December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

GoLive CyberStudio 30-day Activation Key
by sales＠golive.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Fritzie, Thank you for downloading the GoLive CyberStudio Tryout software. Your official 30-day activation key is: TRIA1MT23NFJD8MXGGJ85UDA You'll need to enter this key when you first start-up the software. Included with the GoLive CyberStudio installation are the latest Release Notes and New Product Features for GoLive CyberStudio. NOTE: If you are using Stuffit Expander 4.5.x to decode and decompress PDF documents, please make sure the cross platform preference and the option "Convert Text Files to Macintosh Format" is set to "Never". If you have questions about how to use the Tryout software, GoLive's knowledgeable Technical Support staff is available to assist you. We suggest you first check the Technical Support section of our Web site www.golive.com. If you don't find your answers there, please send us an email at support(a)golive.com or call 1-800-554-6638. When you are ready to purchase GoLive CyberStudio or if you want to know more about why GoLive CyberStudio is the best product for Web site design, please return to our Web site or contact me at 1-800-554-6638 or 1-650-463-1580. Sincerely, Dan Fernandez Director US Sales GoLive Systems Sales(a)Golive.com

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No Subject
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpt from the Canadian Firearms Digest, V2 #612 ================ begin forwarded opinion =============== Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:40:01 -0600 From: someone(a)somewhere.net Subject: RCMP now have .50 cal. BMG's I have just learned from a highly reliable confidential source that in addition to the .50 cal McMillian sniper rifles and the untalked about Barrett Light .50's, the RCMP have now added to their arsenal a number of .50 cal. Browning Machine Guns. Staff from the RCMP are headed to Belgium to be trained in the armoring of these military heavy machine guns. Machine guns may at some point be used against the Canadian public, possibly to quell a native disturbance or other civil unrest. If we were attacked by outside forces the military would be the pressed into service, as this is not the role of the RCMP. This leads one to ask what use the RCMP, who are a police force not an army in occupation, would have for such heavy armament ...... or is it possible that I have it wrong, possibly they are now an army in occupation. Is it possible that the RCMP are now the political policing arm of the Government. The lethality of this weapon makes pepper spray look like a Sunday shower. Maybe this is the next weapon demonstrators will be facing at the orders of the PM's office. ================ end forwarded opinion ================ Ciao all. Definition: FASCISM: n.: a political and economic movement, strongly nationalistic, magnifying the rights of the state as opposed to those of the individual, in which industry, though remaining largely under private ownership, and all administrative political units, are controlled by a strong central government. ------------------------------------------------- "One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms". - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. ------------------------------------------------- the German gun control laws were enacted by the "liberal" Weimar Republic government that preceded Hitler, and were a strong aid to his coming to power -- because they disarmed Hitler's opponents, and Hitler's adherents ignored them -- as criminals have always ignored gun control laws. Disarming the public is a frequent first step toward dictatorships and genocides. Once the disarming is complete, the public is helpless against those who have the guns. ------------------------------------------------- PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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GoLive CyberStudio 30-day Activation Key
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Dumbshit, Thank you for spamming the Cypherpunks list with an ad for your crippleware and your lame, pathetically designed web site. Your official 30-day activation key is: ISUCKANDCANTWRITEHTMLANDISPAM You'll need to enter this key when you try to activate your brain. Included in response to all spams to the Cypherpunks list are free tests which will be run on your system. Any security holes we find will not be reported, but exploited. NOTE: If you are using FuckIt Spammer 1.0.x to spam your ad, please make sure you walk off a high-rise ledge and fall several hundred feet or we may have to make sure you do it, and you probably don't want that. If you have questions about your computer security, you do not need to send to Cypherpunks. You have already requested that your machine be checked for all security holes and that any found will be exploited to make you look even stupider than you make yourselves look. We also suggest you learn how to make a web site. Please visit http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/. If you don't find your answers there, please walk in front of an 18-wheeler going 70mph, or call 911 and phone in a bomb threat. When you are ready to put yourself out of our misery, please slash your wrists and play vampire. It's simple so your simple minds should be able to handle it, but it is a little messy. Sincerely, The Cypherpunks cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 sales(a)golive.com spammed: > > Dear Fritzie, > > Thank you for downloading the GoLive CyberStudio Tryout > software. > > Your official 30-day activation key is: TRIA1MT23NFJD8MXGGJ85UDA > > You'll need to enter this key when you first start-up the > software. > > Included with the GoLive CyberStudio installation are the > latest Release Notes and New Product Features for GoLive > CyberStudio. > > NOTE: If you are using Stuffit Expander 4.5.x to decode and > decompress PDF documents, please make sure the cross > platform preference and the option "Convert Text Files to > Macintosh Format" is set to "Never". > > If you have questions about how to use the Tryout software, > GoLive's knowledgeable Technical Support staff is available > to assist you. We suggest you first check the Technical > Support section of our Web site www.golive.com. If you don't > find your answers there, please send us an email at > support(a)golive.com or call 1-800-554-6638. > > When you are ready to purchase GoLive CyberStudio or if you > want to know more about why GoLive CyberStudio is the best > product for Web site design, please return to our Web site > or contact me at 1-800-554-6638 or 1-650-463-1580. > > Sincerely, > > Dan Fernandez > Director US Sales > GoLive Systems > Sales(a)Golive.com > >

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RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > The only objection to releasing an API is to > stifle competition, *THAT* is a bad thing. There are a number of other reasons -- principally support and backwards compatibility costs. If you release an API for a commercial application for ISVs, you better make sure it is relatively bug-free and mature. As soon as someone else's code relies on that API, you are stuck with making sure it continues to work as the product evolves. There is nothing wrong with public and private APIs, and we hope that the ad hoc private APIs from some midnight-oil-burning-hack to get the product to ship on time that have useful functionality will eventually be integrated into a mature public API. Modular OOP design means you have lots of interfaces, you don't necessarily want people to be able to dig in-between all the pieces of your program -- often you cannot protect application/data integrity if they do. It's like custom software versus shrink-wrap. I write a lot of custom software, it works for what it needs to do for a specific scenario, if that changes I modify and recompile. There is a *lot* of work -- time, money, *my* cost -- to take that custom application and make it flexible and generic enough to be shrink-wrap and work in all scenarios. And if I don't do it well enough I have a major support/liability problem. Same applies to public vs private APIs. > The idea from a free-market perspective: > Had Microsoft, for example, been required to publish their > API's by the market we wouldn't be spending all this effort You state free-market and then you are *requiring* someone to do something? How do you resolve that contradiction? Require = Force != Free[dom] As far as *commercial* software vendors go, Microsoft is one of the better companies for publishing APIs and creating useful APIs and tools for Rapid Application Development. Do you subscribe to MSDN? Please do before you crucify Microsoft for lack of APIs, if anything they have too many. > Bottem line, if you believe in a free-market (which requires fair > competition to work and prevent monopolies) Pure speculative nonsense contrary to empirical evidence. Market distortions the government creates are far worse than any Wonderland monopoly you can dream up that will exist in a true free market. Matt

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Halifax, Canada PGP key-signing party
by M Taylor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Nova Scotia Linux Users Group (nsLUG, www.nslug.ns.ca) is considering a PGP key-signing party in October 1998 in the metro Halifax area. If you are interested, please contact me, so I can inform you of the exact date & location. -- M Taylor mctaylor@ / glyphmetrics.ca | privacy.nb.ca

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IP: [FP] National registry to track child support
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> Subject: IP: [FP] National registry to track child support Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:59:33 -0500 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com ====================================================================== SCAN THIS NEWS 09/28/98 --------------------------------------------------------------- Ya know, they could darn near track anyone with this thing... --------------------------------------------------------------- 09/28/98- Updated 12:15 AM ET The Nation's Homepage National registry to track child support WASHINGTON - Beginning Wednesday, every one of the 16 million parents nationwide who are required to pay child support will be logged into a massive database to help the federal government track down those who fail to pay. [Well that's nice, now they'll be in there with the rest of us sheeple.] The registry will allow authorities to keep tabs on the more than 5 million parents, most of them fathers, who have moved to another state after a divorce, separation or breakup. [Yea, and about 200 million of us who haven't.] Many reneged or fell behind on support payments, says Michael Kharfen, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which will run the database. "Before, it was very difficult for a state to track down where the parent went, where he was working and how much money he was actually making," Kharfen says. "This database will track them, no matter where in the country they move." [Hey Keefer, there was a reason it was difficult - it was called liberty!] Critics of the registry say it violates the privacy of law-abiding parents. "Because someone gets a divorce doesn't mean their job, their income, should become an open book," fathers' rights attorney D. Gerald Williams says. [Wrong answer: critics are opposed to it because it violates fundamental rights of the "non-delinquent" citizens by forcing them into the same "locating and tracking" system.] Kharfen counters that the system is critical to states, which collect only about 22% of the $50 billion owed in child support every year. By federal estimates, 60% of parents involved in child custody cases renege on their payments. [Keefer - get out of the social payments system altogether. Then, you won't have this huge problem you've created -- "tracking delinquent parents."] Officials estimate that the system will recoup $10 billion in delinquent payments a year. [Probably about 20% of what the system costs to operate, and about 5% of what the "system" spends as a whole.] To track down scofflaws, the government will compare its list of parents with another new database that contains employment records for more than 140 million workers in the United States. That database, which was unveiled in October 1997, lists an employee's identity, address and salary. By cross-referencing lists, "we'll be able to tell the state that's looking for him whether they should start going for his paycheck," Kharfen says. [And it's about time for the citizenry to start going after some Congressmen's paycheck Keefer, then, perhaps, yours to follow!] By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY [With comments by Scott McDonald - today] http://search.usatoday.com/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+default+news+5734+0+wAAA +registry --------------------------------------------------------------- [thanks to J. Groom for the forward] ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <fingerprint(a)networkusa.org> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <majordomo(a)efga.org> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. Or, to be removed type "unsubscribe scan" in the message BODY. For additional instructions see www.efga.org/about/maillist.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Scan This News" is Sponsored by S.C.A.N. Host of the "FIGHT THE FINGERPRINT!" web page: www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.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: Group 'No Privacy for Privacy Hypocrites' Surveys Congress
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Group 'No Privacy for Privacy Hypocrites' Surveys Congress Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:32:02 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: US Newswire http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0928-131.txt Privacy Group Surveys Congress U.S. Newswire 28 Sep 18:17 Group 'No Privacy for Privacy Hypocrites' Surveys Congress To: National Desk Contact: James Love, 202-387-3080 WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- No Privacy for Privacy Hypocrites, a citizen's group formed to counteract the assault on privacy by the Kenneth Starr/congressional investigations into President Clinton's sex life, has distributed a survey to Members of Congress regarding their views on privacy. Members of Congress who oppose privacy rights will be asked whether or not they have ever participated in an adulterous affair, and whether or not they have lied about it. The group is concerned that the Kenneth Starr/congressional investigations into the president's sex life are having a negative impact on privacy that will affect ordinary citizens. "This whole sad affair is the product of decades-long disrespect for privacy, for which our political leaders are responsible," said Evan Hendricks, Editor and Publisher of "Privacy Times," and one of the organizers of the group. "This effort is intended to arrest the free fall of privacy rights triggered by the stunning abuses of power by the Starr investigation and the Congressional dissemination of personal information," said James Love. Today, No Privacy for Privacy Hypocrites distributed a survey to Members of Congress asking: 1. (A) Is consensual, non-commercial sexual conduct by adults in private ever a proper subject for government inquiry? (B) Do you believe that any branch of government should investigate allegations that elected officials may have participated in an adulterous affair, including allegations that they may have lied about it? 2. If you answered "yes" to (A) or (B) in question (1): (A) Have you ever participated in an adulterous affair? (B) If yes, have you ever lied about it? 3. Do you think that any public official who has committed adultery and lied about it should resign from public office? Survey responses will be placed on the web at: http://www.noprivacy.org, as soon the surveys are returned. -0- /U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ 09/28 18:17 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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IP: Fwd: [Spooks] NSA Allegedly Spied on Businesses
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Bridget973(a)aol.com Subject: IP: Fwd: [Spooks] NSA Allegedly Spied on Businesses Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:37:12 EDT To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: [Spooks] NSA Allegedly Spied on Businesses Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:36:35 -0500 From: Bob Margolis <rttyman(a)wwa.com> To: Spooks <spooks(a)qth.net> U.S. Spy Agency Helped U.S. Companies Win Business Overseas-Report September 21, 1998 Nikkei English News: TOKYO (AP)--A U.S. intelligence agency electronically eavesdropped on foreign companies and passed information to U.S. competitors to help them win business overseas, a major Tokyo newspaper reported Saturday. The National Security Agency monitored phone calls, faxes and electronic mail of European and Japanese companies since at least 1990, the Mainichi newspaper said, citing a report Wednesday by the European Parliament, the European Union's legislature. The newspaper quoted the report as saying the NSA, in an operation named "Echelon," used its vast eavesdropping network to listen to business negotiations. The Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence were also involved, the paper said. The paper said the report was submitted Wednesday to parliament by its research bureau. Some of the findings also appeared in a January report, the paper said. In one case, the NSA monitored talks between French electronics company Thomson-CSF and the Brazilian government over sale of a radar system. An unnamed U.S. company ended up winning the contract, the paper said. The paper also said the NSA listened in on 1990 negotiations between Japan's NEC Corp. and the Indonesian government over the purchase of telecommunications machinery. It used the information to urge Jakarta to award half the contract to AT&T, the paper said. --- Submissions should be sent to spooks(a)qth.net To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe spooks" to majordomo(a)qth.net -- bridget973(a)aol.com Black Helicopters on the Horizon: http://members.xoom.com/bridget973 ********************************************** 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: Fwd: [Spooks] CIA Operative sentenced to five years imprisonment
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Bridget973(a)aol.com Subject: IP: Fwd: [Spooks] CIA Operative sentenced to five years imprisonment Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:03:52 EDT To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com http://www.abcnews.com/wire/US/AP19980925_1626.html AP News Service WASHINGTON (AP) _ A former CIA operative was sentenced to five years in prison today for trying to extort $1 million from the agency in exchange for his silence about government eavesdropping operations. Douglas Fred Groat, 51, pleaded guilty to the extortion charge in July. As part of the plea agreement, federal prosecutors dropped four counts of espionage, including charges that Groat told two foreign governments the CIA had cracked their coded communications. U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Groat's actions appeared to stem from his ``almost becoming obsessed'' about a job dispute with the CIA. ``I don't think at any time you really had any intention of trying to harm our national security,'' Hogan said. The judge said he would recommend housing Groat in a minimum-security prison and ordered him to serve three years of supervised release after completing his sentence. Groat, a burly, bearded man, did not speak in the courtroom except to clarify part of his written statement to the court, which was not immediately released. He said that in complaining about the ``harsh conditions of my solitary confinement,'' he did not mean to imply that any federal officials treated him harshly. His lawyer, public defender Robert L. Tucker, said the case was ``a shame'' and that Groat's actions ``everybody would agree had their genesis in a dispute with the CIA about employment.'' Prosecutors said in July a trial in the case could have forced them to disclose sensitive national security information. Groat agreed to help the government sort out whether his activities damaged national security, and he promised to submit any books, articles or interviews to federal officials for security review. Prosecutor Ron Walutes told Hogan the government was ``fully satisfied'' with Groat's cooperation since his guilty plea on July 27. Groat, a former employee of the CIA division that develops eavesdropping plans and code-breaking technology, worked for the CIA from 1980 until he was fired in October 1996. Early in his career, he served as a field operative participating in break-ins of foreign embassies. In a summary agreed to in July by Groat, prosecutors said he sent a series of letters to the CIA in 1996 and 1997 demanding $1 million and saying that in return he would not engage in ``any activities which may hinder present or future intelligence gathering efforts.'' Officials did not identify the two countries Groat had been accused of aiding. Groat was held without bail since he was arrested in April. He will be able to collect his CIA pension when he turns 62. He could have been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Groat had been the third current or former CIA employee arrested on espionage charges in the past four years. However, he was lower-ranking than Alrich Ames and Harold Nicholson, who pleaded guilty and are imprisoned for selling secrets to Moscow. Copyright 1998 AP News Service. All rights reserved --- Submissions should be sent to spooks(a)qth.net To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe spooks" to majordomo(a)qth.net -- bridget973(a)aol.com Black Helicopters on the Horizon: http://members.xoom.com/bridget973 ********************************************** 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: NSA listening practices called European `threat'
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: NSA listening practices called European `threat' Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:43:12 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Baltimore Sun http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/editorial/story.cgi?storyid=900000194001 NSA listening practices called European `threat' European Parliament report accuses agency of widespread spying By Neal Thompson Sun Staff The National Security Agency has incurred the wrath of some U.S. allies and triggered debate about increased global eavesdropping, thanks to a new report that accuses the agency of spying on European citizens and companies. With the help of a listening post in the moors of northern England, NSA for nearly a decade has been snatching Europe's electronic communications signals, according to a report for the European Parliament. "Within Europe, all e-mail, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency, transferring all target information to Fort Meade," said the report. `Powerful threat' It warned that the NSA's tactics represent a "powerful threat to civil liberties in Europe" at a time when more communication -- and commerce -- is conducted electronically. A preliminary version of the report circulated overseas in recent months, touching off heated debate, with front-page stories in Italy, France, Scotland, England, Belgium and even Russia. The NSA won't discuss the report or even admit that the listening post exists. But this week, two days of debate in the European Parliament continued the extraordinary public disclosure of comprehensive post-Cold War spying by the agency. On Wednesday, the Parliament passed a resolution seeking more accountability from such eavesdropping arrangements and more assurances that they won't be misused. "We want to make sure that somebody's watching them," said Glyn Ford, a British member of the European Parliament, the legislative body for the 15-member European Union. Observers say this was the first time a governmental body has described in detail -- and then criticized -- the NSA's tactics. "The cat's well and true out of the bag," said Simon Davies, director of the London-based watchdog group Privacy International. "I would argue that we have made the grandest step in 50 years toward accountability of such national security transparencies." The report describes a sophisticated program called Echelon, which the NSA established in conjunction with British intelligence agencies. The program includes a listening post in Menwith Hill, in Yorkshire, whose satellite dishes soak up the satellite and microwave transmissions carrying Europe's telephone conversations, faxes and e-mail. Unlike Cold War spying aimed at the military, Echelon is a global electronic surveillance system that targets individuals, businesses, governments and organizations, the report says. The U.S. shares the information with Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as part of an intelligence-sharing agreement called UKUSA. Each nation has its own set of key words, so it can seek information on specific issues, the report states. Europe is but a fraction of Echelon's target area -- and the Menwith Hill post is one of at least 10 around the world, the report adds. "One reason its a bigger deal over there than it is over here [in the U.S.] is because the SIGINT [signals intelligence] systems are over their heads and not our heads," said Jeffrey Richelson, an analyst with the National Security Archives, a U.S. group seeking to declassify intelligence related documents. Echelon repercussions But the disclosure of Echelon could soon resonate across the Atlantic after the European Parliament action. Furthermore, it could complicate current negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union over encryption programs that scramble or encode computer information, said Parliament member Ford. The U.S. has been lobbying for back-door access to such codes for security reasons. Originally published on Sep 19 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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