December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig suspended
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 2/3/98 9:45 PM, Ryan Anderson (ryan(a)michonline.com) passed this wisdom: >On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Tim May wrote: > >> >> (I've left out the PowerPC, as it appears now to be limited solely >> to the Macintosh market...even IBM and Motorola appear to have >> acknowledged its failure.) > >Unless I've missed some absolutely major announcement, IBM is >betting on the PowerPC in all their servers. Well, at least in >their RS/6000 and AS/400, which is pretty much their entire >high-end market. > >The PowerPC never had a serious entry into the desktop market >anywhere but the Macintosh to my >knowledge. ... and while Intel is not so quietly making noises about the soon to be available 333MHz Pentium IIs, Motorola quietly announced 400/433 MHz PPC chips two weeks earlier. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Fate favors the prepared mind." (from "Under Siege 3")

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Whoa: British SmartCard rollout
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: bill payne <billp(a)nmol.com> > To: webmaster(a)cylink.com > CC: federico pena <" Federico.F.Pena"@hq.doe.gov>, jy(a)jya.com, > john gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com>, j orlin grabbe <kalliste(a)aci.net>, > cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Jim Omura > <B>cn010598.txt Electronic Surveillance News January 5, 1998</B> 2 January 1998, Newsbytes: British Govt Announces Smart Card Plans for UK Citizens London, England: Amid the quiet of the Christmas and New Year break, the British government revealed plans for a "citizen's smart card" that will streamline the interfacing of British people with their government. In plain English, that translates to a smart card that can be used to allow people to pay all of their taxes, including income tax, national insurance, and local taxes, as well as apply for passports, state benefits, and other forms of government welfare. The idea behind the smart card, according to Peter Kilfoyle, the British public services minister, is that people will be able to use the card to identify themselves to the various government computers, all of which will be interlinked with each other. Kilfoyle claims that there are "huge potential savings" to be had from the introduction of the smart card, although he revealed that possessing a card will be voluntary. When questioned further on this, he admitted, however, that people could find it difficult to operate in the future without such a card. Initially, the citizen's smart card will rely on traditional PIN protection systems to allow a person to ID themselves alongside the card to the government computer systems. In the longer term, and certainly within the next five years, the plan is to allow an individual to use a fingerprint or similar biometric system for positive identification. ---- Fingerprinting everyone on the planet: those of you in CA and a handful of other states have already been fingerprinted "so you can drive". Police will eventually be able to stop anyone and demand to check their fingerprints via cheap small portable scanners. EFF/EPIC etc need to specifically target these biometric systems as being way over the top. Totally unnecessary. ---guy How did you CA cypherpunks feel about being fingerprinted?

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RSA? ElGamal?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is ElGamal secure than RSA ?

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Re: The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right of Anonymity"...)
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Black Unicorn wrote: > At 06:07 PM 2/2/98 +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote: > > I did-- tried to lay $14K out for a Mercedes (25 years ago). > > they wouldnt take it. so I went and picked up two $7K > > cashiers from two different banks. same thing with a pair > > of Lycoming IO540 aircraft engines: 2 8s and a 9 --stay > > under the $10K transaction. > > Careful. This may well be illegal now. > Structuring transactions to avoid > reporting requirements is a felony. > statute of limitations has run. at the time, I did not give it much thought except the aggravation of filing the paperwork for what was a common business transaction. It was actually easier to get cash in las vegas than a cashiers check as the banks were so pissy. the casinos were far better than the banks once you established out of town credit with them --and they were 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I wanted those aircraft engines bad --the vendor in Chicago had the only two available for close to six months and he had agreed to sell them to Canada but was waiting on the letter of credit --the casinos wired the money direct which turned the deal --the engines were on a return flight the next morning --a Saturday. transferring money from a casino is not the best place in the world for obvious reasons, despite its expediency. structuring transactions is certainly illegal now, but I have not seen that kind of money since retiring after having had a run of bad luck with my health a few years back (and lost my FAA medical cert). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNNgm3rR8UA6T6u61AQET5gH6An6jxz5lkdghl6BXbHZ3tFCGu7iam32F knFYLLWGSYngkRH6k4x7/zXA0SH7ghZ5b33gKlX98oWx7NKyOXLZuw== =5RqA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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PLEASE READ! YOULL BE GLAD YOU DID, MONEY MONEY
by jacket9＠primenet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Free Roger Clemens Lithograph
by pegasusgroup＠emailconcepts.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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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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