December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Cato Study Release: National ID Card Ineffective and Intrusive
by Thomas Grant Edwards 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CATO STUDY RELEASE September 7, 1995 National ID card ineffective and intrusive, study says Congressional Republican proposals to create a national computerized registry and an ID card for all American workers would establish "a dangerous, invasive, and unworkable new expansion of federal police-state powers," according to a new Cato Institute study. In "A National ID System: Big Brother's Solution to Illegal Immigration" (Policy Analysis no. 237), John J. Miller and Stephen Moore say Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) are taking the "critical first step" toward implementing a potentially invasive national worker authorization system. Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute, and Miller is vice president of the Center for Equal Opportunity. An Orwellian system The authors say that Smith and Simpson want to require an ID card and computerized worker registry for the 150 million Americans and legal immigrants in the U.S. labor force. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) wants that national ID card to include such information as a photograph, fingerprint, and retina scan. The study says such a system would, in effect, "require employers to submit all of their hiring decisions for approval to a federal bureaucrat." The authors call the proposed registry and national ID card "Big Brother's solution to illegal immigration." They say the national ID card would constitute a massive invasion of privacy and violation of basic civil liberties; cost the government $3 billion to $6 billion to implement; subject workers to the effects of potentially huge error rates, with perhaps millions of legal aliens denied jobs because of faulty government databases (even a 2 percent error rate would lead to 1.3 million Americans being wrongfully denied jobs); increase discrimination against Latin and Asian Americans; and, ultimately, fail to affect illegal immigration. Moore and Miller say that, once established, the computer registry could be easily expanded and applied to other areas, vastly increasing the size and scope of government. Some of the potential uses of the system include implementing a Clinton-style health care plan and security card; ensuring employer compliance with affirmative action requirements; tracking child support payments; verifying that parents are getting their children vaccinated; and conducting background checks on would-be gun purchasers, among others. Better approaches available After spending a year defeating the Clinton administration's health security card, Moore and Miller say, the new GOP Congress now wants every American to carry a "work authorization card" that would create similar potential for intrusion and abuse. The authors claim there are ways to address the problem of illegal immigration that would expand, rather than curtail, Americans' basic freedoms. We could, for example, expand legal immigration quotas, eliminate employer sanctions law, establish greater economic integration between the United States and Mexico, restrict welfare eligibility of legal and illegal immigrants, facilitate the deportation of criminal aliens, tighten visa control, and improve border enforcement. Why it matters It is an iron rule of politics that whenever there is a perceived "crisis" in Washington, Congress responds by passing bad laws that expand the powers of government. Moore and Miller say the immigration issue is fertile ground for such laws. The implications of a national ID system would range far beyond today's debate over illegal immigration. The study says the proposed worker registry system has no redeeming feature. It will not curtail illegal immigration, and it will create opportunities for abuse. At a time when Americans are loudly demanding more freedom and smaller government, Moore and Miller say a computer registry is a giant step in the wrong direction.

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Re: Car rentals, Driver's Licenses, Ecash, & Net Access
by tbyfield＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:21 PM 9/8/95, Duncan Frissell wrote a very interesting disquisition: <snip> >An attempted cartel of that sort --- one that tries to enlist the billion or >so people who will be easily and reliably switching funds within a few years >--- is doomed to failure. Too many potential 'cheaters.' Too much money to >be made by breaking with the cartel and offering financial services to >others who wish to use them. <snip> One question: Most of your remarks (and you're in no way alone in this regard) seem to assume that uniformity is a sine qua non of law enforcement (as opposed, say, to selective enforcement. Correct me if I'm wrong. I wonder, though, whether this is so; isn't it true that the impossibility of consistent enforcement may well encourage a systemically selective enforcement (maybe shaped by this or that, one's politics, for example)? Presumably, then, law enforcement would take on an increasingly "terroristic" character--"random," as IRS audits and the like can be. Some recent high-profile cases (Packwood, and Kenneth Starr's efforts to indict Gov. Tucker) might indicate the shape that enforcement could take, especially in light of some recent congressional legislative efforts: the gov't investigates you regarding X, in the process of the investigation turns up Y and Z, and thus finds reason maybe to look into A, B, and C as well--in effect, turning your life into a nightmare. But I digress: The main point, really, is that enforcement doesn't need to be nonselective to be "effective." I think this holds whether I understood your remarks correctly or not. Ted

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Patel decision page 33 handled
by landon_dyer＠wayfarer.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Feasibility of censoring and jamming pronography and racism in informatics
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/29/97 3:54 PM, Ulf Möller (3umoelle(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de) passed this wisdom: >... to implement a >management regime consistent with provisions for protection of society these are the words that scare the shit out of me ... so innocuous, so high moral sounding, no one can argue with that as the justification to do just about anything ... but just look at our (we humans) track record with regards to that argument ... shudder! >... Implementation on this basis would >be necessary to ensure subscribers could not tamper with management >settings. .... fat chance ... the only good thing about such a system is its appeal to my childish love to go after anything someone says is 'unbreakable!' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNAeUccdZgC62U/gIEQIEyACfXEDDmFUUKZdP3a/EZM6QZ1EFZtgAoKRN f2b0LIvTOII4CBAJt3RkYhzi =yUII -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with in the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy." -- Gassee - Apple Logo

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Re: Fate of Jews in America (fwd)
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Igor forwarded: > THE WASHINGTON TIMES > August 29, 1997 The Moonies? I believe it was Gore Vidal who commented upon the curious incest between religious and political right wing extremists and the Jews. In return for the incorporation of the tenets of Zionism into extremist religious philosophy, and a few billion dollars of aid each year, Jewish intellectuals pretend there is nothing wrong with obvious nonsense, when in fact they know better. > The danger for Jews, oddly, is that in the > foreseeable future they might be so well assimilated they become > extinct. Extinction is a species concept. Human beings, not human beings of Jewish extraction or belief, are the species here. Therefore Jews cannot become "extinct," any more than people who like pretzels can become "extinct." Certain memes passed down by self-identified practitioners of the Jewish faith may become extinct, but that is another issue entirely. > .... . . . But the question isn't what other Americans would think of this > kind of double allegiance, or whether the two allegiances might some day > be in conflict, It isn't? What about the traitor Pollard, who has a fat pension and a comfortable lifestyle waiting for him in the Zionist entity, should the US government ever be so foolish as to let him out of prison. How many more Pollards has Zionist propaganda produced, who would do anything the Zionist entity commanded, to further its cause? Why do we continue to pour money into a self-declared country whose hidden agenda is to steal more of its neighbors' land, whose ideological orientation is blatantly racist, whose Supreme Court has ruled that torture is a legitimate means of interrogation, and which used to sing the praises of pre-democratic South Africa as the kind of society it wished to emulate? What was it Jim Baker said? -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Re: need confirmation of DVD/CSS crack in China ...
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 8/29/97 1:44 AM, Lucky Green (shamrock(a)netcom.com) passed this wisdom: >I fail to see how you can prevent copying an entire disk. If the controller >can access the data, I can copy it. Unless of course it will be made >illegal to sell DVD controllers that output the raw data stream. > >Come to think of it, that must be coming. 'security through obscurity' has/will never work. All it takes is one good reverse engineer and presto, the secret is out and 'unlocked' controller will be available above or under ground! The process could be slowed down by keeping the price of DVD writers high, but we saw how long that worked for both DAT and CD-R. Hell CD-Rs are now available for less than CD readers were three years ago. Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "The first 75% of the project takes 90% of the time; the last 15% of the project takes the other 90% of the time. -- Barry Wainwright and numerous ofthe engineers

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Re: Shrinks as Narcs for the State
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/29/97 2:26 AM, Tim May (tcmay(a)got.net) passed this wisdom: >Further, those who visit doctors and shrinks are at risk for other reasons. >The State has decreed that they "narc out" (inform on) their patients. Cf. >Tarasoff, for example, which requires a mental health care professional, >counselor, or doctor to inform the State if a client makes certain kinds of >threats. This threat may cause the client to be locked up for observation. I have a close friend who is a therapist on several occasions had the state and insurance companies try to force disclosure of materials on certain patients. It has created such a dilemma that this person had consulted with me to come up with not just encryption solutions but steganographic solutions as well so that if this person's computer is subpoenaed (sp?) they won't know what to look at/for. At the time, I though the person was over-reacting, but in the ensuing eighteen months, I am not so sure. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNAeb2sdZgC62U/gIEQKidwCfdXjHOm/hwkkk2aSaG/Y6/dwwC3UAoLNG lscH2PKWudPOTKM8ifo1JJUQ =tu6w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "It would take an archimedean fulcrum to raise you to the level of total depravity" --Thomas E. Carney, ca. 1920

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by mailhost＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Patel decision pages 7 and 8 handled
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Quote of the day (fwd)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

When is X-Day supposed to be? >----- Forwarded message from Quote of the day ----- > >"I know the day it happens. On August 29, 1997 it's going to feel > pretty fucking real to you too. Anybody not wearing two million sun > block is going to have a real bad day. Get it?" > > - Sarah Conner (played by Linda Hamilton), in Terminator 2: Judgement > Day, offers a cheery thought for today. [In the film, an unfortunate > computer glitch leads to the near-destruction of the Earth on this > day. -ed.] > > Submitted by: "D. Joseph Creighton" <djc(a)cc.UManitoba.CA> > Aug. 27, 1997 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Send quotation submissions to qotd(a)ensu.ucalgary.ca > Send list changes or requests to qotd-request(a)ensu.ucalgary.ca > >----- End of forwarded message from Quote of the day ----- > > # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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