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[Spy News] FBI expands hunt on warez scene (fwd)
by Jei 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:45:33 +0100 From: Mario Profaca <Mario.Profaca(a)zg.tel.hr> Reply-To: spynews-owner(a)yahoogroups.com To: "[Spy News]" <spynews(a)yahoogroups.com> Subject: [Spy News] FBI expands hunt on warez scene http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=2023 FBI expands hunt on warez scene Posted by me101 on 07:51 EST on 18 Dec 2001 - 12:51 GMT | 25 comments Found this over on GeekNews, pointing to a story over on New Order, regarding some additional information in relation to the FBI's ongoing warez raids. The FBI has, in the past week, been involved in raids against WAREZ groups, including 90+ scene group senior members and leaders in US, Canada, Britain, Australia, Norway, 2 cracking groups in Poland. New raids are expected in the next days or so.. Now We've got confirmed insider information, that four major efnet servers are currently running in debug mode, which enables them to see ALL private traffic, like private chat, passwords sent to channel protection bots, messages, etc. and the information is being filtered and sent to the FBI, which requested this. Currently, a big EDU server, and .ORG server. --- This mail, sent by Mario Profaca, is clean, certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.309 / Virus Database: 170 - Release Date: 17. 12. 01 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! http://us.click.yahoo.com/75YKVC/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/TySplB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ============================================== SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html ============================================== *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------------------------------- SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews To change your subscription mode to Daily Digest (one message a day) send a blank message: mailto:spynews-digest@yahoogroups.com Please note that replying to THIS e-mail will not remove you from the mailing list. To unsubscribe SPYNEWS send a blank message: mailto:spynews-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Mario Profaca, independent journalist, SPY NEWS eGroup list owner, editor & moderator, is a member of of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, an initiative administered through the offices of the Project for Excellence in Journalism in Washington, D.C. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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IRS Agent Goes Berserk, Assaults Citizen, by Pat Shannan
by Jei 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:25:41 -0800 From: Deon Masker <deonmm(a)earthlink.net> Reply-To: Conspiracy-Theory(a)yahoogroups.com To: ddDeon <deonmm(a)earthlink.net> Subject: [Conspiracy-Theory] Fw: [Renegades_Coalition] IRS Agent Goes Berserk, Assaults Citizen, by Pat Shannan Disclaimer: ~~For entertainment or educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Should this email has reached you in error, please return it with "removePatriotList" in the subject line or just click here: mailto:deonmm@earthlink.net?subject=removePatriot/88L ----- Original Message ----- From: " To: < Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: IRS Agent Goes Berserk, Assaults Citizen, by Pat Shannan >From the news Desk at YACE Freedom 91.9 FM Help spread the news! Long Live the Republic, Death to the new world order! **************************************************************************** **** IRS Agent Goes Berserk, Assaults Citizen Local Cops, Sheriff Refuse to Prosecute http://www.4bypass.com/feature.htm by Pat Shannan Dec. 2001 A sign spotted recently over the door of one IRS office says: "Seizure Fever Catch It!" Word has it that the IRS agent with the best seizure rate for the week is rewarded with a brief respite and other job "perks." Apparently the pressure to hit his weekly plunder bonus was more than one revenuer could stand, and when he was asked to show the law justifying his actions, he blew a head gasket. The Oct. 2 incident occurred when Wiley Davis, an IRS Team Manager from Colorado, became agitated with Las Vegas resident Ken Nicholson, 37, during a hearing to discuss an IRS lien against some property owned by Nicholson's friend, Keith Milbourn. Davis, 45, had been brought in from Denver specifically for the Milbourn case. The Las Vegas Tribune first reported the altercation as arising from a tax dispute involving an IRS lien against some property belonging to Ken Nicholson. This was inaccurate. Nicholson had gone along as counsel for his friends, Keith and Shawna Milbourn, and as a witness to the proceedings. It was Milbourn's case that was in dispute. They had also taken along court reporter Beatrice Conner, who caught the whole incident on audiotape. Nicholson had Power of Attorney to speak for Milbourn, 32. Davis was assisted by a female agent. Throughout the hearing, the two men made it clear that they were not going to take Davis' word for anything and would need actual documentation to prove the IRS' stand. Finally, Nicholson said that they would be willing to pay whatever the IRS claimed Milbourn owed if Davis could: 1) Produce a Notice and Demand for the tax; and 2) Give a Code Section which made Milbourn liable. Nicholson said, and witnesses as well as the tape recording concur, that Davis did not attempt to produce that evidence but instead became visibly angry, lost his self-control and attacked Nicholson. Offense is the Best Defense "Out of nowhere," said Nicholson, "he jumped up out of his chair and came around the table, grabbed my chair, and began bouncing it up and down. He shoved it forward and pushed me toward the table. [In the process,] my legs came apart and were straddling the arm of the chair. With three or four quick jerks, he yanked the arm of the chair upward and into my groin. Then he grabbed me and began to physically evict me from the room." Security officers came in and stopped the melee at the Oakley Boulevard office of the IRS in Las Vegas. Court stenographer Beatrice Conner was shocked speechless when Nicholson was knocked to the floor. "It was totally without provocation," she said. "He (Davis) was so angry and violent that if he had had a gun, he would have pulled it out!" Keith Milbourn, who witnessed the whole meeting and scuffle, gave more details: "By the time we called the police there were about ten people in the hallway including other agents, the witnesses and security guards," Milbourn told us, adding that the other IRS agent who was in the room, Renee Swells, was "surprised and shocked" by Davis' action. Swells was unavailable for comment. Milbourn and Nicholson had called 911 "and the cops arrived in five minutes all gung-ho and ready to arrest Ken. However, when they heard the tape played back, they all fell silent, not knowing what to do." So the officers did nothing. No arrest was made. Both men said they tried to report the incident to the U.S. attorney's office, as well as the FBI, but both Justice Department entities declined to take their report. The same proved to be true at the county level with Sheriff Jerry Keller. "I know that if I would have assaulted the IRS agent, I would be sitting in jail right now," Nicholson said. "But because the IRS agent is the one who assaulted me, Metro [Las Vegas Police] only took a statement and let him go." Hidden Ball Trick When the Metro police came out, Nicholson gave a voluntary statement backed up by his witnesses and the tape recording. He was told that he would have to wait five days before the report would be actually recorded in the police records. "On the sixth day, I went in and found out that no police report had been made at all. When I demanded that the report be filed and made official, I was told that I had a statute of limitations of five days to ask and demand prosecution from the date of the incident and that now I was too late." In other words, Nicholson was hoodwinked by officialdom. A spokesman for the Las Vegas Police Department said that investigators informed Nicholson he had to contact the department within five days of the incident if he wanted to initiate action against Davis, since it was "just a misdemeanor battery." LVMPD officials are sticking to their story that Nicholson had not contacted the department seeking action against Davis. The spokesman also said the department gave all of the information to the IRS Criminal Investigation Division. No announcement has been forthcoming as to whether Davis has been terminated, placed on leave pending an investigation, or is being held for psychiatric observation. "If Nicholson wants prosecution, he can contact the general investigations division within the department and they can move forward on it," the unnamed spokesman added. However, the frustrations of not seeing any justice in the criminal courts have motivated Nicholson toward a civil action. [---cut---] Read the rest of the story in the December 2001 issue. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Renegades_Coalition-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." -Luke 21:36 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Win a Capcom Console Game of Your Choice Or Even a Capcom Arcade System. Click Here to Enter. http://us.click.yahoo.com/tmpz8B/exbDAA/ySSFAA/KlSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************** Share with us your ideas. *************************** The things here are a collection from various places or persons and I am not responsible for the contents. The content is not meant to offend anyone. Anyone can post here. 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May the dog
by mattd 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

In the film "wag the dog",the producer who wants the credit gets the chop.One nod from Conrad and "jesus,mary and joseph!,dustin hoffman gets the chop.I was thinking about the crook dustin played in "straight time",while the CJ drama blew up.He's a gritty little bugger who gets rousted by a pudgy PO and blamed for a neighbors roach,busted back to county. When finally released,after the entire demeaning process,he takes fantastic revenge,cuffing the ugly PO to a centre strip light pole with his pants down! Its quite a good film with teresa russell and harry dean stanton,it looks better in B+W.too. We may learn a lot from hollywood.Like the producer who made two memo's for each movie,butt covering as artform. Then theres "the player".threats persist after you kill david Kahane? Dont sweat on it,script it! In spite of there not being many good movies lately,the assassination politics story is writing itself.kurt prochnow might be better to play me than mal.G.There's a distinct lack of luv interest so far and this is a fatal weakness I propose to try and remedy ASAP.Honeytrap me mossad,pleeze! We know from certain *barium* emissions that the state is watching us in deadly earnest.We also know by timmies smug self satisfaction.(thats getting beyond obnoxious timmy btw) that he,at least,thinks *its*TM is a slam dunk.OK lets ask some ladies in the room.We all have to share the world and according to agent faustine should worry about each others rights. Im not allergic to that idea,as long as we all know that truth and rec commissions wont cut it, we should come to some arrangements to ease into anarchy with the minimal amount of future shock.-For the sake of the children.-Im asking jessica S,dorothy if shes not to busy and mary (fbi) to come out from behind the curtain.(you dont want to be mistaken for rats,do you?) Come out and lets play with these concepts,boil them down for the dumb dumbs in high places and farm them out to the PR firms,SF writers,star trek script writers and hairdressers that shape the consciousness of world culture,such as it is.Theres no future in negativity,fortunately!

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Re: Steal This Essay 1: Content Is a Pure Public Good
by mattd 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

I found youse some text warez at ambulanzen.Enjoy! Subject: On Negativity Cc: sonofgomez709(a)yahoo.com The Future of Negativity "All advice is bad, but good advice is fatal." Oscar Wilde The future has become completely predictable; a script that is being worked through from A to Z. The Plan has finally prevailed. There are merely some anomalies, corrections that have not yet been made. All arguments are for the following of the prescribed route. It is true that there are always a number of simultaneous scenarios that are partially overlapping and partially mutually exclusive. But they have one thing in common: they are all true. Will it be an ecological catastrophe or an atom bomb? Whichever you request. Humanitarian disaster or military defeat? The choice is yours. Will it be abstract or figurative? Whichever way the wind blows. Brazil or China? All options have been thought through. All the right specialists have been found and their reports are ready and waiting to be implemented. The field of vision has narrowed to one perspective, wherever you look. There are no surprises, only possibilities. Reread Musil. Even the biggest problems (AIDS in Africa, Bin Laden in Afghanistan, CCP in the WTO, Bush in Washington) will never be more than entrances to new markets. At the moment they appear, all phenomena already contain the structure of this model. All that remains to us is the dull task of unravelling the software underneath. The number of programmes is extremely limited. The hermeneutic and semiotic reading of the world puts up a smokescreen which manages to enchant us again and again with its wealth of shapes, turns and suggestions of depth, but alas, in fact it is all a bit simpler than that. The theory of difference is no more than a cloth for the bleeding in the "abimes superficiels." Unbearable (and irresistible) simplicity is no longer really distinguishable from banality, and this sends many a public intellectual fleeing to the safe haven of interpretation. Through this mechanism, an originally critical practice like cultural studies has slipped away into a safe, meaningless sketch of image culture. "Visual culture" has degenerated into a profession with prospects. This is how modelistic thinking works: once you get it, you can apply it to anything. We locate this suprahistory when we train our gaze on the sub-human level. The drama of micropolitics: the pension plan is in place by the time you're 21. Try and get out from under that. A little heli-skiing won't do it. Total burnout at 26 seems like it might help, but it turns out later to have been just a sabbatical. RSI at 14? Just as easily. What else is the future but paying off mortgages and life insurance? The secret collective longing for a market crash, i.e. a world war, remains a last, authentic expression of the longing to make a clean sweep, to undergo an adventure and then start all over. The hippies supplied this model. There's no running aground, lost ideals or middle-aged cynicism in this case that would have been the fall-of-man model. Yesterday's hippies are today's crisis managers, guiding whole peoples at a time through their dips. They work according to the dynamic model, which uses resistance to get ahead by systematically improvising. In this model, things must go wrong for one to become a success. This is in contrast to the compulsory positivism that three-quarters of the world must disavow to preserve its good humour. Hippie thinking is happy with any opposition and derives its energy from it. Negativity rejects every model; that much is clear. But is repudiation, however elegant or brutal, not itself also a model? Negativity distinguishes itself rigorously from deconstructivism. Deconstruction is an installation CD-ROM that always works. But the software's ability to anticipate is nil. Something must be built up before it can be taken apart, thus the orientation to the past. The nice thing about this model, however, is its youthful elan in believing that the future can be predicted. That is the game Soros plays. His theory of reflectivity is based on a solid foundation of European negativity. This is why he can stay "ahead of the wave",most often, while legions of market analysts get caught in their own sales speeches, whose nonsense they can never understand, since belief in their spiels is precisely the product they're selling. And non-monetary negativity, where is that? Who can enjoy the certainty of decline, and benefit from it? What a riddle! But one thing is sure: there will always be enough that can be destroyed. "As long as there is death, there is hope." The future of thinking, the development of forms of expression, planetary architecture, these are all projects of others. Negativity is an experimental attitude, an exercise in remembering, followed now and then by a short series of outbursts, and then a long period of hiding inside normality. Optimism can turn into gloominess. On the other hand, it is impossible for cheerfulness to neutralise negativity. Negativity is itself a form of cheerfulness. There's no future for negativity, a punk would say. The marketing department of negative.com (TM) should really be at its wit's end, but that is not the case. Negativity continues unexpectedly to do well, generation after generation, even as it denies its own future.

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Non-political, so probably off-topic for CP :_),
by mattd 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

http://www.business-humanrights.org/China.htm the internet great wall of china,gulag to rival the US,state murders,Tibet,etc,etc,etc...measl your worse than jamesd,you might get a spotters fee,though. I trust your aware of repression in china,nortels contribution and assassination politics.This is re.http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/ non-political my ass.

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Re: MS DRM OS Begets SSSCA
by mattd 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

jya>>I think Mike is trying to describe the worst case scenario to arouse opposition. Bear in mind that the Content Faction (and maybe the Tech Faction) want to control the world, not just the US. All countries are targets for SSSCA and DMCA through copyright treaties and other control regimes.<< Like the WTO and NWO? Fingerprint the planet,pascal? Man the barricades! BYO gasmask and molotovs. >>Just a few days ago the last country needed to enforce the WIPO Copyright Treaty signed on. WIPO is the global version of DMCA. And the Hague Convention is meeting shortly to set up the legal framework to enforce the various global treaties on protecting intellectual property. Sure, there will continue to be gray and black markets in software but criminalization of circumvention devices will put some youngsters (and oldsters) in jail, as we see looming from the recent warez raids.<< I suspect they were a warmup for the big palmer raids looming for all anarchists,especially crypto-anarchists.AP NOW! >>The MPAA and co-conspirators are dirty fighters and nobody should expect to merely ignore them, thinking that loosening of crypto controls is a model. They know that precedent and are determined to do what governments could not. << Well the anarcho-capitalists here say,thats OK,as long as its not the STATE! Hey dont arrest me,Im a capitalist! >>Question is, as ever, what about the programmers within the factions who are needed to carry out the wishes of the bosses. In this, crypto could be a bellweather, for showing how the technicians learned to outwit the others. But are technical folks more susceptible these days to bribery of swell life styles than the crypto-rebels were? Or better, are there well-endowed, smarter than most, Factioners who do not want to be part of hegemonic putridity?<< Dont form a union,timmy doesnt like unions,dont go outside,thats undignified.stay home rub oil on your gunbarrel and whinge.All traitors should be shot. >>We'll see what the Factions offer the liberators to keep them hard at work, happy to be protected intellectual property slaves. None of whom would waste a second here except to pick up intelligence for blowing upholes. Indeed.The cypherpunks may be like the blacks in the war of independence were.FREEDOM!

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Apologist for the Police State: Goldberg On Ashcroft
by Matthew Gaylor 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

[Note from Matthew Gaylor: US Attorney General John Ashcroft said "to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty; my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists - for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.". Lost liberty is exactly the term a rational patriotic American would use to describe the intrusive power grab that is occurring in America. National Review Online Editor Jonah Goldberg asks liberals to stop comparing Ashcroft to McCarthy. A better exercise would be to start comparing police state apologist Jonah Goldberg and John Ashcroft to totalitarians <http://www.libertyartworx.com/heimatsicherung.html>. For the full text of Ashcroft's statement go to <http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2001/1206transcriptsenatejudiciary committee.htm>.] Jonah Goldberg can be reached at (JonahEmail(a)aol.com) <http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20011219.shtml> townhall.com Jonah Goldberg December 19, 2001 Liberals: Stop comparing Ashcroft to McCarthy Like everyone else, I'd moved on from the public debates over military tribunals, racial profiling, detentions, etc. But, unfortunately, like crabgrass that feeds on inattention, a liberal canard has been growing wildly in the absence of public debate. That's the trouble with liberal canards. You have to pull them out by the roots when they're young, otherwise they spread all over, crowding out everything else until they become accepted as actual facts. The canard I'm talking about is this idea that Attorney General John Ashcroft is some sort of McCarthyite. Recall, if you will, a few weeks ago the Senate Judiciary Committee invited the attorney general to explain himself. [...] ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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Questions for the list.RE.Quantum Encryption.
by mattd 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

From D.McCullogh. As I understand it, Weyl's original gauge theory allowed for the possibility that length scale can change from point to point. Has there been any modern work on Weyl's theory? In particular, is it possible to develop a quantum version? Another question: is it possible that something interesting (perhaps GR) could result from Weyl's theory through spontaneous symmetry breaking? What's interesting about Weyl's theory is that classically (ignoring quantum mechanics) there is no good reason for physics to have a preferred length scale. What sets the length scale for material objects seems to be the Bohr radius, r_b = hbar^2/(m e^2) So that makes me think that perhaps quantum corrections to Weyl's theory might break his gauge symmetry. END Could be on to something here D. Especially ignoring quantum mechanics! What do youse all think?

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Re: Speech May Not Be Free, but It's Refundable
by mattd 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

Extract...>>attempted suicide punishable by death. There are other examples of similar, but not as ludicrous, legal situations where the only person being impacted is the person acting, but it's still illegal. Joe If the point is to minimize coercion and maximize freedom to play loud music and off yrself in any number of ways I highly ricomend *open source* AP."Making suicide pay since the ides of march 2001." Choate,ex. >>...very few follow the CACL philosophy therefore it must not be 'true'). << Its disgustingly *true* here and at wired,CATO,etc. Its worth staking to an antsnest and checking on occasionally.)

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