December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

DoJ investigates CIA [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/05/cia.hughes.ap/ > JUSTICE INVESTIGATING CIA FOR POSSIBLE CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS > > CIA Graphic December 5, 1998 > Web posted at: 1:38 p.m. EST (1838 GMT) > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is conducting an > obstruction-of-justice investigation of CIA officials who passed along > to a satellite contractor sensitive information about a Senate > investigation into technology transfers to China. > > Government officials reached late Friday said the criminal > investigation centers on information passed by the intelligence agency > to Hughes Electronics Corp., maker of both commercial and spy > satellite systems. > > At issue is whether that information compromised a Senate Intelligence > Committee investigation into allegations that Hughes and other U.S. > companies violated federal export laws by sharing restricted > technology with China as part of commercial satellite export deals. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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(eternity) democracy is a bad idea on the net too! (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:26:51 GMT > From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > Subject: (eternity) democracy is a bad idea on the net too! > Markus Kuhn wrote: > > The main research aspect of this project is the joint administration of > > such distributed archives. For spam protection, you still need people > > who decide, which files are allowed on the distributed server > > infrastructure, and which are not. > > I think a better deciding factor of which files remain and which don't > is hard, anonymous ecash. Allow the author, or server to charge for > storage, and charge for access. Allow readers to contribute ecash to > the continued existance of a data. Throw the lot together and let > profit maximisation sort the rest out. There is some window for abuse in this method. It allows a well endowed entity to bias the information available. There is also the question of data degredation, in the sense of worth, over time versus the archival/historical worth of the data. Two major negatives to a free-market approach that are never discussed. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by BannerExplode＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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eternity using politics rather than economics
by Ryan Lackey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

When I was working on Eternity DDS stuff, I basically came to the same conclusion as Adam -- without anonymous bearer cash, you can't do a workable eternity implementation. It's an open question whether you could issue bearer cash backed in Eternity-units. That was my original plan, but it seems you would still want to have gold-units to trade for Eternity units. The problems of guaranteeing quality of service in exchange for Eternity units are complicated but tractable, but having a separate scheme for auditing performance. Where I think "political" schemes would be particularly beneficial is in sharing administrative control over a virtual corporation, etc. While those who believe Coase would believe corporations will devolve into individuals or even autonomous agents, it might be a worthwhile tool during the transition. As far as I can tell, having a good Eternity implementation is still blocked on getting a reasonable electronic cash system. There are some people in Anguilla...

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RE: What was the quid pro quo for Wassenaar countries?
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> The end result being the NSA should able to read India and Chinas > communications without irritations. You think India won't be able to develop strong encryption indigenously?! You obviously haven't been keeping up with the times. One word...Bangalore. Despite the export rhetoric, the real and intended affect it to prevent widespread *domestic* use. By making the market much smaller (domestic) only, creating FUD, there are less crypto suppliers and much higher costs. Matt

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Re: the shit hitting the fan (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>It's during times like these that you learn more about your fellow >c'punks than you need to ... You're correct. I had no clue that the Cypherpunks were such a shitty group. >On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Jim Choate wrote: > >> Forwarded message: >> >> > Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 06:00:13 +0100 >> > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> >> > Subject: the shit hitting the fan >> >> > LA has 1e7 people who shit about a kilo per day. Compute the volume of that >> > after a week. >> >> It's not the raw volume that's critical but rather the percentage of the >> average personal space per inhabitant versus how much to store a weeks >> worth. For the average person storing a weeks worth of solid waste in a >> platic bag with bleach, lye, or similar material is reasonable. >> >> I've gone on long duration camping trips of about a weeks length and the >> storing and portage costs are not excessive (having a boat or horse helps >> move it around). FlushMonger

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Re: the shit hitting the fan (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:13:03 -0500 (EST) > From: Rabid Wombat <wombat(a)mcfeely.bsfs.org> > Subject: Re: the shit hitting the fan (fwd) > It's during times like these that you learn more about your fellow > c'punks than you need to ... > On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Jim Choate wrote: > > > Forwarded message: > > I've gone on long duration camping trips of about a weeks length and the > > storing and portage costs are not excessive (having a boat or horse helps > > move it around). It's not my choice, it's the law (for many national and state parks). You've got to pach your pets if you take them along as well. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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explanation of public key cryptography
by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My friend needs a website with explanations of PK cryptography and related interesting protocols. I have Schneier's book but she lives far from me and the book is too long for her to read. Any suggestions for something on the Web? thanks igor

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...
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> My friend needs a website with explanations of PK cryptography > and related interesting protocols. I have Schneier's book but she > lives far from me and the book is too long for her to read. > > Any suggestions for something on the Web? This does not fully explain the protocols, but an explanation of RSA is available at John Young's Cryptome. http://jya.com/whprsa.htm Download it, though, because it was one of the files relating to Bill Payne which will most likely be deleted when he gets his own web page up as promised. Diffie-Hellman and NSA's Key Exchange Algorithm need no URLs -- Diffie-Hellman was designed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, and its publication sparked public-key cryptography (and received a standing ovation when presented). The Key Exchange Algorithm (KEA) is an NSA "type II" algorithm used in the Defense Messaging System. It was kept classified until recently. Schneier mentions in his CRYPTO-GRAM newsletter that problems with making tamper-resistant hardware carrying the algorithm may have led to its release. The devices are named A and B. Brackets represent a value's "owner." Diffie-Hellman: Both: Retrieve public values g and p. A: Chooses a random secret value x[A]. Calculates X[A]=g^x[A] mod p. Sends X[A] to B. B: Chooses a random secret value x[B]. Calculates X[B]=g^x[A] mod p. Sends X[B] to A. A: Raises value received from B to the x[A] power and uses this to calculate the key. B: Raises value received from A to the x[B] power and uses this to calculate the key. KEA: (this is a modified version of an old post to Cypherpunks) Constants: p: 1024-bit prime modulus q: 160-bit prime divisor of p-1 g: 1024-bit base Secret user-dependent values: x: 160-bit random key r: 160-bit random key Public user-dependent values: Y: g^x mod p R: g^r mod p z(x, y) represents KEA threshing. 1 A->B: Y[a] 2 B->A: Y[b] 3 A->B: R[a] 4 B->A: R[b] 5 A : (Y[b])^q mod p = 1? If not, stop; (R[b])^q mod p = 1? If not, stop; Are Y[b] and R[b] between 1 and p? If not, stop. 6 B : (Y[a])^q mod p = 1? If not, stop; (R[a])^q mod p = 1? If not, stop; Are Y[a] and R[a] between 1 and p? If not, stop. 7 A : t[ab]=(Y[b])^r[a] mod p; u[ab]=(R[b])^x[a] mod p 8 B : t[ab]=(R[a])^x[b] mod p; u[ab]=(Y[a])^r[b] mod p 9 A : (t[ab]+u[ab]) mod p = 0? If so, stop; if not, Key=z(t[ab],u[ab]) 10 B : (t[ab]+u[ab]) mod p = 0? If so, stop; if not, Key=z(t[ab],u[ab]) Zero-Knowledge Protocols: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Opinnot/Tik-110.501/1995/zeroknowledge.html RSA Data Security's RSA Labs on protocols: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/html/7.html > > thanks > > igor

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[Fwd: y2k/gary north delusions]
by Soren 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

William J. Hartwell dropped this in my mailbox ... To: Soren <sorens(a)workmail.com> Subject: Re: y2k/gary north delusions From: "William J.Hartwell" <billh(a)ibag.com> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 14:21:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <366958DF.FBF816FC(a)workmail.com> References: <199812050047.SAA19462(a)manifold.algebra.com><36694C23.B4CB9509(a)nyu.edu> <toilet talk trimmed out> > >That's the fun part, figuring out how it could all be made to work. > >Unfortunately it's more likely that the sheeple will cry out for guvmint >intervention to continue the flow of goodies, to which the western world >has become addicted. > >IMHO, the military will be brought in to dig the latrines. Hoarders will >be strung up for not redistributing their wealth in approved socialist >style. Rewards will be posted for informing on a neighbor who is (may >be) a hoarder (5% of the take?). Related to this... have you folks seen this thread going around some of the y2k preparedness groups? "..... its illegal to store more than 30 days of food ?....." These folks are refering to some info on a web page related to executive orders. http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/INFO_Files/EOs.html This one I think needs some FUD busting...and no one does that better than you guys! -- William J. Hartwell (602)987-8436 Queencreek, Az. billh(a)ibag.com billh(a)interdem.com billh(a)hartwell.net

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No Subject
by times＠caxton.newsint.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Financial disclosure panic?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: kerry@phalse MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:16:35 -0500 Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sender: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: Kerry Zero <kerry(a)2600.COM> Subject: Financial disclosure panic? To: CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM I am the webmaster for kevinmitnick.com, the internet source of information on the legal and media injustices that have been committed against Kevin Mitnick (a computer hacker arrested in 1995 who has remained in prison, pre-trial, with no chance at bail for nearly 4 years now, despite the fact that the charges against him are relatively mild in comparison to some other convicted hackers). In a hearing Wednesday my name was brought up by the judge, Mariana Pfaelzer, because she had received notification that I had requested her financial disclosure reports, a request I had assumed logical, considering the large number of companies that are claimed as victims in Mitnick's case. I have been doing a lot of research on the Mitnick case during the past few months, and this was one part of that research, ordering what I thought were publicly available records, and which I understood were not meant for dissemination -- I never published them or disclosed them to the public (above all, I would never have published this information on the web, although that was not even the issue, as the judge had no idea who I was, and she was not even aware on Wednesday that I am also Kevin's site webmaster). Apparently the judge was not at all happy simply that someone on Mitnick's side of the fence had even researched this. I suppose she'd have been happier if it had been the prosecution, although obviously that wouldn't have helped me find the facts I needed to know :) I was told by different sources (present in the courtroom) that the judge reacted as though infuriated at my request, and she put the government on notice that "if anything happened" -- and left the sentence uncompleted. Now I am left wondering what the potential legal ramifications of this incident could possibly be. I did nothing illegal, although in the judge's eyes, apparently it was immoral or otherwise not right. I can't understand why -- my only guess is that she (Judge Pfaelzer) has so firmly bought the belief that Kevin Mitnick is an extremely dangerous hacker (though nothing he has done, and nothing in the charges, indicates this) that she simply fears any actions those of us innocently researching his case might take. The information I requested, as I understood it, was private, and not for publication, but it is openly available to the public by request; one does not have to be a lawyer to request it. I am not a lawyer; far from it; and I'm not a computer-cracker either -- I'm a female programmer in my 20s and I write online course software for a university. This seemingly (to me) bizarre incident has me blown away completely. The financial disclosure information is not even detailed enough as to allow one to estimate income or any other personal information about the judge, and so I'm having trouble understanding what any possible misuses of this information could be (and I don't really want to know, at this point! :) although obviously I never intended anything to come of the information in any way, unless it was directly relevant to the case. If there had been a conflict of interest with Judge Pfalezer, it would be very significant to Mitnick's case. At any rate, I'm uncertain as to what I should fear from the government -- if anything. If one of the corporations listed in the judge's statement happens to go bankrupt, will I be investigated? It seems ridiculous to me, but I have been warned that I may be investigated, and the government prosecutor now has a copy of the request I made, which apparently so infuriated the judge. To me, it seems that this court may believe everyone involved in Mitnick's "cause" is dangerous, although even Kevin himself has never been accused of committing harm to a person or to a computer -- he is basically accused of copying software. There have, however, been several particularly damaging false "facts" printed in the media about him, such as that he stole credit card numbers and that he broke into NORAD as a teenager -- neither of which ever appeared in any charges against Kevin, and both were proven to be untrue, but not before being printed on the front page of the NY Times, unfortunately. I suppose it's not my place to speculate, but I wonder how Kevin can possibly get a fair case with this type of paranoia against him and his supporters, if indeed it is paranoia... perhaps it is only my own ignorance of the law, and this happens all the time. I just wondered if any of you had any thoughts. I've been following this list for a while and have found it very educational. thanks, kerry(a)2600.com --- 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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17 Dec '03

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Re: PGP Disk
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Has anyone had the chance to try out the new McAfee PGP disk? > It seems pretty straightforward, allowing for the creation of > encrypted "drives" using the CAST algorithm. Is anyone aware of > any security flaws with it? Make sure you get the latest version. The version released in May or June had a bug in it (bug was only in the Windows version, the Mac is OK). The new version re-encrypts old PGP disks to fix the problem.

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Vengeance Libertarianism
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim must be having a "bad hair" day. He actually mentioned sending people to Labor Camps. That sounds so UN-Libertarian, I have to chuckle. I'm chuckling because I wouldn't want to think you actually believe in this very Hitleresque rant. Or is some FED spoofing Tim and sending "threatening" material in his name? In which case...lock and load, Tim. They're coming to get you! APF >and, have drifted into the camp I will dub "the vengeance >libertarians." Summarized, roughly, as: > >"You've stolen my property, you've imprisoned my friends, you've passed >laws making us all criminals, you've started wars to enrich your >military-industrial complex friends, and you're corrupt bastards. You can >forget about some kind of "libertarian amnesty." It's going to be payback >time, with at least hundreds of thousands of statist judges, politicians, >cops, soldiers, and other such persons going to the gallows. Payback time. >Welfare recipients are going to have to pay back all that they have stolen, >with compounded interest. Out of their pockets, or while in labor camps. >Payback time." > > >--Tim May >

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Commerce Hacked?
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since some time after the Department of Commerce issued the recent press release on Wassenaar the site (www.doc.gov) has not been accessible, at least not from here. The press release section of the International Trade Administration (www.ita.doc.gov) David Aaron's org, for a while had a notice that updating was being done and the site would be fixed shortly. Then the ITA site disappeared, along with the main DoC site. We spoke with a public affairs rep at DoC before this happened and to inquire when the department would issue detailed information to flesh out the press release. I said there was a furor over Aaron's spin, and much skepticism of its validity. She said she would check and call back but hasn't. Wonder if the site was hacked, from the outside or inside.

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e$: Cryptography -- The Steel Rails of Digital Commerce
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Lots of sensible people on cypherpunks have made an excellent point before, but Nelson Minar has said it quite succinctly in the message below, with an outstanding example from Sun, in the post that I'm including here from Perry Metzger's cryptography list. The point it this: There is only one, and completely acceptable, solution to this whole crypto-exportabilty mess: don't export anything. That is, make *only* strong crypto, make it inside your country, and let crypto folks in other countries take care of themselves. The permiability of national borders to the internet will get your actual cryptography overseas if it's novel and useful, and, if you use crypto plugged into your software, like Sun does with Java, then you'll sell more of that software because it *requires* strong cryptography, other people's or not. Geodesic, recursive software auctions with digital bearer-settled cash will eventually make all of this, including intellectual property issues, moot someday :-), but, in the meantime, simply obeying the laws on crypto export will work marvellously. Even in a post- "Adult Action" world, where all laws are enforceable everywhere, obeying them all, will, paradoxically, work just fine, as we'll see in a bit. Of course, all this makes the crypto *import*/arbitrage market, where C2NET made their first million, a mostly diminishing one, whether Wassenaar works or not. Certainly it's not a large enough market to renounce your citizenship for, as one member of their firm has done. This whole export-control tactic will eventually fail, and when crypto is unregulated, either by the market or by law itself, some crypto-fugitives will still be locked out of the largest economies in the world, especially if, however temporary the tactic and doomed to failure it is, nation-states actually criminalize crypto-arbitrage itself. Again, it's not laws, it's technology, which is the solution to this silly, and fairly theocratic, dispute about criminalizing the export of cryptography. Remember the e$yllogism: Strong cryptography is essential to digital commerce. In fact, strong financial cryptography is utterly necessary *and* sufficient for digital commerce. Thus, no strong cryptography, no digital commerce. Since all commerce will have a digital, and thus cryptographic, component soon enough, cryptographic regulation is, like Carl Ellison's analogy of church doctrine forbidding peasants from shooting nobility, fairly useless. Especially since nation-states can't help but allow the use of strong cryptography to facilitate commerce, in the same way that they can't help but allow the use of steel in their railroads. So, I say unto all ye crypto-peasants out there, obey the Doctrine of Crypto-Prohibition, on pain of the loss of your immortal soul. That is, make and use the strongest cryptography that your microprocessors can handle, and, like the peasant who, in confession, admits the shooting of a knight, obey dogma and don't export cryptography: it will "export" itself, like all good ideas do. Cryptography, like the technology of gunpowder -- or better, steel -- is not optional. Cheers, Robert Hettinga - --- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:47:25 -0500 (EST) From: nelson(a)media.mit.edu (Nelson Minar) To: Raph Levien <raph(a)acm.org> Cc: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: Re: Wassenaar vs. CipherSaber Sender: owner-cryptography(a)c2.net >I'm spending more and more of my time these days in the free software >community (not all that big a leap for a cypherpunk). I'm seeing the >"crypto integration" problem all over the place. This is an issue of serious concern; it's really holding up the adoption of encryption, particularly at the TCP/IP level. An interesting model for how to get around the US regulations is what Sun is doing with Java. Java 1.2 ships with pretty much everything you need for strong, composable cryptography - big numbers, a key management framework, digital signatures. But they're following the letter of the US export regulations. Sun has defined the Java Cryptographic Extensions, a decent API for doing encryption. Bcause they are a US company they only ship a JCE implementation to people in the US. But they've made it about as easy as possible for folks outside the US to implement their own drop-in replacements. One interesting choice they've made is that, as near as I can tell, they aren't even bothering to ship a 40/56 bit crippled version. If you want crypto at all, you have to use Sun's JCE or get a non-US alternative. So you can only get real crypto, not some useless junk. I think that's probably the right idea - don't cave in to the US regulations, just follow them the minimum you have to and make sure it's easy for people outside the US to reimplement the parts you are not allowed to ship. I guess we have to wait and see how much Wassenaar complicates things. nelson(a)media.mit.edu . . . . . . . . http://www.media.mit.edu/~nelson/ - --- end forwarded text -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 iQEVAwUBNmqVrcUCGwxmWcHhAQE0zwgAqVUrB7Vu1NVqNHaGHeRTHUB9Z2li7x/m 5eMYUdKu8I3696LCC9CApwHi2vGW39jh0/dUR26+utNQ6MaJEyCrpjA7WpSvaqBQ XGrEPjEN58KQAlGydmjpxxL4ukX606dTKndiTPz5ujRGo1EtshRkB+2NmnUZOYZN +ECDrOylPFkDLDMqLGwqzY9zU79xZMvyIVQvpT2onUzfx3LgyjjC2/ZQbvJmOSsD vk14KbsyL6UEwyaH8FqUZWG/qGgQSALJsLpregApq0QHWl15+rEd+TvqWnyPvDKL cIIz3Cyo0QlwYFQWhg6JiPWRB+GQxaDaMS7QQqZeBqUSJclnVdJH+w== =gpAa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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China executes pager smugglers [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9812/06/china.execution.ap/ > CHINA EXECUTES TWO FOR SMUGGLING COMPUTERS, PAGERS > > December 6, 1998 > Web posted at: 6:17 a.m. EDT (0617 GMT) > > BEIJING, China (AP) -- In the midst of a sweeping crackdown on illegal > imports, China said Sunday that it has executed a computer executive > and an office worker for smuggling computers, pagers and other > electronic goods into the country. > > The deaths come as China carries out a campaign to enforce trade > barriers that shield its industries from foreign competition in an > attempt to quash a multibillion-dollar market for illegally imported > products. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn 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: (eternity) democracy is a bad idea on the net too! (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 01:07:38 -0800 > From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> > Subject: Re: (eternity) democracy is a bad idea on the net too! (fwd) > At 02:47 PM 12/5/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote, not in this order: > > Two major negatives to a free-market approach that are never discussed. > > >There is also the question of data degredation, in the sense of worth, > >over time versus the archival/historical worth of the data. > > Huh? We talk about this all the time. How much does data storage cost, > and how long is the information useful to readers and writers, And you drop it at that point. No, you do not adequately discuss the ramification of the economic nor of the social and historic motives to drive the long-term archiving of all data in the network. The current Eternity model is brittle in several ways. The problem is the current economic model that all its supporters are wedded to. If that model changes and takes on the range of responsibilities (some of them outside a simple profit/cost approach) that such a service should carry it would work. I made reference to a couple of these in my responce to Adam so I won't reitterate them here. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn 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: (eternity) cost metrics (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 00:26:19 GMT > From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: (eternity) cost metrics > Jim Choate writes: > > Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> wrote: > > > I think a better deciding factor of which files remain and which don't > > > is hard, anonymous ecash. [...] > > > > There is some window for abuse in this method. It allows a well endowed > > entity to bias the information available. > > The alternatives, such as say one vote per person have problems too. I'll agree that any system that relies on charging the originator of the information, versus the user of the information, is flawed in this way. Does your local grocery store charge the truck that delivers its tomato's? Does a book publisher ask that the potential author pay for the book run and advertising? Does the newspaper charge their reporters to put their articles in the paper? > Cash allows you to measure the scale. No, it allows a mechanism in the short-term for the Eternity market to be manipulated by parties with a political interest and large buckets of cash. > So straight cash seems I think to be a good metric. The point of the cash is to provide a motivation to keep Eternity up, NOT a measure of the worth of any specfic piece of information from the perspective of the server operator, it's the users of that data that define it's worth. That worth can and probably will have many facets that can't be reflected in simple dollars and by definition outside the keen of the Eternity networks current worth estimation model. In the majority of cases the Eternity operator won't have a clue as to the actual market worth of some data. There is also the issue of information worth collapse once the data is available off the Eternity network that hasn't been touched. This works to the negative of the Eternity networks long-term goal. For example, let's say a whistle-blower comes in with some juicy info. The Eternity server network, through some mechanism that I've never seen sufficiently described, determine that the originator must pay some amount of money to post it. The data gets posted and users grab it over the next few days. Then once it's available in the alternate channels (eg printed on a webpage of a newspaper) the future market potential for the Eternity servers goes through the floor. This motivates the Eternity network to over-value the worth of data which further keeps folks out. > Note also my earlier comment that I view an important eternity > objective to be preventing negative votes on data availability. You > can only disseminate more, say contradictory, information not remove > information. Well, considering that Eternity doesn't do anything regarding archiving and long-term storage there really isn't a worry here. All that's required is to keep the price up until the window of relevance is gone. Then back out, the price drops back to it's original cost but now that it's relevance is gone it slowly (or not) fades away. Depending on the particular nature of the > You can attempt to disseminate more copies (make > available with higher redundancy, and fund faster download) perhaps, > but this does not drown out the other information. Actualy this is a complete change of track and irrelevant. The POINT is that if there is a piece of information that I want to keep out of the hands of others I simply go to server after server and ask for a copy. This activity raises the price. Since I've got lots of cash and I want that document to be expensive I continue to buy copies further inflating the price. > If you worry that mega-corp M will buy all available space at a > premium, there is an easy solution: Straw man, if the Eternity servers have a clue as M Corp. buys more space the server operators buy more drives to sell since their now in the data space business and not the information brokering business. Hence M Corp. has distracted the Eternity services from their primary operations. So a workable strategy for M Corp. would be to inflate the price on the data they want to hide as well as continue to dump monies into the Eternity network buying space. Then at some point they abruptly stop their support and the Eternity services collapse because they've now grown to such an extent they can't survive without this artificial market manipulation. So the Eternity servers go down, further obfuscating the original information that M Corp wanted to hide. The Eternity model also completely ignores the consequences of such a manipulation in regards the re-building of a new service after the collapse. The amount of trust that potential users have will be low further increasing the difficulty of keeping the servers operating long-term. Because the Eternity network relies only on the immediate short-term worth of data it is brittle. > > There is also the question of data degredation, in the sense of > > worth, over time versus the archival/historical worth of the > > data. > > As long as people are interested to keep the data around in low > priority low access speed storage they will pay for this to happen. > > If they don't care -- well they don't care. People who do care can > fund it, and evangelize to others on the merits of doing this. No one > has any special right to force others to pay for keeping junk around > for the sheer historical sake of completeness of it. So, a primary ideal of the Eternity service is that as long as the data has a worth below some level they'll drop it. This is one of the reasons that a long-term service like this won't work. It isn't reliable because I can't come back 50 or a 100 years from now to get a piece of data unless there is sufficient interest by other parties to access it as well. This is short-sighted and limits the use of Eternity. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Key changes at notatla
by Antonomasia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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The Open Source Initiative needs your help [FYI - Stu]
by Stu Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: The Open Source Initiative needs your help From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr(a)thyrsus.com> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:48:39 GMT Approved: linux-announce(a)news.ornl.gov (Mikko Rauhala) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Old-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:19:37 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Xref: cyclone.swbell.net comp.os.linux.announce:3567 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Open Source Initiative needs your help. The Open Source certification mark is a valuable tool for turning on everybody interest in software on to our way of doing things. But for it to keep working, we have to make sure it doesn't get legally diluted. (This is a legal requirement; if we don't enforce the mark, we lose it.) We're a handful of unpaid volunteers. There are a lot of potential diluters out there. We need you to help us keep an eye on them. If you see the term `Open Source' (or even the lower-case `open-source') being used to describe software with distribution conditions that don't fit the Open Source Definition, please inform us at mark-misuse(a)opensource.org All the misuses we've seen so far are accidental. We gently set those people straight. In the process, we try to educate them and bring them fully into the open-source community. If there is ever deliberate or malicious abuse, we will be ready to do what is necessary on behalf of the community. Thanks in advance. - -- Eric S. Raymond The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce(a)news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNmbrGFrUI/eHXJZ5AQGXPwQAszpIGeQE6YMeHvlgKCUm285yTsaR84kj K0ZHh6Eu50kpqIfNI3kuJt9ufqM+jPZhiYxNFdT+BtcbEqPGaGLdrD1xqAM6gVY+ 6Ht90AzHrdiwx2Tdlpg1oZo32obiWHLgb5eO4rOeQkmcmmuonKRKb1yNGagnhmbZ a6y3SgRqOoI= =pLE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Palm III proves a hi-tech helper for car thieves
by Richard Fiero 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Taken from http://www.theregister.co.uk/981204-000007.html A 3Com Palm III and software that lets the handheld control TVs and VCRs through its infrared port are all you need to nick a car these days, it seems. Danish IT journalist Lars Sorensen made the discovery when testing the sofwtare's legitimate uses. The software samples a TV's remote control signals so it can replicate them -- Sorensen wondered if it would do the same with a car's infrared lock and found that it would. Here in the UK, estimates from the Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, quoted in New Scientist magazine, suggest that three million of the 22 million cars on the road are vulnerable to Palm-toting thieves. Interestingly, older cars that are more at risk than newer models. Most modern vehicles contain locking systems that change the locking code every time the key is used from sequences of 10 to the power 64 (a one with 64 zeros after it) making it virtually impossible to predict the code at any given instance. That said, Sorensen was able to enter a 1998 model, so no one can be sure they are safe.

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Wassenaar Encryption Agreement
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The United States and 32 other nations that belong to a group called the Wassenaar Arrangement, which coordinates export policies for technologies that have both civilian and military use, have signed an agreement restricting exports of encryption technology from their countries. The Clinton administration, which has already imposed such controls in this country, says the agreement will help American companies compete on a more equal footing with their counterparts abroad. Privacy organizations are critical of the agreement, and a counsel for the advocacy group Americans for Computer Privacy says there will still be enormous differences in how the countries put the agreement into practice. (Washington Post 4 Dec 98) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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Crypto deterrents
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

White men traded as 'sex slaves' of black prisoners By Fergal Keane, in Illinois WHITE male prisoners in American jails are being "sold as sex slaves" by black fellow inmates for money, tobacco, drugs and alcohol, according to campaigners who are urging action to end widespread homosexual rape behind bars. Damaging claims of complicity by prison guards are also emerging. Five wardens at a Californian maximum security jail are facing charges relating to the rape of an inmate by a notorious sexual predator. The wardens allegedly forced a troublesome prisoner to share a cell with a black gang leader, who was rewarded with extra food and clothes for imposing "discipline" on the man. According to the campaigners, the sex attacks often carry ugly racial overtones, with many white prisoners claiming that they were sexually abused after being placed in cells with black inmates. Most victims are too scared to complain, it is claimed, and those that do say they have been ignored by the authorities. The scale of the scandal has been uncovered by the pressure group Human Rights Watch, which next year will publish a report documenting the "staggering prevalence" of prison rape. The situation is not just provoking concern among civil liberties groups. In the state of Illinois, a prominent conservative figure, Republican legislator Cal Skinner, is also pushing for tougher government action. He claims that many of the rape victims have been infected with the HIV virus and that American prisons are becoming a breeding ground for Aids. Mr Skinner said: "There are sexual slaves in too many prisons. People are being given a death sentence." He wants to see the mandatory Aids testing of all prisoners with the segregation of those found to be HIV positive. He believes it is one of the few ways of protecting vulnerable inmates from the potentially fatal effect of prison rape. The renewed concern over rape in prisons has come too late for Michael Blucker, 29, a white man from Crystal Lake in Illinois, who was repeatedly gang-raped while serving a sentence for burglary. Blucker's ordeal is almost too horrific to contemplate: he was forced to become a sex slave to black prisoners at Menard State Penitentiary in Illinois. Prison rape is not confined to white victims but they are particularly vulnerable as black gang members make up such a large part of the American prison population. Blucker said: "I was the only white man in a gallery [wing] of more than 100 prisoners. Most of the guys were in for very serious crimes; they were people who weren't going to be getting out of there any time in the next 30 years." The first attack came when Blucker had been in jail just two weeks. He was set upon by three black prisoners, stripped, beaten and raped. "They would have killed me if I had refused. Killing means nothing to these people," he said. Once it became known that he had been raped, Blucker's life became even more of a nightmare. In the violent world of American prisons, an inmate who "allows" himself to be raped is regarded as fair game for every other inmate and is used as a sex slave, normally under the direction of a senior gang leader. In Blucker's case, one of the black prisoners sold him to other inmates on a daily basis. "He would physically threaten me and threaten to have harm done to my wife outside prison. Every day, I would be sold as a sex object while he was given money and cigarettes and marijuana and alcohol in return." When the threats of violence did not cow Blucker, his tormentor would beat him into submission. While filming in Butner prison in North Carolina, I met Ivory Rhodes, a black prisoner, who was attacked within days of being placed in the cell of a known rapist. The pattern he described was almost exactly the same as that experienced by Blucker. A violent attack and the threat of death followed by brutal rape. Rhodes's solution was to try to spend long periods in solitary confinement, a deprivation he preferred to risking his life in the main cells. Rhodes managed to avoid being raped again, but whenever he was transferred from one prison to another, the stigma of "rape victim" went with him. After his rape, Rhodes never moved out of his cell without carrying a knife. He described a world in which any weakness is preyed upon by the tougher and older inmates. The young, the first-time offenders, the middle class are especially vulnerable to attack. Blucker said: "There are people who say that if somebody attacked them in prison they would kill themselves or kill other people. That is bull. It just doesn't happen that way." What was almost certainly his worst experience occurred in the showers when he was set upon by a large gang of prisoners. "They pulled bricks out of the wall and they hit me in the nose and the eye and then on the back of the head, which knocked me out." Then he was repeatedly raped. "I couldn't tell you if it was one, three, 10 or 15 people. All I know is that I felt very unwell." At first, Blucker said, he was too frightened to report the rapes for fear of being killed by the other inmates, but after the shower incident he spoke to prison officials. The result, he claimed, was indifference. "I spoke to officers and medical people and no one believed me." Blucker subsequently took a court action against several prison guards and the prison psychiatrist but was unable to prove his claims. What is not disputed is that he needed extensive surgery for injuries sustained in the attack and that while in prison he contracted the HIV virus. Blucker was eventually transferred from Menard after lobbying a local politician. Now a free man, he is looking for a job and is actively involved in his church. God, he says, will save him from Aids. Fergal Keane is a BBC Special Correspondent

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SHANGHAI ENTREPRENEUR TRIED IN CHINA
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Chinese government has put 30-year-old Shanghai computer software businessman Lin Hai on trial for "inciting the overthrow of state power" by providing 30,000 e-mail addresses to a U.S. Internet magazine called "Big Reference" published by Chinese dissidents. Chinese authorities closed the four-hour trial for what it said were "national security" reasons, and "persuaded" one member of Lin's legal team not to attend the trial. Lin's wife Xu Hong, who was questioned by the police for six hours, has indicated that Lin's lawyer "said he didn't have a very good feeling -- that things won't be good for Lin and he will probably be found guilty." (Washington Post 5 Dec 98) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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MITNICK TRIAL POSTPONED AGAIN
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The long-awaited trial of Kevin Mitnick, the accused computer hacker indicted on 25 counts of "stealing, copying, and misappropriating proprietary computer software" from a number of cellular and computer companies, has been postponed until April 20 after Mitnick's lawyer asked for more time to prepare his case. The trial was slated to begin on January 19. Mitnick has been in jail in Los Angeles awaiting trial since February 1995. - Los Angeles Times 4 Dec 98 #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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Aharonov-Bohm Effect
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could someone (other than Jim Choate) explain the mechanism behind the Aharonov-Bohm effect, where a quantum field propagating via two distinct paths finds its wavefunction phase shifted by the amount of magnetic flux enclosed, even if it is completely shielded from the magnetic field, and traverses only regions of space where B=0. This has apparently been experimentally verified, and is a leading candidate for reading the state of quantum dots. -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html

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tyranny of corporations
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 16:11:08 -0700 From: Robert Weissman <rob(a)essential.org> To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <corp-focus(a)essential.org> Subject: corporation nation Exxon merges with Mobil. Citicorp marries Travelers. Daimler Benz gobbles up Chrysler. BankAmerica takes over NationsBank. WorldCom eats MCI. Corporations are getting bigger and bigger, and their influence over our lives continues to grow. America is in an era of corporate ascendancy, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Gilded Age. Charles Derber, a professor of sociology at Boston College, believes that, contrary to the lessons our civics teacher taught us, it is undemocratic corporations, not governments, that are dominating and controlling society. In his most recent book, Corporation Nation (St. Martin's Press, 1998), Derber argues that the consequence of the growing power of giant corporate multinationals is increased disparity in wealth, rampant downsizing and million dollar CEOs making billion dollar decisions with little regard for average American. A couple of years ago, Derber wrote The Wilding of America (St. Martin's Press, 1996) in which he argued that the American Dream had transmuted into a semi-criminal, semi-violent virus that is afflicting large parts of the elites of the country. That book tried to call attention to the extent to which violent behavior could be understood as a product of oversocialization. "The problem was not that they had been underexposed to American values, but that they could not buffer themselves from those values," Derber told us. "They had lost the ability to constrain any kind of anti-social behavior -- because of obsessions with success -- the American Dream." By anti-social behavior, Derber means the epitome of Reaganism -- "a kind of warping of the more healthy forms of individualism in our culture into a hyperindividualism in which people asserted their own interests without regard to its impact on others." At the time, Derber was interviewed on a Geraldo show about paid assassins - - -- people who killed for money. "It was scary to be around young people who confessed to killing for relatively small amounts of money -- a few thousand dollars," Derber said. "They said things like -- 'you have to understand, this is just a business, everybody has to make money.' I pointed out on the show that this was the language that business usually uses." At the same time, Newsweek ran a cover story titled "Corporate Killers." On the cover, Newsweek ran the mug shots of four CEOs who had downsized in profitable periods and upped their own salaries. "These corporate executives tended to use the same language as the paid assassins on the Geraldo show, 'I feel fine about this because I'm just doing what the market requires,'" Derber explains. "I develop an analogy between paid assassins on the street and those in the suites. In the most general sense, these corporate executives are paid hitmen who use very much the same language and rationalization. I argue that corporations are exemplifying a form of anti-social behavior which is undermining a great deal of the social fabric and civilized values that we would hope to sustain." With the hitmen parallel fresh in his mind, Derber began writing Corporation Nation. In it, Derber points to the parallels between today and the age of the robber barons 100 years ago -- the wave of corporate mergers, the widening gulf between rich and poor (Bill Gates' net worth (well over $50 billion) is more than that of the bottom 100 million Americans), the enormous influence of corporations over democratic institutions, both major parties bought off by big business, and a Democratic President closely aligned with big business (Grover Cleveland then, Bill Clinton today). One big difference between then and now: back then, a real grassroots populist movement rose up to challenge corporate power, though it did not succeed in attaining its core goals. Today, while there are many isolated movements challenging individual corporate crimes, there is no mass movement attacking the corporation as the cause of the wealth disparity, destruction of the environment, and all the many other corporate driven ills afflicting society. Derber, a professor of sociology at Boston College, says that when he asks his students, "Have you ever thought about the question of whether corporations in general have too much power," they uniformly say they have never had that question raised. Derber says that one good way to again build a populist movement to attack corporate power is to study the language and tactics of the populists of 100 years ago. He has, and he makes clear in his book that the original conception of the corporation was one of a public -- not private -- entity. We the people created the corporation to build roads, and bridges, and deliver the goods. If the corporation didn't do as we said, we yanked their charter. The corporate lawyers quickly got their hands around that idea, smashed it, and replaced it with the current conception of the corporation, a private person under the law, with the rights and privileges of any other living and breathing citizen. Thus, a quick transformation from "we decide" to "they decide." Derber is a bit too modest to say it, so we will: perhaps the best way to rebuild a strong, vibrant and populist movement is to get this book into the hands of people who care about democracy. The corporations have us on the run, but we should pause for a moment or two, find a quiet place, and read this book. Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor. (c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Focus on the Corporation is a weekly column written by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman. Please feel free to forward the column to friends or repost the column on other lists. 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Re: What was the quid pro quo for Wassenaar countries?
by Joel O'Connor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As Karl Marx said also, "Democracy is a slow form of communism." That's why the forfathers decided to make us a republic, something many have forgotten. ---HyperReal-Anon <nobody(a)sind.hyperreal.art.pl> wrote: > > "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam(a)ai.mit.edu> writes > > John Gilmore may be right, but remember folks that in Europe we > have this thing the Greeks invented called democracy. One of the > ideas of democracy is that decisions are not made in secret closed > meetings. > > Yes, and people democratically demand government enforcement of the > majority will, something made more difficult if the subjects have > strong cryptography. > > As Donn Parker observed several years ago, strong cryptography is > inconsistent with democracy. (Published in Scientific American --- > reference on request.) > > John Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com> writes > > Some countries actually seem to care what their citizens think > about their crypto laws, unlike the shining example of democracy, > the USSA. And when we educate the citizens, they tend to make the > right choices. Let's keep trying. > > But don't educate them too much, or they will understand that > cryptography can set people free, and if people were free there would > be no political government, and if there were no political government > their social security checks would stop coming, along with all their > other government ``benefits''. > > == Ogre bounces like sonar. . .Peace. Ogre _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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DCSB: Ira Heffan and Mike Schmelzer; "Software Patents" and Digital Commerce
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 13:02:59 -0500 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce(a)ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB: Ira Heffan and Mike Schmelzer; "Software Patents" and Digital Commerce Cc: Ira Heffan <heffan(a)tht.com>, Mike Schmelzer <schmelze(a)tht.com>, Roland Mueller <roland(a)secunet.com>, "Jonathan J. Rusch" <rusch1(a)erols.com> Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Ira Heffan and Mike Schmelzer Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP "Software Patents" and Digital Commerce Tuesday, January 5th, 1999 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Although the very idea of patenting software seems to be an anathema to much of the programming community, patents on software continue to stream out of the U.S. Patent Office. Everyone involved in digital commerce applications, which are by definition software-based, probably has heard about recent events: The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided "State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group," which explicitly ratified patenting methods of doing business, and a spate of well-publicized patents have issued claiming to cover such concepts as the virtual shopping cart and the reverse auction. As a prerequisite to discussing these recent developments, the first part of our talk will provide an introduction to patents. We will explain what patents are and what they are not, and describe the business goals that a patent can serve. Then we will talk about current events, and attempt to put the _State Street_ case in context. We will present a survey of recently-issued patents (suggestions welcome) related to digital commerce, and conclude with some speculation about current trends, including a novel form of software patent with potentially huge implications. Ira Heffan (heffan(a)tht.com) and Mike Schmelzer (schmelze(a)tht.com) are patent attorneys at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP (http://www.tht.com) We will be presenting our own personal views on this topic, and not the views of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP or its clients. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, January 5, 1999, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, January 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: February Roland Mueller European Privacy Directive March Jonathan Rusch Internet Fraud We are actively searching for future speakers. 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Re: tyranny of corporations (was: Corporate Nations)
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The hitman image certainly rings true for some top execs I've met. I recall a session with a corporate sociologist many years ago (the company was going through one of those team-building bullshit affairs). I had completed a psychological profile tests and we were reviewing the results. She was given to occasional black humor and on this particular occasion told me she has some good news and some bad news, asking which I prefered hearing first. I selected the good news, whereupon she said that my profile was an exact match with those who reach the highest levels of the corporate world. Then the bad news, its also the profile of a master criminal. I kid you not. As to hyperindividualism, Robert Bork covered this topic in his recent book Slouching Toward Gamorah. In it he identified two idiological diseases infecting America: radical equality and radical egalitarianism (i.e., hyperindividualism). Both, in his opinion, are a result of a warped evolution of 20th Century liberalism. Since many in our society seek to emulate these hitmen (i.e., get a piece of the rock at any cost) and have no more scruples themselves than those to whom they aspire, anonymous betting pools could harness the more extreme members in a populist fashion to counterbalance our new age robber barrons and politicians. The solution to hyperindividualism isn't regulation (which can be blunted or co-opted by those with the bucks) but allowing those below to profitably advance at the expense of those at the top. Dynamic equilibrium in a new marketplace. Sort of like the way Klingons get field rank advancements. --Steve

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At a Comic Shop near you...
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This may or may not be of interest... Spy v.s. Spy action figures are now available! There is a black spy and a white spy (sorry, no grey spy). Each comes with lots of gadgets (knives, blackjacks, saws and a bomb). Each spy has "bomb throwing action". They are distributed through comic shops at the moment. They sold out pretty quick where I got mine, so you will not want to wait if you want one. --- | Bill Clinton - Bringing back the Sixties one Nixon at a time! | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | | | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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DSA for encryption
by Bennett Haselton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I'm working on an enhancement to a Web-based program that allows you to circumvent proxy server censorship by sending a request for a Web page to a computer in the outside world that is not blocked by the proxy, and having that computer re-send a copy of the banned page back to you. The current version of the software, written by Brian Ristuccia this past summer, is at http://ians.ml.org:8801 where you type a URL into the form, submit it, and the resulting page has a URL like: http://ians.ml.org:8801/aHR0cDovL3d3dy55YWhvby5jb20= instead of http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.yahoo.com/ which is what Anonymizer gives you, which makes it obvious what you were looking at to anyone who looks through the proxy server logs. Of course, any manufacturer of Internet censorship proxy server software could easily add ians.ml.org to their list of blocked sites (as they have all already done with Anonymizer), so the idea would be for people to get their friends to set up port-forwarding programs on computers that were not blocked by the censoring proxy, and those could be set up to relay requests between the IANS server and the computer behind the proxy server. The general outline for this scheme is at http://www.peacefire.org/bypass/Proxy/ and the current version of IANS ("Internet Alternate Name Space") is part of the way towards implementing this (theoretically) bulletproof solution. The major pending improvements to the IANS software are (1) the URL is not truly encrypted; the garbled characters in the URL above just represent some basic scrambling to evade detection by people who sweep their proxy server log files for keywords, (2) even if the URL were really encrypted, when you first fill out the form, the URL is submitted to IANS in the clear, so it could be detected by any censoring proxy server that logs data submitted by GET or POST. One Internet censorship proxy server called SmartFilter already does this and blocks you from submitting *any* banned URL's using GET or POST, so IANS does not work with SmartFilter, for example. I am working on a JavaScript form that could be used on the client side to solve this problem. We would like to use DSA to encrypt the requests sent using IANS, since I've heard DSA can be used for encryption without royalties, unlike, for example, RSA. Does anybody know of a Web page that explains how the DSA algorithm can be used for encryption, as opposed to message signing and authentication? I found a page at http://www1.shore.net/~ws/Extras/Security-Notes/lectures/authent.html that describes the DSA algorithm for signature verification. I have looked very hard but have been unable to find a page about how to use DSA for encryption. Can anyone help? I know there is software like GNU Privacy Guard that implements DSA for encryption, but the source code is 3 megabytes and I was hoping there was a page that explains the process more simply than that. -Bennett bennett(a)peacefire.org (615) 421 5432 http://www.peacefire.org

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Re: What was the quid pro quo for Wassenaar countries?
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One thing which came to me recently when I was trying to figure out what sort of gun the US held to the rest of the world's head to get them to agree to this: Could the Wassenaar outcome have been a sign of Echelon in action? Consider this: Delegates from each country have been travelling to Vienna for some months now to negotiate their countries position. During the negotiations, they'll be contacting their governments via phonecalls carried over microwave trunks, satellite links, or undersea cables to discuss the progress of the negotiations and what position they should take. Just like the negotiations which lead to the Five-Power Treaty in 1921, if one country had the ability to intercept all the other countries communications it would know how far they could be pushed, and where the most resistance was likely to come from, allowing greater amounts of "persuasion" to be concentrated on them. I can't think of a more appropriate application of Echelon (use worldwide surveillance technology to perpetuate the usefulness of worldwide surveillance technology), and it would go some way towards explaining the very peculiar agreement which was reached. Peter.

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FWD: Read this. Now. And *act* on it. (was re: Building cryptoarchives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It's time, folks. They can't win if we do anything at all, but they *will* win if we do nothing. Robert Hettinga --- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: toad.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: cryptography(a)c2.net, gnu(a)toad.com Subject: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:23:54 -0800 From: John Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com> Sender: owner-cryptography(a)c2.net The US Wassenaar initiative is an attempt to deny the public not only all future strong crypto developments, but all existing ones. As today's message from Denmark makes clear, the freedom-hating bureaucrats are threatening to prosecute a citizen merely for publishing PGP on his web page. Let's at least ensure that they don't eliminate *today's* strong crypto, by replicating crypto archives behind each Berlin Wall they threaten to erect. Today we depend on a small number of archives (in a small number of countries) containing source and binaries for PGP, SSH, Kerberos, cryptoMozilla, IPSEC, and many other useful crypto tools that we use daily. Let's replicate these archives in many countries. I call for volunteers in each country, at each university or crypto-aware organization, to download crypto tools while they can still be exported from where they are, and then to offer them for export from your own site and your own country as long as it's legal. (The Wassenaar agreement is not a law; each country has merely agreed to try to change its own laws, but that process has not yet started.) And if at some future moment your own government makes it illegal for you to publish these tools, after all your appeals are denied, all the pro-bono court cases rejected, and all the newspaper coverage you can get has been printed, then restrict your web site so that only your own citizens can get the tools. That'll still be better than the citizens of your country having NO access to the tools of privacy! (I suggest putting these tools on a Web site on a machine that you own, rather than on a web site where you buy space from someone else. That way there'll be nobody for the freedom-squashers to threaten except you.) I'm sure that John Young's excellent http://jya.com site will be happy to provide an index of crypto archives around the world, if people will send him notices at jya(a)pipeline.com as your sites come up. (Each archive should locally mirror this list, so that we won't depend on a single site.) Rather than having their desired effect of squelching crypto distribution, perhaps their overbold move can inspire us to increase strong crypto distribution tenfold, by making it clear to the public that if you don't keep a copy on your own hard drive, the governments of the world will be merciless in scheming to deny you access to it. And if crypto developers have to publish on books, or rely on smugglers to get crypto from country to country, then at least each country will have its distribution arrangements already ready for when the book is scanned or the smuggler arrives. John Gilmore --- 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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NEW Reuters story (fwd)
by Jukka E Isosaari 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:50:55 +0000 From: Dave Bird <dave(a)xemu.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: ukcrypto(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk To: ukcrypto(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk Subject: NEW Reuters story In article <896C7C3540C3D111AB9F00805FA78CE2013F85F3@MSX11002>, Brown, R Ken <brownrk1(a)texaco.com> writes >r [sent to crytpo list, and to CIV LIBS DISCUSS] Yahoo! News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981203/wr/ privacy_1.html Thursday 3 December 1998 12:38 PM ET Europe readies police techno-surveillance law By Niall McKay SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - The European Union is quietly getting ready to approve legislation that will allow the police to eavesdrop both on Internet conversations and Iridium satellite telephone calls without obtaining court authorization. The legislation is part of a much wider memorandum of understanding between the EU, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway, a nonmember European nation. That agreement allows authorities to conduct telecom surveillance across international borders, according to a Europol document leaked to members of the European Parliament. ``Security measures are often necessary in the cases of terrorism or organized crime,'' said Glyn Ford, a member of the European Parliament for the British Labour Party and a director of the EU's Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee. ''But what we need is some sort of democratic control. It seems to me that many security services are a law unto themselves.'' That will presumably be a topic of discussion when the European Council of Ministers meets behind closed doors Thursday to update a 1995 wiretap agreement known as the Legal Interception of Telecommunications Resolution. If approved, it would permit real-time, remote monitoring of email, as well as of calls placed on satellite telephone networks such as those maintained by Iridium and Globalstar. Unlike most laws in Europe, the agreement will allow law enforcement to listen in without a court order. ``This is a US export,'' said Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. ``It's a European version of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.'' The act, passed in 1984, was intended to allow law enforcers to tap the digital lines of tomorrow, just as they tap analog phone lines now. Ironically, in September, the European Parliament called for account- ability of Echelon, the US National Security Agency's spying network that is reportedly able to intercept, record, and translate any electronic communication-telephone, data, cellular, fax, email, or telex. Under European law, representatives of each member nation can pass legally binding resolutions. Further, the resolutions don't require the approval of either the European Parliament or the individual parliaments of EU members. Many European Parliament members are outraged that the Council of Ministers has been acting in secret. They are especially concerned about the inclusion of non-EU nations in the agreement. Patricia McKenna, a representative for Britain's Green Party, will raise the issue in Parliament this week. She also intends to ask Europe's Justice and Internal Affairs Council to ''justify the secrecy and lack of consultation surrounding these initiatives.'' McKenna is requesting what she described as an ``open debate on the crucial and far-reaching measures, with enormous potential impact in the realm of privacy.'' Another member of the European Parliament believes that the so-called ``update resolutions'' will have staggering implications for personal privacy. ``This legislation is not just a technical update,'' said Johannes Voggenhuber, an Austrian representative for the European Parliament. ``It places the onus on the telecommunications carrier to provide a watertight back door to police.'' The European Council for General Security prepared the amendment with technical assistance from the FBI, according to the Europol document leaked. The four major satellite telephone operators-Iridium, Globalstar, Odyssey, and ICO-will be required by the law to provide access to European law enforcement through ground stations in France, Italy, England, and Germany. Iridium officials could not be reached for comment. It is unclear how the memorandum of understanding will affect US citizens. ``I find it very hard to believe that a foreign nation-any foreign nation-could eavesdrop on US citizens,'' said John Pike, a security analyst with the Federation of American Scientists. ``It's one thing for the FBI to try and track terrorists across international borders, but it's entirely another to let Europeans tap US citizens' telephones.'' The FBI would neither confirm nor deny any relationship between the United States and the other nations involved in the memorandum of understanding. However, Rotenberg said such provisions are already in place under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. While the new European law is being sold to EU member states as a means of combating what the legislation calls ``serious and organized'' crime, there is no clear definition of this phrase. ``It simply concerns any punishable offense,'' said Tony Bunyan, director of Statewatch, a European civil liberties group. (Reuters/Wired) |~/ |~/ ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~ P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O O | answers on *---|_______________ @__o0 | O L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)

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AU Wassenaar Wassenaar changes
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[OK to repost to crypto lists and Cryptome - dant] I spoke this afternoon with one of the Australian delegates at the Wassenaar meeting, an official from the Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Speaking off the record, they confirmed the changes at Wassenaar are pretty much as we know already: - NEW CONTROLS on mass market crypto products (hardware and software); - DEREGULATING all weak encryption products using key lengths up to 56 bits; - EXEMPTING mass market software where the key length is 64 bits or less; - EXTENDING the same mass market exemption to hardware for the first time; - EXCLUDING encryption products that protect intellectual property, such as digital watermarking; - NO DECISION was made about regulating 'intangible' distribution of technology, including Internet downloads. Apparently in the short term the intangibles issue is being considered in other fora (including the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) which includes Australia thanks to Filthy Jabilucre et al). It is still not clear whether the new restrictions are intended to stop public domain software such as PGP*. The DFAT contact said there was no discussion about an intention to stop public domain packages like PGP. They did not think public domain was being restricted. Yet apparently the Australian DoD has expressed the David Aaron view that public domain is subject to the same restrictions as mass market. * PGP is "in the public domain" for the purposes of Wassenaar/DSGL, since the definition states: "in the public domain" (GTN NTN GSN), as it applies herein, means "technology" or "software" which has been made available without restrictions upon its further dissemination (copyright restrictions do not remove "technology" or "software" from being "in the public domain") Note: there is no equivalent definition for "mass market", but the General Software Note (GSN) states it thus: Generally available to the public by being: 1. Sold from stock at retail selling points, without restriction, by means of: a. Over-the-counter transactions; b. Mail order transactions; or c. Telephone order transactions; and 2. Designed for installation by the user without substantial support by the supplier; Dan ===== Dan Tebbutt, Technology Journalist, Melbourne Australia Australian Personal Computer (http://www.apcmag.com) LAN Corporate IT (http://www.lanlive.com) The Australian (http://www.newsit.com.au) Ph: +61-3-9347-8893 Fax:+61-2-9264-6320 Email: dant(a)acp.com.au "The revolution will be televised ... on pay-per-view."

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by feedback＠telescan.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: What was the quid pro quo for Wassenaar countries? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 08:21:21 -0500 > From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > Subject: Re: What was the quid pro quo for Wassenaar countries? > More interesting to Americans, maybe, is that there also appears to be > an effort to boost domestic militia, particularly the religious brand, as the > homefront Bin Laden. The rise of religion-based terrorism is explored at > length in Bruce Hoffman's recent "Inside Terrorism." Hoffman claims that > religious terrorists may be the worst enemies ever, for they do not > believe in political compromise: they want to kill every single opponent, > and have no reservations about using WMD. 5,000 years of human history bears this thesis out. > If this theory is correct (and Hoffman has worked with RAND for years on > the issue) then the menace of terrorism is worse than that hawked during > the Cold War. The enemy is not distant, not even ICBM seconds away, > but rather it lives amongst us, it's our neighbors readying Armageddon not > merely a familiar commie takeover. This is also their biggest weakness. It's one reason the US has never been host to a large movement in the 20th century, outside the racist, anti-communist, and pro-lifers (and the first two are pretty much dead) because your neighbor probably doesn't go to the same church you do, probably not from the same part of the country. The chances of an individual opening up to their neighbor and getting a warm reception for bombing someplace is pretty low. Realisticaly, the only reason the pro-lifers get as warm a reception as they do is so many people see it as hypocritical. It's ok to kill a killer is their thinking, it is after all a form of pre-partum assissted self-defence. > Hoffman says to expect more OKCs around the globe. To be sure, that's > his business to say that. Considering the rate at which they occur now there is zero rational reason to believe these groups will cease any time in the near future. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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US attorney notified
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Michell was notified that we are in the process of initiating legal action to get the lien removed. Let's hope she has the sense to do what we ask. This matter should have been settled. It is getting WORSE.

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Wassenaar News
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We spoke with Igor at the WA today to ask about the implementation report Caspar Bowden said would be coming shortly. It seems that Dirk Weicke, the person preparing it (whom Caspar queried), is out sick and won't return to work until Thursday. Another person working on the report, a Mr. Sidbitt (?) is also out sick but should be back at work tomorrow. At the moment there is no plan to offer the report on the WA Web site. Each member will decide how to publicize it. Igor, a friendly, reminded that the WA staff has no authority, indeed has an evanescent existence, and is subject to vanishing without explanation. The paranoid WA members, my words, cut no slack, cut-throat control of perfidious news is their modus operandi. Still, Igor chuckled at my reporting that the perfidious USG will not anwser my inquiries, being unable to trust its terrifying citizenry. He refused my plea to send a purloined report, a report which, on the evidence, appears to be quite sickening.

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RE: What was the quid pro quo for Wassenaar countries?
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young talked about the way the TLAs are whipping up the War Against Drugs and the threat od terrorists, WMDs and bogies (in English slang "bogies" are little bits of partially dried snot that plug up your nose... but that's by-the-by) and concludes with: [... If Bruce Hoffman is right ...] > then the menace of terrorism is worse than that hawked during > the Cold War. The enemy is not distant, not even ICBM seconds > away, but rather it lives amongst us, it's our neighbors readying > Armageddon not merely a familiar commie takeover. Ambulance Driver: "Yeah, Doc, there was a nasty accident out on the interstate." Dr. Bassett: "Bad one, eh?" Ambulance Driver: "Yeah, a truck and a car collided. Ya know, it was kinda funny... the truck was carrying a load of the strangest-looking seed pods." Ken Brown

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Re: y2k/gary north delusions
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As a former New Yorker, I find this whole thread majorly uninformed. Most of New York's water moves from the Catskills to the tap (or toilet) via gravity, without encountering a pump at any point during the way. Even if all power and automated controls failed, most of the city would continue to get water (remember - the system was designed long before computers, or even widespread electricity). The only areas with major problems would be the high spots - Washington Heights/ Spanish Harlem, some parts of the Bronx, and the upper floors of some highrises. Even assuming that somehow every toilet in the city became unusable, the decidedly lowtech solid waste disposal system (trucks to landfills in Staten Island and New Jersey, or barges to the Atlantic), would still operate. The solid volume of people's excrement is miniscule compared to the volume of material already handled. (If you think no crap goes into the system, you clearly have not spent time near in infant in the age of Pampers). I suspect that Los Angeles, and other cities which have grown recently in arid areas, would have a lot more trouble. Peter Trei

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Re: Commerce Hacked?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:14:13 -0500 (EST) From: Somebody To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Re: Commerce Hacked? Mime-Version: 1.0 Looks like he [Aaron] has been successful. No one is talking about the extortive quality of sending out the commerce minister to argue for crypto controls. Why don't they send an air force general who giggles about radiated cities between bites of rumaki. <Somebody's .sig> --- 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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Anguilla attached to Wassenar Agr?
by Jim Burnes - Denver 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since Anguilla is a UK protectorate, is it subject to Wassenar Agreement rules if the UK is a signatory? Anyone care to predict the next big crypto exporter? Brazil? Chile? Argentina? Columbia? Tonga? ;-) jim

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RE: tyranny of corporations (was: Corporate Nations)
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>>> From: "Blanc" Also, this image of hyperindividualism doesn't seem right. I would think such an extreme degree of individualism would exclude much involvement with others, meaning they could not run corporations, because for a business to exist requires involvement in providing a service/product to the largest numbers of the population as possible, and they can only do this if this large mass of people see the value of, and accept, in preference to the offerings of the competition, what that particular corporation offers. I imagine a hyperindividual more as an independent contractor working "alone". There are dozens of examples of the Executive that comes to a new position, cuts jobs and makes other changes that make the bottom line look good in the short term. Since the sales of a very large company are not likely to "crash", this person looks good for a couple of years, then hops to a new job and the next guy catches the fallout of the short-term vision. The independent contractor on the other hand will probably never have the sales base to get away with screwing over his/her employees and clients. The independent contractor, that is not an out and out criminal, generally has to be very careful not to alienate the customers. A big corporation on the other hand can afford to lose a few thousand customers without too much trouble. A scoundrel has a much better chance of fucking over people in his/her rise to the top in a corporation than in a small company. The fly-by-night companies that are obviously rip-offs are not quite the same thing since very few people aspire to be like these folks. But the original authors point is correct in that a very large part of the population want to be able to emulate the big time self-interest seekers. APF

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