December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Spam
by jim＠mentat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Stan the Sequencer sez: > Apparently only as far back as 1993, the definition of the word "spam" from > the on-line jargon file was this (according to the New Hackers Dictionary) - > > spam [from the MUD community] vt. To crash a program by over-running a fixed- > size buffer with excessively large input data. See also Buffer Overflow, > Overrun Screw, Smash the Stack. This isn't quite accurate. The term "spamming" in Mudding has always meant inundating the players with repetitive material, whether intentionally or accidentally, and has been used in that sense since sometime around 1990 at least. The "overflow" is of user screens, not stacks or buffers... although of course any high usage like that can test a program's limits. I just wrote and snipped a long disquisition on the history of spam starting with Clarence Thomas IV in 1993, having realized it's probably not relevant to your interests and old hat to everybody else. Suffice it to say that spam does require extra resources to process, both in hardware and time. We resent it because the end user is paying for it rather than the advertiser, so there is no natural limit to the amount of crap they can pour on us. Jim Gillogly

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Re: Spam
by StanSqncrs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to Peter Trei for that bit of history. In a message dated 5/7/98 10:26:48 AM Central Daylight Time, jim(a)mentat.com writes: << I just wrote and snipped a long disquisition on the history of spam starting with Clarence Thomas IV in 1993, having realized it's probably not relevant to your interests ... >> Actually, by the timing you describe, it would probably make it VERY relevant to my interests. I'd love to see it. << and old hat to everybody else. Suffice it to say that spam does require extra resources to process, both in hardware and time. We resent it because the end user is paying for it rather than the advertiser, so there is no natural limit to the amount of crap they can pour on us. >> But times have changed again. Now the users have unlimited access. BTW: As I understand it, the corporations were given free-speech rights with a bad Supreme Court decision back in the '20's, even though the constitution only grants rights to "people" and "citizens" (14th amendment) Stan

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My mail address changed
by iw＠merkur.contexo.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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http://www.jya.com/whp043098.htm
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 5/8/98 6:25 AM John Young J Orlin Grabbe Sobolewski phoned last night. Sobolewski gave me his opinion. 1 Campos is going to hold in camera ex parte conference with NSA 2 Campos will then award summary judgment to NSA. I told Sobolewski that most of the legal citations in Campos document were not contained in the pleadings. Sobolewski EXCLAIMED, Oh. Sobolewski is particularly good at law. Sobolewskis father was a lawyer and judge both in Poland and Australia. Sobolewski prevailed in an lawsuit spanning the US and Australia - but it still cost him more than $20k TELLING a lawyer what to do. Sobowleski usually beats speeding tickets. Sobolewski uses DISCOVERY to obtain maintenance and calibration records of police radar. And also radar operation training records of the officer who stopped him. The MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER authored by some government lawyers and signed by Campos is clearly a candidate for one of the STUPIDEST and INCOMPETENT legal documents ever written. http://www.jya.com/whp043098.htm Morales and I LOVE IT, of course! This is why we were so happy last Friday. We got another shot at THEM [aka The Great Satan]. Morales is taking the day off from Sandia today. We will finish and file our motion. Then BLAST it out on the Infobahn. I see other good legal advice linked at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ http://www.phrack.com/52/P52-05 Later bill

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FILED 98 MAY - 8 AM 11:31
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young File-stamped copy was mailed to you at US Courthouse. Later bill UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO William H. Payne ) Arthur R. Morales ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v ) CIV NO 97 0266 ) SC/DJS ) Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF ) Director, National Security Agency ) National Security Agency ) ) Defendant ) PLAINTIFFS' MOTION TO AMEND Santiago E. Campos MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER FILED 98 APR 30 AM 11:45 1 COMES NOW plaintiffs Payne and Morales [Plaintiffs] to exercise their rights under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 52. Findings by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings (b) Amendment. On a party's motion filed no later than 10 days after entry of judgment, the court may amend its findings--or make additional findings--and may amend the judgment accordingly. ... 2 Plaintiffs will show that the Court's [Campos] MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER http://www.jya.com/whp043098.htm contains presumably-unintentional false statements or misleading statements of essential material facts. Plaintiffs move to permit Campos to amend ORDER to reflect proper remedy of obvious evidence of lack of impartiality and judicial misconduct. A judge is supposed to judge arguments presented by the Plaintiffs and the Defendant. An judge is NOT SUPPOSED to engage in legal research designed to support either Plaintiff or Defendant's case. Judge Campos was supposed to rely on legal citations presented ONLY by pro se Plaintiffs or NSA Defendant Minihan's lawyer, Assistant US Attorney Jan Elizabeth Mitchell [Mitchell]. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER contains OVER ABOUT 144 legal citations most of which WERE NOT PRESENTED TO THE COURT in pleadings by either Plaintiffs or Defendant. 3 Campos writes Plaintiffs contend that Federal Civil Procedure Rule 36 explicitly provides that discovery is allowed without leave of the court. Plaintiffs quote citation The Court is unsure where Plaintiffs found the language they quote, but it is incorrect. Federal Civil Judicial Procedure and Rules, WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1991 Revised Edition, page 110 states, Rule 36. Requests for Admission Request for admission (a) A party may serve upon any other party a written request for the admission, for the purposes of the pending action only, of the truth of any matters within the scope of Rule 26(b) set forth the request that relate to statements or opinions of fact or of the application of law to fact including the genuineness of any documents described in the request. Copies of documents shall be served with the request unless they have been or otherwise furnished or made available for inspection and copying. The request may WITHOUT LEAVE OF THE COURT, be served upon the plaintiff after commencement of the action and upon any other party with or after service of the summons and complaint upon that party. ... Updated Rule 36 seen at http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/overview.htm, click at 36. Requests for Admission states A party may serve upon any other party a written request for the admission, for purposes of the pending action only, of the truth of any matters within the scope of Rule 26(b)(1) set forth in the request that relate to statements or opinions of fact or of the application of law to fact, including the genuineness of any documents described in the request. Copies of documents shall be served with the request unless they have been or are otherwise furnished or made available for inspection and copying. Without leave of court or written stipulation, requests for admission may not be served before the time specified in Rule 26(d) . Rule 26(d) states (d) Timing and Sequence of Discovery. Except when authorized under these rules or by local rule, order, or agreement of the parties, a party may not seek discovery from any source before the parties have met and conferred as required by subdivision (f). Unless the court upon motion, for the convenience of parties and witnesses and in the interests of justice, orders otherwise, methods of discovery may be used in any sequence, and the fact that a party is conducting discovery, whether by deposition or otherwise, shall not operate to delay any other party's discovery. Essential material facts are 1 5/23/97 Docket Sheet entry 9 Plaintiffs file MOTION by plaintiff for order to accept discovery plan (dmw) 2 Defiant misses filing date for response to entry 9. 3 Plaintiffs' file on 6/9/97 Docket Sheet entry 13 MOTION by plaintiff to accept discovery plan of plaintiffs as an unopposed motion before the court (dwm) 4 In panic Defendant's lawyer US Mitchell submits on 6/9/97 Docket Sheet entry 14, RESPONSE by defendant to motion to accept discovery plan of plaintiffs as an unopposed motion before the Court [13-1] (dwm) [Entry date 06/10/97] Lawyer Mitchell, apparently realizing her legal procedural blunder, is forced to deposit her LATE MOTION in Court outside mailbox since entry was not stamped FILED until June 10. The "time specified in Rule 26(d)" was satisfied, therefore Plaintiffs were with the law for proceeding with discovery. 4 Campos cites in B. Standing of Plaintiff Morales ... see also NLRB v. Sears. Roebuck & Co., 421 U.S. 132, 144 n. 10 ( 1975). Plaintiffs can find no reference to NLRB v. Sears. Roebuck & Co in Mitchell's pleadings Therefore Campos reaches conclusion that Morales should be removed partially on obviously biased citations of Campos own legal research. 5 Campos writes in C. Proper Defendant Campos cites the following legal citations to justify dismissing defendant Minihan 1 Thompson v. Walbran, 990 F.2d 403, 405 (8thCir. 1993) (per curiam); 2 Petrus v. Bowen, 833 F.2d 581, 582-83 (5th Cir.1987); 3 Sherwood Van Lines, Inc. v. United States Department of the Navy,732 F. Supp. 240, 241 (D.D.C. 1990); 4 Gary Energy Corp. v. United StatesDepartment of Energy, 89 F.R.D. 675, 675-77 (D. Colo. 1981). 5 But see, e.g Diamond v. FBI, 532 F. Supp. 216, 21920 (S.D.N.Y. 1981), aff'd on other grounds, 707 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1983); 6 Hamlin v. Kelley, 433 F. Supp. 180,181 (N.D. Ill. 1977). 7 Parks v. IRS, 618 F.2d 677 684 (10th Cir. 1980) Plaintiffs can find NONE of the above legal citations in ANY pleadings before the Court. Therefore, Plaintiffs conclude that Campos is obviously biased and has improperly introduced legal citations in an attempt to have Minihan dismissed. 6 Campos cites in III. FOIA A. FOIA Policy 1 NLRB v, Robbins Tire & Rubber Co., 437 U.S. 214, 242 (1978). 2 Anderson v. Department of Health and Human Services,907 F.2d 936, 941 (10th Cir. 1990) 3 Maricopa Audubon Society v. United States Forest Service, 923 F. Supp. 1436, 1438-39 (D.N.M. 1995) 4 Maricopa Audubon Society v. United States Forest Service, 923 F. Supp. 1436, 1438-39 (D.N.M. 1995) 5 Hale v. United States Department of Justice, 973 F.2d894, 897 (10th Cir. 1992) 6 (citing EPA v. Mink, 410 U.S. 73, 79-80 (1973), vacated on other grounds, 509 U.S. 918 (1993)); 7 Office of Information and Privacy, U.S. Department of Justice, Freedom of Information Act Guide & Privacy Act Overview 3 (Sept. 1997 ed.) 8 S. Rep. No. 813, 89th Cong., 1st Sess. 10 (1965), 9 United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Commission for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749, 773 (1989);see id. at 774 10 Air Force v. Rose, 425 U.S. 352, 360-61(1976); 11 Anderson v. Department of Health and Human Services, 907 F.2d 936,941 (10th Cir. 1990); 12 Johnson v. United States Department of Justice, 739F.2d 1514, 1516 (10th Cir. 1984) 13 Hale v. United States Department of Justice, 2 F.3d 1053, 1057 (10th Cir. 1993); 14 Cal-Almond, Inc. v. United States Department of Agriculture, 960 F.2d 105, 107 (9th Cir. 1992). 15 Bowen v.United States Food and Drug Administration, 925 F.2d 1225, 1226 (9th Cir. 1991) . 16 King v. Department of Justice, 830 F.2d 210, 217 (D.C. Cir.1987). 17 Vaughn v. Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D.C.Cir. 1973); 18 Weiner v. FBI, 943 F.2d 972, 977 (9th Cir. 1991). 19 Halperin v. CIA, 629 F.2d 144, 14849 (D.C. Cir. 1980); Plaintiffs can find NONE of the above citation of law in pleadings before this Court Campos is obviously biased for including above 18 citations. Campos cites internet addresses 1 < http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/oip.html > 2 < http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/oip.html > 3 < http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/oip.html > 4 < http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/oip.html> 5 < http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/oip.html> 6 <http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/oip.html> Mitchell cites no Internet address in her pleadings. Above Internet address citations are not those given by Plaintiffs. Therefore, Campos introduces material not in pleadings before this court in his MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER. 7 Campos cites in B. Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies 1 Taylor v. United States Treasury Department, 127 F.3d 470,475 (5th Cir. 1997) 2 Taylor v. Appleton, 30 F.3d 1365, 1367 n.3 (11th Cir. 1994) 3 Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. v. United States Department of Labor, 118 F.3d 205, 08-09 (4th Cir. 1997) 4 Trenerry v. Internal Revenue Service, No. 95-5150, 70 F.3d 598, 1996 WL 88459 at *1 (10th Cir. March 1, 1996) 5 Lanter v. Department of Justice, No. 93-6308, 19 F.3d 33, 1994 WL 75876 at *1 (10th Cir. March 8, 1994) 6 Hass v. United States Air Force, 848 F. Supp. 926, 929 (D. Kan. 1994) 7 Katzman v. CIA, 903 F. Supp.434, 437 (E.D. N.Y. 1995) (citing Becker v. Internal Revenue Service, 34 F.3d 398, 405 (7th Cir. 1994)). 8 Ruotolo v. Department of Justice, 53 F.3d 4, 8 (2d Cir. 1995); 9 Spannaus v. United States Department of Justice, 824 F.2d 52, 59 (D.C. Cir 1987); 10 Kuchta v. Harris, No. 92-1121, 1993 WL 87705 at *3 (D.Md. March 25, 1993) 11 Trueblood v. United States Department of Treasury, 943 F. Supp. 64, 66-67 (D.D.C. 1996); Plaintiffs could NOT find ANY of the above legal citations in pleadings before this Court. Campos gives biased opinion on exhaustion of administrative remedies. 8 Campos cites in C. Summary Judgment 1 Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520 (1972) (per curiam). 2 Shabazz v. Askins, 14 F.3d 533, 535 (10th Cir. 1994). 3 Green v.Dorrell, 969 F.2d 915, 917 (10th Cir. 1992). 4 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 249, 255 (1986). 5 Magnum Foods, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co., 36 F.3d 1491, 1497 (10th Cir. 1994). 6 World of Sleep. Inc. v. La-Z-Boy Chair Co., 756 F.2d 1467, 1474 (10th Cir. 1985) 7 Celotex Corp. v. Catrett. 477 U.S. 317, 325 (1986). 8 Bacchus Industries. Inc. v. Arvin Industries. Inc., 939 F.2d 887,891 (10th Cir. 1991). Plaintiffs can find none of the above citation in pleadings before this Court. 9 Campos cites in 3. Plaintiff's First Summary Judgment Motion 1 Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486, 496 (1969) 2 Phillippi v. CIA, 546 F.2d 1009, 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1976). 3 Patterson v. FBI, 705 F. Supp. 1033, 1039 (D.N.J. 1989), aff'd 898 F.2d 595 (3d Cir. 1990). 4 American Friends Service Committee v. Department of Defense, 831 F.2d 441, 444 (3d Cir. 1987) 5 Salisbury v. United States, 690 F.2d 996, 970 (D.C. Cir. 1982) 6 Sen. Report No. 1200, 93rd Cong. 12 (1974), U.S. Code Cong. & Admin. News 6267, 6290 (1974)). 7 AG's 1993 FOIA Memorandum 8 Afshar v. Department of State, 702 F.2d 1125, 1130 (D.C. Cir. 1983). 9 Pfeiffer v. CIA, 721 F. Supp. 337, 342 (D.D.C. 1989) 10 Public Citizen v. Department State, 11 F.3d 198, 204 (D.C. Cir. 1993). 11 Fitzgibbon v. CIA, 911 F.2d 755, 766 (D.C. Cir. 1990) 12 Military Audit Project v. Casey, 656 F.2d 724, 74345 (D.C. Cir 1981) 13 Phillippi v. CIA, 655 F.2d 1325, 1332-33 (D.C. Cir. 1981) 14 McNamera v. United States Department of Justice, 974 F. Supp. 946, 955-56 (W.D. Tex. 1997). 15 Halperin v. CIA, 629 F.2d 144, 14849 (D.C. Cir. 1980), 16 United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749, 773 (1989); 17 King v. United States Department of Justice, 830 F.2d 210, 224 (D.C. Cir. 1987); 18 Fitzgibbon v. CIA, 578 F. Supp. 704, 709 (D.D.C. 1983). 19 Katzman v. CIA, 903 F. Supp. 434, 438 (E.D.N.Y. 1995). 20 McDonnell v. United States, 4 F.3d 1227, 1246 (3d Cir. 1993) (citing Association of Retired Railroad Workers v. United States Railroad Retirement Board, 830 F.2d 331, 336 (D.C. Cir. 1987)). 21 United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749, 775 (1989). 22 Founding Church of Scientology v. NSA, 610 F.2d 824, 30, 833 & n. 80 (D.C. Cir. 1979). 23 EPA v. Mink, 410 U.S. 73, 80 (1973); 24 NLRB v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co., 437 U.S. 214, 242 (1978). Plaintiffs cannot find any of the above 24 citation in pleadings before this Court. 9 Campos writes Consequently, the Court requests that Defendant provide it, as it has offered to do, an in camera ex parte declaration or detailed affidavit explaining its reasons for its "Glomar response" and for nondisclosure of none of the Iranian and Libyan messages and translations from June 1, 1980 to June 10,1996, if they do exist. See Anderson v. Department of Health and Human Services, 907 F.2d 936, 942. (10th Cir. 1990).24 The declaration of affidavit must be provided by the Defendant to the Court within sixty days of the date of this opinion. The Court will stay its decision on Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Exemption 3) until after it has heard or examined Defendant's explanation. and quotes 24 As the Tenth Circuit has explained: In order to fulfill its obligation to review de novo the agency's decision not to disclose materials sought under the FOIA, a district court has a variety of options. "The FOIA allows the district court flexibility in utilizing in camera review of the disputed documents, indexing, oral testimony, detailed affidavits, or alternative procedures to determine whether a sufficient factual basis exists for evaluating the correctness of the [agency] determination in each case." [If a Vaughn index or an affidavit is insufficient,] then the district court must utilize other procedures in order to develop an adequate factual basis for review of the agency action. Anderson v. Department of Health and Human Services, 907 F.2d 936, 942 (10th Cir. 1990) (quoting DeSalvo v. Internal Revenue Service, 861 F.2d 1217, 1222 n.6 (10th Cir. 1988) (first alteration in Anderson)). Plaintiffs cannot find reference to 1 Anderson v. Department of Health and Human Services, 907 F.2d 936, 942 (10th Cir. 1990) 2 DeSalvo v. Internal Revenue Service, 861 F.2d 1217, 1222 n.6 (10th Cir. 1988) in pleadings before this Court. WHEREFORE Plaintiffs move for Campos to amend MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER which currently reads 10 NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that sua sponte, Defendant is DEEMED by the Court to be the NSA, and not Lt. Gen. Kenneth A. Minihan. Future captions for this case should reflect this change. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED without prejudice. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff Morales is GRANTED. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, in regard to Defendant's Motion for Partial Dismissal and for Summary Judgment, Defendant's Motion for Partial Dismissal is DENIED and Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment is STAYED pending an in camera ex parte declaration consistent herewith provided by Defendant to the Court within sixty (60) days of the date of this opinion. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment Based on Evidence from Admissions is DENIED as MOOT. to read 11 Santiago Campos disqualifies himself under 28 USC § 455. Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate (a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. ... from further participation in case CIV NO 97 0266, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO for basing much of MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER FILED 98 APR 30 AM 11:45 on materials not contained in pleadings before the Court and vacates ORDER FILED 98 APR 30 AM 11:45. Respectfully submitted, William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Arthur R. Morales 1024 Los Arboles NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 Pro se litigants CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that a copy of the foregoing memorandum was mailed to Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF, Director, National Security Agency, National Security Agency, 9800 Savage Road, Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000 and hand delivered to Jan E Mitchell, Assistant US Attorney, 525 Silver SW, ABQ, NM 87102 this Friday May 8, 1998. 9

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DoD orders vendors to use Key "Recovery"
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I hope someone sends them the NSA report on the security hazards of KR. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com --------------- http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/May4/cov1.htm GCN May 4, 1998 Defense wants PKI now Department intends to make vendors use strong encryption By Christopher J. Dorobek To jump-start development of a public-key recovery system, the Defense Department plans to require its vendors to use strong encryption, deputy Defense secretary John Hamre said recently. Because it wields significant buying clout, Defense's more stringent requirements should boost government and industry efforts to build systems for managing encryption keys, Hamre said last month at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association event in Washington. Agencies cannot wait for the government and industry to settle on a national encryption policy, Hamre said. Through successive administrations, the government has tried to develop a singular policy on encryption. But so far, the efforts have failed. Generally, industry has criticized the government's policy proposals as too restrictive. "We have an important national imperative to protect ourselves in this world," Hamre said. "We can't wait to have this issue resolved ... therefore we're going to buy encryption with key recovery." Vendors will have to use encrypted data and be able to recover it when doing business with DOD, he said. Defense will work out a final policy in the coming weeks, Hamre said. [...]

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[Fwd: 3Com switches - undocumented access level.]
by Sunder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- To: BUGTRAQ(a)NETSPACE.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com switches - undocumented access level. From: Toh Chang Ying <cytoh(a)PLEXUS.NET> Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 18:42:47 +0800 Approved-By: aleph1(a)NATIONWIDE.NET Organization: HICOM Teleservices Reply-To: "cytoh(a)plexus.net" <cytoh(a)plexus.net> Sender: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ(a)NETSPACE.ORG> The sender was deleted to prevent flames. Don't flame me either. I'm just a poor 3Com user. -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 3:32 PM Subject: Re: FW: 3Com switches - undocumented access level. Toh, Thank you for bringing this up for our attention. First of all, let me assure you that the undocumented access level for the LANplex/Corebuilder products are purely for support reasons then anything else. We have many cases where customers will forget their passwords or userids and find themselves in a spot as they could not get in to the console. This is the only way we can help them to recover from this situation without losing their entire configuration. As far as I know, many vendors also have some kind of special access methods to assist their customer under such circumstances.These special access methods are for 3 Com support persons only and are revealed to customers under very special circumstances. Because the CoreBuilders/LanPlex are typically deployed at the core of a network, the config for these equipment is typically complex and very important to the customers. As such, these method can safe the customer a lot of time and inconvenience by recovering their proper access to the equipment. If we have to set these equipment to factory default every time a customer lose his/her password, we will be in a lot of trouble. As for the stackables, I believe we do not have this access method. That's because these equipment is plug n play and do not have many parameters to reconfigure. In the event, a customer loses his/her password, we can just set everything back to factory default. Regards, ********** http://www.plexus.net/ *********** Toh Chang Ying, MCP, Network Operation Centre HICOM Teleservices Sdn Bhd (323218-A) Suite 3.5, Wisma HICOM, 2 Jln Usahawan U1/8 40150 Shah Alam, Malaysia Email: cytoh(a)plexus.net

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HPC Report
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Commerce and Defense released Monday a study of high performance computers, national security and export controls which we have transcribed: http://jya.com/hpc/hpc.htm (Contents, execsumm and Chap 1) The 221-page report provides a detailed survey of HPC applications for national security work with recommendations for export controls in the light of advances in distributed and parallel applications. There's are thumbnails of 200 projects with indexes of power -- with a glance at crypto futures. For brute power the ASCI Red ++ appears to be the leader -- and off the chart of customary measurement. The full report is 1.6MB, and a zipped version is available: http://jya.com/hpc/hpc.zip (1.0MB) ----- Here's the report's press release: U. S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration May 4, 1998 Advances in Computer Technology Make Export Controls More Difficult Washington, D.C. -- Commerce Assistant Secretary Roger Majak and Dave Tarbell, director of the Defense Technology Security Administration at the Defense Department announced the release of a long-awaited study, "High-performance Computing, National Security Applications, and Export Control Policy at the Close of the 20th Century," by Dr. Seymour E. Goodman, Dr. Peter Wolcott and Dr. Patrick Homer. The study has been prepared as part of President Clinton's decision in 1993 to periodically assess U.S. computer export controls. Today's study provides an important contribution to the government's understanding of technology trends in the computer industry and national security uses for high performance computers. The study finds that technology is evolving at an astounding rate in the HPC industry, rapidly increasing the performance of computers at all levels. Key findings include: 1) advancements in microprocessor performance which have brought down the costs of HPCs and reduced their size; 2) improvements in interconnect devices which have permitted a greater range of products to enter the market and helped to make high-performance power more accessible and affordable; 3) more open system architectures that contribute to enhanced calability; and 4) the ability to network the computing power of smaller systems to find solutions to large computational problems. All of these advancements create challenges for export controls on HPCs. In particular, there is growing availability of ever more powerful computers in the world marketplace. The market for HPCs is flourishing worldwide with many new and used systems for sale through mail order and third party distribution systems. The study points out that determining what computing levels can be controlled depends on factors such as dependence on vendor support, the growing diversity of computer architectures and the scalability of computer systems. An earlier study published by Dr. Goodman and his associates issued in 1995 predicted that computers with speeds of over 2,000 MTOPS would be widely vailable in commercial markets by 1997. Those predictions have proved correct. This new study will be an important reference point for the Administration's continuing review of computer controls.

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Dialogue - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dialogue - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _______________________________________ WAS: BASIC TRUTHS! Everyone Has A Photographic Memory...Some Don't Have Film: I've got film... Pretty Harry, a MarijuanIzen of Garberville, Humbolt County, California, was a man who paid close attention to the vagarities of life that comprised his MeatSpace environment. I was sitting with him in 'The Cellar', a local bar, one night, when an effeminate young gentleman from the BigCity came in, sat at a table in the middle of the bar, and ordered a drink. Every RedNeck in the bar cast derisive looks in the young gentleman's direction in order to impress upon him that they could do one-armed push-ups, were sexually excited only by women, and didn't cotton to young gentlemen with full, red lips drinking in 'their' bar, in 'their' town... Pretty Harry gave everyone time to get in a threatening scowl, or two, and then go back to minding their own business, forgetting about the effeminate young gentleman, and he then proceeded to walk over, grab the youth by the hair, tilt back his head, and proceed to give him a wet, sloppy kiss, with plenty of 'tongue'. Since Pretty Harry was an established member of the local social scene, those who observed the event merely barfed into their beers and continued whatever they were doing at the time, pretending that they hadn't really seen what they had really seen. This event confirmed what I had already suspected...Pretty Harry was a cool dude. Pretty Harry sat and talked with me for about twenty minutes, just long enough for those present to bury the memory of what had occurred, and then proceeded to walk over to the young gentleman's table and repeat the action which was so delightfully delicious to the effeminate young man from the BigCity, and so disgustingly depraved to the Local Yokels who could do one-armed push-ups, and were sexually excited only by women. This is when I realized that Pretty Harry was WayCool (TM)... My point is this... Pretty Harry, having proven his deep understanding of the Tao of Life, given his ability to throw a Serious Fuck (TM) into the normal progression of MeatSpace Reality, was astute enough to tell me, "I've noticed that when you come into the bars in town, you sit quietly in the corner, and watch what is going on around you. You know more about 'us' than 'we' do..." There's the Watchers...there's those Watching the Watchers...there's those Watching the Watchers Watching the Watchers... A Day Without Sunshine Is Like...Night: One thing that you will notice if you have the retained the ability to 'watch' what is happening around you in your MeatSpace environment, is that, no matter how comforting the platitudes and 'wise sayings' that society-at-large attempts to program into your subconsious, A Day Without Freedom Is Like...Slavery. If you do not understand what I am attempting to explain by the above, then it must be because I am a drug-dealing, terrorist pedophile. Diplomacy Is Saying "Nice Doggy!"...Until You Find A Rock: At the end of a song titled, "I've Been Up So Long, I Can't Get Down," on C.J. Parker's "Please! Stop Me Before I Sing Again" album, the extremely paraniod singer-songwriter says, "When you can't see THEM, you know THEY're being sly..." Since the confiscation of my computers, I have not seen a single, solitary police car during any of my trips to town. Today, however, after threatening the lives of every police officer upon the face of the earth during a conversation with my father over my 'telleveryonephone', I drove to town and could go nowhere without seeing armed police officers glaring at me from the safety of their officially marked vehicles. The dumb bastards haven't figured out that if they want to shut me up, they're going to have to use 'the rock'. Change Is Inevitable...Except From A Vending Machine: When Micro$not was the only game in town, calling their customer support numbers resulted only in a recorded message saying, "When is the last time a vending machine gave you back your money when you banged on it? Fuck Off!" Once Pepsi has signed an exclusive contract with your local high-school, your children will be subject to felony criminal charges if they bang on a vending machine that has stolen their money. Back Up My Hard Drive? How Do I Put It In Reverse?: "Never look back...something might be gaining on you." ~ That Nigger Who Could Strike Out Batters While Pitching From Second Base Satchel Paige! That's his name... He could strike me out in the batter's box at Yankee Stadium while pitching from second base at CommuninSki Park. I have grown used to losing the MeatSpace records of my life, loves and perceptive realities every time that I get mugged by desperate criminals or by self-righteous law enforcement agents enforcing what they imagine to be the laws that Hitler would put in place if he hadn't had to flee to the AdamAntArctic in order to have his body frozen until such time that the Nazi scientists welcomed with open arms by the CIA after World War II could perfect the CryptOgenics technologies that have their roots in the SuperMan Not Wearing Tights theologies of Nazi Germany. I don't look back... When Canadian Customs and the RCMP steal the digital record of my life, loves and perceptive realities, I look 'forward' to their funerals, in the Time-Space Continuum in which SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS so that the murderous slaughter of everyone who has ever crossed my path can be justified as a valid Weight Loss Program which allows one to eat anything they want, as long as they burn off the calories in a murderous frenzy. I Just Got Lost In Thought...It Was Unfamiliar Territory: ...uuhhh......never mind... Seen It All, Done It All...Can't Remeber Most Of It: Space Aliens Hide My Drugs! Those Who Live By The Sword Get Shot By Those Who Don't:: Grass-roots activism and $ .50 will get you a cup of coffee in a greasy spoon. Canadians who peacefully protest against murderous dictators coming to Canada to participate in an Economic Summit will learn that "Money Rubs Pepper Spray In Your Eyes And Bullshit Rules!" [WAS: "Money Talks And Bullshit Walks!"] I Feel Like I'm Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe: I bet if I used a truck-bomb to destroy an enclave of grunt-workers involved in the murder of men, women and children who hold uncoventional religious views, I would be called a monster for individually emulating the actions of the collective. You Have A Right To Remain Silent! Anything You Say Will Be Misquoted, And Then Used Against You: The proper quotation of your statements will be released to the public after having been sealed under the guise of National Security for 50 years, at which time it will have little chance of counterbalancing a half a century of FUD programming the masses to believe that [Your Name Here] acted alone, using a Magic Bullet that officially refutes the laws of Newtonian Physics, but which is unlikely to result in your being awarded a Nobel Prize. Nothing Is Foolproof To A Sufficiently Talented Fool: This Basic Truth (TM) is the foundation to all amendments to the US Constitution, all interpretations of the Holy Word of [Your (G)(g)od's Name Here], decisions made by a hand-picked jury of the judge and the prosecutor's peers, and really good bar-pick-up lines delivered while rubbing one's private parts and drooling. All My Lies Are True...And Everything I Do, I Really Am: "Ask not who your country can Nuke for you...ask who you can Nuke for your country." ~ Timothy C. McKennedy, President of Samsonite Peripherals, Inc. While the Mayonnaise Mountain Man keeps himself busy attempting to limit the ultimate effect of the digital emissions he fires toward the InterNet--which ricochet into the minds of innocent bystanders--by ranting against the ludicrousness of engaging in 'Magical Thinking', some of those taking a direct hit to the head by his XXX Magnum Diatribes Against Established Lunacy manage to catch the HeavyLoad BulletIns with their teeth, and spit them out in a parallel dimension where a lighter atmosphere allows the citizens to wear lighter loafers with crystals where the pennies should be, and propel the conceptual spirit of the electronic missives of An Aider And Abettor Of A Terrorist Nuclear Strike To Be Named Later through electronic goalposts which are far-distant from MileHigh Electronic Stadium. Thus it is that Circle of Eunuchs Initiates, FrostBack Division, can use a John Candy movie to implant in the minds of the Sheeple the subliminal suggestion that they can take a personal hand in writing the history of Biosemiotic Evolution within the boundaries of the segment of the Time-Space Continuum they inhabit, and get to fuck the living shit out of Gena Davis. Thus it is that Circle of Eunuchs Initiate, Army of Dog Gorrilla, Son of MicroGomez can confidently proclaim Peter Jennings to be a Circle of Eunuchs Initiate, FrostBack Division, and not be in the least surprised when 'Epilogue 7.3 Rev. 1.7' of 'SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS' rails mightily against the hypocritical ludicrousness of those sworn to 'Protect and Serve' the citizenry responding to the actions of a single dangerous driver by adding a dozen LEA dangerous drivers to the equation, and less than a week later Peter Jennings, made manifest as a Circle of Eunuchs Initiate by the simple act of declaring it to be so, slams an exclaimation mark down to provide an addendum to 'Epilogue 7.3 Rev. 1.7' by inserting a piece into 'Word News Tonight' which pointed out that: ~ One-third of those who die in high-speed police chases are 'innocent bystanders'. ~ 1,000 people a year die in high-speed police chases in California. ~ 5,300 people died last year in high-speed police chases in America. ~ State laws make it virtually impossible to sue LEAs in order to force them to face the consequences of their decisions and actions in the same manner that is required of other citizens in 'criminal' as well as in 'civil' court. The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth: During the WaterGate debacle, I was listening to a Saskatoon radio station on which a 'political expert' from Washington, DC, give his opinion of the moral and legal issues surrounding the affair and the role which President Nixon played in it. During the call-in question/opinion period, I phoned the radio station and proffered the opinion that, "If Nixon knew about the affair, then he is a criminal, and if he *didn't* know about the affair, then he is incompetent, given the fact that the crimes were committed by those in power as a direct result of his administrative decisions and choices." A few days later I was listening to a mainstream media news broadcast in which the news anchor announced that the 'current view' of 'Washington insiders' was that Nixon was either incompetent, or a criminal. The wording made it plain that the 'current view' of 'Washington insiders' was the direct result of an inastute political neophyte from ButtFuck, NoWhere, inadvertantly stumbling upon a Basic Truth (TM) which was relevant to the situation--namely, "The Buck Stops Here!" Not..."The Devil made me do it!" Not..."I was betrayed/tricked by those I trusted!" Not..."It was the result of the Messages From Mars that I received through the fillings in my teeth..." "The Buck Stops Here!" I knew that, you knew that, and everyone ensconced in the Halls of Power who were involved in putting a particular politically-motivated spin on the WaterGate affair knew that. Nobody holding a well-paying job, with medical and dental benefits, wanted to rock the boat and risk changing 'the way things are'. Nobody satisfied with the level of welfare benefits they were receiving wanted to rock the boat and risk changing 'the way things are'. There were few who refrained from recognizing and stating the obvious out of ignorance--most of us/them did so as a result of being 'bought off' by our current position in life nudging us toward accepting THE LIE in order not to put our established and manageable world-view at risk of tumbling down around us as the result of a violent assault by THE TRUTH. The comfort and safety of a world-view paridigm which was willing to accept mutually agreed-upon lies, in order to prevent the boat being rocked and subject to swamping, was ripped apart by the voice of a TruthMonger, Deep Throat Division, crying in the wilderness, to those who had 'ears to hear'. My sister was predestined to move to NewAge, California, take a Sufi name, purchase a mountain of crystals and become a feminist, anti-nuclear, yogurt-eating guru dedicated to the promotion of color-therapy as the answer to all of humankind's ills. The only reason that Charles Manson chose to have his followers slaughter Sharon Tate's Baby, instead of my sister, was because she was honest enough to admit, during the height of the Vietnam War Craze, that the young men of America were being sent to their deaths in order for her to enjoy the benefits of refridgeration which were denied to the peasants in Third World countries. "G.I. Joe died for Standard Oil's sins..." ~ A Communist Sympathizer To Be Named Later "The King has no clothes!" This is the message of the InterNet... "KNixon Knew!" This is the message of the InterNet... "A thousand points of light, censored by the New World Order!" This is the message of the InterNet... "If the dangerous, high-speed police chase is being video-taped from a helicopter following every move of the 'escaping' vehicle, then why is it necessary for the police cars to use flashing lights, sirens and the threat of armed violence to exacerbate and add to the bad judgments being exhibited by someone who has little or no chance of eluding "Three air-units." (Verbatim quote from 'World's Scariest Police Chases' which is sexually exciting me, even as we speak.)" This is the message of the InterNet... When is the last time the subject of government regulation came up in a business meeting and, when your opinion was solicited, you stated, "We have reached a point where it is morally acceptable to kill the bastards, but it is not yet feasible to do so."? When is the last time you passed this gem of wisdom from Vin Suprynowicz (Vin ThePolishKike to Zen Racists) along to fellow Netizens who did not hold the power to immediately affect your life for better or worse by deciding whether or not you would continue to receive a paycheck? This is the message of the InterNet... My WebSite was murdered by Sympatico without warning or explaination, as a result of Armed Thugs I had offended violating my inherent right to speak the Truth as I perceive it. My computers and those of my relatives were confiscated without any warning or explaination, as a result of Armed Thugs violating my right to speak the Truth as I perceive it. The 'Official RCMP Hate Page' now resides in a hidden file on dozens of Canadian government computers, thanks to the efforts of a CypherPunks list member who is willing to defend my right to free speech regardless of the fact that he has contracted a hit-man to murder me for forging posts to the list in his name which made him look like a fucking idiot. This is the message of the InterNet... The Truth, The Half-Truth, And Nothing Remotely Resembling The Truth: 'The Amazing Randi' (?) is a magician who has gone to great effort to expose Uri Geller and debunk his claims of using psychic powers to accomplish what magicians can replicate through sleight-of-hand. Did 'The Babe' *call* his legendary home-run shot by pointing to the location he was planning to bury it, or was it a 'lucky' stretch of his muscles before stepping into the batter's box? I would be the first to admit that a strong case could be made for viewing the 'hard evidence' I point to as proof of the validity of my rambling, insane conspiracy theories, as being the result of the selective presentation of Reality-Bytes filtered through sieves designed to present 'chaff' as a real substance not dependent on the existence of an imaginary 'wheat' substance whose existence is promoted by underground Reptilian Nazis hell-bent on world domination. I would also be the first to admit that 'coincidence' could account for Peter Jennings seemingly fullfilling in MeatSpace his Virtually-Assigned role as a Circle of Eunuchs Initiate member by providing the hard facts and figures substantiating the views espoused by 'Epilogue 7.3 Rev. 1.7' of 'SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!' Not to mention the fact that 'coincidence' could explain the fact that a single reference to 'Thelma & Louise' at the end of the same Epilogue was followed by references to the movie in dozens of disparate TV shows over the next few days (including an episode of '48 Hours' which showed excerpts from 'Thelma & Louise" as I was typing this very paragraph...). The fact of the matter is, however, that a lifetime of separating 'coincidence' from 'synchronicity'--through a process of objective evaluation of mathematical probability--has led me to believe that this: |<----------->| : is 8", in a parallel universe within which women have not yet been given the right to vote. Likewise, it is ludicrous to live in a universe in which it is a recognized scientific fact that the emissions of a cellular phone can affect a radio telescope a hundred kilometers distant, while disallowing the possibility that the emissions of a human mind, heart or spirit can register on a similarly designed biotechnological receptor in local or global proximity to the source of the emissions. It is equally ludicrous to fail to recognize that physically manifested and disseminated symbols representing the results of human thoughts, emotions and concepts will have an effect that is every bit as observable and predictable as laws of physics concerning inertia, impetus, velocity, acceleration and direction, etc. If a decade of scientific investigation into the mechanisms by which pigeons find their way home proves to be inconclusive, the pigeons will still manage to find their way home. If humans find themselves incapable of returning to the place they were born without having a birth-certificate and a roadmap, salmon are unlikely to abandon their natural ability to do so by virtue of a process which could be viewed as 'Magical Thinking' by those incapable of reducing the process to a solveable MeatSpace equation. NewAge 'Magical Thinking' is nothing more nor less than an esoteric extension of 'The Power of Positive Thinking' paridigm which is the foundation of all subsequent self-help, goal-oriented individual accomplishment and corporate management systems which recognize that an inspirational thought that results in a single step toward Mecca is more effective than a thousand corporate meetings discussing the feasibility or futility of putting a journey to Mecca on the agenda of the next shareholder's meeting. How To Get Even Without Breaking The Law / Sweet Revenge: I have been fucked a thousand times by the arbitrary, capricious decisions and actions of a variety of officially recognized Authoritarian Sivil Servants who didn't like my looks, my attitude, or my breath. I have also avoided being fucked several thousand times by 'shaping' my answers to their questions in a manner designed to misdirect their peckers as they tried to stick them in my butt. When the Canadian Customs & Immigration shit hit the fan, and I was forced to appear before an official Board of Inquiry convened to decide whether or not I could be denied entry into the country of my youth, I found myself forced to abandon all logic and reason, and trust in th Tao to protect me as I resorted to telling the <gulp><swallow> Truth (TM). In the face of damning evidence of my slick, conniving manipulation of rules, regulations and laws through the use of Damnable Lies!!!, I explained my theory of Variable Speed Truth (TM) to the Board of Inquiry (although I attributed it to Albert Einstein, in order to give it more credibility). I explained that, as a Border Child, I had grown up in an environment which enabled me to understand that 'Rules Is Rules...' is an extremely flexible maxim which can be interpreted by an individual Canadian Customs & Immigration OffalSir to mean that, even though you have been dating his daughter for several years and have been invited over to dinner numerous times, that he can legally deny you entry into the country and make you drive fifty miles to enter through another Customs Port if you fail to have three hundred and forty-two pieces of picture ID, particularly if you kept his daughter out past curfew the previous weekend. I also explained a variety of situations in which I had crossed the US/Canadian border more than once on the same day, and claimed residence in different countries, because I knew what each border guard wanted to hear in order to make my passage proceed more smoothly, as opposed to making my life a living hell for no apparent reason other than their own misunderstanding of the laws of the country. Although I would be the last to downplay the successful result of my appeal as being partly the result of the members of the Board of Inquiry being decent people who had retained a small part of their soul while serving the Great Beast, I fully recognize that the outcome might have been completely different if I had failed to properly play my part in the Grand Play by hanging my head in shame as my extremely expensive legal counsel pointed out to the Board of Inquiry what a sorry, pathetic loser I was, and how the only real options in this case would be to forgive my trespasses, or take me to the pound and have me put down like the poor, sick, mangy dog that I am. My point is that, regardless of the letter or spirit of the existing laws, it is up to each individual to interpret them in a manner consistent with their own best judgement, and to live with the consequences of what they truly believe to be 'right action', no matter what judgements or punishments may result from people with larger weaponry taking the opposite view. Of course, I would be foolish to pass judgement upon those who recognize the wisdom in grovelling, snivelling, and hanging one's head in shame, if it appears to be the path that will allow one to live to fight again another day...kind of like faking a limp on the way back to the huddle, in order to break for the Big Score. An Exercise For The Reader: I can no longer remember just where this rambling, semi-coherent missive was evenutally designed to end up, but I think it has something to do with the fact that my unsubtly veiled threats against those with False Smiles (TM) has resulted in the glue-sniffing progeny of A Wagon-Burner Named Earlier having had the flimsyl, fabricated assault on his Charter Rights abandoned by the dropping of all trumped-up charges against him. However, this has come at the expense of my being called down to local Gestapo Headquarters to receive paperwork indicating that I can expect to go to eventually go to prison for at least four years as a result of Baby's transgression of the 'Dog At Large' bylaws of the Town of Bienfait, Saskatchewan. Silly me...my drunken, drug-induced paranoia would have me believe that much of my current troubles stem from the fact that I am in the midst of preparing a legal defense for a Wagon-Burner whose continuing persecution by Dudley DoWrong and John Law was one of the subjects addressed in "The Official RCMP Hate Page" chapter of 'SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!', and who is being persecuted by the same Queen's Court Bench prosecutor whose ass I used to wipe the floors of the Halls of InJustice and then bragged about it to (G)(g)od And Everybody in a public forum on the InterNet. Anyway, figure out just what point I am trying to make here, consider it made, and hit the <Delete> key at your own convenience...

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Re: Dialogue ------ Space Aliens Hide My Drugs!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ROTFLMAO! "Ask not who your country can Nuke for you...ask who you can Nuke for your country." ~ Timothy C. McKennedy, President of Samsonite Peripherals, Inc.

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