August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

What's In It For Me???
by recruiter06045＠msn.com 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

Dear Netrepreneur, This is a consumer awareness message. Are you aware that many business opportunities online are not legitimate? That someone is trying to separate you from your hard-earned money? And, that money and business opportunities are not what they sometimes appear to be? Unfortunately, that makes it difficult for the legitimate e-biz to deal with other netrepreneurs online. An article entitled "Twelve Tests For Evaluating a Network Marketing (MLM) Opportunity",by Jon M. Taylor, Ph.D., Consumer Awareness Institute, points out the realities of the MLM opportunity you may be considering. There are pyramid schemes, chain letters, and chain selling that circumvents the state and federal laws. Other successful MLM companies comply with existing guidelines and compensate online business people in a fair and direct way. The article provides a test to help you avoid the pitfalls in which you would be wasting your money. If you would like a copy of this poignant and important article for determining your continuing involvement or enrolling anew in a network marketing venture then please hit reply to this e-mail by putting "Twelve Tests" in the subject line and I will send you a copy and a list of other websites helpful in your network marketing decisions. Best of luck, Gary Canada recruiter06040(a)msn.com ========================================================== This is a commercial E-mail. If you desire to be removed from my list, hit reply with "Remove" in the subject line.

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Homeland security-Imagine it done.
by Matthew X 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

The Transportation Security Administration has awarded the first two work orders for its information technology infrastructure. TSA tapped Unisys Corp. for the agency's billion-dollar Information Technology Managed Services (ITMS) program Aug. 2 but postponed making an official award until meeting with an investment review board. A group led by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Homeland Security is assessing all projects valued at more than $500,000 at agencies, including TSA, slated to go into the proposed Homeland Security Department. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0812/web-tsa-08-14-02.asp

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Dr Rat.
by Matthew X 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

Diabetes drug prematurely tested on humans TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2002 12:04:59 PM ] HYDERABAD: Ragaglitazar, the controversial dual-acting insulin sensitiser developed by Dr Reddys Labs (DRL), was tested on at least 135 human beings at the Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (Nims) even before trials on rats and mice were completed. The experts realised the dangerous side-effects of the drug only after Novo Nordisk, the Scandinavian company assigned to develop the medicine, stopped testing on July 22, after the experimental rats and mice began developing tumours and symptoms of cancer. The tests of the drug at Nims continued for well over six months, sources in the hospital confirmed. The trials on human beings phase-III of the drug test were conducted under the supervision of the Diabetic School of the hospital. The sources insisted that trials conducted by them were approved by the Medical Council of India and the Drug Controller-General of India. However, it is not known if any or all of the 135 human guinea pigs at Nims were informed that they were being administered a yet-to-be proven diabetes drug. It is also not clear if they were told that the drug was being simultaneously tested on rats and mice. Dr. Reddys Labs, though, has disowned the phase-III trials, saying it had licensed the drug for further development to Novo Nordisk. Testing of yet-to-be proven and potentially dangerous drugs on human beings is common here. Our hospitals are places where patients take medicines administered to them without asking a question. And, in the course of a trial, if a patient dies, all the doctor does is change the dosage for the others and continue with the test, a source said. This is not the first time that an unproven drug has been tested on human beings, sometimes perforce in the city, the sources added. Meanwhile, government sources said they were unaware of the tests conducted by Nims and were at a loss to explain anything about the trial. Ragaglitazar, codenamed DRF 2725 and NN662, was developed by DRL. After carrying out preliminary animal toxicology studies, DRL sold the drug to Novo in 1998 for further development and commercialisation. To ally fears in those who participated in the abortive trial, both the Hyderabad-based laboratory and Novo Nordisk claim that though the anti-diabetes drug caused bladder tumours in rats and in one mouse, potential risk to the trial participants is very small. Related Stories: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=19049806

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godsucks.com
by Matthew X 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16732 Florida pledge flap,why do they bother when taxpayer funded madrasses's are underway? Education-FaithbasedLinks ... Many faith-based organizations, denominations, coalitions and local congregations actively work ... specific task forces to address the issue through education, ... www.webofcreation.org/education/faithbasedlinks.htm - 40k - Cached - Similar pages

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Gettin' down with the Ho's.
by Matthew X 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/14/1029113955533.html Ho,Ho,Ho chi Minh.Way to go Ho.Damn shame one wife may have lost her head...its hard being a professional revolutionary. "In the long run it will become common knowledge . . . and it might help liven him up a bit with younger Vietnamese." The attempts to censor and suppress this remind me...08.7 - Viet-nam The Vietnamese government copies Chinese Internet crackdown And the nong duc manh. http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=1087

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Greeneland
by Matthew X 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26675.html Fastest way to freshmeat? Follow a vulture. "Internet pioneer David Reed recently pointed out that in the early years, efforts to incorporate end-to-end encryption into the base standards of the Net were reportedly discouraged for reasons of national security. But "weak encryption" is no longer a reasonable excuse for insecure systems. It's clear by now that real security comes not just from strong crypto, but from recognizing and embracing human strengths, frailties and common behaviors in building, managing and using complex systems. People are always the weakest link."MORE from the mighty OZ... http://news.com.com/2010-1071-949678.html?tag=fd_nc_1

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[WLG]: Regarding HAARP Technologies
by Wilfred L. Guerin 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

[Repost Openly.] Though my knowledge of various technologies that are sometimes called "HAARP" type weapons or technologies associated thereto due to technological similarities is vast, some recent events should be thoroughly examined and publicised in order to prevent large-scale mass-destruction issues or stimulators of global conflict. Let us start with an examination of fact: Pull up NOAA Weather maps for the weeks around the 1st of August, 2002. Notice a large "Tropical storm" in the northern Gulf Coast (South-eastern USA), one that does not move for over a week. Notice, in this storm development, that regardless of strong jetstream, altitude winds to the east/etc in significant force for cloud motion in all other regions in parallel fashion, this storm cluster did NOT move or change physical arrangement for almost a whole week. Note, in the storm layout, 3 distinct clusters of high-energy storms, static in their position and relation to each other. --- Facts: During this time period, *Vatican* arrives in New Orleans with full enterage, after a trip through Mexico, and has both ground teams and "highly relevant people" blanketing the city. So extensive were their operations, that on numerous occasions in my wanderings through the Quarter, was I almost hit by a speeding Vatican security transport vehicle. Vatican had, at the least, 4 *Large* ships, and a number of "support" vessels, off the coast of New Orleans and Biloxi (MS). In addition, 4 independant religious groups had additional large vessels within the same region, some "restocking" for missionary operations southward, others with unknown relevance. (Not even including the typical few hundred industrial and transport vessels.) --- More Facts: Historicly, the city of New Orleans has a number of significant social, business, and mainly religious purposes. New Orleans is founded as the Catholic and Protest churches of europe engage large-scale war and whatnot, as a haven and secure location for the storage of both the individuals of high religious significance and their genetic lines, as well as a LARGE ammount of physical items "stolen" from the religious facilities and placed away in safe keeping. These facts of the city's history are public knowledge; charged with the protectorate thereof, are a LARGE number of social organizations and related business operations, of global scale, typically considered "undesirable" entities for cover, many engagued in the global drug empires and Stateside illicit operations {MOB/Mafia - type operations, covert intel, counter-intel groups within the FBI, CIA, DEA/DOJ, etc (Counter-FEDERAL), and a plethra of others. A large majority of corporate research divisions and related high-industry are also logisticly controlled from social central groups from/of this city. No less the Media industry.) The religious implications, are that by definition in a LARGE number of religious texts, ranging from the Bible through Far-East prophecies, and all in between, the primary trigger to indicate the "End of the World" is the *flooding* of a major city designed and charged with the protection and safety of these various above things. New Orleans, intentionally, is built below sea level, has a massive vault and storage structure extending hundreds of feet below the old city, and remains home to the majority of counter-intel operatives while not on active duty, no less being a primary port of transport for narcotics distribution into a majority of the US under federal operations (top level pre-cut distribution). --- I shall let you connect the logic here, but I suggest you review the *latest* year's worth of mass-media content, most specificly, the Music and Music Video industries. Music Videos: the most effective distribution mechanism of concepts and whatnot immediately into the core of the social population of the US/etc. Let us check, for example, "Creed" "My Sacrifice" and related videos, their website has the video available, if you don't see it elsewhere. The theater, is "State Pallace Theater" (which in reality, currently has no sign in front), the rest of the buildings there, are all Canal Street of New Orleans, LA, USA. Profetic? Not unless someone floods the city. The relevance extends to approximately 80% of the current mass-media releases, beit explicit video references such as this, or in word-interpretation of the vocal tracks. --- Now lets just say, with the culmination of a LOT of issues that week, would it not be effective for such entities as christianity's largest church, coupled with the current dictatorship of the USA, to effectively flood out a religious-based city in order to start a massive religious war? War is good for churchs. The current Nazi regime seems to be failing in starting large-scale religious-motivated wars. ("Islam did it!") Why not try to flood out a city of known significance? (Im concerned with the numerous physical devices left both upstream and on the backwater by the Vatican and their affiliates under religious guise, which most likely include LARGE explosive charges.) --- Now go back to your weather maps... How, do tell, could 3 storms exist in exactly the same location and layout for over a week naturally? Now, if per chance, you stuck a stick vertically into a stream, would there not be "trailing" ripples from doing such? What if this "stick" is an artificial cloud generating apparatus or resulting physical ramifications thereof? Do you see windward trailing ripples in the satilite and weather imagry? --- Now, granted I publicly started referencing these issues that week, and directly to some of the priest-type people (Im not gonna say covert, but they sure as hell weren't serving as tourists...) wandering around that week... I'll leave out the rest of the more pertinant issues, and allow you to ponder the above. Ponder this publicly. -Wilfred L. Guerin Wilfred(a)Cryogen.com

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Re: Spam blocklists?
by Sunder 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

None of those things work. Most spammers don't give a shit if you don't receive email. I can attest to this by the slew of spam going to hostmaster, webmaster, and the like on many networks. What they're really selling is "ten million addresses" and spam software. Even if 9 million of those are bullshit, they couldn't care less. The more things with "@" signs in'em the more money they make off clueless businesses. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bill/year|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Marcel Popescu wrote: > From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> > > > Solution is obvious and has been known for a long time > > Integrate payment with email. If anyone not on your approved > > list wants to send you mail, they have to pay you x, where x is > > a trivial sum, say a cent or two. > > > > Spammers wind up sending huge amounts of mail to unmonitored > > mailboxes, which will make spamming unprofitable. > > There is also Wei Dai's idea of b-money, I think, which requires every > incoming mail to solve a problem about hashes. This could be included in the > SMTP protocol, so that the server can generate the challenge dinamically (to > prevent replays). This would limit the amount of spam without requiring any > "real" money. > > Mark

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MS on Palladium, DRM and copy-protection (via job ad)
by Adam Back 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

It seems from this article that perhaps MS already had worked out how to do copy protection with Palladium, or at least thinks it possible contrary to what was said at USENIX security: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26651.html > [Palladium related job advert...] Our technology allows content > providers, enterprises and consumers to control what others can do > with their digital information, such as documents, music, video, > ebooks, and software. Become a key leader, providing vision and > industry leadership in developing DRM, Palladium and Software > Licensing products and Trust Infrastructure Services. "control what others can do with [...] software. [...] develop DRM [...] and Software Licensing products". Also again shows that Palladium is quite centrally a DRM platform, which is kind of obvious from the design, and anyway from the naming of the associated patent "DRM-OS". Adam

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Re: Reply for Dan Veeneman, Spam blocklists?
by Greg Broiles 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

At 07:25 PM 8/13/2002 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote: >The above email got bounced, does anyone know why? Neither my (62.3.121.225) >nor the .zen.co.uk IP's are blacklisted anywhere I can find. 208.249.200.24 >is on one list (xbl.selwerd.cx), but that isn't (?) the sender. parmenides.zen.co.uk was on spam blocklists until very recently - see http://groups.google.com/groups?q=212.23.8.69+group:news.admin.net-abuse.*&… for a discussion of that, or http://www.dsbl.org/listing.php?ip=212.23.8.69 for the literal details including results of relay tests; and see http://groups.google.com/groups?q=212.23.8.69+group:news.admin.net-abuse.*&… for an example of spam that was relayed through that server. >Osirusoft seems to be a spam blocker, but blocking legitimate mail is going >too far. I'd rather have the spam. And I object strongly to third (or >fourth) parties deciding what to do with my mail. It's the recipient, or someone acting on their behalf, who's deciding what to do with *their* mail, at least from the recipient's perspective. -- Greg Broiles -- gbroiles(a)parrhesia.com -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961

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