July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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Tor 0.0.9.3 is out
by Roger Dingledine 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Tor 0.0.9.3 improves cpu usage, works better when the network was recently offline and you try to use Tor, and makes hidden services less unbearable. http://tor.eff.org/download.html o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't need as much processor time. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes. - Enable Mac startup script by default. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never resetting. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up the order of reading the lines, making it fail. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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[Politech] New Jersey, California officials like the Real ID Act [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

So I spent part of this week at the RSA conference in San Francisco, where I stopped by a panel that seemed to be created by and intended for state DMV officials. The topic was the Real ID Act, and everyone seemed to either like it a lot or be entirely in love with the scheme. All were former or current government officials, and not one said it was a bad idea. In fact, California and (especially) New Jersey loved it: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6157813.html One idea they had was for the feds to mandate biometrics (fingerprint, retinal scan, DNA sample) on these federalized ID cards. Right now DHS can but isn't required to do so; we're still waiting for the regulations to be made public. Another idea came from Paula Arcioni, the chief information security officer for New Jersey's Office of Information Technology, and a member of the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council: http://www.ec3.org/About/AboutBoard.htm Clearly electronic commerce could never happen unless it were properly "coordinated" by some state governments. Anyway, Arcioni not only applauded the law but said it would be made much better if it was turned into a microprocessor-enabled smartcard that both state governments and corporations could use for online authentication. Compare this to what Maine did a few weeks ago: http://www.politechbot.com/2007/01/25/maine-becomes-first/ Guess these states either haven't gotten the message yet, or perhaps these midlevel bureaucrats are simply so caught up in their own fiefdoms that they ignore what the public actually wants. -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- 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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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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Tor 0.0.9.3 is out
by Roger Dingledine 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Tor 0.0.9.3 improves cpu usage, works better when the network was recently offline and you try to use Tor, and makes hidden services less unbearable. http://tor.eff.org/download.html o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't need as much processor time. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes. - Enable Mac startup script by default. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never resetting. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up the order of reading the lines, making it fail. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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