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db$: The Wright Brothers vs. Chixalub
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just to fan the flames of Y2K hysteria ever higher... ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:50:18 -0400 To: e$(a)vmeng.com From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: db$: The Wright Brothers vs. Chixalub Sender: <e$(a)vmeng.com> Precedence: Bulk List-Subscribe: <mailto:requests@vmeng.com?subject=subscribe%20e$> --- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:26:30 -0400 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com> From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: db$: The Wright Brothers vs. Chixalub Sender: <dbs(a)philodox.com> Precedence: Bulk List-Subscribe: <mailto:requests@philodox.com?subject=subscribe%20dbs> X-Web-Archive: http://www.philodox.com/dbs-archive/ You might notice that the tag on this one says "db$". That's to differentiate it from my "e$" rants, which might be more general than ones like this one, which is on digital bearer settlement. I think there is lots of talk about electronic commerce and e$ these days from whole bunches of people, and, as a consequence, my interest in it has focused more onto the issue of digital bearer settlement. You'll probably be seeing more db$ tags than e$ tags on my rants going forward. All of which brings me to some obversations I've been making in public about blind signatures lately, and the excellent time I had at Ed Yeardon's Cutter Consortium "Summit" conference the past few days. Let's start with yet another aviation analogy about Digicash, shall we? :-). Remember, I like to do that. Once I compared privacy to flight, and said that, like flight, lots of people had died getting strong cryptography to work, and that privacy itself was an inherent good. The thing which actually got people to use the technology, however, was its commercial value. It wasn't the joy of flight or slipping the surly bounds of earth at Kitty Hawk that got people into the air, it was coach fare to Dayton. It was digital commerce, and thus financial cryptography, which created the most privacy. Digital Commerce is financial cryptography, financial cryptography is strong cryptography, and all that. Then there's my analogy of book-entry settlement as Boyle's law (partial pressure of gasses?) and strong crypto, particularly digital bearer settlement, as Bernoulli's law, the law describing aerodynamic lift. Essentially you can think of cryptography and bearer settlement as wings, and book entries as, well, bags of gas. :-). Thinking this way, with commerce on the internet as flight, First Virtual becomes a tethered baloon. Encrypting your First Virtual transaction makes it an aerodynamic barrage balloon. Encrypting a credit card in an SSL web-form is flying around on a Zeppelin. And, David Chaum becomes the Wright Brothers for inventing the airplane. I used to say "Or maybe Otto Lillenthal" under my breath to get a laugh, but now, I know exactly why David Chaum is the Wright Brothers. That's because Digicash *is* The Wright Flying Machine Company, or whatever the Wright's subsequent enterprise was called. It seems to me that Digicash's strategy with the blind signature is a dead ringer for the Wright Brothers' control of the airplane patent. Here's why: 1. In the beginning, nobody believed that the Wright brothers could fly, and they had to take the airplane to Paris and demonstrate it there before anyone in the US thought it was true. Digicash did the same thing. Actually, the NSA created a positively hostile environment here in the USA for cryptography, financial or otherwise, and that forced David Chaum to go to the Netherlands, where there was a more positive reception for his work. 2. Then, nobody could think about what you could do with airplanes, and the Wrights foundered for a bit.. Same thing with Chaum, Digicash, and the blind signature patent. The commercial internet didn't exist yet in 1986, and blind signatures were conceived as useful only in smartcards, which were just being experimented with. Digicash was going to be used in physical electronic wallets, and maybe in transponders at the gates of toll roads. The CAFE project was an example of this meat-space ecash strategy. It wasn't that Chaum didn't think about the internet. Far from it. He invented digital mixes, after all, which became the basis for anonymous remailers, onion routers, CROWDS, and the like. He just didn't look at blind signatures from the financial operations point of view and see digital bearer settlement, that's all. He was thinking privacy, and not financial operations, just like the Wrights were thinking flight, and not high-speed transportation. 3. The entire time they held the patent, the Wrights only really wanted to sell airplanes to governments, because they wanted to sell to a few large stable customers instead of small entities who would probably go out of business. Digicash, to this day, tries to sell to big institutions. Their now mostly internet-driven digital cash stategy is to create the financial equivalent of Alfred Nobel's dynamite cartel, where one bank in each country gets an ecash license, hopefully the largest bank possible. Mark Twain in the US was a proof of concept, if not an act of desperation on Digicash's part, but it did lead to exclusive (I bet) country-wide licences with Nomura, Deutchebank, the Swedish Post office, and others. There was talk at FC98 that Digicash received $1 million a month from Deutchebank just for the *option* on a Germany-wide license. I think they've now exercised that option. Frankly, I find this geographic, paint-by-the-nation-state approach quaint in a world of ubiquitous geodesic internetworks, but there it is, and it effectively prevents other people from doing anything innovative with blind signatures in the meantime. Monopolies on information technologies kind of work that way. Dogs and mangers come to mind, and not for the first time. 4. The Wrights, when they thought about the transportation business at all, thought about it in terms of "rides" instead of "trips". Digicash isn't really looking at the applications of their technology to anything except its original designed purpose, that is, cash. There are some leaks around the edges, of course. Nomura seems to be looking at blind signature digital bearer settlement as a real-time gross-settlement technology, with some kind of private, kiretsu-cash idea. Digicash people used to give you a shocked "how did you know that already" look when you talked to them about the painfully obvious potential use of blind signatures in the capital markets. However, I'm certain that Digicash thinks that capital market use of blind signature digital bearer settlement is a pipedream and that they'd better focus on the main chance, which is ecash. Preferrably electronic wallet-based ecash issued by a major bank. In competition with book-entry settlement, in book-entry settlement's own turf. Go figure. 5. Finally, the only innovation in the American aircraft market in the age of the Wright patent came from that famous airplane "infringer", Curtis, who didn't give a damn about patents and built airplanes anyway. Much better airplanes, in fact, which the Wrights eventually took him to court for, forcing Curtis to merge with the Wrights. Fortunately, European evolution in aviation continued apace, giving us the aviation equivalent of the Pre-Cambrian explosion, culminating in the names we all remember from World War I like Sopwith, Spad, Dornier, and, of course, Fokker. The problem is that there's no Curtis to infringe on the blind signature patent, because you can't hook up to the financial system from the internet -- land yur plane in other words -- without clear rights to use it. The banks where you move money on and off the net from would get sued. Unless they're in places like South Africa, where software patents don't matter, or Russia, where they're probably uninforceable. Places which have their own problems, not the least of which is poor internet access, poor financial network connectivity (something like Cirrus on the back end of a trustee/custodian would be, um, NYCE :-)), and, not least, poor impulse control by the local force merchants, monopolistic or otherwise. Tax havens don't even count. The very definition of a tax haven is someplace with a bandwidth and regulatory gravity well to keep it safe from any kind of market efficiency. A return to some kind of "Europe" for that hoped-for explosion of blind signature evolution could still be happening on the internet anyway. Certainly, with smart and tenacious people like Ian Goldberg designing HINDE and Ryan Lackey bashing on a reference version of it, one could certainly try to argue this, but there's no money doing this stuff right now (unless you count first-class upgrades to Anguilla or free nights in the InterIsland), much less something like the First World War to forge that innovation into a robust replacement for the book-entry economy. Which, thinking thinking of robustness, brings me to what I've been doing the last few days. Pete Loshin, former editor at Byte, former writer of various excellent how-to books on networking and one of the first surveys of internet commerce (and one of the founding members of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, I might add, :-)), is now editor of Cutter Publications' "Corporate Internet Strategies" newsletter, which used to be edited by Ed Yourdon, of American Programmer, Y2K, and much other, fame. So, when they needed someone on a panel about electronic commerce at Cutter's "Summit" conference at the Boston Harbor Hotel's Wharf Room facility this week, someone controversial, they said, Pete said he knew exactly who to throw into the fray. It was fun, too. There, in front of a room full of senior IT managers from big companies and Famous Computer Guys, sitting on a panel on Internet Commerce, was one of Fidelity's Famous Computer Guys himself, now running their web technology department. And Pete. And Fidelity's retail web-marketing guy, and me. Fidelity has 900 billion dollars under management. 60% of their customer interaction now comes from the web. The ganglia twitch. Dropping that $100 billion 1997 internet transaction number, and saying that it was three orders of magnitude over the estimate didn't faze these guys. They had seen it happen. In addition, all of the people with websites I talked to said that they used SSL to interact with their customers. Almost all of them said that they used 128 bit encryption. The Mssrs. Fidelity faintly crowed about the fact. Digital Commerce is Financial Cryptography, so what else is new? Then, of course, I threw the whole geodesic economy, digital bearer settlement rant at them, right down to the picomoney as processor food, micromoney mitochondria bit. And, of course, they all stood up and threw their dinner rolls at me. It was great. That's because I'd been throwing my own dinner rolls, and I'd been been hinting what I was going to say all week. They even encourage you to heckle the speakers back with a liberal sprinkling of wireless mikes around the room. So every once in a while, I'd pop off with comments like intellectual property control was impossible, that watermarking only told you who the code was stolen from not who stole it. Or, why not have cash auctions for programming deliverables instead of top-down project management, Or, emergent processes for software were always going to beat "controlled" processes, Or, passing programmer certification laws in the wake of whatever Y2K thing happened would be impossible to enforce in a world of those same anonymous cash settled markets for programming talent. I even pointed them to the forum-hackers list as proof. One of my favorite gybes while I was up on the podium to the Fidelity marketing guy -- who's a nice guy but who's also fighting like crazy right now to drag Fidelity up the "quality service differentiation" ladder because Fido can't play least-cost-producer anymore in an eTrade world -- was my claim that eventually most so-called "branded" products would be reduced to graded fungible commodities, and that the more dependant a business was on information technology, the faster it would happen to them. Orthogonality is always more fun than the alternative. And you get lots of free dinner rolls. And, of course, after the digital commerce panel and lunch, Ed Yourdon wrapped it all up with his scary Y2K rant, followed by an appropriately scary bunch of panelists telling us just how scary all theis Y2K stuff really was, that Ed had gotten himself on down to Taos, complete with his own water supply, and that denial was when you lied to yourself and believed it. Or something. All of which I now believe more of, just because all these grey-haired programming aristocrats were nodding sagely about this prospect of impending doom for us all. Frankly, most of the people who've yammered at *me* about Y2K were either loons who hoped it would All Fall Down Someday Soon, or people like Vinnie, who think it's a good idea, if not fun, to know what to do if it ever does all fall down, but that praying for it wasn't going to make it so. I'd like to think I'm one of the latter. The other problem is, I've seen the end of the world coming before. Even predicted it myself on occasion. Haven't been able to reduce it to practice, yet, though. That's the reason Gibbon's in my .sig these days. So, let's get back to Digicash and the Wright Brothers. After hanging out with a whole bunch of top-down monolithic-system gurus and Y2K folks yesterday, it seems plausible. And, I'm certain there are lots of people out there who know lots about both and who hope that Y2K will be the Chixalub event that will burn off all the database-driven book-entry dinosaur systems and clear the way for a digital bearer mammalian explosion. Frankly, I think we're looking at a brushfire, if anything. The lawn will grow back, but the house won't burn, even if the water does go out for a bit. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Remembering, of course, the above bit about denial. But, suppose we *are* talking about the financial equivalent of that great 1970's 30-second short film epic, "Bambi vs. Godzilla", where Bambi is squashed by a giant green foot (oops, I gave away the plot), and the whole financial system goes away for a few days. Or a month. Is there any way to step in with digital bearer settlement as a robust alternative to book-entry funds transfer? Remember the great bank strike in Ireland, where everyone just passed around nth-party endorsed checks like they were money until it was all over? Could we do something like that? Would David Chaum and company let us do that without suing someone for infringement? Could they stop us, if the courts are full of Y2K liability cases? Would the internet still be up? Could we pay our ISPs with digital bearer certificates to keep them up? How about Iridium and Teledesic, which are supposed to be up by then? Once again, ganglia twitch. However, it might be fun to game the idea a bit, just to scare the neighbors. You know, pay ya all back when the banks come up? Well, maybe not. Ed says that the banks, and particularly Wall Street, are the most prepared of any of us. That makes sense. The half life of financial software these days is measured in months. For instance, one of NeXT's biggest markets was in the financial sectors, especially trading rooms, where any prototype which worked was immediately production code. They liked NeXT, despite all its other interesting charistics, because you could do exactly that, and faster than any other development environment. Of course, if anyone's a poster child for "sell Cadillacs, drive a Chevy, sell Chevies, drive a Cadillac", it's Steve Jobs. Of course, he sold NeXTs and got Apples, however that turns out... Still, it might be worth thinking about, trying to route around the book-entry financial settlement system as a pre-disaster exercise. Wright Brothers versus Chixalub, and all that. No, I don't wanna see the movie... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Where people, networks and money come together: Consult Hyperion http://www.hyperion.co.uk/ info(a)hyperion.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Full-Strength Cryptographic Solutions for Worldwide Electronic Commerce http://www.c2.net/ stronghold(a)c2.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Like e$? 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Bills in Congress containing "encrypt"...
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found a few interesting ones. S. 1023 Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies... $3,000,000 shall be available to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, including $2,000,000 for the money laundering threat initiative and $1,000,000 for the Secure Outreach/Encrypted Transmission Program; $7,800,000 for automated license plate readers, [The above bill seems to have evolved into the following, which was passed by the House and Senate and awaits the President's signature.] H.R.2378 Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, $1,000,000 shall be available to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for the Secure Outreach/Encrypted Transmission Program; ...to the United States Secret Service, including ... $1,460,000 to provide technical assistance and to assess the effectiveness of new technology intended to combat identity-based crimes,

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Re: The Usual Suspects (National sales tax)
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From my perspective, one of the most important fallouts from a replacement of the graduated tax with a national sales tax is the removal of much of the current rationale for FinCEN and citizen identification (i.e., SSN). Certainly, it should no longer be required for establishing a non-credit financial institution account, purchasing a money order/cashier's check or wiring money. In fact, you shouldn't need SSN for employment, except that unless you supplied some number (even if psueduanon) you'd forego accruing benefits. The use of SSN for the ID runs the gammut in local, state and federal programs, but is most often justified for purposes of taxation. Now, I'm not naive enough to believe that any of these gov't agencies or private corps are going to willing give up citizen unit IDs, but it will be interesting to see their new rationales for the continued use of SSN (or its replacement) for ID. --Steve --Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- reply to schear - at - lvcm - dot - com --- PGP mail preferred, see http://www.pgp.com and http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html RSA fingerprint: FE90 1A95 9DEA 8D61 812E CCA9 A44A FBA9 RSA key: http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x55C78B0D ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 5/4/98 7:22 AM chambers, Your statement The advantages are a lack of mathematical structure which might provide an entry for the cryptanalyst, and a huge choice of possibilities; the disadvantages are that there are no guarantees on anything, and as is well known there is a risk of getting a very short period. made at http://www.jya.com/a5-hack.htm#wgc stuck me as profound. Reason is that NSA cryptomathematician Scott Judy once told me that I did not really understand the principles NSA uses for its crypto algorithm. Judy proceeded to explain to me that NSA bases its crypto algorithm on complication, not mathematics. Judy apparently did not realize that some years previous NSA employee Brian Snow showed us about all of NSA's KG schematics. And their field failure records! Masanori Fushimi in Random number generation with the recursion x[t] = x[x-3q]+ x[t-3q],Journal of Applied Mathematics 31 (1990) 105-118 implements a gfsr with period 2^521 - l. http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=gfsr&hc=0&hs=0 Fushimi's generator is sold by Visual Numerics. Fushimi's implementation is very well tested. And worked SO WELL that Visual Numerics numerical analyst Richard Hanson had TO BREAK IT! Reason was that the gfsr produces true zeros. This caused simulation programs to crash from division by zero. None of the linear congruential generators produced zeros so the problem did not arise until the gfsr was used. Hanson ORed in a low-order 1 to fix the problem Masanori wrote, Lewis and Payne [16] introduced an apparely different type of generator, the generalized feed back shift register (GFSR), by which numbers are formed by phase-shifted elements along a M-sequence based on a primitive trinomial 1 + z^q + z^p. Lewis was one of my former ms and phd students. http://www.friction-free-economy.com/ Cycle lengths of sequences is a fascinating topic. Let me point you guys to a delightful article on the distribution of terminal digits of transcendental numbers. The Mountains of pi by Richard Preston, v68 The New Yorker, March 2, 1992 p 36(21). This is a story about Russian-born mathematicians Gregory and David Chudnowsky. While the story is fun to read, I think that the Chudnowsky's were wasting their time. I think that terminal digits of transcendental numbers have been proved to be uniformly distributed. Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Part I: Theory, IEEE Transactions On Computers, 21 (1972): 337-345. Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Park II: Hardware Implementation, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 21 (1972): 346-352. Sobolewski is another of my former phd students. Hopefully you guys will read judge Santiago Campos' 56 page MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER on the Payne and Morales lawsuit on jya.com within several days. I made a copy and gave it to Sobolewski on Sunday afternoon. I want Sobolewski's opinion on what Morales and I should do. Soblewski lives about two miles from us. Sobloweski is an administrator [vp of computing at university of new mexico] and knows how administrators think. Let's hope this UNFORTUNATE mess involving shift register sequences gets settled. But let's not forget our sense of humors despite the about .5 million dead Iranians. Hopefully the system will take care of the guys that did that did the Iranians. Masanori wrote, The GFSR sequence as well as the Tausworthe sequence can be constructed using any M-sequence whether the characteristic polynomial is trinomial or not;... Jim Durham, my seismic data authenticator project leader, retired from Sandia. Durham gave me a number of tech reports upon his retirement. One was authored by Robert TITSWORTHE of jpl. TITSWORTHE changed his name! Later guys

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Epic Log - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epic Log Rolling - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! ________________________________________________ Dimitry, cleverly trying to distract me from my plan to.... (Damn! It worked...) wrote: That was your best one yet, my friend. Well done. Do you invent as you type or do you prepare first? Do you dream the ideas in progress or summarize a day of dreaming all at once? After being diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and ADHD, it took me somewhere between 6-18 months to get around to seeing a doctor in regard to treatment. So I guess you could say that 'plans' and 'preparation' are not my strong point. A year or so ago I unexplicably began to write a work called, 'Soul Chaser.' I had absolutely no idea what it was about or where it was going, and it drove me crazy waiting for each chapter to 'appear' so that I could find out what was going to happen. While 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts are created with a purpose in mind, they tend to form themselves out of a mountain of notes jotted to myself in regard to the types of things that force their way into one's mind while lying sleepless at 4 a.m. An integral part of the manuscripts is the insertion of details or concepts which are sent to me for inclusion by a variety of shadowy characters, some of whom I am somewhat familiar with, and some who remain a total mystery to me. An example would be the references to Mule Shoe, Texas as the location of one of the underground Reptilian Nazi bunkers (along with LizardMoor and Lost Alamo). I added Mule Shoe to the list as a result of a mystery request and have no idea what is being inferred, but a number of CoE initiates have reported that they have observed a great deal of concern among certain government organizations about the possible compromise of some mysterious project, or somesuch. As a matter of fact, a few thanked me profusely for the 'pointer' even though they gave me no indication as to what they have uncovered. Granted I've not seen anything relevant to cryptography yet, but I'm not about to complain. Cryptography = Privacy = Rights = Freedom = Ad Infinitum Once the possibilty of extinction of all life from the face of the earth by Nuclear Technology became a *REALITY*, then the scope of many formerly local/regional/national issues and interests became considerably wider/larger. Now that the possibility of extinction of all privacy from the face of the earth by Digital Technology (Can you say 'ECHELON'? Sure you can...) has become a *REALITY*, the scope of many local/global issues and interests have acquired a level of meaning which goes far beyond the particular sphere in which they currently are being debated/instituted. We have recently seen how local pornography laws in the Deep South can affectÿ the lives of people living locally in California and globally in CyberSpace. We are currently moving toward the same issues and concepts applying internationally. What about the reporter who is currently facing imprisonment for investigating the Truth in regard to child pornography on the InterNet, instead of accepting at face value the 'handouts' from the Privacy Pirates? Anyone who fails to see implications for freedom, privacy and cryptography needs to spend a little less time watching 'Gilligan's Island'. I may soon be facing the same situation in Canada, with the main difference being that the 'Bienfait Nutly News' doesn't carry the same type of clout as the organizations considered by people wearing suits as members of the 'legitimate press'. When I protected all files that I didn't want to fall into the possession of the Royal (pain in the ass) Canadian (beaver, hee...hee) Mounted (on the citizen's behind) Police (gestapo), I made a point of leaving on my hard drive, among other things, a 'pornography file' which I sent to the CypherPunks list, the WhiteHouse, etc., with the announcement that I was purposely distributing vile, filthy pornography that was an affront to every decent person on the face of the earth. Anyone who took the trouble to break the encrypted file would have found that it was a classic Greek(?) statue of a young boy, with his <gasp><horror> PENIS exposed for God and everybody to see. I truly believe that my digital transmission of this classic work of art makes me, under current law, a child pornographer, even though the only way for anyone to view it would be to crack the encryption on the file. (Thus far, God has not contacted me to express having a problem with my actions, but I suspect that those who have taken it upon themselves to express the opinions of 'everybody' will soon be in contact.) Thanks for the entertainment. 'Entertainment' is the *Medium*, not the *Message*, of 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts. It is a Medium which has lessened, though not removed, the consequences which go hand-in-hand with the dissemination of Truths which meet the high standards expressed by a line in a movie..."You can't *HANDLE* the Truth!" Jim Bell was taken down a few hours after I had sent him a copy of a TSotI chapter describing 'Assassination Politics', and asking his opinion on certain things. (The *only* time I have ever done this.) I took the Jim Bell events to be a clear message that the rules had changed in regard to the dissemination of the TSXotI manuscripts. I did not regard the chapter as 'entertainment'. (I fully recognize the possibility that I may be wrong or 'overreacting' to the synchronicity of the two events, but, on the other hand, I have the perspective of having observed this type of 'synchronocity' since 1989, and have had my sorry ass 'saved' by my 'unreasonable paranoia' many times since then.) I left home two weeks before gomez was cut loose from a company he had founded, after seventeen years, in order to arrive the day before he, himself, received the 'news'. I received the information regarding his elimination from the CoE equation via a source who still remains a mystery to me after almost a decade of cross-communication. I gave the situation only the briefest of mentions in the TSotI manuscripts, because CoE initiates would have no problem with immediately recognizing the import of the event. I did not consider that chapter to be 'entertainment'. Many initiates of the Circle of Eunuchs have recently 'gone to ground', in order to work unobserved in a manner which they feel they can be most effective. Other CoE initiates have stepped forward to accentuate the policies and actions that they have been involved in more surrupticiously until now, even though it may well expose them to retribution, because they feel that that is how they can be most effective. I have given brief mention to some of the results of the directions some of these CoE initiates have taken in various chapters of the TSotI manuscripts, and I do not consider these chapters 'entertainment'. I recently received information in regard to the intentions of the Beaver Bullys to slap their tails down on my sorry butt, and had the option of heading for sandier pastures (Tucson), or covering my ass as much as possible and saying, "Damn the torpedos, full Speed, Ritalin and Prozac ahead!" I chose to do the latter, and have written a bit about it in the TSotI manuscripts. I *do* consider those chapters to be (my) 'entertainment', because 'picking guitar while Rome burns' is the only dance there is... Maybe I'm crazy (maybe?...hee, hee), but if I had the opportunity to travel back in time and *become* Lee Harvey Oswald, I would do so. Can you imagine actually *knowing* the Truth behind what most of us can only specualate about, even though the events surrounding his role/non-role in the assassination of JFK are of monumental import to our times and the *REAL* history of our globe? I have no idea whether or not the Oppressors who have 'legally stolen' my computers will be foolish enough to attempt to take me down within the boundaries of the current legal system, but I can guarantee that, if they do, myself and others will learn more about what is truly going on in the background of 'currently perceived reality' than Lee Harvey Oswald ever dreamed of knowing. There are 'tricks and traps' embedded in the information that I *ALLOWED* the Oppressors to confiscate that are the result of almost a decade of preparation. Anyone who thinks I am 'blowing smoke' failed to read and understand the portion of 'WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs' which detailed the concept of "Winner's Bluff." "TV IS REAL!" (And so is 'Uncle Bubba'...) Thought For The Day: Which 'side' do you, personally, take in regard to the debate as to whether there is, or is not, a Grand Conspiracy taking place in the BackGround Of Reality? The fact of the matter is, it doesn't really matter. The existence or non-existence of the Grand Conspiracy is of no more importance than the existence or non-existence of the Circle of Eunuchs. Definition of Reality: "If you can put it in the bank, it's Real!" ~ Stuart Wilde (misquote) 'Theory of Black Holes' Versus 'Infield Fly Rule': If some scientific genius proves the invalidity of Einstien's theories, then can we expect the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to spring back to life? If everyone on the face of the earth, except for baseball umpires, agree to invalidate the Infield Fly Rule, does it really matter? Are the 'True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts 'entertainment'? Sure. "His login is PANIC, His password is CRASH, When Time is of Essence, He'll Rise from the Ash" was just a 'lucky guess' as to the true importance of the recently acknowledged problem which is presented by the Millennium Bug. Claire Wolfe's statement that there is an "Angel" hidden deep within the bowels of the IRS computer system was just a 'lucky guess'. The evolutionary march of computer technology along the paths predicted by the CypherPunks over the years has been just a long series of 'lucky guesses' resulting from the random output of keyboards taking direct hits during the CypherPunks' legendary pissing contests. Dimitri Vulis' exposure of John Gilmore as a 'cocksucker' was just a 'lucky guess'. The ASCII Art spams revealing that Timmy C. Mayonnaise is the result of early 'Turd Cloning' experiments was just a 'lucky guess'. The suspicion slowly rising from the back of your mind to flip the switch which turns on the light of realization that the insanity of 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts are purposely opaque misdirections of their true purpose, which is to raise the possibility that Kent Crispin, and even you, yourself, may actually be one of US, instead of one of THEM, is just a 'lucky guess'. Giorgio Ivanovitch Gurdjieff posited that humans cannot 'consciously' do evil. I concurr... Is there a method to my madness, or a madness to my method? Hint: I AM the Biosemiotic Evolutionary Equivalent (TM) of Lee Harvey Fucking Oswald. I AM not just 'predicting' the future, I AM 'creating' the future. The CypherPunks are not just 'predicting' the future, they are 'creating' the future. Louis !B Freeh is !just 'creating' the future, he is desperately attempting to prevent Jane and Joe Netizen from doing the same. NEWS FLASH!!! ------------- The AI/Biometrics experts at LizardMoor, Lost Alamo and Mule Shoe are sucking hind-tit to those who have approached Biosemiotic Evolution from the human side of the equation. Vice-Admiral D'Shauneaux, during our intial confrontation, expressed concern that I was unaware of the importance to humankind that the 'Secret War' taking place in the Background of History be 'won' by those who were working in the best interests of humanity and democracy. My reply to him was that, given the human condition, it was imperative that the Forces of Light never triumph over the Forces of Darkness, for the simple reason that it has always been a truism that 'Power corrupts, and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely'. (Lucifer used to be an Angel!) Would you rather be slain by a Moslem saint or a Christian saint, upholding their perception of 'righteousness'? Is ECHELON an abomination? Yes, if it remains unopposed. I have no doubt that ECHELON has resulted in the negation of a plethora of evils which had the potential to result in a great amount of devastation to both the physical and the spiritual conditions of the human equation. I also have no doubt that ECHELON at some point reached a point of competence and control that allowed those involved in 'protecting' us to get sidetracked into a plethora of issues and directions which refelected personal, in-house political agendas, rather than the interests of Truth, Justice, Democracy, and An Honorable Concept To Be Corrupted Later. When You're Up To Your Ass In Alligators, It's Hard To Remember That Your Original Objective Was To Drain The Swamp: True... But when you're up to your ass in EunuchIzens, your 'ass is grass' if you don't get back to your 'original objective'. The nonsensical paranoid diatribes warning against the dire threat posed by Gomez and the Dark Allies in the TSotI manuscripts are not 'entertainment', any more than the C2Net Conspiracy Theory that was presented to those with 'ears to hear' during the legendary CypherPunks Moderation Experiment / Censorship Crisis. Assuming that Sameer's lips are not wrapped around Uncle Sam's cock, C2Net reflects the epitome of CypherPunks goals to promote the spread of strong cryptography around the globe in order to provide access for the citizens to secure private communications. Nonetheless. the involvement of a C2Net employee in the attempt to 'damage' the CPUNX list made one of US (TM) a greater threat to CypherPunk ideals than the actions or intentions of THEM (TM). I have absolutely no problem with Mr. & Ms. ECHELON doing whatever they honestly feel is necessary to protect and defend the globe from what is patently evil, but I have absolutely no interest in them achieving such a privileged, comfortable position in the 'Secret War' that they have enough time on their hands to throw a cold, hard one up the butt of anyone who offends them personally by calling them a 'cocksucker', no matter whether the offender's name ends with an 'i' or a 'y'. Orange Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant (Judge Cherry Brandy): Tim May was astute enough to recognize that the absence of ignorant, statist morons such as Kent Crispin on the CypherPunks list is a detriment, since the positions he took on various issues were usually the result of careful deliberation, even though he usually had his head up his ass. A forum in which everyone agrees with Chomsky is of no greater benefit to human evolution than a forum where everyone agrees with Freeh. I am astute enough to realize that without the presence of Willam Geiger III on the CypherPunks list, to slap Eric Cordian silly for whining about life 'forcing' him to be a Sheeple, that I would feel like a lone fool for occassionally admitting to being as big an idiot as the Sheeple that I rail against in my self-righteous diatribes. You are astute enough to realize that even without the verifiable presence of Toto in the Authorship of this chapter, given the fact that the manuscripts have always been a shared/distributed project, not to mention the fact that the toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca account is the Grand Central Station of CyberSpace, it is still incumbent on you to immediately report to the proper authorities my online confession to having murdered a variety of law enforcement agents and buried them in my garden plot in Bienfait. (But, if anybody asks, I was with *you* when JFK was assassinated, OK?) Ten a.m., time for 'River's Edge' on Fox TV. I'll need both hands free, to crack beers and take notes. Smoke 'em if you love 'em...

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Happy Log - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Happy Log - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _________________________________________ Watching 'River's Edge', I remembered why I prefer to remain holed up alone in the BeachBoys' room while Slurping the Dregs with a channel-changer in my hand. It seems that 'River's Edge' wasn't that movie about Paul Newman being a logger--apparently that was 'Sometimes A Great Notion.' Neither was it the John Holmes movie where he plays Johnny Logg, 'Sometimes A Great Motion.' No, it turned out to be the movie that Dennis Hopper made his comeback in, years after it was socially acceptable to openly cheer the social outcasts in 'Easy Rider' or 'Rebel Without A Cause'. Having neither social skills nor self- contol, I cannot refrain from laughing or cheering not just in the 'wrong' places, but also in the 'worst' places... I can relate to Dennis Hopper's character, Feck, when the head murderer in the movie asks him if he's some kind of psycho, since he dances and talks with a life-size sex doll. Feck replies, "I'm not *crazy*, man. I *know* it's a *doll*!" But knowing it doesn't stop him from...caring. I *know* I'm not supposed to hoot, cheer and laugh when Feck tells the 'bad' kid, who murdered his girlfriend, even though he didn't love her, about being justified in blowing the brains out of his own girlfriend, because he 'loved' her, and how he was being hunted and persecuted by a society that didn't understand that his 'apology' was 'sincere', since he really did love her, and about the 'unfairness' of Them still wanting to *punish* him. I *know* that I'm supposed to act horrified at this sick, demented bastard's outlook on life. But knowing it doesn't stop me from...sympathizing. Everyone wants to cheer for the socially acceptable 'UnderDog', but no one wants to cheer for those meeting the current-socially-agreed-upon-profile of the 'MadDog'. NewsWorld did an interview with Jerry Springer in which they asked him how he could possibly justify the outrageous format of his talk show as being of the least bit of 'help' in solving the problems of his guests and society. Springer's reply was basically, "Buy a Clue. I'm the Ringmaster of a Circus." When Springer was asked about his 'descent' from being a respectable member of the mainstream news media, to being the uncontested Joker & Fool of daytime TV, he 'busted' the news media as being a bunch of shylocks who provide a modicum of real news, surrounded by death and disaster in the lives of people we don't know, and sticking microphones in the faces of people who have been 'caught' dipping their dick in the wrong bowl and gleefully screaming 'Gotcha!'. The Masses drive the Media, Entertainment drives the Masses, and the Media drives Entertainment. Because we no longer gather in the public square by the tens of thousands, being whipped into a mass frenzy by the emotive diatribes of the Fuhrer, we believe that we are 'different' from the Germans who wore their BrownShirts in public gatherings, rather than putting them on daily in the privacy of our home, before screaming along in righteous judgement with the studio audience of the 'Jerry Springer Show', or cheering the black-clad ninja warriors on 'Cops' as they kick in the doors of monstrous scum guilty of Felony Dark-Complexion and Felony Inability To Afford A Good Lawyer. After deluging us with a flood of pud-pulling entertainment cleverly disguised as news-coverage of Joey Buttafucko's love life and plans to murder his wife, the smart-asses at NewsWorld tease us with the question, "What was the name of Joey Buttafucko's wife?" Huh? Who the fuck cares? She's just some fucking bit-player victim who gets a couple minutes of air-time in the midst of the massive coverage of the actions, psyche and motivations of the 'main protagonist' in an ongoing 'news' saga designed to increase popcorn and soft-drink sales. The news media is well aware that 'the show is over' the minute they ask the question that enquiring slimes *really* want to know, which is, "What did it *feel* like when you were sucking the life force out of another human being?" (And the follow-up question, "Do you have any pictures?") Daytime Primetime Talk Shows fall all over one another to schedule the guy who got his dick cut off with garden shears. His 'fifteen minutes' gets stretched to the max, along with a guarantee of future reruns. Let some woman get her pussy ripped out by a psycho, and it is given quick, short coverage, during which the news persons look at their shuffling feet, because a woman's private parts are 'dirty' and she was probably wearing a skirt that was too short. If a woman wants to make the big bucks on the talk-show circuit, she needs to get her face slashed with a razor, since women are supposed to look pretty, but not supposed to like sex. (In Moslem countries, however, it is bad taste to give a large amount of coverage to a woman whose face is slashed with a razor, because the slut was probably wearing a veil that was too short.) Canada had a Real Life (TM) rendition of 'River's Edge' take place in Flin Flon, Manitoba (?), where a bunch of teenagers kept silent about the murder of one of their friends by another of their friends, for six months (?) or so, but it didn't have Dennis Hopper in it, so there were no reruns, making the details a little too fuzzy to really remember. Life doesn't *imitate* TV, Life *is* TV, but not as well funded and produced. If you don't recognize this as being the truth, it's because "You can't *HANDLE* the truth!" You gotta have a system... People instictively understand this, which is why I am able to support myself with email spams titled, "How To Make Big $$$ Sitting At Home, Licking Your Own Dick." Unsolicited Commercial Email and Political Parties run on basically the same underlying concept, which is that Horatio Alger can tell us any lies he wants, and put his dick anywhere he pleases, as long as shit still runs downhill and payday is still on Friday. Name the last two bills passed by Congress. Name the last two women Slick Willie dipped his dick in. News...give me a break... Am I supposed to feel 'guilty' about being some sick, sorry, demented psycho weirdo for fixating on and relating to the 'wrong' imaginary characters and 'wrong' emotive issues that are involved in a TV movie? According to my calculations, I still have over four hundred unused Reality Avoidance Credits that I have earned by not giving a fat rat's ass where Slick Willy's dick has been for the last few years of news coverage regarding the size, shape, smell and feel of Little Willie. My failure to become obsessional in regard to the travel schedule of the President's dick is likely to work against me if I find myself in the position of having to defend my position as an EditWhore and ReportWhore for the Bienfait Nutly News, when I find myself facing charges for the public dissemination of a graphic image of a classic Greek statue of a young boy whose petite, well-formed, beautiful, sexy young penis... Where was I...? Sorry... I'm actually homophobic, but I got caught up in the arguments for the graphic being viewed as 'obscene' that a prosecutor would be able to make if his personal experience in the sick, twisted molestation of his own child and those of others gave him a firm understanding of the danger that is presented by Pornography Cleverly Disguised As Art. If somebody wants to compose a Bienfait Nutly News report about the President's dick, I would be more than happy to publish it and get my share of the billion-dollar giveaway of Digital WaveSpace. Beer break...molest 'em if you got 'em (tied up)...

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Re: The Brain: phones home all your URLs?
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

gm wrote: > I recently installed a copy of The Brain - a nifty UI shell. But my > Temporary Internet Files folder filled up with entries of the form: > "http://<TheBrainsMotherURL>/<SomeDLLname>/<MY URL!> > In other words each of my web accesses was 'phoned' in to the mother > brain server, which invoked some back-end .DLL with my URL access as an > argument. Scenario #1: You're a CypherPunk who is dedicated to the creation and dissemination of programs which enhance privacy and security in InterNet software implementations. You want to create a secure program for a particular use, but you are very busy with other projects and it would take about $30,000 to farm it out to someone else... Scenario #2:You are a Corporate Marketeer and you are dedicated to gathering all of the end-user data possible to make the most efficient use of your company's resources. You see the possibilities for creating the same program that the CypherPunk is considering and you have a rather large budget... Scenario #3:You are Head Honcho in the SeeAllKnowAll Department of the Oppressors, and you are dedicated to keeping track of such things as which hand Joe & Jane Citizen wipe their ass with. You the possibilities of the program the CypherPunk is considering, you see the potential of 'adding to' the program needed by the Marketeer, and you happen to have a mountain of resources at your fingertips and close connections with the company the Marketeer is working for... Bottom Line: Britain, more comfortable with the marriage of Government, Corporate and Individual interests in a Socialist/Fascist mix, are openly seeking to merge the Government and Corporate interests in security, etc., in the interests of the Citizen, of course. In the U.S. this is not happening. It is only a coincidence that all goverment and corporate offices share the same building and resources and this fact is only kept 'secret' in the interests of National Security, and to fight terrorists, pedophiles, drug czars, and people who wipe their ass with the 'wrong' hand. Toto

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A new Swiss banking novel
by Peter Swire 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Greetings: This weekend I finished reading a novel that talks about many of the issues of interest to this group. It's Christopher Reich, "Numbered Account," Delacorte Press. The author was a real Swiss banker for a few years. Now he writes a pretty darn good suspense novel featuring how numbered Swiss bank accounts work. In the cryptography debates, the FBI makes a big deal about how anonymous bank accounts can be used by drug smugglers, money launderers, international arms merchants, and anti-Western terrorists. They're all here in the novel. So are the U.S. government agents -- a bit bumbling, thoroughly obnoxious and self-righteous, but also genuinely concerned about stopping truly bad people. Reich also talks a bit about a new crypto system the bank develops for handling secret transactions. I think the book works pretty well as a story. It also gives human faces to the issues of bank secrecy, money laundering, and anonymous accounts. If we are to find ways to have anonymity in cyberspace, we will have to confront the bad things that anonymity can bring. I'd be interested to hear anyone else's reactions to the book. More generally, what do you say to well-intentioned people when they say the following -- won't anonymous accounts contribute, at least a bit, to more drug smuggling, arms smuggling, and international terrorism? [Please, no flames. I am writing an academic article this summer on money laundering and financial privacy. Money laundering laws hold the potential to choke off cryptography and financial privacy generally. How can supporters of privacy best answer back to the calls for stricter regulation?] Peter Swire Prof. Peter Swire Ohio State University College of Law (614) 292-2547 http://www.osu.edu/units/law/swire.htm (includes draft book on European Privacy Directive and Internet Privacy Page)

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Blizzard Gets Sued For Snooping On Gamers
by Sunder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 14:29:23 -0400 From: Salvatore Denaro <sal(a)panix.com> To: 'Ray Arachelian' <sunder(a)sundernet.com> Subject: send to list? They might find this interesting --- Blizzard Gets Sued For Snooping On Gamers --- Game developer Blizzard Entertainment is being sued for unlawful business practices, stemming from the revelation that the company's hot-selling new StarCraft snoops through players' hard drives and e-mails information to the company over the Internet. http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19980430S0015

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Holy QPRNF...
by Xcott Craver 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980504/ca_live_pi_1.html Summary: Digimarc and Live Picture, Inc., team up to offer watermarking services. || ``Until very recently, the creative community was extremely skeptical of || licensing and marketing their work over the Web, which they viewed as an || absolute free-for-all,'' said Doug Dawirs, director of online services at || The Workbook. ``Now these same people and companies are jumping in with || both feet.'' I hope no content creators mistakenly think that this is electronic content protection (possibly, one can say an aid to detect _unintentional_ illicit use, but not intentional theft), or else there will be a free-for-all of a legal kind a little further down the road. I also wonder about the proposed batch processing option, embedding the same watermark into multiple images. I can see a number of security problems here, especially if Live Picture can not (likely) keep track of all the images marked by them. =Xcott

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New restrictions on distributing the SFL
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 17:24:25 -0700 >To: imc-sfl(a)imc.org >From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman(a)imc.org> >Subject: New restrictions on distributing the SFL I'm sorry to announce that the source code for the SFL has been removed from the official site. It has been moved to a new site, <http://www.armadillo.huntsville.al.us/software/smime/> that appears to be export-controlled. You need a password to get the software from that site, and the passwords are handed out by the US Department of Defense. I'm personally embarssed that the government of my country enforces such silly laws. I understand that many other countries have similar laws, but that doesn't make me feel any better. I had hoped that the SFL would be the beginning of sensibility on the part of the US government with respect to cryptography distribution; I still have that hope for the future. There are many people on this mailing list who are outside the US, and this change in distribution may prevent you from getting the SFL. If other Web sites appear that contain unofficial versions of the SFL and do not restrict who can download from them, I will be happy to list those on the IMC SFL page at <http://www.imc.org/imc-sfl/>. I would also like to list links to cryptography packages that work with the SFL at our site. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium

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SHIFT REGISTER technology
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 4/24/98 7:33 AM John Young J Orlin Grabbe John Gilmore The stuff on linear and non-linear shift register sequences which is now appearing on jya.com is the military-grade crypto technology. Semionoff and http://www.jya.com/crack-a5.htm contains material similar to what I saw Brian Snow present in schematics of NSA KG units. The statement by david.loos(a)eudoramail.com The A5 algorithm uses a three level, non-linear feedback shift register arrangement, designed to be sufficiently complex to resist attack. points to the technology used for military-grade crypto. The reason NSA regarded the R register, seen at http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm, feedback function classified was that it contained a non-linear feedback function. I was ORDERED to build UNCLASSIFIED hardware. This is why I stuck the R register feedback function in a fast ram. This similarity between the structure of the nonlinear feedback function in the CAVE algorithm seen at http://www.semionoff.com/cellular/hacking/phreaking/ to the feedback function published in my SAND report : A11 A1 A5 AND A1 0= A9 0= AND XOR A6 A10 XOR XOR ; reveals military-strength technology. SHIFT REGISTERS. Words shift registers also caused the Great American Spy Sting bust. http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html The Cold War is over. And the crypto cat is now about fully out of the bag. Lets hope for settlement so that we can all go on to more constructive tasks. Later bill

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simplicity & found docket sheet
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wednesday 5/6/98 7:29 AM J Orlin Grabbe Your new single-column format, I feel, has advantages over the old three-column format. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ 1 Not as much scrolling as was required to read the three-column format. 2 When I copies material out of columns 2 or 3 to save in a file [orlin.txt, of course], I had to use the Auto-format in Word to collapse the leading blanks. I am studying, by thinking, about how John Young has organized his information and the simplicity of what Young has done. http://www.jya.com/index.htm Simplicity exudes brilliance. And also, I am guessing, is key to outstanding architectural designs. I have some ideas about a 80c32, MASM, and Visual Basic Internet forum I am mulling-over in my mind. I am completing an 80c32 project. Then I need to revise my book. http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 Publicity of this mess on Internet has helped book sales. Today I am working on 1 COMES NOW plaintiffs Payne and Morales [Plaintiffs] to exercise their rights under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 52. Findings by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings (b) Amendment. On a party's motion filed no later than 10 days after entry of judgment, the court may amend its findings--or make additional findings--and may amend the judgment accordingly. The motion may accompany a motion for a new trial under Rule 59. When findings of fact are made in actions tried without a jury, the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the findings may be later questioned whether or not in the district court the party raising the question objected to the findings, moved to amend them, or moved for partial findings. And I see this morning at http://www.jya.com/whp-10usca.htm that John Young found the docket sheet on my case on Internet which Tenth Circuit court clerks Fisher and Hoecker refused to send me. USCA: Payne v. Sandia National Lab Docket May 5, 1998 I think I see WRITTEN EVIDENCE, now published on Internet, that court clerks and federal judges have committed Title 18 felony violations of law. Morales and I are not above filing criminal complaint affidavits when we possess WRITTEN EVIDENCE of guilt. We all must remember the sage words of defendant Harvey Brewster, If it is not written-down, then it didn't happen. Sandia/EEOC, fortunately for me, left a WRITTEN TRAIL of evidence of wrongdoing. This mess should be settled http://www.jya.com/whp043098.htm so that we can all move on to more constructive projects. Before it gets WORSE. Perhaps megatons worse? Allahu akbar bill

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NSA Ordered to Tell Secrets
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In an April 30 Memorandum Opinion and Order Senior US District of New Mexico Judge Santiago Campos has ordered the National Security Agency to produce in camera evidence that it can refuse to respond to allegations of NSA intercepts of Libyan and Iranian encrypted messages in the 1980s. http://jya.com/whp043098.htm (102K) This order was issued in repsonse to cryptographer Bill Payne's FOIA request for the information as part of his wrongful termination suit against NSA and Sandia National Laboratory. In the 56-page order Judge Campos reviews the principal actions in the suit, and to buttress the order for NSA to tell him what it knows about the intercepts invokes recent FOIA regulations which more stringently require intelligence agencies to substantiate the use of the "Glomar response" in refusing to affirm or deny the existence of information on the grounds that to do so would harm national security. He states that case law requires more diligent review in the case of "Glomarization," so he is obligated to make a review in this instance. He states that based on what NSA has heretofore provided the court, withholding of information on these intercepts does not appear justified. Campos has reviewed public documents on allegations of the Swiss firm Crypto AG's "spiking" of its cryptographic equipment (with direction by NSA for backdoors) then selling it to Libya and Iran, Crypto AG's employee Hans Buehler's story of the work, Reagan's statement on the intercepts, and other reports, and finds that while the stories are not authoritative of the USG position, they do warrant his detailed review of NSA's Glomar response. Campos says, paraphrased, "if NSA continues to have the right it claims in this case to determine what is secret and what is not, then it can declare anything secret and thereby undercut the very purpose of the FOIA. That is not acceptable." It's an impressive summary of the legal conflict between the public's right to know and governmental secrecy. And may help ease access information on NSA global surveillance operations. Or, if Campos decides in NSA's favor, may shut the door more securely.

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My Philosophy on Life (Please direct all feedback to my email, not to the group)
by Bruises that won't heal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NOTE: This is probably one of the most unstructured and free-flowing papers that I have ever written. Take it with a grain of salt and two advils. In the world we live today, it is safest to be either at the top or insane. In a story I read last semester out of my ultra-thick Literature textbook, this was first introduced to me. One of the leading characters, an educated man, felt the "sorrow of sanity." It's true that in this world, we all want meaningful lives. Not only do we want to be successful, but we need to be happy. The real question of life lies in what brings us happiness. So, as you read this, keep the goal of happiness in mind. First of all, I'd like to talk about my influences throughout my life. Television was a large part of my life in the early years, which I am sad to say has shaped a very minute amount of my mind. The television, or our "Vast Wasteland," is a horrible medium that has too much to say about so much. In my eyes, television has failed to serve the "public's interest, convenience, and necessity." It has too much of a handle on the world today, and people blindly accept most/all of what they see. You may tell yourself that you are not one of those who conform to the views of the television, but even witty shows such as South Park and insanely stupid shows like Beavis and Butthead shaped our lives. We used to laugh when Butthead would slap Beavis, and we'd get excited when Beavis would yell "Fire! Fire!" A statement which was later proven to be a cause for a young child to light a fatal fire in his own house. As we grow older, our minds begin to become more autonomous and move away from such ignorance and mindless influence, but the way that we are brought up as children will always be a big influence on our lives. And since those funny Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons were there and influenced us as children, a very small part carries over. A happy childhood or a sad childhood shapes what we can become as adolescent youth. Most of us undergo something sad and traumatic as children. Mine came around the age of 14 when my sister and father use to argue constantly. Hatred affects us, even when it isn't directly between us and someone else. Anyway, this traumatic experience, which also lasts longer with some, is a major cause for our disbelief and our lack of immediate trust in everything. It causes us to think twice about everything, and it causes us to worry. We are burned by everybody throughout our lives. Remember the first time that our parents tricked us into something and how angry we were because we were misled? Remember when you came home to find your pet, who was one of your best friends, gone forever and never to be seen again? Maybe you came home to find that a really close relative of yours died and somehow you felt betrayed by either God, or the doctors, or somehow you felt responsible. Maybe you still blame yourself for your parent's divorce. Either way, these are the major climaxes of our childhood which also carry over. You see the jerks out in the world, and you see those who easily betray, and sometimes you wonder who first betrayed them, or who manipulated their minds to be so uncompassionate. It's sad that everyone has to learn these things at a young age where we are all so susceptible to misbeliefs and conjectures of the corporate world. But, unfortunately, we learn by mistake and that is human nature. This leads me into the thoughts of how human nature can kill a spirit. We all like to be liked, and we all need to be loved by somebody. A heavy heart appears where love is less spent. And the nature of hate (which I believe is not human nature but more a learned emotion) can kill a spirit. And the feeling of being disliked, betrayed, hell, even when we hate someone, that all can kill us. But this doesn't prove how human nature can kill a spirit. I can say this is done because of the way that we naturally react to so many things. For example, we learn to hate because we are first hated or betrayed. People can be so cold to us, and we take all that as a part of us (of course, as children) and we turn it into rage and hate. When a child is molested by an adult, he/she can instantly reject the members of his/her offending sex. They can even lose trust in their parents (especially if the parent is the offender). It's a very sad thing that this is, and it damages so deeply in the soul and heart. What I'd like to discuss now is the cause that many people indulge in. Alcoholism is a terrible disease. I don't say that because I think that drinking is wrong. I believe that irresponsible drinking is wrong. It's true that alcoholics don't begin as heavy drinkers, but I believe that alcoholics form because of drinking due to depression. Those kids who are neglected and don't have so many great friends as children may seek refuge in being drunk or high. The position I take on marijuana versus. alcohol is this. I don't consider anything I can grow in my backyard a drug. And marijuana isn't nearly addictive as alcohol because you can only become psychologically addicted. We've all experienced mental addictions (seeing the Titanic movie twenty some times would probably constitute.) Sex is more addictive than marijuana is (in my opinion.) Anyway, alcohol is like anything else in the ways that it can be used responsibly but is unlike anything else because it can cause people to rape, kill, and do things a sane person would never dream of. So, people, I urge you to drink responsibly. Don't drink out of ruins of depression, because it will not delay problems or solve them. That is the problem with the world today. We don't solve problems. We just fix them. Anyway, as Michael Stipe says in Everybody Hurts "Don't throw your hands/hang on/take comfort in your friends." My second major concern is pornography. This is some major bull shit. It's corporate people who, as the government allows them to, take advantage of people's human urges to cheat on their wives or whatnot. Sure, you may believe that I am taking things way to far. It's only a naked chick on a page. But when you find someone special and you want to have sex with her, she's only the next step up from a bottle of lotion and a couple of magazines. Porn-freaks begin to see women as objects, argue with spouses and dates for insignificant reasons. Nothing good comes from pornography of any type. I guess it's semi-reasonable if a couple want to use videos together and so, but leave this exploitation alone and I don't think you'll regret it. Realize that so much of the downfall of America is just an expense to the success of someone else's success. Now, my personal feelings on how America works. Government is corrupt. It's goal is to serve the people with their own interests. This is a farce. First of all, America is not a democracy. In a true democracy, each person voices their opinion on every subject. Since we have such a huge number of people living in our country, this is impossible. So we elect representatives who we think will best serve in the government according to our own interests. But this rarely happens. Sure, those stupid bills that would never get passed (i.e.. drop the gun carrying age to 14) never do pass. Those are common sense actions. But real controversial issues (abortion, education, health care, death penalty, etc.) are very hard to set actions on because it affects so many people and the politicians have so many decisions to make. But I cannot say that our government is a failure. They would protect me if Cuba shot missiles at my home state tonight, and they'll give glue my arm back on if it happens to fall off on the way to school tomorrow and I had no way to pay for it. So, we can all argue about what the government is doing, but we must all also be thankful that our government isn't shooting us as we walk down the street. Anyway, the government isn't the problem so much in America today. It's the marketplace. Commercial business has made more laws than the government, and it's the big corporate giants who will decide what is the next biggest fashion. Corporate America is the root of all the trouble I can see in America. Let's go back to my examples above about the stupid junk with pornos and drugs and such. Pornography, I will restate, is worthless and damaging to the United States. Now, let's all ask ourselves where this garbage is piped in from. Corporate America. How could it be, you ask? Simply put, most of the people in the United States of America (which never really seem united) will only do things if it makes them money and or it makes them happy. Now, most of the time, we won't even do things if it makes us happy. We'd all be happy to turn the channel when Barney the Money-Hungry Education Dinosaur comes on, but if the remote is on top of the television, we might just take a few minutes for the show to really get on our nerves before we'll get up to change it. That 15 second walk can kill you, especially if Corporate America has had you up since 5 in the morning. But, hold on, the kids want to watch Barney. Darn it! You've been slaving all day at work to raise enough money for those kids to wear expensive clothes and to buy $30 Barney videos, and now they want to pry into your time alone? No, you yell at the kids to go watch another television or to go outside so you can have some peace and quiet. Geez, what's daddy so angry about? Could it be that he's overworked and stressed, and that he never spends time with us because all of his spare time is wrapped up in getting rest for work the next day? Oh, it's no big worry, because daddy has all day Saturday off to wash the car, plant some flowers, pay the bills, cook dinner for us, call back all those people who have called during the week and to go shopping... all the things he enjoys the most. Maybe this summer, daddy can take a week or two to take us to Dinghy world and spend so much money on us! Then he can come back and work for two months to pay off those pesky credit card companies for the thousands of dollars he spent. And while daddy is at work, those nice guys on television can tell us about all the neat things to buy. Yes, daddy will love the looks on our faces when we open up our happy meals (what ever happened to those cool boxes?) and we get our My Little Pony dolls. But we can't have just one pony! We need the whole set! Let's get them all daddy. A heart that's full up like a landfill. A job that slowly kills you. Bruises that won't heal. You look so tired and happy. Bring down the government. They don't speak for us. I'll take a quiet life. A handshake. Some carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises. No alarms and no surprises. Please. Silent. Silent. This is my final fit. My final bellyache. Such a pretty house. Such a pretty garden. "Are they getting on your nerves?" I asked the lady who sat behind the counter. She opened up her purse and laid a twenty dollar bill on the counter, got up and left. The kids shot me with a water pistol and ran out the door. They piled into mommy's car as the lady broke down crying. Her rusted station wagon didn't have a back window, but it had a semi-translucent tarp to keep out the wind and rain. And then she dropped her keys. She wiped the tears from her eyes like lakes from the plains, picked up her keys, and got in the car. Never again will I see that woman, but what she gave me, I wish I could return tenfold. That really didn't happen to me, but it speaks words to me. Some of you may not understand that, but what it is basically is saying is that the guy who spoke to the woman gained something inside from her pain. She was barren and empty, poor. She gave him a 20 dollar thought, and he wished he could give her 200 dollars. It's all Corporate America's fault. Here we could have a woman who went to college, but couldn't accept a job because she couldn't afford to move. So she works days to pay for a tiny apartment, an expensive baby-sitter, and for her three kids to live. Where's the husband? Dead maybe? Maybe he was an alcoholic and she kicked him out (not an uncommon thing). Welcome to Corporate America. In their world, you don't have to bring anything to survive, but they would like it better if you could leave some stuff behind. Otherwise, they'll take it away. Let's talk about this. Creativity can be destroyed from having a job. Yes, crew, by getting a job, your giving in (not completely, but somewhat) to corporate America. You just have to find a paying job that you totally enjoy. If you do that, then you'll never work a day in your life. For me, I'll be a train engineer. I'd really like to be in a successful music band. We'd never sell out to anybody. It'd be great. I used to really, really want to be a bird. I'd want to fly around with a knapsack on. Inside, I'd have a walkman on that continuously played A-ha's Take On Me and R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion. I'd also have about 20 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That would be my perfect life. I feel like I've said so much about everything, but I haven't even began to scratch the surface of some hot topics. This is your preface to my thoughts. I'll do addendums as soon as they appear. Addendum I - Microsoft as a Giant Wart I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today, and he was talking about how Microsoft puts this stupid new web browser on every computer no matter what program you install. For example, if you install a word processor it will still install Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (a stupid browser) on your desktop. Well, this is junk. I think that computers are a waste of time, especially in this time and day. They should never have advanced past pocket calculators, and mainly because they are too convenient. Too many people spend nice sunny days sitting in front of the Internet downloading golf images, or pornography, or whatever. Forget that. I think that people should sell their computers and buy a set of golf clubs. Maybe you should take that thousand dollars and get a pet and take a weekend trip. Computers are nothing but a headache. Don't believe me? Test this against so many statistics and experience. Ask that accountant neighbor of yours if he'd rather go for a swim in a pool or figure out some corporate tax return information. Ask that computer programmer how many times he's visited another city on a trip that was only for pleasure. Then, ask the Park Rangers how much they love being outdoors. You're bound to find that most people hate technology in a raw form. The most beautiful things on this earth are found in nature, and not on some computer screen or in some magazine. Anyway, back to Microsoft. Bill Gates is only partly to blame for Microsoft's reputation. Of course, he has a lot of pull in the company since he is CEO and chairman, but realize that Microsoft is a huge company and that he can't possibly oversee every individual aspect of it. Sure, they are accused of unfair trade practices, but a certain percentage of that is acceptable (not every company can please everyone all the time.) But they do an awful lot of bad stuff (I can't give examples here because they are too complex to explain), but a lot of that comes from regional offices, etc. So, Microsoft is a monopoly because they own almost every aspect of computers today. You almost have to use their software in everything you want done professionally. And a lot of computer users will say that they really don't like that. I have two options for you. The first one is, gulp, buy a MacIntosh. The second (which I highly recommend) is to sell your computer and buy a guitar. Addendum II - The Internet as a Tool I'll grant that the Internet is an unboundless tool that almost any company can incorporate. Scientists can use it to collect data over the world, share information, and express ideas. Doctors can use it to find out more about diseases by reading up-to-date information from around the world. But these noteworthy actions rarely occur. Anyone who goes on the Internet would have to agree that it really is a not-so-needed "tool" but more of a world-wide haven for computer geeks. It's mostly full of perverts who'll have cyber-sex (cyber-sex is, by definition, when two people type actions and thoughts to each other while mutually masturbating. Sounds fun, eh?) Every America On-Line user knows what it is like to receive 20 messages per day about free sex sites and porno distribution, or how to get rich quick. Nobody is safe from advertising and spam e-mail on the Internet. In my humble opinion, the Internet has "sold out." It's just like your favorite underground rock group. Sure, you loved them as a local group and when they had their own name. But now they are playing wherever they can get paid the most, etc. It sucks. The Internet used to be an elite association of computer users (geeks and the normal people, too.) But Corporate America, namely Microsoft, has tried to put a footstep on each web page out there. For example, go to a search engine on the Internet (I suggest Yahoo! or excite.com.) They all practically do the same thing, so it doesn't matter. Instantly, you will see some advertisement on that page. Now, in the search field, type in the name of your favorite band. Click search and wait for the responses. Click on any one of several web pages that will surely be devoted to the worship of that band. You will more than likely see a banner for some sponsor (who pays them a dime for each person who clicks on it). See? Your independent down-home web pages have been stamped, logged, and dated for Corporations to see. Check this out. Go to www.microsoft.com. There? Microsoft now has your name, city, state, and e-mail address. Keep this up, and you can expect some e-mail from some company wanting to sell you something really soon. Sure, some web pages don't really want your personal information, but they'd love to sell it to some other company who would. Welcome to the Internet. A place of boredom, dull information, sex, lies, and overweight people who still seem to fit into a size 4. Addendum III - Music as an Influence Music is one of the most extraordinary mediums in the world. It's a unique language that is universal and ancient. I'm sure that some idiot (the first man, and even the modern man) sat on a rock and beat a club on the ground and thought, hey, I should for a band. So now we got four poor musicians who'll do anything for a gig. They're making music that they all love and life is grand. These are good guys. These are the guys that have a heart for something that they love and they won't let the world stand in between them and their dreams. It's the same way with almost all artists. Nobody can really enter the world of art expecting to be a success or a failure. But what every person should know is that they can enter the world of art and be prepared to grow and learn from what happens. I know that some of the simple photographs that I've seen in my life have changed the perspective on things for me. And the songs I hear can most definitely have a major impact on my thoughts and actions. It's simple to see this in everybody. You know how that fast song with lots of energy comes on, and before you know it, you're driving 65 in a 30, "feeling the flow. Working it." It's a great feeling. Something that is irreplaceable (but definitely not not exceedable.) Radiohead, R.E.M., and The Velvet Underground are probably the only bands which I've ever felt really connected to. They all deliver a great message to me, and send that message on wondrous instrumental works of art. R.E.M. gave me the advantage of feeling without experience. Lou Reed's simple minded complexities were great wisdom that I think of daily and is really involved in a lot of "What Goes On." (That's a song title to a Velvet Underground song, by the way.) And lastly, Radiohead has shown me the world about. It conquered my fears and it has really been a guide in the direction of my life. I understand through that music what may lie in the future. It really woke me up to quick thinking that my life can be what I make of it. No one can hold me back from doing what I really want, but some of us aren't quick to realize that we can hold ourselves back if we don't act on our judgments and if we don't get motivated to do what we want. I'd recommend those three CD's to any person in the world. Get all the live Velvet Underground you can and listen to each work like it was an important message coming over the telegraph. Write those words down, read them over and over, then hang them on the walls of your bathroom. Keep a poster of Michael Stipe in your bedroom and stare at it while you listen to R.E.M. And watch the nightly news after you've listened to Radiohead and apply your common sense to a world of chaos. "It's a Man Ray kind of sky. Let me show you what I can do with it." Addendum IV - Calvin and Hobbes This cartoon is so great to me that I just had to mention it here. The humor, wit, and philosophy that Bill Watterson so ingeniously portrays through his cartoon characters is unparalleled in my opinion. Calvin in a six year old boy who knows the perils of elementary school and having parents, and daydreams about dinosaurs in rocket ships. If you've never read any of the work, you're missing out on a life-changing set of books. I used to anxiously await each and every new release of the next book. It's so great. Anyway, back to our characters. Calvin is a witty, scary, typical six year old boy. His awesomeness lies in his incredible knowledge of things he knows nothing about. He picks up a great vocabulary from television and books, but is a terrible student in school. His stuffed tiger, Hobbes, is the wise leader of the two (although Calvin claims to be) and is very smart. The conversations the two have and the experiences they share open different doors in my mind and soul. From downright hilarious strips to sad ones that pull your heart into Calvin's, I'm sure that you won't regret reading anything that Bill Watterson has to put out. I also admire Bill Watterson because he didn't sell out. He fought syndication as long as he could, and quit writing Calvin and Hobbes because of the problems he had with the Corporate monsters who wanted Calvin T-shirts, stickers, figurines, etc. Screw that. Calvin and Hobbes will always have an eternally open field to gambol in inside of my heart. Addendum V - Love Love is a feeling that people feel when they have a special devotion towards someone. I am flawed in the fact that I must always feel loved by a special someone. It's not so bad, I guess, but loneliness is an empty feeling which I hate. A relationship at a young age (the only thing I'm experienced at) can be fulfilling or detrimental to a person's happiness. Some teens grow up all there life on their own and can depend on themselves solely. Others of us need a special friend or girl/boyfriend to help us along the way. I think I'm that latter, but the girlfriend/boyfriend thing isn't like having an extra set of arms. To me, having a relationship with someone else can be either an escape where you can throw your blues into the air and forget about them, or it is a place of comfort where you can get help with your problems. Whatever it is at that certain aspect of time, a very special bridge can build between your heart and that significant other. As a young person, it is necessary that we recognize that life is long and that this relationship most likely isn't one of eternal reward. But, we put our hearts into it strongly and we hope that we never part from that special person. It's easy to get hurt in a relationship, and a lot of times, that pain will carry into other relationships further down the line. Some people choose to take dating lightly, and to make high school relationships just fun little dates. That's fine also. It might be best because it keeps hearts from breaking. But, I must admit that I need to be loved (just like everybody else does.) And I can't keep myself from falling for girls who care, are adorable, and who are fun to be with. The downfall that I've so hardly been hit with is the haunting of ex-dates. I broke up with a girl after 2 years, and let me tell you, sometimes it comes back to haunt me. I can't express this in words, you'll have to experience for yourself. But trust me when I say that you won't stop thinking about him/her just because you broke up. You compare stupid things (and I mean stupid) to what he or she did or was like. And it's so annoying. You'll learn to despise it. Addendum VI - Anti-Technology (and what to do about it) Technology should be feared. Not for what it is, but for what it can become. Trains, planes, and automobiles were only the opening of a new gate that will open to endless technological takeover. In my opinion, we are creating, building, and capitalizing on something that may eventually lead to our downfall. The world in which we have created has resulted in laziness, etc. What's technology? First of all, we need to clearly get in your head what my definition of technology is. Technology is the inventions that do not use a man's energy and convert it, but use energy from the world. Often times, it's wasted energy. Nuclear weapons, toasters, and other machines that we have so great a deal of are a waste of time and money. It's funny that I say these things because I am a big user of technology. I have a TV, a VCR, a telephone, a toaster, a car, a computer, and even a air conditioner. How's that for comfort? Yes, I do contradict myself, but I could survive in a hut with a fireplace just as well. It doesn't matter if I did live in a hut either. It's worthless to set that example without first making clear what I was trying to prove. Maybe if this ever gets published into a nationwide best-seller, I can start an au naturale community out west somewhere. What can I say to do about technology? Succumb. It's all relentless. Besides, rebellion isn't in style this generation. Addendum VII - The Continuing Trilogy of Intelligent Music The intelligence of the music by the Talking Heads and David Byrne is overwhelming. The spoken words of Thom Yorke of Radiohead can rinse your head out. The wonderful emotion stored in Pink Floyd's music is wondrous too. And here is where the trilogy began. Although I don't consider myself any great genius about any of these bands, they all have a link. In the 70's, Pink Floyd was a musical takeover. It started this all. I was considering adding The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed to this, but they don't qualify. They didn't have such a common theme. Pink Floyd created the movie, "The Wall," and it was theirs. In the 1980's, David Byrne and The Talking Heads added a great amount of genius and through music, mesmorized what has become an elite and intelligent bunch of listeners. Byrne's movie, "True Stories," made me realize what this was all leading to. I don't completely understand it myself, and I think it's up to each individual to decide and to keep watching. Radiohead has continued by creating movie with a scary tone because of their view of the world. They have yet to create a movie, but we must remain eager for them to do so. It's a must. This addendum won't make any sense to you unless you see the two movies and listen to quite a bit of the music of each band. And listen to the words are fit them to your view of the world and combine all that muddy water to the dirt that I put in this. How's that for deep, dark waters? Addendum VIII - Photography Photography, I just want to mention, is a wonderful medium where art can be captured. Without it, all of us who can't paint or draw would be artless. There is no such thing as a bad artwork. People who tell you that your artwork is junk have a hole in their spirit or don't understand. Everything in the world can symbolize something else. Just hold onto your artworks. Feeble as such, a cheap blanket from your childhood can bring tears to your eyes, and a 25 year old photo of a high school love can make you appreciate times you've had and make memories wondrous. Taking classes on photography can be great. Learning to master the tools is necessary to fully, completely understand anything. But getting a grade on photos for content is damaging. I don't believe that you can grade anything like that. I respect all photographers because it's more and more becoming a rarely used art medium and it should be just as respected as painting and etc. Emotional outlets and ideas can't be graded, and it is dangerous to manipulate, bias, or fend against that. It's like trying to stop hot water from pouring out of an open faucet. Addendum IX - Great Quotations "They can't tell the difference between working and not working. There's no concept of weekends anymore." - True Stories "The only thing to fear is fearlessness. The bigger the weapons, the greater the fear." - Michael Stipe (Hyena)

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Re: corvette.bxa.doc.gov
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

mgraffam(a)mhv.net writes: > Ahh well.. from your log entries, it seems as if corvette isn't > necessarily just running a bot. It looks as if humans might be running > around too. I prefer the bot, personally.. An AltaVista search for the name yields a number of www logfiles (including MIL sites) that go back until 1996. FOIA, anyone?

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by bill.stewart＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Why are you bouncing my mail to Cypherpunks?
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The antispam assholes suddenly blocked domain ix.netcom.com. (an amazing thing to do, all in all, and shows how far away from reality can people be carried out by religion) It turned out that sendmail at our mail relay site was ckecking their "blackhole DNS database". I deleted all the rules that refer to them and now things seem to be OK. I am sorry for your troubles, Bill. Thanks for letting me know. igor Bill Stewart wrote: > > Hi, Igor - this bounced. Is it because I sent it as > stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com > instead of > bill.stewart(a)pobox.com > (which is how I subscribe, through cyberpass), or is RBL blocking > Netcom again, or is something else wrong? > > Thanks; Bill > > > >Return-Path: <> > >Received: from dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.13]) > > by ixmail7.ix.netcom.com (8.8.7-s-4/8.8.7/(NETCOM v1.01)) with ESMTP id KAA03312; > > for <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com>; Mon, 4 May 1998 10:15:35 -0700 (PDT) > >Received: from localhost (localhost) > > by dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with internal > > id MAA15308; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:15:32 -0500 (CDT) > >Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 12:15:32 -0500 (CDT) > >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)ix.netcom.com> > >Message-Id: <199805041715.MAA15308(a)dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com> > >To: <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> > >Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable > >Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > > > >The original message was received at Mon, 4 May 1998 12:14:52 -0500 (CDT) > >from smap@localhost > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > ><cypherpunks(a)algebra.com> > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > >... while talking to mail.algebra.com.: > >>>> MAIL From:<stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> SIZE=1102 > ><<< 521 <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com>... #blocked.contact postmaster > >554 <cypherpunks(a)algebra.com>... Service unavailable > > > > ----- Original message follows ----- > > > >Return-Path: <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> > >Received: (from smap@localhost) > > by dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) > > id MAA15254 for <cypherpunks(a)algebra.com>; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:14:52 -0500 (CDT) > >Received: from pax-ca6-17.ix.netcom.com(199.35.217.209) by dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) > > id rma015185; Mon May 4 12:14:15 1998 > >Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980504100635.008f7950(a)popd.ix.netcom.com> > >X-Sender: stewarts(a)popd.ix.netcom.com > >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) > >Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 10:06:35 -0700 > >To: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com > >From: Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> > >Subject: Forward: --India's INSAT hacked > >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > >>From Computer Underground Digest > >------------------------------ > > > >Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:06:30 -0700 > >From: Jeremy Lassen <jlassen(a)AX.COM> > >Subject: File 9--India's INSAT hacked > > > >Space Age Publishing's India correspondent B. R. Rao reports that > >"hackers" have succeeded in stealing transponder time on board > >India's domestic communications satellite, INSAT. The Network > >Ops. Control Center(NOCC)of India's Dept. of Telecommunications > >is "...in the process of identifying the culprits". > > > >The director of NOCC confirms that a reward has been offered to > >anyone who can provide information that helps identify the > >culprits. Reports indicate the NOCC is aware that "...anybody in > >possession of the technical details of INSAT and its frequency > >ranges can at regular intervals tap into its transponders and > >transmit data free across the globe." > > > >I know this is rather vague, but I hadn't read about this > >anywhere else, and thought that the CUD's readers might find it > >interesting. Anybody need some transponders time? :) > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > Bill > Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com > PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639 > > > > Thanks! > Bill > Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com > PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639 > - Igor.

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