December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by EmanueL 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Encrypted_Message=On 4 May 1998 02:57:07 GMT, in article <6ijaq3$bb1(a)news1.panix.com>, <The(a)NSA.sucks> Information Security (= Guy Polis <guy(a)panix.com>) wrote: # Guy Polis (guy(a)panix.com, eviljay(a)bway.net) is a pedophile child # molester who was fired from his consulting position at Salomon Brothers # after he was caught masturbating in his cubicle at the child pornography # JPEGs that he downloaded from the Internet. The poster's been awful quiet lately - did the feds arrest him? Browser=Netscape:Mozilla/3.03C-PBWG (Win95; U) Remedy=Tell the world

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by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Year 2000..READ THIS!
by myear2000＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You have read and heard the stories in the media, -"COMPUTERS WILL SHUT DOWN IN THE YEAR 2000!" What will your computer do when the NEW MILLENNIUM hits?? I have developed a new program, that will check your computer and give you the results in just a few short minutes! It is simple to run ,easy to understand and very affordable. There is no need to take your computer into a computer service depot to get the same results, that would probably cost you 100's of dollars more! You will now be armed with the info you need to know, if only a simple BIOS upgrade is needed! Believe me when I tell you, a lot of computer service depots are going to get rich, in trying to convince you that you either need a new computer or a full upgrade is necessary!! Our software will show you at a glance what your computer's capabilities are, it will give you the required recommendations of what you should and can't do The software is available two ways - The simple easy way is by file attached email. You just copy the file to a floppy disk and run it. If you prefer the program be sent to you already on 31/2 or 51/4 floppy, the cost is slightly more. Cost of software............$20.00 US funds - Email (file attached) make sure you include your email address!!! $25.00 US funds - floppy disk - (please specify) All funds to be in US dollars only and to be paid by Postal Money Order or Cash. Please include self-addressed stamped envelope for software on floppies. Send to....... Year 2000 8 Poplar Street, Leamington, Ontario, Canada N8H 3L4 http://www.netcore.ca/~panazoom Due to the overwhelming response we have been experiencing so far, please allow one week for the email file and two to three weeks for the floppies.

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - August 25, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Is hate code speech?
by proff＠suburbia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

IS YOUR FAVORITE COMPUTER PROGRAM RACIST? Texas programmer sues former employer over offensive code. When Willa Jackson started working the night shift at Integrated Systech in Austin, Texas, she felt she was entering a world filled with opportunity. Jackson had just completed three years of intensive course work in computer programming at a local community college and, at the age of 47, had recently been hired by the successful software developer. Her night-shift position at IS was to be Jackson's first non-minimum wage job. But that optimism soon turned to shame and then anger as Jackson discovered that many of her colleagues at IS were accustomed to making racist jokes in the office. In fact, the epithets were never actually uttered in Jackson's presence, they were encoded within the dozens of software applications being developed at IS. Her painful discovery occurred less than one month after she began working as an entry-level programming assistant. It was Jackson's responsibility to find bugs in sections of code that other, higher-level IS programmers produced during the day. But when Jackson -- an African-American woman who hopes to one day launch her own software startup -- began to dig deeper into a faulty section of source code she was mortified by what she found. Programmers at the company had been using racist monikers and explicit sexual language in the variables used by their programs to sort information. In one instance, a program had been instructed to "fetch watermelons" and "somefriedchicken" when handling a certain procedure. The handler had even been dubbed "pickaninny" and was only one of several dozen like sequences embedded in IS programs designed for home and office use. When Jackson showed the racist code to her supervisor she was assured that IS would act decisively to reprimand and possibly even dismiss the offending employee. But as weeks passed and no one approached Jackson with a follow-up to her complaint, she began to suspect that no disciplinary action would be forthcoming. At that point, Jackson began to pore over the mountains of used code that IS had stockpiled over the past six years. Much to her dismay, Jackson discovered derogatory and occasionally violent terms inside the programming language used by almost all IS software programs. "It went all the way back to the first version of ISDisk," explains an incredulous Jackson, "and they never bothered to hide it." Shortly after she had printed out over a thousand pages of tainted code, Jackson hired an attorney and filed a $10 million dollar lawsuit against the profitable software firm. Just who is responsible for the recurring use of discriminatory language in the company's computer code is still a mystery. IS executives have issued several public apologies since the lawsuit began, but they have yet to cooperate with the investigation into its allegedly hostile work environment. In 1996, Texaco paid out $140 million to resolve a similar lawsuit brought by its minority employees. But labor law experts speculate that the IS case may never be resolved due to the unprecedented circumstances of the alleged misconduct. "No jury in this state will believe that the code Jackson found is speech," argues Mitch Shapson, an attorney with the labor relations firm of Stennis, Shapson & Velasquez. "Even if they did think the messages hidden inside the programs were offensive," continues Shapson, "it would be like trying an auto manufacturer for putting a Swastika-shaped part in your car's engine." Jackson, who is now working as a full-time programmer at Dell Computers in San Antonio, is not willing to give up her fight against IS despite the slim chances of a legal victory. "At this point, I'm not interested in the money," claims an unbowed Jackson, "I only want the public to think twice about the kinds of hateful messages that may be hidden inside the software they use everyday."

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by Ted Lungu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by Ted Lungu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by Ted Lungu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Telcos CALEA Complaint Against FBI
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We offer the August 19 complaint by the United States Telephone Association against the FBI and Justice over CALEA requirements: http://jya.com/usta-v-fbi.htm (51K)

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by joe harlin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I only get this thread in encrypted (Encrypted_Message) format, why? >Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:13:21 -0700 >From: Ted Lungu <lungu(a)netside.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net, cypherpunks(a)toad.com, cypherpunks(a)algebra.com, > shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to, fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu >Subject: Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1! > >Encrypted_Message=On+4+May+1998+02%3A57%3A07+GMT%2C+in+article+%3C6ijaq3%24bb1@news1.panix.com%3E%2C%0D%0A%3CThe@NSA.sucks%3E+Information+Security+%28%3D+Guy+Polis+%3Cguy@panix.com%3E%29+wrote%3A%0D%0A%23+++Guy+Polis+%28guy@panix.com%2C+eviljay@bway.net%29+is+a+pedophile+child%0D%0A%23+++molester+who+was+fired+from+his+consulting+position+at+Salomon+Brothers%0D%0A%23+++after+he+was+caught+masturbating+in+his+cubicle+at+the+child+pornography%0D%0A%23+++JPEGs+that+he+downloaded+from+the+Internet.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe+poster%27s+been+awful+quiet+lately+-+did+the+feds+arrest+him%3F&Browser=Netscape%3AMozilla%2F3.01Gold+%28X11%3B+I%3B+SunOS+5.6+sun4u%29&Remedy=Tell+the+world > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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