December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

STOA Assessment of Techno-Control
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've transcribed the Euro-Parliament STOA report, "An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control," 6 January 1998, a portion of which was offered earlier by Axel Horns and Ulf Möller. http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm (295K text + 210K images) Zipped version: http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.zip (314K) It's a grim assessment, revealing more than most of us want to face about the dark side of high technology, especially what the most technologically advanced nations are deploying, and building to sell to the worst of humanity, and how export laws are flaunted to cut criminal deals in defiance of high-minded law and public policy. It demonstrates that he national security heritage continues, sharing military technology with governmental outlaws around the globe. And the US is leading the market. It would be cathartic for this report was widely read, pondered, then acted upon, in the US and globally. Kudos to the European Parliament for sponsoring it. And congratulations to the authors and the beleaguered organizations who've been trying for years to diminish this over civilized madness, to jolt us out of techno-narcosis. There's much in the report that's been discussed here, and much more that has not but deserves to be. The full report is 112 pages, 50 pages of main body, 13 pages of notes and 25 pages of bibliography. We've not yet transcribed the detailed bibliography. As noted earlier, the contents are: Abstract Executive Summary Acknowledgements Tables and Charts 1 Introduction 2 Role and Function of Political Control Technologies 3 Recent Trends and Innovations 4 Developments in Surveillance Technology 5 Innovations in Crowd Control Weapons 6 New Prison Control Systems 7 Interrogation, Torture Techniques and Technologies 8 Regulation of Horizontal Proliferation 9 Conclusions 10 Notes and References 11 Bibliography [Not yet transcribed] Appendix 1. Military, Security & Police Fairs. [Not provided with report]

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Sun takes over Netscape? [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > February 4, 1998: 7:27 p.m. ET > > More related sites... NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Shares of Netscape > Communications Corp. shot up Wednesday amid rumors that the company is > being eyed as a possible takeover target by Sun Microsystems Inc. > [INLINE] The takeover scuttlebut drove Netscape (NSCP) stock up 1-1/16 > to 19-1/4 in active trading. The surge capped a four-day trading > period in which the Internet software company's shares have jumped > roughly 20 percent from a Friday close of 16-1/16. > [INLINE] Despite the leap, Netscape stock remains sharply down in > 1998, having dropped nearly 20 percent in the first 23 trading days of > the year. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Fingerprinting in CA [was Whoa: British SmartCard rollout]
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How come there is no organized opposition to fingerprinting everyone in the nation? [U.S.-centric talk, but applies to Britain too] There was just a news report on "KidsSafe", a smartcard for holding kids' health details for an emergency. "Eventually, they won't have to carry the card, we can instantly look up the information from their fingerprints". Excerpts from the Cryptography Manifesto follows... BTW, it's finally online! I need to update it for the past 6 months of activity, but... http://www.erols.com/paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm (scroll down) ---- Fingerprinting everyone in the USA - nay, the planet - is a known plot by the NSA: see (the 2nd) "The Body as Password" below. Are we all going to silently roll over and accept this NSA crap??? It's our tax money, but we NEVER got to vote on it. How about some cypherpunk with money challenging it on the basis shown below of violating Privacy Act of 1974? ---guy Sure, government can give debate reasons for requiring fingerprinting for driver's licenses... But it is still a violation of the minimization requirement of the Privacy Act of 1974. Biometric data on citizens is FAR BEYOND any reason government can give. Notice how no citizens in any state ever got to vote on such an important escalation of personal data collection by the government. Indeed, it seems to be accomplished in the quietest way possible, giving citizens the least amount of opportunity to choose their fate. Odd, since tax-payer paid-for government services is what gives them the power. But elected representatives will do, you say? Did you hear any of them mention it during campaigning? Did Alabama elected officials even mention it with their press release of a new driver's license, despite that being the plan? No. What does that tell you? We need a cabinet-level Privacy Commission, with the power to intervene nationwide. Power to protect us little people from fanatical personal data collection. We are losing it piece by piece. Who would have thought the United States would collect fingerprints from all citizens? This is the main way our Federal Government is rolling out the National ID Card, using a Universal Biometric Card: driver's licenses. Divide and Conquer, state by state. It is the beginning of the end. Don't think the biometric driver's licenses are the exact equivalent of a National ID Card? Check out this phrasing from an unimplemented law: # Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, October 1983 issue # # Senator Bob Dole wants the government to conduct a three-year study to # unify federal and local requirements for personal identity. # # The bill, S1706, would amend the Federal False Id Act of 1982, to require # a comprehensive identity scheme for the U.S., either THROUGH UPDATING # EXISTING IDs TO BE MORE SECURE, UNIFYING THEM, or creating a new identity # document for all Americans. Collect biometric information from everyone... law enforcement's Evil Holy Grail. * "U.S. Has Plan to Broaden Availability tests of DNA Testing" * By Fox Butterfield, The New York Times, undated but 1996 implied. * * In a little known provision of the Clinton Administration's 1994 Crime * Control Act was a call for the establishment of a nationwide DNA data * bank like the current national system for fingerprints, run by the FBI. * * In the two years since then, 42 states have passed laws requiring prison * inmates give blood or saliva samples for a "DNA fingerprint." * * In a report today, the Justice Department said it is stepping up efforts * to make such DNA biometric capture "as common as fingerprinting" and that * they expect the test in five years to go from $700 each to a mere $10 and * take only hours or minutes to accomplish. And how much hardware is a handheld fingerprint device? * "Lucent in New Identification Joint Venture" * The New York Times, 5/22/97 * * Lucent Technologies [Bell Labs is their research and development arm] and * U.S. Venture Partners said today that they had formed a company that would * make products to help people prove their identities through electronic * fingerprinting technology. * * The first product of the company, Veridicom Inc., will be a postage-size * fingerprint sensor used to retrieve information, authorize purchases or * allow entry into restricted areas. * * The postage-size sensor will measure the ridges and valleys on the skin * when a finger is pressed against a silicon chip, and then check the * measurements against the user's profile. Not big at all, is it? # "Faster, More Accurate Fingerprint Matching" # By Andrea Adelson, The New York Times, October 11 1992 # # "We think there will be a revolution in fingerprinting," said David F. # Nemecek, a deputy for the FBI's Information Service Division. # # The next step is for manufacturers to make a single-finger mobile scanner # for use in patrol cars. Some FBI cars are expected to get them next year. $ "The Body As Password", By Ann Davis, Wired Magazine, July 1997 $ $ In October 1995, the Federal Highway Administration awarded a $400,000 $ contract to San Jose State University's College of Engineering to develop $ standards for a "biometric identifier" on commercial driver's licenses and $ for use in a centralized national database. A centralized national database of biometric information for cross-state driver's licenses, and all individual state driver's license fingerprints available via the FBI's NCIC. * "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5 * * News reports indicate that, like California, practically all of the 50 * states are in the process of installing news systems for drivers licenses, * often incorporating biometric measurements such as digitization of finger- * prints. That these systems are linked together gives us an indication of * the powerful grip our hidden controllers have on this nation. * * All federal agencies are being integrated into this data net. These Police * State agencies constitute a clear and present danger, not only to the * privacy and constitutional rights of Americans but to our very lives! * * A Hitler, a Pol Pot, or a Stalin would have loved to have had the * microchips, surveillance cameras, lasers, computers, satellites, weapons, * wiretap circuits and communications gadgetry of today's Dick Tracy Police * State. * * Perhaps FBI Director Louis Freeh said it best shortly after his * appointment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1993. Referring * to the incredible array of computerized control and battle gadgetry * available to federal law enforcement, Freeh, stressing cooperation * between his own FBI and the other alphabet police agencies, sardonically * remarked, "LET'S SHARE OUR TOYS." * * Dick Tracy, of course, was a good guy. But Dick Tracy would have * recognized as unconstitutional the worldwide comprehensive Orwellian * system that has been installed, and reject it as a menace to true law * and order. ! "Welfare Recipients Lose Benefits Through Glitches in Computers" ! By Joe Sexton, The New York Times, 5/16/96 ! ! The fingerprint-imaging system that is a central element of the Giuliani ! administration's effort to crack down on welfare fraud has resulted in ! hundreds of recipients cases being closed. ! ! The public advocate's office has been inundated with complaints from ! improper case closings. ! ! The failure seems to stem from the local offices not transmitting the ! fingerprints to Albany's central computer. This resulted in AUTOMATICALLY ! TERMINATING BENEFITS OF PEOPLE THE COMPUTER THOUGHT WERE NOT FINGERPRINTED. ---- Prior to the fingerprint "final solution" of control over us, there were other attempts---which would have required a vote---which tried to roll out a National ID Card. * "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5 * * Since total and absolute control can be obtained only by a Police State * bureaucracy, efforts have escalated in recent years to require a National * ID Card. * * Upon Bill Clinton's election as President, Secretary of Health and Human * Services Donna Shalala and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy jointly * developed a $100 million plan to require all children and babies to have * a dossier established in a national computer registry to insure "universal * mandatory vaccinations." * * When patriotic Americans rose up to protest, the U.S. Senate quietly * shelved the deceptive Shalala-Kennedy proposal. * * The Clinton administration next surfaced with its mandatory health care * plan. A key component of this plot to socialize medical care was the * requirement of a computer I.D. card for every American, linked to a master * computer network. * * Martin Anderson, writing in The Washington Times: * * President Clinton held the pretty red, white and blue "smart card" in * his hand when he addressed the nation, proudly waving it like a small * American flag. * * Only it wasn't a flag; it was a "health security card"---his slick * name for a national identity card. Under his plan a new National * Health Board would establish "national, unique identifier numbers" * for every single one of us. * * Fortunately, President Bill Clinton's healthcare scam never made it * into law. Sadly, few of the complainers were upset about the potential * for abuse by Big Brother. * * Shortly after being elected, one Clinton advisor promoting the biochip * 'mark' is Dr. Mary Jane England, a member of Hillary Clinton's ill-fated * socialized, national healthcare initiative. Addressing a conference * sponsored by computer giant IBM [IBM's Lotus division takes hand biometrics * of employees who use their childcare facilities] in Palm Springs, * California, in 1994, England not only endorsed the proposed mandatory * national I.D. smart card, but went one scary step further: * * The smart card is a wonderful idea, but even better would be the * capacity to not have a card, and I call it "a chip in your ear," * that would actually access your medical records, so that no matter * where you were, even if you came into an emergency room unconscious, * we would have some capacity to access that medical record. * * We need to go beyond the narrow conceptualization of the smart card * and really use some of the technology that's out there. * * California Governor Pete Wilson has actively stumped for a National I.D. * Card system, using the straw man of California's pervasive immigration * problem. California Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer support * it too. The latest proposal is to mandate I.D. cards for all school * children under the Goals 2000 national education program. Another plan * by the U.S. Labor Department would have required it for all users of a * National Job Training and Employment database. * * George Orwell, in 1984, his classic novel of Big Brother and a coming * totalitarian state, observed that very few people are awake and alert * to the machinations and manipulations of the controllers. Thus, the * people, as a whole, fall victim to a colossal conspiracy out of ignorance * and because of apathy and denial of reality: * * The people could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of * reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was * demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public * events to notice what was happening. [ By Walter Cronkite: "Orwell's '1984'---Nearing?", NYT, June 5 1983 In our world, where a Vietnam village can be destroyed so it can be saved; where the President names the latest thing in nuclear missiles "Peacekeeper"---in such a world, can the Orwellian vision be very far away? Big Brother's ears have plugs in them right now (or they are, by law, supposed to), at least on the domestic telephone and cable traffic. But the National Security Agency's ability to monitor microwave transmissions, to scoop out of the air VAST numbers of communications, including telephone conversations, store them in computers, play them back later, has a truly frightening potential for abuse. George Orwell issued a warning. He told us that freedom is too much taken for granted, that it needs to be carefully watched and protected. His last word on the subject was a plea to his readers: "Don't let it happen. It depends on you." ] * * The National Security Agency's Project L.U.C.I.D., with all its * technological wizardry, is a future, planetary dictator's dream---and a * Christian and national patriot's nightmare. Someday, the Holy Bible * prophesies, that planetary dictator will emerge on the scene, lusting * for blood... * * There can be no doubt about it. * * The REAL Chief Executive Officer of the NSA is not a human being. * * The CEO MUST be Lucifer himself. Amen. ---- It is technology driving the capabilities, it is our government using them ruthlessly: without letting us vote on it. Never before could someone walk up to you and number you by scanning your fingerprints. A number that is yours and yours alone. You have been numbered for all time. No ID card needed once portable fingerprint scanners are deployed all over! If the government suddenly ordered all citizens to be numbered with an indelible invisible ink on their arms so they were permanently numbered; so law enforcement could scan them at will: there would be a revolt. Yet that is what is happening. Fingerprints, scanned into a computer, are a number. The number is inescapably yours. Modern technology means they don't have to put the number on you, they can read it off of you by minutely examining your body. And: it is the NSA driving the fingerprint-rollout of the national ID card. # "The Body As Password", By Ann Davis, Wired Magazine, July 1997 # # Currently housed at the National Security Agency, a working group of # federal bureaucrats founded the Biometric Consortium in the early 1990s. # Its 1995 charter promises to "promote the science and performance of # biometrics for the government." # # Consortium mumbers include state welfare agencies, driver's license # bureaus, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Social Security # Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. If my attempts to show how bad a thing this is have been too rambling, too abstract, here is a simple and accurate analogy: * "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5 * * It was Martin Anderson who, in his book, Revolution, revealed that during * the Reagan administration during the 1980s, several top cabinet officials * were urging President Ronald Reagan to implement a computerized National * I.D. Card. * * The rationale for the proposal was that such a system would help put a lid * on illegal immigration. [Reagan had been Governor of California] * * But Anderson, who at the time was a domestic advisor to the President and * sat in on this particular cabinet meeting, spoke up and gave the group * something to think about. * * "I would like to suggest another way that I think is a lot better," he * told them, serious in demeanor but clearly being facetious. "It's a lot * cheaper, it can't be counterfeited. It's very lightweight, and it's * impossible to lose. It's even waterproof." * * "All we have to do," Anderson continued, "is tattoo an identification * number on the inside of everybody's arm." * * His reference was to the tattooing of numbers on victims in Nazi * concentration camps. Survivors still bear the dreaded tattoo markings * to this day. * * Mr. Anderson described the stunned reaction of those present, "There were * several gasps around the table. A couple cabinet members looked as if they * had been slapped. No one said anything for a long time." * * Ronald Reagan, a consummately wise politician who professed a belief in * Bible prophecy, caught the implication [about The Mark of the Devil]. * * He then hushed the cabinet and efficiently dismissed the National ID Card * proposal by sardonically remarking, "Maybe we should just brand all babies." "Those that give up essential liberty for a little security, deserve neither liberty nor security." - Ben Franklin "When ID's are mandatory, it is time to leave the planet." - Robert Heinlein * "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5 * * In the November 1994 publication of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, * the FBI advocated BIOMETRIC CAPTURE FOR ALL NEWBORN BABIES AND * SIMULTANEOUSLY THEIR MOTHERS.

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Rogue root domain reconfiguration [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > ADMINISTRATION SAYS INTERNET RECONFIGURATION WAS ROGUE TEST > > graphic February 4, 1998 > Web posted at: 9:29 p.m. EST (0229 GMT) > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration said Wednesday it was > confident a researcher in California won't repeat his rogue > reconfiguration of the Internet -- a test that few users noticed but > that raised concerns about how the worldwide network is run. > > Jon Postel, who runs the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority at the > University of Southern California under a Defense Department > contract, last week redirected half the Internet's 12 > directory-information computers to his own system. > > Normally, those so-called "root servers" help users find addresses > on the Internet by pulling data from Network Solutions Inc., a > private company in northern Virginia that operates under a federal > government contract.

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FT.com Registration
by Site.Feedback＠FT.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
by mark＠unicorn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate (ravage(a)ssz.com) wrote: >If there were no copyright nobody would have any reason to market software >or much else for that matter. So I presume that Linux doesn't exist[1]? And, for that matter, I make my living writing software which is given away for free... Mark [1] Yes, I'm aware the GPL uses copyright to enforce its conditions, but it's copright-free in the important sense: anyone can copy Linux and use it with no fear of black ninjas at their door.

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Fingerprinting...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Check out 'Super Cop' on TLC... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Changing to Moderated Cypherpunks -- How?
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dimitry "I've been like this since my prostrate operation" The Dim wrote: > You ask John Gilmore and Sandy Sandfart if you can suck their cocks. I'd be glad to handle it. The only criteria is to delete Dr. Dim and his nyms. Would toad.com give me a mail hook to send back to, or am I supposed to setup my own majordomo? First: how many people are interested? I suppose I could split it in two: the other for actual crypto comments. I'd not suggest it myself, because our concerns have to be wider than just that. Regarding everyone in the US being fingerprinted in a sneakily-rolled-out manner: CCC... We can't encrypt our fingerprints, dammit. ---Information Security

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Re: Changing to Moderated Cypherpunks -- How? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:05:08 -0500 (EST) > From: Information Security <guy(a)panix.com> > Subject: Re: Changing to Moderated Cypherpunks -- How? > I'd be glad to handle it. > > The only criteria is to delete Dr. Dim and his nyms. > > Would toad.com give me a mail hook to send back to, > or am I supposed to setup my own majordomo? I'll provide you a feed if you find that acceptable, unfortunately I am not able to provide an account on SSZ to run it off of. My suspicion is that you'll need a majordomo or similar remailer package (possibly with procmail for duplicate filtering). I also strongly suggest you get your feed as a CDR member and not a subscriber to a given list. That way if one node goes down it won't leave you out in the cold (necessarily). You also probably don't want to use a system that hosts a CDR node in case that site drops off the net. Good luck. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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17 Dec '03

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BXA Crypto Meet
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A report on this would be welcomed. Does anyone know who are the subcommittee members? ---------- Federal Register: February 6, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 25) Page 6153 --------------------------------------------------------- Bureau of Export Administration President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption; Partially Closed Meeting A partially closed meeting of the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption will be held February 23, 1998, 2 p.m., at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 4832, 14th Street between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, NW., Washington, DC. The Subcommittee provides advice on matters pertinent to policies regarding commercial encryption products. Public Session 1. Opening remarks by the Chairman. 2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public. 3. Update on Administration commercial encryption policy. 4. Discussion of task force development and work plan. Closed Session 5. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 12958, dealing with the U.S export control program and strategic criteria related thereto. Dated: February 3, 1998. William V. Skidmore, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration. FR Doc. 98-3001 Filed 2-5-98; 8:45 am

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update.357 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:01:53 -0500 (EST) > From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) > Subject: update.357 > > A QUANTUM TUNNELING TRANSISTOR, an on-off switch > that exploits an electron's ability to pass through normally > impenetrable barriers, has been built by Sandia researchers (Jerry > Simmons, 505-844-8402), opening possibilities for record-speed > transistors that can be mass-produced with current nanotechnology. > In their device, the researchers control the flow of electrons > between two GaAs layers (each only 15 nm thick) separated by an > AlGaAs barrier (12 nm). Although the electrons in GaAs > ordinarily do not have enough energy to enter the AlGaAs barrier, > the layers are so thin (comparable in size to the electron > wavelength) that the electrons, considered as waves rather than > particles, can spread into the barrier and, with an appropriate > voltage applied, out the other side. In the process, the electron > waves do not collide with impurity atoms, in contrast to a > traditional transistor's particlelike electrons, which are slowed > down by these collisions. Transistors that switch on and off a > trillion times per second--5 times faster than the current record--are > possible with this approach. Although quantum tunneling > transistors were first built in the late 1980s, it was originally > infeasible to mass-produce them. Previous researchers engraved > the ultrathin GaAs and AlGaAs features side-by-side on a surface, > something hard to do reliably with present-day lithography. > Therefore the Sandia researchers stacked the features vertically, by > using readily available techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy > which can deposit layers of material with single-atom thicknesses. > Having made quantum-tunneling memory devices and digital logic > gates operating at 77 K, the researchers expect room-temperature > devices in the next year. (J.A. Simmons et al., upcoming article > in Applied Physics Letters; figure at > www.aip.org/physnews/graphics) > [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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No Subject
by Roger J Jones 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > I'm here to ask > > > As you'll soon see > > > Did you grope > > > Miss Lewinsky? > > > Did you grope her > > > in your house? > > > Did you grope > > > Beneath her blouse? > > > > > > I did not do that > > > Here nor there > > > I did not do that > > > Anywhere! > > > I did not do that > > > Near nor far > > > I did not do that > > > Starr-You-Are. > > > > > > Did you smile? > > > Did you flirt? > > > Did you peek > > > Beneath her skirt? > > > And did you tell > > > The girl to lie > > > When called upon > > > To testify? > > > > > > I do not like you > > > Starr-You-Are > > > I think that you > > > Have gone too far. > > > I will not answer > > > Anymore > > > Perhaps I will go > > > Start a war! > > > > > > The public's easy > > > To distract > > > When bombs are > > > Falling on Iraq! > > > > > >

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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig
by mark＠unicorn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Atilla wrote: >no, in fact, if there were a free market remedy for M$' >monopoly, I would be in favour of it --and there is _no_ >free market remedy and failure to act promptly >conceivably wipe out all, or virtually all, of the >viable competitors. Of course there's a free-market remedy for Microsoft; eliminate copyright. If anyone can copy Microsoft software for free, it would be forced to compete on real benefits rather than installed base. This is why I have no sympathy with those who claim Microsoft is the victim in the anti-trust suits, even though I'm opposed to such action in general; those whose profits depend on the 800-pound gorilla can hardly complain when it falls on them. Mark

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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:23:58 -0800 (PST) > From: mark(a)unicorn.com > Subject: Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig > Of course there's a free-market remedy for Microsoft; eliminate copyright. If > anyone can copy Microsoft software for free, it would be forced to compete > on real benefits rather than installed base. If there were no copyright nobody would have any reason to market software or much else for that matter. I would predict that much of the technology and infrastructure we have now wouldn't exist. It would also stiffle creativity and new methodologies because there would be no profit in it to recoup development costs. Those who would survive in such a market would be the 800-lb gorillas because only they would have the resources to squash the smaller companies. Free markets monopolize. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Feds warm spammers [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Feds Approve Bank to Certify Digital Signatures
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd) > From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) > Date: Thu, 05 Feb 98 16:26:45 EST > > > Of course there's a free-market remedy for Microsoft; eliminate copyright. > > > anyone can copy Microsoft software for free, it would be forced to compete > > > on real benefits rather than installed base. > > > > If there were no copyright nobody would have any reason to market software > > or much else for that matter. I would predict that much of the technology > > and infrastructure we have now wouldn't exist. It would also stiffle > > creativity and new methodologies because there would be no profit in it to > > recoup development costs. Those who would survive in such a market would be > > the 800-lb gorillas because only they would have the resources to squash the > > smaller companies. > > Software development seems to be thriving in countries that aren't very keen > on enforcing copyright laws - do you care to explain why? Oh yeah... Software development is a long way from selling software, not the same animal at all. I mean when I go down to the dozen computer stores within a mile or so of my house I am truly deluged by software from countries outside of the US and Canada. I mean we have all heard of the Indian and Bulgarian software billionares haven't we? And all those folks in Turkey just rolling in cash... Further, who do the majority of these folks who actualy make a reasonable living work for either directly or under contract? Large US and Eurpean countries thats who. That's why those folks can make a living developing (not selling) software. > > Free markets monopolize. > Hmm... There's no copyright on perfumes. There are market leaders in perfumes, > but no monopoly; hardly even an olygopoly. I can tell how often you buy perfume, the ones I buy for my girlfriend certainly have a little 'c' on them... And as to the number of companies that are actualy developing perfume versus reselling it under their own house brands...there might be a couple dozen succesful (say stay in business more than 5 years) in the whole world and I would go so far as to hypothesize that if one were motivated to plot the number of companies per year over the last say 50 years you would see the number go *down*. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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by dean＠intergal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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"The Internet needs a chastity chip." ---James Traficant, Dem-Ohio
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/980206/wired/stories/cybersex_1.html Friday February 6 10:07 AM EST Lawmaker warns of cybersex "pregnancy danger" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Citing the case of a woman who claims she got pregnant from e-mail, an Ohio Democrat called Wednesday for a "chastity chip" for the Internet. Rep. James Traficant, known for his flamboyant rhetoric, gave a brief floor speech about a woman named Frances who claimed to have gotten pregnant through an e-mail exchange with a paramour 1,500 miles away. "That's right -- pregnant," the Congressman proclaimed, warning of the dangers of "immaculate reception." He called on Congress to go beyond "v-chips" that would protect kids from sexual content on the Internet, saying: "Its time for Congress to act. The computers do not need a v-chip. The Internet needs a chastity chip." Although Traficant did not say whether he believed the woman's account, he did say it was "enough to crash your hard drive." ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Lewinsky for President '2012

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RebaNews
by mail 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Reba will join Rosie O'Donnell as her special co-host February 16, as The Rosie O'Donnell Show continues its broadcasts from Los Angeles. In addition to pulling co-hosting duties, Reba will also perform "What If," her tribute song to the Salvation Army. Fresh off her wins at both the Peoples Choice Awards (which she hosted and won Favorite Female Musical Performer) and the American Music Awards (Favorite Female Country Artist), the February 16th appearance marks the second time Reba has appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Later this month, Reba will begin work on the CBS-TV movie, "Forever and Always," tentatively scheduled to air in May.

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Free-market monopolization features...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, This is the theory in its current working version: An unregulated (free-market) economy will inherently monopolize when, but not necessarily only if, the following are present: - the market is saturated, in other words the number of consumers at any given time are equal to or less than the service providers ability to provide that service (or resource). This means the long-term survival of firms is a function of retained market share and raw resource share control/ownership. - the technology and/or start-up costs are high in material and intellectual factors. This minimizes the potential for new providers to start up. Providers will also require non-disclosure and other mechanisms to reduce sharing of information and cross-communications except under controlled conditions. Expect an increase in certifications and implimentation standards required to do business with the more succesful of these providers. - an individual or small group of service providers have a small but distinct efficiency advantage in technology, manufacturing, or marketing. Over a long-enough time this market advantage will grow and as a result widen the 'technology gap' between firms. - expect the most efficient firms to share their profit with the critical intellectual contributors. This further reduces the problem of cross-communication and new provider start-up. - expect to see the more successful providers to join in co-ops with the less succesful providers. This will be under the surreptitous goal of 'developing technology'. It's actual goal will be to cause these smaller firms to commit resources to such enterprises. As soon as it is strategicaly advantagous the primary providers will break-off the co-op. This has the effect of further reducing the ability of the smaller providers to react in a timely manner to market changes or develop new technology due to resource starvation. - expect to see the less efficient providers to combine in an effort to reap the benefits of shared market share and resources. Unless this partnering provides a more efficient model and there is sufficient time for that efficiency to develop these new providers will eventualy fail or be joined with other providers. - expect to see the primary provider buy those less efficient providers that don't fail completely. These purchases will be as a result of some new or unexpected technology that will significantly increase the market share of the primary provider -or- it will be with the goal of eliminating this secondary technology and forcing those market shares to do without or use the primary providers technology. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Free-market monopolization features... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I left one out... Forwarded message: > From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> > Subject: Free-market monopolization features... > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:35:16 -0600 (CST) > An unregulated (free-market) economy will inherently monopolize when, but > not necessarily only if, the following are present: - initialy prices for services will be low to promote purchasing but as providers obtain larger market shares their prices will increase over time and out of step with inflation and other market forces in order to widen the profit gap. The strategy is one of 'use it or starve'. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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New Credit Rating System Coming [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > NEW CREDIT RATING SYSTEM ON HORIZON > > graphic February 5, 1998 > Web posted at: 2:38 p.m. EST (1938 GMT) > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Within months, retailers will be able to use a new > computerized credit-rating system to decide not only whether they'll > take your check or debit card, but how big a check you can write. > > Banks will be able to use the system to determine whether they will > let you open a checking account, and what kind of fees you will pay. > > Deluxe Corp., the nation's biggest check printer, has joined Fair, > Isaac & Co., a credit scoring company, and Acxiom Corp., a data > warehouse, to create the system for rating a merchant's risk of > accepting checks and debit cards. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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