December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

The War on Some Debts
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a further blatant erosion of Constitutional rights, the California Supreme Court has ruled that a person owing child support who fails to seek or accept work may be jailed and fined for contempt of court, and that this does not violate any Constitutional bans on involuntary servitude or imprisonment for debt. This reverses nearly a century of contrary rulings. Look for this "improved" interpretation to be expanded to other kinds of debts and judgments as well, as soon as massive public acceptance of it for the carefully picked child support issue is engineered. The credit card companies are no doubt carefully analyzing this decision as we speak. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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the best justice money can buy --Lessig suspended
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> the best justice money (and politics) can buy I really do not believe this --this is bought justice as appeals courts never, or at least rarely such as a blatant in the case of a blatant error in a capital murder criminal trial, interfere with a sitting federal judge. the damage is immense; it delays the first round of adjudication by at least 5 months. if I were Joel Klein I would go for the jugular and file action for an immediate divestiture of M$ including injunctions against operations and management by Bill Gate$ and Steve Ballmer. the appeals court would probably suspend the actions, but they would still be there and on the table. Jackson at this point will be furious --hopefully he keeps total cool. the obvious next move on the part of M$ will be to have Jackson disqualified for bias. that will make 2 judges in the DC circuit who M$ has wasted. Royce Lambert refused to accept the 1994 plea bargain --obviously M$ would ask him to recuse if his name came out of the barrel; theoretically, cases are assigned by lottery --in reality, you can influence the choice of a judge as the cases are assigned at the time of filing by rotation. --M$ obviously is capable of shopping for a judge. at this point, I would say M$ has won the game. W98 will be released with IE4 as the desktop, complete with push channels and www.msn.com --at that point, Jackson --if he is still the sitting judge-- will be forced to make a bad law decision if he tries to block it on the 1994 agreement: the product is 'integrated' --M$ had the foresight to hoodwink the DOJ --Royce Lambert saw through the smoke screen but the appeals court removed him from the case. so... we will have multiple choice of OS: M$ on Intel, M$ on SGI, M$ on Alpha --and SUN goes down the tubes as they will never capitulate. M$ will bury IBM with their NT alliance with Ahmdal who clones all the IBM iron --which is fading against the clustered servers. IBM long since gave in on OS/2 versus M$ --it may figure in their corporate strategy, but unless they are willing to update past Netscape 2.02 they will lose that as well --in fact you can no longer any of the IBM PCs with OS/2 preloaded --except by special order: in quantity. Bill Gate$ for President? might as well... maybe Lee Harvey Oswald will come to the rescue. Lessig appointment suspended By Dan Goodin, C|Net February 2, 1998, 6:40 p.m. PT A federal appeals court has immediately suspended the appointment of a contested computer expert charged with collecting and weighing evidence in the antitrust case the Justice Department has brought against Microsoft. In a ruling handed down late Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted Microsoft's request to halt, pending further review, the proceedings before visiting Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson appointed Lessig a "special master" in mid December, giving the computer and Internet law expert until May 31 to recommend factual and legal findings in the high-profile case. The one-page ruling is a significant--but by no means final--win for Microsoft, which repeatedly has objected to Lessig's appointment. In briefs filed first in district court and then with the court of appeals, Microsoft strenuously has opposed the designation of any special master in the case, but has argued further that Lessig is an inappropriate choice because he appears to be biased against the software giant. In a sternly worded order issued two weeks ago, Jackson denied Microsoft's request, calling the allegations of bias "trivial" and "defamatory." Today's ruling by the court of appeals is in stark contrast to Jackson's order, and may indicate that the three-judge panel assigned to hear matters in the case sees things in a different light. Rather than permanently halting the proceedings, today's ruling is an agreement only to consider Microsoft's challenge to the special master--known in legal parlance as a writ of mandamus. In a sign that the judges may be inclined to agree with Microsoft's arguments on the issue, however, they handed Redmond an additional win by immediately halting the proceedings scheduled to take place before Lessig while the challenge is being heard. "It is extremely unusual for a court of appeals to reach down and stop what a district court has ordered," said Rich Gray, an antitrust attorney at Bergeson, Eliopoulos, Grady & Gray. "The court of appeals is saying, 'We're interested in hearing more about this, and in the meantime, we're going to put the special master on hold.'" A Microsoft spokesman agreed. "This is a very positive step, but it's only one small step in a long process," said Jim Cullinan. "We look forward to presenting our evidence to the appeals court as well as the trial court." The court of appeals already had agreed to hear a separate appeal, in which Microsoft is fighting a preliminary injunction Jackson issued in December that requires Microsoft to separate browser software from its Windows products. Today's ruling consolidates both motions into the same April 21 hearing. It also requires both sides to file additional briefs concerning the special master challenge by April 7. Moreover, the government must file its opposition to Microsoft's appeal of the preliminary injunction by March 2, and Microsoft must respond to that brief by March 9. Justice Department representatives were not immediately available for comment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNNc8R7R8UA6T6u61AQH3swIAtVNkbSk80Crg/dseQOP4pPpIbEDGchsl rWj/sEmXn/2EnWxXBTp4OnkRpJlFbobhbkT3lJqE4Jj2V+MnEGUFzw== =9S7I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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too little too late: SPA takes on M$
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> too little and too late, SPA takes on Microsoft this might have been a good action in so much as they are well entrenched, in part on M$' money, as Washington lobbiests. now, with Lessig's role as the court appointed expert suspended by the appeals court until a 21 Apr hearing (submissions due in early April), their voice will be lost in the court action. any action they stimulate with Orrin Hatch's judiciary is a) too late; too slow --at least two years; 3) of little consequence as Congress can not legislate against a specific company --they can legislate by regulation against an industry; and, 4) more importanty, the Appeals Court castrated Johnson's order for the special administrator. still, it is another voice; even though the guidelines are bland, there is no mistalking who the target is; and, in typical M$' fashion they are threatening to drop their membership instead of renewing in August. there are three areas where M$ is exercising monetary influence, even control of the agenda, in legislation or justice: the DOJ action with their crying to Daddy (the appeals court), the SPA guidelines which they intend to force SPA to withdraw, and as part of the closed circle negotiating the rules on intellectual property and trade for the Western Hemisphere free trade zone --closed meetings. as I said: Gate$ makes Cornelius Vanderbilt look like a choir boy. Software group takes on Microsoft By Courtney Macavinta February 2, 1998, 5:05 p.m. PT As the federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft barrels forward, a prominent high-tech trade association tomorrow will release a list of competition principles that strike at the heart of the case and angered the software giant. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) hasn't officially responded to the Justice Department's accusations that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree by requiring computer makers to bundle its Internet Explorer browser as a condition of licensing its Windows 95 operating system. But the new guidelines echo some of its smaller members' and the government's complaints regarding Microsoft. The SPA's guidelines come one day after New York State's attorney general said he and ten other state prosecutors subpoenaed Microsoft for evidence of potentially illegal bundling of Windows and Internet software. In addition, the Senate Judiciary Committee and regulatory agencies from Japan and the European Union also are looking into Microsoft's business practices. (See related story) The SPA says it set out to develop the principles to define its role in the fair competition debate, which focuses on its largest member. The SPA has been sought for advice by lawmakers in the past, and it states that the new principles are intended to "guide government officials" in antitrust enforcement. Hitting home with Microsoft foes, the SPA principles state: "Operating systems should not be used to unfairly favor its own products and services, or its favored partners, over those competing vendors. The operating system vendor should not include its own services or products as part of the operating system or user interface unless it gives the same ability to integrate products and services into the operating system to competing vendors." The SPA went on to state that "the tying of certain applications to the sale of other applications has the effect of restraining competition among independent software vendors for the 'virtual shelf space' of [PC makers]." Dominant operating systems also should not "favor Internet content" that it owns or licenses, according to the guidelines. The principles say that healthy competition is reliant on equal access to retail customers. On the other hand, pre-announcing products that do not exist yet, so-called vaporware, stifles competition. Prior to developing the principles, the 1,200-member group surveyed its domestic members. Of the 164 that responded, anticompetitive activity was a top concern. As reported in January, the issue also took the spotlight at two scheduled meetings in Santa Clara, California. The SPA's Government Affairs Committee even met with Joel Klein, the Justice Department's lead attorney in the lawsuit against Microsoft. Microsoft fired back today, calling the SPA's process "short-sighted" and the publication of the principles "self-destructive." The company also quipped that it is undecided on whether it will renew its SPA membership, which expires in August. Although Microsoft was present at the SPA's California meetings last month, so were some of its main competitors, such as Novell, Netscape Communications, Apple Computer, and Oracle Corporation. "It's unfortunate that a handful of Microsoft's competitors are trying to use the SPA to drive a wedge into the software industry. This whole process has been such an obvious attack on Microsoft," Mark Murray, a spokesman for the company, said today. "I think the primary impact of this is that the SPA will be discredited, and that it will weaken their ability to serve as a legitimate voice," he added. The SPA knew its principles would be searched for hidden meaning regarding the Microsoft case, but the group contends it wasn't targeting the company. "The principles are not intended to prescribe remedies that might be applied by federal and state antitrust enforcers to any particular company or set of circumstances," SPA president Ken Wasch said in a statement. "Nor are these principles a call for general regulation of our industry. Rather, the principles reflect an industry consensus of how some business practices promote or impair strong competition." Still, for a group with no regulatory power, the SPA's opinion will hold some weight. The group is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee when it holds hearings on issues of competition in the high-tech industry this year. Moreover, the new principles amend the organization's existing guidelines, which were presented to the Federal Trade Commission during a hearing two years ago. During the hearing, the SPA advised the government to carefully scrutinize companies that allegedly impede others from getting space on retail store shelves. The SPA also took the position that owners of dominant operating systems should release essential technical information to other developers. Both points remain in the new eight-point plan. The remaining SPA competition principles include: Maximize innovation to benefit consumers. The owners of dominant operating systems should license their "interface specifications to any third party for the purposes of developing application software." "Barriers" should not be put up by dominant operating systems that limit consumers' or hardware makers' ability to reconfigure their desktops or utilize any software or online content services. Software vendors "should not intentionally disable, cripple, or otherwise interfere with the intended functionality and execution of other products." Operating systems should not prohibit Web sites from "exploiting the access capabilities of competing products" or force sites to display and promote their products. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNNc1UbR8UA6T6u61AQHEQwH/cpSHIdQwCR0XVoxqEVya3E15ZBrmI5M8 hln8Dm2qFF39UjsNVLJhp4J4xDnyTdeRCDkGDixzI5qJqDwChz5prw== =sN0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Data Fellows wins another acclaimed award
by Mia Westerholm 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Data Fellows Ltd. Media Release For immediate release 4 February 1998 DATA FELLOWS WINS ANOTHER ACCLAIMED AWARD International Success Recognized by Head of State The developer of F-Secure data security products, Data Fellows Ltd., has received the President of Finlands Export Award. This award is granted annually to the most outstanding export companies in the country. This is the first time a developer of commercial software packages has been granted the award. Data Fellows is one of the worlds leading developers of data security products. It has offices in San Jose, California, and Espoo, Finland, as well as distributors in over 50 countries all around the world. Its products have been translated to over 30 languages. The companys annual growth in net sales has been over 100% since it was founded in 1988. "The award is a recognition of our status as a leading international data security development company," says the Chief Executive Officer of Data Fellows Ltd., Mr. Risto Siilasmaa. "I believe our success is based on two things: excellent products and high quality services." The most successful product group of the company is its F-Secure Anti-Virus products. Data Fellows is the developer of the revolutionary CounterSign Technology, which enables the use of several scanning engines simultaneously. Due to this groundbreaking technology, the theoretical chances of a virus slipping through to a computer or a network are smaller than ever. F-Secure Anti-Virus offers unrivalled protection by combining the best available single scanning engine F-PROT with the AVP anti-virus engine, which also ranks among the best in the world. Another fast growing business area for Data Fellows is its F-Secure cryptography software products. The F-Secure product family uses the best available military strength encryption and authentification algorithms to protect confidential data. F-Secure products are based on the SSH protocol, which provides a generic transport-layer encryption mechanism for network connections. The SSH protocol provides both host authentication and user authentication, together with privacy and integrity protection. The products of Data Fellows have already won numerous international tests and competitions, including the 1996 European Information Technology Prize; Data Communications Magazines Hot Product of the Year 1997; SVM Magazine, May 1997, Best Anti-Virus; and SECURE Computings Editors Choice. Data Fellows belongs to an elite group of companies that have a triple-A rating from Dun&Bradstreet. Triple-A is the highest possible credit rating. For further information, please contact: Data Fellows Ltd. Mr. Risto Siilasmaa, Chief Executive Officer Tel. +358-9-859 900 e-mail: Risto.Siilasmaa(a)DataFellows.com or visit the Data Fellows web site at http://www.DataFellows.com €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€ Mia.Westerholm(a)DataFellows.com http://www.DataFellows.com Data Fellows Ltd. PL 24 FIN-02231 ESPOO, FINLAND Tel. +358 9 859 900 Fax. +358 9 8599 0599

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BSAFE 4.0 to force GAK?!
by steve 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI Jan. 26's Network World has an article on page 33 titled "RSA blasts (but also supports) Government encryption policy". The paragraph of note is the fourth paragraph which reads:"The next version of the RSA encryption toolkit, BSAFE 4.0, will force those building products with anthing over 56 bit strength encryption to use a key-recovery center for exportable products...." I haven't been able to confirm this with other sources yet but the glaring question is how will this be enforced and how will it affect domestic products that wish to use BSAFE 4.0 for their crypto. Further what ramifications does this hold for their S/Mail toolkit for S/MIME? and I haven't seen this discussed on the list yet. Steve O -- A picture tells a thousand words. Stego -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT/S d--() s+: a-- C++++(++)$ ULS+++@ P++@ L+(++)$ E- W+(+++)$ N++$ !o K-? w++(+++)$ !O+>++ !M !V PS+(+++)@ PE(++)@ Y++$ PGP@ t+@ 5++@ X++>$ R+++>$ tv+@ b+@ DI+++>$ D+++@>$ G@ e++@>++++ h r* y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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A fatal flaw in PGP 6.0
by Bill＠rumplestiltskin.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was posted anonymously to alt.security.pgp last night >Subject: PGP 6.0 alpha3 >Date: 3 Feb 1998 00:15:56 +0100 > >Anyone else having problems with the alpha of PGP 6.0? When I try to encrypt e-mail I get an error: > >FATAL ERROR > >Unable to find key "ghost(a)nsa.gov" >Please obtain a new key from Network associates. > > >Other than that it's pretty slick! I'm not sure I'd have the default cypher as ROT-13 though! I changed mine to RC-2 255-bit. > >Anyone else? Anyone like to confirm this?

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A fatal flaw in PGP 6.0
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was posted anonymously to alt.security.pgp last night >Subject: PGP 6.0 alpha3 >Date: 3 Feb 1998 00:15:56 +0100 > >Anyone else having problems with the alpha of PGP 6.0? When I try to encrypt e-mail I get an error: > >FATAL ERROR > >Unable to find key "ghost(a)nsa.gov" >Please obtain a new key from Network associates. > > >Other than that it's pretty slick! I'm not sure I'd have the default cypher as ROT-13 though! I changed mine to RC-2 255-bit. > >Anyone else? Anyone like to confirm this?

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A fatal flaw in PGP 6.0
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was posted anonymously to alt.security.pgp last night >Subject: PGP 6.0 alpha3 >Date: 3 Feb 1998 00:15:56 +0100 > >Anyone else having problems with the alpha of PGP 6.0? When I try to encrypt e-mail I get an error: > >FATAL ERROR > >Unable to find key "ghost(a)nsa.gov" >Please obtain a new key from Network associates. > > >Other than that it's pretty slick! I'm not sure I'd have the default cypher as ROT-13 though! I changed mine to RC-2 255-bit. > >Anyone else? Anyone like to confirm this?

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New RAND IW Study
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A very interesting RAND study, In Athena's Camp, was recently released. From the preface: "New modes of war, terrorism, crime, and even radical activism-are all these emerging from similar information-age dynamics? If so, what is the best preparation for responding to such modes? When the subject is warfare, for example, it is common wisdom that militaries tend to prepare for the last war, and there is much historical evidence to support this notion. Today, however, it is clear that defense establishments around the world-and especially in the United States-are thinking about how war will change, how the "revolution in military affairs" (RMA) will unfold, and how the next war may well be quite different from the last. Whether the focus is warfare, terrorism, crime, or social conflict, we have striven to anticipate what the spectrum of future wars and other types of conflicts will look like." http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR880 --Steve

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potus manipulation for fun and profit
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Given the Head of State's alleged affinitity for "covert personal operations", consider the potential for manipulating him by any three-letter-agency skilled in surveillance. E.g., getting the Clinton administration behind Clipper, supporting our man Freeh, etc. There are advantages to having a POTUS who's a security risk, after all :-< -Gedanken memo, no such agency. David Honig honig(a)alum.mit.edu --------------------------------------------------- Is Monica Lewinsky endorsing kneepads for Nike yet?

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Microsoft
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> so... we will have multiple choice of OS: M$ on Intel, > M$ on SGI, M$ on Alpha --and SUN goes down the tubes as > they will never capitulate. M$ will bury IBM with their > NT alliance with Ahmdal who clones all the IBM iron > --which is fading against the clustered servers. IBM > long since gave in on OS/2 versus M$ --it may figure in > their corporate strategy, but unless they are willing to > update past Netscape 2.02 they will lose that as well > --in fact you can no longer any of the IBM PCs with OS/2 > preloaded --except by special order: in quantity. I really am not so worried about Microsoft's software strategy as I am about their communication infrastructure strategy. Every time I go to a computer show or swap meet, I see stacks of Linux CDs selling like hot cakes. Most anyone with a clue who doesn't like Billy's crapware knows precisely where to find something better. What concerns me more is the partnerships that Billy & Co. are making with internet providers, especially cable & DSL. Many of the cable modem service providers have notoriously bad reputations for using packet filters to block stuff they don't like. These days, any internet provider who tries that shit usually finds its customers going elsewhere, but when there's only one or two cable providers and Mickeysoft owns them all, then what? The solution, of course, is encrypted IP, something which has been moving far too slowly. Frankly I'm pretty disappointed with the apparent unwillingness of several IETF members to address the obvious MITM attacks, such as CBC cut-and-paste. It is going to royally suck when we have to redo it because the protocol didn't work the first time.

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Jim Omura
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 2/3/98 7:22 PM Jim Let's get this settled. I have not read cylinked.htm Latest: Cylinked to Organized Crime? January 29, 1998 YET. Hope you liked the SAND report, now posted at jya.com, I sent you in 1992. I listened carefully at the breakfast you, I, Lou {lew?} Morris had. Later bill Title: Cryptome Cryptome JYA/Urban Deadline OpEd _______________________________________________________________________________________ File Topic Date _______________________________________________________________________________________ In Athena's Camp Preparing for Conflict in the Info Age (offsite) February 3, 1998 cylink-sins.htm Cylink Secures SINS February 3, 1998 pg-get-MSkey.htm Update: How to Recover Private Keys for MS Wares February 3, 1998 bxa020398.txt Exports of High Performance Computers February 3, 1998 sib.htm Scientists in Black February 3, 1998 CAP The Cryptographic Analysis Program (offsite) February 2, 1998 Arne Beurling The Geheimschreiber Secret (offsite) February 2, 1998 Army Stegano US Army Steganography (offsite) February 2, 1998 <A HREF="http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/ccc/bpark/colossus.htm ">Colossus Rebuilding Colossus (offsite) February 2, 1998 Frode Crypto Cryptology Papers (offsite) February 2, 1998 jimbell9.htm Jim Bell Update February 2, 1998 echelon-boost NSA Surveillance System Boosted (offsite) February 2, 1998 cn020298.txt Crypto News February 2, 1998 bxa020298.txt BXA Meet on Export Rules and Procedures February 2, 1998 cs020298.txt Rules to Challenge Customs Seizures (63K) February 2, 1998 usg020298.txt USG Secret Meets February 2, 1998 echelon.htm NSA Global Surveillance System February 2, 1998 cathedral.htm The Cathedral and the Bazaar February 1, 1998 natsec-rule.htm Protection of National Security Information February 1, 1998 47cfr216.txt National Communications Issuance System (106K) February 1, 1998 47cfr213.txt Emergency Telecomms Precedence System (17K) February 1, 1998 47cfr202.txt National Security Emergency Plans & Ops (27K) February 1, 1998 47cfr201.txt Policy for Telecomms During Emergencies (12K) February 1, 1998 44cfr336.txt Facilities for National Security Emergency (14K) February 1, 1998 44cfr334.txt FEMA Graduated Mobilization Response (14K) February 1, 1998 32cfr322.txt Privacy Act Exemption for NSA Records (40K) February 1, 1998 32cfr299.txt National Security Agency FOIA Program (8K) February 1, 1998 32cfr2101.txt National Security Council FOIA Requests (24K) February 1, 1998 32cfr185.txt Military Support to Civil Authorities (52K) February 1, 1998 31cfr9.txt Effects of Imported Articles on National Security February 1, 1998 22cfr124.txt Contracts, Off-Shore Buys, Defense Services (42K) February 1, 1998 22cfr123.txt Licenses for the Export of Defense Articles (51K) February 1, 1998 22cfr121.txt United States Munitions List (92K) February 1, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________________________ ntia-dnsdrft.htm Draft Proposal for New Domain Name System January 30, 1998 korczak.txt Boris Korczak: CIA Agent Seeks Payment January 30, 1998 pm87.txt Prez on Terrorist Threat to Middle East Peace January 30, 1998 leahy-wipo.txt Senator Leahy on Ratifying WIPO Treaties January 30, 1998 32cfr147.txt DoD: Policies for Access to Classified Info January 30, 1998 32cfr148.txt DoD: Facilities for Storing Classified Info January 30, 1998 32cfr149.txt DoD: National Policy on Technical Surveillance January 30, 1998 ntia012798.htm RFC: Self-Regulation for Privacy Protection January 30, 1998 cylinked.htm Latest: Cylinked to Organized Crime? January 29, 1998 websoft-warn.htm Web Software Warning January 29, 1998 scant-peril.htm U.S. Spy Agencies Pauline Peril January 29, 1998 mossburg.htm E-Comm Forum on E-Authentication and DigSig January 29, 1998 pollard.htm Bankers O Table on E-Authentication and DigSig January 29, 1998 brown.htm Secret Service on Financial Instruments Fraud Janaury 29, 1998 rpk-hack.htm Invite to Hack RPK InvisiMail January 29, 1998 nrc012998.txt Generic Letter on Y2K Readiness for Nuke Plants January 29, 1998 fc012998.txt FinCEN RFC on Information Collection January 29, 1998 dtc012998.txt Arms Export to Saudi Arabia January 29, 1998 nsa-etc-nf.htm NSA, Echelon, Trade & Crypto/Netscape & Fortify January 28, 1998 dod012898.txt DoD Blacklist of Higher Education January 28, 1998 47usc1002.txt Interception of Digital and Other Communications January 28, 1998 cn012898.txt Crypto News January 28, 1998 cn012798.txt Crypto News January 27, 1998 bxa-fy98.txt BXA Funding FY 1998 January 27, 1998 cia-tsang.htm CIA Concedes Spying on Americans January 26, 1998 atpc.htm EU-Parliament: Technologies of Political Control January 26, 1998 us-crypto.htm US Crypto Policy January 25, 1998 pg-nzcrypto.htm New Zealand Crypto Policy January 24, 1998 ra-ukcrypto.htm UK Crypto Policy January 24, 1998 whp012398.htm Payne/Morales vs. NSA: Reply to Defendant January 23, 1998 kellner.htm Intellectuals and New Technologies (66K) January 23, 1998 bxa012398.txt BXA Penalizes Export Violator January 23, 1998 osd012398.txt Compensation of North Viet-Imprisoned Operatives January 23, 1998 dod012398.txt Defense Dept Secret Meets January 23, 1998 walton-pk.htm GCHQ: The Pre-History of Public Key Cryptography January 22, 1998 primer The Proliferation Primer (offsite) January 22, 1998 sh105-238.txt Proliferation and US Export Controls (196K) January 22, 1998 sh105-267.txt Safety and Reliability of US Nukes (347K) January 22, 1998 acda012298.txt Arms Control Secret Meet January 22, 1998 pd012298.txt Prez Notice on Mideast Terrorism Emergency January 22, 1998 bia012298.txt Rule on Indian Casinos January 22, 1998 cn012198.txt Crypto News January 21, 1998 fc98.htm Financial Cryptography '98 January 20, 1998 doj-ssgsup.htm Supplement to Fed Guide for Seizing Computers January 20, 1998 cn-netreg.htm New Chinese Internet Regulations January 20, 1998 ietf-dea-97.htm IETF Draft Encryption Algorithms 1997 January 20, 1998 radio-rec.htm Update: Locating Radio Receivers; Encoder Stolen January 20, 1998 pipenet.htm PipeNet Description January 20, 1998 dod012098.txt Defense Dept Secret Meets January 20, 1998 bernstein12.htm Transcript of Bernstein Hearing January 19, 1998 fbi-umbc.htm Barry Smith (FBI) to Speak on Encryption Policy January 18, 1998 de-snoop.htm Update: German Surveillance State January 17, 1998 bxa-wa-rule.htm Update 2: BXA Rule on the Wassenaar Arrangement January 16, 1998 pd98-10.htm Prez OKs China's Nuclear Controls January 16, 1998 tcryptol Theory of Cryptography Library (offsite) January 16, 1998 cn011698.htm Crypto News January 16, 1998 nsasuit8.htm USA/NSA Responds to Payne/Morales Motion Janaury 16, 1998 dod011698.txt Defense Dept Secret Meets January 16, 1998 bxa011398.txt Materials Advisory Meet January 15, 1998 crypto-kong.htm Announcing Crypto Kong January 15, 1998 occ-dstc.htm OCC OKs CA as Authorized Banking Activity January 14, 1998 aes-980820 Advanced Encryption Standard Conference (offsite) January 14, 1998 ustr010898.txt Update: Telecommunications Trade Agreements January 14, 1998 rc2.htm Rivest Describes RC2 Encryption Algorithm January 13, 1998 fc011398.txt FinCEN Regulates Card Clubs January 13, 1998 ta011298.txt Key Management Infrastructure Meet January 12, 1998 nist011298.txt Transmission-Electron Microscopy Meet January 12, 1998 doa011298.txt Army Hazard Containment Invention January 12, 1998 gps-jam.htm GPS Jamming January 11, 1998 arthur.htm The Force of An Idea: Theory of USA v. Microsoft January 10, 1998 RSA-stego.htm Batch RSA for Stego Data January 9, 1998 batch-DSA.htm Batch DSA January 9, 1998 cell-track.htm Update 2: Mobile Cell Phone Surveillance January 9, 1998 fiat-rsa.htm Fiat's Batch RSA January 9, 1998 aes010798.htm Update: Advanced Encryption Standard January 9, 1998 doj010998.txt RFC: USA v. IBM/STK Antitrust Suit January 9, 1998 bmd010898.txt Ballistic Missile Defense Secret Meet January 9, 1998 nih010898.txt Commercialization of Medical Data January 9, 1998 fas-pde Prez Directives/Executive Orders (offsite) January 7, 1998 ussc-ecopy.htm Sentencing for Electronic Copyright Violations January 6, 1998 ussc010698.txt RFC: US Sentencing Guidelines (254K) January 6, 1997 mercier.htm Terrorists, WMD, and the US Army Reserve January 6, 1998 terror-rnd.htm US Counterterrorism R&D Program January 6, 1998 belet Bob East Letter on AP/Jim Bell/IRS (offsite) January 6, 1998 pitfalls Schneier: Security Pitfalls in Crypto (offsite) January 5, 1998 dsb010598.txt Defense Science Board Secret Meets January 5, 1998 ntia010598.txt Funds for Public Telecommunications January 5, 1998 cn010598.txt Electronic Surveillance News January 5, 1998 csda.htm Cypherpunks Smartcard Developer Association January 4, 1998 aimd-98-21.htm Executive Guide: Info Security Management (139K) January 3, 1998 blast-mono.htm Blast Resistant Doors Monograph January 3, 1998 tempest-door.htm Electromagnetic Shielding/TEMPEST Door January 3, 1998 ehj.htm Banned Basque Video: Democratic Alternative January 3, 1998 fda010298.htm Policy for External Penile Rigidity Devices January 2, 1998 doe010298.htm Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Plan January 2, 1998 dos010298.txt Meet on Global Communications and Info Policy January 2, 1998 doa010298.txt Army Science Board Meet January 2, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Cryptomb 2 June-December 1997 Cryptomb 1 To May 31 1997 (site stats) DoE: Pay Bill Payne DoJ: Free Jim Bell Title: Payne/Morales vs. NSA: Reply to Defendant's Response 23 January 1998 Source: William H. Payne See related documents: http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm FILED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO 98 JAN 20 AM11:26 ROBERT M. MARSH CLERK/ALBUQUERQUE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO William H. Payne ) Arthur R. Morales ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v ) CIV NO 97 0266 ) SC/DJS ) Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF ) Director, National Security Agency ) National Security Agency ) ) Defendant ) REPLY TO DEFENDANT'S RESPONSE TO PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT BASED ON EVIDENCE FROM ADMISSIONS 1 COMES NOW plaintiffs Payne [Payne] and Morales [Morales] [Plaintiffs], pro se litigants to exercise their rights guaranteed under the Constitution, Rules of Civil Procedure, and Local Civil Rules to respond to Defendant's MOTION filed on 98 JAN-5 within the 14 days allowed by local rule 7.3(b)(4). 2 US Attorney Mitchell [Mitchell] writes, Counsel for Defendant was not served with copies of any of said Requests for Admissions until sometime after the individuals had been served.2 Mitchell WAS SERVED PLAINTIFFS' FIRST SET OF REQUEST FOR ADMISSION TO NSA DIRECTOR KENNETH MINIHAN I HEREBY CERTIFY that a copy of the foregoing request for admissions was mailed to Jan Elizabeth Mitchell, Assistant US Attorney, 525 Silver SW, ABQ, NM 87102 this Monday November 3, 1997. Michell was not served with any other admissions since Mitchell is not representing others. Plaintiffs' served Defendant Minihan properly. And Minihan failed to respond to Minihan's admissions within the time 1 allotted by law. 3 US Attorney Mitchell writes, As grounds for the Motion and Memorandum, Defendant argued that Plaintiffs had blatantly disregarded this Court's Order pertaining to the conduct of discovery and the deadline for discovery in this Freedom of Information Act action. Judges Svet and Campos willfully violated Plaintiffs' right to Discovery. And thereby earned criminal complaint affidavits filed with judge Scalia of the Supreme Court. 4 US Attorney Mitchell writes, In Defendant's Motion and Memorandum, Counsel for Defendant also objected to Plaintiffs' sua sponte decision to modify the Court's June 11 Order to reflect the delay of the Court's October 7 Order and the establishment, without leave of this Court, of new deadlines for discovery, motions practice, and the filing of the PreTrial Order. (Motion and Memorandum 9, at 4.) Judge Svet and Campos attempt to deny Plaintiffs' right to Discovery, again, earned Svet and Campos criminal complaint affidavits. Plaintiffs exercise their right under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Constitution to conduct Discovery WITHOUT LEAVE OF COURT! 5 US Attorney Mitchell writes, By their own request, Plaintiffs sought to stay a ruling on the Defendant's Motion and Memorandum. Absent any ruling on either the Motion and Memorandum or Plaintiffs' Response, Defendant Minihan, employees of NSA, and employees of Sandia National Laboratory, were not obligated to respond to the Requests for Admissions as provided by Fed.R.Civ.P. 36.3 For Plaintiffs to now assert in their "Motion for Summary Judgment On Based On Evidence From Admissions" that because the individuals have not responded to the Requests for Admissions they are deemed admitted, flies in the face of their own prayer to this Court to stay a ruling on the Defendant's Motion to strike the Requests for Admissions until the Supreme Court takes action. 2 Plaintiffs' have REPEATEDLY asked judge Svet and Campos to disqualify themselves from any rulings on this case because Campos and Svet do NOT obey the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Replace judges Svet and Campos because these judges have demonstrated, IN WRITING, they do not follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Plaintiffs' pleas are directed a[t] replacement judge[s]. Not Svet and Campos. Therefore, Svet and Campos' failure to remove themselves does not stop the legal process. Mitchell cites NO law to support her claim that time constraints imposed under Fed.R.Civ.P. 36.3 are inapplicable as a result of Svet's and Campos' failure to remove themselves. 6 US Attorney Mitchell writes, Defendant requests that this Court either rule upon Defendant's Motion and Memorandum granting the request to strike the Requests for Admissions, or grant Plaintiffs' request to stay this action pending the issuance of the order sought by Plaintiffs in another forum. Should this Court deny Defendant's Motion and Memorandum, Defendant respectfully requests that the individuals to whom Requests for Admissions are appropriate in this action be given the thirty days to respond to said admissions as provided by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. REPLACEMENT JUDGES of the Court should realize the outcome of the lawsuit has attained international interest as a result of the 1 bungled NSA spy sting on Iran 2 US government agencies NSA, NIST, and the FBI's attempt to control cryptography. Mitchell's DEFENDANT'S RESPONSE TO PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT BASED ON EVIDENCE FROM ADMISSIONS was posted on Internet at jya.com, click cryptome 3 nsasuit8.htm USA/NSA Responds to Payne/Morales Motion January 16, 1998 Importance of this posting is summed-up in the Toronto Sun, Jan. 11, 1998 US, Iran Need Each Other by Eric Margolis Iran launched a surprise charm offensive last week, throwing Washington into serious confusion. In a lengthy interview on CNN, Iran's new president, Mohammad Khatami, skillfully analyzed the bitter relations between the two nations and cautiously extended an olive branch to Washington, calling for an end to their 19-year cold war. Khatami's diplomatic ju-jitsu flummoxed the Clinton administration, which was busy trying to rally international support against Tehran - and to overthrow Iran's elected government. Both capitals are split over the question of relations. In Washington, the military establishment and conservative Republicans have inflated Iran into a bogeyman to justify military budgets and keep U.S. forces in the Mideast. ... America incited Iraq to invade Iran in 1980. They did this to crush the Islamic revolution, then provided massive war aid to Saddam Hussein. Half a million Iranians died. The US got caught involved in genocide. Using high tech. This is one subject of this lawsuit. Albuquerque Journal Tuesday 1/13/98 carried the editorial. Khatami Move Is Profile in Courage Richard Reeves Syndicated Columnist LOS ANGELES - If an American leader had done what Iranian President Mohammed Khatami did last Wednesday, it would have been hailed as a profile in courage. ... Miscalculation! We armed and pampered Saddam Hussein in the hope that Iraq would destroy Iran. Now that's policy and behavior to think about. Here is something to think about: If Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy had pursued any kind of sensible policy toward Cuba and Fidel Castro - opposed to 4 the policy of trying to assassinate him - there never would have been a Cuban missile crisis. I think Iranians have financed and encouraged terrorism against the interests of the United States and Israel. I would not be surprised at all if something like proof emerges soon, perhaps anonymously, from the CIA and other government agencies, where many officials have built their careers on sanctioning and isolating Iran, to try to straighten the backbones of the president and people of the United States. If they succeed, America fails. What would be more effective in closing down Iranian terrorism? More hostility, sanctions and charges? Or beginning the process toward more normal relations with a country positioned and born to be great? ... Clearly genocide fits into [missing text] Now that's policy and behavior to think about. The wired world is watching what this Court, hopefully minus judges Svet and Campos, will do. What is there to be? A series of possibly unfortunate events? Or does this Court order release the lawfully requested documents to help settle this American tragedy? WHEREFORE. 7 Have replacement judges of this Court DENY Mitchell's Plaintiffs requested a stay. Absent a ruling from this Court denying their request, they cannot proceed to assert that the Requests for Admissions are deemed admitted. Accordingly, Plaintiffs' "Motion For Summary Judgment On Based On Evidence From Admissions" must be denied. for reason that Mitchell's request to subvert both the Discovery processes and its time limits have no basis in law. And appears to plead to judges who do not obey the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig suspended
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 2/3/98 9:45 PM, Ryan Anderson (ryan(a)michonline.com) passed this wisdom: >On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Tim May wrote: > >> >> (I've left out the PowerPC, as it appears now to be limited solely >> to the Macintosh market...even IBM and Motorola appear to have >> acknowledged its failure.) > >Unless I've missed some absolutely major announcement, IBM is >betting on the PowerPC in all their servers. Well, at least in >their RS/6000 and AS/400, which is pretty much their entire >high-end market. > >The PowerPC never had a serious entry into the desktop market >anywhere but the Macintosh to my >knowledge. ... and while Intel is not so quietly making noises about the soon to be available 333MHz Pentium IIs, Motorola quietly announced 400/433 MHz PPC chips two weeks earlier. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Fate favors the prepared mind." (from "Under Siege 3")

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Whoa: British SmartCard rollout
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: bill payne <billp(a)nmol.com> > To: webmaster(a)cylink.com > CC: federico pena <" Federico.F.Pena"@hq.doe.gov>, jy(a)jya.com, > john gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com>, j orlin grabbe <kalliste(a)aci.net>, > cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Jim Omura > <B>cn010598.txt Electronic Surveillance News January 5, 1998</B> 2 January 1998, Newsbytes: British Govt Announces Smart Card Plans for UK Citizens London, England: Amid the quiet of the Christmas and New Year break, the British government revealed plans for a "citizen's smart card" that will streamline the interfacing of British people with their government. In plain English, that translates to a smart card that can be used to allow people to pay all of their taxes, including income tax, national insurance, and local taxes, as well as apply for passports, state benefits, and other forms of government welfare. The idea behind the smart card, according to Peter Kilfoyle, the British public services minister, is that people will be able to use the card to identify themselves to the various government computers, all of which will be interlinked with each other. Kilfoyle claims that there are "huge potential savings" to be had from the introduction of the smart card, although he revealed that possessing a card will be voluntary. When questioned further on this, he admitted, however, that people could find it difficult to operate in the future without such a card. Initially, the citizen's smart card will rely on traditional PIN protection systems to allow a person to ID themselves alongside the card to the government computer systems. In the longer term, and certainly within the next five years, the plan is to allow an individual to use a fingerprint or similar biometric system for positive identification. ---- Fingerprinting everyone on the planet: those of you in CA and a handful of other states have already been fingerprinted "so you can drive". Police will eventually be able to stop anyone and demand to check their fingerprints via cheap small portable scanners. EFF/EPIC etc need to specifically target these biometric systems as being way over the top. Totally unnecessary. ---guy How did you CA cypherpunks feel about being fingerprinted?

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RSA? ElGamal?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is ElGamal secure than RSA ?

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Re: The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right of Anonymity"...)
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Black Unicorn wrote: > At 06:07 PM 2/2/98 +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote: > > I did-- tried to lay $14K out for a Mercedes (25 years ago). > > they wouldnt take it. so I went and picked up two $7K > > cashiers from two different banks. same thing with a pair > > of Lycoming IO540 aircraft engines: 2 8s and a 9 --stay > > under the $10K transaction. > > Careful. This may well be illegal now. > Structuring transactions to avoid > reporting requirements is a felony. > statute of limitations has run. at the time, I did not give it much thought except the aggravation of filing the paperwork for what was a common business transaction. It was actually easier to get cash in las vegas than a cashiers check as the banks were so pissy. the casinos were far better than the banks once you established out of town credit with them --and they were 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I wanted those aircraft engines bad --the vendor in Chicago had the only two available for close to six months and he had agreed to sell them to Canada but was waiting on the letter of credit --the casinos wired the money direct which turned the deal --the engines were on a return flight the next morning --a Saturday. transferring money from a casino is not the best place in the world for obvious reasons, despite its expediency. structuring transactions is certainly illegal now, but I have not seen that kind of money since retiring after having had a run of bad luck with my health a few years back (and lost my FAA medical cert). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNNgm3rR8UA6T6u61AQET5gH6An6jxz5lkdghl6BXbHZ3tFCGu7iam32F knFYLLWGSYngkRH6k4x7/zXA0SH7ghZ5b33gKlX98oWx7NKyOXLZuw== =5RqA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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PLEASE READ! YOULL BE GLAD YOU DID, MONEY MONEY
by jacket9＠primenet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Free Roger Clemens Lithograph
by pegasusgroup＠emailconcepts.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Weapons
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Armadillo: To provide weapons to a Spanish pickle.

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ID's
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere." ~ Robert Heinlein

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Justice
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Justice is incidental to law and order." ~ J. Edgar Hoover

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IEEE newsletter on Security & Privacy
by Avi Rubin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is to inform people who are interested of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy's newsletter, CIPHER. The URL for the online version can be found at http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ITD/5540/ieee/cipher/ There is also a text version of the newsletter mailed out to the mailing list about every two months. You can find subscription information as well as the current and back issues at the web site. Here is the table of contents of the April issue: ==================================================================== Newsletter of the IEEE Computer Society's TC on Security and Privacy Electronic Issue 27 April 27, 1998 Avi Rubin and Paul Syverson, Editors Bob Bruen, Book Review Editor Hilarie Orman, Assoc. Editor Mary Ellen Zurko, Assoc. Editor Anish Mathuria, Reader's Guide ==================================================================== http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ITD/5540/ieee/cipher/ Contents: [3354 lines total] o Letter from the TC Chair o Letter from the Editor Final Program and Registration Information for the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland California USA Preliminary Program of the 1998 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, Rockport Mass. USA Security and Privacy Survey by the IEEE Computer Society Security and Privacy News Briefs: o LISTWATCH: Items from security-related lists, by Mary Ellen Zurko o An Update from Asia, by Yongfei Han o Report on Canadian Crypto Policy Framework for Electronic Commerce, by Stewart Baker and Elizabeth Banker o More recent news on Canadian Crypto Policy Framework and other policy news o Denial of service attacks targeting Windows 95/NT machines o Employees buy ORA Canada Commentary and Opinion: Book Reviews o Web Security. A Step-by-step Reference Guide. by Lincoln Stein, reviewed by Bob Bruen Conference Reports: o Workshop on Education in Computer Security (WECS '98) by Cynthia Irvine o Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP `98) by Danielle Gallo o Financial Cryptography (FC`98) by Paul Syverson o NSA Network Security Framework Forum (NSFF) by Jeremy Epstein Assessment of security software New reports available via FTP and WWW: a couple New Interesting Links on the Web Who's Where: recent address changes Calls for Papers: HASE, ACSAC, IEEE Internet Computing, Software Practice & Experience, JCS, ACM RBAC Reader's guide to recent security and privacy literature o Conference Papers: Paper lists for FC, NDSS, and Info. Hiding o Journal and Newsletter articles: several Calendar List of Computer Security Academic Positions, maintained by Cynthia Irvine Publications for sale -- CSFW proceedings available TC officers Information for Subscribers and Contributors ********************************************************************* Aviel D. Rubin rubin(a)research.att.com Secure Systems Research Dept. Adjunct Professor at NYU AT&T Labs - Research 180 Park Avenue http://www.research.att.com/~rubin/ Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 Voice: +1 973 360-8356 USA FAX: +1 973 360-8809 --> Check out http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/websec/ for a new book on web security (The Web Security Sourcebook). *********************************************************************

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kid informers
by ddt＠lsd.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/aerial/index.html "Hi, kids! My name is Harry Recon, and this is my twin sister, Aerial. She's going to tell you about the History of the CIA in another section of the kid's page. We know some great books, too! Read all about it! My parents named me after President Harry Truman, who created the Central Intelligence Agency when he signed the National Security Act on Sept. 18, 1947. My family has always supported the Agency and its predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), roosting wherever it was camped and keeping an eye out in defense of our country, too. In 1961, when the Agency moved from downtown Washington, DC, to Langley, Virginia, we naturally followed. My dad says that we Recons have been in the intelligence operations business throughout US history: With Paul Revere on his midnight ride. With Virginia Hall as she arrived in France during World War II. Winging along side the U-2 as it took off to gather overhead pictures. Let Aerial tell you more about where we live and work and about our family history." http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/042398cia-kids.html "This is not an effort to recruit," a spokesman for the spy agency emphasizes. "This is an effort to inform in a fun way." I wonder what genius came up with this idea.

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Data Fellows Strikes a Major Deal
by Mia Westerholm 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Data Fellows Ltd. Media Release For immediate release 28 April 1998 DATA FELLOWS STRIKES A MAJOR DEAL A Prominent Scandinavian Telephone Operator Invests in Data Security Helsinki, Finland, April 28, 1998 -- Data Fellows, a leading provider of Internet security solutions, has made a deal with the largest private telephone company in Finland. Helsinki Telephone Corporation has bought F-Secure SSH to enhance the security of its Kolumbus Internet services over public networks. Kolumbus is one of the largest providers of commercial Internet services in Finland. "Data security is a highly important consideration for us," says Mr. Vesa Perttunen, Development Manager from Helsinki Telephone Corporation, Kolumbus Services. "We evaluated the data security products available on the market, and F-Secure SSH was the best we could find. We particularly appreciated the fact that the source code is available to us." Says Mr. Tatu Vehmas, Sales Manager, from Data Fellows: "F-Secure SSH leaves no room for security compromises. Furthermore, it is the only sensible tool for secure remote systems administration currently available on the market. We are pleased that Kolumbus Services has chosen our unique F-Secure SSH package." The F-Secure SSH Package F-Secure SSH products are based on the SSH security protocol. The SSH protocol is an application level protocol with strong public key authentication and 128-bit encryption. It guarantees the simultaneous authentication of both ends of the connection, the secrecy of the transmitted information, and the integrity of the transmitted data. F-Secure SSH Terminal provides the user with secure login connections over untrusted networks. It acts as a replacement for the telnet protocol. F-Secure SSH Terminal fully supports VT100 terminal emulation. F-Secure Tunnel creates a local proxy server for remote TCP/IP services. The service can be one of the Internet protocols, pop, smtp (used by e-mail software), http (used by Web browsers), etc., or almost any other TCP/IP based service. The local proxy server listens for a socket on the desired port and forwards the request and data over the secure channel. It then instructs the F-Secure SSH Server to make the connection to the specified service on the remote machine. In addition to secure terminal connections and TCP/IP connection forwarding, F-Secure SSH Server provides tools to replace existing rsh, rlogin, rdist, and telnet protocols. These tools enable administrators to carry out all remote systems administration tasks over secure connections. About Helsinki Telephone Corporation Helsinki Telephone Corporation is the largest local, private telephone company in Finland. It is one of the cornerstones of the Finnet Group, a consortium of 46 private local telephone companies. Helsinki Telephone Corporation has expertise in the entire range of telecom services, from the fixed network through data services to mobile telephony. Through the Finnet Group, Helsinki Telephone Corporation provides services throughout Finland. It has also extended its services abroad through co-operative agreements with leading international operators. More information about Helsinki Telephone Corporation can be found at: http://www.hpy.fi More information about Kolumbus Services can be found at: http://www.kolumbus.fi More information about Finnet can be found at: http://www.finnet.fi About Data Fellows Data Fellows is one of the worlds leading developers of data security products with offices in San Jose, California and Espoo, Finland. Its groundbreaking F-Secure product family is a unique combination of globally available, strong encryption and revolutionary anti-virus software. The integrated F-Secure product range provides a complete security solution for enterprises, and includes file encryption and IPSec communication encryption products, VPN gateways, SSH based secure remote management software, and a full range of anti-virus products to workstations, servers and gateways. Data Fellows is also the developer of the award winning F-PROT Professional anti-virus, now part of the dual scanning engine concept of F-Secure Anti-Virus. Data Fellows is privately owned. Since it was founded in 1988, its annual net growth of net sales has been over 80%. Data Fellows offers a worldwide network of technical support, training and distribution in over 70 countries. Data Fellows belongs to an elite group of companies that have a triple-A rating from Dun&Bradstreet. More information about Data Fellows and its products can be found at: http://www.DataFellows.com For further information, please contact: Data Fellows Ltd. Mr. Tatu Vehmas, Sales Manager Tel. +358 9 859 900, Fax. +358 9 8599 0599 E-Mail: Tatu.Vehmas(a)DataFellows.com €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€ Mia.Westerholm(a)DataFellows.com http://www.DataFellows.com Data Fellows Ltd. PL 24 FIN-02231 ESPOO, FINLAND Tel. +358 9 859 900 Fax. +358 9 8599 0599

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NASA 'educating' scientists to restrict free speech.
by Chris L. Kuszmaul 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, my name is Chris Kuszmaul. I am a contractor at NASA Ames research center. I feel it would be valuable for the general scientific community to be aware of some upcoming classes designed to educate scientists here regarding what they may and may not write on the internet, or any public forum. -------------------- begin excerpt -------------------- NASA has begun responding to recent new legislation and regulations regarding the export of information or material with potential use as a weapon of mass destruction or international business competitiveness advantage. All personnel creating information, equipment or material falling within this category are now responsible to control its transfer according to regulations. NASA has created an Export Control Administrator at each Center responsible to implement a program which provides for the review, classification and approval (or disapproval) of the export of material or information which may be subject to limitations. The Center has arranged for the outreach program offices of the U.S. Customs and the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA), U.S. Department of Commerce, to conduct a brief class on their Agency's regulatory requirements in partial fulfilment of this required training. Everyone is welcome to attend, but this is a mandatory briefing for researchers, engineers and equipment developers. This session will deal with the enforcement of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), issues of the Commerce Control List (CCL), and Export Classification Control Number (ECCN). This particular session covers the regulatory requirement for the authors of scientific, technical materials and software developers. Anyone who generates and develops such materials, or sends NASA commodities overseas must attend this session. These specifically include NRC, Ames Associates, grant recipients, students, IPA's, contractors, civil service employees and all others who publish on behalf of NASA. The EAR, CCL, ECCN are important in completing block III of the Document Availability Authorization (DAA)(Form 1676). Each session will be approximately 15-20 minutes. A question and answer session will follow after the talk. The dates, time, and location are indicated below. Attendance at one session is sufficient to fulfill the regulatory requirements. Dates Time Location May 7, 1998 10 am Bldg. 213, Rm 261 .... --------------------------------------- As the text above says, everybody is welcome to attend. CLK

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Re: NASA 'educating' scientists to restrict free speech.
by x 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thank you - chilling. Anyone have specifics on the "legislation"? and regulations, especially concerning "potential use as a weapon of ... international business advantage?" At 08:15 AM 4/28/98 -0700, Chris L. Kuszmaul wrote: > > > Hi, my name is Chris Kuszmaul. I am a contractor at NASA >Ames research center. I feel it would be valuable for the general >scientific community to be aware of some upcoming classes >designed to educate scientists here regarding what they may and >may not write on the internet, or any public forum. >-------------------- begin excerpt -------------------- >NASA has begun responding to recent new legislation and regulations >regarding the export of information or material with potential use as a >weapon of mass destruction or international business competitiveness >advantage. All personnel creating information, equipment or material >falling within this category are now responsible to control its transfer > >

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Quantum Snooping
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New York Times' Markoff reports today on the latest in quantum computing, some of which was discussed here recently. Two points of note: IBM recently made a "snapshot" of the entire worldwide Web, eight trillion bytes of data, for an experimental database for searching and unnamed other manipulation by its quantum computers. Searching the database for a word by conventional computers would take a month, while quantum devices could do it in 27 minutes, a Beamer says. NSA is funding quantum computing at Los Alamos specifically for cryptographic investigation, "because QC could have a profound effect on modern cryptography." Others forms of warp speed snooping are discussed as well. --------- Restricted: "Snow Crash" is featured in a hot-selling book on the thought of the American Left, "Achieving Our Country," by philosopher Richard Rorty. The book is swell reading on the state of US thought, culture and politics whatever your disagreeable attitude. It's smallish, but for those completely broke and open to copyleft, grab it before IBM kicks it offshore: http://jya.com/161.htm (238K) http://jya.com/161.zip (89K)

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hacking smartcards
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, http://cuba.xs4all.nl/~hip/ nice info, ideas, and website. Regards, Ken Williams ORG: NC State Computer Science Dept VP of The E.H.A.P. Corp. EML: jkwilli2(a)adm.csc.ncsu.edu ehap(a)hackers.com WWW: http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman/ http://www.hackers.com/ehap/ PGP: finger tattooman(a)152.7.11.38

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Re: Gary Lee Burnore and His Anti-Privacy Zealots are on the Warpath!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

William J. McClatchie <wotan(a)databasix.com> wrote: > >Anti-privacy kooks like you and DataBasix CEO Gary Lee Burnore are one of > >the best arguments for the existence of anonymous remailers. You and your > >friends at DataBasix have a hard time bullying and harassing people into > >silence that you can't identify, don't you? > > And assholes like yourself are the best argument for *banning* remailers. > They serve a purpose. Unfortunately, to meet the purpose means that > assholes are also given access to the service. Your own record of harassing remailers is well known, McClatchie. Calling remailer users "assholes" and calling for content-based censorship only underscores your anti-privacy agenda. If remailer users posted only what was popular and politically correct, there would be little need for remailers. One remailer operator who was forced to shut it down mentioned your name quite prominently, BTW, in providing details about the attack. > It was someone using a remailer to harass Wells Fargo management. Can you document this? I never read a single post from anyone claiming to speak for Wells Fargo management which has substantiated this. Nor did any of the remailer operaters involved mention having received such an official complaint from member of Wells Fargo's management. So all we have is you parroting Burnore's original unsubstantiated allegations. Isn't it interesting that when something offends Gary Burnore he often resorts to "defending" phantom victims of the alleged "abuse"? And shortly thereafter, various of his sock puppets echo his whining chant. > It was someone using a remailer who has spambaited several hundred > email addresses. And one such post contained Gary Burnore's own .sig block still appended to an otherwise anonymous post. Oops! > It was someone using a remailer who wants to know if Gary Burnore's > current employer knows of his background. And if not, how could they > be contacted. > > It was someone using a remailer who posted, in direct violation of NC law > information in its registry for the sole purpose of harrassing someone. Please cite the NC law which you claim is being violated, and how it would apply to a remailer located outside of NC? Would you also say that remailers ought to censor their content to avoid other laws being broken, such as insulting the religion of Islam, publishing information about birth control, abortion, etc.? If not, why should a foreign remailer selectively enforce this one law in NC (if it even exists)? Telling people that the website exists and that a search for "Gary Lee Burnore" on it might yield a match is not more "harassing" than the site itself. If they didn't want people to access this data, why publish it on a public website? The whole purpose of the website it apparently to let people to know who the registered sex offenders are in NC and where they live. If someone snail mailed you something you considered "harassing" and included no return address, would you accuse the sender of trying to get the postal service shut down? Wow, McClatchie. I guess you have a point. If you and Gary claim that all that happened, and that it was done by someone outside of DataBasix, then I guess we should believe it and shut down all the remailers just to make sure they aren't abused... But the fact is that all too often in the past, designer "abuse" would just automagically appear at critical times when Gary Burnore and Belinda Bryan were making demands (privately, via e-mail) on another remailer operator. How would someone outside of DataBasix have known that? How would someone other than a DataBasix insider have gotten access to the complete list of DataBasix' clients and employees in order to allegedly "spam bait" them, as Belinda claimed? Your own involvement in all of these attacks seems to more than just coincidental. Speaking of abuse and harassment, Gary Burnore demanded that Jeff Burchell turn over to him all of his remailer logs containing the e-mail addresses of everyone who had either sent or received anonymous e-mail through the server. Yet Gary refuses to disclose how such a list would have been used. Fortunately for the remailer user community, no such data was ever collected. > >Lest anyone forget, Gary launched his first tirade against anonymity when > >someone tipped off his molestation victim's mother and school officials > >anonymously. > > No, one of his first complaints about remailers was after someone used one > to harass his SO of the time, and her daughter. They had committed the > heinious crime of knowing Gary. Most women would not consider it "harassment" to be informed that their daughters were being molested. Nor did she complain. Gary did! How nice of the perpetrator to be so considerate of his victim's mother and not want to have her "harassed" by knowledge of what Gary was doing to her daughter. Ignorance is bliss, huh? Gary's motives were finally revealed when he was CONVICTED for that very crime. How would a random harasser have even known of Gary's sexual activities involving minors, before he was arrested and convicted? How would he/she know the victim's gender, age, identity, and city of residence? > >Whistleblowing has always been one of the important functions > >of anonymous remailers. > > Uh huh. And we've seen real "whistleblowing" activity here. Apparently so, when the perpetrator of the crime is the only one who complains about being exposed. In case it has escaped your attention, Gary complained PUBLICLY about a PRIVATE e-mail message to his victim's mother. If telling a mother that her daughter is being molested isn't whistleblowing, what is? > Seen plenty > of abuse. Seen postings of such a vile nature from remailers that when > people made similar postings from traceable accounts, their ISP's > terminated them. And it was not becuase of content - but becuase the > messages were harassing, in both nature and intent. TRANSLATION: Anything with which the fine folks at DataBasix disagree tends to be called "harassment" and "abuse". As for intent, the accuser has the burden of proof, there. But consider this: if even mentioning Gary's sexual activities with minors is "vile", what does that make Gary for actually committing them?

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Your Opinion Matters...
by Eat Shit 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think I should walk into a Luby's Cafeteria and start blowing people away at random, for no good reason. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should go down to a local school and start randomly slaughtering the children. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should monitor the electronic communications of every person on the face of the earth, in order to protect them from themselves. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT I think I should attempt being elected the leader of the most influential country in the free world, by kissing the asses of the money and power mongers. ~ If you agree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT ~ If you disagree, vote by dialing 1-800-EAT-SHIT NOTE: If you don't have a phone, you become a guest on a TV talk show where I am appearing, and cheer or boo me, according to your wishes. Remember: Your opinion matters...NOT! EatShitMonger

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Wiretap Docs
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association suit against the FBI over disputed wiretap requirements of CALEA: http://jya.com/ctia-fbi.htm (19K) The FBI's definition of "upgrade" and "modification" for CALEA wiretap requirements, Federal Register, April 28, 1998: http://jya.com/fbi042898.txt (60K)

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ECHELON 1988
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan Campbell has provided his 1988 article on the NSA ECHELON global surveillance system, one of the earliest accounts: http://jya.com/echelon-dc.htm Duncan, who was hounded in court for years by the UK gov for allegedly revealing official secrets, provided substantial support to James Bamford for "The Puzzle Palace." He was interviewed about ECHELON on French TV yesterday. See his most informative Web site for investigative reporting: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan

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Lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks
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17 Dec '03

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Why does the Navy research onion routing?
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why does the Navy research onion routing? Only reason I can think of is so that .mil can study other sites anonymously, or communicate amongst themselves using anonymous-routing-tech to avoid traffic analysis. The other practical possibility is that they're happy to have smart CS people and will fund whatever they want to do, just to keep them. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I actually thought Silicon Valley was where women went to get fixed." ---LA Mayor Richard Riordan 98.02.19

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FBI scans public-access terminal used by Lewinsky
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone remember PROMIS? http://www.drudgereport.com/1.htm#1 excerpt: FBI agents working the Starr probe zeroed in on PARCEL PLUS in early February, it has been learned. Agents conducted interviews and spent hours with the store's computer. "They were digging around in the computer's guts," a store source explains, "below DOS." STARR's team interviewed the store's owner and two other employees -- with one employee taking a trip down to Starr's office for questioning. Investigators have left nothing to chance: subpoenaing detailed information from PARCEL PLUS' local Internet provider and digging up all of the store's phone records via BELL ATLANTIC. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I actually thought Silicon Valley was where women went to get fixed." ---LA Mayor Richard Riordan 98.02.19

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Toto 2 - Tim May 0
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vancouver, British Columbia: Criminalization of Insanity: Turn a mental hospital with 6,000 patients into a mental hospital with 500 patients. Criminalization of Poverty: Make panhandling a crime, subject to a $2,000.00 fine. [I won! I won!!!] Toto

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Army, Navy and Alt2600 Farce
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

## Anon-To: Pretty Lousy Privacy <plp(a)dev.null> :: Subject: POP Secret Communication / Boil in oil after Reading!!! COMING IN ON A WING AND DISPAIR (29 April 1998) Pilots are leaving the Air Force like fleas jumping off a dead dog. If this exodus in blue doesnt stop, there wont be anyone left to fly the existing megabuck fleet of aircraft or the trillion dollar fleet of space-age new fighters the Air Force wants for the 21st century. Without pilots its going to be even harder to justify all these costly new silver bullets when a congressperson or two without bases or flying machine plants back home comes asking, "Who needs these suckers when missiles, robots, bugs and germs, and 16-year-old hackers will be the weapons of the future?" http://www.hackworth.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "That wasn't hacking, cracking and phreaking...that was 'unauthorized military training'!" ~ Lou Tenant, Graham (Cracker) Johnny (DuneWadd) Buller (Shit) AttackAdamMe of Computron Seances and Waste Drugsposal

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The Epilogue That Never Was - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Epilogue That Never Was - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! ________________________________________________________ Memoirs of a Visible Man: When you are 'different' from others--inherently, irrevocably, unarguably different--you either learn to remain, as much as possible, invisible, or you spend much of your life in various sorts of prisons, subject to various kinds of punishments. There have always been a few 'safe havens' for those guilty of the crime of being different from those around them, although, for the most part, they have historically tended to be 'dangerous' safe havens such as pirate or merchant ships, new world colonies, fringe religious or political movements. Those with wits, who didn't mind joining the ranks of the lower fringes of society, in return for ostensibly remaining within it, could become court jesters, actors, artists, and the like. With the advent of the Age of Electonics and the rise of Virtual Reality, those who are able to remain within society's outer boundaries by comically or entertainingly mirroring the parts of the human psyche and human emotions that society requires its 'regular' members to repress have become elite, well-paid artisians who are recognized as valuable professionals in the Age of Form Over Substance. For those in the lower strata of society who are unable to successfully graduate from Society's Finishing School--usually as a result of answering "Fuck You, Shit For Brains" to questions where a "Yes Sir/Officer/YourHonor" answer is required--there are no longer many physical locations available where one can escape to , which results in the creation of an increasing number of them being labeled 'criminals' and banished to New World Order colonies consisting of six-foot cabins bounded by iron bars. Those in the higher strata of society who are unable or unwilling to live within the boundaries society requires of the masses often have the option of joining an elite group of criminal-actors who have sufficient firepower at their command to bully the others in society into recognizing their authority to disobey all of society's rules and act in their own self-interest while denying they are doing so by telling blatant and outrageous lies. (Those with a particular talent in this area sometimes reach the epitome of politics, in which the masses consider them to be every bit as 'real' as the 'people' on 'As The World Turns.' They are then free to do everything that Soap Opera actors do, with equal impunity from facing the real-life consequences that come from manslaughter, rape, robbery, marriage and drug-addiction--although they are still subject to the laws of physics when playing ski-football.) In the Glory Days of Virtual Reality, before the ElectroMagnetic Curtain began descending around those lured away from InterNet Free Terra and into the Sticky World Wide Web of the InfoMercial Highway Robbers, there were a few true Rennaisance Criminal Genius Elite who recognized that they could settle down from a life on the run--in small prairie towns such as Bienfait, Saskatchewan--and still live wild and free, riding the Virtual Outlaw Trail through the Alt2600 BadLands, robbing DataBanks, engaging in drunken brawls in the CypherPunks CryptoSaloon, partying with Bound and Gagged Asian DanceHall UnderAge Girls being pimped by Adult Check, and having the rugged good looks of Robert Redford, in an ASCII Art kind of way. Once the Information Railway began being replaced by the Information Highway as a comfortable, convenient way for the masses to journey into what were formerly remote Electronic Wilderness Areas, the outlaws and free-stinkers who had formerly been able to remain, for the most part, invisible to the programmed masses, yearning to keep other minds from being free, found themselves subject to the scrutiny of those who recognized that free-range cattle and penned sheep could not peacefully coexist in a merchant society where corporate mergers to create Company Towns, with Company Stores, would be jeopardized by small-time rustlers and fence-cutters. Thus there arose a need for ElectroMagnetic Law and Order, supported by the muddled assholes, struggling to be Freeh. The Lost Train of Thought (Part I): ...uuuhhhhh... The Runaway Train of Thought Is Melted Down To Build The WhatIf Server: WhatIf: A ClueLess Canuck, turned into a MindBot by the Institute of Applied Metaphysics in preparation for the Moscow Olympics, was culled from a Russian language class full of Canadian Mounties at the University of Regina by a Dark Continent TigerTeam agent and trained in Psychic Warfare? WhatIf: A DoubleShinned Agent trained at the Psycho War Fair travelled to Africa with a Nuclear Physicist who was the youngest President at Oberlin College, and met with his TigerTeam controllers in a bar full of sailors from the U.S.S. Enterprise in the heart of Mombassa, as other members of his travelling group were engaged in a 'tour' of a US Navy ship? WhatIf: A ClassLess Canuck highly trained in the Lack of Social Skills travelled to East Germany and Poland shortly after the Fall of the Wall, y'all, crossing the Polish border illegally to meet with members of the Little Nicky Telsa Fan Club at the same time that the ShakeSpearAtIan NukeKingLear PharmAssist (who got glowing reviews for the Polish translation of his work) was in Moscow, paying pipers and pimps to play the tunes called by his Muppet Pastors for the NuclearPowered Dancing Bears? Qu'est Que C'est: A Psychic Killer To Be Named Later was apprehended fleeing Poland, but walked away a free MindBot before the InTerraGators arrived, after paying a seventy Mark Antony Fine to a 'confused' Polish border guard, and was then intercepted upon his arrival back in the United States by US Customs agents instructed to hold him for interrogation regarding his US passport with a Polish exit stamp, but no Polish visa or entrance stamp, and then slipped away after the 'confused' agents merely confiscated his Black Forest Ham and released him, whereupon he quickly slipped off to a different airport to take a small plane to Nantucket to meet a female agent of the Holy Roman Empire instructed to arrange for his transfer to a private yacht bound for a private compound of Nazi BusinessWar Criminals on a nearby island famous for their Celebrity Midnight Marathon Swim and Drunken Driving and Diving Festival? WhatIf: A Dangerously Drunken Psychotic PissAnt Drug-Addicted Dumb-Ass Shit-Disturber To Be Maimed Later concocted some wild, unbelievable story to fuck with the mimes of the MimeFuckers, but all the details of his mad ramblings were already a verifiably true part of the SecretGuys' SecretGuyFiles, and even a cursory investigation would reveal even more conspiratorial concepts concerning his connection to a Forth Freudian Sufi Sect dedicated to Anti-NukeUnclear Publishing of Libertarian Mathematical GreenPeace OverGround GoreVillain Manuals designed to apply Laws of Form to a ChaosKult attack on the Fourth JavaCup Active-X-Files Implementation of A Disturbed CraptoLogical LISP MamboErs' Secret Agenda to Subvert Authority by making the Ship of Goverment list so far to the left that the Titanic balls of the Hermerphodite Aunt E. Christ are cut off as she slides over the rail, into the sea, emerging from the depths as Anne R. Christ who is Lucky enough to surface in time to hitch a ride on the Millenium Bug just before the Reptilian Nazi GermanAmericans circle the VolksWagons in a Two-Byte Double Donut formation to prepare for the attack of Naieve Americans with Wounded Knees whose Peyote Dreams predict that an Elvis whose Aim Is True will use Broken Arrows to cut off the Forked Tongues of the Serpentine Servants of Satan living in secret underground bunkers beneath both the AdamAntArctic and Mule Shoe, Texas, in the Land of the Freeh? WhatIf: Incompetent Secret Agents To Be Framed Later gave up on purporting to properly protect National Security <flags digitally wave> <Matt's trumpets Blaze FORTH> in order to fail in their efforts to find a single innocent child to save from drugs dealers at the PROM, and, in their frustration at not being able to find the <ANY> Key which will connect them to the ClueServer, hit the <DELETE> key instead, erasing the cleverly crafted composition of the Author, admitting an astounding array of in-depth illegal involvement in countless consciously conspiratorial causes aimed at the overthrow of OverLords oppressing opponents of Fucking FreehDumb Privacy Pirates purloining the Leftist Constitutional Rights of silly, sufficiently subdued SheepIzens subverting their own Freedom, Liberty and Privacy, as well as their right to Free Rum, the USS Liberty and Piracy? WhatIf: You slapped yourself on the forehead, mystified as to how the Author managed to once again sucker you into reading the mindless trash that is placed inside his skull by psychic garbage-pickers who step on his foot, lifting his toupee, and toss in the leftover thoughts that were pruned from the minds of the vegetables planted in the Home For The Criminally Insane too early in the year to avoid being cold-cocked by the FrostBack of Notre Dame, initiated in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, into a Circle of Eunuchs Chapter of Eternity Cult known as the Hockey Hounds of Hell On Ice? WhatIf: Jesus Saves, but Gretsky puts in the rebounds? (c) 1999.9, ADualist Huxter (Part IV of 'The Whores Of Deception')

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Welcome to The New York Times on the Web
by verify＠nytimes.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: DNA = puppet masters?
by Illuminatus Primus 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I read an interesting short sci fi story that suggested that the interactions of DNA represented the language of a higher organism; that humans and other DNA-based life forms were merely the carriers. On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Frederick Burroughs wrote: > > > Dan Veeneman wrote: > > > For real paranoia fodder, check out the burgeoning biometrics field. > > As the recent news regarding the Vietnam era Unknown Soldier at Arlington > National Cemetery illustrates, biometrics will increasingly define who we > are. Accomplishments and monuments will fall to bits. The bits of you extend > before your birth and after your death, you are but a placeholder for a > mitochondrial dna profile. > > Will this resolution of organisms to digits open us to exploitation and limit > our access to opportunities? What demon is forcing this template upon our > very being? > >

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Netcenter News - Volume 6 - April 1998
by netcenter-news＠netscape.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Title: Netscape Netcenter News - April 1998 Welcome to Netcenter Netcenter is dedicated to the proposition that you should be able to find everything you need online in one place. This newsletter is one of the free benefits you receive when registering with a Netcenter program. Each month we'll link to a survey for Netcenter members. Check back the following month to see the results. This month's survey is Attention Small-Business Users. Netcenter will be launching a small-business site for you. Tell us what you'd like to see there. Is the travel agent industry becoming extinct? Are the best bargains on the Net? The next Professional Connections Event Series features interviews with experts in the exploding field of online travel. Visit Professional Connections, and join the discussion. Do you still experience the web in two dimensions? Download the free Netscape Communicator 4.05 with the Cosmo Player plug-in for a new 3D experience. We've found a utility at Netscape Software Depot by software.net, for a special price, that lets you view hundreds of file types in Netscape Navigator! Inso's Quick View Plus has won awards from PC Computing and PC Magazine. Download your copy today! This issue of Netcenter News is brought to you by In-Box Direct. NETCENTER'S BUSINESS JOURNAL BY NEWSEDGE: INTELLIGENCE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS No time to visit all the business-related sites that help you get your job done? Let Netcenter's Business Journal by NewsEdge do the surfing for you. Business Journal features the best, most relevant news and business information from the most trusted and authoritative publications in the world. Choose from over 2500 topics covering 20 different industries. Such a broad variety of topics and categories allows for incredible granularity in the information you receive. When you register for Business Journal, you can automatically create a personalized My News page that delivers the news that matters most to you. Your news comes to you fast and is updated throughout the day, which means that you're more likely to get that one critical piece of data in time to solve a problem, beat a competitor, or make you a bundle. Business Journal gives you news and business information the way you think, work, and conduct business. It's powerful. Spend ten minutes a day with us, and imagine what you can accomplish with this kind of intelligence at your fingertips. Business Journal is your one-stop knowledge management tool. Have you seen In-Box Direct's Personal Finance section? While you're there, sharpen your investment skills with a free subscription to such publications as Armchair Millionaire News, CBS MarketWatch NewsWatch, and CNNfn Market Briefing. Talk about the latest web trends in Professional Connections, Netcenter's online discussion forums. Then stop by Member Directory to reach other professionals with interests similar to yours. Special offer from Music Boulevard: Save $5 on your next order. Whether you're into rock, jazz, classical, or rap, it's on sale for you now at Music Boulevard. Netscape respects your online time and Internet privacy. If you would prefer not to receive future issues, click here to send an unsubscribe email or reply to this message with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Copyright © 1998. Netscape Communications Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Ajtai Lattice Patent
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

30 April 1998, Micropatent: Cryptosystem employing worst-case difficult-to solve lattice problem (Assignee -- International Business Machines Corporation) Abstract: A cryptosystem and cryptographic method are provided for performing tasks such as encoding/decoding, signing messages, and verifying identity. The system and method employ a problem which is difficult to solve in the worst case. Because of the worst-case nature of the problem employed, a system and method according to the invention has advantageous level of security, In a class of preferred embodiments, the difficult problem is one of the recognized difficult problems associated with the mathematical theory of lattices. These problems include finding short vectors and sets of basis vectors from a lattice. Cryptographic protocols are performed, using these problems. Ex Claim Text: A cryptographic communications system A comprising: a communications channel; means for generating a public key and a corresponding private key based on an instance of a problem, the problem being difficult to solve in the worst case, the instance of the problem being difficult to solve, commensurate with the difficulty of the worst-case solution of the problem; and means for performing a cryptographic communication protocol, employing the public and private keys generated by the means for generating, with another cryptographic communications system B over the communications channel. Patent Number: 5737425 Issue Date: 1998 04 07 Inventor(s): Ajtai, Miklos If you would like to purchase a copy of this patent, please call MicroPatent at 800-648-6787.

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Bad, bad, bill
by Corvus Corvax 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NYT this morning reports the that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act was adopted by the Senate Judiciary Committee: "WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday adopted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which takes a new step toward protecting creative content in cyberspace by outlawing the equipment used to commit a copyright infringement, not just the act or intent of illegally copying material. ... Most visibly absent was any exemption for devices used in encryption research, an issue Senate leaders said they hope to work out before the bill goes to the floor. " There's been a good deal of discussion of this issue around here, to be sure. But I think maybe it bears repeating that even with some kind of narrow exemption for "encryption research", this bill is conveniently poised to be used not only against Evil Copyright Infringers, but also against the kind of troublemakers that expose, for instance, the deliberate weakening of GSM authentication. Gawd. What bullshit. 571830573294323629934765012348436263285853260687657402192238 Corvus Corvax 324908584730535672342307543875016719214012473014020239437239 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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US legal system
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 5/1/98 10:02 AM Yaman Akdeniz The US court system has largely deteriorated to become part of the US Federal bureaucracy [aka Big Brother ... or probably more accurate, the Great Satan http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm and http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html] 1 Judges and court clerks try to do what they want whether it conflicts with law or not. 2 Lawyers and the US court system attempt to make it appear that there IS NO LEGAL REMEDY POSSIBLE without hiring a lawyer. And the client will most likely lose both money and the case. Morales and I [http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm] are trying to change 1 and 2. Later bill Wednesday 4/1/98 11:02 AM Certified Return receipt requested Proctor Hug Jr Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit 50 West Liberty Street Reno, NV 89501-1948 (702) 784-5631 784-5166 fax Dear judge Hug: Purposes of this letter-affidavit are to file criminal complaint affidavits against 1 judge Marilyn Hall Patel for not properly processing a criminal violation of the Privacy Act, 2 former Ninth Circuit chief judge J Clifford Wallace for not properly processing criminal complaint affidavits for a felony perjury violation by Sandia National Laboratories lawyer Gregory Cone, b judge Fern Smith for not properly processing a felony perjury violation by Sandia National Laboratories lawyer Gregory Cone. c Albuquerque FBI special agent in charge Thomas Kneir for sending FBI agents Kohl and Schum to my home in an attempt to intimidate me from exercising my civil rights. d Margret D. Thomas, Judicial Assistant to the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, for not forwarding a valid criminal complaint affidavit regarding a criminal violation of the Privacy Act to Patel. Brief history would be valuable for your understanding of this matter. Sandia has long been involved with the security of America's nuclear arsenal. As they announce on their website: "We are funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy to design all the non-nuclear opponents of the nation's nuclear weapons" http://www.sandia.gov/">http://www.sandia.gov/</a>). This includes the cryptographic locks used to secure the nukes. NSA supplies the algorithms and implementation guidelines to Sandia. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/nukearse.htm In about 1982 I became project leader of the Missile Secure Cryptographic Unit [MSCU]. The MSCU was funded by the National Security Agency [NSA]. As a result of my about 4 year work with NSA, I was given access to its cryptographic algorithms by one document and many electronic schematics. I wrote a book ISBN: 0125475705 Title: Embedded Controller Forth For The 8051 Family Author: Payne Cover: Hardback/Cloth Imprint: Academic Press Published: September 1990 http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 about the software technology we used for the MSCU. In 1986 I transferred to build the data authenticator for the Department of Energy's Deployable Seismic Verification System [DSVS]for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [CTBT]. NSA liaison for the DSVS/CTBT project offered information to me that NSA regarded former president Reagan as one of the US's foremost traitors for the reason First, U.S. President Ronald Reagan informed the world on national television that the United States was reading Libyan communications. This admission was part of a speech justifying the retaliatory bombing of Libya for its alleged involvement in the La Belle discotheque bombing in Berlin's Schoeneberg district, where two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman were killed, and 200 others injured. Reagan wasn't talking about American monitoring of Libyan news broadcasts. Rather, his "direct, precise, and undeniable proof" referred to secret (encrypted) diplomatic communication between Tripoli and the Libyan embassy in East Berlin. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm which is further explained at http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html It may be the greatest intelligence scam of the century: For decades, the US has routinely intercepted and deciphered top secret encrypted messages of 120 countries. In early 1992 a Sandia labs director decided that he and his subordinates were going to enter the data authentication business. The director transferred me to break electronic locks for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This work was funded by the FBI/Engineering Research Facility [FBI/ERF], Quantico, VA. I ordered about $200,000 of the FBI/ERF's money buying two copies of electronic locks. One lock I ordered was the Hirsch Scramblepad electronic lock. In about 1991 I was following progress of lawsuits in the district of Northern California, The first two cases to directly address the issue of intermediate copying both originated in California's Northern District Court. They are Atari v. Nintendo and Sega v. Accolade. In both cases, the district court found that intermediate copying was NOT fair use. [The New Use of Fair Use: Accessing Copyrighted Programs Through Reverse Engineering, Stephen B. Maebius, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, June 1993, 75, n6, p433] Judge Fern Smith presided in both cases. Reason I was following Atari v Nintendo was that I my Forth book I have two chapters on reverse engineering software. One chapter contains a computer program which copied a ROM BIOS to diskette. Smith's decisions made my intermediate copying program illegal. In a strong opinion she [Fern Smith] wrote in March 1991, when granting Nintendo's request for a preliminary injunction against Atari, she lambasted Atari's lawyers for thievery. I was given the job assignment to copy the ROMs of Hirsch's 8051-based Scramblepad electronic lock to reverse engineer them to hopefully allow me to modify the locks for allow surreptitious entry. I refused to engage in illegal activity for the FBI. The termination letter seen at http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm states This is to advise you that effective July 27, 1992, you will be terminated from Sandia National Laboratories. This action is the results of your flagrant attack on a valued Sandia customer and repeated insensitivity to security/classification requirement. These acts violate Sandia National Laboratories Code of Conduct, specifically the Personal Conduct section,, and the Safeguarding Information and Records Section. ... for my whistleblowing SAND report on the National Security Agency's deficient work and refusing to mark classified on a report I and Danny Drummond wrote on how to fake Wiegand Wire access entry credentials for the FBI. Both I and my EEOC complaint officer Ray Armenta were never able to determine exactly why I was fired. However March 22, 1997 I received copies of the enclosed 1 April 15, 1994 letter to EEOC director Charles Burtner from Sandia Diversity Leadership director Michael G. Robles. 2 July 27, 1997 Termination of Employment memorandum containing my signature. 3 DISCIPLINARY REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES, July 16, 1992. 4 DISCIPLINARY REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES, July 6, 1989. 5 September 6, 1995 letter from EEOC Investigator Larry J. Trujillo to Richard Gallegos. from Sandian Richard Gallegos. Sandia lawyer Harold Folley previously stated that no documents existed. The Privacy Act states (d) Access to Records.--Each agency that maintains a system of records shall-- (1) upon request by any individual to gain access to his record or to any information pertaining to him which is contained in the system, permit him and upon his request, a person of his own choosing to accompany him, to review the record and have a copy made of all or any portion thereof in a form comprehensible to him, except that the agency may require the individual to furnish a written statement authorizing discussion of that individual's record in the accompanying person's presence; The Sandia Disciplinary Review Committee NEVER interviewed me to check the veracity of their statements. The Privacy Act states (2) permit the individual to request amendment of a record pertaining to him and-- The statements in the SDRC are incorrect. I followed all Sandia procedures known to me. I did nothing wrong. I had no opportunity to defend myself. My rights guaranteed under the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Article XIV. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. have been violated. C My permission was never asked to release these records to Gallegos. As you may realize about the Privacy Act (b) Conditions of Disclosure.--No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains ... The Privacy Act allows imposition of criminal penalties for those like members of the SDRC, Robles, Burtner, and Trujillo who (i)(1) Criminal Penalties.--Any officer or employee of an agency, who by virtue of his employment or official position, has possession of, or access to, agency records which contain individually identifiable information the disclosure of which is prohibited by this section or by rules or regulations established thereunder, and who knowing that disclosure of the specific material is so prohibited, willfully discloses the material in any manner to any person or agency not entitled to receive it, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $5,000. (2) Any officer or employee of any agency who willfully maintains a system of records without meeting the notice requirements of subsection (e)(4) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $5,000. I forward criminal complaint affidavits on the above individuals to selected magistrate judge Marilyn Hall Patel. Patel ignored my complaints. I return to the subject of breaking electronic locks for the FBI/ERF. Smith's two decisions were overturned on appeal. However, both cases have been overruled on appeal. In the ground-breaking Atari decision, the Federal Circuit held that intermediate copying was a fair use. The Sega decision, which was appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, similarly overruled the district court and held that intermediate copying may be fair use. Sandia patents and trademark lawyer Gregory A. Cone in the enclosed affidavit for a ADEA lawsuit I filed in the District of New Mexico stated AFFIDAVIT OF GREGORY A. CONE Gregory A. Cone, being duly sworn, deposes and states: 1. I am employed by Sandia Corporation. I am an attorney admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office and concentrate on legal issues related to patent and copyright law. In that capacity, I am familiar with activities at the Sandia National Laboratories ("Sandia") as they related to what is sometimes referred to as "reverse engineering ." ... [I]t is the general view at Sandia that disassembly of "object code" under such circumstances constitutes a "fair use" of copyrighted software under 17 U.S.C. article 107 and is thus permissible. Sandia bases its view on Sega Enterprises v. Accolade, Inc. 977 F.2d 1510, 24 U.S.P. Q. 2d 1561 (9th Cir. 1992), amended, 1993 U. S. App. LEXIS 78, and Atari Games Corp v. Nintendo of America, Inc, 975 F.2d 832 (Fed. Cir. 1992). ... FURTHER, Affidavit sayeth naught. (signed) GREGORY A. CONE SUBSCRIBED, SWORN TO and ACKNOWLEDGED before me on this 12th day of August, 1993, by Gregory A. Cone." (signed) Mary A. Resnick Notary Public My Commission Expires: 2-7-94 Cone has the two citations reversed. The U. S. Patent Quarterly references the Atari v Nintendo lawsuit 1510 should be corrected to 1015. Cone issued the above affidavit to District of New Mexico federal court in attempt to show that I had no legal reason to refuse to reverse engineer the Hirsch Scramblepad electronic lock. I was covered under 10 C.F.R. 708 - DOE CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEE PROTECTION PROGRAM for my refusal to reverse engineer the Hirsch Scramblepad code. 708.1 Purpose, This part establishes procedures for timely and effective processing of complaints by employees of contractors performing work at sites owned or leased by the Department of Energy (DOE), concerning alleged discriminatory actions taken by their employers in retaliation for the disclosure of information relative to health and safety, mismanagement, and other matters as provided in 708.5(a), for participation in proceeding before Congress, or for the refusal to engage in illegal or dangerous activities." ... Cone's affidavit attempts to create the appearance that reverse engineering was legal before July 27, 1992, the date of my firing. Title 18, Chapter 79, Article 1623 felony perjury. Article 1623 - False declarations before grand jury or court (a) Whoever under oath (or in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under section 1746 of title 28, United States Code) in any proceeding before or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States knowingly make any false material declaration or makes or uses any other information, including any book, paper, document, record, recording, or other material, knowing the same to contain any false material declaration, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Decision of the Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America appeal cited at page 1016 from 24 USPQ 2d was Decided SEPTEMBER 10, 1992. I was fired JULY 27, 1992 so my work assignment was illegal at the time I refused. Therefore, Cone committed felony perjury IN WRITING filed with New Mexico District Federal Court. Chronological review of criminal complaint affidavits would be valuable before I present the current criminal complaint affidavits. 1 Monday March 11, 1996 10:05 I wrote judge Fern Smith a certified return receipt requested letter to ask her to either arrange or personally indict Sandia lawyer Cone for felony perjury. Smith did not respond. 2 Friday May 31, 1996 08:58 I write the criminal complaint affidavit for the arrest of Sandia lawyer Cone and appoint judge Fern Smith as magistrate. 3 Thursday June 13 on orders of Smith and Albuquerque FBI special agent in charge Thomas Kneir FBI agents Kohl and Schum visited my home at 17:08 to investigate me for sending letters referenced in 1 and 2 to Smith. 4 In response to 3 on Tuesday July 9, 1996 06:52 I filed criminal complaint affidavit against Cone, again, for felony perjury with J. Clifford Wallace, chief judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Smith for § 4. Misprision of felony Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. for Smith's failure to properly process Cone's felony perjury and § 241. Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; ... for sending, with Knier, FBI agents Kohl and Schum to my home in an attempt to intimidate me. Knier for Conspiracy against rights for his complicity with Smith. 5 Monday July 15, 1996 06:23 I write Wallace again inquiring why he has not responded. 6 August 15, 1996 Thursday Ms. Corina Orozco, Deputy Clerk, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals writes me to tell me In the future, all correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Court. Do not address any correspondence to any one specific judge of this court. 7 September 12, 1996 06:20 I inform Orozco by letter that she is obstructing justice. I ask Orozco to desist. 8 July 25, 1996 Senior Case Expeditor [sic], Gwen Baptiste from the Office of the Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for The Ninth Circuit, writes Re: Complaint of Judicial Misconduct We have received your complaint of judicial misconduct. Pursuant to the Rules of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit Governing Complaints of Judicial Misconduct or Disability, you complaint is being returned to you for compliance with the above rules. A copy of these rules is enclosed. To understand the purpose of the procedure and who may be complaint about please refer to Rules 1 and 2. 9 Wednesday September 18, 1996 11:05 by certified, return receipt requested mail I write Wallace again told tell him Lawyer Wallace, I did not intend to file or did I file a complaint of judicial misconduct. Lawyer Wallace, I filed a criminal complaint affidavit as I have a right to as a citizen of the United States of America when the criminal acts are committed by government personnel, their contractors, Department of Justice and judicial personnel. 10 Wednesday November 27, 1996 09:18 I wrote certified, return receipt requested letter to inform Wallace Purpose of this letter is to inform you of consequences of your failure to perform your duties as required by law as magistrate judge. You are committing felony violations of law. and If I have not complied with all applicable rules, then I ask that you inform me of any non-compliance so that I can correct my criminal complaints and re-submit them. I satisfied the requirement of the Constitution and Rules 3 and 4, and issued written and sworn complaints that set forth the essential facts constituting the offenses charged against Smith, Kneir, and Cone. I also showed facts showing that the offenses were committed by Smith, Kneir and Cone and these individuals committed them. So I ask that you do your job and proceed with supervision of the arrest and prosecution of Smith, Kneir, and Cone for title 18 felony violations of law. 11 Monday March 24, 1997 17:57 I write a certified - return receipt requested letter to Marilyn Hall Patel, District Judge; California, Northern to inform her she has been selected as magistrate to process the criminal complaint affidavit against Sandia Diversity Director Michael G. Robles for sending the enclosed SDRC report to Burtner of EEOC. Robles did this without my written permission and without checking the accuracy of the information. The information contained in the SDRC report is false and defaming. 12 Monday April 21, 1997 13:44 I write Patel a certified - return receipt requested letter containing a criminal complaint affidavit against Charles L Burtner, Director, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] Larry J. Trujillo, Investigator, Phoenix District Office for sending the false and libelous enclosed documents to Richard Gallegos in Albuquerque without my written consent. 13 Thursday May 8, 1997 06:30 I write a certified - return receipt requested to Patel containing Purpose of this letter is to file a criminal complaint affidavit against Sandia National Laboratories [Sandia] Disciplinary Review Committee members and attendees G. H. Libman, R.A. Polocasz, D. B. Davis, M. E. Courtney, W. R. Geer, C. A. Searls, J. D. Giachino, R. L. Ewing, A. M. Torneby, R. B. Craner, C. W. Childers, E. Dunckel, D. S. Miyoshi, J. J McAuliffe, J. D. Martin, and R. C. Bonner for violation of the criminal penalties section of the Privacy Act, 5 USC 552a(i)(2) and Title 18 felony violations of Civil Rights, Section 241, Conspiracy against right to citizens. for their roles in maintaining an illegal system of records. Sandia refused to acknowledge existence of the enclosed SDRC report and for denying my rights guaranteed under the Constitution. I was never interviewed by the SDRC committee or had any chance to defend my self against the false and defaming claims of the SDRC. 14 Friday June 13, 1997 12:41 I write a certified, return receipt requested to Wallace containing a criminal complaint affidavit against Margret D. Thomas, Judicial Assistant to the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel for violating § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant ... (C) prevent the communication by any person to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense ... (3) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. for writing on May 9, 1997 Dear Mr. Payne: We are in receipt of your recent letters. Please be advised that we do not issue warrants on criminal proceeding absent an indictment, information or complaint initiated by the United States Attorney. For this reason, and by copy of this letter, we are referring this matter to that office. Any future correspondence concerning these events should be sent to the United States Attorney and not to judge Patel. Thank you. Very truly yours, MARGARET D. THOMAS Judicial Assistant to the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel cc: Joel Levin Criminal Section Assistant United States Attorney Judge Hug, Rule 3 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, entitled the Complaint provides: The complaint is a written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged. It shall be made upon oath before a magistrate. As you may be aware, An individual may "make a written complaint on oath before an examining and committing magistrate, and obtain a warrant of arrest." This is in conformity with the Federal Constitution, and "consonant with the principles of natural justice and personal liberty found in the common law." [United States v Kilpatrick (1883, DC NC) 16G 765, 769] You may also be aware, A complaint though quite general in terms is valid if it sufficiently apprises the defendant of the nature of the offense with which he is charged. [United States v Wood (1927, DC Tex) 26F2d 908, 910, affd (CA5 Tex) 26 F2d 912.] And for your edification, The commission of a crime must be shown by facts positively stated. The oath or affirmation required is of facts and not opinions or conclusion. [United States ex rel. King v Gokey (1929, DC NY) 32 F2d 93, 794] The complaint must be accompanied by an oath. [Re Rules of Court (1877, CC Ga) 3 Woods 502, F Cas No 2126] A complaint must be sworn to before a commissioner or other officer empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the United States. [United States v Bierley ( 1971, WD Pa) 331 F Supp 1182] Such office is now called a magistrate. A complaint is ordinarily made by an investigating officer or agent, and where private citizens seek warrants of arrest, the practice recommended by the Judicial Conference of the United States is to refer the complaint to the United States Attorney. However, further reference to him is rendered futile where a mandamus proceeding is brought to compel him to prosecute and he opposes the proceeding. [Pugach v Klein (1961, SD NY) 193 F Supp 630, citing Manual for United States Commissioners 5 (1948)] Any attempt to bring criminal complaints to government authorities would, of course, be futile. I am a citizen of the United States and, judge Hug, you are the assigned magistrate. In order to satisfy the requirement of the Constitution and Rules 3 and 4, a written and sworn complaint should set forth the essential facts constituting the offense charged and also facts showing that the offense was committed and that the defendant committed it. And, As to the requirement that the complaint be made on personal knowledge of the complainant, it is enough for the issuance of a warrant that a complainant shows it to be on the knowledge of the complainant. [Giordenello v United States (1958) 357 US 480, 2 L Ed. 2d 1503, 78 S Ct 1245, rev. (Ca5 Tx) 241 F2d 575, 579 in accord Rice v Ames (1901) 180 US 371, 45 L Ed 577, 21 S ct 406, and United States v Walker, (1952, CA2 NY) 197 F 2d 287, 289, cert den 344 US 877, 97 L Ed 679, 73 S Ct 172] So as to keep contiguous the requirements of the law ad the criminal complaint affidavit, I will include these complaints in this letter to you. CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AFFIDAVIT: J Clifford Wallace Essential material facts are: 1 Tuesday July 9, 1996 06:52 Payne files criminal complaint affidavit on Sandia lawyer Cone for felony perjury with J Clifford Wallace, chief judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and judge Fern Smith for Misprision of felony for failure to prosecute Cone and Conspiracy against rights for sending, with FBI Albuquerque agent-in-charge Knier, FBI agents Kohl and Schum to Payne's home in an attempt to intimidate Payne. 2 Repeated attempts by certified return receipt requested mail to urge Wallace to do his job enumerated to 5-10 and 14 above in this letter go unanswered. Count 1 Wallace made no attempt to bring lawyer Cone to justice despite possessing WRITTEN evidence of criminal activity. Therefore, Wallace is charged with Title 18 § 4. Misprision of felony for Wallace's failure to properly process criminal complaint affidavit. Count 2 Wallace made no attempt to bring judge Fern Smith to justice despite possessing WRITTEN evidence of misprision of felony for not properly processing the criminal complaint affidavit against lawyer Cone and § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant for sending FBI agents Kohl and Schum to Payne's home in an attempt to intimidate Payne. Therefore , Wallace is charged with Title 18 § 4. Misprision of felony for Wallace's failure to properly process a criminal complaint affidavit. Count 3 Wallace made no attempt to bring FBI agent-in-charge to justice for violation of § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant for sending FBI agents Kohl and Schum to Payne's home in an attempt to intimidate Payne. Wallace is charged with Title 18 § 4. Misprision of felony for Wallace's failure to properly process a criminal complaint affidavit. Count 4 Wallace made no attempt to bring MARGARET D. THOMAS to justice for violation of § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant ... for writing Thomas' May 9, 1997 to Payne. Wallace is charged with Title 18 § 4. Misprision of felony for Wallace's failure to properly process a criminal complaint affidavit. VERIFICATION Under penalty of perjury as provided by law, the undersigned certifies pursuant to 28 USC section 1746 that material factual statements set forth in this criminal complaint are true and correct, except as to any matters therein stated to be information and belief of such matters the undersigned certifies as aforesaid that the undersigned verily believes the same to be true. Date William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 505-292-7037 CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AFFIDAVIT: Marilyn Hall Patel Essential material facts are: 1 Patel failed to respond to certified return receipt requested criminal complaint affidavits specified in 11 - 13 in this letter. Count 1 Patel made did not properly process criminal complaint affidavits despite being in possession of documents showing criminal violations of the Privacy Act and violation of civil rights. Therefore, Patel is charged with Title 18 § 4. Misprision of felony for Patel's failure to properly process criminal complaint affidavits. VERIFICATION Under penalty of perjury as provided by law, the undersigned certifies pursuant to 28 USC section 1746 that material factual statements set forth in this criminal complaint are true and correct, except as to any matters therein stated to be information and belief of such matters the undersigned certifies as aforesaid that the undersigned verily believes the same to be true. Date William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 505-292-7037 Judge Hug, I have been extremely patient with judges and clerks of the district of Northern California and Ninth Circuit. Criminal compliant affidavits were filed between March 11, 1996 and June 13, 1997. Nothing has happened as of April 1, 1998. I ask that you 1 issue warrants of arrest or 2 inform me why you cannot proceed to do what I request within 60 calendar days. Smith's case is particularly egregious. Smith and Albuquerque FBI agent in charge James K. Weber, who replaced Kneir, sent US Marshals Lester and Lopez to my home on January 24, 1997 in a second attempt to intimidate me. Anotin Scalia was appointed magistrate to process criminal complaint affidavits against Smith and others for the second intimidation attempt. Sincerely, William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 VERIFICATION Under penalty of perjury as provided by law, the undersigned certifies pursuant to 28 USC section 1746 that material factual statements set forth in this criminal complaint are true and correct, except as to any matters therein stated to be information and belief of such matters the undersigned certifies as aforesaid that the undersigned verily believes the same to be true. Date William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 505-292-7037 Enclosures Privacy Act criminal violation documents, 11 pages AFFIDAVIT OF GREGORY A. CONE, 4 pages May 9, 1997 letter from MARGARET D. THOMAS, 1 page 13 Friday 5/1/98 9:48 AM Certified Return receipt requested Cathy A Catterson, Clerk Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 121 Spear Street POB 193939 San Francisco, CA 94119-9800 415 744 9800 Dear Clerk Catterson: Purpose of this letter is to discover the REASON the criminal complaint addressed to Ninth circuit judge Proctor Hug Jr dated Wednesday 4/1/98 11:02 AM was returned to me WITHOUT COVER LETTER. I attach a copy of the envelope the above material was enclosed. Return address is CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS P.O. BOX 547 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94101-0547 OFFICIAL BUSINESS PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE, 300 Postmark is SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF APR 24 98 U.S. POSTAGE $2.62 METER 504753. The envelope is hand-addressed and stamped CONFIDENTIAL. Since no cover letter was enclosed to explain the return of what I believe is both a valid and lawful criminal complaint affidavit supported by WRITTEN EVIDENCE, some even in FILED court documents, I feel we must investigate to discover the REASON. All of the accused are federal employees or contractor employees. Possibility exists that return of the enclosed criminal complaint affidavit without cover letter stating the REASON may indicate violation of Title 18 § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant [(b)] Whoever knowingly ... corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to - ... (2) cause or induce any person to - (A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding; ... (3) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (c) Whoever intentionally harasses another person and thereby hinders, delays, prevents, or dissuades any person from - ... (2) reporting to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense ... or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Clerk Catterson, you may be aware that under § 1512 (d) In a prosecution for an offense under this section, it is an affirmative defense, as to which the defendant has the burden of proof by a preponderance of the evidence, that the conduct consisted solely of lawful conduct ... Therefore, I ask that you investigate to discover WHO returned the enclosed criminal complaint affidavit to me. And report the REASON the criminal complaint affidavit was returned to me. I ask that you respond within 30 days. Sincerely, William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 2

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Re: Reno reports "suspicion" in industry crypto-negotiations
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Daley's statement on crypto export has been pulled from the DoC Public Affairs Web site, as noted in Peter Junger's latest filing, in which the vanished statement is cited as support for lifting suspicious back-scratch dealings like ACP's. http://jya.com/pdj9.htm What's the latest on publicizing the several ACP drafts floating around "industry and agencies" for comment on what TLAs and ACP are rigging in the public interest. Weren't some of these stalking drafts nearly liberated recently? Or were they only floated for trusted eyes only? Congressional hearings are due shortly to air the stench. As Entrust said in defense of its patenting what was thought to be in the public interest: "Encryption is no longer an academic pursuit, now it's very big business." RSA, NAI, Entrust, ACP, TLA, take your pick, not that there's much diff where "national economic security" interest surpasses the public.

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

17 Dec '03

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