December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Money Laundering Conference with Government Types
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:15 PM 5/5/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote: >On Sat, 4 May 1996, jim bell wrote: >> > Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture are critical consequences for >> > the banks, attorneys, securities dealers and corporations, both >> > domestic and international, who may be inadvertently in >> > non-compliance. _Our program will give you:_ >> >> I wonder how long it's going to take before these "money-launderers" learn >> that by taking, say, 10% of the amount of money they launder in one year, >> they can eliminate the people trying to stop them. Forever. > >Been done. See e.g., Pablo Escobar. Nah, what happened to Escobar was a business falling-out. His business partners, the thugs in the US and Colombian governments, provided the illegality of drugs, a necessary element in keeping profits up. Escobar provided the drug trafficking, a necessary element in keeping thug...er...police employment high. It was a great system; worked for years and is still generally operational. Escobar must have done something to upset the arrangement, like refusing to pay off his handlers or maybe going out of business, etc. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Free Life #26 now available.
by Sean Gabb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

22:09 05/05/1996 The article below, is taken from the latest issue of Free Life, the journal that I edit. Comments always welcome! Sean Gabb Editor Free Life A R T I C L E B E G I N S ===================================================================== A TIME TO BE DEPRESSED As I write, news is coming though on the wireless of a mad gunman in Tasmania. Twenty people are said to have been killed, and many more wounded. It will not have the same effect on opinion in this country as the Dunblane massacre, but it will add to the existing reaction. There will be more encouragement of people to hand in their guns at the local Police Station. There will be a toughening of the draft Firearms Bill promised for the early summer. Whether this really will ban the keeping of guns at home, it will certainly make them harder for ordinary people to obtain. To do so, of course, will not reduce the number of criminal shootings. There might be fewer Thomas Hamiltons - though I do not think there are many of these already. But there will be no fewer armed robbers and gangland "executioners". Indeed, so far as these might be deterred even by a public so little armed as ours currently is, there will be more of them. The real effect of a new Firearms Act will be to mark another stage in the collapse of English freedom. The more disarmed we are, the more armed criminals can move among us like a fox among chickens. The more this happens, the more we shall cry for protection to the authorities that disarmed us in the first place. In the short term, this will mean more powers of arrest and search, and more video cameras in the streets. In the medium term, it will mean identity cards. In the longer term, it will mean electronic tagging and surveillance, and efforts to isolate and remove whatever gene might be supposed to incline one to criminal behaviour. Now, given the elegance of this scheme, it is hard not to believe in conspiracies. It is even tempting to believe in them. They not only explain, but also give comfort. For all their cunning and malevolence, conspirators have the disadvantage of being a minority. They can be exposed, and thereby frustrated. Inside every conspiracy theorist is an optimist, never more than three steps from utopia. However, the truth is more depressing. There are surely people now calling for greater gun control who know that it cannot work as promised, and who do so for motives that range from the selfish to the sinister. But these people are not the source of the problem. The real source is a wilfully ignorant public. There are millions of people in this country who take it as common sense that limiting the availability of guns will also reduce the amount of armed crime; and who will not listen when told otherwise. And this does not stand alone. It is just another instance of the more general belief, that government action is the answer to every misfortune. The belief would be funny were its effects not so dangerous. A few children are bitten by dogs. As if this were a new and alarming thing, the public demands and the politicians supply the most imbecile law of the decade. A ferry sinks because someone left the door open. Half the passengers are too drunk to notice what is happening, and some of them drown. The result - actual controls that make crossing the Channel less of an adventure, and a demand for controls that would make it far more expensive. A Minister tells us that most eggs are bad. After the first wild panic, the Government has to make a food handling law that shuts down thousands of catering businesses, and makes food poisoning more rather than less common. Last month, the public got into a sweat about guns. Then it turned to mad cows. From today, it will be thinking about guns again. Of course, nations have flourished with far greater handicaps than the Dangerous Dogs Act and the prohibition of wooden chopping boards. I will even say that nearly eighty years of gun control have not yet turned this country into a police state; and another Firearms Act will not do so purely on its own. Bad laws are often tolerable while the structure of laws as a whole remains stable. But what we have here is a state of mind that throws up one bad law after another - a state of mind that will accept no restraints on its behaviour. It is no good to say that a particular freedom or rule of Common Law is worth preserving. It is no good saying that it has been established for hundreds of years. If it gets in the way of whatever "tough new law" is currently in fashion, it will be swept aside without regrets or second thoughts. Here is the true engine of collapse. Here is why the latest instalment of gun control will not terminate in itself, but lead on to worse. And here is what I find so depressing about it all. For I have no answers to give. I do not know why the British public has become so childish, nor what to do about it. I can only say that, unless some other cause can be made to intervene, things will end very badly. Sean Gabb ====================================================================== $$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$ $$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$ $$ $ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$ $$ $$$$ $$$$ $$ $$ $ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $ $$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$ $$ $$$$$$ A Journal of Classical Liberal and Libertarian Thought Production: Editorial: c/o the Libertarian Alliance 123a Victoria Way 25 Chapter Chambers Charlton London SW1P 4NN London SE7 7NX Tel: **181 858 0841 Fax: **171 834 2031 E-mail: cea01sig(a)gold.ac.uk EDITOR OF FREE LIFE: SEAN GABB ====================================================================== FOR LIFE, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY ======================================================================

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Financial Relief
by que11331236＠compuserve.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by Jon Leonard 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jon Lasser wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 1996, Sandy Sandfort wrote: [snip] > > 6) DON'T talk to anyone else--especially in your home > > country--about what you have done, are doing or > > are planning to do. [snip] > > 8) Send me $1000. If you follow my steps 1-7, you will > > save many times that amount. > > There's the rub... step 8 violates step 6. If following your directions > indicates a moral obligation to pay, doing so would violate your > directives and make one _not_ obligated to pay... :-) Obviously we should send Sandy $1000 whether or not we follow the other steps, in order to defeat traffic analysis. Jon Leonard

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No Subject
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Any idea on best remailer? alpha.c2.org is a roller coaster.

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Financial Relief
by que11331236＠compuserve.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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NOISE.SYS v0.5.5-Beta (DOS) available
by wlkngowl＠unix.asb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NOISE.SYS v0.5.5 should be up at ftp.funet.fi in the /pub/crypt/random/noise055.zip. NOISE.SYS is a /dev/random-type driver for DOS systems. Many changes in this version, including a larger output buffer, a newer (and better) API, nice installation messages, improved (?) entropy estimation method, and the possibility of sampling video retrace intervals (you'll have to rebuild the source with that option enabled though). This installation only has the barebones documentation for now. A newer release will eventually have some nice technotes and other goodies.

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San Diego Cypherpunks Physical Meeting
by Chris Claborne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

San Diego Area CPUNKS symposium Thursday, May 9, 1996 Invitation to all Cypherpunks to join the San Diego crowd at "The Mission Cafe & Coffee Shop" were I hope to get an update of Lance Cottrell's anonymous e-mail server, "mixmaster", exchange keys, and discuss other topical CP stuff. There's always the semi-topical discussions; Internet Service Provider in San Diego (providing, anonymous remailers and other privacy services), stelth communications, latest Cypherpunk goings-on, Internet happenings. Don't forget to bring your public key fingerprint. If you can figure out how to get it on the back of a business card, that would be cool. Place: The Mission Cafe & Coffee Shop 3795 Mission Bl in Mission Beach. 488-9060 Time:1800 Their Directions: 8 west to Mission Beach Ingram Exit Take west mission bay drive Go right on Mission Blvd. On the corner of San Jose and mission blvd. It is located between roller coaster and garnett. It's kind of 40s looking building... funky looking (their description, not mine) They serve stuff to eat, coffee stuff, and beer. See you there! New guy, bring your key fingerprint. Drop me a note if you plan to attend. 2 -- C -- ... __o .. -\<, Chris.Claborne(a)SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.Com ...(*)/(*). CI$: 76340.2422 http://bordeaux.sandiegoca.attgis.com/ PGP Pub Key fingerprint = A8 FA 55 92 23 20 72 69 52 AB 64 CC C7 D9 4F CA Avail on Pub Key server. Dreams. They're just screen savers for the brain.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Why Leahy is No Friend of Ours
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

** Reply to note from Stanton McCandlish <mech(a)eff.org> 05/04/96 5:03pm -0700 = To: tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) = Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 17:03:31 -0700 (PDT) = = Timothy C. May typed: = = > But no Congressman who co-sponsors such legislation as the "National = > Wiretap Initiative," with its "1% of the engineering capacity" requirements = > and other such Big Brother Surveillance State clauses, is a friend of ours. = = No legislator at all is our friend. The legislature is a gateway - we push = an issue thru it into the politico-legal system, and other groups push = their own issues back through the gateway at us. Whoever pushes more, and = times their pushing with when the gate is open, wins. = = This isn't about making chums. Leahy is a gatekeeper, like any other = legislator. We don't have to like him, just get him to open the gate for us, = and close it for our opponents. = _all_ politicians face reelection, all politicians must raise money --special interest groups control large blocks of money, or as Mark Twain put it: "Congress is the only natural criminal class in America." or Will Rogers: "Circus? Why would I want to go to the circus when Congress is in session?" the Federal government as a whole certainly is not the friend of the people --we have not had a free election since Lincoln in 1860, with the possible exception of JFK, whose only true claim to greatness was issuing Treasury notes in May '63 --which circulated only until he was assassinated. how many _truly_ "populist" presidents have we elected? Jackson, Lincoln, JFK? Despite the immense fortune (from Joe's questionable endeavors); the social connections, even if he was Irish-Catholic; and some "ideals" (not necessarily mutually mine), JFK was _not_ a product of the establishment, nor the "real" political machine until he "captured" it. I was a _paid_ "consultant" in the JFK '60 campaign, and again for Teddy in '62 --no amount of pain will acquire further discussion of political campaign ethics.... "mech" is correct, IMHO, in the gatekeeper analogy. Therefore, *personal* villification of our "enemies" is counterproductive to our efforts. unicorn stated: "Mind you, I never said Leahy was a giant in the movement for crypto and privacy interests, just that I was glad someone had a clue." is not our task to educate the Congress critter? Is it not better to deal with the critter if he, or his staff, is at least aware of the issues? again, unicorn further stated v/v Leahy: "His staff are some of the most astute people on the hill technologically. That their view might tend to the statist side disturbs me, but I wasn't talking about their politics. On the hill a competent and fairly reasonable enemy is much less a problem than an incompetent publicity seeker." generally speaking, communication is _not_ facilitated by punching your intended correspondent in the nose. extremist demands are dismissed as such. maybe I might prefer to clean the house that greed and control built; but, practically, we either work within the system as erudite and rational "educators," or the class is ignored, if not labelled "dangerously subversive" --which means we will be first on the roundup.... however, all of the above ignores reality: the Federal Reserve Bank, a quasi-government agency with private owners, represents the power. JFK recognized the inherent impossibility of debt reduction when even your interest is borrowed. The Fed also represents the international big money pool, and the means of historical revisionism and the consolidation of power. the "ruling class" underestimated the explosion of the Net, just like China underestimated the fax. Now the ruling class is playing catch up, and attempting to sandbag the Net --they probably will not succeed as the Net will go underground around the world --technology is moving faster than regulations. they may kill mainstream information privacy, but the innovation of the underground will outpace their regulations. Secondly, regulations which are despised are ignored and confronted --sure, a few high profile cases will go forward for intimidation --was PKZ granted "Constitutional due process?" --or should I phrase that: "...any due process?" unless we are willing to patiently and persistently educate the governing class, no matter how "ignorant" they may appear from our perspective of inalienable rights, the "enlightened" position is dismissed as revolutionary excess, and labelled subversive to the US government. --and, not only must we educate the governing class, but we must educate the people, and the people's media to prevent the governed from surrendering their inalienable rights for a little security. "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Ben Franklin (Historical Review of PA -1759) and, the bottom line is: "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." --Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Judge -- Overseeing first-rate programmers is a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. cc: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> Black Unicorn <unicorn(a)schloss.li> Cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>

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