December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

:-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:24:09 -0400 Reply-To: bzs(a)world.std.com Originator: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Sender: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Precedence: bulk From: Barry Shein <bzs(a)world.std.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv(a)lists.psi.com> Subject: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? X-Comment: Commercialization and Privatization of the Internet We've been having increasing problems with one or more porn sites in the .to domain promoting itself by massive spamming of AOL customers using one of our domains in their From: header thus causing both complaints to us and thousands of bounces from AOL due to bad AOL addresses in their spam lists. Looking at the .to domain I can't help but notice it's heavily laden with what appear to be porn sites (sexonline.to, come.to, xxxhardcore.to, etc.) 1. Performing traceroutes and other analyses seems to indicate that this domain is NOT being used for communication with entities legitimately located (legally, not only geographically) within the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Tonga, as intended. 2. Clearly criminal and malicious activites are arising from sites to which Tonga has provided comfort and sanctuary. 3. Therefore, I call for a process whereby it can be determined as to whether or not it is appropriate to decommission the Tongan domain due to negligence, mismanagement, and having allowed it to become an attractive resource for criminal activities. I do not believe the Tongan domain serves any legitimate purpose as an internet resource. In support of this assertion I want to show you an SMTP conversation with what claims to be the Consulate of the Government of Tonga in San Francisco (This San Francisco office is listed as an official Tongan contact point for visas etc by the US State Dept): world% telnet sfconsulate.gov.to 25 Trying 209.24.51.169... Connected to sfconsulate.gov.to. Escape character is '^]'. 220 colo.to SMTP ready, Who are you gonna pretend to be today? VRFY postmaster 500 Bloody Amateur! Proper forging of mail requires recognizable SMTP commands! -------------------- Viewing the web page for the Tongan Consulate in the US (http://sfconsulate.gov.to) reveals nothing but an ad for a software company, this page ends with: Need a domain name? Contact the Kingdom of Tonga Internet domain name registry. -------------------- Consequently, I assert there is no reason for this domain to exist and it should be removed from the root name servers. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs(a)world.std.com | http://www.world.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo* --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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'

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Announcement: A Self-Study Course in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis
by Bruce Schneier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ever since writing Applied Cryptography, I have been asked to recommend a book on cryptanalysis. My unfortunate answer is that while there are several good books on cryptography, there are no books, good or bad, on cryptanalysis. The only way to learn cryptanalysis is through practice. A student simply has to break algorithm after algorithm, inventing new techniques and modifying existing ones. Reading others' cryptanalysis results helps, but there is no substitute for experience. To help in getting this experience, I designed a self-study course in block-cipher cryptanalysis. With it, a student can follow an ordered path through the academic literature and emerge out the other side fully capable of breaking new algorithms and publishing new cryptanalytic results. What I have done is to list published algorithms and published cryptanalyses in a coherent order: by type of cryptanalysis and difficulty. A student's task is to read papers describing algorithms, and then attempt to reproduce published cryptanalytic results. (It is definitely more difficult to learn cryptanalysis from academic papers than from a distilled textbook, but the sooner a student gets used to reading academic papers the better off he will be.) The results, in other published papers, serve as an "answer key." The paper is available in both postscript and pdf formats at: http://www.counterpane.com/self-study.html Comments are always appreciated. Bruce ********************************************************************** Bruce Schneier, President, Counterpane Systems Phone: 612-823-1098 101 E Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55419 Fax: 612-823-1590 Free crypto newsletter. See: http://www.counterpane.com

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IP: Innovative Approach to Biometric ID Authentication
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Innovative Approach to Biometric ID Authentication Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:16:35 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com/ DEL-ID... AN UNUSUAL AND INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO ID AUTHENTICATION MONTREAL, Sept. 28 /CNW-PRN/ - The market for ID authentication products that use biometric technologies is experiencing strong growth. The dominant technology at the moment uses finger prints (or, to be exact, finger print details, such as bifurcations or ridge endings). The reason is simple. It has long been accepted that finger prints are unique to each individual; this assumption is backed by probability analyses confirming that the theoretical probability of finding similar finger-print detail configurations in two different individuals is about 10(-20) (that is, about one chance in a billion billion). In practice, however, measuring errors can occur when processing finger-print images, increasing the probability of error to about one in a thousand for top-quality commercial systems. There are weaknesses in the existing approach, however. For example, privacy cannot be guaranteed when a digital finger print is used for ID authentication and large pieces of equipment are required. For these reasons, other options must be considered. The del-ID solution proposed by delSecur is an original and attractive approach. The delSecur system processes finger-print image data analogically, not digitally, creating an abstract image of the characteristics of the human finger. The video signal from the reader that captures the finger image is analogically processed. To register with the del-ID authentication system, you place your finger over the reader (without touching it, so you don't leave finger prints on it) and an abstract image of your finger print is stored. This becomes your personal electronic signature. When someone claiming to be you places his finger over the reader, a new abstract image is generated and authenticated by comparison with the stored image; a comparison matrix developed by delSecur is used to determine the similarity of the two images. The matrix, patented by delSecur, comes from the field of photography and may be combined with other metric matrices developed by CRIM or borrowed from other existing technologies. The delSecur concept is original. It is different from conventional approaches and its architecture is unusually simple. What distinguishes the delSecur concept is the representation of the finger image and the technology that allows this representation to be used for authentication. delSecur uses a patented process to create an abstract image that contains data unique to an individual. delSecur not only built a device to demonstrate the potential of the concept but also developed a preliminary architecture for the registration and authentication prototype, making it possible to analyze the concept--the maximum rotation angle for feasibility and authentication, for example. Given the encouraging results of the scientific evaluation of the basic concept of the del-ID system, delSecur, in partnership with CRIM and other firms, is planning to begin a case study and pilot projects with large Canadian and international firms to clarify and test technical details. The ultimate goal is implementation of a wide variety of applications on a very large scale. The del-ID system is marketed by delSecur, a Canadian company wholly owned by Grandeur Inc., a firm listed on the New York stock exchange. NASDAQ: GDER ©1998 PR 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. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Army goes offline in reaction to Pentagon order
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Army goes offline in reaction to Pentagon order Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:24:30 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Federal Computer Week http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/0928/web-army-9-28-98.html ---------- SEPTEMBER 28, 1998 . . . 11:50 EDT ---------- Army goes offline in reaction to Pentagon order BY BOB BREWIN (antenna(a)fcw.com) The Army slammed shut its door to the wired world last week, closing down all its World Wide Web sites in reaction to a new Pentagon Web security policy. Only the Army had such a drastic response to a Defense Department memo issued last week that spelled out what information DOD Web sites should and should not post. The Air Force, the Navy and the Marine Corps still offer the public access to popular and highly visible Web pages. The Army's move is in reaction to Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre's policy memo released Sept. 17, which directed all military organizations that maintain Web sites to review and then remove sensitive information that could aid potential enemies of the United States. Hamre said some Web sites in the past have provided "too much detail on DOD capabilities, infrastructure and operational capabilities.'' Hamre said this new policy will help DOD to "strike a balance between openness and sound security.'' The Army, according to an internal message furnished to FCW, responded by directing all commanders to ensure that "all of their publicly accessible Web sites are immediately disconnected from the Internet.'' Lt. Gen. William Campbell, the Army's director of information systems for command, control, communications and computers, sent the message at 5 p.m. Friday. He added that the shutdown could be accomplished by physically disconnecting Web servers from the public network, moving all Web site files from public to nonpublic servers or instituting control mechanisms that prohibit public access. The internal Army message also suggested that commands deal with frustrated users trying to access Army Web sites by posting a new "cover page'' (in use on many Army Web pages, including the main site at www.army.mil) that reads: "This Army Web site is not currently available. This Web site will be available again after maintenance is completed.'' The Web shutdown caught the public affairs staff at the Department of the Army's headquarters in the Pentagon by surprise. An Army spokesman was unable to offer any explanation for the move or any indication of when the sites would be operating again. ----------------------- 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. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Secret Courts Approve More Wiretapping
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Secret Courts Approve More Wiretapping Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:50:51 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Excerpted from: ---------------------------------- From: "John C. Goodman- National Center for Policy Analysis" <ncpa(a)onramp.net> National Center for Policy Analysis DAILY POLICY DIGEST Wednesday, September 30, 1998 <snip> SECRET COURTS APPROVE MORE WIRETAPPING Judges in secret federal courts are authorizing unprecedented numbers of wiretaps and clandestine searches, according to U.S. Department of Justice records. The courts were authorized by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). o During the last three years, an annual average of 760 wiretaps and searches were carried out -- a 38 percent increase from the 550 a year average for 1990 to 1994. o Since 1995, FISA courts also have authorized searches of the homes, cars, computers and other property of suspected spies. o In all, the courts have approved 11,950 applications and turned down one request. Proponents argue the surveillance reflects a stepped-up federal response to increased terrorist activity on American soil. But opponents contend that the process endangers the very liberties it seeks to protect. "There's a growing addiction to the use of secret courts as an alternative to more conventional investigative means," points out Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University. The law requires the Justice Department -- and usually the FBI or the National Security Agency -- to show the judge that the target is a foreign government or agent engaging in "clandestine intelligence gathering activities" or terrorism. Source: Richard Willing, "With Secret Courts' OK, Wiretapping on the Rise," and "Secrecy Might Be Weak Link in Taps of Suspected Spies," both USA Today, September 30, 1998. For more on Terrorism http://www.ncpa.org/pi/congress/cong9.html **************************************************************************** NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS DALLAS, TEXAS "Making Ideas Change the World" Internet Address: http://www.ncpa.org **************************************************************************** ----------------------- 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. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Courts OK record number of wiretaps
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Courts OK record number of wiretaps Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:55:30 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncs2.htm 09/30/98- Updated 12:06 AM ET The Nation's Homepage Courts OK record number of wiretaps WASHINGTON - Federal judges operating in secret courts are authorizing unprecedented numbers of wiretaps and clandestine searches aimed at spies and terrorists operating in the USA, Justice Department records show. During the last three years, an average of 760 wiretaps and searches a year were carried out, a 38% increase from the 550 a year from 1990 to 1994. Federal judges have authorized a yearly average of 463 ordinary wiretaps since 1990 in drug, organized crime and other criminal cases. Part of the growth in surveillance is attributed to an increase in espionage and terrorist activities in the USA. "There's a greater quantity of the folks who are potentially problematic out there," says Jamie Gorelick, who as deputy attorney general from 1994 to 1997 helped review wiretap applications. Proponents say the surveillance reflects a stepped-up federal response to increased terrorist activity on American soil. Opponents argue that the process endangers the very liberties it seeks to protect. "This issue is where the rubber hits the road," says William Webster, who headed the FBI in 1978 when the law allowing the secret wiretaps was passed. "It's where we try to balance the concept of our liberty against what has to be done to protect it." The wiretaps, which are applied for by the Justice Department under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and carried out by the FBI and National Security Agency, have received their greatest use yet under President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno. Since 1995, FISA courts also have authorized searches of the homes, cars, computers and other property of suspected spies. In its two decades, FISA courts have approved 11,950 applications and turned down one request. Generally, defense lawyers can challenge the basis for authorizing a wiretap. But supporting information for wiretaps authorized by the FISA court are sealed for national security reasons. "It legitimizes what would appear to be contrary to constitutional protections," says Steven Aftergood, privacy specialist at the Federation of American Scientists. "It's a challenge to the foundation of American liberties." Opponents also say the government is using the wiretaps to replace conventional criminal searches which must meet a higher legal standard. "There's a growing addiction to the use of the secret court as an alternative to more conventional investigative means," says Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The wiretaps are meant to develop intelligence, not to help make criminal cases. But the wiretap information was used to secure guilty pleas from CIA turncoats Aldrich Ames in 1994 and Harold Nicolson in 1997. By Richard Willing, USA TODAY ©COPYRIGHT 1998 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. ----------------------- 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. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Big Brother Is Monitoring Us by Databases - Sept. PSR - Part 1
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Big Brother Is Monitoring Us by Databases - Sept. PSR - Part 1 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:28:57 -0500 To: PSR(a)eagleforum.org PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT September 1998 Big Brother Is Monitoring Us by Databases The hottest issue in America today is our discovery that the Federal Government is trying to tag, track and monitor our health care records through national databases and personal identification numbers. This is a priority election issue, and every Congressional and Senatorial candidate should be ready to answer questions from his constituents. Americans are accustomed to enjoying the freedom to go about our daily lives without telling government what we are doing. The idea of having Big Brother monitor our life and activities, as forecast in George Orwell's great book 1984, is not acceptable in America. Unfortunately, the liberals, who always seek control over how we live our lives and how we spend our money, are using terrorists, criminals, illegal aliens, welfare cheats, and deadbeat dads as excuses to impose oppressive government surveillance over our private lives. It is typical of the liberals to go after law-abiding citizens rather than just the law-violators. Modern technology has made it possible to build a file on every American, and to record and track our comings and goings. Computers can now collect and store immense databases, with detailed records about individual Americans' health status and treatment, job status and applications, automobiles and driving, financial transactions, credit, banking, school and college performance, and travels within and without the country. In the novel 1984, an omnipresent Big Brother watched every citizen at home and work from a giant television screen. Databases can now accomplish the same surveillance and tracking much more efficiently. In the novel 1984, Big Brother was able to read the individual's secret diary hidden in his home. The Clinton Administration and the FBI are right now demanding the right to read our e-mail and computer files, listen in on our phone conversations, and track the whereabouts of our cell phone calls. Some of these databases are under the direct control of the government (e.g., Internal Revenue, Social Security, and the Department of Education, which has amassed 15 national databases), and some are privately owned but give access to the government. These databases convey enormous power to whoever controls them. In government hands, they are the power to control our very life, our health care, our access to a job, our financial transactions, and our entry to school and college. In private hands, these databases are immensely profitable to the companies that own them and market them for commercial purposes. The Clinton Administration, Congress, big corporations that funnel million of dollars of soft money into political coffers, and some powerful foundations have cooperated in seeking federal legislation to establish a property right in these databases. So much power and money are involved in accessing and controlling personal information that the Washington lobbyists are moving rapidly to lock in the extraordinary powers Congress has already conferred on those who build databases and to build a wall of federal protection around them. If we want to preserve American freedom, it's time to stop government access to these databases. Let's look at some of the ways that Clinton and Congress have cooperated in the building of databases that tag, track and monitor our daily lives. 1.The 1996 Kennedy-Kassebaum law (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) gives the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the power to create "unique health care identifiers" so that government can electronically tag, track and monitor every citizen's personal medical records. The plan is that everyone must submit an identification document with a unique number in order to receive health care, or the provider will not be paid. A database containing every American's medical records, identified by a unique number, was a central feature of Clinton's defeated 1994 health care bill, but it reemerged in the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill. Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Bob Dole all bragged about passing this law. 2.H.R. 4250, the 1998 Patient Protection Act, passed by the House on July 24, 1998, will allow anyone who maintains personal medical records to gather, exchange and distribute them. The only condition on distribution is that the information be used for "health care operations," which is vague and meaningless. Even worse, H.R. 4250 preempts state laws that currently protect patients from unauthorized distribution of their medical records. There are several exemptions to the gathering of information that reveal the liberal bias of the drafters of this bill: The bill exempts from the gathering of medical records any information about abortions performed on minors. That provision is a sure sign of the kind of control of health care that this bill opens up. 3.The Collections of Information Antipiracy Act (which originally had another number) was added (just before House passage) to H.R. 2281, the 1998 WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act and the Internet Copyright Infringement Liability Clarification Act. No one, of course, is in favor of "piracy," but this bill goes far beyond any reasonable definition of piracy. This Collections of Information bill, in effect, creates a new federal property right to own, manage and control personal information about you, including your name, address, telephone number, medical records, and "any other intangible material capable of being collected and organized in a systematic way." This bill provides a powerful incentive for corporations to build nationwide databases of the personal medical information envisioned by the Kennedy-Kassebaum law and the Patient Protection bill. This bill will encourage health care corporations to assign a unique national health identifier to each patient. The government can then simply agree to use a privately-assigned national identifier, and Clinton's longtime goal of government control of health care will be achieved. Under the Collections of Information bill, any information about you can be owned and controlled by others under protection of Federal law. Your medical chart detailing your visits to your doctor, for example, would suddenly become the federally protected property of other persons or corporations, and their rights would be protected by Federal police power. This bill creates a new Federal crime that penalizes a first offense by a fine of up to $250,000 or imprisonment for up to five years, or both, for interfering with this new property right. It even authorizes Federal judges to order seizure of property before a finding of wrongdoing. H.R. 2281 grants these new Federal rights only to private databases, and pretends to exclude the government's own efforts to collect information about citizens. But a loophole in the bill permits private firms to share their federally protected data with the government so long as the information is not collected under a specific government agency or license agreement. This loophole will encourage corporations, foundations, Washington insiders and political donors to build massive databases of citizens' medical and other personal records, and then share that data with the government. 4.The 1993 Comprehensive Child Immunization Act authorized the Department of Health and Human Services "to establish state registry systems to monitor the immunization status of all children." HHS and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have since sent hundreds of millions of dollars to states to set up these databases (often without parental knowledge or consent). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is aggressively trying to convert these state databases into a national database of all children's medical records. The CDC is using the tracking of immunizations as a ruse to build a national patient information system. The government is already demanding that all newborns and all children who enter school be given the controversial Hepatitis B vaccine. This is just the start of government control of our health care made possible by databases of medical records. 5.The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (especially Section 656(b)) prohibits the use of state driver's licenses after Oct. 1, 2000 unless they contain Social Security numbers as the unique numeric identifier "that can be read visually or by electronic means." The act requires all driver's licenses to conform to regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Transportation, and it is clearly an attempt to convert driver's licenses into national I.D. Cards. This law also orders the Transportation Department to engage in "consultation" with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, which has long urged using driver's licenses, with Social Security numbers and digital fingerprinting, as a de facto national ID card that would enable the government to track everyone's movements throughout North America. When Social Security was started, the government made a contract with the American people that the Social Security number would never be used for identification. Call this another broken promise. Meanwhile, many states are already trying to legislate driver's licenses that are actually a "smart card" with a magnetic strip that contains a digitized fingerprint, retina scan, DNA print, voice print, or other biometric identifiers. These smart cards will leave an electronic trail every time you use it. New Jersey's proposed smart card would even track your payment of bridge and highway tolls and loans of books from the library, as well as credit card purchases and visits to your doctor. 6.The 1996 Welfare Reform Act (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reform Act) sets up the Directory of New Hires. All employers are now required to send the government the name, address and Social Security number of every new worker and every employee who is promoted. This will eventually be a massive database, tracking nearly every worker in America. 7.Public-private partnerships. An example of how databases and copyrights, in partnerships with the government, can be used for private gain and control over millions of people is the way the American Medical Association (AMA) worked out an exclusive contract with the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The AMA developed and copyrighted a database of 6,000 medical procedures and treatments to use as a billing system. The AMA then contracted with HCFA to force the entire health care industry (including all doctors) to buy and use the AMA's system. A federal Court of Appeals reviewed this peculiar AMA/HCFA arrangement and, in August 1997, held that the AMA had "misused its copyright by licensing the [payment coding system] to HCFA in exchange for HCFA's agreement not to use a competing coding system." The court stated, "The plain language of the AMA's licensing agreement requires HCFA to use the AMA's copyrighted coding system and prohibits HCFA from using any other." This exclusive government-granted monopoly is worth tens of millions of dollars annually to the AMA, and it ensures the AMA's support of any Clinton health care proposal, no matter how socialistic. This type of public-private partnership, often concealed from public scrutiny, is becoming the preferred technique to advance the liberal agenda. The American people do not want their private life and activities monitored by Big Brother. Tell your Congressman and Senator to repeal all these provisions which protect the building of databases that track our daily activities. ------------------------------------ To read the entire September 98 PSR go to: http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1998/sept98/psrsept98.html ------------------------------------ The "Dirty Dozen" . . . Here are the 12 Republicans who voted to uphold Clinton's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban. http://www.eagleforum.org/alert/98-09-22/dirty_dozen.html ------------------------------------ JOIN EAGLE FORUM! To receive the Phyllis Schlafly Report HARDCOPY -- Subscription: $20 per year Send check or money order to: Eagle Forum * P.O. 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IP: Navy investigating GSU computer hacker
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Navy investigating GSU computer hacker Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:42:56 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Savannah Morning News http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/093098/LOCgsuhacker.html U.S. Navy investigating GSU computer hacker University computer was used to break into a government computer. By Jenel Williams Few Savannah Morning News Someone used a Georgia Southern University writing and linguistics department classroom computer to break into government files and the U.S. Navy wants to know why. The Naval Criminal Investigation Office is looking into a computer hacking case at Georgia Southern University, according to Bryan Stamper, special agent in charge at the Jacksonville, Fla., office. John Glacier, assistant director for technical support at Georgia Southern, said the school was recently asked to find out which of its computers was used to access computer files from a government agency. "We believe it was from our model classroom during a scheduled classtime," Glacier said. He tracked the school's computer records and discovered that someone used a computer in the writing and linguistics department's model classroom to hack into a government computer while a class was in session. "They ran a file transfer protocol program, which allows you to download files and gain access to someone else's computer," Glacier said. Details about the Navy's investigation will be made available at a later date. Computer hacking can carry serious federal penalties, according to Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent William Kirkconnell. An innocent infiltration may not merit any punishment, but using a computer to steal classified government information could be considered espionage, he said. "It depends on what agency was affected, whether it was done maliciously and whether the information was used for criminal purposes," he said. Glacier said he does not know who used the campus computer to break into government files or how much information was accessed. "They wouldn't say if files were downloaded or uploaded," Glacier said, referring to bringing information into the GSU computer or taking information from the GSU computer and sending it to another one. "They haven't questioned any students." Although he doesn't know the culprit's motivation, Glacier said these types of incidents often occur among bright, curious students. "College-age students want to apply the knowledge they have gained about computers," he said. "What they've learned in high school and college intuitively generates curiosity and they want a challenge." Last year, in a similar incident, Glacier said a hacker tried to hide some computer mischief by calling a Georgia Southern computer and linking up to computers from the Philippines to the Midwest before breaking into government files. "It alarms me that we would be used that way, but it occurs around the world and it's not too hard to use computers this way," Glacier said. Higher education reporter Jenel Williams Few can be reached at 652-0325. Web posted Wednesday, September 30, 1998 ----------------------- 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. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Chinese Govt Bans Controversial Clinton Book
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Chinese Govt Bans Controversial Clinton Book Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:16:35 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: US Newswire http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0929-126.txt PRIMA: Chinese Government Bans Controversial Clinton Book U.S. Newswire 29 Sep 15:06 PRIMA Publishing: Chinese Government Bans Controversial Clinton Book To: National Desk Contact: Diana Banister of Craig Shirley & Associates, 800-536-5920, pager: 703-816-9368 WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by Prima Publishing: Chinese authorities have refused to allow three publishing houses to translate a new book -- "The Clinton Syndrome, The President and the Self-Destructive Nature of Sexual Addiction" by California-based Prima Publishing. The book takes a clinical look at the life and behavior of Bill Clinton and explains why the president would risk his presidency for a sexual relationship with an intern. "We have been told that the Chinese government does not want to make a book of this kind available in China because they consider it unfavorable to President Clinton," says Robin Taylor, rights associate at Prima Publishing. "The Chinese authorities apparently don't understand why Americans treat their president just like any other person and allow citizens to write about their government leaders." In "The Clinton Syndrome," Jerome D. Levin, Ph.D., a psychotherapist, addictions specialist and professor, assesses the character of a man so driven by a sexual addiction that he would risk his presidency to fulfill a desperate need for reassurance and validation of his worth. Prima does not consider the Clinton Syndrome an "anti-Clinton" book. In fact, Dr. Levin voted for President Clinton twice and agrees with his policies. But he still believes the president is in serious need of help for a classic case of sexual addiction. "We work with foreign publishers around the world on numerous books," says Taylor. "Never have we had the subject matter of a book impede its publication in a foreign country. But I guess it's understandable when you consider the relationship between the Clinton administration and the current Chinese government." "The Clinton Syndrome," published by Prima Publishing of Rocklin, Calif., is available in bookstores nationwide. For more information or to schedule an interview with Dr. Jerome D. Levin or a Prima spokesman, please call Ciana Banister at 800-536-5920. -0- /U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ 09/29 15:06 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. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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