December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: APRIL BAY AREA CYPHERPUNKS MEETING
by jimbell＠pacifier.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:32 4/10/97 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >The April Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting will be held jointly with the >Clan MacDude Back To The Beach party, April 12 at Bonny Doon Beach. >( www.macdude.org , http://www.macdude.org/aprbeach.htm for event >description.) >Among other things, John Randolph was planning to do a >Great Wall of Fire with his leftover moving boxes, and various >other cypherpunks are part of the Glorious Clan, which is a generally >silly organization. While I couldn't make it this time, I'd be interested in showing up for the next Bay area meeting if somebody could provide transportation to/from the airport/train-station/bus-station. A place to crash for a night would be a big plus. Anyone volunteering to help will get "Jim Bell" autographs. Might be worth something some day... ("Get them while I can still give them"!) Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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http:--www.cnn.com-US-9704-13-mcveigh.trial-
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo navigation Infoseek/BigYellow/Pathfinder/Warner Bros. Main banner Samsung. Meeting the challenge. rule MCVEIGH CASE COULD SET PRECEDENT FOR JURY ANONYMITY jurors.sketch April 13, 1997 Web posted at: 4:01 p.m. EDT (2001 GMT) From Correspondent Susan Candiotti DENVER (CNN) -- Unless they decide to tell the world, the jurors who decide the fate of accused bomber Timothy McVeigh may remain forever anonymous. Trial Judge Richard Matsch assigned each jury candidate a number, and permanently sealed their records. But he has gone even further to protect their identities, ordering a partition to hide the jury box from the view of most courtroom spectators. For example, reporters must sit on one side of the court, where it's impossible to see behind the wall. matsch Georgetown University law professor Paul Rothstein says Matsch "has gone a little overboard." Unless there is evidence of danger or threat to the jurors, he says, "the presumption should be for an open trial in every respect, including being able to view the jurors." But Andrew Wolfberg, who served on the jury for the trial of Eric and Lyle Menendez, says protecting jurors' identities in the Oklahoma City bombing trial is important. "I think with this trial, there involved the death of many people ... which can in some way cause the jury to feel they have something to fear from this defendant," he said. In high-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial, jurors' names are protected until the trial is over. And where TV coverage is allowed, faces are not shown on camera. mcveigh.jury Despite the secrecy, once the trial was over, some Simpson trial jurors hired agents, wrote books and hit the talk show circuit. Despite Matsch's caution and concern, some observers say he might be setting a precedent. "It's turning our system of justice upside down," says Jane Kirtley of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "Because what it means is that the public really has no idea of who is sitting in judgment of people accused of heinous crimes." Decisions like Matsch's, opponents like Kirtley say, deny the public's right to "know" who sits on a high-profile jury. OKC Trial Special Section T R A N S C R I P T S / O V E R V I E W / T H E P L A Y E R S T H E B O M B I N G / C N N S T O R I E S / L I N K S rule What You Think Tell us what you think! You said it... [INLINE] Samsung. Meeting the challenge. rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Bombing Denver? / Or: How Capt. Button Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The story thus far: An United States A-10 warplane on a live bombing run breaks formation and spends the next hour flying toward Colorado. Just short of Vail, it changes course, headed toward Denver, and then shortly thereafter changes direction, heading south, only to reverse its course, and once again head toward Denver/Vail. During this whole time, the Air Force contends that no radio contact was made, nor did they know where the plane was. They offer no explaination except an extremely weak claim that perhaps the pilot was suicidal or stressed. The bottom line is that the media seems to be totally ignoring the fact that even the military's shakey explaination of these events suggests that the American public may have been in great danger from a mentally unbalanced Air Force pilot in control of a war-machine capable of creating mass destruction upon an American city. Even the least bit of scrutiny of the trail followed by the A-10 suggests a pilot who had a destination in mind, had to take evasive action upon nearing his target, and then doubled back toward his original target. And the best explaination that the military can provide is that a U.S. warplane capable of doing major damage to a U.S. city just flew around for over an hour, with no way for the military to prevent it from bombing our citizens. The military tells us that a warplane approached some of the most sensitive military installations in the country, without being noticed or intercepted. The fact is, the military is in a no-win situation, whether they reveal that U.S. citizens were potentially endangered by the military's lack of control over U.S. warplanes, or reveal that they were forced to intercept and shoot down a U.S. warplane intending to attack a U.S. populated area. I have no doubt that the military, given time, will come up with a cover story which contains "plausibal deniability," etc., etc. The big mystery is why the media seems incapable of even raising questions probing at the obvious holes in the government's irrational explainations of this affair. TruthMonger http://cnn.com -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Patent Giveaway Bill - House vote could be week of April 14th
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Got this one off one of my favorite um, hydrophobic, right-wing lists. Actually, I *like* the idea of adopting the Japanese model, a patent system which was designed from the gitgo to strip technology from the original patentholders and accellerate its transfer to people who could implement it faster. Evolution in action, and all that. Of course, I expect that, <duck> geodesic markets </duck> will reward people who come up with new stuff -- and not people who control old stuff -- by exponentially depreciating old information as fast as it's created. "Piracy" being the most efficient form of information transfer on a ubiquitous network, and, with so-called watermarking, cryptolopes, etc., only being able to tell you who your copy was "pirated" from, the first copy of anything will be auctioned off dear, and subsequent copies will be sold dear in radiating secondary markets. Jason Cronk just wrote a paper on this, based on his rump-session talk at FC97. I don't have the URL handy, but his email address is <mailto:rjasonc@purple.reddesign.com>. Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 15:12:56 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: NS1.Content.Net: byxbe set sender to rightnow-request(a)MailList.Net using -f X-Sender: eagle(a)accessus.net (Unverified) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:58:35 -0500 To: eagle(a)eagleforum.org From: Eagle Forum <eagle(a)eagleforum.org> Subject: Patent Giveaway Bill - House vote could be week of April 14th Mime-Version: 1.0 Resent-From: rightnow(a)MailList.Net X-Mailing-List: <rightnow(a)MailList.Net> archive/latest/116 X-Loop: rightnow(a)MailList.Net Precedence: list Resent-Sender: rightnow-request(a)MailList.Net PATENT GIVEAWAY BILL House vote could be week of April 14th April 11, 1997 Phone or fax your Congressman (202) 225-3121 and urge him to vote NO on H.R. 400, which is misnamed the Patent Improvement Act but should be called the Patent Giveaway bill or the Ron Brown Sellout Legacy. This bill would write into law Ron Brown's Commerce Department news release of August 16, 1994, which promised the Japanese that we will change our patent law to acquiesce in the demands made by the Japan Patent Association in its written statement of September 1993 (which called our patent system "unsatisfactory" and demanded changes). That statement is impudent and insulting to Americans. H.R. 400 would transform the U.S. Patent Office into a private corporation that could accept bribes for the issuing of patents. Of course, the bill doesn't use the nasty word bribes; it just says that the Patent Office "may accept monetary gifts or donations of services, or of real, personal, or mixed property, in order to carry out the functions of the Office." With all the recent scandals about Asian money used to influence U.S. policy, this would be a terrible mistake. The entire text of H.R. 400 is a sellout to the Japanese demands. This bill would order all patent applications to be made public 18 months after the application is filed, whether or not the inventor has yet been granted a patent. This dramatic change from our traditional treatment of patents would be a grievous injustice to the individual inventor because it would allow foreigners and multinationals to use their enormous resources to steal the inventor's idea and beat him into production. H.R. 400 would loosen up the "reexamination" of U.S. patents already issued and allow foreign and domestic corporations to participate in the process after paying a "reexamination fee." H.R. 400 even specifies that the board of directors of the new private patent office shall include persons "with substantial background and achievement in corporate finance and management." That puts the multinationals in the driver's seat to ride roughshod over the rights of individual inventors. Instead of ratifying the Ron Brown sellout deal, Congress should stand up for one of our most important constitutional rights - the right of inventors to have, for limited times, "the exclusive right to their . . . discoveries." This unique provision in the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8) marked a profound turning point in world history; it started the marvelous series of American inventions that have raised our standard of living and built America into an industrial super power. H.R. 400 invites Asian money to diminish a precious American constitutional right. It is a scandal that Congress cannot afford to be involved in. Vote NO on H.R. 400. See our sample letter to Congress: http://www.eagleforum.org/conglet/1997/patents.html ============================================ EAGLE FORUM PO Box 618 Alton, IL 62002 Phone: 618-462-5415 Fax: 618-462-8909 Are you on our E-mail list? Just send us an e-mail message with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line! Tell a friend about us! 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Bombing Denver / Why has no one ever seen Jim Bell and Capt. Buttons together?
by null＠myemail.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So, according to the Air Force, an armed warplane was allowed to approach within a few miles of one of the most important underground military installations in the country, without anybody noticing. Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods? Are cypherpunks revisionists handling the current military disinformation campaign on this event? An armed warplane capable of delivering its payload upon unwary U.S. citizens gives every indication of making an attempt to do so, and no major media even broach the possibility of this being the case. I think perhaps I'll drop my cable news channels and subscribe to the 24-hour a day "Happy Days" network. If I'm going to live in fantasy land, I'd rather watch the Fonz raise his eyebrows when mentioning the Bobsie twins, without once suggesting that he would like to bang the living shit out of them. TruthMunster ************************************************************************ This Anonymous email has been relayed by http://www.MyEmail.net/ MyEmail.Net is a free anonymous mailing service. No records indicating the identity of person(s) who originated this message are retrieved electronically, or as a requirement to submit. Your email address can be blocked to prevent further contact from this service, please refer to the URL above for instructions on how to do so. ************************************************************************

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Bombing Denver / Why has no one ever seen Jim Bell and Capt. Buttons together?
by null＠myemail.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So, according to the Air Force, an armed warplane was allowed to approach within a few miles of one of the most important underground military installations in the country, without anybody noticing. Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods? Are cypherpunks revisionists handling the current military disinformation campaign on this event? An armed warplane capable of delivering its payload upon unwary U.S. citizens gives every indication of making an attempt to do so, and no major media even broach the possibility of this being the case. I think perhaps I'll drop my cable news channels and subscribe to the 24-hour a day "Happy Days" network. If I'm going to live in fantasy land, I'd rather watch the Fonz raise his eyebrows when mentioning the Bobsie twins, without once suggesting that he would like to bang the living shit out of them. TruthMunster ************************************************************************ This Anonymous email has been relayed by http://www.MyEmail.net/ MyEmail.Net is a free anonymous mailing service. No records indicating the identity of person(s) who originated this message are retrieved electronically, or as a requirement to submit. Your email address can be blocked to prevent further contact from this service, please refer to the URL above for instructions on how to do so. ************************************************************************

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lambda 3.02 - Big Brother goes international
by owner-lambda-en＠freenix.fr 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- lambda 3.02 April 14, 1997 Sender: owner-lambda-en(a)freenix.fr Precedence: bulk * Private Communications Under International Scrutiny: --> Key escrow encryption: The OECD says no, individual countries endorse it --> A global pact for universal wiretapping gains ground in Europe, with support of the U.S. and other industrialized nations * Short-Circuits: --> Social security data causes privacy concerns in U.S., France * * * * * OECD tries to prevent privacy abuses on encryption policy The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released on March 27 its "Guidelines For Cryptography Policy," after more than a year of intense talks between officials from the 29 governments (see http://www.oecd.org/dsti/iccp/crypto_e.html) Yet there was one pleasant surprise: the guidelines do not explicitly urge governments to establish "key escrow" encryption schemes, although individual countries will be able to act according to its own wishes, for "national security" purposes. According to the Washington, DC-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, among the eight basic principles adopted by the OECD, one is the rejection of key escrow encryption (see point 6, "lawful Access"). "The U.S. sought endorsement for government access to private keys. Initial drafts of the guidelines included this recommendation. The final draft does not. OECD countries rejected this approach," said EPIC. The good point is an "endorsement of voluntary, market-driven development of crypto products. The OECD emphasized open, competitive markets to promote trade and commerce in new cryptographic methods." However, the United States, France and Britain have taken steps to pursue key escrow schemes -- but northern Europe isn't signing on. * USA: From EPIC Alert 4.05: "The White House has released a new draft proposal on key escrow encryption to the Congress. The draft (dated March 12) is entitled the 'Electronic Data Security Act of 1997.' The legislation is the latest attempt to push forward the result the Administration sought to achieve with the failed Clipper Chip initiative -- ensuring government access to all encrypted communications through government-escrowed keys." Resources: http://www.epic.org/crypto/ http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/web/crypto_amer.html * France: A decree that will clearly establish the next trusted third-party scheme for business and individuals has not yet been released by the government. Draft proposals (see lambda 3.01) mentioned certain "national" preferences for future TTP agencies. These proposals have divided government officials (it may be an obstacle to common-market principles covering the free flow of capital and workers in the European Union). And the OECD clearly states (see point 8, "International Cooperation") that: "In order to promote international trade, governments should avoid developing cryptography policies and practices which create unjustified obstacles to global electronic commerce. Governments should avoid creating unjustified obstacles to international availability of cryptographic methods." * Britain: The U.K.'s Department of Trade and Industry released its proposal last month on licensing encryption services. According to Ross Anderson, the famed Cambridge University-based cryptographer: "Their effect will be to ban PGP and much more besides," because licensing will be mandatory. An excerpt of the draft regulations say: "We intend that it will be a criminal offence for a body to offer or provide licensable encryption services to the UK public without a valid licence. [...] Public will be defined to cover any natural or legal person in the UK. [...] Encryption services is meant to encompass any service, whether provided free or not, which involves any or all of the following cryptographic functionality - key management, key recovery, key certification, key storage, message integrity (through the use of digital signatures) key generation, time stamping, or key revocation services (whether for integrity or confidentiality), which are offered in a manner which allows a client to determine a choice of cryptographic key or allows the client a choice of recipient/s." Anderson commented: "The licence conditions imply that only large organisations will be able to get licences: small organisations will have to use large ones to manage their keys (this was the policy outlined last June by a DTI spokesman). The main licence condition is of course that keys must be escrowed, and delivered on demand to a central repository within one hour. The mere delivery of decrypted plaintext is not acceptable except perhaps from TTPs overseas under international agreements." The DTI report: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/dti.html Other resources: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/web/crypto_brit.html * Scandinavia: Despite these measures, the Nordic countries meanwhile released user-friendly plans to offer a secure and non-escrowed electronic mail system, called the Nordic Post Security Service (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). Every Scandinavian citizen will soon be offered the possibility of opening an e-mail account using smart card technology that allows for digital signatures and strong encryption of up to 1024 bit-length keys, a high level security. The private key will be embedded on the card, and no TTP system is planned. * * * * * Europe is launching a universal wiretap network The British watchdog group Statewatch revealed confidential documents from the European Union's intergovernmental meetings that show a global wiretapping system is under way among Europe, the United States and other industrialized countries. Legally speaking, the resolution and memorandum agreed among the EU's 15 countries have not yet been accepted by national parliaments, so it has no value except as a clear and profound indication of political will. See the full report, archived on the lambda's server thanks to Statewatch: http://www.freenix.fr/netizen/swreport.html Tony Bunyan, the director of Statewatch, published a communique at the end of February explaining the basic purposes of the wiretap plan: -- fwd message -- "The Council of the European Union and the FBI in Washington, USA have been cooperating for the past five years on a plan to introduce a global telecommunications tapping system. The system takes advantage of the liberalisation of telecommunications -- where private companies are taking over from national telephone systems -- and the replacement of land/sea based lines and microwave towers by satellite communications. Telephone lines are now partly land-based or under sea or via microwave land-based towers but the new generation of telecommunications will be totally satellite-based." The EU-FBI initiative notes the demise of: 1. state-owned telephone companies 2. nationally-based telephone systems is concerned about: 3. the problems faced with intercepting "mobile" phones and encrypted communications and wants to ensure: 4. there is harmonisation of national laws on interception 5. to ensure that telecommunications provider business cooperate with the police and internal security 6. the equipment produced has standards which can be intercepted 7. as many countries as possible to sign up and thus create a de facto global system (through provisions of equipment etc to third countries). A related disclosure in a book by Nicky Hager shows that instead of "suspects" and "targets" the ECHELON system simply trawls the airwaves for "subversive thoughts" in written form and increasingly in verbal form. ECHELON is run under the 1948 UKUSA agreement by the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia." -- end of fwd message -- * * * * * Short-Circuits: Social security data causes privacy concerns in U.S., France The Internet site of the U.S. Social Security Administration was closed due to privacy concerns, in that it supplied information about an individual's personal income and retirement benefits, the Washington Post reported April 10. Abstracts from the Edupage press review: "The shut-down followed receipt by the Administration of a harshly critical letter written by a bipartisan group of legislators who said the site's security systems were inadequate. To obtain information, a computer user needed merely to supply a name, address, telephone number, place of birth, Social Security number, and mother's maiden name -- items that are available in many private databases." In France, the government adopted on April 2 a draft law that extends the use of social security numbers, known as NIR, to tax authorities (the French equivalent to the U.S.'s Internal Revenue Service). The NIR is one of the most sensitive pieces of social data in Europe, since it classifies individuals according to their place of birth and is linked to all social benefits files. Earlier attempts in the 1970s to extend the NIR to other parts of the government had failed. The government passed these measures officially to fight fraud in social benefits households (minimum salary, housing aid, family pensions, etc.). The national data privacy commission, the CNIL, along with the League for Human Rights, expressed great concerns about the plan, which, if implemented by parliament, could especially harm low-income people. --- end of lambda 3.02 --- www.freenix.fr/netizen/302-e.html Jerome Thorel, April 1997. English proof-reader: K. N. 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Re: Bombing Denver? / Or: How Capt. Button Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

snow wrote: > > > The story thus far: > > An United States A-10 warplane on a live bombing run breaks formation > > and spends the next hour flying toward Colorado. > > And the best explaination that the military can provide is that a > > U.S. warplane capable of doing major damage to a U.S. city just flew > > around for over an hour, with no way for the military to prevent it > > from bombing our citizens. > > The military tells us that a warplane approached some of the most > > sensitive military installations in the country, without being noticed > > or intercepted. > > Well, Considering that A-10's can fly comfortably in "ground clutter", > or "trees" as civilians call them, it isn't suprising to me that they > couldn't track the fucker, and it is my firm belief that if the pilot > had wanted to dump his paylod over denver, coffin makers would be on overtime > right now. So you are basically claiming that Jim Bell's AP system opens the door for U.S. military personnel to participate, given the fact that U.S. defences are incapable of screening the mentally unstable from having possession of the latest in hi-tech armaments, or stopping them if they should choose to pick up a little cash on the side? Does your "firm belief" account for the fact that, upon changing direction near the end of the flight, as if in a bombing run for Denver or Vail, the A-10 suddenly reversed direction, as if taking evasive action, and then circled back to resume it's run, before disappearing? Even giving the least threatening scenario, that the pilot went for an innocent joyride and ran out of gas, it astounds me that the media could just wholeheartedly embrace the military's limp explainations of the fact that an armed warplane could wander at will through some of the most sensitive military areas in the country, and not bring this to the public's attention. Perhaps the bars and lounges that the news media personnel relaxed in during Desert Storm, while feeding the public the military's press releases verbatim were disassembled and moved to the U.S. It would be a shame if the media raised troubling questions in regard to this affair and the Pentagon raised the price of drinks in the media lounge. TruthMonger

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Re: Bombing Denver? / Or: How Capt. Button Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy C. May wrote: > The A-10 is believed by Reliable Sources to have been on its way to bomb > the Federal Building, while the McVeigh trial was starting, in Denver. > > (I'm on some strange lists and can't vouch for this revelation.) Which begs the question, "Would those lists be strange if you 'weren't' on them?" (Sorry, I couldn't help myself...) -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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