December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by nobody＠jarthur.claremont.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!concert!corpgate!news.utdallas.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ukma!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon From: ww(a)blythe.org (Workers World Service) Subject: $28 Billion Black Hole in US Budget Message-ID: <1994Feb13.205638.22269(a)mont.cs.missouri.edu> Followup-To: alt.activism.d Originator: daemon(a)pencil.cs.missouri.edu Sender: news(a)mont.cs.missouri.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu Organization: NY Transfer News Collective Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH(a)MIZZOU1.missouri.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 20:56:38 GMT Approved: map(a)pencil.cs.missouri.edu Lines: 62 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit U.S. Budget: THE $28-BILLION BLACK HOLE Within President Clinton's proposed $1.5-trillion 1995 federal budget lies a mysterious item. It is, according to the Feb. 8 New York Times, "hidden in false line items and deleted passages in the Pentagon's accounts." And it has been this way for over 40 years. We're talking about the annual budget for secret military and intelligence operations. This $28 billion--which is only an "approximation"--is set aside for covert military programs and repressive spy agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency; the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds spy satellites; and the National Security Agency, which conducts electronic eavesdropping. A black hole in space is so dense that not even light can escape from it. This secret budget operates much the same way. Money goes into it, but what it's spent for never sees the light of day. There isn't even Congressional oversight for how the money is used. In fact, an estimated budget wasn't even published until a decade ago. As is to be expected, the Clinton administration is content with this arrangement. Along with his overt support for covert operations, Clinton has shown his admiration for the military-industrial complex by offering the Pentagon $263.7 billion--$3 billion more than last year. While there is certain to be some wrangling among the politicians and military brass over which programs should get the most, overall the Pentagon will once again be awash in money. But don't think Clinton is showing favoritism only to the generals. There are also the big bankers. They're getting $212.8 billion in 1995 in the form of interest payments on the national debt. The capitalist government considers this budget item legally mandatory. All told, almost half-a-trillion dollars are going to the banks and the military! Think about that when the bosses and politicians tell you there's no money for jobs, child care and housing. -30- (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if source is cited. For more information contact Workers World, 55 West 17 St., New York, NY 10011; via e-mail: ww(a)blythe.org.) +----------------------------------------------------------------+ + 212-675-9690 NY TRANSFER NEWS COLLECTIVE 212-675-9663 + + Since 1985: Information for the Rest of Us + + e-mail: nyt(a)blythe.org info: info(a)blythe.org +

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Key escrow for all encryption?
by jimn8＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Fellow Cypherpunks, Please gently correct my misinterpretation of the White House press release. I read it to state that commercial encryption must embody key escrow, even if it's not Clipper. Does this mean we must turn over our one-time pads and our PGP private keys to a government agency? I don't like this. Not one bit. Perhaps the CPSR request for votes should have read, "I oppose key escrow," not just "I oppose Clipper." - Jim Nitchals

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New Remailer up!
by Matthew J Ghio 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At last, my long-promised pseudo-account remailer is open for testing. Here's how it works. Send mail to mg5n+getid(a)andrew.cmu.edu you will receive back an encrypted email address of the form: mg5n+eaxxxxx(a)andrew.cmu.edu (ea=encrypted address, in case you were wondering) All mail sent to that address will be forwarded to you. When you post anonymously, you can include that address for people to make replies to. That way, people can send replies to your messages but not know who you really are. Most of the cypherpunk remailers allow you to insert a Reply-To: header. Random padding is added to the address before it is encrypted. Therefore, every time you request an encrypted address, it will be different. This allows you to get a different email address for each of your cypher-tenacles. :) Messages sent thru the remailer are not anonymized. The complete, unaltered message is forwarded. If you want anonymnity, first send your mail thru one of the anonymous remailers. Source code is availaible. Email me if you want it. P.S. Expect a moderate delay for messages sent thru this remailer.

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Rer: autosigning pearl script
by Jeremiah A Blatz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> $header = "/tmp/header.$$" ; > $body = "/tmp/body.$$" ; Ummm, whoidn't it be a bit safer to put these in the users local directory? /tmp isn't really safe, unless you have your own net. Hoping he's not making a fool of himself, Jer darklord(a)cmu.edu | "it's not a matter of rights / it's just a matter of war finger for Geek | don't have a reason to fight / they never had one before" Code, PGP Key | -Ministry, "Hero"

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ADMIN: cypherpunks went down
by hughes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This message counts as a test message. Please DO NOT respond to it. Hugh and I took the list down last night. This is the same list spewing problem that we had last week, only this time it's worse, because toad.com just got a CPU upgrade; it's four times faster now. Sorry. Please, Please, PLEASE in the future if this happens, DO NOT send more mail to the list; it only makes the problem worse. These messages were started to spew as well. Send urgent mail about list problems to me, hughes(a)ah.com, or postmaster(a)toad.com. Many thanks to Hugh Daniel for squashing sendmail processes like cockroaches. (He was laughing maniacally for a bit, there, "DIE!, DIE!") We managed to catch the problem before it went on for too long. I took everyone off the list after backing it up and left only me and Hugh on it, so most of the problem didn't go to the list. What happened was that the sendmails started spawning faster and faster. I got a megabyte and a half of repeated mail before we squished everything. Eric

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Re: New Remailer up!
by stevenJ 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Elric of Melnibone muttered something about... :: ::Ok, is it Just me. or did Mr. Ghio send 10 copies of that letter saying ::his new remailer is up? No, it was more like 50 copies of the item. How kind of him to do this for those of us who have poor memories. e x t r a p o l a t e steve j. white _____________________________________________________________________________ Gort, klatu barada nicto. aragorn(a)alpha1.csd.uwm.edu

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ADMIN: another test message
by hughes＠ah.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is another test message. Please don't respond to it either. Eric

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ADMIN: majordomo is running on toad.com
by hughes＠ah.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The two preceding test messages were brought to courtesy of majordomo(a)toad.com, to which all list requests should now be directed. Sending a blank message there will get you a help file. Sending mail to cypherpunks-request will get you a different help file. We enabled the unsubscribe filter that majordomo has, so that problem may go away. I've got some list traffic from the last day salted away, but I'm pretty sure I didn't manage to snag all of it. I'll get as much as I can out this evening, but I'm going to discard all the commentary about "how many messages". I hope this all helps. We didn't put up the extropians list software because we didn't have it and because we needed something quickly. There is a 'who' command available on majordomo, so it's even easier to get a list of subscribers now than it used to be. If you don't like this, get off the list or get a pseudonym. Removing the feature requires majordomo hacking, which is not high on my priority list. Many thanks to Hugh Daniel for doing most of the installation. Eric

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Gun conversion info banne
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

M >Has this law ever been challenged in court? I doubt if it would stand M >up, as long as the books are written as "here's how one would..." M >rather than actively encouraging you to do it. Technical information M >cannot be banned, as long as you aren't inciting violence. M > M >--- Mike Sorry I'm years behind in my list reading... Mike, recall the precedents. FDA burning of Reich's books in the '50s as "labeling for an unlawful medical device" -- the Orgone Accumulator. Likewise FDA seizures of Scientolgy literature in the '60s as "labeling for an unlawful medical device" -- E-meters. Then there are the moves against vitamin literature in recent FDA raids. I don't think the courts have ever faced the specific issue of regulatory censorship. DCF Then there's the time in the early '80s when the Consumer Products Safety Commission banned the "Button Book." --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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Banning of scientific information (re:FDA,etc.)
by ccat＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I don't know if they are still doing it,but last year there was a discussion on sci.med about the FDA's pressure on certain medical journal publishers not to publish certain peer-reviewed medical studies here in the US. And,as far as I can see,their policy of supressing information is effectively suppressing an effective nutritional therapy that helps people quit crack..(L-Tyrosine) Why?,Who knows. But it's telling that they always seem to support the large corporate approach to global pharmaceutical marketing.. Shades of the Opium Wars. Remember,its ten years after 1984.

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