December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: I don't care if this is real or not! But forwarding is not hard for me if I help
by GORDON, JEFFREY A 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

>From http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021798/web217__.html Chain letter: Poor Timothy Flyte. He's dying of ostriopliosis of the liver and is urging Internet users to forward his electronic chain letter to everyone in their address books. The letter says a children's hospital will donate 7 cents to the National Disease Society for every person who forwards the letter. But wait: There is no such disease as ''ostriopliosis,'' there is no such thing as the National Disease Society and the name Timothy Flyte apparently was taken from Peter O'Toole's character in the movie Phantoms. At the end, the letter includes a threat to those who don't forward it that ''what goes around comes around.'' This piece of e-junk is a particularly loathsome example of Internet chain letters. If you receive this letter or any other electronic chain letter, do the world a favor: Delete it without forwarding it to anyone and inform the person who sent it to you that the letter is a hoax. For the full story on this letter, see The Mining Co.'s guide to urban legends. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chiu Ngan [SMTP:simpsonngan@hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 4:52 AM > To: dueli(a)hotmail.com; centrebet(a)centrebet.com.au; contact(a)unsw.edu.au; > Declan(a)well.com; Dodwellleung(a)hotmail.com; dlin(a)gpu.srv.ualberta.ca; > dorngan(a)hkstar.com.hk; cypherpunks(a)toad.com; cj2802(a)singnet.com.sg; > parsley(a)unforgettable.com; S.Lundy(a)unsw.edu.au; accounts(a)magna.com.au; > n.harding(a)unsw.edu.au; philiph(a)magna.com.au; ulf(a)fitug.de; > leevv(a)hotmail.com; vanessa.ho(a)mailexcite.com > Subject: Fwd: I don't care if this is real or not! But forwarding is > not hard for me if I help > > > > >Received: from 136.148.1.253 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; > > Tue, 15 Sep 1998 05:55:15 PDT > >X-Originating-IP: [136.148.1.253] > >From: "Dodwell Leung" <dodwellleung(a)hotmail.com> > >To: alexccl(a)hotmail.com, z2181727(a)student.unsw.edu.au, > antonylam(a)hotmail.com, chonga(a)sbu.ac.uk, z2183890(a)student.unsw.edu.au, > lcy(a)qms.ndirect.co.uk, z2155343(a)student.unsw.edu.au, bahrid(a)hotmail.com, > daner(a)mail.mkv.mh.se, Evert.P.deVries(a)SI.shell.com, > harold.tan(a)mailexcite.com, ivanyip(a)hotmail.com, catkoo(a)hotmail.com, > jennyshek(a)hotmail.com, BKKsomporb(a)mail.nomura.com.hk, > joe621(a)netvigator.com, heyloe(a)hotmail.com, kmyk(a)hotmail.com, > kenjess(a)apanet.com.au, lawhon(a)hotmail.com, lfan(a)mail.uoknor.edu, > 95481624J(a)hkpucc.polyu.edu.hk, shukai(a)netvigator.com, > z2188635(a)student.unsw.edu.au, mattgow(a)hotmail.com, > z2192026(a)student.unsw.edu.au, z2174314(a)student.unsw.edu.au, > Steeve.Genot(a)wanadoo.fr, hsp996(a)hotmail.com, physpot(a)asiaonline.net, > pixie_tan(a)hotmail.com, pooi_lee_chow(a)hotmail.com, eeyatir(a)hotmail.com, > saralee(a)chevalier.net, patelsu(a)sbu.ac.uk, beetch(a)pacific.net.sg, > z2188232(a)student.unsw.edu.au, simpsonngan(a)hotmail.com, > yoon(a)pacific.net.sg, hamster.sol(a)lineone.net, stepcom(a)hkstar.com, > ext3366(a)yahoo.com, tinyau1(a)netvigator.com, z2193851(a)student.unsw.edu.au, > huvl(a)sbu.ac.uk, z2193612(a)student.unsw.edu.au, willmilk(a)hotmail.com, > wswinnie(a)netvigator.com, brackeye(a)hkstar.com, takleung(a)wisdom.com.hk > >Subject: I don't care if this is real or not! But forwarding is not > hard for me if I help > >Content-Type: text/plain > >Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 05:55:15 PDT > > > > > >>Received: from 202.184.46.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; > >> Tue, 15 Sep 1998 01:39:48 PDT > >>X-Originating-IP: [202.184.46.2] > >>From: "san san" <seliness(a)hotmail.com> > >>To: alanling(a)usa.net, calviny(a)mol.net.my, chowpin(a)edb.gov.sg, > >chan911(a)pc.jaring.my, gary_wang(a)hotmail.com, junifer(a)pl.jaring.my, > >karren(a)deakin.edu.au, klay(a)okstate.edu, lkhoong(a)pc.jaring.my, > >mcch(a)hotmail.com, murphy_l(a)hotmail.com, simfong(a)pl.jaring.my, > >stchai(a)pl.jaring.my, mote(a)hotmail.com, tlliew(a)tm.net.my, > >wthong(a)pl.jaring.my, dodwellleung(a)hotmail.com > >>Subject: Fwd: This is serious PLEEEEEEASE PLEASE DON'T DELETE!!!!! > >>Content-Type: text/plain > >>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 01:39:48 PDT > >> > >> > >>>Received: from 202.188.25.160 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; > >>> Mon, 14 Sep 1998 06:27:23 PDT > >>>X-Originating-IP: [202.188.25.160] > >>>From: "Lim Huey" <shaohuey(a)hotmail.com> > >>>To: alexlimyk(a)hotmail.com, audrey.looi(a)mailexcite.com, > >>kianwah19(a)hotmail.com, enyen(a)hotmail.com, s9812221(a)unitele.com.my, > >>rckj(a)hotmail.com, seliness(a)hotmail.com, stanchow(a)tm.net.my, > >>bhchua7(a)hotmail.com, csheng(a)rocketmail.com, yoongyow(a)hotmail.com, > >>ching20(a)hotmail.com, lphoo(a)hotmail.com, ken_thong(a)rocketmail.com, > >>twinsck(a)hotmail.com, poaysun(a)yahoo.com, mda97mk(a)sheffield.ac.uk, > >>yongqiang13(a)hotmail.com, sammy_lee_79(a)hotmail.com, > >>tungweileong(a)hotmail.com, lifesignx(a)yahoo.com, elim331(a)yahoo.com, > >>lwloh(a)hotmail.com, audrey.looi(a)mailcity.com, sokyee(a)pc.jaring.my, > >>kah_kit(a)hotmail.com, siewgar(a)hotmail.com, chiane(a)mailcity.com, > >>Vvpenguin(a)hotmail.com, pkleong(a)hotmail.com, phangf(a)hotmail.com, > >>rolandhii(a)hotmail.com, stjdanzel(a)hotmail.com, leesiehui(a)hotmail.com, > >>jeennwei(a)hotmail.com, chouyong(a)hotmail.com, ttc1979(a)yahoo.com, > >>guatyen(a)hotmail.com, chonkit(a)hotmail.com, thongyp(a)hotmail.com, > >>soonfung(a)hotmail.com, tsueyyin(a)hotmail.com, feiyy(a)hotmail.com > >>>Subject: Fwd: This is serious PLEEEEEEASE PLEASE DON'T DELETE!!!!! > >>>Content-Type: text/plain > >>>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 06:27:23 PDT > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 04:25:43 -0700 (PDT) > >>>>From: CHEW JUNN WENG <jwchew(a)rocketmail.com> > >>>>Subject: This is serious PLEEEEEEASE PLEASE DON'T DELETE!!!!! > >>>>To: lmoonc(a)hotmail.com, pvcheo(a)essex.ac.uk, cwnsim(a)essex.ac.uk, > >>>> yoongyow(a)hotmail.com, lenelene(a)hotmail.com, gcping38(a)mailcity.com, > >>>> gthong(a)rocketmail.com, ching20(a)hotmail.com, > lcchuan(a)rocketmail.com, > >>>> moon(a)tm.net.my, shaohuey(a)hotmail.com, janelsl(a)tm.net.my, > >>>> csheng(a)rocketmail.com, hwooi(a)yahoo.com, dianacn(a)hotmail.com, > >>>> stjdanzel(a)hotmail.com, effyjungle(a)hotmail.com, > >bus_tard(a)hotmail.com, > >>>> lphoo(a)hotmail.com, yakasaki(a)hotmail.com, colint79(a)hotmail.com > >>>>Cc: anniesia(a)hotmail.com, pearlng(a)hotmail.com, liangser(a)hotmail.com, > >>>> choopar(a)hotmail.com > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Hello, my name is David "Darren" Bucklew. I live in > >>>>Pittsburgh PA where I attend Bethel Park High School > >>>>and participate in many sports. I have severe > >>>>ostriopliosis of the liver. (My liver is extremely > >>>>inflamed). > >>>>Modern Science has yet to find a cure. Valley > >>>>Childrens hospital > >>>>> has agreed to donate 7 cents to the National > >>>>Diesese Society for every name > >>>> on this letter.Please send it around as much as you > >>>>can. > >>>>Thank you, > >>>>Darren > >>>> > >>>>PS: For those of you who dont take 5 minutes to do > >>>>this, what goes around comes around. You can help > >>>>sick people, and it costs you nothing,yet you are too > >>>>lazy to do it? 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Your new password
by sixdegrees 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Anonymous 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

On Feb. 1, 1996, the US House of Representatives voted to pass the Telecommunications Reform Act. This Act included the Communications Decency Act, which sought to criminalize posting to the Internet any material deemed indecent and patently offensive, with no exception for socially redeeming material. On Sept. 11, 1998, the US House of Representatives voted to release the Referral of Independent Counsel Starr on the Internet. 365 individuals were Members of Congress during these two votes, 196 Republicans and 169 Democrats. Of that total, 284, or 77.6%, voted Aye both times. 185 of the Republicans, or 94.4%, voted Aye both times. 96 of the Democrats, or 56.8%, voted Aye both times. Had the Communications Decency Act withstood judicial review (which it did not), posting the Starr report to the Internet arguably would have subjected the posters to fines of $250,000 and 5 years in prison. The question of who voted for both the CDA and the release of the Starr report is not cut-and-dried, because Congress did not record a roll-call vote for the CDA in isolation, but only for its vehicle the Telecommunications Reform Act. Also, the vote Friday to post the Starr report was primarily a vote to start up impeachment machinery. Nevertheless, if accountability to the voters means anything in this democracy, the Congress members who voted "Aye" on both February 1, 1996 and September 11, 1998 ought to come in for a bit of uncomfortable public exposure. <href=http://www.tbtf.com/resource/hypocrites.html>http://www.tbtf.com/resource/hypocrites.html</a>

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Political purges and Bill C-68
by Jean-Francois Avon 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Hi to all of you. I know most of you personnally, except for the posts to mailing lists and public organisms. ------------------ beginning of letter --------------- Yesterday night, around 2am, I was unable to sleep and surfing the TV channels up until I fell on a movie on the ShowCase channel. This channel is devoted to repertoire cinema and less mainstream movies. As I flick to this channel, I see something I can't take my eyes off for it's overwhelming revolting topic: a bunch of corpses are on a dolly, each of one being tied by the feet to a crane cable and quickly, efficiently taken away to a big heap of corpses. Then, a lineup of peoples, waiting in line to pass before some officer. They are promplty urged to take off their clothes, aligned to face a wall and shot in the back of the head. And this continues like an dis-assembly chain. I did not bear more than a few minutes of the thing. During thoses few minutes, maybe five or six rows of five peoples were slaughtered. Peoples of all walk of life, of all ages, young and olds, male and females, beautiful and ugly, strugling or resigned were executed by an indifferent row of unintelligent and/or psychotic thugs that simply "executed orders". There was the firing squad captain that did not shoot but that gave the firing orders, so that the thugs could sleep without remorse. There was their superior supervising the whole slaughterhouse operation and finally, there was the political supervisor, dressed in the "de rigueur" grey with grey hat. This operation was clearly in the context of some political purge. I did not comprehend the full details of the context, but it appeared that it was happening during the russian revolution, or more possibly in East Germany after WW-II. The executed peoples were helpless, at the mercy of thoses thugs because they had no way to respond to death threat by death threat. Most of them had accepted their fate and walked to their death attempting to defend themselves with calm reason, useless in this context since the firing squad was composed of idiots and psychotics. One girls pleaded for her life and her great beauty made the animals of the firing squad hesitate, but was promptly shot in the head from a distance by the political supervisor. And it dawned on me that it could never had happened in a society where gun ownership was unregulated, and it also dawned on me that it is the essence of the natural outcome of all gun regulation/registration schemes. That to provide that kind of power to the ruling political class is the ultimate goal of gun registration and regulation, notwithstanding that they chose to exert it or not. Very soon (in principle on october 1st 1998), under the new bill C-68 , you will be declared a criminal in the full sense of the law, just as if you had killed somebody, if you don't register your guns (or don't plan to do so before the limit date comes up in a few years). Putting aside for a moment the tremendous costs associated with that C-68 nonsense (around 2 billions $ wasted money) we must realize that private law-abiding firearm owners account for 0.08% of all homicides commited with a firearms. So, I ask because I consider it of extreme importance, what's the ULTIMATE purpose of declaring criminal seven millions of individuals who wants nothing more than lead peacefull lifes? ----------- end of letter -------------- Jean-Francois Avon, Montreal, Canada Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, PolPot and every other notorious psychotic butchers insisted on a tight control of privately owned firearms. I wonder why? "nobody runs faster than a bullet" - supposedly from Idi Amin Dada Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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US Crypto Update Fact Sheet
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

http://library.whitehouse.gov/PressReleases-plain.cgi?date=0&briefing=4 The White House Briefing Room September 16, 1998 FACT SHEET THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 16, 1998 FACT SHEET Administration Updates Encryption Policy Exports of 56-bit DES and equivalent products (hardware and software) will be streamlined (under license exception). Requirements for key recovery plans are eliminated. Exports of unlimited strength encryption products (with or without key recovery) will be streamlined (under license exception) to certain industries. The sectors are: Subsidiaries of U.S. Firms, worldwide (except seven terrorist nations). Insurance companies to the same 45 countries recently approved for exports to banks and financial institution exports. Health and medical organizations (including civilian government health agencies) in the same 45 countries. Does not include biochemical/pharmaceutical manufacturers. On-line merchants for client-server applications, in the same 45 countries, with the purpose of securing electronic transactions between merchants and their customers. Does not include manufacturers and distributors of items controlled on the U.S. munitions list. Key Recovery products will continue to be exportable under license exception worldwide (except seven terrorist nations). Review of foreign key recovery agents is eliminated. Exports of "recoverable" products will be approved to most commercial firms, and their wholly-owned subsidiaries, in a broad range of countries under encryption licensing arrangements. This group of countries covers most major commercial markets including Western Europe, Japan, and Australia. The policy does not include service providers and manufacturers and distributors of items controlled on the U.S. munitions list. Exports to end users or destinations outside this policy are possible on a case-by-case basis. Prior to export, products are subject to a one-time product technical review. # # #

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Re: US Updates Crypto Policy
by Information Security 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

> From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > > http://library.whitehouse.gov/PressReleases-plain.cgi?date=0&briefing=3 > > THE WHITE HOUSE > ____________________________________________________________________ > For Immediate Release > September 16, 1998 > > Administration Updates Encryption Policy [snip] > Very strong encryption with any key length (with or without key > recovery) will now be permitted for export, under license exception, to > several industry sectors. [snip] > On-line merchants in 45 countries will be able to use robust U.S. > encryption products to protect their on-line electronic commerce > transactions with their customers over the Internet. On-line merchants? Anyone care to try and purchase US-strong crypto from overseas for their WWW business? Which crypto products? What are the minimum "business" requirements? ;-) ---guy How long does it take to get approval?

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Re: Clinton's fake apologies (fwd)
by Anonymous 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > > > Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> wrote: > > lying under oath is perjury, whether you like it or not. > > As rare as it is, I agree with Declan here. If Clinton would lie under oath > about a non-crime (ie sex between consenting adults) what would he do if > faced with a real issue? > > He should have said "Yeah, I had sex with her. What business is it of > yours?". > Presumably he should lie to protect the state. So lieing per se isn't the problem. It is the use of the privilege where it doesn't apply that upsets you. Murky water for impeachment, methinks. Furthermore, we have gone from the CDA to government publication of pornography in short order. Farbeit for any cypherpunk to complain.

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by sixdegrees 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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Re: Clinton's fake apologies (fwd)
by Jim Choate 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: 16 Sep 1998 16:47:28 -0000 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)remailer.ch> > Subject: Re: Clinton's fake apologies (fwd) > Presumably he should lie to protect the state. Then don't take the oath: To tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So lieing per se isn't the problem. > It is the use of the privilege where it doesn't apply that upsets you. No, it's the fact that he took an oath to tell the truth and didn't. Murky water > for impeachment, methinks. Then you don't think very well. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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No Subject
by Anonymous 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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