 to go.
by Matthew X 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1458/index.php Three Of Twenty-Four Anti-Racist Activists Released by Chuck D'Adamo Email: cdadamo (at) charm.net (unverified!) Current rating: 3 25 Aug 2002 Three of twenty-four anti-racist activists arrested on August 24 at the Baltimore Travel Plaza have been released. [BALTIMORE MD] At the Baltimore Travel Plaza Saturday August 24 at approximately 7:30am, twenty-four to twenty-nine anti-racist activists were arrested after a confrontation with neo-nazis who were gathering to travel to Washington DC to participate in a rally organized by the National Alliance. Major F. H. Bealefeld told Indymedia that the attack included weapons such as stick, hockey sticks, and similar weapons. There were three injuries, one of which required hospitalization. According to an anti-racist activist, approximately 120 neo-nazis attempted to board charter buses at the Travel Plaza. The Sunpapers (8/25/02) reported the police as saying that "It was not immediately known whether the attackers were counter-demonstrators or members of a rival supremacist group." However, it was widely publicized that the National Alliance had organized a rally for August 24 and that anti-racist activists were planning to respond with counter-demonstrations, and possibly other methods. In fact, the neighborhood around the Baltimore Travel Plaza was extensively leafleted in prior days, according to an anti-racist activist. The Sunpapers should have spent more time investigating the event, rather than relying on the police officials. While the Sunpapers' report was not as egregious as that of FOX 45, which reported a fight between rival neo-nazi groups, a little more investigation would have given a more accurate picture of the event. Three of those arrested have been released as of mid-afternoon August 25. Bail has been set in the range of $10,000 to $20,000 each. One arrestee, a minor, was charged with 23 counts of aggravated assault, according to an anti-racist activist. Anti-racist activists who would like to support the arrestees may make a check out to Black Planet Books with "jail solidarity" in the memo line and mail it to Black Planet, 1621 Fleet Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. See also: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/media/rightwing/display/496/index.php

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Shrubs 2 step plan to really screw the economy.
by Matthew X 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

1) Keep doing all the stupid evil shit his whole families so expert at. 2) Make Space a military free fire zone and fill it up with highly toxic,highly dangerous,highly expensive junk plus some extremely dangerous ray guns. Killing him is only simple self defence.(my 2c) "Then it was back in front of the fireplace to finish reading Lou Dobbs' new book, Space : The Next Business Frontier. I suspect many of us think of space as being mostly about government related programs like NASA or possibly the global positioning system (GPS), or perhaps directTV. Lou makes the point in his book that space is about a lot more than that. The focus of his book is that space is more and more about "space business". In addition to a lot of interesting information about space shuttles and satellite launches, he talks about the hundreds of corporate players -- including "some of the world's largest organizations" -- which are already generating billions of dollars in revenue. He convinced me that space is headed toward becoming a new business revolution." FROM http://www.netattitude.org/pages/blog_archive.shtml

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by Murat S 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

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250 arrests at Jo'burg.
by Matthew X 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Two Hundred Fifty Arrests Welcome WSSD On Wednesday, August 21, over 4000 people with the Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) and National Land Committee marched peacefully to the office of the premier of Gauteng province. The marchers wanted Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa to sign a memorandum of commitment to stop forced removals in Thembelihle, and to end the brutal campaign of terror being waged by the notorious "Red Ants" security company and the police against poor and landless people in the province. More than 100 landless people and land activists were arrested around 6 p.m. in the first signs of the South African government's crackdown on the fundamental Constitutional right to freedom of assembly in order to prevent protests and demonstrations during the WSSD. Among the arrested was NLC coordinator Andile Mngxitama [ audio | video ]. More were arrested on August 22 outside the jail while protesting in solidarity, including LPM media liason and SA IMC member Ann Eveleth who was subsequently ordered deported. Anyone found wearing an LPM T-shirt outside the prison was summarily arrested. On Friday, August 23, 77 of those arrested were released. One of those arrested, who was two months pregnant, had a miscarriage on Thursday evening after her jailers ignored repeated calls for assistance. This crackdown began in earnest on August 17 when veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle were arrested in Cape Town boarding a train to Joburg. According to Mngxitama, "the agenda of Sandton is the agenda of the multinational corporations, that land must be sold as a commodity, that water and energy must be privatized. They have been losing legitimacy, and now they are trying to get new legitimacy through the United Nations. We are saying no to Nepad, no to the World Bank, no to market-led land reform." More information about the WSSD can be found at a Special Edition Report (pdf) by Africawoman, in previous coverage of the WSSD [ August 24 | August 23 | August 19 | August 1 | July 25 ], and in italiano [ W$$D: la privatizzazione dello sviluppo sostenibile | Movimenti soziali | Rio + 10 = - risore + capitale ]. [ South Africa IMC | National Land Committee | Landless Peoples' Movement ] http://www.indymedia.org/ http://www.indymedia.org/index.php3?newswire=open

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