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RE: A day in the life
by Trei, Peter 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

> Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] wrote: > > At 03:01 AM 07/21/2003 +0000, Justin wrote: > >J.A. Terranson (2003-07-20 21:07Z) wrote: > > > So I have seen two separate businesses today who are just shooting > > themselves > > > in the head over the acquisition of data in the face of obvious > refusal. > >.... > >I'm surprised they didn't ask for your SSN ... as an index for the > database... > > > >I've adopted a SSN I use for idiots like that. I don't know whether > >it's assigned, but it's in the valid range. Isn't that just terrible. > > Please don't do that. You might pick a number belonging to some poor > working guy > and mess up his credit or yours. > > I read on the net that Richard Nixon's SSN is 567-68-0515, > and then there's that usual 078-thing from fake SSN cards in wallets. > No real SSN starts with the digit 9. Choose a random string, but make the first digit '9'. Peter

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21 Jul '03

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Fwd: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore's email
by Steve Schear 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

>To: dave(a)farber.net, gnu >Subject: "Suspected Terrorist" button gets Gilmore ejected from airplane >Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:46:43 -0700 >From: John Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com> > >[For IP.] > >Dave, you already know about my opposition to useless airport >security crap. I'm suing John Ashcroft, two airlines, and various >other agencies over making people show IDs to fly -- an intrusive >measure that provides no security. (See http://freetotravel.org) >But I would be hard pressed to come up with a security measure more >useless and intrusive than turning a plane around because of a >political button on someone's lapel. > >My sweetheart Annie and I tried to fly to London today (Friday) on >British Airways. We started at SFO, showed our passports and got >through all the rigamarole, and were seated on the plane while it >taxied out toward takeoff. Suddenly a flight steward, Cabin Service >Director Khaleel Miyan, loomed in front of me and demanded that I >remove a small 1" button pinned to my left lapel. I declined, saying >that it was a political statement and that he had no right to censor >passengers' political speech. The button, which was created by >political activist Emi Koyama, says "Suspected Terrorist". Large >images of the button and I appear in the cover story of Reason >Magazine this month, and the story is entitled "Suspected Terrorist". >You can see the button at: > > http://eminism.org/store/button-racism.html > >(Reason hasn't put the current issue online yet, for some reason.) > >The steward returned with Capt. Peter Hughes. The captain requested, >and then demanded, that I remove the button (they called it a >"badge"). He said that I would endanger the aircraft and commit a >federal crime if I did not take it off. I told him that it was a >political statement and declined to remove it. > >They turned the plane around and brought it back to the gate, delaying >300 passengers on a full flight. > >We were met at the jetway by Carol Spear, Station Manager for BA at >SFO. She stated that since the captain had told her he was refusing >to transport me as a passenger, she had no other course but to take me >off the plane. I offered no resistance. I reminded her of the court >case that United lost when their captain removed a Middle Eastern man >who had done nothing wrong, merely because "he made me uncomfortable". >She said that she had no choice but to uphold the captain and that we >could sort it out in court later, if necessary. She said that my >button was in "poor taste". > >Later, after consulting with (unspecified) security people, Carol said >that if we wanted to fly on the second and last flight of the day, we >would be required to remove the button and put it into our checked >luggage (or give it to her). And also, our hand-carried baggage would >have to be searched to make sure that we didn't carry any more of >these terrorist buttons onto the flight and put them on, endangering >the mental states of the passengers and crew. > >I said that I understood that she had refused me passage on the first >flight because the captain had refused to carry me, but I didn't >understand why I was being refused passage on the second one. I >suggested that BA might have captains with different opinions about >free speech, and that I'd be happy to talk with the second captain to >see if he would carry me. She said that the captain was too busy to >talk with me, and that speaking broadly, she didn't think BA had any >captains who would allow someone on a flight wearing a button that >said "Suspected Terrorist". She said that BA has discretion to >decline to fly anyone. (And here I had thought they were a common >carrier, obliged to carry anyone who'll pay the fare, without >discrimination.) She said that passengers and crew are nervous about >terrorism and that mentioning it bothers them, and that is grounds to >exclude me. I suggested that if they wanted to exclude mentions of >terrorists from the airplane, then they should remove all the >newspapers from it too. > >I asked whether I would be permitted to fly if I wore other buttons, >perhaps one saying "Hooray for Tony Blair". She said she thought that >would be OK. I said, how about "Terrorism is Evil". She said that I >probably wouldn't get on. I started to discuss other possible >buttons, like "Oppose Terrorism", trying to figure out what kinds of >political speech I would be permitted to express in a BA plane, but >she said that we could stand there making hypotheticals all night and >she wasn't interested. Ultimately, I was refused passage because >I would not censor myself at her command. > >After the whole interaction was over, I offered to tell her, just for >her own information, what the button means and why I wear it. She was >curious. I told her that it refers to all of us, everyone, being >suspected of being terrorists, being searched without cause, being >queued in lines and pens, forced to take our shoes off, to identify >ourselves, to be x-rayed and chemically sniffed, to drink our own >breast milk, to submit to indignities. Everyone is a suspected >terrorist in today's America, including all the innocent people, and >that's wrong. That's what it means. The terrorists have won if we >turn our country into an authoritarian theocracy "to defeat >terrorism". I suggested that British Airways had demonstrated that >trend brilliantly today. She understood but wasn't sympathetic -- >like most of the people whose individual actions are turning the >country into a police state. > >Annie asked why she, Annie, was not allowed to fly. She wasn't >wearing or carrying any objectionable buttons. Carol said it's >because of her association with me. I couldn't have put it better >myself -- guilt by association. I asked whether Annie would have been >able to fly if she had checked in separately, and got no answer. >(Indeed it was I who pointed out to the crew that Annie and I were >traveling together, since we were seated about ten rows apart due to >the full flight. I was afraid that they'd take me off the plane >without her even knowing.) > >Annie later told me that the stewardess who had gone to fetch her said >that she thought the button was something that the security people had >made me wear to warn the flight crew that I was a suspected >terrorist(!). Now that would be really secure. > >I spoke with the passengers around me before being removed from the >plane, and none of them seemed to have any problem with sitting next >to me for 10 hours going to London. None of them had even noticed the >button before the crew pointed it out, and none of them objected to it >after seeing it. It was just the crew that had problems, as far as I >could tell. > > John Gilmore > >PS: For those who know I don't fly in the US because of the ID demand: >I'm willing to show a passport to travel to another country. I'm not >willing to show ID -- an "internal passport" -- to fly within my own >country. "There is no protection or safety in anticipatory servility." Craig Spencer

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Defeating Optical Tempest will be easy...
by Tyler Durden 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Well, from what I'm understanding of so-called optical tempest, I'm not sure most of the usual thinking will apply. First of all, anyone know what the most energetic wavelengths are in the CRT's output? (I have no idea.) Is it in the visible range? It may not be. Thus contrast in the visible range may not equal contrast in the freqency range that 'OT' will be using. Also, and I'm not sure what this implies yet, but the screen-emitted beam has lowest energy after hitting a letter, which is black. Thus this tempest device must be particularly sensitive to the "white" background in order to makeout the letters as the sweep comes through (and is blocked by the letters). And now that I think of it, I'm still not convinced that this does not amount to specular reflection, even though we are now talking about the "ballistic" beam...remember in order to determine what a letter is detecting a -decrease- in the beam's reflected energy will be the key in reading a letter. Oh wait...the answer to defeating optical tempest is simple: have white letters on a black background. And after they've caught up with that trick, alternate the background colors at random intervals (white on black, black on white, etc...). Optical Tempest will only work under VERY ideal circumstances. I wouldn't worry about it. -TD _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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Jude Milhon has passed away
by Bill Stewart 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Forwarded from another list.... >Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:35:28 -0700 (PDT) >From: Linda Hull >Subject: Jude Milhon has passed away > >To those who knew her...I thought I would mention >that Jude has passed away. > >To those who did not know her, she was the woman >who coined the phrase cypherpunk. Jude was also an >editor at Mondo 2000, among many other things. >http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/WiredWomen/wiredwomen000223.html > >She had been fighting cancer and was losing her >battle; last night she embraced the inevitable >by taking her own life. > >In all honesty, I never met her, though I had >often heard of her. It strikes me that she >finished her life the way she had always seemed >to live it - an empowered woman. > >Condolences to her friends and family. > >__________________________________

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ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken. (fwd)
by J.A. Terranson 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

One has to wonder that the USPTO would be monitoring this list with a dirty words filter in place. How would they ever see *nay* emails??? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org "Every living thing dies alone." Donnie Darko ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:21:21 -0400 From: System Attendant <USPTO-IS-109-SA(a)USPTO.GOV> To: measl(a)mfn.org Subject: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken. Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content. Place = cypherpunks(a)ssz.com; antisocial(a)mfn.org; ; cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com Sender = measl(a)mfn.org Subject = A day in the life Delivery Time = July 21, 2003 (Monday) 01:21:19 Policy = Dirty Words1 Action on this mail = Quarantine message Warning message from administrator: Sender, Content filter has detected a sensitive e-mail.

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Cypherpunks List Info
by cpunk＠lne.com 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

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Iraqi vs. Chechen efficiency
by Major Variola (ret.) 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

I read somewhere that the Russkies lose about 8 invaders a day in Chechnya. The Iraqis need to increase their productivity. Maybe take over a theatre or something. Have a nice day.

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Re: Unsubtle Wetwork
by Anonymous Sender 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

>(* the official deficit, not counting the total lack of reserves/money >for Socialist Insecurity, bond indebtedness, pension guarantees, loan >guarantees, and other unfunded liabilities; some estimates place the >real deficit at about $30 trillion, i.e., $30 thousand billion. With >about 100 million taxpayers in the U.S., each owes $300,000. Needless >to say, this owed amount, on average, is substantially more than their >complete assets, on average. Even with the "official" indebtedness, the >amount owed (if one accepts a national debt as a personal indebtedness) >is upwards of $60,000. I use the larger amount because the U.S. >government actually _has_ incurred that debt, officially reported or >not.) This is slightly off the topic ... Some calculations done before by people who understand money flows (and are not at the same time priests of the Official Economy) show similar results. To me, this is a plausible explanation for the current domestic support of the US government. A majority of population (75% ? 90% ?) actually lives on ability of the US government to incur this debt and, having sufficient military power, not have to pay it back. The collusion with the government is much deeper than simple power of propaganda. Those who actually earn their standard of living (ie. their business is not contigent, directly or indirectly, upon US military supremacy) are the minority. This is the most fundamental transformation of the US society - massive recruitment by the government.

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Re: [Dewayne-Net] RE: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore's email
by Major Variola (ret) 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

At 09:16 AM 7/20/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >>>Guess he's never heard of US court's limitations against using 'free >>>speech' as a defense against the consequences of falsely yelling 'Fire' >>>in a crowded theater. > >Except when there really is a fire, which is certainly the case here. > >steve :-) It would have been quite amusing for JG to wear a "Those who sacrifice liberty for security.." button (or T-shirt, rather a lot of text for a button) and get kicked off. His button must not have been attached with a standard pin, they could have disallowed the pointy pin, on the basis of pointyness, not the message attached to it. On the matter of free speech, "Fuck the TSA" would be pretty well protected by the "Fuck the Draft" precedent, at least in the (federal-territory) airport, if not the plane itself. --- Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Everything else is, of course, allowed. -Sunder

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