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Publius in the Fiefdom of NY
by Anonymous User 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

[Ed: choice quote: "Everyone is a suspect"] http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/38996.htm January 15, 2002 -- A new Web site devoted to local politics is breaking one scoop after another - but the one story it won't report is who's behind the effort. PoliticsNY.com, launched Dec. 3 as a sister site to PoliticsNJ.com, beat all the local media in disclosing how Mayor Bloomberg was trying to block Andrew Eristoff from becoming the Manhattan Republican leader. It also was first to reveal that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was establishing his own repository for his official papers. "Everyone's all hyped up about the site," said City Councilwoman Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan). "You constantly get asked, did you see such and such on their Web site." Proud as they are of their exclusives, the authors - who appear to be well-connected - are no Matt Drudges: They won't step forward to claim credit. "We have chosen to remain anonymous, much like when James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym 'Publius,' " the writers proclaim in a message on the site. One City Hall official said he's treating "everyone as a suspect" because some of the stories have so much background information that "it can't be someone new to the scene." A Post source fingered the chief author as a former staffer in the Giuliani administration.

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All your addresses are belong to Microsoft
by Anonymous 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

>From slashdot: in the course of discovery for the ongoing lawsuit instigated by Microsoft against Lindows.com, the company was "compelled to disclose your email address to Microsoft." The email addresses aren't just those who have submitted product names with a connection to "Windows", but rather "everyone who had submitted their address asking to be signed up for the Lindows.com mailing list since we turned on the website," according to email from Robertson. He adds: "The information which Microsoft received in the list was name, email address and physical address. It was not just people that posted to our forum, but basically every address for every person that we had collected."

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RE: The vital private archive
by Steve Schear 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

At 11:15 AM 1/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > F. Marc de Piolenc[SMTP:piolenc@mozcom.com] wrote: > > > > > > Dear Michael, > > > > Michael Motyka wrote: > > > > > > Hack CD burners to add a SetBurnerIDCode command. > > > > Sorry. Could you expand on the significance of this for non-programmers? > > What does this command accomplish? Is it in firmware? > > >CD burners place a unique BurnerIDCode onto each CD-R that they >write. Thus, a CD-R can be associated with the machine that made >it, much as color copiers place their serial numbers on copies they >make. > >Of course, this serves no useful purpose for the average user, but >narcs out software pirates or samizdat publishers. > >"You may not speak anonymously on CD-R". > >I don't know what level of work would be required to modify it. There are probably two major hurdles: reverse engineering the firmware and getting the new code into the device. The second is probably the hardest. Because of high volume production techniques the processor-memory chips are probably not field programmable. Even if they were or field programmable equivalents were available they are likely mounted using BGA (Ball Grid Array) techniques. Very difficult to remove and re-insert without expensive equipment. steve

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RE: The vital private archive
by mattd 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

>>"You may not speak anonymously on CD-R". I don't know what level of work would be required to modify it. Peter Trei<< You may not speak anonymously on this list if your parole officers are reading because Peter Trei will dob you in,wont you peter? This is a nice little site to recruit rsa employees.The rsa is a jolly little Co that threatens educational Institutions for using PGP. They used to harass phill Zimmerman when the Govt wasn't.I dont know what level of APster it will take to get rid of rsa...but Id like to find out.APster attack is the best defence.Archive,sure.Attack above all.ATTACK. FEAST OF THE ASS: In the European Middle Ages, maidens ride asses to church, priest bray & sing hymns with heehaw choruses. http://streams.com/starchild/wesley/ass.html also the birthday of Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx's wayward son-in-law & author of The Right to be Lazy [1842].

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Anarchist Links:Anarchy is not a lack of order.
by mattd 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

1809 -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon lives, France. Famous philosopher, economist, sociologist, often referred to as the 'father of modern anarchism'. Project Gutenberg (& other sites) has online texts of The Philosophy of Misery (written in response to Marx's attack on him, The Poverty of Philosophy) & What is Property. "Property is theft!" "Anarchy is order." http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/ppl/rev/proudhon/ http://www.cpm.ll.ehime-u.ac.jp/akamacHomePage/akamac_E-text_Links/Proudhon… http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier3.html#15 http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~multimed/theorie/klassik/owen/biographie.h… http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales/livres/P… http://www.wcnet.org/~paupers/subversions/ http://www.tattoomuseum.com/left/gallery/proudhon.shtml "Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me is my enemy."

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RE: registering Cypherpunks movement ...
by Bill Stewart 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

At 01:46 PM 01/14/2002 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >[interesting material about this being originally >written to harass the German-American Bund. >Point two: >The cypherpunks mailing list is not an organization. There is no >membership list, there are no officers. There are no dues, no >organizational hierarchy. There is no agreed set of aims, purposes, >or activities. There is no property, and no post office address. Anybody who's come to the Bay Area Cypherpunks Meetings, which DDT and I send out announcements for, can also validate that "organization" is a rather strong term for them :-) >The above is relevant when you consider the next section of the >code, the reporting requirements: > >http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/corp/35100-35105.html > >Note that these all have to be sent in, 'subscribed under oath' >by all the officers. Who, exactly, would that be? We don't have any officers - so the report becomes the null set. And some of us belong to religions that forbid making oaths, while the oaths you'd get from other non-officers are more like "<expletive deleted!> I'm not filling out this form" >I'll leave the constitutionality of the law to others, but think its >highly suspect. However, for entertainment, somebody might want to check with the California Secretary of State to look at the registry of subversive organizations, which the last section of the law says is public record and open to inspection.

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Lompoc Blues
by mattd 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23663.html Jailbirds remember porridge online By Tim Richardson Posted: 14/01/2002 at 11:53 GMT The craze for reunion Web sites has taken a new twist following the creation of a site dedicated to re-uniting old jailbirds. Convicts Reunited was set up as a spoof site last month but since then has attracted 3,000 subscribers. A statement on the site reads: "This website is for Convicts and Ex-convicts who have either lost contact with old prison inmates or maybe looking for fellow conns for their next bank job. It ends: "Please note, this site is run by ex-convict personnel only, no part of this site was created by non-convicts so we understand your needs better." However, when pressed Mike Breach admitted that neither he nor co-founder, Chris Harvey, had spent any time behind bars. "It started off as a joke but people have been registering with us," he said. . Related Story Students hit by new reunion site

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Contract out on john Perry Barlow
by mattd 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

As a Republican Party official in Wyoming,he helped elect Dick Cheney to Congress.I say he is probably also responsible for cattle mutilations in the midwest and mad cow disease.I swear to pay 1 proffr dollar to soft drill this SOB.ASAP. Ill be Grateful when he's DEAD.In the spirit of Crazy Horse,professor Rat.Yipee Ki YaBasta MuthaFUCKER! "It is up to us to transfer the battle of Genoa to all levels, in all the places and moments that domination is operating with its political, economical, military and ideological weapons, the struggle against globalization continues in all the fronts it is revealing itself: from the dictatorship of the markets and of social control, to its current militarized imposition through the +war against terrorism; "

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RE: The vital private archive
by Trei, Peter 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

> F. Marc de Piolenc[SMTP:piolenc@mozcom.com] wrote: > > > Dear Michael, > > Michael Motyka wrote: > > > > Hack CD burners to add a SetBurnerIDCode command. > > Sorry. Could you expand on the significance of this for non-programmers? > What does this command accomplish? Is it in firmware? > CD burners place a unique BurnerIDCode onto each CD-R that they write. Thus, a CD-R can be associated with the machine that made it, much as color copiers place their serial numbers on copies they make. Of course, this serves no useful purpose for the average user, but narcs out software pirates or samizdat publishers. "You may not speak anonymously on CD-R". I don't know what level of work would be required to modify it. Peter Trei ============================================================================ ================ This e-mail, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and are PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. Access by any other party is unauthorized without the express prior written permission of the sender. If you have received this e-mail in error you may not copy, disclose to any third party or use the contents, attachments or information in any way, Please delete all copies of the e-mail and the attachment(s), if any and notify the sender. Thank You. ============================================================================ ================

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New crime: lying about an aviation radio
by Nomen Nescio 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

Monday January 14 3:19 PM ET New Info on Student With Pilot Radio By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - An Egyptian student charged with lying about an aviation radio found in his hotel room near the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 was in the United States as part of a government-funded program. Abdallah Higazy was in the United States on a student visa through a program arranged by the U.S. Agency for International Development, agency spokeswoman Susan Phalen said Monday. The program trains Egyptian students in business, health, English and education, often by placing them at American universities. Higazy, 30, was enrolled in Polytechnic University in Brooklyn as a graduate student in computer engineering, according to the university. Higazy allegedly told the FBI to know nothing of the radio found in a room safe, but later admitted it was his. Prosecutors said he acknowledged knowing how to operate the radio, which pilots use to communicate with other planes and air traffic controllers, but gave conflicting accounts of how he got it. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020114/us/attacks_aviation_radio_8.html ---------------------------------- "A Bay Area punk charged with lying about encryption software found in his hotel room near the Federal Building where anonymous threat was received ..."

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