December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

IRS reform bill going strong [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > IRS Reform Bill Skates Through House > > [INLINE] > > WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Nov. 5) -- A bill to reform the Internal > Revenue Service skated through the House of Representatives today on > an overwhelming 426-4 vote. > > The measure picked up the support of Democrats after its sponsors made > key changes that drew the approval of the Clinton Administration. > > The most significant change would preserve the president's power to > appoint the IRS commissioner. The original version of the bill would > have transferred that duty to an independent board. > > The bill's centerpiece is an 11-member board made up mostly of private > citizens that would oversee the IRS and help manage its long-term > projects. > > Bill sponsor Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said the measure marked "the first > time in 45 years that we have attempted as a Congress to enact > fundamental reform."

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Re: Government goons force Goddard to recant
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: > > Time to add a new horseman: "conspiracy theory-spreading libertarians" > Goddard says he wanted to promote libertarian ideology by > encouraging distrust of the government. It's amazing how a few minutes in a cell with Jim Bell can help people see the error of their ways.

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Re: IRS reform bill going strong [CNN]
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > > IRS Reform Bill Skates Through House > > The bill's centerpiece is an 11-member board made up mostly of private > > citizens that would oversee the IRS and help manage its long-term > > projects. > > > > Bill sponsor Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said the measure marked "the first > > time in 45 years that we have attempted as a Congress to enact > > fundamental reform." Gee, and the IRS is being put in the hands of private citizens just before the Y2K problem comes to a head. Hhmmm...

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Re: [news] TV station sets cybersex sting
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>*** TV station sets cybersex sting >With cyperporn and cybersex ranking as sensational news items on >local TV stations, Fox's Los Angeles outlet has taken the trend a >step further by ensnaring adult sexual predators. KTTV's Fox 11 News >at 10 worked with a 21-year-old woman posing as a 14-year-old to >conduct cybersting operations that led to the arrests of five men. >KTTV used the unnamed woman as bait, having her enter online chat >rooms where she was immediately targeted. The station filmed the >online seductions as well as the arrests of the men, who included an >attorney, a doctor, a retired Army officer and an investigator for >the Dept. of Labor. See story at >http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5777644-464 And then they tricked a real 14 year old girl into meeting with them and having sex so that maybe, if they really, really tried very hard, they could argue that a real crime had been committed, right? Didn't think so.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Springer/Gates Merger
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> CANADIAN NUTLY NEWS: > [CNN, Bienfait, Saskatchewan] BAR OWNERS at the Coaldust Saloon, > in violation of Canadian bartender/customer confidentiality laws, > revealed details of a planned merger between Micro$oft and the > Jerry Springer Show. > "The success of Terminal Man > showed that the future was in snuff-flicks, and Police Chases was > the natural movement of that theme into the trend toward Real TV." Let's see...if the police with the TV camera in their car get in a chase with another vehicle, their chances of getting on primetime TV increase in proportion to the threat posed to all involved, including innocent bystanders. So if the 'perp' kills or gets killed, the police officer gets to sing on 'Star Search'? If the TV camera on the police cruiser gets a particularly gory shot of the fleeing vehicle splattering a child in a crosswalk, the cop gets a free dining room set? I can hardly wait until Jane and Joe Public get their chance to participate in an InterActive snuff-flick in WebWorld. "It will never happen." you say?" Like the Great Evil of Alcohol will never be taken out of the hands of murderous criminals who make outrageous profits, and put into the hands of governement, who makes an equally outrageous profit. Like the government will not use their armed power to out-muscle the scar-faced, pug-nosed thugs in the dark underworld, to take over control of the Great Evil of Gambling. Trust me when I say that I am not just being cynical about the Sheeple (TM) in saying this. If I had a chance for a shot at Louis J. Freeh on the Pay-per-InterAct Snuff Channel... SnuffMonger

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A Constitutionalist Recants
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Law & Order has showed me the error of my ways. After watching tonight's show, I realized that those who 'hide behind the Constitution' are all murderers. I was so proud of the judge who made his speech about supporting the concepts behind the constitution, and then was able to see his error in not throwing it out the window because of a single dead person. I cheered when the judge dismissed a juror for quoting the founding fathers. God bless what used to be America! ReformedConstitutionalistMonger "Sure, Dan Quayle was an idiot for getting all worked up over a Murphy Brown episode, but this is different...isn't it?"

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Crypto '98: Call for Papers
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CRYPTO '98 August 23-27, 1998, Santa Barbara, California, USA CALL FOR PAPERS GENERAL INFORMATION Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Crypto '98, the Eighteenth Annual IACR Crypto Conference. Crypto '98 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information, access http://www.iacr.org/ INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will appear by December 1, 1997 at http://www.iacr.org/conferences/c98/submit.html. Electronic submissions must conform to this procedure in order to be considered. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 22 copies of an anonymous paper (double-sided copies preferred) to the Program Chair at the postal address below. Submissions must be received by the Program Chair on or before February 16, 1998 (or postmarked by February 7, 1998, and sent via airmail or courier). Late submissions and submissions by fax will not be considered. The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the names and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author including e-mail and postal addresses. Only original research contributions will be considered. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point font and reason- able margins. Committee members are not required to read appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by April 30, 1998. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on June 5, 1998. SUBMISSION: February 16, 1998 ACCEPTANCE: April 30, 1998 PROCEEDINGS VERSION: June 5, 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Dan Boneh, Stanford University, USA Don Coppersmith, IBM Research, USA Yair Frankel, CertCo, USA Matt Franklin, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Johan Hastad, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Lars Knudsen, University of Bergen, Norway Hugo Krawczyk, Chair, Technion, Israel and IBM Research, USA Ueli Maurer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Alfred Menezes, Auburn University, USA Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Rafail Ostrovsky, Bellcore, USA Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Universite de Louvain, Belgium Tal Rabin, IBM Research, USA Matt Robshaw, RSA Laboratories, USA Phillip Rogaway, University of California at Davis, USA Rainer Rueppel, $R^3$ Security Engineering AG, Switzerland Kazue Sako, NEC, Japan Dan Simon, Microsoft Research, USA Moti Yung, CertCo, USA ADVISORY MEMBERS: Burt Kaliski, chair Crypto'97, RSA Laboratories, USA Michael J. Wiener, chair Crypto'99, Entrust Technologies, Canada Joe Kilian, electronic submissions, NEC Research Institute, USA ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS: Hugo Krawczyk, Program Chair, Crypto '98 Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000 ISRAEL Phone: (972) 4-829-4652 Fax: (972) 4-832-3041 E-mail: crypto98(a)ee.technion.ac.il FOR OTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Klapper, General Chair, Crypto '98 Department of Computer Science 763h Anderson Hall University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506 USA Phone: (1) 606-257-3961 Fax: (1) 606-323-1971 E-mail: crypto98(a)iacr.org STIPENDS: A limited number of stipends are available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the conference. Students whose papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the General Chair.

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Re: Raids on Cypherpunks?
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >(One can only hope. I'm getting tired of setting my traps every night and >having no BATFags to show for it.) ..................................................... You know, a long time ago (in '93) when L..D.(etweiler) was provoking the list with his various "Secret Operations" against the "Big Macs" on the list, you (Tim) remarked that you half expected to hear one day that he had been shot and arrested (or was it shot and killed) for his bizarre behavior. Ironically, I wonder if it will not be yourself, who one day is found under those circumstances. (Not that your behavior is bizarre, or anything). .. Blanc

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17 Dec '03

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