December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 17, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Nita Daniel
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oh Nita baby, say it ain't so! What about all that time in the Congo? What about those wombat hunting trips on the aborigine plains? What about when we made sweet love in a pile of rhinoceros shit, your fecal fetish winning me over to our true love. What about when you swore you'd always be true, even as you were pissing in my mouth? Oh that acrid, bittersweet flavor of entrails running through my loins, that ache of razor sharp knives piercing my rectum, and you said you'd always be there for me baby! Well fine! If that's the way you want it, Nita, you parking meter, you pimple on the face of a whore, you jubilant muskrat sharpener! Go back to your twinkie stuffing, you'll never see me again! Hurting, Joe Camel At 11:15 PM 9/16/98 -0500, sixdegrees wrote: >Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Nita >Daniel (machita(a)gurlmail.com) asked not to be listed as your >contact with sixdegrees. > >We also wanted to make sure you were aware that you currently >have no other confirmed contacts, so it will be hard for you to >have a productive sixdegrees experience. As you probably know, >without any confirmed contacts, you won't get any results from our >networking searches. > >So, we just wanted to recommend that you head over to >http://www.sixdegrees.com , log-in, and go to MY CONTACTS >to list additional relationships. > > >==================================================================== >PLEASE NOTE: All replies to this address are processed by a computer. >If you have any problems, questions or requests send an e-mail to >issues(a)sixdegrees.com and someone will get back to you as soon as >possible. >==================================================================== > > >E.DB.BRESP.3 >

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Re: Isaac Lee
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Screw you Isaac Hayes! I never liked Shaft anyway. Go back to South Park you worm! Saddened, Joe CypherSyphen At 12:17 AM 9/17/98 -0500, sixdegrees wrote: >Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Isaac >Lee (zac(a)pulp-fiction.com) asked not to be listed as your >contact with sixdegrees. > >We also wanted to make sure you were aware that you currently >have no other confirmed contacts, so it will be hard for you to >have a productive sixdegrees experience. As you probably know, >without any confirmed contacts, you won't get any results from our >networking searches. > >So, we just wanted to recommend that you head over to >http://www.sixdegrees.com , log-in, and go to MY CONTACTS >to list additional relationships. > > >==================================================================== >PLEASE NOTE: All replies to this address are processed by a computer. >If you have any problems, questions or requests send an e-mail to >issues(a)sixdegrees.com and someone will get back to you as soon as >possible. >==================================================================== > > >E.DB.BRESP.3 >

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Coding theory, cryptography, and number theory conference at USNA
by Nina H. Fefferman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm probably the only person in the world who doesn't already know about this, but just in case, the URL is http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/talk98_30.htm Nina ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary information on Conference on Coding theory, Cryptology, and Number Theory version 9-14-98 Place: USNA Math Dept Time: October 25, 26 of 1998 Coding theory and crypology/number theory will be on Sunday the 25th, including talks by Carl Pomerance and Neil Sloane. More crypology/number theory on Monday and then Prof Hilton will speak Monday night the 26th. Main speakers: Peter Hilton, SUNY Binghamton (Oct 26th, 7-8pm) Carl Pomerance, U Georgia (Oct 25th, noon?) Neil Sloane, AT&T Research Labs (Oct 24th, 4-5pm?) Other speakers will probably be local: Bill Wardlaw (USNA), some speakers from NSA, etc. All material will be unclassified. We will try to have midshipman in attendence. This conference is being supported by a generous grant from the NSA. -- David Joyner, Assoc Prof of Math US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402 (410)293-6738 wdj(a)nadn.navy.mil http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/homepage.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Alfred Renyi

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by Aladdin Systems 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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SecDef on Crypto, Privacy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpt from DoD transcription of Secretary of Defense Cohen's remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, September 14, 1998: [Begin] Let me say one other thing about terrorism. We in this country much recognize the tension which will exist as you ask us, and we will ask all successor administrations, to protect us. And you say, how do you protect someone against terrorists? It means increased intelligence. It means increased intelligence, having greater capability on the ground or from national technical sources to find out who is planning and plotting what at what place and what time. To do that is going to put us in somewhat of a direct conflict with rights to privacy, something that we hold very dear in this country. So the more intelligence-gathering responsibilities that any administration is going to have, there's going to come a point of tension and, indeed, friction between how much are you willing to give up in order to be secure. Those are the kind of unpleasant choices that are going to be manifesting themselves in the near future. We haven't really faced up to it yet. We're starting to see some of that conflict at least intellectually develop when you see the manufacturers of software who don't like the fact that the law enforcement, the FBI, the Justice Department wants to have some method of getting into encrypted technology. You say, "Wait a minute, that's my right of privacy. I'm a businessman or woman. I want to be able to send information out over those -- those airwaves and have them completely protected." Our Justice Department says, "Wait a minute, you want us to protect you. But you're allowing criminal elements, terrorists and others -- organized crime, drug cartels -- to encrypt their telecommunications to the point where don't know what's going on. And then something is going to happen, and you'll say, where were you?" So those are the kinds of tensions that are going to continue to exist. But we're going to have to have more intelligence to effectively deal with terrorism in the future. [End excerpt] Full transcript: http://jya.com/wsc091498.htm (49K)

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RE: Democracy... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Matthew James Gering <mgering(a)ecosystems.net> > Subject: RE: Democracy... (fwd) > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:29:00 -0700 > > Atheism means that one believes that there is no God. > > You trying to claim atheism is a religion itself is like the christians > always claiming non-christians are satin worshippers. Actualy this is a straw man. Very few Christians claim Buddhist, Muslim, etc. are satan worshipers, Satan is a Christian ephigy. What they *do* claim is that those folks are worshipping false idols and as a result won't gain access to heaven at death. Vasty different than your claim. > Forget about the > origination of the word, There's your first problem, your argument won't stand in the traditional architecture of society so you want to try to get me to throw it away. This causes all terms, ideas, etc. to become irrelevant in effect forcing me to play from a vacuum. Won't do it. Though it's a nice ploy on your part. > in today's reality most atheists simply forgo > religion completely. A personal philosophy is a religion, different words but same idea. If your thesis is that for something to be a religion it requires some sort of social approval you miss the whole point. Even Jesus recognized that a persons religion didn't rely on a 'church' and the implied infrastructure. This is the reason he told his listeners to pray in a closet alone. > There is no reason to think that a god does exist, so why would one even > need to think about or believe in the negative. There is no reason to believe one doesn't either. If we take your claim at face value you need to demonstrate your test that shows the irrelevancy of god. God is not a belief in a negative, another straw man, but rather a mechanism or expression of human psychology and the need for humans to find patterns (ie reason) in things. > > Ah, so there are personal beliefs that aren't religion and > > then there are personal beliefs that are? > > Yes, beliefs based on valid reason, Ah, another of your mistakes. Religion and by extension faith are not constrained by reason or logic. It's this realisation that puts some issues and aspect of human inquiry outside of the reach of science, logic, etc. > empiricism and science are not > religious, the generally follow the path from conjecture to theory to > fact. If you're a pantheist they're the only religion (aka personal philosophy) you've got. Shortcomings in your imagination are not a reflection upon the rest of the cosmos. > You may hold lots of personal conjecture that do qualify as > beliefs but are not religious in nature, they are not exempt from > empirical evidence and the laws of thermodynamics. Beliefs based on > faith and mysticism are religious. Religion is irrational. No, only some religions are irrational. The point you're missing is not one of rationality or irrationality but rather transcendance. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Mobile phone tracking, pagers, etc
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Regarding the tracking of mobile phones, are all current types of phones susceptible? There was a recent post here regarding tracking of GSM phones. TDMA/CDMA, analog/digital, PCS-band, etc, are they all equally capable of being tracked? However pagers are not, correct? They just broadcast an entire area to page instead of the pager keeping the network informed of their location. One thing I have long wondered: Why don't they make phones that "wake-up" by a paging signal and then accept the call? It might increase the connect time significantly, but it would also increase the potential stand-by time indefinitely, and the location of the user is only exposed when calls are in progress, not while the phone is on stand-by. Are there any paging services (particularly alpha paging) that work on a global scale? You would think daily pager rental service (esp. at airports) would be popular. You could have an email address, even a static phone number, that could re-route messages to any pager that you happen to have at the time (PSTN-IP-PSTN, or even easier if the pager service gives SMTP addresses, which most do these days). Similarly a PSTN-IP-PSTN interface for voice could give you a static phone number that you could dynamically forward anywhere untraceably. BTW, why are most businesses so hostile to pseudonyms? I go to rent a mailbox, paid 1 yr. in advance with cash, and they still want two pieces of photo ID to copy. Matt

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Cyberpunks Signal-to-Noise Ratio
by Jim Burnes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Far be it from me to complain about the content-free nature of others postings, but has anyone else noticed that the signal on cypherpunks is being lost in the noise? jim

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