December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
by Colin Plumb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Doug, I'd just like to thank you for replying. Even without looking at your description, the fact that you are willing to talk to doubters and admit the limitations of your technique make me a lot more comfortable believing that you have something. You don't fit into either of the two standard types of snake-oil salesmen: The "I can't tell you because it's secret" sort, and the "it's totally unbreakable, cures world hunger and disposes of nuclear waste" sort. Not that people still don't wonder, but I thought I'd temper the technical grilling I see heating up with some appreciation for the fact that you've already managed a better impression than 95% of the crypto wannabes out there. -- -Colin

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CHALLENGE response
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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(It will be necessary to remove any existing key with keyid 0x2541C535 before this key can be added to the keyring.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNgcq+c5WpAclQcU1AQHnZQP+NrThyaPmy8BDw21geFB3B1s59QJJ4Ycs i1yqu9p6NZfb6qD2pF8AnOSOUMA3KCs98fKMJU9S9TN9eTk5DRbIvXHHSdhMRhuw qDlmcpy4HggT9yHK0vjOTm6UUR/xkvt0WCheAQEe9ZeshFyPa5BAJ7Sqy2dcI1Xv X3DzB5pn2yk= =SmV7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "Contrary to one famous philosopher, you're saying the medium is not the message," Judge Thomas Nelson said, alluding to the media theorist Marshall McLuhan. http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/120997encrypt-bernstein.html Bullshit! The bits and bytes of email encryption are a clear message that I wish to exercise my right to speak freely, without those who wish to do me harm invading my privacy. The death of strong encryption on the InterNet will be the global death of free speech on the InterNet. Accordingly, I feel it is necessary to make a stand and declare that I stand ready and willing to fight to the death against anyone who takes it upon themselves to try to imprison me behind an ElectroMagnetic Curtain. This includes the Ninth Distric Court judges, if they come to the conclusion that the government that they represent needs to electronically imprison their citizens 'for their own safety.' The problem: Criminals with a simple encryption program can scramble their data beyond even the government's ability to read it. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/1208/261695.html Fuck the lame LEA pricks who whine about not being able to stop someone bringing in a planeload of drugs without being able to invade the privacy of every person on the face of the earth. Am I supposed to believe that I have knowledge of when and where major drug shipments are taking place, simply by virtue of hanging out as a musician, yet the LEA's are incapable of finding out the same information by being competent in their profession? Barf City... [I will shortly provide information for any LEA which wishes to prosecute me for my coming 'physical' death threat, on how to hunt me down like the filthy dog that I am.] "Why are you saying that the fact that [encryption] is functional takes it out of the First Amendment context?" Myron Bright, one of the judges, asked the Justice Department attorney, who was still in mid-sentence. He answered that the regulations were not aimed at suppressing speech, but only at the physical capacity of encryption to thwart government intelligence gathering. The Spanish language has the same "physical capacity." So does (:>), (;[), and {;-|). Likewise, BTW, FWIW, FYI, and my own personal favorite, YMMV (You Make Me Vomit? --or-- Your Mileage May Vary?). <-- Ambidextrous encryption. An-cay e-way pect-exay ig-pay atin-lay usts-bay of ildren-chay? Whispering also has the "physical capacity" to "thwart government intelligence gathering." When does the bullshit stop? When do we stop making the use of the Spanish language over the InterNet illegal? When do we stop making whispering, pig-latin, anagrams and acronyms illegal? When do we stop saying that our government is such a piece of crap that it is a danger to let its citizens communicate freely, in private, and share their private thoughts with one another? At one point Fletcher called the government's case "puzzling." http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17114,00.html Only because her mom taught her that it was unladylike to say "Bullshit!" In arguments Monday, a Justice Department lawyer, Scott McIntosh, said the government's intent was to preserve the ability of intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on foreign governments and citizens. http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/120997encrypt-bernstein.html Let's see if I have this right... The U.S. government needs to destroy the right to free speech and right to privacy of its own citizens in order to infringe upon the human rights of the governments and citizens of other countries? Countries which already have strong encryption? Countries like Red China, which is currently engaged in encryption research with an American company who got permission to export much more diverse encryption material (after making a huge campaign donation to the Whitehouse) than Professor Bernstein will ever likely share with others? Apologies to Judge Fletcher, but that's not "puzzling." That's the same-old-same-old Bullshit! OFFICIAL 'PHYSICAL' DEATH THREAT!!! The pen is mightier than the sword. Thus, I prefer to wage my 'war to the death' against those who would stomp on my basic human rights *"in the interests of National Security"* with my electronic pen, on the InterNet, using encryption when I have reason to fear persecution by Facist, Nazi motherfuckers. [* ~~ TruthMonger Vernacular Translation ~~ "so that the government can maintain its authority over the citizens by use of force and violation of human rights, rather than going to all of the trouble of acting in a manner that will garner the citizens' respect."] I will continue to express my thoughts through the words I send electronically over the InterNet, both publically and privately. I will fight to the bandwidth death against anyone who wants to deny me my right to express my opinions and access the opinions of those who also wish to express their own opinions and share their true thoughts with their fellow humans. If the ElectronicMagnetic Curtain slams down around me, then I will have no choice but to continue my current fight in MeatSpace. And I am not alone... I will share the same 'DEATH THREAT!!!' with Judges Fletcher, Nelson and Bright that I have shared with the President and a host of Congressional and Senatorial representatives: "You can fuck some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you are going to end up in a body bag or a pine box before you manage to fuck all of the people all of the time." Am *I* going to whack you out? Maybe... I would prefer just dumping some tea in Boston Harbor, if that will get my message across in MeatSpace, but if it won't, then I guess I will have to take stronger action. There are undoubtedly a plethora of LEA's ready and willing to prosecute and imprison me for agreeing with Patrick Henry, who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death." The irony, of course, is that I do not pose a great danger to anyone but myself as long as I continue to have my human rights and my liberty unthreatened. The chances of me actually getting off of my fat butt and going out into the real world to whack out the enemies of freedom are probably pretty small (unless I run out of cigarettes and beer, and wouldn't have to make an extra trip). I fully understand that this does not lessen the potential of any LEA who gets a wild hair up their butt to throw a mountain of taxpayer resources into prosecuting me and imprisoning me for their own professional/political gain. However, if you are performing actions so outrageously against basic human rights and freedoms as to get me off of my lazy ass, then I am the least of your problems, because there undoubtedly are millions of people more functional than myself (who get out of the house and go further than the liquor store) who are less willing than myself to put up with increasingly heavy chains placed around their hands and feet 'in the interests of national security.' Feel free to have the Federales break down my door and imprison me for pointing out the obvious. After all, I fit the profile of a domestic terrorist--I quote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and I speak out against increasingly big government. But remember...it's the quiet ones you've got to watch... If you force everyone to 'be quiet', then you've got a world of trouble on your hands. Sincerly, John Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ p.s. NOTICE TO LEA AGENTS IN NEED OF A CAREER BOOST! Yes, I'm just a troublemaking asshole, trying to get John <spit> Gilmore <fart> in trouble. However, if you want to go to the trouble of tracking me down, I will give you some hints, since it seems likely that anyone who has trouble finding a ton of cocaine at an airport might not be competent in CyberSpace, either. You might want to check with the Webmasters at the sites quoted above to see who has accessed their web sites this morning. The anonymous remailer I will be using is an open secret to CypherPunks around the world as a really bad attempt at disguising my true MeatSpace identity. This alone ought to be enough for some aggressive young LEA and/or federal prosecutor to earn themself some brownie-points, since I am a sorry enough son-of-a-bitch that they would not have much trouble convicting me in front of a jury of 'their' peers, assuming that they can make certain that I am not tried by a jury of my own peers. Bonus Points: I can also be tied into Jim Bell's Worldwide Conspiracy to assassinate government authorities, through my implementation of an Assassination Bot. (I am willing to 'rat out' Jim for two bottles of Scotch. If he is willing to rat _me_ out for less, then I guess it's just my hard luck, eh? <--that's another hint!) p.p.s. You can also charge me with use of 'conventional' encryption in the commission of a crime. Must be your lucky fucking day, eh? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNI24Hs5WpAclQcU1AQFaggP8CPTVy8EAY3JbIG94frc3C70MW0hUznmp fRgBrq7m5tLGjX7fh3/s4fpTnQi+xUvRUroFETlR6KhM3srSy456wovpFlcLp7uc xk31cRPEroFhO9NRVBUjzToCj78iDvdGm9QXUwLctbbohpdId/KKLTAUM6//4mCB i/9oezfegWc= =4/6E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: radio net
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/8/98 2:29 PM, Ryan Lackey (ryan(a)systemics.ai) passed this wisdom: >Is anyone else interested in setting up a radio net (probably packet radio >relay) to relay small quantities of data in the event the telecommunications >infrastructure becomes unavailable (either technically or >legally/politically/militarily)? There are existing packet relay nets, but >in my experience amateur radio people, especially in the US, are very >willing to roll over for the government at the slightest cause. you tar with too wide a brush ... one of the pioneers of ham packet radio is Phil Karn, who definitely isn't in to submissive roll overs! For that matter neither am I, though, sadly the greater number of hams do fit your description. >I think the cost would be something like $1-5k per station, and it could >be done in a fairly turnkey fashion. Exactly how to handle routing and >what protocol to use on the network is kind of an open question -- there >are a lot of solutions, none of them optimal. so what are you interested in setting up???? Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with in the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy." -- Gassee - Apple Logo

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Re: radio net (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: radio net (fwd) > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 20:03:56 -0400 > From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr(a)together.net> > open for things like the ham radio satellite command channel uplinks > being encrypted for security reasons ... but to do so they must, upon Actualy the control channel for satellites must be encrypted by international law. ____________________________________________________________________ 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: radio net
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/10/98 10:28 PM, Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) passed this wisdom: >Hey, guys, > >Someone here already said it, but nobody else got it, so I'll repeat it: >SSB, or Single Sideband. It's commercial ham radio, if you will, and all >the ships use it. I expect that you can shove anything down an SSB set that >you want, including encrypted traffic. > >Ham radio is a government nerd subsidy, and as such, doesn't do much but >make more government funded/sactioned/approved/whatever nerds. :-). > >SSB would do just fine. It's an international standard, after all, and >probably not under the control of any one government, even.e Bob, I am afraid you are showing your ignorance here. SSB is just one of the many modes of emission standardized in radio communications, its used by the amateur radio service (ham) , the citizens radio service (cb), the military, etc ... The real problem is that to build any sort of network would require some fixed positions, which, if it were intended to be 'clandestine' would be compromised sooner or later ... either that or several poor shnooks would have full time jobs driving vans around and around to keep the RDF snoops guessing ... In general there would be a better chance of pulling it off if you stayed away from the ham radio bands. 'self-policing' is not a character of another bands except the commercial broadcast bands. Spread spectrum would have more promise as many stations could be on the air at once on the same frequency thus making life quite confusing for the T-hunters. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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canadian cryptanalysis, eh?
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~brobinso/cryptan.html also http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~brobinso/rqmts.html Suggested courses CA-105 - Introduction to Cryptography and Exploitation of Manual Cryptosystems CA-107 - Exploitation of Manual Cryptosystems CA-123 - Shift-Register Cryptology CA-223 - Advanced Shift-Register Cryptology CA-247 - Vocoders for Cryptanalysts MA-213 - PTAH MA-246 - Cryptomathematics for Mathematicians MA-256 - Signal Processing Mathematics[24] Knowledge of the following areas of Mathematics is required: Probability and Statistics including Stochastic and Markov Processes, Linear Algebra and Abstract Algebra including Finite Field Theory, Shift Register and Polynomial Theory, Communications, Information and Coding Theory, Sampling Theory, Digital Filtering, Numerical Methods, and Fast Transformation Algorithms.

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Re: Clinton's fake apologies
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If nothing else, Clinton deserves his troubles because he is a very strong supporter of the legal structures that caused them. 1) He is a lawyer and a strong supporter of the trial lawyers who have promoted extremely expansive civil discovery of the sort that allowed Clinton to be questioned about Monica in the Jones case. 2) He is a strong advocate of the sort of sexual harassment law that led to the Jones case. He thinks it should be punished harshly. A real feminist. 3) He is a strong advocate of the Ethics in Government Act and pushed its renewal through Congress in 1994 when the Act was going to expire and when the Dems controlled both houses of Congress. 4) He is a law-and-order liberal who believes in executing retarded murderers and jailing hospital execs who submit Medicare bills based on misunderstandings of detailed and contradictory regulations. 5) His wife (and presumably he) was a strong supporter of an expansive definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors" during Watergate. "Hoist on your own petard" (and I even know what a petard is). DCF

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17 Dec '03

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The Empire Strikes Back (was IP: Army Tests Land Warrior for 21stCentury Soldiers)
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: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:33:31 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Army Tests Land Warrior for 21st Century Soldiers Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Department of Defense http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep1998/n09111998_9809117.html ------- NOTE: Website includes three photographs of device in use. No mention of whether the computerized software in the device, of the GPS link and its satellites are Y2K compliant. ------- Army Tests Land Warrior for 21st Century Soldiers By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- American soldiers and Marines are already among the most deadly in the world, but a system called Land Warrior will soon make them unmatched. Land Warrior integrates small arms with high-tech equipment enabling ground forces to deploy, fight and win on the battlefields of the 21st century. "Land Warrior soldiers fight as a system, and the most important part of the system is what's between his ears," said Army Lt. Col. Robert Serino, Land Warrior product manager. Land Warrior came about in 1991 when an Army study group recommended the service look at the soldier as a complete weapon system. The first priority in Land Warrior is lethality. The second is survivability and the third, command and control. The program will cost $2 billion when 45,000 sets of the equipment are fielded between 2001-2014. The Marine Corps, Air Force and many foreign countries are interested in the system. "First and foremost, Land Warrior is a fighting system," Serino said. Land Warrior has several subsystems: the weapon, integrated helmet assembly, protective clothing and individual equipment, computer/radio, and software. The weapon subsystem is built around the M-16/M-4 modular carbine. It has a laser range finder/digital compass, a daylight video camera, a laser aiming light and a thermal sight. "This system will allow infantrymen to operate in all types of weather and at night," Serino said. In conjunction with other components, a soldier can even shoot around corners without exposing himself to enemy fire. The integrated helmet assembly is lighter and more comfortable than today's helmet, Serino said. It has a helmet-mounted monocular day display, a night sensor with flat panel display, a laser detection module, ballistic/laser eye protection, a microphone and a headset. The protective clothing and individual equipment subsystem incorporates modular body armor and upgrade plates that can stop small-arms rounds fired point-blank. It includes an integrated load-bearing frame, chemical/biological protective garments and modular rucksack. The infantryman will attach the computer/radio subsystem to his load-bearing frame. Over this goes the rucksack for personal gear. The computer processor is fused with radios and a Global Positioning System locator. A hand grip wired to the pack and attached to the soldier's chest acts as a computer mouse and also allows the wearer to change screens, key on the radio, change frequencies and send digital information. The subsystem comes in two flavors: The leader version has two radios and a flat panel display/keyboard, and soldiers have one radio. With the equipment, leaders and soldiers can exchange information. Soldiers using their weapon-mounted camera, for example, can send videos to their leaders. Finally, the software subsystem includes tactical and mission support modules, maps and tactical overlays, and the ability to capture and display video images. The system also contains a power management module. Designers set up the system so it can be updated as technology improves. The soldiers who will actually use Land Warrior have been consulted every step of the way. Prime contractor Raytheon worked with experts at the U.S. Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning, Ga., in designing the system. They have taken the system to the users to ensure the system is headed in the right direction. For instance, Serino said, "The rucksack has quick-release straps so an infantryman can just drop it if the need arises. This is what our soldiers asked for -- which is really great." One problem the Army must overcome before fielding is power. Current batteries last about 150 minutes with all systems running. "Clearly soldiers won't have all systems running all the time, but this is still not acceptable," said Serino. Other batteries under development by the Army's Communications-Electronics Command may push the time up to 30 hours. The Army plans to test the Land Warrior system with a platoon from the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky. Later, a battalion-sized test is planned, Serino said. "Ultimately, soldiers will define the end state of Land Warrior -- and we'll know more every time the soldiers employ the system," he said. "We'll get the system up to a certain point, then the soldiers will be the people who say how far it can really go." ----------------------- 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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Re: radio net
by Soren 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SSB xceivers cost <$700. Try any marine electronics store. Best choice is a ham xceiver with strap selectable SSB (actually a violation of FCC dictate to enable SSB on a ham rig, but everyone does it anyway). This would cost ~$1500, the Icom 7658 is a good one I know of. Go and get your local equivalent of a VHF license, send in the extension to cover SSB (~$50). Then purchase a 'PacRat' from any ham hangout. I got mine in Redwood City CA, on El Camino real - some years back now though. This is a little box that hooks into the back of the ham/SSB set and into a serial port of your PC. It comes with some basic packet handling software. Last time I looked, PacRats were <$200. Don't expect any great xfr rates however. Noise to signal requires many packet retransmissions as the ionosphere is not a very good mirror. Running TCP/IP over it should be easily doable. Basic use is to dial in the frequency yourself on the SSB (this usually requires an auto-tuner ~$700 AND a manual tuner ~$100, for best results). You need to get the best antenna you can afford. Unfortunately, antennas are frequency range specific, so you'll probably need 3: one for 0-5000 miles, 5000-12000, 12000-?. Its easy to rig the tuner to support 2-3 antennas, switch selectable. You need a Good Earth for anything to happen as expected. By now it should be possible to get some extra SW to drive the freq selection, so you could do spread spectrum. This is not allowed of course, as you are expected to do the call-sign exchange protocol on each freq session. There are freqs that are dedicated to digital (ship-to-shore commercial). You may have to get a commercial license for this though. One nasty thing about radio is that you share the spectrum with others, so collisions tend to make a hash out of reliability. Store and forward at unpopular times such as 3:00 EST, could be a good alternative. The longer distance freqs (>12000), are the most uncluttered, but suffer from the most noise to signal. A bounce across the pacific to the house next door, would be potentially more reliable than a lower freq. Most of the ham sets also support FM, so it would also be possible to piggyback on the ricochet freqs for line of sight use. Or for a real adrenaline rush, piggyback the mil freqs. If you really want to give the hams fits, write a noise to morse engine (or better yet, some captured call signs repeated endlessly) and swamp the channels, where the old popular mechanics guys discuss their antenna envy, at random intervals. 9:00 in the Ozarks is a fine time. Sit back and wait for the black vans to drive up. "Educate, don't Agitate"

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

son of gomez

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Re: radio net
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:11:29 -0700 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> From: Somebody Subject: Re: radio net > >I know what Single Sideband means. As I've said before, and what you failed >to read later on in this thread, evidently, is that there are commercial >Single Sideband radios out there which have the range of ham sets. These >radios are used for commercial ship-to-shore traffic, and I expect that >encryption is legal on them. I expect that, because these frequencies are >subject to international convention rather than federal law, they have more >leeway (heh... nautical pun) on their use. Including, I bet, digital >packets and encryption. > > If I remember correctly, this is escrowed encryption using code books deposited with the appropriate authorities. <Somebody's .sig> --- end forwarded text *That* sucks... I wonder who the "appropriate authorities" are? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- 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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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How about a line-of-sight (LOS) infrared network, a neighbor-net? Always thought this could be a method for a local technical entrepreneur to fund and share their personal T-1 link or for some small network enterprise to avoid local and US federal regulations and compete with the big cable and telephone companies. Appears that LOS infrared is currently unregulated and could be encrypted. Get enough people in a neighborhood to put LOS infrared relays on top of their houses, allow them to tap in, and feed this neighbor-net from some central point that is equipped with a more conventional link. I dunno why infrared, which theoretically has much more capacity than a phone line or coax cable, seems currently so slow, i.e., less than 10 MB in many commercial offerings. Ive no cost estimate for the roof top boxes. Heavy wet weather, fog, rain, snow obviously can affect LOS infrared, esp. low power. Personally, I would like more choices than just the phone and cable lines, especially something that is locally controlled. However, I imagine that if any significant traffic was generated over such infrared or wireless neighbor-nets, the Feds would eventually step in and regulate them. They'd probably want to regulate the traffic over a taut string, between paper cups.

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Re: Revenge of the AOLHoles
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ryan Anderson wrote: > > > The problem is that most of the AOL users who publish to the net seem to > > be morons. They use some annoying Russo-Germanic quoting style, they can't > > use English, they're clueless, they post off-topic, or something else. > > In all fairness, many of the users on AOL *know* that the AOL quoting > style is utterly horrible. Unofrtunatley, they don't have much choice in > what they use. Sure they do. They can use a different mail reader. (After all, 32-bit AOL allows AOL users to use all the TCP/IP protocols...) They can cut and paste manually, or, probably best, they can go to another ISP. I understand what you're saying, Ryan, and I understand what they're saying, but there all alternatives out there; they just don't want to use them. In fact, they've installed proprietary packages that do this. There are plenty of free alternatives out there which don't have this problem. If my ISP pushed a bunch of proprietary software down my throat, I'd find another ISP. That goes double if the proprietary software sucks. That goes triple if the software sucks and the ISP is trying to get every idiot they can to use it. (I got a "100 hours free network abuse" disk in the mail recently from AOL.) Another AnonMonger

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"It has been claimed, for example, that free application of cryptography enables drug traffickers and terrorists to communicate in secret, without the law enforcement officials being able to intercept their messages. In some countries, strong encryption has been banned or the keys have to be escrowed for government officials. With invisibility readily available to anyone with moderate programming skills, it is obvious that any such measures are ineffective. " This from the most recent online National Counterintelligence Center Counterintelligence News and Developments Volume 2 June 1998 http://www.nacic.gov/cind/june98.htm#rtoc4 "In some countries" indeed.

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Offshore Banking In Latvia
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- > > Found this: http://offshorehaven.nu/banking > > noidea whether a trap or a jewel. Just in case my first message was unclear: Offshore banking in Latvia looks good. The above website looks like a con. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JXDMmaEyma+jN7wyVhvlYcOrLB7iNaWSDaDfE2dl 4B2lFoTKEej/7263gNwJ8CpUWXMXIdco2pG0PzcFL ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald

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sixdegrees
by Well now I am a Mommy! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Remailers
by nnburk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are _any_ of the remailers working?

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Your new password
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Remailers (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:49:58 -0700 > From: nnburk <nnburk(a)cobain.hdc.net> > Subject: Remailers > > Are _any_ of the remailers working? > Which remailers? The CDR members or the anonymous remailers? ____________________________________________________________________ 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: British Openly Prepare for Y2K Martial Law
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: British Openly Prepare for Y2K Martial Law Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:26:39 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2553 Category: Martial_Law Date: 1998-09-11 13:47:42 Subject: British Openly Prepare for Y2K Martial Law Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/A1109820.html Comment: The British government is way ahead of every other nation in facing up to the implications of y2k. It is obvious the the U.S. military is preparing for martial law in late 1999, but no official publicly admits that this is the case. The British are more forthright. This is from THE INDEPENDENT (Sept. 11). [The link was dead within hours.] * * * * * * * * TROOPS may be on the streets in the year 2000 under emergency Home Office plans to maintain vital services which could be crippled by the millennium computer bug. Armed forces will be on standby to help councils and police provide disaster relief if key infrastructures such as hospitals, water supplies and roads are hit by the electronic change. The Home Office confirmed yesterday that local authorities are being encouraged to draw up contingency plans to deal with the "nightmare scenario" of failed traffic lights, disabled water pumping stations, fuel shortages and other disrupted services. The bug, which represents the inability of most computers and electronic systems to deal with the change of date from 1999 to 2000, could also hit vital equipment in hospitals, lifts, benefits payments and phone lines. Most computer experts believe that major failures are unlikely, but councils, which have a statutory duty to provide emergency relief, have been told to prepare for the worst. They will be allowed to use the Armed Forces Military Aid to Civil Authorities Act to call in emergency help. . . . Rail, telecommunications, gas and electricity regulators were joined by BT, Shell, Transco and Trailtrack to agree ways to reassure the public that their computers were being adapted to avoid the bug. . . . In one key sanction, BT and Cable and Wireless have been told they will be given the power to disconnect firms that corrupt phone connections. . . . Home Secretary Jack Straw is ultimately responsible for emergency planning as chairman of a body called the Civil Contingencies Committee. The Home Office Emergency Planning Division will meet this month to firm its own proposals. ----------------------- 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 **********************************************

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IP: Y2K: 316,862 Reasons Why FedReserve Won't Make It
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Y2K: 316,862 Reasons Why FedReserve Won't Make It Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:24:39 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com North's Comments about Article Below: In June, 1998, a pair of experts -- one is a y2k optimist -- produced a report on the likelihood of system-wide failures based on the number of external exchanges of data an organization has. It is called the Beach/Oleson Pain Index. (Oleson is the optimist; Beach edits CIO MAGAZINE.) BUSINESS TODAY reported: "The Beach/Oleson Pain Index illustrates how the Y2K software glitch is further compounded by connectivity to external organizations, such as suppliers, customers, banks and other business partners." There is a 10.4% likelihood of catastrophic failure for any organization with over 1,000 external connections. It is only 0.5% for 50 connections, 1.1% for 100, 5.4% for 500. The Federal Reserve System, the most important of all central banks, has 316,862. This is from a July 1, 1998 report of the General Accounting Office of the U.S. Congress. The report outlines what every organization must do to protect itself from importing noncompliant data. This list is long, and the task is gigantic. Congressional committees should insist on receiving detailed quarterly progress reports on these procedures from the Federal Reserve. Of course, no elected official would be so bold or so impolite as to ask, let alone demand. To ask such questions, the questioner would have to assume that Congress has effective authority over the Federal Reserve, as the law says. No Congressman who has served over one term is so naive as to believe that. * * * * * * * * * Federal agencies reported that they have a total of almost 500,000 data exchanges with other federal agencies, states, local governments, and the private sector for their mission-critical systems. Almost 90 percent of the exchanges were reported by the Federal Reserve and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which reported having 316,862 and 133,567, respectively. The Federal Reserve exchanges data with federal agencies and the private sector using software it provides to these entities. . . . As part of their Year 2000 correction efforts, organizations must identify the date formats used in their data exchanges, develop a strategy for dealing with exchanges that do not use 4-digit year formats, and implement the strategy. These efforts generally involve the following steps. -- Assess information systems to identify data exchanges that are not Year 2000 compliant. -- Contact the exchange partner and reach agreement on the date format to be used in the exchange. -- Determine if data bridges and filters are needed. -- Determine if validation processes are needed for incoming data. -- Set dates for testing and implementing new exchange formats. -- Develop and test bridges and filters to handle nonconforming data. -- Develop contingency plans and procedures for data exchanges and incorporate into overall agency contingency plans. -- Implement the validation process for incoming data. -- Test and implement new exchange formats. The testing and implementation of new data exchanges must be closely coordinated with exchange partners to be completed effectively. In addition to an agency testing its data exchange software, effective testing involves end-to-end testing--initiation of the exchange by the sending computer, transmission through intermediate communications software and hardware, and receipt and acceptance by receiving computer(s), thus completing the exchange process. . . . The Federal Reserve has 2-digit and 4-digit year formats in its data exchanges. It plans to use 4-digit formats for all exchanges in the future, but will continue using the 2-digit year format for some exchanges and have exchange partners bridge to these if necessary. Federal Reserve's Year 2000 officials estimated that 20 percent of their data exchanges have 2-digit year formats. They also told us that they have not set a target date for the conversion to 4-digit year formats. . . . ---------------------------------- Source: Business Today http://www.businesstoday.com/techpages/y2kindex03.htm BT EXCLUSIVE: Local researchers predict Y2K pain Wednesday, June 3, 1998 by Bill Burke/BusinessToday staff A team of technology researchers has come up with an index that they say can tell a business just how bad its Year 2000 computer problem is going to be. The "Beach/Oleson Pain Index" is a chart of Y2K probabilities and predictions based on a formula developed by team leaders Gary Beach, publisher of CIO magazine, and International Data Corp. analyst Tom Oleson. The index determines the "degree of pain" companies are likely to experience when the Millennium Bug strikes. The Beach/Oleson Pain Index illustrates how the Y2K software glitch is further compounded by connectivity to external organizations, such as suppliers, customers, banks and other business partners. The pair will unveil the index today at a Year 2000 conference in Omaha. In the end, Beach says, no one is going to make it through the Millennium threshold untouched. "Realistically, no connected company can expect to survive the Year 2000 unscathed," Beach said. He said the formula answers the fifty-thousand dollar question: 'Just how bad is it going to be?' The index works by taking a company's number of connected applications and plugging that figure into the index. "A company can determine the severity of its Year 2000 problem and create an appropriate contingency plan," Beach said. The index can help companies plan for the deadline, and develop contingency plans, say the designers. "Companies implementing various Year 2000 compliance projects must come to the realization that the Year 2000 problem is not 100 percent solvable," Oleson said. The index uses the number of applications a company has connected to external partners, vendors and customers to determine the severity of the Y2K situation. The probability of experiencing a Year 2000 problem is broken down into four degrees of severity: Annoying; Disruptive; Business Critical and Catastrophic. "0"> Number of Connected Applications Probability: Catastrophic Probability: Business Critical Probability: Disruptive Probability: Annoying 5 0.1% 1.0% 3.7% 7.4% 10 0.1% 2.1% 7.3% 14.3% 20 0.2% 4.1% 14.0% 26.5% 50 0.5% 10.0% 31.4% 53.7% 100 1.1% 19.0% 52.9% 78.6% 500 5.4% 65.0% 97.7% 100.0% 1000 10.4% 87.8% 99.9% 100.0% ----------------------- 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: Two Reporters Attacked at Governor's Rally*
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: vols-fan(a)juno.com (Football Fan) Subject: IP: Two Reporters Attacked at Governor's Rally* Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:55:22 -0500 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Alex(a)989kjfk.com ********************************************** Quantum Reality News Two Reporters Attacked at Governor's Rally* *********************************************** This morning two Free Press Reporters at Governor George Bush's Rally at the Du Pont Factory in Round Rock Texas were assaulted and silenced from questioning Gov. Bush, while asking pertinent questions. Questions specifically about the CFR and Federal Reserve involvement in Texas and the US. No response was given and orders were immediately given to the Secret Service and Texas DPS, to remove the reporters. Alex Jones Alex(a)989kjfk.com "Talk Radio Show Host for KJFK 98.9 FM" [www.989kjfk.com] Austin and Central Texas and "Republic National Radio Broadcasting System" and his Producer Mike Hansen of the Austin Access TV Show "Exposing Corruption" Channel 10 ACTV were grabbed and roughed up and removed from the rally by force. Alex Jones was forceably arrested and taken away and later released by a radio call to the police unit. The radio transmission instructed the officers to release Alex Jones. Governor Bush had ordered his release stating, they had nothing to hold him on. Mike Hansen while filming the incident was hit from behind in an attempt to break his camera. The blow thrown from behind nearly knocked Hansen off his feet. Mike Hansen was not near the scuffle or in the area, he was filming from a distance. Both men received injuries. Not only were their 1st Amendment rights trampled and forceable abridged by the Secret Service and DPS agents but their questions were ignored, questions that are very important to voters. Evidentially these questions, that many of Governor Bush's constituents are asking, were not address by our Governor, and possible President hopeful. The Question were about the Federal Reserve control of our currency and it's role in the perpetuation of oppressive debt in our country. The active part the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) are playing in the take over and control of our Country and their role in movement toward the New World Order. People expect the same accountability from the Governor, that Governor Bush has been talking about in his campaign advertisements. Why were these citizens attacked? Why were these questions so offensive? A Public Servant should be able to stay cool and have an interest in all of his constituents and all their concerns. If our leadership will not calmly answer honest questions, it leads us as responsible informed voters to ask questions of ourselves. Why aren't all of Governor Bush's constituents concerns and views addressed? Are special interest views and concerns, more valid or more important than the majority of people and voters? Is our leadership truly representing "We the People" if they have someone removed that asks a controversial question? reporter: Randy Clark/Quantum Reality --- You are currently subscribed to tuac-alerts as: [vols-fan(a)juno.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-tuac-alerts-184675B(a)XC.Org --------- End forwarded message ---------- ********************************************** 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: Germ sabotage scare empties city buildings-Australia
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Germ sabotage scare empties city buildings-Australia Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 08:49:10 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/webie.asp?URL=/state/4366234.htm>http://www. theaustralian.com.au/webie.asp?URL=/state/4366234.htm Germ sabotage scare empties city buildings The Courier-Mail - 12sep98 POLICE are investigating a possible attempt to sabotage a Brisbane city building by putting the potentially deadly legionella bacteria in the air-conditioner. A canister suspected of containing the bacteria was found in the water cooling system for the Mercantile Mutual building's air- conditioning unit on Thursday. Police suspect the canister was placed there deliberately because recent routine tests on the Edward Street building's air-conditioning showed no sign of the deadly bacteria in its system. Det Snr-Sgt Bryan Paton said the maintenance company responsible for the unit had not seen the canister when it previously checked the water cooling tower. "There is an indication that the device has been put in the water deliberately and there is a concern there may have been some legionella bacteria in the device and we have to wait for those results," Sgt Paton said. "It wasn't a threat to the public or anybody and the air-conditioning system has since been decontaminated but the concern is that someone has done it deliberately. "At this stage we are treating it very seriously." Police also are investigating how someone got access to the air-conditioning unit. The canister sparked a mass evacuation of another city building yesterday when it was delivered there by mistake. Maintenance workers delivered the canister to the Mercantile Mutual building managers, whose offices are in the MLC building. The MLC building, in George Street, was evacuated about 2pm yesterday when the canister, sealed in a metal container, was discovered by office staff. Police and fire and ambulance crews were called to the scene and two Queensland Fire Service officers wearing protective clothing removed the canister. The building was declared safe 90 minutes later and staff returned to work. Insp John Flanagan said the evacuations were a precautionary measure and the canister had been taken to the Government Chemical Laboratory for analysis. The company responsible for managing the MLC building refused to comment, but a staff member said the scare had been blown out of proportion. The bacteria needs a moist environment to develop into the water-borne legionnaires' disease which can cause pneumonia, fever and death. The disease is contracted by inhaling air contaminated by air-conditioning cooling towers, or through whirlpool spas and showers containing contaminated water. The Australian upper limit for legionella bacteria in air- conditioning is a colony count of 10,000. The Mercantile Mutual building had a colony count of 2000. Sgt Paton said police did not know the reason for the possible sabotage and no demands or threats had been made. "People maintaining the air-conditioning units in other buildings should be aware of this and ensure all proper precautions are made," Sgt Paton said. Brisbane Southside Public Health Unit medical officer Brad McCall said legionella was a very common bacterium found in creeks, ponds, air-conditioning cooling towers and hot and cold water taps. © News Limited 1998 ----------------------- 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 **********************************************

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IP: Vote on Clinton
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: vols-fan(a)juno.com (Football Fan) Subject: IP: Vote on Clinton Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:24:26 -0500 To: baldmccoy(a)prodigy.net, PiercedEar(a)juno.com, TTMCCOY(a)juno.com, psm127_dad(a)mailcity.com, phmitch(a)mindspring.com, stringtickler(a)hotmail.com, Jimjean5013(a)juno.com, laney(a)arkansas.net, JESSICA.HARDAGE(a)charleston.af.mil, teyze-barbi(a)juno.com, rjohnson(a)bstream.com, iarthuriarthur(a)juno.com, w-t-14(a)juno.com, Bripowell(a)nidlink.com, supertrician(a)juno.com, barsotti(a)bstream.com Dear Friends: MSNBC has a poll asking whether Clinton should go! Right now its 70% yes and 30% No. Please go and vote. Lets tell Clinton where he gets off! There was 117904 responses. http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp ********************************************** 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: Offshore Banking In Latvia
by Neels Kriek 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have had dealings with the Paritate bank in Latvia. Good bank and no con. http://www.paritate.lv Lots of different types of accounts. Regards

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IP: Impeachment Petition
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: vols-fan(a)juno.com (Football Fan) Subject: IP: Impeachment Petition Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:59:15 -0500 To: baldmccoy(a)prodigy.net, PiercedEar(a)juno.com, TTMCCOY(a)juno.com, psm127_dad(a)mailcity.com, phmitch(a)mindspring.com, stringtickler(a)hotmail.com, Jimjean5013(a)juno.com, laney(a)arkansas.net, JESSICA.HARDAGE(a)charleston.af.mil, teyze-barbi(a)juno.com, rjohnson(a)bstream.com, iarthuriarthur(a)juno.com, w-t-14(a)juno.com, Bripowell(a)nidlink.com, supertrician(a)juno.com, barsotti(a)bstream.com http://congress.nw.dc.us/impeach/petition.html ********************************************** 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: The Empire Strikes Back (was IP: Army Tests Land Warrior for 21st
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote: > "First and foremost, Land Warrior is a fighting system," Serino said. Land > Warrior has several subsystems: the weapon, integrated helmet assembly, > protective clothing and individual equipment, computer/radio, and software. > > The weapon subsystem is built around the M-16/M-4 modular carbine. It has > a laser range finder/digital compass, a daylight video camera, a laser > aiming light and a thermal sight. Great. So now instead of having ninjas come through our windows, we will have Borg coming through our windows. "Citizen-unit, we are Government. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your personality will conform to our specifications. Resistance is futile." All they need to do now is employ nanotechnology and get some cool "whir whir" sound effects, a big cube-shaped HQ, and maybe a cutting beam to carve your house and car up like roasts when they seize them.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: DC cypherpunks meeting this Saturday, Sep 19
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There will be a cypherpunks meeting and party this Saturday, September 19 starting at 5 pm in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC. Our two out-of-town guests are Doug McGowan from HP (who will speak about his company's encryption products that became controversial early this year) and David Burt of filteringfacts.org (who's here for a Christian Coalition conference and may or may not feel like speaking about his position on some of the anti-porn legislation likely to pass Congress). Interested in coming? RSVP and I'll send directions. -Declan

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Larry Gilbert
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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HOTTEST ISSUE OF THE SUMMER TO KEEP YOU WARM IF FALL IS HEADING YOUR WAY!
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

IN TODAY'S ISSUE: 30 NEW EXTRA HOT JPEGS! 5 NEW SIZZLING STORIES LISTEN TO GET LAID BAYWATCH CONFESSIONAL DOING THE DRAG KING THING PREGO BY PLEASURE SEX DRUGS AND ARACHNIDS THE BARON OF BALLS THE BEST OF EUREKA NUCLEAR HARD-ON MILLION DOLLAR SHEIK SHAG ----> http://stuffed.net/98/9/14/ <---- 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/98/9/14/ <----

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Re: Clinton--Why I am Chortling
by Lynne L. Harrison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Tim May wrote: > > There's also the idea popular in some gender feminist circles that the > imbalance of power in manager-employee relationships makes it impossible > for genuine consent to be given. Can there be any greater power imbalance > than the president of the United States and an intern? Where are the > feminist cries of outrage? Could be because, at least from what I read in the report and from other sources, Monica came onto Clinton. One could make the argument that the imbalance of power was the other way around ;) On another note, instead of the report, it may be extremely more interesting to read: http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/document-9.1.1998.1.html I can't vouch for the veracity of all of those listed. Of those individuals, however, with whom I am familiar by way of the media, it is accurate - and eerie, to say the least. *************************************************************************** Lynne L. Harrison, Esq. | "If we are all here, Poughkeepsie, New York | then we are not mailto:lharrison@dueprocess.com | all there." http://www.dueprocess.com | - old Zen saying ************************************************************************* DISCLAIMER: I am not your attorney; you are not my client. Accordingly, the above is *NOT* legal advice.

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Crescendo News - September 1998
by LiveUpdate News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CRESCENDO NEWS - September 1998 Well, it's almost fall here in New England - we're looking forward to the foliage turning color and the snow starting to fall. The leaves up North aren't the only things that are about to change - we're working harder than ever to deliver the best music products on the Internet. You're receiving this email because you downloaded Crescendo in the past, and we want to keep you up to date with some of the exciting things that are happening at LiveUpdate. We hope you are enjoying Crescendo! These are some of the items included in this newsletter: * Crescendo Forte Showcase is now open * Crescendo PLUS version 4.0 Beta 2 now includes LiveSynth * Crescendo Forte featured on RealNetworks Music Showcase * Crescendo Forte featured in Keyboard Magazine's "net smarts" * Re-enabling Crescendo after installing other plugins * Controlling Crescendo using JavaScript * What would you like to see in future versions of Crescendo? * Subscribing / Unsubscribing ---------------------------------- CRESCENDO FORTE SHOWCASE IS NOW OPEN On September 10th, 1998, the long awaited Crescendo Forte Showcase publicly opened its doors. Crescendo Forte is an add-on to RealNetworks' RealPlayer G2, and allows MIDI music to be synchronized with other media types such as RealAudio, video, animation, and text. Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks sums Crescendo Forte up best by saying "Crescendo Forte Rocks!". Crescendo Forte has been called "unbelievable", and it has been said to be "Music the way it was meant to be heard." See (and hear) for yourself what all the excitement is about at the Crescendo Forte Showcase, found at http://www.liveupdate.com/cforte/showcase.html. After you've heard the difference Crescendo Forte makes to music on the Internet, get Crescendo PLUS version 4.0 Beta 2 for an upgrade to LiveSynth that makes the music sound even better! (Keep reading for more details...) ---------------------------------- CRESCENDO PLUS VERSION 4.0 BETA 2 NOW INCLUDES LIVESYNTH It's finally here! Crescendo PLUS version 4.0 Beta 2 is now available, and includes streaming, a software wavetable synthesizer (for more realistic instrument sounds), and more. If you have purchased a Crescendo PLUS subscription within the past year, you should have already received an email giving you instructions on how to download version 4.0 Beta 2. If you haven't experienced Crescendo PLUS yet, now is the time to do so. LiveSynth uses the processing power of your PC to play MIDI music using real instrument samples. Therefore a Pentium processor is required to take advantage of LiveSynth. If you don't have a Pentium processor, you will still be able to take advantage of streaming and the other features found in Crescendo PLUS. For a short time, the Crescendo PLUS subscription which entitles you to both the shipping 3.0 version of Crescendo and 4.0 Beta 2 including LiveSynth is available for $19.95 at our on-line store, https://secure.liveupdate.com. ---------------------------------- CRESCENDO FORTE FEATURED ON REALNETWORKS MUSIC SHOWCASE Atlantic Records, Polygram, Capitol Records, Warner Brothers, Sony Music, Maverick, Virgin Records can all be found on the G2 Music Showcase area on the RealNetworks web site. And who should be featured among these titans of the music industry? LiveUpdate, of course! Visit the G2 music showcase at http://www.real.com/showcase/realplayer/music.html and hear how the combination of RealPlayer G2 and Crescendo Forte are redefining the way music is heard on the Internet. ---------------------------------- CRESCENDO FORTE FEATURED IN KEYBOARD MAGAZINE'S NET SMARTS Are you hungry for more information on creating content for Crescendo Forte? Would you like to know what Dan Barrett, author of "net smarts" for Keyboard Magazine has to say about Crescendo Forte? Read the rave artice in the October issue of Keyboard magazine, where Dan Barrett says, "It's so satisfying to encounter a product that just plain works" and "The pre-beta version of Crescendo Forte installed easily on my PC and ran transparently inside of RealPlayer G2, keeping the audio and MIDI streams (to my ears) in perfect sync. It's definitely worth a look." Get it at your local newsstand, or check out Keyboard Magazine online at http://www.keyboardmag.com. ---------------------------------- RE-ENABLING CRESCENDO AFTER INSTALLING OTHER PLUGINS Probably the most common question our on-line helpdesk (helpdesk(a)liveupdate.com) looks something this: "I have been using Crescendo to play MIDI on-line for over two years now, and I love it. I just installed QuickTime to play a movie, but now when I go to a web site that has MIDI, Crescendo doesn't load any more. I want my Crescendo back!" If this looks familiar to you, we have good news - you can have your QuickTime and Crescendo too! Netscape decides which plugin will be used for a given media type based on their position on your Netscape/program/plugins directory. If you go to the Help/About Plugins from the Navigator window, you will probably see "LiveUpdate Crescendo" listed, but one or more of the MIME types listed there will most likely be listed as disabled. To cure this problem, we have created a page which outlines how to re-arrange your plugins directory so that Crescendo will be enabled for all MIDI MIME types, while co-existing with other plugins such as QuickTime. Surf to http://www.liveupdate.com/atlashelp.html for more details! ---------------------------------- CONTROLLING CRESCENDO USING JAVASCRIPT Are you a JavaScript programmer? Would you like to see how Crescendo can be controlled using JavaScript? We have created a page that demonstrates Crescendo being controlled by JavaScript methods and standard HTML buttons. See it in action at http://www.liveupdate.com/wiretest.html. To look "under the hood," just view the page's source to see how simple it is to control Crescendo through JavaScript. ---------------------------------- WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN FUTURE VERSIONS OF CRESCENDO? We are still looking for new ideas to be included in future versions of the Crescendo player. If you have any cool features you would like to see added to Crescendo, send them to feedback(a)liveupdate.com. Who knows - maybe your suggestion will makes its way into the next version of Crescendo! ---------------------------------- SUBSCRIBING / UNSUBSCRIBING Note: Messages from LiveUpdate to this list will not be sent any more frequently than once a month, and your information has not, and will not, be given to others or sold. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, or if this message has been forwarded to you by a friend and you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, please send a message to newsletter(a)liveupdate.com. ******************************************* Spread the Music!

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ANNOUNCEMENT: RPK InvisiMail NOW DISTRIBUTED THROUGH ONLINE RESELLERS
by Jack Oswald / CEO / RPK Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You have received this message because at some time in the past your name was submitted to our e-mail mailing list database. If you do not wish (or no longer wish) to receive announcements, updates and news concerning the RPK Encryptonite Engine or the RPK InvisiMail e-mail security products, please forward this message to remove(a)rpkusa.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Paula Miller Lyn Oswald Nadel Phelan, Inc. RPK Security, Inc. 408-439-5570 x277 212-488-9891 paulam(a)nadelphelan.com lynoswald(a)rpkusa.com RPK InvisiMail NOW DISTRIBUTED THROUGH ONLINE RESELLERS Alexa Internet, Parsons Technology and Buyonet International Partner with InvisiMail International Ltd. SAN FRANCISCO, CA. August 31, 1998 - InvisiMail International Ltd., a specialist in Internet commerce and communications systems, announced today the completion of joint marketing agreements with Alexa Internet, Parsons Technology Inc. and Buyonet International for the RPK InvisiMail e-mail security software product. RPK InvisiMail is a standards-based e-mail security add-in for POP3/SMTP Internet e-mail software and Internet gateway servers. RPK InvisiMail is completely transparent, allowing users to easily send and receive private e-mail messages securely over the Internet, without having to learn about cryptography. RPK InvisiMail was developed using RPK Security Inc.'s core technology, the RPK Encryptonite Engine. Alexa, a free Web navigation service, Parsons Technology, a catalog marketer of high quality computing solutions, and Buyonet International, an online software reseller with sales in more than 110 countries, will market and resell RPK InvisiMail products to customers through multiple distribution channels. Alexa's core marketing efforts for InvisiMail include advertising InvisiMail through banner ads and e-mail announcements to Alexa's customers. "We are delighted to have established a mutually profitable marketing partnership with RPK Security in support of InvisiMail," said Darian Patchin, director of media and distribution for Alexa Internet. "This partnership brings many benefits and is complementary to our Web navigation tool. RPK InvisiMail offers customers a flexible, easy to use and configurable secure e-mail add-in." more RPK InvisiMail PARTNERS WITH ONLINE RESELLERS PG. 2 OF 2 As part of the licensing deal with Parsons Technology, a Broderbund Company, InvisiMail will be branded to reflect the Parsons name. Parsons® RPK InvisiMail will be offered through Parsons Technology direct to consumers, with marketing efforts focusing on catalog exposure, electronic mailings, Parsons' website and other on-line channels. "Parsons Technology has always stood for high quality software at affordable prices. InvisiMail is no exception. We are excited to bring this level of protection and ease of use to our customers," said Brian Kristiansen of Parsons Technology. Buyonet will distribute RPK InvisiMail Intro on the freeware/shareware portion of their online store and will sell RPK InvisiMail Deluxe online. "This new agreement gives us an even larger assortment of e-mail tools," said Buyonet Chairman Tore Helgeson. ABOUT InvisiMail INTERNATIONAL LTD. InvisiMail International Ltd., founded in 1997, specializes in secure Internet commerce and communications solutions for a wide range of applications. An adherence to open communication standards, using a distinctive Proxy Architecture, makes the InvisiMail International approach to security the most flexible available. Developed using RPK Security, Inc.'s core technology, the RPK Encryptonite Engine, the InvisiMail range of products supports secure message-based applications including Client Services, E-Commerce, EDI and others that require absolute confidentiality and the highest security levels. This allows the simplest e-mail systems to become the most powerful business and commerce tools. Contact InvisiMail at www.InvisiMail.com or call +44 1624 611 003. ABOUT RPK SECURITY Founded in 1995, RPK Security, Inc. is a technology leader in fast public key cryptography. Its flagship RPK Encryptonite Engine, a uniquely fast and strong public key encryption technology, is available worldwide in custom hardware and software toolkits on multiple platforms. Developed from widely accepted security mathematics and techniques, the RPK Encryptonite Engine is easily embedded into new and existing hardware and software applications. RPK's cryptographic research and product development is based in New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.K, with worldwide sales and marketing operations in San Francisco, CA. Visit RPK's website at www.rpkusa.com or call (212) 488-9891.

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023026.htm
by the scent of old bones and fresh blood 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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MITCHELL Mercury News Staff Writer TriStrata Security Inc. of Redwood Shores isn't your usual Internet start-up. Its chief executive recently gave up the reins of a $2 billion subsidiary to run it. The company's founder and chairman is the man who invented the personal identification number (PIN). America's largest accounting firm is already endorsing it. And its promise lured some of the best-connected executives onto its board. Three months ago, Paul Wahl was running German software maker SAP AG's U.S. operations, which has 5,000 employees and first-half 1998 sales of nearly $1 billion. Last week he became chief executive of TriStrata, a 35-person start-up that makes Internet security software. The reason for Wahl's sudden career change and move from Philadelphia is a tremendous opportunity . . .to make Internet history by changing the way the world keeps information secure on the Internet, says Wahl, 46. That same dream brought John Atalla out of retirement in 1993 to form TriStrata. Atalla, now 74, decades ago created the PIN system and the security used today in 80 percent of the world's automatic-teller machines. He was enjoying the beaches of the world when friends in the banking industry asked him to work on the problem of Internet security. Both men believe TriStrata's software -- which works efficiently with voice and video as well as with data -- will revolutionize electronic commerce, enabling companies to create virtual private networks and permitting, for example, the secure and inexpensive sale of software, music and videos over the Internet. Some outside observers agree. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which is the largest of the Big Five accounting firms and has 2,200 employees devoted to Internet security, believes this could be the de facto standard for encryption technology, says Jim Coriston, a PWC managing partner. TriStrata software is being implemented throughout the firm, which is also offering the product to its clients. It's a whole different approach to cryptography, says Larry Dietz, director of information security and legal strategies for Current Analysis, a market research firm. Its key principles make a lot of sense. But some critics question whether TriStrata's product is as secure as the company claims. And the company faces tough competition from established security companies such as Network Associates Inc. of Santa Clara and Secure Computing Corp. of San Jose, as well as from computer vendors like IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co., which include security in their products. Atalla rejected the traditional approach for enterprise security using public key encryption, a system that uses two keys, both controlled by the user: a private key, which must be kept secret, and a public key, which can be freely distributed. Such systems can be broken, have performance limitations and have restrictions on the strength of the key that can be exported. Instead, he turned to the one-time pad approach invented in 1917 by Gilbert Vernam. It uses randomly generated numbers that are never replicated in the exact same sequence. The one-time pad is theoretically unbreakable, cryptographers agree. But it hasn't been useful because it requires so much computing and telecommunications power. Atalla decided that the great advances in computer memory and processing technology and today's powerful and relatively inexpensive communications capability made the Vernam cipher practical, and he built his security system around it. As a result, each encrypted document has a different code. The system is so fast, so inexpensive and provides such a good audit trail that it will lead companies to make encrypted transmissions the rule instead of the exception, Atalla and Wahl say. The federal government, including the National Security Agency and the FBI, has cleared it for export because the system allows access to specific documents for which an appropriate court order has been issued. The company expects the product to be received warmly overseas, since the U.S. government cannot decode information at will. But it's unclear whether this feature will diminish foreign concerns about U.S. security products. Skeptics wonder whether the company has created a sufficiently large string of random numbers to approximate randomness, Dietz says. And TriStrata's approach is so different it won't be an easy sell. It requires companies to transform their security systems, a decision likely to be made by the chief executive and chief information officers, Dietz says, not the people who normally purchase security software. Here the many contacts of Atalla, Wahl and TriStrata's directors should prove useful. Atalla is well known in the high-tech community. At Bell Laboratories his research resulted in his patents for the metal oxide semiconductor (MOS), a key component of modern electronic devices. Then he co-founded Hewlett-Packard Associates and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and directed the company's solid-state division. He founded Atalla Corp. in 1973 and sold it to Tandem Computers Inc. in 1987. Atalla was able to attract to TriStrata a star-studded board that includes John Young, former chief executive of HP; Tom Perkins, partner in the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; and William Zuendt, retired president of Wells Fargo & Co. and former chairman of MasterCard. The company released its first product last November. As it prepared to move from R&D to large-scale sales, it added as a director David Beirne, a general partner of venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. 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Re: Remailers
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On <hell if I know when> nnburk <nnburk(a)cobain.hdc.net> wrote: >Are _any_ of the remailers working? Take a look at the remailer stats. http://anon.efga.org/~rlist/rlist.html http://anon.efga.org/~rlist/mlist.html Kinda obvious really huh? -+DiGiTaL+- Greets to AOHell 3l33T HaCkerz - the badest dudes ever! (yeah, they probably have root on your machine now!)

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Re: MISTY encryption algorithm source code
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nobuki Nakatuji wrote: > MISTY source code posted by me at long ago had many mistake. > Attachment file are revised MISTY source code and revised readme. > Thanks. > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com BRAIN used by you always since at long ago have many insect. Attachment brain not here because was exhausted in decypher you message. You go back at Hotmail now and stop spam Cypherpunks list. Chop chop.

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What's New at Deja News
by Deja News Members 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

____________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW AT DEJA NEWS! 09/14/1998 ____________________________________________________________ Greetings from Deja News! This monthly newsletter is exclusively for registered Deja News members. It's designed to let you know about new products and services available on the Deja News site, so that you can get the most from your Deja News membership. We'll be sending this newsletter to your mailbox once per month as long as you want us to keep sending it. (Unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of this email in the MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION section.) ____________________________________________________________ If a longer URL below appears broken, please manually cut and paste the link into your browser. NEW THIS MONTH ON DEJA NEWS NEW CHANNELS. Stunned by the wealth of 50,000+ discussion forums and wondering how to get to them? Head for Deja News' home page and jump into our new channels. We've organized thousands of the best discussion forums into an easy-to-browse directory, so you can find just what you're looking for in a few clicks. Start exploring now at: http://www.dejanews.com/%5Bst_cam=none.none.none.email0914chan%5D/ ____________________________________________________________ MEMBER FORUMS. Can't find a discussion forum on your favorite topic? Then make your own! Start a free discussion forum on Deja News today for your small business, community organization, family, or your favorite special interest. It takes less than five minutes and it's free! Create one now at: http://www.dejanews.com/%5Bst_cam=none.none.none.email0914memf%5D/rg_mkgrp.… ____________________________________________________________ LANGUAGE SEGMENTATION. Habla Espanol? We've segmented our discussions so you can easily find them in any of 18 languages. Have it your way at: http://www.dejanews.com/%5Bst_cam=none.none.none.email0914lang%5D/home_ps.s… ____________________________________________________________ AUTO SIGNATURE. Use My Deja News to keep up with your favorite groups and post messages? We've added an auto signature capability so you can automatically append a personal trailer to each message you post. Customize yours at: http://www.dejanews.com/%5Bst_cam=none.none.none.email0914sig%5D/rg_edit_po… ____________________________________________________________ MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION: To subscribe to or unsubscribe from this newsletter, please visit: http://www.dejanews.com/%5Bst_cam=none.none.none.email0914sub%5D/rg_edit_pe… and update the Deja News Email option. Note: You must be logged in to change your status. QUESTIONS? Email us at newsletter(a)dejanews.com. This newsletter is a free service of Deja News. Copyright 1998 Deja News, Inc. All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------- Distributed by Email Publishing Inc. - http://www.emailpub.com

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McDougal denied medical aid prior to death [CNN] (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From ravage(a)ssz.com Mon Sep 14 07:49:25 1998 From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> Message-Id: <199809141249.HAA24500(a)einstein.ssz.com> Subject: McDougal denied medical aid prior to death [CNN] To: users(a)ssz.com (SSZ User Mail List) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:49:23 -0500 (CDT) Cc: friends(a)ssz.com (Ravage's Friends) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2034 Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/US/9809/14/mcdougal.report.ap/ > McDougal September 14, 1998 > Web posted at: 2:21 a.m. EDT (0621 GMT) > > FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Whitewater witness James McDougal did not > have access to his heart medication in the hours before he died in > prison, a federal government report revealed. > > McDougal, a former business partner of President Clinton who later > agreed to testify for Independent Counsel Ken Starr, also was not seen > by a doctor although he complained of feeling ill the day before his > death, according to a report obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram > under the Freedom of Information Act. > > McDougal was moved from his regular cell to solitary confinement at > the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth a day before his death > as punishment for failing to provide a urine sample for a drug test. > > McDougal had complained of being unable to provide urine for drug > tests because of the medications he took for a variety of ailments. > > During the move, guards did not find McDougal's heart medication > because they did not want to search McDougal's regular cell and > disturb his sleeping cell mate, the report said. > > One of the medicines, nitroglycerin, could have bought McDougal some > time after he suffered a heart attack, a prison official who asked not > to be identified said in the Sunday paper. [text 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: a few facts on Presidential peccadillos (fwd)
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: attila <attila(a)hun.org> > > power trippers attract willing victims. > > > ANSWERS > > 1. John F. Kennedy > 2. Bill Clinton > 3. Lyndon B. Johnson > 4. Thomas Jefferson > 5. Bill Clinton > 6. Andrew Jackson > 7. Lyndon B. Johnson > 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy > 9. Warren G. Harding > 10. John F. Kennedy > 11. Lyndon B. Johnson > 12. Lyndon B. Johnson Clinton is normal? Cool! ---guy

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Harald to be hit with U.S. cruise missiles
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:45 PM -0700 9/14/98, HyperReal-Anon wrote: >On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 harald.fragner(a)idg.se wrote: > >> >> Do I know you? >> >> Harald >No, but we know you! You're a very evil man, Mr. Fragner, at least by the >standards of the Hired Government Ninjas. Under our standards, everyone is >evil...except government leaders. > >Expect black helicopters to be targetting your house in the next few days. >Do not be surprised if unguided rockets are shot into it. If ninjas are >coming through your windows at 2AM, just remember: We're from the >government and we're here to help you. Just bend over and grip the towel >rack. This is reprehensibile! HyperReal-Anon is alerting a Confirmed Net Terrorist to a planned U.S. cruise missile attack on Harald. Harald's crimes are not important. What is important is that the U.S. Muffdiver William Jefferson Clinton has orded the Northern Fleet to strike Harald's home and hometown and to report that Harald was a known associate of both Asama bin Laden and Phillip Zimmermann, known freedom fighters. Harald will learn that Six Degrees is monitoring all thoughtcrimes. Besides, Harald apparently used Roundup in his garden, the same nerve gas precursor found at the Baby Milk and Marzipan Factory in Khartoum. This means that Harald was manufacturing nerve gas in his Swedish home. --Tim May (This space left blank pending determ. of acceptability to the gov't.) ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.

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Hi!
by harald.fragner＠idg.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Do I know you? Harald ------------------ Harald Fragner IT-avdelningen, IDG Tel: 08-453 60 10 Fax: 08-453 60 05 Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think a more appropriate question might be who we aren't. Believe me, you'll have an acute understanding of who we are soon enough. MUWAHAHAHAHA! Was that sinister enough? At 06:27 PM 9/13/98 -0700, Well now I am a Mommy! wrote: >hi, > >I see you added me as a friend..... just wondering who you are. :) > >Christy > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >

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All Fall Down...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:40:16 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Whitewater Probe Continues Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Washington Times http://www.WashTimes.com/news/news2.html#link Starr continues Whitewater investigation By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Kenneth W. Starr's case for impeaching President Clinton is only the first public accounting in a massive ongoing investigation --contrary to White House claims that the Whitewater probe is dead. "All phases of the investigation are now nearing completion," the 445-page report says. The independent counsel "will soon make final decisions about what steps to take, if any, with respect to the other information it has gathered." While it was Mr. Starr's "strong desire" to complete the entire Whitewater inquiry before giving any information to Congress, the report said, it "became apparent" there was "substantial and credible information" of impeachable offenses and he was required under the law to refer the information to Congress as soon as possible. "It also became apparent that a delay of this referral until the evidence from all phases of the investigation had been evaluated would be unwise," the report said. Mr. Starr will soon make decisions on final reports to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and possible indictments, the report added. Mr. Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, attacked the Monica Lewinsky report this week as a "hit-and-run smear campaign," saying it was nothing but an attempt to damage the president with "irrelevant and unnecessary graphic and salacious allegations." He asked, "Where's Whitewater?" But the report's introduction notes that Mr. Starr's four-year Whitewater probe, all but forgotten in the crush of sordid public revelations of Mr. Clinton's sexual dalliances with the former White House intern, continues to target a number of areas: Legal representation of a failed Arkansas thrift, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, and a real estate project, Castle Grande, by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Rose Law Firm partner Webster L. Hubbell, the ex-associate attorney general who resigned in disgrace. The firing of seven White House travel office employees to make room for Clinton cronies, and the role Mrs. Clinton may have played in the decision. The delivery to the White House of more than 1,000 secret FBI files on Reagan and Bush administration aides, and efforts to shield White House officials, including Mrs. Clinton, from a public accounting on how the files were obtained and used. The misuse of personnel records of Pentagon employee Linda R. Tripp, whose secret recordings of conversations with Miss Lewinsky began the grand jury investigation. Possible perjury and obstruction of justice concerning an incident involving former White House volunteer Kathleen E. Willey. Mrs. Willey said in August 1997 that Mr. Clinton made sexual advances in the Oval Office in November 1993. The Starr report to Congress said Miss Lewinsky told the president Newsweek was working on an article about Mrs. Willey. Mr. Clinton dismissed the accusations as "ludicrous, because he would never approach a small-breasted woman like Mrs. Willey." Later he asked Miss Lewinsky if she had heard about the Newsweek inquiry from Mrs. Tripp, to which she replied "yes." The former intern said Mr. Clinton asked if Mrs. Tripp could be trusted and then told her to persuade Mrs. Tripp to call White House Deputy Counsel Bruce R. Lindsey about the matter. Newsweek published the Willey story on Aug. 11, 1997. In his Jan. 17 deposition in the Paula Jones case, Mr. Clinton denied the Willey accusation. The Starr probe also is looking into accusations that efforts were made to silence Mrs. Willey. Among those drawing attention is Democratic fund-raiser Nathan Landow. Investigators want to know if he urged Mrs. Willey to deny she was groped by the president. Mrs. Willey has since testified before the Lewinsky grand jury as a cooperating witness. Mr. Landow testified before the grand jury, later telling reporters he took the Fifth Amendment. His daughter, former White House volunteer Harolyn Cardozo, who worked with Mrs. Willey, also testified. In "Travelgate" and "Filegate," papers filed earlier this month in federal court in Washington show the investigations "are continuing and in extremely sensitive stages." Deputy independent counsel Robert Bittman told the court the probes had reached to the "highest level of the federal government" and involved "issues of singular constitutional and historic importance." The Whitewater probe also is examining whether Mr. Hubbell hid his involvement and that of Mrs. Clinton with Castle Grande, a real estate project south of Little Rock, Ark. In September 1996, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Hubbell drafted legal papers that Madison used to deceive bank examiners and divert $300,000 to Mr. Hubbell's father-in-law, Seth Ward. The report said the papers "facilitated the payment of substantial commissions to Mr. Ward, who acted as a straw buyer" in Castle Grande. A straw buyer is one who owns property in name only, having never put up any money or assumed any risk. The FDIC said the Ward payments were in violation of federal regulations. The report did not accuse Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Hubbell of criminal wrongdoing, although it raised serious questions about their involvement in a deal that ultimately cost taxpayers $3.8 million when Castle Grande failed. Prosecutors, the report to Congress said, immediately recognized parallels between the job help provided to Miss Lewinsky by Washington lawyer Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a longtime Clinton friend, and "his earlier relationship" with Mr. Hubbell, sentenced in 1994 to prison for stealing $420,000 from his Rose Law Firm partners. By late 1997, Mr. Starr had evidence Mr. Jordan helped Mr. Hubbell obtain consulting contracts after he agreed to cooperate in the Whitewater probe. In 1994, Mr. Hubbell was paid $450,010 by 17 different persons or entities as a consultant and $91,750 in 1995, despite beginning a 28-month prison term in August of that year. He has yet to explain what work he did for the cash. Some of the payments came from MacAndrews & Forbes Holding Co. in New York after he was introduced to the firm's executives by Mr. Jordan, a director of Revlon Inc. The cosmetics firm, controlled by MacAndrews & Forbes, also offered a job to Miss Lewinsky based on Mr. Jordan's recommendations. With regard to Mrs. Tripp's personnel records, Mr. Starr has been investigating if they were illegally released in an effort to tarnish her reputation in the Lewinsky probe. Assistant Defense Secretary Kenneth Bacon approved the release to a reporter for the New Yorker magazine. The records show Mrs. Tripp was detained by police as a teen-ager 29 years ago and had not noted the arrest in her 1987 security clearance form. The arrest later was shown to have been a teen-age prank, in which she pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of loitering. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes was questioned about the documents by the grand jury. Mr. Bacon also testified in the case. In our Investigative Section, a history of the Whitewater investigation. Copyright © 1998 News World Communications, Inc. ----------------------- 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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Digital Wiretap Delayed
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We offer John Markoff's report today on the FCC decision to delay implementation of the FBI's digital wiretap requirements under CALEA, along with the text of the decision: http://jya.com/calea-delay.htm (93K) The decision has a good review of the technical issues, and explains why telco appeals of the requirements justified the postponement. CTIA posted here a notice of this on Friday.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why yes, yes you do. Don't you recognize the black robe, the scythe, the bony hand, the less-than-cheerful disposition? See if you can figure it out. And please hold still for a moment. Let me just wind up here with this thing.... At 06:43 PM 9/14/98 +0100, harald.fragner(a)idg.se wrote: >Do I know you? > >Harald > >------------------ >Harald Fragner >IT-avdelningen, IDG >Tel: 08-453 60 10 >Fax: 08-453 60 05 >Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se >

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[NYT] FCC Extends CALEA Deadline
by bill.stewart＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the New Yawk Times, probably Friday or Saturday: WIRETAP DELAYED [New York Times, C14.] In a setback for the F.B.I., the Federal Communications Commission has given the telecommunications industry an additional 20 months to comply with a Federal law meant to bring law-enforcement surveillance into the digital age. But in extending the deadline the commission deferred action on some of the most disputed facets of the issue, which has pitted law-enforcement officials against telephone-equipment manufacturers, network-service providers and privacy-rights advocates. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was intended to address complaints by the F.B.I. and local law-enforcement agencies that were rapidly losing their ability to conduct wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance in the face of modern digital and wireless communications networks. But industry groups had long warned that they would be unable to meet the approaching deadline for complying with the law by installing the software and hardware that would allow for court-authorized surveillance on modern networks. The F.C.C. extended the deadline to June 30, 2000. "This ruling is really a prelude to the privacy fight," said James X. Dempsey, a telecommunications expert. "For now the commission has given itself and the industry some breathing room. They've said, 'Don't rush into these additional surveillance areas.'" The decision came in response to a request for a deadline extension that was filed in March in a joint petition by AT&T Wireless Services, Lucent Technologies and Ericsson.

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Re:
by harald.fragner＠idg.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Why yes, yes you do. Don't you recognize the black robe, the scythe, > the bony hand, the less-than-cheerful disposition? > > See if you can figure it out. And please hold still for a moment. Let > me just wind up here with this thing.... Ultima Online? ------------------ Harald Fragner IT-avdelningen, IDG Tel: 08-453 60 10 Fax: 08-453 60 05 Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se

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Re: IP: Impeachment Petition -- NOT!
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:54:36 -0400 >From: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> >Organization: SunderNET >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) >To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri(a)netcom.com> >CC: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Subject: Re: IP: Impeachment Petition -- NOT! >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Reply-To: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> >X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > >So much for this being a working thing: > >Anyone else get a bounce? > >Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:20:14 -0400 >From: System Administrator <postmaster(a)mail.house.gov> >To: sunder(a)sundernet.com >Subject: Undeliverable: Impeach Clinton Now! > > I sent mine to Vic Fazio (D-CA) about six hours ago and no bounce yet. Maybe it's your rep's system that's down. :)

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 14, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

========================================== Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. Your company just formed a partnership in a country you never heard of. Are you worried about international roaming fraud? You should be. CTIA's Wireless Security '98 - It's Just Smart Business. Orlando, Florida · November 9 - 11, 1998 http://www.wow-com.com/professional Team WOW-COM wowcom(a)ctia.org ===========================================

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