December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:17:45 -0500 > From: Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> > Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism > planet and take all that fucking oil with them. I wonder how the new realization that the calthrate deposits in the ocean bottem off the continental shelf make fine fuel and it's replenishable and may be of a larger quantity than the oil reserves will effect the power balance. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Any good hacking sites?
by kamikaze23＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hey all, any1 know of any good hacking sites that teach u the basics and stuff? also, any1 here into AOL hacking??? thanx, ~Fallen Angel _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

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Gift taxes...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > "The giver is responsible for paying any applicable tax on any large > gift," IRS spokesman Steven Pyrek said Monday. > > A baseball is owned by Major League Baseball until it leaves the > field. It is then owned by the fan who comes up with it. > > A gift tax applies to any property given away that is worth $10,000 or > more. The person receiving the gift owes no taxes. > > Under the federal tax code, the first $625,000 would be exempt because > of the lifetime tax credit provided to every individual. So if the > ball is deemed to be worth $1 million, the fan would owe at least 40 > percent of the remaining $375,000, or $150,000, to the government. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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No Subject
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

When the American government eventually reveals the [full range of] reconnaissance systems developed by this nation, the public will learn of space achievements every bit as impressive as the Apollo Moon landings. http://www.nro.odci.gov/speeches/grab-698.html Prepared Remarks at the Naval Research Laboratory 75th Anniversary Event By Mr. Keith Hall, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office 17 June 1998

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Re: Toto, AP and Jim Bell? (Re: Space Aliens Return my Drugs!)
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Recently I speculated that Toto may have been locked up due to some connection with Jim Bell: I wrote: > I've been searching my cp archives trying to figure out if there has > been any connection between Toto and Jim Bell/AP, as Alia Johnson > said that she thought Toto was locked up due to posts about AP. someone who has been in contact with Jim Bell tells me that Jim did not know Toto. Adam

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Doing nothing wrong...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It occurred to me that a great comeback to: If you don't have anything to hide you shouldn't mind being monitored by the police. To which the responce should be: Ok, since the police don't have anything to hide they shouldn't mind being monitored by the citizens. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Spelling error...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, It's clathrate, not calthrate... Sorry. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Movie/Research Research
by WGKOPP＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I'm a screenwriter in Los Angeles and I'm currently working on a psychological thriller. I'm trying to research how a particular thing could be done, and I cannot seem to find precisely what I'm looking for. You are surely highly learned individual, and I wonder if I could pick your brains for a moment. Here is the situation I need help with:- The "villians" are charging people $15 (from their credit card - or another source) to download or "watch" a video clip of highly illicit material, from a specific website. Our "protagonist" has to stop these "video's" and the people behind them, but, they cannot seem to trace them, or where the funds are going. How can this be done? How can we realistically make it so that origins and/or location & authors of the website are untraceable. Also, that the funds are untraceable. The only way our protagonist can find the villains, is by revealing a terrible secret from his past, something he's tried desperately to forget and put behind him. He eventually does catch the villains, but not electronically. He catches them, by reliving his painful past. Do you have any idea's? If so, I'd be most grateful if you could share them with me. Once the screenplay is completed and hopefully sold, I'm sure the very least I could offer is a film credit. Yours, Wayne Kopping

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internet monitoring, UK
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 4.25:UK Police May Soon Tap Your Email & Internet Use At Will Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:16:50 -0700 ISPI Clips 4.25:UK Police May Soon Tap Your Email & Internet Use At Will News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Tuesday September 8, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: The Independent Network, Monday September 7, 1998 http://www.independent.co.uk The PC in your mailbox: The police may soon be allowed to read your email and check your Internet use at will. http://www.independent.co.uk/net/980907ne/index.html By Paul Lavin When you drop an envelope in a red pillar-box, you walk away confident that your mail will not be read by anyone except the addressee. However, when you send an email, it might be wise to reflect on the differences. According to the organisation Internet Freedom, an agreement being negotiated between the UK's internet service providers (ISPs) and the police will open the email of the UK's eight million Internet users to scrutiny without debate in Parliament or oversight by the courts or the Home Secretary. British police are said to be close to reaching an agreement with ISPs that will enable them to monitor customers' emails and web usage logs. Chris Ellison of Internet Freedom, says: "Following a series of meetings between the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and Internet industry representatives, we understand that both groups have stated a willingness to reach a 'memorandum of understanding' about implementing police access to private data held by ISPs." According to David Kennedy, chairman of the Internet Service Providers Association, that is a serious overstatement of the discussions. However, he admits that the UK's ISPs are trying to avoid being flooded by court orders or having the police cart off critical servers for evidence. He says: "We are talking to law enforcement representatives to find a way to work with them within the legal framework that exists. All members of our association take the view that emails are private." As with the understanding between the Metropolitan Police and the ISPs over "banned" Usenet newsgroups and the closing down of web sites that may breach the law, the significance of such an agreement is that any such police activity may not be subjected to judicial review or legal constraint. Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Ackerman, chairman of the ACPO's computing crimes sub-committee, says: "We want to ensure the criminal doesn't take best advantage of the Internet, without requiring the Government to use the sledgehammer of regulation. However, we are not looking for the ability to go on fishing expeditions." The ISPs know that they are stuck in the middle, according to Keith Mitchell, chairman of Linx, a partnership of large ISPs. He says: "To divulge private email even under duress would be commercial suicide for an ISP. In some circumstances it would constitute a crime." Nonetheless, mistakes happen and there are well-known cases where the police have been persuasive. Mitchell says: "The current laws do not adequately protect ISPs or private individuals. We will be active in seeking responsive changes from Parliament." While there are undoubtedly individuals who use the Internet's email and worldwide web for nefarious purposes, the vast majority of people who use email and the web for personal and business communications have an expectation of privacy. And law-abiding citizens who wholeheartedly support the goals of law enforcement agencies may nevertheless feel uneasy about giving them carte blanche over email. America Online has been quite vocal in its opposition to opening the doors to the police short of a court order. Many ISPs agree. Julie Hatch, marketing communications director of Easynet, says:"We do not allow anyone to access our customers' email without a court order. "It makes no difference if it is an estranged wife or a suspicious business partner or anyone else, we would not divulge a subscriber's private email unless we were presented with a court order. This is in accordance with our terms and conditions. "Our business is also subject to restrictions imposed by the Data Protection Act (DPA), and in any situation we would certainly abide by those rules. So unless a subscriber's actions are illegal, you can say that email is confidential." The DPA provides scanty protection to email users, however. While the Act has aspects that protect the quality and use of information held in computer systems, disclosure can be afforded by a compliant ISP by simply including appropriate language in the small print of their terms and conditions. Data may be revealed to law enforcement officials as long as the subscriber is notified. Easynet's assurances highlight the differences between ISPs that are classified as telecoms providers, protected from feeling the long arm of the law by a regulatory framework, and those that are merely private businesses unaccountable to anyone but their owners and governed solely by their contracts with subscribers. As well as Easynet, UK ISPs that are regulated as telecoms providers include BT Internet and Demon, which is now part of Scottish Telecom. Smaller ISPs are more vulnerable to the persuasive demands of the police.They have no legally protected right of privacy and any redress for email disclosure would only be for breach of contract. Furthermore, most ISPs now include in their terms and conditions a requirement that the subscriber bear the expense of any legal costs resulting from their use of the service. This could lead to a complaining subscriber having to bear the costs of both sides of a lawsuit against an ISP even if they won. The most serious aspect of this potential agreement between the police and ISPS is, according to critics, the absence of legal safeguards. In order to tap telephones, the police need the permission of the Home Secretary and must justify violating the privacy of a suspect. It is not clear from the law whether tapping a telephone and tapping into an email exchange are the same thing. Chris Ellison says: "This is what is so dangerous about the new culture of private regulation and moral responsibility. ISPs now operate in a moral climate which insists on limitations for freedom of speech. Any material that causes offence - especially to children and ethnic minorities - is regularly removed. ISPs have now embraced this self-censorship credo and are willing to set themselves up as moral arbiters of internet content, filtering out anything that they feel may be illegal." Without public debate or scrutiny by Parliament, the police are likely to gain, as Liz Parratt from the organisation Liberty puts it, "a snoopers' charter for the Internet". Ordinary users will have little legal protection or redress against police monitoring of their communications. This trend could render the Internet less private and more regulated than any other communications medium. "If nothing else, these discussions have demonstrated what self-regulation really means: ISPs undertaking the role of publicly unaccountable instruments of law enforcement." Email is not like a letter in an envelope; it is more like a postcard. Just as you would not put some messages on a postcard, you should think before you use email for your most private communications. While the legality and desirability of the any agreement between ACPO and the ISPs is highly debatable, anyone interested in maintaining their privacy on the Internet must take responsibility for their own actions. The agreement between ACPO and ISPs will be the subject of three seminars: 22 September in Edinburgh, 8 October in London and 27 October in Manchester. Additional details can be found at http://www.linx.net/misc/acposeminar.html . - --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. 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Movie/Research Research (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: WGKOPP(a)aol.com > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:33:54 EDT > Subject: Movie/Research Research > The "villians" are charging people $15 (from their credit card - or another > source) to download or "watch" a video clip of highly illicit material, from > a specific website. > Our "protagonist" has to stop these "video's" and the people behind them, but, > they cannot seem to trace them, or where the funds are going. > > How can this be done? How can we realistically make it so that origins and/or > location & authors of the website are untraceable. Also, that the funds are > untraceable. You'd need to use something like an eternity server or a data haven. These allow one to obtain information from an unknown 3rd party based on a distributed network of servers and search engines. All transactions of e$ would need to go through an anonymous remailer of some sort that interfaced to a suitable bank handlding EFT's via the Internet. The web surfing could be implimented via a CROWDS style mechanism. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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