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db$: The Wright Brothers vs. Chixalub
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just to fan the flames of Y2K hysteria ever higher... ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:50:18 -0400 To: e$(a)vmeng.com From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: db$: The Wright Brothers vs. Chixalub Sender: <e$(a)vmeng.com> Precedence: Bulk List-Subscribe: <mailto:requests@vmeng.com?subject=subscribe%20e$> --- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:26:30 -0400 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com> From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: db$: The Wright Brothers vs. Chixalub Sender: <dbs(a)philodox.com> Precedence: Bulk List-Subscribe: <mailto:requests@philodox.com?subject=subscribe%20dbs> X-Web-Archive: http://www.philodox.com/dbs-archive/ You might notice that the tag on this one says "db$". That's to differentiate it from my "e$" rants, which might be more general than ones like this one, which is on digital bearer settlement. I think there is lots of talk about electronic commerce and e$ these days from whole bunches of people, and, as a consequence, my interest in it has focused more onto the issue of digital bearer settlement. You'll probably be seeing more db$ tags than e$ tags on my rants going forward. All of which brings me to some obversations I've been making in public about blind signatures lately, and the excellent time I had at Ed Yeardon's Cutter Consortium "Summit" conference the past few days. Let's start with yet another aviation analogy about Digicash, shall we? :-). Remember, I like to do that. Once I compared privacy to flight, and said that, like flight, lots of people had died getting strong cryptography to work, and that privacy itself was an inherent good. The thing which actually got people to use the technology, however, was its commercial value. It wasn't the joy of flight or slipping the surly bounds of earth at Kitty Hawk that got people into the air, it was coach fare to Dayton. It was digital commerce, and thus financial cryptography, which created the most privacy. Digital Commerce is financial cryptography, financial cryptography is strong cryptography, and all that. Then there's my analogy of book-entry settlement as Boyle's law (partial pressure of gasses?) and strong crypto, particularly digital bearer settlement, as Bernoulli's law, the law describing aerodynamic lift. Essentially you can think of cryptography and bearer settlement as wings, and book entries as, well, bags of gas. :-). Thinking this way, with commerce on the internet as flight, First Virtual becomes a tethered baloon. Encrypting your First Virtual transaction makes it an aerodynamic barrage balloon. Encrypting a credit card in an SSL web-form is flying around on a Zeppelin. And, David Chaum becomes the Wright Brothers for inventing the airplane. I used to say "Or maybe Otto Lillenthal" under my breath to get a laugh, but now, I know exactly why David Chaum is the Wright Brothers. That's because Digicash *is* The Wright Flying Machine Company, or whatever the Wright's subsequent enterprise was called. It seems to me that Digicash's strategy with the blind signature is a dead ringer for the Wright Brothers' control of the airplane patent. Here's why: 1. In the beginning, nobody believed that the Wright brothers could fly, and they had to take the airplane to Paris and demonstrate it there before anyone in the US thought it was true. Digicash did the same thing. Actually, the NSA created a positively hostile environment here in the USA for cryptography, financial or otherwise, and that forced David Chaum to go to the Netherlands, where there was a more positive reception for his work. 2. Then, nobody could think about what you could do with airplanes, and the Wrights foundered for a bit.. Same thing with Chaum, Digicash, and the blind signature patent. The commercial internet didn't exist yet in 1986, and blind signatures were conceived as useful only in smartcards, which were just being experimented with. Digicash was going to be used in physical electronic wallets, and maybe in transponders at the gates of toll roads. The CAFE project was an example of this meat-space ecash strategy. It wasn't that Chaum didn't think about the internet. Far from it. He invented digital mixes, after all, which became the basis for anonymous remailers, onion routers, CROWDS, and the like. He just didn't look at blind signatures from the financial operations point of view and see digital bearer settlement, that's all. He was thinking privacy, and not financial operations, just like the Wrights were thinking flight, and not high-speed transportation. 3. The entire time they held the patent, the Wrights only really wanted to sell airplanes to governments, because they wanted to sell to a few large stable customers instead of small entities who would probably go out of business. Digicash, to this day, tries to sell to big institutions. Their now mostly internet-driven digital cash stategy is to create the financial equivalent of Alfred Nobel's dynamite cartel, where one bank in each country gets an ecash license, hopefully the largest bank possible. Mark Twain in the US was a proof of concept, if not an act of desperation on Digicash's part, but it did lead to exclusive (I bet) country-wide licences with Nomura, Deutchebank, the Swedish Post office, and others. There was talk at FC98 that Digicash received $1 million a month from Deutchebank just for the *option* on a Germany-wide license. I think they've now exercised that option. Frankly, I find this geographic, paint-by-the-nation-state approach quaint in a world of ubiquitous geodesic internetworks, but there it is, and it effectively prevents other people from doing anything innovative with blind signatures in the meantime. Monopolies on information technologies kind of work that way. Dogs and mangers come to mind, and not for the first time. 4. The Wrights, when they thought about the transportation business at all, thought about it in terms of "rides" instead of "trips". Digicash isn't really looking at the applications of their technology to anything except its original designed purpose, that is, cash. There are some leaks around the edges, of course. Nomura seems to be looking at blind signature digital bearer settlement as a real-time gross-settlement technology, with some kind of private, kiretsu-cash idea. Digicash people used to give you a shocked "how did you know that already" look when you talked to them about the painfully obvious potential use of blind signatures in the capital markets. However, I'm certain that Digicash thinks that capital market use of blind signature digital bearer settlement is a pipedream and that they'd better focus on the main chance, which is ecash. Preferrably electronic wallet-based ecash issued by a major bank. In competition with book-entry settlement, in book-entry settlement's own turf. Go figure. 5. Finally, the only innovation in the American aircraft market in the age of the Wright patent came from that famous airplane "infringer", Curtis, who didn't give a damn about patents and built airplanes anyway. Much better airplanes, in fact, which the Wrights eventually took him to court for, forcing Curtis to merge with the Wrights. Fortunately, European evolution in aviation continued apace, giving us the aviation equivalent of the Pre-Cambrian explosion, culminating in the names we all remember from World War I like Sopwith, Spad, Dornier, and, of course, Fokker. The problem is that there's no Curtis to infringe on the blind signature patent, because you can't hook up to the financial system from the internet -- land yur plane in other words -- without clear rights to use it. The banks where you move money on and off the net from would get sued. Unless they're in places like South Africa, where software patents don't matter, or Russia, where they're probably uninforceable. Places which have their own problems, not the least of which is poor internet access, poor financial network connectivity (something like Cirrus on the back end of a trustee/custodian would be, um, NYCE :-)), and, not least, poor impulse control by the local force merchants, monopolistic or otherwise. Tax havens don't even count. The very definition of a tax haven is someplace with a bandwidth and regulatory gravity well to keep it safe from any kind of market efficiency. A return to some kind of "Europe" for that hoped-for explosion of blind signature evolution could still be happening on the internet anyway. Certainly, with smart and tenacious people like Ian Goldberg designing HINDE and Ryan Lackey bashing on a reference version of it, one could certainly try to argue this, but there's no money doing this stuff right now (unless you count first-class upgrades to Anguilla or free nights in the InterIsland), much less something like the First World War to forge that innovation into a robust replacement for the book-entry economy. Which, thinking thinking of robustness, brings me to what I've been doing the last few days. Pete Loshin, former editor at Byte, former writer of various excellent how-to books on networking and one of the first surveys of internet commerce (and one of the founding members of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, I might add, :-)), is now editor of Cutter Publications' "Corporate Internet Strategies" newsletter, which used to be edited by Ed Yourdon, of American Programmer, Y2K, and much other, fame. So, when they needed someone on a panel about electronic commerce at Cutter's "Summit" conference at the Boston Harbor Hotel's Wharf Room facility this week, someone controversial, they said, Pete said he knew exactly who to throw into the fray. It was fun, too. There, in front of a room full of senior IT managers from big companies and Famous Computer Guys, sitting on a panel on Internet Commerce, was one of Fidelity's Famous Computer Guys himself, now running their web technology department. And Pete. And Fidelity's retail web-marketing guy, and me. Fidelity has 900 billion dollars under management. 60% of their customer interaction now comes from the web. The ganglia twitch. Dropping that $100 billion 1997 internet transaction number, and saying that it was three orders of magnitude over the estimate didn't faze these guys. They had seen it happen. In addition, all of the people with websites I talked to said that they used SSL to interact with their customers. Almost all of them said that they used 128 bit encryption. The Mssrs. Fidelity faintly crowed about the fact. Digital Commerce is Financial Cryptography, so what else is new? Then, of course, I threw the whole geodesic economy, digital bearer settlement rant at them, right down to the picomoney as processor food, micromoney mitochondria bit. And, of course, they all stood up and threw their dinner rolls at me. It was great. That's because I'd been throwing my own dinner rolls, and I'd been been hinting what I was going to say all week. They even encourage you to heckle the speakers back with a liberal sprinkling of wireless mikes around the room. So every once in a while, I'd pop off with comments like intellectual property control was impossible, that watermarking only told you who the code was stolen from not who stole it. Or, why not have cash auctions for programming deliverables instead of top-down project management, Or, emergent processes for software were always going to beat "controlled" processes, Or, passing programmer certification laws in the wake of whatever Y2K thing happened would be impossible to enforce in a world of those same anonymous cash settled markets for programming talent. I even pointed them to the forum-hackers list as proof. One of my favorite gybes while I was up on the podium to the Fidelity marketing guy -- who's a nice guy but who's also fighting like crazy right now to drag Fidelity up the "quality service differentiation" ladder because Fido can't play least-cost-producer anymore in an eTrade world -- was my claim that eventually most so-called "branded" products would be reduced to graded fungible commodities, and that the more dependant a business was on information technology, the faster it would happen to them. Orthogonality is always more fun than the alternative. And you get lots of free dinner rolls. And, of course, after the digital commerce panel and lunch, Ed Yourdon wrapped it all up with his scary Y2K rant, followed by an appropriately scary bunch of panelists telling us just how scary all theis Y2K stuff really was, that Ed had gotten himself on down to Taos, complete with his own water supply, and that denial was when you lied to yourself and believed it. Or something. All of which I now believe more of, just because all these grey-haired programming aristocrats were nodding sagely about this prospect of impending doom for us all. Frankly, most of the people who've yammered at *me* about Y2K were either loons who hoped it would All Fall Down Someday Soon, or people like Vinnie, who think it's a good idea, if not fun, to know what to do if it ever does all fall down, but that praying for it wasn't going to make it so. I'd like to think I'm one of the latter. The other problem is, I've seen the end of the world coming before. Even predicted it myself on occasion. Haven't been able to reduce it to practice, yet, though. That's the reason Gibbon's in my .sig these days. So, let's get back to Digicash and the Wright Brothers. After hanging out with a whole bunch of top-down monolithic-system gurus and Y2K folks yesterday, it seems plausible. And, I'm certain there are lots of people out there who know lots about both and who hope that Y2K will be the Chixalub event that will burn off all the database-driven book-entry dinosaur systems and clear the way for a digital bearer mammalian explosion. Frankly, I think we're looking at a brushfire, if anything. The lawn will grow back, but the house won't burn, even if the water does go out for a bit. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Remembering, of course, the above bit about denial. But, suppose we *are* talking about the financial equivalent of that great 1970's 30-second short film epic, "Bambi vs. Godzilla", where Bambi is squashed by a giant green foot (oops, I gave away the plot), and the whole financial system goes away for a few days. Or a month. Is there any way to step in with digital bearer settlement as a robust alternative to book-entry funds transfer? Remember the great bank strike in Ireland, where everyone just passed around nth-party endorsed checks like they were money until it was all over? Could we do something like that? Would David Chaum and company let us do that without suing someone for infringement? Could they stop us, if the courts are full of Y2K liability cases? Would the internet still be up? Could we pay our ISPs with digital bearer certificates to keep them up? How about Iridium and Teledesic, which are supposed to be up by then? Once again, ganglia twitch. However, it might be fun to game the idea a bit, just to scare the neighbors. You know, pay ya all back when the banks come up? Well, maybe not. Ed says that the banks, and particularly Wall Street, are the most prepared of any of us. That makes sense. The half life of financial software these days is measured in months. For instance, one of NeXT's biggest markets was in the financial sectors, especially trading rooms, where any prototype which worked was immediately production code. They liked NeXT, despite all its other interesting charistics, because you could do exactly that, and faster than any other development environment. Of course, if anyone's a poster child for "sell Cadillacs, drive a Chevy, sell Chevies, drive a Cadillac", it's Steve Jobs. Of course, he sold NeXTs and got Apples, however that turns out... Still, it might be worth thinking about, trying to route around the book-entry financial settlement system as a pre-disaster exercise. Wright Brothers versus Chixalub, and all that. No, I don't wanna see the movie... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Where people, networks and money come together: Consult Hyperion http://www.hyperion.co.uk/ info(a)hyperion.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Full-Strength Cryptographic Solutions for Worldwide Electronic Commerce http://www.c2.net/ stronghold(a)c2.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Like e$? 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Bills in Congress containing "encrypt"...
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found a few interesting ones. S. 1023 Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies... $3,000,000 shall be available to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, including $2,000,000 for the money laundering threat initiative and $1,000,000 for the Secure Outreach/Encrypted Transmission Program; $7,800,000 for automated license plate readers, [The above bill seems to have evolved into the following, which was passed by the House and Senate and awaits the President's signature.] H.R.2378 Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, $1,000,000 shall be available to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for the Secure Outreach/Encrypted Transmission Program; ...to the United States Secret Service, including ... $1,460,000 to provide technical assistance and to assess the effectiveness of new technology intended to combat identity-based crimes,

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Re: The Usual Suspects (National sales tax)
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From my perspective, one of the most important fallouts from a replacement of the graduated tax with a national sales tax is the removal of much of the current rationale for FinCEN and citizen identification (i.e., SSN). Certainly, it should no longer be required for establishing a non-credit financial institution account, purchasing a money order/cashier's check or wiring money. In fact, you shouldn't need SSN for employment, except that unless you supplied some number (even if psueduanon) you'd forego accruing benefits. The use of SSN for the ID runs the gammut in local, state and federal programs, but is most often justified for purposes of taxation. Now, I'm not naive enough to believe that any of these gov't agencies or private corps are going to willing give up citizen unit IDs, but it will be interesting to see their new rationales for the continued use of SSN (or its replacement) for ID. --Steve --Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- reply to schear - at - lvcm - dot - com --- PGP mail preferred, see http://www.pgp.com and http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html RSA fingerprint: FE90 1A95 9DEA 8D61 812E CCA9 A44A FBA9 RSA key: http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x55C78B0D ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 5/4/98 7:22 AM chambers, Your statement The advantages are a lack of mathematical structure which might provide an entry for the cryptanalyst, and a huge choice of possibilities; the disadvantages are that there are no guarantees on anything, and as is well known there is a risk of getting a very short period. made at http://www.jya.com/a5-hack.htm#wgc stuck me as profound. Reason is that NSA cryptomathematician Scott Judy once told me that I did not really understand the principles NSA uses for its crypto algorithm. Judy proceeded to explain to me that NSA bases its crypto algorithm on complication, not mathematics. Judy apparently did not realize that some years previous NSA employee Brian Snow showed us about all of NSA's KG schematics. And their field failure records! Masanori Fushimi in Random number generation with the recursion x[t] = x[x-3q]+ x[t-3q],Journal of Applied Mathematics 31 (1990) 105-118 implements a gfsr with period 2^521 - l. http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=gfsr&hc=0&hs=0 Fushimi's generator is sold by Visual Numerics. Fushimi's implementation is very well tested. And worked SO WELL that Visual Numerics numerical analyst Richard Hanson had TO BREAK IT! Reason was that the gfsr produces true zeros. This caused simulation programs to crash from division by zero. None of the linear congruential generators produced zeros so the problem did not arise until the gfsr was used. Hanson ORed in a low-order 1 to fix the problem Masanori wrote, Lewis and Payne [16] introduced an apparely different type of generator, the generalized feed back shift register (GFSR), by which numbers are formed by phase-shifted elements along a M-sequence based on a primitive trinomial 1 + z^q + z^p. Lewis was one of my former ms and phd students. http://www.friction-free-economy.com/ Cycle lengths of sequences is a fascinating topic. Let me point you guys to a delightful article on the distribution of terminal digits of transcendental numbers. The Mountains of pi by Richard Preston, v68 The New Yorker, March 2, 1992 p 36(21). This is a story about Russian-born mathematicians Gregory and David Chudnowsky. While the story is fun to read, I think that the Chudnowsky's were wasting their time. I think that terminal digits of transcendental numbers have been proved to be uniformly distributed. Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Part I: Theory, IEEE Transactions On Computers, 21 (1972): 337-345. Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Park II: Hardware Implementation, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 21 (1972): 346-352. Sobolewski is another of my former phd students. Hopefully you guys will read judge Santiago Campos' 56 page MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER on the Payne and Morales lawsuit on jya.com within several days. I made a copy and gave it to Sobolewski on Sunday afternoon. I want Sobolewski's opinion on what Morales and I should do. Soblewski lives about two miles from us. Sobloweski is an administrator [vp of computing at university of new mexico] and knows how administrators think. Let's hope this UNFORTUNATE mess involving shift register sequences gets settled. But let's not forget our sense of humors despite the about .5 million dead Iranians. Hopefully the system will take care of the guys that did that did the Iranians. Masanori wrote, The GFSR sequence as well as the Tausworthe sequence can be constructed using any M-sequence whether the characteristic polynomial is trinomial or not;... Jim Durham, my seismic data authenticator project leader, retired from Sandia. Durham gave me a number of tech reports upon his retirement. One was authored by Robert TITSWORTHE of jpl. TITSWORTHE changed his name! Later guys

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Epic Log - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Epic Log Rolling - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! ________________________________________________ Dimitry, cleverly trying to distract me from my plan to.... (Damn! It worked...) wrote: That was your best one yet, my friend. Well done. Do you invent as you type or do you prepare first? Do you dream the ideas in progress or summarize a day of dreaming all at once? After being diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and ADHD, it took me somewhere between 6-18 months to get around to seeing a doctor in regard to treatment. So I guess you could say that 'plans' and 'preparation' are not my strong point. A year or so ago I unexplicably began to write a work called, 'Soul Chaser.' I had absolutely no idea what it was about or where it was going, and it drove me crazy waiting for each chapter to 'appear' so that I could find out what was going to happen. While 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts are created with a purpose in mind, they tend to form themselves out of a mountain of notes jotted to myself in regard to the types of things that force their way into one's mind while lying sleepless at 4 a.m. An integral part of the manuscripts is the insertion of details or concepts which are sent to me for inclusion by a variety of shadowy characters, some of whom I am somewhat familiar with, and some who remain a total mystery to me. An example would be the references to Mule Shoe, Texas as the location of one of the underground Reptilian Nazi bunkers (along with LizardMoor and Lost Alamo). I added Mule Shoe to the list as a result of a mystery request and have no idea what is being inferred, but a number of CoE initiates have reported that they have observed a great deal of concern among certain government organizations about the possible compromise of some mysterious project, or somesuch. As a matter of fact, a few thanked me profusely for the 'pointer' even though they gave me no indication as to what they have uncovered. Granted I've not seen anything relevant to cryptography yet, but I'm not about to complain. Cryptography = Privacy = Rights = Freedom = Ad Infinitum Once the possibilty of extinction of all life from the face of the earth by Nuclear Technology became a *REALITY*, then the scope of many formerly local/regional/national issues and interests became considerably wider/larger. Now that the possibility of extinction of all privacy from the face of the earth by Digital Technology (Can you say 'ECHELON'? Sure you can...) has become a *REALITY*, the scope of many local/global issues and interests have acquired a level of meaning which goes far beyond the particular sphere in which they currently are being debated/instituted. We have recently seen how local pornography laws in the Deep South can affectÿ the lives of people living locally in California and globally in CyberSpace. We are currently moving toward the same issues and concepts applying internationally. What about the reporter who is currently facing imprisonment for investigating the Truth in regard to child pornography on the InterNet, instead of accepting at face value the 'handouts' from the Privacy Pirates? Anyone who fails to see implications for freedom, privacy and cryptography needs to spend a little less time watching 'Gilligan's Island'. I may soon be facing the same situation in Canada, with the main difference being that the 'Bienfait Nutly News' doesn't carry the same type of clout as the organizations considered by people wearing suits as members of the 'legitimate press'. When I protected all files that I didn't want to fall into the possession of the Royal (pain in the ass) Canadian (beaver, hee...hee) Mounted (on the citizen's behind) Police (gestapo), I made a point of leaving on my hard drive, among other things, a 'pornography file' which I sent to the CypherPunks list, the WhiteHouse, etc., with the announcement that I was purposely distributing vile, filthy pornography that was an affront to every decent person on the face of the earth. Anyone who took the trouble to break the encrypted file would have found that it was a classic Greek(?) statue of a young boy, with his <gasp><horror> PENIS exposed for God and everybody to see. I truly believe that my digital transmission of this classic work of art makes me, under current law, a child pornographer, even though the only way for anyone to view it would be to crack the encryption on the file. (Thus far, God has not contacted me to express having a problem with my actions, but I suspect that those who have taken it upon themselves to express the opinions of 'everybody' will soon be in contact.) Thanks for the entertainment. 'Entertainment' is the *Medium*, not the *Message*, of 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts. It is a Medium which has lessened, though not removed, the consequences which go hand-in-hand with the dissemination of Truths which meet the high standards expressed by a line in a movie..."You can't *HANDLE* the Truth!" Jim Bell was taken down a few hours after I had sent him a copy of a TSotI chapter describing 'Assassination Politics', and asking his opinion on certain things. (The *only* time I have ever done this.) I took the Jim Bell events to be a clear message that the rules had changed in regard to the dissemination of the TSXotI manuscripts. I did not regard the chapter as 'entertainment'. (I fully recognize the possibility that I may be wrong or 'overreacting' to the synchronicity of the two events, but, on the other hand, I have the perspective of having observed this type of 'synchronocity' since 1989, and have had my sorry ass 'saved' by my 'unreasonable paranoia' many times since then.) I left home two weeks before gomez was cut loose from a company he had founded, after seventeen years, in order to arrive the day before he, himself, received the 'news'. I received the information regarding his elimination from the CoE equation via a source who still remains a mystery to me after almost a decade of cross-communication. I gave the situation only the briefest of mentions in the TSotI manuscripts, because CoE initiates would have no problem with immediately recognizing the import of the event. I did not consider that chapter to be 'entertainment'. Many initiates of the Circle of Eunuchs have recently 'gone to ground', in order to work unobserved in a manner which they feel they can be most effective. Other CoE initiates have stepped forward to accentuate the policies and actions that they have been involved in more surrupticiously until now, even though it may well expose them to retribution, because they feel that that is how they can be most effective. I have given brief mention to some of the results of the directions some of these CoE initiates have taken in various chapters of the TSotI manuscripts, and I do not consider these chapters 'entertainment'. I recently received information in regard to the intentions of the Beaver Bullys to slap their tails down on my sorry butt, and had the option of heading for sandier pastures (Tucson), or covering my ass as much as possible and saying, "Damn the torpedos, full Speed, Ritalin and Prozac ahead!" I chose to do the latter, and have written a bit about it in the TSotI manuscripts. I *do* consider those chapters to be (my) 'entertainment', because 'picking guitar while Rome burns' is the only dance there is... Maybe I'm crazy (maybe?...hee, hee), but if I had the opportunity to travel back in time and *become* Lee Harvey Oswald, I would do so. Can you imagine actually *knowing* the Truth behind what most of us can only specualate about, even though the events surrounding his role/non-role in the assassination of JFK are of monumental import to our times and the *REAL* history of our globe? I have no idea whether or not the Oppressors who have 'legally stolen' my computers will be foolish enough to attempt to take me down within the boundaries of the current legal system, but I can guarantee that, if they do, myself and others will learn more about what is truly going on in the background of 'currently perceived reality' than Lee Harvey Oswald ever dreamed of knowing. There are 'tricks and traps' embedded in the information that I *ALLOWED* the Oppressors to confiscate that are the result of almost a decade of preparation. Anyone who thinks I am 'blowing smoke' failed to read and understand the portion of 'WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs' which detailed the concept of "Winner's Bluff." "TV IS REAL!" (And so is 'Uncle Bubba'...) Thought For The Day: Which 'side' do you, personally, take in regard to the debate as to whether there is, or is not, a Grand Conspiracy taking place in the BackGround Of Reality? The fact of the matter is, it doesn't really matter. The existence or non-existence of the Grand Conspiracy is of no more importance than the existence or non-existence of the Circle of Eunuchs. Definition of Reality: "If you can put it in the bank, it's Real!" ~ Stuart Wilde (misquote) 'Theory of Black Holes' Versus 'Infield Fly Rule': If some scientific genius proves the invalidity of Einstien's theories, then can we expect the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to spring back to life? If everyone on the face of the earth, except for baseball umpires, agree to invalidate the Infield Fly Rule, does it really matter? Are the 'True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts 'entertainment'? Sure. "His login is PANIC, His password is CRASH, When Time is of Essence, He'll Rise from the Ash" was just a 'lucky guess' as to the true importance of the recently acknowledged problem which is presented by the Millennium Bug. Claire Wolfe's statement that there is an "Angel" hidden deep within the bowels of the IRS computer system was just a 'lucky guess'. The evolutionary march of computer technology along the paths predicted by the CypherPunks over the years has been just a long series of 'lucky guesses' resulting from the random output of keyboards taking direct hits during the CypherPunks' legendary pissing contests. Dimitri Vulis' exposure of John Gilmore as a 'cocksucker' was just a 'lucky guess'. The ASCII Art spams revealing that Timmy C. Mayonnaise is the result of early 'Turd Cloning' experiments was just a 'lucky guess'. The suspicion slowly rising from the back of your mind to flip the switch which turns on the light of realization that the insanity of 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts are purposely opaque misdirections of their true purpose, which is to raise the possibility that Kent Crispin, and even you, yourself, may actually be one of US, instead of one of THEM, is just a 'lucky guess'. Giorgio Ivanovitch Gurdjieff posited that humans cannot 'consciously' do evil. I concurr... Is there a method to my madness, or a madness to my method? Hint: I AM the Biosemiotic Evolutionary Equivalent (TM) of Lee Harvey Fucking Oswald. I AM not just 'predicting' the future, I AM 'creating' the future. The CypherPunks are not just 'predicting' the future, they are 'creating' the future. Louis !B Freeh is !just 'creating' the future, he is desperately attempting to prevent Jane and Joe Netizen from doing the same. NEWS FLASH!!! ------------- The AI/Biometrics experts at LizardMoor, Lost Alamo and Mule Shoe are sucking hind-tit to those who have approached Biosemiotic Evolution from the human side of the equation. Vice-Admiral D'Shauneaux, during our intial confrontation, expressed concern that I was unaware of the importance to humankind that the 'Secret War' taking place in the Background of History be 'won' by those who were working in the best interests of humanity and democracy. My reply to him was that, given the human condition, it was imperative that the Forces of Light never triumph over the Forces of Darkness, for the simple reason that it has always been a truism that 'Power corrupts, and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely'. (Lucifer used to be an Angel!) Would you rather be slain by a Moslem saint or a Christian saint, upholding their perception of 'righteousness'? Is ECHELON an abomination? Yes, if it remains unopposed. I have no doubt that ECHELON has resulted in the negation of a plethora of evils which had the potential to result in a great amount of devastation to both the physical and the spiritual conditions of the human equation. I also have no doubt that ECHELON at some point reached a point of competence and control that allowed those involved in 'protecting' us to get sidetracked into a plethora of issues and directions which refelected personal, in-house political agendas, rather than the interests of Truth, Justice, Democracy, and An Honorable Concept To Be Corrupted Later. When You're Up To Your Ass In Alligators, It's Hard To Remember That Your Original Objective Was To Drain The Swamp: True... But when you're up to your ass in EunuchIzens, your 'ass is grass' if you don't get back to your 'original objective'. The nonsensical paranoid diatribes warning against the dire threat posed by Gomez and the Dark Allies in the TSotI manuscripts are not 'entertainment', any more than the C2Net Conspiracy Theory that was presented to those with 'ears to hear' during the legendary CypherPunks Moderation Experiment / Censorship Crisis. Assuming that Sameer's lips are not wrapped around Uncle Sam's cock, C2Net reflects the epitome of CypherPunks goals to promote the spread of strong cryptography around the globe in order to provide access for the citizens to secure private communications. Nonetheless. the involvement of a C2Net employee in the attempt to 'damage' the CPUNX list made one of US (TM) a greater threat to CypherPunk ideals than the actions or intentions of THEM (TM). I have absolutely no problem with Mr. & Ms. ECHELON doing whatever they honestly feel is necessary to protect and defend the globe from what is patently evil, but I have absolutely no interest in them achieving such a privileged, comfortable position in the 'Secret War' that they have enough time on their hands to throw a cold, hard one up the butt of anyone who offends them personally by calling them a 'cocksucker', no matter whether the offender's name ends with an 'i' or a 'y'. Orange Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant (Judge Cherry Brandy): Tim May was astute enough to recognize that the absence of ignorant, statist morons such as Kent Crispin on the CypherPunks list is a detriment, since the positions he took on various issues were usually the result of careful deliberation, even though he usually had his head up his ass. A forum in which everyone agrees with Chomsky is of no greater benefit to human evolution than a forum where everyone agrees with Freeh. I am astute enough to realize that without the presence of Willam Geiger III on the CypherPunks list, to slap Eric Cordian silly for whining about life 'forcing' him to be a Sheeple, that I would feel like a lone fool for occassionally admitting to being as big an idiot as the Sheeple that I rail against in my self-righteous diatribes. You are astute enough to realize that even without the verifiable presence of Toto in the Authorship of this chapter, given the fact that the manuscripts have always been a shared/distributed project, not to mention the fact that the toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca account is the Grand Central Station of CyberSpace, it is still incumbent on you to immediately report to the proper authorities my online confession to having murdered a variety of law enforcement agents and buried them in my garden plot in Bienfait. (But, if anybody asks, I was with *you* when JFK was assassinated, OK?) Ten a.m., time for 'River's Edge' on Fox TV. I'll need both hands free, to crack beers and take notes. Smoke 'em if you love 'em...

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