December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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The Currency Site Member Update
by updates＠olsen.ch 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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EuroParl Hits ECHELON
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan Campbell has provided the September 14 European Parliament multi-lingual discussion on ECHELON and the related minutes: http://jya.com/ep091498-1.htm (minutes in English; 11K) http://jya.com/ep091498-2.htm (discussion in several languages, not English; 82K) English translations of the latter are welcomed by Duncan and JYA. EP official translations may be some time acoming. Duncan Campbell <duncan(a)gn.apc.org>

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Re:
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How about: I'd like humping your mom with a prosthetic limb. I'd like Hillary to get down on both knees and eat out Monica's ass. I'd like nothing more than for anyone who even thinks about mentioning Bill Clinton to spontaneously combust, preferably right in front of a gas pump where his whole family is sitting in some sort of catatonic stupor, unable to digest any information beyond that which The Machine feeds them every day. Who the fuck wouldn't drink to that? For Christ's sake, I'd be buying! At 10:34 PM 9/25/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:43:34 -0400 "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith(a)IntNet.net> >writes: >> >> >> >>If you have Microsoft Word (6.0 or later), and have a thesaurus >>installed, do the following: >> >>1) Open a new, blank document. >>2) Type in the words: I'd like to see Bill Clinton resign. >>3) Highlight the entire sentence. >>4) Click on the tools menu and select thesaurus (tools, language, >> thesaurus) >> >>Look what is immediately highlighted in the selection box. >> > >This was almost funny. Too bad the following sentences also work: >I'd like to drink frog urine >I'd like to hug large, purple dinosaurs >I'd like to cook onions with garlic and tomatoes >I'd like to strangle you with a mouse cable >

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by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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arms collectors...
by David Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Forwarded message from "Thomas B. Roach" <sigint(a)thegrid.net> ----- Washington Times, 25 Sep 98 Operable missile seized in customs By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES U.S. and British authorities are investigating how a Russian-design Scud missile was imported illegally by a weapons collector in California, The Washington Times has learned. "This is a full-blown missile," said John Hensley, a senior agent of the U.S. Customs Service in Los Angeles. "The only thing missing is the warhead." A Scud B missile and its mobile transporter-erector launcher --minus the warhead -- were seized Sept. 2 by customs agents in Port Hueneme, Calif., about 35 miles north of Los Angeles, said officials familiar with the case. The missile system was licensed for importation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. But paperwork in the case was falsified, and the missile system was not "demilitarized" -- rendered inoperable -- as required by import rules, Mr. Hensley told The Times. British customs officials are investigating the seller, a small firm outside London, and U.S. investigators are questioning an arms collector from Portola Valley, Calif., near Palo Alto, who bought the system, Mr. Hensley said. The missile transfer has raised fears about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile-delivery systems. It also could be an embarrassment for the Clinton administration, which is engaged in a major international diplomatic effort to halt missile exports by Russia and China to the Middle East. The importation raises questions about U.S. national security controls. Mr. Hensley said U.S. military experts examined the missile and determined that it was produced in Czechoslovakia in 1985. The missile was identified as an SS-1C, which the Pentagon has designated as a Scud B. Transfers of missiles like the Scud B, with a range of 186 miles, are banned under the international export agreement known as the Missile Technology Control Regime. Customs officials said the missile was not identified until it was driven off the British freighter that delivered it and an inspector called customs agents to examine it. Such weapons can be imported but must first be cut up with a blowtorch so they can never be reassembled. The officials identified the buyer only as a wealthy man who is a U.S. citizen. He is a legitimate arms collector -- apparently not linked to terrorists or illicit arms dealers. But the false paperwork has raised questions about the deal and prompted the U.S. investigation. Mr. Hensley said the buyer had purchased a Scud missile earlier that had been properly rendered inoperable. But a photograph of that missile was attached to the illegal system, seized Sept. 2, in an effort to fool customs officials. After examining the missile, customs agents called the ATF and were surprised to learn that an ATF license had been issued for the missile importation. "We thought they were nuts," said one official close to the case. The missile system is being stored at the Navy's Pacific Missile Testing Center in nearby Point Mugu, near Oxnard, where it has been impounded. John D'Angelo, an ATF agent in Los Angeles, had no official comment on the case. "Routinely, the ATF and U.S. Customs Service examine items to determine their suitability for importation under federal regulations," he said. "We have not yet completed the inspection of this importation and therefore can't discuss it." The SS-1 Scud is a liquid-fueled missile that is among the most widely deployed weapons in the world. It is in service with more than 16 nations. Iraq's military forces were able to extend the range of the missile, which was fired extensively during the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The chassis of the missile's launcher was identified as a MAZ-543 truck used commonly by the former Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces for short-range missiles. "The guidance was totally intact and the engine was ready to go," Mr. Hensley said. "All you needed to do was strap on a garbage can full of C-4 and you had a weapon." C-4 is military high explosive. Concerning how the missile was handled by the British firm, Mr. Hensley said, "It is illegal to import this into the U.K., so the Brits are wondering how this guy got this company to do this." Investigators suspect the missile may have been bought in Europe on the black market. "Our concern is not so much that [the buyer] might have a licensing problem," Mr. Hensley said. "It's just that in the aftermath of the embassy bombings in Africa and the Oklahoma City bombing, that this could be a real problem." The Customs Service is intensifying its efforts to check for illegal imports of such weapons, he said. Stephen Bryen, a former Pentagon technology-transfer official, said weapons like the Scud must be fully dismantled before they can be allowed into the country. "You have to worry anytime somebody brings a missile into the United States, whatever cover it might be," Mr. Bryen said. He noted that terrorists or rogue states could use such collectors to acquire missiles illegally.

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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Cypherpunks defeat?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:02 AM -0500 9/24/98, Albert P. Franco, II wrote: >I think perhaps a tougher question is, "Is there a way, without resorting >to bloodshed, to regain control of our private property and private lives?" >That's not a troll! I know that there are a lot people on this list with >their assault rifles at the ready, that are convinced that only armed >resistance will work. But. I think that's the "easy" way out. (How) can it >be done another way? It's ironic that you would have to ask that question here. The cypherpunks group was founded on this very premise: that through the use of cryptography, people would become able to engage in a wide range of voluntary transactions, outside of the reach of meddling interlopers. Most cypherpunks have become disillusioned about their dreams, and you will seldom hear them defend the notion that cryptography offers any kind of alternative to a society based on coercion. The past few years have been hard ones. The failure of digital cash, the gradual trend towards a debate over when and how (rather than whether) to regulate domestic cryptography, widespread abuse of anonymity, all these make the original cypherpunk goals seem even more distant today than in the past. Is the cypherpunks dream dead? Is the movement over? Maybe it is time to give up. Throw in the towel, admit that we lost. Sure, there are still battles to be fought, rear-ground actions where we can perhaps delay the inevitable outcome. But the vision has been lost, and all that is left is the post-mortem analysis of the failed dream.

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