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The Register - The Microsoft Secure PC: MS patents a lock-down OS
by Jim Choate 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23387.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE?
by Jim Choate 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

If you check the Cypherpunks archives you'll find an 18 point answer to that question I posted in the last year or so. On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 baptista(a)pccf.net wrote: > so .. how do you propose the problems be fixed? > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, super ego wrote: > > > HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE? > > > > HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE IN A OUR GOVERNMENT WHEN EVERY > > POLITICIAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS LIED TO GET INTO > > OFFICE, WITH THE IDEA OF TELL THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO > > HEAR? > > > > NOT A SINGLE POLITICIAN IN OUR GOVERNMENT USES HIS > > GOOD REPUTATION OR HIS BACK GROUND TO GET INTO OFFICE > > ANYMORE. THEY RAISE AN ISSUE THAT IS MOST NERVE > > RACKING AND STAND ON THE SIDE THAT GETS THEM MORE > > VOTES. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT, THEY WANT > > INTO OFFICE ANY THEY WILL LIE AND TELL YOU WHAT YOU > > WANT TO HEAR IN ORDER TO GET IT. [SSZ: text deleted] -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - Watch out! There's an anti-terrorist law about (UK)
by Jim Choate 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23374.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | Emergence (Book review about complexity theory)
by Jim Choate 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

http://slashdot.org/books/01/12/13/1619253.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Jewish Terror Attack on US Foiled
by Michael Motyka 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

"Jon Beets" <Jon.Beets(a)pacer.com> wrote : > >I still do not understand how we can support Israel as we do..From: > >"Eric Cordian" <emc(a)artifact.psychedelic.net> >> Gosh - doesn't anyone like the United States anymore? Give the fuckers >> $3 billion a year in aid, and they elect a war criminal as their Prime >> Minister and pull shit like this. >> ----- >> LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chairman of the militant Jewish Defense League and >> a follower have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los >> Angeles mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman, federal >> authorities said today. Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the group, Earl >> Krugel, 59, both of Los Angeles, were arrested last night after the last >> component of the bomb -- explosive powder -- was delivered to Krugel's >> home, U.S. Attorney John S. Gordon said. Authorities said the two planned >> to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City and the office of freshman >> Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. >> >> -- >> Eric Michael Cordian 0+ > I'm not seeing enough suspicion from you cypherpunks - the man who delivered the "explosive powder" was the federal informant. Golly gee whiz, sound like a familiar scenario? Appeasement anyone? Mike

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by 746546stockisrocking＠hotmail.com 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

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Re: [linux-elitists] Phil Zimmermann on key exchange
by AARG! Anonymous 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

>non-robot CA master key handling). Use this key to sign a number of This has been repeated ad nauseam, but obviously not frequently enough. No one has been using CAs for anything serious and no one ever will. Outside of circles of fashionable crypto, commercial scams like verisign and greedy non-profits that want to help freedom fighters/armed thugs (definition changes with proximity), no one whose life and well-being depends on it has ever used CA. The simple fact is that it is impossible to have shared secrets of utmost importance with someone that you do not have a secure physical channel with (which automagically obsoletes CA). If your life depends on it you will not risk it by sending such information to a person you have no means of directly authenticating. Strangers do not have secrets, by definition. Why is this so hard to understand ? The beauty of public key schemes created many seemingly plausible PHantasies pursued by quite a few technically savvy folks. But that does not change the basic problem. USG operatives, including Osama bin Laden, do not use public computer-based web of trust to authenticate. These guys KNOW each other. Even in non-government business environments, PGP keys between People Who Matter are exchanged manually. MIS department goons never get to see those. Automated CAs are fine for ad-hoc crypto that prevents casual data harvesting*. But lying to the public about limits of CA schemes will not do crypto any good. * provided, of course, that one does not use popular OS, all of which will soon make all storage available to casual harvesting. Keep those DOS boxes around.

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Re: Axed Intel Man Loses E-Mail Case
by Gil Hamilton 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

From: Ralph Wallis [mailto:mischief@optushome.com.au] > > Choates not a poster,he's a spamming menace.How longs he been here? > >Choate >first post: >http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.1996.03.28-1996.04.03/ >msg00034.html Naw, he's been around longer than that. This is the earliest message I can find: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/11/msg00633.html It's interesting to note how much more pleasant Choate was in his early days on the list. In those days, he was not so intent on showing everyone that he was an authority on all possible subjects. - GH _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Re: AP Al Qaeda
by Nomen Nescio 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

John Young writes, regarding Assassination Politics: > AP is a touchy topic for Cypherpunks, whoever they may > be. It is likely the USA is attempting to link AP to Cypherpunks > for prosecution, so not many will want to talk about the > topic. Cypherpunks pioneered the use of encryption and anonymity for many purposes, but one of them was precisely this: to allow discussion of forbidden subjects. > So my opinion is that AP is a lure set out by the authorities > to entrap the unwary, Cypherpunks among them. I believe > that Bell and Johnson have been, and are continuing to be, > a part of that lure, whether witting or unwitting. That's bullshit. Surely you can't deny that AP was conceived by Bell exactly as what it was claimed to be, a tool to be used against government agents who overstep their authority and violate the rights of American citizens. (And as an important consequence it would therefore encourage governments to behave legally and respectfully towards their citizens, as they should.) Bell certainly did not conceive of AP as a way of entrapping cypherpunks. He didn't even know about cypherpunks when he came up with the idea. > AP is highy suspect, and becoming more so as it gets > additional promotion, not by whatever adherents it may > have but by its opponents. I expect AP to be used to > advance the anti-terrorism industry now booming. > > Just keep in mind that AP is a joke among knowledgeable > technologists for its unworkability, but a wonderful joke > on those who believe it's anything more than a taunt. Total bullshit again. Sure, AP requires anonymous digital cash, but so do most other elements of the cypherpunk vision. Would you say that crypto anarchy, information black markets, and commerce among pseudonyms are "a joke"? These are just as hypothetical as AP at present. It's entirely possible that some form of anonymous cash will be developed in the next few years, and once that happens AP will be trivial to implement. It's far from a joke, it is a very real possibility. AP is part of the dark side of the cypherpunk dream and it must be faced rather than evaded. The real problem with AP is not that it would be illegal, because much of what cypherpunks call for is presently illegal. Rather, the problem with AP is that it is mob rule at its worst. There are no checks and balances. It is the height of folly to suppose that AP would be used only against those whom cypherpunks themselves oppose, like corrupt government agents. AP could be used against anyone who has a high profile. If AP were implemented, there is no question but that Jim Bell would be one of the first targets! All those people who found himself on his list, along with their heirs and successors, would want revenge. Everyone involved with the assassinations would be anonymous except Bell himself, making him the most prominent target of their wrath. Other notable supporters of crypto anarchy would follow soon, such as cypherpunk founders May and Hughes. The people involved with the digital cash would be targets as well, and so on. Despite these unpleasant facts, once digital cash exists, AP will be inevitable, along with many other forms of anonymous murder-for-hire. Cypherpunks have discussed these possibilities from the very beginning. To pretend that AP is somehow outside of the scope of cypherpunk thinking, a hoax or joke perpetrated by outsiders as a lure, is just absurd. With crypto anarchy you have to take the bad with the good. What, then, is the solution to survival in a world of assassins at large? It is simple, and it is in fact the same as the solution to the problem of how to discuss AP in a world in which even mentioning it could get you arrested, the problem which led to John Young's dissembling above. Perhaps the alert reader will be able to conceive of the solution for himself.

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Area 51 Guards On Strike
by Matthew Gaylor 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

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