December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by srf＠venus.gmds.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: NBC Mugs Jim Bell
by John Kelsey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ To: cypherpunks ## Date: 11/21/97 ## Subject: Re: NBC Mugs Jim Bell ] >Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:34:33 -0500 >From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> >Subject: NBC Mugs Jim Bell >An NBC News story this evening on the threat of CB terrorism >full-screened a closeup of Jim Bell's mug shot, the same as >the lead photo in US News last week. The story presented >much the same line and Internet sources of frightening >information but did not balance it with a sidebar on >burgeoning anti-terrorist opportunism as did US News. I guess the good news is, we've finally figured out why they've been holding him so long before sentencing--to make sure he doesn't miss any of his scheduled media events. Or perhaps, given the nature of the coverage, to make sure he *does* miss them all. We need a good posterboy for one of the Four Horsemen, to ensure the passage of next year's Guaranteeing Freedom through Imposition of a Benevolent Police State Act of 1999, and the following year's appointment of first lady Tipper Gore as Internet Czar. --John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, kelsey(a)counterpane.com PGP 2.6 fingerprint = 4FE2 F421 100F BB0A 03D1 FE06 A435 7E36 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNHYfO0Hx57Ag8goBAQFQgAQA6blKyFsP+k79lTdq5NWJXV5HQGk6l2LR cl4xQGZuYsDcZNOlWnAVsxvS7dVN+lU6wAgYJkUhsuNvOSFnC9Op32scmrPg8pQ+ XTS5EsdaGMi1o+AefVnnoOvcLZxOoprkk1bIk6/gbD9fjGvS8zapgtvL22oXmQJt a2C0GvDa2/w= =Vmm6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, kelsey(a)counterpane.com PGP 2.6 fingerprint = 4FE2 F421 100F BB0A 03D1 FE06 A435 7E36

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News of Jim Bell
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous forwarded three local news stories about Jim's sentencing: http://jya.com/jimbell6.htm An excerpt: In a hearing in U.S. District Court in Tacoma this morning, Bell 's public defender and an assistant U.S. Attorney recommended a 6-to-12-month jail sentence for Bell as part of a plea-bargain agreement. But federal probation officers recommended a sentence of 27 months. In doing so, they said they were looking at the "totality" of Bell's behavior, including the threatening nature of his Internet essay, "Assassination Politics." As a result, U.S. District Court Judge Franklin D. Burgess said he was uncomfortable with the situation. "Somehow I am getting a feeling that somebody knows more about something than I do," Burgess said. Also reported: Jim had encrypted some of his files. And though "Bell plead guilty to relatively innocuous charges" IRS investigators compared him to The Unabomber and Tim McVeigh, and claimed he was "part of a far darker scheme to assassinate IRS agents and topple the U.S. government."

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Re: Iraq and computers
by Brandon Crosby 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Monkey Catskin wrote: > > Michael Wilson wrote that Reuters wrote: > > >Quoting U.S. officials and U.N. diplomats, the newspaper said that > > >Iraqi scientists and defense officials are using Western-made > > >computers to transfer data from bulky papers to small disks that can > > >be easily dispersed, making the information difficult for inspectors > > >to track. > > This is an interesting development because it also makes it hard for > > the Iraqi government to track what is going on, too. The government > > of Iraq has been aware of the dangers of computers for many years. At > > one time they were tightly controlled. Even typewriters were > > controlled. The government had writing samples of each one. > > Now, apparently, this policy is loosening. This suggests that U.S. > > policy of the last 8 years has managed to achieve what Saddam Hussein > > could not - it has made the Hussein regime a genuinely popular > > government. I wonder... does Iraq have a web site? While third world contries seldom have computer specialists, it seemed pretty easy for Iraq to get biological weapon specialists working for them. [Other more sensible arguments exist...] Iraq has more money than they can reasonably spend, but management troubles. Solution: IntraIraq, the network with Sadam ads. While burning papers has some flare to it, it's pretty likely that most of the classified data not in Sadam's head must be in some computer system[s], easily housed by the UN no-no sites for inspectors. Also, can Iraq's people create [and display] web pages? -Brandon Crosby

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Re: BIOS Help
by Brandon Crosby 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Hi Brandon, > > > Does anyone know where specs for Award BIOS chips are? I accidentily > > locked mine and lost the password. > Contact Award directly. If you have the data off the tag on the BIOS chip as > well as the version data on boot you should be able to get a technical > manual for the particular BIOS your computer uses. Note however that these > manuals are generaly not cheap, sometimes costing a couple hundred dollars. > The reason for the price is that it describes the BIOS to such a deep > extent. > > Review your motherboard, there is usualy a jumper that allows the BIOS > to be reset. The process usualy goes like: > > - turn computer off > - locate jumper and short with a shorting-block > - turn computer on then off > - remove the shorting-block > - the BIOS should be reset > > Don't know if Award has a webpage but you might try www.award.com or one > of the search engines. > Thanks for your help [and, to someone else for the default password]. OK, not much of a thankyou, I guess... [The default passwd worked] What is a 'Magic Password'? -Brandon Crosby

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Dear subscribers
by Michael Sims 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear subscribers to the Cypherpunks list -- Mikhael Frieden, mikhaelf(a)mindspring.com, is an alias for Matt Giwer, a name I hope many of you will recognize. On the F-C list, he is now the origin of perhaps 25% of the traffic, as much as 50% some days, most of which are standard, clueless, trolling, or lying responses which are designed to suck people into endless replies like those on what the Anonymizer does or does not do. William Geiger writes, "Absolutly, I can't beleive that Mikhael is *that* clueless." Well, yes. When you're trying to troll, you are that clueless. We here on the F-C list are hoping to sort of ignore him and hope he'll go away -- all I see of him are the number of messages hitting my to-be-deleted folder and the endless replies cross-posted from cypherpunks. See: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/g/giwer-matt/net-abuse/ http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/g/giwer-matt/ Giwer will even accuse *himself* of lying. Please do the people on F-C a favor by not cross-posting any replies that are off-topic for F-C, and hell, while I'm at it, by not replying to Giwer at all for any reason. If you're not careful he'll join cypherpunks. -- Michael Sims [I'm not on cypherpunks - reply by direct email only, please]

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RFC on Infrastructure Aliens
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

BXA issued today an RFC for the recent PCCIP report on threats to the nation's infrastructure. It provides a handy summary of the report's findings and proposals for policy, technology, law and arms-waving of insider gov, com and edu to protect their children against outside techno-bugabears: http://jya.com/bxa-pccip-rfc.htm (14K)

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Re: Further costs of war (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> [ok, there we go again... this will be my last post on the subject which > is way-off topic by now. If it wasn't for the reference to Vichy I > wouldn't answer on the list] There is no such thing as an off topic post on the new cypherpunks list, at least according to Tim May and Monty Cantsin. Whatever interests them is automatically on-topic.

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AAAS amicus brief in Bernstein case is on the Web; Citadel files too.
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The American Association for the Advancement of Science filed a rather good 62-page "brief" arguing that: I. The Regulations Violate the First Amendment II. The Regulations Violate Equal Protection Applied to the Federal Government Through the Fifth Amendment III. The Regulations Violate the Privileges and Immunities Clause as Applied to the Federal Government under the Fifth Amendment by Infringing the Right to Make Use of the Most Effective Commercially Available Means of Communication IV. The Regulations Violate the Constitutional Right of Privacy. Their arguments are novel, interesting, and generally well presented. See http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/Bernstein_v_DoS/Legal/971110_aaas.amicus In addition, the Citadel for Constitutional Government has filed a sixth amicus brief with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. We are still pursuing an online copy of that brief. John Gilmore Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Prevention of War
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tim May wrote: >At 1:43 PM -0700 11/23/97, Jim Choate wrote: >... >>Any particular methodology you might care to share on stopping WWII? >>Being an avid amateur historian concerning WWII I am very much >>interested in any insight you might have. It looks like some context was lost. My comments on preventing war were part of an ongoing discussion on the effect cypherpunkly tools may have on wars. So, the particular "methodology" I had in mind was that the development of extensive cross border relationships would make wars harder to prosecute. Imagine that in 1938 Germany that half the relationships people had happened to cross borders. This would mean that it would have been far easier for many people to simply flee Germany because they would have more couches to sleep on abroad, more people who would maybe lend money to make it possible, and more world wide sympathy for refugees. Also, imagine that assets were easily moved around the world and that the German government would have been unable to control this. This would have made it easier for refugees to simply move what assets they had out of the country. But, they would probably only commit a portion of their assets to German control, anyway, which would mean no movement would even be necessary. The net result of Nazi policies would have been large numbers of people fleeing and depriving Germany of their talents and relationships. I do not just mean Jewish people. Alex Le Heux mentioned that he felt sorry for the conscripts in the Germany army who were forced to invade other countries. The reason people are conscripted is because they would not otherwise volunteer. If it was a relatively simple matter to avoid military service, how many would fail to do so? (And remember that when half your friends do not have your nationality, appeals to patriotism are less powerful.) It is not clear that people in Germany who held substantial wealth were all that sympathetic to Hitler. Unfortunately, Hitler seemed to provide a way for them to protect their wealth from other worse people. Later, they had to cooperate with the German government in order to keep their wealth. (See, for instance, the extensive negotiations during the War to ensure that the oldest son of the Krupp family would, in fact, inherit the firm.) However, if the wealthy had their assets distributed through a number of countries, this problem would have been mitigated. The result of the policies of the German government would have been simply to alienate and expatriate the most useful elements of German society and deprive it of the ability to credibly wage war. However, leaving cypherpunk issues aside, it is possible that the necessity of World War II has been exaggerated. Tim May wrote: >Not entering the war. There's ample evidence that the U.S. provoked >the Japanese in various ways. The Japanese in 1941 were somewhat dependent on oil from the Phillipines. The last straw was when the U.S. embargoed this oil. That may have been good policy, but it provoked the War. Another little item which is usually given a strange spin is that Britain and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. Perhaps that was good policy, but it is important to remember who attacked whom. There is a lot to be said for delaying the start of a war because unexpected developments may later make a peace possible. >Had the U.S. concentrated on its own affairs, on just trade, it is >unlikely that what the Japanese were doing in Malaysia, Manchuria, >Korea, Indochina, and the Phillipines would have had any major >interest for us. > >As for Europe, this was even less our war than the Pacific war. > >In a sense, so _what_ if some army from some nation was rolling over >other armies? > >(The "evilness" of Hitler is not the issue, either. Else Stalin and >Mao would have been cause enough to go to war.) It's worth noting that Hitler's most evil activities didn't occur until the war really got going in a big way. This made it much harder for people to question or even know the policies their government was carrying out. ("What are you, a traitor?") Also, it is clear that the Allied governments had not entered the War for altruistic reasons. Few Jewish refugees were accepted during the 1930s even though they were clearly being mistreated and had every reason to flee Germany. Allied knowledge of the Holocaust was *suppressed* expressly to avoid popular support for admitting refugees! After the War the U.S. even smuggled large numbers of Nazis, including many war criminals, out of Germany and into South America. Any American who wanted to do the right thing for the human race during World War II would have been wise to stay out of the Army and spend time and effort just finding out what was going on. A relatively small number of people dedicated to exposing the Holocaust would have done more good for the world than many thousands of soldiers. Ironically, these people would probably have had to outwit both the American and German governments in finding the facts and publicizing them. >And certainly the monarchic alliances which led to the First World >War--a war fought over the Hapsburg Dynasty and assorted >intrigues==were completely absurd. The links between the two World Wars are strong. Had World War I been avoided - and it could have been - many of the issues I have discussed regarding World War II would not even have occurred. > As for the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem...not my war. This was not a pretext for the war because it hadn't occurred yet! The War itself made the Holocaust feasible. Countries rarely invade other countries for altruistic reasons, but they have be dressed up this way for popular consumption. >If the U.S. had not become "policeman to the world" in the early part >of this century... And let us note that this was not an elected position. The other countries (and people!) in the world did not get together and ask the U.S. government to play this role. Probably it's most accurate to describe this as a propaganda technique to get American popular support for policies designed to promote American hegemony. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHmrZpaWtjSmRH/5AQFi8Af+K3M4ldq4cfti/AZLliQVxPFdxfx9Oz4H vZwXUvMYPbUpux/O3hydfUaEjPgRcbHNpONNSDyYM6aot4pi17EkKFASbFRmj+5X A8ixUVHqWhaDMdA3Lv/3CZ5XGR+Seh/SDojd4ippXytClBNCYDkmXc9r4RHz+/Dh 5E7dU5BjFAiBESX6pxLFBWMeqULspsBdlp1RkzF8Cus5w3kd70xqP/xsIaW42cC4 1M31j4rOE3+T/fReoewGdJOMwxKGw57n9He7RXth60VSAy4U+EGFMd/Bixke1vv4 YOVToP9PE/UZp7KecGYcsk5w1miYBh1ypipPBvTeMx4SHeb2qtOYqQ== =gcJh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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