August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Shrub wargaming at crawford.
by Matthew X 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/real/ let it load,let it load,let it load. uninalienable rights.HAHAHA! Unintelligible maybe.hirstory can be fun,check this out..."My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason. (Applause.) It begins here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." "All in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." STOP! Your killing me.

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slipery Wet shaved pussy !
by Shaved N Wet 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

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This Weeks Special Offers!
by Computer Developments UK 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

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Assassination politician terminal?
by Matthew X 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Barr is Either In or Out After Today Rep. Bob Barr faces his toughest political battle today in a primary election. Barr's facing another Republican incumbent every bit as conservative as he is. His opponent, Rep. John Linder. The two men are facing each other for their party's nomination in a new congressional district, drawn by Georgia's Democratic Legislature. The winner of today's primary is virtually assured of election in the fall. The loser will depart Congress at a time when his party, with only a six-vote House majority, is desperate to keep every seat. Barr has drawn ridicule for a $30 million lawsuit he filed against Bill Clinton, Democratic consultant James Carville and Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. The suit charged that they invaded his privacy, and it sought damages for emotional distress during Clinton's impeachment fight in which Barr was one of 13 House members who presented a case against Clinton. Linder says that ''adds to the chuckle factor'' of the race. A bigger chuckle though might be the fact that one of Barr's biggest supporters is Alzheimer's Poster Boy Charlton Heston, the actor and president of the National Rifle Association. Barr, a gun rights champion, was embarrassed when an antique pistol he was being shown at a fundraising event accidentally fired. No one was injured.On his behalf,I pr,should add Barr has gone on record as moving to revoke the order prohibiting assassinations. He would make a pretty good APster candidate.

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Shrubs political and psychological defeat.
by Matthew X 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Well barr's barred...there may be a god...Washington Retreating on Iraq Aug 19 The Bush administration has begun to back down from plans for a near-term attack on Iraq. The controversial plan was shredding the coalition against al Qaeda, which Washington needs in battling the group. But the Bush administration's retreat from Iraq, although necessary, forces it to manage a political and psychological defeat. RR,don't go there,girlfriend.http://www.stratfor.com/ crypto revisionism Since 1974 much has been written about the cryptographic success achieved at Bletchley Park, and dozens of participants and historians have given their version of what was accomplished. Bennett includes separate short entries for GCCS, GCHQ, Enigma, Bletchley Park and ULTRA, longer ones for Alan Turing, Sir Edward Travis, Alistair [sic] Denniston, and a four page summary under 'United Kingdom'. Evidently the author rightly considers Britain's cryptographic effort to be of some significance, yet his very confused account seriously misdefines some common terms, and consistently refers to the Enigma machine in capitals, as though Enigma is itself a codename. Much the same can be said for Bennett's treatment of VENONA, which is seriously flawed. Suffice to say that his assertion that the Army Security Agency began work on the Soviet intercepts in 1943 is somewhat wide of the mark http://www.cicentre.com/BK/BOOKS_West_Bennett.html

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A New Climax Gel For Women By Women
by directshopper＠yahoo.com 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

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RE: Seth on TCPA at Defcon/Usenix
by Bill Stewart 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

At 12:58 AM 08/11/2002 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: >BTW, does anybody here know if there is still an email time stamping >server in operation? The references that I found to such servers appear >to be dead. The canonical timestamping system was Haber & Stornetta's work at Bellcore, commercialized at Surety.com. The site is current, has some Digital Notary Service and Secure Email things on it, and something much more amazing - it looks like they received $7M in financing in June :-) There's a nice collection of pointers to timestamping systems at http://saturn.tcs.hut.fi/~helger/crypto/link/timestamping/ though I don't know how current the references are - the page was last updated 14.8.2002. The free PGP-based system http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm has a news item from 04-Jun-02, which comments that, although they haven't posted any news items in five years, they've been in continuous operation....

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Bankrupt Digicash Made $481K in 1999
by John Young 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Digicash 1999 IRS forms: http://cryptome.org/digicash-481k.htm

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IETF WG on SMTP feeler...
by Anonymous 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

There has been an awful lot of discussion on this here in CP land, so maybe some responses too? A good place to put forward suggestions to make hard calculations a requirement of delivery or maybe some digicash to pay for it? * * *

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John Malcolm needs killing.
by Matthew X 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954591.html?tag=fd_top Stop thief! hand back that PROMIS software.pr.PROMIS # 0417. John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said Americans should realize that swapping illicit copies of music and movies is a criminal offense that can result in lengthy prison terms. "A lot of people think these activities are legal, and they think they ought to be legal," Malcolm told an audience at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual technology and politics summit. Malcolm said the Internet has become "the world's largest copy machine" and that criminal prosecutions of copyright offenders are now necessary to preserve the viability of America's content industries. "There does have to be some kind of a public message that stealing is stealing is stealing," said Malcolm, who oversees the arm of the Justice Department that prosecutes copyright and computer crime cases. In an interview, Malcolm would not say when prosecutions would begin. The response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks temporarily diverted the department's resources and prevented its attorneys from focusing on this earlier, he said. A few weeks ago, some of the most senior members of Congress pressured the Justice Department to invoke a little-known law, the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act, against peer-to-peer users who swap files without permission. Under the NET Act, signed by President Clinton in 1997, it is a federal crime to share copies of copyrighted products such as software, movies or music with anyone, even friends or family members, if the value of the work exceeds $1,000. Violations are punishable by one year in prison, or if the value tops $2,500, "not more than five years" in prison. Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), said his industry would "welcome" prosecutions that send a message to song-swappers. "Some prosecutions that make that clear could be very helpful...I think they would think twice if they thought there was a risk of criminal prosecution," said Sherman, who was on the same conference panel. Christopher Cookson, executive vice president of Warner Bros. and another panelist, said there was "a need for governments to step in and maintain order in society." Swapping files in violation of the law has always been a civil offense, and the RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have the option of suing individual infringers and seeking damages. But, Malcolm said, criminal prosecutions can be much more effective in intimidating file-swappers who have little assets at risk in a civil suit. "Civil remedies are not adequate...Law enforcement in that regard does have several advantages," Malcolm said. "We have the advantage, when appropriate, of opening up and conducting multi-jurisdictional and international investigations. "Most parents would be horrified if they walked into a child's room and found 100 stolen CDs...However, these same parents think nothing of having their children spend time online downloading hundreds of songs without paying a dime." Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, said he was skeptical about the view that peer-to-peer piracy should be a criminal offense. "If we have 70 million people in the United States who are breaking the law, we have a big issue." The DOJ already has used the NET Act to imprison noncommercial software pirates, which software lobbyists hailed as "an important component of the overall effort to prevent software theft." During his confirmation hearing in June 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft told Congress that "given the fact that much of America's strength in the world economy is a result of our being the developer and promoter of most of the valuable software, we cannot allow the assets that are held electronically to be pirated or infringed. And so we will make a priority of cybercrime issues." The letter from Congress complains of "a staggering increase in the amount of intellectual property pirated over the Internet through peer-to-peer systems." Signed by 19 members of Congress, including Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca., the letter urged Ashcroft "to prosecute individuals who intentionally allow mass copying from their computer over peer-to-peer networks." END Having one of the biggest Gulags in the world isn't enough already?

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