May 2006 - cypherpunks-legacy

Bad Credit? Our Lenders Want To Hear From You
by Mayra Hartman 31 May '06

31 May '06

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Pre-approvedd rate #
by Randolph 31 May '06

31 May '06

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Application approval #CZGLL481069818699
by Luz Crump 31 May '06

31 May '06

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news day
by Moises Perkins 31 May '06

31 May '06

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internet browsing privacy appliance
by coderman 31 May '06

31 May '06

we've got a proof of concept build of an internet privacy appliance for windows users built at: http://public.peertech.org/jvm/ there are some known issues / deficiencies in this release: - DNS leaks due to transparent proxy. transparent DNS proxy when in anonymous mode is in progress (using tor-resolve and a python DNS server) - http traffic is identified by outgoing port (80, 8080, etc) rather than traffic type. L7 matching is also in the works. - https (SSL/TLS) traffic is passed through and not proxied. - this runtime has not been hardened against malicious peers on the same internal network and chroot's and other techniques are not yet implemented. we're trying to work out logistics for torrent seeding before distributing the build tools to remaster your own vmware installers and customize the privacy appliance. we're working on fixing known issues and anticipate a how it works in a nutshell: - start the vmware instance with 128M ram and 200M disk (image is 38M compressed) - a public SMB share is provided with a Run.BAT install script - script installs a MS PPTP VPN connection to forward all traffic through the appliance - privacy (privoxy) and anonymity (tor) is enabled by default. you can select privacy only for a faster browsing experience with ads and popups filtered. a note on auto updates: remove the /etc/janus directory to prevent the automatic update check. we intend to use this to deploy security critical patches, filtering updates to privoxy, and other maintenance. you can apply these changes by hand or disable them completely as desired.

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Low mortaggee ratess
by Mable Esparza 31 May '06

31 May '06

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Low mortaggee ratess
by Bonita Mayo 31 May '06

31 May '06

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by Hung Caldwell 31 May '06

31 May '06

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[Clips] Court rules no whistle-blower free-speech right
by R.A. Hettinga 31 May '06

31 May '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 22:13:14 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Court rules no whistle-blower free-speech right Reply-To: rah(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=domesticNews&s…> Court rules no whistle-blower free-speech right Tue May 30, 2006 5:07 PM ET By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A closely divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that government whistle-blowers are not protected by free-speech rights when they face employer discipline for trying to expose possible misconduct at work. By a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled against a California prosecutor who said he was demoted, denied a promotion and transferred for trying to expose a lie by a county sheriff's deputy in a search-warrant affidavit. Adopting the position of the Los Angeles prosecutor's office and the U.S. Justice Department, the high court ruled that a public employee has no First Amendment right in speech expressed as part of performing job-required duties. Writing for the court majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said there is protection for whistle-blowers in federal and state laws and rules of conduct for government attorneys. The case had been closely watched for its affect on the at-work, free-speech rights of the nation's 21 million public employees. About 100 cases involving internal communications are brought each year in federal court. Steven Shapiro of the American Civil Liberties Union said, "In an age of excessive government secrecy, the Supreme Court has made it easier to engage in a government cover-up by discouraging internal whistle-blowing." Other ACLU officials predicted the ruling will deter government employees from speaking out about wrongdoing for fear of losing their jobs. Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Richard Ceballos had sued his employer for retaliating against him for exercising his free-speech rights when he reported suspected wrongdoing in a memo to senior officials in his department. The justices overturned a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that Ceballos' action was protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution because he was speaking on an issue of public concern. Kennedy said exposing government inefficiency and misconduct was a matter of considerable significance, and that various measures have been adopted to protect employees and provide checks on supervisors who would order unlawful or inappropriate actions. "When public employees made statement pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline," he wrote. JUDICIAL INTRUSION IN THE WORKPLACE? Kennedy said a ruling for Ceballos would result in a "new, permanent and intrusive role" for the courts in overseeing communications between government workers and their superiors, replacing managerial discretion with judicial supervision. He was joined by the court's conservatives -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The court's liberals, Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, dissented. Stevens wrote, "The notion that there is a categorical difference between speaking as a citizen and speaking in the course of one's employment is quite wrong." He called the majority ruling "misguided." Souter wrote in a separate dissent that government employees who speak out about official wrongdoing should be eligible for First Amendment protection against reprisals. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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/. [More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis]
by Eugen Leitl 31 May '06

31 May '06

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1321208 Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2006-05-31 15:08:00 mrogers writes "USA Today has a story describing how the NSA looks for [1]suspicious calling patterns in the [2]huge volumes of traffic data it [3]collects. "Templates" such as a call from overseas followed by a flurry of domestic calls are used to identify leads, which are forwarded to the FBI for investigation. There have been complaints that low-quality leads are drawing agents away from other cases, and similar pattern-matching approaches have been [4]found wanting in the past. Can data mining identify terrorists?" References 1. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-22-nsa-template_x.htm 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24spy.html?ex=1293080400&en=016e… 46b79bde83&ei=5090 3. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70908-0.html?tw=rss.technology 4. http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N48/48secure.48n.html ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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