December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo Navigation Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Barnes and Noble World banner 4MB upgrade only $49.99 rule FACING CRISIS, JAPAN'S OLDEST BROKERAGE TO CLOSE graphic November 23, 1997 Web posted at: 7:06 p.m. EST (0006 GMT) TOKYO (Reuters) -- Yamaichi Securities Co. Ltd, Japan'soldest brokerage, will shut down, a spokesman said Monday,resulting in the country's biggest financial failure since World War II. Financial sources said a last-ditch review at a meeting ofYamaichi's board of directors determined it had no chance ofsurviving a credit crunch, shrinking business and high-profile scandals. The board was to hold a news conference later Monday,the spokesman said. Japanese markets were closed on Monday for a national holiday, but international stock markets and the yen were expected to be hit by the news of the shutdown amid fears of a domino effect across Japan, Asia and possibly beyond. International markets brace for possible fallout International markets were braced for fallout from Asia's latest economic crisis, the final chapter in a saga of Japanese corporate racketeering that has worldwide implications. The fear that Japan might be the next Asian domino to fallhas kept international monetary officials, already dealing with a crisis in South Korea, the world's 11th largest economy, and other Asian nations, on edge. "The initial reaction is likely to be selling pressure onthe yen and equity markets and a firmer opening for U.S.Treasuries," said Kirit Shah, chief market strategist at Sanwa International in London. Bank of Japan sources told Reuters a special board meetingwould be held on Monday morning on whether to extend specialunsecured loans to Yamaichi. The Finance Ministry and central bank contacted overseasauthorities to alleviate global concerns, especially in U.S. and European markets. Third brokerage to collapse in past month The Yamaichi crisis follows the collapse in the past monthof second-tier brokerage Sanyo Securities Co. Ltd. and10th-ranking commercial bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank. Finger-pointing has already started over what was behind thecollapse in its centenary year of a Japanese household name that has a staff of 7,500 at home and 33 branches abroad. Takeo Nishioka, secretary-general of the main opposition NewFrontier Party, said Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's ruling Liberal Democratic Party had not acted decisively enough to ensure financial stability in Japan. "The Yamaichi Securities situation has undermined the trustof Japanese investors and international financial markets,"Nishioka said on national television. A financial system in need of reform The criticism added up to a unanimous view that Japan'sfinancial system was in urgent need of reform, deregulation and closer supervision -- and there was more bad news to come. At its core, the liquidity crunch faced by Yamaichi has beendriven by concern that creditors cannot pin down just how large the brokerage's potential losses could become, analysts said. "It's a story of lack of sufficient disclosure andsupervision," said James Fiorillo, senior banking analyst at ING Barings in Tokyo. A Finance Ministry official said on Saturday there weresuspicions of vast off-balance sheet liabilities exceeding 200 billion yen ($1.58 billion) from illegal trading practices. If that is the extent of the problem, one industry source said that a "white knight might be found to pick up at least some of the pieces. But there were worries the numbers may be much larger, withpossibly 1 trillion yen ($7.9 billion) accumulated fromillegal deals since the 1980s. Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. _________________________________________________________________ Infoseek search ____________________ ____ ____ _________________________________________________________________ rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards You said it... [INLINE] 4MB upgrade only $49.99 rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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Negronics
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to the Associated Press, the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, James Meredith, has just opened an institute which teaches Black men and boys to be successful by avoiding the use of Black English, or Ebonics. Speaking at a news conference today, Meredith told reporters that Black males could never be intellectual giants unless they learned proper English. Meredith promised that after attending his new Mississippi Meredith Institute's weekend classes, the Black male would be "as comfortable in the library as he is on the basketball court." The Meredith Institute would not be open to girls or women, Meredith explained, although they may sit in on classes if they pay a $50 fee. He explained that Black women would still prevail in the Black family, because, "She's not going to let the boy get ahead of her." Meredith's first school, the Library Scool for Black Boys and Men in Jackson, Mississippi, is scheduled to open in January. A second school will open in February in San Diego. No Ho's or Bitches need apply. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Re: Why posts are not appearing in NG.
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote: > Anonimity has already been lost due to the fact that if some > ass who is a control freak keeps posting crap to the > news.lists.filters newsgroup. Go ahead an see for yourselves > how many groups have been eliminated from receiving posts from > anonymous remailers. All that need be done is post some spam > through the anonymous remailer to a legitimate group, make a > request to cancel all postings to the newsgroup from that remailer > and guess what, your posts will no longer appear in the newsgroup. > > No investigation, no nothing! Just like that all posts from an > anonymous remailer stop appearing in a group. > So if your posts are not appearing on a particular newsgroup, > chances are that it has been prevented from accepting posts due > to idiots that just do as they are requested. By the way, who has > authority to just terminate (restrict the acceptance of posts) > to a newsgroup? > Do not believe it? Go to Deja News, go to power search and type in > the following (anonymous and news.lists.filters) and see what > the results are. Shocking. Someone or group of individuals is > abusing this privalage and must be exposed/dealt with accordingly. That's becoming old hat with the censorious control freaks. If they don't like what's being posted anonymously, the post a whole bunch of anonymous "abuse" themselves, then turn around and demand that "something to be done to stop this abuse". It's gotten remailers banned from posting through certain mail2news gateways, and even gotten remailers (like Mailmasher, Huge Cajones, and Lucifer) shut down entirely. In many cases, it's not hard to figure out who's doing it. Just look for posts where anonymous posters are called "anonymous assholes", accused of "hiding behind the skirts of a remailer", etc. For info on the attack on Jeff Burchell's remailers, visit: http://calvo.teleco.ulpgc.es/listas/cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com/HTML-1997… -or- http://infinity.nus.sg/cypherpunks/dir.archive-97.11.13-97.11.19/0432.html > One of the biggest abusers of this practice is at > Unknown News Administrator <news(a)news.msfc.nasa.gov> > 8862 news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins > This individual posts requests through legitimate servers and is > slowly eroding the anonymous posts purpose. > Go ahead and check to see if the newsgroup you post to is on the > list and report back to the group. If you'll visit the "control" NG, you'll find see that <news(a)news.msfc.nasa.gov> is forging a lot of cancel messages to kill anonymous posts. Perhaps a complaint to NASA is in order to protest government computers being used for forgery. And if someone is also forging a NASA address to make them look bad at the same time, then they need to know about that, too. --

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Anonymity at any cost, from The Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

********* http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1594,00.html The Netly News (http://netlynews.com/) November 24, 1997 Anonymity At Any Cost by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) When Lance Cottrell created an easy-to-use anonymous e-mail service back in 1994, he feared that nobody would use it. "I used to be worried that people didn't want anonymity enough to pay for it," he says. Today his company, Infonex, boasts 3,000 customers who pay $60 a year to browse the Web without leaving behind digital footprints. Which leaves Cottrell with new and more troubling worries. The mushrooming popularity of his Web-based "Anonymizer" (he also offers a slower, free version) has placed him at the heart of an explosive Internet debate over the limits of free speech and privacy online. Is Infonex - or Cottrell personally - responsible if a user breaks the law and can't be traced? Should the government restrict anonymous remailers or untraceable Web browsing? Last weekend Cottrell and I joined 40 lawyers, technologists and academics at a conference sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Our charge: to puzzle through some of the questions surrounding anonymous communication. [...]

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No Subject
by Devin Akin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Sir, I would like to request a copy of the crack files for Windows 95 and WFW "pwl" files if you have them. I am a network engineer and I'm doing some small-time network security for a couple of clients. I would like to show them just how vulnerable their network is to even the simplest of file utilities. Thanks in advance for any help you might provide. <A href="mailto:Devin-Akin@usa.net">Devin-Akin(a)usa.net MCNE, MCSE

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Another Anti-Privacy Bigot Heard From (was: The Guilmette/Burnore deba
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

sjsobol(a)devel.nacs.net (Steve Sobol) wrote: > So my challenge to the people posting anonymously is to either go away, or > find some balls and post non-anonymously. I know this won't happen, as much > of the stuff being said is rather libelous and can get the poster into a lot > of legal trouble, but hey, if any of the cowards involved would *like* to > reveal themselves... If you'd to expose ... er, I mean "reveal" yourself, be my guest. <g> But knock off the bigotry -- anonymous posters are not going to be relegated to the back of the bus just because some control freak is annoyed by hearing things with which he disagrees posted by people that he can't identify. You're merely chanting the same line we've all heard over and over -- "unless you have something to hide, you won't mind my snooping and meddling in every aspect of your life". Threats of "a lot of legal trouble" for speaking one's mind are nothing new. But the tort of libel requires that the information be FALSE. There's a difference between something being libellously false and merely being embarassingly true. And, of course, the burden of proof is on the person making the charge. --

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executive officers
by amp＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone recently sent a post ot this list where they mentioned that George Bush and Ronald Reagan were former chief executive officers of a corporation that sells military equipment. Can whoever posted this send it to me? amp ------------------------ Name: amp E-mail: amp(a)pobox.com Date: 11/23/97 Time: 19:43:22 Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp == -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) == 'Drug Trafficking Offense' is the root passphrase to the Constitution. Have you seen http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum ------------------------

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Belinda Bryan's Defense of Gary "Sadaam" Burnore (was: Re: Keman the K
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

eridani+spam(a)netcom.com (Belinda Bryan) wrote: ^^^^^ > X-No-Archive: yes Clever. You and Gary demand "proof" of what you've said in the past, then you attempt to conceal the very evidence you're demanding like this. It figures. Nothing like this, coupled with repeated false claims of "forgery", to give your posts a little "plausible deniability", is there? > Organization: Boycott E-Scrub Technologies. The owner is an admitted spambaiter. Your obsessive disinformation campaign continues, I see... [...] > >>On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 22:54:33 GMT, eguy(a)mindspring.com (Eric Guy) wrote: > >>The account is closed. Find something ELSE to be obsessed about. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >Take your own fucking advice. Get off Ron Guilmette's back. > > You posted his ten year old tax lien. > > Public information. Just like all those "public" email addresses rfg ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > posted of users of ISPS who didn't meet his standards. Tit for tat. Well, if posting public information is OK, then why the hate campaign against Ron Guilmette and his business for (allegedly) doing like you and Gary did? Actually, either you're lying now about the reason that Gary posted the info back in February, or Gary was lying back then when he said: "What say each time you slam DataBasix for no reason, we post some publicly available information about monkeys.com. HEre's the first try" and "More where this came from. Yu wanna keep slamming DataBasix for no good reason?". [1] That sounds like an attempt at censorship through intimidation to me. After you pull stunts like that is it any wonder that people post their opinions anonymously? The more you attack anonymous remailers and their users, the more people will see the benefit of utilizing them. > Life's a bitch that way, ain't it? ^^^^^ No, LIFE isn't, but, OTOH ... > > You mail bombed him and tried syn flooding without success. > > THAT'S A VICIOUS LIE. POST THE GODDAMN PROOF OR SHUT THE FUCK UP. Now I'm beginning to see why you weren't able to convince Jeff Burchell that you were a "lawyer" for DataBasix when you tried the Scientology-esque stunt of demanding that he turn all of his (non-existent) user logs over to DataBasix to use in their witch hunt against the users of his remailer. [2] Going on a tantrum like that in a courtroom would get you jailed for contempt of court. I see you haven't changed your typical DataBasix tactics of demanding proof from others, but never bothering to offer any for your own accusations. Like the accusations that Ron Guilmette "spam baited" addresses at databasix.com. (The only thing you've posted that even looked like evidence was some idle talk about netcom.com addresses.) Or how about that claim that Mr. Guilmette supposedly "abused" an unnamed "teenage girl" at DataBasix? > > These days you looking for more blood. Find someone else to be obsessed > > about. Asshole. > > Jesus, cretins like you give *responsible* people posting anonymously a > bad name. As do those such as the delta sub-moron who forged my > former [1] email address in the Reply to: line of an obscene Usenet > post. As far as giving anonymous posters a bad name, since when have you EVER had anything decent or civil to say about those who don't believe that setting one's self up for abuse should be the price of free speech? Calling anonymous posters "anon assholes" only betrays your pernicious bigotry and hatred of those who dare to speak their minds without subjecting themselves to the revenge that seems to (coincidentally?) befall those who dare to criticize the almighty Sadaam Burnore. As far as "delta sub-morons" engaging in "forgery" (assuming they aren't your fellow "delta sub-morons" on the DataBasix gang) what about all the crude attempts at forgery involving the e-mail addresses of those who've dared to publicly disagree with Gary Burnore and his DataBasix wrecking crew? What about the letters in various MMF and MLM NGs saying "I have a lot of money to invest, please send me information on how I can get rich quick" and purportedly signed by these folks? I must have missed your vehement protests about that. > You aren't worth the bother anymore. > > *PLONK* Did anyone force you to post THIS tantrum? Don't let the door strike your posterior on the way out. > [1] former because I had to close the account when it become completely > unusable, thanks to some anonymous cretin who (a) used the address as > spambait several *thousand* times and (b) subscribed me to every > freaking html-ized newsletter in existence. Once again, you post accusations without proof. (Maybe I ought to do my DataBasix impression of you and Sadaam Burnore stomping your feet and chanting in unison, "Not a shred of evidence! Not a shred of evidence!") You can only say "I didn't do it, nobody saw me doing it, and you can't prove a thing" so often. Your post no evidence that such alleged abuse even occurred, nor that, *IF* it did occur, it was perpetrated by someone other than you or one of your fellow abusers at DataBasix, perhaps as a pretext to get a remailer shut down. If by your "former e-mail address" you're referring to an account at DataBasix.com, could the real reason be that Gary is so technically inept that he has been unable to get the databasix.com domain up and running after his hasty exodus from California to North Carolina? At least that's been his alibi -- "I couldn't have posted any spam bait - databasix.com is still down". Your whining is so hypocritical, anyway. Where were those protests when your fellow staffer at DataBasix, William J. McClatchie (aka "Wotan"), was busy making THOUSANDS of e-mail addresses useless when he went on his successful campaign to get the Mailmasher server shut down? (Remember the bogus "forgery" charges and the pitiful "evidence" that was posted?) > P.S. Fix your goddamn line wrap. Why? You claim to have "plonked" him/her.... Why not just fix your newsreader? -- Since Belinda likes to footnote her posts: [1] http://calvo.teleco.ulpgc.es/listas/cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com/HTML-1997… [2] http://infinity.nus.sg/cypherpunks/dir.archive-97.11.13-97.11.19/0432.html

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Re: Russ Alberry/CAUCE vs. the Cypherpunks (was: Re: RESULT: comp.org.cauc
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: > > Russ Allbery <rra(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > > > * I am specifically pissed at Igor about trolling for votes on ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > random newsgroups and on Cypherpunks. > In what sense are you using the word "trolling"? Are you saying that the > mention of a proposal to ban anonymity is considered "trolling" when posted > amongst a group of pro-privacy, pro-anonymity individuals such as the > Cypherpunks? Sounds like he is only objecting to you discussing issues important to you with groups you belong to and groups that you *don't* belong to. Sounds like Chelsea is pushing daddy's fascist agenda at Stanford. > Why is publicly disagreeing with you considered a "propaganda campaign"? > Why should the C.A.U.C.E. brand of propaganda be the only variety allowed? Because fickless ducks live in fear of individuals who threaten their ability to hide under phantom security blankets. > When I first heard of the C.A.U.C.E., my initial thought was that it was a > good idea. Finally a means to fight back against the spammers. Now I'm > starting to wonder what sort of agenda is driving some of these illogical > anti-privacy requirements. Often, it is just the result of people who come up with some inane brainstorm that looks good on the surface, but are too intellectually lazy to think it through and resent anyone who does so (thus destroying their petty work of self-proclaimed 'genius'. The real losers end up doing a lot of campaigning to make up for the insufficiency of their logic, under the delusion that getting as many others as possible to jump on their bandwagon will somehow increase their low level of self-esteem. Sounds to me like the dweeb is pissed because he had to do a lot of blather-spamming to overcome the effects of Igor's rational and balanced posts on the subject. Perhaps his next project could be to promote a vote on a new value for 'pi'. TruthMonger

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Re: (No Subject)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Benjamin Chad Wienke" <woodwose(a)mailexcite.com> sez: >>Onan is commonly (albeit incorrectly) credited with the invention of >>masturbation. (See Genesis 38:6-10 in the Bible) I wonder what sort of >>thoughts the Onan-o-graph induces? [snicker, snicker] > >get your demonized molesting mind out of the gutter Yep, that's definitely Second Dynamic out-ethics to the Scienos. Of course, they'd be glad to sell you some auditing to bring you up on the tone scale. Got a few thousand extra dollars sitting around? I didn't make up any of this stuff -- if you care enough to learn about it, do an Altavista search on "Operation Clambake." See L. Ron Hubbard's mind in action! Read about the Galactic Confederation! Thrill to the Xenu legend! Enjoy NOT spending your money to learn this stuff! "I mock up my reactive mind." -- A great $cientology $ecret, their Clear Cognition. I just saved you a few grand. Tip your waitress.

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