December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Wassenaar Arrangement and "sensitive dual-use items"
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>In my far memory, it was about 50-70 pages. It seems to >be a digest or a boneless version. There are two separate documents here which people are getting confused. The first is the text of the Wassenaar arrangement, which is quite short and (as described by one person who's seen it) "consists of a lot of weasel words". The second is the one which sets down what is controlled. This is rather lengthy, around 100 pages. The EAR changes which were made in the US contains some of the text of this document, which predates Wassenaar and is just the older COCOM text under a new title. The COCOM text originates from the US, and some of the countries still have versions with US spellings even though the countries use proper :-) Englishm which indicates its origins. Peter.

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Failed mail
by NTMail 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Threat Model: Biowar
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> writes: > Anonymous wrote: > > Highly contagious airborne diseases are known to exist. Germ warfare > > laboratories are also known to exist. The owners of these labs will > > do anything to get and keep power. > > The Internet and crypto-anarchy threatens those who currently have > > power. How will they respond? > > One response would be a biowarfare attack on the civilian population. > > [snip] > > Biowar attacks (unless giant-scale, intended to kill millions) > mainly affect the already-sick, very old, and very weak members > of the population. This is, of course, a favored plan for fascist > persons such as the woman who founded Planned Parenthood, George > Bush, the Harrimans, Shockley, etc., but nearly useless to target > dissidents and "crypto anarchists". If medicare or social security get too expensive, an epidemic targeting the elderly would be good for the economy. I did a little work with (biological) viruses under the late Lou Auslander and the technology available 12 years ago was pretty amazing. I'm sure they can do more now. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Arrested for handing out leaflets about the 1st Amendment (fwd)
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ARTISTpres(a)aol.com I Was Arrested For Handing Out a Leaflet about the First Amendment by Robert Lederman On March 10th and 11th, 1997 eight members of A.R.T.I.S.T. and I drove to Washington, D.C. from New York to hand out leaflets about a Supreme Court case in which we are plaintiffs. Our case involves the right of artists to sell paintings, sculptures and other works of fine art on the street without a license, based on freedom of speech. We'd each been arrested numerous times for selling our art and had recently won a favorable decision in the 2nd circuit Federal Appeals Court. Now New York City was appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Legal briefs filed by the City claim that art does not express ideas and is unworthy of full First Amendment protection. On the 10th and 11th, thousands of museum directors, arts attorneys, curators and heads of cultural institutions were in Washington for Arts Advocacy Day. It was an opportunity to reach influential people who'd be directly affected by the outcome of our case. We planned to quietly stand on the public sidewalk outside Art Advocacy Day events and give out leaflets describing the Supreme Court appeal and the issue of artists' First Amendment rights. Everywhere we went in D.C. the police said we needed a permit to hand out even one leaflet and threatened us with arrest. They also claimed that even if we had a permit we would not be able to hand out literature in front of the event locations because they were Federal property. After explaining what we were doing and the subject of the leaflet, we continued to give out our literature while the police threatened us with arrest and conferred with supervisors and city attorneys about handling the situation. Our literature distribution efforts were successful. By the end of the two days we'd managed to contact most of the Art Advocacy Day participants in D.C. We decided to make one final stop in front of the U.S. Capitol to create a few paintings as a visual statement about free expression. Many of the art advocates were inside the Capitol building meeting with members of Congress. While the other artists painted I stood on the public sidewalk in front of the Capitol with a handful of literature. Everywhere around me were tourists and elected officials posing with lobbyists from various corporations and special interests. Before handing out a single leaflet I was approached by a sergeant from the Capitol Hill Police who explained that giving out literature was forbidden, but that I could apply for a permit which, if granted, would give me the right to demonstrate about 300 feet from the building in an isolated area. I explained to the officer that I'd be leaving D.C. in an hour, that I was not demonstrating, and that the First Amendment protected my right to quietly hand out a leaflet on a public sidewalk without a permit. He agreed that it probably did but informed me that I'd be arrested if I continued. In New York City I've been arrested 13 times for selling my paintings on the street, for making a speech, for protesting and for distributing literature about artists' rights. Although generally cooperative with the police and willing to comply with reasonable demands, I draw the line at being told I can't give away free literature on a public sidewalk. I explained my position to the officer and to the various Metro D.C., Federal undercover and Capitol Hill Police that eventually gathered around me. Meanwhile, members of Congress and well dressed lobbyists continued to exchange business cards, pose for photos and discuss issues on the same sidewalk where I stood with the police. A warning was issued that if I handed out one more leaflet I'd be arrested. A man wearing an Arts Advocacy pin walked by and asked what I was giving out. I explained that I couldn't give him a leaflet without being arrested but that he could take one from the pile in my hand. When he did I was handcuffed and led to a waiting police car. Above, a uniformed man with a machine gun watched from the roof. I was transported and booked into two separate police stations, repeatedly searched and charged with demonstrating without a permit. Federal intelligence officers interviewed me to determine if I was a terrorist. They asked questions about my political agenda, studied my leaflets and eventually agreed that what I did was probably protected by the First Amendment. I'll be standing trial in D.C. Superior Court on June 9th and face a $350 dollar fine and 90 days in jail. All of my property was returned except the leaflets, which are being held as evidence of my crime. After posting bail I was released and returned to the Capitol building grounds to tell reporters there what had occurred. "Oh well, there's nothing we can do", one said. "We're constantly being threatened with arrest here ourselves". I'll be going back to D.C. in June to stand trial. Meanwhile I'm looking for an attorney and writing a new leaflet about free speech and freedom of the press to give out at the Capitol. For information on the street artist Federal lawsuit or A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) visit the A.R.T.I.S.T. web page at: http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html or contact Robert Lederman, artistpres(a)aol.com (718) 369-2111 or (212) 334-4327 Press kits, photos of this and other arrests are available. -- <HTML><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~mech"> Stanton McCandlish </A><HR><A HREF="mailto:mech@eff.org"> mech(a)eff.org </A><P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org"> Electronic Frontier Foundation </A><P> Program Director </HTML>

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Registration System Upgrade
by Disney Online 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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An interesting spam item on applications of anonymity
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by darthvdr＠fascination.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

l3T m3 0n +h3 l12+!! The time to think about the world is now! I am by far not even close to an environmentalist. In fact I hate those types but they do have one point . . . pollution! Pollution in corporate America is what kill more men than AIDS. You have to slow this. You are the outraged youth and YOU are the Future! Get your head out of your ass and learn all you can. We cannot fight the genocide that is happening in our world if we cannot prove it is going on. Search and you will find these evils. The information generation is here, without it all of man kind could die by the year 2050. I may not be here to suffer the agonizing death that awaits but guess what . . . you will. We can only save this world by connecting and spreading the word. Corporations are prepared to exterminate us all and retire to their own little world. They fed us all with lies about how they are concerned but in reality they are planning for it. They are stashing food and supplies all over the world for their own version of doomsday. The big businesses will build an empire of technology around you and slowly kill you. They will have the world to them selves at no means. With you dieing in the streets of a toxic overload they will sit back in their hideaways enjoying the rest of their lives! You can stop them and only you. Expose their secrets. Find the proof we need to wipe them out for good! Or you all will die in their dream world! What I am shooting to you in so many words is that the world needs hackers to find out what is going on behind our backs. I am saying that the masses need to know what the rich ass holes in their little dream world want to do with us. How would you like to wake up one morning and everyone in the world is dead? This is what hackers need to stop. We the people of the world need to stop all of this shit! Technology is a force witch the United States Totalitarian government must deal with. Everyone exposes the truths they hide from the people who live here! No longer can a police officer kill a man in cold blood and pretend that it never happened. The age of computers and mass media expose the hard core facts of the governments' brutal murders and deadly tempers. So what has happened to this world which they control us and beat us into their beliefs? The truth is that we have discovered "Big Brothers" little tricks! We are the truth of tomorrow! We see what the fascists of American government do when they plan to kill those who appose them. People like you and me tell those who will expose these truths to the citizens of our country. We serve our prison time for exposing these truths but hell. There is not even as many of them to kill us all as we are the world. Please understand that there is much in this world you do not yet know, the murders that have happened and the killing that will come. The time to think about this is now! You are sitting at a cross roads of life with the age of world freedom at your finger tips. What are you going to do about it? Learn about the world around you! Peep into their private little lives! I am not afraid of them, they must frame me for any thing they could ever arrest me for! They are stupid that way, but you can take the knowledge that you see and stop the killing! You can support the abolishment of the forming of the New World Order! Simply use your knowledge to see what is up! Expose this information to whoever can use it. Let everyone in the world know what is going on. People in our government hate us. Have you ever asked your self why? I will tell you why our government hates you. The truth is that you are young and smarter at twenty and twenty-one then they will ever be. You know information that they were hidden from. Are you tired of being called the problem with the world? Clinton calls us the problem, The Republicans all call us the problem, Dole called us "the only problem" WHY? We are smarter then them! That is all they are complaining about! I mean they are afraid of us all. They increase the fear of technology every day by printing evil headlines about "invasion of privacy" and thefts! These stories are mostly fiction! The real hackers do not care about the private sector . . . well they do but not to "steal" from them. The truth in it all is that anarchist computer users are only interested in information. Public people do not have this information and there for are not in danger! That is what we all need to explain to everyone. That is what all of the world should know. So why do people fear us? It is big business that is afraid. They have secrets that the people of the world CANNOT know! They are evil in so many ways it makes people sick. We expose these secrets! That is why they fear us! The corporations of the world do not want people to be free. They want you all to be stupid and to live in fear. They distort the truth of reality. Big businesses are trying to rule the world and fear us of exposing that! They create propaganda against us, and lie about us to the public. They have us arrested and thrown in jail for exposing their secrets to the world. However, together we can all stop them! To organize and inform these evils. To break down these lies and start a world of passing truths! You have never seen the world behind what these corporations show you. Do you want to? The truth is that this is the ugliest world in any ones' mind. All you have to do is look for it. When you see the ugliness then you must show it around. Give a glimpse of this evil to everyone in the world. Collapse what is wrong and there will be the entire earth to thank you for their lives.

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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