December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NRO_puf
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

9-12-95. NYPaper: "Spy Satellites' Early Role As 'Floodlight' Coming Clear." Corona. Everything about it was beyond top secret -- its name and history, builders and operators, cameras and orbits, photographs and interpreters and, most important of all, what it snooped on from space. It was officially and assiduously treated for decades as if it did not exist. The 95 Corona satellites that successfully conducted espionage from 1960 to 1972 turn out to have been remarkably advanced tools whose development, far from the work of an inner circle, drew on the nation's top scientific and industrial talent. More important, the new disclosures show just how greatly the craft revolutionized Washington's ability to understand its cold war friends and enemies. Sergei Khrushchev, son of the Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, told the Itek conference that one Corona film pod dropped into a Russian forest, where ax-wielding woodsmen chopped it up. Another spy satellite misdirected its film pod into a field in central Asia, where peasants wrapped the precious Kodak film around poles to provide solitude for a privy. NRO_puf (16 kb)

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Re: Scientology tries to break PGP - and
by Henry W. Farkas 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Repost: the following bounced: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Tom Rollins wrote: > If Larry Wollersheim does have the valid key. It would be a simpler > process to know what fake key to use and work it backwards through > the MD5 to arrive at an ascii string to produce the fake key. > > Too bad this wouldn't be plausable for the secret ring. Perhaps PGP > needs an option to specify the key in Hex and make the process easy. Here's another option. I have no idea if it is possible, nor how it would be implemented! PGP could allow for an alternate secret key and a standard "dummy" document from somewhere in your path. A command line option would encrypt for both keys (as if there were 2 recipients) and append the "dummy" document to the end of the target file when encrypting. When the safety is finally removed from the gun at your head (sorry for the drama) you hand over your alternate secret key. If decrypted with the "alternate" or "fake" secret key, the encrypted file is wiped until it reaches a marker; the remainder of the file is displayed. If you use your "primary" or "real key", the extraneous text is simply stripped. Alternately, the "dummy" file could overwrite the "real" message n times, to keep the decrypted file size more realistic. If you are forced to turn over keys some day (and I think there is at least a reasonable likeihood of that) then They will have a much harder time arguing "But that's not what the file *really* said and, deep inside of me, I know it!". At that point, with a secure wipe going on while the "decryption" was taking place, you have done the best you could. I agree- a search warrent gives authorities the right to search your home (or disk)- not a guarantee that they'll find what they're looking for. =========================================================================== Henry W. Farkas | Me? Speak for IBM? Fat chance. hfarkas(a)ims.advantis.com |------------------------------------------------ hfarkas(a)vnet.ibm.com | http://newstand.ims.advantis.com/henry henry(a)nhcc.com | http://www.nhcc.com/~henry - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP 6.2.2 Key fingerprint: AA D0 F5 44 C1 8C 11 52 B3 80 34 1C CE 38 EC 53 Public key at: pgp-public-keys(a)pgp.mit.edu, and other popular key servers. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by Henry's Hardware: Home of the Pretty Good Hack "We're not fast, but it's not bad, and we're cheaper than the guy down the street!" ===========================================================================

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by rickmun＠1stfamily.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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VOO_doo
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

9-12-95. NYPaper: "Bulletin Board Is Virtual; Hacker Arrests Are Real." It was a classic sting operation, the kind of undercover gambit that has nabbed bad guys for decades. But the meeting place for this subterfuge was not some grimy storefront. It was a computer bulletin board that the United States Secret Service had rigged together to troll for people who are illegally trafficking in the codes that program cellular phones. " 'Innocent' Files Can Carry a Virus." A new kind of computer virus has descended upon the world. How easy is it to create one? Fifteen minutes after opening a Microsoft Word reference manual, I had cranked out a one-line program that could eliminate crucial system files from a hard drive. By bedtime I had figured out how to get this file to transmogrify Word itself so it would embed my trick program in any document it opened. In an evening, I had created a virus of my very own. This is scary stuff. Scarier still is that if I can do it, millions of others can too. Henceforth virtually every document on the information highway must be considered suspect. 2: VOO_doo

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Re: University logging mail to anon.penet
by kadie＠eff.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart) writes: [...] >There may be ECPA issues involved, especially if CalPolySLO is a government- >run university; the sysadmins certainly need to learn some ethics... [...] I think the ECPA should apply to private universities, too. The FERPA also applies to virutally all U.S. private universities. - Carl =============== ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/faq/email.privacy =============== q: Can (should) my university monitor my email? a: Ethically (and perhaps legally) email communications should have the same privacy protection as telephone calls. It would be unwise for any university employee to tap email communications without authorization from the university president, university legal counsel, and the academic freedom committee. According to Mike Godwin, legal services counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the U.S.'s Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) could be reasonably construed to protect university email. This is also the reported opinion of the U. of Michigan's lawers. Also, the U.S.'s Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act gives students at all public and most private schools some privacy rights. A U.S. government task force says that "[Email] monitoring [of government employees] of actual communications and communicators may impinge on the Constitutional rights of freedom of speech (1st Amendment), against unreasonable search and seizure (4th Amendment), and against self-incrimination (5th amendment), as well as on the right to privacy, specifically as set forth in both the Privacy Act and the ECPA." In the context of libraries, the American Library Association's Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records suggests this procedure to deal with an official or police request for information about users: 'When drafting local policies, libraries should consult with their legal counsel to insure these policies are based upon and consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law concerning the confidentiality of library records, the disclosure of public records, and the protection of individual privacy. Suggested procedures include the following: 1. The library staff member receiving the request to examine or obtain information relating to circulation or other records identifying the names of library users, will immediately refer the person making the request to the responsible officer of the institution, who shall explain the confidentiality policy. 2. The director, upon receipt of such process, order, or subpoena, shall consult with the appropriate legal officer assigned to the institution to determine if such process, order, or subpoena is in good form and if there is a showing of good cause for its issuance. 3. If the process, order, or subpoena is not in proper form or if good cause has not been shown, insistence shall be made that such defects be cured before any records are released. (The legal process requiring the production of circulation or other library records shall ordinarily be in the form of subpoena "duces tecum" [bring your records] requiring the responsible officer to attend court or the taking of his/her deposition and may require him/her to bring along certain designated circulation or other specified records.) 4. Any threats or unauthorized demands (i.e., those not supported by a process, order, or subpoena) concerning circulation and other records identifying the names of library users shall be reported to the appropriate legal officer of the institution. 5. Any problems relating to the privacy of circulation and other records identifying the names of library users which are not provided for above shall be referred to the responsible officer.' - Carl M. Kadie ANNOTATED REFERENCES (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.) =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/ecpa.1986.godwin"> law/ecpa.1986.godwin =================</a> * Privacy -- E-mail -- ECPA - University Site Mike Godwin, legal services counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), says that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) could be reasonably construed to protect university email. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/ferpa.text"> law/ferpa.text =================</a> * Privacy -- Students -- FERPA (Buckley Ammendment) The full text of the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act (Buckley Amendment). =================<a href="http://www.eff.org/CAF/faq/email.policies.html"> faq/email.policies =================</a> * Email -- Policies q: Do any universities treat email and computer files as private? a: Yes, many universities treat email and computer files as private. ... =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/library/confidentiality.1.ala"> library/confidentiality.1.ala =================</a> * Confidentiality -- 1 (ALA) The American Library Association's "Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records" Suggests how to handle police or official requests for information about a user. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/library/computer.draft.ala"> library/computer.draft.ala =================</a> * DRAFT: Access to Electronic ... Services and Networks ... (ALA) A draft interpretation by the American Library Association of the "Library Bill of Rights" Says in part: "Libraries and librarians exist to facilitate [freedom of speech and freedom to read] by providing access to, identifying, retrieving, organizing, and preserving recorded expression regardless of the formats or technologies in which that expression is recorded." =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/statements/bill-of-rights.aahe"> statements/bill-of-rights.aahe =================</a> * Bill of Rights ... for Electronic ... Learners This is the "Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for the Electronic Community of Learners". It could become the first widely endorsed statement directly related to computers and academic freedom. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/statements/caf-statement"> statements/caf-statement =================</a> * Computer and Academic Freedom Statement -- Draft This is an attempt to codify the application of academic freedom to academic computers. It reflects our seven months of on-line discussion about computers and academic freedom. It covers free expression, due process, privacy, and user participation. Comments and suggestions are very welcome (especially when posted to CAF-talk). All the documents referenced are available on-line. (Critiqued). =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/statements/caf-statement.critique"> statements/caf-statement.critique =================</a> * Computer and Academic Freedom Statement -- Draft -- Critique This is a critique of an attempt to codify the application of academic freedom to academic computers. It reflects our seven months of on-line discussion about computers and academic freedom. It covers free expression, due process, privacy, and user participation. Additional comments and suggestions are very welcome (especially when posted to CAF-talk). All the documents referenced are available on-line. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/academic/student.freedoms.aaup"> academic/student.freedoms.aaup =================</a> * Student Freedoms (AAUP) Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students -- This is the main U.S. statement on student academic freedom. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/academic/speech-codes.aaup"> academic/speech-codes.aaup =================</a> * Speech Codes (AAUP) On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes Expression - An official statement of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) It says in part: "On a campus that is free and open, no idea can be banned or forbidden. No viewpoint or message may be deemed so hateful or disturbing that it may not be expressed." =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin"> law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin =================</a> * Expression -- Hate Speech -- UWM Post v. U Of Wisconsin The full text of UWM POST v. U. of Wisconsin. This recent district court ruling goes into detail about the difference between protected offensive expression and illegal harassment. It even mentions email. It concludes: "The founding fathers of this nation produced a remarkable document in the Constitution but it was ratified only with the promise of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment is central to our concept of freedom. The God-given "unalienable rights" that the infant nation rallied to in the Declaration of Independence can be preserved only if their application is rigorously analyzed. The problems of bigotry and discrimination sought to be addressed here are real and truly corrosive of the educational environment. But freedom of speech is almost absolute in our land and the only restriction the fighting words doctrine can abide is that based on the fear of violent reaction. Content-based prohibitions such as that in the UW Rule, however well intended, simply cannot survive the screening which our Constitution demands." =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/gillard-v-schmidt"> law/gillard-v-schmidt =================</a> * Privacy -- School -- Staff Desk -- Gillard v. Schmidt Description of an appellate court ruling that the school board could not search the desk of a school counselor without a warrant. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/email.gov-employee"> law/email.gov-employee =================</a> * Privacy -- E-mail -- Government Employees A U.S. government task force: "[Email] monitoring [of government employees] of actual communications and communicators may impinge on the Constitutional rights of freedom of speech (1st Amendment), against unreasonable search and seizure (4th Amendment), and against self-incrimination (5th amendment), as well as on the right to privacy, specifically as set forth in both the Privacy Act and the ECPA." Enclosed are guidelines for legitimate monitoring of government employee email. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/mass-student-searches"> law/mass-student-searches =================</a> * Privacy -- Mass Students Searches An excerpt from The ACLU Handbook: _The Rights of Students_, stating that "there must a reasonable suspicion directed specifically at each student before a school official can search students." =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/constraints.constitutional"> law/constraints.constitutional =================</a> * Constitution -- Public University -- Constraints Comments from _A Practical Guide to Legal Issues Affecting College Teachers_ by Partrica A. Hollander, D. Parker Young, and Donald D. Gehring. (College Administration Publication, 1985). Discusses the constitutional constraints on public universities including the requires for freedom of expression, freedom against unreasonable searches and seizures, due process, specific rules. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/ecpa.umich"> law/ecpa.umich =================</a> * Privacy -- E-mail -- ECPA - University Site A summary of a newspaper report that the U. of Michigan's lawyers believe(d) that the institution is barred under the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act from reading electronic mail. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/privacy.email"> law/privacy.email =================</a> * Privacy -- E-mail -- Law -- Hernandez "Computer Electronic Mail and Privacy", an edited version of a law school seminar paper by Ruel T. Hernandez. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/privacy.workplace"> law/privacy.workplace =================</a> * Privacy -- Workplace Comments from and about _The new hazards of the high technology workplace_ see (1991) 104 _Harvard Law Review_ 1898. Talks about email and other electronic monitoring. =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/email.bib"> law/email.bib =================</a> * Privacy -- E-mail -- Bibliography I have been having an e-mail conversation with Stacy Veeder for several days on the topic of e-mail privacy. She mailed me this bibliography which she has compiled for two papers which she is currently writing. I post it here with permission. PS - She is interested in talking with anyone who has some views on the topic/information to share. Mark N. ================= ================= If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command gopher gopher.eff.org These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp to ftp.eff.org (192.77.172.4), and then: cd /pub/CAF/law get ecpa.1986.godwin cd /pub/CAF/law get ferpa.text cd /pub/CAF/faq get email.policies cd /pub/CAF/library get confidentiality.1.ala cd /pub/CAF/library get computer.draft.ala cd /pub/CAF/statements get bill-of-rights.aahe cd /pub/CAF/statements get caf-statement cd /pub/CAF/statements get caf-statement.critique cd /pub/CAF/academic get student.freedoms.aaup cd /pub/CAF/academic get speech-codes.aaup cd /pub/CAF/law get uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin cd /pub/CAF/law get gillard-v-schmidt cd /pub/CAF/law get email.gov-employee cd /pub/CAF/law get mass-student-searches cd /pub/CAF/law get constraints.constitutional cd /pub/CAF/law get ecpa.umich cd /pub/CAF/law get privacy.email cd /pub/CAF/law get privacy.workplace cd /pub/CAF/law get email.bib To get the file(s) by email, send email to ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com Include the line(s): connect ftp.eff.org cd /pub/CAF/law get ecpa.1986.godwin cd /pub/CAF/law get ferpa.text cd /pub/CAF/faq get email.policies cd /pub/CAF/library get confidentiality.1.ala cd /pub/CAF/library get computer.draft.ala cd /pub/CAF/statements get bill-of-rights.aahe cd /pub/CAF/statements get caf-statement cd /pub/CAF/statements get caf-statement.critique cd /pub/CAF/academic get student.freedoms.aaup cd /pub/CAF/academic get speech-codes.aaup cd /pub/CAF/law get uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin cd /pub/CAF/law get gillard-v-schmidt cd /pub/CAF/law get email.gov-employee cd /pub/CAF/law get mass-student-searches cd /pub/CAF/law get constraints.constitutional cd /pub/CAF/law get ecpa.umich cd /pub/CAF/law get privacy.email cd /pub/CAF/law get privacy.workplace cd /pub/CAF/law get email.bib -- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF or my employer; this is just me. =Email: kadie(a)eff.org, kadie(a)cs.uiuc.edu = =URL: <http://www.eff.org/CAF/>, <ftp://ftp.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/kadie/> =

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L.A. Police Being Armed w/M16s by Defense
by Charles Anthony 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to a Reuters article today, the LAPD have been issued 600 M16 assault rifles that were supplied by the US Defense Dept. ----- Police Chief Bernard Parks said the guns will be assigned to specialized units and used ``in very unique situations.'' ------- #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)

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Re: PGP in UK - snooped as unSTEALTHed?
by patrick＠Verity.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > MICROSOFT VERSUS BORLAND FOR COMPILING/ASSEMBLING PGP I recently got Symantec C++ 7.0 for less than either Microsoft or Borland were selling their packages for. It's a nicer development environment than either as well. It also support DOS/Windows3.x/NT/Chicago. (I don't remember if it supports OS2. Patrick _______________________________________________________________________ / These opinions are mine, and not Verity's (except by coincidence;). \ | (\ | | Patrick J. Horgan Verity Inc. \\ Have | | patrick(a)verity.com 1550 Plymouth Street \\ _ Sword | | Phone : (415)960-7600 Mountain View \\/ Will | | FAX : (415)960-7750 California 94303 _/\\ Travel | \___________________________________________________________\)__________/

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Re: cipe - encrypting IP tunnel, version 0.5.2
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- forwarded message -- Path: wmich-news!gumby!newspump.wustl.edu!rice!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!169.132.11.200!news.idt.net!news.voicenet.com!gsl-penn-ns.gsl.net!news-stkh.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news3.funet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!liw.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: olaf(a)bigred.inka.de (Olaf Titz) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: cipe - encrypting IP tunnel, version 0.5.2 Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 07:26:10 GMT Organization: private Linux site, southern Germany Lines: 57 Approved: linux-announce(a)news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) Message-ID: <pycola.874826770.5102(a)liw.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: liw.clinet.fi NNTP-Posting-User: liw X-Server-Date: 21 Sep 1997 07:26:12 GMT Old-Date: 19 Sep 1997 11:08:19 +0200 X-No-Archive: yes X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.os.linux.announce iQBVAwUBNCTMFDiesvPHtqnBAQExRAH/SYzWcsQWNuCf0W6wMQqrVWgV7eTRWQ6p ULgjcGGbiqKYNQsaw7gwAqfh+zhkfywvqStuB3XwP5LJCRz6KgK7qw== =2N7/ Xref: wmich-news comp.os.linux.announce:1629 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- CIPE is a system for simple, yet reasonably secure IP encryption. It sends encrypted datagrams encapsulated in UDP. It is not compatible with IPSEC or anything else (except my other prototype implementation). Very lightweight and easy to handle. Comes with full description of the protocol and usage examples. GPLd and distributed from outside the USA. Developed and tested on the Linux 2.0 series on i386 platform. In theory it should run on other platforms; don't know about 2.1. This package can be used to build "virtual private networks", i.e. secure interconnection of subnetworks on top of the Internet. I use it in such a situation for some months now. Changes since 0.4.2: - - Now supports routing over a SOCKS5 relayer. - - Wrote a real manual. Olaf Titz <olaf(a)bigred.inka.de> Here's the LSM: Begin3 Title: cipe Version: 0.5.2 Entered-date: 12SEP97 Description: A network device that does encrypted IP-in-UDP tunneling. Useful for building virtual private networks, etc. The package consists of a kernel module and driver program. Keywords: encryption, routing, tunnel, VPN Author: olaf(a)bigred.inka.de (Olaf Titz) Primary-site: ftp.inka.de /sites/bigred/sw 65k cipe-0.5.2.tar.gz Copying-policy: GPL End - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/liw/lars-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce(a)news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNCTMEoQRll5MupLRAQHjBgP+JHAkG4j/Ut3++Vy2eskaXvlXEMriVIcg dWarg3p8liSNMpaPXk0zGJPGq+gkUMgPiiVXxV0oy+ukH9UWJ0HoAcLMbRZuX/3D sHSQoQ5R4D77LbgKLWjvxcut+s27wAVToz7HEDdwA/8nscqhbXr3ak3GKFqf+18s OuASqKdpbB4= =H9Vz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- end of forwarded message --

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US Senate bans laptops
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to an article in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the US Senate's Rules Committee denied a junior Senate member's request to bring his laptop to the floor. Aparently, the Rules Committee believes that laptop use is incompatible with the hallowed nature of Senate debates. Diane Feinstein is cited as saying that she strongly opposes laptops in the Senate. She warned that if laptops were permitted, as many as 30-40 of the 100 members of the chamber might start using laptops (while making vital decisions about the future of this nation). The article also stated that mechanical pencils and wrist watches have however been permitted since the early 1900's. These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses. Give it up. Any dollar spent lobbying these Luddites is a dollar wasted. --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/

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Re: US Senate bans laptops
by travel23＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote: > >According to an article in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the US >Senate's Rules Committee denied a junior Senate member's request to bring >his laptop to the floor. Aparently, the Rules Committee believes that >laptop use is incompatible with the hallowed nature of Senate debates. >These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who >will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses. >Give it up. Any dollar spent lobbying these Luddites is a dollar wasted. Yeah, but if they did allow it, our tax money would go to buying a laptop for each and everyone of them - and, of course, they would opt for the most expensive laptops available..... The Traveler +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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