December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Remailer hating Nazis (was Re: The BIG Lie (Jesus Confesses))
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The remailer hating Nazi called Patrick Oonk wrote: >At least I don't hide behind a remailer. There's no cowardice to it, dumbass. Our founding fathers and others wrote things anonymously. I guess they're cowards? If so, then burn in hell, Nazi scum-sucking weasel!

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Clinton on mandatory voluntary gun locks
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AM-Clinton-Gun Locks,160 Clinton applauds gunmaker for safety locks WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton belatedly applauded Smith & Wesson Thursday for the handgun manufacturer's decision to begin outfitting all its pistols with safety trigger locks. In a written statement, the president called the move "an important and responsible step for children's safety" and said he hoped it would encourage the Congress to require safety locks on all guns sold. "Child safety locks are the right thing to do," Clinton said. Smith & Wesson, the country's largest gunmaker, announced Monday that all of their handguns would be equipped with a two-piece, keyed lock starting next month. Clinton has pushed legislation requiring such locks with all gun purchases, but House and Senate committees rejected the provision when they put together their anti-crime legislation earlier this year. The Senate bill must still be voted on by the full chamber when it returns from the August recess. APTV-08-14-97 1544EDT

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Re: Memme: Crypto=Bullet Proof Vests (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 19:37:09 -0700 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: Memme: Crypto=Bullet Proof Vests > By the way, there are already laws in place limiting "cop killer bullets," > and some restrictions are already in place for limiting body armor (the > preferred name for "bullet proof vests"). > > "For law enforcement use only" is the label used. How did the police get special 'rights' that normal citizens don't? Especialy considering that they are mentioned no place in the Constitution. And the Constitution specificaly prohibits via the 10th such self-invoked expansion of powers. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Participation requires more than just bitching! | | | | _____ 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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CIA/NSA Index
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's a provocative list of forbidden CIA and NSA/CSS records which are not available under the Privacy Act, and which constitute a sort of negative awaiting development: http://jya.com/cia-privacy.htm (82 categories) http://jya.com/nsa-privacy.htm (19 categories) There are similar lists of national privacy proscriptives for most federal agencies available at the source for these. The one for Defense is an elephantine 1.4 MB, with tiny tims for the TLAs.

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Text of Clinton's remarks on child safety locks for handguns
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT This week, Smith and Wesson -- the world's largest manufacturer of handguns -- announced that it is forging a partnership with the Master Lock Company to provide a child safety lock with every handgun sold for commercial use. I applaud both of these companies for their efforts to promote gun safety. I particularly want to commend Smith and Wesson for taking an important and responsible step for children's safety. Child safety locks are the right thing to do. In 1994, 185 children were killed by accidental gunshot wounds. That is why my anti-gang and youth violence legislation would require that all federally licensed gun dealers provide such safety devices with every handgun sold. And that is why on March 3rd I ordered all federal agencies to provide child safety locks with the thousands of handguns they issue to federal law enforcement officers. Child safety locks have garnered the wide support of law enforcement, the medical community, many local governments, and now a part of the firearms manufacturing industry. This fall the full Senate considers the anti-juvenile crime legislation. I hope they will include the child safety lock as part of the legislation. -0-

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McVeigh to die, quotes Brandeis
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

/cat:A/pri:U/sld:A/por:1/for:5/slu:PM-MCVEIGH 2ndLd-Writethru ----- @TEXT PM-McVeigh, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0621-624-626-535,0777 URGENT McVeigh sentenced to death; quotes Brandeis about teaching by example AP Photos staffing By SANDY SHORE Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) - Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death today for the Oklahoma City bombing after he quoted Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis that the government "teaches the whole people by its example." McVeigh, wearing tan khaki slacks and tan shirt, was animated as he awaited the arrival of U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch, but turned grim after the death sentence was handed down. He spoke briefly before Matsch formally imposed the jury-sanctioned verdict. McVeigh quoted from a dissenting opinion written by Brandeis in 1928 in a wiretapping case, Olmstead vs. United States. McVeigh said: "He wrote, "Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.' That's all I have, Your Honor." McVeigh made his brief statement, which may have been a slap at the government that prosecuted him, in rapid-fire, clipped tones. He did not plead for his life or admit to any role in the bombing. Victims in the courtroom sat stone-faced and some stared angrily as McVeigh made his comments. Outside the courthouse, prosecutor Joseph Hartzler warned reporters, "Don't interpret his words as those of a spokesman or a statesman." McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, said, "today is a solemn day of judgment to follow through on the jury's verdict." He said he filed a notice of appeal this morning. [...]

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Microsoft and Java
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

::Boots ------------ http://www.computerworld.com/news/970730javah.html The Paul Maritz interview that article links to has disappeared from Computerworld's site, but a copy is appended. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Formerly at http://www.computerworld.com/news/news_articles/970728moritz.html Microsoft Corp. last week indicated that it would essentially block efforts to make Java a cross-platform development language, stating that it wouldn't ship Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Java Foundation Class Libraries (JFC). Computerworld senior editor Carol Sliwa caught up with Paul Maritz, Microsoft group vice president, at a company reception in Seattle and asked him to explain the software giant's Java stance. CW: There's nothing in the license that requires you to ship those JFCs with Internet Explorer? Maritz: Correct. CW: Is that a contentious issue? Maritz: No. The only reason I brought it up is just that some people like to play hard and fast with the truth, and they like to say, 'Look, these JFC class libraries are going to be a standard because everybody has to ship them. Even Microsoft has to ship them.' And that's not the case. We were very careful when we did the deal to say that we could have the option of shipping them, but we do not have to include them in Windows. CW: Is there some reason you wouldn't want to ship them? Is there something inferior about them? Maritz: No. We don't want to put further bloat on top of the system. We think that basically there isn't a lot of end-user value in them. And Sun's trying to establish them as basically their platform. It's a competing operating system. CW: Do you feel your Application Foundation Class Libraries (AFC) are superior to their JFCs? Maritz: No. AFCs ... make it easier to write apps. But our real strategy is J/Direct. So our answer to JFC is not AFC. It's J/Direct. CW: It sounds like Microsoft is resentful at Sun for taking a dictatorial role. Maritz: The reason we brought it up is Sun likes to blur these two things together. They like to blur the notion of Java the language and Java the class libraries. They'd like to package them all into that concept. We're just saying, 'Hey, there is a difference between the two. Let's be clear on that.' " CW: Do you think you're going to end up fragmenting the language even more? Maritz: Not the language. You're making the mistake. You're falling into their mind-set -- [ignoring] the difference between Java the language from Java the class libraries. CW: But in the end result, a network manager will have to make sure he has both sets of class libraries. Maritz: Let me ask you this question: The fact that you can call Windows [application programming interfaces] from C++, did that splinter C++? It did not. It's the same issue. CW: But if Java's promise is that it'll be a cross-platform language -- Maritz: No. No. Sun's trying to make it that. CW: But say there's an electronic-commerce application that somebody wants to run cross-platform, and that's why they picked Java. And they use the JFCs to write it. Maritz: Good luck. CW: It's not going to run in Internet Explorer. Maritz: It may or may not. But the point is, that's Sun's problem. It's not our problem. CW: Does it end up being companies' problems, too? Are you saying they're foolish for buying into the theory that there can ever be cross-platform language? Maritz: No. We're saying it's no different from any other cross-platform [strategy]. This isn't the first one -- [there was] CBT, Appware, etc. We're just saying that, 'Hey, you should realize that when you're doing that, you're dependent upon Sun to get it to work.' CW: But if you bought into the JFCs, then you wouldn't be in this particular case. If you shipped JFCs, you'd help foster the idea of cross-platform. Maritz: And I don't want to ship another operating system on top of our operating system and burden every copy of Windows with all of that extra weight. CW: Do you agree that it makes developers have to make choices and it makes them have to do more work and it makes companies have to install both sets of classes? So in the end, it makes life difficult for everyone, doesn't it? Maritz: But we think that that's reality, because you either get this thing to become a heavyweight thing, in which case it's going to perform badly. Or you have to make it something very small. So we're not trying to be parties to perpetuating the myth.

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Toilet plungers and sodomy: Why we should trust police blindly
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

By TOM HAYS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A police officer turned himself over to investigators after being accused of using a toilet plunger to sodomize a Haitian immigrant who was arrested in a scuffle outside a nightclub. Justin Volpe, 25, one of two officers that Abner Louima identified as his attackers, surrendered to the police department's internal affairs division Wednesday night. Louima was critically injured in the Saturday beating. Deputy Inspector Michael Collins said Volpe would be charged with aggravated sexual abuse and first-degree assault. Collins also said disorderly conduct charges against Louima were being dropped. And the mayor said the precinct was undergoing a staff shakeup. Citing an unidentified high-ranking official familiar with the investigation, the Daily News reported today that Louima told investigators Volpe sodomized him. Louima has said an officer shoved a toilet plunger into his rectum, and then into his mouth. "They said, "Take this, nigger,' and stuck the stick in my rear end," Louima, 30, said in a hospital interview. [...]

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RSA shaken down for cash?
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:51:56 -0400 From: Kris Millegan RoadsEnd <RoadsEnd(a)AOL.COM> Subject: CTRL-Softwar To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM from:http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe - ------ VP Gore Strong-Arms Crypto Company, then Demands Donation Between 1995 and 1996 Al Gore called 44 people from the White house to solicit money for his re-election. Those calls netted the DNC over $2 million dollars. The Vice President placed these calls from the White House on his DNC credit card. One person Mr. Gore called was Sandford Robertson, part owner of the San Francisco investment banking firm Robertson, Stephens and Co. The Vice President's call obtained $142,000 from "Sandy" Robertson for the DNC. Yet, Sandy was already well known in the DNC camp. Between 1993 and 1997, Sandy Robertson or his wife donated over $700,000 to various campaigns, including $100,000 for Clinton's 1993 inauguration. Robertson, Stephens and Co. are also major financial backers of Security Dynamics, the present owners of RSA Inc. It was Robertson, Stephens and Co. that filed the agreement documents with the SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) for the merger of RSA and Security Dynamics in April of 1996. Of course, Robertson, Stephens and Co. were well paid to sponsor the RSA/SDI merger deal. Robertson and Stephens not only wrote the merger agreement between RSA and SDI they also underwrote the first two public offerings of SDI stock. "Robertson, Stephens & Company has provided certain investment banking services to Security Dynamics from time to time, including acting as an underwriter for each of the two public offerings of shares of the common stock of Security Dynamics. In addition, Robertson, Stephens & Company maintains a market in shares of the common stock of Security Dynamics. Furthermore, Robertson, Stephens & Company has acted as financial advisor to Security Dynamics in connection with the Merger for which a portion of our fees is due and payable upon delivery of this opinion and the remaining portion of our fees is due and payable contingent upon the closing of the Merger." SEC Merger Document April, 1996 ROBERTSON, STEPHENS & COMPANY LLC Edwin David Hertz Jim Bidzos, RSA chairman, stated that Al Gore personally lobbied him to sell the RSA crypto patents to the US Government. It is reported that Al failed and Bidzos walked out. Al Gore has never denied nor confirmed Mr. Bidzos's remarks about his effort on behalf of the US government. Yet, Jim Bidzos also took a trip to Beijing in late 1995. The result of that trip was second trip to Beijing in February of 1996 and a deal with the Academy of Science to sell encryption technology directly to the PRC government. The Clinton administration, quick to prosecute anyone who sold encryption outside the US, did nothing to stop the RSA deal with China. Al Gore tried to buy the rights to encryption technology from RSA for the US government. That was an official act performed by the Vice President. Al Gore has also played a major role in the Clinton Administration's Crypto policy. He was fully briefed early on about Clipper and later would lobby hard to push the draconian controls sought by the government. Yet, despite the obvious conflict of interest, Al Gore did not hesitate to solicit donations from the very same company he had just tried to strong-arm. Al dialed for money from the same company that needed the administration's approval for export. In the end... Money was exchanged and services were rendered. China now has the RSA crypto technology, Al Gore got the donation money and "Sandy" Robertson stands to become even richer. 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR - ----- Aloha, He'Ping Om, Shalom, Salaam. Peace Be, Amen. Roads End Kris ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Ruling in child porn 1st amendment challenge
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've placed a copy of Judge Conti's ruling in _Free Speech Coalition v. Reno_, the case challenging the Child Pornography Prevention Act on First Amendment grounds, on the web at: <http://www.parrhesia.com/cp.html>. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto.

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