July 2005 - cypherpunks-legacy

Retail prize on cigarettes
by Joshua Ponce 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

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Re:The Nazification Of America ("Show Me Your Papers" - Day 1)
by Duncan Frissell 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Fine, I'll just order the birth certificate and get it over with, right? Wrong. New York wants affirmative proof of identity for a copy now: passport or your [missing] original birth certificate. Anyone else see a circular problem here? http://www.health.state.ny.us/vital_records/birth.htm Identification Requirements - application must be submitted with copies of either A or B: * One (1) of the following forms of valid photo-ID: * Driver license * Non-Driver Photo-ID Card * Passport * Employment ID * Two (2) of the following showing the applicant's name and address: * Utility or telephone bills * Letter from a government agency dated within the last six (6) months Employment ID (like school ID) can be issued by anyone since anyone in America can employ or teach others. If you want to be fancy, pick up one of these. http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/Sku.asp?PageType=1&Sku=AVE02900 DCF

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RE: Posion Pill for ED?
by Ulex Europae 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

At 15:46 05-07-05 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Tyler Durden >> These are crummy ideas, so relax. But I suspect something is possible. >> >> -TD >2. Similarly, and even simpler, turn strategic portions of >your property into wetlands or vernal pools. Similar protections >vs development apply. Works perfectly in theory, doesn't always work in practice: http://www.wmnf.org/programming/news.php?ReportId=2060 Ulex

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They Can Hear You Now...
by J.A. Terranson 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/05/crime.prevention.ap/index.html CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Police installed video surveillance cameras around town and saw Chicago's murder rate fall to its lowest level in four decades. Now the cops hope to further cut crime by not only watching, but listening, too. The city is employing new technology that recognizes the sound of a gunshot within a two-block radius, pinpoints the source, turns a surveillance camera toward the shooter and places a 911 call. Welcome to crime-fighting in the 21st century. "Instead of just having eyes, you have the advantage of both eyes and ears," said Bryan Baker, chief executive of Safety Dynamics LLC, the company in suburban Oak Brook that makes the systems. The technology isn't just gaining favor in Chicago, where 30 of the devices have already been installed in high-crime neighborhoods alongside video surveillance cameras. Baker says dozens more installations will follow. In Los Angeles County, the sheriff's department plans to deploy 20 units in a pilot test, and officials in Tijuana, Mexico, recently bought 353 units, Baker said. Police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, are close to launching test programs of their own, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, also have made inquiries. Military use Safety Dynamics also works with the U.S. Army and Navy, developing systems that could detect a range of sounds such as glass shattering or diesel trucks slowing in an unexpected location. Some U.S. troops in Iraq already have a similar system that works differently. Designed quickly in late 2003 and early 2004 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and BBN Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a detector known as "Boomerang" can be mounted on the back of a moving vehicle to locate hostile gunfire. The Safety Dynamics system deployed in Chicago, known formally as Smart Sensor Enabled Neural Threat Recognition and Identification -- or SENTRI -- uses four microphones to triangulate, or zero in, on the shooter. By contrast, the Boomerang has sensors mounted atop a pole that detect shock and sound waves from a muzzle blast. In Chicago, police hope the SENTRI system will add momentum to a technology-fueled crackdown on guns and gang violence. The city in 2004 reduced its homicide rate to its lowest level since 1965 and police seized 10,000 guns -- successes that were in large part credited to a network of "pods," or remote-controlled cameras that can rotate 360 degrees and feed video directly to squad-car laptops. The SENTRI systems are an addition to that network. "They have been extremely successful," said Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the Chicago Office of Emergency Management. "We've been able to see the benefits that cameras and advanced technology bring to the community." Privacy matters The American Civil Liberties Union in Illinois is concerned about privacy rights being violated by the city's prevalent camera system. Spokesman Ed Yohnka said officers need to be properly trained in monitoring the cameras and only record activity in public spaces, such as sidewalks and streets. As long as the cameras and SENTRI system are set up in public spaces, they do not violate the law, said Northwestern University Law School professor Robert W. Bennett. "You don't have much in the way of privacy issues when you're in a public area," Bennett said. And local officials say it's hard to argue with the results. "The crime rates in Chicago are the lowest in 40 years. The price of keeping the community safe far outweighs civil liberty issues," Bond said. Baker stresses that SENTRI is programmed to recognize only gunshots, not record conversations or "bug" private homes. "There's no mechanism for other sounds like human voices," he said. SENTRI is the brainchild of Safety Dynamics and Dr. Theodore Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California. Each SENTRI contains a library of acoustical patterns, or "sound signatures," which Berger developed over several years. They're used to differentiate gunshots from other noises, such as traffic and construction, by measuring the unique decibel level of a bullet being fired. That way, a gunshot activates the system but a car backfiring does not. Adding SENTRI to an existing surveillance camera is not cheap, however. The system costs between $4,000 and $10,000 per unit. In Chicago, money forfeited by criminals is used to pay for both it and the accompanying cameras. As a result, Police Superintendent Phil Cline told a recent U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting, "the drug dealers are actually paying to surveil themselves." Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Posion Pill for ED?
by Tyler Durden 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hey...can some clever Cypherpunk think of a nice poison pill for ED? Theoretically, something like that is possible, but my only ideas aren't so hot. For instance, and elderly couple could sow some form of radioactive substance into their grounds, in quantities that would take longer than their life expectancy to kill them. Of course, a cleanup might be possible, but that would theoretically wack out the cost structures. There might be other less drastic measures that can be taken, however, such as finding a way to boost up the property costs so that the developers lose interest or perhaps even creating a very hard-to-find "landlord" that is collecting vast sums (on paper) for the rent of the property. These are crummy ideas, so relax. But I suspect something is possible. -TD

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RE: Posion Pill for ED?
by Trei, Peter 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-cypherpunks(a)minder.net > [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Tyler Durden > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:56 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)jfet.org > Subject: Posion Pill for ED? > > > Hey...can some clever Cypherpunk think of a nice poison pill for ED? > Theoretically, something like that is possible, but my only > ideas aren't so > hot. For instance, and elderly couple could sow some form of > radioactive > substance into their grounds, in quantities that would take > longer than > their life expectancy to kill them. > > Of course, a cleanup might be possible, but that would > theoretically wack > out the cost structures. > > There might be other less drastic measures that can be taken, > however, such > as finding a way to boost up the property costs so that the > developers lose > interest or perhaps even creating a very hard-to-find > "landlord" that is > collecting vast sums (on paper) for the rent of the property. > > These are crummy ideas, so relax. But I suspect something is possible. > > -TD 1. Make your property a habitat for endangered species; there are plenty of plants, bugs, and small animals that qualify. Getting them there in the first place is probably illegal, but once they're established, no development which destroys their habitat is legal, generally speaking. 2. Similarly, and even simpler, turn strategic portions of your property into wetlands or vernal pools. Similar protections vs development apply. Peter Trei

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[ANNOUNCE] OpenSSL 0.9.8 beta 6 released
by Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

OpenSSL version 0.9.8 Beta 6 (FINAL!) ===================================== OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS http://www.openssl.org/ OpenSSL is currently in a release cycle. The sixth beta is now released. The beta release is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (the various FTP mirrors you can find under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html) o http://www.openssl.org/source/ o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ PLEASE TEST THIS RELEASE! This is a final beta. The final release is due very soon, and we would like your help to make this as good a release as ever possible. Among others, base64 decoding needs extra attention (see below). The file names of the beta are: o openssl-0.9.8-beta6.tar.gz MD5 checksum: e6771df5621169ae616adb3475aac71a SHA1 checksum: d5aad452a4a192780ff1990b5c75513eb8408fe2 The checksums were calculated using the following command: openssl md5 < openssl-0.9.8-beta6.tar.gz openssl sha1 < openssl-0.9.8-beta6.tar.gz Please download and test them as soon as possible. This new OpenSSL version incorporates 104 documented changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES and http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/NEWS) Since the fifth beta, the following has happened: - Change the DJGPP setup so it's DEVRANDOM is defined in e_os.h instead of in the build command line. - Worked around a DJGPP command line bug during installation of docs. - Worked out better target selections for BSD ELF. - Corrected the CPUid code for x86_64. - Made the base64 decoder a bit more robust. - We made sure crypto/bn/bn_prime.h is properly built during an update. - Enhanced the documentation on id_function in threads.pod. - Added a fallback to software in the CSwift engine. - Other bug fixes... Reports and patches should be sent to openssl-bugs(a)openssl.org. Discussions around the development of OpenSSL should be sent to openssl-dev(a)openssl.org. Anything else should go to openssl-users(a)openssl.org. The best way, at least on Unix, to create a report is to do the following after configuration: make report That will do a few basic checks of the compiler and bc, then build and run the tests. The result will appear on screen and in the file "testlog". Please read the report before sending it to us. There may be problems that we can't solve for you, like missing programs. Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Nils Larsch Ulf Möller Ralf S. Engelschall Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov Dr. Stephen Henson Richard Levitte Geoff Thorpe Lutz Jänicke Bodo Möller --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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by Coy 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

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by Julie Quintero 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

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05 Jul '05

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