December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

What is the Constitution?
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government. - Ayn Rand ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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[WAREZ] Mr. Hankey claims squatter's rights
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* The show business newspaper Daily Variety reported in December that John Kricfalusi, creator TV's "The Ren & Stimpy Show," was threatening legal action against the producers of the Comedy Central show "South Park" for ripping off a cartoon character. According to Kricfalusi, his character "Nutty the Friendly Dump," an animated piece of excrement, must have been the basis for "South Park"'s "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo," a holiday-dressed, singing, dancing piece of excrement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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D.C.'s Sister City?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* According to a report in the Washington Post in November, armed robbers in the large Nigerian trading city of Onitsha are so bold, and the police so outmanned, that they often notify the victims in advance that they will be coming to rob them, to encourage the residents to be away from the house at the time. A few days after the police announced a crackdown, one gang of 50 armed robbers cordoned off a street and looted every apartment building on the block. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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The Revolution is NOW! (Think about it, Gertrude...over a Stein of beer, perhaps?)
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* What Goes Around, Comes Around: Since taking control of most of Afghanistan in September 1996, the religious Taliban army has enforced strict, conservative Islamic rule, especially regarding the work, recreation, and dress of women. Now, according to a report in the London Daily Telegraph in November, a splinter Muslim group about 200 miles north of Kabul has begun to train a women-only battalion to fight the Taliban. Females from the Hazaras, a Turkic Mongol ethnic group, have been training at a secret location and will soon begin a major recruiting campaign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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The Filth Dogman of the Surveillance Apocalypse
by Wilhelm Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* In August, two cities debated plans to reduce the amount of dog poop in municipal parks and on sidewalks. The city of Christchurch, New Zealand, was contemplating installing a series of anonymous "poopcams" around town to catch dog owners who neglect their scooping duty. And Tel Aviv, Israel, announced that squads of plainclothes police officers armed with cameras and night-vision equipment were on duty around the clock photographing violators of its ordinance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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CypherPunks -- The Early Years
by Eric Hughes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* William Garland, the father of the late rap singer Tupac Shakur, fighting for part of Shakur's multi-million-dollar estate in Los Angeles in August, despite his having had no contact with his son after age five, pointed out at a hearing how he was a good father. For example, he said he would often tuck in little Tupac, a bed- wetter, with another Garland son, also a bed-wetter: "They could pee with each other." ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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I want 5-1/2 inches, and I want to bleed...
by Carol Anne CypherPunk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* Robert Kong, 13, was arrested and charged with manufacturing a destructive device, namely a 5-1/2-inch pipe bomb that he had made, gift-wrapped, and presented to a female classmate in Corvallis, Ore., for her birthday. He said he followed the instructions he had seen on an Internet site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEIRDNUZ.520 (News of the Weird, January 23, 1998) by Chuck Shepherd NEWS OF THE WEIRD, founded in 1988, is a nationally syndicated newspaper column distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. To receive the columns by e-mail, free of charge, send a message to notw-request(a)nine.org with the Subject line of Subscribe. To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)

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Re: [LEGAL] Crypto as Contraband?
by orowley＠imaginemedia.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dave Emery wrote: > To amplify my point a bit, it is widely reported that Bill Gates > (who is alleged to have started out in business by pirating and selling > DEC software as a high school student) has a particularly keen desire to > control the widespread piracy of MS products. His aggressive pushes to > assert his property rights are well known (and not atypical of reformed > sinners if the probably apocryphal report is true). some clues: clue 1) http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_106_6.html#SECTION00106600000… clue 2) http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_106_7.html bonus mega clue) http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_106_1.html#SECTION00106100000… HELL Check out the whole Program. http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_106.html LUX ./. owen

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U.S. NATIONAL INFORMATION EMERGENCY DECLARED (Future View) (fwd)
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

____________________________________ U.S. NATIONAL INFORMATION EMERGENCY DECLARED (Future View) Hamilton, Bermuda -- Radio Free America at 2000 UTC -- (February 24, 1999) - FBI director Louis Freeh, Jr. today announced a nationwide crackdown on Internet abusers as President Clinton invoked new authorities granted him under the Information Infrastructure Defense Act (IIDA) of 1998. White House Press Secretary Monica Lewinsky said the President declared a national information emergency at 9:23 last night. The emergency automatically lasts for 100 days. The President may then seek an extension after consulting with three members of Congress. The FBI's Indication and Warning Threat Center in Newington, Virginia first reported an 850 percent increase in illegal Internet access attempts last Thursday, prompting Mr. Freeh to ask for the presidential emergency declaration. Among the sites hacked were the White House's Automated Oval Office Visit Scheduling System; the Democratic National Committee's Insta-Donation System; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Tennessee Summer Picnic Reservation System; the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team's Seventh Day Adventist Watch Network (also known as "Deep Six the Sevens Net"); the Electronic Pearl Harbor Visitors' Center; the Arkansas Attorney General's Cases-Disposed -Without-Further- Investigation System; the Embassy of China's "Rent-a-Prez" system; and the Indonesian Embassy's Rupiah-to-Dollar Laundromat Net. The nationwide sting of Internet intruders began at noon yesterday when the New York field office of the Secret Service arrested 25 members of the Brooklyn Cyberspace Liberation Front at their regularly scheduled Tuesday meeting at a Bayside Cyber Café. Secret Service spokesman Biff "Buck" Arew said, "it took us a while to figure out when they were going to be in one spot, but after we employed our best investigative techniques, we had them right where we wanted them. The arresting part was easy." The Secret Service is a designated information infrastructure law enforcement agency under the 1998 legislation. It was joined by elements of the FBI, the U.S. Marshals' Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Postal Inspection Service, the Park Service, the Border Patrol, the Enforcement Division of the Federal Communications Commission, as well as New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in the coast-to-coast operation. Meanwhile, special FAA security officers on loan from Microsoft were busy at the nation's airports searching the notebook and palmtop computers of air travelers for illegal software programs. At the Pentagon, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "the military now reserves the right to move forward on the information super highway." He said he considers the Internet similar to the nation's interstate highway system. "When you have a bunch of stalled cars from a high-altitude combination electromagnetic and gamma-ray burst littering all the passing lanes and on- ramps, our armored vehicles just need to push them aside and move on." The general, who escaped a recent international war crimes indictment resulting from his peacekeeping duties in Angola, did not elaborate on the meaning of his comment. Other mass arrests of hackers were made in Chicago; New Orleans; Sunnyvale, California; Tampa; Atlanta, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; and St. Louis. Some of the arrested individuals are noted opponents of the government's policies to control the flow of information on the Internet. Internet users report that some controversial web sites are no longer accessible, although the FBI refused to confirm whether their operators were among those arrested. The inaccessible sites include those of the Libertarian Alliance, USA; Cascadia Green Party; Outer Banks Secessionist Party; Ashcroft for President 2000; Supreme Court, Free Crypto Home Page; First Amendment Enforcement Coalition; United We Stand (Marxist-Leninist); SPAM Prohibition League; Virtual Zapatista, and the Arizona Naturist Home Page. Federal officials stated that the number of arrests totaled more than 900. Critics of the government action claim the number is much higher. An Amnesty International spokesperson in Teheran said she thinks the number may be well over 15,000 but that it was "difficult to get news from America under the present circumstances." The National Security Agency's National Information Warfare Center in Fort Meade, Maryland, reported that the identities of several overseas hackers had been passed to their respective governments for possible prosecution under U.S. law under the mutual law enforcement and extradition provisions of the IIDA. Scotland Yard said it had arrested 17 intruders in the greater London area while Europol was preparing to make several arrests in France, Italy, and Austria. At a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in London, Prime Minister Tony Blair, upon leaving a cabinet meeting, said he was in close communication with President Clinton during "this extraordinary emergency" and that "he fully understood what the Americans were ordering him to do." The government of Burma summarily executed 153 members of the Rangoon Computer Club. In Ottawa, the RCMP said the FBI's Canada Law Enforcement Extension Task Force was investigating several groups in Montreal, Halifax, and Vancouver and expected to make a large number of arrests "soon." The RCMP official admitted that, "because we do not normally get involved in FBI matters on Canadian soil, I cannot give you precise details about the operation." If convicted, the arrested hackers face a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and/or a $200,000 fine. Freeh said that he anticipated further arrests would be made as federal investigators sifted through more communications records, America On Line profiles, and escrowed encryption keys. The stored keys are used by federal agents to read scrambled e-mail messages sent by hackers and the 12 independent special counsels investigating the administration. Vice President Gore issued a statement in which he said, "I praise the valiant efforts of our federal investigators in isolating and terminating the disruptive actions of individuals and groups who were bent on interfering with our precious national information thoroughfares." Gore said he hoped the government's action would "send a clear signal to others who believe that such activities will go unpunished. The government has a controlling legal authority to address these threats." Gore, an announced candidate for president in 2000, said one of his first acts would be to create a Secretary of Information cabinet post that would regulate the use of electronic information throughout the country. "Just as we created a Department of Defense in 1947 to confront the nuclear threat, we must have a Department of Information in 2001 to face the millennial cyber threat," Gore declared.

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Statsi, sayanim, spiking crypto
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 3/9/98 6:17 PM merata(a)pearl.sums.ac.ir lawya(a)lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk sjmz(a)hplb.hpl.hp.com Guys I just read a printed copy I made of Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html starting at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ fairly carefully. I seized upon Madsens statements, 1 the random encryption key could be automatically and clandestinely transmitted with the enciphered message. 2 they may also have been tipped off by Stasi files of the ex-East German regime that found their way to Iran Try MfS agents who went to work for Iran after the Cold War. Then there was the postcard from Tel Aviv I received at Sandia labs which followed-up a yellow piece of paper sent by snail mail asking numbered detailed question about work I was doing at Sandia. I responded back to the postcard, by postcard of course, Know any sayanim? No response. It doesn't take at rocket scientist to figure that one out. Lets all hope for settlement of this unfortunate matter so that we can all move on to more constructive projects. Best bill

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