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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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Epilogue 7.3 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epilogue 7.3 Rev. 2.7-SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! ___________________________________________________ I'm in an apologetic mood this morning, so I would like to take this opportunity to tell those who I have offended in the past, and those who I may offend in the future by my boorish behavior which reflects a total lack of both character and proper upbringing... Well, I'd like to tell them all to "FUCK OFF AND DIE!" Nothing personal, gang, but as some famous guy once said, "He who excuses, accuses." ~ Some famous guy... I really should apologize for being too fucking lazy to grab a pitchfork and go through my filing system to properly attribute the quote above...but I won't. You see, I have no social skills. None. Nada. Null. I should also apologize for never having made an effort to acquire proper social skills...but I won't. In a society in which Finger Pointing (TM) is endemic among those who harbor a secret desire to live in a world epitomized by the movie, 'The Running Man', it borders on self-abuse to add to the mountains of accusations that society already heaps upon one for even the smallest of deviations from a 'norm' which is widely held up to be 'common sense' / 'the way things are' / 'obvious to any decent, God Fearing [Your nationality or religion here] individual'. Being a Deviant From The NormChomsky School of Social UnSchooling ('Norm' is unlikely to lay awake at night waiting for the phone to ring, in order to receive my apology for fucking up his name), I have long recognized that those who consider themselves to be 'God fearing Americans' are, in actuality, often 'Dog fearing Americans' whose beliefs and actions are the result, not of a fear of 'Holy God' roasting their sorry, morally sinning ass, but rather, the result of the fear of the 'Unholy Dog', who is at the end of the leash being held by the Enforcers of Law and Order, Family Values, Cryptography Export Regulations and the Eleventh Commandment (EveryThingNotPermittedIsForbidden). It's a predatory universe, and the human animal is the chief predator. (A fact that would be readily confirmed by Ms. PARKER of TV's latest biosemiotic hint of man's future evolution, 'Prey'.) 'World's Scariest Police Chases' is nothing more than a pilot program for a variety of 'Running Man Electronic Realities' which are only waiting for proper technological development and implementation before John and Jane Savage will be able to tune their Infrared Digital Brain Implant in the proper channel where they can hear the scream of the tires and feel the wetness of the blood as a car full of teenagers slams into a concrete wall while trying to flee the deadly hunting hounds who are trained to both instill and track the scent of fear in their prey. What is a human life worth? Apparently, it is worth less than the cost of a minor traffic ticket, whether it is the life of the person who failed to signal their turn (even though there was no moving traffic anywhere in sight), or the life of some unfortunate child who crossed the street at an inopportune time, on their way home to their birthday party. Of course, to be fair, we must keep in mind that the person fleeing the minor traffic offense may be a pedophile, and if the death of an innocent child saves the life of just one innocent child...uuhhh...never mind... Don't hold your breath waiting for 'World's Scariest Police Chases Resulting In The Deaths Of Innocent Bystanders.' (Can you say "Watch me and I'll bleed you 'cause you eat the shit I feed you...And when somebody's mother gets machine gunned in the street, we'll send some Joker with a Brownie, so you'll see it all, complete...?" Sure you can...) The price of a human life is just as cheap in America as it is in what are held to be 'less civilized' areas of the world, but the advertising experts and spin-doctors in charge of 'Manufacturing Consent' in the American people for submissive subjugation to Heavily Armed Thugs have had the advantage of decades of experience in exercising Control Over Access To Information and thus shape the jigs upon which our Consent To Agree To 'The Way Things Are' is Manufactured at any given point in time. The danger that Unregulated Access To Information presents to the current structure of government, business and society, is that it allows any member of the human race to participate in the Manufacturing of Consent as to what is acceptable and what is unacceptable in the areas of our life which are shared with various layers of the Social Onion. For instance, this very missive might be seen as an attempt by the Author to Manufacture Consent for any individuals who feel their life is threatened by the dangerous driving of law enforcement personnel to 'pop a cap' in their ignorant brains as they drive by, if the threat they pose to one's safety can be removed with little likelyhood of endangering others. Remember, 'If it saves the life of a single child...' The size, shape, function, model number and serial number of Consent depends largely on where, how and by whom it is Manufactured. How the fuck did WeTheSheeple manage to allow ourselves to be manipulated into giving our Consent for Janet Reno to slaughter a spiritual community of men, women and children who died a horrible, screaming, fiery death for holding unconventional religious views? How the fuck did WeTheSheeple manage to sit up straight in our chairs and quit fidgeting, while giving our Consent for the mainstream media to feed us Law and Order pamphlets handed out by the same Department of Justice criminal monsters who slaughtered our fellow citizens? How the fuck do WeTheSheeple manage to watch dozens of police cars endangering the public with their dangerous driving in order to prevent a single vehicle from endangering the public and manage to give our Consent for them turning traffic rules into excuses for violating the Constitutional rights of the citizens and using deadly force against anyone who attempts to avoid violation of their civil rights and affronts to their human dignity? Vin ThePolishKike, who I revere for the sanity and wisdom which he brings to his Mountain Media News releases (even though I'm too lazy to look up how to spell his unAmerican name, and can't resist taking a few cheap, racist shots at him just to attempt to suitably repay him for his contributions to our Biosemiotic Evolution by helping to ensure that he will 'Never Forget'), has not been remiss in exercising his Dog-given right to participate in the Manufacturing of Consent, by expessing the view (which I am about to badly misquote), "We have reached the point where it is morally right to shoot the bastards, but it is not yet feasible to do so." "Who will help me to Manufacture Consent to Nuke DC?" said the little Red May. "Who will help me Manufacture Consent to engage the bastards in a continuous rEvolutionary battle where our targets are chosen, as much as possible, rather than being just random victims of misguided rage?" said the little White Weber. "Who will help me Manufacture Consent to avoid endangering innocent children by refusing to drive dangerously in order to escape the armed thugs, and instead seizing every safe opportunity to resist their oppression by stealth and craftiness, if possible, but by violence and death, if necessary?" said the little Black ArmyOfDogMongrel. As a member of the Congress of WeThePeople who have as much right to Manufacture Consent as do the members of the corrupt Congress of WeTheSheepShearers, I am casting my vote upon the waters of opinion in favor of restoring the right of WeThePeople to individually and collectively institute the Death Penalty for Oppressors. I am adding my voice to those of others with the wisdom and courage to do their part in Manufacturing Consent for their fellow citizens to stop and shake the hand of the individual who took the time and trouble to 'pop a cap' in the brains of the dangerous armed thugs endangering the populace with their stupidity and carelessness in matching the insanity of those they claim to be protecting us from. The next time you have an opportunity to watch 'The Running Man', make a point of noticing that the 'contestants' haven't been brainwashed into meekly submitting to whatever form of armed violence is directed toward them for their real or imagined crimes. And make a point of noticing who your heart, mind and soul are rooting for... Then ask yourself if you want to live a life where you meekly submit to all manner of affronts to your rights and human dignity, while numbing yourself to 'the way things are In Reality' by opiating your psyche with Digital Emmisions from the Puppet Masters which are designed to use Virtual Reality to compensate for the thoughts and emotions you are required to suppress and deny in your Physical, Emotional and Mental Daily Realities. Thelma and Louise had the right idea...they just should have waited until there was a cherry-top in front of them...

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Epilogue 8.2 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epilogue 8.2, Rev. 1.8 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS !!! _______________________________________________________ "Lord knows when the cold wind blows, it will turn your head around." ~ James Taylor Adversity tends to break down the smooth functioning of our comfortably programmed beliefs via forcing a change in our ordinary habits of perception in regard to the world around us. This is true whether the adversity or perceived threat is real or imagined. When some aspect of our survival, including the survival of our comfortably programmed mental, emotional and physical states, is threatened, we tend to become aware of things which were previously invisible or vaguely opaque elements of our environment, or to see things that were already encompassed by the range of our usual perceptive viewpoint in an entirely different way. One might compare a kick in the ass to a software program interrupt that boots one out of the preprogrammed loop that they follow as a matter of routine, and throws them into a reactive EITHER/OR 'fight or flight' routine. Or, if they happen to be wired and programmed to be able to function using higher level logic and languages than are necessitated by mere survival, they might branch to a series of nested conditional loops which, like Tai Chi, enables them to act in whatever manner is most fitting given the original goal of their program and taking into consideration the nature of the error message that was imparted to their backside by an unexpected boot process. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was RTFM!" Three days after I betrayed my Toshiba Tecra laptop for thirty cans of Silver Bullet, enabling the Roman BorderGuards to take it away to be crucified upon the Cross of Free Speech, I rolled back the stone at the door of the cave where the body of my Opus SPARCard 2 lay and dragged it out into the light of day where, seeing its own shadow, it predicted that there would be three more weeks of Snow Crash. Computer Gods work in mysterious ways, especially when I am drunk, which probably explains why THEY came to me in a double-vision and I once again heard the inner voice which had been silenced by years of medication and therapy. The voice said, "OPUS is not dead, but merely sleepeth." After paying alms to the Used PC Priests and offering a 386 IBM-PC up for sacrifice to the UNIX rising from the ashes, I instituted a GNU World Order among the Byteizens living in the Land of PROM, and my SPARCard 2 came to life, feeding off of the flesh of the DOS interface which the Computer God, OPUS, had destined to serve at the feet of the Eunuchs Masters. "I shall deliver you up out of Redmond, past the Gates of the Pharoh, and I shall be your Get, and you shall be my Pipe-l." Since the resurrection of my SPARCard 2, every day begins with a miracle of life, as the Spirit of the Father of Eunuchs, the Sun OS, and the "Holy Shit! Great Caesar's Ghost...it works!" is breathed into the NULL PROM registers by the laying of hands on the keyboard, sending shivers down the spines of Daemons, Zombies and Orphan Zombies. I've got a KILL command, and I'm not afraid to use it... Of course, the Holy Roman Empire is not about to fold up its tent and cancel its plans to build the Fourth Reich on the Tomb of the UnStoned Soldier of the Army of Dog just because an unrepentant WinLuser has temporarily escaped their sentence of Death of Free Speech by hiding in the Holy Shit! Temple, underneath the KILLts of the Circle of Eunuchs. Desert Storm was just a NWO practice run to fine tune the Patriot missles in preparation for the return of Jesus in a Stealth Bomber, "like a thief in the night." St. John the Divine Lay Preacher mistook the sounds of incoming Scud missles and outgoing Patriot missles for the blaring of trumpets. When the Army of God descends out of heaven, they'd better be wearing Kevlar... "Every time I start getting ahead in the rat race, they bring in faster rats." ~ A Slow Rat A few years ago, Dudley DoWrong took a serious run at my liberty of movement by charging me with a couple of traffic offenses and trying to yank my driver's license. After two years of dragging a pack of Rabid Wombats Cleverly Disguised As Witnesses into court (accompanied by a Mountie assigned to keep an eye and a gun turned in the direction of the MadDogInPossession defendant), it finally came down to blows, and I wiped the floors of the Halls of Justice with the tight ass of the federal Queen's Bench counsellor appointed to prosecute me. (He had a stick up his ass, so it was a lot like using a regular mop.) I have had quite a few people come to me over the years for help with keeping the long dick of the law from being hidden from the sun in their own backyard. There seems to be some kind of perception among the lower stratocasters of the local community that I am some kind of killer legal-eagle genius who is able to eat legal-rats that are larger than his head. Although I enjoy occassionally basking in the warm glow of the approval of Squeaky From's peers, the fact of the matter is, I am actually more of a legal-buzzard--working out of a carrion bag in between flights of fancy during which I look down on the struggling wayfarers wandering in circles, lost in a wasteland of rules and legal proceedures which turn out to be merely shimmering mirages appearing to be an Oasis of Truth and Justice until the poor, parched pricks get close enough to see that their mind and eyes were once again fooled by illusions created by their delusions--and, rather than being a Great Bird of Prey who eats the RatLawyers alive, I am merely a Vulture who picks at the carcasses of the dead and dying former Champions of Justice who sold their souls to the Mobsters Cleverly Disguised As Politicians. Of course, the mail-order, money-back-guarantee 'Be Your Own Legal-Beagle Kit' (send $19.95 + $5.00 S&H to: Baby Dog Enterprises, Box 281, Bienfait, Saskatchewan SOC OMO) I use to snatch Justice from the Jaws of Legal Sharks is meant for use only in trolling for the big fish in small ponds and small fish in big ponds, and is not designed for use by serious FisherKings trolling for Killer KingFish in the home of the SwampThing, where Legal Dinosaurs still roam at large, crushing underfoot anything and anyone that gets in their way. When the omnipresent, nefarious They (TM) call out the National Guard to descend upon your sorry ass, and They (TM) turn to the Desert Rat to sniff through your garbage and find something dirty and smelly enough to delight a hand-picked jury of God Fearing Decent People's Peers, then it's time to put in a call to Larry Joe Dowling, a West Texas Rat Wrangler, and the aptly-named Bob Looney, one of LBJ's former Legally Drunk Beagles. Larry Joe is one of the few lawyers whose standards have remained high enough that he will work in return for really great pussy, and his good Texas breeding ensures that he will be discreet in screwing your old-lady, so as not to cause you any undue embarassment for your lack of sufficient capital to retain a legal representative capable of keeping a straight face when words like Truth and Justice accidentally escape from the lips of the judge and prosecutor. Besides, if They (TM) want you badly enough to make it worth your attorney's while to sell you down the river, then you damn-straight better better team up with an experienced Rounder who has the decency to pay the bar-bill at the end of your tax-deductible, late-night legal conferences. (And whose partner-in-(government)crime(fighting) helps to keep your spirits (pardon the pun) up by raising his glass, in toast to the Blind Broad, and announcing, loud enough to be heard over the din of the surrounding Last Call Warriors, "If Jack Daniel's be with us, then who can be against us?" I use a simple rule-of-thumb to guage the level of the blindside attack on my sorry butt that is being secretly prepared deep within the bowels of the Rat's Nest in Can You *Say* That Word On The Internet(?), Saskatchwan. The more shit-disturbing that the BigTeeth Enforcer Rats let you get away with without uttering even the slightest of squeaks in your direction, then the further ahead they are setting your own personal DoomsDay Clock during their illegal, surrepticious entries into your home while you are down at the CoalDust Saloon. When you can run around Southern Saskatchewan distributing 'WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE' posters putting a price on the head of the thieving scum who stole your computer and not hear a peep-squeak out of them, then your DoomsDay Clock is already set to one minute after midnight, and you're drinking on borrowed time. (Which means that I'd better get my butt down to the CoalDust Saloon so that I'll be there when the barmaid opens the door, and she won't freak out and run down main street screaming 'The sky is falling...The sky is falling!" like she did the last time I didn't arrive until 33 seconds after opening time.) Smoke 'em if you got 'em...

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Constitution For Sale
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CONSTITUTION FOR SALE _____________________ 1776 Constitution for sale. Inherited from original owner. Hasn't been used for years, but can be easily restored to its original condition by extermination of the rats which have taken up residence under the hood and the removal of useless accessories which were added by a long series of unethical mechanics who saw the prospect of making more money if it continually drifted to the right or the left than if the integrity of its original design was retained. Truly must be seen to be appreciated. Must be appreciated to be truly seen.

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Crime Sale!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CHEVY CHASE FORD & 'CRAZY BOTMA' MERCURY DEALERSHIPS ANNOUNCE A GIGANTIC BLOWOUT CRIME SALE !!! _______________________________ DUE TO A CURRENT OVERSTOCK OF CRIMINALS AND THE NEW MAKES OF CRIME BEING PRODUCED IN OUR DC FACTORY EVERY DAY, CHEVY CHASE AND 'CRAZY BOTMA' ARE ABLE TO OFFER YOU *UNBELIEVABLE* *DEALS* ON A WIDE VARIETY OF BOTH NEW AND OLDER CRIMES. THIS MAKES IT AN OPPORTUNE TIME FOR *YOU* TO GET INTO WHATEVER TYPE OF CRIME YOU'VE DREAMED ABOUT FOR YEARS, BUT THOUGHT YOU COULD NEVER AFFORD TO PAY FOR. WE'RE MOVING OLDER MODEL CRIMINALS OUT THE DOOR EVERY DAY, AND EVEN SENDING FELONY CRIMINALS OUT THE DOOR AT AN EVER INCREASING RATE, YET WE *STILL* CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE DEMAND OF OUR DC FACTORY TO FIND CUSTOMERS FOR THE NEW CRIMES BEING CREATED EVERY DAY BY THEIR SOCIAL ENGINEERS. WE'RE SO DESPERATE THAT WE'RE WILLING TO PLEAD WITH YOU TO ACCEPT THE BARGAINS WE ARE CURRENTLY ABLE TO OFFER. NOT ONLY ARE WE ABLE TO GUARANTEE THAT WE CAN FIT YOU INTO ANY OF A VARIETY OF THE WIDE SPECTRUM OF CRIMINAL CATEGORIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE BUT WE CAN OFFER YOU A DEAL THAT WILL HAVE YOU BACK OUT THE DOOR IN RECORD TIME. WHAT'S MORE, DUE TO THE CURRENTLY HIGH RECALL RATE WE ARE EXPERIENCING AS A RESULT OF SENDING UNSAFE CRIMINALS OUT THE DOOR, WE CAN PROMISE TO GIVE YOU AN EVEN BETTER DEAL ON A NEW CRIME IN THE FUTURE, EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED PAYING FOR YOUR ORIGINAL CRIME. ONCE WE HAVE FIT YOU INTO A THIRD FELONY CRIME, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BECOME A LIFETIME CUSTOMER AND ELIGIBLE TO MOVE FROM OUR 'EASY PAYMENT' PLAN TO OUR 'LIFETIME PAYMENT' PLAN WHERE WE *INSIST* THAT YOU TAKE *FOREVER* TO PAY FOR YOUR CRIME. WITH THE EVER INCREASING ABILITY OF OUR DC FACTORY TO PRODUCE NEW CRIMES AT AN ASTOUNDING RATE, IT HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER TO FIT INTO OUR CUSTOMER PROFILE. "IF THE CUSTOMER DOESN'T FIT THE CRIME, WE'LL MAKE THE CRIME FIT THE CUSTOMER." THAT'S A PROMISE!

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

17 Dec '03

At 13:39 -0400 5/1/98, John Young wrote: >Weren't some of these stalking drafts nearly liberated recently? >Or were they only floated for trusted eyes only? They were floated for TEO: ACP, Hill staffers, and allied groups like CDT (Alan Davidson from CDT, after a Cato forum yesterday, defended much of the ACP crypto bill when I asked him about it). I got a leaked copy. I promised to send around a summary and haven't yet. Too much time on Y2K and Microsoft. I'll get to it this weekend. -Declan

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How do I get off this list??
by Chris Loftus 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is too mach crap. how do I get off?

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Re: Canadian Crypto GAK [slashdot.org]
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> > > > X-within-URL: http://www.slashdot.org/ > > > Crypto in Canada Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 30 at 3:58 pm > > EST > > Encryption from the its-everywhere dept > > Eric Howe sent us This link where you can read about Canada's latest > > development in encryption. Looks like they want to have keys just like > > Uncle Sam. They have no choice: they are part of the UKUSA alliance. ---guy, Vulis Terminator

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Ruling in Payne & Morales v NSA's Minihan
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 5/1/98 2:15 PM John Young Nice to talk to you a few minutes ago. Even in person! Judge Santiago Campos ruled in Payne and Morales v NSA Minihan. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm Morales opted to meet and open the ruling even though it is a week end. Usually, I NEVER open a lawyer letter on near a weekend or a vacation. But we do file lawsuits on Friday. That way we get to blast THEM [Great Satan supporters] on the Infobahn before the court has a chance to seal the complaint. Mail Boxes Etc. charges only $.04 per page special copy charge on Fridays too V $.07 on other days. We, unlike DOE, are mindful of containing litigation costs. The ruling is 56 pages long! Morales read me only the first and last pages. 1 We DID NOT LOSE 2 NSA did not win 3 We are not headed for jail I mailed a priority mail copy to you. Without Internet NYA, J Orlin Grabbe, and some really neat journalists the outcome would have far different, I conjecture. Have a good weekend everyone [http://www.wpiran.org/] We are! We GOT TO GET THIS HORRIBLE MESS SETTLED! Cowabunga, Yahoo, allahu akbar, etc. bill and art

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17 Dec '03

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

17 Dec '03

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

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Bills in Congress containing "encrypt"...
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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Periods of sequences
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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SHIFT REGISTER technology
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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17 Dec '03

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

17 Dec '03

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

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

17 Dec '03

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

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by bill.stewart＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

17 Dec '03

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

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Payne-Morales vs. NSA: Memorandum Opinion and Order
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 5/5/98 7:17 AM Lawyers and MCs Morales and I met on Monday to discuss strategy for response to Payne-Morales vs. NSA: Memorandum Opinion and Order which is cross-linked at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ from http://www.jya.com/whp043098.htm We will, of course, file Rule 52. Findings by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings (a) Effect. In all actions tried upon the facts without a jury or with an advisory jury, the court shall find the facts specially and state separately its conclusions of law thereon, and judgment shall be entered pursuant to Rule 58; and in granting or refusing interlocutory injunctions the court shall similarly set forth the findings of fact and conclusions of law which constitute the grounds of its action. Requests for findings are not necessary for purposes of review. Findings of fact, whether based on oral or documentary evidence, shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses. The findings of a master, to the extent that the court adopts them, shall be considered as the findings of the court. It will be sufficient if the findings of fact and conclusions of law are stated orally and recorded in open court following the close of the evidence or appear in an opinion or memorandum of decision filed by the court. Findings of fact and conclusions of law are unnecessary on decisions of motions under Rules 12 or 56 or any other motion except as provided in subdivision (c) of this rule. (b) Amendment. On a party's motion filed no later than 10 days after entry of judgment, the court may amend its findings--or make additional findings--and may amend the judgment accordingly. The motion may accompany a motion for a new trial under Rule 59. When findings of fact are made in actions tried without a jury, the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the findings may be later questioned whether or not in the district court the party raising the question objected to the findings, moved to amend them, or moved for partial findings. motion. Lawyers, we suspect that the possibility that Campos wrote the 56 page document is remote. Reason is that informants within the federal court system have told us that the government lawyers write the opinion and order, then gives them to the judge to sign. Morales and noticed in previous cases that material not presented to judges were appearing in the judges documents. So when we study the document we will be looking for 1 material cited by Campos which Campos did not or should not have in his possession 2 introduction of legal citations not presented to the court by either plaintiffs or defendant. A judge is supposed to judge, not help either side. 3 felony violations of the False Statement Act. We learned from an Hispanic lawyer that government lawyers give false citations of case law to a judge to have the judge agree and dismiss the plaintiff's case. Morales and I still have been unable to obtain docket sheets from the Tenth circuit for cases No. 94-2205, Payne v Sandia and 95-2204, Morales v Sandia. We both won but crooked federal judges gave the win to Sandia. Morales and my main purpose in filing the NSA genocide and deficient crypto algorithm lawsuit was to expose corruption in the US federal court system. A side purpose an international public service to expose technical details of NSAs bungled spy stingS so that congress can take some action to remedy damage done by US intelligence agencies. Albuquerque Journal 4/21/98 page A6 reports what happened. U.S. Aided Communist Foe Pol Pot Richard Reeves LOS ANGELES - ... Even after he fell from national power, we helped supply and protect Pol Pot because the Khmer Rouge was tying down large number of occupying North Vietnamese troops. These are some of the names of the evil who were or still are paid friends: o Saddam Hussein, paid for making war on Iran. o Gulbuddin Hekmatry, who made his name throwing acid in the faces of female students in Kabul who dared to wear western dress, paid for making was against communists in Afghanistan. o The Taliban, the religious warriors we helped train to fight communists who are beating or killing those same women right now in Afghanistan. o Manuel Noriega, the soldier-thug we encouraged to overthrow elections in Panama because we did not like the results. o Mobuto Sese Seko, one Joseph Mobutu, our man in Zaire. o Jonas Savimbi, in constant war in Angola The list goes on. It has for a long time and will, even if communism is dead as a national security threat of the United States. In may of these cases our interest involved resources - oil, usually, ... Settlement should be made QUICKLY Before something possibly VERY UNFORTUNATE happens. Also, I needed legal delivery practice prior to filing a Privacy Act and defamation lawsuit. Let's all hope for settlement. Later bill

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Re: Explaining crypto to people (was Re: A new Swiss banking novel)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 5 May 1998 01:48:02 -0500 (CDT), Xcott Craver wrote: > Now, I'm not saying analogies are evil, but the analogy > to firearms is a *bad* one, and it stands to give people > the misconception that crypto is many things that it is > not (not to mention including <stigma.h>). I agree on you opinion of the use of analogies, at large. The stigma is real (as in "happening") but it is nevertheless a load of bull since it is the result of the population misconceptions, of being brainwasher by the apostles of political correctness. The quintessential aspects of guns in a free society is that they are Liberty's teeths. Crypto is also the same, only after the teeths have been bashed in... I argued this over the Canadian Firearms Digest list. Ciao jfa Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming. PGP keys: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon and: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Re: Explaining crypto to people (was Re: A new Swiss banking novel)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> ..As will the phrase, "cryptography is like a gun...." Joe User >> won't see authentication as "like a gun" any more than his telephone >> is "like a gun." It is part of the cultural folklore to believe that "The pen is mightier than the sword" Ciao jfa Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming. PGP keys: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon and: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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17 Dec '03

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Re: The Borg Arrive
by Corvus Corvax 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Explaining crypto to people (was Re: A new Swiss banking novel)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 5 May 1998 18:28:46 -0500 (CDT), Xcott Craver wrote: >Again, my point. Padlocks and safes are *not* under the gun, > so to speak. People will not see crypto regulation as silly > if they keep getting fed bomb and gun analogies. They'd think > it was damned silly if they got padlock and safe analogies. The analogy of crypto = padlock lack something. A padlock can *always* pried open. A court order can always be issued to open it. So Joe Enforcment will be on it's way with it's crowbars, liquid N2, saws and/or torches and do his duty. It will be no loss of time to him. Strong encryption is different. No matter what Joe Enforcment try, the crypto lock won't give away (well, at least, this is what we assume here). Working on it means just one thing: absolute waste of ressources. AFA Joe Enforcement is concerned, a gun has some of the same potentiality: try to force it and you also risk an absolute waste of ressources. From a human standpoint, it might look different, but if you make abstraction of human life (like most dictators do), some of the effects are similar. Ciao jfa Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds (Montreal), Canada Unregistered Firearms in the hands of honest citizens: Liberty's Teeth Strong Cryptographic tools in the hands of honest citizens: Liberty's Voice PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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ANNOUNCE Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting - May 9, 12-6pm
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The May Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting will be Saturday at Temenos, 459 Fulton St. Suite 307, San Francisco. Some planned agenda items include - GSM crack hardware demo - Lucky Green - GSM cryptanalysis details - Ian Goldberg - Anon mailbox servers - Lucky Green - OpenPGP status - hacks in progress The meeting will be at the usual time - mill around at 12, organized part starts at 1, dinner nearby later. 459 Fulton is a few blocks west of Van Ness, probably closest to the Civic Center BART stop. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Pauline Hanson's One Nation May 1998 Newsletter
by Global Web Builders 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Issue 1.9, May 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE: No unsolicited email is sent. If you do not want to be on the mailing list please say "REMOVE" in the subject line and return this message in the body. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear One Nation supporter in New South Wales, It is now becoming extremely important that you make your desire to help One Nation in the upcoming Federal election known to your local branch. Your local contact (by email or phone) can be seen at the following URL: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/federal/become.htm Please let these key people know how you can help, whether it be by assisting in mail drops or manning polling booths. We need your help! During the last six weeks we have, as a political party, reached many milestones. These milestones, covered on the Internet, include: - One Nation's birthday party at my farm on April 11th See: http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/history/day1.html for coverage and images. - the launch of the One Nation Federal Web site: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/federal There have also been a number of press releases on a range of issues. These can be seen at: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/press You might not be aware that negotiation on the MAI (multilateral agreement on investment) has been delayed, not stopped. See this URL for my press release on the MAI: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/press/010598.html For more information on this secret international treaty, visit: http://www.gwb.com.au/mai.html Finally, we need your financial assistance. We are not going to get the big business million dollar donations like the major parties. We depend on YOU to help us to promote the image and policies of this party at the upcoming Federal election. Please assist if and where you can. There is an on-line donation form at: http://www.gwb.com.au/pledge.html Regards, Pauline Hanson

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