December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: LUGGAGE, GARMENT BAGS, BREIFCASES, ETC.
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: IP: ISP not liable for customer's messages
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Is it Keynes or Is it .... ?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

And now, ladies and germs, the "Spit Take of the Week" award winner... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:12:55 EDT Reply-To: Hayek Related Research <HAYEK-L(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: Hayek Related Research <HAYEK-L(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Hayek-L List Host <HayekList(a)AOL.COM> Subject: Is it Keynes or Is it .... ? To: HAYEK-L(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU >> Is It Keynes? << -- The End of Laissez-Faire "A year or so from now, it will be difficult to find a single person who admits ever having believed that a global free market is a sensible way of running the world economy .. The late-twentieth- century political fad for the free market arose at a time when memory of it had faded. Mid-Victorian laissez-faire was short-lived .. The free market came about in England as a result not of slow evolution but swiftly, as a consequence of the unremitting use of the power of the state .. The free market withered away gradually, thought the natural workings of democratic political competition ... The short history of the free market in nineteenth- century England illustrates a vital truth: Democracy and the free market are rivals, not allies. 'Democratic capitalism' -- the vacuous rallying cry of neoconservatives everywhere -- signifies (or conceals) a deeply problematic relationship. The normal concomitant of free markets is not stable democratic government but the volatile -- and not always democratic -- politics of economic insecurity. History exemplifies an equally important fact: Free market economies lack built-in stabilizers. Without effective management by government, they are liable to recurrent booms and busts -- with all their costs in social cohesion and political stability. The Great Depression was partly an aftershock of the First World War .. But is was also a consequence of governments' holding to an orthodoxy that believed that so long as inflation is under control the economy can be relied upon to be self-regulating ,,," It's John Gray in _The Nation_. "Not for the First Time, World Sours on Free Markets", Oct. 19, 1998. Is it Keynes is special service of the Hayek-L list. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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17 Dec '03

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.47: High-Tech Spying Gear Not Just For 007
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.47: High-Tech Spying Gear Not Just For 007 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:37:06 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.47: High-Tech Spying Gear Not Just For 007 News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Friday October 16, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: ABC News.com, October 7, 1998 http://www.abcnews.com Surveillance Tools Get Smarter, Smaller What the Watchers Use http://www.abcnews.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/spytech981007.html By Chris Stamper, spies(a)stamper.com ABCNEWS.com Are you being watched? Or listened to? High-tech spying gear is making surveillance easier as the equipment gets smaller. And its not restricted to Big Brother. The Searchcam allows for filming in tight corners.(Surveillance Systems) Bill DeArman, a senior special agent of the Customs Service, says that most privacy threats today come from gizmos bought in shopping malls, not obtained on the black market from KGB or Mossad defectors. A cheap disposable camera or a hand-held tape recorder can be as dangerous as the latest surveillance equipment. People are looking for the ultimate gizmos, but the people who commit crimes arent necessarily high-tech, DeArman says. What the Pros Use: But if its the high-end, expensive gear you want, thats increasingly available to civilians. Pinhole video cameras, for example, can be hidden in an wide variety of household products. You need a hole as small as 1/16 of an inch. says Jeff Hall, vice president of Gadgets By Design, a Lansing, Mich.-based company that makes surveillance equipment. Weve put them in light fixtures, computers and VCRs. A basic pinhole video cam costs $129, according to Hall. Theyre called pinhole because they have extremely small lenses, not because they resemble the toys children make from oatmeal boxes. A wire runs from the tiny TV camera to a transmitter or a recording VCR. Halls company has hidden these cameras in hats, thermostats, wristwatches and smoke detectors. Most of the companys sales come from businesses that want to keep track of their stock or watch their employees. If you wanted to put a camcorder in the back room, its hard to do that inconspicuously, he says. We have to get smaller and smaller to stay one step ahead of the bad guys. The Latest Fashion: A New York company called Electronic Security Products sells wearable cameras disguised as brooches, pens and eyeglasses. Theyre used for recording video one-on-one, says company president Avi Gilor. A wire runs from the camera to a transmitter concealed in a pocket. If theres no light to see by, then infrared can come in handy. Bakersfield, Calif.-based Search Systems sells the probelike Searchcam ($10,687) to law enforcement and rescue workers in tight corners. An infrared camera shaped like a long nightstick, the Searchcam is meant to be poked into small openings such as heat vents, doorways and windowsills. Officers in a high-risk situation can extend their eyes and ears in places where they wouldnt put their heads, says Scott Park, president of Search Systems. Listen to BirdsNot People: U.S. law says little about video surveillance, so just about anyone can watch you without fear of prosecution. Audio surveillance, on the other hand, is regulated by the 1984 Omnibus Crime Control Act, and arrests and prosecutions for eavesdropping are not uncommon. Ronald Kimble, Americas biggest spy shop owner, is currently serving a five-month sentence after being busted in 1995 on 70 counts of dealing in illegal wiretapping equipment. Kimble spent 11 years as an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency before starting a chain of stores called The Spy Factory. Bugging devices, often hidden in household items, are confiscated daily at the border by Customs agents. The Customs Service says the law is too weak, however; criminals only face up to six months for each count of importing spy equipment. A camera could be hiding in what appears to be a thermostat. (Gadgets by Design) The consensus of opinion is that technology has grown so rapidly, so quickly, that laws arent up to speed, says agent DeArman. Often the legality of an item depends on its use. Parabolic microphones, for example, can be legally used for bird-watching or for professionally recording sports events. These devices, which look like small, hand-held satellite dishes, are 75 times more powerful than standard mikes and usually cost about $900. A parabolic microphone, if it looks like a dish at a football game, is a legal device, DeArman says If you disguise it as an umbrella to listen to what people have to say, then its illegal. Copyright (c)1998 ABCNEWS --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. 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IP: Silent Weapon of Mass Destruction
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Silent Weapon of Mass Destruction Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:25:31 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Washington Times http://www.WashTimes.com/opinion/grenier.html The silent weapon By Richard Grenier THE WASHINGTON TIMES There is a certain logic to it, I suppose. Two nuclear explosions in Japan half a century ago, with great blasts, great noise, mushroom clouds, many dead. It terrified America and much of the world and, except for military circles, little thought was given to the estimated million American soldiers who might have given their lives if they'd tried to storm Japan without the nuclear bombs' aid. But that's the way it goes. A historical event surrounded by great theatrical effects makes a really big impression. But what if the next weapon of mass destruction is silent, gives no warning, is not preceded by a pyrotechnic blast, but takes effect more slowly, leaving hospitals swamped, and millions in great American cities with hideously blistered faces dying in the streets? The doctors sent to succor them also die the same painful and unsightly deaths. For biological weapons now have the potential to wipe out cities, states and even entire national populations if positioned in the air, water supply or food supply. The food supply would progressively be shipped to various parts of the country, ultimately killing millions of people. And all, except for the groans of the dying, could be done in relative silence, with only the piles of dead in the streets to bear witness as in the Plague Years of the Middle Ages. As pointed out by former Secretary of Defense William Perry, most biological agents are sensitive to heat, and ready-to-eat foods are the most likely vehicles for mass contamination. So eat up your Quick Burger and fries with confidence that death will soon follow. Food processing plants and water purification facilities also provide tempting targets. Microorganisms, it should be noted, are a very inexpensive way to exterminate entire populations. Above all, many microorganisms can be cheaply grown, each having its own unique uses. As stressed by Carl Yaeger of Utah Valley State College and Steven Fustero, IACSP Director of Operations, this is a great advantage in deciding the effect wished to be brought about on the section of the population at which the attack is directed. Since the organisms are capable of rapid reproduction, only a small amount is required to infect a very large area. But possibly more interesting than the large area to be infected is the selectivity. With the development of biochemistry and genetic engineering, it might be possible to target ethnic groups -- which, once it is announced to the general public, should do wonders for the harmony of America's various ethnic and racial groupings. Judging by some recent events, there are not a few extremist groups in the United States that would give little thought to wiping out thousands of "undesirables." This kind of germ weapon would be highly prized in the hands of terrorist groups, and in the hands of these terrorists could well be more lethal than tactical nuclear weapons. A terrorist can accomplish his agenda in many ways with biological weapons. Terrorists are creative and use varying tactics, as is spelled out in Yonah Alexander's book "International Terrorism." The book gives an alarming list of different styles of terrorism in different parts of the world. Contributing to the problem is the easy availability of information for anyone who would mix up a bag of anything toxic from recipes readily accessible on the internet. As Fred Reed points out in his essay "Publishing Do It Yourself Munitions Books Increases the Risk of Terrorism," much of this information is not that hard to get. Even nerve gas has a patent that makes the formula public. Biological weapons do not have a single, unique effect. Human beings along with other animals are constantly being attacked by disease-causing bacteria and viruses. Biological weapons, for the most part, create the same effects as any of the wide variety of naturally occurring diseases, which makes tracking them down so baffling. These artificial agents could be used merely to weaken the targeted population, to intimidate it with no intention of inflicting wide scale casualties, or simply to wipe it out. The options are many. Biological agents can also be selective in another way, as they could be used to target crops and cattle or to start an epidemic of a highly dangerous disease such as smallpox. Furthermore, if an agent were released in the proper way, it could be months before anyone even knew how the epidemic had started. And there are many other advantages of using biological weapons. Terrorists do not necessarily need or want a weapon of mass destruction. A simpler biological weapon might be more controllable and kill enough people to suit the terrorists' purposes. Still another advantage could be secrecy and concealment. Limited attacks could be carried out secretly before open "hostilities" even began. As you can see, a whole new age of warfare is beginning. According to an excellent PBS "Frontline" documentary aired this week, the Soviet Union, even under Mikhail Gorbachev, had already broken an international agreement restricting chemical and biological weapons. But given the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the subsequent chaos into which Russia has since been plunged, where are those Russian weapons now? Perhaps, wherever they are -- and this is an uneasy thought -- they could be prepared to kill millions by being disseminated in the air by cans of hair spray. But most Americans don't want to think about this. 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. 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CL: The Economist on Giddens, Hayek & the LSE
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Beware of socialists pitching new paradigms. Maybe the Economist hasn't succumbed to the "Cool Brittania" backwash as much as I thought it did -- nawwww.... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:50:19 EDT Reply-To: Hayek Related Research <HAYEK-L(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: Hayek Related Research <HAYEK-L(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Hayek-L List Host <HayekList(a)AOL.COM> Subject: CL: The Economist on Giddens, Hayek & the LSE To: HAYEK-L(a)MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU >> Current Literature < -- Giddens / Political Thought at the LSE 'Bagehot', "The third way revealed", _The Economist_. Sept 19, 1998. >From the article: "SOMETIMES you want to read a book a second time. You know, just to make sure that there was nothing important you missed first time around. In the end, though, Bagehot decided to skip the second reading of Anthony Giddens's "The Third Way" .. For the time being, first impressions must stand. This book is awesomely, magisterially and in some ways disturbingly vacuous. Why disturbing? There are many bad books in the world. But the third way is not just a parlour game for intellectuals puzzling over the content of politics now that both socialism and "unbridled" capitalism are in disrepute. It has become the quasi-official political philosophy of Britain's governing party, and is taken seriously enough to form the backdrop for a curious political seminar that Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair and Romano Prodi, the prime minister of Italy, plan to conduct in New York on September 23rd. Nor is "The Third Way" just any other book about what the third way is. It is the first detailed account of it by the man who has become its chief British prophet and interpreter. Even by the standards of the London School of Economics, which provided a base for the likes of Friedrich Hayek, the Webbs and Harold Laski, its present director exerts a powerful influence on Downing Street. Of Mr Giddens (who, thanks to Mr Blair, shall be Lord Giddens hereafter), as of no other living sociologist, it can be said that what he thinks matters. So what does he think? A large part of"The Third Way" consists of a description of where things stand after the death of socialism. Mr Giddens homes in on "five dilemmas". In merciful summary, these are (i) that globalisation is changing the meanings of nationhood, government and sovereignty. There exists (2) a "new individualism" that is not necessarily selfish but which means that social solidarity can no longer be imposed in a top-down way. Although distinctions between left and right keep changing, the left cares more about social justice and equality. However, (3), there is a category of problems-such as global warming, devolution, the future of the European Union-about which it is unhelpful to think in terms of left versus right. (4) Some jobs (defence, lawmaking) can be done only by governments, even though politicians are becoming less influential and pressure groups more effective. And do not forget (5) that while environmental dangers can be exaggerated it is highly dangerous to be sanguine about them, not least because, as in the case of madcow disease, experts sometimes differ. Hmm. At this point, the charitable reader may feel that although some of these points may be obvious, and others arguable, Mr Giddens has at least raised interesting questions. Moreover, they are original, in the narrow sense that nobody else seems to have singled out these particular five points and called them "dilemmas". The trouble with any argument constructed at Mr Giddens's level of generalisation is that you begin to wonder whether there might just as plausibly have been four dilemmas, or 14, or even whether a different five could have been chosen just as easily .. But let that pass. Philosophers describe the world. How does the prophet of Britain's third way propose to change it? Mr Giddens admits that what he is offering is merely an "outline". This is a deceptive species of modesty given that what he claims to be outlining is no less than "an integrated political programme covering each of the major sectors of society." Here we learn amongst other things that protectionism is undesirable but so is a "blanket endorsement" of free trade; that there should be no rights without responsibilities; that the protection of children is the most important bit of family policy; that society should be "inclusive" but not "strongly egalitarian"; that constitutions should aim for openness and transparency; that there may be a case for a world criminal court; that there is a need to control excessive overshoots in financial markets but that the nature of these controls is "problematic"; that . . But, really, why bother to go on? .. it would have been nice for Britain's pre-eminent sociologist and the director of the LSE to come up with at least one new proposal capable of ruffling at least someone's feathers. Remember "The Road to Serfdom", Hayek's brave, hugely unfashionable warning against planning made in the midst of a war that seemed to have made planners indispensable? By contrast, Mr Giddens's integrated political programme boils down to a list of conventional appeals to civic virtue, in which every bet is hedged and everyhard choice ducked. It is just the sort of stuffthat could find its way risklessly into the manifesto of any social democratic party interested in tarting up its image. Which is presumably why he wrote it. Mr Giddens wants to restore the LSE to a position of power and influence. How pleasing it must have been to find in Tony Blair a clever, instinctive politician in the market for some sort of ideology in which to dress up his opportunism. And how intellectually disarming. Was it fear of setting out any positions that New Labour could one day find embarrassing that made Mr Giddens write such a bad book? Whatever the reason, the third way remains as mystifying as ever. Herbert Morrison-the grandfather of Peter Mandelson, Mr Blair's cabinet colleague-once wickedly defined socialism as what the Labour Party did. On the evidence of this slight work, the third way is whatever New Labour does." Anonymous, "Bagehot: The third way revealed". _The Economist_ Sept. 19, 1998 Vol: 348, Issue: 8086. pp. 72-73. Current Literature is a regular feature of the Hayek-L list. --- 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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Is it Keynes or Is it .... ? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:09:02 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Is it Keynes or Is it .... ? > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:12:55 EDT > From: Hayek-L List Host <HayekList(a)AOL.COM> > Subject: Is it Keynes or Is it .... ? > "A year or so from now, it will be difficult to find > a single person who admits ever having believed > that a global free market is a sensible way of > running the world economy No global economy is a good economy, by its very definition it is a monopoly and contrary to the entire precip of free-market pundits. A free-market is exclusively a *local* market. > laissez-faire was short-lived .. The free market came > about in England as a result not of slow evolution No it didn't, it's the basic economic structure that everything else gets built on. You start out with a completely free-market and build from there. Free markets are for cavepeople. > but swiftly, as a consequence of the unremitting use > of the power of the state .. The free market > withered away gradually, thought the natural workings > of democratic political competition ... No, human psychology is what kills it. > century England illustrates a vital truth: Democracy and > the free market are rivals, not allies. Duh. Economics has nothing to do with civil liberties or crimes. One of the failures in current political and economic thought is the necessity for the *government* to regulate the money. It isn't a new belief either since it is embodies in our Constitution. What is required for a free-market is a mechanism for 'fair competition'. The problem is there is no way under a free-market to define fair or competition. > problematic relationship. The normal concomitant > of free markets is not stable democratic government > but the volatile -- and not always democratic -- politics > of economic insecurity. This is circular reasoning. A free-market is not compatible to democracy (of course not since a free-market requires two party economic contracts exculsively) but is compatible with a market that is solely stabalized by economic (in)security (which is a free-market economy after all). > History exemplifies an equally important fact: > Free market economies lack built-in stabilizers. > Without effective management by government, > they are liable to recurrent booms and busts -- > with all their costs in social cohesion and > political stability. Duh... > .. But is was also a consequence of governments' > holding to an orthodoxy that believed that so Governments *are* a form of orthodoxy, they don't hold onto it since they embody the concepts of orthodoxy. > long as inflation is under control the economy > can be relied upon to be self-regulating ,,," Nobody with half-a-clue believe this. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Happy Birthday to Convicted Child Molester Gary Burnore
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

gburnore(a)databasix.com (Gary L. Burnore) whined: > >[snip out-of-date, erroneous sex offender registration] He means you're an ignorant asswipe who shouldn't have told the North Carolina authorities of your child molestation conviction in California. Too late for that, and nuking the page on NC registered sex offenders' site doesn't make your criminal conviction go away retroactively. > More likely the one and only anonymous asshole. AKA RFG(a)monkeys.com > Ignore him. He goes away. "One and only" ... wow! But if claim to know his identity, then he isn't anonymous. Make up your little perverted mind. As for ignoring him, you just can't take your own advice, can you? Just because you're pissed that someone anonymously blew the whistle on your pederasty in Santa Clara, CA by informing your victim's mother and school officials is no reason for such ad hominem. You were busted fair and square, and your own guilty plea sealed your fate. BTW, did you ever ask yourself how this "RFG" character would have known that you were screwing your live-in girlfriend's daughter behind her back, if he's "the one and only anonymous asshole"? Getting sexual predators like you identified so that your neighbors with children can keep an eye on you is reason enough for anonymous remailers to exist, given your history of harassment against anyone who dares to criticize you.

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CL: The Economist on Giddens, Hayek & the LSE (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:50:16 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: CL: The Economist on Giddens, Hayek & the LSE > Beware of socialists pitching new paradigms. Or (the only good thing Reagen ever said), Trust, but verify. > must stand. This book is awesomely, magisterially and in some ways > disturbingly vacuous. ... > Prodi, the prime minister of Italy, plan to conduct in New York on September > 23rd. Is anyone going or know if the various discussions will be made available? > on "five dilemmas". In merciful summary, these are (i) that globalisation > is changing the meanings of nationhood, government and sovereignty. There > exists This is the definition of 'civilization', an effect that is clearly observable by studying history. The relationship between citizen and state depends on (among other things) speed of communication (or transport), and resource control. As the speed of transport increases nations have a tendency to homogenize or share cultural traits (not to mention genes). As time goes by the nations change size and number in relation to resource control, normaly you get a few large countries and lots of smaller ones. As time goes by you'll see more and more of the smaller nations forming combines, hegemonies, balkans, etc. This tendency drives the globalization of human culture. It is a basic aspect of human greed to want the whole shebang. That is a result of humans being social in nature, and having a fundamental neurosis about self. What finaly determines if one or more nations will exist is the general growth rates of each fundamentaly (and this is a bitch to describe to any precision) different national/social/psychological type. As long as none of them have a growth rate that is hyperbolic in nature (ie infinite magnitude in finite time) then a multiplicity of such 'nations' will continue to exist. A fundamental question should be what and how to measure the growth rates of nations within this context? There also needs to be a fundamental distinction between government and business, as is made with religions. Businesses need to be regulated but it should be by a indipendant political system from that defining civil issues regarding individuals. There should also be a distinct funding system which is also indipendant, but responsible for providing all funding for the other political agents. It would be regulated by some sort of representative system whereby people could elect various officials to select the process through a representative system. In short, every political entity in a government should consist of publicly elected officials with appropriate support staff. There should be strictly enforced and relatively short-lived term limits. A distinction in allowable forces for a government to use between exterior (army) threats and internal civil disturbance (militia), and nary the two should meet or ever be involved in day to day law enforcement. In regards the civil branch of the above (ie executive, legislative, judiciary) the executive branch should also be some sort of elected panel, the concept of an individual representative needs to die a deserved death. Personaly I like the idea of a panel of single representatives from each state. > (2) a "new individualism" that is not necessarily selfish but which > means that social solidarity can no longer be imposed in a top-down way. It's about time. I believe that a study of polyocracies would provide a much better model for a democratic system. I've come to the conclusion that the best way to deal with human culture is to base everything on the fundamental issue of individual distinction, this is what it means for all people to be created equal. > of problems-such as global warming, devolution, the future of the European > Union-about which it is unhelpful to think in terms of left versus right. That's because nature is by its very nature apolitical. Politics will regulate human society, it won't control it. > (4) Some jobs (defence, lawmaking) can be done only by governments, even No, they can only be done by a monopoly. If they don't then the sorts of social institutions we normaly talk about can't exist. > though politicians are becoming less influential and pressure groups more > effective. Which sortta balances out thankfuly... > should be no rights without responsibilities; that the protection of children > is the most important bit of family policy; Does he extrapolate this to some sort of all-encompassing social authorization for government intervention as is currently trying to be implimented? that society should be "inclusive" > but not "strongly egalitarian"; Which means what? We let people in but we don't treat them like they live here? that constitutions should aim for openness > and transparency; What the hell does that mean? > that there may be a case for a world criminal court; Only if nations aren't responsible for their own citizens... I'd like to see the day when one nation sues another in a world court for harms against their citizens...if the proposed system will require this as easily as a single nation dropping on a single individual then it won't work. > that there is a need to control excessive overshoots in financial markets > but that the nature of these controls is "problematic"; that . . Don't fall for the 'bigger is better' school of economics. Individualy stable markets should be highly regional, probably not national and most definitely not global. Stability comes from a voluntary long-term relationship between participants. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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"Annihilating less-than-useful contributors"
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[ snipped, see full article at Declan's new site ] # http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15611.html # # 5:45 p.m. 14.Oct.98.PDT # SAN FRANCISCO -- Science fiction author Bruce Sterling # acknowledges that he isn't a programmer, or even a # contributor to the kind of openly developed software project # [Apache] that brought his audience together on Wednesday. # ... # Using a fictional example of people gathered online around # their interest in "freakish, left-handed mollusks," he said # collaborative software is needed that liberates the creative # power of the best people and "annihilates the counterproductive." # According to Sterling, the latter includes idiots, spammers, # and less-than-useful contributors. # ... # Sterling envisions an "online utopia" that would occur if # Web- and email-leveraging software were automatically # moderated. # ... # "If you could do this, you could advance knowledge," he said. # The Net and the collaboration it enables would be able to add # to the sum of human knowledge. # ... # Successful implementation of such a concept, Sterling said, # is critical to the success of the Net as a so-called "gift # economy".... [This] economy should function more like an # [actual] economy," he said. A differing set of rewards should # be returned for a differing set of efforts.

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Cyptography in the Information Age (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:08:14 -0400 > Subject: Cyptography in the Information Age > From: steve.benjamin(a)juno.com (Stephen Benjamin) > My paper will contain a 6-line (perl) implemenation of > RSA. Is my report subject to current Encryption Laws? > If so, which ones? I plan on making a big deal out of > how a 15 page research paper can't be exported from the U.S.A. The paper itself isn't subject to export restrictions at this point in time as I understand it. Now if you included a barcode, floppy, or some other machine readable/executable then that media would be under restrictions. > Also, How can I generate RSA keys in perl? > I found a C program to do it, but I don't have C installed. Now you get to learn how to translate... ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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"Annihilating less-than-useful contributors" (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Information Security <guy(a)panix.com> > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:38:51 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: "Annihilating less-than-useful contributors" > # their interest in "freakish, left-handed mollusks," he said > # collaborative software is needed that liberates the creative > # power of the best people and "annihilates the counterproductive." > # According to Sterling, the latter includes idiots, spammers, > # and less-than-useful contributors. > # ... > # Sterling envisions an "online utopia" that would occur if > # Web- and email-leveraging software were automatically > # moderated. > # ... > # "If you could do this, you could advance knowledge," he said. > # The Net and the collaboration it enables would be able to add > # to the sum of human knowledge. Assuming, without statement of course, that we know what information is important *before* we know it exists and we need it...the same old failure of all utopianist...they assume one size fits all. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Cyptography in the Information Age
by steve.benjamin＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

X-Posted: sci.crypt, cypherpunks mailing list For my Advanced Computer Science course in school I'm required to do a research paper each quarter. I have decided to do this quarter's paper on Cyptography in the Information Age. My paper will contain a 6-line (perl) implemenation of RSA. Is my report subject to current Encryption Laws? If so, which ones? I plan on making a big deal out of how a 15 page research paper can't be exported from the U.S.A. Also, How can I generate RSA keys in perl? I found a C program to do it, but I don't have C installed. Thanks for any help you can give me! and please reply through e-mail! ---------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Benjamin E-mail address: Stephen {DOT} Benjamin {AT} juno {DOT} com ----------------------------------------------------------

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CJ Indicted
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Court docket shows that CJ has been indicted for: 18:115A.F Threaten to Murder certain Federal Law Enforcement Officers and Judges This is in addition to the original complaint: For Violation of 18:115(a)(1)(B): Threatening to assassin IRA officers Yes, it says "assassin IRA." The other humor is that upon indictment for criminal charges on September 30 a bench warrant was issued for CJ's arrest. The arrest warrant was "returned unexecuted" on October 9, due to "warrant issued in error" by the same magistrate who issued the first arrest warrant on August 5, apparently forgetting or not knowing that CypherAssassin2 was mental evaluing with CypherAssassin1 in MO. See the docket: http://jya.com/cej101498.htm BTW, on why Jim Bell and CJ stopped over in OKC on the way to Springfield, we've learned that the Federal Transportation Center is in OKC. It so happens that the Bureau of Prisons issued a wad of rules and regs today just to handle the growing crowd of alleged IRA-Nobelists and international Chuckies: http://jya.com/bop101698.htm

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Disk (block device) encryption for Linux and *BSD?
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Apologies for the interruption, > >I'm looking for disk / partition encryption for Unix-alikes, especially >Linux, OpenBSD and/or NetBSD. Good luck. We're in the same boat. I'm using Andrew Mileski's patches, but they're outdated, only implement CAST-128 and IDEA, and the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. Writing a new user interface is on my project list, but of course I can't export the thing. >My websearch has been less than satisfactory - I found outdated Linux >kernel patches for encryption loopback, and I distinctly remember reading >about a serious bug in the use (or lack thereof) of key material in this >code. Andrew Mileski <aem(a)netcom.ca> has patches available via FTP from fractal.mta.ca, but they're very outdated. I think they're against 2.1.64, but they'll run with kernels up to the 90s. Kernels after about 2.1.105 are hopelessly broken with regard to Andrew's patches, so I wouldn't advise even trying it. If you use his patches, use kernel 2.1.105 or below. I think those are in /pub/aem/crypto. >Do patches for a current Linux kernel exist, and have all the known >bugs been fixed? There are several different versions floating around. There was some set of patches on ftp.csua.berkeley.edu but they're outdated too. There was a hole in some DES code somebody was distributing. >Also, there seems to be no version of Marutukku about that I can actually >get to work on *BSD. Is Marutukku still being developed? Again, good luck. >Generally, is there a good page that tracks disk encryption for Unix? > >I'm currently using cfs here and there, and I have a specific question >about that package, too: > >Does the cypherpunks list trust the patches that add Blowfish support >to cfs? Every time I've used CFS it has locked up into some kind of recursive loop where it eats more and more CPU time until it finally takes all it can get. Other people have had the same problem on both Linux and BSD. Other people never have any problems. No clue why.

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PGP utils?
by mgraffam＠idsi.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is there a utility for Unix (or source available?) that reads a PGP encrypted message and displays some information on it, like what key ID the message was encrypted with, and what ciphers were used? Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam(a)idsi.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers.. call this a new order. It is not new, and it is not order." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Off-Topic
by Marcel Popescu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry for the off-topic, but does anybody know of a list related to militias, gun-control and the like? Thanks, Mark

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17 Dec '03

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More on Postel
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: IP: Remembrance/postel From: Dave Farber [farber(a)cis.upenn.edu] I, and others I fear, have spent a sleepless night after hearing of the death of Jon Postel last night. This morning there was a note in my mail box from Vint Cerf that said many of the things I feel at this time. I asked him for permission to send on which he granted. I also remember Jon. I was his primary thesis advisor along with Jerry Estrin and I remember with fond memories the months spent closely working with Jon while his eager mind developed the ideas in back of what was a pioneering thesis that founded the area of protocol verification. Since I was at UC Irvine and Jon at UCLA we used to meet in the morning prior to my ride to UCI at a Pancake House in Santa Monica for breakfast and the hard work of developing a thesis. I gained a great respect for Jon then and 10 pounds of weight. I will miss him greatly. Jon was my second Ph.D. student. The first, Philip Merlin, also died way before his time. Dave ________________________________________________________________________ October 17, 1998 I REMEMBER IANA Vint Cerf A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took place Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments, the tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged a cornucopia of networks. Beginning with the ARPANET, an endless stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to become the Internet. Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep track of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that has continued unabated for 30 years. That someone was Jonathan B. Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer, confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart from our midst. Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone. Even as I write these words I cannot quite grasp this stark fact. We had almost lost him once before in 1991. Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all. But he had been our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful consideration was needed. We will survive our loss and we will remember. He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to contemplate. Steadfast service for decades, moving when others seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles. Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. But we were in different classes and I really didnt know him then. Our real meeting came at UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students working for Prof. Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project. Steve Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the team and led the development of the first host-host protocols for the ARPANET. When Steve invented the idea of the Request for Comments series, Jon became the instant editor. When we needed to keep track of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place. Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and served continuously from its founding to the present. He was the FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because he and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application forms and make payment first and Jon won. He served as a trustee of the Internet Society. He was the custodian of the .US domain, a founder of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed the networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute. Jon loved the outdoors. I know he used to enjoy backpacking in the high Sierras around Yosemite. Bearded and sandaled, Jon was our resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA. He was a private person but fully capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations in a good engineering argument. And he could be stubborn beyond all expectation. He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a staring contest, I think. Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and his colleagues. For me, he personified the words selfless service. For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return, indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received our deepest appreciation. It was particularly gratifying at the last Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union. It is an award generally reserved for Heads of State but I can think of no one more deserving of global recognition for his contributions. While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened up and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as I contemplate what Jon has wrought. He leaves a legacy of edited documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not only the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well. He completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role. His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our collective consciousness. What would Jon have done? we will think, as we wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well tamed for so many years. There will almost surely be many memorials to Jons monumental service to the Internet Community. As current chairman of the Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jons name to recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, which is awarded to Jon posthumously as its first recipient. If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his passing but to celebrate his life and his contributions. He would remind us that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. I doubt that anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as a measure of one mans astonishing contribution to a community he knew and loved.

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Fwd: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: Darren Reed <darrenr(a)reed.wattle.id.au> >Message-Id: <199810160852.SAA04406(a)avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:52:47 +1000 (EST) >Reply-To: aucrypto(a)suburbia.net >To: aucrypto(a)suburbia.net >X-Mailing-List: <aucrypto(a)suburbia.net> >Subject: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd) I read this today and thought it might be of general interest. Darren > The public key > > The perception of people losing their privacy has hit the mainstream. ABC > News began a series on October 5th entitled Privacy Lost. > > Operation Echelon, if you haven't heard of it yet you will once mainstream > media gets a hold of it. We began reading about this and the more > information we found the more we began to think George Orwell worked for the > NSA [USA National Security Agency ]. When all the details surface we > may find that big brother really does > exist and has for some time. The NSA reportedly worked closely with other > security agencies to build an interception network. This network is so vast > that it can supposedly intercept every electronic communication on the > planet. The ramifications of this network existing we think will be far > reaching and go a long way to forming online privacy policy in the future. > > The NSA was also nice enough to provide us with our next topic as well. It > appears that up until a few years ago the NSA had a clandestine agreement > with a Swiss cryptography company, Crypto AG. Crypto AG also at one time > provided most of the encryption equipment used at the diplomatic level > around the world. What's special about this is, the agreement allowed the > NSA to embed key-recovery devices inside products sold to other countries. > The NSA could read the information transmitted with these products as easily > as reading the newspaper. This was an ongoing process until March 1992, > when Iranian counterintelligence agents arrested a marketing representative > from Crypto AG on suspicion of spying. The battle for privacy continues. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Jon Postel
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:32:10 -0400 Reply-To: wb8foz(a)nrk.com Originator: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Sender: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Precedence: bulk From: David Lesher <wb8foz(a)nrk.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv(a)lists.psi.com> Subject: Jon Postel X-Comment: Commercialization and Privatization of the Internet died last night.... You might want to read Vin Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's Interesting people list...... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 --- 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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Jon Postel (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:39:35 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Jon Postel > You might want to read Vin Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's > Interesting people list...... Pray tell how?... ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Now *this* is funny...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:06:07 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Fake Message Sends AOL E-Mail Astray Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/washtech/wtech001.htm Fake Message Sends AOL E-Mail Astray By Leslie Walker Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 16, 1998 A fake e-mail sent to the keeper of the Internet's global address book yesterday erased America Online Inc.'s spot on the global computer network, causing thousands of incoming e-mails to go to the wrong place and preventing many people from visiting AOL's World Wide Web site. AOL officials said all the misdirected e-mail should show up eventually in the correct mailboxes. But the incident highlighted a security issue involving how the central addresses known as domains are administered on the Internet. The incident began before 5 a.m. when someone impersonating an AOL official sent e-mail to InterNIC, the Herndon organization that maintains the domain name registry for the Internet, InterNIC spokesman Christopher Clough said. The message requested the electronic address of AOL's domain be changed. Because AOL had chosen the lowest of three security levels possible for making such a change, it was made automatically, with no review by any person at Network Solutions Inc., the company that runs InterNIC, Clough said. The new address assigned was that of Autonet.net, an Internet service provider. Mail meant for AOL automatically was diverted to Autonet, overwhelming computers at the service. In AOL's network monitoring center in Dulles, people monitoring traffic volumes noticed a drop in the volume of e-mail coming in from the Internet. They began investigating and found the change, AOL spokeswoman Ann Brackbill said. AOL rented a computer to lend to Autonet.net yesterday to reroute the e-mail back to AOL while company officials simultaneously working with InterNIC to correct AOL's address, Brackbill said. AOL's actual Internet domain - AOL.com - was not changed, but the directions the Internet uses in sending Web surfers there were changed because of the fraudulent e-mail, so they couldn't get to the site. Instead, error messages appeared on their screens. "It's like if the phone book published the wrong address for AAA, and you went there to get a map," Brackbill said. "You wouldn't be able to get anything." Clough said the e-mail came as a form message that was accepted automatically because it appeared to come from the correct person and address at AOL.com that was authorized to change AOL's InterNIC records. Computer buffs call an incident of this kind "a spoof" - an impersonation of someone by e-mail. By 4:30 p.m., AOL's address had been corrected in the main Internet address book, but it often takes hours for changes to travel throughout the global network, Clough said. AOL officials estimated that 12 percent to 15 percent of its e-mail was affected Only about half of AOL's e-mail traffic comes from the Internet; the other half is internal. In addition, 10 percent to 20 percent of the people trying to access its Web site received error messages. AOL officials asked InterNIC yesterday to change the security level for its domain name records. The two higher levels available - and apparently used by most commercial Internet operations - involve either a password or encryption in the request for a change to the address. Brackbill couldn't explain why AOL chose the lowest security level, except to note that the record was created "a long time ago." "We've never had a problem before with this and our goal is to make sure we don't have it again," she said. AOL is cooperating with law enforcement officials to identify the culprit. © Copyright The Washington Post Company ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **************************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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2nd Report on Political Control Technologies
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forward: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:26:38 +0200 To: jya(a)pipeline.com From: Marie-Jose Klaver <klaver(a)nrc.nl> Subject: Second report An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control I'm a Dutch journalist, working for NRC Handelsblad, one of the major newspapers in the Netherlands. I've been reporting about the STOA report An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control since last February. A second report came out last month. I got a copy a few days ago from the Omega Foundation and had an article about it in NRC Handelsblad today. This second report has interesting information about the so called EU-FBI global surveillance plan. According to a secret memorandum the EU countries have agreed with the FBI to intercept all European datacommunication. To do this some EU countries like Holland and Germany changed their laws to make broad wiretapping and interception of Internet and other datacommunication possible. Germany changed its constitution in the beginning of this year and in Holland a law was made and accepted by both chambers of the Parliament that obliges all firms with computer and communication networks (providers, telco's, newspapers etc.) to make their systems tappable. You can read the second report at: http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon/stoa2sept1998.html [104K] Marie-Jose Klaver NRC Handelsblad http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon ---------- There's much new information in the report, especially on the US export of political control technologies which complements Amnesty International's recent critique of US violations of human rights, as well as the US Bureau of Prisons reorganization, all to accommodate the rise in domestic and foreign freedom fighters, oops, terrorists, as global Justice and Defense agencies characterize naysayers to bloated organs of dysfunctional cracies.

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Re: Jon Postel
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hettinga: >> You might want to read Vin[t] Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's >> Interesting people list...... Choate: > Pray tell how?... ----------forwarded from Dave Farber's IP list------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:28:40 -0400 From: Dave Farber <farber(a)cis.upenn.edu> Subject: IP: Remembrance/postel I, and others I fear, have spent a sleepless night after hearing of the death of Jon Postel last night. This morning there was a note in my mail box from Vint Cerf that said many of the things I feel at this time. I asked him for permission to send on which he granted. I also remember Jon. I was his primary thesis advisor along with Jerry Estrin and I remember with fond memories the months spent closely working with Jon while his eager mind developed the ideas in back of what was a pioneering thesis that founded the area of protocol verification. Since I was at UC Irvine and Jon at UCLA we used to meet in the morning prior to my ride to UCI at a Pancake House in Santa Monica for breakfast and the hard work of developing a thesis. I gained a great respect for Jon then and 10 pounds of weight. I will miss him greatly. Jon was my second Ph.D. student. The first, Philip Merlin, also died way before his time. Dave ________________________________________________________________________ October 17, 1998 I REMEMBER IANA Vint Cerf A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took place? Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments, the tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged a cornucopia of networks. Beginning with the ARPANET, an endless stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to become the Internet. Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep track of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that has continued unabated for 30 years. That someone was Jonathan B. Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer, confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart from our midst. Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone. Even as I write these words I cannot quite grasp this stark fact. We had almost lost him once before in 1991. Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all. But he had been our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful consideration was needed. We will survive our loss and we will remember. He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to contemplate. Steadfast service for decades, moving when others seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles. Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. But we were in different classes and I really didn?t know him then. Our real meeting came at UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students working for Prof. Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project. Steve Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the team and led the development of the first host-host protocols for the ARPANET. When Steve invented the idea of the Request for Comments series, Jon became the instant editor. When we needed to keep track of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place. Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and served continuously from its founding to the present. He was the FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because he and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application forms and make payment first and Jon won. He served as a trustee of the Internet Society. He was the custodian of the .US domain, a founder of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed the networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute. Jon loved the outdoors. I know he used to enjoy backpacking in the high Sierras around Yosemite. Bearded and sandaled, Jon was our resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA. He was a private person but fully capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations in a good engineering argument. And he could be stubborn beyond all expectation. He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a staring contest, I think. Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and his colleagues. For me, he personified the words ?selfless service.? For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return, indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received our deepest appreciation. It was particularly gratifying at the last Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union. It is an award generally reserved for Heads of State but I can think of no one more deserving of global recognition for his contributions. While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened up and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as I contemplate what Jon has wrought. He leaves a legacy of edited documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not only the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well. He completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role. His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our collective consciousness. ?What would Jon have done?? we will think, as we wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well tamed for so many years. There will almost surely be many memorials to Jon?s monumental service to the Internet Community. As current chairman of the Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jon?s name to recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, which is awarded to Jon posthumously as its first recipient. If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his passing but to celebrate his life and his contributions. He would remind us that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. I doubt that anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as a measure of one man?s astonishing contribution to a community he knew and loved. ----------end of forward from Dave Farber's IP list---------- -- Jim Gillogly Hevensday, 26 Winterfilth S.R. 1998, 22:01 12.19.5.10.19, 10 Cauac 12 Yax, Third Lord of Night

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>>�Dinero con Traducciones!<<
by ventas＠miller.com.mx 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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IP: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:07:00 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Forwarded: --------------- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 01:37:23 -0500 From: Kepi <kepi(a)netdoor.com> Subject: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate Source: Yahoo! News Friday October 16 3:00 PM EDT FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission next week will propose requiring telephone companies to make a series of changes to give law enforcement agencies additional wiretapping capabilities, people familiar with the plan said. The proposal, which will only be issued for comment and could be changed, seeks to resolve the long-running dispute between the telephone industry, privacy advocates and the FBI over terms of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. The law was intended to preserve the FBI's ability to conduct wiretaps as telephone carriers introduced new digital technology making traditional alligator clip-and-wire approaches obsolete. But the law also sought to maintain the existing limits on wiretapping authority that protect the privacy of ordinary citizens. Much to the chagrin of privacy groups, the FCC's preliminary proposal would require wireless telephone carriers to turn over to law enforcers the location of a mobile phone user at the beginning and end of a tapped call, people familiar with the plan said. ``From a privacy protection perspective, the tracking question is tremendously important,'' said Jim Dempsey, senior staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit privacy group in Washington. ``Congress never would have passed this legislation if they thought they were turning cell phones into tracking devices,'' added Dempsey, who as a congressional staffer helped draft the law. But, heeding the call of privacy advocates, the FCC proposal will urge further study concerning the way digital calling information is turned over to law enforcers. Under current law, the police must give a judge evidence of probable cause of criminal activity to get permission to tap a call. But to get basic routing information, such as what numbers were called from a particular phone, the police need show only that the information might be relevant to an investigation, a much lower standard. In digital calling networks, however, a call is split up into tiny data packets that contain both the voice transmission and routing and signaling information. An industry proposal last year would have turned over to police entire packets of information, including both the routing data and the actual call itself, when just basic routing information was authorized. The FCC proposal will seek to determine if a more limited method of handing over just routing information would be feasible. The FBI has already rejected as inadequate the industry proposal that included the cell phone location and full packet disclosure provisions. The agency asked the FCC to require carriers to add another nine capabilities, such as the ability to continue listening to a conference call even if the caller being tapped hangs up. The FCC proposal recommends some but not all of the nine items should be added to phone networks, but also asked for further comments on all nine items. The industry fears refitting existing equipment to add those capabilities will cost billions of dollars. Their fears were confirmed in a recent letter from Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh to Congress, dated Oct. 6, and obtained by Reuters, that conceded the costs could reach $2 billion. Industry participants were pleased that the FCC was moving to address the issues, though. ``We have not seen the details yet but we're pleased the FCC is moving forward,'' Jeff Cohen, a spokesman for the Personal Communications Industry Association, said. Copyright © 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19981016/tc/fcc_2. html **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.50: National ID postponed until 1999
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.50: National ID postponed until 1999 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:03:08 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.50: National ID postponed until 1999 News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 17, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: WorldNetDaily, October 16, 1998 http://www.worldnetdaily.com National ID postponed until 1999 Moratorium in appropriations bill approved by Congress this week http://www.worldnetdaily.com/exclusiv/981016_bres_national_id_po.html By David M. Bresnahan Copyright 1998, WorldNetDaily.com Implementation of a National ID card will be automatically imposed on all states unless Congress takes action in 1999. More immediate efforts to impose the system, first exposed in WorldNetDaily, were derailed by a one-year moratorium on the National ID regulations included in the omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress Thursday. It was a provision that was not without controversy. The moratorium was first included in the transportation appropriations bill, but Rep. Lamar Smith, R-TX, convinced Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-GA, to remove it before passage, according to House Transportation Committee sources. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA, chairman of the House Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee included the ban in the omnibus bill, according to a committee staff member. However, Smith continued to make efforts to kill the provision, according to Patrick Poole of the watchdog group Free Congress Foundation. "It was reported that Lamar Smith had obtained an agreement from Speaker Gingrich to eliminate this provision from the bill," reported Poole. The ban was back in the bill "after many House members openly complained to the speaker about Lamar Smith's seemingly religious devotion to the National ID idea and the American people's vehement opposition to being branded and tagged by the U.S. government." Numerous organizations opposed to the concept of a National ID rallied their members to send thousands of letters, faxes, and make phone calls to Congress for the past two weeks. Smith failed to return calls to WorldNetDaily.com, but he did publish a letter in the "Washington Times" on Tuesday because of the many calls his office received. "I do not support a National ID card and don't know anyone in Congress who does," said Smith in his letter. He tried to label those voicing opposition as radicals when he added, "There are fringe groups that believe the United Nations is taking over Yellowstone National Park, that Congress is creating a National ID card or that they have been abducted by UFOs." Congress put the wheels in motion to create a National ID card in 1996 with the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. One section of the act, which was largely unnoticed at the time, requires all states to make their driver's licenses comply with certain guidelines found in Section 656 (b) of the act. The law prohibits states from issuing driver's licenses unless they comply with the new requirements beginning Oct. 1, 2000. The new licenses must use the Social Security number as the driver's license number, for example. The act also calls for digitized biometric information to be a part of each license, or "smart card." The biometric information will include fingerprints, retina scans, DNA prints and other similar information. Responsibility for the design and implementation of the cards has been given to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the Department of Transportation. That agency has recently published the proposed "Driver's License/SSN/National Identification Document," which contains the guidelines which must be in force by Oct. 1, 2000. The "Notice of Proposed Rule Making" sets out the standards for each state to follow in the design of "identification documents." "These new National ID regulations violate every notion of federalism, because they force states to comply with regulations issued by the federal government without any constitutional authority to do so," said Poole recently. "Nor are federal agencies empowered to force states to gather detailed information on every person in order to comply with federal mandates. The net result of the DOT's regulations is to establish a National ID system, which has been opposed by almost every non-governmental sector for the past five decades." The moratorium is needed while efforts are made to repeal Section 656 (b) of the act. The moratorium will relieve states from spending money on unnecessary development costs. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-TX, Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, and Rep. Bob Barr, R-GA, have been working on repeal legislation, but there was insufficient time to bring it to a vote during this session of Congress. "Speaker Gingrich did come dangerously close to selling us out on National IDs," said a congressional staffer. Numerous grass-roots organizations opposed to the National ID system were celebrating the inclusion of the moratorium in the omnibus bill just passed by Congress. The DOT solicited public comments on their plans for implementation of Section 656 (b) of the act earlier this year. The public comment period has just closed and many thousands of letters in opposition were received, according to a spokesman. Five states also expressed opposition to the plan, and only a "small number" of letters supporting the plan were known to the spokesman, who spoke on condition that his name would not be published. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators also wrote to the DOT and recommended repeal of the law, even though they had once been in favor of such legislation. "Over the past 10 years, the AAMVA has vigorously pushed Congress and the various state motor vehicle directors to implement policies to require the submission of social security numbers as a condition for issuance of driver's licenses. This resounding defeat may spell the end of their ill-fated quest," said Scott McDonald, a grass-roots activist who operates the "Fight the Fingerprint" website. He is able to mobilize thousands of activists on a national basis using his e-mail notification system. "There is no satisfactory condition under which Social Security Numbers may be required as a condition for travel," said McDonald. "The victory's definitely not yet won. During these lull periods there's an opportunity for proponents of these issues to let opposition die down and all of a sudden, pop, it goes through without anyone even aware of it. "I don't see how the Department of Transportation could go forth with implementing the regulation with all that strong opposition to it. Even five states wrote letters of strong opposition to requiring Social Security numbers," said McDonald. "This National ID is not just isolated to America. This is going on all over the world. Every country has some form of it going on," explained Jackie Juntti, leader of the Washington Grassroots E-mail Network. Her group takes credit for defeating an earlier effort in 1997 to put fingerprints on driver's licenses in Washington state. "We're just people out here trying to remain free," she said. Juntti's "NoID Orange Ribbon Campaign," found on many Internet Web sites, began after she refused to produce a driver's license to board an airplane. She was searched thoroughly and then granted a seat on the plane. "For a year we're safe," said Lisa Dean of the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties, another organization that has been actively campaigning against the provisions of Section 656 (b). She agreed that the toughest part of her organization's challenge is in front of her. Rep. Smith, and other proponents of the measure have framed their issue around illegal immigration. Dean's organization has received many responses for and against a National ID. Many have voiced support for her efforts, but some have told her "what difference does it make? The government already has our information," according to Dean. Others also mention the need to control illegal immigration. Now that a moratorium is in place for a year, Dean expects repeal efforts will also include finding alternative ways to resolve the concerns about illegal immigrants, although no recommendations are in place as yet. David Bresnahan, a WorldNetDaily contributing editor, hosts "Talk USA Investigative Reports" and is the author of "Cover Up: The Art and Science of Political Deception." His email address is David(a)talkusa.com. © 1998 Western Journalism Center --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. It will not be sold, lent or given away to any third party. **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.51: Your Online Profile--Where You Go, What You Buy--Is Vulnerable
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.51: Your Online Profile--Where You Go, What You Buy--Is Vulnerable Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:04:28 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.51: Your Online Profile--Where You Go, What You Buy--Is Vulnerable News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 17, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: TIME.com Magazine, OCTOBER 12, 1998 VOL. 152 NO. 15 http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/ Watch Your Tracks Your online profile--where you go, what you buy--is vulnerable. Here's how to protect it http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/981012/personal_time.your_ tech2a.html By MICHAEL KRANTZ TIME technology writer Run a search on your PC's hard drive for the phrase "User Profile," and you'll find a long list of items like this: "yahoo.comTRUE/FALSE 3262463 493 Y v=1&n=82iosk148jr9n." This gibberish is just one in a series of digital snapshots of my recent online travels: what websites I visited; what pages I viewed and for how long; what I bought, downloaded or printed. What's more, every site I visit can send programs called "cookies" down the phone line into my machine to snag this data and either use it to try to sell me something ("He spends time at E! Online? Let's spam him with that Titanic-for-$5 offer!") or sell my "profile" to some other marketer. Yikes. For years, of course, everyone from insurance adjusters to credit-card companies has made money swapping consumer profiles like baseball cards. But the Web is bringing this great American pastime to new levels of invasive splendor. Ironically, one of the most attractive features of the Net--its ability to customize content instantly--morphs smoothly into one of its most sinister: the ability to monitor who you are and what you're doing online, even as you do it. It's not just the embarrassment factor we're talking about here: the guy whose wife checks out his log and finds the porn sites he hit last night. Consider how much other personal data could become available as we conduct more and more of our lives in this (thus far) happily unregulated world--investing and paying our bills online, filling our prescriptions, etc. How forthright have websites been about telling users what data they're unwittingly providing? Not very. Last spring the Federal Trade Commission studied 1,400 sites and found that only 14% had posted privacy statements of any kind (though 71 of the 100 busiest sites did so). While a Senate committee last week approved legislation that would authorize the FTC to regulate the profiling of children, the agency seems willing to let the industry clean up its own act with regard to adults. Enter TRUSTe, a nonprofit group that has persuaded 270 of the Web's most popular sites to post and abide by statements telling what data they collect from visitors, how they use that data and how visitors can restrict that use. Web leaders such as America Online, Microsoft and Netscape plan an announcement this Wednesday to address privacy concerns. Some, though, are skeptical that a voluntary system will work. "If anybody's going to make money off your identity," says Fred Davis, chief executive officer of the software start-up Lumeria, based in Berkeley, Calif., "it should be you." And, of course, Fred Davis. Due in early 1999, Lumeria's software will, among other things, help you control your data, keeping nosy marketers from grabbing your profile unless you let them. In fact, Davis thinks companies will eventually pay for the privilege ("Hey, visitor No. 85834: we see you bought Titanic last week. We'll give you 500 frequent-flyer miles to tell us your name, age and income!"). For now, here's how you can keep those pesky cookies away. If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options under your View menu, click the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Cookies subsection and choose "Disable all cookie use." If you use Netscape Navigator, go to Edit Preferences under the Edit menu and choose Advanced, then "Turn all cookies off." But be warned: many sites won't let you in if your browser rejects cookies, and others will harass you with dialogue boxes urging you to accept one. --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. It will not be sold, lent or given away to any third party. **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: FBI Says Some U.S. Cities Vulnerable To Attack
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: FBI Says Some U.S. Cities Vulnerable To Attack Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:56:32 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Fox News - Reuters FBI Says Some U.S. Cities Vulnerable To Attack 2.13 p.m. ET (1814 GMT) October 16, 1998 WASHINGTON Some U.S. cities are unprepared for an attack by weapons of mass destruction with biological agents a greater danger than nuclear or chemical weapons, an FBI official said Friday. "Some American communities are very unprepared. They certainly don't have the equipment and resources necessary to handle a major attack,'' Robert Blitzer, chief of the FBI's domestic terrorism section, said. "The real weakness that we have right now is the ability to detect and counter a (biological weapons attack) because it's much more insidious and much more difficult to detect,'' he said. The FBI official, who was unable to give numbers on how many cities were unprepared, said communities were better able to deal with chemical and nuclear weapons attacks. Many fire departments have units that deal with hazardous materials and are ready to handle chemical weapons, he said. "On the nuclear side, there's a pretty robust capability to handle those kinds of issues and has been for many years,'' Blitzer said. He appeared at the weekly Justice Department news conference with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who announced a new office at the FBI to help state and local governments better respond to terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction. Reno said the office would help create training standards for local police, firefighters and rescue squads and would try to make sure they have the necessary equipment. "I want this new office to be a center for assistance and solutions, not a new bureaucracy,'' she said. "We are not interested in a top-down, one-size-fits-all solution.'' © Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: Tracking: Bar Codes/Elec.Tags for License Plates
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Tracking: Bar Codes/Elec.Tags for License Plates Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:28:20 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: London Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000150689433551&rtmo=Vu5wFmwx&atmo=99999 999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/98/10/17/ntag17.html&pg=/et/98/10/17/ntag17.html Car tagging may help cut theft, says minister By Andrew Sparrow, Political Correspondent CAR number plates could be fitted with bar codes or electronic tags in a move to cut crime. Alun Michael, a Home Office minister, said it was "odd" that while consumer goods such as whisky bottles could be tagged, valuable items like cars were not dealt with in the same way. Tagging is being considered as one option that could help the Government hit its target of reducing car crime by 30 per cent over the next five years. Mr Michael said the Government's Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team, which includes ministers, police officers and car manufacturers, was examining the practicalities of improving security features on cars. The Government would also improve security at car parks, where more than 30 per cent of all auto crime occurred. Cars left in car parks were 200 times more likely to be stolen or broken into than those garaged at home, Mr Michael told an Association of Chief Police Officers car crime conference. Yet car parks that had improved their security had seen break-ins fall by an average of 70 per cent. Mr Michael said the action team would also encourage owners of older cars to make them harder to steal. A car registered in 1985 was 14 times more likely to be taken than a new car. Manufacturers will be urged to make their products more theft-proof. Mr Michael said innovations that the Government would like to see introduced as standard included toughened glass windows to ward off opportunist thieves stealing stereos and handbags from vehicles. Delegates heard that commonly quoted statistics placing Britain at the head of the European vehicle theft league might be misleading. Elaine Hardy, of the International Car Distribution Programme, said that while figures showed vehicle theft in England and Wales to be roughly double the European average as a percentage of the number of vehicles on the roads, definitions of car theft varied enormously. For example, she said, in the Netherlands a vehicle was listed merely as "missing" until it had been gone for more than a month. In other countries, cars recovered within 90 days were wiped from the figures. The true story could be that domestic statistics were roughly comparable to others in Europe. © Copyright of Telegraph Group 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 or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ATTN: Does Any Listee Have Eye-Witness Report???
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: ATTN: Does Any Listee Have Eye-Witness Report??? Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:04:45 -0500 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com --------------------- NOTE: This is an anecdotal report, UNCONFIRMED at the present time. If anyone on the list is an eyewitness to this event, please report in ASAP with additional details. Thank you! -- Michele --------------------- Forwarded: --------------------- >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:57:00 -0500 >From: "Shonda P. Wigington" <texnat57(a)gateway.net> >Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Helicopter Harassment > > >>Freedom-Lovers International >>Shonda P. Wigington, President >>5308 Robinsdale Lane >>Austin, Texas 78723 >>512-933-1950 >> >> OCTOBER 13, 1998--AUSTIN, TEXAS--On October 10, 1998, around noon, a >>yellow and black helicopter flew around a South Austin neighborhood where >>Alex Jones' mother lives. Carol Jones reported that she did not pay >>attention initially, but that it stayed in the area for about an hour. She >>observed the helicopter hovering over her property. She said that the >>words "Travis County" were printed on the side of the helicopter and that >>the helicopter looked new. Someone was leaning out of the door of the >>helicopter which she said was low enough for her to see that there was a >>big lense camera pointed at her. >> When she returned into her home, she called her husband, Dr. David >>Jones, who then called the Austin Aviation Department where he left a >>message. Simeon Tolgol returned the elder Mr. Jones' call the next >>morning, explaining that the Travis County Sheriff's Department had logged >>a four hour surveillance mission. >> Around 2:00 AM that night, Alex Jones' girlfriend called Steve Lane of >>"The Freedom Report" because of a helicopter shining spotlights into her >>windows. He stated to the Commissioners during Citizens Communication on >>October 13, that the helicopter was so low that he could hear the noise >>through the phone as he spoke to her. She was frightened and crying. >> Jones' producer, Mike Hanson got film footage of the helicopter as it >>moved over his home, shined the spotlight, turned it off, passed over, came >>back, shined the light again several times. >> "I was spotlighted by the helicopter very early saturday morning," Lane >>said, "I believe it was about 1:30 to 2:00 am saturday morning. (The) >>helicopter flew over, again, well under 800 feet above ground level, in >>direct violation of the Federal Aviation Regulations, did not have a >>spotlight on until it came to the house that I was at. The spotlight was >>turned on, I have a video of it, and I'll be glad to give ya'll copies >>because I would like for ya'll to look into this..." Lane described the >>incident as "unnerving". >> Mike Hanson called all of the County Commissioners for information >>regarding the incident. All of the Commissioners returned his call, that >>is all accept Judge Bill Aleshire. >> Karen Sunleitner (Precinct 2 Commissioner) stated, "It was not the >>Travis County Sheriff's office, it was the Austin Police Department. The >>Austin Police Department was piggy-backing on an existing flight that was >>going on that particular day during the hours that Mr. Jones talked >>about...were undergoing pilot training for the brand new helicopter. They >>piggy-backed on that. They are doing ariel video footage of several >>locations pertinent to ongoing homicide investigations." >> Several months ago Travis County Commissioners voted to buy the >>helicopters at taxpayer expense, supposedly for Starflight assistance >>during emergency situations. But these particular helicopters were also >>equipped with infrared "FLARE" technology that could easily be used for >>surveillance. >> The Texas Media Alliance was concerned that this technology could be >>abused. The different organizations that make up the Alliance voiced their >>concerns to the commissioners, who adamently denied any such agenda for the >>new helicopters. >> "They spoke to me like a child," Rusty Fields of Common Sense said, "and >>they assured me that they would not use the helicopters for surveillance." >>He looked around and gestured at the number of people in the room and said, >>"This is what happens when they get caught lying." >> Alex Jones informed the commissioners that day that he was "conducting >>an investigation." >>He claims the county conducted a surveillance mission last week, denying >>the county commissioners' claim that it was done by the city. >> "You are all a pack of liars!" Jones stated, "Pure harassment. It's >>SABER 1. You see, they passed it (the bill) under Starflight so everybody >>can laugh and call it Starflight." Starflight being the term to use for >>emergency pick-up missions by the local EMS. >>Jones said he obtained the I-D of the people doing it through the Aviation >>logues. >> "Flying over Alex's mothers house, I'm not buying that it was a homicide >>investigation," said Mike Runyan, who had been there when the county >>commissioners assured him by likening the use of the new helicopters to >>"searching for lost children in the greenbelts." Runyan commented that he >>was not real happy about the video footage of the incident over Hanson's >>house. >> "Ya'll keep doing it," he warned, "and you're libel to provoke somebody. >> It's just the natural progression of things." >> Mike Hanson played a tape-recorded interview of Mrs. Jones by Alex Jones >>on his radio show, "The Real Spin," heard on KJFK 98.9FM (Austin). >> "I really still didn't know, or become paranoid or anything," she said, >>"but these people made about eight passes over my place, maybe more, but >>let's just say conservatively eight." >>She stated that they were passing and "taking pictures." >> "I don't know what is more disturbing, that they would do this because, >>like, I'm your mother," she told her son during the interview, "or that >>they would just do it to somebody who's just sitting there, because this >>person either has film of me or got really good pictures of just someone >>looking straight up at him." >> "Are there any federal funds involved in these helicopters?" asked John >>P. Roberts, when it came his turn to speak. >> "No, sir," Sunleitner stated. >> "There are no federal funds?" Roberts asked again, "So technically you >>are not tied to them in any way if they want to come and 'borrow' them for >>any reason?" >> "That is purchased by the taxpayers of Travis County," Sunleitner >>assured him. >> Roberts closed his remarks with, "Common sense tells you you don't >>harass the people that pay you." >> "The people will be informed," stated Shonda P. Wigington of >>Freedom-Lovers International, "and if it (the harassment) doesn't stop, we >>WILL strive for a class-action lawsuit against Travis County." >> During Citizens Communication that day, Darwin Mckees (Commissioner of >>Precint 1) called in the Sheriff's Department as a result of a sit-in >>attempt made by Free Press International's Greg Ericson in protest to the >>three minute limit forced upon the people who came to speak that day. >>Ericson left before the deputies arrived, and other than the Commissioners >>trying to quieten Alex Jones's exclamations of what "liars" they are, there >>were no other incidents. >> **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.49: More on The FBI's New Wiretap Authority
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.49: More on The FBI's New Wiretap Authority Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:01:14 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.49: More on The FBI's New Wiretap Authority News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 17, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: ABC News.com, October 13, 1998 http://www.abcnews.com Taps For Privacy? Investigators Can Follow Suspects From Phone To Phone http://www.abcnews.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/wirelaw981013.html By Chris Stamper ABCNEWS.com Buried deep inside the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1999 is a provision that will change the way the FBI and other law enforcement agencies can listen to suspects phone calls. The new rule opens the doors for more roving wiretaps, which listen to all the phones a suspect uses rather than just a single line. Supporters say this will help the cops keep up with cell-phone wielding crooks. Critics contend that it opens the door for ever more invasions of privacy. The bill passed the House and Senate last week; President Clinton is expected to sign it soon. A similar change was voted down in 1996 as part of an anti-terrorism measure. An Invitation to Abuse? To bug a suspect, investigators must first obtain a court order. Current federal wiretapping law allows multiple taps only if law enforcement can convince a judge that a suspect is trying to avoid being overheard. The new bill, introduced by Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.), requires only that investigators show probable cause that the persons actions could have the effect of thwarting interception. Supporters maintain that such a change is necessary to keep up with exploding technology. Suspects whose lines are tapped can easily switch to a pay phone or cell phone and avoid detection. But Leslie Hagin, legislative director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, echoes the sentiments of many criminal defense attorneys and civil libertarians who feel that the expansion of powers is an invitation to abuse: Its not a power the government needs. Defense attorneys such as Gregory Nicolaysen, founder of the Association of Federal Defense Attorneys, complain that too many judges rubber-stamp wiretapping requests and that the new law will only make that situation worse: The assumption is that those who are being wiretapped are criminals anyway. Its not being confined to drug dealers and organized crime, Nicolaysen argues. It tends to be a knee-jerk reaction instead of an investigative tool of last resort. The Phones Have Ears According to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, federal and state judges approved 1,186 wiretap applications in 1997 and 1,094 bugs were planted. No requests were denied last year. Judges have rejected only 28 of over 20,000 applications since wiretapping was legalized in 1968. Authorities arrested 3,086 people in 1997 with the help of phone taps, which are typically placed in homes. The American Civil Liberties Union says that for every wiretap placed, nearly a thousand innocent conversations are intercepted by law enforcement. According to ACLU legislative counsel Greg Nojeim, the new bill will mean that the phones of a suspects friends, family and business colleagues can all be tapped by law enforcement: It means more wiretaps, more lines tapped and additional thousands of intercepted innocent conversations. The FBI says snoops have to ignore conversations that arent relevant to their investigations. Under existing wiretap statutes, says special agent Barry Smith, law enforcement is only authorized to listen to those conversations that are related to criminal activity. Nojeim argues that since roving wiretaps will be easier to obtain, citizens Fourth Amendment rights protecting against illegal searches will erode. When the government wants to search a place, it has to specify the place it wants to search, he says. Now for electronic surveillance the specificity requirement is done away with. Smith says a hefty increase in roving wiretaps is unlikely, since such an operation requires a team of surveillance experts who must coordinate their efforts with several different phone companies: Its still a technological and logistical nightmare. Whether one believes that the new bill represents an invasion of privacy, it seems clear that crooks wont be able to escape to their cell phones much longer without fear of being overheard. Copyright (c)1998 ABCNEWS --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you value in the ISPI Clips service or if you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Clips Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Clips Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. 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IP: One-Stop Shopping for Anti-Terrorism Aid
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: One-Stop Shopping for Anti-Terrorism Aid Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:55:09 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Fox News - AP Reno offers one-stop federal anti-terrorist aid 3.37 p.m. ET (1938 GMT) October 16, 1998 By Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney General Janet Reno trumpeted a new FBI office Friday that will offer local police, fire and rescue workers one-stop shopping for federal training and equipment to respond to chemical, biological or nuclear attacks by terrorists. The FBI's new National Domestic Preparedness Office, staffed by officials from a variety of federal agencies, "will assume overall responsibility for coordinating the government's efforts to prepare America's communities for terrorist incidents involving weapons of mass destruction,'' Reno told her weekly news conference. After an attack, "the first few minutes are very critical,'' Reno said. Usually, the first to arrive at the chaotic and dangerous scene are local rescue squads, firefighters and police. "For many victims, what these first responders do in those first few minutes can mean the difference between life and death.'' State and local officials responsible for these efforts have complained in recent years that federal aid either training or equipment is hard to find and inadequate and that some federal agencies duplicate the work of others while gaps remain. The new program "is trying to address the issues that first responders have raised and create a two-way street so that we hear from them, that we provide one central place where they can go, knowing that they will get the best information, both from the FBI, Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Public Health Service, and that they will get the latest information with respect to equipment,'' Reno said. Under a new interagency agreement, Justice and the FBI will take over from the Defense Department as the coordinator, funded by $49 million from the Pentagon in the coming fiscal year. The program will train state and local workers, distribute money to buy equipment, set up joint federal-state-local practice exercises and work with state and local officials to draft contingency plans unique to each local situation, Reno said. "State and local governments (will be) a full partner in the planning effort, since they know what they need there at the front line.'' The FBI has been investigating a rising number of suspected biological, chemical or nuclear-radiological incidents 68 in 1997 and 86 in 1998. But Bob Blitzer, chief of the FBI's domestic terrorism unit, said, "the vast majority of these are hoaxes.'' He said the bureau believed it had averted four or five potential attacks in the last couple years. Many fire department have good hazardous materials units to deal with chemical attacks, and for many years there has been "a pretty robust capability to handle'' nuclear-radiological attacks, Blitzer said. "The real weakness that we have right now is the ability to detect and counter a (biological attack), because it's much more insidious and much more difficult to detect,'' Blitzer added. "There's certainly less protection, particularly on the medical side.'' © 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IMPORTANT! Fwd: Social Engineering & C68
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi! My name is Jean-Francois Avon. Almost all of you who will read this message know me personnally. I forward this message to you for I believe that it is of *great* importance. The message discuss things that *will* affect your life in one way or another. PLEASE take the time to read it. The implications of what is discussed in this document will affect *everybody*. PLEASE! DO READ IT COMPLETELY! Jean-Francois Avon ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:37:30 -0700 >From: Dan MacInnis <dan.louise(a)sympatico.ca> >Reply-To: dan.louise(a)sympatico.ca >To: cdn-firearms-digest(a)broadway.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca >CC: mkhughe(a)north.nsis.com, jf_avon(a)citenet.net >Subject: Social Engineering & C68 Let me begin by commenting I know this is not a 'chat' digest, but the question was raised here about Quebec/Maritime involvement if fighting C68 [the new firearms registration bill]. To be fair, there is quite a bit of work being done by individuals, but government is mute down there, and for ecomonic reasons, must be. The reluctance or simply because the populance had no personal arms of men and women to fight back when their wives, children, possessions etc. were being taken away is however, as in Nazi Germany and Kosovo today, is, I suggest, a major plank in Social Engineering of a Society. >From this point I will probably be branded as a "radical'. So be it. I am educated in Engineering and Philosophy, the former teaches system and the latter teaches thinking on, I would argue, another scale. The new so called 'Global' economy will, and already has, caused major social upheaval. People who were middle class a few short years ago are now on the streets or almost there due to the relocaction of work to countries with a lower wage scale. Mexico, India, two of which I have first hand knowledge, the wages are less than %10 of North American rates. Workers and management both were'are being 'let go', out of a source of income. The stock market was inundated with large sums of cash, the source was the money paid to let go people, their severance package. Hence, the inflated price of shares, which the market is just now correcting, to the detriment of retirement payouts from Mutual Fund to these laid off workers. Their future is bleak, to put it mildly. Farmers must be, by international trade laws, cut off from government support and assistannce, to give an example, hog and milk subsidies. So they face a bleak future in Canada. Quebec fought hard for Free Trade, until the dairy and hog farmers read the fine print. Now we had a milk strike, annd as I write, the hog farmers in Quebec are raising Hale. Jean Francois Avon wrote in response to my earlier diatribe on Jews/Kosovians(I hope he copied this Digest) that Quebec Separatists would be afraid of an armed populace. I suggest he is correct. So too are the federal and eastern Canadian provincial governments afraid of guns in the hands of civilians. They see them as weapons which could be used against them and the establishment as the economy changes and more and more middle class people, farmers, fishermen and former managers reach the lower ranks of income and living conditions. In Canada, we rank social standing by job/income/education to do a job. We rated fur trappers at the bottom, because it payed poorly and required little formal education to perform. Tie in to Bill C68? Well, Allan Rock let the cat out of the bag. When he was briefed after becoming Minister of Justice, it was explained to him that the program to disarm civilians began when Free Trade/Global Economy talks were in their early stages, was running behind shedule. In his jubulance, determined to 'get the job done', where Mulroney had slowed down after an aggressive start, he blurted out the program on live TV. 'Only police and the military should have guns'. In the opinion of the various goverments, including Quebec, Ottawa and some provinces, the program must be complete, and must be completed soon. Farmers, as they lose their farms to financial institutions, fishermen, as they lose thier boats, certain interests in Quebec as they lose everything due to separation, may fight back. It is therefore critical that they do not have access to arms, as a means of defence or aggression. The War Measures act is gone, replaced. A legal means had to be manufactured to remove guns from the people. Hence, C68 is a good beginning. It allows confiscation of any firearms so deemed by the incumbent government later on. No, my friends, Ottawa is not stupid, this is a well thought out plan, and appears to be working, as they use mass media on the population, to change public opinion to their side, i.e., guns are dangerous especially to women and children. In fact, firearms in the hands of civilians are dangerous, but to repressive governments from a displaced populace. As more and more Canadians find everything they worked for threatened, some MIGHT fight back, and shoot the Bailiff's from the Banks and the police sent to protect them when they re-possess their property and throw them, literally, on the streets, on into their relatives homes. Registration? Use of the harsh Criminal Code, jail, for non-compliance?? Necessary, in Ottawa's view. Get the job begun earlier finished, then they can go on the the greater plan, more relaxed when people have no means of defence or rebellion. When you live on the streets, there is no place to hide a gun. Not to sound trite, but this will test 'unsafe storage' laws to the limit. If the Supreme Court judges have been properly briefed on the Social Engineering aspects of C68, we do not have a chance in Hell in the courts. Then, we will have a search and seizure, after 2003, to actively find and confiscate unregistered and illegal (by now) guns on farms, in houses, examples made in the Press of a few, and the game is over. Is this gloom and doom from me, or a realistic analysis of the situation? You decide, but at least think about it from a broader angle than simply telling Ottawa how many, the serial number and storage place of your firearms today. We need only to look at the history of Scotland to see Quebec today and the ROC tomorrow. And C68 plays a huge role in this. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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test1
by Igor Chudov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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2 questions: Prime Numbers and DES
by steve.benjamin＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

1. How can I generate 2 large prime numbers? I doubt I could create 2, 100-digit prime numbers in my head :-) 2. Is there an implentation of DES in perl? I didn't see a link to one on the export-a-sig page. If not perl, is there one for DOS? I'm looking for a bare bones one, not something with tons of features and a GUI. A perl or dos version of the unix "des" program would be preferable. Thanks! Stephen Benjamin Steve.Benjamin(a)juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

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CDR Node Test (no reply)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Year 2000 opportunity?
by Soren 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: What's up with algebra.com?
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What with the Feds now going after CJ for attempted murder of federal officials (film ad overkill!), Jeff Gordon soliciting cypherpunk subscribers to flesh that fancy, and one CDR operator flattered with a subpoena, it'd be prudent to have a way to check on whether a CDR node has been taken down or turned, and the operator hogtied with the system as evidence (or forced to run a sting to gather it), before a clamp's put on telling what's going on. May be too late, too late. Recall it's a major offense for revealing placement of a wiretap, surveillance or a covert investigation -- especially if you're assisting, willingly or unwillingly. Not that one should advocate hiding what might be construed as evidence or exposing underbelly work that's ordered concealed. Why that might be taken to be pushing a conspiracy against WMD-crazed authority rather than promoting personal hygiene with lots of sunshine and vigorous exercise of rights to fanciful imaginings of what a world would be like without minders galore. Whistling in the dark, mind you. Consider that there are 118,000 federal prisoners. That's a very big inhospitality business, and its growing, private and feds rubbing hands and futures. For an overview of exactly how the chain operates (in case you're planning a stay or a stock buy) gander the list of its bountiful rules and regs: http://jya.com/bop-progstat.htm Inmates are forbidden access to the Internet (PS 1241.02 Internet and the World Wide Web), however, they are encouraged to do creative writing (PS 5350.07 Inmate Manuscripts), so Jim Bell, CJ and a few of us deserve a suite overlooking the garden of evil.

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Re: What's up with algebra.com? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:44:37 -0400 > From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > Subject: Re: What's up with algebra.com? > What with the Feds now going after CJ for attempted > murder of federal officials (film ad overkill!), Jeff Gordon > soliciting cypherpunk subscribers to flesh that fancy, > and one CDR operator flattered with a subpoena, it'd be > prudent to have a way to check on whether a CDR node > has been taken down or turned, and the operator hogtied > with the system as evidence (or forced to run a sting to > gather it), before a clamp's put on telling what's going on. If anybody figures out a way to achieve such security I'd like to know. As far as I know the only way to keep a box up is to be sure that there are 'works in progress' from users who are not directly involved in the operation of the system. They are eligible for $1000/day each day they are deprived of access without a warrant. If they are completely uninvolved it *might* make a magistrate hesitate about generating a warrant. As to my subpoena, it looks like I *may* have to do nothing more than sign an affadavit saying that I didn't participate or discuss the above mentioned issues with CJ when he was in Austin. I should know more later in the week. I did find out that the reason they picked me was that when CJ was arrested he happened to be carrying a copy of the post I did several months ago in responce to a question regarding destroying floppy drives and computers using a floppy disk. Apparently they thought I might be some sort of mad-bomb designer or something. I have to assume that since I wasn't arrested at the first interview they figured I was reasonably harmless concerning assaults of the person or helping CJ in a material way. As to there being wiretaps and permanent LEA monitors on the list, you betcha. > May be too late, too late. Sigh. > Recall it's a major offense for revealing placement of a > wiretap, surveillance or a covert investigation -- especially > if you're assisting, willingly or unwillingly. They can take SSZ down or run it themselves (hope they got somebody that knows Linux 1.1.59 cause otherwise they won't be running it for long) but I won't participate in entrapment. And I suspect, though I don't know, that my arrest and lack of interaction with other users would set off flairs pretty quickly in that case. How long it might take to percolate back to Cypherpunks I don't have a clue. One major aspect of all this that I have found particularly unsettling is that I really don't have family or anybody for support. I think about the only thing worse than imagining oneself sitting in a jail with no hope of visitors, letters, etc. is a funeral with nobody there but the preacher. On a related issue, I have found it somewhat amusing that all the Austin Cpunks have scattered like a covey of quail. Only one of them even offered to help (Muchas gracias for the lawyer referals!). I had one person call and make sure that I knew they weren't at the meeting CJ attended. I'm seriously considering dropping sponsorship of the local group (and I sure as hell won't stop to help fix a flat now). > Consider that there are 118,000 federal prisoners. That's a very That means there are over 900,000 state, country, and municipal prisoners since there are over 1M in jail today. For a democracy that's incredibly damning. Legalize consenual crimes! ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ps not crypto related but if you're a science book hound, check out: Elementary Mechanics of Fluids H. Rouse ISBN 0-486-63699-2 (Dover) $11.95 Physics by example: 200 problems and solutions WG Rees ISBN 0-521-44975-8 $? (I bought my copy used)

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Re: What's up with algebra.com? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: What's up with algebra.com? > Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:43:46 -0500 (CDT) > From: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) > As far as algebra.com is concerned, the list went down because > my upstream site just installed anti-relaying rules, and everything > going to algebra.com was rejected. Also, sendmail was not setuid > and could not create mqueue files. Hmm. Interesting. The errors I was recieving were from algebra.com and it complained of unknown user cypherpunks. > I wish I could boast receiving attention from the IRS/BATF or > whatever, but so far i has not happened. You're welcome to mine...:) ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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IP: 'Intelligent' computer matches mugshots w/ faces in a crowd
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: 'Intelligent' computer matches mugshots w/ faces in a crowd Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 08:46:25 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Fox News - AP 'Intelligent' computer system matches mug shots with faces in a crowd 9.22 p.m. ET (123 GMT) October 17, 1998 LONDON (AP) An "intelligent'' computer system that uses closed circuit television to match faces in a crowd to mug shots of known criminals is likely to become London's latest weapon against crime. Scotland Yard and a local council have installed the $100,000 CCTV system on a trial basis in Newham, a poor district in London's East End. Newspapers reported Thursday that the computer system, called Mandrake, is linked to 144 CCTVs in Newham's shopping centers, railway stations and car parks and can scan up to 150 faces at a time and compare them with a database of criminals stored on a computer at the council's headquarters. If there is a match between a face in the crowd and a known criminal, the computer alerts a monitoring team in the town hall, who in turn alert the police. Civil liberties groups said they were alarmed by the new system, but police defended its use. "The only people entered on to the system will be convicted criminals who, through our intelligence, we believe are habitually committing crimes in the area,'' The Daily Mail quoted police Chief Superintendent Dave Armond as saying. "If people are not committing crime they have nothing to fear, but if they are among the small minority who are, the message is, 'We are watching out for you.''' The newspaper reported that police initially will use the system to concentrate on catching robbery suspects. In the future, however, it could be used to search crowds for hooligans who stir up trouble at soccer matches. CCTV's developer, Software and Systems International, says the system is accurate enough to discern people hiding behind make-up or eye glasses. And growing a beard won't help either, the company says. Britain has 150,000 close circuit television cameras. While most Britons appear happy the devices are being used to tackle crime, civil liberties groups oppose both the cameras and the facial matching. "The accuracy of facial mapping like this is limited. You only need a handful of photographs of celebrities to see how different the same people can look in different pictures,'' the Mail quoted Liz Parratt, spokeswoman for Liberty, a civil rights group, as saying. "Even if you did have a system which worked, it would have to be regulated very carefully to protect people's privacy.'' © 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: Tracking: Plastic Passports w/Biometric Confirmation of ID
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, 18 Oct 1998 10:01:41 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Tracking: Plastic Passports w/Biometric Confirmation of ID Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: London Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000150689433551&rtmo=0GNxrbeq&atmo=99999 999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/98/10/18/npass18.html&pg=/et/98/10/18/npass18.html Credit card plastic passport to be issued within two years By David Bamber, Home Affairs Correspondent A NEW credit card size passport which can be inserted in a computer scanner on arrival in another country will be issued to British travellers within two years. Trials are expected to begin soon of the system which allows passengers to bypass traditional immigration officials. When entering a country travellers would insert their plastic passport in a card reader and hold their hands to a screen to check palm prints. Both would be linked to a database containing travellers' details. The process would take 15 seconds and make lengthy airport queues a thing of the past. A prototype card with a digital photograph of the holder has already been developed. Passport Agency officials have been in discussions with the computer giant IBM about their Fastgate card system which has already been installed in Bermuda, a British colony. A passport agency official said: "It looks like a credit card and it can be swiped through Customs and allow people to enter a country without having their traditional passport examined by an official." He said that the new prototype had a digital hologram photograph of the holder and other special security devices which made forging them difficult. Last night a Home Office official confirmed that the credit card-style passport is being developed. He said: "We have become involved in the early stages of exploring the IBM Fastgate system." The official said that no date has yet been set to issue the cards to the public or to start trials at an airport in the Britain. But Home Office sources have revealed that a trial of the system is likely to be carried out by installing it at a Government building so that tests can be carried out to see if the security system can be breached. John Tincey, technology officer of the Immigration Service Union which represents 2,000 staff who check passports in Britain, said his members had been aware for some time of discussions about a computerised credit card style system. He has compiled a report for his union which was submitted to the Home Office. In it, he concluded: "The new technology will save on running costs, reduce staff numbers and increase profits. Even the Home Office will be unable to resist the financial advantages of the new technology." He added that because so many other countries will introduce credit card style systems, Britain would either lose business because of retaining lengthy checks on travellers, or alternatively loosen controls by selectively abandoning checks to minimise delays. Last night he also warned of possible job losses and the danger that the cards could be open to counterfeiting or abuse. At Bermuda International Airport, the Fastgate cards were introduced in May. Travellers use a touch screen to answer a few simple questions. The computer checks the data against information held on computers and also makes sure there are no arrest warrants out or requests to intercept the traveller. Usually the process takes just 15 seconds. Ken Thornton, of IBM, said: "Governments improve security and service. Airports improve competitiveness. And airlines and card issuers improve customers service." There is even the prospect of electronic visas being issued in the future, either as separate credit card style documents or logged on a computer. Even when the credit card style passports are introduced, the traditional paper passports will still be issued for some time because many countries will take years to install the necessary technology. © Copyright of Telegraph Group 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 or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **************************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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IP: Tracking: Plastic Passports w/Biometric Confirmation of ID
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Tracking: Plastic Passports w/Biometric Confirmation of ID Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:01:41 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: London Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000150689433551&rtmo=0GNxrbeq&atmo=99999 999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/98/10/18/npass18.html&pg=/et/98/10/18/npass18.html Credit card plastic passport to be issued within two years By David Bamber, Home Affairs Correspondent A NEW credit card size passport which can be inserted in a computer scanner on arrival in another country will be issued to British travellers within two years. Trials are expected to begin soon of the system which allows passengers to bypass traditional immigration officials. When entering a country travellers would insert their plastic passport in a card reader and hold their hands to a screen to check palm prints. Both would be linked to a database containing travellers' details. The process would take 15 seconds and make lengthy airport queues a thing of the past. A prototype card with a digital photograph of the holder has already been developed. Passport Agency officials have been in discussions with the computer giant IBM about their Fastgate card system which has already been installed in Bermuda, a British colony. A passport agency official said: "It looks like a credit card and it can be swiped through Customs and allow people to enter a country without having their traditional passport examined by an official." He said that the new prototype had a digital hologram photograph of the holder and other special security devices which made forging them difficult. Last night a Home Office official confirmed that the credit card-style passport is being developed. He said: "We have become involved in the early stages of exploring the IBM Fastgate system." The official said that no date has yet been set to issue the cards to the public or to start trials at an airport in the Britain. But Home Office sources have revealed that a trial of the system is likely to be carried out by installing it at a Government building so that tests can be carried out to see if the security system can be breached. John Tincey, technology officer of the Immigration Service Union which represents 2,000 staff who check passports in Britain, said his members had been aware for some time of discussions about a computerised credit card style system. He has compiled a report for his union which was submitted to the Home Office. In it, he concluded: "The new technology will save on running costs, reduce staff numbers and increase profits. Even the Home Office will be unable to resist the financial advantages of the new technology." He added that because so many other countries will introduce credit card style systems, Britain would either lose business because of retaining lengthy checks on travellers, or alternatively loosen controls by selectively abandoning checks to minimise delays. Last night he also warned of possible job losses and the danger that the cards could be open to counterfeiting or abuse. At Bermuda International Airport, the Fastgate cards were introduced in May. Travellers use a touch screen to answer a few simple questions. The computer checks the data against information held on computers and also makes sure there are no arrest warrants out or requests to intercept the traveller. Usually the process takes just 15 seconds. Ken Thornton, of IBM, said: "Governments improve security and service. Airports improve competitiveness. And airlines and card issuers improve customers service." There is even the prospect of electronic visas being issued in the future, either as separate credit card style documents or logged on a computer. Even when the credit card style passports are introduced, the traditional paper passports will still be issued for some time because many countries will take years to install the necessary technology. © Copyright of Telegraph Group 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 or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: Fwd: Evaluation of Vehicle Stopping Prototype ("Kill Switch")
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Bridget973(a)aol.com Subject: IP: Fwd: Evaluation of Vehicle Stopping Prototype ("Kill Switch") Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:38:53 EDT To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com (I am posting just in case this wasn't already posted to the list..Mary) Subject: Evaluation of Vehicle Stopping Electromagnetic Prototype Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:34:20 -0400 From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt(a)coil.com> To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt(a)coil.com> [Note from Matthew Gaylor: Several years ago on this list I mentioned that EMP devices will soon be used to stop car chases. Several of my subscribers wrote in and said I must be crazy, that I lived in a science fiction fantasy. Oh well, the future is now.] >From the US Justice Dept.'s NCJRS listservs <ncjrsadm(a)aspensys.com> * Evaluation of Vehicle Stopping Electromagnetic Prototype Devices: Phase III - Engineering Field Testing Solicitation To curtail high-speed chases, NIJ is requesting applications for prototype electromagnetic devices designed to stop motor vehicles that are in motion. Approved applicants will provide prototypes for field testing, with the hope of proceeding to operational testing by law enforcement agencies. The NIJ Solicitation, "Evaluation of Vehicle Stopping Electromagnetic Prototype Devices: Phase III - Engineering Field Testing," provides information on application requirements and deadlines. "Evaluation of Vehicle Stopping Electromagnetic Prototype Devices: Phase III - Engineering Field Testing" (Solicitation) (SL000298) is available on the NCJRS World Wide Web site (http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/sl298.txt) ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd.,#176, Columbus, OH 43229 Archived at http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/listarch?list=FA@coil.com ************************************************************************** -- bridget973(a)aol.com Black Helicopters on the Horizon: http://members.xoom.com/bridget973 **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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