December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [MILCOM] NSA: struggling with diversity ...
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The National Security Agency, whose size, secrecy and mission were spawned by >the Cold War, is in the midst of personnel changes that current and former >employees warn are a threat to national security. > >Former employees call senior leadership the "Irish Mafia" and the Office of >Discrimination Complaints and Counseling "a party organization for blacks." A heartwarming report. The NSA represents the worst of America: its paranoia, its ruthlessness, its end-justifies- the-means amorality. The NSA's personnel policies reveal its attitudes clearly (http://theory.stanford.edu/people/donald/NSA.doc.html) It is ironic indeed that the NSA is being weakened, not by the foreign enemies it sees behind every curtain, but by the EEOC, as its immoral and callous mistreatment of employees, its jealous defense of white male privilege, are all finally revealed to be utterly inconsistent with modern principles. There is no place any longer in the world for an agency like the NSA. It is an enemy to freedom and an enemy to the free citizenry of its own country. We need a new agency, one to defend us against infowar, to help industrial competitiveness, to assist Americans in retaining their freedoms rather than attempting to strip them away for its own evil purposes. Let us all hope that the changing of the guard at the NSA will lead to a rebirth and a renewal as an agency looking forward, rather than one concerned only with guarding its own rear. Anon

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Copy of: Bonn Conference - press release and links to final conference documents on the WWW
by Theodor.SCHLICKMANN＠bxl.dg13.cec.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Self-certified keys
by Theodor.SCHLICKMANN＠bxl.dg13.cec.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You may find some articles related to the subject on http://www.ens.fr/~petersen/publications.html In these papers several extensions of self-certified keys, which make them more competitive compared with certificate-based keys are presented. The main features of self-certified keys lie in their easy availability and accessibility. Other parameters than system parameters are not required to be authentic. Therefore large databases with certified public keys (TTPs) are not needed any more. However, small lists with the authentic public keys of the certification authorities are still needed. The properties of self-certified keys are: -- Determination of a public key without an authentic public directory (TTP). -- Non-repudiation of public keys. -- Efficient verification of a single certificate. -- Efficiency in verification of hierarchical certificates vs. batch signatures -- Importance of key propagation. -- High security of self-certified keys. Theodor Schlickmann

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Bonn Konferenz (2)
by Theodor.SCHLICKMANN＠bxl.dg13.cec.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

please find attached the Bonn Conference press release . Please note that the following are also available on http://www2.echo.lu/bonn/conference.html English, French and German versions of the Ministerial declaration (WinWord, RTF, PostScript) Industrial declaration (WinWord, RTF, PostScript) Users Declaration "Putting people's needs at the centre" (WinWord, RTF, PostScript) Theodor Schlickmann

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The Vulisbot
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Re: Liberating the Bits Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM blathers: >Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: >> Let it be known I did not write any of the material above attributed to me. > >And we're supposed to believe you? Yup. Like we believe you when you deny the Vilusbot. get over it, Kook.

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Rose Bird vs Multi-Ethnic Diversity/IRS racial quotas
by winsock＠rigel.cyberpass.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wonder what the lefty-racists will say about this... Sunday, July 6, 1997 . Page B 8 San Francisco Examiner LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Rose Elizabeth Bird's ignorant and poorly reasoned column ( "A brutal education legacy," June 29) in which she identified the end of affirmative action at the University of California with apartheid is an example of why race-based policies have become so bankrupt among the citizens of California. Apartheid classified individuals strictly according to race and ignored their individual abilities. Blacks in South Africa could not go to white universities regardless of their intellectual accomplishments. Affirmative action classified individuals according to race and their individual accomplishments. The end of affirmative action means that individuals will be assessed in terms of their individual accomplishments. It is as far away from apartheid as a policy could possibly be. Moreover, the end of affirmative action will not result in ethnically homogeneous campuses at the University of California. The student population in this state is astonishingly diverse. There are large numbers of men and women whose forebears came from all over Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. What the end of affirmative action will do is to change the mix. There will be more individuals of Chinese, Japanese, Sri Lankan, Indian, Pakistani and Russian descent, and fewer individuals of African and Latin American descent. Bird might not like this new mix, but the astonishing ethnic diversity of California universities will not end as a result of the termination of affirmative action - only race-based discrimination will. Stephen D. Krasner Department of Political Science Stanford University Rose Bird's "disgraceful, social do-gooding, liberal attack' Anent Rose Elizabeth Bird's disgraceful - albeit typically social do-gooding liberal - attack upon Gov. Wilson and UC Regent Ward Connerly for taking us from "affirmative action to California-style apartheid" : The opinions, political philosophy and judicial activism of former California Chief Justice Bird were unequivocably repudiated by the voters of California when she and two other like-thinking liberal justices were deservedly removed from the court. Bird's words today - as were her pronouncements from the bench of yesteryear - would be laughable were they not so dangerous. Thomas M. Edwards San Francisco ==================================================== US NEWS & WORLD REPORT UPDATE July, 1997 The IRS loses a round SOON AFTER PRESIDENT CLINTON announced his "mend it, don't end it" policy on affirmative action, U.S. News reported ("Between the Idea and the Reality," July 31, 1995) on race-and-employment skirmishes within the federal bureaucracy. In one prominent example, critics accused the Internal Revenue Service of maintaining virtual quotas in its hiring practices. In the past two years, the IRS has lost several cases involving charges of "reverse discrimination" that were brought by white males. Two of the cases involved accusations by IRS employees who charged that the agency had retaliated against them for filing or supporting reverse-bias claims. Federal District Court Judge Donald E. Walter in Shreveport, La., recently declared the IRS's policy on racial and gender diversity unconstitutional, saying that it amounted to a "quota, guarantee, or set-aside." The judge issued his ruling in a suit brought by four white males that is set for trial next month. The case may be settled, but the IRS will be under pressure to overhaul its policy, which may be challenged in a class-action suit.--Ted Gest Copyright U.S. News & World Report, Inc.

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Re: A really meaningfull upgrade
by Casey Iverson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:18 PM 7/8/97 EDT, you wrote: > >Casey Iverson <iverson(a)usa.net> writes: > >> At 01:15 PM 7/7/97 EDT, THE RUSSIAN SCUM BAG, ASS HOLE VULIS wrote: >> >> >I've replaced OS/2 on it by Windows 95. I'm going to add some more hardware >> >I think it's sort of a change for the better. >> >> The only meaningfull upgrade would be a total replacement of his fucked up, >> disease ridden perverted brain. >> >> C.I. > >Not that I advocate such censorship, but usa.net is very fond of pulling the >plugs on its free accounts whenever there are complaints about contents. :-) > Who do we talk to about pulling the plug on the Russian Scumbag KGB lovers TC May insult bot???

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More on crypto from Bonn
by Donald Weightman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Another story in today's FINANCIAL TIMES http://www.FT.com describes a "clash" between USCommerce Sec'y Daley and German economic minister Rexrodt on strong crypto. Because the speakers' choices of words are interesting, I quote from the FT article by Ralph Atkins: On coding technology, however, Mr Daley insisted, "there are certain legitimate areas where governments have to be involved". Encryption should be used to protect credit card numbers or detailed contracts from being read. But, he went on: "We must also make sure national security is safeguarded by applying those rules sensibly, so that potential terrorists or other sophisticated criminals cannot hide their work." Mr Rexrodt hinted the European ministers regarded US policy on exporting encryption technology as discriminatory. He backed "strong" encryption procedures, which he said were "offering users the only protection that they have, the only certainty, that their data is not going to be divulged or misused on open networks". Mr Rexrodt was backed by Mr Ron Sommer, chairman of Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest telecommunications group, who said: "Anyone who uses the point of public security as an argument in this [encryption] issue has not realised or acknowledged that any such legal requirements stand in the way of the further spread of electronic commerce." Questions for the reader: What's a "potential" terrorist? (Is the occasional apparent c'punx paranoia justified?) How is the US export policy discriminatory? Why is DT coming out on this issue? Who are their strategic partners for ecommerce among US telecomms? (I'll have to ask around about that ...) cheers ......................................... Donald Weightman dweightman(a)radix.net

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More PGP volunteers needed
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Folks, The proofreading of the legally exported PGP source is going pretty slow. Platform independent source is only 68% done, Windows and Macintosh 6 and 2% respectively. http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ It would speed things up if more non-US citizens living outside the US willing to proofread source were to contact Stale Schumacher at <stale(a)hypnotech.com> to volunteer some time. You can wait for the source to show up on your favorite ftp site, or you can make it happen. Your choice. You would need a basic C compiler and perl to join the "Free the Source" effort. A scanner is *not* needed. --Lucky, who by law can not participate in the proofreading. --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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No Subject
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.sacog.org/web/text/datactr/facts/octff.htm: Facts and Figures Migration for July 1995 to June 1996 October 1996 The Department of Motor Vehicles publishes an annual report of migration based on Driver License and California ID card holders change of address. Data is presented for individuals 18 and over. The data collected is through voluntary cooperation between the states. The California DMV, based on historical data, believes that data from Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, and North Carolina may be under reported.

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