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Reputation capital
by Marcel Popescu 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

I think all this stuff about reputations is being solved pretty neatly by the credit bureaus... up to getting scalars on people / companies. Mark

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Untraceable money now more than ever!
by Tim May 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

Or, "Why We Fight." Just thought I'd pass along this gem I found in one of the newsgroups. If true, it shows the unlawful/extralegal reach of government into the pockets of persons not tried, not convicted, not even charged, not even plausibly guilty of anything. This guy is having his OWN MONEY blocked, probed, and frozen. No charges, no court, just done by forces unseen to him. Editorial comment: The Founders would likely be stunned to see bureaucrats in a distant city able to reach in and essentially grab the money of a person without any due process, without fines or court-ordered seizures, just on the say-so of a bureaucrat. This guy below _wrote_ about it, so there are probably hundreds more just like him who choose not to further anger Big Brother by writing angry letters. Me, I'd be so angry I'd probably be strapping on the plastic explosives.... Read it and stoke your righteous anger: --begin article-- This was in today's Washington Post. Check it out at www.washingtonpost.com =============== Letters to the Post == Whose Sacrifice? Monday, December 3, 2001; Page A20 American citizens are willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the fight against terrorism [front page, Nov. 29], but which Americans are doing the sacrificing? Since Sept. 11 the FBI has interviewed me at work and at home because my name is similar not to that of one of the hijackers, but to an individual arrested with suspected links to the terrorists. The FBI has contacted my broker, my neighbors and my friends to learn more about me. I was purchasing an apartment, but when I needed to give my down payment at closing I was informed by my bank that my accounts were frozen. No one informed me nor could anyone help me resolve the problem. Only an angry settlement attorney was able to unfreeze the funds. A month passed, and all seemed normal. Then I found out again that I did not have access to transfer funds from my accounts without government approval. I am a federal employee. I have not been charged with a crime. I do not support terrorism, and I was willing to help the law enforcement agencies. It was my duty as an American to answer all the questions asked of me. But as time goes by and I have to get "clearance" every time I want to make a bank transfer, I feel victimized. Every time I travel and receive the extra security checks because of my name it makes me trust my government less. What scares me even more is that I am an American citizen, and that is why I am not in jail. If I were not a citizen I could be one of the hundreds of detainees, or I could be in sitting in front of a secret military court only because the crime I am guilty of is that my name is Ali Ayub and not Joe Smith. ALI AYUB Arlington ˇ 2001 The Washington Post Company --end article-- --Tim May "If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around." --attribution uncertain, possibly Gunner, on Usenet

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Message status - undeliverable
by Mailer-Daemon＠city.toronto.on.ca 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

The message that you sent was undeliverable to the following: bjonkman Information about your message: Subject: CDR: CFP: PKI research workshop

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We're back...
by Jim Choate 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

Hi, Well after a couple of days down time we're back. Seems my providers machine room got a tad wet from somebody dumping a water main into it (perhaps somebody wanted to go swimming?). Seems it's gonna run in the $5M range for repairs and such after they're all done. -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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fuel injected firearm
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

Have any of the shootingpunks on the list heard of constructing a firearm from something akin to a internal combustion chamber?

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Re: Russian Party of Pensioners Manifesto,
by mattd 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20043&group=webcast For reprint of pensioners story.AND... Anarchist Pamphlet (28 pages) (english) by Blake 12:23pm Mon Dec 3 '01 Blake(a)riseup.net This is a critique of the global economy from an anarchist perspective. It is meant for outreach to non-anarchists. Download attached file: anarchistpamphlet.pdf (mimetype: application/pdf ) This is a pamphlet critiquing the global economy from an anarchist perspective. It is meant for outreach to non-anarchists. It is written in non-technical language and has nice pictures. It is cryptoANARCHY isnt it? Not cryptolibertarianism.For anarchist and social democratic critiques of libertarians,SEE... http://world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html Esp... http://world.std.com/~mhuben/cypher.html I havent seen the 'blake' one yet,But I am an anarchist getting into crypto and insulted by the abuse and disrespecting of anarchism here where its needed the most.CRYPTOANARCHY!

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guns, encryption, ID, biometrics, document authentication, unswipable CA drivers licenses
by Alfred Qaeda 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

Learned the following today: starting soon --Jan 2002 IIRC-- you can't use an unswipable drivers license to buy a gun in CA. When asked, the <gunstore> employee said there was encrypted info on them that was harder to forge than the holograph-laminated front. When I said that the licenses could be read with a regular cardreader and that info could be forged, he suggested it was the newer license (with two pictures vs 1 and an optical bar code too). He suggested that the "encrypted info" was harder to forge than the laminated front. This would be possible if the front info was securely hashed with a secret key. Anyone have more info? Good citizens are curious if they did this right, and what all the bits on the strip mean. So monkeywrenching the magstrip will impair your constitutional rights. A replacement license is $12; perhaps a good citizen needs a spare. In any case Govn'or Slime Davis signed a law requiring fingerprints in a year or two. I bet they'll be taking hair samples or cheek scrapings in five years.

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IP: FBI Reorganization Posted (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 05:27:50 -0500 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: FBI Reorganization Posted > >FBI has just created an entire division devoted to "cyber crime," on par >with its criminal, counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence divisions. > >http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/eads/chart.htm For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/

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05 Dec '01

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get in the action
by get some 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

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