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25 Nov '01

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by Anonymous 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Thank you for posting these John. I am about 1/2 way through them, and I am struck by how crude the "computer forensic" examinations are (see part 2, around page 270). The government examiners seem to have very little understanding how a computer actually works, but instead, rely on "out box" and "in box" and O/S time stamps, etc. There seems to be no understanding by Leen either, and I would have thought Bell would be trying to make him understand while this persecution was progressing. Since when is an examination a thourough one without a sector by sector and bit by bit combing? And since when has an O/S time stamp become trustworthy? While it is obvious from the transcripts that Tanner was more than a little biased in favor of the prosecution, it sure looks like Bell did his fair share to insure a conviction.

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Robert Morris, IBM Almaden Research * Autonomic Computing * W4:15 Gates B03
by ee380 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium 4:15PM, Wednesday, November 28, 2001 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03 For additional information consult http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380 Title: Autonomic Computing Speaker: Robert Morris Director, IBM Almaden Research Center About the talk: The information technology boom can only explode for so long before it collapses on itself in a jumble of wires, buttons and knobs. IBM recently called on all researchers and industry members to attack the growing problem of complexity in IT by building more self-managing systems, and in creating a holistic approach to simplification of all aspects of these systems. The goal is to reduce maintenance, improve availability and ease-of-use, and lower costs. The human body's self-regulating nervous system presents an excellent model for creating the next generation of computing, autonomic computing. Robert Morris, Director of IBM's Almaden research Center in San Jose, will describe the motivation for this effort and some of the projects and results being undertaken at IBM. To succeed, this vision of an IT infrastructure will require the participation of IT researchers and developers throughout industry, government and academia. To read more about autonomic computing, see http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/manifesto/ About the speaker: Dr. Robert Morris is Director of IBM's Almaden Research Center, IBM's second largest research lab. The Almaden lab is focussed on a wide range of basic and applied research and was responsible for the development of the disk drive and the relational database. Today, research there spans from atoms to humans, i.e., from nanotechnology and individual atom manipulation, through hardware and system development and a large computer science lab, to human interface research. Robert has been the director there for two years, previously he was at IBM Watson Research center (responsible for advanced systems research, including personal systems, the Deep Blue chess project, etc). Before that he was a researcher in storage and data management at Almaden and, prior to 1991, at Bell Labs. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Member of IBM's Academy of Technology. Contact information: Robert Morris IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Rd, San Jose CA 95120 408 927 2200 rjtm(a)us.ibm.com X-Authenticated-User: idiom ~~~ Thanks; Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com>

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Robert Morris, IBM Almaden Research * Autonomic Computing * W4:15 Gates B03
by ee380 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium 4:15PM, Wednesday, November 28, 2001 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03 For additional information consult http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380 Title: Autonomic Computing Speaker: Robert Morris Director, IBM Almaden Research Center About the talk: The information technology boom can only explode for so long before it collapses on itself in a jumble of wires, buttons and knobs. IBM recently called on all researchers and industry members to attack the growing problem of complexity in IT by building more self-managing systems, and in creating a holistic approach to simplification of all aspects of these systems. The goal is to reduce maintenance, improve availability and ease-of-use, and lower costs. The human body's self-regulating nervous system presents an excellent model for creating the next generation of computing, autonomic computing. Robert Morris, Director of IBM's Almaden research Center in San Jose, will describe the motivation for this effort and some of the projects and results being undertaken at IBM. To succeed, this vision of an IT infrastructure will require the participation of IT researchers and developers throughout industry, government and academia. To read more about autonomic computing, see http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/manifesto/ About the speaker: Dr. Robert Morris is Director of IBM's Almaden Research Center, IBM's second largest research lab. The Almaden lab is focussed on a wide range of basic and applied research and was responsible for the development of the disk drive and the relational database. Today, research there spans from atoms to humans, i.e., from nanotechnology and individual atom manipulation, through hardware and system development and a large computer science lab, to human interface research. Robert has been the director there for two years, previously he was at IBM Watson Research center (responsible for advanced systems research, including personal systems, the Deep Blue chess project, etc). Before that he was a researcher in storage and data management at Almaden and, prior to 1991, at Bell Labs. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Member of IBM's Academy of Technology. Contact information: Robert Morris IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Rd, San Jose CA 95120 408 927 2200 rjtm(a)us.ibm.com X-Authenticated-User: idiom ~~~ Thanks; Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com>

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Re: Pricing Mojo, Integrating PGP, TAZ, and D.C. Cypherpunks
by Incognito Innominatus 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Greg Broiles writes: > And that problem seems to be at the center of Nomen Nescio's sotto voce > suggestion that some unnamed cypherpunks work up a currency which can be > used to "pay" people for providing information which is of value - It's not a matter of unnamed cypherpunks doing a favor, but rather a proposal offered to see if there is support. If a few people spoke up with agreement that such an effort were worth doing, the next step would be to put together a project, perhaps on sourceforge, and get some code into play. But if you run the flag up and no one salutes, then you should wait for a better idea. > I get > the impression that s/he is imagining some magic fairy would mint up piles > of the currency, and assign it equally to every subscriber, who would then > be empowered to pay it to the content providers they liked best. > > That's very warm and fuzzy and hippy-like, but if these tokens are handed > out for free, then what, exactly, is their value? This is the problem of initial distribution. Ideally there would be some way to give every person a fixed initial allocation, but in practice this will allow people to create new identities ("nyms") and get more than their share. It seemed that part of MojoNation's reason for backing away from mojo-as-money was the problem of fairly giving an initial allocation. Here's an idea which has been proposed before: use hashcash to purchase e-coins. Hashcash is a hash collision generated by a certain number of standard CPU hours of work. To enter into the ecash economy you could generate hashcash and send it to the server, getting ecash in exchange. Ecash is more suitable than hashcash as a form of currency as it can be transferred and exchanged at the bank with little effort or expense. But the problem is acquiring the initial ecash without the overwhelming inflation that Greg Broiles implicitly warns against. By basing ecash on hashcash which involves a significant expense to generate, you avoid inflation. In this system, the ecash "bank" would not be a bank at all. It would have two functions: give out some ecash given hashcash; and give out some (fresh) ecash given other ecash. The latter would use the double spending database and all that. If you received some ecash as payment you would immediately exchange it at the bank which will simultaneously verify that the cash is good and give you fresh coins for later spending. The ecash server is simply an exchanger. These are serious proposals. With Ben Laurie's lucre library and a berkeley db for the double spending database, a basic server could be put together in a few hours' work. Adam Back's hashcash software can be used as a client to generate the initial requests. The basic pieces are all here, no magic fairies required. The main question is again whether there exists an initial market which could be enticed into trying out this package on an experimental basis.

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Re: IP: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10. (fwd)
by Declan McCullagh 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

Nobody is saying that free expression includes inciting a riot or soliciting murder. But it does generally include the right to write a book (and read it) without being targeted by the government. What you wrote that raised eyebrows was this: >I sure hope that the government is investigating and following each and every >person who buys a copy of this book... I wonder if there's a way to force >Tobiason to foot the bill for that security? There are plenty of books I can think of -- almost all of the Loompanics catalog -- that would fret some government official. David Burnham's books on the IRS and DOJ abuses of power are another. But I hardly think it's consistent with the First Amendment to investigate the people who buy them, or make the authors pay "protection money" for the privilege of publishing. Then you wrote in the message below: >How many sets of these "terrorism cookbooks" do you let fall >into the hands of psychotics? We already don't sell guns to convicted >felons... > gee, that sounds to me like "prior restraint"... or do you think THAT's > wrong, >too? There are some things that are so terrible that you simply can't wait to >prosecute or criminalize until AFTER the fact of their happening. My translation of that is "we must require background checks on people who buy books, newspapers, or magazines" that some FBI officials dislike. (I look forward to seeing how you'll extend this to the Internet. AdultCheck, anyone? How about posts on the cypherpunks list or other fora that include more scientific or technical information than you feel comfortable with?) My translation of your last sentence is "we must criminalize the publication of certain technical or scientific information just because some bad people may get their hands on it." Comparing background checks for gun purchasers (in an approving way) to background checks to books is just nutty. Now do you see why your post is so at odds with the principles of a free society? If not, I'm not sure you're educable on this issue. -Declan At 02:33 AM 11/22/2001 -0600, gep2(a)terabites.com wrote: >On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> wrote: > >Clearly "gep2" does not understand principles of free expression > >and limited government. A shame. > >I understand free expression and limited government just fine. > >Free expression does not include shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, >and it >also doesn't include inciting a riot or soliciting murder. > >Unfortunately, there are plenty of lunatics and crazies in our society, >and you >simply can't let those types of people have their finger on the nuclear >button >(it's bad enough when our _President_ [especially THIS one] can do that). > >Some suicidal maniac or manic depressive (or even just mean drunk) could >easily >just get pissed off and decide to take 100,000 or a million or something >other >people out with him... we've had situations like that (snipers from the >tower at >UT Austin, dispondent students in high schools, Timother McVeigh, and so >forth... fortunately limited by their technical capability to kill on a >MASSIVE >scale.) > >It's bad enough when someone like Osama bin Laden kills several thousands of >people with hijacked airliners. (At least there, there IS a response >possible... for better or for worse... as we've seen). > >It's quite another matter when some maniac commits suicide and takes half a >million or a million other people out with him. (And how do you respond >THEN? >Presuming here that you're talking about some right-wing wacko (American >citizen!) who's already now dead? Does the government just say, "Gee, isn't >that just awful!"? Or you do something to try to prevent it from happening >BEFORE it does?) > >And if it DID happen... do you sit back and let some copycat then do it >again? >And another do it AGAIN? How many times do you just sit back and wring your >hands in despair? How many sets of these "terrorism cookbooks" do you let >fall >into the hands of psychotics? We already don't sell guns to convicted >felons... > gee, that sounds to me like "prior restraint"... or do you think THAT's > wrong, >too? > >There are some things that are so terrible that you simply can't wait to >prosecute or criminalize until AFTER the fact of their happening. > >Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/ >Support the Anti-SPAM Amendment! Join at http://www.cauce.org/ >12/19/98: Partisan Republicans scornfully ignore the voters they "represent". >12/09/00: the date the Republican Party took down democracy in America.

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Re: IP: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities?
by Anonymous 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

> Again, the First Amendment has its limits. If some organization were to > publish > a "you can build it at home in your spare time" cookbook recipe of how to > create > an innovative sort of nuclear weapon capable of destroying a large city, I'd > expect for the government to step in and prevent its publication and sale... > purely as a matter of national security. Now THERE, it's true that getting > "enough" nuclear fuel is nontrivial, but in the case of biological (and even > some chemical) weapons, the potential for actual (and not just imagined) > mischief is far greater, and the harm that could be done is far too high to > dismiss as being simply hypothetical until after the fact. Are you aware that fairly explicit instructions were just last week published on the internet for building basement nukes? Sorry, you are dead wrong -- the First Amendment has no limits. And anyone who thinks so plainly needs killing.

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