December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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SL33spam2
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[1][LINK] [2]index [3]home [4]News [5]audio [6]search [7]help [8]techcity computerworld Spam attacks send angry firms to court Stewart Deck and Matt Hamblen 08/18/97 Internet spam is no longer a joke to angry businesses. They increasingly are fighting back with civil and criminal lawsuits and offering rewards for information leading to arrests. In some cases, users are even trying chargeback tactics. Driving the get-tough attitude is mounting frustration over crippled and lost business because of overloaded electronic-mail servers, trademark infringement and the nefarious combination of return address impersonation known as spoofing and blasts of spamming E-mail advertisements. Faced in some instances with death threats, exasperated and angry World Wide Web site administrators are trying anything and everything including offering bounties for the names of spammers and risking online vendettas in the process. IMAGE AT STAKE Particularly vulnerable to spamming which some observers call ``Internet terrorism'' is a company's image, which businesses spend untold dollars building, maintaining and protecting. One high-profile example is Samsung America, Inc.'s nightmare, which began July 19 when a fake advertisement blasted across the Internet to millions of electronic mailboxes. The angry replies caught Samsung by surprise it hadn't sent out the advertisement. Other messages bearing Samsung's return address have swamped unsuspecting mailboxes since then, including a missive purportedly from a Samsung attorney claiming ``fraudulent and actionable transgressions'' on the recipient's part. Two of Samsung's Web-hosted clients La Costa Resorts and Big Dog Sportswear also had suggestive and misleading advertising messages sent out with their names attached. They, in turn, have been inundated with complaints. Samsung has been so hard hit getting 6,000 to 10,000 E-mail messages per day and hundreds of telephone calls worldwide that the FBI is looking into the matter. Samsung has spent millions of dollars on its brand image and desperately wants the spamming to stop. ``We assume whoever is doing this buys lists of E-mail addresses from someone,'' said Sang Cho, Samsung's in-house counsel, in an interview with Computerworld. But the company doesn't know why or who holds the grudge. It intends to file civil and criminal charges when the perpetrator is unmasked. Fake ads are the latest twist in spoofing and spamming. The Dr. Seussian terms describe an underhanded sneak attack that tries to get ads in front of as many unsuspecting eyeballs as possible by impersonating a responsible sender. For example, Strong Capital Management, Inc., a financial services company in Menomonee Falls, Wis., is suing a spammer for allegedly stealing its address, thinking that recipients would be more likely to open mail from a prestigious firm than an ordinary Internet marketer. Such mail is hated by recipients and is a bane of Internet service providers. FIGHTING BACK But now the impersonated legions are beginning to fight back. Although there are no results in any of these cases yet, here is a sampling of businesses going on the offensive with their beefs: Two operators at SFF Net, a commercial online service used by science fiction and fantasy writers, have filed suit in Kings County, N.Y., against Carlos Lattin for sending out spamming E-mails with their forged return addresses. Their lawsuit claims trademark infringement, unfair competition, defamation and false designation of origin. The plaintiffs used New York laws to make the alleged impersonator's Internet service provider divulge Lattins name. A novice junk mailer was sued in May by an online floral information service run by Tracy LaQuey Parker, an Internet author and education market development manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. Parker opened the site's electronic mailbox one morning in March and saw what Samsung, La Costa and SFF Net have experienced: an avalanche of returned E-mail and angry letters. ``I was shocked by the onslaught,'' Parker said. Jon Tara, operator of San Diego's Live.Net site, has experienced the same problem, but he hasn't been able to track down the spoofing impersonator. He is offering a $100 reward for positive personal identification of the spoofer. A message on the site from Tara to the spamming perpetrator says, ``I am going to hound you to the ends of the earth once I find out who you are. You will regret having used a Live.Net return address. If you are lucky, I will never find out who you are. If you are unlucky, I will. It will be the worst luck that you've ever had.'' Tara has fought with a service provider who has stopped shutting down spammers and wont provide Tara with identity information, claiming privacy requirements. The provider has called Taras bounty offer vigilantism. In February, Matthew Seidl, a Colorado University computer science student, filed a lawsuit against Greentree Mortgage and an unnamed bulk E-mailer for allegedly sending out a batch of spam with Seidl's ``nobody(a)localhost.com'' address in the From and Return-Path headers. Seidl said in an Internet posting that he decided to take ``whatever legal actions we have to take to restore our good name and recover the damages we suffered. We are doing our part to put an end to this type of net abuse.'' UNLIMITED ACCESS Such attacks are difficult to deal with, said Nina Burns, an analyst at Creative Networks, Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif. ``Wackos have so much access to information that it becomes scary for an individual,'' she said. ``But until authentication and digital signature technology become more widespread, I'm not sure what the answer is.'' ``We need some sort of digital Caller ID,'' said Jonathan Wheat, an analyst at the National Computer Security Association in Carlisle, Pa. Until then, Wheat said, this may be the price we pay for ever-increasing Internet connectivity. _________________________________________________________________ See related stories: * [9]Service providers won't release names * [10]Internet providers fight back against spammers [11]index [12]home [13]News [14]audio [15]search [16]help [17]techcity computerworld [18][LINK] Copyright © 1997 @Computerworld. All rights reserved. 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Re: write up AP for FC++
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >I'm now mildly amused that Bell is being seen as the inventor of anonymous >and untraceable murder markets, with clueless journalists seeking >information on his discovery. But, hey, better he rot in jail than me. ....................................................... A presentation from you at FC98 would remind everyone of your own initial writings on the subject and provide you with due credit (better credit than a jail/rotting sentence). I can't think of anyone else who would be more qualified for this. .. Blanc .. Blanc

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first y2k lawsuit hits in london
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Millennium bomb: Supplier sued over cash registers MONDAY AUGUST 18 1997 By Christopher Adams in London A small supermarket owner in the US is suing a cash register supplier for allegedly providing computerised tills that cannot recognise the year 2000. The lawsuit is believed to be the first of its kind. If it is successful, it could set a precedent with dangerous consequences for the insurance industry. Mark Yarsike, a supermarket owner in Detroit, is suing Tec-America, the Atlanta-based supplier of cash registers, because he says credit cards that expire after 2000 cause the tills to shut down. The lawsuit has wide implications for the insurance industry as suppliers may be forced to make claims on insurance policies covering them against the failure of their products to cope with the date change. Legal experts say insurers might be inundated with claims over the so-called "millennium bomb", leaving them vulnerable to losses that could run to billions of pounds. The millennium bomb is expected to cause widespread chaos because most computers recognise only the last two digits of a year and will treat dates beyond 1999 as referring to the 1900s. Should litigation escalate, the cost of claims could be inflated by damages and legal fees. Mr Yarsike owns three Produce Paradise supermarkets in Detroit. He says the cash registers have failed more than 150 times in two years, causing chaos in his stores and losing him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr Yarsike says his patience with Tec-America finally snapped two weeks ago. He says that each time credit cards expiring after 2000 cause cash resisters to shut down, Tec-America comes to fix the problem. But within hours, the registers fail again. "It's gotten pretty wild in here. A lot of customers walk out upset and embarrassed. When the card zips through and the modem packs up, everybody looks at that one customer and says, 'Wow! What did she do?'. "How would you like to have 300 people in your store and the cash registers don't work with a 10-hour day ahead of you?" Mr Yarsike wants Tec-America to put in a replacement system. He spent $150,000 on the fleet of registers for his stores and says it would cost him another $35,000 for new equipment. Tec-America denied it was to blame for the shutdown of the cash registers. It said responsibility lay with the credit card industry, which was forced several years ago to establish a format for swapping data that would recognise the year 2000. The industry's efforts, however, were not completed until April. - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message

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3.html
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[1]SIDEBAR [2]Newsbytes Advertising China Internet Roaming Hit By Clampdown ****China Internet Roaming Hit By Clampdown 08/18/97 HONG KONG, CHINA, 1997 AUG 18 (NB) -- By Neil Taylor, IT Daily. Business travelers in China have had their Internet access hit by severe restrictions placed on roaming services by authorities. The trouble began a month ago, after officials began examining access services provided by Equant, a division of international airline network service provider SITA. Sources within SITA were unable to confirm the precise circumstances, but it appears that officials from within China's Posts Telephone and Telegraphs administration were unhappy with the fact that the company was reselling access to third parties including iPass, CompuServe and America Online. As a result, Equant was forced to suspend much of its non-airline business, including Internet roaming services. "We had to basically cut back on non-airline users, so this could be a case of our having to cut off some of the dead wood to save the airline side," a SITA executive admitted. "Our relationship with China is kind of up and down. It's not with the government; we get along with them fine; it's with the local PTTs," he added. The restrictions meant that iPass lost its points of presence (POPs) in Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shanghai and Xiamen. Following the closures, iPass also suspended POPs in Brunei, Cuba, French Polynesia, India, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Vietnam. Among iPass partners affected by the clampdown, Hong Kong ISPs are likely to be worst affected. But Abel Lau, president of Hong Kong ISP I-Wave, said his company had not been badly hit by the problem. "We do not have many users in China, and they've been using access in Beijing, so we haven't had many problems." I-Wave estimates that "maybe one percent" of its members use iPass roaming services in China. Chris Moore, president and CEO of iPass, said his company would soon announce solutions for affected customers. "We are actively working on expanding our access in China," he said." We have several access points in Beijing and anticipate coverage in Shanghai, southern China and other parts of the country very soon." "We know China is a very important market," Moore told Newsbytes. "We were working with providers there before this situation arose. We have always been committed to that market and want to develop strong and lasting relationships with the right organizations. Our relationship with Equant (SITA) remains strong, this is an issue we worked closely on." (19970819/ Reported By Newsbytes News Network: [3]http://www.newsbytes.com /CHINASCREEN/PHOTO) [4]Copyright ©Newsbytes News Network. All rightsreserved. For more Newsbytes see http://www.newsbytes.com. [5]Home | [6]Daily | [7]Weekly | [8]Publishers | [9]Search References 1. http://www.newsbytes.com/menus/navbar.map 2. http://www.newsbytes.com/OAS/rm/try-it.cgi/www.newsbytes.com/home.html 3. http://www.newsbytes.com/ 4. http://www.nbnn.com/copyrght.html 5. http://www.nbnn.com/home.html 6. http://www.nbnn.com/news/s_daily.html 7. http://www.nbnn.com/news/s_week.html 8. http://www.nbnn.com/publishers/publi_1.html 9. http://www.nbnn.com/html_p/search.html

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230_081897_112201_31203.html
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[1][ISMAP] [2][LINK] [3]Click here for Microsoft Intranet Solutions [4]Content For Your Intranet [5]Click here for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Preview 2 Commentary: In Japan, Moves to Regulate the Net [6][LINK] [7][LINK] By TOMOKO SAITO c.1997 Asahi News Service T he following commentary appears in Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's leading newspapers: ----- Abusive uses of the Internet, such as the illegal posting of the photograph and name of a juvenile suspect in recent Kobe child killings, have spurred government officials to consider bringing the Net under some kind of regulation. Violations of privacy and libel cases began increasing conspicuously last year, giving rise to calls for the companies that provide access to the Internet to adopt voluntary controls. In February last year, a Tokyo company employee who opened a home page with a Japanese provider was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on charges of displaying obscene images. A series of arrests was made elsewhere. This spring, advisory bodies to the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry recommended that some rules be drafted. The Telecom Services Association of Japan, a trade body having about 400 providers as members, drew up draft guidelines for voluntary regulation. The guidelines call for providers to take action for improvement in response to complaints from users. Some providers have drafted manuals for self-regulation. The circulation of the Kobe student's photograph and his real name on the Net had a particularly strong impact, prompting authorities to think that voluntary regulations may be inadequate. But official regulation could deprive the Internet of its good points. The best thing about the Net is that it enables people to exchange information freely. That is why it has grown so rapidly. There are areas where new systems are needed to protect users, such as electronic financial transactions. But in areas relating to the freedom of expression, a cautious approach is required in dealing with abuses, so that the good points of the Internet will not suffer from regulation. What is unique about the Net is that anyone, in addition to being a recipient of information through the system, can easily become a supplier of information. That becomes possible for anyone who owns a personal computer, a communications modem and has access to a telephone circuit. A contract signed with a provider enables him or her to open a home page on the Net freely. Popular home pages have thousands of accesses a day, which gives an individual the influence of a publishing company. The Internet has the potential of transforming contemporary society in which those who send out information - such as newspapers and television stations - are separate from those who receive it - such as people in general. In Europe, calls to bring the Net under control started to mount last year. In Germany, a so-called multimedia law was passed in July to stipulate the scope of providers' responsibility in dealing with troubles, such as human rights violations and libel cases. The law requires providers to appoint officials to handle complaints or give advice on the impact on juveniles of violent and obscene information on the Net. Also in July, a working group set up by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development held its first meeting to discuss international cooperation to bring the Net under control. France and Belgium were particularly vocal in calling for such a group. Compared with the Europeans, the Americans are more inclined to leave the matter of regulation to private initiatives. The Clinton administration's proposal to regulate indecent images on the Net under the telecommunications act ran into objections on the grounds that it could infringe on the freedom of expression. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the proposal was unconstitutional. In Japan, the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of expression naturally extends to individuals who supply information on the Internet. It follows that any kind of censorship about Net information should not be tolerated. Whether a certain expression is appropriate or not should be left up to people to determine in the ''freedom of thought'' market. Any attempt to force informal controls on providers should also be resisted, given the important role played by them as media in addition to being ''communications'' firms. As for the question of controlling obscene images, efforts to dissolve the gaps that have developed between the law and reality should come first. Porn books that are brought back from abroad are seized by customs officers, and a Japanese who opens a home page that shows nudes can be punished. But it is easy to access a more radical American home page, and no legal punishment awaits those who look at the images such a home page provides. The punitive provisions should be reexamined to determine whether they are really needed if people who do not want to see pornography are assured that they can avoid it. Of course, young people must be protected. A system that blocks access to porn and violence on the Net, when mounted in personal computers at home or at school, is being introduced in Western countries. Japan should consider following their example, but I believe whether or not to use it should be left up to the judgment of each household that has acquired it. ``Let us wait for the new media to mature by thoroughly educating information suppliers on their responsibility,'' said Jiro Makino, a lawyer familiar with Net troubles. What he has in mind is that suppliers who operate on the basis of the freedom of expression should have a high ethical standard and be prepared to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. I believe that is what it takes to head off state interference. ----- (The author is a reporter for Asahi Shimbun's City News Department.) 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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:26 AM 8/19/97 +0100, you wrote: >Cypherpunks are individuals. No shit. >Pick 10 cypherpunks, you'll get 10 different views. Well, that may be a no shitter. >Don't see the need to disclaim non-cypherpunk status due to >`bloodlust'... Are you anticipating that the list readership will be >collectively locked up for non-government approved thoughts? They're not taking my ass alive, or at all. >Are you sure that having a 10 mile crater where there used to be a >bunch of power-crazed beaurocrats wouldn't be a net improvement :-)? It would truly be a day to celebrate. >It's not as if anyone is planning to nuke them anyway, it's just >invective. There might be some danger of some of us writing a bit of >crypto code, or saying some negative things about politicians. No >laws against either of those (yet). Just wait until they can read thoughts. Man, that'll be a sight to see. >A lot of the systematic torture, intimidation, carried out by 3rd >world dictatorships is done at the hands of CIA trained government >employees. Well, since they can't read thoughts yet, that's the best way. It would be a day to celebrate loudly if someone put a crater in DC.

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Bell, etc
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim "What you mean *WE*, white man" May writes: > Whom are the "we" in this "We really need to put something > together..."? > I certainly don't plan to be part of the "we," and this > sounds perilously close to the notion that members of this > mailing list are part of some sort of collective entity, > with goals, charters, action plans, officers, oh my. Horrors. > As for info on Jim Bell, the article by Declan is widely > available, and is quite informative. As for elaborating it > further, or including more boilerplate, this seems > pointless. Anyone knew to the story can read Declan's > article. Anyone seeking even more information presumably > knows how to use search engines and should be able to find > the various essays and articles directly. Well, as I have often said, "There is no such thing as objective market-driven journalism." As much as I admire Declan's expository skills, we both know he isn't going to deliberately bite the hand that is holding his paycheck. > Sounds good to me. Let us know when you've finished it. > (If I sound testy, sorry. It's just that it's been a while > since I've heard this "we should get together and so > suchandsuch" stuff. The notion that Cypherpunks are some > sort of collective is not real useful. Nor is building a > page devoted to Bell's "one trick pony" terribly > interesting. Yes, people are clueless and ask "Who is Jim > Bell?" Jim Bell is an example of an individual screwed by the government using overly vague statues for alleged crimes which amounted to little more than a few high school type pranks. He took names of assholes who harrassed him, gave a made-up number to a few people, and made the IRS doormat smell bad. How much, if any taxes, were evaded as a result of one of these charges isn't even an issue. > So? Tell them to use search engines; a HotBot search on > "James Dalton Bell" just returned 1078 matches, several of > them on the first page directly applicable. Obviously > various Boolean searches on AP, Bell, IRS, etc. would act in > the predictable way.) It is in the collective interests of Crypto-Anarchists that information depicting the government's true colors should be available in a form which can be accessed by even the terminally innumerate. This means a hyperlink with the words "Jim Bell" on it, in a frequently browsed location. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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The Real Bell Issue / Re: Bell, etc
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mike Duvos wrote: > Jim Bell is an example of an individual screwed by the government > using overly vague statues for alleged crimes which amounted to > little more than a few high school type pranks. > > He took names of assholes who harrassed him, gave a made-up > number to a few people, and made the IRS doormat smell bad. How > much, if any taxes, were evaded as a result of one of these > charges isn't even an issue. The following, from the Columbian, lies at the heart of the real issue that Bell's persecution was all about. > According to the affidavit, Bell came to the attention of the > Internal Revenue Service in November when he sent the agency's > Ogden (Utah) Service Center a letter asking for a tax refund. Every year, just before Income Taxes are due, the IRS picks out a few people to unjustly persecute in order to strike fear into the heart of the taxpaying sheeple. They always manage to completely fuck over a variety of citizens in a manner that will generate maximum publicity at that time of year. They always seem to include at least one fairly average citizen who gets everything he owns seized, including bank accounts, etc., over a tax dispute involving nickles and dimes. Those who express outrage over these actions are the IRS's best friend. "They have no right to..." "They are out of control..." "They can do anything they want to you..." This is all music to the IRS's ears. Jim Bell was like manna from heaven for the IRS. It gave them an opportunity to bring down the fascist forces of a wide variety of government agencies to back the IRS's play in this instance. Bell's persecution was not a mistake, it was a loud and clear message to the taxpaying sheeple that they are "a felon under an increasing number of laws," and that the IRS has a plethora of government agencies ready and willing to join them in fucking over anyone who gets out of line. And what is the IRS's definition of "getting out of line?": > According to the affidavit, Bell came to the attention of the > Internal Revenue Service in November when he sent the agency's > Ogden (Utah) Service Center a letter asking for a tax refund. Apply for a tax refund and have every real or imagined sin you have ever commited used against you. "A person who asked the IRS for a tax refund, had his home raided today by 20 armed government terrorists from a wide variety of government agencies. "This person who asked for a TAX REFUND has never been proven to have anything to do with DRUGS such as METHAMPHETAMINE, and is not known to be a SPEED FREAK or a DRUG DEALER. As well, government agents investigating the person asking for the TAX REFUND have never found any ILLEGAL DRUGS on his person or property, but the person who asked for the TAX REFUND will be mentioned in connection with DRUGS and METHAMPETAMINE, or SPEED, CRANK, etc., for the rest of his life, every time he "comes to our attention" as a result of asking for a TAX REFUND." I would not doubt that the IRS asked the local newspapers to put a picture on their front page of 20 armed governement terrorists putting guns to the heads of Ma and Pa Bell, with Jim on the ground with a boot at his throat, and a huge headline reading, "MAN ASKS FOR TAX REFUND!" The IRS spends the whole year going after people who they deem to be guilty of tax evasion, and it is usually a fairly boring affair involving accountants and lawyers. The weeks preceeding the date taxes are due to be filed are reserved for high-profile cases which the sheeple can easily recognize as persecution by a heartless agency with supreme power at their disposal. The real issue in Bell's case is not just persecution, but easily recognizable persecution. Otherwise, the whole Bell affair would be pointless. Perhaps, upon sentencing, we will see a headline, "MAN WHO ASKED FOR TAX REFUND IMPRISONED FOR HIGH SCHOOL PRANKS!" TruthMonger

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Jim Bell web pages
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've got my original page with the scans of the search warrant/affidavit/return at <http://www.parrhesia.com/jimbell/>, and a second page collecting various links to media reports, etc., at <http://www.parrhesia.com/jimbell/index2.html>. The Columbian (Jim's hometown paper) has a number of articles about him and the progress of his case at <http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/jimbell/jimbell.html>. There are also some miscellaneous documents that the Columbian may or may not intend to make available to the public available at <http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/jimbell/> (I don't think they realize that a directory without an index document will return a directory list. :) John Young has collected several documents re Jim, which are cataloged at the beginning of the document at <http://www.jya.com/jimbell-dock2.htm>. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto.

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CIA unveils new ghetto drugs for '98
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:31:56 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: qnx.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Subject: CIA unveils new ghetto drugs for '98 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:32:41 -0400 From: glen mccready <glen(a)qnx.com> Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org X-Mailing-List: <0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org> archive/latest/2124 X-Loop: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev(a)bostic.com> Forwarded-by: chuck yerkes <Chuck(a)Yerkes.com> Forwarded-by: Alex Reith <alex(a)snew.com> LANGLEY, VA -- After months of eager anticipation within the nation's ghetto communities, the Central Intelligence Agency unveiled its 1998 line of addictive drugs Monday. "The wait is over," CIA Director George Tenet said at the festive drug launch, simulcast on giant-screen TVs throughout Watts, Cabrini Green, Newark, and other urban areas. "Inner-city Americans now have four exciting new ways to narcotize themselves, with the quality of product and wide distribution they've come to expect from the CIA." Reaction to the new drugs (see sidebar) was overwhelmingly positive. "They had a tough act to follow after crack," said New York-area Mafia boss Alfonse DiBiasi, Tenet's close friend and former college roommate. "But this new stuff is just as cheap and every bit as addictive. We're all very excited." President Clinton praised the CIA as well. "This is a win-win situation for all Americans," he said. "Inner-city Americans will receive the powerful drugs they love, and the CIA will raise the funds they can't get from Congress to get their Jonestown mind-control experiment up and running again." The new drugs are supported by months of CIA testing to ensure maximum potency and addictiveness. Focus groups, consisting primarily of homeless men and street orphans culled from ghettos around the country, were housed in an underground research facility beneath CIA headquarters in Langley, VA. Only after six months of exhaustive experimentation on members of this target demograph, who sampled hundreds of drugs, were the final decisions made. "Everybody loves me because I am so beautiful. Anything is possible. I am going to live a very long and happy life," said Oakland, CA, native Charles Simmons, who spent 10 weeks testing Blue Glass, the CIA's new smokable euphoric drug. Simmons then leapt out a window to his death. "I they I drugs these are very feel good right," said Dwayne Woodson of Bronx, NY, another CIA test participant. "Pork chops three for $2.99." CIA officials said that testing is necessary in order to avoid releasing potentially dangerous substances into the ghettos. "One initially promising drug was later discontinued due to undesirable side effects, such as increased intelligence and feelings of love for others," said Dr. Harold Vandermeer, head of the CIA's narcotics development team. Initial product rollout began this week in the ghetto neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Detroit and New Orleans, with all residents receiving a special drug-sampler pack in the mail, including a full-color, English-Spanish promotional pamphlet and instructional videotape. If the market response is as favorable as the CIA expects, the drugs should be available in every ghetto in the nation as soon as September 1st. "I thought I'd never say this," Tenet said, "but put down that crack pipe, ghetto-dwellers: You're going to love these new drugs." Tenet went on to state that none of the above events "ever happened" and categorically denied any CIA connection with the new drugs. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 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/

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Cypherpunks as a Terrorist Organization (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:38:06 -0700 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Cypherpunks as a Terrorist Organization > It's what the Founders expected. Get used to it. > > If crypto anonymity tools were available to the Founders, they'd have used > them against the British. Uh, it was called a printing press and the pseudonym was 'publius'... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Participation requires more than just bitching! | | | | _____ 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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[Fwd: Your newsgroup post ...]
by David D.W.Downey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

blackjack(a)hotmail.com wrote: > Saw your post in the newsgroups. > > Check this out! > > http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Plaza/1022 Ya know, this shit really pisses me off. I understand that we have to protect everyone's rights if we wish are own to be protected. This is a classic case of what is causing the mainstream public to hash so hard about porn and such. I did nothing to solicit this beyond posting to a news group. This troller comes along, scarfs my email address and then sends me this email. If you click on the link it sends you to a place to sign up for accessing a hard porn site. This is what feeds the initiated Johnnie Q.Public's desire to control the net, and endangers all of our rights on the net. I understand that we have to protect the enemies' rights too, but can't we just shoo a few of them first? Lowers the numbers needing protection and might help us out in the end. Grrrrrrr!!!! David Downey [ If we, as humans, are so omnipotent how come we scurry like rats when a tornado hits? ]

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Re: Bell, etc
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, Mike, you've called for someone to take up the responsibility to go through the trouble to set up a web page with stories on Jim, numerous links to other Jim Bell info, and constant updates on his situation, plus almost glorified him in your assessment of what happened to him. Your signature declares "{Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}". Yet you haven't emailed your interest in visiting Jim, nor did you volunteer to do any research, like I did, to find out where he is, how to contact him, when to visit, etc. - and you live around here, you told me. What's the deal? .. Blanc

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Re: Cypherpunks as a Terrorist Organization
by Trevor Goodchild 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Tim May wrote: > First, the rise of search engines, archives, and employers routinely > running DejaNews and other search engine checks on potential employees and > consultants to see what sorts of folks they are. (Whether being active on > the Cypherpunks list will nix a job is pretty unlikely, but it's still a > worry to some.) Hey Tim, speaking of DejaNews, how soon do you think it will be before there is a Ministry of Truth (minitru) in place to correct incorrect postings of the past, to update them a bit and airbrush out those who, um, never existed? > of sorts. But many have been investigated, and, as John Young noted > recently, the IRS treats membership in certain organizations as a threat. > And there is Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act, which explicitly makes certain > kinds of financial and other activities illegal, even by Americans, which > involve support of "terrorist" organizations. It is not inconceivable that, > following outlawing of strong crypto in various countries, that the > Cypherpunks group gets classified as an organization or group which > supports terrorist goals, which is almost certainly true.) No bigger a threat than the HUAC saw those who didn't believe the Hoover vision. Nothing's really changed since then other than the faces and the names. The issues remain. > Fourth, the arrest and prosecution of Jim Bell, with tax evasion and a > minor stink bomb case turned into a "federal case" because of his > controversial views. This has obviously angered and radicalized many. Some > of us have stocked up on more asault weapons and shotguns, placed alarms > around our property, and we are expecting a "raid." As I have said, if > black-clad ninja raiders try to hit me, I'll assume they're "home invaders" > and will open fire. (A Sheriff's Deputy once told me that even saying I > would defend my home against unwelcome intruders constituted a "threat" and > that he might order a detachment to visit my compound. So far, two years > later, he hasn't made good on _his_ threat. And now I'm more ready for him > than ever.) A theat to him perhaps. What ever happened to self defense I wonder? > So, "B.," stop apologizing for reading the list. You're already a marked > man in their eyes...and search engines can already identify the True Name > who is posting the last year or two as "Zooko Journeyman." In a couple of > years, all search engines will have "known aliases" macros to automatically > ferret out the web of pseudonyms linkable to a poster. You can run, but you > can't hide. Not unless he joins the book people in the woods. :) > And "democracy" is spinning out of control, being used by authoritarians to > convert the world into a security state. Restrictions on travel, new drug > laws, laws against images and words on the Net, and thousands of new laws > every years. Congress was indeed a horrid idea. We need no laws other that "do what you will as long as you don't physically injure, or steal." All else is congressional bullshit paid in bloody tax money. > A frontal assault, using strong crypto to aid in the attacks by freedom > fighters and to destablize authority, makes more sense. When a government > official decrees that citizen-units may no longer do certain things which > were once quite legal and quite common (such as owning a gun for defense), > that official must expect certain repercussions. A few years back when the anti-gun crap started in NYC, they had all sorts of save the kids propaganda stories and projects: such as trade your gun for a toy, and stories like 8 year old shot dead by drug deal for threatening to use water pistol. > We're in a state of war with the statists and tyrants. It's what Jefferson > and the other Founders expected to happen, and now the watering with the > blood of patriots and tyrants is happening. Some war. We've already lost. The Big Brother machine is already in place and has been since Hoover. Jim Bell was arrested for thinking differently than is allowed. No different than being declared insane and sent to the Gulag for "re-education" for disagreement with the party, the glorious party. Not having lived in communist or fascist countries, the sheeple are asleep. My parents having left a socialist state (read fascist) for freedom, I find freedom fleeting. The same scum that ran the communist block are here running our country. Sure they were born here, but their spirit and beliefs are the same as the scum that were in power in the old country. How much money are we to bleed to them in taxes (read plural, as in income, realestate, hotel, parking, gas and electric, telephone, taxes on tax returns, etc.)? How soon before breathing taxes? Fucking Taxes? Living Taxes? Speaking Taxes? Let's not pretend. We work for them. It's mandatory work. Our work pays their goals. Doesn't matter if you work for Mickey D's or Mickey Soft. You pay Big Uncle. You work for Big Uncle's benefit. It's not enough to fear Big Uncle. You must love big uncle. One may not even hold anti-government views for fear of being in contempt of court and be judged against. > It's what the Founders expected. Get used to it. How soon before they stop teaching highschool kids about the revolution for fear it will happen again? How soon before they edit the constitution and pretend it was always that way? How soon before we'll need passports to travel between one part of the country and another? Between one 'burb to another? How soon before we have to register every computer out there? How soon before we have to register every phone and phone card? Every pencil and knife and fork and other sharp objects? How soon before night curfews? How soon before Victory Coffee and Gin? How soon to food rations? How soon to electricity rations and water rations and net access rations? How soon before ex-communist Russia has more freedom than we? They've already silenced us, they've already taken our guns, they've already thrown us in jail for feeding others, for speaking, thinking and protesting, and demanding privacy, they've already stripped our privacy, they've already murdered us, they've already licensed everything we can do and can't, they've already filled the streets with jackbooted gun and nightstick toting thugs who wear blue and use bathroom plungers as means of interrogation. What next? And how soon? --- Trevor Goodchild

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It's Official...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The ganglia, as they say, twitch... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:20:16 -0400 From: rah-web <rah(a)shipwright.com> Reply-To: rah(a)shipwright.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: It's Official... http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/aug/0813addict.html <snip> August 19, 1997 It's Official: Net Abusers Are Pathological (08/13/97; 7:00 p.m. EDT) By Evan Schuman, TechWire CHICAGO -- Another yardstick of success will be achieved by the Internet community on Thursday: It will be awarded its first official mental health disorder. For Related Stories: The newly identified disorder will be dubbed Pathological Internet Use Fatal (PIU) and will be christened during Distraction? -- the presentation of a major medical Learning The paper at the annual convention of Signs Of Online the American Psychological Addiction--HomePC Association in Chicago. We're Becoming The term is being coined by Dr. Cyber Kimberly Young, an assistant Junkies--Electronic professor of psychology at the Engineering University of Pittsburgh at Times Bradford, in Bradford, Pa. With her paper's presentation, the APA will classify excessive Internet use as addictive, in the same way that drugs (including alcohol), gambling, video games, and some types of eating disorders are today officially considered addictive. Like those other ailments, Internet addiction starts when the rest of the person's life starts to fall apart, the paper stated. The Internet is a fine hobby or work tool, until it causes problems with social partners, work, or school, Young said. Young studied 396 cases of PIU-afflicted people and drew some overall conclusions. Net marketers need not fear, as traditional Web surfing accounted for only 7 percent of the Internet addicts and even more information-oriented tools (gophers [Image] and FTP[Image] sites, for example) represented only an additional 2 percent. "Upon examination, traditional information protocols and Web pages were the least utilized compared with more than 90 percent who became addicted to the two-way communication functions: chat rooms, MUDs [Multi-User Dungeons], newsgroups, and E-mail," Young said. "This makes the case that database searches -- while interesting and often time-consuming -- are not the actual reasons Dependents become addicted to the Internet." Young said one surprise in the results was the lack of high-tech people among the addicted. "While it is a common perception that those addicted to the Internet are computer savvy individuals, these demographic results show that only 8 percent came from high-tech jobs," she said. "Compare this to the 42 percent who indicated having no permanent jobs and the 39 percent who worked in low-tech fields. It is typically newbies who become excessive Internet users." Among the jobs that she classified as low-tech were secretaries, bank tellers, teachers, advertising executives, and journalists. The report said that the attraction of the Internet revolves around its perceived anonymity, where people feel comfortable acting out in ways they would never consider in real life. "The ability to enter into a bodiless state of communication enabled users to explore altered states of being that fostered emotions that were new and richly exciting," Young said. "Such uninhibited behavior is not necessarily an inevitable consequence of visual anonymity, but depends upon the nature of the group and the individual personality of the online user." "For those who felt unattractive, it was perceived easier to pick up another person through cybersex than in real life," she said. But beyond sexual issues, newsgroups and chat lines allow people to literally create and secretly test new personalities before trying them out in the real world. "Beyond amusement, reinventing oneself is a way to fulfill an unmet need. The loss of a social identity online allows one to reconstruct an ideal self in place of a poor self-concept," Young said. "Those who suffer from low self-esteem, feelings of inadequacy, or frequent disapproval from others are at the highest risk" of becoming Net addicts. She quoted one participant in the survey as telling her, "By day, I am a mild-mannered husband, but at night I become the most aggressive bastard online." The addiction can become a problem when the new emotional creation makes inroads into real lives or when the time spent in the virtual life takes away from responsibilities in the real life. The addicted Internet user will spend an average of 38 hours per week online dealing with nonemployment/nonacademic efforts, compared with "nonaddicts" in the survey who averaged eight hours. Almost half of the participants diagnosed with PIU reported that they get less than four hours of sleep per night due to late log-in sessions. Another reason for some of the addictions is the sense of community that some newsgroups create. "With routine visits to a particular group (chat area or newsgroup, for example), a high degree of familiarity among other group members is established. Like all communities, the cyberspace culture has its own set of values, standards, language, signs, and artifacts, and individuals adapt to the current norms of the group," Young said. "One can easily become involved in the lives of others almost like watching a soap opera and thinking of the characters as real people," she said. Young's report said that this is especially attractive to people who might find it difficult to establish other social circles. "Homebound caretakers, the disabled, retired individuals, and homemakers have limited access to others," she said. Internet addiction centers have already been created at facilities ranging from the University of Maryland at College Park to Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Ill., to Harvard affiliate McLean Hospital. The test group broke down into 157 men and 239 women; the average age for the males was 29, and the average age for the women was 43. [end] WHAT CONSTITUTES PATHOLOGICAL INTERNET USE? Do you: 1. feel preoccupied with the Internet (i.e., thinking about the Internet when offline)? 2. feel a need to use the Internet with increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction? 3. have an inability to control your Internet use? 4. feel restless or irritable when attempting to cut down to stop Internet use? 5. use the Internet as a way of escaping from problems or of relieving a poor mood (i.e., feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety, or depression)? 6. lie to family members or friends to conceal the extent of involvement with the Internet? 7. jeopardize or risk the loss of significant relationship, job, educational or career opportunity because of the Internet? 8. after spending an excessive amount of money on online fees, often return another day? 9. go through withdrawal when offline (e.g., increased depression, anxiety, etc.)? 10. stay online longer than originally intended? Individuals who met four or more of these criteria during a 12-month period were classified as dependent. Take the full survey, and find out if you're addicted to the Net. source: the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Search for more related stories: [Techsearch] Search TechWire & CMP Archives [Image] C M P n e t S P E C I A L R E P O R T S · Can't find a 56-Kbps Internet service provider? [Image] Here's help for you. · Internet Explorer 4.0 got you perplexed? Ask Dr. 4. [Image] [Image] · There's an intranet for every company, but not the same one for everyone. [Image] · How come Internal users don't like Sun's JavaStation NC? [CMPnet] [Image] [Click Here To Visit Canon!] [Image] --- 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/

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THE UNIVERSE
by Rlavelle7＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE UNIVERSE 2 E=MC The equation for the atom bomb. It says that matter and energy are the same thing. So then what is that? Matter, look at a brick. Its in a three dimensional form. Its made of electrons, protons and neutrons (atoms) and they are moving so the brick is moving. Energy,sunlight. Its in a three dimensional form. It comes to us from the sun therefore it is moving. 3D and moving Both matter and energy are 3D and moving. I outproduce Einstein. We already know all matter has gravity. The bending of light shows that energy has gravity also. So matter and energy are 3D moving with gravity. The universe is made of matter, energy, time and space. That just stated is the matter and energy part. Time and space. Take everything in the universe and stop it. Does time progress? No. Therefore time is the motion and the understanding of all the motion is the understanding of all of time. Space, it ends. Space does not go on forever. Space is in a three dimensional form. It moves but does not have gravity. Space moves like this. O /\ + \/ O And that is the understsanding of all of time. O This is what was first in the beginning. /\ This is the old kings and queens. + This is democracy. \/ This is socialism. O This is when the Lord Jesue Christ returns. And that is the understanding of the universe. Glory be to the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost. Revelation chapter 10 & 11; 15 - 19. It is very important the people receive this information. You may tell someone about this. Thank You Robert Lavelle

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DO YOU WAGER/ GAMBLE ON SPORTS ???
by 03169083＠c-corp.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Waco FU-CU
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim's mention of cypherpunks reaction to Waco savagery at the time prompts an offer of the NYT firebrand today on nationwide reaction to the film, "Waco: The Rules of Engagement," which is revealing an upsurge in anti-government questioning of the official story, and "not just from the wacko right" says one of the leftist filmmakers: http://jya.com/waco-rules.htm Audience members boo Attorney General Reno and "any other figure of authority in the film." For the officials' growing record of the "still smoldering story," see the Treasury Deapartment's file on the Waco Administrative Review Group Investigation: http://jya.com/treas-do-waco.txt It's fair to guess that FBI has a similar cache on deer-killing dissidents in the national interest, but it's not flaunted to wolf-freak the sheep in the feebs "privacy" file, unlike Treasury's baiting of "for law enforcement use only" -- Tim's aptly acronymed FLEUO replacing FU-CU.

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W3C on PICS
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.collegehill.com/ilp-news/reagle.html f r o n t p a g e | a b o u t | b a c k i s s u e s | s u b s c r i b e | a d v e r t i s e The ILPN discusses PICS with Joseph Reagle of the W3 Consortium August 18th 1997 Joseph Reagle Jr. joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in October of 1996 to focus on policy issues related to the development of global technologies and their relationship to social and legal structures. Specifically, how to promote "good" engineering when applied to a multifaceted and often contentious policy environment; one result of this activity is the W3C Statement on Policy. Mr. Reagle has also been working on filtering, digital signature, intellectual property rights management, and privacy capabilities on the Web. He has also been an active contributor to the development of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3) project at the W3C. P3 will enable computer users to be informed and to control the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information on the Web.ÿ ILPN: How does PICS work? The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is an infrastructure for associating labels (metadata) with Internet resources. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing, privacy, agents, and intellectual property rights management. PICS allows organizations to easily define content rating systems, and enable users to selectively block (or seek) information. The standard is not a rating system (like MPAA or RSACi), but an encoding method for the ratings of those systems. Those encoded ratings can then be distributed with documents, or through third party label bureaus. ILPN: Can you summarize the origin of PICS as well as the coalition behind [Related Links] its development? What role is W3C playing in the The World Wide Web ongoing development and Consortium PICS Site promotion of PICS? Family Friendly During 1995, a number of activities occurred that Internet...The White were related to concerns House Internet Content of children accessing Filtering Plan. potentially inappropriate Web content: Australian Anti-PICS Site 1. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Ratings Now, testimony regarding the "Protection of Censorship Children From Tomorrow...from SALON Computer Pornography Act of 1995" (S. 892) ACLU Press Release 2. The Information on the July White Highway Parental House Summit Empowerment Group (IHPEG), a coalition Foucault in of three companies (Microsoft Cyberspace: Corporation, Netscape Surveillance, Communications, and Sovereignty and Progressive Hard-Wired Censors ... Networks), was formed an absolute must read to develop standards article from James for empowering Boyle, a law professor parents to screen at WashingtonÿCollege inappropriate network of Law, content. AmericanÿUniversity. 3. A number of standards for content labeling were proposed including Borenstein's and New's Internet Draft "KidCode" (June 1995), the Voluntary Internet Self Rating by Alex Stewart and NetRate by Peter Wayner. 4. A number of services and products for blocking inappropriate content were announced, including Cyber Patrol, CyberSitter, Internet Filter, NetNanny, SafeSurf, SurfWatch, and WebTrack. By August, the standards activity was consolidated under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) when the W3C, IHPEG, and twenty other organizations agreed to merge their efforts and resources to develop a standard for content selection. The intent of the PICS project was to demonstrate that it was possible and better for individuals and families on the Internet to have control over the the information they receive, rather than creating a national framework for censorship. Today, the W3C believes PICS-based technology can fulfill the requirements of mediating access potentially offensive or illegal content. The next big step is educating the users on how to use those technologies. For the future, we are working on the Resource Description Framework as the basis for a richer metadata infrastructure. Applications such as our P3 privacy project will use it to enable sites to make privacy statements. ILPN: Can you describe the difference between 'labeling' 'filtering' and 'blocking,' and why this set of distinctions might be important? Paul Resnick's PICS Options FAQ has a very good answer to this question and some of the others that you ask. To summarize, labels are statements. They have the capability to describe a Web page, or to make any arbitrary assertion. Obviously, people can use such information to block, or select what they want to see. To generalize, one can use metadata to "rate" a Web page with respect to some rating system. Given ratings, a user applies a filter (her preferences about the ratings) to determine which pages are most appropriate; some action is associated with the result of the filtering. The common result is the blocking or selection of a page, but the user could also be presented with a list of sites sorted according to her preferences. ILPN: What do you make of the opposition by EFF, the American Library Association and the Electronic Privacy Information Center to PICS? Do you see PICS as a bulwark of free speech, or simply as the lesser of two evils (the other being government regulation)? I would characterize the response from each of those organizations differently, and of course my response is based on my own understanding of that position:ÿ 1. The ALA does not oppose PICS or filtering in general. I believe they acknowledge its usefulness as a means of parental empowerment, but do not feel it is appropriate for installation on every computer by default in their libraries. I respect this point of view while acknowledging that libraries may have requirements placed upon them by their constituencies or by the law with respect to illegal materials; it is up to the libraries, their constituencies, and governments to appropriately resolve these concerns. 2. I personally like the direction the EFF took in working on "Public Interest Principles for Online Filtration, Ratings and Labelling Systems" and hope to see such efforts continue. The W3C feels that metadata is necessary to the Web. Hence, I think it is somewhat naive to criticize the capability to support metadata. While I do not agree with every position in the EFF document, I liked it because I think it is more constructive to discuss how that metadata infrastructure can be best used (or how to prevent abuse) rather than trying to hobble the Web. 3. I, and my colleagues at the W3C, encourage rigorous discussion on the use of filtering technologies and how they affect individuals' rights. I do not buy the slippery slope argument that all technology which governments could use to do "bad things" must not be developed. I do not see PICS in grand terms; PICS is an application of metadata, as I explain elsewhere. To respond to the later question I do prefer the capability to exclude unwanted speech over the suppression of it at its source. Also, metadata itself is speech -- having the capability to laud, critique and criticize others is fundamental to a robust society. ILPN: How likely is it that PICS-based software will be mandated by governments at the level of ISPs? Unknown. Also, governments could theoretically do a number of things such as : * create rating systems * determine filtering criteria * require the use of filtering technology in servers or in clients * require the use of certain rating systems, etc. They can accomplish this by legislative action, by interpreting existing statutes, by promoting self-regulatory structures, or by providing incentives to comply with the policies by attaching liability, or removing it, to the players involved. Even with a specific question in hand, it would be a difficult task to predict the path of any nation. ILPN: Are you concerned with the potential abuse of PICS by governments and/or employers? Yes. I personally would protest or subvert my employer's or government's efforts in applying mandatory filters against my will; I do use filters to select content I am interested in and to get rid of spam and bozos. Regardless of my personal opinion, the W3C does not have the competency to tell other organizations what their policies should be. We can tell them about the technology and consequences of its use, but what they do with it is their choice obviously. ILPN: What about the possibility that a third-party labeling organization will obtain too much power? In terms of an independent third party? Let the market decide. If there are monopolistic concerns, a nation may wish to apply anti-trust laws. If it is a political entity, I hope it has some mechanism for being held accountable to its constituency. ILPN: We tend to think of PICS in terms of excluding materials deemed offensive. What are more 'positive' possible applications of PICS? PICS is merely one application of "metadata." Metadata means "data about data" and we are working very hard on this with our Resource Description Framework (RDF). This is a fundamental computer science concept and is essential to the future of the Web. Any time you wish to make a statement or an assertion, to rely upon a trusted opinion, it is "metadata." Our Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3) is another application of metadata. We wish to enable sites to make statements about their privacy practices so users are informed and can make choices about how they wish to interact with sites. A useful feature of metadata is that it is can be machine readable, so agents can act on behalf of the user, freeing the user to concentrate on higher order content and interactions. Hence, when I configure my agent, I should be able to search Web sites with the type of content I like, those which have privacy practices that I like, or that are referred to me by trusted third parties, and those that support the payment capabilities that I posses. ILPN: PICS seems to transform the web from an arena in which anything goes, and in which each individual must define his or her own participation, to an arena in which various 'cultures' can establish their own, separately designed comfort zones. Was this an intention of the PICS developers, or is it simply an unintended consequence of an effort to protect children? I donût know if this was an original, explicit intention of PICS, but it soon became apparent that this is what PICS was about: allowing people to create their own cultural boundaries on the Web. I look at a lot of what we do at the W3C as not only providing the basic infrastructure for exchanging hyperlinked documents, but we are providing the capability to have more sophisticated interactions with other users and agents on the Web -- homegrown cultures and societies. "Real world" entities may see these tools as ways of extending their own social structure onto the Web, and this is actually what a lot of the PICS debate is about in my opinion. We'll see how successful governments can be. In the meantime, the W3C does want to mitigate the possible fragmentation on the Web from either: 1) people dropping off it all together and creating their own, or 2) tearing it apart from fighting over whose cultural norms should prevail. I'll quote from the W3C Policy Statement on this point: ...This architecture must allow local policies to co-exist without cultural fragmentation or domination... http://www.w3.org/Policy/statement.html ILPN: Is W3C promoting the development of PICS into proxy server products? Yes. The PICS Options FAQ states that filter processing can be centralized at a proxy server while still permitting individuals to choose the filtering rules. I will qualify this by saying that it has never been the intent of the W3C to create technology for governments to use as a means of centralized control. Not that governments couldn't do such a thing (and there are other ways for them to do it if they wanted to), but that isn't our intent in working on this technology. ILPN:. What kind of legislation, and court cases, do you expect to see in the future regarding PICS? I expect to see continued activity in: 1. drawing the line between "illegal" and "inappropriate" content 2. determining what obligations services have in restricting illegal material 3. developing self regulatory structures for limiting childrens' access to "inappropriate" materialÿ (promoting a "family friendly internet.") ILPN: What should people maintaining web sites be doing regarding PICS and the various rating systems? Should people be rating their sites now? What might the consequences be for neglecting to rate one's site? Is it important for people to keep track of how their web sites are rated, and if so, how can they do this? Technologies, such as Microsystems Software's CyberLabeler, are being developed which follow the recommendations of the PICS specifications and make labeling sites much easier. Content creators that want to label should continue to demand such technologies and that such technologies be integrated into Web development applications. I expect that in the near future, many sites will be generated dynamically from databases; those databases will be indexed and structured by metadata. At which point, labels and rating will be integral to the creation of dynamic, customized sites. Search engines may also begin relying upon the useful information found in metadata to return more appropriate -- on "target" -- information to users. The consequence of not rating your site might be that if you have potentially illegal or offensive material you may draw regulatory attention upon yourself. Also, by not labeling you may be overlooked by those using filtering and content selection technologies. Most adult sites are more than happy to label and use filtering services, they want to attract those looking for the services they offerÿ while avoiding the difficulties associated with angry parents. ILPN:Thank you for your time. My pleasure. Send us your comments on this article Copyright 1997. All Rights Reserved f r o n t p a g e | a b o u t | b a c k i s s u e s | s u b s c r i b e | a d v e r t i s e

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Re: write up AP for FC++
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Ian Grigg <iang(a)systemics.com>" typed: > > Zooko said: > > [ some mega-monkey drivel about all these ideas being the same ] > > More intellectual peasantry. There is more to an idea than who came > up with it first and whether it is related at some level or other to > another concept with a different name. Indeed there _is_ more to many ideas. Unfortunately, there is no more to this one. Regards, Zooko, Bane of Bogus Daydreams Posing As Ideas

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Don't call if you are already rich!
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17 Dec '03

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CPAC Quotes Templeton
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Brad Templeton's thoughts on hyperlinks as copyright infringement may be browsed at... http://www.clari.net/brad/linkright.html -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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CPAC Quotes Templeton
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Those of you who have been following the efforts of CPAC and their associates to render homeless certain web sites which they feel might be frequented by thought criminals might find the following an interesting case of "strange bedfellows." It is apparent that CPAC doesn't like opposing points of view, particularly when they are seen in public forums hosted by CPAC on the Web. Messages which don't toe the CPAC party line mysteriously vanish and forums are frequently erased in their entirety when anything resembling a discussion appears. Now CPAC has claimed some new territory in their war to silence their critics. They maintain that no one who does not agree with their agenda may show a link to any of their publicly available resources on the Web, and that doing so constitutes theft of their bandwidth. <giggle> They quote as their cite for this concept a piece by Brad Templeton, ClariNet owner, who apparently shares their view that links can constitute copyright infringement under certain circumstances. Fortunately, Brad does not restrict linking to the article in question, from which I offer the following tiny snippet under the "Fair Use" doctrine. > I, and many other people initially had the intuitive feeling that it > could never be a violation of copyright to make a link to a web page. > Of late, I've come to think that this might be wrong. Now what CPAC objects to is people who post messages saying, essentially, "Look at the silly CPAC people rant and froth. <Click Here>" I would suggest that CPAC is a political organization, with a very well-defined social agenda, which I have every right to comment on, and that illustrative hyperlinks in my commentary constitute "Fair Use" of their content. Am I on firm legal ground here? -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Status of Cypherpunks list sites?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've noticed that the list site name, "cypherpunks(a)toad.com", is still in use by many posters. I find it on most of the posts I reply to, and I have to manually change to one of the three current lists. Not too long ago I was subscribed to the "cypherpunks(a)algebra.com" address, and the list stopped flowing to me for a day or so. I resubbed under "cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net." I noticed that Igor Chudov said he was taking a hiatus from the Net and lists, so I wondered if this meant his support for his site was either being dropped or might be subject to more frequent outages. Anyway, has anybody been doing any pings of the various lists to see which ones are most available and have the lowest latencies for redistribution to subscribers? And shouldn't we all be making a more serious effort to drop the use of the "cypherpunks(a)toad.com" address, as John said some months back that he would support forwarding stuff for a while, but not necessarily forever. As it is, it just adds another hop and another potential weak link. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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