December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Another prosecution/ruling re Thomases/Amateur Action
by Greg Broiles 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

List members may be familiar with the prosecution of Robert Thomas, a Bay Area man who runs (ran?) a BBS entitled "Amateur Action", which provided, via modem and mail order, pornographic images to its customers. Robert Thomas was arrested in California, then prosecuted in and imprisoned by a federal district court in Tennessee based on Tennessee community standards for the material he made available from California; apparently that prosecution centered on one or more pictures involving sex between human(s) and animals. Subsequently, he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Utah for distribution of child pornography; he moved to dismiss that second prosecution on the grounds of double jeopardy and collateral estoppel. His motion was denied, and he subsequently plead guilty to a single count and was sentenced to 26 months' imprisonment. He appealed the denial of his motions to dismiss, and was unsuccessful; the Tenth Circuit ruled that the constitution's protection against double jeopardy and the doctrine of collateral estoppel were not applicable because the two prosecutions involved two different charges (obscenity in TN and child porn in UT) and different findings of fact. He also requested that his sentence be reduced to end at the time his sentence ends in for the TN prosecution, but his request was denied and the appeals court declined to modify the trial court's sentence. The text of the appellate court's ruling is at <http://www.ljx.com/cgi-bin/f_cat?prod/ljextra/data/external/1997/06/9706024 .c10>, I have mirrored it at <http://www.parrhesia.com/thomas.txt>. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto. |

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Test [List Operator Reply Only]
by Jim Choate 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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Tim C. Stalker
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > Soon we'll be able to have true "stalker's pages," with links to home > addresss and zipcode data bases. > > (And when I find some young nymphette in one of the chat groups, I'll be > able to click on her name and call up all the relevant information to allow > me to go visit her! We'll have a grand time...or at least I will.) > > --Jack D. Ripper I set up a "spoof" of the anonymizer page where it says "Click here to find out what we know about you." <paraphrased) and turned a friend on to the URL. When she clicked on the link, it provided all of the relevant computer info, as well as her home address, the color of her favorite nightie, and the fact that she sleeps with her bedroom window open. She was only fooled for a fraction of a second, but in that time she wet her drawers. I have no doubt that at some point in the future she will be able to click on a similar link which is *not* a spoof. ^ ! ! Flipper _ ^ ! ! ^ _ ( )

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Re: Steak Knife Decryption
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Rabid Wombat wrote: >A "duress" PIN which cancels the account would be a good addition; >similar to the "duress" code on home security systems that appear to >disarm the alarm but send a silent alarm to the monitoring station. > >-r.w. Sure. Could also have marked bills coated with staining UV flourescent powder preloaded for just such an occasion. Optionally, depending on the location of the ATM, emergency lockdown features preventing the guy from bugging out. Easy enough to do....

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Stats on the lists
by nobody＠hidden.net 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Someone said a while ago that they were working on a list stats generator that makes a summary of what messages were on one feed and not another, how fast each feed ran, and so on. Is there any news on this? thanks

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Invitation To The Electronic Academy Of Law
by lawchek＠softcell.net 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

The Electronic Academy of Law INVITATION TO THE ELECTRONIC ACADEMY OF LAW //HTTP://www.Lawchek.com/academy.htm You are cordially invited to be inducted into the electronic Academy of Law (eAL), developed for lawyers who recognize the value of legal electronic media. In addition to your personal profile listing, free legal software and web site information is included in your membership. Further information can be found at our web site located at http://www.Lawchek.com/academy.htm

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Re: Steak Knife Decryption (Gun control comment)
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

On 6/7/97 Lucky Green wrote: >Had the victim carried a firearm, his chances of survival would have >improved dramatically. Statistical fact: armed private citizens caputre and/or kill more criminals in the US than all LEAs combined. Of course, armed criminals also kill more private citizens than all LEAs combined. >Gun control kills kids (and adults), "For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead to the future." --- Adolf Hitler

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Stats on the lists
by nobody＠hidden.net 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Someone said a while ago that they were working on a list stats generator that makes a summary of what messages were on one feed and not another, how fast each feed ran, and so on. Is there any news on this? thanks

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Re: [CRYPTO] ElGamal
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Warning: if you fuck Timmy Mayflower in the ass, a rabid tapeworm might bite your penis. ///// [ o o ] Timmy Mayflower \_=_/ _| |_ / \_/ \ _oOOO___OOOo_

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PGP 5.0 Beta
by Philip A. Mongelluzzo 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This may be the wrong forum for this question, if so then ignore me. I have posted this question to the folks at PGP... In the process of creating a set of keys with PGP 5.0 Beta an Access Violation took place (this is NT). The public key was sent to keys.pgp.com but the key ring was not created (or was corrupted). How does one go about getting a key revoked with a lost private key? Thanks, Phil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBM5qKS+S/ZBRgc6KnAQEXMQf/Y27LfZzhy9pePlemw5fteRox/ZfR7Eoj pcdBkJiFYgY+RXOqzmQAQFHfiA4pnGroYAokA3CjMmqIuWUskTl07sIZkRb3Jdf5 jJ6caoEXEwusVi4koViD1wTvjIb0/csh2ORqo9uZi861lwWRsPKfjEo1x5bTLtRQ 3MioVndws7cJVDpw/D0f3LVdomZNs0GLzhMPz5/FrmbWw0E+OdLV7lcNRWpo+y7E qGyciXbItpxpLIxV6r1cQgYVqKYwTQNZUZbWcmaIJNSpoYdG7F9BIQ/maFpKFR+2 ELsPdg9DfJYX7h/04O5HkO90cah2fjjyl036F+B0GHyT0t2L1Z+bKQ== =wJ4+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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