December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: A helluva way to run a country, er, a world
by Syniker＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

whooooppssss I DO have to retract what I said about F-C-A... and better do it here... I get lot's of my first info from Declan on that list -- as in this weeks calif legislature vote and I DO appreciate it and would call it invaluable, for all of us, I'm sure... sorry dec.........larry.

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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InfoWar (2) / Part III of The True Story of the InterNet
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Show Me the Warheads!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Chief Cypherpunks Spokesperson Mixmaster wrote: > > Tim May espoused: > > I'm surprised this wasn't hushed up. The U.S. lying fucks > > intelligence community has known this for a long time, and reports > > to Ratfuck Congress have alluded to this. > > Why hush it up? Odd, isn't it, that this interview will air on TV > just as Lying Fuck Freeh is pushing for mandatory GAK to 'protect' us > from imaginary nuclear terrorists with suitcase bombs? I bet it's > just one of them coincidences... > > SynchronicityMonger Lying Nazi Ratfucker Freeh has known about these allegations for a long time, but it seems that it was not much of a threat until the release of the book by his co-conspirator schill, the Russian General. Isn't it amazing how long-standing threats to National Security only become _real_ threats when it is convenient for those in power? It was only a 'coincidence' that I happened to be standing in that bank that had been broken into, with a handful of cash. SynchronicityCriminal

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Re: FUCK! how do i unregister from toad.com or the 2 other server ?%
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks Chief Spokesperson Martin M wrote: > > I am tired, i am registered to 3 cypherpunks server and tired or receiving > 40-50 new message each day! > > Please someone reply! Martin, If you are retiring as Cypherpunks Chief Spokesperson then I guess we will have to hold a new election. Do you have anyone in mind as your replacement? A Registered Cypherpunk Voter

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Removing Tyranny from Democracy (Part II), was Democracy is thetrue enemy...
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Many, beginning with de Toquivelle, have noted that democracy brings with it the unhappy possibility of a tyranny of the majority. The reasons for this shortcoming are closely tied to the decision of whom within the democracy receives the franchise and how in a representative democracy officeholders are elected. Our elections are corrupted by bribery - not the big money paid to candidates by corporate donors, but the taxpayers' money offered to voters by the candidates themselves. For some reason, campaign finance reform always centers on private money, as if it were perfectly OK to use public money to buy elections. Yet critics of democracy, including friendly critics, have always pointed out that the Achilles' heel of democracy is its tendency to turn the ballot box into an instrument of plunder, as voters learn to vote for those who promise them other people's money. One of the justifications for democracy is that everyone's interest should be represented in government. But there are interests and interests. The homeowner who locks his door is looking out for his own interest just as much as the burglar who picks the lock, but not exactly in the same way. The voter who wants to keep his own money isn't seeking the same thing as the voter who wants the state to give him someone else's money. The darkest warnings of democracy's critics are being furfilled, precisely because of entitlement programs that already exist, which are driving the federal government into an abyss of debt. Touching the big entitlement programs - the ones available to the middle class - is "political suicide." The president exploits this fact when he plays chicken with Republicans who want to reform those programs. All of which shows that we really know that democracy's critics were right. Too many voters are already bought - not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself. Worst of all, we accept this as normal, healthy politics even as it threatens to ruin us. Curbing private spending is a superficial reform that may even backfire eliminating the equalizing power of private money thereby increasing the advantages of incumbency. The only reform that could really help would be to curb the buying of votes with government money. That means following the counsel of the philosopher John Stuart Mill, and limiting the franchise to taxpayers who don't get income from the government. This means that if you receive money from the federal (or state, or local) government, you shouldn't be allowed to vote in the next federal (or state, or local) election. This is no more an insult to the voter than dismissal cause is an insult to a prospective juror. It's a precaution in the interest protecting the integrity of the electoral process - and a precaution we should have taken long ago, before fiscal responsibility became "political suicide."

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Miscellaneous Debris
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Our old pinko buddy Vigdor Schriebman is the latest to attack Old Media's definitions of "journalist" at http://www.MediaINFO.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/090597n3.htm Another self-contradicting bunch of viewpoints on net.telephony at http://192.215.107.71/wire/news/1997/09/0905telco.html New technology being put to old tricks as students plaigarize at http://cnn.com/TECH/9709/07/illicit.papers/index.html "The Internet Ushers In New Age Of Personal Diplomacy" at http://www.infotech.co.nz/current/ntchil.html "Individuals around the globe can reach a consensus and make contact with others despite the differing political views of their governments. They can become "personal ambassadors" for their countries." And the Infowarspooks are back for another round of "the Internet is so important the government needs to do SOMETHING" at http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/info/090697/info7_3765_noframes.html Enjoy! All of the above links courtesy of http://www.newslinx.com/ -- Tell your friends 'n neighbors you read this on the evil pornographic Internet "Where one burns books, one will also burn people eventually." -Heinrich Heine People and books aren't for burning. No more Alexandrias, Auschwitzs or Wacos.

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Redhat crypto archive on replay
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I forget where I saw the below message announcing stext for Linux, but there is a nice collection of crypto packages at http://www.replay.com/redhat . Unfortunately, they're in RedHat Package Manager format, so they may be a shade difficult to use for non-Redhat users, but Redhat does seem to be a fairly popular Linux flavor. >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Hans Zoebelein <zocki(a)goldfish.cube.net> >To: redhat-announce-list(a)redhat.com >Subject: stext-1.0 stegano crypto package uploaded >Resent-Date: 4 Sep 1997 03:28:09 -0000 > >Hi, > >there is a nice crypto rpm, which uses steganograpic techniques >to hide a file in another text file which looks like normal text. > >The packages are stext-1.0-1.i386.rpm and stext-1.01.src.rpm >Binary and source should be dloadable from > >http://www.replay.com/redhat > >the next days. Or check ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/linux/redhat. >This package might be useful to handle crypted files in countries, >where authorities love their citizens so much, that they want to >know everything about them and have forbidden strong crypto >(Hello China, Bon Jour France :) > >Enjoy! >Hans > >Hans Zoebelein * You are interested in Linux blind support? >zocki(a)goldfish.cube.net * Join the blinux mailing list and mail to: >"Please enter my parlor!" * blinux-list-request(a)redhat.com > said the spider to the fly.* with subject line: subscribe > > >

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Weasel nymserver closed due to child porn investigation
by Johannes Kroeger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Monday, September 1st, 1997, a police officer from the German "Internet Patrol" in Munich contacted my provider and me by phone and informed us that he investigates a case of child pornography posted through weasel.owl.de and the nym.alias.net mail-to-news gateway on August 17th. Today my provider officially told me to close my nymserver because they fear legal hassles if more illegal material is sent from weasel during the present investigations. I've taken the following measures to comply with their request: 1. Mail to send(a)weasel.owl.de bounces with the error message: "Sending mail from weasel.owl.de is disabled until further notice." Remailer operators, please add send(a)weasel.owl.de to your destination block lists. 2. Weasel.owl.de does not allow creation of new accounts. 3. Mail to weasel.owl.de users will be remailed as usual, until I have transferred the accounts to another nymserver. I would be very grateful if the admins of nym.alias.net or anon.efga.org are willing to host weasel's nyms until the investigations are closed and weasel is hopefully up again. Last but not least: the only police contact until now was by phone; neither my provider nor I were forced to copy or decrypt anything. -- Johannes Kroeger <hanne(a)squirrel.owl.de> Send mail with subject "send pgp-key" to get my PGP key

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