December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Happy Holidays
by bart＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As one who reflexively deletes all of Larry's posts under whatever his name-of-the-moment may be, I sometimes wonder if I'm missing some gems hidden in the mass of text. I have presumed, and hope, that those still reading him, will share anything of value. :-)

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Re: Happy Holidays
by jkreznar＠ininx.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Especially in this season of good will, the idea that ``taxation'' and ``civility'' are somehow compatible cannot go unchallenged. Above all, ``civility'' must mean that relations among people be by mutual consent, or not at all. Government is the institutionalization of exactly the reverse: the imposition by the politically victorious upon all others, the forceful supplanting of personal choice by collective dictate. It's the institutionalization of enmity. Democratic political government, aka tyranny of the majority, will soon succeed in inducing a new dark age on Earth, one that may never end. An individual who yearns to be free must overcome his mortality and leave the Earth. This will soon be practical. Meanwhile, strong cryptography and the cypherpunk agenda may provide a temporary defense. John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar(a)ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLRq8rcDhz44ugybJAQEJIgQAq2FO6b9GvgSmpcP1H5qIP8rkDMH5FEu9 6FNxMt+jLofPFMz7NtbgqcXg45KlZXBzdPgiCQKLWKTjcG1e2KF+4wB34gIIPDTF fMOFVDh3f3cNTojBVcFUvMpdC3p+Z/qTy90jgEoVoqWj8NpbBVqqbMegpiNlGePg glsqEaKMh6A= =/W55 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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mail poster
by Eric Hollander 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry for the crossposting, but: I've added a new service to my remailer. For those of you for whom it is easier to send mail than to post directly to the net, or for those of you who want to post anonymously, I now offer a posting service. To use this service, send mail like this: To: hh(a)soda.berkeley.edu Post-To: alt.sex.masturbation Subject: what I like to do and your mail will be automatically posted to alt.sex.masturbation, WITH YOUR NAME ON IT. If you would like to post anonymously, use the following header format: To: hh(a)soda.berkeley.edu Anon-Post-To: alt.sex.masturbation Subject: what I like to do and it will be posted ANONYMOUSLY. If you would like to crosspost, use the following type of header (note that there is no space after the coma): To: hh(a)soda.berkeley.edu Anon-Post-To: alt.sex.masturbation,rec.arts.sewing Subject: what it's all about But be warned: excessive crossposting is a Bad Thing. I know that this type of service is open to all kinds of abuses, so please, try to be mature about it, or it will be shut down, or even worse, I'll track down who you are and do something nasty. A note to UCB users: This was crossposted to the ucb groups because this is the only mail-to-news gateway that I know of that posts to the ucb.* groups. Also note that hh@soda still supports its full remailer functions. Usage of the remailer is detailed in soda.berkeley.edu:/pub/cypherpunks/remailers. A further note on headers: Some mailers do not allow users to easily modify headers in mail. However, you can still use this service. To do so, send a message like this: To: hh(a)soda.berkeley.edu Subject: Big Fun :: Anon-Post-To: alt.sex.masturbation [body of message goes here] In other words, make the first line of the body of the message two colons (::) and then my remailer will treat the next line after that as part of the message header. Have fun! e

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Cyperwonks
by Harry Shapiro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is anyone monitoring Cyperwonks? Is anything really happening there? /hawk -- Harry S. Hawk habs(a)extropy.org Electronic Communications Officer, Extropy Institute Inc. The Extropians Mailing List, Since 1991 EXTROPY -- A measure of intelligence, information, energy, vitality, experience, diversity, opportunity, and growth. EXTROPIANISM -- The philosophy that seeks to increase extropy.

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Re: Merry Christmas CyberAnarchists
by Mike Ingle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Interesting reading, but can you imagine how long it took him to type it in? Five or six hours, easily. He didn't scan it, either. The typos were the kind a human would make, not scanner errors. There is something strange about LD's latest postings. It appears whoever it is, is telnetting in from another machine and feeding them into longs.lance.colostate.edu's smtp port. They are not doing a HELO before the message. Either he is being spoofed, or his account is cancelled and he's posting from another machine, or ?? any ideas? Received: by toad.com id AA20727; Thu, 23 Dec 93 22:42:34 PST Received: from longs.lance.colostate.edu ([129.82.109.16]) by toad.com id AA20723; Thu, 23 Dec 93 22:42:19 PST Received: from dolores.lance.colostate.edu (dolores.lance.colostate.edu [129.82.112.18]) by longs.lance.colostate.edu (8.6.4/8.6.4) with SMTP id XAA00629; Thu, 23 Dec 1993 23:42:17 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 23:42:15 -0700 From: "L. Detweiler" <ld231782(a)longs.lance.colostate.edu> Subject: Happy Holidays To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com, cypherwonks(a)lists.eunet.fi Cc: ld231782(a)longs.lance.colostate.edu Message-id: <199312240642.XAA00629(a)longs.lance.colostate.edu> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-Warning: longs.lance.colostate.edu: Host dolores.lance.colostate.edu didn't use HELO protocol X-Mts: smtp

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Re: anonymous video rental store
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > Hi, > > Thanks for the insightful comments! > > > The engineering library at UT Austin used to have it under the glass at the > > check out desk. > > The checkout record or the court order? > > best regards, > > Nick > szabo(a)netcom.com > Uhhhh.......the check out records of course!.......;) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Re: It had to happen...
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Strange, I thought it was always 72 hrs.... I think we need a real lawyer at this point..:) Happy Holidays.

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Privacy and Public Libraries
by Michael Edward Marotta 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND YOUR PERSONAL PRIVACY by Michael E. Marotta <mercury(a)well.sf.ca.us> Generally speaking, librarians are very sensitive to the issues surrounding privacy. As a rule, they protect the privacy of their patrons and they especially resist law enforcement requests for information about anyone's reading habits. There are some exceptions. A librarian can be coersed or cajoled into releasing privileged information. Unless they are very sure of their principles, an effective police interrogator will break down their resistance. Possible ploys run from pleas for professional assistance in criminal cases to good cop/bad cop. Here in Michigan, we have 455 MPA 1982, "The Michigan Library Privacy Act." In a recent case involving a librarian I met, the sheriff harassed the staff at a small, rural library. They refered him to her. She told him that her hands were tied: she was forbidden by law from doing what he asked. He went away. I have heard of other librarians in other states going to jail, having no law to fall back on. Also, here in Livingston County, we have MANUAL cards. You write your name. I can look at any book and see who read it. This is a violation of the law. Since no remedies obtain, I can't get a lawyer interested. My protest to the library was met with "We are changing. It will take some time." Furthermore, when working onsite at a Ford Motor Company plant in Louisville, I discoverd that the Shelby County Library also relies on hand- written checkout cards. However, here in Fowlerville, the librarian instituted card numbers several years ago, so our village of 3,000 is in compliance. Is yours?

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RE: Cyperwonks
by Pat Farrell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In message Fri, 24 Dec 1993 06:08:48 -0500 (EST), Harry Shapiro <habs(a)panix.com> writes: > Is anyone monitoring Cyperwonks? Is anything really happening there? I'm subscribed. There was a little initial activity about electronic democracy, and nearly nothing else. Of course, you get an occasional LD rant, but those are instantly unread and deleted - I took the pledge... Pat Pat Farrell Grad Student pfarrell(a)netcom.com Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Public key availble via finger #include <standard.disclaimer>

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Re: Cypherwonks
by remail＠tamsun.tamu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Is anyone monitoring Cyperwonks? Is anything really happening there? I'm on there. Detweiler succeeded in signing up a whole bevy of net.fascists to discuss 'electronic democracy' and defame cypherpunks, including: David Lawrence (runs the Usenet new newsgroups vote) consensus.com (commercial groupware company) David Sternlight Julf (provided the site for the list, but has since declared he will only passively support it) Joe Baptista Since somebody started forwarding all of Detweiler's noise on cypherpunks to cypherwonks, the same flame wars Detweiler started on cypherpunks have broken out there and dominated the list as they've done here. I recommended forwarding your old archived Detweiler/an12070 rants to cypherwonks in response to Detweiler posting his slanderous crap. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about this anonymous remail service, send mail to remail(a)tamsun.tamu.edu with the word "remail help" as the only words in the subject field.

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