May 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Homeland insecurity
by Tim Meehan 12 May '03

12 May '03

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--boy-bordercrossin0512may12… Boy bikes undetected into the United States May 12, 2003, 11:11 AM EDT NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- A 7-year-old Canadian boy apparently biked into the United States undetected by U.S. Customs officials, leaving his parents and police questioning how such a security breach could occur. Mitchel Hernder rode his bike about 8 1/2 miles Saturday, ending up at a busy intersection in Niagara Falls. U.S. Customs officials on Sunday said they were unsure how the mistake occurred. "What surprises me is that he crossed the border and got through without being caught," Niagara Falls Police Lt. Salvatore Pino told The Buffalo News. "This child basically got through Customs without being stopped by anybody." Mitchel, described as mildly autistic, apparently slipped away from his Niagara Falls, Ontario, home and rode away on his sister's bike. His parents called Niagara Regional Police about 4:15 p.m. and a search was launched involving dozens of officers, family members and neighbors. Across the border, meanwhile, a motorist noticed the boy standing in the middle of a busy intersection and called police about 5:45 p.m. Police suspect Mitchel rode his bike to the two-tier Whirlpool Bridge, about 1 1/2 miles from his home, and made his way across on either the deck for vehicle traffic or one with abandoned train tracks. "How can a kid walk across the border in these times of high security?" his father, Mark Hernder, asked. "It blows me away how he made it that far. I guess someone wasn't watching the gate." The boy told police his name and address and then waited for his father to pick him up at a police station. "If he didn't know his name or his address, I don't think we would have ever found him," Hernder said. "We would have never thought to look for him in America." Janet Rapaport, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Customs & Border Protection, said the incident would be investigated. "If he did come across the border, we didn't encounter him," Rapaport said.

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by Tyler Durden 12 May '03

12 May '03

Tim May wrote... "I said I saw the same thing in Berkeley and Santa Cruz. Both are said to be "progressive" communities, but in both places the so-called community garden areas are essentially for hoboes and deadbeats to scratch at." Well, there's a selection effect that's going to take place in many of the cities under discussion. In NYC both rich and poor live in the city (sometimes within blocks of each other, though $$$ are pushing non-$$$ to the outer boroughs). In a lot of American cities, your "inner city" is inhabited by lower income folks and carless down-and-outs almost exclusively. So of course you'll see community gardens overrun. In NYC the phenomenon is entirely different. First of all, the gardens are almost always gated and barbwired. For two, its primarily the non-drugged members of a community that are working the garden, and a prime reason for creating the garden is to pretty up and otherwise crappy looking block. The flowers and produce of the garden are almost tertiary. In addition, in NYC we see a lot of abandoned properties that remain brick/rat/garbage lots for years and years, and so the locals decide to do something about it and clean it up. (Sometimes its city property, sometimes 'private'). Of course, we could talk about philosophy and what these people "should" do, but if I were living in one of those areas and didn't have the $$$ to move out, I'd definitely try to fix up our community, and to hell with philosophies of "collective ownership" statism, communism or so on. You want your block to look nice, and the locals DO something. How simple is that? And then, after years of working the garden, the neighborhood starts to look/feel better and then all of a sudden an "owner" appears who wants to bulldoze your garden. Fuck that. I'd be pissed off too, and try to fight the 'dozers. If Tim May or somebody like him tried to sit me down and explain his philosophies for a few hours and why I "had no right" to stop the 'dozers, I'd probably say, "Well, I'm not smart enough to understand your theories, but I wish you well with them. Hey--there's the bulldozers, gotta go!" -TD _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Yet Another Reason to Reject the Pledge of Allegiance
by Steve Schear 12 May '03

12 May '03

The firestorm which began a few months back in the 9th Circuit is now before the Supreme Court. At issue is whether a child can be forced to recite a pledge which is abhorrent to either the student's or the parent's religious convictions. But if thought of another reason to reject the Pledge: its a fraud. "I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." There hasn't been a Republic is 150 years. Not since the illegally passed 14th Amendment made Federal law supreme in almost all areas over State laws. The states are now little more than Directorates or Districts (using the French term) of the Federal government. steve "A Jobless Recovery is like a Breadless Sandwich." -- Steve Schear

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givin it up
by Harmon Seaver 12 May '03

12 May '03

Looks like the real search for WOMD is over: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3018063.stm -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

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Re: Underestimating long-term consequences of cryptoanarchy
by Harmon Seaver 12 May '03

12 May '03

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:36:08AM -0700, Tim May wrote: > On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 06:35 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > >On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:10:01PM -0700, Tim May wrote: > >>On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 08:44 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:03:43AM -0700, Tim May wrote: > >>>>Which is all evolution in action, except that government should not > >>>>be > >>>>in the construction and business development business. (I would go > >>>>further and say that nothing in the U.S. Constitution, which states > >>>>and > >>>>localities are bound by, justifies taking money from citizens to > >>>>give > >>>>to businesses. No matter "how smart an investment" it looks to be. > >>>>Ditto for governments running gambling operations, but I digress.) > >>>> > >>> I agree with all the rest of this, however, I think you're wrong > >>>about the > >>>gambling. I think that's the only way gov't ought to be allowed to > >>>fund itself, > >>>by selling lottery tickets. > >> > >>A superficially good idea ("sounds good!"), but ultimately silly. > >> > >>Government bans gambling, or heavily regulates it, or declares illegal > >>the exact odds it grants itself. > > > > > > You're not making much sense here, Tim. Who said anything about > >making > >gambling illegal? > > > > You're being deliberately obtuse. You're on the verge of entering my > filter file. > > Gambling is not a free market in most U.S. states. Government runs the > gambling franchise in most states. > > This is what I said. I'm being obtuse? Give me a break. I clearly said that "I think that's the only way gov't ought to be allowed to fund itself, is by selling lottery tickets." I can't imagine how anyone could read that and think that I was talking about the situation we live in today. Who cares if gambling is illegal today? WTF does that have to do with anything -- I was clearly talking about some hypothetical future scenario, as in a vastly reduced government where lotteries were what they used for funding instead of taxes. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

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RE: Collectivism in "community gardens"
by Trei, Peter 11 May '03

11 May '03

Tim May wrote: > (I'm joking about "conflict vegetables." But ever since all the various > PC television shows and movies started nattering about "conflict > diamonds," I have realized this is just another PC scam. If I buy > diamonds from Zaire I don't give a hoot in hell that they were bought > from "capitalist roaders" or whomever the U.N. has declared to be > politically incorrect. Seeing a James Bond movie centered around > "conflict diamonds" made me ill.) > In the spirit of 'one man's terrorist is another mans freedom fighter', I have taken to calling these 'liberation diamonds'. Peter

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by cpunk＠lne.com 11 May '03

11 May '03

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Liquidating the staff of the FTC and FDA
by Tim May 11 May '03

11 May '03

Now the statists in D.C. are in league with the statists of Canada: <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=5&u=/ nm/20030509/wr_nm/sars_scams_dc> It's time to kill the FDA and FTC staffers who don't understand the First Amendment. --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"

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faster modexp()? cipheractive
by Major Variola (ret) 11 May '03

11 May '03

Forwarded from cryptography list... note that this company has a download of their fast RSA library (its probably an assembly hack) ---------- Anyone heard of these guys? An Isreali technology firm that claims to have a new patent-pending process for modexp that's 3-6 times faster depending on playtform. URL is at http://www.com/technology/technology.htm

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testing
by Eric Murray 11 May '03

11 May '03

Testing new configuration, please ignire.

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