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Russian Party of Pensioners Manifesto
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Thanks for that,Im going to publish it on Indymedia soon,real soon. If you are into cryptoanarchy with the emphasis on the anarchy,you may enjoy this... Elliott Abrams, who had pleaded guilty in 1981 to lying to Congress over the conduct of the war, was installed by the president to head his "office for democracy and human rights". See Tom Lehrer again. His criminal offence was described by White House spokesman Ari Fleischer as "a matter of the past". We used to say, NO to Western Imperialism and NO to Soviet Imperialism both. Self determination for ALL PEOPLES! One Empire has fallen. One still has to fall. But we should not mourn the passing of the Soviet prison of nations. The Minister of Education and the Minister of the Interior were assassinated. Students and young workers, determined to destroy the existing order, turned to the writings of Bakunin and Kropotkin for inspiration and with dynamite and pistol hurled themselves against the State. Working people, many of them recently arrived from the countryside to find employment in the vast new factories, elected representatives from their own class whom they could trust and whom they could remove at once if unsatisfactory. Strikes paralysed production, oppressed national groups on the borderlands rebelled, peasants burned and looted, and insurrection broke out The revolt, although short-lived, inspired the young anarchist movement. In spite of increased repression, its 'Battle Detachments' raided gunshops and armouries in search of the Browning pistols they cherished. Officials, police and bosses were murdered and countless 'expropriations' of banks and houses of the wealthy took place. Gun battles with police ended in death, jail or torture. This revolution, as a participant observed, was 'a purely spontaneous phenomenon, not at all the fruit of party agitation.' People were 'fired by a sense of unlimited freedom, a liberation from the restraints of their society.' 'Down with Authority and Capitalism' on black banners. Anarchists seized the mansions of the rich. One became 'The House of Rest', with rooms for reading, discussion and recreation and a children's playground in the garden. world-wide revolution based on free federations of urban and rural communes. In 1908 Nestor Makhno had been given a life sentence for the assassination of a police chief. Freed in 1917, he was elected head of the Soviet of Peasants and Workers in Gulyai-Polye. With an armed band marching behind a huge black banner on which was proclaimed 'Liberty or Death- The Land to the Peasants, the Factories to the Workers', Makhno began re-distributing the estates to the peasants. In 1918, when Austrian and White armies invaded the Ukraine, Makhno's partisans fought back: 'We will conquer not so that we may follow the example of past years and hand over our fate to some new master, but to take it in our own hands and conduct our lives according to our own will and our own conception of truth'. By the following spring the invaders were driven out and Gulyai-Polye was free from external control. Organising regional conferences of peasants, workers and insurgents, Makhno began to establish anarchist communes based on equality and mutual aid. At first the Bolsheviks hailed him as a 'courageous partisan' and 'great revolutionary', but subsequently attacked him as an 'anarcho-bandit'. Two Cheka agents were sent to assassinate Makhno, but the agents were caught and themselves shot. When Makhno invited Red soldiers to the Congress, a furious Trotsky declared him an outlaw, banned the Congress and sent troops to break up the anarchist communes. At this moment the Whites invaded again, driving on Moscow. Bolsheviks and anarchists were sent reeling, yet Makhno's army counter-attacked successfully. Trotsky used the time he had been given to re-organise the Red Army. By Christmas the Whites were expelled. Makhno's anarchists promptly entered Ekaterinoslav, threw open the jails and told the people that they were now free to organise their own lives. Freedom of speech, press and assembly was declared for all except authoritarian parties, which were dissolved. Bolsheviks were advised to 'take up some honest trade'. Again Trotsky outlawed Makhno and serious fighting raged for eight months until Whites invaded yet again. Trotsky appealed for Makhno's help, promising in return the release of all imprisoned anarchists and complete freedom of expression, short of urging the overthrow of the Bolshevik government. The Whites were finally defeated. With victory secure, Trotsky shot all the Makhnovist military commanders, attacked Makhno's HQ and wiped out the staff. The Cheka arrested members of the Nabat in Kharkov; throughout Russia, anarchist clubs, groups and newspaper offices were raided and closed down. Although badly wounded, Makhno, together with the remnants of his insurgent army, evaded the Bolsheviks for a year. Escaping eventually to Paris, he died in 1934 of alcohol and TB. Surviving anarchists launched a campaign of terror against the Bolsheviks. In September 1921, they blew up the Communist Party Moscow, leaving 67 dead or wounded. The anarchists were an immense influence on the popular revolution because their aims coincided with the people's desire to sweep away state and capital. For a brief moment it did seem possible that a social revolution would destroy all authority and create a decentralised society of voluntarily cooperating free individuals. But the anarchists' warning that power corrupts all who wield it - that authority stifles the revolutionary spirit and robs people of freedom - was ignored.

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Re: in praise of gold,
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

"...nothing more than a cop-out. So it seems to me, at any rate. ~Faustine. " Like you last week (agent ?) faustine (cop-in?) Silence speaks volumes in this house.

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Re: 256 Bit Encryption for Secure Email and Secure Online File Storage
by Bill Stewart 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

At 04:31 PM 12/01/2001 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: >Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP? OpenPGP, ClosedPGP, GPG, PGP2.x, and X.509 all have blazingly ugly data formats, especially for keys. The main advantages of recycling one of the N variations on PGP formats or one of the K variations on X.509 are that you can reuse code, and in some cases you can gain compatibility with existing user bases. On the other hand, you can gain compatibility with existing user bases by letting PGP users sign messages saying "My Cryptoheaven Public Key For Messages is <key1> and for Signatures is <key2>" and similarly letting X.509 users do the same if they want. It's not automated, but it can work ok. Also, of course, you'd need to register the Rijndael and SHA-256 entities onto the **PG** formatspaces, but they're generally designed for it. The cleanest key format I've seen is in CryptoKong - it has the advantage that Elliptic Curve cryptosystems let you use short keys, at least if you believe that the math works adequately, and it's not trying to use any "KeyID" as an abbreviation for the key, so it's just a simple direct encoding of the key, without PGP's annoyances of KeyID lookup and risks of KeyID forgery. Of course, it's also not mapping KeyIDs to users, only to messages, so if you want to maintain relationships between them, you've got to do it yourself, and if you want to have senders of some messages vet senders of other messages, you need to track the messages yourself. James Donald's implementation uses an Evil Microsoft Access database to save messages, but you could do a different implementation if you wanted to. Was the real motivation for using their own format simplicity? Or not-invented-here-ness? Or not-thinking-ness? Or unwillingness to wade through the huge amount of existing ugly code just for compatibility with existing ugly formats? Does it matter much? They're in the Software / Internet Services business, so either they'll find a niche where they get lots of users (in which case it's worth reviewing their code for real security), or they'll fail to do so and Darwin Will Get Them, like so many other projects out there, or they'll end up with a small but fanatic group of users who keep them going, or somebody will discover a Serious Bug which will blow away their security (though they do have at least semi-open source available for review.)

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'software error' 37,000 to cato.a "libertarian" institute.
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

http://www.mediatransparency.org/Stories/bradley_error.htm Lie down with dogs declan...

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Micropayments and accurate polling
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

203.238.135.35. Return of Micropayments By Michael Hurwicz Early attempts at micropayments have failed. Is it an innovative idea that needs more work, or a doomed concept? Programming with Perl Want accurate polls? Randal L. Schwartz provides a solution built around the fact that form validation using images is too clever for most robots. from http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/

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Declan murdered george harrison
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

www.accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm IPA Articles - Cato Institute ... Libertarian" in a Corporate Way. ... book "No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and ... over the years. Cato's main philanthropic backing ... come from the right-wing Koch ... Description: Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry funding... Category: Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Industry > Supporters www.accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages

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Re: Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks (fwd)
by Ken Brown 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Eugene Leitl forwarded: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: 2 Dec 2001 23:23:55 -0000 > From: Bruce Sterling <bruces(a)well.com> > To: Eugene.Leitl(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de > Subject: Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks > > Key concepts: cryptography, information warfare, > imaginary products, American national security [...big article snipped...] Yee-hah! The most poly-on-topic post that has a appeared in cypherpunks for a while. Read it early and often. Except for the nasty bit about the British near the bottom of course. We are friendly people really. We couldn't help getting that empire you know. All you guys just sat around not looking after your countries at all properly and without anywhere near enough artillery or steam engines, what did you expect? Trade or something? If it hadn't have been us it would have been the Germans, or the French, or the Spanish, and we're *much* nicer than them. Ken Brown

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03 Dec '01

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IP: Re: Interesting Clarke interview in case you missed it (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 03 Dec '01

03 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: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 16:06:43 -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: Re: Interesting Clarke interview in case you missed it >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:50:33 -0800 >To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu >From: Jim Warren <jwarren(a)well.com> > >>>Howard Schmidt, Microsoft's chief security officer, is expected to leave >>>within the next month to join the Bush administration and work with White >>>House cyber-security adviser Richard Clarke, according to sources in the >>>computer-security industry. >>> >>>Mark Sachs, a U.S. Army major who is an operations analyst at the Joint >>>Task Force for Computer Network Operations, also expected to join Clarke's >>>team. The task force Sachs currently works for oversees the Pentagon's >>>global information systems, sources said. > >Given > >(1) the pervasive-net-surveillance and freedom-to-snoop-sans-court-orders >that Attorney General Ashcroft and Bush's federal agencies are pursuing so >eagerly and aggressively, against American residents and citizens alike; > >(2) the endless security holes in Microsoft's software and MSN-network, >that crackers and miscreants have exploited for years of virus and DDoS >attacks, and > >(3) the fact that "the Pentagon's global information systems" can as >easily refer to the military's *surveillance* systems, as to the DoD's MIS >systems ... > >... then, one cannot help but wonder: > >How much time will Microsoft's "security" officer and the Pentagon's >"global information" officer spend on improving government and/or >corporate/citizen computer security ... > >... versus ... > >How much time will they spend on expanding and deploying the >administration's long-existent Echelon >dragnet/fishing-expedition/communications-surveillance system, and the >FBI's recently-announced covert keystroke-grabbing software ... > >... into and onto all citizens' and organizations' computers? > > >After all, one of the Republican's last Attorneys General before Aschroft -- >Reagan's Ed Meese -- made their perspective clear for all to see. He >said, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect." (Of >course, he said that *before* criminal investigators began investigating >*him* around 1988.) > >And all the polls show that the public *supports* whatever it is that the >administration is doing, including demolition of [other people's] personal >privacy and civil liberties. > >All 'Right'-minded, properly-subservient citizens and business people >should applaud this! They're from the government; they're here to help us. > >--jim >Jim Warren; jwarren(a)well.com, technology & public policy columnist & advocate > >[self-inflating puffery: Playboy Foundation Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award; >Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Calif. James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award; >founded InfoWorld, Dr.Dobb's Journal, and Computers, Freedom & Privacy Confs.; >Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award (in its first year), blah blah] > > >And if you think this is something new, remember the 1995 Republican >Congress' legislation to legalize use of evidence obtained by unauthorized >search -- as reported by Farber on his IP list at the time: > >So long, Fourth Amendment >From: David Farber <farber(a)central.cis.upenn.edu> >Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:36:57 -0500 >... (Fri Jan 27), the House Judiciary Committee approved this abrogation >of the Fourth Amendment, on a 19-14 vote, after breaking it out of H.R.3, >"The Taking Back Our Streets Act of 1995": > > In General.--Chapter 223 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by > adding at the end the following: > "Sec. 3510. Admissibility of evidence obtained by search or seizure > "(a) Evidence Obtained by Objectively Reasonable Search or Seizure.-- > Evidence which is obtained as a result of a search or seizure shall not > be excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground > that the search or seizure was in violation of the fourth amendment to > the Constitution of the United States, if the search or seizure was > carried out in circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief > that it was in conformity with the fourth amendment. The fact that > evidence was obtained pursuant to and within the scope of a warrant > constitutes prima facie evidence of the existence of such circumstances. > "(b) Evidence Not Excludable by Statute or Rule.--Evidence shall not be > excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground > that it was obtained in violation of a statute, an administrative rule or > regulation, or a rule of procedure unless exclusion is expressly > authorized by statute or by a rule prescribed by the Supreme Court > pursuant to statutory authority. > > From S.3, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Improvement Act > of 1995 (still pending [in February, 1995] before the Senate Judiciary > Committee): > > "Sec. 3502A. Admissibility of evidence obtained by search or seizure > "(a) Evidence Obtained by Objectively Reasonable Search or Seizure.-- > Evidence obtained as a result of a search or seizure that is otherwise > admissible in a Federal criminal proceeding shall not be excluded in a > proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground that the search > or seizure was in violation of the fourth amendment to the Constitution. >"(b) Evidence Not Excludable by Statute or Rule.--Evidence shall not be >excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground >that it was obtained in violation of a statute, an administrative rule, or >a rule of court procedure unless exclusion is expressly authorized by >statute or by a rule prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to chapter >131 of title 28. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/

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