December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Dear Scott Adams: I hear you need a fresh target...
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You could do the world a favor by making fun of recent GAK (Government Accesst to Keys) proposals which are currently circulating in the organs of power under newspeak names like "key escrow" and "key recovery". Also, it's an easy target, and a big issue with a lot of your techie readers. Have some leader on television announce that henceforth all e-mail will be scanned by federal investigatory gremlins in the name of public safety, but never fear!! For your privacy will be PERSONALLY GUARANTEED by the new Privacy Czar... <camera pans...> Catbert! Or Dogbert. Or Ratbert, heck. Or Bob! Lots of your characters make good government leaders. :-) Thanks! Zooko, Journeyman Wizard P.S. I think I'll Cc: this to the cypherpunks. No doubt they will hack your account and send you death threats and make me regret it, but heck, maybe you can get some good mileage out of making fun of THEM, too.

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How to use PGP without wasting your time
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The trick is: 1. don't go overboard with security. For example, I sometimes use PGP keys without passphrases. This is secure _enough_ for my more innocuous messages, and it is a lot more convenient. 2. get a scriptable/configurable e-mail agent which you can train (or have me or some cypherpunk train) to do PGP for you automagically. Regards, Zooko, Journeyman Cryptorebel

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in defense of Lon Horiuchi
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> mumbled: > > It's amazing that Freeh would admit that shooting an unarmed > woman holding an infant is what "he was trained to do" and was "within > the scope of his authority" and that he "reasonably believed [it] was > proper" to do so. What are they teaching at FBI school nowadays? > > Horiuchi's defense is really no different than Timothy > McVeigh's: "yes, it was a mistake but he felt it was justified and > reasonably believed at the time that what he was doing was proper..." > Too bad McVeigh didn't have a badge saying FBI on it. Lest any naive readers who aren't familiar with the details of the event buy this kind of spin-doctoring, please be aware that the woman in question was probably not visible to the sniper, and it is almost certain that he was aiming at her armed husband who was shooting back. The bullet travelled through a door or some such obstruction I think (I forget the details) before hitting the victim. You could more reasonably blame the husband for having the stupidity or carelessness to get in a firefight with his wife and child in the building. More generally, don't buy any of the spin that anonymous cypherpunks (and plenty of named ones) like to put on such stories without reading the more balanced accounts yourself. Anonymous, above, would _like_ you to think of the FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi as a murderous baby-killer who chuckled gleefully when he saw his opportunity to take out a toddler. Anonymous is no different from hatemongering pamphleteers and propaganda ministers in any penny-ante revolution or Orwellian minitru. Perhaps he's on the side of the good guys, but his tactics have the same stink that I recognize from reading the propaganda blurbs of the bad guys. Regards, Zooko, Journeyman Engineer

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The Doors Collectors Magazine
by doorlist＠doors.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Welcome to the first issue of The Doors Collectors Magazine's Strange Days Email Newsletter sent out free to our on-line Doors friends. We don't believe in spamming so if you have received this newsletter in error, please send a return email to doorlist(a)doors.com with the word "remove" in the subject line and your name will be blocked from any future issues of our email newsletters. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ STRANGE DAYS HAVE FOUND YOU! After eight years of printing paper copies of The Doors Newsletter we're now adapting to this new digital format. Since it's hard to email bulky visuals of what we're talking about, we've set up several web pages that have more information about certain topics. If something strikes you as interesting, by all means check out the pages! Many of these web pages will not be connected to the rest of our web site and will remain exclusive only for those members of our email list. To fond out more about this list, go to: http://www.doors.com/StrangeDays We will continue our periodic (snail-mail) mailings which go out to all Doors fans on our mail list, but now that it's not a 3 week job to get these newsletters sent out we're hoping we can keep everyone more up-to-date. Contents of this issue (not in order of importance) 1. Wild Child: Life With Jim Morrison (A new book) 2. The Doors Box Set (Finally!) 3. A Conversation With Jim Morrison (New CD) 4. The Doors Museum (A very RARE poster!) 5. The Doors Madison Square Garden '69 (New cassette tape) 6. The Doors Original Equipment (For Sale?!) 1. ********* "WILD CHILD" BY LINDA ASHCROFT ******************************************* A new book was recently released in the UK called "Wild Child: Life with Jim Morrison" by Linda Ashcroft (£17.99). Strangely enough days after copies hit the shelves, they were pulled! Those of us in the States dont have too much of a chance of getting these first editions since right now all the UK copies have either been pulled or sold. You lucky people in Australia still have a chance of getting your copies though! But be quick about it because they *will* be pulled there, too! If any of you have any extra first edition copies (August 97) that you would like to sell please shoot me an email! Im interested! So, what's the book about? I talked to Linda and this is what she had to say: "Wild Child: Life With Jim Morrison" invites you to run with Jim Morrison and me from the summer of 1967 until three days before his death in 71. Drawn from the pages of "Jim said" and "I said" that made it to my diary from the time, "Wild Child" often simply lets Jim speak for himself. Before he left for Paris Jim told me, "It may have been in bits and pieces, but I gave you the best of me." Jim teased I was the ballast in his life; a "Horse Latitudes" joke. May "Wild Child" provide ballast for his memories. I guess when you ask authors for quotes, advertisements are what you get *But* Im here to tell you more, so crank on the first Doors CD, song #7 is a good place to start, and listen up: This book is a biographical account of a young girl (15 years old) and her experiences with Morrison. Although she admits that, while they never had sex, the two were going to be married when Jim returned home from Paris. They even had their rings picked out at one point. Whether or not this book has any merit remains to be seen (I haven't got a copy yet), but one thing remains sure... due to what the publishers are calling an "editing error"...the books are not on the shelves in England anymore and are almost impossible to find which makes these first editions instant collectibles. James Langton (London Telegraph) asked me to help him research an article for their paper. I obliged, only to be repaid by his mis-quoting the name of our magazine in the Telegraph article. (Sorry James, but I hope the rest of your article was more accurate;-) James felt very skeptical about the book because he had an impossible time finding *anyone* to back up the authors seemingly unsubstantiated claims.... In fact, hes still looking. And I'm told that one only has to read the first 40 pages or so to realize why the book was pulled from the shelves. Whether or not the book's claims are true, *my* only claim (so far) is that these first editions from August 1997 will be worth their weight in gold, not just because of the controversial claims, but also because of the books' limited availability ...and that's a lot of gold considering this is a 549 page book! What about the second issues? Well have to get back to you on this one. 2. ********************* THE DOORS BOX SET ********************************************* It's all over! The Wait is Over! October 28th, 1997 is the release date! The three remaining Doors were spotted in the studio last Friday finishing up some loose ends on the musical background for "Orange County Suite." Doors fans have waited a long time for the box set's release, but finally the wait will be over. A set list given by the band to Ice Magazine says the box set will look like this: CD 1 Five to One, Miami 1969 Queen of the Highway,1969 demo Hyacinth House, demo Who Scared You, b-side to Wishful Sinful Black Train Song, Philadelphia 1970 Whiskey, Mystics and Men, Morrison Hotel outtake I Will Never Be Untrue, LA 1970 My Eyes Have Seen You, 1965 demo End of the Night, 1965 demo Moonlight Drive, 1965 demo Rock is Dead, 1969 studio jam Albinoni, 1969 symphonic piece CD 2 Live in New York 1/70 Roadhouse Blues Ship of Fools Peace Frog/Blue Sunday Celebration of the Lizard Gloria Crawling King Snake Money Poontang Blues/Build Me a Woman/ Sunday Trucker The End CD 3 Hello to the Cities, composite track Break On Through, Isle of Wight 1970 Rock Me, Vancouver 1970 Money, Vancouver 1970 Someday Soon, Seattle 1970 Go Insane, 1965 demo Mental Floss, LA 1970 Summer's Almost Gone, 1965 demo Adolph Hitler, Boston 1970 Hello I Love You, 1965 demo Crystal Ship, San Francisco 1967 I Can't See Your Face in My Mind, SF 1967 Soft Parade, PBS 1970 Tightrope Ride, OV released version Orange County Suite, 1970 CD 4 Band Favorites Densmore's picks: Love Me Two Times/Riders on the Storm/ When the Music's Over/Unknown Soldier/ Wild Child Manzarek's picks: I Can't See Your Face in My Mind/ Land Ho!/Shaman's Blues/ Yes, the River Knows/You're Lost Little Girl Krieger's picks: LA Woman/Light My Fire/Peace Frog/ Take It As It Comes/Wishful Sinful All tracks on CD 4 are the released versions. The track order may differ from what is listed here, but the other three CDs are supposedly correct. My personal feeling is that there will be a few surprises on the box set, too. But I guess we'll have to wait and see... Hopefully one of the surprises will be "Paris Blues"? or maybe even some words from Morrison himself ?! 3. ******** A CONVERSATION WITH JIM MORRISON ******************************************* A new compact disc is now out with a previously unpublished interview with Jim Morrison conducted by Ben Fong-Torres of Rolling Stone Magazine in February of 1970. Doors historians will note this is right before Jim left for Paris. The 74-minute interview is brilliant. Finally we hear an interview by a professional journalist with some excellent questions! As a bonus, we hear Pamela Courson answer a few questions as she entered the apartment where the interview was being conducted. Unlike many European CDs that have been released recently, this one has a quality interview and some seriously delightful insights instead of sad disappointments. This is the first time I've ever heard the voice of Pamela in an interview, and what a great interview to hear it on! Definitely a CD that is not to be missed! For more information and a list of topics that are covered in the CD, please check out: http://www.doors.com/StrangeDays/LPs_CDs/ben-fong.html 4. ************* THE DOORS COLLECTOR'S MUSEUM ********************************************** Ever since The Doors asked our magazine to host a Doors memorabilia review on their video laser disc set, "The Doors Collection" I've wanted to do a series of web pages on this same topic. This section will feature both collectibles that are for sale and those that have recently been sold. While our printed magazine features an Auction Review in each issue, this web section will feature underground items that have been bought and sold between collectors. This will give Doors fans the opportunity to see many collectibles that they wouldn't be able to see any other way. We tried to get this section finished in time for this bulletin, but were unable to get the html finished up for most of the items. Keep checking http://www.doors.com for the latest news about this section! We do have atleast one web page completed for this list - it is of a very rare collectible that thus far remains unsold. It is... The Doors very own commercial poster privately printed in August 1968 and sold at two concerts. They must've sold a million, you say! No, it was a financial flop. While artistically designed by Jim Morrison and Paul Ferrara, the poster proved to be cumbersome and very impractical to market. Ray Manzarek himself explains why in his hand written letter of authenticity that accompanies the poster. Ray estimates that only about 300 of these posters were actually sold making it one of the rarest Doors posters there is! For more details (Rays letter in particular) check out: http://www.doors.com/StrangeDays/museum/poster.html 5. ********** NEW DOORS "LIVE" TAPES AVAILABLE ******************************************** As already reported in The Doors Collectors Magazine #9 a better than average audience recording of The Doors Madison Square Garden show from January 24, 1969 has found its way out of the box it sat in for the last 28 years and is available on our trade list. Our copy comes from a DAT of a first generation tape...it doesn't get much better than this! This historic show was a sold out performance to over 20,000 fans! The Doors had a horn section on stage to augment all the Soft Parade album songs that they performed that night. Definitely a Doors performance at the pinnacle of their career like no other tape around! For more on the MSG show be sure to check out the Strange Days home page for a very interesting article written by Bill Tikellis that is jam packed full of details http://www.doors.com/StrangeDays 6. ***** THE DOORS ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT FOR SALE ******************************************** The Doors Collectors Magazine has been commissioned to sell The Doors original concert equipment including the only gold microphone that Jim Morrison ever used despite what they say at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame! (But thats another story for our magazine...) These lots arent exactly for the everyday collector but if youre as big a Doors nut as I am, you might want to stop by and take a look around at: http://www.doors.com/StrangeDays/museum/equipment.html THIS IS THE END MY FRIEND... TILL NEXT TIME! Kerry kerry(a)doors.com

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Bullshit! / Re: in defense of Lon Horiuchi
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Zooko Journeyman wrote: > Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> mumbled: > > It's amazing that Freeh would admit that shooting an unarmed > > woman holding an infant is what "he was trained to do" and was "within > > the scope of his authority" and that he "reasonably believed [it] was > > proper" to do so. What are they teaching at FBI school nowadays? > Anonymous, above, would _like_ you to think of the FBI sniper > Lon Horiuchi as a murderous baby-killer who chuckled gleefully > when he saw his opportunity to take out a toddler. Personally, I think you are both 1/2 full of shit, for a grand total of Bullshit! It is fortunate that, in my position of Chief CypherPunks Spokesperson, I am able to set you both right in the interests of Truth, Justice, and an Uzi in every pot (bag). I have no problem with people who enter law enforcement with the genuine intention of attempting to serve the ends of equal justice being applied among the citizens in a reasonable manner. I *do* have a problem, however, with the fact that the high level of integrity and responsibility that *should* go hand in hand with that manner of _public_service_ has in many ways been abandoned to serve the convenience (*not* "legitimate needs") of law enforcement agencies. We all know that if we had approached the FBI before they found the guy, and *guaranteed* that if they gave us six men for thirty days we would bring their man into custody, they would gladly have given us what we asked, if the alternative was to let him go free. When it comes to avoiding the loss of innocent lives, however, the motivation to "do whatever it takes" seems to be more lacking. To me, this is unconscienable. A good example is the many lives that have been lost over the years in dangerous high-speed chases over nickle and dime bullshit, merely because the 'good guys' main interest was to get a good adrenaline rush in their pursuit and capture of their prey, however small-fry that prey might be. Only when enough blatantly senseless tragedies had taken place, was there any attempt to introduce the discretion of the "reasonable man" in the slightest manner such as it is applied to the normal citizens in the judgement of their actions according to the law of the land. The fact that the victims were killed by a 'missed' shot which went through a door, does not lessen the responsibility of the agent who chose to use deadly force to understand the potential of the weapon he was using. If Zooko shoots a cop by firing into a steel wall with a cannon, he is unlikely to get cut much slack by saying, "It never occured to me that could happen." I don't know the FBI agent who fired the fatal shot. He may be one of the nicest and most well-intentioned people in the world. However, I have personally known too many law enforcement personnel who had far more interest in exercising egoistic authority, or getting an adrenaline rush from risky situations, than in bringing the end goals of law enforcement to a safe and just end for all involved. I find it hard to believe that the end result of the standoff was not the result of impatience and convenience rather than the way things truly needed to be. TruthMonger

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encrypting images
by croughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is it possible to encrypt images using PGP? --------------- http://www.noord.bart.nl/~croughs http://www.pi.net/~freedom

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Re: in defense of Lon Horiuchi
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Zooko Journeyman wrote: > > Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> mumbled: > > > > It's amazing that Freeh would admit that shooting an unarmed > > woman holding an infant is what "he was trained to do" and was "within > > the scope of his authority" and that he "reasonably believed [it] was > > proper" to do so. What are they teaching at FBI school nowadays? > > > > Horiuchi's defense is really no different than Timothy > > McVeigh's: "yes, it was a mistake but he felt it was justified and > > reasonably believed at the time that what he was doing was proper..." > > Too bad McVeigh didn't have a badge saying FBI on it. > > Lest any naive readers who aren't familiar with the details of > the event buy this kind of spin-doctoring, please be aware that > the woman in question was probably not visible to the sniper, > and it is almost certain that he was aiming at her armed > husband who was shooting back. The bullet travelled through a > door or some such obstruction I think (I forget the details) > before hitting the victim. Zooko fails to take into consideration that the FBI's role in the affair was to back the unnecessary fascist actions of those who had decided it was their right to interfere in the life of a family which was largely minding their own business and seeking to live their lives free from constant subjection to a wide variety of often senseless and/or meaningless, arbitrary laws. Truthmonger

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Re: in defense of Lon Horiuchi
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Zooko Journeyman quoth: > Lest any naive readers who aren't familiar with the details of > the event buy this kind of spin-doctoring, please be aware that > the woman in question was probably not visible to the sniper, > and it is almost certain that he was aiming at her armed > husband who was shooting back. The bullet travelled through a > door or some such obstruction I think (I forget the details) > before hitting the victim. Zooko, About the best spin that you can put on this is that the agent was trying to shoot (again) the retreating Randy Weaver and showed an utter disregard for the safety of the others in the cabin; who were known to include women and children. This is the point. Not that all Fibbies are demonic baby-killers but that the arrogance of their agency and its government allow them to mark someone--Randy Weaver or even Jim Bell--as 'bad guy' and call out unreasonably huge campaigns against them. Once so marked, the "victim" is then helpless, completely without recourse, the "justice" system by then having been poisoned against them by the Fibbies and the prosecutors. [For those that survive long enough to have an encounter with the justice system.] > You could more reasonably blame the husband for having the > stupidity or carelessness to get in a firefight with his wife > and child in the building. I don't find that at all reasonable; since Weaver was on his own property, minding his own business before agents started shooting at him. Yes, I know he was wanted for failure to appear for a court date--that hardly justifies the whole exercise. > More generally, don't buy any of the spin that anonymous > cypherpunks (and plenty of named ones) like to put on such > stories without reading the more balanced accounts yourself. > Anonymous, above, would _like_ you to think of the FBI sniper > Lon Horiuchi as a murderous baby-killer who chuckled gleefully > when he saw his opportunity to take out a toddler. Perhaps he didn't chuckle gleefully, but he obviously didn't show much regard for the Weavers' lives either (/before/ Vicky Weaver's death that is). BTW, neither I nor anyone else has accused him of killing a toddler. > Anonymous > is no different from hatemongering pamphleteers and propaganda > ministers in any penny-ante revolution or Orwellian minitru. > Perhaps he's on the side of the good guys, but his tactics > have the same stink that I recognize from reading the > propaganda blurbs of the bad guys. Yes, I can see why you would recognize such a smell.

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"Thewer Thites" of the WWW
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For those who are following the CPAC/Sewer frivolities, there is now a parody of Mike Paladino's "Sewer Site" at... http://www.darktimes.com/thewer/ This was apparently done by "Stereotype", the editor of Darktimes magazine, whom Paladino has been libeling for the past several weeks on the real Sewer Site. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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selective prosecution [was Re: House National Security committee guts SAFE, worse than no bill]
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- in response to Bubba Rom Dos <bubba(a)dev.null>: unfortunately, the US DOJ indulges in "selective prosecution" when confronted by mass disobedience. there is nothing in the code which requires them to prosecute a 'class' of 'lawbreakers'. What they want is a few high profile targets who will be reported by their captive pet, the 'press' to set an example. the last figures I saw on the feds body count was still over 90% of those who go to trial. in most US districts, the mere fact the 'guilty scumbag' was charged by the feds indicates to most jurors (federal jurors have a tendency to be older, whiter, wealthier, etc.) that the man in the dock is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt (whose?). secondly, particularly in the federal courts, you have a man sitting 36in above you, in a black robe, with an IQ of 50, who answers to: "your honor" --and you better believe with all your heart and soul that the ignorant fool is Judge Roy Bean, the Law West of the Pecos, himself --or worse. for instance, do you think the feds would ever have a Chicago Seven trial again? what do you think the outcome would have been if they took 'em down, one at a time, in different courtrooms? think Tom Hayden would be a CA legislator today, representing the Peoples Republic of Santa Monica? dont get me wrong --if nothing else, the evidence of the absurdity of the feds actions trying to regulate an amorphous global network can always be introduced. maybe enough repetition will get the message across. and, the actions in Washington are fast approaching the necessity for the Jeffersonian call to arms: "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without a rebellion." --Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826) I'm sure you would hav Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, etc out on the front line if they were here today (if they did not die from digust from what the Fed has become, but the trick is to make sure you are not a minority of one: "Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities." --Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1941) unfortunately, it will take the foolishness in the face of fire as so graphically sketched in 'les miserab' to move Washington off their sacrosanct fat asses. -- I'll get a life when it is proven and substantiated to be better than what I am currently experiencing. --attila When I die, please cast my ashes upon Bill Gates. For once, let him clean up after me! ______________________________________________________________________ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0 on or about 970911:0953 Bubba Rom Dos <bubba(a)dev.null> expostulated: + Also, if need be, a system could be set up in Canada which +automatically +forwards received email to the U.K. and a chain-mail type of campaign +could begun, exhorting people to send a copy of strong encryption to +the Canadian email address, without referrring to any further +destination. + This is just a possible example, the goal being to make any possible +prosecution as convoluted and difficult as possible, just as the Govt +passes unconstitutional laws that serve their purpose for the ten years +it takes to get them struck down by the Supremes, and then they pass a +similar one to accomplish the same unconstitutional ends. +2. The same type of system could be set up, but programmed to only +forward crypto products illegally once a certain number of citizens had +forwarded a small amount of hash-cash (CPU generated funds) to the +originating computer/program. + Several thousand people openly colluding in even a single act such as +this could be effectively used to provide a challenge to the fascist +censors. If not successful, then the amount and destinations of the +exported crypto could be increased to the point of making the export +restrictions a total joke. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNBhClb04kQrCC2kFAQH+JwP/ZnrJZHXZIiR+ddt/XH2tOfb33/uOYQ+Z CSNlUd2tS8ujgVqzfcywKhKPU6f4gFQzwXX76S7Ahf6mWagVzLoxqfTuCrzHdCFb 8PkLct5uXHcmUH4LGDVwTYr7R/or7ZozPEW9ERFJK1N6fPwhukFSl83WYtCR8kKl yhhx97VTuGk= =zvaj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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