December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Fwd: Re: Snowball fight '98 - '99
by John C 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by mschneider 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Xtra CASH $ !
by tee2e＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

X-Info: X-Info:Sent using Zenith Bulk Emailer (FREE) STOP Before you act in haste PRINT this and read it a few times! It makes more sense after you look it over and think about it. Take the chance you never know what will happen!!! You are about to make up to $50.000-In less than 90 days Read the enclosed program Then read it AGAIN! The main reason for this letter is to convince you that this system is honest, lawful, extremely profitable and is a way to get a considerable amount of money in a short time. I was approached several times before I checked this out. I joined just to see what one could expect in return foe a minimal effort and money required. This is the letter that got my attention, Read on and I'm sure you will agree that this is a great plan! BEGINNING OF THE LETTER.. Dear friend, The enclosed information is something I almost let slip through my fingers. Fortunately, sometime later, I re-read everything and gave some thoughts and study to it. Please do the same. It's so simple to do. And you won't be left out in the cold to figure it all out yourself. Look further down in this letter for information you will receive from Abot Marketing. They give you 10.000 fresh email addresses and give you the locations of the best software " free software" to send large quantities of email. They even give you easy to understand, proven, step by step instructions for success with this program. In fact, they helped me get started and I'm so thankful. It's hard to believe that this is as simple as it is, but it really is SIMPLE. You will even get support from them via email anytime you need it. You won't get this kind of help from any other programs of this nature. It makes all the difference in the world. My name is Anne Bowman, I am 31-years-old graduate student desperately trying to finish my degree and begin working in my chosen field --that is, if I am lucky enough to find a job in the crowded market. Like most people in this day and age, it is hard to make ends meet and being a student does not help the situations at all.( If I ever have to buy one more box of macaroni and cheese I think I would have to scream). I returned to school after having worked for years with little potential for achieving what I had expected out of life. I figured if I returned to school and receive my Ph.D there would be several opportunities for me out there to achieve my goals. After seeing my fellow graduate students receive their degrees and depressingly, not find respectable position in their chosen field I began to think, "Oh no, not again". Four extra in school and an extra $20.000 in students loan on top of the first $18.000, what will I do if the same happens to me? I began to doubt my! ! patience for long term investment in schooling and decided enough was enough, "Why can't I make real money now instead of waiting to graduate with no guarantee of a lucrative return for all my efforts!" I am writing to share my experience with other hopeful students out there, as well as ANYONE looking for an opportunity to take their financial situation into their hands. I hope you will consider this opportunity seriously and that this will change your life FOREVER!!, FINANCIALY!!!!!! And once you get started it takes so little of your time. In mid Octomber97 I received this program. I didn't send or ask for it, they just got my name off a mailing list. I TOOK THIS AS A SIGN!!! After reading it several times, to make sure I was reading it correctly, it made perfect sense. Here was a MONEY-MAKING PHENOMEN. I could invest as much as I wanted to start (about as much as it cost for a pizza!), without putting me further in debt. After I got a pencil and paper and figured it out, I would at least get my money back. After determining that the program is ********LEGAL and NOT A CHAIN LETTER**********, I decided " I have NOTHING TO LOOSE" Initially I sent 15,000 emails, (without any costs to me), only a couple of hours of my time on-line. The great thing about email is that I didn't need any money for printing to send out the program, only the time to fulfill my orders. There is a vast on-line market available to everyone who owns a computer. Following the advice of a person from whom I received this letter, I am telling you like it is and hope it doesn't turn you off, but I promised myself I would not "rip-off" anyone, no matter how much money it cost me. After you receive the reports they should explain you everything to you. You may have some general questions, however, and after I send you report #1, please feel free to contact me and I will give you any advice you need. In one week, I was starting to receive orders for REPORT#1. By mid November, I had received 40 orders for REPORT#1. When you read the GUARANTEE in the program you will see that "YOU MUST RECEIVE 15 TO 20 ORDERS FOR REPORT #1 WITHIN 2 WEEKS, IF NOT, SEND OUT MORE PROGRAMS UNTIL YOU DO!". My first step in making $50.000 in 20 to 90 days was done. By the beginning of December, I had received 174 orders for report#2. If you go back to the GUARANTEE: "YOU MUST RECEIVE 100 OR MORE ORDERS FOR REPORT#2 WITHIN TWO WEEKS. IF NOT SEND OUT MORE PROGRAMS UNTIL YOU DO. ONCE YOU HAVE 100 ORDERS, THE REST IS EASY, RELAX, YOU WILL MAKE YOUR $50.000 GOAL". Well, I had 174 orders for REPORT#2, 74 more than I needed. So I sat back and relaxed. By January 20th, of my emailing of 15.000, I received $54,ooo with more coming in everyday. The great thing about this program is you can begin the process over and over again without any limit on potential income. I paid off ALL my student loans and together with everything I have learned in school. I am now saving in order to open up my own business related to my field as soon as I graduate. Please take time to read the attached program. It will CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER! Remember, it won't work if you don't try it. This program does work, but you must fallow it EXACTLY! Especially the rules of not trying to place your name in a different place on the list. It doesn't work, you'll loose out on a lot of money! REPORT#2 explains this. "ALWAYS" follow the GUARANTEE, 15 to 20 orders of REPORT#1 and 100 or more orders of REPORT#2 and you will make $50.000 or more in 20 to 90 days. I am a living proof that IT WORKS. If you chose not to participate in this program, I am sorry. It really is a great opportunity with little cost or risk to you. If you chose to participate, follow the program and you will on your way to financially security. To my fellow graduated students out there, good luck to you and I sympathize. And to all other persons in financially trouble consider this letter as a sign and please take advantage of this opportunity. YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED! Sincerely, Anne Bowman THE END OF THE.LETTER The following testimonial was at the bottom of this letter but it was too good to leave it down there so I moved it up here. It is exactly how I felt and feel now. "The first week after I started this program was torture. I couldn't wait to see if it is was really going to work after I mailed out my first batch of letters. I chuckle every day now when I walk out of the post office with my envelopes. This is so easy, I still can't believe it's happening!" Don Masterson, Troy, NY $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ >From here down is the instructions portion of this letter.. This is a legal, MONEY-MAKING PHENOMEN. Print the letter, read the directions, THEN READ IT AGAIN. You are about to embark on the most profitable and unique program you may ever see. Many times over, it has demonstrated and proven its ability to generate large amounts of cash. This program is showing fantastic appeal with a huge and ever-growing on-line populations desirous of additional income. This is a legitimate, LEGAL, moneymaking opportunity. It does not require you to come in contact with people, do any hard work and best of all, you never have to leave the house, except to get the mail and go to the bank! This truly is that lucky break you've been waiting for! Simply follow the easy instructions in this letter and your financial dreams will come true ! When followed correctly, this electronic, multi-level business marketing program works perfectly..100% EVERY TIME! Thousand of people have used this program to -Raise capital to start their own business -Pay off debts -Buy homes, cars, etc. -Even retire! This is your chance, so don't pass it up! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~OVERVIEW OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY ELECTRONIC MULTILEVEL MARKETING PROGRAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Basically, this is what we do: We send thousands of people a product for $5.00 that cost next to nothing to produce and e-mail. As with all multi-level business, we build our business by recruiting new partners and selling our products. Every state in U.S allows you to recruit new multi-level business on-line (via your computer). The products in this program are a series of four business and financial reports costing $5.00 each. Each order you receive via "snail mail" will include: $5.oo cash The name and number of the report they are ordering The e-mail address where you will e-mail them the report they ordered To fill each order, you simply e-mail the product to the buyer. The $5.oo cash is yours! This is the most EASIEST electronic multi-level business anywhere. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER AND BE PREPARED TO REAP THE STAGGERING BENEFITS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -----INSTRUCTIONS------ THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST DO: 1.ORDER all 4 reports shown on the list below (you can't sell them if you don't have them). For each report, send $5.00 cash, the NAME & NUMBER OF THE REPORT YOU ARE ORDERING, YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS, AND YOUR RETURN POSTAL ADDRESS(in case of a problem) to the person whose name appears on the list next to report. When you place your order, make sure you order each of the four reports. You will need all 4 reports, so you can save them on your computer and resell them. Within a few days you will receive, via e-mail, each of the four reports. Save them on your computer so they will be accessible for you to send to the 1,000's of people who will order them from you. 2. IMPORTANT- Do not alter the names of the people who are listed next to each report, or their sequence on the list, in anyway other than is instructed below in steps "a" through "d" or you will loose out on the majority of your profits. Once you understand the way this works, you will understand. Why it doesn't work if you change it. Remember, this method has been tasted and if you alter it, it will not work. a. Look below for the listing of the available reports. b. After you've ordered the four reports, replace the name and address under REPORT#1 with your name and address, moving the one that was there down to REPORT#2. c. Move the name and address that was under REPORT#2 down the REPORT#3. d. Move the name and address that was under REPORT#3 down the REPORT#4. e. The name and address that was under REPORT#4 is removed from the list and HAS NO DOUBT COLLECTED THEIR 50 GRAND. Please make sure you copy everyone's name and address accurately!!!! 3.Take this entire letter, including the modified list of names and save it to your computer. Make no changes to the instructions portion of this letter. 4. Now you are ready to start an advertising campaign on the internet! Advertising on the internet is very, very inexpensive and there are hundreds of free places to advertise, but email, by far proven itself to be the best medium for this program. And the emailers best friend is email lists. You can buy these lists for under $20/20.000addresses or you can pay someone a minimal charge to take care of the mailing for you. Be sure that you ad campaign IMEDIATELY! Each day that passes while you think about it, is a day without profit. 5. For every $5.00 you receive, all you must do is e-mail them the report they ordered. THAT'S IT! Always provide same day service on all other orders! This will guarantee that the e-mail they send out with your name and address on it, will be prompt because they can't advertise until they receive the reports. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Available reports ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***Order each report by number and name*** Notes: - Always send $5.00 cash for each report - Always send your order via first class mail - Make sure the cash is concealed by wrapping it in at least two sheets of paper!!! - On one of those sheets of paper include : a)the number and name of the report you are ordering, b)your email address, c) your postal address (using the printer is the best way to do this) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REPORT#1 "HOW TO MAKE 250,000 THROUGH MULTILEVEL SALES" ORDER REPORT#1 FROM: T Evans 297 Castro St. #B San Francisco CA,94114 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REPORT#2 "MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND MULTILEVEL SALES" ORDER REPORT#2 FROM: Mateescu F Str.Abatorului bl.1 ap.15 Sibiu-2400 ROMANIA **********IMPORTANT NOTE********** US DOLLARS CURRENCY only and $5 bill must be new, at least made in 1993 and don't fold it. Once again, make sure the cash is concealed by wrapping it in at least "two" sheets of paper! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REPORT#3 "SOURCES FOR THE BEST MAILING LISTS" Christian S PO BOX 1092, JKB 11010 INDONESIA ORDER REPORT#3 FROM: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REPORT#4 "EVALUATING MULTILEVEL SALES PLANS" J.F.J P.O. BOX 342 McCormick, SC 29835-0342 USA ORDER REPORT#4 FROM: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HERE IS HOW THIS AMZING PLAN WILL MAKE YOU $MONEY$ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let's say you decide to start small jut to see how well it works. Assume your goal is to get 10 people to participate on your first level (Placing a lot of FREE ads on the INTERNET will easily get a larger response). Also assume that everyone else in your organization gets only 10 down line members. Folow this example to achieve the STAGGERING results below. 1st level--your 10 members with $5$50 2nd level --10 members from those 10($5x100)..$500 3rd level--10 members from those 100($5x1000)$5.000 4th level--10 members from those 1000($5x10000)$50.000 THIS TOTALS-------------------------------$55,550 Remember friends this assumes that the people who participate only recruit 10 people each. Think for a moment what would happen if they got 20 people to participate! Most people get 100's of participants! Think about it!!!!. Your cost to participate in this is practically nothing (surely you can afford $20 for a chance to make $55,000). You obviously already have an internet connection and email is free!! REPORT#3 shows you the most productive method for bulk emailing and purchasing e-mail lists. Some list & bulk e-mail vendors even work on trade! About 50,000 new people get on-line every month.!!!!!!! **********TIPS FOR SUCCESS****************** *TREAT THIS AS YOUR BUSINESS! Be prompt, professional and follow the directions accurately. *Send foe the four reports immediately so you will have them when the others start coming in because: When you receive a $5 order, you must send out the requested product/report to comply with the U.S. postal and lottery Lows. *Always provide some-day service on the orders you receive. *Be patient and persistent with this program. If you follow the instructions exactly the results will undoubtedly successful! *ABOVE ALL, HAVE FAITH IN YOUSELF AND KNOW YOU WILL HAVE SUCCESS. I CAN' T STRESS ENOUGHHOW IMPORTANT THIS NEXT SECTION IS!!!! If you don't receive 10 to 20 orders for REPORT#1 within two weeks, continue advertising until you do. Then, a couple of weeks later you should receive at least 100 orders for REPORT#2. If you don't, continue advertising until you do. Once you have received 100 or more orders for REPORT#2, you CAN RELAX, because the system is already working for you and the cash will continue to roll in! THIS IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: Every time your name is moved down on the list, you are placed in front of a DIFFERNT report. You can KEEP TRACK OF YOUR PROGRESS BY watching which report people are ordering from you. If you want to generate more income, send another batch of emails and start the whole process again! THERE IS NO LIMITS TO THE INCOME YOU WILL GENERATE FROM THIS BUSINESS! NOTE: If you need help with starting a business, registering a business name, how income tax is handled, etc., contract your local office of the SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION(a federal agency) for free help answers to questions. Also, the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE offers free help via telephone and free seminars about business taxes. *****TESTIMONIALS****** The first week after I started this programwas torture. I couldn't wait to see if it was really going to work, after I emailed out my first batch of letters. I chuckled every day when I walk out of the post office with my envelopes. This is so easy I still can't believe is happening! Don Masterson, Troy , NY This program does work but you must follow it EXACTLY! Especially the rule of not trying to place your name in a different position, it's won't work and you'll lose a lot of potential income. I AM A LIVING PROOF THAT IT WORKS. It really is a great opportunity to make relatively easy money, with little cost to you. If you do chose to participate, follow the program exactly and you will on your way to financial security. Sean McLaughlin, Jackson, MS My name is Frank. My wife, Doris, and I live in Bel-Air, MD. I am a cost accountant with a major U.S. Corporation and I make pretty good money. When I received the program I grumbled to Doris about receiving " junk mail". I made fun of the whole thing, spouting my knowledge of the population and percentages involved. I "knew" it won't work. Doris totally ignored my supposed intelligence and jumped in with both feet. I made merciless fun of her and was ready to lay the old "I told you so" on her when the thing didn't work. .Well, the laugh was on me!! Within 2 weeks she had received over 50 responses. Within 45 days she had received over $147,200 in $5.oo bills! I was shocked! I was sure that I had it all figured and that it wouldn't work. I am a believer now. I've joined Doris in her "hobby" . I did have seven more years until retirement, but I think of the "rat race", and it is not for me. We own it all to MLM. Frank T., Bel-Air, MD I just want to pass along my best wishes and encouragement to you. Any doubts you have, will vanish when you first orders come in. I even checked with U.S. Post Office to verify that the plan is legal. It definitely is! IT WORKS!!! Paul Johnson, Raleigh, NC The main reason for this letter is to convince you that this system is honest, lawful, extremely, profitable and is a way to get a large amount of money in a short time. I was approached several times before I checked this out. I joined just to see what one could expect in return for a minimal effort and money required. To my astonishment, I received $36,470.00 in the first 14 weeks, with money still coming in. Sincerely yours, Phillip A. Brown, Esq. Not being the gambling type, it took me several weeks to make up my mind to participate in this plan. But conservative that I am, I decided that the initial investment was so little that there was just no way that I wouldn't get enough orders to at least get my money back. Boy, was I surprised when I found my medium-size post office box crammed with orders! For awhile, it got so overloaded that I had to start picking up my mail at the window. I'll make more money this year than 10 years of my life before. The nice thing about this deal is that it doesn't matter where in the U.S. the people live. There simply isn't a better investment with a faster return. 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VSNL Censors Indian Internet Sites.
by Vipul Ved Prakash 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

17 November, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Vipul Ved Prakash, 2233328. VSNL Censors Indian Internet Sites NEW DELHI, INDIA - VSNL, the Indian Internet monopoly, has been illegally blocking Internet access to a number of Indian web sites for the last several weeks, a Delhi-based Internet presence provider revealed today. The block affects only Indian citizens in India - users anywhere else in the world are not affected. One of the sites targeted is Sense/NET, (www.sensenet.net) Sense/NET lets users of VSNL's text-based shell account use the graphical Netscape browser over their shell accounts, while using only the normal shell account facilities that VSNL provides. With Sense/NET, the common man can surf the Internet just like with VSNL's premium TCP/IP service, but at a fraction of the cost. General Logic, the startup company behind the Sense/NET service, is not taking the blocking of its server lightly. "We did not so much as receive any communication from VSNL about this step, which has the potential to seriously affect our business," said Dr. Pawan Jaitly, a director of the company. "It seems very strange, too, that a security breach was attempted on our server over the Internet just days before the blockage." The censored server, at the (currently blocked) IP address of 208.222.215.97, hosts a number of other web sites including the largest Yellow Pages of Indian exporters and importers available on the Internet and the corporate web sites of the Apple Publishing Technology Center, NewGen Software, and Educational Consultants India Limited. The award-winning web site of Connect magazine, the first Indian print publication to launch a web edition, is also located on the General Logic server. Sense/NET users and others affected by the block who called up VSNL's help desk to request clarification on this issue and access to the sites were told by VSNL staffers that they did not know what the problem was, and that they themselves could not access the sites in question. No official intimation or even acknowledgement about the block has been forthcoming from VSNL. This is not the first time VSNL has blocked access to selected sites on the Internet. On September 19, 1998, online activist Dr. Arun Mehta's writ petition was admitted for hearing in the court of Justice Anil Dev Singh, Delhi High Court, against VSNL, challenging its blockage of certain Internet sites. The sites listed in the petition provide information and software for voice transmissions over the Internet. The petition argues that this action "is wholly without basis in law and amounts to arbitrary and illegal censorship of the petitioner's Fundamental Right to freedom of speech, expression and information as well as an illegal denial of his right to freedom to practice his chosen profession." The petition seeks affirmation that the constitutional rights to free speech apply equally in cyberspace, and it also opens up the issue of VSNL's ban on Internet telephony to judicial scrutiny. The matter will come up for hearing on December 9, 1998. The case is being argued by Mr. Ashok Aggarwal. The Exporters and Importers Yellow Pages web site hosted on General Logic's recently blocked server is a vital e-commerce resource for over sixty-five thousand traders who earn India valuable foreign exchange. "This ban will hurt Indian exporters as well. By banning access to sites... VSNL is cynically choosing to let the nation suffer severe loss if in the process it can safeguard its own monopolistic profits," said Dr. Mehta. "Ironically, VSNL also blocked Educational Consultants, a public sector government organization, with its action." General Logic was able to move all the web sites that were the victims of VSNL's action to a non-blocked area within hours. "Most of our clients didn't even notice their sites and email messages were being blocked by VSNL," said Dr. Jaitly. The Sense/NET site remains blocked, however. "What VSNL is doing is completely illegal. A website is a means of expression and is covered by the right to expression of all indian citizens under article 19(1)a of the Indian Constitution. This can only be restricted under article 19(2) on 'reasonable grounds' which include obscenity, but certainly not the provision of competitive services at reasonable cost," commented Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, managing editor of First Monday, a European journal on Internet law. Last year a duo of computer whiz-kids in Cochin released Shellsock, a software package that made it possible for users of VSNL shell accounts to browse the 'Net graphically. VSNL quickly set about working on ways to break Shellsock, and eventually succeeded in restricting the environment on its shell accounts to the extent that Shellsock was unable to function. General Logic launched its Sense/NET service soon after, with the goal of providing TCP/IP Internet 'tunneling' service to users worldwide, not just in India. "There are other countries suffering under the yoke of state censorship of the Internet, like China, whose authoritatian government, without warning, blocked access to the BBC web site for its citizens," said Dr. Mehta. "VSNL is a monopoly that is crippling India's progress on the Internet front." Even Microsoft, he observed, which holds an effective monopoly in the operating system market worldwide, has no mandate by any government in the market - it has to keep forging ahead or lose to its competitors. "VSNL does not have that motivation, and so it is that the Indian consumer and India suffer." Besides the threat of censorship and poor service, another risk with state monopoly Internet access providers is that they can read your mail, and monitor your communications, as the data flows through their systems. Jaitly disclosed that his company is working on providing strong military grade encryption as part of its Internet tunneling services, to provide secure private networks across untrusted links for business and personal use. "We envision Sense/NET as a sort of 'Meta ISP' providing secure, uncensorable Internet tunneling service to people in places where local access providers are unable or unwilling to deliver full access," said Vipul Ved Prakash, Director of research at General Logic. "We believe in every individual's fundamental right to access human knowledge without restriction. Our message to these people is: 'There's light at the end of the tunnel.'" It's not all crypto-anarchy and dreams of digital revolution, however. Sense/NET is a valuable service for ordinary users who are attempting to make the most effective use of their VSNL shell accounts with the limited services provided. Many of the subscribers to the service are students and other low income groups, who simply cannot afford VSNL's higher priced services. A case in point is that of Pranav Lal, a New Delhi student. Pranav is blind, and VSNL's shell account is next to useless for him. Sense/NET on the other hand allows him to use voice-enabled software to surf the 'net. "I can't afford the VSNL TCP/IP account, but for me it is vital that I am in touch with my peers over the world over the Internet," says Pranav. "Sense/NET is great because it lets me handle my email and navigate the web really simply." "We see the global free flow of ideas across national borders, enabled by digital data communications and encryption technology, as the most liberating development of the 20th century," said Ashish Gulhati head of development at General Logic. "Regulation is futile," he added. The company expects its services will be most in demand in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. "It's shocking that this kind of thing continues to go on in India," observed Dr. Mehta. "We're the world's largest democracy, on the brink of entering the 21st century as a major player in the global software industry. But we're still enslaved by laws created during the British Raj, even in high priority areas like telecom." [1324 Words] _________________________________________________________________ Notes: 1. Dr. Arun Mehta's petition is at <http://members.tripod.com/~india_gii/telepet.html>. 2. The Forum for Rights to Electronic Expression articles are at <http://www.eff.org/pub/Groups/FREE> 3. Censored sites: + http://www.sensenet.net/ (Currently blocked) + http://www.trade-india.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.aptc-india.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.edcil.org/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.newgensoft.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.newgen.net/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.connectmagazine.com/ (Now accessible on a new server) + http://www.net2phone.com/ (Currently blocked) + http://www.vocaltec.com/ (Currently blocked) + http://www.netspeak.com/ (Currently blocked) 4. Email addresses: + Dr. Arun Mehta - amehta(a)cerf.net + Ashish Gulhati - ashish(a)generalogic.com + Ashok Agarwal - ashokagr(a)del2.vsnl.net.in + Dr. Pawan Jaitly - pawan(a)generalogic.com + Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - ghosh(a)firstmonday.dk + Vipul Ved Prakash - vipul(a)generalogic.com _________________________________________________________________ Rev: SNPR v0.06 1998/11/17 15:58:14 webmaster(a)generalogic.com -- VIPUL VED PRAKASH Cryptography. "Everything is what mail(a)vipul.net | Distributed Systems. | it is because it got http://vipul.net/ | Network Agents. | that way." 91 11 2233328 | Perl Hacking. | 198 Madhuban IP Extension | Linux. | d'arcy thompson. Delhi, INDIA 110 092 / Networked Media. /

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Nov. 22 bonus column - Year 2000
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:29:09 -0700 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:28:33 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: vin(a)dali.lvrj.com Mime-Version: 1.0 To: vinsends(a)ezlink.com From: Vin_Suprynowicz(a)lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: Nov. 22 bonus column - Year 2000 Resent-From: vinsends(a)ezlink.com X-Mailing-List: <vinsends(a)ezlink.com> archive/latest/596 X-Loop: vinsends(a)ezlink.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: vinsends-request(a)ezlink.com FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA DUE TO LENGTH, PLEASE CONSIDER THIS YOUR BONUS ESSAY FOR NOVEMBER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED NOV. 22, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz I don't know nothin' 'bout no Y2K OK, I admit it: I've been ducking the "Y2K" question. It's the most frequent inquiry I get, these days. And last weekend, while participating in an electronic chat room organized by the Liberty Roundtable, I had the questions come up several more times: "What do you see happening in the Y2K crisis? To what part of the country should we move to be safest?" For those who have been in a cave, "Y2K" is shorthand for the problem that develops because -- computer memory having been at a premium -- the programmers who set up many of our mainframe computers back in the 1970s and '80s created only a two-digit field for "year." Now -- starting April 1, 1999, if not sooner -- operators are going to try to program the computers that monitor our utility grids and phone systems, the factory machinery that generates "just-on-time delivery" of goods, even our railroad and airport switching equipment, giving those machines their instructions for the first quarter of the year "00." But (pardon my anthropomorphing) many of those computers will "assume" the year 00 happened 99 years ago. Anecdotes are already circulating about mortgage holders being billed for 99 years of delinquent interest, or supermarket debit machines rejecting as "expired" brand new debit cards which carry expiration dates ending in "00" or "01. " So far, opinion among thoughtful people has been split on the likely repercussions. Some perfectly wise folks argue that our economy and technology are the most innovative and resourceful ever devised. Even if your bank's ATMs go on the fritz for a couple of days, even if the railroad switching equipment bogs down and produce deliveries to your supermarket grow spotty for a few weeks, armies of well-paid technicians will hurl themselves into developing "work-arounds." To this way of thinking, survivalists who foresee the collapse of large segments of our urban culture, putting a premium on ownership of a cow and a well and a garden for the first time in 50 years, are merely engaging in wishful thinking. Generally a bunch of Bible-thumpers (as this line of thought goes), they would find it mighty handy for some kind of cosmic rain of brimstone to wipe away the urban Sodom and Gomorrah they view as the cause of all their problems, proliferating as that urban culture does the legions of the socialists, the welfare queens, the abortionists, the enviro bug-worshippers, the gun-grabbers. How fitting and handy to envision them all killing each other off, fighting over the last moldy crust of bread. And, if the Y2K "crisis" were about to occur in perfect isolation, that argument would hold some water (even if this revelation of a nation divided into urban-versus-rural, East-versus-West, gun-lover versus gun-hater, would be worth some further study, all by itself.) But remember, Y2K is "shorthand." And as it turns out, it stands for a lot more than just "Year 2000." The problem is that -- not exactly simultaneously, but all within the next couple of years -- a few other problems are likely to crop up. Without predicting a specific order: # # # 1) The fractional reserve banking system that dates back to the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1912-13 is in deep crisis. Buoyed by the supposed guarantee that the International Monetary Fund (our long-suffering friends, the U.S. taxpayers) would bail out any failures, our "private" bankers (and those of Japan) have been recording trumped-up double-digit returns by loaning billions to such bankrupt chicken farms as Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico. These loans are no good. And they are pyramided and leveraged atop one another like something out of Dr. Seuss. In this country, too, the pursuit of ever-higher returns and the presumption that everyone can live the good life on credit have encouraged foolish loans and investments based on the notion that the federal government "insures all deposits," and that we can always pay off our debts with that raise we hope to get next year. Once these assumptions start to unravel, the only debate will be whether to describe the fallout with references to "dominoes," or that old favorite, the "house of cards." Remember, as Jimmy Stewart explains to his depositors every year in "It's a Wonderful Life," the current system is based on the assumption (are you noticing that word crop up a lot?) that only a small percentage of depositors will ever want to take all their money out at the same time. Otherwise, the banks would be, well, bankrupt. This kind of fraud is only legal because the government specifically licenses people to do it, on the theory that it "creates more credit, to promote economic growth." 2) Then comes that old stalwart, the New York Stock Exchange. Prices there have been many times what can be justified by traditional price-to-earning ratios for years. That sounds arcane, but what it means is that few investors are buying stocks these days because they've always wanted to own a piece of Hammermill or Coca-Cola, and look forward to reading the annual reports and living off the dividends in their golden years. Dividends? Mere pennies! Folks buy these stocks today because the guy who's selling them made an 18 to 21 percent return in 1997, and the buyer hopes to realize 18 to 21 percent when he sells them in the year 2000. When the holder of a mutual fund can no longer even tell you what products or services are offered by the underlying firms that issued the stocks in his or her "portfolio," what you have is a "bubble." Think tulip bulbs, Everglades building lots, Cabbage Patch dolls, baseball cards, beanie babies. # # # 3) Today's dollar is intrinsically worthless. First it was made of gold; then it said "pay to the bearer in gold;" then silver, now it's a certificate redeemable for exactly nothing. Dollar-denominated Treasury bonds are also intrinsically worthless. They are merely a promise to tax our children or grandchildren to pay us back in still more paper -- Libertarians call them "extortion futures." Bill Clinton is one of the luckiest men in history ... so far. Most rational (non-Keynesian) economic models would predict that -- at the rate at which the United States has been printing and passing worthless green paper for the past 30 years -- we should be in the midst of a hyperinflation that would make the Weimar Republic look boring. But the funniest thing happened: All over the world, people love and respect America as the font of freedom, and figure the dollar must really be worth something -- certainly more than their worthless domestic ruble or zlotny. So they hide dollars in their mattresses. Those dollars don't come back to these shores to bid up the price of American goods. So we're fine ... so far. But there's a reason why the guys who get arrested by your local bunko squad are called "con artists." Their stock in trade is "confidence." Remember Y2K? Imagine now that the ATM machines stop working. Since the nation's major railroad switching yards are now entirely computerized -- the old manual switches were torn out years ago -- the grocery store runs out of fresh produce. Some computer messes up at the sewage treatment plant, and before they can figure out a manual override some sewage backs up into the reservoir. Suddenly you're warned to boil your cooking water, like some barefoot Third World peasant. Without explanation, the phones go dead. Long lines form as folks start panic-buying remaining supplies of gasoline, kerosene lanterns, and canned goods -- price no object. There are a few fistfights over the last rolls of toilet paper. Pressed by jealous mobs to "do something," blustering politicians declare that anyone who stores too much stuff is a "hoarder." Neighbors are encouraged to turn in neighbors -- offered a reward from the seized goods when they're "redistributed." Every electronic alarm in the city goes off all at once, leaving police and fireman scurrying around, clueless. Some looting starts -- after all, it's the "hoarders" who are the real criminals, right? TV pictures of all this go out overseas, until the broadcasts are limited "to prevent panic." What has just been lost? "Confidence." Now folks want to draw out their bank accounts in cash. They want to sell their stocks ... but how can everyone sell when the prices are falling so quickly that there are no buyers, and the phone lines to your broker are tied up for days on end? 4) There is no "Social Security Trust Fund." The thief you keep sending back to Congress helped them spend it all. Already, the retirement age is being raised, and there's serious talk of "means testing" payments -- only making full payments to the drunks and losers and compulsive gamblers who accrued no other savings or assets. Kind of like taxing all the industrious little ants, but only paying off the lazy grasshoppers. Sound like a "guaranteed annuity" to you? Assurances of ongoing "Trust Fund" solvency are based on the optimistic assumption (there's that word again) that Social Security payments by younger workers will continue at current levels. But what if there's a recession, with big layoffs? What if the computers at the IRS are rumored to be down as of late 1999? What if lots of people decide to just stop filing and paying federal taxes in early Year 2000, on the theory, "They're off line, anyway. If we ALL stop, they can't come find ALL of us"? (This would never have happened in the 1950s, of course, when American taxpayers -- generally paying less than 5 percent of gross income so you could still support a family on one salary -- considered it "our" government and were proud to do their patriotic duty at tax time. But since then the liars have brought us Vietnam, Watergate, Chinagate, Filegate, Ruby Ridge, and Waco ... IRS auditors and drug police routinely referring to average Americans as "scum" and gleefully seizing our homes, businesses and bank accounts, tens of thousands of young people jailed for marijuana despite popular votes to legalize the stuff, defendants railroaded by smug federal politician-judges without even being allowed to read the Bill of Rights to their juries. Still consider it your "patriotic duty" to feed this beast with half of what you earn? Or did you think your pal the congressman was suddenly, desperately searching for "an alternative to the IRS" just out of the goodness of his heart?) And what happens now to the carefully-drawn charts that show Social Security is "sound until the year 2012"? # # # Irresponsible speculation? If so, I'm not alone. Appearing in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Nov. 17, U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, chairman of a Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, said turn-of-the-century computer glitches could cause "an economic downturn" in the United States and abroad. "Potentially, this could tie up huge parts of the economy," Sen. Bennett told John G. Edwards of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, after a private meeting with executives at the Comdex computer trade show. "There will be a problem. There is no question that we can't fix everything that needs to be fixed (over the next 14 months)." Sen. Bennett told the newspaper he believes less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America will be most affected by Y2K problems, though they're reportedly "working hard" to resolve the computer glitches. "My current assumption is that the United States will overcome this without overwhelming, crippling problems," the senator proclaimed. Then he said he is also concerned about how the millennium bug will affect the health care industry. "I wouldn't want to get sick in some rural hospital," the senator said, cheerily. Meantime, the Sacramento Bee reported (also on Nov. 17) results of an August poll that shows most California cities and counties have a plan to eradicate the year 2000 bug ... "but less than half have set aside the money to pay for it." Feeling reassured? Into this potential maelstrom, toss three wild cards: 1) If Americans, hypothetically told at some future date that stocks and bonds have fallen to one-third of their previous nominal values, could be counted on to behave like sophisticated, diversified investors, saying "Oh well, you win some, you lose some," then the market could indeed fall by two thirds without causing a meltdown. But the behavior of large groups of people, once they start moving, is rarely so rational. Would you want to be the last one on your block to cry "Sell"? When a market crashes, folks lose their jobs. What happens then to folks who have no hard savings or supplies but plenty of debt ... who have barely been keeping their heads above water? What liberties -- yours as well as theirs -- would they then gladly trade for a steady supply of hot porridge? 2) The kind of people who gravitate to government "service" never voluntarily accept blame, but they (start ital)are(end ital) always looking for ways to expand their power. Can you spot any aspects of these "Y2K" scenarios that might give government agencies an excuse to seize more power; to further restrict our freedoms under the guise of "offering relief and restoring order"; and then to blame the whole situation on someone else. "Greedy capitalists," perhaps, who have been operating with "too little regulation"? 3) We will be increasingly reassured that "the best minds" are hard at work re-writing computer code to prevent any of this from happening. But computer nerds and denizens of the Internet are, in my experience, the most free-thinking, libertarian ... even anarchist residents of our little global village. They are immensely confident in their self-sufficiency. And they do not like Big Brother -- especially when he threatens to mess with their privacy and freedom. So ... what if a few of them are only (start ital)pretending(end ital) to fix the problem? It may take a village to raise a socialist, but it wouldn't take many Y2K saboteurs to seize this opportunity to "topple the state." # # # A long way around to a relatively short answer: No, I'm not a professional financial advisor. But yes, I know exactly what is going to happen. Everything listed above is going to happen. I just don't know (start ital)when(end ital) each thing is going to happen, or in what particular order -- which is what you really need to know, if you think about it. But since there's no real penalty for being "too prepared" -- other than perhaps looking a bit foolish -- I will fearlessly give a little (absolutely amateur) advice, which should apply in the face of almost (start ital)any(end ital) unforeseen emergency. (And if you start preparing yourself for the smaller emergencies now, at least you'll be part-way home.) Pay down your debts. Turn a hobby into a second, part-time business ... a small but separate income stream. Diversify. Owning a bunch of "funds" with different names, which are in fact all dollar-denominated electronic blips at some government-regulated bank or brokerage house, is not sufficient. Do you own any bullion-value gold coins (not coins with grossly-inflated "collector value," but coins priced at no more than twice their meltdown worth)? Have you hidden away any bags of "junk silver" (pre-1965 real silver dimes and quarters, now selling at about four times face value)? Do you have a supply of greenbacks somewhere other than "in the ATM?" Enough to live on for a week? A month? Rich folks can look into Swiss annuities. But even those of moderate means can think about a beat-up looking American pickup truck ... with enough dough left over to stockpile an extra water pump, an extra fuel pump, extra tires and wheels, an extra battery ... and some wrenches, you yo-yo. Don't panic. Don't sell everything and move somewhere to become an unemployed stranger ... unless you really have the assets, the manpower, and the handyman skills to set yourself up right. Do consider whether you could dig a well (or drink out of the creek) and plant a vegetable garden where you live, should things get tough for a time. If not, do you have friends or relatives within driving distance, where such things are possible? Would they take you in if you arrived as an unwashed beggar? For how long? But what if you were to contact them now, asking permission to store some supplies there, and even to help finance their plans to fix up a room in the loft, to till and fence a bigger garden, or to share the costs and ownership of a four-wheel-drive vehicle? What then? Do you have water and non-perishable food stored to get you through a week? A month? (Freeze-dried gourmet camper's fare is fine for the well-heeled, as are surplus Army MREs. But bulk rice, oats, and dried peas in plastic tubs are surprisingly cheap, if you shop around.) More than a week's supply of toilet paper, soap, and other hygiene products? Pet food? The doctors and insurance companies don't want you to stockpile the prescription medicines you legitimately need, do they? How hard have you worked at outsmarting them? As a last resort, think "veterinarian." Do you have alternative ways to heat and light your home, if the power were to go down? (Residents of blizzard country will actually have a head start, here.) If not, is that because you look forward to someday living in a "government resettlement camp"? Could you protect your family and belongings from home invaders, if the police could not be reached? Would your neighbors help? Would you help (start ital)them(end ital)? Do you even know their names? Do you own any firearms? Are they listed on government pre-confiscation lists? Why? Do you know why shotguns and handguns are generally better home-defense weapons than rifles? Do you know with what types of bullets or shells it's best to load such weapons for home defense? Got any? Why not? Afraid that once you start to learn new stuff it might become a habit? Dying during a crisis is not the worst thing that can happen to you. I imagine that watching the suffering of those who counted on you to protect them can be much worse. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The web sites for the Suprynowicz column are at http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm, and http://www.nguworld.com/vindex. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John Hay, 1872 The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943 * * * --- 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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CJ Update
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Received today by e-mail: November 16, 1998 Springfield, Missouri To: friends of Carl Johnson, The Last Canadian Outlaw (name of his last album) From: Alia Johnson I saw CJ today at the Springfield facility for the criminally disturbing. We spent five hours, a lot of laughing, a little crying, and talking, with lots of cameras and mikes on us. The controllers would not let me take notes! First, CJ's great hope and request to his friends is to hang in there with him. He intends to go all the way with this to trial, being his own defense lawyer, even though he believes that since the Feds know they will lose, they will try to get him to plea bargain down to "walking his dog without a leash" as he puts it. He is definitely on a mission. He received John's package, nothing from Declan. He has received about half the mail I sent him. They are reading his mail to his lawyers, supposedly forbidden. CJ has been without glasses and without his teeth for the whole time since he was arrested. JEFF GORDON STILL HAS CJ'S TEETH. However, his vision has improved! He is also without proper medication for his Tourette's. The shrink told him that the amphetamines he had been prescribed and which were working well would probably be stolen by the staff anyway. CJ is very conscious of managing his neurological condition, with coffee, sugar, fasting, and self-control. He does complain that he was so pleased with himself that he got through his last rage attack without hurting himself or acting it out that he punched a wall in celebration and hurt his hand! Even though he is supposed to be his own lawyer, he has not even been informed about his indictment nor has he been informed about anything else about his case. At Springfield he has been in lockup for things that he purportedly did at the Florence, Arizona prison. The shrink gets a message this past weekend that suddenly I am coming down, and this morning before I get there he rushes in to tell CJ he's finally moving him out of lockup into the open ward! Wolfson later tells me that over two weeks ago he notified the federal marshalls that CJ can be moved back to Arizona, but he had not told CJ that. I don't know whether it's true. He actually took me to task for coming on such short notice. CJ was very happy that the things he has sent out have been posted, and it is clear that the support of the cypherpunks community is important to him. He did not talk to me about particular defense strategies for obvious reasons. He did indicate that the story that I relayed to John about the incident in the federal courthouse in Estevan involving a supposed gasoline "bomb" (a version of which incident was part of a story by Declan) was a surprise to him; he seemed both surprised and amused about what actions had been attributed to him. To say I know and understand nothing about this incident is an understatement. I mention it only because it is part of Jeff Gordon's original complaint, a significant part I assume since CJ has never been known to do physical injury to a human being. CJ has not seen the stories by Declan nor what has been posted; I sent a hundred pages of stuff to Larry Dowling his Austin lawyer, including copies of Declan's articles. I had not sent these things to CJ on the assumption that they would be censored. CJ suggested that I ask Dowling to sent them with the instruction on the envelope "open in the presence of the inmate only". Again, he wants to see these things because his spirit is hanging on the support from John and the rest of the community, although he said very clearly that he is doing this on his own and would do it alone if he had to. Just before I left to come here, having finally been cleared as a visitor, I got a call from Linda Lou Reed, saying that she had not done a couple of things needed to get his music CD together, since she has been out of town. CJ and I talked about how to get this together and I will work on it with other Tucson friends. Someone had the idea of selling the CD's to support a legal defense fund. I will report progress as it occurs. And speaking of legal defense support, thanks to John and others who made suggestions about legal support. After many hours of discussion the family decided that it was not the most intelligent thing to put up the meagre family fortunes against the federal government, and therefore we intend at this point to trust CJ's defense to his stated (and historically effective) plan to be his own defense, or to public defenders. With some trepidation I brought this up to CJ, and he was relieved; he said that he had been worried that we would try to pay for a defense in this case, which again he intends to push all the way through no matter what compromises are offered to him, and that our paying for his defense was not what he wanted. Therefore I would like to put out to those who know the situation to help CJ to obtain relevant legal information and consultation as he goes into this, in whatever form it is available. If there are costs that I personally can afford to support, I am happy to. CJ has made repeated requests for access to legal books at Springfield, and they disappear into nowhere, no yes, no no. An interesting point: CJ related that Dr. Wolfson had asked him about his filing of IRS tax forms! As if they were on a fishing expedition looking for other things to get CJ on, as they did with Jim Bell. I confronted Wolfson about this, asking how it was relevant to the issue Wolfson was supposed to be investigating, which is CJ's competence to understand the charges against him and to stand trial. At that exact moment he jumped up and said that he urgently needed to answer a page which he had received five minutes before. I overheard the conversation which he had suddenly urgently to engage in, and it was a trivial conversation about returning a copy of a document to someone. But when he returned to me he said "Well I have three reasons for having asked that." Already suspicious, to have three reasons. The main reason Wolfson said was that CJ says he has attention deficient disorder (ADD) associated with the Tourette's, and that asking if someone filed taxes was a good indicator of their attention span! (Could I be making this up?) I said, why not pick something like, can you make it through the college registration process? He replied, "I'm not used to working with educated people." Other "reasons" he gave: 1) I want to give a thorough medical, psychological, social and legal picture as part of my judgment whether someone is capable of understanding the charges against him, because if I leave significant things out of my report I am more likely to be receiving a subpoena to wherever CJ is being tried, and that's inconvenient for me; and 2) there are all these wacko people who question the authority of government to levy taxes, put people to trial, etc., and I need to determine whether he's one of those and therefore suffering as part of a mass delusion (his words)... he lost me there a little bit. I didn't know whether that would be evidence of sanity or insanity. Anyway he seems to be sending off CJ into the next stage with a report that CJ might have Tourette's, is not schizophrenic, and in his experience is not dangerous. CJ does have some mighty interesting observations about how things are done in this federal nuthouse situation, which god willing we will all get to hear someday. Meanwhile he has sent out certain information to Declan on specific incidents in the facility which he observed, but is concerned that it was not received. Our expectation is that CJ will be returned to Tucson and then extradited to Washington, but clearly as a form of harrassment the marshalls are taking their own sweet time about everything. CJ's "case manager" at Springfeld is Bob Harris. The phone number there is 417 862 7041, and CJ's prisoner number is 05987-196. Any correspondence to anywhere in the prison system needs to have that number on it. John Bogart in Tucson (520 624 8196) is the public defender in CJ's local case, pending his extradition to Washington state. The family retained Larry Dowling in Austin, a very old friend of CJ's and his lawyer for a long time, for a small amount to look after CJ's rights during incarceration; we have not retained him to go the full way in this defense, for the reasons stated above. Supposedly John Bogart will be informed when the marshalls actually choose to move CJ (after the fact). Therefore I suggest that those who want to write to CJ write him soon and by fast mail at U.S. Medical Center, POB Box 4000, Springfield, Missouri 65801. Larry Dowling's address is 606 West 11th, Austin, 78701. I assume he might be willing to forward it to CJ on the assumption that CJ will in fact be moved. Larry has been a true friend throughout this and past tribulations. CJ has said that since he has been incarcerated for three months now with no indication to him as to formal charges, it is time to act to get him out of Springfield. I concur, and unless I hear within a week that he is being moved, I will take some of the cypherpunk friends up on their offer to begin to address this case through the local ACLU. CJ's greatest fear is that he will do something that will justify involuntary drug administration, and he will be defeated in that way. He is also afraid that he will simply be killed in prison. However, all in all I found CJ in pretty good spirits, and clearly feeling "on purpose" vis a vis his goals with his cypherpunk activities. I related to him during our talk that one of my sons just took some time off from university so that he would have time to actually read, and that he had accurately predicted to his friends exactly how I would respond to the news: "Honey, I'm so proud!" CJ said that's how I seemed to feel now about his arrest. It is, finally. I trust that CJ, in spite of a pattern of sometimes shooting himself in the foot, is brilliantly inspired by important libertarian values and goals. I appreciate the education and inspiration I have gained from getting to know this side of his life and some of the people, technologies, issues and ideas of which previously I had only vague notions. Alia Johnson (lodi(a)well.com) my phone 510 548 2008; my fax 510 848 7842.

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CJ Update Corrected
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is attorney protected information. Received today by e-mail: November 16, 1998 Springfield, Missouri To: friends of Carl Johnson, The Last Canadian Outlaw (name of his last album) From: Alia Johnson I saw CJ today at the Springfield facility for the criminally disturbing. We spent five hours, a lot of laughing, a little crying, and talking, with lots of cameras and mikes on us. The controllers would not let me take notes! First, CJ's great hope and request to his friends is to hang in there with him. He intends to go all the way with this to trial, being his own defense lawyer, even though he believes that since the Feds know they will lose, they will try to get him to plea bargain down to "walking his dog without a leash" as he puts it. He is definitely on a mission. He received John's package, nothing from Declan. He has received about half the mail I sent him. They are reading his mail to his lawyers, supposedly forbidden. CJ has been without glasses and without his teeth for the whole time since he was arrested. JEFF GORDON STILL HAS CJ'S TEETH. However, his vision has improved! He is also without proper medication for his Tourette's. The shrink told him that the amphetamines he had been prescribed and which were working well would probably be stolen by the staff anyway. CJ is very conscious of managing his neurological condition, with coffee, sugar, fasting, and self-control. He does complain that he was so pleased with himself that he got through his last rage attack without hurting himself or acting it out that he punched a wall in celebration and hurt his hand! Even though he is supposed to be his own lawyer, he has not even been informed about his indictment nor has he been informed about anything else about his case. At Springfield he has been in lockup for things that he purportedly did at the Florence, Arizona prison. The shrink gets a message this past weekend that suddenly I am coming down, and this morning before I get there he rushes in to tell CJ he's finally moving him out of lockup into the open ward! Wolfson later tells me that over two weeks ago he notified the federal marshalls that CJ can be moved back to Arizona, but he had not told CJ that. I don't know whether it's true. He actually took me to task for coming on such short notice. CJ was very happy that the things he has sent out have been posted, and it is clear that the support of the cypherpunks community is important to him. He did not talk to me about particular defense strategies for obvious reasons. He did indicate that the story that I relayed to John about the incident in the federal courthouse in Estevan involving a supposed gasoline "bomb" (a version of which incident was part of a story by Declan) was a surprise to him; he seemed both surprised and amused about what actions had been attributed to him. To say I know and understand nothing about this incident is an understatement. I mention it only because it is part of Jeff Gordon's original complaint, a significant part I assume since CJ has never been known to do physical injury to a human being. CJ has not seen the stories by Declan nor what has been posted; I sent a hundred pages of stuff to Larry Dowling his Austin lawyer, including copies of Declan's articles. I had not sent these things to CJ on the assumption that they would be censored. CJ suggested that I ask Dowling to sent them with the instruction on the envelope "open in the presence of the inmate only". Again, he wants to see these things because his spirit is hanging on the support from John and the rest of the community, although he said very clearly that he is doing this on his own and would do it alone if he had to. Just before I left to come here, having finally been cleared as a visitor, I got a call from Linda Lou Reed, saying that she had not done a couple of things needed to get his music CD together, since she has been out of town. CJ and I talked about how to get this together and I will work on it with other Tucson friends. Someone had the idea of selling the CD's to support a legal defense fund. I will report progress as it occurs. And speaking of legal defense support, thanks to John and others who made suggestions about legal support. After many hours of discussion the family decided that it was not the most intelligent thing to put up the meagre family fortunes against the federal government, and therefore we intend at this point to trust CJ's defense to his stated (and historically effective) plan to be his own defense, or to public defenders. With some trepidation I brought this up to CJ, and he was relieved; he said that he had been worried that we would try to pay for a defense in this case, which again he intends to push all the way through no matter what compromises are offered to him, and that our paying for his defense was not what he wanted. Therefore I would like to put out to those who know the situation to help CJ to obtain relevant legal information and consultation as he goes into this, in whatever form it is available. If there are costs that I personally can afford to support, I am happy to. CJ has made repeated requests for access to legal books at Springfield, and they disappear into nowhere, no yes, no no. An interesting point: CJ related that Dr. Wolfson had asked him about his filing of IRS tax forms! As if they were on a fishing expedition looking for other things to get CJ on, as they did with Jim Bell. I confronted Wolfson about this, asking how it was relevant to the issue Wolfson was supposed to be investigating, which is CJ's competence to understand the charges against him and to stand trial. At that exact moment he jumped up and said that he urgently needed to answer a page which he had received five minutes before. I overheard the conversation which he had suddenly urgently to engage in, and it was a trivial conversation about returning a copy of a document to someone. But when he returned to me he said "Well I have three reasons for having asked that." Already suspicious, to have three reasons. The main reason Wolfson said was that CJ says he has attention deficient disorder (ADD) associated with the Tourette's, and that asking if someone filed taxes was a good indicator of their attention span! (Could I be making this up?) I said, why not pick something like, can you make it through the college registration process? He replied, "I'm not used to working with educated people." Other "reasons" he gave: 1) I want to give a thorough medical, psychological, social and legal picture as part of my judgment whether someone is capable of understanding the charges against him, because if I leave significant things out of my report I am more likely to be receiving a subpoena to wherever CJ is being tried, and that's inconvenient for me; and 2) there are all these wacko people who question the authority of government to levy taxes, put people to trial, etc., and I need to determine whether he's one of those and therefore suffering as part of a mass delusion (his words)... he lost me there a little bit. I didn't know whether that would be evidence of sanity or insanity. Anyway he seems to be sending off CJ into the next stage with a report that CJ might have Tourette's, is not schizophrenic, and in his experience is not dangerous. CJ does have some mighty interesting observations about how things are done in this federal nuthouse situation, which god willing we will all get to hear someday. Meanwhile he has sent out certain information to Declan on specific incidents in the facility which he observed, but is concerned that it was not received. Our expectation is that CJ will be returned to Tucson and then extradited to Washington, but clearly as a form of harrassment the marshalls are taking their own sweet time about everything. CJ's "case manager" at Springfeld is Bob Harris. The phone number there is 417 862 7041, and CJ's prisoner number is 05987-196. Any correspondence to anywhere in the prison system needs to have that number on it. John Bogart in Tucson (520 624 8196) is the public defender in CJ's local case, pending his extradition to Washington state. The family retained Larry Dowling in Austin, a very old friend of CJ's and his lawyer for a long time, for a small amount to look after CJ's rights during incarceration; we have not retained him to go the full way in this defense, for the reasons stated above. Supposedly John Bogart will be informed when the marshalls actually choose to move CJ (after the fact). Therefore I suggest that those who want to write to CJ write him soon and by fast mail at U.S. Medical Center, POB Box 4000, Springfield, Missouri 65801. Larry Dowling's address is 606 West 11th, Austin, 78701. I assume he might be willing to forward it to CJ on the assumption that CJ will in fact be moved. Larry has been a true friend throughout this and past tribulations. CJ has said that since he has been incarcerated for three months now with no indication to him as to formal charges, it is time to act to get him out of Springfield. I concur, and unless I hear within a week that he is being moved, I will take some of the cypherpunk friends up on their offer to begin to address this case through the local ACLU. CJ's greatest fear is that he will do something that will justify involuntary drug administration, and he will be defeated in that way. He is also afraid that he will simply be killed in prison. However, all in all I found CJ in pretty good spirits, and clearly feeling "on purpose" vis a vis his goals with his cypherpunk activities. I related to him during our talk that one of my sons just took some time off from university so that he would have time to actually read, and that he had accurately predicted to his friends exactly how I would respond to the news: "Honey, I'm so proud!" CJ said that's how I seemed to feel now about his arrest. It is, finally. I trust that CJ, in spite of a pattern of sometimes shooting himself in the foot, is brilliantly inspired by important libertarian values and goals. I appreciate the education and inspiration I have gained from getting to know this side of his life and some of the people, technologies, issues and ideas of which previously I had only vague notions. Alia Johnson (lodi(a)well.com) my phone 510 548 2008; my fax 510 848 7842.

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CJ Update Corrected (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:30:56 -0500 > From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > Subject: CJ Update Corrected > This is attorney protected information. Not now. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) 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: Rivest Patent
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vin McLellan (or someone using his name), in an otherwise closely argued posting, subtly missed the point with: [...snip...] > I was never impressed by the absolutist argument against > patents on math-based processes. Mr. Cordian summarized > this POV: "The fact that the [RSA] patent couldn't be > successfully challenged even though its mathematical > underpinnings were well known years prior reflects badly only > upon the notion of mathematical patents, and hardly refutes the > facts in evidence." By that logic, it seems to me, a basic > knowledge of physics could invalidate almost all patents > for mechanical inventions.) > [...snip...] > The real point is surely that a patent for a device invented by someone with a basic knowledge of physics is used to protect the *invention* not the *knowledge*. They are not used to prevent anyone else inventing another device using the same basic knowledge of physics. Even if it is perfectly just for the RSA (or any other) patent "taken as a whole" to be used to protect "not merely a disembodied mathematical concept but rather a specific machine"; that *doesn''t* mean it is neccessarily just to use the patent to protect that "disembodied mathematical concept" when it is used in some other "specific machine". But software patents *are* used to try to stop people employing the same algorithms in other inventions. So, despite the ingenuous ruling of the court they *are* being used to try to control "disembodied mathematical concepts" - in other words ideas. I have no idea if Watt had a patent on the steam governor. But I bet he didn't try to take one out on Boyle's Law. Ken Brown

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