December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo Navigation Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Main banner Charles Schwab Rated #1 by Smart Money rule BROTHER'S BOOK: ATF BLEW UP MURRAH BUILDING James Nichols Jury selection continues in Denver courtroom October 8, 1997 Web posted at: 10:21 p.m. EDT (0221 GMT) DECKER, Michigan (CNN) -- As jury selection continues in the trial of accused Oklahoma bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, his brother has published a book meant to plant the seeds of doubt about whether Nichols was involved in the worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil. The 415-page book, co-written with Bob Papovich, is called "Freedom's End: Conspiracy in Oklahoma." In it, James Nichols contends that his brother had nothing to do with the 1995 bombing, that a law enforcement agency actually blew up the building, and that the FBI has not investigated the case sufficiently. _______________________________________________________________ "They have failed to prove anything. They have investigated people, but not the bombing, because all they want to do is prosecute people, not find out the truth." James Nichols _______________________________________________________________ Specifically, James Nichols contends that the plastic barrels found at his brother's Kansas home did not match those found in the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He also contends that the bomb did not contain ammonium nitrate, as prosecutors contend. vxtreme CNN's Ed Garsten reports. James Nichols does admit that Timothy McVeigh, already convicted and sentenced to death in the attack that killed 168 people, was upset about a 1993 raid by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. But he scoffs at the idea that was the motive for the Oklahoma bombing, as prosecutors say. "Getting back at the (ATF) is a really stupid argument. There were few (ATF) agents stationed at the Murrah building," he writes. Freedom's End Instead, James Nichols maintains that the ATF itself blew up the Murrah building as part of a cover up of what happened at Waco. He wrote, "Who benefits by destroying records that would prove that the (ATF) was lying about the alleged drug laboratory, illegal weapons and child abuse at (the Davidian compound)?" Contacted for a response, an ATF spokesman told CNN that the agency could not comment because of the ongoing trial of Terry Nichols in Denver. James Nichols is scheduled to testify in his brother's defense. For James Nichols, writing the book may have been easier than getting it published. He says mainstream publishers would not print it, so he and Papovich published it themselves and took out loans to pay for it. Nichols also says many books stores are refusing to carry it because of its controversial subject matter. Jury selection continues in Denver In Denver meanwhile, a second week of jury selection began in Nichols' trial in U.S. District Court. Terry Nichols A grandmother who said it would be a mortal sin for her to impose the death penalty, and who pleaded that she needed to be with a sick daughter, was dismissed Wednesday on grounds of hardship. "I could never think of putting a person to death, because how can you put a person to death when it won't bring the people back?" she asked. "It would be on a person's conscience." The woman is Catholic and Judge Richard Matsch asked if she considered it a mortal sin to sentence someone to death. "Yes," said the woman, "a mortal sin." She was followed by a man who designs packaging for the medical industry. He said the death penalty would be appropriate in "a crime where someone shows no remorse. It might be a very violent crime." Another prospective juror interviewed Wednesday morning was a man who at first said the death penalty should be automatic for anyone convicted of premeditated murder. Later, under questioning by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch, the man conceded that he could consider the character and background of the defendant before imposing a death sentence. The court is attempting to find a pool of 64 "death penalty-qualified" jurors from which a final panel of 12 jurors and six alternatives will be chosen. Under federal law, jurors must agree that they can impose the death penalty but will also consider other sentences if mitigating circumstances warrant. Nichols, 42, could receive the death penalty if he is convicted of the murder and conspiracy charges he faces. Detroit Bureau Chief Ed Garsten contributed to this report. rule Trial nav grfk T H E N I C H O L S T R I A L / T H E M c V E I G H T R I A L T H E B O M B I N G / C N N S T O R I E S / L I N K S CNN Community * Message board - OKC trials: Nichols and McVeigh Related feature * Time Magazine: 'What Nichols revealed' _______________________________________________________________ Infoseek search ____________________ ____ ____ _______________________________________________________________ rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards You said it... [INLINE] Charles Schwab Rated #1 by Smart Money rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo Navigation Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Main banner SAMSUNG Meet the Challenge rule WOMAN ADMITS SLAPPING ADOPTED CHILD ON FLIGHT FROM RUSSIA October 8, 1997 Web posted at: 10:30 p.m. EDT (0230 GMT) NEW YORK (AP) -- A Phoenix woman testified Wednesday that on a 12-hour flight from Moscow she may have slapped one of the two Russian girls she and her husband adopted. Karen Thorne said she was "very frustrated" in her attempts to calm the young girl on the crowded jet. She said difficulties began when she and her husband, Richard, met the 4-year-olds at an orphanage in Voronezh, about 12 hours north of Moscow by train. She said one child cried frequently and the other was initially warm, but then became aggressive and hard to manage. She said the children were difficult to control on a shopping trip in Moscow and while waiting to board the plane to New York. Three Texas men who were on the flight with their own newly adopted children said they saw the Thornes hit the girls. The Thornes were arrested upon landing and the girls were placed in foster homes, first in New York and now in Arizona, where the Thornes are permitted supervised visits. The Thornes have been charged with assault, harassment and endangering the welfare of the children. The Thornes speak only English; the children only Russian. Copyright 1997 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. _________________________________________________________________ Infoseek search ____________________ ____ ____ _________________________________________________________________ rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards You said it... [INLINE] SAMSUNG Meet the Challenge rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:00:38 -0600 (CST) from orenco23.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.99.23] ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications ----- <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca> (transient failure) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca>... Deferred: Connection refused by orion.sk.sympatico.ca. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 1 day old Reporting-MTA: dns; wombat.sk.sympatico.ca Arrival-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:00:38 -0600 (CST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca Action: delayed Status: 4.2.0 Remote-MTA: DNS; orion.sk.sympatico.ca Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:28:07 -0600 (CST) Will-Retry-Until: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 18:00:38 -0600 (CST) To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: InfoWar 2000 / AOL Format From: The Last True CypherPunk <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 18:04:15 -0600 Organization: "It's a Multi-User Persona whose homepage is a Mirror site." Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Title: The True Story of the Internet Part II The True Story of the InterNet Part III InfoWar 2000 Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Copyright 1997 Pearl Publishing InfoWar Table of Contents InfoWar 2000 InfoWar 2000 "InfoWar is back!" Jonathan cried out, waking the other members of the Magic Circle instantly. They quickly rose and gathered around the GraphiScreen hovering over the old oak table. Subject: Re: [Pigdog] ViaCrypt slowly executes Timmy C. May From: Flesh <flesh(a)pigdog.org> To: pigdog-l(a)arlington.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Does the fireBot work well with the throwemupagainstthewallandaimfortheheadBot? Cowboy recognized the significance immediately. "A thousand Points of Presence." "UUNETWorldCom?" Alexis asked, surprised. Jonathan nodded, adding, "And they're moving faster and quieter than they did in history as we have known it, up to now." He began reading off the list he had compiled in just a short time, "Fiber, Digital Microwave, Satellite, Undersea Fiber Cable. Financial markets, telecommunications, construction, health care, and politics. "They seem to be putting all of the 'usual suspects' under one flag, around the globe." A Player To Be Named Later scanned the series of posts, for the thousandth time. "It's dejavu, all over again." he said, quoting a Yogi Berra malapropism. The feeling had been growing on him The feeling that somehow, everything was the same as beforeonly different. "The Lake of Life has started to turn over. The bottom is rising to the top, the top is descending to the bottom, and everything is becoming the opposite of what it seems to be." A Player To Be Named Later sat quietly, contemplating what it was that had changed, only somehow not changed, since the last time the lake had turned over on the CypherPunks mailing list. He thought about "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs." He began to see the parallel between the history of the creation of WebWorld and the creation of the CypherPunks distributed list. There was the subterfuge which had preceded both the Channel Revolution which foreshadowed WebWorld and the Censorship Crisis which had presaged the CypherPunks distributed mailing list. There were the climaxes that precipitated the structural changes in both cases, the satellite destruction in the one case, and the loss of toad.com as host to the mailing list in the other case. There were the parallels with outside attacks ceasing on both the CypherPunks distributed mailing lists and the variety of Channels on WebWorld, in an attempt to let the citizens/members bond with their new channels/lists. One parallel-or two, depending on how you looked at it-in particular, which stood out in the mind of A Player To Be Named Later. There were three CypherPunks distributed lists-at algebra.com, ssz.com, and at cyberpass.net. Likewise, there was a reference to the Money Channel Government in WebWorld having three channels under its control. Then, there was the strange, strange saga of three religious channels-the God Channel, the Dualist Channel, and the Trinity Channel-which had somehow merged, yet not merged, creating a problem which had left the 'powers that be' very, very nervous. "What the hell happened to Channel War I?" A Player To Be Named Later, asked himself, suddenly recognizing a glaring disparity between the parallels he was drawing between the history of WebWorld and the history of the CypherPunks list. "And what the hell happened to InfoWar?" he asked, turning to Baby, who stood up and barked her agreement that there was definitely something fishy going on that involved the two shadow wars that had somehow been misplaced in the annals of history-one in the future, and one in the past. In 'WebWorld', both the reference to the three Money Channel Governments and reference to the three spiritual channels which became one, yet didn't, revolved around the close of Channel War I. But there didn't seem to be a parallel to Channel War I in the Time-Line of the CypherPunks list. Likewise, 'WebWorld' began with a reference to an 'InfoWar Scrambler Mechanism' which seemed to indicate that 'InfoWar' would play a major part in the history of 'WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs.' Yet there were only a few later references in Part II of The True Story of the InterNet in regard to "the beginning stages of InfoWar," with no further details. A Player To Be Named Later strained to touch the wispy haze of memory which was rising somewhere in the back of his mind-a memory which whispered "InfoWar" from somewhere deep in the heart of the CypherPunks mailing list censorship crisis. "Toto!" he said, suddenly feeling a ferocious stinging sensation behind his right ear, which resulted in a loss of balance as he fell to the floor, and a loss of consciousness as the blackness closed in around him The tattered remnants of the Magic Circle of the future sat quietly around the antique oak table, anxious and depressed. "Why is the Trei Transponder receiving interference from Toto's digital implant?" Priscilla asked the group. "All of my monitoring tests show that the last adjustments we made to the Zooko Zamboni were up to Journeyman standards." "Perhaps it is a result of the differences in the winter climates between the Netherlands and Canada." Jonathan said. "It seems to me that the effects of Global Warming were just beginning to have undeniably noticeable effects in that particular epoch." The Cowboy got up and paced a bit, as the others realized he was working up the courage to say what they were all thinking. "Or.." he hesitated, then turned to face the others and continued, "perhaps the rebirth of InfoWar reflects that our efforts toward changing the past have not only been successful, but are now irrevocable." Jonathan pulled up a passage of 'WebWorld' onto the GraphiScreen, contemplating what he had originally perceived as the failure of InfoWar during the hotly contested battle which took place on the CypherPunks list during the censorship crisis. "January 19, 1997. "The beginning date of the 'moderation experiment' on the legendary CypherPunks mailing list. The beginning probe in preparation for the launching of InfoWar-an experiment which had failed miserably and had caused a delay in the plans of the Evil One. A delay caused by the damnable insolence of the terminal misfits among the CypherPunks. An insolence that was rumored to be fueled by the Circle of Eunuchs, fanning the 'flames' of dissent among the CypherPunks, helping them to resist the herding of their list members into the group-mindset desired by the Evil One." The other members of the Circle of Eunuchs sat still in their seats, not wanting to disturb the deep thoughts of Jonathan, who was indeed the Last True CypherPunk, having grown up at their feet, immersed in their logic and their lore, and whose whole life had been ruled by his connection to the infamous anarchists who had been, alternately, both the shining light of freedom and privacy in their era, and the treacherous instigators of Channel War II-the war which had led to the ultimate triumph of the Gomez and the Dark Allies and the conclusive ascent of the Dark Forces in their domination of WebWorld under the dictum of the Evil One. The room was quiet as Jonathan reluctantly pulled up the next passage of 'WebWorld' which had described his feelings when his bereft past had come back to haunt him. "Jonathan sat frozen in his seat, once again, his brain locked from the major dichotomies being produced as a result of his present-in which the CypherPunks were a villainous band of rogues who had instigated the launching of Channel War II-and his past, in which his grandfather had been exposed both as one of the major players in both the launching of Channel War II, and as traitorous scum who had sabotaged the goals of the CypherPunks in that same historical battle. "Jonathan's grandfather wasn't just a CypherPunk. He was the Fool." "We won" Jonathan's voice trailed off, before he rose from the table and repeated his statement, in anger. "We won, damn it! "I know we won. Grandfather knew we won the censorship battle. Everyone knew that we won the censorship battle. History itself knows that we wonwe" Jonathan stopped short, turning to stare at the others, who were staring back. "Jonathan" Bubba said softly. "History has changed." "I know that, damn it!" Jonathan resumed his pacing, knowing that he was missing something very, very important, but he couldn't for the life of him think what it might possibly be. The others in the room watched and waited, knowing that it was Jonathan, and Jonathan alone, whose heritage was intricately and irrevocably linked to the era in history which they had, for better or worse, interfered in through their use of the Trei Transponder. "Grandfather was a traitor to the CypherPunksa traitor to freedom and privacy. He sabotaged everything that the CypherPunks had fought so hard to defend, since the inception of their anarchist, cryptography mailing list. "But the CypherPunks loved us" Jonathan was lost in memories of a childhood in which he and his family had been forced to remain in constant motion, staying a half-step ahead of the Dark Allies, who had been hunting down the last remaining members of the CypherPunks-with a vengeance. His family had been soundly welcomed by the remaining CypherPunks, in their flight to freedom after his Grandfather's assassination. They had given the family food, clothing, shelter, and warned them when the Dark Allies were closing in, and it was once again time to flee. Duncan Frissell had even Perhaps they all had Jonathan sank to the floor, slowly, with Alexis leaping up and catching him softly. Cowboy helped her guide him toward the table and lower him into a chair. Jonathan slowly pulled off his shirt and stared at his tattoothe Mark of the Toad. "Duncan Frissell arrived at our last safe house, in the middle of the night." Jonathan spoke, finally understanding the real story behind his family's flight into obscurity. "He warned us to flee, but it was too latethe Dark Allies were close at hand." Jonathan's voice was full of amazement as he recounted an event which he had long known, but had never managed to fully understand. "Duncan held the Dark Allies at bay, while we made our escape. I can still hear his screams" Jonathan shuddered, then began shaking terribly. Alexis closed her arms around him, hugging him lightly. "Your Grandfather knew that the CypherPunks had lost the battle." Bubba picked up the thread. The other members of the Magic Circle looked on, mystified as to this strange turn of events which turned the whole history of the CypherPunks and the Circle of Eunuchs on hits head. "It wasn't a censorship battle." the Cowboy said, amazed as much by what he was saying as those listening to him were. "It was InfoWar!" "That's what happened to InfoWar." Alexis cried out, in disbelief of her own words. "It was over before it had begun." Bubba d'Shauneaux IV rose to his feet, and filled in the details of the battle as could only be done by one who had spent a lifetime of subterfuge playing a role which was the exact opposite of what it had seemed to be from surface appearances. "It was the first battle fought solely within the bounds of Virtual Reality." "It represented the true nadir point in history when the battle between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness moved beyond the physical plane and into the minds of mankind." "InfoWar!" he roared, the word reverberated throughout the room, sending the Trei Transponder into a soft hum which grew louder and louder, with a pitch that went lower and lower until it became subsonic, unheard, but shaking the roomthe eartheven WebWorld itself... The Trei Transponder exploded with a mighty boom, shaking the room so violently that the tattered remnants of the Magic Circle were thrown from their chairs, and found themselves rising to see only ruins around them, where their safe house had once been. They immediately realized that they must flee at once, as those investigating the explosion would undoubtedly be the Dark Allies, fully aware that the event had rent WebWorld at the seams. Jonathan paused, weapon in hand, covering the retreat of d'Shauneaux, who had remained behind to remove the last traces of evidence that the Circle of Eunuchs had ever truly been there. As d'Shauneaux joined him, motioning for him to proceed, he took one last look at the shattered remains of the Trei Transponder. All contact with the CypherPunks of the past was now gone, with little hope of it being renewed. Silently, he sent a message to the CypherPunks of his youth-from the bottom of his soul and into the inestimable profundity of the Tao. It was a message that would be understood by those who had been at Woodstock-a physical gathering of a Magic Circle which had come into physical being through a random blessing of Time and Chance. "You're on you own, folksbecause we're sure on ours." Those who fail to learn from the future, are doomed to repeat it. "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet') Soviet Union Sickle of Eunuchs Secret WebSite

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Privacy Forum - Oct 20 - Washington DC
by Electronic Privacy Info Center 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

- Open to the public - PRIVACY SYMPOSIUM Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC October 20, 1997 A public symposium entitled "Privacy at the Crossroads: Law, Technology, and Public Policy", will be held on October 20, 1997, at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. This symposium will look at emerging privacy issues in the legal and technological world, with a particular focus on the European Union Data Directive, privacy enhancing technologies, and the shape of privacy protection in the next century. These issues are rapidly coming to the fore with the adoption of the European Union Directive and the increasing interest in techniques to promote privacy protection, especially with the rapid flow and exchange of information that is possible with electronic data. Privacy has recently been the subject of hearings before the Federal Trade Commission and it is a central component of the new White House policy on Electronic Commerce. The symposium will take place on Monday, October 20, 1997, at the Gerwirz Center of the Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The program will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m. Speakers will include many North American experts on privacy and technology issues, including law professors, technologists, and commentators. The symposium is sponsored by the Georgetown University Law Center, the John F. Connelly Program in Business Ethics, Georgetown University School of Business, the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program of Georgetown University, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. This is a free event open to the public. No registration is required. If you have any further questions, please contact Shauna Van Dongen at <shauna(a)epic.org>. Program "PRIVACY AT THE CROSSROADS: LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY" Georgetown University Law Center Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, DC Monday, October 20, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 9:00 Welcome - Dean Allen, Prof. Levy, Prof. Drake, Prof. Rotenberg 9:15 The European Union Data Directive Moderator: Deborah Hurley, Kennedy School of Government Prof. David Flaherty, British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner Robert Gellman, Information and Privacy Consultant Prof. Priscilla Regan, George Mason University Prof. Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School Prof. Peter Swire, Ohio State University College of Law 10:45 Privacy and Technology Moderator: Prof. Michael Froomkin, Univ. of Miami Law School Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Prof. Gary Marx, Woodrow Wilson Center Prof. Joel Reidenberg, Fordham Law School Prof. Paul Resnick, University of Michigan Peter Wayner, Cybertimes 12:15 Lunch 1:30 The Future of Privacy Moderator: Dean Anita Allen, Georgetown University Law Center Prof. Phil Agre, Univ. of California at San Diego Prof. Mary Culnan, Georgetown Graduate School of Business Prof. Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University Prof. Alan Westin, Columbia University 3:00-4:00 Reception Sponsored by - Georgetown University Law Center, John F. Connelly Program in Business Ethics of the Georgetown University School of Business, Georgetown University Communication, Culture, and Technology Program [http://www.georgetown.edu/grad/CCT/] Electronic Privacy Information Center [http://www.epic.org/]

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anonymous poster quality up
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I notice that the quality of anonymous submissions to the discussion here on cypherpunks has increased markedly lately. I can see a couple of reasons why this might be: Monty Cantsin seems to write consistently good stuff, Tim May announced he may be using some nyms, and we have this big argument with PGP Inc where their employees may feel pressure not to speak out of line. One suspects that some of the anonymous contributors exploring the issues are actually PGP employees:-) Regardless of who the new anonymous contributors are, it's nice to see quality anonymous posts, keep it up! Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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17 Dec '03

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Where is _my_ blowjob?
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Visited the CNN website earlier. I wasn't at all surprised to see the factual errors and pandering to government spoon feeders for the main sources of many CNN stories. After all, when Captial Hill'$ bottom feeders give away fify billion dollars worth of valuable digital airwave bandwidth, I expect them to ask for a few extras thrown in with the usual bribes and blow-jobs. So it was no great surprise to find CNN still reporting the LIE that the child-rapist/murderer in New Jersey had been a victim of a sexual predator he had met on the InterNet, despite the fact that the news services who *aren't* part of the fifty billion dollar giveaway of taxpayer-citizen's public resources have been reporting the FACTS for quite some time now. Seems the guy bopping the murderer met him on a 1-900 line. Should I hold my breath waiting for the loud calls by reporters and legislators for strict new laws taking away citizens' rights to free speech on the phone systems of America, or would that be dangerous to my health? I know that CNN also has to fill in a few spaces between government spoon-fed mind-control propaganda being fed to the citizens by the recipients of the public largess, so that CNN is forced to throw in a few quickie references to some other websites and information other than that which comes directly out of the assholes of Lying Fuck Freeh and Nazi Cunt Reno, such as: Crime on the Superhighway http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6647/ Investigator Lynn Zwicke However, did somebody on the staff get a blow-job in return for putting a supposed NEWS pointer to this schmuck's ADVERTISEMENT for his or her PI business? I certainly hope that this is the case, since someone should have gotten *something* for opening CNN up to a lawsuit for providing a pointer to an incompetent schmuck who is spreading extremely bad FUD (fear, uncertainty, disinformation) in regard to child abuse and abusers, in order to turn a quick buck. I imagine that CNN has some fine-print disclaimer somewhere, explaining that they are not responsible for the victims of incompetent and perhaps unlicensed schmucks that CNN blesses with their own reputation capital when directing people to supposed news/information sites, but I doubt that the parent of an abused child or a falsely accused child abuse victim is going to be to impressed, nonetheless, with CNN's lack of integrity in not spending the time, effort and expense needed to make certain that they are not throwing their trusting readers into the mouths of waiting hyenas. I'm still waiting for the CNN story which replies to the DoJ and FBI *HANDOUTS* detailing their list of 4,000 suspected pedophiles, with a question as to whether some of the 800 LEA's present at the murder of the religious group in Waco perhaps didn't have some extra time on their hands that might have been better spent investigating all of these alleged pedophiles, rather than pushing and shoving each other to get pictures of burning children. OK, I'm holding my breath, starting........NOW! TruthMonger

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No Subject
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"THE DUKE" <pleontks(a)hotmail.com> writes: >The government is not planning to murder everyone. The Government is >not keeping aliens in the 'basement'. The X-Files are not real. The >government is not murdering public figures, and setting-up pore, >civilian saps to take the fall. The only thing that the Government is >doing is running our country the best it can. The Government routinely lies to the citizens it allegedly represents. It infringes on the rights guaranteed those citizens by the Constitution. The FCC can't allocate radio bandwidth efficiently, byt they seem to have no problem telling Howard Stern not to say "vagina" on the radio. I could go on and on, ad nauseam, but you get the idea. If this is their best effort, they should be horsewhipped, tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. Unfortunately, the brain-dead populace continues to get hypnotized by their Pied-Piper tales and makes the biennial Bataan death march to the polls (nice double entendre there, n'est-ce pas?) to choose between Picto Bold and Picto Light, the two candidates in their district who have a single common goal: to get elected to an office where they can get a firm lip clamp on the teat of the American taxpayer, and skim off the lobbyists in their spare time. Neither one really gives a flying fuck about the people they represent; it's the power they want. >All you are doing for the Government, is finding fault and conspiracy in >every action. You are destroying the Government, and are thereby >destroying America. Why would I want to do anything for the Government? I already pay them a tithe (oh, sure, you can call it "income tax") to stay the fuck away from me, by and large. As soon as someone shows up at my door and says "Hi, I'm here from the Government to help you," I'm running for my life. That kind of "help" usually results in gunfire, or dependence on further Government subidies, or having mopey Government types hang around to explain to me that I should use water-based varnish so I don't wreck the ozone layer. >None of you have my pity. I spit upon you all. None of us need your pity. And wipe your chin when you're done. And say "hi" to Mr. Freeh next time you see him. Of course, it won't be his face that'll be at eye level. . . AngerMonger

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1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
by Mike Reiter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The call-for-papers for the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy can be found at http://www.research.att.com/~reiter/oakland98.html - Mike

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Re: Internet Via Electric Lines? (fwd)
by phelix＠vallnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9 Oct 1997 02:25:13 -0500, "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)invweb.net> wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >In <199710081234.HAA11747(a)einstein.ssz.com>, on 10/08/97 > at 07, Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> said: > >>Forwarded message: > >>> From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)invweb.net> >>> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 97 01:28:42 -0500 >>> Subject: Re: Internet Via Electric Lines? > >>> This is nothing new. > >>At least late 70's. > >>> I think it was GE that several years ago created phone extensions that you >>> plugged into your power outlets, no need to run wire to put in an extra >>> outlet. I believe that X-10 uses this same principle for computer control >>> of household appliances. >>> >>> Not to mention data leakage through power lines is an issue long reconized >>> by the TEMPEST crowd. >>> >>> The trick here seems to be in routing the data. How do you get data on the >>> power grid routed to the location that you want it to go?? > >>The trick with X-10 is to stay away from transformers as the signal won't >>go through them effectively. This ends any dreams of sending data to your >>neighbor, the signal won't go through your power meter. > >This seems to be a Goodthing(TM) for residential X-10 as it would seem to >take care of a lot of security issues by effectively isolating each home >from others who may be running the same system. > >Has anyone researched the security issues around X-10? Is the Transformer >isolation good enough protection from a dedicated attack (as opposed to >accidental signal leakage)? Are their alternative routes for transmitting >the FM signal (Airwaves) that the X-10 devices would pick up?? Do any of >the current X-10 devices use signal authentication/verification? > X-10? security? hehehe... that's good for a laugh. There is no security whatsover in X-10. If your neighbor knows the addresses of your X-10 units and his power comes off the same transformer as yours, he can easily turn your lights on and off. The only thing protecting you (besides obscurity) is the transformer that isolates your power line from others. X-10 doesn't use any type of FM signal. It simply transmits bits in the zeros of the ac power 'signal'. It only get 120bps and most signals are repeated 3 times (even with that, the signal sometimes gets lost in the line noise), so really you only get 40bps. A command consists simply of [address],[command]. The address is 8 bits long, I dont' remember how long the command is. In X-10 speak, and address is [A-P] [1-16]. The commands are on,off,bright,dim,all-lights-on, and a few others. There's no security, no encryption, not even collision detection when using more than one transmitter. Now, there a new system called cebus, but it's over 10X more expensive. I don't know too much about it. -- Phelix

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The main difference between Timothy May and shit is that shit smells better. \o _o o o \o |o |o >> /\/ o__ _o o/ Timothy May | | /| |\ | / /|/ \|o o\ | \ \ | | | << << << | << < \

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Seeing Both Sides
by Magus Mixmaster Anonymous Remailer Service 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bob Hettinga wrote: >But then, logic, much less independent thinking, was never >Foucault's strong point. I took this statement at face value, but out of curiousity I decided to find out who this guy Foucault was. The things I read about him lead me to believe otherwise. Some quotes from Michel Foucault: "The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social worker'-judge." "Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline." How quick we are to condemn those who step out of the "norm", no? As soon as someone says something even slightly controversial, our inner censors rush in to separate ourselves from that person, to chastise him, to condemn him, regardless of the relationship we have developed with him in the past. There is this unfortunate property in man that leads him to disassociate himself from the ideas he holds true if it is convenient, and especially if it will allow him to avoid the ridicule, hatred and disdain of others. In the never ending "pursuit of happiness" we seek to make our lives so comfortable that we will give up that which we hold dearest. "The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and...to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play)." In other words, to make people think. This is the goal of the intellectual. To subtly influence the mass of humanity by appealing to their minds, their reason, instead of their base instincts and emotions. Tolerance and acceptance are results brought about in us by communion with the mind, that which is greatest in us. Hatred, persecution, violence are what we fall back upon when we cease to live to our fullest potential. We degenerate into the animals we once were. Once again, Bob wrote: >The world's foremost pseudomystical relativist cited to support an >absolutist position. The logic escapes me. But then, logic, much less >independent thinking, was never Foucault's strong point. Perhaps one way of looking at it is that if you can't see the black and the white, you're missing the whole picture. After all, who would think that one would need to use an anonymous remailer and a pseudonym to express oneself in a free and open society such as ours? Nerthus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNGu85OFWwZe05jcJAQGvYwgAlI0R3rJW67A9fFIs9ai5FY/jEAwV2oQ1 112bd/UmgfJ11DYPWUpG6GKt2XcBUd6UfYPnidY27hT+GGBTTKjAeF88z0XMu6Ep jWUPllwb0Dw5or1o9IBg8ZAOPaAu/SMy9yVgcfaEbAqmfNken+dBhbfoAORjaLd8 BJSYCGs1Bw3Aw1gE7e3aJdjlYs/gKKNkoTQCkgkt6VBBCEQ7dXG1qbq2BTYS3py9 meK2utOM+YLG/+bJSoGRLT5oFiIpnYrkIwAziAtO7WAfydq+vwf8EsTdnX5mwUxg THngvvyaAbZtVm/yObAPgifbfpfDbnfYOL/rrJQzGMXVJCUBNKTQKg== =zZLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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A Leaner's as good as a Ringer! / WAS: Asleep on Crime
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In June, the Court of Appeal in London, England, turned down Thomas Moringiello's challenge to his fraud conviction and 18- month prison sentence. Although Moringiello was able to prove that Judge Richard Hamilton had slept through portions of the testimony at trial the year before, the higher court said Moringiello was not harmed because Hamilton still was able to give a summary of the case for the jury's deliberation. ~~~~~~~ To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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Progressive Government Programs That WORK!!!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

sampler-request(a)lmboyd.com wrote: > > ====================================================== > The powerful William the Conqueror became the even more > powerful Duke of Normandy, and thereafter enforced the > Truce of God. It forbade violence on Mondays, Tuesdays, > Thursdays and Fridays. This cut murderers down to a > three-day week. > ============================================== > > LMBoyd Web Site / U. S. Newspapers / Start Email / Stop Email > http://www.LMBoyd.com/postscript.htm

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Microsoft Addresses Justice Department Accusations
by semprini＠theschool.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Microsoft Addresses Justice Department Accusations REDMOND, Wash. -- Oct. 21, 1997 -- In direct response to accusations made by the Department of Justice, Microsoft Corporation announced today it will be acquiring the Federal Government of the United States of America for an undisclosed sum. "It's actually a logical extension of our growth," said Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates. "It's a positive arrangement for everyone." Microsoft representatives held a briefing at the Oval Office with US President Bill Clinton, and assured members of the press that changes to US Government policy will be "minimal." The United States will be managed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. An initial public offering is planned for July 4 of next year, and the Federal Government is expected to be profitable by 1999, according to Microsoft president Steve Ballmer. In a related announcement, President Bill Clinton stated that he had "willingly and enthusiastically" accepted a position as vice president of USA Operations with Microsoft, and will continue to manage the United States government, reporting directly to Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates. When asked how it felt to give up the mantle of executive authority, Clinton smiled and referred to it as "a relief." He went on to say that Gates has a "proven track record," and that US citizens should offer Gates their "full support and confidence." In his new role at Microsoft, Clinton will reportedly be earning several times the $200,000 annually he currently earns as US president. Gates dismissed a rumor that the US Capitol be moved to Redmond as "silly," though he did say he would make executive decisions for the US government from his existing office at Microsoft headquarters. Gates did say, however, that the US House and Senate would "of course" be abolished. "Microsoft isn't a democracy," Gates said, "yet look how well we're doing." When asked if the rumored attendant acquisition of Canada was proceeding, Gates would only say that Microsoft doesn't comment on unannounced products. Microsoft representatives closed the conference by stating that United States citizens will be able to expect lower taxes, increases in government services, discounts on all Microsoft products, and the immediate arrest of all executive officials of Sun Microsystems Inc. and Netscape Corp. About Microsoft - Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers, and democratic government. The company offers a wide range of products and services for public, business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing and mostly free society every day. About the United States - Founded in 1776, the United States of America is the most successful nation n the history of the world, and has been a beacon of democracy and opportunity for over 200 years. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the United States is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. "The United States of America" and "Microsoft" are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

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Re: Key Signing
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bill Stewart wrote: > At 01:21 AM 11/10/1997 +0100, Necessarily Knot, ME wrote: > >I am including the key (below) for my new nym, which has not been used > >before, and would like for people to sign it and send the signed key > >to the list. > >This way, people will know by the signature, that it is, indeed: > >Necessarily Knot, ME > > This was bizarre - what did you do to create the key and the ASCII version? > I imported the key into my PGP 5.0, and saw the double-key icon, > which says I have the private key as well as the public key, > and sure enough, it was willing to let me change the passphrase > (which was previously not set.) I was testing the procedure outlined in Epilogue 5 of InfoWar on a friend's machine and, sure enough, I got PGP 2.62 to spit out the private key he had created as Necessarily Knott, ME. > I'm not sure how comfortable I am signing a key which has the > private keys made public - so I signed it, and revoked it, > and you're welcome to the signed revocation certificate :-) Perhaps we have inadvertently taken key-signing to a new level. i.e. - develop software that will allow a user to have another user sign the key and then, when revoked, the software allows the user to sign with the revoked key, but not to recreate it or change it in any way. The software could be marketed to cryptographers with low self-esteem. > The keyserver says it accepted the certificate, but doesn't > find it when I query it for the key, but then it did that to me > earlier today, so I'm not sure if it's there or not. > (It's the server at http://www.pgp.com/keyserver/pks-lookup.cgi .) I added the secret key to the keyserver, and it also said it had accepted it, but does not show it on a query. > The KeyID was 0x61C747B1 - 512-bit RSA > > - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 > > mQBNAzRmZWoAAAECAMnJrqd/TERCLeFscdgNvwVxrVG4tRm0VThMEXXkctCGMaUD > jcETxcV0ZseRUcyUKfqlLd3CRsIwClozlWHHR7EABRGJAFUDBSA0bAHUClozlWHH > R7EBARcXAf9oQLI0CvkPpxPLcUgdlolZ6J9Y5f5AAeX169o6SPtxaJBaHp0C39+0 > h4EimgD+TB4kiCWvklDhkTDckAxweIjbtBVOZWNlc3NhcmlseSBLbm90dCwgTUWJ > AJUDBRA0bAGS+fMmybV+y8UBAYRCA/99H8XcS1h0X0l2vQ5zPqmOSiYQ0mfi5dXZ > iMOlqlnFzVyus3L6sIr9X7Xyzg8emaNfLslQBqiagLRyVVc6e5wTVSXOKQoMzqTm > s26OA/e+/1oZHx3mCgrJm2YWyjOVm8Vx1BwbrFSgTVgdiaKbeVKrj9Zbx178BYqs > Gd1RHLXjWQ== > =ANSy > - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > > But hey, since I've got this bogus key around, might as well sign > something with it :-) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 > Charset: noconv > > iQBVAwUBNGwEogpaM5Vhx0exAQGupAH/duqAF915VFqxcFHk3wlmXzmU2DDQv9nP > 6FM0rU2MSfiFmfQu76dBAyriBAdEzk1Ry+oyZiWIlixGZYbLaXLU8Q== > =5ZQC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Yep. That confirms that your message was sent by someone who is Neccesarily Knott, ME. Took a few days for you to reply to the message. Have you been waiting for the wee hours to see if you could narrow down the list of senders by seeing who is online at the time you receive a reply? I could add latency to this anonymous email, but that would be tacky. Necessarily Knott, ME -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBNGwftQpaM5Vhx0exAQGYzAH9HMbEev5KxJs9cqzYm4wbXv8+7Atxx5D/ gymQS2nhxp2aupDIewq9JkzK++VN7JAZJqyexrimiOh7ndvwI7ZOvA== =H6JV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Tim May is in good company
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think the following quotes speak for themselves: "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go around repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence." Charles M. Beard "They tell us we are weak-unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on out backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until out enemies have bound us hand and foot? "We are not weak if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature has placed in out power. Millions of people armed in the hold cause of Liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible. Besides, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. "Many cry 'Peace, peace'-but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! Why stand we here idle? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every Kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed..." Noah Webster Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Stupidity is the one arena of of human achievement where most people fulfill their potential." -- Jonathan Wienke RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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RE: Br'er Tim and the Bug Hole
by Fisher Mark 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bob Hettinga writes in reply ('>'): >> If Tim believes that a judge has committed a capital crime, I want to >> hear about it. > >Right. The judge made a decision that Tim thinks the judge should die for. > >My point is not the fact of whether the judge committed an "executable" >offense, or didn't. It was that Tim made a thinly veiled threat. To wit, Tim >implied that the Judge should be executed for his court decision. I'm saying >that guys with associates' degrees in "criminal justice" would love any reason >to make Tim a new wife of one of their permanent jail residents after a, um, >crack, like that, and Tim, more to the um, point, seems to, um, up the ante, >by sauntering down to the the jailhouse and pissing on the guard's shoes. > >Metaphorically, of course. :-). I think you're making a mountain out of a metaphor, here, Bob (sound of language processor set on "puree"...) In what seems to worry you about Tim, I see him just saying that if things he thinks may come to pass, do come to pass, he isn't going to go "quietly into that goodnight". I suspect his view of what is coming is influenced by where he lives (Corralitos, CA) just as yours is influenced by your location (Boston, MA) and my viewpoint is necessarily influenced by my location (Noblesville/Indianapolis, IN). It seems to me that a lot of social changes start on the West Coast, often including those of a greater governmental powers nature -- Tim may actually have more to worry about than you or me. Or none of us may have these worries *if* we make sure, in whatever ways we can, to influence others to resist the continuing encroachment of governmental power upon individual freedoms. Plus I think (from what I can see): * Tim likes to be prepared; and * Tim finds weaponry intrinsically interesting; so these elements enter his writing. To make a long story short (too late!), when I read Tim saying that the judge has committed a capital crime, I interpret that as he should be tried, and if found guilty (as Tim thinks likely so), then he should receive a severe punishment consistent with the nature of his crime. Both Tim and you, Bob, write very clearly and coherently. I have never read anything that Tim has written that makes me think he is anywhere near ready to make a "first strike" against government -- but if the government chooses to act illegally and unconstitutionally against Tim, he says he will defend himself as is his right. I dunno... Sometimes, Bob, I think that you and Tim have so much trouble because you are in such violent agreement about the importance of cryptography... ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm(a)indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"

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Re: (Fwd) Victory For Microbroadcasting!!!!
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wow. I'm glad the monger himself liked this little tidbit. I thought it was relevant. On or About 14 Nov 97 at 0:46, TruthMonger wrote: > > At 11:45 AM -0700 11/13/1997, Ross Wright wrote: > > > > > >ANOTHER VICTORY FOR FREE RADIO BERKELEY & MICROPOWER BROADCASTING > > Great lead for tracking parallels to the gubmint's plans for the > Net, as well. > > Thanks =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://ross.adnetsol.com Voice: (408) 259-2795

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Hyperlinks case settles at door of court
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The Shetland Times case has been settled - links will be permitted with >certain conditions > >See http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/headline/97nov/settled/settled.html And it was even settled reasonably, and without setting new bad UK case law. (For those who don't remember the case, the Shetland News and Shetland Times are Scottish newspapers with web pages. The News was linking from its page to some of the Times's stories without pointing out that the stories were in their competitor's paper, and the Times sued them. In the settlement they agree that the News may link to the Times's pages, and that they'll only do so with visible indications that they're doing so.) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Re: Victory for Microbroadcasting
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The federal war against Microbroadcasting should be studied by all InfoWarriors who plan to shed their ElectroBlood defending the coming attacks against MicroWeb free speech. The Intenet Content Coalition (ICC) made a cheap grab at trying to form a corporate FCC to put the InterNet media-power brokering in the hands of those who already rule the roost overseen by the FCC. (Eliminating the middle-man, so to speak.) The fact of the matter is, the mainstream media is not going to have a lot of trouble herding the majority of the sheeple into their feeding pens, given the power, money and position that they already have, so it is a bit tacky for them to have made an attempt to put themselves in a position to 'enforce' standards favorable to themselves. The difference between MicroBroadcasting and the MicroWeb/WebRings that are being independently formed, is that MicroBroadcasting is trying to get back what was stolen, and those on the InterNet are trying to keep from getting what we already have, stolen in the future. TruthMonger ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ JUDGE WILKEN DENIES FCC MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGEMENT!!! National Lawyers Guild Committee on Democratic Communications 558 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COURT REJECTS FCC's CONSTITUTIONAL CATCH 22 United States District Court Judge Claudia Wilken has rejected another attempt by the Federal Communications Commission to silence Berkeley Micro Radio Broadcaster Stephen Dunifer, founder of Free Radio Berkeley. In a 13 page opinion released on November 12, 1997, Judge Wilken once again rejected the government's motion for an injunction to silence micro radio broadcasts by local radio pioneer Stephen Dunifer. In 1995, Judge Wilken rejected the government's first motion for a preliminary injunction against Dunifer's broadcasts. At that time the Court found merit in Dunifer's argument that the FCC's ban on low power, affordable FM broadcasting was a violation of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech to all in the United States. In a blatant attempt to avoid facing its First Amendment obligations the FCC then urged Wilken to permanently enjoin Dunifer from Broadcasting and at the same time argued that she could not even consider the issue of whether its rules, which prevent him from getting a license, are unconstitutional. In a Kafkaesqe argument, the Commission argued that Wilken had jurisdiction to issue an injunction, but no jurisdiction to hear Dunifer's constitutional arguments. The government claimed that only the higher federal courts could consider the constitutional question. In her November 12 decision rejecting the Government's position, Judge Wilken pointed to the fact that the FCC had taken exactly the opposite position in the 1994 case of Dougan vs FCC. In that case, an Arizona micro radio broadcaster had appealed an FCC fine (for broadcasting without a license) to the 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeal, and the FCC had argued that the Court of Appeal had no jurisdiction over the case, and that it had to be heard by the District Court. The Court of Appeals agreed with the FCC and sent the case back to the District Court. Judge Wilken noted that the Arizona broadcaster had raised the same constitutional arguments in the Court of Appeals that Dunifer is raising. The Court ruled that in sending all of the issues in the Arizona case to the District Court, the Appeals Court recognized that the District Court had jurisdiction over all aspects of the case. In denying the Government's motion for an injunction "without prejudice," Judge Wilken ordered the Government to file a further brief on the question of whether the unconstitutionality of the FCC's ban on micro radio is a valid legal defense to an injunction against broadcasting at low power without a license. Dunifer's attorneys, Louis Hiken and Allen Hopper of San Francisco, will have an opportunity to rebut the government's arguments on this point. In response to pressure from the commercial broadcaster's lobby, the National Association of Broadcasters (N.A.B.), the FCC has in recent months been stepping up its campaign of harassment against the thousands of micro radio stations now on the air in this country. Hiken commented "The broadcast industry is clearly afraid of these little community stations which are speaking truth to its power. In trying to do the N.A.B.Õs bidding, the FCC demonstrates that it is nothing but an enforcement arm of the commercial broadcast industry and the multi-national corporations which own it." The National Lawyers Guild's Committee on Democratic Communications has represented the Lawyers Guild, San Francisco's Media Alliance, and the Women's International News Gathering Services as a "Friend of the Court" (Amicus) in this case. In its Friend of the Court brief the Lawyers Guild pointed out that FCC regulations make it impossible for all but the very wealthy to even apply for a broadcast license. This, they told the Court, is the equivalent of saying anyone could speak from a soap box in the park, but the box had to be made of gold. Guild attorney Peter Franck commented "In an era when Disney owns ABC, the world's largest defense contractor owns NBC and CNN merges with Time which merges with Warner, and when 'public' broadcasting is told to get its money from corporations, micro radio may be our last best hope for democracy on the air ways." He continued "Judge Wilken's decision is a courageous rejection of the Government's attempt to use a legal Catch-22 to avoid facing the fact that its ban on micro radio flies in the face of the Constitution." The legal team representing Dunifer and the Amicae are very pleased with Judge Wilken's reasoned and thorough decision denying the FCC's motion to have the case resolved without a trial on the merits. For almost 70 years, the FCC has catered solely to the interests of commercial corporate giants, through their mouthpiece, the National Association of Broadcasters. These are the pirates, who have stolen the airwaves from the American people, and who represent corporate interests valued at more than 60 billion dollars. Only the Pentagon, the Silicon Valley and the transportation industries possess the financial wallop represented by the NAB and its constituents. Judge Wilken's decision represents a vision of what it would be like for the American people to be given back their own voice. The decision suggests the likely unconstitutionality of the entire regulatory structure underlying the FCC's ban on low power radio. It forewarns of the total failure of that agency to carry out its statutory obligation to regulate the airwaves in the public interest -- that is, in the interest of the American people, rather than the media monopolies that control our airwaves. The legal team welcomes the opportunity to have a court identify the real pirates of the airwaves -- not the thousands of microradio broadcasters who seek to communicate with the people of their communities, but rather the billionaire commercial interests that control the airwaves as if they own them. Is it General Electric, Westinghouse and the Disney Corporation that have the right to control local community radio, or is that a right that belongs to all of the American people, regardless of economic status? FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Peter Franck, Counsel for Amicus 415-415-995-5055 pfranck(a)hbmvr.com (days) pfranck(a)a.crl.com(evs, wknds) http://www.368Hayes.com/nlg.cdc.html Alan Korn, Counsel for Amicus 415-362-5700 aakorn(a)igc.org Stephen Dunifer, Free Radio Berkeley 415-644-3779 frbspd(a)crl.com http://www.freeradio.org Louis Hiken Counsel for Stephen Dunifer 415-575-3220 hiken(a)igc.org http://www.368Hayes.com Allen Hopper Counsel for Stephen Dunifer 415-575-3222 lazlo(a)igc.org http://www.368Hayes.com TO STEPHEN DUNIFER/FREE RADIO BERKELEY INFORMATION PAGE TO FREE RADIO BERKELEY LEGAL BATTLE PAGE TO NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INFORMATION PAGE TO THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD WEB SITE TO NLG COMMITTEE ON DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATIONS PAGE TO FREE RADIO BERKELEY WEB SITE BACK TO LAW OFFICES AT 368 HAYES STREET

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MEGAVAPOUR ENCRYPTION [was CHALLENGE to Meganet VME...]
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- on or about 971108:1121, in <3.0.32.19971108112126.006dab28(a)ibcnet.com>, Matrix Encryption <matrix(a)meganet.com> was purported to have expostulated to perpetuate an opinion: >Dear Atilla, > normally I would not waste my time replying to an illiterate, ignorant flim-flam artist with a forced error [sic] of superiority to hide his/her paranoid insecurity. first: I am not, and have never been, a coward hiding behind a nym. I have been known by "Attila T. Hun" for more years than you have probably been alive. thus, the interNIC record: 20:56:01 attila 501-> whois hun.org Attila T. Hun (HUN5-DOM) 31 N. 700 E. Suite 134 St. George, UT 84770-3208 US Domain Name: HUN.ORG ... Record last updated on 31-Jul-97. AND Welcome to Primenet, Attila T. Hun Your last login was Thu Nov 13 22:19:11 PST 1997 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT attila p3 attila.infowest. 7:02AM 0 w attila processing mail folders msgs lines chars message group 21 2157 98506 .incoming_mail 00:02:25 attila 501-> finger attila(a)primenet.com [primenet.com] Login: attila Name: Attila T. Hun Directory: /user/a/attila Shell: /bin/bash Mailbox last read: Fri Nov 14 00:02 (MST) Plan: ENCODE ALL MESSAGES WITH 2048 BIT SIGNAL KEY: 2048/463141C9 now, all that being said... it has been asked... "attila, who the fuck are you?" "just nobody, I guess; "well, let's see... "I have a Piled higher and Deeper in Information Techniques from Zuerich (undergrad at Harvard in dual honors physical chemistry); "I have been around since before the dawn of arpanet, probably even longer than TCMay; in fact, I was born before Franklin D. Roosevelt dusted off Wendell L. Willkie; "I've never held a job; "but, I have personally coded more than a few 250,000+ line packages, which made me quite comfortable at one time, even if more than one did go down the black hole (along with countless other projects like the bit-slice hardware and firmware to replace B3500s in missile silos); "I have been the hatchet man in a few bleeding tech recoveries; "I have been detained for crypto offenses by the Feds; "I have been detained for 'treasonable' technology export; and, I have been charged; "a long time ago, in a land far, far away, there was more than one tour in "deep-deep black" special operations; the battalion commanding officer for the 'Let's do some serious killing...' permanently vacant eyes, misfits; "a combat chopper pilot; an instrument rated multi-engine pilot; a rider of a 102 cu. in. 115+ mph qtr. miler hawg on the street; "plus a few other reasons to guarantee an autobiography to be found on the fiction shelf. "if you really want to know... just play Hotel California, but I live in the high desert country of Utah with a bunch of gun nuts (only state in the Union where opening day of the hunting season is a state holiday). "So, who the 'fuck' am I? Just another aging 300 lb gorilla, "Oh, yeah, I forgot, I hold a license to practice before the court in a couple European countries... "So, who am I, really? "Nobody, I guess, just attila! "you probably will not be last, you may not be next, but you are certainly too late to have been first." --attila >Youe letter show us that you might not be aware of all the facts >surrounding VME. now, let's get several important points straight out front: 1. matriculate in a liberal arts program for English grammar and composition; your writing is unintelligible, often contradictory --no class. 2. until you publish the algorithm[s] and the implementation code, you do not have a product, you have "vapourware" in the encryption business --your trust model reputation capital is zero. 3. anybody can propose a specification; but over the last 25 years less than a handful of the hundreds proposed, have been bullet proof --so far; they can still fail. 4. a 2^20 keylength is an absurd dimension, more than 120Kbytes; the efficiency for an average 2K memo is less than 2%. just handling the data stream is a load on both the processor[s] and the communication link[s]. if you are still with me... 1. I do not believe your claim that you have placed your encryption with 250 of the top software companies; there are not 250 software companies in the world who could afford your outrageous $1 million base licensing be --particularly for what appears to be vapourware. Nobody in this business places that level of financial commitment on the PASS line in las vegas. and to pay this fee annually? well, dreams are still permissable; but outside of that forum, your hypothesis is a dream. corollary: the way to make money is to sell millions of licenses at $10, not get down on your knees and pray that someone will lay $1 million on you for something which has not been proven in the trenches. 2. I do not believe you _ever_ had the $1 million prize money for your alleged contest. 3. I do not believe you even have a working model or beta release of the software. 4. I do not believe you are doing anything other than putting us all on. now, if we can get past the above problems for YOU to solve, and/or demonstrate the efficacy thereof, to US, the final "problem" in your demonstrated inability to communicate can be addressed: I did NOT ask to participate in your EXPIRED CHALLENGE; that was obviously a farcical expression of egotistical tomfoolery or shenanigans --maybe even hooliganism. that not withstanding, you never had the money to pay a claim; your ego told you there would never be a claim. I DID CHALLENGE YOU to publish your algorithms, source code, and implementations to the group for evaluation. if your hypothesis survives a rigorous exercise and proof of its claims, you will be a hero. if your hypothesis, which from this perceptive point appears to be vapourware, goes down in flames, you will be no worse a fool than any of the last crop of bulletproof pretenders. and that, my friend is living in the real world, not even the fast lane. the rest of your letter is hokey. ...it's your move. attila out... ------------ balance of your original drivel follows ----------- >Well, lets start: >1) The is no "secret" behind the VME flowchart - we have filed with the US >patent office, and when it's approved, anybody in the world can see the >flowcharts and diagrams. >2) We have given a select 250 major software corporations ALL of the >flowcharts, diagrams and even a WORKING COPY of the VME application. >3) Why don't we do the same with the general public ? a copule of reasons: > a) Due to VME key size (1 million bits) we are forbidden by the US export laws >to put > it on the Internet, which is a world wide platform (see Paul Zimerman & PGP >case). > b) For the above reasons we can not put any of the flowcharts, diagrams or a >demo of > of the application without violating the law and getting Big Bro real >upset. > c) VME is currently targeted at the large corporations and a site licensing >fee is > currently a $1,000,000 annualy, so we have no "General Use" version for >public use. >But, as I mentioned before, the top 250 software corporations DO HAVE the >flowcharts, diagrams and a working copy of VME. Therefore, we do have a team of >the leading cryptographers working on VME to credit or discredit our claims, >and that was the challenge all about to begin with. >Thank you for your interest in VME. >Saul Backal, >Project Manager. p.s. - I've noticed too late of the title to your email - just for your knowledge, the million dollars challenge have ended May 15,1997 and the current challenge bear no monetary prize. Take Care, Saul. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNGwYjrR8UA6T6u61AQHMTQH9HWjpk7vS6YfvyXRgQdy70X4YoptHA2Q4 asWcwSr962+JHNqbNPEgaBJbZWT4vesR+NsOtOCUNy4ylatwO3WeLA== =ymMn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Nader on CBS
by Carol Anne Cypherpunk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ralph was just on CBS "Up-To-The-Minute", bashing MS.... I think it is running every hour, so you might still be able to get it on the West Coast. I wonder though, if all this "Bill-Bashing" is somehow causing problems in the financial markets. Yet "Bill-Bashing" in the political sense doesn't seem to have done that. hmmmm... http://uttm.com/drive/ is their site, and there is a RealAudio clip available for the day owls..... Member Internet Society - Certified Mining Co. Guide - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.165.50.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** Will lobby Congress for Food & Expenses!!!

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Re: MEGAVAPOUR ENCRYPTION [was CHALLENGE to Meganet VME...]
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Attila T. Hun wrote: > on or about 971108:1121, in <3.0.32.19971108112126.006dab28(a)ibcnet.com>, > Matrix Encryption <matrix(a)meganet.com> was purported to have > expostulated to perpetuate an opinion: > >Dear Atilla, > 1. I do not believe your claim that you have placed your > encryption with 250 of the top software companies > 2. I do not believe you _ever_ had the $1 million prize > money for your alleged contest. > 3. I do not believe you even have a working model or beta > release of the software. > 4. I do not believe you are doing anything other than > putting us all on. I shook down their entire web site and could find no indication that these fuckers even existed before Oct. 30/97. (Shortly before their announcement of the supposed million dollar encryption challenge that expired in May/97, which no cryptographer I know has ever seemed to have heard of.) It is also interesting that there seems to be no actual mention of real, live people connected to their corporation, whom one can contact. (Although there is contact information for their press agents.) Meganet is either one of the best Bad-Encryption spoofs to the list, to date, or one of the best Bad-Encryption scams going. Maybe Maganet was formed by the press agent that DataETRetch fired. That would explain why they only seemed to have offered their challenge to corporations with no cypherpunks in them. I will shortly be announcing my Million Dollar Encryption Challenge which, unfortunately, expired on Jan 1, 1754. (However, if you check the Document Source on the files at my web site, they will confirm that the HTML document announcing the challenge was created in 1753.) BaitrickS MegaNut <bs(a)meganut.com> "Navel Ho' encryption products since 1753."

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Re: Br'er Tim and the Bug Hole
by goddesshera＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 01:16:36AM -0800, Blanc wrote: > Kent Krispin wrote: > > >Tim, like many, rationalizes his simmering anger by blaming it all on > >the "bastids in the gubmit". But it doesn't take much insight to see > >that there is something a little deeper going on, something a little > >sad. > .................................................. > > > By jove, I think I've "got" it - there *is* something deeper going on here: > > Tim is really an undercover 'narc' - through his provocative remarks he's > actually encouraging all the violent terrorists on the list to come out of > their lurking holes and reveal themselves. Then he's going to turn them > all in for a cash reward, which he'll use to buy more high-tech stock. > > Yeah, that's it! Could be, almost. He wouldn't be a narc -- he would work for another agency -- and he doesn't have to turn them in: they reveal themselves. In any case, he serves the function, whether deliberately or not. This message was automatically remailed. The sender is unknown, unlogged, and nonreplyable. Send complaints and blocking requests to <goddesshera(a)juno.com>.

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