December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Gunpowder taggant solution
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> ichudov@algebra.com[SMTP:ichudov@algebra.com] wrote: > > Also, a gun owner could simply buy gnu powder in various places and > mix the batches. We call it Wildebeeste Powder in this neck of the woods. If you mix Blue Wildebeeste and Black Wildebeeste you get a virtual Serengeti. There's a good one in the Natural History Museum in Kensington. Just next to the Horese Evolution quiz.

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I heard you wanted my picture..
by Heather Johnson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Gunpowder taggant solution
by jim＠mentat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Igor said: > I think that the gunpowder taggants are not as bad as it seems at first > sight. EVen if all gunpowders are sold with taggants, and if there is > enough people wishing to defeat them, they can simply organize gunpowder > mixing parties at gun shows. After several such parties, the taggants > might become completely useless. I'm woefully ignorant about reloading, but would this really work? Would you mix your high-quality smokeless with Tim's homebrew black powder, Toto's pebble-ground Canada Red Doobie Mix, and Bell's stinkbomb components and take away the average? Or are different types of powder visually distinct enough or similar enough in effect to mix and match effectively? Jim Gillogly

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17 Dec '03

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Crypto Under Digital Copyright Act
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Congressional Record: May 15, 1998 (Senate) DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT Mr. KYL. Mr. President, I rise today to speak about a section in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that I am particularly proud of, and that is the law enforcement exception in the bill. At the Judiciary Committee markup, Senator Grassley and I, along with the assistance of Chairman Hatch and Senator Ashcroft worked to strengthen the law enforcement exception in the bill. We received input on the language from the copyright community and the administration: the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The law enforcement exception ensures that the government continues to have access to current and future technologies to assist in their investigative, protective, or intelligence activities. I am concerned that the tools and resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities are preserved--and more importantly, not limited, by passage of S. 2037. Under that bill, a company who contracts with the government can continue to develop encryption/decryption devices under that contract, without having to worry about criminal penalties. Because much of our leading technologies come from the private sector, the government needs to have access to this vital resource for intelligence and law enforcement purposes. The law enforcement exception recognizes that oftentimes governmental agencies work with non-governmental entities--companies, in order to have access to and develop cutting edge technologies and devices. Such conduct should not be prohibited or impeded by this copyright legislation. ____________________ Digital Millenium Copyright Act: http://jya.com/s2037.txt (162K)

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German Phone Cards Hacked
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded from Europe: May 18, 1998 Telephone card fraud in the millions of dollars. Hackers from the Netherlands have inundated the German market with illegally recharged telephone cards, causing losses in the several millions of marks (millions of dollars), stated the weekly Focus, due out Monday. In breaking the telephone cards' code, the hackers succeeded in recharging cards emptied of their credit. The German association of tobacconist wholesalers assesses losses at 60 million marks (33 million dollars), reports Focus. The con men bought used cards by the thousands from collectors. As a result, their intitial price of five pfenning (2.7 cents) per card quickly rose to one mark (55 cents). According to experts cited by Focus, the recharged cards, which the pirates resold at a lesser or equivalent price, are impossible to distinguish from those purchased legitimately. Card producers intend to stop this illegal commerce thanks to a new software program allowing used cards to be electronically marked, the weekly believes. [Translation by DN] ---------- Escroquerie de plusieurs millions de dollars par cartes téléphoniques Des pirates informatiques néerlandais ont inondé le marché allemand avec des cartes téléphoniques rechargées illégalement, causant un préjudice de plusieurs millions de marks (plusieurs millions de dollars), affirme l'hebdomadaire Focus à paraître lundi. En forçant le système de codage des cartes téléphoniques, les pirates ont réussi à recharger des cartes vidées de leurs unités. L'association allemande des grossistes et débitants de tabac chiffre le préjudice à 60 millions de marks (33 millions de dollars), rapporte Focus. Les escrocs achetaient des cartes usagées par milliers auprès de collectionneurs. Leur prix initial de cinq pfennig (2,7 cents) par carte est de ce fait rapidement monté à près d'un mark (55 cents). Selon des experts cités par Focus, les cartes rechargées, que les pirates revendaient à un moindre prix ou au même prix, sont impossibles à différencier de celles dûment achetées. Les fabricants de cartes entendent stopper ce commerce illégal grâce à un nouveau programme informatique (software) permettant de marquer électroniquement les cartes usagées, croit savoir l'hebdomadaire.

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17 Dec '03

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Blood Sausage -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

BloodSausage HogLog - SPACE ALIENS HIDE M DRUGS!!! ___________________________________________________ "The lives of Frank, Gambino, Morel and Serafini ended on the gallows of Montreal's Bordeaux Jail on October 24, 1924. Valentino and Davis had their executions commuted at the last minute." "No one claimed Frank, Gambino and Valentino were among the half-dozen gunmen who ambushed the bank car, but prosecutorn R.L. Calder argued they were still guilty of murder because of the organized nature of the crime." ~Excerpts from "Blood Brothers" by Peter Edwards. MeTheSheeple was glad to learn that these vile, criminal scumbags, fingered by the person who had actually planned and committed the crime, were held accountable for the actions alleged to them by the gang-leader whose life was spared in return for ratting out alleged coconspirators. I was particularly happy because I knew that the same high standards of justice would undoubtedly be applied to the criminal scum within the Canadian Justice System under whose PigSkin Umbrella the Montreal Mobsters ruled the streets and the citizens who walked them. "Testimony at the Frank robbery trial showed that police routinely sipped coffee with hoods and that Montreal's finest had been tipped off to the armoured car hold-up well in advance, but did nothing." Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Coderre (with a left-handed frog-tongue over the first 'e') said, "Vice has spread itself across the city with an ugliness that seemed assured of impunity." Rather than bore you with all of the details behind the criminal scumbag PigsWithBadgesAndGuns being also found 'GUILT OF MURDER BECAUSE OF THE ORGANIZED NATURE OF THE CRIME', I will just skip ahead in the book and report on the final outcome of <trumpets blare> JUSTICE <flags fly> in the case of the police and city officials discovered to have greased the wheels of organized crime in their activities of drug dealing, robbery, murder, etc. Hmmm....nope...nada....maybe...nope...nope... Surprise, surprise! It seems that, following the Coderre probe, "nothing happened that seriously threatened the criminals' take. The name of Cadiex Street was changed to de Bullion Street after a New ork play made the old name notorious, but along the same pavement the same crimes continued." Those without my cynical psychological make-up will undoubtedly be able to supply you with reasons as to just why the local citizens felt extremely 'served and protected' when they came to after being mugged and saw the new street signs, however, I will merely take a short break, here, have a good dump, and wipe my butt with yet another page of the Criminal Code of Canada. And Silk Badges..?: "I know who the real public enemies are. But they are men who have the respect of the public; men who wear silk hats, who are apparently of standing in the community." ~1930's Montreal MobBuster, J.J. Penverne (with no frog-licks in his name...) Peter Edwards provides the standard journalistic explaination as to how "The term 'Mafia,' in its truest form, refers only to organized crime in western Sicily." and explains how it has been expanded to encompass any pair of teenagers throwing a rock through a window, as long as one of them has an Italian name. He neglects to explain, as some journalists do, that the word "Mafia" is becoming increasingly generic, now including the 'Lebanese Mafia', the 'Columbian Mafia', etc. *All* journalists, however, seem unable to explain why they continue to avoid naming the continuing organized forces of armed domination over citizens of *all* ethnic groups the 'Government Mafia'... "Blood Brothers" is not the first book to point out that at the heart of the "honoured society of Calabria" lies the concept of "omerta" (with a right-handed strand of spaghetti over the 'a'). Nor is it the first book to fail to point out that omerta's "double code of conduct that set different moral codes for dealings with those inside and outside one's family circle" applies not only to Officially Recognized Criminal ScumBag Organizations, but also to almost every 'gang' larger than a Cult Of One from the PTA to the CIA to the USA. 'Omerta' decrees that when the president of the PTA molests a child, when the head of the CIA commits treason, when the president of the USA declares that US citizens will continue to face imprisonment for exporting the same strength of encryption that their government is sharing with Communist China, that a street somewhere be renamed, while everything else continues on pretty much as before. Don't hold your breath waiting for mainstream journalists to upset the BadAppleCart by referring to the 'PTA Mafia' when they deem that your child should be forced to attend school with a child who can murder them by biting them, while teaching them that you are a dangerous psycho because of your gun ownership; or to the 'FBI Mafia' when they murder a mother and child in attempts to cover their previous unannounced, botched armed assault on a citizen being charged with civil crimes in an attempt to persuade him to invent crimes against his friends, whether they were Jewish or not; or to the 'Government Mafia' when they spend millions of dollars investigating and/or charging Phil Zimmerman, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jim Bell, knowing that the bottomless taxpayer pockets funding their legally unjustified harassment will guarantee at least moderately successful results, even if the end result is dropping the matter when the multi- million dollar stench begins blowing back toward DC. Do not expect mainstream journalists to refer to the 'ASPCA Mafia' when they release a hastily composed 'history' of TruthMongrel as a rabid, sharp-toothed, human baby conniseur, after HeOrShe is cut down by FBI gunfire on Mayonaisse Mountain during attempts to arrest the Author on 'Dog At Large' charges filed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Bienfait, Sask. Silk? We Don't Need No Stinking Silk...: The multi-facted PigsEar WebSites that are increasingly being turned into InterNet Cult of One SilkPurses through the increasingly efficient and powerful shareware digital bread-slicers available to Jane and Joe Sheeple in their quest to serve either God, Mammon, Dog or Mammy, according to their prediliction, have the capacity, if uncensored and uncontrolled, of allowing the individual to rekindle the creative spark of individuality that reminds them that the word 'WE' should only be used by Kings, Priests, and people with tapeworms. People with the ability to think for themselves; people who know that if Timothy McVeigh was really the 'Muenster' that the mainstream media claimed, then he would have been in the 'Adams Family' movie; people who demand to know if Monica Lewinski has a 'bent' pussy; people with conspiring minds, who want to 'snow'; people who are not afraid to stand up and cheer for the Officially Recognized BadGuys on 'Cops' and 'World's Scariest Innocent Bystander Threatening Police Chases'; people watching 'World's Dumbest Criminals' who slap their forehead and say, "I hate it when that happens..." People who read the Bienfait Nutly News.

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CTIA Daily News From WOW-COM - June 22, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

======================================== Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon for the most important news in wireless communications today. ========================================

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"deadbeat parents"
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

apparently one of the 4 horsemen of the infocalypse...?!?! whatever can be used as an excuse to take away rights, eh? ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:18:11 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Clinton Signs New Deadbeat Parents Penalties into Law Source: USIA Clinton Signs New Deadbeat Parents Penalties into Law U.S. Newswire 24 Jun 9:06 President Clinton Signs New Deadbeat Parents Penalties into Law To: National Desk Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100 WASHINGTON, June 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the White House: Today, President Clinton will announce new statistics highlighting the success of Administration child support enforcement efforts and will sign into law tough new penalties for parents who repeatedly refuse to pay child support. At an Oval Office ceremony, the President will announce that a new child support collection system launched nine months ago has already located one million deliquent parents, and the child support enforcement program established a record 1.3 million paternities in 1997. Overall, 68 percent more child support was collected in 1997 than in 1992. The bill he will sign into law, the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998, is based on his 1996 proposal for tougher penalties for parents who repeatedly fail to support children living in another state or who flee across state lines to avoid supporting them. Finally, the President will reiterate his position that bankruptcy reform legislation should not make it harder to collect child support and alimony. New Hire Directory Finds One Million Deliquent Parents. Today, the President will announce that the new National Directory of New Hires had located one million deliquent parents since its October 1, 1997 launch. The directory, proposed by the President in 1994, and enacted as part of the 1996 welfare reform law, helps track parents across state lines and withhold their wages by enabling child support officials to match records of delinquent parents with wage records from throughout the nation. Approximately one-third of all child support cases involve parents living in different states. (See attached chart) A Record Number of Paternity Establishments. The President will also announce that the child support enforcement program established a record 1.3 million paternities in 1997, two and a half times the 1992 figure of 510,000. Much of this success is due to the in-hospital voluntary paternity establishment program begun by the Clinton Administration in 1994, which encourages fathers to acknowledge paternity at the time of the child's birth. A Record Increase in Child Support Collections. In 1997, the state and federal child support enforcement program collected a record $13. 4 billion for children, an increase of 68% from 1992, when $8 billion was collected. Not only are collections up, but the number of families that are actually receiving child support has also increased. In 1997, the number of child support cases with collections rose to 4.2 million, an increase of 48% from 2.8 million in 1992. New Felony Penalties for Egregious Failure to Pay Child Support. The President called for these tough new penalties in July 1996 and again in his 1997 State of the Union address. This new law creates two new categories of felonies, with penalties of up to two years in prison, for more egregious child support evaders: Traveling across state or country lines with the intent to evade child support payments will now be considered a felony if the obligation has remained unpaid for a period longer than one year or is greater than $5,000. When the obligation has remained unpaid for a period of longer than two years or is greater than $10,000, willful failure to pay child support to a child residing in another state will be considered a felony. This bill was sponsored in Congress by Representatives Hyde and Hoyer and Senators DeWine and Kohl, and had overwhelming bipartisan support in both houses. Responsible Bankruptcy Reform that Doesn't Hurt Children. Finally, the President will reiterate his position that bankruptcy reform legislation should not make it harder to collect child support and alimony. The Administration will work with Congress to produce a bankruptcy reform bill that asks responsibility of both creditors and debtors, while stemming abuse. In those discussions, the President will continue to make protecting child support and alimony a top priority. The House and Senate bills still raise the concern that additional debts will survive bankruptcy and compete with child support and alimony payments for scarce funds. -0- /U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ 06/24 09:06 Copyright 1998, U.S. Newswire - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. - ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** ------- End of Forwarded Message

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