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[FP] National "Know Your Banker" Campaign Kick-off
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> Subject: [FP] National "Know Your Banker" Campaign Kick-off Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:12:22 -0600 To: "ScanThisNews Recipients List" <scan(a)efga.org> ====================================================================== SCAN THIS NEWS 12/23/98 National "Know Your Banker" Campaign Kick-off Following are two combined SCAN notices regarding the "Know Your Customer" banking proposals, and our own SCAN-proposed "National Know Your Banker" campaign: 1ST NOTICE: NATIONAL DIRECT DEPOSIT WEEK The nation's banks are planning to gradually convert everyone over to electronic banking. A series of campaigns have been planned with the objective of getting people to sign up for debit-cards, smart-cards, and direct deposit banking. (Direct Deposit means that you sign an agreement with your employer to have you paycheck directly deposited into your bank account electronically.) Total electronic banking will result in a windfall profit for the banking industry as a whole. In furtherance of their goal, the week of January 25-29, 1999 has been designated as "National Direct Deposit Week." That week, banks across the country will participate in a campaign to condition people to acceptance electronic "Direct Deposit" banking. According to one promotional piece, "the Direct Deposit marketing campaign will target employers; financial institutions; government officials; as well as community, professional, and civic groups." During the promotional period, banks will offer incentives for consumers to sign up for Direct Deposit; radio promotions will be aired in local markets; and financial institutions and corporations will be encouraged to create similar activities with their customers and/or employees. So far public acceptance of electronic banking has been somewhat lackluster. However, at the upper levels of the world's banking community, the decision has been made to convert to total electronic banking linked to a global financial network. The upcoming Direct Deposit campaign is just one small example of the overall plan. Here's a link for additional information: Promoting Direct Deposit -- The Public Education Campaign http://www.ezpay.org/campaign.html 2ND NOTICE: NATIONAL KNOW YOUR BANKER WEEK SCAN would like to propose that the week of January 25-29, 1999 be declared National "Know Your Banker Week" to run concurrently with the banking industry's Direct Deposit campaign. During that week, we encourage EVERYONE to make a concerted effort to learn as much as you possibly can about your nation's banking system. Learn how check clearinghouses are already monitoring every checking transaction, and how profiling is already being done in that industry. Learn how credit card companies also currently monitor each purchase and "flag" suspicious or out-of-character activity. Find out how money is "created" (according to the Federal Reserve) at your local bank whenever a loan is "granted." Learn how every single "dollar" is loaned into circulation - at interest - which means that, at all times, more money is owed (principle + interest) than has been "created" or loaned out into the economy. Hence, we as a nation can NEVER again be "solvent;" we will be perpetually in debt to the bankers; we can never "pay back" more than has been circulated. (For explanation, see http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/CARDS.html ) Learn about "fractional reserve banking," which by definition means that only a "fraction" of the public's money can be withdrawn from the system at any given time without inducing a banking collapse. Learn how bankers use this "fraction" to "create" more "credit money" which they then "loan" to you under demand for some real property collateral. Learn how your money has been gradually debased: silver coins which used to be made of "precious metal" have been surreptitiously converted to a substrate of worthless composites sandwiched between two thin layers of slightly less-worthless "silver colored" nickel to make them resemble the genuine silver coins. In circulation, they all look the same. But the latter versions are "worth" about 90% less than the former. Even the lowly penny has been stuffed with totally valueless zinc leaving only a thin shell of co pper a few thousandths of an inch thick on the outer surface to fool the public. Seems to have worked well. Who stole the "precious" material and substituted the cheap slag? Who profited from the change (pun intended)? Was your banker a willing participant? Learn how gold and silver "certificates" which were once redeemable for warehoused gold and silver coin were substituted with worthless, un-backed "Federal Reserve Notes" that cannot be redeemed but look exactly like the redeemable certificates - save for the absence of any "promise to pay." Who was manning the warehouses when this substitution took place? Your banker perhaps? Based on what you learn from the foregoing exercise, decide whether or not the banking institution's "Know Your Customer" program is being instituted with YOUR best interest in mind. Use this "Know Your Banker" campaign to ask your banker to sign a simple affidavit certifying that your funds WILL ALL BE AVAILABLE for withdrawal "on demand" come January 1, 2000. Take the opportunity of the National Know Your Banker Week to learn about all that your banker has done and is planning to do (for you) as you are converted to total electronic banking over the next few years. (Remember, the federal government has already converted to total electronic transactions, and it can be fairly anticipated that soon all employers will be compelled to make employee payrolls using direct deposit so that payroll tax payments can be collected electronically.) Most importantly, take the opportunity of the "National Know Your Banker Week" to file a comment with any or all of the four agencies that have submitted "Know Your Customer" proposals. After the upcoming holiday period, we will provide all the necessary contact information along with a selection of sample "letters of objection" so that everyone can easily take part in this campaign. We will also provide material which will reveal that, in reality, under our current system of "fiat money," ALL banking activity IS "money laundering" engaged in BY THE BANKERS. Looking forward to your participation. Happy holidays, Scott --------------------------------------------------------- Complete detailed information on all four of the proposed Know Your Customer regulations can be found at: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml See these important links to learn more about how money is created. http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/MONEYbrief.html http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/FRENEAUbanking.html http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/FSanders.htm Franklin Sanders - "The Money Changer" http://www.the-moneychanger.com/ --------------------------------------------------------- Promoting Direct Deposit -- The Public Education Campaign [From the pages of the New York Clearing House Association] http://www.ezpay.org/campaign.html Campaign Goal: The goal of our campaign is to increase Direct Deposit use among consumers by 5 percent each year for the next five years. Campaign Activities: The Direct Deposit marketing campaign will reach employers, financial institutions, government officials and community, professional and civic groups. In addition, January 25-29, 1999 has been declared "Direct Deposit Week" -- an opportunity to spur excitement through incentives for consumers to sign up for Direct Deposit. Radio promotions will take place in local markets, and financial institutions and corporations are encouraged to create similar activities with their customers and/or employees. Campaign Success Over the past two years, Direct Deposit enrollment has increased by over 540,000 employees. Outreach to Employers: Top 1,000+ Employers (Fall 1998) Direct mailing to solicit interest among Payroll Managers throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Kick-off luncheons in September/October 1998 -- New York City, Long Island, Rochester, and New Jersey Catalog of promotional materials, offered at cost, for interested employers A Guide to Increasing Direct Deposit Participation [link] A Guide to Implementing Direct Deposit [link] Outreach to Financial Institutions (Fall 1998) Catalog of promotional materials, offered at cost, for banks' use with retail customers "How to Guide" for promoting Direct Deposit to retail customers Media announcement to banking trade publications, general business media Grassroots Outreach (Fall 1998) Mailing of information and materials to community, labor unions, professional associations, women's/men's groups, minority associations, fraternal groups and civic groups. Promotional Events and Media Relations (Winter 1999) Direct Deposit Week (January 25-29, 1999) Radio Promotion -- Call-in contest to answer "What is the most impulsive thing you've ever spent your paycheck on?" Winners to receive equivalent of one week's pay via Direct Deposit (up to $1,000). Media Relations -- Outreach to print and broadcast news media, both general interest (daily newspapers, local radio and television) and trade (payroll publications, banking trades); release of research survey results. Branch/Company Activities -- Financial institutions and company activities, incentives and events to celebrate Direct Deposit Week e.g. free/discounted services, giveaways of promotional items, free concert tickets or other prizes for 100th customer to sign-up, contest/quiz with week's pay as prize. We welcome your thoughts, ideas and recommendations on making the Direct Deposit Campaign a success. Please direct any questions or comments to Rossana Czelusniak or Kathy Loy at (212) 613-0166. -------------------------------------------------- http://www.nyclearinghouse.org/Welcome.html ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <fingerprint(a)networkusa.org> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <majordomo(a)efga.org> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. Or, to be removed type "unsubscribe scan" in the message BODY. For additional instructions see www.efga.org/about/maillist.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Scan This News" is Sponsored by S.C.A.N. 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[FP] FDIC receives more than 6,000 comments
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> Subject: [FP] FDIC receives more than 6,000 comments Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:53:27 -0600 To: "ScanThisNews Recipients List" <scan(a)efga.org> ====================================================================== SCAN THIS NEWS 12/23/98 ----------------------------------------- WorldNetDaily WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 23 1998 BIG BROTHER BANKING Record response to 'Know Your Customer' FDIC receives more than 6,000 comments http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19981223_xex_record_respo.shtml By Gabrielle Stevenson © 1998 WorldNetDaily.com The process for reading comments on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's "Know Your Customer" proposal has already started because of the increasing number of responses. At last count, the FDIC had received 6,019 responses to the plan. The most comments received in the past was 3,498, regarding a 1984 broker deposit regulation. "Usually we don't get nearly as many," said the FDIC's David Barr. "Sometimes we only get a 100 or so, and they can be read relatively quickly for internal use." Normally the FDIC doesn't read the responses until the comment period has ended. This time, however, they are trying to get a head start. "We are trying to see what people are saying," Barr said. "We have gone through them at least once so far. We do keep them all in consideration. That is what this whole process is all about." The FDIC Know Your Customer plan proposes that all banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations be required to maintain continuous surveillance of customer's accounts, and report unusual financial activity to the FBI and other agencies. [snip] see WorldNetDaily link above for balance of article. ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <fingerprint(a)networkusa.org> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <majordomo(a)efga.org> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. Or, to be removed type "unsubscribe scan" in the message BODY. For additional instructions see www.efga.org/about/maillist.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Scan This News" is Sponsored by S.C.A.N. Host of the "FIGHT THE FINGERPRINT!" web page: www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml =======================================================================

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SNET: Biometric National ID Card Being issued NOW and used to track people
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: USCMike1(a)aol.com Subject: SNET: Biometric National ID Card Being issued NOW and used to track people Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:03:04 EST To: KatieSouix(a)aol.com -> SNETNEWS Mailing List This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_914875392_boundary Content-ID: <0_914875392(a)inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_914875392_boundary Content-ID: <0_914875392(a)inet_out.mail.netdoor.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <kepi(a)netdoor.com> Received: from rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (rly-zd01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.225]) by air-zd01.mail.aol.com (v53.27) with SMTP; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:14:48 -0500 Received: from netdoor.com (netdoor.com [208.137.128.6]) by rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id SAA21775; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:14:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from kepi (port579.hat.netdoor.com [208.148.200.179]) by netdoor.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA06191; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:13:32 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981214171416.007cbb30(a)mail.netdoor.com> X-Sender: kepi(a)mail.netdoor.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:14:16 -0600 To: Kepi <kepi(a)netdoor.com> From: Kepi <kepi(a)netdoor.com> Subject: [FP] Biometric National ID Card Now A Reality Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit This is an important post that I feel needs circulating. Should this be a a duplicate for some of my listees, please disregard. Kepi <>< ------------------------------------------------------------- >From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> >To: "ScanThisNews Recipients List" <scan(a)efga.org> >Subject: [FP] Biometric National ID Card Now A Reality >Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 19:13:18 -0600 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 >Importance: Normal >Sender: owner-scan(a)efga.org >Reply-To: owner-scan(a)efga.org >X-Web-Site: http://www.efga.org/ >X-Mail-List-Info: http://efga.org/about/maillist/ >X-SCAN: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml > >====================================================================== >SCAN THIS NEWS >12/13/98 > >[forwarded from Larry Becraft] >THE BIOMETRIC NATIONAL ID CARD IS NOW A REALITY... >By Jon Christian Ryter >Author of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AMERICA? >and THE BAFFLED CHRISTIAN'S HANDBOOK > >America was rightfully alarmed in late September when Representatives Bob >Barr (R-GA) and Ron Paul (TX) revealed the fact that somehow, unbeknown to >anyone, and for some as yet unexplained reason, the National ID Card that >Hillary Clinton, Marc Tucker and Ira Magaziner had adroitly concealed in the >failed Health Security Act of 1994 had somehow "accidentally" been passed, >in a somewhat illegal and unconstitutional fashion, and was now "the law of >the land." > >Pictured (see link below) is the actual "Healthcare Passport" card currently >being used in three American cities. Displayed is the front and back of that >card. This photo was scanned from the brochure used by the National >Institute of Health to introduce the new card in a seminar in Denver earlier >this year. The word "passport" on the card had to have been a >tongue-in-cheek addition, since it is the precursor of the internal passport >that will ultimately control your ability to move freely throughout this >great land. The card is biometric. Stored on this card is the complete >medical history of the card's owner. Also stored on the card is every >conceivable piece of information about that person. Imbedded in the card is >a tracking devise. > >The plan to create and implement a National ID Card, while first made >"public" in a private White House meeting on Nov. 11, 1993 and discussed in >a disavowed protocol that detailed the dialogue of that meeting, is not >uniquely a Clintonoid idea even though the National ID Card first appears >innocuously concealed in the Health Security Act as a "healthcare benefits >card" that the First Lady insisted had to be carried by every American--even >if they refused to be covered by the plan--under penalty of law. > > The same card, in the form of a national driver's license, had just been >mandated by the European Union for all of the new European States. A brief >battle waged in Europe over the national driver's license. Most Europeans >had experienced national identity cards in the past and realized quickly the >new universal European driver's license was an internal passport that would >give their new government the tool they needed to control their lives. The >media immediately labeled those who resisted the EU driver's license as >"globalphobes" who were against progress, and wanted to return Europe to the >days of the cold war. They were the extremists. > > In the United States, the Clinton's knew a National ID Card spelled >problems, >regardless what name was put on it. However, as a healthcare card that >provided each American with thousands of dollars of free medical care, they >correctly surmised that the ramblings of the right wing zealots could be >easily dismissed by the mainstream liberal media. The media did its job >well. > >The Health Security Act was the best thing since sliced bread and peanut >butter. According to the media, the Health Security Act would provide >healthcare for the millions upon millions of uninsured Americans. The media >even obliged by ignoring the obviously flawed cost assessments as well. > >Hillary demanded that Congress pass the Health Security Act without and >changes--reminiscent of FDR's passing the "emergency legislation" that >kicked off the New Deal without allowing members of Congress to even see the >legislation they were voting on--and unconstitutionally granting Roosevelt >almost dictatorial power over the United States. Congress wasn't buying. >They read the Health Security Act. Then, they rejected it. It was, they >declared, the most expensive social experiment in the world. > >Buried in the National Archives, in the working papers of the Hillary >Clinton healthcare plan, was a game plan in the event the Health Security >Act went down in flaming defeat. The game plan? Implement another >healthcare act that provided healthcare for children. No one would dare >deny healthcare to children. To introduce the plan, they called on Teddy >Kennedy. Kennedy failed. Kennedy, they realized, was trusted by most >Americans even less than the Clintons. > >Next they turned to Orrin Hatch, who teamed up with Kennedy and rammed the >legislation through Congress. Healthcare for kids. Of course, everyone was >in favor of it. Voting against it was a good way to lose an election. And, >once the law was codified, the bureaucracy possessed the authority to simply >expand it to include anyone and everyone. > >What was not in the legislation was funding to create a biometric health >care card. The authority to do it was there, but not the money. For the >money, the Clinton administration turned to the Robert Wood Johnson >Foundation. The foundation, created by the founder of Johnson & Johnson, >obliged and funded the experimental program which was kicked off in three >western cities (noted above). > >What was introduced to members of the National Institute of Health in Denver >as a card that will record the inoculation records of children, includes >everything from DNA typing to that individual's medical, psychiatric and >financial history. It was because the biometric card would also contain the >psychiatric history of the cardholder that an employee of the National >Institute of Health approached me and offered me the data that is contained >in this report. > >In my initial meeting with the NIH employee, I was also told that this >person had commented to a NIH executive that it was not good for the card to >contain so much personal information that was not needed to monitor the >rates of inoculation of the children covered by the program, since it would >provide the government information that could easily be misused. > >At that point the NIH executive laughed and said: "What do you think we have >do with the data we get from Medicare and Medicaid? We've been using it for >years to apprehend and deport illegal aliens and to capture those wanted by >the law." > >In the case of the Health Passport, which is the precursor of the National >Driver's License that will go into affect nationwide on October 1, 2000, >however, the is one added feature--it contains a tracking chip. > >At a recent National Institute of Health seminar, an NIH executive proudly >displayed an electronic map created by the NIH computer technicians that >pinpointed every Health Passport card holder in Denver, Colorado. It was a >"living map" that would track each Health Passport card holder if and when >they moved. Whether or not such a map had been created for the other two >"pilot" cities is not known. > >NOTE: Before I left Washington this afternoon, I spoke for about a half hour >with Stan Johnson of the Prophecy Club, and emailed Stan a copy of the Heath >Passport Card. Stan has additional information on this subject, particularly >with respect to a new computer mainframe that the government recently >installed in Denver that ties in with the information I have been receiving >from my own source in the National Institute of Health. Apparently this is >the planned topic for the Prophecy Club's radio talk show next Monday (and >because it is, I will not reveal any of the revelations that Stan shared >with me on the phone this afternoon. I would strongly urge you to visit >Stan's website for additional information. > >http://www.prophecyclub.com/ > >--------------------------------------------- >http://www.westgov.org/hpp/hpp-web.htm > >HEALTH PASSPORT > >A Project of the Western Governors' Association >- Frequently Asked Questions - > >Introduction to the Health Passport Project > >What is the Health Passport Project? > >The Health Passport Project is a three-city demonstration that uses what is >called a "smart card" to put important health-related information at the >fingertips of mothers and their children. People participating in the >demonstration are those eligible for care under public health programs. The >Health Passport Project is the largest health-care demonstration in the >United States for smart cards and will be conducted over two years in the >cities of Bismarck, North Dakota; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Reno, Nevada. The >project will demonstrate how people can use these electronic cards to give >up-to-date information to their health-care providers, including physicians, >nurses, nutritionists and early childhood educators. > > >Food Retailers > >Grocers who handle thousands of checks for nutrition benefits will find the >new system involves less paperwork, results in quicker check-out, and >provides more timely reimbursement. The Health Passport works like a bank >card at the check-out counter. Benefits are automatically downloaded to the >client's card at the retailer. Distribution of WIC benefits will be >demonstrated in Reno and Cheyenne. > > >More About the Demonstrations >Which public health programs are participating? > >--- >Bismarck, North Dakota > >The Family Doctors, Bismarck Burleigh Nursing, WIC, Head Start, >Immunizations, Medicaid, the Optimal Pregnancy Outcome Program, and Maternal >and Child Health > >Bertie Bishop >(701) 255-3397 > >--- >Cheyenne, Wyoming > >Cheyenne Children's Clinic, the University of Wyoming Family Practice >Residency Center, Laramie County Public Health Nursing, Medicaid, WIC, Head >Start, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations > >Terry Williams >(307) 777-6008 > >--- >Reno, Nevada > >WIC, Immunizations, and Head Start >Marty Brown >(702) 883-6992 >------------------------------------------------- > >http://www.westgov.org/hpp/ > >http://www.westgov.org/wga/publicat/hppsum.htm > >Health Passport > >Information Technology: Toward a Health Card for the West > >"Congress is considering the most sweeping changes to the delivery of social >services since the New Deal. In this environment, the Health Passport >presents an innovative tool to help ensure the continued delivery of >critical services to low income women and children--even as government >sponsored programs are consolidated or eliminated. While devolution of >authority to the states is expected to reduce duplicative federal >administrative structures, the debate in Washington has done little to >provide practical solutions. The Health Passport offers a tool to help >achieve these administrative savings empowering citizens and preserving the >integrity of services." > >======================================================================= >Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: >1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or >2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. >======================================================================= >Reply to: <fingerprint(a)networkusa.org> >======================================================================= > To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to > <majordomo(a)efga.org> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. > Or, to be removed type "unsubscribe scan" in the message BODY. > For additional instructions see www.efga.org/about/maillist.html >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Scan This News" is Sponsored by S.C.A.N. > Host of the "FIGHT THE FINGERPRINT!" web page: > www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml >======================================================================= > --part0_914875392_boundary-- -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo(a)world.std.com -> Posted by: USCMike1(a)aol.com

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[FP] FW: GE - Icelandic DNA database
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> Subject: [FP] FW: GE - Icelandic DNA database Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 20:00:29 -0600 To: "ScanThisNews Recipients List" <scan(a)efga.org> ====================================================================== SCAN THIS NEWS 12/28/98 [Forwarded by request] -----Original Message----- From: Wolf [mailto:Fenris@reality8.demon.co.uk] Subject: GE - Icelandic DNA database This is from the genetics mail list. Can you help to circulate as they are asking for foreign intervention in the form of an e-mail campaign? I suspect that once governments can point to one country that has this sort of database in place it will be used as an example of what the rest of us should be aiming at...ycchhhh!!! ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: genetics <genetics(a)gn.apc.org> (by way of genetics <genetics(a)gn.apc.org>) Subject: GE - Icelandic DNA database From: Herbert Mehrtens <h.mehrtens(a)tu-bs.de> >HELP PREVENT A BIOTECHNOLOGICAL DISASTER!!!!! > >The controversial health database bill has been passed in >the Icelandic parliament. It was approved by a vote of >37 in favor, 20 saying no, and 6 MPs absent. Before the >bill becomes a law it must be signed by the President of >Iceland, Mr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson. > >Several wide-ranging changes were made to the bill in >the last few days. Personal protection was decreased by >stating specifically that the licensee use unencrypted >health data. Even more blatant is the new provision in >the bill that the database contain genetic information. >Formerly it was to contain only health information from >hospital charts and doctors records. > >For those who have been following the discussion, >it will be of interest to know that the bill is in >fact now a new bill--a result of the collusion between >the Ministry of Health, the government and deCODE >--and the database has now become the Icelandic DNA >-collection bill or the pharmacogenetic wonderland >bill instead of a health database bill (see also letter by >Bogi Andersen to the editor, Science, Dec. 11, 1998, >p. 1993). > >If there was any doubt as to whether an individual will be >personally identifiable, now it is certain that every >person can be traced, either individually or through >pedigrees, by using genetic tracers or DNA sequences, >in the near future. The consequences of including >genetic information are momentous. Therefore: > >1. The database bill should not be made a law nor >should it be implemented, because of ethical, privacy, >consumer and human rights concerns. > >2. If there is to be a health/genetic database in spite of >these concerns, informed consent and independent >ethical review committees are minimum requirements. > >The Icelandic Research Council which supported the bill >has abruptly withdrawn its support following an emergency >meeting on Dec. 14 because of the inclusion of genetic data >in the proposed database and infraction of free scientific >research. > >Likewise, the former President of Iceland, Mrs. Vigdis >Finnbogadottir, who sat on the Board of deCODE has >resigned due to conflict with her role as President of >UNESCO's World Commission on Scientific Knowledge >and Technology. > >For further details please refer to the website of Mannvernd, >the Icelandic Association for Ethics in Science and Medicine, >for news update in English. Also consult a graphical presentation >of the views of over 50 agencies and experts which submitted >highly critical opinions to the Health Committee of Althing as >the 2nd version of the bill was debated this fall; to no avail >as these opinions were callously ignored by the government >majority on the Health Committee: > ><http://www.simnet.is/mannvernd/english/articles/03.12.1998_summary_of_opi nio>http://www.simnet.is/mannvernd/english/articles/03.12.1998_summary_of_op inio >ns.html > >Also see the associations' English language home page: > ><http://www.simnet.is/mannvernd/english/index.html>http://www.simnet.is/ma nnvernd/english/index.html > >deCODE's representatives have unsuccessfully >tried to rebuke our information in the internet news >discussion groups. Thanks to DENDRITE's David Oaks >and others this has been answered in an informed and >decisive manner. > >deCODE's statement that personal information will be >anonymous is false. Anonymous means that names and ID's >have been eliminated. The database will include ID's >that, although encrypted, can be used to trace individuals, >as explained by encryption expert Ross Andersons' report: > ><http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/iceland/iceland.html>http://www.cl.cam.ac. uk/~rja14/iceland/iceland.html > >Most experts consider the database information personally >identifiable, which means that informed consent should be >sought, according to international ethical standards. These >concerns become magnified once genetic data is included. > >An ethical committee was introduced in the latest version of >the bill. Yet it is not specified who shall sit on the committee >and it is strongly suspected that the Minister of Health will >appoint the licensees' representative on the committee. Moreover, >that provision speaks volume for the fact that the government >does not want to recognize the irreducible bond between consent >(informed or otherwise) and ethics committees. By passing the >law the government violates sound principles of scientific ethics >and human rights. > >Also, parliamentary majority spokesmen have dicussed the >possibility of including prescription information from >drug stores in the database! This is not specified in the bill >but could be in later revisions, according to newspapers >supporting the government. This would be similar to turning >a gold mine into a diamond mine. > >The Icelandic database bill has been considered by numerous >foreign experts (see opinions on Mannvernd's website) and >is considered in the Economist (Dec. 5-12, 1998) and New Scientist >(Dec. 5th, 1998) to set a precedent of how medical and genetic >databases in other countries could be constructed and misused in >the future. > >This biotechnological disaster in the making is of international >concern and importance. We consider ourselves being on the >outpost of this battle for users' rights in new genetic research >and important biotechnology developments and we need all >the support we can get. > >We are grateful for any help we can get. Although the bill >was passed by the parliament on Dec. 17, it needs to be signed >by the President, whereafter much work needs to be done, regulations >written, agreements made with the licensee etc. > >Foreign intervention at this moment may have a crucial >effect upon future course of events. > >Please write letters of concern/protest to > >Prime Minister Mr. David Oddsson, >Stjornarradshusinu >Laekjatorg >Reykjavik >Iceland > >E-mail: postur(a)for.stjr.is >Fax: 00354+562 4014 > >and > >Minister of Health Ms. Ingibjorg Palmadottir >Arnarhvoli >Reykjavik >Iceland > >E-mail: postur(a)htr.stjr.is >Fax: 00354+551 9165 > > >with a copy to Mannvernd, > >yours sincerely, > >Petur Hauksson, chairman >Icelandic Mental Health Alliance (Gedhjalp) >Tryggvagotu 9 >101 Reykjavik >Iceland > >peturh(a)itn.is >gedhjalp(a)isholf.is ----------------(-x?)nS(r7A)------------------ Fenris Wolf http://members.xoom.com/Astraea/CAPACS.htm http://members.xoom.com/Astraea/RSPCAhelp.htm http://www.marketersworld.com/members/Fenris/ ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <fingerprint(a)networkusa.org> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <majordomo(a)efga.org> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. 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PWL files
by Chris Rowley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been trying to figure out the method of encryption for OSR2 Win95 and Win98 *.pwl files and I was hoping someone had some details about the method used. I've been told that resources are encrypted using RC4 with a MD5 hash of the password as the key, although I haven't had any luck using this information to decrypt resources with a known password. Does anyone have it figured out?

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Re: New! Active Virtual Firewall
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought this may be of interest (or at least a chuckel). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following message is forwarded to you by "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)openpgp.net> (listed as the From user of this message). The original sender (see the header, below) was jim kalember <kalember(a)ix.netcom.com> and has been set as the "Reply-To" field of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip >Subject: New! Active Virtual Firewall >Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:36:56 -0800 >Organization: PAL >Message-ID: <36887888.3A995E06(a)ix.netcom.com> >NNTP-Posting-Host: whx-ca1-23.ix.netcom.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 We have just completed technology validation demo for an "active virtual firewall" that utilizes a new technique, software genetics, to secure remotes and hosts. Technical details are available from <kalember(a)stanford.edu>. The approach is virtually impervious to a text hack and should be investigated by anyone serious about securing VPN to Internet portals, or any private network. This is new technology--no data is encrypted. Technical details from our developers at <kalember(a)stanford.edu>. -- Jim Kalember VP Technical Staffing Professional Access Limited ----------------------------------------------------- -- End of forwarded message ----------------------------------------------------- -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html --------------------------------------------------------------- We have just completed technology validation demo for an "active virtual firewall" that utilizes a new technique, software genetics, to secure remotes and hosts. Technical details are available from <kalember(a)stanford.edu>. The approach is virtually impervious to a text hack and should be investigated by anyone serious about securing VPN to Internet portals, or any private network. This is new technology--no data is encrypted. Technical details from our developers at <kalember(a)stanford.edu>. -- Jim Kalember VP Technical Staffing Professional Access Limited

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OpenBSD vs FreeBSD
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:43:47 -0500 To: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Subject: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:47:08 -0500 From: glen mccready <glen(a)qnx.com> Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev(a)bostic.com> Forwarded-by: Satya Palani <satya(a)gho.st> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:44:53 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert(a)cyrus.watson.org> Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD On 5 Dec 1998, Julian Assange wrote: >> Do you really expect people here, on this list to say >> "Use OpenBSD" or "Use Linux" or etc? > > `Use NetBSD' Use a toaster oven. Toaster ovens have excellent network security characteristics. For example, they are not susceptible to any IMAP-based buffer overflow attacks; additionally, current toaster ovens are not known to have any bugs in their TCP/IP stacks, nor have been vulnerable to any in the recent past (according to CERT advisories, anyway). Toaster ovens require console access to perform administrative functions (such as modification of temperature settings), but this will not impede deployment in a number of environment. Toaster ovens may be vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack involving manipulation of power lines -- however, most operating systems running on standard hardware are also vulnerable to this attack. I have found that my toaster oven has served me well for a number of years, and produces excellent grilled cheese sandwiches, which is far better than my pentium running FreeBSD, largely because the cooling fan on the pentium does too good a job. Go figure. Maybe if I get a pentium pro? Neither my FreeBSD box nor my toaster oven has suffered from a security problem in a while. Robert N Watson robert(a)fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:44:36 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert(a)cyrus.watson.org> Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Robert Watson wrote: > Use a toaster oven. Toaster ovens have excellent network security > characteristics. For example, they are not susceptible to any IMAP-based > buffer overflow attacks; additionally, current toaster ovens are not known A friend of mine points out that toaster ovens are susceptible to a buffer overflow involving pieces of bread exceeding the safe bread limit in the oven, which can result in a fire, or at the very least, a lot of burnt bread. As such, I am no longer planning to deploy toaster ovens as web servers on our network. Apologies for any misleading details concerning the reliability of toaster ovens in hostile environments -- I hope no one has made purchasing decisions based on this misinformation! Robert N Watson robert(a)fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ --- 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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Culture News from Wired News [news From The Chaos Communications Congress (Berlin) - Stu]
by Stu Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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FW: Repeal Compulsory-School Laws?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text From: Carla Howell <carlahowell(a)mediaone.net> To: "General lpma (E-mail)" <general(a)lpma.org> Subject: FW: Repeal Compulsory-School Laws? Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:45:41 -0500 Sender: owner-general(a)lpma.org -----Original Message----- From: Jack Shimek [SMTP:jshimek@jaqboot.mv.com] Sent: Saturday, December 26, 1998 11:06 AM To: Jack Shimek Subject: Repeal Compulsory-School Laws? Separation of School and State Alliance - New Hampshire ******************************************** The following article is brought to you courtesy of SepSchool-NH If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please reply with your request to be removed. Thank you. ******************************************** *****REPEAL COMPULSORY-SCHOOL LAWS? ***** Backers Say Learning And Innovation At Stake Date: 12/2/98 Author: Aaron Steelman (c) Copyright 1998 Investors Business Daily, Inc. Three years ago, state Rep. Russell George, a Republican, offered an amendment to repeal the Colorado law that mandates school attendance for children between ages 6 and 16. George's reason: Disruptive kids who would rather not be in school were causing problems for attentive students. "I posed a simple theory," George said. "If you want better education, then you are better off having people in the system who want to learn. We shouldn't be using schools as juvenile justice detention centers. "That forces learning at the lowest common denominator. And until we figure that out, we are not going to get a handle on why the public schools aren't doing well," he said. What's more, some critics of the attendance laws say repealing them could lead to a flowering of innovative private schools. Repeal also could free the estimated 1.7 million children who are schooled at home from burdensome regulations. Such benefits, analysts say, could entice other states to follow Colorado's lead and reconsider the wisdom of compulsory school attendance. Every state requires children to attend school until they earn a high-school diploma or until they reach a certain age, typically 16 or 18. Massachusetts passed the first compulsory-schooling law in 1852. Most states (and former territories) followed suit over the next several decades. George's amendment to repeal the compulsory-attendance laws died in committee, but many parents and frustrated teachers supported the change. The idea was particularly popular in rural western Colorado. But it had supporters statewide, says Arthur Ellis, assistant commissioner of the Colorado Department of Education. "I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a similar bill brought forward in the next session," Ellis said. If so, it will have a powerful champion in George, who is the new speaker of the Colorado House. Colorado's education establishment is not keen on repealing the state's century-old attendance laws, however. By repealing its attendance laws, the state would be "abandoning" its responsibility to kids, says Jeanne Beyer, director of communications for the Colorado Education Association. Democrat Michael Feeley, minority leader of the Colorado Senate, said: "We would grow an underclass of uneducated, unemployable, illiterate kids who would be sticking a gun in your ribs because that's the only thing they would be capable of doing." On the contrary, "It's actually the system that has abandoned the kids," said Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation. "It sticks them in a custodial facility and lets them languish." Richard Seder, education studies director at the Reason Public Policy Institute in Los Angeles, said that compulsory attendance can contribute to violence in the schools. "A student who doesn't want to be at school and is forced to be there will act out, (either) through intimidation of other students or intimidation of teachers and administrators," Seder said. It's not clear that repealing compulsory-attendance laws would actually put kids on the streets, says E.G. West, an emeritus economics professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and author of "Education and the State." West studied compulsory-attendance laws in Britain and found that education was widespread before schooling was mandatory and free. "There were upward trends in both literacy and school attendance" before compulsory-schooling laws passed, West said. In the mid-1800s, school attendance rates were growing twice as fast as the population. By 1870, the British literacy rate was more than 90%, and nearly all kids received some formal schooling. What's more, many youths benefited from apprenticeship programs. "A lot of the firms that employed younger people provided them with education on the job," West said. If all that's true, why were the compulsory-attendance laws passed in the first place? "I think the primary reason was to eliminate competition in the labor force," said Mary Novello, author of "For All the Wrong Reasons: The Story Behind Government Schools." She says some of the support for mandatory schooling came from labor organizers who thought young workers were taking jobs from adults. Marshall Fritz, director of the Fresno, Calif.-based Separation of School & State Alliance, thinks that the attendance laws create an artificial distinction between campus schooling and everyday, less-formal learning. If the laws are repealed, he says, that distinction will be blurred, and innovative schools will prosper. That's badly needed, Fritz says, because most private schools now mirror the public schools in their approach. "I think the government schools are teaching the kids to run a 17-minute mile," he said. "The private schools are teaching them to run a 13- or 14-minute mile. And they look great in comparison, because in the race of the slow, someone has to be first." Richman, the author of "Separating School and State," shares Fritz's frustration about private schools' lack of creativity. But he's less optimistic about alternative schools sprouting up. For that to happen, he says, it may be necessary to eliminate the taxes that fund public schools as well as to repeal attendance laws. "When Christopher Whittle set up the Edison Project (a system of private, for-profit schools), he said he was going to reinvent the school. But he ran up against the problem that a lot of people who were already paying taxes for schools didn't also want to spend money for tuition," Richman said. However, repealing compulsory-attendance laws would instantly make life easier for many home-schoolers, says Michael Farris, father of 10 home-schooled children and president of the Home School Legal Defense Association in Purcellville, Va. The laws not only say that kids must go to school, but they also define what is and is not a school, Farris says. Consider the case of Stephen and Lois Pustell of Lynn, Mass. They home school their three school-aged children. They've been in a court battle with their local school district since '91. The school district says it should be able to inspect the family's home to see how the kids are being taught. The Pustells object. "In our case, they were willing to waive all the other requirements (for home-schoolers, including an annual review of the curricula and the students' progress) except for the home visits," Mr. Pustell said. "Without the compulsory-attendance law, there would be no justification at all for what they are trying to do." Despite the Pustells' situation, Farris says home-schoolers are having fewer problems now than in the past. "There's no question that things have moved in a more lenient direction in the last 15 years. If you were a home-schooler in the early '80s, there was a high probability that you would be prosecuted," Farris said. In '96, Hawaii lowered its compulsory-attendance age to 16 from 18. Other states have considered similar changes. Will Colorado go all the way and repeal its attendance laws? Ellis said that the Colorado Department of Education isn't "going to lead the charge to repeal the laws, but we're not going to put any energy into preserving them, either." But you can count on teachers unions to put up a fight. "Even though you could probably find lots of frustrated teachers (who would like to see the attendance laws repealed), organizationally we wouldn't support that," the Colorado Education Association's Beyer said. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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17 Dec '03

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