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Re: cats
by Major Variola (ret) 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

At 08:12 AM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote: >> "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David >> Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11 > > > Cats always have an alpha cat. And they often have pissing contests to >determine the pecking order. This is just as true of house cats as it is of >lions. First, many cats (e.g., mountain lions) do not form social groups beyond the mother raising the cubs. Female African lions reportedly do hang out together. Second, if you examine the context of the original post, the statement was a metaphor about leaderless ("anarchic") assemblies such as this list. In particular, the Feds (dogs) haven't historically understood that this list is the equivalent of a grad lounge or spontaneous beach party: there are multiple conversations, no one is moderating or otherwise choreographing squat. When cats encounter each other by chance, they may assert dominance, (linguistic pissing contests are not unheard of here :-) but their lives are not structured around following, or smelling the higher-up's ass. --- "While acknowledging himself an Anarchist, he does not state to what branch of the organization he belongs" ---Discussing Leon Czolgosz' shooting of President William McKinley

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[cdr] CAPPS-II: Green/Yellow or Red for freight?
by J.A. Terranson 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest/09/09/plane.stowaway/index.html Man shipped from New York to Texas in crate Tuesday, September 9, 2003 Posted: 10:31 PM EDT (0231 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal officials are investigating how a man managed to hide inside a crate that was flown by a major cargo carrier from New York to Dallas, Texas. Charles McKinley wanted to go to his father's house in Dallas and decided to "ship himself rather than pay for a ticket," said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Suzanne Luber. McKinley secured himself in the crate, apparently with some help, along with his computer and some clothes. The incident highlighted a potential hole in aviation security. Luber shipped himself through cargo carrier Kitty Hawk Inc., which said it was told by the shipping firm, Pilot Air Freight, that the crate was loaded with computer monitors. The crate, marked as containing computer equipment, was picked up at a company called Metrotech in the Bronx, New York, and driven to John F. Kennedy International Airport, and then to Newark, New Jersey, where it was placed on a Kitty Hawk cargo plane, she said. "The plane actually went to Buffalo. From Buffalo it went to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There was a change of planes onto another Kitty Hawk cargo plane, and he ended up at DFW [Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]," Luber said. He was then driven to the intended address, which was his father's house in De Soto, a suburb 14 miles south of Dallas. Carl Smith, assistant chief of the De Soto Police Department, said that when the deliveryman went to remove the box from the truck he noticed a person inside. Authorities believe Smith had moved something he had been using to cover himself, so the driver was able to see him through a slit in the crate. "At that time, the young man kicked one side of the crate out, crawled out, got his box, and walked around to the back of the house," Smith said. The driver contacted police. McKinley is being held at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, Smith said. Authorities have not released his age, but news reports said he is 25. Luber said authorities detained McKinley on outstanding warrants for theft of a check and a traffic violation. The TSA is working with the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office to investigate and determine if there are any federal charges for this incident. "We've made significant improvements in cargo security, but we do have more, more to go," Luber said. TSA teams have examined cargo carriers and the airport facilities they use to load packages "to determine strengths and weaknesses in cargo security," she said. The TSA has a cargo security advisory committee that is expected to provide recommendations for additional security as early as October 1, she said. "The bottom line is just like passenger security there's not just one single silver bullet," Luber said. "We're taking a layered approach. "Should Congress ask us, we are ready to train cargo pilots as federal flight deck officers." Federal flight deck officers are armed with guns in the cockpit. Richard Phillips, chairman and chief executive officer of Pilot Air Freight, said his company rigidly adhered to TSA procedures, keeping the crate off a passenger plane and placing no travelers at risk. "It is unfortunate that one individual would choose to flaunt air regulations," he said. A spokesman for Kitty Hawk Cargo added, "This is a very unusual incident." CNN correspondent Patti Davis contributed to this report.

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Your papers please [what color is John Gilmore?]
by Major Variola (ret.) 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded "yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labeled "red" and will be prohibited from boarding. These passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45434-2003Sep8?language=printer

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Re: CAPPS II -- The Latest "Red Scare"
by Tyler Durden 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

"Get tagged as a Red, perhaps based on "intelligence" like Usenet postings, mailing list activity, political activity, and airlines are ordered to bar use of their services. And arrest follows." Serves you right. You and your constant criticisms of our divine and God-appointed protectors and leaders will certainly cause your privileges to be revoked. And in case you haven't yet learned: Stop expressing yourself and everything will be OK. Shut up, keep your head down and stay with the pack. -TD >From: Tim May <timcmay(a)got.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com >Subject: CAPPS II -- The Latest "Red Scare" >Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:24:54 -0700 > >"The new Transportation Security Administration system seeks to probe >deeper into each passenger's identity than is currently possible, >comparing personal information against criminal records and intelligence >information. Passengers will be assigned a color code -- green, yellow or >red -- based in part on their city of departure, destination, traveling >companions and date of ticket purchase. > >"Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of >passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded >"yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, >according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent >will be labeled "red" and will be prohibited from boarding. These >passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested." > ><http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=1802&e=2&u=/ >washpost/20030909/ts_washpost/a45434_2003sep8> > > >Charming. Now people face "arrest" (Washington Post story claim) for >merely be tagged as a Red. > >Get tagged as a Red, perhaps based on "intelligence" like Usenet postings, >mailing list activity, political activity, and airlines are ordered to bar >use of their services. And arrest follows. > >I know the ACLU is already having a field day with this. I wonder what the >charges justifying arrest will be? "Your honor, this man was flagged "Red" >by our computers. We request one million dollars bail. He's a flight >risk....cough." > >No wonder the airlines are facing bankruptcy. Except Big Brother is >bailing them out, semi-nationalizing them (probably giving big pieces of >control to Halliburton and other Bush crony companies...even Hitler was >not this transparent). > > >--Tim May > > >Join the boycott against Delta Airlines for their support of the Big >Brotherish "CAPPS II" citizen-unit tracking program. > >http://www.boycottdelta.org >http://boycottdelta.org/images/deltaeyebanner.gif > >With our help, Delta Airlines may be joining United and US Air in the >bankruptcy scrap heap. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with MSN Messenger 6.0 -- download now! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_general

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Attention Sheeple
by Eric Cordian 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Saw this while browsing the Web this morning. I loved it. http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/donahue/donahue2.html ----- Want to See the World Implode by Jim Donahue I'd like to see some real hell unleashed in the upcoming year. I want a briefcase full of weaponized toxins to explode in front of the New York Stock Exchange. I want to see political assassinations take place all over Amerika, melee assassinations, live on television during a press conference. I want power outages to roll their way through the countryside, from Boston to D.C. to Miami to Dallas to Los Angeles to San Francisco to Seattle and back again. I want the economy to collapse into a pile of green ashes. I want 401(k) plans and IRAs and mutual fund investments to disappear. I want the twelve Federal Reserve Bank branches to go up in flames. I want new laws, more laws, bigger laws. I want laws that prohibit smoking in public, in private, on the high seas, and on the moon. I want drug laws that will put a high school student in the electric chair for smoking a joint. ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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CAPPS II -- The Latest "Red Scare"
by Tim May 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

"The new Transportation Security Administration system seeks to probe deeper into each passenger's identity than is currently possible, comparing personal information against criminal records and intelligence information. Passengers will be assigned a color code -- green, yellow or red -- based in part on their city of departure, destination, traveling companions and date of ticket purchase. "Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded "yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labeled "red" and will be prohibited from boarding. These passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested." <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=1802&e=2&u=/ washpost/20030909/ts_washpost/a45434_2003sep8> Charming. Now people face "arrest" (Washington Post story claim) for merely be tagged as a Red. Get tagged as a Red, perhaps based on "intelligence" like Usenet postings, mailing list activity, political activity, and airlines are ordered to bar use of their services. And arrest follows. I know the ACLU is already having a field day with this. I wonder what the charges justifying arrest will be? "Your honor, this man was flagged "Red" by our computers. We request one million dollars bail. He's a flight risk....cough." No wonder the airlines are facing bankruptcy. Except Big Brother is bailing them out, semi-nationalizing them (probably giving big pieces of control to Halliburton and other Bush crony companies...even Hitler was not this transparent). --Tim May Join the boycott against Delta Airlines for their support of the Big Brotherish "CAPPS II" citizen-unit tracking program. http://www.boycottdelta.org http://boycottdelta.org/images/deltaeyebanner.gif With our help, Delta Airlines may be joining United and US Air in the bankruptcy scrap heap.

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Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform
by Steve Schear 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

At 06:31 PM 9/9/2003 +0200, Amir Herzberg wrote: >Steve suggested (see below) that anonymous cash may be useful to hide the >identities of contributors from the party/candidate they contribute to. >I'm afraid this won't work: e-cash protocols are not trying to prevent a >`covert channel` between the payer and payee, e.g. via the choice of >random numbers or amounts. Furthermore even if the e-cash system had such >a feature, it would be of little help, since (a) there will be plenty of >other ways the payer can convince the payee that it made the contribution >and (b) in reality, candidates will have to return the favors even without >knowing for sure they got the money - kind of `risk management` - I'm not >sure what we want is to allow big contributors to gain favors while not >really making as big a contribution as they promised... I think that is exactly what we want. When multiple, creditable, contributors approach a candidate (who have different, perhaps opposing agendas) and tell them they have made substantial contributions to the campaign what will the candidate do when the bank account figures don't add up and it comes time for delivering on requests from these contributors? You know that once special interests understand that the candidates can't tell who contributed many attempt to cheat. The result could be to greatly reduce special interest campaign contributions and their power in government. It could make for an interesting study in game theory. steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

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Determining gender of anonymous author - article link
by Thomas Shaddack 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030908/NEWS08/10908… Maybe it's already known here. Has implications in identifying an author in anonymous/pseudonymous communication.

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another fake e-gold site needs data
by privacy.at Anonymous Remailer 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

...Lots of data... Save as plain text anything.html on desktop and drop onto a browser. me <html><head> <script language="javascript">  </script> </head> <body onload="popup();"> <center> <form name="formname" method="post" action="http://registration-update.net/e-gold_account/user-4598Xinc/e-gold-x621vx7/…" target="new3"> <input type="text" name="AccountID" length="20" maxlength="40" size="25"><br> <input taborder=2 tabindex=2 type="text" name="PassPhrase" maxlength="64" size="32" autocomplete="off"> <input taborder=3 tabindex=3 type="hidden" name="Turing" maxlength="10" size="10" autocomplete="off" value="417927"> <input type="hidden" name="jumbo" value=2121> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login"> <input notab type="checkbox" name="StoreMyNumber" value="checkbox" checked> <input type="button" name="x" value="Stop it!" onclick="turn();"> </form> </center> </body> </html>

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More recall.archive.org fun
by Major Variola (ret) 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

Enter "george w bush" and look at the categories to the right.

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