December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Document destruction services (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Document destruction services (fwd) > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:40:01 -0600 (CST) > From: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) > > > This kind of paper does not burn very well. I have tried it. Burning it > > > in my fireplace will take forever. A drum is an option though. > > > > Is the additive to the paper alcohol soluble? If so soak it in alcohol for a > > few minutes, say a half hour, and then burn it. Should go quite well. > > Jim, try it. I am sure that adding alcohol will not help much, but will > make it a fire hazard. I have Igor, works pretty well for some paper additives. If it's a plastic base then use finger nail polish remover or model cement thinner. How in the hell can you say with a straight face burning paper with alcohol is any more a fire hazard then burning paper? You don't burn the paper while it's in the alcohol bath, but remove it and then burn it. If you try to burn it in the bath what you get is just like gasoline. The fumes burn not the alcohol itself so the paper doesn't get nearly hot enough to do any good. You're making burning paper, additives or not, a lot more complicated than it is. If you're that worried about it go down to your hardware store and buy a hand-held torch. Additives or not that will burn it. Good luck. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Uncle Sam's Sticky Fingers
by Gary Harland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For a general run-down on just how much of your privacy the Feds have access to, take a look at the GAO's Investigator's Guide to Sources of Information (http://www.gao.gov) It's under 'Special Publications and Software'. Photocopies of any postal money orders you've bought? Your Amtrak train reservation history? Uncle Sam's got sticky fingers baby! He doesn't throw anything away. ----------------------------------------------------------------- foggy(a)netisle.net lat:47d36'32" long:122d20'12" "Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared." -F. Nietzche- -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Clinton needs a war with Iraq
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There are increasing reports, from Washington and Baghdad, that Clinton wants a nice little war action in Iraq, which would have the side effect of boosting his support...or so he hopes. If this happens, it may be time for hackers to use technical means to disrupt the war effort. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Sucking Sound...
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

No, it's the public and press, not the President, who are into denial about the nation's urgent succor. The President's radio address today was solely on Medicare fraud and abuse. http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/html/1998-01-24.html Lucianne Goldberg's place is down the street and mobbed around the clock with global bloodsuckers. "There is a god," she says, noting fruitless years of the right trying its best to suckerpunch the toke-sucker. Which leads one to wonder who's squeeze gave what to Freeh's on Reno's, Starr's on Freeh's, Reno's on Starr's, that led them to gang up to divert attention to Bill's. Must have been Hillary's, aiming to succotash Al's.

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Barry Smith (FBI) to speak 3:30pm Friday, March 6 at UMBC
by Dr. Alan Sherman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The wwe page for Barry Smith's talk on encryption policy is now up: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/events then navigate to /spring98/crypto2.shtml Interested parties are encouraged to submit questions via email to sherman(a)cs.umbc.edu All questions are posted on the www page. See this page for details on a $50 www contest for the best question-gathering www engine. Contestants who are UMBC students may apply for CGI priviledges from Jack Suess (UCS), jack(a)cs.umbc.edu (For professional www programmers, this contest should be viewed as a request for volunteers to support UMBC's crypto seminar series.) Dr. Alan T. Sherman Associate Professor, Computer Science sherman(a)cs.umbc.edu

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Technology: R.I.P.
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A great article in today's Wired News Daily, by Virginia Postrel, eloquently explains why D.C. wonks are incapable even considering of any meaningful changes to the role or size of governent. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/9566.html --Steve

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Burning papers
by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just for your information, I _WAS_ mistaken. The papers burned really well. My confusion about burnability of papers arose because in the past I tried to burn magazines, and not papers and letters. The whole big box is gone, after two burns. Burning is unquestionably better than shredding. - Igor.

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Re: Poll shows Bill G. popular & MS monopoly supported [CNN]
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Bill -- you *believed* this? :-) Why not? The morons can't even write HTML, even *with* the help of some "HTML authoring kit." If they could we wouldn't be greeted with image maps, unnamed links, unnamed inline images every 5 words, frames, broken CGI scripts... So I, at least, wouldn't find it surprising. The sheeple are blind, naked, and shit stupid.

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No Subject
by Gary Harland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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