December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

TriSnakeoil questions
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm currently sitting in a booth at a Tandem user show directly opposite the Atalla one. If there's anything in particular which someone wants to ask them, let me know and I'll see how knowledgeable their salesdroids are. Dunno how reliable my access to mail will be in the next day or two, if you're local you could try calling me at the hotel I'm staying, which is the Fairmont in San Jose (although you've got a whelks chance in a supernova of actually catching me in my room, so you'll … [View More]

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anonymous remailers, network computer, singles sites, etc.
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

well, nobody has commented on this a whole lot here from what I can tell, but the net is now *plastered* with anonymous remailers in various forms. it's definitely not going away. we now have mail.yahoo.com which can create an alias in a few minutes. also, www.hotmail.com and there are others. one could argue the Net PC (NC) is already here!! web TV allows much software to be run on it (btw, does anyone know if it runs java? if so, I'd say that's definitely a NC). the point is that sites … [View More]

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capitalism run amuck by Korton
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

this guy is really brilliant. the essay is brillant. the pro-capitalist elements here should read this very carefully and read his book. very well researched. impeccable credentials. the real "truth behind the scenes and events" of what's going on in the world ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:04:39 +0000 To: uk-anti-maif(a)iirc.net From: Paul Swann <pswann(a)easynet.co.uk> Subject: Your Mortal Enemy Your Mortal Enemy Faceless bankers now move two trillion dollars … [View More]around the world every day, searching for quick profits, breaking national economies and putting ever more pressure on natural wealth. What's to be done? Slay the beast of capitalism, says David C Korten, and return money to its proper role. An edited and ammended extract of David Korten's Schumacher Lecture in Bristol on October 17 1998. Published in The Guardian, October 21 1998. For those of us who grew up believing capitalism is the foundation of democracy, market freedom, and the good life it has been a rude awakening to realise that under capitalism, democracy is now for sale to the highest bidder, the market is centrally planned by global mega-corporations larger than most countries, denying one's brothers and sisters a source of livelihood is now rewarded as an economic virtue, and the destruction of nature and life to make money for the already rich is treated as progress. The world is now ruled by a global financial casino staffed by faceless bankers and hedge fund speculators who operate with a herd mentality in the shadowy world of global finance. Each day they move more than two trillion dollars around the world in search of quick profits and safe havens sending exchange rates and stock markets into wild gyrations wholly unrelated to any underlying economic reality. With abandon they make and break national economies, buy and sell corporations, and hold the most powerful politicians hostage to their interests. When their bets pay off they claim the winnings as their own. When they lose, they run to governments and public institutions to protect them against loss with pronouncements about how the poor must tighten their belts and become more fiscally prudent. In the United States, the media keep the public preoccupied with the details of our president's sex life and calls for his impeachment for lying about an inconsequential affair. Meanwhile, Congress and the president are working out of view to push through funding increases for the IMF to bail out the banks who put the entire global financial system at risk with reckless lending. They are advancing financial deregulation to encourage even more reckless financial speculation. And they are negotiating international agreements such as the Multilateral Agreement on Investment intended to make the world safe for financial speculators by preventing governments from intervening to regulate their activities. To understand what is happening we must educate ourselves about the nature of money and the ways of those who decide who will have access to it and who will not. As a medium of exchange, money is one of the most useful of human inventions. But as we become ever more dependent on it to acquire the basic means of our sustenance, we give to the institutions and people who control its creation and allocation the power to decide whether we shall live in prosperity or destitution. With the increasing breakdown of community and governmental social safety nets, our money system has become the most effective instrument of social control and extraction ever devised. The fact that few of us think of the money system as an instrument of control makes it more powerful and efficient as an instrument of wealth extraction. What of capitalism, the self-proclaimed champion of democracy, market freedom, peace and prosperity? Modern capitalism involves a concentration of wealth by the few to the exclusion of the many; it is more than a system of human elites. It has evolved into a system of autonomous rule by money and for money that functions on autopilot beyond the control of any human actor or responsiveness to any human sensibility. Contrary to its claims, capitalism is showing itself to be the mortal enemy of democracy and the market. Its relationship to democracy and the market economy is now much the same as the relationship of a cancer to the body whose life energy it expropriates. Cancer is a pathology that occurs when an otherwise healthy cell forgets that it is a part of the body and begins to pursue its own unlimited growth without regard to the consequences for the whole. The growth of the cancerous cell deprives the healthy cells of nourishment and ultimately kills both the body and itself. Capitalism does much the same to the societies it infests. One reason we fail to recognise the seriousness of our predicament is because we fail to see how capitalism is destroying the world's real wealth. It destroys social capital when it breaks up unions, bids down wages, and treats workers as expendable commodoties, leaving society to absorb the family and community breakdown and violence that are inevitable consequences. It destroys institutional capital when it undermines the function of governments and democracy by weakening environmental health and labour standards, and extracting public subsidies, bailouts and tax exemptions which inflate corporate profits while passing the burdens of risk to governments and the working poor. We arejust beginning to wake up to the fact that the industrial era has in a mere century consumed a consequential portion of the natural capital it took evolution millions of years to create. It is now drawing down our social, institutional and human capital as well. Democracy and markets are wonderful ways of organising the political and economic life of a society to allocate resources fairly and efficiently while securing the freedom and sovereignty of the individual. But modern capitalism is about using money to make money for people who already have more of it than they need. Its institutions breed inequality, exclusion, environmental destruction, social irresponsibility and economic instability while homogenizing cultures, weakening institutions of democracy and eroding the moral and social fabric of society. Though capitalism cloaks itself in the rhetoric of democracy and the market, it is dedicated to the principle that sovereignty properly resides not in the person, but rather in money and property. Under democracy and the market, the people rule. Under capitalism, money rules. The challenge is to replace the global capitalist economy with a properly regulated and locally rooted market economy that invests in the regeneration of living capital, increases net beneficial economic output, distributes that output justly and equitably to meet the basic needs of everyone, strengthens the institutions of democracy and the market, and returns money to its proper role as the servant of productive activity. It should favour smaller local enterprise over global corporations, encourage local ownership, penalise financial speculation, and give priority to meeting the basic needs of the many over providing luxuries and diversions for the wealthy few. In most aspects it should do exactly the opposite of what the global capitalist economy is doing. Most of the responsibility and initiative must come from local and national levels. Supporting nations and localities in this task should become the core agenda of the United Nations, as the protection of people and communities from predatory global corporations and finance is arguably the central security issue of our time. The first positive step would be to dismantle the World Trade Organisation on the ground that there is no legitimate need for a global police force to protect global corporations from the actions of democratically-elected national and local governments so that the richest one per cent of humanity can become even richer at the expense of the rest. The WTO is a powerful, but illegitimate and democratically unaccountable institution put in place through largely secret negotiations with little or no public debate to serve purposes largely conltrary to the public interest. The 99 percent of the world's people whose interests it does not serve have every right to eliminate it. Addressing the real need to police the global economy requires an organisation very different from the WTO - an open and democratic organisation with the mandate and power to set and enforce rules holding those corporations that operate across national borders democratically accountable to the people and priorities of the nations where they operate. It should as well have the power to regulate and tax international financial flows and institutions. And it should have a mandate to make speculation unprofitable and to help protect the integrity of domestic financial institutions from the financial markets and the predatory practices of international financial speculators. There are obvious questions as to whether such proposals are politically feasible given the stranglehold of corporations and big money over our political processes. Yet we could use this same reasoning to conclude that human survival itself is not politically feasible. Global corporations and financial institutions are our collective creations. And we have both the right and the means to change or replace them if they do not serve. Dr David Korten is president of the People-Centered Development Forum in Washington State, USA <http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf> and the author of 'When Corporations Rule the World' and the forthcoming 'The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism'. - - --------------6FBCF3F02DF50E9512DB50EB-- - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message [View Less]

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Re: Irony
by Richard.Bragg＠ssa.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The trouble is that most people think irony has something to do with metal! vin(a)shore.net on 24/10/98 16:16:12 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com cc: (bcc: Richard Bragg/UK/SSA_EUROPE) Subject: Re: Irony At 04:19 PM 10/23/98 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: >>> Dear Friend, >> >>I don't know the English term but in my native language what is >>described is call 'chaining letters', supposed to be a method to >>become rich very rapidly. That was illegal, … [View More]

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Postition determination
by Mok-Kong Shen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am told that GPS can only locate to about 100 meters but a refined technique can do that to 0.5 meter. There seems to be a practically useful method of somewhat different vein. See http://www.rfid.org M. K. Shen

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I'm getting mail from people i never heard off...
by Jan Dobrucki 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is a weird one. It had nothing in the body of the message... so what the heck can this all mean? JD Return-Path: <Mohammed_Lazhar(a)cch-lis.com> Delivered-To: s1180(a)qmail.pjwstk.waw.pl Received: (qmail 26032 invoked from network); 22 Oct 1998 13:46:38 -0000 Received: from ny1.cch-lis.com (firewall-user(a)208.203.201.2) by qmail.pjwstk.waw.pl with SMTP; 22 Oct 1998 13:46:38 -… [View More]

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by Jay T. Lee 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

application/www-form-urlencoded

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Re: Word choice
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> How does this differ from the motives of your ordinary politician? > > Post-revolution, will there be caliber limitations when hunting them? Hunt all you want. The post-revolution utopia will be administered by persons of the same mentality as those we have administering our Democratic Republic now. They will use the same if not more advanced techniques to acquire and maintain power. "Nature abhors a vacuum", right? Mike

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Rendering ( was MIB Subponeas )
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Protective intelligence programs are based on the idea that the risk of > violence is minimized if persons with the interest, capacity and willingness > to mount an attack can be identified and rendered harmless before they > approach a protected person. I'm all for reducing the risk of violence but... Interest, capacity and willingness are insufficient when taken alone. Collecting real names and addresses is, apparently, enough of a concrete step to at least begin the "… [View More]

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Cameras in Public Places
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Privacy is also needed on public places (e.g., violated by face > recognition systems) These early systems have got to have some major problems. The appropriate way of dealing with them is to wait for some people to be misidentified and then file suit against the municipality using the equipment. Harassment, false arrest, invasion of privacy, abuse of power, loss of reputation, loss of the ability to earn a living - take a few of the cities for $10 or $20 million and they'll get the … [View More]

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IP: Uncle Sam Wants Spooks.
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:31:49 -0600 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Uncle Sam Wants Spooks. Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Status: U Source: Wired http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15816.html Uncle Sam Wants Spooks by Arik Hesseldahl 4:00 … [View More]a.m.26.Oct.98.PST With the Cold War over and United States intelligence agencies in flux, both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency have begun to struggle with an issue plaguing the private sector: how to hire and retain talented employees. In a world that increasingly uses computer networks to communicate and transfer information, the agencies are specifically looking for people who can navigate the Net and other networks. The CIA launched the most ambitious hiring program in the agency's history earlier this year, and it is expected to hire record numbers of case officers between now and 2005. Along with a new, Java-heavy recruiting section on the agency's home page, the agency is advertising widely in magazines like The Economist and recruiting on college campuses and within the military. "Our recruiting efforts are much more focused than they have been in recent years and we have a better idea of our target audience," said CIA spokeswoman Anya Gilsher. "We're facing increasingly difficult challenges like terrorism, mass destructive weapons, and narcotics. These are all very difficult targets, which require innovative approaches and a talented work force." Computer programmers and engineers are as in demand in the intelligence business as they are in any other industry, Gilsher said. "We're looking for people who can deal with different computer systems and software. Someone who is creative in their ability to handle and manipulate information technology and build programs that could be useful to us," she said. While Gilsher would not go into specifics, an article in The New York Times in June suggests that the proliferation of computer networks around the globe has, for example, complicated the ability of agents to slip in and out of countries covertly using fake passports. It's a different story for the National Security Agency, the country's super-secret signals intelligence agency. In an unusually candid series of answers to written questions, the NSA said it is struggling with one of the same issues plaguing the private sector: employee retention. A recent article in the magazine Government Executive said the agency is suffering a "brain drain," losing some of its best code-makers and code-breakers to the private sector. In a written statement, NSA spokesman Patrick Weadon confirmed that the agency is working harder than it has in the past to attract and keep its employees. "NSA, like most of the nation's IT community, has had significant challenges in hiring and retaining IT personnel," Weadon wrote. "Having said that, NSA has been successful attracting computer professionals with the stimulating nature of the work, student programs, and the total benefits package." The NSA also happens to be the country's single-biggest employer of mathematicians, and expects to hire more than 100 Ph.D.-level mathematicians in the next three years. Like the CIA, the NSA has launched a recruitment Web page, which has attracted 20 percent of its recent resumes. The NSA also posts its job openings on employment Web sites like Job Web and Career Mosaic. The agency has been aggressively marketing itself to students, offering several internship programs. One program gives college juniors 12 weeks of summer work experience, after which they return to school for their senior year with a job offer in hand. Another program allows college students to alternate working for the agency and going to school each semester. Some personnel also qualify for a fully funded graduate studies program, during which they can go to school full time for a year and still earn a salary, provided they commit to work for NSA for three years. NSA employees aren't likely to take jobs for the money, however. Computer science jobs at the NSA pay between US$35,000 and $70,000 a year, much less than in the private sector. "IT professionals seek out the NSA due to the unique nature of our work," Weadon wrote. "This has made us successful in attracting computer professionals over the past several years, and we believe this appeal will continue into the future." Not everyone agrees. Steve Aftergood, a research analyst for the Federation of American Scientists, said the allure of working in the intelligence community is wearing thin. "The intelligence agencies have an unattractive air about them," Aftergood said. "They have an aura of failure about them, especially in recent years. Rightfully or wrongly, they have been attacked as incompetent and even obsolete. Those charges may or may not be true, but they cast a long shadow over the agencies in the public mind." In recent years, the CIA has faced its share of problems within and criticisms from without. This year, for example, the agency was criticized for not having predicted nuclear weapons tests by India and Pakistan. In 1994, CIA employee Aldrich Ames was caught after revealing the identities of CIA operatives in the Soviet Union over the course of nine years. For its part, the NSA has been criticized for its efforts to keep strong encryption systems out of the hands of private citizens. Both the CIA and NSA still maintain a technological edge over the private sector, but Aftergood said that lead is shrinking. "The reality is that the private sector now competes in many areas that used to be the exclusive domain of the intelligence agencies," he said, citing encryption, computer software implementation, and analysis of foreign military and economic conditions as examples. The schools that train the spies and intelligence analysts of the future are placing a new importance on learning to use the Net and other online resources to get the job done. Robert Heibel, director of the Research/Intelligence Analyst Training Program at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, said students get a thorough exposure to the Net and computers in general. The program trains students to "drink from the firehose," to glean important nuggets of information as tools for decision makers, Heibel said. Graduates of the program have gone on to become analysts for the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies swimming in the intelligence community's alphabet soup, he said. "We teach a concept called open source and public domain intelligence -- that is, taking what is in the public domain and creating new knowledge by analysis and interpretation," he said. "If you spend 20 percent of your intelligence budget on open source intelligence you'll be able to answer 70 percent of the boss's questions." Applying for a job with the CIA is easy: Send a resume. The CIA scans the resumes it gets using optical character recognition technology. An applicant for either agency must also submit to a thorough background investigation, a polygraph test, and medical and psychological examinations, said Gilsher, who went through the process herself. The process currently takes five to six months, but the agency is hoping to shorten that to three or four months, she said. Copyright © 1994-98 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved. ---------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **************************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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' [View Less]

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Re: Java applet security, exportability, Jon Postel haiku
by Martin Minow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A few Java comments on David Conrad's <drc(a)adni.net> questions: > >As they go through the data entry process I collect bits of entropy from >mouse and keyboard events in a java.security.SecureRandom object. Java 1.1 lets you attach event handlers to every user-interaction class. For example, you can watch mouse movement, mouse entry and exit into your components, and character entry in all text fields. You might try adding handlers and capturing mouse position and the system … [View More]

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RE: capitalism run amuck by Korton
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

David Korton wrote: > exchange rates and stock markets into wild gyrations wholly > unrelated to any underlying economic reality. Who has both the motive to deny economic reality and the power to do so in the short term? > To understand what is happening we must educate ourselves > about the nature of money http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/money.html > we give to the institutions and people who control its > creation and allocation the power to decide whether we … [View More]

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log files (was: Re: dbts: Cryptographic Dog Stocks, The Dirigible Biplane, and Sending the Wizards Back to Menlo Park )
by Steve Bellovin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> It strikes me that while Mr. Hettinga and other e$ seers may have > spent the past decade considering how to allow transactional exchanges to > escape a human linkage, most professional sysops and network managers have > been concerned with how to strengthen the linkage between on-line accounts, > actions, and audit trails -- and the humans to which a user's account has > been assigned. Leaving aside the rest of this discussion, Vin touches on a point that I think has been … [View More]

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Re: Rendering ( was MIB Subponeas )
by ILovToHack＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

First of all i want to apoligize for posting this. Second i am a little off on the AP bot could some one please take the time to explain this to me. Thanks. -Mike

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Available For Download: Chapter on Electronic Cash for Upcoming Handbook by CRC Press
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text From: brands(a)xs4all.nl X-Sender: brands(a)xs4all.nl (Unverified) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:09:06 +0100 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Available For Download: Chapter on Electronic Cash for Upcoming Handbook by CRC Press Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: <dbs(a)philodox.com> Precedence: Bulk List-Subscribe: <mailto:requests@philodox.com?subject=subscribe%20dbs> X-Web-… [View More]

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17 Dec '03

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Telecom Italia to Appoint ceo this
by totaltel＠total.emap.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Welcome to the Total Telecom news update. http://www.totaltele.com ------------------------------------- today's top story:- Scramble to Appoint Telecom Italia ceo this Week Telecom Italia SpA, Italy's former telephone monopoly, aims to find a chief executive within a week, an official said, after executive chairman Gian Mario Rossignolo resigned, ending a 10-month tenure http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20250/worldmore.html ***************************************** ITU … [View More]Plenipotentiary 98 Conference in Minneapolis. with the conference moving into it's third week, keep up to date with events as they unfold over the remaining two weeks. Plus an update of the election results. http://www.totaltele.com/plenipot98/ ***************************************** current Total Telecom headlines include..... Nokia Turns to Networks After Becoming Top Mobile Phone Company Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest mobile phone company, said it's introducing several products that will boost subscriber capacity up to 10 times as it plans to increase its presence as a network supplier... http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20274/worldmore.html ------------------ SBC Moves in on Bell Atlantic with Completion of SNET Buy SBC Communications Inc. completed its $6.5 billion purchase of Southern New England Telecommunications Corp., moving the No. 2 U.S. local telephone company into No. 1 Bell Atlantic Corp.'s territory. http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20270/worldmore.html ---------------- Carrier 1 Offers ISPs a Pay-Per-Use Service Carrier 1 has rolled out the first usage-based billing service for pan-European wholesale IP traffic. Europe's newest wholesaler is pitching the pay-per-packet facility as a cost-saving option to attract http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20275/worldmore.html --------------- Omnicom Revived by Long Distance Supermarket Tie-up Omnicom SA shares surged 20% after Carrefour SA, France's largest food retailer, picked the French phone company to offer long-distance phone services to its clients. In a partnership with Omnicom, Carrefour...... http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20271/worldmore.html ---------------- Telekom Says No Date Set for Share Sale Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's largest telephone company, said it hasn't set a date to sell a second slice of the company, denying a report that a share sale planned for next spring would be postponed. http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20272/worldmore.html ---------------- plus Asian-American Axis Leaves Europe in the Cold FCC Begins Overhaul of Complex Phone Subsidy System Telecom Italia Chairman Rossignolo Resigns Telia Raises Netia Stake Ahead of Polish Deregulation AT&T, BellSouth to Form New Company to Manage Wireless Venture .....go to the front page for the full list of headlines http://www.totaltele.com ******************************************** Forgotten your password? For help go to:- http://www.totaltele.com/register/reghelp.shtml Any other problems, email:- webmaster(a)totaltele.com ------------------- If you wish to be removed from future mailings, please reply with "Remove" in the subject line and we will automatically block you from this list. Thank you for reading Total Telecom [View Less]

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digital cash
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am reading http://www.xs4all.nl/~brands/draft.pdf Attached in mirrored at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/bw1 I only built THEM. I am not into crypto. But sort-of understand how it works. Let's hope this gets settled. bill Title: Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms Jump to Forum Click Image to Jump to Next Article Go to Text Only Print Version Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms by William H. Payne … [View More]

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unsubcribe
by StoneCold-PT 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

unsubcribe ---Chip Mefford <cmefford(a)video.avwashington.com> wrote: > > > > Where possible, > > fuk a bunch of airlines anyway. > > Travel by train is a lot more enjoyable, relaxing, fun. > Folks that travel by train could fly, but would > preferr to enjoy the ride, cause it ain't no cheaper, > > except, !! > > you can pay with cash and show no id and go > where you would like in the lower 48. > > anonymously. > > On … [View More]

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backtracking.....
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could someone point or tell me where and what good backtracking problems could I get (then I'll implement it in parallel). e.g. queen's tour knight's tour Could you give me new and interesting ones. Thank you very much.

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17 Dec '03

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FW: Death, Politics and the Net
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

...and I was just thinking the other day it would be cool to create a government blocking service maintaining a list of disallowed IPs and providing a click-thru redirect agreement complete with legal enforcement. ;) Matt -----Original Message----- From: James S. Tyre [mailto:j.s.tyre@CYBERPASS.NET] Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 2:59 PM To: CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Death, Politics and the Net [There *is* a cyberia connection in here, somewhere, I think.] I'm sure you all (… [View More]in the U.S., at least) have heard of the murdered Tennessee state senator, and that his opponent in the upcoming election is now charged with the crime. Well, turns out that the boys aren't just from anywhere in TN, but from Putnam County, home of the cookie-monster suit between the local guvvies and the Putnam Pit <http://www.putnampit.com/>. So, always interested in alternative viewpoints, thought I'd see what the Pit had to say, in it's own inimitable way. Found that its home page now says what follows. Thought it might interest some, for reasons unrelated to the alleged crime. ---- Welcome to The Putnam Pit online Because of the costs associated with producing The Putnam Pit caused by local government civil rights violations, government officials, employees and their agents may no longer access this site without a subscription. This site is a private forum. It is private property and protected by copyright law and the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution. If you do not work for or represent the Cookeville or Putnam County, Tenn., governments, are not using a government computer or government Internet account and agree no portion of any material posted here will be made available to the governments of Cookeville or Putnam County, Tenn., or their agents, click here for free access. Notice to employees, officials or agents of the Cookeville or Putnam County, Tenn., governments, and those using a government computer or government Internet account: If you are an employee, official or agent of the Cookeville or Putnam County, Tenn., governments, or you are using a government computer or government Internet account you must purchase a subscription to access The Putnam Pit. A subscription costs $20 and may be obtained by sending a check to The Putnam Pit, P.O. Box 1483, Cookeville, Tenn. 38503. If you access any page of the material managed and owned by The Putnam Pit, Inc., without a subscription, you agree by that access to pay $500 per incident of access to each page accessed every time you access it. You further agree to waive all rights to contest collection of any debt thereby incurred, and enter into this agreement on behalf of the government entity on whose computer or through whose Internet account your access was facilitated. You further represent by clicking below and accessing The Putnam Pit's private and copyrighted property to allow The Putnam Pit or its agents to inspect the hard drive of your computer to determine the number of times the site was accessed according to he terms of this contract to determine the amount owed. click here [View Less]

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Oct. 27 column -- Halloween
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:17:25 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:06:53 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: vin(a)dali.lvrj.com Mime-Version: 1.0 To: vinsends(a)ezlink.com From: Vin_Suprynowicz(a)lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: Oct. 27 column -- Halloween Resent-From: vinsends(a)ezlink.com X-Mailing-List: <vinsends(a)ezlink.com> archive/latest/576 X-Loop: vinsends(a)ezlink.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: vinsends-request(a)ezlink.com FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA … [View More]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED OCT. 27, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Thoughts on the occasion of the October moon The column for which I receive the most "repeat" requests remains my 1992 Halloween submission, "Thoughts on the occasion of the October moon." That essay follows here, as it originally appeared: # # # Halloween approaches, the day when many an American parent will suit up the little ones in black robes, matching 17th century conical hats, and oversized warty noses, sending them off to delight the neighbors with this impersonation of a witch, as traditionally represented from 17th century Austrian paintings of the Hexensabbat right up through Disney's "Snow White." Even the newspapers generally play along, running the results of polls that ask Americans how many actually believe in such mythological creatures as ghosts, trolls and witches. But witches are not mythological creatures, of course. They were the very real practitioners of a religion which pre-dated Christianity in Europe, and which had coexisted quite peaceably with the new Christian church for more than 1,000 years, from the Council of Nicaea until the fateful year 1484 A.D., under the quite sensible rule of the Canon Episcopi, which instructed Christian clerics through all those years that -- in cases where sorcery or commerce with the devil was charged but could not be proven -- it was the accuser, not the accused, who was to suffer the penalty for those crimes. Needless to say, this held false charges to a minimum. All that changed after 1484, when an ambitious but ethically challenged Dominican friar and embezzler by the name of Heinrich Kramer managed to convince Pope Innocent VIII to set the Holy Office of the Inquisition onto the witches, using torture to extract confessions, authorizing anonymous accusations without any right for the accused to face her accuser, and granting the soon-busy witch-hunters the rights to seize and divide the estates of the accused (who were always found guilty), an invitation to systematic legal looting so foul that it was never allowed again in Western history ... until our current War on Drugs, of course. As many as 9 million persons -- some doubtless practitioners of the Old Craft, but many, especially in later years, just as doubtless falsely accused -- were burned or hanged before the burning times faded away with a kind of embarrassed shrug in the early 1700s. The crime of which they were accused? Worshipping a female deity, a goddess of the earth, and her male consort, the goat-horned male god of fertility. Christian clerics, themselves mostly illiterate, called this female deity "the abomination," which has subsequently been interpreted to mean the horned devil of Hebrew tradition. But practitioners of a fertility cult would have had little reason to mock the late-comer Christianity by hanging crosses upside down or reciting masses backwards. "Satanism," to the extent that it ever existed (and I suspect more black masses were chanted on London film sets in the 1960s and '70s than anywhere in the four centuries preceding), is a very different thing. # # # Why should we care about the fate of the witches? For starters, it appears the witches stressed not the superiority of either sex over the other, but rather a balance between male and female principles -- an obvious notion for early agriculturalists trying to come to a metaphorical understanding of the germination of crops in the "mother" earth thanks to the intervention of those primeval "male" agencies, the sun and the rain. But the culture which destroyed the witches was not merely male-dominated. The history of our European ancestors of the 16th and 17th centuries presents a spectacle of bloodthirsty intolerance, a perverse catalogue of self-flagellation and repulsion at sexuality which found outlet only in the frenzied drive to conquer and enslave both the natural world and any other culture that presented itself. No matter how we may celebrate their competitive superiority from a safe distance, this was clearly a bunch of sick puppies. Was it the plagues, which quite often left the continent literally in the hands of teenagers? Whatever the reason, using their superior technology of sail and cannon, and helped mightily by bacteriological allies to which they had developed at least partial immunity, the Europeans didn't merely conquer the indigenous populations of the Americas, they ruthlessly eradicated whole cultures, and with them any medical or other knowledge they might have had to offer, sweeping all aside as the "spawn of the devil." Meantime, European women were being stripped of their property and other rights (many "witches," curiously, were widows of independent means), at precisely the time when their presense in the councils of church and state might have maintained some semblance of sanity. The Europeans of the time adopted little of our hypocritical modern-day pretense of being horrified at "drug use" per se -- they happily imported coffee, tobacco, opium, and cocaine. In fact, they forced the opium trade on China when it proved to be the only thing for which the Chinese would trade silver bullion. But while they reveled in novel forms of drunkenness, what did horrify those brave conquerors was the use of any hallucinogenic substance as a means to religious revelation, a superstitious dread of alternative paths to spiritual enlightenment which still hangs on in our aforementioned and thoroughly irrational "War on Drugs." (Which drug is involved in more incidents of spouse battery and inter-family murder by a factor of millions-to-1: alcohol or LSD? Which will get you 20 years in the federal pen, while the other now comes in convenient "wide-mouth 12-packs"?) The wholesale eradication of the cultures of the Aztecs and the Incas was justified not because of their practice of slavery and ritual slaughter -- Pizarro and Cortes would have found those familiar enough -- but because they were found to be using peyotl, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and ololiuhqui (a variety of morning glory seed) in their religious rituals, sure signs of "witchcraft," and coincidentally a method of seeking direct revelations from the gods which really delivered the goods -- hardly fair competition for the modest little Spanish communion wafer. Why did the conquistadors relate such practices to the witches back home? Because the witches, too, in a triumph of empirical science (Northern Europe has no reliably safe natural hallucinogens), had found ways to turn such normally deadly poisons as henbane, monkshood, and belladonna into an externally-applied ointment which would promote religious revelation by inducing a sensation of flying, followed by ecstatic visions. (The stuff worked best when applied to the mucous membranes with a smooth wooden rod or staff -- the "witch's broomstick" of our modern Halloween.) This was the great evil of the witches, and the justification for destroying millennia of the (start ital)materia medica(end ital) which they had gathered -- the traditional folk knowledge of medicinal plants which was largely destroyed with the Wise Women of 16th and 17th century Europe, and which we are only painfully piecing together again today. # # # It's commonly held that this order of midwives and herbal healers were a superstitious lot, rejecting the more "scientific" advances of the academically trained doctors of their time. The truth is just the opposite. What could be more scientific than carefully observing and noting the effects of medicinal herbs over a period of generations? What could be a more superstitious pile of nonsense than the theories of the 2nd century quack Galen, whose theory that health is dominated by the "four humours" remained gospel for centuries, refined with the addition of harsh purgatives and the exquisite nonsense of blood-letting? So fatal was the standard practice of medicine in the centuries after the witches were eliminated that most leading statesmen of the time -- George Washington included -- died while being bled by doctors. (Washington woke up with a sore throat at the age of 67, and died within 48 hours after receiving a cathartic enema, being dosed with poisonous mercury and antimony, and having literally half his blood -- four pints -- drained from his body, all in keeping with the best medical advice of the day.) All three of Louis XVI's elder brothers were killed by the blood-letting of physicians during youthful illnesses. The last direct heir to the Bourbon throne was preserved only after the queen mother bundled him away to a locked room and refused on pain of death to let any of the court physicians have at him. Superstition? Ask most modern patients whether they would rather be injected with a purified white extract, or swallow a tea made from the same herb, and see whether there isn't a "superstitious" preference for the power of the magic syringe or even for surgery over the remedy in its naturally-occurring form, even when the latter offers better control of dosage and side effects. Chew up a bunch of bug-eaten leaves? How primitive! The ancient Egyptians were fighting infection with fruit molds as early as the date of the Ebers papyrus, but thousands had to die of pneumonia, puerperal fever and meningitis, all through the late Middle Ages and right through the 19th century, before Fleming could get anyone to take another look at penicillin. It was with similar reluctance -- and not until 1795, when Napoleon seemed likely to put them all out of business unless they got practical in a hurry -- that the established brotherhood of "scientific" physicians finally acknowledged that the "old wives' remedy," lemon juice, was a better cure for naval scurvy than all their acids and caustic salts put together. # # # This is the tradition of ignorance, intolerance, and futility which we honor when we dress up our children to ridicule warty old witches, or when we protest (as parents groups in Le Mesa, Calif. and elsewhere continue to do every year) that Roald Dahls' book "The Witches" should be banned from school libraries because it "portrays witches as ordinary-looking women." Only the dimming effects of time -- and the fact that the Inquisition pretty much got them all -- render this outrage acceptable. To find a modern parallel, imagine the (fully appropriate) public outcry if it were discovered that some small town in Bavaria, from which for some undisclosed reason all the Jewish families disappeared in 1942, had since decided to launch a new Halloween custom, in which many of the town's blonde-haired little children were dressed up in yarmulkes and artificially large beaked noses, and sent out to play pranks and demand loot under the guise of being "nasty little Jews." Imagine further that the more religious local townfolk demanded the removal of certain children's books from the local library, because they depicted Jews as "people or ordinary human appearance." A healthy skepticism about many of our modern-day "witches" and some of their New Age mumbo jumbo may be in order ... though surely it's not up to us to choose which of their exotic notions it's "acceptable" to explore. But shall we extend our inherited intolerance to the many serious researchers now trying to rediscover the healing properties of plants, to overcome centuries of medical libel designed to convince us that mild-mannered natural remedies which can take weeks to rebuild our immunities are not worth our time, that the only valuable medicines are purified (and thus patentable) toxins that kill "bad" cells in a test tube, no matter how much damage they cause the "host organism" in the process? Excepting the odd mountain hamlet in Gwynedd, the Tirol, and the Hebrides, our direct links to the Wise Women of old are probably lost for good. But rediscovering their worldview, a beneficent vision of humankind inextricably balanced in nature's mandala, is a journey well worth beginning anew -- perhaps even on the night of the Samhain moon. # # # Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The web sites for the Suprynowicz column are at http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm, and http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. Watch for Vin's book, "Send in the Waco Killers," coming from Huntington Press in February, 1999. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John Hay, 1872 The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943 * * * --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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' [View Less]

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IP: Look Who's Minding The Store
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 05:13:01 -0500 (EST) To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com From: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) Subject: IP: Look Who's Minding The Store Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/smith/981027_cs_look_whos_mindi.shtml William Reinsch is the Under Secretary for Export Administration (BXA) from … [View More]the U.S. Commerce Department. Mr. Reinsch has been with the Commerce Department since 1994, starting his service under Ron Brown. As head of BXA, Reinsch is charged with administering and enforcing American high-tech export control policies and anti-boycott laws. Reinsch controls billions of dollars in American technology exports from his position at BXA. For example, Reinsch controls high-speed computers, advanced secure communications systems and encryption software. According to the Commerce Department, Reinsch's job also includes helping "Russia and other newly emerging nations develop effective export controls systems and convert their defense industries to civilian production." Interestingly, Mr. Reinsch has zero experience in either technical matters or military affairs. Reinsch's only qualification is that he was an aide to Senator Rockefeller and former Senator Heniz. This is quite unusual for a person charged with such an export job involving the international "defense" industry. According to the Commerce Department, Reinsch's only business experience consists of "President of the Saint Mark Elderly Housing Corporation." It is certain that Reinsch's business experience running rental housing for the aged has little application toward the export of advanced defense related equipment to Russia and China such as super-computers. Yet, during Mr. Reinsch's tenure a wide range of advanced technology has been shipped outright to China, India and Russia. I once had the opportunity to ask Mr. Reinsch about one specific transfer he worked on in 1995 for Loral. According to Commerce documentation, Mr. Reinsch exchanged a series of highly classified memos with Commerce lawyer Bettie Baca on the export of Loral GLOBALSTAR satellites to be launched by the Russians. President Clinton signed the waiver for Loral to launch from the former Soviet Union in July 1996. Clinton's waiver included the transfer of encrypted telemetry control systems to China for the GLOBALSTAR satellites. I cornered Bill Reinsch in April 1998 at the Rayburn Congressional office building after a conference on President Clinton's encryption policy. At first, Mr. Reinsch claimed he did not author the documents on Loral satellite exports. I then presented an official list of items from the U.S. Commerce Department that showed he indeed did author the 1995 Loral memos. At this point Reinsch's face went pale and he ran from the room. I gave chase, demanding answers with tape recorder in hand, attracting the attention of several dozen Congressional staffers and a select few from the press as witnesses. Reinsch, however, was faster. He pushed past the crowded entrance and dashed down the Congressional hallway, running in full stride in his three-piece suit. Since then, Mr. Reinsch has refused all requests for an interview. Until recently, Reinsch controlled commercial satellite exports. President Clinton passed the authority to control satellite exports to the Commerce Department by executive order in 1996. Republican legislation signed by President Clinton in October 1998 puts that authority back to the State Department and the Defense Department. Another example of Mr. Reinsch and his experience with the defense industry through elderly housing is the export of high speed computers to Russian and Chinese nuclear weapons labs. In 1995 Bill Reinsch wrote a memo to Ron Brown detailing a secret meeting with a group of computer CEOs, consisting of Apple, AT&T, Compaq, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Digital Equipment Corporation, Tandem, Sun and Unisys. The group is called the CSPP or Computer Systems Policy Project. CSPP computer executives have backed Clinton since 1992 with big bucks. For example, Apple's chairman John Schully is a major donor to the Clinton campaigns and a long time supporter. In 1995 the CSPP lobby group was led by Ken Kay, an employee of Tony Podesta, the brother of White House advisor John Podesta. John Podesta is now Clinton's Chief of Staff. In 1995, John Podesta worked at the White House running encryption and super computer policy. During the same period of time, the CSPP and Clinton officials began a series of classified briefings on encryption and super computer export policy. In 1995 IBM and Silicon Graphics sold super-computers directly to Russian Atomic weapon labs. IBM has since been fined $8.5 million on the $7 million sale. In fact, Commerce spokesman Eugene Cotilli pointed out in October 1998 that the Commerce Department investigation led to the conviction. Of course, Commerce did not start investigating until the Russian minister in charge of MINATOM (Ministry of Atomics) announced publicly the U.S. computers would be used for nuclear weapons research. Cotilli also did not deny that there is NO investigation of CSPP member Silicon Graphics and their sale of four super computers to Russian nuclear engineers at the Chelyabinsk-70 weapons lab in the fall of 1996. Thus, while IBM is convicted - Clinton supporter and Podesta associate client Silicon Graphics remains uninvestigated. In 1998, White House Special Counsel to the President Michael B. Waitzkin wrote "In January 1997, Mr. Podesta resigned his part-time position at Podesta Associates and returned to the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff. Mr. Podesta was requested by Senior Administration Officials to undertake certain responsibilities with respect to encryption policy. He did not, however, undertake these responsibilities until he received specific approval from the White House Counsel's Office with respect to his involvement in these matters." Thus, Mr. Podesta sought and obtained approval for his conflict of interest in 1997. Whether John and Tony Podesta shared a conflict of interest in 1995 has so far remained unresolved but not uninvestigated. House investigators in the Cox/Dix committee and on the House National Security Committee have sought information on the CSPP and John Podesta. Mr. John Podesta refuses to be interviewed. The fact is, Podesta Associate employee Ken Kay made thousands of dollars in donations to the DNC in 1994 and 1995. Yet, according to CSPP lawyer C. Boyden Gray, Ken Kay only donated $2,500 of which $1,250 was returned by the DNC in the form of a painting. According to official Federal Election Commission records, none of Mr. Kay's donations totaled to $2,500 or $1,250. Mr. Kay also will not respond to interview requests. The CSPP is, in part, still funded by the taxpayer. The CSPP is now helping the Clinton administration design the next generation internet and getting paid to do it. Obviously, many of the CSPP members will benefit financially as each new Internet contract is offered and they sell more equipment. In 1998 CSPP lawyer C. Boyden Gray claimed that official Clinton secret meetings began in November 1995. Reinsch, however, clearly wrote to Ron Brown about an earlier secret meeting in June of 1995, when Tony Podesta employed Ken Kay and John Podesta was charged with computer oversight policy. The materials given to CSPP members at the White House on encryption are considered so sensitive that they have no public classification level such as secret or top secret. The true secrets of Clinton's encryption policy involve hidden back doors and exploitable features built into computer products. The secrets given to CSPP members involved classified means of electronic surveillance to be built inside domestic products by the manufacturers. The Clinton administration offered billions of tax dollars as incentive to bug every fax, phone and computer built. Clinton offered military chip designs backed by decades of cold war research. The CSPP was given access to military algorithms and taxpayer funded programs as incentives to adopt a secret "back-door" concept for computers and communications. William Reinsch, John Podesta, Ken Kay and the DNC all refuse to comment on Bill Clinton's secret project to bug America and the world. =================================================================== William Reinsch & CSPP Source Document index - http://www.softwar.net/reinsch.html ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net softwar(a)softwar.net Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 3B7CB41BBBE190B12082FA2032662C126449AADEFF70F107EFB810A50A8E6892 2EFAA5B363ABEB33D85F23BCBE60C4416359D229F36E4703348090FDC45794FC 7C2CC1D8D72F6184 ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 10/27/1998 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================ **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **************************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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' [View Less]

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Moore is Moore
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 05:38:30 -0600 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Atomic Chip Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Tuesday 27 Oct, 1998 NOW - THE ATOMIC CHIP Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark said today they have created an atom-… [View More]

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Oct. 30 column -- playing out the clock
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:24:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:16:50 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: vin(a)dali.lvrj.com Mime-Version: 1.0 To: vinsends(a)ezlink.com From: Vin_Suprynowicz(a)lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: Oct. 30 column -- playing out the clock Resent-From: vinsends(a)ezlink.com X-Mailing-List: <vinsends(a)ezlink.com> archive/latest/579 X-Loop: vinsends(a)ezlink.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: vinsends-request(a)ezlink.com FROM … [View More]MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED OCT. 30, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Gamely playing out the clock in a hopeless contest Every even-numbered year, literally scores of candidates come trooping through the offices of the newspaper where I work, seeking our endorsement for every office from constable or justice of the peace, to governor or U.S. senator. Playing out the game by the established rules, we cross-question them on their little memorized spiels about how they "respect the Second Amendment" and "want to make government more efficient and more responsive to the people's needs." By and large, those candidates who start out insisting they "respect the Second Amendment" will quickly agree with any new hare-brained scheme you can propose to register or restrict where folks can carry guns, or to ban people from owning "really dangerous" semi-automatic weapons or concealable handguns, for which "obviously no one can have a legitimate use." (Uzis seem to be a favorite weapon for which "no one can have a legitimate use" this year. The only ones available in local gun shops are semi-autos, of course -- essentially a 9mm handgun with a shoulder stock.) Naturally, those who "want to make government more efficient" can rarely name a single government office or program they'd close. But every year, a few candidates show up who actually understand a little economics, have read the Constitution, and volunteer that the purpose of government is to protect individual rights. Pinching ourselves and wondering how they "slipped through," every year we celebrate these few brave souls in our editorial pages. Many people vote for them. And then what happens? Taxes go up, more laws are passed, government grows more intrusive, and our rights are eroded faster than ever. How come? Well, of course, not all the candidates we endorse get elected. A certain number of incumbent redistributionists are "automatically" returned by the voters, no matter what we say or do. Fine: A newspaper has no dictatorial powers, nor should it. But what's more discouraging is how little difference these well-intentioned people seem to make even if they do get elected to the state legislature, or the Congress, or wherever they're headed. I've been in the newspaper business for 25 years. Call me a cynic -- I'll respond that it's simply an objective observation: No matter who we elect, it doesn't matter any more. Government is a machine that crunches anyone you send into it into a cog or gear of the required shape and size to keep the machine running and growing. Why are fewer and fewer folks registering to vote, or showing up at the polls? Vote for the most radical of Libertarians, he will get 4 percent of the vote, and nothing will change. They still won't let him into the TV debates next year, and no corporation will hand him the protection money which we still daintily call "campaign contributions." Vote for (start ital)and elect(end ital) the most radical-sounding "less government" Republican you can find, and the best result will be a government that grows at the rate of 7 percent next year, instead of 8 percent. You will still have to get fingerprinted to obtain your new driver's license, there will still be armed soldiers at the airports strip-searching people "to prevent terrorism and drug-running" (starting next year), and your take-home pay will still be a smaller percentage of your gross earnings next year than it was last year. Oh, these things are never accomplished overnight, say the eternal optimists. Besides, these are all just a bunch of cynical generalities. OK: Let's get specific. in my next column, I will present you with five or six races in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal -- largest newspaper in Nevada -- has made loud, strident, forceful endorsements in Election '98. The five or six candidates the newspaper endorsed may astound you with just how dedicated to personal liberties and limited government they sound, given that they are all "electable" (that is to say -- from one of the "major parties.") But if each voter could personally interview every candidate on his or her Nov. 3 ballot for half-an-hour apiece, not allowing them to get away with any slick double-talk, I daresay you too could find and vote for five or six "viable" candidates in your own town and state who sound just as "libertarian." Then you too could have the experience of seeing them go to the capital and vote for new tax hikes and more gun control laws, vote to send away harmless minority kids for even longer terms in the pen for "getting high" on harmless vegetable extracts, authorize more restrictions of our economic freedom and invasions of our privacy, and then give you a look of shock when you tell them you're disappointed. "But that bill had some good stuff in it!" they will insist. "No bill is perfect. You always have to compromise on something to get things done. We had to make our gun licensing rules just a little stricter, in the hopes our permits will now be recognized by other states. And as for the fingerprinting for the new driver's license, most people favor that, since it will make it much harder for someone else to cash your checks if they're stolen." Next time: five excellent and "viable" candidates, and why voting for them probably won't make a bit of difference at all. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John Hay, 1872 The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943 * * * --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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' [View Less]

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SNET: [FP] Microsoft puts smart card on table
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: st005940(a)brandywine.otago.ac.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:08:19 +1300 To: snetnews(a)world.std.com From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> (by way of jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)) Subject: SNET: [FP] Microsoft puts smart card on table Sender: snetnews-approval(a)world.std.com Precedence: list Reply-To: snetnews(a)world.std.com -> SNETNEWS Mailing List ==========================================… [View More]============================ SCAN THIS NEWS 10/26/98 Microsoft puts smart card on table http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C27923%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.fs6.1026 By Tim Clark Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 26, 1998 Update: Microsoft tomorrow will announce an extension of its Windows operating system for smart cards, a company spokesman said today. Smart cards, which have very limited memory and processing power, are about the size of a credit card and embedded with a computer chip. The technology is used for storing data on mobile phones, banking online, and paying for phone calls and public transit fares. Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz is scheduled to announce the operating system initiative tomorrow at Cartes 98, a conference on smart card technology in Paris. A new system from Microsoft could bring more acceptance of smart cards in the United States. Smart cards have been used in Europe, which holds more than 80 percent of the market, but have been slow to progress in America, at least in part beacuse of the lack of a standard operating system. Microsoft is bidding to enter that arena, but Sun Microsystems is already active in that space with its JavaCard specification. In addition, Mondex, an e-cash company controlled by MasterCard has its MultOS system designed so cards with different operating systems can work together. The company's interest in smart cards parallels its strategy with Windows CE, a stripped-down version of its PC operating system for consumer electronics devices. In April, Microsoft announced a version of Windows CE for automobiles, gas pumps, industrial controllers, and other uses. The smart-card initiative seeks to go after even smaller, cheaper devices--particularly when rival Sun is targeting the same business. The Microsoft spokesman said card developers could use existing Windows tools to work with their software. The annual Paris show is a major showcase for the smart card industry. Schlumberger, a major French manufacturer of smart cards, today unveiled new software for its cards that transforms a smart card into a security device to identify its holder. Many PC makers have said they will produce machines with smart-card readers built in, a capability that Microsoft has provided in its desktop PC operating systems. Microsoft has a certification and logo program that indicates smart card systems work with Windows NT. ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <fingerprint(a)networkusa.org> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <majordomo(a)efga.org> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. Or, to be removed type "unsubscribe scan" in the message BODY. For additional instructions see www.efga.org/about/maillist.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Scan This News" is Sponsored by S.C.A.N. Host of the "FIGHT THE FINGERPRINT!" web page: www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml ======================================================================= -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo(a)world.std.com -> Posted by: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> (by way of jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)) --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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' [View Less]

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Oct. 29 column -- twilight of an era
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:21:30 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:13:20 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: vin(a)dali.lvrj.com Mime-Version: 1.0 To: vinsends(a)ezlink.com From: Vin_Suprynowicz(a)lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: Oct. 29 column -- twilight of an era Resent-From: vinsends(a)ezlink.com X-Mailing-List: <vinsends(a)ezlink.com> archive/latest/578 X-Loop: vinsends(a)ezlink.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: vinsends-request(a)ezlink.com FROM MOUNTAIN … [View More]MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED OCT. 29, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Twilight of the Gods We seem to be entering the twilight of an era. Changes in our society -- consider the erosion of personal liberties, and even the notion that sticking up for our personal liberties is a good thing ("He wouldn't give his Social Security number when he tried to register to vote? He owned an unregistered firearm? He wouldn't volunteer any information on his tax form? Then he deserved whatever happened to him. I'm sorry they burned up the wife and baby, too, but he brought it on himself") -- have been occurring incrementally over the past 86 years. Hence, the popular notion that future change will continue to be equally gradual. Even "legitimate" Libertarian Party political candidates now patiently explain to me that since the current police/welfare state took 60 to 90 years to put in place, there's no sense alarming anyone by shouting radical ideas about legalizing heroin or machine guns. No, no. These "modern" Libertarians -- respectable middle-aged entrepreneurs in respectable coats and striped ties -- patiently explain that they only wish to move us back toward slightly less government, slightly lower taxes, and the restoration of a few personal liberties at a time. Nothing for anyone to get frightened about. The problem is, neither human nor geologic history seem to bear out this notion of a pendulum swinging steadily back and forth. The era of the swamp-dwelling dinosaurs seems to have continued for hundreds of thousands of years without much change. But ice core samples and ocean sediments now indicate the freeze that killed them may have taken as few as five years. Social and political change in France was pretty gradual from 1480 to 1780. Would one thus have been safe in assuming that things wouldn't be likely to change much from 1780 and 1795? A whole lot of folks went to the guillotine based on that assumption. Our ability to sense the imminent end of an era is seriously hampered by a part of human nature modern psychiatry calls "denial." The loss of familiar things -- even if we know in our hearts they are rotten -- is frightening. Thus, we tend to hope the signs are wrong, and to cling to what is familiar. Is this another one of these rants about how the inability of our computers to process the date "2000" is going to cause an instant reversion to the Stone Age? No -- though such computer malfunctions and shutdowns certainly will occur, creating pockets of panic and accelerated uncertainty about just how reliable our "foolproof" government and economic "systems" really are. But the number of things that are rotten in America -- and thus in "Western civilization" -- has simply grown too large. And as each one fails, it will help to pull down the next. Large dams do not develop small leaks. We could talk about the imminent collapse of the largest, most profligate, most unproductive and socially poisonous make-work social engineering scheme ever devised, the mandatory government youth propaganda camps (you may call them "public schools.") When the cost of things that don't work exceeds what people can pay, they just walk away. That's why the stone temples of the Maya were abandoned long before Cortez showed up, and why most of the nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy now sit rusting at their piers. There was never any popular vote to "shut down the Soviet Navy." Everyone just went home. We could talk about the inevitable failure of the little Dutch boy sticking his fingers in the financial dikes of Mexico, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Brazil -- the International Monetary Fund, the failure of which is likely to soon bring down another 20th century institution which we have come to assume could never fail, the vast leveraged Ponzi scheme known as "government chartered fractional reserve banking." (Imagine an evil wizard made the stock market disappear, along with your stockbroker and your bank. For awhile, you might wonder what you would live on in your "retirement." Then it would dawn on you: What "retirement"? "Retirement" at a fixed age was a notion introduced by the 19th century socialists, who believed there was a fixed number of jobs in the world (duh), and that the only way to guarantee work to the young was therefore to "pension off" the oldsters. "Retirement" is a completely artificial invention.) I could talk about the schools or the banks, scrambling around insisting it's not their fault; it's our fault for being too "greedy" to hand them ever-larger "bailouts." But I won't. Instead, since it's election time, I will talk about why the great experiment called "participatory democracy" is failing. Next time -- interviews with virtually every candidate in Southern Nevada produced five or six outstanding prospects this year: Why voting for them isn't likely to make a bit of difference. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The web sites for the Suprynowicz column are at http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm, and http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John Hay, 1872 The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943 * * * --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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' [View Less]

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Re: IP: Uncle Sam Wants Spooks.
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:04 PM 10/26/98 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote: > "We teach a concept called open source and > public domain intelligence -- that is, taking what > is in the public domain and creating new > knowledge by analysis and interpretation," he So does John Young, EFF, FAS, etc. > Applying for a job with the CIA is easy: Send a > resume. The CIA scans the resumes it gets Applying for a job with the NSA is easier. Just fax your resume. Doesn't matter where.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:42 AM 10/26/98 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: >> How does this differ from the motives of your ordinary politician? >> >> Post-revolution, will there be caliber limitations when hunting them? > >Hunt all you want. The post-revolution utopia will be administered by >persons of the same mentality as those we have administering our >Democratic Republic now. They will use the same if not more advanced >techniques to acquire and maintain power. "Nature abhors a … [View More]

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:43 PM 10/26/98 -0400, Robert A. Costner wrote: >At 01:15 PM 10/26/98 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote: >>9. "I do not posses any government-issued photo ID and thus cannot travel >>to the location stated in the subpoena. > >ROTFLMAO... > >This last one is too funny to not use. I don't have a subpoena, but I can >just see myself writing back explaining this and requesting assistance with >a plane flight to solve this problem. Actually you don't need state … [View More]

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Re: files (was: Re: dbts, etc.)
by dporter＠denova.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Bellovin (smb(a)research.att.com) wrote... > . . . to trace the the perturbations caused to the system. . . > The more anonymity, and the more privacy cut-outs, the > harder this is. . . > To be sure, one can assert that the philosophical > gains -- privacy, libertarianism, what have you -- are > sufficiently important that this price is worth paying. . . Steve, as you point out most of us are driven primarily by practical concerns. This is a philosophy: … [View More]

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Re: files (was: Re: dbts, etc.)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My 1.43 US cents (hey, two canadian cents aren't worth much nowadays!) On 27 Oct 98 10:52:00, D. Porter wrote: >Steve, as you point out most of us are driven primarily by practical >concerns. This is a philosophy: pragmatism. Beyond mind exercise, >philosophy is valuable exactly to the extent it is practical. Pragmatism, as far as philosophy structure is concerned, is opportunistic in the sense that it gets a free ride on other's failures to come up with basic premises that are … [View More]

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Re: your mail
by Joel O'Connor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

That's cool man, I see your point. Guess I shouldn't knock it when I've only had one experience. It's true, I got on the train quicker than I've ever gotten on a flight and didn't face any harrassment. Actually, I faced more harrassment from my Gestapo math teacher in high school trying to board a bus than getting on the train. He looked at me and told me I was trouble and searched every crevice of my bag, personal being and space. "But doctor, both your hands on my shoulders. . ."you get … [View More]the point and that's exactly what's happening to us each and every day. ---Chip Mefford <cmefford(a)video.avwashington.com> wrote: > > > > I've taken that same route, except up > to no. Vermont rather than RI, > > I travelled anonymously, for an extra 50 bux, > I had my own little private cabin, I was never > searched, my bags were never xrayed by incompetent > androids, was able to find company from the > hordes that you describe to sit with me in my > lil cabin and spend some time (wink wink, nudge > nudge) and so forth. > > yeah, an entire day spent with a whole pile of > folks can really be a horrible drag, and I'm > told that travelling on the weekends thats > what you can expect. > > But, shuffling in and out of Polizei Central, > subjecting myself to xrays and potential > cavity searches, showing ID to every bone > head that demands it, just seems a little > too kyrstalnachtish for my taste, I don't care > if I EVER fly again. > > Its easier, less hassle, more anonymous to > travel by train than it is to drive, or > for that matter, walk. > > yes, its VERY easy for the SS > to stop and search a train, but the plane > is a forgone situation. By entering an > airport, you've already consented to be > stripped of nearly every right you thought > you may have had. > > I had an experience like you describe travelling > from Atlanta to DC by bus once when a young-un. > I too, swore I'd never do it again, and I didn't, > not till I mustered out of the military and they > stuck me on a 10 hr busride to the nearest > depot to go home, and yes, I still hated it. > > to each his own, > > take care > > chipper > > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Joel O'Connor wrote: > > > I traveled by train all the way to Florida from Rhode Island once. 24 > > hours straight it took man and I swore I would never do it again. > > 40-50 people per car and basically one bathroom per car. Come morning > > time man, the lines for the bathrooms stretched out of the cars. > > Screw that, I could have flown and made it in 3 hours. Plus it's > > easier for the gov't to stop trains and search them, I'd rather go > > with the flight. > > > > > > > > > > ---Chip Mefford <cmefford(a)video.avwashington.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Where possible, > > > > > > fuk a bunch of airlines anyway. > > > > > > Travel by train is a lot more enjoyable, relaxing, fun. > > > Folks that travel by train could fly, but would > > > preferr to enjoy the ride, cause it ain't no cheaper, > > > > > > except, !! > > > > > > you can pay with cash and show no id and go > > > where you would like in the lower 48. > > > > > > anonymously. > > > > > > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Anonymous wrote: > > > > > > > At 02:43 PM 10/26/98 -0400, Robert A. Costner wrote: > > > > >At 01:15 PM 10/26/98 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote: > > > > >>9. "I do not posses any government-issued photo ID and thus > > cannot travel > > > > >>to the location stated in the subpoena. > > > > > > > > > >ROTFLMAO... > > > > > > > > > >This last one is too funny to not use. I don't have a subpoena, > > but I can > > > > >just see myself writing back explaining this and requesting > > assistance with > > > > >a plane flight to solve this problem. > > > > > > > > Actually you don't need state id to fly, legally. But the > > airlines will > > > > hassle you and not put your bags aboard til you are. There > > > > are references on the net to flying without state id. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > == > > Ogre bounces like sonar. . .Peace. > > Ogre > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > DO YOU YAHOO!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > == Ogre bounces like sonar. . .Peace. Ogre _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [View Less]

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Re: Airline ID Checking (was: RE: your mail)
by Joel O'Connor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Who knows for sure anymore. Because of the "Anti-Terrorism" bill, it is required that security be beafed up. When they scan the ID, it is to check against their records that you are who you say you are. . .so they say. In actuality, they are tracing movements of people, so if the shit comes down, they will know where everyone is, no matter where you flew to. Even with trains, all's it will take is one bomb and you better believe security will be pumped up as high as it is with airlines. … [View More]Who knows anymore, there's so much going on at every spectrum of this globe that the probability of keeping up with a minor fraction is hard enough. The gov't control's all major transportation routes, which control's movement and where everyone is at all times. Soon, there will be no where to run to. ---X <xasper8d(a)lobo.net> wrote: > > Does anyone know what the airlines do with the info they collect off the ID? > Are they just noting whether the names match, or is it more sinister? > > When I was below legal drinking age (21 in my state) I would drive up to the > window (how barbaric! liquor sales to guys in cars!) and give the > sub-moronic guy my REAL ID under the assumption that: he expects it to say > something that proves I am over age, or else why would I be handing it to > him? [nicely enough, this shifts all of the risk of the transaction to him, > should it go wrong.] > > Similarly, if you booked a flight under the name Nevah Umind, when you hand > over a piece of ID, they look to see it says Nevah Umind (unless, of course, > your name happens to be Nevah Umind) and that's all they want, right? > > And if we all booked flights under the same name, then wouldn't that throw > 'em WAY off? Pick a name, DON'T scan your license in, DON'T edit it, DON'T > laminate it, and (for pete's sake!) DON'T use that name. Their querying > will tell them, "I have a match, he's okay" (These are not the droids you > are looking for, eh!) and away you go! > > X > > > ~> -----Original Message----- > ~> From: owner-cypherpunks(a)minder.net > ~> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Joel O'Connor > ~> I traveled by train all the way to Florida from Rhode Island once. 24 > ~> hours straight it took man and I swore I would never do it again. > ~> 40-50 people per car and basically one bathroom per car. Come morning > ~> time man, the lines for the bathrooms stretched out of the cars. > ~> Screw that, I could have flown and made it in 3 hours. Plus it's > ~> easier for the gov't to stop trains and search them, I'd rather go > ~> with the flight. > ~> > > == Ogre bounces like sonar. . .Peace. Ogre _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [View Less]

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dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the ForegoneAlternative
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:38 PM -0500 on 10/27/98, Steve Bellovin wrote on dbs: > For the record, though, I not only don't think that cryptography should > make the state vanish, I don't think that it will. Cryptographer ~== Libertarian, certainly. Much less Anarchist. I like to joke that David Chaum is a liberal statist with a privacy fetish. PRZ was, too, but, after his bout with a certain kangaroo court prosecutor, I bet he isn't so liberal anymore. :-) Crypto *is*, … [View More]however, a liberty/anarchy magnet. It certainly changed my thinking about a whole lot of things, including how the state will collapse, someday, in a giant paroxysm of technological determinism. ;-). Dragging this back to the topic of the DBS list itself (and, frankly, the topic is a subset of the cryptography list, too, and lots of others,), the paradox of financial cryptography, and, more specifically, digital bearer settlement, is not that it gives you privacy and freedom (anarchy? :-)), it's because it gives you *cheaper* transactions. Transactions which just happen to be anonymous. You don't *have* to keep records in the normal course of business in order to keep your transactions from unraveling at some later date. You can monitor your own business operations, certainly. But you're not *forced* to, by some, um, regional monopoly. That's attractive. To lots of economic actors, besides terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles and money launderers. :-). To machines, for instance, but also to actors in markets which are, as they say in economics, perfectly competitive, where things are sold like commodities are. This is opposed to so-called monopolistic competition, where all of a company's products are branded as much as possible. McDonald's versus Burger King is a good example of monopolistic competition. McDonald's doesn't make something *exactly* like a Whopper, for instance, if they did, they'd be sued for copyright violation, or even patent enfringement, though they do make branded, and patented, almost-substitutes. Coke and Pepsi are the same kinds of thing. Except for the Secret Coke Formula, of course. :-). But, stuff like soybeans, or switched bits on a wire, or copies of Linux, or cash, or debt, or even equity in the portfolio aggregate like a stock index, are not *branded*, they're *graded*. Every item in a perfectly competitive market is perfectly substitutable with any other item in that market. If you're trading graded commodities, you don't *care* who you're doing business with. You care about what they're selling you. And it's something which you can verify the quality of on an independent basis. Those grades are certified by someone with a reputation, of course, but even those reputations are graded to the extent that they're priced in a market somewhere. A NYSE seat, for instance, has a price on it, and I think internet product-certifying reputations will too, someday. That's what a digital bearer underwriter is, when you think about it. I think, over time, that Moore's law and a geodesic internetwork gives us increasingly perfect, and not monopolistic, competition, and, in practically every market you can imagine. Graded surgical instructions, say. And to bring up that paroxysm again, if you could convert teleoperated machine instructions like surgery into graded, fungible, and cash-settled, commodities, why not force, currently the product of that most monopolistic of competitors, the nation-state? Anyway, I think that these perfectly competitive markets will be the of hallmark of a geodesic information economy, just like marketing and branding and monopolistic competition are the hallmarks of a late-industrial, hierarchically-organized, mass-media economy. But, again, it is the reduced *cost* of those cryptographically-enabled transactions which will drive everything else, and that is a logical outcome of the technology of financial cryptography and digital bearer transactions. The cost of anything is the foregone alternative. Cheers, Bob Hettinga -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 iQEVAwUBNjYjzcUCGwxmWcHhAQGOmgf9F3ZHnTP1Io83CJEPmyiTWww/ppvupmiW uHh2i+txJoigxNxDbMHtRQDzP9FXtADH8z+nbGmWZY4PnxbxmKcSFDfH0zXL2sMi beHYaUvya14gtchwPZkCx/XxaZ4RYnZeg7BvjlYWDjScZwgoJP5rV63tSW/gDri1 bnAt2Oa7pNpSmBFad7LNuSTOw0BVZzaoJ/Ucl+MSp2//frf4iL/7p/XjJcOlnhI7 0KyTtAjhfuV886clgpcFfceaS9G14q1FPZfh7yzZyWMReOEe3S1JDptEuuIX35AJ r/2GgSSulY2/v/D6qOgZk6FUgRNFxtMKts6FU8hce0CdN/Pprj97JQ== =xWio -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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' [View Less]

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Re: dbts: Cryptographic Dog Stocks, The Dirigible Biplane, and Sending the Wizards Back to Menlo Park
by Dave Birch 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vin McLellan said Bob Hettinga said >>It's biometric >>*identity* which is the problem Actually, I would have thought that biometric revocation is the problem! Cheers, Dave Birch. === mailto:daveb@hyperion.co.uk ===== http://www.hyperion.co.uk/ ===

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Using a password as a private key.
by RedRook 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Assymetic crypto systems such as Diffie-Hellman, El-Gamel, and DSS, allow the private key to be a randomly chosen number. But, as a cute hack, instead of using a random number, for the private key, you could use a hash of the User Name, and a password. Doing so allows the users to generate their private key on demand. They don't have to store the private key, and if they want to work on a another computer, … [View More]

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Re: No Subject
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Most of nature is a very high quality vacuum, actually. > Yup, I did my 100hrs of Physics, Chemistry and Math too. I like the way the 'vacuum' behaves near very hi-Z nuclei. > Governments have not always been so parasite-infested; > And I find this very difficult to believe. > this disease progresses slowly, numbingly, unnoticed, like leprosy. > Interesting that you use 'numbingly' to describe leprosy; it shows an understanding of the nature of the infection. Be careful … [View More]

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Re: MIB Subponeas (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:42:36 -0800 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: MIB Subponeas > * Is travel paid for? How? By spending hours completing forms in > quadruplicate, or do they just cut a check for some per diem sort of > payment? The IRS offered to pay my travel from the local Austin airport to Seattle and pay the hotel bill and meals. I was trying to determine how transportation in Seattle was going to be handled when they … [View More]said they didn't need me in person. > * What if one has pressing engagements? (Travel out of the country, an > anniversary party, washing the dog?) I told them I didn't want to go to Seattle, they suggested an affadavit. > * What if one shows up with no records and claims not to have them? Exactly what I did after checking to make sure I didn't. They said 'Ok'. > * What about lawyer expenses? I know the line about "If you cannot afford What lawyer? You don't get a lawyer with Grand Juries. > More soberly, this kind of subpoena could well nuke the Cypherpunks list, Not even hardly. A subpoena isn't an accussation, it's an instrument to obtain potentialy relevant testimony and evidence. It means (at least in this case) "We believe you may know something or have possession of information related, but not necessarily directly involved in this matter." The sub-channel message is "Don't fuck with us, you're only about a hairs breadth away from hell on earth." Besides, they wanted me to testify *for* the prosecution, preferebly willingly. The last thing they were going to do was go heavy handed. > even the distributed node instance. If Igor Chudov, Lance Cottrell, and Jim > Choate all have to fly to Seattle and face scrutiny, implied threats, and > possible jail time for failing to jump when the Feds say jump, they may > decide to stop acting as Fed magnets. If the operators are that jumpy I suspect they wouldn't put up with the bills, occassional stupid private emails, the costs in time, etc. I knew this sort of stuff was a possibility. The only issue that took me by surprise was two officers showing up at work unannounced. It took me till the next day to burn off the heeby-jeebies from that. Of course, a truly motivated and worried, not to mention well heeled, cypherpunks might consider putting up a node themselves....<nah> ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- [View Less]

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Re: Using a password as a private key.
by Christopher Steel - Java Design Center McLean VA 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why not encrypt the private key with a 128 bit symmetric key (created from the hash of a username and paasword) and store on a keyserver, along with the public key? That way, you don't have to store it yourself locally, you get it off the keyserver. I wrote a keyserver that does just that. In addition, it also verifies ies the user before returning the key. It requires the user to encrypt a known string with a separate password. The encrypted string is sent to the keyserver, encrypted with the … [View More]

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Cameras in Public Places (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:57:22 -0800 > From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka(a)lsil.com> > Subject: Cameras in Public Places [ravage: don't remember who said it... > > ] > > Privacy is also needed on public places (e.g., violated by face > > recognition systems) Anonymity is not equal to privacy. > The appropriate way of dealing with them is to wait for some people to > be misidentified and then file suit against the municipality using … [View More]the > equipment. Harassment, false arrest, invasion of privacy, abuse of > power, loss of reputation, loss of the ability to earn a living - take a > few of the cities for $10 or $20 million and they'll get the message > that they've been had by the SW vendors. It makes no more sense to outlaw cameras in private or public places than it does to outlaw printing presses in some areas, a very basic way they're identical from the perspective of the law - it isn't the media that matters (with little respect to Marshall). What matters is they record some 'instance' and allow it to be distributed widely. What we do need is a mechanism that prohibits the police or other law enforcement bodies from access without a properly served warrant. Camera use in say a mall is permissible because it's the vendors who pay the rent who are deciding what is and isn't safe - not the customers of those vendors. It's permissible in traffic control and such because it is cost effective in those applications. In traffic control, if a motorist stalls or a wreck occurs the civilian (ie non-LEA) operators can call the necessary resources into play. Once the cop is on the scene a warrant could be issued if charges of some sort are filed. Ulitimately, what we need is a law that says: All law enforcement personnel are prohibited from accessing public or private documents in the course of their duties without a properly served and executed warrant. The two key points are 'public and private' and 'course of their duties'. A cop should be able to walk into a public library and get a book on some subject of interest (even law enforcement). But if it's related to the LEA's cases then a warrant should be required to step foot in the building. Now if he's a beat cop walking his patrol he obviously can't stop chasing a perp on the run who traverses the library (though it is highly unlikely they would stop to read, but imagine a dope deal just as well). Now, one way to deal with that is to insert some sort of phrase about 'openly accessible' or 'anonymously accessible' (that way the question becomes does one need an ID, if so then you need a warrant). ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- [View Less]

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looking for articles
by Homayoun Saleh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, I am looking for any articles or papers having to do with the computability of Poisson distributions in the plane, and someone suggested I ask this list. If anyone knows of anything related, or where else I should be looking, please let me know. Thanks a lot. Cheers, Homayoun

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looking for articles (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:13:14 -0500 (EST) > From: Homayoun Saleh <hsaleh(a)phoenix.Princeton.EDU> > Subject: looking for articles > I am looking for any articles or papers having to do with the > computability of Poisson distributions in the plane, and someone suggested > I ask this list. If anyone knows of anything related, or where else > I should be looking, please let me know. > Thanks a lot. Not sure it's what you're looking for but:… [View More]

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Rendering ( was MIB Subponeas ) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:31:52 -0800 > From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka(a)lsil.com> > Subject: Rendering ( was MIB Subponeas ) > Collecting real names and addresses is, apparently, enough of a concrete > step to at least begin the "rendering" process. Which is the whole point of probable cause and civil rights. It turns out the 'respect' part is the hard one...;) > press-squashing, poison-cow BST boys ). Then what would be needed is > some … [View More]

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Re: Using a password as a private key.
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

RedRook(a)yahoo.com writes: > Assymetic crypto systems such as Diffie-Hellman, El-Gamel, and DSS, > allow the private key to be a randomly chosen number. But, as a cute > hack, instead of using a random number, for the private key, you could > use a hash of the User Name, and a password. > > Doing so allows the users to generate their private key on demand. > They don't have to store the private key, and if they want to work on > a another computer, they don't need to … [View More]

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Re: UK police chase crooks on CCTV (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: bill.stewart(a)pobox.com > X-Sender: wcs(a)idiom.com (Unverified) > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:27:28 -0800 > Subject: Re: UK police chase crooks on CCTV (fwd) > >> ``The only people entered on to the system will be convicted criminals > >> who, through our intelligence, we believe are habitually committing > >> crimes in the area,'' > >> Dave Armond as saying. ``If people are not committing crime they have > >… [View More]> nothing to fear, but if they are among the small minority who are, the > >> message is, 'We are watching out for you.''' > The policeman's statement, if honest, implies that the > system needs a real mugshot or more detailed set of pictures to work from, > so they're going to start with feeding it the Usual Suspects, > for whom they can get good data for the system to search. > It probably also has capacity limitations, so they won't be searching > for everybody they have pictures of, just the most likely. For now. What's the curve on facial recognition for 2x improvement? It would seem probable to me that there would be a feature to snap closeups off the cameras and feed them back in real-time. Talk about real-time traffic analysis. > >We need a law or court ruling pretty quickly in the US that sets the > >standard that a group of people have no more or less rights than an > >individual. This will required LEA's to provide probable cause prior to any > >actions against groups of people (such as this). > > Ain't gonna happen - are you kidding? If there is a ruling like that, > it'll be done in some way that restricts citizen rights rather than > expanding them, or expands police powers rather than restricting them. I'll have to disagree. > It's already legal for cops to hang around street corners watching for > suspicious activities or suspicious people, and all video recognition Um, it was always legal and should continue to be so, just as it should be legal for you or I to stand around that corner and watch for unusual activity. It's there job. They call it walking the beat. > Unfortunately, I'm being increasingly forced to take the David Brin position of > "Cameras are cheap, get used to it, just make sure we have more cameras > pointing at the cops than they have pointing at us, and make sure > the cameras the government has are citizen-accessible as well." I don't know about citizen-accessible. I don't want some joe blow walking down the street to get access to the cameras that track my trek to work each day. No, it needs to be very limited and require full interaction of the courts to gain access. Simply putting on a police uniform (or a army uniform) shouldn't mean you give up your rights as a citizen. This may be hard to believe, but I'm not the state's nigger and neither is that police officer or soldier. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- [View Less]

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unsubcribe
by StoneCold-PT 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

unsubcribe ---Diederik Smets <Diederik.Smets(a)emd.be> wrote: > > IF the owner of the id also entered an internet password AND it is the same > as the one for the id file, then you can use brute force (dictionairies) to > try and crack it. Get the encrypted value in the > properties>fields>HTTPPassword of the persons document in the PNAB and > compare it to the results of the @password() function. > > Alternatively, do a search for old id files which … [View More]

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RE: No Subject
by Harvey Rook (Exchange) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> More interesting, though, is this: why would a block cipher > use key bits > rather than an LFSR to do input or output whitening? Is it strictly a > performance issue? Is it proven that doing this doesn't leak > key bits in > some way? > > Mike > In many newer block ciphers, the key schedule comes from a fairly good one way hash of the key. Take a look at RC6, or TwoFish. Essentially this accomplishes the same thing as using a good LSFR. Harv.

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