December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

emailed prez. death threat conviction
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://biz.yahoo.com/upi/98/03/11/general_news/usclinton_2.html Wednesday March 11 5:39 AM EST Teen convicted of Clinton e-mail threats MIDLAND, Mich., March 11 (UPI) _ A 17-year-old high school honors student faces jail after being convicted of sending e-mail death threats to President Clinton. Heidi Sullivan of Midland, Mich., was sentenced Tuesday to eight days in jail and two years probation for sending threats to the White House in January from a computer at Midland High School. Midland County Probation Officer Tom Adams says Sullivan could have received 20 years for threatening the president, but probably got the reduced sentence because of her family's history. [...] ..................... In other news President Might Go Under Knife WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sorry, Bill, it's for your own good. After consulting with his proctologist -- and hearing an appeal in favor of neutering from actress Doris Day -- First Lady Hillary Clinton has decided on the procedure for the President. But the reluctant First Lady reserved the right to change her mind. In announcing Hillary's decision Tuesday, White House spokesman Barry Toiv said Mrs. Clinton was ``inclined'' to allow the procedure. The National Organization of Women, the nation's largest women's rights group, applauded the First Lady's decision, saying she was doing the right thing. ``Neutering or spaying politicians is one of the most important acts a responsible society can take,'' said Martha Armstrong, a society vice president. ``It promotes better physical and behavioral health, and it helps to address the ubiquitous sexual misconduct crises.'' Hillary set no immediate date for putting her husband under the knife, leaving some to wonder whether the 50 year old former Arkansas governor has been told of his fate. ``Bill's a little too young to understand,'' Toiv said. Indeed, the President seemed blissfully unaware of any pending surgery as he played fetch with Buddy, the first dog, on the South Lawn with a green tennis ball Tuesday. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said today the procedure was ``not likely anytime soon given the dispositions and pending indictments.'' Toiv said Mrs. Clinton's decision was driven by concerns for her husband's health. She denied that it was motivated by the encounters Bill has had with Socks the family cat and various White House staff and interns. Dr. Jacqueline Suarez, a proctologist with the Alexandria (Va.) Army Hospital, said neutering can help curb politicians' aggression toward other politicians and tendency to fornicate in unwelcome places. ``Although, if we have people questioning if they should or shouldn't, those health reasons are good reasons to neuter as well, so we'll use them as part of the case for neutering,'' Suarez said. Miss Day, president of the Doris Day Humanitarian League, sent Clinton a letter in December expressing concern that the nation would suffer if he were left intact. Among them was a risk of impeachment in addition to testicular cancer and prostate infections that could lead to problems with urination. In January, McCurry said there were no plans to neuter the President, who had moved into the White House in 1993. However, Clinton physician Connie Mariano has now told Miss Day in a letter that Mrs. Clinton had decided to neuter the president on the advice of White House advisor James Carville. Armstrong said that politicians need not worry about losing their procreative abilities. ``Politicians don't have a real concept of identity or ego. Its all drive for power. Neutering a politician or justice department official will not change his basic personality,'' she said. ``They don't suffer any kind of emotional reaction or identity crisis when neutered.'' Got that, Mr. President? original at http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpwh1z.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Beat your algorithms into swords and your virtual machines into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

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Re: BATFC -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Cryptography
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 3/11/98 2:39 PM, Toto (toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca) passed this wisdom: >Brian B. Riley wrote: >> >> On 3/10/98 10:45 PM, John Young (jya(a)pipeline.com) passed this wisdom: >> >Swear to god this is the last time I'll try to ape well-mannered civil >> >discourse. You got the con: It's too sicko wacko. Back to incoherent >> >snarl of ignorant brutes chewing leg off for freedom. >> >> ROFLAAMAIBGFOT37thFOAOBDTADW: rollin on floor laffing almost as >> much as if Bill Gates fell out the 37th floor of an office building due >> to a defective window. > >Hey, asshole! >Thanks for telling *everyone* about our plan... >Now I have to contact Blanc Weber and Jeff Sandquist and tell >them we have to come up with a new scheme. >And *this* time, we're not telling *you* about it! > >Otot >~~~~ I guess I now can consider myself a part of the list. I am have officially and publically been called an asshole by Toto ... the waitng has been killing me!

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Re: BATFC -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Cryptography
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 10:31:09AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > > The Cato institute has done studies on comparative > remuneration which shows approximately double the salaries, > accompanied by vastly more security and power. > > At the bottom end, bus drivers and prison guards, this is > strikingly obvious. A muni bus driver makes about as much as > senior engineer in Silicon valley. > At the risk of an irrelevant and stupid digression from the topic of the threat, Is this really true ? The technical people I know who work for the government seem to get salaries that would be low in industry for someone with that background. And I'd be surprised that bus drivers out in silicon valley were really making the $60-95K that ordinary senior engineers designing bus drivers make around here (the NE). If they are, they are getting lots more than other municipal employees such as school teachers with masters degrees. (In fact, I've heard that demand had recently driven salaries in the valley way up and maybe my numbers for engineers are low, especially for software engineers.) There is, of course, that nasty law that classifies engineers as exempt professionals but allows companies to treat them as just cannon fodder workers stuffed into cubicles and treated with little of the respect the term professional would suggest - to be forced to work large amounts of completely uncompensated overtime. Bus drivers (non exempt) do get paid for every minute they are on the job, and many times work schedules are deliberately arranged to guarantee significant amounts of overtime at time and a half, so many bus drivers actually make a significant multiple of their nominal salary for the same hours engineers get base salary and no more. But I do think that Prof. Froomkin is right that a lot of top managers and legal types and others in government whose private sector equivalents get huge salaries do work at a considerable loss. Salaries for top of the heap government employees such as judges and managers of large departments with budgets in the tens or hundreds of millions rarely get more than $150K, whereas similar people would get much more in the private sector. Of course the job security differences are vast, and government workers are one of the very few classes of workers left in the economy who have any actual job security long term at all. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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Re: [LEGAL] Crypto as Contraband?
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 11:41:41PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Qouting worst proposal before congress... > > LEGAL TO USE CRYPTO: "After January 31, 2000, it shall not be > unlawful to use any encryption product purchased or in use prior to > such date." > > At the risk of raising yet another stupid and silly issue, does anybody know how this would apply to crypto (such as PGP) available in source form ? Would only binaries produced by compiling the source before the cutoff date be legal ? Or would compiling the source under a new version of the OS or new OS or even new instruction set (ISA-64 on a Merced for example) merely constitute reasonable use of the existing source product ? How about mechanical translations of the object to another environment or instruction set ? And what level of patches, bug fixes, or actual changes and improvements to the source would be legal if it was legal to compile the source and use the resulting binary after the cutoff ? -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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Re: Only In Anonymous...
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: > > There's nothing wrong with satire, but people ought to mark it as such, > when posting to a list filled with weak-minded and ideologically > blinded individuals. I've long said the same thing about the purported 'news' stories carried by the mainstream press, but the replies I have received from the news giants merely state that their office gang all had a good laugh over my 'satire'. Until the mainstream press begins marking their articles with such labels/disclaimers as 'half-truth'/'politically-biased'/'government- handout'/'self-serving'/'total-bullshit', etc., then I see no reason to require such labeling by individual netizens who may well be doing nothing more than writing the news of the near-future. You go cut wood, carry water--chop, chop, splash, splash... ZenRacistMonger

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House of Commons Library on US Sigint in Europe
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Simon Hossack has sent us a copy of a letter to Oliver Heald MP (UK) from the House of Commons Library on US signals intelligence in Europe, with focus on Menwith Hill. It is an answer to Mr. Heald's request for information on the charge of US spying in the STOA report as described by Duncan Campbell and Nicky Hager. The letter documents successive parlimentary and journalistic inquiries about the USA/UK 50-years-long arrangement for joint intelligence and HMG's answers. http://jya.com/hoc-ussigint.htm

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17 Dec '03

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ANNOUNCE: March Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting Saturday March 14, 12-6pm
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The March Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be held Saturday, March 14th, at Network Associates in Menlo Park. Time - 12 noon hang out, 1-5 program, followed by dinner nearby, various evening parties Agenda: Ian Goldberg's HINDE algorithm Reports from FC98 Anguilla Financial Cryptography conference Reports from Computers, Freedom, and Privacy CFP 98 Open PGP status discussion Work in progress Location: Network Associates, Inc Total Network Security division (formerly PGP, Inc) 4500 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park Directions to NAI: Take 101 (from North or South) Exit at "Marsh Road/Atherton" Go West (young man) off exit (right exit lane coming south from SF). Turning to the West (away from the Bay / freeway) Get in Left lane immediately. Turn Left at very first light (Scott Drive, not far from freeway exit) (landmark: Shell gas station is on your right as you turn left) Go South on Scott ~2/3 mi (parallel to 101 freeway fence). Pass one Stop sign (do not turn yet). (landmark: Sun Microsystems has an office on the right) Scott curves to right, becomes Bohannon Drive. Turn left into first driveway: "Menlo Oak" Business Park Go straight through parking lot ~2-300 yds Curve 270 degrees around Fountain (effective left turn) #4500 is on left as you curve around fountain. Go down ~50 yds to main lobby entrance (south side of building). Ask reception for Dave Del Torto (call 415.730.3583 cel if any problem). Meeting room is behind reception area through first door on left. Known or Suspected Parties: Sandy's Masquerade in or near Oakland PENSFA at Jim & Heather's in Campbell "It's Green" filk-oriented potluck in San Jose (afternoon/evening) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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San Bernardino... New Technology !!
by richardh＠cwsredlands.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello A major business announcement will take place in San Bernardino, California this week !!! If you have ever wanted to be on the INSIDE when such an event was about to occur, E-mail me back for complete details. Once you know what is happening, YOU WILL want to be IN ON IT, even if you can't be there !!! Hit reply, and put "insider details" in the subject line. Thank you & take care, Richard

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FBI CALEA Rule for Electronic Surveillance
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Federal Register: March 12, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 48)] [Page 12217-12310] SUMMARY: The FBI is providing the Final Notice of the requirements for actual and maximum capacity for the interception of the content of communications and call-identifying information that telecommunications carriers may be required to effect to support law enforcement's electronic surveillance needs, as mandated in section 104 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) (Public Law 103-414, 47 U.S.C. 1001-1010). ---------- For full copy: http://jya.com/fbi031298.txt (685K) Zipped version: http://jya.com/fbi031298.zip (101K)

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