September 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

AU State prosecutes Schizophrenic.Third cPunk trial.Their funeral.
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

A man diagnosed with Schizophrenia 20 years ago and drawing an 80% incapacitated pension has been charged with making death threats toward the States police force. The alleged threats were made last year at Melb Indymedia website as comments to articles.The police themselves have said that "anyone can download there." No logs used to be kept at the site nor have they been subpoenaed.Are logs kept today? http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=201108&group=webcast No registration or log in is required.A post made will not leave a trace on the machine used to e-mail it in.This can be tested by making a cryptic post with some random numbers and then logging off and running a search on the 'C' drive. No admissions being made,the Police are relying of two copies of posts as evidence.They obtained these copies from a 'ghost' copy of a seized laptop.The laptop was at the accused's place when he was arrested by a multi agency and International police task force. One of the copied posts is timestamped;the time does NOT match the post,the other copy looks like a saved screen dump.The threat in that second one concerns Molotovs;within the week of that post Italian police had planted Molotovs at a Genoa Indymedia address.They then invaded the address injuring many and smashing computers.One has admitted he lied about being attacked with a knife. The complaining officer in the AU matter the same week is named Nic Conte.btw. He appears to be of mediterranean appearance The post was made with a US SS agent within TEMPEST range of the subjects unit.The police had keys to all the 8 units for a week during this time.The suspects computer had been hacked it had been boasted on the main Indymedia website. A reward for info leading to the suspects arrest had been offered,it was for 25K. The suspect had been imitated,stalked,threatened and abused online in the two months leading up to the arrest.Items were allegedly stolen from the unit that the suspect accused the police of lying to gain entry too. A psych nurse who attended the arrest and had previous access to the computer met the police involved.The media were notified.Suspect was described as an,M1 'protestor',he later managed to get two retractions of that claim in two local papers. A knife was allegedly pulled on the suspect at the station by Conte.The suspect was kept in a windowless police lockup for the weekend after he refused to sign several bail conditions.The jail has since been condemned,the bail conditions were described by the Magistrate on the Monday as a 'Nonsense",with,"nothing to do with the charges,"(the charges at that time.) The suspect was accused of promoting assassination politics,he was called an anarchist as if that was a criminal offence. Seven Months after the raid the suspects medical treatment was the subject of a Federal police assault.One of the AFP officers who had been at the raid went to Kyneton and plotted to increase the suspects prescribed medication 3/4 times. When the suspect resisted he was almost committed.A short time later he tried at great expense to regain his stolen property.At this hearing SC Conte claimed under oath that he ,"knew nothing about computers." The computer 'expert' claimed that merely turning on the laptop would alter thousands of files.Presumably the 'Ghost' copy was made from the 'switched on' laptop? That there was ongoing US interest in this case is spelt out in FOI documents from the AFP and a statement from a psych nurse that the Americans had mentioned Extradition at the January meeting.The US authorities had earlier started to set up a grand jury and issued a subpoena in relation to a post allegedly made by the disabled suspect. The evidence presented in the discovery is such that a quick move for dismissal with costs would be justified,should a (jury?) trial go ahead it is likely to be a long one with many questions to be answered about the various pressures to prosecute,possible tampered evidence,possible personal antipathy from the complainant.Mistakes made in the sworn brief of the complainant.The complainants history in a manifestly corrupt police force.(esp the drug squad.) Why when drugs were found at the unit charges were not proceeded with? Why have the police killed so many mentally ill people lately? Where the proof that the person charged made the alleged threats is? (The brief does not even show ISP records of the laptops being logged on the Net at the time of the alleged posts.) This is the third cypherpunk trial in the ongoing struggle for genuine cryptoanarchy,the State demonstrates its weaknesses at these trials,if its weak then we can pump up the volume,if it overreacts then its grist for the publicity mill.The significance of this trial is even revealed by random processes. It starts on Sept 11.

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Fresh Pulitzer skills.
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Thomas Friedman compares Noam Chomsky to USAma bin Laden. http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=18278 "...When I asked Friedman during a recent visit to the Kingdom about his differences with Chomsky, he replied, "Just as you regard Osama Bin Laden as an extremist, we in the US regard Chomsky as an extremist." Friedman also slags off Seattle activists...http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/merupert/Anti-Friedman.htm Anne Thrax thinks these pinko liberals at the NYT need killing,she may have a point. A suicide Bombing seems called for Anne?

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Attention cypherpunks@algebra.com
by Christian Cusson 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

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Scarecrow screws to cardboard cops.
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Job cut out for school cops Some 300 cardboard policemen reported for duty Monday morning on the streets of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, as part of a ploy by city authorities to get drivers to slow down as children return to school. The life-size cutouts painted in the cucumber green of Lithuanian police uniforms guarded street crossings near 90 Vilnius schools. "We strive to ensure drivers and schoolchildren pay attention to the intensive traffic in Vilnius streets," Vilnius's mayor, Arturas Zuokas, said in a statement. The children also guard the cops, however, taking them inside after school hours. http://abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-2sep2002-99.htm Wonder if they've heard of cardboard K19 submarine captains? Time to throw out another 5 tons of blood? American health authorities are investigating whether the West Nile virus has been transmitted through blood transfusions or organ donations. More than 500 cases have been reported in 26 states and there have been 28 deaths. Shrub says US jobs more important than a runaway greenhouse full of mozzies as his head is full of feathers. Victorias a bastard...A book to be published in Britain later this week claims that Queen Victoria may have been illegitimate. In his book The Victorians, acclaimed biographer AN Wilson alleges that Victoria's mother had a lengthy affair with her Irish-born secretary. The Australian Defence Force Academy says there is no ongoing health risk at Duntroon after a 19-year-old cadet died of meningococcal infection on Saturday. The cadet saw a Dr and was cleared just before he died.Trust us,we are experts,go back to your desks.It has been revealed an Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) cadet who died of meningococcal disease was misdiagnosed. Nineteen-year-old Matthew Lipianin was found dead on Saturday morning

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Bad case of crabs.
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

http://www.gov.sg/moh/mohiss/poison/pictor.html Lophozozymus pictor (Thunder Crab) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is a confirmed toxic species. It could be found inhabiting the coral reef beds in the southern islands off Singapore. An adult crab weighs about 100 grams and 10 cm in width. It is usually brightly coloured and has mosaic patterns on its shell and as such is also know as the mosaic crab. Locally this is commonly called "Thunder Crab"; the Australians call it the "Red and White Reef Crab". Several cases of human fatality in association with its consumption have been documented. The crab is highly toxic and to date there is no known antidote against such poisoning. Seek immediate medical treatment in any suspected case of poisoning. Distribution: Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia and Australia. Domoic Acid (ASP) in Shellfish What is domoic acid? Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin produced by microscopic algae, specifically the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia pungens. Shellfish and crab ingest this algae, where the toxin concentrates. Significant amounts of domoic acid can cause Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning (ASP) in humans. ASP is transmitted by eating contaminated molluscan shellfish and crab. http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/sf/Pubs/DomoicAcid.htm

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Phillip Agree.
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Police have found the former leader of the Victorian branch of the Manufacturing Workers Union (MWU), Craig Johnston, has no case to answer in relation to allegations of sexual assault. Dirty tricks in the Union movement? http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_Diary_Agee.html Psychological warfare includes propaganda (also known simply as 'media'), work in youth and student organizations, work in labour organizations (trade unions, etc.), work in professional and cultural groups and in political parties. Paramilitary operations include infiltration into denied areas, sabotage, economic warfare, personal harassment, air and maritime support, weaponry, training and support for small armies. Closely related to paramilitary operations are the disruptive activities known as militant action. Through organization and support of 'goon squads' sometimes composed of off-duty policemen, for example, or the militant sections of friendly political parties, stations attempt to intimidate communists and other extreme leftists by breaking up their meetings and demonstrations. The Technical Services staff of the DDP makes a variety of weapons and devices for these purposes. Horrible smelling liquids in small glass vials can be hurled into meeting halls. A fine clear powder can be sprinkled in a meeting-place becoming invisible after settling but having the effect of tear-gas when stirred up by the later movement of people. An incendiary powder can be moulded around prepared tablets and when ignited the combination produces ample quantities of smoke that attacks the eyes and respiratory system much more strongly than ordinary tear-gas. A tasteless substance can be introduced to food that causes exaggerated body colour. And a few small drops of a clear liquid stimulates the target to relaxed, uninhibited talk. Invisible itching powder can be placed on steering wheels or toilet seats, and a slight smear of invisible ointment causes a serious burn to skin on contact. Chemically processed tobacco can be added to cigarettes and cigars to produce respiratory ailments. Increasingly, as the oppressed in capitalist society comprehend the myth of liberal reform, their ruling minorities have no choice but to increase repression in order to avert socialist revolution. Eliminate CIA stations, US military missions, AID Public Safety missions and the 'free' trade-union programmes and those minorities would disappear, faster perhaps, than they themselves would imagine. How fitting that over the rubble of the CIA's old temporary buildings back in Washington, the new building that rose was called 'Watergate'. When the Watergate trials end and the whole episode begins to fade, there will be a movement for national renewal, for reform of electoral practices, and perhaps even for reform of the FBI and the CIA. But the return to our cozy self-righteous traditions should lure no one into believing that the problem has been removed. Reforms attack symptoms rather than the disease, and no other proof is needed than the Vietnam War and Watergate to demonstrate that the disease is our economic system and its motivational patterns. Reforms of the FBI and the CIA, even removal of the President from office, cannot remove the problem. American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force - without a secret police force. The argument is with capitalism and it is capitalism that must be opposed, with its CIA, FBI and other security agencies understood as logical, necessary manifestations of a ruling class's determination to retain power and privilege. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It's harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_Diary_Agee.html

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Foolish Bungling Incompetents?
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

FBI agents overseas 'critically important' In an effort to attack terrorism, drug trafficking, organized crime and other threats at their roots, an unprecedented number of FBI agents are now working overseas, and FBI Director Robert Mueller says they are "critically important" to preventing more terrorist attacks.....( Knight Ridder, 1 Sep 02) Terrorism's Toll on the F.B.I. OVER the years, F.B.I. directors have shifted resources to confront the scourge at hand. In the 1970's, Clarence M. Kelley veered away from the fight against Communism and took on organized crime. A decade later, William H. Webster put the emphasis on counterintelligence. William S. Sessions ended his tumultuous tenure with a push against violent crime.....( New York Times, 1 Sep 02) http://www.cicentre.com/ Bond,james Bond..."There's something from every film and it will be the greatest collection of original 007 objects, images and costumes ever assembled, exploring the science and the art of the Bond films." --Nicola Osmond Evans, a spokesman for the Science Museum in London about their upcoming "Bond, James Bond Exhibition", which opens next month Spies in the Boardroom? ...In late July CCBN.com, a Web-based communications firm that handles investor relations, filed suit against the Canadian information services giant Thomson Corp. Seeking treble damages, the suit accuses Thomson of using its two CCBN board seats to steal confidential information--including pricing data and competitive analysis--that helped it create a rival service, and of hiring people who had confidentiality agreements with CCBN....( Forbe, 1 Sep 02) Spy Sarasota aims gadgets at counter-surveillance market Standing in a busy aisle at the International Security Conference Expo in Orlando, Roy Winkelmann is clutching a 4-ounce device he has just purchased called a "Zap Checker." It is a highly sensitive handheld counter-surveillance meter that detects wireless video or audio bugs as far away as 40 feet....( Herald Tribune, 1 Sep 02) Gone and now forgotten Never mind if a country - a member of the NATO Alliance - is now led by a Communist-era secret police agent.....(Budapest Sun, 30 Aug 02) http://www.cicentre.com/ Bring back SMERSH.

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Ohio,copperhead row.Michael K Allen eat your dirty heart out.
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Federal judge bars new pornography 08/31/02 Chris Seper Plain Dealer Reporter A federal judge yesterday blocked changes that were meant to modernize Ohio's anti-pornography law for the Internet age. Judge Walter Herbert Rice in Dayton said the law was so broad that it was as likely to ban teaching of the Holocaust in schools and prohibit kids from reading National Geographic magazine as it was to protect them from online pornography and the sexual deviants who prowl the Web. The judge, who issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month, permanently barred the state from enforcing the law. Now the state must decide whether to appeal the decision, let legislators amend the law or await a final ruling from the judge later this year. Bret Crow, spokesman for the Ohio attorney general's office, said yesterday his office was still examining the ruling. He didn't know how it would limit Ohio's enforcement. Ohio's decades-old law was rewritten earlier this year to cover such things as online pornographers and sexual predators who target youths. The law made it a felony to distribute material considered "harmful to juveniles" - sex acts, repeated use of foul language, lurid details of violence and the glorifying of criminal activity - via computer, the Internet, newspapers, movies and other similar means. It was challenged by bookstore owners, a state newspaper association, and a sexual advice Web site, which said the definition of "harmful to juveniles" was too vague and that the Internet should not be included. Rice, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, didn't rule on the Internet challenge but agreed that the definition of "harmful to juveniles" was too broad and covered too many media. Mainstream movies and magazines as well as legitimate historical topics could potentially violate the law, Rice stated. Rice also said Web sites that answer sexual health questions could also be in violation. "Indeed, under Ohio statutes, it would be illegal to show (a juvenile) a copy of a National Geographic in which indigenous women are pictured naked from the waist up," Rice wrote, also noting that prohibitions of extreme violence could endanger the teaching of the Holocaust. The attorney general's office argued during the case that no one would interpret the law that broadly, and warned that Ohio youth would be at greater risk if the law was struck down. But Rice questioned whether the law would be more effective against pornographers than existing legislation. He cited testimony in which Ohio police officers had made scores of arrests by impersonating children online. To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: cseper(a)plaind.com, 216-999-5405

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Message de �lodie
by sophie.l＠rencontre-club.com 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

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Gore Techs.
by Matthew X 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Gore talks tech, re-invention Former vice president addresses technology and government officials at Innovative Government Forum [Posted Aug. 27] http://www.fcw.com/ Jebs choice for child care? A wife and child beating advocate. Bush family values -- He's the best man for the job DCF leader: It's OK to spank by Carol Marbin Miller, Lesley Clark and Peter Wallsten The man named Thursday by Gov. Jeb Bush to head Florida's notoriously inept child welfare agency is an evangelical Christian who views spanking that causes ''bruises or welts'' as acceptable punishment. The revelation did not come to Bush's attention until hours after the governor introduced Jerry Regier, a former Oklahoma Cabinet secretary and aide to Bush's father, as the new chief of the state's Department of Children and Families. Regier, 57, was named less than 48 hours after the resignation of DCF Secretary Kathleen A. Kearney. He takes over an agency that has been embroiled in scandal since 5-year-old Rilya Wilson disappeared. http://booknotes.weblogs.com/2002/08/16

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