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Corrections about Bob Noyce and Intel
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:55 PM 11/17/95, attila wrote: > 2. most were pioneers: a specific example is Bob Norris who walked > out of a Fairchild board meeting being being rejected for his > eighth try at replacing Germanium because the first seven had > failed. A couple of VCs, among them Arthur Rock and Bob Perring > said: "...we believe you, let's try silicon..." and we have Intel. Bob Noyce was already making silicon devices at Fairchild. The "planar process" was developed by him in the late 50s. It is not the case that Fairchild was stuck making germanium, nor that Intel was the first to use silicon. I could go on about the actual history, but this is far from the themes of this list, and many books cover the history very well. What Intel pioneered the development of was _silicon-gate MOS_, where the aluminum gates of traditional silicon devices is replaced with polysilicon gates. Intel did this by hiring the silicon-gate gurus from Fairchild (Vadasz, Grove, Faggin, etc.). > But, who drives Intel today? --Grove, who is labelled as the > founder. Grove made the _business_ -the brains have been > forgotten. Norris was the darling of the VCs for a couple years > until they figured he couldn't spot a _financial_ success. Grove remains a technologist--I studied semiconcuctor physics from his wonderful 1967 book, "The Physics and Technology of Seminconductor Devices"--and the group that leads Intel is highly technical. Gordon Moore remains connected, materials scientist Craig Barrett (who hired me into Intel in '74, ironically) is next-in-line to be President, Gerry Parker is a top technologist, and so on. As to Bob Noyce being the "darling of the VCs for a couple of years until they figured he couldn't spot a _financial_ success," I should just let that one pass. Noyce of course has been dead for several years. When he was alive, though, he "spotted" several financial successes. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: COE Recommendation No. R (95) 13
by smithmi＠dev.prodigy.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >>Forgive me if this point has already been raised, but couldn't an >>objection to such laws be based on the protection against >>self-incrimination? > >There is no such right in most (if not all) european countries. In >France there is not even the presumption of innocence. [Further depressing news deleted] Yes, this was my understanding. I guess the point I was groping toward was that while we could hardly expect that our rights vis-a-vis electronic privacy would be any _better_ than our rights in obviously analogous non-electronic areas, they might well be worse; it's important to be clear, and to make clear, that what rights we have left have obvious extensions to our net.activities, and try to prevent the thin end of the wedge from being inserted in our portion of the perimeter. Of course, this only applies to the set of people who live in countries where people _have_ any rights, and as Phill implies, that may soon be the null set. --Michael Smith smithmi(a)dev.prodigy.com

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by eric-grey＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Updated BBS listing (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From ravage(a)ssz.com Sun Feb 1 21:54:18 1998 From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> Message-Id: <199802020354.VAA26715(a)einstein.ssz.com> Subject: Updated BBS listing To: staff(a)ssz.com (Armadillo Group Staff) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 21:54:17 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3010 Hi, I have updated the listing in Rasca's BBS list and it should show up in one of the future O'Reilly 'Learning Linux' books which we've been listed in since it was published. Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Rasca, I would like to update the entry for my system, Solar Soyuz Zaibatsu (SSZ). The data that has been in the 'Learning Linux' listing has been out of date the last couple of years. I apologize for not correcting it sooner. It's pretty wild that we've been online in one manner or another since 1984 and involved in Linux since late 1992. The correct information is below: BBS Name: Solar Soyuz Zaibatsu (ssz.com) Phone Number: 512-451-6009 (28.8), 512-451-7060 (33.6) (account required) Online: ?, we're on Internet full time via ISDN Expires: ? Modem Speed (CCITT): 28.8, 33.6 City/Country/State (include region code): Austin, US, Texas (?) Whatever network it is on (i.e. FidoNet, etc.): Internet (ssz.com) First Time access to D/L Linux Files (Y/N): Y (if not request mount via staff(a)ssz.com) Allow File Requests - Fido style (Y/N): No, available anonymous ftp and temporary guest accounts (send request to staff(a)ssz.com) Free Access to Linux Files (Y/N): Y BBS Rating (1-5): 5 (what else?) We also support the 'Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer' (cypherpunks(a)ssz.com) 'Experimental Science Instrumentation Mailing List' (tesla(a)ssz.com) and are involved in the 'Austin Linux Group' (alg-l(a)lists.io.com) I also do consulting via 'The Armadillo Group' (consulting(a)ssz.com) We still support hobby/amateur science and technology via 'The Wired Society' (tws(a)ssz.com) We currently run Linux on x86, PPC, & SPARC machines as well as Plan 9. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Bush Gang Suspected In Assault On Presidency Bush Gang Suspected In Assault On Presidency
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bush gang suspected in new assault on Presidency by Edward Spannaus and Jeffrey Steinberg In the midst of the worst global financial crisis in modern history, the United States Presidency has come under renewed, vicious attack from a combination of British and nominally ``American'' Bush-League circles. This latest attack, which one White House official long ago appropriately dubbed ``bimbo eruptions,'' centered around a Bush ``mole'' who was, unfortunately, allowed to operate inside the Clinton administration, and who now enjoys high-level security clearances in her post at the Pentagon. Linda Tripp, the central player in the renewed assault against President Clinton--staged around a purported sex scandal involving a young White House intern, Monica Lewinsky--was a Bush administration employee from 1990, until Bush left office in January 1993. At the urging of senior Bush administration officials, including Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner, Tripp was retained by the Clinton-Gore transition team in a clerical position, and later assigned to work at the Office of the White House General Counsel, under Bernard Nussbaum and his deputy, Vincent Foster. All the while, she was operating as part of a treasonous Bush-League ``fifth column'' within the Executive branch. While the ``Get Clinton'' media have attempted to portray Tripp as ``apolitical,'' she was, in fact, an ally, from the Bush administration period on, of then-FBI agent Gary Aldrich, who, in 1996, wrote a libellous book against President Clinton, {Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House,} which also revolved around bogus claims of White House sexual misconduct (see {EIR,} July 26, 1996, p.|72.) Aldrich was another Bush-League mole inside the Clinton White House. His embarrassingly fantasy-ridden book has been trumpetted by the London-based Hollinger Corporation, the leading British Crown media cartel; by its subsidiary, {American Spectator} magazine; and by ``Get Clinton'' money-bags Richard Mellon Scaife. Tripp emerged in 1995 as an asset of Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, testifying before the Whitewater grand jury and later before a Congressional hearing on the death of Vincent Foster. When Lloyd Cutler replaced Nussbaum as White House General Counsel, Tripp, who by then had been widely identified as an unabashed political enemy of President Clinton, was reassigned to the Pentagon, where she eventually got an $80,000-a-year job, which also involved her getting top-level security clearances. Tripp claimed, to anyone who would listen, that she had been transferred from the White House because she ``knew too much about Whitewater,'' a patent lie. Commenting on the role of Tripp as the linchpin in the latest Clintongate assault, Lyndon LaRouche called on Jan. 22 for Tripp's security clearances to be immediately revoked, pending the outcome of a thorough probe of her role in the sordid affair. ``She obviously needs her security clearances immediately pulled, given her role in what has all the earmarks of an illegal attack against the President, ostensibly on behalf of partisan Republican forces. I would certainly hope that there is no one in the Pentagon who would countenance such an obvious assault against a vital American institution, the Presidency. I would expect such treachery from the editorial page writers at the {Wall Street Journal,} but not from our military.'' - An earlier `eruption' - In the summer of 1997, Tripp surfaced again as part of an effort to hit President Clinton with a ``Profumo''-style sex scandal, telling {Newsweek} that the President had sexually harassed a White House aide, Kathleen Willey. Willey denied, under oath, that Tripp's allegations were true. This prompted President Clinton's attorney, Robert Bennett, belatedly, in August 1997, to denounce Tripp as a liar. While working at the Pentagon, in late 1996, Tripp had already begun to cultivate a close relationship with a former White House junior staff aide, 22-year-old Monica Lewinsky, who had been recently transferred to the Defense Department. It is unclear how the two women came to meet, but in short order, Tripp began to exert a significant amount of control over the younger woman. Tripp should be forced, under oath, to detail the circumstance under which she met and befriended Lewinsky. Tripp soon betrayed Lewinsky's confidence by surreptitiously--and, probably, illegally--taping telephone conversations with Lewinsky. By December 1997, Tripp and Lewinsky had {both,} mysteriously, been subpoenaed to give depositions to attorneys for Paula Jones, in her civil lawsuit against the President--a lawsuit instigated by British intelligence operator and former London {Sunday Telegraph} Washington correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. How Jones's attorneys came to know of the existence of Tripp and Lewinsky is one question that may hold a key to Tripp's role in the present attack against the President. It should be recalled that, prior to being named the independent counsel in Whitewater, Kenneth Starr had been paid by Richard Mellon Scaife, through the Landmark Legal Foundation, to prepare an {amicus curiae} brief in support of Paula Jones. Tripp claims that, on Jan. 12, 1998, she took 20 hours of tape-recorded conversations with Lewinsky to Whitewater Special Prosecutor Starr. The next day, Starr arranged for Tripp to secretly tape her meeting with Lewinsky at the Ritz Carlton Hotel near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. At the time that Starr arranged for the FBI to secretly tape the Tripp-Lewinsky meeting, {he had absolutely no jurisdiction to probe President Clinton's relationship to the former White House aide.} Indeed, it is critical that a full-scale probe be conducted, to determine whether Tripp, who was in league with Starr from 1995, was taping her conversations with Lewinsky on her own, or, covertly, on behalf of Starr. At minimum, Starr vastly overstepped his jurisdiction; far more likely, he himself broke the law--along with Tripp--in a flagrant attempt to entrap and destroy President Clinton. - No U.S. precedent - In the 200-year history of the American Presidency, there have been occasional sexual scandals involving top government officials; however, never has such a personal scandal brought down the chief executive. There is only one country in the world where heads of government are brought to their knees through such tabloid scandal-mongering: Great Britain. In 1963, Harold Macmillan's government was brought down by a sex scandal involving Defense Minister John Profumo. It is, therefore, not surprising that a review of the various Clintongate scandals, from the 1993 so-called ``Troopergate'' affair to the present attack, reveals that British intelligence stringer and former {Sunday Telegraph} Washington correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has been the chief instigator. As early as May 8, 1994, in a {Sunday Telegraph} column, Evans-Pritchard boasted that he had been instrumental in getting Paula Jones to file her civil suit against the President. Evans-Pritchard has elsewhere boasted that his assignment, on behalf of the British Crown's Hollinger Corporation, has been nothing less than the total destruction of the Clinton Presidency. Writing in the Jan. 22 {Daily Telegraph,} Evans-Pritchard loudly bragged of his manipulation of Paula Jones: ``My impression after befriending her four years ago, before she took the momentous step of suing the President, is that her motive was sheer rage.'' ``Paula Jones has now achieved her object of inflicting massive damage on Bill Clinton, with shortening odds that she may ultimately destroy his Presidency,'' he continued. Evans-Pritchard accuses the U.S. news media of covering up the Clinton sex scandals, so that only the {American Spectator} or the British press will print the stories. ``What Paula Jones has done is to use the immense power of legal discovery to force the scandal to the surface. She has finally done the job that the American media failed to do so miserably.'' This was precisely the strategy that Evans-Pritchard had laid out in 1994, when he acknowledged on May 8, 1994, that he had had ``a dozen conversations with Mrs. Jones over the past two months.'' He furthermore admitted that ``I happened to be present at a strategy meeting last month on a boat on the Arkansas River,'' at which Jones's attorney ``was weighing the pros and cons of legal action.'' It doesn't ``matter all that much whether Mrs. Jones ultimately wins or loses her case,'' he wrote on May 15, 1994. ``The ticking time bomb in the lawsuit lies elsewhere, in the testimony of other witnesses.'' ``Put plainly,'' Evans-Pritchard blurted, ``the political purpose of the Jones lawsuit is to reconstruct the inner history of the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, using the legal power of discovery. In effect, the two lawyers and their staff could soon be doing the job that the American media failed to do during the election campaign and have largely failed to do since.'' Evans-Pritchard's motive, in contrast to Jones's ``sheer rage,'' is a deep, abiding hatred of the United States, and particularly, the institution of its Presidency. Anyone who joins Evans-Pritchard in this unfolding assault upon the Presidency, is joining the ranks of traitor Aaron Burr. A thorough probe of the current insurrection, beginning with a spotlight on Linda Tripp, is more than appropriate. >From Executive Intelligence Review V25, #5. -- John Covici covici(a)ccs.covici.com

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The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right of Anonymity"...)
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mr. May said: >Suffice it to say that I find nearly all cases where someone is "demanding" >personal information to be cases where the government has required them to, >for various unseemly purposes, or in cases where credit is being arranged. Of late I tried to pay off a rather large American Express bill. Suddenly, AMEX won't take cash in excess of $1,000 in any single billing period (30 days). The large sign on the wall indicated the substance of the new rule (or the old rule newly enforced) and added that customers "may be required to produce two forms of identification including a government issued identification card and a social security number." Here's a situation where the payor is (theoretically) positively identified to the payee (including ssn), where credit has already been established, and where records are certain to exist for all transactions which are being paid for. The AMEX Corporate card was once a wonderful tool to preserve anonymity with. One could issue several cards for a domestic company, 100% owned by an offshore, and settle in cash. Properly done, this was perfectly legal. Well, once upon a time anyhow. I find it extremely alarming that a general transaction like this can be illegal where almost no case can be made for a danger of money laundering or some kind of support of the "underground economy" (except perhaps that I'd have Pablo Escobar pay off my Amex to compensate me for my illegal smuggling flights, but that's a bit thin in my view). Increasingly, I try and find explanations for these kinds of regulations which do not include a paranoid rant about governments making sure they maintain a firm set of records on every citizen for whenever it might be "needed," (or wanted). Increasingly, this becomes a difficult mental task. Increasingly, it is difficult to make cash transactions. In the end that seems to be the point. Make it difficult to pay with cash. Make it suspicious to pay with cash. Make it an attention getter if you pay with cash. Sound paranoid? Try this. I'd like everyone who reads this to try and go 45 days without using plastic or writing a check. Just 45 days. If you don't grow alarmist very quickly (like in the first week) I'd like to hear your experience. If nothing else, try adding up a few months of finance charges, yearly fees on your credit cards, transactions fees, check fees, interest lost on no-interest checking accounts... see what you're paying to keep people from looking at you like a criminal. There's an interesting new awakening in personal finance right now which advises, among other things, "pay in cash, die broke." I'm interested to see how this "pay in cash" advice, which I have followed religiously years before it was put in print, clashes with post-modern financial regulation. I know things have gotten really out of hand because the phrase "No, I'll pay with cash," which I find I have to use more and more often, turns more and more heads and is met more and more often with a cross look from a teller and a finger pointed at a large sign bearing the heading "Restrictions on Cash Transactions." When the question becomes "Which credit card will you be paying with?" and no longer does one hear "How will you be paying for that?" I think people better start thinking about what's happening. (I'm not on cypherpunks anymore, mail me directly).

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Sept. 19 column - Clintonites reject reality
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:24:28 -0600 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:23:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: vin(a)dali.lvrj.com Mime-Version: 1.0 To: vinsends(a)ezlink.com From: Vin_Suprynowicz(a)lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: Sept. 19 column - Clintonites reject reality Resent-From: vinsends(a)ezlink.com X-Mailing-List: <vinsends(a)ezlink.com> archive/latest/557 X-Loop: vinsends(a)ezlink.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: vinsends-request(a)ezlink.com FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED SEPT. 19, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz It's the government schools, stupid Bill Clinton is a fake. As many Americans who had been taken in by him looked on in wide-eyed horror on Sept. 10 and 11, 1998, this emotionally hollow creature tried again and again to mimic precisely the right catch in the voice, precisely the right words, the wiping away of a tear at just the right moment, in what quickly became known as the Monica Lewinsky "Apology-thon." Just as our penultimate national office manager, George Bush, spoke with an impatient lack of comprehension about "the vision thing" folks seemed to want from him, so does Bill Clinton fail to understand the horror with which it is finally sinking in to about 35 percent of the American populace that this man (start ital)has(end ital) no core emotions ... he has merely been miming them all these years. But what should really frighten us is not the fact that Bill Clinton is thus revealed to be the moral and emotional equivalent of one of those human-looking androids in the science fictions movies, unmasked in a now-familiar scene in which they begin to stutter and shudder, and finally go cartwheeling around the spacecraft spewing white hydraulic fluid. No, what should frighten us is that only 35 percent of Americans seem to care. Sixty-five percent say: "So what? All that moral and emotional stuff is so much make-believe, anyway. Doesn't everybody lie? Doesn't everybody fake it?" Where did this race of pod people come from? From the government schools, stupid. For years, folks have been dismissing the direst of warnings about the "public schooling" scam with exasperated disbelief. Schools don't fight duplicity, cheating, drug use, and scorn for achievement, argued New York State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto in his slim but estimable little volume "Dumbing Us Down" ($12.45, New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia 19143.) Instead, Mr. Gatto discovered after a lengthy and distinguished career, these things are what the schools actually (start ital)teach(end ital). "Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community," Gatto warns. "Interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important; force them to plead for the natural right to the toilet and they will become liars and toadies; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even" through exactly the kind of addictive, immature and dependent pathologies we expect from any inmates -- drugs, violence, random sex. # # # What caused his teachers to praise someone like the young Bill Clinton, who didn't just dodge the physical risks of Vietnam, but who (as some are only now discovering) apparently avoided all the emotional risks and commitments which help a boy mature into a man, leaving a 50-year-old president at the approximate level of emotional development of a giggling, groping 13-year-old, promising to "marry" his date to the sock hop if she'll let him cop a feel? Apparently no one believes Mr. Gatto. But the great novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand further explained the process by which children's normal mental and emotional development are now systematically and deliberately crippled in a 1970 essay called "The Comprachicos," available in the Meridian paperback "The New Left:" "At the age of three, when his mind is almost as plastic as his bones, when his need and desire to know are more intense than they will ever be again, a child is delivered -- by a Progressive nursery school -- into the midst of a pack of children as helplessly ignorant as himself. ... He wants to learn; he is told to play. Why? No answer is given. He is made to understand -- by the emotional vibrations permeating the atmosphere of the place ... that the most important thing in this peculiar world is not to know, but to get along with the pack. Why? No answer is given. "He does not know what to do; he is told to do anything he feels like. He picks up a toy; it is snatched away from him by another child; he is told that he must learn to share. Why? No answer is given. He sits alone in a corner; he is told that he must join the others. Why? No answer is given. He approaches a group, reaches for their toys and is punched in the nose. He cries, in angry bewilderment; the teacher throws her arms around him and gushes that she loves him. ... "The teacher's mechanical crib-side manner -- the rigid smile, the cooing tone of voice ... the coldly unfocused, unseeing eyes -- add up in the child's mind to a word he will soon learn: phony. He knows it is a disguise; a disguise hides something; he experiences suspicion -- and fear. "A small child is mildly curious about, but not greatly interested in, other children of his own age. In daily association, they merely bewilder him. He is not seeking equals, but cognitive superiors, people who (start ital)know(end ital). Observe that young children prefer the company of older children or of adults, that they hero-worship and try to emulate an older brother or sister. A child needs to reach a certain development, a sense of his own identity, before he can enjoy the company of his 'peers.' But he is thrown into their midst and told to adjust. "Adjust to (start ital)what?(end ital) To anything. To cruelty, to injustice, to blindness, to silliness, to pretentiousness, to snubs, to mockery, to treachery, to lies ... and to the overwhelming , overpowering presence of Whim as the ruler of everything. ... "After a while, he adjusts. ... He learns that regardless of what he does -- whether his action is right or wrong, honest or dishonest, sensible or senseless -- if the pack disapproves, he is wrong and his desire is frustrated; if the pack approves, then anything goes. Thus the embryo of his concept of morality shrivels before it is born," and is replaced with the realization that the objective reality of achievement is worthless, that everything of value is instead gained through the emotional manipulation of the pack, Ms. Rand explained. "Cut off from reality, which he has not learned fully to grasp, he is plunged into a world of fantasy playing. He may feel a dim uneasiness, at first: to him, it is not imagining, it is lying. But he loses that distinction and get into the swing. The wilder his fantasies, the warmer the teacher's approval and concern. ... He begins to believe his own fantasies. ... Why bother facing problems if they can be solved by make-believe? ... "The teacher prods him to self-expression, but he knows that this is a trap; he is being put on trial before the pack, to see whether he fits or not. He senses that he is constantly expected to feel, but he does not feel anything -- only fear, confusion, helplessness and boredom. ... "So he learns to hide his feelings, to simulate them, to pretend, to evade -- to repress. The stronger his fear, the more aggressive his behavior; the more uncertain his assertions, the louder his voice. From playacting, he progresses easily to the skill of putting on an act. ... He cannot know by what imperceptible steps he, too, has become a phony." # # # Is it really so hard to see how an "education" system that grades children on group projects and "how they fit in with others," that flatters them that all their uninformed opinions are equally, indiscriminately worthy of "discussion groups," that rejects the tried and true practice of encouraging the majority to aspire to match the achievements of the best and the brightest, instead naming (start ital)every(end ital) child "Student of the Month," could end up producing a Bill Clinton ... or 100 million Bill Clintons? Is it really any surprise that two whole American generations are now schooled not in math, spelling, and grammar, but rather in fantasy, deception, and manipulation? Can we really be surprised that they ignore evidence that the garbage men pour all their sorted trash into the same trucks, insisting the exercise of sorting green bottles from brown is still worthwhile if it "raises everyone's consciousness"? That they snort at statistics proving cities with gun bans actually have the highest rates of crime, or that one volcano releases more "greenhouse gases" than 1,000 years of Freon? They they instead insist it doesn't matter whether an "assault weapons ban" will really reduce crime, or whether banning spray cans will really close the "ozone hole," so long as jailing the violators of such freedom-crushing edicts makes us all (start ital)feel better about ourselves(end ital), since "at least we tried"? Should we really be surprised to hear them now, whining "What do you want? Everyone has affairs. Everyone lies under oath." Or, as letter-writer Bob Gore puts it in the Sept. 20 Las Vegas Review-Journal: "I feel like I'm living in a country that is collectively raising an adolescent. Listen to Billy Clinton and his friends: 'I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove a thing. Everybody does it. It's no worse than anybody else. Kenny is a snitch ... and he's an old meanie. I do not have the five dollars that was on your dresser (I already spent it). I have to answer all the tough questions. I know I burnt the house down, but think of the new one we'll get. I'm sorry for what I did even though I didn't do anything.' ... "We're living an episode of 'The Simpsons', and Bart's in charge," Mr. Gore concludes. "I can't wait for this kid to move out -- as soon as he grows up." Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. -- Ludwig von Mises The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943 * * * --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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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IP: US Easing Bank Rules on Big Cash Transactions
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 15:44:45 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: US Easing Bank Rules on Big Cash Transactions Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cash-transactions-reuters.h… September 22, 1998 U.S. Is Easing Bank Rules on Big Cash Transactions By REUTERS WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department announced Monday that it was trimming its requirements for reporting large cash transactions. The measures had been introduced to try to curb money laundering. Banks had criticized the requirements, the Treasury said, "because they mandated repetitive paperwork" for routine transactions. The changes will lighten the banks' paperwork load but will make bankers responsible for acting as monitors and reporting anything to the authorities that they think is out of the ordinary and that might indicate criminal activity. The new rules will permit banks to conduct most transactions with "cash intensive businesses" without having to report to the Government under the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act. But banks will still have to file reports on transactions of $10,000 or more with individuals and with certain types of businesses. "This rule does not exempt banks from reporting suspicious activity involving those exempted activities," the Treasury said. "In addition, certain categories of businesses, such as real estate brokers, automobile dealers and money transmitters, may not be exempted." The reporting requirements were originally established to help law enforcement officials combat money-laundering by drug dealers and other criminals who pass large amounts through businesses and banks to give an appearance of legality. The new rules, published today in The Federal Register, will permit a bank to exempt a domestic business that routinely needs large amounts of cash simply by filing a form stating that the business is exempt. The business must have been a customer of the bank for at least a year. Banks, savings institutions and credit unions can begin using the new rules on Oct. 21. The Treasury said businesses exempted from reporting rules by a bank must have their exemptions reviewed every two years. But it said it was dropping a requirement that banks include details about all of a customer's transactions on the renewal form. In 1997, the Treasury said, more than 12 million currency transaction reports were filed. It said that as a result of the latest rules changes, as well as an earlier streamlining of reporting requirements for transactions between banks, financial institutions should be able to reduce such filings by about 30 percent. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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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CANADIAN PRESS REPORTS (was Re: CSE gets flak on TV)
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 17 Nov 1995 anonymous-remailer(a)shell.portal.com wrote: > > Hmm, actually the news tape is reading a little strange here in Canada. > > Not AP, or REUTERS, but simply the Canadian Press newswire. [snip] > Taking three successive news stories from three days ... (press stories, > I've since pulled for my own reference) and pasting them together to > indicate some type of Machiaevellian?? (sp) exercise is simply "not done." I still feel such a sense of violation with what LD did, such an utter sense of helplessness at the character assassination I've suffered at his hands, that I feel that I must take some token action to "set the record straight". Something which clears my name. Here is the TRUE unedited story for the list which Deitweiler felt he had to TWIST to the nth degree. His attempt at making mountains out of mole hills will not succeed with this one. I won't have him attack me, and attack everything I'm trying to achieve on this list, through his games. It's a non-starter from the get go, LD. Here's what was truly written ... let the list decide for itself. COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT Canada spied on allies: ex-agent Top secret security agency accused of eavesdropping on South Koreans by former analyst The Canadian Press TORONTO Canada's electronic espionage agency has spied on friendly countries such as South Korea, Mexico and Japan despite Ottawa's denials, a former agent has told CTV News. "I have lived with this information for so long and I just think that it is time that Canada knows what CSE is doing, " Jane Shorten said in a report for broadcast late Sunday. Shorten, 38, worked as an analyst from 1986 to 1994 -- when she was laid off -- for the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), CTV reports. A separate entity from the better known Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSE can be described as a technological peeping tom. It specializes in electronic espionage, monitoring radio and other transmissions for useful information. The Soviets and their allies were once the prime targets of such surveillance, but after the thaw in the Cold War, CSE shifted its attention to friendly countries, Shorten told CTV. The agency spied on Canada's allies and trading partners, eavesdropping on friendly embassies, consulates, diplomats in Canada and around the world, she said. Ottawa denies it. "Countries like Canada have understandings that they don't carry out these activities against each other, " Solicitor General Herb Gray said earlier this year in response to claims that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had spied on the Japanese delegation during auto trade talks in Geneva. Replies Shorten: "He does not know what's going on because CSE is certainly doing that ... I spied on the (South) Korean government for the Canadian government." CSE is part of the Defence Department but Shorten insists senior officials at the Foreign Affairs Department were fully aware of its activities and anxious for its information. "I know my reports went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," Shorten told CTV. "My reports were classified as Top Secret Umbra and that's as high as you can get, and these people were cleared to get that kind of information." Shorten, once described by a superior as a gifted intelligence analyst, told CTV she was aware her revelations could result in prosecution under the Official Secrets Act but felt the risk of prison was worth it. "I feel so strongly that it's time that people learned what CSE is all about," she said.

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Re: COE Recommendation No. R (95) 13
by viking＠pacifier.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>MS> However, if I have a wall safe and >>MS> they get a warrant to search it, can I be jailed for contempt if I >>MS> don't give them the combination? >> >> Well, IANAL, but yes, I believe that you can be. Or, worse, >>obstruction of justice. Especially if they cut it open and find that >>the knife was in the safe. > >So presumably the same would apply to the password that unlocks my >PGP private key. But there's an interesting twist. Once they open >up the wall safe, they can see for sure what is and isn't in it. This >ain't necessarily so for an encrypted file. Suppose my software has the >fiendish sophistication to disgorge different keys depending on what >password was given, and different pieces of cleartext depending >on what key was used. (Again, I apologize if this notion has already >been extensively discussed.) Is there a way to set it up such that >the cops couldn't be sure -- even using a logic analyzer -- that I >hadn't given them the complete set of keys, so as to read all the >cleartexts in the file? Assume that cyphertext files are guaranteed >to be larger, by some random factor, than the sum of all the cleartexts >in them, so the mere fact that a smaller quantity of cleartext was >disgorged than cyphertext supplied would tell them nothing. I guess this >is a kind of steganography, isn't it? Or at least something similar -- >the point would be that they couldn't tell genuine cyphertext from >camouflaging noise, without the key that tells them where to look. > >Which brings us, in turn, to the bottom line: the only things we >can be certain the bad guys _won't_ do, are the things they _can't_ >do. > > >--Michael Smith The interesting thing about PGP is that any incriminating cypher text one might have on his or her hard disk would, most likely, be in someone else's public key. So, even if they had your secret key the only thing that could be uncovered would be cyphertext that someone else had written to you. Granted, that this could be incriminating but, then again, not necessarily. I'm sure that for the purposes of conducting a criminal investigation, your own cyphertext would be far more incriminating than someone else's. (The above is only true unless you use the single key encryption option offered for personal files in which case your files would be readable.) What one should be more concerned with is sloppy handling of plain text files used prior to encryption. A good example of that is if you're using Windows based applications such as MS Winword. It has an auto-store function that generates a "Temp" file. Such files aren't wiped in the same fashion that PGP uses when it wipes a text file prior to encryption. I think that the paramount thing to consider is if you have something to hide then it is best to store it is inside your head. Any computer based storage system is bound to have certain limitations that may be bridged by a determined government agency. The other alternative is to ensure that potentially incriminating files be purged regularly to avoid such potential problems. Robert East viking(a)pacifier.com

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