December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by biz43＠athene.stat.uni-muenchen.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Ragod5597@aol.com
by RAGOD5597＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tell me how to get tons of free stuff! Thank You .

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remove
by Maciek P. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

REMOVE

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Re: Pipe
by Marc Maffei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

please somebody give them the info so that they take themselves out of our misery, since obviously they will botch the job and will give us great pleasure with all the fireworks. -----Original Message----- From: Reeza! <howree(a)cable.navy.mil> To: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net>; HOPPYF1215(a)aol.com <HOPPYF1215(a)aol.com>; cypherpunks(a)toad.com <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 10:13 PM Subject: Re: Pipe >At 05:33 PM 8/19/98 -0700, Tim May wrote: >>At 4:28 PM -0700 8/19/98, HOPPYF1215(a)aol.com wrote: >>>Send me info on how to make a pipe bomb. HoppyF1315 >> >> >>Hoppyhead, >> >>You'll have to wait until we supply the other AOLholes with the information >>they demanded on thrash music, hacking banks info, LSD manufacturing, and >>get rich quick schemes. >> >>We're struggling under the workload of millions of new AOL, PacBell, >>Earthlink, Prodigy, and other newbies who have just discovered the Net. >> >>--Tim May >> > >Don't forget all the requests for band stickers,,,, > >Reeza1 > "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it > himself." > --Weiler's Law > >

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Re:
by Marc Maffei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Man has anybody noticed how many of these @#%#$^^&*& there seem to be, I always wonder if they are as dumb as they seem to be or do the cops think we are as dumb as they seem to be? Not to say that this one is a cop playing robber but, really........ {:-() -----Original Message----- From: Xcott Craver <caj(a)math.niu.edu> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 7:42 PM >On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, paolo wrote: > >> Sorry I'm not very expert about invading systems but I need your help to >> enter in a bank. > > [...] > >> Can you help me to find any good italian hackers? > > Now that you've declared your intent to the whole world, > I'd recommend instead that you find a good Italian hacksaw. > > I have a lovely focaccia recipe, if you need something > to bake it into. > > -Caj > > Not to piss off those world-famous Italian hackers or anything. > > >

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Announcing: WWW Cryptography Article Database
by Bruce Schneier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Announcing: WWW CRYPTOGRAPHY ARTICLE DATABASE Counterpane Systems http://www.counterpane.com/biblio/ Counterpane Systems has created an extensive bibliography of links to cryptography papers available on the World Wide Web. We hope to build a comprehensive database of published papers available on the net, organized both by author and by year. Users can view the bibliography by author (every author is indexed, not just the first author) or by publication year. There will also be a single page containing all the citations, to facilitate searching the full bibliography (by keyword, for example) with your browser's search function. Counterpane wants this database to be a research tool for the community, and for it to be continuously updated. We will frequently monitor the WWW for new articles for our database. Researchers can also submit articles for inclusion in the database using an on-line form; see the webpage for details. Please help. If you have papers on the Web, please submit them into our database. If you know of any archives of papers that I missed, please let me know. If there are any features youd like to see, please suggest them. Future enhancements include grouping of papers by subject, the inclusion of searchable paper summaries, and the ability to comment on research papers. We hope to also broaden the scope of the database to computer security in general. Please take a moment to try out the Counterpane Cryptography Article Database, and let us know what you think. Thank you, Bruce Schneier ********************************************************************** Bruce Schneier, President, Counterpane Systems Phone: 612-823-1098 101 E Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55419 Fax: 612-823-1590 Free crypto newsletter. See: http://www.counterpane.com

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700 Search Engines-$39
by srchzEngzz＠hostmaker.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Biztravel.com $25 Welcome Gift Reminder
by Member Benefits 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Ragod5597@aol.com
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 RAGOD5597(a)aol.com wrote: > > Tell me how to get tons of free stuff! Thank You . > > Thank you for asking, R /\ D G /\ \/\/ D! The best way to obtain tons of free stuff is called the "smash and grab" technique. It needs to be modified, however. First, not many people know that the police will actually help you load this free stuff into your rented moving truck if you only call and ask. Make sure you tell them exactly where you will be and exactly what time you'll be there, or they won't be able to help! The police are really busy people, though, so you need to make their job as easy as possible. A few minutes before they get there, break the front window of the store and begin loading stuff yourself. This works! Really! I swear! Oh, you should upgrade to 32-bit AOL as soon as possible. Reports indicate that it increases AOLers' I.Q. points to an acceptable level.

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Babes, babes and more babes/Now stuffed has 8 centerfolds per day!
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

+ EIGHT GORGEOUS CENTERFOLD GIRLS DISPLAYING ALL THEIR NAKED BEAUTY + Frederick's of Alcatraz: Hand-me-down panties + Kenneth Starr given the 1998 Boobie Award at World Pornography Conf. + Dress for Succ-Sex: How to dress to bed that girl + Masturbaker: His secret ingredient uncovered + Women are Easy part 11: Where to find the women you desire (part II) + Give that man a cigar: Celebrating pop makes friends' faces pop + Nudist car sale: Not stripped down autos, but close... + Guru teaches how to give yourself a blow job + Britain's oldest transvestite comes out of the closet + Today's Sexy Story: Having fun with food ----> http://stuffed.net/98/8/22/ <---- Welcome to today's issue of Stuffed. To read it you should click on the URL above. If it is not made clickable by your email program you will need to use your mouse to highlight the URL, copy it and then paste it into your browser (then press Return). This email is never sent unsolicited. Stuffed is the supplement for the Eureka newsletter you subscribed to. Full instructions on unsubscribing are in every issue of Eureka! ----> http://stuffed.net/98/8/22/ <----

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Awesome!
by jenny5430＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Omicron Technologies Inc. NASD OTC B/B Trading Symbol: OGPS On August 4, 1998, Omicron Technologies, Inc. Signed a Memorandum of Intent to acquire a 40% interest for a revolutionary new technology called Active Pixel Sensors (APS). This cutting edge imaging technology holds great promise to revolutionize the way camcorders and other digital cameras are produced. APS is a "Camera-On-A-Chip with advantages of miniaturization ruggedness 10 times lower production costs and 100 times lower power consumption. Omicron opened at $2.50 on July 24, 1998 This Friday, August 21, 1998 Omicron closed at $6.25 The stock is up 250% in less than 30 days. For more information: http://www.omicrontechnologies.com/ Stock Symbol: OGPS ______________________ This is a one time only mailing. However, if you would like to be removed from the list, simply reply with "remove" in the subject line and accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

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Re: anarchy cookbook
by FTPPork＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I did not say anywhere that 32 bit would fix problems of cluelessness - or ignorance in your case. I said, it is a little better because we can now use TCP/IP protocols. Did I ever say that the people on AOL were smarter because of it? Well, let's go read over that post - - - nope... I didn't. I think some people should read a little more carefully, or just don't read at all.

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Re: Ragod5597@aol.com
by FTPPork＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here we go again

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by guyinmd＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

application/www-form-urlencoded

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by guyinmd＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

application/www-form-urlencoded

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Re: NSA and Industry Deal
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:14:03 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >> saying it has perhaps created an improper relationship >> between the secretive NSA and a select group of contractors. > >I did not have sexual relations with that woman. > HHHA! Some investigators crack DNA code like most peoples crack open a box of Rice Krispies; Snap, Pop and Crack! Definition: FACISM: n.: a political and economic movement, strongly nationalistic, magnifying the rights of the state as opposed to those of the individual, in which industry, though remaining largely under private ownership, and all administrative political units, are controlled by a strong central government. ------------------------------------------------- "One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms". - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. ------------------------------------------------- the German gun control laws were enacted by the "liberal" Weimar Republic government that preceded Hitler, and were a strong aid to his coming to power -- because they disarmed Hitler's opponents, and Hitler's adherents ignored them -- as criminals have always ignored gun control laws. Disarming the public is a frequent first step toward dictatorships and genocides. Once the disarming is complete, the public is helpless against those who have the guns. ------------------------------------------------- PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Research...
by fryday1＠nightmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi everyone! Hey, I am doing a computer science research project on IPv6 security, but right now I am thinking of ending this research with my school and conducting it independently. As for my school research I am seriously thinking about cryptography, so I just wanted to know if you had any suggestions on good projects or research papers on cryptography or computer security in general, wherever it might lead to. Theres so much out there that I want to work on and I can only take so much with me, and I just want to make sure that I have seen all my choices before I start a 2+year research project.... Thanx again for your time! Fryday-1 Send flames to: SteveCase(a)aol.com CEO and Founder of AOL Inc. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Free, Private Email at http://www.nightmail.com

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ADV: Oportunidad Unica en la Vida
by bizemail＠TheOffice.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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conspiracy of bombed and bombers --add Monica's cigar.
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

now, we all know that government is a business which needs the support of the people. is a terrorist organization any different? both need the hearts and heartbeats of their "subjects". given Bubba's need for a little war to satisfy his carnal love of sex and control, he calls bin Laden and tells him: "Lay one on me, Buddy! They're closing in on me because of this wench Monica". so, bin Laden bombs a couple embassies and digs a few new bomb shelters in the forbidden hills of Afghanistan... good business relationship. bin Laden gets the U.S. people psyched up and willing to give up more of their rights and freedoms to Bubba; and bin Laden gets loved by even more of the Arab populations who are just goat droppings to their despotic governments but who send their gold and young martyrs-to-be to him. "The plan worked like a charm, Buddy!" "No camel dung, Bubba! let me know when you want to remodel some more embassies!" "OK, Buddy, next time I'll send you a Monica scented cigar!" What's Monica got to do with the conspiracy? thought you'd never ask: about an hour ago Matt Drudge laid this one on the net (this one will cost six embassies, not just two): DRUDGE REPORT By Matt Drudge Sat Aug 22 1998 14:22:02 ET MEDIA STRUGGLES WITH SHOCKING NEW DETAILS OF WHITE HOUSE AFFAIR **Warning: Contains Graphic Description In a bizarre daytime sex session, that occurred just off the Oval Office in the White House, President Clinton watched as intern Monica Lewinsky reportedly masturbated with his cigar. It has been learned that several major news organizations have confirmed the shocking episode and are now struggling to find ways to report the full Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton grossout. Media Bigfeet are trying to reconstruct one sex session that reportedly took place as Yasser Arafat waited in the Rose Garden for his scheduled meeting with the president! According to multiple sources close to the case, President Clinton allegedly masturbated as Lewinsky performed the sex show with his cigar in a small room off the Oval Office. It is not clear if Clinton or Lewinsky kept the cigar, or if Lewinsky testified on the specifics of the encounter before a federal grand jury this week. Lewinsky's testimony has been described as graphic, and included unusual practices. The DRUDGE REPORT has now been briefed on these shocking details that have stunned all those who have heard them and investigated them -- details that now threaten to completely disgust and stun the American electorate. The White House refuses to comment on any DRUDGE REPORT __________________________________________________________________________ go not unto usenet for advice, for the inhabitants thereof will say: yes, and no, and maybe, and I don't know, and fuck-off. _________________________________________________________________ attila__ To be a ruler of men, you need at least 12 inches.... There is no safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be.

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by joseph f. brehm 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Encrypted_Message=On 4 May 1998 02:57:07 GMT, in article <6ijaq3$bb1(a)news1.panix.com>, <The(a)NSA.sucks> Information Security (= Guy Polis <guy(a)panix.com>) wrote: # Guy Polis (guy(a)panix.com, eviljay(a)bway.net) is a pedophile child # molester who was fired from his consulting position at Salomon Brothers # after he was caught masturbating in his cubicle at the child pornography # JPEGs that he downloaded from the Internet. The poster's been awful quiet lately - did the feds arrest him? Browser=Netscape:Mozilla/2.01 (Win16; I) Remedy=Tell the world

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by jemic＠earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Encrypted_Message=On 4 May 1998 02:57:07 GMT, in article <6ijaq3$bb1(a)news1.panix.com>, <The(a)NSA.sucks> Information Security (= Guy Polis <guy(a)panix.com>) wrote: # Guy Polis (guy(a)panix.com, eviljay(a)bway.net) is a pedophile child # molester who was fired from his consulting position at Salomon Brothers # after he was caught masturbating in his cubicle at the child pornography # JPEGs that he downloaded from the Internet. The poster's been awful quiet lately - did the feds arrest him? Browser=Netscape:Mozilla/4.05 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) Remedy=Tell the world

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GPS used to monitor commercial drivers (fwd)
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

so, how long before they add the device to our cars? DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Highway Administration 49 CFR Part 395 Global Positioning System (GPS) Technology AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT. ACTION: Notice of interpretation; request for participation in pilot demonstration project. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The FHWA believes global positioning system (GPS) technology and many of the complementary safety management computer systems currently being used by the motor carrier industry, provide at least the same degree of monitoring accuracy as the ``automatic on-board recorders'' allowed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs), 49 CFR 395.15. Accordingly, the FHWA is announcing a voluntary program under which a motor carrier with GPS technology and related safety management computer systems may enter into an agreement with the FHWA to use such systems in a pilot demonstration project to record and monitor drivers' hours of service in lieu of complying with the handwritten ``records of duty status'' requirement of the FMCSRs, 49 CFR 395.8. Consistent with the President's initiatives in reinventing government and regulatory reform, the project is intended to demonstrate whether the motor carrier industry can use the technology to improve compliance with the hours-of-service requirements in a manner which promotes safety and operational efficiency while reducing paperwork requirements. <snip> Background On September 30, 1988, the FHWA published a final rule (53 FR 38666) {interesting number?} to allow motor carriers, at their option, to use certain automatic on-board recording devices to record their drivers' records of duty status in lieu of the required handwritten records of duty status. This provision is now codified at 49 CFR 395.15. Many motor carriers that employed that technology found that their compliance with the hours-of-service regulations improved. New technologies are emerging, however, and the narrowly crafted on-board recorder provision is becoming obsolete. <snip> The FHWA is aware of the benefits of GPS technology to monitor and control drivers' compliance with the hours-of-service regulations. <snip> Premise: Section 395.2 of the FMCSRs defines an ``automatic on- board recording device'' as ``an electric, electronic, electromechanical, or mechanical device capable of recording driver's duty status information accurately and automatically as required by Sec. 395.15. The device must be integrally synchronized with specific operations of the commercial motor vehicle in which it is installed. At a minimum, the device must record engine use, road speed, miles driven, the date, and time of day.'' Section 395.15 of the FMCSRs provides motor carriers the authority to use ``automatic on-board recording devices'' to record their drivers' hours-of-service in lieu of complying with the handwritten record of duty status requirements of Sec. 395.8. <snip> Issued on: March 25, 1998. Gloria J. Jeff, Deputy Federal Highway Administrator. [FR Doc. 98-8882 Filed 4-3-98] ----------------------------------------- [Federal Register: April 6, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 65)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 16697-16699] >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr06ap98-15]

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Subject: PLEEEEEEEZ READ
by Carol 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

First, I'd like to tell you to REALLY read this and REALLY give it some thought before you say, "it doesn't work". It works. But you have to follow it and do everything just like it says. Read through this a couple of times to fully understand how it works. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy. If you need extra cash it's worth it. READ ON....................... THIS REALLY CAN MAKE YOU EASY MONEY A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought," Yeah, right, this must be a scam", but like most of us, but I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and address stated in the article. You then place your own name and address in the bottom of the list at #6, and post the article in at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. The main difference between this system and others is that you have a mailing list of 6 instead of 5... This means that your average gain will be app. 15 times higher!!! So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and $6.00, right? Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it all. So I checked it out with the U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed that it is indeed legal! Then I invested the measly $6.00.............plus postage Well GUESS WHAT!!... within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it another thought. But the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $20.00 to $30.00 dollars. By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1,000.00!!!!!! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly....... It's certainly worth $6.00, and 6 stamps, I spent more than that on the lottery!! Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, why it works....also, make sure you print a copy of this article NOW, so you can get the information off of it as you need it. The process is very simple and consists of 3 easy steps: STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST" (include your name and address). Now get 6 US$1.00 bills (or equivalent in your local currency) and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating the above phrase, your name and address, and a $1.00 bill. What you are doing is creating a service by this. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses #1 PM 4855 E. Brown Rd #103 Mesa, Arizona, 85205 #2 D Richardson 4876 Princess Ann Rd # 118 Box 319 Va Beach, Virginia, 23462 #3 CWright 5384 Liecester Ct Va Beach, Virginia, 23462 #4 G. Fox 4 Amber Beach Rd Marietta, NY 13110 #5 s cadwell po box 5905 rochester,mn 55903 #6 M Evans P.O. Box 30866 Phoenix, AZ 85036 STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name as number 6 on the list. STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (I think there is close to 24,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you make! Don't know HOW to post in the newsgroups? Well do exactly the following: ----------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS - HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS ----------------------------------------------------------- Step 1. You do not need to re-type this entire letter to do your own posting. Simply put your cursor at the beginning of this letter and click and hold down your mouse button. While continuing to hold down the mouse button, drag your cursor to the bottom of this document and over to just after the last character, and release the mouse button. At this point the entire letter should be highlighted. Then, from the 'edit' pull down menu at the top of your screen select 'copy'. This will copy the entire letter into the computers memory. Step 2. Open a blank 'notepad' file and place your cursor at the top of the blank page. From the 'edit' pull down menu select 'paste'. This will paste a copy of the letter into notepad so that you can add your name to the list. Remember to eliminate the #1 position, move everyone up a spot (re-number everyone elses positions), and add yourself in as #6. Step 3. Save your new notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to do your postings in different sittings, you'll always have this file to go back to. ---------------------------------------- FOR NETSCAPE USERS: ---------------------------------------- Step 4. Within the Netscape program, go to the pull-down window entitled 'Window' select 'NetscapeNews'. Then from the pull down menu 'Options', select 'Show all Newsgroups'. After a few moments a list of all the newsgroups on your server will show up. Click on any newsgroup you desire. From within this newsgroup, click on the 'TO NEWS' button, which should be in the top left corner of the newsgroups page. This will bring up a message box. Step 5. Fill in the Subject. This will be the header that everyone sees as they scroll through the list of postings in a particular group. Step 6. Highlight the entire contents of your .txt file and copy them using the same technique as before. Go back to the newsgroup 'TO NEWS' posting you are creating and paste the letter into the body of your posting. Step 7. Hit the 'Send' Button in the upper left corner. You're done with your first one! Congratulations... -------------------------------------------------- INTERNET EXPLORER USERS: -------------------------------------------------- Step 4. Go to newsgroups and select 'Post an Article'. Step 5. Fill in the subject. Step 6. Same as #6 above Step 7. Hit the 'Post' button. ------------------------------------------- THAT'S IT! All you have to do is jump to different newsgroups and post away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup! **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200** That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within day's! You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount of mail you receive. **MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.** Now the WHY part: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!! Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15,625,00! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probable 20 to 30! So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is what you will make: at #6 $15.00 at #5 $225.00 at #4 $3,375.00 at #3 $50,625.00 at #2 $759,375.00 at #1 $11,390,625.00 When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are joining the Internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people who are joining the Internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining the actual Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You just have to be honest. Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW, also. Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly. Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the basic idea to make the money!! GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from this, which is tons of extra CASH

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by advocate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Developer Support News Watch - July 27, 1998
by Support Online Staff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Developer Support News Watch ============================ As a subscriber to Developer Support News Watch, you receive e-mail twice each month that highlights some of the new articles recently published on Support Online, Microsoft's award-winning technical support web site. Table of Contents ================= (1) Announcements (2) New Knowledge Base Articles (3) Requesting Articles via E-Mail (4) Developer Product FAQs & Support Resources (5) Additional Resources (1) Announcements New Enterprise Developers section on MSDN Online! ------------------------------------------------- Are you developing for the enterprise? This new section may be just what you are looking for-a quick way to find resources on the Microsoft Web sites that focus on topics of interest to you: BackOffice, Windows NT, COM, intranets, developer tools, and more. Come here first to map your route and save time before you delve into all of the resources Microsoft has to offer enterprise developers. You will also find great content from ZD Journals, Windows NT Magazine, SQL Magazine, and Software Development Magazine. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/enterprise/ New Features Make Finding Your Answers on Support Online Even Easier -------------------------------------------------------------------- Support Online recently released a number of new features to make it even easier to find the answers you need. The following highlights some of the enhancements you'll see on Support Online at http://support.microsoft.com/. For information about how to use these new Support Online features, see http://support.microsoft.com/support/howto/. - Specify an article ID number. If you know the ID number of the Knowledge Base article you want, you can enter the ID number to find that specific article. - Search for troubleshooting tools. Now you can customize your search to include troubleshooting tools only. - Search for specific drivers and other downloadable files. 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(2) New Knowledge Base Articles =============================== In addition to the FAQ documents mentioned below, the following articles were recently added or updated in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ActiveX Data Objects -------------------- BUG: WillChangeRecordset Event Not Executed (191455) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/55.asp BUG: ADO Bound OLE Control Does Not Display Bitmap (191103) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/03.asp PRB: SQL Server ODBC Driver with ADO Spawns Second Connection (191085) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/0/85.asp PRB: Bookmarks are not Persisted or Marshalled (191084) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/0/84.asp ActiveX SDK ----------- HOWTO: Run a WSH file from NT Scheduler (191430) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/30.asp Internet Explorer Development ----------------------------- PRB: Confusing Return Values from DDE topic WWW_ListWindows (191508) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/08.asp BUG: COMP_TYPE_HTMLDOC Type Fails With AddDesktopItem (191213) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/13.asp PRB: Cannot Remove or Change Status Bar on HTML Dialog Box (191186) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/86.asp BUG: Document.Frames Collection Does Not Support For Each Syntax (191184) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/84.asp FIX: ATL Controls Don't Appear in IE When Initially Downloaded (191127) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/27.asp Internet Scripting Languages ---------------------------- BUG: Parseint Returns 0 for Some Strings with Leading Zeros (191434) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/34.asp ISAPI Development ----------------- SAMPLE: Sample Base 64 Encoding and Decoding (191239) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/39.asp Java ---- PRB: Allowing the URL class to Access HTTPS in Applications (191120) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/20.asp Messaging (MAPI/CDO) Development -------------------------------- HOWTO: Retrieve Original Message from Non-Delivery Receipt (191365) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/65.asp INFO: Is CDO a Redistributable Object Library? (191363) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/63.asp Visual Basic ------------ BUG: CtlPlus Sample Fails to Load (191551) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/51.asp BUG: DateTimePicker Won't Scroll Full Text in Visible Combo Area (191550) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/50.asp PRB: Visual Basic Files Are Missing From Common\Tools Directory (191546) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/46.asp FIX: DBCombo Not Appearing on SSTab After Changing Settings (191528) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/28.asp INFO: Controls Shipped in Visual Basic 6.0 (191524) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/24.asp BUG: TSQL-Debugger Not Invoked Calling Second Stored Procedure (191513) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/13.asp PRB: DataFormat Property Not Reset to Blank Value (191512) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/12.asp INFO: Palm-Size PC Does Not Support VBCE Applications (191478) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/78.asp BUG: Overflow of Number in RowHeight Property Allowed (191477) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/77.asp HOWTO: Create a Generic Error Handler for your Application (191474) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/74.asp PRB: Cannot Create Control Array in VB6 DHTML Application (191463) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/63.asp PRB: DataEnvironment Recordset Requery Does Not Refresh Controls (191457) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/57.asp PRB: Event Procedures May Be Executed for Unhandled Events (191454) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/54.asp HOWTO: Implement Multi-user Custom Counters in DAO 3.5 (191253) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/53.asp HOWTO: Use the Shared Property Manager in MTS Through VB Code (191235) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/35.asp DOC: CallByName Documentation Error (191216) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/16.asp BUG: Print Method Does Not Work Within a With-Block (191215) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/15.asp BUG: Error Message When Not Breaking Binary Compatibility (191214) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/14.asp HOWTO: Modify and Rebuild .cab Files Built with PDW (191212) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/12.asp BUG: Compile Error When You Reopen a Project That Uses Implement (191207) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/07.asp PRB: Compiler Error Overriding VBA Conversion Functions (191206) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/06.asp BUG: Run-Time Error 458 When Late-Binding Rich TextBox Control (191205) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/05.asp BUG: Cannot Edit User Defined Type in Watch Window (191201) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/01.asp PRB: Don't Modify ASP File Created by the WebClass Designer (191187) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/87.asp HOWTO: Navigate Between DHTML Designer Pages (191183) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/83.asp INFO: Fixlist for Visual Basic 6.0 for Windows as 8/7/98 (191130) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/30.asp BUG: Error Logging Could Have Problems in WebClass Designers (191125) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/25.asp DOC: CreateObject Documentation Using Servername Argument (191121) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/21.asp BUG: VB Classes Can Cause IIS to have Access Violations (191119) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/19.asp BUG: RestoreToolbar Method May Not Restore Toolbar Correctly (191105) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/05.asp PRB: Drive ListBox Fails to Drop Down with a Small FontSize (191104) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/04.asp PRB: Multiple "System Files Are Out of Date" Errors (191096) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/0/96.asp BUG: Error When Attempting to Update Included Files in PDW (191095) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/0/95.asp PRB: PDW Appends Script Information to Existing PDM File (191092) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/0/92.asp PRB: Multimedia API Calls May Fail with Long File Names (191089) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/0/89.asp BUG: IPF When Replacing Class Module with UserControl (191083) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/0/83.asp Visual C++ ---------- BUG: VC5: Project Conversion from Version 4.x May Crash VS97 (191496) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/96.asp BUG: VC++ Tools with Long File Name (LFN) Parameters Fail on NT (191495) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/95.asp PRB: Wizard Doesn't Generate Column or Param Map for Jet (191356) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/56.asp FIX: ATL Doesn't Call InitCommonControls in ActiveX Control (191355) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/55.asp BUG: Menu Merge Problem with Server in Active Doc Container (191129) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/29.asp BUG: GetItem and SetItem Do Not Have an Indent Parameter (191128) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/28.asp PRB: Font Changes as ActiveX Control Resizes (191126) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/26.asp Visual FoxPro ------------- HOWTO: Use UPDATE SQL Command to Modify a Second Table (191529) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/29.asp HOWTO: Implement GenHTML Functionality in VFP Run-Time App (191527) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/27.asp PRB: READ MENU In DO..WHILE Loop Causes VFP Screen to Jump (191526) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/26.asp FIX: OpenTables of Cursor Object May Fail with Locate Dialog (191525) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/25.asp FIX: TABLEUPDATE() Fails in Remote View With Empty Memo Field (191522) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/22.asp FIX: DROP TABLE Case Sensitive if Table in Persistent Relation (191521) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/21.asp PRB: Unexpected Results Display With Input Mask (191503) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/03.asp HOWTO: Use Component Gallery to Build an Application (191502) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/02.asp HOWTO: Detect If the Floppy Drive Is Ready on Windows NT (191501) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/01.asp INFO: Where to Find the Wizard Applications' Source Files (191500) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/00.asp INFO: Where to Find the Builder Applications' Source Files (191499) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/99.asp INFO: Where to Find the Class Browser Source Code Files (191498) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/98.asp HOWTO: Use Offline ADO Recordsets in Visual FoxPro (191413) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/13.asp HOWTO: Use COMCLASSINFO() to Check Installed ADO Version (191375) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/75.asp PRB: Base Table Fields Changed with Remote View (191344) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/44.asp PRB: Connection Busy Error with a Shared Connection (191343) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/43.asp FIX: Double Value Returned from DLL Gets Decimal Portion of 0 (191327) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/27.asp PRB: JAWS Software Cannot Read Some of FoxPro 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Data Type Mismatch Error (191277) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/77.asp HOWTO: A Brief Exploration of the Project Object Model (191272) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/72.asp INFO: Files Required to View HTML Help (191223) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/23.asp INFO: ActiveX Controls Supported by Visual FoxPro 6.0 (191222) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/22.asp HOWTO: Store Multiple Dates from the MonthView Control (191175) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/75.asp HOWTO: Create a Custom HTML Help Viewer in Visual FoxPro (191174) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/74.asp HOWTO: Display Web Content in the Component Gallery (191173) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/73.asp BUG: Performance Degradation with Repeated SQL SELECTs (191172) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/72.asp PRB: Too Many Memory Variables Error Creating Array (191170) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/70.asp Visual InterDev --------------- INFO: Visual InterDev 6.0 READMEVI.HTM file (191278) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/78.asp BUG: "HTTP 405" Error When Default Page is Requested (191276) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/76.asp BUG: All Numeric Parameter Values Treated as Integer (191275) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/75.asp BUG: Undo Design View Changes Does Not Work (191274) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/74.asp BUG: Source Code is Not Available for the Current Statement (191273) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/73.asp HOWTO: Customize the Toolbox By Adding Your Own HTML Item (191151) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/51.asp PRB: DTC Grid is Truncated or Missing Columns (191150) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/50.asp BUG: 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Windows and Internet Explorer Support News Watch - August 24, 1998
by Support Online Staff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Windows and Internet Explorer Support News Watch ================================================ TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- New Support Online Articles Windows 98 Internet Explorer for Windows 95 and Windows NT Windows CE Windows 95 Internet Explorer for UNIX Get Support Online Articles by E-mail Visit Support Online As a subscriber to the Windows and Internet Explorer Support News Watch you receive e-mail twice each month that highlights some of the new articles recently published on Support Online Microsoft's award-winning technical support web site. The following are new Support Online articles that answer frequently asked questions about using Windows and Internet Explorer: Windows 98 ---------- Setup Does Not Detect Multiple Display Adapters Correctly (Q191622) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/6/22.asp Err Msg: WAOL Caused an Invalid Page Fault in Module MSVCRT.DLL (Q191621) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/6/21.asp Err Msg: Explorer Caused an Invalid Page Fault in Module... (Q191609) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/6/09.asp Dialog Box Containing No Text Appears When Windows 98 Starts (Q191604) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/6/04.asp Missing Drives in My Computer and Windows Explorer (Q191579) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/79.asp Err Msg: Internal Error 45: Your Infrared Software Has... (Q191578) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/78.asp Cannot Access Post Office with Windows Messaging (Q191576) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/76.asp System Configuration Utility Does Not Disable Files (Q191547) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/47.asp Windows 98 Dial-up Networking Security Upgrade Available (Q191540) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/40.asp HP ScanJet 5p Does Not Function After Upgrade to Windows 98 (Q191530) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/30.asp Cannot Print in Windows After Upgrading to Windows 98 (Q191516) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/16.asp Dxinfo.exe Tool Reports That the Directx.cpl File Is Missing (Q191490) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/90.asp Hard Disk Is Low on Disk Space Message During Windows 98 Setup (Q191489) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/89.asp Network Connections Unavailable After You Connect to Network (Q191481) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/81.asp Err Msg: The Telephony System Cannot Perform That Function at... (Q191468) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/68.asp Using ToggleKeys Feature Causes Sounds to Be Played Quietly (Q191458) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/58.asp Internet Explorer Does Not Save Connection Settings (Q191451) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/51.asp Err Msg: Error 633: The Modem Is Not Installed or Configured... (Q191444) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/44.asp Err Msg: Drive Converter Was Unable to Get a Lock on the Drive (Q191442) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/42.asp Sierra Semiconductor 33.6 Modem Does Not Work Correctly (Q191422) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/22.asp Roaming Profiles Do Not Always Update Correctly (Q191416) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/16.asp "Please Wait While Setup Searches for..." Message Appears (Q191392) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/92.asp Computer Appears to Stop Responding During Windows 98 Setup (Q191391) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/91.asp Not Enough Disk Space Error Message During Windows 98 Setup (Q191369) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/69.asp ScanDisk Stops Responding During Windows 98 Setup (Q191366) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/66.asp Two PC Cards Detected for Every One Inserted into Your Computer (Q191364) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/64.asp Cannot Log on to Network or Gain Access to Network Resources (Q191291) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/91.asp Cannot Install 3Com 3C905B Network Adapter in Windows 98 (Q191283) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/83.asp Error Message: Couldn't Load Cmf.dll, Check BinDir in Xcm.ini (Q191269) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/69.asp Windows 98 Setup Stops Responding While Trying to Play a Sound (Q191257) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/57.asp Tools Are Unavailable on Windows 98 (Retail Version) Boot Disk (Q191252) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/52.asp No Default MIDI Output Device in Multimedia Properties (Q191249) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/49.asp Err Msg: Cannot Find Program.exe Needed for Opening Files... (Q191219) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/19.asp Problems Using Media Player to Play .avi Files (Q191195) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/95.asp Cannot Access NDS Resources After Reinstalling Windows 98 (Q191185) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/85.asp SHIFT+TAB Does Not Work as Expected on Windows 98 Desktop (Q191171) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/71.asp Internet Explorer for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 --------------------------------------------------- McAfee WebScanX 3.1.2 Does Not Detect or Restrict Browsing (Q191633) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/6/33.asp Err Msg: Explorer Caused an Invalid Page Fault in Module... (Q191607) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/6/07.asp Web Sites Open in the Search Bar (Q191580) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/80.asp Channel Bar Icons Appear as Folder Icons (Q191426) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/26.asp How to Enable Preview for Multimedia Files (Q191242) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/42.asp Update Available for Window.External JScript Security Issue (Q191200) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/00.asp Windows CE ---------- Err Msg: Microsoft Outlook Synchronization Service Failed...(Q191374) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/74.asp Windows 95 ---------- Dial-Up Networking 1.3 Upgrade Available (Q191494) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/4/94.asp Conflicts Visible in Device Manager But Devices Work Correctly (Q191312) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/3/12.asp Cannot Change Password with DUN 1.2b and 128-Bit Encryption (Q191192) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/92.asp You Receive Error Messages When You Click Dial Properties (Q191152) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/52.asp Customizing Windows for Individuals with Disabilities (Q165486) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/4/86.asp Internet Explorer for UNIX -------------------------- Internet Explorer and Outlook Express Hangs Window Manager (Q191514) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/5/14.asp Update Available for Window.External JScript Security Issue (Q191200) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/00.asp Get Support Online Articles by E-mail ------------------------------------- You can also receive these articles (and others) in e-mail by sending a message to mshelp(a)microsoft.com. 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IP: Americans for Computer Privacy Call for Action in Congress
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: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 09:14:11 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Americans for Computer Privacy Call for Action in Congress Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: US Newswire http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1002-121.txt Americans for Computer Privacy Call for Action in Congress U.S. Newswire 2 Oct 14:30 Americans for Computer Privacy Call for Action in 106th Congress To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor, Technology Writer Contact: Sue Richard for Americans for Computer Privacy, 202-625-1256, E-mail: suer(At)dittusgroup.com News Advisory: WHAT: Americans for Computer Privacy (ACP) will issue a coalition letter to House and Senate leaders urging legislation in the next Congress that will build on the reforms in encryption policy recently announced by the Administration. ACP will also report on the coalition's growth and future plans, as well as the response to its on-line advertising initiative. WHO: ACP Executive Director Ed Gillespie; Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.); Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.); Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.); Rep. Rick White (R-Wash.); Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.); Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.); Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.); Robert Holleyman, Business Software Alliance; Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology; and Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform. WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 11 a.m. WHERE: Room HC-7, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. BACKGROUND: Since its formal launch in March 1998, ACP has worked closely with Congress and the Administration on encryption policy reform. While ACP acknowledges that progress has been made, the coalition believes the encryption issue is far from resolved. Americans for Computer Privacy brings together more than 100 companies and 40 associations representing financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, high-tech and transportation, as well as law enforcement, civil-liberty, pro-family and taxpayer groups. ACP supports policies that advance the rights of American citizens to encode information without fear of government intrusion, and advocates the lifting of current export restrictions on U.S.-made encryption. For more information on ACP, please visit our website at www.computer privacy.org. A cybercast of the press conference will be available on the site on Thursday, Oct. 8. -0- /U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ 10/02 14:30 Copyright 1998, U.S. Newswire ----------------------- 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 ********************************************** 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'

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Internet Sales Tax Killed [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Note that I've added a few comments/notes between the supplied quoted sections. As always I've deleted for brevity. Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/10/02/internet.tax.ap/ > By CURT ANDERSON > AP Tax Writer > > WASHINGTON (AP) Legislation allowing states to force mail order and > Internet businesses to collect sales taxes failed in the Senate Friday > as debate began on how to tax cyberspace commerce. > > Senators voted 65-30 to table, or kill, an amendment authorizing any > state to require companies with significant catalog, mail order or > Internet sales to collect their sales tax and send it back to the > state. > > The sponsor, Sen. Dale Bumpers, noted that every business operating in > a state with a sales tax must already collect and remit the revenue. > He said the amendment effectively would reverse a 1992 Supreme Court > decision preventing states from enforcing sales taxes on companies > located outside their borders. Section 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. (Note that it doesn't say "Congress shall make no law..." but rather is an absolute prohibition of taxes/duties on exports of states. It therefore falls under the "prohibited" clause of the 10th.) > "If they choose to have a sales tax, the federal government should > allow them to enforce it," said Bumpers, D-Ark. > > Opponents, however, called the measure a hidden tax increase and were > able easily to defeat it for the sixth straight year. > > "Since this tax has never been collected, there's only one way to view > it," said Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz. As unconstitutional. [remainder deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Read RFC 1123, section 5.2.3. 5.2.3 VRFY and EXPN Commands: RFC-821 Section 3.3 A receiver-SMTP MUST implement VRFY and SHOULD implement EXPN (this requirement overrides RFC-821). However, there MAY be configuration information to disable VRFY and EXPN in a particular installation; this might even allow EXPN to be disabled for selected lists. A new reply code is defined for the VRFY command: 252 Cannot VRFY user (e.g., info is not local), but will take message for this user and attempt delivery. DISCUSSION: SMTP users and administrators make regular use of these commands for diagnosing mail delivery problems. With the increasing use of multi-level mailing list expansion (sometimes more than two levels), EXPN has been increasingly important for diagnosing inadvertent mail loops. On the other hand, some feel that EXPN represents a significant privacy, and perhaps even a security, exposure. VRFY is hardly an "incorrect SMTP command." >Your reasoning as to why its responses to incorrect SMTP >commands constitutes evidence that the .TO domain is "negligent", >"mismanaged" and "an attractive resource for criminal activities" >is ironically incorrect. In fact, having an *unsecured* port 25 open to mail >relaying would be negligent. >Best regards, >- Eric Gullichsen > Tonic Corporation > Kingdom of Tonga Network Information Center > http://www.tonic.to > Email: egullich(a)tonic.to

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Govt breaks the law. They do it again!
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THIS MESSAGE SENT AND/OR Cc'ed TO: Paul Martin, Finance Minister <Martin.P(a)parl.gc.ca> Anne McLellan, Justice Minister <McLellan.A(a)parl.gc.ca> Gary Breitkreuz, Reform Party MP <Breitkreuz.G(a)parl.gc.ca> Dr. Bernard Patry, Pierrefonds-Dollars MP <Patry.B(a)parl.gc.ca> Le Québecois Libre <libre(a)colba.net> auditoire(a)montreal.src.ca cypherpunks(a)toad.com Sporting.Shooters.Association(a)adelaide.on.net "Donna Ferolie"<teebee(a)sprint.ca> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:26:47 -0600 From: David A Tomlinson <nfadat(a)telusplanet.net> Subject: Re: NEW ILLEGAL REQUIREMENTS >Canadian Firearms@CFC 10/01/98 09:17 AM >Bulletin No. 23 >Registration and the Firearms Identification Number >You will receive a Registration Certificate for each firearm you >register. Each Registration Certificate will have a unique number. >This will be the Firearms Identification Number (FIN) issued by the >Registrar, head of the Canadian Firearms Registry. The FIN is the >file number you will use for all contact with the office of the >Registrar. If your firearm has no serial number, or if the serial >number, combined with other features of the firearm, is not enough >to tell it apart from all other firearms, you will have to put the >FIN on your firearm. The Registrar will tell you if the FIN must >be placed on your firearm. The FIN will be required on nearly all firearms, as few of them have a well-documented system of Serial numbers that is KNOWN and PROVABLE. Many manufacturers -- especially manufacturers of military firearms for export -- duplicate Serial numbers with monotonous regularity. Others recycle the numbers -- as Iver Johnson did, numbering 9,000,000 revolvers with a machine capable of only 99,999 numbers before starting to recycle. Others, particularly Eastern manufacturers, use digits and/or letters that the registration system cannot handle (Cyrillic letters, for example). >Attaching the FIN to Your Firearm >You will have to put the FIN on your firearm only if the firearm >has no serial number or the serial number is not unique. There is no way to tell whether or not a particular Serial number is UNIQUE. The word "unique" designates an absolute -- That is, it is guaranteed that there is NO other firearm of that type with that Serial number. That is a standard that is clearly unreachable. The Serial number is an indicator, but it can never be certified as "unique" because there is always at least the problem of fraud in the factory producing one or more firearms with duplicated Serial numbers. >If you >have to put the FIN on your firearm, you have a choice of how you >apply it in three situations: 1) if you own your firearm on >December 1, 1998; 2) if your firearm was manufactured before >December 1 and imported into Canada on or after December 1, 1998; >or, 3) if you, as a licensed business, specially import the firearm >for a short time only (such as a film company making a movie in >Canada). In these cases, you may attach a FIN using a special >sticker provided by the Registrar or, you may permanently engrave >or stamp the FIN on your firearm. The above is a very muddled paragraph, which I split into two parts. The above section apparently identifies the three classes of firearms which can be identified by the use of a permanent "sticky." It offers the OPTION of stamping of engraving the FIN on the "frame or receiver" of the firearm. > With all other firearms needing >unique identification, you must permanently engrave or stamp the >FIN. In most cases, the FIN must be easy to read and on a visible >part of the frame or receiver (see next CFC Bulletin for further >details). You will have 30 days from the issue date on the >Registration Certificate to attach the special sticker to your >firearm. You will have 90 days from the issue date on the >Registration Certificate to permanently engrave or stamp the FIN >on your firearm. This second half of the paragraph (above) requires engraving or stamping of the FIN on all other classes of firearms, such as all firearms manufactured after 01 Dec 98. >For more information, or for a copy of the Firearms Act, its >regulations and other CFC publications, contact us at: >1-800-731-4000 (Toll Free) >Web site: http://www.cfc-ccaf.gc.ca/ >E-mail: canadian.firearms(a)justice.x400.gc.ca Fortunately, all of this is apparently NULL AND VOID. No such requirements may be demanded by the CFC or CFR/FRAS unless they are: 1. required by the legislation (C-68's Firearms Act or Criminal Code), or 2. the subject of an Order in Council authorized to be made by the legislation. The legislation apparently says nothing whatever about where or how the Serial number must be on the firearm, and does not mention the Firearms Identification Number concept at all; therefore, the above requirements are apparently null and void as far as the legislation is concerned. The legislation does not authorize the making of any regulation regarding markings on firearms, and therefore the above rules apparently cannot be created by Order in Council. Once again, this is apparently a defective attempt to amend defective legislation by false pretences, and an attempt by the CFC and CFR/FRAS to legislate -- but legislation is beyond their power, so this entire set of requirements is apparently null and void. A copy of this is being sent to the CFC and to CFR/FRAS. CFC and CFR/FRAS, this is a demand for an explanation as to why this apparently illegal and misleading information was published and distributed. Please reply to the Canadian Firearms Digest with all possible speed, and either explain why you think you had the authority to publish it -- or publish a retraction. Dave Tomlinson, NFA -- CLOG: all Conservative or Liberal Ottawa Governments ------------------------------ Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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STUFFED IS NOW FASTER THAN EVER/WE HAVE 1,000S OF NEW MEGA-HOT FREE PICS!
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.9: Canada Frees Up Crypto--WIRED
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.9: Canada Frees Up Crypto--WIRED Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:10:43 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.9: Canada Frees Up Crypto News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Friday October 2, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: WIRED News, September 1, 1998 http://www.wired.com Canada Frees Up Crypto http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15362.html by Matt Friedman, mwf(a)total.net In a move that will almost certainly create friction between the US and Canada, the Canadian government has released a new cryptography policy that encourages the proliferation of powerful data-scrambling technologies. The policy, announced Thursday by John Manley, the minister of industry, makes it clear that Canadians will not have to submit to mandatory key recovery, which would give the government access to all scrambled communications. The document also heads off the establishment of a national public key infrastructure. "In terms of domestic policy, it couldn't be better," says David Jones, president of Electronic Frontier Canada. "Industry Canada is essentially saying that, domestically, you can pretty much do whatever you want with cryptography." An American civil liberties advocate was similarly impressed. "It is great. It's a policy for the 21st century, as opposed to the US government's policy update from last week, which is too little, too late," said Susan Landau, a cryptography policy expert and the co-author of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. Canada's new policy is a setback to the country's "signals intelligence" spy agencies. Industry Canada had been under considerable pressure from the intelligence and law-enforcement communities, both at home and in the United States, to establish domestic crypto controls. "The US has sent a number of delegations to Canada, a number of times, to try and convince [the Canadian government], to go with a restrictive view," said David Banisar, policy director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. "The Canadians clearly said they were not interested." Last winter, when Ottawa published a public white paper on cryptography and solicited comments from the public and other branches of government, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said that it was pushing for a public key-recovery plan. The CSIS is concerned both with domestic and foreign intelligence, sort of a combination of the FBI and CIA. "The ability to decrypt messages and data has a significant impact on our ability to monitor security threats to Canadians," said CSIS spokeswoman Marcia Wetherup at the time. Reached for comment Thursday morning, Wetherup said, "That continues to be the service's main concern at this time." While the Canadian government has rejected controls on domestic crypto, it is taking a wait-and-see attitude on exports. In the US, cryptography exports are strictly regulated, on the grounds that the technology might be used to conceal the communications of terrorists or hostile nations. "The Commerce Department is not going to be happy," Landau said. A Commerce Department official declined comment. Under the new policy, Ottawa will continue to work within the framework of the Wassenaar agreement. That document, an international treaty limiting the spread of munitions technologies, is currently being renegotiated. Sunny Handa, a cyberlaw specialist with the Montreal law firm Martineau Walker, points out that the new policy will not alter existing regulations governing the export of Canadian crypto technology or the re-export of technology originating in the United States. "The real issue now is export," he says. "That hasn't changed." The new policy does, however, make the point that the Canadian government will "deter the use [of crypto] in the commission of a crime," and in the concealment of evidence. Moreover, existing search-and-seizure laws will apply to encrypted messages. But Handa says that Industry Canada is simply "throwing a bone to the police." "Our search-and-seizure laws are pretty good right now," he says. "Citizens' rights are protected, and law enforcement officials can do their jobs. If Industry Canada has signaled that it's happy with them, we probably won't see new legislation in this area for years." "One way to view the issue of cryptography is as an issue of crime prevention, rather than crime detection," said Landau. "As we enter the wired world, cryptography will become extremely important to crime prevention, and the Canadians recognize that." Copyright © 1994-98 Wired Digital Inc. --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you value in the ISPI Clips service or if you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Clips Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Clips Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. 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IP: ISPI Clips 5.10: 'Deadbeat' Parents Database Goes on Line
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.10: 'Deadbeat' Parents Database Goes on Line Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:11:28 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.10: 'Deadbeat' Parents Database Goes on Line News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Friday October 2, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: CNN Interactive, September 30, 1998 http://www.cnn.com National Registry to Track 'deadbeat' Parents Goes on Line: The Federal Case Registry will track the 16 million U.S. parents who are required to pay child support http://www.cnn.com/US/9809/30/deadbeat.registry/ WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new national registry aimed at helping keep track of the 16 million U.S. parents required to pay child support goes on line Thursday. The Federal Case Registry is designed to help custodial parents who aren't receiving child support track down the non-custodial parents who owe the money. Once the "deadbeat" parent is located, even in another state, officials can ask his or her employer to withhold child support from paychecks, which the employer is obligated to do under federal law. "This is an exciting day of hope for children whose parents have abandoned them financially," said U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala in a statement. HHS figures show that states now collect about 22 percent of the $50 billion in back child support owed each year. The new database is expected to be particularly helpful in cases where the children live in a different state than the deadbeat parent. "Since one-third of all child support cases are interstate, we now can confidently close the loopholes for parents escaping their financial obligations," said Olivia Golden, an HHS assistant secretary. Custodial parents can enter information about the deadbeat parent in the registry. That information will then be checked against data in a separate registry, the National Directory of New Hires, which includes records for everyone who begins a new job. Critics of the registry concept say that many custodial parents who try to go after child support after a multi-year lapse won't have enough accurate data to make a match. Fathers' rights groups have also expressed concerns that the tracking system could be used to invade the privacy of law-abiding parents. However, Golden says the law that set up the registry prohibits unauthorized use of the data. Thirty-nine states will begin entering information into the registry immediately. The remaining 11 states are expected to come on board during 1999. Correspondent Jennifer Auther contributed to this report. © 1998 Cable News Network, Inc. --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you value in the ISPI Clips service or if you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Clips Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Clips Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. 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IP: ISPI Clips 5.11: Canada Weighs in on Crypto--CNET
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.11: Canada Weighs in on Crypto--CNET Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:13:01 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.11: Canada Weighs in on Crypto--CNET News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Friday October 2, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: CNET News.con, October 1, 1998 http://www.news.com Canada Weighs in on Crypto http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27044,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh By Janet Kornblum, janetk(a)cnet.com Staff Writer, CNET News.com In a move aimed at encouraging e-commerce, the Canadian government today introduced a new policy with relatively loose restrictions on the export of encryption software. The new encryption policy, introduced today in a speech by John Manley, Canada's minister of industry, may be more notable for what it lacks: a mandatory requirement for controversial key recovery and powerful restrictions on strong encryption products. Encryption software is used to put a digital lock on private communication. To read an encrypted document, the recipient has to have a "key." The controversy over encryption has been a classic case of business and privacy interests vs. government. On one hand, businesses and privacy advocates want to be able to develop and sell products that are airtight as possible. On the other, governments--primarily the United States--want to be able to prevent outsiders from being able to digitally lock out law enforcement officials from their communication and thwarting efforts to prosecute wired criminals. Though the White House has loosened its stance on the export of encryption software, it still backs policies that make the practice difficult. Canada's Manley, on the other hand, specifically said the country "will not implement mandatory key recovery requirements or licensing regimes for certification authorities or trusted third parties." It does, however "encourage industry to establish responsible practices, such as key recovery techniques for stored data and industry-led accreditation of private sector certification authorities," he added. The government also pledged to make it easier for Canadian firms to export strong encryption products both by streamlining the export permit process and by making sure Canada's regulations are not tighter than those of competitors in other countries. "The policy underscores that Canada is open for electronic business," Manley said. "We are encouraging the widespread use of strong encryption and growth of export markets for Canadian technologies." David Banisar, policy director for the Electronic Privacy Information Center and an outspoken critic of the United States' tight export restrictions, today applauded most of Canada's new policy. "It definitely refutes the U.S.'s attempts to get Canada to restrict crypto in many ways," Banisar said. "It allows Canadian companies to export software pretty much of any size." He added that Canada's policy could help influence more liberal European rules on encryption exportation. "This won't force the U.S.'s hands, but what it does is it further isolates the U.S.," he said. However, Banisar did take exception to a proposal contained in the policy statement today that says the government will introduce legislation that specifically makes it "an offense to wrongfully disclose private encryption key information and to use cryptography to commit or hide evidence of a crime." Making cryptography itself a special circumstance in the commission of a crime is tantamount to adding special penalties for using "basic instruments of communication" such as a telephone or a pen, Banisar said. Unlike laws that single out the use of guns or other weapons specifically designed to produce physical damage, "this is not a technology that creates crimes," he said. "And because its intended use is going to be essentially ubiquitous this could be an additional penalty that could apply to any kind of crime." Copyright © 1995-98 CNET, Inc. --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you value in the ISPI Clips service or if you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Clips Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Clips Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. 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IP: Wired News - The Golden Age of Hacktivism
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Bridget973(a)aol.com Subject: IP: Wired News - The Golden Age of Hacktivism Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:56:06 EDT To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15129.html The Golden Age of Hacktivism by Niall McKay 4:00 a.m. 22.Sep.98.PDT On the eve of Sweden's general election, Internet saboteurs targeted the Web site of that country's right-wing Moderates political party, defacing pages and establishing links to the homepages of the left-wing party and a pornography site. But the Scandanavian crack Saturday was not the work of bored juveniles armed with a Unix account, a slice of easily compiled code, and a few hours to kill. It advanced a specific political agenda. "The future of activism is on the Internet," said Stanton McCandlish, program director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "More and more, what is considered an offline issue, such as protesting the treatment of the Zapatistas in Mexico, is being protested on the Net." In the computer-security community, it's called "hacktivism," a kind of electronic civil disobedience in which activists take direct action by breaking into or protesting with government or corporate computer systems. It's a kind of low-level information warfare, and it's on the rise. Last week, for example, a group of hackers called X-pilot rewrote the home page of a Mexican government site to protest what they said were instances of government corruption and censorship. The group, which did not reply to several emails, made the claims to the Hacker News Network. The hacktivists were bringing an offline issue into the online world, McClandish said. The phenomenon is becoming common enough that next month, the longtime computer-security group, the Cult of the Dead Cow will launch the resource site hacktivism.org. The site will host online workshops, demonstrations, and software tools for digital activists. "We want to provide resources to empower people who want to take part in activism on the Internet," said Oxblood Ruffian, a former United Nations consultant who belongs to the Cult of the Dead Cow. Oxblood Ruffian's group is no newcomer to hacktivism. They have been working with the Hong Kong Blondes, a near-mythical group of Chinese dissidents that have been infiltrating police and security networks in China in an effort to forewarn political targets of imminent arrests. In a recent Wired News article, a member of the group said it would target the networks and Web sites of US companies doing business with China. Other recent hacktivist actions include a wave of attacks in August that drew attention to alleged human rights abuses in Indonesia. In June, attacks on computer systems in India's atomic energy research lab protested that country's nuclear bomb tests. More recently, on Mexican Independence Day, a US-based group called Electronic Disturbance Theater targeted the Web site of Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. The action was intended to protest Zedillo's alleged mistreatment of the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas. Nearly 8,000 people participated in the digital sit-in, which attempted to overwhelm the Mexican president's Web servers. "What we are trying to do is to find a place where the public can register their dissatisfaction in cyberspace, so that your everyday [mouse] clicker can participate in a public protest," said EDT co-founder Ricardo. The apparent increase in hacktivism may be due in part to the growing importance of the Internet as a means of communication. As more people go online, Web sites become high-profile targets. It also demonstrates that many government sites are fairly easy to crack, said one former member of Milw0rm, the now defunct group that defaced the Indian research lab's Web site. In an interview in Internet Relay Chat, the cracker rattled off a list of vulnerable US government Web sites -- including one hosting an electron particle accelerator and another of a US politician -- and their susceptibility to bugs. "They don't pay enough for computer people," said the cracker, who goes by the name t3k-9. "You get $50,000 for a $150,000 job." Some security experts also believe that there is a new generation of crackers emerging. "The rise in political cracking in the past couple of years is because we now have the first generation of kids that have grown up with the Net," John Vranesevich, founder of the computer security Web site AntiOnline. "The first generation of the kids that grew up hacking are now between 25 and 35 - often the most politically active years in peoples' lives." "When the Cult of the Dead Cow was started in 1984, the average age [of our members] was 14, and they spent their time hacking soda machines," said Oxblood Ruffian. "But the last couple of years has marked a turning point for us. Our members are older, politicized, and extremely technically proficient." While hacktivists are lining up along one border, police and law enforcement officials are lining up along another. This year the FBI will establish a cyber warfare center called the National Infrastructure Protection Center. The US$64 million organization will replace the Computer Investigations and Infrastructure Threat Assessment Center and involve the intelligence community and the military. Allan Paller, director of research for the SANS Institute, said the FBI is staffing the new facility with the government's top security experts. "They are stealing people from good places, including a woman from the Department of Energy who was particularly good," he said in a recent interview. "They are taking brilliant people." Paller also said that a grassroots effort is under way in Washington to establish a National Intrusion Center, modeled after the Centers for Disease Control. "There is definitely an increased threat of cyber terrorism," said Stephen Berry, spokesman for the FBI press office in Washington. As offline protests -- which are protected in the United States by the constitution -- enter the next digital age, the question remains: How will the FBI draw the distinction between relatively benign online political protests and cyber terrorism? ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.12: New Fingerprint Chip - Protection vs. Privacy
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.12: New Fingerprint Chip - Protection vs. Privacy Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:34:02 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.12: New Fingerprint Chip - Protection vs. Privacy News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 3, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: The New York Times, September 28, 1998 http://www.nytimes.com PERSONAL COMPUTING: Tiny New Chip Could Pit Protection of Property Against Right of Privacy http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/cyber/compcol/29compcol-fixmer.ht ml By ROB FIXMER, rob(a)nytimes.com Tom Rowley seems uncomfortable in the role of braggart. A sheepish look comes over his face when he tells you, "We're going to change the way people live." But Rowley's assertion is not to be taken lightly. For one thing, he said those words once before, in the early 1980's, when the innovation he was introducing was a concept he called voice mail. For better or worse, he did change the way we live. The product that inspires his boast today is a humble-looking chip, about the size of a postage stamp and no thicker than a nickel. When attached to a computer, it reads fingerprints with a precision that meets the Federal Bureau of Investigation's standards for personal identification. Beginning early next year, consumers will see the fingerprint chip introduced in notebook computers, then in desktop devices. Every major manufacturer of computer hardware in the United States is believed to be in some stage of testing or developing products using the chip. Eventually, it is all but certain to be embedded in door and car locks, bank cards, cellular telephones, driver's licenses and the sundry other mundane objects that identify us as consumers and citizens and give us access to places and money. Rowley is the chief executive of Veridicom [ http://www.veridicom.com/ ], a tiny start-up company in Santa Clara, Calif. He is backed by venture capital from, among others, the Intel Corporation, which recognizes the chip's potential to open vast markets in consumer electronics, and Lucent Technologies, which owns the patents accrued by Bell Laboratories, where the chip was invented in the early and mid-1980's. Although the product, known as OpenTouch, is cutting-edge technology, it is low-tech by silicon standards, making it inexpensive to manufacture in large numbers. The Korean and Taiwanese companies under contract to produce it see Veridicom's chip as a way to milk a few more years from old fabrication plants that have already been fully depreciated and might otherwise be closed as obsolete. All of which means that the fingerprint chip, is going to be very inexpensive -- probably less than $10 per chip within 18 months of its introduction, and eventually even less, industry experts said. A low price means that it is almost certain to become far more widely used than voice mail, whether as OpenTouch, which Veridicom will introduce in November at the Comdex trade show, or as another company's competing product. Far less certain is the social and political impact of the fingerprint chip. It certainly can greatly enhance personal security. But depending on how it is used, it could have a profound impact on privacy, for better or worse. The paranoid will no doubt see in this chip a conspiracy by the Government or another Orwellian nightmare. The real threat, though, is not from Big Brother but from a legion of what a colleague refers to as "little brothers," business interests like magazine publishers, banks and indemnity companies that want to track our every move, profile our every passion, anticipate our every need either to persuade us to part with our money or to assess us as risks for credit or insurance. Credible identification cuts two ways when it comes to security and privacy. The same fingerprint reader that gives us secure access to our home or car can be used to trace our movements through office buildings, stores, schools and airports. That can be good or bad depending on the circumstances and what we are up to. I may not want anyone to know that I am in Room 1705 of the Acme Professional Building visiting my lawyer or psychiatrist or heart specialist or interviewing for a job -- unless the person tracking me is a fire marshal clearing a burning building. But if I lose my notebook computer on a flight to Seattle, I want to know that no one will be able to rifle through my files, because the manufacturer has frozen the code that reads the fingerprint chip so deeply in my computer's electronics that no amount of tampering will allow another person to boot it or to unscramble the data on my hard drive. On the other hand, without safeguards, the same fingerprint-identified passport that will be useless to a thief will allow governments around the world to track my every move. Perhaps the most ambiguous line between privacy threats and security will be the use of Veridicom's technology on the Internet. In many ways, it will be the ultimate "cookie," those files that Web sites place on our hard drives to identify us, or at least our computers, when we point our browsers in their direction. In some ways, this is beneficial. If the fingerprint reader on my computer serves as a certificate of identification when I buy something on line, the seller does not know my credit card number or whether I am paying with credit or cash. The seller may not even know my identity. Veridicom's chip assures the seller that I am who I claim to be without revealing who I am. Likewise, when used as an encryption key, the chip will guarantee that no one can unscramble and read my e-mail or other documents. But there is a darker side. Companies are already using cookies to create personal profiles of Internet users by aggregating every piece of information we surrender on Web sites. The very kinds of sites we visit reveal a great deal about us to those who want our money, and when we buy products or enter contests or register to use a site, we reveal not only who we are but a great deal about how we live. At the same time, a study released this summer by the Federal Trade Commission revealed that most businesses on the Web did not tell visitors how the information they surrendered would be used. In a few cases, the study found that companies sold information that they had promised users would be kept confidential. The Clinton Administration insists that for now, the infant electronic-commerce industries be allowed to police themselves in matters of privacy. That is frightening enough when our cookies give up information dropped on our treks through cyberspace. When everything we do on line can be tied to our credit and bank cards, driver's licenses and passports, the extra security we have gained might well be outweighed by the privacy we have lost. Not surprisingly, Tom Rowley spends most of his time these days trumpeting the potential benefits of his chip, but he does not deny its potential for mischief. After all, he admits, at times even voice mail "is a real pain." The social stakes this time around are a lot higher. PERSONAL COMPUTING is published weekly, on Tuesdays. Rob Fixmer at rob(a)nytimes.com welcomes your comments and suggestions. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you value in the ISPI Clips service or if you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Clips Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Clips Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. 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IP: Got a Cause and a Computer? You Can Fight City Hall
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Got a Cause and a Computer? You Can Fight City Hall Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:17:14 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/interactive-townhall.html October 3, 1998 Got a Cause and a Computer? You Can Fight City Hall By RICK LYMAN AUSTIN, Texas -- Bill Clinton seems to have generated the most petitions, calling for him to be impeached, to resign, to be left alone. Thirteen people have signed one demanding a ban on tigers and other exotic cats as pets. Eight favor the establishment of areas in national parks for nudists. But a petition demanding statehood for New York City attracted not a single signatory, not one, not even Donald Trump. In that dark epoch between the discovery of fire and the discovery of the World Wide Web, the Bolsheviks had to storm the Winter Palace to get their point across. Now it can all be done with the gentle click of a mouse button. "I got the idea when I was sitting at home in Austin watching a city council debate on cable television," Alex Sheshunoff, 24, said. "The issue they were discussing was very important, but the debate was really boring, enough to induce narcolepsy. I started wondering: How can you get citizens involved in the democratic process when they don't have time to spend three hours at a city council meeting waiting to make a three-minute statement?" His answer: E-The People, which describes itself as "America's Interactive Town Hall" and resides in cyberspace at www.e-thepeople.com. Those who find their way to the Web site, either directly or through one of the newspapers or nonprofit agencies that are Sheshunoff's partners, are given the chance to sign a petition already posted on the site, create a new petition or write a letter to government officials about whatever is stuck in their craw. "There have been a lot of people talking recently about the intersection of democracy and the Internet," Sheshunoff said, "but not a lot of people sitting down and writing the code. That's where we come in." E-The People has been open since August but is still trying to "stomp out the last of the bugs," Sheshunoff said, and should be fully operational in a month or so. The Web site, which also bills itself as "an Alex Sheshunoff Initiative," is designed to connect citizens with their government officials, local or national, and to turn a profit for Sheshunoff and his investors. For example, a Houston resident interested in protesting about the environment is led through a process of identifying whom he should contact (a click calls up a list that includes the governor, lieutenant governor, city council representative, 26 state representatives, eight state senators and 20 agency officials with specific responsibility for the environment). Then the resident can compose a message that is automatically sent as e-mail to whichever officials are selected, or as a fax, if the recipient has no e-mail address. It is all free for the petitioners and letter writers. Advertisers and media partners pay the freight. Messages can also be sent to the White House or to Congress, Sheshunoff said, but the central intent is to address local issues. "The president already received a half-million e-mails a month, but for a city council member to receive 10 letters on a single subject can have a real impact," he said. "This is really about local people solving local problems." The letters are treated as private mail, Sheshunoff said. E-The People takes no note of their content and promises it will sell none of the demographic data that might be collected in the process. Sheshunoff's initiative operates from an office on the 19th floor of a tower in downtown Austin, part of a suite of offices that are home to Alex Sheshunoff Management Services, the company run by his father, a well-known banking consultant. The younger Sheshunoff prowled his small room recently, a thatch of sandy hair brushing his forehead, occasionally grabbing for a purring cellular telephone while a team of young programmers hunched over keyboards frantically tapping in data. An American flag dominated one wall while a map of the United States filled another, showing the route of an 80-city transcontinental bus tour that Sheshunoff has been running to spread the word. The bus, decorated to resemble a mailbox, left Austin on Aug. 1 and has made its way across the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast and across the prairies into the Midwest, New England and New York. It is heading south on its return to Texas. So far, 45 newspapers have agreed to go into partnership with E-The People, meaning they will feature a link to the site on their own Web pages and share with E-The People any advertising revenues generated by surfers traversing that link. Among those signed up are The San Antonio Express-News, The Oregonian in Portland and The Daily News in New York. Sheshunoff is hoping for 100 media partners. Sheshunoff once considered a career in network television. While a student at Yale, he did some work for ABC News, as a production assistant and then reading his own short, personal essays in the wee hours. Then he read somewhere that the audience for network television news had dropped 30 percent since 1990. Sheshunoff said he spent his senior year "thinking about where news was going." This led him, as it has hundreds of others in his generation, to the Internet. His first effort was an online magazine developed as a way of allowing readers to pinpoint the restaurants and other venues nearest their homes. "We sold some of that underlying technology to newspapers and others, for their Web pages," he said. A similar process is used in E-The People, he said, but it is more sophisticated. "It's not as easy as it sounds," he said, "to take somebody's address and tell them who their elected officials are." Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company ----------------------- 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. 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IP: ISPI Clips 5.13: Identity Theft is Huge & Growing
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.13: Identity Theft is Huge & Growing Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:35:01 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.13: Identity Theft is Huge & Growing News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 3, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: American Bar Association's, ABA Journal, October 1998 http://www.abanet.org IDENTITY THIEVES http://www.abanet.org/journal/oct98/10FIDENT.html Stealing someone's identity to buy everything from cars to toys and leaving the real person's credit rating in ruins may be the perfect crime because there is little that can be done to prosecute it. Until now. BY MICHAEL HIGGINS, higginsm(a)staff.abanet.org Sometime in the early 1990s, a con man named Scott Clinton Gilbert visited a resumé and printing shop in Las Vegas. His bill came to $185.30, and he paid in his usual fashion: He lied. Gilbert charged his purchase under the name "Robert Hartle." If anyone had questioned Gilbert's true identity, the scam artist was more than ready. He had obtained a "Robert Hartle" driver's license, Social Security card--even a birth certificate. Gilbert probably didn't think much of that small transaction. Before his fraud spree was done, he would stick the real Robert Hartle with debts of more than $110,000, including bills for three pickup trucks, two motorcycles and a double-wide mobile home. Gilbert, who later pleaded guilty to related charges, was one of thousands of criminals who quietly discovered what in an increasingly cashless society had become almost the perfect crime: identity theft. By posing as someone else, thieves found, they could steal in a way that left victims powerless and police uninterested. "It was a very easy crime," says Ed Mierswinsky, a consumer advocate at U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, D.C. "Forget restitution. Consumers couldn't even obtain peace of mind" from seeing the criminals punished. Today, identity theft is still a vibrant and growing criminal enterprise, but its cover has been blown. Federal officials are holding summits and seminars to alert law enforcement officers to the crime. State legislators are pushing for tougher criminal penalties. And this fall, Congress is likely to vote on a bill that would make identity theft a federal felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Another bill would give consumers more control over who has access to personal information, such as Social Security numbers. A '90s Kind of Crime: It's hard to say how widespread identity theft is because there is no standard definition of the crime. But sometime around 1994, the number of complaints to government, business and consumer groups began to explode. Last year, identity theft cost consumers and financial institutions some $745 million, according to the U.S. Secret Service, which has jurisdiction over many financial crimes. In 1992, about 35,000 people called the credit reporting agency Trans Union with questions or complaints about identity theft, the company reports. Last year, calls numbered more than 523,000. It is the victims themselves who've dragged the crime into the spotlight, demanding that lawmakers take action. Among them: an Arizona factory worker who helped initiate the new federal felony bill. He's a man who first learned about identity theft in 1994, when a collection agency called to ask why he hadn't paid his printing bill. He's Robert Hartle. Hartle, 46, was living with his wife, JoAnn, in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and working as an inspector at a foundry when he was thrust into identity-theft hell. The Hartles had been living frugally, with few bills, and made almost all their purchases in cash. But when Hartle got the strange call about the Las Vegas printing bill, he ordered a copy of his credit report. It told a different story, Hartle says. To the credit reporting agency and anyone who used its information, Hartle was a free-spending deadbeat. Luckier than most, Hartle had a lead on the culprit. He knew of a man going by the name of Carl Lee Lunden who had befriended his mother in Phoenix. In fact, "Lunden"--later found to be Gilbert--had persuaded the elderly woman, some 30 years his senior, to marry him, giving him access to Hartle family information. He had also made what Hartle had assumed was a joke about working under Hartle's name. Hartle traveled to Phoenix to present his case to police. That's where he learned something he found hard to believe. Even if he was right about "Lunden," the police didn't consider Hartle to be the victim of a crime. The law enforcement logic was this: Hartle wasn't legally obligated to pay any of the bills the impostor had run up. Therefore, Hartle wasn't out any money. If anyone was a victim, it was the bank that issued the credit card. Never mind that Gilbert had ruined Hartle's credit. Or that the creditors wouldn't erase the debts without a showing of fraud. Hartle found the police wouldn't even allow him to file a police report. "I offered to give [the detective] the evidence, and he refused to take it," Hartle recalls. "I told him that I was not a lawyer or a police officer, but I knew that crimes had been committed." By mid-1994, Hartle was in desperate shape. Gilbert had left Hartle's mother and fled Arizona, but hadn't stopped using his name. Hartle was spending $400 a month on phone calls, trying to get creditors off his back and law enforcement onto Gilbert. "Our credit was ruined. We couldn't move ahead with our lives. Everything was on hold," he says. "We couldn't continue to live like this." In Hartle's case, the con man he was chasing was crafty. Gilbert had moved to Phoenix from Florida, where he had a criminal record. But identity thieves don't need to be so devious. All that wouldbe thieves require is a credit card application and some basic personal information about their target. The key piece of information--the victim's Social Security number--is surprisingly easy to get. It's widely available on credit reports. And it's often the account number on documents that thieves can steal from their victims' mail or dig out from their garbage. Lawyers Can Be Victims, Too: Mari Frank, a lawyer in Laguna Niguel, Calif., found out firsthand how easily a scam artist can steal someone's name. In August 1996, Frank got a call from a bank in Delaware, asking why she hadn't paid an $11,000 balance on a Toys "R" Us credit card. When Frank asked where the bank had been sending the billing statements, she got an address in Ventura, Calif., about 80 miles north of her. It was Frank's first clue that an identity thief had run up bills of about $50,000 in her name. "She had gotten a red convertible Mustang that she was driving around --with my credit," says Frank, now an advocate for tougher identity theft laws. "She got a driver's license with my name." The thief in Frank's case was anything but sophisticated. She got Frank's credit report by saying she was a private investigator. To get the Toys "R" Us card, Frank says, the woman had simply crossed out her own name on the application and written in "Mari Frank." Another victim-turned-advocate is Jessica Grant, who also was shocked to find out how unprotected she was. Grant, a pension manager in Sun Prairie, Wis., had always used credit sparingly. But when she and her husband tried to refinance their home in December 1997, they found that an impostor had run up about $60,000 worth of debt in Grant's name. The thief, who lived in Texas, had opened 19 separate accounts. In some cases, the impostor got credit in Grant's name despite submitting applications with a residence and employer that didn't match Grant's. "That's the part of it that just infuriates me," Grant says. "There was just so much information that could have been--and should have been--questioned. But it never was." Dilemma of Enforcement: Like Hartle, both Frank and Grant found that local police did not consider them to be victims of crime. Both took their cases to federal law enforcement--the fbi and U.S. Secret Service--where they found good news and bad. Federal law does prohibit the fraudulent misuse of identification, bank cards and Social Security numbers. 18 U.S.C. 1028, 10 U.S.C. 1028, 42 U.S.C. 408. But, Frank and Grant both say, federal investigators told them they deal only with multistate fraud rings and cases worth upward of $200,000. Their cases didn't qualify. For the feds, it's a predicament, says James Bauer, a deputy assistant director in the Secret Service and a proponent of tougher identity theft laws. For example, Bauer's office is shutting down a fraud ring in which the thieves used stolen identities to buy cars, then cleverly leveraged their bounty. The thieves would take the car out of state, sell it, use the money to make a down payment on a house, then take out second mortgages on the house. "Multiply that times the 36 cars that we know about so far, and it amounts to literally millions of dollars," Bauer says. But while the feds have struggled to crack those sorts of operations, relatively small fish like Scott Gilbert have wriggled free. In theory, the banks that issue the credit cards--the real victims, in the eyes of local police--could push harder for prosecution. But according to U.S. Sen. Jon Kyle, R-Ariz., sponsor of the new federal identity theft bill, banks often have insurance to cover their losses. And they know their chances of getting any restitution may be slim. Even if police do investigate, identity theft cases can be expensive to prosecute, says Donald Grant, a Ventura County, Calif., deputy district attorney whose office handled Frank's case. Prosecutors have a strong incentive to work a plea deal because trying the case means paying to bring in bank employees as witnesses, as well as bank records from across the country, he says. They also know judges aren't likely to give jail time to nonviolent criminals, especially if the dollar amount is relatively small or the defendant is a first-time offender. "To prosecute these cases is a godawful pain in the neck," Grant says. If there's a trial, "We generate a lot of expense to taxpayers, and it's not a prison case. It's sort of a no-win situation for the victims," he concedes. And it's identity theft victims who are left trying to explain all this to creditors and collection agencies, who often suspect the victim of being the impostor. "I was getting outright, flat-out abusive treatment," says victim Grant. "I was in a position where I had to prove who I was, when they never bothered to ask [the thief] to prove who she was." By the time Hartle and his wife had moved to Phoenix to plead their case with law enforcement officials, Gilbert had fled. In November 1994, state police in New Hampshire picked him up on charges of trying to get a fake driver's license, Hartle says. Out on bail, Gilbert called Hartle and tried to get him to stop his pursuit. When Hartle refused, Gilbert taunted him. "He told me ... he wasn't going to quit using my identity until he felt like stopping," Hartle recalls. When Hartle threatened to track down Gilbert himself, "He laughed at me, said, 'Go ahead and try it because nobody's going to convict me.' " At the time, Hartle recalls, "It was beginning to look like he was right." But in early 1995, Hartle finally got a break. He had contacted U.S. Sen. Thomas Harkin, D-Iowa, and asked him to press federal prosecutors to help. In February 1995, they indicted Gilbert for buying guns under a false name and misusing a credit card. Gilbert pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 17 months in prison. But Hartle decided that wasn't enough. He turned to a state representative in Arizona, who pushed state prosecutors to reconsider Hartle's complaints. In October 1995, Gilbert pleaded guilty to perjury in state court and was sentenced to four years in prison. In total, Gilbert served a little more than three years. Not bad, Hartle says, "when you consider that when I started this, no one was interested." Hard to Pin Down: Despite what their victims go through, it's unusual for an identity thief to get a sentence as severe as Gilbert's. Take Mari Frank's case. She was fortunate to find a police supervisor in Ventura, himself a victim of identity theft, who ordered an investigation. Police arrested her identity thief in October 1996, Frank says. But the woman missed her sentencing hearing that December and remained free until police picked her up on other charges in January 1997. "She finally did a two-month work furlough program ... staying at a halfway house," Frank says. The thief drove to the program in the red Mustang she had bought with Frank's credit. "Violent crime does take precedence," Frank says. "I understand that. But the criminals know this is not really taken seriously. There [have] to be some identity thieves going to jail and doing some real time." Jessica Grant says she grew frustrated trying to get the Texas state police to take action. She eventually got help from the Houston police and an investigator with the Social Security Administration. As of July, the investigator had confronted a suspect and was preparing to file charges, Grant says. But identity theft itself isn't a crime in Texas. "The law that they're charging her with is the misuse of a Social Security number," Grant says. "She will probably not get jail time." All three victims paid a stiff price to clean up their credit records. Hartle estimates that he spent about $15,000 out of his own pocket during the ordeal. Grant says she has logged 158 hours, so far, trying to straighten out creditors. Frank, the lawyer, says she cleaned her credit record in eight months. But it took 90 letters, 500 hours and more than $10,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, she says. Beyond Bad Credit: For some victims, it gets even worse. Impostors have been known to commit crimes, then give their fake identity to police when they're arrested. "We're hearing more and more cases these days where the identity theft victim is saddled with a criminal record," says Beth Givens, project director at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego-based group that aids identity theft victims. "That's what I call the worst-case scenario." Some victims may never learn of all the damage that was done, notes Jodie Bernstein, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission. "If your credit history is destroyed, you may not even know if it went to some potential employer and you didn't get a job," she says. "The victims we talk to eventually get it sorted out, but at great cost." Bauer of the Secret Service relates another story: "I know a [thief] out West who actually died using the victim's name," he says. The victim "had to get a death certificate undone." Hartle, Frank and Grant have pushed for reforms that are starting to change how the nation deals with identity theft. In Arizona, Hartle contacted his state legislator about making identity theft a serious crime that local police couldn't ignore. In July 1996, the state made it a felony--the first law of its kind in the nation. In California, Frank joined victims testifying last year on behalf of a bill that made identity theft a misdemeanor. As of July, she had testified eight more times in support of other identity theft measures, including one bill that would make it a felony in some circumstances. Frank, who works primarily as a mediator, also has written a book, From Victim to Victor: A Step-By-Step Guide for Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft. And she has assembled a self-help kit and created a Web site, http://www.identitytheft.org , to assist victims. Frank says that because identity theft is so new, some lawyers misadvise clients. She has heard of lawyers counseling victims to change their Social Security number or declare bankruptcy, two strategies she says are counterproductive because they ultimately burden the victim with even more legal difficulties. Grant, lobbying in Wisconsin, got the quickest legislative action. In February, two months after she discovered she was a victim, Grant was the subject of a front-page article in the Wisconsin State Journal. State Rep. Marlin Schneider, an outspoken privacy hawk, introduced a bill in her name making identity theft a felony there. Grant visited the Wisconsin Capitol and talked to legislators, including one trip in March with a local TV-news camera crew in tow. The bill passed in April. When Gov. Tommy Thompson signed it into law, Grant got to keep the pen. And Hartle--four years after his first, confusing phone call about a $185.30 printing bill--hopes that this fall he will become one of the few victim-advocates to push through the same law at both the state and federal levels. With prodding from Hartle, Kyle, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act last year. The act makes identity theft that crosses state lines a federal felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. It also allows restitution to victims. The larger war over who has control over personal information is one that will be fought well into the next century. Many issues are just now being identified. The financial and credit industries certainly have their share of political muscle. But don't count out those mistreated by the system--the Hartles, Franks and Grants. "They have lived through the Orwellian nightmare," consumer advocate Mierswinsky says. "The victims of identity theft are a force to be reckoned with." VICTIMS WORK TO KEEP PERSONAL DATA PRIVATE Although they've been the driving force behind identity theft laws in several states, the victims of this scam say what they've accomplished isn't nearly enough. Along with consumer groups, they're pushing for tougher restrictions on how businesses use personal information. High on their wish list: a bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would force businesses to get a person's consent before selling Social Security numbers and other personal data commonly found on credit reports. Consumer advocates blame banks and credit card companies for issuing preapproved credit applications and then not screening carefully enough for impostor applicants. They say merchants add to the problem by hawking "instant credit" cards at the checkout counter. "The lack of verification at that level is astounding," says Ed Mierswinsky, a consumer advocate at U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, D.C. The credit reporting industry says it, too, is concerned about identity theft. Staffing has been increased on fraud hotlines, and sophisticated software is being put to use to detect spending patterns that may indicate fraud. Visa suffered $470 million in fraud losses in the United States last year, but only 4 percent was due to identity theft, says Dennis Brosan, Visa's vice president of fraud control in McLean, Va. That's down 12 percent from just a few years ago. But the credit reporting industry opposes restrictions on selling personal information. Officials say the information actually helps prevent identity theft because it makes it easier for banks and merchants to confirm whether people applying for credit are who they say they are. The data also accounts for tens of millions of dollars in annual sales for credit reporting agencies, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported in March. For lenders, there's a tension between serving customers who want tight security and those who bristle at being asked for three pieces of identification for every transaction. "All we can do is hope that the companies that have this ability to minimize the threat are doing everything they can," says Robert McKew, general counsel for American Financial Services Association, a trade group in Washington, D.C., whose members include many lenders. "I believe that they are." U.S. Sen. Jon Kyle, R-Ariz., sponsor of a new federal identity theft bill, says he is reluctant to blame lenders. "They're dealing with a lot of deadbeats, frankly, and everybody has a story," Kyle says. "It's very, very hard in today's world. In order to get credit you've got to give information. And once that information is in the commercial stream, it's very difficult to protect it." Michael Higgins, a lawyer, is a reporter for the aba Journal. His e-mail address is higginsm(a)staff.abanet.org. Copyright American Bar Association. American Bar Association 750 N. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60611 312/988-5000 info(a)abanet.org --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. 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Re: [SoftSpeech] Interplay between Crypto Export Regs and Copyright (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:53:01 +0100 > From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: [SoftSpeech] Interplay between Crypto Export Regs and Copyright > Recall PRZ himself did not export anything, and yet the Feds were > building the case on the basis that he allowed it to be exported, or > did not try hard enough to prevent it being exported. Rumor has it > that a low profile cypherpunk type, Kelly Goen, had something to do > with it, and he was the lesser publicized 2nd defendent in the USG > investigation of PRZ and associate. If this approach is so air-tight why is PRZ still walking around a free man? ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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IP: CNS - Justice Department Seeks Expanded Power
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "A.C." <angie(a)computerhut.net> Subject: IP: CNS - Justice Department Seeks Expanded Power Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 00:13:37 -0700 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com >Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 13:18:40 -0500 >From: Jim Groom <gs924jfj(a)mon-cre.net> >To: Current Events <gs924jfj(a)mon-cre.net> >Subject: CNS - Justice Department Seeks Expanded Power > >http://www.conservativenews.org/indepth/welcome.html > >Justice Department Seeks Expanded Power > >01 October, 1998 > >By Ben Anderson >CNS Staff Writer > >(CNS) The United States Justice Department is seeking to expand its >authority and "obtain massive new enforcement powers" just days before a >busy Congress scurries to finish business, according to Representative >Bob Barr (R-GA). > >If the Justice Department has its wishes, according to Barr, it could >establish a "permanent FBI Police Force." The Justice Department is >allegedly trying to get their "wish list" attached to appropriations >bills to avoid public hearings or debate. > >Barr obtained a "wish list" by the Department which includes expanding >definitions of terrorism to include domestic crimes unrelated to >terrorism. The Department is also seeking to seize commercial >transportation assets for federal use and the ability to commandeer >personnel from other federal agencies without reimbursement. > >"These requests belong in some bizarre conspiracy novel," Barr said, >"not in serious legislative documents being circulated at the top levels >of federal law enforcement." > >In addition to forcing telephone and Internet companies to divulge >information on their customers, Justice Department officials are also >seeking to expand wiretap authority to allow "roving" wiretaps, and >wiretaps without any court authority, according to Barr. > >"These proposals represent a sneak attack on the most cherished >principles of our democracy. If they become a part of our law, freedom >and privacy in America will be permanently and severely diminished," >Barr said. > >Barr released information yesterday to expose the Justice Department's >efforts. Barr spokesman Brad Alexander told CNS the department typically >waits until the congressional atmosphere is clouded with lots of >legislation to lobby sympathetic Congressmen. > >Alexander told CNS the wiretapping issue is something the Justice >Department tries to expand at the end of every congressional session. > >Three phone calls made to the Justice Department by CNS were not >returned by press time. > >### >---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 29, 1998 http://www.house.gov/barr/p_doj.html BARR EXPOSES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE POWER GRAB WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Representative Bob Barr (GA-7) released today information exposing an effort by the Department of Justice to obtain massive new enforcement powers in the closing days of the 105th Congress. Barr obtained the information from a confidential source within federal law enforcement. Among other things, the Department's "wish list" for new authority includes (among others): + A vastly expanded definition of terrorism to include domestic crimes having no relationship to terrorism. + The power to seize commercial transportation assets for federal use. + The ability to commander personnel from other federal agencies without reimbursement. + Expanded wiretap authority to allow "roving" wiretaps, and wiretaps without any court authority. + Enlarged asset forfeiture provisions to allow the FBI to seize personal property in both criminal and civil matters. + The establishment of a permanent "FBI Police Force." + Loosening of Posse Comitatus restrictions to allow more military involvement in domestic law enforcement. + Authority to force telephone and Internet companies to divulge information on their customers. "These requests belong in some bizarre conspiracy novel, not in serious legislative documents being circulated at the top levels of federal law enforcement. These proposals represent a sneak attack on the most cherished principles of our democracy. If they become a part of our law, freedom and privacy in America will be permanently and severely diminished," said Barr. Barr also noted the Department and the FBI are "shopping" this wish list in an effort to get the items placed in a spending measure without hearings or debate. ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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Re:Your inquiry
by user6＠new-century-commerce.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Microsoft
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Please include me
by KCzzzzz＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Include me on your mailing list

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Q to cypherpunks. WAS:Re: Please stop forwarding Canadian Firearms Digest to Cypherpunks List!
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Q for you CPunks: did PGP v.5.5.3i was truly peer-reviewed for flaws or backdoors? If not, which is that last version that was? On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 14:20:42 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >Hi! Of course most of us believe that firearms registration is wrong >and that the right to own weapons is the right to be free, >and I suppose it is a break from Clinton&Monica rants, >but still, please stop forwarding the Canadian firearms stuff to >the cypherpunks list. Is is not about the right to be free, it is about govt organizing seriously to deny that right. :-S OK, I'll stop. No problemo Bill. OTOH, I will still post articles with relevance to crypto from the list or elsewhere. Some of thoses articles will possibly have nothing to do with crypto except that they will be modifications or subtleties of ITAR. Just so you know: I spend a lot of keystrokes teaching PGP to various peoples nowadays... Ciao all C'Punks. jfa Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds (Montreal), Canada Unregistered Firearms in the hands of honest citizens: Liberty's Teeth Strong Cryptographic tools in the hands of honest citizens: Liberty's Voice He who beats his sword into a ploughshare will get coerced to plow for those who don't... PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Re: Please include me
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

piss off! ME FIRST! >From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Sat Oct 3 22:43:06 1998 >Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 05:06:01 GMT >Message-Id: <199810040506.FAA29119(a)earth.wazoo.com> >From: Anonymous <nobody(a)earth.wazoo.com> >Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender >address above. >It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. >Please report problems or inappropriate use to the >remailer administrator at <wazoo(a)wazoo.com>. >Subject: Re: Please include me >References: <80e9319b.3616faed(a)aol.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Precedence: bulk > > Include me on your mailing list >Me too!!!! >-- an anonymous AOL31 user

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Dial 1-800-SPY TECH
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Ordered to be celibate?
by Rain Dog 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Judge Orders Teen To Be Celibate CAMBRIDGE, Ill. (AP) -- A teen-ager who pleaded guilty to stealing handguns must remain celibate for 2 1/2 years unless he gets married, a judge said. Brandon Stevens, 17, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months probation, 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine. Henry County Judge Clarke Barnes said Stevens won't have to serve jail time if he completes treatment at a halfway house and meets conditions that include the celibacy rule. ``Certainly he's got no business having sexual relations with people to whom he's not married,'' Barnes said. Prosecutor Ted Hamer said the requirement was based on the judge's learning in court that Stevens was sexually active, not because of any sexually related charges. The American Civil Liberties Union said Stevens' sex life is none of the judge's business. And it's not clear how to enforce Barnes' order. ``It's sort of a self-policing type of order,'' Hamer said. ``Nobody's going to be spying on him or looking in windows. I think the judge just hopes he'll abide by the order.'' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1(a)texaco.com> > Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd) > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 05:28:08 -0500 > I don't believe there are that many natural monopolies Where there *are* > natural monopolies it is because the entry cost is higher than any likely > profit. There are some additional issues involved other than start-up cost. Such things as market saturation and information hording. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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